r/politics • u/harsh2k5 • 1d ago

Soft Paywall The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order | It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193650/trump-administration-just-violated-another-court-order
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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 1d ago

Selectively withholding FEMA funds of Blue states because of policy disagreements. Literally, he's willing to have Americans killed who disagree with him.

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u/TranquilSeaOtter 1d ago

He did this during Covid. When he saw that it was at first primarily hitting cities, he didn't give a single fuck and wanted people to die. It wasn't until rural areas and red states got hit harder that he started to pretend to care.

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u/momamil 1d ago

I remember reading that Kushner said, it’s a blue state problem (at first). So effing evil.

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u/radicalelation 1d ago

Not just that, but they actively ransacked medical supplies from hospitals and ports.

People forgot too quickly about states activating their national guards to protect their medical resources from the feds.

I said it then, been saying it since, the first Trump admin committed politically motivated genocide, not just inactively by targeted withholding of aid (which is already arguably not "inactive" or "passive"), but by actively robbing states of their own supplies.

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u/aneomon 1d ago

Boston had to literally smuggle PPE using the New England Patriots’s airplane.

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u/No-Opportunity1813 1d ago

I think Maryland may have done some emergency supply runs.

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u/BleepBopBoop43 1d ago

Murder via targeted government theft and neglect has a name I once came across - democide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide

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u/radicalelation 1d ago

Some people say polticide, and some like to claim it doesn't count as genocide if it's not a Geneva/UN recognized version.

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u/Local-Potato6883 1d ago

If it's not from the Genoa region of Italy, it isn't genocide just sparkling mass murder

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u/crag-u-feller 1d ago

Well here is quite the bing card

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u/awalktojericho 22h ago

We should rename it Republicide.

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u/floofelina 1d ago

They did, and their supporters deliberately went out and about without masks, including onto Native American reservations.

After watching Trump supporters the last time, I understood how the Holocaust happened while “ordinary Germans” were claiming not to know what was happening. They gleefully participated in an attempted genocide while claiming to not believe anyone was dying. Unforgivable.

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u/Toughbiscuit 1d ago

Not just that, but they actively ransacked medical supplies from hospitals and ports.

To send to russia iirc

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u/RCG73 22h ago

I think it was a extreme failure for this not to have been just pounded on the airwaves. So many people just didn’t know it happened because it was lost in the chaos of the news cycle