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Millions of Texans are still without power and going to extreme lengths to stay warm, the mayor of Colorado City steps down after telling residents “the weak will perish,” and Fox News blames AOC’s Green New Deal for the power outages when poor oversight is the real culprit. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #Texas
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so their plan is to blame a representative who doesn’t represent texas and a policy that hasn’t been implemented yet? forget paranoia this is just stupidity...
It's Fox news, what else would you expect.
They always finds a villain to explain their own shortcomings
@@rahulitrc Exactly
That would be a Texan. Lying to shift the blame away from Texas and blame it on something not being implemented yet. They were warned. Texas should have no say in anything related to disaster relief. Go ahead and succeed. What makes Texas so damn great is the might of the federal government that has your backs.
its texas. not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Me, a Dutch person: *looking out the window at the windmills on the horizon, still working during below zero temperatures*
*waves to you from Copenhagen, Denmark* We're nearly carbon-neutral and heavily reliant on wind energy... even in winter.
Me German, looking also out of the window, definitley below zero, wind turbines working as smoove as ever☺. Me also thinking, ok 🤔when they built wind turbines in the same style they built cars and houses,🤣🤣🤣god damn, they re screwed🙈
Me, a Canadian: looking out the windo--- oh shit, it's covered in ice.
I'm heading your way....screw all this bureaucracy
Me, in Texas, thinking I'm in the wrong goddamn place! 55 hours w/o power and I care for my elderly mother.
I used to live in Texas. Deregulated power was a joke. It wasn’t cheaper. It was twice as much. And people were so proud of their “free market” energy not even realizing they were getting screwed
Statistically your comment is inaccurate. On a localized level for a given period you may be correct but across the country on averaged deregulated wholesale markets are about 4-6 cents/KWh cheaper.
@@brian2440 I mean it wasn’t a brief period of time. It was 5 years. Recently. But it’s true it was a singe place. Perhaps it’s better elsewhere. I take it you don’t live in Texas. It’s hellaciously confusing. There’s hundreds of plans. They all offer different things - higher rates in day but free after 9 pm. Weekends free. Flat rates etc etc. and all this is really hard to compare one to the other. The power all comes from the same place. And that’s the other thing. Though you argue the rates are the same or cheaper - you also have to pay $30/mo for a “delivery” service- oncor was ours- they actually connect you to the grid- So now there’s 4 people in the market each taking profit. The power plants. The whole sellers and main grid. The brokers who write the plans and buy the power and make it confusing because the more they confuse you the more they make- did I mention there are Hundreds? And the distributor and local grid operator. It’s not cheaper. The costs are obfuscated. You can tell it’s not cheaper by all the power executives driving around Dallas in Maseratis. It’s like Atlanta’s deregulated trash collection. In a given neighborhood each house has a different trash company. It varies house to house to house. And each with a different collection day. Now instead of trucks having to travel every street in the city and area- each street has to be traveled 8 times. And they pay much more. Don’t get me wrong. There are major downsides to utility monopolies. Cable companies are testament to that. My bro in law works for the local power utility- where I live now - for the past year - and he has a good job doing next to nothing as far as I can tell (he may strongly disagree with this, but it’s what I see) He’s always “ working from home “ which usually means 5 min on the phone and the rest the day watching golf... so yea. Here costs vs income don’t matter because whatever they spend they get but no more than a set Amt. no incentive to gouge. But none to save. But unfettered capitalism isn’t categorically better like the politicians paid by these companies want you to believe. Then because profits are unfettered you pay as much as the market will bear while the bare minimum is spent to support you.
@@brian2440 Exactly. This is why most large-scale Bitcoin mining farms are in Texas.
@@altimmons I used to live in Texas for 15 years, so I’m well aware of the system. I also work in this industry so I know it’s a heck of lot more complicated than these news agencies let on. However my rates on based on a national average comparing generalized average rates, which at the end of the day are simplifying things to get down to a relatively basic number. There are a lot of different plans, so of course the nationalized average is not reflective of every plan under any scenario. The biggest issue I have is that the media coverage of the event made it seem like deregulated wholesale market were primarily responsible for the grid systems in Texas, when in reality they are two entirely seperate conversations, and half of the country have this market system in place. So to suggest that degregualted wholesale markets are responsible for a lack of winterization is bit off the mark when these same systems exist in New York, Massachusetts, Oregon, Ohio, Illinois etc and the same issues dont necessarily exist. I will also add that a lot of people are making remarks like the lack of infrastructure upgrades is solely a Texas problem..... oh you naive children..... EPRI and ASCE estimate that over 60% of the US Electrical grid is over 40 years old and over 25% was hasn’t been upgraded since the 1960s. Most warranties for this infrastructure is between 30-50 years. Do the math..... This isn’t exclusively Texas problem and if you think it is that’s serious misjudgment Even in the 2011 FERC and NERC winter assessment for grid failures in the Southern US, severe equipment deficiencies and lack of regulatory requirements were found. Yes for ERCOT but also in WECC and SERC network systems. Clearly these politicians didn’t actually read that report......
Andy, I am so glad to hear you know what is going on. It never ceases to amaze me how people brag about paying twice as much for the privilege of making some businessman rich. These businesses spend a lot of money on their propaganda convincing people to pay more. You are no fool
Norway and Finland have a lot of windmills and harsher winters, and normal operations. We should not blame the wind industry for the meltdown. I actually work in the oil industry and I am also an engineer, so I am putting things in perspective here.
