Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Greta has accused Andrew Bolt of being part of a hate and conspiracy campaign, for suggesting her climate certainty might be a symptom of her mental disorders.
Naturally Greta’s supporters have joined her condemnation of Andrew Bolt’s article.
What did Andrew Bolt say to draw such a response?
BOLT: WE MUST DOUBT DISTURBED TEEN’S CLIMATE DOGMA
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I have never seen a girl so young and with so many mental disorders treated by so many adults as a guru
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What is so fascinating about this Thunberg cult is not just that she’s believed so fervently even though she’s wrong.
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But Thunberg has something very rare as well — a sense of absolute certainty. She shows not the slightest doubt and forgives not the slightest compromise. This allows followers who are tormented with doubt and burden of freedom to relax into her totalitarian certainty.
And in Thunberg’s case, that certainty comes from what normally would be seen as a disability.
If we can believe a book by her mother, opera soprano and Eurovision contestant Malena Ernman, Thunberg went two months without eating when she was 11.
She suffered years of depression and anxiety attacks and was finally diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, high-functioning autism, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Her intense fear of the climate is not surprising from someone with disorders which intensify fears.
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Read more (paywalled): https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-greta-has-no-doubts-but-we-should/news-story/bbc290f5c0e468505bd21bf2a6ec19c7
Why do greens find Greta so fascinating? I think Andrew Bolt hit the nail on the head, the certainty is the key.
Certainty is alluring to people who are tormented by their own unacknowledged doubts.
That doubt must be there; if the millions of people who claim to be worried about climate change wholeheartedly believed the world was about to end, the way Greta does, they would abandon their normal lives and march until the world changed.
Greta’s certainty is a taste of the freedom from doubt they yearn for. Greta’s apparent purity of purpose, her refusal to fly, her innocence, is an inspiration to climate believers who feel shame for their personal weakness, for all the carbon compromises they make in their daily lives.
This in my opinion is why any suggestion that Greta’s certainty might be a product of her mental condition draws such a furious response; if Greta’s certainty is unfounded, if her certainty is a symptom of her mental disorders, then Greta’s certainty is false. The magic is broken.
Note: My thanks to Andrew Bolt and Newscorp for providing the text of his article.
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Greta Thunderbox is a victim of child abuse.
For her parents to parade a mentally disturbed and gullible teenager in from of the world is nothing short of SICK.
(Thunderbox is an Australian euphemism for an outdoor toilet).
Her disability wasn’t a “mental illness” to start with, but climate change took a learning disability and turned it into a mental illness – paranoid delusions about climate. And we dare not make a claim that a learning disability might affect how she views things. I feel sorry for her being used like that. She shouldn’t be out there on the forefront of this issue. She’s vulnerable and she’s put in a position where people must correct her and of course, this is why we supposedly can’t. Alarmists are now using her to prevent attacks on them.
This is Child Abuse. The fact she has a disability is the reason they chose her to do this. They wanted those who wished to discredit her to be called out as unfeeling and agenda driven partisans and squelch all dissent of the position she was given to spout.
IT IS A WELL ESTABLISHED PLOY. Even Hitl*r understood using children will give you the advantage in getting the public to act against its own, best, self interests. “It’s for the children” is in every playbook the propagandists have.
The parents should be held to account for their allowing this child abuse, IMHO. Who, in your right mind, allows their child be abused in this way?
Greta needs to search YouTube for “Greenpeace Angry Kid”, to see her angry predecessor from 12 years ago. The alarmists love to use children, and fill their little heads with scary predictions.
“sanctimonious adults picking on a girl”
“the punishment, a humiliation, dumped on this girl was way over the top, given her age”
Andrew Bolt
See if the planet is ever going to be destroyed, then asteroids and meteorites will do it block off the sun and start another ice age similar to what destroyed the dinosaurs,. The asteroids ect are constantly monitored and if a dangerously sized one in on contact mode then they blast it out of range, what makes people think that climate change is a threat when scientists are going to these lengths to protect the planet
Perhaps not child abuse , but her mental condition makes her susceptible to delusions .
