Trump has only been in office 4 days

Also a link which explains the role of FEMA. I'm not saying it can't be improved tbh I don't know enough about it and most organisations can be bureaucratic and cumbersome but I can't help wondering if Trump's responses are motivated by whether a state is Democrat or Republican eg his attitude to N Carolina is very different to California.

www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/national-preparedness/training

My understanding is that FEMA is a National co-ordinating and training organsisation which provides grants and support following disasters in US states but it is the States themselves which provide the main resources to deal with the disasters as they occur supplemented by FEMA emplyees from out of state I'm happy for you to provide further information which gives me a different view. I am posting a link from a CNN report that talks about the misinformation that has been circulating online with regard to FEMA and the threats that have been made to FEMA employees.
edition.cnn.com/2024/10/15/us/fema-what-we-know-north-carolina/index.html

FEMA are supposed to be all hands on deck asap Sadly, this did not happen. People needed physical assistance before the money.

Arto1s

foxie48 FEMA were sadly lacking in North Carolina as the people there will testify.

I'm rather confused, what did you expect FEMA to do?

"FEMA has provided more than $316 million in cash grants to Western North Carolina survivors, including more than $6.2 million in rental assistance. The U.S. Small Business Administration has also approved more than $213 million in low-interest loans to help survivors."

LizzieDrip

^They call them illegal migrants here but you are not allowed to say that in the uk because they don’t have freedom of speech^

nanna8 as I’ve lived in the UK for 68 years and I understand you have lived in Australia for quite a long time, I feel justified in saying that I’m more of an authority on life in the UK than you are.

Therefore, I’d like to put you straight on one thing - we do have freedom of speech in the UK.

There you go!

V true, as is illustrated by the many posters on here who post regularly about illegal migrants.

Arto1s

Hithere I find your question quite offensive. Why on earth would you think I’m a troll?

People have been making wild assumptions today, don't worry. Welcome.

They call them illegal migrants here but you are not allowed to say that in the uk because they don’t have freedom of speech

nanna8 as I’ve lived in the UK for 68 years and I understand you have lived in Australia for quite a long time, I feel justified in saying that I’m more of an authority on life in the UK than you are.

Therefore, I’d like to put you straight on one thing - we do have freedom of speech in the UK.

There you go!

Sarcasm again Babs03. So I missed it, made a mistake. Shoot me.

Arto1s

And what is your sarcastic response supposed to mean Babs03?

Not sarcastic, was joking about the fact that you thanked Hithere for something that I said - if you read back a bit you'll understand.
Never mind, will get my coat.

Artols it was Babs03 who posted she didn't think you were a troll, you thanked the wrong poster.

And what is your sarcastic response supposed to mean Babs03?

Arto1s

Hithere Thank you.

😂
Am sure Hithere will be glad of the thanks though she might wonder what it’s for.

Hithere Thank you.

@Artols, I didn't think you were a troll but did wonder if your post was a wind-up.
I stand corrected.

Hithere I find your question quite offensive. Why on earth would you think I’m a troll?

foxie48 FEMA were sadly lacking in North Carolina as the people there will testify.

Chocolatelovinggran

I do find it unpleasant when some Trump supporters then find that their admiration for him means that they must make them voice dislike of the British government.
The British cabinet is " getting things done", also, as in Cossy's post.
And nanna8, we do have freedom of speech in the UK ( unless it is inciting hate) but most of us prefer to speak respectfully of our fellow human beings-we're funny that way.

It isn't that many bemoan a lack of freedom of speech, they bemoan the right to do it unchallenged and without being hauled up when they teeter on the edge of racism.
In my experience people are not only free to talk about illegal migrants, they do so at every opportunity.

Arto1s As a Californian citizen who do you feel about Trump's suggestion to get rid of FEMA?

I have nothing against people singing Trumps praises, but would like it to be based on all his policies and how feasible or realistic they are, not just because he is cracking down hard on illegal migrants. The US has huge problems relating to gun crimes, poverty, a lack of health care, mass unemployment in the rust belt etc., etc., so how is he tackling all of this.
All I have heard so far is that he letting crypto currency gangsters out of jail, giving a rallying call to the ICE and KKK to go on a witch hunt, and is curtailing women's rights as per.
What about the rest, as in actually doing something about the many other - and some would say more imperative - issues facing people in the US?

Kandinsky

Oh give it a rest cossy fgs.

Please do. Give your imigration obssession a rest fgs.

Op

Are you a troll?

His reply on CA fires is less than empathetic and rational

Correction - illegal immigration

nanna8

They call them illegal migrants here but you are not allowed to say that in the uk because they don’t have freedom of speech. .

When has anyone stopped people taking about illegals immigration in the UK. Is all that anyone bangs on about, in the tabloids, in government, the opposition, and regularly on threads on GN.
This is a spurious accusation.

cossy Yes, I live in California, been here 35 years.
As to the abortion question, I am totally for freedom of choice. It would be impossible to agree with all of Trump’s policies.
However, most states will do what they want thank goodness. We don’t actually live under a dictatorship as many on here seem to think. I have lived in the UK and now here. I know which I prefer, which is no criticism towards the UK by the way. Life is full of choices and I made mine many years ago.

I do find it unpleasant when some Trump supporters then find that their admiration for him means that they must make them voice dislike of the British government.
The British cabinet is " getting things done", also, as in Cossy's post.
And nanna8, we do have freedom of speech in the UK ( unless it is inciting hate) but most of us prefer to speak respectfully of our fellow human beings-we're funny that way.