Thoughts and Prayers
A tragic death and a leader out of his depth.
Bow my head, said my prayers
I'm the good one, ain't I?
Wash my hands of all my sins
I'm the good guy, ain't I?
If everyone were like me
Could that be the change I'd like to see?
Ain't I good, ain't I right, did I try?
You’ve probably seen the news of the Kiwi woman tragically killed, run over by those that had robbed her, in the United States. A devastating situation for that family.
Their statement read, “no words can express our sadness as we try to come to terms with the loss of our mother, wife, and friend Patricia”.
“We ask for privacy at this time as we work through this as a family.”
Which is entirely right, and I have no intention of commenting further on the incident or the people involved. However I do have a few things to say about the Prime Minister’s response, which was:
“He’s a great man and it’s a great family…I think the family will be in huge shock and all our thoughts and prayers are with them. They’re top people.”
Just no. It’s just gross. That phrase, “thoughts and prayers” has become meaningless to the point that it’s a joke. Synonymous with not doing anything to control guns each time there’s a massacre in the US.
It’s certainly not part of New Zealand culture, and I can’t help wondering what the bereaved family must think seeing the Prime Minister rolling out such a hollow and pointless phrase.
Good lord man, read the room. At such a time people, if they look to you at all, would expect authenticity and genuinely heartfelt words. Not this drivel that gets rolled out in place of something real.
C’mon Christopher. You must be wondering why your personal ratings are so low, why people simply cannot warm to you. This is your opportunity to show your authentic self - do you even know what that is? Does one exist? Or are you simply a hollow vessel, delivering platitudes to order?
It’s not only the phrase, “thoughts and prayers”, let’s look at what else Luxon said…
“They’re top people”. I mean, I guess it’s positive, but what does it even mean? It doesn’t say anything specific about the people, it just seems to class them in the category of being “top people”. Which rather begs the question as to what those who are not “top people” are to Luxon. Which class of people he deems inferior.
Well, it doesn’t really, he’s talked about it before.
The bottom feeders, the people sitting around in garages in South Auckland. Sadly when our Prime Minister talks about top people we all know there are others that he considers to be low calibre.
But if I care
I'd give more than thoughts and prayers
The burdens more than yours to bear
But ego's on my side
Am I as good as I say if I tried?
Do we try, we try, we try?
Do we try, we try, we try?
I don’t know what sort of man Luxon is, I can’t read him. It’s not that the words are hard to understand, it’s more that the pages appear to be blank.
Maybe in his own way this was the Prime Minister showing sympathy. But if he can’t manage a two line expression of sympathy, over a tragic death, without sounding phoney and out of touch with New Zealanders - you really have to wonder if he’s suited to leading this country.
You really have to wonder.
No words could take away the loss, and the terrible grief of Patricia’s family. But they deserve better than having the Prime Minister recite meaningless ones.
It's Patricia who died-not her 'well known' business husband. I am sickened by the coverage of who she was connected to instead of focussing on the woman herself.
Thoughts and prayers and let's talk about the bloke. As you said, what drivel. Surely he could have come up with just one sincere sentence?