Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[John Tonkovich]

Facts don't matter to "Richard"

Texas Governor Abbott goes in Texas media, tells the people the truth and blames the frozen supply lines of natural gas for the power break down. Only minutes later he goes on Fox News, lies and declares windmills and the Green deal are to blame.

I hear you.
I just couldn't resist disproving Mr Smith, since it was so easy. About 30 seconds on Google.

[Rick Plant]

Does Old Joe have a plan to help those folks who are freezing to death in Texas?  Imagine if Trump or Bush were president and a large section of the country was experiencing such a disaster and being ignored.  It would be headlines.   But Old Joe is busy assisting illegal aliens.

 

Ah, blame President Biden for the disaster Republicans caused in Texas by refusing to update their own power grid. This is all on them.

Republicans are the reason millions of Texans are freezing to death but Ted Cruz takes off to Cancun.

What an absolute joke this is.

Maddow shames Texas Republicans for knowing 10 years ago their power plants couldn't withstand the cold
https://www.rawstory.com/maddow-shames-texas-republicans/

'Blood is on Abbott's hands': Anger at GOP surges as food and water shortages compound Texas power crisis
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-power-outage-2650608051/

[Rick Plant]

No one is blaming China Joe for the cold.  Only for not doing anything to assist those people trapped in the freezing cold without power.  There are 30K national guard troops standing around the Capitol twiddling their thumbs.  Maybe send some of those folks to help.  Remember the criticism Bush received in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?  Old Joe is more concerned with selling his "plan" to legalize illegal immigrants today than assisting millions of US citizens who are without power and suffering.

LOL.  Yes, I'm sure the people freezing to death haven't asked for any federal help.  They prefer to suffer and die.  If Trump had been in charge during this fiasco, it would be a nonstop media story to blame him.  He is heartless, incompetent, playing golf etc while people are dying.  But not a peep out of the media regarding the lack of any federal response. Let them eat icicles.

More b.s. from Richard the propagandist.   

Criminal Donald refused to help fire victims in the West because they live in blue states. President Biden already declared a state of emergency and provided resources for the people of Texas and expanded more emergency measures for them. The National Guard troops are stationed in D.C. to protect the Capitol and our members of Congress from Trump's domestic terrorists who vow to attack us again. Those are your people Richard.

President Biden authorizes supplies for Texas amid power outages, approves new disaster declarations
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/539437-biden-authorizes-supplies-for-texas-amid-power-outages-approves

[Rick Plant]

Richard shamelessly posts false smears against President Biden who immediately provide relief and emergency to Texans but said nothing about insurrectionist Ted Cruz fleeing to Cancun while his constituents freeze to death.

Ted Cruz Abandons Millions of Freezing Texans and His Poodle, Snowflake
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/ted-cruz-flees-texas-for-cancun-ditches-family-poodle.html

[Allan Fritzke]

More BS... Nobody is talking about the people freezing to death. Of course they want help, but the National Guard can not be deployed unless the Governor of a State asks for it. So go and talk to the Texas Governor!

Trump was in charge during the Puerto Rico earthquake and we all know what happened there. No need to rewrite history! The idiot was indeed playing golf and later wondered if he could swap Puerto Rico for Greenland.

As for the federal response, there was one. FEMA is an federal authority set up to provide assistance when a disaster happens.

That is likened to Trump offering the National Guard to the capital prior to January 6 while 'which' Pelosi makes the decision not to deploy their us and to use it instead for her own political gain!   After it is all said and done, she fires the seargent at arms and has him replaced.   She has just as much knowledge as Trump before the "insurrection" and does nothing to circumvent it - but hope something bad happens!

[Rick Plant]

That is likened to Trump offering the National Guard to the capital prior to January 6 while 'which' Pelosi makes the decision not to deploy their us and to use it instead for her own political gain!   After it is all said and done, she fires the seargent at arms and has him replaced. She has just as much knowledge as Trump before the "insurrection" and does nothing to circumvent it - but hope something bad happens!

More 

Criminal Donald was in charge to call the National Guard. He refused for several hours. That's why he was impeached.

Pelosi and the rest of Congress was under attack from Trump's domestic terrorists.

Once again, these right wingers blame everybody else except their orange messiah.     

Truly pathetic.

