What Really Happened With Texas Energy Grid?

We’ve learned a lot over the last year. That includes almost all American politicians are scumbags, liars and manipulators.  Gavin Newsome, Kristi Noem, Brian Kemp, Ron DeSantis, Gretchen Whitmer and Mario Cuomo top the list at the state level.  Catching up quickly from behind is Greg Abbott from Texas.  The level of stupidity of our politicians is palpable. Some time in the next few months I’m going to do a little introduction to compare how the ancient Athenians ran their society.  They didn’t have politicians. They essentially purged those who lorded over them and instituted direct democracy.

I’ve talked endlessly on here that we don’t need politicians to run our society. That they are a leftover from an era whose time has passed.  And, that those that seek dominion and power over others are exactly those who shouldn’t be given it, whether it’s politicians, corporate executives, academia, the military, religion and so forth.  We are ruled by pathology.  There can be nothing more clearly understood from 2020.  There is no such thing as a public servant that serves at the consent of the governed and there never has been in our nation’s history. Our leaders are chosen by powerful corporations and economic elites.  We have no more participation in our self-rule than the CCP or the USSR.  We vote for who the party selects and we are told to go away while they lord over us and tell us what to do, how to live our lives, what work is acceptable and on and on.  If anyone happens to slip through the cracks and do the will of the American people, they are quickly terrorized, demonized and their policies attacked and if needed, eventually overturned.

Greg Abbott is a scumbag blaming everyone else for the Texas energy debacle.  And, trying to blame it on windmills and solar panels. For God’s sake. This guy has no remedial understanding of energy grids, energy distribution, resiliency planning, business continuity planning or anything else.  That’s why he’s a politician rather than a scientist or an engineer. Or, for that matter, any discipline or craft that requires some modicum of intelligence. 

You know when people really don’t know what they are talking about when they seek to politicize anything and everything.  That’s all the media and politicians do. That’s the basis of the entire false left versus right meme that I’ve written about ad nauseam is heading for collapse.  What would most politicians do if they weren’t in politics, fundraising, lobbying or whatnot?  Most would probably be traveling evangelists looting unsuspecting marks. 

Let me just say this about the Athenians. Every citizen was invited to the Assembly. Every citizen was encouraged to participate and speak their piece.  And, every citizen voted.  But, when issues were debated, you had better know more than a soundbite or what you found in a Google search.  Because, if you didn’t know what you were talking about, you were told to shut the fukc up.  That would preclude nearly every politician and media talking head in the US today from ever talking. And, it would preclude those who blindly listen to them. Greg Abbott would be told to shut the fukc up at the Athenian Assembly. 

How different would our society be without half wits and morons seeking power and fame while lording over the rest of us?  If we participated daily in what our government, community and society would look like because we were the government? If a mom who is an expert in autism or a backyard farmer who is an expert in sustainable food practices or a citizen who is an expert in any of life’s issues could tell the people who today lord over us yet have no greater knowledge, if any at all, to STFU because I’m here to talk authoritatively as an expert due to my experiences.

Below are links to two engineers who explain what really happened in Texas.  These issues have existed for years and again point to the profit motive being the failure to so many of our social ills and lack of social resilience. 

Let me close by repeating something else I’ve written ad nauseam on here.  Not having enough money to do this or that or offer healthcare or provide shelter or access to society’s resources as is so often done is a pathological lie.  As long as their is labor, materials and intellectual ability (science/engineering), money is an artificial limiter imposed on us by pathology.  The US has a hundred million people who are underemployed or unemployed.  And, we have the science to solve enough of society’s issues that are only limited to the labor of those one hundred million people.  That includes making our energy grid more resilient, creating massive research programs for alternative energy, healthcare, social resilience, food resilience, shelter for all Americans, new forms of transportation, rebuilding localism and communities, empowering all citizens to greater levels of actualization, abolishing poverty, etc.  What our world is capable of being is far different than what corporate capitalism, communism, fascism or any other ism (control system) tells us is possible.

Link to engineer number 1.

Link to engineer number 2.

Cancel Culture And Censorship Are As American As Apple Pie

Another unplanned post before I continue with the prior thread of professional class magical thinking. It’s coming but right now there are two posts I am thinking of beforehand. This one and an update on the global economy, which is in tatters.  By the way, on the note of the economy, there is no “Global Reset” contrived by elites. More magical thinking and conspiracy theories.  Again, more on that in my economic update post.

