I gotta say, Governor Abbott is at least saying and apparently doing the right things, even if this disaster has...
I gotta say, Governor Abbott is at least saying and apparently doing the right things, even if this disaster has nothing to do with Climate Change ™. Ahem.
Also, Mexico has offered assistance, a la the help they sent for Katrina. Fuck whether Trump accepts it, Abbott can accept it directly and he sounds like he is in direct contact and vice versa, per the article from the Dallas News. WaPo is all grumpy in their article, but I wanted the pic of the Mexicans helping during Katrina, because helping.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2017/08/27/mexico-offers-help-harvey-soaked-texas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/27/mexican-troops-saved-american-lives-after-katrina-would-trump-let-them-do-it-again/?utm_term=.e166e332c3ab
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/27/mexican-troops-saved-american-lives-after-katrina-would-trump-let-them-do-it-again/?utm_term=.e166e332c3ab
Also, Mexico has offered assistance, a la the help they sent for Katrina. Fuck whether Trump accepts it, Abbott can accept it directly and he sounds like he is in direct contact and vice versa, per the article from the Dallas News. WaPo is all grumpy in their article, but I wanted the pic of the Mexicans helping during Katrina, because helping.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2017/08/27/mexico-offers-help-harvey-soaked-texas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/27/mexican-troops-saved-american-lives-after-katrina-would-trump-let-them-do-it-again/?utm_term=.e166e332c3ab
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/27/mexican-troops-saved-american-lives-after-katrina-would-trump-let-them-do-it-again/?utm_term=.e166e332c3ab
Can he actually accept that? I am skeptical-- states do not engage in foreign policy.
ReplyDeleteI'm not certain but I'm skeptical.
I mean, probably technically not, but would Trump actually tell him no if he said this was needed aid? It's right there and easily staged to Texas. Brock Long doesn't seem inept, either, and if they need whatever Mexico's got, surely they and Cruz and Cornyn and a whole lotta state Reps would be telling Trump to not be a jerk.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, it's Texas, and if Mexico just showed up because Texas decided to invite them, would someone really make them leave?
ReplyDeleteI believe we rejected Hugo Chavez' offers after Katrina. Make of that what you will, but whatever you make of it the optics here would be earth-shatteringly awful.
ReplyDeleteYes. Either way the optics are bad. We accepted Mexico's help before. If we don't now simply because of Trump, that's crap. If we accept it, he won't care, but somebody will add it to the list of hypocrisy and his supporters may or may not complain. Or he'll leverage it and say instead of paying for the wall, they sent help.
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