... Evans and Central aren't alone. Amid the avalanche of cuts made in the first five months of the Trump administration, none may have red state politicians more up in arms than the cancellation of the infrastructure program, which is formally known as Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, or BRIC for short.
The $4.6 billion initiative was launched under the first Trump administration, and a CBS News analysis of FEMA data revealed that two-thirds of the counties awarded grants voted for President Trump over former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election.
Trump administration officials said they will claw back about $3.6 million that has already been awarded but not yet spent, sending it back to the U.S. Treasury. Projects that are now stalled as a result range from a plan to elevate six buildings on the main street in Pollocksville, North Carolina — population less than 300 — to a $50 million project to prevent flash flooding in New York City.
... The data suggests the elimination of the BRIC program will especially deprive vulnerable communities across the Southeast. In Florida, 18 of the 22 counties that stood to benefit from nearly $250 million in grants voted for Mr. Trump. Elsewhere in North Carolina, grants were canceled in areas ravaged by Hurricane Helene last year.
... The scale of the cuts in ruby-red Louisiana — 34 grants totalling $185 million — prompted the state's Republican senior senator, Bill Cassidy, to publicly condemn the decision to cancel the program....
Conway, South Carolina
Pollocksville, North Carolina
I wonder what the residents of red WV think of the FEMA cuts.
... The Utah senator also shared another post of Boelter with the caption, “Nightmare on Waltz Street.”
Democratic activist:
“Even for MikeLee, this is beyond disgusting,” political scientist Norman Ornstein wrote on X. “Disinformation, beneath contempt.”
Conservative journalist:
What the hell is Mike Lee doing? Has he completely lost it?
Democrats
It’s Father’s Day, and you’re spending your time tweeting lies about a tragedy to run cover for a right-wing domestic terrorist.
Pathetic.
I read a story yesterday that said the famous tv xtian grifter Jimmy Swaggert is in the hospital in something like bad condition. I guess I can only hope he repents before he dies on his knees on a white tile floor in a twelve thousand dollar a day hospital room. The asshole should have just stayed at home and died.
And I really enjoyed seeing Mike Lee doing his imitation of trumpy nonsense. Republicans for the most part have all gone over the high side with trump. He was right; he could shoot somebody on the street and the cult would only gush in awe. Mike Lee wants that kind of status. As do all of them. It's sort of like a shallow state instead of a deep one. I think I mentioned before that fixation is the way of death. I expect all of them to press forward.
... When RFK Jr rolled out his "Make America Healthy Again" campaign, the assumption was that he intended to make existing Americans healthy. Instead, everything he, the Trump administration and congressional Republicans are doing seems to be intended to ensure that sick people simply die off, which presumably would make those who survive healthier on average, thus achieving his "MAHA" goal.
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) opened up about her life-threatening experience with an ectopic pregnancy last year amid her state’s six-week abortion ban, which left health professionals in fear of prosecution for delivering reproductive care....
Ezra Klein begins one of his recent podcasts by telling a joke that has been making the rounds. Basically, a conspiracy theorist dies and ascends to heaven. God is there to greet him and explains that as part of the celestial welcome, he will answer any question the man has.
“Please, I must know the answer to this one,” the man says, “who killed John F. Kennedy?” God answers instantly, “That’s easy: Lee Harvey Oswald.” Shocked, the man murmurs, “This goes higher than I had thought!”
This is the dilemma in which Donald Trump finds himself. Whatever he does to deflect and distract from the Jeffrey Epstein morass only deepens the suspicions — including those about the two men’s relationship.
... But there is a larger problem for Trump. Since the “birther” charges against Barack Obama, he has encouraged, ridden and profited from a wave of conspiracy theories that accused the so-called deep state of all kinds of crimes, which were then quickly covered up.
Now he presides over that very state and has control of all the secrets. Why will he not reveal them?
... Donald Trump is the main character in this story, having come to power and returned to power after aggressively promoting birtherism, election fraud and many other conspiracies. He has also brought into the mainstream people like Alex Jones and Kash Patel, who have trafficked in even more extreme theories and insinuations. Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, spread the lie that Hillary Clinton was connected to child sex rings.
...Trump’s ferocious response to the Epstein affair will likely only deepen the public’s distrust toward institutions and politicians, create more online radicalization, and further hollow out our polarized political ecosystem. But he is playing with fires that may for the first time, if not consume him, then burn him badly.
Leopards, busy busy leopards. No one is safe from them.
"father of IVF" is a dumb phrase when you think about it, no surprise. Comments:
Trump considers just thinking about something as mission accomplished. If it doesn't happen in real life, he'll blame Biden, Obama, Hillary, Fauci, Hunter's laptop, or the entire Democrat party who hate America.
Reminiscent of a Carnival Barker…talks consistently to garner attention and listeners do not know what or what not to believe.
What? Trump LIED? Say it isn't so....
Is there anyone left out there that doesn't realize that trump has said and done anything he could to get elected? He never had any intention of making good on campaign promises.
He won't spend the money to help couples make new taxpayers.
He's father to all as far as his cult is concerned
The Republican party is all about getting everyone to conform to their ideology. If you don't believe in the same things they do, you become a target to be attacked.
Roland Mehrez Beainy, a co-owner of Trump Burger in Texas, is facing deportation.
Beainy, a 28-year-old originally from Lebanon, entered the U.S. in 2019 with a non-immigrant visitor visa and overstayed, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)....
“Roland Mehrez Beainy does not have any immigration benefits that prevented his arrest or removal from the United States,” an ICE spokesperson told The Hill.
Trump Burger opened its third restaurant in the Houston area in April, where they sell burgers with the buns branded with “Trump.” A fourth franchise opened in Bay City this summer.
The two other restaurants are in Bellville and Flatonia, Texas. Earlier this year, Beainy told Eater that high demand for the branded burger led him to open more locations....
, but it won't surprise me if Dementia Don pardons him or grants him some sort of special exemption. No matter if it's legal for him to do so or not.
I guess trump could just gift the guy one of those new 5 million dollar gold trump immigration passes. If that don't work, maybe some of the Afrikaners trump brought here can take over those burger joints.
I guess trump could just gift the guy one of those new 5 million dollar gold trump immigration passes. If that don't work, maybe some of the Afrikaners trump brought here can take over those burger joints.
He'll get paid in burgers.
Win, win.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
I guess trump could just gift the guy one of those new 5 million dollar gold trump immigration passes. If that don't work, maybe some of the Afrikaners trump brought here can take over those burger joints.
He'll get paid in burgers.
Win, win.
Those South Africans can change the "trump" slogan on the hamberders to that idiotic squiggly cramped "signature" of his. The whole thing will be highlighted on Fox News as a touching example of affluent whites escaping genocide from their Black government.
, but it won't surprise me if Dementia Don pardons him or grants him some sort of special exemption. No matter if it's legal for him to do so or not. 