VStar650CL wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:08 pm
You seem to have refrained from anymore gratuitous insults, at least. I suppose that should be counted as a plus.
Perhaps I was in a better mood today after watching how AOC stepped up raising 5 million dollars to assist the republican disaster in the state of Texas after the Texas Senator Ted Cruz was such an utter failure?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/21/politics ... index.html
No power, no water, no heat because Texans despise any federal regulation of their electrical grid.
Deep freeze sends Texas electricity prices soaring 10,000%
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/business ... index.html
This Texas problem actually goes back to 1999 when GW Bush was governor and the Texas Electric Grid refused federal regulation and separated from both the eastern and western electrical grids. After another deep freeze in 2011 the incompetent ERCOT failed to winterize gas pipelines supplying gas to generators.
The current republican governor Gregg Abbott is another failed politician.
Where is Greg Abbott?’ Anger grows at Texas governor in deadly storm’s wake
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... story.html
"It was clear by Tuesday afternoon that Texas was in a full-blown crisis — and Gov. Greg Abbott (R) had largely been out of sight.
More than 4 million households did not have power amid dangerously low temperatures, and an increasing number did not have heat or running water. Some families were burning furniture to stay warm, grocery stores were emptying, and people were dying. In the freezing darkness, many desperate Texans felt they were left to fend for themselves.
Abbott emerged that evening for a series of television interviews. In short, curt sentences, he told Texans in the Lubbock and Houston areas that he had issued an emergency order and called for an immediate legislative investigation of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the electrical grid. He angrily accused the council of not having a backup power supply and not sharing information with Texans, “even with the governor of Texas.”
"Then he went on Fox News.
“This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America,” Abbott said, looking more relaxed as he chatted with host Sean Hannity, falsely blaming his state’s problems on environmental policies pushed by liberals.
This deadly disaster is one in a series that Abbott has faced in his six years as governor: Hurricane Harvey in 2017, which resulted in the deaths of 68 people, at least six major mass shootings that left more than 70 people dead and a pandemic that has killed 42,000 in the state. Now, at least 32 people have died in Texas because of this storm."
What a scumbag!
https://news.yahoo.com/texas-power-cris ... 42645.html
Turned the state of Texas into one huge clusterfvck.
Joe Biden came thru and declared a major disaster and sent generators and fuel oil to power them but the state republicans were totally unprepared to transport them to where they needed to be.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/17 ... f-to-texas
Republican incompetence brings back memories to me on how republicans screwed the residents of Flint Michigan.
https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/ar ... risis-case
Trump lost that state also!
So many incompetent republicans!
Sigh
Current US cases 28174133
Current US deaths 500,071
Source Johns Hopkins/NBC News