Texas Leaders Ignored Need for Flood Management

Tuesday, July 08, 2025

As Texas state leaders have prioritized spending on border security and property tax cuts, they have been far more reluctant to fund flood management efforts. ... Texas leads the nation by a wide margin in flood deaths. ... Weekend floods in Texas claimed nearly 90 lives, with dozens of people still missing.

Posted by retort at 12:12 PM | 146 COMMENTS | permalink

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Natural catastrophes are an expense. MAGA government doesn't want flood management. What it clearly does is wait until multitudes are dead and complain they we unfairly blame Donald Trump and them for it.

Therefore, there will be a next time.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-08 12:55 PM

Natural catastrophes are an expense. MAGA government doesn't want flood management. What it clearly does is wait until multitudes are dead and complain that we unfairly blame Donald Trump and them for it.

Therefore, there will be a next time.

I's say later this summer.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-08 12:56 PM

They're getting what they have always wanted. A government small enough for Grover Norquest to drown in the bathtub.

Who cares if a bunch of kids die? As Eberly is fond of pointing out, nobody cares.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 01:37 PM

Once again, there appears to be a disconnect between real world situations and MAGA/rightwing beliefs. They don't believe we need FEMA and governmental emergency services because they are all a fraud run by liberals to steal money from working class red State people. On the other hand, natural disasters caused by Acts of God are also somehow a leftwing plot, and really don't exist except due to Establishment conspiracies.

#4 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-07-08 01:41 PM

MTG's answer to this is to make weather manipulation by chemtrails illegal.

I wish I was joking.

#5 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-07-08 01:47 PM

According to Republicans, every so often, the tree of liberty needs to be watered with the blood of elementary school children.

#6 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2025-07-08 01:48 PM

Is there a single state 100% up to speed on all emergency management?

I'll bet every single state in this country has needs that have been requested and denied.

California just had an out of control horrible fire.....and what happened immediately? unmet emergency needs were pointed out. umpteen hurricanes, floods, fires, etc.

-As Eberly is fond of pointing out, nobody cares.

people barely care now. Once the next catastrophe captures short attention span of Americans...the --------- meter will drop from 4 points to zero on this flood.

#7 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 01:50 PM

"blood of elementary school children."

JFC, I completely left out gun violence in schools and mass shootings everywhere else.....

#8 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 01:51 PM

"Is there a single state 100% up to speed on all emergency management?"

Yes there is. It's Texas. The state of Texas committed 100% of the resources that Texas wanted to commit to emergency management.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 01:53 PM

"Therefore, there will be a next time."

100% correct.

Here's another prediction. When it happens, you'll google an electoral map to verify what color that state is and then decide whether to attack or defend state/local leadership.

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 01:54 PM

Here's another prediction. When it happens, you'll google an electoral map to verify what color that state is and then decide whether to attack or defend state/local leadership.

#10 | Posted by eberly

Unfortunately, that's how the president decides who gets federal emergency aid.

#11 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-07-08 01:59 PM

When it happens, you'll google an electoral map to verify what color that state is and then decide whether to attack or defend state/local leadership.

#10 | POSTED BY EBERLY

I think 108 deaths by drowning, 25% of them kids, is a sufficient reason for a bit of outrage.

Boy, and I thought I was a cynic.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-08 02:00 PM

-Unfortunately, that's how the president decides who gets federal emergency aid.

You're completely correct.....maybe that's a clue on how nasty partisanship looks.

-I think 108 deaths by drowning, 25% of them kids, is a sufficient reason for a bit of outrage.

Then be outraged, for Christs sakes....instead of enjoying it.

#13 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 02:01 PM

"I'll bet every single state in this country has needs that have been requested and denied."

As a Republican, that's your doing, so you should take a victory lap for that.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 02:02 PM

I think 108 deaths by drowning, 25% of them kids, is a sufficient reason for a bit of outrage.

It is, but eberly is likely here to tell us that nobody cares about this. That and who you voted for.

#15 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-07-08 02:04 PM

Then be outraged, for Christs sakes....instead of enjoying it.
#13 | Posted by eberly

Republicans are the ones enjoying it.

Maybe you haven't seen the AI generated images on Facebook of little girls in Camp Mystic t-shirts being welcomed by Jesus, but it's Republicans posting that garbage on Facebook, not us sensible people.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 02:04 PM

Is there a single state 100% up to speed on all emergency management?

#7 | Posted by eberly

Nope.

But there are states that chronically underfund emergency management. They basically are all red states.

So why is the bar 100% or everybody is the same?

#17 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-07-08 02:04 PM

Noem 'extremely grateful for God's hand' in Texas flooding
drudge.com

^
Republicans Enjoying It.

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 02:05 PM

Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 02:04 PM | Reply

That's vile.

#19 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-07-08 02:05 PM

-So why is the bar 100% or everybody is the same?

It's not a bar nor is it a defense. It's merely much much much needed context in this sea of faux outrage.

#20 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 02:06 PM

Republicans are vile.

And Eberly comes here to drive the point home.

He's good at it too.

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 02:07 PM

~~Republicans~~ Snoofy Enjoying It.

#22 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 02:07 PM

"faux outrage."

