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  1. 10 minutes ago, notre dame joe said:

    Rush gave a waitress a $2,000 tip, just because he could. 

     

    Oh and lol if you think Stewart's 'testimony' wasn't scripted.

    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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  2. 16 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

     

    you leave Art Bell, may God rest his west of the Rockies soul, out of this.

     

    [Slorch] Goebbels was a dedicated family man who stuck with his wife and kids to the bitter end. He was also a loyal company man and an innovator in his field. Show some respect. [/Slorch]

    And you know what, Goebbels was all of those things. Take away the loyal to wife and kids part and you have Rush Limbaugh. 

    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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  3. 2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    I was really bad at keeping my city powered properly in Sim City 2K. 

    I'll be submitting my resume to ERCOT by the end of today. 

    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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  4. 21 hours ago, Tom said:

     

    In what ways are Jon Stewart and Rush comparable?

     

    Jon Stewart is funny and is a comedian.  Rush was neither. 

    Jon Stewart overall is a good person who loves and cares about this country and the people in it.  And it shows.  Rush's show was full of hate and its sole purpose was driving a wedge between the American people and stoking anger in order to promote conservatism.

    Stewart can talk to people on the other side who don't share the same views with him and be civil and respectful while making his point or promoting his views.  Rush was not capable of that.

    Jon Stewart called out the hypocrisy and liars and manipulators in media.  Rush was a hypocrite, a liar, and a manipulator in the media.  

     

    They're not comparable unless you're comparing how polar opposite they are.

    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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  5. 2 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

    I forgot he filibustered the aid for Sandy.

     

    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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  6. 1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Nevertheless, from a purely technical standpoint, these comparisons of other states and their grids is unfair unless comparing at "black swan" departures from "normal."

    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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  7. 9 minutes ago, Mileslong said:

    I wonder what people would think it Giuliani left NYC on 9/11 for a little vacation in Nassau because he felt like the air was a little too dusty for he and his family’s liking...

    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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  8. 31 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


    I get the sentiment but thats not how it works. FEMA probably does more to assist with manmade disasters, many not the Feds fault, than anything else. Look at Houston.

    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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  9. 8 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    So you are saying that you can pretty much say with a straight face that if LA was on it's own power grid it wouldn't have had similar problems? You can't really compare Oklahoma and Arkansas, because they both regularly see much lower temperatures than Texas. Blaming the plants in Texas for not winterizing better is basically as dumb as blaming your ass for not winterizing better.

    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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  10. 8 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I discovered that Louisiana uses nearly twice as much energy per capita as Texas.

    One of the key factors is petroleum refining and chemical plants and other heavy industry, to include oil drilling.

     

    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. 

  11. 20 minutes ago, Foosters said:
    State November 2020 rate (cents/kWh) Avg. monthly usage (kWh) Avg. bill Cost ranking
    Alabama 13.00 1,136 147.68 49
    Alaska 22.53 601 135.41 43
    Arizona 11.69 1,033 120.76 31
    Arkansas 10.59 1,028 108.87 24
    California 22.26 554 123.32 35
    Colorado 12.38 678 83.94 3
    Connecticut 21.41 690 147.73 50
    Delaware 13.62 912 124.21 36
    Florida 12.00 1,089 130.68 42
    Georgia 11.38 1,062 120.86 32
    Hawaii 28.84 506 145.93 48
    Idaho 9.67 1,000 96.70 8
    Illinois 13.41 692 92.80 5
    Indiana 13.23 928 122.77 34
    Iowa 12.34 831 102.55 14
    Kansas 12.98 861 111.76 26
    Kentucky 11.43 1,052 120.24 30
    Louisiana 9.94 1,187 117.99 29
    Maine 16.17 546 88.29 4
    Maryland 13.27 940 124.74 37
    Massachusetts 22.10 583 128.84 41
    Michigan 16.43 633 104.00 18
    Minnesota 12.92 748 96.64 7
    Mississippi 11.99 1,132 135.73 45
    Missouri 10.07 994 100.10 12
    Montana 11.22 865 97.05 9
    Nebraska 10.73 957 102.69 16
    Nevada 11.61 854 99.15 11
    New Hampshire 19.20 599 115.01 27
    New Jersey 15.69 654 102.61 15
    New Mexico 12.94 615 79.58 2
    New York 18.91 572 108.17 22
    North Carolina 11.64 1,042 121.29 33
    North Dakota 10.26 1,063 109.06 25
    Ohio 12.35 841 103.86 17
    Oklahoma 10.27 1,039 106.71 20
    Oregon 11.12 969 107.75 21
    Pennsylvania 13.51 805 108.76 23
    Rhode Island 23.58 577 136.06 46
    South Carolina 12.68 1,082 137.20 47
    South Dakota 12.03 978 117.65 28
    Tennessee 11.10 1,150 127.65 39
    Texas 12.20 1,112 135.66 44
    Utah 10.29 745 76.66 1
    Vermont 19.68 538 105.88 19
    Virginia 11.65 1,078 125.59 38
    Washington 9.84 1,023 100.66 13
    West Virginia 12.46 1,026 127.84 40
    Wisconsin 14.77 660 97.48 10
    Wyoming 11.12 854 94.96 6
    U.S. average 13.35 867 115.74

     

     

    Damn yall use a lot of electricity in the south in winter. I'd hate to see your summer usage. 

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  12. On 2/16/2021 at 7:30 PM, Js1 said:

     

    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. 

  13. 59 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Yep. Countries like India and much of the Middle East and Africa wanted to tout a “third way”’ and walk the tightrope between the West and East during the Cold War. Nothing to do with economic development although most of those “third way” nations lagged behind developmentally. 

    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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  14. 18 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/us/politics/trump-biden-promotions-women-generals.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

    This absolutely infuriates me.  Seems like the only people Trump like were white men.  Fucking asshole.  

    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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  15. 11 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    He's either incredibly stupid and incapable of making a level headed decision during a crisis or he knows it doesn't matter with his base what he does. He'll still get re-elected in 4 years because people will have forgotten about this. I hope he gets either the worst sunburn of his life or Montezuma's Revenge. 

    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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  16. 1 hour ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

    This is key.  In about 3 years ago Ted needs to do is start shooting some guns, oil, and anti California  bullshit and he'll get reelected.

    Our best chance to ride ourselves of him is for him to run for president... And hopefully lose.

    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. 

  17. 2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    The other thing that is insane is that the Republican Party is the party that traffics most in dysfunctional, developing world political tropes. (These idiots do not understand that third world actually means).

    - Unfettered, cutthroat, protection-free market for consumers (official R policy)

    - Sweetheart deals for cronies and large enterprises (official R policy)

    - “Privatization” of utilities and public services (official R policy)

    - Government that is incapable by design and hampered by inadequate funding and investment (official R policy)

    - Expansive funding only for the military and “power” agencies/ministries (official R policy)

    - Grievance politics aimed at stoking fear among the majority (mega-dittos)

    All this shit defines the developing world, most importantly the lack of a functioning regulatory and administrative state that is starved of resources and a “private sector” that unevenly provides things like roads, security, and utilities to those that can afford them. And of course, the ability to always find the funding to pay for a big military and heavily armed police. Turning the U.S into Pakistan is pretty much the GOP platform. 

    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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  18. 8 hours ago, Gengs1 said:

    If the Dems had any sense, they could verify the flight details and if he left the county via tsa/state department and go tomorrow on national tv and reticule him and the RS, they should be screaming about this and have a single message to the voters. Take a page out of Rs playbook

    of course the Ds are pussy and won’t. 

     

    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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