Rural communities are scrambling after the Trump administration canceled billions in disaster grants. Many were counting on the funds for infrastructure fixes meant to withstand future disasters.
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Will your trailer lose its tie-downs,
when floods come overnight?
If DOGE says they're not funding,
do you support them still in spite?
Can you rebuild on a flood plain?
Will you still keep voting Right?
Will your trailer lose its tie-downs,
when floods come overnight?
Yeah, nobody cares about the rural communities anywhere in this country. Can vouch, have lived in them. They're just the ghetto with more trees than brick buildings
I live in a rural area that is in the 95 percentile that my community will be affected by a catastrophic fire. If a red state is denied FEMA assistance we certainly will.
All these "low tax" state legislatures are going to have to figure out how to raise taxes on their own citizens without getting unelected, now that the GOP has told them that all government is local and is making it stick. This isn't "Trumpism", this is Conservatism if you've been paying attention.
they will NEVER raise taxes on the wealthy and their businesses because THEY are the wealthy and own those businesses. it is one of the reasons they are conservative, sadly the GOP has been completely hijacked by "trumpism".
I think the French had something to say about this process back in 1790 or so. The wealthy came out of it poorly. Let's hope some people learned from history...
It's increasingly difficult to have any sympathy for states who voted for Trump, and are now getting exactly what they voted for. Don't buy Starbucks or avocado toast. That's what you said to other struggling people, isn't it? If you can't afford a house, live in a cave. Bootstraps, yadda yadda.
literally praying for at least some of them to wake the heck up to reality. that they are angered into action by the idea that the felon was never their "savior" but that he used them and their votes.
I've said it before, and I will continue to say it. ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES! Too many people use hate for others to justify their votes. Or on one or two issues. Or just because eggs cost too much. tRump is best known for screwing people. Did they think he would treat them any differently?
Probably. That's exactly why we're in this mess. Too many people nowadays don't vote on reality and the complexity of cause and effect of policy, but they vote based on entertainment and passion, be it fear or loyalty. Whatever lies trump and co spew, they'll believe.
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Hey NPR, “the Biden administration infrastructure funds were created for rural communities, now with spring floods and hurricane season looming they’re up the creek with no paddle, thanks Trump regime”, there fixed for ya!
Need to save money so this asshole can go golfing. No offense to those of us who love to golf. Destroy is all is his only goal. Such a useless waste of space and oxygen.
Rural communities and poorer states have been the hardest-hit targets of virtually all Trump/Musk destructive actions. Anyone who paid attention to Project 2025 and the Trump campaign knew that would happen. Too many rural communities didn't pay attention and now act "shocked".
Ironically Elon Musk, the head of DOGE, is the one recommending these cancellations. This POS could fund the entire cost of these grants with around 10% of his wealth. He paid $44 billion for Twitter and turned into a Nazi platform, yet can't shed a dime to help the country he's abused for years.
I went out and voted, don't blame me. I even know what local ballot initiatives are. Didn't even graduate high school. It's wild, there should be voter competency testing like SAT that people have to pass to vote in OR run in elections but the government would just make it unfairly target minorities
That's the problem. They've never felt the consequences of their actions. They need to know its not just democrats who find them repulsive, it's global.
They're also the ones booing their own reps at Town Halls. It's impossible to ignore people who, cultishly, put fascists in office so they can be stomped on while causing others needless suffering. Only untreated cultists think their disease hurts no one, while causing damage with every breath.
By "these people" do you mean the rural poor? Or Trumpers in general?
We can NOT ignore the rural poor - no matter who they support politically. They are most in need of support. What kind is up for debate.
As opposed to what? Making concessions with racists, Nazis and Christian nationalists? Meeting them in the center and only deporting half of our minority US citizens?
That's right. Can't make a deal with terrorists. Besides, Harris got the full throated endorsement and support of Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney and other Republicans. What more do you want? How much more right can we get?
Ultimately, they are voting for racism. That's it. How do you attract that voter?
Liz not voting for Trump was practically guaranteed. Her father coming out makes sense these days because he has a gay daughter that he publicly supports. Mitch McConnel also told everyone not to vote for Trump he just didn't endorse Harris but clearly they don't hold much weight anymore.
People are aware they exist…..but it’s hard to engage when you’re constantly being accused of being a “commie” or “baby killers”…. It’s fucking tiresome.
