Shane Reti’s bizarre Covid conspiracy theory suggests National have learned nothing
Ummmmm.
What. The. Hell?
Shane Reti’s bizarre theory on the Government baiting National with quarantine rendezvous scandal
The National Party has regrouped for the first time in 2021, vowing to learn to trust and respect each other and not let themselves get distracted.
They then swiftly got distracted, with a bizarre theory that the Government is trying to bait the Opposition using the quarantine hotel rendezvous scandal.
The party’s New Year resolution is focus, focus, focus – don’t fall into any Government traps.
“We’ve seen a few of those recently coming from the Government side where they’re clearly distractions thrown out there so we could take the bait and keep off the things that really matter to New Zealanders,” said Collins.
But she wouldn’t explain how the Government has been baiting them.
“Oh I think you can tell that yourselves,” she said, though not really and she wouldn’t be drawn on any specifics.
Collins left it to her deputy to try and clear things up.
“Well, you have to wonder about some of the testing, some of the things that have come up, I mean you wonder if the dalliance at the hotel with the security worker, was that trying to drive us down a path? Maybe,” Dr Reti said.
So to be clear, Dr Reti is suggesting Winegate – the 20 minute rendezvous at a quarantine facility – was a cunning Government diversion tactic.
Newshub put it to COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins to see if that was the case.
He gave a blunt “no”.
Just when you think maybe National are at the beginning of rebuilding, they manage to do or say something that makes you realise they still have no idea why they failed so spectacularly at the election.
National failed spectacularly at the election, NOT as Shane and Judith claim, because they were ‘baited’ into Government traps, they failed because half the cowards in National’s Caucus turned on their own leader in a coup to install a muppet like Muller, while a former President passed confidential Covid patient details to a National MP who leaked it on purpose to the media, while an MP was sexting porn, while Gerry Brownlee promoted conspiracies during a live interview, while Judith outed a Minister having an affair, while a Party official rang talkback to attack a brown female candidate, while having no polices, while Judith started a war on fat people, while demanding the borders open, while promising deregulation at a time when people wanted the security of the State.
This was self mutilation on par with a Masochists glee club, it wasn’t tricky traps baited by Labour! National built the trap, set the trap, and then built another trap, and another, and then jumped into all the traps at the same time.
To blame Labour suggests they have no idea how badly they fucked this up.
To be clear. The percentage loss National suffered between 2017 and 2020 is the second worst electoral loss in NZ political history, you would need to go back to the Liberal Party getting wiped out in the 1900s for a larger percentage loss.
If your only response when looking at that fact is ‘we was baited by Labour’, you are fucked.
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The National party comedy show continues while the world increasingly turns to shit -environmentally economically, financially, socially and politically- as a consequence of the actions (or inaction) of politicians.
‘From the side of real climate science the answer was easy. We have a high level of scientific understanding regarding the radiative forcing imposed by CO2. We know human activity is causing atmospheric concentrations to rise primarily through the burning of fossil fuels. It wasn’t a stretch to believe humans would continue to burn fossil fuels for another decade and enough forcing would be imposed on the climate system to cause another decade of warming.
It’s really not that complicated. More CO2 = increased forcing = a warmer planet.’
https://skepticalscience.com/impossible-to-lose.html?fbclid=IwAR07mMhW-Cl6I0TW3BKF3oic5LL2tkI0UC3ICaqQV1bdVwrk1W6UuWqsUog
‘The great hope for drug treatments against Covid-19 – the monoclonal antibodies – are failing against variants of the virus, such as those that have emerged in South Africa and Brazil, scientists have found.
There have been high expectations of the drugs. One, made by Regeneron in the United States, was given to Donald Trump and may have played a part in his recovery. It is being trialled in hospital patients in the UK.
