Federal emergency workers were told to evacuate Rutherford County, North Carolina, on October 12 over safety concern.

"FEMA also been accused by former president Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, and other Republicans of not being able to respond well enough to Helene because it had diverted disaster relief funds to help migrants.

That is not true, because while FEMA administers the Shelter and Services Program, funding for it comes from a separate pot of money funded by Congress for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Other false claims that have circulated include that people taking federal relief money could see their land seized or that that $750 is the most they will ever get to rebuild. FEMA has pushed back against the false claims and conspiracy theories, setting up a page on its website to combat misinformation and rumors."

  • @riodoro1
    -59•2 days ago

    And you really think one more democrat president will fix this?

    The US is collapsing as we speak, there is no turning back now.

    • @frunch
      38•2 days ago

      So vote trump? Stein? Move away? Build a bunker? What other options do you suggest?

    • @jpreston2005
      13•2 days ago

      If that president was Bernie Big Balls Sanders, then Yes.

      But 8 years of Kamala with a supermajority in the house and senate would be a great start

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 day ago

        I don’t think (ether party - for what it’s worth) has the power to like just raise corporate taxes, pump up regulations (funding, legislative power), pass laws affecting financial markets for the worse of the current shareholders, shut down military actions keeping colonialism going, etc.

        The parties were restricted to “inconsequential” daily stuff that only affect the whole lives of regular plebs (so lqbtq freedoms/equality, reproductive rights, etc - none of the affects the ruling class whichever way it goes as they are above it).

        8 years of Kamala supermajority can have effects ofc, but a system (within a system) trying to survive for it’s own sake (instead of “the people”) will play along nicely with all the factors.

        Also, politically loud people getting shot is the same as ‘fell out of the window’ in Russia. But in recent decades in USA stuff that eg MLK tried to warn (economical inequality), doesn’t even get serious political attention anymore - bcs artificially manufactured bullshit affects real lives more immediately.