Midnight Meme Of The Day! Don't Worry Texas, A Truckload Of Thoughts & Prayers Is Still On The Way!

Maybe Some Paper Towels, Too!! 

by Noah

One man stayed at his desk. The other man went golfing. Say what you want about Joe Biden but he did no harm to NOAA, the NWS, or FEMA. You can't stop a biblical flood but we used to have an actual warning and evacuation system, but, no, Trump and his team had to do away with those because they might save lives, even innocent lives, because creating opportunities for misery, grief, and death is always at the top of the Republican agenda right there along side of transferring wealth to Scumbag Billionaires and birthing new crypto schemes and scams.

The deliberate evil of Republican governance knows no bounds. Republicans make sure we have money for packing brown people into concentration camps but not to warn a girls summer camp of impending danger. In this case, there actually were warnings about the dangers of the monumental flood potential but the National Weather Service warnings never got to the people who needed them due to the DOGE cuts in personnel that were requested by Trump and backed by his donors and voters. Yep, elections have consequences so congratulations to republican voters for getting what they wanted. I'm sure they're waving their red hats and eagerly anticipating more of the same. Here's just part of what American historian Heather Cox Richardson wrote on Sunday:

July 6, 2025 (Sunday)

At least 80 people are dead and more than 40 are still missing in Central Texas after almost a foot (30 centimeters) of rain caused flash floods overnight on Friday. Most of the deaths were in Kerr County, where the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet (8 meters) in 45 minutes, engulfing a Christian girls’ camp.

Even as rescuers search for survivors, the disaster has highlighted the dangers of MAGA governance. The steps that left people in the path of the floods on Friday are unclear, but observers are already pointing to the administration's cuts to government as well as the lack of systems that could have provided earlier warnings to those in the path of the floods. 

Immediately after the catastrophe became apparent, Texas officials began to blame cuts to the National Weather Service (NWS)—part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—for causing inaccurate forecasts. The “Department of Government Efficiency” cut about 600 staffers from the NWS. After the cuts, the understaffed agency warned that “severe shortages” of meteorologists would hurt weather forecasting. 

All five living former directors of the NWS warned in May that the cuts “[leave] the nation’s official weather forecasting entity at a significant deficit…just as we head into the busiest time for severe storm predictions like tornadoes and hurricanes…. Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.”

But former NWS officials maintain the forecasts were as accurate as possible and noted the storm escalated abruptly. They told Christopher Flavelle of the New York Times that the problem appeared to be that NWS had lost the staffers who would typically communicate with local authorities to spread the word of dangerous conditions. Molly Taft at Wired confirmed that NWS published flash flood warnings but safety officials didn’t send out public warnings until hours later. 

The rest of Heather Cox Richardson's post is available on her Substack and Facebook pages, or you can simply google it. She gets into further detail about how this massive bit of governmental sociopathy came to be and it's well worth reading. Already the death toll just from this one incident is over 100. This tragedy is not merely a "God works in mysterious ways" thing. It's a "We're being governed by a cult of psychopaths" thing.