by Chris SelogyOn this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about how the big freeze in Texas that left millions without power and water and how those in power are blaming everybody but themselves, say good riddance to Rush Limbaugh, and marvel at the first picture sent back by the Perseverance Mars rover.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Bob’s Burgers, WandaVision, Rocket League, Control, Cyber Shadow
- T: Bob’s Burgers, Outlander, PSO2, ACNH, streaming on Twitch
- B: FF7 Remake, Hotline Miami 2, Welcome to Marwencol, colder than a witch’s tit
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blamed the Green New Deal for the state’s massive power outages
- Rick Perry says Texans are willing to suffer to keep feds out of power market
- Their natural gas and coal plants were way more to blame than renewables
- Colorado City, Texas Mayor Tim Boyd told his citizens that it wasn’t the gov’ts job to help them during this crisis after he had already resigned
- Sen. Ted Cruz was caught trying to flee the cold to Cancun with his daughters while his constituents suffered
- Heroes of the Week: AOC raised $2+ million for Texas relief charities and Beto O’Rourke ran a virtual phone bank to check in on senior citizens to help get them water, food, and shelter
- Good riddance to Rush Limbaugh (Hell stinks more now.)
- Nancy Pelosi announced an independent commission to examine Capitol insurrection
- House Dems unveil their full $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill
- Biden receives pushback after rejecting proposal to cancel $50k of student debt
- House GOP introduced a bill to ban municipal broadband networks if there’s competition
- Seiko Hashimoto replaces Yoshiro Mori as Tokyo Olympic committee president
- Dolly Parton declines Tennessee legislature’s offer of a statue at the state capitol
- NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover safely landed this week
- Tim Burton’s directing a Wednesday Addams live-action series for Netflix
- Edgar Wright’s directing a new film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man
- We got a trailer for Disney’s Cruella
- We got our first trailer for Justice League’s Snyder Cut
- We also got a trailer for the new Mortal Kombat movie
- Contact us at letsweekenders@gmail.com
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