4 years ago, (despite my arguments that they would inadvertently awake a dormant political fault line in ACT), the identity politics woke in NZ attacked free speech by cancelling travelling performance crypto-fascists Southern & Molyneux…
…barely a month after that ‘victory’ in strangling off free speech in 2018 (a ‘victory’ that would begin ACT’s march from political irrelevance into the double digit hate machine behemoth it’s mutated into – like I warned), National tried the same game by wanting Chelsea Manning banned from entering the country to speak in Auckland…
National Party says Chelsea Manning should not be allowed in New Zealand
The National Party says the Government should refuse to allow US whistleblower Chelsea Manning to visit New Zealand for a speaking tour.
…oh the Lols!
There was this glorious moment of total intellectual confusion over the collective faces of the woke activists of Aotearoa New Zealand. They had just succeeded in closing down performance crypto-fascists Southern & Molyneux by threatening bomb calls to the venue and were feeling very chuffed when they were suddenly hit by the other side wanting to strangle off Chelsea Manning’s free speech, the trans activist who had the courage to provide war crime evidence to Julian Assange.
The brittle intellectual and philosophical framework of Woke middle class aesthetic Identitarianism isn’t really built on more than a hashtag and ‘feelings’ so after choking off free speech, they didn’t really have any ground to suddenly be free speech defenders.
The exact same madness has occurred with Dr Sharma getting his Karma.
Last week the eruption of moral virtue signalling over the collective hatred directed at Uffindell was a deafening explosion of self righteousness.
I thought it was monstrous defining a human based on the actions of their 16 year old self, but everyone else wanted a lynching.
I don”t care about National MPs, and I’ve got zero time for his privilege, but he’s a human being and judging him on his childhood so the revisionist micro aggression policing movement can collectively pile all their own childhood trauma onto one target is boring and terribly dull, (especially when we have so many actual fucking issues confronting us).
If only we on the Left were as good at strangling off child poverty, strangling off the cost of living crisis and strangling off housing unaffordability the way are at strangling off National MP careers for things they did 2 decades ago.
Then Sam got the ‘Santamaria treatment’ with RNZ using the Salam Witch Trial evidential standard by interviewing an anonymous woman about a drunk Sam banging on her door 20 years ago.
His shitty flat also had girls underwear on the wall.
WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN WHILE CLUTCHING PEARLS!
Hash tag solidarity. Hash tag feminism. Hash tag BELIEVE all women.
In the middle of this gleeful schadenfreude suddenly Dr Gaurav Sharma drops a nuclear confession that actually, the Government and Labour are all bullies.
There was a moment of confusion by the woke Lynch mob, if Sam bad evil bully for events he committed 2 decades ago, surely the revelations of bullying now by a serving member of Parliament requires even more outrage olympics, yet it was our side being accused!
After appreciating the philosophically tenuous position their Lynch mob had placed them, the woke doubled down and began damning Labour and supporting Dr Sharma right up until it started sounding like the problem was a staffing issue in HIS office.
Dr Gaurav Sharma then went full Jami-Lee Ross.
Labour suspending Sharma occurs as he is surfing the current cultural dominance of intersectionist victimhood where we must B-E-L-I-E-V-E all victims of power dynamics.
Sharma is able to ride this victimhood because victimhood is allowed the power of allegation with little evidence now that due process is simply heteronormative white cis male privilege.
There are of course political winners and losers by suspending Sharma.
Winners:
National – They can’t believe their blessings and pure luck to have all the attention of bullying and privilege taken away from them.
Millennial level snowflake triggers – Now Anna Lorck is the target of anonymous Millennial bully allegations. The snowflake staffer felt being asked to drive her drunk boss home after work was emotional genocide. Low level Millennial trigger thresholds make this entire debate about bullying a joke. Disagreement is now seen as persecution.
Dr Sharma – He gets to play the victim and slowly release more and more emails and messages. His martyrdom is all he has now and it will corrode Jacinda’s kindness brand.
Losers:
Labour – This is going to be damaging because Sharma is doing it for the political martyrdom now and has clearly already decided to run as an independent. He will continue to deliver scraps of evidence and drag this out until the election.
Whips – This is such an extraordinary fuck up by the whips. Shit has clearly gotten personal between Sharma and whoever decided to put his rival in his office and this should have been handled with dignity and tact. It feels like inexperienced Whips big balling when diplomacy was required. The whips need whipping.
Uffindell – The hypocrisy between his own actions as a 16 year old and his damnation of 16 year olds hurting people in his maiden speech was always difficult enough to survive, but National’s need to punish young people on welfare and the chance to look politically pious means he’s gone. Expect a by-election in Tauranga after Sam ‘choses’ to stand down.
