Editors at National Review Online explore the latest wild claims from the political left involving deadly flooding in Texas.
It was a disaster. For some, however, it could not be just a disaster. There had to be some human hand at work engineering this great misfortune — even if only through negligence. Within this cohort, Donald Trump and Elon Musk fast became the most likely culprits.
A cadre of “experts” fast emerged to blame the severity of the storm’s impact on the president and his DOGE commission, which were alleged to have gutted the National Weather Service.
“A lot of the weather forecast offices now are not operating at [a] full complement of staff, which means that you’re really putting an extra burden on these folks,” said the former administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Rick Spinrad. “Without research, without staff to do the work, we can assume that the predictions are undoubtedly going to degrade, and that means that people’s ability to prepare for these storms will be compromised.”
What Spinrad admitted was only an assumption fast became a fact. …
… The presumption that this administration was indirectly responsible for the deaths in Texas soon congealed into a consensus in online forums. You can guess at the tenor of that discussion, but we’ll give you a taste of it via Rosie O’Donnell: “It’s because he put this country in so much danger by his horrible, horrible decisions and this ridiculously immoral bill that he just signed into law,” the performer said from self-imposed exile in Ireland of the GOP reconciliation bill that Trump signed into law on the day of the floods. “As Republicans cheered, people will die as a result, and they’ve started already.”
Cathartic though these outbursts may have been, they were not predicated on a realistic assessment of the situation in central Texas.
In anticipation of this deadly system, the National Weather Service “had extra staff on duty during the storms,” according to the Associated Press.
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