A time aft M&M’s canceled their “spokescandies” amid pushback from Fox News hosts who nary longer recovered them sexy, the blimpish cablegram elephantine recovered its latest people for outrage: “woke” video crippled consoles with power-saving features.

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that Xbox would connection “carbon alert crippled downloads and updates” arsenic portion of the company’s ongoing effort to trim c emissions and assistance combat clime change.

“For example, alternatively of your Xbox waking up during the nightly attraction model astatine a random clip betwixt 2:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m., your console volition aftermath up astatine a clip erstwhile it tin usage the astir renewable vigor successful your section vigor grid,” the institution said, adding: “This decreases fossil substance dependency and CO2 emissions, and could perchance prevention you money.”

But due to the fact that the right-wing outrage instrumentality perpetually needs feeding, conservative media outlets and Republican politicians seized connected the accidental to proclaim this arsenic the latest conflict successful a never-ending civilization war.

“First state stoves, past your coffee, present they're gunning for your Xbox,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who seems much funny successful being a right-wing entertainer than a lawmaker, tweeted connected Monday. (For those blissfully unaware, conservatives have been losing their minds lately astir imaginable aboriginal regulations connected state appliances, daring liberals to “come and instrumentality it.")

It didn’t instrumentality long, of course, for Fox News to leap onboard the faux-rage train. Getting the shot rolling, the network’s integer newsroom published a Monday nighttime piece promoting blimpish critics who’d “slammed” the “woke brigade” for coming aft video games.

During Tuesday morning’s broadcast of Fox & Friends First, Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone grumbled that “some woke enforcement astatine Microsoft thought this was a bully idea” earlier speechmaking disconnected a bid of tweets from right-wing influencers mocking the initiative.

“Aware! Is that the champion word?!” Fox & Friends First co-host Todd Piro exclaimed. “I’m truly stuck connected that language. Carbon aware?! I’ve been alert of c astir of my big life. It’s a precise important element.”

The pursuing hour, however, Fox News warned viewers that the Big Climate Change is coming for their kids due to the fact that their video gaming strategy had a caller power-saving function.

“Xbox has besides announced that they're going woke excessively due to the fact that of clime change,” Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt declared. “That they are adding a caller diagnostic to their default settings. If you ain an Xbox you tin upload this caller program, and it volition crook disconnected aft truthful agelong to prevention the environment.”

Fox News Radio big Jimmy Failla past sounded the alarm astir children being targeted by left-leaning corporations to attraction astir the climate.

“We recognize what this is,” the blimpish comedian stated. “It’s not that it’s really going to offset emissions, okay—the level of simplification is infinitesimal. But they’re trying to enlistee your kids into clime authorities astatine an earlier age; marque them clime conscious now.”

“You’re right,” Earhardt agreed. “They’re going aft the children.”

Not to beryllium outdone, Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen echoed Cruz by lumping Microsoft’s determination with the remainder of the right’s caller civilization warfare grievances.

“They privation to archer you however to unrecorded your life. We’re gonna accidental ‘No, you volition not thrust a gas-guzzling motortruck and no, you’re not gonna person a state stove, you volition person an electrical stove’” helium blared connected Fox News’ Outnumbered. “Because each gathering successful New York City cannot person state anymore, right? This worldly is really happening. If the clime radicals privation to alienate Gen Z, the champion mode to bash it is to instrumentality distant their Xbox!”