Spurs response to the Hill Country flooding

[FkLA]

Houston Texans: $500k
Dallas Cowboys: $500k
George Straight: $3.5 million
HEB: already sending caravans of aid
San Antonio Spurs: thoughts and prayers

I'll continue to update as more pro teams and major players step up while SS&E sit around twiddling their thumbs.

[FkLA]

NFL foundation: $500k
USAA: $500k
San Antonio Food Bank: sending aid

[FkLA]

https://i.imgur.com/sgihwVY.png

[Dod01]

Is it a requirement that the Spurs announce they are providing help to this disaster?

[Chinook]

It's possible HEB is sending those packages because they got money from organizations like the Spurs to do so. At the same time, it would be a departure from the previous strategy to not announce something if they were doing it. Even if they were only motivated by trying to help people, it's bad PR to seem like you're doing nothing, and that is bad for community engagement. There's a difference between making a statement that you're sending money and making a scene in the disaster zone trying to score PR points.

[Mr. Body]

US government: $0

[Mr. Body]

Where is FEMA?

Oh, that's right, Kristi Noem appropriated all their funds to build concentration camps in Florida.

[Mr. Body]

Where is the Texas government?

Oh, that's right, on crusades against marijuana, making women's health illegal, and making it illegal for construction workers to get water during 100 degree weather.

[Mr. Body]

Man, it would be stupid to donate money to this situation unless you know it's another 'donation' to our Holy Fuhrer.

There's absolutely no reason to suspect any aid is getting to people and not to Mar-a-Lago.

[ZeusWillJudge]

Where is FEMA?

Oh, that's right, Kristi Noem appropriated all their funds to build concentration camps in Florida.


You total piece of dog s**t. The bodies aren't even accounted for, you know NOTHING about what was or was not done. There's a man and his wife who use to work for a SA investment firm who are still missing. And you want to score political points? F you and the wh**res you rode in on.

[Mr. Body]

You total piece of dog s**t. The bodies aren't even accounted for, you know NOTHING about what was or was not done. There's a man and his wife who use to work for a SA investment firm who are still missing. And you want to score political points? F you and the wh**res you rode in on.

Hey motherfucker, FEMA doesn't exist, motherfucker. The Texas leg has known this is a problem for over a decade now and has done motherfucking nothing about it, motherfucker, and Trump has destroyed any early warning systems for weather we have, motherfucker.

You fucking useless MAGA twats, you got drowned bodies on your hands. Motherfucker. It's all on you.

[Mr. Body]

You don't get to fuck up the entire country then lecture us on when's not the right time to point out how you've fucked up absolutely everything. There's going to be much, much more blood on your hands, motherfucker, and it's all Donald Trump, all GOP, and all MAGA, mother fucker, and now is exactly the time to talk about it, motherfucker.

[TekXX]

You total piece of dog s**t. The bodies aren't even accounted for, you know NOTHING about what was or was not done. There's a man and his wife who use to work for a SA investment firm who are still missing. And you want to score political points? F you and the wh**res you rode in on.

Whores you rode in on?

[FkLA]

https://media.tenor.com/xGB7zdRcoQoAAAAM/jjjj.gif

[Dod01]

It's possible HEB is sending those packages because they got money from organizations like the Spurs to do so. At the same time, it would be a departure from the previous strategy to not announce something if they were doing it. Even if they were only motivated by trying to help people, it's bad PR to seem like you're doing nothing, and that is bad for community engagement. There's a difference between making a statement that you're sending money and making a scene in the disaster zone trying to score PR points.

I probably need to study up more on Public Relations Theory then. Too many days watching Mr. Deeds and Anger Management (love those movies), and not opening up a shmook (book), I suppose.

I just figure maybe if the Spurs are helping out, it's help first, then worry about PR later. I have a feeling that Pop is a "We don't announce our good deeds out loud" kind of guy. That's pretty much the kind of person I am, so I can relate.

[ChumpDumper]

The people getting worked on about this during a holiday weekend need to take a breath.

[RC_Drunkford]

Gotta keep that cash considerations money so it can quadruple with our 4 second round picks next season...

