Theater of the Absurd: Indivisible’s Storm Show Rolls into Red Florida

This Sunday in Miami, the climate theatrics continue as Indivisible hosts its latest eco-panic pageant, “RIDERS ON THE STORM.” Set against the scenic backdrop of Maurice A. Ferré Park, this production promises drama, fear, and a generous helping of misinformation—all wrapped in the righteous indignation of progressive performance activism.

The premise? “NO FORECAST. NO WARNING. NO ESCAPE!” That’s the ominous slogan leading the charge. It’s not the trailer for a Netflix thriller—it’s Indivisible’s pitch to convince you that Trump has personally unplugged the Weather Channel and is now out to abolish FEMA altogether.

Let’s clarify something: Donald Trump has indeed proposed scaling back FEMA, not as an act of destruction but as a strategic shift toward empowering states to handle disasters themselves. This is not a wild conspiracy theory—it’s been stated publicly. But in the hands of Indivisible, this becomes a full-blown climate apocalypse scenario. Apparently, giving states autonomy is indistinguishable from “being unprotected” and “dismantling disaster relief.” Someone alert Florida, where Ron DeSantis has managed hurricane response with a level of competence that should be the envy of the rest of the United States. If anything, FEMA could stand to learn a thing or two from Tallahassee.

The reality is that FEMA’s track record is mixed at best. After Hurricane Katrina, FEMA was synonymous with inefficiency. After Hurricane Maria, it became a punchline for slow response. If anything, Trump’s critique of FEMA echoes frustrations across the political spectrum. Yet Indivisible has managed to interpret this as “Trump wants us to drown.”

The protest, predictably timed with “World Ocean’s Day,” offers all the trappings of a religious rite. Participants will likely arrive in fossil-fueled vehicles, clutching artisanal protest signs produced with petrochemical inks, to chant about the evils of climate change and the need to “speak up for science.” Never mind that the actual science on FEMA’s effectiveness, or climate model reliability for that matter, is riddled with uncertainties they don’t want to acknowledge.

This is the same Indivisible that enthusiastically fueled anti-Tesla hysteria, targeting Elon Musk dealerships in a flurry of protests. While the national office gave the standard “we didn’t plan this” disclaimer, local chapters were up to their necks in it. Their protest infrastructure is robust—thanks in no small part to donors like George Soros, whose Open Society Foundations gave the group $7.6 million, and Karla Jurvetson, who tossed in over half a million to keep the outrage machine well-oiled.

They claim peaceful intentions, but some of their fellow travelers have taken a darker turn, with arson attacks on Tesla facilities and Molotov cocktail incidents. And while we must be careful not to paint every protester with the same brush, it’s curious how often these “peaceful demonstrations” happen to occur adjacent to acts of criminality.

Now they’re bringing this circus to Miami—a city that’s grown increasingly weary of progressive alarmism. Florida, once a swing state, has been shifting steadily rightward. Ron DeSantis didn’t win Miami-Dade by accident. It’s no longer a friendly playground for climate doomers. The protest might draw a crowd, but don’t expect the kind of mass turnout they’d get in Berkeley or Brooklyn. Miami has other priorities—like jobs, freedom, and keeping the lights on without bankrupting the grid.

So what’s the takeaway? This isn’t about hurricanes or FEMA or Trump. It’s about control. Indivisible, like many activist organizations, wants more centralized authority, more bureaucracy, and more money flowing into federal pipelines they influence. Whether the policies work—or cause more harm—is an afterthought.

If history teaches anything, it’s that complex problems don’t get solved by chanting slogans and waving signs. They get solved by adults in rooms with data, accountability, and a willingness to question groupthink. Until Indivisible shows interest in any of that, their protests remain what they’ve always been: theater masquerading as policy.

H/T Mumbles McGuick

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MarkW
June 3, 2025 6:06 pm

Socialists believe that government is the answer to every problem and that the bigger government is, the more perfect the solutions it can generate.

Tom Johnson
Reply to  MarkW
June 4, 2025 4:29 am

Actually, it’s government MONEY that is the answer to every problem, and that the amount spent is a perfect measurement of success, The more that is spent, the larger the success.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Tom Johnson
June 4, 2025 11:07 am

Government money? Do you really mean TAXPAYER money, aka tax revenues?

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  MarkW
June 4, 2025 11:08 am

There was a government official (congressman?) a few years back who proclaimed that citizens should give all their money to the government (or words to that effect) because the government knew better how to spend the money than the individual.

Tom Halla
June 3, 2025 6:22 pm

The protesters just want a federal jobs program for those with unsalable degrees either with FEMA or NGO contractors. Actually dealing with disaster relief is a
distant concern as long as they have jobs.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Tom Halla
June 4, 2025 11:10 am

Of course such a federal jobs program would prohibit firing anyone or doing a reduction in force even when there was no work to do. Guarantied employment and paycheck for life.

