NOAA returns/produces so much more money to the American economy than it costs, no stories about any of this should allow them the absolutely bullshit "savings" framing
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Bring on the hurricanes tornados, flooding rains, polar vortexes, and other extreme weather events. I hope people know how to read the signs of approaching extreme weather events like we had to do before the NWS did it for us.
NOAA should stop giving hurricane warnings to the "Gulf of America" states. After a couple of deadly storms these states would of course band together to build their own system - which would cost them considerably more.
NOAA is critical for: 1) US economy: merchant fleet; overland shipping logistics; aviation; fisheries, farming, water, irrigation, port management, satellites. 2). Public safety: hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires etc forecasts. Right-wing trying to privatize for decades - would be disastrous.
Red states are more prone to tornadoes & hurricanes…how will life be with no warnings? Exciting, right? You can practice your primal lizard like reflexes? Disaster relief…butts up/assume the position…. Yippee, skippy….
Crippling NOAA has nothing to do with saving money. Trump has been angry with them since his first term when the came out with statistics showing climate change is real and causing measurable harm.
We are all going to be unsafe because our climate is unpredictable and is not normal. Just look at what happened during hurricane season and fire season and it will happen again and no one will know ahead of time about hurricane
We get less safe every day. Look at who is in charge of the country, the military and the FBI. All of those people are more than just incompetent… they are dangerously stupid.
I am just waiting for America to be attacked. There is nothing to stop them.
I wish someone would explain to MAGA how having thousands of private weather forecasters is less efficient than having one good government service. But it looks like we are headed for basically no service.
This has nothing to do with actual “savings” it is all about corruption. You don’t fire people who make money like the IRS. You also don’t fire employees from agencies that protect we citizens from musk by eliminating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This administration is a death cult.
Well yeah, some asshole wants to kill the NOAA so they can privatize the same functions and make us all pay a subscription to get tornado/hurricane warnings.
The audience for that framing is the half of America who thinks that the government takes their tax money, piles it up on the national mall, and lights it on fire. You know, morons.
I hope a hurricane that no longer has warnings ahead of time will have a direct hit on maralago. And that a tornado takes out musk’s private jet. The weather forecasts are important to the public. They should not abolish them.
There have always been and will always be functions that we need the government to do because no business will take them on because they can’t monetize it to the extend needed for capitalism. We are all a little less safe today because of the actions of President Trump and Elon Musk’s chainsaw.
I'm still trying to figure out why Trump and Musk want to crash the U.S. economy, and If they succeed, no amount of tax cuts will save his golfing buddies.
Why is he so unconcerned with Republican voters they are getting hit the hardest especially here in the Deep Red South, FEMA gone a diminished Noah all right before hurricane season? Republicans say they're afraid to get primaried..the primary aint what they got to worry about
It was also Bannon who said everything needed to be done at "muzzle velocity", and they sure are moving, aren't they?! 😟 And they were ready on day one!
Well, all those Magats that voted for Cheetolini are in for a big surprise with both tornado and hurricane seasons approaching 😳
And probably with no FEMA.
The GOP/Russian party that now controls our federal government is trying to kill Americans by restricting their access to actual factual information that could save their life.
It’s a profit center they want to privatize and steal the money. They will take it all if we let them. Post Office, Schools, Prisons, Treasury, Weather, etc. They want to privatize it all and take the loot.
Some news outlet please ask Trump how he plans to keep Americans safe from natural disasters or help them when they increase in devastation and cost in both lives and property
Mass firing the folks whose job it is to keep our planes in the air, to keep diseases from spreading, and to keep banks from scamming us in order to “save money” is the logical equivalent of bashing your teeth out with a claw hammer to save money on toothpaste.
NOAA is critical for: 1) US economy: merchant fleet; overland shipping logistics; aviation; fisheries, farming, water, irrigation, port management, satellites. 2). Public safety: hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires etc forecasts. Right-wing trying to privatize for decades - would be disastrous.
I hope a major storm hits and destroys Mara-Largo and every Trump golf course/property. No where and no one around them to be affected, just Trump properties destroyed! The same for all Musk companies and properties! Let them see first hand how important NOAA is.
