Why Federal Disaster Relief Is a Disaster
Plus: October 7, one year later.
In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman reflect on last year's October 7 terrorist attack in Israel and the destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Helene across the southeastern United States.
02:27—October 7, one year on
20:07—Hurricane Helene aftermath
35:41—Weekly listener question
43:25—Last week's vice presidential debate
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"October 7 Offered a Stark Choice Between Good and Evil" by J.D. Tuccille
"Ayatollah's Antagonism" by Liz Wolfe
"U.S.-Funded Armies Fight Each Other In Lebanon" by Matthew Petti
"What If the U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Israel?" by Matt Welch
"Washington Worsened Hurricane Helene's Destruction" by Jack Nicastro
"After the War" by Matt Welch
"Contra J.D. Vance and Tim Walz, Housing Should Be a 'Commodity,'" by Christian Britscghi
"At V.P. Debate, J.D. Vance and Tim Walz Scapegoat Immigrants, 'Corporate Speculators' for High Housing Costs" by Christian Britschgi
"The Coming Vindication of the Double-Haters" by Katherine Mangu-Ward
"Joker: Folie à Deux* Is a Miserable Musical Slog" by Peter Suderman
"The Government Monopoly on Donated Kidneys Is Killing Americans" by Eric Boehm
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Biden-Harris
Their managing disasters has been a real train wreck.
Trust the experts.
a real train wreck
Not quite as real as the real train wreck from last year, though.
Some may say they have a loco motive.
It’s hard to keep track.
I wonder what their ties are.
"Why Federal Disaster Relief Is a Disaster."
Because the federal bureaucrats care more about more money, more benefits, and less accountability and responsibility...then add to that their utter contempt for the very people who pay their salaries.
“Why Federal Disaster Relief Is a Disaster.”
Actively stopping vital aid and assistance is a little more than a "disaster". I don't know what the end game here is, but it's not just a matter of incompetence and lack of money.
Try getting your info from other places than Dinesh D’Souza and proven liars on twitter.
Maybe you would stop constantly defending people who view you as nothing more than a filthy Lamanite mongrel who needs saving.
Just for the sake of clarity, who exactly do you want to kill these days? Mormons? Rednecks? Canadians? How do these disparate groups intersect in your logic and do they all deserve the vengeance of the deity you subscribe to or are some less worthy than others? You know a graph or Venn diagram would be helpful to your fellow commenters. I feel that you may be a deeply troubled individual and you are frustrated by your inability to articulate a cogent argument. I'm told that there may be medications that could possibly take you to a more peaceful place. Barring that, lobotomy remains a solution.
I don’t want to kill anyone. I just want some people to shut up and know their place.
I appreciate you trying to help, but maybe you should focus on your own problems before offering unsolicited advice. Primarily you should try not being a backwards, bigoted cretin.
Another true libertarian has spoken.
I’m not a libertarian.
Your a Marxist. Aka not human
Maybe he just writes for Reason.
I may have you mixed up with somebody else but I seem to remember you initially went by KillAllMormons which morphed into KIllAllRednecks. I have no idea what tikeya means. But your screen names openly called for killing people so strange to find out that you are non violent. Actually always thought your whole schtick was a comedy bit. And I'm not sure I was wrong. Anyway have fun with all that hatred. Real or fake.
Do you have a problem with the commenters who want to kill(or imprison) leftists or marxists?
The Redneck thing was always in jest, but I’ll be the first to admit I’ve said things that I should not have and I apologize.
“I have no idea what tikeya means.”
Google Kartikeya.
Wait, so the capitalized “KAR” isn’t just the initials of your old nicks “KillAllMormons” and “KillAllRednecks”, and it’s just a total coincidence your new nick incorporates them? Oh wow.
“The Redneck thing was always in jest”
“I was just pretending to be retarded”
“I’m not a libertarian.”
So why are you here then? Just to troll? How fucking old are you?
I don’t hang around on your Satanist goat-fucking boards posting “Praise Jesus” and pictures of kittens just to troll you guys, because that would be retarded. So why the hell are you bothering libertarians?
People started referring to me as KAR so I figured I would incorporate it into my name. I’ve also been Richard KARn, KARn evil 9, KARen, and some others I’m probably forgetting. I have always claimed killing rednecks was in jest.
