(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who is best known for locking people over their resistance to vaccination mandates and taxing farmers for cow flatulence, announced unexpectedly that she will be resigning from her position.
According to the Daily Wire, Ardern did not elaborate on why she is leaving her post, though she did sound upset while announcing the news.
“I’m leaving, because with such a privileged role comes responsibility,” she said. “The responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead and also when you are not.”
“I know what this job takes,” she added. “And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. It’s that simple.”
Ardern will be stepping down on Feb. 7. An election for the new Prime Minister will take place in October.
The 42-year-old politician’s sudden, mysterious resignation left many wondering why she is leaving her position.
Many speculated that Ardern, an alumna of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders program, may be leaving to take a job at the WEF, which this week held its annual summit in Davos, Switzerland.
She’s probably taking a new job with Klaus at the WEF.
— Improviseadaptandovercome (@Improviseadapt1) January 19, 2023
Probably jumping ship before she gets ousted (or outed). Also, is it just coincidence that she announces this just at the time when the WEF is holding its meeting at Davos? She says she no longer has "enough in the tank", but she‘ll have plenty in the bank with future book deals.
— Eric Blair (@EricBla24306806) January 19, 2023
Others said she was likely in some kind of trouble and was stepping down to avoid a total media circus.
In her time in office, Ardern implemented oppressive lockdowns, insane gun restrictions and pushed the monitoring of so-called “disinformation” online.
In the midst of the pandemic, her advice to New Zealanders was “don’t talk to your neighbors.”
Once the vaccine was available, however, she allowed for orgies of up to 25 vaccinated people.
Most recently, she locked down the entire country over a single case of COVID.
Ardern took the opportunity to ban semi-automatic long guns following a shooting in Christchurch, implementing a buyback program which ended in colossal failure.
The prime minister also kept up her ongoing crusade against misinformation, even going as far as decrying free speech as a “weapon of war” in a speech at the United Nations.
Ardern proposed that the international community address the problem of misinformation and suggested intense government restrictions.
“What if that lie, told repeatedly, and across many platforms, prompts, inspires, or motivates others to take up arms. To threaten the security of others. To turn a blind eye to atrocities, or worse, to become complicit in them. What then? This is no longer a hypothetical,” she claimed.
