I give you a government that operates like it is being run by 4th formers. No care, no responsibility with fuck you attitude #nzpol

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

Oh do fuck off

Back on track

🥚: "Hey Nicola, you look after the fort while I go to a $1500/ plate dinner, OK? Ta." 🏛️ 👋 👩‍💼: 😒 #NZpol NZ PM Luxon left Parliament early to attend a $1500-a-head National Party donor dinner, hours after Stats NZ shared data NZ economy had shrunk. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Must be nice to be the sort of person who can change national firearms policies just by emailing an acquaintance.

This hasn’t aged well in the last 13 months.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

The Herald may have cut its science reporter, but thank god the speed bump beat is still fully staffed

Just your regular reminder that Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on donations from businesses for a successful campaign, and the Infrastructure Minister, who decides if businesses get to access the RMA fast track process.

Went to Briscoes for a $10 pie dish and left with a new air fryer 😂 To be fair it was on sale at $179 down from $649. I think I may have saved the economy.

📢 A building insurance expert says the government's plans to shake up the building and construction sector will lead to more homeowners footing large bills for shonky building.

Next week they take Greenland because they need more Lebensraum ?

Par for the course with this lot.

This lot are not even trying now. How much were the kickbacks for CPB?

Hahahaha I mean, they could at least choose a NZ company but hey, these are the economic managers of note.

National, laser-focused on the economy

If you ever wanted to time travel go to the USA right now to experience the Germany of the 1930s

Luxon and Willis just dont care www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/gdp-shock...

Last year, 15 independent, union & university economists wrote to Nicola Willis & Luxon to call on them to change their economic strategy, highlighting the economic risks & short- termism. Chris Bishop proudly told media that Willis would rather listen to penguins. #nzpol #kiwi

This was the jokes (I looked them up when this came round in July) bsky.app/profile/thou...

Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol

Great news for kiwis needing to see a doctor: you can now see something *other than a doctor*

So tired of all this winning. Back on track baby.

While the rest of Aotearoa was watching the outside financial crisis happening in every country, Nicola Willis was sitting in her office with her feet on the desk thinking about what projects could be stopped and who to fire at the Reserve Bank. #nothingtosee

Fight monkeys, fight

Tariff argument makes no sense given that other countries have done better in the same quarter. NZ -0.9% Australia 0.6% China 1.1% Japan 0.5% United Kingdom 0.3% United States 0.8%

I love the way National, in opposition, refused to acknowledge that global markets were the main driver of inflation, but in government, after a massive campaign of cuts, they're all like "waaaah, global pressure!"

Turns out the fuck-your-feelings crowd has A LOT of feelings.

People ... people ... in the spirit of Ezra Klein, can't we all come together and agree that it is, in fact, all John Key's fault for saying he'd vote for Trump because he'd make the magic money tree grow faster?

I’m no mergers and acquisitions genius but has the Prime Minister tried phoning all his departments at 4pm to sort it all out yet?

I'm not sure more concerts at Eden Park is going to turn this around.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Back on track

The bullshit, handwringing, rich-prick supporting anti CGT is wild…. It taxes the rich. That’s what this shit is about. If it was a GST, there’d be barely a ripple cause that primarily taxes the poor and that’s just fine. But the asset class also own/manage the media and control what gets printed

Just a couple of big-state-hating, free speech champions doing their best to get someone in trouble with the US federal government because of something they said

This is a fair point.

Confronting the idea that a heavily armed populace means that a random individual with a barely finished forming brain and incomprehensible personal politics can just decapitate your moment on a whim is not going to go well for the sort of people who like to think that they control a situation. =/

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Maybe gun violence is a major problem in America? Oh well. Lets just blame transgender people for everything.

FFS, this was meant to turn the economy around

Weak PM Luxon will do nothing.

Spot on. It affected companies who supply direct to Government plus the companies who supply those companies. And made lots of other organisations cautious about committing to projects. Throw in the destruction of the construction industry and the ripple effects of that ....

Bishop, on learning only 4% of National Party voters think he is leadership material

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol

First it was the haka in parliament that was intimidating, now it is clergy protesting outside the office.

Gold standard rant by Gregor Paul in the Herald ostensibly about the All Blacks humilification on Saturday but rightly putting the boot (pun intended) into the country's current leadership's reliance on lazy stereotypes & myths contrary to evidence. www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby/...

"What churchs are they from??" Ones that follow the teachings of Jesus Christ Not surprised Hannah Tamaki is unfamiliar