I’m not a satanist or a goat fucker. You need to stop stereotyping people. Especially if you don’t like being stereotyped as a backwards, Bible humping, racist, inbred redneck.
I’m here because I care about civil liberties and the size and inefficiency of government. Why are you here? It isn’t for the articles because like most commenters you mostly care about bigoted culture war shit and not about limited government.
Shouldn’t you be screaming at women outside an abortion clinic? Or do you not have one in Prince George?
"I’m not a satanist"
You probably should try to do a better job of remembering your shitposts.
"I’m here because I care about civil liberties and the size and inefficiency of government."
So how is that not a description of libertarians, do you think marijuana should be illegal and hate the NAP and want to start wars then?
Where did I claim to be a satanist?
In the Reason comments when you were harassing one of the commenters for being Mormon, which got pretty creepy TBQH.
Those emotional control issues on display there were disturbing.
I could show you your place. It wouldn’t require much effort on my part. You’re light work, at best.
The information is coming from aid workers and those in the disaster zones dumbass. Maybe stop trusting government who is proven to lie to you.
I don’t trust the government, but I trust it more than a bunch of proven liars on twitter with an agenda.
Just two weeks to flatten the curve.
100% safe and effective.
WMDs are there.
The election was stolen.
George Floyd Overdosed.
Haitians are eating pets in Springfield.
Cleanest election ever
Fatal dose didn’t contribute to his death
Reports by locals irrelevant
BlueAnon's like KAR are kind of dumb when they think that they can start shit like that:
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Gee whiz. All that or corroborated videos from locals impacted by Biden-Harris failure to provide assistance per their office. Not that it has to be “either or” but one set fits the facts and the other tries to make them up.
KAR, you’re done here. Bye bye.
Those 3 things are accurate statements
Shorter comment. You’re a government trusting retard leftist.
Those citizens caused the hurricane just to hurt kamala with a chosen narrative. Lol.
“Those citizens caused the hurricane just to hurt kamala with a chosen narrative. Lol.”
I don’t understand what this means. Can you explain?
You don’t understand much of anything. Why don’t you get the hell out of here?
Lol. I found it funny. It would take a special, rage infused retard not to understand that.
Well we're in luck, because we are just happening to be trolled by a special, rage infused, Mormon-hating retard right now.
I wouldn’t call anyone a “retard” if I were you considering you’re special yourself.
Yeah, re-edit that one because your not making sense.
Fuck off aspie
"if I were you considering you’re special yourself."
"aspie"
Lol.
It’s obvious you’re being a disingenuous troll you know?
You really zinged ML there!!!
KAR, you’re the retard.
I’ll chalk it up to conservatives lack of a sense of humor. You’re an exception. You can be funny Chumby, but you have a lot of misses as well.
Lefties can't meme.
You really zinged me there.
Yup.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-left-cant-meme
No. They can’t. I imagine some of that came into play when Walz signed into law the prohibition on Deepfakes in elections per the article ENB recently penned. I believe Cali passed something similar.
Irrelevant authority. One that can’t understand a simple post by Jesse.
Well then enlighten me what it means?
No.
"Try getting your info from other places than Dinesh D’Souza and proven liars on twitter."
I don't know who Dinesh D’Souza is, but I do know it's pretty gutsy for an MSNBC educated BlueAnon to lecture me about sources.
I don’t watch MSNBC.
You’re probably lying because I recall you mentioning 2000 mules, but I may have you confused with another commenter.
I assume whoever you get your talking points from gets them from him. You have a knack for spouting the same discredited nonsense he does.
I recall you mentioning 2000 mules
Yeah, I don't know what that is either.
Discredited? You mean real facts that you democrats try desperately to shout down. Regardless, we all know you’re a liar, and a stupid cunt. Plus the fact that you’re a loud, gutless pussy that will cower before any of us face to face.
So that chick that actually listens to these podcasts on a weekly basis posed a question but the editors have chosen not to reveal it. I'm left to speculate,
"We have recently learned that JD Vance is wrong about many things but there remain many unanswered questions. Is he also wrong about organic wine? How about Sean Diddy Combs? What about cage free chickens? The Menendez Brothers? Jimmy Hoffa vanished a while ago. Was Vance involved and was he wrong? Florida is now faced with yet another hurricane that many libertarians believe is god's revenge for the don't say gay law. Was Vance wrong to support that legislation? The reason podcast attempts to address a panoply of issues. Would libertarians benefit from a podcast devoted exclusively to just how wrong JD Vance is about pretty much everything."
