Millions of Texans still without power are going to extreme lengths to stay warm, the mayor of Colorado City steps down after telling residents “the weak will perish,” and Fox blames AOC’s Green New Deal for the power outages when poor oversight is the real culprit. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #Texas
Peak Greenwald. https://t.co/gx0UpUXttY
— Patrick (@QuadCityPat) February 18, 2021
re: #4 Patricia Kayden
OMFG. He has totally gone off that end.
The world is better today that Rush Limbaugh is no longer here. He was a vile human being, but he just latched onto the evil others created and promoted its message. He was a bit player in the right wing conspiracy tearing this nation apart. He wasn’t responsible for the attacks on Bill Clinton throughout his administration nor for Gingrich’s successful campaign to win control of the House. He didn’t provide Trump with his birther storyline, nor his racism, nor his successful campaign to become president. It was Hannity and Fox who advised Trump, not Limbaugh.
Maybe I am underestimating his pernicious impact on this nation, but it often seems that his role has been exaggerated. There are others who are poisoning this nation — ALEC, the Cato Institute, the Mercers, the Koch Bros — he was a sideshow.
re: #7 Hecuba’s daughter
He was the Salesman.
I now have multiple people DMing me, confirming he was on their flight to Cancun today 👀 https://t.co/B6aikULyZ6
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) February 18, 2021
This is @GregAbbott_TX’s Texas. https://t.co/oXR2VvctrL
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) February 18, 2021
He has been spirited away until March 19 so he and Trump and JFK Jr. can put the finishing touches on the PLAN.
I did some research, and concluded he’d like us to honor him by regarding his death as a hoax.
— Stupendous Gravity (@StupendousGrav1) February 17, 2021
Thread
So Capitol Police called me today to come in for an interview.
They were pretty cryptic on what it was about, but it turns out they have two ongoing investigations that I was witness to: one, the potential assault of an officer by a Member of Congress, the other, Andy Harris.— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) February 17, 2021
re: #7 Hecuba’s daughter
The world is better today that Rush Limbaugh is no longer here. He was a vile human being, but he just latched onto the evil others created and promoted its message. He was a bit player in the right wing conspiracy tearing this nation apart. He wasn’t responsible for the attacks on Bill Clinton throughout his administration nor for Gingrich’s successful campaign to win control of the House. He didn’t provide Trump with his birther storyline, nor his racism, nor his successful campaign to become president. It was Hannity and Fox who advised Trump, not Limbaugh.
Maybe I am underestimating his pernicious impact on this nation, but it often seems that his role has been exaggerated. There are others who are poisoning this nation — ALEC, the Cato Institute, the Mercers, the Koch Bros — he was a sideshow.
He may have become a sideshow during the Trump era, but without Limbaugh, and the rise of the right wing media he kicked off, I doubt the stage could have been set for the rise of Trump, or anyone like him. As for him being a bit player, he may not have added much in the realm of right wing propaganda, but his radio show, along with the clones that followed, as well as blogs and websites and Fox, etc, mainstreamed and normalized the vile bullshit others created before him, which to me is just as bad, if not worse.
re: #9 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
hmmmmm…wonder what 19th Century Fox would do if Beto flew to Cancun with his family…instead of Rafael and his brood…
Fuck them kids. pic.twitter.com/5l8MY171mb
— Eyes on the Right (@EyesOnTheRight) February 17, 2021
re: #16 Ace-o-aces
Wow. That is real? Sad that anyone could think like that. Something is wrong with that guy.
Not to mention the time travel aspect. How exactly are future generations supposed to do something for us?
re: #16 Ace-o-aces
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You can always count on that freak to out asshole himself every succeeding time. That’s the only way he can continue getting his Wingnut Welfare money.
re: #17 Tahitinho
Wow. That is real? Sad that anyone could think like that. Something is wrong with that guy.
Not to mention the time travel aspect. How exactly are future generations supposed to do something for us?
re: #16 Ace-o-aces
So, apparently, sometime in the last 4 years @DineshDSouza stopped giving a fuck about future generations. pic.twitter.com/IaPrmekGOM
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) February 18, 2021
re: #19 Ace-o-aces
Does he expect future generations to time travel back here and give him a cookie?
re: #20 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Num-num. Cookies from the future. Must be pretty good!
This does raise questions about the expiration dates of food from the future…
KEEPING WARM: Thousands of cold-stunned sea turtles are inside the South Padre Island Convention Centre after volunteers rescued more than 3,500 of them from freezing temperatures amid a record-breaking winter storm. https://t.co/ZFy8N1HIht pic.twitter.com/sF0hWoThem
— ABC News (@ABC) February 17, 2021
Easy! Come to Canada and learn how to do it.
— Jose Gutierrez (@joseagr_ve) February 18, 2021
re: #22 Dread Pirate Ron
Now THAT wasn’t easy.
What in the hell is the matter with you @tedcruz? How dare you fly to Cancun, Mexico while Texas is in a state of emergency.
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) February 18, 2021
re: #25 DodgerFan1988
GOP: Not only the ‘Party of Treason’ also the party of Fuck you Jack I Got Mine.
Ted Cruz is a complete spineless piece of shit regardless. Why does this shock anyone?
Texas’ power company CEO claimed we’re ‘ready for the frigid temps’ days before blackouts: meeting recordshttps://t.co/vnukNvkV8r
— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 18, 2021
#Maddow shames Texas Republicans for knowing 10 years ago their power plants couldn’t withstand the coldhttps://t.co/pk205Bwidu
— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 18, 2021
As MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow explained Wednesday evening, a 2011 freeze, exactly ten years ago, resulted in exactly the same problem that Texas is facing now. After it was over the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a 300-page report detailing what Texas needed to do to prevent it from happening in the future. ERCOT sent “recommendations” to its power generators, who apparently didn’t implement the suggestions.
In the most recent rantcast Lewis discusses online scams, the impeachment hearings, and the Super Bowl. Also in the rantcast, a law so ridiculous, it sets Lewis off the edge. https://t.co/xqfLaOAdE5 pic.twitter.com/30uSIPkxV1
— Lewis Black (@TheLewisBlack) February 15, 2021
I only wish he’d left sooner.
Rush Limbaugh chose to use his last months on this planet actively trying to tear the country apart. Even as he faced his own mortality there was no apparent self-reflection, no moment of realization, no apologies, just pure bile as he circled the drain.
— VidaAnn Anderson (@406CreativeVibe) February 18, 2021
re: #29 Dread Pirate Ron
If he’s talking about Walthall County Mississippi, they passed a ballot initiative legalizing alcohol in the 2020 election.
I’m sorry….what? pic.twitter.com/MSdTnzAKsG
— Stephen (@AmericanBoy) February 14, 2021
Idiotic Kevin Sorbo is whining about being kicked off Facebook, apparently because he posted Covid-19 BS.
🙄
Terrance seem to have missed that Biden authorized aid to Texas DAYS ago.
If we’re at the blaming Biden phase of this, I guess that’s confirmation. pic.twitter.com/L7lVMSTTiP
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 18, 2021
re: #28 Dread Pirate Ron
We were snowbirding at the Tucson rock show during that 2011 winter blast. Damn it was cold with 30-40 mph wind gusts. Furnace in our RV couldn’t keep up. Used every blanket we had.
There’s been many comments about the shortage of natural gas today and it was the same in 2011. Demand for natural gas was so high the as company could not maintain adequate pressures so they had to shut the lines down. When the emergency was over, the gas company had to relight all the pilot lights to get the system up and running. Took many days.
One problem that occurred in Tucson that I haven’t seen reported now is the practice of many people in these southern areas to not use or maintain the anti-freeze in their vehicle engines. Mostly lower income people who couldn’t afford the $10 or so for a gallon of anti-freeze. There were a lot of frozen and busted engine blocks after that 2011 event.
— J- 🌎✨ (@MajorFactor2) February 18, 2021
TRUMP LOSING BANK AND BIZ TIES
02 pic.twitter.com/8VL9loaXN9— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) February 18, 2021
Vintage photo of Keith Richards holding Betty White. pic.twitter.com/xkDGqGe4yO
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) February 18, 2021
Here’s the difference between Democrats and deadbeat Republicans, start voting for the good guys, people, things might start working for you. https://t.co/Ol19y7O5b1
— Sebastian Roché (@sebroche) February 18, 2021
It looks like Gov. Abbott finally resurfaced on twitter. His last prior tweet was Feb 15:
Where you been at puta?!!!
