We've been watching Europe on the slide for a long time here, with their curious blend of elitist arrogance, authoritarian impulses meeting serfish mentality, all the while wallowing in perpetual denial that any of their choices are not only ill-advised, but flat-out wrong.
Things are fine in Europe, the Euros insist, and the only ruffles making ridges are outside forces seeking to discommode their halcyon, well-ordered existence from jealousy and ignorance springing out of innate inferiority.
Nothing has brought all the themes plaguing Western Europe itself - the Brahmins of Brussels, the unelected nobility which rules over the Europoors in their thrall through the European Union's mostly malignant auspices, the member countries trying to exert some form of national pride over exactly the wrong subject, and the suffering masses - together in ludicrous, stark illumination like this past week of unspeakable heat spreading far and wide over the land.
It was hot - H O T, hawt. There was no gainsaying that.
The existential threat wasn't the soaring temps, though. It was Europeans themselves.
There was global mirth at the snarling and defensive reactions coming from the Continent, ferociously defending the lack of air conditioning in what we now know to be the civilized world, aka the United States. Even as the elderly, ill, and young alike dropped like flies from excessive heat and the entire western continent broiled in nearly unbearable misery just to prove...they could.
Air conditioning, said a former French environmental minister, kills the planet. The minister lectures the Europoors to suck it up during the few moments she steps out of her own air-conditioned office.
HAVE YOU NO SHAME?!
Francia. Fa caldo. La gente vorrebbe il condizionatore. Monique Barbut, la ministra dell’ambiente del governo Lecornu, si dice inorridita da queste richieste perché non si pensa al cambiamento climatico. Nel suo ministero c’è il condizionatore.
— Leonardo Panetta (@LeonardoPanetta) June 27, 2026
Dibattito surreale visto dal resto… pic.twitter.com/V9v1XjP4dQ
...France. It's hot. People would like air conditioning. Monique Barbut, the environment minister in the Lecornu government, says she's horrified by these requests because no one is thinking about climate change. Her ministry has air conditioning.
Surreal debate as seen from the rest of the world.
Had heart replacement surgery, said the Germans?
100.4° in the heart ward makes you stronger! Suck it up, sit on an ice pack if your relatives bring you one, and quit whining.
NEW: The recently built cardiac unit of the Düsseldorf University Hospital in Germany, where heart surgery is performed, is currently measuring 38°C
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) June 26, 2026
relatives in Germany are being asked to bring ice packs from home and staff are using "cooling vests" pic.twitter.com/bcgXrkZ5xM
Besides, if they gave the cardiac unit air conditioning, then everyone would want it, so NO ONE CAN HAVE IT.
So here's a story about the Düsseldorf University Hospital where heart patients are sweltering in 38°/100.4° temperatures right now because this 15-year-old building lacks central A/C.
— Andrew Hammel (@AndrewHammel1) June 26, 2026
I taught at the law faculty of this university for 15 years. When the law faculty built a new… pic.twitter.com/QHp7iTBlXM
So here's a story about the Düsseldorf University Hospital where heart patients are sweltering in 38°/100.4° temperatures right now because this 15-year-old building lacks central A/C.
I taught at the law faculty of this university for 15 years. When the law faculty built a new expansion in 2005, I asked whether it would be air-conditioned. They said: "No, because then every building on campus would ask for it". I thought to myself, "Well, that's Europe for you. Crabs in a bucket."
Then the university announced plans for this new building, the one you see in the picture, which would be the main university hospital. That was in 2013 or thereabouts. Shortly thereafter, they published the plans and sketches online. No A/C infrastructure visible.
At some sort of faculty function, I asked the dean or assistant dean of the medical faculty whether they were going to install central air-conditioning on this building. "It's no problem if lawyers are brain-fuddled because of the heat -- in fact it might be a bonus! -- but surgeons? Patients?"
The dean answered: "Well, we asked, but the construction board and city officials said no, because if this new building gets air-conditioning, then all the older buildings on the university campus will demand it."
"Even though this is a f**king hospital?" I asked with typical American coarseness.
"Yes, even though it's a hospital," responded the dean, staring with chagrin into his beer...
Germans are big on misinformation, and this is precisely the sort of situation they keep trying to ban Elon Musk and X over.
Somewhere, somehow, someone reading social media will get the idea that being 'cool and comfortable' is actually superior to an inside temperature in the triple-digit range.
So they acted. Official public service warnings went out.
JUST IN: German public broadcaster begins “anti-AC campaign” warning of the dangers of air conditioning, as record heat wave hits the region.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) June 28, 2026
Sure, it's uncomfortable. But what doesn't kill you - not that anyone is hoping it does *winkwinknudgenudgesaynormore* - makes you a stronger German or Frenchman.
Although it does pay to be part of the ruling class - that feudal serf mentality again.
The Brussels Brahmins, for all their squawking about saving the Earth and carbon, seem a tad more concerned about their own comfort than the peasants who toil in the EU bureaucracy beneath them.
And I do literally and figuratively mean these worker bees are 'beneath them.'
The main European Union building is thirteen stories tall, with most of the administrative gruntwork done in the first seven floors, and executive suites above.
