No aid for them! Bette Midler says no federal money for Texas until their attitude improves or something

Brett T. | 7:27 PM on September 05, 2017

It didn’t take long for cartoonist Matt Wuerker to draw up his hot take on the devastating flooding in Texas, although Politico quickly pulled his panel showing a man in a 10-gallon hat and a Confederate flag shirt mistaking the Coast Guard for angels.

If you want to know what .@politico thinks about the victims of #Harvey, here is the cartoon they just tweeted, then deleted. pic.twitter.com/9cr0Ne2Z06

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) August 30, 2017

Wuerker was shocked that people didn’t get it, and that he was making fun of the secessionist movement, not Texans in general. It didn’t matter, as editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution had offered a strikingly similar hot take:

08/30 Mike Luckovich: Pleez hep! https://t.co/ye7yUcRSey pic.twitter.com/rlazALvn28

— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) August 29, 2017

Secessionists, anti-government militia … what’s up with the people of Houston that we don’t know about? Good thing the New York Times was there on Monday to keep fueling the fire, publishing a piece on Texans’ “distrust of Washington” colliding with their need to federal aid post-Harvey.

Bette Midler certainly had a strong reaction to the piece (or at least the headline), retweeting it with the admonition, “No aid for them!”

If this is how they feel, then no aid for them! In Texas, Distrust of Washington Collides With Need for Federal Aid https://t.co/eH6pkwsaKb

— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) September 5, 2017

No aid for those republicans.. but what about the people who did not vote for them ?

— Rfotofolio (@Rfotofolio) September 5, 2017

Hmm … that is problematic. How to properly distribute aid money to the “right” people while punishing the bad ones who voted Republican? Maybe Midler should just follow Linda Sarsour’s instruction and donate to progressive political groups under the guise of Harvey relief.