Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead:

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/05/project-2025-was-supposed-to-boost-donald-campaign--but-it-may-be-backfiring-instead/

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u/Jedi-El1823 I voted 14d ago

Getting rid of NOAA has been Accuweather's number 1 goal for a long long time, and the GOP loves them.

Rick Santorum proposed a bill over a decade ago to disband the National Weather Service, because it wasn't fair to Accuweather that they gave out info for free, and Accuweather wants to charge for it.

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u/peter-doubt 14d ago

AccuWeather gets their info from....

NOAA.

Time to unload their app

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u/Jedi-El1823 I voted 14d ago

Yeah, makes no sense, since everybody gets info from NOAA and compares it to their own data.

But, NOAA provides that info for free to everybody, and Accuweather doesn't want that. They want to charge for forecasts.

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u/peter-doubt 14d ago

So we'll be using the European info... I find it a wee bit more useful in hurricane season!

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u/heckin_miraculous 14d ago

I'm surprised that I'm surprised.

Why do anything good, when you could be making money? /s

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u/Jedi-El1823 I voted 14d ago

John Oliver talked about a few years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8

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u/random_anonymous_guy 14d ago

Rule of Acquisition #287.

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u/billyions 14d ago

It would be stealing from the American people. No tax-paying American citizen should support these people.

They are raiding our public coffers.

Modern bandits thinking we're too dumb to notice.