I often go where I see something completely missed by the mainstream narrative in posts on here.  And, what is missing from the mainstream narrative is the hugely hypocritical,  brainwashed propaganda narrative of the Republican Party and conservatives.  American society has huge blind spots in its psyche due to incredible levels of corporate brainwashing.  Conservatives can’t see this hypocrisy while they can clearly see that of Democrats is because their hypocrisy is already normalized into generally accepted US beliefs.  Or, to be more blunt, they’ve already been conditioned and brainwashed their whole lives so they cannot see their own hypocrisy.

There is a mild level of awareness growing within some conservative minds that the Republican Party doesn’t reflect their values. But, the blame is still being focused on anyone who thinks differently than they do. And, especially their hatred of the left.  Americans need to learn to punch up.  Not to blame their fellow citizens.  This process is completely different to what we’ve been brainwashed to do.  So, it’s going to take time and effort.  And, to be honest, just like in 1776, most conservative Tories defended England to the bitter end.  

Tribalism is very common within conservatism (as noted in prior posts, both political parties in the US are conservative and support the establishment) in the US.  For those who believe human beings are tribal and this is normal, I have an epiphany for you.  Tribalism is based on the ignorant cult-of-self society that defines America’s genocidal corporate culture.  Tribalism is the ignorant, egocentric perspective of self love.  Those who espouse tribalism love fawning all over themselves in the metaphorical mirror, just like the story of Narcissus.  Ego-driven tribalism loves reflections of itself in that it validates its own toxic self-adoration and its resultant belief systems.  This is tribalism.  That is, narcissism that views anyone who looks, thinks or acts differently is a threat to that bubble of self-adoration your ego has created.  So, instead of people really waking up in this nation, we still see blame shifted to others rather than taking responsibility for their own hypocrisy.  This isn’t just a Republican issue but it is generally associated with a conservative psyche.  And, mind you, the Democratic Party is also a conservative party.  Nancy Pelosi is a massive hypocrite.   No one in the US takes responsibility for anything except for the poor and those who suffer the consequences of decisions made by class and entitlement.  And, most of that entitlement is driven by corporate capitalist class.  That includes our corporate devoured government.  In other words, the basis for this hypocrisy is class just like England’s feudal economic and corporate lords in 1776.

The hypocrisy of the Democratic establishment is sickening. It’s hard for anyone who isn’t completely brainwashed by party ideology to not see it; seeking to destroy anyone in their path.  White privilege, white male privilege, toxic masculinity, microaggressions and other endless bullshit attempting to manipulate and control others for the benefit of class privilege . But, this has ALWAYS been the game of class.  The Democratic Party is trying to cancel and censor those who oppose them.  That’s the entire premise of capitalism and as a result, our culture.  And, it’s also the entire premise of the Republican Party. 

Without spending a lot of time on this, I’m going to whip out a handful of examples to highlight the massive hypocrisy of the conservatives who loves to paint the left as the cult of censorship, cancel culture and ignorance.  Actually, since the end of the Civil War, that crown clearly goes to the Republican Party.  So, let’s look at a few highlights off of the top of my head.  If I sat down and thought about it, I could create lists of conservative hypocrisy all day long. 

