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mickysavage - Date published:
8:42 am, December 9th, 2021 - 44 comments
Categories: covid-19, health, jacinda ardern, us politics -
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When Rosa Parks battled racism and oppression by catching a bus and then refusing to move into the “coloured” section out of the “white” section after being ordered to, her protest eventually saw bus segregation being declared as unconstitutional and a breach of rights. Her actions have since been celebrated as a significant contribution to the fight against oppression. There is a statue of her in the US Capitol’s National Statuary Hall and she received a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a Congressional Gold Medal. Different states celebrate her birthday and the day of her arrest.
Fast forward to now and the Anti Vaxers and the Destiny Church have their own Freeedom Bus Trip. For the price of $60 Auckland anti vaxers can book a ticket to Wellington to make their final stand against all that is wrong with Aotearoa New Zealand, including vaccine mandates and compulsory mask wearing, even though these measures have saved us from the worst effects of the global pandemic that has inflicted every other Western nation.
But here is the kicker. To catch the bus people have to either have a clear covid test within 72 hours or a vaccine passport. It appears that not even a certificate from Dr Jonie Girouard will suffice.
Real protestors would walk rather than be subject to such “totalitarianism overreach” even though the reality is the measures are a necessary public health measure that have saved tens of thousands of lives.
But it is good to see that the Government’s messaging is getting through.
Expect many impassioned speeches at the protests, imagery of the treatment of Jews during the second world war and suggestions that the current steps are equivalent (they are not) and disparaging references to Ardern including multiple examples of misspelling of her name. Then expect a group of Aucklanders getting back onto a bus for a trip home in an environment that will be safer for them because they followed the rules.
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The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round
'Round and 'round, 'round and 'round
The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round
All day long
The horn on the bus goes beep-beep-beep
Beep-beep-beep, beep-beep-beep
The horn on the bus goes beep-beep-beep
All day long
The wipers on the bus go swish-swish-swish
Swish-swish-swish, swish-swish-swish
The wipers on the bus go swish-swish-swish
All day long
The babies on the bus cry, "Wah-wah-wah
Wah-wah-wah, wah, wah, wah"
The babies on the bus cry, "Wah, wah, wah"
All day long
The mommies on the bus say, "Shush, shush, shush
Shush, shush, shush, shush, shush, shush"
The mommies on the bus say, "Shush, shush, shush"
All day long
Were you the Blue…wiggle Maurice?
The Australian one?
HELL NO!
Will the organisers be handing out free packs of cigarettes?
Govt to ban young people ever purchasing tobacco in their lifetime (1news.co.nz)
As a health measure it is sound timing by the government to propose making it illegal to sell cigarettes: Minister Verrall said that "People aged 14 when the law comes into effect will never be able to legally purchase tobacco."
There would be a transitional period between 2023-2025.
But … good old Act mixes it all together with the 'Nanny State' and stuff, so expect the marchers to march under the Long Blue Cloud.
Imagine of smoking was treated like covid
https://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/healthy-living/addictions/quitting-smoking/health-effects-smoking#:~:text=Around%205000%20people%20die%20each,not%20too%20late%20to%20quit.
'Half of all long-term smokers will die from a smoking-related disease.'
'Around 5000 people die each year in New Zealand because of smoking or second-hand smoke exposure. That’s 13 people a day'
So they wanna start a black market for tobacco now?! This war on drugs is going great. 🙄
Meanwhile crappy liquor stores and pokies are popping up everywhere in poorer neighbourhoods because that's "business"
$6 billion loss to the economy each year.
If covid killed that many people it would be banned.
With out vaccines that could have easily been the number of deaths .
Imagine if covid had billion-dollar global corporations lobbying to sell it without restrictions.
You mean like Pfizer?
pfizer is selling covid19?
They're certainly making money off it and the longer the panic is the more money they'll make
Making money off the prevention is different to actively selling the disease to as many people as possible, which is what the tobacco industry did.
And if Pfizer started pushing the disease as being worse than it is, hypothetically speaking
Then it's pushing a conspiracy to make money by making people more healthy.
As opposed to big tobacco, who lobbied and lied in order to make money from a product that kills half its customers, a product they manipulated to make even more addictive than it naturally was.
Yet the government still allows smoking
In no small part because of the efforts the tobacco industry made over decades to addict as many people as possible. They still vote – Winston Peters knows that lol
As the addicts die, the tobacco voting power wanes, we see more efforts to restrict smoking.
Whereas pfizer will keep being allowed to make and produce medicines and vaccines, right up until it starts producing something that kills half its customers.
Pity about tobacco, really. I loved a good cigar when I could afford them. But that compared to a pack of 20 cigarettes is like coca leaf compared with crack cocaine.
