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.”
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.”