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.”
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A male child barely out of puberty :)
But that should really be about it.
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.
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.
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.
How do you say “bullshit” in Swedish?
She means she’s sorry the wrong people heard her voicing the plans.
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.
However, it is Gaia's will.
Her handlers said it was because she was chewing Aspergum or something like that.
Liberals have really bad genes.
The girl looks and acts psychotic. She’s Person of the Year. Much good may the leftards get by that choice.
Bless her soul. Love her. She has so little. But was pushed into a firestorm.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is a thing in Europe. If your child is incorrigible and unteachable (and smells like Heinz Beans), give them to the State.
Yet.
I wonder what "put up against the wall" means in German?
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