Texas is a failed state.

[sgt.null]

Try a warm compress Ur.

On the one hand Democrats desperately want Texas to turn blue.

On the other hand Democrats seem joyful that Texans died.
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[TheFallen]

[wayfriend]

Texans and the GOP lie machines are blaming liberals. And green energy. And the Green New Deal and AOC.

Maybe you're not talking about it. But it's in the news. It's a current event. It's a legitimate point to raise. At least two people here ARE talking about it. So stop being censorious.

[Hashi Lebwohl]

The failures in the power grid last week lie directly at the feet of ERCOT, who did not start winterizing the grid after the last major ice storm about 10 years ago. They had nothing to do with any non-existent Green New Deal or Democrats, who have not been in power here in nearly 20 years.

We need to restructure that committee: Board Members of ERCOT must live in Texas, those positions should be elected, and the committee is directly responsible to the Railroad Commission and the Legislature.
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[wayfriend]

No, the title and the first post is a satire of the conservatives who called California a failed state when it had power distribution issues. This has already been explained in this thread which, if memory serves, you should read every post of, for Hashi will blast you if you missed something already said.

Or not. You're not a liberal.
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[SoulBiter]

It does make funny satire and it does show that every State is going to have its issues and each side is going to use whatever they can as ammunition against the other side.

In reality, Texas has this specific issue very rarely while California deals with this each year. Both States have things to learn but I would suggest that California has further to go to fix their power grid than Texas and its not even close.
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We miss you Tracie but your Spirit will always shine brightly on the Watch

[Fist and Faith]

SB sums it all up nicely.
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[TheFallen]

My point remains. There is no justification for anyone of any allegiance trying to politically weaponise vanishingly rare weather events.

And as for the attempted justification of "Well, they did it first!"? Surely that is obviously just puerile? I thought Dems were oh so keen to demonstrate that they occupied the moral and intellectual high ground in perpetuity - and "tit for tat-ism" clearly has no role to play, if that's the sort of superiority that one is trying to show one has.

Finally, you say I'm "not a liberal", wf... but by this, all you're simply saying I very rarely agree with your IMV both simplistic and partisan script. "Liberal" is one of those terms that has been hijacked over recent decades and pressganged into meaning something quite different than what it was intended to.
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This should not be considered as any condoning of the hypocritical, snowflake, bleeding heart, white guilt-ridden, compulsively virtue-signalling and totalitarian prog Left woke zealotry which some try to force upon this forum.

[Hashi Lebwohl]

[Brother ur-Nan]

[Hashi Lebwohl]

Their environmental problems are exacerbated by failed policies such as disallowing the electric provider from trimming the underbush around transformers or lines, creating ample tinder for any spark to ignite a wildfire. California needs to worry more about its people and less about one or two wildlife species. Their other environmental problem is in the cities where homeless people now own the sidewalks and streets, using them as public toilets--there have actually been cases of typhus and bubonic plague found there because of the human waste. California needs to worry about public health and safety and less about offending homeless people. Finally, California's economic policies have been driving wealthy people and businesses out of the State for years, most of them heading for Texas (espeically the Austin/Round Rock area). Calfornia needs to worry more about its economy and less about "economic justice".

All things considered, California needs to worry more about implementing policies that actually work and less about pursuing a failed agenda.
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[Brother ur-Nan]

Indeed. It's said that the extreme winter weather experienced 2 weeks ago will become typical winter weather in the coming years.

Rising global temperatures = increased water vapor in atmosphere = more precipitation (snow/ice) during winters.

I guess in the future I will be sure to buy at least one vehicle with four-wheel drive because I was stranded for an entire week due to not having that kind of vehicle. Really sucked.

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I genuinely cannot imagine it. I don't think I've ever experienced anything worse than maybe -10°C and that without snow and ice etc.

--A
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[sgt.null]

[TheFallen]

[Hashi Lebwohl]

Happy Texas Independence Day


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No matter how thinly you slice it, it's still bologna.

What is the secret of Zen? Burn all your Zen books.

If you can't handle losing then you don't deserve to win.

[SoulBiter]

Congrats to Texas and Mississippi for becoming 100% mask free and 100% open for business.
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"He torments himself sufficiently."

**"You can deny if you will but the "hens" didn't just happen to show up when they did, by accident. "***

** Note to add that ALL of the hens have since disappeared***

"All of the above is my opinion and thus shouldnt need to be supported by anything other than more of my opinions. "

We miss you Tracie but your Spirit will always shine brightly on the Watch

[Brother ur-Nan]

Ever play Russian roulette?