True. And I wish my schadenfreude outweighed the reality as high as 49.9% of them in some areas might have voted blue but will get hurt the same. I wish we could do something to only help the Harris voters affected.
Everyone expected the administration to steer funding away from the blue cities that generated the funds in the first place, and even away from blue states altogether. But I remain surprised that Trump is defunding programs benefiting his strongest supporters—and, in this case, $248.9M from Florida.
I live in tornado alley and am directly impacted by this, but as we saw with Arkansas, it doesn't matter how "loyal" to the Turd Reich you are, if there's nothing specifically in it for Il Douche, you aren't getting money. This should not be a surprise.
Do keep in mind May and June are peak tornado periods in the Mid West. Sadly, they are unlikely to just focus on Iowa, Missouri, and Indiana. Might anyone living on government pay in Congress from these regions at risk speak up?
Are these the Black folks who have sewage backing up into their homes?
The ones who Trump basically told, "Fuck off, and yes I'm doing it because you're Black and everything involving Black people is now 'Illegal DEI' -- which isn't really the phrase I want to use but I'm working on that, too."
I, for one, would like an itemized bill on where the money is going since Trump is canceling all these funds. I'm sure it's going right into his pocket!
What they don't understand is that will free the govt to give tax breaks to the rich and then the prosperity that that ushers in will make it so they don't even need the disaster relief.
Love the satire! Tax breaks to the rich = prosperity to the rest? That is spit take funny! As if the 20th century isn't right there to show how economics really works. I'm glad even the least educated know better and we can all laugh at THAT. Keep em coming!
I find it hard to believe that they are upset about losing disaster grants. Remember, this was their "mandate" to crush the Federal government and end any form of socialism. That's why they elected Co-Presidents The Donald and E-lon.
They should be using their Promises Made Promises Kept hashtag
to be fair "conservatives" have ALWAYS been racist in their beliefs. but also classist, they have a puritanical belief that if you are poor it is because of "god's will" and you should suffer for it.
Rural communities voted for Felon 47. Some of us tried to warn them, but instead, it came down to FAFO. It sucks to be them, and they're taking everyone else down with them.
LOL! He is annihilating his own base 😂Hey MAGA is that good or you need more Trump? And we little money you have left buy some orange turd crypto money
It takes a while to sue and get it to work it's way up to SCOTUS. Maine told Trump we will sue him like a month ago but I haven't heard much about a court date yet.
There are already hundreds of lawsuits since the day he was elected and that is going to clog up the courts - another thing he wants.
They cancelled the grant for tsunami preparedness at our local hospital, it was going to pay for a reinforced escape platform on the roof and a stairway so people could get there (and an elevator?)
Rural? Bummer for them -- to bad their effing morons who voted for someone who hates their guts and will never, ever do anything whatsoever to help them
And rural communities are where Evil's supporters are. Sorry that they got the America they wanted. Life lesson: You have to be careful what you wish for when you enter an alliance with Evil.
Our rural communities have been abandoned. Feels so hopeless out there. There used to be jobs, factories, and they've been replaced by Federal jobs. Now those are being taken away.
When the next disaster strikes and there is no FEMA or State support those people might wake. Egg prices, trans, or immigrant concern are not as important as functional government who believes in a social safety net.
Well at least you showed those Pronouns In Profile liberals, eh?
"Yada yada class solidarity", yeah no fuck that, we're on Round 3 with this fucking guy, so you're intentionally stupid if you really think that he ever gave a fuck about y'all and you can just talk to him about this. You earned this.
I have a feeling some of that disaster relief money promised would have been invested in a new pair of blue-mirrored, Chinese-made Oakley knockoff sunglasses and a large box of Skoal Bandits Menthol- one of the four functional food groups in that area.
And he's going to accelerate everything because he's doing away with all environmental protections and just destroying the planet while he moves all of everybody's tax money to crypto and then steals the money at the other end and puts it in his pocket.
There’s never been a shortage of Trump signs in rural communities. Let their states step up and pay the bills instead of Federal taxpayers. They yell “states rights”. Well, states more clearly now have the right to pay up.
I just would like to point out that Maine, NH, and Vermont are all rural states and New England is the most blue section of America (NH is always iffy). He got Maine's 2nd dist elect vote but Kamala got the other 3.
