In addition to pointing out this meme’s amnesia of CA electric grid failures, the water crisis is not in all of MS, it’s in Jackson. Which has a Democratic mayor and 6/7 council members are Democrats.
https://ballotpedia.org/Jackson,_Mississippi#City_council
▪️As for TX’s electric grid, it ironically has the most renewable energy production of any state, particularly for wind. This has made the grid highly vulnerable to periods when wind drops off, and highly dependent on gas as its only reliable backup.
https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=TX
▪️In 2009, coal-fired plants generated ~37% of Texas’s electricity while wind provided ~6%. Since then, 3 Texas coal-fired plants have closed & the use of wind power has more than quadrupled In the same period, energy consumption rose by 20%.
https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/2020/august/ercot.php
▪️To pre-empt the objection that it was gas and not renewables that failed in the great freeze of ‘21, this ignores that wind and solar provided virtually 0 power during the crisis (chart posted in comments). They would have been far worse off with more renewables, not better. Many areas with far harsher winters have resilient fossil fuel grids.
▪️And there are no new plans for additional nuclear or coal plants in TX, only more solar and wind (and some gas for backup). Thus, in a sense Republicans have screwed up their electric grid, but not in the sense this meme would assume.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2022/01/11/to-keep-up-with-growth-texas-needs-more-big-baseload-electric-power-plants/
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
