June 9, 2025 • 13 mins
The gloves come off in this unflinching solo episode as I tackle Greta Thunberg's controversial decision to organize a flotilla to Gaza. Without my co-host David to rein me in, I deliver an unfiltered analysis of what happens when climate activists wade into complex geopolitical conflicts without addressing their full context.
Where's the consistency in Greta's activism? That's the burning question at the heart of this episode. How does a 40-foot sailboat meaningfully provide aid to 2 million people? Why focus on this particular conflict while remaining silent about humanitarian crises in Somalia, Ukraine, or China? Most critically, why not advocate for the release of hostages taken during the October 7th attack as the most direct path to peace?
I dive into Thunberg's rise from teenage climate protester to global figure, contrasting her celebrated climate work with what I see as a fundamentally flawed approach to the Israel-Gaza conflict. The episode examines the broader regional dynamics often missing from simplified narratives – neighboring countries that have closed their borders to Palestinians, examples of peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Jews in places like Jaffa, and the complex path toward sustainable peace.
This raw, passionate episode challenges listeners to think critically about selective activism and performative gestures versus meaningful humanitarian advocacy. Whether you agree with my take or not, this episode will make you question how we engage with complex global issues and who we elevate as moral authorities on the world stage. Join the conversation every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at noon Eastern, and let us know your thoughts on this or any other topic that deserves an honest, unfiltered discussion.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Oh, take a guess, what guys?
David can't make it.
You know what that means.
You're stuck with me and youknow what ain't so bad, because
you know what I get to gouninterrupted, unfiltered, which
for some may be quite amusingand for others may be like, oh
(00:26):
shit, who let the dogs out today?
You know, this is a podcastthat began five years ago with
david and myself.
We called it the rant networkbecause, purely, it was us
basically unloading about issuesand topics that were in the
(00:48):
news back in the day, wherethere was news about different
things other than Donald Trump,you know.
And today I'm going to pivotand I'm going to talk about a
renewed one, one about a womannamed Greta.
One about a woman named Greta.
Now, greta has been an activistsince she was a teenager, but
(01:14):
you know what?
I think?
She's picked the wrong side andI'm going to explain why.
Welcome everybody to the RantNetwork.
It's a go-to podcast forunfiltered, unapologetic
discussion Well, no discussion,just me Hosted by myself, stuart
Briskell, and, absent today,david Solomon, as we tackle a
diverse range of topics withcandid conversation and bold
(01:34):
opinion.
Whether we're breaking down thelatest headlines, exploring pop
culture, debating politics ordelving into complexities of
modern life is a platform forevery perspective, so grab a
seat, settle in and join us onthis thought-provoking,
obviously no-limit conversation,you know.
(02:07):
So let's first understand GretaTintin, eleonora Ermin
Thornburg.
You know her as Greta Thornburg, the crazy ass lady from Sweden
who's decided to take aflotilla to a war zone compared
to World War II.
Well, greta was born inStockholm.
Her mother was an opera singer,her father was a savant, an
actor.
Greta's got Asperger's andshe's OCD, and she has selective
mutisms that describe her withsuperpowers to fight injustice
(02:31):
in the world.
This chick, in 2018, age of 15,began protesting out of the
Swedish parliament Demandingstronger action for climate
change.
You know the global impact shehad in 2019 gave her how dare
you?
Speech, and then she went on toDavos and then European
(02:53):
parliament and you know she gotrecognized as a person of the
year.
She was nominated for the NobelPeace times.
Like a bunch of times, she'sincluded in the 100 most
powerful women.
That is Greta Thunberg, ifyou're to go and look on ChatGPT
.
What you don't know is thatGreta Thunberg is an anti-Semite
(03:14):
.
She's a crazy ass Swedish bitchwho decided to create a flotilla
inviting people that areactually, you know, from
Palestine and put them on a boat, say they're going to bring aid
.