He is taking food from children in ME to get us to stop allowing trans play sports.
Maine reelected Senator Susan Collins. I’m fine if Trump shuts off every Federal dollar going there and files suit to recoup past Federal dollars too.🤣
Yeah, she's immensely popular but is up for reelection next year. This past week the Senate voted to take away what Trump is claiming gives him emergency powers and it lost by only one vote - Collins was one of only two Repubs that voted with Dems to remove Trump's power. Generally she sucks.
Trump axed disaster grants and left rural communities to drown literally. He doesn’t care about them. He never did,and the GOP’s silence isn’t ignorance,it’s agreement. They’d rather let towns collapse than admit their emperor floods without clothes
That's not hyperbole, either. The people drafting policy were the same 20 years ago on 4chan and Something Awful talking about the solution to "Western Civilization Decline" was a good cull. Too many people.
They voted against research that define the disparities that plague their communities. They voted against Medicaid that support their rural hospitals and nursing homes. Many would say they have the government they want and the horrible circumstances they deserve.
Cant the lack of funding be made up by local churches and community groups? Let us go back to the good times when everyone had to maintain the road in front of their house, or toll roads were commonplace.
probably, but you forget how the GOP REFUSE to tax businesses and the wealthy accordingly. they have a puritanical belief that poor people deserve to suffer because it's "god's will" that they are poor.
I fully agree. But I hate so many news orgs keep laying this at the feet of Trump, when this has been the goal of the GOP since the 80s, at least (as long as I have been able to vote). Now that they have a guy who's pushing their agenda, it IS fun to see them squirm.
and this push towards Theocratic Dictatorship has been the goal of the GOP since Nixon. it has taken time to weaken everything to the point that some "cult of personality" could finish the job. #MoscowMitch has been pushing it for over 40 years now.
not really, the GOP has done a great job of convincing these idiots that EVERYTHING bad that happens to them is because of the existence of brown people, or the LGBTQ, or some other small group, or their favorite Obama.
You get what you vote for . If you did not see this coming you probably believe the cost of food and living would go down as well.
Should have done your due diligence and not drank the kool aid .
Before Little Donnie was elected, they were complaining about FEMA not helping without even applying, because Donnie told them FEMA would not help them. And they voted for him. Now FEMA can’t help them because of Little Donnie. But faith is hard to shake.
The media they consume glosses over how their pain is a direct result of the policies and men they vote for. They distract with rants about "rule of law" and "illegals" and "woke ideology". And paint Democracy as evil and corrupt.
The more news they consume the more misinformed they become.
This! And they just tell them their suffering is due to liberals. But when you’re ignorant and blindly accept what someone tells you, this is what we get.
Piling on how bad their media is. Fox News is going to pay billions in lawsuits for completely inventing stolen election stories and blaming them on voting machines. It was so bad they fired Tucker Carlson as soon as they settled with Dominion and let Rupert Murdoch wait out the year then fired him.
They shouldn’t even be able to have news at end of their name. And the next lawsuit should require a disclaimer under that says we lie and this isn’t really news
Every time I've mentioned that to a Republican, they haven't even heard the story because the only thing they watch is Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax, all of whom are settling with the voting machine companies. The other companies admit they didn't investigate, they just copy and pasted from Fox News.
ROTFLMAO!!! They voted for the #ConvictedFelonOrangeAss #FFOTUS #Führer2 #JustShutYourFuckingMouthUp #YouAreNotThePresidentAndYouNeedToGoAway ROTFLMAO!!! #Karma #Schadenfreude
Rural communities were so tired of reading stories about women and minorities needing/getting money for things like this, they voted to f*ck themselves and everyone else just to make it stop.
not quite, they were tired of the existence of human beings who were NOT themselves, they were tired of treating women like human beings so they decided they had to vote to kill themselves and their family. ALL because they are insecure and fragile.
So you’re telling me the guy who flew into a disaster had his little aids build a brick wall next to his podium while you stood around him smiling kissing his ass, claim FEMA was negligent because your residents were threatening FEMA workers now he’s fucking you over and has denied your claims. 🤔
And most of those wankers voted for Trump. Elections have consequences, so suck it up, buttercup, you're getting exactly what you voted for. I have no sympathy for you and yours.