Better watch what you say ! They'll be calling you a radicle , liberal , oh fanatical , criminal .... Supertramp.
those of us in America who graduated the 3rd grade know ted cruz and most of texas are total fucking morons
Then you should know that Texas didn't winterize their wind turbines. Just because you had a job somewhere doesn't mean you know anything. Mr. Oil guy
@@recoswell glad you actually made it out of the 3rd grade. Now go back and finish the last 9 grades. Then get back to us
@@recoswell Wow! A third grade graduate! Congratulations sonny!
GOP: "This is all because of The Green New Deal!" The Green New Deal literally doesn't exist yet...
It is also inaccurate. The biggest challenge with renewables is saving the energy in form of hydrogen or in batteries (the elon way). Basically if it were fully renewable energy the problem wouldn't have occurred.
Exactly I’m thinking to myself, wait I don’t think the deal even exists yet
they blamed Obama for the 2008 recession because he won in 2008.....yet didnt take office until 2009.......
Literally doesn't exist yet- if ever.
@@csmidt2885 Obama went ahead and turned it around anyway and handed that to Trump. Now Biden is cleaning up an even bigger mess. Republicanism is a disaster.
Right Texas has been on their own grid longer than AOC has been in Congress, blame the people you voted into office
Since before 1935, that's how laughable that claim is.
The grid is Probably older than AOCS grandma
funny how poeple say that only on red states but dont say shit when they pack their shit and leave blue ones
@@edwinzzx Here we go, another whataboutism troll.
@@edwinzzx riiiight, because you monitor every comment section in every single website, right?
"Not the local government"s responsibility to support you during times like this" um, remind me why I pay taxes?
This! And our property taxes in Texas are so high, but that money goes to building a stadium for the football team instead of updating our infrastructure!
LOL you pay because you're "pitchin in."
I was the HARP projest. The GEO spraying they do here in Cali.. ☁☁✈ ☁☁☁✈ ☁☁☁☁✈ We know what's up! They need to be sued.
it is so the local govt fault.... here in maine we have it way worse but we have stuff for the winter instead of having cheap bs in the south so sneaky politicians get rich.... then the power company upcharges cuz they are scum....... cant wait for the Revolution
Careful. You’re sounding like the kind of person you probably don’t vote for lol.
I'm surprised they didn't blame it on Obama and the Clinton's yet.
They did, Trump supporters are in deep conspiracy that the snow in Texas is fake snow made by aliens
Just wait
@@chuexiong3862 RIGHT?! lol
@@chuexiong3862 that can’t be true please tell me it’s not true
No but plenty blamed Bush for it.
"We aren't responsible. Only the strong survive" spoken like a true Republican politician.
socialism for the rich; "you're on your own" for the rest of us.
It's the equivalent of Cuomo's 'put them back in the nursing homes'
How sad...
Fashion accessories... 😂🤣🥲
@@renew5751 no no no it’s equivalent of Cuomos ‘just get necesary jobs don’t rely on government support’
"it's not the government's responsibility to protect you." sir, that is a defining characteristic, nay, the CENTRAL PURPOSE of government.
Right? Like.....what good are you, then? Why are we even paying taxes?
republicans laregely think that the state is just there to ensure order is maintained and that the dow stays in the green and we have a massive army to scare off the rest of the world. everything else should be personal responsibilities
@@bezretmet isn’t looking after your citizens part of maintaining order? Hungry, freezing, desperate, angry people (who know you could help them, and are deliberately choosing not to) aren’t exactly known for their rational and restrained behavior.
@@odile8701 Nor should they be. I don't see how so many people who always call for smaller government would ever end up with a job in government. Just sayin'.🙄
What? Government doing stuff to benefit the governed? Sounds like... Communism... (Yes, I am being facetious.)
Me a Mongolian, looking at the windmills working during -25°c
I feel bad for Aoc she can breath and someone will have a problem with it
I wonder why?🤔
Maybe because she has no business being in that position?
@@coryernsberger61 AOC has no qualifications to even hold that position and it shows with her apparent and frequent incompetent ideologies.
@@bigken5042 lmao
You funny
It's almost as if the Republicans in Texas said they would never vote Blue unless hell froze over. (Edit- I'm a Texan )
...OOF
You said a mouthful! #FedupTexan
And hell has frozen over
Oh snap! Cold snap, that is...
😂🤣 that's kinda what's happening
*"Blame AOC!"* is their new *"Thanks Obama!?"*
Preemptively stifling her career before she can run for higher office.
@@targetseeker they can try lol she flaming them on twitter 😂😂
Im from San Antonio and it's embarrassing how our people in office handled this situation. And also how they blame other people like AOC who doesn't even represent Texas came down an made all these idiots looks like fools . It happened on there watch they are in office and the dropped the ball . Never voting Republican AGAIN!
Hardly anyone believes repub lies... We love AOC in Houston Texas . Thanks for the financial help!
Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for running to TX instead of out of TX like are leaders!!!!
I wish you were right but almost half the people in this country believe it
@yagbos the only reason it went out is because the power had nowhere to go... So im guessing everywhere else that froze had their renewable resources shut down? Thats ur logic right? Fox news much? Cut it out. You need to just use common sense with this. Something republicans dont have nowadays.
@yagbos and no. Renewable is almost just as affordable. No lies.
@yagbos bhahahahahahah everyone can see threw your lies bhahahahahaha there not Evan convincing!!!!!!!
