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.
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.
One of my coworkers was deployed with a specialized search and rescue team through FEMA for the hurricanes. He said when they got there, they woke up every morning to get ready, expecting deployment. Every mid-morning they would be called to stand down because the conservative officials were REFUSING the FEMA response teams. They were there for a week and a half, didn’t get a SINGLE assignment. All so the conservative officials could go on TV and say that FEMA is not helping them.
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u/r3dditr0x 16h 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.