After an opinion contributor for the Hill speculated that “a Sanders-Warren ticket could win big in 2020″ last week, New Zealand’s second-ranking diplomat in the United States was blunt: “No it couldn’t. Please get your shit together or we will all die.”
That response from diplomat Caroline Beresford, reported by the Kiwi site Newsroom and flagged by the Hill, wasn’t her only rebuke.
Separately, according to Newsroom, Beresford wrote in response to the post that Democrats had “learned nothing” and “If this is what they have against Trump we should be planning for the eight years.”
“Yes I did send those tweets and realised very quickly that they were inappropriate, which is why I deleted them,” Beresford told Newsroom, which published screenshots of two of the tweets.
An unnamed spokesperson for New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade told the outlet it “[did] not in any way endorse the content or tone of the tweets, which we note have now been deleted.”
“These expectations were not met in this instance. The ministry will be making this clear to the staff member concerned and taking appropriate action,” the spokesperson added.
This story provides TPM readers the perfect opportunity to relitigate the 2016 election. Mud starts flying in 3… 2… 1…
She’s probably not wrong. Particularly about the “Get your s**t together or we will all die” part.
But screw speculation about 2020. Dems have midterms to win, first.
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That was a stupid opinion piece trying to, most likely, relitigate the election.
I guess The Hill needs clicks like any other site.
I love Kiwis, think I’ll go buy a few today. New Zealand is where I wanted to go ride out IQ45s reign of terror but, alas, I have a few responsibilities I cannot leave behind.
Well, that diplomat has it right. A one note cranky geezer - who is still such a jerk that he’s not a Democrat- and a shrill Massachusetts liberal could probably lose to Trump, though I think he will be gone by then, one way or another.
Winning ticket- Sherrod Brown, with Harris or Schiff for VP, and make either one AG if not VP.