Political commentator Steven Crowder tore former Daily Show host and multimillionaire Jon Stewart apart for preaching environmental progress but downplaying the cost — the livelihoods of working people. [bold, links added]
Crowder recently blasted an episode from The Problem with Jon Stewart on the March 16 edition of his show Louder with Crowder.
In a roundtable conversation, Stewart’s senior episode producer Reniqua Allen-Lamphere said that there was a need for a “just transition” for coal miners and other blue-collar workers who are losing their jobs to the climate change lobby.
Stewart responded during his woke new show “The Human Cost of Climate Change,” that “[p]rogress is never fair. And almost never just.”
Then he gave the kicker, asking: “How can we give the soft landings to the inevitable destruction that is ancillary to our progress?”
Crowder cut the clip and snapped back, “And there it is. Your jobs, your livelihoods, are “ancillary” to ‘our progress.’”
He continued, “Is there a more elitist phrase that you’ve ever heard on a program?” Stewart has an estimated net worth of $120 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Crowder went on to expose the hypocrisy behind Stewart’s comments by noting that his multimillion-dollar net worth insulates him from the financial hell of rising energy prices.
Crowder even took a shot at another elitist comedian worth $75 million who said he wouldn’t mind paying high gas prices because he drives a Tesla.
“We know Steven Colbert isn’t affected. He would pay “$15 a gallon” — you’re just ancillary to that room, to those boards, and those sociopaths in government.”
Colbert attracted a firestorm online when he said that “A clean conscience is worth a buck or two.” He then quipped, “I’m willing to pay $4 a gallon. Hell, I’ll pay $15 a gallon because I drive a Tesla.”
Crowder also dissected the elitist worldview underpinning Stewart’s comments by exposing his tone-deaf usage of the word “ancillary.”
“What’s under ancillary?” He continued: “The cost of gas, the cost of all energy, the cost to heat your homes, your jobs, right, if you’re working in any kind of an energy sector that isn’t renewable.”
Gas prices skyrocketed to $4.25 a gallon in recent weeks and inflation hit 7.9 percent in February on a year-to-year basis, soaring to its highest level in more than 40 years.
Crowder then summarized the real economic state of the union in the United States and slammed the liberals who try to scold Americans into accepting hardship because of so-called climate change:
“So right now, we have a bunch of privileged, wealthy people game-planning the entire economy under the guise of climate justice while considering your livelihood and everything therein to be ‘ancillary.’”
“You don’t need a conspiracy,” Crowder said. “That’s the Great Reset.”
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Right now, fossil fuels provide 80% of our domestic primary energy. “Renewables” account for about 4%. Look it up on the EIA website. Aside from jobs, what about BASIC electricity & fuel? If you want our country to look like some dystopia out of the “Mad Max” series, just keep pushing your green agenda. Energy POVERTY is not a good luck. Ask anyone from Sudan, Chad or N. Korea,,,
Randy, these elitist ignoramuses just repeat the mantra that we must go to Net Zero without having even the faintest idea how it could be done. Or the totally ridiculous idea that it’s even feasible. Nor do any of them recognize how much petroleum is used for so much more than just as a fuel and how to replace those uses (there goes their iPhones!)
Next time you see one of those Liberal Eletists riding their Bicycle and thinking how green they are think of Wizard of Oz and Elvira Gulch(Margret Hamilton)on her Bicycle