Never mind all those dead bodies.

Mission accomplished!

Truth.

I’d get banned. I feel sorry for the people who died. But the politicians and residents on that transcript can go fuck themselves with rusty pikes.
From a former resident if California and a native of New Jersey

If it's white, then it's alright. That's it.

Fuck them! Sick sadistic dumb motherfuckers!

This former Californian agrees completely.

pathetic, really

... County Judge who might also be county coroner), County Commissioners, Sheriff. They walk lockstep, they're always white, they're also wealthy, from particular families. These are the real 'good ol' boys'.

the local manager of that corporation wields extensive power over public policy..

In these comments is breathtaking.

So worried that money might go to a place like NJ, CA, or NY, let alone spend it to protect their children.

who voted against relief for northeastern states after Sandy. Never. I've lived in tornado alley and every goddamn spring, politicians there go crying with their hands out to the federal government and then turn around and fuck over "blue" states whose tax revenues save their sorry asses. I grew up in an area devastated by Sandy.

Sorry if that makes me sound like a regional elitist or like I'm shitting on those who live in Red states- I've lived in a few and I get it. But the rage I have at these assholes is off the charts.

With deadly concequences. God i fucking hate this state

is that on Wednesday July 2, the NWS issued a flash flood watch for that area, which they then upgraded to a flash flood warning on Thursday, July 3, and sent out their first alert at 1:14 a.m. July 4. That alert was basically ignored by at least one county, posibly other counties in the warned area, until almost 5a.m. July 4, by which point, it was too late.

Yet?

Are using very typical corporate capitalist methods to run the government. They are merely using very common corporate management techniques that capitalist use to make profits off newly acquired businesses. They are treating government like a business.

The problem is that the consequences of stupid mistakes in business are not the same as stupid mistakes in government. If connections to a social media platform are bad, no one dies. If you get a pair of shoes that fall apart in a month, it won't kill you. But bad decisions in government because of poor training, mass layoffs that reduce your workforce to a ghost ship, and poor planning can and does kill people.

We need to put more democracy in corporate capitalism and not more capitalism in our democracy. This is why feudalism, dictatorships and oligarchies eventually turns their citizenry into poverty stricken drudges. The idiots in power think it's a business for them to make money off of.

Well, thanks to all those shrewd trump budget cuts, THAT’S one thing we won’t have to worry about anymore! Gee, THANKS, donald!

They will just blame someone else or use some other dumb distraction.

Though his departure was entirely due to the Trump administration's policies and Elon Musk's DOGE attack, this man probably realizes that many of these deaths could have been avoided had he simply been allowed to carry on his work as he had before. That's quite a burden for one's conscience.

As should air traffic controllers and any other competent public servant who tsf/putin/musk/heritage foundation, etc. fucked over for their billionaires' dream world.
The 'Administrative State' exists for the betterment of society. Destroying it only benefits the uber-wealthy.

Abbot got very upset when a reporter asked him who was to blame.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ademocraticunderground.com&q=abbot+blame

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220470059

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220470000

'Word choice of losers!' Texas gov lashes out over ...

The wrongful death lawsuits associated with this should bankrupt a lot of politicians in Texas if there is any justice.

Lily white camp full of white girls just might get justice rather than "just us" that some other members of the community might get from a jury.

Abbott is an asshole. But he was likely following the advice of his lawyers to refuse to assign blame before the lawsuits are filed. Of course, the lawyers probably didn't tell him to do it in the most despicable, arrogant way that won't play well with a jury. "It's far too early for that. We will conduct a root means analysis after a full investigation." That's what his lawyers would have preferred and it at least would have made him look human rather than some cartoon villain.