Georgia’s Republican governor praised Democratic President Joe Biden for reaching out to him in the wake of Hurricane Helene’s deadly devastation as the state and surrounding areas scramble to recover from the disaster.

Former President Donald Trump told a different story when he landed there to survey the damage.

“The governor’s doing a very good job. He’s having a hard time getting the president on the phone,” Trump told reporters. “The federal government is not being responsive.”

It wasn’t true.

Here’s what Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp had to say about Biden and the feds:

The president just called me yesterday afternoon. I missed him and called him right back and he just said, ‘Hey, what do you need?’ And I told him, ‘We got what we need. We’ll work through the federal process. He offered that if there’s other things we need just to call him directly, which I appreciate that,” Kemp said.

“We’ve had FEMA embedded with us since a day or two before the storm hit in our state operating center in Atlanta. We’ve got a great relationship with them,” he said.


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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    and yet, Georgia republicans are going to vote for the asshole that wants to eliminate FEMA and NOAA.

    fuckers.

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      Not eliminate, just privatize and make money off of it by stiffing every person, company, and publicly owned… Oh wait yeah, just hurting everyone.

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        If the agencies were privatized, they would cease to exist. That is. Eliminated.

        You don’t get privatized health care from the government, either.

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          Doubt they would eliminate the names, that would hurt the “creditibility” beholden by the names they would want to use for their gain. I think it would go more like Amtrak, or the Prison systems. Destroying the pieces they don’t want, and making profits off the parts they can. Slowly pushing their agendas hiding behind the name of something they can use a disguise while most of the country never recognizes it changed. The parts they can’t profit off of they would leave as a burden to the people, and the profitable and influencial parts they will strip and grab.

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            Okay, but they literally said they would eliminate them in Project 2025. It’s being awful generous to claim they only want to do the lite version of eliminate. Boil the frog is over, MAGA is masks off crazy. They probably won’t be able to do it, because odds are good that the House at least will be blue in 2025 thanks to some of the more egregious gerrymanders getting fixed, but that doesn’t mean they don’t openly want to do it. These people are not smooth operators stealing brand awareness, they are chimpanzees flinging shit at the wall

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              Where in Project 2025 do they say that? Because it says to break it up and commercialize it everywhere I have seen. So I am saying why that it bad, not just making up that they said to eliminate it where I haven’t seen.

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        Outrageous. Republicans would never withhold important info about a disaster just to make a quick buck!

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        Oh wait yeah, just hurting everyone.

        You’re forgetting the handful of people that will profit wildly from this, so technically not everyone…just most (99.9% +/-)