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that i have to say and it has really been weighing on my mind and i've been wondering if i should say it

because the people of texas are really going through it right now.

And I didn't want to be a distraction to the folks of Texas. I've waited a little bit. But I am outraged,

number one, by the response that this administration has had and the lack of accountability. And number two,

I've been outraged really by the media coverage. I know it's always really easy to blame the media

and I hated that, especially when I was in legacy media, a traditional media. But this one is,

I think, needs to be said. Okay. And I just want to be clear about this. And this is, I wrote about this on substack. I just want to be clear from the very first sentence. It says Texas is drowning. So is American journalism. Texans are dying. The government is lying. And the media, too many are too afraid to say it out loud. Okay. And I just had to do this because I believe this to be true.

And I start by saying, let's just be clear from the very first sentence, this disaster in Texas

didn't just happen. It wasn't just the weather. It wasn't just an act of God. This catastrophe,

this deadly, devastating tragedy has left hundreds dead and missing,

was made worse by choices, by deliberate calculated actions from the Trump administration.

So I don't want to say, you know, oh my God, this is the, you know, blame everything on the media.

I also want to say, I know that the Trump administration does not control the weather.

I mean, Marjorie Taylor Green may think that, you know, that the weather is controlled by, you know, the deep state, the Jewish space lasers and all of that.

I'm not that dumb to think that.

But this administration gutted FEMA.

That's what I mean by accountability and what's happened here.

They slashed funding for Noah.

They stripped disaster preparedness programs to the bone.

While pumping billions into Doge is what they did it.

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