A Texas county devastated by deadly flooding earlier this month rejected federal funds in 2021 that could have helped install a flood warning system, with local officials and residents arguing they didn’t want to be “bought” by the Biden administration.

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    9 hours ago

    I remember this happening. I remember thinking “who the fuck is trying to buy you? These are your tax dollars.” I remember realizing that the problem was giving Biden the W.

    Perhaps from their high moral ground, God can hear them asking what part of his plan this is.

    When I was in elementary school back in the 1900s, I went to a friend’s house in Kerrville. My parents made me promise that I wouldn’t tell anyone that I’m Jewish. The old freethinker German towns around San Antonio are such weird, corrupt, stupid places.