Legacy Media Weeps Over Authoritarian Jacinda Ardern’s Departure

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern — noted authoritarian and overall busybody — announced her pending resignation Thursday will be a difficult day. It seems like those who will most miss her are the ones who will be. “reporters” From legacy media.

Ardern, who is known for telling her constituents they should think about the New Zealand government. “single source of truth” The country was locked down immediately after she announced her resignation. She is simply too exhausted to continue the job. CNN, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The New York Times and Bloomberg all rushed to pay respects to the Kiwi girl boss.

In Bloomberg, Andreea Papuc wrote, “Ardern achieved rock-star status after she became the world’s youngest female leader at 37.” Papuc also praised Ardern’s gun control efforts while opining. “The pandemic tested her mettle, but she was credited with keeping the virus at bay with one of the world’s strictest lockdowns.”

Ardern advised, however. Aucklanders They decided to not talk to their neighbors and instituted a nationwide lockdown in august 2021, despite one man being confirmed with the virus.

According to The Washington Post however, Ardern should not be remembered for her “empathetic leadership style” And for being  “seen by many liberals as a young, center-left antidote to populist politics elsewhere.”

The Post lists her achievements as including the fact that she teamed up with globalists from around the globe for an international initiative urging. “tech giants and other governments to commit to combating the spread of extremism on social media.” Ardern should also be acknowledged for his leadership in the fight against fascism.

Over at The New York Times one writer named Damien Cave lamented, “In a part of the world where coronavirus restrictions lingered, Jacinda Ardern struggled to get beyond her association with pandemic policy.”

Cave noted that Ardern had also reached “celebrity status with the speed of a pop star.”

After a COVID vaccine became available, New Zealanders weren’t allowed to get haircuts or work for a living without the jab, Cave noted. The country endured on-and-off lockdowns during all of this. “so severe that even retrieving a lost cricket ball from a neighbor’s yard was banned.”

Then Ardern infamously affirmed that she wanted to create two classes of citizens — vaccinated and unvaccinated.

The vaccine didn’t quite work out as intended and Ardern’s demand that every citizen receive it seems to be what really sullied her shot at any political future — on top of everything else she implemented while in office.

It turns out that pitting your citizens against one another isn’t such a wise move as a leader.

“The disillusionment around the vaccine mandates was important,” The Times interviewed Dr. Simon Thornley (an epidemiologist at University of Auckland). “The creation of a two-class society and that predictions didn’t come out as they were meant to be, or as they were forecast to be in terms of elimination — that was a turning point.”

It seems that Ardern will be smoked in her next election.

According to CNN though, the real lesson here isn’t that world leaders should avoid becoming despots under the guise of emergencies. The main takeaway is that it’s okay to quit a job if you’re tired.

“Burnout is real – and it’s nothing to be ashamed of,” CNN’s Hilary Whiteman claimed. “That’s the conclusion trailblazing New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern seems to have reached after almost six brutal years in office.”

In her analysis is this surprising tidbit.

Ardern was lauded for her humanity and empathy on the international stage, but some at home were worried about rising living costs, housing shortages and economic anxiety.

Ardern was, in other words, a complete failure at her job. But, she deserves heaps of praise because she was a young woman who advanced the Left’s agenda. Legacy Media will miss them, but it’s certain that another totalitarian leader is going to rise up to replace her.

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