— BlackToDiBone (@BlackToDiBone) February 18, 2021
“French Laundry” is trending on Twit. huh?
I missed this from Dec. 2020:
latimes.com
So why is “French Laundry” trending now? Related to the Ted Cruz exfiltration from the GOP Texas Disaster:
Did Ted Cruz really fly to Cancún today in the middle of one of the worst natural disasters and humanitarian crises in Texas’s history?
Jeez. Ted Cruz really did go to Cancun. I didn’t think that was him.
Ted Cruz & @heidiscruz boarding a flight to Cancun, while millions of Texans are freezing and without power. pic.twitter.com/qrLrMReAAY
— Devin Nunes’s Achilles Heel (@clarekelly007) February 18, 2021
re: #43 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Jeez. Ted Cruz really did go to Cancun. I didn’t think that was him.
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Only reason they’re wearing masks is so they’re not immediately identified. Otherwise they’d be screaming to the TSA agents “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!”
re: #43 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
State problems are not Ted Cruz’s problems.
Federal problems are not Ted Cruz’s problems.
Insults to his father and wife are not Ted Cruz’s problems.
so on…
I stress about everything.
The crowd that spent years screaming “WHERE WAS OBAMA?!” are oddly silent as Repub officials are MIA while Texas turns into a frozen tundra.
re: #20 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Does he expect future generations to time travel back here and give him a cookie?
The American Dream used to be about providing a better life and future for one’s family. Does Dinesh have family? Does he have human DNA?
I think we have serious proof of Lizard People infiltrating our ranks here…
I’m so thrilled to see Beto reaching out to older people. I was really worried about them because they’re especially vulnerable.
stolen
What Trump, his base, Mitch, W, etc have taught us:
* don’t negotiate with terrorists
* no outreach will ever yield honest negotiation
* Democrats are not “allowed” to win elections (illegitimate if they do)
* they’ll (Reublikkklans) steal your right to vote if they can
* Republican government ensures catastrophe in some formWe must have a backbone, or we’ll eventually have a dictatorship.
re: #43 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Abbott’s claim that 200,000 homes are having their power restored every hour means that all 1,600,000 homes without power have been restored overnight.
I don’t think that happened, Greg!
re: #8 retired cynic
He was the Salesman.
Jonathan chait
Yet his show was curiously devoid of any skill at argument….
“Limbaugh’s program was useless in this regard. He could blather for hours without going from a premise to a conclusion. His only tools for processing opposing points of view were assertion, mockery, and resentment. Limbaugh liked to call himself smart, but he was a lifelong stranger to reason. He hid this weakness with a remarkable ability to gab smoothly and seamlessly.”
…and lie without ever saying anything
re: #51 Dangerman
Jonathan chait
…and lie without ever saying anything
His way of dealing with opposition on his show was simply to insult the opposition, sneer at them, and then either throw them off his show or (if a caller) hang-up before proceeding to hurl more insults to make clear to his listeners how much of an “alpha male” he was.
re: #52 Targetpractice
and set up straw-man arguments that he could knock over to “prove” his point…
Morning Lizardim from the stubbornly snowing wild north country. I thought it was supposed to be a short series of snow showers and then done, but nooope - it kept snowing all day, and all night, and into this morning. Not a lot, but enough to be really freaking annoying when I got up this morning to haul out the garbage and grab some essentials from the gas station grocery. There’s still a light dusting left in the wake of my efforts, but I’m at the point in the season where I just can’t be bothered anymore. I see Raphael Cruz has, in the proud and courageous tradition of Republican politicians everywhere, done a runner in the face of adversity in his home state, fleeing to Cancún rather than deal with the reality that he’s an insufferable douchecanoe and the economic policies he so admires have failed repeatedly in the face of Mother Nature. How go things among the lizardfolk on this lightly snowy and finally-above-zero-degrees Thursday?
I hope this is true, but I haven’t seen it reported elsewhere.
Breaking: Two federal sources have shared that Rudy Giuliani will be indicted.
— PC: United (@PCUnitedPage) February 18, 2021
WaPo
Opinion: Texas shows that when you cannot govern, you lie. A lot.
A black man would have been dead or in need of hospitalization after fighting a room full of police, but somehow this asshole came back to fight cops two more times and didn’t even get arrested. Peak #WhitePrivilege
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) February 18, 2021
re: #56 Dangerman
Opinion: Texas shows that when you cannot govern, you lie. A lot.
Tilting at frozen windmills
Hey everyone.
Slow down.
There’s no Rush.— ken olin (@kenolin1) February 18, 2021
I wonder if they have already come in and stripped the plating off his Golden Microphone…
Another good thread by Teri Kanefield.
This is what Yale Professor @TimothyDSnyder calls “governing by crisis and spectacle.
The purpose of a fascist government is to maintain order, which means keeping the ruling oligarchs rich and everyone else poor.
This raises a problem for fascist leaders …
1/ https://t.co/wcVOsx7f1R— Teri Kanefield (@Teri_Kanefield) February 17, 2021
re: #62 No Malarkey!
People were sick of politicians and politics as usual.
Networks are more interested in generating ratings than broadcasting news and critical information on important events
Social media make it easy to manipulate news feeds, especially when #trendingontwitter becomes a news item in and of itself.
those all contributed to what we had for the past four years and are still struggling to crawl out from under now
Time to change the ringtone. 😼😹 pic.twitter.com/dbJLchX6pA
— Fred Schultz (@fred035schultz) February 15, 2021
People are sleeping on floors, toilets are clogged and covered in plastic bags because of the smell. People report not being given drinking water. When asked about water, guards have said: “you shouldn’t have f**ing gotten locked up.” (2)
— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) February 17, 2021
re: #16 Ace-o-aces
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They are you
Fuck them kids. pic.twitter.com/5l8MY171mb
— Eyes on the Right (@EyesOnTheRight) February 17, 2021
re: #15 🌹UOJB!
hmmmmm…wonder what 19th Century Fox would do if Beto flew to Cancun with his family…instead of Rafael and his brood…
And beto’s a senator from where right now?!//
re: #45 Ming5000
State problems are not Ted Cruz’s problems.
Federal problems are not Ted Cruz’s problems.
Insults to his father and wife are not Ted Cruz’s problems.
so on…I stress about everything.
Ted is like Marco
I couldn’t find A job
I’m here for the paycheck
Not to do any work
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and set up straw-man arguments that he could knock over to “prove” his point…
When you control the Mic and the call dump button you control the narrative
re: #59 Ming5000
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Hey everyone.Slow down.There’s no Rush.
— ken olin (@kenolin1) February 18, 2021
Morning, all. The NWS tornado watch is about to expire, so I guess it’s a good morning.
A couple more thoughts on Limbaugh
This believer in traditional marriage had 4 lasting an average 8 years
He claimed an audience of 27m a week.
Probably closer to 15m.
As a loud and staunch Trump supporter, losing him after losing the Twitter megaphone even at 15m is gonna hurt Trump even more. No ones gonna step in and hold that group together
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don’t* pursue a Green New Deal.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 17, 2021
Everybody knows that the end goal of the Green New Deal is to have us all living in lean-tos, eating foraged foods and wiping our asses with dried leaves…
the wholesale price of a megawatt-hour in Houston went from $22 to about $9,000. (409x)
The spot price for March futures for natural gas in Oklahoma are normally $3 per million BTUs, but have hit $600 now because production went from 13 billion cubic feet per day to 7 billion. (200x)
I bet if Texas renamed their power grid to uterus, the state would be regulating the shit out of it.
— Irishrygirl (@irishrygirl) February 17, 2021
re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Everybody knows that the end goal of the Green New Deal is to have us all living in lean-tos, eating foraged foods and wiping our asses with dried leaves…
Mmmmmm.
Texans: I’ll give you my fossil fuels when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
Mother Nature: ok
The real focus of the Biden relief bill should be tax cuts for billionaires, who will trickle it down to the rest of us.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) February 18, 2021
re: #81 No Malarkey!
