People who lost everything describe leaving homes and express anger at poor preparedness and officials who seemed to shirk responsibility
As Texas marshals a formidable response to the flash floods that have already killed dozens, questions are now being posed about warnings that were given on Thursday and early Friday about the severity of the approaching storm and the co-ordination between local officials and the National Weather Service.
New flood alerts were issued for Texas “hill country” on Sunday, prompting rescue services to suspend the search for missing people, including at least 11 from Camp Mystic, the summer camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River hard hit by Friday’s flash flood.
At an early evening press briefing, Kerr county authorities said they were suspending the search and evacuating first responders from the river valley. They confirmed that 68 had died there, including 28 children. Not all have been identified, with officials still examining the bodies of 18 adults and 10 children.
What do Republicans (fascists) actually want or even do? Besides raising taxes, expanding military budget, war, dismantling institutions and programs, and rounding up immigrants. Crazy people vote for them, they literally dismantle everything to line their pocketbooks. They have no actual policy.
Furthermore, they don’t think there is anything you can do about weather/climate change, school and mass shootings, housing, education, healthcare, etc. Anytime some major event or catastrophe happens… “these things just happen, nothing you can do about it! Thoughts and prayers! Let’s not make it political.”
And then we just move on, with no actions being taken at all while everything around us just gets worse. Yes you CAN do things to help mitigate weather disasters and school shootings and all the rest. If they don’t think there is a way why are they in leadership positions? That’s the hypocrisy.
Republican ideology is hierarchical. There is the bottom layer of voters who votes for Republican politicians because of bigotry and hatred. Thenre there is the upper layer which consists of Republican politicians who uses bigotry to convincing ignorant morons to vote for them so they can grift in peace (and let their oligarch buddies grift alongside them).
So it depends on who you ask in this hierarchy. The bottom rung wants outgroups to suffer, because they think that means they will not suffer. The upper rung just wants to grift, and ignorant bigoted voters lets them do that. Undermining democracy, faking elections and disenfrachising political opponents of course lets them grift for much longer, so authoritarianism is a natural outcome of this.
To be feared. To exercise each and every whim with absolute authority and no consequences.
Outside of that, the usual. Chicks, football, cocaine, whoopin’ and a-hollerin’.
They want to own everything, even the people.
Theyre living in their power fantasy and are willing to destroy everything to gain more of it.