Trump's America is a cold, hard place

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Texas floods show that Trump’s America is a cold, hard place
The president would rather intimidate and detain immigrants than help flood victims

By Brian Karem
White House columnist
Published July 10, 2025 9:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) Just one month ago, Donald Trump said he wanted to “wean” the United States off the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this year’s hurricane season.

“We want to bring [FEMA] down to the state level,” Trump told reporters during a briefing in the Oval Office. “A governor should be able to handle it, and frankly if they can’t it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.”

This week, in the wake of the floods in the Texas Hill Country that left at least 119 dead and over 161 still missing, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott praised Trump for quickly approving a major disaster declaration for Kerr County, the hardest-hit area. “The swift and very robust action by President Trump is an extraordinary help to our response,” Abbott said.

If you use Trump’s logic, maybe Abbott shouldn’t be governor.

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We all know where Trump’s heart lies — and it isn’t with the victims of a natural disaster. On the same day Texas officials were engaged in search, rescue and recovery efforts along the Guadalupe River, masked and heavily armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents marched on foot and galloped on horseback through MacArthur Park in Los Angeles in a performative show of force.

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The floods serve as a symbolic reminder of the constant and complete failure of Trump’s government. Just this week we have had to deal with speculation on Pam Bondi being fired, revelations that Trump talked about bombing Moscow, the MAGA split caused by the latest Jeffrey Epstein controversy that Trump doesn’t want to talk about, tariff problems and the president’s “TACO” reputation — Wall Street’s indictment that “Trump Always Chickens Out” — and any of a number of other controversies brought about by a man who speaks out of both sides of his mouth and his posterior at the same time. ...............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/07/10/texas-floods-show-that-trumps-america-is-a-cold-hard-place/

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Just like Russia.

[Demovictory9]

2. Absolutely

[C_U_L8R]

3. As the Oracle foretold....

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

4. The Camp Mystic, "Slaughter of the Innocents", should leave a mark on the Republican brand of assholery.

[get the red out]

5. Darkness

I just feel surrounded by surreal darkness.

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. And yet.......the opposition party is not seen as the heroic alternative

Yes I know they are on network and cable news shows in guest slots to express their frustrations. Booker stands for hours in the House. Individual reps write scathing tweets. They promote bills to counter the pain that don't have a chance of passing.

But its not enough! In any other country with this happening, their would be a clear opposition leader and movement tied to a party that would sweep the nation.
Something has been wrong with the D party for a long time. You have giant crowds attending the No Oligarchs tour with Sanders and AOC, yet AOC is refused a chair in her party. The old guard perpetual plan of appeasement, if once it was at least intellectually a valid course, has now turned into a pitiful comic exercise. And they seem lost about what to do, or worse, think they can just "ride it out". But the last thing they will choose is to encourage a new generation of Democrats with more liberal ideas and a more fight first brand.

Where's Kamala? My thought after the election was...why not take a page from Trump, the master marketeer, and continue rallies. Keep the momentum you garnered in your last weeks campaigning. This time hammering in things like they are leaving with the strongest economy in the world. Things like highlighting the rights the Americans hold dear and to beware. And things like warnings of what is coming. Keep up rallies. And when we get to a state we are in, people are hearing these warnings still from Ds, instead of Trump's sycophants telling the news networks its all Democrats fault.