You get what you vote for.

Please keep in mind that this affects many people who did not vote for this. Asheville, one of the hardest hit towns here, is extremely blue. NC is gerrymandered to hell, which is why we show so red. Acting like everyone is a monolith and sneering at disaster is not helpful.

Gerrymandering does not affect presidential voting. I have empathy for everyone who is suffering, but red States need to kick out REPUBLICANS. We can't do it for you.

We are a purple state. Voter suppression here is very real, and the gerrymandering abets it.

I completely agree with you, and hope that you and all your friends are calling your Republican representatives, because they're not listening to us. They obviously do not care what we blue State Democrats think. BTW, born and raised in the deep south.

Every dang day.

Couldn't he have just redrawn the hurricane's path away from NC with his Sharpie? Sorted!

They continually accuse others of what they are doing or plan to do

Always projecting. That’s his way.

Since every Trump accusation is a confession… par for the course.

I forget, who did North Carolina voted for?

The blue dot in Missouri that just had a devasting tornado hasn't seen a FEMA rep either, and the gop governor was VERY slow to call in the national guard

Everything trump says is projecting to get away with himself. Greatest con man of all time. 🐐

And most importantly the media won't cover it

Play stupid games win stupid prices!

ALWAYS. ALWAYS. ALWAYS. Learn the script. Yell loudly that is doing X and should not be in power. Gain power and boldly do X. When (if) questioned, talk about how great X is. This plot line is getting so old.

I wonder how the 53% of the state feels about Trump now?

trump easily got around 53% of the population to believe his insane yolo lies about biden deliberately starving the state of hurricane aid - so I assume they believe whatever trump tells them to

Actually not insane at all. Propaganda works by repetition. Right Wing media repeat Trump's Biden bashing & do not cover things like this that Trump does. Works perfectly, as you can see by which party controls all 3 branches of government. upine.medium.com/the-vast-rea...

This projection crap is real.

Red states hurricane season is right around the corner

Wait, what's the game we're playing here? Trump accused Biden, then did it himself? Sounds like a plot twist from a bad soap opera 🤯

welcome to the United States of I Got Mine, Go Fuck Yourselves

Narcissists often accuse others of doing things that they themselves would do. Anything Trump accuses someone of doing is probably something he either has already done or would do himself. We should be on guard for cheating on the next election.

“Senior Official Performing the Duties of Administrator”? Trump seems to prefer having only “acting” heads of depts and not actual heads. It keeps them beholden to Trump / they have even less job security.

He actually said in Season 1 that he preferred "acting" staff--more likely to do what he wants and easier to get rid of.

If you know someone in Appalachia, tell them that Drumpf is the reason why their FEMA assistance is "not warranted." They specifically cited the Democrats "lack of response" regarding Helene as a reason to vote for Krasnov.

Yet Trump lied about Biden. He lied to North Carolinians, received their votes and let them rot. The GOP follows his lead stabbing citizens of the state.

Projection is a vital tenet of fascism for painfully obvious reasons. bsky.app/profile/theo...

This is kind of the standard for the Republican Party these days.. like 99% of accusations become admissions within 12 months.

Not really. It's called projection.

POS47 administration slogan

Ironic. He is so cruel. I'll be glad when this menace meets his match and is taken down.

Great , USA have billionaires and golf scores more pressing .

Every accusation turns out to be projection.

Karma

That's what they do. See Karl Rove.

And NC voted for Trump! What's he going to do to reality-leaning states?

Everything. Is. Projection.

every accusation is a confession.

*"insane" meaning "entirely and predictably on brand," of course.

No liberal could hold red states in more contempt than the man they voted for. No liberal, no leftist, no communist. No one.

Every accusation is a confession.

Well, since Biden already did it (he didn't) now there's precedent (there isn't) and it would be unjust not to reciprocate (it wouldn't).

Isnt that Lindsey Graham state? He refused help to Arkansas too Sara Sanders who lied like a trooper for him the first time he was in office got the big fuck your state too.

