And then you'd have disaster relief money to hang over the head of a state that is on its knees already. Since that is when they would need it. Very smart deal Mr Trump 👍
Of course, she is a Trump suck up who needed a job. They would talk about shutting it down now when LA needs them for fire support. I don't know why we give her any time on the news. She killed a dog.
CA has a democratic governor. The Republi"cons" would love that state.
So, grants to states that will never need them, and withholding grants from states that need it on the reg until they beg, every single grant, every single time.
Essentially, the Trump plan is to make it so that only rich people, large corporations are compensated in the event of a disaster. Everyone else is "committing fraud".
So instead of one agency staging everything that’s required after a disaster and making it available to any state - we’re saying let’s spend 10 times more by having each state do their own thing
That is inefficiency and that will cost taxpayers way more
Why would you audition for Oklahoma?
I’m not!
Then why are you dressed like you’re auditioning for Oklahoma?
Do I look like I’m auditioning for Ok?
Yes.
I don’t understand if you’re not auditioning for OK why are you dressed like that?
Like what?
Like a country music star.
Ina good way or bad way?
How’s ’bout we just pay the equivalent of combined federal/state tax to the state we each live in, each state sets up their own disaster relief fund, pay no federal tax whatsoever only state and let’s see who survives, sounds like the perfect reality tv series “State Survivor” which state would win?
hope California fire victims know in about a month they’re on their own, the embers were still smoldering when trump promised support, that isn’t going to last long
Ah, the “Kill that puppy” strategy. At least she consistent: she has no idea of how to do things, blames everyone else, and kills valuable assets once she’s ruined them.
Please stop watching any "news" station that allows anyone to spread their lies. Shame on you @cnn.com and Dana Bash. Stop promoting them by posting videos. Ignore them.
Pro tip: You can change how much is withheld from your paycheck every year for taxes. Clever people withhold $0 every year. I myself have always tried to withhold the bare minimum. You don’t have to pay until you declare your taxes.
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Sounds like the climate denier knows full well what the climate is about to do. Doesn’t seem they understand it’s their very base who will suffer the most by this approach.
At the end of the day, Trump, the grand maestro of media manipulation, owns it all—the chaos, the distractions, the headlines.
The White House? His. Congress? Bent to his will. The judiciary? Stamped with his brand. Even his own Stormtroopers, marching in lockstep. This show? It’s his production.
Then you fix it, not eliminate it. Repubs whining about foreign aid that could be going to natural disaster victims in the US conveniently omit that they vote against actually providing aid to US citizens every time it comes up for a vote.
“issue block grants”. The way these people come up with terms to obfuscate what they mean is a fucking art form.
It’s not picking and choosing which states get help when disaster strikes based purely on political spite, it’s issuing a “block grant”. Ffs just own it.
Once again, it’s the attack on expertise at work. What personnel l, exactly, would do the actual work in a disaster, drawing on what experience? How much knowledge of best practices would be lost along the way?
Just one more half-baked idea informed by the Trump Doctrine (“break shit.”)
We don't need the fact that they are fascist Nazis to be proven to us. Even my 80 year old Hispanic grandmother with only a 1st grade education is telling us they are Nazis. You need to call your followers to action. Not kumbaya virtue signaling bullshit.
Trump has specifically mentioned Samaritan's Purse as a grant recipient, which is run by Franklin Graham. I suspect it's probably Franklin's purse but I didn't look up the stats.
It also means money to the state to “spend in the best way they see”. This is how SNAP money was given to Mississippi to handle needy families. Which turned into a volleyball court.
It's kind of depressingly consistent how every time I see these sorts of comparisons about ladies who got plastic surgery the before pic is always prettier than after all the surgery.
These days everyone from the US has a face full of Botox and no doubt a stomach full of Ozempic
Turning into a laughing stock of a country in many ways
Someone please explain the concept of "economies of scale" to these fools. How is it is efficient to duplicate the FEMA infrastructure 50 times? Has she done a calculation on what a sparsely populated state like SD would be entitled to under a block grant, and how little they'd be able to do?
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FEMA was started in 1979 by an Executive Order. Guess what? It can end by one too. It’s not a legislative created department. No other president has cared so little about citizens so they encouraged FEMA.
Not sure what that is. That’s the establishment of Homeland Security. FEMA was an EO. Operating under another federal agency doesn’t make it legislation.
Just like the LBJ’s EO for civil rights protection.. the original EO can be rescinded. There are multiple actual pieces of legislation that codified that too. That didn’t protect the EO. EO’s do not become law until there’s actual legislation making it law.
I’m not sure which Johnson EOs you mean in particular. Do you mean affirmative action? Those resulted in regulations, which are within the purview of DOL. When a subsequent admin threatened to withdraw them, Congress threatened legislation, and that ended it.
It’s the same thing. FEMA operates under Homeland Security which was a legislative action. FEMA itself was an Executive Order. They can change or end FEMA ..
I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. The Congressional legislation has formalized the agency, and like other independent agencies, it cannot be dissolved without Congressional legislation. See also, eliminating cabinet agencies. He is threatening an EO because he knows it would not pass in Congress.
I like to periodically remind people that this is Krusty’s original face.
On tax payer time, she routinely needed to have ‘back surgery’. The MAGAts of SD never caught on that her back was her face.
If they think that’s the answer do a pilot project of three or four Republican states that seemingly want it to work and demonstrate proof of concept. Florida, Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma have frequent disaster declarations. Have them show it will work…or not.
Make no mistake, this is all about “states’ rights,” meaning the right to discriminate against women’s health, gender care, HIV treatment, etc. it has nothing to do with disaster relief, which FEMA does amazingly well.
