And yet here you are, controlling what women can do with a bun in the oven.
@georgetakei that's some phaser burn Sulu.
@georgetakei And never mind that the CPSC would be well within its authority on this and likely has countless times before with ranges. Hence why they don't tend to explode or electrocute people without some significant help.
@georgetakei What a load of horse shit 🐴 💩
@georgetakei that whole gas stove ban is a lot of hot air.  it is a tentative future change. Not a retroactive recall. 
@georgetakei she makes no sense. Government controls a hell of a lot of things. Why the concern over a stove?
@georgetakei It is amazing. I left #TheOtherSite for good on #Jan6 to escape their insanity, and I have no idea where this insane "government picking your stove" nonsense came from (hell, I wasn't even aware this was even a thing!)
Yet, for some reason, this made-up "controversy" appears to be a HUGE deal on the Right and giving them apoplexy.
Lord, I'm so glad I moved on (b/c clearly, these nutjobs can't.) 🤦♂️
@georgetakei this goes hard
@georgetakei an idiot who weaponizes a safety warning about air pollutants and politically fear-mongers with it does not deserve to be a United States Senator.
@georgetakei how about what books we read, Marsha?
@georgetakei She’s so far behind the dialogue. Bet she protested seat belts.
@georgetakei And they want to tell me I can't at M&Ms
@georgetakei Marsha Blackburn is the textbook definition of an Unctuous Twunt.
The "small government" folks have a huge list of things they'd like to control and don't see the irony. Or don't care.
@georgetakei love this burn!
@georgetakei not to outdone by MO. Let’s spend time on dress code when we can’t keep or hire teachers, fix roads, stop texting and driving….. because controlling women is so important. https://www.npr.org/2023/01/13/1149057491/missouri-house-dress-code-women-cardigan
@georgetakei A government that refuses to stop an ongoing coup obvs does NOT have enough power.
@georgetakei No, they’re right. Screw the government I’m gonna use a nuclear stove, who do think they are to say otherwise.
@georgetakei being full of shit is a long standing tradition for our politicians.
@georgetakei as someone from her state and who also grew up in her old district, we happily don’t claim her. 🙃
@georgetakei
This is a great example of how unbearable consevatives have become. When your platform is wholly determined by marketing teams it's time to retire.
@georgetakei ...never once regretted clicking that "Follow"-Button
@georgetakei
Those who reside among nutjobs become one themselves...
@georgetakei Nonsense. “They’ll have to pry my nuclear oven from my hot dead irradiated hands.” Of course we have to regulate pollutants out of our world if we hope to still have a planet to live on in the future. What a cheap, dishonest politician you must be!!
@georgetakei
It's not really the stoves but the indoor air quality.
The irony impairment is real.
@georgetakei The Right has no agenda besides power so they will use any lever they find, no matter how absurd.
The sad thing is that I have family members who will regurgitate this drivel along the lines of
"AOC and George Soros want to take away my stove and make me eat in communal cafeterias like the Soviets did!"
@georgetakei This gas stove issue is, oh my excuse the pun, another example of gaslighting. Biden ruled out any regulation after the backlash like "If the 'maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands' ", tweeted Republican Ronny Jackson. Biden has to pick his fights. Best to use public relations to inform about the health dangers. Of course there was never a suggestion anyone would confiscate gas stoves. https://abc7ny.com/gas-stove-ban-cpsc-stoves-consumer-product-safety-agency-richard-trumka/12688772/
@georgetakei Ohhh Snap!
@georgetakei Oh how right you are, Mr. Takei.
@georgetakei I'm sorry to say this, but no matter how complex the issue, or how hypocritical our politicians may be, I will always believe this...
IF GEORGE TAKEI LIKES IT, I'll boost it! ❤ 😆
@georgetakei a return to leaded fuel is imminent.
@georgetakei I know it's a tricky subject but think about this.
The government literally controls your life.
Try ending it see what happens
@georgetakei the laughable hypocrisy of Republicans. 🙄
This could be boosted more widely if the screen cap image had an alt-text for people visual accessibility support online. Something like:
"Screen capture of a tweet from AT MarshaBlackburn with the text 'A government that thinks it can control what stove you use is a government with too much power.'"
@georgetakei isn't that exactly how US poisoned generations of children - governments too gutless to say no the lead pipes
@georgetakei
You win the Best Comment on Mastodon Award
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I just post this from @jefftiedrich
@georgetakei
The stove you can use is already controlled by entrenched manufacturer’s interests. Welcome to the corporatocracy.
@georgetakei Marsha Blackburn is a fascist. Period.
I wonder if #marshablackburn will continue to vote for government shutdowns and zero covid aid for the US #citizens.
#republicans have a bad #addiction to attacking the #unitedstates with their #passiveaggressive #vote.
Clueless Marsha, with a degree in Home Economics, loves to scare people, doesn't understand it's for REPLACEMENTS or NEW BUILDS.