[mo7888]

You total piece of dog s**t. The bodies aren't even accounted for, you know NOTHING about what was or was not done. There's a man and his wife who use to work for a SA investment firm who are still missing. And you want to score political points? F you and the wh**res you rode in on.

And on top of that a Coast Gouard rescue diver saved over 160 people and Texas has had people working non-stop with several hundred rescues by helicopter. Some people like being ignorant and some are just insane...

I'm not a Trump fan (never have been...certainly not Maga), but outrageous BS claims like this from one side are exactly why Trump won. They continue to push people in his arms with this insane BS.

[baseline bum]

You total piece of dog s**t. The bodies aren't even accounted for, you know NOTHING about what was or was not done. There's a man and his wife who use to work for a SA investment firm who are still missing. And you want to score political points? F you and the wh**res you rode in on.

:cry can't talk politics until everyone has forgotten about all the death and destruction and no one gives a shit any more :cry

[baseline bum]

And on top of that a Coast Gouard rescue diver saved over 160 people and Texas has had people working non-stop with several hundred rescues by helicopter. Some people like being ignorant and some are just insane...

I'm not a Trump fan (never have been...certainly not Maga), but outrageous BS claims like this from one side are exactly why Trump won. They continue to push people in his arms with this insane BS.

People get pushed into Trump's arms because they get butthurt when he's called out for doing blatantly illegal shit like stealing congressionally appropriated money that should have gone to FEMA to build Alligator Auschwitz?

[Obstructed_View]

Heard they asked for helicopters and people and got them within 24 hours.

[mo7888]

People get pushed into Trump's arms because they get butthurt when he's called out for doing blatantly illegal shit like stealing congressionally appropriated money that should have gone to FEMA to build Alligator Auschwitz?

I'm not saying that there's not more than one reason, im saying the insanity like I was responding too is one reason. Hell, that crap made me feel a little remorse for him for a second until I took a breath, stepped back, and looked at the bigger picture. Most people don't take the step back to breathe and just get pushed by this BS.

[CorrectCrusader]

I'm not gonna bash the spurs for not mentioning aid because they almost certainly are doing something, and I think talking about good deeds makes them less valuable.

[Mr. Body]

And on top of that a Coast Gouard rescue diver saved over 160 people and Texas has had people working non-stop with several hundred rescues by helicopter. Some people like being ignorant and some are just insane...

I'm not a Trump fan (never have been...certainly not Maga), but outrageous BS claims like this from one side are exactly why Trump won. They continue to push people in his arms with this insane BS.

Nah, bro, Trump won because this country is full on legitimately insane.

And yes, now is the time to talk about how MAGA and Republicans fuck everything up.

Another mass shooting in a school? Now's not the time to talk about mass shootings!

A hundred cops stand around outside Uvalde and prevent parents from trying to rescue their children from getting massacred?

Now's not the time to talk about policing!

Seventy people drown because the fucking Texas legislature won't put in fucking alarms, that aren't even expensive, for over a decade. Now's not the time to talk about it!

Yeah. Now's the time to talk about how the GOP fucks up absolutely everything. In fact, this is exactly what they want. Their ideology is that government cannot do anything to help people, and so they prevent government from helping people.

NOW is the time to talk about it, to prevent this from happening again.

And, fuck any of you who say "let's not be political." Yes, let's be political. Now is the time to be political.

[Leetonidas]

You total piece of dog s**t. The bodies aren't even accounted for, you know NOTHING about what was or was not done. There's a man and his wife who use to work for a SA investment firm who are still missing. And you want to score political points? F you and the wh**res you rode in on.

Man fuck outta here with this fake outrage bullshit. Everything he said was correct and has nothing to do with scoring political points, it's facts. Channel your fake rage at the people who actually deserve it, the ones who cut funding for these types of disasters and the funding for fucking monitoring them so we know before they happen. Fucking victim playing maga chode

[Dejounte]

People telling people to relax or “to take a step back” are normally the ones up in their ivory tower while the chaos ensues down below. It’s very easy to say such things, and think nothing’s going on. Meanwhile, when it was a time when these same people were experiencing “chaos” of their own, it was due to them being inconvenienced by a restroom policy or using a few words that they didn’t like.

Compare that with people’s lives actually being ruined.

