I have been sharing this from a friend of mine. A friend of his, who is a farmer in NC, Posted this about his experience.
"5h
Things I can personally confirm:
1. Within 12 hours of my FEMA application I was approved for hotels.
2. Within 48 hours I had a $750 emergency expenses payment in my checking account.
3. Last night I did my first interview with a FEMA rep.
4. They've had a ground presence for days.
5. I personally have not seen any looting etc.
There is a lot of bad info going around. And if you don't take the time to fill out the form, you won't get anything. And if you can read Facebook you can take 7 minutes to do the form on your phone."
His family lost everything! Their farm, house, and all the farm equipment and buildings. Yet he took the time to speak some truth about what is really happening on the ground.
They do have a "go fund me" page, but I will not share it here without Jay's permission.
Thanks for posting that. I’ve had the same experience as someone living in Asheville, NC in the middle of the disaster zone. I will post something similar on my own fb feed when I get a chance.
Helene response hampered by misinformation, conspiracy theories; False claims are adding to the chaos and confusion in many storm-battered communities. Social media platforms such as X have allowed the falsehoods to spread.
My comment to you:
Lies are not “misinformation”. Lies are “disinformation”.
Disinformation is form of propaganda.
When, in the future, you write articles about the spread of disinformation by various people, it would be MOST APPROPRIATE for reporters to state clearly who is lying and what they are lying about. Inasmuch as most human beings, especially undereducated human beings, have limited, challenged vocabularies, do not use the word “falsities”. Use the word LIES.
If Trump states something that is a lie, then say, “TRUMP SAID ____. TRUMP’S STATEMENT IS A LIE.”
If Musk states something that is a lie, then say, “MUSK SAID ____. MUSK’S STATEMENT IS A LIE.”
These lying ass yutzes should all have their mouths washed out with soap.These poor people,God bless them all!,have just lost everything they have,in a tragic calamity that no one realized would be so horrible,and all these stupid morons can do is stand around making shit up about it??
Dolly Parton,who is eligible for sainthood several times over,has donated $1 million to relief efforts,as as other people,and all the billions and billions of $$$$ Musk has,and all he can do is run his mouth??I don't see him doing a damned thing to actually help these poor people get food,water and shelter for their families,or help get roads repaved so help can get to them.He wants to fly rocket ships to Mars but can't get supplies flown in places no one can otherwise get to?
Here's a suggestion,Mr.Big Money Musk,how about putting some of that money to actual use to help people who need it, instead of standing around tweeting useless lies and bullshit about what you think someone ELSE should be doing?Put all that money where your mouth is!
The fact that Musk, this sick asshole, has control over Starlink and government space contracts is a travesty. I just don’t understand why our government does not cut all these contracts because we should not be having any kind of business relationship with this madman. It is a very dangerous situation.
Please write your representative about this and send a comment via the White House webpage. Musks behavior is unacceptable and he should be now near a government contract or in control of vital communication.
I’ve already sent letters to the White House about this. My representative is the useless and idiotic Lauren Boebert, who is leaving the district in a few months, so I don’t bother writing to her anymore. She’s a useless lame duck.
Last time Musk offered free Starlink to the Ukrainians, everyone praised him. Then he cut off service during a battle and blackmailed our government into paying for the Ukrainians system. Don't trust him. He's auditioning for the Villain Emperor in his Sci-fi story. I think he should be charged with littering space without permission by other countries and the people of Earth. Who asked for this?
I've also seen a fair number of residents of the affected area, including many who are no fans of the Democratic Party, say things to the effect of "we know who helped us and who hurt us". Trump made two appearances in Georgia in which he showed not one instant of sympathy, contrasted with Harris' words of comfort and genuine information directed at victims, not voters. The front page of the Winston-Salem paper was dedicated to calling out disinformation, and the Charlotte Observer had an editorial condemning Trump that was well-spread all weekend (and presumably read by a lot of suburban voters in Mecklenburg County).
