SocraticGadfly: Texas Progressives have some warmth for the winter's record cold

February 18, 2021

Texas Progressives have some warmth for the winter's record cold

Speaking of said cold, last week, Gov. Strangeabbott, ERCOT, et al, warned about possible rolling blackouts. I "Loooovvveeeee" how ERCOT, Rethuglican state leaders, and some Democraps as well, all love to brag about how Texas' electric grid is largely unconnected from the rest of the nation — until that's a problem. I was in Odessa a decade ago when we had a storm dip down there with snow and single-digit lows. Tex-ass, esp. in that area, had to "borrow" electricity from across the river in Mexico. It's just another part of the bullshit called "Texas exceptionalism."

Reminder to wingnuts: This is why we use the term "Climate change," which includes but is not restricted to, "global warming." Note to #BlueAnon: This is a reminder of why Status Quo Joe's "climate action plan" is bullshit, and AOC's Democrat version of the "Green New Deal" ain't much better, especially in light of her actions, or lack thereof, related to it since becoming a Congresscritter.

Reminder 2 to wingnuts: Will you defend Havana Ted Cruz now becoming Cancun Ted? 

So, from the frozen-in-spots Red River, let's dig in.

Trumpianism

Real estate bimbo Jenna Ryan is the latest Capitol seditionist to trot out the Nuremberg defense even as Corona Cornyn and Havana Ted Cruz joined with the great majority of Senate Rethuglicans to acquit Der Grüppenführer. 

Hypocrisy, chutzpah and more. Dad who believed in #StartTheSteal drove his 18-year-old son to DC on Jan. 6. He participated in Start the Sedition and is charged with assaulting a cop. Dad wants kid released to him rather than held in confinement.

Could Trump be tried for election fraud? The Fulton County (Ga.) DA is looking at it.

Lincoln/Black History

SocraticGadfly, for Lincoln's Birthday and Black History Month, looked critically at two new history books that try to make Lincoln into St. Abraham of Lincoln in one particular area.

You may have heard of Prince Hall Masons. Here's what you should know about their namesake, per some Black History Month news.

Texas

Good fucking bye to Austin police chief Brian Manley, who shows how "liberal" in Austin more and more is white techno-neoliberalism, given how long the city manager and city council have co-signed his bullshit before now.

Off the Kuff looks at the possibility of appellate court redistricting in this legislative session.

If you're a high schooler, no, sorry, you don't get a complete pass on taking STAAR.

General

Police union grift in New Jersey gets detailed. It's probably worst there, like many things New Jersey, but it's still cautionary.

Rick Casey connects the Capitol insurrection and the Republican push for voting restrictions to the Big Lie of voter fraud.  

Therese Odell sorts through the voluminous evidence in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump.  

Space City Weather explains how we get snow instead of sleet or freezing rain.  

The Great God Pan Is Dead brings us a little D.H. Lawrence.  

Paradise in Hell lets us in on the secret of the most affordable city in America.  

Andrea Zelinski tries to make sense of Texas secessionists.

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