The Texas Hill Country River Ghouls Must Be Condemned; Exploiting the deaths of innocents to make your political argument is evil.

 The American Spectator  

"And, contra the idiot Dana Bash on CNN, it isn’t because of Trump budget cuts that the NWS didn’t get the word out. It turned out that the NWS had more forecasters working that storm than normal because they saw there was the potential for a big rain and flash-flooding event"

The girls in the “Bubble Inn” cabin started June 29 at Camp Mystic with great-big smiles.Less than five days later every person in the photo was swept away by the Texas flash floods. Photos, videos here.

"We go through this virtually every time some tragedy hits. I don’t know about you, but I’m absolutely sick of it. And after what happened in the Texas Hill Country over the July 4 weekend, in which flash flooding claimed a death toll of at least 80 and probably more than 100, many of them children who were at summer camps along the suddenly swollen Guadalupe River, the epidemic of ghoulish behavior among the talking heads and operatives of the Democrat Party and the Left has gone entirely off the rails.

"What they want you to believe, in a fashion directly related to the immediate cries for infringement on your gun rights every time some deranged creep loses his cool and conducts a mass shooting, is that the hill country flash floods are President Trump’s fault. Why this is purportedly so is an exercise in magical thinking — the logic is little better than that MAGA has insulted the weather gods, and thus the children have suffered.

"And some of it is even worse than that. As the victims of the hill country flooding are mostly white conservatives, some of the river ghouls are having notable difficulty summoning up much sympathy for the dead and their families.

"The woman posting that last bit is a pediatrician from Houston who got herself rightly fired from the doctor’s office where she worked.

"I’m going to try to steer clear of most of that bile. It isn’t healthy to spend much time inside the heads of loons who are that irrationally hateful toward innocent people they’ve never even met. Suffice it to say that when your life is not spent trying to get into heaven, either because you don’t believe in God or because you worship at the altar of an ideology that promises to deliver heaven right here on earth, you lose all the behavioral speedbumps which would stop you from politicizing and pathologizing every event that can be politicized or pathologized.

"No, there is nothing Donald Trump or Kristie Noem could have done to stop the flash floods in Hunt, Ingram, Kerrville, and other towns in central Texas." . . .

Pediatrician fired for vile post suggesting Texas flood victims were Trump supporters who got ‘what they voted for’

NY Post

"A pediatrician has been fired over a vile post suggesting that the more than 80 killed in the horrific Texas floods — including dozens of kids — were President Trump supporters who got “what they voted for.”

Dr. Christina B. Propst drew widespread scorn following the disparaging, since-deleted post under her old Facebook username, Chris Tina, according to Mediaite.

“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,” Probst wrote in the now-viral post.

horrific Texas floods — including dozens of kids — were President Trump supporters who got “what they voted for.”

Dr. Christina B. Propst drew widespread scorn following the disparaging, since-deleted post under her old Facebook username, Chris Tina, according to Mediaite.

“Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”

"The Facebook post quickly went viral after a screenshot was shared by Libs of TikTok.

"Propst’s employer, Blue Fish Pediatrics, initially said the employee had been suspended — before announcing that “the individual is no longer employed” there.

“As we previously mentioned in our original statement, we strongly condemn the comments that were made in that post. That post does not reflect the values, standards, or mission of Blue Fish Pediatrics,” the company said." . . .

George Stephanopoulos Gets Caught Smearing President Trump With a Massive Lie Regarding the Deadly Texas Floods – Trump White House Responds (VIDEO)

The Gateway Pundit

George in his Clinton days

"ABC’s lead Sunday morning anchor is not letting facts get in the way of a political narrative, even after losing a $16 million lawsuit to President Trump and when bodies from a tragedy are still warm.

"As The Gateway Pundit reported, at least 51 innocent souls in Kerr County, Texas, were killed over the fourth of July weekend by flooding from the Guadalupe River. The victims included 14 children at Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer camp.

"Many other children who were at Camp Mystic have gone missing and are still unaccounted for.

"'Trump has signed a “Major Disaster Declaration” for much-needed relief for Kerr County, while Coast Guard officials and Texas first responders have saved over 850 lives so far.

"However, Stephanopoulos seized on this tragedy during his Sunday ABC show and saw an opportunity to blame the Trump Administration for deaths from the flooding, alleging they cut funding to the National Weather Service (NWS).

“We’re also learning there were significant staffing shortfalls to the National Weather Services offices in the region,” Stephanopoulos stated."   WATCH:

                                  

"This would be disturbing news if true. But unsurprisingly, it turns out Stephanopoulos was spreading an easily-debunked lie so that he could make Trump look like a villain again."

