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"Emmitsburg Mayor Frank Davis voted for Donald Trump in hopes he would cut federal spending. Now Davis hopes those cuts don't include the permanent cancellation of classes at the National Fire Academy, which is part of the town's identity and helps drive its economy. Davis is also a chief at Emmitsburg's firehouse, known as the Vigilant Hose Company."
Trump killed the Fema training academy. It's not coming back.
Tragically, this guy and others like him will never reflect on whether they contributed to harm. It'll always be someone else's fault, somehow.
JOE BIDEN should have STOPPED this when He had the CHANCE!
-People who Voted for Trump!
They're feeding from the same trough of misinformation as everyone else. The trough gets filled with the same scapegoats regardless of the circumstances.
So it will always be immigrants and woke leftists and terrorists and lazy liberal regulators ruining your prosperity. Because they're the ones you've been trained to recognize as the source of all your problems.
Media only wants to give you what you want to hear and all you want to hear is "It was a blue haired brown skinned ISIS lesbian's fault"
Yeah, seen my share of people getting their faces blown off and basically rationalizing it away because it was Trump that did it. "If you think about it, it's somehow Obama's fault". There's probably a good many reasons for this, and I think one of the big ones is that nobody likes accepting that they got suckered.
bbbut FEMA had those caskets! The memes said so! Why are the leopards eating my faaaaaaccceee!
Davis says the administration is reviewing the academy's operations, and he is hopeful it will restore classes. If not, he says, he'll see the administration somewhat differently.
"It will change my outlook to say that they're not being fair,"
Hahahahahahaha
It's not fair that I'm getting hurt when I voted to hurt THEM!!!
Someone asked “how can people vote for him, he’s objectively a terrible leader”. I replied “they didn’t vote for him to be a leader, they voted for him to be a weapon”. Cruelty is the point.
Turns out that you need to be a billionaire to be part of the real "in group", otherwise you're part of the "out group" even if you're one of the useful idiots simping for the "in group".
"They were supposed to cut the things that I didn't think were important, even though other people thought they were important. They were not supposed to cut the things that I thought were important, even though other people didn't think they were important." Lmao!
Fucker probably wants kids to starve and go homeless.
There's really not a lot to cut that doesn't directly affect children or old people outside of the military.
No one will dare cut military because it's the largest jobs program on the planet.
These idiots really think that minorities are just living it up off food-stamps when it was them the whole time.
Reminds me of visiting the Libertarian subreddit around the time of the LA fires and the big brains thinking about how to make the fire departments private for profits. That midset is rather universal among republicans (even if not the fire departments, but they will have something that they think would be better as a corporation rather than government agency). Reporter should ask him how long he estimates that the market will signal to investors to pick up the slack.
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”
He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.
“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.
“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”
It didn’t seem like they did.
“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Joe Rogan posters.”
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”
“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.
“Because I was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me.
.... Hahahahahaha... hahahahahaha.
One of the worst things about being a firefighter is how many of my colleagues are republicans.
It makes no sense. You do a job providing services to people for the government and you vote for the folks who tell us that government is unable to do good...
Well, if you ask firefighters if firefighting should be privatized, you'll usually get a "lmao NO!" And also a "but that's different!" And that's the escape hatch of every conservative ever. They think that everything they believe applies to everything else but themselves. Every other government service except the fire service is corrupt, wasteful, and backwards. They don't believe that the fascists could ever possibly be talking about them, because they know that what they're doing is actually important.
You're so right... Firefighting is my volunteer gig. I'm a data processing engineer for astronomy missions for my day job. My boss (comet scientist, astronomy PhD) is one of those guys who's a libertarian that always votes for Republicans. He thinks that funding science should be done by the government, because private industry won't do that, but everything else should be privatized
Bruh, wow.
Man-o-sphere tells you that buff dudes fighting fires is based, which feeds the egos of a lot of these guys. And then it tells you that you're doing something the Woke DEI Left can't possibly accomplish, so you can recognize them as The Enemies.
Also, a lot of these guys are ex-military, which is an absolute rat's nest of Christian nationalism and reactionary politics.
I met a long time friend while volunteering feeding homeless folks.. 15 years later I had to drop the friend for turning maga. As soon as he unmasked to me, I said a similar thing, "but we met feeding the homeless?"
I'll never understand
You do a job providing services to people for the government and you vote for the folks who tell us that the government they'll form is unable to do good...
"We're on a very long, slow path to self-destruction," he says. "Every day that this training is unavailable to the locals is one day closer to a disaster they can't handle or won't know how to handle."
He got to this kernel of truth. He's almost there! If only he could just make the connection and apply it to the big picture.
Wait.... Are we the baddies?
If only he could just make the connection and apply it to the big picture.
Narrator: He couldn't.
They have to learn the hard way. People can't think that hard by and large.
Time and time again the crooks win because they are the best liars and they don't have any scruples. Until people feel the impact of poverty or supply chain disruption they are just gonna keep believing whatever they hear from the source their buddies at work tell them is legit.
These folks set their own house on fire to kill a spider.
A spider that was trying to get them healthcare and a better education and more rights as workers.
He probably thought he was bullet proof because what kind of idiot would cut that department?
They voted to cut the FD in a neighboring town. Then they found out the fire response would jump from ~~8 minutes to 20+~~ nearly triple and everyone in that area would have huge increases in home owners insurance rates.
They recalled the vote and upped the budget within a month. Fucking morons.
Edit: I was off on the response times but it was moving the main department at least 6 miles farther from the closest houses to the department they wanted to close.
Is this...the consequences of my own actions?! Jeez that is stupid..
Decades of listening to hate radio and Fox News has taught them "government bad" despite the fact that they depend on it.
Teaching people to bite the hand that feeds them is a cool trick.
Yet, he will likely never look back to his actions. He'll just turn out his pockets, throw his hands up and say "I don't know what happened! No one warned me about this repeatedly."
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