Has anyone posted this yet?
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Has anyone seen this anywhere else? I don’t necessarily trust the accuracy of Raw Story’s reporting.
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My favorite response to that:
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Oh, someone posted it here, but I can’t remember which thread it was in…
Ah! See below!
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He’s going to have Archie Bunker’s chair moved to the Oval Office and start wearing Fonzie’s leather jacket.
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Is it jumping the shark moment?
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Does this remind anyone of any sort of red-hat-wearing people?
The ‘treat’, of course, is “owning the libs” and hurting anyone vaguely “other”.
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I honestly wonder if she might be safer if she just stayed in prison. At least until she’s been out of the headlines for a while.
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Not nearly as cool.
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Indeed, but I hope it is the beginning of the end…
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Speaking as a fat guy and with all due respect to Farley, of course!
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In the week after floods tore through Texas Hill Country, most survivors were unable to get through to a federal aid hotline because the Department of Homeland Security let funding lapse, according to publicly available contract records and internal FEMA call center logs obtained by NPR
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But the day after the July 4 flash floods in Texas, the call center funding lapsed, contract records show. The next day, FEMA staff filed contract-related paperwork with DHS that stated that the funding had lapsed, according to publicly available contract records and internal FEMA records obtained by NPR.
But the money did not arrive for another five days, contract records and call logs show. Over that period, a surge of flood survivors called the agency looking for help with temporary housing, money for basic food and clothing, and other time-sensitive assistance.
On July 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 FEMA answered just over 15,000 of the approximately 55,000 calls that came in from disaster survivors, according to the internal FEMA logs obtained by NPR. The details of the call logs were first reported by The New York Times.
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Totally unrelated link:
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So… National Guard being called up, having to put their jobs and lives on hold, not to respond to a disaster or anything useful, but just so they can sit around 24/7 for extended periods of time, waiting for something to happen, so they can be used as illegal law enforcement. I’m sure that will go over well. (It’s like the people making these decisions in the Trump administration don’t see National Guardsmen as human beings with lives, but tools - well, weapons - to be made use of, at will…)
I’m reminded of something I read about the South Korean student democracy protesters, who figured out what the country’s production rate was for tear gas, then provoked the police to use it in small protests until they had run out, leaving their main protests unmolested. Hmmm…
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Unfortunately in America the police (and especially the National Guard) tend to go straight to bullets for crowd control, whether or not they’ve got tear gas available.
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