MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Texas power outages: How the largest energy-producing state failed in freezing temps
By artappraiser on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 2:17pm |
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https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2021/02/15/dallas-winter-storm-freeze.html
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from "As a Texan" trending on Twitter
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 2:46pm
Move over "Florida Man"...
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 2:49pm
^ is a very familiar rule in northern cities, if da mayor fucks up just one time with a snowstorm, off with their head, they're a goner.
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 2:49pm
Remember Michael Bilandic, Chicago '79 alum? I still remember the cartoons, "Day 43..., Day 44..."
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 2:53pm
Here's the ultra libertarian view, which would include lots of anarchist types left and right, a lot of people in this country think this way and it's not pretty, actually pretty ugly, to most of us who like elite civilization, but it's long a significant part of American culture and it's not going away soon. (Especially after so many have moved out of crowded urban areas, and people are buying more guns for "self-protection" and things like generators). I think it's important to understand they are part of our country, to deal with them as we have to live with them. They're not terrorists (unless you consider like, Kanye West, a terrorist), they just don't like paying a government taxes to do stuff they think people should do for themselves if they can do for themselves. They include a significant number of immigrants that have already weathered hell-used to it-and come here not for socialism but for capitalism.
He's resigned, but ya know what? He got elected saying shit like that.
Alice sums it up well, I think
a lot of non-urban Americans think at least a little like this. And the pandemic certainly did not cause it to decline. Not to mention the whole anti-policing thing this year!
Calling people like this names is not going to help, that's for sure. It just reinforces their beliefs that they shouldn't pool resources with you. They have to be convinced that they can trust pooling money with you, if you define yourself as their enemy, you're never goiing to solve the problem.
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 9:05pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 9:06pm
and it's definitely true that CALIFORNIANS HAVE ZERO CREDIBILITY TO CRITICIZE what is happening in Texas, their alternate system caused much more destruction for sure, and probably more deaths as well, though we don't know the death total for Texas yet:
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 9:13pm
Texans declare themselves to be self-reliant
What does Texas need to do?
This is not about California
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 9:22pm
It's about California to me and those two tweeters, that makes 3 people vs. 1 rmrd to start. PG&E power mis-management under a Democratic governor burned down two of my in-laws' houses and everything they owned to the ground in Paradise, CA. a little over two years ago. All my relatives in CA had to deal with rolling blackouts this summer just like Texas is dealing with now
You should ask some vineyard owning friends whether they think the power grid in CA was well managed.
Both large states have mis-managed power grids. We in NY and the Northeast had the same thing in the past.
Like plowing out after a snowstorm, or having a fire department, this is just not that political. It's a question of competence and whether and what the constituents demand in services.
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 9:51pm
It is nice that it is all about California to you
The California grid is crap.
I have friends in Austin.
They do not give a crap about California right now
They want to know when Texas will get their act in order
Cruz laughed when the California grid went belly up
Cruz delayed sending aid to N.Y. and N.J. after a storm
Cruz whined about federal help when Texas flooded
What is Texas' plan
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 9:56pm
I would just like to point out to any rational readers out there that my post started with Titus' tweet of a Dalllas Business Journal article which started out with Titus's comment
In Cali THIS was our problem. No updating of the power grid. Texas has its own grid instead of part of the national grid....
For those not knowledgeable of this slang, Cali = California.
I would also like to point out that Titus is a known Trump basher second to none.
But he doesn't bring up Trump, Republicans or Democrats when introducing this bizjournal article (a non-political publication!) He brings up--ta-dah!-- the comparison between California's and Texas' problems with their grid
*this has been your Dagblog warning about dangers of gaslighting via hijacking of topics*
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/17/2021 - 1:02am
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/17/2021 - 2:44am
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/17/2021 - 2:46am
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/17/2021 - 2:50am
Houston Chief of Police:
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/17/2021 - 2:57am
investigative reporter for Houston Chronicle:
Rep. Joaquin Castro:
Texas Dept. of Transportation:
Touche:
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/17/2021 - 3:07am
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/17/2021 - 3:11am
Tucker tilting at windmils
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/17/2021 - 6:43am
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/17/2021 - 11:03am
Obama:
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/17/2021 - 7:02pm
As an ex-president I'm sure Trump is engaged in similar efforts to help the people in need in Texas as it's a republican state.
by ocean-kat on Wed, 02/17/2021 - 7:15pm
Ouch.
by moat on Wed, 02/17/2021 - 7:49pm
He doesn't read the faux news and doesn't get the cartoon briefings anymore? I bet he'd throw them some paper towels if he knew?