God forbid we all want to be treated equally. But these people would take a society where hate is spewed vs one that shakes their beliefs to treat everyone with respect. They would easily believe the lie that their taxes will be less when they’re still paying the same amount even after the government “eliminated the waste”. Gullible, gullible people.

[mo7888]

Nah, bro, Trump won because this country is full on legitimately insane.

And yes, now is the time to talk about how MAGA and Republicans fuck everything up.

Another mass shooting in a school? Now's not the time to talk about mass shootings!

A hundred cops stand around outside Uvalde and prevent parents from trying to rescue their children from getting massacred?

Now's not the time to talk about policing!

Seventy people drown because the fucking Texas legislature won't put in fucking alarms, that aren't even expensive, for over a decade. Now's not the time to talk about it!

Yeah. Now's the time to talk about how the GOP fucks up absolutely everything. In fact, this is exactly what they want. Their ideology is that government cannot do anything to help people, and so they prevent government from helping people.

NOW is the time to talk about it, to prevent this from happening again.

And, fuck any of you who say "let's not be political." Yes, let's be political. Now is the time to be political.

Sure Jan...and fuck you too..

[baseline bum]

I'm not saying that there's not more than one reason, im saying the insanity like I was responding too is one reason. Hell, that crap made me feel a little remorse for him for a second until I took a breath, stepped back, and looked at the bigger picture. Most people don't take the step back to breathe and just get pushed by this BS.

We don't push people to Trump, they go running to him because of hatred of trans, gay, and brown people.

[BacktoBasics]

Right wing Trump bootlickers are the worst people. Imagine thinking you’re somehow superior to others simply because your dad jizzed inside your mom within the correct borders.

Maga has truly destroyed reasonable conservative values.

[mo7888]

We don't push people to Trump, they go running to him because of hatred of trans, gay, and brown people.

Some...but not all... and in elections that are razor close that makes the difference from a practical perspective..

[mo7888]

Right wing Trump bootlickers are the worst people. Imagine thinking you’re somehow superior to others simply because your dad jizzed inside your mom within the correct borders.

Maga has truly the destroyed reasonable conservative values.

That i agree with..

[cd98]

The damage from this flooding is horrible and tragic. Putting aside the horror of losing loved ones, just having your house flooded and your possessions ruined is a huge emotional toll. Instead of pointing fingers at the people you think should "do something about it", just donate and do your part. Soon volunteers will be able to go to Kerrville and help people remove sheet rock and clean up debris. Rather than waiting for the government or the Spurs to do it, show up and do it yourself. That is much more productive than bickering on Spurs talk. I would much rather read the 1,000,000th trade Vassell and Keldon post. If you want to volunteer your time, here is the the City's facebook page where they will let volunteers know when it is safe to go and start helping. https://www.facebook.com/KerrvilleTX.

[Trueblood]

My two cents for what it’s worth:

Texas should have and could have worked more diligently on an early warning system for these issues but failed to do so. That is on them and they’ll have to answer for that. This is similar to the ergon debacle during snowpocalypse when they realized their lack of infrastructure investment was a mistake that cost lives.

Response is a state issue, not a federal one. FEMA is more of an organizing unit, not a full scale response unit. Those of you blaming FEMA really have no idea of their role. They provide coordination efforts, consolidation of leadership through the ICS system, technical advisement, training, and have a very limited response capability. They have never been designed to be a full scale response group. They help in the state EOC’s to provide coordination efforts, develop mutual aid agreements between states, provide funding under the stafford act, and have their VALs coordinate with the NPO’s. Now maybe you want their role to expand, but that’s not the issue here. Even if FEMA had all the money in the reserves it wouldn’t have changed what happened since the warning system and response were state issues and the storm came without warning which meant there could be no federal declaration until the damage was done (FEMA cannot go into any situation without a federal declaration which comes from the president after the governor has requested it with the notable exception being with congressional approval to override the governor).

There is a very real chance that the Spurs have given and are just not putting it out there. During Hurricane Ida response the saints provided $250k to the NPO I worked for and no one ever heard about it. Their lack of a media release is not evidence of a lack of response.

We do need to discuss politics, no doubt. There should be a period, however, to allow people to process a collective trauma. Some people process through rage, others through mourning, and some through action. No one way is correct or incorrect. Have some grace for others because they’re all processing the way they know how.