Scissor
June 3, 2025 6:44 pm

Will they be burning Qurans?

Steve Oregon
June 3, 2025 7:47 pm

The whole notion of emissions reduction is an absurd farce. Net Zero by 2050: Worse Than An Impossible Goal
The pursuit of “Net Zero by 2050” appears to be fundamentally disconnected from reality, particularly given current global trends and the immense resources being invested.

  1. Emissions are still climbing. Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels aren’t declining; they’re increasing and hitting new record highs. This is the opposite direction from what Net Zero requires.
  2. The world needs COVID-Lockdown level emissions cuts every year through 2030, and increasingly severe reductions every year until 2050. The 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns brought immense economic hardship and social disruption, yet only resulted in a temporary 5-7% global emissions drop. Crucially, this globally painful reduction was still so minute compared to total atmospheric CO2 levels that it was not detectable. There was no impact on rising atmospheric CO2 levels.
  3. This creates a widening gap between aspiration and reality. If a forced, temporary global shutdown yielded only the initial required annual reduction, and that wasn’t even detectable in the atmosphere, it’s illogical to pretend there’s a viable way to reduce emissions at the required pace. There’s no realistic scenario or plan demonstrating how to achieve this shift from rising emissions to large, sustained reductions.

Trillions have been devoured for an impossible goal. This spending has been far worse than the cost of doing nothing at all. Even if one is a climate crusader, with nothing climate getting accomplished and trillions lost, how is that wore than doing nothing?

Continuing to champion “Net Zero by 2050” or emissions reduction is profound delusion.

Reply to  Steve Oregon
June 4, 2025 6:06 am

Distraction and waste are the purpose. That which is must be demolished to make way for what will be. It doesn’t have to make sense. Confusion is a tool of the elite.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Steve Oregon
June 4, 2025 11:12 am

Consider the effect of a partial pressure on equilibrium.
All other things being constant, reducing CO2 will never be achievable.
The ocean will emit CO2 to replace the reduction. Again equilibrium and all other factors constant.

Gaia is a self-regulating entity.

John Hultquist
June 3, 2025 8:03 pm

Hurricane season is upon us and we are unprotected.”
I wonder if these folks are from Florida. And I wonder what “protection” looks like. It sounds like they are NOT expecting to hear of an approaching storm and will be sitting on plastic chairs with their toes in warm sand.
https://wallhere.com/en/wallpaper/587444

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  John Hultquist
June 4, 2025 11:13 am

My grandfather in N.C. at the time, explained how they knew a hurricane was coming by the cloud formations. Call that indigenous knowledge, but it worked, well before hurricane alert systems were even a thought.

Reply to  John Hultquist
June 4, 2025 12:27 pm

Hurricane season is upon us and we are unprotected.”

Hmmm … maybe if all the money spent on “Green”, unreliable energy had been spent of preparing for the effects of recurring strong weather events, they, and their property, would have been better protected?

altipueri
June 3, 2025 8:24 pm

Story tip:
Blackrock removed from Texas blacklist after withdrawal from net zero pledges:
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/blackrock-removed-texas-boycott-list-after-quitting-climate-groups-2025-06-03/
…..

Bob
June 3, 2025 8:37 pm

Protesters lost any of my respect decades ago. Now days they are just a bunch of whiners with too much time on their hands. They all need to go out and get a job, not a government job.

Alexy Scherbakoff
Reply to  Bob
June 3, 2025 9:51 pm

I’m old school- send in the cossacks.

Jim Masterson
Reply to  Alexy Scherbakoff
June 3, 2025 10:06 pm

As in Taras Bulba–Yul Brynner.

Alexy Scherbakoff
Reply to  Jim Masterson
June 3, 2025 10:12 pm

I’m not referring to fiction. I’m talking about how demonstrations were broken up in real life.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Bob
June 4, 2025 11:15 am

They wish to be able to self-declare victimization. Take no responsibility for themselves. Get everything handed to them.

Veruca

Reply to  Bob
June 4, 2025 12:37 pm

Strange how many of the protestors are the same people just marching for the cause Du Jour.

J K
June 3, 2025 9:23 pm

What’s downright ridiculous is this website censoring anything they don’t like. What’s Watts so scared of? That folks will finally see through the nonsense and realize most posts here are straight-up lies? Anyone can ask an LLM to fact-check this stuff and expose the truth in seconds. But hiding such evaluations is another low for fake skeptics. Isn’t this supposed to be an American platform? Where’s the freedom of speech, the bedrock of our nation? Why are we letting these digital snake oil peddlers trample on our First Amendment rights?

