Jordan Williams and Detective Ani O’Brien up to their old Campaign Company tricks again – mapping how the Astroturf Right manipulate you

Give the devil his dues, Sean Plunkett forced Don Brash to reveal that it was Jordan William’s Campaign Company that made the racist billboard for their anti-Māori ward campaign.

Hooton is not impressed…

Pointless foreshore debate a distraction from economic crisis – Matthew Hooton

Hobson’s Pledge has form with this sort of thing, setting up a “We Belong Aotearoa” campaign before the last election, falsely suggesting a grassroots movement by immigrants concerned about co-governance.

Next time, Hobson’s Pledge ought to use one of its own supporters – of which it claims to have many – in its advertisements.

It might also give greater attention to telling the truth, after its advertising about the foreshore and seabed in the New Zealand Herald was found by the Advertising Standards Board to be materially misleading.

…here’s Detective Ani O’Brien who works at the Campaign Company spreading misinformation in a desperate attempt to gloss over their fuck up…

…you’ll remember Detective Ani O’Brien, she was the one alongside Inspector Ian Wishart who were spreading NZF Hate Troll Rhys William’s false insinuation that Green MP Benjamin Doyle was part of a pedophile ring.

Remember how there were so many Bots telling us that lie against Benjamin was true.

Interestingly the Campaign Company has a Bot Army…

…hmmmm.

You have to hand it to the Right.

They have used astroturf organisations to manipulate the debate so that their interests strangle the common good by using culture war distractions to ensure you don’t recognise what they’re doing.

Look at how they combine to create an eco system designed at tricking you into believing the interests of the mega wealthy are your interests.

Comrades.

I appreciate Covid was difficult for many of us.

Jacinda won the Covid War and lost the Covid Peace.

By refusing to rebuild a new paradigm, Labour merely built back to the old inequality.

That was frustrating.

That was angering.

Labour broke our hearts, yet saved our lives.

That frustration however has been manipulated by a hard right anti-Treaty, anti-Māori, anti-Renter, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-beneficiary Government who have strangled the common good for their donors interests.

Your unblinkered hatred of Jacinda, Trans and Māori is enabling corporations and the mega wealthy to screw us all collectively.

I appreciate your sweaty angry ‘truths’ enabled by social media hate algorithms keep you locked in an echo chamber of perpetual malice and spite, but  you are being manipulated by the Right into acquiescing to Banks, Corporations and the mega wealthy.

Comrades, your enemy isn’t some kid transitioning, it’s not a Māori woman in politics, Māori women in media, or Māori women outside walking!

Your enemy isn’t drag queen story time, it’s not environmentalists, it’s not beneficiaries, it’s not state tenants, it’s not renters, it’s not the Treaty.

Your enemy is who it’s always been, the banks, the billionaires, the corporations, the powerful who use social media hate algorithms to warp you into believing their interests are your interests when nothing can be further from the truth!

We face an existential crisis in the form of the climate and the demand to radically morph into adaptation mode is far greater than any political party is currently envisaging.

Your anger, cynicism and fury at the political failures is legitimate but let’s be clear, a National/ACT/NZF Government is no solution to the problems we face, they are only exacerbating them!

Dear Kiwis – your debt and under regulated capitalism is what’s killing you, not co-governance, not bilingual signs, not alienating Trans activists and those fears are being used by the astroturf Right to manipulate you!

The astroturf Right are manipulating your anger using culture war revenge fantasies that eclipse their true donors interests.

 

 

 

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