By Michael Woyton
If anyone still thinks the administration of President Donald J. Felon is actually looking out for the American people — even those of you who live in red-leaning states — look no further than what it will mean as a result of cuts to the National Weather Service.
A combination of layoffs, already existing vacancies and early retirements have left the weather forecasting agency “in tatters,” according to reporting from CNN.
This information is coming just before what might very well be a destructive hurricane season which starts June 1.
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Thirty of the NWS’s 122 weather forecast offices no longer have a meteorologist-in-charge. That position is usually filled by the most experienced official on site.
CNN came up with a map showing the areas without a meteorologist-in-charge, and those locations include New York City/Long Island/Connecticut; Tampa, Florida; Houston, Texas, and nearly the entire state of Kentucky.
The Goodland, Kansas, NWS forecast office is said to be no longer operating around the clock. The state averages around 81 tornadoes each year, the National Weather Service said, with some years seeing more than 100 twisters.
I think we can all agree that tornadoes don’t necessarily care if there’s someone in an NWS office to put out a watch, warning or alert.
And apparently neither does the grifter-in-chief.
He has also denied emergency funds for natural disasters for Arkansas (tornadoes), West Virginia (flooding), Washington state (windstorm) and North Carolina (extended hurricane relief).
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi “I Had $3K in my Stolen Handbag” Noem, as well as the president himself, is threatening to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and a spokesperson has said the government is focusing on “truly catastrophic disasters” or “wide-scale attacks on the homeland,” the Minnesota Reformer said.
Now in the United States of Fascism, we are on our own to find out about possible, life- and property-threatening natural disasters, and we can no longer rely on the federal government to help us — even a little — in the aftermath.
This is what people voted for; this is what you got.
Getting rid of and eventually privatizing the National Weather Service and its parent organization, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was always part of Project 2025.
But all we heard from the liar-in-chief during the campaign was that he didn’t know anything about Project 2025 or anything in it.
And don’t think you can just look at your phone and get the weather forecast. Where do you think that information comes from?
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For someone who hates the media, the mayor of Mar-a-Lago loves to be interviewed.
I firmly believe that he would shrivel up and die if the legitimate press didn’t show up for the administration’s daily stenography sessions or any of those pathetic Oval Office pressers.
If you haven’t heard his answer to ABC News’s Terry Moran and his question about what the Declaration of Independence — a copy of which is hanging on the wall of the Oval — means, please start the video below at 3:22-ish.
It really rivals the golfer-in-chief’s answer to why James Monroe’s portrait is on the wall. He said, “I think the Monroe Doctrine is pretty important. That was his claim to fame.”
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