[Rick Plant]

One month in, how Biden has changed disaster management and the US COVID-19 response




After one month in office, the Biden administration has fundamentally changed how the federal government responds to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In direct contrast to his predecessor, President Joe Biden is treating this as a national-scale crisis requiring a comprehensive national strategy and federal resources. If that sounds familiar, it should: It's a return to a traditional – and in many ways proven – approach to disaster management.

The Trump administration deviated dramatically from established emergency management practices. It politicized public health and related decision-making processes and overrode the disaster response roles of federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Among other things, the Trump administration established an entirely new coordination structure headed by a White House task force, then changed the lead federal agency from Health and Human Services to FEMA. Those moves, combined with a disjointed array of other operational task forces, made it difficult to create an integrated response. Even basic data collection from hospitals for tracking the coronavirus's spread was thrown into disarray by changes.

The Biden administration is now reempowering key federal agencies to return to the roles and responsibilities they were designed for within a planned national disaster management structure.

Our own work in hazards management, with both governments and nongovernmental organizations, has shown us that fidelity to proper process and respect for expertise is essential to effective disaster management. The Biden administration's approach to the pandemic so far suggests this is the model it will follow.


What federal emergency response was designed to do

By design, the U.S. federal system for managing disasters is decentralized and tiered.

The system is structured so that local governments take the lead in managing hazards and responding to local emergencies. But when an emergency becomes a disaster-scale problem, state and federal governments should be prepared to provide financial assistance and other support, particularly logistical support.

FEMA, established in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, has a crucial role as a national emergency management coordinator. Just getting all levels of government to work together effectively, along with private and nonprofit organizations, represents a massive challenge. Major crises over the years, including the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012, have helped refine federal strategies and processes and improve preparedness for future disasters – including pandemics.


One of Joe Biden's first moves as president was to issue a national strategy for responding to the pandemic


Pandemic preparedness has been a part of U.S. emergency management planning since at least 2003. The H1N1 bird flu crisis in 2009 triggered the passage of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Authorization Act in 2013. That law established Health and Human Services as the lead federal agency, and the statute specifically addresses the development of medical surge capacity, pandemic vaccine and drug development and more.

Managing a pandemic is more challenging than other types of disasters. Unlike a wildfire or tornado, which strikes a specific place for a limited period of time, a global pandemic is all-encompassing, affecting all jurisdictions and every economic sector. It requires focused coordination between public health and emergency response bureaucracies within government and with other key partners such as hospitals.

Given the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government normally would have taken the lead in coordinating the response and assistance. Instead, the Trump administration devolved primary responsibility for the pandemic response to state and local governments, despite their limited capacity.

This approach was doomed to fail. It muddled use of the National Response Framework and created a competitive environment for state and local governments as they scrambled for supplies. It sidelined the agencies involved in pandemic preparedness, such as the CDC and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and it ignored specific plans for a pandemic response. It also politicized resource allocation choices and undermined, through misinformation, the importance of public health behaviors such as wearing masks.


Biden's return to established practices

Against this backdrop, the Biden administration's early efforts to return to established disaster management practice underscore the importance of leadership of complex systems used to address complex problems.

The list of changes in the month since Biden took office is extensive. The administration issued a comprehensive national strategy for pandemic response. It increased the involvement of FEMA and the Department of Defense to support vaccination distribution, expanded COVID-19 testing for underserved populations and rejoined the World Health Organization, which Trump had pulled out of. Biden also invoked the Defense Production Act to mobilize private industry to ramp up production of test kits, vaccines and personal protective equipment. The administration is now advocating for a national COVID-19 relief package in Congress.

The Biden administration's rapid, strategic reorientation of the federal government to manage the pandemic has parallels for other complex challenges, including developing a national strategy for addressing climate change. Continuing to refine these processes, including proper management of the federal bureaucracy, and public investments aimed at reducing risk should be priorities for the administration.

https://www.rawstory.com/one-month-in-how-biden-has-changed-disaster-management-and-the-us-19-response/

[Colin Crow]

Does Old Joe have a plan to help those folks who are freezing to death in Texas?  Imagine if Trump or Bush were president and a large section of the country was experiencing such a disaster and being ignored.  It would be headlines.   But Old Joe is busy assisting illegal aliens.

He could simply suggest that Texas becomes part of an integrated power grid and not an independant one. Suggest the various power providers install protection against cold snaps. Like the one that occurred in 2011 with similar effect. Perhaps the people of Texas need more Democratic representatives that will do something to help them rather than go on vacation to warmer places. Ya think?