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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Protesting was a waste of time the first time around, and only gave him more ammunition.

I'm just keeping my head down for 4 years and worrying about my own family and trying not to get stressed over every awful thing does.  Just hoping that it won't affect us too much.  Sometimes I wonder if this is how German people felt when Hitler rose to power - just so tired of fighting him and his ilk that they basically put their heads down and hoped he was too busy hurting other people and they wouldn't be affected.  The burnout is real.  [/quote]

Oh he's doing such awful things...like helping out forgotten Helene victims in Western NC. Putting them up in furnished apartments. So, so terrible!!! [/quote]

No, he's "visiting" them for photo ops, while behind their backs, he threatens to "revoke" FEMA -- the agency he needs to use to actually help them. - and leaving states on their own to handle disasters.

"In an interview with Fox News, the US president said of Fema that “all it does is complicate everything” and that even states who resoundingly backed him, such as Oklahoma, should be primarily left to deal with the aftermath of major storms, floods and fires....
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...[quoting Trump] there would be “a whole big discussion very shortly, because I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems”."[/quote]

Please don’t just read headlines and listen to sound bites. It’s been widely reported in NC and prior natural disasters by those needing FEMA assistance that there is so much red tape they aren’t getting it in a timely manner. Trump is proposing to give a percentage the money directly to state governors to basically cut FEMA out of the middle and hopefully get money into the hands of the victims who need it more quickly. It may or may not be a work well but what’s happening now isn’t working for people who desperately need help.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-floats-overhauling-eliminating-fema-rcna189157[/quote]

Well you can’t avoid waste, fraud and abuse without red tape.  So either MAGA wants the Feds to use taxpayer money properly or it doesn’t.  Can’t have it both ways. [/quote]

Why would MAGA want NC to receive any money at all, regardless of who administers it? Why are these people deserving and other federal beneficiaries not?[/quote]

The MAGA crowd is easily led by memes and BS Bro nonsense on X. NC and the $700 (initial) FEMA funding became a memeified way of saying what they always say: "Biden sucks. Trump would do better." So by helping NC, Trump is simply giving his base what they think would be "based". Doesn't matter if he immediately shutters FEMA after. "Promises made. Promises kept."

They have limited attention spans, and will be immediately suck(er)ed into the next memeable outrage from the X outrage machine.[/quote]

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