Again, not my words

THE DYING TIME BEGINS ANEW Get used to hearing: “We could have saved lives but chose not to.”

Radio Free Mars | Thaddeus Howze

Let me begin by saying this: I mourn the lives lost in last night’s tornado. Every one of them mattered. Every one of them might have been saved.

And now let me say what others won’t: these deaths were preventable. They are not merely the result of extreme weather — they are the consequence of deliberate political choices.

These are the wages of austerity, ignorance, and ideological sabotage. They are the first major fatalities caused by a weakened U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) and a gutted National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — casualties of the so-called “government reduction program” pushed by Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the billionaire sycophants of deregulation.

Programs like DO(d)GE (the Department of Government Efficiency) don’t exist to improve public infrastructure. They exist to dismantle it.

These deaths are not accidents of nature. They are policy outcomes.

The same people who dismiss climate science and slash scientific budgets now preside over a system that can no longer protect its people. Tornadoes don’t wait for press conferences. Storms don’t care about polls. But they respond to physics, to data, and to warning systems that once worked — until they were stripped for parts.

We are entering an era where unpredictable devastation will be met with predictable silence. Where disasters will be followed by “thoughts and prayers,” but not by reform or funding. Where warnings come too late — if at all.

Let history record this moment.

Let it say: this was the storm that proved neglect can kill just as surely as wind. And let it also say: we were warned.

Brace yourselves: Summer will be a killing season. Extreme heat will affect hundreds of millions simultaneously.

Weather patterns will bring unprecedented rainfall and storm surges that overwhelm drainage systems and breach every failing levee and sewage pipe.

Windstorms, dust storms, haboobs, and tornadoes will sweep across entire regions, leaving wreckage and death in their wake.

From the over-warm Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, hurricanes of immense size and ferocity will rise — storms made monstrous by a superheated climate. They will carve deadly paths through coastal communities, and without early warnings, many will not escape.

We once had those warnings — timely, precise, and life-saving — issued by a well-funded, fully staffed National Weather Service.

Not anymore.

And when the storm passes, you may look for help — but FEMA will not be there in force. Fragmented and underfunded, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been hollowed out by the same policies that gutted science.

Every state will be left to fend for itself, with disaster response determined by political will and available funds. In many red states, that funding is nonexistent, and so is the will to prepare.

Policy will decide who lives. Policy will decide who dies. And most disturbingly: policy will decide who gets your home when you're gone.

If you think you’ll be made whole again, study your state’s insurance laws. Many of them will not work in your or your family’s favor when disaster strikes.

This isn’t just climate change. This is climate betrayal.

Welcome to "disaster capitalism" with you as the star. If you survive, the battle will have only just begun.

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Remember, this guy is making money by declaring the world is on fire and will be destroyed by his enemies. This is all just theatrics.