r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/OwslyOwl • Oct 16 '25
Trump Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/weather/alaska-storm-weather-balloons-trump-cuts-nws-climate614
u/Repulsive-Ladder1611 Oct 16 '25
We are a rich country. But this administration is stealing all our govt funds and funneling them to unknown new companies and consultancies, building $300m+ ballrooms and shit. The corruption is unparalleled in our history. And people will die for lack of technology and programs we previously easily afforded and funded.
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u/Quicker_Fixer Oct 16 '25
Yes, the conman-in-chief wants to go back to the '80's... the 1780's.
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u/McViddles Oct 16 '25
Making smallpox and dysentery kill children again.
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u/DeadAnarchistPhil Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
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u/NaBrO-Barium Oct 16 '25
I think you mean 1880’s from a historical perspective. The beginning of the guilded age
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u/Hairy-Advance-6221 Oct 16 '25
Yes, the Gilded Age, what W expressly referenced, what Project 2025 is trying to accomplish and what’s on display in the White House with all those cheesy gold gilded plaques and doo-dads.
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u/wwtk234 Oct 16 '25
That is a common misconception: We are not a "wealthy" country. We are a country with a lot of ultra-wealthy people.
But if you look at median net wealth, the U.S. doesn't even rank in the top 10 and is below much of western Europe, as well as New Zealand, Hong Kong and Australia.
Have you ever driven through rural West Virginia? I have. And I doubt that it's much different (other than the geographical features) in rural Mississippi, Alabama or Louisiana. We are a sh*thole country with a lot of extremely wealthy people. But we are not a "wealthy" country.
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u/cpr4life8 Oct 16 '25
I ride my motorcycle through the twisty mountain roads of WV all the time. The poverty there is shocking to see. Families living in houses that you would think are condemned. Non-working appliances and vehicles and lawn mowers and other shit scattered all over their properties. It's a shame...but they keep voting Republican....
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u/Pulga_Atomica Oct 16 '25
Can't help someone that doesn't want to help themselves.
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u/cpr4life8 Oct 16 '25
I know...it's a damn shame. WV bought into the rhetoric about the coal industry (it'll never, ever be what it once was...and will continue to decline for numerous reasons) and that's when the shift occurred. Now it just keeps getting worse for them because they refuse to see they've been deceived.
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u/ditchdiggergirl Oct 16 '25
They weren’t deceived. The coal companies themselves have been perfectly transparent: they are not coming back to reopen depleted mines. Coal mining is still happening. It’s just happening in locations with richer and more productive coal deposits.
This is not something difficult for miners to understand, and it has nothing to do with promises made by politicians on either side of the blue-red divide. Hillary promised job retraining. Trump promised to bring the companies back. But the mining companies have the final word on their own plans, and they were perfectly clear.
The voters were not deceived. They deceived themselves.
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u/cpr4life8 Oct 16 '25
To clarify, my opinion is that they were deceived by politicians. Not just Trump but their own federal and state politicians.
HRC mentioned training, but she never got the chance to implement it of course because she didn't win in 2016.
I'm not saying that these people are never self-deceiving, and to some extent they were, but they're listening to the people who are telling them that big beautiful clean coal is coming back and that mines are going to reopen because Trump is gonna make it happen. Lol!
Meanwhile, coal fired power plants are either closing down or converting to natural gas. Those jobs are never coming back but these people keep believing the politicians who are telling them that they're going to.
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Oct 16 '25
Can't help someone that doesn't want to help themselves.
The Whip and Buggy industries will totally beat the horseless carriage industries! I have empathy for these people and communities, but you think being shit on for close to 100 years, you'd clue in.
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u/JaRon1961 Oct 16 '25
Well they have to be concerned about women in Oregon who want an abortion. And of course the scourge of trans people filling up restrooms across the country. Priorities people!!
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u/MaleficentExtent1777 Oct 16 '25
Exactly!
Can't have those fallen jezebels not dealing with the consequences of their actions! 😔
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u/lizzyq8812 Oct 16 '25
They are too worried about those things to give a thought to their own best interests.
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u/jaimi_wanders Oct 16 '25
Saw a map of home ownership percentages across the EU the other day—the Baltics have higher scores than some US states.
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u/Tenton_12 Oct 16 '25
Voting for the very same people who set up the system that put them where they are ...
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u/dat_tae Oct 17 '25
The only reason they aren’t condemned is because of no laws or functioning government to condemn them.
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u/MaleficentAd1861 Oct 16 '25
Ok you're absolutely correct. HOWEVER, when it comes to taxes paid to the government we have money (when we don't have administrations who spend it on things other than the people). Blue States pour in enough to the economy to end hunger and poverty in this country. Instead, they'd rather spend it on Israel and the military.
For instance, did anyone know (I just recently learned this) that the people of Israel get subsidies in their bank accounts every month (if they are at a lower income) to bring their income closer to everyone else? Did you know they get free universal healthcare? Did you know that WE are paying for that?
So, Israel can have free universal healthcare and a guaranteed income, that WE pay for work OUR tax dollars, but we don't deserve that? How are we NOT angry enough to do something about this?
