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Thoughts and Prayers. Rinse and Repeat.

These people are so vile. Basically, “If only you prayed harder and sooner, your kids would still be alive.”

Texas elected a monster as its Governor. Texas elected Trump and the Republicans. These elected politicians chose to make Texas the armpit of the United States. Freedom of choice. And people are suffering. NOT because of Jesus.

Wasn’t there a flood in the Bible where everyone got on Noah’s ark? I think it takes a little more than prayer, you need works too!

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Fantastic logic! Following that, I´d say drought-induced prayer could have been the reason for the intense rains in the first place. (Have me excused, as I am a novice when it comes to predicting prayer-based outcomes)

I'm fine with this, Texas, and Abbott, can have all my thoughts n prayers today.

@vermontgmg.bsky.social and no mention that (re: NPR) emergency alerts were sent out between 4:00 & 5:45am -- on the thing formerly known as Twitter. did they really think people would be checking social media in their sleep?? LET US PRAY for sanity, humanity, good sense....

prayer matters because the unreasonable belief in it keeps dark ages maga freaks in power.

"I WAS DOING MY JOB" will not fucking save you!!! WHITE AMERICA MUST STOP THE WHITE ADMINISTRATION. #BOYCOTT #BANKRUPT #FLORIDA!! #TEXAS #usa ##losangeles @governor.ca.gov #California #ice #RACISM #Florida #bigotry #persecution

Perhaps someone was praying for a tree to fall on a jogger outside of Houston in 1984…?

Fucking ghouls

F-this guy

It’s a Christian camp.

My county just had a massive fireworks explosion that probably killed seven people. The investigators stonewalled, but at least they didn't spend every press conference in a circle jerk.

Yup, magical thinking is the answer. 🤯

and a new president🙄

I have been saying some prayers about Greg Abbott. And they have nothing to do with rain.

If prayer actually were effective, presumably Abbott would be out of his wheelchair by now. Whassa matter, Greg? Didn't pray hard enough, did ya?

So what caused the floods? Passing the horrendous funding bill? Did Abbott and his party kill Texans because he didn't pray enough? Why not? It's so easy to twist this bullshit - instead just fund NOAA, FEMA, and stop abusing your alert system.

Abbott always like:

and clapping could have saved Tinkerbell.

Maybe it rained so much because some farmer upstream prayed for rain because his cotton crop was stressing due to drought? Oops…

www.yahoo.com/news/texas-l...

An admin official can not appear on media without praising Trump. Audience of one. Nothing for desperate families or citizens in the stricken area.

Another Uvalde. You'd think he'd learn to keep his yap shut if he can't refrain from sticking his foot in it.

Every Abbott disaster press conference: bsky.app/profile/fain...

prayer is an excuse for not doing anything

Pleasing unto the nostrils of the Lord.

Wouldn't be, if the Democrats didn't suck so hard at messaging.

is more even handed with the legal arguments compared to his former boss

I wonder about that. Does Abbott truly believe the stuff he spews or does he just know a lot of folks in his State do? When the tree fell on him, maybe he should have taken it as a sign from God to change his ways, but he just saw it as a sign to extract tens of millions from insurance companies.

religion is a disease

Maybe the reason the forty-nine people died was because they committed some sin?

It wasn't prayers...it was the magic rock in my pocket. You're welcome, Greg. Oh, also, the magic rock says you still don't get to walk. Walking is for people with souls.

It is a sickness and a perversion for the governor of a state to consider praying to God to stop river flooding a more reasonable response to a deadly event than robust and effective emergency management.

What’s next? Burning women? Throw meteorologist into the lake with a stone tied to their neck, and if they swim they are innocent?

I am not trying to make light of his disability, but are we to assume he has not been praying to regain the ability to walk?

How about doing the actual work needed instead of the self pats on the back and fawning over Trump

Welcome to Texas - mind you don’t step in the “leadership”.

We remember when they woke up the entire state at 4am with a blue alert because a cop in Lubock stubbed his toe

No, they don't. American Protestants, for the most part, are all in on "solo fide", redemption by faith alone. They believe that all you have to do to be saved is to believe the right thing, and works are valueless. Naturally this is incredibly convenient when you want to avoid helping people.

Tell me you live in Utah without telling me you live in Utah… I was just discussing this with extended family yesterday. “Pray for rain” is not a valid, or even useful, water policy. So frustrating.

You didn't pray enough. Shame on y'all.

Why praise the very people that allowed this disaster to happen by crippling the needed weather info because of noaa and nws job cuts.