Most voters aren't on Twitter. It's possible Trump lost more votes with his evil actions here (convincing someone that there's only $750 available and not to apply for any more when more is available is about as evil as it gets) than he could have hoped to win.
Also, Elon Musk is best known on Twitter for spreading ridiculous lies (since well before he bought the platform). It's unlikely anyone "gettable" looks to his account for truth.
Thanks for sharing the responses of the local media there. I'm seeing a bit more coverage of Trump's behavior lately that better reflects reality. Seems like this started with the latest Jack Smith drop, but maybe it was the "Eating Pets" song?
Local papers (Charlotte and WS, as well as Tillis (R) are eating them for lunch. Cooper has been operating on the ground with FEMA, and staff in Asheville. They have been writing $3 million checks as fast as they can to towns in Western NC. What makes the Trmp propaganda even worse is the negative impact on the rescue/recovery effort. Some people are cut off from roads, with little food and maybe no power or cell service. We can still find living who need rescue. There are still hundreds of missing they are looking for. This catastrope is a one of a kind for that area, has never happened b4.
The N&O in Raleigh, NC, has opened up its coverage of Helene for everyone. And the managing editor said that if anyone has problems accessing the information, to please let the paper know and it will be fixed. https://www.newsobserver.com/topics/helene-nc
Checking it now, the front page is a giant picture of a FEMA response team, with a headline about FEMA response, with a fact check of misinformation right underneath it. This crap is not playing in NC at all.
Yep. I have a friend there I was worried about. Didn't hear from him for a week. He finally emerged (via text) saying, "finally got cell service." He's okay, but like many there he had to cut his way down the slope to get provisions.
The shot of the Bloated Yam doing rescue work is a hoot. This is a man who hobbled down a ramp and had to ride in a golf cart alongside the other leaders of the free world.
Naturally, in a crisis like this, people only believe conspiracy theories about it. That's all people believe nowadays.
Marjorie Taylor-Greene spouted the funniest one: the Democrats used a weather-making machine in Cuba to create both Helene and Milton.
Never has there been so much stupidity and gross incompetence stuffed in one person‘s head ever. MTG’s brain should be dissected and studied by science when she passes on. It may teach us something about what makes certain people act the way they do.
You failed to mention that Speaker Johnson was also at the forefront of spreading these lies. I'm seriously wondering if we all wouldn't have been better off with McCarthy.
You bet! Exactly why Marjorie Three Toes and her MAGA buddies swapped out McC for Johnson. They were wanting to put in someone more like Matt Gaetz, but couldn’t get enough of their own party members to go along with it.
This is why they are screeching about “censorship” right now. They want to be able to lie with impunity, even as part of their official conduct.
The first amendment doesn’t provide the right to scream fire in a crowded area, to threaten or defame, and it doesn’t provide the right to spread disinformation that is dangerous to the public.
I've been reporting all of my social media "friends" who post the disinfo about Helene disaster relief to FB as "spreading false information". I hope FB takes down their posts.
Yup....so have I. I reported several who are yammering about the "only $750" bullshit. I got so hot under the collar my partner recommended I do something useful to calm down rather than rant around the house. I had two pounds of mushroom that I was planning to make into soup. "Good idea!" I shouted.
I chopped those mushrooms (and felt MUCH better!) into a mince and made the best mushroom soup ever.
Funny you say that. Usually I don't have much luck but today I reported gross lies about Hurricane Helene funding and how much the govt. spends on "Illegals" and when I went back to the person's FB account it was gone! Including 2 other posts I reported on this person's account. It was some vindication!
But they do block Democratic exposes of Republicans as "We removed it because you are trying to get clicks.". Like sharing with friends only is going to make me a Facebook Queen 👑. Sure 🙄
Same here, but at least I reported it and informed the page where I discovered it as well and I hope to heck they start to think twice about airing such garbage. At the least they now know someone is watching them.