Reply to  Charles Rotter
June 4, 2025 12:57 pm

I think the MODs deserve a “Thank You!” for what they do behind the scenes here.
Over the years since around 2012, I’ve had a few comments deleted or “snipped” but never because my opinion was being censored.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  J K
June 4, 2025 11:17 am

Just because yo9ur favorite software program has an excellent human language module, does not make it intelligent or unbiased.

June 3, 2025 11:40 pm

If they don’t like modern society why don’t they go and join the Amish and leave the rest of us in peace?

Reply to  JeffC
June 4, 2025 6:11 am

Why would you want to inflict them on the Amish? Send them to Martha’s Vineyard! Or maybe Beverly Hills…

Reply to  Mark Whitney
June 4, 2025 12:01 pm

South Georgia.

Reply to  Oldseadog
June 4, 2025 4:56 pm

Only if you are referring to the country.

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  JeffC
June 4, 2025 6:11 am

Even the Amish are too modern for them.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  JeffC
June 4, 2025 11:17 am

They would not want to give up the benefits of coal, gas, or oil.

derbrix
June 4, 2025 4:50 am

Do have to say that it is always quite amusing to read articles of the vastly overpopulated regions in southern Florida.

I reside on the opposite side of the state from Miami. Here our population density is 51 people per square mile while Miami has 12,600 people per square mile.

June 4, 2025 4:54 am

I had to look up FEMA on DDG to find out what it means and does.
Please, pretty please, explain what groups of random letters mean.
(DDG = DuckDuckGo)

June 4, 2025 6:11 am

FEMA was put under control of DHS by the Homeland Security Act of 2002. DHS came up with all sorts of rules to make it difficult to become a 1st responder (Certification). for disaster relief. Hurricane Katrina was a monster of a storm that cause severe damage in southern Mississippi from Pascagoula to the Mississippi river and up to 1-20. Waveland, MS was ground zero for landfall. Katrina flooded New Orleans through Lake Pontchartrain where the levees were undersized and week. It was well known by the Army Corps and many others that if hurricane force winds pushed water from Lake Pontchartrain against the New Orleans levees they would fail. The US Congress failed over numerous years to fund upgrading the levees. Katrina also hit the MS Coast over the Labor Day weekend. Once New Orleans flooded, it was game over. The logistics of working in flooded water increased the difficulty level of relief by an Order of Magnitude. Because of the new DHS rules volunteer groups e.g. the “Cajun Navy” was not allowed into New Orleans.

I could tell you a lot of Katrina stories that most of the USA does not know about but it is not appropriate here.

Reply to  George B
June 4, 2025 7:28 am

This is an argument for de-Federalizing FEMA (FEDERAL Emergency Management Agency). It becomes a bureaucracy more interested in its self-perpetuation than in serving citizens. The more localized the response the closer it is to the people it is meant to help.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Mumbles McGuirck
June 4, 2025 11:19 am

Indeed, the more localized the more of the total funding reaches the people.
Shorter supply chain in effect.

Reply to  Mumbles McGuirck
June 4, 2025 1:15 pm

Then there’s the potential for abuse. Under Biden’s FEMA, one supervisor ordered her workers (in North Carolina? Florida?) not to render/offer aid to any house that had a Trump sign in their yard.

June 4, 2025 6:29 am

Radical Leftwing Billionaires and their anti-Democracy agenda are the problem. If they were not funding these types of demonstrations, they wouldn’t be happening.

It’s time to take a deep dive into how Radical Leftwing Billionaires here in the United States and abroad are trying to undermine Western civilization.

Radical Leftwing Billionaires are using their money to agitate the leftwing psychos and people are getting killed as a result. This activity should be exposed and stopped.

Giving_Cat
June 4, 2025 8:27 am

This isn’t so much about control as it is centralizing control. It is also about collectivization. Sharing the consequences of individuals bad decisions.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Giving_Cat
June 4, 2025 11:20 am

All of those fall under control.

June 4, 2025 12:30 pm

This isn’t about hurricanes or FEMA or Trump. It’s about control.”

Wanna bet that WEF or its members have kicked a few greenbacks to ensure all goes well.

Duane
June 4, 2025 1:47 pm

The value added of FEMA is that it can mobilize resources that many smallerstates do not have ready access too. The State of Florida, on the other hand, is both extremely experienced at dealing with storm disasters and has highly developed plans and resources, and is also the third largest population state in US. But a smaller state, like say Mississippi or South Carolina, may be at a relative disadvantage and could benefit proportionally more from Federal help than Florida. Scrapping FEMA is dumb, but FEMA, like any agency whether Federal or State, can always and should always be working to get better.