No. Budd and Tillis.

Graham is from SC

I mean, the governor is a democrat, so FEMA assistance cannot be warranted.

This is akin to the people who voted for Trump because he’d round up the “illegals” and not law-abiding citizens and oops - you’re all Brown to him so you’re all under threat. I’ll never understand minorities who vote for the oppressor.

Not insane at all. Completely on brand. A) Trump has no care to help anyone that isn't himself. B) every accusation is a confession from the republicans. If they haven't done something they accused the dems of doing they either havent been caught yet or just waiting for the right opportunity.

I call it "the ostentatious eff you." It's Trump's favorite play and his way of showing his disdain for the very voters who put him over the top. He does the opposite of what he says or flip-flops 180 degrees. His fans get hurt, and he loves it. It really is that simple. He's just having fun.

Oh, I forgot. This FEMA thing is also vintage "projection and confession."

Every accusation is a confession. Every single one.

No outrage from the rednecks in NC. Taste the orange boot boys

People were spreading lies about FEMA stealing supplies. Well, solved that problem by electing the guy who's shutting down FEMA. idiots

📌 #whotheyreallyare

You could fill a warehouse with those (accurate) claims.

Every accusation is an admission.

With Trump every accusation is a… well, you know the rest.

NC given the middle finger by Trump, Republicans on board - yeah y’all fend for yourselves! Doge/Musk agree your destruction is too expensive for our NEW Project 2025 Federal Govt to pick up the tab anymore.

You want no government? Well, then, I guess pray to the ghost of Ayn Rand

And yet 45% of NC is still a lock for him. Because Republicans meet the clinical definitions of both "insane" and "intellectually disabled".

It's like, shouldn't be shocking because it's what he does, we should all expect it by now, but it still shocks

it shocks because you have a sense of humanity

The GOP needs to rebrand as the pro-death party.

This is devastating to the region. The western part of the state votes reliably R. Now tRump has turned on them. It will take longer but the state will rebuild. We feel our neighbors pain even when they vote against their best interests.

It is insane; unfortunately not so to Trump, his lackeys & his voters. Latter will claim he isn't doing what he is doing, even in the face of all the evidence that he's doing it, & despite having claimed [falsely] Biden was doing it. The world they inhabit isn't just upside down; inside out as well.

And so many people there voted for him because they blamed Biden for not helping

A harsh reality for NC, but this falls under the category of be careful what you vote for.

Well there is no need for campaign photo ops anymore so…

Be careful of what you ask for, you just might get it.

Every accusation an admission; every charge a confession.

Hey NC went Trump so this is what they get.

Not insane. This is one of the only consistent behaviors Trump displays: if he accuses someone of something, he is laying ground to do it himself.

is it being widely publicized there that tdump is shitting on his voters? like its one thing to see it on here but is this info getting into the maga voter infosphere where it needs to be- everything tdump does that is negative for them needs a megaphone

Anyone who didn’t know by now that Republican accusations are confessions is a fool.

The letter basically admits Biden admin was doing 100% cost share and when NC asked to renew that cost share with the trump admin, the answer was no. Maybe one day Dems will figure out messaging.

If he calls it out, that means he’s going to do it so shameful

The most disturbing thing is of course the denial of aid. But a very close second is, I do not believe we have the information environment to communicate sufficiently to either the country or even North Carolina what is happening here.

Exactly right. Ask the average North Carolinian a year from now why they like Trump, and they'll say "Because Biden blocked our FEMA money in '24, but Trump rushed it to us in '25."

Facebook users who took in all the AI-slop images of children and puppies being neglected by Biden and/or rescued by Trump probably won't see enough pictures of how the story really ends.

I don’t even really look at FB but would check notifications & the first post would be someone sharing a screenshot of a text from someone’s brother’s cousin. Just a game of telephone from 3 states away.

Like, an entire discourse emerged around the LIE that Biden abandoned North Carolina after Helene. I do not think even a whisper will emerge around the very real fact that Trump is doing exactly this.

