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View Voting Results:SmartestandFunniest (23) Funniest 4 hours ago (36) Funniest 2 hours ago As I've said in that other thread (the one about flooding in Texas), this isn't all on Trump, though Trump should be embarrassed that Mexico has to send emergency personnel to help in rescue efforts while the U.S. has hundreds of National Guardsmen cosplaying in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, accomplishing little more than startling children. The problem is generations of Republicans creating a culture of failure and apathy. The county begged for help in updating their emergency warning systems; the state (which is sitting on at least a $4 billion surplus) refused. The Biden administration made funds available in 2021 through the ARP; the county that begged for assistance refused help because it was coming from a Demonrat. And then the emergency plans were approved by the state? Yeah, that's the state that approves having an explosive fertilizer factory built next to a middle school, with deadly results. Texas gets a big purple stiffie over having a macho image. Sorry, but I'm okay with California's stereotype of being full of bleeding heart liberals who come up with "wasteful" social programs to help improve people's lives. Again, just read the nauseating, angry rejection of Biden's aid in Kerr County in 2021 by residents: https://legacy.co.kerr.tx.us/commcrt/minutes/2021/110821%28CC%29.txt (20) Funniest Again - Republicans aren't upset at all that people died. If anything, piles of dead kids seems to give most conservatives a vague sexual thrill. But conservatives absolutely cannot be wrong about anything ever. And people just won't STFU about Republicans getting a whole lot of people killed. It's not the dead people that Republicans care about - it's getting blamed for the dead people that Republicans can't stand. Especially when it really is legitimately their actions that got people killed. StayAtHomeAstronaut (14) Funniest 34 minutes ago mofa: As I've said in that other thread (the one about flooding in Texas), this isn't all on Trump, though Trump should be embarrassed that Mexico has to send emergency personnel to help in rescue efforts while the U.S. has hundreds of National Guardsmen cosplaying in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, accomplishing little more than startling children. The problem is generations of Republicans creating a culture of failure and apathy. The county begged for help in updating their emergency warning systems; the state (which is sitting on at least a $4 billion surplus) refused. The Biden administration made funds available in 2021 through the ARP; the county that begged for assistance refused help because it was coming from a Demonrat. And then the emergency plans were approved by the state? Yeah, that's the state that approves having an explosive fertilizer factory built next to a middle school, with deadly results. Texas gets a big purple stiffie over having a macho image. Sorry, but I'm okay with California's stereotype of being full of bleeding heart liberals who come up with "wasteful" social programs to help improve people's lives. Again, just read the nauseating, angry rejection of Biden's aid in Kerr County in 2021 by residents: https://legacy.co.kerr.tx.us/commcrt/minutes/2021/110821%28CC%29.txt While this might be on trump, it's more on Abbott. They knew two days before. They knew. He did not order measures to evacuate or at least move to higher ground. They literally let people die, many of whom were children. Imagine their fear. I want pain for those who ignored the science because it's 'woke'. I would pay good money to see Abbott screaming for help in his wheelchair begging to be rescued from a flood. Sorry, I can't be kind anymore. As a parent, I can't imagine the loss of kids just going to camp. They let them die. They let them. monkeyboycjc (4) Funniest 32 minutes ago What a clusterfark. Sad beyond belief about the kids. All the adults involved in decision process need to DIAF. TartanPlaid (0) Funniest 32 minutes ago Weaver95: But conservatives absolutely cannot be wrong about anything ever. If the shoe fits... /Even funnier coming from a repeat Bush voter swahnhennessy (1) Funniest 35 minutes ago Yeah, but football champions don't take responsibility. That's loser talk. (6) Funniest 33 minutes ago And f*ck all will be done because in our timeline, in Texas (and most of the U.S.) kids aint worth sh*t. That's where we are at, sadly. (7) Funniest 32 minutes ago Bslim: And f*ck all will be done because in our timeline, in Texas (and most of the U.S.) kids aint worth sh*t. That's where we are at, sadly. Then more people.... correction - more white people....are going to die. That should spice things up a bit. odinsposse (9) Funniest 34 minutes ago They now only have an 80% chance of being re-elected. (7) Funniest 32 minutes ago Don't worry, Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton will make certain no one is held responsible. Especially themselves. MythDragon (3) Funniest 34 minutes ago State inspectors: Camp Mystic: (8) Funniest 33 minutes ago (7) Funniest 34 minutes ago Texas Republicans