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Did you hear the Ted Cruz slogan for his next election campaign?

"Yes We Cancun!"

That was funny. As was the Margarita Glass photoshop ...

And the theme song for his next campaign? "If you like pina coladas and getting caught on a plane".

Duh! of course. But we aren’t elected officials living in Texas so that’s just a stupid comparison.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/busines...10-000-n1258362

I can understand wanting to grind the axe against big corporations. I don't always agree, but it probably ends up being more justified than not (the axe grinding).

But buried in this article was a point that this weather event was beyond the worst case calculations of the power companies. More regulation wouldn't have helped.

Thank you for your common sense. That attribute is missing on here way too often.

Regards why this happened... A bit more. This time from a San Antonio judge

https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/j...e-blame-equally

Investment would have, upgrading would have, and quality leadership may have not prevented it under these same circumstances but would have done a much better job handling the crisis after it occurred. Abbott and Cruztello are a vaudeville act not even qualified to lead a parade of fools... yet we have Texas.Beto, as fake as he is at times, would have made a much better Senator or governor... I think he will be one of the two sooner rather than later.

Absolutely pathetic, Fox and Texas republicans took aim at green energy, over a failed Texas utility infrastructure. It is deregulated, they cut corners to save money, “don’t mess with Texas”

Fact check, wind power has been performing at a higher expectancy rate, in Texas, compared to fossil fuels over the past 2 weeks.

The Republican Party is becoming a factory of lies, and this is dangerous.

Here's some charts that show the increased demand/capacity shortage along with a breakdown of the different types of energy.

Texas households face massive electricity bills, some as high as $17K, after winter storm

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro...-as-high-as-17k

Good lord the people of Texas just can’t catch a break right now.

But it must be said: they did vote for this after all. That’s a red state ran by very conservative politicians voted in by conservative Americans. They got exactly what they fought for: deregulated energy grid that fails when it matters most, and predatory corporations looking to make as much money off the people who are still alive.

Welcome to US capitalism. Hope it was worth it.

And then you have this moron calling out Texas Democrat Governor.

Nobody can say that as the absolute truth. Other states where hit just as hard as Texas without these massive power outages like Texas had. So that just doesn’t hold up.

Neckbeard elephant killer Junior is quite possibly dumber than his father. He certainly possesses a similar dislike of facts, and displays a similar lack of research prior to his inane online ramblings.

Nice switch up there.... Expert level.

Still doesn't change the fact that Rick Perry, then Governor of Texas, was warned in like 2011 (not sure of the exact year) that this was a real possibility.

Did he do anything? NOPE.. Saying someone did this or that doesn't excuse what Texas officials have done to their own people... NOT EVEN A LITTLE, But like I said, Expert level Diversion...

Honestly I don't know the absolute truth of that. But being not / under winterized means that the catastrophe was a magnitude worse than if they had prepped for what was recommended.

This sort of reminds me of a situation in Europe - I saw a piece on the history channel or something, a village at the bottom of a mountain range had been wiped out by an avalanche at some point in time. No-one tried to live there for a few years, then a decade, then another couple decades went by and people decided to move back in and built up the village again. . . Anyone care to guess what happened a decade or so later?

Even a 1 in 100 year weather event can happen at ANY time. 1 in 50 year rain events happen much more frequently than one in 50 years in many places. Whether it's man made or not - climate change is making extreme weather more unpredictable and statistically more frequent. Not prepping for it for profit is short sighted and simply incompetent no matter which state you are in and which extreme weather event has a chance to impact your City/State.

I don't like most of her policies but have to give mad props for this... What she and Beto have done in the last week should not be downplayed.

At least not until we find out that a large portion of the money raised is sitting in off shore bank accounts and the majority of the supplies that were supposed to help are still sitting in a warehouse somewhere years later.

I'll admit their PR teams are putting in work.

Sorry, had to vent my disgust with politicians in general somewhere.

By making up some fake scenario?

j/c

I guess now would be the time to show people that the small part of Texas that is NOT on the Texas power grid did well. Maybe that will help slow the excuses of some who claim that the way Texas handles its power grid is reasonable.

The parts of Texas not on its ERCOT power grid appear to have weathered the freeze with few outages

Peter Weber
Thu, February 18, 2021, 2:01 AM

Texas is nearing the end of what Gov. Greg Abbott (R) called "a once-in-every-120-year cold front," but that doesn't entirely explain why more than a million households still had no electricity early Thursday, after three full days of below-freezing temperatures. Plenty of places in the world keep their power on in prolonged arctic weather, and so did parts of Texas.

Those edges of Texas, including El Paso, "are primarily in areas outside of those supported by ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the electric grid for 90 percent of the state and operates separately from federal oversight and regulation," KHOU 11 Houston reported Wednesday night.

After the 2011 winter freeze, El Paso Electric, on the Western Interconnect grid, spent heavily to "winterize our equipment and facilities so they could stand minus-10 degree weather for a sustained period of time," Eddie Gutierrez, an El Paso Electric spokesman, told KHOU. So this year, "we had about three thousand people that were out during this period, a thousand of them had outages that were less than five minutes."

