Actually used by Comrade Cindy’s kingmaker Winston Peters to describe her! 😁
Guess she is in good company huh?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12349212
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The "woke" need to be ridiculed and exposed at every opportunity. They are determined to pull down Western Capitalism with their gut churning, navel gazing, self consuming BS. "WAKE" up and see Cultural Marxism for what it is.
Crusher's open disdain for the woke is what has Cindy's Cabinet of Incompetents looking nervously over their shoulders.
I agree with Barry Soper it is unacceptable for Judith Collins to blame mental health for Andrew Falloon’s departure.
The first anyone knew of his demise was a statement from his office mid-afternoon, telling us he'd made a number of mistakes and he apologised to those who had been affected.
Five minutes later, Collins fired a grenade into the mix, putting out a statement telling us he's suffering from significant mental health issues.
It's been confirmed Falloon sent an indecent photo to a university student.
To muddy the mental health waters in this way is simply unacceptable.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12349527
Judith Collins Honesty is such a lonely word.
As too why Labour needs so many working groups ... they don't have a clue
Jacinda leader thats highest office after working as PA and Chippy was President of the International Union of Socialist Youth....Good luck Comrades
Finance Minister Man-love whose only experience in Finance was that he was treasurer of the SRC at Uni
former Health Minister who was not even a proper Doctor
Twyford , that delusional idiot ...
.....then we have a failing National that outside a few seem keen to go elsewhere 20% party gone..Crusher should have been leader long ago ..
NZ First = Gonnee ... Winnie looks after winnie.. same old lines
Greens --wacko jobs that don't have a clue ..
---Act .... doing better than most might well steal some of National/NZF voter base ... will they get 5% ?? and what will they add ? another big talker polly ?
Rant over
So I had a look to see Cultural Marxism for what it is.
A conspiracy theory, propaganda, a fantasy, a fairy tale.
'Cultural Marxism': a uniting theory for rightwingers who love to play the victim
The theory of cultural Marxism is integral to the fantasy life of the contemporary right.
The conspiracy theorists claim that these “cultural Marxists” began to use insidious forms of psychological manipulation to upend the west, to undermine the culture and values that had sustained the world’s most powerful capitalist nation.
They invoke the spectre of “cultural Marxism” to account for things they disapprove of – things like Islamic immigrant communities, feminism, and say it promotes and even enforces ideas which were intended to destroy traditional Christian values and overthrow free enterprise: feminism, multiculturalism, gay rights and atheism.
Anyone who takes a cool look at the last three decades of politics will think it bizarre that anyone could interpret what’s happened as the triumph of an all-powerful left.
The fairytale of cultural Marxism provided a post-communist adversary located specifically in the cultural realm – academics, Hollywood, journalists, civil rights activists and feminists. It has been a mainstay of conservative activism and rhetoric ever since.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...lay-the-victim
Nicky Hager: Five reasons why Judith Collins won’t be prime minister
1. Personal ambition is not enough
2. Attack politics are unpopular
3. Collins wasn’t ‘cleared’ of Dirty Politics
4. Many of her own colleagues don’t like her
5. Judith Collins is not Donald Trump
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/20...rime-minister/
Michelle is probably still controlling things even if she is "out of politics" for a few months. Interesting internal things that could be going on atm.
Their history in government maybe? nine years of doing nothing on the rma..
Obviously you need a bit of a history lesson & I mean that in a helpful way.
George Washington the first President of the US served only 2 terms when he was so revered he could have served many more. Why?
Because the US had just separated from England & the contemporary way of ruling at that time in England & much of Europe was monarchy's which at that time were all powerful & anything but democratic.
He wanted to return power to the people in the new Republic & so by setting this precedent of limited terms, would avoid the possibility of the establishment of an undemocratic monarchy in the US.
If you consider for a moment the situation in Russia & China at the moment where both current leaders have changed their constitutions to allow themselves to become lifelong leaders with few checks on their power, which is dangerous & anything but democratic.
Hope this helps.
Really Moka? You went to a column in a left leaning broadsheet from leftie Jason "working class shirt" Wilson for your definition of Cultural Marxism?
He bothered to get this bit mostly right
[I]t begins in the 1910s and 1920s. When the socialist revolution failed to materialise beyond the Soviet Union, Marxist thinkers like Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukacs tried to explain why. Their answer was that culture and religion blunted the proletariat’s desire to revolt, and the solution was that Marxists should carry out a “long march through the institutions” – universities and schools, government bureaucracies and the media – so that cultural values could be progressively changed from above.
