I heard about this, initially thought it was some right-wing pundit’s exaggeration, and then thought, “Wait, it’s John Kerry. He might really have said something this skin-peelingly stupid.” And indeed he did.
Kerry is a ridiculous human being, always lacking self-awareness, always personifying the worst of arrogant, corrupt and incompetent Washington. With a straight face, and without suddenly slapping himself silly as soon as the words tumbled out of his mouth, this life-time pious, virtue-signaling phony actually opined that people would feel better about Russia as it wages war against Ukraine if it would do it with more concern for threat of climate change.
Kerry should be selected as the official face of The Great Stupid. That argument actually seems reasonable to him, and doubtlessly also to the kind of jerks who glue themselves to floors and throw gunk on classic paintings. Okay, okay, Vlad, kill people if you have to, but do it in an environmentally conscious way.
Kerry, all by himself, shows why so many Americans gravitate to Donald Trump as the anti-D.C. politician. Kerry was an opportunistic anti-war activist, a fake Irish candidate in Boston, a mediocrity in the U.S. Senate (who opposed the Iraq War before he voted for it), one of the Democrats’ most inept Presidential candidates, a bumbling Secretary of State under Obama and now a nonsense-spouting “special envoy” for Biden. The very existence of someone like Kerry in U.S. politics demonstrates why sweeping reform is crucial.
Of course, as I related last May when bestowing on Kerry a Lifetime Weasel Award, he showed me the content of his character in 2004, when, while running for President in Massachusetts, he claimed to be a die-hard Red Sox fan after the team finally won the World Series that year. When Kerry was asked who his favorite Sox player was, he answered “Manny Ortiz,” which is like a “die-hard Yankee fan” claiming his all-time favorite player was “Mickey Maris” or “Babe Gehrig.”
Here are two facts to give you nightmares: John Kerry was nearly elected President, and he’s still smarter than Joe Biden.
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Remember that Kerry was on stage during the viral “Don’t taze me, bro” incident. As a candidate for President he showed exactly what he thought of any opposing opinions and exactly how those in power should deal with them. In this matter with Russian, he needs to take a broader view. Just how many carbon footprints are being eliminated now and for future generations of Ukranians? Maybe Vlad gets to Carbon Neutral?
I believe “skin-peelingly stupid” is an apt description of Kerry, a multiple trust fund rich kid who has muddled his way through life based on his family connections and entitled arrogance. If I remember correctly he was only a “C” student in college and didn’t make a single “A” despite his elite prep-school background. His favorite pastime seems to be pontificating to all us proles in his typical smug manner. He’s the poster boy for identifying our self-appointed elites.
Kerry’s not even a genuine “rich kid.” His parents were upper-middle class (his dad was military and later diplomatic corps). A rich aunt paid for Kerry’s Groton/Yale education. But he married into Heinz money.
He is certainly credited as inheriting substantial wealth from four Forbes family trust funds, including from his mother, but that may well have been after he was a “kid.” He certainly had rich kid connections, including joining Skull and Bones while at Yale.
Rich kid or not, he is one loathsome, repellent human being.
jvb
Couldn’t have said it better myself, jvb!
PWS
It’s fortunate that my wife had not fallen asleep when I read “skin-peelingly stupid” last night, because the volume of my laughter surely would have roused her. I read that piece of the post to her and we both shared a good laugh.
Give John Kerry credit – if “credit” is the right word here – for sticking to his message…all climate, all the time. In a war?…reduce emissions. On the job?…reduce emissions. Travelling?…reduce emissions (unless you’re John Kerry). Going to the store?…reduce emissions. Having sex?…reduce emi…well…YES…reduce emissions!
The problem is that the notion of “reducing emissions” in war is just dumb. Normally, when one fights a war, one fights to win, regardless of ancillary considerations. John Kerry – like so many of his ilk and like so many in the administration – don’t see victory as a necessary outcome in war. It’s why we send hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine, most of it with no oversight or management. It’s why we constantly call for ceasefires in Gaza, and then have the gall to send aid to the enemy of our most important ally. Winning just isn’t important.
When you’re not involved in a war to win it, all kinds of other minutiae can be priorities…like getting people to like a war better by painting the tanks red, or having the airplanes drops bags of Smarties instead of bombs, or…reducing emissions.