The real focus of the Biden relief bill should be tax cuts for billionaires, who will trickle it down to the rest of us.
It has always worked so well thus far…
Internet traffic to previously marginal far-right news outlines like One America News Network and Newsmax grew sharply in 2020. OANN grew by 148% to 77 million visits and Newsmax grew by 141% to 223 million visits. One of the biggest gainers of all was the Gateway Pundit, which doubled to 310 million visits
So Texas is freezing and Ted Cruz goes to Cancun? Talk about bad optics.
Playa del Bad Ideas. pic.twitter.com/7EPMS2NFTY
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) February 18, 2021
re: #84 darthstar
So Texas is freezing and Ted Cruz goes to Cancun? Talk about bad optics.
I thought there were travel restrictions. I guess I was wrong.
re: #84 darthstar
So Texas is freezing and Ted Cruz goes to Cancun? Talk about bad optics.
While Texas lies in limbo, Ted Cruz is playing limbo at the pool in his Cancun vacation resort, answering the age old question ‘How low can you go?’
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) February 18, 2021
re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Everybody knows that the end goal of the Green New Deal is to have us all living in lean-tos, eating foraged foods and wiping our asses with dried leaves…
I thought it was a taco truck on every corner and the only sauce available was green? Is that some other new deal?
re: #84 darthstar
So Texas is freezing and Ted Cruz goes to Cancun? Talk about bad optics.
One can only hope that Ted has just given up on his political career and is going to enjoy the rest of his last term as a Senator…
re: #87 lawhawk
I thought it was a taco truck on every corner and the only sauce available was green? Is that some other new deal?
Or does it refer to our new Lizard People alien overlords?
re: #87 lawhawk
I thought it was a taco truck on every corner and the only sauce available was green? Is that some other new deal?
Sign me up!
So the preppers who prepared for anything and everything were stymied by
Snow
cold
Electricity
Cans
re: #77 Dangerman
the wholesale price of a megawatt-hour in Houston went from $22 to about $9,000. (409x)
The spot price for March futures for natural gas in Oklahoma are normally $3 per million BTUs, but have hit $600 now because production went from 13 billion cubic feet per day to 7 billion. (200x)
And they’ve been authorized to pass that cost on to the consumer, because God forbid that the utilities providers take it in the shorts in order to keep the lights on during a state emergency.
re: #84 darthstar
Optics? Cruz doesn’t give a shit about optics. After all, he’s the same craven coward and corrupt nutjob who warned about Trump and then Trump not only dumped on his wife and his father, but Cruz turned around to be the most sycophantic suckup among all the Trump suckups in Congress.
That takes “skill”.
Cruz doesn’t give a shit about how many millions of Texans are without power or water. He has the means to go where it’s warm and avoid the problem. He can afford to travel. He can escape the shithole that now is Texas.
He doesn’t care. He doesn’t have any answers. GOPers never do. They care only about their own profit and power. Doesn’t matter what happens to the very people that voted him in office, because that was never something he cared about. He, like the rest of the GOP, don’t care about people, only their own power. They will lie and spew crazy shit out of a firehose to get white people angry about absolutely everything to vote for the GOP, but when they’re in office, the only things they can settle on to even attempt doing is scuttling the safety net, massive tax cuts for their wealthy cronies, and pushing white nationalist policies because their base has been primed to accept nothing less thanks to decades of misinformation from Fox and the likes of Rush, Hannity, etc.
Cruz doesn’t have a plan to deal with the crisis in his state. He’s part of the fucking problem.
He should resign but wont. Cornyn too. Those two are worse than useless for Texans. The entire GOP has failed Texas, and it took a snowstorm to do it far more immediately than their disastrous pandemic response could.
re: #91 Dangerman
So the preppers who prepared for anything and everything were stymied by
Snow
cold
Electricity
Cans
And masks
re: #85 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I thought there were travel restrictions. I guess I was wrong.
They slipped around an unfinished portion of the wall. Reverse coyote cost them six months’ wages.
Ted Cruz pic.twitter.com/wSCTBRvHiK
— Seth Masket (@smotus) February 18, 2021
re: #81 No Malarkey!
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These are all different ways of budgetarily finding the money to pay for the same things. Joe et al are showing us how its done
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, @BudgetHawks, taking aim at the Biden relief bill, slams it for “losing focus” with proposed expansions to child and earning income tax credits, as well as minimum wage hike and ACA subsidies
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) February 17, 2021
According to this website, it’s steadily restoring now back to ~515,000—and anecdotally, I’m back in power and will be reporting again today. https://t.co/o7wBWV2xjC https://t.co/Bcd0fVGQOt
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) February 18, 2021
When the biggest natural disaster in one hundred years hits your state and you immediately leave on vacation, you are telling us you either don’t care or there is nothing you can do to help.
So whether he is indifferent or useless, either way Ted Cruz should resign https://t.co/N8zUJIu0BB— Nunca Trumpismo (@NeverTrumpTexan) February 18, 2021
Useless Ted.
You’re right. Leadership has nothing to do with staying involved during a crisis if you’re not directly responsible for the crisis. Better to leave that all behind for the sun and show those suffering you have the steel not to be deterred from vacation plans. Brave @tedcruz. https://t.co/jzP3kE7DcI
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) February 18, 2021
re: #99 jaunte
Useless Ted.
You know what a caring, compassionate, competent politician would do? FLY HOME. Be seen out in the community, helping organize relief, interacting with residents and actually helping people. Phone it in to Washington and get your damn hands dirty. Ted Cruz doesn’t want to get his hands dirty. Ted Cruz wants to collect his fat cushy paycheck and live comfortably in his reality of alternative facts.
re: #100 jaunte
About 70% of politics is precisely “performative drama”. FDR didn’t go ashore at Normandy.
Erickson criticizes “performative drama.”
Cruz cooked bacon with a machine gun.
re: #102 Decatur Deb
About 70% of politics is precisely “performative drama”. FDR didn’t go ashore at Normandy.
I wouldn’t have asked him to, but your job is to get involved in ways that show support, not check the fuck out and flee the country at the first hint of pushback. Pressure state legislators to fucking do something. Co-sponsor a bill with a House member to get some kind of reform going. In general, don’t be an apathetic idiot.
re: #103 marcusgorillius
Ted Cruz is an idiot.
He represents a large portion of his constituents accurately.
re: #100 jaunte
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Hey Erick,
See o’rourke, beto, NOT a US senator
The fact that people think Ted Cruz, a United States Senator, can do anything about a state power grid, even his own, is rather demonstrative of the ignorance of so many people who cover politics. They’d rather performative drama than substance.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) February 18, 2021
re: #99 jaunte
And to think that Texas could have had Beto as their Senator instead of Ted Cruz, who flew to Cancun instead of helping his constituents during a natural disaster.
GOPers in office don’t care how many get sick or die. They care only of themselves and their wealth. https://t.co/qSF6Lj6fh8— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) February 18, 2021
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) “defended his decision Wednesday to steer COVID-19 vaccine to a planned community with family ties to a Republican power couple, threatening to pull doses if local officials criticize his distribution methods,” the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports.“DeSantis is facing questions over his decision to provide seniors living in two of Manatee County’s wealthiest ZIP codes with special access to the vaccine.”
Right out in the open
If they dare to criticize…
re: #110 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I have an awesome grasp of the obvious. I’m sure there are a lot of good people in Texas but how the fuck can you keep electing people like Cruz, Cronyn and Gohmert
re: #112 Dangerman
Right out in the open
If they dare to criticize…
“It puts on the lotion, or it doesn’t get the vaccine.”
re: #34 thecommodore
Idiotic Kevin Sorbo is whining about being kicked off Facebook, apparently because he posted Covid-19 BS.
