National’s Hamilton East candidate Ryan Hamilton says no red flags were raised by the party regarding his historical comments opposing water fluoridation and Covid-19 vaccine mandates.
Hamilton told the Herald his opposition to using fluoride, which included saying it was pointless because “most lower socio economics fill their tap water with Raro”, was not raised during the candidate selection process.
His views on the approach to Covid-19, which included opposing restricting unvaccinated people from council buildings and claiming coroner reporting was seemingly used to “inflate death numbers for the propaganda machine” were addressed but no one from the party was concerned, Hamilton claimed.
Look, Ryan Hamilton is a classist bigot with some reactionary mandate and fluoride beliefs, but that just makes him your usual run of the mill Tory arsehole.
Ryan has every right to hold wrong opinions, just as Deborah Rhodes has every right to hold the wrong opinion on HPV vaccines, where the demarcation line between holding stupid positions and dangerous conspiracy is fraught, my feel is that it comes down to being wrong and being a fantasist.
Ryan is a dickhead and he’s wrong, Deborah is wrong too, but candidates in ACT and NZ First go well beyond just being wrong in that they invent a fantasy reality where nano robots are in the vaccine, a global shadowy child abusing cabal are working with the pharmaceutical industry and getting vaccinated is akin to concentration camps.
Ryan Hamilton and Deborah Rhodes being wrong is a story, but the extremism in ACT and NZ First make these two seem reasonable, besides, the far bigger story is how NZs richest man is donating $700k to ACT and National!
NZ’s richest man gave at least $700K to right wing parties
Billionaire Graeme Hart has donated $700,000 to parties on the right of the political spectrum in the past two years.
We are too consumed with trawling social media feeds to catch people out saying things and pretending that’s political journalism, why the fuck the billionaire class and 1% wealthiest alongside the Real Estate Pimps have donated $12million to the Right since 2021 is the story!
You get the oligopolies, and monopolies and the duopolies and the Billionaire class are donating to the Right not because they love you but because they love their money!
With ACT’s attack on the mentally ill and drug addicts alongside their pledge to build a new prison empire for all the State Tenants that National are about to throw out onto the street plus Nationals plan to rob 2 year olds, public transport and climate funds to give rich landlords a $250 per fortnight tax cut is an affront to the very egalitarian state these fuckwits claim to champion!
They want to take from the poor and give to the rich!
They want right wing revenge fantasies as social policy FFS and voters seem more than happy to allow that because they can’t stop being angry at Jacinda and the Covid lockdown!
Normally National have to hide their blatant self interest the way you trick a dog into taking its pills by hiding it in something tasty, but National are so convinced that hatred of Labour is all they need, they haven’t even pretended to dress the venality of their tax cut for the rich funded by the poor as anything more than it is.
Which it isn’t.
It’s active state sanctioned vandalism of the egalitarian society sponsored by the NZ Plutocracy!
Orgy of Privatisation and Crony Capitalism:
You know the only winners in National’s road, road, roads policy?
The oil companies.
By moving away from petrol charges to miles driven, National hand the petrol companies a huge win and when you consider the early signals of the vast crony capitalism National are about to embark upon…
…we face an orgy of privatisation and crony capitalism!
Dr Bryce Edwards devastating critique into who is donating to National and the disgusting level of self interest is remarkable and shocking!
Alongside this orgy, National are lining up Public Private Partnership scams, removing foreign buyer bans and opening the immigration floodgates.
National’s only economic plan is to open the country to foreign buyers, slash the State and privatise the rest.
The Crony Capitalism National will unleash will make Labour’s sins look childish in comparison.
National will hack at the State to carve out deals for their mates while ACT will hack at the State for ideological purity.
The number 4 on ACTs Party List, that pale faced former Pharmaceutical Pimp Candidate. The steam off a sadists glasses vibe guy, the sort of person who would be found with an unexplainably large amount of children shoes, him – tell me that guy ain’t there to privatise Pharmac for his former industry?
THIS is why the billionaire class are donating in such huge amounts to the Political Right and they are manipulating your post Covid anger to sucker you all in!
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“Hamilton told the Herald his opposition to using fluoride, which included saying it was pointless because “most lower socio economics fill their tap water with Raro”, was not raised during the candidate selection process.”
Obviously, having champagne flowing from your gold plated taps is acceptable.
Ok, a swipe at priveledge but wasn’t the original point sugar content.
all alcohol has sugar in it dickhead
I would have more respect if these candidates had stuck to their opinions and just say we agree to disagree on this matter but let’s look at what we agree on.
Many on this platform have strong opinions about the correct path to take on one subject and clash but then agree on others .That is what makes life interesting.
And yet, thanks to Labour incompetence and the Left’s Woke values, the centre right is cruising to victory based mostly on not being Labour.
Yeap, that’s it in a nutshell.
Yadda,yadda, ada.
You just grab the steering wheel and try to run the car off the road don’t ya.
You’re like a flea in a black sock. You just wriggle around nipping here and there but most annoyingly, you never supply anything worth considering. Why is that? Is it because you have no imagination or are you just plain dumb but with an agenda you repeat by rote?
Even @ Nitrium, whom I had some respect for, queried why I kept banging on about my assertions that the natzo’s, Labour, ACT, Greens etc are the same thing and that, that thing is roger douglals’s version of milton friedman’s neo-liberalism and as such are bound by the same rules; ‘greed is good so don’t rock the boat’.
Where’s Hipkins? I only get snippets of him looking gobsmacked. He reminds me of the lead in a film titled ‘The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb’ where a tiny claymation character wanders about looking gob smacked. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108069/.
