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There's an undertow of violence and malice to this convoy that makes me profoundly uneasy.Kudos to both major party leaders for refusing to engage.
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Got to have a soft spot for a Government that acknowledges tangata whenua and sets up a day where hundreds of thousands of people look up at the stars in wonder.
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So where is all that vicious, insane misogynistic hatred going to go now?
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On her deathbed we gave Mum a bunch of sunflowers and daisies to look at.She took hold of them and with massive effort kept lifting them to her face to smell and look at. It typified her love of beauty and innate elegance.She died in her sleep this morning.
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Blundered into the TV news tonight to see Luxon blathering about his Government and what it will do. As an ex political reporter I have to note the elevating of him and National as the equals of the real Government by media is something quite new and concerning.
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From afar in New Zealand we've noted that and that for all the corrupt craziness of Trump and Co the evidence from the mid terms that the pulse of democracy still beats strong.Keep up the good work.If not the free world will become unfree.
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You can all huff and puff all you like about this Government but hungry kids are now getting fed at school.That's a huge step in the proper direction for me.
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Turning myself in to admit I got it wrong about Chris Hipkins.A seamless transition under incredibly stressful circumstances.Impressive
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Why my Mum's lovely.She may have dementia and be mid 90's but in today's visit when 4 yr old girl moko walked near the corner of the table Mum's hand shot out and covered the hard corner.
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There's an unspoken rule in Kiwi politics that if you upset the sense of fairness too much you are gone.This brand new Govt is gone.
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The Aotearoa emerging from tonight will be a much more polarised nation.MMP is delivering but along the way we'll have one of the worst Governments in our history.
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38 years clean and sober today.Still amazed, still grateful.
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Just a think.The tired young woman who did checkout for our shopping tonight here in ChCh was early 20's.She was good humoured but did say she had now lived half her life through quakes, floods, fire, acts of terrorism and now this.Imagine carrying that load and still working.
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I'm triple vaxxed , retired, own a house, have money, don't have to go out and I'm still scared as hell of Omicron .
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I've got a pretty strong political stomach but the rush of Level One advocates makes me sick.We've all paid a high price to get here but expert advice has done the job.The posturing and preening from the point scoring classes is shallow and stupid.
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"Golriz Ghahraman" A good resignation statement from Golriz who now deserves the privacy of a normal citizen.The brutality of NZ politics, and media, when it comes to non Euro women is appalling.
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There's some quality sign defacing going on this election.
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Feeling validated after hearing
@HelenClarkNZ
say today that she too has never seen anything like the present coalition government here.Neither have I.
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Nats on 30% and ACT on 15% translates to Seymour as deputy PM, a third of Cabinet posts going to ACT and a very large tail wagging a very untalented dog.
You have been warned.
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I've spent lots of my life reading up on the rise of the fascists in the 1930's and how such subsequent horror could arise. It starts like this.Looks dumb but dangerous as.
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I've interviewed a few NZ Prime Ministers -Bolger, Shipley,Clark.None of them spun the sort of inane word salad Luxon spouts.
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If only Judith Collins had ever fought for New Zealand the way she fights for herself.
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This is New Zealand people.A bit more casual and a much better sense of humour.
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Lots of people didn't die because the Government did the right thing.Our hospitals and health care workers aren't collapsing under the strain because our Government did the right thing.Bodies aren't parked up in refrigerated trucks for the same reason.I'm so grateful.
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I'm a boomer. As old as rock and roll. Do I think it's okay to saddle kids with massive student debt, rent them hovels at outrageous prices and pay them sod all on dodgy contracts?
No I don't.Too many of my generation are an utter disgrace.
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Maybe the National Party just needs to enter their economics policy in the Antiques Road Show to see if it has any salvageable value at all.
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"Omicron omni shambles" phrasing from TV3. The figures to date are so far from a shambles compared to overseas the "omni" is gratuitous and "shambles" just wrong.This sort of needless hyping just erodes credibility.
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Not going to mock the latecomers to the vax party as Omicron bears down on us.Every extra one of them is a plus.
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Wayne Brown has to go. To my shame after 3 terms as a mayoral advisor I don't know if a removal mechanism exists.
Anyone?