I read that she saw Gore,s film , which made her convinced about Glolbal warming .
In the UK in 2006 the high court ruled that because of all of the lies in the film , it was just propaganda , & must not be shown to children in school without a full explanation that it was not true .
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/noel-sheppard/2007/10/09/court-identifies-eleven-inaccuracies-al-gores-inconvenient-truth
It is a pity that the same thing did not happen in Sweden , [ & every other country .]
Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth was one of the three things that led me to suspect that the Global Warming scare was not based on science. [in case anyone is curious the other two were: #2: a local newspaper’s Earth Day article describing how people should switch off the electric lights (electricity here is 100% generated from falling water – no GHG impact) and burn candles (candles made from paraffin, which is a petroleum product) to show solidarity with the Earth. #3: Anthony Watt’s thorough deconstruction (https://wattsupwiththat.com/gore-and-bill-nye-fail-at-doing-a-simple-co2-experiment/) of Bill Nye’s Greenhouse Gas Experiment video, and Bill Nye’s refusal to retract it.]
Here in Finland (east of Sweden) Gore´s film was shown in schools. My daughter saw that and after the film she wanted to ask some questions. Teacher said that questions are not allowed. She told me that when she came home.
I said to her that this is the way how propaganda works. They push this BS down your throat and if they deny questions they know it´s BS. Real science always allows questions and don´t never stop asking, because it´s your “job” as a student. Schools responsibility is to answer your questions.
If constantly telling a child that they are useless or stupid is abuse, then what else would one call telling children that they have no future and should live in fear? The reason people have used children for many political and social purposes is simply that they are vulnerable and manipulable, and are potential objects of pity.
When this child’s utility as a tool is ended I wonder if the broken remains will simply be discarded and another take its place.
AKA a “dunny”?
Eric Worrall is absolutely right. Certainty attracts the admiration of religiously fervent people and the Climateers and the Warmistas are amongst the most fervent religious believers since the Muslims moved out of Arabia.
Bolt may have had some valid points but publicly attacking a child in such a mean and vindictive way undermined anything he had to say. It was bile not a reasonably argued point.
If St Greta has been diagnosed with OCD, that is probably why so many can identify with her, the whole “climate” movement is an obsessional, pseudo-religious cult.
Her carefully crafted, fairly tale Hansel and Greta(l) image implies innocence which can not be questioned ( how many 15 year olds really go around with pigtails trying to look like they are still ten ? )
Bolt’s piece was abusive to far less so than her own parents who clearly manipulating this allegedly “challenged” minor to advance their own political agenda.
Cartoonberg is a “human shield.” The climate mafia cannot be allowed to get away with using her. If you don’t want people “publicly attacking a child,” get the climate mafia to stop hiding behind her.
They are the problem. They have created the situation. Worrall is not the problem; he is the messenger.
Greta can go jump.
She wants to destroy the future. Exactly why she has reached this conclusion is not important, the point is her end game is complete destruction of western society. Doesn’t matter if she believes she is doing the moral or ethical thing, what she is suggesting is objectively bad.
But stating this is mean and nasty because iddy biddy Greta is only a little girl?
That is the ENTIRE point of her handlers. Her age is their shield.
Honestly, either she means and understands everything she says because she is a personification of pure evil, or she she has no idea of the real world because she is a mentally disabled puppet being used by adults for their own agenda. Either way if she wants to strut the public world stage she should be prepared for the response from the audience or get a job in IT where she doesn’t have to deal with humans.
Spot on.
“personification of pure evil”
The hateful, narrow-minded things you read in an echo-chamber…
Loydo
So you, hateful, narrow-minded disgustoid think it´s okay to abuse mentally disabled child to drive something which she doesn´t understand.
You Loydo are pure evil-minded creature who is ready to throw children to flames just for your satisfaction. Shame on you dork!
Publicly presenting a child as a propaganda front was supposed to prevent any criticism of their hysterical climate claims. It seems it didn’t work, now they scream child abuse.
Here in the US the children of Presidents have been, basically, off limits in the press while they were still young and not politically active.