Just what we need during a time of atmospheric change & warming. The weather pattern are out of control. Natural disasters are becoming common place. The US can’t “afford” these disasters. Human life & structural damage. Insurance companies won’t pay. What do we do in repeated battle with climate?
It's amazing how cavalier you are with other people's lives. Tens of millions of people live in those states. Do you really think natural disasters will target only the ones you don't like, or is every innocent man, woman, and child acceptable collateral so long as the right people also suffer?
Yes. On the other side of the Pacific, Aotearoa is one of many small countries tied to NOAA. I've seen DOGE disrupt the Pacific's tsunami warning system and now even https://earth.nullschool.net is under threat
PSS: oh ya, if your fortunate enough to survive the upcoming season with your lives praise be, but all of your damaged properties you’ll want help replacing… good luck suckers cause FEMA wont exist because you voted for a TRAITOR an his billionaire.
Air quality alerts that come based off NOAA models and data alone save the nation tens of billions of dollars in averted mortality and morbidity. Just one tiny piece of service from NOAA and there are so many others. Tornadoes, hurricanes, heat waves, thunderstorms, tsunami, floods, etc.
Right before severe weather season, they are so dumb with this. It doesn't make us any safer, on the contrary this will cause harm. The problem with taking a chainsaw to something that needs a scalpel.
Despite not knowing what they do, cutting NOAA is unforgivable. Sure signs of ignorance and refusal to learn. Certainly not indications of ANY measure of genius.😱
Taxpayers paid for the satellites NOAA uses and we deserve the services they provide. Some thing/one other than NOAA deserves to die.😉
Some dumb rube on Facebook: trumps doing what I voted for, getting rid of all those government leaches. I’ll just get my weather from the weather guy on the local news 🤦♀️ no idea where that guy gets his info from!
See Project 2025, pgs 664, 674-677. It says NOAA is bad for business because it supports the science of climate change and its effects on weather related disasters. Can’t have the people knowing such woke nonsense, right? They might demand their government do something about it. No profit in that.
Its all about the darn map and marker where trump drew the hurricane moving in the wrong direction. He cannot stand to be humiliated. Such sruöid, stupid man.
They're doing so much of this for gain right now - I'm sure Musk has plans for Starlink in here somewhere. He's probably already awarded himself a contract.
People should bring it to the court now, or after the first weather-related damage happens and demand DOGE to pay the losses. Or after the loss of unmaintained instruments. They can’t just count “savings” without counting the losses.
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We are in techno-hell
I am just waiting for America to be attacked. There is nothing to stop them.
The repercussions of all this DOGE nonsense will bite them good......
Then they see what being President really means....
#ImpeachTrump
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We need our Reps to stop the TRUMP TERROR TRAIN
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Maybe we'll get 1992: The Return next??
They want to privatize water, too.
And I'm surprised we still have free roads, but give them time.
All of it.
Viewed through that lens, everything they're doing makes perfect sense.
This is a 35-year goal of Putin; revenge for the fall of the Soviet Union.
As Bannon said many years ago, the goal is the "Deconstruction of the Administrative State."
And probably with no FEMA.
B) No democracy movement has ever failed when it was able to mobilize at least 3.5 percent of the population to protest over a sustained period
C) read or watch
https://youtu.be/YJSehRlU34w?si=I-9wZSbHiFkk4sKt
https://bigthink.com/the-present/the-3-5-percent-solution/
Follow the $
He'd clear US airspace for russian bombers if Putin asked.
So many know it too & yet, here we are. 😔
He really has no legal authority over them?
https://bsky.app/profile/pappybest.bsky.social/post/3ljdzqdhduk2j
Sharpie gate. ✔️
Grievance
If they fired every federal employee, they’d save 240 billion per year. That’s it!
Taxpayers paid for the satellites NOAA uses and we deserve the services they provide. Some thing/one other than NOAA deserves to die.😉
Even if they did understand anything which they don’t they’ll always be too greedy/shortsighted/stupid to understand good policy.
The more they cut the more they steal. It’s that simple.
Will the current skeleton crew catch them in time to send warnings?
What a twerp (me!)