Houston Chronicle Gut Punches Trump
The Houston Chronicle did an editorial that may be some of their best work.
They are not happy with what Trump said about Hurricane Harvey.
Unfortunately, we’ve grown accustomed to bizarre Trumpian bloviations. (No, Mr. President, Canada did not burn down the White House.) The ad hoc remarks are often best ignored. U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz did just that, discretion being the better part of Republican valor in these peculiar times. And yet the president’s Hurricane Harvey inanity is too serious for Houstonians to let slide.
Help from the federal government, from the White House, from the Texas congressional delegation. If the man in charge is abysmally ignorant about what happened in the wake of a Category 4 storm and the epic deluge that followed, who’s to say that government agencies — Housing and Urban Development, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Flood Insurance Program, among others — will understand the urgency of Houston’s needs? Who’s to say that Ben Carson and other Trump appointees will be any better informed?
Good damn question! And they use trickle down down to handle Greg Abbott.
We need political leadership — from Washington to be sure, but also from Austin. Gov. Greg Abbott, whose mealy-mouthed response to the president’s remark was nearly as inane as the remark itself — “no information on that one way or the other” — ought to have called a special session of the Texas Legislature months ago to address relief, recovery and preparedness. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick needs to tend to local needs.
My favorite is them calling Trump “abysmally ignorant.”
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
“abysmally ignorant” Ms. JuanitaJean Herownself? Dotard45 would need a ladder to reach that abyss of ignorance. As for Donnie’s other appointees, they’re being home-schooled by Betsy DeVos.
1Calling Trump “abysmally ignorant” is an insult to abysses everywhere.
2Excellent article; and he IS abysmally ignorant.
3Abbott says “no information on that one way or the other”
The Abyss of Ignorance knows no bounds.
4slipstream, any metaphor of “Donnie is as dumb as ____” comes with an attached apology for the maligned demographic be it animal, mineral or vegetable. Donnie is the imbecile Kim Jong-Un tells jokes about … I can wait for tomorrow, when Kim will be serving him a plateful of egg fool dumb. Wait until Dotard45 discovers he can’t wash that kimchi off his face. Pray to the dog the person carrying the nuclear codes can run a 3:43 mile while breaking a Secret Service tackle.
Unholy flying dogs for the “good ‘ol days” when we thought Dubya was embarrassing.
Texas, we love you, but could you at least take Teddie Crooze out of the Senate in November? And please, spay and neuter all of your snacilbupeR. That last request goes out to all 50 states. TIA
5Dump’s abysmal ignorance is exceeded only by his soul-searing apathy for anyone other than himself.
6Spanky “abysmally ignorant” Drumpf it is. +1
7The less that Dan Patrick is allowed to screw up—“local needs,” whatever—the better off we all are.
8Time for another round of the public screaming: Do your job! Do your job!
9Abysmally ignorant? Yup. And he glories in it so don’t expect any change for the better.
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