Ron Filipkowski - We Make NO APOLOGIES For Being 1st to Connect NWS Cuts & Texas Tragedy [View all]
We make NO APOLOGIES for being the first media outlet to report that local Texas officials were pointing fingers at the National Weather Service for a faulty forecast and noting that dozens of experts and scientists have been warning for months that Trumps draconian cuts to NOAA and the NWS were going to lead to serious problems and greater loss of life during the summer storm season.
As readers of my daily Bulletins know well, I have included quotes from these experts from multiple media outlets in the column many, many times over the past several months. Was NWS at fault in some way in Texas? Was it just the Texas officials trying to pass the buck? Maybe one, maybe the other, maybe both. But we were not going to allow yet another natural disaster on Trumps watch with huge loss of life to get swept under the rug again, while he dismantles FEMA and the agencies tasked with warning and informing the public are decimated, without serious questions being asked.
We also were not going to let Trump and the MAGA propaganda machine to set the narrative on this as they have done so many times in the past over many years with little to no response by Democrats.
This also comes after we endured 4 years of Trump and Republicans blaming Biden using lies and disinformation after every single natural disaster, train derailment, war overseas between other countries, on an on. They blamed Biden for everything despite zero evidence and used a firehose of lies, fake videos, and coordinated disinformation. We did our best to fight it, but honestly we didnt have much help from the Biden admin pushing back because too often their strategy was to just ignore it. But you cant ignore it because it is like a cancer that just spreads and gets worse if you do.
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/we-make-no-apologies-for-being-1st