This is a beautiful thing to see. We who live in reality find ourselves unendingly at odds with those who live in the world of Hollywood fantasy. The wealthy and protected celebrity class who have no inkling of the actual world but never stop telling everyone else how to live in it never have to face their critics in a harmful or public way, because nobody who wants to be rich or famous themselves have the cajones to challenge these denizens of the land of Fruits and Nuts.
So it’s twice as awesome that this smackdown of Al Gore protege and faux moralizer DiCaprio. The inaptly named Leonardo was attempting to lecture about “deforestation” in a pair of tweets this week – one in English, one in Spanish because give me a break — and he got schooled by Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro.
– You again, Leo? This way, you will become my best electoral cable, as we say in Brazil! I could tell you, again, to give up your yacht before lecturing the world, but I know progressives: you want to change the entire world but never yourselves, so I will let you off the hook. https://t.co/FxCnqhFv6D
— Jair M. Bolsonaro (@jairbolsonaro) July 28, 2022
And it went on from there.
– Between us, it's weird to see a dude who pretends to love the Planet paying more attention to Brazil than to the fires harming Europe and his own country. One may wonder if you're obsessed with my country (or its resources) or if you just believe Brazil is the only one on Earth
— Jair M. Bolsonaro (@jairbolsonaro) July 28, 2022
– But don't worry, Leo, unlike the places you are pretending not to see by brilliantly playing the role of a blind man, Brazil is and will carry on being the nation that most preserves. You can carry on playing with your Hollywood star toys as we do our job.
— Jair M. Bolsonaro (@jairbolsonaro) July 28, 2022
– It's clear that everyone who attacks Brazil and its sovereignty for the sake of virtue signaling doesn't have a clue about the matter. They don't know, for instance, that we preserve more than 80% of our native vegetation or that we have the cleanest energy among G20 nations.
— Jair M. Bolsonaro (@jairbolsonaro) July 28, 2022
There was more, too. But this isn’t about how things are in Brazil or anywhere else. It’s about a hypocrite getting his yacht served to him ice cold in his loudmouth face.
We should be able to call people Mentally “Leonarded” from now on.