Listen to the rednecks screeeeeeeeeeam over Jacinda getting Graham Norton attention – nothing embarrasses the NZ gauche quite like international criticism.
Keep crying ZB Trolls – your tears are delicious!
I think hating Jacinda has become a cult for the alt-Right in New Zealand.
I believe the last election was decided by voters embittered post Covid who had gone from being the team of 5 million into a cult hating on Jacinda.
The disinformation, misinformation and naked misogyny that infected our debate still carries the scars today.
One of the reasons I was so vocal against using excessive force against the Dumb Lives Matter protests on Parliament’s lawns was because if you don’t allow disgruntled people their opportunity to speak, it turns into a dark treacle of hate and all those protestors we beat up went home with a terrible anger.
50% of those on Parliaments lawns voted Green and Labour, (a fact the middle class Wellington Woke never wanted to acknowledge), and we permanently lost 5% of the vote for the Left by refusing them their right to be heard.
We should have enabled immediate access to benefits for those who lost their jobs because of their refusal to take the vaccine rather than the 13 weeks stand down period and most importantly, Labour needed to thank and reward Auckland for holding the line as long as we did so that the rest of the country could get vaccinated.
Instead all Labour offered us was GST off fruit and vegetables which felt like a massive slap in the face to every Aucklander who sacrificed for the good of the nation.
But those issues aside, Jacinda saved this country from 20 000 needless deaths, admittedly most of those saved 20 000 were boomers who promptly rewarded her by spitefully voting for NZFirst.
No good deed goes unpunished.
The documentary Prime Minister is a powerful reminder of how bloody hard Jacinda worked to protect us all from a once in a century pandemic and reminds us just how well she did despite the tsunami of rage that swept her away…
New Zealand’s royal commission on lessons learned from the pandemic published its first report this summer and in comparison with the British Covid inquiry’s withering “too little, too late” verdict on the Johnson government’s handling of the pandemic, Ardern emerges practically glowing. Her “be strong and be kind” strategy, which involved sealing borders early to keep the virus at bay, was judged effective in public health terms, holding back infections until a vaccine was ready and allowing the country to spend less time in strict lockdowns than others around the world.
…we forget the successes of Jacinda’s handling of the pandemic by focussing on the mistakes and this myopic fury allowed voters to elect National, ACT and NZF without comprehending what those 3 Parties would do.
We now have a hard right anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-disabled, anti-beneficiary, anti-worker, anti-renter and anti-environment Government who are strangling the common good for their donors interests.
We have allowed Crony Capitalism to replace the common ground between us as citizens all because hating Jacinda has become a cult on the right.
It’s heartbreaking that she will never be able to live in NZ with her family without security again because so many feral anti-vaxxers wish her harm.
She is hated for having the temerity to save 20 000 lives and for putting public health before private profit.
This is who we is now, this is what we have become.
Hate is the new black, and Orange is the new arsehole.
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It is embarrassing to think that the GN show means something to some people. Otherwise, we have the hate Jacinda cult, the hate the far-Right cult, the hate the lonney Left cult, the hate the antivaxxers cult and a thousand and ten other hate cults.
Meanwhile, we live in an increasingly warring world, where genocide is being normalized to boot, where the super duper rich are growing disproportionately richer relative to everyone else, and using this money to buy more and more political influence, aka further corrupt the political system….and yet here we are, we the people – uniting to fight the money corrupting politics – no – we are just growing further and further apart. We are being divided by the same money that has captured politics.
There’s only one true enemy to us all, that is the money ruining politics, therefore the entire world! We either see the light or we will perish…Gaza is merely the trial run for what will happen to the entire world.
Well said.
Jacinda certainly deserves some accolades after the spiteful treatment and lack of gratitude the ZB trolls and other sicko New Zealanders spat at her after she gave her heart and soul during Covid. I keep saying, she will be revered as one of our very best, decent, intelligent and caring PM’s when the likes of Luxon et al are well forgotten. She has every right to the admiration the rest of the world can see she has earned. So absolute shame on those who spat out such vile, ugly vitriole. All that did was expose their basic lack of moral fibre and toxic, unhealthy personality traits. And AO – well said much for us to digest – I’m guilty of joining the hate brigade.
We need Jacinda back to save NZ before there is nothing left .
I see the leader (motor mouth Hoskings) of the ZB trolls has taken a seven-week holiday at a time when his mate lux-one has said NZers have too much time off during the xmas break and it’s not good for businesses. Bloody hypocrites !
Melanie was right. “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”
Joni Mitchell
In a Big Yellow Taxi!
Yes, definitely Joni.
Jacinda dis a good job of handling covid in the early stages but it needs to be remembered without covid Labour would have struggled to be returned in 2020 despite the poor state of the National Party at the time.
Well on that basis Winston owes an even bigger apology for anointing this f’ing useless bunch of corrupt arseholes that is our government today. What economic indicator looks better under this government? The CPI is probably more about tradeable inflation so that’s not one of them. They are hopeless. The taxpayers union will be another lot to point out that Willis is nothing but a con. Staunch right wingers can’t actually admit that they have borrowed more for nothing and are absolutely stuffing our future