Olivia Pierson: After the Fourth Listen to Rubio's Soaring Rhetoric...

After the 4th listen to Rubio's soaring rhetoric...

It's still like dying and going to heaven to hear a Secretary of State raise the bar in political discourse.. politics being 'downstream from culture' and all.

Olivia Pierson: There Once was a Civilisation

There once was a civilisation which came out of two world wars the world had never seen the like of, and it was brutally hollowed out. Its epicentre, its heart, bones and spirit, however, were still sturdy enough that it limped, wounded and diminished, into the years after, because one of its leaders was a freakishly beautiful giant among men. Winston Churchill knew that letting a culture of 5000 years in the making die undefended by the will of the nearest psycho thug with a massive chip on his shoulder was the worst crime on offer.

Olivia Pierson: New Zealand - Beyond the Boats Invading our Mother Country

The only souls still possessed of political zeal are those whose fervour is the fervour of the wolf. What they see is a flesh-and-blood civilisation, meaty and unguarded, to be looted for the survival of their own mangy pack. I mean the commies, of course: the Greens, Labour, Te Pati Maori, the gauchely named Opportunities Party, and the Islamic interest that travels openly in their company. Should these packs ever come into serious power, the country will be eaten out from its porn-soaked reproductive organs to its essential guts, and the devouring will be euphemised as gritty “real life” until the old guards are gone — the Boomers, and we of Generation X.

Olivia Pierson: RCR - Free Speech is not a Suicide Pact

As a New Zealand writer who has defended freedom of speech for many years, I have always treated it as an essential cornerstone of a free society. I have never regarded it as a context-less absolute that forces private broadcasters to give regular, unchallenged platforms to ideas that attack the very civilisation free speech depends on.

Olivia Pierson: Memorandums and the Midterms

The Memorandum of Understanding with the Iranian regime displays an unwelcome shift that has sent shock waves throughout the world, raising serious questions among those who fully expect aggressive pressure on the brutal regime and unwavering support for Israel.

Trump’s pivot in rhetoric on the stage of the G7 has made heads explode, and I cannot help but wonder if Vice President Vance is the conduit of toxic whispers straight from the mouth of his buddy Tucker Carlson and into the President's ear.

Olivia Pierson: A de facto marriage - Islam & Marxism

The undying love-affair between Islam and Marxism, particularly admired by the wanton wokerati, represents a profound moral, and therefore civilisational, challenge to human flourishing in our time.

Both display a damn creepy organising principle steeped in the rejection of Western liberty, Judeo-Christian understandings of human nature, and the fundamental dignity of the person.

Olivia Pierson: The Renewal of the West and a Reckoning for New Zealand

We in the West are not merely stumbling through the malady of culture wars. We are decaying in our very core. We have ceased to bring forth children in numbers required for our future, shattering the bonds of strong family - especially after Covid insanity saw family members pitted against each other - and we’ve saddled our young with mountains of debt along with a gnawing sense of futility, offering them neither purpose nor the prospect of showing them how to build lives worth inheriting.

Olivia Pierson: Trump didn't blink

On March 26 President Trump laid out an important truth: NATO countries have done absolutely nothing to help sort out that “lunatic regime” in Iran, which by all accounts has been militarily smashed to bits. “The USA needs nothing from NATO,” he said calmly.

Before Trump even became President in 2016, he said then he was going to “rethink NATO.” I guess he's done just that.

I caught the Promethean Action live stream, also on March 26th, and Barbara Boyd hit the nail on the head: “He did not blink. He is reordering the entire world.”

Olivia Pierson: And I Ran, Iran So Faraway

From here in New Zealand, where most of the sensible ones amongst us still cherish the literal freedoms of a liberal democracy too many take for granted, including our oft-absurd leaders, wannabe leaders and ex-leaders, the news of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death fills me with a straightforward joy.

The supreme leader who presided over Iran's brutal theocratic regime for 37 years was killed on February 28 in joint US-Israeli strikes on Tehran. Iranian state media confirmed the hit, declared 40 days of mourning, and rushed in an interim council to stop the whole thing from collapsing. This is a moment to celebrate without hesitation, pearl-clutching, or hand-wringing. A tyrant who spent decades exporting death and crushing his own people through outright murder is finally gone. Excellent riddance!

Olivia Pierson: New Zealand Betrays Israel, Again

On October 7, 2023, the horrific massacre of Jews took place on their own ancient soil, and 251 men, women and children were carried into captivity to suffer and die in the worst conditions imaginable. The world failed to deliver a proper moral response, which should have been a unified and powerful cry from all civilised nations for the immediate return of every single hostage, or face the wrath of Israel.