@georgetakei Ah, the irony
@georgetakei (repost) The right pulled the exact same bullshit when Obama proposed tightening woodstove emissions. Communities were banning woodstoves because of respiratory problems the smoke caused. In reality manufacturers pushed for it. They wanted stoves that produced lower emissions so they didn't lose those markets. Lots of bed-wetting but no woodstoves were confiscated. Just another way to emotionally rile up the dimwits.
This really happened in my state. Women in the legislature must now dress the way the menfolk tell them to.
@georgetakei I’m so embarrassed to have her as a senator.
@georgetakei the conservative definition of freedom is dumb as fuck.
@georgetakei Hey Marsha Blackburn: mounting scientific evidence points to a link between a higher risk of respiratory problems and gas stoves — the prevalent means of cooking in roughly 47 million American households. Also, natural gas stoves are known to leak and emit methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, and policymakers are moving to ban such stoves in NEW CONSTRUCTION in order to limit global warming. So, your constituents obviously don't matter to you because why?
@marshablackburn And a female senator who believes the government is coming after her stove while supporting the fascists in her party who are denying a woman's right to choose, is a despicable schmuck who disgraces the Senate and the country.
@georgetakei Stovetop issues? What's next in the GOP 's culture wars?
@georgetakei Booyah!
@georgetakei Typical republican hypocrite.
It’s always, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.
@georgetakei
Lol!
It all makes sense through the lens of capitalism.
You can't stop using fossil fuels because they fund our campaigns.
We can't let people have abortions because then there'll be fewer desperate workers for us to exploit in the future.
Remember not only will ending the use of fossil fuels help stabilize the climate, it also hurts tyrants like Putin, Saudi crown prince MbS (Mohammed bin Salman), and the Texas GOP.
@georgetakei
It's misdirection. Distract them with the smaller things so that they don't notice their actual rights being stripped away.
@georgetakei The one and only Mr. Takei. Kaboom.
@georgetakei equally, a government that can't even regulate what types of stove are on the market on the basis of emissions, would be a government with absolutely no power at all.
@georgetakei who gives a crap about stoves, I've used electric in the UK all my life. These people just complain about every tiny thing, I would switch to all electric if locally produced renewables in a heart beat. These people are just tedious
@georgetakei True
@georgetakei instead, offer a financial incentive to make a change.
@georgetakei god she’s such an idiot.
@georgetakei I can only say that a certain Chinese journalist might've had a somewhat accurate idea about her.
@georgetakei I hope she really owns the libs by removing carbon monoxide and smoke detector in her home and her vehicles retrofitted for lap seat belts and no air bags.
@georgetakei Blackburn exists only to be in a constant state of incongruity.
@georgetakei Marsha Blackburn doesn’t have two brain cells working in tandem. IMO
The #opiods queen says what?
@georgetakei As far as I'm concerned, the Senator can get poisoned by poor air quality whenever.
Also, do you think she cooks or looks in the mirror less?
@georgetakei it's the "Merry Christmas" war of January
@georgetakei Blackburn is old enough to have grown up with gas stoves with pilot lights (as were many of us). Those stoves are long gone. Restaurants use gas stoves every day. If anyone is concerned - crack open a window while you're cooking.
@georgetakei the funny thing is we are literally only killing ourselves with gas stoves… yes, they’re fun to cook on but they are more dangerous in so many ways…
@georgetakei As well as what they wear. i.e. Missouri.
@georgetakei It’s the typical small kernel of truth, wrapped in such silly lies that it creates continuous outrage among the believers to keep the anger going. Reminds me of the non-existent war on Christmas.
@georgetakei Marsha’s been teasing her hair for too long. She’s a typical Republican hack.
@georgetakei Likely she is all for putting lead back in gasoline too. You and I are both old enough to remember that. But given her party is all about idiots then perhaps she WOULD BE for it.
@georgetakei The Mo legislation is trying to tell women how to dress.
@georgetakei and what to wear
@georgetakei Wow, the most uninformed are those who want to use a misunderstanding for political theater. You would think she'd know it was a misunderstanding of what the gentleman said and no one wants to take your stove.
@georgetakei you can't stop me from giving my kid asthma!
Repubs actually believe this crap they spew. I worry that we may not be able to fix their special kind of stupid!
@georgetakei she's my senator but don't think much of her.
@georgetakei Marsha Blackburn is an idiot's idiot. Even the idiots shake their head.
@georgetakei I swear, none of these people read. Who the f said they’re taking away gas stoves?
@georgetakei OOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
@georgetakei snap!
@georgetakei
Also, it's not what stove you use; it's what air pollution you put out.
If gas stoves weren't literally so bad that kitchens need industrial exhaust hoods to be OSHA compliant, nobody would care.
@georgetakei it is not so much the stove it is:
1. can you (the homeowner) mitigate the danger to any children in your home who can be harmed
2. what is powering the electric stove you might need to get? Nuclear? fossil fuel? coal? #Biomass carbon ?
even induction stoves rely on electricity and what is the source of that? Fossil Fuels?
