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    LOL @ Joe Biden. A few days ago he declared that an emergency exists in Texas and approved federal assistance to supplement state and local response efforts. Joe didnt even ask for a favor or at the very least have anyone publically praise him. He has absolutely no deal making skills. A smart president would of used his federal leverage to get something that HE wants.

    Years ago Texas was smart enough to show its independence from america by deregulating and privatizing their electrical grid as well as isolating themselves to help avoid UNCONSTITUTIONAL federal regulations. It saved the citizens of Texas tons of money.

    It has come to my attention that some butthurt libs are pointing out that slightly richer areas in dallas like highland park and preston hollow had fewer outages and that city skylines were still bright. Well guess what, those people have MONEY so they clearly deserve to have power that they can PAY for.

    The best thing about privatizing is that you have the option to pay for a service or not. It saves money and you dont have big government trying to control your life by trying to make sure everyone has equal access to services. The ERCOT ceo making $750,000 just shows you how smart texas is with their money and power grid.

    If the people with outages are complaining that they are cold they should STFU and maybe get a 3rd job or 2nd side hustle so that they can take care of their family.

    In america we have this little thing called FREEDOM! I encourage any dumbass libs that think they have a right to suitable shelter, electricity, clean water, real food yada yada to move to a socialist shithole country like sweden.

     
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    One day without electricity is a small price to pay for freedom.

    Texas leads the way in wind power and is second in solar, thank you profit motive!

    Our system also punishes laziness, you forget to shop around when your current contract is up...you take it in the ass for a month.

    However, if you know how the system works...cheap cheap electricity...a couple years ago I had a deal that rebated me $85 once I hit 1000 KWH....bills routinely $26 and one was $5.

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    This dude doesn't belong it politics. The Facebook post that got him in hot water is at the bottom.




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    COLORADO CITY, Texas — Colorado City Mayor Tom Boyd has resigned.

    Boyd acknowledged the resignation Tuesday afternoon while responding to criticism he received for a controversial Facebook post.

    Tuesday morning, Boyd voiced his frustrations about residents who he said called him to complain about power and water outages.

    "If you don’t have electricity, you step up and come up with a game plan to keep your family warm and safe," Boyd said. "Get off your ass and take care of your own family!"

    Tuesday afternoon, Boyd posted another message.

    "I would never want to hurt the elderly or anyone that is in true need of help to be left to fend for themselves," said Boyd. "I was only making the statement that those folks that are too lazy to get up and fend for themselves but are capable should not be dealt a handout. I apologize for the wording and some of the phrases that were used!"

    Boyd said he had already turned in his resignation and did not file a ballot application to run in May.

    "Please understand, if I had it to do over again, I would have just kept my words to myself and if I did say them I would have used better wording and been more descriptive," said Boyd.

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    No one owes you or your family anything; nor is it the local governments 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! I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn hand out! If you don’t have electricity you step up and come up with a game plan to keep your family warm and safe. If you have no water you deal with out and think outside of the box to survive and supply water to your family. If you were sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your lazy is direct result of your raising! Only the strong will survive and the week will perish. Folks, God Has given us the tools to support ourselves in times like this. This is sadly a product of a socialist government where they feed people to believe that the FEW work and others will become dependent for handouts. Am I sorry that you have been dealing without electricity and water; yes! But I’ll be damned if I’m going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves! We have lost sight of those in need and those that take advantage of the system and mesh them into one group!! Bottom line, quit crying and looking for a handout! Get off your ass and take care of your own family!

    Bottom line - DON’T BE A PART OF A PROBLEM, BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION!

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    All, I have set back and watched all this escalating and have tried to keep my mouth shut! I won’t deny for one minute what I said in my post this morning. Believe me when I say that many of the things I said were taken out of context and some of which were said without putting much thought in to it. I would never want to hurt the elderly or anyone that is in true need of help to be left to fend for themselves. I was only making the statement that those folks that are too lazy to get up and fend for themselves but are capable should not be dealt a handout. I apologize for the wording and some of the phrases that were used! I had already turned in my resignation and had not signed up to run for mayor again on the deadline that was February 12th! I spoke some of this out of the anger that the city and county was catching for situations which were out of their control. Please understand if I had it to do over again I would have just kept my words to myself and if I did say them I would have used better wording and been more descriptive.

    The anger and harassment you have caused my wife and family is so undeserved....my wife was laid off of her job based off the association people gave to her and the business she worked for. She’s a very good person and was only defending me! But her to have to get fired from her job over things I said out of context is so horrible. I admit, there are things that are said all the time that I don’t agree with; but I would never harass you or your family to the point that they would lose there livelihood such as a form of income.

