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Man, quotes the whole sequence, but this is the answer. Start asking questions now. If you don’t know the answer, “we’re looking into it” is a fine answer. But you start NOW. Competent failure analysis is the #1 way to avoid future failures. There isn’t even a close second. Failure analysis, in detail, asking hard questions, is non-negotiable. But let’s be honest, this is what Texas Fight is lobbying for: avoid full accountability, because his “team” is the only one in the crosshairs (because they’re the team that’s been in charge of literally everything in Texas for over a generation). Avoiding responsibility is a religious rite for them, and they won’t be denied that holy privilege. Thankfully, we still have SOME actual press that says “fuck your feelings” and will dog and get some truth: Texas Tribune, etc. Texas Fight doesn’t want that. He’ll rage against it for as long and hard as he can. But this one is too big to duck. But don’t worry, even when we find that the failures are because of total political and cultural rot, nothing will change. The party in charge will GAIN votes, and we’ll get more of the same, for at least another generation.
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So….there are some non-updated stories about attacks on CBP facilities in the past few days in McAllen and Alvarado. Like, armed assaults on them. There are the initial stories, then….nothing. No names, no examination of the circumstances, nada. WTF?
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Because….and this is importantly….the dead Texans are what tells us the policies are working.
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All the intercessional prayer bullshit is just that: bullshit. I prayed for my kid to survive, and he did. You prayed for your kid to survive, and she was swept away to her death. I guess I’m a better pray-er than you. Or God loves me more than you. Or god works in mysterious ways. Or any number of utter fucking cop outs. If god decided to “call all these kids home,” fuck your god. I choose anyone who fights against such a “god,” so “team Satan” for me. If god says “Brisket’s prayer was better, so his kid lives, but you didn’t have enough prayer warriors on your side, so your kid dies,” fuck that god all the way to hell. The “god” created by modern Christianity is a genuinely evil construct, and the world’s greatest enabler of human evil.
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Thankfully, we won’t have to worry about such scum infecting our great country any more. CLOSE THE BORDER!!! We are seeing a formerly functioning society self-immolate. Life-saving equipment, there for the common good, turned down - rejected with authority - because “Biden and all government is evil.” We will commit literal suicide before choosing ANYTHING that might be of interest and help to society as a whole, because that’s EVIL COMMUNISTSOCIALISM. I’m well past the tearing my hair out stage. This is mass insanity.
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The most vocal…and also completely in charge of the Texas and US government. That part’s really important.
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That is such a cop out and such shitty theology. If all that matters is the great beyond - and that’s EXACTLY the structure that theology builds - then it excuses all manner of evil here, and absolves you of all responsibility to build “the kingdom here on earth.” When someone suffers and dies, a response of “it’s for the best, they’re in a better place” enables more suffering. I hate that image Derka posted: it excuses all manner of evil. I hate the “nothing matters, because what really matters is our heavenly reward” because it allows you to check out on your duty to give yourself in service of your fellow man.
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Mo-Ranch is hosting the TXSAR crew. They have functioning places to sleep on site, which are in short supply. I’m glad they are able to help.
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Seriously, anything that challenges their chosen narrative, no matter how factual, needs to be removed from their view because they are the biggest snowflakes the planet has ever seen.
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Also, I’m getting pretty goddamn sick and tired of my heart breaking for my fellow Texans, and the uniform reaction from leadership being “it could have been worse”…as they coast to re-election. If the leadership of our state and the population that elects them can’t seem to muster a single fuck about the well-being of the humans who live here…why do I keep wasting time caring? I can’t help myself, but knowing that every tear I shed is fucking wasted compounds the loss and rage.
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I pray. I pray by acting. Because Christianity isn’t a faith, belief, or label. It’s a fucking WAY. It’s not something you say, it’s something you DO. The most meaningful prayer isn’t done with your hands folded. It’s done with your hands in motion, feeding, helping, holding, DOING. What we have in American Christianity? It’s 99% performative bullshit done to absolve the powerful of any responsibility or obligation to actually use their hands to HELP others. Prayer is doing “for the least of these.” In America, prayer is saying meaningless words while working to hurt the least of these. In other words, the opposite of “the way.” I hate American prayer.
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Man….you’ve learned nothing. Our leaders will blame Biden and Obama, probably saying that they HAD to divert resources that could have been used for flooding to chase dirty illegals. So really, it’s the fault of dirty brown people. You know that’s correct. The one thing they will NEVER do is take any responsibility.
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Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is on the ground, coordinating with local congregations: https://pcusa.org/disaster-assistance/active-responses/national-disaster/texas-hill-country-flooding Maybe…but…it may also have been a smart move keeping local resources local, when the forecast indicated we may need them around here (and indeed we did - multiple rescues and people lost locally). I’d wait to hear more about this story to figure out what really happened.
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Oh, and from a friend at one of the local churches, all 27 of the missing Mystic girls are confirmed dead.
