We had a choice: honest prosecutor or a rapist. 71 million Americans chose the rapist. A minority of Americans but still the biggest number. Germans were encouraged to hate Jews. Now we are encouraged to hate Hispanics and laugh about a concentration camp in the Everglades. As Nazi Germany deserved to cease to exist in 1935, fascist America deserves the same in 2025.
A rapist doesn’t care. They leave their victims to die, they leave their victims to live in fear. Rapists are liars and manipulators. Our current leader is a rapist and a racist. He doesn’t care. He is incapable of being a human being. He is the excrement of evil.
We are all grieving the children, the camp counselors, and every victim who died violently in the flooding. I wonder what the governor of Texas will do for his people. After all Abbott voted for the multifaceted felon who allowed and approved the gutting of NOAA & NWS. 4th of July will never be the same in the US and the world will remember this day.
This has been predicted. I have said repeatedly, the United States is not safe. This is one of hundreds of examples of how the USA is not safe. There is no weather recording or regulation, no help for disasters, and no relief. All that money is going to lock people up and kill them in concentration camps. There is no one regulating things that get made, so products can be unsafe and we will not know about it. There is no protecting us from dirty water, food or air. There is no protection from terrorism. The person in charge knows nothing about what they are doing. There is no protection from enemies, and Trump is destroying relationships with all of our allies. The people he is catering to are totally untrustworthy and would kill their own mothers and their own children, so no, there is no safety. None.
It is tragic for children who are raised in cults. That is what Christian Nationalism is, only now it is elevated to a theocratic goal for us all. I have plenty of friends leaving the US with their children, not trusting the schools anymore as they are under the thumbs of a cult.
I am suggesting that someone run on a platform of no federal taxes and no federal government, but a shared parliament that all states can participate in. Get rid of federal taxes, government and then, each state can have their own military, their own disaster relief and decide whether they want to let in immigrants.
States can decided to pool resources, sort of like the EU. They can also make their own foreign policy and tariffs. This is what Trump wants, is to get rid of the federal government, and that means getting rid of the president, Congress and SCOTUS too. Instead we can have a States parliament that discusses shared interests. Travel can be still open because we are the United States, sort of like the European Union. My state of Illinois is bigger than Austria Wyoming with 600,000 is going to be like Luxembourg or Montenegro.
As I commented on Facebook, a lack of education & a lack of curiosity equals lazy which means they can’t & won’t learn how to do their fact checks by learning how to use a search engine.
It’s horrific. I have floated the Guadalupe & Frio Rivers in inner tubes. We’ve had family reunions on the rivers in the Texas Hill Country & I’ve seen the river come up fast from rain that was up-river from where we were, but not have a drop of rain that we saw.
However, we did get notification that it was “coming on a rise.” I hate to think about what may happen to Florida & all of the Gulf & East Coast states this hurricane season.
Hurricane season? What's hurricane season? Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season. (June 2, 2025)
I’m going to differ with you as I’m a Californian that spent 27 years in Michigan. I know earthquakes, I know tornadoes & I know hurricanes. In California I experienced a big earthquake & heard of others & with my first year in Michigan we had 2 tornadoes that touched down in the Detroit area. What you might not realize is that many Michiganders winter in Florida so we were also aware of hurricanes. All these events were dutifully reported by the local & national tv news. You would have to have your head in the sand to not be aware, so No, not ‘in fairness.’
It is down right sickening what's happened because of him......he should be held responsible for every single death that's happened and sadly will happen due to his cutbacks....
Nothing displays America's classiness more than having a sporting event on the White House lawn featuring contestants who kick each other in the balls and stomp on on their heads.
I’m sure Trump thinks he can override the under-reported torrential rainfall tragedy in Texas with a sharpie. Meanwhile Texas asked for and received help from Mexico’s highly trained search and rescue team.
