There was no engagement. No information was conveyed, by anyone. Nothing was discussed, nothing learned, no understanding… grew. Nothing gained. Nothing interacted with, nothing uncovered, nothing realized. No one heard, no one spoke.
There was only going through the motions.
One side didn’t notice though because motions are all they know.
Appearances.
Mood.
Vibe.
Feelings.
Signaling.
That last one, signaling, can be singled out for maximum contempt for sinking deepest, into hypocrisy and idiotic self admiration.
We live in an age — where neoliberalism reigns (fortunately not everywhere) — of vibes and abject stupidity.
An age of people turned into non-engagement-capable, disinterested and boring… beyond what ever before had been conceivable, empty husks. Zombies, masquerading as do-gooders, feeling good, about themselves and wishing, well, death, on everyone their zombie cult teaches them is beyond the pale of their “vibe”. This bottomless pit of jackholery is the march of a walking dead, the populous of a civilization not nearing its death; it already died. We’re past that now.
I often say we get the leaders we deserve.
And if there’s one thing that truly irks me, it's leaders who leave a mess, take no responsibility for it, and then parade around the world preaching empathy and kindness.
Take Jacinda Ardern as a case in point.
She’s currently gracing global stages, delivering valedictory speeches, and promoting her new book (which I've no desire to read), themed around empathy in politics.
But let’s be honest: she left her country more woke and more broke.
She didn’t finish her term. She walked away and moved overseas , leaving behind a legacy that reveals many holes in her leadership.
Despite claiming that child poverty was her raison d’être, she did little to meaningfully shift the needle. Other aspects of her legacy?
A country more divided than unified.
A worsening cost-of-living crisis.
A housing system in shambles - so bad the New Zealand Human Rights Commission called it a “massive human rights failure.”
Vaccine mandates that tore at the country’s social fabric, culminating in violent protest standoffs.
64% of Kiwis now believe the country is more divided than ever.
And yet my progressive friends across the world continue to celebrate her, which only shows how out of touch progressive politics has become.
It’s all appearance and no substance.
No one seems to be asking: where was this empathy and kindness when it actually mattered?
Where was it during the mandates, the protests, the lockdowns?
How did it help the children still living in poverty?
Where was it in the policies that pushed more families into hardship and division?
It’s easy to talk about empathy and kindness on a stage, far from the people impacted by your decisions.
But empathy without courage, without critical thinking, without integrity - is just virtue signalling.
And that, to me, reflects the hollow centre of much of today’s progressive politics. It's all show and no depth.
No depth - No accountability - No staying power.
True leadership means staying the course.
It means dedicating yourself to your country - not your global brand.
And it means owning the consequences of your decisions.
So if we get the leaders we deserve, maybe the real question isn’t just about them - it’s about us.
Do we still have the discernment and critical thinking to see past the shiny exterior? Or have we become the clapping monkey - 🐵 blindly applauding empty words, dazzled by show and ignoring consequences?
What do we lose by cheering speeches and ignoring the wreckage?
We celebrate leaders for talking about empathy when they showed none where it counted.
Ultimately rewarding style over substance - performance over principle.
So, perhaps the real lesson is for us:
That true leadership isn’t found on a stage after the fact, but in the shadows of hard decisions.
It’s found in the tenacity to stay the course, and the integrity to own what you’ve done.
Perhaps the lesson is that we need to stop clapping.
And start seeing clearly.
- Ragini Prasad
“Dame Jacinda Ardern shows us what leading with empathy and kindness looks like.”
Suck a. bag. of. dicks.
Words. mean. nothing. And you clap. You feel nice, a warm vibe affirming you’re good — you think (“think” in scare quotes) — while good means nothing, husk.
There’s nothing there and you’re going nowhere because you can be, nowhere. You can know, no one. You know nothing and you can’t. You’re thought-incapable.
You can be deprogrammed and escape this cult though. It’s an Amityville Horror situation. The only thing to do is to get the fuck out.
Get the fuck out of there, breathe some air, walk around, try to get the blood flowing into your brain again and start the process of putting 2 and 2 together.
We’re ruled by the lowest quality shit for brains the world has ever seen. I mean, you’d have to dig seriously deep in the graveyard of history for a very long time to unearth a candidate kakistocracy shittier.
KAJA KALLAS BECOMES CHINA CRYING CLOWN
Kaja Kallas, is usually found strutting around Brussels like she’s the queen of geopolitics, preaching about freedom and sanctions, she thinks that single-handedly she’s holding back Russia, while conveniently forgetting her husband’s company was trucking goods to Moscow during her anti-Russia sermons, hypocrisy much?
