According to its website Camp Mystic for Girls was established in 1926 along the banks of the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, TX. It's located a little over 60 miles northwest of San Antonio. This fourth of July weekend a torrential rainstorm of what appears to be biblical proportions hit the area. The deluge was so horrific the Guadalupe rose and became a raging torrent of water so quickly there was little time for warning and what looks to be like none for evacuation. Depending on who you are listening to this morning anywhere from 43 to 51 people are confirmed dead. In addition, it is being reported 27 young girls staying at the camp are currently missing. It is a nightmare of unfathomable dimensions--a tragedy almost too great to express in words.
Well, unless you are a Georgia GOP politician named Kandiss Taylor. Ms. Taylor posted this on social media: "FAKE WEATHER. REAL DAMAGE. Hurricane Helene left me powerless for 16 days & caused $57k in damage. "This isn't just "climate change." It's cloud seeding, geoengineering, & manipulation. If fake weather causes real tragedy, that's murder. Pray, Prepare, Question the narrative. FAKE WEATHER REAL DAMAGE. Don't accept the narrative. Question the cause."
Later she posted, "Fake weather. Fake hurricanes. Fake floods. Fake. Fake. Fake." A few days ago Ms. Taylor went on Steve Bannon's podcast, "War Room," to announce she is running for Georgia's first district congressional seat in 2026. She was quoted as saying, "I'm ready to go to D.C. and blow things up." It's unclear how closely Ms. Taylor has been following the news lately because things in Washington are already pretty fucking blown up. However, she went ahead and added, "Republicans and democrats will support me because I represent Jesus."
It won't be Taylor's first rodeo. In 2022 she ran against incumbent republican Governer, Brian Kemp. During that campaign she toured the state in a bus adorned with the words, "Jesus Guns Babies." She came in a distant third in the GOP primary, results she has never accepted. because of what she claims was--does this sound familiar?--"wide spread cheating."
All of this brings to mind a few questions. First, where in God's name does Georgia find these demented freaks? Are they all the descendants of some twisted antebellum plantation owner? Did they all drink from the same tainted well? What the fuck are they even doing on this planet?
While those answers may always remain a mystery there is another, more important question. Are people like Kandiss Taylor the new norm? She may have lost that 2022 primary (apparently the same cloud seeding geoengineers managed to steal 97% of the vote from her) but is her brand of lunacy becoming acceptable?
After all, Congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene is sitting in the House right now after claiming space lasers controlled by a cabal of Jews caused wildfires in California. Later she told the media she believed an unknown government agency was spying on her through her television set. Even the big man himself, Donald Trump, made early noise by saying Obama's birth certificate was a forgery. Perhaps the tipping point was when hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Americans came to believe the wholesale murder of children at Sandy Hook Elementary school was a "false flag operation," and the victims never really existed.
Kandiss Taylor didn't say those missing children in Texas weren't real, of course. After all, everyone saw what happened to Alex Jones and next year she is going to need that bus that says, "Jesus. Guns. Babies." What she is saying is that a secret, nefarious, organization is manipulating the weather for their own evil reasons, causing destruction and now death. You know, perfectly reasonable stuff.
One supposes we can blame the internet and social media for giving these gruesome clowns a voice equal to that of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, George Will, and others. However, we can also blame ourselves for listening to them--for eating up their nonsense like peanut butter M&Ms. Let's face it, there are far too many people out there whose sole source of news is social media. As one 30 something type told me, "I don't trust any TV news. I look at Instagram, they tell you what is really happening."
Think about it. Even as we scoff and ridicule Kandiss Taylor's cruel stupidity she is, in the end, the soul of Donald Trump's MAGA movement. She and those like her are his base. And while she really doesn't represent Jesus--the suspicion here is He would prefer her work the cash register at a 7-11--she does embody America's current political reality. Show us an elected official who is nuts and we'll find someone even crazier.
7-6-25
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