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Just Stop Oil’s bungled hit at Taylor Swift again shows climate freaks are dumb cultists

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Published June 21, 2024, 12:23 p.m. ET

Climate warriors are, on issues big and small, truly the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.

Make that spray-paint straight: Two Just Stop Oil morons went after planes with orange spray paint at an airport where they believed Taylor Swift’s private jet was parked. 

Talk about bad blood.

The climate activist group Just Stop Oil sprayed orange paint on private jets on June 20, at an airfield where they said Taylor Swift's jet landed.
The climate activist group Just Stop Oil sprayed orange paint on private jets on June 20, at an airfield where they believed Taylor Swift’s jet was. Just Stop Oil

Swift, you see, has committed the unpardonable sin of flying private a lot and these two wanted to save the planet (somehow) by vandalizing planes kinda near hers. 

We speak for all humanity when we say: Huh?

If — as climate cultists claim — ending all carbon emissions is crucial to the future of the planet, you’d think the twosome could have at least been sure to get the right airport. 

But even assuming they’d hit the right place, what difference would it have made?

Orange paint, last we checked, doesn’t sequester carbon; and Swift would simply shake it off.

Not to mention: Targeting the incredibly popular singer seems a pretty dim way to gain popular support.

Yet they still burbled with idiot pride: “We just spray painted the f–k out of this jet,” crowed activist Jennifer Kowalski post-vandalism.

Ignorance really is bliss. 

Then again, this is the same collection of dim bulbs who vandalized Stonehenge this week. 

That’s right: A carbon-inert monument from pagan times somehow deserved the ol’ orange badge of shame. 

The group’s argument is that attacks on Stonehenge, etc. (somehow) compel people to take climate change seriously. 

Sadly, the exact opposite is true: The more climate freaks block roads and throw soup on paintings, the clearer it is they’re just into self-defeating publicity stunts. 

Of course, the establishment itself is pretty deluded: Britain, where Just Stop Oil set up shop, has itself embraced the climate cult with a net-zero emissions by 2050 pledge in place. 

It won’t happen, of course — and if it did, it’d achieve nothing meaningful on stopping global carbon emissions.

That requires successfully pushing Beijing to close its coal plants instead of building ever more, something all western governments seem utterly allergic to. 

The West is crippling its own economies to no end, and this pack of self-satisfied zoomer doomers is witlessly acting out in the name of demanding a faster suicide.