are stuck in a hard place with this latest disaster. It's very clearly on them. There's nobody else to blame. And it's also abundantly clear that local government dropped the ball. Which none of them will accept, because "Texas Republicans". So can't blame shift. Can't ignore the situation. Can't accept the blame. Refuse to make any changes/correct any problems also because "Republicans". Can't cover it all up. Texas conservatives have only one option - bunker down and endure the well deserved storm that's already hitting them and hope they can hold on until another disaster creates a new distraction and the focus shifts away from them. question_dj (6) Funniest 33 minutes ago My thought was, "oh there wasn't a plan and the inspection was a wink and a nod." "Five years of inspection reports released to The Associated Press do not offer any details of those plans at Mystic, raising new questions about the camp's preparedness ahead of the torrential July 4 rainfall in flood-prone Texas Hill Country. So yeah, they had no plan, the approval was corruption. hardinparamedic (11) Funniest 32 minutes ago People keep saying that and talking about things like "consequences" and "ruined careers" because of incompetence, but I then remember Uvalde and think about how nothing changed there, either. The sound of children screaming has been removed. (3) Funniest 31 minutes ago question_dj: My thought was, "oh there wasn't a plan and the inspection was a wink and a nod." "Five years of inspection reports released to The Associated Press do not offer any details of those plans at Mystic, raising new questions about the camp's preparedness ahead of the torrential July 4 rainfall in flood-prone Texas Hill Country. So yeah, they had no plan, the approval was corruption. And remember - conservatives CANNOT be wrong. Anything bad happens, it's always someone else's fault. Which in this case isn't really an option. So...scream and blame Obama? Got me man. NIXON YOU DOLT!!!!! (2) Funniest 31 minutes ago question_dj: My thought was, "oh there wasn't a plan and the inspection was a wink and a nod." "Five years of inspection reports released to The Associated Press do not offer any details of those plans at Mystic, raising new questions about the camp's preparedness ahead of the torrential July 4 rainfall in flood-prone Texas Hill Country. So yeah, they had no plan, the approval was corruption. All the plans in the world don't mean shiat when a 20+ foot wall of water shows up in the middle of the night. Maybe we shouldn't approve things like youth camps being built in places with nicknames like "flash flood alley" to begin with, especially if the locals aren't willing to foot the bill for effective warning systems. (6) Funniest 31 minutes ago A couple of things bug me about this. "One thing that likely hindered the girls' ability to escape was how dark it would have been, Lauten said. Campers don't have access to their phones while at camp, she said, adding they wouldn't have cell service anyway because of the remote location." Pretty sure I saw a video posted not long before the flood, of kids in the dining area, runnin' wild and such. Someone had a phone, and it was getting signal. "This is the middle of nowhere and they didn't have power," she said. "It would have been pitch black, like could not see 5 feet in front of you type of darkness. I've never seen stars like there because there's just no light." Can't see the stars because there's not light pollution? What? question_dj (4) Funniest less than a minute ago mofa: As I've said in that other thread (the one about flooding in Texas), this isn't all on Trump, though Trump should be embarrassed that Mexico has to send emergency personnel to help in rescue efforts while the U.S. has hundreds of National Guardsmen cosplaying in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, accomplishing little more than startling children. The problem is generations of Republicans creating a culture of failure and apathy. The county begged for help in updating their emergency warning systems; the state (which is sitting on at least a $4 billion surplus) refused. The Biden administration made funds available in 2021 through the ARP; the county that begged for assistance refused help because it was coming from a Demonrat. And then the emergency plans were approved by the state? Yeah, that's the state that approves having an explosive fertilizer factory built next to a middle school, with deadly results. Texas gets a big purple stiffie over having a macho image. Sorry, but I'm okay with California's stereotype of being full of bleeding heart liberals who come up with "wasteful" social programs to help improve people's lives. Again, just read the nauseating, angry rejection of Biden's aid in Kerr County in 2021 by residents: https://legacy.co.kerr.tx.us/commcrt/minutes/2021/110821%28CC%29.txt They used the ARPA funds. They used them to buy shiat for cops and build a sidewalk. So they took it and used it for things other than the intended purpose. (5) Funniest less than a minute ago NIXON YOU DOLT!!!!!: Maybe we shouldn't approve things like youth camps being built in places with nicknames like "flash flood alley" to