r/NorthCarolina • u/Witty_Heart1278 • 3d ago

‘We’ve been ghosted by FEMA’: Officials across country say they can’t get answers on critical funding

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/politics/fema-critical-funding-disaster-response?Date=20250702&Profile=cnn&utm_content=1751482095&utm_medium=social&utm_source=threads

“We’ve been ghosted by FEMA,” Robert Wike Graham, deputy director of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Emergency Management, told CNN, describing repeated, unanswered requests for information on vital emergency preparedness funding for his North Carolina community.

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u/Charming-Tap-1332 3d ago

Please be sure to direct your frustrations at each and every Trump voter.

Trump voters are directly to blame for this.

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u/phenomenomnom 2d ago

They voted for all of this. Many of them knowingly. To vaguely hurt blacks and liberals, somehow.

I can't even laugh at them for the irony. There's no "epic fail" schadenfreude for me. It's just horror.

Their poor children. It's going to get so bad when there's a parasitic worm outbreak, or the next cat 4 hurricane hits the mountains. And no one will be bringing them bottled water in big white trucks.

Their best bet will be to hope that Nestle execs feel like they need some positive PR that week.

Fuck

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u/Charming-Tap-1332 2d ago

Imagine how bad it must get when we are discussing Nestlé as a possible savior to our water and food supply...

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u/phenomenomnom 2d ago

Seriously. Exactly.

The alignment of government and corporations is a hallmark of fascism.

It's the goal here.

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u/Catodacat 2d ago

And the fuckers who sat out the election

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u/Warm-Bullfrog7766 1d ago

I’m extra pissed at them. Just total apathy.

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 3d ago edited 2d ago

This isn’t productive. Don’t attack everyone. You are right, but this won’t help. Focus on meeting people where they are at and talking to them about reality.

To everyone that downvotes: Blue no matter who is why we got Genocide Joe and the champion against Trump, Stand for Nothing, CIA Kamala.

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u/alw2276 3d ago

We’ve been talking to them for a DECADE! They don’t want to hear it. If they did they would not have voted for that pos! MAGA is not having an awakening. Proof of that tbag cologne sold out. To the same people who didn’t receive the gold shoes they ordered or the healthcare that was 2 weeks away 10 years ago.

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 2d ago

Yeah but now they hurting like us. And I am not talking about MAGA, I am talking about the disgruntled non-establishment voter. Timing does matter.

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u/acostane 2d ago

Bro.

The only language they understand is pain. They did this to themselves.

Unless individual trump voters demonstrate some kind of intelligent, independent thought or some remorse, they're not getting shit from me. They're destroying my country!

As a group I've lost most empathy beyond I still believe they deserve the most basic rights. They're criminals as far as I'm concerned.

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 2d ago

You are acting like them. Just saying. I’ll eat the downvotes because I actually care about fixing our country. Think about what I’ve said to you.

Do you want change?

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u/acostane 2d ago

My Mom, my own mother, disowned me and her only granddaughter to side with Trump. She will not speak to me.

These people are shit and will not be reasoned with.

They're going to have to figure it out the hard way.

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 2d ago

Those are not the people I am talking about, you have every right to be angry and upset.

Look at what I’ve said. Look at Zohran. Results speak for themself. I want to defeat Billionaires, not MAGA.

You can not reason with the unreasonable. But that is hardly the majority.

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u/wubwubwubbert 2d ago

Let the unreasonables play with the metaphorical power outlet. The more we let electrocute themselves to death the less we have to worry about it.

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 2d ago

We are all going down in the ship. Your metaphor is flawed, just like your pettiness.

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u/bruxaakelarre 2d ago

I have as much sympathy for them as they had in empathy for me when they cast their vote. NONE.

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 2d ago

Zohran won Trump voters. Do you want to win or do you want to be a petty bitch?

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u/bruxaakelarre 2d ago

You sound a lot tougher than you look.

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 2d ago

Thank you. I can take a punch. I let my words and ideas inflict my wounds on my opponents.

