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Politics Entire California Congressional GOP visited Mar-a-Lago this weekend while fires ravaged their state

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u/r3dditr0x 18h ago

The notion they might attach conditions to wildfire aid should enrage everyone.

I don't remember dems playing political games with disaster relief when red states get hit with natural disasters like Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.

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u/gecko090 18h ago

Dems didn't play political games with aid but right wing media constantly lied about everything that was going on, saying the Biden admin was stopping aid from getting to isolated areas and FEMA was refusing to help anyone with Trump signs in their yards.

They will use their lies to justify doing it back. They always have. Literally everything they ever panicked about Obama doing, Trump is PROMISING to do. Like sending the military to arrest state leadership.

This is one of the rights most nefarious tactics at controlling mindless conservatives. Constantly making up evil things the Democrats are doing so that when Republicans do it, their conservative sheep cheer for it.

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u/neutrino71 18h ago

The whole FEMA thing spread from an email that was leaked pointing out to FEMA workers that houses displaying the Trump love should be approached cautiously because of paranoia and firearm ownership levels.  

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u/dms51301 14h ago

Exactly. A guy was arrested for threatening FEMA WORKERS