So yesterday we talked about the fact that m and ms has, uh, gotten rid of their spokes
candies because of Tucker Carlson's hissy fit.
And I mentioned at the end of that segment that don't worry Republicans are gonna move
on to their next outrage any minute now.
And man, would I, uh, was I right Because already now that the m and m deal is settled,
republicans have moved on to freaking out about xboxs because Microsoft and Xbox have
apparently in their words, gone, woke.
Here's what happened.
Xbox Microsoft announced a, uh, new update to Microsoft xboxs.
That's, uh, basically an enhanced power save mode.
That's what it is.
It says you can schedule a time like in the middle of the night when you're not playing
your Xbox for updates to happen.
You can also, instead of it going into sleep mode after 20 minutes, you can make it to
where it just goes into shutdown mode.
And this they say is going to save electricity.
They have a goal of becoming carbon neutral, uh, in the years ahead.
And this is just one of the steps they're taking to say, Hey, let's stop using so much
electricity.
That's it.
And by the way, even if you get the update, you can just turn those settings off and nothing
changes with your Xbox.
So if you don't want those features, you don't have to enable them.
But Republicans don't care about that.
They just need something to be outraged about.
So Ted Cruz led the call and he tweeted this out earlier this week.
First guest stoves, then your coffee.
Now they're gunning for your Xbox.
Ted Cruz said he was immediately followed by other Republican politicians in pundits
who basically said the exact same thing.
Of course, we know the uproar over gas stoves over the last two weeks that was totally fabricated
by Republicans.
Um, but then it crept into Fox News and yesterday they did a whole big segment on Xbox going
woke because they want to save users a little bit money, uh, a little bit of money on their
electricity bills.
So here is Fox News just ranting and raving like lunatics about this new Xbox feature.
Take a look.
That's
All I'm
Saying.
So Xbox has also announced they're going woke two in, you know, because of climate change.
Mm-hmm.
that they're adding a new feature to their default setting.
So if you own an Xbox, yeah, you can upload this new program and it will turn off after
so long to save the environment.
The power Uhhuh .
And also they're saying the energy saving shutdown feature is gonna have a slower boot
time.
Ted Cruz writes on Twitter first gas stoves, then your coffee.
Now you're gunning for my Xbox .
Isn't it crazy though, like when we were kids, you were a rebel.
If you had like a leather jacket and a pack of cigarettes, now you have like a full powered
Xbox and you're eating pizza rolls on a gas stove, .
I mean, it's crazy what they're doing, but we understand what this is.
It's not that it's actually gonna offset emissions, okay?
The level of reduction is infinitesimal, but they're trying to recruit your kids into climate
politics at an earlier age.
Make them climate conscious now.
Yeah, I didn't think of that.
You're right.
They're going after the children.
Of course they are.
But again, what's the point of video games?
It's for kids to be kids.
Now you sit down and pick up a control and they're like, by the way, the world's on fire.
Ah, you know what I mean?
You just wanna play the game.
You know, I love how that segment ends with that one guy.
I don't even know who he is, but he's talking about like, kid, you know, kids should just
be able to play video games.
They just want to do that and have fun and it's fine for them, dude, you are on a network
that anytime there is a, uh, you know, shooting in this country, that network is the first
one to say it's the video games.
And now here y'all have to be on that same network defending video games saying kids
just want some, some fun time.
They just wanna play their little video games and move on with life.
So which is it?
Huh?
Are video games this woke, uh, tool used to indoctrinate children into climate science?
Or is it this horrible thing that is sponsoring or, or, or inspiring kids to go out there
and commit atrocities?
Or as you say, is it just a fun escape for kids Who knows?
Because at any given second Fox News is gonna have a different take on what the Xbox actually
is.
But here's the thing, in terms of combating climate change, that Fox guest was right?
Yeah, this isn't gonna do much, but you know what it will do?
It will save users their equipment because leaving that thing running, I don't know if
you have an Xbox or ever had those things can get pretty hot pretty quick.
Those fans will run all the time.
You do run the risk of overheating it if you just leave it on.
So yeah, having it power down is probably a very good thing to extend the life of the
Xbox.
Secondly, electricity rates across the country are skyrocketing now.
So having a device that turns itself off and stops pulling electricity, that sounds like
a win for consumers.
Y'all are out there about Xbox, making this to where, oh, they're gone woke with climate
change.
They're actually saving their users money is what they're doing.
And y'all are the first ones to say, oh, the economy's so bad, people are getting crushed
by inflation.
Yeah.
So shouldn't y'all get behind this effort by Xbox to save their users' money?
Nothing at Fox News makes sense.
Nothing that Ted Cruz tweets makes sense.
And that's exactly how Republicans operate because they don't even really know why they're
mad.
They just know that they get a lot more clicks and hits when they act like they're mad about
something.