The media isn’t interested in anything that might make dear leader look bad

I do not know how we progress in this country (or keep our democracy) if the media inundate us with lies inundate us and incompetency is hidden from us - depending on the political party.

Every accusation…

Every damn time!

Projection… See #2 ⤵️

That discourse was based on the assumption that FEMA would fix everything. Like they have 100k people on call to swarm the area and…poof…fixed. That’s total stupidity. Fema is a bank account, w/ some emergency response systems in place, mostly in areas regularly hit, that supports local efforts.

My friend from CA was arguing with me that FEMA wasn’t here, even after I sent him the pic of the FEMA heli’s landing down the hill from my house. The “news” went and found random dumbasses from way out in the holler to say they “ain’t seen fema”, and that’s all the evidence he needed.

Pic for reference. Kept arguing with me after i sent this, so i texted him every 30 min when they landed for a bit.

Marshallrelief.org Our organziation. We hope to expand beyond storm recovery eventually. Natural disasters take all the problems that shouldn’t exist in modern society and add an exponent. It shouldn’t take an emergency management team to solve that, but it probably will. And we’re a very good team

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📢📢📢

Few things exemplify the phenomenon of high engagement low info people as well as the idea that Biden didn’t give aid to NC because he spent the money on Israel

it was (claimed to be) ukraine

depended entirely on which audience the propagandist was talking to, I saw both

What I saw was FEMA ran out of money bc they spent it all on migrants! Insane that Republicans can spread 3 effective lies about it and Dems won’t be able to amplify the truth that Trump is withholding aid.

Yeah, it was Ukraine for the Facebook boomer rank-and-file, Israel for the fully clued-in X zoomer types.

Okay, so let’s introduce some facts from the ground, since I’m in Western NC, one of the worst hit areas. The FEMA letter is true but, they are keeping 90% reimbursement, just not the 100% that we currently have. Now 90% sounds good, but we are talking about hundreds of millions that the state 1/

Has to come up with, so it’s a lot of money. That said, our Dem governor has requested billions from Congress to help the region, so it’s possible that we’ll get the money yet. That said, still a shitty thing to do to an area that was devastated. Of course, Biden never abandoned us.

And then look at the total absence of FEMA support for St. Louis. Democrats don't know how to make as much news out of actual malice and incompetence as the GOP does out of entirely invented malice and incompetence.

Bill boards work

They won’t put up billboards thehill.com/homenews/hou...

They want Republican policies and will happily suppress any negative news.

“Just let them be right bro come on bro low taxes bro come on bro don’t be a downer bro come on bro come on”

There’s almost no group more right coded than the people who own billboards it’s kinda crazy

The party of free speech.

Thank you for sharing this link.

When Biden does it, it’s wrong, and a ton of nonsense pops up to criticize him. But when Trump does the same thing, the nonsense and public outcry vanish. This country’s leader is teaching his supporters how to lie and spread hate.

Can Cooper announce already so we can run an ad lambasting Tillis for letting Trump abandon NC?

You can run it. But Sinclair which controls 90% of the local news here won't air it.

There is still a taboo among Dem electeds against pointing out the glaringly obvious fact that the GOP is intentionally harming its own constituents. That it's not "greed" or "favoring the big guy over the little guy" or however we have traditionally glossed it, it's true evil. Evil against good.

They’re already moving the goal posts to avoid holding trump accountable

That’s because the Democrats are terrible at political warfare. I don’t even know if they understand what’s going on.

There won’t be as much MSM on it. That’s for sure 🙄😑

Hey Matt Von swol made a whole maga influencer career out of it.

Yes he did! And he recently was just posting how he was done with the GOP, but he has said a word about this? I can’t stomach logging in over there to even check.

He’ll just move onto the next thing. Now he’s all about doge

Now the press can just say “both sides did it”.

📌

If it comes up at all, Fox (etc) will have the voters believing that it was a leftover Biden decision to cease aid. Mark my words.