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We don't have heaps but we donated to
@nzlabour
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Just want to be the first Kiwi to say Trump's attempts to start a shooting war with Iran should not mean a single New Zealand soldier sailor, pilot or "advisor" needs to be involved.
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My gut is Luxon's mismanagement of Uffindell has cost him any hope of an election win next year.
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3 years today since I started successful Hep C treatment after having had it for 40 years undetected.Not heading into liver cancer now cos of this.Get Hep C tested boomers! I know I have saved quite a few lives being public and pushy about this.Are you next?
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Covid's not over.Or milder.What we do have is a mass delusion that somehow, magically cos people want it to be so it is over. It's not.
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There is no inevitability to a National led Government later this year.
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When a rumour about lifting GST on fruit and veggies eclipses a heavy duty visit from the USA's top diplomat and the OZ PM it's time to say regretfully the Herald has lost it.
A paper of record is now a website of rumour.
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Potting mix.Wear a mask. It killed not one but two doctors I knew of.
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Don't want to sound conspiratorial but that new Prime Minister looks exactly like the last one.
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I look at Covid around the world and then gaze in awe at the galactic levels of stupidity and magical thinking required to start quacking about it being all but over. It's nowhere near done.
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"James Shaw" Anyone else noticed that among the preening, poll driven, 4th form thugs and bitches politicians James and Marama are very much the standout adults in the room.
Real policy, real solutions, even real costings.
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14 new community cases is so far from where I thought we would be I'm amazed.I was wrong.The mass vaccinations are paying off.
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Luxon/Seymour/Peters have lit a fuse that's going to stress test our fragile sense of nationhood to the max.Such catastrophic idiocy has to be by design.
"Speakers at today's hui include legal experts, former prime ministers and prominent highly respected members of Māori communities across the country"
Waikato Tainui welcome mass contingent at Tūrangawaewae Marae
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Hypocrite of the Year Quote Award goes to Luxon in the Herald today who says of Hipkins - "He's just being politically expedient and going to say and do anything in order to win an election".
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Given over half these "Jobseekers" are in fact sick, and/or disabled maybe these cruel semantic games just need to stop.
Today’s Jobseeker benefit numbers are still far too high for a country that’s crying out for workers.
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After the enormously easy ride the media gave Luxon unquestioning, submissive and vapid I'm finding their buyer's remorse far too little, far too late.
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Bolger, Peters. Who is the next political ghost to bestir in their lazeeboy recliner and decide they know how to sort it?>
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Why is Jacinda Ardern PM? Today because she respects our law enough to face a news conference in a straightjacket of suppression orders about the terrorist and would not dream of breaking the orders.
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"Forgive me if I haven't been clear".NZ PM Jacinda Ardern in a live news conference.
A different universe to Trump thankfully .
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My Twitter feed is very, very slow to load today.Anyone else?
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@huskerdu_rag
I've heard the addict babies crying in ICU and wondered sadly where their lives would take them.This is such a wonderful journey to see unexpectedly.Congratulations.
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Just unfollowed someone normally quite shrewd who tweeted they couldn't quite believe in the volcanic eruption near Tonga. Like WTF?
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Remember when Labour pulled out all the stops to try and save as many lives as possible when Covid hit?
Now? Who cares, let's kick the hell out of them for being prudent.
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Looking forward to Mike Hosking's face when National lose again.
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And just on a purely human level Jacinda looks so sad about this.Clear and competent as always but sad.
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I don't cry much but my mum's death this weekend has got my body screaming - vertigo, diverticulosis plus pneumonic aftermath.
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"Poto Williams" Titles come and titles go.What won't fade is my respect for
@PotoChchEast
as a person of integrity, courage and loyalty. As a friend the sort that looks out for your kids .And tough.Tougher than the baying man baby pack will ever know or understand.
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Nothing screams clueless as much as the idea that replacing Luxon with Willis will improve the image of this woeful Government.
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"Level 4" Good on you Jacinda! Guts, decisive, clear.
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Maybe after Aucklanders voting in the angry old white guy by a big margin you could all back off stereotyping Christchurch as NZ racism's HQ?
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Got my Covid booster on Friday at the marae near my old Aranui home because there we get treated with aroha and respect.
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So good to see Germans saying "Nope.Not again". in such amazing numbers.Especially in Munich.
