Nothing screams ‘bad faith’ quite like the new ‘unauthorised’ book about Jacinda by David Cohen…
…I had originally agreed to being interviewed but pulled out after I got a weird vibe from him, I’m bloody glad I did because out turns out that the book is being supported by alt-Right hate blog, The Centrist…
Du Plessis-Allan asked Cohen about the Centrist link and whether he was worried that “would possibly lend your book to becoming a bit fringe?”.
…The Centrist, as TDB has pointed out, is the new alt-Right hate blog started by alt-Right culture War Canadian Billionaire Jim Grenon, the same alt-right Billionaire who just took over NZME.
The Centrist was behind the insinuation Benjamin Doyle was a pedohile, they publish anti-Trans hate, anti-Māori hate, anti-Treaty hate, anti-vaccine hate, and are climate deniers.
That they are behind Cohen’s book is like finding out your local kindergarten is run by the Nazgul.
If the alt-right culture war hate Blog is backing Cohen’s new book, it will be little more than a hatchet job on Jacinda.
Sometimes you need to listen to your gut about a vibe you get from someone.
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Yes and the problem being?
The problem being it leads to right wing extremists…
https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/minnesota-shootings-manhunt-06-15-25
Was Trump’s attempted assassin Right or Left. A nutter is a nutter they are not representative of a political identity
“Nutter” piss weak argument from those who don’t want to understand the psychology nor sociological behavior created by demagogues like trump and co.
No nuttery involved – they just acted how they thought trump would want them to act. Like the people who murdered for Mao, or Pinochet. They acted as their beloved leader suggested would be a good idea.
Do your own research idiot and go back and re-read Martyns headline.
This guy is a nutter Trevor and why we have extremists today…
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/mike-lee-deleted-posts-minnesota-shootings
He is a Republican.
Is it as good as Ian Wishart’s book on Helen Clark?
( Sigh + eye-roll. )
Has Adern ever, even once, denounced rogers particular iteration of the swindle that’s neoliberalism?
Given the current state of our politics I’d confidently say not.
roger douglas destroyed David Lange to back-door privateers to steal our wealth and security and Adern has said nothing by any inference at all about that, that I’m aware of. Don’t you think that’s a bit sus’?
If not then look it up.
https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/the-invisible-doctrine-978180206269
From the book by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison titled The Invisible Doctrine. The Secret History of Neoliberalism and how it came to control your life.
” We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our mental wellbeing; the planet we inhabit – the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most people, it has no name. It seems unavoidable, like a natural law. But trace back to its roots, and we discover that it is neither inevitable nor immutable. It was conceived, propagated and then concealed by the powerful few. It connects all of the biggest problems we face today: global heating, democratic backsliding, rising inequality, racism, gender violence, the mental health crisis and more. Our task is to bring it into the light – and to build a new system that is worth fighting for.
Neoliberalism. Do you know what it is? “
‘Has Adern ever, even once, denounced rogers particular iteration of the swindle that’s neoliberalism?’
Yes The Killer, that is always my problem with Jacinda( mind you I felt the same way about Helen Clark and Phil Goff).
Until the Labour faces up to that stain it will be “National Lite’ and its message to voters will be ‘elect us because we are slightly less shit’.
national and labour are 2 cheeks of the same arse, theyre very similar and its only their coalition partners that set them apart
Does that make Seymour the anus or the crap that comes out of it
She did denounce it, but it was clearly all rhetoric at the time.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96739673/jacinda-ardern-says-neoliberalism-has-failed
Winston Peters said it was dead when he went with Jacinda, but it was clearly all rhetoric at the time.
NZ First was formed as a backlash to neoliberalism, Peters words not mine.
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/winston-peters-not-his-first-rodeo/
I agree Jacinda was never going to deal with neoliberalism and I never voted for her because it was pretty obvious she couldn’t. We should know by now however that no PM has the power to change that situation without a popular movement behind them/forcing their hand. If we can’t produce such a movement then we’ve only got ourselves to blame.
