https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/06/fema-director-helene-misinformation-truly-dangerous-narrative-00182624FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said Sunday misinformation surrounding the agency’s funding — and, specifically, Donald Trump’s false claims that money that went to undocumented immigrants has depleted money for hurricane relief — is a “truly dangerous narrative.”“It’s frankly ridiculous, and just plain false. This kind of rhetoric is not helpful to people,” Criswell said in an interview with host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.” “It’s really a shame that we’re putting politics ahead of helping people, and that’s what we’re here to do. We have had the complete support of the state.”She added, “We have had the local officials helping to push back on this truly dangerous narrative that is creating this fear of trying to reach out and help us or register to help.
The false claims have been pushed by Trump and his running mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who have reiterated that funding for undocumented immigrants has led to less money and resources to help Americans with hurricane relief — a claim FEMA and local officials have repeatedly pushed back on. These theories are part of a wide range of increasingly bizarre conspiracy theories circulating now, including one that Helene was a plot to drive out the population for lithium mining, as well as one by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) that an unspecified “they” sent Helene to wipe out Trump voters in the region.
Criswell reiterated in the interview that FEMA has all the resources it needs, adding that many of the resources were moved prior to Hurricane Helene hitting the United States. She said FEMA staff was embedded to work side by side with state and local officials to quickly bring those resources to where they were needed and will continue to do that. These continuing efforts come right before another tropical storm is predicted to make landfall as a hurricane in Florida this week.Stephanopoulos noted that a lot of these claims are going viral online. He pointed to one person online suggesting that a militia should go against FEMA. That post got more than half a million views, he said.
>>1350504>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) that an unspecified “they” sent Helene to wipe out Trump voters in the region.What the fuck is wrong with Trumpanzees? Lmao
“It has a tremendous impact on the comfort level of our own employees to be able to go out there, but it’s also demoralizing to all of the first responders that have been out there in their communities, helping people. FEMA staff, volunteers, the private sector that are working side by side with local officials to go out and help people,” Criswell said, when asked about the impact of these claims online.She added, “I need to make sure I can get the resources to where they’re needed, and when you have this dangerous rhetoric like you’re hearing, it creates fear in our own employees, and we need to make sure we’re getting help to the people who need it.”
Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) rejected the idea that his state was not getting the resources it needs because of immigration, and said that he expects Congress to approve more funding.“We have the resources that we need; we’re going to have to go back and pass more resources,” Tillis said. “We could have a discussion about the failure of this administration’s border policies and the billions of dollars it is costing. But right now, not yet is it affecting the flow of resources to North Carolina.”
makes sense, jews control the weather
>>1350526do you have a peer-reviewed credible source to back that pu?
>>1350530>what is cloud seeding>what is HAARPWe've been able to control the weather since the 1930's and lefties think it's a conspiracy theory.
>>1350538>what is cloud seeding>what is HAARPIt's certainly not making hurricanes is what it is.
the indistinguishable from a clown shills are here i see
>>1350540How do you know? You didn't know we could control the weather until three minutes ago.
>>1350542How do you know there's not a tea cup in outer space?Use some common sense.
i love when the shill tries to act knowledgeable. what a loser
>>1350543..musk literally put a tesla in outer space. Why the fuck couldn't there be a tea cup in outer space?>I didn't know that we could do X>but I do know that we can't do X + 1Lefties are insufferable.
>>1350545https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
>he's battling the imaginary lefties again
>>1350546NASA invented teacups for space.>"the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making empirically unfalsifiable claims, as opposed to shifting the burden of disproof to others."I just fucking told you how we control the weather, idiot. And you are still making authoritative statements that we can't do something without providing evidence for your claims.
Let's see if FEMA has any money left for Hurricane Milhouse which is category 5 and about to hit Tampa.
being a shill seems pretty miserable, they're never in a good mood
This is what denying climate change leads to.
>>1350538If hurricanes could be controlled with a rectangular array of fairly ordinary radio antennas then wouldn't Russia have one in Cuba
>>1350530yeah that congress woman from georgia
>>1350554where was she peer reviewed?
>>1350553>fairly ordinary radio antennasThey're ionosphere heaters.
>>1350557What do they heat with if not radio waves
>>1350543You're a half-wit.
>>1350553They have one in Russia.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sura_Ionospheric_Heating_Facility
>>1350579mad
>>1350589You guys do realize that this thing can only put out 260 megawatts of power when its being used. The sun produces 174,000,000,000 megawatts of power every single day.They are only used to create plasma in the atmosphere to observe disturbances in radio waves.
>>1350608I'll stop shitposting and be real.Here, read this.>https://www.alachuacounty.us/Depts/epd/EPAC/Angels%20Dont%20Play%20This%20HAARP%20by%20Nick%20Begich%201997.pdfIt basically describes what this thing can do.
>>1350502Oh, so this is one of those 'look at this conspiracy theory we've posted on the internet so we can distract you from all of our fema failures' things.
>>1350613Have you ever considered the possibility that the right-wing psychopaths creating the conspiracies are the ones trying to distract? Also, what FEMA failures? What are you talking about?
>>1350502Tampa Bay, where the hurricane is directly headed, is mostly a blue county. Lol.
>>1350615What are the right wing psychopaths distracting people from? Your stunning competence?
