Also during hurricane Katrina, people getting raped and dying in the superdome, or whatever that stadium was in New Orleans, somehow really fed into the FEMA conspiracies. Though I’m pretty sure FEMA wasn’t even involved in that situation. IIRC It was local authorities, at least initially, that had directed people there without having any plan on how to handle them.
I have had the misfortune of seeing some recent Fox News coverage of the FEMA response to places like Asheville so far.
It is entirely, 100% absent of any mention that the reason FEMA is underfunded and isn’t doing more faster… is because congressional Republicans recently voted down a bill that would have given them more funding.
Its also full of … I mean, legitimate disaster victims, but they are incredibly sanctimonious and whiney about how they aren’t getting any help, and how somehow this us all Biden and the Democrats fault.
… I’ve spent a year homeless, seriously injured to the point of being crippled, and spent the last year living in a roach motel trying to figure out how to get any permanent housing or aid from any existing resources.
I have less than 0 sympathy for someone whining that they are just deserving of help, that it should literally fly out to them on a helicopter, that the government should pay to rebuild their house or rehome them, pay for all their lost property.
… Especially when said sanctimonious people almost certainly voted for people who they should have known would cut aid and resources to themselves, and would almost certainly be completely fine with someone like me just dying in agony.
The most insane thing I remember from Katrina was Blackwater authorizing themselves to respond to New Orleans, (they received official approval after they were already on site) where they didn’t provide any aide or assistance, but set up sniper teams on roofs and above water overpasses and sniped people they deemed to be looters, as well as confiscating any guns they found.
Also during hurricane Katrina, people getting raped and dying in the superdome, or whatever that stadium was in New Orleans, somehow really fed into the FEMA conspiracies. Though I’m pretty sure FEMA wasn’t even involved in that situation. IIRC It was local authorities, at least initially, that had directed people there without having any plan on how to handle them.
Those same people upset about rape in the superdome don’t care at all when it’s homeless shelters
I have had the misfortune of seeing some recent Fox News coverage of the FEMA response to places like Asheville so far.
It is entirely, 100% absent of any mention that the reason FEMA is underfunded and isn’t doing more faster… is because congressional Republicans recently voted down a bill that would have given them more funding.
Its also full of … I mean, legitimate disaster victims, but they are incredibly sanctimonious and whiney about how they aren’t getting any help, and how somehow this us all Biden and the Democrats fault.
… I’ve spent a year homeless, seriously injured to the point of being crippled, and spent the last year living in a roach motel trying to figure out how to get any permanent housing or aid from any existing resources.
I have less than 0 sympathy for someone whining that they are just deserving of help, that it should literally fly out to them on a helicopter, that the government should pay to rebuild their house or rehome them, pay for all their lost property.
… Especially when said sanctimonious people almost certainly voted for people who they should have known would cut aid and resources to themselves, and would almost certainly be completely fine with someone like me just dying in agony.
The most insane thing I remember from Katrina was Blackwater authorizing themselves to respond to New Orleans, (they received official approval after they were already on site) where they didn’t provide any aide or assistance, but set up sniper teams on roofs and above water overpasses and sniped people they deemed to be looters, as well as confiscating any guns they found.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/08/secret-history-hurricane-katrina/
So I guess that kind of makes the ‘black helicopters’ conspiracy sort of true, lol.