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It’s likely Ted Cruz trying to find some woke shit to dig in on, since he’s jealous of how successful being the “anti-woke white knight” has gone for DeSantis. I mean shit, anti-woke is literally the core of DeSantis appeal right now for the GOP. Ted is foaming at the mouth to be more liked by the base.
hIghER ELEcTrIC biLL = FrEEDUmB! >

I never understood this. For 75 years, the quintessential manly frugal American dad was stereotyped by always being near the thermostat, putting it as low as possible, shutting off lights when people leave the room. That's what responsible, manly fatherhood meant.
If you try to do it on a nationwide scale, now it's some pansy weak liberal thing. >

Republican talking points don’t have to make sense, just cause outrage. >

Or in the case of Texas, cause outage. >

Bonuses for outage, outrage, and number of kills 🤣 >

Fellas is it woke to be energy efficient >

I just spent $9,000 on electricity last month, suck on that libs! >

People were doing this after the gas stove thing. I was just thinking how terrible their bill is going to be. Sucks to suck. >

And then they’ll literally blame Biden for it, because not understanding cause and effect is their superpower. >

“The libs made me rack up huge personal utility bills in order to own them from afar in ways they will never hear about!”
Remember kids, stupidity is a viable occupation now, but the health risks are significant. >

Things conservatives have done to own the libs:
- left gas stove on all day.
- destroyed their TVs, Nike shoes, and Keurig coffee makers.
- drank their own urine.
- buy huge, fuel inefficient trucks and then drive them like clowns to burn as much gas as possible, which they claim somehow supports coal mining.
- outed themselves to their employers as racists, homophobes, and neo-nazis (and been fired for it)
- outed their business as catering to racists, homophobes, and neo-nazis (and gone out of business for it)
- given their money to professional grifters like Trump, Ben Shapiro (hi benshapirobot!), Steve Bannon, Kyle Rittenhouse, and Jordan Peterson (why isn't there a JordanPetersonBot?).
- died of Covid.
- died of other easily preventable diseases for which vaccines have existed for decades.
- Gotten arrested for seditious conspiracy and gone to jail for years.
- alienated their entire family. >

This. List. Is. Accurate.
We should be embarrassed as a Nation. >

I've been embarrassed for a long time now. >

Same here. Easily for a decade if not longer. >

People who think energy efficiency is 'woke' are the same people who think that health and safety legislation is 'political correctness gone mad'. >

The Culture War Industrial Complex (aka the Moral Panic Industrial Complex)is the propaganda arm of international right wing political machinery. it's the same one as canada, USA, austrailia, france, italy, brazil, hungary, russia, UK, etc. 
the media grifters and shit stirrers dont believe any of what they say. theyre acting.
their base and the viewers, they are true fanatical believers. they greedily devour every morsel and crumb of grievance, fear, hatred, insecurity, and outrage. then they wait, passive and inert, for Tucker to spoon feed them their next dose of manufactured grievance.
none of their bullshit makes sense to normal people. none of it results in tangible material improvements to anyone's life--it hurts people and curtails rights, but it doesnt provide benefits. because it isnt supposed to make sense or improve. it's meant to provoke and distract from meaningful policy changes that would improve Americans' lives and upset the fragile capital owner class.
the supposedly left democratic party, MSNBC, CNN, etc ALSO play their part in distracting and sensationalizing. they dont want to talk unions, general strikes, and wages any more than Tucker does. the democratic party at least has a few good pieces, a future, and a plan. They can be redeemed and retooled for a second progressive era. The GOP otoh, is a rotten decaying corpse representing outdated modes of thinking that benefitted the ruling class only, >

Becoming more energy efficient is woke?  These conservatives are card carrying idiots. >

So gracious of them to wear MAGA hats and t-shirts so that we can stay tf away from these idiots. >

Yes!! And I love it when a business advertises its Maga credentials making it extra easy to take my business elsewhere and deprive them of my precious dollars. Fuck them and their idiocracy >

There are businesses that do that? >

Yeah lol I live in a red county of a blue state and there's quite a few places whose signage makes it clear they love the maga. >

Hell I saw a Trump sign in front of an auto shop in California. >

California has plenty of deeply red areas. California had more people vote for Trump than any other state in 2020, it's just that those Trump voters were dwarfed by all the people who voted for Biden. >

Yep I know. I suppose my point was, even though it'd be potentially unprofitable and deter many customers, they still opt to advertise their ideology sometimes. >

Fun thing is, that shop might lose customers but it's unlikely to be firebombed. The guy I saw driving through a a red town in the red section of a blue state, that had a giant decal on the back declaring 'Black Lives Matter (But Cop Lives Don't)'? He probably dead. >

They were forced to define "woke" in court >

Per the linked article, their definition is that "woke" is an acknowledgement of social injustices in America.  But, they deny any such injustices exist which is why "woke" must be stopped.  God I hate these people. >

You left out an important bit from their definition: “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”
It's only woke if you can recognize the injustices in American society AND think they're a problem. >

I make it a point to let them know what they perceive to be rampant election fraud and voter fraud falls under that definition. >


I make it a point to let them know what they perceive to be rampant election fraud and voter fraud falls under that definition.

