Are you ready for political attack ads? We sure aren’t. But we might as well have a laugh at some of the more ridiculous ads rather than start crying now because November is so far away.

In the add below, two women talk about how Pennsylvania Senate hopeful Kathleen McGinty, a democratic nominee, is going to tax energy of all kinds—even their kids’ energy.

The ad “plays on old-school fears of cap and trade and a carbon tax in a state that has a pretty significant coal and gas industry,” Grist reports.

“McGinty, former secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and a past chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality under Bill Clinton, is endorsed by the League of Conservation Voters and will go head-to-head against Toomey [the republican nominee] this November.”

Yes, it is that ridiculous. Watch the ad below and try not to cringe.

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