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Well yeah, no shit. We're going to have 4+ years of random disaster shit demonstrating why we had govt agencies devoted to dealing with preventing said shit or dealing with the fallout and it's going to be realllllll interesting watching the red states fail to deal on their own
Watch Trump give lucrative disaster response contracts to private companies owned by his biggest donors. Maybe Musk will dump a bunch of cybertrucks on the government somehow.
Who needs food, water, shelter, or access to critically needed medication when we can use the fema budget to airdrop cybertrucks into disaster zones?
Yeah but think of the photo op!
That is way too optimistic. We are going to have 4+ years of random disaster shit demonstrating to the MAGA crowd that the agencies devoted to dealing with the fallout are all corrupt and thus need more budget cuts.
I wish I was being sarcastic but 100% thats gonna be the spin.
I have no faith in people to realize anything. They'll just imagine it's always been this way and continue being morons.
Nah, they are going to say, “this is perfect evidence why we need even less government”
These agencies are clearly failures and we should cut all funding to them so we can pay double for half as much support to some private agency senator ___________'s friend/relative/donor owns!
And just remember. Once we lose a public service, no matter who is in office later, we never get it back. Disaster relief is a thing of the past.
One of the goals of this administration is to borrow and spend so much money that any future govt is so buried in debt it can't function so, yeah, you're spot on. We've entered terminal state capitalism now where citizenship means debt service and nothing more.