Trumpism 101 : Always Blames others and never take responsibility for your own Action and Screw ups.
Basic populist response, tbh. When your policies are based on lies, you cannot take responsibility. Plus, in order to maintain support, you must always be the underdog that fights The Man. Even when you're in power and hold all the cards, you'll blame others for being mean.
Liberalism 101 : Always Blames others and never take responsibility for your own Action and Screw ups.
@@whitescar2 That does sound a lot LIKE AOC!!
@@shillgates6664 right on dude. These people are morons. Lol. Trevor noah sucks too. What up with the name tho? Lol
@@shillgates6664 liberals and Republicans are both evil when it comes to the big guys in the government
Good thing cold weather states like North Dakota, Iowa and West Virginia don't have Wind Turbines, Oh that's right they do and they are still working. Amazing.
As well as so many northern countries, like Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, etc.
Texas: We don't want to be part of a multistate power grid... Cause don't mess with Texas. Texas: We also don't want to properly winterize our power plants. Also Texas: It's all your fault that our power got taken out by a winter storm.
I wonder if that thought ever crossed the the mind of those brain dead talk show talking heads. They're probably so hard on the agenda they can't even form that idea.
@@lynnhettrick7588 Yep, we had -11C here in Denmark last week and the turbines in my area were all still spinning.
Don't forget the ones in Antarctica.
Denmark has had working windmills for years... in freezing weather.
Exactly
40% power deliverable by windmills, new storage technologies being worked on constantly they are aprt of the grid. Development of windmills that works with extremely low windspeeds. "intelligent" grid network, so power can be transferred between regions, where it is most needed or if production is off in a certain region, it can be transferred from elsewhere(emerging technology still i think but it was worked and developed on back i 2009, at universities)
Centuries
Texans, please remember this in the midterms when our governor, congresspeople, and many county judges (our local emergency managers) are up for re-election. Please vote in 2022!
Given the heavy gerrymandering, it's not always so simple as voting the right way :/
The only thing they'll remember is that AOC and green energy was blamed and they'll just vote for the same damn Republicans the same damn capitalists and nothing will change and I'll probably die before they wake up and realize they're being f****** manipulated.
@@Dvinven The tide is changing. Don't stop swimming toward shore.
@@Dvinven change is happening! Georgia went blue and elected its first black senator in history. People are waking up! Don't give up
@@mckenzie.8653 are you kidding? Georgia is becoming a disaster. Voting blue will only make it worse. Trust me I'm a native Californian.
"Local government owes you nothing .." we the people literally pay you dude.
The platform of libertarians everywhere is basically "got mine fuck you". Why do they even have a mayor? Smdh
Idk i agree with him. Its pricipal. People in texas will scream socialism sucks til they need it to fix their state after a disaster. Fuck em. Let em call trump since they think hes their champion.
Anti-government politicians are literally like anti-cleanliness janitors. makes no sense to me.
Btw Yall elected him just saying
@Brian Bertrand spoken like someone who hasn't met a republican
These GOP people are honestly starting to scare me. What reality do they even exist in?
Just scared now? Been scared for over 20 years.
The 1960s
They simply do not exist in objective reality. They exist in a continual grab for power: that is their meaning in life.
Their own.
The one they create for their useful flock.
Every time something like this happens, the word "deregulated" comes up.
Republicans love deregulation that way they can make more money for themselves, while they cheat and steal.
So does Fracking is illegal now in the US. Right Bejing Biden ?
Look at the last 3 major financial crashes before COVID- All due to deregulation Real Estate, S&L, Sub-prime loan crash: A few people got rich quickly, many others lost their jobs and homes.
@@brianfosbrook3455 You lost, get over it.
@@elbruces Hey Bruce, you voted for communism and slavery. Own it.
"We wanted Texas to turn blue, but not this way" lol
At this point I'll take a blue Texas even if we get there by carpet-bombing it with blue paint.
Green energy only is about 10%, the cause lays by about 90% of not green power!
Less regulations only benfit the CEO 's of the private energy-companies a lot, not the common people of Texas! The CEO 's become richer and the people of Texas becomes poorer. Vote for persons who ask more regulations by the US-government for the energy-companies and it will be much better for the people of Texas!
Lol until you're sitting in your home 3 days with -2 temps! 😥
As an outsider I have to say it is incredible that Fox is allowed to exist. I have never seen such blatant propaganda, and I lived through apartheid South Africa. The first time I ever tuned in I turned off after 5 minutes, if that. Scary that there are people who believe those hosts.
As someone who lives with elderly family who agree with much on Fox News, it’s hard to accept that people who are authority figures are wrong. So, it’s rather comforting to know that I’m not just being rude and disrespectful when I disagree with them. Because, if an unbiased observer can think that Fox News is scary, then it is. Thanks for the validation.
@@processesofbecoming2516 FOX got banned in UK, and Trump was not happy about it during his visit there. But I understand your comment very well, imo it all comes down to boomers. They were raised a certain way, taught certain things, and they barely question anything when it comes to the beliefs that were passed onto them. If you study the evolution of republican and democrat representatives' values, you can see how each generation slowly shifted from the old idealogies. This created quite a switch between dems and reps. Let's not forget who pushed for ending slavery. Check the election data as well, run some deeper analytics, you'll see how each generation and geography played a huge role in Trump getting dumped (so glad). Hopefully in a couple decades, things will be better and everything will be more transparent.
