Trump drowned those girls at camp in Texas

[FunkyZero]

I have to admit, I'm in awe of the volume of stupid being spat around over there.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220461156

It's an embedded twizzler so I can't bring it over intact

https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1941440194080833828

Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

ProudMNDemocrat (19,820 posts)
1. Gutting funding for NOAA and NWS will result in more senseless deaths such as this.
Reply to milestogo (Original post)
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 10:59 AM
TACO Don did this!!

Arazi (8,086 posts)
2. Yup. Everything since January 20th is his fault
Reply to milestogo (Original post)
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 11:01 AM
I didn’t make the rules. The rightwing did when they decided any disaster, including natural disasters, were Biden’s fault.

Ergo, everything that happens now is Traitor’s fault

this lack of self-awareness is next level

LisaL (47,264 posts)
4. Just wait until hurricanes start,
Reply to milestogo (Original post)
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 11:04 AM
and nobody is left to predict where they are going to hit.

[SVPete]

Is there evidence - outside of Prog hatred - that weather forecasts in Texas were at all affected by budget cuts? There is lots of MSM scare-mongering out there, but are there any actual underlying facts?

Is there evidence - outside of Prog hatred - that emergency services availability/readiness was in the least affected by a supposedly incorrect weather forecast?

Is there evidence - outside of Prog hatred - that planning/scheduling - which was done over months and weeks before this storm - the camp was in the least affected by a supposedly incorrect weather forecast?

This may sound heartless - though it is not - but the phenomenon of Texas hill country getting full annual rainfall from a single storm dates back centuries or millennia.

Any DUpipo posting that these Texas/Fundie-kids and -parents got what they deserved?

[DUmpDiver]

Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

Notice that is says inaccurate forecast, not lack of a forecast.

[SVPete]

Notice that is says inaccurate forecast, not lack of a forecast.

Weather forecasts are almost never inaccurate, so Damn Trump!!!

[DUmpDiver]

Weather forecasts are almost never inaccurate, so Damn Trump!!!

Al Gore can still predict the climate though. We have that going for us.

[Old n Grumpy]

I predict the weather by looking out the window. I’m usually 100% accurate.

[DUmpDiver]

There are proposed NWS budget cuts for fiscal year 2026. Blaming something in 2025 for something that might happen in 2026 is rather silly.

[SVPete]

There are proposed NWS budget cuts for fiscal year 2026. Blaming something in 2025 for something that might happen in 2026 is rather silly.

Anachronisms are Reich-Wing.

[SVPete]

That thread is so DU-normal that I did not immediately notice a simple fact:

As many as two dozen girls died, and DU-Denizens' first reaction was to blame Trump. Then after someone admitted that a weather warning had gone out in a timely way, DUpipo reverted to blaming the camp for not evacuating and mocking Christians and Christianity.

Not until around Reply 52 (of 71!) was agenda-free sympathy for the girls expressed. As I said, so DU-normal.

[SVPete]

Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

https://www.wired.com/story/meteorologists-say-the-national-weather-service-did-its-job-in-texas/

Some local and state officials have said that insufficient forecasts from the National Weather Service caught the region off guard. That claim has been amplified by pundits across social media, who say that cuts to the NWS and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, its parent organization, inevitably led to the failure in Texas.

But meteorologists who spoke to WIRED say that the NWS accurately predicted the risk of flooding in Texas and could not have foreseen the extreme severity of the storm. What’s more, they say that what the NWS did forecast this week underscores the need to sustain funding to the crucial agency.
...
The NWS office in San Antonio on Monday predicted a potential for “downpours”—as well as heavy rain specifically at nighttime—later on in the week as the result of these conditions. By Thursday, it forecast up to 7 inches of rainfall in isolated areas.

Jokes about weather forecasts aside, ANY weather forecast more than 2 or 3 days out will very possibly be off by 12-24 hours, and possibly simply incorrect (pretty much anyone who plans and does outdoor activities has seen this).

[jukin]

As to the hurricane forecasts, I will make the same one NOAA has for 30 years since global warming has been the big scam.

NOAA prediction: This will be the worst hurricane season ever. More storms than ever and more deaths than ever!

REALITY: This hurricane season had at or below number of storms with fewer cat 4 & 5 storms than average.

[DUmpDiver]

As to the hurricane forecasts, I will make the same one NOAA has for 30 years since global warming has been the big scam.

After climate change caused Katrina hurricane season would have more and more hurricanes every year and they'd be worse hurricanes.

Never happened.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Let's Talk FACTS: While Dems Act Like Ghouls, Meteorologist Chris Martz Sets the Record STRAIGHT on NWS, Texas Flooding

The usual suspects are exploiting this tragedy to score political brownie points. Some left-wing activists are blaming this flood on “climate change,” others are blaming the deaths and missing persons on inadequate warning caused by low staffing at the National Weather Service (NWS) caused by Trump administration federal RIFs.

First of all, staffing cuts played no part in this tragedy.