Blessings to all of you.

[scott]

Everyone should be required to donate to these relief efforts. They should make it so that it's based on a % of your pay and withhold a little each check. Or maybe it's a % of the value of your home, and you include it each month with your mortgage. And then there is just this giant fund collecting all of these relief funds in advance. Maybe some kind of centralized body could be charged with caring for these funds and then dispersing them as needed when disaster strikes, since coordination would be more helpful than people just donating to a bunch of various organizations which may not may not be all that effective.

I might write my congressman about this idea.

[K...]

any money the spurs spend on flood welfare could go to making better quality sochan shooting film packages

[FkLA]

I probably need to study up more on Public Relations Theory then. Too many days watching Mr. Deeds and Anger Management (love those movies), and not opening up a shmook (book), I suppose.

I just figure maybe if the Spurs are helping out, it's help first, then worry about PR later. I have a feeling that Pop is a "We don't announce our good deeds out loud" kind of guy. That's pretty much the kind of person I am, so I can relate.


I'm not gonna bash the spurs for not mentioning aid because they almost certainly are doing something, and I think talking about good deeds makes them less valuable.

When everyone else is making a quick statement about their donations, I'd argue that it's a little self-righteous on SS&E's part to go this route. And that's assuming that they've donated. None of us actually know if they have.

[ChumpDumper]

When everyone else is making a quick statement about their donations, I'd argue that it's a little self-righteous on SS&E's part to go this route. And that's assuming that they've donated. None of us actually know if they have.Since this is very important for you to know, have you contacted the Spurs about it?

[scott]

Since this is very important for you to know, have you contacted the Spurs about it?

More importantly, has OP publicly posted how much they are contributing?

[K...]

When everyone else is making a quick statement about their donations, I'd argue that it's a little self-righteous on SS&E's part to go this route. And that's assuming that they've donated. None of us actually know if they have.

are you mad at spurs plyers or ownership?

[Leetonidas]

NBA announced that they, the NBPA, Spurs, Mavs, and Rockets will collectively donate more than 2M

[spurraider21]

NBA announced that they, the NBPA, Spurs, Mavs, and Rockets will collectively donate more than 2M
can you put my name on the card too?

[ChumpDumper]

Everyone should be required to donate to these relief efforts. They should make it so that it's based on a % of your pay and withhold a little each check. Or maybe it's a % of the value of your home, and you include it each month with your mortgage. And then there is just this giant fund collecting all of these relief funds in advance. Maybe some kind of centralized body could be charged with caring for these funds and then dispersing them as needed when disaster strikes, since coordination would be more helpful than people just donating to a bunch of various organizations which may not may not be all that effective.

I might write my congressman about this idea.

:lol Texas has a literal "rainy day fund" that probably won't be touched while Abbott begs for the national social safety net to save us.

[Dod01]

When everyone else is making a quick statement about their donations, I'd argue that it's a little self-righteous on SS&E's part to go this route. And that's assuming that they've donated. None of us actually know if they have.

Just saw that the Spurs, Mavericks, and Rockets contributed towards a $2 million donation to help those impacted from the floods.

[Dod01]

NBA announced that they, the NBPA, Spurs, Mavs, and Rockets will collectively donate more than 2M

Yeah, just saw this too.

[Robz4000]

:lol Texas has a literal "rainy day fund" that probably won't be touched while Abbott begs for the national social safety net to save us.

Det raindy day fund is long gone to their bank accounts tbh.

[exstatic]

Det raindy day fund is long gone to their bank accounts tbh.

I was going to say that rainy day slush fund is long gone to their corporate overlords.

[scott]

:lol Texas has a literal "rainy day fund" that probably won't be touched while Abbott begs for the national social safety net to save us.

Sometimes life provides irony that even art cannot touch

[Robz4000]

I was going to say that rainy day slush fund is long gone to their corporate overlords.

Same thing imo.

[ChumpDumper]

Sometimes life provides irony that even art cannot touchI think a little less than $2B of it was spent from it after Hurricane Harvey. Most of the time it's used as a fig leaf to cover up the lege's failures to fund the state's obligations.