It's not just that there are people who believe them, they are the most highly rated "news" channel on US TV. And it's allowed to exist because the FCC in the US can only regulate over-the-air broadcasts and not cable stations (this includes, but is not limited to, all cable "news" channels).
I have been through 5 Comment threads and keep seeing the same troll spreading AOC hate misinformation, and another swearing up and down it's the windmills and Democrats.
@@processesofbecoming2516 My ex husband lives with his stepfather and mom who are DIE-HARD Trumpers. Their news outlets of choice are FOX News...and Facebook. Every time he points out Trump's fraud lawsuits that WEREN'T CLAIMING FRAUD, his stepdad will threaten to throw him out during this pandemic. It's TERRIBLE how FOX is pandering and backpedaling trying to get viewers back by playing both sides.
The party of “personal responsibility” once again hunts for ways to blame others for the consequences of their actions.
And begs those same people for government handouts even though they say governments handouts are socialist. To call it double standards wouldn't be right, it's far more than that.
Yeah, they claim to be the party of many things...party of morals, party of law and order, party of family values, etc. But, what the party certainly is, is the party of heartless, soulless, lying, corrupt, immoral, unethical, criminal monsters.
@@besharponeful sad truth
Well, at least they didn't blame it on jewish space lasers... that's progress - AOC actually exists.
@@stefanneukamm7372 hmm*not know what VV mean?
Now they're scared of the Green New Deal... "First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." applies here
Worried ABOUT flushing money down the toilet!
Thank you AOC for helping Texas! You came to Houston with a plan and your compassion. Our own Texas leaders(I use that term lightly), have done a lot of talking and zero action.
How are you gonna blame a New York legislator for a power problem in Texas?
Well first you have to suspend belief in reality
Hot potato 🥔
@@christiangoodwin5766 I try not to listen to people like him, but please go on
@@christiangoodwin5766 I mean he never makes any valid points. Soooooooo
@@christiangoodwin5766 I’m not sure who clown boy is, unless you’re referring to Trevor Noah, and to which I’ll say he at least tries not to be divisive, to all those who live in reality
Btw wind turbines can withstand the cold if equipped properly. There are turbines in Antarctica
yes we have turbines in the Midwest that work all year round.
The coldest states in the country make heavy use of wind turbines in subzero temperatures for months. This is a very Texas problem 😂 love how they’re blaming AOC for what “could happen with renewable energy” than what has already happened with their dirty old grid
Of course. It's all the fault of the energy regulators in Texas. Unless you want to say it's the fault of the people who bought them.
They’re too experimental and potentially liberal, so no. Republicans won’t let go of power so this is a test.
Power producing windmills were created in 1888 in Ohio. I think we’re past “experimental”.
As a suffering Texan, i approve this message!
🤦🏾♂️I’m surprised that Mayor didn’t say “Let them eat cake”.. 🤭☺️
Sounds like the French Marie Antoinette, or? :-D
No heat to bake one
Oversimplified....anyone ?
It's funny how I live in northern Sweden in a municipality that is around 80% powered by wind power, and still not dead of hypothermia 🤔🤔
But you GRID operator knows that temps there will be extremely cold, below zero, every winter right? This has happened in TX before, but not for 30 or 40 years, so the GRID operator didn't have the turbines prepped for those temperatures. They didn't have the other power sources(Gas, Coal....) prepped either.
@@shillgates6664 But they were warned...
@@shillgates6664 they were warned wdym
@@shillgates6664 because Texas grid operators don't take meteorologist reports seriously. Shouldn't this a wake up call to be serious take whatever appropriate actions rather than "but...but....but?"
I'm ashamed to be American because not only do people not believe in windmill power, they believe it causes cancer...
The way AOC lives in their head rent-free😭
I like this phrase lol, thanks!
i was looking for this comment. never felt good 😂😂😂
Tiktok flashbacks
can't get you out of my head 🎶
Texas: Suffering consequences of global warming Also Texas: To survive we need less renewable energy!
@XJoeBlack it's demonstrably proven that the earth is on average getting warmer, but a consequence of Global Warming also means very unstable weather patterns, bringing incredible heat waves in area's that would never otherwise get hot weather, and extreme cold-streaks in areas that aren't known for extremely cold weather. Your ignorance is not an argument.
@XJoeBlack clearly you don’t know how global warming works 🤦🏼♀️ Educate yourself
@XJoeBlack Global Warning and Climate Change are two different things but very closely related. As the global temperature warms up (not just on the surface, globally in the top layer of earth and the sea and up in the air), the weather patterns are changing and you see more extreme temperatures, rains, winds etc. And this, I learned at school back in 1988, it's freaking not new.
@XJoeBlack imagine being such an absolute tool
Are you nuts or just born that way?
I guess these people haven’t heard of the Windmills in the Netherlands 🤦🏻♀️
They are propagandist for big business and they very well know it.
The windmills in Texas froze over. You know it’s possible to blame all sources of energy not working. You don’t always have to be an ideologue
@@ufodeath solar panels and windmill turbines are t big business?
No water, no electricity, and no insulation in the middle of a pandemic . We need to vote out Greg Abbott.
Damn sure do. I hope Texas remembers
Tada✨✨✨✨
Good news texas midterms are next year
Sucks. Stay warm.
I wouldn't blame him for an act of nature, 🤷♀️his response to said disasters on the other hand, hell yes.😤
I swear America is the Jock who peaked in high school.
