Jacinda resigned
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@NTA said in Jacinda resigned:
@dogmeat said in Jacinda resigned:
The issue for Ardern is she hasn't done enough to satisfy the Labour Party's left wing, but way too much for the general electorate to stomach.
Damned if you do.... there are some utterly barking mad fringe dwellers in both major parties here, who are tolerated because they can win a seat (more on the strength of the party than their personal beliefs).
People tend to ignore the policies that don't affect them. Or they just criticise the policies that directly affect them in a negative sense, without taking into account the policies that indirectly cancel out the negatives.
Yeah that's a completely fair point. Great post.
My contention with Ardern and her ilk is that their were certain non negotiable lines that were crossed and once crossed there is no going back.
They fucked with peoples liberty in a way I personally will never forget nor forgive.
The rest of the nuts and bolts politics I don't really care about.
But they rented our liberty to us with conditions attached. And that's treacherous.
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@JC said in Jacinda resigned:
@mikedogz said in Jacinda resigned:
I think it will be our first ranga and then first chrome dome at the end of the year. Hipkins seems to be the front runner.
Massey! Piggy Muldoon! Mike Moore! We have a long history of smoothtop premiers.
He is the first to go the full bowling ball, I wonder if he shaves it daily.
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@mikedogz said in Jacinda resigned:
@JC said in Jacinda resigned:
@mikedogz said in Jacinda resigned:
I think it will be our first ranga and then first chrome dome at the end of the year. Hipkins seems to be the front runner.
Massey! Piggy Muldoon! Mike Moore! We have a long history of smoothtop premiers.
He is the first to go the full bowling ball, I wonder if he shaves it daily.
It’s a shame combovers aren’t really a thing these days but to be fair it’s a risky do to have in Wellington.
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@dogmeat said in Jacinda resigned:
What I don't quite get is the criticism that she's done nothing when the reality is that in amongst all the Mosque attacks, White Island, Covid, Inflation crisis there has been major reform of employment law - including minimum wage sick leave and collective bargaining, the health sector, climate policy, three waters, co-governance, Te Arawhiti. That's off the top of my head. That's actually a lot of quite substantive changes. The issue is she hasn't taken the country with her and the response from a minority has been quite polarising and divisive.
She's done very little other than react. White Island and the Mosque attacks weren't actually massively big political issues. She played dress up, went all weepy, and made people happy. But there wasn't any substantive policy required to fix them.
Covid was OK in my book. We didn't over-react half as badly as some other places. Sure we closed the borders in an utterly callous way -- but that was because her cabinet are stuck in the 1980's. Instead of people who wanted being able to buy their way into managed isolation, and the money used to fund poor people -- thereby tripling the number who came in at no cost to the government -- we went with 80's style rationing. To avoid even the remotest suggestion of "user pays" there was loads of hurt delivered. But at least once we left lockdown, we left lockdown, with schools opening etc. Some countries lingered in semi-lockdowns for ages. We didn't start to criminalise dissent like Trudeau, or descend into massive riots.
What Ardern didn't do is what she promised. Housing was a fiasco. Health a fiasco. Mental health something worse than a fiasco.
The government's refusal to let desperately needed specialists into the country a way to piss off pretty much every sector of the economy. (While some people are knee-jerk opposed to immigration, do we actually want our population to decrease? Because if the current policies are kept, we will start to decrease in size in a decade or so. Kiwis, especially the cleverest and most adventurous, will keep going out, and we are not meant to replace them?)
Then what Ardern has tried to do were things that were massively unpopular in some sectors -- three waters, co-governance, merging the Techs, collective bargaining -- but it's not just that a minority is against them, it's rather that almost no-one is for them.
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@MN5 said in Jacinda resigned:
@mikedogz said in Jacinda resigned:
@JC said in Jacinda resigned:
@mikedogz said in Jacinda resigned:
I think it will be our first ranga and then first chrome dome at the end of the year. Hipkins seems to be the front runner.