🙄
My congressman, Andy Biggs, is a maskhole and COVID-19 denier. I regularly report (some of) his posts and nothing has happened. I also call out his PR guy, one Daniel Stefanski. I’m not mincing words either.
re: #100 jaunte
If journalists in this country are worth their salt, the only questions they will ask Ted Cruz ever again will be about how much he enjoyed his trip to Cancun.
re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
👍👍👍👍👍
re: #113 marcusgorillius
I’ve heard they keep the communists from taking all the guns.
re: #118 jaunte
I’ve heard they keep the communists from taking all the guns.
which are needed to keep the blacks and Mexicans at bay…
re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And being self-sufficient in a crisis, when you need to suit up and shoot some drinking water.
re: #112 Dangerman
Right out in the open
If they dare to criticize…
And you can bet if Trump had won re-election, this is how vaccine distribution would have worked nationwide
re: #17 Tahitinho
Wow. That is real? Sad that anyone could think like that. Something is wrong with that guy.
Not to mention the time travel aspect. How exactly are future generations supposed to do something for us?
He is trying to channel Rush.
re: #17 Tahitinho
Wow. That is real? Sad that anyone could think like that. Something is wrong with that guy.
Not to mention the time travel aspect. How exactly are future generations supposed to do something for us?
I’m thinking he would justify a forced vasectomy. I mean, what does he owe his kids?
With the Senate trial in the rearview, former President Donald Trump is now confronting a whole range of other legal dramas during his immediate post-presidency, the Daily Beast reports.No longer shielded by the considerable legal protection of the Oval Office, Trump has privately bemoaned that his foes are going to be investigating or “suing me for the rest of my life.”
He gets it
He finally gets it
“Hypocrites. Complete and utter hypocrites.”
- Sen. Ted Cruz, Dec. 2020 https://t.co/392Wdp7fas— Zach Everson (@Z_Everson) February 18, 2021
seems like a smart move https://t.co/3kztkF5Hx7
— one wag (@Theophite) February 17, 2021
re: #126 Belafon
Joe Biden, Ronald Klain and his team are working to define bipartisanship and unity based on public opinion and not whether Republicans in DC sign on to his proposals.
“We didn’t elect you to vote your conscience!”
Karl rove. We can dream
Mr. Trump may not be fully aware of shifting currents among congressional Republicans. More members now admit privately that Mr. Trump had no coattails in last fall’s election. Especially in the suburbs, some Republicans and many GOP-leaning independents refused to take his lawn signs or support him. That’s why so many Republican congressional candidates ran ahead of the former president.
Mr. Trump crowed Tuesday that he “received the most votes of any sitting President in history.” Then again, Joe Biden received more votes than any candidate in history—and seven million more votes than Mr. Trump.
Despite possessing all the powers of incumbency and leading a united GOP, Mr. Trump lost the presidency. If he returned for another White House contest, leading a divided party at war with itself and out of power, he’d be wiped out
re: #51 Dangerman
Jonathan chait
…and lie without ever saying anything
Sounds like someone else who dominated the news for four years.
re: #52 Targetpractice
His way of dealing with opposition on his show was simply to insult the opposition, sneer at them, and then either throw them off his show or (if a caller) hang-up before proceeding to hurl more insults to make clear to his listeners how much of an “alpha male” he was.
He did “caller abortions” playing the sound of a toilet flushing after hanging up on a caller. Stupid “shock jock” shit.
re: #131 The Pie Overlord!
He did “caller abortions” playing the sound of a toilet flushing after hanging up on a caller. Stupid “shock jock” shit.
And unfortunately set too useful an example for others that you could do performance and insult-based demagoguery as political commentary or discourse and make bank on it.
Colleague Paul Steinhauser confirms GOP TX Sen Ted Cruz traveled to Cancun amid the TX storm/power outages. GOP Source: “the photos speak for themselves”
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) February 18, 2021
Six Hours until the Mars 2020 Perseverance landing.
re: #126 Belafon
Because DC Republicans are never going to sign onto his proposals. McConnell reportedly said he will unite the GOP in opposition to Covid relief, to the surprise of no-one.
re: #136 No Malarkey!
Because DC Republicans are never going to sign onto his proposals. McConnell reportedly said he will united the GOP in opposition to Covid relief, to the surprise of no-one.
It’s becoming clearer and clearer that dc Republicans are not representative of the people
The land of coal powered plants is also suffering power outages.
Jackson County is spending the week without power, and sometimes water, but neighbors are looking out for each other. https://t.co/bwML0Rm6Lr ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) February 18, 2021
re: #138 No Malarkey!
Is Rand Paul’s neighbor helping Rand by assaulting him again? Because that’s the kind of help Paul seems to get from time to time.
It’s a big political win when the line from people defending you is, “What possible good would he be anyway?”
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 18, 2021
re: #137 Dangerman
It’s becoming clearer and clearer that dc Republicans are not representative of the people
They solely represent their wealthy donors. This is the corrupt GOP McConnell built, singularly focused on money, and how to please the deep pockets.
Rudy’s going to experience some things…
I cannot add additional information at this time. I pressed both of my sources on whether this was a RICO case or related to the 6 January event. Neither would offer more details saying, they could not confirm a timeline, charges being sought or whether Rudy Giuliani was aware.
— PC: United (@PCUnitedPage) February 18, 2021
This meets the formal requirements of nil nisi bonum. Well done. https://t.co/EHc2NTTOjS
— Jacob T. Levy (@jtlevy) February 18, 2021
I missed this angle:
We use batteries in space….. pic.twitter.com/sEYyrc0XGw
— Holly 🚀 (@absolutspacegrl) February 17, 2021
For Lent Ted Cruz gave up on Texas.
— Mike Wells (@mikewtfwells) February 18, 2021
re: #145 Belafon
I missed this angle:
They are really fixated on windmills…wonder why.
Must be the cancer thing.
re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are really fixated on windmills…wonder why.
Must be the cancer thing.
anything to distract from the truth
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Ted Cruz is already trying to come back from his vacation. Just stay there, Ted. https://t.co/l0i3l2buOW
— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) February 18, 2021
Look, out of fairness to Ted Cruz, traveling to Cancun while millions in your state are freezing and without water is somehow less worse than enabling an attack on the U.S. Capitol, so this is technically a month-to-month improvement. 🙃
— Charlotte Clymer 🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) February 18, 2021
That would assume he actually cares about regular Texans. He’s going to be President one day!(he thinks) He can’t be bothered with showing strength of character in a crisis.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 18, 2021
re: #150 The Pie Overlord!
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Texas is a cautionary tale of what happens when Republicans are in total control.
— Howard Walls (@RichmondWalls1) February 18, 2021
re: #155 Patricia Kayden
It’s easy to have schadenfreude for Texas. Until you realize it’s largely a state of BIPOC folks, gerrymandered out of representation, enduring a Republican regime.
— Daniel Peña (@danimalpena) February 17, 2021
re: #155 Patricia Kayden
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Doubt that cautionary tale will be heeded; they already had Kansas and Brownback…
It’s one thing to cut and run to Mexico because you lost power and you have the means to escape. But to turn around the next day and try to sneak home and save face? This presidential campaign isn’t kicking off very well.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 18, 2021
Doesn’t look like Ted is going to get to hang out with his friends after all. Sad. #CancunCruz pic.twitter.com/r61CFeSnff
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) February 18, 2021
it’s poetic justice that Fox News is the first major outlet to confirm this story https://t.co/4AYNHqrKGJ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 18, 2021
Two variants of the coronavirus have combined their genomes to form a heavily mutated hybrid https://t.co/ayJpe420mB pic.twitter.com/HNvSZ8BPdt
— New Scientist (@newscientist) February 17, 2021
“God is punishing Texas for supporting Donald Trump”
Am I doing this right?
re: #158 darthstar
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Bet you he’ll try some BS like “I was accompanying my family and making sure they were safely settled in before returning to work.”
re: #164 Targetpractice
Bet you he’ll try some BS like “I was accompanying my family and making sure they were safely settled in before returning to work.”
Which is a load of shit. And health experts continue to not recommend travel under these circumstances (the pandemic).
Angela Merkel has already warned us: those hybrid mutations could have us chasing our tail. So far, our existing vaccines seem to be effective against them, but many of them are much more highly contagious.
Gotta love a morning where there’s no Rush and everyone’s just casually piling on Ted Cruz for being the worthless excuse of a man that he is.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 18, 2021
re: #164 Targetpractice
Bet you he’ll try some BS like “I was accompanying my family and making sure they were safely settled in before returning to work.”
I said almost exactly that elsewhere.
