#Meatpacking, Texas storms, Ted Cruz

The second episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver arrived today on HBO, and going in, we had a good feeling as to one of the subjects. It felt inevitable that the host would take on the weather situation in Texas, most notably the way that it was handled.

Luckily, Oliver did not let us down! We saw an opening segment all about Texas, most notably the way that it was covered. He lambasted Tucker Carlson for blaming the outages on “green” sources, and also went at Ercot for their handling of this situation in advance. Smartly, he also went into what happened ten years ago, when local officials were told that they should “winterize” some of their power plants. This entire situation was a mess and yet, the country’s second-largest stake made a number of mistakes.

Oh, and of course it goes without saying that Oliver skewered Ted Cruz along the way. If you recall, Cruz attempted to travel off to Mexico during the storm, and later blamed his kids for wanting to go down and him wanting to be a good dad.

For the main segment tonight, Oliver went into a somewhat unexpected direction: Talking about meat. In particular, meatpacking. The people who work in this industry are never discussed, but they all have a number of important stories to tell.

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