Ted Cruz flees Texas during a disaster to enjoy warm vacation in Cancun

[DMC]

Good job, Ted.

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And good job everyone who applied pressure and forced him to realize the error of his ways, even if GOP sycophants refuse to.

Photo op, damage control.

Way to go Ted, hand out water. That's what this state needs.

[DMC]

You're shadow boxing. I didn't say anything about Ted's overnight trip to Yucatan creating a new political calculus.

Either you're daft or you're being intentionally obtuse. Whether Ted was in Texas or in Mexico, Joe Q Public freezing his ass off at home with no water would have been freezing his ass off at home with no water.

[Winehole23]

Either you're daft or you're being intentionally obtuse. Whether Ted was in Texas or in Mexico, Joe Q Public freezing his ass off at home with no water would have been freezing his ass off at home with no water.Did someone say otherwise?

[DMC]

Did someone say otherwise?

Daft it is.

[Adam Lambert]

Photo op, damage control.

Way to go Ted, hand out water. That's what this state needs.

Lots of people still need water. Leadership is sometimes less about the specific results of your efforts and more about the example you're showing.

For example, if our former President had himself adhered to COVID protocols recommended by experts instead of trying to appeal to conspiracy theorists and COVID deniers, tens or hundreds of thousands less people might be dead. Not because he would have avoided spreading it himself, but because more people might have followed his lead on that instead of the other.

[DMC]

Lots of people still need water. Leadership is sometimes less about the specific results of your efforts and more about the example you're showing.

For example, if our former President had himself adhered to COVID protocols recommended by experts instead of trying to appeal to conspiracy theorists and COVID deniers, tens or hundreds of thousands less people might be dead.

Ding

Example = optics

[Winehole23]

Daft it is.Sorry, can't read your mind. If you have a point you should use your words to make it.

[DMC]

Sorry, can't read your mind. If you have a point you should use your words to make it.

If he's not going to do anything why does it matter if he's in Texas or Cancun if NOT optics?

[Winehole23]

If he's not going to do anything why does it matter if he's in Texas or Cancun if NOT optics?First of all, it's optional to do nothing, I don't accept that stipulation. Secondly optics matter socially and politically because people care about optics.

[DMC]

It's optics plain and simple. It's the left's version of thoughts and prayers.


First of all, it's optional to do nothing, I don't accept that stipulation. Secondly optics matter socially and politically because people care about optics.

Welcome to 5 pages ago. Sober up.

[RandomGuy]

Photo op, damage control.

Way to go Ted, hand out water. That's what this state needs.

Maybe he can throw some paper towels at them, while he is at it. Cancun Cruz gonna have to work really hard to wash this shit-stain away.

[Winehole23]

Welcome to 5 pages ago. Sober up.I'm dead sober.

Pissy! :lol

[Blake]

DMC is filling up the card this morning, is anyone else playing?

https://myfreebingocards.com/bingo-card-generator/results?img=1&title=DMC+Bingo&words=The+Narrative%0D%0AThe+Left%0D%0AI+Will+Not+ Be+Pawed+at%0D%0ATribalism%0D%0AYou%E2%80%99re+an+ Idiot%0D%0APushed+Your+Shit+In%0D%0ATilting+at+Win dmills%0D%0AIt%E2%80%99s+a+Historic+Winter%2C+Some +Issues+Expected%0D%0AStop+Stealing+My+Shit%0D%0AC ities+Were+Burned+Down%0D%0ACircle+of+Trust%0D%0AI t%27s+All+Optics%0D%0AWhat+About+Andrew+Cuomo%3F%0 D%0AFag%0D%0ABend+Over%2C+I%E2%80%99ll+Show+You%0D %0AVoted+For+Obama+and+Biden&theme=corporate&size=0&per-page=2&free-space-text=FREE+SPACE¬-random=1&s=1

:lol

[Blake]

JUST BECAUSE HE DID NOTHING TO PREVENT THESE CONDITIONS FROM HAPPENING WHY SHOULD HE STICK IT OUT WITH PLEBES IN THE COLD DARK ICY NIGHTS?

[Ef-man]

JUST BECAUSE HE DID NOTHING TO PREVENT THESE CONDITIONS FROM HAPPENING WHY SHOULD HE STICK IT OUT WITH PLEBES IN THE COLD DARK ICY NIGHTS?

It is all optics until someone loses an eye, loses an insurrection, or freezes to death.

[boutons_deux]

Ted Cruz is being mocked over photos showing him loading bottles of water into a car

as he seeks to rebuild his reputation after the Cancun vacation debacle


https://i.insider.com/6032311c623bd30012bcc6ca?width=700

https://www.businessinsider.com/senator-ted-cruz-mocked-over-texas-disaster-relief-photo-op-2021-2

[Blake]

The only credit I'll give Cruz here is owning it.

