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  Greg Abbott faces nothing. He just got relected. Texans love losing power and paying higher prices.
context: Like that one time it was a one-off disaster now it’s a predictable, avoidable problem masquerading as a disaster >
  
  I feel for the people of Texas too but it's ridiculous that FEMA is gonna end up footing the bill for all this help again. This is not a straight up natural disaster, they're allowing this to happen on purpose. Abbott is piece of human trash, while his people are freezing he's wasting money playing games shipping immigrants to the VP's house at the same time. Which he should be in jail for on it's own, frankly. >
  
  I dont feel sorry for these people.  They keep electing these morons. >
  
  I feel sorry for the people who have to pay for Texas voting for morons. If Texas wasn't part of the Union, everyone there would be dead because of their idiotic votes. >
  
  If Texas wasn't part of the Union, and Texans were 100% in charge of Texas, that place would look like Somalia. >
  
  OR it’d be like the UAE. (Not a good thing in this context). >
  
  What do you mean? >
  
  Uber wealthy oil barons importing Mexicans to work to death in the oil fields for pennies. >
  
  Plus highly restrictive laws for women under the guise of religion >
  
  So it would look like it does now? >
  
  That's what happens when Democrats have held the governorship and controlled the state for 27 years. They failed to invest in the independent Texas power system.
  Oh wait, that was Republicans. >
  
  They literally blame “the leftists” for all these problems.  They’ve had absolute control for decades.  
  The only thing they’re good at is targeting weak/low intelligence voters.  
  Which isn’t saying much….  In Texas, you can’t spit up in the air, and not hit a low intelligence voter. >
  
  My dad lives in Texas and blames wind turbines for the blackouts. >
  
  Did he say why? >
  
  "They froze." Apparently that was enough to cripple the whole grid >
  
  But only Texas has frozen wind turbines that cause state wide black outs lol >
  
  But only Texas has frozen wind turbines.
  If only there was a way to make them not freeze. 🤔 >
  
  Fuck every single person who went and voted for this guy… AGAIN. 
  How’s that hatred for immigrants and abortion rights doing? Keeping you warm at night and filling your pantry? 
  Sorry to the Texans who didn’t vote for this. You deserve better. >
  
  Bro the rich Texans who voted for him don’t care. They probably have back up generators and will be fine no matter what. Or they’ll pull a ted Cruz and just go to Cancun for a couple weeks. Once you see in person how detached conservatives are from reality is makes sense. They have no need to care about people in need. “Fuck you I got mine” is the r/conservative mindset >
  
  I think you underestimate how poor many conservatives are, which is really the crazy part to me >
  
  You’re not wrong… alot of them are poor and live in trailer parks. But a lot of them aren’t tho… they’re just rich suburban types. Think boats with trump flag/ rich evangelical families that basically make up the west and south >
  
  Yeah but you're not winning an election on just the rich. >
  
  The asshat should spend less time working on sending migrants to VP Harris' house, and more time on insuring people have power. >
  
  Yeah, but that doesn't get his base riled up.  Also, it's ensure. >
  
  Can't rile up a base if they freeze. >
  
  They don’t care about that. They’ll suffer as long as “inferior” people suffer more >
  
  The irony that the immigrants ended up in better conditions than Abbott's voters is certainly lost on them. >
  
  That sounds like a good idea for an Onion article: "Abbott shows humanitarian streak by sparing immigrants the wintry hellscape he's created in Texas". >
  
  You should send that to them. There's a good chance they'd use it. >
  
  I’m assuming he knew this would happen, which is why he wanted to distract his base and give them somethng to hatefully froth at the mouth about on Christmas Eve. He’ll blame the Dems for Republican led failures in Texas, and Ted will blame his daughters when he gets caught secretly vacationing in Mexico during a crisis. But hey. He sure owned the Libs in the name of Jesus Christ. >
  
  The fact that Christians all over the nation aren't screaming bloody murder over this stunt - done on the day Jesus was supposed born in a filthy ass fucking barn among dirty animals because nobody would give his family shelter and warmth in a foreign town - is a goddam disgrace and makes me lose whatever respect I might have had left for Christianity.
  Y'all "good" Christians need to stop tut tutting about this abomination and fucking stand up for something for once and bring hell down on that piece of shit Abbott. >
  
  That's the trick. There are no good Christians. There are some people that are good in spite of their Christianity, not because of it. >
  
  It’s funny how much shit he was talking earlier today about saving Texas by busing what, 200 something migrants, to another state on Christmas Eve for a political stunt?
  He needs to be put on the worlds longest moving walkway, in the wrong direction. >
  
  Further proof that the current leadership of Texas has absolutely no idea what the hell they're doing. >
  
  winning elections by any means other than doing a good job at governing >
  
  The Republican motto is government doesn't work, so elect us to break it worse. They delivered. >
  
  The issue with Texas is that the small portions of the state connected to outside electrical grids always fare much better than the portions connected to the Texas ERCOT grid. 
  Texas is singularly terrible at running an electrical grid. >
  
  I hear you. We can all agree that 4 hours without power is inconvenient, but it’s manageable. When the outage extends to days or weeks, it becomes an expensive and potentially life threatening situation. >
  