@georgetakei But, I guess Sen. Blackburn thinks it's ok to give the government power over women's bodies and women's wardrobes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/12/missouri-women-dress-code-arms-house/
@georgetakei And that is how the mighty knight slayed the dragon’s false indignation with well chosen words.
@georgetakei She should be consistent and fight for arsenic-based cosmetics. Clearly it's "only a little cold", right? 😂
But Marsha after Comcast handed you all that cash you made sure the government controlled who people could buy internet access from.
@georgetakei in Missouri they're controlling what clothing women can wear. Red States are controlling what books you can read and even what subjects you can talk about. They are also preventing people from accessing sex reassignment. #GOP is the party of Government Control of every aspect of your life. They will end Freedom if given a chance.
@georgetakei Says a woman who literally wants to control every aspect of everyone's life & probably gets mad when she sees a joint (safer than gas stoves btw...)
@georgetakei it’s a human child, not a “bun.” Don’t use euphemisms to minimize murder.
@georgetakei A government that can control how you dress yields a government with too much power.
@georgetakei incredible toot
@georgetakei 🤒 🔥
@georgetakei After all , culture wars are all that matters. Next week's a new thing for Foxnews to tout about.
@georgetakei Sorry to be so cynical but I really dislike this woman because of her last name! Despicable!
@georgetakei True dat
@georgetakei I guess some folk forget the govern part of government when it suits them.
@georgetakei or their sleeves
@georgetakei omg, she's a fucking idiot!
@georgetakei nice
@georgetakei Well connected. 👍
@georgetakei Can’t wait to read the pretzel logic arguments to Mr Takei here
@georgetakei Substitute the word "book" for the word "oven" and it then makes sense.
@georgetakei good burn
Well said sir, well said. 👏👏👏👏👏
@georgetakei and a government in which the politicians have a personal stake in the revenues of that particular stove company. In capitalism, the government will as all other governments be controlled by politicos’ personal financial concerns and not by the peoples concerns or votes.
@georgetakei females not women. The word women is exclusive since not all females identify with woman as their gender. Female is the more inclusive term. While not all females identify as women, they are all still prey to patriarchy and the crimes committed by the patriarchy against females.
@georgetakei With the shit that's headed our way in the next few years, what kind of stove you buy is probably going to be the least of anyone's worries.
@georgetakei Republicans love pollution. They are the Toxic party in every way!
@georgetakei @deviantollam Conflating dunking on nazis with fighting fascism is why Tucker Carlson now has an army of loyal followers whereas Jon Stewart is a dude in sweatpants with a podcast.
@georgetakei That’s a perfect analogy George. Laughing as I type this.
@georgetakei more GQP lies
@georgetakei she's a Santos
@georgetakei she is lying anyway, this is like them saying we want to take their guns away, this is what they plan to run with in 2024 😂🤣
@georgetakei Toaster Takei burns again.
@georgetakei I arrived at that conclusion at the voting and uterus involvement 🤬🤬🤬
GOP- Goons On Parade, The Thuggery Party
A government that thinks it can control what history you learn is a government with too much power.
@georgetakei Touché
@georgetakei
They just have the wrong priorities…
@georgetakei They are just feeding their base. They don’t care.
Greetings, George (@georgetakei)!
I have the unpleasant distinction of being one of Marsha Blackburn's constituents. 🙄
As an activist for Human Rights Campaign, <https://www.hrc.org/>, I ask the senator to back legislation because everyone is entitled to equality in marital benefits and the same human rights, treatment, and freedoms (to do what's right).
I must speak out, against bigotry.
"Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination"! Live long and prosper, George! 🖖
Cordially,
David
God Bless @georgetakei!
@georgetakei
The issue is ventilation not banning stoves.
But "conservatives"- who also insist on a right to breathe covid in and to expell their noxious pathogen laced breath on others- also insist on a right to inhale natural gas and its biproducts.
I wonder if they also believe inhaling other folks flatulence in public spaces is a god given right, or in their own right to fart wherever they are...
@georgetakei They all want us under their thumb, unLESS you’re not a rich, white, fundamentalist Christian . 🫤
@georgetakei Good morning Mr. Takei !! My partner and I were so excited to see your reply. We are such huge fans !! At my age AND my poor eyesight, I should prob. not be on the streets, but I feel like that’s where we all need to be !! Us, TRUE Americans, IE: LBGT, Black, Latino, whatever, needs to make SURE that the elec. officials that WE put in office, HEAR our concerns !! They are NOT there to control , they are there to fairly REPRESENT !! Blessings to you Sir 💙🌹🙏🏻👍
@georgetakei. AND government leaders have too much time on their hands if they’re frightened or angry by M&Ms.
GOOD FIND:
@georgetakei 🔥❤️🔥🔥
@georgetakei you are the best!!!