Derailed75
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FEMA has a very long history of inadequacy under multiple administrations from both sides of the isle.
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I just can’t wrap my head around the mindset of “Oh, these people have had their lives turned upside down. My job is to help. But because they’re picking a different political party to be useless for 4 years, I’m not going to help them.”
EDIT: I’m not going to comment on the rest. Got threadbanned once already, not worth risking.
WreckingCrew
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Not specifically in this scenario, but in general, I have actually seen PLENTY of this happen in real-world situations...so it's not exactly far fetched or hard to imagine. But I think this is more just typical FEMA/gov't is ALWAYS horribly slow to do things due to red-tape bureaucracy
hblueridgegal
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The performance of FEMA and other federal agencies that the right doesn't like is a self fulfilling prophesy for them when they constantly vote to deny the agency the funding needed to do their jobs.
hblueridgegal
We'll bounce back
The most surprising election reveal to me is that husbands can accompany their wives into the voting booth in NC.
I can't imagine.
I can't imagine.
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I think there's different levels of it. I understand disagreeing or arguing with those of the opposite political party. I even understand cutting those with opposing political views out of your life (though I caution that easily leads to echo chambers).
But when a disaster hits, when someone is in desperate need of aid, I like to believe humanity takes precedent over political views. I also believe that, for the most part, the government isn't withholding aid to those who MIGHT vote for the opposing party. And I say that knowing that Trump did exactly that when California was dealing with wildfires.
The biggest shock I've found out during this election cycle is that for many states, there's no enforcement with regards to a "faithless elector" (an elector who ignores the votes of the people they're supposed to represent and votes however they want)
38 states have laws in place preventing faithless electors from happening, but apparently half of those don't actually enforce those laws. Others don't have laws in place, but will void the vote and fine the elector for attempting it. And then a surprising number of states will simply count the vote of the elector, regardless of whether it's what the people voted for
Navin R Slavin
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The notion of an "opposite political party" is exactly what's wrong with America's politics, and it's a direct byproduct of First Past the Post voting.
Our political problems are structural. Design is destiny.
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hblueridgegal
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raynman
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Went to Knoxville a couple weekends ago and my guides took me up to Cades Cove and Gatlinburg. Looks like I was a couple weekends too early, awesome views nonetheless
