The Newest Biden Scare Tactic: It's A Gas, Gas, Gas!

You'll only take my gas stove from my cold, dead oven mitts.

Justin Baragona, The Daily Beast, January 11, 2023:

What are we outraged about today, folks?

Fresh off of their most recent faux-rage news cycles about a pregnant Joker and “woke” M&Ms, Fox News found something else to be spitting mad about this week: A scandalous photo [from September 2020] of First Lady Jill Biden using a gas stove.

Here’s the earth-shattering tweet:

Dr. Jill Biden @DrBiden

Hey @antoni, what are you cooking tonight?

Wednesday is Day 3 of “Biden’s Jackbooted Socialist Thugs Are Going To Invade Your House And Run Off With Your Gas Stove”.

Fox has been busy:

Michael Hobbes @RottenInDenmark

We keep having these conservative meltdowns without any consideration of the facts. Literally no one ever proposed forcibly replacing existing gas stoves.

Rebecca Leber: @RebLeber@journa.host @rebleber

hello old friend https://t.co/JvL1l9jvkA

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona

Fox News is now kicking off an outrage cycle over Jill Biden using a gas stove back in 2020 because the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is now weighing a possible ban on gas hookups and stoves due to asthma and air pollution risks.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona

Keep running running and running running

Mercedes Schlapp @mercedesschlapp

I’m keeping my gas stove.

Rep. Diana Harshbarger @RepHarshbarger

The federal government should never be powerful enough to come after your kitchen appliances.

Ronny Jackson @RonnyJacksonTX

I’ll NEVER give up my gas stove. If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands. COME AND TAKE IT!!

Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich

@RonnyJacksonTX first they came for Ronny Jackson's stove, and I didn't speak out— because no one is coming for your stove, you pill-pushing day-drunk performative-nonsense buffoon

Matthew Gertz @MattGertz

Keep seeing conservatives circulating this tweet for various purposes -- it strikes me as AOC making a deadpan joke about the congressman who offered the absurdly overwrought tweet to which she is responding.

Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen

A government that has the ability to outlaw your gas stove is a government that needs to be brought down to size.

Lavern Spicer 🇺🇸 @lavern_spicer

I’m going to be keeping my gas stove no matter what Joe Biden says.

Senator Joe Manchin @Sen_JoeManchin

This is a recipe for disaster. The federal government has no business telling American families how to cook their dinner. I can tell you the last thing that would ever leave my house is the gas stove that we cook on.

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Kevin M. Kruse @KevinMKruse

It took me a bit, but I think Ted Cruz is trying to call the First Lady a hypocrite because she used a gas stove in 2020 and now — more than two years later — a federal agency is warning that they’re dangerous? Is that actually it? Is it really that goddamn dumb?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

they're taking this gas stoves thing hard

Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 @RonFilipkowski

First they came and confiscated my kid’s Dr. Seuss books. Then they arrested his mom for speaking at a School Board meeting. They they tried to put Fentanyl in his Halloween candy. Then his teacher tried to convince him to become trans. Now they want to take my gas stove. MAGA!!! https://t.co/uY3jUrXmnc

Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 @RonFilipkowski

Republicans: “Biden is going to take away your gas stoves! This is crazy! Send me money to fight this radical left agenda!” Admin: “This is crazy, we aren’t doing that.” Republicans: “I stopped them! I defeated the Woke Left again. Send me more money!”

lauren @NotABigJerk

the gas stove thing is making me try to figure out what the smallest, dumbest, most pointless culture war we've done as a country was. lightbulbs were up there, nikes were up there, but i think the seuss estate stopping publication of a few books no one was buying them was my #1

Rolling Stone @RollingStone

Conservatives are pushing the false narrative that government agents are going to come into your home and rip apart your kitchen.

trib.alNo, The Government Is Not Seizing Your Gas StoveRepublicans want you to believe that President Biden wants to break into your house and disconnect your gas main. He, of course, does not

All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris

.@chrislhayes: No, the woke mob is not coming for your gas stove.

Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 @RonFilipkowski

And my gay husband.

Many comments alluded to this story:

Her attempt to just tweet right on through her husband’s groping scandal is quite the thing to behold. I have the funniest feeling this ain’t the first time and won’t be the last time she’s pretended to ignore these kinds of allegations.

I’m thinking your gas stove can’t be your biggest issue right now. But great attempt at distraction.

Let’s just say Matt’s not gonna be caught in that Mercedes anytime soon.

“Gas” is code for second home in the divorce

I like this stove movement, but what do they do when the gas is shut off? Pray for miracle gas?

Everyone, let’s all turn our gas stoves on before bed to own the libs!

Finally:

Austin Patrick Bishop 🇺🇸 @austinbishop

Hello @GretaThunberg I have 33 gas stoves. My Viking Tuscany Series has over 20,000 BTU’s My TWO AGA R7’s have 11 burners. This is just the start. Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my collection and their respective enormous emissions.