    I ask that you each understand I never meant to speak for the city of Colorado City or Mitchell county! I was speaking as a citizen as I am NOT THE MAYOR anymore. I apologize for the wording and ask that you please not harass myself or my family anymore
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    Like everything in the 2020s, this is getting needlessly political.

    The GOP is blaming Democrats for their insistence upon green power, which they claim wasn't sufficient for this cold spell. Democrats are blaming "Republican policies like deregulation" for causing this.

    In reality, it's just good ol' fashioned government incompetence.

    A decade ago, the federal government warned Texas that they needed to "winterize" power plants to prevent another disaster like this. They didn't. They failed to protect the power generation from ice and cold weather, and as a result, a lot of it went offline during the extreme cold.

    In short, Texas had enough power generation capacity, but a lot of it broke in this time of need.

    Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush a Republican tweeted, “If the last few days have proven anything, it’s that we need oil & gas. Relying solely on renewable energy would be catastrophic.”

    Environmentalists, meanwhile, cited the outages to question the degree to which fossil fuels such as natural gas and coal can be relied on to supply power in times of extreme weather.

    In truth, virtually all forms of power generation in Texas suffered outages during the cold snap, with early reports showing gas plants sustaining the most failures, Webber said. Early Monday morning, ERCOT issued a news release saying generation “across fuel types” had gone offline, amid reports of wind turbines covered in ice and natural gas wellheads freezing up.
    George P. Bush, by the way, is Jeb's 44-year-old, half-Hispanic son who spoke at the 1988 and 1992 Republican National Conventions, in an effort to appeal to Hispanic voters.

    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bus...d-15955392.php


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    At least there's a moratorium on the bird genocide and windmill cancer; cant be decapitating and cancering if the turbines are frozen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sloppy Joe View Post
    At least there's a moratorium on the bird genocide and windmill cancer; cant be decapitating and cancering if the turbines are frozen.

    We have the wind turbines in Montana. I've never heard of there being a problem during the extreme cold and blizzard conditions that we get every winter. Many of them are up close to the Canadian border as that is where it's the windiest.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
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    At least there's a moratorium on the bird genocide and windmill cancer; cant be decapitating and cancering if the turbines are frozen.

    We have the wind turbines in Montana. I've never heard of there being a problem during the extreme cold and blizzard conditions that we get every winter. Many of them are up close to the Canadian border as that is where it's the windiest.
    What about the cancer they generate?
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    Not in Texas but we’ve gotten almost a half inch of ice since Monday.

    Monday night my electric went out and came back on lastnight. No generator, no heat, had to pull our mattress in the living room and block off all the other rooms to conserve heat. Gutters and full and frozen solid. Basically everyone in my family had no power either.

    I went to fill my gas tank up Tuesday morning and there was a line out the door of people waiting to get kerosene and fill gas cans. Trees are down everywhere and continue to fall causing more and more power outages. My cell service is even out right now I can only communicate through email and text message.

    Guess what... we getting 5 inches of snow tonight too should be a great few days.

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    Years ago Texas was smart enough to show its independence from america by deregulating and privatizing their electrical grid as well as isolating themselves to help avoid UNCONSTITUTIONAL federal regulations. It saved the citizens of Texas tons of money.
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    In reality, it's just good ol' fashioned government incompetence.
    A decade ago, the federal government warned Texas that they needed to "winterize" power plants to prevent another disaster like this. They didn't. They failed to protect the power generation from ice and cold weather, and as a result, a lot of it went offline during the extreme cold.
    Which is it boys? If the sad state of Texas privatized an essential service and were warned by the federal government re not preparing for worst case scenarios, how is it ole fashioned government incompetence?

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sloppy Joe View Post
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    We have the wind turbines in Montana. I've never heard of there being a problem during the extreme cold and blizzard conditions that we get every winter. Many of them are up close to the Canadian border as that is where it's the windiest.
    What about the cancer they generate?
    Dead birds is the problem. In all honesty, conservatives are probably going to make a big deal of the wind turbines failing in Texas. They will pound away at how unreliable it is. But we have a much colder climate in Montana and the wind turbines work just fine. I suspect the problem in Texas is the wind turbines were just not winterized enough to withstand the rare extreme cold that hit them because no one ever thought something like that would happen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
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    What about the cancer they generate?
    Dead birds is the problem. In all honesty, conservatives are probably going to make a big deal of the wind turbines failing in Texas. They will pound away at how unreliable it is. But we have a much colder climate in Montana and the wind turbines work just fine. I suspect the problem in Texas is the wind turbines were just not winterized enough to withstand the rare extreme cold that hit them because no one ever thought something like that would happen.
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    They sure milk the fuck out of bald eagles getting whacked, why not avoid the turbines faggot birds, you can fly?

