New Yorker cartoon: Obstacles to Relief (FEMA)

[IcyPeas]

[underpants]

1. Spot on

[2naSalit]

2. In a nutshell...

That's it.

[DENVERPOPS]

12. Agree

in a nut shell..............

The characterization that should have been TWICE the other's size should have been the Republican's Voting to Block Financing FEMA....

THE top word to best describe Republicans is: HYPOCRITICAL

Every last thing they do is: Do as I say, not as I do..........Hypocrisy
Secondly, every last thing they say is a LIE
Thirdly, every last thing they say is 180 degrees from reason and/or reality.

And fourthly, every last thing they do is corrupt, esp trying to fix elections........

Does that sum up this "New" Republican Party????????????????

My Father in law, and his best friend Eisenhower, are rolling over in their graves watching this clown act......

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Great cartoon

[Squaredeal]

4. Ronald Reagan: "Government is the problem!"

And the dummies ate it up. Then they complain this its not doing enough to help them.

[twodogsbarking]

8. It was an easy sell.

[niyad]

5. EXACTLY!!!

[Tanuki]

6. This is the result of "drowning government in the bathtub."

Reminds me of a piece Dana Milbank wrote early in the covid pandemic:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/10/when-you-drown-government-bathtub-people-die/

"In 2009, during the swine flu scare, I relayed warnings about “the nation’s patchwork of a public health system” and the need for better “vaccine and public-health infrastructure before a more severe pandemic comes along.”

I repeat these things not to pretend I was prescient but to show that the nation’s top scientists and public health experts were shouting these warnings from the rooftops — deafeningly, unanimously and consistently. In the years after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the Bush and Obama administrations seemed to be listening.

But then came the tea party, the anti-government conservatism that infected the Republican Party in 2010 and triumphed with President Trump’s election. Perhaps the best articulation of its ideology came from the anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, who once said: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

They got their wish. What you see today is your government, drowning — a government that couldn’t produce a rudimentary test for coronavirus, that couldn’t contain the pandemic as other countries have done, that couldn’t produce enough ventilators for the sick or even enough face masks and gowns for health-care workers.

Now it is time to drown this disastrous philosophy in the bathtub — and with it the poisonous attitude that the government is a harmful “beast” that must be “starved.” It is not an exaggeration to say that this ideology caused the current debacle with a deliberate strategy to sabotage government."...(more)

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Hard to miss the irony, but most MAGAts will. nt

[LisaM]

7. Instead of fixating on some irrelevant statement about China

that Tim Walz made years ago or whenever, the debate hosts should have been pounding on FEMA and the fact that Project 2025 defunds it. The opportunity was there. I would have loved to have seen JD Vance squirm over it.

Current, real life distress facing actual Americans apparently isn't important enough to bring up during a crucial election, though.

[republianmushroom]

10. Your republican congress at work, must defund.

[kimbutgar]

11. So true!

Why people vote for politicians who won’t do anything to help their constituents is beyond my comprehension! And all they get is money from billionaires and corporations to cut their taxes while they do Jack shit for their constituents!