On the other side of Texas, near the Louisiana border, the city of Beaumont also appears to have weather the storm without massive outages. Entergy, which powers Beaumont on the Eastern Interconnect grid, told KHOU it also winterized its infrastructure after the 2011 storm. Weatherizing power generation and extraction equipment is voluntary in Texas, though the state legislature will probably revisit that strategy when it dissects ERCOT this year.

https://news.yahoo.com/parts-texas-not-ercot-power-080159059.html

Since every part of Texas not connected to their grid did the right thing and their customers saw minimal disruption, it's about time people step up and admit that Texas ignored the warnings and refused to take the necessary steps to avoid this.

Exactly, more expert level distraction.

I was actually referencing historical precedent, admittedly with some snark. Making it purple on a tablet felt like too much of a hassle in the moment.

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But feel free to keep cheering for these PR campaigns of people that do very little actually for the people with their actual jobs as elected officials. It would be great if they spent time putting together good legislation instead of good sounding (and politically expedient) headlines.

I suppose they feel the need to start laying the groundwork for the next Democratic Presidential ticket with Biden to be 82 when this term is up.

This is how stupid rumors start...One guy saying something like this... You have no idea if it's true, but I bet it's on Facebook or twitter soon. And some will simply believe it. Sounds a lot like something we'd see on Q

Once you have some evidence that AOC did this, get back to me. Historical precedent shows that Republican presidents might very well orchestrate break ins of the campaign headquarters of their political rivals too.

And some will immediately try to "cancel" it because it doesn't support their political ideology.

It was a venting of frustration with all of politics. Quit trying to twist it into something else... please.

Yeah, in a Ted Cruz thread who abandoned his voters in a time of crisis you felt the need to vent your frustration towards AOC. You know, one who actually did something to help the people of Texas.

Sen. John Thune says Trump's GOP allies are engaging in 'cancel culture'

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congres...sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

I'm sure that in your frustration you must have been raising you ire at all of the state legislatures punishing those who voted to convict Trump in his impeachment trial.

Awe, couldn’t tell minority groups how to protest in this thread? So you come in here to try and discredit good will with both sidesing with some made up scenario.

For someone who boasts about their intellect and mental faculties, this sure is a quite silly retort to a lady engaging in the Social Gospel for individuals that aren’t even her constituents.

Get that weak stuff outta here, Bull.

This is a real bad look for him. Meh, he's another member of congress, along with pretty much every one of them that needs to be dismissed immediately.

Can we just expel everyone from congress now? I'm sick of all these ass backwards dumbasses who don't get anything done but waste the time and money of the American people.

I still think if you picked a whole bunch of people off the street they would be able to run the country better than the current members in congress. I hate these people.

Nov. 3 2020 was a clear and present message for anyone who thinks like that to
SIT DOWN AND SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!

Whoever the secret pentagon government that stops counts and counts votes, demands you do as in
In Lock Stepp!
with what you are told!
and if anyone who continues with this old thing I've been hearing for 30 years, " vote everybody out" doesn't start to get the message of
do as you're told, things could get really ugly.

The election of Trump in 2016, and the reaffirming of his election in 2020 are a sign that people who think like this, people who would vote for Trump, will be dealt with. -says the people in charge, I mean, does anyone have access to the news? What do we think they are doing?

Wow, this is extremely odd/weird: SOMEONE replied to your post with "Yeah. But he's a senator."

I replied to that person with "I thought senators were part of congress? Did I miss something?"

That was less than 10 minutes ago, yet the other person's post, and my reply, have been deleted. I find that odd.

I deleted my own post. I didn’t see your reply. I had misread his post. I thought he was calling him a congressman, then when I reread I realized he has calling out the entire congress.

Not that odd, really. But, you are always looking for something to get excited about.

No, I'm not.

I found it odd that the 2 posts, yours and mine, were deleted.

I guess since I replied to you, and you deleted your post, it also deleted my reply to yours. Fair enough.

Regardless, calling him a congressman is correct terminology. He is a congressman.

Since you’re looking to talk about said congressman, how do you feel about him tucking and running while a congresswoman that doesn’t represent his constituents has raised over 3 million dollars?

He should've known better. Period.

As for AOC, awesome for her. She did a great thing.

I won't get into her motive for it. I won't go into anything else.....ya know, about NY, and NYC.

And I can't wait for ocd, pit, and a few others to get on here and attack me for my comments. It's like a job for them.

I think the definition of knowing it all is an understanding of how things are and the ability to explain it to those around me.
(waits to be corrected)

J/c:

I think Cruz is a worthless legislator, and I think his involvement would only have made things worse for the crisis in Texas. So, complaining about him leaving the country seemed counterproductive to me. I wish he'd stay gone.

Someone else brought the democrats into the Cruz thread, so I made a snarky comment about all politicians (including Cruz.)

If I thought they were doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, I'd praise Beto and AOC. Unfortunately, I'm skeptical. Too much media coverage, too well orchestrated. There have been too many years of good ideas/labels slathered over a multitude of shady dealings for me to trust politicians. The ones getting the most media attention are the ones I trust the least. Kind of like used car salespeople, the ones that won't leave me alone are the ones I'm least likely to buy from. It seems like every politician on the lot ends up being a lemon.