Texas - The Shithole State

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

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I heard they had winter weather *SMDH*.

This is Houston, Texas. line of people filing up buckets of water from a spicket at Haden Park. pic.twitter.com/yOxwjpS59Z

— DailyGist (@DailyGistTv) February 18, 2021

[Kadudu]

The US is a rich country, but has infrastructure of a third world country. Look at their airports like JFK. Third world standard.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

I'd say more old, rather than third world.  It's a reflection of right-wing thinking about investments in public infrastructure.  So red states are generally a bit lax.  Texas in particular seems to have completely avoided winterizing their electrical power grid because profits.

[Georgesoros]

I'd say more old, rather than third world.  It's a reflection of right-wing thinking about investments in public infrastructure.  So red states are generally a bit lax.  Texas in particular seems to have completely avoided winterizing their electrical power grid because profits.

They started blaming solar?? Because wind turbines froze.
But forgot to mention that there is solar in Iowa and it runs in the deep winter there.

[audacityofhope]

The US is a rich country, but has infrastructure of a third world country. Look at their airports like JFK. Third world standard.

True dat @KaInsect,
I once landed at JFK took a wrong turn and found myself outside, past check-out/in. Rather than go back in and go through hustle of immigration, I just hoped into a taxi and left. No wonder these guys got hit by 9/11.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

I'd say more old, rather than third world.  It's a reflection of right-wing thinking about investments in public infrastructure.  So red states are generally a bit lax.  Texas in particular seems to have completely avoided winterizing their electrical power grid because profits.

They started blaming solar?? Because wind turbines froze.
But forgot to mention that there is solar in Iowa and it runs in the deep winter there.

Yep - it should be a teaching moment, but it's not.  Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin etc all had much worse weather this last week.  But life didn't stop.  To be fair, I don't expect life in Texas to go on as usual; this is not their shit.  Still I didn't expect anything worse than school closures or travel advisories - instead you have days long blackouts and no water.

[gout]

Covid and now the winter storm shows man is yet to conquer our unforgiving nature especially using neoliberal approach of clawing out public investments and turning everything into a profit game.