Democrats celebrate the Texas flood

George Stephanopoulos Gets Caught Smearing President Trump With a Massive Lie Regarding the Deadly Texas Floods – Trump White House Responds   . . ."However, Stephanopoulos seized on this tragedy during his Sunday ABC show and saw an opportunity to blame the Trump Administration for deaths from the flooding, alleging they cut funding to the National Weather Service (NWS).

“ 'We’re also learning there were significant staffing shortfalls to the National Weather Services offices in the region,” Stephanopoulos stated.

"This would be disturbing news if true. But unsurprisingly, it turns out Stephanopoulos was spreading an easily-debunked lie so that he could make Trump look like a villain again.

"Not only was there no staffing shortfall, but there were EXTRA staffers on duty for the storms. What a whopper of a lie." . . .

Twitchy   "No matter how many times this editor writes about the Left using some horrific tragedy to play politics and score cheap points, it still shocks and bothers us every time we see it, especially when the tragedy involves children. We suppose after all this time, we shouldn't be surprised when the Left is more than willing to dance on the graves of children if that means they can somehow blame Trump for whatever the latest tragedy may have been."...

White House Deputy Secretary Abigail Jackson responded to Stephanopoulos’s tall tale by sharing a story from Wired, which also confirms the National Weather Service and Trump did nothing wrong.“This is absolute fake news and even Wired knows it,” she wrote.

Imagine finding out the doctor you've been taking your children to for care is ok with certain children drowning because of the way their parents vote.

This is the sort of pediatric clinician employed at @BlueFishMD  in Houston. The ethics, humanity and empathy illustrated here is unfathomable.

What HACK Dana Bash Just Blamed Texas Flooding On Proves There's NO LOW Too Low for Her or CNN

"Seek help using the death of kids to push a political narrative is psychotic. Get off social media find a good psychiatrist."  

Dana Bash's serving up raw meat to this Democrat I find corrupt. TD

Some Politicians Are Truly Gross

Let’s be honest, all politicians have the capacity to be really gross people. There is seemingly nothing they will not exploit to advance their own careers. For many, human decency was either sold out or never existed in them to begin with. Can’t we do better than people who exploit tragedy to get ahead?" . . . (more behind a paywall)

Former NFL Star Jason Kelce Celebrates July 4th, Finds Out the Hard Way That Leftists Hate America

RedState  "Jason Kelce is eviscerated by the left after a July 4th post."

"Man I love the 4th! One of the great days we all can set aside our differences in this country, and enjoy the one thing we all share in common. That we are American! Cheers to you oh beautiful America," he posted.

"It would seem like a patriotic, inoffensive July 4 post celebrating America on her 249th birthday and lauding the commonality we all share.

"Recently retired Philadelphia Eagles great Jason Kelce took to social media Friday to declare his “love for the 4th!” Nothing wrong with that, right?

"Man I love the 4th! One of the great days we all can set aside our differences in this country, and enjoy the one thing we all share in common. That we are American!

Cheers to you oh beautiful America.

"But nooooo, leftists didn’t like that. How dare you praise the country that is oh so evil, that wants to imprison everyone, that is worse than Iran, that is now a Donald Trump autocracy? 

"Poor Kelce—the craziness came hard, and it came quick:

Almost immediately, he was ripped in the comments.

Kelce's post came hours after President Donald Trump signed the "big, beautiful bill," which seemed to be the catalyst for the backlash in the former NFL player's comment section. 

"Set aside differences? One party wants to feed children. The other wants to feed brown people to alligators," one person wrote.

"Unfortunately Jason this is not real life for many. They signed the worst bill for so many Americans today just to rub it in our faces. I know it’s hard to understand, but so many will suffer," another added.

Another user called his post "tone deaf."

. . . "This isn’t an endorsement of Jason Kelce—his wild antics are not for everyone, and as the brother of Kansas City Chiefs star Travis, or Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, as some know him—he’s bound to take some incoming. But is it really fair to smash him over saying he loves July 4th, fireworks, and putting our differences aside for one day?"

Zohran Mamdani's Independence Day Post Is Everything Wrong With His Candidacy

  . . ."Keep in mind, Mamdani has only been an American citizen for six years. Yet he pretends to be an authority on what America is and how it should be. It's an unseemly amount of arrogance from a man who has never even held a real job unless you count his failed rap career (no, I'm not joking). That he also falsely claimed to be black in a bid to get into Columbia University doesn't exactly speak well of his character either. 

