Posted on 12/13/2019 7:41:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
On Thursday morning, the President of the United States sent a tweet to his 60+ million followers blasting a 16-year-old girl with Asperger's syndrome who has rallied efforts at fighting climate change around the globe.
"Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend!" Trump wrote of teenage climate crisis activist Greta Thunberg. "Chill Greta, Chill!"
This isn't the first time Trump has gone after Thunberg. "She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future," Trump sarcastically tweeted following Thunberg's speech in front of the United Nations General Assembly earlier this fall. "So nice to see!"
Sadly, Trump's response is predictable in the wake of the Swedish climate activist being named as Time's Person of the Year over him. Trump is a bully. And he has shown time and again that he has no qualms about bullying anyone and everyone. Let's not forget that he poked fun at Carly Fiorina's looks when she was competing with him for the Republican nomination during the 2016 campaign. And in that same campaign, Trump mocked a New York Times reporter by crudely mimicking his physical disability. So that the president of the United States would tell a 16-year-old with Asperger's -- a condition most distinguished by difficulty with social interactions -- to make some friends and, basically, relax, fits nicely into that pattern of behavior.
Thunberg responded by changing her Twitter bio to mock the President's words, referring to herself as: "A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend." Thunberg has been open about her neurological difference, acknowledging both the struggles she's had and calling it a "superpower" when it comes to her activism.
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CNN is ATT
Why? He didn’t say she was ugly so what’s the problem?
Why? He didn’t say she was ugly so what’s the problem?
Big deal. Everyone is on a spectrum.
The leftist bias within corporate media has become so garish and absurd that there is little anticipation it won’t use any opportunity to puff up the left agenda. While Thunberg was certainly a strong contender for “Person of the Year,” a few people noted that Time had missed a sound opportunity to voice unequivocal support for various groups of people around the world who have been tirelessly–and at the risk of life and limb–protesting their oppressive regimes.
Time could have given the award to the protesters in Iran, who, spurred by a rise in oil prices, took to the streets to protest the corruption of the Iranian regime, which continues to spend hundreds of millions each year funding terrorist proxies in the hopes of expanding Iranian hegemony in the region. Or they could have given the award to the reader-chosen Hong Kong protesters, who have spent months opposing an extradition bill that had come to symbolize the tightening of Beijing’s control over the democratic beacon of Asia.
A little sleuthing on the Twitter feed of Stephen Miller, host of “Versus Media” podcast, and some digging amongst the annals of Federalist articles reveals that the latest purchaser of Time magazine is none other than Marc Benioff, the SalesForce tycoon who made waves for pulling business out of Indiana after the state passed religious liberty protections akin to those offered on a federal level. As Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist noted at the time, 18 other states had similar protections in place at the time. No word from Benioff on refusing to do business with them, or nationally due to the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Benioff’s patronage is relevant here because SalesForce announced this past summer that it would be partnering the world’s largest e-commerce company, Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. Alibaba is based in China and offers SalesForce an entry into the Chinese software market. Back in July, Alibaba announced in a blog post that it would be “the exclusive provider of Salesforce to customers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and Salesforce will become the exclusive enterprise CRM product suite sold by Alibaba.”
Thus, given Benioff’s newfound ties to the Chinese tech giant, the decision not to award the title of “Person of the Year” to the Hong Kong protesters makes perfect sense. As Christopher Ashley Ford, assistant secretary of the U.S. State Department’s bureau of international security and nonproliferation, noted at a Washington conference back in September, “Whether de facto or de jure, such [tech] giants can in some important respects or for some purposes act as arms of the state—or, more precisely, the Chinese Communist Party, to which the Chinese state apparatus is itself subordinate.”
Back in 2015, Benoiff waxed poetic against Indiana’s decision to pass RFRA-like protections on a state level. It seems that on the freedom of Hong Kongers, he may be similarly indifferent—or worse, spiteful. Time had a chance to make a strong statement on the freedom-fighting endeavors of the Hong Kong protesters –a job made significantly easier by the fact that the Hong Kong protesters won the reader poll prettily handily.
Although we’d like to believe there are corners of the media that remain uncorrupted by bias or personal interest, this is one corner where that may no longer be the case. The decision not to honor the Hong Kong protesters pairs quite neatly with Benioff’s recent NYT op-ed in which he declared, “Capitalism, as we know, is dead.” It may be for him, but not for Hong Kongers, who continue to fight China’s communist regime.
1) She’s interacting in what is supposed to be a Grown-up world.
2) The tweet was extremely mild.
And in that same campaign, Trump mocked a New York Times reporter by crudely mimicking his physical disability.
And the only thing we should be appalled at is CNN claiming we should be appalled at Trump's tweet.
Trump was already named Time's Person of the Year in 2016.
“We should all be appalled”
Holier than thou outrage along the lines of:
How dare you.
Do you know who I am?
That little brat needs a good spanking and to get her a$$ back in class.
It isn’t too late to MAYBE develop a couple of those unused brain cells.
Until then shut the hell up!
Greta is a nasty piece of work. She needs a good bitch slapping.
POTUS was much too nice to Scoldilocks. He should have said: “Hey little girl, STFU and go to class!”
And apparently CNN does too.
“You know her adult handlers are abusing her.“
She has mental health problems, her sister’s are worse. Her proggie/socialist parents have used and abused her to acquire social fame.
She’s the sad, pitiful fruit of evil parents.
Notice that CNN is all worked up over 16 year old Greta over a little harmless tweet, but is the same media company that slandered an innocent 16 year old schoolboy named Nick Sandmann calling him a hateful racist because he wore a MAGA hat while visiting the nation’s capital.
CNN does NOT have any credibility at all.
I honestly don’t care about anything that people tell me to “care” about. Articles like these were written for DUmmies.
I wonder how old Obama was when they first started filling his head.
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