Knowing It All at 16
Townhall.com,
by
Cal Thomas
Original Article
Posted By: Harlowe,
9/27/2019 10:35:01 PM
How much credibility should we give to a 16-year-old when considering her qualifications to lecture adults about science and an end-of-the-world scenario? Greta Thunberg has been dubbed by the media as a "climate change activist" and a teen "eco-warrior." She was at the United Nations in New York on Monday to appear before diplomats and others at a "climate action summit." Only the UN has less credibility than a teenager.(Snip)Thunberg was preparing to speak to the assembled adults at the UN when President Trump walked in ahead of her. The man knows showmanship. The expression on Thunberg's face was priceless.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
panther361 9/28/2019 12:05:37 AM (No. 191723)
I don't know...look at Nancy Pelosi at her age and she still can't get a handle on things. I still want to know, if humans have climate control ability, why don't we set the global thermostat to please everyone.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
AGGW 9/28/2019 12:20:58 AM (No. 191729)
Love his sarcasm.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Trigger2 9/28/2019 2:11:23 AM (No. 191749)
Teen eco-warrior? No, more like teen eco-terrorist who is 100% indoctrinated by public education morons. A perfect would be Jim Jones follower.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Catherine 9/28/2019 2:50:15 AM (No. 191756)
The first articles I read about this child said she is autistic and has Aspbergers. Even if she doesn't, she's a scary little thing. Reminds me a bit of that Hogg kid. Where do the democrats find them?
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Her parents are idiots. This 'child' had no business railing about climate change like CA is burning. She has been fully indoctrinated to deliver someone else's message and it will be detrimental to her health. I can see her flipping out at some point.
The real question is who approved her to speak at the UN ? You or I could not do it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
PChristopher 9/28/2019 5:23:30 AM (No. 191796)
Her overheated, overscripted cries of HOW DARE YOU will stay with me for a long time. Who the H does she think she is? She needs to have a couple of her teeth loosened and then thrown into a convent requiring complete silence for a decade or so.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 9/28/2019 6:31:19 AM (No. 191808)
This punk is not going to preach to me. When I was 16 no one cared what I had to say. The same goes for her. Where's her degree on this subject.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jinx 9/28/2019 7:33:03 AM (No. 191856)
Who is she and where are her parents? What is her educational background? Who came up with the idea of sending her to the UN? Who is paying for her room and board here? I read that the people who accompanied her to America on that boat flew back home. Is she going to fly home? Too many questions and no facts available.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 9/28/2019 7:37:44 AM (No. 191861)
I feel sorry for Greta. I don't believe her life will proceed well.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/28/2019 7:57:19 AM (No. 191878)
The cartoon on the home page says it all. In the mid 1960's in a small teachers college I attended for Early Childhood Education, we were told NOT to use rote learning, even for the alphabet nor for the Pledge of Allegiance. We were to teach facts, grammar, history and local events. The professors warned us to NOT use the ''jugs into mugs'' theory of education. It would appear that since Brown v Board of Education they have gone back to Jugs & Mugs. Open a jug, pour it into a mug. Education done!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
singermom9820 9/28/2019 8:04:47 AM (No. 191882)
Here is a youtube of her really without the script.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bwLt_5t73g Why was it OK and encouraged to treat the Covington kids with contempt but we were to treat this little idiot as if she had the knowledge of the universe.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
StormCnter 9/28/2019 8:20:48 AM (No. 191898)
Cal Thomas is one of the good guys and he answers his mail, too.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/28/2019 8:52:46 AM (No. 191933)
Cal, isn't this considered child abuse?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Franz 9/28/2019 9:08:20 AM (No. 191947)
The sad part of this is she truly believes we are all going to die in ten years. This is what happens when a child is indoctrinated from age 5 with Man-made Global Warming propaganda. (Whoops! Climate Change! That way you have all changes covered.) You see this commonly in children raised in cults, because the dogma is embedded before the children reach the age where they can distinguish between truth and B.S.
Around 1957, we were supposed to be entering another ice age (due to air pollution). It never happened. In 10 years, I wonder if she will awaken to the fact that she has been fed B.S.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
VietVet68 9/28/2019 9:12:32 AM (No. 191951)
This young girl has been victimized by the adults in her life and suffers from "Climate Stockholm Syndrome".
