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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: Re:Salon nails it!

    (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @05:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @05:27AM (#1114347)

    Given how most of the "facts" you source end up being about as real as the tooth fairy, I'm curious to see what the real numbers end up as. Not to say these people didn't die of course, but rather the cause. Mr. 'Fire extinguisher to the head' fake news person you.

    In general freezing to death for a remotely healthy person is pretty damned hard, and being in any sort of cover (even ice itself - a la igloos - the idea is to block the wind, not provide warmth) with a blanket is generally enough to keep you perfectly safe. Not comfortable mind you, but not dead.

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