" ...awkwardly leaping cheerleader, Elon Musk." (snorts coffee out of nose)
In normal times, that visual would have netted a negative viral response a hundred times over Howard Dean's scream heard around the world.
Also, is what Leon Musk (as the Trumpanzee calls him) doing with Twitter protected by free speech? If you promote falsehoods in such a way as to cause personal harm to people, which is what has happened in NC, isn't that the same as yelling fire in a crowded theater?
I guess it's a good thing I'm not prez, because I'd shut Twitter down and challenge Leon to take me to court over it, and then I'd challenge Scotus to apply/not apply their ludicrous immunity decision after I defy court orders to re-open Twitter after I lose the case.
And as unrealistic as all that is, I do wish the Biden administration could find *some* way to deal with this misinformation more within the context of a war footing than they have.
But I am thankful that normal people are posting viral videos that speak to what's happening on the ground.
if I was President Biden, I'd nationalize (take over) LIAR TRAITOR MUSK'S STARLINK SATELLITE SYSTEM. LIAR MUSK IS A THREAT TO OUR COUNTRY. BIDEN CAN TAKE THAT ACTION WITH IMMUNITY.
You know Brazil cancelled X because Musk wouldn't comply or monitor it and after insulting them he returned later and begged to be reinstated. It's doable. Now that we see the Saudis and Putin are behind him he's a legit Traitor.
The brain God gave me tells me there's not a snowball's chance in hell that Trump waded through water to help people. I don't understand what the circled areas are showing, though. (Could be my eyes.)
The circles are calling out areas of the photo that indicate it was an AI creation, though they miss a very obvious tell on the right hand of the fake Trump which looks very alien.
Yes, I understood that was the point. Our right, his left hand? I noticed that it did look kind of like a mannequin hand, but I'm on only my second day of new glasses and I haven't adapted yet. Couldn't tell what circle on left was showing us.
Exactly! Cover the head with your finger; that body in the photo is a good 80 pounds lighter and far more fit than the mango idiot! And Musk has aligned himself with the wrong side.
The irony of the matter is that the Republicans were in power, they would be the ones mucking up the emergency response to this catastrophic situation.
Throwing paper towels and congratulating them on now being able to get a new home and boat after Maria. I remember seeing him on the news, tell ing a victim, "Have fun!" Despicable.
Trump diverted the funds for Puerto Rico and now I wonder if he personally stole a lot of it as that's what he is accusing Biden of doing. And he always projects his crimes onto others. That's how you can keep track of his criminal actions. Or maybe Jared did it. Bet it is stashed in overseas banks.
I was canvassing in North Carolina, and you can have no idea how widely this stuff was believed. People were furious about all the money that was being spent on illegal immigrants where the best that hurricane victims could get was loans.
I have a friend who lives on a mountain outside of Asheville who told me the opposite (obviously, that's a very small sample size). Maybe it depends on what part of the state you're in? Asheville is pretty blue, but my friend says that the area he lives in is pretty conservative. He doesn't know anyone who doesn't own a gun, and of course, a chain saw, the latter of which I didn't know until the floods happened. He had to cut his way down the slope to get help, but he doesn't blame FEMA.
Anyway, my friend says people near him are furious with the Trump disinformation campaign because they know what is happening on the ground. They're frustrated, too, but they're realistic.
It is reaching a point where many of these lies will cause unnecessary suffering and even deaths. This is not “free speech.” This is worse than yelling fire in the crowded room with no exits. This should be treated as a crime. I hope the DOJ has the nerve to do it’s job and protect the American people and the election. Trump probably has already crossed the line and needs to be arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter. It’s time for Merrick Garland to redeem himself and protect America.
My concern is all the millions who are reading the false narrative that is being spread by the MAGA maggots. It’s bad enough that the New York Times waited until the very last minute to begin to call Trump out for his lies and his clear progressive dementia. I don’t know if I believe that the news medias are really making any effort to stop the disinformation. There is going to have to be a complete overhaul of our news media. I don’t mean Censorship, I mean some clear rules about how the media reports information in the future. Not a lot we can do on social media to prevent this disinformation but the major media definitely needs an overhaul!