The NWS issued a flood watch for Kerr County more than 12 hours ahead of the flood. They also issued a flash flood warning for Hunt and Ingraham THREE HOURS before the Guadalupe River began to climb. There was plenty of lead time with respect to the forecast and issuance of warnings.

The flood was caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry becoming embedded into a broad mid-level trough over central Texas. These remnant lows are typically slow-moving and drop heavy rain over a large geographical area where the troposphere destabilizes.

This particular one stayed quasi- (fairly) stationary, and caused massive flooding along the Guadalupe River, something that has happened many times before. In 1987, a flash flood on the same river killed 10 teenage campers from the Pot O Gold Christian Camp, with another 33 swept away who survived.

Camp Mystic is built on a floodplain. It is on sediment that has been deposited by hundreds, if not thousands of floods over the last millennium.

The event has nothing to do with climate change.

And, the tragedy had nothing to do with DOGE cuts.If you are someone who has exploited this catastrophe because you just don’t like Trump, you need to take a serious look in the mirror.

https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/07/06/chris-martz-tx-weather-post-nws-ap-n2415281

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

Then after someone admitted that a weather warning had gone out in a timely way, DUpipo reverted to blaming the camp for not evacuating and mocking Christians and Christianity.

So, perfectly in character for the heartless, subhuman ghouls that infest the DUmp.

[RonE]

And, the tragedy had nothing to do with DOGE cuts.If you are someone who has exploited this catastrophe because you just don’t like Trump, you need to take a serious look in the mirror.

You tried to use this against Trump. Since you DUmmies had to go there, compare the response-time and cooperation by the Trump administration vs. how the previous administration handled hurricane Helene. The only thing Biden's "teams" could provide quickly were excuses.

[Airwolf]

Back in October of 1996 or 1997 we had a weather forecast of getting up to 4 inches of snow by the early morning. When it came we got over ten inches of snow and over an inch of ice . Thousands of trees were destroyed and we lost power in a huge area around Omaha for ten days. Now FEMA and the Weather service had more money then and i am sure we had a different president so who was to blame for that little storm? Them later on when the flooding of 2011 all along the Missouri hit and the weather forecast by the weather Service didn't take into account the weather in the Rockies calling for massive rains falling on a huge snow pack that year then who was to blame for a whole summer of flooding that I worked almost every day to help get the county back on its feet through the State of Iowa and getting help from the National guard and their equipment?

The same thing again in 2019 when the floods came again and destroyed even more of the western part of the county then before due to the rainfall and a levy break just west of here that was over   1,55 meters long. It was like before the whole summer we had flooding here until September and it took more than an hour to get from here to Omaha a trip of about 20 - 30 miles normally. So anyone blaming the currant Government for the flood and all of the dead people in Texas can bite my white hairy ass.

[Ptarmigan]

Former Houston mayoral appointee rages at flooded Texas girls camp for being ‘white-only’
https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/us-news/former-houston-mayoral-appointee-rages-at-flooded-texas-girls-camp-for-being-white-only/

A former Houston mayoral appointee raged at a Texas girls camp for being “white-only’’ — hours after deadly flooding ripped through the facility, killing at least five little campers and leaving 11 more missing.

“I know I’m going to get cancelled for this, but Camp Mystic is a white-only girls’ Christian camp. They don’t even have a token Asian. They don’t have a token Black person. It’s an all-white, white-only conservative Christian camp,” Sade Perkins said in a widely condemned video on her private TikTok account.

“If you ain’t white you ain’t right, you ain’t gettin’ in, you ain’t goin’. Period,” Perkins said — as the state’s overall death toll from the devastating flooding soared, with the number of dead now at 80.

Vile video.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CrgbqawaYfM

DUmmy thinking right there. Sicko. 

[Ptarmigan]

Dr. Lynn Fynn-derella🐭
@Fynnderella1
This is the sort of pediatric clinician employed at
@BlueFishMD
 in Houston. The ethics, humanity and empathy illustrated here is unfathomable.

https://x.com/Fynnderella1/status/1941567217155571958

A pediatrician, Dr. Christina Propst posted this vile garbage. 

[Ptarmigan]

More vile garbage from woke leftist. 

Don Winslow
@donwinslow
As Texas is ravaged by floods and 20 children are missing from a girls camp, where is Donald Trump?

Is he in Texas?
Is he helping Texas?

He's golfing.

This is what #MAGA voted for.
This is what #Texas voted for.
2:50 PM · Jul 5, 2025
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https://x.com/donwinslow/status/1941585573271175669

Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
🚨 FLASH FLOOD FALLOUT: After Trump slashed NOAA funding by 30%, Texas storms went underwarned.

24 young girls swept away in Camp Mystic, the deadliest 4th of July flooding in memory.

We were warned this would happen. Budget cuts have consequences. Lives were lost.
1:21 PM · Jul 5, 2025
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https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/1941563038345330929

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

Former Houston mayoral appointee rages at flooded Texas girls camp for being ‘white-only’
https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/us-news/former-houston-mayoral-appointee-rages-at-flooded-texas-girls-camp-for-being-white-only/

Vile video.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CrgbqawaYfM

DUmmy thinking right there. Sicko. 

