{"id":322976,"date":"2019-09-24T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=322976"},"modified":"2021-11-22T11:04:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:04:12","slug":"the-shameful-exploitation-of-greta-thunberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/09\/24\/the-shameful-exploitation-of-greta-thunberg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shameful Exploitation of Greta Thunberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Greta Thunberg. This is — I gotta tread very carefully here. The young girl has some — well, she\u2019s got Asperger\u2019s, and – (interruption) Yeah, but she\u2019s got intense — whatever the — autism. These adults, these people need to be so ashamed of what they have done to the children of this world. Watching this young girl, there\u2019s no question she really believes her planet is dead in 10 years. She really believes. And she believes all the adults have done this.<\/p>\n

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These Democrats, these professors, these people in the media, they go out and they start talking about this stuff in order to get people to believe \u2019em. See, nobody believes climate change so they keep making it more drastic, 10 years and we\u2019re dead, 12 years and we\u2019re dead, still nobody believes it, five years and we\u2019re dead, still nobody believes it, they come up with more — well, these kids are believing it. And of course Greta Thunberg, you can put her on TV, let her go to the United Nations, become an official spokesman.<\/p>\n

The Democrats can use her and exploit her all they want, just like they exploited so-called starving kids in \u201995. But contrast that with the way they treated 16-year-old Nick Sandmann of the Covington High School kids. Nick Sandmann didn\u2019t have a right to smile<\/a>. There were people wanted to wipe that smile off his face. There were Democrat media people that wanted to punch that guy out because of the way he was looking at that Indian activist, Nathan whatever his name was.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, so if you\u2019re a young child and you can act and you can espouse the left-wing agenda, they\u2019ll make a star out of you. And they\u2019ll put you up there at the United Nations and they\u2019ll bring you in a sailboat and they\u2019ll make you look like you\u2019re environmentally pure. They will exploit the hell — they\u2019re standing by, these people, these adults are actually — listen to her. We\u2019ve got tape. They\u2019re standing by and allowing this young girl to believe a bunch of pap.<\/p>\n

They are willing for this young girl to go through her life literally scared to death. They are willing to let this young girl go through her life believing she has no life because there isn\u2019t gonna be a planet. They are perfectly willing to stand by and watch this girl\u2019s life be ruined because of the filth and the drivel that they\u2019ve put in her head. You can\u2019t define exploitation any better than that.<\/p>\n

If people looked at this in the proper perspective, there would be so much rage at everybody in this climate change hoax because Greta Thunberg is just a stand-in for every child in America they\u2019ve corrupted this way. Would you raise a child — some people do because they\u2019re not mentally balanced themselves — raise a kid believing that your life only has 10 years because of a political party? Because the Republicans want to kill the earth, they want to kill the planet, they don\u2019t care about you and you keep telling them — this is how you raise your kids? Who does this?<\/p>\n

They put their causes and their issues and their quest for power even over the health of their own children and then have the audacity to go around telling us they care about the children, they\u2019re the ones looking out for the children and somehow we are the ones posing the threat?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, speaking of that, very happy to see today a piece by Scott Adams. He\u2019s the political cartoonist. And he has a piece posted at his blog called, “A Message for Children About Climate Change.”<\/a> And he also is another adult that we can add to the mix. Sadly, there aren\u2019t very many. There are some adults, obviously, as defined by age, but by demeanor and by attitude, they seem to be absent all too often. So that slack picked up by me.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Look at that. We have a lot of Greta Thunberg calls out there. I understand that, so you people that are on hold, hang on. That\u2019s why I mentioned it in the first half hour. Greta Thunberg, climate change, this is a personal connection people make. This is a child. This is a child that\u2019s got some mental challenges that are being exploited by people for the exclusive, selfish desire to advance their agenda.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t care the impact it\u2019s having on Greta or other young people her age. They\u2019re just using \u2019em. It\u2019s like a cult, folks. This is the only way to explain this. It borders on child abuse and obscene, if you ask me. Because we know better. We know the world\u2019s not gonna end in 10 years. We know it\u2019s not gonna end in 12. It hasn\u2019t ended in how many hundreds of thousands of years.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not gonna end in 50. Life is not gonna be wiped out. These people know this! And yet they tell these young kids this stuff anyway to create these armies of them running around, now blaming parents and blaming grandparents and so forth. It\u2019s just hideous. So, yeah, you all hang on.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The internet exploded yesterday, last night, whenever Trump reacted to Greta Thunberg. It\u2019s my favorite phrase: Internet exploded<\/a>. Something went viral. Twitter is going nuts. That means the Drive-Bys have a story.<\/p>\n

