The Samsonov Solution

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Numbskull has been a bigger mishandler of the Texas flooding that wiped out a summer camp and led to the death of over a hundred people - most of them children - than her boss himself. 

While Numbskull has been cosplaying as a border patrol agent and posing for glamorous pictures for her official portrait as the 33rd governor of South Dakota, flooding in Kerr County, Texas that the National Weather Service could have alerted people to if only there had been the personnel and funds available has left an unimaginable death toll at a summer camp that should never have been built in a flood plain in the first place.  Trump has praised local and federal officials for doing a great job in the aftermath of the disaster.  Except for two things.  First, local officials given funds from the Biden administration to build an alert system  instead absconded the funds for raises and bonuses for themselves.  Second, when it comes to the federal response, Numbskull did not authorize a search-and-rescue mission to Texas until three days after the floods struck on Independence Day.   

Numbskull not only failed Texas and the country.  She failed her President (who is not my President).  If she were a leader, she'd take more responsibility for her failure.  It's too bad that she won't own failure like Russian World War I army commander Alexander Samsonov did.

Samsonov commanded the Russian Second Army in an assault early in the war on the frontier region of eastern Germany that is now an area within Poland.   The Russians invaded Prussia and hoped to take Berlin to bring Germany into submission, but the Russian army's antiquated tactics and messaging technology allowed General Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg to get troops to the Eastern Front quickly by rail and also intercept the unencoded messages Russian commanders were sending to each other.  The German and Russian forces met at Tannenberg (now the Polish village of Stębark) and, in short order, Hindenburg was able to delay the Russian First Army and completely destroyed Samsonov's Russian Second Army. Samsonov, in the aftermath of the defeat, cried out loud, "The Czar trusted me. How can I face him after such a disaster?"  He then committed suicide with a bullet to the brain.

Now that's integrity. 

The government is, as it should be, giving disaster relief funds to help Texas.  California is still waiting for disaster relief funds for the Pacific Palisades wildfires of this past January.