If they can control the hurricane how exactly do they steer it? Why not just use the space lasers?
>>1350615>Also, what FEMA failures?Off the top of my head:1. Warning citizens to not try to rescue the stranded and directing the police to arrest people that do.2. Seizing donations from private citizens and redistributing them.3. Using rotor downwash from helicopters to disrupt/destroy supply depots.4. Restricting airspace so that citizens can't use drones/helicopters to render aid.https://streamable.com/4utj6fhttps://streamable.com/7eqciyhttps://streamable.com/pwnb4whttps://streamable.com/qn41tohttps://streamable.com/6oo7y9
>>1350624Ah, okay, so your brain has been turned to mush by online propaganda. You believe a bunch of bullshit you saw online and your proof is like cellphone videos you saw on TruthSocial. I was assuming that was what you meant.
>>1350625I can see why you're trying to spread the weather control thing.
>>1350621>What are the right wing psychopaths distracting people from?Well, where do I start. Firstly, the fact that none of their conspiracies/convictions ever come to fruition so they're forced to make up new ones every time they're proven wrong i.e. the vaccine was supposed to kill millions, Trump was supposed to be vindicated and put back into the White House, none of Trump's court cases would ever go anywhere, that the economy would collapse in 2023 under a recession. You could also argue that they're desperately trying to distract from Trump's floundering campaign - between his Haitian cats and dogs debacle, his inability to finish full sentences, the fact that Harris is favored to win all seven swing states, that JD Vance is a gaff machine with the charisma of a boiled potato. There's also the Republican party's complete legislative failure - the fact that Trump didn't pass any promised legislation during his 4 years in the White House, that every Republican abortion mandate ended up flopping miserably in referendum, that they're so incompetent and mismanaged they lost their own house speaker for the first time in history, the fact that they're still trying to spin their disastrous tanking of their own immigration bill because Trump said fixing the immigrant crisis would "give Democrats a win" before the election. I can keep going if you like.
>>1350626No one is spreading anything. There would be no conspiracy to spread if your ilk didn't spend all day generating misinformation to disseminate among the elderly and mentally challenged. We're all rightly pointing and laughing at you for being gullible fuckheads who will believe any Facebook meme their grandmother forwards to them.
>>1350627Get help dude. Seriously.
>>1350628>no one is spreading anything>we wouldn't be spreading this if you weren't spreading "misinformation"Right...
>>1350629>Asks for an argument>Gets an argument>Has no responseI accept your concession>>1350631I guess I just don't understand how they use the term "spreading" in whatever country you're from. Conspiracy morons spread their propaganda on the internet. This article is reporting on that and saying "Hey, this is what these people are doing". I don't understand how you've logically put it together in your head and shifted the responsibility from the people creating and posting conspiracy propaganda to the reporters that are simply reporting on what's happening. Like if a guy on the street shits in his hand and starts smearing it on the wall of a Taco Bell and a reporter goes to the scene and says "Hey, this guy is smearing shit", in your mind, the reporter is the one spreading shit and not the guy with a handful of it? Your logic makes no sense.
>>1350612Isn't the author of this book the same guy that wrote "Earth Rising"?I don't have time to waste on sacred geometry pseudo-science.
>>1350632You are terrible at your job. It's why they only allow you to post on/news/.
>>1350625How is it propaganda?
>>1350627>I can keep going if you like.You're regurgitating MSM soundbites.
>>1350502>hurricane destroys florida>Biden administration misplaced aid funds and claims they can't help oh no sorryIdk its looking pretty bad maybe they should go to california and get revenge.
>>1350639Why didn't trump use hurricanes to defeat Al'Qaeda?
>>1350643silicon valley is funded by leftist they have the technology.
>>1350624Blackwater owes Donald. They'd have a more definite motive to do cheesy stuff like this for the cameras than FEMA would.
>>1350634>No argumentI accept your concession>>1350637Because none of its true. All of it is designed to trick you and make you incoherently angry about a problem you can't articulate or even ground in reality. You made a series of claims and your proof was.... cellphone videos you saw on the internet of a guy telling you a thing was true. This is unironically how you build your worldview. Online misinformation has permanently destroyed your ability to use critical thinking to arrive at truth. >>1350638>No argumentI accept your concession. I'm unironically only more convinced that my positions are based in fact when I present them for critique to people like you and none of you can give me a single reason why anything I said is wrong.
>Climate Change Denialists who hate the concept of electric cars and why they're allowed to exist>Not hating he who owns Tesla, nor saying one word of criticism about CybertrucksThe duality of rightist hypocrites.
>>1350502Weather manipulation conspiracy theories are so ingenious.Because you can take the real effects of climate change and just ascribe it to whoever you feel mad about
>Jews control the weather nowYou know what? I think I'd prefer to be on their side
>>1350716>this nonsense in my head is totally real
>>1351548It's a shame you lack the self awareness to see the irony of this post. Oh well. Better go import another 50 million brown people so they can burn more carbon.
>>1351554>Better go import another 50 million brown people so they can burn more carbon.How are these even related?
>>1351558The only answer you'll get will be thinktank slogans
>>1351558lmaoIts a real mystery, you fucking retard.
>>1351560I was at least a little curious, because the post almost sounds like a random word generator just glued a bunch of right wing talking points together
>>1351564That's insulting to random word generators.
