- "Obfuscation, delay, undermining. If you're one of those 20% of people and you think those tactics and techniques are going to help you, they will not, because I will run right over you. Don't get in my way. ... I know all the tricks." hmm so this guy seems extra sane www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...
May 9, 2025 15:32
- I saw people on the FEMA subreddit quoting this and totally thought they were kidding bc threatening to "run right over" your staff on your first day seems like, idk, not the greatest management style? His relevant emergency management experience is........martial arts? www.fema.gov/about/organi...
- after all the shit fema/Republicans got for Katrina 20 years ago, it's mind-numbing that the far right or whatever we're calling the reigning political party now is like, "oh, we just won't do emergency management now." ok! the public won't care at all, sure www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
- the idea to shut down FEMA is especially messed up in context of reality: climate disasters are increasing in number and severity, they affect every part of the country and take take quite a bit of money, time and logistics to recover from streetlightnews.org/climate-chan...