TVNZ – Their issue is that people can’t pronounce Dr Sharma’s name correctly. I’m not joking. I know. I know. I know.
Predictions:
Suspension is one step down from expulsion and the hope is that Sharma can redeem himself and come back into the fold, but look at the top of Sharma’s Facebook page…
…this is a man who is ready to run as an independent. All his social medias are directed to his personal profile, not Labour’s!
Between now and the 2023 election he will run a counter insurgency inside the Government so he is free to run as an independent in 2023 regardless of suspension or expulsion.
National & ACT will be hypocritically pious and the Greens are so victim driven they won’t be able to criticise Sharma.
This is a terrible mishandling by Labour’s Whips and Sharma will ride the Millennial victimhood wave as far as humanly possible.
Our brittle weakness is collectively beneath the challenge of our times.
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Bully = whatever the person making the claim wants to believe it is and almost impossible to rectify. A misused term made by some who may be being pulled up for failing to do their job suddenly become victims. I’ve seen the bullshit that accompanies such claims.
Sharma was toast come the next election anyway with the current polling numbers but he is now reassured of returning to his previous day job now. His dirt throwing tantrums are unusual and one could be forgiven for thinking he was a plant from the other side of the political spectrum with that Herald exclusive but in any case his narcissistic petulance is slowly burying him. People don’t like injustices but they can see a whinging traitor a mile off and they like that even less.
I guess we will have to put up with this attention seeking tool focused purely on him for 4 more months.
Thanks for the definition!
‘Bullying’ is a word bandied about endlessly at present and can cover a multitude of sins – and lies and victims-seeking-status. Your definition,as universally encompassing as it is, seems to work, Well, sort-of.
I may add that no matter how many MP’s deluded themselves in the past into thinking they could run as an independent, the lesson never seems to be absorbed by the next one who tries it, it’s not you meaningless pill who wins the seat, it’s your Party!
Remind us where the last guy who tried that kamikaze tactic, Jamie Lee Ross, is now?
On the relatively small amount of actual information that has been presented Martyn how do you conclude the Whips stuffed up? Sharma comes across like nothing more than someone who couldn’t get his way so goes full on shit stirrer. Whatever he has drip feed seems inconclusive at best. Of course you could say I am making an opinion based on not much either, but its pretty clear, by his actions, resolution was never wanted.
Get real Martyn. The details about Sharma haven’t been revealed. Dr Priveledged has been very vague, Labour’s has hidden under “employment matter” privacy. Who the hell knows what the real issues there are? Whereas, Uffindel came right out and admitted his past, AFTER concealing it from the voter base in Tauranga and doing a conflicting maiden speech. Most kiwis can forgive transgressions of a teenager committed 20 years ago, but not yesterday’s deceitful actions. They can both fark off, and any other narcissists in leadership roles
Dont forget Bill English claiming mortgage/ rent allowance on various? properties way back when.
Reading between the lines (and not assigning right or wrong to either side) but I think loose accountability and an element of profligacy is probably at the bottom of this. I read something about this being about travel expenses but also the comment “Sometimes a more senior member takes a trip to a more far flung office for ‘maintaining relationship’ purposes and in fact this is encouraged”.
So my mind went to, here is Dr Sharma, supposedly a workaholic and given his ‘indian’ background probably has worked his ass off for ever and lived relatively speaking ‘a frugal life’. Meanwhile some git from the Hive swans down one day because he has ‘other’ fish to fry in Hamilton, sticks his nose in the door for ten minutes, maybe stays over night and then b*ggers off the next day. I could really see this happening in the context of parliament and maybe it happens often.
Meanwhile Sharma is working his butt off and seeing it, thinks this is outrageous profligacy and not appropriate use of taxpayers funds. Especially so if for some reason, he didnt even get the ten minute head around the door. Maybe even sees it occurring relatively frequently.
He brings it up, they all laugh it off, he gets disgruntled.
Fantail Whatever the ins and outs, it’s appalling that Dr Sharma’s issue has simmered unresolved for so long. In a normal workplace, this could constitute an additional grievance.
Sharma isn’t the guy in charge of the processes here, and it doesn’t stand to reason to blame him for the inadequacies or the incompetence of the wallahs in charge of their systems. Right now, he is also being subjected to trial by media, which could give him yet another complaint.
Those who saw this government turning the sprinklers on toddlers, children, women, and blokes, on a wet frigid Wellington night and then reward the comptroller with a nice little diplomatic posting, wonder what goodies will be coming the way of the jesters responsible for this unholy mess.
