rant · moment 3 of 20
Mamdani's 78-Degree Thermostat and Freezing Out of Spite
from Celebrating 250 Years: A Very Special Episode | The Tim Dillon Show #502 · #502
4 min
Riffing on Zohran Mamdani's proposal to set air conditioning to 78 degrees, Tim describes the American solution of publicly agreeing while secretly cranking the AC as cold as possible out of spite, extending the bit to a shivering kitten and imaginary dying hospital patients he'd ignore.
- Mom Donnie's 78-degree thermostat order sparks political divide, with supporters calling it shared sacrifice and critics calling it communism.
- The real American solution: publicly support the mandate while secretly running your air conditioning as cold as possible.
- Tim keeps his house freezing despite his shivering kitten asking why it's so cold, making the point that Americans deserve comfort.
- Babies in incubators and elderly people in nursing homes dying from heat—Tim refuses to budge on the thermostat anyway.
- Even if Mom Donnie called personally saying his own family members were minutes from death, Tim would decline and say he's getting another call.
- This spite-driven refusal to adjust the thermostat is what America has become, despite what people might claim to believe.
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