“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.”
Trump killed the Fema training academy. It’s not coming back.
Hurricane season is gonna be interesting for the south. They voted to get their fema funding cut and blue states can only offer so much to bail them out. They’ve gotten themselves into quite the pickle.
These folks set their own house on fire to kill a spider.
A spider that was trying to get them healthcare and a better education and more rights as workers.
The problem is that people can’t eat empty words.
Tragically, this guy and others like him will never reflect on whether they contributed to harm. It’ll always be someone else’s fault, somehow.
JOE BIDEN should have STOPPED this when He had the CHANCE!
-People who Voted for Trump!
Yeah, seen my share of people getting their faces blown off and basically rationalizing it away because it was Trump that did it. “If you think about it, it’s somehow Obama’s fault”. There’s probably a good many reasons for this, and I think one of the big ones is that nobody likes accepting that they got suckered.
They’re feeding from the same trough of misinformation as everyone else. The trough gets filled with the same scapegoats regardless of the circumstances.
So it will always be immigrants and woke leftists and terrorists and lazy liberal regulators ruining your prosperity. Because they’re the ones you’ve been trained to recognize as the source of all your problems.
Media only wants to give you what you want to hear and all you want to hear is “It was a blue haired brown skinned ISIS lesbian’s fault”
I live in WNC and some times it is hard to feel sorry for them as the leopard rips their face off.
Good job Frank Davis! You won! Now go away.
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He probably thought he was bullet proof because what kind of idiot would cut that department?
It’s also a hometown fire department right next to a major emergency management area, which is also there because Camp David is nearby.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
At least they still have FE…MA… Well they’re boned. So what’s for lunch?
Arson.
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…
Well, if you ask firefighters if firefighting should be privatized, you’ll usually get a “lmao NO!” And also a “but that’s different!” And that’s the escape hatch of every conservative ever. They think that everything they believe applies to everything else but themselves. Every other government service except the fire service is corrupt, wasteful, and backwards. They don’t believe that the fascists could ever possibly be talking about them, because they know that what they’re doing is actually important.
Man-o-sphere tells you that buff dudes fighting fires is based, which feeds the egos of a lot of these guys. And then it tells you that you’re doing something the Woke DEI Left can’t possibly accomplish, so you can recognize them as The Enemies.
Also, a lot of these guys are ex-military, which is an absolute rat’s nest of Christian nationalism and reactionary politics.
I met a long time friend while volunteering feeding homeless folks… 15 years later I had to drop the friend for turning maga. As soon as he unmasked to me, I said a similar thing, “but we met feeding the homeless?”
I’ll never understand
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…
“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.
Wait… Are we the baddies?
They have to learn the hard way. People can’t think that hard by and large.
Time and time again the crooks win because they are the best liars and they don’t have any scruples. Until people feel the impact of poverty or supply chain disruption they are just gonna keep believing whatever they hear from the source their buddies at work tell them is legit.
If only he could just make the connection and apply it to the big picture.
Narrator: He couldn’t.
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.”
He voted for the leopards eating faces party and was surprised when they ate his face.
But he will say to himself, ‘at least we don’t have a Democrat in the oval office.’
Or what I like to call the ‘At least he treats me better than the n-words’ policy. I had a brief discussion with a Nazi, an American who studied in Germany and had some emotional encounters with Germans who legit loved Hitler. Claiming that despite the hell, they still felt like he had their best interest in mind. There was a time, a more innocent time before the sheer rise of neo-Nazis happened and I felt that most Nazis were just absolute losers who will never amount to power, and I was obsessed with looking over WW2 stuff and Hitler in specific (I even had a recording of Hitler’s heartbeat on my phone in a file I called ‘HeartOfDarkness.mp4’). My interest in the World Wars era is, of course, much older than that. But the common theme is the increasing amount of information I found on just how stupid and dependent on luck Hitler was, his mismanagement of the German economy, which was heavily dependent on plundering from minorities (the seizure of assets of Jewish Germans gave the German state almost a full year of GDP) and how Hitler fucked up German agriculture and German civilians were fed increasingly on plundered food and resources from Eastern Europe and France. Killing a fuckload of people in the camps and by the death squads also, morbidly, reduced the need for food by ‘undesireable’ since you don’t need to feed to dead people.
Hitler lead Germany and Germans to nothing but death and destruction and towards the end was convinced that Germans deserved to be genocided out of existence since if they were being defeated by the savage, orcish East Europeans and the Mongrel Americans/Canadians. People act like Hitler of April 1945 was someone who would love modern Germans and white supremacists when, ironically, if he came to life, instead of railing against ‘wokeness’, he would say that every single one of them were absolute dipshits whom he would have strangled with his own hands if he could. Hitler was a genuinely nasty person.
🤣 Fucking morons
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.
Schadenfreude is a shit consolation prize.
I mean, I’ll take it, but it’s still shit.
Scheißenfreude
They voted to cut the FD in a neighboring town. Then they found out the fire response would jump from
8 minutes to 20+nearly triple 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.
Edit: I was off on the response times but it was moving the main department at least 6 miles farther from the closest houses to the department they wanted to close.
