just like he did for Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria four years ago, Donald will still be there to throw paper towels to the masses.

If I had to put a wager on it, now that he can't be reelected, he won't even show up for that. He honestly does not care about those in need... and never has.

i tend to agree, they are signaling the intention to do ONLY what is required by law and not a single thing more.

not to worry however, even though there won't be any other help, a federal response will be forthcoming to bring hope to the masses. just like he did for Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria four years ago, Donald will still be there to throw paper towels to the masses.

JL

I gots ta get ready for work.. :D

So, ya'all got the next 3 days of minimal-Michale..

Enjoy yer respite... :D

PRESIDENT Trump scored another resounding SCOTUS victory on May 22, 2025, cementing his unstoppable streak in reshaping the federal government for the better, to better serve the American people..

The 6-3 ruling in Trump v. Wilcox upheld Trump’s removal of Biden appointees Cathy Harris (Merit Systems Protection Board) and Gwynne Wilcox (National Labor Relations Board), obliterating outdated limits on executive power CITE: Fox News, May 2025}.

This win, following Trump’s triumphs on deporting Venezuelan criminals (Trump v. J.G.G., April 7, 2025) and ending TPS protections (Trump v. National TPS Alliance, May 19, 2025), proves SCOTUS backs his AMERICA FIRST agenda {CITE: NPR, May 2025}.

Solicitor General John Sauer’s argument that congressional protections like Humphrey’s Executor (1935) infringe on presidential authority crushed hysterical woke progressive Democrat whining, with Justice Kagan’s dissent ignored {CITE: Yahoo News, May 2025}.

X posts from @HANKonX (May 2025) celebrate this as a “Deep State death blow”.

Trump’s firings, impacting over 8,000 pending labor cases, ensure that loyal patriotic AMERICA FIRST Americans will replace obstructionists, streamlining agencies CITE: Reuters, April 2025}.

Woke progressive Democrats, flailing at 29% favorability {CITE: NBC, March 2025} can’t stop PRESIDENT Trump’s judicial juggernaut.

PRESIDENT Trump's conservative court, with Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, continues delivering victories, from immigration to executive power, proving Trump’s vision reigns supreme.

Keep winning PRESIDENT Trump!!!

SCOTUS has your back!! :D

NOW do ya'all see the consequences of woke progressive Democrat short-term strategy???

Do you think Harry Reid would have been so quick to frak with the rules if he knew that THIS is where it would lead???

CITES:

Fox News, May 2025
NPR, May 2025
Yahoo News, May 2025
Reuters, Apr 2025
NBC Poll, Mar 2025
X post by @HANKonX, May 2025

Interesting comment over in QUORA I came across yesterday..

While I can't vouch for the factual accuracy of the original comment, my response was dead on ballz accurate..

These men just played Trump...

I don't know whose plan it was, but it was brilliant.

As I said, I don't know if any of this ^^^^ actually happened..

But the fact is, PRESIDENT Trump was presented with a better plan than his original plan..

So he adopted THAT plan..

That's not "getting played"....

That's called "BEING A GOOD LEADER!!!!"

What IS it about Trump/America hating morons that they can't see past their own greed, hatred and bigotry!??

Uh... Hurricane Helene happened on the Basement Biden/Headboard Harris junta's watch...

Why you blaming PRESIDENT Trump for their frak up???

If Basement Biden and Headboard Harris had done their job right the first time, there wouldn't be any reason for this now, right??

Having said that, let's look at REAL news sources and get the ACTUAL facts, not the POLITICO fearmongering Trump/America hate spin, shall we??

PRESIDENT Trump was forced to take actions on FEMA because FEMA had completely and utterly dropped the ball on practically EVERY disaster response of the last few decades.

PRESIDENT Trump’s decisive FEMA reforms are a game-changer, tackling an agency that’s botched disaster responses for decades while empowering states to lead with stellar results.

FEMA’s track record is a disaster itself:

FRAK UP #1
Hurricane Katrina (2005) left 1,833 dead due to delayed aid and poor coordination {CITE: History.com, Aug 2020}

FRAK UP #2
Hurricane Maria (2017) saw 2,975 deaths in Puerto Rico with FEMA’s slow supply delivery {CITE: CNN, Aug 2018}

FRAK UP #3
Hurricane Helene (2024) stranded thousands as FEMA misallocated $1.4 billion to non-disaster programs {CITE: NY Times, Oct 2024}.

PRESIDENT Trump saw all this death and destruction due to FEMA incompetence and took bold action. As ANY **GOOD** leader would do

On January 24, 2025, PRESIDENT Trump signed an executive order forming a 20-member FEMA Review Council, led by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, to gut bureaucratic bloat costing $30 billion EVERY FRAKIN' YEAR!!!.

PRESIDENT Trump slashed 200 FEMA jobs and targeted 1,000 buyouts, excising “deep state” waste like $59 million spent on migrant hotels in New York {CITE: CNN, Mar 2025}.

By April 4, Trump axed the BRIC grant program, redirecting funds to immediate relief, not bullshit climate fantasies. The BRIC program, or Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, is a bloated, eco-green-worshipping boondoggle that funnels taxpayer dollars into climate change bullshit under the guise of disaster prep.

