The governor of Texas, one Greg Abbott, recently stuck his citizens with a five figure power bill. Apiece.
There are various excuses for that: oh, we had to choose between power-using citizens and the urban areas. Oh these are Variable Plans!
Unless there's a freeze or something. Then, by Variable Plan, the power company can boost your rate to whatever. You gambled - you lost! Except that it is poor people "gambling" just to eke out that extra bit to pay off the creditors. This is exactly the stupidity which got us Enron, and then the garbage variable-mortgages which sparked 2008.
To all that I say: the purpose of the Crown is to guard the Wall against the Others. There are plenty of bilkers out there, and some work in companies with Diversity Departments. (I know Shell had one.) Abbott has one job and it is to protect his citizens from the bilkers.
To the libertarians out there - the whole mess started because, oh, we had to choose between nuclear power (or natural gas), and being Green. So many photo-ops where Abbott pandered to Texas Monthly and the rest of The Great And Good over how awesome those turbines were gonna be.
Another little fatwa Abbott let loose was that Texans shouldn't use Gab. They have antiSemites on there, you see. Just to really make that point Abbott made sure to have the Israeli flag cover the US flag, with the Texas flag off to its right (facing the podium). There are, of course, plenty of antiSemites on Twitter and indeed right here on Blogger. Few of these voted Trump last year (which I did and, yes, I am legally Jewish). But hey. Alt Right!!
This man is not your hero for freeedommm.
But don't you worry, Tejanos and Tejanas: Abbott has got your back at least against masks. The capital city Austin (which as noted doesn't always get it right statewide) has this strange notion that Texas hasn't done vaccinating all those who need it, yet; they want to stave off lockdowns in their own city. You know, the lockdowns that only really work if you're on an island? If you can't do lockdowns you need to do masking (pdf). But srrrvatives think masks are Satanic and mooooslim.
What Abbott and that (other) murderer Cuomo have in common is that they don't care. There is a solid inverse correlation between general patriotism - which is just love of your fellow citizen - and CoVID. Cuomo isn't a real New Yorker and - as has just been proven - Abbott is no loyal American, and might not even be a Texan. As long as they get to stay in a mansion and have you pay their electric-bill, they're good.
HE GOT HIS MST 6:35 PM: Battle Swarm Blog cares a lot. Just not about you - Also, I got my electric bill for February and…it’s a totally normal February electric bill. It helps to have natural gas heat…
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