{"id":59450,"date":"2025-05-01T07:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=59450"},"modified":"2026-05-01T00:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:06:29","slug":"since-there-is-electricity-there-are-blackouts-the-left-wing-tries-to-normalize-a-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/05\/01\/since-there-is-electricity-there-are-blackouts-the-left-wing-tries-to-normalize-a-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSince there is electricity, there are blackouts\u201d: the left-wing tries to normalize a disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/04\/29\/blackout-spain-follows-in-the-footsteps-of-cuba-and-venezuela-on-its-journey-to-the-third-world\/\">Spain experienced the first general blackout in its history<\/a>, an energy disaster that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/04\/30\/a-blackout-with-deaths-and-no-resignations-socialism-never-admits-mistakes-in-spain\/\">has cost human lives<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/04\/30\/a-blackout-with-deaths-and-no-resignations-socialism-never-admits-mistakes-in-spain\/\">A blackout with deaths and no resignations: socialism never admits mistakes in Spain<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/04\/29\/sanchezs-strategy-to-buy-time-and-avoid-responsibility-for-the-blackout\/\">S\u00e1nchez's strategy to buy time and avoid responsibility for the blackout<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>They go from denying that it would happen to trying to normalize it<\/big><\/p>\n<p>A blackout of this magnitude was something that until now only seemed possible in the most dire predictions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20250428\/video-viral-sanchez-diciendo-no-haber-apagones-espana_292036.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In 2022, Pedro S\u00e1nchez said that something like this would not happen in Spain<\/a>, <strong>attacking \"the right and the far right\" for claiming that something like this could happen<\/strong> because of the socialist government's decision to close nuclear power plants, which provide stability to our electricity grid. <strong>But it finally happened, and now the left has decided that it is not that serious<\/strong>, activating its entire synchronized opinion team to do so.<\/p>\n<p>As has happened before in the face of the disastrous effects of its political prescriptions, <strong>government-friendly media have already launched a propaganda campaign to normalize the disaster<\/strong> and make something as abnormal as a nationwide blackout seem unimportant, <strong>perhaps because they expect it to happen again<\/strong>, which is most likely considering the government's inability to clarify the cause of what happened. Or rather, it's unwilling to clarify it, as that would be admitting a mistake.<\/p>\n<p><big>\u201cSince there is electricity, there are blackouts\u201d<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday, on La Sexta, the program El Intermedio<\/strong>, hosted by one of the government's biggest supporters (Jos\u00e9 Miguel Monz\u00f3n, alias \"El Gran Wyoming\"), <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/El_Intermedio\/status\/1917315886739869736\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made fun of the blackout and said<\/a>: <em>\"<strong>Since there is electricity, there are blackouts.<\/strong>\"<\/em> As an example, they mentioned a blackout in India in 2012 and four major blackouts in New York. <strong>Not a single example of a national blackout in a Western country until this Monday, but it doesn't matter.<\/strong> For La Sexta, the important thing is to defend the government by any means, the arguments are the least of it.<\/p>\n<p><big>Those from 'Nunca M\u00e1is' now talk about 'blackout scavengers'<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This Tuesday, <strong>another pro-government outlet, El Huff Post<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elhuffpost\/status\/1917200753053073837\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called opposition politicians \"blackout scavengers\"<\/a> for their criticism of S\u00e1nchez following a blackout that he had denied could occur. Let's remember that <strong>it is the same left that organized huge 'Nunca M\u00e1is' (Never Again) demonstrations over the sinking of the Prestige oil tanker in 2002<\/strong> off the coast of Galicia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldo.es\/noticias\/nacional\/2017\/10\/22\/miles-personas-claman-contra-xunta-que-exigen-responsabilidades-por-los-fuegos-1203309-305.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a wave of protests that was repeated in 2017 over the forest fires<\/a> in this community, in both cases calling for the resignations of PP politicians. <strong>But if the disaster is caused by a decision by the S\u00e1nchez government, we all have to keep quiet here<\/strong> or we will be accused of being \"scavengers\".<\/p>\n<p><big>RTVE consults an anti-capitalist about nationalizing electricity generation<\/big><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>RTVE<\/strong>, the large state-owned media group paid for by all taxpayers and controlled by the S\u00e1nchez government, <strong>the program of the leftist Jes\u00fas Cintora<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MalasLenguasLa2\/status\/1917636744867914017\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday proposed the nationalization of electricity generation as a solution<\/a> (it's not enough for them that the PSOE has placed the president of Red El\u00e9ctrica de Espa\u00f1a: they still want more). He made that suggestion after consulting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldiario.es\/ultima-llamada\/podemos_132_4587876.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a man who in 2014 defended degrowth<\/a>, stating that <em>\"the world is headed for a hard and prolonged degrowth\"<\/em>, and who <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/amturiel\/status\/1602008836277260290\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in 2022 stated that the capitalist system \"is unsustainable\"<\/a>. He is an example of the curious \"experts\", always on the left, that RTVE consults on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p><big>SER turns to a philosopher to criticize nuclear energy<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Finally, yesterday another pro-government media outlet, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HoyPorHoy\/status\/1917482301174276432\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cadena SER, consulted a philosopher<\/a>: <em>\"<strong>If we only had nuclear power, it would have taken us many more hours to recover energy<\/strong>\"<\/em>. That same day, just an hour earlier, <strong>Alfredo Garc\u00eda<\/strong>, a reactor operator at a nuclear power plant, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OperadorNuclear\/status\/1917449859163975693\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pointed out<\/a>: <em>\"<strong>Fully operational nuclear power plants would have made a blackout less likely<\/strong>\"<\/em>. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miteco.gob.es\/es\/energia\/nuclear\/centrales\/mundo.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France has 56 nuclear power plants<\/a> and this problem has occurred in Spain, which only has 7 and is in the process of closing. <strong>But what does reality matter? The socialist media have been using propaganda for years to deny all kinds of facts<\/strong>, in a constant attempt to defend the actions of the S\u00e1nchez government, which is showering them with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europapress.es\/sociedad\/noticia-gobierno-aprueba-plan-publicidad-institucional-preve-inversion-mas-160-millones-2025-20250121184058.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a millionaire's worth of manna in the form of institutional advertising<\/a>. So if blackouts need to be normalized, they'll be normalized. <strong>All for socialism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Image: El Intermedio.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Monday, Spain experienced the first general blackout in its history, an energy disaster that has cost human lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10720],"tags":[110,5406,12148,1090,8432,210,1291,11462,24332],"class_list":["post-59450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-communication","tag-cadena-ser","tag-el-huffington-post","tag-el-intermedio","tag-gran-wyoming","tag-jesus-cintora","tag-la-sexta","tag-rtve","tag-spain","tag-spains-blackout-of-april-28-2025"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 02:26:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}