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Does your endless whining about Trump alleviate the pain from your Monkeypox rash?
Texas flash floods, sponsored by Trump.
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Friends,
The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been stripped down so much it can barely respond to emergencies, yet it’s funding detention centers such as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades.
The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, responsible for some of the areas hardest hit by Friday’s flooding, is missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster, and meteorologist.
The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, is missing a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer who are supposed to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate.
The office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package offered by Musk’s DOGE to reduce the number of federal employees.
At both offices, the vacancy rate is roughly double what it was when Trump returned to the White House in January.
It’s the same across much of the federal government. Callers can’t get through to Social Security offices. Hazardous waste sites and drinking water facilities aren’t being inspected. National Park services have been scaled back. There aren’t enough air-traffic controllers to safely guide takeoffs and landings at the nation’s major airports.
Trump’s newly-enacted Big Ugly Bill will take funds out of Medicaid and food stamps. For what? To finance another giant tax cut for the rich, along with 10,000 more ICE agents and a gulag of detention camps.
I’d like to believe that this worsening catastrophe may eventually have positive consequences.
For one thing, it could help us appreciate what our government is for. And why we need a competent and effective civil service rather than Trump lackeys and sycophants.
It will also push every American to choose sides, between a government that protects us from real dangers or a police state, between American democracy or Trump fascism.
Some have already been forced to choose — managing partners at law firms, a few university presidents, some top editors, federal judges, and many government employees.
But as the axe of Trump fascism comes down harder on America, the rest of us will have to choose.
We will demand a democracy that works for the people.
As we become unprotected from corporate malfeasance, climate change, fraud, ill-health, horrific accidents, and toxic chemicals — all so that big corporations and their top executives and major shareholders can make even bigger profits — more of us will take a stand.
As the nation becomes a police state with an internal army and a gulag of prison camps, more of us will speak out.
It will be a national reckoning.
It may be our last best hope.
What are your thoughts?
RR
The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been stripped down so much it can barely respond to emergencies, yet it’s funding detention centers such as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades.
The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, responsible for some of the areas hardest hit by Friday’s flooding, is missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster, and meteorologist.
The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, is missing a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer who are supposed to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate.
The office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package offered by Musk’s DOGE to reduce the number of federal employees.
At both offices, the vacancy rate is roughly double what it was when Trump returned to the White House in January.
It’s the same across much of the federal government. Callers can’t get through to Social Security offices. Hazardous waste sites and drinking water facilities aren’t being inspected. National Park services have been scaled back. There aren’t enough air-traffic controllers to safely guide takeoffs and landings at the nation’s major airports.
Trump’s newly-enacted Big Ugly Bill will take funds out of Medicaid and food stamps. For what? To finance another giant tax cut for the rich, along with 10,000 more ICE agents and a gulag of detention camps.
I’d like to believe that this worsening catastrophe may eventually have positive consequences.
For one thing, it could help us appreciate what our government is for. And why we need a competent and effective civil service rather than Trump lackeys and sycophants.
It will also push every American to choose sides, between a government that protects us from real dangers or a police state, between American democracy or Trump fascism.
Some have already been forced to choose — managing partners at law firms, a few university presidents, some top editors, federal judges, and many government employees.
But as the axe of Trump fascism comes down harder on America, the rest of us will have to choose.
We will demand a democracy that works for the people.
As we become unprotected from corporate malfeasance, climate change, fraud, ill-health, horrific accidents, and toxic chemicals — all so that big corporations and their top executives and major shareholders can make even bigger profits — more of us will take a stand.
As the nation becomes a police state with an internal army and a gulag of prison camps, more of us will speak out.
It will be a national reckoning.
It may be our last best hope.
What are your thoughts?
RR
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BREAKING: MEXICAN RESCUE TEAMS HAVE ARRIVED IN TEXAS TO HELP WITH THE FLOODS.
THANK YOU
THANK YOU
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I've seen videos on social media. Just like in the LA fires, they came to help.
I think it's their way of paying it forward after the massive earthquake in Mexico City in the 1980s when people from all around the world helped out.
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Ted Cruz texted his thoughts and prayers from Cancun enclosing a pic of an obese hairy person lounging by the pool.
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Body count 104 Monday afternoon 3:00 pst
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Horrific for those families.
It's for the wallets, passports, SS cards, guns, and jewelry...
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That little midget homosexual really, really turns you on, doesn't he Adminge?
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From the reference you cited
"Tom Fahy, legislative director for the NWS, said weather forecasting offices “had adequate staffing and resources as they issued timely forecasts and warnings leading up to the storm."
Bedwetting Libtards......step on in......
"With any disaster, you see people playing politics and trying to finger-point at their political opponents. That’s not the time for this. The time for this is to come together and support each other,” Cruz said. “But we should also have a serious examination of what steps can be put in place in terms of early warning and being proactive"
Why weren't you queefing and moaning after yhe floods in NC last year?......
More queefing and drivel
"This is the second time the Texas senator has been caught vacationing while disaster strikes his state; Cruz fled to Cancun amid a winter storm in 2021 that left millions of Texans without power for multiple days"
He had his "pen and phone with him"......all hed needed to dorect any measures required
Bidumb was in the US during the NC disaster.......volunteers were the only ones that helped.
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1 month prior to the Texas catastrophe there were warnings about cutting funding for the NWS, but Trump & the Republicans didn't listen:
BTW, this was a report from FOX News, usu friendly to Republican interests
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Makes me happy when Libtards lose everything after revealing thier hate
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Were cemeteries washed away?
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I haven’t been able to see if that cemetery was impacted, but I’m assuming it was, it’s 3 miles down river from Kerrville and it borders the Guadalupe River and has been washed out before.
Nichols Cemetery
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That's too bad if it was.
My paternal ancestors have a family cemetery in South Texas. Only descendants can be buried there. It's also a Texas state historical site.
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There's been a controversy that Cruz advocated cuts to the NWS so it could be privatized & he/his friends could profit from it:
This report is 1 mo prior to the Texas floods.
So this is similar to cuts in Air Traffic Safety too.
Their strategy seems to be making these vital services dysfunctional ensuring more mishaps so they can say that privatization is necessary.
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Grifters are going to grift.
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BBC reports 170 people missing in the Kerrville area
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That's horrific!
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I bet the next disasters in America will be contaminated food & water. Drugs too. since the Trump administration has cut back on health inspectors.
The tax cuts for billionaires had to be paid for somehow
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