If you’ve ever been to Texas, you know they have signs everywhere warning you not to litter (Don’t Mess With Texas), thus my title mocking their hubris. As I warned before, when you vote for clowns, expect a circus. And as I’ve mentioned before, I have no empathy for MAGA voters; because, I believe they deserve the government they voted for… so when I saw the massive flooding in central Texas on the Fourth of July, I thought, told you so.
Make no mistake, the MAGA voters are directly responsible for the inadequate warnings issued in the early morning on July 4. Let me be harsh and crystal clear, Trump is 100 percent responsible for the inadequate warnings because he gutted the NOAA center’s staff that was responsible for issuing those warnings. You see ALL weather forecasts are based on NOAA obtained data and scientific analysis. The weather channel doesn’t actually do anything besides presenting that NOAA data to you!
So, when you cut NOAA, you get less (or bad) data and you’ll soon generate (what we call in coding) GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out). In other words, NOAA forecasts are only as good as the data they get, and the quality of the scientific data analysis done by experienced humans. Trump has reduced the data and fired many experienced humans.
But, the tragedy in Texas isn’t all Trump’s fault, as MAGA mentality played the biggest roll, as a Kerr County official confirmed: “In an interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said the county did not have a [flood] warning system because such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending.” In light of the loss of life, that’s penny smart and pound foolish, especially since it happened before. Bottom line, MAGA Texans got what they deserved.