FEMA Official Ordered Workers To Skip Houses With Trump Sign

How so? You just got done saying elsewhere that socialism is always bad. Government agency help is socialism.

It was MAGAts who were harassing and threatening FEMA workers. If I feared for my employees and knew they’d be in danger of going to those homes, I’d tell the to skip them too. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Let Greg Biffle be their savior. 

After Sandy the republicans voted against FEMA aid for the northeast.

After Marie TFG threw paper towels at AMERICAN CITIZENS in Puerto Rico. He also withheld FEMA aid.

He threatened to withhold FEMA aid for the wildfires in California.

He also withheld Covid funds and supplies to states because he didn't like their governors...

Skipping the TFG flag flying houses was WRONG!!

Shooting at FEMA workers was WRONG!!

Well it was extremely wrong for the person from FEMA to tell people to avoid houses with Trump signs and if they did so should be fired and/or what ever consequences come from it.  There were other ways they could contact FEMA so that was good (that was me using a MAGA supporter like retort for when a ‘cheating liberal’ says they were mistreated).

Also as MAGA supporters always elude to about people who align with their party and who are caught doing something bad or nefarious…there are always a few bad apples in the bunch and you can’t blame it on everyone associated with the party. Oh wait the MAGA supporters can when it is the other side they are talking about. 

Unfortunately the bootstrap comment from MAGA/Trump supporters are not a reach because these are comments that have been coming out of their mouths for years about every program used to help people (you know all those Socialist programs). I have said the same type of sarcastic comment for years. So sorry so many are having issues paying for food and gas during this time where everything is rising GLOBALLY. But in the words of MAGA - maybe if you had managed your finances and life better you would be in a better position today? It doesn’t feel very good to have that said to you does it, even if it is your party’s words and feelings (general your/you) that are being said.

FEMA has multiple functions, hence ‘pots’ that their money falls into.  It has been found that the Biden administration was NOT using disaster money for other things.  Trump did/tried however to plunder from the disaster fund when he was there in 2019.  So saying FEMA needs to be used for only disasters is fine but the other funding (not designated for diasters) will just then fall under a different department or be called something else. So nothing changes except for some people’s perception.

Lastly, IMO, something has to change.  Just as with the border. There is no way that we can continue to fund huge hurricane losses and other reoccurring disasters year after year after year, especially as they become more extreme and more often (hhhmmm wonder why that is happening, could it be that the climate is changing? 🤔 ).  For example we know that Florida and other costal residents are going to have these year after year, and now that they can’t get insurance because companies are pulling out (because they know it is a losing battle)…so what can we do. Or should we be required to keep rebuilding those houses so they have the privilege of living near the ocean?   Not that I believe we should stop helping people whose lives and properties are devastated but does there come a point where we just can’t afford it?  I certainly don’t have any answers but what says MAGA supporters about this…as they seem to think they have the answers for most things.

That would be ridiculous. And it’s ridiculous to believe something like that.

I have not been harping on this but I would like to give my opinion…if you truly believe that with the roll that Stephen Miller and other Trump loyalist played in producing this “playbook” and the roll that they play in determining policies for the Trump administration have no overlap (think Venn diagram) then I have nothing and just assume that you refuse to logically think about what you are saying.  So while I think the those 2 circles would be a total eclipse 😉 even MAGA supporters have to admit there is a partial eclipse there.

Do you know that when Trump was president he used money that was meant for disaster relief for the border? You know, another thing that he was projecting when he blamed Biden of doing that?

Department of homeland security has control over border security as well as FEMA. Each of those programs are supposed to have different funding “accounts.” Trump used money from FEMA for the border “account”. Do you understand how that works? Is that what you mean when you say that fema includes other pork?

I don’t like what this person did and am glad that she was fired. I wish the sheriff (who has much more power than one single FEMA worker) who posted that he wouldn’t be needing emergency aid or help to democrats, would also be fired. I also don’t like that it is being used by the right as a “see, FEMA is horrible.” Democrats aren’t saying that all sheriffs are horrible and there should be no more sheriffs.

[/I]George W. Bush in 2005: 'If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare')[/I]

Multiple public health officials under Presidents Bush and Obama who spoke with ABC News as part of its coronavirus special, “American Catastrophe: How Did We Get Here?”, described the painstaking lengths to which previous administrations planned for viral infectious disease pandemics.

Many of those same officials condemned the Trump administration for failing to execute on the strategies gathered as a result of those efforts, such as taking early and aggressive science-based actions, clear communication to the public, and collaboration with international and state partners.

Others accused the president of exacerbating matters by shuttering a NSC office specifically tasked with pandemic response preparedness.

“A lot of what you see in the planning from the mid-2000s in my time in the White House under President Bush really applies to today – no question,” said Tom Bossert, a homeland security advisor to Bush at the time and later to Trump. Bossert, who left the Trump administration in April 2018, is now an ABC News contributor.

“Those strategies and those plans were comprehensive,” he added. “And they addressed a number of issues that we've now seen unfortunately coming to light.”

abcnews.go.com/Health/run-plays-officials-trump-administration-pandemic-playbooks/story?id=71999769[/quote]

I can’t believe everyone doesn’t know this.

When Trump took office iirc, it seemed like he wanted to dismantle anything Obama did (still does, like the ACA). He is a petty man. Instead of seeing the pandemic “playbook” as a way to help him he probably saw it as a threat and didn’t want to do anything that could give Obama “credit” for anything.

It's democratic socialism. Look it up. 

1. You don't actually know what socialism is.
2. Government agencies taking money from all of us and dispersing it as needed for the greater good is part of the literal definition of socialism. Most countries practice this to some degree because it's how civilization works.
3. I think what you really mean is that you're fine with socialism for you, but object to it when it helps people you think don't deserve it.

Regarding FEMA, this was an isolated incident that will be investigated and the employee was removed. I must have missed MAGA’s reaction to Trump denying aid to California, Washington and Puerto Rico because he did not like the politicians and they were not sufficiently loyal to him. In Trump's case, it came from the top, from him directly. But that was OK, because it only affected Puerto Rico and blue states? This isolated incident from one individual in the administration matters because it affected Florida?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/13/trump-disaster-funding-warning

‘Vengeful’ Trump withheld disaster aid and will do so again, ex-officials warn
Former administration officials say Trump deliberately denied funds to states he deemed politically hostile

Donald Trump deliberately withheld disaster aid to states he deemed politically hostile to him as US president and will do so again unimpeded if he returns to the White House, several former Trump administration officials have warned.

But former Trump administration officials have said the former president, when in office, initially refused to release federal disaster aid for wildfires in California in 2018, withheld wildfire assistance for Washington state in 2020, and severely restricted emergency relief to Puerto Rico in the wake of the devastating Hurricane Maria in 2017 because he felt these places were not sufficiently supportive of him.

Just last month, Trump signaled that his deal-making over disaster aid would not change if he were president again, warning that he would block assistance to California unless the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, agreed to deliver more water to farmers.

Good point.  I would be curious to know more about what this person's intention was when sending out the recommendation to skip houses with Trump signs. 

The difference between a Trumper and a Democrat is that Democrats will call out the toxic behavior of another Democrat. The Trumpers will make excuses when their guy does it. Trumper hypocrisy doesn't surprise me.