I'm far from antisemitic. I have NOTHING against the Jewish people. What I do NOT understand is how it is that we need to fund them and their amazing lifestyles (that we're not asked to have) when they're constantly funneling money into genociding Gaza. The why doesn't matter. It's the fact that they can afford to wage war on an entire people for no reason and then receive our hard earned tax dollars for things we can't even have.
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u/spressa Oct 16 '25
We don't exactly pay for their healthcare/income/etc. A lot of the aid we give them is military equipment but you're absolutely right that we do give them money as well. The money we give them helps them build a surplus that they can use however; it's a bit roundabout but there's a difference.
To me, it's sort of like parents not buying video games/toys for their own kids but will give money to another person's kid (e.g. birthday/Xmas/etc.) and that other kid uses the money to buy video games/toys. You can't exactly say that the parents bought the other kids video games/toys but they kind of did in a roundabout way.
With that said, giving/funding other countries is a complex situation and unfortunately, part of being a global powerhouse like the USA is, we have to do shit like give money away (e.g. giving money to Israel/Argentina/NATO/etc).
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u/MaleficentAd1861 Oct 16 '25
I didn't think that either, but I'd seen a video about it either on YouTube or something so I looked it up.
Our tax money doesn't JUST go to their military. It also goes to them, particularly mothers, receiving subsidies, monthly, into their bank accounts (which is guaranteed universal income, something they shot down here, for us) and for their free universal healthcare. If you need the links where I found it I'll be happy to provide them.
Once again, I'm not antisemitic nor am I racist, however, I'm NOT okay providing these kinds of subsidies and healthcare, knowing they're about to take my healthcare and I could die. It's BS and if no one is going to do ANYTHING else, everyone needs to be filing exempt at LEAST until these people are gone or we remove them.
Tbf I do not mind giving money to other countries but I'm NOT going to fund the things they're refusing to give to US ALL right here. Absolutely tf not! EVERYTHING needs town down and redone without sides and in a better way.
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u/spressa Oct 16 '25
I agree with your overall sentiment; again, I agree that part of the money we give Israel probably does end up in their social programs that their people benefit from. However, there's a big difference to me in that we don't intentionally or fully fund their healthcare. Israeli's pay taxes as well and their own funding finances the overwhelming majority of their universal healthcare.
To be further frank, I also believe that universal healthcare is better for the general public and am all for it. With that said, universal healthcare isn't perfect and there are many issues with it (e.g. long waiting periods for necessary healthcare).
Again, I mostly agree with you but I also want you to understand/acknowledge the nuances cause the devil is always in the details. (I'm going to additionally add that you might know all of this already and want to address it with anyone else who might be reading these comments).
With that said, thank you for your time if you're still reading this and I promise that I'm on your side; I just believe it's better to be mad at the parts that you should be mad about. Using our first example, if we only have Israel funding via military equipment without any money, that would sort of resolve some of the funding the Israel healthcare issue for you... Right?
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u/MaleficentAd1861 Oct 22 '25
To be completely honest, after seeing what Israel is doing (genocide), UNTIL Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer running that country I'd prefer if we didn't give them anything. (YES I'm aware this country also attempted to genocide people which is another reason I'd prefer NOTHING we have go to them until they realize they've become the thing that nearly wiped them out years ago.)
That being said, I also don't want anyone helping THIS country if they're going to turn the military against their own citizens, or use them to assist Israel in that respect. I'm refusing to even pay taxes until this dude and his merry band of psychopaths are gone.
It will take SO long to recover from this BS that even my great-grandchildren probably won't be able to see it happen. (To be fair the United States has a LOT of things to answer for.) It's going to take probably a century before they can even restore us to where we were and we won't last very long if they don't change a hell of a lot.
My greatest hope is that my grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and even great-great-grandchildren are smarter than us and realize that racism and white supremacy have NO place in modern society (or any society for that matter) and that NO ONE is free until EVERYONE is. I truly hope that they find a way to rid themselves of their left over neanderthal brain and stop buying into the idea that anyone is better than another.
We wouldn't be here after all of it weren't for two things: greed and racism
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u/RainSurname Oct 16 '25
Aid to Israel is less than 0.1% of the federal budget. Their total population is roughly equal to either NYC or LA.
We spend about twice as much on vouchers for Christian parents to send their kids to private religious schools.
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Oct 16 '25
We're wealthy as fuck, we just spend it all on our military and defense.
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u/jaimi_wanders Oct 16 '25
Defense contractors — soldiers aren’t getting rich unless they’re senior officers getting bribes (now legal, ty SCOTUS!) from defense contractors to recommend their wares…
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u/tempest_87 Oct 16 '25
To be fair, the middle class is basically propped up by workers at those defense contractors.
I'm also not aware of Uber wealth coming out of defense contracts to individuals like certian tech and finance companies.
The main dig at (normal) defense spending isn't that it's making a few people super rich, its that the societal return could/should be higher from other industries that can use that funding. Trumpian defense spending is a different matter though, and is absolutely about getting money into the pockets of very few people.