As I write this hypocrite Ted Cruz is on TV going on and on like all the other TX politicians about God and prayer. This is a terrible tragedy and it is beyond galling to hear the likes of Kristy Noem and Greg Abbott lecturing about mercy and God. Abbott is the same man who put barbed wire in the Rio Grande River so migrants crossing would be cut to ribbons trying to reach the American side. Noem just a week ago was gleefully touring her new prison camp. These politicians could use reflection on what the God whose name they are invoking has to say about mercy for all. While they blab on and on about prayer a rescue crew from Mexico is aiding in the search by choice. Never mind America is putting their people in concentration camps because they have brown skin. Unlike these revolting TX politicians they understand the true meaning of love thy neighbor as thy self. As for Trump has he ever been a consoler in chief? This is a man who lopped paper towels at the heads of desperate Puerto Ricans after a hurricane. The only thing he cares about is TX is a red state that voted for him. They will get aid. If it were my state next door which is blue we’d be on our own. F—k Trump and these TX politicians. May the victims of this flood rest in peace and may their memories be a blessing.
If there is any justice left in this country, Trump will get what's coming to him...along with all his toadies. This tragedy is just the beginning of what this country will experience over the next three and a half years. The world looks on in horror as the US collapses. Blue state governors need to be working together to come up with a plan to save what's left.
There has been some credible reporting (former NWS staff) that the gutted agency still had enough personnel to send out emergency alerts. The problem (assuming the foregoing is accurate) is that the terrain in question has spotty cell coverage, over which the alerts were (?) sent. Texas needs a better early warning system, which perhaps they can get around to - after completing their entry for best state-level model for authoritarian rule.
Also, the media should be flaying Trump for his total neglect of his duty to give appropriate support to the victims of political violence (committed by white people), natural disasters, and (way less likely) the chaos he has unleashed on undeserving people.
How long will it take, how much suffering can be borne for these people to wake up and see clearly how they have been betrayed by one to whom they pledged allegiance? Even George Bush put out a statement about the tragedy proving he is a human being with compassion and integrity. Can they not see the difference? The state was denoted a national disaster so they can get help this time, but only because it was Texas; that was never done for California with the devastating fires and loss. To say shame that a president would be eating ice cream and golfing while this was happening, would be pointless. That is part of the atrocity of actions sadly we see every day.
Trump Maga Racists in congress are corrupted! Everything under Trump's time is awful, it was the COVID pandemic, Jan 6th riots, he was indicted 34 counts of felony rape charges, corruption in in New York, stealing and hiding classified top secret documents which he has shown to Putin, abandoned all our allies no money for weapons for Ukraine, and sided with Putin over Zelensky, he hates browne people and xenophobic, he sides the KKK or white national racist nationals who hate blacks, and jews, he a fu-tin monster , He is the Dictator from hell,, but we are proud Canadians who oppose him, elbows up! Now he turned the army against his own people who are immigrants who have been here for some, 60 yrs and have died in his concentration camps he uses MAGA ICE to with masks to wipe them off the streets and in Walmart parking lots or young brown kids from schools and universities
I have not heard one word of condolence or comfort to the families of these poor girls who lost their lives from Donald. I almost puked listening to Ted Cruz struggle to find the words to bring any peace to his fellow Texans. His words were shallow and very telling. He tried to preach the Gospel but it was obvious that he had no clue. What a phony
Grotesque. Perfect word, Dean. When will the US understand Project 2025, fascism and tech bros are destroyers and the planet and our country are their target? The psychology is beyond perverse and alternative reality. They intentionally confuse and pretend. Look at this platform where an owner making millions hosts progressives
My view is capitalism must end. Oligarchs Broliarchs don't care about anything but themselves. So many die brutally. What a waste of humanity.
We had a choice: honest prosecutor or a rapist. 71 million Americans chose the rapist. A minority of Americans but still the biggest number. Germans were encouraged to hate Jews. Now we are encouraged to hate Hispanics and laugh about a concentration camp in the Everglades. As Nazi Germany deserved to cease to exist in 1935, fascist America deserves the same in 2025.
A rapist doesn’t care. They leave their victims to die, they leave their victims to live in fear. Rapists are liars and manipulators. Our current leader is a rapist and a racist. He doesn’t care. He is incapable of being a human being. He is the excrement of evil.
