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How much did you pay for gas and groceries today?
Big Blitz replied to Big Blitz's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Gas was 2.80 today. Im spending less at the private sector grocery store then I was a year ago. But economists warn that may not last. -
Ok so no one was at fault. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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So where was the failure here - how was this Trump’s fault? That’s what that moron at the dying Buffalo News is saying. What specifically happened or didn’t that normally would have happened. Right now - here is what normally didn’t happen but it did this time:
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Restructure or eliminate. Or a new one. The rest of the story for those not of the low info news cult: The president also appointed a council of cabinet members, governors and emergency management experts, tasked with recommending changes to FEMA. That group, the FEMA Review Council, had its first meeting in May, and is supposed to make recommendations by mid-November. The council is expected to complete its work by May 2026, suggesting that the Trump administration intends to eliminate or restructure FEMA in the period between the 2025 hurricane season and the 2026 hurricane season. Why is the Trump administration proposing this? FEMA has a long history of failing to serve those who need help the most after disasters. Under the Biden administration, the agency was taking steps to address those problems. For example, the agency simplified paperwork, expanded on-the-ground help after disasters and made it easier for survivors to get money for diapers, food and other immediate needs. The Trump administration is taking a different approach. The president has repeatedly suggested that FEMA is hopelessly flawed. At the first meeting of the FEMA Review Council, the council's co-chair, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, said, "The president and I have had many, many discussions about this agency. I want to be very clear. The President wants it eliminated as it currently exists. He wants a new agency." One only need to reference Helene Puerto Rico Katrina And then who’s not getting the aid: Why FEMA Aid Is Unavailable To Many Who Need It The Most https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1004347023/why-fema-aid-is-unavailable-to-many-who-need-it-the-most#:~:text=The poorest renters were 23,to receive adequate disaster assistance. Shocker. Federal agency that sucks at its job. Maybe its focus over the years became Muslim outreach.
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Here is Roundy’s response to the CA wildfire fallout which we can and actually do have direct evidence that state policy were to blame. He wasn’t hearing that tho because they were Commie policy He mocked those reasons.
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So much for the National Weather Service
Big Blitz replied to Roundybout's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Rando. Ok. I see rando garbage all the time. SHE WAS A CITY EMPLOYEE APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR OF HOUSTON - TO THE FOOD INSECURITY BOARD (yes they have that) -
So much for the National Weather Service
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So much for the National Weather Service
Big Blitz replied to Roundybout's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
He lowered IQ and physical standards. He made hiring based on DEI a priority: Let us begin plainly. Chief Joel Baker was not hired because he was the best firefighter. He was hired because Austin, reeling from a fire department engulfed in scandal, needed a symbol. In the year prior to his 2018 appointment, the Austin Fire Department was under state, local, and federal investigation for alleged violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, including claims of both racial and sexual discrimination and harassment. Multiple lawsuits and sharp criticism from across the political spectrum made one thing clear: the city needed an identity hire to stem the bleeding. Baker, a black man with leadership experience, fit the profile. Since taking the post in December 2018, Baker has made it his mission to recruit based on race, sex, and sexual identity. He has said so proudly and publicly. Programs like "Pass the Torch," which deliberately prioritize nonwhite, nonmale, and nonheterosexual applicants, are the centerpiece of his administration. The result? A fire department that is more diverse, but less competent. The traditional qualifications for a firefighter, strength, stamina, intelligence, rapid decision-making under pressure, have not changed. But the standards have. In response to the predictable failure of his preferred demographics to meet existing thresholds, Baker simply changed the thresholds. He launched investigations into why minority applicants were underperforming. The answer was as predictable as the question: the tests were too hard. So Baker made them easier. Lowered the IQ bar. Softened physical expectations. All to ensure that more boxes could be checked on quarterly DEI reports. The irony is brutal. The very teams Chief Baker refused to deploy, the Swift Water rescue units, are disproportionately composed of white men. They represent the last meritocratic redoubt within the Austin Fire Department. Many have years of experience and have saved hundreds of lives. But Baker did not build them. He has not promoted them. In fact, he has worked to marginalize them in favor of his DEI vision. So when Governor Abbott issued the request for pre-deployment on July 2nd and 3rd, before the floodwaters peaked, Baker balked. But the story is larger than one man’s failure. It is about the machinery that elevated him in the first place, a bureaucracy more concerned with appearances than outcomes. DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, sounds benign. In practice, it has become a license to discriminate against the competent and elevate the compliant. Consider the broader pattern. In 2021, local media reported that nearly 75% of cadet interest cards came from "diversity targets," a term that flattens human individuality into demographic quotas. African American interest increased 10%, Hispanic interest 21%, while traditional candidate pools shrank. Recruitment staff, under Baker’s orders, reoriented outreach toward these demographics, often to the exclusion of others. Qualified white male applicants were not merely overlooked; they were openly discouraged. Promotion boards began emphasizing identity over service record. -
Can’t be on record saying Biden wasn’t in charge for over 2 years
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In 1966, the last year a McDonalds burger cost $0.15 the median income in the US was $7,400, in today's money that is $73,648.33 — 4 thousand dollars a year below the national average. $0.15 in 1966 in 2025 dollars is $1.49. A burger at my local McDonalds is 3 dollars minimum plus tax so 4 dollars on average. In 60 years where the median salary has not changed in the US, your normal burger over doubled in price, is made with worse ingredients, the store is staffed by foreigners, and can't put mustard in the bag when asked.
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And that’s all they did. They barely touched entitlements - there are no changes to those that need the safety nets most. Specifically single moms with kids under 14. No changes. Trump had to work with a group of fiscal hawks or the bill would not pass. Considering the coalition it was an impressive job by Johnson and House Whip Emmer.
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We are in the best timeline.
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lol this stupid thread
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Also, if there was evidence related to Epstein, or other subjects, the ones who would have destroyed/hidden it all, would have been Comey and Brennan in 2015 before Trump took office the first time. They were overseeing the FBI and CIA at the time. There’s more going on behind the scenes than we as the public see/understand. We are in the middle of a shadow war, and only portions of it reach the surface. There’s a lot of ballgame left. Let it unfold.