So after making all those excuses about how there’s “nothing he can do” and thus it’s okay for Ted to skip town to Cancun, will his sycophants now argue that his return shows anything other than guilt by trying to suggest that he gives a damn about the people he just tried to abandon?
re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Angela Merkel has already warned us: those hybrid mutations could have us chasing our tail. So far, our existing vaccines seem to be effective against them, but many of them are much more highly contagious.
The speed and variety of the mutations is the stuff of science fiction horror…what if the virus is sentient?
2021 is getting better by the day:
South Tampa farmer Marion Lambert, who led effort to raise Confederate flag, found dead, police say
If you’re not familiar with this story, this asshole had a huge confederate rag raised near the intersection of I-4 and I-75. When he first raised the rag, it was the world’s largest confederate rag. Good riddance.
These were back to back tweets in my feed:
I’m old enough to remember when @TedCruz shut down the federal government for 16 days in order to prevent 20 million Americans from getting healthcare.
— Charles #GetCovered-ba (@charles_gaba) February 18, 2021
Texans should rename their power grid “uterus” so Republicans will regulate it.
— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) February 18, 2021
re: #170 darthstar
The speed and variety of the mutations is the stuff of science fiction horror…what if the virus is sentient?
not necessarily sentient, but alive and imbued with a sense of survival…yeah, creepy as hell
re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are really fixated on windmills…wonder why.
Must be the cancer thing.
They think windmills are dangerous giants.
lolz
Here’s the upgrade list for this afternoon’s flight from Cancun to Houston.
Looks like @tedcruz is on his way back, @danpfeiffer. He’s just narrowly missing the upgrade list
That’s assuming that “cru, r” is him. And I do. pic.twitter.com/CqfKa5rJfG— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) February 18, 2021
I gotta give some credit to Ted Cruz. He sure found a great way to get people to stop talking about his hair.
re: #171 Dr. Matt
Good riddance to bad trash.
To avoid federal regulation, Texas Republicans rejected a regional grid — which would have saved lives this week. https://t.co/SNC5Hi6mUh
— Joe Conason (@JoeConason) February 18, 2021
1. Twitter won’t let him back and 2. sucks to be you.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 18, 2021
We are fine with Ted Cruz going to Cancun. As long as he doesn’t come back.
— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) February 18, 2021
Ted Cruz’s People Respond:
“Look, whether Senator Cruz is in DC, Dallas, or Cancun, he is going to do the same amount of work for the people of Texan — nothing.”#FledCruz— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) February 18, 2021
re: #183 Targetpractice
The whole point of having a separate grid system was so that even Texas’ own senators could not interfere with state energy policy, even indirectly…
re: #164 Targetpractice
Bet you he’ll try some BS like “I was accompanying my family and making sure they were safely settled in before returning to work.”
trying to justify privilege with even more privilege then
re: #182 Targetpractice
We are fine with Ted Cruz going to Cancun. As long as he doesn’t come back.
— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) February 18, 2021
I was going to add something about Ted Cruz staying away meaning that Texas will have, in effect, only one Senator: but given his usual level of effectiveness, they basically only have one Senator even when Rafael shows up to attend…..
Minor observation:
Guess which US Senator from Texas flew to Cancun while the state was freezing to death and having to boil water? pic.twitter.com/fNY00EmMMR
— Gene Wu (@GeneforTexas) February 18, 2021
Ted Cruz gets upgraded to business class while his daughter is eating Ramen noodles in economy class. #FamilyValues
Son just texted me. It is snowing in San Antonio again. He said his ski boots have been getting a good workout lately :-)
They have had electricity for the last 18 hours or so, so that is good. Had a scare with water on the floor but it turned out to be a valve on the washer connection. So far for them things have been ok.
I thought I’d post a couple of recent itms from Tony Ortega’s Scientology blog which have some wider relevance.
First up, there’s the alleged $1.8 billion Ponzi scheme a Scientologist money manager was spearheading. While this is not Madoff money, there was a period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the title of “biggest Ponzi scheme” was held by Scientologist Reed Slatkin. en.m.wikipedia.org
Yesterday there was a hearing in the case in Brooklyn, where the prosecution disclosed that it had *13 million* (you read that right) documents it is prepared to turn over to the defense in the next several weeks. There’s also a discusdion about whether a prosecution witness might be a spy.
The other story is thst of Leigh Dundas, notorious anti-vaxxer, Scientologist and potential sedetionist. The FBI would like to chat with her, presumably based on some videos she took of herself when in Washington, DC on January 6. Currently, she appears to be living it up (a la Ted Cruz) in Mérida, México.
It does warm the cockles of my cold, cold heart to see people working together to locate and track down these insurrectionists.
Neither Cruz nor his office has acknowledged this trip yet. If they claim he was simply flying with his family and planned to return immediately, please remember he was photographed with his own (massive) carry-on bag. pic.twitter.com/qZTzq6SesK
— Kyle Potter (@kpottermn) February 18, 2021
We’ll get told that this was a vacation that was planned weeks/months ago, so it’s totally coincidental that he and his family skipped town in the midst of a state crisis. And since his family was so looking forward to this vacation, he couldn’t simply cancel it to stay in the state and try to do all those things a politician might do like check in on his constituents or help direct aid to those who need it. No, he had an obligation to his family to take this vacation and the fact that he flew back within a day of leaving shows the sort of “sacrifice” he’s willing to make to look out for the people of Texas.
re: #193 Targetpractice
We’ll get told that this was a vacation that was planned weeks/months ago, so it’s totally coincidental that his he and his family skipped town in the midst of a state crisis. And since his family was so looking forward to this vacation, he couldn’t simply cancel it to stay in the state and try to do all those things a politician might do like check in on his constituents or help direct aid to those who need it. No, he had an obligation to his family to take this vacation and the fact that he flew back within a day of leaving shows the sort of “sacrifice” he’s willing to make to look out for the people of Texas.
He’s going to meet his comPatriot who got court permission to go to Mexico.
re: #192 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I’m taking bets that he’ll be blaming the media within moments of his returning to Houston.
re: #193 Targetpractice
That is the spin he is going to put on it, as he is white and GOP, it will be taken at face value…
Same people who want to build a wall to prevent Mexicans from coming into the country happily flee to Mexico as soon as it gets a little uncomfortable for them in the U.S.
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) February 18, 2021
re: #170 darthstar
The speed and variety of the mutations is the stuff of science fiction horror…what if the virus is sentient?
It’s not even alive.
Don’t expect the Right to behave appropriately or humanely. Theirs is a pursuit of power at all costs and they created a world where poverty and suffering is a result of personal failure.
Just understand it, prepare for it, and be ready to fight against it going forward.— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) February 18, 2021
re: #198 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
It’s not even alive.
Not “alive” in the sense that we are, but it is a form of, well, organic existence…
Harlan Coben had a new book coming out based around Win Lockwood. This is gonna be epic!
re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is the spin he is going to put on it, as he is white and GOP, it will be taken at face value…
Before day’s end, we’ll be told that he came back, he’s promising to work for the people of Texas, so what’s all the fuss about?
NASAs live stream for the Perseverance rover starts at 2:15pm Eastern and the landing is expected around 3:55pm. Supposedly they are going to have live video from the rover itself during the whole sky crane deployment. That should be fun to watch.
re: #107 Dangerman
Hey Erick,
See o’rourke, beto, NOT a US senator
The fact that people think Ted Cruz, a United States Senator, can do anything about a state power grid, even his own, is rather demonstrative of the ignorance of so many people who cover politics. They’d rather performative drama than substance.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) February 18, 2021
Leaving Texas is exactly the type of thing the Zodiac Killer would do🤔
— IndianaJonesCoffee (@coffee_indiana) February 18, 2021
re: #204 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Leaving Texas is exactly the type of thing the Zodiac Killer would do
So is returning to the scene of the crime…
Despite icy conditions, Texans will risk it for Whataburger
“Risk”. They act like no one has ever experienced a snow storm.
I mean, for a normal politician it would be. Probably not for a skin sack filled with crude.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 18, 2021
Not gonna lie, I find myself very persuaded by your “Ted Cruz is useless” argument.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) February 18, 2021
He wanted first responders to escort him through the airport instead of helping the residents of Houston deal with no water, spotty electrical service, unpassable roads, food scarcity and a million other cascading problems?!?