Greta is very much politically active and has serious mental issues. (She says she can “see” CO2!!)
Bolt bluntly pointing out the mental instability of the Green’s “Joan of Arc” was not over the top.
Are you saying that if the ’emperor’ had been a child, he should not be told about his nakedness. I rather think Greta is a control freak, and will lash out at anyone or thing that does not dance to her tune, wheter it be what is put on the table for lunch, how her bed is made or her delusions about the end of the world. As to her parents, anyone else that used a seriously disturbed child in this way would have the child taken into care. Someone needs to say in public what many have been saying in private.
That’s rubbish; she needs to be refuted in any way possible, she is a menace.
Of course, on reflection, maybe as she is so obviously false and demonstrative of her mental disabilities, continual focusing on her inanities might not be a bad idea.
Greg, get real. Greta is a convenient vehicle for rabid leftist groups to spread their poison through society. Last week Saint Greta was seen wearing an ANTIFA T-shirt, but she says she only borrowed it from a friend. So now we know she has “friends” who support ANTIFA. She is constantly surrounded by a pack of 20-30 year old activists who write her material for her and pump her full of propaganda. She is nothing more than their mouthpiece and as such her pronouncements are absolutely fair game for criticism.
She is also donating all income from her upcoming song, to Extinction Rebellion. The only redeeming thing is that Greta is unlikely to be the next Beatles or Led Zeppelin and the royalties will be underwhelming.
Bolt also has a nightly prime time TV show and he had a prominent psychiatrist on talking about Greta’s mental state and the effect that has on her apocalyptic evangelism. She was dealt with very sympathetically on the show, but the implications are the same and worrying.
When Greta goes on strike from school, it isn’t from normal high school, but from a Special School. She is one mixed up kid. Her younger sister is apparently even worse. Her mother also has Aspergers and sincerely believes Greta can see CO2. Her parents are both activists — especially her father.
“After years of depression, eating disorders, and anxiety attacks, she finally receives a medical diagnosis: Asperger’s syndrome, high-functioning autism, and OCD. She also suffers from selective mutism—which explains why she sometimes can’t speak to anyone outside her closest family. When she wants to tell a climate researcher that she plans a school strike on behalf of the environment, she speaks through her father.”
So her climate-activist father speaks for her — how convenient. Selective mutism is a very expedient facet of her disabilities. Anyone around her can “interpret” her feelings or eye-blinks or whatever as they choose, to push their own agenda.
More and more extreme groups are riding on her saintly coat tails pulling this puppet’s strings and plying her daily with propaganda. This girl is way beyond a joke — she is dangerous, or at least the ideas she promotes are dangerous. She must be called out after every stupid, non-factual statement she makes.
Yes, but Andrew and Eric avoid placing Greta into a proper analogical context as you almost have.
Bingo in the title; not quite fulfilled within the article.
Greta fulfills a desperate need in the fervent religious believers so well described by Nicholas, Andrew and Eric.
Greta is an innocent virginal woman by appearances; beset by severe challenges that she publicly conquers.
Greta fulfills the climate messiah image role. Visibly and emotionally where Greta echoes a well known religious role.
Fervent believers are able to fill a vacant role in their mythological Gaia pantheon with this supremely fervent absolutely confidant climate leader whose simple beliefs are unshakeable.
Where science should establish the knowledge foundation that helps to understand nature; Greta fulfills a religious role that refuses criticism, sheds scientific inconsistencies and those pesky decades of prediction failures.
Belief, fervent religious belief, forms the impervious rock true believers need to shut out skeptics. Skeptics who point out consistent inadequacies where CO₂ fails to fulfill as a deity level climate control. Instead believers can now follow the supremely confident innocent woman child whose unshakeable faith withstands global criticisms.
Demonizing carbon dioxide and by coincident factors, all of mankind’s emissions rapidly becomes a full religion. After installing a new climate religious leader, next to come are formal observances, roles, and rites.
Now climate religion parishioners can fervently believe demon carbon dioxide and all disbelievers are officially d^mned to eternal perdition.
Sailing, especially on modern cold-molded carbon fiber racing yachts is on it’s way to becoming an observance. Mal de mer will be proper penance for believers.
