The Citizen QRF

Air power has been added to the Cajun Navy and the Redneck Army.

I said in a post that the government's Helene disaster response went beyond criminal and into evil. I do believe that because of the way Democrats twist the missions of many agencies like FEMA into something they are not designed to do.

I think FEMA is a bloated, slow, and ineffective agency that does not react fast (no federal bureaucracy does) but can come on strong in the later stages of a disaster. This is just an agency that is not built right for rapid response.

Compare these two situations:

Michael Brown, who resigned due to the crap he caught during Katrina, was general counsel and Deputy Director of FEMA for two years before Bush bumped him to Director in 2003. Brownie was a Bush political supporter with experience in law and the federal government.

Deanne Criswell is the current Director of FEMA. She has the resume of someone who should be competent in an emergency. She has over 20 years of  experience in emergency management plus 21 years in the Colorado National Guard, and yet there is little difference between the response to Katrina under Bush or the hurricanes in Florida during the Obama administration.

Point being, it doesn’t matter how qualified the leadership is if the organization is bogged down by bureaucracy and has lost focus on its mission.

Politics may have something to do with it because in general, the response does seem to be worse with a Democrat in the White House.

Politico published an article that seemed to imply that the Helene aftermath was a good thing for Harris/Walz because it might prevent Republicans, who populate most of the affected counties in North Carolina and Georgia, from voting and that might just be enough to tilt those states to Harris/Walz.

Yes, it is unthinkable that someone would cheer a natural disaster that has already killed more than Katrina and likely to add more to that body count before it is over, but that is what the left-wing media has become. Less than a week out from the raindrops beginning to fall, they are already figuring out how it could be good for their side.

There might also be a little tinge of payback because the people caught in these disasters are more likely to vote Republican, which to a Democrat automatically means they don’t believe in man-caused climate change and all probably drive smoke belching diesel Ford F-350 pickups instead of a Tesla.

I’m not saying that is the case, but I’m not saying it isn’t. These hard-core eco-nuts are a bunch of raging misanthropes who just look for an excuse to blame Americans for a typhoon in Thailand.

I think we need to remember that in this case, and FEMA is not alone in this, many government agencies have been refocused away from what their primary purpose was defined to be and aimed at other regime priorities – the care and feeding of illegal aliens is a big FEMA focus. The border crisis was entirely regime made to satisfy the Democrats’ subservience to the idea of the Great Replacement – and like the UK, the Harris/Biden policies were designed to dilute the influence of people they see as the problem – straight, white, middle class, working Americans.

When you create a crisis at the border, you can redefine the mission of FEMA and task it with doing stuff.

This kind of mission creep is a Democrat-caused disaster, no doubt about it.

It is no secret to anyone but the news anchors in the mainstream media that in the past two years, FEMA has spent a cool billion on this new mission to take care of illegal aliens and their families and that completely took their eyes off their mission to prepare and stand ready to address both immediate and short term needs of people who are caught in a disaster not of their making.

The disaster in the Appalachians and the foothills is just another example of emergencies where local agencies and the public do a better job of responding quickly - when they have the resources. We learned this with the Cajun Navy when Houston flooded out. For rapid response, nothing beats a redneck with a jacked up four-wheel drive truck, a flat bottom Jon boat with a 50 horse Mercury, and an ATV - and now, a helicopter and a small plane.

Rednecks can fly now! We have an air force and our own QRF teams!

My tribe has come a long way, baby.