This is gonna go over well next time there's half an inch of snow in Texas and the entire power grid goes down. 😂
They'll just pull themselves up by their... wait
Fun fact, it just snowed in Houston. Surprisingly went okay. Not to defend the Texas power grid. I still had random power outages all year. But it did survive some snow. So that was nice.
“But my egg prices” - morons about to have a very bad 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.
We all warned you this would happen. This move was plainly outlined in Project 2025. Nobody tricked you, you’re just fucking morons.
B b but Trump claimed he never heard of project 2025. He wouldn't just lie to the American people right?
Accusing gentle Mr. Trump of a misdeed?
I'm sorry but it's either just Trump or Mrs. Trump now. Respect the law.
I'm willing to bet that the "problem" with FEMA is that, due to its vital role in dealing with emergencies, it has particularly stringent safeguards in place to prevent it becoming a partisan tool. And since Trump's stated goal is to turn the entirety of the federal government into a partisan tool, it has to go.
Maybe there are some buddies of the trump crime family that would be happy to privatize aid to disaster victims for a nice fee, and trump would like to withhold or bestow aid on States and individual officials that kiss his ass. So you bet the Left Coast won't be getting any, but Mar a Lago will get a new roof every year.
I would bet it was as stupid as someone (or even naturally by group via social media) inventing a narrative during the Biden administration because everything he does is evil. Then the destruction of the agency being the natural conclusion of said narrative. It wins points for Trump since people living in that reality see this as a win over evil.
Then later, when it all blows up, likely during the next hurricane, they can just figure someone else to blame. Everything is probably purely off the cuff.
It's what con men do. Just roll with everything and keep it up for as long as they can. It's worked for Trump his entire life.
I think if he denies a state assistance because they won't play his games, other countries step in and send all the assistance that state could want. Imagine if China just threw billions of dollars at LA without conditions to make a point. I don't expect Xi to be that smart, but it would be funny as hell watching Trump scramble.
Xi and Trump seem to coordinate pretty closely. If Trump weakened US cohesiveness and Xi stepped in, Trump would thank him and kiss his ass.
Every accusation is a project. They will turn FEMA into what they've been accusing FEMA of.
Fuck it. Bye Texas. Bye Florida. You will not be missed.
I'll miss me, but also not really. I've already accepted that I'm probably gonna die before Trump is out of office—I don't know if it's better to go out in a concentration camp or some unmanaged aftermath of a natural disaster.
Take some fascists with you.
They say they have a plan to give money directly to the states instead. So far nobody has seen or heard this plan.
Even if such a plan exists, that still sounds like they're taking a stockpile of vehicles and personnel and getting rid of it all only to be unprepared for all future disasters.
The plan is to give money to states that kiss trump’s ass, and none for the blue states or cities that don’t.
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/08/fema-direct-payments-state-recipients
Where FEMA's direct relief money is going
Florida, Louisiana and Texas residents have received the lion's share of FEMA direct assistance since 2015, per newly gathered data.
Texas and Louisiana have been Republican-favoring states for some time.
https://www.270towin.com/states/Louisiana
https://www.270towin.com/states/Texas
Florida is more swing, though has been trending Republican:
https://www.270towin.com/states/Florida
I'd guess -- not familiar with the politics -- that maybe there's irritation with FEMA's speed of processing hurricane aid in those states, and that's what's driving Trump's statements. However, if FEMA simply disappeared tomorrow, along with the aid it provided, it'd probably be generally-disadvantageous to Republican-favoring states.
Nah, "get rid of FEMA" has been a thing for a long while, since before 2000. The issue is FEMA looks like a giant black box that does nothing but suck money when they aren't being actively used, at least to the layperson, and when they ARE engaged with a disaster, people don't get that it's almost always local aid networks and such that actually handle distributing things because they know their town and the people who need help better than FEMA does, so they still look like all they're doing is dumping truckloads of supplies off in the middle of the area. They also buy scary things like body bags (because natural disasters tend to wind up with a lot of dead bodies), making dumb people think they have some ulterior, sinister motives (see X-Files).
Oh, I do remember the FEMA conspiracy stuff from back when, believe that that was from the right.
kagis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMA_camps_conspiracy_theory
The FEMA camps conspiracy theory is a belief, particularly within the American Patriot movement,[1] that the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is planning to imprison US citizens in concentration camps, following the imposition of martial law in the United States after a major disaster or crisis.[1][2][3][4] In some versions of the theory, only suspected dissidents will be imprisoned. In more extreme versions, large numbers of US citizens will be imprisoned for the purposes of extermination as a New World Order is established. The theory has existed since the late 1970s, but its circulation has increased with the advent of the internet and social media platforms.[2]
Probably priorities. Probably the exact opposite of what they claim.
Don’t forget the part where Trump said he didn’t see the point in having federal emergency response people ready to rush in and help. People who would evaluate need and get help where it’s most important …. Instead of what Trump co siders mpst important.
I call uno reverse on these claims that fema only helps the wealthy rather than those who need it most. That is what is not happening, yet. That is what will be happening
This is a decades long goal of Republicans. This is what I grew up with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMA_camps_conspiracy_theory
More recently https://www.fema.gov/node/rumor-fema-operations-threats
Yay
This 1million%
Also grew up being promised that any day now, 1) Bill Clinton will take all the guns, and 2) We'll go to FEMA camps to get gassed. It was all part of the UN Agenda 21 thing that George HW Bush/Clintons/Soros/CNN/Bill Gates and the New World Order One-World-Government are bringing.
Except none of that ever happened. Hm....were those guests on Art Bell in 1998 possibly....wrong?
And yet, 30 years later, here we are.
The south hurt itself in its confusion.
I think you misunderstand his goal here. This won't stop him from giving aid to the people/states who help him. This will only stop FEMA helping everyone unconditionally. He isn't trying to stop aid. He's trying to stop aid without strings attached. This is a power play.
States would need to create an emergency bureaucracy redundant to each other state. California or Texas could do it but good luck South Dakota.
Plus read about how he specifically didn’t want emergency response people ready to jump in and help, just money. Money to be allocated on personal choice, not need, to the governor. Money for the governor to allocate by personal choice, not need, to communities and companies. This is about buying favors all the way down.
The replacement will have jump shot training sessions with paper towels.
Trump: fuck the poor, they're on their own.
Just like the covid crisis (it's a hoax) where he said it would 'disappear', President Felon & his cult will leave us all to die without any help or caring from our government, that we fund !
So trump thinks that a president is king and that royal decrees (executive orders) can just do whatever the hell he wants, bypassing senate and all, ignoring existing law
It's not how that works, it's not how anything works, but for some weird reason the Senate just goes with it and for existing law, well, so far judges are striking down all his shit but something tells me that the supre court will just say with the first trial that cheeto is always right and that will be it.
It's very demonstrably how that works in the context of recent US history. It shouldn't, but it does.
All those hurricane victims that complained about "illegals" getting some FEMA (but it wasn't FEMA money, not that they cared) money got their wish. They won't get any more FEMA money. Maybe nobody else will, either.
He's going to form the department of paper towel throwing
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