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  47% voted against Abbott in the last election.
  TX is fairly evenly divided, but gerrymandering has given the GOP a significant advantage in our legislature which is of course where the laws and regulations surrounding this issue are written.
context: Governor Abbott - Sorry there's no power, we spent the money for upgrades to the grid shipping migrants around the country. >
  
  How can they not feel warm after a burn like that? >
  
  Because they have no power, so no internet. 🤷🏻‍♂️ >
  
  Sooo what you’re really trying to say is it’s somehow Al Gore’s fault. >
  
  ☝️this guy gets it >
  
  I mean, if they had just left Jimmy’s solar panels on the roof this all could have been averted. >
  
  Had jimmy put them up there we wouldn't have needed to spend the money to take them down.
  It's Jimmy's fault. >
  
  But... Jimmy did put them up there. That's how they were able to take them down.
  Or do you mean if Jimmy had personally installed them himself? >
  
  (Think they may have dropped a "not" along the way. Happens to the best of us.) >
  
  “Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business.”  - Rick Perry >
  
  Maybe they should impeach the people who keep doing this to them. >
  
  Or at least stop voting for them. >
  
  I recently saw that Texas is gerrymandered intentionally so that Republicans can't lose even though most of the state's registered voters are Democrat. >
  
  Last election my district was squarish, then we nearly voted blue. It's noodly now. It feels like one of those Turkish ice cream vendors. I just want my damn ice cream >
  
  Our freedom grid is performing exactly as expected after operators did absolutely nothing to fix the problems we knew about from the last storm.
  EDIT: For those pointing out the difference between this and previous storms, one of the recommendations from ERCOT after the near grid failure 2 years ago was improving redundancies in substations to prevent widespread outages and keep them localized.
  Literally nobody did this, Austin Energy indicated only 5% of that work has been completed, which has driven the current outage situation with people being without power for 2 days now.
  30% of Austin has been without power for 2 days now, including me.
  People in areas which experience regular icing have redundancies and systems in place to prevent long outages.  Those people also tend to have generators available. >
  
  This exactly - if Texans don't give a shit about their failing grid then I don't either >
  
  Fuck the 47% of us who voted against Abbott, right?
  The people impacted by this outage are mostly in Austin which absolutely did not vote for Abbott.
  We give a shit, the grid operators don't - they make crazy money when this happens because the price of energy skyrockets. >
  
  Less than 50% or we wouldn't be having this conversation