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Doing their jobs. This is part of the responsibility of the POTUS and/or VP.

5 ( +11 / -6 )

Im mocking the left comments when Trump went, obviously. 100+ posts of how terrible it is to “be in the way” right now.

Joe and Kamala went now to show fake concern once Trump went first and shamed them into it. Didn’t even go to the same place, using even more resources.

not the first time. East Palestine, Ohio and the border are other simple examples.

-6 ( +7 / -13 )

So, lets see. If Biden and Harris don't go to the disaster area, it shows laziness and a lack of leadership.

If they do go, they're hogging the spotlight and disrupting local relief efforts.

Darned if you do and darned if you dont. It's almost sounding as if the people making these arguments are making them in bad faith. But that couldn't be the case, could it?

7 ( +11 / -4 )

If they do go, they're hogging the spotlight and disrupting local relief efforts.

Guess you missed the comments a few days ago when Trump was there.

-3 ( +5 / -8 )

Everyone knows it's election campaign time - but why does Trump have to continually lie, esp about Biden being unresponsive or all the aid he (trump) is giving, while people are suffering amidst unprecedented devastation?

Obviously to score brownie points - but it really shows a lack common of decency and empathy.

He just can't stand seeing the opposition doing anything positive. He takes it personally and has to try to bring them down. Demean the Others, to Prop up himself.

Disasters such as hurricane Helene need all hands on deck regardless of their bents.

4 ( +8 / -4 )

Necessary to balance out the pure, 100% bias you show in his favour.

The truth has no bias.

made up things do.

-8 ( +4 / -12 )

Everyone knows it's election campaign time - but why does Trump have to continually lie, esp about Biden being unresponsive or all the aid he (trump) is giving, while people are suffering amidst unprecedented devastation?

He didn’t lie, Biden did not respond immediately or did anything within the first 48 hours, that’s a fact.

Obviously to score brownie points

Kill two birds with one stone, the Dems wouldn’t have taken a shot if the roles were reversed? Remember what the Dems did to Bush and Katrina? They wasted no time to pound on his slow response, so try not to get partisan here.

but it really shows a lack common of decency and empathy.

Yeah, I really don’t need to hear that from the left.

He just can't stand seeing the opposition doing anything positive.

They didn’t at first, so what is the positive here?

He takes it personally and has to try to bring them down. Demean the Others, to Prop up himself.

Disasters such as hurricane Helene need all hands on deck regardless of their bents.

True, Trump got there first and now Harris and Biden…finally

-8 ( +4 / -12 )

Just another DNC press release masquerading as a news article, establishing the bias right out of the gate:

Biden flew into the Carolinas and his deputy headed to Georgia after Harris's election rival Donald Trump sought to turn their handling of the disaster into campaign fodder.

But it glosses over Biden and Harris's flat-footed response in the early stages of the hurricane disaster everyone knew was coming. They make Bush's response to Katrina look competent in comparison.

-8 ( +3 / -11 )

Everyone knows it's election campaign time - but why does Trump have to continually lie, esp about Biden being unresponsive or all the aid he (trump) is giving, while people are suffering amidst unprecedented devastation?

He didn’t lie, Biden did not respond immediately or did anything within the first 48 hours, that’s a fact. 

Obviously

Disinformation. Again.

The Biden Administration approved each affected state’s request for an emergency declaration and put FEMA into action before, yes, before Helene even made landfall.

7 ( +10 / -3 )

They are not in the way, that’s why they did a tour via air.

Unlike the insurrectionist who decided to make it all about himself.

6 ( +9 / -3 )

So why is Starlink now available there? Who did that?

and no I see Kamala in her “crisis jacket” speaking behind a podium that isn’t in the “air”.

-7 ( +4 / -11 )

Everyone knows it's election campaign time - but why does Trump have to continually lie, esp about Biden being unresponsive or all the aid he (trump) is giving, while people are suffering amidst unprecedented devastation?

He didn’t lie, Biden did not respond immediately or did anything within the first 48 hours, that’s a fact.

Wrong across the board...

1) FEMA was embedded with Georgia disaster teams days before it hit - confirmed by Gov Kemp...

"FEMA teams are embedded with state and local partners at Emergency Operation Centers to facilitate requests for federal support."  

https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20240928/fema-and-partners-respond-hurricane-helene-across-southeast

2) Trump said Biden and Kemp hadn't talked when Kemp specifically said he had talked to Biden and he "appreciated" his help....

“The president just called me yesterday afternoon and I missed him and called him right back and he just said ‘Hey, what do you need?’ And I told him, you know, we’ve got what we need, we’ll work through the federal process,” Kemp said. “He offered if there are other things we need just to call him directly, which I appreciate that.”

https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-donald-trump-hurricane-helene-3097f1706455929adf5a4eb67f9cdf0f

6 ( +8 / -2 )

bass4funk

He didn’t lie, Biden did not respond immediately or did anything within the first 48 hours, that’s a fact.

