Contestants from season 7 of the Netflix dating reality show Love is blind They were fired yesterday and people are already starting to scrutinize their backgrounds.
But with the new season set in Washington, D.C., some of them will face tougher, more intense questioning than usual.
One of the candidates, Taylor, has been linked to the Chinese Communist Party based on her work with the Colorado-based nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and is already a target for conservatives.
“BREAKING: One of the Washington DC contestants from Season 7 of Love is Blind works for a radical dark money group that is working with the Chinese Communist Party to ban gas stoves,” Republican spokesman Steve Guest posted breathlessly on Wednesday afternoon.
He shared Taylor’s work with the nonprofit, which works on U.S. federal policy and focuses on decarbonizing heavy industry (particularly as it relates to clean hydrogen practices), and linked to a Washington Free Beacon article about RMI. Organizational Activities Discussed environmental policy with the Chinese government.
The Free Beacon charged that RMI is “not made up of an objective group of scientists.” the study A study published in 2022 in collaboration with the University of Sydney and Albert Einstein College of Medicine found that household gas stoves may be the cause of 13% of childhood asthma cases.
The Biden administration’s imaginary threat of a gas stove ban has become culture war fodder in recent years, but the federal government has denied it plans to enforce it.
The Free Beacon article also details how RMI worked with China’s National Development and Reform Commission to produce a report in 2013 advising China to replace household appliances and generators with clean energy.
The Free Beacon also investigated RMI’s directors, who set up Chinese private equity firms.
The Daily Dot was unable to immediately get in touch with Taylor, but according to her LinkedIn page, she attended the university there in 2013, so it’s unlikely she was involved in this collaboration. She began working at RMI in 2022.
Guest’s tweet was quickly mocked on X, with contributors questioning whether the tenuous connection meant anything.
“The opposite of a reality TV contestant, is that your job now?” Posts @Certainly not.
Some say the attack was perfect marketing for the season.
“There’s nothing more DC than speaking out against a reality TV contestant.” Written NBC reporter.
“OPPO’s research into DC reality shows” Added @Brazil201.
But some thought the guests might have been onto something.
“Naive and desperate for attention, she is the perfect product of the indoctrination machine – exactly what this communist regime commands,” @wrighttd posted darkly.
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