Blessed be the Luxon Fruit – why Gilead is a perfect meme for National’s desire to charge women for contraception prescriptions
Oh watch National being triggered little snowflakes over the latest blunder Luxon has wandered into.
Yes, Labour are hypocrites for doing sweet fuck all for 6 years, but they have removed prescription fees, and Luxon being his usual Luxon self just rules out exempting women for contraception prescription charges because Luxon is clueless and doesn’t understand the political ramifications AND BECAUSE Luxon is an ultra right wing Christian who doesn’t believe in contraception in the first place!
THAT’S WHY the Gilead memes and Handmaid’s Tale references are perfectly legitimate here BECAUSE Luxon is an ultra right wing Christian and the only reason National are screaming foul is because THEY understand the bomb Luxon just detonated!
He’s just not very good at this.
He specifically ruled out women getting contraception prescription costs covered and drawing his conservative evangelical religious values as the conclusion why he’s decided that is perfectly legitimate!
Again, Labour – hypocrites for doing nothing for 6 years, but that doesn’t take away from the truth that what Luxon accidentally revealed about his conservative religious decision making values isn’t relevant going into the election!
His knee-jerk refusal to subsidise contraception for women was the exact same conservative certainty he had when he declared women didn’t get hassled much online.
He has history for saying this dumb shit and most times his first reaction is his most reactionary reaction which he then has to walk back 24 hours later!
If you look at the swing voter National needs to win over, 50+ white women with tertiary education, they sure as fuck won’t tolerate his morality interfering with a contraception issue that is welded onto their identity!
It’s a bewilderingly stupid move by Luxon that just rubs every swing voter he needs to win over the wrong way.
I don’t think he can survive the ramifications of this latest blunder, he’s self mutilated himself with the very group he needs to win over!
The real winner here (other than people not having to pay for their prescription costs) will be Brooke van Velden in her drive to win Tamaki from God Boy Simon O’Conner.
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Well to be fair, he’s true to his beliefs however warped they are. He’s demonstrating why he should not be PM.
Wheel,
He may be true to his beliefs privately but he’s spent his entire time as the National Party leader disguising and softening his beliefs. Why? Because most kiwi’s recoil at them and he knows it.
Yes that’s a good point. As someone pointed out, as Air NZ head he was apparently gushing over, and having the in flight magazine named, in Te Reo. Amazingly that didn’t confuse the pilots and they managed not to crash the planes.
This “progressive” would react similarly to any reactionary whose mores are governed by a book of fairy tales, whichever book that may be. I guess “progressive” is now being used in the same way that woke and liberal have been used by those seeking a bumper sticker slogan.
Contraception access is really a human rights issue.
Yet Luxon, the born to rule, pale stale male human bowling ball, wants to bring back prescription charges on the pill, which will be hard to swallow for the 50% of the population, who have a womb.
Perhaps the only time Luxon even thinks of wombs, is when he gets womb service at the Hawaiian hotels he frequents, or when calculating the rent he gouges on his 7 mansions by womb rate, or while enjoying the great leg womb, in his black Mercedes.
And he’ll probably be relaxing in his sitting womb this Friday to watch his favorite movie, Aloha, at 7.30 pm on Bravo. Luxon could easily picture himself in this movie, starring alongside Bradly Cooper, if only he had more hair and personality. Maybe a little prayer is in order here.
User pays is fair enough, but there are also biological imperatives that shouldn’t be ignored, and contraception is one of them, so keeping no prescription charges for the pill, does makes sense.
Just as females have a longer average life expectancy than males in this country, so if you were to apply Luxon’s favorite word “targetting”, and his wanting to debate the future affordability of super, then he should raise the qualifying age of super for females, but maintain or reduce it for males.
To be fair on Luxon, he probably sees contraception aids as a matter of consumer choice rather than medical necessity; but that’s probably a grey area.
$5 prescription fee or loss of democracy, hate speech laws and a stazi unit to police online wrong think.
It’s sure a hard decision.
Who cares.
The media have brainwashed you’ll completely.
Shameful.
Classic deflection from the issue at hand. Don’t blame you. The guys a knob
That was directed at stone age sausage
The 50 plus house wife/ coporate spinster is way smarter than the media make out. They just want a competent manager to run the country.
a middle man dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s. is this the standard some people hold for themselves. how mediocre. may as well get an AI with all weightings on bland. At least Key could make a decent joke and Ardern a cutting jibe. Luxon is the joke and the only gybe he’ll be delivering will be in response to a knife in his back.
The pill is not only prescribed for contraception purposes. It’s prescribed for endometriosis and other conditions.
The timing is about right for the tories to do a “Jacinda” on us.. Eggbert(Luxon) is making far too many basic blunders for his team not to be feeding him chicken feed…
I’ve noticed the Herald presenting some Nickola woman in a series of carping, petty whinges about not much the last few weeks as someone with something useful to say..
Hmmmm….
Luxon is treating all drugs the same . Singling out the OC is an invention of the left and to then use that to justify The Handmaids Tale is nuts
If Labour wanted free OC’s they are 6 years late. Sounds similar to their usual level of competence
Luxon is treating all drugs the same . Singling out the OC is an invention of the left and to then use that to justify The Handmaids Tale is nuts
If Labour wanted free OC’s they are 6 years late. Sounds similar to their usual level of competence
It is interesting to see those on the Left saying how National supporters want to replace Luxon. They would love to see the carnage this would cause .Most National supporters I know are happy with Luxon as a leader and are happy for him to become PM and save us from 3 more years of going backwards . He may not be the polished politican that Hipkins is but he is a better leader for the bulk of the population who just want to get on with their life .
No, no, no, don’t replace Luxon! He is Labours greatest gift and your definition on “bulk” is seriously misguided by any polling measure.