ABC News’ Trevor Ault discusses the toll that flooding is having on residents in Jackson, Mississippi, with more than 180,000 people left without running water.
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Well well well???? What do you know??? In one of the (Reddest Republican KKK states) in the country, (biblical fantasy) is manufactured on an industrial scale, on every corner in every hamlet, and permeates the entire community; whether they like it or not. Republican Bozos, as usual; don't know how to govern or how to tie their shoes for that matter. Utter Republican fascist incompetence is directly responsible. The inevitable has happened once again. That superstitious backward philosophy of fascist stupidity led directly to this crisis.
Republicans use every form of deceit, subterfuge, discrimination, and political fraud to steal all the infrastructure money instead of taking the sensible steps the EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, and numerous other agencies warned them to take. They use nut case, fundamentalist, radical, religious lunacy to subdue, and confuse the peasants while they withhold fed funds, skim off the top, or just plain abscond with the cash in uncle Billy Bob's Construction company et al.
Now we have another totally predictable disaster. Meanwhile the Republican governor, and right wing racist ,fascist legislature will try to blame everyone on earth except the ones who created this fiasco, (dumb ass radical MAGA moron Republican governor Reeves), and his KKK MAGA moron co-conspirators in the legislature. Take a good look people! Take a real good look. Follow the money. This is what Republican facist MAGA moron, religious fantasy land government looks like. Deny facts. Deny science. Deny reality of (Climate change), and wait for Jesus to come build a proper waste water treatment plant. You'll be waiting a long time for that. Vote blue in 22 if ya know what's good for you. This isn't rocket science.
We send taxpayers dollars all over the country but treat the people who are responsible for money flowing elsewhere never any RECIPROCITY this country is diabolical. I bet political corruption is at its finest all the way to Washington
AMERICA!!!!!!!!
Wow 🤩. Good luck 🤦🏿♀️ last people who get help.. Thank your state representative who said no to infrastructure
And America still gives Ukraine billions for the proxy war. Zero for water.
The two republican senators voted against the infrastructure bill
Welp when history comes back to hunt u this is part of it…..Df u ain't got water to fight fire 🤣🤣
Why is it that the Republican – run states are having such bad infrastructure problems, and the ones run by the democrats are not?
Red states. Smh!
Its kind of ironic that they don't have water while being surrounded by water.
I live there the water been messed up and government knew it for a long time. Our governor knew but he funds other counties
There are Tanker Trucks that can bring water to Jackson for people to Bathe and flush their Toilets
Why would anyone be willing to help fascist at a black church after becoming the dangerous Nazis they are ? And let the Caucasians with no way of Defending themselves other than a gun as ugly as that is !
Somewhat similar to the Flint, MI water problem.
Imagine, all that money to support wars abroad… If that money was spent for the USA citizens… In infrastructure ETC
I could fix this in 30 days…
The Governor and all the other Republicans don't care about Jackson, MS because it has become majority black. In a state thats overwhelmingly ran by Racist Republicans, they will do everything in their power to see Jackson, Ms suffer and to help the suburban cities that surround Jackson flourish. Whenever Jackson leadership request grants from the the state it gets denied everytime, but yet if its Madison, or Brandon, Flowood( majority White) it gets over funded!!! Immediately!. Then they wanna have the audacity to try to bash Jackson leadership but the Mayor(s) past, future, and present can only do so much but if they dont have the support from the state, nothing will ever get done! Them Republicans are trying their absolute best to keep that White Supremacy going. The year is 2022!! The state was well aware of Jackson infrastructure issues and aging water system back in the 1990s and they didn't care then, because they wanted us to suffer!! This issue is very very deep! Documentary coming soon!
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I asked a friend of mine to go easy on the water :
Because it is a very precious commodity :
And we only have a limited amount :
She said a plumber told her that's not true 🙄
Anywhere they go to get water, they shouldn't have to pay for it!
So where is the vitaministration to help these people get drinking water come on where are they
I can’t imagine being able to live there either. I would feel like I was being forced to move. I can’t believe the officials let things get this bad.
All I hear when I think about this is Nina Simone's "Mississippi Goddam": https://youtu.be/-HM2S6TVYII
This crisis is a result of racism as much as anything else… 😔 Our govt, wealthy white people & corporations damn well better step up to fix this right now.
But no, Mr. Mayor, we do not want taxes raised to fix all this antique broken stuff.
Thoughts and prayers should fix the issue
Mississippi worried about taking reproductive rights away from women and this same state can't even ensure it's citizen's have clean water. Maybe they should've been pouring resources into it's bs infrastructure instead of trying to legislate morality.
Let this sink in…..OIL is not the most expensive commodity. 😢
What are the people taxes going 🤔
Who want to talk sitting in the heat waiting for water, and being put on blast like that! LOOKING at all the line of cars should be enough! At the end of the day what she would of said would have been looked over anyway.
You are all in my prayers I'm praying that they will get it fixed where you can have water and Jesus name
It is unfortunate that People of Color has to be under the thumb of these Melanemic people that continue to rule the South under the Confederate flag in America.
Watching this is making me thirsty. I think I'll have a glass of cool well water before I resume watching you clowns die of thirst.
No water and nothing repaired, but we can send 40 billion to Ukraine.
How come it’s always republicans in charge when water systems go sideways !!!
Don't worry Biden weeks from now will throw money at the problem.
But abortion is on the top of republicans’ agenda.
Vote Republican and destroy your state
find the film where the governor has hus own water truck outside his house.
AS A FELLOW MISSISSIPPIAN, THE GOVERNOR IS THE BLAME. THE WATER TREATMENT HAS BEEN A PROBLEM SINCE THE 70S. HE KEEPS SENDING MONEY BACK INSTEAD OF FIXING THE PROBLEM. HE IS TRYING TO SCAPEGOAT THE MAYOR BUT WONT SEND HELP TO REPAIR THE WATER PROBLEM. THE WHOLE PLANT NEEDS TO BE REBUILT AND THE GOVERNOR KNOWS THAT. THEY WOULD RATHER SEND THE MONEY TO NEIGHBORING COUNTIES THAT ARE PREDOMINANTLY WHITE