What is it about losing a nail-biter of an election that sends some people completely around the bend?
John Kerry has been a little... off, ever since losing the 2004 presidential election to George W. Bush. He has chosen "climate change" as his cause, whining about the carbon footprints of ordinary folks while maintaining his multiple mansions, private jets, and yachts; his personal carbon footprint is probably larger than Cameroon, Finland, and Thailand combined, yet he continues to wag his carbon-stained finger at the rest of us.
Now, in what has to be the greatest head-scratcher the former Climate Czar has ever handed us, Kerry is opining that people wouldn't be so bothered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine if only Vladimir Putin would take more steps to reduce Russia's carbon emissions.
Outgoing Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry claimed that people would "feel better" about the ongoing war in Ukraine if Russia would "make a greater effort to reduce emissions."
"If Russia wanted to show good faith, they could go out and announce what their reductions are going to be and make a greater effort to reduce emissions now," Kerry said during a foreign press briefing on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., his last as the SPEC, as he departed from the position Wednesday to reportedly join President Biden's presidential re-election campaign.
"Maybe that would open up the door for people to feel better about what Russia is choosing to do at this point in time," he said.
No, Mr. Kerry, that would not open the door for any sane person to "feel better" about "what Russia is choosing to do," as in, wage a war of aggression against a much smaller neighbor.
What is wrong with this guy?
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It's hardly an uncommon thing, of course, to see almost everything through the lens of one's hot-button issue; just look at the people who scream "racist" at every hint of disagreement on any issue or those who will co-opt a discussion on almost any topic and do a lateral arabesque to turn the subject towards, say, climate change. Like John Kerry does almost every time he opens his mouth. Like he did in this ridiculous statement.
But wait! There's more! Here's the real howler. Kerry said:
I believe that Russia has the ability to be able to make enormous changes if it really wanted to. I mean, if Russia has the ability to wage a war illegally and invade another country, they ought to be able to find the effort to be responsible on the climate issue.
Completely the wrong takeaway.
The really entertaining bit about all this silliness is that during his tenure as President Biden's Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC,) Kerry literally globe-hopped around the world to attend meeting after summit after workshop on climate change, all the while spewing out more carbon than all the coal stoves of 19th-century London on a year when the Thames froze over. He made the rounds in a series of private and (sometimes) commercial jets, not exactly the most carbon-neutral way to travel, and I'm pretty sure the federal government didn't put him up in the low-emission local version of a Motel 6; it's for sure and for certain that he stayed in a place that left a much larger, brighter light on for him.
John Kerry, I hasten to add, has a net worth of about $250 million; he has a mansion on 19 acres in Massachusetts, which is valued at over $11 million. He also has owned yachts and private jets. Kerry is, to put it bluntly, just another limousine liberal who lectures the rest of us, advocating for a reduced lifestyle he has no intention of taking up himself. And it's easy to advocate for energy policies that would impoverish normal folk when one's net worth is such that the effects of the disastrous policies one is pushing would have little to no effect.
That, folks, is John Kerry, summarized. He is the worst sort of hypocrite, and this latest utterly tone-deaf utterance about Russia is just another example of his cluelessness as to what normal people care about. But then, he has plenty of company in Washington.
Now, in the interest of fairness, we could observe that the current presumptive GOP candidate for President also travels on a (big, beeyootiful) private jet, and hardly gives two hoots about his carbon footprint; but then, he isn't lecturing us about our pickup trucks or our gas stoves.
In the interest of fairness, we sent an intrepid intern around to John Kerry's residence to ask for comment, but as our hidden camera shows, the meeting didn't go well.