What outrage? Repbublicans are praising Jesus for these dead girls right now.

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 02:07 PM

You think I enjoy the United States being run by religious lunatics, like Iran or Israel?

No, Eberly. Republicans are the ones enjoying that.

#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 02:09 PM

You think I enjoy "thoughts and prayers" whenever an easily preventable tragedy occurs?

No, Eberly. Republicans are the ones enjoying that.

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 02:09 PM

-AI generated images on Facebook of little girls in Camp Mystic t-shirts being welcomed by Jesus

very bad taste.

and some here are walking down the same path.

#26 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 02:10 PM

You're completely correct.....maybe that's a clue on how nasty partisanship looks.

-I think 108 deaths by drowning, 25% of them kids, is a sufficient reason for a bit of outrage.

Then be outraged, for Christs sakes....instead of enjoying it.

#13 | Posted by eberly

Partisanship? That implies both sides do this to each other.

So then you'll need to find an example of democrat leaders threatening to withhold disaster aid to red states for political reasons.

Otherwise you've just added to your giant pile of false equivalencies you spout to pretend repubs arent far worse creatures than dems.

#27 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-07-08 02:11 PM

-AI generated images on Facebook of little girls in Camp Mystic t-shirts being welcomed by Jesus
very bad taste.

Eberly:
Why is it bad taste?
How is it any different than saying they have been called home to The Lord?
It's a picture of them, being called home to The Lord.
Tell me the difference between the words -- which you obviously don't find distasteful -- and the picture.

Or, just go ---- yourself since you never have anything useful to add to a conversation unless it happens to touch on insurance.

#28 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 02:12 PM

very bad taste.
and some here are walking down the same path.
#26 | Posted by eberly

Who?
Name names, you pathetic ----.

#29 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 02:13 PM

I ------ you hard with that Called Home To The Lord comment.

Catch you next thread, ----- boy.

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 02:16 PM

California just had an out of control horrible fire.....and what happened immediately? unmet emergency needs were pointed out. umpteen hurricanes, floods, fires, etc.

Everyone got plenty of warning about the fires. No children died. The problem wasn't proper warnings it was the very high winds and emergency responses and the crumbling infrastructure that prevented an effective response.

And California was skewered by maga and the right wing media for it.

MAGA said horrible things about California at the time. And still does. And now they have the -------- to come here and complain and act all self righteous about anyone questioning Texas's preparedness for disasters?

Typical.

#31 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-08 02:23 PM

"Name names"

Snoofy and Zed to start.

Anybody else wants to step up and hang that sign around their neck is fine with me.

Miserable -----.....

#32 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 02:25 PM

-MAGA said horrible things about California at the time.

absolutely. rank partisanship.....and uncalled for.

Pretty easy to see, quite frankly.

Just like now.....

#33 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 02:31 PM

"Name names"
Snoofy
#32 | Posted by eberly

Never happened.
Nothing about this situation is enjoyable for sensible people.
It's only Republicans who are praising Jesus over this.

#34 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 02:41 PM

-MAGA said horrible things about California at the time.
absolutely. rank partisanship.....and uncalled for.
Pretty easy to see, quite frankly.
Just like now.....
#33 | Posted by eberly

You're trying to make this a "both sides!" thing but it isn't a both sides thing.

MAGA said horrible things about California at the time, that's true.

MAGA has been saying horrible things about FEMA the whole time as well.

That's why comments like this strike such an obvious exposed nerve for Republicans: Because it's the truth. Because Republicans did in fact vote for this.

"Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts."
www.mediaite.com

#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 02:47 PM

"Texas leads the nation by a wide margin in flood deaths."

Because they want to.

#36 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 02:52 PM

Is there a single state 100% up to speed on all emergency management?
I'll bet every single state in this country has needs that have been requested and denied.

Ahhhh yes, the ol' 'there is no such thing as scale' argument.

Of course, nothing is perfect. Never will be.

However, there are differences in basic preparedness/awareness for risk.

I get tons of warnings on my cell phone well in advance of inclement weather. So much so that it annoys me sometimes because if any amount of the county I live in is part of a warning, the entire county gets the alerts.

But I'm perfectly fine with the "inconvenience" since on more than once occasion I've been woken up by my phone making what's not far off from the most annoying sound in the world from Dumb and Dumber, only to get blasted by a 70 mph gust front, torrential rain and, on a few occasions, a tornado passing within a few miles of my house within minutes of getting my family down into the basement.

My state is well prepared and has solid plans in place for known risks.

Texas was so lacking in preparedness for events that have happened without our lifetimes there were multiple cabins within reach of being washed away completely while still full of children. This will boil down to a lack of political will by Texas politicians because the extremity of their anti-gubmint views is such that people will die due to their negligence.

#37 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-08 02:56 PM

That's vile.

#19 | Posted by Alexandrite

For some that helps them cope.

I can't hold that against them (although creating the image and sharing is a bit too far but not surprising in our virtue signaling social media world).

Better than the first thing I think of, which is the sheer terror those poor kids experienced for their last waking moments while undergoing a brutal death.

#38 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-08 03:01 PM

Then be outraged, for Christs sakes....instead of enjoying it.