Massey! Piggy Muldoon! Mike Moore! We have a long history of smoothtop premiers.
He is the first to go the full bowling ball, I wonder if he shaves it daily.
It’s a shame combovers aren’t really a thing these days but to be fair it’s a risky do to have in Wellington.
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@Steve said in Jacinda resigned:
My contention with Ardern and her ilk is that their were certain non negotiable lines that were crossed and once crossed there is no going back.
They fucked with peoples liberty in a way I personally will never forget nor forgive.
The rest of the nuts and bolts politics I don't really care about.
But they rented our liberty to us with conditions attached. And that's treacherous.Lowest common denominator, unfortunately.
Sweden was held up as an example of what not to do, but as more data emerged it was seen as a fairly decent outcome (unless you were elderly).
IMO the Nordic populace tends to be a bit more socially minded than either NZ or Australia, and their systems have a higher level of support in terms of social welfare (BECAUSE TAX! ) Yeah they've got a percentage of fluffybunnies, but overall their systems are built for better tolerance of that.
In Sydney they started shipping people out of metro hospitals on the quiet when they reached capacity during the height of the pandemic, because people weren't doing the right thing. In a let-it-rip scenario the outcomes could have been significantly worse. On the other hand, being in one of the 7 LGAs that got fully locked down was no fun.
As of now, we've got everything we pretty much had before with a few stipulations like vaccination (and not some of those conditions are also disappearing). I don't see that as an ongoing loss of liberty. I mean a lot of daycare centres don't allow kids in unless they've had MMR which is basically the same thing, but not society-wide.
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@NTA said in Jacinda resigned:
@Steve said in Jacinda resigned:
My contention with Ardern and her ilk is that their were certain non negotiable lines that were crossed and once crossed there is no going back.
They fucked with peoples liberty in a way I personally will never forget nor forgive.
The rest of the nuts and bolts politics I don't really care about.
But they rented our liberty to us with conditions attached. And that's treacherous.Lowest common denominator, unfortunately.
Sweden was held up as an example of what not to do, but as more data emerged it was seen as a fairly decent outcome (unless you were elderly).
IMO the Nordic populace tends to be a bit more socially minded than either NZ or Australia, and their systems have a higher level of support in terms of social welfare (BECAUSE TAX! ) Yeah they've got a percentage of fluffybunnies, but overall their systems are built for better tolerance of that.
In Sydney they started shipping people out of metro hospitals on the quiet when they reached capacity during the height of the pandemic, because people weren't doing the right thing. In a let-it-rip scenario the outcomes could have been significantly worse. On the other hand, being in one of the 7 LGAs that got fully locked down was no fun.
As of now, we've got everything we pretty much had before with a few stipulations like vaccination (and not some of those conditions are also disappearing). I don't see that as an ongoing loss of liberty. I mean a lot of daycare centres don't allow kids in unless they've had MMR which is basically the same thing, but not society-wide.
I find the whole thing completely retarded mate with all due respect. As I said before , I lost a 40 year old family member to a suicide of which the ridiculous policies enforced during this shitshow we’re a contributory factor. I lost out on some lucrative work contracts. In fact I was borderline penniless for a while there.... I still can't get into the USA due to my vaccination status which would have been a place I routinely went for business.
It's quite surreal.
Throwing on a hijab is easy, closing the borders is easy. That is stroke of a pen carryon.
Where was the middle ground? Where was the common sense?
I'll never forgive and I’ll never forget.
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@mariner4life said in Jacinda resigned:
@Smudge said in Jacinda resigned:
But I'm in Queenstown for a wedding
not quite a humble brag, but maybe a subtle brag?
I try not to be humble about anything.
But yes, basically my Friday is better than yours (even if I'm working while here).
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@Smudge said in Jacinda resigned:
@mariner4life said in Jacinda resigned:
@Smudge said in Jacinda resigned:
But I'm in Queenstown for a wedding
not quite a humble brag, but maybe a subtle brag?
