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.
Luckily fox news isn’t real news. so therefore we can ignore their crayon munching commentary
Fox and their audience would happily unplug someone’s life support to charge their cell phones. God forbid they turn up their thermostats a degree or two to prevent widespread blackouts.
Is everything sensible or socially conscious Communism now? Taking public transit, being more physically active, telling my family that I love them… all communism?
Maybe, I thought it was woke, but that’s so 2025
Not quit. It’s more like: “Anything someone they don’t like says” is “something they think sounds bad”. Mamdani said to conserve power, that’s communism. AOC said she likes pineapple on pizza, she’s basically Voldemort.
I mean, pineapple on pizza is a war crime, I can’t disagree
I bet you don’t even like anchovies, you monster.
Leave Your parents basement, eat something other than nuggets, develop a pallet, then back to me.
Is everything sensible or socially conscious Communism now?
This is the same program that referred to Fred Rogers as “an evil, evil man”. I don’t think they’re the best judge of people or motives.
problem being communism is a made up fantasy world so yeah anything can fit, up to the preferences of the larper
so why not seize the means of production and mandated thermostat temperature (which was common in commie buildings)
so why not seize the means of production and mandated thermostat temperature (which was common in commie buildings)
Where did Mamdani mandate this?
Oh I see, you’re lying.
Correct. Anything MAGA doesn’t like is Communism.
- Enforcing Tax codes -> Communism
- Lower Fossil Fuel usage -> Communism
- Being told no on being asked out on a date -> Communism
- Investigating anything for corruption -> Communism
- Having to ask for mustard on your sandwich -> Communism
Basically anything.
currently its “woke” , communisim seems to be making a come back, mostly because of the recent wins by non-DINO dems.
Its a thing they apply to specific people. You either do things communistly or freedomly even if its the same exact action.
For instance, when the DSA is saying the public should have ownership over Intel they’re being real communists about it.
When Donald Trump does it, he’s doing it freedom style, which makes it okay.
Is everything sensible or socially conscious Communism now?
No, this is way off base.
Everything sensible or socially conscious has been Communism since the 1930s. Shoutout to Behind the Bastards, who coincidentally aired a couple of episodes about this very subject this week (Elizabeth Dilling episodes).
Heyo, saw the episodes but didn’t know who Dilling was, now I know I gotta listen. Thanks 👍🏿
Standing behind you in my space suit with a pistol aimed at your spacesuit helmet.
Always has been
if you’re murican then everything progressive is communism
Fox news logic is:
IF person who said is Mamdani THEN its communism
We can then extract from that communism isn’t a set of actions and values to Fox News, its an adjective we apply to specific people to make them scary.
But we also need to understand what they think is so scary about it: the government might give benefits to people that they hate.
As much as I agree that is the driving concern behind fox news as an institution imo its more them trying to piggyback off decades of anticommunist propaganda and direct it at people who threaten their many cash cows and corrupt bullshit because even modest reforms to incrrease market competition at this point threaten their extreme levels of corruption.
The level of thought you put into your reply is far more than they expect from most their viewers and probably most the hosts.
Purposely conflating socialism and communism also reinforces this notion
My A/C can’t even get my rental to go below 80°F in this heat wave anyway 😆. I’ll be relocating to the basement with frozen açai until further notice.
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of reasonable room temperature. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Putin, Merz and Macron, French Radicals and German police-spies.
Putin, Merz and Macron, French Radicals and German police-spies.
One of these is NOT well-liked by any of the others, and another openly hates all the others 😄
Kinda like telling a woman what they can and can’t do with their body, right?
Men telling women what they can do with their bodies is like a dog giving advice on car repairs cause it likes to ride in it sometimes.
Capitalism is when people die of preventable death due to heat exposure or from complications from it, because allowing them the resources to cool their houses (that they likely don’t own and are privileged to have at all) is communism.
The best part is, now that Mandami is being criticized by the Fox outrage machine, all of the government websites that had similar recommendations are being changed.
In America, asking someone to do anything for anyone other than themselves…
is COMMUNISM
I wonder if it’ll still be communism when the data centers advise it
This is why an actual democratic socialist wins in new york.
To them, Gavin Newsome, Joe biden, and Kamala Harris get called socialists like it’s a prize in a cereal box. At one point the young just ignore them.
Fox news viewers need to feel like victims every single day.
If they hate Mamdani so much why don’t they leave New York instead of whining about it ?
Better to live in blue states and blue cities and complain than to live in a red state, I reckon lol
How they make their money is by constantly bitching at what a Democrat does and gladly misinterpret good policy or announcements to their own greedy benefit.
All while living in that Democrat-controlled area because it’s much nicer than the Republican hellhole they keep clamoring for
But haven’t you heard? All cities are crime-ridden hellscapes full of immigrants who will steal your job while also being lazy and collecting welfare, and who are brutish rapists/murderers but also sickly plague carriers, and who… don’t always speak English. 😱
I always laughed at the “stealing jobs” comment.
There is no stealing involved. If anything they got outbid and their employer took the bait.
FrEe MaRkET
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.