1. Conservatives(defining establishment Republicans and Democrats) cancelled and censor the poor, and that includes Black American’s legitimate grievances.  Who in the Republican Party gives two nickels about the poor?  They are so heartless they had to create a propaganda meme of “compassionate conservative” to overcome their Godlessness.  More than half of all Americans make less than $20,000 per year.  Do we ever hear anything about how to fix this?  Or, any of the ills that define poverty such as education, entrepreneurship, helplessness in forms of addiction and suicide, the death sentence of poverty’s many health maladies that kill untold numbers of Americans with no money and no access to healthcare.  This is corporate capitalism.  It’s not communism or socialism that created America’s poverty despondency.  In fact, recently Republicans can’t get enough hate in as it pertains to raising the minimum wage to a measly $15 an hour.  Let’s let anyone who opposes this be forced to be accountable for their beliefs and let them work for $20,000 a year. I’d rather pay someone to sit at home and play video games than to force them to work in a job paying starvation wages.  Actually, to be serious, I’d rather pay them to start their own businesses, strengthen their communities, grow their own food, etc.  But, these are threats to corporate profits so that’ll never happen.
2. The Republican Party in particular has cancelled all US culture through the acts of corporate genocide. The US is a very conformist culture. Very. I’ll be talking more about this in my upcoming post on magical thinking of the professional class but conformity is enforced by class through the control system of corporate capitalism.  The US easily assimilates people of all cultures because in the US only one culture exists.  That is the dumbed-down culture of forced corporate work.  And, since there is little leisure time for most, there is no culture. But, where there is culture, it’s derived through corporate profits.  Our leisure time is spent consuming corporate media, corporate sports, corporate leisure where the elites are capitalizing on our leisure.  Leisure is the basis of culture. Corporations have killed individuation and individual and community identity.  Black heritage and identity is lost. Native American heritage is being lost.  Various white identities and cultures are lost. Both our European heritage and our American heritage. Appalachian heritage, midwestern German heritage, upper midwestern Nordic heritage, southern heritage, southwestern Mexican heritage has all been devoured by the corporate state.  The corporate state’s cancel culture and identity censorship is driven substantially by the need for the entire mass of humanity in our nation to consume the sameness of corporate-created news, music, entertainment, food and on and on.  Blues, country music, rap, rock-n-roll, folk music and on and on, as just one example, are all dead. In its place are corporate-contrived musicians who lack any identity and reflection of any authentic cultural experience in their expressions of music, art, literature and economy. No community is in control of its own culture or identity. We’ve all been assimilated into the corporate capitalist plantation.  Nothing is more dystopian and disturbing than this massive cancel culture and individual censorship.
3. The Republican Party created and continuously censors massive economic corruption. This dynamic is everywhere and could write an encyclopedia on it.  But, let me focus on a recent dynamic that is reported regularly by conservative media as a victory for conservatism and free market capitalism when in actuality it is capitalist plantation economics.  Recently, it has been hailed by conservative morons that companies moving from the liberal cesspool of California to Texas are a sign of the sickness of Democratically-run states.  While I have no love for Gavin Newsome or the Democratic Party, here is the reality. Taxes in Texas are very low.  And, there is no state income tax.  As a result, Texas ranks in the bottom five in healthcare, poverty and education.  In other words, the Texas plantation owners like to make sure the poor stay poor and democracy be damned.  Multiple parasitic corporations have extracted tax subsidies out of Texas to move there.  What this really means is the poor in Texas will again be paying the taxes for socialism for corporate capitalism. Not only are they already getting a horrible education, working for slave wages and dying from the diseases of poverty without healthcare, now they get to pay taxes for wealthy corporations moving to Texas to squat off of their labor.  This dynamic was predicted by many more than a century ago as something that would happen in the final days of capitalism.  That rent-seeking parasitic private capital would extort whatever it could from whomever was desperate enough to pay the extortion.  That’s what’s really happening in Texas and around the world.  And, it is only possible with the deregulation of private capital and corporations that is driven by the US and specifically by the adoption of neoliberal, trickle down economics espoused by Republicans.
4. The Republican Party cancels any opposition to the endless corporate war state.  By shouting down people who oppose the war with control statements like “You don’t support the troops”, they create a society of censorship of free speech and free will. Anyone with dissenting views is terrorized by this tactic.
5. The Republican Party has cancelled all opposition to corporate domination by terrorizing anyone who opposes corporate capitalism as a Marxist or a socialist when corporate capitalism itself is unsustainable, can’t pay the debts it creates and relies on socialism for the rich.  They’ve pulled this McCarthy form of terrorism for 70 years and done so very successfully.  Mind you, the primary reason we are the only nation of any degree of advancement that doesn’t have national healthcare is because of corporations.  If we had national healthcare, people would drop out of the corporate job market like flies to start new ventures that compete with said corporations.  They need to keep us all herded in corporations for investor profits. Now, back to Marxism.  Karl Marx was an economist not some evil threat to freedom.  And, he was far smarter than anyone who shouts Marxism hyperbole in this nation.  Far smarter. He had blind spots and I don’t support the majority of his conclusions but I certainly appreciate his many framing of the social issues created by corporations and class.  And, his framing of the issues is alive in many parts of the world today because other nations have meaningful dialogs on real issues that our cancel culture and censorship precludes.  Germany, as an example, considers itself a market socialist economy.  Marx had a profound effect on his native country of Germany and citizens have massive economic rights and powers, although US neoliberalism is whittling away at them.  If you hadn’t noticed, Germany is kicking our ass in science and standard of living.  Ditto for Japan that rejects corporate capitalism and instead has an economy based on cooperation and the common good.  Even though the US has tried repeatedly to get Japan to dismantle their system in favor of ours so our corporations can plunder their society.
