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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums270 dead in Texas Hill Country. 109 found dead and 161 missing. Killed by Fox News/Republican thinking






Hey Kerr County here is 5 million $s to stop flash flood tragedies. Republicans in Kerr County
in 2021, No thanx the money is from Biden. Although the local Republican officials kept that
dirty Buden money anyway. They just didnt spend it on a flood warning system.
Those little girls @ the summer camp died because of Republican thinking. No wonder they
need to rig elections because they are at their core unAmerican and refuse to understand that
Fox News, the right wing on many levels, and those bought and paid for whores from the fossil
industries, and Christo Fascist are lying to them.
Todays not the day and nows not the time to discuss the warnings, who got them, who didnt got them. Right now Im only worried about public safety, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said Monday during an emergency session of the county commissioners court.
Right out of the NRAs playbook after a mass shooting . Now is not the time to talk about gun laws.

Blues Heron
(7,202 posts)OrlandoDem2
(3,047 posts)How about a little self-reflection on the destructive policies of the GOP? But nope. If you say anything youre politicizing it.
Initech
(105,771 posts)





newdeal2
(3,463 posts)refused Medicaid expansion that would have helped your constituents,
refuse free lunch programs designed to provide sustenance to your constituents' children
and refuse government subsidies that would've made your constituents AND their children safer, then
1) you've ALREADY politicized it, and
2) you're a mean-spirited, self-centered, lowlife pos.
end of story
malaise
(287,168 posts)shortly
bucolic_frolic
(51,623 posts)Kaleva
(39,681 posts)Botany
(74,872 posts)A flood plain should tell you the area floods so a warning system was the right thing to do
and they stopped that.
Really smart hydro geologists, engineers, ecologists, and scientists had a design for a
warning system ready to be installed but Republicans stopped that from happening.
Kaleva
(39,681 posts)Otherwise its like allowing subpar electric work as long as smoke detectors are in place.
DBoon
(24,018 posts)The political leadership wants to support "business" by not regulating anything.
Kaleva
(39,681 posts)Kingofalldems
(39,747 posts)Excellent.
Torchlight
(5,199 posts)Kaleva
(39,681 posts)Tesha
(21,048 posts)Repugs made a big deal about not using it to keep citizens safe
Someone voted for this because every vote matters, its a choice
Torchlight
(5,199 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 9, 2025, 11:56 AM - Edit history (1)
while surrounding counties did. At the time, they jokingly said the motion was "dead in the water." Ten bucks says this directly exacerbated to the higher count of casualties there.
ms liberty
(10,424 posts)efhmc
(15,748 posts)Not only the loss of children but of massive amounts of property will keep it going.
DBoon
(24,018 posts)They had opportunities to build an early warning system using money from both the Obama and the Biden administration, but turned it down for political reasons.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220468310
This has tha actual meeting transcripts
IronLionZion
(49,513 posts)It's a slippery slope to go from flood warning system straight into Stalin's Siberian gulags.
GOP prefers to take away children's lives because they are pro-life.
Dave Bowman
(5,533 posts)maliaSmith
(90 posts)Trump's maggots will keep on voting for GOP no matter how many die. You can't fix stupid. They will say it's God's Will. Thank God I live in California.
Hornedfrog2000
(418 posts)From monitizing covid. So this is peanuts. Drop in the bucket. Lots more winnng coming
Hugin
(36,704 posts)They see taxes as their money even after they may or may not have paid them and then they resent what they still consider their money going to help others who's "values don't align with theirs".
Seriously, that's it in a nutshell.
How do we counter this? It's pervasive, even among some who consider themselves Democrats.
live love laugh
(15,687 posts)walkingman
(9,620 posts)defacto7
(14,132 posts)to inject false narrative into the public's ear to advance their agenda, that's when they will want discuss it.
Botany
(74,872 posts)Seriously that is the way they work. Why speak the truth when a lie serves their agenda
better.
yankee87
(2,616 posts)Ever since Sandy Hook when we decided guns have more rights than children, I have zero confidence in Republicans. Their base cares more about owning the libs than their children's lives. Texass will still go strong red in 26. I wish I had more hope.
Delmette2.0
(4,396 posts)Columbine, Colorado!!!
Dave Bowman
(5,533 posts)
aggiesal
(10,203 posts)I'm. not cold hearted. I just believed that after 5 days, if they haven't found the 161 missing, they are presumed dead and "Search" mode should transition to "Recovery" mode.
It's time to start pointing fingers. Mierda47 has already blamed Biden.
It's obvious to me that (R)'s are at the heart of the problem.
oasis
(52,580 posts)
underpants
(191,723 posts)Srkdqltr
