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I really hope these people I knew of who purposely moved to Texas to support Texas politics lost their home. 🤞
Is that mean of me? No, these people constantly voted for things that hurt or even killed people around me. They pushed beliefs that actively harm other people. I would have zero remorse if my wishful thinking came true.
As for what we do next, I wish my state would stop paying federal taxes.
...i wish you'd take them back: they've really dragged down this place over the past three decades...
Yeah, but just think, the wife's various MLMs she keeps trying really help the community...
And the husband's BBQ skills really help the neighborhood...
They're probably the same people that insist on calling pigs in a blanket, a kolache. A kolache, being a pastry filled with fruit, is a food first made in TX by Czech immigrants. It's so disappointing when places say they have kolaches and it's actually just pigs in a blanket.
Without them, we might have been able to boot Cruz from office a few years back when Beto was running. According to an exit poll at the time, native Texans largely for Beto and those that moved here largely voted for Cruz.
Dang, that timeline sounds great
That's what they wanted. Small government. Bootstrap. All that. Feds have been widely lambasted, shit on, gutted for resources, and now those left operate in a constant state of fear and worry just trying to do a decent job for this so-called society.
Get fucked.
Edit: see the comment below pointing out precisely what I'm getting at. This county asked for it and its unsurprising.
So, when they try to deflect blame and say "Trump's cuts hadn't taken effect yet," keep this in mind.
Like being a buncha hypocrites ever stopped them from worshiping Trump.
On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7%, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.
That evening, however, Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.
The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8%, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9%, the documents show.
How could they not use AI??? (/s)
FEMA is dead. The states are on their own, they just weren't given any time to prepare.
Wasn’t that county asking for a warning system for the last decade?
No. That county was refusing to install a warning system even when Biden's American Rescue Act would have paid for it.
To be clear, they kept all the money, they just refused to build the alert system with it.
They took the money and gave it to the Sheriff's department.
For military equipment
While the county ultimately kept the funds, they allocated the majority, about $8 million, to sheriff's department upgrades and public employee stipends.
Just $600,000 went to staffing and community amenities. No money was set aside for a flood alert system.
But think, now they all have new trucks and tac gear and shit so that they can look cool when they show up for those kids funerals
If the trucks weren't wrecked in the flood
Spectacular.
No. They had the opportunity to apply for a ton of money for the system and didn't.
No no, they got the money. They refused to use it for this and instead gave it to the sheriff.
They're stupid and "welfare queens".
I thought they had the opportunity to apply for a $1m grant, but they'd have to put up $72k and they decided not to.
It used to be that there were consequences for fuckery like this. Congressional hearings, firings, resignations, getting blackballed from employment, and even impeachments. Now, it’s just another day with this inept and evil administration, and everyone just shrugs their shoulders.
🤮
This been the status quo since Katrina (in terms of disaster response). Truly awful
They voted for it to be abolished so to be expected.
Oh, we know exactly who killed those people trump and noem are murderers
More blood on these Nazi’s hands.
See, government doesn't work. /s
yeah its like what they do to the usps and the aca. Its amazing on how things don't work that they work to make not work.