WHAT THE FUCK.— LizzyFC (@lizzyfc) February 18, 2021
re: #203 danarchy
NASAs live stream for the Perseverance rover starts at 2:15pm Eastern and the landing is expected around 3:55pm. Supposedly they are going to have live video from the rover itself during the whole sky crane deployment. That should be fun to watch.
Thanks for pointing this out! I want to turn it on while I’m at work because this is so super cool.
re: #165 lawhawk
Which is a load of shit. And health experts continue to not recommend travel under these circumstances (the pandemic).
His wife is a Managing Director at Goldman-Sachs. I bet she can manage an airplane ride with two teens.
Dolly is a National Treasure ♥️♥️ pic.twitter.com/tWAlzd2aEI
— Emily Brandwin (@CIAspygirl) February 18, 2021
re: #209 jaunte
“Cruz’s staff contacted HPD personnel at IAH on Wednesday … and requested assistance upon the Senator’s arrival at the airport.”
“HPD officers monitored his movements through the terminal.”
Supports D’Souza’s argument about how being in Cancun means he is not using resources that could otherwise benefit human beings.
I, for one, am absolutely shocked that $69 coochie candles don’t cure COVID.
— Nani 🇬🇭 (@lenubienne) February 17, 2021
re: #206 Dr. Matt
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“Risk”. They act like no one has ever experienced a snow storm.
Or no power and limited ability to cook at home. So going out for fast-food is one of the few options?
re: #215 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Or no power and limited ability to cook at home. So going out for fast-food is one of the few options?
Can’t they load up with pick-up trucks with guns and ammo and get their food the way a real Texan does?
Ted Cruz, trying to hide his Senor Frog’s t-shirt: “I was drugged by Antifa. They put me on the plane.”
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) February 18, 2021
You may also have heard about Citibank’s attempt to claw back a $507 million dollar loan payment made to creditors of Revlon. A NY state appellate court ruled the creditors could keep the payment.
Normally, this is not what happens on cases like these, because it’s considered unjust enrichment. Howver, in this particular instance, there were three factors:
1) this was an expected payment, but not until 2023.
2) the payment matched to the penny the principal and interest owed on the loan. If you’ve ever worked a commercial loan payoff, these change day by day and you have to be in contact with your loan department to get the right number.
3) Revlon went on the assumption that Citi had effective internal controls to avoid significant mistakes.
Citi says it will appeal.
Folks, this compilation of Rush Limbaugh was just published by @mmfa.
This is who Kayleigh McEnany, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Donald Trump are praising today.
Because they are him and he is them.
MAGA, come at me some more bc Idgaf that he’s dead. pic.twitter.com/eYHSFolDwr— 💙 Koko ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿💙 (@Kokomothegreat) February 17, 2021
re: #206 Dr. Matt
Despite icy conditions, no water, no power, minimum-wage Texas workers are still showing up
re: #206 Dr. Matt
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“Risk”. They act like no one has ever experienced a snow storm.
Hmmm…maybe they decided to “… risk it for Whataburger …” because they have no power at home and desired FOOD.
re: #215 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Or no power and limited ability to cook at home. So going out for fast-food is one of the few options?
and it is warm in the car and you can’t run it in the garage…
Thread:
I’d like to tell a story about the Blizzard of 1977 that hit Buffalo. To date, still the worst the city has ever seen. It should serve as a reminder that when anybody says a “federal office holder can’t help re a state issue” that they’re full of BS. #CruzToCancun
— Luke Russert (@LukeRussert) February 18, 2021
Personal OT: Federal tax return came in today. The fish is swimming in the black again.
I am thinking of Texas: about how you have no heat, water, food & how your governor doesn’t care & didn’t prepare. I hope that you realize this is why asylum seekers are fleeing their countries and that you develop some empathy from this.
— Jenn Budd (@BuddJenn) February 18, 2021
this is how lauren boebert appears during a house hearing. this is a very sane political party. pic.twitter.com/GvobX1RYho
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 18, 2021
Ted Cruz said Monday his home didn’t lose power. “Our house was lucky.” pic.twitter.com/ZPkzHiVk3b
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) February 18, 2021
re: #226 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I didn’t realize women could have penis envy issues like that.
re: #228 DesertDenizen
I didn’t realize women could have penis envy issues like that.
Her husband likes to show his to teenage girls in bowling alleys.
President Biden will be sending emergency power generators to Texas as well as instructing FEMA to provide water and tons of blankets to residents. One thing he’s not doing is telling Texas to rake the snow or jog in place or nuke the storm or bow to his feet for crumbs.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) February 18, 2021
re: #209 jaunte
“Well, I had to have these fine officers escort me to protect me from all the crazed ANTIFA leftists that are still out on the streets after the attack on the Capitol on January 6th.” -Cruz, probably.
He’s going to use his family as a shield, of that you can be sure. Pre-planned vacation, safety of his wife/kids, something will be given as his excuse for why he tried to sneak out of the country to Mexico and is only returning because he got caught.
re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I wonder if they have already come in and stripped the plating off his Golden Microphone…
They’re packing up all of Saint Rush’s set and lovingly ship it to the Smithsonian.
re: #93 lawhawk
Optics? Cruz doesn’t give a shit about optics. After all, he’s the same craven coward and corrupt nutjob who warned about Trump and then Trump not only dumped on his wife and his father, but Cruz turned around to be the most sycophantic suckup among all the Trump suckups in Congress.
That takes “skill”.…..
He, like the rest of the GOP, don’t care about people, only their own power. They will lie and spew crazy shit out of a firehose to get white people angry about absolutely everything to vote for the GOP, but when they’re in office, the only things they can settle on to even attempt doing is scuttling the safety net, massive tax cuts for their wealthy cronies, and pushing white nationalist policies because their base has been primed to accept nothing less thanks to decades of misinformation from Fox and the likes of Rush, Hannity, etc.Cruz doesn’t have a plan to deal with the crisis in his state. He’s part of the fucking problem.
He should resign but wont. Cornyn too. Those two are worse than useless for Texans. The entire GOP has failed Texas, and it took a snowstorm to do it far more immediately than their disastrous pandemic response could.
3 points of disagreement here:
1. TBF: Lindsey is the biggest suckup — not Cruz.
2. For generations, white nationalism has been the core value of most white Southerners, especially Texans. This is just a continuation of their longing for the Lost Cause.
3. Unlike the pandemic, this is a temporary crisis. Within a week, most residents will have forgotten their panic. And they certainly won’t blame Republicans. As Rick Perry said: Texans would prefer a few days of outage over government regulation. Especially when the federal government is willing to help them out with no strings attached. Maybe insurance companies will force ERCOT to take appropriate measures.
re: #230 The Pie Overlord!
President Biden will be sending emergency power generators to Texas as well as instructing FEMA to provide water and tons of blankets to residents. One thing he’s not doing is telling Texas to rake the snow or jog in place or nuke the storm or bow to his feet for crumbs.
Those generators will have 5G listening and tracking devices installed in them.
re: #228 DesertDenizen
I didn’t realize women could have penis envy issues like that.
Perhaps her husband has much in common with Ben Shapiro. /s/
GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert and husband racked up arrests in home district
“… Boebert’s future husband, Jayson, also had brushes with law enforcement. In January 2004, he was arrested after allegedly exposing his penis to two women at a bowling alley, according to an arrest affidavit. Lauren Boebert (then age 17 and known as Lauren Opal Roberts) was also there. Jayson Boebert pleaded guilty to public indecency and lewd exposure, earning himself four days in jail and two years’ probation. …”
re: #234 Hecuba’s daughter
Might have to see how long this takes to clear up since water treatment and other infrastructure is messed up. Plus damage to homes due to broken pipes, etc. Which leads to finding out how much individuals get hurt by higher costs getting handed down to them (natural gas, insurance payouts, etc.) And it’s unclear yet what sort of games the various insurers might be playing in order to avoid paying out.
re: #222 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and it is warm in the car and you can’t run it in the garage…
Well, you can ONCE…
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
President Biden will be sending emergency power generators to Texas as well as instructing FEMA to provide water and tons of blankets to residents. One thing he’s not doing is telling Texas to rake the snow or jog in place or nuke the storm or bow to his feet for crumbs.