[DMC]

Maybe he can throw some paper towels at them, while he is at it. Cancun Cruz gonna have to work really hard to wash this shit-stain away.

Why? You weren't going to ever vote for him. You'll vote for Nacho again.

[ChumpDumper]

DMC definitely voted for Cruz.

[florige]

Ted Cruz is being mocked over photos showing him loading bottles of water into a car

as he seeks to rebuild his reputation after the Cancun vacation debacle


https://i.insider.com/6032311c623bd30012bcc6ca?width=700

https://www.businessinsider.com/senator-ted-cruz-mocked-over-texas-disaster-relief-photo-op-2021-2


The water is probably going in his own car

[daboom1]

21 pages :lol

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/votolatino/status/1363194729781952515?s=19

AOC is so down to earth and compassionate.

[ChumpDumper]

21 pages :lol:lol derp

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/votolatino/status/1363194729781952515?s=19

AOC is so down to earth and compassionate.:lol RepubliQans hate dogs

[Blake]

:lol RepubliQans hate dogs

https://imagesvc.meredithcorp.io/v3/mm/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.onecms.io%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F20%2F2021%2F02%2F19%2F ted-cruz-dog-snowflake.jpg

[DMC]

^The bopsie twins show up in the same car again. Ya'll besties now?

[Blake]

^The bopsie twins show up in the same car again. Ya'll besties now?

Dmc marking date & time now in the Rolodex files

[DMC]

^The later born, runt bopsie, affectionately referred to as "Greenbean"

[Winehole23]

https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1290559444l/1991684.jpg

[DMC]

:lol

[Splits]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuyTSekVEAISi5I?format=jpg&name=900x900

[ChumpDumper]

^The bopsie twins show up in the same car again. Ya'll besties now?DMC hasn't left this thread all week.:lol

[MultiTroll]

"According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, travelers coming back from international trips should quarantine for seven days after returning to the U.S."

More winning from Crud and the Trump Virus party.

[MultiTroll]

The only credit I'll give Cruz here is owning it.
Did he?
Haven't hear a peep walking back his hypocrisy of dissing others who took trips, dissing CA power system. Doesn't move the sincerity meter one iota for me. More like he's "caught sorry."

"Sir, generous of you to help put the water AOC bought into cars,” Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall replied.

“It’s funny you got shamed into helping,” FOIA attorney Beth Bourdon said.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

You just illustrated that any meaningful impact could be just as easily done remotely. If he stayed in Texas, maybe he doesn't even have power. He'd have to be in DC, which means he would be on the phone.

Optically it's a mess for him. Realistically the net effect on the people of Texas is the same. Since no one really knows what the other senator is doing, obviously there's no impetus for senators to actually do anything. This means it's really just a PR issue that he left. Ted Cruz wouldn't have helped Texas whether he stayed or left and your response illustrates that quite well. Is Cornyn doing the things you mentioned? Obviously he didn't go to Cancun. Or is he just sending out tweets?

So had Cruz stayed and done nothing, no one would be discussing it.


All I get from you is that you have no idea how to manage or lead anyone because you think it all can be done remotely and there is no advantage of personal communication. Not surprised really.

[Blake]

Did he?
Haven't hear a peep walking back his hypocrisy of dissing others who took trips, dissing CA power system. Doesn't move the sincerity meter one iota for me. More like he's "caught sorry."

"Sir, generous of you to help put the water AOC bought into cars,” Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall replied.

“It’s funny you got shamed into helping,” FOIA attorney Beth Bourdon said.

Well yeah I mean he's not trying to do the dmc spin of "welp there was nothing for me to do had I stayed" after being called out.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/02/19/ted-cruz-cancun-trip-mistake-ktrk-phillip-king-ip-vpx.cnn

[pgardn]

Did someone say otherwise?

Yes. Ted himself, on at least two other occasions with someone other than himself.

Practice what you preach...? hypocrite^2 Fled Cruz.

Nancy P got the treatment; we can square the treatment for Cruz.

[DMC]

All I get from you is that you have no idea how to manage or lead anyone because you think it all can be done remotely and there is no advantage of personal communication. Not surprised really.

It can be done remotely. It's done that way all the time. Personal communication can happen remotely. We've been doing remote comms for over a year now because of COVD. Did all leadership break down?

Remote leadership happens in the military all the time. It happens in remote support positions. It happens in a lot of situations.

What are you even talking about? Protests and riots and the "coup attempt" were all coordinated remotely. That's hundreds of thousands of people doing things they were told to do, from someone remote.

