Temet Nosce

There are two ways to lead: you either divide and conquer, or you build and unite. Like or retweet is not an endorsement, just means I value freedom of speech.

[MikeNewZ 🇳🇿 @MikeNewZ_]

Qiulae - The Same Marxist Playbook As Jacinda.

[Temet Nosce @sjemerald]

The @NZGreens are all about dividing New Zealanders IMHO to create power, wealth and status for their leaders as opposed to uniting New Zealanders so they all work together to benefit all the people.

[meerkat @meerkat01155611]

@ThavasRas The greens are all about dividing a pie, not making a pie.

[Ras Thavas 🇮🇱 @ThavasRas]

Anyone whom genuinely believes there is a case for voting Green can't actually be trusted. The Greens have an economic policy that would destroy NZ. How can people actually be this economically illiterate and still have jobs as journalists?

[Chris Lynch @chrislynchmedia]

Deleted post triggers “porkies” accusation but Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke’s office told Chris Lynch Media, it was a “wording error”
https://t.co/TJEBf02e7z

[Rachel Stewart @stew_rachel]

"This recollection from Boucher really pissed me off, not just because of the sheer self-interested arrogance of it, but the blatant dismissal of the value journalism provides to a democracy."

Oh @LloydBurr you are deluded about that current "value".
https://t.co/dOVohMqQ5A

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

No surprises — The Opportunity Party is soft on crime.

TOP wants to raise the Youth Court age to 25, completely ignoring that 18–25 is the prime window when gangs recruit and deploy young adults for violence and drug running.

Shifting them into a soft diversion system will swamp Oranga Tamariki, dramatically weaken deterrence, and expose Kiwis to even more violent crime.

In 2022, the number of new gang members aged 18–25 surged by a whopping 75%.

In addition, TOP wants to decriminalise drug possession which will reduce pressure on low- and mid-level gang runners, (often young recruits) making distribution safer and more efficient.

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

The Opportunity Party is increasingly looking like a Labour project to destroy the Green Party.
Let's join some dots.
1. The General Manager of the party is Iain Lees-Galloway
2. His business partner is Toni Grace, Hipkins' partner
3. The number 3 candidate is Kayla Kingdom-Bedd, an author of the He Puapua report that Labour secretly adopted
4. She is the partner of James Shaw, the ousted leader from the Green Party
5. James Shaw is said to be doing a lot of the heavy lifting policy wise
6. There is at least one union linked candidate
7. The media luvvies are in on it.

Do not be hoodwinked in to thinking this is some sort of teal centre right party, it is not.
It is a project designed to destroy the Green Party, aised and abetted by Labour linked people and a former Green Party leader

[MikeNewZ 🇳🇿 @MikeNewZ_]

What’s Your Favourite Opportunity Party Policy?
#TOP

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

Many left of centre people are calling Opportunities Party a centre-right stalking horse to attract teal voters.
They are trying to sound smart, but are clearly retarded.
The GM of the party is Iain Lees-Galloway a former Labour minister, who shares a business with Hipkins' fiance, Toni Grace. One of their candidates, Kayla Kingdon-Bebb, is a co-author of the He Puapua report that Labour tried to keep secret.
You are warned. https://t.co/xwWShQ7kTk

[Darren Watson @DarrenWatson_NZ]

My dear left and/or slightly left friends. Before you consider switching your party vote to the so-called 'blue-teal' of the imho ludicrously named 'Opportunity Party' please consider this:

1. As far as I can assertain this party's structure is ENTIRELY undemocratic. It is governed by a three person, unelected board. They select all the candidates. The party 'membership' does not get to vote on anything internal to the party, and especially not policy.

2. It's new leader, a very personable and erudite younger person, applied for the leadership role as one would a JOB, from an advertisement. She has no previous history as an active member of a political party, or activist of any kind, and we have no idea of what her real deeply held political views are - if any. She was essentially hired as a spokesperson by a small, undemocratic board. This party appears to be essentially a corporate structure that makes National look super democratic...

3. The party's day to day operations are run by a former Labour Cabinet Minister who was publicly sacked by Jacinda Ardern in 2020 for a severe lack of judgment involving an inappropriate relationship with a staffer under his authority, which ended his parliamentary career in disgrace.

4. The 'party' is massively funded by some real big money Kiwis.

If, after reading that - and checking the facts, you think yep, I'll vote for that, then good luck to you I guess.

I couldn't. YMMV

#nzpol

[Earl Fargoff @EarlFargofbu2a]

I agree with Heather DPAllan on ZB just now. I don’t trust him not to go with Labour either. His history is plain for everyone to see. His word means very little.

[Temet Nosce @sjemerald]

The plan is for telemedicine. You phone, someone triages you & decides if you see a nurse, doctor or go to pharmacist. You don’t have a choice. Smoke & mirrors by @nzlabour They didn’t tell you the specific details & you foolishly thought 3 free doctor’s visits meant seeing a Dr

[Amy Jones @Light42Lime]

@TaxpayersUnion Well bugger that. If I have an issue that I think needs a Dr to diagnose, I want to see a Dr, not a bloody Nurse Practitioner and the surgery I am enrolled with does NOT triage!

