Let me get this straight. You're all bent out of shape because two teenagers are concerned about the government's lack of action regarding addressing climate change, yet we have a President who, contrary to the scientific consensus, thinks climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese? That's your story? Those two teenagers could talk circles around Trump when it comes to climate change, that's a fact!
I'm not "bent out of shape" at all. I'm disgusted.
Not sure where I stand on climate change. Much like a lot of other polarizing subjects (like, say...President Trump), there are those who claim it's the result of carbon emissions, etc., and those who claim it's simply the natural cycle of Mother Earth. You know, ice ages and all that. I haven't studied it enough to have an opinion one way or the other, and I'm wise enough to know that you cannot trust one word out of ten that the media feeds you.
But back to me being disgusted. The simple fact that members of Congress would grant an audience to...and apparently value the opinions of...two teenagers who strike me as being "programmed" far more than "educated" or "experienced" is simply the latest sign of how far off the rails the Legislative Branch of our government has gone. There are thousands if not dozens of thousands of scientists out there who have accumulated decades of study, research, data analysis, and forecasting on the hot topic of "climate change". But nope, let's bring in a couple of teenaged girls to give us the information we need.
This, good citizen, is straight out of the "Book of AOC". Weapons Grade Stupid. Not the girls, but Congress. The geniuses we elected to represent our interests in this nation, and worldwide. I probably
should be bent out of shape, but I'm not. As has been proven time and time again in the hallowed halls of our nation's capitol...Congress is completely dysfunctional. Those two girls wasted their time talking to the HFAC. Probably every word they said was forgotten by the people they said it to no later than cocktail hour at the Crown & Crow. It was a sideshow; that and nothing more. Think not? Wake me up when they pass a bill related to anything that was said yesterday.
I wonder, did Ms. Thunberg sail over here on the KonTiki II...or was it in Business Class on an Airbus 380? Turn on the lights in her hotel room, or fire up the old solar-powered fireplace? Take an Uber to Capitol Hill, or ride a bike? I don't need to be lectured by a teenaged girl on a subject she likely knows very little about if you sat her down in a room with someone who does know what they're talking about. Like most of the seemingly incessant parade of useful idiots we've been exposed to over the past few years, once you pry them off of their talking points and get down in the weeds, they suddenly don't sound nearly as smart as they did when they could stay on script. You watch all of that you want to. I'd rather watch commercials for FlexSeal. They both have about the same amount of academic value.
Nope, come to think of it, I am bent out of shape. The parents of those two children ought to be tarred and feathered for allowing their kids to be in the center ring at such an obvious political circus.
Some folks let their admiration for President Trump cloud their judgement when he does something wrong. Others let their hate for him obscure their vision when he gets it right. Just like it was with Obama. I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat, nor Libertarian, nor whatever. I am an American. First, foremost, and forever. Over the years, I have voted for both sides of the aisle. But if the Democratic Party continues to allow their platform to be hijacked and manipulated by obvious Socialists, they've seen the last of me and my vote. It is what it is.
Nor do I need the comedic opera of watching the HFAC pretend to really be interested in what two teenaged girls think about climate change. I'm gonna go look around the house for anything I can spray FlexSeal on...