Did Trump's cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service impact predicting the flash floods in central Texas?

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Anonymous wrote:My thoughts are, as I said before: I am tired of this tragedy being used for political reasons. It won't turn me red or anything obviously, but you guys need to get a grip because you are not helping the cause.

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Get ready for a lot more of these disasters twining out from DOGE and Trump's wrecking ball to the federal government. That doesn't mean I'm gleeful, or that I don't find the tragedy horrifying, or that I wish for it to happen. I'm just realistic about what is driving this. If you care, you should be, too -- it's the only way to fix it.

Elections have consequences.

FAFO

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Anonymous wrote:“The word blame is the word choice of losers. Texas cares about football, whether it's high school, Friday Night Lights, college or professional. Know this, every football team makes mistakes. The losing teams are the ones that try to point out who's to blame. The championship teams are the ones that say, Don't worry about it, man. We got this. We're going to make sure that we go score again, that we're going to win this game. The way winners talk is not to point fingers. They talk about solutions. What Texas is all about is solutions.” — Governor Hot Wheels parked in Hunt, TX July 8, 2025

Just a load of bs. If Texas were about solutions, they would already ha e a flood warning system, using some of the billions of dollars of state surplus.

Investing in common sense public safety infrastructure is woke communist nanny state wasting of taxpayer dollars.

Yes, what you do is not pay for it and then ask for federal funds when the problem hits the fan, so that other people pay for it for you.

And now no federal dollars are available. Texas Republicans turned off that possibility, so options are to force businesses off the land, pay out some of the millions of surplus to pay for a earning system, or just let people continue to die.

I assume Texas Republicans will just let people continue to die.

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Anonymous wrote:My thoughts are, as I said before: I am tired of this tragedy being used for political reasons. It won't turn me red or anything obviously, but you guys need to get a grip because you are not helping the cause.

NP

Get ready for a lot more of these disasters twining out from DOGE and Trump's wrecking ball to the federal government. That doesn't mean I'm gleeful, or that I don't find the tragedy horrifying, or that I wish for it to happen. I'm just realistic about what is driving this. If you care, you should be, too -- it's the only way to fix it.

Elections have consequences.[/quote]

They do. And Republicans never seem to care. Now it's a problem for all of us, and there is no one coming to help us as of January 20th, 2025.

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Texas just out a statewide alert for someone accused of injuring a cop. So the technology exists in the state, they just didn't use it.

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL6Kf1mMD4i/

Texas Senator "tel Aviv" Ted is pushing for an additional $250 billion in aid to Israel just days after Texas was hit by a devastating flood.

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Anonymous wrote:Texas just out a statewide alert for someone accused of injuring a cop. So the technology exists in the state, they just didn't use it.

They could follow best practices in the business of civil service for both citizens and government administrators. at a minimum a coordinated local state federal level standardized pipeline for bipartisan resources. If they’re scrapping it out like this our economy forecast is worrisome. Unless they are willfully negligent or malicious in which case that is something else to dread. I suppose the local voter culture, education, and activism informs politically aligned budget decisions. Are Texan Millennials progressive?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL6Kf1mMD4i/

Texas Senator "tel Aviv" Ted is pushing for an additional $250 billion in aid to Israel just days after Texas was hit by a devastating flood.

Without even mentioning the leadership responsibility he has as an elected official of the state to mitigate the future risks in this area for residents and visitors? Provide a congressional response? Even while Americans mourn their families and fellow countrymen? How much would it cost them to do the right thing even for their own voters?

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Anonymous wrote:Texas just out a statewide alert for someone accused of injuring a cop. So the technology exists in the state, they just didn't use it.

And Texas Republicans have the money, the budget surplus, but are choosing not to use it to provide services to keep Texans from being killed.

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Anonymous wrote:Texas just out a statewide alert for someone accused of injuring a cop. So the technology exists in the state, they just didn't use it.

And Texas Republicans have the money, the budget surplus, but are choosing not to use it to provide services to keep Texans from being killed.

And Texans are a-ok with this situation as long as their good times aren’t ruined by any silly rules and regulations?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Texas just out a statewide alert for someone accused of injuring a cop. So the technology exists in the state, they just didn't use it.

And Texas Republicans have the money, the budget surplus, but are choosing not to use it to provide services to keep Texans from being killed.

And Texans are a-ok with this situation as long as their good times aren’t ruined by any silly rules and regulations?

They keep electing the politicians making these decisions. So maybe not all but overall, yes.

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Noem has managed to piss through most of her budget already and we’re barely even into Hurricane season. Trump admin is wasteful, irresponsible spending on steroids.

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As the Washington Post reported,

Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.

So what is a thinly stretched government, asked to do too much with too little, going to do? It’s going to make more mistakes than it would if it had adequate resources. Mistakes will always happen, of course, and it may be impossible to prove that any given mistake was the result of reduced spending and staffing. But there will be more and bigger mistakes than would have happened if anti-government ideology hadn’t taken its toll.

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ICE Barbie is not good at her job.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL6Kf1mMD4i/

Texas Senator "tel Aviv" Ted is pushing for an additional $250 billion in aid to Israel just days after Texas was hit by a devastating flood.

Well he said he ran for political office to make sure Israel was protected and taken care of. He never mentioned Texas as his first concern.