  Can’t ship that problem out of state on a bus. >
  
  Oh, but he'd try... >
  
  Why are Texans voting for him? >
  
  He has an R next to his name on the ballot >
  
  Freezing your ass off and burying your shot kid is “owning the libs” in the Lone Star State? >
  
  They think just not voting for a D is owning the libs. They'd rather their whole state burn to the ground and everyone die because of their poor choices. >
  
  The article didn't even mention plants failing after the headline. >
  
  you can pretty much just ignore any newsweek article >
  
  Greg Abbott is a disgraceful human being. 
  Change my mind. >
  
  You forgot "vile". >
  
  It’s the fault of all those migrants and transgenders, so glad that Abbott has spent his time on things that matter /s >
  
  Trans people control the arctic jet stream, it is known. >
  
  and it has failed on both coasts.
  there's so much to criticize republicans about - falling for this sort of clickbait without bothering to check outage reports seems counterproductive >
  
  And he'll again blame this on green energy while ignoring that green energy only makes up 10% of Texas's energy. >
  
  
  Well, which is it?
  
  I mean even the article itself acknowledges this headline is complete bullshit:
  
  As of Sunday afternoon, a little more than 5,000 customers were without power.
  
  But it accomplished its goal, look at the hysterics in this thread about the imminent collapse of Texas. >
  
  And what's worse, this is now the fifth article trying to sell this non-story to be upvoted to the top of this subreddit in the past few days.  
  Someone really, really wanted to push an agenda and they're not letting things like reality get in their way.  I like to keep bringing up that this is exactly why Trump's whole "fake news" thing caught on so well.  People shouldn't have trusted Trump either, but when shit like this happens it's really easy to sell people on not trusting reporting. >
  
  Exactly this! Texas' grid isn't even that bad statistically - it's pretty much on par with, and much cheaper, than NY and CA but one winter storm and the Texas grid becomes a fixation on reddit.
  Honestly makes the left look like an ignorant echochamber reminiscent of the right wing. You're right that it play's into the 'fake news' takes >
  
  If Texans (the stakeholders) willingly put up with life-threatening problems by re-electing incompetent government, I guess things can't be all that bad, then, right? >
  
  Ship migrants to own the libs or keep power on.  We know what they voted for >
  
  I don’t understand this dude was so busy coordinating bussing migrants to DC, he forgot to take care of his own - lol. Gonna be honest, getting real hard to feel bad for Texans. Isn’t this the second time now? >
  
  It never said where the plants failed >
  
  Texas Republicans freeze their asses off and let kids be murdered in schools rather than let those pesky immigrants cross the Rio Grande. Stay classy, Texas! You guys re-elected him! >
  
  Texas's electrical grid continues to falter in even moderately severe weather, meanwhile he plots political stunts using migrants as his personal pawns. Republicans refuse to govern, instead they use culture war deflections to cover for their corruption and incompetence. >
  
  The grid has held up perfectly this time.  The only outages have been from tree limbs, car accidents, etc., the usual stuff.
  Here in Houston they trim the trees back religiously every 3-4 years but things still happen. >
  
  Again >
  
  This guy just won an election >
  
  I’m a Texan and while I don’t like Abbott I’m not seeing any power problems now when I’m look at the map using an app called My Radar. There aren’t any outages at all showing up. 
  Even at the height of the cold snap here there wasn’t an unusual number of power outages showing up on My Radar, and I did check at that time. >
  
  I thought the "emergency" declaration was a contingency just in case emissions levels needed to be exceeded--which they didn't. On the other hand, 27 people have died in Buffalo. >
  
  It was. But this sub won’t waste an opportunity to criticize Texas/Texans while dusting off their pitchforks. 
  This is coming from a Texan who voted against Abbott. The hate he receives is earned. But sensationalized threads like this don’t serve any real purpose other than pitting people against each other. >
  
  Total incompetent.  I do feel for the people of Texas and wish they had actual leadership >
  
  They've voted for Republicans for 27 consecutive years to fix the broken things that were broken by Republicans. Don't feel too sad for them. >
  
  Illinois had 2.5 M votes for Biden and Texas had 5.25 M for Biden. Please don’t pretend like everyone here is an idiot, it’s just the republicans like every other state. They just outnumber us here. >
  
  Some people out here get your point.  I've seen way too much "let them suffer", "no sympathy stuff" here.  This sub is honestly just toxic at times, shows how sick the country is as a whole.  I'm all for bashing Abott and his cabinet, he has an ugly soul.  I just can't get all these people that cheer Texan suffering even though 3.6 million Texans voted against him. >
  
  Instead he uses state money to bus humans out of state to freezing areas.   Disgrace. >
  
  Sounds like a problem the state needs to fix themselves. Not the federal government. >
  
  And if Biden directed the Department of Energy to federalize the Texas electrical grid and immediately put it under new management, Texans would die in the streets to preserve their right to have a failing, mismanaged powergrid during deadly weather events. >
  
  Honestly, I'm beginning to feel like those people deserve it if they voted for him and his ilk. If they keep electing morons to office, they ought to keep feeling the consequences of those actions. >
  
