Forcing FEMA disaster response on individual states would obliterate interstate aid
Blue states should create a cooperative response team to continue pooling resources, while charging red states at published union scale and dynamic surge pricing for materiel
When the game is hardball, play or lose
Blue states should create a cooperative response team to continue pooling resources, while charging red states at published union scale and dynamic surge pricing for materiel
When the game is hardball, play or lose
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Forget it.
Then maybe MAYBE MAGA would understand .05% of this
Red State? Y; Approve funds
Blue State? N; Question funding, extort governors/ legislatures for concessions and then run candidates to take advantage of the inevitable disgust with "dysfunctional government"
good ideas like this need to be shared
Your oppression is their profession
Sweden and Finland, EU's most forested countries, aren't doing enough to protect their primary & old-growth forests falling short of EU comm https://phys.org/news/2025-01-wwf-blasts-sweden-finland.html
own as they are a net negative on the federal economy.
I'm not typically a fan of this, but hardball may actually be the least worst option
Cali and all other "sane" states should start immediate talks with Canada, Mexico and even the EU about closer cooperation.
Could be crucial if the need for secession arises.
Fires, earthquakes and Tsunami you don't..
Trump is so evil.....Gutting FEMA so he can dole out funds to those that bend the knee....Sick
If a natural disaster in Louisiana knocks out an interstate bridge, it impacts the rest of the country.
And it's our fault, for treating "our constitution" like some holy writ and remaining collectively
We let them take away civics classes so we could do businesses' orientation programs for them instead.
Be a shame if #California and other states blocked it.
That’s hardball.
#FEMA #fires
Dear Potus Biden.....and Garland look what stupid actions
you failed to address?
Also, that this capitalist hellscape is made up/fucked up/can be dismantled and recreated to benefit everyone.
🤔
... conservatives love thinking of government like a business trying to make a profit.
I'm sure they won't complain.
1. Make States responsible
2. "Send them money," not Feds
3. Send them LESS money (on average), leaving more for Trump, Musk, Bezos, Zuck, etc.
4. Condition amount sent on "how they spend it," allowing Blue States to be selectively penalized.
Nothing unexpected here.
Community exists across borders.
I need some Album cover art work!
Why are you acting surprised? Biden knew this when he posed for this picture, and he didn't care.
Shouldering the burden of all these expenses while they loot the treasury will then give conservatives in blue states an opening to run against them with a “get along to go along” message.
https://bsky.app/profile/blueallylove.bsky.social/post/3lgjtgz42b22z
Oh, wait, that's right -- TX doesn't like to tax rich people. It's soooo much cheaper to suck up OUR tax dollars.
Guess what Trump tariffs will do for gas prices here?
I'd guess whatever tariff effect will be as short-lived as it is short-sighted, since last time Trump messed with Canada they put a retaliatory tariff on whiskey and he folded immediately.
Dem state officials will finish the job, although redhat greed and obeisance to 47 are rampant in our state government.
Mid terms are coming.
Blue down the ballot in 26
No humanity left there
Yes, it would be brutal to poor people in the red states but exactly what ELSE has worked to get them to understand that they voted against their own best interests time after time?
I say go for it.
Let em. I'm from Australia and even I know that most blue states/cities pay more than their share on average.
They'll figure out who has what soon enough.
Enough of playing “roll-over” for the Rabid Right Wing!
Either democrats will start playing the game the way Republicans have since forever, or they can lose again, and the country can just burn faster
Either way MAGA facists lose and suffer the most which is nothing less than they deserve
The work of those cooperative agencies should be available only to the cooperating states.
Thank you for sharing this ... truly.
Personally, I feel for you; I have people I love in your position - but we cannot keep enabling tyrants and vampires because they have hostages.
It just feels like either way, we're reduced to political pawns.
States and large cities with progressive cultures should withdraw their support from regressive states/ cities - AND PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE IN THOSE AREAS SHOULD SUPPORT THESE EFFORTS.
The progressive
These bastards want "money to be speech" so much, I say we treat it that way.
Hi Vlad
Set aside some money for “Thinking of you in your time of need… thoughts and prayers” cards for them.
They always claim their god will take care of them. Let god deal with it then. We owe nothing to red states.