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.
I think the US should launch a retaliatory airstrike against God to restore deterence
We need plucky Japanese teenagers to even contemplate such an attack
and a giant robot
And a deadbeat father who’s got no qualms about sending his only son to war in a robot made of his dead wife
Don’t forget the oceans worth of tasty orange Tang!
You mean emotionally damaged Japanese teenagers with attachment issues, right?
God, according to WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt:
most honest kkkristian.
who sent the fucking storm?
god said fuck those
80100 (and counting) people in particular I guess
this is all so disgusting, fuck this country
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’
/ourguy/ God is an L/accelerationist
God hates kids, apparently.
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
Many such cases
juvenile leukemia wasn’t enough of a hint?
You see what GOD did to us maaaan?
God didn’t do that. Your a god damned narcotics agent!
“blasts”!? rebukes! dismisses!
jesus christ all journalists into the wood chipper until they stop doing this shit
editors write headlines, not journalists or “journalists”.
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.
I guess god hates theUS. The effects of any natural disasters is how society handles it. Or it is just that god loves Cuba.
Maybe God is punishing them for their sinful NWS cuts?
“Act of God” is a commonly used term in
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!”
They are kinda saying it though
it’s a euphemism, like saying “the birds in the bees” when really they mean S * X. Do birds have s*x with bees?
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.”
So God is punishing Texas then? Right if it’s an act of God, couldn’t be have stopped it?
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).
Neoliberalism
Passive Voicea deity-involved flooding
Punishing them for electing Donald trump it seems
Could we not be like this. Those kids didn’t vote for anyone.
Its making fun of the twisted logic, not saying that the kids deserved to die.
Straight up what they said after the Vajont Dam disaster
A mysterious act of God’s love
Plagues and floods.
They’re engineering biblical events for the average Amerikkkan fascist.
So they had a 3 hour warning window, what is a normal warning time?
