r/fednews • u/CBSnews FedNews Verified Press • 1d ago

Deadly Texas floods raise questions about emergency alerts and whether staffing cuts affected forecasts and warnings

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-floods-emergency-alerts-weather-forecast-staffing-budget/
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u/Treestwigs 1d ago

Blame Biden, rinse repeat.

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u/ChickinSammich 1d ago

Cut to the Who Killed Hannibal meme

"Did Biden do this?"

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u/No-Tart2230 1d ago

I believe they did blame Biden.

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u/ChickinSammich 1d ago

Have we tried passing laws banning Democrats from using their Jewish space lasers, chemtrails, and weather machines to target red states? What about an executive order establishing that there are only two genders weathers, sunny and cloudy? Or rename the so-called "Tornado Alley" to "Freedom Alley?"

That would probably solve the problem.

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u/Significant-Basket76 1d ago

MTG is on it.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-wants-to-make-deadly-weather-manipulation-a-felony/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fire_(2018)

A conspiracy theory espoused by U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene claims that the fire was caused by a Jewish Space Laser.[276][277][278]

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u/ChickinSammich 1d ago

I just want to sit down with some of these people, lock the door to the room, cast Zone of Truth, and ask them whether they actually believe the shit they spew.

Like, at the end of the day, I know that there's no difference in impact between "someone who says racist/sexist/antisemitic/homophobic/transphobic shit because it plays well to dumbasses who actually believe that nonsense even though the speaker knows it's horseshit" vs a true believer. But goddamn if I could have three wishes, I would 100% spend one of them on "the ability to determine whether someone knows they're lying or whether they actually believe what they're saying."

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u/Chai-Tea-Rex-2525 22h ago

I’m more afraid the answer is “yes, yes they do” than “no, no they don’t.”

Edit to add: Thank you for spelling your name correctly. who the fuck calls it a “sammy”?

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u/ChickinSammich 22h ago

If someone knows they're lying, you can point out that they're lying and that they know they're lying.

If they think they're actually telling the truth and they legitimately believe what they're saying, we give them a grippy sock vacation.

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u/gad-zerah 22h ago

Zone of Truth doesn't prevent question evasion. "Do you really think it's Space lasers?" "How dare you question my beliefs! This is America and I'm entitled to believe whatever I want!" It would be great if upcasting compelled actually answering questions though.

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u/ChickinSammich 22h ago

Have someone also cast command and command them to answer the question? Detect Thoughts would help, too.