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Who really gives a crap about it? Everything can do done by phone..
More whining by the libtards..
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Whining?
He’s about to loose his job., and credibility is out the window.
It’s called accountability.
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Lose his job  .
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Who really gives a crap about it? Everything can do done by phone..
All of the people saying this kind of crap just astounds me.
Would the power come on any faster if he stayed? probably not.
Could he and his team gone out into the neighborhoods and distributed generators, food, water, fucking anything? Absolutely.
Could he have tried to make a positive impact doing something? Absolutely.
Is this the level we hold the people that are supposed to be leaders to now?
If the ship you are sailing on experiences trouble you would be fine if the ship captain got on a helicopter and left you there?
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The Governor is responsible for what you listed.
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Running away from his responsibility to blame everyone else in a crisis is going to cost him his job. Every good Republican knows that.
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Democrats don’t even know what accountability is.
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It doesn't surprise me at all.... not Ted Cruz and not the obvious over reaction to his ill timed escapade.
How many politicians set bad examples and only half the population are outraged. You are all being honest ... good to see that... I am just lucky enough to not have many of you as friends or relatives.
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Oops, forgot to add:
25 FUCKING SECRET SERVICE AGENTS!!!!!
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wait,,,,,was President Trump all a bad dream? Did I just read someone complain about how much Obama spent on a trip? What next...he golfed too much? Is that Republican accountability again?
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Yellow.
There is a difference.
Obama is a head of state, and his family requires special protection.
Cruz is not.
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Anyone else notice Ted Cruz had no problem crossing a border to give his family a better life?
#FreeSnowflake
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“If I was the Governor in a crisis I be there passing out food and blankets . Donating supplies and money.In the cold to the people!” Godzilla
Yeah... I’m sure you would.
I’m sure the cold and hungry in your neighborhood can count on you.
But.... you are here ... smudging your phone screen or keyboard with your sticky jizz fingers
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Where’s Biden? Not in Texas? Too busy playing Mario Kart?
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Looks like mostly everyone not on the ERCOT grid in Texas did quite well during this once in a lifetime weather event. Still trying to figure out how to blame green energy and AOC for that.
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Ted Cruz?
I am a conservative and a constitutionalist and I don't give a flying fuck about that grandstanding asshole.
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Yippie Kiyaay motherf%cker!!!! Reap what you sow Rafael Cruz.
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Who’s complaining?
The media... and Teddy’s political enemies.
Texans are saying... “If I could have left... I would have too.”
As far as “running away from his responsibility” 😂
You dummies! He had no responsibility. He is a rich, selfish political asshole... like 90% of the Senators. He acted like a rich, selfish asshole.
He just won re-election. He isn’t going anywhere for a few years.
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^ ur far too sensible
Hand in ur HX decoder ring
Ur outta here!
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People today hold our "leaders" to such low standards that we really do get what we deserve when these selfish shitheads are voted in.
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This is why Democracy eventually leads to Tyranny
Every little cunt on the planet like MainlyAssholey or CraneOp is willing to die on the hill of whatever partisan argument lights up their favorite media.
These A-holes can't even see that both sides have good and bad ideas, you gotta look at each one and see if they make any sense given the FACTS on the ground.
Abbott and the Rep legislature fucked up and will have to change the grid in Texas. At least, it's just Texas, they don't buy or sell to other states so aren't under Fed thumb unlike Cali...........we consistently buy from neighboring states because our grid is too unreliable since we started with the renewables bullshit.
Just put a carbon tax on shit and let the market sort it out, you fucking dummies have no clue what "price theory" is.......just read some M Friedman and get your head outta ur ass
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If this country wasn't so fucking scared of the nuclear option this wouldn't be an issue.
Every time someone brings up a nuclear power plant the first thought is ZOMG Chernobyl, or ZOMG Fukushima!
This is why we will continue to have these problems.
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Ted Cruz did a disservice to Texas by returning. They would be better off if he stayed away forever.
This is the first camera that the asshole ever saw that he didnt stick his fat face in front of. Only to make some stupid point that no one cares about.
He is a polished turd.
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took a 3min break from my hallmark channel binge
saw that the amount of time mainstream media spent on cuomo was like 4 times less than cruz
one actually made decisions where people got killed...the other was not really in ANY position to make decisions, but lacked judgement for a day? not sure how long?
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Zeros make a very good point
Nuclear is the lowest carbon polluter we got
Stupid greens would rather we all live in caves eating rat on a stick
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A.O. C.spent a few hours on the phone and raised 3mil for needed food for Texans. Traitor Cruz flew to Mexicoandblamed the decision on his daughters Christians hate her and love Cruz. Gotta love America.
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I'm wondering what people expect Ted Cruz to do by staying.
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freeze to death, maybe?
Seriously, he's a US Senator and has nothing to do with Texas in-state electricity policy. Texas isn't even under Fed rules because they don't sell to or buy from nearby states.