Don't forget they also believe in systemic racism in the form of considering race in a college application
edit: and a systemic anti-male bias in the media >

Oh no! It turns off when I'm not using it and saves me money! HERESEY! >

Let’s be clear here, it’s an energy saver option that can be disabled. >

Fair to be accurate... but pedantic since I'm not exactly writing a news article here. I'm making fun of their reactions with hyperbole.
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I mean... even if it turned off, it's still silly. Something turning off when you turn it off? Whaaaaaaat? >

Oh yeah, I didn’t mean to be pedantic :) I just wanted to point out the extra ridiculousness of a setting being flipped. >

Fair! PArdon my defensiveness then. It's the internet and the shields are reactive on this ship, lol. >

Oh I totally get that! >

Conservatives don't want to conserve energy. Or their own money to pay their power bills. Or the environment, but I guess that should be obvious by now.
I was ready to call this dumb clickbait generated by anonymous twitterers, but Ted Cruz himself has jumped into this nonsense. On one level, it's just Republicans stirring the pot of the culture wars. On another, it's astounding that anyone with a brain supports these hypocrites. >

Republican policies aren't even popular with Republican voters. Culture war bullshit is all they have. So of course they jump to join in at any opportunity. >

Conservatives confuse me.  How can they care and not care about electric usage at the same time? 

We cannot have electric cars because we will overload the grid.    
vs,  
Why worry about energy efficiency as we are not going to overload the grid. >

90% of their beliefs are self-conflicting, but if they had the cognitive reasoning skills to deduce that we wouldn't be here in the first place. >

Thanks holy bible for being riddled with contradictions over centuries of culture. 
Someone oughta rewrite the thing from scratch so it makes sense and isn't as replete with contradictions. >

Then it wouldn't have power anymore. It's power comes from the fact that it's a contradictory text that primes people to  
A= accept illogical contradictions  
B= base their lives on beliefs without evidence, aka faith  
C= hold moral absolutist views that are sacred and can not be compromised on, and that are always "supremely right"    
With those 3 elements you can get people to believe and do anything. >

Also Woke? Turning off light switches, closing your refrigerator door, turning your heat off when your AC is on, closing your front or back door, turning off any water faucets in your home, closing your windows.  You do any of these and you're so woke you are probably Trans-BLM-Antifa-Gaying-Up-The-Children-Groomer. >

The GQP are just such fragile snowflakes that an option to do something to help conserve electricity triggers them, truly ironic considering they're called "conservatives" but here we are.
*Edit: typo >

If they were conservatives, they'd be trying to maintain the status quo, not taking the status quo and ripping it to pieces.  These are regressives, not conservatives.  They'd turn America into a theocracy and punish anyone for pushing against them, for no other reason than the fact that they're perceived to be against them.  
Everyone else needs to not give leeway to such fools.  If they don't like XBox, they can choose not to buy one, that's within their right.  Beyond that is sheer ignorance and anti-intellectualism. >


These are regressives, not conservatives.

This is a good distinction.  You can see it in slogans like "Make America Great Again" -- when you ask them when the "again" was, you never get answers.  Just vague handwaving.
So let's extrapolate.  For many of the Boomers who might be saying that (and I just miss the cutoff on that group), it's 1946 - 1964 ... where America was the only world power left largely in-tact after WWII.  If you were born into such an economic boom economy during those times, of course you're going to think things were great!
But you know what else we had in 1946 - 1964?  Well, on the plus side - much higher tax rates.  Much higher union membership.  
But on the negative side - oh, those darker-skinned folks?  They can use a separate bus, water fountain, pool, etc. (and god forbid any of them want to marry any of the white folks).  Oh, and feel free to dump all your manufacturing waste into the Cuyahoga River, who cares if it catches fire (a dozen times).
So honestly, there wasn't anything "great" about it, and some of the things liberals would say were great (higher taxes / union membership) they definitely don't want.
So you're right, "regressive" is a better term. >


Oh, and feel free to dump all your manufacturing waste into the Cuyahoga River, who cares if it catches fire (a dozen times)

The Cuyahoga river is clean-ish again, no thanks to these morons.  It's home to a lot of birds and mammals now, and you can go boating and kayaking on it without your skin peeling off if water gets on it. I still wouldn't exactly drink the water though. >

So anyone attempting ANYTHING to possibly make things more energy efficient, inclusive, approachable etc is woke?  Boy, living in the hate infested bubble sucks so hard.  Pretty soon all they'll have is shopping on alexjone.com and eating survival meals while burning their weekly ration of petroleum. >

Letting all my batteries die to own the libs! >

There was an opening in the fake outrage calendar between Sunday night and Monday afternoon and this is what they found to fill it. >

They’re getting dumber. >

For them it's not a bug, but a feature >

Lol, conservatives. Some day, people will realize conservative is just another word for “selfish” and people who claim to be conservative will be ostracized. 
We live in a society. You can’t be selfish in a society. Doesn’t work. >

I’m convinced that anything objectively good is considered woke and that conservatives will hate it. Cruelty is the point. Saving money on energy bills? That’s a woke paddling for you. >

Thats not even cruelty, its just fucking stupid. >

They're so against being woke, they don't set an alarm in the morning. >

I still don’t understand their problem with it?