Well, first of all, they claimthere's 2 million people that
need aid, yet they have a 40foot sailboat Okay.
(03:34):
So let's be honest with eachother.
The only aid that they'reproviding is their alter egos
and to get in Garner press onsomething that could be resolved
in a minute.
If someone like Greta would geton board and say free the
hostages, you'd actually havepeace in that corridor.
If you actually follow theGeneva Convention with these
(03:58):
hostages, you would haveprobably peace in that corridor.
If you taught the children ofGaza not to hate, you would
probably have peace in thatcorridor.
If you taught the children ofGaza not to hate, you would
probably have peace in thatcorridor.
If the Hamas party that tookthe billions of dollars from the
West, from the East, from theSouth and from the North, you,
chances are, wouldn't have anyfamine, you wouldn't have any
(04:19):
war tunnels and you'd havebeautiful oasis in the
Mediterranean.
But you have Greta trying tobring a flotilla in the most
dangerous corridor in that partof the planet.
You don't hear Greta talkingabout Somalia.
You don't have Greta talkingabout places in Africa.
(04:39):
You don't have Greta talkingabout oh, let's talk about
Russia and the death anddestruction in the Ukraine, the
Donbass Kiev, ukraine, theDonbass Kiev.
You don't talk about theindiscriminate bombing and war
mongering done in Asia, in China, by the massacring of the
wonderful people that live there, that don't follow Xi Jinping,
(05:01):
or the assassinations conductedby the Russian government within
Russia, outside of Russia.
No, you choose a 40-footsailboat to say you're bringing
aid to 2 million people.
I'm sorry, greta, you're a moron.
You're not the most powerfulwoman or one of the 100 top
powerful women.
You are one of the dumbestwomen in history.
(05:23):
The moment that you decided totake a cause and be on the
minority end of that cause iswhere you really screwed up.
You know we're not going totalk about your climate demands.
I don't see you rallying infront of the Chinese consulate.
I don't see you rallying infront of the Indian consulate.
I don't hear about youclamoring about how your country
(05:48):
provides to all those othercountries.
In fact, isn't Sweden one ofthe most racist countries in the
whole area?
You don't allow people to dothings the way they're supposed
to do them.
I mean, I'm just sort of tornabout you, greta and Greta, I
also have to ask you this If youwere such a smart girl and had
superpowers, you would knowbeing a racist is probably the
(06:11):
worst superpower of all.
That normally ends to death anddestruction, and history
typically repeats itself.
Like you remember the guy namedAdolf Hitler?
Yeah, he was a racist too.
Where is he today?
Racism and racists end upburied and dead.
They are obnoxious, they arehorrible.
They are death and destructionfor.
End up buried and dead.
They are obnoxious, they arehorrible.
(06:31):
They are death and destructionfor every culture known to man.
In fact, you know what?
Why isn't Greta standing up forthe hostages?
Why isn't she demanding to seethese hostages?
What is her argument about this?
You know when babies, women andchildren were murdered.
She's an advocate for what?
For women and children weremurdered.
She's an advocate for what?
For women and children?
(06:51):
Or is she an advocate for pressmongering, attention demanding?
Maybe that's the part ofAsperger's?
She has the psychopathic typeof Asperger's which typically
makes people want to do stupidthings like jump on a boat and
go into a war zone where you'rewarned please don't go, we beg
(07:13):
you.
You want to give aid?
Great, there's a dollar,there's a donation.
It will get to where it needsto get to with people that get
things there.
If you donate the money toHamas, they're not giving the
food to women and children.
They're taking the money andthey're buying weapons and
they're murdering women andchildren.
They're taking the money andthey're buying weapons and
they're murdering women andchildren indiscriminately Not
(07:35):
people that bear arms, notpeople that wear uniforms.
I forgot that is what Gretashould be fighting for.
Greta should be fighting for awar.
She should be fighting for awar that is fought amongst
soldiers.