I have been sharing this from a friend of mine. A friend of his, who is a farmer in NC, Posted this about his experience.
"5h
Things I can personally confirm:
1. Within 12 hours of my FEMA application I was approved for hotels.
2. Within 48 hours I had a $750 emergency expenses payment in my checking account.
3. Last night I did my first interview with a FEMA rep.
4. They've had a ground presence for days.
5. I personally have not seen any looting etc.
There is a lot of bad info going around. And if you don't take the time to fill out the form, you won't get anything. And if you can read Facebook you can take 7 minutes to do the form on your phone."
His family lost everything! Their farm, house, and all the farm equipment and buildings. Yet he took the time to speak some truth about what is really happening on the ground.
They do have a "go fund me" page, but I will not share it here without Jay's permission.
Thanks for posting that. I’ve had the same experience as someone living in Asheville, NC in the middle of the disaster zone. I will post something similar on my own fb feed when I get a chance.
Hope he votes Democrat up and down that ticket.
Thank you so much for posting this and thanks to your friend for allowing you to. It gives a clear perspective of what is actually going on.
From: JOEL
Subject: Comment on article you co-authored
Date: October 7, 2024 at 8:33:10 AM PDT
To: will.oremus@washpost.com, maxine.joselow@washpost.com, gerrit.devynck@washpost.com, mark.berman@washpost.com
As to this article in the Washington Post:
Helene response hampered by misinformation, conspiracy theories; False claims are adding to the chaos and confusion in many storm-battered communities. Social media platforms such as X have allowed the falsehoods to spread.
My comment to you:
Lies are not “misinformation”. Lies are “disinformation”.
Disinformation is form of propaganda.
When, in the future, you write articles about the spread of disinformation by various people, it would be MOST APPROPRIATE for reporters to state clearly who is lying and what they are lying about. Inasmuch as most human beings, especially undereducated human beings, have limited, challenged vocabularies, do not use the word “falsities”. Use the word LIES.
If Trump states something that is a lie, then say, “TRUMP SAID ____. TRUMP’S STATEMENT IS A LIE.”
If Musk states something that is a lie, then say, “MUSK SAID ____. MUSK’S STATEMENT IS A LIE.”
CALL IT WHAT IT IS!
Thank you,
Long-time subscriber to WaPo
Their obfuscation is why I am now a FORMER reader of the WaPo.
Good on you for trying to call them out.
Same. Cancelled my WaPo subscription a few months ago.
Me too.
Cancelled them and NYT last year. Sorry to see them sink.
Agree. My comment as well.
Perfectly said!
These lying ass yutzes should all have their mouths washed out with soap.These poor people,God bless them all!,have just lost everything they have,in a tragic calamity that no one realized would be so horrible,and all these stupid morons can do is stand around making shit up about it??
Dolly Parton,who is eligible for sainthood several times over,has donated $1 million to relief efforts,as as other people,and all the billions and billions of $$$$ Musk has,and all he can do is run his mouth??I don't see him doing a damned thing to actually help these poor people get food,water and shelter for their families,or help get roads repaved so help can get to them.He wants to fly rocket ships to Mars but can't get supplies flown in places no one can otherwise get to?
Here's a suggestion,Mr.Big Money Musk,how about putting some of that money to actual use to help people who need it, instead of standing around tweeting useless lies and bullshit about what you think someone ELSE should be doing?Put all that money where your mouth is!
The fact that Musk, this sick asshole, has control over Starlink and government space contracts is a travesty. I just don’t understand why our government does not cut all these contracts because we should not be having any kind of business relationship with this madman. It is a very dangerous situation.
I wholeheartedly agree with you; especially your first sentence!
Please write your representative about this and send a comment via the White House webpage. Musks behavior is unacceptable and he should be now near a government contract or in control of vital communication.
