Summary
House Speaker Mike Johnson stated that federal aid for California’s devastating Los Angeles wildfires, which have killed at least 24 and displaced nearly 200,000 people, should come with conditions, citing alleged failures by state and local leaders.
Johnson also hinted at tying aid to debt ceiling negotiations.
Other Republican leaders, including Senators John Barrasso and Ron Johnson, expressed similar views, blaming liberal policies for exacerbating the fires.
Critics denounce these positions as cruel, given the scale of destruction, with over 12,000 buildings lost and massive evacuation orders in effect.
These fucking ghouls are cartoonish in their villainy.
What a fucking piece of shit you are, Johnson.
Doing something so cartoonishly evil to so many people who so recently lost everything?
I don’t know, sounds like a safety issue for him. Hopefully his preservation instincts kick in.
I guess California and other blue states should also tie federal taxes to things of their own. Maybe even leave the union altogether, alongside with other states.
Maybe the more than 6 million people in California who voted for a Republican candidate will learn from this… Guessing not though.
The Government of Fucking Putin and their America Last agenda.
After the east coast relief was swift and without condition, as it should be.
Remember the red states take more than they contribute, now on top, they will restrict access to the federal tax funds that California disproportionately contributes to keep this rotting corpse of a country afloat.
The Republicans are the bad guy from the 80s movie. They are hanging from the cliff about to die, the hero reaches out to save them, they climb up the hero’s outstretched arm to safety and then immediately turn and kick the hero off the cliff with a boot to the back of the head.
Is this how you Make America Great Again? Is this America First?
Mexico is helping while “America first” government officials are deliberately withholding aid. Absolute demons.
Mexico takes the high road and helps after all they have said and done. It speaks volumes about the Mexican politicians and shows that our conservatives are the enemies they make everyone else out to be.
they’re worse than enemies. we’ve seen enemies help each other during devastating natural disasters. countries with long history of animosity still send each other humanitarian aid in times like this.
This is “Republican America First”.
More like Make The Confederacy Great Again.
This is their version of it… Make white America great again
Homer Simpson: “White, cishet, christian-fundamentalist America”.
Yes. When you consider that means making the left suffer. This is exactly what MAGA wants.
They will eat their own shit to spite us.
Except there’s more Republicans living in California than the total population of most red states.
Well, it just so happens this tragedy happened in a blue state. The only place where governing and politician’s actions are scrutinized.
If this had happened in a red state? It’s just an act of god. (Also, their cops would be considering anyone they see as looters and killing them, all while driving around in unmarked vans, wearing plain clothes and using their personal armories [to kill innocent Americans])
Doesn’t matter. They’d jump on a grenade if they could push a liberal down underneath them.
They care when it does effect them. But they can’t ever seem to forsee it.
These are the people they always want to apply the ‘higher ground’ and ‘congressional decorum’ to. Fuck em.
The entire qon thing of “California bad” is just so very fucking stupid. It’s clear they are very jealous of California, which is arguably our most important state.
You know California could just not pay the federal government taxes for a year and we would be back to 100 real quick.
No reason to giving money to other red welfare states that this state earned.
I want this to happen soooo bad. Signed, a New Yorker (State, not city)
That would be a very dangerous escalation. I love the idea of the red states finally finding out but that’s not how that would go unfortunately. We’re in this union for life for the worse.
It’s supposed to be for better or for worse. Lately it’s just been better if you’re a red state that refuses to invest in education and worse if you’re a blue state that actually generates money from your educated and well-paid citizens. Enough is enough.
You’re essentially arguing for succession. That means civil war. You can assume neither of us survive that if anyone does. This echo chamber has gotten real dumb
Sometimes you gotta fight a civil war…sometimes people need to die for their ideas…
You’re a troll or an idiot if you believe that. A civil war in a country with this man nukes could be the end of humanity and would absolutely cause unbelievable devastation for California even if it somehow won so much worse than paying into federal taxes. That is a lose lose. I would think you’re a Chinese troll but even China would lose one of it’s biggest trade partners and it would be devastating for their economy
Oh well, maybe the Republicans should have thought of the consequences of their actions when they’re legitimately evil and hurting people because it makes $0.01 more money than doing the right thing.
Sucks to suck, Republicans need to eat shit.
Kentucky would be sad
The thing is that it is us, who pay the federal taxes. We would have to stop paying them and then redirect it to state government. The problem would be how California could change that?
The GOP also cut funding to the IRS. Who is going to do that collecting?
State-level tax bureaus would do the state-level tax collecting.
The IRS can’t manage their current workload without state help, this would be very simple:
Newsom announced that California will no longer assist the feds in unpaid tax investigations within California. Only unpaid state tax will get our state guys involved, feds actively get hindered. Californians get told to not pay their federal tax that year and that they’re safe because the feds can’t do shit. Imprison the rich who’ll pay anyway because they’re traitors, take their cash and assets for state use.
Fun fact this is actually somewhat similar to how the state burned out pro-Confederate individuals during the civil war. Basically taxes were paid with cash, raw, and refined materials to the Junta’s if ya sent money to the Feds it was assumed you were sending it out east to the Confederates.
So the next time Louisiana gets fucked like they did during Katrina we all just tell them to suck it?
That’s pretty much what GWB did though
Incompetence and malice can get the same results I suppose.
The fucked up thing is that the blatant double standard ensures that Republicans will blame the left no matter what. You cannot teach them through cause and effect, because their propaganda is too fucking powerful and their brains are too rotted.
If the Democrats did something even slightly similar to this, like 10% the severity, they would be demonized and it would be taken by conservatives as an act of unprovoked aggression. It does not matter what the context is, or if it was a direct response to Republicans doing the same fucking thing. It just does not matter.
“Everyone I don’t like is
Hitlerwoke.”EDIT: /s
Johnson also hinted at tying aid to debt ceiling negotiations.
Aka “Something terrible happened to you and you need help, so this is my chance to force you to do what I want.”
This is just dripping with psychopathy. This is why I could never become a politician or a billionnaire CEO: I just couldn’t hold my breakfast in in the morning looking in the mirror.
Debt ceiling lmfao. Go ahead, y’all are in government, your fault. We can suffer together, no concessions to nazis.
It’d be funny when the world no longer trust the US because debts are no longer being paid.
Psychopathy is a requirement to be part of the American Nazi Party
I think you’ll find a whole lot of them in all parties. And in boardrooms.
I hate this century so goddamn much.
The guy who represents one of the welfare states that takes a lot more money from the union than they give back… is doing this to one of the big blue states that gives to the union a lot more than they get back?
Fucking pathetic, greedy, immoral little shit. I hope his home gets wiped out in the next natural disaster that hits good state.
I thought it was Canada’s fault for not turning on their faucet?
