Posted on 10/04/2024 7:47:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I have long thought that one of the hallmarks of an advanced economy is built-in resilience to shocks to the system.
As with so many things these days, that resilience has eroded to the point that, except in certain areas of the country like Florida, it hardly exists.
You have probably seen many of the same videos I have, in which North Carolina residents are begging for help and wondering where FEMA is. Aside from funding migrants, that is. It seems to be doing a fine job at that, exhausting the funds that should be going to help Helene's victims.
Joe Biden says all the people in North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina are getting everything they need and are “very happy.” pic.twitter.com/5azdn0EhNr— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 4, 2024
Why is FEMA so awful? Or, should I say, why other than the fact that Alejandro Mayorkas, the most destructive man in America, is in charge of it?
Just received this note from a SpaceX engineer helping on the ground in North Carolina. @FEMA is not merely failing to adequately help people in trouble, but is actively blocking citizens who try to help!
“Hey Elon, update here on site of Asheville, NC. We have powered up two…— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2024
According to FEMA itself, it's #1 priority is no longer responding to emergencies but promoting Diversity, Equity, and inclusion.
She should be fired tomorrow.
Not for bias or anything.
She should be fired because she’s too dumb to be within a mile of any decision no matter how inconsequential. https://t.co/w9BDwtJdqq— Tandy (@dantypo) October 3, 2024
As victims are suffering and dying in Appalachia, FEMA is focused on trans migrants of color who may feel uncomfortable getting help from religious organizations.
We can't have a Christian or a Jew helping somebody unless they usher men into women's bathrooms. Seriously.
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Thanks to reporting from Ben Wilson at the Washington @FreeBeacon we know that FEMA held a series of DEI trainings, one of which claimed that the U.S. is rooted in extreme violence, and the established systems in the U.S. require oppression of subjegated people.
pic.twitter.com/zMlT8BhS7W— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) October 4, 2024
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This is confirmed by the fact that we have Equity as the foundation of disaster relief being built right into the FEMA strategic plan.
When time is valuable and lives hang in the balance you need to move as fast as you can, there's not time to bean count for equity.
pic.twitter.com/eeIOhSfiZC— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) October 4, 2024
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FEMA also says they are going to "determine if FEMA’s workforce demonstrates an increased commitment to integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion in delivering the agency’s mission.
To be clear: FEMA is going to implement DEI when delivering disaster relief.
pic.twitter.com/OOMTmZv0KL— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) October 4, 2024
FEMA is, as with every bureaucracy under the Harris/Biden administration, obsessed with microaggressions, affirming fetishists, and distributing benefits by race. Kamala Harris herself has said that disaster aid should be distributed by race in order to promote equity.
This is a frightening philosophy. According to Harris, disaster aid should be based on race and gender, not how much water flooded your home. That’s insane. pic.twitter.com/Nf99blUFzP— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) September 30, 2024
FEMA is so concerned that people are getting the right idea about their incompetence, red tape, and misapplication of resources that they are fighting "rumors" rather than saving people. Perhaps a trans woman of color with a bum leg and a pending asylum claim needed something to do, so they asked "her" to put together a page on misinformation.
There has been a lot of rumors spreading about the #Helene response.
Rumors can create confusion & prevent people from getting assistance they need. Help us share accurate information:
https://t.co/Z5vxuBTths pic.twitter.com/U3DCtmC1LN— FEMA (@fema) October 3, 2024
While Biden took a vacation on the beach as Appalachia was slammed and Harris was out fundraising in Las Vegas, FEMA was leaderless and paralyzed. Whistleblowers are reporting failures across the board, and certainly the videos coming out of the stricken areas seem to back up the claims.
BREAKING: FEMA whistleblowers have come forward alleging that the agency misappropriated funds in the wake of Helene, withheld pre-disaster aid, and that first responders and service members have been waiting in hotels without deployment orders.
pic.twitter.com/uf0XrspRTz— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 4, 2024
It wasn't until Trump and Elon Musk shamed the administration into kicking things up a notch that things started moving, and by all accounts, they aren't moving smoothly. The Cajun Navy and thousands of volunteers are doing far more than the federal government, and the military seems hampered. North Carolina is bursting with active-duty military, yet few are mobilized to help.
I expect there are too many white men involved or something.
One white man brimming with toxic masculinity has stood up as the federal government has fallen down, and that is Ron DeSantis. He has hurricane damage to deal with himself, but told FEMA to rescue North Carolinians, and sent his own Guard units to help residents in other states.
Florida is literally carrying more weight than the federal government
They are running flights, sending personnel and resources to North Carolina. Biden and Kamala are nowhere to be seen, while NC must wait.
Trump is visiting Georgia too. Major GOP show of leadership. https://t.co/F8vhCmKeIN— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 30, 2024
I don't know about you, but I find it disgusting and dispiriting that our federal government is filled with incompetent ideologues and worse. Our health bureaucrats are insane, FEMA is focused on trans migrants, and our Secret Service seems determined to get Donald Trump shot.