I try not to be humble about anything.
I do. I'm the best at being humble.
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@Smudge said in Jacinda resigned:
@mariner4life said in Jacinda resigned:
@Smudge said in Jacinda resigned:
But I'm in Queenstown for a wedding
not quite a humble brag, but maybe a subtle brag?
I try not to be humble about anything.
But yes, basically my Friday is better than yours (even if I'm working while here).
Just did the Lake Dunstan cycle trail. Really really good one day ride, strongly recommend. So yeah, Friday not bad either😀
Central Otago is superb... well, the whole South Island really. Great part of the world
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@mariner4life said in Jacinda resigned:
@Smudge said in Jacinda resigned:
But I'm in Queenstown for a wedding
not quite a humble brag, but maybe a subtle brag?
She did say it was time to get married.
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@nzzp said in Jacinda resigned:
Central Otago is superb... well, the whole South Island really. Great part of the world
That drive from Dunners to Queenstown via the Clutha Valley is absolute fucking magic - did it back in early 2019 and it was a great way to spend a summer's day. Family got sick of me wanting to pull over and just look at the scenery.
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Hey all, Jegga here. Forgot my passwod and wanted to join in the celebrations.
There was an exchange between Amber Heard and Johnny Depps lawyer during their recent trial which I thought summed up Ardern nicely. His lawyer was asking if she ever actually gave the money to the ACLU and she kept replying that she had "pledged it" . Basically she'd told everyone she was going to do it, soaked up all the praise but never bothered with the messy business of actually following through. Ardern made lots of "pledges" during her reign of error .
She pledged to build 10000 houses a year, there's around 1800 kiwibuild houses now. when they should be 40000 plus. She pledged to get 1 billion trees planted , that went the way of kiwibuild . She pledged to build Auckland light rail and have it completed by 2023 -it hasn't even started
She said ending child poverty was the reason she got into politics and we have kids who've never known anything but living in the festering sores that are the social housing motels. and child poverty got worse under her watch. Being able to claim a refund on rental interest was effectively a subsidy on rent, Labours hatred of landlords is second only to their loathing of farmers and rents have skyrocketed since the removed the refund .
In the meantime whenever there was a photo op of her dishing out a hug she was always front and centre . Particularly if it was going to get international coverage. The cynicism of her tearing up when she decided to have a press conference about Grace Millanes death only to lose interest when it came out that she was travelling the world hooking with strangers for b and d sessions was pretty gross and I'll never be convinced that she ever held that press conference for any other reason that to push her brand overseas where she was lauded as the "anti Trump".
Key being on Letterman was regarded as cringe by the same people who had no problem with her sucking up to Colbert and even flying him out here at taxpayers expense .She was always looking for that international audience despite the fact she shamelessly tried to pretend she was uncomfortable with it.
The Branch Ardernians who have spent the past 24 hours distraught over her resigning have made utter fools of themselves saying things like "no pm has faced the challenges she did" .
Christchurch shootings- made one speech you'd expect of any western world leader , wore a hijab and rushed through legislation that overnight created a lucrative black market for firearms.
White island - no idea why she gets credit for this, apart from getting photographed hugging some rescue workers she deserves nothing for this. The son of a guy at work was involved in the body recovery, I'll ask on tuesday but I'm fairly certain he would have mentioned if Ardern was there helping scoop up the disintrgrating corpses.
Covid,- almost fucked up isolating one of the most isolated countries on earth to get international attention with the march 19 commemoration the Muslim community didn't want. . Forgot to set up miq until well into the lockdown when Simon Bridges forced her to then fucked up the vaccine rollout which resulted in the preventable 2021 lockdown .
