Texas is having a snowstorm!

Their infrastructure can't handle it, and half of Houston is still without power, and they are having rolling blackouts all across the state.

Both Texas senators, Cruz and Cornyn, are begging for federal emergency dollars.

Question: Will this interfere with their rugged individualistic capitalistic secession from the United States, or is it just on hold until they get their Socialism dollars to get right first?

Question 2: Will Texas citizens get their additional $1400 Socialism checks before secession takes place?

As always, I sincerely hope every red county secedes from Washington State, and every red state secedes from the Union...they'll be broke in two months, and we won't have to continue to subsidize their stupidity.

That's a tax break I can really get behind.

Fish on...

Todd

While living in Texas it just happened to snow in the small town I called home for a short stint for the first time in probably 30+ years. I must have brought some of the PNW weather with me. It was maybe 1/2" or so. I remember jumping on the freeway in my old Ford 4x4 Highboy and heading into work at the local mall, doing about 65mph the whole way, and absolutely flying by every single car doing maybe 20 mph or so. It was hilarious. I was the only one to show up for my shift that day, including the manager. They acted like it was Armageddon or something.
Good times.

Bet you wish you still had that high boy.

Got rear ended at a dead stop on the freeway, driving to the same [Bleeeeep!] mall job, by a Lincoln town car, my cab was on his windshield. Walked away with only a few scratches and bruises and he was not so lucky.

Sadly enough, the insurance company didn't see the same value in the truck I did, and gave me like 2K or something outrageous. I was so pissed! Too young, dumb and broke to fight it. Off to the junkyard it went.

I went back and checked on it months later with plans to buy it back and fix it only to be told it was crushed.

I replaced it with a 1970 Camaro big-block SS. So I had that going for me. Which was nice.

When God gives the world an enema, he always sticks in Texas.

The part that's stupid about this whole situation is that Texas removed itself from the national grid to avoid pesky federal regulations that "cost too much" and "drive up the price of electricity", and with all those savings, the power companies in Texas were supposed to build up their infrastructure and capacity.

Shockingly, they pocketed the savings and didn't invest in anything, and now require our tax dollars to bail them out.

Why should they get our tax dollars when they caused this themselves?

This is what that "rugged individualism" looks like all over the country...right wing Socialists with their hands out all day, in every way.

Right wingers worried about Socialism should stop being the biggest Socialists in the country, as they are that, every time.

Fish on...

Todd

Stupid [Bleeeeep!] Ted Cruz popped off on Twitter about California last year when they were having rolling blackout.
Something about them being unable to provide even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity.

Karma is a bitch Teddy.......
SF

So it was scheming capitalists, not agenda driven environmentalists?
Shocking.

Those utility companies that pocketed the money that they were supposed to spend on capacity and infrastructure need to pay back the taxpayers for every penny that we have to spend taking care of their fuckkup.

Sue them into the fuckin dirt, and their ratepayers can suck it up and pay them, since they're the ones who voted for this scheme.

Fish on...

Todd

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/ener...get-a-big-bill/

Already happening...this is what happens when you...

-pin utilities to the market
-manipulate the market

I have zero compassion for folks who are about to receive gigantic power bills...they voted for this.

In true Right Wing Socialist fashion, however, they'll try to privatize the gains and socialize the costs...

They should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps, maybe buy a few less lattes on their way to work, and lay off the avocado toast.

Fish on...

Todd

"In true Right Wing Socialist fashion, however, they'll try to privatize the gains and socialize the costs..."

I hate this when I see it, no matter who does it.
Kind of like my republicans friends who blow up at the notion of restricting oil companies profits, but have no answer when I ask them how we can open a new refinery. Oh, you mean you want no government intervention on the profits or other actions except when they provide protection against competition.

It just as present in the liberals, who want to stop all foreclosures and evictions, but don't want to help the rich landlords pay the underlining mortgage. I have yet to see the state agree to hold off foreclosures on the same properties if you don't pay the property taxes or sewer bill.

It was also evident they wanted to stop development of the show box, but were not willing to pay market value and then make it a public venture. No, much easier to legislate others to fund a public service. Need all that money for a train system that most of us will never live to see. One went by me by me at around 4 pm yesterday in Auburn. Looked to have about 3 to 5% ridership, if that.

you conveniently left out that half of the wind turbines there are frozen, producing zero energy, and that is the 2nd highest output for electricity and the fastest growing source in Texas's power grid...

now imagine if Bidens punk ass bans fracking, which Texas's number 1 source of energy is natural gas...

Germany, which is the "green" capitol of the world, has 30k turbines not operating because there is no wind, and tons of the solar panels are covered in snow, producing no solar energy...

so much for the leftist nuts that want or think that solar and wind energy is the way to go...

nothing like taking up millions of acres of land for something that can get shut down by ice or the absence of wind, or snow...

the Cali sh!t was because of hot weather and fires (bad forest management)...

basically you can see what will happen to you if this administration does what it plans to do... watch..

Biden's fault? Of course it is.

trump would've shaken his mighty fist at the sky and the sky would obey powerless to resist, it would rain bitcoin and bubblegum cards and the world would be saved.

Only if.....

Biden, Inslee, OAC, the rest of the tard squad...

yeah, it will be their fault..

oh just a heads up, Trump isnt president, so anything happening now, has nothing to do with him... Biden is president...

thats the exact same sh!t you and your liberal rat friends said for the last 4 years, so we will continue the trend for the next 4...

stop talking about Trump, and talk about Biden...

Well, you won't have to worry about anybody but Biden and Inslee and OAC types running the show for a while, you sold that out for 4 years of trump.....trump will burn the Republican Party to the ground just for spite and his own ego.

Remember as you blame, complain and whine that you have nobody to blame but yourself for ever voting him in.

p.s. ...if you do happen to forget, I'm sure someone will be glad to remind you.

Piss on solar and Wind.. Geothermal is the future, I'm riding that train!

Keith

You do understand why fracking isn't all that good, right?

Well, probably not.

There's a long list of things that are rather harmful to the local inhabitants, and the environment in general.

That's why its use is being discouraged and better options are being pursued.

Yeah cuz mining to produce batteries and lithium, then to recycle said batteries is super great for threw environment..

Funny how all the pro fossil fuel elimination croud uses things that are just as harmful if not more that what's being used...


Get off your 1200 dollar iphone and walk around to your destination...

There you go again Keith, getting way out of your wheelhouse.
Stay with what you know.

Over 80% of Texas' energy comes from coal and gas, but good effort.

Fish on...

Todd