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chainsaw

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  1. Looks like the facebook crowd has found their black villain
  2. cheap shot monday morning quarterbacking. i'd expect this from police unions but firefighters? I'm sure most of the usual "don't bring up politics" facebook people are gonna show up en masse any moment now.
  3. I'm supposed to be mad about a non-deployment decision from June 2 that might have improved rescue operations on June 4? How long does it actually take to bring out swift boats from Austin to Kerr County? Wouldn't Baker needed to have known, ahead of time, exactly where along the Guadalupe to send those boats? Is that even possible? And if he'd done that and the rain bomb had landed in the City of Austin how would Baker explain that the swift boats were several counties away? I'm sorry I just don't understand the accusation here.
  4. It's not that they're white, although it doesn't hurt. It's that they're wealthy, they're influential, and they have on speed dial everyone who matters in Austin and DC. I don't think there will even be a need for lawsuits, they'll just fastforward to Abbott convening a special session to cut each of those families a $10M check courtesy of John Q Taxpayer.
  5. https://www.quora.com/Who-do-I-give-evidence-to-that-Jeff-Epstein-was-framed-by-corrupt-DOJ-employees-between-2001-and-2008 You really can find all kinds of people on the internet
  6. Brisket draws a lot of water in this community. You don't draw shit.
  7. Spanish language media quietly doing a great job interviewing counselors who moved children to safety For the Peggy Hills of the world, YouTube closed captions has a half-decent (emphasis on half) automatic translation feature.
  8. Nothing is weird about young people making friends and staying in touch over the years. Some people, it would seem, have a hard time understanding how a summer camp would be a place where that sort of thing would happen.
  9. When they said "could've been worse" at the first presser, Ted being there is the "worse" we all had in mind.
  10. It's been tried and hasn't made a shit
  11. I'm not MAGA but the ethos of "traditional values" is that the man is the provider and the protector of the entire family, and the family members in greatest need of protection are his daughters. So they're gonna be pretty torn up about it and want their pounds of flesh. I ain't MAGA but I wouldn't blame 'em.
  12. https://www.zocalo.com.mx/silvana-y-maria-paula-lograron-salvar-a-20-ninas-durante-la-inundacion-en-un-campamento-de-texas/ I hadn't heard these two details: The storm was too loud for them to sleep (1 AM) The power went out at 3AM prompting these two counselors to move smaller campers somewhere more safe, presumably with lanterns and flashlights Can't help but wonder how and why the rest of the guardians hadn't taken advantage of these crucial hours.
  13. NWS probably has things they wish they'd done differently between the 1:14AM warning and 4:03AM emergency alerts, but it would be nitpicking.
  14. Being short staffed and its technology underfunded and neglected makes NWS fuckups much more likely. And despite all that, this was not one of their fuckups
  15. why aren't any of the drafted players seeing playing time?
  16. Lately it's more "God has a different plan for Family B"
  17. That Texas Monthly story (which goes in depth into those figures and ends with a bitter intra-family lawsuit over a financial mess) paints a picture of an extremely exclusive place for the Country Club crowd, and the article does indicate that the "in your face" Bible programming was put there by the new management.
  18. oh i know, but lurkers might have trouble keeping up and i want as much daylight between the posters who seek accountability and assholes who only want to crow
  19. Seizing the opportunity to discuss policy solutions during the tiny window of time when people actually feel like thinking about the issue is not "spiking the football" but I understand why some people can't tell the difference between being criticized and being confronted with undeniable facts about the consequences of the ineffective policy solutions they have supported. Trust me. Nobody takes any pleasure in this. We're seizing this opportunity because we hope these discussions lead to changes that will lower future death tolls.
  20. The people who need to hear it most are the ones who consistently tune it out
  21. squeezing it in before Butlerpalooza?
  22. a fake news reporter making things political
  23. This is the sort of bullshit that "now is not the time" should apply to, not the dialogue surrounding safety infrastructure and the politicians who defund it.
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