Edit: As a male patriarch I assumed that the weekly listener is a chick and I apologize for that. Could be a gay guy.
Gay chick?
250 lb. Blue haired gay chick?
A Kamala-esque JD Vance is wrong Venn diagram.
Thanks for that. I know a viable business opportunity when I see it. Vance Venn Diagram T shirts 29.95 with free shipping on Prime.
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I'm afraid Woodchipper Industries will need a lot of ambitious Haitians to work in our new T Shirt factory in Springfield OH. Thankfully they're already there and living rent free.
It was a cataclysmic shift from the catatonic domestic employees to that which helped catalyze the workshop into an entity that catapulted its catalogue from a catastrophe to the cat’s meow.
And all completely unburdened but what came before.
It’s a problem that will dog them for some time.
"So that chick that actually listens to these podcasts on a weekly basis posed a question"
Her name is White Mike.
Lol. Please explain that to KAR.
The news is now telling me that it is all misinformation. ABC news. (I am not in control of this for various reasons.) Donald Trump is just pushing misinformation. Since ABC can't report any negative news for the DNC, they have to carefully wordsmith their reports because they are awesome facts checkers. We are doomed. Just imagine the Libertarian party replacing the Republicans and going against our current government owned media.
Just imagine the Libertarian party replacing the Republicans
It kind of has, but most left coast big L libertarians are too stupid to notice.
""For Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will provide $640.9 million of available funds to enable non-federal entities to off-set allowable costs incurred for services associated with noncitizen migrant arrivals in their communities.
The funding will be distributed through two opportunities, $300 million through SSP – Allocated (SSP-A) and $340.9 million through SSP – Competitive (SSP-C)."""
https://www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/shelter-services-program/fy24-awards
Centralized everything will always fail. This is essentially socialized disaster response. Nothing will kill you faster than socialized farming, but socialized disaster response eventually will.
Something about the idiocy involved in believing 'Guns' were a tool for natural disaster???
[WE]'ll go Gov-Gun down and sacrifice some more peasants in front of the weather gods and maybe they'll stop sending disasters??? /s
Far too many humans are still resorting to their barbaric historical mentalities.
The simple reason why federal disaster relief is a disaster is because the agency spends all the budget on too many things that are not really disasters. It other words, the scope of their actions and activities has expanded way past the intent of the agency beyond disaster relief.
The real disaster is that the federal government is so wildly out of control that it is difficult to untangle the insanity. It seems that the federal government is extremely effective at destroying, but very ineffective at delivering any modicum of value or any semblance of why they were granted power in the first place.
The states must also take responsibility.- though this obvious fact seems to have escaped so many posters here, no doubt because the incompetent governors are predominantly, if not all, Republicans.
But I hope none of you fall for the Milton Hoax. It's a fiction invented by NHC to justify their funding if Trump wins and implements Project 2025. It's statistically impossible for a hurricane of Milton's alleged size to be on its way so closely after Helene, but it suits the left-wing narrative of so-called "climate change" to pretend that there's another major hurricane.
If any of you live on the supposed path of Milton, don't listen to Big Disaster telling you what to do - stay put and expose the hoax.
Statistical impossibility was raised as an argument when Einstein told Bohr an elevator dial above the doors showed an observer standing there the elevator position and velocity at the same time. The comeback was that the uncertainty in eyeballing the angular measure of the needle position on the dial more than accounted for the impossibility of knowing both position and velocity within the required quantum margin of error. Reason contributor Beckmann asserted the probability of a spinning needle stopping at, say, the number 2 is zero. Yet such a thing is physically possible. Good luck proving to a physicist it actually stopped at 2 and not a wee bit before or after. So, when was the last time you heard a nameless sharknado warmunist mention that measurement limitations apply to extrapolating climate necromancy?
"Why Federal Disaster Relief Is a Disaster."
Because bureaucrats by nature are incompetent especially those on the federal level.
Tatsuya sez Kamala's cellphone app fires up the warmunist sharknados thanks to Jyooz at FEMA. This is so they can rush out and stop citizens from rescuing one another in disaster areas. The precedent meme seems to be The Real McCoy's episode where Old Luke was arrested for fixing a pothole on the government road at the end of the driveway.