Yup, that's what Trump always does, as well as taking credit for Biden's accomplishments. Also, under Biden, FEMA would almost certainly have approved this request, since they approved the initial request.

These affected counties are big Trump supporters - he doesn’t give a sh*t.

It’s his signature move. Every accusation is a confession

accusations/confessions and all that. They absolutely cannot conceive of the fact that other people are not as terrible as they are.

Seems par the course for me

Is that a real signature?

Those folks got exactly what they voted for

"Every accusation is a confession." Hope this helps.

Yes though of course the accusations are based on how they would act under the circumstances

Honestly I expected him to fuck over LA and NYC but not NC, you know?

“Accuse the other that of which you are guilty of.” Goebbels would be proud of his spawn.

Dems are dumb if they don't go there immediately and do something to call attention to what's going on and actually help the people there.

north carolina voted for trump. north carolinans are dumb for doing that.

Well, duh.

Why do all their signatures look like moment of death heart monitors?

Now I am TRYING to remember who won the state of North Carolina?

Insane? Yes. Surprising? Not in the least.

We tried to warn MAGA that Trump doesn't like you unless you're giving him the money. How dare you ask for some relief after a disaster? Some people only learn the hard way. Hopefully you learn your lesson North Carolina.

This is what North Carolina voted for. Congrats to them on getting the treatment they wished on blue states. Our time will come, but we didn’t ask for it as red states have. They reap what they sowed.

Is he just mad that a democrat won the governorship of the state? Especially after Trump endorsed that horrible Republican Mark Robinson for governor.

So its blackmail to elect repug governors

basically yeah

he thinks he's giving money to the heads of each state

I can't disagree at all.

Trump is insane. Whatever he does, the decisions made are driven by jealousy, greed, and revenge.

Expect the same regarding election fraud and the other horrible stuff they accused the opponents of

A part of Putin's playbook BTW, the outrageous thing he's accusing others of is something he's doing himself.

Hurricane season is in June.

With a Trump-inspired signature.

Letter needs to be posted in every NC newpaper, pushed on news platforms

That second paragraph is just one run on sentence. Did these ppl not take an english,grammar and composition course?

Is there anything about their hiring practices that makes you think they value good writing skills? I'm surprised it doesn't contain random capitalization and misspellings.

It's wild how every accusation is a confession like 1:1

Every. Single. Time.

The further insanity will be the North Carolinians who will race to accept this gaslighting

And Biden’s Admin WAS helping the people! Trying to, via FEMA. The ongoing hypocrisy and irony and lying are beyond overwhelming.

(the vast majority of) voters don't care; they just want the racism and nativism

and work backwards from there

It’s called projection and Trump and the rest of the GOP and oligarchs have been feeding the young this for decades It’s seems to be finally working for them #resist

Wait til you hear what he said about Hillary’s emails

But what about Chimney Rock and the valuable lithium mines? The far-right conspiracy theories disappoint yet again.

Every accusation is a confession (or a future action)

Retribution.

Trump is not only a moron. He’s also a fucking idiot. He thinks he owns the federal government and every penny the federal government spends is one less penny in his pocket. Today is the perfect day to impeach this motherfucker son of a bitch.

Every accusation is a confession or a plan.

Every accusation is either a confession or a plan.

Whoopsie

This ideological commitment to destroying FEMA is (a) batshit crazy and (b) is going to make for some potent political ads in 2026. I mean what the fuck happens if Texas or Florida get nuked by a hurricane in like economically important parts of those states

It’s going to happen. Texas will get money as the Trump family will grift a deal.

It's almost like they're not worried about 2026.

Exactly this!! I keep saying, they are sure governing like 2026 doesn’t exist. They meaning congress, trump could give a shit about the party.

Two possible reasons: (1) they're planning not to have fair elections, or (2) They expect disinformation campaign to successfully convince folks their lies are true.

