See: the perfect Liberal answer to everything: ” Send more of the taxpayers money”
The local Kerr County (Texas) folks dropped the ball, multiple times…..and people camped out on a flood plain without bothering to check the weather forecast. But still, it must be Donald Trump’s fault for this tragedy.
Rather than take the blame, it is because the Texas state officials didn’t give the county enough money from the Trump administration to have a warning system (that , in the end, wouldn’t have helped because the people that could have done something were asleep at the switch…..) I mean, the NWS DID give warnings, but no one cared. Not the people camping in the flood plains, not the people living in the flood plains, Not the folks running the camp for little girls nor the county officials that might have been able to warn people if they had bothered….
And somehow, despite having ample warning, and many years, decades even to prepare a system to warn people, it must be the fault of the Trump administration.
It is as bad as Louisiana and especially New Orleans blaming Bush for all of their failures post Katrina. (But those were Liberal governed, so one can expect that sort of womanish behavior)
Sad, very sad. Hint to Kerr County officials: Take your responsibility like a man, not a woman, trying to shift the blame onto anyone but yourselves. You fucked up, deal with it. Be adults.
Not trying to argue your point or assign blame to Trump- but doesn’t that kind of criticism just come with the job? Same as with gas prices or eggs—it’s not really in the president’s direct control, but they catch the heat anyway.
I was never a big George W. Bush fan, but I remember thinking it was unfair how people judged him for viewing Katrina’s aftermath from a plane window. Obama, Bush, Biden—they’ve all walked through disaster zones with rolled-up sleeves, but realistically, what can a president actually do on the ground? Their visits are mostly symbolic.
Trump isn’t responsible for the flood any more than Bush was for the levees breaking- or even the responses. But I think the distinction people are trying to make is that when you cut funding or staff from emergency services, even if you’re not to blame for a specific event, the perception—and criticism—will be louder, deserved or not. That’s just the nature of politics.
“Deserved or not”
Especially since the DNC types such as yourself and the press (but I repeat myself) didn’t attack Barry or Slow Joe when the response what less than optimal.
“the distinction people are trying to make is that when you cut funding or staff from emergency services,,,,,,”
Show me, concrete example, or retract what you said (or go away and never return) where any “funding cut” by the Feds directly caused this clusterfuck.
Your words, back ’em up or shut up.
(and you can’t use the lack of warning sirens. That was this year, they had many chances to spend a million bucks to make some sort of siren based warning system for many years over many administrations…they chose not to do so for all that time, and when they finally did try this year, the folks in Austin chose not to give them any federal or state money. And even if the money had been there, the sirens wouldn’t have been installed yet))
I get that you’re demanding a specific budget line that directly caused this flood response to fail—but that was never my claim. I never said or implied ‘X dollars cut from Y department led to Z tragedy.’ What I did say—and stand by—is “ I think the distinction people are trying to make is that when you cut funding or staff from emergency services, even if you’re not to blame for a specific event, the perception—and criticism—will be louder, deserved or not” meaning when funding is reduced for forecasting, preparedness, or staffing in any administration, it opens the door for criticism when disasters strike.
That’s not a DNC position. It’s just politics—and it cuts both ways. Trump caught heat for NOAA cuts. Obama caught heat for his FEMA response to Hurricane Sandy. Bush got hammered for Katrina. Whether it’s fair or not, every administration deals with it.
This isn’t about whether Trump alone caused the flood (he didn’t). It’s about how political accountability works when people are grieving and looking for answers. That’s just the reality of leadership.
So yer weaseling again. Making a statement, but than backing away from responsibility for saying it.
I am tired of you throwing words out there, then sorta but not really saying that you didn’t say them, or that you are not responsible for posting them here. Using my blog to get your chance to post the DNC party line, then denying you posted the words.
You don’t get that freedom on my blog or in my comments to make unfounded statements that you cannot back up. I have given you many chances because I like having opposing viewpoints, but you can’t seem to stop the behavior. Go away. Since you can’t stop playing word games, you no longer have commenting privileges.
MC is right, you are like a bedbug. Be gone. .