Why exactly is it wrong to keep illegal immigrants out of the US ? If they voted Republican there would be an 80 foot wall on the border. Hypocrite much?
Texas Crisis & Ted Cruz...
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eider
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Stop you there.
eider
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So you can see where my priorities lay in any emergency.
eider
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I thought the reaction was slow.
But apart from E and W coasts central America looked very bleak everywhere.
You have clearly chosen to be separate from your country's national grid, a daft idea imo, and maybe help needed to be extended to several States.
Your hatred for democracy and National Institutions just clouds what little judgement you have.
eider
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We remember how President Trump was going to make the Mexicans pay for that white elephant.
And separate children from their asylum seeking parents.
And then people try to tell us how much we hate various folks.
annabenedetti
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The way that Epoch Times wrote it, yes. But you can't attribute that misleading headline to the AP. The fault lies with Epoch Times.
True ... my only defense is that I didn’t *personally* put him in office or support his reign of terror for four long years.
annabenedetti
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You could shorten it to "privatize the profits, socialize the losses."
annabenedetti
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You know what's ironic? How Cancun Cruz crossed the border with his children to seek a better life for them...
Putting America and Americans first is only a reign of terror to communist and freeloaders.
annabenedetti
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I do? Can you point me to my post?
Fascinating, the directions you go.
Do as I say not as I do ...
annabenedetti
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This is about Ted Cruz, not Mexicans.
If he'd gone to Hawaii, he would've gotten the same blowback. What he did was stupid, tone-deaf, and selfish. His house was cold - but he had money and privilege to afford to fly to a warm-climate resort with running water, room service and drinks on the beach while his constituents struggled to stay warm and find drinking water as their water pipes burst around them. At least he's admitted how wrong he was, I'll give him that much. And he acknowleged that he "got no defense" after he was roundly mocked for this:
If I'd written that second tweet, I would've used the names of TX politicos, but the point stands.
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Keep Mexicans in or out. You do realize there are more Mexicans in the U.S. than there are English in England. You're so racist and bigoted it's really hard to understand you. Are you implying that all Mexicans break the law? What a racist bigoted thing to say.
So, you're saying the English are all evil and going to hell . . . hmm . . .
Derf
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Are you saying your priorities in an emergency don't include media telling the truth about the situation?
Derf
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Then you don't think that the article was about Texas deaths?
Here it is from AP:
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Suspected hypothermia deaths in homes mount in Texas
By JAMIE STENGLE and MARION RENAULTyesterday
DALLAS (AP) — With the snow and ice clearing in Texas after days of unusually cold temperatures, bodies are being found of people who likely froze to death as they struggled to stay warm after electricity was cut to millions of homes
Of the around 70 deaths attributed to the snow, ice and frigid temperatures nationwide, more than a dozen were people who perished in homes that had lost their heat, and most of those were in Texas. They include an 11-year-old boy who died in his bed in Conroe, near Houston, and two older men found dead in their homes in the small West Texas town of Buffalo Gap in Taylor County.
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Notice how both the headline and the first sentence mention Texas. Then the number "70" is brandished, followed by "more than a dozen", finally pared down to "most of [more than a dozen]", only the last of which are associated in some way with Texas. The range of possibilities at the time of the article for "most of [more than a dozen]" is between 7 minimum and perhaps 15. Yet the impression verbalized by The Epoch Times is exactly what AP was looking to achieve. I fault TET for falling for it. But the intention to deceive was there in AP's article.
Today AP has published the number "35" for deaths in Texas due to the storm. https://apnews.com/article/houston-...c-hurricanes-5fd491ed5bfd9aa0ae08426c6078539e
But this 2nd article is so full of venom aimed at political opponents, that together with the first article, there seems little reason to trust their reporting.
You're getting ahead of yourself.
Why is it wrong to raise prices during an emergency?
We can talk about profiting off of tragedies after you answer that question.
Do you even understand the difference?
annabenedetti
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I'm saying Epoch Times wrote a misleading headline. We agree on that, yes? Because Epoch had it at "Around 70 Suspected Hypothermia Deaths Reported in Texas Homes" which isn't at all what the AP had said.
AP said, as you quote above, "Of the around 70 deaths attributed to the snow, ice and frigid temperatures nationwide, more than a dozen were people who perished in homes that had lost their heat, and most of those were in Texas."
So I'm reading that as (at the time the article was written) 70 deaths nationwide related to the weather which could have been accidents or other reasons but that of those 70 more than a dozen were in homes that had lost their heat, and most of those were in Texas.
You're reading "brandished" into it though. All they're doing is differentiating between total weather-related deaths and deaths in homes with no heat, which makes sense to me. We expect people to be in accidents in icy weather, or to slip and fall on icy sidewalks, etc. It's a staple of local news, right?
But we don't, in today's America, expect people to die in their houses from a lack of heat. It's incongruous, it doesn't mesh with our first-world society, and that catches our attention.
I think if you're determined to find an intent to deceive on the part of the AP, nothing I say will change your mind. But since you wanted my thoughts, there they are. AP gave numbers which were newsworthy, Epoch Times has a lousy headline editor.
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Do senators personally have the power to change the weather? If not, what was he supposed to do about the entire situation? I'll bet thousands of people left the cold and went to warmer places. It's always that way. Those without the financial resources are left at home. That's reality. It's been that way since the entrance of sin into the world. So, the root cause of this entire fiasco is sin. Do you think Cruz can get rid of sin in the world? Are you going to stop being a political activist and start to fight to root cause of death, misery, suffering, greed by becoming a Christian and spreading Christianity?
Do I find room in me to blame anyone for leaving Texas during this totally unneeded crisis? Nope. As far as I'm concerned if I lived there and had the money to leave and go spend that time in a warm climate, I would have done it myself. Without power I could have done nothing for anyone else. All I could have done was make I didn't freeze and was still alive to help others after the freeze was over. It's just stupid to put yourself at risk when there is nothing a person can do about the situation if there's anything else you can do. All Cruz could do then, and now, is to work to make sure this federal government overreach never happens again. You know exactly what I mean by that. Put an end to all this socialism and it's consequent horrors.