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Trump's Second Term

Bad and evil person!

REPORTER: Families are upset because warnings didn't go out in time. What do you say to those families?

TRUMP: Well I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances. This was a one in 1,000 years. Only a bad person would ask a question like that. Only an evil person would ask a question like that.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1943767077799477614
 
Andy_Ross said:
Bad and evil person!

REPORTER: Families are upset because warnings didn't go out in time. What do you say to those families?

TRUMP: Well I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances. This was a one in 1,000 years. Only a bad person would ask a question like that. Only an evil person would ask a question like that.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1943767077799477614
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King of the Douches, as always.
 
Eat ◊◊◊◊, you ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ ◊◊◊◊!

www.independent.co.uk

Murkowski on ‘big beautiful bill’ vote: ‘Wish I had the luxury to regret things’

It’s part of a larger pattern of Murkowski avoiding questions before and after she helped pass Trump’s controversial spending bill
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

Lisa Murkowski does not seem to be enjoying the summer.

Perhaps it’s the insane heat and humidity. She is from Alaska, after all.

But judging from the Republican’s responses to questions on the Senate’s passage of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” last week — where she once again was a pivotal holdout ... until she wasn’t — Murkowski’s demeanor of late has more to do with the ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ position her independent streak has fated for her.

Asked by The Independent Thursday about her keen hope that the House of Representatives would fix what troubled her about the bill she voted to pass — which extends the 2017 tax cuts that Trump signed while also significantly slashing welfare programs like Medicaid and forcing states to shoulder more of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps — Murkowski bristled.

“Yeah, and they didn’t do it,” she said of the House’s unchanged passage of the bill in time for Trump to sign it into law on July 4. When pressed about it, Murkowski sniped back, “You know what happened today? A whole new crisis.”

“And so I wish I had the luxury of time to regret things, but we just got to keep moving forward,” Murkowski concluded in her brush off of the question.
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I'll be curious to see how Trump responds to the beating to death of a US citizen in Palestine by illegal Jewish settlers. Will he use the 'T' word, if so about whom? Will we hear there are bad people on both sides? will there be talk of sanctions?
 
Planigale said:
I'll be curious to see how Trump responds to the beating to death of a US citizen in Palestine by illegal Jewish settlers. Will he use the 'T' word, if so about whom? Will we hear there are bad people on both sides? will there be talk of sanctions?
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Based on past events, he'll likely ignore it until someone asks him about it at a press conference, at which point he'll say something like "I hadn't heard about that. I don't know if that's true", and then move on.
 
Planigale said:
I'll be curious to see how Trump responds to the beating to death of a US citizen in Palestine by illegal Jewish settlers. Will he use the 'T' word, if so about whom? Will we hear there are bad people on both sides? will there be talk of sanctions?
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Trump was the one who removed Biden’s sanctions on Israeli Settlers. And has has his tongue firmly up Bibi’s, er, firmament, so short answer is he’ll do nothing.
 
The Don said:
He's created a lose/lose proposition for himself.

If he backs down then it's TACO again.

If he follows through then he screws the economy.
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He is a financial genius, the best person in the world for knowing the dark secrets of tariffs. There's only an upside.
 
Following up a bit more on the Texas floods...

Did fiscal conservatism block plans for a new flood warning system in Kerr County?

Overall, the article does provide more information, but as for the headline question?

In 2021, Kerr County was awarded a $10.2 million windfall from the American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA, which Congress passed that same year to support local governments impacted by the pandemic. Cities and counties were given flexibility to use the money on a variety of expenses, including those related to storm-related infrastructure. Corpus Christi, for example, allocated $15 million of its ARPA funding to “rehabilitate and/or replace aging storm water infrastructure.” Waco’s McLennan County spent $868,000 on low water crossings.

Kerr County did not opt for ARPA to fund flood warning systems despite commissioners discussing such projects nearly two dozen times since 2016. In fact, a survey sent to residents about ARPA spending showed that 42% of the 180 responses wanted to reject the $10 million bonus altogether, largely on political grounds.

“I’m here to ask this court today to send this money back to the Biden administration, which I consider to be the most criminal treasonous communist government ever to hold the White House,” one resident told commissioners in April 2022, fearing strings were attached to the money.

“We don't want to be bought by the federal government, thank you very much,” another resident told commissioners. “We'd like the federal government to stay out of Kerr County and their money.”

Even Kelly, the Kerr County judge remarked that this “old law partner” – U.S. Sen. John Cornyn – had told him that if the county did not spend the money it would go back to blue states.

“As far as where that money sits for the next year or two, my old law partner John Cornyn tells me that if we send it back it’s going to New Jersey or it’s going to New York or it’s going to … or California,” Kelly said. “And so I don’t know if I’d rather be the custodian of the money until we decide what we have to do with it rather than giving it back to the government to spend it on values that we in Kerr County don’t agree with.”

When it was all said and done, the county approved $7 million in ARPA dollars on a public safety radio communications system for the sheriff’s department and county fire services to meet the community’s needs for the next 10 years, although earlier estimates put that contract at $5 million. Another $1 million went to sheriff’s employees in the form of stipends and raises, and just over $600,000 went towards additional county positions. A new walking path was also created with the ARPA money.
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The answer is a rather profound "NO." Calling the stuff that actually happened fiscal conservativism would be a gross lie. Republican lies, sabotage, and corruption would be entirely accurate, on the other hand.

Oh, and as a darkly amusing thing, but not really funny, to say about the Trump Administration's contributions -

Mexico provided aid quicker to Texas flood victims than Donald's FEMA. Congrats, everyone
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One could get into the technicalities there, but Trump's Administration is wildly unqualified and holds little interest in actually doing their job well. Well, the official job, at least. Brown-nosing Trump isn't the official job, though.
 
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