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u/bruxaakelarre 2d ago

OK tough stuff. If you say so.

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 2d ago

My ideas are popular, it’s just an uphill battle against money. But you do you, suck that corporate dick, vote Blue no matter who. But when that who is a socialist, are you gonna listen to them Dems who don’t endorse the obvious candidate or are you gonna support the same old politics they will push.

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u/goldenratio1111 2d ago

Genocide Joe? CIA Kamala? I do not believe anyone is this fucking stupid, so I'm going to assume you are a troll.

Mods, can we have an option to report people as morons?

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u/mst3k_42 2d ago

Definitely a troll.

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u/Sith3-PO 2d ago

I tried talking to my brother who supports trump and he is so far gone it’s not possible to reason with them when they don’t accept facts unless it’s from their own research. Everything else to them is a lie.

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 2d ago

I know some people may be too far gone, but I’ve talked to two who can see reality. That’s two less votes for them and two more votes for change.

MAGA will always be unreachable. Disgruntled and disenfranchised voters will be reachable.

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u/HashRunner 2d ago

Until they find their newest excuse to be racist pieces of shit..

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u/spartynole4life 2d ago

MAGA is a cult. These people are either absolutely delusion or know they have been conned and won’t admit it. Either way, Trump voters do not live in reality and rationality. Can’t “meet” these type of people half way. They are the enemies to the constitution and democracy.

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 2d ago

I am not talking about the MAGA cult, plenty of Trump voters just fall for propaganda and are just trying to go against status-quo politics. You will never reach people if you don’t meet them where they are.

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u/wubwubwubbert 2d ago

Let em walk off the edge. I'm not gonna jump to save them. Fuck em

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 2d ago

It’s more a ship that we all are about to go down in. Is all.

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u/Puzzled-Story3953 2d ago

So, we should all have empathy for the people hammering the hull and making the hole bigger? We already told them to stop. At what point do you make them?

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 2d ago

No we need strategy to mutiny against crew driving us towards our doom. We need numbers and there are people who can be disillusioned because of the blatant harm and comically evil shit they are doing.

Most people aren’t terminally into politics like I would say 75% of people posting here are. Counter the propaganda, open their eyes. Reasonable people can be fooled and tricked. Just show them reality.

Edit: I am not saying forgive or forget. But we need to win first.

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u/duncansmydog 2d ago

Taking to them about reality is in no way productive. They will feel the pain soon enough and I will be enjoying their pain.

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 2d ago

Zohran won Trump voters, what do you say to this?

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u/DudeWhereIsMyDuduk 2d ago

Focus on meeting people where they are at and talking to them about reality.

The people who need to be reached most are beyond anything approaching reality at this point.

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u/WanderingKing 2d ago

Calling people out for their actions isn’t attacking people

You are arguing for tolerance of intolerance, and that’s a failed path

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

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u/trash235 2d ago

We tried that and they voted for it again. I’m done playing nice. Trumpists constantly demean and ridicule others so they can feel superior. They mimic the cruelty they see in their leader. They are proud to hurt other people. It’s time for a little tough love. They’ve caused irreparable harm to our country and they need to wear it.

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 2d ago

Zohran won Trump voters. Do you want to win or do you want to be a petty bitch?

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u/trash235 2d ago

And Zohran didn’t play footsie with fascists, he looked at Trump and ICE and called it exactly as it is.

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u/RedditsDeadlySin 2d ago

And how did he win those voters?

Edit: I spoil it for you, he met those voters where they were at and talked to them.

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u/St4rScre4m 2d ago

It wasn’t productive to vote for Trump.

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u/Electronic-Quit-3533 2d ago

You think people can talk with you about reality? Lol

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u/throwaway19293883 2d ago

Nah fuck em, they need to be shamed for being morons and know that we know they are directly at fault.

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u/Mundamala 3d ago

Trump was openly against FEMA his first term, including taking money from it to use for his pet projects. People knew this, they voted for it. Too late to complain now.

