bubbadog said:This is way bigger than her, but I get that you need someone to demonize.D. C. Bear said:bubbadog said:I hate to be the one who breaks this news, but even if AOC had never been born, the industry that provides support for millions of Texans is going to either decline or evolve. For a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with AOC, the world is going to move toward more renewable energy, and the creative destruction of the free marketplace is going to take a toll on the fossil fuel industry unless the government artificially props it up (and interferes with the market). It already happened to coal, and oil is on the same glide path.D. C. Bear said:bubbadog said:Exactly. See how that evil little minx is trying to pull the wool over the eyes of good honest people like you by using what seems like a good deed to lure them into letting her destroy our way of life and sapping our precious bodily fluids instead of recognizing her for the handmaiden of Satan that she really is? I'm glad you saw right through this malicious stratagem, but a lot of people are probably going to get suckered.D. C. Bear said:bubbadog said:Yeah, but we all know she is just posturing because in her heart she hates real Americans, so Jesus isn't going to credit this as a sincere effort on her part. She's merely doing this to hide what she really is and dupe us into feeling that maybe she's not so terrible. Keep your trojan horse money, AOC, and burn in commie hell!quash said:AOC is federal. She gathered up $1,000,000 in aid from private donations, mostly from NY, for Texans.LIB,MR BEARS said:
I've not read the thread but, here is my two cents:
Cruz is not a state official. Unless he wants to grab a shovel, split fire wood or climb a utility pole, he's just like everyone else. Once I knew my mom and my in-laws were good, I would have bolted for warmer environments as well. It only looks bad to people that are too dumb to know the difference between state and federal. Who here is one of those dumb ones?
You know, one of the dumb ones.
Edit: $2,000,000.00.
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Maybe Texans should actually send money to her campaign because she is so nice to get other people to send money in a time of need. Of course, if she gets her way, about half a million or so Texans who work in the oil and gas industry will be looking for new employment, so that $2,000,000 would represent about $4 each. Tough call.
I don't necessarily believe she is trying to fool anyone, she's quite clear about her desires for the future of an industry that provides support for millions of Texans. If she has her way, those millions lose their livelihoods. Doesn't mean she can't do something nice.
GM's recent announcement should be read as a mere, terkel, upharsin, even if they can't pull it off in the timeframe they plan.
It will certainly both decline and evolve, but if she has her way its decline will be accelerated and subsidized by the very people whose livelihoods would be destroyed.
I don't need "someone to demonize," and it is beneath you to make that claim.