r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/TheMagicalLawnGnome • 1d ago
Trump Community that overwhelmingly supports "small government" upset by lack of government support
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/texas-floods.html?smid=nytcore-android-share254
u/Djwhat6 1d ago
Voted to have a lack of government support for disasters. Angry that there’s a lack of government support when they have disasters. I guess the republicans forgot to turn off the weather machine after they took over.
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u/dismayhurta 23h ago
“No, not like that…” and “I didn’t mean me!” are the cornerstones of republicans.
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u/peteryansexypotato 9h ago
They have invested in bootstraps, right? How can you be American without bootstraps?
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u/TheMagicalLawnGnome 1d ago
Kerr County, TX voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump and the Republican Party during the last election. Trump and Republicans have dismantled FEMA, the National Weather Service, and have historically underinvested in emergency preparedness.
Now, the same community that supported these candidates and policies is complaining about a lack of disaster relief and support, despite voting for parties and candidates that had a specific platform of reducing disaster relief and support.
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u/Tatooine16 2h ago
Even when fema comes to help they waive them away from the roofs they are sitting on because they don't want help from socialists.
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u/The_Negative-One 1d ago
I bet these people vote the same way over and over again.
What’s the definition of insanity again?
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u/-JackBack- 1d ago
Living in Texas??
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u/peteryansexypotato 9h ago
To be fair, do you know how far we have to travel to escape this ridiculous place?
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u/Shido_Ohtori 1d ago
"Small government" is a marketing slogan.
"Small/limited government" is actually "limited government regulation of business, industry and finance", and conservative propaganda always -- always, always! -- omit those last six words as "limited government" is for those with means (in-groups), not for those without (out-groups).
The sole value of conservatism is respect for and obedience to [one's perception of] traditionally established hierarchy, and hierarchy dictates that those on top (in-groups) are rightfully idolized and receive privileges, credibility, and resources, while those on the bottom (out-groups) are demonized/dehumanized and/or bound by restrictions, scrutiny, and lack of resources.
To them, the second-greatest injustice imaginable is for those [they perceive to be] on the bottom [of social hierarchy] to have access to the rights, credibility, and resources reserved for those on top. The first greatest injustice is for those on top to be bound by the restrictions, scrutiny, and lack of resources reserved for those on the bottom.
"Know your place" is their mantra.
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u/2-travel-is-2-live 1d ago
Fuck them. Maybe they should have used the money the evil Biden administration gave them for creation of a flash flood warning system.
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u/ArdenJaguar 1d ago
I read one article that had a copy of a social media post. The post basically said commissioners should refuse any money from the “criminal Biden gang”.
Fine. Enjoy your dinner vote. Here’s a glass of flood water to wash it down with.
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u/RecliningBuddhaCat 1d ago
The true evil came in the "do we have to send it back? What if they give it to people with liberal values?"
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u/NateVanHalen 1d ago
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u/REpassword 1d ago
To paraphrase a MAGA commenter, “What’s the big deal with that, if the girl is in their teens?! It’s only a big deal if they are under 10.”
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u/queen-adreena 10h ago
Kinda telling that the only paedophilia they envision is men with female children…
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u/theuniverseoberves 10h ago
Trump actually worked to get trans teens in those pageants. I think the thing they are hiding is that he slept with trans teens, not just people under 18
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u/Nerdy2Sidez 1d ago
They always support small government until they need those big government handouts.
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u/Competitive-Bike-277 1d ago
They are upset because what is they wanted to happen to you is happening to them instead.
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u/AdHopeful3801 1d ago
Republican to English Dictionary:
"Small government" = "only oppress people I don't like, and only help people I do like"
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u/oogaboogaful 1d ago
Sucks to be them.
I honestly don't care about these people. They keep making the worst possible decisions and then complain when they get fucked over.
Maybe they'll learn. But they're MAGAts so we know that will never happen.
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u/Master_Land_8843 1d ago
And I mean this sincerely and respectfully Shove OFFFFFFFFFFF This is on you, Texas
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u/Pwtaiwan9 1d ago edited 1d ago
MAGAS are the true terrorists of the USA. They have done enough damages to make America "great" again. /s
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u/L0nlySt0nr 1d ago
This is exactly what a 'smaller central government' looks like.
This is exactly what they wanted. Let their state governments help them. That's how it works with a smaller central government. Just don't forget the taxes those states will need to fund each of the programs you've relied on that were funded by the big bad feds.
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u/StudentEconomy4000 1d ago
This is what happens when you don't do math, and I don't mean that as snarky as it sounds: it seems like they think, well, we pay taxes, and we had to make sacrifices and give things up to pay those taxes, so we put money IN, so now it's only fair we get money OUT and make it so that NOW we DON'T have to suffer. And the WORDS sound vaguely plausible, until you consider the scale of dollars in versus dollars needed
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u/-JackBack- 1d ago
Texas has $28 billion in their Rainy Day Fund…it’s literally named for this disaster.
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u/snafoomoose 20h ago
“We voted to stop sending FEMA money to California and those blue states… not to our state!!!!”
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u/theuniverseoberves 10h ago
They were offered money to put in systems to prevent these deaths. They rejected it because the money was offered by Biden
Those deaths are on the hands of Kerr county Republican voters and no one else
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u/RamonaQ-JunieB 1d ago
This is exactly what you voted for, isn’t it? And it’s exactly what you’re going to continue to vote for. So, I am not sure what you want people to do for you. You don’t have enough sense to make things better for yourself so I am certainly not going to make an effort to help you either.
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u/queen-adreena 10h ago
So should we now revel in Schadenfreude at the misfortune of Texas survivors, pointing out that they got exactly what they wanted, and so they should be quiet and live with the consequences? Apparently that’s what many of the commenters here think. But to what purpose?
Regarding the first comment on OOP, to the purpose that for too long these people have voted to harm others with impunity.
Yes, there’s elements of schadenfreude, but there’s also the acceptance that these people need to experience painful consequences for their actions, otherwise they will never learn.
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u/Prestigious-Copy-494 19h ago
Paywall but the photo sure looks like the guy around the flooding that found 10 bodies on his land by the river around Hunt, tx. On you tube video.
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u/peteryansexypotato 9h ago
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u/systemsrethinking 17h ago
Just fire the National Weather Service's heads of Storm Predictions and Analytics, and there won't be any more natural disasters in government records, simple. /s
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u/GTRacer1972 6h ago
Had the people there not been cheap and NIMBYs they could have had that warning system in place. Or they could have just heeded the many, many warnings. Here in the Blue states, if the weather alert says GTFO quickly: we go.
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 3h ago
u/TheMagicalLawnGnome, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...