Olivia Pierson: Trump Acted to Fulfill a Long-Term Promise

Since 2016, President Trump has conducted somewhere in the vicinity of 900 political rallies, an astronomical number befitting the man’s colossal energy and courage.

At nearly all of them, he has consistently maintained that he will never let the Islamic Republic of Iran acquire nuclear weapons. This is simply because he knows that the regime will use them on Israel and the United States. At these same rallies, Trump has consistently stated that he will not involve the U.S in new “forever wars,’ the force of his focus being America First.

Olivia Pierson: The Iranian Regime - A 46-Year Reign of Terror Could End

Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear sites and military leaders over the weekend has been a long time coming. I say this because, during the unpopular Iraq War to overthrow Saddam Hussein, I remember a multitude of commentators saying that “all roads lead to Tehran.”
We knew at that time how committed the Iranian regime was to fomenting terrorism all over the Middle East, which extended significantly into the West. Like mad Saddam, the regime was always highly vocal about its commitment to acquiring nuclear weapons.

Olivia Pierson: Covid-19 Royal Commission of Inquiry, Phase 2 - My Submission

To make your own submission click here:

The COVID-19 Inquiry is assessing key decisions made by the New Zealand Government in 2021 and 2022 in the following areas:

Vaccines, including mandates, approvals, and safety Lockdowns, especially the lockdowns of late 2021

Olivia Pierson: Politics at the Bottom of a Cliff

When a culture becomes unmoored from its philosophical roots, the politics of that culture will amount to little more than an ambulance waiting at the bottom of a cliff.Political wrangles are the very endgame of a nation’s broader philosophy. The culture of that nation is the atmosphere that reveals which ideas have been digested. When the late conservative media guru Andrew Breitbart proffered his famous line: “politics is downstream from culture”, this flow of ideas from philosophy to politics is what he underscored.

Olivia Pierson: The Stab-in-the-Back Myth & Christian Anti-Semitism

When it comes to the Holocaust, my contention remains that the world has not really come to terms with it. In the online world of pointed insults one can deploy against another person, “Nazi” is still the most venomous. Despite the enormous body of knowledge surrounding the Holocaust, there’s a persistent and lingering ignorance, and a failure to fully confront how such dehumanising horror and cruelty were even made possible.

Olivia Pierson: Europe Begs Russia for War

Well, isn’t this just a confounding mess?

War, the single most catastrophic disaster that can befall nations, is being toyed with again by fools who wouldn’t know diplomacy if it slapped them across the face with a cheap rubber jandal.

Those who bluster into conflict without a shred of serious effort to avoid it are the absolute dregs of humanity—like Hamas. And here we are, watching it potentially unfold in Europe like some grotesque rerun of history’s worst episodes.

Olivia Pierson: Draining the Swamp - Hello DOGE

It is impossible to overstate the profound impact that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is having on America. His efforts are nothing short of a radical cleansing, and it is reassuring to witness Musk fielding press conference questions with President Trump seated beside him at the Resolute Desk.

This is something we never could've imagined this time last year.

Olivia Pierson: Trump 2.0

I can’t get over the acute difference between Trump’s 2017 inauguration and what has just taken place in DC this week. To see a president, such as he is, so welcomed with full fanfare and proper respect was nothing but a high. This almost super-human man has been through hell in order to save the republic of his birth, and this time America gave him all his well-earned dues.

Olivia Pierson: 2025 - A Year of Unprecedented Change

The year 2025 has stormed into history with the audacious flair of a blockbuster film, reshaping the globe before our very eyes.

 
At the heart of this storm is President Trump, mere days from his second inauguration, once again proving that conventionality has no place in his playbook. True to form, Trump has unveiled a series of grand ambitions: acquiring Greenland, renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, integrating Canada as the 51st state, and reclaiming control of the Panama Canal. These proposals, dripping with nationalistic bravado, have predictably triggered global debate. Yet, they are a potent reminder that "America First" is more than just a slogan—it’s an enduring principle of Orange the Magnificent’s leadership.

Olivia Pierson: New Zealand - Unity or Apartheid?

The steady stream of revisionist gibberish coming out of Māori Party rhetoric these days is eye-watering. They never miss an opportunity to bamboozle ordinary folks with silly word salads, half of which are spoken in a tongue only 4% of New Zealanders can even understand.

Take this for example: