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    I have no doubt that Stewart prepared his testimony beforehand. Anyone should. But it was clearly heartfelt. Stewart is a good talk show host but not a good actor. Rush made 85 million dollars. And your one example of kindness is him giving $2000 to a waitress. Lol. NBA players find that laughable. Like most conservatives, you and he believe that trying to buy someone equals charity. She gave that tip to a pro choice charity, FYI. Some people can't be bought.
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    I was and am a huge Art Bell fan. I was just saying he did conspiracy radio right. Its supposed to be fun. Rush and Alex Jones made it hateful.
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    Sim City 3 taught me to avoid nuclear plants entirely because once they explode, and they will explode, it makes a quarter of your city unusable forever. Just have to toss the whole thing out and start over.
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    Anyone who believes that bullshit should watch Stewart's congressional testimony on behalf of 9-11 responders. He actually cares. On a side note, they should also watch Mr. Rogers' testimony saving public television. Both are examples of what good caring celebrities can do with their star power. Rush never gave a shit about anyone. And had Rush ever testified before Congress, it certainly wouldn't have been on anyone's behalf. It would have been against people. An empassioned cry to kill all Mexicans or something like that. He represented everything wrong with modern conservatism. It is reactionary and negative. Always against and never for anything. And that is partially Rush's fault. He made conservatives into super shitty people because he is super shitty.
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    He said engineer though. Are you saying he doesn't drive trains?
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    And when Schumer votes in favor of providing Texas aid, he should publicly make Ted and everyone else remember this. And challenge Ted to a duel. If Congress had duels, a lot of this would go away. Plus, best case scenario, Cruz would be gone. Worst case, Schumer is gone. Those are odds I can live with.
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    Most of the country has more issues in summer with peak usage. After the massive Northeast blackout almost 2 decades ago, changes were made. Some are still ongoing. Nobody said infrastructure improvements move fast.. Texas should have made changes after 2011. This is strike 2, not 1. Fool me once. Shame on you. Fool me twice. Can't get fooled again. But yall aren't going to try to fix this anymore than you try to take flood mitigation measures in Houston. Just gonna let it happen again and stick your hands out again. With a warmer arctic, you are going to start to see this more often,, so you should be prepared for it. Texas wasn't always like this. Galveston learned from 1900. They realized hurricanes can be really fucking bad, so they raised the whole town and built a seawall. It was time for Texas to build a grid seawall in 2011. Its past time now. Instead, its all finger pointing and excuses.
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    Sadly, the odds of that happening are probably better than 50/50.
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    He's a Republican. He would have been allowed to do that. Schumer, on the other hand, couldn't even take a working lunch at a restaurant until 2005 without getting blasted by Fox News. I'm actually surprised Ted is taking this much heat. So is he. Republicans aren't expected to work. Trump spent most of the last 4 years on vacation without a peep from right wing media, and only mild complaints from regular media.
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    Oh I know. Can't expect a red state to be proactive or even pay for reactive remedies. I expect the same old rodeo. We will clean up your mess again. Less than a year after yall told us to go fuck ourselves. And when I say yall, I mean the royal yall for Texas. I know that you and the board at large dont support most of the Texas GOP policies.
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    Yeah. And because of that they also did an interesting study on the effects of space on the body since one of them was in space for a year.
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    Here's the thing though. Louisiana doesn't have its own power grid. Other states are able to shift power from other areas. Since Texas goes it alone and can't do that, they should have built in more resiliency, not less. So yes, Texas should have winterized. More so than Louisiana, Arkansas, or any other state that is able to rely on its neighbors in a pinch.
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    I thought that graph was just household usage. At least it seems structured that way. It has Texas and Louisiana about even. If so, the northeast uses about half the kwh per household of southern states. And that includes states like Maine with large old houses. Just eyeballing it, I would guess most people are aiming for the $100 a month sweet spot no matter how much they pay per kwh which indicates conservation can be encouraged. Of course Maine probably has almost zero electric heat so that plays a role too. Maybe, November isn't necessarily heater weather in the south either.