A real leader of the calibre people claim she is would have fronted and taken the hit for the continual fuckups at the border rather than throw the likes of a kfc worker under the bus and would have visited Auckland during their extended lockdown.Its a continuing theme of Arderns reign that when she avoided fronting up and tainting her brand and the media she doled out millions to prop up certainly helped her avoid the tough questions. She never fronted at Ihumatao, when David Clark was caught mountain biking she missed her first 1 pm press conference for an emergency zoom chat with Nigel Latta, the list just goes on.
I think she knew she was going to lose the next election when the parliament protests happened . She was always really the pm for the laptop class who could work from home and think posting a black square on instagram is an actual protest. Here she was confronted by the poors who'd left their homes to work in level 3 and in some cases level 4 and they loathed her government .Stuff and the rest of the media soiled themselves calling them white supremacists and far right when they themselves were never able to crop their photos hard enough to exclude the brown people there and a curia poll showed 45% of them voted Labour/green. As usual she never fronted while her mates in the media lied and lied about the protesters
I'm not surprised she quit, like Key she's too much of a narcissist to take an election loss . The threats she faced as pm being used an excuse are no worse than the crap Key got thrown his way and she leaves behind a country in far worse shape than the one she took over in 2017. We're more divided than any time since the Springbok tour trust in institutions has plummeted -particularly the media .
We live in a country now where a serial rapist gets 6 months home detention , gangs are effectively NGOs and violent crime is rampant, the health system is in freefall as nurses and doctors leave and preteens make tictocs of themselves ramraiding vape shops. Her supporters in the laptop class seem oblivious to this reality that her leadership is responsible for .
Hers was a government for the professional managerial class who she gave subsidised Teslas to paid with a tax on tradies and farmers work vehicles, she gave $650 million to business to decarbon but couldn't be bothered bringing in free dental care which cost the same amount .I hope Labour are soundly beaten at the next election and are out of office until they expunge the career politicians like Ardern that have never worked a day outside of politics ,.I hope National strip the media of the PJIF and Stuff goes bankrupt because few people have helped prop up Ardern more than Sinead Boucher . I'm not expecting much from National, I don't care if Luxon doesn't make inspiring speeches. or talk utter bullshit about "kindness " or "well being". I'd happily settle for a base level of administrative competence ,
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@dogmeat said in Jacinda resigned:
I didn't vote for Adern and probably wouldn't have this year. The fact I say probably illustrates how shit I think National still are.
I do get the criticism of the angst-ridden, hand wringing persona but I think, on balance, I'd rather have a 'compassionate' leader than a callous one.
What I don't quite get is the criticism that she's done nothing when the reality is that in amongst all the Mosque attacks, White Island, Covid, Inflation crisis there has been major reform of employment law - including minimum wage sick leave and collective bargaining, the health sector, climate policy, three waters, co-governance, Te Arawhiti. That's off the top of my head. That's actually a lot of quite substantive changes. The issue is she hasn't taken the country with her and the response from a minority has been quite polarising and divisive.
The issue for Ardern is she hasn't done enough to satisfy the Labour Party's left wing, but way too much for the general electorate to stomach.
The reality is that if there had been time for the changes to bed in it is possible that people would have discovered they didn't mean the end of days, but she was never going to get that time because people want to draw a line under the last three years and one way of closure is to change the government.
Nice to have a contrary view but some of these policies are utter garbage and ifyou point me to some successes in health I'd be interested hearing them. My current client is in charge of the neo natal unit at Wellington hospital and what shes told me about staff shortages was frankly terrifying
Ultimately like Key she was too much of a coward to use up her considerable political capital on making hard calls one way or the other in a lot of cases and thats 100% on her. I don't see how any objective analysis. If you take out the short termers like Palmer, Moore, Shipley and English she's the worst pm since Muldoon and its not even close.
Hard to believe we went from 18 years of reasonably stable effective governance with Key and Clark to this tragicomic farce.
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@paremata said in Jacinda resigned:
Hey all, Jegga here. Forgot my passwod and wanted to join in the celebrations.
