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Fact checking falsehoods about FEMA funding and Hurricane Helene
npr ^ | October 7, 2024 | Stephen Fowler

Posted on 10/07/2024 4:49:12 PM PDT by xxqqzz

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To: DoughtyOne; NautiNurse

The destruction and in cases elimination of roadways has certainly made Helene a bad storm.

It’s also clear that the Admin was caught flat-footed. Preparations and staging of gear and supplies is Continuity Planning 101. I believe a candid assessment is that Harris has suffered vs been helped by the federal response.

I’ve also seen, unfortunately, a lot of sensational (and BS) stories on our side of the fence. That is counter-productive.

All that said, I m praying - not just for those impacted - that Trump will absolutely shine with Milton.

Why? It’s literally heading north of Mar-A-Lago. If Trump isn’t too distracted, he has staged tons of supplies and personnel in Florida.

Once this beast of a storm does its business, and the govt screws it up (these are the people who brought you the DMV and Afghanistan), Trump could totally shine.


41 posted on 10/07/2024 5:54:41 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: xxqqzz

NPR... Fact checking...

A blatant contradiction in terms...

This arm of Pravda still sucks at the taxpayers teat...

Another of dozens of GOP campaign promises of elimination over the years that was a bald-faced lie...


42 posted on 10/07/2024 6:51:21 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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These days, any person or group who calls themselves "Fact Checkers" are not interested in presenting the truth, but are "checking" the facts:
as in the second definition of verb (used with object):

2: to restrain; hold in restraint or control.

43 posted on 10/07/2024 7:01:09 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: xxqqzz

$137 million? The white house press secretary was spreading misinformation today and bragging that it was $200 million and dared to say that anyone in the press who question her, was spreading misinformation.


44 posted on 10/07/2024 7:22:19 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: xxqqzz

No doubt that most of these supplies are stolen from normals trying to help. We have gov officials shutting down volunteers, confiscating supplies to be inventoried, and even arrested.

Local police, fire and FEMA are all in on it. We will find donated supplies in buildings a year from now. Be armed while trying to help, not from normal thugs but government thugs with badges, full force of the government. Be aware that good people are trying to get to those in need but they be 3-5 counties over in jail due to not having all the government papers need to travel the kings roads, required to give the local, state, federal government the supplies you needed. Saving people with your own helicopter is now illegal.


45 posted on 10/07/2024 8:32:46 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Screw Ukraine, screw Russia, screw the west. The only thing that matters is money at this point. )
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..nearly 15 million meals, 14 million liters of water, 157 generators and more than half a million tarps.

I wonder how much of this stuff was stolen/confiscated from privateers at checkpoints.

46 posted on 10/07/2024 8:36:51 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: Gay State Conservative

And here I always thought it was National PENDEJO Radio.

And I don’t mean pendejo in the nice Spanish way, but in the NASTY MEXICAN WAY.


47 posted on 10/07/2024 8:44:50 PM PDT by 5th MEB (1)
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To: xxqqzz

Is FEMA a money laundering operation?


48 posted on 10/07/2024 9:38:07 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

Partly. It’s also a job program.


49 posted on 10/07/2024 9:48:03 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: Gay State Conservative

NPR is a public disgrace, a purveyor of political lies.


50 posted on 10/08/2024 5:39:52 AM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: chopperk

The collapse of their fraudulent funding will follow the death of their deception. But it takes time.


51 posted on 10/08/2024 7:40:51 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: xxqqzz

If NPR says so, it’s presumptively false.


52 posted on 10/09/2024 10:12:29 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral creulty of the Biden-Harris regime.)
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