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Adapting this, later thinkers of the Frankfurt School decided that the key to destroying capitalism was to mix up Marx with a bit of Freud, since workers were not only economically oppressed, but made orderly by sexual repression and other social conventions. The problem was not only capitalism as an economic system, but the family, gender hierarchies, normal sexuality – in short, the whole suite of traditional western values.
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From there on he sets about trying to attach it to a bunch of extremist Right Wingers. It is a problem that extremists will launch against it....but that doesn't take away the original problem.
The Marxist thinkers not only saw the failure of Economic Communism to spread outside then Russia, they saw Lenin, Trotsky and Stalins slaughtering to enforce it. They were arrogant enough to assume the Soviet would prove to be an outlier and so tried the Cultural Route. The "Long March Through The Institutions" is bearing fruit 100 years later.
If the Democrats manage to lose against Trump (they are capable of it!) the USA is in for a very bumpy ride. The teeth gnashing was bad enough after Hillary failed. They have only themselves to blame.
I was genuinely surprised how nasty some of the expressed disappointment was from people I knew when John Key won his last term in office. Labour thought they had that election in the bag....much as the Dems think they have Trump on the ropes.
Thanks for the condescending post. It was no help.
The proscription on more than two terms occurred much later than Washington. It may well have been his choice not to stand, it was not constitutional compunction.
You omitted a discussion on FDR. Why?
The 22nd amendment came after FDR and was passed in 1947. This made compulsory a tradition that some Presidents had voluntarily accepted. So from 1947 Presidents could not seek a third term and the people were denied the ability to vote in a person for a third term.
So the constitutional amendment was paternalist as those who drafted it did not think that the people's vote could be trusted?
Why wouldn't the impeachment process not be sufficient?
I wasn't being condescending, but can see you've obviously spent some time this morning researching the topic.
Just pointing out I said Washington set a 'precedent' & chose that word because it's the correct word for what he did & wanted others to follow.
As for the impeachment process & why it may not be sufficient. If you need to ask, maybe after you go & live in the US preferably DC, for a few years you'ld understand.
Well no actually I just had to check on the year. Surely there are other checks and balances?
I do query the relevant lessons in the details in current constitutional democracy that still can be gleaned from all the ideas of slave owning C18th American colonists who railed against imperial taxation.
The incredibly amounts of money, and the influence and favour that may bring, needing to be raised for presidential campaigns should perhaps be a greater concern in a democracy than limiting the number of four year terms.
Collins 'believes'. interesting.
We have no divided houses or consitution here in NZ so pretty much everything only needs a majority to pass. I assume term limits would be a simple thing to pass or would it need cross-party support?
As far as I know the 2 term limit in the US applies only to the Presidency. We don't have a President. We do have a Governor General which is generally a one term 5 year appointment.
If you are suggesting MPs should be limited in the number of terms they can serve, then I fear we will end up with Cindy's Cabinet of Incompetents becoming a regular occurrence. Long serving MPs have a wealth of knowledge of the machinations of government, as do long serving Public Servants.
I can see no useful purpose in limiting the number of terms an MP can serve. SERVE being the operative word!
Don't forget they have a bigger caucus than Labour. Yes they have lost experience, but still have plenty who have served in Cabinet. They are inexperienced as Opposition! And that has showed....however Labour's appalling record of non-delivery is far more concerning.
I consider Andrew Little perhaps the most dangerous man in the country at present. Complete fool with apparently no concept of the precepts of the Justice system of which he is Minister.
Throw in Kelvin Davis (a decent enough person well out of his depth) who is Labour's deputy due to their slavish devotion to diversity, and you see why both Crusher and Winnie are going to go after the woke BS of Labour and the Greens.
Crusher has already stated she is only interested in competence...something Cindy should have learnt by now after having to let 3 Minister's go for showing a complete lack of it. How Twyford has survived and been promoted up the list has gone unanswered the multiple times I have asked on this forum. Even Labourites are baffled on that one. Does he have dirt on someone?
3 MPs v 17 MPs and the opposition are not even in government.
I am not sure it is desirable to control in which member the House of Representatives could have confidence to lead a government.
Our Head of State has the job for life - but I guess parliament could pass a Republic Act, to which the GG would have to assent by convention, with a simple parliamentary majority as with any statute. More than likely there could be referendum on the subject, although that would be up to parliament to determine I guess. AFAIK there is no entrenched provision enshrining the monarchy in NZ’s constitutional set-up which is only partly codified.
NZ had a referendum on asset sales but it was ignored for the most part sadly.
Crusher like a damp squib in the house today.