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    Damn yall use a lot of electricity in the south in winter. I'd hate to see your summer usage.
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    Is she suggesting that the people she worked with were undocumented? Was she their employer? I think an investigation into her hiring practices is in order. If we really want to control unlawful immigration, it needs to start with a zero tolerance policy for employers. I think 20 years in prison for the first offense would dry the market right up. Undocumented immigrants would have no choice but to leave in order to obtain gainful employment. Not that I really support that. I just think it's telling that almost every person who claims to be anti-illegal immigration doesn't support policies that would actually curb it. And that's because they really don't care about immigration at all. They are just trying to cover up their racism.
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    The Texas grid is not subject to federal regulation. Intentionally. Why should FEMA cover the damages? Seems like Texas power generating entities and the state of Texas should start a fund to cover the damages they caused. We were told by Republicans that northeastern cities don't deserve bailouts for covid related budget shortfalls. Fine. I dont see why Texas deserves one here. Texas wanted their grid separate. It's Texas' problem. If the state doesn't have the budget for it, raise taxes. I do feel for the people affected, but collectively yall voted for this. There is plenty of money in Texas, especially in the energy sector. It should be their problem, not mine. Just like they wanted.
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    Incorrect. Rush catapulted to fame from NYC's WABC, which was his flagship station until he moved to NYC's WOR in 2014. I like how you guys pretend you are ruled by "outsiders" when your godking is a Manhattan real estate tycoon and all your media personalities cut their teeth on NYC radio, or Fox News, also HQed in NYC. You guys have even sold yourselves on Rudy G being an outsider now and that assclown was the mayor of NYC. And he also didn't create the right wing hate media industry although he may have perfected it. He essentially took Art Bell's format, took out the fun conspiracies, took out the pretense of being unbiased, and added hateful rhetoric. He was a shithead. The fact that he may not have believed any of the shit he sold you, and was only in it to make money,, makes him even worse.
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    Lagged behind? Sounds like you haven't been a guest at a Saudi palace. They have toilets that cost more than your house. The kingdom is American conservatism perfectly realized. The top 1% has everything. The rest live to work for the scraps that the top 1% cast off. And it's all tied together by keeping the 99% rabidly religious and focused on external bogeymen while the 1% only pretend to believe. If you are Joe Schmo, Saudi Arabia sucks just as much as Venezuela. The problem is putting all your eggs in a single economic basket. The same basket Texas Republicans want to put all Texas' eggs in. That worked out like dogshit in 70s Texas too.
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    They should have recommended the promotions while Trump was still there. That could have opened up the DoD and Trump to a gender discrimination suit. The DoD has its own cultural problems still even if TrumpCo is 1000x worse.
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    He knows it doesn't matter. And right now its an optics thing more than a "work to do" thing. He, along with other Republicans, planted the seeds for this failure a long time ago. However, there isn't a whole lot he can do now except bitch about things on Twitter and pretend he gives a shit about people. But also he doesn't even need to do the latter anymore. The Republican platform dropped the need to pretend to give a shit about people when it adopted Trump. It could even hurt him politically to pretend to be compassionate. Compassion is for libtards. The winning strategy is to go on vacation without even offering thoughts and prayers to frozen Texans, throw out some hate tweets to AOC between margaritas, and come back and cut taxes for O&G executives so they can pretend they are going to trickle that down to the plants and grid.
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    Can he run for both Senator and President at the same time? If so, that is what he is gonna do. He will just vacate the Senate win if he wins the Presidency.
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    Also, communist or socialist countries are second world. Third world countries were unaligned. Most of them were poor, but the term doesn't mean poor. It definitely doesn't mean socialist.
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    While he is down there, they should put him on the no fly list for his role in inciting the insurrection.
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    Not him. But I do feel bad for that guy having to go through life looking almost like Ted Cruz. He drew a bad hand.

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