Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?
It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally dictates is necessary to melt snow and ice.
But science isn’t enough for some US political critics, however, who have instead blamed Zohran Mamdani, New York’s new socialist mayor, for the snow not having melted and still clogging up some of the city’s streets.
The New York Post, the rightwing tabloid and a frequent Mamdani critic, has led the charge. This week the newspaper claimed that “slushy streets” were “ruining travel for everyone”.
politicians and oligarchs raping children and eating babies while giving away state secrets and money to Israeli and Russian spies
Establishment politicians: …We should just move on.
The snow isn’t melting and it’s inconvenient
Also Establishment politicians: blame socialism with every billionaire backed news organization and launch several expensive sensationalist investigations
Clearly Trump is punishing another blue city by withholding the aid of his weather Sharpie
How cute. It’s almost like we’re back in the Obama era when the most inconsequential of things make a Democratic leader weak in conservative media. It’s really jarring when Mamdani’s news is juxtaposed with Trump’s ICE bullshit, involvement in the Epstein files, threatening other countries with annexation, ruining the economy, etc.
Ah yes, socialism is to blame for… checks notes… snow in New York…
OMG, the right wingers were right. Once Mamdani was elected, the city got filled with snowflakes!
smh
Snow is woke
It is made up of snowflakes so this checks out.
E: I see someone has already pointed this out further down the comments, my bad.
Snow can’t be woke. It’s white.
/s
It will definitely keep your ass woke if you don’t moderate.
They didn’t take this chance to criticize global warming?
Trump did almost immediately…
But that’s only because people who think they understand it but don’t keep saying “global warming” instead of climate change
As long as naive idiots who think they understand keep saying “global warming” you can’t expect the other idiots to understand the problem.
But good luck convincing any of them to stop using the phrase they learned 30 years ago, or to incorporate new information.
In 30 more years they’ll all be acting like boomers because they never actually understood any of this, they’re literally doing the same as boomers and insisting what they were told in he high will always be true
It’s incredibly depressing knowing it’s gonna keep happening.
These deep freezes are literally caused by global warming.
The higher layers of the atmosphere are unusually warm, causing instability in the arctic weather systems which lead to these jet streams escaping the vortex, blasting freezing air way farther south than it usually goes.
I’ve tried explaining this to my conservative family and they just stare at me blankly and nod like they think it’s a cope that doesn’t deserve their attention…
The only benefit of “climate change” over “global warming” is that it does not suggest it will get warmer everywhere, though in turn it fails to communicate that the global annual temperature is steadily increasing.
And worse yet, the change in terminology suggests a retreat from a prior position, allowing denialists to suggest that scientists changed their mind and they are two distinct concepts.
It’s a terminology change not worth arguing about. Global warming causes local climate change, and climate change is just the local effect of global warming.
We should absolutely use whichever term communicates best with the audience we are trying to reach, but mocking someone for the terminology they use is counterproductive and reinforces the fallacy that the ideas are meaningfully different.
The main benefit of rhetorically talking about “climate change” instead of “global warning” is that “climate change” sounds fairly innocuous to the layperson, and can be easily misconstrued as “natural”.
How many conservatives have you heard say something like “of course the climate changes, it happens every day!”
There’s a reason the bush administration pushed the “climate change” narrative so hard.
How DARE Zohran Mamdani NOT control the Weather!
-People who KNOW that Trump has NOTHING to do With this whole Epstein Debacle!
And you absolutely know that if the snow did melt, conservatives would be blaming him for not making the snow stay.
LITERALLY in-group/out-group behavior
How stupid can people be? Don’t they know it’s the Jews that control the weather?
With their space lasers!
Sucks the streets are slushy. Maybe take i dk the metro?
Are you trying to question my sacred right to drive anywhere in my ludicrously oversized emotional support vehicle?
Lol Im stealing this mate
I didn’t come up with that one either.
Aren’t they against cloud seeding?
They’re against anything that it’s currently convenient for them to pretend to be against for the sake of Dear Leader et al.
If they are going to blame Mamdani, they should know that ultimately it will be Trump’s fault. And also God’s.
“Piove, porco governo”