She really needs to up her game - so much for eating Jacinda alive as some have suggested.
What's with stopping paying into the Super fund?
If I could borrow at the rate the Govt can, and invest at the rate or return the Super Fund manages I'd be in boots and all.
Nat stopped it last time and missed huge gains.
I wouldn't let them manage my money.
PS even a pro National supporter gives round 1 to the PM
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12349821
Leveraged to the hilt eh Dobby41? What could possibly go wrong borrowing massively in an tumultuous period for speculative investments that fund annuities? I guess if things go wrong we could follow Cullen's ideological burp and turn NatSup payments into a top-up on Kiwisaver annuity payments.
Sad that you may be financially illiterate which can't be helped I suppose.
How much do you borrow on your house? or business? and what is the interest..
You need to take into account the risks around speculative investments, particularly where superannuation is concerned, along with existing debt levels which are extraordinarily high. Continuing to borrow like there's no tomorrow because interest rates are low is not necessarily a fiscally prudent move.
200 other countries in the world are borrowing during this period.
They’re being fiscally prudent buying cheap shills. After all as he said there’s only a few thousand members here, imagine when he grows up getting the Facebook or Instagram gig! Have to start somewhere.
First to post, last to post, every day, full on, instant response, extremely biased. Dirty politics but some one has to do it. No denial no rebuttal. Shallow shill transparent like a pain in the glass.
You can choose to dispute the facts if you like in whichever way you think is best. or not :)
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Andrew Falloon using mental health during resignation 'not acceptable' - Mental Health Foundation
Quote:
"That use of mental health as a political shield or a political excuse - that is not acceptable. Mental distress should not be an excuse in politics," Robinson says.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says anything that creates prejudice or stereotypes is "really unhelpful".
Falloon has faced consequences for his actions. On Tuesday he was dropped as an ambassador by charity White Ribbon, which aims to prevent domestic violence.
"It's really behavior that's completely inappropriate as a White Ribbon ambassador," White Ribbon campaign manager Rob McCann says.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...oundation.html
maybe a a mental health crisis team should be deployed?
Why are they having these issues when we have govt ministers and many people in the wider society who don't seem to have an issue.
It takes a while for the truth to come out.
Former National MP Andrew Falloon was caught out in an "enormous lie" with his sex-text scandal after telling his leader he only sent one explicit image to one woman once.
And he only came clean about sending porn to a teenager after he was confronted by National leader Judith Collins - despite being investigated by police.
Collins yesterday condemned Falloon, calling him "a liar" and saying it had become apparent his actions were a "pattern of behaviour" with three more women coming forward yesterday to say they'd also received explicit images.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12349846
The story keeps changing, in this earlier one it wasn’t him that sent the text.
National MP Andrew Falloon's explanation for the sex text scandal that ended his political career is understood to be that acquaintances at a party sent the offensive message.
Falloon, a first-term MP, resigned today and it emerged that a pornographic image had been sent to a young woman.
The Herald understands that Falloon's version of events is that he was at a party several weeks ago and briefly left his phone unattended - and at that time acquaintances used it to send the sexual image in question.
It is also understood that police have already investigated the incident and no action was taken.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...f=art_readmore
Welcome to the mudpit!
While it seems to be clear that none of the parties in parliament seems to be able to select only candidates which are consistently able to behave in a professional manner (maybe with the exception of ACT and the Green party if we just look into the recent term), am I always surprised about the one-eyed approach of some of the posters around here.
As well - both larger parties have long lists of election promises they failed to achieve. Endless repetitions of them do not improve the standard of the discussion if I may say so.
The saying with glass houses and throwing stones springs to mind.
Any chance we could move the discussion to less nastyness and more substance?
Who has the best plan to re-open the borders?
Who has the best plan to grow the economy?
Any ideas to improve our consistently faulty and (as well nasty) so called justice system?
Education?
Housing?
Health-system?
Taxation?
BTW - just started to read some party policies. Anybody else read the Justice policy of the Green party (https://www.greens.org.nz/justice_policy)? It does look surprisingly humane and sensible to me ... how refreshing to have somebody who is not asking for locking up more and more people (of which some by the way prove to be innocent) but try to address the root causes of the problems:
Victims of crime should be at the centre of restorative justice
Prisons are a last resort because they’re expensive and often don’t work to reduce crime
Everyone has a right to access to justice and cost should not be a barrier
Break the cycle of family violence
Ah yes, and given that 50% of our prison population happen to have Maori roots - maybe it does makes sense to involve them in shaping and improving our justice system?