It shouldn't be fought amongstpeople going to a concert that
were once her age, who wanted toonly have a good time at a
(07:59):
peace concert.
How about encouraging peacearound the world, disarmament,
not going into a war zone,trying to put yourself in the
middle of a war where you don'tbelong, where your views are not
in the right order?
If you were such an advocatefor mankind, an advocate for
(08:22):
people, you should be standingfor free the hostages.
You should have said let me gothere and see the hostages
personally.
Why don't you witness thesavagery of the people you're
trying to protect?
You remember, the people you'retrying to protect have nowhere
to go.
Why do they have nowhere to go?
Egypt won't let them in Jordan,won't let them in Syria, won't
(08:45):
let them in Lebanon, won't letthem in.
So why are you busy trying toput yourself in the Gaza Strip?
Why don't you fly to Egypt andplead to the president of Egypt?
Why don't you go to Lebanon andplead to the arm of the same
group of Hamas, which is theHouthis?
It's Hezbollah, it's Iran, butno, greta, you don't want to go
(09:10):
to Iran and try and meet thewhat?
Ayatollah Khomeini.
Why?
Because chances are you'd bekilled there too.
Your views are not in theirorder, not in their agreement,
and you're just a stupid idiot.
You're dumb.
You believe your liberal viewsare going to persuade a culture
that's that only wants death anddestruction.
And you know what, greta?
(09:31):
They want death and destructionto your mother, to your father,
because they promote views thatare not in their order.
You're just a dum-dum, and itfrustrates me to no end to watch
this appear on the news, listento wannabe news reporters
trying to give you such credenceand being so brave.
(09:52):
If you were brave, greta, youwould want to see the hostages,
you would want to see them setfree, and then maybe the world
would stand behind you for somesort of peace, some sort of
organization.
However, you fail to follow thebouncing ball Again.
Your Ashburgers is one of anarcissist, one of a horrible
(10:17):
person, one who doesn't careabout any other other than
yourself.
You bring people to a war andyou get taken out.
That is what's supposed tohappen.
Your stupidity isn't supposedto allow you to be a martyr.
It's never going to happen.
The Israeli government supposedto allow you to be a martyr?
It's never going to happen.
The israeli government wouldnever allow you to do such a
thing.
(10:38):
However, if you wanted to go andplead for the release of
hostages that were wrongfullytaken that was an attack that
occurred on october 7th maybeyou would have gotten a little
better and more receptive view.
However, when you take acontrarian view, you deserve to
get flushed down the toilet.
I hope that they put you injail and I hope they treat you
(10:59):
the way that the Hamas istreating the victims of October
7th.
And you know what, when youkind of call yourself as a
woman's advocate, a worldadvocate, a champion for the
world, maybe you should focus onIran trying to develop nuclear
weapons.
I think that would be the mostdangerous thing in the planet.
However, I don't really hearyour voice, greta.
(11:22):
Why is that?
Is your voice wasted?
Because you can't get any viewsthat way?
I don't know.
You know, again, picking up aFrenchman who's a Palestinian,
picking up people who don't wantto see the rights and freedoms
of those that should have theright and freedom to live and
live, let live.
You know, have you ever been toIsrael?
(11:44):
Probably not.
Have you ever been to Jaffa,where Arabs and Jews work side
by side in markets and visit andhave coffee and Turkish coffee
and falafel and different dishesall together as one?
No, what about the threemillion Arabs that live, or more
(12:04):
, in Israel, who only want peace, but yet the people you want to
bring aid to indiscriminatelywant to murder and kill?
You know, I hope Kamas findsits eye on Sweden and they
decide to stone you to death,just like they do anyone who is
unfortunately an infidel.
(12:24):
And you know what, greta?
You're just another infidel.
So take that scarf, wrap itaround your head and just don't
choke on it, not at least incustody.
And I'll wait till you get home, and then I'll laugh some more.
