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Trump proved that you can tell big, obvious, internally-inconsistent lies to conservatives, get caught, and they'll still believe you, so long as you hate all the same people they do. It's not surprising that every shitty Republican is going for it as hard as they can. Super disgusting though.

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x1000I reheated a cold pot of soup by just looking at it with the lava hot rage blasting out of my eyeballs.

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I am watching the news and seeing Texans lined up for blocks to get water and food and videos of parents and children struggling to stay warm, even elderly homeless people out on the street. My heart goes out to you and yours.

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I approve.

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Same as it ever was.

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Birth.

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Bet that Iowans didn't skimp on the cold weather options on their windmills like Texas did.

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The internal contradictions of Capitalism that Marx warned us about SO long ago.

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Hey Rick! Glad y'all are doing all right, I was wondering. We have had power most of the day, thankfully. It's been on and off the last couple of days. Water, no, we are on a well and my guess is there's a pipe out there that is frozen. We've been melting snow and collecting rainwater. I'm crossing my fingers that it stays on so I can make a hot dinner. Stay safe out there!

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A heated dipstick was the only way I could start my Austin-Healy Sprite for 3 months of the year.

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I'm in San Antonio, and very, very lucky. My power has stayed on, and my water is still functioning. My sister has had bouts of no water, and her electricity has not been on for more than a hour or two daily since this started. There is a water system truck outside my house right now--which concerns me.

All the snow has melted around my house, so there is a fair amount of standing water that will freeze into ice tonight. More winter weather is expected from tonight through all of tomorrow. Gas stations, convenience stores, and grocery stores are either closed or have long lines and little to offer. I am in much better shape than many, and this is horrifying to me.

Send good Wonketteria thoughts to our poor, stupid state, and hope Abbott rolls under a big old icicle in the next day or so...said half-jokingly.

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How many folks are unaware of Greg Abbott's supreme hypocrisy in filing a frivolous personal injury lawsuit for millions of dollars, then pulling up the ladder behind himself in the name of "tort reform" (with the help of W and Dan Patrick, and Limbaugh), and denying legal remedy for anybody else?

https://lawsuitfinancial.le...

http://www.offthekuff.com/w...

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