And valid critisism of Greta is dismissed as attacks on an innocent girl.
People who are concerned about climate change are taking action every day. The reason there is not more action is only cognitive dissonance. The same reason we don’t give all our surplus income to people starving etc. Greta is admired for her leadership, that’s all.
Climate change is demonstrated by science. It is ironic that so many deniers try to argue that being convinced by scientists is a religion.
Isn’t it possible that wealthy people with a vested interest in high emission industries have sought to influence public opinion?
If the readers of this material do have an open mind, do you entertain the possibility that the scientific community is not a giant conspiracy?
Do you at least acknowledge it is possible that vested interests in fossil fuel have tried to misrepresent climate science.
I think you are mostly not idiots. Do you think you might be using your intelligence to justify your own beliefs rather than being truly open minded?
You do realize, that most of the “high emission” industries are among the largest supports of green energy technologies, yes? And thus they have no vested interest in reducing the usage of solar or wind power.
I wonder what it is she is “certain” about. Could she be certain in the truthfulness of those who go beyond the UN IPCC conclusions? Imminent climate catastrophe is not postulated by any of the UN IPCC reporting text.
All that the UN IPCC SR15 says is that, according to extremist model “projections,” we have to destroy our world economies to stay within 1.5 C of the Little Ice Age temperatures. The report did not show any detrimental impact to any climate metric if temperatures got 0.5 C higher than today’s benign climate. The UN IPCC SR15, in accordance with its directions, simply listed all the insane things the would would have to do to “theoretically” stay within the 1.5 C arbitrary limit. Every thing else is wild conjecture fed by trough-feeders.
I still think Greta’s parents are using a damaged child to further their political beliefs.
I also don’t think Greta wrote the rebuttal. Those are not words that came from a 16 year old mouth or mind, even if she has Autism. The hoax continues.!
For anybody that has been involved with divorce and custody disputes involving children, that she is being coached and used to advance a narrative is obvious. It is child abuse.
True. Also it should be noted that many of the underlying pathology of OCD, depression, eating disorders, etc. are at least partially inheritable, ie., run in families, ie., may be present in her parents.
One does not know, but agree this cold, political use of a child is pathologic in and off itself, like the parents who enter their children in beauty contests and put them on TV for whatever vicarious purpose.
True. Also it should be noted that many of the underlying pathologies of OCD, depression, eating disorders, etc. are at least partially inheritable, ie., run in families, ie., may be present in her parents. They may be a little crazy.
One does not know….but I agree this cold, political use of a child is pathologic in and of itself, like parents who enter their children in beauty contests or put them on TV in “reality shows” for whatever vicarious or greedy purpose.
How wonderfully morally superior her parents and promoters are! (do I need to say “sarcasm”?)
All that being said, we should go light on the kid herself, for decency’s sake. She is yet a child. Her parent’s and others who use her are the evil ones.
David
With Britain’s long running CET series we can see the depths of the later phase of the LIA and that the 1.5C limit was reached in the 1730’s, 1820’s 1870’s 1930’s and in the modern era from the 1990’s. Why are we so worried about being marginally above the LIA the coldest period in the entire 10000 year Holocene
tonyb
Andrew Bolt is one of the very few Australian media commentators who dares to speak the truth.
I think he actually buys his time on television, “The Bolt Report” and raises his own advertising revenue.
The left hate him.
It is normally a good show.
For those outside Australia, or in Australia but without sky tv, his show is also available as a podcast.
Psychopathy is prevalent in the left
And their followers are thick as mince.
If she is, as reported, planning on crossing the Atlantic on a racing yacht, she is more than slightly mentally disturbed.
HBO had a newish 2 hour climate change movie last night, and lovely ‘lil Greta closed it out the last few minutes with the impassioned plea to ‘do something’ whatever that means or what that will truly accomplish. She spoke nearly perfect Queen’s English with a tiny bit of Swedish accent and didn’t appear to be mentally handicapped to me. At least in the true sense of the word, not her belief system. Perhaps this was heavily edited and ‘shopped’ to appear as normal as possible.
