Climate Change Real But Republicans Still Denying It!

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) voted against the Biden infrastructure law. Now these Republicans beg for federal aid now that shit got real.

Hurricane Helene will be retired. It was a large, destructive, and fast-moving tropical cyclone that was the strongest to strike the Big Bend region of Florida on record. The eighth named storm, fifth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, Helene developed from a broad area of low pressure in the Western Caribbean Sea in late September that the National Hurricane Center (NHC) first began watching on September 17. By September 24, the disturbance had consolidated enough to become a tropical storm as it approached the Yucatán Peninsula, receiving the name Helene. Favorable conditions led to the cyclone's gradual intensification, and it became a hurricane early on September 25. More pronounced and eventually rapid intensification ensued as Helene traversed the Gulf of Mexico the following day, reaching Category 4 intensity on the evening of September 26. Late on September 26, Helene made landfall at peak intensity in the Big Bend region of Florida, near the city of Perry, with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (220 km/h).

It has killed likely over 1,000 people. Cost possibly over $50 billion in damages and took away the notion that you're safe in your communities.

Climate change is real.

Interstate 40 in East Tennessee is destroyed.

And of course, we have billions to Israel and Ukraine. Israel to commit a fucking genocide. Our assistance to Ukraine has the world concerned Russia may start a nuclear war. 

Who voted against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act?

Republicans and some Democrats.

Who is begging for federal assistance?

Republican governors, House members, Senators and local leaders.

It is catastrophic damages in Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. With added measure, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Virginia got hit with endless rain and power outages too.

Massive destruction.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were notified. The Biden Administration is on the ground and the president is expected to tour damages shortly.

Harris her running mate Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, former president Donald J. Trump and his running mate Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio will debate over this.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is getting called out for not being in Tennessee while the hurricane remnants struck. She was doing a town hall in Warren, Michigan with Trump.

Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL), Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL), Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL), Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL), Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL), Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL), Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA), Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA), Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA), Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA), Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA), Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), Rep. William Timmons (R-SC), Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC), Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Rep. John Rose (R-TN), Rep. Scott Desjarlais (R-TN), Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) and Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) voted against the infrastructure law.

Blackburn, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) and Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) voted against the infrastructure law.

Interstate 40, Interstate 81 and Interstate 26 are impassable. Bridges, canals, dams, levies and ports are destroyed.

Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said Friday that a “catastrophic failure” was not taking place at Walters Dam, also known as the Waterville Dam, which sits in North Carolina close to the Tennessee border.

A local mayor had urged residents to evacuate due to the dam potentially breaking, but TEMA said in a statement that the “dam has not failed” after talking to Duke Energy, which owns the nearly 100-year-old dam.