Lmao !
😂😂💀💀
They're Napoleon's Uncle Rico at this point
Pretty much lol
This is great!
Dear Senate AOC, I continue to be extremely delighted and grateful for you and what you stand for. I feel I have a voice through you.
I love AOC! She is so strong! Compassionate! Intelligent! Effective!
Fox’s default argument: blame the women.
Thats not fair. They also blame black people, latino people, gay people, trans people, made up stories and conspiracies.. and so on. They do not only have misoginy, there is lots of racism and delusion to go around!
Religion as well.
In a pinch, any Dem'll do. They're still trying to call Joe Biden a socialist.
Women of color, to be precise.
Extra points if its democrats extra bonus points if shes a minority
“Money isn’t worth a whole lot if you have to burn it to keep warm” - Trevor Noah 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Right?! He would've gotten some major applause if they were in the studio 👌🏽
Preppers have been saying that for years.
@@lyreparadox preppers rely on short term solutions, rather than long ones.
@@GhostOfMrPickles WHAT IS THE LONG-TERM SOLUTION IN OREGON WHERE THE CITIZENS WERE ALSO WITHOUT POWER AND THE STATE HAS BEEN RUN BY DEMOCRATS FOR DECADES?
@@artsypurplewitch its not an original quote though. that has been paraphrased in one way or another all over town forever. A cursory google search would show you that
Trevor thank you for threading bits of humor through this very sad story. I appreciate how you use it to hold these cold-hearted politicians accountable for leaving their constituents uncared for in a deep freeze.
Remember when officials used to say that natural disasters were punishments sent by God for being gay, etc? Maybe this is their punishment for being a haven for racist Republicans.
You do know that Republicans abolished slavery right? Dem's are, and have been, the racists. MLK was also a republican.
That mayor’s attitude sounds vaguely familiar to a nation emergency that we’ve had for the last year, where the president basically sat back and told states to deal with it.
Good point at least that mayor resigned huh.
"I take no responsibility" - Donald Trump
@@filipportman5981 i approves dis messeji🖐🏻😆👌🏻
AND OREGON'S POWER LINES ARE DOWN AND THE CITIZENS WERE WITHOUT POWER IN A MASSIVE WAY AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW BECAUSE MAINSTREAM MEDIA WON'T POINT OUT THE FAILURES OF DEMOCRAT RUN STATES.
@@filipportman5981 NOR DO DEMOCRAT RUN STATES FOR THEIR HOMELESS.
Conservative people in Texas are complaining right now that their Government isn't helping them out but they're the ones that been saying that they don't want Government help at all 😂😂
Ah ha! Amen.
Exactly 🤦🏽♀️
Oh and let’s not forget no regulation! Let’s deregulate everything!
Exactly 😂
I’m not one for hitting people when they’re down but this an opportune time to tell them to “pull their self up by the bootstraps”
Meanwhile she raised 5 million to help Texans.
Brilliant. Spot on. Cheers !
Imagine if Texas could convert Fox’s stupidity into energy
@@zombiebite100 yep, the world powered for all time.
Well, as stupidity is boundless, that would mean that they discovered a completely renewable energy source. Of course that's not to say that it doesn't pollute LMAO
If we could collect the stupidity of Fox & the GOPQ-- We could provide power to the entire planet!!! 😂 What a shame all that hot air is going to waste!!
Texas would be hot as hell.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Horrific reminder that there are ICE “detention centers” that have also lost heat/power/water. Really consider what that means.
😞😞😞 oh God.
Republicans are terrorists change my mind....😒
Omg! That added a whole nuther level of crisis to this situation! Thank you for bringing that up. Time to contact our representatives. That is so not okay. I’m literally panicking for those poor people, families, babies.
Hospitals, Server Rooms and other such Constructions are regulated to have their own Power Generator for emergencies like this. Meaning the Hospital can go on for a Week or Month. Doesnt make the Situation better but helps to notice why nobody brought Hoslitals up.
Good point
34°C? Thats f***ing warm!
I live in New England. We get super cold winters here. You know what's not freezing over? That giant spinny thing that produces electricity.
Thats only one example why not to privatize Water, Energy and Roads.
....prisons, schools and the military.
And Ted Cruz,their representative said “fuck it Im going to Cancun”
Texas people thought they elected a real smart Senator ,well they got him .What does it take to make even the smart Texans think how dumb they are. This should teach other southern states how to get going & look in to the future. It can happen anywhere but the different is how we take care of it
When the going get tough - I guess the weenies go to Cancun - can’t cause an insurrection there can he.
@@johnelliott7020 well, via social media, he very much could- Especially when one considers the level of slack-jawed mouth-breathing drooling brainlessness from these people......
@@gardy4390 "We don't have to be smart, we're from Texas!"
Make them pay. Get rid of the bastards. #FlatLeaverTedCruz. #TraitorTedCruz
From Iowa, we've had 20-30 below zero temperatures while they were having freezing weather. Looking out my window our windmills are working. Texas government is pathetic.
Whoever made the decision to shut down permanently clean coal power plants and use wind mils instead is who is responsible.
At this point, we just need to throw Fox in the trash
Ditto that Girl
Yes
fox should have been declared an enemy of the state years ago. The misinformation and lies have corrupted millions of idiots gullible enough to buy into their bs.
I'll help.
and burn it
Feds warned Texas about their grids 10 years ago; AOC was only 18 at the time. Pretty sure they can't blame her for this one.