[New Zealand Taxpayers' Union @TaxpayersUnion]

The Labour Party is misleading taxpayers.

Labour has spent months promoting "three free doctor’s visits" as their leading election promise, but now are backtracking – many of those visits may not even be with a doctor.

When asked how many of the free visits would actually be with qualified doctors rather than nurse practitioners, Chris Hipkins didn't know. Labour have not worked out whether patients can save their free visits to see an actual doctor if they want to.

If Labour means "free primary care appointments", they should specify. Calling them "free doctor’s visits" while admitting many may not involve a doctor is misleading voters.

[Matthew Horncastle @matt_horncastle]

Why Jacinda Ardern was the worst thing that happened to New Zealand.

Not because every problem started with her.

They did not.

Not because every bad decision was hers alone.

It was because she changed the moral direction of the country.

Before Jacinda, New Zealand still had a rough idea of what it was meant to be.

Free people.

Practical people.

Independent people.

People who worked, built, traded, raised families, solved problems, and expected government to mostly leave them alone.

Then Jacinda arrived with one word.

Kindness.

And that word did enormous damage.

Because kindness is voluntary.

You choose to help.

You choose to give.

You choose to care.

But when the state forces one person to live for another, that is not kindness.

That is coercion.

When the state takes your money and calls it compassion, that is not charity.

That is theft with better branding.

COVID exposed the worldview.

The government decided whether you could work.

Whether your business was essential.

Whether you could travel.

Whether you could see family.

Whether you could come home to your own country.

Whether your speech was acceptable.

Then they told New Zealanders the government would be the single source of truth.

That sentence should have terrified every free person.

Free countries do not have a single source of truth.

Free people think.

Free people question.

Free people disagree.

Free people are allowed to be wrong.

A society with one official truth is not free.

It is being trained to obey.

That was her real legacy.

She made dependency look moral.

She made obedience look virtuous.

She made fear look responsible.

She made control look compassionate.

She moved New Zealand away from the individual and toward the collective.

Away from freedom and toward permission.

Away from responsibility and toward dependency.

Away from truth and toward official narrative.

Away from production and toward redistribution.

Ayn Rand was right.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual.

Once you sacrifice the individual to the collective, there are no rights left.

There is only power.

The state decides who pays, who obeys, who is punished, and who is rewarded.

I do not judge Jacinda by the smile.

I do not judge her by the magazine covers.

I do not judge her by the international applause.

I judge her by one standard.

Did she make New Zealand more free or less free?

The answer is obvious.

She made New Zealand less free.

That is her legacy.

[Temet Nosce @sjemerald]

I thought @jacindaardern and @nzlabour had already solved child poverty in NZ.

[Temet Nosce @sjemerald]

This policy by @nzlabour has always been presented in a way to hide the actual fact that gate keepers will decide if you see an actual doctor. About time @drayeshaverrall and @chrishipkins stopped misleading New Zealanders.

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

Labour’s election policies have quickly descended into farce.

Chris Hipkins has now admitted that the party’s flagship promise of “three free doctors’ visits a year” might not involve seeing a doctor at all.

According to Labour’s own policy, these so-called “free doctors’ visits” can be used with nurse practitioners instead. The party openly admits this, yet it cannot even say how many of those visits will actually be with a real doctor.

Meanwhile, Labour is marketing the policy as “free doctors’ visits” to win votes, only to quietly concede it’s just another primary care appointment.

What doesn’t change, however, is that taxpayers will still be forced to pay for it through the party’s proposed capital gains tax.

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

Labour’s election policies have quickly descended into farce.

Chris Hipkins has now admitted that the party’s flagship promise of “three free doctors’ visits a year” might not involve seeing a doctor at all.

According to Labour’s own policy, these so-called “free doctors’ visits” can be used with nurse practitioners instead. The party openly admits this, yet it cannot even say how many of those visits will actually be with a real doctor.

Meanwhile, Labour is marketing the policy as “free doctors’ visits” to win votes, only to quietly concede it’s just another primary care appointment.

What doesn’t change, however, is that taxpayers will still be forced to pay for it through the party’s proposed capital gains tax.

[Temet Nosce @sjemerald]

For some reason I just don’t trust @winstonpeters

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

National keeps copying NZ First policies. Why not cut out the middle man and just vote NZ First?

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

Thoughts and prayers for the Green Party staffers who are copping it right now.

[Matthew Horncastle @matt_horncastle]

Nothing about Jacinda Ardern was ever kind.

Kindness is not locking people out of their jobs because they made a different medical decision.

Kindness is not dividing a country into the compliant and the non compliant.

Kindness is not telling people they can gather in one group but not another based on their vaccination status.

Kindness is not growing the size, cost, and reach of government while ordinary New Zealanders struggle with the consequences.

A smile is not kindness.

A carefully managed public image is not kindness.

Kindness is respecting the rights, freedoms, and dignity of people you disagree with.

History should judge leaders by what they did, not by how they branded themselves.