Noah 083017

Trump is no Noah since he doesn't listen to anything except his own voice and Fox-n-friends.

A major natural disaster is occurring in the United States as a hurricane began bouncing along the gulf coast flooding major Texas towns and is now spreading into Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.  Thousands of people are now refugees with forecasts indicating they maybe displaced for years to come.  Early estimates find that this series of storms is the country's most devastating and costly ever recorded.  Hurricane Harvey first came ashore Friday night.  It was Monday night before Trump acknowledged there might be cause for concern.  When he commanded the airways for his speech he proved three things, one he needs a new speech writer, two he needs to learn to read the speech and three he has no real empathy for the storm's victims or volunteer aid workers.  On Tuesday he took his entire flying circus down for a photo opportunity with victims lined up and Trump vetted aid workers diverted from rescue efforts for campaign photos.  The cost of his circus' movement would have helped many of those people who have lost everything.  For Trump it was another opportunity for campaigning and selling his 40-dollar caps. 

Just ten days previous to the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Harvey, President Trump rescinded flood preparedness rules for federal infrastructure projects via an executive order. The rules for roads, bridges, and federal buildings, called the Flood Risk Management Standard, were created by President Obama via executive order in 2015.  In essence Trump is denying sandbags to people up to their chins in floodwaters.

Der Donald has spoken there are no environmental, weather related disasters or climate change worries in America.  It is all fake news by the media, Al Gore and Hillary.  Trump carried on with his campaigning while touting his budgeting cutting as houses floated out to sea. Of course the country needs to be more prepared for catastrophic natural disasters, there will be more of all types.  Mother Nature is a fickle companion who ignores Fox News and political declarations.   Trump's budget ignores the cost of just this recovery demand and the country is still in the early hurricane season.

Trump is giving more sophisticated deadly military gear to local law enforcement.  In many jurisdictions they are already paramilitary forces.  Giving local LEAs more sophisticated weaponry in an invitation to "try it out" on the nearest crowd.  Think about the mother of all bombs dropped on celebrating sports fans or dropped to try and drain floodwaters.  Vision a column of tanks crushing cars during traffic jams or blasting a way through crowds.  If you give blue shirts toys they will be used.  Trump sees this as the way to equip his troops to eliminate anti-loyalist descent, his win-win.   Haven't we seen enough of this in other dictatorships?  In Texas the blue shirts did and outstanding job saving lives without anti-ballistic missiles and flame-throwers.  They remembered that their real mission is to serve and protect, saving lives.  Not crushing opposition to Der Donald.