\"\"And what it was, you know, Greta Thunberg sees Trump at the U.N. yesterday, glares at him, stares daggers at him, then goes and makes her speech about how adults and her parents and grandparents are destroying the planet, all that. “You\u2019ve stolen my dreams, you\u2019ve stolen my childhood with your empty words. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.”<\/p>\n

That was her tweet. This is a 16-year-old or something like that. Entire ecosystems are collapsing? Stolen my dreams and my childhood? Mass extinction? Mass extinction? I thought that\u2019s what they wanted. I thought they were afraid of the population bomb.<\/p>\n

So the president tweeted, “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!” The internet exploded. How dare he! He\u2019s mocking her! He\u2019s making fun of her! No, he was saying nice things about her. “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see.”<\/p>\n

Folks, this man is a genius when it comes to social media! And much else. With one little less than 140-character tweet he blows up her whole point. And he makes the illustration of what\u2019s being done to her! Every kid should be bright and happy, looking forward to a wonderful future. It ought to be a nice thing to see.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s not. Greta Thunberg isn\u2019t. She\u2019s convinced that she\u2019s dead already. She\u2019s convinced that adults are killing her because they\u2019re culling the planet. I don\u2019t know how else to say this, folks. This has been a pet peeve issue of mine for the entire time I have been hosting this program. It\u2019s over 30 years. And the reason is, this issue, climate change, global warming, whatever, it contains every element of liberalism that they use to succeed in conquering whole populations, countries. It\u2019s got every issue. It\u2019s got every element they believe in. And that\u2019s why they\u2019re never gonna give it up.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And it\u2019s also something that can never end. When you\u2019re predicting things 30 years, 50 years, 75 years out, it\u2019s never gonna be over. There\u2019s no way to ever say conclusively that they were wrong. Now, there are countless articles out there now, the Conservative Enterprise Institute<\/a>, number of other places, have begun to publish all of the phony, incorrect, blatantly wrong predictions that have been made over the last 30 years.<\/p>\n

The number is over 75, just the ones that you take seriously. They haven\u2019t been right about anything. They have predicted the demise of the oceans. They have predicted the demise of the human population, they have predicted the sea level rise destroying Miami by now and New York City, Manhattan. They haven\u2019t been right about anything. So these articles are starting to be published about this.<\/p>\n

But the impact on these young people is what troubles me. They\u2019re literally exploiting these young people. They\u2019re scaring them to death. They\u2019re ruining their lives. They literally are, all for the sake of advancing a political agenda. And it\u2019s not the first time they\u2019ve done it. They\u2019ve done it in many instances and times in the past.<\/p>\n

The school lunch cuts. They\u2019ve convinced American kids that Republicans actually wanted them to starve. Then they went out and they organized letter writing campaigns by elementary school students. “Dear Republican Congressman: Why do you want me to be hungry? I can\u2019t learn when I\u2019m hungry. Why do you want me to starve? What is it that you don\u2019t like about me that you don\u2019t want me to have lunch?”<\/p>\n

The Democrats were organizing this. The Democrats, their teachers in the classrooms were having these students write these letters for credit, all about the budget battle. There was no school lunch budget cut. There never are cuts in Washington. Nothing ever really gets cut! And the school lunch budget was not cut. It was gonna go up.<\/p>\n