There was an exchange between Amber Heard and Johnny Depps lawyer during their recent trial which I thought summed up Ardern nicely. His lawyer was asking if she ever actually gave the money to the ACLU and she kept replying that she had "pledged it" . Basically she'd told everyone she was going to do it, soaked up all the praise but never bothered with the messy business of actually following through. Ardern made lots of "pledges" during her reign of error .
She pledged to build 10000 houses a year, there's around 1800 kiwibuild houses now. when they should be 40000 plus. She pledged to get 1 billion trees planted , that went the way of kiwibuild . She pledged to build Auckland light rail and have it completed by 2023 -it hasn't even started
She said ending child poverty was the reason she got into politics and we have kids who've never known anything but living in the festering sores that are the social housing motels. and child poverty got worse under her watch. Being able to claim a refund on rental interest was effectively a subsidy on rent, Labours hatred of landlords is second only to their loathing of farmers and rents have skyrocketed since the removed the refund .
In the meantime whenever there was a photo op of her dishing out a hug she was always front and centre . Particularly if it was going to get international coverage. The cynicism of her tearing up when she decided to have a press conference about Grace Millanes death only to lose interest when it came out that she was travelling the world hooking with strangers for b and d sessions was pretty gross and I'll never be convinced that she ever held that press conference for any other reason that to push her brand overseas where she was lauded as the "anti Trump".
Key being on Letterman was regarded as cringe by the same people who had no problem with her sucking up to Colbert and even flying him out here at taxpayers expense .She was always looking for that international audience despite the fact she shamelessly tried to pretend she was uncomfortable with it.
The Branch Ardernians who have spent the past 24 hours distraught over her resigning have made utter fools of themselves saying things like "no pm has faced the challenges she did" .
Christchurch shootings- made one speech you'd expect of any western world leader , wore a hijab and rushed through legislation that overnight created a lucrative black market for firearms.
White island - no idea why she gets credit for this, apart from getting photographed hugging some rescue workers she deserves nothing for this. The son of a guy at work was involved in the body recovery, I'll ask on tuesday but I'm fairly certain he would have mentioned if Ardern was there helping scoop up the disintrgrating corpses.
Covid,- almost fucked up isolating one of the most isolated countries on earth to get international attention with the march 19 commemoration the Muslim community didn't want. . Forgot to set up miq until well into the lockdown when Simon Bridges forced her to then fucked up the vaccine rollout which resulted in the preventable 2021 lockdown .
A real leader of the calibre people claim she is would have fronted and taken the hit for the continual fuckups at the border rather than throw the likes of a kfc worker under the bus and would have visited Auckland during their extended lockdown.Its a continuing theme of Arderns reign that when she avoided fronting up and tainting her brand and the media she doled out millions to prop up certainly helped her avoid the tough questions. She never fronted at Ihumatao, when David Clark was caught mountain biking she missed her first 1 pm press conference for an emergency zoom chat with Nigel Latta, the list just goes on.
I think she knew she was going to lose the next election when the parliament protests happened . She was always really the pm for the laptop class who could work from home and think posting a black square on instagram is an actual protest. Here she was confronted by the poors who'd left their homes to work in level 3 and in some cases level 4 and they loathed her government .Stuff and the rest of the media soiled themselves calling them white supremacists and far right when they themselves were never able to crop their photos hard enough to exclude the brown people there and a curia poll showed 45% of them voted Labour/green. As usual she never fronted while her mates in the media lied and lied about the protesters
I'm not surprised she quit, like Key she's too much of a narcissist to take an election loss . The threats she faced as pm being used an excuse are no worse than the crap Key got thrown his way and she leaves behind a country in far worse shape than the one she took over in 2017. We're more divided than any time since the Springbok tour trust in institutions has plummeted -particularly the media .
