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"I thought it was pathetic" , so begins the new video of the television Frank Cuesta in which he reloads against the activist Greta Thunberg and against all the young people who belong to the Youth for Climate-Fridays Future movement , to whom, among others things, urges "work, work and work" to "put a red face on politicians", since according to Frank Cuesta "they have politicized you" .

If last week the presenter parodied Greta Thunberg in disguise of the young Swedish woman to make fun of her, this time she has included in her criticism the other three young people who accompanied Greta Thunberg during the press conference prior to the Climate March held in Madrid this Friday. Aware of all the criticisms he will receive, Frank Cuesta assumes them and criticizes hard what is being done, that "it is nothing . "

"They have put four kids there - whom Cuesta calls Greta and the Garbo - with a horrible sound system, with a guy who was running the bill in that way and, above all, politicized. This movement is politicized. be a free and fresh movement. They have politicized you and they are using you, "says the presenter in the video in which in the background you can see the image of Greta Thunberg , Shari Crespi , youth activist for Climate-Fridays Future Spain, Vanessa Nakate , from FFF Uganda, and the International Youth Coordinator for Climate-Fridays Future Spain, Alejandro Martínez .

Frank Cuesta's message, somewhat more restrained than in the video in which he parodied Thunberg, is clear: "To get things you don't get that way. The moment you politicize, you're screwed . It's been very sad to see four kids sitting there, it seemed that the dog had died at four. The only one who spoke with a little coherence was the girl from Uganda because she comes from a country where she suffers. The other three, posh children, who they've raised motherfuckers . "

And he adds: "They are manipulating you, because they have told you that things are achieved in demonstrations, shouting, insulting, and so the only thing you get is what Greta Thunberg has said, nothing. The first one, that they are using it as a damn puppet. I don't care if I have Asperger's Syndrome or if the nuclear engineering career ends, what I see is that they are manipulating it . "

Frank Cuesta not only charges hard against the image of Greta Thunberg , but also does it against the Youth for Climate movement , which he not only accuses of being politicized but of being a movement of "lazy". If you really care about the environment, you don't have to leave school on Fridays. (...) The manifestation is very good to do one, but every Friday without school ... That's a party. Do you really care? To get something you have to work. I see that with the demonstrations you get nothing, do you know why? Because this is a movement of bums, a movement of children, this is a movement that is saying 'you have to ...', 'you have to ...', 'you have to ...' ".

Thus, the presenter of Wild Frank urges young people immersed in this movement to work and if they are against climate change to stop "strike on Fridays" and use their free time and money to "go to forests, to mountains, rivers, beaches ... and clean plastic , and that way you will put a red face on politicians, that way you will create an image that you are doing something.

"Now you only create an image that you are a few lazy guys who don't want to go to school on Fridays, and that you don't give a shit because in the real world things get worked," Frank Cuesta reiterates very indignantly. "If you are worried, start moving your ass, invest your free time, your money and do it. Now it is a fully politicized movement, some children who are told what to do, but who realize they have not managed to do anything. It is a shame because what seemed like a nice movement when they started, has become a circus. A circus in which you are the clowns, "he insists.

"If you want to change things, work and take action, " concludes the presenter, who has already been shown in many occasions very critical of youth movements against climate change and especially with the visible head of these movements, Greta Thunberg .

For Frank Cuesta, Greta is like "an animal that you can find in any event on climate change, in any international gathering, in any place where a lot of pasta moves and the family can get what they can." Frank Cuesta's criticism of Greta Thunberg does not end there: "You are not going to see this bug picking up shit, or cleaning, or investigating, or studying to help climate change."

A few words that last week cost him hard criticism from the followers of the Swedish activist, but also the support of many others who thanked him for saying "what many of us think."

Now, the new video against youth movements against climate change has caused the same reactions. On the one hand, those who defend these movements and Greta Thunberg and, on the other, those who, like Frank Cuesta, consider that the demonstrations are useless and that it is time to take action, even with small gestures.

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