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jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Critics Blast Speaker Mike Johnson for Delaying Vote on FEMA Hurricane Aid Until After the Election

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Critics Blast Speaker Mike Johnson for Delaying Vote on FEMA Hurricane Aid Until After the Election

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jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 7 months ago
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The funding is needed to provide further hurricane relief and to address funding gaps for future storms.
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    How else can they scream democrats do nothing?!

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      Yup and then you have some random weirdo comes in and says, “yeah the GOP do this stuff, but the dems let them, so we should vote GOP to teach those dems.”

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        I mean, those are just straight-up MAGA trolls. “Dobbs is Biden’s fault because he was in office when it happened,” that’s a Republican writing that.

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      Worth remembering how much of this is ultimately a kind of kabuki. The federal bureaucracy is massive and the President has enormous unilateral authority, particularly during emergencies, to mobilize the national guard and start spending money without Congressional approval. And, to his credit, it appears Biden is doing a lot of this.

      But the headlines fixate on the cost of relief rather than the actions of the emergency responders. Consequently, you get a bunch of noise about how Mike Johnson is haranguing people about the deficit and the debt ceiling and whatever other phony baloney excuse we’re using not to pay the people doing the relief work.

      This keeps people fixated on the budgeting/spending and ignorant of the real social need, whether or not it is being met.

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    That’s what fascists do. They don’t know how to be human beings.

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    I bet if another storm heads toward Louisiana they’ll have a vote faster than you can say "Fucking Hypocrite!’

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      No they won’t because Louisiana will vote GOP no matter what and they know it .

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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        Some of you may die, but that’s a a sacrifice you’re willing to make.

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    Ooh they blasted him? Did they SLAM him as well?

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      How long until he claps back?

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        Close. He slams door.

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    Well at least he wasn’t “slammed”

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      Republicans don’t do that in public

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        Larry Craig does.

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    Assholes don’t mind hurting the public to get political points.

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    What the fuck!!! These people are insane.

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    blast

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    Hopes and prayers that he is able to clap back after being slammed

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      How many broken beer bottles does it take to help assholes in power stop being such assholes? I mean that in a respectful way but also rectally. Since I’m now older than some politicians, but not so old, it feels like we will never see a good government ever again. So it’s easy to become a cynical about the whole circus show they put together.

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