I was forced to evacuate due to wildfires encroaching a mile from my home during the early pandemic. It was terrifying, but our area escaped catastrophe. The fire threatened to burn an entire town, just as did happen in California, and I can still see where the treeline burned at the electrical generation plant right next to the river. It was nearly obliterated.
If we had lost our home and local infrastructure, I would not want to be beholden to Donald Trump to get subsistence funds. We don't have any major savings. We work hard and, like most Americans, spend most of our income on the costs of living. Because I live in a blue state and because I have loudly criticized the Loser's corrupt regimes, he would undoubtedly deny me, personally, and those in my state, generally, any assistance at all.
The thirteen colonies joined together to provide mutual aid and comfort. That is the base rationale for any government, America included. If Donald Trump does not wish to provide that, and since he hates the federal government so very much, he may as well disband it, disperse Congress, and go play fucking golf somewhere else.
Red states have always gone very heavily for Trump. Most of them in the South. Yet, many southern states border the gulf coast Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida or the east coast that includes Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. These states nearly always get pummeled by a hurricane and even New Jersey and New York are not necessarily immune. Think Hurricane Sandy in 2012. That’s a huge chunk of real estate in the United States that is vulnerable to hurricanes. The southern states being most vulnerable. We have already gone through a pretty active tornado season in the south already this season.
To dismantle FEMA only slows the process down even more getting help to the location that needs it most. If anything, the southern states should be lashing out and Trump and his fascist minions. Those folks in North Carolina are still reeling after Hurricane Helene from last year. There’s a time when everyone may need help from the federal government for loss of property after major storms. Sometimes homeowners insurance is not always enough. We need FEMA and now more than ever.
The public has been raising their voices and their pain and their anger. It is the silence of those Cabinet leaders and staffers "selected" by the current occupier of the WH, along with the deafening silence of GOP Congress, that is responsible for all the "disasters" mentioned. The enablers are the criminals in this.
We need FEMA! Too close to the Gulf of Mexico to avoid some effects of hurricanes and tornadoes. It takes a multistate effort, even to get electricity back on. Who does the idiot think he is to destroy and stop all help and much more?! What is wrong with Congress to keep allowing this?!
I was forced to evacuate due to wildfires encroaching a mile from my home during the early pandemic. It was terrifying, but our area escaped catastrophe. The fire threatened to burn an entire town, just as did happen in California, and I can still see where the treeline burned at the electrical generation plant right next to the river. It was nearly obliterated.
If we had lost our home and local infrastructure, I would not want to be beholden to Donald Trump to get subsistence funds. We don't have any major savings. We work hard and, like most Americans, spend most of our income on the costs of living. Because I live in a blue state and because I have loudly criticized the Loser's corrupt regimes, he would undoubtedly deny me, personally, and those in my state, generally, any assistance at all.
The thirteen colonies joined together to provide mutual aid and comfort. That is the base rationale for any government, America included. If Donald Trump does not wish to provide that, and since he hates the federal government so very much, he may as well disband it, disperse Congress, and go play fucking golf somewhere else.
"The thirteen colonies joined together to provide mutual aid and comfort. That is the base rationale for any government, America included." Well said.
Red states have always gone very heavily for Trump. Most of them in the South. Yet, many southern states border the gulf coast Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida or the east coast that includes Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. These states nearly always get pummeled by a hurricane and even New Jersey and New York are not necessarily immune. Think Hurricane Sandy in 2012. That’s a huge chunk of real estate in the United States that is vulnerable to hurricanes. The southern states being most vulnerable. We have already gone through a pretty active tornado season in the south already this season.
To dismantle FEMA only slows the process down even more getting help to the location that needs it most. If anything, the southern states should be lashing out and Trump and his fascist minions. Those folks in North Carolina are still reeling after Hurricane Helene from last year. There’s a time when everyone may need help from the federal government for loss of property after major storms. Sometimes homeowners insurance is not always enough. We need FEMA and now more than ever.
The public has been raising their voices and their pain and their anger. It is the silence of those Cabinet leaders and staffers "selected" by the current occupier of the WH, along with the deafening silence of GOP Congress, that is responsible for all the "disasters" mentioned. The enablers are the criminals in this.
National Policy: We aren't in this together; you are on your own, sucker!
We need FEMA! Too close to the Gulf of Mexico to avoid some effects of hurricanes and tornadoes. It takes a multistate effort, even to get electricity back on. Who does the idiot think he is to destroy and stop all help and much more?! What is wrong with Congress to keep allowing this?!
Check out Jen Rubin's talk with Rep. Jason Crow--she asks him what the Congressional mindset is, and he says "job security." And he's not shy about it: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/no-one-wants-this-rep-jason-crow
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