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Everyone knows that career climate activists are massive grifters.
You have veteran bureaucrats like John Kerry, who travel around the world lecturing the commonfolk about climate change, even as they fly in private jets.
You have elected officials like Barack Obama, who purchased a seven-bedroom mansion on Martha’s Vineyard right by the very ocean he thinks will soon rise.
Even Greta Thunberg has a larger carbon footprint than she would like to admit.
But the climate cultists never know when to simply be quiet and enjoy their lives of luxury in peace, without lecturing the rest of us about how evil we are.
They are better than you, peasant.
Most recently Mark Cuban, the former principal owner of the Dallas Mavericks, solemnly vowed on social media that he will not “vote for anyone that doesn’t believe climate change is real.”
But actions speak louder than words.
Thousands of social media users flooded his comments to observe how his lavish lifestyle is completely inconsistent with a doom-and-gloom view of the environment.
First of all, he owns two or more private jets: a Gulfstream G550 and a Boeing 757-200. The latter even has weight rooms for the Dallas Mavericks to use.
You heard that right. Cuban hauls an entire basketball team and their thousands of pounds of gym equipment through the skies, just because he can.
Climate change is a ‘weighty’ matter.
But Cuban also owns a multimillion-dollar ocean property in Laguna Beach, California, that includes hotel amenities like a spa and room service. When someone pointed out that fact, he responded by deflecting and demurring about property insurance prices along coastlines.
Remember, we need not worry about Cuban and his climate hypocrisy. After all, his single vote this year should counteract the mountains full of fossil fuels needed to support this lifestyle.
Massive hypocrisy from climate cultists is indeed quite amusing.
But when you see wealthy progressives complaining about the climate while revealing that their own fears are unfounded, take that as license to enjoy some basic pleasures of life without stressing over what Mark Cuban or Barack Obama would think.
Drive a truck. Eat some ribeye.
Fly to Dallas and watch the Mavericks.