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The former PM pimping his corporate replacement as Leader for National to National’s largest and most powerful lobby block, Chinese NZers, while Simon Bridges twists in the wind is just extraordinary.
If any right wing jerk were to say this about individuals it would be decried as economic Darwinism – many many many small to medium businesses struggle – blaming them for their weakness to ideologically point score is jaw dropping in its offensiveness!
We have all just experienced a unique shared sacrifice, Simon’s terribly misjudged criticisms made New Zealander’s feel like he was shitting on their shared sacrifice which is electoral suicide.
New Zealand has dodged the public health nightmare, we now face just as enormous a threat from the economic fallout.
TDB was one of the few media outlets who argued at the beginning that this pandemic was a unique event. When many woke activists were screaming that any criticism of the virus was xenophobic racism and that the flu killed more…
Thanks to our Government’s wisdom and leadership we have dodged the public health nightmare this pandemic posed and now must fight the economic armageddon it has generated.
The Identity Politics Left are great at organising petitions on Action Station to free the nipple for PoC vegan cycling mommy bloggers and Trans Allies, but not so great at reconstructing the neoliberal hegemonic structures of the economy.
This IS still a Democracy.
To celebrate internal polls taken at the hight of gratitude for deaths that didn’t occur before voters return to no jobs seems David Cormack level dreadful.
as far as I’m concerned, she deserves a 20% pay raise for the incredible leadership she has shown during this event.