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I know it’s annoying. I know that message I posted is the same thing, over and over. Yet….its also true. Shit, the metaphor works well in this thread. Sorry not sorry I keep shouting about the wall of water headed our way. Maybe if we’d fucking do something about it, and not double down on our current path, I wouldn’t have to say anything else. But it genuinely pisses me off when everyone tries to sell the “this is Texas, we love and help each other!” lie when those same people celebrate tossing a huge percentage of this state’s population, the people who build your homes, prepare your food, to the ground in cuffs, shove them in camps, all that shit. I’d love it if we meant what we said and practiced what we preached. And I’m sorry if it upsets you to be reminded that we don’t. But I’ll never be silent in the face of this shit. It would be evil for me to do so. Care for every human in this state as much as you care for each of those little girls, that’s all I ask. Yet, it’s clearly too much to ask.
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Moran, was the head of Conoco. Eventually donated to the church (ironically, Moran was a BIG Catholic, there’s a whole story). The slide is absolutely still there, the sleds, the whole deal. It’s legendary. They do a big polar bear fundraiser thing on it in the winter. Also, found out today someone close to me had a daughter at Mystic. She was at the Cypress camp, so she’s fine. But goddamn.
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Epstein files update (there are no Epstein files)
Brisketexan replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
Man. I guess all of the "Epstein Didn't Kill Himself" MAGAts who just couldn't fucking shut up about it for the past several years just all simultaneously had their computers crash or something, because.....crickets. REally weird, I just don't get it, technology doesn't usually fail for entire groups like that. Probably oughta have tech support look into it.- 3843 replies
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I mean....maybe. Sometimes, some humans do some decent shit. But most of the time, the majority of us dedicate all of our efforts and collective social policy to hurting others. Free tamales are great. But they don't make up for the fact that - as just one example - if they were being served by undocumented people, most every person in the area doing volunteer work would stop to cheer on ICE as the grabbed them and tossed them in a van. It doesn't make up for the fact that most of those people will continue to do all they can to insure that our government entities are further defunded and attacked so they become even less able to try to prevent future disasters. Free food is window dressing. It doesn't conceal the rot behind those windows. We need to be the kind of society that actually works to make sure that tragedies like this don't happen anymore, or at least don't happen to this degree. And that is the one thing that we can all rest assured will NOT happen in this case. Or any other. We'll stick with the victory of our new state motto, "It Could Have Been Worse." The CG crews working during Katrina were fucking real-deal heroes. They worked past their allowed time. They were exhausted. Some crews were told to stand down. They refused, and kept on rescuing people. The CG is some of the best of what we've got. I'm glad we have them.
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Most of them are. But River Dorm and Guest Lodge are down low (Guest Lodge has even taken on water once in the past, IIRC). Some campers for specific events will be in either of those two places. Summer Camp generally has the campers in Loma Linda, which is indeed on higher ground. Also, in recent years, with additional cell towers in the area, there's decent cell coverage on site, which helps.
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I was on the board at Mo for several years, including when Tim was camp director (he left for a while, then we brought him back as president). We’d experienced minor (but still scary) flooding in the past, and there have also been fires in the area. As a board, we spent some time - not a lot, it didn’t take a lot - on disaster planning. What do we do if the ranch gets cut off by a fire? What do we do if there’s a flood? Even “what do we do if there’s a medical emergency here in the sticks?” BTW, we signed a contract with a medical evacuation chopper service for the last one. It’s saved at least one life from what I understand. And Tim is damned good at what he does, he’s a real pro. So, yeah, there are ways to do disaster planning at such facilities right. There’s no way to be ready for everything, but you need to have a good team and empower them to take action.
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TLDR; criticizing statewide Republican leadership that has been in control for over a generation, and federal Republican leadership that has seized total control of all levers of power, when events that have a real connection to their policy choices (eg, “deregulating” the Texas energy market to eliminate all capacity functions) is “broken-brained.” But spending hours upon hours on how Biden has dementia and a trans volleyball player in Wyoming is destroying our society is just good and smart conversation. We are getting exactly what we ask for, we’re getting it good and hard, and Ana wants to be very, very sure that we get a lot more of it.
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The freeze and outage. Uvalde. Kerrville. These are all policy SUCCESSES. That’s what you call it when systems function as designed. This is Texas, the Republican dream. The frozen, shot, and drowned dead Texans are what tell you it’s working. The more dead Texans, the better we’re doing. It’s simple math.
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Don’t worry. They’ll reward statewide leadership across the board when the time comes, by steadfastly giving them a literal vote of confidence and return them to office. Big freeze and outage. Uvalde. Kerrville. These events are Texas working as designed and intended, and we must LOVE it, because we keep returning the people who designed those policies and systems to office. The dead Texans is what tells you things are working.
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Our state motto is now, officially, “it could have been worse.” That’s all our leaders have to offer. Someday, it will be “gosh, it’s a shame that 10 million Texans died. But 10 million didn’t! Proof of the power of prayer! Without prayer, it could have been worse!”
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My ordained wife was visibly enraged when I shared Abbott’s comment with her. Her first criticism was much like yours: what, did the families who lost kids not pray hard enough? The fucking lazy, and flat-out evil in that callous theology is horrific.
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