Smart MAGA thinks it’s uproarious that Donald Trump and JD Vance are fearmongering their dimwit followers into thinking that FEMA is the enemy.
It’s all fun and games, in the name of wining an election.
Real lives are being impacted here, a–holes.
“This situation is actually breaking up our family,” a caller into “The Dan Abrams Show” on SiriusXM said on Wednesday.
“My father-in-law lives just outside of Asheville, North Carolina, and he was badly damaged by Hurricane Helene. And he has refused all FEMA help because he’s a hardcore Trumper. He literally believes that if he accepts anything from FEMA, they’re going to take his house,” the caller, who identified himself as Anthony, told Abrams.
Yeah, this is real life here.
“It’s hard to even imagine it. I mean, he lost almost everything, and he’s refusing all help from the federal government, and complaining to us that he doesn’t have food, that he doesn’t have the stuff he needs, and yet he won’t accept the help,” this Anthony guy said.
Video: The Trump FEMA lies are going to kill his MAGAs
This is the world that we live in. Trump and Vance don’t like to be fact-checked, and TV broadcasters disguised as news networks that are in actuality far-right propaganda machines do their bidding for them.
It’s one thing when it’s, the Democrats staged a coup on Joe Biden.
And another thing entirely when it involves absurd lies about FEMA running out of money because the money either went to migrants or to Ukraine, and that the federal government can somehow control the weather, and aimed Hurricane Helene on a path in the Southeast to try to keep Republican voters from being able to get to the polls.
It’s not enough that most of us know that these are bald-faced, just plain dumb lies, because plenty of people, bless their hearts, don’t know.
Vice President Kamala Harris addressed this misinformation gap in an interview with CNN on Wednesday.
“Leaders on the ground who know that it is not in the best interest of the people living in those areas to not know their rights, not to know what they’re entitled to, and to be afraid of seeking help. It is dangerous, it is unconscionable, frankly, that anyone who would consider themselves a leader would mislead desperate people to the point that those desperate people would not receive the aid to which they are entitled,” Harris said.
Even Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is frustrated with the misinformation, calling out “crap online” in a press conference on Wednesday.
“FEMA is not leading this this show. We are leading the show here in the state of Florida. We’re marshaling whatever assets are available to us. We’re leveraging that. But certainly with people evacuating, and my executive order I put in on Saturday, the default is, you have a right to immediately return to your home following the storm,” DeSantis said, addressing rumors that people shouldn’t evacuate ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Milton because FEMA security teams wouldn’t let them back into their homes.
“Guys, listen, listen, I think most people are wise to this,” DeSantis said. “You know, we live in an era where if you put out crap online, you can get a lot of people to share it, and you can monetize that. That’s just the way it is.”
So, you’ve got MAGAs putting out “crap online” to monetize the eyeballs they get, and you’ve got politicians spreading the crap because they think it will win them a few more votes.
Most people are wise to this, as DeSantis said, but in the meantime, you’ve also got people not evacuating with a historic storm bearing down on them, and other people who don’t have food or shelter as a result of the last historic storm refusing help, because the people making money with lies and the people trying to scare up votes with lies have them afraid that the help will be worse than riding out a hurricane or starving to death.
“We’ve sent him all the FEMA bulletins. We’ve sent him all the stuff from the fact-checkers. He doesn’t believe it,” the caller named Anthony said on “The Dan Abrams Show.”
“He thinks it’s all, he just believes Trump, literally, Dan. He just, it’s a cult. He’s a cult member. I’m sorry to say it, he’s a cult member. And he’s my father-in-law, and it sucks.”
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