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Jeff Tiedrich - this week in stupid: July 5 edition
as another stupid week comes to a close here in America, let’s look back at the dumbest fucking shit that happened.
monday: new Mamdani scandal drops
this week, during a massive heat wave that strained New York’s energy infrastructure, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a perfectly reasonable request: could all New Yorkers please set their air conditioners to 78 degrees, so that NY’s power grid doesn’t overload and, y’know, go all blooey and plunge the city into darkness.
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but because we live in the stupidest timeline imaginable, the worst people in the world completely lost their shit.
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the MAGAverse exploded into a massive display of performative dumbfuckery.
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that’s right, BullyBelleTN isn’t going to let the Communist Dictator of New York tell her what to do.
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/this-week-in-stupid-july-5-edition-9e1