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Don't think I have done that for anyone (will need to check).

Perhaps I should be more plain. I think you're a fool. You didn't "expose" anything. I've handed you your #### in just about every discussion we've had. The GA voting stuff was a great example. You were so far off I had to assume you were kidding about most of that. Seriously...it was a stupid and I explained to you many times why...and you just ignore it and pivot to something else.

This too is stupid. Everyone in a position to know is telling you you're wrong. The NC Senator didn't just thank FEMA to suck up...he came right and said folks like you are FOS and to stop spreading lies. So yeah, maybe you should just consider shutting the eff up and that you're actually feeding into lies.

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Oct 7, 2024, 7:55 AM

Look, far be it from me to defend a Gubmint bureaucracy. FEMA has not always exactly covered itself with glory in the past. It took them like six weeks to get water to the Superdome after Katrina in 2005. They also fumbled the ball (very publicly) during both Maria in Puerto Rico and Harvey in Texas in 2017. They didn't do well during Andrew in '92, and they were also very poor in the 2020 California wildfires.

FEMA is a big, sprawling, bureaucratic organization, and like a lot of such it tends to be clumsy and especially when run by political appointees, it tends to be notoriously disorganized. It also doesn't appear they were remotely ready for a disaster happening in North Carolina...although, in FEMA's defense, you don't really expect a hurricane to hit the freaking mountains in Western NC; you'd figure that'd be the safest place in the Southeast from a hurricane, actually. So they didn't exactly have a game-plan ready to roll when it happened.

But what Trump is doing is divisive, destructive, petty, and counterproductive to the extreme. When a genuine crisis hits, leaders are supposed to put politics aside and focus on the greater good...and save lives and help the people in trouble. Instead he's sowing disinformation, distrust, and chaos and putting the FEMA responders in a no-win situation where they are actually often being threatened by the very people they're trying to save. Thanks to $%^#ing Donald Trump. He did exactly the same thing during COVID...and 1.1 million Americans are dead in no small part to his criminal mismanagement of an actual crisis. How everyone has forgotten that astounds me.

Yes, FEMA is significantly less than perfect. The CDC is significantly less than perfect. But there's where genuine leaders are supposed to jump in and lend a hand. Work the contacts in your phone. Use your connections. Pull strings. Use your visibility to get what's needed where it's needed. You know: help. Don't show up, waving your hands around and screeching like a Karen about how effed everything is and how it's your political rival's fault - I mean, Lordy, Donald: COVID, Maria, Harvey, and the California wildfires all happened under your watch.

But Donald's a narcissistic sociopath. He lives in a universe composed of himself, and it's always been all about him. And Donald just makes what's already a hard situation pretty much impossible.

If it's not obvious why so many of us utterly despise the man, I don't even know what to tell you at this point, because you'll never understand.

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Eye opening video. Locals saying FEMA is doing nothing

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so we have moved on from eating cats and dogs?***

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Deny and deflect, its all they can do.***

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And expose you as a fraud...don't forget that part!***

I am heading up in a week or so for a few days

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There's always a great reason to ignore reality...

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I've never put you on ignore...

The only person deplorable enough to allocate

Not to mention he was impeached for doing the same to Ukraine***

Uniparty puppets!!***

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And these locals are saying these are dangerous lies

This is false. FEMA isn't "doing nothing"***

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Let's break this video down

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