[Blake]

It can be done remotely.

But it wasn't. He was fleeing. Brave Sir Cruz.

[DMC]

But it wasn't. He was fleeing. Brave Sir Cruz.

You really should wait for your twin before you open your hole.

[pgardn]

It can be done remotely. It's done that way all the time. Personal communication can happen remotely. We've been doing remote comms for over a year now because of COVD. Did all leadership break down?

Remote leadership happens in the military all the time. It happens in remote support positions. It happens in a lot of situations.

What are you even talking about? Protests and riots and the "coup attempt" were all coordinated remotely. That's hundreds of thousands of people doing things they were told to do, from someone remote.

I think he is talking about actually looking people in the face and saying, "I get it now, Ive seen the damage it to feel it."
Thus Ted personally hands out water now. Donald throws paper towels. Some mayors actually spend a couple of days in homeless camps in their city.

[DMC]

I think he is talking about actually looking people in the face and saying, "I get it now, Ive seen the damage it to feel it."
Thus Ted personally hands out water now. Donald throws paper towels. Some mayors actually spend a couple of days in homeless camps in their city.

Optics. Why is this so difficult for some of you? Everything you're whining about is optics and optics only. It doesn't mean optics don't matter, but optics don't warm houses (maybe large magnifying glasses would)

[pgardn]

Some people actually get in helicopters to view hurricane damage instead of just looking a drone footage to get a feel for the immensity of looking in all directions. Its a weird thing that are eyes and brains really understand vision and communication in person better than on a 2-d screen, there are a lot more senses involved.

Imagine that, we see, smell, "feel", a 3-d world better. Amazing.

but, but... optics...

Why dont you just go to the practice range virtually, its just as good.

[DMC]

Some people actually get in helicopters to view hurricane damage instead of just looking a drone footage to get a feel for the immensity of looking in all directions. Its a weird thing that are eyes and brains really understand vision and communication in person better than on a 2-d screen, there are a lot more senses involved.

Imagine that, we see, smell, "feel", a 3-d world better. Amazing.

but, but... optics...

Why dont you just go to the practice range virtually, its just as good.

What a shitty analogy :lol

I could call the range master and make an appointment, wouldn't need to go there to do so. You cannot eat lunch remotely either, idiot, but you can order groceries remotely.

Does no one here work remotely? How do you manage that when your leader isn't in your home telling you what to do face to face? :lol

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao DMC still posting optics and remotely.

And lashing out that other people are posting.

[DMC]

^:lol

[Winehole23]

:lmao DMC still posting optics and remotely.

And lashing out that other people are posting.Mind on tilt, mouth an outgoing voicemail recording.

[ChumpDumper]

He's been in full meltdown ever since AOC took a wet shit in his mouth.:lol

[Winehole23]

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[pgardn]

What a shitty analogy :lol

I could call the range master and make an appointment, wouldn't need to go there to do so. You cannot eat lunch remotely either, idiot, but you can order groceries remotely.

Does no one here work remotely? How do you manage that when your leader isn't in your home telling you what to do face to face? :lol

Im telling you people communicate better and understand better face to face and now you want to go digital on me with pure information.

You dont get it DMCompulsive/Obsessive.
Politicians are asked to go door to door and shake hands and kiss babies because... oh shit, I dont know...
fckn moron.

[pgardn]

...

[pgardn]

Imagine human beings actually getting a more complete and visceral understanding of a situation by actually being there.

Unfathomable...
To DMCuitpilingOnMe...

[Blake]

You really should wait for your twin before you open your hole.

Facts don't care about your Rolodex.

He wasn't even doing anything remotely. He was busy fleeing.

[Winehole23]

Should a mother care about a sick child, or is that virtue signalling?

Is she a doctor? Can she make her child better merely by caring?

If not, why care at all? Since caring cannot be meaningfully distinguished from doing nothing and cannot make her child well again, it's little more than pandering to weak-minded simps who get upset over the bad optics of being an uncaring parent.

[DMC]

Im telling you people communicate better and understand better face to face and now you want to go digital on me with pure information.

You dont get it DMCompulsive/Obsessive.
Politicians are asked to go door to door and shake hands and kiss babies because... oh shit, I dont know...
fckn moron.

How can I understand anything you're saying since we aren't face to face?

[DMC]

Should a mother care about a sick child, or is that virtue signalling?

Is she a doctor? Can she make her child better merely by caring?

If not, why care at all? Since caring cannot be meaningfully distinguished from doing nothing and cannot make her child well again, it's little more than pandering to weak-minded simps who get upset over the bad optics of being an uncaring parent.




