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we are dealing with people who would rather drown their own children than accept any of our help. if offering to help them makes them kill their own children I think we should stop.

Well, now they get to bury their dead. I will take the welfare of children over politics every single time.

This thread really provides such a chilling, depraved example of the terrifying power of right wing propaganda.

Did I read that right? These petulant rubes, angry about a president that wasn’t a rapist and coastal elite yada yada bullshit, set their children up to die in a fucking flood. For FUCKS sake!!!

Well, clearly, it's his fault because he made them hate him so that they did this irrational shit because he toppled their god Emperor who they elected to show that even the shittiest white man is better than a black man. /s. If they actually spoke their mind I think they do potentially believe that

So now they can use it to pay the victim’s families. I hope the families sue them!

Cool. Fuck them.

"values that we in Kerr County don't agree with." What, the value of a human life?

You know what else ended up dead in the water.

I couldn’t even make up such a stupid story if I try.

yeah they're deciding if they want to send the money back or not since they don't want to spend it for purely partisan reasons

they modernized their radio system and built a park thing for veterans

This should be criminal. Those commissioners and Judge have blood on their hands. Children's blood. All because they believe in conspiracy theories and have a hatred of things they don't understand.

These people are, sincerely, disgusting. Their “values” are repulsive. The kumbaya left (which is, thankfully, shrinking) needs to finally get it through their heads that these people hate us.

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"And I say, let's show that criminal, treasonous, communist government we mean business by drowning our own kids, thank you for listening"

No, but i bet he thinks how powerful it made his allies.

I wonder about this sometimes. You spend your life working to build the world you want, and the only people working beside you are corrupt or intensely stupid. The only people who like you are the ones that buy into your lies. It's gotta mess with your head.

Holy Fuqua Him #WoW Way-back memory, $ revolved around vouchers/veto’s. Now, #Abbott ignores #crisis!refuses to listen; turns a blind eye to consequences of his policies. He deflects blame, suggests others are responsible for crisis—tho threatened #veto #fundingbills then not including vouchers A

I guess “Kerr County values” include letting kids drown.

So the money is just sitting somewhere?

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"they were gonna die anyway of emphysema therefore them getting covid at church isnt why she died" energy

Sounds like “thinning of the herd.”

Kerr county, meet Darwin.

So they hella embezzled it huh

@aclu.org these transcripts are horrific. The local govt was sent federal funds to update the warning system, and they did not use the funds for it. This tragedy was not from a lack of funding to the county.

Most humans are horrifyingly bad at risk assessment.

So there you have it. Culture war in a nutshell. Trying to help these people have better lives is like pushing on a rope.

Hmmm. Oh, look… Murder.

This kind of fuckery should have landed them in jail.

Alternate headline for a Pulitzer prize story, based on these transcripts: "Dead in the water: Kerr county officials mocked flood warning systems, failed to act" @jimacosta.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @tonyplohetski.bsky.social

If I wrote the headline: "Redneck good old boys make politically motivated choice that kills little Christian girls, $5 million missing" Speaking as an ex-journalist, there is a Pulitzer in here.

Values like saving children from a flood??

feels like the death of local media has been an aid to this corruption and malfeasance.

Every foetus is special but after they're born, there is no interest in them at all.

Shari Synder and the other crazies should be held accountable for their huge part in this tragedy!

What a fucked worldview. My God.

Judge Kelly should’ve taken the place of one of those children.

"And I think the first thing to do is say why change anything. It worked this long and maybe we don't need to do a thing." *SCREAMING*

What I’m gathering from this is that this tragedy is less the result of staffing cuts to the weather service but more due to choices the elected representatives made.

Living in a town that has warning sirens, the only time they go off in the night is when there’s a threat. So his sleep is so precious he doesn’t want his family and the community to be warned if there’s a threat?

If the idea of a warning system with the purpose of protecting people living in and visiting the area threaten your sobriety it is time to resign. You are clearly not fit to hold any sort of office.

These men are fucking ghouls. A tourist is a guest. Under the honor system they pay lip service to you protect a guest who you have provided hospitality to. I know, I come from one. Risking your guests (who you owe your livelihood to) over ego is monstrous even in their thought system.

They quite explicitly said "it's okay if those people from Houston who build right on the water die."

Kerr County did eventually use the ARPA funds, but they went towards a first responder emergency radio system and a new sidewalk project, not towards flood-warning systems. bsky.app/profile/sfki...

"someone that's not familiar with the area, and wouldn't know what to do." Like say, a child from some other area who is there for camp?

The thing about sirens and locals is that locals will learn to tune out the sirens when they immediately clock nothing is happening. I'm like 1/4 mile from my storm sirens, and they test them at 1 PM on the first Wednesday of the month, so sometimes you hear it and think "right, it's Wednesday."

Those fucking bastards managed to get those little girls killed because they thought sirens weren’t needed.

