270 dead in Texas Hill Country. 109 found dead and 161 missing. Killed by Fox News/Republican thinking

[Botany]

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 didn’t 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.

“Today’s not the day and now’s not the time to discuss the warnings, who got them, who didn’t got them. Right now I’m 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 NRA’s playbook after a mass shooting …. “Now is not the time to talk about gun laws.”

[Blues Heron]

1. Pukes are dirty and dangerous.

[OrlandoDem2]

2. They try to shut down any notion of "politicizing" this.

How about a little self-reflection on the destructive policies of the GOP? But nope. If you say anything you’re “politicizing it”.

[Initech]

11. Yup. Ingraham and Hannity are already in "Nothing to see here, please disperse!" mode.

[newdeal2]

22. Doesn't apply to California wildfire season though

[B.See]

42. If you

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]

3. Will pass 300

shortly

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Should have been "worried about public safety" last year

[Kaleva]

5. That camp was built on a known flood plain long before Fox News

[Botany]

7. But Fox News/republican thinking made them not install a warning system for that Flood Plain.

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]

25. Not allowing building on a known floodplain would have been the correct thing to do

Otherwise it’s like allowing subpar electric work as long as smoke detectors are in place.

[DBoon]

26. In Texas, it is hard to prevent developrs from doing what they want

The political leadership wants to support "business" by not regulating anything.

[Kaleva]

47. It's about the money

[Kingofalldems]

31. Right wing shutdown complete.

Excellent.

[Torchlight]

36. A very sound reason to place warning sirens

[Kaleva]

48. It would have been more sound to shut down the camps and RV parks

[Tesha]

6. Biden sent money for forward thinking changes

Repugs made a big deal about not using it to keep citizens safe

Someone voted for this because every vote matters, it’s a choice

[Torchlight]

8. Kerr co. GOP officials chose not to install sirens and other safety measures

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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]

15. Exhibit A in the forthcoming lawsuits.

[efhmc]

45. I have already put forth that argument as to why this will not go away.

Not only the loss of children but of massive amounts of property will keep it going.

[DBoon]

28. Also, they would rather own the libs by turning down Federal funds from the Biden administration

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]

9. A flood warning system is socialism that takes away our freedoms

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]

20. They live in an alternate reality. The conspiracy nonsense is going strong already. Idiots. 😡

[maliaSmith]

10. Good Magats

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]

12. I mean, trump killed an extra 700,000 people

From monitizing covid. So this is peanuts. Drop in the bucket. Lots more winnng coming

[Hugin]

13. One thing that's come from this is that it's isolated and exposed the typical MAGAt's core beef against government...

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]

14. When exactly is the time to discuss this? After you think it's forgotten?

[walkingman]

16. Like every other tragedy in Texas.....never. Unless they are forced to and then only begrudgingly.

[defacto7]

19. After the tragedy settles just long enough

to inject false narrative into the public's ear to advance their agenda, that's when they will want discuss it.

[Botany]

23. "They" are going to find a way to a way to blame Dr. Fauci for the flood.

Seriously that is the way they work. Why speak the truth when a lie serves their agenda
better.

[yankee87]

17. Children's lives don't matter

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]

38. Gun control should have started after

Columbine, Colorado!!!

[Dave Bowman]

18. Horrible tragedy that could have been avoided if not for these criminals.

[aggiesal]

21. They've already FAILED the ''Public Safety'' part. ''Who got the WARNING?'' is all that matters now ...

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]

24. This ain't going away. No sweeping under the rug.

[underpants]

27. 270? Jesus

[Srkdqltr]

29. Mostly because of building on a flood plane and not wanting to pay for sirens.

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]

30. 40 years of conservative bullshit got us here.

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]

50. Yes, decades of it have tainted our country.

[DET]

32. Unbelievable

So they were given FREE GOVERNMENT MONEY to enhance security in that area and they didn’t use it in order to ‘own the libs’? I hope the lawsuits bankrupt Texas.

[Botany]

33. The story* is the Republican officials of Kerr County in 2021 took "the Biden money" but refused to

… spend it on a flash flood warning system along the Guadalupe River although they didn’t
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]

34. Here's the transcript from the Kerr county council meeting where the decisions were made...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220468310

Please, feel free to draw your own conclusions.

[Botany]

35. I hope the victim's families use that transcript when they sue the hell out of those Kerr County, Republicans.

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]

37. 270 dead in Texas Hill Country. 109 found dead and 161 missing. Killed by Fox News/Republican thinking

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]

39. Climatic malfeasance by Republicans contributed to the deaths of these people. Just sayin...

[Delmette2.0]

40. Start watching down stream.

Watch all the way to San Antonio Bay.

[JoseBalow]

41. Leave republicans alone!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

46. Welcome to Du

[RussBLib]

43. John Fugelsang was on fire on this

It's taken from John's recent podcast. It's long, so I cannot post it all, but here is some of it....

Texas, the Flood, and the Very High Cost of ‘Small Government’

You know what’s more offensive than politicizing a tragedy? Refusing to prevent the next one.

Let’s talk about what just happened in Texas. Last Friday, flash floods ripped through Central Texas, killing well over 100 people—including 28 children. It’s 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, hydrologists—people who literally issue flood warnings and work with local authorities—just 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. AccuWeather’s chief meteorologist said it outright: “Evacuations could have reduced the fatalities—if 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]

44. The trouble is, they believe things

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.

What’s 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 don’t need to spend money on a warning system because God will protect us.

It’s just so common for the evangelical crowd to think things can be true if only they believe hard enough.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

53. Great post! Thanks.

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

49. Absolutely

[mahina]

51. Oh my God in heaven

I did not know that

💧💧💧

[Botany]

52. The # now is 290 dead

https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/texas-flooding-live-updates/?id=123729682

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.

*******
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 can’t 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 don’t get vaccinated), and the fossil fuel industries has its costs.

Our reality. From Chasing Ice. Warm air holds more water.

[applegrove]

54. There were people who came to party along the river

who they don't know about. They can't even find missing trailers they are looking for. They'll never find everyone. So sad.