For years, Ardern was rammed down the public’s throat as the face of “compassionate leadership.” In reality, she presided over a government of authoritarian overreach, economic vandalism, and Orwellian lockdowns that gutted our social fabric and shredded our rights. She spun it all in soft lighting and Instagram filters, but for those of us living through it, there was no “relentless positivity” - just relentless control.
And now, she’s off playing global celebrity from the comfort of her stateside hideaway, dodging her own people like a dodgem, because she knows the truth: she’s not welcome here anymore. Not on the streets, not on screens, not even in the pages of her own fantasy memoir. Ardern went from hero to pariah at record speed because the country finally woke up to the damage. And when people do speak to her now, it’s not hugs and high-fives, it’s “thanks for ruining the country,” seething from a stranger in an airport bathroom.
Her memoir? A 350-page ego-stroking therapy dump that conveniently skips the parts we actually care about - like the people locked out of their own country, or the families separated for years, or the thousands who lost jobs under her coercive mandates or the people who couldn’t attend the funeral of a loved one. Instead of addressing the catastrophic social fallout, she retreats into anecdotes about her childhood, her Mormon phase, and how she nearly puked during her swearing-in.
The New Yorker, for once, nailed it: the book doesn’t even try to explain the “confounding transformation” of a nation turned inward and boiling with resentment. Because she can’t. Because to do so would mean owning up to her role in creating the most divisive, distrusted, and loathed government this country has seen in modern history.
And now, she’s off playing global celebrity from the comfort of her stateside hideaway, dodging her own people like a dodgem, because she knows the truth: she’s not welcome here anymore. Not on the streets, not on screens, not even in the pages of her own fantasy memoir. Ardern went from hero to pariah at record speed because the country finally woke up to the damage. And when people do speak to her now, it’s not hugs and high-fives, it’s “thanks for ruining the country,” seething from a stranger in an airport bathroom.
Her memoir? A 350-page ego-stroking therapy dump that conveniently skips the parts we actually care about - like the people locked out of their own country, or the families separated for years, or the thousands who lost jobs under her coercive mandates or the people who couldn’t attend the funeral of a loved one. Instead of addressing the catastrophic social fallout, she retreats into anecdotes about her childhood, her Mormon phase, and how she nearly puked during her swearing-in.
The New Yorker, for once, nailed it: the book doesn’t even try to explain the “confounding transformation” of a nation turned inward and boiling with resentment. Because she can’t. Because to do so would mean owning up to her role in creating the most divisive, distrusted, and loathed government this country has seen in modern history.
International sycophants like Obama may still praise her from afar, blinded by the myth they helped inflate, but here in New Zealand, the spell is broken. She’s not admired. She’s reviled. Not just disliked - but genuinely, viscerally hated by swathes of the population. For many Kiwis, she’s not a symbol of hope. She’s a cautionary tale. A masterclass in how narcissistic idealism can corrode democracy and fracture a nation.
Ardern took a hammer to our collective psyche and expects us to say thanks because the COVID death toll was lower. Sorry, but no. The price we paid in mental health, lost livelihoods, fractured families, and government overreach wasn’t “a win.” It was a trauma we’re still unpacking. And she has the gall to paint herself as the misunderstood savior?
No more PR puff pieces. No more nostalgic documentaries. No more moral lectures from a woman who can’t even walk down a Kiwi street without getting heckled. The world might still be waking up - but here, at home, the verdict is in: Jacinda Ardern is the most despised Prime Minister in New Zealand’s history.
She earned every bit of it.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
Ardern took a hammer to our collective psyche and expects us to say thanks because the COVID death toll was lower. Sorry, but no. The price we paid in mental health, lost livelihoods, fractured families, and government overreach wasn’t “a win.” It was a trauma we’re still unpacking. And she has the gall to paint herself as the misunderstood savior?
No more PR puff pieces. No more nostalgic documentaries. No more moral lectures from a woman who can’t even walk down a Kiwi street without getting heckled. The world might still be waking up - but here, at home, the verdict is in: Jacinda Ardern is the most despised Prime Minister in New Zealand’s history.
She earned every bit of it.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
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Hate to say it, but there is still a significant part of the country who still love Jacinda. If you sit in a cafe in Wellington you often hear the Chardonnay socialists, the elderly ladies who listen to (and believe RNZ) and the public servants who have just finished their latest Treaty course, all talking about how Jacinda saved the country. How we would all be dead if not for her, and how her career was derailed by "misinformation" and the racist, sexist "angry white guys". They see her as Jesus, a saviour who was initially popular, then martyred by those she saved, only to be resurrected by Harvard and international opinion.
It is always quite difficult to see someone profiting from the misery of others. There is no doubt Ardern was totally oblivious to the pain she caused New Zealanders. I have a sister-in-law who applied for an exemption to visit her dying mother in hospital. She was refused. We had citizens locked out of the country and people lost their businesses. I suspect some people will never fully get over the trauma. Yet, here she is, as large as life, bragging about her "kindness". A truly narcissistic, self-absorbed woman with absolutely no self-awareness. Also, all those politicians and medical people who supported her. How anyone can still admire or vote for these people is astonishing.
