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Travis Tozer's avatar

Texas floods: a preventable disaster?

Don't give them the space to avoid accountability for those cuts. Fuck 'em. Hang this around their necks forever.

Is Elon Musk going to end the GOP?

Elon has money, but little power and even less ability to follow through. He'll never save anyone from anything.

Even Republicans are now warning of dictatorship

I forgot about Jeff Flake but I like the way he writes.

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In many ways, this is COVID all over again. 2018 -- Trump fires the entire Pandemic Response Team -- the people tasked with marshaling experts and resources to keep the likes of Bird Flu, Swine Flu, SARS, MERS, Ebola, etc. from becoming widespread, global events. And then poof -- look what happens when those resources are gone? To protect Dear Leader's feelings and political footing, the MAGA movement rallied to become "anti-vaxx". Texas is just the canary in the coal mine as we move into hurricane season with drastically reduced resources. I can only imagine the preventable deaths that we'll see in the coming months. MAGA is already discussing "false alarm fatigue" as a reason why local officials were so slow to act. Think about that for a moment. People get safely evacuated -- ride out a storm... safely -- and return home to find their home is still there, and for all that, they're upset?. I ran the math on how well Trump did among Christians in Texas. Those people voted to "own the Libs" and make "other people" suffer -- and look what happens -- they suffer too. But they'll never admit a mistake and will only double down in Blind Faith to the false prophet. Beyond NOAA, NWS, and FEMA -- Trump also dismantled the CIA and FBI who more often than not, intercept and foil terrorist acts. What's the line going to be when 9/11 happens again?

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