St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer told MSNBC on Monday that FEMA had yet to assist after the city was ravaged by a tornado days prior.

The tornado first touched down in St. Louis on Friday. The storm — reportedly 20 miles in length at its strongest — killed at least five people in St. Louis County at the time of writing. Spencer reported during a press conference that 38 people had been injured, and that number was expected to increase as recovery efforts continued.

Friday’s tornado was one of many that affected the region over the weekend, with Kentucky also being hit by storms. At the time of writing, dozens of the dead had already been found.

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    Goddamn there are some ignorant fucks in this thread.

    I live in this shithole state (on the opposite side of St. Louis, but still), but 99% of the people I know here aren’t conservative in the slightest. But that’s not gonna stop people from blanket labelling the entire state as redneck hillbilly fascist fucks.

    Please, do better and realize that St. Louis itself probably has most of the liberals in the state so you’re attacking your own interests.

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      Unfortunately, the EC and Senate both mean that if 51% of voters in a state vote R, all other votes don’t count. Here in Califonria we have more redneck hillbilly fascist fucks than several of the red states combined, but they’re outnumbered.

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    Republicans aren’t giving aid to red as shit counties so unfortunately a blue county isn’t going get anything unfortunately and knowing Republicans, they’ll try to charge them for just reaching out.

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      it took 1-2 months for huckabee to finally plee for assistance from his former employer trump after the tornados hit.

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    “Please FEMA come save us. Oh, you were defunded. How about just helping the whites? The straight ones. “ -MAGAcuck

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      Its not even defunded. Its an actual act of the president to ignore declaration requests.

      Its also just had massively swept funds that are instead being appropriated to ICE.

      Wait a month or two, ADA will kick in.

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    Excuse me. We don’t do that anymore here in the United States. Grab those bootstraps and shut the fuck up peasants. If you didn’t deserve it, almighty god wouldn’t have thrown that tornado at you. Don’t be a drain on the state. Leader has deals to make. These bombs ain’t gonna just drop all on their own. Besides, they’re working on a glorious parade for you. What more do you want?