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A freak winter storm
slammed into Texas,
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causing blackouts
for millions of people.
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And usually when there are
blackouts in America,
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things go back to normal
in a couple of hours
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and it's not a big deal.
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You light some candles,
you grab some flashlights,
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and then you tell a scary story
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about the woman who married
the ghost of a little boy.
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But in Texas,
many people are still waiting
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for the heat to come back on
three days later,
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and things stopped being fun
a long time ago.
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NEWSMAN: This morning,
a deadly winter blast
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tearing across the country
from Mississippi to Maine
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for a third straight day.
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NEWSWOMAN: In Texas,
the freezing temperatures
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knocking out power to more
than four million customers.
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Power's out. Water's out.
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There's no firewood anywhere.
No stores open.
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NEWSMAN 2: Residents using
blow-dryers and heaters
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to thaw their frozen pipes.
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WOMAN:
No water.
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NEWSMAN:
Enduring freezing temperatures
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any way they can,
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some dangerously using cars
or grills for heat.
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NEWSMAN 3: For the millions
bundled up with no electricity,
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this has been life for days.
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MAN: In this room in our house,
it is 33 degrees.
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NEWSMAN 3: In Austin,
Andrew Leahy and his wife
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finding ways to keep warm.
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You'll see a blanket here
and blue Scotch tape.
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We're doing anything possible
to keep the heat in.
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All right, people, this,
no matter what anybody says,
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is awful.
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I know people were praying
for Texas to go blue,
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but not like this.
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I mean, is it too much to ask
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for just one apocalypse
at a time?
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You know, COVID is bad enough,
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but now Texans
have to deal with their homes
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turning into meat lockers?
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This shit is unfair.
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The pipes are frozen.
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Temperatures are below zero.
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Ice is everywhere.
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Forget Texans.
This would be too much for Elsa.
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? Let it go. ?
"Hell, no.
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This some bullshit.
I'm going to Aruba."
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I mean, you saw that newsclip.
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Some people are putting up
Scotch tape and blankets.
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That's not how people should
keep heat in their house.
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That's how you hide
the weed smell from your RA.
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Now, what's been so devastating
about this blackout
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is that when the electricity
went out,
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it affected everything.
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People were struggling
to get heat.
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They're still struggling
to get food,
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and they're struggling
to get water.
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Now, luckily for them,
their leaders have stepped up
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in their time of need
to tell them to stop bitching.
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Now a story
making headlines nationwide.
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The mayor of Colorado City,
Tim Boyd,
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has resigned
after getting backlash
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over a Facebook post yesterday.
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In that post, he wrote, it is...
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He said those
without power or water
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should "step up and come up
with a game plan to stay safe."
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NEWSWOMAN:
He says, "The city, county,
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"along with power providers
owe you nothing"
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and "Only the strong
will survive.
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The weak will perish."
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Damn! Okay.
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I mean, that's one way
to be a leader,
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just telling your people
to fend for themselves
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during a disaster.
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That's some next level.
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You know, even Immortan Joe
sprayed his people
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with water once in a while.
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He's like,
"I've got a heart. Come on."
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Like, here's a question.
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Why did this guy
even want to be a mayor
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if he didn't want
to help people?
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You don't become a doctor
and then tell people,
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"Transplant your own liver,
bitches!
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"Why do I got to do everything,
huh?!
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I'm a doctor!"
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Now, the good news is
the backlash was so fierce
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that this mayor
immediately resigned.
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And, honestly,
it's probably safer for him
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now that he's gone.
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Because if you think
frostbite is bad on your nose,
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whew, you should see what it
does to an exposed asshole.
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Now, after the people of Texas
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are done DIY'ing
their own power plants,
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they'll probably want to know
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why this catastrophe
happened in the first place.
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And while freak storms
can't be prevented,
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it looks like Texas
could have done a lot more
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to prepare for this eventuality.
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NEWSMAN: Officials
with the council that manages
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most of Texas' grid, uh, says
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that outages are due to the
state's natural gas suppliers
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not being able to tolerate
such low temperatures.
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Power plants are not performing
as expected,
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especially natural gas-fired
power plants in Texas right now.
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Many of the thermal
power plants,
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like natural gas-fired
power plants,
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coal-fired power plants,
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and at least one nuclear unit
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are not, um, producing energy.
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They're-they're suffering
outages.
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Some people would point
to the fact that, uh,
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Texas had its power supply
deregulated back in the '90s,
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and you would say-- critics say
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that because of these businesses
were focusing on profits,
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uh, they were not necessarily
concerned with maintenance
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and/or winterizing the equipment
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to prepare
for worst-case scenarios
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like we're experiencing
right now.
