‘Keep Pittsburgh out of your mouth’: Steel City to Ted Cruz over Paris Climate Accord barb

A Tweet by Sen. Ted Cruz utilizing Pittsburgh to blast President Joe Biden’s rapid govt order for the U.S. to rejoin the Paris Local weather Accord has some Metal Metropolis residents steaming.

The primary message from these climate-change-minded Pittsburghers to the conservative Cruz of Texas: “Preserve our metropolis out of your mouth, Senator.”

Here’s a Pittsburgh political backlash in a sequence of tart tweets:

First, the Cruz tweet that tied the worldwide Paris accord to Biden favoring Parisians over Pittsburghers:

That ignited the backlash from Pittsburgh, with blowback hotter than a blast furnace:

Ditto:

Blunt, too, befitting the town’s blue-collar roots:

And hard. At all times powerful:

Others blasted the Republican Cruz seizing upon an outdated picture of tech-and-medical-savvy Pittsburgh, which hasn’t been bellowing smoke from metal mills in a long time:

Or this:

And this:

In fact, the mayors of each Pittsburgh and Paris weren’t lacking this political alternative:

However political response reached far past Pittsburgh. Right here’s younger local weather change battler Greta Thunberg completely burning Cruz:

Others merely lectured the senator that the Paris accord doesn’t simply cowl the French capital:

However in all equity to Cruz, he wasn’t the primary to carry up Pittsburgh as motive for the U.S. to flout the Paris Accord. In case you suppose you heard that one earlier than, you probably did:

Now, that’s lots of Pittsburgh-fueled political smoke over local weather change. And it’s simply Day One of many Biden presidency. Good factor this dust-up solely warmed the political rhetoric, not the globe.