The old ACT / National / Labour approach of increasing penalties and locking up more and more people (whether they are guilty or innocent, just important to lock somebody up) and throwing the key away clearly do not work. NOWHERE in this world.
So Adern is advised of Faloon's indiscretions, lets Judith know and get on and resolve it. She didn't seem to make political capital out of it,
Someone advises Judith, she lets Adern know and seemed to then go to the press.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...abour-minister
I know who acted better, it confirms my thoughts about Judy Collins. Sadly.
Sanctimonious garbage. Everyone in Parliament according to Barry Soper knew about the affair for months!
Cindy is so remote and removed from her people that she had no idea? Nobody bothered to let her know?
And she was able to react so quickly this morning?
Pigs just flew across the Wellington skies. 🤣
It is clear to that Comrade Cindy must have known but kept quiet so her hand had to be forced.
And her reaction is to go off like a firecracker - proving the point.
I agree, the evidence is that prisons don’t work to reduce crime and reoffending.
The empirical evidence it offers supports the hypothesis that entrenched criminal habits are strongly associated with the worst kinds of upbringing.
The typical prisoner seen in the SEU’s data was raised in a family used to crime and imprisonment. His school life was ruined by truanting, exclusion and being taken into care. (95% of the UK’s prison population of 94,000 is male.) He is too illiterate and innumerate for all but the most menial employment. His bad state of mental and physical health is aggravated by addiction to drugs or alcohol or both. He is poor, dependent on state benefits, and constantly in debt. He has no settled home-life.
Is it right that they alone should be held responsible for offences they would probably not have committed but for their bad luck of being born into the kind of circumstances that dispose men to crime?
https://philosophynow.org/issues/102/Prison_Doesnt_Work
The politicians that make the laws want to be above the law because laws are about law and order and keeping Others in order, not them.
More than a year on from a damning report on Parliament as a toxic workplace, MPs are refusing to establish an independent commission to police bad behaviour.
In a sweeping review released last May, consultant Debbie Francis identified a systemic bullying and harassment problem within the corridors of power.
Francis said MPs were “treated like gods” with a “master-servant relationship”. She said there was a clear picture of a handful of MPs whose behaviour fitted the definition of bullying and harassment.
She described hearing about unreasonably aggressive behaviour, language or gestures, that five reported sexual assault to Francis, and all the allegations involved male-on-female violence.
“Some old characters have to move on before the place will finally change,” the insider said. “Some of them don’t want to be accountable, and think they can do what they want, as we have seen in the last 24 hours.
“They think they are a law unto themselves, and that is how it has operated for a very long time.”
Francis said “I am aware from member interviews that some members view a code of conduct as unnecessarily prescriptive or overly politically correct,” she wrote.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/122194450/men-and-women-behaving-badly-why-wont-mps-sign-a-code-of-conduct
Exactly! Comrade Cindy’s spin doctors trying to hide behind the sanctimonious garbage that Collins did not act honourably as Cindy.
It is clear imo that Cindy knew and her hand was forced - resulting in the disaster it is for LG & Labour.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12350115
Jacinda Ardern must have been the last person to know that the minister she's protected through thick and thin had been having an affair with a staffer.
The rumour mill over Iain Lees-Galloway's behaviour has been working overtime for months now.
The Prime Minister insists she was unaware of it - which raises the question over whether she's in touch with her party and in particular her ministry.
If she's not in touch with what's going on around her, surely those who are employed to keep her informed have dismally failed her.
Yes maybe.
Crusher Collins - looks like she has Comrade Cindy scrambling to cover up again.
Obviously up to you who you vote for, but I don't see what was done incorrectly here. Ms Ardern received information and passed it to Ms Collins. Ms Collins received information and passed it to Ms Ardern. Was one transaction Ok and the other not? I would say Mr L-G's situation needs more scrutiny as he is a Minister of the Crown.
You appear to think Ms Collins gave information to the media. She answered a direct question and named no names. That is her style and people like it or they don't. Personally I prefer direct and simple to word salad, fluff and spin even if I don't like the answer.
I know a bit about the beltway. Plenty of playing away.
Collins crushed Comrade Cindy - it's politics and Cindy came out today looking like she fell into a smelly puddle. Two if you count her feeble response to Winston's freebie trips to Antarctica to two dual citizenship Malaysians to get donations.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12350209
Does anyone actually believe the PM fired Iain Lees-Galloway over just an affair?
Come on.
This affair's been known about for months down in Wellington. Even senior Labour MPs knew about it for months, and did nothing.
Unless there is more to this, it looks like he's been fired because the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was politically snookered. She couldn't do anything other than fire him because she had to match new National leader Judith Collins.
