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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.
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"
Minor details, the FEMA folks just need to toughen up and bring kevlar next time /s
Not just that, but some representatives were pissed because the broader Republican party seemed to want to undermine recovery efforts to make it look worse for Biden.. Then after the election asserting a bill was in the name of helping them while that bill still did nothing at all for those afflicted.
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.
It's whatever you need to believe to rationalize saying screw you to West Coast democrats and giving a tax break to your buddy or privatizing the fire department or something, obviously.
They did go out of their way to not help them. And by they I mean Republicans
The lies never stop and nothing is to low. Get ready for another round of "crisis actors" when the next major school shooting happens.