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Oh no! Sounds like a good year for Maralago to get hit with a hurricane.
Blue states need to just form their own coalition for natural disaster responses.
It makes zero sense to constantly bail out red states when the fed won't help blue states.
What do you mean? The president is sending the military to help out DC. It might not be the help needed, or the help wanted. But it’s help!
Or the help that is useful
or even help at all
OK over this way, sir, you are being detained
Typically fema helps regardless. I don't think that has changed so far this year.
They try, but many conservative rubes have been conned into thinking fema is there to repossess their house or something. They actively avoid/threaten fema workers, whilst placing themselves and others in danger attempting to do fema’s job. Our propaganda is such poison in the US.
Great idea, truly.
New England, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia all form an emergency response fund to only help one another. We all still get FEMA but we also have additional funds available.
Hire all the disenfranchised weathermen or something idk.
Knowing the fucked up universe we live in, we’ll have a good 4 year stretch of no major disasters while Trump is President. God loves a good joke.
Worked out for him last time with the pandemic.
Maybe the Dems will fire up the ole weather machine /s
I thought one of the first rules about being an evil dictator is to make sure to pay your troops decently so they don’t turn on you.
He’s gonna find out pretty quick that loyalty goes out the window when they’re not getting paid.
They'll keep getting paid. And this admin will keep stealing money to do it.
It's Trump, the guy who bankrupted a casino and regularly doesn't pay people he contracts.
If he started paying people and keeping anything without going to insolvency I'd think he'd been killed and a lizard was wearing his skin suit.
I hear reports they're having to cake makeup on his hands to prevent what's underneath from showing through
Shhhhhh that's for the educated to know and him to fibd out.
Sure a good thing that the responsible and conscientious conservatives elected a right-thinking president who's going to cut wasteful spending and balance the budget, hmm?
Imagine what it would be like if instead a rabble of petulant, frightened assholes elected a deranged overgrown toddler who pissed away billions on whatever idiocy happened to trigger his stunted emotions on any given day.
pretending USD is going to have value as the empire is attacking itself while charging itself bills for it
"oh its costing a millions yankee doodleys every day to hit ourselves, this is real and money has value, your student loans are definitely real, oh no now he's in chicago spending a zillion doodleys everyone"
POV: When you built too many units in your Civ game and your gold and happiness goes to negative and rebel units start spawning. (Except it's in IRL with real human suffering)
That's the best time to invade your neighbors. Unfortunately.
Enjoy your horrible death during the Canadian War. We're gonna make Vietnam look like a spa day.
There was a report that D.C. is costing $1 million a day. If he does 19 more cities, it's $20M a day. I guess those DOGE cuts are gone.
Those cuts were never about the money. They'll just print more
IMO Doge activities were a smoke screen for a massive data grab
I'd bet money you ain't voicing an opinion. It's a fact
im still 100% that doge actions raised costs and did not save squat.
The numbers agreed with you -- severance ate a lot of the proposed savings, and the wrongful termination or constructive dismissal lawsuits haven't even ramped up.
Add this in and The US will be sorely equipped to fend off the next coup.
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The doge cuts actually cost us money. And that's not counting all the damage the lack of services will cause the economy by no longer existing
So what I'm hearing is, "ICE needs more funding?"
- Trump
I thought the idea was that Trump wasn't paying them? As in that's the point, the Federal government is forcing the states to foot the bill as a sign of fealty.
Even if that's the case, these are largely states that are in the red financially. They may be fine throwing national guard money at DC, LA, and their blue cities, but wait till it hits them in the basic functions.
Military deployment is expensive, and state budgets weren't written with the idea that the national guard was going to spend the bulk of the current administration deployed
Exactly. It’s easy to say “make the states pay for it” until the states start pulling from their primary services to fund it.
Oh, you need to renew your car registration? Too bad, because the DMV is only open one day a week now, and they’re by appointment only. The earliest appointment you can get is six months from now. But at least we have boots on the ground, right?
I agree, but that really is the point. Strain government services so they are shit, then use that as an excuse to privatize it as much as possible and funnel the funding to the oligarchs.
DOGE, what a joke!
Good. Hope it impacts readiness across the board.
I cannot describe how much I hate this cheeto looking dipshit.
They’ve got money to throw at ICE and build their alligator Auschwitz, they’ll just print more money to throw at the Guard. Republicans love blowing budgets on punishments.
Dont worry they can just print more /s
Nice
Just tax us more and set up a parade for the kid's bday.
If only the US Federal departments were set up to stop operations when budgets run out. But alas, the US government loves debt.
They are. It's why everything in the federal government shuts down when the debt ceiling is hit.
There are exceptions made for critical functions, such as emergency management and the military and such. However, IIRC they don't get paid until Congress approves more funding; they still have to show up. National Guard troops sent out to deal with the toddler-in-chief's latest tantrum aren't going to be any happier if they don't get paid.
This is useful to know. ICE is getting paid and are very willing participants. The National Guard isn't so willing and may not be getting paid, but they will defend themselves and follow specific orders. Any civil action should take this into account.
Why are they paying for it themselves when operating under federal orders?
yeah I don't get this. one reason govenors request federalization during emergencies is because when under fed control they use fed funds.