Nope. It’s.

4 ( +7 / -3 )

They are not in the way,

Neither was Trump.

that’s why they did a tour via air. 

Because they and the media knows if they talk to the people while the cameras are rolling the 8 second delay will run overtime.

Unlike the insurrectionist who decided to make it all about himself.

And yet, the people were happy that he was there.

-10 ( +3 / -13 )

Blacklabel

Im mocking the left comments when Trump went, obviously. 100+ posts of how terrible it is to “be in the way” right now.

What you don’t seem to understand, going straight away will just get in the way. That’s why Biden and Harris waited.

5 ( +8 / -3 )

What you don’t seem to understand, going straight away will just get in the way. That’s why Biden and Harris waited.

I guess they don't want to get in the way of the illegal immigrants crossing over the border, so they keep waiting.

-14 ( +1 / -15 )

Remember that $1 million that Trump raised and the supplies that he was shipping in?

Yeah, as per usual, bs.

The supplies were from others that Trump had no role in appropriating or coordinating.

The money was a go fund me that he donated nothing to and which is associated with no specific charity meaning there’s no way to know who benefits from it or even if it is actually used for charitable causes.

Typical MAGA.

7 ( +9 / -2 )

So why is Starlink now available there? Who did that? 

FEMA. the idiot in Chief claimed credit, as he always does, for things he had nothing to do with.

5 ( +7 / -2 )

Right there in the picture beside the headline. Clearly visible Marine 1.

4 ( +7 / -3 )

 but at least he doesn’t lie.

Based on what? Saying what you like to hear most times? lol

bet he is a “total liar” by next week in another topic.

-8 ( +3 / -11 )

do you expect Trump himself to fly the help in? Of course he has others assisting in his efforts.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4909581-cory-mills-helene-response/?tbref=hp

Just like he coordinated with Elon to set up Starlink. That Biden is now claiming he “directed” to happen.

-8 ( +3 / -11 )

Wrong across the board...

Hardly

Trump’s go fund me for Hurricane Helene victims has now raised over $2.1 MILLION DOLLARS in less than 24 hours..

-8 ( +3 / -11 )

Hardly

Trump’s go fund me for Hurricane Helene victims has now raised over $2.1 MILLION DOLLARS in less than 24 hours..

Where is the money going, specifically?

8 ( +9 / -1 )

Nope. Biden was on the phone straight away.

Look, you don’t need to try to convince me, you’re not, try convincing the people that are angry at Biden and Harris

In almost one week, the Biden-Harris administration approved:

$8.7 billion in military aid for Israel

$8 billion in military aid for Ukraine

$567 million in military support for Taiwan

Let that sink in!

-9 ( +3 / -12 )

And that’s why he used his own helicopter, genius.

yes. You don’t see the problem with that when….helicopters are needed and he is using one for himself?

Right there in the picture, Marine One. He didn’t use a relief Hili for himself.

7 ( +9 / -2 )

Blacklabel

How many people could “his” military helicopter have rescued instead of giving him a “tour” for politics and then leave?

The terrain was too difficult for the president to use his bicycle. How do you expect the president to travel in a disaster zone? He needed the overall view from the sky that you can't see from the ground.

11 ( +12 / -1 )

FEMA. the idiot in Chief claimed credit, as he always does, for things he had nothing to do with.

He should since he and Elon pushed hard and heavy on this.

-10 ( +2 / -12 )

At first Harris was reluctant to go when Biden told her they were visiting the border; until he told her it was the Georgia/South Carolina border.

-12 ( +2 / -14 )

"Marine One, carrying US President Joe Biden, flies above a storm-impacted area near Asheville, North Carolina."

Used by the president and his staff.

7 ( +8 / -1 )

Trump lied about no contact to Kemp. He lied about Red counties being denied aid. He lied about helping out and now his cult lies about Biden getting in the way when they were apoplectic about him not visiting Yesterday.

9 ( +11 / -2 )

Trump lied about no contact to Kemp. He lied about Red counties being denied aid. He lied about helping out and now his cult lies about Biden getting in the way when they were apoplectic about him not visiting Yesterday.

So what’s more important to libs, that he allegedly lied of the people or the dead, dying and suffering? Which one? Because so far you keep rambling on about Trump, but she didn’t say one thing about the disaster in those areas and what the people have gone through none..

-12 ( +1 / -13 )

The trump haters yesterday: Trump didn’t collect any money or support any supplies!

today: well, he only collected some types of supplies and he gotta prove how the money he collected will be spent!

and try to totally ignore Starlink support he got that was critical to the entire operation.

lol sad.

-12 ( +2 / -14 )

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