Because “states rights” have been working out so well with abortion and voting rights.
“ #Trump suggests shuttering #FEMA, letting states handle own disasters”
Bonus BS:
“Trump doubles down on threat to withhold #California #wildfire aid”
@GottaLaff California should leave, and might, over this. It might be the final straw.
@joe Leave? The US? No, it won’t leave.
@GottaLaff gotta have more federal money for his grift. Can’t go helping people.
@Danetteb He’ll help HIS people
@GottaLaff That too!
@Danetteb Lol, yep
@GottaLaff Since FEMA was created by Executive Orders from Jimmy Carter, Trump would hate it just for that. If Trump were still in his right mind, he could come back and create his own agency to replace FEMA to take credit. But Trump's brain is a goner, so the Heritage Foundation folks just want to get rid of it.
@GottaLaff Maybe blue states could form an emergency response compact, and let red states handle their own disasters.
@GottaLaff This is all “well and good” now when it applies to CA. Yet he forgets how this will impact red states around hurricane season.
(We know red states will be funded anyway.)
@Brian Yes, they will.
@GottaLaff next hurricane to hit Gulf welfare states will be interesting.
If states take it over, then the makers like NY, Il, Ca can help their own, and let the takers go pound sand.
As a corollary, makers should cut off funding federal govt.
@dbc3 @GottaLaff yes, let's further punish the poor for the actions of a rich oligarchy!
@GottaLaff If Trump wants to go all in on states' rights, then New York can imprison his thieving ass.
@GottaLaff Sometime I wonder. If more and more things are sent back to the states to be handled, what's the point to have a federal government and a president ?
It is clear that in a nation with less and less responsibilities at federal level, lot of politicians should be fired, started from the president.
Let optimize this.
(of course is a rhetorical post, no need to answer)
The Presidency of Revenge!
@GottaLaff Anyone taking a bet Trump calls for Congress to provide aid as soon as Mar-a-lago is hit by a hurricane?
@kobold ANY red state.
@GottaLaff Fair point.
@GottaLaff His goal is to crater the country
@andybrwn I’ve been saying that for years, because he has.
He has stated, in so many words, and sometimes literally, that he wants to end democracy and destroy our govt and become a ruler, not a president.
@GottaLaff It’s no longer the United States of America. It’s just the States of America, kinda hanging out in a group waiting to get picked off.
@bubbajet Good point
@GottaLaff If he slams the door on California wonder what all those in-state MAGA Republicans will say?
@BagOfNails They’ll cheer… until their houses burn
@GottaLaff surely Trump must have said “ what disasters? Climate great”
How about California residents withhold our federal taxes? I'm thinking about Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience."
@cindyweinstein @GottaLaff The states are not involved in collecting taxes for the Federal government.
I re-edited for clarity. Thank you.
@cindyweinstein @GottaLaff And withhold food, California is the largest US produce grower.
And movies, music, general creative endeavors...
Seems to us that California can impose tariffs on all the great and necessary things made here and exported to the other states, that would more than offset the 78 cents on the dollar Californians get back in federal funds from federal taxes paid
@GottaLaff Hm, maybe he assumes Florida will be a safe haven in times of global warming?
@Erika He’ll make sure to care for red states
@GottaLaff A decade of living in the Deep South really soured me on the "States Rights" stuff that I was raised among in the Pacific Northwest.
@GottaLaff If the states do everything, why even have a federal government?
@kimlockhartga That’s the thing: Trump never wanted a federal govt, and has been telling us that for years.
He’s made a public effort to end democracy and burn down the govt so that he can rule, and only he can rule.
@GottaLaff and these idiots still think that their lives wouldn't change under a dictatorship.
one of the membership requirements for being in the face eating leopard party is a blind belief that your face is somehow sacred.
@GottaLaff That'll work out great the next time a hurricane roars through Mississippi or Alabama, for example.
@JamesHMcLaren He’ll help them.
I'd actually be ok with that, Florida and Texas will be completely fuuuuuucked within 2 years. Cali will take a hit but be back in full force within the same 2 years.
@_maleficentgirl @peachfront I disagree. He’ll help red states.
@GottaLaff
Yeah well if CA doesn't get aid it may just take me a while to file our taxes this year....
@GottaLaff@mstdn.social
They could take #Trump's suggestion, but I wouldn't want to live in a state like Louisianna or Kentucky if a major disaster hit. I mean, absent FEMA, there's a number of red states that would have been completely SOL had they not been able to rely on federal disaster relief.
Similar could be said for things like flood-insurance and other programs that frequently have federal components. The "Gulf of America" states are particularly at risk from hurricanes but also mostly too poor to handle disasters by themselves.
@ferricoxide Trump will make sure red states are cared for
@GottaLaff@mstdn.social
Why? He's already got their votes, he's not really gonna need them again ....and, even if he does, they'll come running regardless.
@ferricoxide He needs their loyalty to keep his militias intact.