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People don't want truth, they don't want to have to look at the complexities of things, they want validation of their own insecurities.
What's gonna happen when hurricane season rolls around. The gutted the weather svc. FEMA won't be around.
All this because some people thought he was gonna save the nation.
He's KILLING THE NATION PEOPLE!
Will your trailer lose its tie-downs,
when floods come overnight?
If DOGE says they're not funding,
do you support them still in spite?
Can you rebuild on a flood plain?
Will you still keep voting Right?
Will your trailer lose its tie-downs,
when floods come overnight?
Now it gets interesting.
What the tariffs don't do, the hurricanes WILL.
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Exposure + Motivation + Coalition building + Revolution
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Everyone will eventually have to admit in time
that Trump is an insane cult leader
similar to Jim Jones, David Koresh or Marshall Applewhite.
The religious right fundamentalists have pinned all their faith in Trump to
transform America into their literalistic interpretation of Christianity
Well thank goodness we won’t have to flush our toilets 15 times anymore.
Ignoring them was the absolute wrong thing to do.
Even though they're the ones who put Trump in power once again.
We can NOT ignore the rural poor - no matter who they support politically. They are most in need of support. What kind is up for debate.
Ultimately, they are voting for racism. That's it. How do you attract that voter?
https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/local/crowdfunding-campaign-for-woman-allegedly-involved-in-viral-tiktok-garners-over-250k
Nah, saying N!#@r B!~%h is more like it.
I live in tornado alley and am directly impacted by this, but as we saw with Arkansas, it doesn't matter how "loyal" to the Turd Reich you are, if there's nothing specifically in it for Il Douche, you aren't getting money. This should not be a surprise.
But I can't help but wonder if the canceling of FEMA funds by DJT is, unfortunately, Karma in the works 🤔⁉️
Hope it was worth uncritically platforming the people trying to destroy our Democracy.
Bye. 👋🏼
The ones who Trump basically told, "Fuck off, and yes I'm doing it because you're Black and everything involving Black people is now 'Illegal DEI' -- which isn't really the phrase I want to use but I'm working on that, too."
Rural & small town Republicans, may you always remember how your representatives abandoned you.
They should be using their Promises Made Promises Kept hashtag
Still
Ted Cruz 202-224-5922
Mike Crapo 202-224-6142
Kevin Cramer 202-224-2043
Tom Cotton 202-224-2353
John Cornyn 202-224-2934
It is sad, that this are all blue states and areas!
There are already hundreds of lawsuits since the day he was elected and that is going to clog up the courts - another thing he wants.
And they’ll feel cuts to federal programs more than anyone
The ironies are stacked high, but they will never leave Trump. They’ll blame anything or anyone else besides their Jesus
- Billie June Walker-Walker
you voted for a city-slicker conman
do you finally get it?
nah, didn't think so
It's Mississippi not Denial River, bro.
They need to pay the price to see the light and vote properly in 2026 midterms
-Living Colour, "Cult of Personality."
The Felon does not care about them.
"Yada yada class solidarity", yeah no fuck that, we're on Round 3 with this fucking guy, so you're intentionally stupid if you really think that he ever gave a fuck about y'all and you can just talk to him about this. You earned this.
He is taking food from children in ME to get us to stop allowing trans play sports.
That's not hyperbole, either. The people drafting policy were the same 20 years ago on 4chan and Something Awful talking about the solution to "Western Civilization Decline" was a good cull. Too many people.
These sick fuckers were the ones cheering the presence of refrigerated trailers during COVID.
Should have done your due diligence and not drank the kool aid .
Did they really think he wouldn't do it again?
The more news they consume the more misinformed they become.
While Trump was DOGE styling the Federal workers, he turned around and porked the farmers for a second helping!
Now after the nasty the farmers expect a kiss with a condom bailout package!
Too late.
You've got a STD--Stupid Trump Disease!
Just like losing their farms so corporations can own all your land iscwhat farmers wanted.
Cultists don't make good decisions
Fuck ‘em.
He doesn't care about any of you.
Hope you learn.
Your whiteness will not fill your belly
Your whiteness will not house you
You will just be misused and discarded, white skin and all
It's all a fiction to allow the rich to have EVERYTHING while the rest give EVERYTHING.
Maybe smarten up?