Identity Politics And Your Gas Stove

Society just enjoyed a textbook example of Totalist thought control. It might actually be in a textbook some day.

US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears

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By Ari Natter, 9 January 2023

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission will move to regulate gas stoves as new research links them to childhood asthma.

A federal agency says a ban on gas stoves is on the table amid rising concern about harmful indoor air pollutants emitted by the appliances.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission plans to take action to address the pollution, which can cause health and respiratory problems.

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D’oh! I can’t cite more of the official article that started this mess. This alternative will give us the highlights:

Federal consumer official calls gas stove usage a “hidden hazard”; Agency proposes ban

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By CNN, 11 January 2023

(CNN) — A federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves, a source of indoor pollution linked to childhood asthma.

In an interview with Bloomberg, a US Consumer Product Safety commissioner said gas stove usage is a “hidden hazard.”

“Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned,” agency commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg. The report said the agency plans “to take action” to address the indoor pollution caused by stoves.

A December 2022 study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health found that indoor gas stove usage is associated with an increased risk of current asthma among children. The study found that almost 13% of current childhood asthma in the US is attributable to gas stove use.

Obvious lies are obvious.

1. Children don’t play around gas stoves.
2. Instead of considering ventilation requirements that already exist, Trumka went straight for a ban.
3. The study comes for a clearinghouse called Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, which is notorious for publishing any so-called scientific study that’s willing to pay cash up front. An inevitable product of “publish or perish” academic standards. Link for the curious; even Wikipedia is savage on them!

And #4:

“Short-term exposure to NO2 is linked to worsening asthma in children, and long-term exposure has been determined to likely cause the development of asthma,” a group of lawmakers said in a letter to chair Alexander Hoehn-Saric, adding it can also exacerbate cardiovascular illnesses.

The letter — Sen. Corey Booker and Sen. Elizabeth Warren among its signers — argued that Black, Latino, and low-income households are more likely to be affected by these adverse reactions, because they are either more likely to live near a waste incinerator or coal ash site or are in a home with poor ventilation.

When science only victimizes not-white-Christian-men, it ain’t science.

I’ve worked on low-income housing projects as well as in the barrios. If there’s too much gunk in their air, it’s because the locals refuse to clean up the dog & chicken feces.

And #5, Trumka went straight to gaslighting:

Trumka told Bloomberg the agency plans to open public comment on gas stove hazards. Options besides a ban include “setting standards on emissions from the appliances.”

In a statement to CNN, the CPSC said the agency has not proposed any regulatory action on gas stoves at this time, and any regulatory action would “involve a lengthy process.”

Of course Trumka didn’t PROPOSE any regulatory action. He’s TAKING regulatory action right here.

Richard Trumka, JUNIOR is a child of lies. Literally. Here’s Daddy’s obituary:

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Academy Member Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO, passed away this week [August 2021].

When elected as Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO in 1995, he was President of the United Mine Workers of America. He became AFL-CIO President in 2009.

Richard Trumka was a member of President Clinton’s Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform. He served as Chairman of the Economic Policy Institute’s Board of Directors and on the executive boards of the American Arbitration Association, the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust, and the Alliance for Retired Americans.

A Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance since 1998, Richard Trumka co-chaired the 2016 Robert M. Ball Award Event Committee honoring William Spriggs, the AFL-CIO’s Chief Economist. In his remarks at the event, Trumka praised Bill Spriggs for “his passion, his courage, and his convincing scholarship,” especially in defending Social Security and Medicare.

In 2014, Trumka wrote in response to the issuance of that year’s Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports – “strengthening Social Security for the future must include improvements in benefits.” He added: “Social Security remains the sole retirement income plan that is broadly available and that Americans can count on to provide secure lifetime benefits.”

Trumka Sr took away everybody’s retirement except for what’s government-approved.

Trumka Jr tried to take away everybody’s fuel except for what’s government-approved. Like father, like son!

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Naturally, Normal America freaked. This is typical:

Gov. Hochul, Democrats, if you mess with my gas stove, you’ll get burned

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Opinion By Deroy Murdock, 16 January 2023

I support a woman’s right to choose whether to cook on a gas stove.

Too bad allegedly “pro-choice” Democrats disagree.

Preventing women (and men) from using natural gas has become all the rage among today’s totalitarian Democrats. Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. just proposed to ban gas stoves.

Gov. Kathy “The Hack” Hochul, D-N.Y., wants to prohibit gas stoves, heaters and hookups to small buildings by 2025, with larger structures to follow. Leftist autocrats are killing pipelines and otherwise restricting gas in some 77 cities across America.

How did she know that gas stoves caused childhood asthma? The study hadn’t been released yet!

President Joe Biden leapt from this speeding bandwagon on Wednesday – for now.

Such unlimited government interference is unnecessary, boneheaded and none of these Democrats’ bloody business.

Moreover, this is dangerous.

Mandated electric stoves and heaters are merely tyrannical – until the power dies. Then stomachs growl while people shiver or schvitz inside blackened homes.