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 8:24am
Hillary too, she tweeted this:
and right before that she retweeted this Joaquin Castro tweet about challenging ERCOT that I already posted on this thread
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 7:46pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 12:07am
thread, including on infamous former Gov. Perry
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 12:41am
(confirmations in thread)
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 1:38am
hah, there's a "woke Mitt" on twitter with something to say about Cruz:
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 4:56am
more details on the CRUZ TO CANCUN gotcha, how it went down, how it's going
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 4:58pm
apparently it's all Heidi Cruz's fault (a reminder that Trump warned the fans about her being ugly!)
on a different note, though, the story IS proof that it's not true that all powerful people in Texas are getting special treatment on heating access, unless the Cruz's are in a bad neighborhood, which I think is highly unlikely
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 7:12pm
uh oh this one may be the final coup de grace, the Cruz's were gonna leave little doggo named Snowflake to freeze to death
I am reminded of Romney's presidential run blindsided by a story of tying the family dog to the top of a car...
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/19/2021 - 2:56am
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/22/2021 - 3:21pm
lol at this Cruz splainin video where someone replaced the backdrop behind him with Nicholson in The Shining frozen in the snow:
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 8:27pm
a message for shit-eating ghouls from Kit O'Connell of Austin, TX:
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 5:57am
Texas Blackouts Hit Minority Neighborhoods Especially Hard
As the freak winter storm raged, historically marginalized communities were among the first to face power outages, experts say.
By James Dobbins and Hiroko Tabuchi @ NYTimes.com, Updated Feb. 18, 2021, 5:24 a.m. ET
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 8:20am
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/19/2021 - 4:55am
@POTUS:
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/19/2021 - 5:00am
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/19/2021 - 12:42pm
America is Back, the one that doesn't need to figure out Red or Blue state for ordering emergency aid. Compare this to Trump watching California burn.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/20/2021 - 1:28pm
that's exactly why I pushed back against the debate that originally started up on this thread about "it's all 'The Republicans' fault". Because the not-so-subtle implication was "fuck em, let them die, they are our enemy", including strings of links proving how they are the enemy. Supposedly to prove to some huge audience of strawmen reading this thread on Dagblog how "if you vote this way, this is could happen to you." Kind of abhorrent to me, that kind of argument. If the "other side" loves to see some collective punishment along these lines (when the state is nearly half blue, for chrissake), what alternative does the Dem party offer?
That sort of talk is self-defeating. The Dems that are smart, from Biden to Beto to AOC, know that kind of talk is stupid and counterproductive. They are out there offering help, not playing the blame game.I think every comment on the internet along the lines of "Republicans are the evil enemy" practiced by a couple people on this website is counterproductive. I don't push back that often because I know that the audience is so small here.
But if it was a larger audience, I would be tempted to push back more strongly simply because: I know that;'s stupid and counterproductive. It's exactly the kind of thing I know has changed the registration of people I know personally away from Democratic, its why Independent registration grows all the time. People hate the discord. The Majority nationwide don't like that from either party (yes, it may differ in gerrymandered districts meant to divide our union, os the answer is to make that worse?!.) Joe Biden's unity message won him the presidency, whether you think it is possible is another thing. It's what the majority wants. It's simply stupid politics to offer more of the same message as an alternative, not to mention being as cruel as "they" are.
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/20/2021 - 2:15pm
and throw in the implication that this is different from the California problem with PG & E: ABSURD! It's the same problem: regulation. To imply that it's not the same problem is to make it a partisan issue for political advantage, and not to solve the problems and to make it an intractable partisan political problem where the ultimate answer is: kill the other side.
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/20/2021 - 2:20pm
See? And you say you just want to post the news and not engage with this stuff. But you're hooked as well - occasionally, bubbles to the top.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/20/2021 - 2:20pm
And, as opposed to "some huge audience of strawmen, the largest number I have seen estimated to be regular lurkers at dag is my estimate of forty to forty five.
by A Guy Called LULU on Sat, 02/20/2021 - 5:41pm
oh man
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/19/2021 - 12:44pm
for the record, the above is fake:
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/20/2021 - 1:25pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/20/2021 - 1:16am