Department of Government Efficiency - DOGE

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Septic said:
I long for a world where people don't assume what they read on social media from randos is true.

Intelligent people should assume everything they read on twitter is bullsh*t, until it's borne out with citations, links or other verifiable sources.
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Jack Dorsey destroyed that world.
 
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n_huffhines said:
🚨 🚨 MASSIVE FRAUD 🚨 🚨

We fkn told everybody 100x. How many times has Elon humiliated his fanboys here?

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DOGE’s Hunt for Social Security Fraud Ends in Total Bust

Elon Musk and his DOGE minions wrecked the Social Security Administration for no reason at all.
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A good 3/5 on the right wing social media posting protocol.

Points were taken off for the lack of exclamation points and the lack of a homoerotic profile pic....

You would have got extra credit if you put BREAKING - MASSIVE FRAUD instead of MASSIVE FRAUD.
 
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C-south said:
Guess we’ll have to wait and see what that brings.
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Pretty sure we saw that last night. Multiple Tornado on the ground for 20-30 miles with a big ass debris signature and no type of warning upgrade.

Thankfully you had the Ryan Hall types who was able to communicate the severity of what was coming....
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Just a reminder DOGE fired the people who managed evening and overnight shifts at the Paducah and Jackson, KY NWS offices....
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The NWS office in Jackson said they had a full staff there last night. The only time that they do not have someone in the office are overnights when bad weather is not expected.
 
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Boston Vol said:
The NWS office in Jackson said they had a full staff there last night. The only time that they do not have someone in the office are overnights when bad weather is not expected.
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A good friend at NWS Memphis is contradicting this and this sounds like some CYA for failing to upgrade the warnings. NWS Memphis assisted Paducah a good bit last night, for example...

Just my .02

No other rationale for that storm to be on the ground for 20 miles with big ass debris ball and it not getting upgraded to an observed, PDS, or Tornado Emergency...
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
A good friend at NWS Memphis is contradicting this and this sounds like some CYA for failing to upgrade the warnings. NWS Memphis assisted Paducah a good bit last night, for example...

Just my .02

No other rationale for that storm to be on the ground for 20 miles with big ass debris ball and it not getting upgraded to an observed, PDS, or Tornado Emergency...
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Okay, then maybe they just failed at their jobs, and staff cuts aren’t the reason they failed to issue an enhanced warning. If this happened because of staff cuts, I’m pretty sure the union representing Weather Service employees would be raising hell right now on every news outlet they could.
 
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Boston Vol said:
Okay, then maybe they just failed at their jobs, and staff cuts aren’t the reason they failed to issue an enhanced warning. If this happened because of staff cuts, I’m pretty sure the union representing Weather Service employees would be raising hell right now on every news outlet they could.
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This POTUS threatened to fire NWS employees over Sharpie Gate in Term 1 with the hurricane...
 
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Boston Vol said:
This is entire thing is rather simple. Show that the lack of an enhanced warning being issued to Pulaski and Laurel counties was due to staff cuts.
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Spotters called it in, law enforcement called it in, there was a debris signature that was evident on a 99 cent app, you had the Ryan Halls of the world calling it. This exact supercell had been causing issues for a long time. It was the same supercell that dropped a tornado near Sikeston, MO and then tracked across the entire dang state of KY dropping tornadoes several times along that path.

A tornado that big on the ground that long without an enhanced warning is an absolute failure. It's staffing or extreme incompetence. Im not buying incompetence.

I can buy a lack of radar infrastructure, convoluted approval process, communication gaps, the number of storms, which is all exacerbated by staffing. I would suspect all of that was why they didnt upgrade it until it passed through Somerset.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
The overhyping he does sometimes does more harm than good. Events like last night he saved lives. The Paducah and Jackson KY NWS screwed up royally. (Clearly if you fire/cut the evening/night shift during a high end Dixie Alley nocturnal event that's bound to happen)
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Everyone on twitter keeps saying this is due to the doge cuts, but I still haven't seen a single clear logical connection between that and NWS Jackson not issuing a tornado emergency for Somerset.

Also, it has been reported that NWS Jackson was fully staffed last night, so I'm not buying this.

If they had the staff to issue the initial tornado warning, they had the staff to upgrade it appropriately.

It's extreme incompetence.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Spotters called it in, law enforcement called it in, there was a debris signature that was evident on a 99 cent app, you had the Ryan Halls of the world calling it. This exact supercell had been causing issues for a long time. It was the same supercell that dropped a tornado near Sikeston, MO and then tracked across the entire dang state of KY dropping tornadoes several times along that path.

A tornado that big on the ground that long without an enhanced warning is an absolute failure. It's staffing or extreme incompetence. Im not buying incompetence.

I can buy a lack of radar infrastructure, convoluted approval process, communication gaps, the number of storms, which is all exacerbated by staffing. I would suspect all of that was why they didnt upgrade it until it passed through Somerset.
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So, are they incompetent or just short staffed? What you listed points more toward incompetence. Again, don’t you think the union, who has been very critical of the cuts made by the Trump administration, would love nothing more than to blame this entire situation on staff cuts? Yet they’ve been completely silent today. The only thing we’ve heard today is the Jackson office saying that they were fully staffed last night.
 
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Matt2496 said:
Everyone on twitter keeps saying this is due to the doge cuts, but I still haven't seen a single clear logical connection between that and NWS Jackson not issuing a tornado emergency for Somerset.

Also, it has been reported that NWS Jackson was fully staffed last night, so I'm not buying this.

If they had the staff to issue the initial tornado warning, they had the staff to upgrade it appropriately.

It's extreme incompetence.
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I don't buy the staffing. That smells like CYA.

There are some radar gaps in that part of the world. There's some in Eastern AR, NW TN, WKY, and SE Missouri. However, this wasnt a storm in hindsight that packed more of a punch than a radar indication. It looked eerily similar to the Mayfield storm on radar.

I literally watched two of my rental properties get taken out by a well warned EF3. A lot of lives were saved on March 31, 2023 because NWS Memphis and NWS Little Rock used the upgrades as needed. That sadly did not happen last night....
 
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Boston Vol said:
So, are they incompetent or just short staffed? What you listed points more toward incompetence. Again, don’t you think the union, who has been very critical of the cuts made by the Trump administration, would love nothing more than to blame this entire situation on staff cuts? Yet they’ve been completely silent today. The only thing we’ve heard today is the Jackson office saying that they were fully staffed last night.
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Sharpiegate my friend....

We saw what happened when they spoke out there.

It reads and feels like a CYA. It just does. Im a bit cynical but this doesnt pass the sniff test. I could buy a mutually beneficial CYA argument. Some of the "staffing" was people working from offices 200-300 miles away which was dealing with their own issues. I could buy that as a communication gap.
 
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Septic said:
I long for a world where people don't assume what they read on social media from randos is true.

Intelligent people should assume everything they read on twitter is bullsh*t, until it's borne out with citations, links or other verifiable sources.
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Hold on……are you telling me that kid rock isn’t running for president in 28?
 
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