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Hurricane recovery officials in N.C. relocated amid report of ‘armed militia,’ email shows
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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This is fucking bananas. We've reached a point where our worst citizens are claiming to be literally "hunting FEMA". From the article:
"FEMA has advised all federal responders Rutherford County, NC, to stand down and evacuate the county immediately. The message stated that National Guard troops 'had come across x2 trucks of armed militia saying they were out hunting FEMA."
It gets even better--some of these ridiculously dangerous half-wits believe the Democrats are going to send in heavy equipment and bulldoze right over the dead bodies from towns that were destroyed by the hurricanes.
What's the craziest thing to me is that the people who are taking up arms and all the rest of it are voting for people who are creating these situations by their neglectful if not straight-up evil form of governance.
They won't even accept the help they are entitled to because propaganda has them convinced the hurricane came from the fucking Democrats. Lost fucking cause, some of these people. How do you convince someone that the Democrats don't control the weather? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A hard point to convey but they should wait for another hurricane to feel the effect of nature. /s