You have to wonder why the administration's trying to make Americans less safe. You don't have to wonder that I know why, but you should ask him. Constantly. Loudly.

About project 2025:

The plan, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, says that the weather service should “fully commercialize its forecasting operations” and focus on providing data to private companies.

It also calls for a “review” of the work of the National Hurricane Center. It acknowledges that the center provides important public safety information, but also says its data should be presented “neutrally” rather than in a way that makes points about climate change.

Edit: here is the source of the quote, an article from September 2024 https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4907338-heritage-foundation-plan-weather-service/

Holy shit, they actually fucked over NOAA.

Fucking why.

They literally do nothing but benefit the world.

I am so tired of this shit, either let me fuck off and live in the woods so I never have to interact with this again or just end everything now, the world they are building isn't worth living in.

Fuck.

All by themselves, weather forecasting satellites justify every dollar put into space programs. The lives saved are incalculable. We are squandering that benefit for no reason whatsoever.

Officials were caught off guard? What do you mean? Was anybody watching the last election and reading project 2025? None of this is a shock.

In lieu of actual vital data, the DOD will be sending out tRump-branded black Sharpies.

This was originally in the DOGE plan. What took so long to process? I've been watching for news on this catastrophic decision.

Apparently hurricanes, which are the only outside force that regularly invades and obliterates American cities on American soil, costing billions in damages, multiple times a year...

... are not as important as these undisclosed "security concerns" that DoD somehow finds more important/immediate.

What's the real story? Protecting Americans from hurricanes is too "woke" or something?

including those monitoring changes to sea ice extent in the polar regions

Ah, there it is. Kicking climate change under the carpet again, I see.

As ever, the Trump Regime is a colony of dumb and malicious assholes.

Trump is making himself the enemies of farmers and coastal communities alike. If I were an evil overlord, I would want my logistics to be rock solid.

🤦

They think that if they don't look at the hurricanes then they won't make landfall.

Other than this being Putin Puppetry, I have no idea who would think this is good.

We're castrating FEMA and NOAA. What is the benefit?

Can some one send this mother fucker on his way already?

You know what?

Go ham. The south Atlantic coast and the gulf coast voted for this. Now comes the “find out” part. I am genuinely out of fucks to give. Enjoy your hurricanes and the non-response you’ll get from the now-gutted FEMA. See if I fucking care. Have fun machine-gunning your own foot.

Waiting, sadly, for GPS to go back to being obfuscated again. It's bound to happen. Want GPS? You gotta pay.

Seems off topic, I know, but they did this (hurricane) by turning off satellite feeds

Get ready for sharpie hurricane forecasting!

It's silly to invest in all this expensive technology when you can just look out a window and draw these things with a sharpie.

Who does this help???

Isn't Trump's house in Florida?

Any hurricane that comes by surprise will be nuked, not to worry.

Why don't people realize Dear Leader (and his Sharpie) is all that's required for ultimately accurate and divinely inspired hurricane forecasting??

Because having less knowledge always works out. Between this and the loss of FEMA, we should get even more "I didn't vote for this". Yes, you did. You just weren't listening.

scrambling to understand the rationale behind the abrupt termination

Stop trying to look for any rationale behind anything this administration does. There is none.

I gues we shouldn't have made fun of moron for thinking Georgia was Alabama. Disrupting climate change tracking is just an added bonus for super petty grudge holder. Prosecutorial immunity for elected officials was a terrible mistake.

This is beyond terrible.

If you don't know about the hurricane it can't hurt you.

It's like people don't like surprises anymore.

For fucks sake, can this admin get any fucking dumber?

mmm. comment about real estate prices in florida or on how presidential markers will be the new forecast. so many options.

WTF is a hurricane? It's just a storm, get over it.