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Zorro

(18,890 posts)
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 11:40 AM Jul 2025

ICE Barbie Rages at Being Caught Failing Texas Flood Victims

The New York Times found that FEMA failed to answer nearly two-thirds of distressed calls as flooding engulfed Central Texas.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem whined over a New York Times report finding thousands of victims couldn’t get through to FEMA as catastrophic flooding engulfed Central Texas.

A Times report found the Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to answer “nearly two-thirds” of all distress calls from victims of the catastrophe, which has claimed the lives of at least 129 victims, with 160 still missing.

“It’s just false,” Noem said on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday. “It’s discouraging that during this time, when we have such a loss of life and so many people’s lives have turned upside down, that people are playing politics with this because the response time was immediate.”

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FEMA had fired “hundreds of contractors at call centers” as a result of cost-cutting efforts that Noem has implemented as chief of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). CNN reported that new rules requiring the secretary to sign off on contracts or grants exceeding $100,000 delayed the deployment of search and rescue crews.

“I’m not sure where it came from,” Noem told NBC. “The individuals who are giving you information out of FEMA, I’d love to have them put their names behind it because anonymous attacks to politicize the situation is completely wrong.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbie-kristi-noem-rages-at-nyt-over-missed-fema-calls/
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ICE Barbie Rages at Being Caught Failing Texas Flood Victims (Original Post) Zorro Jul 2025 OP
Time for lie detector tests BeyondGeography Jul 2025 #1
I hope the BOTOX seeps into what remains of her brain. Moostache Jul 2025 #2

Moostache

(11,297 posts)
2. I hope the BOTOX seeps into what remains of her brain.
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 11:55 AM
Jul 2025

That altered beast (lip filler, hair extensions, BOTOX injections) is an amoral puppy-killing bitch that needs to be shunned from society and left on an island somewhere without any assistance.

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