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douglas9

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Mon Jul 7, 2025, 07:31 AM Jul 7

Just like Uvalde [View all]

Just like in Uvalde, our immoral, grandstanding governor uses a tragedy as an opportunity to get in front of a camera and blame someone else. There's a reason they call the Texas Hill Country “flash flood alley.” This is our normal pattern—years of drought followed by devastating floods. It’s happened many times before. And these dipshits want to blame the agency that could have helped while laughing and defunding these same government agencies. Now Elon has his opening and I wonder if we will start to hear about it in 3,2,1.

And yet again, here they are—our governor and a parade of local yokels in cowboy hats, starched shirts, and stiff jeans—lined up like heroes for the cameras while people are still missing. I counted at least twenty of them as the governor signed some meaningless document and held it up like it was going to stop the water. Where have I seen that before? To hell with every one of them.

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Where is Ted?

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Just like Uvalde [View all] douglas9 Jul 7 OP
Y'all would think Ted Cruz at least would comment by now.................. Lovie777 Jul 7 #1
Ole Teddy is staying far away from this shite show SARose Jul 7 #2
Good News / Bad News: Paladin Jul 7 #4
Cornyn is bad, but not all bad. summer_in_TX Jul 7 #26
If they had only had those river water level gauges. But they did not want to pay for the upkeep on them. LiberalArkie Jul 7 #10
All those guys in big cowboy hats are yellow bellied cowards. Irish_Dem Jul 7 #3
They're in costume Beachnutt Jul 7 #6
Costumes to make them feel like brave, important men. Irish_Dem Jul 7 #7
Old Ted BigMin28 Jul 7 #5
GOP senators only care about money, perks, attention, power. Irish_Dem Jul 7 #8
The dead BigMin28 Jul 7 #21
Trump and his pals delight in the bodies piling up. Like Putin. Irish_Dem Jul 7 #23
Is Ted Cruz back from Cancun yet? Norrrm Jul 7 #9
The statement that flood waters rose 26 feet in "about" 45 minutes gab13by13 Jul 7 #11
That has been all over the news and video. txwhitedove Jul 7 #13
The videos were posted here on DU a number of times over the weekend. niyad Jul 7 #14
There is video... druidity33 Jul 7 #17
Kerrville water gauge ga_girl Jul 7 #18
Ted's staying out of the limelight, probably afraid he'll be denaturalized and deported. sop Jul 7 #12
The schadenfreude will have a bittersweet taste in my mouth. 58Sunliner Jul 7 #19
This more like B.P.'s Gulf of Mexico deep water oil well blow out because Dick Cheney stopped the ... Botany Jul 7 #15
Cruz et al are praying kkmarie Jul 7 #16
Useless paycheck collecting dlilafae Jul 7 #20
The North Remembers...or in this case: Texans Remember... CapnSteve Jul 7 #22
I heard on MoJo that Kerr County decided Ilsa Jul 7 #24
Ole Teddy was there this morning. He finally figured out there were TV cameras there. rsdsharp Jul 7 #25
The aftermath of the "No New Taxes" mantra. summer_in_TX Jul 7 #27
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