Gin is the new whisky. It is the time of gin, is what I'm saying. The zeitgeist. The vibe is bitter aromatics and wistful labels about tears and magic.
mazing how when Labour gets hammered in an election it's a clear sign they need to pander to the centre right and when they smash the right in an election it means exactly the same thing
And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Whose is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful car
And you may tell yourself
It belongs to my beautiful wife
Good to see
@MattyMcLean
holding National to account for standing aside and letting Winston spread his conspiracy theories unchecked.
"Just saying what a lot of New Zealanders are thinking" is a piss poor response to amplifying unmitigated lies.
Reckon if you get stripped of a knighthood level honour you shouldn't just revert back to being a normal non-titled citizen but should get a negative title, like The Disgraced, or the Ratbag bastard or some such
NZ calmly considering how many fucks to give about overseas pundit or Podcaster reckons about NZ is the real sign we've cut our colonial cringe strings
If you are, like me, a straight middle aged white dude and you haven't leaned a ton of stuff on here from all the people on here who are not those things then, umm, far out.
That stuff is far and away the best shit on this accursed site.
Psst
@nzherald
, by definition every opinion columnist is 'outspoken', the words you are looking for to describe Katie Hopkins is 'racist trash fire seeking to monetise racist trash'
Yeah the problem isn't that he 'started a constitutional whatever on twitter' it's that he's either a fool or a troll or both. And it's no good being a 'hard worker' if the work sucks
Never forget that Brian Tamaki is many things and one of things is a stone cold, verified, often claimed rarely proved, but in his case deffo legit false prophet. He prophesied he'd have been ruling the country by now. Said God told him this. Open shut case. False prophet.
People on
@ThePanelRNZ
saying 16 year olds don't have the 'critical thinking skills' to vote, or can't make 'informed decisions', should take a long hard look at what us old buggers write, as a cohort, on places like Stuff comments.
Other obvious thing about Nick Smith quitting for the good of his party and family over a verbal altercation that turned into year long employment dispute as yet unresolved, is that he's quitting because it's going public, not because it happened.
Landlord lobbyists complaining about inflation when one of the biggest contributors to inflation is rents is some predictably fucked bullshit I am being asked to believe
Yeah nah with this 'genuine protesters' and 'rogue elements' talk. Yes, there are different types of protesters in the group with different levels of militancy. But none are more genuine than others. They are literally standing in solidarity with each other.
Collins nailing herself to a cross about how the police and others are working and she can't in good conscience not work even though she'd rather be at home in lockdown ignores the hordes of us working from home and trying to make that work. She's so bad. Worst I've ever seen.
Hi
@chrisluxonmp
you said you don't want to see politics becoming polarised around identity politics and I'm happy to take your word on that. Will you get your MPs to stop using the word 'woke' to denigrate people who disagree with them about these issues?
This fckn guy. This is fake arse shit you'd expect from someone who wants to use numbers to get away with as much as they can for short term benefit and who isn't planning based on long term trends and strategic thought. ie CEO shit
Watching journos get on high horses about allegedly ambiguous or wrong messaging in texts or some shit idk. I'd care more if a day ever went by where a major news org didn't mislead the fuck out of its consumers to get a click
If you want to know how weak Luxon is look at his leadership of the National party's position on ACTs treaty bullshit. He's absent. Dude is sleep walking his party and this country into a clusterfuck because he doesn't have the stones to publicly take a stand agin 8% Seymour.
National MP Simon O'Connor says being outspoken about his socially conservative views "probably" held back his political career.
"It always comes down to what leaders want. But it probably has had an impact. But I went into Parliament to be me," he tells
@WhenaOwen
Labour party giving people who hate them the stupid things they ask for and then standing around acting sad and confused when they get blamed for the results, or, A History of the New Zealand Labour Party.
Campbell: 'When Jones talks about it, it sounds punitive; but what you are describing sounds meaningful and hopeful, are you appealing to different groups?'
Harawira "Shane's always been a bit of a dick that way"
Holy shit. Just saw that
@MarkMitchellMP
described voting as a privilege rather than a right. So if you had any doubts about where he sits on the political spectrum there's a big ol' data point for ya.
Look I appreciate the thought behind people saying Australia should become part of NZ but the simple fact is they would massively out vote us and to be frank, voting for things does not seem to be a core competency they have worked very hard on getting any good at.
Luxon now selling his foreign buyers tax thing by saying it'd be cool to have tech guys living half their life in San Fran and half their life in nz, if you're wondering what sort of weirdoes he's pitching this at
I think we should shorten the parliamentary recess, too much time off in the summer heat seems to stunt their reckoning powers and they erupt in late January with a bunch of nonsense.
Cafes and pubs run by sovcits have to let you leave without paying the tab if you tell them they have been great hosts binding them to stand under the ancient laws of hospitality.
'Are the greens too wokety woke now that they have abandoned socialism and environmentalism for wokesterism? I asked Bradbury, Trotter, Hooton and Farrar'
Fckn lol man. Have some self respect.
The National Party's finance spokesperson just said she thinks NZers who can't buy a house are just blowing all their money on overseas holidays and offshore investments, fckn lol.
David Farrar claims he's doing us all a service by hosting Islamophobia and 'cultural conservatives' on his site coz otherwise they'd be on 8 chan getting radicalized. What an idiot.
Waiting on the gallery to write their analysis bits on how seymour is making things difficult for National with his purity politics that frightens middle New Zealand and how Luxon will need to respond and how this is a gift for Labour coz nz likes stability not fringe weirdoes
Idk maybe if journos were less wildly reckless and performative and wrong with how they reported on OIA'd documents civil servants would be less insanely defensive about releasing them. Just a thought.
Weird how pol journos criticised the hell out of Clark for saying Ferals and Clinton for saying Deplorables, to the extent these became iconic political gaffes, but Luxon on Bottom Feeding seems to have attracted no such commentary at all.
If that article about the guy with 70 houses bracing for a 45k tax bill doesn't have a stab at estimating the capital gain on 70 houses in the last year then it's bad and everyone involved should feel bad.
Funniest part about the Nats cascade of errors over the last day or so, objectively speaking from an informed position free of any bias, is that it's all happening in the area of economics and numbers where they rate themselves as godkings for no good reason at all.
Went down a rabbit hole of NZ RW twitter and learned that Ardern is an incredibly lazy part time PM who has already instituted full communism in NZ. Imagine what she'd have managed if she applied herself.
The government has found almost $7.5 billion in savings, it revealed in today's 'mini-Budget'.
This comes from stopping a range of work the Labour government had under way.
Imagine launching a policy supposedly all about transparency and accountability of public spending and having absolutely no answer to the question 'how much will it cost and how you gonna resource it?' beyond shrugging and saying 'idk, robots could do it probly'
It's all very tiresome innit, but I'm just gonna leave it here that the Greens increasing their vote when everyone thought said tide would be going out somewhat KIND OF indicates that a bunch of Labour voters voted tactically to keep their influence on the govt alive
Imagine being in her caucus watching that bizarre af video of Collins rolling her eyes at the 'woke' idea that 'the housing market should provide suitable housing'. Imagine watching her day after day and still cowing to her. She's terrible at politics guys, really bad