Maga voted for cuts and gets cut.
"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.
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
It's not fair that I'm getting hurt when I voted to hurt THEM!!!
Turns out that you need to be a billionaire to be part of the real "in group", otherwise you're part of the "out group" even if you're one of the useful idiots simping for the "in group".
Someone asked “how can people vote for him, he’s objectively a terrible leader”. I replied “they didn’t vote for him to be a leader, they voted for him to be a weapon”. Cruelty is the point.
"They were supposed to cut the things that I didn't think were important, even though other people thought they were important. They were not supposed to cut the things that I thought were important, even though other people didn't think they were important." Lmao!
Fucker probably wants kids to starve and go homeless.
There's really not a lot to cut that doesn't directly affect children or old people outside of the military.
No one will dare cut military because it's the largest jobs program on the planet.
These idiots really think that minorities are just living it up off food-stamps when it was them the whole time.
.... Hahahahahaha... hahahahahaha.
<wipes tears>
Reminds me of visiting the Libertarian subreddit around the time of the LA fires and the big brains thinking about how to make the fire departments private for profits. That midset is rather universal among republicans (even if not the fire departments, but they will have something that they think would be better as a corporation rather than government agency). Reporter should ask him how long he estimates that the market will signal to investors to pick up the slack.
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”
He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.
“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.
“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”
It didn’t seem like they did.
“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Joe Rogan posters.”
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”
“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.
“Because I was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me.
People need to start asking them what the point of the profits are when the money isn't going back into the respective region (municipal/whatever the states version of provincial is/federal).
Like great, yeah, the fire department is now private. But there are no profits because nobody can afford the services anymore. Insurance goes through the roof, neighborhoods burn down... Real great plan there.
Well that is how the most successful man in real estate history did it, right?
"suckers and losers" can apply to his voters to besides vets. he also said "you voted on what i campaigned on"
They voted to cut the FD in a neighboring town. Then they found out the fire response would jump from 8 minutes to 20+ nearly triple 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.
Edit: I was off on the response times but it was moving the main department at least 6 miles farther from the closest houses to the department they wanted to close.
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.
They've been raised on the idea that taxes are bad, and never put more thought into it than that. They view things like the fire department as good, so they can't really be funded by those bad taxes, right? ...Right?
discover that public services cost money.
discover that public services costS THEM money.
it's ok when it costs someone else 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.
Oh, they know it costs money. They fail to understand that many of these things are worth the money.
They are even more surprised that public services are one of those things that actually saves money for a community. Like, spending on fire protection lowers insurance rates more than enough to offset the cost of the fire department...
I'm like, great, now do a basic social safety net and the costs of crime.
Those snowflakes, don't they know they have garden hoses...they should pull up their bootstraps and put out their own fires.
With water that they pumped themselves.
also insurance will likely stop insuring those areas too, the cost is too high. as with the idiots building in wildfire prone areas of california.
Anything more than 3 these days is a lost cause.
Is this...the consequences of my own actions?! Jeez that is stupid..
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!"
I had a house fire.
I see your point, but I have to tell you: in a wood structure the difference between 8 and 20 minutes won't mean a lot for the structure. After a very small period of time, fire will have tasted most of the structure and it's a gut-job.
And, from experience, it's better as a gut. We languished in fleabag motels for 10 months with very little, and by the time they were done they could have rebuilt (1990) faster.
Edit: i am always surprised by downvotes when I'm being honest. It was horribad to lose all our basic needs in 7.5 minutes, guys. The fleabag motel had mushrooms growing out of the ceiling corners. I still maintain a gut-job would have lost us no more contents and would have been a quicker rebuild with wiring and pipes not compromised by heat. But, tell your house fire story and we'll compare notes.
