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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/white-house-blasts-idea-that-trumps-cuts-contributed-to-texas-flooding-death-toll

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the local and federal weather services provided sufficient warnings to the Kerr County community before the floods.

“That was an act of God. It’s not the administration’s fault that the flood hit when it did, but there were early and consistent warnings and, again, the National Weather Service did its job”

Leavitt said. She outlined that on July 3, the NWS office in Austin-San Antonio conducted briefings for local officials and issued a flood watch in the early afternoon. That was followed by numerous flood warnings on the night of July 3 and in the pre-dawn hours of July 4, giving a lead time of three hours before the flash flood. In response to a subsequent question about the warnings and why they were issued when people were likely asleep, Leavitt repeated that the offices were fully staffed.

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[–] MoreLikeHazBeen@hexbear.net 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

"blasts"!? rebukes! dismisses!

jesus christ all journalists into the wood chipper until they stop doing this shit

[–] hankthetankie@hexbear.net 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I guess god hates theUS. The effects of any natural disasters is how society handles it. Or it is just that god loves Cuba.

[–] OptimusSubprime@hexbear.net 29 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

God, according to WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt:

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 16 points 15 hours ago

most honest kkkristian.

who sent the fucking storm? honk

[–] Bolshechick@hexbear.net 44 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think the US should launch a retaliatory airstrike against God to restore deterence

[–] neroiscariot@hexbear.net 22 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

We need plucky Japanese teenagers to even contemplate such an attack

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

You mean emotionally damaged Japanese teenagers with attachment issues, right?

shinji-jokerfied

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And a deadbeat father who's got no qualms about sending his only son to war in a robot made of his dead wife

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 11 points 12 hours ago

Don't forget the oceans worth of tasty orange Tang!

[–] newacctidk@hexbear.net 15 points 14 hours ago

Straight up what they said after the Vajont Dam disaster

A mysterious act of God's love

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 13 points 14 hours ago

Plagues and floods.

They're engineering biblical events for the average Amerikkkan fascist.

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 28 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

God hates kids, apparently.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 15 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Kids: Hey old man, you're bald, and you're mad

Old man: I'm not malding, you're malding

God: Here are some bears

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 17 hours ago

Many such cases

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 8 points 15 hours ago

juvenile leukemia wasn't enough of a hint?

[–] neroiscariot@hexbear.net 30 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You see what GOD did to us maaaan?

God didn't do that. Your a god damned narcotics agent!

[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 42 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

god said fuck those ~~80~~ 100 (and counting) people in particular I guess shrug-outta-hecks

this is all so disgusting, fuck this country

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 33 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

smuglord But I thought saving Trump to be president and thus his administration was an Act of God.

Trump says maybe God saved him from assassination attempt to fix ‘broken country'

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 23 points 18 hours ago

/ourguy/ God is an L/accelerationist

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 21 points 17 hours ago

Maybe God is punishing them for their sinful NWS cuts? thonk

[–] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 15 hours ago

Vishnu, "I sent out warnings, but no one in Texas would listen."

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 21 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"Act of God" is a commonly used term in amerikkka to describe freak weather events or environmental catastrophies such as being destroyed by lightning, a tornado, an earthquake, a wildfire, etc. You'll commonly see it in the terms and conditions for, say, auto insurance.

They aren't literally saying "God did this!"

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 37 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

They are kinda saying it though

[–] tricerotops@hexbear.net 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

it's a euphemism, like saying "the birds in the bees" when really they mean S * X. Do birds have s*x with bees?

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 7 points 10 hours ago

Not all idioms are euphemisms, the expression is "the birds and the bees," and the suggested narrative of that idiom is not interspecial sex.

In modern English, "act of God" to refer generically to natural disasters is a "term of art" (a sort of jargon) used in legal contexts to insinuate not being liable, but I don't think they are facing legal action to start with even in a case where they fully admit fault, because fault is not the same as liability if you aren't obliged to prevent something. They are using the term with a meaning that is legible to its normal use, but outside of the normal legal utility, so I believe it is reasonable to conclude that they really do want to involve the idea of God even if they aren't going as far as making a fully theological argument regarding the disaster. Hence "kinda."

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 15 points 17 hours ago

So they had a 3 hour warning window, what is a normal warning time?

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 10 points 16 hours ago

god hired DEI guardian angels

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 25 points 19 hours ago

Feeling like their going to use this as the justification to go full hog now on destroying the nws and privatizing everything to some shitty subscription based app.

[–] derry@midwest.social 23 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

So God is punishing Texas then? Right if it's an act of God, couldn't be have stopped it?

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 39 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It's the cultural root of a lot of neoliberal ideology, that the world is full of victims without corresponding perpetrators. Everything bad in society (that can't be blamed on foreigners, queers, communists, etc.) is like bad weather, it's a shame that it happens but it's no one's fault. But even our response to the weather itself can and should be understood as part of the priorities of the powers that be, and there are real systems of perpetrators that need to be dealt with (DOGE being the relevant example here).

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 28 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Neoliberalism solidarity Passive Voice

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 19 points 17 hours ago

a deity-involved flooding

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Punishing them for electing Donald trump it seems

[–] qbduubdp@hexbear.net 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Could we not be like this. Those kids didn't vote for anyone.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 13 points 16 hours ago

Its making fun of the twisted logic, not saying that the kids deserved to die.