4mo ago

'Nobody cares': Overwelmed WV flood victims don't expect much help from Trump's FEMA

www.alternet.org

Have the great day you voted for West Virginians!

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No help for you. Enjoy the benefits of your vote.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDowell_County,_West_Virginia
  In 2024, Republican Donald Trump won the largest share of the vote ever for a Republican presidential nominee in the county, garnering 79.4% of the vote.
  While it sucks for the 20% who voted against this, odds are damn high that anyone featured in a story is probably in the 80% that voted exactly for this.
  
  The sad thing about this is that probably for most of these folks this will only further confirm their views. Trump and his allies were pushing the idea that FEMA is corrupt and ineffective while Biden was still in office. The Trump admin will argue that this is FEMA's fault, not Trump's. His voters will eat it up.
  
  those vote breakdowns look really weird, how hard and fast the county went from solid reliable democrat to bleeding maga red.
  
  Indeed. I would put the odds somewhere around 79.4%.
My god what a pathetic situation. trump and his freezing FEMA funds is only part of the problem--their own governor doesn't give enough of a shit to do a damn thing about it; he's a magat of course. There's another article linked in the sidebar about him:
Governor Patrick Morrisey held a press conference today to look back on his first 100 days in office. Morrisey says he has made some “meaningful accomplishments” these last 100 days including the passing of 12 out of the 14 bills that he asked the legislature to consider this past session.
Those bills include banning cell phones in public schools, banning certain food dyes, ending state wide DEI programs, lessening regulations for data centers, creating “single-sex spaces” and more.
The topic of flooding was absent from the governor’s address today. The focus of the event was a retrospective of his time in office thus far and the disastrous flooding that killed three people and triggered major disaster declarations in six counties went unmentioned.
You'll never learn your lesson anyway so vote for another Republican, dipshits. Stay angry at Dems and never consider that the people you support are the ones fucking you over.
INB4 Republicans "help" them by condemning their mold-filled and rotting homes and kick them out into the street.
Natural disasters, combined with reduction of insurance, and lack of federal support may lead to much more of these situations.
The support net has been removed, now everyone can drop to the bottom.
- I don't know about Trump even doing that. It seems vaguely communist.
Two jars of nutella on the same endtable is a whole vibe
Gotta get on your knees and beg daddy for help.
Have the day you FUCKIN VOTED FOR

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