#13 | POSTED BY EBERLY

My daughter was downstream of these floods.

In Texas, we have MAGA pols dodging elementary questions about what happened....

How it came to be that other people's daughters died.

What part of the event or it's MAGA depraved aftermath do you think is enjoyable?

Please be specific.

#39 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-08 03:02 PM

Just like now.....

#33 | Posted by eberly

There is a difference between the two.

And pointing out the dereliction of duty by Texas officials to prepare for a known danger isn't "rank partisanship." It's an entirely valid response to the needless deaths of dozens of people.

#40 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-08 03:04 PM

Snoofy and Zed to start.

#32 | POSTED BY EBERLY A

For reasons only you know you get angry at other people's angry reaction to things.

This flood happened in my backyard.

A hearty GFY to you.

#41 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-08 03:05 PM

For EBERLY and his clan----

Everyone but you people knew something like Kerrville was going to happen on Donald's watch.

This will not be a unique event.

Donald and MAGA have made sure of it.

#42 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-08 03:09 PM

"For reasons only you know you get angry at other people's angry reaction to things."

Only Democrats. He doesn't care what Republicans say or do. Like he has no comment on Kristi Noem praising Jesus over this event. Because why would he?

#43 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 03:10 PM

There are Russians and bot creators who get paid to drive online Americans crazy by acting stupid all day.

Eberly does it for free.

I hope i spend my older years in a more productive way.

#44 | Posted by JOE at 2025-07-08 03:13 PM

Eberly isn't old. He's like 50.

#45 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 03:20 PM

-A hearty GFY to you.

Thanks. I'm smiling ear to ear right now over your dance routine.

-I hope i spend my older years in a more productive way.

"Thanks for visiting Walmart" might be more productive than anything you do now, liljoe.

BTW folks, I wasn't attacking democrats for anything.

I simply pointed out Zed's -------- routine. I managed to hit 6 or 7 of you rabies infested mongrels with just 1 rock.

Thanks for the entertainment.

#46 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 03:23 PM

-Everyone but you people knew something like Kerrville was going to happen on Donald's watch.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

#47 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 03:24 PM

"That's vile."

I don't think turning to one's faith is vile.

posting ---- on the internet is not about faith....it's about posting ---- on the internet......and vile.

#48 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 03:27 PM

-This will boil down to a lack of political will by Texas politicians because the extremity of their anti-gubmint views is such that people will die due to their negligence.

I think that's fair.

#49 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 03:28 PM

"I simply pointed out Zed's -------- routine."

Yes, you'll talk about anything but the topic, and you'll especially talk about Democrats who have an opinion on the topic, to downplay their opinion as being overly emotional.

We get it.

Even as you don't seem to recognize that about yourself.

Your next comment on whether Texas did anything wrong here will be your first.

#50 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 03:36 PM

I don't think turning to one's faith is vile.
posting ---- on the internet is not about faith....it's about posting ---- on the internet......and vile.
#48 | Posted by eberly

Those are the same thing. The latter is simply a person is "turning to their faith"
-- a phrase that means "feeling better about yourself despite doing nothing to help" --
in a way that others can see, and nod in agreement.

Both are vile.

The reason one seems vile to you and the other doesn't is because you can only see one of them on Facebook.

Facebook didn't make helpless infantile prayers vile. It just gave vile a bigger audience.

#51 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 03:43 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

#47 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Why do you think that it's funny when predictions of disaster due to political malfeasance come true?

Kansas must be an entirely different world.

#52 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-08 03:55 PM

Because you're a Democrat and the disaster was caused by Republicans.

Republicans live rent free in your head the same way Adolf Hitler lived rent free in Anne Frank's head. That is funny to Republicans.

#53 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 03:58 PM

Beverley is a complete and total dirtbag who thinks of his disgusting self as 'the voice of reason'.

He's just a fuggin dirtbag.

#54 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-07-08 03:58 PM

Kansas must be an entirely different world.

Posted by Zed

They come out like dozens of other states, have warning sirens all over to warn of tornadoes.

It would have cost a million dollars to put sirens on the Guadalupe River in Kerr county. For as much as right wingers claim to value life, they certainly don't where the rubber meets the road regarding health care or spending to keep citizens safe in known flood zones in Texas.

#55 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-07-08 04:07 PM

They (Kansas), like many other states ...

#56 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-07-08 04:17 PM

-Why do you think that it's funny when predictions of disaster due to political malfeasance come true?

everyone knows it's you that's funny.

you,---------.

-Both are vile.

No, it's not. One is and the other isn't.

You can cry about faith all you want. Simply disagreeing with it isn't good enough for a child like you. You insist on shaming anybody who possesses something you believe is unobtainable to you.

pretty much explains all the whining you(and others here) express 24/7.

losers

-Kansas must be an entirely different world.

I could move in next door to you and nothing would change, Zed.

I don't associate you with Texas. You're a moron. Period. What state you live in is irrelevant.

#57 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 04:29 PM

"helpless infantile prayers vile."

I don't turn to prayer like many people....but that's what great about this country. We can disagree on that.

But that's not good enough for Snoofy....he has to trash everyone.