Rachel Levine, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health, who pushes for children be medically transitioned with irreversible hormones, launches healthy eating campaign.
“We’re here taking about food is medicine.” pic.twitter.com/qQy6TlJNAS— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) October 3, 2024
It is mystifying that so many Americans are OK with this state of affairs. Are they so driven by partisan hatred that they don't care about their fellow citizens, or just so brainwashed that they don't notice the decline?
I suspect it is a mix of both.
I don't watch cable news or the nightly broadcasts, so I can't say for sure whether our "journalists" are covering the disaster that FEMA has become or not.
But I remember Katrina and its aftermath, and the media was laser-focused on both the real and imagined flaws of the Bush administration's response. This time around, hardly anybody commented on the fact that Joe Biden was on the beach for days during the height of the hurricane.
You would think they would at least feel free to criticize him. He is, after all, a white man.
Had enough of life’s losers hating the average White?
Killing mostly white conservatives, one disaster at a time.
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FEMA turns way random help as they are inconsistent and usually not were they really are not needed. FEMA wants public help but they coordinate with organizations and coordinate support through them. 200 people showing up out of the blue as one site with a shovel and supplies does not help them as they don’t have the coordination power for that.
It’s great that folks want to help but they get in the way of sending help to were they think that are needed not were volunteers show up.
If folks want to help then go join Samaritan’s purse or the Red Cross or your local government and then help. Be prepared you’re likely going to paying your own way and personal time there if you just show up. The Cajun navy is another group that takes volunteers organizes them to support the relief effort. That started as ragtag collection of support and now are part of the bigger relief effort. Goto thier website to see what they do now.
SWAG: As to the collection of goods for support. I assume in the same vein they take random collections of food and aid and then figure out where to distribute the goods to the most needy. It does not always get to where you think. The incident with the mayor of San Juan PR hoarding fed support was a great example of corruption. I assume a FEMA contractor does the collection as FEMA only has about 2,500 full time employees so they contract manpower and equipment. Bringing random stuff out of the closet and pantry does not help much. Feed good but tons of supplies are needed.
This is based the 900 Series ( or used to be numbered)emergency training course FEMA offers that I took in the 2000s and my time spent working months on and boots on the ground for Katrina and working fed exercises.
I feel bad that good people want to help but without coordination it becomes more of a mess that it helps and red meat topics for radio.
“FEMA turns way random help as they are inconsistent and usually not where they really are not needed. FEMA wants public help but they coordinate with organizations and coordinate support through them. 200 people showing up out of the blue as one site with a shovel and supplies does not help them as they don’t have the coordination power for that.”
Do you actually BELIEVE this nonsense!? I have been in hurricane areas all my life and I’ve been on both sides of either needing help or offering help. When you are without power and trees are all over the place ... and a guy or guys show up in a pickup truck with a chain saw and bottled water and offer to get gas for your car, I guarantee your response will not be “oh, fellas, are you sure you have coordinated what you are doing with the government? Is your chain-saw environmentally secure? Do you have proper OSHA approved gas tanks?”
Get real. Government can help, they have helicopters and NG personnel. (See Desantis in Fla.) But the idea that individuals and groups cannot help people with real, serious needs is balderdash!
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Here's One Reason Why FEMA Is Doing Such a Terrible Job, Liaison wrote: FEMA turns way random help as they are inconsistent and usually not were they really are not needed. FEMA wants public help but they coordinate with organizations and coordinate support through them. 200 people showing up out of the blue as one site with a shovel and supplies does not help them as they don’t have the coordination power for that.
It’s great that folks want to help but they get in the way of sending help to were they think that are needed not were volunteers show up.
If folks want to help then go join Samaritan’s purse or the Red Cross or your local government and then help. Be prepared you’re likely going to paying your own way and personal time there if you just show up. The Cajun navy is another group that takes volunteers organizes them to support the relief effort. That started as ragtag collection of support and now are part of the bigger relief effort. Goto thier website to see what they do now.
SWAG: As to the collection of goods for support. I assume in the same vein they take random collections of food and aid and then figure out where to distribute the goods to the most needy. It does not always get to where you think. The incident with the mayor of San Juan PR hoarding fed support was a great example of corruption. I assume a FEMA contractor does the collection as FEMA only has about 2,500 full time employees so they contract manpower and equipment. Bringing random stuff out of the closet and pantry does not help much. Feed good but tons of supplies are needed.This is based the 900 Series ( or used to be numbered)emergency training course FEMA offers that I took in the 2000s and my time spent working months on and boots on the ground for Katrina and working fed exercises.
I feel bad that good people want to help but without coordination it becomes more of a mess that it helps and red meat topics for radio.
Not true. FEMA has a 'preferred providers' list. Funds flow to their 'preferred providers', and some say they kickback to officials in the state.
Anyway, if you're not a 'preferred provider' your contributions risk decreasing contributions from 'preferred providers'.
Victims are dying without water. What about using civilians to distribute water to the dying? SO they die? And can be around for when the FEMA people decide they are comfortably organized enough to distribute food?
