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Georgia’s Republican governor praised Democratic President Joe Biden for reaching out to him in the wake of Hurricane Helene’s deadly devastation as the state and surrounding areas scramble to recover from the disaster.

Former President Donald Trump told a different story when he landed there to survey the damage.

“The governor’s doing a very good job. He’s having a hard time getting the president on the phone,” Trump told reporters. “The federal government is not being responsive.”

It wasn’t true.

Here’s what Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp had to say about Biden and the feds:

The president just called me yesterday afternoon. I missed him and called him right back and he just said, ‘Hey, what do you need?’ And I told him, ‘We got what we need. We’ll work through the federal process. He offered that if there’s other things we need just to call him directly, which I appreciate that,” Kemp said.

“We’ve had FEMA embedded with us since a day or two before the storm hit in our state operating center in Atlanta. We’ve got a great relationship with them,” he said.


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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not eliminate, just privatize and make money off of it by stiffing every person, company, and publicly owned... Oh wait yeah, just hurting everyone.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If the agencies were privatized, they would cease to exist. That is. Eliminated.

You don’t get privatized health care from the government, either.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doubt they would eliminate the names, that would hurt the "creditibility" beholden by the names they would want to use for their gain. I think it would go more like Amtrak, or the Prison systems. Destroying the pieces they don't want, and making profits off the parts they can. Slowly pushing their agendas hiding behind the name of something they can use a disguise while most of the country never recognizes it changed. The parts they can't profit off of they would leave as a burden to the people, and the profitable and influencial parts they will strip and grab.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay, but they literally said they would eliminate them in Project 2025. It's being awful generous to claim they only want to do the lite version of eliminate. Boil the frog is over, MAGA is masks off crazy. They probably won't be able to do it, because odds are good that the House at least will be blue in 2025 thanks to some of the more egregious gerrymanders getting fixed, but that doesn't mean they don't openly want to do it. These people are not smooth operators stealing brand awareness, they are chimpanzees flinging shit at the wall

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where in Project 2025 do they say that? Because it says to break it up and commercialize it everywhere I have seen. So I am saying why that it bad, not just making up that they said to eliminate it where I haven't seen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dang, you're right, I was wrong. It calls for NWS to be commercialized, which could technically be interpreted as either sell off the assets to weather.com or as lay off all the employees and pay weather.com 10x their salary in contracts to get the same product. It calls for NOAA to be downsized alongside NWS' commercialization. It calls for FEMA to pay much less out to states and eliminate its preparedness grants and insurance programs. All that in mind, it kind of seems tailor made to specifically fuck over Florida and other hurricane/flooding prone states, but it doesn't call for eliminating the agencies. My bad, thanks for the correction!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You sir, are a good person. I will forever be in your gratitude for following up in research. I always try to follow truth within my arguments. You today helped me know I didn't lie. Thank you

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh wait yeah, just hurting everyone.

You're forgetting the handful of people that will profit wildly from this, so technically not everyone...just most (99.9% +/-)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It doesn’t hurt any people, in their eyes we’re just living human capital.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Outrageous. Republicans would never withhold important info about a disaster just to make a quick buck!