What's funny is that when you meet your fate....some folks might pray for you.

or maybe not.....

#58 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 04:31 PM

"That's vile."
I don't think turning to one's faith is vile.
posting ---- on the internet is not about faith....it's about posting ---- on the internet......and vile.
#48 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 03:27 PM

First off, before the bodies are even recovered is waaaaay too soon, right?

Is that art in solidarity with the families religious faiths and traditions or maybe some form of political rhetoric?

I'd like to imagine it's harmless, aside from their "Dead Jesus just can't wait to meet your dead kids!" enthusiasm is super creepy.

Wait for the bodies to be recovered or the family to decide.

THEN you can sell martyrware ornamental plates, plushy dolls and bath sponges, water slides and onesies on Etsy, all tasteless, all-aAmerican.

#59 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-07-08 04:56 PM

You're a moron.

#57 | POSTED BY EBERLY

That's like accusing me of having green hair.

I know that I don't.

#60 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-08 05:52 PM

I remain astonished that Texas and Trump's government didn't do more to prevent these flood deaths.

Everyone who was raised here knows what these rivers are capable of doing.

The current MAGA government even has recent history from the same place.

Is it cheaper to play Russian roulette with the lives of kids then do a good job?

Yep.

I hope that you're spared this crap, EBERLY.

But you won't be.

#61 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-08 06:00 PM

By Texas leaders, you -------- mean the DEI fire department hire that didn't understand the concept of reimbursement?

#62 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-08 07:11 PM

"Both are vile."

"No, it's not. One is and the other isn't.
You can cry about faith all you want. Simply disagreeing with it isn't good enough for a child like you. You insist on shaming anybody who possesses something you believe is unobtainable to you."

Wow.

You're saying my real complaint about people who post AI images of little girls in Camp Mystic t-shirts being welcomed into Heaven by Jesus is that I don't believe the little girls are in Heaven, because Heaven is a stupid fairy tale for indoctrination of children to a life of magical thinking where prayer protects you from floods.

I'm upset, not because religious stupidity killed little girls, but because I truly believe they are dead and gone, and not waiting for their parents to join them Heaven like you believe.

You are a sick ---- to think that way when little kids get killed by religious stupidity. You're in the same ballpark as people who believe suicide bombers end up in Heaven.

#63 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 07:23 PM

"You can cry about faith all you want."

I cry about faith exactly as much as I want, which is none.

I will however mock it relentlessly, as must be done.

Did you cry when faith based actors did 9/11?

Or did you cheer, knowing you were witnessing first hand the power of belief in the Almighty?

#64 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 07:27 PM

"No, it's not. One is and the other isn't."

What's different about saying "The Lord called them home" and asking AI to draw you a picture of with a prompt "The Lord called them home" and sharing it with people who believe "The Lord called them home."

How is it okay to think it in private, but horribly wrong to show it in public?

Do all Christian beliefs become vile when shared publicly? I agree it's vile, but because of the belief, not because of the audience.

I don't get how externalizing the internal changes the core nature of the belief.

Maybe it's because I don't have your -------- "faith" LOL

#65 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 07:35 PM

"#65 | Posted by snoofy"

You are lucky that Jesus is a forgiving God. I wish I could live up to his standards, but I know that I do not all the time. In the case of forgiving people for their vile actions, I cannot bring myself to his standards. Thus, I condemn people that try to use Christian beliefs as a weapon against the faithful.

#66 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-08 07:46 PM

Latest estimate is that there may be 700 dead up and down the Guadalupe.

Someone will have to take responsibility for that, or it will happen again.

But we've got the MAGA example of Uvalde to guide us.

#67 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-08 07:55 PM

Thus, I condemn people that try to use Christian beliefs as a weapon against the faithful.

#66 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

No problem. That's to be expected.

I condemn people who use Christianity to harm others who believe differently.

Thomas Jefferson stated in his Notes on the State of Virginia,

"it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg".

Well, pockets ARE being picked and "bones" ARE getting broken.

#68 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-08 08:43 PM

"You are lucky that Jesus is a forgiving God."

No I'm not.

We're all incredibly unlucky that your stupid faith commands you to forgive murderers and rapists.

You were already a bad person when you came out of the womb. Faith gives you carte blanche to life your worst life, with no repercussions.

If you need a book to tell you your moral code, you never had a moral code to begin with and you still don't.

#69 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 08:56 PM

Thus, I condemn people that try to use Christian beliefs as a weapon against the faithful.
#66 | Posted by ScottS

Let me get this straight:

You condemn people for using the very tools Christians use, on Christians.

That doesn't strike you as extremely hypocritical?

How come it's okay when Christians do it, but it's not okay when it gets done to Christians?

You people really are disgusting and vile. You must just hate yourself immensely. All the hate you have for immigrants and gays, it starts in your own heart.

#70 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 09:09 PM

Jesus is a forgiving God

Jesus is the son of God.

He'll have to wait for God to die first.

#71 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-08 09:13 PM

I don't get how externalizing the internal changes the core nature of the belief"

Because you're a -------.

Leave it to others. You're too dumb

#72 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 09:14 PM

Come on, Eberly.

