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"Emmitsburg Mayor Frank Davis voted for Donald Trump in hopes he would cut federal spending. Now Davis hopes those cuts don't include the permanent cancellation of classes at the National Fire Academy, which is part of the town's identity and helps drive its economy. Davis is also a chief at Emmitsburg's firehouse, known as the Vigilant Hose Company."

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5351764/trump-cuts-national-fire-academy-maryland-emmitsburg-fema-federal-spending

Trump killed the Fema training academy. It's not coming back.

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

🤣 Fucking morons

[–] tamman2000@lemm.ee 40 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

One of the worst things about being a firefighter is how many of my colleagues are republicans.

It makes no sense. You do a job providing services to people for the government and you vote for the folks who tell us that government is unable to do good...

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 hours ago

You do a job providing services to people for the government and you vote for the folks who tell us that the government they'll form is unable to do good...

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 41 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"We're on a very long, slow path to self-destruction," he says. "Every day that this training is unavailable to the locals is one day closer to a disaster they can't handle or won't know how to handle."

He got to this kernel of truth. He's almost there! If only he could just make the connection and apply it to the big picture.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 7 hours ago

If only he could just make the connection and apply it to the big picture.

Narrator: He couldn't.

[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

Pardon me while i laugh my ass off

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 hours ago

Sorry, I'm out of sympathy rn.

[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 18 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yet, he will likely never look back to his actions. He'll just turn out his pockets, throw his hands up and say "I don't know what happened! No one warned me about this repeatedly."

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

He voted for the leopards eating faces party and was surprised when they ate his face.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

But he will say to himself, 'at least we don't have a Democrat in the oval office.'

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 8 points 8 hours ago

People are dumb. More news at 11.

[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 11 hours ago

Davis is a dumdum

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 78 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Decades of listening to hate radio and Fox News has taught them "government bad" despite the fact that they depend on it.

Teaching people to bite the hand that feeds them is a cool trick.

[–] Blooper@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Schadenfreude is a shit consolation prize.

I mean, I'll take it, but it's still shit.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

Scheißenfreude

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

The worst part about this is that, in a racist, fascist world, them getting burned by their own hatred is the only downside.

Which means that, from their perspective, there is room for improvement.

Trump fascists are really just billionaire dark government.

But these people genuinely hate and want pain, death, and destruction for other people.

What in the actual fuck, humanity??

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Dont blame this on humanity as a whole, when it has always only been a minority doing this

[–] DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It's a minority doing it, but they couldn't possibly win an election so they spend billions to grift the lower rungs of society.

Without the griftee's the grifters couldn't do what they do, and that's a wrap of US history 🤷

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Religion is the biggest con job of all time, and those at the top are wealthy as fuck, most of the rubes believing that shit get nothing out of it except feeling like they picked the right one.

Humanity it seems has some ingrained switch to believe bullshit as long as you think "you're in the in crowd"

MAGA is no different, in fact there is a lot of overlap, because if you can believe a dude walked on water because some 1000x copied and altered book said so, you'll believe pretty much any bullshit modern scheisters will come up with.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly? I'm not sure anymore.

Either way, do you think it's a gene? Or like a full-on phenotype? Or something else, like lead poisoning or just general cognitive impairment?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Being trained from birth by organized religion into accepting bullshit from shitty people without questioning it.

[–] Brandonazz@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I think of conservatism as behaving kind of like an immune system. People who are conservative tend to be overly concerned with things like purity and group cohesion, and react negatively to anything unfamiliar unless you hold their hand and show them it's ok. Sometimes this is a good thing for a society at large -helps maintain vigilance against external threats- but other times you get full-blown immune disorders, where the immune system can no longer distinguish an appropriate response from an excessive one, or a dangerous agent from a benign one, or starts to attack its own body.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 158 points 22 hours ago (15 children)

They voted to cut the FD in a neighboring town. Then they found out the fire response would jump from 8 minutes to 20+ and everyone in that area would have huge increases in home owners insurance rates.

They recalled the vote and upped the budget within a month. Fucking morons.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 81 points 21 hours ago (9 children)

They voted to cut the FD in a neighboring town. Then they found out the fire response would jump from 8 minutes to 20+ and everyone in that area would have huge increases in home owners insurance rates.

It is like these morons are constantly surprised each time they discover that public services cost money.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

Oh, they know it costs money. They fail to understand that many of these things are worth the money.

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

It is like these morons are constantly surprised each time they discover that public services cost money.

Even worse. They are too dumb to understand that essential services and workers are essential.

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

also insurance will likely stop insuring those areas too, the cost is too high. as with the idiots building in wildfire prone areas of california.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They want less building though. It’s a small wealthy New England town.

They think they’re immune to wildfires too, even though it’s all woods and the rate of drought has increased here too. Look at even New Jersey burning now.

[–] CMonster@discuss.online 2 points 6 hours ago

I was driving on the parkway going towards jersey city about a week ago and the fire trucks were on both sides of the highway just spraying into the trees to keep it under control. Wild stuff.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 214 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Davis says the administration is reviewing the academy's operations, and he is hopeful it will restore classes. If not, he says, he'll see the administration somewhat differently.

"It will change my outlook to say that they're not being fair,"

Hahahahahahaha

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