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.”
Conservatives are just petty toddlers. JFC.
Fuck it. Crank the AC, turn on every device.
Once the blackouts hit blame the republicans.
Americans are such fucking babies. I hope they remember this when the rolling blackouts start, but, they won’t.
AmericansConservatives are such fucking babies.
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 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
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.
“first-world country”? which one? that fascist cesspool?
