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A former College of Kentucky staffer took to social media to ask if God was unleashing dying and destruction through Hurricane Helene on purple states due to their assist of former President Trump.
“Hurricane Helene…what if GOD is punishing MAGA populations for his or her hate and hypocrisy? Works for me!” Betsy Packard wrote Sunday in a submit on X.
Hurricane Helene ripped throughout the southeast days in the past, inflicting widespread devastation. The dying toll from the storm has surpassed 100, as of Monday.
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After receiving backlash for her remarks, Packard, who claimed to be a author of feminist revisionist poetry, appeared to double-down.
“ALll (sic) day lengthy, MAGAs submit lies and mockng nastigrams about Democrats. So, I mocked them, I hammered on their hypocrisy,” she posted in response to customers who challenged her. “Discuss poisonous vengeance (sic). “They’ll dish it out, however they cannot take it.”
“An Act of God hammered you, and you continue to din’t [sic] hear Him? God is clearly mighty pissed at MAGAs. How will you not see this?” she requested one consumer.
The Rocky Broad River flows into Lake Lure and overflows the city with particles from Chimney Rock, North Carolina after heavy rains from Hurricane Helene on September 28, 2024, in Lake Lure, North Carolina. Roughly six toes of particles piled on the bridge from Lake Lure to Chimney Rock, blocking entry. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Pictures)
Packard served as a educating assistant on the college “quite a lot of years in the past,” college spokesman Jay Blanton instructed Fox Information Digital.
“We have been simply made conscious of this submit,” he stated. “We have now reported it to the suitable workplaces on campus that evaluation questions round conduct. The individual in query is just not an worker on the College of Kentucky.”
Packard continued to submit and argue together with her detractors on-line. She ultimately appeared to stroll again the concept she believed the storm was a part of a divine punishment on Trump supporters.
“I must make clear earlier posts. I erred in considering People might learn,” she wrote. “I stated WHAT IF. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Michelle Bachmann attributed disasters to divine punishment. DO I BELIEVE THIS? NO. Did I say I believed it? Nope. However some fools DO imagine it.”
The college condemned Packard’s remarks, saying they have been “abhorrent” and “don’t mirror our values as an establishment.”
Heavy rains from Hurricane Helene triggered file flooding and harm on September 28, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina. Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Huge Bend on Thursday evening with winds as much as 140 mph and storm surges that killed no less than 42 individuals in a number of states. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Pictures)
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“Our ideas and considerations are with these impacted by these devastating storms,” the varsity stated. “As an establishment, we’ve got many members of our group instantly impacted by them and are working with them to offer assist and sources at the moment.”
Packard’s title and picture appeared on the UK Faculty of Arts and Sciences web site and recognized her as an MFA candidate and graduate teacher, the New York Submit reported. The web page has been taken down.
