It’s been more than five months since Hurricane Helene devastated several states across the Southeast. In North Carolina, where Helene killed more than 100 people and caused nearly $60 billion in damage, many of the hardest-hit residents have grown increasingly frustrated with FEMA, a federal agency that’s also been in the crosshairs of President Trump.
Edit: Based on a lot of the repetitive comments I’m seeing, I would like to clarify two things. One, people don’t seem to realize that many of the places hardest hit by Helene, like Asheville and the immediate area, are bastions of liberalism who voted for Harris by a 2 to 1 margin. Two, it is horrifying to jeer for someone losing their home regardless of who they or their neighbors voted for.
Your gonna have to keep waiting. Trump don’t give a fuck.
he will throw a couple roll of towel paper to soak up some of the water from the flooding, and hand out trump water bottles.
NC voted for…checks notes…trump
Yes, but I didn’t…
These comments look like they’re pulled from Facebook. I have been getting used to expecting Lemmy to provide a more empathetic and nuanced take on topics.
North Carolina is a purple state. With around five and a half million votes counted, the election was decided by 74,000, well within the margin of voter suppression and disenfranchisement.
Regardless, it takes an absurdly callous disconnectedness to look on a tragedy of that level without empathy.
It shouldn’t require looking at vote totals to determine whether people are worthy of being treated with human decency in the wake of catastrophic trauma.
I mean Trump is cutting FEMA and pretty much every agency that serves the people. So it is pretty much like Leopards eating their faces after they voted exactly for leopards eating their faces.
I only hope that they will learn from this but we’ve also had hurricanes the last time Trump was in office and look how that turned out.
lol you are not going to get it now. FEMA will no longer exist. You got what you voted for.
I think you have to buy a new Tesla to get that aid now.
they will be waiting forever.
there’re gonna have to pry aid out of donald and elon’s cold dead hands.
One, people don’t seem to realize that many of the places hardest hit by Helene, like Asheville and the immediate area, are bastions of liberalism who voted for Harris by a 2 to 1 margin
Unless it exclusively hit Buncombe county and avoided the surrounding counties, it did hit a region that actually predominantly voted for this.
it is horrifying to jeer for someone losing their home regardless of who they or their neighbors voted for.
On one hand I agree. On the other, it’s much more horrifying that a track record of extorting governors for FEMA aid wasn’t an immediate presidential dealbreaker.
You get what you voted for.
The last paragraph with the edit. MAGA enjoys tearing into residents of California, they voted to dismantle FEMA and despise Socialism, even though they use it. Zero sympathy.
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They are getting what they voted for. It’s about time the red states face consequences for their actions
Nope lol no handouts for you. You’re murican and conservative so get your asses additional jobs. Get your elderly out there in the fields. 5¢ bjs on your corners. You voted for this, so take it up the ass like you chose.