Here's how it works for you loopy twats out there:
Media is forced to write something bad about a Democrat, like Cuomo
Media is fed a news story they can use to remove said Dem from the headline above the fold back to page 23 under the fold.......even though said news story is complete bullshit and means nothing
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^ This is how you replace a "bad" story arc with a "good" story arc and publicists of both parties know it and have relationships with the major media to make it happen.
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"A.O. C.spent a few hours on the phone and raised 3mil for needed food for Texans. "
AOC flapped her gums and cost the people of NYC alot of jobs that would have definitely helped through this quarantine period ... Amazon is one of the only business not laying off or cutting costs... like all politicians she's a mixed bag and sometimes it works sometimes it don't.
Do you not see that .... nahh o course not.
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Ohh BTW... Those people who gave so graciously probably would not have answered a call from Ted Cruz.... bad optics.
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UPDATE: Ted was “helping” load water today for people at a photo op, despite CDC guidelines for people who travel to isolate for 5-7 days, because the health and welfare of others is not as important STILL as his public opinion.
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Off topic but thought I'd throw this in for that loopy twat, Dresden.........he gets to pay the higher bill too, lol
A few days before the lights went out in Texas, the California Public Utilities Commission quietly authorized the state’s largest investor-owned utilities to purchase more power over the next few months in order to avoid rolling blackouts this summer. Last August, more than 800,000 people were left without electricity during a heat wave.
The CPUC said the utilities – Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and Sempra Energy’s San Diego Gas & Electric – may pass the cost of the extra power purchases through to their customers, raising utility bills.
The vote by the CPUC followed a lengthy process that began when Gov. Gavin Newsom demanded a report on the cause of the August blackouts. The CPUC, together with the California Energy Commission and the California Independent System Operator, produced the “Preliminary Root Cause Analysis” last October and finalized the report in January.
Can you guess the root cause of the electricity blackouts during the August heat wave?
Naturally, the report begins by blaming the “climate change-induced extreme heat storm.” The report solemnly declares that the temperatures on August 14-15 were the highest since 1985; except that there was “a similar heat wave” for five days in July 2006, and on three of those days, the temperature was higher than it was in August 2020.
The heat wave caused demand for electricity – here comes the truth – to exceed “the existing electricity resource planning targets.”
And here comes the rest of the truth:“In transitioning to a reliable, clean, and affordable resource mix, resource planning targets have not kept pace to lead to sufficient resources that can be relied upon to meet demand in the early evening hours.”
In other words, California’s “planners” are consistently underestimating how much electricity the state’s residents and businesses need, and not only in August. The “resource planning targets” are not “sufficient,” and “this makes balancing demand and supply more challenging.” This is the normal state of affairs, and then, “these challenges were amplified by the extreme heat storm.”
We’re courting disaster in California, shutting down steady and reliable sources of electricity such as nuclear plants, decommissioning coal-burning plants, and making frown-y faces at natural gas and hydroelectric power. Utilities have been mandated by state law to purchase an ever-greater share of electricity from renewable sources. Even though nuclear and hydro are renewable, they don’t count. Utilities must buy solar and wind power to meet the mandated targets.
And that brings us back to the “Root Cause” report’s admission that there’s an ongoing problem meeting demand for electricity in the “early evening hours.” That’s when people would come home from school or work (pre-pandemic) and turn on lights, appliances and devices. And then just when demand for power peaks, the sun goes down.
Apparently nobody planned for that.
The report explains that the “construct for RA” – RA is power-speak for “Resource Adequacy” – was developed around the concept of peak demand. “The principle was that if enough capacity was available at peak demand there would be enough capacity at all other hours of the day as well since most resources could run 24/7 if needed,” the report says. “With the increase of solar penetration in recent years, however, this is no longer the case.”
Solar and wind power are intermittent, and there is a need for consistent, reliable electricity that these resources just can’t provide. One of the problems last August was “high clouds” from a storm covering parts of California and reducing “available generation from all types of solar generation facilities.”
While California has been “transitioning” to a FICTIONAL “reliable, clean, and affordable resource mix,” the state has been surviving by importing electricity from other states. California leads all states in electricity imports.
That was another problem last August. The heat wave crossed state lines in the West, leading neighboring states that might have sent electricity to California to keep it at home.
Clouds, neighbors, it’s always something. It’s dangerous to live on the edge.
The CPUC voted unanimously to let the utilities buy more electricity, no questions asked, and to let them bill their customers for the extra cost.
Fucking Progs, living in fairy tale land...........and costing everybody money for nothing. You wonder now why Cali leads the nation in homelessness with 151,000........Next time a Prog approaches you.......run!! Or, better yet...........light 'em up
There's some gloom for you, Gloom Guy
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Ted and Texas are jus fine... Did you see how all the Dems rushed to help Texans pandering for votes... How many seniors did Andrew Cuomo kill? Is there a jar filled with marbles some where to guess?
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Yep Cuomo went out and injected old people with the virus. He just be a murderer. What he did was lie to make himself look better. His political career is over and maybe A.O. C. Will be the next governor. I guess he should have taken T*****s advice and just have them all drink bleach.
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AOC is after Schumers job, not Cuomo's.
