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Flooded Texas County Turned Down Funds for Warning System From Biden Admin in 2021: 'We Don't Want to Be Bought'

www.latintimes.com

A Texas county devastated by deadly flooding earlier this month rejected federal funds in 2021 that could have helped install a flood warning system, with local officials and residents arguing they didn't want to be "bought" by the Biden administration.

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"We don't want to be bought by the federal government, thank you very much," a resident said. "We'd like the federal government to stay out of Kerr County and their money."
While the county ultimately kept the funds, they allocated the majority, about $8 million, to sheriff's department upgrades and public employee stipends
I... what? "We don't want your stinking money. We'll still take it tho... We just won't spend it on what we said we would. That'll show you dumb idgits!"
- This is extremely common rightoid behavior, even at a personal level.
  Make a big outward show of being independent, self-made, wholly responsible for your own success...
  ... and the reality almost always is that this person is in fact getting subsidies or assistance or help from a wealthy friend or family member, but, they're lying about this, and very often mismanaging the money, which is 'ok' in their minds, because 'nobody knows' that money even exists.
  ...
  Every Republican voter who is on welfare, but hates everyone else on welfare.
  Every Republican business owner who gloats about being successful all thanks to themselves publically, but privately, amongst close friends, laughs about how good they are at manipulating their taxes or legal business structure so that they can get as many tax breaks and subsidies as possible.
  Or, the 'dumbass' variant of that:
  I'm a big tough hard blue collar worker who works real hard and real tough, and thats the right way to have a life and make a living... wait, what? That only even kind of works if the corporation I work for gets massive tax breaks and subsidies, or my own company gets tons of Federal grants and subsidies and tax breaks directly? I thought that was the free market?!
  Also every 'entrepreneur wunderkid' story that ultimately boils down to: daddy gave me a whole lot of money and also knew a whole bunch of key figures in relevant industries.
  ... every mega church pastor that is very obviously fleecing their impoverished flock, but claims that they are so wealthy because god loves them so much.
  ... every rightwing raido talkshow host / podcaster who gloats about how successful their business is, but never mentions that they get a massive, stupidly large amount of money from wealthy right wing individuals and/or lobbying groups/think tanks... or by selling scam health products, scam financial products, etc... or, more recently, just literally gets directly funded by Russia's FSB.
  ...
  It is literally a core tenet of being a Republican that you lie and gaslight about where your money comes from, or at bare minimum be just actually so stupid that you don't even realize where your money comes from, so I guess those ones arguably not intentionally lying... they're just actually too stupid to be trusted with any kind of non rote task.
  Like it is essentially impossible to be a Republican and not do this. Its a fundamental aspect to their personalities.
  Hence why it is just a social faux pas to even have a frank and transparent discussion about finances with them, and why they get so blustered snd indignant when the idea of 'fiscal responsibility' is applied onto them, instead of just projected outward as a demeaning attack on everyone else.
  Thats my 2 cents anyway, from having grown up in a rightoid, fundamentalist family. Of course this behavior is not unique to Republicans, but it is essentially a mandatory requirement of being a Republican.
  
  Well said. I also grew up in a ‘rightoid’ family and can confirm.
  I would also add that they tend correlate wealth as a sign of intelligence and hold wealthy people in the highest esteem.
  They also try to emulate wealthy people via conspicuous consumption, creating an outward illusion of wealth and success. I have a family member on section 8 who buys luxury goods to lord their ‘success’ over their friends and neighbors. It’s absolutely mind blowingly insane.
- It would be really swell if those people would then blame the correct persons or instances... but you just know they're going to blame the dems or the libs or w/e. Post-truth society and all that.
  
  truth
  We don't take kindly to your kind around here
  skeeter from south park
- They don't want federal money...
  Where exactly do they think money comes from in the first place?
  
  Blue states, mostly.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Ko8Ti1_JY
While the county ultimately kept the funds, they allocated the majority, about $8 million, to sheriff's department...
Is that the same sheriff's department that didn't send the flood warning when asked to do so?
- I'm sure the good ol' boy had his reasons. We should just trust in him and Jesus. And give him another $10 million.
  
  The sad part is this is how the Biden administration actually thought. They could have restricted these funds from being wasted on stupid bullshit but instead did the moderate Dem thing and just let douchebag Republicans do whatever the hell they want so they could campaign on how bipartisan they were. At the end of the day, nobody in a position of power gave a shit about the safety of these people.
While the county ultimately kept the funds, they allocated the majority, about $8 million, to sheriff's department upgrades and public employee stipends.
So they decided fraud was better than safety.
- $8 million grifted away while the bad actors beat their chests for the rubes
- Did they try shooting the flood?
- We need cops to keep us safe!
I remember this happening. I remember thinking "who the fuck is trying to buy you? These are your tax dollars." I remember realizing that the problem was giving Biden the W.
Perhaps from their high moral ground, God can hear them asking what part of his plan this is.
When I was in elementary school back in the 1900s, I went to a friend's house in Kerrville. My parents made me promise that I wouldn't tell anyone that I'm Jewish. The old freethinker German towns around San Antonio are such weird, corrupt, stupid places.
- If these people had a moral high ground, they would’nt’ve been swept away by the floods.
  
  They needed actual high ground...
- Im from that region of Texas. Fuck em and their stupidity.
- If only those kids could have made it to the MAGAt moral high ground, they would have lived, lol
It's too bad children had to lose their lives to their parent's Maga bullshit.
- MAGA children usually grow up to be MAGA adults
  
  You're spectacularly wrong there. It's like anything else. Sometimes kids turn out to be clones of their parents, sometimes they turn into the opposite, or even something better. Pretty shitty mindset.
  Either way, I hope you don't cut yourself on that edge.
  
  Not saying your wrong, but I am one who did not.
  
  Assuming they survive that long.
Didn't want to be bought - got sold out
- Sold out the children, as is tradition.
Got owned by refusing to be "bought".
THouGhtS aNd PrAyERs.
“We OwNeD tHe LiBs!!1!”
The extend of what rightwingers do to "own the libs" in the US always amazes me.
Maybe the Democrats should just make an event like "We don't jump off the cliff!" and see what GOP fans will do to "own them".
- Dying from a perfectly preventable disease by not taking a vaccination, to own the libs. Dying from a natural disaster from which you could have escaped to own the libs. Dying from all sorts of reasons, just to own the libs.
  It is a shame that there seemingly is an endless supply of these hateful morons, because even with all the dying they still manage to control the US politically.
  
  Indeed. With them being such a death cult, you can expect them to be extinct in the near future. The problem is that they are determined to take the rest of the world with them.
Looks like they let their hubris let them be owned.
"I'm not getting bought by your anti-leopard face shields! Long live leopards!"
WHOOPS
A ROFL inducing development 🤣
This Texas county, after they "own the libs"
Nor sold down the river either.
Good, Israel desperately needs that money.

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