Now I am not a Dr of any kind, but I don’t think she is really that autistic or suffering heavily from Asperger’s syndrome. She appears developmentally delayed, perhaps due to AFS as I have read elsewhere, although that is probably pure speculation. Probably very much OCD and also very impressionable by her immediate elders now that she has gone hog wild on the CAGW bandwagon, maybe because she has the ‘gene’ like so many others including her parents.
But if Greta is as authentic as she is trying to make out about her belief of the ‘climate emergency’, I would urger her to take a few years and study intently in general the 40+ disciplines and science of weather/climate and all the other relative subjects that make up Earth Science. It probably won’t change anything, but at least she will have her own facts and not the simple brainwashing that is happening to all the other kids.
Here is a YouTube video of speech last week before the French Parliament. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns54HAZgHvY
E2….. One of the primary symptoms of Aspergers is a delayed development of communication skills. You seem to have recognised that in her.
It does not mean that she is lacking in intelligence. In fact it is common for HFAspergers to be well above average in IQ. If it helps you understand, back before Aspergers was a common diagnosis, it was described to me as “a bad case of absent-minded-professor syndrome”.
An above-average intellect combined with a very narrow focus can take us down some very deep rabbit-holes. You probably owe more to such people in the realms of science and technology than you realise, but if we pick the wrong rabbit-hole and are not taught the value of context……
If she can speak almost perfect English ( as a foreign language ) and address large bodies of national politicians at the age of 15, I would say she is showing precocious development not delayed development of communication skills !
The simple clothing and the infantile hair styling is all part of the PR presentation scam.
.. oh dear, I used the S-word.
For “communication”, substitute “socialisation”. Aspies are often excellent communicators, but they lack the understanding of social cues necessary to know when to talk and when to shut up. They have to learn social skills procedural, which can be very stressful when they encounter a situation to which they have no learned response
It’s not unusual for someone with Aspergers to learn multiple languages, or to obsessively learn some other skill, or acquire inordinate amounts of knowledge about particular fields. Obsessive topic focus is one of the traits of the condition, after all.
I know someone with aspergers. She can make hour-long presentations entirely from memory and answer endless questions on the topic afterwards, but she has absolutely no idea how to function in a the social environment outside that restricted set of circumstances. She’s also susceptible to accepting statements from authorities as absolute truth because the authority presented it to her as such.
Thanks for the insights.
No one should be surprised that she speaks perfect English. This is simply the norm for Swedes of the present younger generation, even those who don’t come from a family of actors and entertainers
TV, movies, commercials, music, etc…are by default in english….with swedish subtitles
Good god, what does her hairstyle have to do with anything? If you have to attack her personal appearance, instead of what she is saying, you are on very thin ice (no pun intended!). I’ve never read so much conspiracy drivel in my life as on this site.
This is an interesting presentation on autism and female hormones.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MQQwhnCVkXY&t=321s
Greta Thunberg appears as a prepubescent child rather than the 16 year old teenager she is.
PeterW August 3, 2019 at 10:02 pm
E2….. One of the primary symptoms of Aspergers is a delayed development of communication skills. You seem to have recognised that in her.
It does not mean that she is lacking in intelligence. In fact it is common for HFAspergers to be well above average in IQ.
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Nonsens: half of this kind of people are, like all of us, more ore less above the average, the other half natarully not above.
You’re on the “Rainman” romance trip, Peter.
https://medium.com › embracing-asd
Do people with autism or Asperger’s score higher on IQ tests? – Medium
By 2014,
[only] 50% of people with ASD had average or above-average intelligence (IQ > 85),
[while] 33% of people with ASD had an intellectual …
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https://www.google.com/search?q=asperger+iq+average&oq=asperger+iq+average&aqs=chrome.
Seems you have your own postfacts disabilities, Peter – please don’t infect other readers here.
Neither Aspergers nor HFA should make us immune from criticism or correction….. no more than the normal human condition does. There is nothing wrong in pointing out that those who have them, have certain tendencies when it comes to viewing the world around us, ESPECIALLY when we are young and lack experience in dealing with the world’s uncertainties.