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
pinger 9/28/2019 9:20:04 AM (No. 191959)
Re the "Chucky Doll" reference....I'm still cleaning spitted coffee out of my keyboard. I KNEW she reminded me of someone.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 9/28/2019 9:40:36 AM (No. 191980)
The only future prediction which ever came true - - was when Criswell The Great went on Johnny Carson's show and predicted Ticks In Tennessee.
Those Tennesseeans were scratching like hound dogs for years after that.
Otherwise - - nothing else has panned out.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/28/2019 10:00:38 AM (No. 192000)
I have a 16 year old grandson and if he walked into my house and began speaking to me about climate change or gun control I'd back hand him. I would begin to tell him I raised his father better than that. Who or what moron allowed this twerp to speak at the UN? That's what I would like to know.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
donnaclaire 9/28/2019 10:13:09 AM (No. 192012)
Greta and David Hogg should get together; they're both of the same mindset - "It's my way or the highway."
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
little guy 9/28/2019 10:18:19 AM (No. 192025)
The fact this child is so obsessed about any subject is troubling. Instead of being fixated with today's equivalent of Elvis Presley or The Beatles she's a mono-maniac about the entire world dying! Literally ... not figuratively. How sad is that? No problem when she hits 22 and realizes that Elvis or Paul isn't going to marry her. Life goes on. But ... When the world continues to spin in 10 years unmoved by her rants then her whole reason for living will collapse and it will probably go down the dark hole along with her own life. She should be on suicide watch soon.
Sorry but she is not a latter day Joan of Arc but is a pathetic nut job thanks to her parents abuse. Who would allow their child to be used like this?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Quigley 9/28/2019 11:07:35 AM (No. 192053)
Hitler Youth comes to mind. I’m sure they would each have testified to the righteousness of Hitler’s policies.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
NotaBene 9/28/2019 11:41:25 AM (No. 192082)
Greta is a mentally retarded young girl. Nothing wrong with that, but I am not going to take advice from any 16-year old.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
rochow 9/28/2019 12:35:22 PM (No. 192128)
You should have a look at the parents. An aging singer who all her live no doubt wanted to have her bookings extended to the States or around the world. Father seems to be jack of all trades in show business. With this homely child (they have two who look the same) they finally have what they wanted, they are infamous around the planet. I would like to hear/read how this autistic loud mouth gets back home! Bicycling? Swimming over??
I am sick of this thing being referred to as a child. Ira Fuerstenberg married at 15. The former Greek 'king' married his bride at that age. Thousands of US high school kids dropped out of high school to elope. Puerto Ricans in NY have one or 2 children of their own at this age, ditto Muslim women. The loudmouth know it all is a young adult. Someone should give her some literature to read about climate jerks in the 1970's. According to them we would long be covered with ice , crops would not grow and we would all be dead! I assume this Asperger/autistic non child is able to read. Though I am beginning to doubt that. One needs to cut trees to produce paper, electric printing machines (the horror) have to put ink and text on the pages! I wonder how they distribute food in her neighborhood. They go hunting and grow everything themselves??? You get the drift....and so on, and so on!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/28/2019 12:47:13 PM (No. 192140)
Thanks for that link, #12. Without her script she’s truly pathetic.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/28/2019 12:54:42 PM (No. 192148)
#12, appreciate the link. I played it back, too, and without a script, this lost young adult showed her true colors.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 9/28/2019 1:24:27 PM (No. 192175)
The poor thing has to be Algore's illegitimate daughter.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 9/28/2019 2:40:30 PM (No. 192212)
True, #22, or the Soviet Young Pioneers. Our public education system is doing something similar. Turn the children away from and then against their parents, the source of true civics education, and learning one's culture, traditions, history (all that and more Michelle Obama proclaimed odious and must be "gotten over".
This girl is both subject/object and verb. She's been subjected to propaganda from her parents and all those she puts her naïve trust in; she can' discern truth from the lies, having been thoroughly brainwashed. Now with the requisite training, she performs her shrill clown show for all the clapping seals in the media and political sphere.
She, like most people, including all those in her retinue, enjoys the fame and adulation.
Then, there's the money...
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
DVC 9/28/2019 6:23:51 PM (No. 192384)
SHe's a creepy mouthy, ignorant, programmed, dangerous CHILD who knows literally NOTHING from first hand experience.
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