Alternatively they’re very stupid and incompetent and are cargo cult authoritarians, which hey maybe they can spin that veneer into a thousand year reich but,,,

Trump genuinely believes he won three elections in a row by landslide margins. He isn’t worried about the next election because he knows 90% of America will say “yes sir Mr. Trump, way to go on shutting down FEMA.”

*20% if he's lucky. Another 15-20% will make excuses for it. And if history repeats, another 10-15% will say, "I don't like him, but I couldn't vote for that nasty woman."

A sane, intelligent GOP looks at Trump’s elections (and even more so, the midterms when his name isn’t on the ballot) and says “we have zero margin, we need to keep our base solid and peel off a few more points”. But if those people are in Trump’s WH (like Susie) they keep their mouths shut.

This may well describe some of them.

Sadly, I think it’s both. More 1 then 2. If you look like at places like Russia or even more so Hungary, they have elections too, or the illusions of them anyway. I think that is where we are headed.

I also think it's both, but more 2 than 1. They are definitely trying to restrict access to voting and lower turnout among their disfavored groups. And it *will* make some difference. But disinformation is the lifeblood of this regime. It's one of the problems that prevent fixing all other problems.

Fair assessment. I know everything they say is a lie, so I forget the power of those lies over the electorate. Even though it’s staring me in the face daily. 🙄

Nah it’s that they know they’ll still win those states, because they’re filled with idiots and assholes.

I think the real answer is that they will blame it on Biden and the disinformation campaign will get people to believe it.

It’s not the disinformation, it’s that many people just really, really won’t vote for a Dem for president, no matter what.

And why would that be?

They get money or a photoshoot with Trump and some paper towels and the median voter goes “see? Nothing bad happened. Cry more lib Trump 2028🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣”

Star Wars screen text on Fox News: Somehow, Biden is to blame

Expert opinion has it that, should Louisiana, Alabama, or Mississippi got hit by a major hurricane, without FEMA, any of the three would go bankrupt. And we are walking straight into this, because of some fanatical project 2025 scumbag. No valid reason for this mess.

I’d say most of the reason this is happening is because NC has a Dem governor but they aren’t responding to tornados in Missouri either so we very well might be walking into that scenario.

He's said this outright in just the last few days.

To be fair, our governor finally activated the MO National Guard 8 days later. I believe we have requested FEMA review, but it’s going to take a long time (Arkansas just got aid requests from March, for instance).

All the money goes to states between R+2 and R+9

So explain Missouri.

but that *is* North Carolina. which has a Senate race next year. from the point of view of cold political calculation NC may be the single worst state to screw over

So the Gulf States are getting nuked lol

i saw this without the context and assumed the worst

“Gulf States getting nuked”

Well, for a given definition of "worst"

there’s a lot of innocent south Asian migrant workers who might get hurt

I'm hoping they just detonate in the desert or ocean somewhere but the EMP darkens all their shopping malls and skyscrapers and allows revolts.

Spec Ops: The Line timeline baybee

They voted for Trump, their brains were already nuked.

Sarah Huckaby, notable Trump asskisser, had lots of trouble getting some help. The Project 2025 minions and the Muskies do not want FEMA, at all, I am convinced. Florida...well, if it hits Mar a Lardo, they will surely make an exception.

It should be clear that the new golden age is for the billionaires that were in the room with him. They don’t intend on giving up power so they don’t need those states anymore. They’re withdrawing into their enclaves with all they’ve looted after telling us “you’re on your own.”

But also North Carolina doesn't need this assistance if California doesn't need fire relief.

Where's the energy of those who went on tv and complained the money were delayed or too small? Oh... Fox isn't giving the opportunity to lament on tv!, and since Fox ain't talking about it, it's not relevant for mainstream media.

what i can't get past is that NC is a purple state! either they don't care about the politics, don't think it will hurt them or don't think politics will matter.

They will blame it on Biden and the disinformation campaign will get his base to believe it.

And they're correct

*so far

Who TF is a “Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Administrator”? I think we’d like to speak to their manager… unless that’s Trump. He’s already witnessed the devastation and left them with an empty promise to help.

