Sitting here wondering "Where are all those Texas millionaires/billionaires"?

[packman]

Has anyone heard how they are contributing to the relief of their fellow Texans?

[In_The_Wind]

1. warm and dry, taking care of #1 as usual

[orleans]

2. i have no idea but that's a great question nt

[LearnedHand]

3. I'm quite sure they are quietly, anonymously donating so as not to call attention

[MLAA]

4. Exactly, because the last thing they are are egotistical and needful of

copious amounts of praise and reverence for their every action. Billionaires thy name is anonymous in the face of good deeds. 😬

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. Donating. You're probably right. They're donating ...

... to Donald Trump, to Proud Boys Inc, to Q, to Boogaloo Bois, etc.

And, they might throw a small tip to the little people who bring them food, water, propane, beer, wine, generators, and bags of FEMA money.

[safeinOhio]

5. They are at home counting all of the $$$

they are making by jacking up their prices.

[Paladin]

6. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is too busy counting his money to help Texans right now.

His oil and gas company is making yet another massive fortune, high-pricing its natural gas production to supply what passes for an energy generation system in Texas. Priorities, priorities...

[jojog]

9. And the taxpayers just built him a $300 Million stadium

[2golddogs]

7. Cancun n/m

[tanyev]

14. +1

[dalton99a]

8. Devising new wealth strategies for their windfall

[Mariana]

10. Some of them are celebrating.

They've hit the jackpot with these crazy prices for electricity and gas, you know. Here's a thread from a few days ago.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215128040

[Irish_Dem]

11. Letting the federal government and the "little people" do all the heavy lifting.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. They are doing what they're experts at: Privatizing profits and socializing costs.

[MyMission]

13. Some were sitting in their mansions with their generators

Welcoming family and friends to their homes, making calls and donations, while others left town.

My cousin lives in Dallas, as do her 3 married children and their families.

Her son and his family went to stay with a good friend who lives in one of those mansions, along with his mother in law who had arrived from Florida just as the storm hit, her first visit in over a year! They stayed for a few days, until their power was back on.

My cousin and her husband could have gone too, but due to covid concerns they opted to stay at home, no generator but she does have a gas stove so she could cook and have warm beverages. She also heated soup and water for several neighbors. She lives in a mini-mansion neighborhood, a large home, a stones throw from the next large home. She said the neighbors were so appreciative of her providing warm soup and bread. A simple act of kindness.

[blueinredohio]

15. In Cancun,

laughing at Ted Cruz because he got caught and had to go home.

[Luz]

16. Here's one. Jim McInvale. He deserves a medal.

https://abc13.com/houston-mattress-mack-texas-furniture-store-gallery-weather/10350240

[crickets]

24. Agreed. Mattress Mack is good people. nt

[onecaliberal]

18. Probably in Mexico or some other country warm and dry.

[Midnight Writer]

19. They are rejecting the noblesse oblige of the Eastern Establishment Elites.

There is a fundamental difference in philosophy between the "Old Money" of the East and the "New Money" of the West.

The Texas billionaires consider themselves "self made" men, standing above all others, and really live by pre-chivalry philosophy. they believe might makes right, that the poor are weak, women are chattel, men are labor to be exploited.

[WyattKansas]

20. Probably at one of their other homes in a much warmer location around the world...

Plotting their strategy to keep screeching DEREGULATION to the American voter, so they can elect more Republicans, enrich themselves more, and fuck over the American voters...

The Democratic Party had better work on their group messaging and ALWAYS point out that deregulation is exactly what made the disaster in Texas possible in the first place. Do not wait until after all the investigations to determine what went wrong when the obvious already blew up in their faces, because the Republicans will muddy it down and drown that out with a bunch of bullshit excuses. The whole country should be taking notice and looking into all past disasters with how 'deregulation' and Republican policies have been so destructive to the United States in every part of American lives.

I did see a Democratic politician (Texas State Senator I think) the other night who kept repeating how Republicans caused the Texas disaster with their deregulation policies and Republican oversight. The Democratic Party leaders should take notice of her messaging and have her spread it throughout the Democratic Party all across the country, because that is exactly how to keep beating Republicans from local to national level.

[FakeNoose]

21. How do you think they got to be millionaires?

By overcharging their fellow Texans for every killowatt of energy, and every ounce of water.

[moondust]

22. Like Cancoup Cruz,

they left rather than become a drain on the resources badly needed by their fellow Texans. Selfless heroism at its finest!

Besides, those yachts aren't going to sail themselves around the Bahamas.

[MagickMuffin]

23. Raking and rolling in the dough, You'd think they would care, nah, who ya foolin

While millions in Texas are without power due to a deadly winter storm that has brought record low temperatures to the state, the chief financial officer at Jerry Jones' natural gas company can only think about money.

Roland Burns, CFO at Comstock Resources Inc., reportedly bragged that the week has been "like hitting the jackpot," according to the Dallas Morning News.

“This week is like hitting the jackpot with some of these incredible prices,” Burns said. “Frankly, we were able to sell at super premium prices for a material amount of production.”


The storms caused gas production to drop to a four-year low, causing a surge in natural gas prices. Comstock was able to sell gas from its Haynesville Shale wells Thursday, taking advantage of the shortage.

Jones initially made his money in oil investments in the 1970s, allowing him to buy the Dallas Cowboys in 1989. Jones invested heavily in Comstock in 2018, becoming the company's controlling shareholder.

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[a kennedy]

25. I know, makes me sick......how many fawking homes do they REALLY need.