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13 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

The only thing I'm confident about is Texas will do absolutely nothing and voters will forget about it in a week

Wrong. In addition to thoughts and prayers, we never forget.

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Special session coming up in July. I'm sure there will be a nicely worded joint resolution honoring those who died.

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Just now, Cap33 said:

Special session coming up in July. I'm sure there will be a nicely worded joint resolution honoring those who died.

And thanking god that it wasn’t worse. 

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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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9 minutes ago, bluto said:

Fuvk ya, Ana here to set us straight. 

I am pretty comfortable with that assessment after reading the posts here. 

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2 hours ago, Cap33 said:

Special session coming up in July. I'm sure there will be a nicely worded joint resolution honoring those who died.

 

2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

And thanking god that it wasn’t worse. 

Some in state govt will pat themselves on the back that their actions prevented more from dying. Of course in reality, the best we can hope is when the state govt stays out of the way.

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24 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Politics has absolutely broken some of y'all. 

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. 

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5 minutes 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. 

Why? 

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37 minutes 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. 

So you agree with the tone of the posts here. I guess that is fine. Feel free to compare and contrast the management in objective terms of the current tragedy with state and federal government responses to any number of prior flash flood events in Central Texas (say 2015, or go for 1987, 1998, plenty to pick from) or other natural disasters in other states (HA, NC, CA , just off the top of my head). Jesus Bozo, don't be a clown. Not everything is just broken brained politics. 

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47 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

So you agree with the tone of the posts here. I guess that is fine. Feel free to compare and contrast the management in objective terms of the current tragedy with state and federal government responses to any number of prior flash flood events in Central Texas (say 2015, or go for 1987, 1998, plenty to pick from) or other natural disasters in other states (HA, NC, CA , just off the top of my head). Jesus Bozo, don't be a clown. Not everything is just broken brained politics. 

Jesus. Way to duck the question. Here’s where I’m at:

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20 minutes ago, royiv said:

Nailed it.

Yep. Well there’s always next time. And the time after that, ad infinitum. 

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On 7/5/2025 at 2:14 PM, Hagbard Celine said:

patricia says the gutted noaa told all of the counties and cities they were about to get a 27-foot wall of water

leaders of cities and counties say nay

kxan requesting all comms

wouldn't dare post this over in the dt feels thread but this shaping to be a popcorn-consuming event

probably should be in the leopards thread but that would be cruel to the maga families who lost kids

https://www.kxan.com/investigations/federal-forecast-concerns-surface-in-texas-deadly-flooding-debate/

Local fucking weather had 15–17 inches predicted on Wednesday within 70 miles as the crow flies (and rain covering the region). The NWS gave a warning at 1am, no one did a god damned thing. There’s no rocket science here. It’s plain as fucking day. Abject failure up and down the line. It’s not even debatable. 

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2 minutes ago, troph said:

Local fucking weather had 15–17 inches predicted on Wednesday within 70 miles as the crow flies (and rain covering the region). The NWS gave a warning at 1am, no one did a god damned thing. There’s no rocket science here. It’s plain as fucking day. Abject failure up and down the line. It’s not even debatable. 

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?

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2 minutes 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?

100% and I wouldn’t blame the state until they started with that bullshit the other day. If I’m in charge of that camp I worry about heat injury, pedos, and floods. Local leadership, Jesus no one was aware? At all? Unreal. 

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2 hours ago, Anastasis said:

So you agree with the tone of the posts here. I guess that is fine. Feel free to compare and contrast the management in objective terms of the current tragedy with state and federal government responses to any number of prior flash flood events in Central Texas (say 2015, or go for 1987, 1998, plenty to pick from) or other natural disasters in other states (HA, NC, CA , just off the top of my head). Jesus Bozo, don't be a clown. Not everything is just broken brained politics. 

Oh fuck, here we go again. If I had a nickel for every time you refuse to answer a simple question I wouldn’t have to show up at work hungover tomorrow. 

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1 minute ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Oh fuck, here we go again. If I had a nickel for every time you refuse to answer a simple question I wouldn’t have to show up at work hungover tomorrow. 

Try Again Excuse Me GIF by grown-ish

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Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Jesus. Way to duck the question. Here’s where I’m at:

 

I am not ducking anything and there are no specifics in Jim's post that you quoted. I have no doubt that there were some breakdowns and there will be Sunday morning quarterbacking. I am happy to let that run its course and discuss the details and specifics and the cards fall where they are. No go back through the posts here and read my post again. 

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6 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

I am not ducking anything and there are no specifics in Jim's thread. I have no doubt that there were some breakdowns and there will be Sunday morning quarterbacking. I happy to let that run its course and discussing the details and specifics and the cards fall where they are. No go back through the posts here and read my post again. 

That’s not responsive. This isn’t a trick or complex. This is a very straightforward yes/no question about your opinion.

Again,  do you think that the elected leadership at the statewide and Federal level in the aftermath of this tragedy has been adequate and appropriate

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5 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

That’s not responsive.

Again,  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. 

I haven't consumed much in depth news since July 3rd and don't have enough information to make much of an assessment at this point. Only seen snips here and there. So instead of putting the onus on me to make your point, which is totally unrelated to the post I made and which you quoted btw, go ahead and spill your own ink on it. It's the day after. Go ahead and play quarterback.  

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3 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

I haven't consumed much in depth news since July 3rd and don't have enough information to make much of an assessment at this point. Only seen snips here and there.

this is shitty poster behavior and you know that

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3 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

this is shitty poster behavior and you know that

Go fuck yourself hayden.  Snipping that post in half is shitty poster behaviour. 

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That some of you get more spun up at me pointing out the obvious and not the absolute brokenness on display here is unsurprising. 

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Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

So if haven’t been paying close enough attention to make an assessment, why are you arguing with people who have?
 

I wasn't arguing with anyone bozo the clown. My post was "Politics has absolutely broken some of y'all." A statement which is pretty obvious by a plain reading of the posts on the last couple pages. 

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Posted (edited)
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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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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Posted (edited)
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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I think the next Democratic Party commercial should be Governor Abbott saying “it could have been worse” and then showing pictures of all the children who died under preventable issues under his watch.

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