(8,704 posts)All back too themselves. All the people who live there who would not do the hard part of being good neighbors. They are at fault.
The people who just had to build or camp on the flood plane.
They will do it again. The camp will be rebuilt just there and the campers will be back at the bank of the river.
Initech
(105,771 posts)And Greg Abbott is yakking on Fox about how "responsibility is like baseball". WTF. No, asshole, YOU AND YOUR STUPID SHITTY PRESIDENT AND YOUR SHITTY ASS KISSING PROPAGANDA CHANNEL ARE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!
Scott Alan Swaggerty
(80 posts)So they were given FREE GOVERNMENT MONEY to enhance security in that area and they didnt use it in order to own the libs? I hope the lawsuits bankrupt Texas.
Botany
(74,872 posts)
spend it on a flash flood warning system along the Guadalupe River although they didnt
return the money because it might go to a liberal state such as Oregon or California.
* from the internets
. So you know it is real.
Hugin
(36,704 posts)Botany
(74,872 posts)They were so Foxed up in their heads that they saw a good and decent man in President
Biden as the enemy who needed to be fought on each and every level.
Baron1977
(1 post)I see repugs often blame the deaths of innocents on democrats. Using their own politically biased reasoning. We don't need to mimic their behavior for this awful natural disaster. Please note that the river rose by over 26 feet in less than one hour. At around 2:00am in the morning. Just saying...
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(860 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,396 posts)Watch all the way to San Antonio Bay.
JoseBalow
(8,024 posts)
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,964 posts)RussBLib
(9,963 posts)It's taken from John's recent podcast. It's long, so I cannot post it all, but here is some of it....
You know whats more offensive than politicizing a tragedy? Refusing to prevent the next one.
Lets talk about what just happened in Texas. Last Friday, flash floods ripped through Central Texas, killing well over 100 peopleincluding 28 children. Its the deadliest natural disaster to strike the region in a century. Girls are still missing. Families are still waiting.
The New York Times reported that crucial positions were vacant at the local National Weather Service offices. Meteorologists, hydrologistspeople who literally issue flood warnings and work with local authoritiesjust not there. Why? Staffing shortages. Budget cuts. Millionaire-at-birth narcissists gutting the federal government until it bleeds.
These are the exact people whose job it is to communicate with local emergency managers. AccuWeathers chief meteorologist said it outright: Evacuations could have reduced the fatalitiesif officials had heeded warnings from both public and private sources.
Now, after decades of building a world-class forecasting system, we watched it fail. Because it was sabotaged. Not by God. Not by nature.
By the party of deregulate everything, of privatize disaster relief, of faith-based emergency planning.
By the same reality TV performer who sharpied a hurricane path on a weather map in 2019 just took a chainsaw to NOAA, the NWS, and the very people whose job is to save lives before disaster strikes.
By the people who think weather warnings are woke.
By the people who spent last Fall exploiting the horrors of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina to bludgeon a Democratic president.
The rest is here, on Substack, which means you might need to subscribe (and can for no charge) to read all of it. Psst! I posted it all on my blog.
https://russblib.blogspot.com
spinbaby
(15,299 posts)I had a brother who lived in Texas who believed in miraculous cures and that God wanted him to be rich. He died of cancer. He died poor.
Whats going on in Texas is superstition wrapped up in religion: We can build a summer camp on a flood plain because God will protect us. We dont need to spend money on a warning system because God will protect us.
Its just so common for the evangelical crowd to think things can be true if only they believe hard enough.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(860 posts)
Scott Alan Swaggerty
(80 posts)mahina
(19,941 posts)I did not know that
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Botany
(74,872 posts)More than 130 people are dead after devastating flooding in the Texas Hill Country that began early on the Fourth of July. More than 160 people are missing.
Thanx to DUer Malaise for posting this.
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In 2021 you had mouth breathers in Kerr County, TX turning down what might be 10 million $s
for a flood warning system because Joe Biden is a communist who cant be trusted. Direct
quote. Listening to Fox News, (there like) their Christo Fascist Pastors, local republicans,
the Governor and Lt. Governor, the likes of Ted Cruz has its costs, web sites (loaded with Russian
misinformation such as dont get vaccinated), and the fossil fuel industries has its costs.
Our reality. From Chasing Ice. Warm air holds more water.
applegrove
(127,088 posts)who they don't know about. They can't even find missing trailers they are looking for. They'll never find everyone. So sad.