Just like Uvalde

[douglas9]

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.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/6/2331912/-Just-like-Uvalde?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web


Where is Ted?

[Lovie777]

1. Y'all would think Ted Cruz at least would comment by now..................

hope he's not one of those the ugly conspiracy GQPs.

[SARose]

2. Ole Teddy is staying far away from this shite show

But ole Cornyn?

On Fox Sunday

weekend.

"It's a very sad time, but it's also a time when 850-plus campers were accounted for and recovered," the senator explained. "I talked to a friend of mine who's a former colleague of yours in the House of Representatives who had two daughters there, and they had just gotten home late yesterday afternoon, and of course they were traumatized by the whole event, but they were just beside themselves with joy that they had recovered their children."

"But tragically, as you point out, there are 27 campers, these young girls still missing," he continued. "And this was a hundred-year flood event in an area that had been known to flood, but nothing like this, where the flood waters rose 26 feet in about 45 minutes."

"So, a terrible tragedy, but thanks to President Trump and Secretary Noem, the federal disaster relief has been provided at the request of Governor Abbott. And it's just a time of very many conflicting feelings, but primarily we're very sad."

More

Typical Cornyn word salad. Don’t worry be happy!

Pfffttt

[Paladin]

4. Good News / Bad News:

Good News: Cruz's absence. Too bad it won't last.

Bad News: Cornyn's pathetic "Vote For Me!" blather, utilizing the Hill Country flooding tragedy. Congrats Cornyn, for abandoning your usual political impotence and descending to the low level of Cruz, Abbott, and Patrick. As if Texas isn't suffering enough, right now.

[summer_in_TX]

26. Cornyn is bad, but not all bad.

He's the Republican who sponsored gun-control legislation, such as it was, after Uvalde, that passed and President Biden signed into law.

After Wimberley's 2015 Memorial Day Weekend Flood, he came through. When a city council member also on the board of our start-up community radio station answered Cornyn's question about how he could help with a request that he help get Wimberley's radio station approved for broadcast for the duration of the emergency. He got it done and our station was licensed to begin broadcasting soon after that. Our primary motivation was to be able to save lives in fires and floods, but we were just approved to raise the money to get on the air and hadn't gotten anywhere before the floods. We were able to borrow equipment and use it to get on the air.

Credit where credit is due.

But he's running scared of Ken Paxton running to the right of him and has shown himself spineless when it comes to Trump. Trying to cling to power at all costs, even if the price is his soul.

[LiberalArkie]

10. If they had only had those river water level gauges. But they did not want to pay for the upkeep on them.

I notice them all over our Arkansas rivers and waterways. Link to satellites and then to the agencies. Pretty damn fast. But sometimes annoying as they will detect the increase in the water level and then the flash flood warning, but the volume of water dissipates pretty quick before a real flash flood occurs. But they do indeed notify before a low level flood really gets going. If people would only pay attention to the alerts.

But you know, the people are on vacation, they have taken vacation days, they have rented stuff, bought gas to get there. And the human nature of, "What are the odds that anything bad will happen, after all aren't these forecasts always wrong?"

[Irish_Dem]

3. All those guys in big cowboy hats are yellow bellied cowards.

We learned that at Uvalde.

[Beachnutt]

6. They're in costume

They wear cowboy costumes and many male texans do also.
Really stupid imo.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Costumes to make them feel like brave, important men.

It is all fake and BS.

[BigMin28]

5. Old Ted

Put out his tired, yet standard statement about he and Heidi's prayers. That's the most you can expect from Cruz.

[Irish_Dem]

8. GOP senators only care about money, perks, attention, power.

Nothing else matters to them.

[BigMin28]

21. The dead

are an annoyance and inconvenience to them.

[Irish_Dem]

23. Trump and his pals delight in the bodies piling up. Like Putin.

They are sadists who enjoy it.
And killing people makes them feel powerful.