We live in a country now where a serial rapist gets 6 months home detention , gangs are effectively NGOs and violent crime is rampant, the health system is in freefall as nurses and doctors leave and preteens make tictocs of themselves ramraiding vape shops. Her supporters in the laptop class seem oblivious to this reality that her leadership is responsible for .
Hers was a government for the professional managerial class who she gave subsidised Teslas to paid with a tax on tradies and farmers work vehicles, she gave $650 million to business to decarbon but couldn't be bothered bringing in free dental care which cost the same amount .I hope Labour are soundly beaten at the next election and are out of office until they expunge the career politicians like Ardern that have never worked a day outside of politics ,.I hope National strip the media of the PJIF and Stuff goes bankrupt because few people have helped prop up Ardern more than Sinead Boucher . I'm not expecting much from National, I don't care if Luxon doesn't make inspiring speeches. or talk utter bullshit about "kindness " or "well being". I'd happily settle for a base level of administrative competence ,
Welcome back bro
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@paremata said in Jacinda resigned:
Hey all, Jegga here. Forgot my passwod and wanted to join in the celebrations.
There was an exchange between Amber Heard and Johnny Depps lawyer during their recent trial which I thought summed up Ardern nicely. His lawyer was asking if she ever actually gave the money to the ACLU and she kept replying that she had "pledged it" . Basically she'd told everyone she was going to do it, soaked up all the praise but never bothered with the messy business of actually following through. Ardern made lots of "pledges" during her reign of error .
She pledged to build 10000 houses a year, there's around 1800 kiwibuild houses now. when they should be 40000 plus. She pledged to get 1 billion trees planted , that went the way of kiwibuild . She pledged to build Auckland light rail and have it completed by 2023 -it hasn't even started
She said ending child poverty was the reason she got into politics and we have kids who've never known anything but living in the festering sores that are the social housing motels. and child poverty got worse under her watch. Being able to claim a refund on rental interest was effectively a subsidy on rent, Labours hatred of landlords is second only to their loathing of farmers and rents have skyrocketed since the removed the refund .
In the meantime whenever there was a photo op of her dishing out a hug she was always front and centre . Particularly if it was going to get international coverage. The cynicism of her tearing up when she decided to have a press conference about Grace Millanes death only to lose interest when it came out that she was travelling the world hooking with strangers for b and d sessions was pretty gross and I'll never be convinced that she ever held that press conference for any other reason that to push her brand overseas where she was lauded as the "anti Trump".
Key being on Letterman was regarded as cringe by the same people who had no problem with her sucking up to Colbert and even flying him out here at taxpayers expense .She was always looking for that international audience despite the fact she shamelessly tried to pretend she was uncomfortable with it.
The Branch Ardernians who have spent the past 24 hours distraught over her resigning have made utter fools of themselves saying things like "no pm has faced the challenges she did" .
Christchurch shootings- made one speech you'd expect of any western world leader , wore a hijab and rushed through legislation that overnight created a lucrative black market for firearms.
White island - no idea why she gets credit for this, apart from getting photographed hugging some rescue workers she deserves nothing for this. The son of a guy at work was involved in the body recovery, I'll ask on tuesday but I'm fairly certain he would have mentioned if Ardern was there helping scoop up the disintrgrating corpses.
Covid,- almost fucked up isolating one of the most isolated countries on earth to get international attention with the march 19 commemoration the Muslim community didn't want. . Forgot to set up miq until well into the lockdown when Simon Bridges forced her to then fucked up the vaccine rollout which resulted in the preventable 2021 lockdown .
A real leader of the calibre people claim she is would have fronted and taken the hit for the continual fuckups at the border rather than throw the likes of a kfc worker under the bus and would have visited Auckland during their extended lockdown.Its a continuing theme of Arderns reign that when she avoided fronting up and tainting her brand and the media she doled out millions to prop up certainly helped her avoid the tough questions. She never fronted at Ihumatao, when David Clark was caught mountain biking she missed her first 1 pm press conference for an emergency zoom chat with Nigel Latta, the list just goes on.
