The finger-pointing escalated this week as some Republicans argued that a major utility company run by Democratic appointees has “woke” policies on diversity and tree-trimming that are the causes of customers’ woes.
There’s bipartisan and widespread consensus that Nashville Electric Service, which serves the city as well as surrounding counties, mishandled the storm, struggling to mobilize enough workers and equipment to quickly clear fallen trees and restore service.
The same party that blamed the texas blackout on the only sources of power that actually stayed operational.
Trees are woke. Let that sink in.
JJ902 said so himself.
Must really suck donkey ass to be infected with the broke mind virus.
You mean lead poisoning? Possibly also PFAS, alcohol and/or FAS, tobacco, broken epigenetics, etc.
Electricity is such a gay concept. Why would any conservative care for thar?
Republicans are great at avoiding blame in situations they are the direct cause .
If you cause the problem, it’s easy to have well thought out excuses prepared in advance.
It’s definitely easier to blame others than to actually fix problems.
Even more so when you are an expert at blaming others and incapable of actually solving problems.
They can’t even manage to do that lol
It’s like literally all they do.
Without knowing anything about the issue, I can guarantee Tennessee energy policies are to blame. And if I had to guess, it’s probably the fault of favoring “free market” over “reasonable regulation” and consumer protection type policies.
Fuck, when did late stage capitalism become woke?
Tell 'em propane and charcoal grills are the best way to heat your home in a power outage. That also keeps money out of the woke electric companies hands.
Propane and charcoal are too woke. We cook our burgers with Pennsylvania coal.
The extreme nature of the storm is the direct result of climate change, but that’s probably too “woke” for them to understand as well.
Oh so Republicans are woke now?
Clearly all those gay bars and drag shows used up too much electricity.
Clearly ICE is to blame here, but reality is too woke, better stay in slumber.
Obviously DEI training isn’t to blame.
But the point about a new tree-trimming policy seems logical at first glance. Does anyone know if it is valid?
The complaint about the new tree trimming practices is “valid” in the same way that bitching about renewable energy replacing coal-fired power plants is “valid.” The new “species specific pruning” practices are actually better in the sense that they promote the long-term health of the trees instead of indiscriminately butchering them in a straight line with an overgrown hedge trimmer, but giving a shit about that instead of doing everything the cheapest most shortsighted way possible is the ultimate sin, according to these demented assholes.
But didn’t the new tree trimming practices result in some of the trees being too close to the power lines? Doesn’t seem to be all that smart of a strategy to me.
Probably not!
It’s not as if the Republican dipshit actually knows anything about the subject. He’s just mouthing off with a self-serving post hoc fallacy. In reality, he has no fucking clue whether the pruning was done correctly or not – and it probably was done correctly, given that the workers hired by the utiilty were actual arborists – because the mere fact that the power lines fell is not by itself proof of error. It’s entirely possible, for example, that the storm was so extreme that no reasonable amount of pruning (i.e. anything short of clear-cutting) would’ve saved those wires!
And if the utility had gone “anti-woke” and clear-cut them, he would’ve just been bitching in bad faith about that instead.
for example, that the storm was so extreme that no reasonable amount of pruning (i.e. anything short of clear-cutting) would’ve saved those wires!
Do they not do clear-cutting for power lines there? The high voltage lines all have a minimum distance that has to be clear of trees where I’m from. Otherwise there would be issues every single year, maybe multiple times a year.
Or is this for residential areas with regular power lines? In that case I’ll agree that clear cutting isn’t a necessity and we’ll just have to accept the occasional freak accident for the sake of maintaining tree canopy in our cities, which is very important, especially in a hot climate where trees provide shade from the scorching sun.
