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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Good thing Trump sat on a black towel when he appeared on this couch or she’d have a brown racing stripe on her dress.

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    Ah yes, asking your community as Mayor to be conscious of thermostat temperatures during a heatwave, to avoid brownouts or blackouts…

    Communism. Not common sense.

    Off topic, but as somebody who remembers when eastern seaboard grid died during the summer. I wouldn’t want it to go down in this fucking heat.

    And these “hosts” seem old enough that they should remember.

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      Someone might say they are on point, this is communism. Leading to the conclusion communism actually is common sense.

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    Automatic temperature controls engineer here:

    This is exactly what you want to do in a heat wave. It’s called load shedding.

    78°F in 100°F weather is going to feel perfectly cool. You’ll prevent your equipment from breaking down faster and see a notable difference in your electric bill.

    Fox morons - this is definitely a Gandalf-I’m-trying-to-help-you moment.

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    Jimmy Carter asked the nation to turn down thermostats ~50 years ago, and these people are still freaking out about it.

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      Carter was promptly voted out of office and replaced with Ronald Reagan. We all know how that went.

      It might have had something to do with Carter putting solar panels on the White House roof as well. Or the backroom deal that Reagan’s people made with the Khomeini regime to keep the American hostages in captivity until after the election. Who knows.

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    Is everything sensible or socially conscious Communism now? Taking public transit, being more physically active, telling my family that I love them… all communism?

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      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).

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      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.

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      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)

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        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.

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    People on Twitter pulled up old tweets of Nikki Haley and Greg Abbott asking for the same things. It’s a day that ends in “y”, which is how you know Republicans are arguing in bad faith.

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    in other words. they can’t find any legitimate issues with the mayor of new york and how he’s governing and presenting himself to his constituents and the public, so they came up with this line of bullshit about thermostat settings.

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    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.

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      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.

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    Damn commies! I’ma go check a real state to see what they say. So DeSantis appointed every member of the FL commission, and they say it should be set to … 78. More commies! What about TX? ERCOT is the worst run energy commission in history. Surely they have it right … 78! IT’S EVEN IN THE STOCK IMAGES!