It’s been said, in relation to President Trump, that sometimes you need a bully on your side against an even bigger bully. The same can be said for assholes. Mark Steyn once said, “You can’t out-asshole Donald Trump”, but Jeremy Clarkson would give him a run for his money. And that’s why we love him.
In a world of PC capons, Clarkson is exactly the kind of blunt-spoken asshole we need in the fight against the self-righteous assholes of the left.
Former “Top Gear” host Jeremy Clarkson in a Friday column called teen climate activist Greta Thunberg a “spoilt brat” and blamed her supporters and parents for encouraging her behavior.
Thunberg is one of the most privileged humans to ever walk the earth. Like most of her generation, she lives in the sort of coddled luxury that would make the Sun King gasp with envy – and all she can do is scowl and screech at my generation and the generation before – which would be the generation who saved the world from Nazism. How dare she?
Clarkson suggested Thunberg remember that she owes a debt to adults, starting with those who sponsored her much-hyped trans-Atlantic voyage last month.
“How dare we? No,” he said. “How dare you sail to America on a carbon fibre yacht that you didn’t build which cost £15million, that you didn’t earn, and which has a back-up diesel engine that you didn’t mention.”
Clarkson went on to point out that adults also gave Thunberg and her generation countless scientific and cultural innovations, from headache medicine to movies to fighter jets to iPhones.
“Pause for a moment to consider how soundly you sleep at night, knowing that adults are building and servicing and flying Sweden’s fighter planes. To keep you safe,” he said. “We gave you mobile phones and laptops and the internet. We created the social media you use every day and we run the banks that pay for it all.”
Clarkson added: “So how dare you stand there and lecture us, you spoilt brat.”
Clarkson also rightly pointed out that the fault lies with the parents and unscrupulous activists who have enabled this brat’s ignorant temper-tantrums.
Clarkson agreed with Thunberg that “the world is heating up” and something should be done to prevent climate change from fueling an “unimaginable refugee crisis.”
However, he said that “science is what will solve the problem eventually. Not scowling and having screaming ab-dabs every five minutes.”
“So be a good girl, shut up and let them get on with it,” he concluded. “And no. You cannot stay out past ten. And you cannot go out in a skirt that short.”
Naturally, the unprincipled left are hypocritically cowering behind their infant human shield.
The column by Clarkson, who has long courted controversy, provoked indignation by Thunberg’s many supporters.
However…in an essay published Saturday, National Review editor Rich Lowry argued that Thunberg is a “pawn being used by adults for their own interests.”
“Kids are powerful pawns,” he said. “The catchphrase ‘for the children’ has a seductive political appeal, while kids offer their adult supporters a handy two-step. The same people who say, ‘The world must heed this 16-year-old girl’ will turn around and say to anyone who pushes back, ‘How dare you criticize a 16-year-old girl?’”
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