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A Georgia woman seeking a Republican nomination to represent her state in the U.S. House of Representatives is receiving an avalanche of criticism for responding to the tragic loss of life in Texas due to a flash flood as "fake."

Kandiss Taylor, a MAGA adherent who recently ran to be Georgia's governor, took to X on Saturday and wrote, "Fake weather. Fake hurricanes. Fake flooding. Fake. Fake. Fake," as authorities in Kerr County, Texas continued to search for bodies.

Appearing on MSNBC to talk about Republican party's budget bill that made it to Donald Trump's desk on July 4th for a signing ceremony, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) laughed at the editors of the Wall Street Journal for "one of the dumbest editorials I've ever seen in my life" which happened to defend the GOP.

Speaking with host Ali Velshi, Smith called the bill that contains massive cuts for the poor and a windfall for the rich "immoral" before he brought up the Journal editorial.

Before calling the editorial "dumb," he told the MSNBC host, " So we're just perpetuating the tax cut for 2017," before singling out the Journal.

"They said, well, well, since this is a continuation of current baseline, you can't really count it against the deficit, but that's ––," he started as Velshi cut him off to interject, "Just weird math, right?"

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's attempt on X to promote Donald Trump's response to the Texas flood that swept through a girls' camp and has led to an estimated 27 deaths earned her a response from Elon Musk's "Grok" chatbot.

Saturday morning, Trump finally got around to acknowledging the tragedy, with the president or one of his representatives writing on his Truth Social account, "The Trump Administration is working with State and Local Officials on the ground in Texas in response to the tragic flooding that took place yesterday. Our Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, will be there shortly. Melania and I are praying for all of the families impacted by this horrible tragedy. Our Brave First Responders are on site doing what they do best. GOD BLESS THE FAMILIES, AND GOD BLESS TEXAS!"

In a column lauding Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) for following his conscience instead of the demands of Donald Trump and the Senate GOP leadership, longtime conservative writer Kathleen Parker had a few things to say about the GOP lawmakers who are fond of calling themselves "Christians."

Singling out the putative Christian lawmakers who voted to eliminate benefits for the poor, the elderly and those in need of food and healthcare, the Washington Post columnist noted they seem to have missed out on what Jesus commanded them to do.

As she wrote the day after Donald Trump –– whom she characterized as a " a Bible-thumping sideshow barker pitching gospel and perfumes" –– signed the megabill before an appreciative audience of conservatives, "In plain terms, this legislation translates to a loss of health care — and food subsidies — for tens of thousands if not millions of children. And to think that evangelical America claims God chose Trump to lead the country and, presumably, the world."

Taking a broader approach, she argued, "Surely, we should stop saying America is a Christian nation. Jesus Christ and the religion he inspired are all about helping the poor, the meek, the hungry, the homeless."

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Focusing her attack on the lawmakers who ignored pleas from their own voters to rewrite the highly unpopular bill, she claimed those who profess to be "Christians" are in for a rude afterlife awakening.

"If Republicans are representing themselves as Christians while cutting essential aid to the neediest among us, then we might infer that they’re all going to hell," she wrote before adding, "

Vice President J.D. Vance, a converted Catholic who cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate, also did not escape Parker's wrath.

In an extraordinarily long and comprehensive editorial from the New York Times, the editors raised the red flag that Donald Trump's FBI is no longer up to the task of defending the interests of the U.S.

Basing their observations on interviews with former FBI officials, the editors warned right from the start, "Mr. Trump’s playbook for the F.B.I. is plain to see. He is turning it into an enforcement agency for MAGA’s priorities. He is chasing out agents who might refuse to play along and installing loyalists in their place. He is seeking to remove the threat of investigation for his friends and allies. And he is trying to instill fear in his critics and political opponents."

A complaint by far-right conservative Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) about his budget vote had the entire panel on MSNBC's "The Weekend," laughing on Saturday morning.

Co-host Jonathan Capehart provided the set-up by remarking, "This is too rich," before running audio of a bitter quote from Van Orden about his upcoming budget vote when he snapped, "The president of the United States didn’t give us an assignment. We’re not a bunch of little b–––hes around here, okay? I’m a member of Congress. I represent almost eight hundred thousand Wisconsinites.”

After clarifying for viewers what was said in the garbled audio clip, Capehart repeated that Van Orden stated, "We're not a bunch of... b-words"–– the mention of which led the entire MSNBC panel to burst into laughter.

"We're not a bunch of b-words around here, okay," he repeated before pointing out to guest Dana Milbank, "And yet, brother man voted for the bill. He voted for the bill!. So is he a little b-word?"

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"Well, I hate to tell the congressman," the Washington Post columnist replied. "But, you know, being a little b-word and being a member of Congress are not mutually exclusive at this point," which created more laughter as Capehart interjected, "Especially this go round."

"Is there a bigger joke than the House Freedom Caucus now?" Milbank asked. "I mean, every time they roar like tigers and then they do the kitten tiptoe back into their cages. Nobody's going to take them seriously again."

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