[scott]

I think a little less than $2B of it was spent from it after Hurricane Harvey. Most of the time it's used as a fig leaf to cover up the lege's failures to fund the state's obligations.

But hey, at least the Lege spends every session on Property Tax reform, right? Amazing how they've spent the last couple of decades "reforming" the reforms they just enacted two years prior.

[Spurs Homer]

Trump and elon killed over 300,000 children after cutting off usaid
trump and musk dismantling federal agencies like noaa killed these texas children
trumps nazis had people tortured in concentration camps because theeir skin is brown
due process is gone
alligator concentration camps in florida
masked nazi kunts are disappearing people off of streets in the usa
trump bombed a country that never attacked us and didnt even seek congress approval because dipshits like the asshole that clutched his pearls in this thread are ok with a dictator doing whatever the fuck he wants

and when any disaster struck a year or two ago…kunt magats could not wait to label it a

biden inflation
biden border
biden egg prices
biden afghanistan blah blah blah


so spare me the fuckin pearl clutching

trump killed these texas kids and he was out golfing to celebrate

fuck you

[Robz4000]

I think a little less than $2B of it was spent from it after Hurricane Harvey. Most of the time it's used as a fig leaf to cover up the lege's failures to fund the state's obligations.

Most of the fund was built up by withholding funding for public schools so Abbott could force through his school voucher bullshit tbh.

[baseline bum]

The damage from this flooding is horrible and tragic. Putting aside the horror of losing loved ones, just having your house flooded and your possessions ruined is a huge emotional toll. Instead of pointing fingers at the people you think should "do something about it", just donate and do your part. Soon volunteers will be able to go to Kerrville and help people remove sheet rock and clean up debris. Rather than waiting for the government or the Spurs to do it, show up and do it yourself. That is much more productive than bickering on Spurs talk. I would much rather read the 1,000,000th trade Vassell and Keldon post. If you want to volunteer your time, here is the the City's facebook page where they will let volunteers know when it is safe to go and start helping. https://www.facebook.com/KerrvilleTX.

What the fuck do we even pay taxes for if there is no FEMA and food stamps and Medicaid are getting gutted? So we can subsidize Elon and go bomb brown people?

[Dod01]

I can see and understand the logic behind organizations like the Spurs, etc., needing to communicate to the public about donations made, as Chinook, FkLA, and others have mentioned. Good on the Spurs, Mavs, Rockets and others for donating generously as they have.

[NASpurs]

Me entering this thread and then reading the first page

https://i.giphy.com/fDO2Nk0ImzvvW.webp

[TimDunkem]

What the fuck do we even pay taxes for if there is no FEMA and food stamps and Medicaid are getting gutted? So we can subsidize Elon and go bomb brown people?

Unironically, yes.

[itzsoweezee]

Is trump going to institute a work requirement for these deadbeats receiving flood welfare? Can’t work because of a little water? Excuses, excuses

[TekXX]

I'm sure the very red part of a red state will get all the money it needs, if this area had voted blue the Dump admin would probably drag their feet like they did in California.

[spurs10]

I live not far from this horrific devastation. My wife and I will keep our distance as the rescue teams continue to work. Of course it's insane to think deep cuts to the staff at the National Weather Service and the defunding of FEMA haven't impacted this tragedy. Anyone saying this is not the time to 'say this' is partly the cause for this horrific situation. Now is not the time to be silent. Donald Trump is a curse on the human race and his new Billionaire Bill will kill many Americans. His legacy is killing hundreds of thousands with cuts to USAID. Cuts to SNAP, Meals on Wheels, Medicaid, on top of NWS is depraved and sick.

[spurs10]

Trump and elon killed over 300,000 children after cutting off usaid
trump and musk dismantling federal agencies like noaa killed these texas children
trumps nazis had people tortured in concentration camps because theeir skin is brown
due process is gone
alligator concentration camps in florida
masked nazi kunts are disappearing people off of streets in the usa
trump bombed a country that never attacked us and didnt even seek congress approval because dipshits like the asshole that clutched his pearls in this thread are ok with a dictator doing whatever the fuck he wants

and when any disaster struck a year or two ago…kunt magats could not wait to label it a

biden inflation
biden border
biden egg prices
biden afghanistan blah blah blah


so spare me the fuckin pearl clutching

trump killed these texas kids and he was out golfing to celebrate

fuck you Well said. Right-wingers are blaming the camp. Question, if they had inadequate alarms then why couldn't the police and emergency services go tell them? Were they also in the dark? No one was alerted because there was no staff working. They had been fired.