[Norrrm]

9. Is Ted Cruz back from Cancun yet?

[gab13by13]

11. The statement that flood waters rose 26 feet in "about" 45 minutes

should be provable.

Why am I sitting here doubting that statement? I know the water rose very fast but if it took hours instead of minutes that would make people look bad.

Sorry for my skepticism, but when those bastards lie to me every damn day excuse me for not believing them if they are telling the truth.

It is most likely true, it's just me, sorry.

[txwhitedove]

13. That has been all over the news and video.

[niyad]

14. The videos were posted here on DU a number of times over the weekend.

watch them.

[druidity33]

17. There is video...

I have seen it. It's 37 minutes long and riveting. At the bridge it was filmed the estimate was just over 30' (bottom of the gorge to topping the bridge) in 35 minutes. It depends on the area and the ACCUMULATED floodwaters in river paths. It's worth watching the video. I'll see if i can find it. It has millions of views at this point...

[ga_girl]

18. Kerrville water gauge

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/USGS-08166200/#dataTypeId=continuous-00065-0&period=P7D

Starts at 2 feet, peaks at 34 feet.

[sop]

12. Ted's staying out of the limelight, probably afraid he'll be denaturalized and deported.

At some (not too distant) point the racist nationalist ICE Gestapo Goons will shift their attention to people like Cruz and Rubio.

[58Sunliner]

19. The schadenfreude will have a bittersweet taste in my mouth.

[Botany]

15. This more like B.P.'s Gulf of Mexico deep water oil well blow out because Dick Cheney stopped the ...

… requirements of having acoustical shut off switches on the oil well on the sea floor. They cost too
much at $500,000 per well. Those switches would have stopped the oil pollution. In Texas the
Guadalupe River with known dangers of flash floods NOAA and the National Weather Service offered
a program that monitored for flash floods and would give early warnings to the residents and the first responders. The Republicans said no to the equipment and to setting up an emergency response to
flash flooding dangers.

[kkmarie]

16. Cruz et al are praying

https://www.yahoo.com/news/breaks-heart-texas-lawmakers-react-022548759.html

[dlilafae]

20. Useless paycheck collecting

Shit duckers.

[CapnSteve]

22. The North Remembers...or in this case: Texans Remember...

Remember this. Remember Uvalde. Remember the $1,000,000,000 of tax-payer money given to rich, white, urban families, masked ICE agents snatching citizens and babies from their homes, and Texas National Guard drowning families in the Rio Grande. Remember everything the GOP has done and vote them out in the mid-terms.

Until then, remember and fight. Protest, stand with your neigbors, and never give up, never lose hope.

Yellow Dog Texas Democrat in Mo City.

[Ilsa]

24. I heard on MoJo that Kerr County decided

not to set up a flash flood early warning siren system, such as for tornadoes, because it cost $50,000.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/texas-flood-warnings-sirens.html?smid=url-share

[rsdsharp]

25. Ole Teddy was there this morning. He finally figured out there were TV cameras there.

He got in front in front of them and engaged in about 20 minutes of performative (now is not the time for partisanship) bullshit.

[summer_in_TX]

27. The aftermath of the "No New Taxes" mantra.

The Club for Growth, Ronald Reagan, and the whole Republican party turned "No New Taxes" into their idol. They made anyone running as a R to sign their pledge – or they were primaried and defeated.

Their propaganda machine made it their party brand. Then it was enacted at local levels, starving their own people of the infrastructure to keep their roads well-maintained, bridges repaired, education well-funded, and in this case with a functioning weather alert system. They'll never make the connection, unfortunately.

The Club for Growth's founder, Grover Norquist, infamously wanted to shrink government down to the size to where it could be drowned in a bathtub. I always wondered if he was part of a sleeper cell. He talked a good game of being fiercely anti-communist, but what he was all about was weakening every aspect of America's strength. Maybe not our military, but everything that made American life strong and prosperous. Our innovation that brought about prosperity was taxpayer funded much of the time, and our health research.

Blood on their hands.