I’ve already sent letters to the White House about this. My representative is the useless and idiotic Lauren Boebert, who is leaving the district in a few months, so I don’t bother writing to her anymore. She’s a useless lame duck.
A actual lame duck would be more useful than the Bobo.
Last time Musk offered free Starlink to the Ukrainians, everyone praised him. Then he cut off service during a battle and blackmailed our government into paying for the Ukrainians system. Don't trust him. He's auditioning for the Villain Emperor in his Sci-fi story. I think he should be charged with littering space without permission by other countries and the people of Earth. Who asked for this?
The Space Nazi is a worthless piece of lying, stealing bigot.
Include Musk's lyin' mommy in with your assessment.
AMEN sister!
I've also seen a fair number of residents of the affected area, including many who are no fans of the Democratic Party, say things to the effect of "we know who helped us and who hurt us". Trump made two appearances in Georgia in which he showed not one instant of sympathy, contrasted with Harris' words of comfort and genuine information directed at victims, not voters. The front page of the Winston-Salem paper was dedicated to calling out disinformation, and the Charlotte Observer had an editorial condemning Trump that was well-spread all weekend (and presumably read by a lot of suburban voters in Mecklenburg County).
Most voters aren't on Twitter. It's possible Trump lost more votes with his evil actions here (convincing someone that there's only $750 available and not to apply for any more when more is available is about as evil as it gets) than he could have hoped to win.
Also, Elon Musk is best known on Twitter for spreading ridiculous lies (since well before he bought the platform). It's unlikely anyone "gettable" looks to his account for truth.
Thanks for sharing the responses of the local media there. I'm seeing a bit more coverage of Trump's behavior lately that better reflects reality. Seems like this started with the latest Jack Smith drop, but maybe it was the "Eating Pets" song?
Local papers (Charlotte and WS, as well as Tillis (R) are eating them for lunch. Cooper has been operating on the ground with FEMA, and staff in Asheville. They have been writing $3 million checks as fast as they can to towns in Western NC. What makes the Trmp propaganda even worse is the negative impact on the rescue/recovery effort. Some people are cut off from roads, with little food and maybe no power or cell service. We can still find living who need rescue. There are still hundreds of missing they are looking for. This catastrope is a one of a kind for that area, has never happened b4.
The N&O in Raleigh, NC, has opened up its coverage of Helene for everyone. And the managing editor said that if anyone has problems accessing the information, to please let the paper know and it will be fixed. https://www.newsobserver.com/topics/helene-nc
Checking it now, the front page is a giant picture of a FEMA response team, with a headline about FEMA response, with a fact check of misinformation right underneath it. This crap is not playing in NC at all.
Yep. I have a friend there I was worried about. Didn't hear from him for a week. He finally emerged (via text) saying, "finally got cell service." He's okay, but like many there he had to cut his way down the slope to get provisions.
I'm glad your friend is safe.
I certainly hope you are right!
The shot of the Bloated Yam doing rescue work is a hoot. This is a man who hobbled down a ramp and had to ride in a golf cart alongside the other leaders of the free world.
Naturally, in a crisis like this, people only believe conspiracy theories about it. That's all people believe nowadays.
Marjorie Taylor-Greene spouted the funniest one: the Democrats used a weather-making machine in Cuba to create both Helene and Milton.
Of course.
Like in "Snowpiercer," I guess....
the bloated yam 😂 i need to start writing these good ones down for future references
My wife invented the term.
I refuse to use his name.
High five to your wife!
I will let her know.
Never has there been so much stupidity and gross incompetence stuffed in one person‘s head ever. MTG’s brain should be dissected and studied by science when she passes on. It may teach us something about what makes certain people act the way they do.
It is just unfathomable that a country as powerful as the US has these backwoods idiots in position of national power. What a laughing stock.
Pity "like" is the only option...
You mean MTG has a brain? OMG!Who knew?!
