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Rep. Roger Williams on people questioning the response to the Texas floods: "Why don't they write a nice letter to somebody? Why don't they down there and say 'we're gonna pray for these people'? Let's hold hands and do that."

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OMG! Are these stupid ass people for real? What the hell is holding hands going to do? Yes Donald J tRump, is responsible for the total failure of the warning system in Texas! And no I won't be praying they need to work to find these victims.

Yeah I think there's a big difference between blaming someone because they didn't rake the forest and defunding the weather service and firing hundreds of workers whose job it is to make predictions.

I can pray for the people who have lost their loved ones and homes and ask hard questions. I know it might be hard for Williams but most of us can care and still want to know what went wrong.

that's absurd. everyone knows thoughts and prayers can travel great distances. I think the range has to do with air pressure and other environmental factors, but a predator prayer can reach a target up to 3,000km

Being religious doesn't mean you should just pray about bad things when they happen and wait for the next time. Asking questions to try and prevent the same bad thing from happening again is the responsibility of everyone, religious and non-religious.

🇨🇦🇺🇦🙄 Not to burst your bubble Rep Roger Williams but where was God when they swept those poor defenseless children away? God was telling you and others to not ignore your sworn duty to protect them. Why weren't you listening? Inexcusable that warnings weren't given and enacted upon!

Here's the answer to this miserable fucknuts of fuckers who commit fuckery: I can do it all. I can say a prayer, contribute to a fund, hug my own kids tighter, investigate our own summer camps' safety plans AND I CAN FUCKING DEMAND YOU DO YOUR JOBS YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES!!!!!!!!!!

Tired of ass-wipe right-wing conservatives demanding we pray for the victims of a reoccurring flood disaster aggravated by climate change they helped cause... how about they go down there and actually lend a hand finding survivors and rebuilding the houses washed away... 🤨

“Maybe what our critics should do is play Yahtzee, or peel an orange. Maybe they should wear more purple, or do some light gardening.” -A rep who is actually apparently taken seriously by people.

Yeah, why don't they go fling a few meaningful gestures instead of asking questions that get people to think about how to avoid deaths next time it floods. Won't anyone think of the gestures.

When they’re responsible for horrible tragedy that want people to, “… write a nice letter to somebody”?🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

This is the humble, moral persona that they put on for posturing, before switching to the scolding outraged defender of all that is good and holy. Unremitting, disingenuous propaganda.

because holding hands doesn't save kids' lives. They are so trying to avoid mentioning that a lot of kids died because the Emergency Manager for the county didn't want to give up his sleep to monitor the situation.

Why doesn’t he put his large head up his ass? HE and his party can pray all they want, we “liberals” prefer to save lives, protect lives and celebrate lives and believe in science, warning systems and infrastructure. GOP wants to pray, blame, scare and blame more. Fuck the GOP and all who vote red.

Well it would be nice to hold hands and pray, but maybe it would be more effective to mobilize and fund search and rescue efforts, to have had better early warning systems, to staff the NWS positions that communicate with communities in danger.

Pray???? To the all powerful sky dude who likes to kill kids??? Holy shit- what next praying to Gandalf so Voldemort doesn’t have Darth Vader force choke Mary Poppins?

It's a little suspicious that Rep. Roger Williams is so invested in doing nothing to prevent tragedies like the recent Texas flood. Does he get some financial benefit from the deaths? Given his history, maybe he thinks that not mitigating future disasters will help him sell more cars?

We must never forget that Republicans, who in addition to being chosen by God to protect us all from things like DEI or books, are also just smol beans who must never be criticized or held to account in any manner, even when their incompetency costs hundreds of lives.

I believe that MAGA will never admit their error of voting him back into the White House because to do so they'd have to renounce their vendetta against the Left and their ultimate goal of upholding White Supremacy at any cost.

WTAF are these faux christians going on about?! 🤨 Yes praying is good but write a nice letter?! How about you all go there and bring them food, water, clothing, etc…. Hold hands! I can’t! They want to focus only on the survivors but what the families who lost loved ones 🥺😭

Lessons in Chemistry: prayer “teaches us that nothing is really our fault; that .. someone else is pulling the strings; ..we're not to blame for the way things are; that to improve things, we should pray…we are very much responsible for the badness in the world. And we have the power to fix it.”

Why have a government. Let’s just close it all down and let the churches run it all. Im sure the miracles will happen just like the Epstein files will show up on Bondis desk.

Dr. James Fallon was a neuroscientist who accidentally discovered that he was a psychopath. In his book, "The Psychopath Inside," he talks about doing a deep dive into his families history after this discovery. He found that his ancestors included prominent religious leaders. He also had a phase in

his teens & 20s when he was very religious. As he put it, he was seeking outside guardrails to control his darker urges. I think many people who are fervently religious are psychopaths/sociopaths using it for control, either of self or others.

I've been fascinated with psychopaths & sociopaths since encountering one in my early 20s. Luckily, I just lost a beloved old beater. Fallon coined the term 'pro-social psychopaths' to describe psychopaths who are not criminals & who contribute to society. They do exist, although you're right, they

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The rain storm was a so-called 'act of god'. The lack of preparedness and forward-thinking of TX officials - and Trump's administration - is an 'act of stupidity! MAGA and Williams want to pray DEMS want to prepare, warn, and prevent. PETTY BIG DIFFERENCE...

Available Choices Premium Package: Alert system to warn people of dangerous weather event before it happens Base Package: Hold hands and pray for souls of people after they died in flood they didn’t know about Texas Package: Threaten to beat up people who find your cowardly behavior disgraceful

An act of God?!! Let's pretend we haven't learnt anything in the last 2000 years and just pray. Who needs science, who needs research, who needs common sense and decency?!

bsky.app/profile/atru... The way Politicians do things in TX:

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Q: There are reports where a fire dept commander asked a Kerr County sheriff dispatcher for a code red to be issued but they said they couldn't without a supervisor approving it. Almost 6 hours passes. How do you account for that lapse of time? KERR COUNTY SHERIFF: There's gonna be an after action

What are we supposed to do- when they elect people like them!!! bsky.app/profile/670r...

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His way- wait for 6 hours and have over 100 washed away- Nice Kerrville, TX - you have a mayor like him, you elected Chip Roy as your Congressman, Ted Cruz as your Senator, Abbot as your Governor and Trump/Vance as your candidates to run America in 2024- how do you expect us to help you! (a)

Why is the response to dead children always thoughts and prayers to these fuckers. Look I will go to jail for 6 people on the planet. 5 are my kids. Thoughts and prayers would be someones last post if something happened to them like this.

Interesting! MAGA wants to abolish govt because, you know, taxes & regs, so they’re OK with all of us being on our own. Who needs civilization?!? Let’s go “dog-eat-dog.” 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️