‘Call a thing what it is’: Trump biographer says president caused Texas deaths

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-biographer-caused-texas-deaths/?u=b0996b56d819606882af7b1ff010a2ecfa9aa6ccffdc12d6ac564ffca3768ffd

Posted by janjinx

11 comments

  1. ““And here’s why: these two men (Trump & Musk) with no expertise in disaster preparedness were told not to cut the positions they cut, and were told people would die if they did. [They went ahead & cut anyway] And then people died,” he said.

  3. Honestly I have lost all respect for the US.

    They cut the jobs for Emergency preparedness and people died. Instead of realizing their mistake, they have lawmakers proposing bills to stop weather manipulation using chemicals.

    The country is run by dunces.

    I feel like Idiocarcy has been full realized. President Camacho just announced a UFC Fight at the whitehouse.

  4. “But it wasn’t God. It was Greg Abbott’s budget. It was Donald Trump’s war on federal science. It was every Facebook uncle who said climate change is fake and every conservative donor who said FEMA can’t have another dime.

    It was you. It was policy. It was deliberate.

    And until that ideology is torn out root and stem, until we stop pretending that small government is a noble virtue and start calling it what it is, a smokescreen for death by neglect, then the rivers will keep rising, and the body count will keep climbing.

    You didn’t get flooded because God was angry. You got flooded because your elected leaders were proud to be stupid.

    And you voted for it.”

    https://jillybeanmonet.substack.com/p/you-let-your-kids-drown-so-you-could?r=5wn7y0

  5. Can I take a moment to blame TX mostly private land ownership choking out possible safer spots to locate a god damn kids camp?

  6. He cause over 500,000 deaths during the covid outbreak. Why would anyone be shocked about him pulling funding and causing a few more?

  7. Tbh I don’t care. Americans choose this, and compare this to the 50 civilians that are killed each day in Gaza at the so called US aid stations, so I feel nothing for this very minor American tragedy. Sorry. You probably shouldn’t have defunded your national weather service 🤷

  8. Back in 2017–2018, Kerr County actually applied for a federal grant to fund flood alert systems, sirens, river gauges, and integrated communications. The grant was denied, and instead of trying to fund it locally or fight for a state-level solution, the proposal quietly died.

    Meanwhile, the Texas Legislature repeatedly failed to pass bills that would have created state-level support for disaster warning systems, especially for rural counties that can’t afford them alone. No backup plans, no reallocation of state funds, nothing.

    So no. Trump isn’t to blame. You want to blame someone blame local officials who bear responsibility for not pushing harder or funding it themselves. Blame the State of Texas, they had the power and resources to step in, and it chose not to. They knew the dangers. The money didn’t come, the system didn’t get built, and people died.

  9. He’s exactly right. Texas Republican led counties are also responsible since they did not obtain the necessary equipment that could save lives. Every ten year or 15 year floods should have prompted purchasing an alert system. Wimberley did it after major flooding that cost lives.

  10. He sure would be blaming the president if he were out of office.

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