Gore makes his speech to a ballroom packed to the rafters, and the thousands who had been warned [that there was no room for them] camp outside the closed doors, watching the simulcast on their iPhones.
The title of Gore’s speech is “The Future,” and he draws the main themes from his book of the same name. As one might imagine, scaremongering about climate change weaves in and out of his presentation. From time to time, the usual enemies are brought out for applause: Congress is impotent and “does nothing” until it “gets the okay from special interests”; shadowy groups run the country, he claims, having “hacked” its democracy and corrupted its “operating system,” the Constitution. And the NRA, which defends a key part of that “operating system”? “A complete fraud,” Gore explains, “because it is financed by the gun manufacturers.”
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
He's quite mad, obviously. Now go and emit no more.
