Sorry but at this point I think the USA is broken beyond repair. Trump has smashed the machinery of government and replacing it would be the work of a generation to replace it and that assumes everyone was willing to work towards that goal. With a great many Americans unwilling or unable to accept they were conned, a Republican party that's embraced the crazy and a hostile Supreme Court I doubt even if the Democrats win the White House and Congress in 2028 they can do much to replace what's being lost. Turns out its easy to drive an entire country off a cliff so long as you have a bunch of likeminded lunatics all willing to help.
Trump's Second Term
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Gulliver Foyle
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Because you've never been to China, you blithering idiot!
The squirrel toupee wearing chicken, not you.
The Great Zaganza
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GOP: the Party of Personal Responsibility of everyone but them
Norman Alexander
Penultimate Amazing
Many more Americans will die, for this and other reasons, due to Trump-based idiocy. And Donny won't give a flying ◊◊◊◊ because it didn't happen to him personally. As long as he grifts, he's good.
As for Texas, tough luck. You made your bed; lie in it.
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shemp
a flimsy character...perfidious and despised
I wish I could gloat, but a lot of the victims were innocent people including 25 missing from a girls' summer camp:
Death toll in devastating Texas flash floods at least 120, dozens still missing
Several people from a children's summer camp in Kerr County remain missing, officials said.
www.cbsnews.com
But Dan Patrick knows what to do:
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Safe-Keeper
My avatar is not a Drumpf hat
I needed to know how so many people could go missing from a flood, and so I opened the article, and:
Almost eight metres in 45 minutes? JFC what a nightmare scenario.
Also, ◊◊◊◊ Drumpf.
Almost eight metres in 45 minutes? JFC what a nightmare scenario.
Also, ◊◊◊◊ Drumpf.
And remember hurricane season is coming...
Mike!
Official Ponylandistanian National Treasure. Re
From the story...I wish I could gloat, but a lot of the victims were innocent people including 25 missing from a girls' summer camp:
Death toll in devastating Texas flash floods at least 120, dozens still missing
Several people from a children's summer camp in Kerr County remain missing, officials said.
But Dan Patrick knows what to do:
Why would you put anything in a place KNOWN as 'Flash Flood Ally'?
Mojo
Mostly harmless
And, of course, as soon as the Democrats do anything to fix the mess, the Republicans will start yelling about budget deficits and the national debt.
Flo
Illuminator
Because it's a rare event that couldn't happen to ME !
And if it happens, it's the fault of the meteorologists (woke killjoys, the lot of them).
I've seen it in France, in Switzerland, …
Aridas
Crazy Little Green Dragon
And Democrats wearing tan suits, Democrats eating ice cream, Democrats getting hair cuts...
Because Democrats doing things like that are waaay more unpatriotic than Republicans putting everyone, but especially those vulnerable like kids, in lethal harm's way.
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Gulliver Foyle
Philosopher
Don't forget to do your morning exercises. Smith 24956, Big Trump is looking at you!
Armitage72
Philosopher
Gulliver Foyle
Philosopher
And looking at rule 7 it is more "we will ban you for disagreeing with the party line" than any sort of a logical fallacy, because the rule says (boiled down) "if the party says 2+2=5 you'll be banned for saying 2+2=4"
Flash floods are common in any barren region. The rule for escaping them is very simple: GET THE HELL OUT OF THE LOW PLACES! That includes river bottoms, not just obvious features like dry creek beds, washes, arroyos, wadis, and steep alluvial fans. Not a hard lesson to learn, or to remember once you've ever seen a gully-washer come through.
Once in a lifetime events? Hardly; but last in a lifetime if you don't keep your wits dry.
Once in a lifetime events? Hardly; but last in a lifetime if you don't keep your wits dry.
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a_unique_person
Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
You and your ridiculous red tape and planning laws. This is Texas.
W.D.Clinger
Philosopher
Most of New Orleans (Louisiana) lies below sea level. Its highest points are about 20 feet above sea level.
In Texas, the Guadalupe River quickly rose 26 feet. It doesn't usually do that. The area received six to twelve inches of rain in three hours. That's unusual, even in Texas. Texas hill country topography dumps that water into the river pretty quickly, hence "Flash Flood Alley". If something similar had happened in New Orleans, the entire city would be under water.
It so happens that the New Orleans metropolitan area
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Minoosh
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Yeah, I'm not sure about that ... yet. I try to avoid predictions, for a couple of reasons.
One is the whole "black swan" thing. Maybe Trump IS the black swan, yet I have this "waiting for the other shoe to drop" feeling.
Another thing I tell myself, there are ALWAYS unintended consequences. One example, my state went for Trump but also passed a constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights. It actually goes beyond "Roe v. Wade." It could not have been just Democrats approving it.
And then there are optics. I'm sure the administration will try to shut down the press when guys in balaclavas start ripping babies out of their mothers' arms. When grandparents are seized and taken God knows where with a promise they'll never see their kids or grandkids again.
All of this is reversible (except maybe climate change). My worry is not that this can't be fixed, but that the majority of U.S. citizens will not think there is anything that needs fixing.
Mojo
Mostly harmless
Isn't it the intended ones you need to worry about?