Chef AOC's warning about gas stoves gets whipped up into the 'best self-own ever'

By now, you’ve probably heard about the Biden administration mulling a ban on gas stoves. You know, because regular Americans shouldn’t be allowed to have nice things like cooking appliances that allow for more even cooking and more effective cooking and more efficient cooking and just an all-around better cooking experience.

And if regular Americans are allowed to have gas stoves, they’ll get stupider. Bet you didn’t know that, did you? Probably because you’ve been spending too much time around that gas stove and have suffered reduced cognitive performance as a result.

Here, let AOC explain it to you:

Did you know that ongoing exposure to NO2 from gas stoves is linked to reduced cognitive performance https://t.co/1bjmHqnHVa

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 11, 2023

You can read more about it here: https://t.co/JUgq1A4LaS

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 11, 2023

Although if you have done a lot of cooking on a gas stove, you may need to have someone else read it to you because of your own reduced cognitive performance.

The way we are handling it in NYC isn’t to force people to switch what they already have. Folks can keep their appliances, and new buildings in NYC will have gas-free stoves.

As for federally, any proposal from the CPSC would go through a quite lengthy review and input process.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 11, 2023

Well, thank goodness we’ve got someone like AOC in Congress. Her high cognitive performance is a precious asset. She will protect us from ourselves.

Then why are you using one?

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) January 11, 2023

OK, so apparently the basis for AOC’s claim that gas stoves reduce cognitive performance comes from personal experience. It’s understandable that she’d make that connection, although in her particular case, she was starting from a point of low cognitive performance, so she needs someone — or something — else to blame in order to avoid acknowledging that she’d be an idiot no matter what kind of stove she uses.

The pic is from her Instagram live in February, and she clearly states it’s her kitchen pic.twitter.com/tdhh353ldx

— John Hasson (@SonofHas) January 11, 2023

Maybe she thinks that if she plunges her entire head into a bowl of ice-cold water, it will protect her brain from the gas stove’s cognitive-performance-reducing fumes.