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Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

February 18, 2021 03:05 AM Forum: Politics

Texas lawmakers' tweets mocking California power outages resurface amid winter storm

Posted By Rod Kaufman

The right wing media attempting to divert the political heat away from the Republican governor and reps of the state by blaming it on Biden and green power is like Hannity claiming Trump's surprise Father's day parade was a spontaneous event while forgetting about the weeks worth of email advisories, posts, and social media informational directives that preceded it... 

February 18, 2021 03:57 AM Forum: Politics

Texas lawmakers' tweets mocking California power outages resurface amid winter storm

Posted By Rod Kaufman

The responsibility for the Texas electric power debacle begins with, and here's a big clue, and starts with a "T":
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/politics/texas-power-grid/index.html

February 18, 2021 12:06 PM Forum: Politics

Texas lawmakers' tweets mocking California power outages resurface amid winter storm

Posted By Rod Kaufman

"Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says he has “no defense” after his old tweet mocking California power outages have resurfaced as millions of people in the Lone Star state have lost power in their homes due to large winter storms."
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/energy/539209-i-got-no-defense-ted-cruz-admits-in-controversy-over

February 19, 2021 12:50 AM Forum: Politics

Texas lawmakers' tweets mocking California power outages resurface amid winter storm

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Lacey


Some fog of war reporting time has passed, and it's looking like now that the main cause of the disaster is a failure to winterize equipment. A lot of people are howling about this. However, from what I have read, Texas never winterizes its equipment to the extent that it could survive a storm like this. It's prohibitively expensive and greater than 95% of the time unnecessary. My house guests have all been able to return home without any major damage to their homes, and we are grateful we never lost power or water. I still have no idea how we got so lucky since one-third of the households in my zip code did lose power at one time or another.
And here we all thought thought it was explained by Governor Abbott who went on Hannity and told everybody it was due to green energy and the windmills...

February 17, 2021 08:27 AM Forum: Politics

Texas lawmakers' tweets mocking California power outages resurface amid winter storm

Posted By Rod Kaufman

"Tweets by Republican lawmakers from Texas mocking California power outages are being criticized this week as the Lone Star State grapples with winter storms that have caused many to lose power in their homes.
GOP lawmakers dinged Democrats when in 2019 massive heat waves in California caused widespread power outages that impacted 30 of the state's 58 counties.'
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/539038-texas-lawmakers-tweets-mocking-california-power-outages-resurface-amid-winter-storm
Ted Cruz...

February 18, 2021 02:56 AM Forum: Politics

Rush Limbaugh dead at 70

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Yup, one of the original propagandists of misinformation to be sure...

February 18, 2021 03:34 AM Forum: Politics

Real life happy day yesterday Off Topic

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Much deserved Congrats!

February 18, 2021 05:39 AM Forum: Politics

Colorado City, Texas mayor resigns after Facebook rant.

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck
https://apple.news/AKb14Ig9OQwaJ7vp3qXpqOg

“Colorado City mayor Tom Boyd told the 4,000 or so of his fellow citizens in his town that he was “sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout” and blamed “a socialist government” for the dire situation.

“No one owes you or your family anything; nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim, it’s your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING!,” Boyd continued in the career-ending rant he posted on a local community Facebook group.”
Let them eat cake!

February 19, 2021 05:30 AM Forum: Politics

Ted Cruz vacations in Cancun while his state freezes in the dark...

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by David Cotterell
Ted

Incroyable!! 

Dave
Not only that, but Rick Perry comes out today and says so what!, tough it out, anything's better than the meanie FEDERAL gubermint regulating the power grid!

February 19, 2021 08:14 AM Forum: Politics

Ted Cruz vacations in Cancun while his state freezes in the dark...

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Ted Cruz just said his trip to Cancun was "obviously a mistake"...