A friend of mine lives at the edge of where Helene did her worst. He just got power back on yesterday and was finally able to let me know he was OK. I was worried for obvious reasons.
In the deepest, worst parts of where the storm ripped things to shreds, they’re trying to just make it to the next day. They’re struggling to find clean drinking water, food, shelter, the works.
Luckily, FEMA is on the case.
They took to social media yesterday and posted this crap.
That’s right. People who don’t have internet, phone service, or electricity should call, download an app, or log onto the FEMA website.
I won’t ask how stupid can the federal government be, but I’m worried they’d take it as a challenge.
Back in the day, FEMA would roll into a disaster area with paper applications and facilitate all of that right there. While the internet and smartphones are glorious things, this is a prime example of when they’re a terrible option for people.
Right now, American citizens are struggling. They’re thankful to be alive and are working their butts off to keep themselves alive. They’ve paid taxes their entire lives, and now that they need some of theirs back, their federal government is telling them to do what is physically impossible for many of them.
I can’t help but see this and think that their claims of having enough money in spite of spending hundreds of billions on illegal immigrants ring a tad hollow.
If they have the money, why not put boots on the ground getting people signed up for any assistance they may be entitled to?
Honestly, while I’ve commented before about the gross incompetence of the government in disaster response—and I’ll agree that maliciousness is most definitely a possibility, if not a probability in these instances—this is just weapons-grade…whatever, be it stupidity, meanness, or a combination of both.
Heads should roll.
Unfortunately, the current president, when asked about it, didn’t even seem to know what storm people were talking about.
Folks, something needs to give. How much longer can we endure this kind of nonsense from the people who are supposed to be public servants?
Yes, this is a short one today, but the truth is that this is infuriating me to no end. Part of that is that it damn well could have been me in this mess. Based on the forecast, it should have been me. The biggest part, though, is that this is wrong. It’s wrong on ever level and I’m absolutely livid that any American is dealing with it.
I can rail about how we provide aid all over the world when they have a disaster and no one seems willing to help us out this time around—so much for Joe Biden being beloved by other world leaders, it seems—but mostly, I’m just pissed that our own government is once again leaving people out to dry.
May God have mercy on Biden and Harris’s souls, because I sure as hell wouldn’t.
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Jesus Christ was the perfect son of Almighty God. I'm just his imperfect creation and I have to say, mercy and grace aren't what I'm hankering to give to the Biden-Harris-Walz Administration.