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"Emmitsburg Mayor Frank Davis voted for Donald Trump in hopes he would cut federal spending. Now Davis hopes those cuts don't include the permanent cancellation of classes at the National Fire Academy, which is part of the town's identity and helps drive its economy. Davis is also a chief at Emmitsburg's firehouse, known as the Vigilant Hose Company."
Trump killed the Fema training academy. It's not coming back.
Hurricane season is gonna be interesting for the south. They voted to get their fema funding cut and blue states can only offer so much to bail them out. They've gotten themselves into quite the pickle.
These folks set their own house on fire to kill a spider.
A spider that was trying to get them healthcare and a better education and more rights as workers.
The problem is that people can't eat empty words.
I live in WNC and some times it is hard to feel sorry for them as the leopard rips their face off.
Tragically, this guy and others like him will never reflect on whether they contributed to harm. It'll always be someone else's fault, somehow.
JOE BIDEN should have STOPPED this when He had the CHANCE!
-People who Voted for Trump!
Yeah, seen my share of people getting their faces blown off and basically rationalizing it away because it was Trump that did it. "If you think about it, it's somehow Obama's fault". There's probably a good many reasons for this, and I think one of the big ones is that nobody likes accepting that they got suckered.
They're feeding from the same trough of misinformation as everyone else. The trough gets filled with the same scapegoats regardless of the circumstances.
So it will always be immigrants and woke leftists and terrorists and lazy liberal regulators ruining your prosperity. Because they're the ones you've been trained to recognize as the source of all your problems.
Media only wants to give you what you want to hear and all you want to hear is "It was a blue haired brown skinned ISIS lesbian's fault"
Good job Frank Davis! You won! Now go away.
He probably thought he was bullet proof because what kind of idiot would cut that department?
It's also a hometown fire department right next to a major emergency management area, which is also there because Camp David is nearby.
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At least they still have FE..MA... Well they're boned. So what's for lunch?
Arson.
One of the worst things about being a firefighter is how many of my colleagues are republicans.
It makes no sense. You do a job providing services to people for the government and you vote for the folks who tell us that government is unable to do good...
Well, if you ask firefighters if firefighting should be privatized, you'll usually get a "lmao NO!" And also a "but that's different!" And that's the escape hatch of every conservative ever. They think that everything they believe applies to everything else but themselves. Every other government service except the fire service is corrupt, wasteful, and backwards. They don't believe that the fascists could ever possibly be talking about them, because they know that what they're doing is actually important.
Man-o-sphere tells you that buff dudes fighting fires is based, which feeds the egos of a lot of these guys. And then it tells you that you're doing something the Woke DEI Left can't possibly accomplish, so you can recognize them as The Enemies.
Also, a lot of these guys are ex-military, which is an absolute rat's nest of Christian nationalism and reactionary politics.
I met a long time friend while volunteering feeding homeless folks.. 15 years later I had to drop the friend for turning maga. As soon as he unmasked to me, I said a similar thing, "but we met feeding the homeless?"
I'll never understand
You do a job providing services to people for the government and you vote for the folks who tell us that the government they'll form is unable to do good...
"We're on a very long, slow path to self-destruction," he says. "Every day that this training is unavailable to the locals is one day closer to a disaster they can't handle or won't know how to handle."
He got to this kernel of truth. He's almost there! If only he could just make the connection and apply it to the big picture.
Wait.... Are we the baddies?
They have to learn the hard way. People can't think that hard by and large.
Time and time again the crooks win because they are the best liars and they don't have any scruples. Until people feel the impact of poverty or supply chain disruption they are just gonna keep believing whatever they hear from the source their buddies at work tell them is legit.
If only he could just make the connection and apply it to the big picture.
Narrator: He couldn't.
🤣 Fucking morons
Yet, he will likely never look back to his actions. He'll just turn out his pockets, throw his hands up and say "I don't know what happened! No one warned me about this repeatedly."
He voted for the leopards eating faces party and was surprised when they ate his face.
But he will say to himself, 'at least we don't have a Democrat in the oval office.'
Or what I like to call the 'At least he treats me better than the n-words' policy. I had a brief discussion with a Nazi, an American who studied in Germany and had some emotional encounters with Germans who legit loved Hitler. Claiming that despite the hell, they still felt like he had their best interest in mind. There was a time, a more innocent time before the sheer rise of neo-Nazis happened and I felt that most Nazis were just absolute losers who will never amount to power, and I was obsessed with looking over WW2 stuff and Hitler in specific (I even had a recording of Hitler's heartbeat on my phone in a file I called 'HeartOfDarkness.mp4'). My interest in the World Wars era is, of course, much older than that. But the common theme is the increasing amount of information I found on just how stupid and dependent on luck Hitler was, his mismanagement of the German economy, which was heavily dependent on plundering from minorities (the seizure of assets of Jewish Germans gave the German state almost a full year of GDP) and how Hitler fucked up German agriculture and German civilians were fed increasingly on plundered food and resources from Eastern Europe and France. Killing a fuckload of people in the camps and by the death squads also, morbidly, reduced the need for food by 'undesireable' since you don't need to feed to dead people.
Hitler lead Germany and Germans to nothing but death and destruction and towards the end was convinced that Germans deserved to be genocided out of existence since if they were being defeated by the savage, orcish East Europeans and the Mongrel Americans/Canadians. People act like Hitler of April 1945 was someone who would love modern Germans and white supremacists when, ironically, if he came to life, instead of railing against 'wokeness', he would say that every single one of them were absolute dipshits whom he would have strangled with his own hands if he could. Hitler was a genuinely nasty person.
Decades of listening to hate radio and Fox News has taught them "government bad" despite the fact that they depend on it.
Teaching people to bite the hand that feeds them is a cool trick.
Schadenfreude is a shit consolation prize.
I mean, I'll take it, but it's still shit.
Sorry, I'm out of sympathy rn.
Pardon me while i laugh my ass off
They voted to cut the FD in a neighboring town. Then they found out the fire response would jump from 8 minutes to 20+ and everyone in that area would have huge increases in home owners insurance rates.
They recalled the vote and upped the budget within a month. Fucking morons.
I mean, I can't blame people for being exhausted with taxes and everything. Wages have been mostly stagnant for fifty years, while everything is getting relentlessly monetized and the cost of living keeps spiraling out of control. I get why people could feel less than excited about ratcheting up the cost of living more. I just wish people thought a little bit past that first step of "it'll cost me more money right now?! No way!"
Is this...the consequences of my own actions?! Jeez that is stuoid.
They voted to cut the FD in a neighboring town. Then they found out the fire response would jump from 8 minutes to 20+ and everyone in that area would have huge increases in home owners insurance rates.
It is like these morons are constantly surprised each time they discover that public services cost money.
Oh, they know it costs money. They fail to understand that many of these things are worth the money.
It is like these morons are constantly surprised each time they discover that public services cost money.
Even worse. They are too dumb to understand that essential services and workers are essential.
Davis says the administration is reviewing the academy's operations, and he is hopeful it will restore classes. If not, he says, he'll see the administration somewhat differently.
"It will change my outlook to say that they're not being fair,"
Hahahahahahaha
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