So the same Texas hypocrites that voted against it are now partaking of it for the horrific flooding.

http://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/...as-trump-fema-flooding

>> President Trump has proposed eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which provides billions of dollars in assistance to communities hit by disasters. He argues that states should take on more responsibility for responding to and preparing for extreme weather and other disasters.

Texas leaders are helping Trump realize that goal.

The Trump administration says it wants to eliminate FEMA. Here's what we know
This spring, the president appointed a council of Cabinet members, governors and emergency management experts, tasked with recommending changes to FEMA. Gov. Abbott and the top emergency official in Texas, W. Nim Kidd, are both on that council.

"FEMA is slow and clunky and doesn't solve the needs of those who need it the most," Abbott said at the first meeting of the FEMA Review Council in May. "States have proven that we can move more nimbly, more swiftly, more effectively."

Now, as Texas responds to catastrophic floods, the officials leading the state's efforts will also be considering how to reshape, or even dissolve, the country's top disaster response agency...<<



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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Can we be done with these people and their never ending bullshit already?

FEMA is bad! We need to do away with FEMA!

Help FEMA! HELP! Send us cash! Send us people!

For fuck sake, enough alreday.

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Like typical fucking snowflakes, Texas politician don't want to pay for it, but they want it NOW when they need it.

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Edited: 07/09/2025 at 06:49 AM by gdudewe

Climate change is driving more extreme rain storms across much of the U.S., which drop more water in shorter periods of time and make dangerous floods more likely.

Sounds like the perfect time to hide the data and misinform the public, cut the budget for monitoring, predicting, building resiliency infrastructure, and recovery efforts, and cut taxes for Wall Street to the point where the US credit rating is dropping to dangerous levels.

Especially if your major lobby and donors are the fossil fuel industry. Who it has proven, has hidden information about the damage their production has done.



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A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. That extra water vapor means storms can drop more rain than in the past.

Today, the heaviest rainstorms in Texas drop about 20% more water than they did in the late 1950s, when the planet was significantly cooler, according to the National Climate Assessment.

And extreme rain in Texas is expected to get much more frequent in the coming decade, as the climate warms even more, according to a 2024 report by the Texas state climatologist.

It's not just Texas. Across the U.S., the heaviest storms are projected to drop more rain as the planet continues to warm.

See you are still a fool, JB. No one voted against FEMA. Take a look at the pre and post election issues that voters found important. FEMA isn't listed.

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There isn't a "vote" anymore. Under the Dictatorship of Trumpolovski, he just says it and all of you sack licking Magaloids do it.

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All of their opposition is based on good luck. They were lucky they didn't have gulf hurricane reduce Galveston to the stone ages. Their winter grid problem with the extreme cold has been forgotten. Now they have some bad luck. They are singing a very different tune today. I know it part of their collective amnesia but don't they espouse a religion that commands them to treat others the way they want to be treated. I think we can safely say they don't practice that. Rand Paul did the same exact thing in Kansas. Huckabee in Arkansas. It's like that old joke: what's the difference between a major and minor toothache? A major toothache is when it's happening to me, it's minor when it happens to you. So Texas, you wear boots right? Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps and forget about the federal government you hate and the money you want from them.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Can't speak for all normal people, but I think disaster relief is a valid use of taxpayer dollars. I would bet that view is the view of the vast majority of normal people. That said, I am vehemently against an agency that doles out disaster relief according to political preference. like FEMA did. I am also against waste and fraud. If there is a better alternative to FEMA, I am all for it. No one that I know is against federal disaster relief. Progs would be against it if Trump was for it, however. But they don't really count, do they?

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Maybe you should read the article first and save yourself that ignorant chirping.

>>President Trump has proposed eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which provides billions of dollars in assistance to communities hit by disasters. He argues that states should take on more responsibility for responding to and preparing for extreme weather and other disasters.

Texas leaders are helping Trump realize that goal.

The Trump administration says it wants to eliminate FEMA. Here's what we know
This spring, the president appointed a council of Cabinet members, governors and emergency management experts, tasked with recommending changes to FEMA. Gov. Abbott and the top emergency official in Texas, W. Nim Kidd, are both on that council.

"FEMA is slow and clunky and doesn't solve the needs of those who need it the most," Abbott said at the first meeting of the FEMA Review Council in May. "States have proven that we can move more nimbly, more swiftly, more effectively."



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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

What's the replacement? Hell, I'll even go one step farther, what's the framework of the replacement?



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