Before you criticize Texans for reelecting Abbott and Co., remember that Texas has the worst voter suppression in the country. Harris County, with 5 MILLION people and greater in landmass than Rhode Island, only has 1 ballot dropbox for the whole county. The government has removed on-campus polling locations for universities.
Our AG, Ken Paxton, has ADMITTED to rejecting 2.5 MILLION mail-in ballot applications in 2020 so Trump would win the state. It’s absolutely insane that he’s not under federal investigation for election fraud.
You know it would prevent that? A functioning grid.
Don’t worry, the top priority investigation into Media Matters because Elon threw a fit will get those Texans the heat they require for winter.
Is their plan to burn Tesla’s for heat?
Let’s vote for Abbot again for governor!!! What’s wrong with Texans?
in other news greg abbot wins another term as governor by a sizeable margin
Cancun better be in the lookout for Ted Cruz at the first sign of cold weather
Well, maybe, but at least abortion is illegal and *that’s* what matters to Texans.
Yeah, secession would go well for them.
I remember how miserable that 2021 blackout was. We were lucky that our water heater used gas and was still working, because we could take piping hot showers and then crawl under every blanket we owned to stay warm. By the time the electricity came back on, the house’s temperature was in the 40s.
I don’t live in Texas any more.
Texas Faces Rolling Blackouts ~~This~~ Every Winter
FTFY
Laughs in Californian
And they will blame “the green deal”, windmills, democrats, the keystone pipeline, and some dumb conspiracy about Biden sending oil overseas because America comes last…
not that the headline is wrong , they will face blackouts this winter, but winter has not even started yet.
Rolling blackouts? is that code for something else Abott has in mind?
If you’re cold, just tell Ted Cruz you’re one of his daughters and he’ll take you to Cancun.
Nothing quite like the good old unregulated free market.
This is why Fox News projects these problems onto California
The R in ERCOT is for Reliability. Unfortunately for Texans, the C stands for Corruption.
“The volcano is erupting, but it’s too expensive to *move*!”
When your life is in danger in a way that is totally out of your control when you stay somewhere, it’s not moving to leave.
It’s called fleeing.
Texas is like a third world country 😂
What freedom you have Texas! Such rebels!!
Yeah, that’s why we bought a generator in the summer of 2021. Fool me once.
Texas, the least free state with a fascist government, a none functional electric grid, and depressing giant highways.
But at least you have guns I guess… You’d think they would use the guns on their fascist leader lol
Shithole country
And some Texans actually want to secede from the Union, lol. Lmao even.
Just remember, only 25% of young people came out to vote in the last governor election.
😂 just saw something about a 12+ power outage and thought about TX. It seem like was in South Africa from the comments and here we are reading about rolling backouts in TX.
*ted cruz getting Black Friday discount tickets to Cancun*
Hey, they voted for Abbott after he froze them to death and he walked away with a 55% approval rating: hate to say he’s only going to experience a temp drop then resurge when he does another racist thing and rails against Biden/Harris/immigrants etc. as usual. We’ve been through this before in 2021 & 2022, nothing is going to change in 2023.
They can use their guns for warmth.
So they still have not insulated the buildings that provide their power in the winter. Just how incompetent are these people? This power supply is owned by the state. Every power outage they have shuts down every industry in the affected area. This reduces the state coffers by whatever taxes would be collected by the business during that time and the repair time afterwards. I am certain this cost is much larger than the cost of insulating and even heating the power structures. This is not rocket science. The people need to vote these incompetent people out of office.
The good news is that Greg Abbott spent boatloads of money shipping immigrants out of the state for political points… lol
Oh no. Anyways who’s ready for a fun weekend?
Just like any other 3rd world area.
And hopefully the federal govt does nothing to bail them out. If they got $$$ to bus migrants they got money to fix their infrastructure
This is a state entirely controlled at every level by republicans.
