He didn't say 'wait a minute that's a red State'. And Joe Biden, without even a second thought, gave them help. Now with 4 million without electricity they went straight to the US government for help. Linda Lehman February 16, 2021Īs one Twitterer replied today, "Just about 60 days ago Texas wanted to remove themselves from the Union. Maybe you should be taking care of your home state, instead of letting Biden do it for you. Hey why can’t Texas perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity? - Andrew Kimmel February 16, 2021Īnd exactly how does Texas look today, after days of no power for 100’s of thousands of Texans and freezing weather. Texas is the largest producer of natural gas on the continent, & relies heavily on nonrenewable resources.Ĭruz/Cornyn/Abbott want to make TX’s unstable energy & failed infrastructure plans the nationwide standard. Both states have inadequate and "non-smart" grids that lack modern battery backups, but Texas has a grid that's cut off from other states, and relies even less on renewable sources - though its windmills froze this week along with the gas wells. As the Chronicle explains today, our state's biggest blackouts last year only affected between 250,000 and 500,000 PG&E customers, and the largest one was a pre-emptive shutoff during an extreme weather event to prevent wind-driven power-line breaks that can start wildfires. Well, Californians can now clap back with "Hope you don't like heat when it's freezing out!" while 3.4 million Texans are still without power, two days after a weather system pummeled them with snow and ice, freezing gas wells and crippling the state's energy grid. "Biden/Harris/AOC want to make CA’s failed energy policy the standard nationwide. "California is now unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity," Cruz said.
by setting thermostats to 78 and turning off unnecessary lights and appliances. The Great Texas Freeze DEATH TOLL : 246 When a historic winter storm devastated Texas in 2021 and Texans were left freezing and fighting for their lives, Ted Cruz promptly abandoned victims and jetted off to the sunny beaches of Cancun, Mexico. On August 19, 2020, Senator Cruz retweeted a notice from Gavin Newsom's office asking Californians to conserve energy before 10 p.m. But now that a much vaster swath of his own state of Texas has been plunged into darkness and cold in the dead of winter due to a similarly aging power grid and the unpredictable forces of climate change, Twitter is making sure Ted's dumb tweets get bubbled back to the surface this week. But if there's one terrific thing about Twitter, it's that it keeps a record of their nonsense that we can at least throw back in their virtual faces when need be.Ĭase in point: Senator Ted " Grandpa Munster" Cruz was among the many Republican politicians and pundits who used California's wildfires and power outages in 2020 to make spurious political claims about the ineptitude of Democratic leadership. Republicans' memories are painfully short when it comes to anything anyone said longer than a few days ago.
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