Now that we’ve had catastrophic flooding in Texas (and elsewhere), we know the importance of accurate and prompt weather prediction and notification, right? Trimp’s administration is already taking flak for dismissing key personnel.
So we won’t see anything like THAT in the near future.
To be clear, those satellites are past end of life, so they would have had to be shut down no matter who had won the last election.
BUT the DoD has opted not to make data from their replacement satellites to be made available, either. And that is some top shelf bullshit.
ALSO, they had already been granted a one month extension. If they’re still up and running, why not an extension to the end of this year’s hurricane season, at least?
Look, man, I was to meet the Cheeto-Faced ShitGibbon: the only way to cope with that was every bloom of Matanuska Valley Thunderfuck I could get my hands on.
You give him a lot more credit than he deserves. There’s no way to tell it hasn’t happened already. The ones inside aren’t telling (and can’t be trusted not to lie), anyway.
So I’ve sent the occasional feisty emails to white house.gov. To my shock their site now counts me as a supporter. Apparently I have to lace my messages with a lot of nasty profanity to get tossed in the opposition.