Last week’s reminder from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani seemed wholly unremarkable. As the city confronted an usually rough heat wave, the mayor published a July 1 post encouraging New Yorkers to set the air conditioners to 78 degrees, turn off electronics they’re not using and unplug as much as possible, all in the hopes of helping the power grid.
Plenty of officials in many states have said the same thing for the same reason in recent years. Nevertheless, to put it mildly, Republicans did not take Mamdani’s message well.
Failed presidential candidate Nikki Haley responded with a “welcome to socialism” message, despite the fact that she made similar recommendations as South Carolina’s governor. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas added, “In a first-world country, you could turn on the A/C,” apparently oblivious to his own home state having issued similar directives many times without incident. Fox News’ Jesse Watters told viewers, in reference to Mandani’s recommendations, “It’s a slippery slope; they’re going to say one-child policy next. This is how communism starts; they start rationing things.”
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas added, “In a first-world country,
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first-world countryHmmmmm… 🤔
Pretty bold coming from a senator of a state that experiences frequent grid failures and deadly blackouts every summer…
Imagine caring about what these fucking idiots think. Mandami derangement syndrome.
This is how communism starts; they start rationing things.
Jesse Watters would not be capable of leading a nation through an emergency and it shows
Conservatives are just petty toddlers. JFC.
Fuck it. Crank the AC, turn on every device.
Once the blackouts hit blame the republicans.
Conservatives just say things for the intended result. They don’t care about facts or truth or internal consistency. They’re like cognitohazards.
rolling brownouts are preferable to being politely asked make a small sacrifice for the good of society
Gets more compressors into the marketplace.
Americans are such fucking babies. I hope they remember this when the rolling blackouts start, but, they won’t.
AmericansConservatives are such fucking babies.Especially the conservatives among us. I’ve met plenty of insecure people online from other parts of the world but the level of them is staggering.
Lol they did the EXACT SAME THING when I was young, during the Carter administration and the 70s energy crisis, calling Carter a “Communist” because he advised the same type of minimal thermostat management to conserve energy and asked people to wear sweaters to conserve heat. I remember people literally enraged about it, like how very dare he even suggest such a thing.
This is as old as time. They ignore it when the Republicans do it and scream holy hell when a Democrat does it, same as it ever was.
Yep. And the solar panels on the WH were taken down during Ronnie Raygun’s historically criminal [1] administration.
[1] I like to remind people at every turn - especially since the cons were/are so keen on getting so much shit named after their hero - that Ronnie Raygun presided over the most objectively criminal administration in history. At least up until Donvict; his second term is not over yet and the evidence is not all in yet, either. Anyways, the conservatives raced to name so much shit after their favorite criminal. Don’t let the bothsiderist media and centrists like Obama fool you - Ronnie Raygun was all smiley and such, but he’s also the face of Iran/Contra and had more people in his administration: “The presidency of Ronald Reagan was marked by numerous scandals, resulting in the investigation, indictment or conviction of over 138 administration officials, the largest number for any president of the United States.”
This is all a distraction.
- How is McConnell feeling? Anyone see him lately?
- How are the epstein files doing? Anyone see the ones with trump in them?
- How are our public lands doing? Are they being sold to the highest bidder?
- How is the White House grounds doing? Does it still look like a tweaker’s house?
- How is trump’s corruption being called out? Is he still making billions off of being prez?
- etc., etc., etc.
How is the White House grounds doing? Does it still look like a tweaker’s house?
Apparently he’s decided to build a heliport on the South Lawn.
But the helicopter can already land there. It’s actually super cool - they put out tiny blocks/temporary landing areas about the size of the wheels themselves - and the pilot is so good, they can land without any issues.
Source - I witnessed it from a building across from the Treasury during the Biden administration.
I don’t doubt you. But here we are:
We’re going to need a new White House when this all over.
Could always invite the Canadians over, I’d be happy to burn down the Whitehouse again
Put some poutine in the white house instead of Putin
Now, if only the Canadians had actually done such a thing
i can cater. y’all want sassages or ribs? y’know what let’s do both
Should smell real with all the painted-over cum and blood on the walls.
Nah, torch the thing to the ground and build “The People’s House” on its ashes.
How about just a park
I could have sworn it was technically already a park or something. needs some swings and a slide.
Oh oh oh and the spinny thing, I always loved the spinny thing
Our national trap house
I don’t know how they could’ve kept some of the recent rains out of the ruins of the East Wing, so, yeah :(
How are our public lands doing? Are they being sold to the highest bidder?
They’re literally on fire, if Colorado and much of the west are any indication.
Mamdani derangement syndrome.
Oh please holy shit PLEASE let a few journalists start using this term in their reporting…!
I mean, I heard ODS quite a bit during Obama’s two terms. Not nearly enough. I suggest we use it as much as possible for people like Mamdani (and AOC, etc).
(It all started with “Bush Derangement Syndrome”, but that never really made much sense, that was just liberals pointing out the flaws of W and it drove people like Krauthammer nuts. This, from the guy that called the Iraq quagmire a “three week war”. Yeah, everyone else critiquing such a dumb take had “Bush Derangement Syndrome”.)
They’d need to either hear it said or think of it themselves, best way to make that happen is to use it as often as you can.
These are the sacrifices we make so the data centers have enough power to help people write emails
And then read the emails on the other side. Don’t forget about that important service. No one wants to read a bunch of AI generated emails.
We also need pictures of Trump Jesus and the Obama graffiti plane.
“One-child policy next” is crazy unless this is an at-least-one child policy.
It’s the pedophile party, they mean one child to fuck policy
The pedophiles really want people to make more kids.
Have you noticed they didn’t want to force people to have kids they aren’t irritated to look after? Almost like they want to create a discussion they can take advantage of
This is like the PSA to turn the water off while you shave or brush your teeth. A little done a lot can add up to something positive. I fail to see what is wrong with a “do your part” mentality as opposed to a “gonna get mine all the time” one.