Everybody reading this knows you know a lot about insurance, Scotch, and cigars.

And that's it.

You're a refined man like that. A family man.

Your home has an alarm system. Your car has a payment. Your kids got the braces and tutors they needed.

You're a Provider. But you're not an intellectually curious man.

#73 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-08 09:19 PM

-And that's it.

Nobody here including you believes my expertise is limited to that.

It's one of the many reasons why I know such things

#74 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 09:30 PM

-Your car has a payment

No way. Not on any of the 5 cars

#75 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-08 09:31 PM

#66 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

You mean you condemn people who point out the absurdity of you claiming to be Chreestian because you know it's an ego thing for you, not a genuine faith?

#76 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 08:50 AM

#75 cringe worthy.

#77 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 08:50 AM

The Kerr County representative that voted against the bill with the siren system update, but for the bill that bought a bunch of drones, planes, ambulances, and boats is on record regretting his vote.

What Texas does is issue extensive studies on what systems areas should have. Implementing that system is up to the communities and usually done with a public-private partership. The most elaborate sensor and multi-siren sites run about a million bucks each before depreciation, maintenance, etc.

#78 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-07-09 11:00 AM

"Implementing that system is up to the communities and usually done with a public-private partership."

Biden gave them $5.1M to build sirens.
They refused to spend it.
They'll get re-elected because nobody really cares about dead white girls in Texas.

#79 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 11:04 AM

-#75 cringe worthy.

why?

#80 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-09 11:20 AM

" But there are states that chronically underfund emergency management. They basically are all red states.

So why is the bar 100% or everybody is the same?

#17 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2025-07-08 02:04 PM | FLAG: "

I didn't realize California is a red state.

#81 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-09 11:30 AM

" -#75 cringe worthy.

why?

#80 | POSTED BY EBERLY AT 2025-07-09 11:20 AM | FLAG: "

Because you announced that you own 5 cars, probably because you have a couple of kids who are 16 or older. In JPW's eyes that is cringe, for some reason. If a PARTISAN lefty said the same thing he'd congratulate them for being able to afford 5 cars.

Remember, this is JPW. Logic and reason don't exist with him.

#82 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-09 11:35 AM

Because you announced that you own 5 cars

You could have stopped here and left the rest of your childish nonsense out of it.

#83 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 11:48 AM

Remember, this is JPW. Logic and reason don't exist with him.

#82 | Posted by BellRinger

LOL ok gutes deutsch.

#84 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 11:48 AM

I have 3 kids above 16 ... ..and a wife ... .and a spare which is a salvage title Honda accord.

I don't even drive any of them. I have a company car

None of them are that nice or new.

Which is why they are paid for.

It's not a symbol of my wealth. It's a symbol of my financial conservative nature

#85 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-09 11:52 AM

"Come on, Eberly.
Everybody reading this knows you know a lot about insurance, Scotch, and cigars."

^
You forgot cars!!!

#86 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 11:53 AM

It's not a symbol of my wealth. It's a symbol of my financial conservative nature

#85 | Posted by eberly

Fair enough.

But you have to admit, when your response to a comment about car payments is a simple "not on any of the 5" or whatever, it sounds smug and showy. Humble bragging.

That's why I thought it was cringe.

#87 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 12:03 PM

Texas had to fight to secure the Mexican border. You know why? Because Brandon wasn't doing a ---- thing about it. Half of you clowns probably struggle to balance a household budget and have no idea how taxing illegal immigration is, especially on a border state. You cant plan for illegals with a census. And you owe it to your residents to supply them with services they paid for in taxes.

#88 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-09 12:34 PM

"Texas had to fight to secure the Mexican border. You know why?"

We all know why.
It's because Texas chose NOT to fight flooding.

#89 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 12:37 PM

"have no idea how taxing illegal immigration is"

^
Show us on the doll where the illegal immigrants taxed you.

#90 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 12:39 PM

Texas had to fight to secure the Mexican border.

#88 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Which it didn't do.

Big PR effort by Abbott to get on the bigot train, which is selling right now in some quarters.

#91 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-09 12:42 PM

Half of you clowns probably struggle to balance a household budget and have no idea how taxing illegal immigration is, especially on a border state.

#88 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

I never had a problem with it and have never, ever, met anyone who does.

#92 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-09 12:43 PM

Texas had to fight to secure the Mexican border.

#88 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Which it didn't do.

#91 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-09 12:42 PM | Reply | Flag

Liar, you cried the loudest about it.

#93 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-09 12:46 PM

I never had a problem with it and have never, ever, met anyone who does.

#92 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-09 12:43 PM | Reply | Flag

Is that supposed to mean it didn't exist?

#94 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-09 12:47 PM

POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

I know that you believe in this stuff but have no idea where you get it.

On the local level NO ONE talks about how much migrants are costing us.

How do you explain that? Or, alternatively---

What fantasy machine supplies you with these stories?

#95 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-09 12:49 PM

Texas had to fight to secure the Mexican border.
#88 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

You poor, scared thing.

No such thing ever happened.

Go change your depends.

#96 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-09 12:49 PM

Show us on the doll where the illegal immigrants taxed you.