On that note, guys, on the solorant of the day, I wish everyone
a happy monday.
And that brings this monologueof the podcast called the rat
(12:51):
network to a close.
We truly appreciate you tuningin and sharing your time with us
.
Your support and engagementmeans everything.
We continue to foster thishonest opinion and a
thought-provoking conversation.
Please don't forget everymonday, wednesday, friday, noon
eastern and stay connected tosocial media.
If you have a topic, pme davidis not around to throw things at
me.
I hear he likes sushi a lot.
(13:12):
Anyways, guys, until we speakto you next time, be passionate,
be vibrant, keep the ideasflowing and know that we're here
every Monday, wednesday, friday.
Talk to you soon.
Oh, take a guess, what guys?
David can't make it.
You know what that means.
You're stuck with me and youknow what ain't so bad, because
you know what I get to gouninterrupted, unfiltered, which
for some may be quite amusingand for others may be like, oh
(00:26):
shit, who let the dogs out today?
You know, this is a podcastthat began five years ago with
david and myself.
We called it the rant networkbecause, purely, it was us
basically unloading about issuesand topics that were in the
(00:48):
news back in the day, wherethere was news about different
things other than Donald Trump,you know.
And today I'm going to pivotand I'm going to talk about a
renewed one, one about a womannamed Greta.
One about a woman named Greta.
Now, greta has been an activistsince she was a teenager, but
(01:14):
you know what?
I think?
She's picked the wrong side andI'm going to explain why.
Welcome everybody to the RantNetwork.
It's a go-to podcast forunfiltered, unapologetic
discussion Well, no discussion,just me Hosted by myself, stuart
Briskell, and, absent today,david Solomon, as we tackle a
diverse range of topics withcandid conversation and bold
(01:34):
opinion.
Whether we're breaking down thelatest headlines, exploring pop
culture, debating politics ordelving into complexities of
modern life is a platform forevery perspective, so grab a
seat, settle in and join us onthis thought-provoking,
obviously no-limit conversation,you know.
(02:07):
So let's first understand GretaTintin, eleonora Ermin
Thornburg.
You know her as Greta Thornburg, the crazy ass lady from Sweden
who's decided to take aflotilla to a war zone compared
to World War II.
Well, greta was born inStockholm.
Her mother was an opera singer,her father was a savant, an
actor.
Greta's got Asperger's andshe's OCD, and she has selective
mutisms that describe her withsuperpowers to fight injustice
(02:31):
in the world.
This chick, in 2018, age of 15,began protesting out of the
Swedish parliament Demandingstronger action for climate
change.
You know the global impact shehad in 2019 gave her how dare
you?
Speech, and then she went on toDavos and then European
(02:53):
parliament and you know she gotrecognized as a person of the
year.
She was nominated for the NobelPeace times.
Like a bunch of times, she'sincluded in the 100 most
powerful women.
That is Greta Thunberg, ifyou're to go and look on ChatGPT
.
What you don't know is thatGreta Thunberg is an anti-Semite
(03:14):
.
She's a crazy ass Swedish bitchwho decided to create a flotilla
inviting people that areactually, you know, from
Palestine and put them on a boat, say they're going to bring aid
.
Well, first of all, they claimthere's 2 million people that
need aid, yet they have a 40foot sailboat Okay.
(03:34):
So let's be honest with eachother.
The only aid that they'reproviding is their alter egos
and to get in Garner press onsomething that could be resolved
in a minute.
If someone like Greta would geton board and say free the
hostages, you'd actually havepeace in that corridor.
If you actually follow theGeneva Convention with these
(03:58):
hostages, you would haveprobably peace in that corridor.
If you taught the children ofGaza not to hate, you would
probably have peace in thatcorridor.
If you taught the children ofGaza not to hate, you would
probably have peace in thatcorridor.
