
{"id":311221,"date":"2024-10-13T21:42:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T01:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=311221"},"modified":"2025-02-24T17:53:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:53:56","slug":"hurricanes-october-surprises-and-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/opinion\/columns\/hurricanes-october-surprises-and-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes, October surprises and elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hurricane Helene left <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-death-toll-asheville-north-carolina-34d1226bb31f79dfb2ff6827e40587fc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>hundreds dead<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and caused untold <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/weather\/live-blog\/hurricane-helene-live-updates-rcna173767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>damage<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but the officials leading the recovery have had to face a phenomenon very different from the material and human effect. Indeed, the false claims and conspiracy theories spread about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) by the most unrepentant Trumpists have been widely disseminated via the Internet and social media. And they continue to circulate. Helene was joined by the impact of Milton in less than two weeks, devastating Tampa Bay and its surroundings<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Funneled through FEMA, federal assistance for people affected by the hurricane has so far exceeded <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/press-release\/20241009\/federal-assistance-hurricane-helene-exceeds-344-million-fema-expands-dual\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>$344 million.<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> However, those efforts have been torpedoed by falsehoods because the agency does not have the money to help people hit by the hurricane. Or that it only provides <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/node\/rumor-serious-needs-assistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>$750 in assistance.<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Or that it confiscates land. The problem has reached the point that FEMA has had to create a website to collect the most widespread false claims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As expected, Trump has been the main protagonist of disinformation and manipulation with the purpose of torpedoing the Democratic candidate with statements intended to be validated by the public; that is, lying at full speed to win, including the lie that FEMA does not have hurricane aid money because it has all been spent on illegal immigrants. Kamala Harris called it an \u201cextraordinarily <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/kamala-harris-calls-trump-irresponsible-disinformation-helene-aid-rcna174402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>irresponsible\u201d<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The phenomenon reached its climax with Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the typical MAGA, who suggested that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">they<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> could control the path of Hurricane Helene, even though no technical-scientific device allows such a thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You don\u2019t have to be very advanced to dismantle this rampant and gross lie. Republican Representative Carlos Gim\u00e9nez, from one of the districts in southern Florida, responded to this manipulation by writing on his social network: \u201cNEW NEWS: humans cannot create or control hurricanes. Anyone who thinks they can do that needs to have their<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/700790-carlos-gimenez-marjorie-taylor-greene-needs-her-head-examined-for-weather-control-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>head<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> examined,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there is more. Following the rhyme, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has even refused to take calls from Vice President Kamala Harris about recovery after the ravages. The argument is a variation on the same mantra: the accusation of campaigning by getting involved in the emergency response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Kamala Harris, Desantis said, \u201chas <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/10\/us-news\/desantis-rips-harris-again-for-butting-into-milton-response-no-role-in-this-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>no role\u201d<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the process, adding that she had never tried to call him during the previous hurricanes in Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These and other incidents of a similar nature give a measure of the temperature in the United States in the run-up to the presidential elections. And it is precisely what has led several Democratic advisers to turn on the red lights in the face of the avalanche of misinformation and its possible impact on voters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of them, veteran strategist James Carville \u2015 the author of the famous phrase \u201cit\u2019s the economy, stupid\u201d to explain H.W. Bush\u2019s defeat against Bill Clinton in 1992 \u2015 has just expressed his concerns that Kamala Harris\u2019 campaign was running out of time to convey a strong opposite message to voters before the elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_311224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311224\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/James-C-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-311224\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/James-C-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/James-C-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/James-C-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/James-C-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/James-C-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/James-C-1-750x501.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/James-C-1-1140x761.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-311224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Carville. Photo: Archive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe only thing I feel is that the elections will be on November 5. I\u2019m <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/democratic-strategist-james-carville-scared-concerned-2024-election_n_6707c695e4b0c34b3eba17ae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>scared to death<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd very, very concerned and very scared\u201d because Harris has less than twenty days to convey that message to voters. He then suggested that they go on the offensive. \u201cThey need to be sharp. They need to be aggressive. They need to stop answering questions and start asking them.\u201d And he has advised them to take actions such as bringing out the cleanup hitters of the game. That is what former President Barack Obama has just done, perhaps for a start.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And he stressed that he would have President Clinton talk on these local television stations about how tariffs would destroy the economy of Wisconsin or Michigan or anywhere else because they have never worked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The phrase <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/02\/politics\/october-surprise-what-is-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>\u201cOctober surprise\u201d<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was codified in 1980, when Democrat James Carter failed to secure the release of American hostages in Iran. That surprise was supposed to be his last-minute success in achieving it \u2015 but it never happened. And it was one of the main reasons he lost to Ronald Reagan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since then, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge and the term has been applied with more or less success to almost any important breaking news that alters the presidential election. More recently, during the 2016 event, the latest October surprise was documented when WikiLeaks released Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails and then-FBI Director James Comey announced that they would be re-examined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, earlier this month <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/01\/october-surprise-trump-harris-election-hillary-clinton-warning\/75464000007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Hillary Clinton<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> herself warned Kamala Harris to expect her own October surprise. \u201cI foresee something happening in October,\u201d she said in an interview with PBS. \u201cThere will be concerted efforts to distort and pervert Kamala Harris, who she is, what she stands for, what she has done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hillary Clinton\u2019s is perhaps the only October surprise that has had a direct impact on the outcome of the election so far. Indeed, after that announcement, her lead over Trump narrowed. And in the end, as we know, she lost. That was undoubtedly one of the reasons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What James Carville is saying is that this time, this surprise could take the form of not only two violent hurricanes but also an avalanche of manipulations and lies that continue to resound and circulate throughout the Kingdom of This World. We will see. 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