begin with, especially if the locals aren't willing to foot the bill for effective warning systems. When the local government is corrupt, laws are merely polite suggestions. This is a failure of local and state government. And Texas knows that. The Texas GOP know that. Hells even the media knows it, and they're all clueless idiots. But none of the locals are gonna clean house and get rid of the corruption. They LIKE a corrupt government. They just don't want to deal with the consequences. question_dj (2) Funniest NIXON YOU DOLT!!!!!: question_dj: My thought was, "oh there wasn't a plan and the inspection was a wink and a nod." "Five years of inspection reports released to The Associated Press do not offer any details of those plans at Mystic, raising new questions about the camp's preparedness ahead of the torrential July 4 rainfall in flood-prone Texas Hill Country. So yeah, they had no plan, the approval was corruption. All the plans in the world don't mean shiat when a 20+ foot wall of water shows up in the middle of the night. Maybe we shouldn't approve things like youth camps being built in places with nicknames like "flash flood alley" to begin with, especially if the locals aren't willing to foot the bill for effective warning systems. A disaster plan would include things like, "what to do in the event of a flash flood watch." Which, the NWS seemingly issued. So the camp could have been evacuated earlier during the watch. But hey, let's just have a failure of imagination because the US is exceedingly bad at disaster planning and can't even imagine doing evacuations before things get bad. Snarcoleptic_Hoosier (3) Funniest less than a minute ago mofa: As I've said in that other thread (the one about flooding in Texas), this isn't all on Trump, though Trump should be embarrassed that Mexico has to send emergency personnel to help in rescue efforts while the U.S. has hundreds of National Guardsmen cosplaying in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, accomplishing little more than startling children. The problem is generations of Republicans creating a culture of failure and apathy. The county begged for help in updating their emergency warning systems; the state (which is sitting on at least a $4 billion surplus) refused. The Biden administration made funds available in 2021 through the ARP; the county that begged for assistance refused help because it was coming from a Demonrat. And then the emergency plans were approved by the state? Yeah, that's the state that approves having an explosive fertilizer factory built next to a middle school, with deadly results. Texas gets a big purple stiffie over having a macho image. Sorry, but I'm okay with California's stereotype of being full of bleeding heart liberals who come up with "wasteful" social programs to help improve people's lives. Again, just read the nauseating, angry rejection of Biden's aid in Kerr County in 2021 by residents: https://legacy.co.kerr.tx.us/commcrt/minutes/2021/110821%28CC%29.txt They don't want my big city tax dollars, I don't want them to have my big city tax dollars. Looks like everyone is happy. Best of luck to the girls at that camp in 2062. I'm sure you'll be fine. (0) Funniest less than a minute ago But if they allow regulations, they can't fly a Don't Tread On Me flag! Morning Horsefarts (4) Funniest 1 minute ago Bslim: And f*ck all will be done because in our timeline, in Texas (and most of the U.S.) kids aint worth sh*t. That's where we are at, sadly. BUT STOP MAKING FUN OF DEAD KIDS REEEEEEEEEE If these squealers spent as much time drafting new laws as they do chastising everyone else for shrugging, they might not have to dredge dead kids out of river bottoms as much. But you know, sirens cost money. winedrinkingman (4) Funniest less than a minute ago TartanPlaid: Weaver95: But conservatives absolutely cannot be wrong about anything ever. If the shoe fits... /Even funnier coming from a repeat Bush voter I was a repeat Bush voter who thought God was on the side of Republicans until Trump came along and it finally clicked in my head tin 2016 that the Republicans were a cult and that I needed to question all their beliefs the way I did my former Mormonism. My brother was a Republican as recently as two years ago, but he went back to school to become an RN after loosing a child and wanting to do his best to help people in hospitals, and after two years of seeing how conservatives screw over medical care he has abandoned his libertarian beliefs and hates RFK and Trump with the burning of a thousand suns now. People do figure it out when Trump's policies Trump over the part of the world they know about. Which is why Republicans hate education, because they want our area of knowledge to be far too limited to know when we are being trumped over StayAtHomeAstronaut (1) Funniest less than a minute ago They let people die. And we did nothing...we did nothing. Hangs head in shame. fark Abbott. We have tornado sirens in nowhere Iowa and Kansas, they couldn't put sirens along the flood zone which were asked for for years? Yeah, illegals are the biggest problem to spend taxpayer money on. I don't even live in TX but would contribute to those sirens along