THREAD 🧵: Massive anti-far right protests are happening in
#Germany
. Hundreds of thousands rallies today, ~ 1.4 mil since Friday. This is in Munich
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Anyone else find it profoundly ominous to see the world's major rivers dry up? I feel a tsunami of woe coming.
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Sulky birthday to me.68 but don't feel a day over 98.
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March 18,2020."More than 80,000 Kiwis could be left stranded if they don't come home now" warned then Foreign Affairs Minister, Winston Peters.Clear as a bell.
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Xmas Eve tip for parents of young ones. Just yell "Sorry Santa they are still awake, maybe come back if you have time afterward".
Worked for me.
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Anyone else suspect David Seymour spent much of his school years with his head shoved down the dunny?
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Chris Bishop comes across like a real estate weasel who has almost sealed the deal on a patched up leaky building when the buyers start asking about the water stains.
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Massive donation from Tonga to Chch (A reminder of how they dug deep for us in our time of need).
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Good to see Andrea Vance totally nail the Andrew Bayly atrocity with some major context and teasing out the implications.This was a tipping point for this Govt.
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Bland on the run
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Am I the only ex spin doctor that watches PM Ardern with a mix of communications awe and sorrow that she manifestly does not need us?
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If this pandemic had come along 40 year's ago we would have had none of the nonsense and resistance of today.We still understood the concept of community then.
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James Shaw showing the steel in the spine that makes him uniquely placed to fast forward positive climate change action in the next coalition Government.
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Got takeaways for lunch.Guy in front, no scan, no mask.Asked cafe guy how often that went down.About 50% of the time."I don't fight them, we need their money".The South Island will be screwed when Delta gets here.
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As a recovered alcoholic/addict I have helped two seriously violent gang members get clean and sober and stay that way. It can be done.
I won't be going into any more detail cos it is their lives, not a sideshow.
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I smell an electoral upset coming.Maybe gridlock, maybe not but I can't see the coalition of cranks, crackpots and bullshit making the cut.
If they do it will be the worst government money can buy.
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It really is not healthy to be unable to question anything this Government does without a scolding from the devotees.
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So Luxon's emissions promises to farmers will potentially reverse the trade deal NZ's just signed with the EU.The man has no nuance or foresight.
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9 years today since the February 22 quake ripped my town and life apart.Outsiders to Christchurch please don't "kia kaha" or "resilience" us.Many of us are still shattered and it pisses us off.
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That replace Luxon with Willis and limit the damage theory just died in public today.
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Made it through my first Mumless Xmas.Had a major moment siting in her old cane chair holding the baby she never met but would have adored but....Also the first Xmas where I was the oldest family member.
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#HepCLog
I don't have Hep C anymore and my reconditioned liver function is "perfect". Merry Xmas to me.
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Watching NZ Twitter people step up to support other Twitter people in practical, real ways to get through an Omicron surge is why I think on balance Twitter is a force for good.
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When our Government is pretty much run by Atlas which is funded by Big Oil the weird fixation on cars, roads and speed suddenly looks utterly logical.
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Watching the use of furniture and tents to fuel the fires of chaos with a genuine working class eye and thinking "what a bloody waste".
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Dear old Mr Jackson was enormously pleased with his special bespoke birthday cake.
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According to Luke Atlas, oops Malpass, Willis's pre Budget bullshit this week is a Zen masterpiece of brevity compared to Grant Robertson's operatic efforts.
Robertson included nerdy things like specifics and detail.
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With my ex political reporter hat on I'm noting I'm getting more disturbed rather than less about Luxon's clueless disrespect for NZ business.
We're a trading nation and we need clarity and competence front of house not to quote Spiro Agnew - "Nattering nabobs of negativity".
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I've stomped my way through severe alcoholism, drug addiction, episodic epilepsy,40 years of undetected HepC before treatment, skin cancer, and lately COPD.With this rich body of achievement I still have to note the spread of Delta Covid scares the shit out of me.
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"Nichola Willis" As a strategist I wonder why the hell this bizarre government is lighting so many fires, offending so many interest groups all at once. It makes no sense.
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In which Luxon shows at Ratana he has no aroha can't do sums, or kaupapa, and loses the Maori vote and the election.
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"Green Party" If the party is dumb enough to dump Shaw in the leadup to the election where they would have massive negotiating leverage my vote is now homeless.
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