"You're five years old? When I was your age, I was six." Anonymous
August 28, 2019
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
One thing you have to remember: They're just like us.
Indeed, it would take a hardened heart not to respond to Prince Harry's Impassioned Climate Change Plea, delivered barefoot, at the Billionaire's Camp Google in Sicily last month.
Barefoot. Because Harry is just like you and me.
Repeating points he made in a British Vogue interview, Harry lectured his A-list audience about the "terrifying" effects of climate change.
"What we need to remind everybody," Harry said, "is these are things that are happening now. We are already living in it, which is terrifying."
And he lives in a castle. What hope is there for the rest of us?
Fortunately, it is reported, Harry had the forethought to have a pedicure beforehand.
Nevertheless, people were critical.
Criticism centered on the four jet trips the royal couple took in the space of eleven days.
Some said they were arrogant. Hypocritical. Others simply said, "Get a job."
Imagine.
Ellen DeGeneres couldn't. Neither could Elton.
"Imagine being attacked for everything you do," DeGeneres sputtered, "when all you're trying to do is make the world better."
Family friend Elton John leaped to their defense.
"After a hectic year continuing their hard work and dedication to charity," he insisted the couple had a right to some R&R at his home. On the French Riviera.
The irony is hard to explain, because it's so ironic.
Same goes for when Harry shared his views on racism.
He called it an "unconscious bias." That the rest of us have.
He said some people did not realize their own prejudices are inherited.
"The environment you've been brought up in," he said, "suggests you have this point of view, where you will look at someone in a different way."
Like the way a king may look at a cat.
It was ironic. Coming from a grown man whose main job is not to work.
But he's not alone.
Beto O'Rourke attacks everything about his own country, and sees racism around every corner.
And he, like Harry, is just like us. Ordinary guys.
Cooking hamburgers, imperfectly, with un-melted cheese. Changing a tire. On YouTube. Being married to a billionaire's daughter, William D. Sanders, aka the Warren Buffet of real estate.
It's like Barack Obama, one of Harry's We-Think-Alike heroes.
Before becoming president, the Obamas couldn't afford a house on the south side of Chicago, and had to have help from now-indicted political fundraiser and real estate developer, Tony Rezko.
After becoming president, the Obamas were able to buy a $8.1 million dollar house in D.C., down the road from Ivanka and Jeff Bezos, and a $14.8 million dollar mansion on Martha's Vineyard.
It was ironic. What with the rising level of the seas and all. And Obama's disdain for America and capitalism.
The Duke of Sussex is living well on the contributions of his grandmother's "subjects."
It is reported he and his wife enjoy 500-pound-a-night stays at the posh hotel Coworth Park in Ascot, on their frequent day trips there for masssages and pedicures.
The Obamas jet from one billionaire get-together to the next, living the high life, while lecturing the rest of us on how guilty we should be, as a people, and as a country, and telling us what we -- not they -- must give up forever.
Doing all this "hard work," while the rest of us punch a time clock.
Obama could have gone and cleaned up his hometown, the poverty. The shootings. But he didn't.
Harry could have recognized the identity crisis England is experiencing. The rampant crime in his home town.
He could have tackled that as one of his "charities." But he didn't.
Prince Harry says his remarks are not political, but humanitarian. And, fielding the criticism levelled at him about flying hither, thither and to Africa, he chose to smugly quote Nobel Prize winner, Desmond Tutu, "Do your little bit of good where you are."
Harry's quote was spot on.
He, and Meghan, and Oprah, and Obama should help the environment. They should stay home and plant a tree.
Hold the line, America.
Where We Go, We Go All
Stay strong, Patriots