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On Thursday, Rep. Andy Harris told Newsmax that money for wildfire aid isn’t a priority for Republicans because “we just put more money into FEMA before we left for the Christmas holidays,” and the Maryland Republican claimed that Los Angeles “mishandled the fire department so egregiously that they ought to bear some of the burden for that rebuilding.”
They hate America, so this makes perfect sense.
It’s a sad state of affairs that this kind of news is so unsurprising, but if Democrats said screw the people in Florida who got flattened by a hurricane it’d be the story of the month…
Wasn’t that the narrative being pushed after that bug hurricane this past fall? That FEMA wasn’t passing resources to right wing counties?
Edit: “Trump also claimed without providing evidence on his social media platform, Truth Social, that the federal government and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper were “going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas”” –Hurricane Helene Wikipedia Article
Persecution complex always at the ready. I did see one story where some segment of them had been told to avoid places with lots of Trump signs, but the reason was for the worker safety because of the hostility by the right wing. So basically in that case they created a self fulfilling prophecy.
but the reason was for the worker safety because of the hostility by the right wing.
Notably, local conservatives out firing guns at FEMA who showed up to try and save their lives.
If I’m helping save your life and you send a bullet whizzing past my head then yeah, I’m going to leave you where you are as well.
This, of course, was reported as “FEMA is refusing to help Republicans!” and not “Local Conservatives perform war crime, fire deadly weapons at humanitarian aid”
Used to be they didn’t want FEMAs help because FEMA was going to put everyone in camps and steal their houses. Now FEMA is purposely ignoring them?
WHICH IS IT??? I can’t get my conspiracy theories to agree.
Aren’t Red states essentially on welfare from the Blue states? Sounds like lashing out and projection
Anyone appearing on Newsmax should be disregarded. And Andy Harris is a great example as to why. The man practically goes out of his was to avoid finding himself on the decent side of an issue. He’s a clown and an embarrassment to the state of Maryland.
I don’t know about any of you, but I will never trust or respect a doctor that spent the pandemic pushing plague rat bullshit.
What was Ronald Reagan’s famous line about “most terrifying words"? Something like “I’m the republican government, and if you need help you can go fuck yourself”.
Cascadia.
Democrats should have treated Republicans like a foreign power interested only in the destruction of the country.
Because that’s what they are
We’re Republicans, we don’t help ppl!!
They help rich people.
They don’t even help rich people at this point:
Well unfortunately he lives in a blue state in a blue county so… sol
Well of course he does: He’s not one of the poors.
This should be enough reason for California to secese. Join Canada!
See how well the US.does without the Californian economy (it would end in ruin)
World’s fifth largest economy, right? Maybe it could strike out on its own.
For sure. However, you’ll want allies, no matter how powerful you are. Maybe a Schengen type situation would be interesting?
A lot of values are similar, make an open trade and travel zone?
I was all for the fire when it was taking the homes of people that have never lost everything, and had regularly taken everything from others(palisades), but there’s poor people that barely have living situations having that taken from them, and people that genuinely earned everything they have(Mel Gibson, hate him or love him he started poor), it’s unfortunate to see people losing everything they had picked out to make themselves at home. Even tho it’s actually pretty cool to say “relieved of my physical belongings”, and irresponsible to say an animal dewormed definitively cured cancer when it truly could have created a genuine placebo effect and their body curied cancer. Bodies cure cancer all the time. It wouldn’t be a stretch to assume a placebo effect stirred a persons own immune system to cure a nasty bout if it wasn’t already weakened by radiation treatment. Not out of the realm of possibility, but unfortunately not very reproducible… But I digress, the people that are working, and or earned already everything they have is a definitive tragedy. I understand not caring about the Hollywood 1%, but the poor, once it reaches their door step it’s everybody’s problem. Cuz if they let it happen to them, they will let it happen to you, an me.
