Well said.

Long overdue.

When an operation goes wrong in the military and soldiers die. Will they not examine every facet of the engagement, tearing it down trying to improve their actions and protect them from further losses? But Republicans true to trump form. youtu.be/5Cs_1iYWIhI?...

Also, it's going to be the first of many tragedies. All of which the trump goons will lie about and deflect

Quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, it's a rapist-racist-felon-orange-authoritarian-turd.

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It’s necessary to acknowledge when bad policy or failures of governance cause/worsen tragedies.To ignore causes it to continue! It’s not disrespectful to those who tragically lost their lives to investigate what happened, try to prevent future suffering/deaths, and to hold people accountable.

Outstanding

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like Afghanistan withdrawal??

Trump screwed that up.

MAGA propagandists don't care what non-MAGAs think or say. And most media are Rght Wng & only give MAGA views. But there is a way to put their lies to bed. We know how. We've already done it. Military did it in foreign wars. Nonprofit orgs cd do it now Here it is: upine.medium.com/time-to-solv...

Conservatives are very ironic when they accuse others of "politicizing" .... LOL

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Did you know that one of your books got banned in Tennessee?

I think we need to make sure the families of those who died know where to place their blame and rage.

On themselves for voting for these people. Then the people they voted for

I feel the same but they still need to hold the people they voted for accountable. To be real, this is the American way pretty much all over. We must suffer before changing. It's 250 years of history.

*they are also the people

Oh yes they SHOULD. But they are also the Poole that live in places that refused “ blue” money and voted for the current destruction we are having in our country AND WOULD DO SO AGAIN. Too often we blame representatives for the people they represent. Voters need to take responsibility

I agree and to me, holding their reps responsible means they realized they fucked up and expect change. I think people who won't take accountability will blame the Democrats or anyone but their own leadership and themselves. That just my take.

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Nailed it

Cause and effect😡

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School shootings are due to bad policy. Systemic racism is due to bad policy. Generational poverty is due to bad policy. Look at any extended tragedy and there is a bad policy that not just allows it, but sustains it.

why on Earth Must you Politicize the political? you'll Never make it to Full Citizenship with That kinda attitude not while Cadet Bonespurs is In Charge.

The first two are partially due to decisions on how they obtain and keep power. Little has been done on school shootings or racism because gun owners vote and because encouraging racism motivates. The first two were partly to win. The third is a result of tax cuts. Those cost money.

Basically, when productivity keeps improving yet money keeps flowing upward, with the people owning less and less, yet doing more and more of the work, well, that is not government working for the people. It is government working against them, thanks to Republicans.

Government policy is the most destructive.

No, there are government doing well for their people. Ours just isn't one of them.

The both have the Greek root 'poli' which means 'many'. 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪tician: The one who is given a representative voice by the many. 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪cy: What that one voice than shoves down the throats of the many.

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YES.....lets!

They fall into 2 camps, 2 stupid to understand (Fox News viewers)OR they are part of the grift & DON’T care cuz they know they have no logical rebuttal. The right have no defense that’s why their rebuttals are always previously presented left points. Like calling us fascists or hating America. 😂

Excellently worded!

“You shouldn’t politicise a tragedy” says group constantly responsible for tragedies.

Important to remember: the same people pearl-clutching about "politicizing disasters" and who unleashed a firestorm of shitposting if Biden/Buttigieg if didn't visit disasters immediately to avoid impacting relief efforts are strangely silent about Trump waiting a week to visit Texas flash floods

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Fact

Abbott called for a special gerrymandering session before people even stopped dying. He literally "politicized" it before anyone else.

Especially when the Biden Administration gave them the money for the flood warning system and they gave the money to their police department instead!!

Problem is, they have no sense of logic, the whole A leads to B leads to C thing, their thinking is more of an explosion in a custard factory...

If we aren't allowed to discuss things, how will anything broken get fixed? I swear, it's that whole generation of people; lazy as fuck, just want to put their heads in the sand and throw money at their problems. #MagaAreLazy

You’d think it would, Mr. Takei…

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The MAGAts will always favor conspiracy theories over data driven science. Again I’m hearing that “the Democrats are controlling the weather” and various baseless assertions of cloud seeding.

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Also: We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can grieve a person or persons AND look at the systemic negligence that led to their deaths.

VERY, VERY TRUE!!! And it's also not "politicizing" when the tragedy is the result of failure to comply with law and policy!

Or political revenge.

100%

So true!

If your kid drowned and now you learn the camp appealed the designation of a flood zone…

Is this a for-profit camp? Sue the owners for so much THEY'll be living in tents year round!

Tell that to the Republicans.. Making EVERYTHING political is their scapegoat.

Hello, tell the truth to shame the craven, hateful Maga politicians who thrive on lies and misinformation. Call each one out loudly and shame the pandering Corp Media who are ok with little white kids dying to prove a political idealogy is right or OK. All kids die under the boot of Maga politicians

Can you imagine if this had happened while Biden was president, and his head of FEMA simply vanished into thin air? www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

People at fault will say the damnedest things to deflect responsibility‼️

New frontiers in stupid.

Laws don’t matter either, apparently. www.cbsnews.com/news/pam-bon...

We conduct post-response assessments, and there are good reasons we call this phase a 'postmortem.' We rip our responses apart and look for failures today so we can improve. That isn't "politicising" anything. It's a solid, evidence-driven procedure. On a state level, this is no different...

...and as we can see with past disaster responses in Texas, a refusal to acknowledge that failures occurred and working to mitigate them sets one up to stagnate into a pattern of systemic incompetence. And the cost for that is paid in innocent lives. Passing on solid, evidence-driven...

...disaster management methodology and preparedness should never, *ever* be anything that a state should be allowed to consider. They have a duty of care to their citizenry - all their citizenry, irrespective of background or personal attributes.

very bad policy

Accountability is needed.

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That's because it was due to Climate Change. No warning. What if next time it is the Chinese army attacking on US soil?

Contributed yes, but the warnings didn’t go out to people for several reasons. Largely due to cuts from recent “policy”. They knew the weather was going to hit like this hours before.

The State Government had the ability to send the alert to every mobile phone in the state but didn’t❗️ Government officials on every level don’t get a pass on shirking their responsibilities to fellow Texans❗️ Tell me the worst thing if the alert went out, but the alarm was overkill❓

Best way to honor the memory of the victims of a tragedy is to figure out how to prevent the next one. First step to that is asking what went wrong.

This is the result of bad faith "don't talk about politics in polite company" or "don't make things political". We need to have honest discussions about policy and the philosophies underpinning them.

Amen to that

Or perhaps, No Policy!

These are the same people that consistently politicized the California wildfires. Just straight tell them to STFU.

“Bad policy” is just another way of saying “grift and theft by the rich.”

Since we are SELF-GOVERNED anything we do is "politicized"!!!! This is how we have chosen to make decisions.

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They hate it when you point out where they failed

And, where they successfully get exactly what they want and it kills people.

It won't kill very many wealthy Americans though. Just working class & middle class.

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The GOP looks like Alien. Now THAT'S irony!

Trump seems to have no end of capacity for stupidity. I think he’s a treasonous monster who works for Putin. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

yes indeed

Indeed. Also - it is already forgotten. We need real time responses to GOP malfeasances and awful/destructive/murderous policies.

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Are American journalists EVER gonna push back when the mango moron abuses them for asking a fair and just question? It's pathetic and abusive.