Thread by @ProtesterLone

@plzbepatient Yesterday we heard the water plant was broken, irreparably. They said water was gone "indefinitely," and they'd need $1B to fix it.

Today, the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers showed up, turned the system on, and it seems to be working fine. Can't make this up.🤔

@plzbepatient They "reassigned" the head of Public Works. You'll see he had nothing resembling an engineering background.

@plzbepatient Update for Friday, Sept 2. Whew. The national media is playing this story up for all it's worth, but are they informing anyone what's actually going on in Jackson? Not so much. Here's a story that aired on GMA today. Let's take a quick look.

@plzbepatient Ok, the piece is part fluff, part propaganda. Here's the fluff part. Water being racked and distributed by National Guardsmen.

@plzbepatient Now here's the propaganda. Gayle King looking worried. "Worsening Water Crisis" reads the headline. But is it? No.

@plzbepatient The reporter goes in a few houses. People say they can't use the water. But it's clearly running. Little boy says he can't flush the toilet. Not sure why not. The water is not safe to drink, but it is safe to flush.

@plzbepatient Cut to a young reporter working for a non-profit outfit called "Mississippi Today." She says "we don't have the built in revenue that we need to keep the system maintained." This is BS. See my posts from yesterday.

@plzbepatient Interestingly, her own new outfit acknowledges that the "crisis" is actually getting better. Guess that wasn't what Gayle King and her CBS producers wanted to hear. mississippitoday.org/2022/09/01/jac…

@plzbepatient Continuing on the theme of "tax base too damn low," Gayle King shows us pics from the 1950s, when whites fled Jackson, leaving blacks with nobody to tax.🤔

@plzbepatient At this point they bring in the head of FEMA (which is also now on the scene in Jackson, because you can never have too many Federal officials to fix a local problem the state already had under control).

@plzbepatient "Electricity, water, these are basic things you expect your government to provide for you," says the serious man on the tv. Well, he has a point.

@plzbepatient We expect our LOCAL GOVERNMENT to keep the power and water flowing. And that would be the responsibility of Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, who, interestingly, is not mentioned once in the entire CBS story.