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    1. duxup ◴[] No.44538932[source]
    >Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who has instituted a new requirement that she personally approve expenses over $100,000, did not renew the contracts until Thursday, five days after the contracts expired.

    Your classic manager who feels they are so important that hey HAVE TO be involved in X,Y,Z but they are not a responsible enough person to actually do the job.

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    2. AtlasBarfed ◴[] No.44538964[source]
    Advocating for competent governance is partisan!

    Heck of a job, Brownie

    3. thephyber ◴[] No.44538989[source]
    She was busy with higher priorities this week:

    https://www.instagram.com/p/DLyjaZ5s51o/

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    4. arp242 ◴[] No.44539031[source]
    There were some dogs that desperately needed shooting?
    5. bb88 ◴[] No.44539065[source]
    FEMA has "Emergency" in the name. Traditionally, it's supposed to come in when the normal rescue infrastructure has failed, due to earthquake, weather, etc. You're not optimizing for cost here. You're optimizing for reliable emergency management -- and that's going to cost money.

    If you wanted a different agency, like one that prioritized "recovery after 6 months", well, it would help to inform the nation that FEMA is no longer the nationwide emergency management agency. It's up to the local and state governments.

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    6. scarface_74 ◴[] No.44539166[source]
    And Texas voters overwhelmingly voted for politicians who caused this and still make excuses for these same politicians. I am tired of caring for people who vote for people that harm them.
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    7. cjohnson318 ◴[] No.44539206{3}[source]
    I thought that there was a bar somewhere, a line that would not be crossed, but there isn't, it's just straight up identity politics, or owning the libs, whatever you want to call it.
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    8. KingOfCoders ◴[] No.44539249[source]
    I once worked for a company that had a founder who was cancelling all contracts on a yearly basis, including renting the office. They were proud of cutting costs that way. After two times, the property owner said, "Great! I have a company that asked me about the space and is willing to pay much more" and the company of several hundred people had to move on very short notice.
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    9. chris_wot ◴[] No.44539263[source]
    Did it survive?
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    10. mjevans ◴[] No.44539373{4}[source]
    Please remember to take the statements posters make in the best possible light.

    My interpretation of such is that they're sick of voters who expect a double standard. Don't do something ''I'' don't like when it helps other people, but when ''I'' need help godspeed.

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    11. DonHopkins ◴[] No.44539400[source]
    Kristi Noem is a DEI hire because her only qualification is that the first four letters of her gender are "FEMA".

    That, and she's an expert at killing puppies and bragging about it by writing a book.

    In her next book she'll brag about all the little girls she killed in Texas, reminiscing about her experience directing FEMA: "It was not a pleasant job, but it had to be done."

    Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book:

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-n...

    >“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.

    >“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”

    >Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, got her gun, then led Cricket to a gravel pit.

    >“It was not a pleasant job,” she writes, “but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realised another unpleasant job needed to be done.”

    Which directly led to her current unpleasant job at FEMA.

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    12. jfengel ◴[] No.44539402{3}[source]
    And they are going to vote for them again. Next November is a million years from now. Though for that matter this will be forgotten by the November.
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    13. DonHopkins ◴[] No.44539466{5}[source]
    The best possible light is that he cares about the lives of the little girls and many others that Trump and Musk and Noem and DOGE killed more than owning the libs and canceling NOAA.
    14. lenerdenator ◴[] No.44539521[source]
    Somehow, one of the least unhinged things that woman has ever done.
    15. booleandilemma ◴[] No.44539541[source]
    I call people like this "octopuses". They need to have their tentacles everywhere, need to be involved in everything, no matter how little they're needed.
    16. taormina ◴[] No.44539543{3}[source]
    Not every person in the state voted for this. The dead children didn’t vote for anyone. Have an ounce of compassion or empathy.
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    17. KingOfCoders ◴[] No.44539696{3}[source]
    Yes, it was very rich, but it did disrupt operations a lot and the new space wasn't as nice - we moved from team offices to an open layout, with my boss praising the open layout - we then found out he would get a private office.
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    19. mulmen ◴[] No.44539737{4}[source]
    Putting this out in the world doesn’t help.
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    20. thephyber ◴[] No.44540338{4}[source]
    The town that was flooded rejected _free funds_ from the federal government during Covid because they were choking on a red pill of conspiranoia. Destiny (the streamer) did a recent streaming session where he watched the video of the town feedback regarding accepting / rejecting federal government funds from the American Recovery Act (for sirens and standardized first responder comms systems). The short version of the plot is the people were propagandized to distrust the Biden Admin, so they rejected the free upgrades. The voters pressured the town council (one was an actual threat of violence, followed by threats of “consequences”) if the town council accepted the federal funds.

    There are consequences to voters and representatives who no longer believe in our shared objective reality.

    I don’t blame the little girls, but with freedom comes responsibility. Their parents were responsible for choosing the camp they went to. The camp owner and staff made the risk evaluations of allowing them to sleep in a flood plain during a storm. The local town voted for their representatives and those representatives rejected federal funds which would have given them a chance to survive without cell coverage.

    Ultimately your parent comment wasn’t necessarily assigning individual blame. In a democratic republic, the voters / citizens / residents (in aggregate) are ultimately responsible for the actions that elected representatives take in their name.

    21. XorNot ◴[] No.44540760{4}[source]
    The people deserving of compassion and sympathy are dead. The people who killed them are busy explaining why despite the repeated warnings and tax payer funding, this actually wasn't their fault.
    22. longfingers ◴[] No.44540848{5}[source]
    I think the political spectrum is dangerous because people expect the Paradox of Tolerance and similar correlations to silence the left in places where the right will happily speak.
    23. disposition2 ◴[] No.44540918{3}[source]
    Noem is the head of DHS.

    The (acting) head of FEMA, David Richardson [1], hasn’t visited the disaster area and apparently hasn’t made any public appearances for months [2].

    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Richardson_(government_o...

    2. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/10/fema-leader-texas-f...