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6 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

It's also a shame that we don't have an independent media. It's all under the thumb of rich elites.

Trump should be getting dragged every day. By every outlet. But that doesn't happen. They've been bought out. Trump fucked up again? Trump lied again? Just dangle a shiny object in front of the masses. They'll forget.

i just hope the mystic dads have had a call and reached agreement on coordinated action after the mourning is over

that presser was the most disgusting, vile thing i've seen in this state in my life

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2 hours ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

That's the real tragedy, this takes away from how on fire we are! 

 

Well he kind of has fucked america, so I guess this tracks....

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3 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

 

Proper response would have been, "Would an evil person have gone golfing that day or skipped it?"  

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Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal matters.
 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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42 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

Each and every one of those people should be forced to go to every fucking funeral of everyone that died. 


Every 4th of july mail them a postcard of their comments.

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Posted
12 hours ago, aggie08 said:

Sure, but the hope is that elected officials humor, but ultimately ignore, them and make decisions in the best interest of all their constituents.

But the GOP--even at the grassroots level--is now in the business of creating more crazy political ranters because they're incredibly easy to manipulate for votes...so long as you indulge their insane conspiracy theories with your voting record. Which seems to be what happened here. Crazies are the base now, and we're going to get more and more people killed trying to appease them. The monster is too big now.

I doubt they were going to fork over the Biden money for anything whether or not the weirdos spouted off in the council meetings.

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1 hour ago, Captain Ron said:

If you’re going to neuter FEMA like this you might as well get rid of it, right?

 

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get off the phone, those bootstraps ain’t pulling themselves up on their own. 

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3 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

He makes it so fucking easy for an opposition party to capitalize.  It's a shame we don't have one.

I don't believe that any party or newspaper can package what Trump said to make it somehow clearer or more damning. As with everything, he is this rapine piece of shit right on camera everyday. No mediation needed: it's right fucking there. They voted for him anyway.

There are no secrets about Trump. He's America's Choice.

 

1 hour ago, DDD Dad said:

Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal matters.
 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Are you people still talking about the floods? People have talked that subject out. It's ancient history like the Epstein lists.

Only a bad person would care about this and ask questions. Listen, we've got the hottest country. Foreign leaders tell me they're amazed. We're not a laughing stock anymore.

 

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This is the second night in a row that I have been watching movies with my kids on Disney plus and a Blue Alert has killed the app to tell us about this guy in the opposite side of the state from us. The event was a week ago. This has to be on purpose to make us hate alerts. I can’t imagine another scenario 

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This is the second night in a row that I have been watching movies with my kids on Disney plus and a Blue Alert has killed the app to tell us about this guy in the opposite side of the state from us. The event was a week ago. This has to be on purpose to make us hate alerts. I can’t imagine another scenario 

They’re more worried about a few whackos firing on an ICE center than they are with the hundreds of dead and missing in the Hill Country.
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2 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

he is this rapine piece of shit right on camera everyday. No mediation needed: it's right fucking there. They voted for him anyway.

There are no secrets about Trump. He's America's Choice.

Quoted because this should be the answer to everything that happens every fucking day. Wake the fuck up people. This isn’t hard. It’s been this way for a fucking decade. 
 

 

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Caught some more of the press conference.  And I'm now totally onboard with Trump and MAGA.  The way he worked the price of eggs into the press conference and how cheap they were at Easter was nothing short of did he seriously fucking do that masterful.  Only an asshole  tremendous president could so shittily eloquently remind us of all the important things like the price of kid's lives eggs.  

Obama, W, Biden, all of them before 8647 should be thanking their lucky stars they didn't have to deal with this as there is no way in hell they could have said anything near as distasteful comforting as the words of our dear leader.

Oh yeah, and don't forget we are winning...Lord knows what...but apparently we are.

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7 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

He makes it so fucking easy for an opposition party to capitalize.  It's a shame we don't have one.

 

6 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:

It's also a shame that we don't have an independent media. It's all under the thumb of rich elites.

 

Trump should be getting dragged every day. By every outlet. But that doesn't happen. They've been bought out. Trump fucked up again? Trump lied again? Just dangle a shiny object in front of the masses. They'll forget.

There is a correlation between these two.  

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10 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:

It's also a shame that we don't have an independent media. It's all under the thumb of rich elites.

 

Trump should be getting dragged every day. By every outlet. But that doesn't happen. They've been bought out. Trump fucked up again? Trump lied again? Just dangle a shiny object in front of the masses. They'll forget.

The media has always been under the thumb of rich elites.

The rich elites have never been so self-interested or enmeshed with the government before.

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8 hours ago, speed817 said:

Story on my friend's mom who died in the flooding last week....

 
 

Let me get this straight. There were two night watchmen 50 yds away and the owner of the organization was in contact with them. They evacuated the kids BY HELICOPTER. And NOBODY took the time to check on HER? Is that what I’m hearing? Because that sounds like her death was extremely avoidable and that was some serious negligence by her boss. 

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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

The media has always been under the thumb of rich elites.

The rich elites have never been so self-interested or enmeshed with the government before.

Makes Randolph Hearst seem like a minor figure.