She gave Collins dirty information last week. Collins was decisive. Andrew Falloon lost his job.
So, tit for tat. Collins gave the PM dirty information yesterday. Ardern needed to look decisive too. She had to fire him.
She basically got snookered by a Collins power play.
Why devalue the opinions of older people?
Gold card and a gold plated insurance policy thrown in too :)
Yup - can understand why his supporters are often referred to as cheap geriatric grey greedies.
And you actually believe that the wine box inquiry was won by Winston 'Owen Glenn' Peters! And that he helped cleaned up insider trading because of the wine box inquiry which was about the SFO & tax department! No wonder he knows he can lie and cheat! :D
Certainly some left our shores in a big hurry.
I believe there was no extradition agreement with Ireland.
Jane Clifton on fire again.
Last election, a journalist victim of one of these febrile rumours lamented haggardly to this writer: “Where would I get the time even if – bleuch! - I had the inclination?”
Sadly for the innocent, the likes of National’s Andrew Falloon and Labour’s Ian Lees-Galloway suggest that even given today’s covid-crammed agenda, serious naughtiness can always be squeezed in.
Where there’s a willy, there’s a way.
Perhaps not - if he had used his official Paris trip to enjoy a romantic interlude as alleged.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...-his-dismissal
National MP Hamish Walker has been granted leave from Parliament and is set to collect around $60,000 on the taxpayer.
Outrageous
News reports say he was in a consensual relationship but I bet it his wife didn’t consent to him cheating on her. So I do not agree that “as long as it’s legal, it’s none of our business what MPs get up to in their private time.” It is a massive breach of trust with his wife and family and his affair would have involved lots of dishonesty and lies. That is not the sort of person I want as a politician.
Former National Party MP Chester Borrows said Lees-Galloway had to go, as voters do not trust someone who has been shown to be deceitful.
"And actually, interoffice relationships, power inequities in relationships has been in the news for the last few years. Think of the law firms, the Defence Force, those sorts of things," he said.
"It is a question of integrity for a minister and the public will be thinking, 'well if he's prepared to lie to his wife, he will lie to us'. So it is about the integrity of the Cabinet.
"It is an affair that's going on alongside being in a married relationship. People will say that's a moral question, but when it comes to whether you can trust what people say or what they do, it's inconsistent with somebody who is supposed to be able to be held to account and [tell] the truth to the public."
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...r-borrows.html
Quite right. This is about lack of integrity of a senior politician. Once a liar, always a liar. As well - no matter whether the female involved wanted to have an affair with her married boss or not - given the power imbalance between them will we never know whether the concern about keeping her job or otherwise not advancing in her career was part of the implied deal. Absolutely unacceptable in this day and age.
Apart from that - Lees-Galloway was anyway the ugly face of the current government. His arrogance and lack of empathy when commenting about the suffering of innocent people who his government locked out of their home country during the current crisis without any notice is second to none "we all had to make sacrifices". His sacrifice was probably not to be able to start another affair, while the people he commented about had to deal with being de-rooted from their job and life and families in NZ and he didn't care. We clearly don't need arrogant liars and hypocrites in our government. Good riddance.
You might need another leader...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12351077
Rogue poll?I dont think so,rogue leader witth a dirty history ,yes..Some supporters here need to readjust their own moral compass.Greatto see most kiwis dont need to!
25% wow, that's shocking, another 23 MP's gone if this was the election.
The knives will be out this week, the reason for the Caucus's known apprehension & reluctance to hand Judith the reins has materialised.
There was little unity before, but after this!
Don't think the excuse it was a rogue poll will give MP's much confidence, as Tova OBrien says, in reality it continues the existing trend borne out in other polls.
Todd lasted 53 days, there's 55 days to the election, you have to wonder if his record is at risk of being broken.
Many National supporters will understandably be extremely disappointed with this result but the first 4 lines are not opinions, they're facts, unless you really believe it was a rogue poll.
You might be right but just pointing out Tova did said it was continuing the trend.
What do you think John Key & Bill English, & Judith Collins & those MP's will be thinking, I can guarantee they won't be yawning.
Judith was put in to save the furniture & tomorrow there's going to be panic & recriminations, its not going to be a happy harmonious caucus.
Time to face reality, this is a shocking poll less than 2 months out from the election.
Whether Judith lasts till the election is speculation, but polling indicates rolling Bridges was a mistake.
I don't know what's next but National can't ignore the prospect of losing 23 MP's.
What would you suggest, or would you stick with the status quo?