We are all grieving the children, the camp counselors, and every victim who died violently in the flooding. I wonder what the governor of Texas will do for his people. After all Abbott voted for the multifaceted felon who allowed and approved the gutting of NOAA & NWS. 4th of July will never be the same in the US and the world will remember this day.
This has been predicted. I have said repeatedly, the United States is not safe. This is one of hundreds of examples of how the USA is not safe. There is no weather recording or regulation, no help for disasters, and no relief. All that money is going to lock people up and kill them in concentration camps. There is no one regulating things that get made, so products can be unsafe and we will not know about it. There is no protecting us from dirty water, food or air. There is no protection from terrorism. The person in charge knows nothing about what they are doing. There is no protection from enemies, and Trump is destroying relationships with all of our allies. The people he is catering to are totally untrustworthy and would kill their own mothers and their own children, so no, there is no safety. None.
But so many of those affected by the flood will remain loyal to the cult.
It is tragic for children who are raised in cults. That is what Christian Nationalism is, only now it is elevated to a theocratic goal for us all. I have plenty of friends leaving the US with their children, not trusting the schools anymore as they are under the thumbs of a cult.
I am suggesting that someone run on a platform of no federal taxes and no federal government, but a shared parliament that all states can participate in. Get rid of federal taxes, government and then, each state can have their own military, their own disaster relief and decide whether they want to let in immigrants.
States can decided to pool resources, sort of like the EU. They can also make their own foreign policy and tariffs. This is what Trump wants, is to get rid of the federal government, and that means getting rid of the president, Congress and SCOTUS too. Instead we can have a States parliament that discusses shared interests. Travel can be still open because we are the United States, sort of like the European Union. My state of Illinois is bigger than Austria Wyoming with 600,000 is going to be like Luxembourg or Montenegro.
As I commented on Facebook, a lack of education & a lack of curiosity equals lazy which means they can’t & won’t learn how to do their fact checks by learning how to use a search engine.
Agree
Your post says it all. It’s a disgrace and national tragedy…
It’s horrific. I have floated the Guadalupe & Frio Rivers in inner tubes. We’ve had family reunions on the rivers in the Texas Hill Country & I’ve seen the river come up fast from rain that was up-river from where we were, but not have a drop of rain that we saw.
However, we did get notification that it was “coming on a rise.” I hate to think about what may happen to Florida & all of the Gulf & East Coast states this hurricane season.
Hurricane season? What's hurricane season? Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season. (June 2, 2025)
In fairness, the "Head" grew up in Michigan and never experienced a hurricane...
... and he attended a third-rate college, smaller than most metropolitan
high schools, that never mentioned anything about reality on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.😆🫠
This is good information to have. As the orange sadist said back in 2016, "I love the poorly educated!"
Back then, we thought he was talking about voters...how horrific that he hired people of the same inability.
I’m going to differ with you as I’m a Californian that spent 27 years in Michigan. I know earthquakes, I know tornadoes & I know hurricanes. In California I experienced a big earthquake & heard of others & with my first year in Michigan we had 2 tornadoes that touched down in the Detroit area. What you might not realize is that many Michiganders winter in Florida so we were also aware of hurricanes. All these events were dutifully reported by the local & national tv news. You would have to have your head in the sand to not be aware, so No, not ‘in fairness.’
Riiigght it has the potential to be devastating with clueless in charge.
You bet. We're all (well, all of us liberals, anyway) are very concerned.
It is down right sickening what's happened because of him......he should be held responsible for every single death that's happened and sadly will happen due to his cutbacks....
My heart breaks for those affected.💔😥
Nothing displays America's classiness more than having a sporting event on the White House lawn featuring contestants who kick each other in the balls and stomp on on their heads.
Q.- Do the winners get positions with ICE?
