Texas Literally The Lone Star In Power!

The literal state of emergency. Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas are divided by the famous State Line Road. The power is out on the Texas side.

 

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The city of Texarkana is proof positive of the crisis the state of Texas is facing. The city is split between Texas and Arkansas. The population of the city combined is 249,000 residents.

There is literally street that divides the two cities. Texarkana, Arkansas is having no trouble with the power.

Texarkana, Texas is having lots of problems with the power. The Texas Republicans are trying to blame progressives, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the Green New Deal and windmills for the power outage.

Approximately over 25 million people are freezing in the states. There are between 1 to 4 million in the state without power. 

Texas refused use the shared resources of other states. It created its own power grid called the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). The state deregulated the energy companies and allowed them free will over how to produce electricity to the state. 

Greg Abbott facing backlash for his state's failure to handle a crisis.

Now a winter storm pretty much debunks the Republican talking points about bothersome regulations.

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas is catching a lot of flack. As soon as the winter storm hit the state, he immediately called President Joe Biden for disaster relief. The president granted him that. Then the next day, he goes on bashing Biden and attacking The Green New Deal, a proposal from the controversial New York lawmaker. Ocasio-Cortez slammed the governor for blaming the Green New Deal on the crisis in Texas. She and many rightfully pointed out that Texas is natural gas and coal power. Solar and wind power only make up at least four to 10 percent of the state's energy sources.

Abbott went on Fox News to talk to Sean "Screwball" Hannity. He was roundly criticized for that. 

Screwball Hannity wanted to mislead his viewers into blaming Biden for the crisis in Texas by allowing Abbott to make up false claims to why the state has a failed power grid. 

To: @GregAbbott_TX & @seanhannity
Subj: MAGA, January 6th, You.
Gentlemen please think.
MAGA Stormed the Capital with intention to do violence.
They did.
When they realize that you have misled them.
Prepare yourselves.
MAGA only Loves Trump.pic.twitter.com/vU5i5uiLZc

— Carmine Lexes Case (@CaseLexes) February 17, 2021

Greg Abbott blames the Green New Deal & says Texas is *blessed* with natural gas in the Hannity interview, and in another interview w/ WFAA he talks about how there's a shortage of natural gas because operations are frozen.

Partial video. Full at: https://t.co/1owHcrlyHM https://t.co/8g9lGX1x1k pic.twitter.com/jpWlhRSXI7

— ShirtyandSniffy (@ShirtyandSniffy) February 17, 2021

Abbott said, "our wind and our solar got shut down" and "thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power in a statewide basis." 

The total opposite when he did a presser for the local junk food media. He said that the natural gas pipelines have frozen up quickly. Abbott distanced himself from the remarks on Fox News.

The far-right agitators on talk radio and Fox News continue to push the narrative that The Green New Deal being the blame of the Texas blackouts.

A Colorado City mayor and his wife were forced out of their jobs. Tim Boyd announced he was resigning from the city government and is not running for reelection. He posted on social media that he believes that folks suffering through the winter storm should "get off their asses and take care of [their] own families."

Houston/Katy/Galveston/Sugarland metroplex is dark. 

His city lost power on Tuesday and it was over 40% of the city faced blackouts. 

His wife was fired out the cannon at her job as an administrative assistant and secretary of a local school system.

Boyd tried to walk back his comments but only made them worse by saying that "not all folks" are lazy and he believed that Texans will never resort to "socialism" as the last refugee. 

He said "Don't be part of [the] problem, be a part of the solution."

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Rep. Randy Webber (R-TX) are facing a federal investigation for walking past the metal detectors installed in the U.S. Capitol leading to the House Chambers. The two lawmakers are trying to use their "white privilege" to bypass the metal detectors in the wake of the U.S. Capitol riots in which Donald J. Trump whipped up his supporters to cause an insurrection.

They did not vote to impeach the former president. 

It also exposes Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a controversial lawmaker who is no stranger to the definition of irony. More on him later.

The major winter storm has affected 2/3 of the United States. Many states have reported outages due to icing of the power grid. Not only Texas but other states with Republican-controlled governments.

Not saying that Republicans are the party of stupid, but damnit they nominated and a small plurality of Americans voted for Donald J. Trump. Mind you, this is what you get when you believe all the crap coming out of that dead geezer Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

The Sun Belt is where many folks from the Northeast and Midwest are flocking too. The states of Texas, Georgia and Florida are being overwhelmed with resources.

Texas is the second most populated state. Right now it is suffering from a major outage in its power grid in the middle of a massive winter storm and dangerous freezing conditions. The state has 36 million residents. It is considered a Republican leaning state.

Florida is the third largest populated state. It has has the highest cases of the coronavirus. Over 4 million people have been affected by the coronavirus. Florida has 50,000 deaths based on the coronavirus.

So "Flyin' Ted" and "Ted Cruise" and "Tedexico" are the new names for the Republican senator. 

Cruz, his wife Heidi and children left Houston during the winter weather to head to a lobbyist's home in Cancun, Mexico. 

Cruz who attacked Democrats for now adhering to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, criticized the California grid which is struggling during the warmer months, voted to not convict Trump on inciting an insurrection, considering another run for president in 2024, going on television talking out his ass, wearing that goofy ass beard, is a fucking hypocrite.

Cruz is an oxymoron of hypocrisy. He was criticizing the Gamestop trade scandal, denounced Ocasio-Cortez's fears during the insurrection, voted against gun reform, voted against giving disaster relief to other states and territories and running around claiming he's a "constitutional conservative" whenever he appears on cameras.

He has a fucking Ashley Madison account. 

This dude allowed Trump attack his wife by calling her an ugly bitch. He allowed Trump to claim his father was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He allowed Trump mocked his running mate Carly Fiorina.

Ted Cruz headed to Cancun on Tuesday. He went during the COVID-19 pandemic and a major crisis in Texas.

Cruz is a despicable person. 

Apparently, it was reported that Cruz is expected to arrive back to the George Bush Intercontinental Airport this afternoon. He asked the Houston Police to assist in escorting him out of the airport.

Endless.

Anyway, 500,000 Americans are dead from the coronavirus. I am going on a whim here, 130 people dead from the winter storm. Everyday gun violence. Over 30 million out of work. Congress still not willing to pass Biden's COVID-19 relief package. Trump is still on everyone's tongues. 

Damn this country is fucked up.