Talk to MAGA folks. They don’t think we need allies or trading partners. They think the USA is big and strong enough to not only stand alone, but stand against the entire planet.

It’s hard to get across how ignorant these people are. Their information comes 100% from Fox News, Facebook, friends, family and like minded people in their echo chamber.

I live in Florida. During hurricanes we literally live and die by NOAA. And day to day, we work and plan our lives around the National Weather Service (a subset of NOAA). Posted on NextDoor.com about the administration slashing NOAA and “have fun paying for private weather service, you voted for it”. (Perhaps less snarky than comes across here.)

You would be astonished, at least I was, by the outpouring of gall and hate I received. I won’t try to relate it all, but even faced with personal consequences, the answer was, “Fuck all that and fuck you! Good job Trump!” That was the most “popular” post of the week. Oh my, the replies would not die off. Imagine hating on the government weather service!

Best responses were a tie:

One lady proud to pay for her AccuWeather subscription. “Where do you think AccuWeather gets their data?” “I’m not arguing with people like you!” LOL, wanted to add, “Not arguing with someone that pays for free weather data.”

One guy went off about vets, in reply to no one but the post, for some reason I can’t begin to ascertain. Wish I could inject what I know about Trump and vets straight into his brain, leave him a twitching mess of cognitive dissonance.

Maybe cognitive dissonance is what I triggered? Just thought of that and I may be onto something.

(I use Weawow BTW. Weather is very important to me and they got it going on. Even has sun and moon info. You can choose your weather provider (I use NWS) but you can choose from 6 others. Norway even! Only data I wish they added was tidal, lol, and a compass would be nice. Free app of course, but I’d be glad to pay a one-time fee.)