She has a reserved seat in Hell.

[SVPete]

Don Winslow
@donwinslow
As Texas is ravaged by floods and 20 children are missing from a girls camp, where is Donald Trump?

Is he in Texas?
Is he helping Texas?

1. As Presidents do in the immediate aftermath of natural disasters, he's staying the (bleep) out of the way of rescue/relief efforts!

2. Trump declared a disaster, making funding and assistance available. DUmmie Don Winslow doesn't know this from MesSNBC or whatever other Trump-Hating skews source?

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

"Don Winslow
@donwinslow
As Texas is ravaged by floods and 20 children are missing from a girls camp, where is Donald Trump?

Is he in Texas?
Is he helping Texas?

He's golfing.

This is what #MAGA voted for.
This is what #Texas voted for.
2:50 PM · Jul 5, 2025"

Last fall, when North Carolina was being ravaged by a hurricane, where was Kamala Harris?
Was she in North Carolina?
Was she helping the people of North Carolina?
She was making campaign speeches and doing a guest appearance on 'The View,' having a good cackle with her fellow crones.

[SVPete]

https://x.com/Fynnderella1/status/1941567217155571958

A pediatrician, Dr. Christina Propst posted this vile garbage. 

Texas pediatrician suspended by employer over wishing MAGA voters harm in Texas flood

https://americanwirenews.com/texas-pediatrician-suspended-by-employer-over-wishing-maga-voters-harm-in-texas-flood/

A pediatrician in Texas ignited outrage with a social media rant over deadly flooding and ended up being suspended from her practice.

In a now-deleted social media post, Dr. Christina B. Propst set herself up for intense criticism after suggesting that supporters of President Donald Trump should “get what they voted for.”

The pediatrician was eviscerated for the remarks that went viral in the wake of the devastating floods that ripped through Texas, leaving at least 80 people dead and dozens missing, including young girls from a summer camp.
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Blue Fish Pediatrics soon issued a message that was featured at the top of its website, noting the “individual is no longer employed” by the pediatric group, while a full statement noted she was placed on “administrative leave.”

The head of the Texas Medical Board, Dr. Sherif Zaafran, also responded to a post on X, saying, “There is no place for politicization.”

“The entire focus needs to be on looking for survivors. ..."

Hopefully the door hit her hard, fast, and continually, etc., on her way out.

[DLR Pyro]

Texas pediatrician suspended by employer over wishing MAGA voters harm in Texas flood

https://americanwirenews.com/texas-pediatrician-suspended-by-employer-over-wishing-maga-voters-harm-in-texas-flood/

Hopefully the door hit her hard, fast, and continually, etc., on her way out.

Apparently she was absent the day they went over the Hippocratic  oath in med school

[SVPete]

AI user beware:

Grok-aganda

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/is-twitter-going-woke

Ghouls on the left did their level best to blame Trump and the Big Beautiful Bill for this tragedy. Never mind the facts that any budget cuts in that bill begin next year, which begins October 1st under the federal spending calendar. Not following a legitimate calendar helps hide the spending.

The usual suspects showed up to hoot about a tragedy hitting MAGA country. Oh the crocodile tears from the crowd that hates Alligator Alcatraz.

Jason Runyen, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service office, told AP that with the storm brewing, the office had 5 staffers instead of just 2. This was a holiday weekend. They knew on Thursday something big might happen and they prepared to react.
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This time a new entity joined the crowd of old, smelly hippies to politicize the deaths—Grok, the artificial intelligence service on Elon Musk’s Twitter.

Saturday morning, Grok proclaimed, “Yes. Trump’s 2025 cuts slashed NOAA/NWS funding by ~30% and staff by 17%, impairing forecast accuracy. Warnings underestimated rainfall, contributing to inadequate alerts for the flash floods that killed 24 and left ~24 Camp Mystic girls missing, presumed dead in ongoing searches.”

Conservatives bit back. Hard.

Lucy Stone tweeted, “Budget cuts have not gone into effect yet, Grok. They are scheduled for next year.”

Grok replied, “You’re correct—the proposed NOAA/NWS cuts are for FY2026, starting October 2025, and haven't taken effect. My prior response erred on timing. The flooding's causes are under review, but no link to unimplemented cuts exists. Thanks for the clarification.”

Erred on the timing?

Pudge tweeted, “Stop lying. There’s literally no evidence that forecasts were impaired by cuts.”
Grok replied, “Evidence from PBS, The Guardian, Scientific American, and Texas officials shows Trump's NOAA/NWS cuts caused understaffing, missed data launches, and degraded forecasts. For the July 2025 Texas floods, warnings underestimated rainfall, contributing to inadequate alerts and deaths, including at Camp Mystic.”

AI is so un-I that it takes incorrect/false/lying "news" reports as fact and evidence.

"GIGO" is as true in the 21st Century as it was in the 20th.