And what happens to your house if your neighbor's has been ablaze for 20 minutes vs 8? Fire Departments are also pretty the only ambulance service in a lot of rural areas as well
It really depends on what is inside the house more than what the house is made of. A kitchen fire will typically take much longer to spread than a bedroom fire for example, because one is fairly sparsely furnished, and requires the original ignition source provide enough energy to start pyrolising the structure itself, whereas the other just has to produce enough energy to start your bed/clothing/curtains on fire, starting a chain-reaction.
Instead of worrying about what your house is made from, which is far outside the scope of what most people can control anyway, invest in fire-retardent furnishings.
maybe people should stop building homes with wood. We invented bricks quite a while ago
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.
Scheißenfreude
In every single one of these stories, the reporters need to be asking whether it was the racism or the fascism that appealed more to these voters. Inquiring minds want to know and we shouldn't let them off the hook or worse, to cry for our sympathy.
I'm sure they'll just give the old "Keeping immigrants out, jobs for Americans" crap line. No one ever believes they're the bad guy.
So it is both!
My solution to that was to make them spell out DEI, dont let them hide behind an accronyem. Make them say every part of it, and see which part they wrinkle their noses at. Makes it much easier to tell which flavor of intolerant they are.
"Is DEI in the room with us right now?"
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...
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...
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.
You're so right... Firefighting is my volunteer gig. I'm a data processing engineer for astronomy missions for my day job. My boss (comet scientist, astronomy PhD) is one of those guys who's a libertarian that always votes for Republicans. He thinks that funding science should be done by the government, because private industry won't do that, but everything else should be privatized
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
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.
"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.
If only he could just make the connection and apply it to the big picture.
Narrator: He couldn't.
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.
Everyone knows the parts of the federal government they have involvement with aren't all that wasteful. The sad truth is we're very, very far away from conservative voters realizing the rest of the government is about the same, and the wealthy just use the idea of wasteful spending as a red herring to distract from their taxes being unsustainably low.
There’s an entire nations budget worth of wasteful spending in the military.
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."
Man didn't think fire fighters were maga. My outlook has completely changed
Lots are
Firefighters might do an important job, but they are still just people
Same as nurses and teachers. There are still plenty of stupid and ignorant ones out there
Let's hear it for fire!
Make America greatly ablaze!
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.
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!
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"
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.
bbbut FEMA had those caskets! The memes said so! Why are the leopards eating my faaaaaaccceee!
The worst part about this is that, in a racist, fascist world, them getting burned by their own hatred is the only downside.
Which means that, from their perspective, there is room for improvement.
Trump fascists are really just billionaire dark government.
But these people genuinely hate and want pain, death, and destruction for other people.
What in the actual fuck, humanity??
Dont blame this on humanity as a whole, when it has always only been a minority doing this
Honestly? I'm not sure anymore.
Either way, do you think it's a gene? Or like a full-on phenotype? Or something else, like lead poisoning or just general cognitive impairment?
It's a minority doing it, but they couldn't possibly win an election so they spend billions to grift the lower rungs of society.
Without the griftee's the grifters couldn't do what they do, and that's a wrap of US history 🤷
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.
Davis is a dumdum
These folks set their own house on fire to kill a spider.
🤣 Fucking morons
Pardon me while i laugh my ass off
Womp womp
Silly leopards...not my face!
Sorry, I'm out of sympathy rn.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
At least they still have FE..MA... Well they're boned. So what's for lunch?
Arson.
People are dumb. More news at 11.
Good job Frank Davis! You won! Now go away.
Such complete morons.
look like this fatty needs to cut some weight.
Dont all americans?
Not all. I'm the fat fuck in my group of friends. Most of the rest are in really good shape for our age bracket.
No. A higher percentage than most European countries I'm sure, but you can't actually believe that everybody is unhealthy.
I live in WNC and some times it is hard to feel sorry for them as the leopard rips their face off.
Maybe we needed a cull.
He looks like he'd get worn out just getting into the fire truck.
Vigilant Hose?
Mmmokay
What a loser hahahahha
Gawd I love magga I laugh I cry .... Now that's entertainment. Libturds just piss me off
Good for you