Hear hear, exactly!
C’mon Bomber – just admit it Our Glorious Leader is a loser here and Te Reo a winner. Te Reo played the Pontius Pilot corporate exit strategy by ass carding Slammin Sam whilst also washing his hands of the process whereas Our Glorious Leader’s mantra of a “strong team and kindness” has taken an absolute hammering. It has been a cock up from day one and her office is donkey deep in the horse trading that went on. Either she knew and supported or didn’t – either way it’s poor leadership.
Another loser is TAB McAnulty who appears to be miniTrev in his management style and with the Rural blowback coming his seat of Wairarapa goes from lean Labour to toss up. He is also not far enough up the list where in a landslide he gets wiped.
And finally the MSM are losers. They were salivating at the prospect of another week of character assassination of Big Sam with revelations that he left the toilet seat up in the parliamentary toilets and visited a strip club in his 20s. Big Tommy Couglan has gone quiet, OnePravda Breakfast is moping and Gower’s expose on Castle Street couch abuse had to be shitcanned. Lol fucking Lol.
And Seymour’s ass rainbow keeps growing by the day.
I think it’s incorrect to suggest her image has taken an “absolute hammering”. Don’t confuse kindness with putting up with shit stirring individuals. I actually thought in the press conferences that she looked like she had a backbone. Sharma released basically nothing but comes across as having a tantrum.
I don’t think Luxon did anything wrong either but let’s see what the QC concludes about the Uff
“Our brittle weakness is collectively beneath the challenge of our times.”
Martyn, if you ever decide to give up this political journalism gig, you could always start a clairvoyance show. Because you read my mind to the letter!
At this point in time, the woke are going to give us our Trump moment. We all dont want that.
Oh I disagree!
Meanwhile inequality of wealth and health grows. Devastating weather events increase. War rages in Ukraine and threatens in the South China Sea. Pestilence stalks the globe.
Does anyone else feel that our society is like shouting baboons, fighting for status in the group, while the leopard stalks closer?
Stevie. “ Does anyone else feel that our society is like shouting baboons, fighting for status in the group, while the leopard stalks closer ?” Yes, Stevie. And some of them must see the leopards and simply close their eyes to them, because acquired privilege has provided them with buffers from many of life’s bruises which they may not even be aware of nor care about. The saga of Sepuloni’s determined dismissal of the Commissioner For Children will surely be one of their dirtiest footprints in our social history.
Textbook toxic work place, there is likely guilt in more than one place and it stems from poor people management and poor leadership allowing a bad workplace culture to develop.
Responsibility begins at the top with the Labour Party with their “ein reich” mentality.
An employee being performance managed for being a bully goes to the media rather than following internal processes, cries foul at being performance managed or bullied to use Sharmas words, can hardly be termed poor leadership.
It appears Sharma falls into the arrogant Doctor category.
True leadership was having him performance managed in the first place, as now we can see why.
Poor leadership is giving yourself an $18000 a year tax cut and probably why 65 % disagree with tax cuts.
Let’s look at it this way, Gus. If a person previously in competition with Sharma was placed in his office by Parliamentary Services, at the very least that is mischievous. It could also be seen as both shit-stirring and childish.
No Pip, if a person is placed in there due to Sharmas bullying, Sharma takes personal responsibility, it seems both he and you don’t like personal responsibility?
Bert. Unlike you, I can’t speak for Dr Sharma any more than you can speak for either me or him, but speaking for myself, you are wrong in your assessment of my likes or my dislikes.
Imagine if the woman in the Dunedin flat had been as out of her tree as Uffindell was at the time. And opened that door and smashed him in the head with a chair or something.
Or being so fearful of him had opened the door and stabbed him in the face.
And his subsequent life became such he would never be in the frame to be an MP.
The incident wasn’t the end of the world. It could have been.
There’s a fine line line between pleasure and pain so some have it as nothing, ordinary behaviour of youth, an indication that small stuff gets big attention.
Molyneaux and Southern are worthless conservatives, though. They should be banned from entering for that reason.
Brad Manning did good work to expose the demonic lust for blood of the American patriot, and the crimes they commit against humans. We should offer him refuge.
I agree with you MK but that is the thing about FREE speech. You dont get to choose who gets to have a say unless of course that speech trips over into inciting violence.
We might despise them but they still have the same rights as us to have their say.
So Parliamentary Services employed the person contesting the candidacy against Dr Sharma in his office after what would be a fairly brutal selection campaign. This person will now have a very good chance of gaining the candidacy from Dr Sharma at the next election. Clearly a conflict of interest existed.