[Limguogolo]

Blatten, Switzerland, mudslide, 90% of village destroyed. The emergency services had predicted the collapse, no casualties. May 2025
Valencia, Spain, flood and flooding. 232 dead. October 2024
Africa: more than a thousand deaths from climate catastrophe in 2024 (according to the UN).
Asia, thousands of deaths following monsoons in 2020.


These catastrophic episodes will only become more pronounced with global warming and rising ocean levels. We know that, and some (most countries in the world) are choosing to dismantle government and intergovernmental agencies responsible for preventing and helping disaster victims. The vast majority of the population lives in at-risk areas, particularly next to rivers or oceans.

Political leaders (especially in America and specifically in Texas) therefore praise every man for himself. Then, when a catastrophe occurs (necessarily divine), it is in the individualist culture (so consistent with the American way of life), we release money which we describe as “charitable donations”. In Roman times too, wealthy citizens engaged in politics and patronage. It was not a democratic model. Trump's America today is a model, but a model of autocracy. Europe takes a lot of inspiration from it. The most skillful in this area is Macron who, with his air of a respectable man, uses strictly the same anti-democratic policy as Trump.

Today more than yesterday, however, we will need agencies to help the victims of our past excesses.


In this context, we must be able to propose a new model in the face of the fascist and individualist model now in the majority. A few months ago, I pleaded for the creation of an international agency: The Red Helmets (https://lasaveurdesgoutsamers.com/les-capitales/casques-rouges-pour-une-agence-internationale-d-intervention-contre-les-catastrophes-climatiques-industrielles-et-sismiques/). All over the world, we are dismantling national resources and agencies, where on the contrary, we should have joined forces. These organizations, when they still exist, are not specific and cannot intervene in disasters without calling on other organizations. Each country has its own way of doing things. Developing countries often do not have the means to deploy sufficient forces and resources in the areas for which they are responsible. When international aid is put in place, it is often too late and chaotic.

The Red Helmets would be deployed to camps all over the planet equally. First aid could be delivered from camps closest to a disaster. Above all, they would be able to serve as a hub for the delivery of international aid and as a logistics center. Apart from disaster management, specialists would be in charge of assessing the risks in the surrounding areas and would inform the authorities and populations (meteorologists, architects, urbanists, hydrologists, seismologists, etc.).

This intergovernmental organization would function like insurance. Or at least, how insurance should work. Insurance companies today are capitalist companies whose interest is to serve citizens as little as possible. Insurance, whether for housing, health, job, divorce, death, weather or criminal risks, should be compulsory. But they should also be managed by and for the people. In the time of the new oligarchies, they capture capital, for capital, through the capital of citizens. Before throwing away crumbs to advertise their magnanimity through one-off donations which will always be lower than “contributions” (the rich will talk about “taxes”, even Agent Orange likes to talk about “tariffs” without understanding who will pay).

Faced with this fascist and individualist model, it is therefore this model of mutual aid that must be put in place. The natural elements will not stop being unleashed. So we have to adapt. A large part of the planet's wealth must be used to slow down the effects of global warming, adapt, but also put in place solutions to help victims or displaced people (which implies a change in mentality regarding the reception of refugees).


We must not let a fascistic narrative be dictated to us. The rich own the power of the press. Citizens must come together to propose a contrary vision and an inclusive, egalitarian and humanist narrative. Death the patrons, long live the contributors.


Disasters will only get worse. The rich benefit from the misfortune of the most vulnerable. Disasters serve their profits. It is these profits that must dry up to cushion the effects of their indifference.


It is not up to the Spurs to respond to a catastrophe that is far beyond their control. Demand the return of funding from dismantled government agencies.

[SupremeGuy]

Everyone should be required to donate to these relief efforts. They should make it so that it's based on a % of your pay and withhold a little each check. Or maybe it's a % of the value of your home, and you include it each month with your mortgage. And then there is just this giant fund collecting all of these relief funds in advance. Maybe some kind of centralized body could be charged with caring for these funds and then dispersing them as needed when disaster strikes, since coordination would be more helpful than people just donating to a bunch of various organizations which may not may not be all that effective.