I have reason to know……
Unfortunately for Greta, the more she is sheltered while she is a child, the more difficulty she will face as an adult when she has to face the realities on independent living.
Two words:
“Marjoe Gortner”
Bingo!
Interesting.
I had never heard of him. wiki
Marjoe was a talented kid who was totally trained and coached by his parents. That isn’t the important thing though. The important thing is that there are techniques that even a child can use. Those techniques are highly effective.
It also doesn’t matter if someone is sincere or just conniving. The techniques are being used, deliberately or instinctively. People are falling for the techniques. People aren’t being swayed by facts. People aren’t being swayed by logic.
One way or another, Greta is a false prophet. False prophets are evil. Her certainty is evil.
oh wow!!! that was an utter whammo
I knew i knew that name;-)
when you coming back red ryder? excellent B movie and he really WAS good in it.
now Im going to have to rewatch it if the library can get a copy
I had utterly no idea of the rest of his history , explains how he did so well as a pschycopath though;-))
Disturbed and vulnerable, or just another towering a$$hole with a Messiah complex?
Who cares? Shut up, KID!
Given she claims to be able to see CO2 molecules and would be a clue to those scientifically informed that she is indeed delusional and should be ignored. One thing is for sure, at 16 her reasoning brain is still developing and thus has a lot to learn about the real world.
I agree with Glenn, the left and “climate” believers utterly hate Andrew Bolt for telling it like it is.
It seems that it is her mother that made that claim. I have not seen that Greta made it.
https://www.afrinik.com/my-daughter-can-see-co2-with-the-naked-eye/
That it came from the mother of a minor child makes it ten times more execrable. That is actionable abuse in my opinion.
The context in which it was used makes it clear that it was a metaphor, not to be taken literally.
This response did not come from a 16 year old. The hoax continues.
Thank Greta Thunderbox for helping to spread the news about her own mental disabilities. Andrew got more free publicity from Greta than he would have gotten from a Donald Trump tweet. Well, maybe not, but among climate sensitive people pretty close.
oh they were in full spate on comments
however..so were us of the skeptical mein 😉
The day is coming when she will advocate that non-believers be hanged, drowned, or burned at the stake. The testimony of delusional children have caused many to die by those methods. History does have a tendency to repeat itself.
The U.S. has the 2nd Amendment; they won’t burn us.
You think these zealots will respect the constitution ?
I was implying the 2nd Amendment has led to the many well-armed citizens in the U.S. They will protect this Constitutional Republic from any usurpers.
As for zealots not respecting the U.S. Constitution, we already have a number in the group of Democrat Presidential hopefuls that have no such respect.
“As for zealots not respecting the U.S. Constitution, we already have a number in the group of Democrat Presidential hopefuls that have no such respect.”
And we have a former Democrat president who did not respect the U.S. Constitution and even deliberately tried to undermine it with his use of Federal Government Power to attack his political opponents and overturn a U.S. presidential election.
Radical Democrats, which includes all these Democrats in leadership, don’t have any respect for the U.S. or the U.S.Constitution. They prove it every day with their efforts to divide people and undermine society.
They are the ones who think guns are so evil that they won’t own them. The guns are on our side.
No, they think guns are so evil, only their security and agents of the State should be allowed to have them.
Mob action is not a pretty thing when it happens. With this fraud going on, it could happen just about anywhere.
Sara, that’s why an intelligent citizen is an armed citizen.
No kidding, Dave. Mob action is the reason I moved OUT of Chicago almost 20 years ago. Much safer where I am now. And quieter, too.
And you can own a gun, too, Sara
“Mob action is not a pretty thing when it happens.”
No it’s not, and it is easy to be caught up in the emotions of the moment even for people who normally have a little bit of sense.
Emotions are a powerful thing, and those who use emotions to generate hate and anger are very dangerous to society. And I’m not talking about President Trump, I’m talking about all the Democrats who distort every word he says in an effort to demonize him, and in the process cause consternation in millions of people who don’t know any better. Democrat lies are the big problem the nation faces.