Jacinda and team which includes Hipkins, did not take one positive action for the betterment of NZ. To say she is the worst prime minister ever doesnt even go far enough to describing my feelings. She destroyed almost everything in this country, the economy will take a generation to recover, hid the co-goverence agenda, destroyed our gas and mining industry, and her covid policys cost so many in the country life lasting pain and economic destruction. To profit by saying she was kind is the highest insult - dont EVER come back
I have yet to meet numerous former 'frenz' who adulated the woman [sorry, cow] , and openly reviled me for being 'unvaxxed'. And cast me out. I suspect they are now mentally ill / running scared / now demented by age / can't face truth even yet / hate looking in the mirror.
100%
Excellent article,. Once again, you have described the dreadful Comrade Ardern legacy of social destruction to a tee.
The first anon poster is right. Coming from a journalism background most of my former colleagues and associates are media or ex media (notably Stuff and its forerunners) and all of them, and I mean all, are Ardern supporters to the point of anger at dissension. Firm supporters of the Lab-Green-TPM alliance, race-based wards, race -based appointees with voting rights to get around any wards rejection, Maori (by identity although all mixed race) final say over all legislation and associated exemptions for ''Maori'', preference to buy land, it goes on. As for democracy, they say it does not work any more as it does not achieve ''Fairness'', ''equity'' etc. Disagreement with all of that is indeed, in their view, racist, white supremacist etc etc. Mori Ori were never killed by Maori, inter -tribal massacres and associated unpleasantries never happened, all made up. Maori who disagree with them are, as one ex-Stuffist here put it,'' Not real Maori.''
wait until the mutt gets A.I to 'read' the audio book in the mutt's 'dulcet' tones for the adoring walking sheeple..........
Matua - I agree with everything you wrote, but why isn't your greatest concern is that Ardern introduced and implemented He Puapua, which is now bringing NZ to the point of civil war ?
Having actually read the New Yorker review, I can say that it's not as negative as the writer makes out. It faults Ardern for not dealing properly with the pandemic and its aftermath. But Matua knows his audience: this stuff is in his idiom. I'd have more respect for him if he'd reveal who he was.
I gather the book s aimed at American readers. They must be incredibly starved of material. How many Americans know or care about other countries, especailly miniscule ones with stone age leanings?,As applies with the Kardashins, are they obsessed by physical traits? Do prodigious teeth and flowing hair coutweigh the splitting of a nation?
Let's not forget the concealed , dangerous He Puapua agreement with the Maori party. It's tendrils have still not been sufficiently cut off.
If there was true justice her citizenship should be revoked.
She didn't care about citizens who were desperate to come home.
She stole an entire nation of many basic human rights and for what?
Exile is too good for her.
I agree with all of the above but you missed the worst disaster. That of destroying a huge quantity of working capital used by small businesses. This capital, that has often taken generations to build up, gone in a flash. It would have been better to have let thousands die than lose this asset, the life blood of many families and the nation. She truly didn’t know what she had done.
Yeah, unless you were, or were close to, one of the thousands let die. You lot tend to write as if Ardern was relishing the pandemic as some kind of career opportunity.
The proportion of the population who are now suspicious of the vaccine being safe and and effective has increased quite a bit with up to 50% of the US now believing it causes heart damage. A number of States have had class action court cases against Pfizer specifically for not warning people of the myocarditis and pericarditis and deaths of in utero babies that they Pfizer, knew about beforehand.
NZ must have one of the most severely suppressive MSM against reporting the side effects regularly coming out from reputable research. Just to defend Jacinda's saintly status ? Even Australia MSM are more open about it.
When " we remember the Sainted J.A." sadly now reinforced with a mindless diatribe, what intrigues me (even now) is how it was missed how J.A got from being a list MP (Labour), executing limp propensity as a Back Bench MP (9 years of John Key), that in the "Election year she is suddenly promoted to Deputy Leader/Labour (Andrew Little had been confirmed Leader) to then being " propelled" into the Leadership role.
Little's interview with Jack Tame (TVNZ Q&A) was interesting in that Little mentioned he was to " be replaced". So who decided that and when?
At this point how much influence did Helen Clarke & her former Chief of Staff have (plus others on the Socialist side of the Party) in making this decision? And no - the NZ MSM became lost in space, and seemed to have this valid moment as the
"arrival of a Female as Leader of the Labour Party", a young face, just what the Nation needed! And the subsequent Labour Party Political Publicity made the most of this - AND the NZ Public swallowed it in a big way, giving her the first 3 years, then re -voted Labour back into power for another 3 years.
So those who voted Labour, placed upon the Country what followed - incompetence, J.A being aided and abetted by - Grant Robertson (and his spending spree) & Chippy, plus others who proved themselves -also - incompetent as Minister's of The Crown.
No wonder Maoridom, within Labour " had a field day with potential Legislation" - if passed destined to change NZ totally.
Then to cap it all off she was made a Dame!! But showing off her narcissistic nature she arranged to have it presented by the King. Not for her the NZ Governor General to present it; not showy enough. Truth be told she was too scared to show her face here.
Ardern = pure evil
Was she a Poster Girl for others whose agenda is not known to us? Do our work, take the money and escape to the wider world to enjoy being in a bigger pool now your birthplace is too small for your ego. In herself she seemed to lack the competence to carry out the destructive policy she achieved. Who are the others? From whence did her instructions come?
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