Tuesday Cartoons: Enough of these assholes.
Posted: July 8, 2025 Filed under: just because 12 Comments
Damn, all this shit is just too much for me…I can’t watch the news anymore, even Maddow on Mondays. So I will just share some BlueSky post and a few cartoons…
Trump is so full of shit.
This disaster in Texas is nothing new, it has happened before…and at a church campground no less.
And even with all this past flash flooding history, these people refused to implement a warning system.
Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System
From this gift link via the New York Times:
Kerr County had discussed buying such things as water gauges and sirens after previous flood disasters. But as with many rural Texas counties, cost was an issue.
Eight years ago, in the aftermath of yet another river flood in the Texas Hill Country, officials in Kerr County debated whether more needed to be done to build a warning system along the banks of the Guadalupe River.
A series of summer camps along the river were often packed with children. For years, local officials kept them safe with a word-of-mouth system: When floodwaters started raging, upriver camp leaders warned those downriver of the water surge coming their way.
But was that enough? Officials considered supplementing the system with sirens and river gauges, along with other modern communications tools. “We can do all the water-level monitoring we want, but if we don’t get that information to the public in a timely way, then this whole thing is not worth it,” said Tom Moser, a Kerr County commissioner at the time.
In the end, little was done. When catastrophic floodwaters surged through Kerr County last week, there were no sirens or early flooding monitors. Instead, there were text alerts that came late for some residents and were dismissed or unseen by others.
The rural county of a little over 50,000 people, in a part of Texas known as Flash Flood Alley, contemplated installing a flood warning system in 2017, but it was rejected as too expensive. The county, which has an annual budget of around $67 million, lost out on a bid at the time to secure a $1 million grant to fund the project, county commission meeting minutes show.
As recently as a May budget meeting, county commissioners were discussing a flood warning system being developed by a regional agency as something that they might be able to make use of.
But in a recent interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said that local residents had been resistant to new spending. “Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” he said, adding that he didn’t know if people might reconsider now.
If they didn’t make any changes in the situation before, do you think they will now? Remember after Newtown, they said all those children killed, surely they will make changes to gun laws now…
According to a transcript from a Kerr County Commissioners’ Court meeting in 2017, officials discussed how even with additional water level sensors along the Guadalupe River, the county would still need a way to alert residents if water levels were rising dangerously fast.
Sirens, which are used across Texas to alert residents about tornadoes, were considered by county officials as a way to alert people who live along the river about any flooding.
“With all the hills and all, cell coverage is not that great in some areas in Hill Country,” Mr. Moser said, adding that a series of sirens might have provided people in vulnerable areas sufficient time to flee.
Mr. Moser retired as a commissioner of Kerr County in 2021. But he said this week’s flooding there should be taken as a warning.
“I think there’s going to be a lot of places in the United States that will look at this event that happened in Kerr County and determine what could be done,” Mr. Moser said. “I think things should come out of this. It should be a lesson learned.”
It is always, a lesson learned…what a load of shit. Fuck these assholes. None of these dick whistle fuck wads give a shit.
Read the rest at the link.
Meanwhile in California:
This is all fucking disturbing.
More cartoons tomorrow…please be safe. This is an open thread.
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Here we go:
They are ghosting the Carolinas.
Fucking Ted Cruz:
Trump is all lies:
Check it out…they did put sirens in Comfort Tx:
We’re being ruled by shit-throwing howler monkeys.
A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials
The unknown individual contacted at least five government officials, including three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress, according to a State Department cable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/08/marco-rubio-ai-imposter-signal/
An impostor pretending to be Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress by sending them voice and text messages that mimic Rubio’s voice and writing style using artificial intelligence-powered software, according to a senior U.S. official and a State Department cable obtained by The Washington Post.
U.S. authorities do not know who is behind the string of impersonation attempts but they believe the culprit was probably attempting to manipulate powerful government officials “with the goal of gaining access to information or accounts,” according to a cable sent by Rubio’s office to State Department employees.
Using both text messaging and the encrypted messaging app Signal, which the Trump administration uses extensively, the impostor “contacted at least five non-Department individuals, including three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor, and a U.S. member of Congress,” said the cable, dated July 3.
It’s getting to the point where I’m speechless. Wonder if Patel knows he’s in over his head yet.
ICE Barbie Asks Social Media to Vote on Her Best Cosplay
Kristi Noem posted a series of portraits of herself as a cowgirl and asked fans to choose their favorite.
ICE Barbie’s not done playing dress-up.
In fact, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem loves her costumes so much that she’s asked her most loyal fans on Instagram to vote for their favorite depiction of Cowgirl Barbie riding a horse and sauntering off to save America from undocumented immigrants.
“Which one do you like for the official Governor’s portrait to hang in the South Dakota State Capitol?” she posted on Instagram Monday. “Thank you David Uhl!”
Each portrait showed different variations of Noem on horseback, wearing a Western-style get-up complete with a cowboy hat. The background shows the Great American West—including bison, rolling plains, and cumulus clouds.
I have pictures of me playing cowgirl too in front of an old black and white console while watching The Lone Ranger, but I in nursery school at the time.
Margaret Orr WDSU Chief Meteorologist Emeritus
WONDERFULNEWS! Mandonna Kashanian is released! Thank you for all of your letters. You made a difference!! WDSU News#nola
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ICE releases 64-year-old Iranian woman agents detained following US bombing of Iran
Neighbors’ glowing testimonials about Donna Kashanian helped get her case in front of DHS officials
A letter-writing campaign extolling Mandonna “Donna” Kashanian’s decades of community service and care for her neighbors in the quiet Lakeview section of the city helped get her case in front of top Trump administration officials, Kashanian’s neighbor and longtime friend Connie Uddo said.
“We got a little over 200 letters in just a week. People were calling constantly,” Uddo said. She said their congressman, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, “was inundated with phone calls and emails and said he had to take a look.” Scalise and his staff met with Kashanian’s family, researched her case and then got it to federal immigration officials.
Kashanian’s American husband of 35 years, Russ Milne, and their 32-year-old daughter, Kaitlynn, are now able to pick her up from an ICE center in Basile, three hours west of New Orleans and bring her home.
https://www.threads.com/@joyannreid/post/DL2U8bxs7L8
This regime is a human rights violator … somebody please call the Hague…
Heartbreaking video of a father being dragged off by ICE with his wife and two children saying good bye. He had legal status but Trump stripped him of it.