Posted on 11/12/2024 11:21:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
This Autumn has been rough for the Southeast. First, Hurricane Helene ripped up Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, and then Hurricane Milton hit a different part of Florida and tore it up.
And the season isn’t over yet.
Photo by Library of Congress on Unsplash
By now, you may have already heard about what happened down in Florida and may well have happened elsewhere. It turns out that personnel working for FEMA knocking on doors to see if people were eligible for federal funds were told to skip the homes of obvious Trump supporters.
After publication of this story, a FEMA spokesperson told The Daily Wire it was “deeply disturbed” and “horrified” by the employee’s actions, and that it has “taken extreme actions to correct this situation.”
“While we believe this is an isolated incident, we have taken measures to remove the employee from their role and are investigating the matter to prevent this from happening ever again,” the spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “The employee who issued this guidance had no authority and was given no direction to tell teams to avoid these homes and we are reaching out to the people who may have not been reached as a result of this incident.”
“This is a matter that we take extremely seriously and we are doing everything we can to make sure all survivors receive support from FEMA. To date, we have helped over 365,000 households impacted by both Hurricanes Helene and Milton in the state of Florida and have provided over $898 million in direct assistance to survivors.”
“We are horrified that this took place and therefore have taken extreme actions to correct this situation and have ensured that the matter was addressed at all levels. Helping people is what we do best and our workforce across the agency will continue to serve survivors for as long as it takes.”
That’s all fine and well.
Plus, the individual responsible for that, Marn’i Washington, has been fired from her position and the case has been referred to the Office of Special Counsel. That means she faces potential prosecution for her actions, which should most definitely happen.
However, while people are focusing on what happened—and for understandable reasons—I can’t help but ask the question no one else seems to be asking. Why did she think she could get away with it?
While not everyone thinks through their actions, most people over the age of 25 have a fully developed frontal cortex. That means they’re less likely to be overly impulsive. That means they’re not firing off at the hip and not thinking about the ramifications of their actions, by and large.
Washington is 39, which means she’s well past that point in life, so she did this believing she would get away with it. Why?
It’s possible she just figured that no one would learn about what she did, but at least one of the screenshots in the Daily Wire piece linked above shows that people were spelling this out in their official notes. She put it in a “best practices” memo that was sent to employees. Washington had to know someone would potentially see all of this sooner or later. That means she felt like she wouldn’t face any repercussions for her actions.
She felt that her leadership would approve of what she did, even if not directly.
This is really just an example of how the federal bureaucracy isn’t working for the American people. This isn’t just one person who made a decision that was bigoted against people who didn’t share her political opinions. No, there was some reason she believed she could at least get away with it.
I suppose it’s possible she thought what she was doing was right, which would be enough reason to think it would fly all on its own, but I doubt it. Even if she thought it was right, she had to know that Trump supporters, at a minimum, would blow a gasket.
No, she had reason to believe her chain of command approved, and let’s also be real here, they likely gave her reason to believe this. Someone above her told her things that, on some level, made her believe this would be greenlit.
Let’s remember that the federal bureaucracy is essentially the same entity that silenced an untold number of Americans on X, then Twitter, and Facebook by labeling their disagreement with the official line as “misinformation.” It’s the same federal bureaucracy that pressured an untold number of Americans to forfeit their Second Amendment rights or face prosecution. It’s the same federal bureaucracy that actively conspired against Trump during his first term.....SNIP
This a trend that included East Palestine, Ohio and flooding response in red portions of North Carolina.
Because dems get away with all kinds of illegal crap all the time anyways and never have to answer for it. Someone always covers for them.
And had harris won, she would have.
Yes. The wind just blew in the wrong direction. They did not know which way the wind would blow.
fema always came door to door here in the big bend area of florida after a hurricane rolled through... that didn’t happen this year after hurricane debbie flooded this place and hurricane helene wrecked it...
defund dc...
What I think too, but I think it probably originated above her boss. Too many similar occurrences under the Bi-Dung regime.
We don’t know how long she got away with it. My contact believes that 90 percent FEMA employees are for Democrats. My contact in FEMA would have turned her in if the order had been given to “them”. There was discussion in the “cadre” who suggested that this is what they should do in jest but never acted on it.So Marni Washington wasn’t the only one who had these thoughts. My contact was afraid to let the “cadre” know who “they” were voting for because of retribution and isolation. My contact uses code to tell me what’s going on because “they” are worried the others might find out.
Your contact is taking proper precautions to prevent discovery by the Communist Political Officers.
They should take her before Congress and PUT HER UNDER OATH and then ask “Who told you to do this? And remember you are under oath.”
“No, there was some reason she believed she could at least get away with it.“
Trump won. Uh oh! Otherwise they just could have denied denied denied and buried it.
Yep. If Trump had not won it would have been “Disinformation to Destroy Our Democracy™”.
Why? If it comes to prosecution my money says that she’ll claim that Trumpers are dangerous individuals and she feared for her employees’ lives.
Yes, she will say SWAT raids should have been called on the victims with Trump signs or American Flags. Dey gots off easy she would say.
I say go full bore and overcharge the heck out of her unless she cooperates and provides evidence against with what was a government wide effort to root out any conservatives.
This started back during Obama and Biden’s handlers put this on steroids.
Get rid of any conservative official and put a lib in there and promote everyone under them based on their social media posts.
Obama did this with top generals and put conservatives out to pasture if they ever hit “Like” on anything even remotely conservative.
Artificial intelligence is really good at finding conservatives based on the movies they like, where they
live, where they vacation ect ect ect.
The difficult thing is this is really really hard to prove UNLESS you have a whistleblower.
But not the Key Bridge. If you supported the regime, you get help pronto. If not, you get nothing. Good day, Sir!
And worse, they actively interfered with private efforts to help.
Sorry, but they are a coward.
If I exposed illegal and wrong practices and “they” came after me, “they” would bleed to death.
How do they justify THAT?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.