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  It’s the first time in my life something on the news gave me literal nightmares
context: So it’s time for Cruz to jet off to somewhere tropical? >
  
  Apparently MGT is in Costa Rica at the moment, so the answer is yes. >
  
  They literally are lizard people. It's been projection all along.
  Have you ever seen a Republican in cold weather? Have you ever seen Palin outside? As soon as it gets cold they run off to the equator...
  Bernie puts on gloves and sits on his porch watching the snow fall. Dark Biden eats an ice cream on the train with a window open.
  Seeing a pattern here. Texas, five letters, 666 is three 6s, which is 1 more than 5. Texas is the devil confirmed. >
  
  I did not expect this latest twist. >
  
  You’re not a lizard person, that’s why. >
  
  We dont think lizard thoughts. If we did, we'd do lizard things. Says science. >
  
  Don’t judge us lizard people by Ted Cruz. We don’t even like him. >
  
  Back down to just Al Franklin liking him the most, and he hates Ted Cruz. >
  
  As the great Benjamin Franken once said
  "A stitch in time saves nine" >
  
  Texas after last winter storm: We're going to increase how much you pay so we can fix these problems.
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  The problems: not fixed.
  The money: pocketed.
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  How are Texans not furious. And if they are, are they mad at the right people, or are they finding some way to blame democrats? >
  
  Democrat in Texas. I'm frigging furious. And we know who's to blame. Big Money runs Texas, for Big Money.😠 😡 >
  
  My brother recently moved to Texas and my mom asked about the electric grid since it seems to cause problems in these storms. Somehow it’s the democrats fault? I’m not sure how since it’s a red state but yeah. >
  
  The retort to that is then how come power grids aren’t an issue in other states? >
  
  A great example is California (which will tweak many a Texas conservative). When the grid faced rolling blackouts last summer people came together to reduce their usage, and the problem was averted. Collective action saved the day, which is an arrow in the heart to the conservative ideal of "fuck you, I got mine". >
  
  And if it failed for longer they could tap the national grid as needed. >
  
  Which we did.  Pulled power in from as far away as Canada, even.  Not having an isolated grid is great! >
  
  The other day I was looking up some stats on power generated in WA state, and it’s pretty impressive how interconnected things are. Our excess output goes into a grid that includes 14 states, plus parts of Canada and Mexico. So you probably got some juice from us during all that! >
  
  We definitely did! >
  
  Crazy that just a few years ago I remember that Texans had great pride in the fact that they had a different grid from the rest of the US. It helped validate their desire to secede.
  Now the grid is just a deadly embarrassment for Texas. >
  
  “A deadly embarrassment” should be the Texas state motto. >
  
  Uvalde cops waiting patiently to enter the chat. >
  
  ...very very patiently... >
  
  with the sounds of children’s screams being removed >
  
  I upvoted this because goddamn I hate it so much. I can’t believe that phrase had to enter our lexicon. I was driving the other day and for some reason it popped into my head and I got all mad again >
  
  It makes my stomach feel like it’s in knots because I’m fucking pissed at the disgusting piglets (calling them piglets because those pigs acted like children) who did jack shit, but then I’m so incredibly sad thinking about those children who were slaughtered because of the inaction of the piglets.