Those generators will have 5G listening and tracking devices installed in them.
If you accept food, water, or power from the Demoncrats, they’ll track you, and put you in a FEMA camp.
Today I saw an actual wingnut claim that the Democrats demonize Republicans, rather than the other way around, but she slipped and wrote “Demoncrats” twice in the post, accidentally arguing against her claim. These are not smart people.
Apparently no water pressure to hydrants
They are just letting houses burn. No water,…Houston, tx. pic.twitter.com/fGXW6QmU5g
— ♥Kathy♥Lucky Charms 🇺🇸🇵🇷🇩🇪🇮🇪❤❤❤ (@LuckieKathy) February 18, 2021
re: #240 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Apparently no water pressure to hydrants
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Libertarian paradise. Should have formed your own fire department, put in and winterized your own infrastructure. Fuck Civilization.
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pupper got the hiccups pic.twitter.com/eLCzwGiYBH
— 🍂AMAZINGWORLD🎄 (@AMAZlNG_WORLDS) February 18, 2021
re: #240 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Apparently no water pressure to hydrants
Free Market Capitalism-based fire departments would solve this.
A friend who is homeless in Dallas due to the power outages just told me that hotel rooms that normally cost $100/night are going for $700/night there. This is evil.
— MZS (@mattzollerseitz) February 18, 2021
Something our useless Texas senators could do is put out a statement about prosecuting price-gougers who take advantage of a crisis.
But yes, that’s just the free market working efficiently.
re: #244 jaunte
Something our useless Texas senators could do is put out a statement about prosecuting price-gougers who take advantage of a crisis.
The fact that people think Ted Cruz, a United States Senator, can do anything about a statewide disaster, even his own, is rather demonstrative of the ignorance of so many people who cover politics. They’d rather performative drama than substance.
— Erick Erickson February 18, 2021
re: #224 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Same here.
I’m so inspired by Cruz’s selfless dedication that I, too, shall aid Texas by booking a vacation in Cancun. No, you don’t have to thank me.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) February 18, 2021
Ted Cruz asks Houston cops to help him get out of airport as Texans rage over Cancun trip: report
Where’s this “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mantra now?
re: #244 jaunte
Something our useless Texas senators could do is put out a statement about prosecuting price-gougers who take advantage of a crisis.
Interfere with the invisible hand? Never!
re: #241 DesertDenizen
Libertarian paradise. Should have formed your own fire department, put in and winterized your own infrastructure. Fuck Civilization.
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beats intrusive Federal Government regulation…
re: #224 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Personal OT: Federal tax return came in today. The fish is swimming in the black again.
Did you get the Soros-Biden Bonus Check?
Jill and I are keeping Texas, Oklahoma, and other impacted states in our prayers. I’ve declared states of emergency, authorized FEMA to provide generators and supplies, and am ready to fulfill additional requests. Please heed the instructions of local officials and stay safe.
— President Biden (@POTUS) February 18, 2021
So SCOTUS is refusing to decide whether NY AG can get access to Trump’s tax returns: cnn.com
My question: now that Biden is President, can the House get access to Trump’s tax returns? Can Yellen force the IRS chief to release those documents?
re: #253 The Pie Overlord!
Jill and I are keeping Texas, Oklahoma, and other impacted states in our prayers. I’ve declared states of emergency, authorized FEMA to provide generators and supplies, and am ready to fulfill additional requests. Please heed the instructions of local officials bow down and accept your Demoncrat Overlords and stay safe.
re: #192 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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they were incapable of traveling without him?
Neither Cruz nor his office has acknowledged this trip yet. If they claim he was simply flying with his family and planned to return immediately, please remember he was photographed with his own (massive) carry-on bag.
And you can soon add Bob Dole to the Rush Limbaugh death method.
re: #211 austin_blue
His wife is a Managing Director at Goldman-Sachs. I bet she can manage an airplane ride with two teens.
ah, gmta
re: #226 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Must be a very dangerous place she lives. She should think about moving, maybe to Somalia?
re: #228 DesertDenizen
I didn’t realize women could have penis envy issues like that.
She wishes she had one so she too could show it off to high school girls like her husband.
re: #229 Ace Rothstein
Her husband likes to show his to teenage girls in bowling alleys.
Damn, read just one more down
re: #257 Eric The Fruit Bat
And you can soon add Bob Dole to the Rush Limbaugh death method.
The last WWII veteran to run for President, 51 years after the war ended. 6 presidents served in combat zones during WWII, even if only briefly (LBJ). Amazingly, no Vietnam veteran ever served as President, as they kept losing to people who found ways to avoid service in Vietnam, or in Obama’s case, was too young to serve.
re: #261 Eventual Carrion
Must be a very dangerous place she lives. She should think about moving, maybe to Somalia?
All resemblances to the party flag of Hezbollah are purely coincidental. https://t.co/MVkmiWfWVk
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) February 18, 2021
re: #230 The Pie Overlord!
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OR just wait because it will just vanish (which it will…eventually)
President Biden will be sending emergency power generators to Texas as well as instructing FEMA to provide water and tons of blankets to residents. One thing he’s not doing is telling Texas to rake the snow or jog in place or nuke the storm or bow to his feet for crumbs.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) February 18, 2021
Never forget @TedCruz reading Dr. Seuss on the U.S. Senate Floor to stop poor people from getting healthcare. pic.twitter.com/IIJcilVfmI
— Matt Rogers 🗳 (@Politidope) February 18, 2021
re: #212 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Statue isn’t enough.
They need to name an airport after her.
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) February 18, 2021
re: #268 sagehen
Statue isn’t enough.
They need to name an airport after her.
Dolly did get a nuclear power plant named after her — Diablo Canyon in California. Can’t think why.
re: #245 jaunte
But yes, that’s just the free market working efficiently.
Yep, they don’t need regulation. They will do the right thing (for themselves).
Statement from Director of Communications for Sen. Ted Cruz pic.twitter.com/5cXIkTTZiW
— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) February 18, 2021
I’m worried Republican voters will remember one thing from this incident above everything else - that Ted Cruz triggered the libs by flying on a plane - and then they’ll vote for him again in 2024
— Vaush (@VaushV) February 18, 2021
You do have to admit that “the weak will perish” is a pretty good political platform.
“Mayor, what are you going to do about residential garbage collection and recycling?”
“The weak will perish”.
“Ah, ok I guess”.
whee aack whoodala whoo chit
— Korben the Budgie (@korbenisabird) February 18, 2021
re: #201 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Harlan Coben had a new book coming out based around Win Lockwood. This is gonna be epic!
I pre-ordered it last September. Can’t wait.
I’ve scored a daily double in likes:
“I don’t have consequences for my actions.” #TedCruzRESIGN https://t.co/0TDxk87jnD
— Merrin Dungey (@RealMerrinD) February 18, 2021
AOC made him do it. #FledCruz
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) February 18, 2021
Tai Babalonia and Merrin Dungey both liked my response. Woo. My day is complete.
re: #236 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Jayson Boebert pleaded guilty to public indecency and lewd exposure, earning himself four days in jail and two years’ probation. …”
and didn’t get put on the sex offenders register for life?
re: #278 BeachDem
I pre-ordered it last September. Can’t wait.
Win was always one of my fav characters. Instead of the defective detective it’s the defective sociopathic gazillionaire.
I’m looking forward to this. Epic, I say.
Romney statement entered into the congressional record on impeachment:
“There is a thin line that separates our democratic republic from an autocracy … President Trump attempted to breach that line, again. What he attempted is what was most feared by the Founders.”— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 18, 2021
Romney statement entered into the congressional record on impeachment: “His attempt to pressure Georgia’s Secretary of State to falsify the electoral results was itself a heinous act that merited impeachment.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 18, 2021
Romney statement entered into the congressional record:
“Like you, I hear many calls for unity. It is apparent that calling for unity while at the same time appeasing the big lie of a stolen election is a fraud …It is in the service of that lie that a mob invaded the Capitol.”— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 18, 2021
re: #257 Eric The Fruit Bat
And you can soon add Bob Dole to the Rush Limbaugh death method.