I’m sure Trump thinks he can override the under-reported torrential rainfall tragedy in Texas with a sharpie. Meanwhile Texas asked for and received help from Mexico’s highly trained search and rescue team.
https://substack.com/@granscan/note/c-132922479?r=hksiy&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
https://substack.com/@granscan/note/c-132922479?r=hksiy&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Where did the Mexican professionals scale the Great Wall of Trump??😉
As I write this hypocrite Ted Cruz is on TV going on and on like all the other TX politicians about God and prayer. This is a terrible tragedy and it is beyond galling to hear the likes of Kristy Noem and Greg Abbott lecturing about mercy and God. Abbott is the same man who put barbed wire in the Rio Grande River so migrants crossing would be cut to ribbons trying to reach the American side. Noem just a week ago was gleefully touring her new prison camp. These politicians could use reflection on what the God whose name they are invoking has to say about mercy for all. While they blab on and on about prayer a rescue crew from Mexico is aiding in the search by choice. Never mind America is putting their people in concentration camps because they have brown skin. Unlike these revolting TX politicians they understand the true meaning of love thy neighbor as thy self. As for Trump has he ever been a consoler in chief? This is a man who lopped paper towels at the heads of desperate Puerto Ricans after a hurricane. The only thing he cares about is TX is a red state that voted for him. They will get aid. If it were my state next door which is blue we’d be on our own. F—k Trump and these TX politicians. May the victims of this flood rest in peace and may their memories be a blessing.
What would you expect?
Not only is he an orange shitstain on the office of president, he’s an orange shitstain on humanity.
If there is any justice left in this country, Trump will get what's coming to him...along with all his toadies. This tragedy is just the beginning of what this country will experience over the next three and a half years. The world looks on in horror as the US collapses. Blue state governors need to be working together to come up with a plan to save what's left.
There has been some credible reporting (former NWS staff) that the gutted agency still had enough personnel to send out emergency alerts. The problem (assuming the foregoing is accurate) is that the terrain in question has spotty cell coverage, over which the alerts were (?) sent. Texas needs a better early warning system, which perhaps they can get around to - after completing their entry for best state-level model for authoritarian rule.
Also, the media should be flaying Trump for his total neglect of his duty to give appropriate support to the victims of political violence (committed by white people), natural disasters, and (way less likely) the chaos he has unleashed on undeserving people.
How long will it take, how much suffering can be borne for these people to wake up and see clearly how they have been betrayed by one to whom they pledged allegiance? Even George Bush put out a statement about the tragedy proving he is a human being with compassion and integrity. Can they not see the difference? The state was denoted a national disaster so they can get help this time, but only because it was Texas; that was never done for California with the devastating fires and loss. To say shame that a president would be eating ice cream and golfing while this was happening, would be pointless. That is part of the atrocity of actions sadly we see every day.
More deaths on *trump's head! The *gop is also complicit and should be tried in a court of law.
*All lowercase letters are used intentionally.
Trump Maga Racists in congress are corrupted! Everything under Trump's time is awful, it was the COVID pandemic, Jan 6th riots, he was indicted 34 counts of felony rape charges, corruption in in New York, stealing and hiding classified top secret documents which he has shown to Putin, abandoned all our allies no money for weapons for Ukraine, and sided with Putin over Zelensky, he hates browne people and xenophobic, he sides the KKK or white national racist nationals who hate blacks, and jews, he a fu-tin monster , He is the Dictator from hell,, but we are proud Canadians who oppose him, elbows up! Now he turned the army against his own people who are immigrants who have been here for some, 60 yrs and have died in his concentration camps he uses MAGA ICE to with masks to wipe them off the streets and in Walmart parking lots or young brown kids from schools and universities
I have not heard one word of condolence or comfort to the families of these poor girls who lost their lives from Donald. I almost puked listening to Ted Cruz struggle to find the words to bring any peace to his fellow Texans. His words were shallow and very telling. He tried to preach the Gospel but it was obvious that he had no clue. What a phony
Grotesque. Perfect word, Dean. When will the US understand Project 2025, fascism and tech bros are destroyers and the planet and our country are their target? The psychology is beyond perverse and alternative reality. They intentionally confuse and pretend. Look at this platform where an owner making millions hosts progressives
My view is capitalism must end. Oligarchs Broliarchs don't care about anything but themselves. So many die brutally. What a waste of humanity.
And all those poor victims died in the flood singing "Nearer My God to Thee."