😂😆
You failed to mention that Speaker Johnson was also at the forefront of spreading these lies. I'm seriously wondering if we all wouldn't have been better off with McCarthy.
You bet! Exactly why Marjorie Three Toes and her MAGA buddies swapped out McC for Johnson. They were wanting to put in someone more like Matt Gaetz, but couldn’t get enough of their own party members to go along with it.
This is why they are screeching about “censorship” right now. They want to be able to lie with impunity, even as part of their official conduct.
The first amendment doesn’t provide the right to scream fire in a crowded area, to threaten or defame, and it doesn’t provide the right to spread disinformation that is dangerous to the public.
True. Yet here we are.
I've been reporting all of my social media "friends" who post the disinfo about Helene disaster relief to FB as "spreading false information". I hope FB takes down their posts.
"LIES" is a better word, I believe.
Oh, it is a better word, but Facebook does not offer you the "LIES" option when you make a report.
Absolutely!
Yup....so have I. I reported several who are yammering about the "only $750" bullshit. I got so hot under the collar my partner recommended I do something useful to calm down rather than rant around the house. I had two pounds of mushroom that I was planning to make into soup. "Good idea!" I shouted.
I chopped those mushrooms (and felt MUCH better!) into a mince and made the best mushroom soup ever.
Good luck with reporting disinformation to Face Book! I have yet to see them take down anything that I have reported! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Funny you say that. Usually I don't have much luck but today I reported gross lies about Hurricane Helene funding and how much the govt. spends on "Illegals" and when I went back to the person's FB account it was gone! Including 2 other posts I reported on this person's account. It was some vindication!
But they do block Democratic exposes of Republicans as "We removed it because you are trying to get clicks.". Like sharing with friends only is going to make me a Facebook Queen 👑. Sure 🙄
Same here, but at least I reported it and informed the page where I discovered it as well and I hope to heck they start to think twice about airing such garbage. At the least they now know someone is watching them.
Me too!
Even my extremely pro-Trump-wing governor, Bill Lee, has been pushing back hard.
" ...awkwardly leaping cheerleader, Elon Musk." (snorts coffee out of nose)
In normal times, that visual would have netted a negative viral response a hundred times over Howard Dean's scream heard around the world.
Also, is what Leon Musk (as the Trumpanzee calls him) doing with Twitter protected by free speech? If you promote falsehoods in such a way as to cause personal harm to people, which is what has happened in NC, isn't that the same as yelling fire in a crowded theater?
I guess it's a good thing I'm not prez, because I'd shut Twitter down and challenge Leon to take me to court over it, and then I'd challenge Scotus to apply/not apply their ludicrous immunity decision after I defy court orders to re-open Twitter after I lose the case.
And as unrealistic as all that is, I do wish the Biden administration could find *some* way to deal with this misinformation more within the context of a war footing than they have.
But I am thankful that normal people are posting viral videos that speak to what's happening on the ground.
Lots of material already for Xeets and Giggles
If only you could post it on a platform other than Xitter( pronounced shitter per TC). I hate to give Elmo Muck the views.
As I asked on another post today, what are the folks from Anonymous doing these days? Somebody needs to take Xitter down.
There so often is. I love Xeets and Giggles, but I wish they weren't a necessary part of my weekly diet.
if I was President Biden, I'd nationalize (take over) LIAR TRAITOR MUSK'S STARLINK SATELLITE SYSTEM. LIAR MUSK IS A THREAT TO OUR COUNTRY. BIDEN CAN TAKE THAT ACTION WITH IMMUNITY.
I would, too.
You know Brazil cancelled X because Musk wouldn't comply or monitor it and after insulting them he returned later and begged to be reinstated. It's doable. Now that we see the Saudis and Putin are behind him he's a legit Traitor.
I don't know how the legal minds view it, but I think you may be correct, that what Musk is doing is equivalent to yelling fire.
The brain God gave me tells me there's not a snowball's chance in hell that Trump waded through water to help people. I don't understand what the circled areas are showing, though. (Could be my eyes.)
