Summary
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) threatened to withhold federal disaster relief from California during ongoing Los Angeles wildfires that have killed at least 16 people and destroyed over 12,000 structures.
Davidson criticized California’s forest management policies, echoing misleading right-wing claims that poor management, not climate change, is to blame.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom refuted these claims, noting that the state’s forest management budget has increased tenfold since 2019.
Davidson’s comments follow a pattern of GOP blaming state policies for disasters, similar to rhetoric from Trump.
Almost every single red state is a welfare queen. They exist as parasites to better run, Democratic economies, and subsist on Federal largesse.
Let’s play the game. Cut these shitheel states down to their state-level economies, and use the funding for programs that allow citizens to move OUT of those states.
Reminder that California pays the highest federal taxes in the country and has never once complained about the cost of rebuilding in Florida despite annual devastating hurricanes or rebuilding in “tornado alley” despite frequent devastating tornadoes. People keep rebuilding their houses there and we never say shit.
Californians did not build their houses in wildfire country, they built them in areas that were previously safe and have now become tinderboxes thanks to climate change. It’s not our fault that we are stuck holding the bag, but at least have the common courtesy of extending us the exact same aid money we send out to other high risk areas.
Do it, do it. Watch the federal budget crash without California.
It’s not like we can just choose not to pay federal taxes in response to this.
(Would be nice if we just seceded.)
I think you are implying they could charge more in state taxes so the feds don’t get the money. Sadly in the California housing market, that $10k limit makes it meaningless.
Literally waiting for succession already. Please. California can sustain itself can we please leave already?
So fucking tired of these clowns.
These idiots really aren’t thinking through the repercussions of denying aid to a population that’s greater than almost every one of their states. What happens when pissed off Angelinos with nothing to loose start driving out to Ohio with a few gas cans and road flares?
I’d be curious to see how much $$$$ damage/relief is given to hurricane victims compared to fire…
Somehow all those Republican States deserve hurricane disaster relief but Californian’s don’t?
Lots of them voted “no” when it came time to help NJ and NY.
There is a small petty part of me that hopes it degenerates into no aid approval for anyone. The South is gonna get more hurricanes, they’ll break first
I don’t hope that of course, because people will suffer.
Not much. Ohio is covered in snow right now.
Probably the same thing that keeps happening to us: our state government will fuck us raw and gerrymander a bit harder as an extra fuck you. They might attack trans people and/or Marijuana in response as well as JD Vance decries such things as symptoms of coastal elitism.
Fuck I hate what they’ve done to my home
Or, you know, just moving there and voting those a-holes out of office? The average default Lemming reaction being violence is getting old.
I mean, the fact that those people would then have to live there kind of insulates the politicians from those consequences. It’s not so simple to move your entire life, but to do so in order to live somewhere you don’t actually want to, so you can be one small drop in the bucket toward maybe voting one of these jerks out 2 years from now? Ridiculous, quite frankly, and not something enough people would ever be willing to do (rightfully so) to turn the tides.
Californians have been moving to Texas and voting for decades without change. They have these red states so fucked on gerrymandering. Look at the voting district map of Austin TX and see exactly why that won’t work. Those map drawing folks llooooove them a good snake drawing.
Right wing Californians keep moving to Ohio and being real assholes to us left wing ohioans. Like dude you moved to a major city, idk why you thought there wouldn’t be a lot of queer and left wing people here
I assume the governor is elected by popular vote and not districts though right?
The Californians moving to Texas aren’t typically Democrats. California has more Republicans than Texas, after all.
There’s also just a lot of generally apolitical people who move to cheaper (generally red) states from California, New York, etc. for totally apolitical reasons. Not everyone cares about the cultural advantages of living in a city and just want a big house with a yard to have steak and potatoes in every night. They might as well move to Idaho and live their best life.
Not to pick on Idaho, specifically. It’s just a land where the potatoes and cows are plentiful.
Bruh, this fact right here is truly what made me give up on Texas. Gerrymandering IS a valid excuse for the federal elections.
But when Greg Abbott, and Dan Patrick won AGAIN?!, I immediately was like “Fuck this state and everyone in it. We get what we deserve.”
Proposing a ridiculous solution like “just move there and vote” as if it is a viable option, is just as tiresome.
I’m not trying to be argumentative, but I get the same sort of feeling when I am told I should just pick up and move out of Florida when I’ve lived here my whole life. I don’t like the bullshit policies these clowns like DeSantis put in place, but running away doesn’t help things either. Better to try to work to make people see how shitty the politicians are making life for everyone here than running to greener pastures.
At least until the climate forces me out, which may come sooner than I want.
I’m a pacifist and even I think violence is a less unacceptable solution than moving to Ohio.
Luigi-stares
bOtH siDeS!
That was the old thing. The new thing is bOtH siDeS riGgEd SyStEm!
Then instead of doing anything you do nothing and it’s the same result. Much more convenient.
California could just not pay the US gov that much easily. They get MUCH more from Cali than Cali gets from them…I hope it doesnt come to that though.
Honest question here … What is Ohio good for? For a state that often determines elections and can have one idiot withhold money by a baseless opinion, exactly what does that state do that holds so much sway over the rest of the country and other states?
What is Ohio good for?
It helps you remember the Japanese word for “good morning”.
Never mind how baseline dry California is. It’s so dry, your lips start to chap just being there. Embers in hurricane winds landing on exquisitely dry grass, brush, trees.
People who live in deserts get it. A semi can have a chain dangle too low, hit the highway, and start a brush fire.
Pod Save America has some solid, direct info on it.
Ohio was on the verge of similar wildfires because of the drought this year too. There was a stretch of several weeks where the shoe was almost on the other foot. I think it was more luck, than anything, that we made it into winter largely unscathed.
Saying you a qon these days is advertising you are one of the very worst of human beings.
Terrorist
Is that the same energy that gave him that happy and loving face?
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