"Mamdani is a dishonest, antisemitic grifter who is so deranged that he defended members of Al Qaeda. He has no expertise. He has no abilities. He does not speak for America. He would be a disaster for New York City and the country, given the economic influence at play, and his Fourth of July post is yet more evidence of everything wrong with his candidacy." . . . 

2016 Report on Russian Election Interference Was ‘Deliberately Corrupted’ by Top-Ranking Obama Officials

 Legal Insurrection   

"In an interview with Devine, Ratcliffe said, “This was Obama, Comey, Clapper, and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump'.'”

NY Post

"In May, CIA Director John Ratcliffe commissioned members of the agency’s Directorate of Analysis to conduct a “lessons-learned” review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian interference in the presidential election. The review focused on the ICA’s most controversial judgment: that Russia had interfered in the U.S. presidential election to benefit then-candidate Donald Trump. This was precisely the impression the ICA’s authors intended to convey.

:The New York Post’s Miranda Devine, the first journalist to obtain the review, summed up its findings as follows:

The review found that the ICA was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who were “excessively involved” in its drafting, and rushed its completion in a “chaotic,” “atypical” and “markedly unconventional” process that raised questions of a “potential political motive.  ”Brennan’s decision to include the discredited Steele dossier, over the objections of the CIA’s most senior Russia experts, “undermined the credibility” of the assessment.

"Brennan’s determination to include the Steele dossier in the ICA was especially significant given that he knew in July 2016 that it was nothing more than a collection of bogus stories commissioned by the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign and conjured up by former British spy Christopher Steele and his sub-sources. And so did then-President Barack Obama.

We know that because in October 2020, Fox News reported that Brennan briefed Obama and others present during a July 28, 2016, Oval Office meeting on “Hillary Clinton’s purported ‘plan’ to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as ‘a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server’ ahead of the 2016 presidential election.” . . .  MORE

Elizabeth Stauffer writes commentary for Legal Insurrection and The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.

Obama’s Trump-Russia collusion report was corrupt from start: CIA review

"A bombshell new CIA review of the Obama administration’s spy agencies’ assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who were “excessively involved” in its drafting, and rushed its completion in a “chaotic,” “atypical” and “markedly unconventional” process that raised questions of a “potential political motive.” 

"Further, Brennan’s decision to include the discredited Steele dossier, over the objections of the CIA’s most senior Russia experts, “undermined the credibility” of the assessment.

"The “Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Election Interference” was conducted by career professionals at the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis and was commissioned by CIA Director John Ratcliffe in May." . . . 

Leftists: how they love America and the fourth of July

Melania Trump Beams at 4th of July Ceremonies, Does 'That' Special Dance With the President

..." Contrast [Melania] to the glowing coverage they gave former First Lady Michelle Obama, who seems to be growing increasingly bitter in recent months, and Jill Biden, who many believe committed elder abuse by urging her husband to continue his reelection bid despite obvious cognitive issues." . . .

"Disgusting; Sunny Hostin says First Lady Melania "hates" President Trump, "wants to take him out." This is your modern Democrat Party, folks."

Zohran Mamdani's Independence Day Post Is Everything Wrong With His Candidacy

Another Twitter user said in a quote-tweet on Mamdani's post: "Stop lying. Every organization you're part of wants to bring down this country and destroy everything that makes it great. You don't belong anywhere near the Mayors office."

Kamala Harris: This Fourth of July, I am taking a moment to reflect. Things are hard right now. They are probably going to get worse before they get better. But I love our country — and when you love something, you fight for it. Together, we will continue to fight for the ideals of our nation.

Your Tax Dollars at Work: PBS Exploits Independence Day to Trash Trump's Deportation of Illegal Aliens "PBS NewsHour" on Friday used the Fourth of July holiday as a concocted opportunity to trash Trump’s enforcement of federal immigration and deportation laws by absurdly suggesting they run counter to American values. 

"And who other than Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart would have the intestinal fortitude to declare that his viewpoint on the issue of deporting illegals embodies the ideals symbolized by the Statue of Liberty? No, really." . . .

STUDY: Media Remain Nearly Blind to the Far Left, Panic Over ‘Far Right’

Media Research Center   

"But if the extreme behavior from the far-left over the past few months continues, cracks may begin to form in the trend. At the very least, the restraint shown by ABC, CBS, and NBC in their withholding of extreme labels for both sides is a promising start."

"Despite the growing trend of left-wing extremist violence during the first six months of the Trump administration (including the DC Jewish Museum shooting, the firebombing of a GOP building in Albuquerque, and the anti-deportation riots Los Angeles), talking heads on TV news remained reluctant to acknowledge the existence of the American far left. However, those same journalists had no qualms about slapping a “far right” label on practically anything they deemed to be right of center.