You want Ted to breastfeed you?

[Spurtacular]

You want Ted to breastfeed you?

You may not want to know the answer to that. :lol

[Winehole23]

You want Ted to breastfeed you?it's a metaphor, I thought abstraction was your thing

[Winehole23]

You want Ted to breastfeed you?Why should a mother care about a sick child, since caring does nothing to make her child well?

[DMC]

it's a metaphor, I thought abstraction was your thing

Face to face.. sure

[DMC]

Why should a mother care about a sick child, since caring does nothing to make her child well?

What Ted should do isn't a question. What Ted will do is what I am discussing.

Kids often get neglected even if mom is at home.

[RandomGuy]

What Ted should do isn't a question. What Ted will do is what I am discussing.

Kids often get neglected even if mom is at home.

Not really an answer to his question. He is getting at underlying precepts, directly relevant to the point he is making.

smh

[Winehole23]

What Ted should do isn't a question. What Ted will do is what I am discussing.

Kids often get neglected even if mom is at home.We are discussing Ted. Are you able to understand the metaphor?

[DMC]

We are discussing Ted. Are you able to understand the metaphor?

Of course but its non sequitur

[DMC]

Not really an answer to his question. He is getting at underlying precepts, directly relevant to the point he is making.

smh

I don't need precepts. Caring moms care remotely or at home. Uncaring moms don't care. Their proximity to the children isn't a factor in caring. Ted doesn't really care.

[Winehole23]

Of course but its non sequiturlol no

[DMC]

lol no

Sure it is. It does not follow that being closer physically = caring more nor being further away = caring less.

It's also not aligned with the viability of leading via remote communication.

[DMC]

Ted doesn't care
Ted doesn't care in Cancun
Ted doesn't care in Houston

Ted can just as easily not care in Cancun as he can in Houston.
Ted will not make a real impact.

Ted came back because he does care about keeping his powerful job. Ted came back because of the optics.

[Winehole23]

DerpinMahCruz

[ChumpDumper]

:lol remote caring


DMC just keeps shitting himself

[Winehole23]

1363882484266659843

[Trill Clinton]

Only in America will people waste so much energy and time defending out of touch rich people/politicians.

[DMC]

DerpinMahCruz

You fold so gloriously

[Winehole23]

You fold so gloriouslyNo question was pending, likewise there's no need for me to respond to you making the same blockheaded point, over and over again.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/83/eb/1f/83eb1f9bc2d72f7314bee8520a3c1548.jpg

[Blake]

What Ted should do isn't a question. What Ted will do is what I am discussing.


Ted fled

[DMC]

No question was pending, likewise there's no need for me to respond to you making the same blockheaded point, over and over again.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/83/eb/1f/83eb1f9bc2d72f7314bee8520a3c1548.jpg

You seem to want to make a point that's unrelated to the discussion. Go on a tweet hunt.

I don't play the question pending game.

[Blake]

Oh look another gop politician fled

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/sugarland/news/article/State-Rep-Gary-Gates-facing-backlash-after-15963326.php

[DMC]

No shit

[Winehole23]

You seem to want to make a point that's unrelated to the discussion. Go on a tweet hunt.

I don't play the question pending game.enforcing topicality :lmao
can't follow the analogy :lmao

[Winehole23]

So much for trust, leadership and responsibility.

DMC thinks he has proven it's all optics. :rollin

[ChumpDumper]

Ted's scrambling to find a ladle and apron to crash a soup kitchen service tomorrow.

:lmao again

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[ChumpDumper]

Up to 5 million wet shits in DMC's mouth....

1363670498392092675

[RandomGuy]

I don't need precepts. Caring moms care remotely or at home. Uncaring moms don't care. Their proximity to the children isn't a factor in caring. Ted doesn't really care.

Totally agree with you on that last point.

funny to see AOC doing more than Ted.

[Blake]

Up to 5 million wet shits in DMC's mouth....

1363670498392092675

Yeah but Cruz remotely scooped bbq beans on a few plates tho

[DMC]

enforcing topicality :lmao
can't follow the analogy :lmao

I don't care to follow your analogy. Some posters here lack the ability to use relevant analogies but somehow keep using them anyhow.

[DMC]

Totally agree with you on that last point.

funny to see AOC doing more than Ted.

She's more aware of the political climate than is Ted. Ted is a fool. This is why term limits on politicians needs to be instituted. They get complacent and become stumps.

[DMC]

So much for trust, leadership and responsibility.

DMC thinks he has proven it's all optics. :rollin

You're a notorious liar and when caught you issue an apology then proceed to lie again.