#90 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 12:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

eVeRyThInG iS fReE!!!!

Another fkking raetard.

#97 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-09 12:50 PM

Is that supposed to mean it didn't exist?

#94 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

It's a prime indicator.

Why should we deny the evidence of our lives in favor of your mythology?

#98 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-09 12:50 PM

"Texas had to fight to secure the Mexican border."

^
That happened in the time of The Alamo.
When Santa Ana threatened to free the East Texas Slaves.

But, what specifically are you referring to in the year 2025?

#99 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 12:50 PM

Go change your depends.

#96 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-09 12:49 PM | Reply | Flag

Go put a piece of raw meat on your mom's black eye.

#100 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-09 12:51 PM

"Half of you clowns probably struggle to balance a household budget"

^
Hey Economic Genius.
Your Dear Leader just added five trillion dollars to the national debt.
So why shouldn't Main Street American follow his lead?

#101 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 12:52 PM

what specifically are you referring to in the year 2025?
#99 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

He hasn't a clue.

Dementia has hit him hard.

#102 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-09 12:53 PM

Go put a piece of raw meat on your mom's black eye.
#100 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

Trumper says something racist hoping it's funny.

Just another day ending in Y.

You poor poor thing.

#103 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-09 12:56 PM

Liar, you cried the loudest about it.

#93 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Abbott put on a show.

To impress you.

Which it did.

#104 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-09 01:00 PM

5.1 million for sirens lol. No.

Recent information available suggests that Joe Biden has not allocated $5.1 million specifically for sirens for Texas flooding.
Instead, Texas Governor Greg Abbott requested a major disaster declaration from the Biden administration following the catastrophic flooding that began on July 4th. This request included funding through the federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.
However, the federal government had not approved this type of funding in months, and the status of this request is pending.

#105 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-07-09 01:05 PM

#88 | Posted by lfthndthrds

LOL this turd think balancing a household budget is an accomplishment.

BTW the only people who repeat this drivel are the ones who don't live on the border. Countless residents of border cities/towns have said it's nowhere near as bad as it's painted by partisan s*&^bags like lfthndc^ck. This is supported by the fact that Texas dropped its funding for the wall after $2 billion of political theater were complete.

#106 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 01:05 PM

Show us on the doll where the illegal immigrants taxed you.
#90 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 12:39 PM | Reply | Flag:
eVeRyThInG iS fReE!!!!
Another fkking raetard.
#97 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You have created a problem that makes its own gravy.

The problem is you opposed to people coming to America to work -- people that couldn't possibly work in America if there weren't Americans hiring them.

So, what's the cost of your anti-work policy?
At the hardest right extreme, from Federation for American Immigration Reform:
"Illegal immigration costs each American taxpayer $1,156 per year ($957 after factoring in taxes paid by illegal aliens)."
www.fairus.org

What to do about it, from Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy:
"The study finds that undocumented immigrants contributed $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022 " a number that would rise dramatically if these taxpayers were granted work authorization."
itep.org

#107 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 01:05 PM

5.1 million for sirens lol. No.
#105 | Posted by sitzkrieg

COMMISSIONER BELEW: We have money in the bank, $5.1 million, that was sent to Kerr County.
JUDGE KELLY: We didn't ask for it. They sent it.
COMMISSIONER BELEW: They sent it.
MS. DEWELL: Exactly.
COMMISSIONER BELEW: The money is in the bank right now. Hasn't been spent. In the event that you don't spend it, you send it back. That's part of the Treasury's rules on it. If you do spend it, whatever percentage, there would be no expense to the taxpayers in Kerr County. It would all come out of that account, no matter what you do with it.
www.reddit.com

#108 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 01:10 PM

#88 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Texas chose to pretend to fight to secure the Mexican border.

BRANDON set up an easy to use system where people coming to the border could easily schedule appointments with border security for appointments. Trump ditched it.

It was not an issue in Texas. Abbott can't even tell us how its an issue or how it affects our budget. (Hint: Most PAY taxes)
It accomplished nothing for Texas.
Troops on the border weren't even coming across illegal entry very often.

Why? Very few people cross the border illegally by crawling through some desert wasteland. Most come legally through a port of entry and overstay.

I'm in a more rural area of Texas. I can't find anyone who can name an issue the town has with illegal aliens. I can name a ton of people who can't find workers though.

Take your racism and fact-free world view to 4Chan where memes are all that matters.

#109 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-07-09 01:13 PM

Go put a piece of raw meat on your mom's black eye.

#100 | Posted by lfthndthrds

LOL he thinks everyone lives in a trailer house.

#110 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 01:16 PM

LOL he thinks everyone lives in a trailer house.

#110 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 01:16 PM | Reply | Flag:

No, just you, SaltyDog.

You're the one who has to pack a .40 to check your mail or take a walk in your neighborhood.

#111 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-09 01:20 PM

Show us on the doll where the illegal immigrants taxed you.
#90 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 12:39 PM | Reply | Flag:
eVeRyThInG iS fReE!!!!
Another fkking raetard.

#97 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Name the assistance programs that undocumented immigrants can receive in Texas.

(I'll give you a hint: It's a very short, very restricted list.)

