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State's Rights! Free Market! Independent! Power Grid!

Journal by DeathMonkey

Boy, that power grind in TX they refused to connect to the national grid because they didn't like all those regulations and that is wholly owned by a private corporation is operating swimmingly this week!

Good thing those those nanny state experts didn't force them to adequately maintain that grid! And it's definitely great that they're unable to import power from, say, Florida right now!

Texas grid fails to weatherize, repeats mistake feds cited 10 years ago
Libertarian paradise!

“No one owes you [or] your family anything,” Tim Boyd, previously mayor of Colorado City, Texas wrote Tuesday in a Facebook post. “I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!”
Yeah, fuck you and your family! Bootstraps motherfucker, have you heard of them!?!?!?!

The Texas power grid failed mostly due to natural gas. Republicans are blaming wind turbines.
Pass that buck like a true Patriot!

 

Reply to: Salon nails it!

    (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday February 17 2021, @09:19PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday February 17 2021, @09:19PM (#1114165)

    Amanda Marcotte, Salon, via RawStory [rawstory.com], lays out what the Republicans have become.

    Modern conservatism long ago abandoned any idea of good governance or a coherent ideology. Instead, the guiding principle is trolling liberals. As Trump discovered during the pandemic, when he convinced his followers to reject masks and social distancing, very few things trigger the liberals as reliably as deliberately causing mass death from wholly preventable causes. And as Adam Serwer, staff writer for the Atlantic and Texas resident, said on Twitter: "What's going on in Texas is what happens in a one party state where every single statewide politician has no professional skills beyond stoking culture war bullshit every day so they didn't winterize its generation sources the last time this happened."

    Nothing triggers liberals like mass death from wholly preventable causes, like, Nazis.

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