This shrill shrieking non-entity was wanting to play at being a diplomat and to be taken as seriously as her father. The woman who would start a bar fight reading a peace treaty was a poor choice.
Her idea of diplomacy is wagging her finger at anyone who disagrees, then lecturing people on values and democracy.
An ego so bloated she thinks she is more than an Estonian cardboard cut out of Ursula Von der Leyen. She storms into EU meetings like a yapping chihuahua with a vendetta. So watching her walk into a meeting with Wang Yi, a cool consummate diplomat, known for his coolness and utter reasonableness was always going to be unmissable.
In the red corner, a hardened diplomat, winner of many battles and skirmishes and in the blue corner, the venomous harpy desperate to shake off the " I only got the job because of daddy" image.
This horrific little harridan opened with a petulant demand that China obey the rules based order, which was listened to in bemused and stony silence.
Taking this silence for weakness, this colossal clown screeched about China not helping to arm Russia.
In typical Baerbock style, neoNazi fashion, she also demanded that China condemn the Russian SMO and that China use it's influence to obtain a halt to Russia's inexorable, leisurely march across Ukraine.
Now anyone with an ounce of common sense, would know that to tackle or defeat China, you would need Russia's help, and vice versa.
That ship sailed long ago leaving, China as the only player in town, holding a fistful of aces.
Bluffing in this situation was never going to work and to try so with China, is to invite disaster.
So sending this inadequate and diplomatically barren desperate wannabe with all the charm of a sexually transmitted disease, was as deluded as thinking the European Union mattered.
She was listened to, according to our friends in the know, with bemusement, bafflement and incredulity.
The Chinese were fully aware that the damsel of density was not known for her tact, but even they were taken aback by her complete lack of awareness of the situation.
Once the initial shock had worn off, she was then fed into the diplomatic shredder of glaring reality.
Wang Yi pointed out that China has not helped Russia in the conflict with Ukraine and that had China done so, the conflict would already be over.
It was further pointed out to a red faced and very chastened Kaja Kallas, that China had no intention whatsoever of interfering in the current conflict.
A crestfallen Kallas was then informed that China had no intention of seeing Russia lose either, because they believe that, if Russia were defeated, then it would be China's turn next.
To get Wang Yi, angry enough, for that kind of volley and brevity, shows a special talent for stupidity.
So at the end of this, Kallas with her preening and posturing, pushed Russia and China into an ever deepening embrace.
As our Chinese friends pointed out, they had never seen Wang Yi so angry or so publicly inclined to slap Kallas diplomatically, into oblivion.
This is not the first time the European Union has sent one of it's pre menstrual posse to lecture the Chinese.
Von Der Leyen and Baerbock equally suffered a hapless humiliation when confronting China with a rhetoric full of rubbish.
All three had one job, just one and between the three of them handled it with the deftness of an OnlyFans model trying to convince the world they were marriage material.
WARREN THORNTON
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST
All of them, all carbon copies, completely identical cutout copies of morons.
I had a reprieve in Nashville on the Fourth of July, yesterday, 2025.
I‘m certain that most of the people walking around here do not give a shit what these scumbags say other than rejecting it outright along with your idiotic ‘vibe’:
Look there’s a pool up there:
We see, the walking dead. We can all see you.
For those of us who know what life is, I’ll add a little more.
See these tweets from Sony Thang with the references to “Cheryl and Carol”:
With the balance of power (military, industrial, technological) altered now — the collective west is holding the SHORT end of the stick now and has nothing in its power to change that — it no longer matters if any Cheryls or Carols engage in one side or the other of this ‘debate’.
Why?
Because the longer the west continues its wars against Russia, and Iran, and China (using IsHell or Ukraine or whatever proxy to do it) the nearer comes the cataclysmic enfeeblement of western ability to wage war.
So keep doing it I say. please 🙏 Escalate faster and get us out of the misery, faster, of rule by asshole loser moron stooges of zero merit, negative merit1.
And then those of us who survive can start over
You see in the situation as it actually is, debates no longer matter; those are just (now totally misplaced) auto-ego-stroking having no bearing one way or another on anything. POWER wins. And we do not have it. And we won’t have it, probably for centuries, effectively never.
The absolute minimum is knowing at least something relevant about yourself, and at least seeing the other. These vacant husks of today are less than failing to rise to the lowest threshold and step over it. They’re desiccated chaff blowing around on the ground flipping over the threshold in a mini gust out onto the grass emitting eery disembodied generated sounds somehow, of what resembles something like human speech but relentlessly asinine.
