Sad news is still coming in about the July 4th Texas flooding that has left 130+ people dead and many still missing.
The Democrats are politicizing the tragedy, of course, grabbing for political traction by claiming that the federal response was slow and all but blaming President Trump for the storm itself.
They want us to believe that Trump’s DOGE staff cuts at the National Weather Service caused the storm warnings to be late or inadequate. They’re saying that weather reports didn’t accurately predict the intensity of the rainfall, but that would have been hard to do with water rising from hip height to the height of a three-story building in two hours. That comes into the category of a Storm of the little way to prepare for that.
The deluded Dems, who have had their blinders and earmuffs screwed firmly to their noggins to avoid reality since 2020, will believe that Donald Trump not only caused the Texas floods but has refused to help the victims, despite Texas Governor Abbot’s praise for the president’s intervention.
But I don’t think many reasonable people are listening to their accusations except the same ones who listened to the Democrats when they told us that Joe Biden was the greatest president in history, being “sharp as a tack” and all; that Kamala won her debate with Trump with no “help” from the mainstream media; that Hunter Biden did not bring his cocaine into the White House; that Joe’s economic plan was saving America from inflation.
The truth is that a disaster of this magnitude is difficult to predict, since it is obviously so different from what even seasoned forecasters expected, and weather, by its very nature is unpredictable. And it doesn’t matter how many forecasters the NWS hires, they won’t get it right every time. “Strong storms and heavy rain” were forecasted every day last week for our area, and we only got a drop at our house.
Mississippi knows about uncontrollable weather —that it can swat you even when you know it’s coming. We can get 10 warnings about an approaching tornado, but all we can do is crouch in the bathtub while it blows our houses away.
Katrina blew into our lives like that 20 years ago next month, and even though we got the warnings and prepared as well as we could, we couldn’t get ready for all that she brought. And here, as in Texas right now, the scope of the disaster made it hard to get help to people as fast as they needed it. Sorry, Dems, but nobody is to blame for that. It’s just reality. You should try a dose.
We 21st century human beings have become arrogant, so used to thinking we are all powerful and the technology we’ve created will protect us from all threats, that we make the mistake of believing that we control life.
There’s no room for a plain old accident in this scheme. Man got himself all educated and smart and is all-powerful on earth, so if something does go wrong, it must be someone’s fault. Someone failed to be perfect and must be blamed, judged guilty and ruined if possible! That’s why the Dems think we’ll swallow their claims that Trump caused the Texas floods — we’ll want someone to blame.
The world is under control, but man does not control it. Oh, we have some control over things like whether or not we will obey the law, whether we will lose or gain weight, whether and whom we will marry.
But most of the big things are out of our control. We can’t control when or where or to whom we are born. We can’t control history and most of its effects on our lives, and we can’t control the socio-economic patterns that determine most of how we will live.
Genetic engineering notwithstanding, we can’t control much about our IQ, our human nature or our predisposition toward certain health or physical issues. We can’t control whether or not we’re going to die.
And we can’t control the weather, for all the Democrats’ assertion that Trump should have.
In fact, we are not in control at all. A Sovereign God controls what happens here, though most of the world’s population refuses to understand or accept that fact. Man, controlled by his human nature, hates the idea that there is a God at all and works to keep the reality of God from surfacing. Every once in awhile, though, God allows something to happen that shows us how little sway we have over anything. The plan is that maybe we’ll turn to Him and live under His control.
In the meantime, we’ll just have to sit back and listen to the Dems raving away about Trump and the Republicans causing the Texas floods until they get tired of that and something else sets them off.
I guess Trump still has time to cause a drought this summer.