I might write my congressman about this idea.Donation = Good

Taxation = Bad

GTFO with your government bootlicking. "Tax me harder, daddy."

[buujness]

FEMA's work at this stage of the disaster is mostly coordinating efforts behind the scenes for the first responders. FEMA only becomes directly involved by giving money to affected residents/communities after the fact.

That being said Trump's enabling of DOGE to illegally cut funds for the NWS is a colossal fuck up that needs to be called out. As is the county only sending an emergency alert through Facebook.

[ChumpDumper]

Donation = Good

Taxation = Bad

GTFO with your government bootlicking. "Tax me harder, daddy."So if no one donates to a flood victim, fuck that victim, eh?

[Bill_Brasky]

Donation = Good

Taxation = Bad

GTFO with your government bootlicking. "Tax me harder, daddy."

This same moron when the disaster affects him or his family: "Where was the warning???? Where is the relief????"

[Dejounte]

This same moron when the disaster affects him or his family: "Where was the warning???? Where is the relief????"

Or… “Bill Gates did it! He controls the weather!”

[Spurs Homer]

Well said. Right-wingers are blaming the camp. Question, if they had inadequate alarms then why couldn't the police and emergency services go tell them? Were they also in the dark? No one was alerted because there was no staff working. They had been fired.

of course the same kunts that go along with
"newscum caused the l.a. fires because he didn't rake the forests!"

are the same kunts clutching their pearls after trump/musk defunded and dismantled the national weather service, NOAA, researchers and scientists, cancer researchers, fired intel professionals and stopped the fbi from their cyber programs to investigate russia's cyberfuckery, installed a loon who promptly caused a resurgence into once-dead measles- and more -

these kunts want to defend trump when he directly killed those kids and directly killed a million people with his criminal negligence of covid

[Dex]

If only we had a Forum on SpursTalk that is specifically designed for Political discussion...

We could call it something like...the Political Forum...

Hm. :wakeup

[spurs10]

If only we had a Forum on SpursTalk that is specifically designed for Political discussion...

We could call it something like...the Political Forum...

Hm. :wakeup Agree.

[ChumpDumper]

7-Eleven is giving 20 cents off per gallon of gas through their app for central Texas customers. I'd check and see if Speedway and Stripes are doing something similar since it's all the same company. With all their stacked discounts and card cashback I paid like $2.01 per gallon this time around.

Thanks Japan! I have a loose fence board. We will rebuild.

It is an OK discount for those who need it. If you don't, buy something in the store to even out the cost for them.

[SupremeGuy]

So if no one donates to a flood victim, fuck that victim, eh?You don't get to decide what other people want to do you fucking authoritarian.

[ChumpDumper]

You don't get to decide what other people want to do you fucking authoritarian.
Are you personally going to stop FEMA from spending your tax dollars to help people?

I encourage your doing so. Get to it. Use your gun to get your money back from them.

[FkLA]

Update:

HEB - $5 million
HEB = GOATed

[rascal]

Update:

HEB - $5 million
HEB = GOATed

HEB controls 47% of the grocery store market in San Antonio. This is nothing to them.

[GAustex]

H‑E‑B is good store
No doubt about that
Publix is the only other I recall coming close

[ismael-robert]

They've received so many VOLUNTARY donations from church community They've asked to stop

[Dex]

The Rockets, Mavs and Spurs are wearing special shooting shirts at summer league this weekend to honor victims of flooding in Texas Hill Country/ raise awareness.

All 3 teams combined to donate $2M to relief efforts.

https://bsky.app/profile/danielle-lerner.bsky.social/post/3ltpyfacnm22b

[Roscoe P. Coltrane]

You leftist are some disgusting mother fuckers.

[scott]

You leftist are some disgusting mother fuckers.

Preach brother! I'm sure all those dead little girls are looking down from heaven right now, thankful their community didn't take any of that disgusting leftist money for an early warning system.

[Bill_Brasky]

You leftist are some disgusting mother fuckers.

Shut the fuck up you dumb hillbilly retard.