Natural gas is a second energy source during outages. I learned this lesson during October 2012’s Hurricane Sandy…

These Leftists don’t give a damn about everyday Americans. We are not sentient human beings worthy of their respect. Rather, we are revenue-generating blobs of protoplasm that they can boss around, as if we were pets. Barking orders is their favorite indoor activity. And if total control buys them a holier spot in Climatarian Heaven, even better.

Well said, Mr. Murdock… but why did you mansplain to people that you admitted in your next breath, do not consider you a sentient human being worthy of their respect? You don’t debate people like that. You fight people like that.

The Bidenreich was quick to retreat:

Classic deception. “I’m not trying to ban your stoves. I’m trying to ban your stoves soon. Ask me about my stove-buyback program!”

He backpedaled within 24 hours. This story should end here, right? Trumka fucked around, found out, backed off, nothing more to see?

I Hate to Say It, but We Should Ban Gas Stoves

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By Molly Taft for Gizmodo, 18 January 2023

I have something to admit: I’m not a fan of induction ranges.

I know, I know, a climate reporter not being totally sold on electric stoves. It’s actually due entirely to the limits of my own personal experience. My parents installed an electric range in their kitchen a few years ago, and the thing sucks. It’s got a touch pad to increase the heat settings that’s glitchy as all hell, and I haven’t gotten the hang of how to properly sauté stuff on it.

And yet, I’m going to attempt to convince you—and myself—that we should do what Republicans have spent the better part of two weeks fearmongering about. The U.S. should ban gas stoves.

She didn’t just shoot herself in the foot. She took aim and winced before pulling that trigger.

Gas stoves are one of those things where, the more you learn about them, the freakier they become. When you think about it, it’s kind of wild that we’ve all accepted the idea that it’s normal to have an appliance that actively spews fossil fuels inside our homes (and one that occasionally leads to deadly explosions at that). There’s a mounting body of evidence that these appliances are, in fact, extremely bad for our health. Gas stoves are big sources of nitrogen dioxide, which damages the respiratory system. They also leak benzene, a chemical known to cause cancer. Just last month, a study found that gas stoves could be linked to one in eight cases of childhood asthma in the U.S. That all seems like a high price to pay for the pleasure of cooking on a gas range.

And all this is before we even get into the climate stuff.

No sale, Molly Trollop. This has EVERYTHING to do with Climate Change Agenda. Ask a Dutch farmer about ‘harmful emissions’ like nitrogen.

But I appreciate her opening honesty.

Molly watched Bidenreich try and fail to ban gas stoves. She gets to keep her gas stove, that she admittedly prefers to electric, for zero effort.

But instead, she advocated for a policy THAT SHE DOESN’T EVEN WANT AND HAS ALREADY BEEN FORMALLY REJECTED. And she is typical of the Climate Change cult followers & mouthpieces currently demanding what the cult leaders already decided against.

What is going on here?

Answer: They hate you.

THEY HATE YOU.

If they didn’t champion Trumka’s stove banning then you would win. It’s that simple.

The cult leader (here, Trumka) tried to advance the Agenda towards Utopia. If he encounters no opposition then he wins.

If he DOES encounter opposition then he plays the victim. The cult followers see their leader being attacked by the Bad People. They swarm to support him. Cult leaders wins.

Cult leader can’t lose whether he’s opposed or not.

This is the consequence of identity politics. Outsider=Bad Person even if Outsider happens to be correct or useful. It’s like…

It’s like watching Israelis poison themselves and their children with the clot shot while proudly denying Palestinians the chance. I always wondered why they took up the vexx so completely. Letting their American cousins poison the goyim for a quick dollar is one thing; trusting the same death merchants enough to take the vexx  themselves en masse was quite another.

It was identity politics that did that. The outsiders claim it’s toxic! They MUST be wrong! We must have UNITY! jab jab jab uh-oh.

If Trumka had asked Molly her opinion… y’know, Dumbocracy-like… she would have told him not to ban gas stoves. She liked hers, she never got asthma and being Leftist, she doesn’t even have kids in the house. But she signed on to gas stove-banning because a Fox News goon disrespected her Dear Leader.

They hate you so much, they’d rather suffer than admit you’re right just this one single time.

So then, how DO we defeat the cult leader? If his agenda wins whether we oppose him or not? Answer: stop caring about his agenda. It’s just a package of lies. This is not about government. This is not about energy policy.

This is about THEY HATE YOU.

The Republicans who have come out against stove-banning, they need to file criminal charges against Trumka for anything that will stick. Remove him from office on any pretext. The political is now the personal. Trumka wants humanity reduced to livestock status, barely alive enough to continue suffering, while he smugly chews on lobster from a private jet.

Do not try to reason with that. It is not reasonable. It is Evil.

Why is everybody in a position to defend the innocent a clown, plant or geriatric? And I do mean EVERYBODY. Humans are not naturally this unified.