Marco Rubio lo acaba de clavar como un martillo:
«La violencia de la izquierda no es una “protesta”. Es una revuelta de lo peor contra lo mejor. Es la pataleta de los débiles, los mediocres y los cobardes contra los fuertes, los capaces y los buenos.
Son aquellos que no saben construir, crear ni lograr nada grande… y por eso deciden vengarse del mundo destruyendo lo que otros levantaron con esfuerzo, talento y visión.
Eso es el izquierdismo radical en su esencia más pura. Da igual la etiqueta del momento: anticapitalista, antiimperialista, comunista, anarquista, marxista, “progresista” o “activista climático”. El ADN es siempre el mismo.
Es resentimiento venenoso disfrazado de “justicia social”.
Es envidia podrida maquillada de “igualdad”.
Es odio a la excelencia envuelto en banderas de “liberación”.
Su único talento es destruir.
Su única alegría es ensuciar lo hermoso.
Su único objetivo es arrastrar todo hacia abajo para que nadie brille más que su propia mediocridad.
A través de la violencia, el terror y la cancelación buscan imponer su fealdad espiritual sobre la sociedad. No es idealismo. No es utopía. Es nihilismo puro con sonrisa moralista.
El viejo dogma se equivocó: esto no viene de gente que sueña con un mundo mejor, sino de gente que no soporta que el mundo sea mejor sin ellos.
Y ya estamos hartos.
La civilización no se defiende pidiendo perdón. Se defiende nombrando al enemigo por su nombre.
That’s because we’re a nation of moaners
Nobody says “actually, I’m doing OK - I’m earning six figures - and although higher petrol and grocery prices are a pain, I can absorb them without losing too much sleep”
… because they would sound like a wanker
NZ white liberals- 'Maori are too special needs & can't enrol in time for any election.' 🥹
Meanwhile, me, a Maori boy, living in a donga in the desert 2 days drive from Perth- 'Nah bro, all set, gonna send off my vote this week' 👍
Sick of people pretending we are basket cases
Amazing that Hipkins made a complete mess whist in Govt yet now wants us to believe he has all the answers now & wants us to vote back in the same team of failures we threw out in 2023.
If he had any decency he would name the Labour Party sex predator as promised.
Why is the media not pushing him on this story.???
@actparty Hipkins like Ardern is lazy and incompetent and just spouts rehearsed talking points Pity we don't have journalists who do any basic research to question him
Remember this about Hipkins
'During the COVID-19 pandemic, then-COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins publicly released private information & made inaccurate statements regarding New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis'
He also lied about the 2 women who travelled to Northland
He's not an honest or nice person is he?
@theplatform_nz
Chris Hipkins has perfected the oldest trick in the political book. Take your money, spend it, then stand there with a straight face and call it free.
It’s not free @chrishipkins .
𝗛𝗶𝗽𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀’ 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀
“Chris Hipkins’ opposition to charter schools is based on claims that have been proven false. ACT is challenging him to accept the facts, change his position, and let children learn in the way that works best for them,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
“Hipkins has gone on Newstalk ZB this morning and repeated the same false claims that charter schools cost more than state schools, despite official figures showing otherwise.
“At the NZ Herald Leaders’ Debate, Ryan Bridge asked Hipkins whether he’d ever lied. Hipkins said not deliberately, but acknowledged making incorrect statements based on outdated information and claimed he had always corrected them.
“Last week we asked him to prove that. The figures are publicly available on the Charter School Agency's website, but Hipkins has chosen to keep spreading false claims.
“The figures show charter schools receive broadly the same funding as state schools, and slightly less for staffing and operations. Compared like for like the number are:
Primary schools: $8,762 per student at state schools, compared with $8,278 at charter schools.
Secondary schools: $11,040 per student at state schools, compared with $10,741 at charter schools.
“Even the establishment funding figures show charter schools receive less. A new primary charter school with 100 students receives $401,675 in staffing and operating funding, compared with $638,249 for an equivalent state school.
“If Hipkins can't accept these facts, it suggests the real reason he opposes charter schools is that he and the unions are afraid they're becoming too successful.
“Since the first charter schools opened last year, enrolments have grown from 215 to more than 2,100. Five of the original seven schools exceeded their attendance targets in their first year, and five exceeded their achievement targets.
“Families are choosing these schools because they offer something different. For many students, the traditional system simply wasn't working. Now they're attending school, learning, and getting opportunities they didn't have before.
“Charter schools are contracted to deliver results. If they fail to meet their attendance and achievement targets, they risk losing their funding. That's a level of accountability not seen elsewhere in the state school system.
“Chris Hipkins should be celebrating schools that are helping students succeed, not threatening to abolish the model to keep his union mates happy.
“He now has the opportunity to put the interests of students ahead of the unions by accepting the facts and letting families choose the education that works best for their children.”
This is hilarious. The woman that destroyed social cohesion, civic trust and gave lip service to 'empathetic leadership' now is being paid to lecture on it.
She'll be in her element, passing down homilies from on high, surrounded by adoring fans.
