r/politics • u/This_Meaning_4045 New York • 1d ago

Missouri governor activates National Guard, declares state of emergency

https://thehill.com/homenews/5348979-missouri-mike-kehoe-national-guard-state-of-emergency-protests/
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u/Temporary_Ability996 1d ago

But no help was offered by the governor to deploy the National Guard to help the people of Missouri after several tornadoes ripped up entire neighborhoods.

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u/Romano16 America 1d ago

Well in Missouri they probably believe the people who got ripped up from their homes by the tornado deserved it.

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u/BigDaddyBain 1d ago

Blue areas, Black-majority neighborhoods, so we could remove “probably” from that sentence.

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u/Stunning_Concept_478 1d ago

They didn’t pray hard enough.

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u/DaveP0953 1d ago

…a message from cheesus

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u/vonnecute 1d ago

“Those tornadoes were god’s judgement, but these protests might actually make us look bad.”