I mean, I can’t blame people for being exhausted with taxes and everything. Wages have been mostly stagnant for fifty years, while everything is getting relentlessly monetized and the cost of living keeps spiraling out of control. I get why people could feel less than excited about ratcheting up the cost of living more. I just wish people thought a little bit past that first step of “it’ll cost me more money right now?! No way!”
Is this…the consequences of my own actions?! Jeez that is stuoid.
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.
Oh, they know it costs money. They fail to understand that many of these things are worth the money.
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.
They’ve been raised on the idea that taxes are bad, and never put more thought into it than that. They view things like the fire department as good, so they can’t really be funded by those bad taxes, right? …Right?
This right there.
discover that public services cost money.
discover that public services costS THEM money.
it’s ok when it costs someone else money.
At the end of the day they’re just selfish.
My favorite example is the “Free Town Project”, where a bunch of libertarians from all over the country tried to take over a town in New Hampshire. After they managed to force through cuts to everything from firefighting to street lights, they had a single police officer left. And he couldn’t respond to any calls, because his cruiser was broken and they refused to pay for repairs so crime rose and sex offenders started moving there.
Then came the bears.
They didn’t pay for any sort of forest ranger and the cop couldn’t respond. So bears started getting close and some people spent years feeding them, while their neighbors walked around armed at all times and would shoot at bears on-sight. Which led to the first black bear on human attack in the state for over a century, where a woman was attacked inside her own home. And shortly after two other attacks happened in nearby towns. So the people went into the forest one night and allegedly shot and killed a dozen bears, which didn’t help. Some people suggested the city put bear protection on the trash cans, but it was not passed and was called “government overreach” by others.
So the freedom loving libertarians who moved to a town without zoning laws to live in improvised housing and roam free without laws, ended up having to put up big fences and walls around their homes to keep the bears out.
sex offenders started moving there.
Yeah, you already mentioned the libertarians.
Thanks for the information. Interesting reading up on this experiment. Wikipedia have several good sources. Seems many of these people forget the “personal responsibility” part of their (deranged) ideology.
Libertarians in general are special breed of ignorance, selfishness, lies, and zero empathy. Qualities we all have to some degree, but when ramped up to 11, it’s a disaster.
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.
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.
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.
Those snowflakes, don’t they know they have garden hoses…they should pull up their bootstraps and put out their own fires.
With water that they pumped themselves.
Anything more than 3 these days is a lost cause.
I had a house fire.
I see your point, but I have to tell you: in a wood structure the difference between 8 and 20 minutes won’t mean a lot for the structure. After a very small period of time, fire will have tasted most of the structure and it’s a gut-job.
And, from experience, it’s better as a gut. We languished in fleabag motels for 10 months with very little, and by the time they were done they could have rebuilt (1990) faster.
Edit: i am always surprised by downvotes when I’m being honest. It was horribad to lose all our basic needs in 7.5 minutes, guys. The fleabag motel had mushrooms growing out of the ceiling corners. I still maintain a gut-job would have lost us no more contents and would have been a quicker rebuild with wiring and pipes not compromised by heat. But, tell your house fire story and we’ll compare notes.
And what happens to your house if your neighbor’s has been ablaze for 20 minutes vs 8? Fire Departments are also pretty the only ambulance service in a lot of rural areas as well
It really depends on what is inside the house more than what the house is made of. A kitchen fire will typically take much longer to spread than a bedroom fire for example, because one is fairly sparsely furnished, and requires the original ignition source provide enough energy to start pyrolising the structure itself, whereas the other just has to produce enough energy to start your bed/clothing/curtains on fire, starting a chain-reaction.
Instead of worrying about what your house is made from, which is far outside the scope of what most people can control anyway, invest in fire-retardent furnishings.
maybe people should stop building homes with wood. We invented bricks quite a while ago
Many homes are made of brick. It doesn’t stop fires because the stuff inside isn’t all brick. For example if you ever heard of a fire in a city, those are all brick/stone.
Wooden structures are easier and cheaper, if you build out of brick, housing prices in the US will go up even more. Also, wood has some other advantages over bricks, such as being more resilient against earthquakes.
Just about all houses in Europe are made of brick.
They’re no more expensive than houses in the US.
Not saying which is better (frankly I don’t know), just pointing out that it really isn’t as straightforward as using brick rather than wood making US house prices go up - maybe in the past, but nowadays land prices, manpower costs and speculation are what drives the realestate prices.
(After all, brick is basically baked clay, so hardly expensive stuff)
Also as somebody else pointed out brick houses last significantly longer than wood houses.
I googled and it said most homes in Germany are timber framed. Almost all house in cities in the US are brick. Fires burn the stuff inside. The outer shell doesn’t matter.
How much of the prizes are really material costs vs. investor gains?
On a quick search, it seems wood houses are even more expensive to build in Europe (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352710222001012). This is probably not true in the US (which has a very different infrastructure). But if one takes resale value or long time reinvestments into account, I don’t think wood houses are that much cheaper, even in the US, as a percentage of the overall investment.
How much of the US is over a fault line?
Idk ive seen quiet a few house fires in wood log houses that all withstood it very well. The op of the comment doesn’t know what hes talking about.
I like sequestered carbon
