It seems the hot new thing is to claim that the Feds are ignoring the hurricane victims.

I did a little exploring and, of course, found that it’s the usual bullshit – baseless claims being amplified by fools.

Ok due warning, this is the Washington Post, which of course is in on the sinister plot to kill us all with hurricanes and then throw a big party, but anyway – the Post tells us:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has deployed more than a thousand personnel and millions of meals and liters of water to the communities hard hit by Helene, but is struggling to reach some communities deep in mountainous and remote areas of North Carolina that were most affected by the storm.

I’ve been to that part of North Carolina. I’ve been up a mountain in a car in that part of North Carolina. I can testify: it is not easy terrain on a good day, let alone after a lethal hurricane.

FEMA has deployed more than 1,500 personnel to respond to Helene. As of Friday, the agency had shipped more than 11.5 million meals, more than 12.6 million liters of water, more than 400,000 tarps and 150 generators to the affected region. The agency sent a similar number of personnel — roughly 2,000 — to Florida and the Southeast a week after Hurricane Ian struck there in 2022, according to a news release.

About 6,700 National Guard members from 16 states were involved in relief operations as of Thursday, said Maj. Gen. Win Burkett, director of domestic operations and force development for the National Guard Bureau, along with roughly 1,000 active-duty troops.

Is that “sending no help”?

But the sheer scope of the disaster area, which stretches across six states in the Southeast, has presented an enormous logistical challenge. And as federal officials help state and local agencies respond, they are battling significant misinformation — only underlining and adding to the challenges of the mission that has no immediate end in sight. As of Friday, at least 221 people have died in six states as a result of the storm.

Several Republican governors and senators from storm-battered states that could prove pivotal in the 2024 election have praised FEMA’s response. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Friday offered a robust defense of the federal recovery efforts so far.

“I’m actually impressed with how much attention was paid to a region that wasn’t likely to have experienced the impact that they did,” Tillis told reporters, adding, “I’m out here to say that we’re doing a good job, and those who may not be on the ground, who are making those assessments, ought to get on the ground.”

Or even just have some idea of the ground. There is no swift easy access to much of the area pounded by the hurricane. There is only slow difficult access. That’s part of why the disaster is such a disaster, as the news media have been saying from the outset.

FEMA is at the center of a number of debates about the administration’s ability to respond to the crisis — fueled in part by the agency’s comments but also by mischaracterizations or incorrect information repeated on social media about the agency’s response.

Politicians and others have spread false information about the response to the storm on social media. For example, some have claimed that the agency has run out of disaster response money and that storm victims can only receive $750 in federal assistance.

Several right-wing influencers have used their large online followings to amplify these claims on X, which has declined to remove these posts or label them as misleading. The trend underscores how election-year politics — combined with lax misinformation policies by major tech platforms — are complicating efforts to keep communities safe.

And KJK is being one of those right-wing influencers, from thousands of miles away in a comparatively flat and small country.

It’s annoying.