Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Kamala Harris posted a photo of her and her husband, Doug Emhoff, standing in (ostensibly) their kitchen, with the caption: “From our family to yours, happy Thanksgiving.” In the background, sits a casserole dish of stuffing, a tea kettle, and . . .
a gas stove. (*gasp*)
Many conservative outlets swiftly pounced on the comedic hypocrisy of the vice president beaming in front of the appliance, given that she serves as the face of the party that has fought to ban the stove’s continued use and production.
The incident serves as the latest episode in a series of high-profile Democratic leaders living by their own hallowed rule: “For me but not for thee.”
Socialist sweetheart Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received flak for using a gas stove earlier this year. However, my favorite AOC word-dance occurred this past September, when she appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation. The representative from New York — who had been quite vocal about her support of unions and her intention to own a union-made electric vehicle — was asked about her current ownership of a Tesla, a nonunion-made car. AOC’s response? The union-made electric vehicles available on the market didn’t have as high a range as Teslas — a range that she needed for her regular drives from New York to D.C. (She would have taken public transit, of course, had Covid-19 not prohibited her.)
During the pandemic, an unmasked Nancy Pelosi visited a San Francisco hair salon for a wash and blow-out, despite local ordinances keeping salons closed. The owner of the salon, who had been barred from reopening her business for months on end, said the visit felt like a “slap in the face.”
Gavin Newsom couldn’t bear for Pelosi to steal the spotlight, so he attended a fabulous, mask-free dinner party at an expensive French restaurant in Napa, Calif., during the height of 2020 lockdowns. But don’t worry, the event was for a good cause — a birthday dinner in celebration of a beloved Democratic lobbyist.
Along with the nation’s Democratic celebrities, the general swath of global elites have had their fair share of Marie Antoinette moments.
Last year, at least 150 private jets flew into three of the closest airstrips near the headquarters of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The agenda of the conference was largely focused on on environmental issues like climate change and minimizing carbon emissions. Private-jet travel is by far the most carbon-intensive mode of transportation. In 2021, a sum total of 118 separate private jet rides carried leaders from around the world to the COP26 Climate Summit in Scotland, burning over 1,400 tons of carbon dioxide in the process.
The tendency of leaders on the left to promote unrealistic policies that constrict and burden the average person, while treating themselves to more relaxed standards, creates a fire of righteous anger that is not easily quenched.
‘For Me but Not for Thee’: Kamala Harris’s Gas Stove Fits a Pattern
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Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Kamala Harris posted a photo of her and her husband, Doug Emhoff, standing in (ostensibly) their kitchen, with the caption: “From our family to yours, happy Thanksgiving.” In the background, sits a casserole dish of stuffing, a tea kettle, and . . .
a gas stove. (*gasp*)
Many conservative outlets swiftly pounced on the comedic hypocrisy of the vice president beaming in front of the appliance, given that she serves as the face of the party that has fought to ban the stove’s continued use and production.
The incident serves as the latest episode in a series of high-profile Democratic leaders living by their own hallowed rule: “For me but not for thee.”
Socialist sweetheart........
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