But to the dismay of those who work on therapies against the disease, all three leading contenders – Regeneron’s, and drugs from Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline – fail against one or more of the variants.’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/02/monoclonal-antibodies-great-hope-in-covid-treatments-fails-against-variants
‘Average New Zealand housing values rose by $554 a day during January, topping $800,000 for the first time’
https://www.interest.co.nz/property/108856/average-housing-values-nz-are-rising-554-day
‘A Moscow court is mulling whether to extend opposition activist and politician Alexei Navalny’s current 30-day jail sentence after he returned from Berlin last month where he recovered from an alleged nerve agent poisoning which he’s blamed on Russian intelligence on orders from Putin. He could reportedly be handed a stiff three-and-a-half year prison sentence related to a 2014 embezzlement case and subsequent probation violation, which he has said is “politically motivated”.
Russia’s foreign ministry is now angered at the spectacle during Tuesday’s court proceedings which saw a large number of Western diplomats crowd the courtroom.
Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that while they are free to attend public trials, the fact that there were some 20 of them from countries including the United States, Bulgaria, Poland, Latvia, Austria, and Switzerland, shows there’s an attempt to meddle in Russia’s internal legal affairs.’
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-angered-spectacle-20-western-diplomats-packing-navalny-court-hearing
Perhaps politicians would have more credibility if they were to become informed about what is happening in the world and focus on sorting out the mess they and their comrades have created in their own backyards. That applies as much to Labour and the Greens as to National. After all, we have reached the ‘crash and burn stage’ on practically all fronts, with a lot more ‘crashing and burning’ to come.
I guess the politicians prefer to let ‘the market’ run the show, whatever the consequences. Which begs the question: why are they there at all? Is it only about self-enrichment?
How are National Dirty ? Let me count the ways…. Collins’s outing of I L-G’s extra-marital dalliance, with brutal disregard for the impact on an innocent spouse and children was a pretty gutter sort of tactic … another apparently sexting pix of his penis was more pathetic schoolboy exhibitionism, while a Dunedin laddie emblazing a woman’s face on a lavatory seat was five year old level humour. Now some sort of tryst in a quarantine facility was a diversionary tactic engineered by the Labour Party ? I don’t think so. I think that these people need to stop thinking beneath the belt and braces, and start using their big heads, even if learning to trust each other may be an even more Herculean task than expecting the voters to accept that their adolescent behaviour is caused by the Labour Party. Dumb as they come – and go.
@Snow White – perfect. Could I add that as long as the National Party supports the Trump doctrine of brainwashing the electorate into believing bizarre conspiracy theories, and trumped up allegations (excuse the pun) it will never succeed.
The world has quickly moved on from Trump and his Trumpty Numpty supporters and adherents so National’s Trumpesque conduct should see them wallowing in the mire for quite a while yet.
National needs to realize its past appeal to New Zealand voters was centered on the fact that it was not a socialist party.
In the 1980s Labour took that appeal away from them by becoming anti-socialist.
National next tried the appeal of a smirking, hair pulling millionaire whose success I can only put to mass hypnosis.
But then Labour responded by remaining firmly non-socialist and taking on us on an adventure with infectiously cheerful Jacinda. Jacinda and Labour scraped home with Winston’s help because National shat in their own nest by offending the great grumpy one. THEN – magic- came a time of great crisis and Jacinda was able to project kindness, empathy, compassion, optimism, humour – while keeping the poor poor and making the rich more wealthy( non-socialism).
So what must National do to regain power?
EUREKA- try SOCIALISM. Sell it to voters by showing how it reduces poverty, improves people’s health, reduces crime, offers good educational outcomes to all society and creates a more equal society( like the one I grew up in as a baby boomer. Keith Holyoake and National in charge for most of that time.).
Come on National – if Labour can manage a complete turn around so can you! I look to you for the change.
The more whacko National is the better! Mr Luxon’s extreme right/evangelical religious affiliation, as pointed out by none other than TDB contributor Chris Trotter, will be interesting if he does become leader before next election, or forbid, COVID outbreak.
2023 is the year Labour will likely have to eat humble pie, because there will be a shift to Green/Māori, particularly if MP stays on its current staunch line. The Labour Caucus is beyond help at the moment in terms of moving one millimetre from defending neo liberal hegemony–at the expense of the NZ working class.
So, I guess it is keep the pressure on the Greens to go left economically on matters like state house/apartment builds, legalise Cannabis, and Basic Income, so the boomer replacement gens obviously have something to vote for.