In fact, as climate models predicted, every drought for the last 30 years in Corpus Christi has exceeded the parameters contemplated in local plans, thanks to fatal delusions deep in the heart of Texas’ methodology: Texas doesn’t plan for droughts to get worse.

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    These plans never factored in climate science or considered the projections that a warming planet could contribute to a drought as extreme as the one Corpus Christi now faces.

    Turns out pretending a problem doesn’t exist doesn’t magically make the problem go away.

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      Not a lesson Texas will ever learn until the place is a barren wasteleand.

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      Look I just don’t think it is right that the Leopard is eating faces out of order and isn’t starting with all the poor people first, I am not supposed to be in the first group!

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    Texas and Texans deserve what’s coming. Can’t gerrymander a state-wide popular vote and the fact of the matter is that a majority of Texans who actually get out to vote, vote conservative because they are stupid. They aren’t much dumber than the progressive-minded Texans who don’t vote at all though. Y’all made your bed, now burn in it.

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    The solution is pretty easy. In drought conditions, shut down the refinery that caused it.

    But maybe first check the brain matter resevoirs of some of the Republican legislators there, signs indicate they are bone dry.

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      It is way way wayyyyy too late for mitigation measures like that to be effective, Texas squandered that possibility while laughing at groundwater experts.

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    Let them die

    Sorry, not sorry.

    The USA is the biggest root cause behind the majority of climate change, and Texas is just the worst of all of the USA.

    You people keep saying that climate change isn’t real, you keep rolling coal to own the libs. Now you can die for all of that

    Good riddance

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      Foolish way to think, I understand the rage but collapse grows like an out of control wildfire and your attitude is jet fuel poured into it.

      Fuck Texas though, I agree.

      As I always say, Texas is a deathcult desperately trying to convince everyone it is just another shithole.