We have truly turned a corner in this country. We had a terrible meteorological mishap last week in Texas. 120 are dead and 173 people are missing from floods that were predictable. In fact, the latest development is that they were predicted and that some local officials did not sound alerts that they were in fact getting. This is similar to the tragedy of Hurricane Helene and we’re going to publish ProPublica’s expose on this entire matter shortly. But for the moment, our sitting *president* is attempting to gaslight us all into believing that nothing went wrong, nothing could have been done differently and that simply is not true. Trump desperately wants people to believe that this was the proverbial Act Of God and have people accept that explanation and simply shut up and go away. But that’s not happening. His cover up is only making things worse.
A Texas CBS News reporter asked President Donald Trump about recent revelations that FEMA documents showed emergency alerts about devastating floods were not sent to cell phones as previously indicated.
While the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sent out alerts that would have triggered those with weather radios, key cell phone alerts did not go out until it was too late.
The National Weather Service also sent out its flood warning from the system, known as IPAWS, as early as 1:14 a.m.
“However, weather service forecasters cannot issue instructions on whether to evacuate or wait for rescue; those messages are up to county or city officials,” reported NBC 5 News. “The FEMA archive showed that Kerr County did not send any wireless alerts through IPAWS on July 4, when the flooding began.”
“Several families we’ve heard from are obviously upset because they say that those warnings, those alerts, didn’t go out in time. And they also say that people could have been saved. What do you say to those families?” the reporter asked.
Trump pivoted to say that “everyone did an incredible job,” refusing to address the suggestion of failures.
“This was, I guess, Kristi [Noem] said, a 1 in 500, 1 in 1,000 years” event, Trump claimed. “And I just have admiration for the job that everybody did. There was just admiration.
“Only a bad person would ask a question like that, to be honest with you. I don’t know who you are, but only a very evil person would ask a question like that. I think this has been heroism. This has been incredible, really, the job you’ve all done, it’s easy to sit back and say, oh, what could have happened here? There? You know, maybe we could have done something differently. This was a thing that has never happened before, and nobody’s ever seen anything — I’ve never seen anything like this.”
It’s not a thing “that has never happened before” and certainly a reporter questioning newly revealed facts is not “evil” for doing so. Trump is a moron and has always been. We don’t question that. But we’re now at a juncture where somebody, J.D. Vance or somebody, has to get into the driver’s seat and actually see what is going on and what is not. Because the truth is discoverable and the more that is discovered about the screw ups in Texas, the worse things become.
Now of course it gets worse. The person you’re about to hear sounds like a plant. It is rare as hen’s teeth for a “reporter” worthy of that title to start off a question by disparaging known enemies of the person that he’s questioning. But again, gaslighting is the way things are done nowadays. Trump’s answer, basically, is that everything is peachy keen and these other evil people just “want to criticize.”
Now what’s ironic is that this very same day Chip Roy chimed in and said, “Pointing fingers is for losers.” Yes, it is. The way Roy meant it was that the media is wrong for asking what factors played a part in this tragedy but in point of fact saying that it is Jasmine Crockett’s fault or anybody’s fault for becoming involved in investigating the tragedy is the problem, is idiocy. Crockett’s job is to stay on top of what happens in Texas.
Trump is a stupid version of Big Brother. We are all supposed to simply accept what he tells us, without hesitation and without question. And the number of people willing to jump on that bandwagon with him is disheartening indeed.
If I remember correctly, any time we’ve had a significant loss of life anywhere in the country in the past, there have been questions asked and investigations conducted. But in what this administration would undoubtedly call the “Golden Age of America,” asking questions is verboten. Not only is it verboten, it’s evil and a desecration. Chip Roy, I know, may have said one or two things during his time in Congress that I didn’t find to be cruel or ass-kissing, but this was not one of those times.