Just a few weeks after climate crazies targeted one of the world’s most famous sets of dinosaur remains, a similar pair of morons took to smearing paint all over the glass casing around a sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Video from Thursday shows a man and a woman, their hands coated in black and red paint, smearing color all over the glass front to “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,” an 1880 bronze sculpture crafted by Edgar Degas.The activists were reportedly trying to demand President Joe Biden declare a climate emergency, but instead just managed to piss everyone off.
"I'm sorry," one of the activists says as he rubs black smudges all over the glass.
After defacing the case, the pair can be seen in the video kneeling in front of the statue and seeking to address the shocked crowd and nearby cameras.
"I'm Joanna. I'm a mom from Brooklyn," the woman then says. "And I'm here today in D.C. in a place that I respect as the highest element of human expression...this Earth is beautiful and we're destroying it with climate change."
As the woman rants on, two security guards can be seen gently apprehending the couple, showing far more restraint than either deserved.
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Both nut jobs, later identified as Joanna Smith, 53, of New York City and Tim Martin, 54, of Raleigh, N.C., are affiliated with “Declare Emergency,” a climate group that has taken credit for the vandalism.
The famous sculpture "Little Dancer of Fourteen Years" by Edgar Degas had paint smeared onto its stand and glass case by climate activists at the National Gallery of Art in DC.pic.twitter.com/hav5wtSQlz
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This latest narcissistic display of attention-whoredom comes as climate group across the world have begun targeting famous paintings, sculptures, and priceless artifacts for vandalism to draw attention to the fictitious boogeyman of anthropogenic “climate change.” climate activists have chucked cans of tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery, and smeared pie on King Charles’s wax statue at Madame Tussauds, thrown mashed potatoes on a Claude Monet’s “Les Meules” at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, and glued themselves to Pablo Picasso’s “Massacre in Korea” in Australia, among other targeted attacks. Thankfully, the activists who showed up with buckets of paint to vandalize Dippy the Diplodocus in Pittsburgh last month got leveled by a couple of security guards before they could pull off their stunt.
At this rate, it’s a wonder we don’t have glass cases around every priceless piece of artwork known to man, just to protect them from whackos with no lives and an axe to grind.