'These deaths are on Trump's hands': Republicans ripped for assault on science

[justaprogressive]

Though local National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters did issue warnings in the lead-up to Friday's flooding—which killed at least 82 people, including dozens of children—key roles were reportedly vacant ahead of the downpour, prompting scrutiny of the Trump administration's mass firings and budget cuts, in addition to years of neglect and failures by Republicans at the state level.

Asked whether he believes the federal government should hire back terminated meteorologists in the wake of the Texas flooding, Trump responded in the negative and falsely claimed that "very talented people" at NWS "didn't see" the disaster coming.

"This is an absolute lie," replied meteorologist and climate journalist Eric Holthaus. "Worse, this is the person responsible for making those kids less safe and he's trying to deny the damage he caused."

Holthaus wrote Sunday that Trump's staffing cuts "have particularly hit the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Environmental Modeling Center, which aims to improve the skill of these types of difficult forecasts."

https://www.alternet.org/trump-texas-flooding/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. It is actually not complicated at all, we use natural resources

Water, air, power and fuel, medicine and hospitals and doctors.

The piece of shit and the billionaires that fund him, don’t wanna share any of that with us.

It does not matter who you voted for, they’re going to kill you regardless.

That’s why I keep saying we must respond as if someone is actively trying to shoot us in the head with a high-powered rifle, because that’s what’s happening.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Trump loves killing people, it makes him feel powerful.

Just like Putin feels more powerful the more people he kills.

They are psychopaths, serial killers.