A Serious Case of the Climate Change Potato Mash! By James Reed
Thoughtless, affluent climate change activists, are attacking well-protected famous modern art paintings with food. First it was tomato soup, and now mashed potatoes, smeared over the glass protecting the Claude Monet’s “Haystacks,” painting. They then glued themselves to the wall. And, then they complained about the lack of toilet facilities. I would suggest maybe leaving them glued to the wall as a contribution to modern art. And, they will have smeared mash potatoes to eat.
“Last week, climate activists threw tomato soup on Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting in London’s National Gallery. Also last week, some climate fanatics glued themselves to the floor at a Volkswagen exhibit in Germany, and then complained bitterly when Volkswagen, acceding to their desire for martyrdom, failed to give them a nice little bowl in which to “urinate and defecate.” This week, again in Germany, climate activities threw mashed potatoes at Claude Monet’s “Haystacks,” and then glued their hands to the wall.
Typically for such groups, they proudly tweeted out their heroic battle against the sun:
According to Twitter’s translation, the top tweet says:
We make this #Monet the stage and the public the audience. If it takes a painting - #Kartoffelbrei pelted - to remind society that the fossil course is killing us all: Then we give you #Kartoffelbrei on a painting!
The tweet accompanying the video states:
Two activists from @AufstandLastGen tip mashed potatoes onto Monet's painting "Les Meules" in the Museum Barberini (Potsdam) and then stick themselves to the floor.
According to CNBC, the stunt did not damage the painting, which recently sold for $110.7 million at an auction and was protected behind glass. One of the women shrieked out her existential angst as she knelt before the painting:
“We are in a climate catastrophe. And all you are afraid of is tomato soup or mashed potatoes on a painting,” the woman shouted in German while kneeling in front of Monet’s painting. “This painting is not going to be worth anything if we have to fight over food.”
The same article reports that the police arrested these ridiculous human beings. They probably carefully unstuck them when it would have been more appropriate to leave them there until they unstuck themselves (rather like nailing a thief’s ear to the post in the old days, with the real consequence being that the thief would eventually have had to make a painful break for freedom, except that, in this case, the thief would have nailed himself).
Currently, Germany is facing a massive crisis, one that will have profound ramifications when it comes to food and shelter. In 2018, it smugly ignored Trump’s warning not to end its fuel production in service to climate change madness and, especially, not to rely on Russia for natural gas.”
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