I think she knew she was going to lose the next election when the parliament protests happened . She was always really the pm for the laptop class who could work from home and think posting a black square on instagram is an actual protest. Here she was confronted by the poors who'd left their homes to work in level 3 and in some cases level 4 and they loathed her government .Stuff and the rest of the media soiled themselves calling them white supremacists and far right when they themselves were never able to crop their photos hard enough to exclude the brown people there and a curia poll showed 45% of them voted Labour/green. As usual she never fronted while her mates in the media lied and lied about the protesters
I'm not surprised she quit, like Key she's too much of a narcissist to take an election loss . The threats she faced as pm being used an excuse are no worse than the crap Key got thrown his way and she leaves behind a country in far worse shape than the one she took over in 2017. We're more divided than any time since the Springbok tour trust in institutions has plummeted -particularly the media .
We live in a country now where a serial rapist gets 6 months home detention , gangs are effectively NGOs and violent crime is rampant, the health system is in freefall as nurses and doctors leave and preteens make tictocs of themselves ramraiding vape shops. Her supporters in the laptop class seem oblivious to this reality that her leadership is responsible for .
Hers was a government for the professional managerial class who she gave subsidised Teslas to paid with a tax on tradies and farmers work vehicles, she gave $650 million to business to decarbon but couldn't be bothered bringing in free dental care which cost the same amount .I hope Labour are soundly beaten at the next election and are out of office until they expunge the career politicians like Ardern that have never worked a day outside of politics ,.I hope National strip the media of the PJIF and Stuff goes bankrupt because few people have helped prop up Ardern more than Sinead Boucher . I'm not expecting much from National, I don't care if Luxon doesn't make inspiring speeches. or talk utter bullshit about "kindness " or "well being". I'd happily settle for a base level of administrative competence ,
It makes me feel very happy to hear that some stranger from 10,000 odd miles away is back around (and still alive) on here again.
Welcome back and good on Jacinda for getting you back posting
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@gt12 said in Jacinda resigned:
@paremata said in Jacinda resigned:
Hey all, Jegga here. Forgot my passwod and wanted to join in the celebrations.
There was an exchange between Amber Heard and Johnny Depps lawyer during their recent trial which I thought summed up Ardern nicely. His lawyer was asking if she ever actually gave the money to the ACLU and she kept replying that she had "pledged it" . Basically she'd told everyone she was going to do it, soaked up all the praise but never bothered with the messy business of actually following through. Ardern made lots of "pledges" during her reign of error .
She pledged to build 10000 houses a year, there's around 1800 kiwibuild houses now. when they should be 40000 plus. She pledged to get 1 billion trees planted , that went the way of kiwibuild . She pledged to build Auckland light rail and have it completed by 2023 -it hasn't even started
She said ending child poverty was the reason she got into politics and we have kids who've never known anything but living in the festering sores that are the social housing motels. and child poverty got worse under her watch. Being able to claim a refund on rental interest was effectively a subsidy on rent, Labours hatred of landlords is second only to their loathing of farmers and rents have skyrocketed since the removed the refund .
In the meantime whenever there was a photo op of her dishing out a hug she was always front and centre . Particularly if it was going to get international coverage. The cynicism of her tearing up when she decided to have a press conference about Grace Millanes death only to lose interest when it came out that she was travelling the world hooking with strangers for b and d sessions was pretty gross and I'll never be convinced that she ever held that press conference for any other reason that to push her brand overseas where she was lauded as the "anti Trump".
Key being on Letterman was regarded as cringe by the same people who had no problem with her sucking up to Colbert and even flying him out here at taxpayers expense .She was always looking for that international audience despite the fact she shamelessly tried to pretend she was uncomfortable with it.
The Branch Ardernians who have spent the past 24 hours distraught over her resigning have made utter fools of themselves saying things like "no pm has faced the challenges she did" .