Similar to the Maui wildfires couple years ago, people asked why the tsunami warning sirens were not used to warn about the wildfire. Most felt it would’ve confused people and actually the sea was safer in Lahaina. If I hear a siren, it’s look up, look down, and look around time.

That was the bit that inspired me to write my post. They literally care so little about what happens to people that they don't know that they refuse money that would help them.

For an area that seems to have a lot of holiday camps, isn't that a good thing though? People from elsewhere in Texas, or beyond, would get some warning.

That statement is confusing. It’s better for tourists because locals only locals know what to do? Huh?

Like visiting campers in the middle of the night? Those people? These are the leaders in the county? Ahhhh, move!

What a bunch of morons. Sincerely, someone who grew up in a rural area where the tornado sirens were tested every day at noon. We didn't even need to wear a watch to know when to break for lunch.

I wonder if Mr. Hewitt is still alive and has been reminded of his words and his vote.

So, for example, people coming in from out of the area to the camp sites in their town?

Yeah screw the tourists, they can just leave their money with us and die. We ain't spendin' a red cent on nothin!

"We don't want sirens to warn us that our kids might be about to die." -These stupid fucks

If we make noise to warn people who are about to drown, it might wake me up. So no audible warnings, please.

Good lord, these people are huffing their own farts in a really, really, reallllyyyy bad way

Those damn sirens would only go off at that hour if there was a dire emergency, and he knows that.

He seems nice. And smart! Holy fuk.

Murderous stupid Red hat brain syndrome

“Our beautiful county should be wracked by death first before we ever install some damned sirens!” – a totally normal human thing to say

Only the most incompetent buffoons imaginable. This has been the Republican party for most of my adult life.

Hoooooly shit

surprise, surprise

She is also a Baptist. And a drama nerd. www.tbck.org/2025/04/a-li...

I like the idea of taking someone else's money and misusing it b/c of your "values".

Yeah, we absolutely get people like this in meetings in SoCal. Usually not quite the same breed, but similar

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Kerr County residents were also adamant about returning the ARPA funds because of “vaccine mandates” that didn’t exist. I wonder where they got that idea? RW media? Local politicians? The local council kept the funds but spent it on police radios, IT upgrades, but not flood warning.

I think the story of the frog and the scorpion is more apt. They'll drown everyone because their hatred of others is the only nature they have

Now now, we can’t blame anyone for this. The virtuous and pure amongst us need their fainting couches rolled out every time someone says Texas or Kerr County has any blame. It’s more important we don’t hurt their feelings, apparently - not that we prevent this crap from happening again.

....or those vactioners from Houston

These people should pay for their gross negligence but it’s Texas.

If we could magically split everything, I firmly believe that their side would collapse under the weight of hatred with no where to go, or that they would end up like NK, in a bubble of maga worship until they were eating raw turnips. Again, I don’t know how you fix this, but good luck.

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This just made me sick to my stomach- literally

Oh for F%CK SAKE!!!!

Allowing the deaths of innocents because they didn't like Biden... Will any of them be held accountable? No.

Sheesh

The relative should sue whoever "they" are.

So much for the pragmatism of local politics. The brainworms have consumed the host.

Maybe it’s time for new elected officials…

Literally killing themselves over minorities being treated as equals.

"This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death. It is not by chance that a motto of the Falangists was Viva la Muerte (in English it should be translated as “Long Live Death!”)." – Umberto Eco, *Ur-Fascism*

People who don't live in the Midwest need to realize that THIS is the kind of horrible shit far right politicians have been doing for generations, and that easily 90% of their voters don't know about it or, if they do, don't fully understand what's happening Those funds were stolen, I'd bet on it

for all their bellyaching, tho, it seems like they spent some of the money in a 7.5 million contract with motorola in 2022? am i understanding the reddit thread correctly?

Kerr county is a prime candidate for the 2025 Shoot Yourself in the Foot Award.

Hope they are forced to give it to the family victims

According to another part of this thread, cop radios and a sidewalk

Such fools

At least 28 children (among the 104 dead) have payed the ultimate price for Texas officials' stupidity and politics. Unfortunately, it probably won't stop any one of them from sleeping at night. Is this what owning it or sticking it to the libs looks like.

July 2: The Texas Division of Emergency Management activated state emergency response resources anticipating the threat of flooding in parts of West and Central Texas. Numerous warning were posted in the subsequent 36 hours. None of these were shared with the public by local officials.

.....horrifying levels of callousness aside, its funny that they debate whether or not a big blue state gets the money while not knowing that those states pretty much never get back what they give to Federal tax revenue

Well, there’s some waste, fraud, and abuse for you to ponder.

And I bet they think of themselves as Christians.

As Steve Miller said.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ido6...

Another tragic result due to political ignorance and arrogance! 😡

If State Governments & the Federal Government cannot protect or make excuses not to protect its' citizens, then why do we pay taxes? It's time to give serious thought to this conundrum. We have seen multiple departments decimated at both federal & state levels,while we're left to fend on our own!

Holy bereaved parents class action lawsuit, Batman!