This FEMA complete and utter fiasco, launched in 2020, squanders millions on climate-obsessed projects (think solar panels for flood zones :eyeroll:) while ignoring real recovery needs.

It’s a typical woke progressive Democrat bureaucratic black hole, prioritizing woke agendas over actual infrastructure, leaving storm-ravaged Americans in the lurch. PRESIDENT Trump was DEAD ON BALLZ RIGHT to gut this useless, tree-hugging cash grab {CITE: UCS, May 2025}.

PRESIDENT Trump took all that wasted BILLIONS of dollars wasted on Climate Change bullshit and converted it to DIRECT AID to states that were STILL hurting from a disaster that happened on the Basement Biden/Headboard Harris junta's watch. {CITE: FEMA.gov, Mar.2025}.

When STATES take the lead, results soar and Americans are well taken care of.. The FACTS prove this beyond ANY doubt..

Florida’s response to Hurricane Ian (2022) under Gov. Ron DeSantis saw 90% of power restored in days, compared to FEMA’s weeks-long delays in Puerto Rico CITE: AP, Oct. 2022}.

Texas’ rapid debris clearance post-Hurricane Harvey (2017) outpaced FEMA’s sluggish efforts CITE: Houston Chronicle, Sep 2017}.

PRESIDENT Trump’s state-led model, backed by federal funds, delivers speed and efficiency.

Woke progressive Democrats’ hysterical whining about cuts COMPLETELY and UTTERLY ignores PRESIDENT Trump’s genius.

Streamlining a broken agency to save lives and money.

So, yea.. PRESIDENT Trump "gutted" FEMA... But ONLY the part of FEMA that NEEDED "gutting".. The part that was more concerned about bullshit woke progressive ideology that TOTALLY IGNORED the American people..

GOOD JOB PRESIDENT Trump!!!

CITES:

PBS, Jan. 24, 2025
CNN, Mar. 26, 2025
UCS, May 1, 2025
FEMA.gov, Mar. 24, 2025
History.com, Aug. 31, 2020
CNN, Aug. 28, 2018
NY Times, Oct. 15, 2024
AP, Oct. 5, 2022
Houston Chronicle, Sep. 10, 2017

i wonder if the tune changes when a hurricane puts Mar a Lago underwater

Heh. Exactly.

The plans to gut FEMA weren't exactly unknown; they were outlined in Project 2025.

Trump fired then-acting FEMA chief Cameron Hamilton on May 8, just one day after Hamilton told a House committee the agency should not be abolished. His replacement, David Richardson, warned staff: "I will run right over you."

In a staff meeting about a week later, Richardson said that FEMA has somewhere between 150-175 obligations mandated by statute and explained how those tasks "can be binned into categories." We know this because independent news outlet Drop Site News obtained 30 minutes of leaked audio from the May 15 town hall meeting and provided a transcript as well as 10 minutes from the May 9 introductory meeting:

There are specified tasks and I assume there's roughly somewhere between 150 and 175 specified tasks. And each one of those tests specified tasks can be binned into categories. So we'll make sure we capture all of the tasks which I know that folks are doing that today and then we will bin them. And by bin them, I mean some of those, some of those tasks will be kind of orange-like tasks. And by orange, I mean the fruit orange, but they might be tangerines, they might be blood oranges, it just might be maybe a little bit of grapefruit. All those will go in one bin.

Then you have all of the banana type things, whether they're plantains or they're big bananas or small bananas, they go all go into another pile. Okay, so you get about 7 or 8 piles of similar but not the exact same things. And they will constitute our mission essential tasks. So we'll have our specified tasks, our mission essential task, and from those we will also make sure that we state our mission very, very clearly if it's not already, alright.

~ David Richardson, May 15, 2025

Hope somebody explained to this prattling moron how the Trump Tariff Tax is going to affect the cost of the "bananas" pile.

Interesting plans they've got for FEMA, which can basically be described as doing what they are required by law and likely "you're on your own" beyond that.

Why even have a federal government at all? Why not assign national defense to each state's National Guard, as well?

Wait, I know: as Republicans put it, in not so many words, "Government is bad". The less government, the better - because people should take care of themselves, without assistance from their neighbors and fellow Americans. It leads to lower taxes and less regulation of private enterprise - and what could be more desirable than that?

So tell FEMA to screw up and underserve the people of southern Appalachia after the recent storm damage. Then point to that screwing up and underserving, which you directed, and explain that that shows that FEMA cannot and should not exist at all. Uh-huh.

Well, let's see what happens after the coming tropical storm season. Maybe people, especially Republican voters and the fabled 'base' will buy into the story that it's all the states' fault when people die and suffer en masse in the aftermath of terrific storm damage, absent any federal aid at all from the now-missing FEMA.

Or maybe some of them - perhaps - will finally wonder if their faith in the 'less government the better' mantra and the 'Trump can do no wrong, it's always somebody else's fault' theology has been, somehow, slightly misplaced.

Gah. As they say. Thanks for this post.