She hasn’t pointed out or accused the witches just yet.
Will be fascinating to see how the girl is doing 10 years from now, long after she’s been used up and discarded. I suspect it won’t be positive. So sad.
Or even two years from now. Pure speculation, but I’d guess another of her problems is delayed puberty.
Her younger sister suffers from similar mental disturbances. She’ll be groomed to join/replace her.
We should doubt any supposed wunderkind who claims to be able to see a colourless & odourless trace gas that makes up .04% of the atmosphere.
We should also condemn any adults that would use such a child to pursue a political advantage.
I hope this child gets the help she do obviously needs.
My wife is a high on the spectrum Autistic.She has been able to game her own system and sometimes
use it to her advantage. She has two degrees and can operate smoothly in real life.
Greta knows full well what she is doing.
Greta is not much different than those girls of Salem.
Those witch trials resulted in pubic hearings and executions. Young girls of Greta’s age were believed by church leaders and sitting judges. And public executions took place.
Jeanne d’Arc (aka Joan of Arc) – according to Wikipedia – began influencing events at the age of 16. This did not end well for her, but we have been left with an interesting character.
In the great sweep of history, my guess is that the French young lady will be remembered long after the Swedish activist is forgotten.
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy. Greta takes up the new religion and is more likely to win a Nobel prize and be set for life. It’s difficult to predict the future though.
Another spokesperson who’s pronouncements can not be criticized, with out the critic being vilified. It’s an effective tactic to silence rebuttal.
Describing that tweet as “lashing out at Andrew Bolt” show more about you Eric that either Thunberg or Bolt.
Loydo, are you a parent?
Greta, is missing a lot of school and being used by adults who can’t convince millions to believe in their climate delusions, so they decided to play on her childish immaturity to promote a climate hustle, saying the same bullcrap the adults have been saying for years.
It is child abuse, that only decent parents can see clearly, that YOU fail to see it, shows that have a dark streak in you.
“being used” You have no evidence of that. (No, evidence is not your opinion.)
I am a parent. What is most disturbing about Andrew Bolt lashing out against a 16yo is the calculated publicity he would recieve. This is in character.
It is clear you have never had children.
It is abuse when they are denied getting an education and a loving home. Instead she is being used by her activist parents who use her youth and ignorance to advance the SAME propaganda the adults have failed to con enough of the public with.
Her claims are not hers for the most part and that she has been lied to, and she promotes some of the lies herself as a puppet she is.
It is horrible that her emotional and physical well being is not important to you, you disgust me for what YOU are.
Your comment tells us everything we need to know about you. And it’s all bad.
Oh what fun this mindless stuff is right?
One of Loydo’s previous ‘lashing out’ comments says more about Loydo … Let’s review:
Loydo August 1, 2019 at 12:05 am
“I thought I was going easy on her with schlock. In hindsight horst schist is more appropriate.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/30/shockingly-thick-first-year-ice-between-barents-sea-and-the-north-pole-in-mid-july/
BOLT makes a SHOCKING remark creating a STORM of controversy.Some people say he’s a very BRIGHT guy.
And your point is?
You sound like a lawyer with that question.David, my comment was just a play on words. Geeeezz….
Indeed, Dan. You are a natural wordsmith. Well done.
Same as for Elijah Cummings.
I do not think little Greta’s pronouncements are interesting. The words of children very seldom are of any importance to anyone other than proud parents and doting grandparents.
The simplest theory is that Greta believes what she believes because that is what her parents and her teachers taught her. Very few little kids her age have an independently derived set of beliefs. Very few, like almost none.
Here is the thing, what children believe is simply not interesting. If the media is putting her forward as someone whose beliefs should be respected, either the media are fools, or they think their customers are fools. On the basis of a lifetime of listening to the media, I think both possibilities are true.
Those in profitable media are not fools.
I predict that in about ten years she will file a lawsuit against her parents and/or handlers for child exploitation and abuse. And win. Then on the way home from the courthouse in her SUV she will stop for a fill-up with gasoline before rushing home to order a load of heating oil before the next winter storm hits.