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The Trump administration is working to end FEMA.
FEMA is the kind of thing that sounds good in theory to anyone who hasn’t experienced it in practice. And in practice, it’s useless at best, a giant money sink and its actual ability to help anyone is negligible. And like most federal agencies, it quickly became a tool for whatever awful agendas were being pushed at the time. That included global warming and DEI, as we saw with FEMA personnel avoiding homes for political reasons.
What it did not include was any kind of useful help. Anyone who has been through the aftermath of a natural disaster rarely has anything good to say about FEMA. And with good reason. FEMA has proven to be worthless in disaster after disaster. (Much like the Red Cross. Except the RC is very good about fundraising off each other disaster and then pocketing the money.) And its pre-disaster prep, like its supposed post-disaster assistance, is a joke.
FEMA is not fit for its stated purpose. And America will be better off without it. Funding a variety of local volunteer organizations based on clear metrics will be more useful than funding FEMA will.
I remember when there was bad flooding here in San Jose about five or six years ago. Maybe eight years. I’m old so my memory isn’t the greatest. All FEMA did was put the survivors in a gymnasium at a local library. (A great library, actually. It has a basketball gym, a wheight lifting gym and a coffee bar.) Not so local actually, it’s located nowhere near the areas that flooded. They were sleeping on cots and eating Red Cross rations. Poor fuckers. I felt bad for them. I have to give credit for the Red Cross, though. It stepped up when stepping up was necessary. When it isn’t promoting Paleosimian murders of Israeli Jews.
I continued on my day, of course. People suffer all around the world every day. I can only do so much. Nobody seems to care when I help out.
Their main function seemed to be giving out checks after a disaster.
Paleosimian! You’ve done it again. Made me laugh.
Texas can use the Aid Not Illegal Aliens/Future Democrat voters and Supporters
Is there anything the federal government does that is not useless? Okay, maybe aircraft carriers and bunker busting bombs.
.killing foreigners and citizens and causing misery.
question was about US, not goat h u m p e r lands.
Naturally, the lame stream press is running critiques from lifer government employees about DHS Secretary Noem hamstringing FEMA response to the Kerr County, Texas flood. Considering the incredibly swift mobilization of local, state, and federal rescue teams and their outstanding success, it appears that keeping the FEMA field bureaucrats away was a good move. But the big government lobby and the press (pardon the repetition) will attack Secretary Noem and President Trump reflexively. There is already a hit piece on the BBC website, so packed with lies as to defy understanding. Now that recovery efforts are underway, the FEMA gang is even less useful, as tireless and dangerous work to peel away layers of debris in search of the remains of the missing continue.
How does one “manage” an emergency? One can plan and respond, one can provide aid to victims, and one can support recovery and restoration. But the emergency can’t be “managed,” Even FEMA’s name is a misnomer.
Didn’t that flood start at 3 or 5 am? The fact that the gubmint responded at all is pretty incredible. And I saw on the TV news that locals came right out and helped their neighbors. Texas is a good place, except for Austin.
Here in central Texas, we have experienced record flooding in our hill country – an area prone to flash flooding. Our Guadalupe River runs through several children’s summer camps and many campers have been killed over the July 4th holiday period. Camp Mystic was hardest hit – a girls camp whose youngest members’ cabins were nearest the river bank. These were 8 and 9-year-old girls!
Obama sued a lot of fire and police departments around the nation to force them to use DEI rather than competence in recruiting. Austin, whose fire department has the best trained water rescue department in the nation, was forced to take a black fire chief from Alabama named Joel Baker. His stated main purpose is to make the fire department “more diverse” to better serve the “community.” I guess those little white girls were not included in the “community.”
The torrential rains were predicted a couple of days in advance and the Fire Departments requested deployment to Kerrville where the camps were located. Baker denied deployment for those 2 days due to “budget issues.” The Fire Department leaders explained to the Chief the deployment would be REIMBURSED by the federal government. Fire Chief Joel Baker was unable to grasp the concept of “reimbursement” and continued to deny deployment.