I heard they were warned before then too.
Oh no, they can, and are. There is no basis for it as it is in no way her fault, but facts, truth, and clearly visible objective reality have never particularly mattered to republicans. They lie as easily as the breathe, so they will blame her and their uneducated followers will believe them. That is the unfortunate reality.
Annual cost to winterize = a fourth of one percent of overall budget. They don't understand quality control or accounting, so maybe the root issue is arithmetic ?
They were warned 25 years ago when they sold out and deregulated the oil and gas industry. So now they're blaming AOC and Windmills. Fox is using the Big Lie strategy developed by Hitler that if you repeat a lie often enough most people will eventually believe it. It's a lie/blame/deflect game. It was reported today in the past 2 days they have repeated the lies 128 times. It's brainwashing on steroids.
@@thirdrockfromdsun2873 Oh shut up. Like Democrats think welfare will solve everything when it only makes employers avoid the poor who have NOTHING ON THEIR RESUME!
LOVE the commercial! I hope AOC has seen this. You know she'd be rolling in laughter.
I feel like AOC will be president one day. Imagine kids growing up republican are gonna love her because their parent hate her lol
When you deregulate, you eliminate mandatory oversight. Always be concerned about politicians who run on the platform of deregulation .
The R party favors deregulation.
@@Aeroldoth3 It was used by everyone on the right in 2016 elections & stupid people ate it up. F***ers!!
@Brian Bertrand You have a point but the reality is that many (and I imagine most) Republican politicians don't actually believe what they say. They pander to "their side," which is composed of bigots of every stripe and religious extremists.
and the really sad part about it is how stupid and short-sighted that group is. They watch/read a story about Teflon pollution or something and think "Man that's really fucked up. Those damned corporations!" Then in the fall will vote for GOPigs that enable those types of events. It's fucking mind boggling how stupid some people are.
This isn't from deregulation.. its from a system not designed to withstand an extra 1000 pounds of ice on the power lines. Stop being political, be a person .
Imagine a whole party being terrified of a single politician
definition of cowardice
as an outsider, I really enjoy watching the whole gun-toting, bible-bashing, pro-military tough guy republican party being terrified by a 31 years old woman from Bronx lol
They're afraid of their own guy, too, so there's that.
Thats how they used to do Hillary & Nancy. They have a problem with women...
It's same in West Bengal state in India, an entire party (BJP) which is also the world's largest political party, is terrified of current CM of the state, Mamata Banerjee.
I'm in North Texas and found on an ERCOT map that I'm on a grid coming from West Texas wind farms. I had a total of 5 hrs of power down time over the twelve day period of the storm. If my water hadn't frozen, it just would have been cold outside.
I used to live in a place where winters got as cold to -45 degrees windmills always worked. We moved to Texas, and...yea
Not like Denmark, Norway, Russia amd many other artic nations use wind turbines without any issues.
Because your government bought the cold weather equipment needed to run them. Texas power is run by a private company who deemed cold weather equipment unnecessary. Privatization at its unfortunate horrid results.
@@carrieullrich5059 because their government. I'm in NC. It can all be linked to climate change and the polar vortex. Warmer winds go farther North while colder winds go father south. That's what makes them putting the blame on renewable energy while defending fossil fuels even dumber.
@Joey Bidenson The electrical grid in Texas was deregulated, privatized and removed from interconnected networks to avoid federal regulation and increase profits to a small number of wealthy individuals. Thanks to folks like Greg Abbot, Ted Cruise, and Tim Boyd
Freezing wind turbines is a known problem. I wouldn't say that they are without issues in Scandinavia either.
Please adopt me. I hate it here.
Remember aoc raised 1 million for texans while Ted Cruz left his people and his dog in extreme condition
No kidding. But you know what will get more Qanon and complete bullshit.
💀and blamed it on his daughters
@iThink Competition. then do it ? Do it right now ! Or are you just talk at least she’s doing something lol
@iThink Competition. She's raised more than 2 million, and 100% of that money has gone directly to relief organizations here in Texas. You've done nothing but baselessly attack a decent human being from behind your keyboard. AOC is one of the better people in the Democratic Party, and she is miles ahead of most of the Republicans we've elected in Texas. There is no politician I agree with on every issue, but her positions are far more sensible than most, especially in terms of economics. Trying to defend her? She doesn't need defending. Her actions speak for her. If anyone should be ashamed of themselves, it is you, but I sincerely doubt that you have the capacity to feel shame.
If AOC Had a Brain should take it out and play with it! And remember when we had to bail out Obama's solar panel company total flop another waste of taxpayers money it's all a sham! What happened to global warming!🤪
You got to watch out for those "crazy" people that raise 3.2 million dollars to help others and volunteer at disaster area soup kitchens.
Texans be like: where is global warming now? Without unterstanding that global warming or more specifically climate change will bring them even colder winter storms.
Sure, solid proof of that....Ha Ha Ha! Since 2017, Weather channel has been "predicting" major floods for CA, the whole atmospheric River propaganda! Well, last time that caused MAJOR floods in CA was 1862, DO YOU KNOW what the CO2 level was in 1862??? NOT much higher than historic, pre Carbon use levels! But they will tell you, if it happens, AGW or "Climate Change" will be the cause NOT that they can PROVE THAT! There are a couple HUNDRED Climate Scientist's in the world, and millions of us that have degrees in Science!
