TDB 2021 predictions vs 2021 reality
So here were TDBs 2020 predictions, how well did they stack up?
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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TDB – Political Winners & Losers 2021
2021 started with Trump trying to overthrow American democracy and got progressively worse. The explosion of hate via Facebook algorithms…
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And then came Omicron
Jacinda had her political reputation resting on something as tragically petty as a good old fashioned Kiwi Christmas Experience as payment to Auckland for accepting a de facto house arrest for 4 months, she’s rewarded us with that while stamping out Delta, but here comes Omicron.
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Of course MIQ will close for Omicron
The rules of travel during a pandemic are as follows:
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Waitangi Tribunal utterly misses the vaccination politics of NZ
Can you imagine the nuclear explosion from pakeha being told their family members dying from Covid is acceptable because we have to vaccinate Māori first?
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A Chris Trotter rewind – 20 years of LOTR
As LOTR turns 20, I think the best political cultural evaluation of the movie and the Shire that is NZ was written by Chris Trotter back in 2016…
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20 years of LOTR, its biggest plot failure & the present day torture of MIQ diaspora
I always felt that Peter Jackson left out the best part of our taxpayer funded Aryan fantasy documentary ‘Lord Of The Rings’ when he cut the ‘Scouring of the Shire’ where Frodo returns home to find the very evil he had fought to protect the Shire from had already settled in.
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2021 – The Year a Bat won Bird of the Year & why being Left wing was so hard
I predict Hectors Dolphin for Bird of the Year 2022.
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We hit 90% double vaxxed while lunatic antivaxxrs protested – this is us at our Kiwi best!
It says something about the wonderful character of Kiwis that on the same day 2000 AntiVaxxer lunatics were marching in Wellington that we as a country hit the 90% vaccination target.
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Finally Labour work on the real danger inside 3 Waters & why it will win them votes
As TDB pointed out months ago, the 2 real issues posed by 3 Waters are can it stop foreign companies from bottling NZ water and can it ensure National and ACT don’t privatize the water once it’s nationalized.