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Yes you are right, there has been an incredible change if you consider the corruption happening and the dismantling of our democracy. What a coward, cultist, hypocrite piece of shit human.
"Well, Trump and Musk are celebrating the destruction of the CFPB which has saved consumers billions of dollars. So are you sure its all about eliminating fraud and abuse?"
I’m getting to the point where as long as Trump is in office, let’s have a minimalist federal government. I’d love to see the money my blue state sends to Washington stay here and fund our education, industry, and infrastructure rather than be redistributed to Trump’s oligarchs and red states.
Every red state will take its block grant and use it to cut taxes for the wealthy. They also might fund school vouchers. But there’s no chance they spend it on a state emergency program. None.
Whenever a disaster strikes affecting the power grid, it’s normal for utilities throughout the nation to send crews to help. FEMA plays a critical role in coordination.
Law degrees should be mandatory for these positions. At least we know for sure they 100% know they are spouting lies (instead of just being ignorant or uninformed)… of course, she is all of the above.
In other words, California won't get a penny.
BUT
When the next hurricane hits Southern Red States Trump and Speaker Jesusbot will give them a blank check.
States and local governments need pennies for sales tax. Is the fed then going to pay states for their lost revenue? Kinda seems to defeat the purpose.
Stop giving these idiots fucking air time! How low have these journalists gone for a paycheque!? Literally not one gives a crap about your country! Well maybe a handful but you see where that got them!
What legislative body authorized this? She's supposed to give advice. Is this the bad advice that she's giving? Chopping up the states and pitting them against each other is a reason why we're in this mess.
How grants will be given will be based on “loyalty.” Red states would benefit the greatest from this method while blue states (even those who high counts of red voters, like CA) will be short changed in a form of punishment against the administration.
Kristi walking into FEMA would be ironic—they might mistake her plastic surgery for a federally declared disaster and move to have it condemned. Someone should remind her to wipe the excess filler off her chin before they start marking her for demolition.
Block grants they can give to red states, with blue states' money, and then unilaterally decide to withhold such grants from blue states, as they are doing w/ CA right now.
They continuously say there's fraud and abuse without showing any evidence. They're just lying to everyone while Dana bash is sitting there with a stupid fucking look on her face.
Each State is supposed to stockpile emergency supplies and provide planning/coordination for procurement of goods and services? Not only food, and equipment/personnel to deal with every type of natural disaster, but also have readily available temporary affordable housing?
If not, too fucking bad??
Wait until the first disaster without FEMA. For all its faults, this agency is a lifeline for communities throughout the country. Block grants wouldn’t stand a chance of getting through Congress quickly enough, if at all, to be helpful.
Trump probably thinks he will have control over the block grants & that only he will distribute loans to those he feels worthy of help. It probably hasn’t crossed his mind that Congress would have a say in allocating the loans. With Musk controlling the treasury, Trump will probably get his way.
USAR teams throughout the USA comprised of everything from search dogs, firefighters, collapse specialists, swift water rescue boats, EMS specialists and much more funded by FEMA would cease to exist. This is a horrible idea on many different levels. These morons have no idea how government works.
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Calling Governor Newsome, Newscum.
Trump wants all states to be controlled by Republi"cons".
Nobody cares about Kristi Noem or what she says or thinks.
Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat.
CA has a democratic governor. The Republi"cons" would love that state.
That is inefficiency and that will cost taxpayers way more
I’m not!
Then why are you dressed like you’re auditioning for Oklahoma?
Do I look like I’m auditioning for Ok?
Yes.
I don’t understand if you’re not auditioning for OK why are you dressed like that?
Like what?
Like a country music star.
Ina good way or bad way?
Conclusion: This is Kristi Noem.
She's an intellectually dishonest MAGA b!tch.
Fact Check Completed.
I seriously don’t know how she gets her makeup on with her head all the way up Trump’s ass.
They’ll pray the tornadoes and hurricanes away after President Musk guts NOAA.
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The White House? His. Congress? Bent to his will. The judiciary? Stamped with his brand. Even his own Stormtroopers, marching in lockstep. This show? It’s his production.
It’s not picking and choosing which states get help when disaster strikes based purely on political spite, it’s issuing a “block grant”. Ffs just own it.
They call her “crusty” noem for a reason.
Just one more half-baked idea informed by the Trump Doctrine (“break shit.”)
Feb 17, 2025
You're right to categorize her as shit.
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My guess is it's a short list. Much shorter than Evangelical non-profits or Catholic non-profits.
No one is saying there are no legitimate religious-based no-profits but there are some sketchy ones.
I know this because I worked for one.
Turning into a laughing stock of a country in many ways
That’s why we have FEMA rather than letting each state fend for itself .
GW Bush, Rumsfeld & a few Generals arrogance led them to ignore military & CIA experts that it was folly to invade Iraq.
But, go ahead listen to ignorant and arrogant Musk & Noem.
On tax payer time, she routinely needed to have ‘back surgery’. The MAGAts of SD never caught on that her back was her face.
What the actual fuck are these people thinking?
I’m honestly thinking the West Coast needs to figure out how to take care of our own.
BUT
When the next hurricane hits Southern Red States Trump and Speaker Jesusbot will give them a blank check.
5th largest economy in the world. Just saying.
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-voted-against-fema-funding-1963980
https://apnews.com/article/what-to-know-about-fema-disasters-trump-fda31e500f0e5beec585483c6b08e79c
Be very aware of what's going on right now.
In case you missed it, here's the nation's leader at the National Prayer Breakfast:
The entire speech. Fun to pick out the stuff he added.
If not, too fucking bad??
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