You described exactly how I’m thinking these days. I would love evidence falsifying the theory. Incompetence would be easier to fix than authoritarian government pigs on the wing.
There are many places in Hawaii that appear as solid ground, and you plunge right though. Ledges that look solid, maybe covered in vegetation even, and they are only a few inches thick. The terrain there is is changing, unpredictable, and just different than hiking in the 48.
“Apparently, that was not allowed this time for some reason,””
Because they were about to have Trump assassinated on TV, just before he officially got the nomination and named his veep. After the failure, the internet went down, Biden vanished from sight on Wednesday, and put an odd statement on X (twitter) dropping out of the race.
This is a very bad look for Texas Republicans. They have literally turned into the capitalists that sell the rope used to hang them. They feasted like hogs on government subsidies for windmills and solar. In the old days of Reddy kilowatt, there was no such thing as a power outage in Texas unless a storm blew lives down, and it wasn’t expensive. They have taken large numbers of coal fired plants off-line. Now with Ercot, the energy reliability Council of Texas, energy is not reliable, and the board is made up of leftist people from all over America, and even Germans.
I think some of this was the deliberately destroy the Texas grid and then push for it to be connected to the national grid.