Where are Labour’s hoardings? Hoarded perhaps? I see the natzo’s everywhere. Luxon’s shiny nob-head beside the creepy as fuck Nicola Willis in many a dumb cockie’s tear soaked paddock. The Green Party with one-time HSBC Bankster Wee Jimmy Shaw at it’s weak kneed helm, and dear old Marama Davidson over there wandering about bumping into things.
Our ‘elected’ politics is neo-liberal through and through and has been for 39 years now and their bureaucracy is 100% neo-liberal quislings slavering to their masters, the Uber Hyper Riche shadowing our pathetic little travelling political road show.
Get this through your thick skulls! 14 multi-billionaires, 3118 multi-millionaires with $50 mil each and the four foreign owned banksters own us. Take your time… They. Own. Us. The quaint custom of ‘voting’ is a feather on a string for us kittens.
The only way out for us Kittens is if our agrarian primary industry joins forces with @ Maori and goes on strike.
No work. No money. No foreign currency for the billionaires and millionaires to get stiff and sticky and roll about on. End of the line, you rich, lazy, fuckers.
But that will never happen, of course. You dumb fucker cockies will just keep trudging, knee deep through mud to oblivion while living within a malaise of swamp vapours and fear.
You seen or read Lord of The Flies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies_(1963_film) a perfect explainer for the modern AO/NZ farmer. Just add money and fat, greedy urban people.
Yes, unfortunately all they have to do is promise to be a bit less shit than LINO. But I encourage you to write to you local Nats candidate and make it clear you want them to MUCH less shit than LINO. Make it clear you want the neo-Marxist cancer extirpated from our institutions, especially education.
@ fucking Ada, if only because you’re usually the first to jump in with your words of wisdom and impeccable slant on everything from polly tiks to beauty.
Can you tell me who did Symour’s ‘H’ forehead removal. and did they take the skin from his arse in order to give the impression of normal.
And if you can fess up to that truth, perhaps you could also let us know whose clitoris it was (albeit flipped sideways) that provided the mouth. It wasn’t yours was it?
@Ada, left/right, you’re living in the past – but not the only one by a stretch. Political affiliation is no longer a binary but multifaceted. I guess you’re referring to all the ‘woke’ social stuff of the so-called left, but don’t forget politics is also about the economic, about the exploitation of resources, about the distribution of wealth. Where the two meet, well, that’s another conversation.
Mmmmm….Labours incompetence or wealthy donors and NZ’S strong right wing woke media, the reason for Labours upcoming defeat is wide open to conjecture. Certainly not as straightforward as Adas slant.
Buying elections, so just the usual from the Tory scum
The same bunch of a…holes making the same lame comments on this site, but they ignore the fact a billionaire and others namely millionaires are donating large amounts of cash for political favors. These people don’t give a flying fuck about homelessness or the people who can’t afford to buy decent food or find somewhere to live these people care only about them fucken selves.
The same bunch of a…holes making the same lame comments on this site, but they ignore the fact a billionaire and others namely millionaires are donating large amounts of cash for political favors. These people don’t give a flying fuck about homelessness or the people who can’t afford to buy decent food or find somewhere to live these people care only about them fucken selves.
Ain’t that the truth Covid as Pa. Those really rich fuckers are just in it for themselves and dont give a shit about others, except no doubt for their own families. But I’ve often wondered if muddle NZ cares so much about the homeless and those with much less. Walk down Auckland’s Queen St and see how they turn a blind eye to those sitting in the gutter. For sure, some Christian minded souls but I suspect a good many not much different to all those rich fuckers.
“…right wing woke media” is an oxymoron.
A contradiction in terms even.
I am getting a bit bloody sick of candidates being exposed for “wrong think”
I know dentists who don’t support fluoride and I don’t care less about that.
If there turns out to be enough people who want fluoride banned, then I will fight the battle then.
This is the battle I am experiencing re people who are in positions of power trying to say men can get pregnant. IMO a far worse lie to belief than bloody fluoride tec tec
“people who are in positions of power trying to say men can get pregnant”
Name some then. Go on, write a list.
Graham Hart is donating to NZ First.
If it was entirely out of economic self interest it would be to Act or National
” Graham Hart is donating to NZ First.
If it was entirely out of economic self interest it would be to Act or National ”
It IS out of self interest !
Winston has said he will not support a LINO led government after the general election which means Winston will be supporting a government of the right.
So even if its a hung parliament with LINO and the Nasties are tied Winston will back Luxon.
Hart is having a dollar each way ( excuse the pun ) on a government of the right friendly to upstanding billionaires like himself and the protection of his wealth and position.
The election process has been bought with cash for policy and direction for the next three years.
He donated to all 3
Yes. Because all three are as one. National assassinated Labour using their two term finance minister stooge roger douglas who rolled old Labour over by stabbing Lange in the back after subverting Labour’s caucus. Once Labour was fully far right, i.e. neo-liberal, as it still is to this day. MMP was then used to create a buffer zone, read confusion, in the form of winston peters/NZ First.
Hart and his multi-billionaire and multi-millionaire confederate mates are literally sweeping up our money in a vacuum cleaner of such scale it’d make a door to door salesman/person blanche with envy.
@ Mosa. You’re absolutely correct. Well done.
I love this quote below.
Can we have a caption contest on it to outdo it with other mindless
witwet? egMost higher economics clean their teeth with gin and tonic – think that is a health stimulant.
Hamilton told the Herald his opposition to using fluoride, which included saying it was pointless because “most lower socio economics fill their tap water with Raro”, was not raised during the candidate selection process.
not beliving in flouridation makes you a dickhead not a criminal
And the raro comment makes him a cunt but isn’t Hamilton taking his lead of his bottom feeder leader.
3 years with a full majority and labour managed to not tax a single rich person. Why?
RB because they didn’t know how to construct an appropriate mechanism.