Because North Carolina has a Democratic Governor, a Democratic Lieutenant Governor, a Democratic Attorney General, and a Democratic Secretary of State? I thought the president of the United States was the president of EVERYONE in the United States? What a pig Trump is. Christ, what an asshole!

Tellingly, no reasons are given for why North Carolina somehow doesn't "warrant" the relief requested. Is Trump itching to start a Civil War? Do his supporters seek to bring back the Confederacy, establish Gilead and unpatriotically impose White Supremacy (presumably with them on top, naturally!)?

Every accusation is a confession. <3

I've seen it called Haggard's Law.

The media needs to cover this as much as they did the lie about Biden! Dems better step up and fight like repugs or we're doomed. Show them what we're made of. And it better not be sugar and spice and everything nice.

Getting what they voted for, good and hard

Please keep in mind that this affects many people who did not vote for this. Asheville, one of the hardest hit towns here, is extremely blue. NC is gerrymandered to hell, which is why we show so red. Acting like everyone is a monolith and sneering at disaster is not helpful.

In the most recent election Donald Trump received 2,898,4342,898,434 votes and Kamala Harris received 2,715,4022,715,402 votes. I hope you have the day you deserve.

He doesn’t care. He’s on a roll and everyone is too scared to stop him.

Hey, NC MAGA and GOP, you voted and now it sucks to be you!

That’s a long letter to essentially say “you’re fired.”

I had actually thought it was another two-word message...second word is "you."

Every accusation is a confession or projection.

Well NC, you got what you voted for…🤦

Not gonna get snarky about NC when Trump is about to cut heating assistance programs for New England.

It’s called projection.

Just tell me one thing. Is the content of this order published on twitter? That audience will not believe that they’ve been abandoned. My suspicion is they will never see it nor accept it as fact.

You just pray that we luck into a period with relatively few/mild natural disasters because they are basically guaranteed to fuck up the responses

You misspelled “predetermined”

The hypocrisy is the point. "Gitcher elbows off the table!" [smack!] [Maintains eye contact while slowly placing both elbows on table] *thunk* *thunk*

📌

A theme here….

They've been doing this over and over again since 2015! Trump and his enablers & conspirators in the Republican party and in the media. Since the fucking start.

Morbidly curious to see if a bad hurricane season just guts Florida like Katrina did to Louisiana.

And for Biden the media reported it as true because of how people felt

This! „I want this to be true, because I feel they are like this.“ And that is why their leaders can go on fox and tell the most obvious lies. To verify the feeling. Ask the Germans how this will work out.

Good suffer you dumb fucks.

I’ve got zero sympathy for these people.

Please keep in mind that this affects many people who did not vote for this. Asheville, one of the hardest hit towns here, is extremely blue. NC is gerrymandered to hell, which is why we show so red. Acting like everyone is a monolith and sneering at disaster is not helpful.

Trump is pure projection.

You mean like corruptly allowing family members to profit off selling access to the president, weaponizing the Justice Department against political opponents, or clinging to the presidency despite clearly being not-all-there in the head? Take your pick!

Red states, despite their vehement belief to the contrary, always get taken care of by Democratic presidents. This is the first time that their voting habits have directly negatively impacted them.

Yeah, that's Trump, Trumpism, and Trumpelon for ya....par for the course. It amazes me to no end that too many Americans participate in selling Trumpist garbage to hurt people and do so without any concept that it us going to hurt their own as well when Trump makes good on garbage that pleases HIM!

NC voted for trump in the last 3 elections. They voted for this.

Sadly, yes. Sure hope the Democrats make an ad featuring this cruelty that blankets every single N.C. market next year.

I unhinged thinking of the people in this region will still blame Biden.

Evil

One of the sympyoms of Narcissism is projectoin

*falsely* accused

FEMA has been gutted. It's what 77M voted for. FEMA won't be responding. It's what 77M voted for. States you are on your own. It's what...oh and I believe NOAA forecasted an above average hurricane year. Buckle up.