OT: Texas Flood

[badgervike]

Even though it supports me in this case, I have zero use for fact checkers.  They're usually as or more biased than the people they're fact checking.  The common-sense approach here is that Trump just got to act on his first real financial (budgeted) bill.  Democrats will use every crisis to jump on Republicans for cuts, kinda like every time it storms it has to be climate change.  Common sense tells us that there are a lot of other factors that were in play here that had nothing to do with staffing or support from federal agencies.  People that believe that want to believe that to validate their point, not from factual information.

No disagreement on Fact checkers.  They exist purely to provide political cover to the Left.  I had an issue with a Politifact local ruling in Wisconsin centered around state politics and talked with the guy from the Milwaukee Journal that made the ruling (on behalf of Politifact National). The ruling was so clearly false and he ruled mostly true by distorting the truth and extrapolating a lot of what ifs which they expressly say in their rulings they avoid.  At the end of the conversation, he acknowledged my points but basically confirmed they existed to support a position.  There used to be a website called Politifactlies which would fact check the fact checker. If you believe their rulings, Republicans lie 3 or 4 times as much as a Democrat.  The reality is they cherry pick topics and carve a response based on liberal ideology.

Have you ever heard anyone on the right say "Well...Politifact...or Factcheck...or Snopes says X".  It's purely used by the Liberal base to justify their opinions.  So...when they say that they were staffed and warned appropriately...you can take it to the bank.

[JimmyinSD]

Regardless of fact checkers or no, facts are that the area received more than ample notice of the impending danger and for whatever reason those warnings were ignored. Any attempts to place blame on a lack of federal response are simply partisan bull shit with the information available to date.