David Richardson, the current acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, just told staffers at a briefing on Monday, that he wasn’t aware the United States had a hurricane season.

The Department of Homeland Security is already out with a statement about how if you told anyone about this without saying “psych, it’s a joke!” then you are part of the “meanspirited attempts to falsely frame a joke as policy.” Uh-huh, sure.

It’s tough to make Michael Brown, the George W. Bush appointee responsible for FEMA’s dismal response to Hurricane Katrina, look competent, but Richardson is going to give it a shot.

Richardson has no background in disaster relief. Instead, he was a ground combat officer in the Marines. His previous job in this administration, before Trump tapped him for FEMA

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