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Greta Thunberg apologizes after saying politicians should be put 'against the wall'
The Hill ^ | 12 14 2019 | Marina Pitofsky

Posted on 12/14/2019 6:59:34 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Greta Thunberg apologized Saturday after saying that politicians should be put "against the wall” after some critics alleged that the teen climate activist was advocating for violence against officials.

“Yesterday I said we must hold our leaders accountable and unfortunately said “put them against the wall”. That’s Swenglish: “att ställa någon mot väggen” (to put someone against the wall) means to hold someone accountable,” Thunberg tweeted.

“That’s what happens when you improvise speeches in a second language. But of course I apologise if anyone misunderstood this. I can not enough express the fact that I - as well as the entire school strike movement- are against any possible form of violence. It goes without saying but I say it anyway,” she continued.

Thunberg joined thousands of students in the Italian city of Turin Friday for a protest to push the country’s government to take greater action to curb carbon emissions. She traveled to the city from Madrid after attending a United Nations climate summit in Spain.

Thunberg told the crowd in Turin that world leaders are running away from their responsibilities to address carbon emissions and fight climate change, the Associated Press reported.

“We have to make sure that they cannot do that," she said. "We will make sure they, that we put them against the wall, and that they will have to do their job and to protect our futures."

In Swedish, the phrase “putting someone against the wall” means someone is forced to address difficult questions of a difficult situation.”

SNIP

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To: chopperk

A male child barely out of puberty :)

But that should really be about it.


121 posted on 12/14/2019 10:44:30 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: Jamestown1630

She’s not SIX :)

Why is everyone calling her a child?

A lot of “children” died in even our own wars fighting for freedom.

Just because she’s an idiot doesn’t mean we should throw in a lot of good teenagers with her.


122 posted on 12/14/2019 10:45:53 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: yesthatjallen

Greta has more integrity that all of the Democrat leadership. Who would have guessed?

She still wrong on climate, but at least she is grown up enough to apologize.


123 posted on 12/14/2019 10:49:25 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: yesthatjallen
That’s Swenglish: “att ställa någon mot väggen” (to put someone against the wall) means to hold someone accountable...

What pure BS. EVERYBODY in EVERY language KNOWS what it means to put somebody against the wall. She uttered a typical lib non-apology apology. I'm surprised she didn't utter the standard lib "I'm sorry if I offended anybody" BS crap.

124 posted on 12/14/2019 10:51:49 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: yesthatjallen

How do you say “bullshit” in Swedish?


125 posted on 12/14/2019 10:52:29 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man)
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To: yesthatjallen

126 posted on 12/14/2019 11:08:54 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: yesthatjallen

She means she’s sorry the wrong people heard her voicing the plans.


127 posted on 12/14/2019 11:10:23 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Bon mots

This picture is from 1943 and the SS evacuation of The Warsaw Ghetto. I’ve seen this photo a number of times. What is seldom ever shown is a following picture. These people, who were Jews, were all shot.


128 posted on 12/14/2019 11:32:35 PM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: yesthatjallen
Greta regrets that non-believers must be executed.

However, it is Gaia's will.

129 posted on 12/14/2019 11:41:04 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Her handlers said it was because she was chewing Aspergum or something like that.


130 posted on 12/14/2019 11:46:00 PM PST by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: caww

Liberals have really bad genes.


131 posted on 12/14/2019 11:51:28 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: chopperk

The girl looks and acts psychotic. She’s Person of the Year. Much good may the leftards get by that choice.


132 posted on 12/15/2019 12:19:18 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Bless her soul. Love her. She has so little. But was pushed into a firestorm.


133 posted on 12/15/2019 12:35:55 AM PST by FreeperCell
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To: Jamestown1630

Agree and she deserves no platform. She’s a child and had no intellect. Some children are quite intelligent. She is not one of them.


134 posted on 12/15/2019 1:27:17 AM PST by HollyB
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To: DoughtyOne

Trump told her to work on her anger management and to chill. He was right, and Greta should take his advice. She won’t, though, so I’m sure we will hear a few more outbursts until she is tossed onto the Cindy Sheehan/Camera Hogg oblivion heap by her handlers.


135 posted on 12/15/2019 2:26:54 AM PST by Cecily
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To: chopperk
Who cares what a child barely out of puberty says?

Her leftist cult followers who drool over her every word and act out on them.

Which makes her an existential threat to every normal human on the planet.

136 posted on 12/15/2019 2:44:38 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: yesthatjallen

An honorably deserved screed:

Thunberg is becoming St.Joan of Bark

By the Blather, Bun and Holy Boast of the Vatican.

See: “Vatican Calls Greta Thunberg ‘Great Witness’ of Church’s Environmental Teaching”

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3800771/posts

It will draw socialists back to the church which works to subvert national borders all over the world to illegal immigration.

The Vatican needs to be popular , you see, to stem the exodus of families who do not want to expose their children to the tender mercies of un-apprehended holy pedophiles.

All can bow and curtsy around the beginning canonization of St. Joan of Bark, a veritable anger filled, hate filled stand in for the victim character of William Peter Blatty’s block buster horror movie, “The Exorcist”.

Her demonic possession is a foregone conclusion to exhort the masses towards socialism everywhere, so that the freedoms and liberties of nations can become subservient in the minutest details of everyday life because of climate change. She even exhumes the putrid corpse of Che Guevara
to prick his balls in case they are not empty, in hopes of bearing his necrotic child to inflict on nations of freedom and liberty.

So who wants to be first to drink from the now sacred chalice of Saint Joan of Bark?

Time magazine editors have been poisoned by her ichorous beverage, fools for a young socialist psychopomp.

Thunberg can take her place in the dust bin of history as soon as possible or die of her insane self affliction, whatever works for our genuine humanity.


137 posted on 12/15/2019 2:45:54 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: yesthatjallen
Her parents had enough of this bean-eating freak and decided to kick her out of the nest, probably because she reminded them of themselves.

This is a thing in Europe. If your child is incorrigible and unteachable (and smells like Heinz Beans), give them to the State.

138 posted on 12/15/2019 2:47:59 AM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: Bon mots
For all her faults -- and they are legion! -- I give her a pass on this one. The language translated to English poorly; it was obvious, in context, she was not calling for firing squads.

Yet.

139 posted on 12/15/2019 2:53:51 AM PST by Lazamataz (We can be called a racist and we'll just smile. Because we don't care.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Here's Greta with her German handler:

I wonder what "put up against the wall" means in German?

140 posted on 12/15/2019 3:00:13 AM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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