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400-year-old 'Rokeby Venus' painting smashed.

If you haven't seen this yet or heard about it, take a look.

Those are two climate freaks who just marched into the London National Gallery and took hammers to a 400-year-old famous painting "Rokeby Venus," valued at $90 million. The climate change lunatics are from the group Just Stop Oil and, on the same day, doused Birmingham University library in orange paint and went to London's West End and charged the stage, interrupting a performance of Les Mis.

While physical violence and destruction may not be the first go to for commies, it is never far from consideration. It's just how they roll.

By the way, they were finally arrested and charged — we'll see how that goes though. The point — the Left will destroy anything in its supposed claim to want to save everything.

One of the giant claims of the ecoterrorist crowd is that "the downtrodden" take the brunt of it when it comes to greedy Christian Westerners using oil and coal to destroy the environment via climate change. They're always so concerned about the poor and so forth, just like the U.S. bishops frequently reference the "preferential option for the poor."

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Gavin Newsom and Michael Bloomberg will eliminate America's energy independence.

There are many avenues to undermining and destroying the republic and, by extension, severely damaging the Church, whose natural law teachings are the republic's foundations. You can, of course, flood nearly 10 million illegals into the country, a number whose total now exceeds the population of 41 states. From the communist Democrats' point of view — check!

You can also do everything you can think to weaken the strongest economy in world history, an economy that has been built on energy mainly derived from fossil fuels — oil and coal to be specific. A step-by-step process would first include making oil and coal the "bad guy" needing to be done away with. The reason? They are destroying the climate and bringing about apocalyptic changes in the environment.

This mantra has been screamed at the top of their lungs for 40 years now, through the media and universities, and it is now accepted by the public as a fact. But it's not true. Nonetheless, the communist propaganda is relentless.

Just a couple months ago, former New York City mayor and billionaire-at-large Michael Bloomberg announced he is donating another $500 million to, in his words, "finish the job on coal." This follows on approximately $500 million he's already directed into the effort.

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