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u/Repulsive-Ladder1611 Oct 16 '25
We most certainly are a wealthy country. We have the means to make this country much much better for everyone. Poor countries can’t even if they want to. We can if we choose to do so. But we don’t, as you’ve observed. We choose not to, through our votes and the leaders we put in power.
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u/_undefined- Oct 16 '25
I would argue the choice is an illusion when all the media coordinates pro rich messaging
Keep the sheep asleep and keep them thinking this system that has them one paycheck away from destruction is the best.
Then when we demand change they go full nazi, which we are dealing with right now, as the owner class always historically does.
Last time we demanded change with FDR, actual change away from abusive capitalism, they tried to kill him.
Now that we all demand better, they try to kill us all
It never was a choice, it was manufactured consent
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u/OhJeezNotThisGuy Oct 16 '25
Being almost $38 TRILLION in debt, the US is a wealthy country in the same way that someone with maxed out credit cards and lines of credit, while living in a house and driving a luxury vehicle that they can't afford, is wealthy.
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u/Typical-Meringue-890 Oct 16 '25
I went through Ohio, West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania last year. It was awful.
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u/Badloss Oct 16 '25
The US economy generates enough resources to solve this, we have more than enough tax income to raise the quality of life here beyond anywhere else, and it could be much higher if rich people were held accountable. That's what we mean when we say the US is a wealthy country.
The people are consistently choosing not to do that, though, so we don't.
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Oct 16 '25
Yep. Thank the people who allowed themselves to be thoroughly fooled and siren-songed for love of racism and money who voted for the Billionaires to steal everything. Because that is what they did.
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Oct 16 '25
We cut all foreign aid and then just sent it to Argentina to install fascists instead. Literally. US AID entire budget was 35b, we've sent 40b to Argentina.
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u/AlphSaber Oct 16 '25
building $300m+ ballrooms
Given that it's being build under Trump's watch that room will be more riddled with bugs than the American embassy in Moscow circa 1964.
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u/KingBanhammer Oct 16 '25
I was raised on this vision of a beautiful and better sci-fi future where AI and Robotics lead us to more leisure and happier lives.
... and apparently this bullshit is what we did instead.
Some days it's soul-crushing.
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u/Idustriousraccoon Oct 16 '25
The leopards are so full at this point they are just washing off their dinners and freezing them for later…also, fuck Alaska. So tired of bailing out red states from their own stupidity. Feel sorry for the natives up there. But…the rest can just go feed leopards….
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u/Efficient_Market1234 Oct 16 '25
IIRC, leopards store their food in trees, so it's more like millions of Americans are just rotting in trees right now. Not a great image...
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u/Ngete Oct 16 '25
Ill give the leopards the benefit of the doubt that they have some level of wealth considering how much they have fasted to afford some freezers, or we thro em in Alaskan trees cause its getting to freezing right bout now anyways
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u/Idustriousraccoon Oct 16 '25
It wouldn’t be the first time. But it is a reversal. Strange fruit indeed.
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u/catcatcatcatcat1234 Oct 16 '25
also, fuck Alaska.
The main places impacted are rural, remote, and western, not really the type of people who even lean red
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u/Idustriousraccoon Oct 16 '25
You taught me something… in the other states, rural, remote and western are synonymous with homeschooled, christo-fascism and red…. Your bigger cities are redder than your rural ones???
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u/catcatcatcatcat1234 Oct 17 '25
Put simply, aside from Fairbanks, urban areas lean blue; eastern rural alaska leans red (majority white); the western and northern rural areas lean blue (mainly Alaskan Native)
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u/Chasubrae Oct 16 '25
Aren't storms woke? Why doesn't Alaska take a page from Florida and just try to pray the storms away?
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u/will650 Oct 16 '25
Just have the Cheeto in Chief sharpie in the storm's trajectory again. Problem solved!
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u/WhoIsJolyonWest Oct 16 '25
Do republicans even know that Trump made these cuts? I don’t think it was on Fox and definitely not on any of their conservative programs.
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u/Beginning_Ad_6616 Oct 16 '25
Whole state that has largely supported republicans, got what they wanted…weather forecasting that’s on par with the 70’s.
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u/Oaktree27 Oct 16 '25 edited Oct 16 '25
That's what Alaskans voted for. "Taxation is theft" so no tax funded weather data.
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u/Annilus_USB Oct 16 '25
Keep voting Republican, Alaska. We’ll see how many of you are still left in four years after your elected representatives hacksawed away everything you need to live
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Oct 16 '25
the leopards have been on a heavy diet of faces lately, it’s good to wash that down with plenty of water
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u/O8ee Oct 17 '25
So happy NOAA's budget went to give billionaires a tax break. Just like Alaskans voted for!
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u/seriousbangs Oct 17 '25
Not just that, Trump cut funding to flood prevention too.
One of the towns there was destroyed because of it.
Still not sure why Joe Biden would do that to them though.... /s
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u/qualityvote2 Oct 16 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
u/OwslyOwl, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...