Monday, July 14, 2025

Why Texas Sucks So Bad At Handling Disasters

The official platform of the Texas Republican party is explicit. It proposes the abolition of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, supports the reclassification of carbon dioxide as a "non-pollutant", and opposes what it calls "environmentalism, or climate change' initiatives that obstruct legitimate business interests and private property use".

Abbott and other top state Republicans are openly skeptical of climate crisis science. In 2022, when Dallas was hit by colossal floods, reporters tried and failed to get the governor even to utter the words "climate change".

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 10:16 AM | 8 COMMENTS | permalink

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For Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, this repeating cycle of environmental disaster followed by scant preparation for future events is not coincidental. "Texas will spend a lot of money recovering from disasters, but they'll spend very little trying to avoid the next disaster," he said.

The GQP is a death cult.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-14 11:07 AM

They suck at it because they elect ghoulish s(*&bags who live in safe places and have resources available for them if they need it while everyone else gets hung out to dry.

It's really not hard to see why the approach to governance and societal cohesion in Texas would be a problem where the further you are down the economic pyramid the bigger the problem is.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-14 11:16 AM

Someone said Trump is planning on giving Texas back the name it had before a bunch of slave-owning yanquis lied their way onto foreign soil: Libre y Soberano de Coahuila y Tejas. Ready for the Sharpie any day now. Oh, almost forgot: Mexico will pay for it.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-14 04:46 PM

he GQP is a death cult.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

what number is this on your SFS auto post ?

#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-07-14 06:29 PM

#2 | Posted by jpw

that's right c sucker...that's why NO BODY IS

moving to Texas....( sarcasm nit wit )

--will be more if the commie muslim professional college application lying sack of schhhhte is elected mayor of nyc

people will be coming from all over the world.

www.youtube.com

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-07-14 06:38 PM

-------------, don't forget to add 300 drowned to the child-raping orange jizzfart's body count.

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-14 06:41 PM

I just got video of 3 of the 5 chief meteorologists in Dallas talking about flash floods.

not gonna tell you cesspool goons what they said other than those are most difficult
predictions they face....but you suckers
won't understand / believe professionals
anyway

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-07-14 06:51 PM

-------------, did you see that your orange pedo hero is now drowning relatives of the Kansas City Chiefs owner?

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-14 06:56 PM

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