That’s a fact, jack.
New York City is baking under a brutal heat wave, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s answer was not more power, it was less use of the power you already pay for.
The self-described socialist mayor took to X and asked New Yorkers to set their thermostats to 78 degrees, shut off lights and electronics, and unplug what they can, so the grid does not buckle under demand.
To be fair, it is a request, not a rule. Nobody gets arrested for running their AC at 68. But listen to how the mayor framed it. City buildings are already locked to 78 degrees. Private partners are being asked to fall in line. Nonessential equipment is being powered down by City Hall itself.
That is the pattern. When socialism does not have the votes or the legal authority to force compliance, it leans on moral pressure instead. New Yorkers are being told that keeping their own homes livable in triple digit heat is somehow selfish, unless they voluntarily suffer a little for the common good.
Conservatives from Ted Cruz to Nikki Haley to Vivek Ramaswamy piled on within hours, and even a City Council Republican, Vickie Paladino, warned this is exactly how it starts. First the suggestion, then the shaming, then the higher prices, then the regulation. Europe already lived this story.
The Founders built a government meant to secure liberty, not manage a thermostat. The Federalist Papers warned again and again about power that grows through small, reasonable sounding steps. A polite request today has a way of becoming policy tomorrow, especially from a mayor who just days earlier called socialism the future of his party.
New Yorkers do not need a mayor micromanaging their comfort. They need a grid that can handle a hot summer without asking citizens to sweat for the cause. – Federalist Papers
Just a reminder of what she was saying then. A very accurate statement.
Dear socialists,
When you get a minute, and that shouldn’t be hard considering most of you don’t have jobs, pop in to South Florida and find a Cuban cafe. Make sure to tell everyone there sipping their coffee how great socialism is.
Let us know how it goes.
Thanks!
The democrats hypocrisy is legendary! They would destroy America for power!
And now the Democrat Party machine is backing the guy who had an actual NAZI tattoo, a real Nazi, proving once again that the evil things which they accuse the other side of being is what they, themselves actually are.
The Socialist Bernie Sanders stands shoulder to shoulder with his soul-brother, the scandal-ridden Graham Platner.
We do have to be careful about hitting liberals with the truth as it makes them crazy … wait, they’re already not in their right mind … nevermind.
“Among the people appointed as czars by President Obama have been people who have praised enemy dictators like Mao, or who have seen the public schools as places to promote sexual practices contrary to the values of most Americans, to a captive audience of children.
Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those people more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point completely. Why should we assume that Barack Obama didn’t know what such people were like, when he has been associating with precisely these kinds of people for decades before he reached the White House?
Nothing is more consistent with his lifelong patterns than putting such people in government—people who reject American values, resent Americans in general and successful Americans in particular, as well as resenting America’s influence in the world.”
~ Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays (2010)
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NOBODY IS TELLING YOU THE REAL STORY OF THE SCOTUS VOTING RIGHTS RULING
Yes, the Court ruled 6-3.
Yes, race-based districting is now unconstitutional.
Yes, Louisiana’s map got thrown out.
But here’s the part everyone is missing:
Democrats don’t have a House majority without those court-ordered maps.
→ A dozen of their current seats sit in districts that only exist because federal courts FORCED states to draw them
→ Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina — every one has at least one Democrat seat in a court-created black-majority district
→ Their House margin is FOUR seats
→ SCOTUS just made 12 of their 213 seats legally redrawable
→ Republican-led legislatures don’t need new voters — they need a redistricting committee and a Tuesday afternoon
If race-based districts are unconstitutional, then Louisiana redraws.
If Louisiana redraws, then Alabama redraws.
If Alabama redraws, then every Southern state redraws.
If every Southern state redraws, the Democrat House majority was a 60-year courtroom artifact — not an election result.
That’s what nobody is saying out loud.
The 2026 midterms were just decided 6-3 — six months before Election Day.
if you’re not following me you’re finding out about this 48 hours late from someone who read my post..Ronald Carter
Wake up woke ones, this is not going to end well for you.
