Jared Armstrong

I do stuff @MinuteDock

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[Department of State @StateDept]

Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.

The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.

[Jared Armstrong @armstrjare]

@electricfuture5 @TeslaAUNZ Haven’t received this here in NZ yet 🤔

[Jared Armstrong @armstrjare]

@Olwiba @autohiveai Super nice! Did you use https://t.co/BDMT3h6LAD for this?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Who specifically is the asshole who added DEI lies to Academy Awards eligibility instead of it just being about making the best movie?

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

So @winstonpeters asked the Speaker at the beginning of question time why there are so many flags raised outside Parliament that have meant that the two visiting delegations from overseas have had to have their flags flown elsewhere.
Turns out there are the rainbow flag, the triangle rainbow flag, the trans flag, bisexual flag, & intersex flag are all flying today.
Why? Who is asking for this? I still can't figure out why we do Pride in Feb & June. Now we do May? Then there are like 95 trans days.
Can we just fly our national flag and visiting delegation flags and leave it at that? Homophobia is fine anyway. Just ask Labour.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Full depravity of Hamas during October 7 revealed for the first time: New report details how terrorists performed almost unimaginable horrors upon Israeli families https://t.co/14KfEBq7jV

[Jared Armstrong @armstrjare]

@BillboardChris @ElliotIkilei So feminine 😂

[Winston Peters @winstonpeters]

It has been reported that police have recently visited Renee-Rose Schwenke about a so-called 'offensive' social media post she posted. Not threatening, not inciting violence, just that it allegedly offended someone.

If this report is true, this is '1984 thought-police' level overreach. It should seriously frighten every New Zealander who believes in freedom of speech.

This is not about whether this particular post was offensive or not. There will always be personal responsibility and consequences for people voicing their opinions that are viewed by some as tasteless or gormless or offensive - but those consequences should not be by way of a police visit.

No one has the right to not be offended, nor do they have the right to be protected from having hurt feelings. In fact it is precisely the right to be able to offend which is the foundation of freedom of speech in our country.

This has happened overseas with more regularity where social media posts, opinions, views, expressions, and even jokes are now deemed offensive by some authoritarian power and have been met with threats from police, arrests, or even convictions in court.

We never thought we would see this happen here and it has a chilling effect on where we are going as a country.

As Oliver Wendall Homles Jr said, freedom of speech also comes with responsibility of speech - you cannot falsely yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre without there rightly being a consequence. We already have laws around 'responsibility of speech' ranging from defamation to incitement of violence, and that is important - but people's freedom to have their own free opinion is something which should be aggressively defended.

We don't all have to agree with each other's opinions, but we should all fight for each other's right to have them. This is the essential foundation of our free democracy.

If we start to accept this kind of overreach by police to curtail individual freedom of speech, our democracy will fall into the type of totalitarian oblivion that will destroy our country.

[Jared Armstrong @armstrjare]

@traskjd @cjsbishop @EricCrampton Because economic misery wins them votes.

[Jared Armstrong @armstrjare]

@SimeonBrownMP Defund the scum.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Hace unas semanas, un grupo de “expertos y expertas”, financiados por Open Society (Soros), acudió a la CIDH y a la ONU a, básicamente, pedir la liberación del 100% de los pandilleros arrestados durante el régimen de excepción.

Estos videos fueron vistos por el pueblo salvadoreño, lo que generó un fuerte rechazo hacia todas las ONG, “periodistas” y políticos que apoyaron el informe. Fue un desastre de relaciones públicas para las organizaciones de supuesta defensa de los derechos humanos.

Sin embargo, al ver la reacción y ser cuestionados por la gente, su excusa fue que no defendían a terroristas, sino a supuestos inocentes.

Así que decidieron intentarlo otra vez, esta vez ante el Congreso de los Estados Unidos. El plan era presentar al Gobierno de El Salvador como un violador de derechos humanos. Sin embargo, les salió peor: cuando les preguntaron directamente si estaban de acuerdo en que la MS-13 es una organización terrorista, no pudieron responder, y luego afirmaron que, independientemente de los crímenes cometidos, ellos estaban ahí para defender los derechos de esas personas.

Vean el video. Vean claramente cómo defienden a terroristas. Vean cómo dicen que, aunque hayan cometido crímenes horribles, ellos están ahí para defender sus derechos. No lo digo yo, lo dicen ellos con sus propias palabras en el Congreso estadounidense.

Que no los engañen: no están defendiendo a supuestos inocentes, están defendiendo a terroristas. Están diciendo que la MS-13 no es una organización terrorista y que, sin importar sus delitos, ellos igual defenderán sus derechos.

