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Malicious critics are scrambling to blame Trump for the deadly Texas floods
New York Post ^ | July 7, 2025 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 07/08/2025 2:28:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Donald Trump has been accused of many outlandish things, but killing children with flash floods has to be among the worst. The first reflex of his critics was to blame him for the appalling tragedy in central Texas, where a flood on July 4 killed more than 100 people, including over two dozen children at a Christian summer camp.

This is one of the deadliest floods in the United States in the last 100 years, and the toll among kids is a particular gut punch. It’s natural that observers will ask how it could have happened, but the fact-free, malicious attacks constitute one of the more poisonously stupid episodes of the Trump years — and that’s saying a lot.

The theory here is that Elon Musk’s chainsaw cuts to the National Weather Service gutted the agency, with catastrophic consequences. See, Trump’s adversaries say, we told you DOGE would get people killed.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
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These are crazy arguments. Does anyone remember when hurricane Katrina happened, the left was saying he put nukes on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to trigger the hurricane, or he had some kind of weather ray?
1 posted on 07/08/2025 2:28:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I remember the Dims all but blaming Bush for creating Hurricane Katrina and steering it towards minorities in New Orleans.


2 posted on 07/08/2025 2:32:03 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: nickcarraway

There is nothing Trump did at all that was responsible for this tragedy….besides straight up banning folks from camping in areas like this, I cant see a realistic was to absolute prevent it….they will always be sitting ducks under severe condition like this. There were warnings and alerts…there was not short staffing at weather services…. . Folks there just didn’t think it would be them…..so they tried to ride it out. Not even sure they wouldve had the time to get out anyways. Sad story…. Wont be the last time alot of folks perish at the hands of mother nature.


3 posted on 07/08/2025 2:35:17 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Tell It Right

Liberals are not only stupid but they’ve totally lost what shred of mental acuity they ever had. Maybe from pounding their heads on the wall when Trump was elected..


4 posted on 07/08/2025 2:36:54 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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To: nickcarraway

Two CNN dildoes with dead batteries tried to start some crap at the press conference today. They wanted somebody to blame. A couple pixies names Shimon Prokupecz (Needs to see Vanna for a couple vowels and a real low life named Isabel Rosales. Real scum. They were looking for somebody to nail to a tree. I watched on FNC. Lt. Col. Ben Baker (TX Game Wardens) had smoke coming out of his ears and read these two News Chimpanzees the Genghis Khan riot act. Cheers for the LTC. I stood up in the middle of my living room yelling, cheering and screaming. It was good to see these far left kooks get an ass kicking. Way to go LTC Baker!


5 posted on 07/08/2025 2:37:07 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: Tell It Right

If I am not mistaken, it was actually worse in Mississippi, in non-minority areas, but that was never reported.


6 posted on 07/08/2025 2:37:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: FlingWingFlyer

BTW: CNN sucks. (the Chimp News Numbskulls).


7 posted on 07/08/2025 2:38:56 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: nickcarraway

Yet Biden was perfect when a hurricane caused floods in east NC and killed over 100.

These jerks should be shot.


8 posted on 07/08/2025 2:43:36 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: nickcarraway

Just hope there are no big earthquakes.


9 posted on 07/08/2025 2:53:09 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: Veto!

It was not the recent vindication of Trump, through the re-election of Trump to the Presidency of the United States, that destroyed the mental acuity and rational thinking of the liberals, they never had much to begin with, and they had lost it all long before they began pounding their heads against the walls.

Donald Trump is not a divine personage at all, he is only the instrument through which the Lord has chosen to extend His will. As such, the act of God that sent the flood surging down through the Guadalupe River flood plain was a test, and Trump’s critics have failed that test miserably. They have assigned blame where none exists, using a sort of magical thinking in place of logic and observation of their own senses. Given the physics involved, nothing could have stopped or delayed that implacable force of the flood, and the destruction in its wake. It is for men to pick up any scattered debris and sacrificed bodies, and attempt to reclaim what was once there.


10 posted on 07/08/2025 3:00:45 PM PDT by alloysteel (Try to understand, God is not finished with me yet. Still lots of room for improvement.)
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To: alloysteel

Title should be: TDS sufferers grasping at staws!”


11 posted on 07/08/2025 3:17:32 PM PDT by aklurker
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To: nickcarraway

The left thinks Trump was is a GOD who controls the weather;-)


12 posted on 07/08/2025 3:18:28 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK of !US:-)p)
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To: nickcarraway

We had some relatives caught up in the Big Thompson canyon flash flood in 1976.
They narrowly escaped in their camper by one of them walking the road ahead in knee deep water with a light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Big_Thompson_River_flood

Natural disasters are going to happen.
All we can do is monitor the situation as best we can and get out of the way.


13 posted on 07/08/2025 3:18:40 PM PDT by Blueway
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To: nickcarraway

NY Post printed the COVID LIES!


14 posted on 07/08/2025 3:36:28 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: nickcarraway

***This is one of the deadliest floods in the United States in the last 100 years,***

So soon they have forgotten the Big Thompson Flood of 1976. 144 people dead.


15 posted on 07/08/2025 4:17:52 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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It was a freak weather event. The system stalled, dumped masses amounts of rain in the middle of the night. The water rose 26 feet in a very short time. No one could have predicted this. Mother nature is not predictable many times. This was one of those. If flooding of this nature was common, no one would camp there or anything else.


16 posted on 07/08/2025 4:29:50 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: nickcarraway

Ghouls.


17 posted on 07/08/2025 5:50:15 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: nickcarraway

Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and well still.


18 posted on 07/08/2025 8:04:15 PM PDT by gildafarrell (e)
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To: MrRelevant
Hurricane Ian killed 150 people in the Fort Myers area in 2022.
No One said Boo about Biden being the problem.
Or the NHC or NOAA or FEMA not doing their job and failing to predict the landfall until it was too late.
CNN, the least trusted name in news.
19 posted on 07/08/2025 8:51:01 PM PDT by Waverunner (Torah! Torah! Torah! my favorite IDF radio code.)
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