It’s the dead of winter again in Texas and the state has the same problems that it had last winter. Rolling blackouts happened all year in the Lone Star State. Does this concern her governor? Are you kidding? He’s too busy kowtowing to special interests who are fixated on building a wall to keep Mexico out. If the Mexicans would stop and think about it a moment, they might conclude that it actually would be worth money to build a wall to keep the Texans in.
Here is Greg Abbott flopping ridiculously.
After getting hammered for months from primary challengers on the right and other GOP Governors for his inaction on the border, Greg Abbott today puts out a video showing him working as a foreman for wall construction. pic.twitter.com/IYr2Wzb1Rr
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 18, 2021
You heard the last few seconds of that tape, right? “I can’t get the crane started.” :))
I just love it.
The GOP is all performative assholery these days. That’s it. No direction, no purpose, God knows no platform, just social media, right-wing TV and photo ops. And this one just tanked hilariously.
Meanwhile, in reality, here’s a link to the Houston Chronicle’s Power Outage Tracker which updates every fifteen minutes. Take a look. Texans are used to the grid failing. It’s yet another way that Republican governed states are starting to resemble the Soviet Union. Nothing works. Texas is one of the biggest and wealthiest states in the union and it’s got this clown as governor. Please Texas. Vote this bum out.
Texas also has some really bad weather. Which they should have built into their power-grid planning.
Well, a lot of states have “really bad weather” so that’s not really an excuse. Climate change has likely exacerbated the weather situation, especially over the past decade, but it doesn’t make up for the fact that Texas willingly cut itself from the national power grid to help its local energy “providers” get bigger and avoid the pesky national regulations.
The only thing built into Texas power grid planning is huge profits for the power companies who seemingly cannot do their jobs of providing reliable power to their customers. The Texas power grid is not interconnected with surrounding states power grids to avoid regulations that would require them to do their jobs better, because to Texas power companies profit comes before even the lives of their customers! I fully expect to see the same kinds of outages that we saw last winter in Texas happen again this year. Same causes and same results!