Christchurch shootings- made one speech you'd expect of any western world leader , wore a hijab and rushed through legislation that overnight created a lucrative black market for firearms.
White island - no idea why she gets credit for this, apart from getting photographed hugging some rescue workers she deserves nothing for this. The son of a guy at work was involved in the body recovery, I'll ask on tuesday but I'm fairly certain he would have mentioned if Ardern was there helping scoop up the disintrgrating corpses.
Covid,- almost fucked up isolating one of the most isolated countries on earth to get international attention with the march 19 commemoration the Muslim community didn't want. . Forgot to set up miq until well into the lockdown when Simon Bridges forced her to then fucked up the vaccine rollout which resulted in the preventable 2021 lockdown .
A real leader of the calibre people claim she is would have fronted and taken the hit for the continual fuckups at the border rather than throw the likes of a kfc worker under the bus and would have visited Auckland during their extended lockdown.Its a continuing theme of Arderns reign that when she avoided fronting up and tainting her brand and the media she doled out millions to prop up certainly helped her avoid the tough questions. She never fronted at Ihumatao, when David Clark was caught mountain biking she missed her first 1 pm press conference for an emergency zoom chat with Nigel Latta, the list just goes on.
I think she knew she was going to lose the next election when the parliament protests happened . She was always really the pm for the laptop class who could work from home and think posting a black square on instagram is an actual protest. Here she was confronted by the poors who'd left their homes to work in level 3 and in some cases level 4 and they loathed her government .Stuff and the rest of the media soiled themselves calling them white supremacists and far right when they themselves were never able to crop their photos hard enough to exclude the brown people there and a curia poll showed 45% of them voted Labour/green. As usual she never fronted while her mates in the media lied and lied about the protesters
I'm not surprised she quit, like Key she's too much of a narcissist to take an election loss . The threats she faced as pm being used an excuse are no worse than the crap Key got thrown his way and she leaves behind a country in far worse shape than the one she took over in 2017. We're more divided than any time since the Springbok tour trust in institutions has plummeted -particularly the media .
We live in a country now where a serial rapist gets 6 months home detention , gangs are effectively NGOs and violent crime is rampant, the health system is in freefall as nurses and doctors leave and preteens make tictocs of themselves ramraiding vape shops. Her supporters in the laptop class seem oblivious to this reality that her leadership is responsible for .
Hers was a government for the professional managerial class who she gave subsidised Teslas to paid with a tax on tradies and farmers work vehicles, she gave $650 million to business to decarbon but couldn't be bothered bringing in free dental care which cost the same amount .I hope Labour are soundly beaten at the next election and are out of office until they expunge the career politicians like Ardern that have never worked a day outside of politics ,.I hope National strip the media of the PJIF and Stuff goes bankrupt because few people have helped prop up Ardern more than Sinead Boucher . I'm not expecting much from National, I don't care if Luxon doesn't make inspiring speeches. or talk utter bullshit about "kindness " or "well being". I'd happily settle for a base level of administrative competence ,
It makes me feel very happy to hear that some stranger from 10,000 odd miles away is back around (and still alive) on here again.
Welcome back and good on Jacinda for getting you back posting*
Damn right, if there’s one thing Cindy should be lauded for, it’s digging Jegga out from his self imposed exile.
All hail Queen Cindy.
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@paremata said in Jacinda resigned:
Hey all, Jegga here. Forgot my passwod and wanted to join in the celebrations.
There was an exchange between Amber Heard and Johnny Depps lawyer during their recent trial which I thought summed up Ardern nicely. His lawyer was asking if she ever actually gave the money to the ACLU and she kept replying that she had "pledged it" . Basically she'd told everyone she was going to do it, soaked up all the praise but never bothered with the messy business of actually following through. Ardern made lots of "pledges" during her reign of error .
At least Ardern didn't pledge to be in Aquaman. Amber sank that turkey.