[Winehole23]

I don't care to follow your analogy. Some posters here lack the ability to use relevant analogies but somehow keep using them anyhow.worse than Mr.Magoo, refuses to look.

[Winehole23]

You're a notorious liar and when caught you issue an apology then proceed to lie again.
U mad

lol name calling

[RandomGuy]

She's more aware of the political climate than is Ted. Ted is a fool. This is why term limits on politicians needs to be instituted. They get complacent and become stumps.

She actually gives a shit. Benefits of being young and idealistic.

[DMC]

She actually gives a shit. Benefits of being young and idealistic.

Maybe, but she didn't let the photo op pass her by.

[Blake]

Maybe, but she didn't let the photo op pass her by.

Still trying to lessen her accomplishment.

You guys are pathetic

[RandomGuy]

Maybe, but she didn't let the photo op pass her by.

The currency of politics.

[Winehole23]

NO PICTURES!

[RandomGuy]

Protestors hire Mariachi to play outside of Ted Cruz house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8b8QO-WiTU

M8b8QO-WiTU

:rollin

[DMC]

Snowflake enjoyed it. Only one home.

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/152271650_2888467241476582_7493227201258575135_n.j pg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=5FSOUeew6_4AX8eaNOD&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=66c393ed557afce90b665eb7a03c264a&oe=60594D1E

[FuzzyLumpkins]

It can be done remotely. It's done that way all the time. Personal communication can happen remotely. We've been doing remote comms for over a year now because of COVD. Did all leadership break down?

Remote leadership happens in the military all the time. It happens in remote support positions. It happens in a lot of situations.

What are you even talking about? Protests and riots and the "coup attempt" were all coordinated remotely. That's hundreds of thousands of people doing things they were told to do, from someone remote.

You are obviously not familiar with the military's take on leadership. There is can and there is best. It's a crisis. We should want the best from our leaders not vacations.

The insurrection started after Trump encouraged the crowd in person to march down on the capitol and stated he would go with them.

That you describe leadership as simply telling someone what to do further demonstrates your ignorance on the subject. You couldn't inspire a golden retriever.

[boutons_deux]

Asshole extraordinaire Cruz is calling his neighbors assholes, who were in the group chat when Cruz' wife talked about Cancun, because the neighbors leaked that chat.

He also thought it was not nice them to put up Beto front yard signs during his Senate campaign! :lol

[Spurtacular]

24 pages on a senator taking a vacation for Chumpettes to take their minds off their mass murderer governor.

(Sadly) Not even an all-time cope thread for them.

[Spurtacular]

Protestors hire Mariachi to play outside of Ted Cruz house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8b8QO-WiTU

M8b8QO-WiTU




Thrill up the leg stuff, amirite?

:rollin

[RandomGuy]

24 pages on a senator taking a vacation for Chumpettes to take their minds off their mass murderer governor.

(Sadly) Not even an all-time cope thread for them.

You're right. We should instead use a bank of 40+ alts to make several dozen threads on it.

That would be the way to go. :lol

[ChumpDumper]

24 pages on a senator taking a vacation for Chumpettes to take their minds off their mass murderer governor.

(Sadly) Not even an all-time cope thread for them.All our Republican lawmakers are responsible for the power/water related deaths this week.

Sorry you can't focus on more than one subject at a time and can only emit one steady whine about your life. Not our problem.

[Spurtacular]

All our Republican lawmakers are responsible for the power/water related deaths this week.

What's your conspiracy theory?

[ChumpDumper]

What's your conspiracy theory?It's no conspiracy theory. Texas' electricity grid scheme is a matter of state government record.

I'm sure you know nothing about it.:tu

Because you're derp and it kills you.:tu

[Spurtacular]

It's no conspiracy theory. Texas' electricity grid scheme is a matter of state government record.

Biden's inhibitory actions are a matter of record. I suppose he gets a pass in your psychopath evaluation.

[ChumpDumper]

Biden's inhibitory actions are a matter of record.What actions are those, derp?

Let's see the record.

Now.

[Spurtacular]

What actions are those, derp?

Let's see the record.

Now.

Show your Republican records. You brought up records.

[ChumpDumper]

Show your Republican records. You brought up records.At the beginning of World War II, several electric utilities in Texas agreed to operate together as the Texas Interconnected System (TIS) to support the war effort. During the war, the grid was interconnected to other states and excess power generation was sent to industries on the Gulf Coast, providing a more reliable supply of electricity for production of metal and other material needed for the war.[16]

Recognizing the reliability advantages of remaining interconnected, TIS members continued to operate and develop the interconnected grid. TIS members adopted official operating guides for their interconnected power system and established two monitoring centers within the control centers of two utilities, one in North Texas and one in South Texas.

