Texas power outages and Ted Cruz travel agency

noone talks about the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club

10’s of millions of people are not 95 percent of 328 million?

We are in the bottom percentile of first-world nations to be sure, but the bolded line kind of minimizes the poverty and despair levels of people who actually live in most of the not first world countries IMO.

I’m not minimizing their suffering at all. I’m simply trying to make the point most Americans don’t live in a first world country. They don’t.

Shame works.
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1363529410268319747?s=19

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Ok, we will add a mental health check requirement to it.

Also she probably never shot a gun in her life.

Why does she have two copies of “Dressed to Kill”?

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:joy::joy::joy::joy:

https://twitter.com/sentedcruz/status/1363335355609530368?s=21

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Little late for that Ted. The crisis is over. Take your sorry arse back to Mexico

FUUUUUUUCK YOU! Eat the costs you pieces of shit.

Nobody expects a $15k gas bill - I don’t care what the fine print says.

Just in time. He should have been wearing a parka for the photos.

Wish he would have been throwing paper towels to help with burst pipe clean up.

When backpacking Europe I once met a guy from Bangladesh who was quite wealthy. I asked him why he didn’t live somewhere other than Bangladesh. He said research showed that how wealthy you felt was related not to the amount of money you had but to the discrepancy with your neighbours, therefore he enjoyed living in a poor country to maximise how he perceived his wealth.

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I mean that makes sense. Big fish in a small pond and all that.

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In this podcast with Sapolsky they talk about how stress over perceived social status in primates is debilitating. Absolutely fascinating two hours.

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I’m assuming he meant 95% of rural people, not 95% Americans.

I wonder what “Ted Cruz to be executed” polls at? Obviously deserved it after inciting the insurrection, but this had to be worse for his popularity.

William W. Hogan, considered the architect of the Texas energy market design, said in an interview this past week that the high prices reflected the market performing as it was designed.

The rapid losses of power — more than a third of the state’s available electricity production was offline at one point — increased the risk that the entire system would collapse, causing prices to rise, said Mr. Hogan, a professor of global energy policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School.

“As you get closer and closer to the bare minimum, these prices get higher and higher, which is what you want,” Mr. Hogan said.