Jan 12, 2023·edited Jan 12, 2023Liked by Clayton Craddock
Mixed feelings on this one. I never was much of a fan of gas appliances myself, and I always felt like whole communities piped for gas were kind of sitting on a bomb waiting to go off, but that's just me. Mostly as a small-house owner doing all my own maintenance I've never regretted going all-electric, as much as anything because it's one less kind of leak to risk being troubled with.
But on this story, as with all things AOC, I saw this coming a few years ago when she was suddenly promoted to Overnight Sensation status for no discernible reason: that it wouldn't be long before she became a boring has-been, pathetically straining to reclaim her purely coincidental glory days by going in search of the next zeitgeist to stumble over.
But with women daily risking beatings, imprisonment, torture and death in Iran just for the right to wear their hair down, and the whole Ukrainian nation and people giving their all to expel the Russian invader and its plundering, raping, scorched-earth ways, I can't say that launching a campaign to ban the American kitchen range exactly shows up as her having the sense of current history.
She's like the Bo Derek of American politics: a few moments in the limelight before everyone begins to notice how ridiculous she really is, and the rest of her career spent not getting it that she's already just SO last decade.
I wonder what the gas companies think of all of this...Hmmm
Mixed feelings on this one. I never was much of a fan of gas appliances myself, and I always felt like whole communities piped for gas were kind of sitting on a bomb waiting to go off, but that's just me. Mostly as a small-house owner doing all my own maintenance I've never regretted going all-electric, as much as anything because it's one less kind of leak to risk being troubled with.
But on this story, as with all things AOC, I saw this coming a few years ago when she was suddenly promoted to Overnight Sensation status for no discernible reason: that it wouldn't be long before she became a boring has-been, pathetically straining to reclaim her purely coincidental glory days by going in search of the next zeitgeist to stumble over.
But with women daily risking beatings, imprisonment, torture and death in Iran just for the right to wear their hair down, and the whole Ukrainian nation and people giving their all to expel the Russian invader and its plundering, raping, scorched-earth ways, I can't say that launching a campaign to ban the American kitchen range exactly shows up as her having the sense of current history.
She's like the Bo Derek of American politics: a few moments in the limelight before everyone begins to notice how ridiculous she really is, and the rest of her career spent not getting it that she's already just SO last decade.