Que no quede ninguna duda: lo que buscan estos supuestos “periodistas”, organizaciones de “defensa de los derechos humanos” y políticos nacionales y extranjeros que los apoyan, es la liberación de estos criminales, para que puedan volver a someter al pueblo salvadoreño a su régimen de terror y volvernos a convertir en el país más peligroso del mundo.

Pero se dispararon en el pie, otra vez.

Vean el video y juzguen ustedes mismos.

[NickMowbray @NMowbray23]

Its incredible how stupid/uneducated/ dangerous some of the people we have in our parliament actually are. There is no other description for them.

[Jared Armstrong @armstrjare]

@petersuhm @zachknicker @adamwathan @marckohlbrugge Also a Plus and Insider, would love to get early access 🙏

[Jared Armstrong @armstrjare]

@JonesVincentt Who. Fucking. Cares.

[NZ MAGA Mike #MAGAMEMEmarathon @NZMAGAMike]

Rhys here - I'm the investigations lead at the Taxpayers' Union.

Earlier this year, it was revealed that Health New Zealand was holding compulsory "Karakia" sessions during work hours.
But now, our own research has uncovered something even more absurd, this time at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).
Exposed: MBIE's daily workplace Waiata sessions 🎶🎤
While Kiwi businesses are facing economic uncertainty, the Ministry supposedly responsible for helping businesses has been spending our money on Workplace Waiata – i.e. staff singing sessions in their Wellington offices.
And this isn't just a one-off thing: At their swanky Wellington offices, MBIE were hosting 30 minute sessions every work day, every week!
MBIE employs 5,892 bureaucrats (it's grown from 4,676 in 2020), literally being paid to sing, clap, poi, and recite Māori proverbs and hymns.
According to documents we've unearthed, last year, MBIE bosses attempted to reduce these sessions from daily 30-minute sing-alongs across various floors, to "just" 20 minutes, twice a week.
According to email correspondence (obtained under the Official Information Act) one of the reasons for the 'cut back' was concerns about the Workplace Waiata causing noise distraction for others in the office.
No kidding!
But here's where it gets even more ridiculous...
The precious MBIE staffers weren't having a bar of it!
They revolted at management for daring to cut back the entitlement.
MBIE's CEO was forced into crisis meetings to literally negotiate the waiata schedule!
We've unearthed internal emails, chats, strategy documents, and even formal negotiations.
Staff wrote an eight page submission demanding that the waiata "entitlement" continue.
Staff described the sessions as "taonga" (treasure) and insisted they were essential for "wellbeing" and "capability building." They produced lengthy documents arguing why three sessions per week was the "bare minimum".
The bureaucrats claimed that management's instruction to have the sessions during unpaid breaks was "colonial" and "culturally insensitive".
They said even "relocating to enclosed rooms" (in order to avoid disrupting other staff in the open offices) was "viewed as symbolic marginalisation" and "hiding the kaupapa".
You read that right. The Ministry responsible for making sure New Zealand’s economy works, from businesses and jobs to housing, immigration, and energy, spent months arguing about singing schedules. 📷
That's how woke self-entitled these MBIE staff have become.
The "compromise" reached
The final compromise and solution? Management eventually agreed through a "cultural negotiation" that the 30-minute sing-along sessions would not be abolished.
Instead, they were reduced from five to three 30-minute sessions per week. 📷
Only in the public service could something so ridiculous require this level of executive time, negotiation, and outcome.

[Jared Armstrong @armstrjare]

@_chenglou Is this meant to happen? iOS

[Balaji @balajis]

So far, Nayib Bukele is on track to be the Lee Kuan Yew of Latin America. The Simon Bolivar of the new century.

He focused on building up his own country. He embraced hard money and cut off hard drugs.

He did imprison criminals, but did so with the minimum necessary force. He persuaded first, and compelled only when absolutely necessary. Like Lee Kuan Yew, Bukele turned his country into a bonafide showcase for a global audience.

Bukele built a domestic coalition in his native Spanish and an international coalition in fluent English. He balanced El Salvadoran nationalism with diplomacy and capitalism, recruiting Tether, xAI, Bitcoin, and tech to the country.

Incredibly, he’s made El Salvador into a model not just for Latin Americans, but for North Americans. And he did it in less than ten years, with absolutely no precedent in the region.

[Jared Armstrong @armstrjare]

@MickMighty10455 @dpfdpf Implement at-will employment for the public sector.

[Jared Armstrong @armstrjare]

Are @actparty @dbseymour @nzfirst @winstonpeters aware of what is going on here?

[David Farrar @dpfdpf]

They have gone from an account with 8,000 followers on Twitter to one with 43 on Bluesky.