FEMA staff had an email ( a friend works for them) saying contracts will not be renewed and a very large portion of their employees are on contract. She can retire before that time and will retire. She said “red states will be fked when there is bad weather”
‘Space weather? Cyber attacks? Nobody would expect no-stoplight-county, Nebraska to be able to deal with that! I'm obviously joking! … It's in the order: “citizens are the immediate beneficiaries of sound local decisions and Investments designed to address risks, including cyber attacks, wildfires, hurricanes, and space weather”.
‘Now imagine your local government doing it without NOAA.’
…
‘I know the Republican talking-heads are going to say that the federal government is still going to fund everything, and it'll just give the states more control they need. Run that by Trump, who said: “I think we are going to recommend that FEMA go away and we pay directly, we pay a percentage to the state. The state should fix it.”
‘So your local government will be responsible, with less training, coordination, information, and “a percentage” of the funding. That's a recipe for disaster, *after a disaster.* […] He's going to want to do this as fast as possible. If he turns over emergency preparedness to the states, it provides him a shield if an emergency is mismanaged during his term: he can blame the mismanagement on the state.’
"FEMA urges residents in disaster-prone areas to ... be aware of the agency’s resources." How precisely the fuck would I do that? Who knows what federal resources exist today, or next week, or next time there's a hurricane?
Fuckin' classic.
"TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – FEMA’s acting administrator says his own parents have received a letter denying hurricane recovery aid — with his name on it."
https://www.wate.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/acting-head-of-fema-says-his-parents-in-florida-received-denial-letter/
As an appreciator of irony, I find this occurrence as being of the finest vintage available.
Did he think that trump would put his own name on it?
It's not an aid check to buy him good will.
The next thing you know Trump will be denying that he signed an oopsie order sending Jared to El Salvadore.
Now I'm in a moral dilemma.
I hope they ground him and uninvite him to Thanksgiving.
By November it is entirely possible that nobody but billionaires will be thankful for anything.
They must be bursting with pride.
FEMA staff had an email ( a friend works for them) saying contracts will not be renewed and a very large portion of their employees are on contract. She can retire before that time and will retire. She said “red states will be fked when there is bad weather”
Good. Red states need fucked good and HARD.
They voted for it, they GET IT.
Hey mom and dad - DISOWN HIM!
Capitalist cannibalism.
Belle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByraCHmLBLQ
‘Space weather? Cyber attacks? Nobody would expect no-stoplight-county, Nebraska to be able to deal with that! I'm obviously joking! … It's in the order: “citizens are the immediate beneficiaries of sound local decisions and Investments designed to address risks, including cyber attacks, wildfires, hurricanes, and space weather”.
‘Now imagine your local government doing it without NOAA.’
…
‘I know the Republican talking-heads are going to say that the federal government is still going to fund everything, and it'll just give the states more control they need. Run that by Trump, who said: “I think we are going to recommend that FEMA go away and we pay directly, we pay a percentage to the state. The state should fix it.”
‘So your local government will be responsible, with less training, coordination, information, and “a percentage” of the funding. That's a recipe for disaster, *after a disaster.* […] He's going to want to do this as fast as possible. If he turns over emergency preparedness to the states, it provides him a shield if an emergency is mismanaged during his term: he can blame the mismanagement on the state.’
"FEMA urges residents in disaster-prone areas to ... be aware of the agency’s resources." How precisely the fuck would I do that? Who knows what federal resources exist today, or next week, or next time there's a hurricane?
"FEMA urges residents in disaster-prone areas to ... be aware of FEMA’s lack of fucks to give about them.”
𝐻𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐹𝐸𝑀𝐴 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑒-𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝.
Sounds great!
😵💫
That must have taken a lot of Sharpies.
Face eating leopard family plan.
Good.
Remember when you wouldn't let me get a puppy...