Ted Cruz's tweets about California blackouts look really dumb right now
Before Twitter existed, we could pretend our politicians, who although they clearly always have had their faults, were people who had empathy for their fellow citizens.
Twitter proved how wrong we were. Turns out, plenty of politicians are jerks who would much rather glibly hit send on a tweet that would allow their fellow jerks to have a dark laugh than show an ounce of compassion.
When California was hit with rolling blackouts in the summer, the office of the California governor, tweeted for Californians to do what they can to conserve energy to try to prevent disastrous state-wide power outages.
Sound familiar?
Instead of amplifying the tweet or offering thoughts and prayers or even just sitting this one out, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz thought it would be a perfect opportunity to mock United States citizens facing a crisis.
“California is now unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity. Biden/Harris/AOC want to make CA’s failed energy policy the standard nationwide. Hope you don’t like air conditioning!,” Cruz tweeted with condescension.
That tweet is doing nothing to keep warm the 4 million Texans currently without power, including 1.4 million in Cruz' hometown of Houston.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Ted-Cruz-Twitter-California-blackouts-energy-power-15953893.php
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