Governor is a shit job, you actually have to do something and run every 4 years
Although, with Newsome, it's all just pretend
Senator on the other hand, lol
You don't really do shit and you got 6 years to fuck off
Gasbag a little, have a cocktail
Then fly to Cancun
I say bravo to AOC for raising the money!
And, boo/hiss for fucking her constituency out of 25,000 jobs
Weirdly enough, she's done more for Texas than she has for the Bronx
Love that zoo, by the way.....it's pretty awesome
Although there'll always be a special place for the Central Park zoo
Anyway, fuck AOC and Cruz
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"despite CDC guidelines for people who travel to isolate for 5-7 days"
WTF are you talking about? 3000 people a day are waltzing in from Mexico and a man who has obviously already been vaccinated can't cover his ass with photo op?
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Fuck Cali and their rolling blackouts. I have solar and a generator.. Bring it on!
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You know GoBallsDeep, If nescum would kick out all of the illegal aliens, us white privilege folk wouldn't have to buy solar and generators..
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^ who you calling white?
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who said you were white, I was referring to my folk...
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"Texas conservative politics help create a humanitarian crisis."
"stop blaming green energy and investigate and tell the truth so this doesnt happen again."
Both Texas and Cali have the same problem, the grid is unstable due primarily to the so called Green Revolution, that's just a fact that you can't argue around.
Wind and solar are not stable enough to be dependable and will ALWAYS require excess backup when the grid is under stress for whatever the reason, in Texas it was cold weather and in Cali, it was hot.
If the idiot Greens would allow for additional Nucular (love that word), hydro, nat-gas.........I would be OK with continued subsidization of wind/solar as a down payment on the day when we have some type of true dependable renewable like fusion nuke or even better fission nuke.
But, as of now, these morons think that you can simply wish away the consistent and growing demand for dependable electricity while removing the very means of production that make it dependable.
It sounds to me like Abbot HAS fucked up, as has ERCOT, and the Texas legislature.......but no more so or less so than the Newsome and the CPUC and the legistlature. And, the fucking up comes with kowtowing to a bunch of utopian idiots that couldn't care less how people of color or people of lesser means try to survive.
Greens are literally killing people while trying to save the planet and it doesn't have to be this way.
There are better ways to solve the problem of Climate change than build solar/wind farms that nobody wants...........please note that the most recent permits sought for solar/wind farms are being fought by the very same Green morons that tell us we need more renewables.
The permits for a new wind farm off the coast of Martha's Vineyard were fought by the very people like John Kerry, Obama, and the other Greens that live there because it was "unsightly", lol
Here's how stupid these fucking Greens are:
The primary reason why the US has dropped its carbon footprint more than ANY other country on earth is due to the increased use of Nat-gas, which is a primary offshoot of the increased production of fossil fuels from fracking, yet these same Green retards want to stop fracking.
Green New Fuckups is what they are.....
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You can't reason with crazy!
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Can't wait for the Green New Deal to get shoved down America's throat.
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If you own a home, buy a solar system and get a back up generator,
so you're prepared for the rollin blackouts and the high cost of electricity that will be coming.
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Just got my flux capacitor repaired, I'm good
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MORE FOR THE STUPID GREEN
Like Mr. Obama, Mr. Biden is committing the U.S. without submitting the Paris agreement to the Senate as a treaty. They know it would never get a two-thirds vote for approval, and probably not even a simple majority. Yet the Administration will cite Paris to justify sweeping environmental regulations to raise the cost of fossil fuels and subsidize renewable energy and electric vehicles. It will bypass Congress for much of this.
The economic damage will be real. A 2017 analysis of the Obama Paris commitments, by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Council for Capital Formation, predicted a $250 billion reduction in GDP and some 2.7 million lost jobs by 2025.
Meanwhile, China emitted nearly twice as much CO2 as the U.S. in 2018. Yet under Paris, Beijing gets a pass to increase its emissions until 2030. In 2020 China’s coal plants produced some 4,874 terawatt hours of energy—an increase of nearly 15% since it joined the pact, according to S&P Global Platts.
A new report by the nonprofit Global Energy Monitor highlights that “in 2020, China built over three times as much new coal power capacity as all other countries in the world combined—the equivalent of more than one large coal plant per week.” Last year Beijing also initiated more than 73.5 gigawatts “of new coal plant proposals,” five times as much as “the rest of the world combined,” the report says.
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STUPID GREENS
The U.S. generated an estimated 788 terawatt hours of coal-fired energy in 2020 as cheaper natural gas replaced coal. Thanks to natural gas—a fossil fuel—the U.S. has outpaced most of the world in reducing emissions, and in 2019 emissions reached their lowest level since 1992. Market forces, not Paris, drove that reduction.
Paris will have zero effect on the climate even if every nation meets its commitments. Mr. Biden will dispatch John Kerry, his climate envoy, to lobby China and everyone else to reduce emissions, which will also please President Xi Jinping. Mr. Xi will be happy to make promises about the future while demanding U.S. concessions today on Taiwan, trade and more. The Chinese Communists must sit back and marvel as they watch the U.S. undermine its own economic strength.
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