The fiasco over whether Luxon was actually working over the Summer managed to become another minefield for the Prime Minister to navigate.
His missing in action routine quickly followed up with a claim he was working from home triggered two issues of hypocrisy, but there is also a background problem Luxon has managed to trip every holiday.
First the two hypocrisies.
His missing in action over the holidays occurred after the Political Right in NZ had been bitching about the length of time Kiwis take off over the Summer Holidays AND after the Government had attacked public servants for working from home.
After shitting on workers for taking time off AND for working from home, the Prime Minister was then off for the Summer holidays AND working from Home.
It’s good for the PM, it ain’t good for everyone else.
Those hypocrisies aside, Chris has never dealt with Holidays well because of his extreme privilege.
Remember when they tried to claim he was in Te Puke when he was really overseas at his Hawaiian mansion…
Christopher Luxon’s social media suggested he was in Te Puke – he was actually overseas on holiday
…remember how he was taking the housing allowance and kept saying he was ‘entitled’ to it…
PM Christopher Luxon’s allowance saga raises questions about politician entitlements
…remember how he gained personally from changing the rules on capital gains…
‘I’m wealthy and I’m sorted’: PM makes no apology for capital gains on Wellington apartment
…remember how he took the Tesla EV subsidy…
Christopher Luxon heckled to repay $8k Tesla subsidy as Government ditches ‘ute tax’
…remember how he managed to get a rates rebate on his Waiheke holiday mansion…
Christopher Luxon gets rates relief after challenging luxury Waiheke property valuation
…remember when parents complained about the poorly cooked slop ACT had denigrated our school lunches into and his comment was ‘make them a marmite sandwich”.
Remember all that?
Political commentators keep saying Luxon misread’s the room which is utter bullshit!
They all misread Luxon!
He sees his privilege through his prosperity theology paradigm where he has 7 properties because Jesus loves him – his accomodation allowance is a prosperity given to him by Jesus – that’s why he took so long to u-turn!
It’s like Abraham’s blessings but on meth.
It’s what Bishop Brian Tamaki believes in.
The Bish has a huge gold watch, beautiful houses and expensive motorcycles because God loves Brian ever so much he is publicly blessing him with prosperity to bring more souls to Christ.
Hiding your prosperity when Jesus has given you the wifi password to heaven is considered a terrible shame.
For Luxon, him having 7 properties is proof positive that Jesus loves him, and hiding any of the prosperity and privilege that comes with being loved ever so much by Jesus is sinful.
Chris dug his heels in over his EV subsidy and paying himself $1000 per week to hire his own apartment while demanding brutal austerity for everyone else because Jesus loves him dammit!
If Jesus wants to give Chris all these privileges and benefits, then Christopher fucking Luxon deserves everything God wants to give him!
All hail baby Jesus!
If NZ was Air NZ, Luxon only cares about First Class, Business Class and considers joking with the Pilots as working class.
Those in cattle class are the middle classes & those who work outside the plane are the Bottom Feeders who never get to fly.
They exist to maintain the privilege of those who are flying.
This is the new class system of NuZilind.
The shock by almost the entire Press Gallery at how poorly Luxon handled the Accomodation subsidy highlights Luxon’s tone deaf entitled evangelical prosperity theology privilege.
I love how easy it is to read Luxon.
He is a gut politician, his first response to any social issue is a really weird and tone deaf statement that always exposes how genuinely Old Testament conservative Christian he really is with all the fake sincerity of an Air NZ safety advert masquerading as a corporate diversity virtue signal.
Before he was PM, he would walk these statements back in 24 hours, now he is PM, they’ve sent him to an expensive CEO weekend retreat on learning to be dominant to butch him up because Seymour, Winston and the Corporate Interests are having a field day playing him like chump.
That’s why we’ve seen him stick to robotic CEO KPI language and when challenged, simply repeating the same talking points but louder and with a stern look on his face.
The excitement he shows at publishing his Spotify playlist should make us all cringe.
Luxon manages to screw it up every single holiday because his values of promoting his wealth in praise of Jesus leaves him looking as hollow and shallow as Brian Tamaki grifting for a new gold watch.
This is the leader we elected, this is what post Covid bitterness has mutated us into, this charmless rich god freak who sees his well being as heaven ordained.
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