"MRC analysts examined all coverage on liberal cable (CNN and MSNBC) and broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS) from January 21 through June 21, 2025, recording every instance in which a journalist or nonpartisan guest used an extreme political label. During that time period, labels such as “far right” were used a whopping 1,222 times. Conversely, “far left” and similar terms were used just 86 times.

"We found no such labels used on the flagship morning or evening shows of any of the “big three” broadcast networks. Thus, all of our data for this study is limited to coverage on CNN, MSNBC, and PBS.

Summary of Findings:

• Over the past six months, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS have used the terms “far right” (or something similar) 1,222 times, and “far left” 86 times.
• Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC used no such labels in any of their flagship morning or evening newscasts.
• PBS was 42 times more likely to deem someone or something “far right” than “far left.”
• Across CNN, MSNBC, and PBS combined, the GOP was deemed far right 81 times, while Democrats were called far left only once.
• Political violence was 5.5 times more likely to be brought up in association with the far right.

" PBS was the most slanted in their application of political epithets. " . . . More

Journalist Up Late Trying To Decide Whether To Compare Trump's Bill To Jim Crow Or Holocaust  Parody or MSNBC? 

. . ."Journalists said they were hoping to get the perfect language into their stories in time for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to read them during his morning filibuster." . . .

 From One Unapologetic Media Hoax to the Next  . . . "Trump was right that the Bidens were knee deep in Ukrainian bribes and influence peddling.

"And that the whistleblower had no first-hand knowledge of the Trump call but was spoon fed a script cooked up by the gadfly Vindman and Rep. Adam Schiff.

"The result was journalistic glee that we impeached a president for crimes that he did not commit but exempted another president, Joe Biden, who had actually committed them.

"Then came the next hoax of the Russian fabricated facsimile of Hunter’s laptop.

"The 2020 Biden campaign along with an ex-CIA head rounded up “51 intelligence authorities” to mislead the country into believing that Russian gremlins in the Kremlin had fabricated a fake laptop.

"Ponder that absurd fantasy: Moscow supposedly had created fake nude pictures, fake photos of Hunter’s drug use, and fake email and text messages from Hunter to the other Bidens.

"The media preposterously convinced the country that the Russians and by extension Donald Trump had once again sandbagged the Biden campaign.

"No apologies followed when the FBI later admitted it had kept the laptop under wraps for more than a year, knew it was authentic, and yet said nothing as the media and former spooks misled." . . .

How the B‑2 Hit Iran’s Nuclear Facility Undetected – Operation Midnight Hammer

Megaprojects Uncovered  "No radar. No trace. Yet one of Iran’s deepest sites was reached.

"This is the story of a B‑2 Spirit mission so precise, so deeply coordinated, it became known as Operation Midnight Hammer — the most advanced showcase of stealth systems and aerospace engineering in recent history.

"Using the 30,000-lb GBU‑57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator — a next-gen bunker buster — the U.S. deployed breakthrough technology against one of the hardest targets on Earth: the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, Iran’s most fortified underground nuclear facility.

"What makes this operation remarkable isn’t just the secrecy — it’s the synchronization: 145+ aircraft, near-perfect radar evasion, and a smart-fused penetrator capable of navigating through geological complexity. It’s a case study in military design, engineering megaproject execution, and digital-era targeting intelligence.

"Was it a mission… or a masterclass in how engineering can quietly rewrite the rules of deterrence?"

"No radar. No trace. Yet one of Iran’s deepest sites was reached."

Where Is Whoopi Goldberg on 'The View' This Week?

 Entertainment & Pop Culture

"With The View being a staple program on daytime TV, people tune in every weekday to see Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro discuss the latest pop culture news. The group of women are also notably opinionated about their views on world events, so folks eagerly wait to see what debates they'll get into at any particular moment.

"Even though Whoopi, Sara, Joy, Sunny, Alyssa and Ana are all staples on The View, it's not often one of them is not on TV for an extended period of time. But such was the case on June 23, when viewers realized Whoopi was not on their screens and Joy was in her place.

"So, where is Whoopi Goldberg and why isn't she on The View? Well, Joy made sure to clue folks in on what's going on — and it turns out she won't be on TV for some time.

While viewers may be worried about Whoopi being absent from The View, there's no need to stress. According to Joy on the June 23 taping, Whoopi is taking some time away for a reason that's personal to her." 

"We are all jealous of Whoopi today because she's in Italy — I hope it's 100 degrees," Joy shared about Whoopi's hiatus from The View, per Entertainment Weekly. "She's in Italy accepting an award for her book Bits and Pieces, so she will be out this week.". . .

