Your opinion on Obama, Hillary, and the media not giving the LA flood attention

News now is all about being "sexy" and sadly natural disasters are not. Olympic swimmers lying about getting robbed while the government of another country tries to seize their passport is "sexy" news. It's stupid, but that's how I believe they are thinking when they decide what to show. It's the same reason politicians don't focus on things that matter (infrastructure is the perfect example). If it isn't sexy, they don't want to talk about it because they think people don't care as much.

Remember all the crap Bush got for flying over LA after Katrina?

Media and black leaders are clearly biased. But we already knew that Where are all the "Chocolate City" speeches and outcrys for racial justice?

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Trump has become a different person this week. Offering an apology, using a teleprompter, toning rhetoric down a bit. makes for a different election cycle.

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Trump's owning it this week.

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Remember all the crap Bush got for flying over LA after Katrina?

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This is the part that pisses me off. If the POTUS thinks he can best aid the situation by sending the DHS director, that's his call. I'm in no position to say either way - but to treat Obama differently than Bush, well that just shows the intellectual dishonesty of the mainstream media.

some drunk lady being saved =/= the entire flood. guess I was wrong about people caring about the drunk lady.

also in regards to an insensitive thread I started then asked for it to be deleted, because I know heartbreak and or wade will bring it up. sorry for hurting peoples feelings with that thread. didn't realize how serious the flooding was. the thread was in jest, but it was too soon and people weren't in a joking mood.

The people mostly dealing with the disaster don't really need the federal government coming in and messing shite up. They weren't waiting for the feds to save them, neighbors are helping neighbors rescuing and now tearing things up. Its taken probably 2-3 days of work but my parents have managed to gut the house. They didn't need some politicians words or empty shite like shilliary would have to offer.

Trump at least made donations.

The media especially Shep Smith can suck a cock.

It also pissed me off more to read stupid article titles that said LA begs for Obama to come down. I found that more insulting to the people of south LA than anything else. No one is begging for shite.

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It'll always be too soon.

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one or more similar threads have been made because of the various maps that show Arkansas with ocean front property

those weren't too soon and had good discussion

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it didn't hurt feelings

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pissed people off

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Yea and I didn't post in those

I wasn't going to bring up you being a piece of shite until you tried to get out in front of it with your backhanded apology

I bet you wouldn't say that shite to my face would you? If you did you can rest assured I'd slap the frick out of you

I was thinking it but didn't want to ask. frickin great to hear they had flood insurance. That's the elephant in the room in all of these discussions.

Yea the insurance will help big time in getting stuff back on the right track. They didn't have much time but they got alot of stuff up off the floor. The furniture had no shot though, appliances all will have to be replaced, wood floor and carpet will have to come up.

The water was about 3-4 inches from taking my LSU national title posters.

I feel like the combination of donations and local people putting in so much work might help mitigate some of the ones that didn't have flood insurance.

thanks tbird. My mom and sister made it out before the vehicles could get flooded in. I did have aunts and uncles that had to be rescued by boat. I had a friend that had to be rescued by boat with her kids. My buddy sent her to her parents house because he thought it wouldn't flood and he wasn't sure about his house. It turned out his house just barely didn't flood but his father in laws flooded.