@@shillgates6664 Lol who are „they“ Mr. Gates? The illuminati? The Rothschild family? You must be one of the people I talked about above.
In Austin and have been without power for 4 days. It just come on and this is the first thing I watched. Thank you for voicing our anger by speaking the truth our "officials" are afraid to say. Now I just need the water to come back so I can take a long over do shower.
Take care down there. We’re rooting for ya. Just talked to my friend near Waco. He’s been doing ok.
You can thank Greg Abbott and Rick Perry for not supporting infrastructure improvements.
Big oil company thanks Greg n Rick, too.
@Joey Bidenson Bite me, hater
@@banger2998 "I love uneducate people" DJT
And don't forget Ted Cruz, working on that election fraud misinformation instead of seeing California's wildfires as the writing on the wall and seriously working out a contingency plan for his state.🤦🏿♀️ 🤷🏾♀️
@Joey Bidenson it amuses me how little Putin pays you to spam comment section
You make politics so fun. Thank you!
I was one of those people in Texas! No Power caused: Heat, Water, & Phone Signal from Cell Towers were cut off! [weak ass grid]
“The weak will perish” so much for living during the height of civilization.
Ikr. Just when you think you’re living in modern Athens you’re actually living in the original Sparta
The pro-life party strikes again
How about we stop electing religious people ? They are less than useless in a crisis and cannot deal with reality.
@@mikek9297 damn... I think i just fell in love. My thoughts exactly. Religion is belief of an absence of data, to make a life or death decisions on an unknown rather than relying solid evidence is not only illogical but it’s stupid and dangerous.
@@jasminethegrayknight Oh my... it'd been a while since I've been naturally selected. Tell me, did it hurt when you turned to logic and reason ?
Wind generators surround me in central Iowa. Their blades are turning in frigid temperatures, as we've had for two weeks. Texas went on the cheap.
They work fine here in Greenland
...and Sweden
Yeah same here in Germany 👍
Nah You're clearly just confused It's probably that wind turbine cancer that the scientists Trump talks to warned us about
@@kenbee1957 no doubt. The stable genius knows all.
Try no power for 5 days straight. That is what happened in the Oregon Ice Storm last week. There are still people without power. STILL!!
Wanna see how bad it was, watch this: kzhead.info/sun/i9SCaZmrbKVrhH0/bejne.html
"I know people were praying for Texas to go blue but not like this" LMAOOO
No one with a brain wishes Texas to go blue. Go back to California
@@darrelmccalvin1501 you are right. Texas is so f'd up why would we want that to be called a blue state.
Lol until you're the one sitting in house with 0 heat and temps are -2. 😥
The Texas GOP have lost their minds blaming others for their lack of preparedness!!!
i lived there from 1994-96. san antonio got less than an inch of snow-whole city shut down over that trifling amount.
A little over half of them didn’t have a mind to lose. They continuously vote against their own interests.
What Minds?
Lost their minds? They've been trying to overthrow democracy for 50 years. It was never about their sanity, just their morality (or lack there of).
I see what you did there.
“I know we were praying for Texas to go blue, but not like this!” Lol! Gold!
It was 28 to 32 degrees in our house. We tried to keep our kid and pets safe as much as we could. Elderly and kids were found frozen to death.
Trevor! Your the greatest! 😂
I live in Quebec where we have hydroelectric dams and wind turbines in some of the coldest places in the province we are doing just fine.
They don’t wanna hear the truth
Wisconsin too.
Not only do wind turbines have nothing to do with the blackout, but Texas' wind array has been contributing MORE to the grid than seasonally projected, even with half the turbines frozen.
Was about to say that, I am in Norway
The rest of the world has already established that Canada is the responsible adult of North America. No need to rub it in, Rebecca! ;)
The Texas state government seems to be taking a page out of a South Park song: "We must blame them and cause a fuss, before somebody thinks of blaming us."
Blame Canada! What's their weather doing here, anyway?
Totally love this!!!
33 Fahrenheit isn't low and that is not a lot of snow. It's just the infrastructure that is not prepared for these temperatures. It's just the infrastructure that is shit. Running your own power grid without real protection against cold weather, seriously how did no one in power see that coming?
They are blaming aoc for the weather geez
They are freaking ridiculous. The state doesn’t wanna take responsibility so of course they’ll look for someone to blame 😡
Dam girl!! If AOC really had that kind of power, you think maybe she'd use her laser vision to butt 🔥 burn Pucker Carlson???
when ENRON messed with California, we recalled our governor. Texas? your dice...
I must have missed AOC becoming a representative of Texas and flying to Cancun during the storm 😒🤷🏻♀️
it appears that some republicans have a massive fear of women with power. If they blame a freshman congressman from NY now for problems in texas, just wait until she actually has some power. man-up cowboys, there's more to come.
AOC has literally done more for Texas than Ted Cruz. Whose the costal elitist, again?
Maybe them republicans can chant together "send it back" at the snow 🤣
Seems like that's one way they "fix" things at the GOP
AOC should stick to the street corner. At least her big mouth could do something useful.
AOCs plan isn’t that radical. Other countries have made their countries better (solar, electric, wind etc)..they aren’t indebted to the fossil fuel industry either. AOCs plan is what we SHOULD have been doing. It’s like that furnace repair you know you should get done but just keep putting it off. Our country and planet deserves the best care we can give it. It’s common sense people.
