You couldn’t blame “Saturday Night Live” and late-night hosts for holding back on Greta Thunberg.
The then-teen became a Climate Change sensation at 15, speaking out against anyone who didn’t take Al Gore’s pet project seriously. She was young, passionate and, clearly, on the Autism spectrum. She said as much. This troubled teen poured her heart into a very specific cause, and even Climate Change skeptics thought twice about mocking her.
Certain topics remain off limits even in today’s coarse culture, like a president’s young children. So, the usual satirical suspects kept their powder dry.
Heck, a better target might have been media outlets and world leaders who took cues from an ill-advised teen. Why did they all fall for “The Greta Effect?”
Either way, leave this poor kid alone!
That “kid” is now 23 years old. And, in recent years, she’s hopped off the enviro-bandwagon and became a Swede for Palestine. Thunberg’s activism over the Gaza violence, sparked by the atrocities of Oct. 7 and the ongoing hostage crisis, raised eyebrows.
The best example? She joined the so-called Freedom Flotilla Coalition last year bound for the Gaza Strip. That’s before Israeli forces detained Cap’n Greta and friends, reportedly with less than truckload of supplies for the suffering Palestinians.
Right on cue, she said Israeli forces tortured her, but she declined to elaborate, and no such evidence emerged. Even those who cheered her environmental activism on just a few short years ago might have questioned her actions.
Except she’s got a new, improved shtick these days. Thunberg has turned her attention to Cuba, where power blackouts are crippling the nation after years of infrastructure neglect. The Trump administration has been pressuring Cuba to release political prisoners and is using oil blockades to pressure the regime to do the right thing.
Thanks, socialism!
Thunberg also raged against the “pedophile Trump” on social media. “Another day, another cause,” snarked Sky News Australia about lil’ Greta.
Now, Thunberg argues her cause du jour methods are all part of a larger puzzle, but to believe that you have to swallow the Left’s narratives that tie social justice to, well, just about any random cause.
Yet, this “cause” is getting little media attention.
Yet if you Google “Greta Thunberg Cuba” on Google News very little comes up. It’s as if the press realizes she’s outlived her usefulness and decided that ignoring her is the best path forward.
Now, it’s “SNL’s” turn. Imagine a sketch where Thunberg pivots from cause to cause during a single speech. She’s perfect fodder for satire. The jokes all but write themselves.
Yet you’ll never see “SNL” or Stephen Colbert mock her. To do so wouldn’t just poke fun at her fall from grace, it would chip away at her various, far-Left causes. And, as we all know, modern humor is as much a protection racket as a propaganda machine.
Those jokes wouldn’t just deflate her dubious activist career. It might coax her to reflect on her journey and choice of fellow travelers.
She’s still young and has a full life ahead of her. She might even joke about her early activism someday, moving on to more fulfilling pursuits in the process. Americans love second acts. Even if the first one ends with a whimper.