It’s wrong to compare Bob Dole to Rush in any way, even though, as you mentioned, his illness is the same as Rush. Dole was an old-style Republican: he was a hero during WWII, had a sense of humor, and was a decent public servant. He wasn’t a seditious monster like Gingrich and most other contemporary Republicans.
re: #244 jaunte
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Something our useless Texas senators could do is put out a statement about prosecuting price-gougers who take advantage of a crisis.
but why? “The weak shall perish” is their whole philosophy.
(For values of “weak” that mean non-white, non-rich).
re: #241 DesertDenizen
Libertarian paradise. Should have formed your own fire department, put in and winterized your own infrastructure. Fuck Civilization.
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A really bad choice by the lepertarians. At least it’s warm in Somalia.
re: #206 Dr. Matt
Despite icy conditions, Texans will risk it for Whataburger
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“Risk”. They act like no one has ever experienced a snow storm.
This wasn’t limited to Whataburgers. Keep in mind that there were (and still are) a lot of residences without power - a situation that I was painfully dealing with on Tuesday/Wednesday - which means they weren’t able to cook hot meals, and because of the different road conditions in an area, some restaurants might be open while others are closed. I ended up driving about a half hour to even find a place that was open (in my case a Braum’s) and the in-line wait in drivethru was about 45 minutes.
Statement from Sen. @tedcruz on his trip to Mexico as millions in his state were without power, heat, and water
(story: https://t.co/1NRMfJGEOy) pic.twitter.com/goWaYd4fDV— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) February 18, 2021
Spoke to a source at United Airlines, Senator Ted Cruz rebooked his flight back to Houston from Cancun for this afternoon at around 6 a.m. today (Thursday). He was originally scheduled to return on Saturday.https://t.co/QV9xgibIQ9
— Edward Russell (@ByERussell) February 18, 2021
re: #264 No Malarkey!
Amazingly, no Vietnam veteran ever served as President,
the American voter prefers people who win wars.
They need to never let Cruz forget what Beto did while Teddy was in flight to and fro. How many old people did Beto help, even save?
Never let him forget. Never.
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re: #289 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Throwing his kids under the bus to cover for his incompetent response.
Green New Deal of United States congresswoman Alexandria Cortez blamed. https://t.co/tagWL2kIc2
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) February 18, 2021
Republican legislator wants to track Iowa women that are searching online for abortion services in order to dissuade themhttps://t.co/D7DbN9bvXd pic.twitter.com/ZYEggqqOzg
— Pat Rynard (@patrynard) February 18, 2021
re: #289 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
“Sure kids, our friends and neighbors are suffering and we’re in the middle of a pandemic, but LET’S GO ON VACATION!”
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wre: #290 John Hughes
the American voter prefers people who win wars.
The 2004 race was between two men who served in the military during the Vietnam War. Courtesy of the Swift Boat Liars, the man who engaged in real combat was deemed less worthy and brave than the pilot who defended Texas from Oklahoma. But example 11ty billion of the corruption of GOP politics years before Trump came down the escalator.
re: #286 John Hughes
but why? “The weak shall perish” is their whole philosophy.
(For values of “weak” that mean non-white, non-rich).
Actually, the GOP quote is that “the weak shall parish”. That makes the bumper sticker even better.
re: #293 lawhawk
Throwing his kids under the bus to cover for his incompetent response.
Not to mention, contrary to his issued statement…
re: #227 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
@AndrewSolender
Ted Cruz said Monday his home didn’t lose power. “Our house was lucky.”
Ted will go on Hannity tonight, he’ll blame Hunter Biden, the deep state, AOC, and windmills, Hannity will nod approvingly, and all will be good.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) February 18, 2021
Blaming your kids for your bad judgement seems low even for Ted.
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) February 18, 2021
re: #299 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Not to mention, contrary to his issued statement…
Can’t even be bothered to keep his lies straight because he knows his base doesn’t care and the “liberal” media won’t call him on it.
⚡️ Ivanka Trump tells Marco Rubio that she will not run for his Senate seat in next year’s midterm elections, an aide says.
For weeks she’d been mulling a hard-right primary challenge against Rubio.https://t.co/KZJJ6ak1Yi— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2021
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What was funnier — mocking Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s or the “AIDS Update” where he rejoiced in the deaths of people with that disease?
And if you had to pick a classic joke — calling 12-year-old Chelsea Clinton “the White House dog” or playing “Barack the Magic Negro”?— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) February 17, 2021
re: #303 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Like you could believe anything any of them say.
re: #303 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Like one can trust anything anyone in that family says. She will do it if she thinks she can gain something from the run.
re: #303 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
For weeks she’d been mulling a hard-right primary challenge against Rubio.
Before realizing it would be the first hard thing she’d ever attempted.
What good are senators anyway really? https://t.co/a0mwi0UZ6G
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 18, 2021
re: #295 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Once Roe is reversed, bills will be enacted to make it a felony for pregnant women to cross state lines to seek an abortion.
re: #301 jaunte
He bowed down to the man who insulted his wife.
He bowed down to the man who called his father an assassin.
Throwing his kids under the bus is in the Zodiac Killer’s nature.
re: #308 jaunte
Before realizing it would be the first hard thing she’d ever attempted.
Are you saying Jared isn’t hard?
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French investor Franky Zapata flew from France to England on his fly board in just over 20 minutes pic.twitter.com/EjHGExuIIk
— Domenico (@AvatarDomy) February 16, 2021
re: #297 Hecuba’s daughter
And never forget Trump’s valorous service in the trenches of the New York nightclub scene.
re: #265 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Book titles in background: Dream Thieves and Dressed to Kill (2 volumes).
re: #298 stpaulbear
Actually, the GOP quote is that “the weak shall parish”. That makes the bumper sticker even better.
Parish in the sense of being thrown into the poor-house I suppose.
re: #313 Dread Pirate Ron
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the next Fast & Furious movie needs to find a way to include those…
re: #298 stpaulbear
Actually, the GOP quote is that “the weak shall parish”. That makes the bumper sticker even better.
In the spirit of another recent clarification, he clearly meant the weak will be assisted by their local churches./
re: #249 Dr. Matt
Ted Cruz asks Houston cops to help him get out of airport as Texans rage over Cancun trip: report
Where’s this “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mantra now?
He remembers how Graham had to be surrounded by police when a mob went after him at National Airport…and how assholes screamed at Mitt on the plane.
re: #319 🌹UOJB!
Ted Cruz proves to be a physical coward in addition to a political and moral coward.
re: #311 aatharuv
He bowed down to the man who insulted his wife.
He bowed down to the man who called his father an assassin.Throwing his kids under the bus is in the Zodiac Killer’s nature.
You point out that
Its pretty obvious what Ted is gonna be remembered for
And its not Anything from his stellar political career
re: #301 jaunte
Molly Jong-Fast🏡
@MollyJongFast
Blaming your kids for your bad judgement seems low even for Ted.
Ted’s kids have been creeped out by their dad for a long time.
re: #279 lawhawk
“I was meeting with JFK Jr. to go over plans for Trump’s 2nd inauguration on March 4th, er 21st, er, June 14th, er, July 4th, er…”
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) February 18, 2021
re: #320 DesertDenizen
Ted Cruz proves to be a physical coward in addition to a political and moral coward.
He’s in a risky business using right-wing authoritarians to empower himself. They’re the sort of people who might literally tear him into pieces when right-wing political choices leave them without heat, or with a $30K electric bill because of price spikes.
re: #203 danarchy
NASAs live stream for the Perseverance rover starts at 2:15pm Eastern and the landing is expected around 3:55pm. Supposedly they are going to have live video from the rover itself during the whole sky crane deployment. That should be fun to watch.
thanks for this. I would have completely missed it. By the way, does anyone know if it’s normal for a cat to theoretically be stone dead, but practically apparently loving the hell out of it? I swear, this cat moves around for about 20 minutes out of 24 hours. I’m assuming while I sleep is the time she is down on the floor moving her little cat bed around, trading in the Asian markets, etc. A couple nights ago, she decided that comfort consisted of getting next to me and then throwing her ass up on one of my shoulders. “I’m checking your browser history,” I told her. “you’d better not have been on pornhub again!”
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