Do parliamentary services select employees based on political allegiance, as this person was a member of the Labour party? How was the employment process handled and were the applicants asked their political leanings? How was the allegation of an employee of PS turning up intoxicated to work in Dr Sharma’s office handled? If correct, that is serious misconduct and would require a written warning if not immediate termination of employment. I think the gaslights are on full bore here. I support Labour but my tolerance is at breaking point. As a litmus test, put this scenario into your workplace and it would be considered appalling management.
Well you are shit of luck RB. The next team are pretending they care ( unless you are on a benefit of course). They will say the cost of living is doing people in while trying to suppress wage growth of any significance. They are every bit as fake.
Interesting you mentioned cost of living. Report on stuff today has wage increases right up there with inflation rate for men and 9.9% for women. Can’t say cost increases are as bad as what people think. If the greedies didn’t pile excessive margins on top then inflation would be OK.
Fletchers 42% increase in profit says something. All the shareholders just got a 42% pay rise.
MW I don’t doubt there is price gouging going on in a number of cases It’s easy to blame the government for everything. At least government spending in the construction sector could be linked to materials that are included in the CPI basket. How does government spending drive up the cost of a potato? It doesn’t.
Lazy big mouths on twitter don’t stick to one dismont On twitter backflips. There’s many.
Do you really believe Sharma has spent all of his ammunition?
He has had a good deal of time to gather it.
Labour is taking itself down with the overpowering weight of its own hubris on so many fronts now.
Really, how do you know this or is it your best guess? Today Labour up in the Tax Payers Union poll .
All Dr Sharma has shown so far, is that he is in possession of damp fireworks and no matches.
Hopefully I’ll still be around in 20-30 years because just as the mathematics of the 90% versus the 10% versus the 1% have never really added up, neither have the politics of personalities over policies.
We’re in a transitional phase. The sad thing is is that any sort of collective solidarity amongst the political and administrative classes is based on the firm foundation of solid bullshit that is personality politiks versus politics based on policy for the people
When the planet’s burning, people can’t get food (let alone their KFC or Makkers), or travel to visit family and kin, they’re not going to give a shit about neo-kindness or whether some 10%ers feelings have been hurt.
OnceWasTim If you’re still around in another couple of decades you could be locked away in some oubliette or be under permanent house arrest by Joanna Kidman for the naughty things you say, or I might do you myself for using public service jargon, cliches, and using common nouns as verbs even if you know who does too. Be warned.
From what I can make of this situation is Dr Sharma has staffing issues, resulting in stress in his office. When he’s approached by the party whips and offered management training, along with being unable to personally take on new staff in the meantime until he’s up to scratch with staff issues, he turns rogue, accusing the whips of bullying.
If he was serious in having his perceived problems addressed appropriately, then why didn’t Dr Sharma appear at the meeting? This would have given him an opportunity to put his grievances to Caucus. But he decided to be a no show! Why was that?
For all it’s worth in my opinion, Labour acted quickly and appropriately, using one option by suspending Dr Sharma. The ball is in Dr Sharma’s court now.
Quite right Mary.
As I have suggested earlier I think he is an arrogant Doctor who is above everyone. He would’ve been best suited to the National party.
My guess, because he knows he’s being screwed over and his fight-back is not naive. He knows how this goes. Whether he is right or wrong, only those who have never taken a stand against the powerful could fail to understand the long-term machiavellian viciousness people in the kind of position really face.
Yes there are dishonest players who leverage victimhood. (So far I don’t see any sign of that particular game here) But there are many more who stand up to abuse and are destroyed. The idea that every person standing up to abuse is lying is every bit as ludicrous as a claim that such people are never lying.
You’re right there Mary. I think Sharma has stress/depression issues and needs some support. Hopefully they can sort it out before Xmas as being a doctor he could contribute a lot to Govt during this pandemic/influenza times.
mary-a Labour acted “Quickly” ? Quickly ? Looks like that may be another word which they have redefined, along with “ transparent” and “ kindness.”
My guess, because he knows he’s being screwed over and his fight-back is not naive. He knows how this goes. Whether he is right or wrong, only those who have never taken a stand against the powerful could fail to understand the long-term machiavellian viciousness people in the kind of position really face.
Yes there are dishonest players who leverage victimhood. (So far I don’t see any sign of that particular game here) But there are many more who stand up to abuse and are destroyed. The idea that every person standing up to abuse is lying is every bit as ludicrous as a claim that such people are never lying.
Woke up,where am I. How green my futuer,nay,jist a arrogance OF WHO.
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