A short thread of Texas Republicans sharing their thoughts on rolling blackouts elsewhere

Senator Ted Cruz: "Hope you don't like air conditioning!"
https://t.co/vj6ZR6DpJP
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton: "California’s politicians did this"
https://t.co/LBSuH0gpUx
Representative Dan Crenshaw: "Alexa, show me what happens when you let Democrats control energy policy."
https://t.co/9bYNzpC9Tp
Lt. Governor Dan Patrick: "This is what happens when the Democrats are left in charge...#KAG"
https://t.co/5IhH4UYuCo
Senator John Cornyn: "California’s energy nightmare shows us why Texas must trust the free market" https://t.co/JFpiI1m2nj
Rep. Chip Roy (and oldie but a goodie!): "Obama plan = rolling blackouts and massive rate increases."
https://t.co/vDbflwbrKI
Representative Ronny Jackson: "Corrupt 'green' policies that leave us in the dark" https://t.co/rwSc9ecJag
I'm sure these politicians will apply the same level of rigor and logic in assessing the blackouts currently affecting Texas and compassion for those affected by them

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Great article from @AsheSchow. I lived thru the 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980's/early 1990's asking myself "Has eveyrbody lost their GODDAMN MINDS?!"


The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.

1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.

FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.