Yeah too bad that if we did it wouldn't make a difference 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
@@micahlarkins9963 oh but it would. Don't be a naysayer. Get with progress
@@Joytous I'm not saying it wouldn't be a cool thing to save the earth but we rank number 15 as far as pollution in countries if we can't convince China and India to do the same thing it's all for not
The problem is not the way the power is made. You have to store it in huge batteries . this stored energy is far from green. Batteries that are manufactured in a factory . The carbon footprint in this process is not offset by the wind or solar process. Don't forget the blades on the windmills. Made from composite materials. I don't know but maybe a petroleum product. They are not biodegradable. Need replacing every 15-25 years. While it sounds good in theory. The green deal is a far cry from ideal. Not hating on it. The technology is not quite there. The part that makes people mad is politicians saying it must be done by a certain date. You can't build what is not financial viable. You can't take away what is currently in place and just replace everything. ultimatums have little or no value in advancing technnology
She’s the one who bailed these poor folks out!! $5million buys disdain?
“Money’s not worth a whole lot if you have to burn it to keep warm.” That’s my quote of the year right there. Trevor Noah is one of the most eloquent people I’ve seen.
This is Pablo Escobar’s quote
And the people who do have power in Texas are paying $9000kw/h for power. It would be cheaper to burn money right now.
This is why regulations can be exceptionally important especially when it comes to protecting essential services.
I can never understand why people are willing to believe regulations are evil. They don't even entertain the idea that they were put into place for a valid reason. Instead they like to think that others simply want to control them. And I have a feeling all the suffering in Texas today will be forgotten by the next election.
@@dolores2716 Over 4 decades of conservative/Republican propaganda and an apathetic population with no critical thinking skills.
@@50jakecs funny how you spelt leftist propaganda wrong
safety belts and traffic lights should be abolished
@Joey Bidenson I don't think putting words in 'these' mean what you think they do...
AOC raised 3.6 million to help Texas, reaching across the aisle
And Ted Cruz went on vacation because what can he do as a senator! Meanwhile the congress woman from NYC is raising $$ to help Texans.
I'm in Ga & this is scary, I hv a winter plan tht I started 2 years ago (propane heater, water reserve, food, & medication) & I'm so happy I hv it, prayers to all involved.
They didn’t even buy weatherized windmill turbines Look at the cold 🥶 European countries the windmill turbine works in all weather there
Even crappie Atlantic City wind turbines still run in the cold. 😂
There are even windturbines powering the US McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
@@derPetunientopf exactly they got the. Cheap non weatherized wind turbines and are wondering why they don’t work in the winter 🤦🏻♂️🥶
@@fl676 Also, a relative of mine is living in bavaria and his house is completly powered by DIY wind and solar installed on his house (mostly solar). They had a lot of snow this winter and problems because the carlocks would freeze but the electricity was completly normal.
@@derPetunientopf exactly the news is not reporting in cold counties they don’t have problems with wind turbines that are weatherized
Governor Abbot needs to be fired. It’s a mess here in Texas.
Nevermind, California or New York right hypocrite.
@@juliopinal2256 WHATABOUT-
I AGREE
Y’all gotta vote the mf out. Time for some Dem government
@@juliopinal2256 All three of the governors suck.
Love you Trevor!
The fro looks great man. My parents live in Houston and were without power and water for a days. They are in there late 60s and had to rough it. And people trying to blame it on anything else but themselves (big wigs) and their lack of proper protection for the equipment is comical.
"If you think frostbite is bad on your nose, you should see what it does to an exposed a**hole." Priceless!
Yeah, but it's not where I thought that was going. I thought it would end, "you should see what it does to an exposed d*ck."
Ted Cruz has frostbite?
Let me know what happens to you. If you go outside that is.
I searched for this one comment! lol
Lol, that line made me laugh snort juice.
As someone who lives in Wisconsin where we have Wind Turbines and it gets -20 °F, I can safely say you're going to need "Day After Tomorrow" levels of cold to stop one of those things.
Yours are winterized, because you experience deep cold temps often enough. The folks in charge in Texas decided they don't want to invest, because the use-cases are so scarce. When there is no regulation that would force them to, there is no economic incentive for it. From the business owners' perspective, at worst, this is a few days of lost revenue in maybe a decade. As opposed to millions upon millions in up-front investment costs and more millions in maintenance every year to keep the equipment ready *in case* a winter storm hits. It's precisely what market forces would predict would happen, because the only damage the people who pay would suffer is so miniscule in proportion to the cost, they won't foot the bill. Whereas the people who do suffer, would likely still pay collectively if the government insisted on regulating the power companies (and then letting them charge the costs to the consumer). But that would be blatant communishm or something... *eyeroll*
Yooo fellow Wisconsinite
@@whitescar2 very informative take!
@@whitescar2 pretty much, companies dont care if people die because they dont have power, its not their issue, they are gonna get away scott free and not have to foot any of the bills related to repairing busted pipes, water damage when things finally defrost and the lossof life thats going on,
Yeah we’re up 10 degrees from 4 degrees yesterday 🙃
As a Swede i wounder why you have taxes in US. You get nothing from your government. Is it only to found big companies?
If only it were used to found some companies. No it is used to fund big companies, the police and the military.
@@jorenvanderark3567 what do you mean? That the Police shouldnt be funded by taxes?
I can imagine what would happen if a mayor said to folks to fend for themselves during hurricane Katrina when they ALREADY WERE.