“Poll Finds Most People Would Rather Be Annihilated By Giant Tidal Wave Than Continue To Be Lectured By Climate Change Activists,” the Babylon Bee reported in December, adding in an attached news story that one man’s response to hearing “just 30 seconds of a Greta Thunberg lecture” was to scrawl on the survey form, “Come, sweet death.”
The Bee was, as usual, ahead of the pack, but these days it’s becoming common for even left-leaning comics to mock Thunberg. “Iconic”? “Courageous”? Nah. Just tiresome.
Far from being a visionary difference-maker who put it all on the line for her righteous cause, Thunberg is increasingly being derided as just another hyperemotional, tantrum-prone, attention-seeking teen brat.
Joan of Arc became Veruca Salt.
Ricky Gervais (a lifelong lefty) saw the opportunity at the Golden Globes Sunday when he smacked the audience and the tiny Nordic doom-monger with a classic double punchline: “You know nothing about the real world,” he told a ballroom full of celebrities. “Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.”
BBC Scotland ran a skit in which comics playing Thunberg’s parents talk about all of the fun they’ve been having while she’s been away and blanches when she returns.
When the BBC starts making fun of Greta Thunberg, it’s like L’Osservatore Romano satirizing the pope.
Meanwhile, Thunberg has become shorthand for environmentally based vapidity, which becomes all the funnier the more clueless earnestness with which it is delivered.
After fashion designer Stella McCartney presented Joaquin Phoenix as the new world champion of climate-change activism for committing to (top this!) wearing only one tuxedo during Hollywood awards season, the deluge of mockery that followed on Twitter included lots of collateral comic damage to Thunberg.
Personal favorite: the British man who replied, “f*** me. I wore the same undercrackers for over a month before I got some new ones for Crimbo [Christmas]. I’m basically a sexy, bald, bloody Greta Thunberg.”
On The Last Leg, a British chat show, comic Rosie Jones (who has cerebral palsy and is no one’s idea of a bully) made a dirty joke at Thunberg’s expense on New Year’s Eve, and another standup, Josh Widdicombe, called Thunberg “the first person to perfect the art of bunking school.”
Days later, Dave Chappelle joked about Thunberg in a San Francisco set.
I don’t know what Chappelle said, but a San Francisco Chronicle writer who declined to quote the remark instead wrote, “Let’s just say the 17-year-old activist irks him, to put it mildly, rather than going into detail about Chappelle’s joke involving R. Kelly and [Thunberg].” Do tell.
Thunberg’s overwrought September speech to the U.N. — “I shouldn’t be up here,” she said, as though she had to be dragged up to the podium in chains, forced against her will to do all those photoshoots and interviews — might have looked like a bravura performance to her disciples in the media but turned out to be far too easy to mock. “Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” Thunberg thundered.
A bit strong. Maybe the girl should learn the art of self-deprecating banter or rephrase her paranoia as a rap. Anyway, to an ordinary point of view the wee thing seems to be doing pretty well for herself.
“‘You have stolen my dreams and my childhood,’ says girl currently gracing the cover of Time magazine,” was the Babylon Bee’s perfectly honed take after Thunberg was crowned World’s Wokest Human or whatever it was.
That Thunberg — a non-scientist, non-wonk, and non-adult — has very little insight to offer the world, and that youthful indignation is not actually very useful or interesting, much less new, begins to sink in.
Mary Wakefield writes in The Spectator, “The most sophisticated adults in the world have signed up to the bonkers idea that children can somehow intuit the answers to humanity’s existential problems, though Lord knows what the grown-ups expect the kids to do — build a better world on Minecraft?”
Wakefield continues, waspishly but astutely:
Of course [young people] bang drums, sit on roofs and declare the world to be doomed. It’s what they’re supposed to do. What’s strange is that so many grown-ups seem content to imagine that this is, in itself, an answer.
Got a problem? Simply make like a teen and shout about it. Job done. When Greta turned to the Davos crowd and said ‘I want you to panic’, they should have asked her: why? Surely the graver the crisis the more important it is not to panic.
Thunberg is too young to know this, but achieving celebrity status is relatively easy compared to the challenge of maintaining it.
Far from being the historic figure she and Time magazine imagine her to be, she may go the way of many a precocious child star of the past.
The good news is that after she disappears from magazine covers, she can look forward to a gig on Big Brother or Dancing with the Stars.
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Your handlers are going to ruin your adulthood too cup cake .
The imminent climate catastrophe – mass extinctions fallacy is in their heads. Is there a pharmaceutical conglomerate working on the solution?
The Globalists the Greens and the UN and CFR are using this child as a tool to bring about the New World Order
““‘You have stolen my dreams and my childhood,’ says girl currently gracing the cover of Time magazine,” ”
Only if you allow it, honey. Just like integrity, only you can give it away. Dreams are yours, no one can take them from you and, if you really believe in them, you can try to act on them and get things done.
Cindy Sheehan lost her fame too.
As a opposed to Greta, I feel sorry for Cindy Sheehan.
She lost her son and will carry that with her
for the rest of her life.
However wrong she was in condemning Bush 43 for that,
she and her family paid a very high price.
Greta has not paid any price except her self – respect.
her public recognition and revere .
I just want to know when people are going to stop buying plastic bottles filled with water.
Yes. That’s a more relevant question that all the climate change BS. Many years ago, all drinks (including milk and soft drinks) only used to come in recyclable glass.
Greta Humbug is just the latest pathetic attempt by the UN and their cohorts to persuade us all we should just lay down, shut up and let them rule the world. Hmmm, have to say this little event may be having the very opposite effect. If people are like me, we are totally over every natural and human devised event is labelled climate change, especially our arsonist lit bushfires and our natural causes drought.
She is a tool used to promote the scam. The climate cult has taken reality and used it to promote the destruction of the western economy. The climate is in a constant state of evolution that no one can control as the earth moves across the evolving universe. Nothing mankind can do will change this. Yes focus on important issues like pure water and clean air but the current bunches of crazies are just puppets for the New World Orders socialist elite. Their policies are fraudulent and will have no impact. Those of us who reject the climate change cult’s lies don’t deny the change. We just reject the lie that we can do anything by destroying the economy. Real actions that help mankind adapt to reality and evolve with the planet are what we will support. Does anyone else understand the point I am trying to make? Surely mankind is able to see the truth and is honest enough to see that facing reality is the best option.
I have been saying this for several years. It’s really good to hear it from someone else.
Without climate change we would not have evolved to where we are today.