Such happy little authoritative Malthusians.
The living, breathing adherents and practitioners of the ideology are particularly interesting in localities and states where, for some reason known only to God, they’ve managed to accrue power and wield it with a fierce, unmerciful intensity over their increasingly helpless peasant flock.
Conditions are especially egregious in states like Michigan or California, where the baser dictatorial impulses of the petty tyrants elected by duped, compliant, or seriously demented voters are enabled by toady legislatures codifying edicts that wouldn’t even be broached in saner states.
Everyone’s on the latest cult bandwagon, cost be damned, and who needs stinkin’ inherent natural rights when the progressives are on a regulatory rampage?
For instance, Coloradans as a whole now get to foot the bill for transforming the homeliest of men into the woman of his deviant dreams.
Wow. @GovofCO just signed a bill forcing all of us to pay for elective transgender-affirming procedures… this bill even includes a slush fund to circumvent Medicaid no longer covering this.
Women of CO: you will all now be paying for men’s breast implants, laser hair removal… https://t.co/Xpws2T5SwW
— Erin for Parental Rights (@Erin4Parents) May 23, 2025
Wave a magic wand and disenfranchise every normal voter who doesn’t believe in your fantasy world, and then force them to subsidize the ongoing mental illness of others.
These progressive governments have that power.
Everyone was like “the Democrats will have to moderate on this issue, it’s an 80-20 issue, they can’t fight public opinion forever.”
No, they will literally mandate every public accommodation in the state must use the preferred pronoun of anyone claiming a cross-sex identity,… https://t.co/uXGMpLcmv1
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) May 25, 2025
In Massachusetts, what used to be considered the home of the American Revolution, that fighting spirit has lately been gradually whittled away by repeated, repressive Democratic governors, each a smidge more loony than the last.
The latest is Maura Healey, a climate cultist of the first order, who has committed her state to living in the Dark Ages in a fast and furious rush to decommission as much fossil-fuel, reliable, base power generation as she can in favor of unstable, unreliable, and extraordinarily expensive renewables.
The push is on to switch every MA home over to electrical utility appliances, but the state is in no shape to support it. And when consumers bite on the sales pitch, they wind up getting bit themselves.
Massachusetts is pushing homeowners to switch from oil or gas heat to electric heat pumps, but several people who have made that switch said they have buyer’s remorse.
They said they were shocked at how expensive it was this winter to heat their homes with electricity and believe the state should have done more to lower the cost sooner, especially if it wants everyone to adopt electric heat pumps.
Laura and Joe Stephens could not believe their electric bills this winter. It was the first season after they scrapped their old furnace for a new air source electric heat pump that is supposed to be highly efficient.
“It’s unaffordable,” Laura Stephens said. “I thoroughly regret it.“
Enticed by a rebate from Mass Save — the state’s energy efficiency program — and facing an aging natural gas furnace, the Stephenses thought they were going green and would save some green by installing the heat pump.
What does the state care if you can ‘afford it’ or not?
That’s not their problem. Gov Healey wants the state to be all-electric, period.
Sometimes other states and even the federal government do get in the way, which is what recently happened with MA’s mandated switch to EVs statewide.
The state was going to start enforcing an expanding EV sales quota on auto manufacturers in 2026. That would gradually have increased to a total ban on gasoline-powered car sales in the state by 2035. However, the U.S. Senate’s recent action blocking the EV mandate, which was part of a Green death pact with California and ten other states, has forced Massachusetts to push back its timeline by a year or two.
The internal combustion engine (ICE) and freedom of choice have a brief reprieve. Gov Healey framed it as her magnanimity allowing the pause.
One day after the U.S. Senate blocked California’s plan to phase out gas-powered cars by 2035, Massachusetts is pausing enforcement of its own electric vehicle requirements, which were supposed to start next year.
Massachusetts is one of 11 states that followed California’s lead and plan to ban new gas-powered cars by 2035.
As part of that plan, the state will require manufacturers to sell an increasing number of EVs each model year, which was supposed to start in 2026.
On Friday, Gov. Maura Healey announced the state Department of Environmental Protection will not enforce those requirements in 2026 and 2027, giving manufacturers more time to come into compliance.
I believe they are going to try to ride Trump out.
In the meantime, being foiled by a Republican controlled Senate that sometimes acts on promises hasn’t stopped the scheming of the Green grifters and ardent authoritarians in the Bay State.
Strict as any Puritan town father who had stocks to clap miscreants into, members of the MA legislature are hard at work trying to make life more unbearable for residents, while keeping them from escaping.
A delightful older legislative harridan has come up with a plan to augment what she is sure will eventually be a preponderance of EVs on state roads. She is equally sure the EVs won’t be enough to ease traffic.
Traffic must really annoy the crap out of her, because she wants to take cars away from citizens completely.
Ride a bike, Granny says. Or walk. You don’t need to be anywhere that bad.
Or she’ll make them so expensive to operate, you’ll voluntarily give yours up.
(That’s democracy in action right there to progressives – ‘Oh, I didn’t take it away from him. He GAVE IT UP!’)
And if you feel like going because ‘Murica, well…
The state will be tracking you to make sure you don’t overdo whatever limits they set on you.
I didn’t see a ‘for the children,’ but I’m sure it’s in there somewhere.
Discussion continues on ways to reduce motor vehicle traffic on Massachusetts’s overcrowded roadways while at the same time tending to environmental concerns, real or perceived.
At least one prominent state lawmaker is proposing that the state set limits on the use of private vehicles.
Senate Majority Leader Cynthia Stone Creem, whose district includes Brookline, Newton and Wellesley, has filed legislation based on laws she says have been adopted in Colorado and Minnesota that reduce vehicle miles while addressing environmental concerns.
She seems nice.
? WATCH: Sen. Cynthia Creem says EVs aren’t enough—Massachusetts must limit how far you can drive, too. Her bill creates a panel to track your mileage and fine you if you go too far.
She says just walk or bike instead.
Textbook extreme, out-of-touch policymaking. ?#mapoli pic.twitter.com/RgI3OqMTL0
— Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance (@MassFiscal) May 23, 2025
It’s plain as the nose on her face what the plan is and what the fraudulent excuse to do so is.
— Hr. Hvid (@trump2024thewin) May 27, 2025
But they’d have to stop voting for these people first.
Find that tea dumping spirit again.
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