Revealing comment.

False. It was taken up as a slogan by a rather detrimental portion of the male populace of the USA for a short period. That said, this also contributes to the ledger you mention lol.

I don’t know if I condone getting drunk and slapping women. Not a good look. — NOS4A2

Yeah, wtf are you talking about my dude. You 'don't know' if you condone this? What's hte hold up?

Yeah, wtf are you talking about my dude. You 'don't know' if you condone this? What's hte hold up? — AmadeusD

I was about to say the same thing...

In fact I thought it was hilarious. — NOS4A2

You thought Trump "grabbing women by the pussy" was hilarious or that he said that or what? And what's hilarious about it?

False. It was taken up as a slogan by a rather detrimental portion of the male populace of the USA for a short period. — AmadeusD

I had no idea. I must be using the wrong locker rooms.

I’m not sure he grabbed women by the pussy. The phrase “You can do anything” only means “I did everything” in clown world. What was hilarious, however, was the speech, how it was used, and the reaction. Like I said: clown world.

But there is nothing funny about slapping a woman in a drunken rampage.

Thanks for clarifying.

From my view the federal response to the recent hurricane and flooding has been obscene, another indication of its wasteful inefficiency. Out of money and out of time. While Biden and Kamala are busy with more important things, like funding foreign wars and campaigning for power, the people who live there are largely left to fend for themselves.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/us/fema-floods-north-carolina.html

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https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-job-growth-surges-september-unemployment-rate-falls-41-2024-10-04/

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An anti-fascist vote is NOT an endorsement for the Democratic party. — Cornel West, 2020

>>> Roevember 32

I remember when the right used to be all about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and defunding big bad government institutions like FEMA. I mean, they still are all about that, but you know...

The Trump team plays both sides of that:

Trump FEMA Claim Debunked: Agency Not Running Out Of Money Because Of Migrants.

In the report:

Congress determines how much money goes to FEMA’s disaster fund, and the fund faces issues after lawmakers declined to allocate additional funding for FEMA’s efforts in the stopgap funding bill it passed last month, only extending FEMA’s existing funding level and allowing it to draw from $20 billion in funds more quickly.

It was the MAGA minions, of course, who pushed for that.

In fact I thought it was hilarious.
— NOS4A2

You thought Trump "grabbing women by the pussy" was hilarious or that he said that or what? And what's hilarious about it? — Baden

Some find the glorification of being able to use one's status as a means or excuse for committing sexual assault hilarious... evidently.

The problem with mental health care is a part of the deconstruction of the hospitals and other state institutions that has been done under the idea that such work could be redirected to community level support. This process has been under way for decades. The fallout is perhaps now forcing itself into a wider public awareness. To be clear, this does not resolve into any particular political agenda. It is an intellectual failure of our society as a whole. — Paine

Yup. A concerted effort began in the early seventies to manufacture consent to eliminate social programs meant to help the less fortunate people in society, and lower taxes on the wealthiest.

It was tremendously successful and is still in effect. Hence, loads of Americans are still convinced to vote for people who vilify social welfare programs, public schools, publicly owned entities, organized labor, American manufacturing, self-sufficient practices, and the like. A commonly occurring theme is to treat the US government as though it is a privately own business. You hear people talk all the time about it. Hence, it was part of the groundwork laid for Trump. People believed a good businessman would be a good president by virtue of having the skills necessary. Well... it's a completely different skillset, for starters, nevermind the serious questioning regarding whether or not Trump id s good businessman. Plenty believed he was/is. The US government is not in the business of being profitable. Etc. All this amounts to a vote against what's in their own best interest.

Welcome to an America that once had the funds and infrastructure to take care of those incapable of taking care of themselves, of those who were mentally ill in ways that they needed caregivers... but stopped doing so and gave the resources back to the richest of Americans who could not care less about less fortunate people and mentally ill folk having no safety net. Let em loose. I don't live around em.

Looks like they were right. From what I can see the only people saving anyone is private, state, and local people. Remember Katrina?

Not surprisingly, what you want to see and what is the case are two very different things.

Then it should be easy to show me a photo or video of FEMA doing something.

And it should be easy for you to look it up yourself but you apparently prefer to stay misinformed. Can't help people who are unwilling to help themselves.

, loads of Americans are still convinced to vote for people who vilify social welfare programs, public schools, publicly owned entities, organized labor, American manufacturing, self-sufficient practices, and the like. — creativesoul

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And it should be easy for you to look it up yourself but you apparently prefer to stay misinformed. Can't help people who are unwilling to help themselves.

I did. Very easy. It’s not looking good. It’s starting to look like Katrina. Remember that?

Your link failed.

It won't mean much to the Trump pooper scooper but here is an update:

FEMA deploys to rough terrain after Helene as it faces criticism, fights misinformation.

How do these problems fit into your libertarian vibe that nothing can be done by the state?

Nothing can be done by the state? What do you mean?

Your often repeated idea of the "state" is that it is a shared misconception rather that an existing thing. You are now asking that illusion to perform better.

FEMA is an illusion? Jesus christ.

That is not what I said. You have said the state is an illusion..

Any quote or context?

I could do that sort of thing, given what you have said in the past.
Your lack of interest in supporting any of that stuff for the sake of forcing me to repeat it is not the mark of a gentleman.

I don’t remember saying that and I think you’re imagining things. If I’m wrong I’d like to know what I said and in what context. Forgive me.

You have the same resources I have on the site. Use them if you are genuinely curious about past interchanges.