This will end well…
Magic! Some of us are old enough to remember these 'comedians' …. fondly …
…. and that type of bus – the proper sort, with an open platform at the rear.
Seems appropriate to this site
Even better, especially at the 1.36 mark
I am Neil.
"You don't understand the timeless wonder of it Rik. We sow the seed, nature grows the seed, we eat the seed!"
So many great lines.
Greatest sitcom ever?
I don't know but I won't argue against it either. The episode University Challenge has to be one the greatest casts ever assembled.
Certainly up there with Fawlty towers etc and Vivian out the train window cracks me up everytime.
It's a Munters and Trumpers picnic
https://twitter.com/Juliasnz/status/1468072465435807750?s=20
I'm guessing that they see Trump as the focal point against wokeness, a rallying cry if you like.
Personally if I was there I'd have a Trump flag because I know it triggers snowflakes (I'd be there in a trolling capacity not as someone that believes what they believe)
Probably half of the people at those things are just there for a lark. Problem is, once you verbalise something counterintuitive and join a crazy tribe like these guys, you are psychologically ready to fall down the rabbit hole
Naah I'm sure I'll be fine
Thank-you Conspiracy Brother 😂
"(I'd be there in a trolling capacity not as someone that believes what they believe)"
Reveal.
Reveal what?
Your willingness to … troll.
While right wing idiots are waving Trump flags around, the wokest of far left churches is declaring allegiance to communist China.
Flip side of the same deranged mindset.
https://twitter.com/damienmgrant/status/1468808897251012620?s=20
Obviously they aren't "declaring allegiance to communist China", but since you (or Damien Grant) have provided no context whatsoever, we have no idea what it means.
Obviously making inquiries would ruin the story, so let's just look at a picture instead.
And here we are. Trolling by Damien Grant
https://stayhappening.com/e/soviet-state-ball-E3LUT20CMOGC
Actually quite funny … but you'd have to be a fool to be fooled. It's not even China's flag! St Matthews has an event space for hire, and Damien's company hired it.
I think an apology is in order.
Cool
Well Duh, obviously.
The organisers of this protest would want to prevent any chance of their protest being made a mockery of, by any of their misled followers, falling ill, or even heaven forbid, being hospitalised. Condemning the organisers of this protest in tearful viral Youtube videos.
Which leads me to conclude two things.
1, That the organisers of this protest (unlike their followers), actually believe in the science behind the lockdowns and vaccinations.
At this protest, as well as inflamatory anti-government speeches from the front, there will be racist, sexist, signage and pro-Trump messaging in the crowd. New Zealand and United Tribes flags mixed in with Confederate flags, will show the confused nature of an insensate mob brought together by cynical manipulators and liars willing to exploit a myriad of unmet grievances for their own ends.
Nicky Hager says it best:
Don’t support fascism.
It really shouldn’t have to be said.
I wonder how many of the mob Hager is appealing to. There are always malcontents, rabble-rousers, the naive and the just plain dumb.
Fodder for those with political intent. In the past few months Brian Tamaki has said the same sort of stuff he said at the time of launching his political party before the last election. He is pissed off he is not the ruler of the land. While he can suck in the unintelligent and deluded, getting reasonable people aboard is a little more difficult.
Gang members revving at 'Freedom and Choice' events? Yeah, that makes sense. Freedom and Choice supporters blocking roads to stop ordinary folk having freedom and choice to go about their lives. Freedom and Choice people blocking roads to protest about road blocks?
In any society there is an extreme range of intellect. Hager can look at who took part in the Wellington event and work out who did not have the wherewithal to remove themselves from the circus.
They are not even going to get off the bus, it’s going to be pissing down in Welly then, and that is weather for “ Only the Hardy….” To the tune of….thanks Big O!
" …. people who believe a powerful “them” want to kill millions and enslave the earth …. "
Aren't they themselves the "them"? The "millions" of course would be non-whites, women unable or unwilling to bear children, LGBTQs and anyone else considered "other".
Please, please, please @thestandard… Don't lower yourself and become another @stuff where 'opinion based stories' masquerade as unbiased 'news'
🙏
The lines between fact and fiction are already blurred enough at the moment. Please rise above, find the middle ground, be the ballast needed in these times of devision and polarity.
Both sides of the craziness has valid points of concern that should, and need to be openly discussed. All this devision is doing is to show how immature we seem to be as a society and culture (reminds me of high-school).
Surely after 2000+ years humanity is able to create a better story going forward to overcome the anger and fear rampant at present and rise above?
You have an opinion. Even if that opinion is based on lies, doesn't make you dishonest.
Then there are the deliberate liars. Dishonest propagandists with an agenda, who deliberately set out to deceive who know they are lying.
'Each booster gives you six months of freedoms': Fake Labour billboard circulates social media (msn.com)