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13 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Yeah, I would imagine that convincing yourself that there was absolutely nothing that you, or the people that you entrusted, could have done to save your child, and it was just their "time" is a pretty natural human reflex/coping mechanism.

Perhaps she feels guilt at having sent her to a camp and feels ultimately responsible for her daughter's death, and this is her way of coping with it. Again, as a parent, I can't imagine the grief I would feel if one of my daughters died in such a horrific way. She is now living in a world that no longer makes any sense. We need to cut her some slack. 

I once created a video for Texas Parks & Wildlife Department to teach teens about lake drownings and how to avoid them. We found and interviewed parents who has lost teens and put them on. camera. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done and I'm still friends with two of the families. The grief they feel is so profound even today. One of the moms told me that as their children's friends experience their new milestones, like graduation, college marriage, etc, they feel the loss all over again.    

Love your kids. They can be taken away in an instant.

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1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

guess I'm dense - what are you trying to tell me?

dead kids don’t matter one miniscule fuck to the base. 

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1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

guess I'm dense - what are you trying to tell me?

You’re not sure what the Uvalde County election results from November 2022  say about the premise that “dead kids tend to rile people up?”

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bumping this

  

On 7/6/2025 at 12:09 PM, chainsaw said:

Just so everyone's expectations are clear, this is the way it'll always play out

  • Day of:
    • wall to wall media coverage
    • non-stop social media anecdotes and commentary from public figures
    • all politicians extending thoughts, prayers, and offers of assistance
  • Day after
    • politicians on the scene, photo ops, press conferences making all kinds of promises
    • wall to wall media coverage
    • hundreds of different charities and GoFundMes up and running, donations pouring in
  • Week after
    • media coverage mixed with newer unrelated stories, in-depth stories from first responders and victims
    • social media attention drops off
    • charities still seeing support
    • politicians continue with thoughts and prayers, but all commitments if any are made are vague and noncommittal
  • Month after
    • no more mainstream media, any media attention will come from partisan sources making a story of the government failing to honor its promises to help the affected people and communities
    • social media will consist of people sharing the partisan stories
    • donations will have slowed to a trickle
    • politicians will stop talking about it, and when asked about it will have a canned response that in no way, shape, or form, helps anyone
  • Thereafter
    • no media at all
    • basically no charity at all
    • politicians will neither lift a finger nor spend a dime on rebuilding or helping any of the victims
    • victims will try to speak out about how the safety net wasn't there when they needed it, and their stories will be ignored

We are here:

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  • Month after
    • no more mainstream media, any media attention will come from partisan sources making a story of the government failing to honor its promises to help the affected people and communities
    • social media will consist of people sharing the partisan stories
    • donations will have slowed to a trickle
    • politicians will stop talking about it, and when asked about it will have a canned response that in no way, shape, or form, helps anyone

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/us/texas-flood-survivors

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‘We need financial help and are not getting it’

For many survivors who lost their homes, it remains unclear how much support they’ll receive from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other government programs. Even if help comes, it won’t be quick.

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“The state and county are helping us none,” Bolton told CNN. “I know people that lost their homes and sleeping in their cars still because they are not getting any of the funding. We don’t need toilet paper, bottled water, and few necessities and gift cards. We need financial help and are not getting it.”

Absolutely nothing on FoxNews website

https://www.foxnews.com/

Absolutely nothing on MSNBC website either

https://www.msnbc.com/

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Non-functioning FEMA and both Federal and State governments out front shoulda told ya.

The social/government compact in America and Texas in particular exists for one reason only: to ensure maximum profit/minimum costs/taxes to a very small segment of us....and fuck everyone and everything else.  

We are not seeing the system failing.  We are seeing it working flawlessly, exactly as designed.  From the moment the first raindrop fell the night of July 3-4 to present, and to infinity and beyond.  Ho-hum, same old same old.

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4 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

bumping this

  

We are here:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/us/texas-flood-survivors

Absolutely nothing on FoxNews website

https://www.foxnews.com/

Absolutely nothing on MSNBC website either

https://www.msnbc.com/

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We could give you some aid, but then the Communists would win.  You don't want the Communists to win, do ya, Bud?  Didn't think so.  So get a good grip on them bootstraps and start tugging. 

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31 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Non-functioning FEMA and both Federal and State governments out front shoulda told ya.

The social/government compact in America and Texas in particular exists for one reason only: to ensure maximum profit/minimum costs/taxes to a very small segment of us....and fuck everyone and everything else.  

We are not seeing the system failing.  We are seeing it working flawlessly, exactly as designed.  From the moment the first raindrop fell the night of July 3-4 to present, and to infinity and beyond.  Ho-hum, same old same old.

Don't forget using FEMA funds for immigrant camps. I still do not understand how that shit is allowed. FEMA has a very strict mandate and direct, approved, congressional funding. 

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Posted
6 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

I still do not understand how that shit is allowed.

Perhaps you did not get the memo on "The Rule of Law is dead."  Coulda sworn I saw your name on the routing slip.

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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Perhaps you did not get the memo on "The Rule of Law is dead."  Coulda sworn I saw your name on the routing slip.

Got stuck in Spam folder. 

Posted
16 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I'd still like to see an explanation for why the "missing" number dropped over 90% but the death toll didn't rise.

Oh well, nevertheless.

From what I gathered, there was an over-reporting of missing intially.  Anybody who couldn't get into contact with loved ones right away reported them as missing.  They later went on to clear up the missing vs dead boards and cleared a lot of the missing.  



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