The circles are calling out areas of the photo that indicate it was an AI creation, though they miss a very obvious tell on the right hand of the fake Trump which looks very alien.
And the kid with the lifejacket is obvious AI. If I had taken up the challenge to "caption this photo," I would have written, "Generated by AI."
To my eye, Sophia, all of trump looks very alien.
He definitely should have been an alien character in Men in Black.
I don't think we'd find even a little dying man inside his head if it was opened.
Awwww, Rosenberg and the little guy were good aliens. Trump is more like the rampaging angry "bug" in the "Egger suit". (a cockroach, in other words)
Exactly!
LOL
Yes, I understood that was the point. Our right, his left hand? I noticed that it did look kind of like a mannequin hand, but I'm on only my second day of new glasses and I haven't adapted yet. Couldn't tell what circle on left was showing us.
Yep me too! Number of fingers maybe?
Exactly! Cover the head with your finger; that body in the photo is a good 80 pounds lighter and far more fit than the mango idiot! And Musk has aligned himself with the wrong side.
I don't believe Dumpty has three fingers on his left hand.
I believe that Trump's small hand got smaller with 3 fingers, unless he is a leftover alien from Paracus Peru. 👽👽👽
Projection
The irony of the matter is that the Republicans were in power, they would be the ones mucking up the emergency response to this catastrophic situation.
Recent example: Katrina 🤔
Throwing paper towels and congratulating them on now being able to get a new home and boat after Maria. I remember seeing him on the news, tell ing a victim, "Have fun!" Despicable.
And Covid
Trump diverted the funds for Puerto Rico and now I wonder if he personally stole a lot of it as that's what he is accusing Biden of doing. And he always projects his crimes onto others. That's how you can keep track of his criminal actions. Or maybe Jared did it. Bet it is stashed in overseas banks.
And refusing to increase FEMA funding with Milton bearing down on Florida. Thanks bunches Johnson. 🤬
I was canvassing in North Carolina, and you can have no idea how widely this stuff was believed. People were furious about all the money that was being spent on illegal immigrants where the best that hurricane victims could get was loans.
I have a friend who lives on a mountain outside of Asheville who told me the opposite (obviously, that's a very small sample size). Maybe it depends on what part of the state you're in? Asheville is pretty blue, but my friend says that the area he lives in is pretty conservative. He doesn't know anyone who doesn't own a gun, and of course, a chain saw, the latter of which I didn't know until the floods happened. He had to cut his way down the slope to get help, but he doesn't blame FEMA.
Anyway, my friend says people near him are furious with the Trump disinformation campaign because they know what is happening on the ground. They're frustrated, too, but they're realistic.
If you live in the woods, especially in the mountains, you NEED a chainsaw and know how to use, just as a practical matter.
It’s all about scapegoating. Read Rene Girard, Billionaire Peter Thiel’s mentor
It is reaching a point where many of these lies will cause unnecessary suffering and even deaths. This is not “free speech.” This is worse than yelling fire in the crowded room with no exits. This should be treated as a crime. I hope the DOJ has the nerve to do it’s job and protect the American people and the election. Trump probably has already crossed the line and needs to be arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter. It’s time for Merrick Garland to redeem himself and protect America.
My concern is all the millions who are reading the false narrative that is being spread by the MAGA maggots. It’s bad enough that the New York Times waited until the very last minute to begin to call Trump out for his lies and his clear progressive dementia. I don’t know if I believe that the news medias are really making any effort to stop the disinformation. There is going to have to be a complete overhaul of our news media. I don’t mean Censorship, I mean some clear rules about how the media reports information in the future. Not a lot we can do on social media to prevent this disinformation but the major media definitely needs an overhaul!
Fact checking MAGA is easy, as everything they say is a lie
Same old same : the crooked party has no solutions, just trying to project their past criminal actions on those who actually try to help .
VOTE CAREFULLY ! .
-Nate