Long before The Babylon Bee, or even The Onion, there was Viz. Viz started in the 80s, a “dead-tree” British comic that satirized old-school UK kids’ comics like The Beano. As well as comic strips, it also featured satirical news items that were often right up there with the Bee.
One of their most prophetic was the article on how Poor People Are Ruining the Planet for Celebrities. It featured interviews with the likes of Sting and George Clooney, complaining that a council estate was ruining the view from the upstairs windows of their castles, or as seen from the windows of their private jets.
In the best tradition of the Bee, Viz was not so much satirical as it was just staying ahead of the actual headlines.
Channelling teen Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, Prince Harry has declared “the world is on fire” in a stirring address to the United Nations that warned of a “global assault on democracy and freedom” and urged people to share.
Wait, is the Ginger Whinger suddenly cottoning on to the global assault on democracy being waged by Klaus the Kallous and his Krazy Klimate Kult? Is the whipped husband of the former barrel girl standing in solidarity with Dutch farmers and Canadian truckers?
Spoiler alert! Of course not!
In fact, he’s just parroting more of Herr Schwab’s scripted nonsense.
In a speech that might have impressed far-left Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Duke of Sussex slammed “big oil companies” for “wreaking havoc on the planet” and blasted the US Supreme Court for “rolling back” the constitutional right to an abortion.
“Right now, water is rising all around us, quite literally,” the 37-year old prince warned.
Well, unless his Amadeo Testoni Oxfords were actually getting soggy, we can only conclude that an Eton education doesn’t include the meaning of the word “literally”.
But big thinking doesn’t seem to be Harry’s long suit. Or knowing anything about the topics he sees fit to spout off on, for that matter.
“He needs to shut up about the US Constitution,” said veteran British journalist Andrew Neil on Twitter.
The Australian
Likewise, American journalist Amber Athey writes:
Prince Harry, who only lives here because his wife dreams of doing animated voiceovers for Netflix, routinely opines on our Constitution with all of the British pomposity that led to the Revolutionary War […]
In his latest critique, Prince Harry is presumably referring to the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court, an example of the American constitutional system working exactly as intended. There is no “right to abortion” enumerated in our Constitution; the Supreme Court previously considered it a subset of the also-invented “right to privacy.” The Supreme Court righted this wrong decision and sent the proverbial political football back to state legislatures. The American people get to vote for politicians who have the power to impose as many or as few restrictions on abortion as they please. That’s federalism, baby.
Spectator
Mind you, this is the same upper-class twit who blabbers that
The world was “meant to be shared … We have an obligation to give as much if not more than we take”.
I haven’t noticed him turning over any of his mansions to the Oiks, nor much of the $18m his ghastly, fame-hungry wife scammed out of Netflix. Nor is he showing any inclination to do much about his own carbon footprint, racking up dozens of private jet flights a year.
But he is following in the idiotic footsteps of his cretinous old man, who blithered in 2009 that we had just 96 months to save the world from “irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse, and all that goes with it”. To his credit, I guess, when the world rather obviously failed to end in 2017, Charles extended his deadline by another 35 years.
As end of the world cult leaders are apt to say: “Never mind, lads — same time tomorrow. We must get a winner, one day.”
In the meantime, we just have to keep putting up with the most privileged people on the face of the planet finger-wagging us from their luxury bully-pulpits.