There are many legitimate questions swirling around the devastating floods in Texas last weekend which left at least 100 dead. They include issues on emergency alert financing decisions taken by the Republican legislature of the Texas State and on the reductions of the federal agencies implemented by the Trump administration which may have affected the way in which the emergency response has been managed. They also include questions raised in the recent reports of Texas Tribune, which revealed that the warning meteorologist for the Austin / San Antonio office of the National Weather Service announced in April that it would retire early after federal funding discounts.
But we live in the Maga era. And despite all these honest questions – on preparation for the disasters of counties, states and states, on the increasingly disastrous impacts of climate change – Trump’s allies provide their own conspiracy theories to explain tragedy.
They involve a vitriol anti-dei, because of course they do it.
Charlie Kirk, the far -right in -line provocateur and the conspiracy theorist who co -founded the extremist group Turning Point USA for right -wing young people, propagates a bizarre affirmation on the Austin fire service – which serves residents of the city of Austin, located more than 100 miles in the east of the worst of floods. In today’s episode of his podcast, the Charlie Kirk Show who throws himself on Rumble, Kirk said that the so-called “Dei” moving at the heart of the Austin fire service was in fact to blame for gaps in the emergency response to the fatal flood.
Here are Kirk’s remarks, initially reported by Media Matters for America:
The media that does not tell you anywhere is that the number of deaths would probably not have been so high if it was not for Dei. This Texas tragedy is only the latest example. It is not only incompetence. It is Dei who works to undermine the meritocratic institutions, and more people are probably dead than what would have been otherwise because of Dei. Let me prove it to you.
Kirk goes on a whole screed by explaining its inaccurate version of the events surrounding a decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Obama 2013 Administration to investigate the Austin fire service for racial discrimination in its job practices. The complaint filed by the Obama Doj was settled in 2014, according to the Ministry of Justice. Here are some additional details of the cover of Austin-American Statesman in 2018 the expiration of the consent decree:
In 2013, officials of the Ministry of Justice found evidence that Hispanics and African-Americans were victims of discrimination during the job process, and that they were less likely to be hired than white candidates because of the way the fire service has classified eligible candidates.
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In 2014, the Austin Municipal Council approved a regulation with the Ministry of Justice, agreeing to pay up to $ 780,000 for unsuccessful firefighters for back wages and cancel 30 new rental positions for African-American and Hispanic candidates.
Kirk continued by saying that Austin’s decision to hire the city’s first black firefighters prevented the ministry from properly preparing for the floods.
Standard – Until Trump II – The diversity initiatives of the workplace have become the new “deep state”. They are the bad guy behind all the natural disasters and tragedies during Trump’s second term, an amorphous, intangible and sinister presence at the heart of all the questions that could cause a bad press for Trump’s agenda.
Republicans do not read the legislative text
Similar to the way in which certain Republicans of the Chamber claimed ignorance on an AI provision which has been hidden in their initial version of the Progress of Trump’s reconciliation, the Senate Republicans are now wondering how a mysterious text which will limit tax deductions on loss of play has been reinforced in the final version of the bill. (The Senate Republicans finally removed the provision of the AI of their version of the legislation, which would have prevented the states from regulating AI for the next decade.)
By HuffPost:
The provision surprised many members of the industry as well as many republican senators involved in the drafting of the legislation, which told HuffPost that they did not know how or why it had been inserted into the bill. GOP legislators were under pressure to adopt the bill by the Trump’s self-imposed deadline on July 4.
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Under the new law, players will be authorized to deduct only 90% of their losses thanks to their income taxes from 2026. Previously, they could deduct 100% of their losses. Now, for example, players who earn $ 100,000 but lose $ 100,000 – even when leaving – would always be required to pay taxes out of $ 10,000.
Van Orden does what the Republicans do the best: take the merit of the work of DEMS
Representative Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) was on social networks by saying that he helped get a billion dollars to help the Wisconsin hospitals survive the deep cups of Medicaid who will soon strike them because of President Donald Trump and the “Big Beautiful” bill of the Republicans of the Congress.
Except that, of course, Van Orden was one of the republicans of the Chamber who supported and voted for the bill on Medicaid coup and he was not involved in the guarantee of money that would help hospitals in the Badger State.
The Governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers (D) and the state legislators, quickly adopted a new state budget which increased taxes on state medicaid suppliers, in order to prevent their provisions of providers to be frozen at the very low rate in which he was, due to the Reconciliation invoice of Trump. The increase in tax rates will allow the state of $ 1 billion in federal dollars, which helps him compensate for some of the MEDICAID drops on the horizon.
Van Orden, whose siege is considered a “throwing”, really wants people to think he was crucial to ensure this money. He said on several occasions on social networks that he was the reason why the state legislature and the governor acted as quickly as they did.
But an Evers spokesman quickly closed Van Orden’s claims, telling HuffPost that Van Orden did not play any role in the negotiations between the governor and state legislators on the state budget or their efforts to move quickly to guarantee the money necessary to compensate for the Medicaid cuts.
“If the member of the Congress Van Orden wanted to attribute the merit of supporting Medicaid and to protect the access of Wisconsinit to health care, he might not have had to vote to intertise Medicaid and launch 250,000 Wisconsinites of their health care,” said Everse spokesman Britt Cudaback in a press release.
– Emine Yücel
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