flood zones. (2) Funniest less than a minute ago hardinparamedic: People keep saying that and talking about things like "consequences" and "ruined careers" because of incompetence, but I then remember Uvalde and think about how nothing changed there, either. [d.newsweek.com image 850x566] The sound of children screaming has been removed. Many of the dead were affluent White children though. A bunch of the Houston area 1% parents have already lawyered up. This isn't going away. (0) Funniest less than a minute ago Weaver95: Texas Republicans are stuck in a hard place with this latest disaster. It's very clearly on them. There's nobody else to blame. And it's also abundantly clear that local government dropped the ball. Which none of them will accept, because "Texas Republicans". So can't blame shift. Can't ignore the situation. Can't accept the blame. Refuse to make any changes/correct any problems also because "Republicans". Can't cover it all up. Texas conservatives have only one option - bunker down and endure the well deserved storm that's already hitting them and hope they can hold on until another disaster creates a new distraction and the focus shifts away from them. And....as if on cue....the fallout spigot has been opened as it sinks in what the BBB contains. This ain't the knockout 1 - 2 punch likely envisioned for dumpy. He thought he'd walk through his Concentration Camp....sign our Death Warrant....and have a full week of leisurely presidenting while golfing for the week ahead. Meanwhile....Alligator Auschwitz is falling apart already...to the point you MAY wanna expect surprise foreign-visitors sooner rather than later.....Texas is full of dead kids, flood debris....and there is no way anyone can blame any of this on anything BUT Trump/MAGA policies. This ain't the dream golf week Donnie had envisioned I expect. /Oh yeah...and Bondi completely boffing the Epstein thing maaaayyyyyyy signal some....problems among your flock.....they don't seem like the types to let this thing go....they want that list, Don...and I don't see them being fine with 'Whelp, waddya gonna do?' (1) Funniest less than a minute ago Weaver95: Texas Republicans are stuck in a hard place with this latest disaster. It's very clearly on them. There's nobody else to blame. And it's also abundantly clear that local government dropped the ball. Which none of them will accept, because "Texas Republicans". So can't blame shift. Can't ignore the situation. Can't accept the blame. Refuse to make any changes/correct any problems also because "Republicans". Can't cover it all up. Texas conservatives have only one option - bunker down and endure the well deserved storm that's already hitting them and hope they can hold on until another disaster creates a new distraction and the focus shifts away from them. This shiat will blow over like a school shooting. A little prayer, a little "we can't politicize this," a little memorial, and before you know it it's time to go back to school and we all just want to get back to normal HotWingConspiracy (0) Funniest less than a minute ago In very short order, these people will be fundraising for reelection campaigns using photos of them staring at the disaster area and pointing at things. They will be reelected. (0) Funniest less than a minute ago But first we must get to the bottom of what Obama did to cause this. Concrete Donkey (0) Funniest less than a minute ago trasnform: A couple of things bug me about this. "One thing that likely hindered the girls' ability to escape was how dark it would have been, Lauten said. Campers don't have access to their phones while at camp, she said, adding they wouldn't have cell service anyway because of the remote location." Pretty sure I saw a video posted not long before the flood, of kids in the dining area, runnin' wild and such. Someone had a phone, and it was getting signal. "This is the middle of nowhere and they didn't have power," she said. "It would have been pitch black, like could not see 5 feet in front of you type of darkness. I've never seen stars like there because there's just no light." Can't see the stars because there's not light pollution? What? Then learn how to read you farking dumbass. She said shes never seen the starts like she did at the camp because there was no light there to drown them out (0) Funniest less than a minute ago i find it interesting that leaders who thought an early warning siren system for flash floods would be going off all the time waking people up thought having campsites on the same river was a good idea. if you have so many flash floods sirens would keep you from sleeping, its too dangerous to camp hundreds of people there Displayed 34 of 34 comments Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. View Voting Results:SmartestandFunniest Redisplay/refresh comments If you're having problems voting, quoting, or posting comments, try disabling any browser add-ons that might disable Javascript (NoScript, AdBlock, etc).See our FAQ. Forgot password? Create an account to make comments Remember me If you can see this, something's wrong with your browser's CSS support. (Or you're a spambot.) 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