Had enough yet? Nope. Sheeple still too comfortable, too many dependent on the federal tit for their paltry lives. They are willing to give up freedom for a handout. The Revolution took place for less than we have already endured and those people had even less taken away from them and less interference by King George than we have suffered at the hands of the feds.
So where is this coordination of which you speak?
I see nearby military assets who are actually good at relief efforts under adverse conditions being ordered to stand down.
I see supply trucks being vandalized and sabotaged while in-transit, both from volunteer and official convoys. Where are the security forces that should protect these convoys?
I see FEMA obstructing every type of volunteer or local initiative to deliver supplies or clear rubble. Then they state that they do not have enough "resources" to do those tasks.
I see a gang of illegal immigrants arrested for looting and then released on $1,000 bail or recognizance bonds. I hear other stories of looters being found hanged from trees and decorated with posters.
I notice that one volunteer organization which is still operational in NC is advertising on their website, requesting volunteers with heavy equipment skills, EMT skills, and logistics coordination skills to come on down. They also ask volunteers to bring with them weapons and ammunition if they have a Concealed Carry Permit.
WTF?
What is FEMA doing to remedy anything?
Where is the NC State Government in this? FEMA doesn’t have ultimate authority in this situation. They provide assistance and funding to the states. FEMA may suck, but I’m not hearing about NC exceeding any expectations either.
Reports that a FEMA director who was acting arrogant and denying aid to #NorthCarolina flood victims was BEATEN by local residents.
8:37 AM · Oct 4, 2024
Lots of commentary here:
https://x.com/RetroCoast/status/1842212404689551467
But wait. There is more:
Breaking:
NC State police issue statement that they will start arresting any federal employees trying to stop or hinder rescue operations.
2:04 PM · Oct 4, 2024
https://x.com/CPTOshaughnessy/status/1842294699224416462
I guess that is what is meant by "interesting times".
This is tryanny.
And this is what tyrants do.
Many interesting decisions coming up for all of us.
The republic we had is now obviously gone.
Do we see the fruit? It’s the same fruit we saw last election and Covid.
Yes Virgina, they ARE trying to kill you. This should be obvious to everyone now.
Is this true? Source?
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I notice that one volunteer organization which is still operational in NC is advertising on their website, requesting volunteers with heavy equipment skills, EMT skills, and logistics coordination skills to come on down. They also ask volunteers to bring with them weapons and ammunition if they have a Concealed Carry Permit.
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Which volunteer organization, Cajun Navy?
NC has a worthless pos demonrat governor which is why they were so unprepared and are getting no assistance from the NC government.
One problem. There is no NC State police and I can’t find any such statement.
The North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP) is the highway patrol agency for North Carolina which has no per-se “state police” agency.
Just because we detest the MSM doesn’t mean we should lap up any garbage posted by a rando on Twit.
WNC is filled with people from NY, MA, and every other bastion of liberalism. They hate God, guns, freedom. They will take, take take. They love big government. There are a minority of regular folks. Lots of liberal virtue signaling. We are in Hendersonville l, one county over. The 15 foot hole in our roof is already fixed. There is a reason I rarely go into Asheville. Sometimes it’s required. Swannanoa got hit hard, it’s just outside Asheville.
Its almost 6am and my husband is headed this the cove to assist Samaritans purse. I will be making them a couple of cakes today. Power is still minimal so they are eating sandwiches.
Asheville area gets a hurricane about every ten years. NC knows this and does not prepare the state. They have no desire to save lives. There just here for some other thing.
Edneyville had landslides and is a catastrophe, but folks were out on day two chainsaws and determination.
1. NC has a worthless pos demonrat governor
2. which is why they were so unprepared
3.and are getting no assistance from the NC government.
1. True: a high level douche’
2. Qualified false: no one anywhere could have been prepared for the scope of this disaster.
3. Qualified true: Awful hard to coordinate disaster relief from Raleigh, 200 miles away. A better HQ would be Hickory at the junction of 321 and I40...That accesses the high country around Boone and west to Asheville and beyond. [Recall that I40 was shut down for a spell at Old Fort...I think that leg is reopened.]
I recall Ivan in 2004. Much flooding and destruction. This event is so very much worse.
I cry for my mountains.
And the California-New York ALL-ELECTRIC vehicle, ban fossil fuels solution, would have the Department of Global Temperature Security threatening the population for using fossil fuels to clear paths and roads and generate electricity.
So the “recovery” would take much longer.
It’s great that folks want to help but they get in the way of sending help to were they think that are needed not were volunteers show up.
For 6 days, those “folks who want to help” were the only effective help there was. Now FEMA shows up and takes over to the point of dismissing people who want to help while doing very little themselves.
Your comments, in general, are disturbing. I see some of your points but they betray the arrogance of bureaucracy.
I do NOT see FEMA blue tarps. I do NOT see FEMA trailers.
What I DO see is an arrogance that is dismissive and undermining instead of supportive and helpful.
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