You'll never guess who lost their air conditioning...and who kept theirs.
lol, the European Commission have shut off air conditioning for their employees on the lower seven floor of their main building in Brussels. The upper floors where the commissioners including van der Leyen have their offices remain cool and climatised. https://t.co/AQhZAo3zv0
— eugyppius (@eugyppius1) June 27, 2026
... But only for the lower 7 floors, where around 2,000 lowly staff are sweating... Pardon: sitting.
"'It's like feudalism,' said an official who works on one of the lower levels and was granted anonymity to speak freely, referring to the fact that the commissioners on the upper floors were allowed to keep their air conditioning running. A second official agreed and said it was a 'disgrace.'" (Politico)
If anyone still claims that in a democracy there is no ABOVE and BELOW... Smiley!
URSULA THE EMPRESS OF ALL EUROPE MUST REMAIN SWEAT-STAIN-FREE
Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
WHY DID AMERICA DO THIS TO US?
If my air conditioner makes Frenchmen suffer, then I embrace that.
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) June 29, 2026
Also, I have a spare one, any froggies care to buy!?!
LE WAAH!
JUST IN: Paris’ deputy mayor says the U.S. bears “a significant amount of responsibility” for the deadly heatwave gripping France.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) June 29, 2026
Meanwhile, the British, some of whom have a/c that their local council enforcement officers haven't taken from them yet, are finding out for the umpteenth time what cutting their own throats for renewables has done to the cost of energy they now have to import from a continent that also needs it at the same time.
Those darn spot market rates are murder. Just like the next electric bills are going to be.
And summer just started.
Britain Paying 17 Times More to Import Energy From Europe During Heatwave
Britain has been forced to pay 17 times more to import energy from Europe during the heatwave after solar panels malfunctioned and demand for aircon was underestimated, with electricity hitting nearly £1,400 per megawatt hour at peak. The Telegraph has the story.
The UK paid nearly £1,400 per megawatt hour – about 17 times the normal prices – on Wednesday evening to obtain emergency supplies from the Continent in a move set to add £11 million to bills.
National Energy Systems Operator (Neso), which balances daily electricity supply and demand, paid the sky-high prices after a shortfall in energy generated from domestic solar and gas-fired power stations left the UK scrambling for supplies.
The situation meant Neso was forced to obtain a special dispensation from its EU counterparts to buy the power. The EU has limited sales to the UK because of the effect on the Continent’s own electricity supplies.
It came after a surge in air conditioning use to cool shops and offices, as well as malfunctioning solar panels, which led to a drop in domestic power generation.
I'll bet somebody still wishes they had a natural gas power plant and nuclear reactor or two to spare.
Damn cool and cocky Americans.
It’s true, we’re sucking up all of the heat and sending it directly to Europe, sparing Africa of course https://t.co/uDuJsyeoPD
— Jon 🔬 (@JonnyMicro) June 29, 2026
Virtue signal away, tough guys.
1000 French people have already died because of this heat wave.
— stldebbie2011 (@stldebbie2011) June 29, 2026
I'm telling you, after reading this insane gibberish all week...
The best air-conditioner is a tree, just as the best toilet is a lake and the best refrigerator is a cave. https://t.co/wrq2qAGn70 pic.twitter.com/fcad7zUelH
— Andrew Hammel (@AndrewHammel1) June 29, 2026
...the mantle of the civilized Western world has completely shifted to our shoulders.
This segment is surreal.
— Ryan Maue (@RyanWeather) June 25, 2026
The sense of guilt and shame exhibited by a young mother for using air conditioning when her baby's room temperature exceeded 90°F
And, thinking she is causing or making the heat wave worse by using "so much electricity" which should be "rationed" https://t.co/IYhmF0rBL9
HOW CAN IT BE WE'RE SURPRISED EVERY SUMMER?
In the main hospital in Freiburg temperatures are reaching 38°/100.4°. Patients are lying in their beds naked, bathed in sweat. The hospital has convened an emergency task force for the first time in its history. Because it's located in an old building, the emergency room is not…
— Andrew Hammel (@AndrewHammel1) June 26, 2026
... Because it's located in an old building, the emergency room is not air-conditioned. Even the new buildings aren't completely air-conditioned.
One doctor complained that the problem has been evident at least since the 2003 heat wave, but nothing is ever done: "How can it be we're surprised every summer?"
For such superior beings, that's a legit question with a simple answer no one dares speak.
NEW - Paris morgues ARE OVERFLOWING from heat-related deaths
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) June 29, 2026
morgues are now seeking permission for refrigerated containers
The mayor of Paris has also authorized additional body storage units at City morgues.
In Europe, you only get A/C once you're dead. pic.twitter.com/Yz5ixq0EZd
And that problem has never been clearer.
Beege ADDS: Don't mind me. I'm just here to pile on.
This is not a parody account. This is an official account belonging to the French government.
— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) June 29, 2026
While their morgues are overflowing due to heat deaths, they proudly proclaim the absurd belief that refusing to use air conditioning to save lives will stop heat waves in the future. https://t.co/076dFAXgCA
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