A Federal Emergency Management Agency worker has been fired after she directed workers helping hurricane survivors not to go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump, the agency’s leader said in a statement Saturday.

“This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said. “This was reprehensible.”

The agency did not identify the employee, nor did it say where it happened.

But Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, calling it “targeted discrimination” of Florida residents who support Trump, said it happened in Florida.

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    Great display of double standards here again. It’s fascism when they do it but perfectly understandable when we do.

    Being fine with this mean you’re no better than the people you oppose.

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        Implying that every Trump voter is a fascist is idiotic and highlights just how out of touch political activists on social media are - regardless of which party they support.

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          Voting for a fascist makes a person categorically a fascist. And by accepted measures of fascism, such as Umberto Eco’s Ur-Fascism, you’d have to do some major rhetorical gymnastics to conclude anything else.

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            Perhaps the people voting for Trump see him differently than you do?

            This argument could just as well be flipped the other way around; voting for a communist makes a person categorically a communist.

            You don’t think Kamala is a communist? Exactly.

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                Maybe she’s not but her father was a marxist economist. Maybe that doesn’t mean anything to you but would you think the same about Donald’s father if he was a literal fascist? I doubt it.

                You just keep assuming everyone sees the world the way you see. “No one with any intellectual honesty thinks that Harris is a communist.” is no different that the right claiming “No one with any intellectual honesty thinks that Trump is a fascist.”

                If you want to win elections you need to get some of the people who voted for Trump to vote for your candidate the next time. Calling them fascists is not helping. It already got you Trump twice.

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                  Maybe she’s not but her father was a marxist economist.

                  So the sins of the father are revisited on his daughter?

                  Sounds like you’re one of those “red scare” peeps buddy. I mostly agreed with you until you popped off with this crap.

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                    I don’t think she’s a communist, and I’ve never claimed otherwise. I even acknowledged this in the part you’re quoting, yet you still choose to misinterpret my views.

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          What are you talking about? I said it had no bearing on what you were saying. Why are you feeling so defensive about something that I went out of the way to make sure to say wasn’t connected to what you said at all?