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Federal aid agency denies help to Trump supporters.

The revelation that United States emergency workers deliberately withheld help from hurricane victims they knew to be Trump supporters defies comprehension.

How could you bypass someone who lost everything in a hurricane because they had a different political sign on their front lawn?

The inhumanity!

How those claiming to be all about tolerance and inclusion can act with such cruelty is honestly beyond my understanding.

No. It’s worse than cruel. It’s evil.

It has been revealed that a Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisor told staff to skip hurricane-ravaged homes that had Trump campaign signs.

Marn’i Washington was fired after it was revealed she had sent a “best practices” group message to emergency workers telling them to:

“Avoid homes advertising Trump”

The instruction to withhold assistance from conservatives was the second bullet point in a list that also instructed workers to stay hydrated.

I cannot get my head around this.

They are talking about their fellow Americans, their neighbours, family and friends. Human beings who were devastated and in need of help.

Going on for Years

The New York Post has reported that, as a result of the edict, aid workers skipped at least 20 homes displaying Trump signs or flags between late October and early November.

By ignoring the homes, those residents were denied the opportunity to sign up for federal disaster relief assistance in the wake of the Category 3 hurricane’s landfall.

But it gets worse.

The supervisor, who was fired over the scandal, has told The New York Post that she had been following a “widespread FEMA policy” of avoiding what she described as “politically hostile” homes.

Expect the edict didn’t say “politically hostile homes” — it said “homes advertising Trump”.

This was not about keeping emergency workers safe. It was about withholding assistance from conservatives in the middle of a natural disaster.

And if a Trump voter died as a result? Meh.

More importantly, remember to stay hydrated!

And they called Trump the fascist?!?!

Since the story broke, other FEMA officials have spoken anonymously, telling The Post the agency had a practice of skipping Trump-supporting houses — or avoiding “white or conservative-dominated” disaster zones altogether.

“It is an open secret at the agency that has been going on for years.”

America is in more trouble than we imagined.

By the way, I would say the same thing if it had been revealed that FEMA was withholding help from Democrats. Or from gays. Or from blacks. Or from people who openly supported the Collingwood Football Club.

The way you treat your neighbour is the way you treat God, since your neighbour is made in His image.

But as our societies abandon belief in God, we replace the brotherhood of mankind with rank tribalism.

If you belong to my tribe, then you are human. If you do not belong to my tribe, you are… in the words of Hillary Clinton, “irredeemable” or, in the words of Joe Biden, “garbage”.

And that’s how Biden’s agency treated Republicans in desperate need of help — not as fellow human beings, but as garbage whose political views made them irredeemable and unworthy of assistance.

This story reminds me once again just how thin the crust is that separates civil society from barbarianism.

The first chapter of the Bible tells us,

“So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.”

Jettison that principle, and you are well on your way to civilisational breakdown.

And here we are. Barbarians with 5G.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.

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