Shouldn’t we expect better than impulse-tweeting by our elected officials (or their staffers at least)?
As explained by journalist German Lopez:
Some background: Since last week, Venezuela has seen massive power outages, rooted in the country’s poor maintenance of its electricity network and problems originating in the Guri hydroelectric plant. It’s yet another sign of the abysmal state the country is in under the leadership of President Nicolás Maduro.
Rubio tweeted about the news over the weekend — claiming in a now-deleted tweet that the blackout was caused by “another transformer explosion at the German Dam in Bolivar State.” But the tweet got a big thing wrong: This was not due to problems at Venezuela’s “German Dam.” Germán Dam, instead, is the name of a journalist who reported the story about the power outages.
Rubio is a little quick on the trigger to point out how everyday acts of the gods means Socialism-Is-Bad-Unless-It’s-A-Hurricane-Hitting-Florida-So-Where’s-My-Disaster-Relief-Check but introspection and fact-checking aren’t really featured characteristics of most Republicans, amiright?
The Vox article comes with a handy-dandy guide on how to pronounce the name German, in case you are more interested in such things than Senator Rubio.