Your logic is on par with a leftist. The guy grabbed his gun. It had nothing to do with jaywalking.

as long as he doesn't resign his cd1 position and opens it up for some lib out of the south fork

Whoever changed that to make money should be held accountable.

Yeah he was - it was the homeowner. He is being held accountable for his choice. What you are failing to realize is that he chose a variable rate electric supplier. The TX market is deregulated - you can choose your electric provider. There were plenty of providers that offer fixed contract prices that hedge against market spikes. He chose a company that offers spot electric prices with zero hedges. He was paying less than his neighbors when times were good.

Rush is still more with it than Biden.

picking a fight = enforcing the laws that society passed. They didnt kill a man for jaywalking, they killed a man because he fought them and took an officer's gun.

I would be interested in knowing how this is defensible other than the guy did not obey a lawful order.

I would be interested in knowing if you have been officially diagnosed with mental deficiency or if you have yet to seek medical attention.

the dude grabbed the officer's gun - as a new yorker the whole jaywalking thing seems like bullshit, but the cops don't write the laws. A normal human being would have said, "sorry officers" answered their questions and been on their way with either a ticket or a warning. This dude was combative and agitated from the start and his actions prove that he was probably not compatible with society.

these people have to be destroyed - imagine if the same institutional zeal was focused on the Clintons or Hunter Biden?

i think if the people you pay for a service that is variable prices is like "hey guys yeah you probably want to cancel your electricity service with us" that might be a tell that shit is about to get crazy. He signed up for a service with no cap on cost and the providers sent him a note that said prices are about to go loco so you might want to reconsider.

its not price gouging when that is the wholesale price per kilowatt hour. He signed up for wholesale pricing. So usually it works something like this - take the cost for running an entire power plant, divide that among all the customers who are paying for power per Kwh and you get your price - when 90% of the customers drop off the grid and you still need to keep the power plant up and running guess what happens to the 10% still on the grid? In TX they have the option to go with fixed contract prices or spot prices. This is a grown man with a family who makes finacial decisions about their future who weighed options and made a choice. He was benefiting from lower prices while the market was saturated. If he was smart he would have self insured, by taking his savings over the contract price and putting it in a money market account to act as a cushion. AND to boot, the electric company warned him to cancel his service to avoid these prices. Again, he made a choice. There is no price gouging here.

its not price gouging if that is the actually cost

the article said they did, they told customers to change providers or not use electricity

looks like they signed a customer agreement to pay spot utility prices, that usually save them money, but in this environment the spot prices are crazy high. Why would the bill not stand?

Senate is on recess. I have no fucking clue where my senators are. They have no bearing on anything state level. They have zero to do with response to anything. Unless TX needed an emergency debate I have no clue what use he could be. Does he have a secret fleet of snow plows I’m not aware of?

They were challenged then applied Heller to their new law. Kinda how it’s supposed to work.

And they just became more 2A friendly than half the states

this doesn't target trump. come on man - it targets any former president who was twice impeached. that can be anybody!

wait, you can't care about people while on vacation?

"Any former or future presidents with the initials DJT, born in the 20th century, having been on record liking their steak well done, shall hereby be banned from being buried at Arlington National Cemetery."

classic sad story of freedom loving nutmeg eating hat makers, gunsmiths, and aircraft engineers losing turf to the ivory towered university elites.

i suspect it started with some sort of canary. He probably tested the waters with some safe topic like how much of an assclown Cuomo or De Blasio is. This establishes that the person is at least not a far left pinko crazy. Then they probably went to taxes. "I don't know man, I am sympathetic of people with student loan debt, but man I cannot afford to pay more in taxes." Assuming no pushback they then escalated to the value of college education, then from there push the bounds to being against crazy woke culture. Then before you know it they were plotting a white nationalist insurrection on the capitol and bonding over oppressing BIPOCs by the mere virtue of existing.

you can't be a conservative and push this nonsense. i have no idea who this dude is but he is not a conservative.

he is on Senate recess and taking a planned family vacation.

if we cancel the debt, then we need to make it harder to get the loans in the first place. You can't turn on a fire hose of liquidity for the sole purpose of "getting worthless degrees" at "shoddy" institutions, then have the America people cover the debt while not holding the universities responsible at all. By all means, cancel the best, eclair higher education a joke and then tax their endowments to cover the bill, but leave me the hell out of it.

Coordinating? He is a US Senator. It is not his role. He is not in a leadership or executive role. He is a representative who has zero operational capacity and controls zero resources.

this story is nonsense - his criticism of a mayor who is an executive and a person who actually sets mandates with the authority of force, telling people not to leave their homes due to covid risk, then doing the opposite is not the same thing as Cruz telling people to stay off the roads in lousy conditions. Cruz is not an executive. He is not a state official. He is a a senator in the US Senate who has no control over the laws, rules, advisories, mandates, or their operational execution within the state of TX. He spends a significant portion of his time in DC as it is. If anything, the most responsible thing (had he not had a planed vacation) would be to have stayed in DC as to not consume resources in TX.