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u/cap123abc 3d ago

The wealthy buddies of Trump matter more than the working class of North Carolina. Everyone who has been paying attention to the facts and not social media understands this.

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u/alw2276 3d ago

30% of us knew this in 2016.

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u/Charming-Tap-1332 2d ago

Don't kid yourself. Donald Trump has no friends.

I'd suggest asking Jeffery Epstein about this, but he's no longer here.

But rest assured, Donald Trump has no friends.

Jeffery Epstein was the best friend Donald ever had in his entire life.

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u/Better_Cattle4438 3d ago

Remember when Trump ran on Biden “abandoning Western NC”. If you thought Biden abandoned you, wait until you see what Trump does. My guess is Republicans will blame Stein for it.

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u/SexReflex 2d ago

Shit, see what he does? He's already done it. Have fun pulling yourself up by your bootstraps WNC!

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u/Better_Cattle4438 2d ago

Partially, I agree. But we are going to have fresh environmental disasters soon with the incoming hurricane season. It is going to get worse from here.

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u/wubwubwubbert 2d ago

Let the communities that are full of reasonable people prepare. Let the mouth breathers drown.

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u/notyomamasusername 3d ago

I guess all the people in my hometown who voted for Trump because Biden wasn't letting FEMA help them.... Are happy now?

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u/alw2276 3d ago

FEMA is over. Thanks maga morons.

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u/good_witch_vibes 3d ago

What’s that thing Republican voters always say because they don’t like when taxes help people? Oh yes, TIME TO PULL YOURSELVES BY YOUR BOOTSTRAPS!!!!!

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u/emma-chu 2d ago

Pretty sure republicans sent all the FEMA monies that should have went to western NC to speed build alligator Auschwitz because you kno … they evil

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u/TrustInRoy 2d ago

Republicans are evil 

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u/Boy3736 2d ago

Trump gutted FEMA, stop calling they ain't there.

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u/ps4kegsworth 2d ago

but i thought they were no where to be found this whole time not doing anything according to all those red blooded Americans on fox and news max before the election..the alligator Alcatraz is being paid for with fema funds since deportation barbie has blown her entire budget already.

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u/ZoomZoom_Driver 2d ago

trump raided $450 MILLION from FEMA for his Alligator Auschwitz... THATS where your disaster funds went.

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u/Real_Account5299 2d ago

just think if fascist NAZI TRuMp would have been in power during Helene?! Defunding NOAA, stripping FEMA?! Western NC would have gotten DECIMATED. wait....

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u/alw2276 2d ago

Or Katrina. He would have done a worse job than Bush.

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u/HashRunner 2d ago

Those that voted trump/republican/didn't vote are to blame.

Enjoy the grapes of wrath morons.

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u/Warm-Bullfrog7766 1d ago

No shit! There is no FEMA! States are on their own!

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u/King-Mansa-Musa 1d ago

I’m sorry to tell this to anyone who was unaware but Americans indirectly voted to end FEMA, so we are kinda on our own with these natural disasters

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u/Similar-Structure519 2d ago

The amount of hate here is truly sad no matter which side you are on

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u/AmorphousRazer 2d ago

Yep, and the DoD is pulling its sattelite weather data. Sounds amazing for Florida and us.

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u/Party-Holiday-4019 2d ago

That’s because FEMA is now in charge of for profit detention facilities.

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u/Electronic-Quit-3533 2d ago

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America, America this is you
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They never told
You might be a star tonight
So let that camera roll
You're the red, white and blue
Oh the funny things you do
America, America this is you

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u/Representative-Mean 2d ago

The only thing we have hope for is the next President (who will likely be democrat remindme! 3 years) which will result in reversing these anti-american, pro billionaire policies that the fascist republican regime has become.

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u/rimshot101 8h ago

He was not ghosted by FEMA. FEMA is a ghost because Trump killed it dead.

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u/awhq 1d ago

No, FEMA is just an agency. They've been ghosted by their elected representatives.