In 1970, ERCOT was formed to comply with NERC requirements. However, the Texas grid is not subject to federal regulation, being an intrastate grid without interstate power flows. On May 4th 1976, Central Southwest Holdings, attempted to force the issue, with an event that was later called the "Midnight Connection", where it connected the grid to Oklahoma for a few hours. This caused lawsuits about whether federal regulation then applied, however the judgement was that this was not sufficient.[16]

The deregulation of the Texas electricity market occurred in two phases: the wholesale generation market in 1995 and the rest of the sector in 1999.[17] The 1999 deregulation was aimed at counteracting a shortage of generation capacity in the state.[18] Since deregulation, retail providers and power generators were unregulated, although regulations on transmitters continued to control the placement of electrical lines. The legislation abolished the former system, in which power was both generated and consumed locally.[17] Instead, under the deregulated regime, retailers could contract with providers across the state, creating a complex market.[17] The 1999 deregulation also dropped limits on rate increases. Prior to deregulation, residential electricity rates were significantly below the national average; after deregulation, residential electricity rates increased, rising 64% between 1999 and 2007.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Reliability_Council_of_Texas#History

Let's see your records, derp.

Now.

[ChumpDumper]

Here's the bill passed in 1999, derp.

https://capitol.texas.gov/billlookup/Text.aspx?LegSess=76R&Bill=SB7

Where are your records?

[Spurtacular]

At the beginning of World War II, several electric utilities in Texas agreed to operate together as the Texas Interconnected System (TIS) to support the war effort. During the war, the grid was interconnected to other states and excess power generation was sent to industries on the Gulf Coast, providing a more reliable supply of electricity for production of metal and other material needed for the war.[16]

Recognizing the reliability advantages of remaining interconnected, TIS members continued to operate and develop the interconnected grid. TIS members adopted official operating guides for their interconnected power system and established two monitoring centers within the control centers of two utilities, one in North Texas and one in South Texas.

In 1970, ERCOT was formed to comply with NERC requirements. However, the Texas grid is not subject to federal regulation, being an intrastate grid without interstate power flows. On May 4th 1976, Central Southwest Holdings, attempted to force the issue, with an event that was later called the "Midnight Connection", where it connected the grid to Oklahoma for a few hours. This caused lawsuits about whether federal regulation then applied, however the judgement was that this was not sufficient.[16]

The deregulation of the Texas electricity market occurred in two phases: the wholesale generation market in 1995 and the rest of the sector in 1999.[17] The 1999 deregulation was aimed at counteracting a shortage of generation capacity in the state.[18] Since deregulation, retail providers and power generators were unregulated, although regulations on transmitters continued to control the placement of electrical lines. The legislation abolished the former system, in which power was both generated and consumed locally.[17] Instead, under the deregulated regime, retailers could contract with providers across the state, creating a complex market.[17] The 1999 deregulation also dropped limits on rate increases. Prior to deregulation, residential electricity rates were significantly below the national average; after deregulation, residential electricity rates increased, rising 64% between 1999 and 2007.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Reliability_Council_of_Texas#History

Let's see your records, derp.

Now.

:lol Just listing a Jewpedia generic history link.
:lol Derp got called out and showed his hand, 6 low. :lol :lmao :rollin

[Winehole23]

24 pages on a senator taking a vacation for Chumpettes to take their minds off their mass murderer governor.

(Sadly) Not even an all-time cope thread for them.about 40% was complaint-complainers.

why do you think people have forgotten what a horrible job Gov. Abbott has done on COVID? :lol

[ChumpDumper]

:lol Just listing a Jewpedia generic history link.
:lol Derp got called out and showed his hand, 6 low. :lol :lmao :rollin
Sorry, derp -- I already figured you'd whine about your betters, the Jews.:lol

Here's the bill passed in 1999, derp.

https://capitol.texas.gov/billlookup/Text.aspx?LegSess=76R&Bill=SB7

Where are your records?

Well?

[Spurtacular]

Sorry, derp -- I already figured you'd whine about your betters, the Jews.:lol


Well?

Well, I'm not going to read a generic link and try to come up with your explanation for you.

Stop wasting time, Derp.

[ChumpDumper]

Well, I'm not going to read Then why did you ask for the records? You're pretty stupid.

Show me your records supporting your claim about Biden.

I will read them.

I will not watch any video.

[Spurtacular]

Show me your records supporting your claim about Biden.

I will read them.

I will not watch any video.

Records require analysis, dip shit.

[Spurtacular]

Show me your records supporting your claim about Biden.

I will not watch any video.

:lol Makes demands; requires special treatment.