#112 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-07-09 01:20 PM

No, just you, SaltyDog.
You're the one who has to pack a .40 to check your mail or take a walk in your neighborhood.

#111 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Nope. Try again.

BTW a .40 is for idiots. *Thinks about lfthndc^ck's previous postings...*

Oh yeah, you bought a .50 AR like a moron. You probably bought a .40 too because your trailer house left you just enough cash to get a used Taurus.

#113 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 01:22 PM

"You're the one who has to pack a .40 to check your mail or take a walk in your neighborhood."

Everyone should be doing that.
Our nation is being invaded by illegals!
According to mouthbreathing simps like you.

#114 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 01:25 PM

Oh, and I don't have to carry anything. I choose to to be prepared for anything that might threaten my family.

That is probably the most MAGA thing I do.

#115 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 01:35 PM

Everyone should be doing that.
Our nation is being invaded by illegals!
According to mouthbreathing simps like you.
#114 | Posted by snoofy

It is, just this week in my home town and illegal immigrant stabbed an 18 yo in the back 5times and she died. All because she didn't want to date him.

It's getting crazy here.

#116 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-07-09 01:38 PM

Everyone should be doing that.
Our nation is being invaded by illegals!
According to mouthbreathing simps like you.

#114 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 01:25 PM | Reply | Flag:

Bath house ------- says whattt???

Just stfu you fat -----. And straighten your tiara.

#117 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-09 01:44 PM

just this week in my home town and illegal immigrant stabbed an 18 yo in the back 5times and she died.

Which Provence of China are you from?

It's a shame.

You'd think she'd defend herself using the ancient Crouching Tiger technique passed down to her from her ancestors.

#118 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-09 01:44 PM

" just this week in my home town and illegal immigrant stabbed an 18 yo in the back 5times and she died."

How on earth did that one blast past Stephen Miller and the rest of the MAGAt Brownshirts?

#119 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-09 01:49 PM

"just this week in my home town and illegal immigrant stabbed an 18 yo in the back 5times and she died."

We should ban knives, and also murders.

That would fix the problem.

Just like you want to fix the problem by banning illegal immigrants.

You right wing idiots never stop taking the stupid pills, I swear.

#120 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 01:51 PM

It's getting crazy here.

#116 | Posted by oneironaut

One instance means it's "getting crazy."

Something tells me you're purposefully providing a context free anecdote to support your hyperventilating.

#121 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 01:58 PM

Bath house ------- says whattt???
Just stfu you fat -----. And straighten your tiara.

#117 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Why is it always about gay sex with you you creepy dumbf*&^?

Me thinks you're telling us how you "balance" your household buttget.

#122 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 01:59 PM

#120: "Stupid illegal immigrants! How dare a few of them have the same psychological problems as white American Christian males? And why are these migrants stealing our jobs in the slaughterhouses, dishwashing sinks in restaurants, sewers, and landscaping businesses? My son wanted to be a car washer handling a dirty rag all day until some Mexican Muslim stole his job!"

#123 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-09 02:41 PM

In retort....I'll say fair enough.

#124 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-09 02:59 PM

Why is it always about gay sex with you you creepy dumbf*&^?

Me thinks you're telling us how you "balance" your household buttget.

#122 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 01:59 PM | Reply | Flag:

What is it with you and late-night confession for sucking ---- at the frat parties and eating manpoon, Fkking raetard.

You will never not be reminded of your stupidass comments, Nat-Geo with the roll-up tiddies, So stfu and find another gig.

#125 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-09 03:12 PM

You've yet to accurately recall what was actually said, dips^%*.

Meanwhile, your trail of overcompensating, gay sex obsessed posting is long and distinguished, unlike your Johnson.

#126 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 03:17 PM

Texas officials approved Camp Mystic's operating plan just days before the fatal floods in Kerr County. This approval occurred shortly before the disaster, as confirmed by multiple news sources.

www.nbcnews.com

#127 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-07-09 03:33 PM

Undocumented immigrants contribute more than $55 billion in taxes every year. In 2023, households led by undocumented immigrants paid approximately $89.8 billion in total taxes, including $55.8 billion in federal taxes and $33.9 billion in state and local taxes.

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org

#128 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-07-09 03:36 PM

#126 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 03:17 PM | Reply | Flag:

^ Fake Dr. with a pDh, saving the world during the plandemic, out there on the front lines of a commercial deep fryer.

LMAO

#129 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-09 04:07 PM

You really are a shameless -----...

#130 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-09 04:07 PM

" the plandemic,"

youre a moron, horsepaste boy.

#131 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-07-09 04:59 PM

You really are a shameless -----...
#130 | Posted by lfthndthrds

And you're not?
You don't even have a job.
You can't think of what to do with your life. So you do nothing.

#132 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 05:02 PM

lol pretty bold coming from the trailer house dwelling moron who thinks balancing a household budget is an accomplishment.

#133 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 05:09 PM

" 109 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2025-07-09 01:13 PM | FLAG: "

You love just making shht up. It's a major goal in your life.

#134 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-09 05:20 PM

The republican plan for climate change is to ignore it and defund the agencies that help people in disasters.

Then when the entire country is on fire, move north into canada and greenland.