It is so much worse than my words reveal. Listen for yourself:
https://x.com/johnmccloy/status/1943021575948665259?s=42
Yes I saw that on tn the TV news. Newsmax And Real America’s Voice. Real people died there. That was fucked up. And a lot of kids died. Dead kids are bad.
Thanks KH !!!!!!! Putting in unqualified fire chiefs is one of their specialties. They did that locally before the great Oakland Hills fire of the 1990s I guess it was. I had to drive to the SF Airport that night so I got to see the burning hills, all the way from El Cerrito to Oakland, as I drove along the freeway.
I remember the fires up in the San Bernardino mountains near Big Bear Lake. I could see them and wondered why they couldn’t be put out quickly. I guess that shit isn’t easy. I felt guilty because the smell was nice. It smelled like a campfire.
You have to put them out when they are small. Once they spread they go out of control.
Locally we have a network of wildfire spotting cameras now, visible to the public over the internet. That was the best idea that came out of the epidemic of disastrous local wildfires a few years ago. That way the firefighters can get on the fires very quickly and put them out when they are small, before they can spread.
I heard Jack Posobiec relate that debacle on War Room yesterday. This should be headline news across the nation. I don’t know how many lives the Austin Fire Dept could have saved, but it isn’t a stretch to say that Baker ‘has blood on his hands’. That was a colossal, tragic, blunder.
Isn’t it things like this that has led to the NGOs which were so prominent in the USAID scandal. Sure, there won’t be long term NGO’s but they’ll be replaced with nearly uncountable smaller short term NGOs which would make it harder to identify fraud. I’ll agree government funded and maintained organizations lead to much waste in many forms but rapidly ramping up small, local volunteer organizations could lead to quite a few problems also. Like the sudden need to expand manpower without time for background checks, limited large scale logistics knowledge, etc. Then there is dealing with the government itself. I’ve read there are companies that refuse to make contracts with government because of all the red tape required.
This might lead to a downsized FEMA providing large scale information (this is where you can order 10,000 pallets of water and how to transport them) plus manpower combined with local knowledge found in those volunteer organizations. There will still be waste. Anything dealing with emergencies will involve waste. You want it large enough to cope with lots of emergency need but frequently, we don’t have such need. It’s the nature of emergencies. The when, where, and how big is unknown.
There’s a local foundation already in place: The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country. Serves 10 counties in the Hill Country. The trustees, and the small staff, have a huge network of connections in the region. Four star rating from Charity Navigator.
From Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, to the Maui, Hawaii fire, to the LA County January, 2025 fires FEMA has done little or nothing and in fact been used as political punishment in East Palestine, Ohio and the hurricane southern states denied FEMA because the demographics of voters voted for President Trump in 2020.
Remember GW Bush saying to FEMA director Michael Brown: “Brownie you’re doing a heck of a job” – while people were in the dome or still on the roof tops of their houses?
FEMA was started in the GW Bush administration and is bogged down in complete bullshit and not ready for any disasters.
FWIW: For years I was a loyal republican up until GW Bush. I had already tired of RINOs and their timidity and eagerness to compromise” with democrats (compromise to a democrat means you agree with them.) Then circa 2004, GW Bush and his warmongering neocon puppet masters made staying in the republican party untenable and so I left and became a registered independent.
To this day I have no regrets. Not being beholden to a political party is very liberating.
In the 90s we had a “one hundred year” flood. My parents had an old oil furnace in the basement insulated with asbestos, at least 50 years old. The basement got about 3 feet of water because it was an old stone foundation. A FEMA agent came to the door begging my dad to let them replace it. “We have plenty of disaster money this is what it’s intended for.” No, my dad said, it still works fine, maybe somebody else needs something.
fema assholes are good @ looking out of their upscale motel rooms, while real humans live in tents during natural disasters