Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/10/14/new-zealand-prime-minister-shuts-down-covid-denier-sorry-sunshine-wrong-place.html
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Sick burn.
“We’ve got someone who obviously got an education in America.”
This is how the USA looks to the world now. A plague ship, teeming with ignorant, infected goblins…
Avast!
I’ll be on the intensive care deck.
They’re not exactly wrong.
America’s greatest export is quickly becoming ignorance, cruelty and denial.
Sunshine will no doubt post something about “HE DIDN’T ANSWER MY QUESTION! THEREFORE THE VIRUS IS A HOAX! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!”
Good for him; stop entertaining ignorance as if it has any value.
Correction to headline: that’s “Deputy Prime Minister.” The actual Prime Minister is 40-year-old Jacinda Ardern, who seems to be kicking ass and taking names on this pandemic.
You sound a touch stern… nonetheless, I bow to you.
Would that the media here in the US did the same.
New Zealand is looking good to me.
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
In the US, freak shows have returned to the “circus”.
How about just call his bluff: “Sir, we can infect you today as proof, come with me to the COVID ward at the nearest hospital for a delicious glass of fresh sputum.”
It’s about time, really. America never was America.
I’m just worried about when the bread runs out…
SBS missed the follow-up burn. Truther was already over-long on time.
When the man attempted to respond, Peters told him to be silent.
“Quiet, we have manners at our meetings as well,” the deputy prime minister said.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could make it so, though? I try to do what I can to turn the lie of it into truth, though it’s a huge task of dubious likelihood.