Dear Duncan Garner – let’s be clear, you can stick Donald Trump’s war on drugs up your arse
Duncan Garner was on the failing AM Show ranting like lunatic about Jacinda Ardern turning down Donald Trump’s invitation to join his new phase of the War on Drugs.
Really Duncs?
He foamed that Jacinda should agree to Trump’s war on drugs because this was Trump testing us to see if we are still his mate.
Really Duncs?
Do you hate Jacinda Ardern so much that you are demanding she agree to another mad war on drugs?
Do you know what the War on Drugs does Duncs?
It sees 2400 state tenants wrongfully thrown onto the streets because of a meth hysteria you helped whip up.
It sees us needlessly spending $120million on a meth contamination that never existed that you helped feed.
It sees 45 deaths each year from synthetic cannabis forced under ground because of the hysteria you personally whipped up.
It sees meth violence rip through our communities, it sees 7000 NZers still arrested for cannabis each year, it saw Helen Kelly made a criminal in her final days because of the National Government refusing her cannabis medicine, it sees our double bunked over crowded violent prisons full of drug criminals who get no rehabilitation.
In short, the counter productive and spiteful war on drugs as promoted by fuckwits like Duncan Garner, National Party MPs and most National Party voters has damaged NZ enough, that Jacinda has the courage to refuse Trump another pointless phase of this stupid, counter productive and spiteful war should be celebrated by every New Zealander with a basic education and conscience.
Duncan Garner is the echo of a conservative roar that doesn’t know it’s dead yet.
I 100% agree with the PM that drug use and especially abuse is a health problem and should be addressed as such.
But where is the evidence her government are doing anything about it?
Talk is cheap.
As for Dunky, what a waste of oxygen he and his TV station are!
Duncan Garners anti-intellectualism knows bounds. It’s incredible to me that the talent pool for broadcasters in NZ is so incredibly shallow that that likes of Duncan have any chance of being on air. Like him or not, the show was undeniably a lot better under Paul Henry.
Absolutely, Duncan Garner doesn’t even come close to Paul Henry. I honestly thought he was going to have a heart attack about a week ago. He looked so stressed. You are right about Three as well, their has been a remarkable shift to the right, even Mark Richardson still states his adoration for John Key.He left the building giving a week’s notice for God’s sake. National did Nothing for Nine Years and left the coalition with budget constraints.I also hardly watch the AM show and the Newshub as they are heavily influenced by CNN so seldom say anything positive about Donald Trump and look what he has done for the American economy. I certainly see the in incredible lift in my Kiwisaver account.
I removed NewsHub from my bookmarks about a week ago. I just couldn’t take it anymore.
TV3, Three Now – whatever they call themselves these days, they have ruined The Nation, their one good show has gone down hill since changing its name to “NewsHub Nation”.
It’s sad for democracy that many older voter’s views on NZ issues are largely shaped by these news channels. These brainwashed oldies are quite the afront to democracy.
so true zb. hit the nail on the head although not all oldies included.
Some of us oldies haven’t been brainwashed and have turned off as well. Even TV1 has gone down the gurgler and isn’t watched in this house.
“These brainwashed oldies are quite the affront to democracy.” Are you sure? You’re not falling into the type of generalisation based on a few “news items” common among the great mass of sweaty reactionaries are you?
I check in with the mainstream from time to time but mainly read TDB and The Standard for local news, sure it’s basically all opinion but the advantage is is doesn’t masquerade as objectivity, and you can be sure no-one here has any reason to express anything besides what they genuinely think. The same reason I feel the Herald’s letters page, as misguided and asinine as some of their regular contributors may be, is still more cards-on-th-table honesty than can be expected from much of its main content. For the least partisan-feeling international news I read Reuters.
yeah i agree Mark, the hillbilly heroin epidemic is here and thats a U.S. made fake drug that is highly addictive and doctors are payed extra to prescribe it as a bonus.
Duncan,who used to say,i left this place of lies and egoists Parliament,as he was then a Parliament reporter has himself become a parody of his loathing.
I like Mark,no longer allow this tv show to curdle my breakfast eggs.
Meanwhile, in Mexico, thousands are dying and disappearing in the wars around drugs. Just south of the sandcastle wall. And what effective things has America done since the start of NAFTA to abate this horror?
Totally agree that this war is a lost cause. Too broad and too deeply embedded. Too much opportunity for unleashing the worst human traits. It’s a winner!
America is useless at wars – and diplomacy. A nation of failed gaols and rampant theocracy, not to mention obese litigation and justice for money.
I’m glad we stayed out of this latest wind-up.
Every time I hear an utterance from Garner he reminds me how an uneducated man can still be given a platform to vent his ill-informed prejudices. Let’s face it, he’s no John Campbell, Christiane Amanpour, or John Pilger.
Is he really the best tvnz has to offer? Is this the best our state broadcaster can find for intelligence, insight, and analysis? No wonder I and so many others stick with Radio NZ. One can only take so much insult to our intelligence.