#135 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-07-09 05:51 PM

A decade of missed opportunities: Texas couldn't find $1M for flood warning system near camps
apnews.com

... Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert a disaster like the one that killed dozens of young campers and scores of others in Kerr County on the Fourth of July.

The agencies repeatedly failed to secure roughly $1 million for a project to better protect the county's 50,000 residents and thousands of youth campers and tourists who spend time along the Guadalupe River in an area known as "flash-flood alley." The plan, which would have installed flood monitoring equipment near Camp Mystic, cost about as much as the county spends on courthouse security every two years, or 1.5% of its annual budget. ...

#136 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-09 11:29 PM

@#136

But Texas has low taxes, and that attracts companies and people.

#137 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-09 11:30 PM

How soon Texas Republicans forget this gem from 2020: "There are more important things than living."

That was Dannie Goeb/Patrick. Unedited quote. Regarding the Coronavirus and what was more important; saving lives or saving the economy.

THAT HAPPENED. AND IS STILL HAPPENING IN TEXAS.

#138 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-07-10 05:30 AM

Bath house ------- says whattt???
Just stfu you fat -----. And straighten your tiara.
#117 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-09 01:44 PM

Jesus, you need to change your tampon, Nancy. Reach over to the side of your head and dial back from "raging idiot" sometimes.
I meet guys like you all over Texas. I bet you drive a big SUV, and road rage every week on the interstate while listening to Sean Hannity on Sirius XM, carrying a gun with you everywhere you drive "just in case I need it."

#139 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-07-10 05:33 AM

The State of Texas, and MAGA, are engaged in a massive evasion of responsibility and in the end will do little or nothing about these flood deaths until the next time there is a massive flood, at which time they will also evade responsibility.

They're playing the odds here. They are betting that these disasters happen infrequently enough so that someone is able to make a profit over the flood-prone lands.

MAGA Texas has no caring for dead children. As is noted, yet once again, they get angry when you even bring the subject up.

They want mass deaths to be a three-day news story, if that, and then everyone move on.

The dead are allowed to bury the dead.

#140 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-10 08:42 AM

"MAGA government doesn't want flood management.

True. Just as much as liberal government doesn't want appropriate fire response.

This country is full of so many stupid hypocrites that it's amazing we even get anything accomplished at all.

"The State of Texas, and MAGA, are engaged in a massive evasion of responsibility and in the end will do little or nothing about these flood deaths until the next time there is a massive flood, at which time they will also evade responsibility."

Here, let me unhypocricize that for you...

The State of California, and liberals, are engaged in a massive evasion of responsibility and in the end will do little or nothing about these fires until the next time there is a massive fire outbreak, at which time they will also evade responsibility.

I mean, it's so easy to expose liberal hypocrisy that it MUST be on purpose. I just can't figure out why they want to do it on purpose. It doesn't accomplish anything. In fact, it does the opposite.

#141 | Posted by humtake at 2025-07-10 12:21 PM

This country is full of so many stupid hypocrites

#141 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

Yes, and you're one of them.

So, what's your point?

#142 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-10 12:44 PM

#141 | Posted by humtake

That's a whole lot of BS posted without any legitimate suggestions provided. JFC, cultist, get a grip!

#143 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-07-10 02:06 PM

#141 | Posted by humtake a

Liberals have been trying to fight wildfires for a long time. One way of doing that is to fight climate change with clean energy. Your party of morons just decided to make it worse instead.

Now that climate damage is at our doorstep, you have to blame liberals instead of the conservatives who called it a hoax for decades.

#144 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-07-10 04:05 PM

"Just as much as liberal government doesn't want appropriate fire response."

as I said yesterday, all states are guilty of ignoring proper emergency management solutions.

It's not like liberals don't believe in emergency management, fire, flood, etc....all of that.

It's really that it's hard to get support for what we need all the time. There will always be more need than resources to solve problems. Think of the other things that funds went to rather than where it could have gone and it's always easy to play monday morning quarterback. I had quite the time watching folks spin and spin and spin after the Pacific Palisades (and other communities) were engulfed in flames recently.

I realize partisans are convinced their side is pure and better and the other side is neglectful, mean, wasteful, and that they WANT these bad things to happen.

Some people grow out of such absurd ideological beliefs. Well, the wisest of us never allow themselves to be entraped them into a horrible state of anger, hostility, and stupidity.

Yes....I just described 60-75% of what gets posted here daily.

#145 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-10 04:24 PM

I realize partisans are convinced their side is pure and better and the other side is neglectful, mean, wasteful, and that they WANT these bad things to happen.

Some people grow out of such absurd ideological beliefs. Well, the wisest of us never allow themselves to be entraped them into a horrible state of anger, hostility, and stupidity.

Yes....I just described 60-75% of what gets posted here daily.

#145 | Posted by eberly

As always, eb blames PARTISANSHIP when it's republicans who created the problem.
The side that called climate change a hoax for decades is by definition THE NEGLECTFUL side. They were warned these bad things would happen, but they said reducing C02 output would be too expensive. So now we get to pay WAY MORE for climate catastrophes and insurance rates.

#146 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-07-11 12:10 PM

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