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2024-10-02 Fifth Column

FEMA blocking food and water donations to disaster in the mountains

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Posted by 3dc 2024-10-02 15:55|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 Lots of hysterical news like this leaking out of the area. Some of it may even be true.

Posted by Gromble+Dribble4342 2024-10-02 16:07|| 2024-10-02 16:07|| Front Page Top

#2 NY Post today: [Civilian] Helicopter pilot threatened with arrest after flying rescue missions in flood-ravaged NC Posted 13:23 2 Oct 2024. The person threatening to arrest this pilot was not named.

Posted by Gromble+Dribble4342 2024-10-02 16:17|| 2024-10-02 16:17|| Front Page Top

#3 TEMA - Tennessee Emergency Services is saying don't just show up & don't donate items unless they're specifically asked for - send cash..

parse that how you'd like

Posted by Mercutio 2024-10-02 16:30|| 2024-10-02 16:30|| Front Page Top

#4 more

Posted by 3dc 2024-10-02 17:46|| 2024-10-02 17:46|| Front Page Top

#5 FEMA - Federal Extermination Management Agency.

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-10-02 17:53|| 2024-10-02 17:53|| Front Page Top

#6 It is hard to imagine a more heinous crime than unlawful rescuing.

Maybe it is just my Inner Boy Scout, but why doesn't FEMA have plans and resources to mobilize and manage local transportation resources, both air and ground? It's not like this is their first rodeo.

Posted by SteveS 2024-10-02 18:11|| 2024-10-02 18:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Because that isn't their job anymore. Their job is to get fat and rich off the tubes who think the agency exists to help them. Like any government agency they don't fix problems they create them

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-10-02 18:19|| 2024-10-02 18:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Why wouldn't governors unleash their National Guard to put an end to that kind of foolishness?

Posted by Crusader 2024-10-02 18:33|| 2024-10-02 18:33|| Front Page Top

#9 No reason why water, food, tentage, and other supplies cannot be airlifted in.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-10-02 18:36|| 2024-10-02 18:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Deep State.

Posted by Glavinter Peacock7962 2024-10-02 19:54|| 2024-10-02 19:54|| Front Page Top

#11 NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Bypasses the Governor and Authorizes 24/7 Air Convoy for Helene Rescue Efforts

I don't think I've EVER seen anything like that happen in over 50 years.

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-10-02 20:00|| 2024-10-02 20:00|| Front Page Top

#12 Deep State has written off NC and GA. Setting an example for everyone else, not unlike 6Jan BTW.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-10-02 20:19|| 2024-10-02 20:19|| Front Page Top

#13 Few days back I saw in my little eye a call for helicopters, and especially pilots.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-10-02 20:29|| 2024-10-02 20:29|| Front Page Top

#14 When you successfully steal the elections you no longer feel the need to be accountable to voters.

Posted by Glavinter Peacock7962 2024-10-02 22:45|| 2024-10-02 22:45|| Front Page Top

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