It is beyond me and 80M Americans who supported President Trump policies, and the American persons right to work, and protecting the environment, how someone on the left thinks how John Kerry and the left thinks.
If this man cared one thing about the environment he wouldn’t live the way he does. He has a footprint in the world bigger than the average American town. And he could care less if you have a job, or if our energy prices are reasonable, or if America can remain energy efficient as President Trump made possible. Jimmy
Kerry’s ‘better choices’ comment on climate job losses opens door for GOP to pounce
Climate czar suggests only solution for oil industry workers losing jobs is “better choices” in the future.
“What President Biden wants to do,” Kerry told reporters at the White House, “is make sure those folks have better choices.” He added he believed oil and gas workers had been fed a “false narrative” about why their jobs were disappearing and could one day make solar panels if retrained. He insisted “no two people are more — in this room —are more concerned about it” than he and President Biden.
Within hours, Republicans and commentators had turned the phrase around mockingly, suggesting the former senator and secretary of state was elitist, callous and blaming oil and gas workers for making bad choices that required they fend for themselves until President Biden can create new jobs for them.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), whose state has a massive oil and gas industry, slammed Kerry during a Just the News policy forum Wednesday evening for his “condescension.”
“Today John Kerry did a press conference where he said, ‘Well, they need to make better choices,'” Cruz said. “I don’t think the American people need rich, out-of-touch Democrats lecturing them that their job, their livelihood, is going to be obliterated and if they would just listen to the their intellectual and moral betters in the Democrat party they would choose to do something different with their lives.”
One of Cruz’s Senate GOP colleagues jumped into the action as well.
“John Kerry — who flies in private jets, owned a 76-foot yacht and several mansions —has the carbon footprint of a small nation,” Sen. Tom Cotton tweeted.
Commentators and journalists had their own take.
“I’d like to help John Kerry make ‘better choices’ for his career,” tweeted author and Wall Street Journal journalist Abigail Shrier, no stranger to controversy among liberals after writing a recent book on transgender issues.
Here are Kerry’s full remarks so you can decide for yourself: File Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, and National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, January 27, 2021 _ The White House.pdf
Whether a gaffe or an overblown twist of his words, Kerry’s episode Wednesday is a clear marker Republicans are going to be policing the words of Team Biden aggressively, just like Democrats scoured Donald Trump’s tweets often as president.