[Blake]

:lol Just listing a Jewpedia generic history link.
:lol Derp got called out and showed his hand, 6 low. :lol :lmao :rollin

Derp thinks it's a 6 and he still folds

[ChumpDumper]

Records require analysis, dip shit.I'll analyze your written record.


:lol Makes demands; requires special treatment.
You have no records at all.:tu


:lol You demanded government records and you got actual government records.

And you cried and folded.:lol

[ChumpDumper]

Derp thinks it's a 6 and he still folds:lmao

[Spurtacular]

I'll analyze your written record.


You have no records at all.:tu


:lol You demanded government records and you got actual government records.

And you cried and folded.:lol

I PROVED EVERYTHING WITH A JEWPEDIA HISTORY LINK AND A LINK TO A BILL.

:lol Derp

[ChumpDumper]

I PROVED EVERYTHING WITH A JEWPEDIA HISTORY LINK AND A LINK TO A BILL.

:lol DerpYou wanted records. You got the actual bill.

What more do you want, derp?

Let me know.

In the meantime, you shit yourself when asked to back up your own claim.

:lol derp

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p526x296/152344959_4847113275381688_1531696449485872237_n.j pg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=P1rTvmqdsZUAX-rTrrH&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&tp=6&oh=fb9e2a905689cfce9f948f6ea16921f3&oe=60597E0B

[Ef-man]

Only 20%?

Ted Cruz's Approval Rating Among Republicans Drops More Than 20 Percent After Cancun Fiasco.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ted-cruz-s-approval-rating-among-republicans-drops-more-than-20-percent-after-cancun-fiasco/ar-BB1dZ4Rf?ocid=msedgntp

[koriwhat]

Why even bother with Chump? The dude is a straight up vagina.

[RandomGuy]

Biden's inhibitory actions are a matter of record. I suppose he gets a pass in your psychopath evaluation.

Biden wasn't in charge of the Texas power grid for the last 10 years. :rollin

muh Biden

[Winehole23]

Only 20%?

Ted Cruz's Approval Rating Among Republicans Drops More Than 20 Percent After Cancun Fiasco.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ted-cruz-s-approval-rating-among-republicans-drops-more-than-20-percent-after-cancun-fiasco/ar-BB1dZ4Rf?ocid=msedgntpjust optics, no one really cares

[Ef-man]

just optics, no one really cares

:lol
20% optical illusion.

[RandomGuy]

just optics, no one really cares

https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2021/02/ted-cruz-dog.jpg

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ted-cruz-left-dog-snowflake-cancun/

Dude is lucky he had someone to care for it. Otherwise he might have the embarrassment of having his dog taken away...

heard some rumors about that, but it sounded like bunkum.

[Winehole23]

Cruz playing the heel, this could eventually backfire on him.

Or maybe it's fake.

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[Winehole23]

damn.

it's real.

[MultiTroll]

damn.

it's real.
Sociopath all the way.

[Winehole23]

Sociopath all the way.FREEDOM!

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[Winehole23]

1365348802895482890?

[MultiTroll]

:lol Cruz is beyond pathetic.

[Blake]

:lol Cruz is beyond pathetic.

The standing ovation for him is worse

[Winehole23]

“Six to seven years in it, with me being the primary breadwinner — it’s like, ‘Uh, yeah, this is when people say thank you. I’ll now take that appreciation,'” she said. “Yeah, we’re seven years into this, and we’re not buying a second home anytime soon.”


Cruz, who is an investment manager at Goldman Sachs, tells The Atlantic that she’s had to regularly work 70-hour weeks to make enough money to support her family. Despite this, she says she’s still supportive of what her husband is doing in politics.


“I really hope he wins his reelection,” she said. “I really feel mission-driven on what he’s accomplishing.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/heidi-cruz-ted-his-senate-bid-and-2016-race/573256/

[RandomGuy]

The standing ovation for him is worse

Yeah. The cult had its preachers who don't believe, just like real religions. Cruz thinks the best of Donnie T, like he thinks the tooth fairy is real, and we all know it.

Craven opportunist to the last, and the worst in politicians.

[boutons_deux]

Ted Cruz busted for stance on corporate PACs -- and where he really gets his money

called out Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) over his well-publicized rant about no longer taking money from corporate PACs -- and pointed out it's a lot of smoke and mirrors (https://thebulwark.com/ted-cruzs-accidental-confession/). :lol LIES

Texas Republican (https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-republican-party/) made a big show in the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-woke-money-is-no-good-here-11619649421) by announcing he will refuse corporate PAC money because

corporations are becoming too "woke." :lol

"In my nine years in the Senate, I've received $2.6 million in contributions from corporate political-action committees. Starting today, I no longer accept money from any corporate PAC. I urge my GOP colleagues at all levels to do the same."

