New Zealand Prime Minister shuts down Covid denier: “Sorry sunshine, wrong place”

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I guess that’s the reason the lie exists, right? To give us something to aspire to. In the same way, the Constitution is an aspirational document. It doesn’t reflect the USA as it is, but as it could be.

ETA:

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—

America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!

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Other questions the man had, but didn’t have a chance to ask:

“Where’s your evidence that this is October?”
“Where’s your evidence that we’re in New Zealand?”
“Where’s your evidence that you’re the deputy prime minister of New Zealand?”

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Peters is a colossal dick who will - with just a bit of luck - be unemployed on Monday.

He does, however, have some good one liners.

Peters learnt both these traits at the feet of the master.

Also, yes: @frauenfelder Peters is the Deputy PM.

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Classy, effective way to deal with idiots. I feel this “Sorry Sunshine …” becoming a new meme real soon.

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They aren’t even slightly wrong.

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Thanks for sharing that poem; I had never seen it before!

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Lunkwill:
Who are you? Get out of here!

Majikthise:
I am Majikthise.

Vroomfondle:
And I demand that I am Vroomfondle.

Majikthise:
It’s all right, you don’t need to demand that.

Vroomfondle:
All right. I am Vroomfondle. And that is not a demand. That is a solid fact. What we demand is solid facts!

Majikthise:
No, we don’t, that is precisely what we don’t demand.

Vroomfondle:
We don’t demand solid facts. What we demand is a total absence of solid facts. I demand that I may or may not be Vroomfondel!

–The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1981 tv series based on the books)

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This is the ship whose captain is permanently on the poop deck, I take it?

(and @zzzz)

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Lulz!!! OMG!! Happy!

My friends live to say: “It’s HARD to fool the French, Spanish, Italians and Greeks!” The notion being these more mature societies have seen it all before. I agree us North Americans have a lot of catch up before we are less easily fooled.

Long live NZ

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He’s probably a simulationist, too.

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What amusing bilge! It was more than I could hold. I laughed so hard, I nearly pooped* myself; that would have scuppered me.

*Darn, @anothernewbbaccount came in close-hauled and put a shot across my bows; shiver me timbers.

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I beat you to the poop 'cos the whole thing was rigged.

Now you must pay penants.

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I like the cut of your jib.

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And all props to you, too.

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Possible replacements for the flag of the USS Ship of State.


You are standing into danger


I require medical assistance


I am in distress


My engines are going full speed astern


I require a pilot



Plague!

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A veritable ship of fools.

The ship of fools is an allegory, originating from Book VI of Plato’s Republic , about a ship with a dysfunctional crew. The allegory is intended to represent the problems of governance prevailing in a political system not based on expert knowledge, such as democracies.

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Though this usage of the word Sunshine is sort of the inverse of Boomer. Its what baby boomers might call people they don’t like.

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Speaking of naval flags … in the style of Nelson’s inspirational flag message before Trafalgar, can someone do ‘America expects every voter to do their duty’?

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“Sorry, sunshine”

He obviously gets his kicks above the waistline.

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A Murry Head reference, That’s not easy. Bravo!

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