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Like everything in the 2020s, this is getting needlessly political.

    The GOP is blaming Democrats for their insistence upon green power, which they claim wasn't sufficient for this cold spell. Democrats are blaming "Republican policies like deregulation" for causing this.

    In reality, it's just good ol' fashioned government incompetence.

    A decade ago, the federal government warned Texas that they needed to "winterize" power plants to prevent another disaster like this. They didn't. They failed to protect the power generation from ice and cold weather, and as a result, a lot of it went offline during the extreme cold.

    In short, Texas had enough power generation capacity, but a lot of it broke in this time of need.

    Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush a Republican tweeted, “If the last few days have proven anything, it’s that we need oil & gas. Relying solely on renewable energy would be catastrophic.”

    Environmentalists, meanwhile, cited the outages to question the degree to which fossil fuels such as natural gas and coal can be relied on to supply power in times of extreme weather.

    In truth, virtually all forms of power generation in Texas suffered outages during the cold snap, with early reports showing gas plants sustaining the most failures, Webber said. Early Monday morning, ERCOT issued a news release saying generation “across fuel types” had gone offline, amid reports of wind turbines covered in ice and natural gas wellheads freezing up.
    George P. Bush, by the way, is Jeb's 44-year-old, half-Hispanic son who spoke at the 1988 and 1992 Republican National Conventions, in an effort to appeal to Hispanic voters.

    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bus...d-15955392.php


    Sad!
    Why is it "needlessly" political? Solutions that can help prevent this kind of problem have been blocked by Republicans who now want to point the finger anywhere but at themselves. They've been in complete control of Texas for 25 years now. Shouldn't their leadership carry some of the blame? Republicans were giddy when California had electricity supply problems before and blamed the Democrats running California, and to be fair they deserved some of the blame since they were in charge.





    Interesting that the political consequences are "needless" when Republicans are in charge.

     
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    A conservotard mayor in Texas selfed-booted himself for a stupid survival-of-the-fittest tweet he made in reaction to calls for the city to help its winter storm-hit citizenry after he got super negative feedback for it.

    Texas snow: Mayor quits after 'only strong will survive' post
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56100743

    Oh, and his wife lost her job over the matter, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MumblesBadly View Post
    A conservotard mayor in Texas selfed-booted himself for a stupid survival-of-the-fittest tweet he made in reaction to calls for the city to help its winter storm-hit citizenry after he got super negative feedback for it.

    Texas snow: Mayor quits after 'only strong will survive' post
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56100743

    Oh, and his wife lost her job over the matter, too.

    He was just being honest. That's what today's Republican Party is. Law of the jungle. Texans seem to love it because they keep electing them.

    Why should his wife lose her job?

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    I’ve seen several FB posts playing the “Texas didn’t want federal regulation” card so this is what they get due to their stupid Republican leaders.

    Problem is, Texas made that deal in 1935 when the entire Texas government was Democrat.

    People just like to play politics without knowing anything, it’s a joke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Texter View Post
    I’ve seen several FB posts playing the “Texas didn’t want federal regulation” card so this is what they get due to their stupid Republican leaders.

    Problem is, Texas made that deal in 1935 when the entire Texas government was Democrat.

    People just like to play politics without knowing anything, it’s a joke.
    And the people like Rick Perry today saying it's worth millions freezing for a few days so at least they keep out the feds, what party are they aligned with? Right now in 2020?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Texter View Post
    I’ve seen several FB posts playing the “Texas didn’t want federal regulation” card so this is what they get due to their stupid Republican leaders.

    Problem is, Texas made that deal in 1935 when the entire Texas government was Democrat.

    People just like to play politics without knowing anything, it’s a joke.
    And the people like Rick Perry today saying it's worth millions freezing for a few days so at least they keep out the feds, what party are they aligned with? Right now in 2020?
    Rick Perry has always been an idiot, C student back when A&M was a joke of a school...but he’s right, I’m willing to put up with this mess to save thousands each year. Obviously some people feel differently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Texter View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak View Post

    And the people like Rick Perry today saying it's worth millions freezing for a few days so at least they keep out the feds, what party are they aligned with? Right now in 2020?
    Rick Perry has always been an idiot, C student back when A&M was a joke of a school...but he’s right, I’m willing to put up with this mess to save thousands each year. Obviously some people feel differently.
    And you're certainly entitled to your opinion. But blaming the problem on what Democrats did in 1935 when the Republicans have been in complete control of Texas for 25 years and could have changed it at any time is ridiculous.

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