6. Ditto with opposition to any mainstream economic or societal narrative controlled by Republicans.  Republicans cancelled opposition to the plutocracy they created by shouting down people with control statements like “If you don’t like America, you can leave.” that censors the right to democratic activism, free will, participatory democracy and free speech.
7. Conservatives(defining establishment Republicans and Democrats) cancelled tens of millions of high paying US jobs and the resultant middle class. Regardless of who was president at the time, it was Republicans in outsized numbers that passed NAFTA, CAFTA and normalized Chinese trade relations that destroyed the working class. When Reagan took office the US had a balance of trade of essentially zero.  Now, the US has the highest balance of trade deficit in history as corporations have sent our jobs to corporate slave labor camps around the world.  If Republicans and like-minded Democrats were responsible for their actions, all of these people who voted for these trade deals would be investigated for crimes against humanity and put on trial for treason.
8. Conservatives(defining establishment Republicans and Democrats) cancelled democracy. It was Reagan and the Republican Party who deregulated corporations and then convinced the American people that democratic government was bad but the free market controlled by wealthy feudal lords (corporations) would make better decisions about society and the economy than democracy. And, that trickle down economics would work because the rich would be making so much money that they’d freely shower the money down to workers in this virtuous world of Ayn Rand’s Satanic book the The Virtue of Selfishness.(Seriously, Rand’s ideology adopted by Libertarians and Republicans were inspiration for the largest Satanic cult in the world.  How do I know this. Direct from the mouth of its leader; I give them Ayn Rand without politics.) The Republican Party is a death cult that places corporations, property, money, power and their own entitlement over the natural rights and lives of living, sentient beings.
9. Many conservatives are hooting and howling that Google and Facebook are not advocates of free speech. But, actually, it is the unconstitutional spying powers of the state that were passed under Republican leadership that are the root cause of this. It is Republican leadership that engaged corporations to spy on American citizens and to steal privacy data unconstitutionally.  Not only that, but what kind of braindead moron believes corporations are synonymous with democracy or free speech?  When was the last time someone went to their corporate boss and told them they had no idea what they are doing?  The threat of forced conformity and loss of free will defines the very reason corporations were created in the first place.  Corporations are anti-democratic, anti-free will, anti-free speech and anti-natural rights.  It’s no coincidence communism, capitalism and fascism (systems of social control and social engineering) all use corporations to control humanity.
10. Similar to Texas but a different dynamic, we have states like Kentucky with toxic Republican leadership such as McConnell and Rand Paul who are leaders of the Republican death cult of cancel culture and censorship.  Paul and McConnell hate anything democracy and are leading advocates of neoliberal free market hooey.  In other words, throw citizens into a cauldron controlled by wealthy corporations and economic elites and tell them to sink or swim.  If you can’t swim, don’t come crying to the government (democracy or community) for any relief.  It’s sink or swim for you.  Kentucky is number two in per capita payment mismatches with the federal government. In other words, Kentucky’s economy sucks because they don’t educate their citizens, doesn’t provide capital for entrepreneurship or provide any social safety nets.  So, the state doesn’t generate any payments to the federal government yet relies heavily on federal government handouts, which is generally true of Republican-controlled states. In other words, most Republican controlled states are at or near or at the bottom of every poverty statistic.  But Kentucky Republicans wish to cancel the poor entirely by cutting even more federal social programs.  This allows Republican politicians to control citizens through handouts rather than allowing them to flourish under their own power and collaboration with other citizens.  Mark my word, as noted many times, is moving towards democratic credit and banking.  So, rather than being slaves to corporations, citizens and communities will have access to democratic credit to start and maintain local, community-owned, employee-owned, family owned and entrepreneurial businesses rather than the slavery of corporate capitalism.
11. The Republican Party has cancelled history.  While academia is often a shithole of Democratic Party rot, the Republican Party has played a key role in cancelling and censoring history.  And, for that matter, effective education.  Throughout the first couple of decades of the post WWII era, Republican governors and party officials played a key role in erasing the real history of our nation and replacing it with what many today call white supremacy. They normalized and trivialized slavery, the role of minorities and the role violence plays in our past.

These are just a handful of examples.  But, my point is it doesn’t matter if it’s corporations, the military, or political parties, they are all part of America’s cancel culture.  And, our palpable ignorance enforced by massive brainwashing and propaganda props it up.  We are all complicit in our ignorance.