  It's ok guys. Atleast he owned the libs by sending those immigrants to Kamala house on Christmas eve >
  
  The re-elected this idiot so they get what they get. >
  
  Too busy trying to make a point about migrants to spend some time preventing something he knew was coming with the grid >
  
  He's way too busy shipping immigrants around for the lulz to spend time actually fixing actual problems. What a piece of shit.
  Same goes for Ted Cruz. I'm gonna guess that he hasn't spent a single second looking at this issue since the last time it happened. >
  
  They don’t mind this because he spent his Christmas Eve hurting the “right” people. >
  
  The party of personal responsibility strikes again… >
  
  QUICK! Blame the solar panels again! >
  
  He’s been too busy buying chartered bus rides for his favorite human beings >
  
  Why do the people of Texas keep voting for this lunatic? >
  
  He doesn’t care about this. The great part of it will his re-election as nobody will remember the silent murderer he is >
  
  -> GOP runs on "We'll fix Texas!"
  -> GOP get elected
  -> GOP does nothing to fix the problems
  -> GOP gets hated by Texans
  -> Return to line 1 endlessly >
  
  But thank goodness those migrants are getting dumped in the middle of nowhere on Xmas Eve
  Priorities >
  
  Just say you're an illegal and Abbot will put you on a free bus trip to a city with a working power grid. >
  
  And watch as Texans keep voting for this asshat >
  
  That’s who Texans voted for. 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽🤷🏽‍♂️ >
  
  Joe Rogan’s exodus looking more & more shaky. >
  
  No federal aid.. they elected him.. let him fix it >
  
  Maybe some of those immigrants he shipped away were electricians. >
  
  Thankfully Abbott got those migrants out of TX before it got really bad >
  
  If only they could have seen this coming! >
  
  Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the most capitalist power grid in the world. >
  
  Private companies making short term investments to funnel money to their owners?? Now I’ve seen everything! >
  
  i mean, they voted him into office again, almost like they want this to happen. :I >
  
  It's a good thing he selflessly got all of those poor immigrants to somewhere with a working, properly funded power grid! >
  
  Is it just me, or does he look like Dollar Store Dubya?? >
  
  Countdown until the Green New Deal is blamed… >
  
  We’ll bus 50 immigrants to his house to help out. >
  
  In all seriousness, does Abbott give a rat's ass having just won reelection?
  Maybe more pertinent, did Texans really reelect him for his competence or just because of the (R) after his name? >
  
  Toss that fucker into a walk-in freezer for a day or so until he gets the message. >
  
  Let/make emergency happen. 
  Blame it on someone other than yourself, the person responsible. 
  Skim federal funds and shift them towards your friends who will give kick backs.
  Let it happen all over again. >
  
  Why isn’t he in jail for human trafficking? >
  
  Lmao fuck you Texas and fuck your lone star beer >
  
  Like, OMG, I feel, like, totally blindsided by this. >
  
  Abbott barely won his seat back, not sure why he thinks president is an option for him. >
  
  I guess human trafficking migrants out of Texas was more about protecting them from the failed policies of his administration. >
  
  Abbot is yet ANOTHER example (do we need more?) of the failed MAGA philosophy…in a macro view, he is an irrelevant worm. In a micro view, he’s harming the people of Texas. >
  
  Better buy some more bus tickets so we forget what a piece of maggot shit you are. >
  
  Emergency? Are you Texass so stupid!  This incompetent racist, fascist SOB did not get the message 3 years ago?  They need to invest in infrastructure and stop asking for socialize federal money every time this happens under Republicans watch! >
  
  But hey, he sure owned the veep, right?
  Ffs. I need people in office who actually give a shit about other people. I’m over the posturing and tribalism. >
  
  He can just round up refugees and ship them around the country and conservatives will be ok with getting frostbite >
  
  Again? >
  
  ERCOT is a perfect example of what conservatives policies look like. >
  
  Fuck him. This man deserves nothing. Texas voted him back in so they deserve whatever he gets. A big ole goose egg. >
  
  As I read the postings in this thread, I don't see much criticism for the massive failures in the RFC and SERC grid areas.  I guess it's just easier to blame Abbott for some extreme weather glitches in Texas and pay no attention to the weakness of the U.S. power infrastructure in a bunch of other places. >
  
  Greg Abbott’s solution: illegally send bus loads of migrants to Kamala Harris’s door step to change the subject. >
  
  But guys, remember that time he bused a bunch of immigrants to VP Harris house on Christmas Eve? ‘Member that? >
  
  All y’all re-elected him. Jesus. >
  
  Its hard to feel sorry for the Texas voters who went thru this same exact issue last year, they had a chance to make a change, show's how short minded they were until now!!!! >
  
  But they will still vote for this clown. Good job Texas >
  
  He'll find a way to blame it on Democrats and that'll rile up his insane fucking base.  Texas is such a lost cause. >
  
  All he has to do is claim “It’s Biden and Illegal Immigrants’ fault” and most Texans will believe him.  Texas is a lost cause. >
  
  Hey, I bet owning the libs with sending those poor people to the VP will keep his people warm tonight.