RNZ almost never publishes "political opinions" but today they & Stuff/The Post published one defending Nicola Willis's handling of the economy. The author is Dennis Wesselbaum - from lobby group NZ Initiative, where Luxon/Willis reportedly get economic policies from RNZ is shot #nzpol #kiwi

Please, if you're considering voting Ray Chung, lose your voting papers.

Preach!

Obviously this is compulsory listening, but prior to this episode I just thought of Jimmy Page as 'the guy who steals tunes from black blues artists'. In fact he's 'the guy who steals from blues, management, ex-bandmates, CURRENT bandmates, sound engineers, folkies and his singer'.

"How did you do at the 9/11-funding comedy festival, Fozzie?" "I BOMBED! Wakka wakka!...am I canceled now?"

So National MP Chris Bishop wrote to Penny Simmonds to push the Environment Minister to intervene in local councils for the benefit of National MP Suze Redmayne's private farm. National Party say this is all cool and above board for them. #nzpol #kiwi

The deputy Prime Minister this week admonished a regional council for enforcing its rules (which it is legally required to do) on the basis that the RMA will be overhauled at some point www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Good on the coalition for distracting me with one absolutely appalling thing so I almost didn't notice the equally appalling OTHER thing.

Gotta hand it to Winston Peters, dude is almost 80 and the motherfucker can still defy the laws of physics to limbo under the ground-level bar we set for him. Refusing to recognise Palestine isn't COWARDICE, at this point it's treason to the New Zealand people in favour of the US state Department.

#nzpol Locked Out has had a look at the recent GDP numbers. Guess what? They’re not great, and there is no plan to make it work. Have a watch now: youtu.be/RQgR2S6aaTI?...

WOOP! WOOP! That’s the sound of Für Elise

Inject it in my VEINS.

Wow. New evidence acquired under OIA by Greenpeace has revealed that dairy giant Fonterra first requested, and then helped to write, the Government’s new grass-fed standards.

Turns out indulging swivel eyed bigots who were convinced the maaries were going to put microchips in the water for cheap political gain was *incredibly* politically irresponsible. Who could have predicted? (answering my own qn; with exceptions including present company, *not* the press gallery)

Wow.

What the fuck. Here was silly old me thinking Trump reached the bottom of the barrel by putting Fox News hosts in charge of America, but here's a Nat government giving Nat Old Boys cushy jobs for protecting big business. What I'm saying is we're approaching American levels of corruption.

I think it says a lot about NZ's Green Party being environment/ecosystem/science based rather than some of the cultural trends in other countries, that the Green Party had the fewest voters who had never had a covid vaccination 0.34%. 32.5% of NZ First voters say they never had a covid vaccination.

Nimby group Live Wellington is so mad about upzoning in the new District Plan that they made a 2005-era flash game where boomer homeowners throw cricket bats at housing minister Chris Bishop's head.

So we have 0 rail enabled ferries currently in service anymore? And we could've had new ones delivered this year, but instead our Finance idiot blew $671m? #nzpol

Just for the record, I used to have to work overnight shifts at McDonald's for 7 or 8 hours, and I *never* got to call off Too Tired, even if we WEREN'T making burgers for world leaders. Basically, harden the fuck up, Christopher.

Chloe Swarbrick just thrown out of the House after refusing to apologise for calling on government MPs to get a spine and support a members bill imposing sanctions on israel's genocidal regime

I imagine that Crimson is pretty heavily exposed to the war on US higher education and need a new gig

Vote. Them. Out.

8,549 jobs on TradeMe, 17,203 jobs on Seek. That's 25,752 jobs total. There's also crossovers so there's likely less than 20,000 jobs. At the same time there's 156,000 unemployed. Coalition: "get a job you lazy bottom feeders" #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

BaKc oN tRAck right Luxon?

If you're a worker in New Zealand, a humble employee, a person just trying to do an honest days work, get ahead, pay your taxes and bills, and live a good life, you should know that Brooke Van Velden HATES YOUR GUTS.

In the New Yorker profile of Curtis Yarvin, ideological lodestar of Trump, Stephen Miller and the ascendant American technofascist right, we learn that he's been spending time with Blue Labour peer Maurice Glasman, who Starmer's current right-wing genuflections are aimed to please. So that's nice.

Well ...fuck.

The NZ Govt is pulling every lever it can think of to make climate change worse. They want: more cows, new coal mines, restarting oil and gas exploration, etc. At the same time people are being flooded in weather events made worse by climate change. It is grossly immoral.

Today in Fuck You Ray Chung.

The logic of of Labour, Reform and Tory alike is this: 1. We have an aging population with more and more retirees supported by fewer and fewer working age people 2. Huge numbers of working age people want to come to our country 3. Therefore we must do everything in our power to stop them.

Highly encourage you to read this - it's basically impossible to overstate how different a world powered by solar will be geopolitically. The current world order - and most conflicts from the last century - is premised on energy scarcity that may no longer exist soon.

ACT now escalating: old.reddit.com/r/Wellington...

This is fantastic and anyone not on board with this would be the type of person still supporting gas lighting in the 1920s.

#BHN Tonight at 9pm - Tory Whanau on Seymour's online behaviour and breaches of the Cabinet Manual - Robert Patman on Trump and Israel v Iran - Chloe Swarbrick on The Bradbury Group on Iran #nzpol #nzpolitics youtube.com/live/CbM4pFu...

Of the many reasons that Israel may have decided to agree to a ceasefire, this seems like a significant one. #IronDome #r4today

Finally some good news.

A must read, Aotearoa New Zealand: "In many ways, the campaign launched and fronted by the Deputy Prime Minister is lame, even laughable. At the same time, it is an abuse of high office. " #kiwi #newzealand

I’ve written a letter of complaint to the PM regarding Seymour's behaviour. We’ve witnessed him target academics who act as our critic and conscience, and attack public servants for simply doing their job. This is unacceptable.

In other news, government Minister announces that cause is no longer linked to effect

I appreciate this article so much that I have a feeling that every time I see a mutual repost it I will immediately also repost it again, so you'd better be doing some good quoteskeets folks or everyone will suffer.

Christopher Luxon’s legacy summed up with 1 headline

One of these photos is how HBO's The Watchmen depicted a fascist police force back in 2018 The others are real photos of the ICE agents who are rounding people up and disappearing them in Boston, Denver, L.A., and elsewhere

Meeting Paris climate obligations through actual cuts will be ‘costly and disruptive’ so will not happen, ensuring that it will be even more costly and disruptive to meet our obligations next year. Decarbonisation thus becomes more ‘unpalatable’ the more urgent it becomes. Got it

I get gloomy about 1-in-4 young people being unemployed, NZ not being able to 'afford' to fix decaying infrastructure, 400,000 kiwis wanting work or more work... But, look on the bright side, the banks have notched up record profits again. A cool $10.4 billion for the year ending March 2025 [🧵 1/n]

Please write a submission.

Who even LIKES this guy?

"your crackpot documentary, I've seen your questions & um I think you're a joke". This is the supposed 'intellectual giant' of the right, his fucking opening gambit is ad hominem. What a slimy little cunt. Go Mihi