New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced her resignation, which VICE attributes to a “global hate campaign.” Actually, it’s “experts” who claim that.
Ardern was an authoritarian. Not only were New Zealand’s COVID lockdowns extreme, but just a week after the Christchurch shooting, she announced a ban on all assault weapons and “military-style automatic weapons.” (With six weeks to go until the deadline, approximately 20 percent of guns had been turned in.) In a speech at the United Nations last fall, she said that freedom of speech on the internet was a “weapon of war.” “How do you tackle climate change if people don’t believe it exists,” she argued.
She was terrible, and good riddance.
VICE notes that “far-right” networks around the world celebrated the news in the continuation of a “global hate campaign” against her.
Far-right networks around the world cheered at Jacinda Ardern’s shock resignation as New Zealand’s prime minister, in the continuation of a global hate campaign that experts say likely played a role in her departure. https://t.co/ehrOrU59ze
— VICE News (@VICENews) January 19, 2023
Female fragility
— Marie Arf 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇨🇦 (@schwingcat) January 19, 2023
Far-left networks are upset an authoritarian is resigning
— Nick (@Nickster0188) January 19, 2023
So which narrative you guys trying to run with here?
1) Ardern is as tough as any man, and qualified for taking on the role of president! Yay, girlbosses!
2) Mean people hurt Ardern's feelings, so she's quitting
You're gonna have to pick one or the other there, guys.
— Rhode Islander (@rhodeislander) January 19, 2023
Ardern should be in prison for her gross authoritarianism.
— Bryan A (@Bryan_A_330) January 19, 2023
Far right? You mean all but far left totalitarian socialists.
— Dr. Theo (@Tedlinknews) January 19, 2023
"Experts"
— JWix (@JWix75884500) January 19, 2023
These 'experts' – are they in the room with us now?
— Res Anxius: scorched earth (@RAnxius) January 19, 2023
— Don Helpingstine (@dhelpingstine) January 19, 2023
If, as a media outlet, you find yourself protecting government officials from online bullying, you should reflect on what you are and why you exist because it's shameful.
— 🅿 ћ ℹ ட (@RealPhillyP) January 19, 2023
Great reporting by Vice since we all know the number one job of journalists is to defend politicians from criticism.
— Dan (@TractorLaw) January 19, 2023
I’m not far right but she sucks
— Tim Christie 👻 (@cre_ation) January 19, 2023
Have you considered that maybe she was just not that well-liked by New Zealanders?
— TF (@tennisfan2222) January 19, 2023
Won’t someone think of the poor oppressed leader of a country?
— InelegantOne (@inelegant_one) January 19, 2023
Vice thinks anyone that isn't happily embracing Davos-backed globalist tyrants is "far right".
— Great Ape Reset🌎☄️💥 (@Last_Individual) January 19, 2023
New Zealand has a population slightly more than that of Los Angeles, and is approximately the size of Nevada. She was basically the fascist mayor of a large city. Which makes her no different then most big city mayors when it comes to their mismanagement of the pandemic. 🥱
— Jack Daley (@jackDaleyDCLA) January 19, 2023
Dude she is a tyrant and WEF stooge
— Zach Smorris (@smorriszach) January 19, 2023
Dictator gone. Vice is sad
— srki (@Seanilic) January 19, 2023
VICE seems to have missed who’s the bully in this scenario.
Related:
New Zealand’s prime minister calls freedom of speech on the internet a ‘weapon of war’ at the UN https://t.co/w87iRzbC5q
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 28, 2022