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NEWSWOMAN:
Texas is the only state
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to use its own independent
power grid.
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That means it does not have
federal regulations
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that might have better prepared
Texas for an event like this.
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That's right. The main reason
Texas has plunged into darkness
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is that its natural gas industry
has been crippled by this storm.
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And that might,
might have been preventable,
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except that Texas deregulated
its power supply in the '90s,
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which was clearly not
the wisest decision.
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I mean, trust me,
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as a man who lived
through the '90s,
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you should probably rethink
most of the decisions you made
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in that decade.
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But, you see,
this deregulation
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led to a lack of oversight
that could have helped
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to keep the infrastructure
maintained.
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But, instead, for some reason,
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there are more people
keeping tabs on Britney Spears
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than the Texas power grid.
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And this just goes to show you
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you can't put profits
over quality and safety.
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Money's not worth a whole lot
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if you have to burn it
to keep warm.
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Look, the fact of the matter is,
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this situation is kind of
embarrassing for Texas' leaders.
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I mean, this is the state
that prides itself
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on its oil and gas industry,
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and now that industry
has failed spectacularly.
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This would be like Jason Momoa
needing help
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opening a pickle jar.
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Which is probably why
state officials
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and their allies on cable news
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are working so hard
to blame someone else.
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NEWSWOMAN: The blackouts
that are in Texas
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are being made worse
by the failure of wind turbines,
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many freezing
in the icy weather,
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cutting output in half.
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And it's raising questions
about the Lone Star State's
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increasing reliance
on renewable energy.
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Energy-producing wind turbines
are freezing, not working.
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The windmills failed,
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like the silly
fashion accessories they are,
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and people in Texas died.
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Think about if-if we were
in the AOC world.
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Fast-forward ten years
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and-and everything is solar,
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everything is wind.
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If you don't have power
to keep you warm,
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you're gonna-- you're gonna--
you're gonna die.
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A preview of what could happen
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if the AOC vision were reified
throughout the United States.
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This shows how the Green
New Deal would be a deadly deal
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for the United States
of America.
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Okay, this?
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This is (bleep) insane.
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These guys are so desperate
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to just let fossil fuels
off the hook
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that they're blaming AOC
and the Green New Deal--
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which, by the way,
hasn't even happened yet--
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for something that's happening
in Texas right now?
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But this just goes to show you--
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no matter what happens,
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no matter how far removed
she is from the problem,
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conservatives can
and will always find a way
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to blame the boogeyman, AOC.
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Rick Perry could have broken
his arm as a kid
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and he would've blamed it
on AOC.
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"Aah! My arm!
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Damn you, AOC!"
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"Uh, who's AOC, kid?"
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"She just hasn't been born yet.
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But you wait. You'll see."
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Now, look, we can have an
honest conversation about this
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and acknowledge that it is true
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that many wind turbines
in the state
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did freeze during the storm.
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But it's also fair
to acknowledge
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that these wind turbines
only account for 12%
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of the lost power in the state.
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Placing all the blame
on wind power here
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is like blaming the Jets' record
on the water boy.
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I mean, I guess he could have
handed out water better,
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but I don't think
that's why they lost.
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And even though
these wind turbines failed
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in cold weather,
that doesn't mean
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that wind power is a bad idea.
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It just means
that Texas didn't have turbines
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made for cold weather,
the same way
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it didn't have oil and gas
plants made for cold weather.
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I mean, there are cars sliding
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all over the roads in Texas
right now
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because nobody there
has snow tires,
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but I don't hear
the governor saying,
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"Wheels are unreliable,
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so we need to go back
to Flintstone cars."
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So, clearly, all this
conservative anger at AOC
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and green energy,
it's disingenuous.
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But the good news is it's led
to an amazing breakthrough
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that might just solve
Texas' energy problems forever.
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ANNOUNCER:
Here at Texas Energon,
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we're developing energy
that you can always depend on.
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Because our new technology
draws power
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from America's
most renewable resource,
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the insane hatred of AOC.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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-AOC. -AOC.
-(overlapping chatter)
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Our environmentally friendly
extraction methods
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allow our turbines to convert
the most paranoid rantings
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about
Representative Ocasio-Cortez
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into consistent power
that will never run dry.
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If anything,
we might get too much energy.
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People like
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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These are important people,
whether we like them or not.
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They have followings,
and people listen to them.
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And the future is bright,
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because soon our technology
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will tap even more pockets
of conservative anger,
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like cancel culture,
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mail-in ballots,
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and gay Disney characters.
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Texas Energon.
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Their hatred is your heat.
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