How to evade responsibility for anything. People died not because we cut funding for the weather service but because we didn't pray hard enough.🙄

I'm sure the 32 who died did not pray enough 🙄

The self-congratulatory press conferences are gross

But if praying is so effective, why was there a flood at all? _______________ (Fill in the blank)

😢Are officials praising Trump for cutting funding to the National Weather Service and preventing them from doing their jobs? How’s that work exactly?? If Gov Abbott doesn’t lose his job next election, then we might just have to let TX go to God. They’re a failed state.

MAGA politicians love prayer because it deflects accountability for the piss-poor job they do.

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I prayed you would disappear but NO ONE HEARD ME!

No, see, that's a part that's a metaphor. It's how there are parts of the Bible that really truly happened (Eden, Leviticus, Moses) and the parts that are metaphors (Sermon on the Mount).

Pretty sure the Bible (specifically James 2:17) says that prayers without any acts to back them up are meaningless.

Hey Abbott, if prayer matters then pray for your legs to work again. Let’s see it in action.

Prey / pray process

No, he's just hoping his electorate has forgotten. And they probably have, considering how American voters are and considering that his narrative accords with their own religious preconceptions.

He is evil

“God must be dead if you’re alive.” -The Dead Kennedys

All hail Lord Trump who spared us His wrath.

It was disgraceful and disgusting ting to watch in real time. The part I believe in, is there is a special place waiting for these people holding this meeting, and it has nothing to do with”heavenly arms”.

The sheer absurdity of a government official pointing to the people who’ve died and saying that prayers saved some people but not your loved one, sorry. Mysterious ways and all, surely you understand how god didn’t think they were important

Funny there are so many ''100 year events''. Couldn't be climate change because that's a liberal hoax.🙄

He is such an evil person.

Man burps out nonsensical religious-adjacent sounding words trying to make sense of a senseless tragedy.

Prayers stopped the waters from rising??? Wow, talk about delusional.

Noem showed up to the press conference rocking a giant gold Rolex too.

I look forward to all of them winning re election with 70+ percent of the county's vote because nothing fucking matters anymore

Just like the press conference after Uvalde

That opened the door to a reporter asking if the flood could be God's punishment for Republicans voting for Trump's bill.

Prayers don't work. Abbott, Paxton and Patrick are all still there.

It was treated as an aside....a sidebar. Shameful ego-stroking waste of time.

What is Kristi Noem even doing here? Doesn’t she have another job she’s supposed to be pretending to do?

I pray they roll him into flood waters

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So the kids like Lila and Eloise at the Christian camp just didn’t pray enough? Is that the message he plans on giving directly to the parents?

A lot of these folks think the rapture/apocalypse is about to happen. That biblical fatalism cheapens life in the here and now.

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He worships a being that's too weak to save people, and won't even be bothered to assist unless sufficiently placated first by mindless praise. I'm not entirely sure that's God he's praying to.

he forgot thoughts

Fifty dead and dozens missing and the MAGA response is to PRAISE JESUS. I get more atheist by the minute.

Did he say, as he did at Uvalde, “It could have been worse?” What a piece of shit he is. Maybe Trump will show up with paper towels.

“I’m sure the Christian run girls camp lacked prayer and that’s why God personally sent the water through there.”

Don't be fooled by Abbott's concern for human life. Remember, he wanted to put alligators in the river along the border wall. He's okay with immigrant children being eaten alive.

I pray to god that I can fly.

There is religious jibber-jabber to cover any situation. None of it means or accomplishes a damn thing. If you want to say "god" had anything to do with this one way or another my question is why did "he" attack a christian bible camp in the first place.

Pray harder next time.

Perhaps

The Guadalupe River is still rising.

Remember his Uvalde statement? “it could’ve been worse”. This was the same thing.

thanks!

What with a collection of the most ignorant and malignant Trump fellatio enthusiasts in America, of course the press would have to wait for anything meaningful.

Well, he just lied after those poor kids were murdered in the elementary school a few years ago. His demon haunted universe nonsense is standard Republican misdirection. A criminal investigation needs to begin immediately and Texas cannot be trusted to do it. Wrap your mind around that.

It could also have done jack shit, Abbott. Particularly when pedophiles, rapists and traitors are the ones praying

Someone roll Abbott off the stage and let the adults take over.

So some parents didn’t pray hard enough? These people are monsters.

Except, according to their view, God sent the storm/flood.

I personally haven't even looked at 'X' since Musk-rat bought it. I would NEVER consider it, 'a trusted source'. Nixle is an emergency alert system. Since Abbott is too damn cheap to fund things that save lives, like flood sirens, maybe Texas can, at least, become part of Nixle?

I'd say these chubs sold their souls a long time ago. Just now they've taken the mask off.

Not a proud Texan right now. 😢

Why not just pray for zero flooding then?

Abbott should pray that god give him the good sense to better communicate warnings and implement evacuations in flood-prone rural areas.

So God has the power to cause & end floods? So this is on him, right?