You can add “logic” and “the meaning of language” to the many blasphemies of the New Zealand Labour government under Her Highness St. Ardern (PBUH):
“I reject the premise of that question” has to be the crown of low-IQ garble-speak even among a government known for its ineptness and lazy thinking.
Somewhere in the depths of the Beehive, there’s a book labeled Slovenly Uses of Words by Low IQ Commies.
That’s where this phrase came from.
That or it is drivel cooked up by an exceptionally boring and unimaginative PR committee.
Given that this gem of stupidity appears whenever Her Highness or a loyal deputy needs to dodge a question, black magic is the only explanation.
I wonder what premise Robbo rejects.
Does he understand what a premise is? What it means to refute a premise?
Does he understand the sins against language and clear thinking that he has committed?
“Rejecting that premise” not being a thing one generally does to a question.
This is the second in command of the country and he is a verifiable idiot.
Maybe he has good “demeanour”, which makes it okay that he is a dull destructive oaf, according to that guy I wrote about the other day.
In related news, such skilled oratory might be the result of all those inflation-bux Robbo printed up for the communications industry:
Newshub can reveal the number of communications staff working in the public sector has ballooned over the last five years.
The total number is up nearly 50 percent since Labour came into Government, and it’s also costing you an extra $21 million.
Behind every Government department, there’s a crack team of communications staff crafting the information you then hear about.
And while it's important to get messaging right, the amount the Government spends on spin and the number of spinners has skyrocketed since Labour came into power.
The more they pay for communications, the worse the communicating.
I’m starting to notice a trend whenever this government throws money at things.
In a surprise move Robbo refutes the premise of that question:
In the same five-year period, it's gone from costing the taxpayer $33.8 million to $55.3 million. That's a 64 percent increase.
"We'll always make sure that what we spend is careful - and from time to time the ministers have had to call agencies to account - but overall this is what happens during a pandemic when we need to communicate to New Zealanders," Acting Public Service Minister Grant Robertson said.
See? Everything’s fine. It isn’t like that money could have gone to anything like, oh I don’t know, hospital staff or resources. Seeing as the whole premise of martial law in years 2020-2021 AD was justified on the basis of a health system on the edge of collapse.
Robbo definitely rejects that premise.
Even the “bad” polls still have 1/3 of the country supporting Labour.
> Forget the low IQ, they look good on TV
Remember, dark triad and p-factor is genetic (Kirkegaard), and it is evolutionarily here to "displace the nerds".
P.S. What is your stance on "Midwit" (Alima & Sachink), "Bugmen" (HackerNoon), "Gentry" (Dancoland & Clear Pill), or "Clueless" (Ribbonfarm)?
Robertson is a fool but nothing to be too scared of except of course that he would follow orders from his billionaire masters without question. His father spent time in prison for fraud did he not?
But it's Hipkins and Little who I don't like, both are arseholes. I guess the only thing going for Little is that he doesn't seem to have been part of the "Socialist" "revolutionaries" that Hipkins, Ardern and Robertson were. More the Catholic liberation theologist maybe.