Thread by @adamfelber

It’s late. I’m awake. Let me tell you a story.

See, in 2011, there was a candidate for president, a congresswoman named Michele Bachmann. Conservatives loved her, because she loved Freedom.

One of her signature issues was light bulbs. No, really. (1/x)

It sounds weird, I know, but Ms. Bachmann was frothing-at-the-mouth angry about a 2007 law that required light bulbs to be more efficient by 2012.

I promise this will get (mildly) interesting.

Anyway, President Obama liked that law, because it was good both for the environment and the US’s energy independence.

Michele Bachmann hated it because Freedom. I’m not kidding. That was her big issue. Here:

thehill.com/policy/energy-…

Anyway, let’s talk about me. I have wicked bad Seasonal Affective Disorder. I never talk about it, but when days get short and there’s less light... let’s just say I notice. A lot.

So in 2012, when I moved into this old house, with old wiring and fixtures... it was a problem.

It was also a problem in general, because you can’t put anything more than a 60 watt bulb ANYWHERE in this house.

I mean, that sucks, right? Kids got homework. Parents gotta cook. Dad’s gotta be slightly less desperately, furiously morose between November and March. Right?

Anyway, let’s flash forward to Now. Michele Bachmann did not become president, so her promise to strike down the light bulb law never happened.

Today, my house is lit up like a fucking nuclear Christmas tree. For like zero energy.

60 watts? I don’t put 25-watt bulbs in my ancient fixtures anymore. You know why? Because they would fucking flood my house with the light of a thousand suns!

No, I’ll take 17-watt LEDs, and cut me off after that, bartender. I’m good. I’m good.

Also, those bulbs aren’t a burning-hot fire hazard anymore. It doesn’t hurt to touch ‘em. And the newest ones make the same old-school “warm” light my body seems to crave.

Nothing about these lights is not better. Seriously. I defy anyone to argue. Michele?

I bring this up because liberals NEVER bring this shit up. Michele Bachmann literally RAN on this crap a few years ago, and Fox News took her seriously. And “mainstream news” failed to call her an idiot for it.

7 years later, nobody talks about it. But to me, the world has actually gotten way, way better (and way more energy efficient).

Thanks to -yes- a government regulation. Telling you what kind of light bulb you can buy.

Right now, with one bulb, my room is ridiculously, December-defyingly LIT. And my power bill is less than it was when I moved in.

So... suck it, Bachmann. I hope your retirement is merry. And bright.