The left’s response to the Texas flooding deaths – Latest News
Decent Americans are grieving the loss of so many lives, and so many younger lives, in Friday’s Texas flooding — however unhinged lefties insist on politicizing the horror, understanding their resentments or attempting to blame President Donald Trump.
A sick, racist former Houston mayoral appointee, Sade Perkins, known as Camp Mystic, one hard-hit web site, a “white-only girls’ Christian camp.”
What a factor to deal with.
No one would care if the children have been minorities, Perkins recommended as she blamed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and “your friendly MAGA Trump” for . . . a natural catastrophe.
Pediatrician Christina B. Propst equally spewed hate, saying the victims acquired “what they voted for” (she assumes!) and wishing security for under “non-MAGA voters and pets.”
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Such deranged venom is the upshot of years of race-based grievance-mongering on the left, together with radical dehumanizing of Americans who occur to suppose in a different way.
Plus (for the politicians and media, anyway), the “anything’s fair game” strategy to attacking Trump: Hence all the Democrats wrongly suggesting that Team Trump slowed the catastrophe response, with Texas Rep. Julian Castro and our own Sen. Chuck Schumer raging over National Weather Service cuts that . . . don’t turn out to be efficient till Oct. 1.
Never thoughts that the NWS sounded main warnings from Thursday afternoon on, with an pressing “catastrophic” labeled warning at 1:14 a.m. Friday — all hours earlier than the flooding started.
Independent meteorologists, left-leaning NBC News reviews, say NWS’s warnings have been about as well timed and correct as may very well be anticipated; also-lefty Politico likewise discovered “absolutely no evidence Trump’s NWS cuts had any impact on what happened.” Indeed: “The picture that’s emerging is one of a National Weather Service that did its job” as the nightmare unfolded.
Sorry: Doubling down on deranged demonization, whilst searchers nonetheless search to get well our bodies and (fingers crossed) rescue any remaining survivors, solely makes issues worse.
Liberals and progressives are supposed to care about people, not stew in hate.
