re: Texas/Florida leaving the Union

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Somewhat true because Texas has a catch 22 energy problem. Being on our own grid is absolutely the right decision. If Texas could connect a backup system that provides electricty to the federal grid without impacting our Texas Grid, Texas would then be able to efficiently run the natural gas power station and supply lower cost energy to its neighbors. The windmills are private funded so its difficult to say no to that industry and still be a state that endorses tech and energy advancements.

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There’s no Catch 22. Oil and Gas is Texas’s Bread and Butter. It invented the industry and revolutionized it. There is no logical reason any significant portion of Texas’s power grid would be devoted to freaking windmills. There’s no dilemma it was facing. The windmill idiocy is a metaphor for the myriad of policies that Texas has caved to leftist, big tech, big business on -So they don’t appear quite so “Red.” The same goes with how Abbot addressed immigration. It’s very unTexas to GAF what anyone else thinks.

Abbot couldn’t go around pissing off big business who need cheap labor. I wish Desantis would carpetbag over there. Honestly he could probably solve the National immigration problem by solving it in Texas.

Immigration aside, the windmill thing takes the cake. It was a PR Stunt that valued what a bunch of people from California think over the safety and security of its own citizens, and the industry that made the state wealthy.

You gotta dance with the one who brung ya. And Texas has at some point in the past 10 yrs began trending towards considering the interests and culture of native Texans to be irrelevant. And that’s a damn shame, bc honestly Texas is a second home to me (my dad was a contractor and we spent summers there when I was growing up. He had a Texas Drivers license till he was in his 50s he did so much business there), and my favorite state in the Union (besides my weird arse home state).

I basically think Texas has a Bush Problem. Bunch of East Coast country clubbers posing as cowboys. It’s definitely a better situation than my dysfunctional arse state- but Texas is no longer the intellectual or business incubator it once was. That award goes to the Land of the Jort thanks to the leadership of Ron Desantis who may be the most talented political leader of our lifetimes.

FWIW - neither FL nor TX is leaving the Union, but Florida is LEADING the Union, running away.