For Whom The Bells Toll

 Blame, according to Texas governor Jim Abbott, is "the word choice of losers." This comment was buried somewhere in the midst of a football analogy he was constructing in the aftermath of the floods in Kerr County that killed more than one hundred people with one hundred seventy-one additional still missing. By Governor Jim's reckoning, only teams that lose have to look for blame. Since he's not interested in that, we can only assume that he feels like the loss of hundreds of lives in his state was "winning."

Meanwhile, everyone's favorite Puppy Killer and titular head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Kristi Noem was doing her own sideways shuffle to avoid any finger pointing. While debris and death was everywhere in Central Texas, Kristi was busy conducting an Instagram poll asking her followers to choose which portrait she should hang in the South Dakota State Capitol. This, along with personnel cuts within the agency she has been tasked to dismantle, was the reason why it took three days to get FEMA support to the flood victims.  

Then there's the head of the snake, everyone's favorite convicted felon, who insisted the Ms. Kristi had done a :"great job" handling the disaster because he saw her on TV. Never mind the carnage at Camp Mystic, Kristi showed up on the television, assuring us all that everything was fine. A few days later, The former game show host made his way down to the Lone Star State to make his own video presence felt. He brought along his posse, including severe weather expert (checks notes) Doctor Phil. 

When he returned to his coop in Washington, the head chicken sat down for a chat with his daughter-in-law Lara, who happens to have her own show on Faux News. She asked daddy-in-law, ”What is your message to the people who are suffering down there, to the parents of the young girls at the camp who were killed?”

To this, the self-professed "very stable genius" replied, ”There can be nothing worse than losing a child, and the way this happened… there was very early warning, they warned the day before, they warned even two days before, they warned four hours before.” Then he suggested, ”Maybe they should have had bells… or something, go off. But it’s pretty dangerous territory when you think of all the times they’ve had this problem.”

Except any sort of "bell system" was rejected by voters in Texas, even though the Guadalupe River had been the subject of great concern. 

Which brings us back to the top of the circle once again. No blame. Just needless death. 

Situation normal.