Before Twitter existed, we could pretend that our politicians, who although clearly always had their shortcomings, were people who empathized with their fellow citizens.
Twitter proved how wrong we were. It turns out that many politicians are idiots who would rather send a tweet that would allow their idiot colleagues to have a dark laugh than show an ounce of compassion.
When California was hit by blackouts in the summer, the California governor’s office, tweeted that Californians do what they can to conserve energy and try to avoid disastrous power outages across the state.
Sound familiar?
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Instead of amplifying the tweet or offering thoughts and prayers or even being left out, Texas Senator Ted Cruz thought it would be a perfect opportunity to mock America’s citizens facing a crisis.
“California is now unable to perform even the basic functions of civilization, such as having reliable electricity. Biden / Harris / AOC want to make CA’s failed energy policy the standard across the country. I hope you don’t like air conditioning! Cruz tweeted condescendingly.
This tweet is doing nothing to warm up the 4 million Texans currently without power, including 1.4 million in Cruz’s hometown of Houston.
A few months after mocking California, Cruz continued to stack, tweeting the Democrats campaign slogan it should be: “If you want to live without air conditioning, vote for the Democrat.” When “Rescue Me” actor Steven Pasquale pointed out for Cruz that the real problem was climate change, Cruz raised the bar.
“Some angry Lefty actor thinks California is the only place that has a summer. It’s hot everywhere – try Texas every summer – but the rest of the country doesn’t have a dysfunctional state government that you can’t turn on the lights on or turn on the A / C. This is a political fault for the Dems. “
Cruz was certainly not alone in laughing at California’s disgrace.
After Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti urged his constituents to conserve energy during blackouts, US Representative Dan Crenshaw of Houston found time to send a joke on Twitter: “Alexa, show me what happens when you it allows Democrats to control energy policy. “
In 2019, Texas Senator John Cornyn tweeted an article on the satirical website The Babylon Bee with the headline “Texas attracting jobs away from California with promises of electricity.”
Hilarious, guys. When you’re done with your online stand-up comedy set, can you do something about the Texas power grid now?