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Jesus.  JUST STOP:

Voting for assholes and morons

Encouraging      “          “        “

Donating to       “          “         “

Supporting        “          “         “

Believing nonsense 

Posted
2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

The media has always been under the thumb of rich elites.

The rich elites have never been so self-interested or enmeshed with the government before.

The gilded age would like to have a word. 

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8 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Quoted because this should be the answer to everything that happens every fucking day. Wake the fuck up people. This isn’t hard. It’s been this way for a fucking decade. 
 

 

Quite good. I turned on subtitles and it opened up a whole new world.

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Posted (edited)
14 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:

It's also a shame that we don't have an independent media. It's all under the thumb of rich elites.

 

Trump should be getting dragged every day. By every outlet. But that doesn't happen. They've been bought out. Trump fucked up again? Trump lied again? Just dangle a shiny object in front of the masses. They'll forget.

My mind came back to this post when I read the NYT story about the mass firing of FBI Agents. You know, something commonly called a purge by plain speaking people not afraid to say out loud what they actually see.

Check it out. Mealy mouth NYT>

image.thumb.png.98a2a2340d129e06a1b2fc403e73a51b.png Hmm, anybody sense a bigger story here?

Maybe my favorite, Unease. Holy shit, they're not at ease down at the FBI. Let's not sugar coat it!

 

image.png.72e047d5448402395a13da9238859654.pngFuck you, Times.

 

How about:

Trump Increases Authoritarian Grip at FBI

Loyalty Tests and Mass Firings Weaken Rule of Law

 

Biggest story of their lives and possibly the history of the republic, and the college boys and grad students strictly follow templates. Nothing above is libel nor inaccurate. It's not editorial. It's a self-evident truth that these idiots can't find the wherewithal to either recognize or say out loud.

It's a deplorable failure. The opposition party has been negated by decades of propaganda. The press is supposed to be the antidote to that.

Just like lawyers leaving law firms that are bending the knee (OMG! realizing that the dream of the big firm partnership is not worth the degradation. But we all hate lawyers like we hate Dems!), reporters and editors should jump off the gray lady and find a place safe for clear, honest reporting.

Of course, the larger part of the population has been convinced that lawyers, unions, government, the press, and the courts are their enemies, so money will be lost doing the right thing. Fight.

 

ETA: Oh, about the markings. The yellow marks the important part of the story. Believing the cover of loyalty tests in the name of preventing news leaks would be funny if it were not so timid and naive.

"Well, that's what they said, ya know." You're an idiot and disgrace.

Note: The stories copied above present the newest stories at top.

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Posted
9 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

#humblebrag

God, the @humblebrag Twitter account was so good. It feels like a lifetime ago. I just looked it up, the account was active from 2010-2015 until the user (comedic writer Harris Wittels) passed away in 2015. 

At the time it was such a fascinating phenomenon and harmless, funny criticism of human behavior. Now we live in social media hell with Trumpism, bots, and foreign bad actors. Fuck, we are fucked. 

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Posted

Finally read the TM article and I can’t keep it together. I keep looking at my girls and breaking down. 

im also so fucking angry.  Fuck

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I created this to make fun of the governance of Kerrville. However, looking at it, I pray with all my heart that this all comes to pass. 

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somewhere in the content maelstrom from the past week was a comment from a woman in her 40s who was a 4-year mystic alum from the early 80s

she said something to the effect of "she remembered the long-time mystic maintenance man, __________, (she remembered his name) who would take a chair down to the floodplain and watch the river every time it rained at night"

i continue to maintain that this was not a "100-year" event, that it happens every 10-15 years, and the institutional memory of the locals which knew this, died off before the turn of the century 

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1 hour ago, TreatyOak said:

I created this to make fun of the governance of Kerrville. However, looking at it, I pray with all my heart that this all comes to pass. 

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Punative?

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15 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

somewhere in the content maelstrom from the past week was a comment from a woman in her 40s who was a 4-year mystic alum from the early 80s

she said something to the effect of "she remembered the long-time mystic maintenance man, __________, (she remembered his name) who would take a chair down to the floodplain and watch the river every time it rained at night"

i continue to maintain that this was not a "100-year" event, that it happens every 10-15 years, and the institutional memory of the locals which knew this, died off before the turn of the century 

The gentleman's name was JC Mattox, I believe, or JG.  Maybe Maddox.  My buddy worked with/for him back in that timeframe.

Still, though, the Eastlands lived on the property, so they knew what was potentially at stake.

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somewhere in the content maelstrom from the past week was a comment from a woman in her 40s who was a 4-year mystic alum from the early 80s
she said something to the effect of "she remembered the long-time mystic maintenance man, __________, (she remembered his name) who would take a chair down to the floodplain and watch the river every time it rained at night"
i continue to maintain that this was not a "100-year" event, that it happens every 10-15 years, and the institutional memory of the locals which knew this, died off before the turn of the century 

That was my best HS buddy’s widow, Amy Hudson. She spent 14 years at Mystic as a camper, counselor and later as the equestrian instructor. All four of their girls went to Mystic. She was quoted multiple times in the WSJ story and told about the maintenance man who would stay up and monitor the river when needed.
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