"Cruz is saying that,

all this time when Republicans were claiming that corporations were 'job creators,'

it was really just code for 'they send me cash,'" she wrote.

"Cruz is now telling the world that it was a sham. It was all a quid pro quo. What a great look."

eschewing corporate PAC contributions is not the same thing as rejecting all corporate contributions.

Cruz gets more (https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/ted-cruz/summary?cid=N00033085) from the oil and gas, legal, and real-estate interests than from PACS."

"When candidates beat the bushes for donations from small donors, they do it by ginning up outrage. It's been dubbed "fundraging (https://www.npr.org/2020/10/22/925892007/fundraging-fuels-democratic-money-advantage-over-gop-in-most-races)." :lol

That's what Cruz is about. We're used to that from him. What is new is

his inadvertent confession of florid, flagrant cynicism,"

https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-2652834497

[boutons_deux]

Here's Cruz blatantly admitting his (and all of Congress') corrupt subservience to the BigDonor class

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[Spurs Homer]

Here's Cruz blatantly admitting his (and all of Congress') corrupt subservience to the BigDonor class

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translation: “no more quid pro quo- because you stopped quid pro quo-ing us!”

[boutons_deux]

Ted Cruz makes corrupt threat to America’s CEO’s

Ted Cruz ripped for issuing “openly corrupt” threats to “woke” CEOs

Walter Shaub, former head of the Government Office of Ethics, called

Cancun Ted’s threat to “woke” CEOs the “most openly corrupt” message ever from the Senate.

https://odaction.com/ted-cruz-makes-corrupt-threat-to-americas-ceos

"openly"? yes, but certainly Wally knows that secretive Congress Don't Got No Steenkin' Ethics

[Trainwreck2100]

Here's Cruz blatantly admitting his (and all of Congress') corrupt subservience to the BigDonor class

1388111012008706057

lol "we may not"

Not even a threat to them

[ElNono]

Here's Cruz blatantly admitting his (and all of Congress') corrupt subservience to the BigDonor class

1388111012008706057

Ted is part of the resistance now? lmao

[boutons_deux]

Ted "may" not take money from woke corps, but he will always take anonymized dark PAC money

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bwvd55e4hsxpuxa5ikrfgqgo/bafkreic4huyywdit2eq7ccxk6jxqrgyayahitbrnf7nb56qvz hn2walkte@jpeg

[Winehole23]

111 dead, 161 missing


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:bwvd55e4hsxpuxa5ikrfgqgo/bafkreibxxjiuerhgkw2e4py5hocbpfoh2tncghpxgsksrrhsa 35wrsvyi4@jpeg

[Winehole23]

(FEMA chief David Richardson has yet to make any public statement)

[Winehole23]

Sen. Cruz and the national GOP are setting us up for more of the same


before his Grecian holiday, Cruz ensured a reduction in funding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) efforts to improve future weather forecasting of events that cause the sort of extreme floods that are being worsened by the human-caused climate crisis.

Cruz inserted language into the Republicans’ “big beautiful” reconciliation bill, prior to its signing by Donald Trump on Friday (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/trump-spending-bill-conservatives-law), that eliminates a $150 million fund to “accelerate advances and improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, assessments, and dissemination of information to the public” around weather forecasting.

A further $50 million in NOAA grants to study climate-related impacts on oceans, weather systems, and coastal ecosystems was also removed. Cruz was contacted by the Guardian with questions about these cuts and his trip to Greece.

Environmental groups said the slashed funding is just the latest blow to federal agencies tasked with predicting and responding to disasters such as the Texas flood. More than 600 employees have exited the NWS amid a Trump administration push to shrink the government workforce, leaving many offices short-staffed of meteorologists and other support workers (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/02/trump-national-weather-service-hurricanes).
Around a fifth of all full-time workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), meanwhile, are also set to depart.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/texas-flooding-senator-ted-cruz-weather-forecasting-funds-trump-big-beautiful-bill-vacation/

[Blake]

Sen. Cruz and the national GOP are setting us up for more of the same

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/texas-flooding-senator-ted-cruz-weather-forecasting-funds-trump-big-beautiful-bill-vacation/

From his own site:

"....He has long fought to protect Texas’ oil and energy sector..."

https://www.cruz.senate.gov/about/issues/energy-environment

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ojwszrpcvhwuhl4nhwactd2y/bafkreifw73dtcl4kqcqb6wdshknrrowdpooejgdsbvo6vb3rx yil3zgx7i@jpeg