If the Hamas party that tookthe billions of dollars from the
West, from the East, from theSouth and from the North, you,
chances are, wouldn't have anyfamine, you wouldn't have any
(04:19):
war tunnels and you'd havebeautiful oasis in the
Mediterranean.
But you have Greta trying tobring a flotilla in the most
dangerous corridor in that partof the planet.
You don't hear Greta talkingabout Somalia.
You don't have Greta talkingabout places in Africa.
(04:39):
You don't have Greta talkingabout oh, let's talk about
Russia and the death anddestruction in the Ukraine, the
Donbass Kiev, ukraine, theDonbass Kiev.
You don't talk about theindiscriminate bombing and war
mongering done in Asia, in China, by the massacring of the
wonderful people that live there, that don't follow Xi Jinping,
(05:01):
or the assassinations conductedby the Russian government within
Russia, outside of Russia.
No, you choose a 40-footsailboat to say you're bringing
aid to 2 million people.
I'm sorry, greta, you're a moron.
You're not the most powerfulwoman or one of the 100 top
powerful women.
You are one of the dumbestwomen in history.
(05:23):
The moment that you decided totake a cause and be on the
minority end of that cause iswhere you really screwed up.
You know we're not going totalk about your climate demands.
I don't see you rallying infront of the Chinese consulate.
I don't see you rallying infront of the Indian consulate.
I don't hear about youclamoring about how your country
(05:48):
provides to all those othercountries.
In fact, isn't Sweden one ofthe most racist countries in the
whole area?
You don't allow people to dothings the way they're supposed
to do them.
I mean, I'm just sort of tornabout you, greta and Greta, I
also have to ask you this If youwere such a smart girl and had
superpowers, you would knowbeing a racist is probably the
(06:11):
worst superpower of all.
That normally ends to death anddestruction, and history
typically repeats itself.
Like you remember the guy namedAdolf Hitler?
Yeah, he was a racist too.
Where is he today?
Racism and racists end upburied and dead.
They are obnoxious, they arehorrible.
They are death and destructionfor.
End up buried and dead.
They are obnoxious, they arehorrible.
(06:31):
They are death and destructionfor every culture known to man.
In fact, you know what?
Why isn't Greta standing up forthe hostages?
Why isn't she demanding to seethese hostages?
What is her argument about this?
You know when babies, women andchildren were murdered.
She's an advocate for what?
For women and children weremurdered.
She's an advocate for what?
For women and children?
(06:51):
Or is she an advocate for pressmongering, attention demanding?
Maybe that's the part ofAsperger's?
She has the psychopathic typeof Asperger's which typically
makes people want to do stupidthings like jump on a boat and
go into a war zone where you'rewarned please don't go, we beg
(07:13):
you.
You want to give aid?
Great, there's a dollar,there's a donation.
It will get to where it needsto get to with people that get
things there.
If you donate the money toHamas, they're not giving the
food to women and children.
They're taking the money andthey're buying weapons and
they're murdering women andchildren.
They're taking the money andthey're buying weapons and
they're murdering women andchildren indiscriminately Not
(07:35):
people that bear arms, notpeople that wear uniforms.
I forgot that is what Gretashould be fighting for.
Greta should be fighting for awar.
She should be fighting for awar that is fought amongst
soldiers.
It shouldn't be fought amongstpeople going to a concert that
were once her age, who wanted toonly have a good time at a
(07:59):
peace concert.
How about encouraging peacearound the world, disarmament,
not going into a war zone,trying to put yourself in the
middle of a war where you don'tbelong, where your views are not
in the right order?
If you were such an advocatefor mankind, an advocate for
(08:22):
people, you should be standingfor free the hostages.
You should have said let me gothere and see the hostages
personally.
Why don't you witness thesavagery of the people you're
trying to protect?
You remember, the people you'retrying to protect have nowhere
to go.
Why do they have nowhere to go?
Egypt won't let them in Jordan,won't let them in Syria, won't
(08:45):
let them in Lebanon, won't letthem in.
