It Has Begun

Oh yeah, Rosie O'Donnell is a real kitchen table issue the president should be getting triggered over

 

Unlike that brainless sack of crap who wandered the White House grounds hoping someone would change his diapers, President Trump can multitask.

It’s extremely possible for Trump to save America and keep Rosie out all at the same time. Actually those two things go hand-in-hand.

 

Not even dignifying the first part of that sentence, he actually cannot keep her out. It makes him look like a mad king when he gets all worked up like this.

Wait, on second thought, I prefer it when he's distracted and whining about petty matters he can't do anything about anyway.

 

He's just doing it so he doesn't have to talk about the Epstein client list debacle or the failures in the Texas floods anyway.

 

“Really got his finger on the important issues ” . . . That's some statement, coming from a Democrat.

 

Trump on Epstein



High profile responses on his own platform

 

This comment is not directed at you in particular, @GeneWright . . . it has more to do with liberals in general.

Seems every time an attempt at denigrating this administration's efforts results in yet another example of its productivity, you move on to a completely different approach.

Jump around much?

 

Engaging with this seriously, it's a pretty effective strategy Trump uses that Bannon coined called "flood the zone"

If he does so many objectionable things at once, it's tough (practically impossible) to stay focused on any one thing. So, when there's a story that's not going well (Texas floods for instance) make announcements about Epstein while also calling out Rosie O'Donnell and defunding science. Some of them are just noise (O'Donnell story for example) but it's tough to ignore a sitting President threatening to take the citizenship of a natural born citizen (even if that's not supposed to be possible).

As a result, the opposition both looks (and actually is to some degree) in disarray because they're just trying to follow the chaos he leaves in his wake.

 

I'm sure you consider this tactic the province of the Trump Administration alone . . .

You're right there . . . Rosie O'Donnell is nothing but noise. Doubting Trump's ability to legally follow through with revoking her citizenship, I've done a bit more research and do believe he has wiggle room enough to do just that.











No, Rosie . . . that is why you were at the voting booth. You didn't get what you wanted. You stated, "that is why we are here" because you are not patient enough to wait for the next election.

The Declaration of Independence does not usurp the US Constitution. For O'Donnell to attempt to undermine the latter with the former, and to incite The People to oppose the government is illegal, and amounts to treason. Treason is justification for revocation of citizenship.

 

Of course not, but I think he's an expert at it. To his credit, where most politicians use distractions about opponents or positive self stories, Trump isn't afraid to do damaging things to himself (assuming he's doing it on purpose and not just an idiot). Scandal after scandal is tougher to ignore than the usual politician distraction tactics.

Only if speech of a private citizen can be punished as treason. I doubt it. In any case, I would be shocked if he was actually trying to do it rather than just making idle noise as he usually does.

 

As is DEI, trans issues, child pornography, child mutilation, gay rights, equity over ability, and….. Add your whacko issue here….

 

@GeneWright ….. I been away a week catching up with family in Oklahoma. I was geographically close to the devastating Texas floods and we were all pretty engrossed in the coverage last week….. But twice now I heard you comment along the lines of “things aren’t going well for Trump with the Texas floods”….. That comment intrigues me as I have no earthly idea what you may be referring to. Is Trump responsible for natural disasters now somehow?

 

FEMA delays and issues exacerbating the situation via Noem's inaction

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/...e_code=1.V08.50I9.02A_IjudStLv&smid=url-share

 

Doubtless, some of the delay in services can be attributed to recent FEMA cuts. Of course, those who lost their jobs were likely less responsive than those who kept them, and we all know how responsive some “workers” in call centers can be, so the delay in reinstating those services probably did not exacerbate the situation as much as you imagine.

More importantly, delayed delivery of those services is much less serious than the 120 lives lost in that flood. Had FEMA not liberalized the flood map in 2013 under Obama, it is likely that far fewer would have perished last week.

 

Did you read the article? It's pretty cut and dry Noem's misdoing based on call data. Those workers are actually quite good!

July 5th - 3018/3027 calls successfully answered

Noem allows the contract for the call workers to lapse. It's unclear why she did this. Hundreds of workers were fired on the evening of July 5th

July 6th - 846/2363 calls answered

July 7th - 2613/16419 calls answered

Furthermore, there's frustration among FEMA workers that door-to-door sweeps to help people were ended last month under this administration.

You can be pedantic about the exact magnitude of the effect if you want, but it's clear their negligence is making things worse. I wouldn't want to be in a hurricane zone or a flood plain this year...

 

Yeah, I read it. Why did you not mention their failure to answer 50% of calls related to hurricane Milton?

When you say hundreds of workers were fired on July 5th, I don’t believe it. I think the undisclosed source is a left-leaning employee who is deliberately misleading everyone. It sounds to me like the contracts expired July 5th, and those workers were guaranteed employment through the end of the contracts. If new contracts required approval to engage their services again, the lapse may have been inadvertent.

As concerns door to door sweeps, you are a fine one to complain, after what FEMA under the Biden Administration did following floods in Kentucky.

 

Sure, but the call volume was magnitudes higher in that event. It's bad that Trump and Noem's FEMA can't handle a relatively small event.

Yeah yeah, whatever it takes not to question your priors.

That's exactly what happened. New policy, by Noem required her personally to approve anything over $100,000. She personally delayed it due to this policy. Whether that's due to malice, incompetence, or whatever, who's to say.

Please, elaborate.

 

Tsk, tsk . . . consider the context. The Milton calls came in over many more days, and FEMA had much more notice of the severity of that threat.

I'll let the history of your kind speak for itself.

It is extremely common to limit how much is approvable by different levels of management without executive oversight. That Noem doesn't know the dates of expiry of the contracts her reports are managing for her is testament to the fact that she is watching the right things and not the wrong ones. It seems likely to me that the contracts were not put in front of her for approval until the 11th hour, or later.

Whoops, I meant to type Obama and typed Biden instead. Linkie . . . https://www.newsweek.com/fema-flood-map-texas-2098162

 

Not many more days, 7 days vs 3 days. 500,000 calls vs 22,000 calls. Yes, FEMA notoriously struggles with large scale catastrophic events it should be prepared for. This case in Texas was it struggling with a relatively tiny event.

Or ignoring her email. Per the article, there was communication for days frustrated she wouldn't give an answer.

Discredited by communications above. FOIA is slow, but I expect those emails to be public eventually via FOIA requests.

That article had nothing to do with Obama or Kentucky? Maybe the wrong one?

 

My point was the hurricane was long-expected to bring trouble, and left FEMA with time to prepare its reaction. Meetings the day before, formulating boiler plate responses for call centers to read from, etc. The flood in Texas was almost completely unexpected, and the deluge of water came and went in about an hour. You are comparing a grape and a grapefruit.

Nowhere in that article does it say she "wouldn't" give an answer. Surely, she was very distracted, and may have made phone communications her priority until the crisis abated, perhaps not realizing the contracts had expired in the interim.

Not the wrong one . . . poor recall on my part.

I forgot that we were discussing the Biden Admin's politically-slanted response to the flooding in Kentucky last year. For some reason, I shifted direction and linked to a story about the changing of the flood map in 2013.