During the regularly scheduled ass-kissing session cabinet meeting, Secretary ICE Cosplay Barbie was blowing smoke up Sleepy Don's butt, jokingly (By Dog, I hope it was jokingly!) crediting him for keeping hurricanes away. Odd, I thought it was the Democrats that controlled the weather.

But the thing that burnt my toast was when Noem made the claim that FEMA was deploying money and resources 150% faster than ever before. Unless Noem was including denial form letters as a resource, she was lying like a rug. So far this year, FEMA has turned down 18 requests for relief :

While FEMA has not published a 2025 year-to-date denial rate, its most recent open-data list shows 18 denials to date. ENR reviewed the agency’s “Declaration Denials” dataset and could not access the current 2025 appro

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