So why are you busy trying toput yourself in the Gaza Strip?
Why don't you fly to Egypt andplead to the president of Egypt?
Why don't you go to Lebanon andplead to the arm of the same
group of Hamas, which is theHouthis?
It's Hezbollah, it's Iran, butno, greta, you don't want to go
(09:10):
to Iran and try and meet thewhat?
Ayatollah Khomeini.
Why?
Because chances are you'd bekilled there too.
Your views are not in theirorder, not in their agreement,
and you're just a stupid idiot.
You're dumb.
You believe your liberal viewsare going to persuade a culture
that's that only wants death anddestruction.
And you know what, greta?
(09:31):
They want death and destructionto your mother, to your father,
because they promote views thatare not in their order.
You're just a dum-dum, and itfrustrates me to no end to watch
this appear on the news, listento wannabe news reporters
trying to give you such credenceand being so brave.
(09:52):
If you were brave, greta, youwould want to see the hostages,
you would want to see them setfree, and then maybe the world
would stand behind you for somesort of peace, some sort of
organization.
However, you fail to follow thebouncing ball Again.
Your Ashburgers is one of anarcissist, one of a horrible
(10:17):
person, one who doesn't careabout any other other than
yourself.
You bring people to a war andyou get taken out.
That is what's supposed tohappen.
Your stupidity isn't supposedto allow you to be a martyr.
It's never going to happen.
The Israeli government supposedto allow you to be a martyr?
It's never going to happen.
The israeli government wouldnever allow you to do such a
thing.
(10:38):
However, if you wanted to go andplead for the release of
hostages that were wrongfullytaken that was an attack that
occurred on october 7th maybeyou would have gotten a little
better and more receptive view.
However, when you take acontrarian view, you deserve to
get flushed down the toilet.
I hope that they put you injail and I hope they treat you
(10:59):
the way that the Hamas istreating the victims of October
7th.
And you know what, when youkind of call yourself as a
woman's advocate, a worldadvocate, a champion for the
world, maybe you should focus onIran trying to develop nuclear
weapons.
I think that would be the mostdangerous thing in the planet.
However, I don't really hearyour voice, greta.
(11:22):
Why is that?
Is your voice wasted?
Because you can't get any viewsthat way?
I don't know.
You know, again, picking up aFrenchman who's a Palestinian,
picking up people who don't wantto see the rights and freedoms
of those that should have theright and freedom to live and
live, let live.
You know, have you ever been toIsrael?
(11:44):
Probably not.
Have you ever been to Jaffa,where Arabs and Jews work side
by side in markets and visit andhave coffee and Turkish coffee
and falafel and different dishesall together as one?
No, what about the threemillion Arabs that live, or more
(12:04):
, in Israel, who only want peace, but yet the people you want to
bring aid to indiscriminatelywant to murder and kill?
You know, I hope Kamas findsits eye on Sweden and they
decide to stone you to death,just like they do anyone who is
unfortunately an infidel.
(12:24):
And you know what, greta?
You're just another infidel.
So take that scarf, wrap itaround your head and just don't
choke on it, not at least incustody.
And I'll wait till you get home, and then I'll laugh some more.
On that note, guys, on the solorant of the day, I wish everyone
a happy monday.
And that brings this monologueof the podcast called the rat
(12:51):
network to a close.
We truly appreciate you tuningin and sharing your time with us
.
Your support and engagementmeans everything.
We continue to foster thishonest opinion and a
thought-provoking conversation.
Please don't forget everymonday, wednesday, friday, noon
eastern and stay connected tosocial media.
If you have a topic, pme davidis not around to throw things at
me.
I hear he likes sushi a lot.
(13:12):
Anyways, guys, until we speakto you next time, be passionate,
be vibrant, keep the ideasflowing and know that we're here
every Monday, wednesday, friday.
Talk to you soon.
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