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Before you criticize Texans for reelecting Abbott and Co., remember that Texas has the worst voter suppression in the country. Harris County, with 5 MILLION people and greater in landmass than Rhode Island, only has 1 ballot dropbox for the whole county. The government has removed on-campus polling locations for universities.
Our AG, Ken Paxton, has ADMITTED to rejecting 2.5 MILLION mail-in ballot applications in 2020 so Trump would win the state. It’s absolutely insane that he’s not under federal investigation for election fraud.
You know it would prevent that? A functioning grid.
Don’t worry, the top priority investigation into Media Matters because Elon threw a fit will get those Texans the heat they require for winter.
Is their plan to burn Tesla’s for heat?
Let’s vote for Abbot again for governor!!! What’s wrong with Texans?
in other news greg abbot wins another term as governor by a sizeable margin
Cancun better be in the lookout for Ted Cruz at the first sign of cold weather
Well, maybe, but at least abortion is illegal and *that’s* what matters to Texans.
Yeah, secession would go well for them.
I remember how miserable that 2021 blackout was. We were lucky that our water heater used gas and was still working, because we could take piping hot showers and then crawl under every blanket we owned to stay warm. By the time the electricity came back on, the house’s temperature was in the 40s.
I don’t live in Texas any more.
Texas Faces Rolling Blackouts ~~This~~ Every Winter
FTFY
Laughs in Californian
And they will blame “the green deal”, windmills, democrats, the keystone pipeline, and some dumb conspiracy about Biden sending oil overseas because America comes last…
not that the headline is wrong , they will face blackouts this winter, but winter has not even started yet.
Rolling blackouts? is that code for something else Abott has in mind?
If you’re cold, just tell Ted Cruz you’re one of his daughters and he’ll take you to Cancun.
Nothing quite like the good old unregulated free market.
This is why Fox News projects these problems onto California
The R in ERCOT is for Reliability. Unfortunately for Texans, the C stands for Corruption.
“The volcano is erupting, but it’s too expensive to *move*!”
When your life is in danger in a way that is totally out of your control when you stay somewhere, it’s not moving to leave.
It’s called fleeing.
Texas is like a third world country 😂
What freedom you have Texas! Such rebels!!
Yeah, that’s why we bought a generator in the summer of 2021. Fool me once.
Texas, the least free state with a fascist government, a none functional electric grid, and depressing giant highways.
But at least you have guns I guess… You’d think they would use the guns on their fascist leader lol
Shithole country
And some Texans actually want to secede from the Union, lol. Lmao even.
Just remember, only 25% of young people came out to vote in the last governor election.
https://www.reformaustin.org/elections/why-were-75-of-texas-voters-under-30-missing-from-the-midterms-totals/
😂 just saw something about a 12+ power outage and thought about TX. It seem like was in South Africa from the comments and here we are reading about rolling backouts in TX.
*ted cruz getting Black Friday discount tickets to Cancun*
Hey, they voted for Abbott after he froze them to death and he walked away with a 55% approval rating: hate to say he’s only going to experience a temp drop then resurge when he does another racist thing and rails against Biden/Harris/immigrants etc. as usual. We’ve been through this before in 2021 & 2022, nothing is going to change in 2023.
They can use their guns for warmth.
So they still have not insulated the buildings that provide their power in the winter. Just how incompetent are these people? This power supply is owned by the state. Every power outage they have shuts down every industry in the affected area. This reduces the state coffers by whatever taxes would be collected by the business during that time and the repair time afterwards. I am certain this cost is much larger than the cost of insulating and even heating the power structures. This is not rocket science. The people need to vote these incompetent people out of office.
The good news is that Greg Abbott spent boatloads of money shipping immigrants out of the state for political points… lol
Oh no. Anyways who’s ready for a fun weekend?
Just like any other 3rd world area.
And hopefully the federal govt does nothing to bail them out. If they got $$$ to bus migrants they got money to fix their infrastructure
This is a state entirely controlled at every level by republicans.