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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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4 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Do you think that the elected leadership at the statewide and Federal level in the aftermath of this tragedy has been adequate and appropriate? Serious question. 

Let’s see. Anna makes a ridiculous statement. You reasonably ask him to defend that ridiculous statement. He proceeds to completely ignore the request and ask you to defend a laundry list of things that he thinks you think

that about right?

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When a politician is not afraid of losing a general election, there is no accountability for them being bad at their job. Texas keeps returning the same people to office who generally have no fear of losing to a democrat who may actually be interested in public service. 
However, what they are afraid of is losing a primary to someone who is more crazy than them. They have no interest in governing, but are more interested in culture war stuff.  As a state, we care more about trans people in sports than actually working to make the lives of people safer and better. 
All that makes for bad governance. 

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26 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Let’s see. Anna makes a ridiculous statement. You reasonably ask him to defend that ridiculous statement. He proceeds to completely ignore the request and ask you to defend a laundry list of things that he thinks you think

that about right?

Pretty much whiffed on each sentence. Jeez bonz. 

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3 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Yep. At the camp level, I don’t know what is supposed to happen, but my instinct is that with 800 female kids in one area especially you’d have one or more people on active roving patrol all night long for any number of predatory issues as well as just problems that occur at night with that many kids in one place.  On top of that, the camp should have been aware of the overnight flood watch and been on heightened alert and listening to radio or otherwise getting weather updates, and been ready to take action. It’s difficult to believe any of this happened, but we will see eventually. 
 

then there’s the local government response. This one is tougher, because it’s not their job to go door to door to make sure everyone is aware. But theee seems to be an extended time delay between the flood warnings and city/county broadcasting of them. And there’s no phone tree for certain areas- especially the places with large congregations of people?  You claim you know that you are in flash flood alley and are no stranger to floods- and you know you don’t have the siren warning system- so what is your procedure?

What the fuck else do they do? I don't expect a literal door to door alert throughout the county, but the riverside camps with shitty cell coverage and lots of kids in them seem like it'd be worth sending someone to make sure they're aware of the danger.

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37 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

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.

All the power.

None of the responsibility.

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Likely parlayed into grievances they're being oppressed

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

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.

Great post.

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3 hours ago, Anastasis said:

I expect hayden to be along shortly lecturing people on shitty posting behavior. 

do you mean you? already did that. you are a terrible poster and you know it. do you feel clever? 

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4 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

The broken, unhinged clowns on Surly Horns politics forum must taste the whip of my unique wit and be thoroughly vanquished before I can even begin to critique the pros and cons of the leader of the Free World's assertion that Joe Biden is a robot. 

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