MUDSLIDE may be the best word. On the farm, we would call it “Shit!!!”
In this case, Trump’s lies — MUDSLIDES OF TRUMP’s LIES, are hurting people in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida. The lies force the governors of all three states to deal with preventable crap. Trump’s lies, twisted stories, and absolute determination to mislead are all jumbled together in nasty data as he tries to paint pictures of a broken government.
It is one thing to deal with weather, uncontrollable weather. It is another thing to help highly stressed and injured people fight the bramble of lies to find the truth.
Today, I write only about the preventable one: MUDSLIDE, i.e., the jumble of deliberate lies intended to hurt people already hurt by the storms. They come in no particular order, but we have to start somewhere.
Lie One: $750.
Trump and his pals just stood there in North Carolina and deliberately, over and over again, lied about $750. Their intent was (and continues to be) to prove the U.S. government is failing in times of their truly tragic, actually unprecedented, emergency.
Playing the “great pretender/messiah,” Trump claimed flood waters were rising, the federal government and Federal Emergency Service (FEMA) had no intention of being helpful, adding that $750 was all people were getting. The rest would go to illegal, undocumented immigrants.
TRUTH: The $750 is just the beginning of aid. Imagine: You are a flood victim; you stand on the porch of your house that has slid off the foundation and is sliding down a mountain; deep flood waters surround you; your family is trying to save you but cannot reach you; they yell, “JUMP!” And you do.
You do not dash back into the crumbling house to look for your billfold, insurance papers, or secret supply of cash in the cookie jar.
The $750 is emergency money to get you through the very first days of this ongoing emergency. Next comes paperwork, proof of citizenship, and much more aid.
A GAZILLION LIES
Stand in the Way of Recovery Efforts
Since Hurricane Helene decimated parts of western North Carolina last week, former President Donald Trump has seized on the tragedy to perpetuate lies about the federal response, sowing chaos and confusion as officials scramble to help those affected. [Li Zhou,VOX]
Dare we say? So many lies, so little time, e.g., no emergency aid is going to migrants. Thousands of State and Federal government workers have joined to help with the massive emergency in Western NC. Similar activities are happening in Eastern Tennessee and Florida, with all three governors (one Democrat, two Republicans) begging Trump and his minions to stop the lies. The lies stand in the way of helping people genuinely in need.