What Climate Change?

Flash floods in Texas killed at least 109 people over the Fourth of July holiday weekend and left others still missing, including girls attending a summer camp. They didn’t die by accident. They died by design.

The floods were supercharged by climate change. The science is settled. The physics is not up for debate. Warmer air holds more moisture. More moisture means heavier rains. Stronger storms. More flooding. It is not complicated. It is not political.

And yet the people in power, the ones with the actual levers, spent the last year making sure more people will die the next time. Greg Abbott. Ted Cruz. Every lawmaker who cheered the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is complicit. That bill slashed environmental protections, gutted clean energy programs, fueled fossil industries, and defunded the very weather and climate agencies that could warn people before the next disaster hits. They set the stage for this, deliberately.

They will show up to funerals. They will hug the families. They will hold press conferences and have thoughts and prayers. And those same families will be told, again, that it was Biden’s fault. Or Obama’s- because he’s a black Muslim, born in Africa, who’s married to a man. Or some immigrant’s. Or some made-up deep state. Anyone but the actual decision-makers.

Why? Because disasters are profitable. Every flood cements their power. Every fire lines their donors’ pockets. This is not incompetence. It is the business model.

And let’s be clear: it is not just Republicans. Democrats take fossil fuel money too. Democrats have failed to fix zoning, infrastructure, and emergency systems. The rot is bipartisan. The decay is systemic.

The media plays its role. One side shrugs it off, the other screams into the void, and nothing changes. Because the real root, the way power, profit, and perception are locked together is never touched.

So here’s what I’m doing: I’m going to name names. Every disaster. Every death. I will name the politicians who voted for it. The corporations who bankrolled it. The banks and asset managers who profit from it.

Seventy drowned this time. There will be more. The next flood is already scheduled.

Drowning in bullshit.

-Ray

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PS

A friend asked “Seriously- what would be your ideal outcome w you on SubStack? A huge following ? To what end? Cause I’m having trouble understanding why anyone would want to listen to the narcissist rants of an angry retired Jamboy?”

My answer: “I write to get it out of my head because I can. I’m not selling anything. Not chasing followers. If someone wants to listen to the rants of an angry retired Jamboy, it’s up to them. I’m just clearing the clutter.T here’s no end to art. The end is that I write it. I don’t need anyone’s permission. It’s freeing.”