Of all the PMs in my lifetime she seems like the one most likely to have listened but we were all too busy arguing with each on the internet so it was never going to happen
You have explained why neo liberalism persists and why it is pointless waiting for someone to get rid of it, they all start small conflicts that they hope to get progress on but ignore the big problem.
If no changes had been made in the 80s the country would be in a greater financial mess than we have today .The power of government dept in ruling our lifes was horrific to any business owner big or small.
More thought should have gone into cushioning the fall out from the changes and not leaving it all to the market to sort out.
If you were a farmer in those days the subsidies you got allowed you to continue running a very inefficient business .
The changes made in the 80s is exactly why we are in the financial mess we are in today.
The countries that are successful today did so by keeping their identity and not opening themselves up to immigration and therefore exploitation.
maybe he should spend his money feeding hungry kids and helping the homeless that his mate Luxon is doing his best lazer focus to increase
‘maybe he should spend his money feeding hungry kids and helping the homeless that his mate Luxon is doing his best lazer focus to increase’
In the view of Ruthless Rebstock, Rampant Richardson and Wicked Willis( the three little maids from hell) that would make people ‘Welfare Dependent’ and prevent them creating ‘Personal Initiatives to end Poverty’.
Strange that the bald one listens to the message from one who healed the sick, fed the hungry, showed compassion for sinners and drove money lenders from the temple but singularly fails to follow the example?
some people call that hypocrisy.
One more little thing…
Luxon? seymour ? And Whiny Winnie the lawyer ? They’re all neoliberals. And if Adern doesn’t/ refuses to denounce neoliberalism then she, is one of them. Not, one of us.
Is that why the soft focus of a glowing Adern in the Guardian? Is that why Adern’s suddenly everywhere all a-glow while selling what appears to be moral virtue?
Please? Jacinda Adern? Please tell me, then prove to me, that I’m wrong.
We’ve been robbed blind then cast aside by the disease that’s neoliberalism for more then forty years now so we deserve some honesty, don’t you think?
Jacinda Ardern- more kind than Christopher Luxon
– less dangerous to children than David Seymour
– less of a blowhard than Winston Peters
can’t set one’s aims too high, tho
“Labour” – don’t set your aims to high
Martyn – This book will be a better read than Jacinda’s effort…and more honest as well.
Martyn – This book will be a worse read than Jacinda’s effort…and more dishonest as well.
National are Squeaky Clean – Not trying are we…I guess Jacinda supporters have nothing.
Just pointing out how pathetic a comment yours was and you confirmed it.
She wasn’t in Hawaii when she said she was in Te Puke. Luxon is dishonest. You anti Jacinda haters have nothing.
There is something about “spiteful men” that makes my flesh crawl. That there are two of them attacking Jacinda Ardern, yet again, clearly means she has ‘got to them’. How did NZ accept this horrible Grenon creature to monopolize our media and brainwash the already dump assed voters out there? Grenon and Cohen’s connection to ultra extreme RW propaganda is staggering – why are so many of you so “blind” and “stupid”? If there is any justice in this world, these two obscene creatures, should be popped into a melting pot with Seymour, Luxon and the equally horrid Hoskings, and the contents poured down the nearest sewer.
Every time I drive past Alan Gibbs monument to his ego I feel like cocking a leg on his front gate.
Jacob Cohen is a genocidal fantasist, who has been caught dealing with the Mossad front group, the ‘Indigenous Coalition for Israel’.
https://www.indigenouscoalition.org/articles-blog/new-zealands-yon-come-latelies
Chippy, if you’re reading the comments above, it it abundantly clear what you need to do.
It will take genuine fortitude and a fierce resolve, but do it – properly and thoroughly -and you will be the next PM for sure!!
And the majority of the country will thank you for it.
Maybe he (Grenon) should fuck of back to Canada we don’t need creeps like him here we have enough of our own.
“Want the Real Tory?” (correct blurb for new book).