Fox News and the entire GOP is so terrified of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s success that they are mocking him for asking New Yorkers to be careful with their thermostats during an extreme heat wave. This is the same advice Trump’s Energy Department has suggested as well.
Not only do they look foolish, but they appear desperate in their efforts to smear and ridicule a popular political rival.
This morning on Fox and Friends, the three co-hosts were beside themselves that the mayor of New York City would ask residents to turn the thermostat higher to conserve energy so that there aren’t any blackouts during this massive heat wave.
Why are they suddenly back to using “Communism” as a catch-all pejorative, while at the same time apparently sending their kids to learn Mandarin?
Fuck these assholes.
In Canada it’s also become a dirty word all of a sudden.
It’s a legacy we inherited from the cold war. Half the time, Fox News is speaking to Boomers and older gen-X, all of whom grew up and/or lived under the shadow of thermonuclear war and the looming threat of “Communism” (USSR). Nevermind that’s all passe, the propaganda still echoes in their ears and can be recalled in an instant by uttering that one trigger word.
It actually goes all the way back to the early 20th century, starting with the first red scare.