An Open Letter to the University of Sydney @Sydney_Uni@mscott
Regarding the appointment of Jacinda Ardern as Professor of Practice
Dear Professor Scott,
I read with absolute disgust that the University of Sydney has appointed Jacinda Ardern as Professor of Practice, where she will apparently be sharing her wisdom on empathetic leadership, social cohesion and civic trust.
You cannot be serious.
You are quoted as saying:
"Dame Jacinda led New Zealand through events of profound consequence and her leadership demonstrated that empathy and resolve do not compete with one another; each can strengthen the other."
Appointing Jacinda Ardern to teach social cohesion is rather like appointing Jeffrey Dahmer to teach a course on wellbeing, or Jimmy Savile to run the local daycare centre. The sheer absurdity would almost be funny if the consequences of her leadership weren't so hideously tragic.
My name is Alia Bland. I am a co-founder of Voices for Freedom, an organisation established in New Zealand in 2020. For years, we stood alongside tens of thousands of ordinary Kiwis whose lives were torn apart by the policies of Ardern's government.
While the international media fawned over her kindness and compassion, we were dealing with the wreckage.
At the height of the COVID response, we were receiving upwards of 1,000 emails a day. Desperate people reaching out because they had lost their jobs, their incomes, their homes and, in many cases, their will to live.
People nearing retirement were forced to sell family homes they had spent decades paying off. Some are still living in caravans five years later.
Marriages collapsed. Families fractured. Lifelong friendships were destroyed. People who had served their communities for decades were suddenly treated like lepers because they declined a medical procedure.
Some of the people who came to us had spent their entire lives believing New Zealand was a decent, fair-minded country. Watching that belief crumble, and seeing what it did to them, was heartbreaking.
I cannot adequately describe the anguish in those emails. The desperation of parents wondering how they would feed and house their families. The humiliation of hardworking people being marched out of professions they loved. The despair of people who had done everything society asked of them, only to discover that their own government considered them disposable.
And presiding over it all was Jacinda Ardern, smiling for the cameras and telling the world how kind New Zealand was.
Kind? For whom?
Her government deliberately created a two-class society. Ardern herself acknowledged it publicly. New Zealanders were excluded from workplaces, businesses, events and ordinary social life. People were coerced into accepting a medical intervention under threat of losing their livelihoods.
And those who suffered adverse reactions to the COVID vaccines faced another nightmare. We fought for vaccine-injured New Zealanders whose lives had been devastated by serious physical harm, while many struggled to have their injuries acknowledged or receive adequate support.
The government's public assurances about vaccine safety deserve particular scrutiny. Officials knew about the myocarditis risk, including among young people. We have examined the records. Yet people raising legitimate questions about those risks were routinely dismissed and vilified.
The damage went far beyond lost incomes and broken relationships. An enormous number of New Zealanders lost faith in the very institutions they had trusted their entire lives. Government, health authorities, education, police and the media. That trust has not magically returned because Ardern has moved on to more prestigious surroundings.
While her government was busy marginalising people, we were building a nationwide support network to help them survive.
Voices for Freedom grew to more than 100,000 people on our mailing list, many representing entire families. More than 45,000 people signed up to our local groups across the country, which are still operational today in 2026. We established industry groups to help people fight for their careers, provided support through employment disputes and legal challenges, organised practical assistance and hand-delivered millions of flyers to households throughout New Zealand.
We did this while facing censorship, public vilification and government surveillance. Official records obtained since have confirmed that our activities and communications were being monitored and reported on.
Our volunteers gave everything they could to help people who had been abandoned by the institutions meant to protect them.
And now the University of Sydney wants to hold up the woman responsible for overseeing this period as a shining example of empathy and social cohesion?
It is sickening.
Professor Scott, did anyone at your university bother to speak with the people whose lives were destroyed under Ardern's leadership before celebrating her appointment?
Have you spoken to the former nurses, teachers and police officers who lost their careers? The families who lost their homes? The people still suffering from vaccine injuries? The parents whose children no longer speak to them?
Or did you simply swallow the carefully cultivated international image of Saint Jacinda, the compassionate leader who saved New Zealand?
I wonder whether you have considered why this internationally celebrated former prime minister now lives in Australia rather than the country she once led. The depth of hostility towards her among many New Zealanders should give you pause.
Because I can assure you, there is another side to that story. And there are hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders who live with the consequences.
I have no objection to universities studying Ardern's leadership. In fact, I would encourage it. There is an enormous amount to learn from what happened in New Zealand between 2021 and 2023. Like, what not to do...
But presenting her as someone uniquely qualified to teach empathy, social cohesion and civic trust, without acknowledging the extraordinary human suffering that occurred under her leadership, is an insult to the people who paid the price.
We were there, Professor Scott. We saw what happened. We picked up the pieces. We are still picking them up.
Some of those people will never recover what they lost.
And the woman who presided over it all gets a professorship in empathy.
What an absolute disgrace.
Yours sincerely,
Alia Bland
Co-founder, Voices for Freedom
New Zealand