re: I've spent the last 3 days in Northeast Georgia... national media is not covering it right

Rural white people are complete after thoughts in America and have absolutely nobody in their corner.

Quite the opposite in fact, they have many powerful forces actively working against them.

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It's crazy how many of the locals were totally unprepared.

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I learned of the cancelation just as I arrived, with no gas in my tank and no way to get more gas.

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If Trump were president the national media would have a live counter of deaths and 24/7 coverage of the destruction. NFL coverage would be bumped to cable networks

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85% of the country isn't even thinking about the hurricane today. Sorry to break it to you

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.The billions in federal aid are just going to come back to bite them in the arse at some point. There isn't a pot of gold that this money is coming from. Our future selves are paying for it, so no, nobody is "getting" any money in federal aid.

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That was not the comment/argument to which I responded.

Also, as I pointed out in the other thread, where was all this concern trolling in 2020 when we were printing TRILLIONS and multiple hurricanes caused damages?

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feelings over facts

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It's what drives the new and improved Democratic party. You tell em SFP. ....hope i didn't hurt any feelings.

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It's what drives the new and improved Democratic party.

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You just called Speckhunter2012 a Democrat

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hope i didn't hurt any feelings

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We will have to wait to see how Speckhunter2012 feels about your assertion that he's a DEM

You are the one trolling bub.

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frick all the money we have spent on Ukraine and other overseas boondoggles.

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Too many people are pissed about Iraq and Afghanistan and think Ukraine and Isreal/Gaza are "the same thing" when they definitely are not.

And the vast majority of money spent ON Ukraine is actually spent IN the United States.

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Opinion | Ukraine aid’s best-kept secret: Most of the money stays in the U.S.A. -


Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most of the money is being spent here in the United States. That’s right: Funds that lawmakers approve to arm Ukraine are not going directly to Ukraine but are being used stateside to build new weapons or to replace weapons sent to Kyiv from U.S. stockpiles. Of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has approved since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost 90 percent is going to Americans, one analysis found.

But you wouldn’t know that from the actions of some U.S. lawmakers. When Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance (R) joined a United Auto Workers picket line in October at the Jeep assembly plant in Toledo, he said he wanted to “show some support for the UAW workers” in his state. Yet he has not shown the same solidarity with the UAW workers in Lima, Ohio, who are churning out Abrams tanks and Stryker combat vehicles for Ukraine thanks to the military aid that Congress has approved. Vance opposes Ukraine aid, as does Rep. Jim Jordan (R), whose House district includes Lima.

Ohio voters might have expected their elected leaders to be pushing the (reluctant) Biden administration to give Ukraine more Lima-produced tanks and vehicles — or to require that more of them be included in the aid package for Ukraine that Congress will soon take up. Instead, Vance and Jordan are fighting to stop Ukraine from receiving any more union-made tanks and combat vehicles from America’s only tank factory.

It’s not just them. In all, 31 senators and House members whose states or districts benefit from funding for Ukraine have voted to oppose or restrict that aid. They include some of the most prominent anti-Ukraine voices in Congress, such as Republican Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.), Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) and Mike Braun (Ind.), as well as Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Bill Posey (Fla.), Anna Paulina Luna (Fla.) and Lance Gooden (Tex.).

At a time when both major parties are competing to win working-class votes and strengthen the U.S. manufacturing base, our military aid to Ukraine does exactly that — it is providing a major cash infusion into factories across the country that directly benefits American workers. It is also creating jobs and opportunities for local suppliers, shops, restaurants and other businesses that support the factories rolling out weapons.

Until now, no one had mapped out precisely where these U.S. military aid funds are going. My American Enterprise Institute colleagues Clara Keuss, Noah Burke and I have catalogued the weapons systems being produced in the United States for Ukraine — tracing the states and congressional districts where they are being made and how senators and House members voted on the funding. We analyzed contracts and press releases and spoke to defense industry experts, diplomats and Pentagon officials to determine where U.S. tax dollars end up.

We have identified 117 production lines in at least 31 states and 71 cities where American workers are producing major weapons systems for Ukraine. For example, aid that Congress has already approved is going to, among many other places:

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frick all the money we have spent on Ukraine and other overseas boondoggles. Our infrastructure crumbles while we siphon another billion to Zelensky

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It’s just a $150B rounding error - SFP

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It's crazy how many of the locals were totally unprepared.

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This does not surprise me, those area never get 30" of rain in a 24 hour period. You just cannot prepare for that...