Israel’s Man at the UN Sharpens the Message Ahead of Netanyahu’s Washington Visit

 The American Spectator    

"But the ambassador was blunt about what won’t happen: Israel will not withdraw prematurely, not without hostages, not with Hamas in power. “We cannot move on,” he said. “We’re a peaceful country. But we still have the hostages.' ”

DryBones

"It was a brisk Tuesday afternoon when Danny Danon, Israel’s permanent representative to the United Nations, stepped into a Washington, D.C. conference room and fielded questions from reporters ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming third trip to the United States, scheduled for Monday. Danon’s tone? Resolute and impatient with diplomatic euphemism, yet optimistic for the region. His target? Iran — plus the U.N., Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, European trade bureaucrats, and, occasionally, the complacency of the West.

"To a question about Israeli intelligence’s assessments of the U.S. strategic bombing of Iranian nuclear sites, Danon said: “We pushed them back. It’s too early to say by how much — whether a year or more — but we pushed them back.” He then added that the media tends to fixate on the nuclear aspect, suggesting that there is a point to be made about how Iran’s aim to ready “thousands of ballistic missiles” was comparable to a nuclear threat. In destroying sites relevant to these missiles, he assures the operation was incredibly successful.

"When asked how closely Israel cooperated with the U.S. leading up to the recent strikes, Danon replied: “We speak to our colleagues in DC all the time — before the attack, during the attack, and after the attack. I don’t think we got any commitments that they would join the effort [before Israel’s surprise strike earlier last month]. After we cleaned the area, it made it easier for the U.S. to send the B-2s and finish the job.” Note here that Danon suggests that the U.S. had not made commitments to join the military effort preceding Israel’s first attack, casting doubt on the claims that President Donald Trump’s administration’s initial calls for constraint were just a deception effort." . . .

Palestinians’ ‘Allies’ Need to Abolish Hamas, Not Israel  

"Every last Jew could vanish into the sea, yet until Hamas has been decimated, the Palestinian people will remain oppressed."

In truth, although countless self-styled ‘Palestinian allies’ throughout North America continue to regurgitate the tattered narrative that ‘the state of Israel must be abolished in order for the Palestinian people to be free,’ it is readily apparent that anyone who earnestly seeks to help or liberate the Palestinian people must unequivocally strive to confront Hamas and expel its extremist blight from the Palestinian Territories, not abort the state of Israel or exterminate the Jewish people.

A Big, Beautiful Bill...if you can keep it

Bill Hansmann 

 "If, however, Trump’s OBBB proves to be OBFB (One Big Failed Bill), the Democrats will have a field day. There will likely be little doubt. So, Mr. President, we have OBBB, if you can make it work."

unclepaulsparodies

"On September 17, 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked by Elizabeth Willing Powell, “Well, Doctor, what have we got: a republic or a monarchy?”  Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” 

"Throughout the first six months of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, he has begged, cajoled, threatened, sweetened, and done everything humanly possible to see his signature piece of legislation passed into law.  On July 4, 2025, it was formally signed on the White House lawn, with many of the legislators who had pushed the bill across the finish line in attendance.  They were joined by members of the armed forces who had participated in arguably the greatest military mission in history: the destruction of Iran’s nuclear sites, in one mission, with no loss of American life.

"The question must be asked: “Mr. President, just what do we have here?”  President Trump would surely answer, “We have One Big Beautiful Bill.” 

"Franklin was asked the famous question after his prepared speech was presented to the Constitutional Convention, headed by George Washington, by Pennsylvania delegate Wilson, as Franklin was too ill from gout and kidney stones to deliver the speech personally.  However, he was able to answer Ms. Powell’s question with a quote as famous as any to come from that first convention of the states. 

"At the time of the presentation of the speech, Franklin was attempting to get three delegates who had not signed the Constitution — Delegates Gerry of Massachusetts, Randolph of Virginia, and Mason of Virginia — to add their signatures to the document.  Franklin thought the proposed Constitution to be an imperfect document, though as near perfect as possible.  The three abstainers never acquiesced. 

"Signing the document held no legal effect.  The Constitution needed to be ratified by nine of the thirteen colonies to go into effect.  It was ratified on May 29, 1788, when Rhode Island became the last state to ratify the document after its delegates had initially rejected it on March 24, 1788.  It has survived nearly a quarter-millennium as the most successful governing document in history." . . .

Bill Hansmann is a dentist and dental educator with over fifty years in the profession.  He continues to teach and write political blogs and semi-mediocre novels while living with his wife and cats in Georgia.