Sacrificial States

Republicans would rather their constituents drown rather than angering Trump

In Monday’s blog, I wrote about Republicans who refuse to fund FEMA, hurting their own constituents in the process. I’ll repeat the Republicans’ names.

Those voting against funding Fema from states hit by Hurricanes Helene and Milton are Matt Gaetz, Byron Donalds, Mike Collins, Kat Cammack, Andrew Clyde, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Aaron Bean, Gus Bilirakis, Dan Bishop, Jeff Duncan, Russell Fry, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Laurel Lee, Anna Paulina Luna, Nancy Mace, Thomas Massie, Rich McCormick, Cory Mills, Ralph Norman, Scott Perry, Bill Posey, John Rose, William Timmons, Mike Waltz, Daniel Webster, Marsha Blackburn, Ted Budd, Bill Hagerty, Rand Paul, and Tim Scott.

Even more Republicans voted against a recent bill providing FEMA with $20 billion for disaster relief. Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back for a special session to provide FEMA with more funding. It’s going to take a lot more than $20 billion to fix Florida, at least from the hurricanes. There are other ways Florida will never be fixed.

As I also wrote last Monday, Johnson is trying to have it both ways. While enabling Trump’s lie that money is being stolen from FEMA and being given to “illegal” immigrants, he’s also stating that FEMA “has enough money.”

As I’ve said before, Republicans have bad memories. They don’t remember that Trump inherited Obama’s economy, Jan. 6, refrigerator trucks being used for morgues, or losing New Orleans to snakes and alligators during Hurricane Katrina. Well, maybe Republicans like Mike Johnson do remember what Katrina did to New Orleans, which hit his state because New Orleans is a Black-majority city.

These same Republicans refusing to fund FEMA to help their communities rebuild after a disaster are compounding the problems by spreading lies and using the disasters for dirty politics.

Donald Trump has created a GoFundMe to support victims of Hurricane Helene, but just as in the case of the Trump Foundation, his fake charity, he’s using this GoFundMe politically. Trump never put money into his own foundation that a court later dissolved while banning him and his three oldest kids, Jr, Eric, and Ivanka from being involved with charities in New York state ever again. We also haven’t heard how much of his own money Donald Trump has pledged to this GoFundMe. This GoFundMe may be a literal go-fund-me for Trump. Who collects this money to be distributed? Is his or her last name Trump?

I ran into these guys in Las Vegas and in Central Park asking for money for the kids. For the kids? What kids? I asked them if their charity was a 501c or even if they could tell me the name of their charity. I got a lot of “fuck yous” for that. I’m sure if I ask Trump if this money is designated for anything specific, like food, water, rebuilding homes, or given to other charities, he’d probably give me the same answers I got from the “for the kids” guys, but let me save you the trouble, Donald.

Fuck you.

I assure you, if Donald Trump weren’t running for president, he never would have started a GoFundMe for hurricane victims. Don’t get excited over a conman creating a GoFundMe.

Don’t vote for conmen…or their cultists who would rather suck up to the orange conman than stand up for you.

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