"Look, the Prime Minister doesn't read, 'kay? He just absorbs vibes. And only positive ones." #nzpol

The PM claims to accept climate change, but he whores the country out to the fossil fuel business for money #nzpol #climatecrisis

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I could say "Fuck you" to Luxon's face 24x7 for a year and it still wouldn't be nearly as offensive as what the Luxon government is doing to this country. #nzpol

The ethos behind the Luxon government's energy policies: we can't invest in cheap, plentiful, renewable, environmentally-neutral energy sources when we can persist with expensive, limited, diminishing, climate-compromising fossil fuels that still offer vast profits to global corporations. #nzpol

The NACT government does not care about people. It only cares about people with lots of money. It makes fake promises about how you could have lots of money too, except that it is actively helping the people with lots of money already to take even more from you. #nzpol

David Seymour is a glibertarian #nzpol

Sucks to live in a country whose government believes they should help the successful and punish the needy. I don't think I have lived in a country like that until the last couple of years. #nzpol

Why are some of the government's bills so bad? Odds are they were drafted by AI. #nzpol

In politics, there is nothing easier than marketing hate to the hateful #nzpol

Funny to see how Luxon always takes the cowardly option while insisting that he's making the brave choices. #nzpol

This isn’t just true of NZ of course, but because so many politicians in the right have made their money from wealth and not from work they are fundamentally lazy, make policy decisions that ignore work and effort, and - in NZ’s case at least - are going all in on AI to replace real people. #nzpol

Warped motivations: Paul Goldsmith has been on an anti-Maori crusade ever since Nikki Kaye misidentified him as Ngati Porou. Nicola Willis is pursuing a vendetta against Wellington after it repeatedly rejected her as an electoral candidate. What other malign impulses drive Luxon's ministers? #nzpol

It's funny that the pie hasn't been growing but the very rich have been increasing their wealth by taking more and more of it. That's the issue that the barely-numerate finance minister Nicola Willis needs to address, not the size of the pie. #nzpol

Must say I'm disappointed to be living through the transition from government by sovereign governments to government by trans-national corporations. #nzpol #ukpol #uspol

How racist/fascist protests estimate their numbers: hundreds of people each saw hundreds at the event, so there must have been tens of thousands present. Anti-vaxers do the same sums. Thousands of people all know of the same two cases, so there must have been thousands of deaths. #ukpol #nzpol

Good to see the National Party finally agreeing that ACT Party Presidency should no longer be a mitigating factor in sexual abuse convictions #nzpol

Billionaires have hit a wall; there's very little they can do to make their lives qualitatively better. The only way they can continue to "better themselves" (sic) is to take access to nice and necessary things away from everybody else. #uspol #nzpol #ukpol #inequality

The actions of attorney general Paul Goldsmith whenever the government is faced with legal outcomes they don't like is proof that the NZ government is effectively lawless. #nzpol

Why can't immigrants assimilate to NZ culture the same way that English immigrants assimilated to it in the nineteenth century? #nzpol

Some people seem to have got the wrong idea about Foreign Minister Winston Peters. His only job is to bring down the current coalition government in whatever way is maximally propitious for Winston Peters. That is his sole concern, and has been since Seymour assumed the Deputy PM role. #nzpol

The ruling class have already experienced the pristine beauty of Aotearoa's environment, so it serves no useful purpose any more and can be sold off for profit. #nzpol

The primary intellectual failing of our generation is that the rich have managed to convince so many of the poor that the even-poorer-than-them have taken all their money. #nzpol

Can we just note that an across-the-board raise in the pensionable age is Yet Another Racist Policy #nzpol

Barely credible to see a Māori cabinet minister promulgating population replacement theory in support of white colonists. But Shane Jones has never been as smart as he thinks he is. #nzpol

The biggest flaw in the climate commission’s report is that party donors won’t make enough profit from its recommendations #nzpol

After regulatory capture comes media capture. And at that point, politicians can lie with impunity. So they do: Luxon, Stanford, Goldsmith, Peters, Jones, Seymour, and - the worst of all - Willis. A captive media reports their lies without pushback. #nzpol

I think it speaks volumes that, if wider reporting is correct, Nicola Willis or her close staff thought a racist slur was just normal banter while a homophobic one merited apocalyptic judgment. #nzpol

When you try to run a country as a business, the people who benefit are the owners/shareholders. But the people who want to run NZ as a business DO NOT think that the business is owned by ordinary New Zealanders, oh no. It's owned by the captains of industry and the biggest global investors. #nzpol

So fairness and justice are "gold-plated" (Nicola Willis). National have got NZ back on the unfairness and injustice track. As if that's a good thing. #nzpol

The NZ govt seem to think that if they cuddle up to global corporates and offer all our resources to US businesses we'll become a mini-America. We won't, we'll become a mini-Philippines #nzpol

Aotearoa is ours, (do) not mine. #nzpol

Come on folks, there's a better than even chance that this "shooting" was staged so that Agent Orange could use it as an argument to get his White House Ballroom past the courts #uspol

Frothy article complains that a cherished global icon lacks depth compared to his has-been hack self #nzpol #soper

The NZ government: a shining example not of leadership, but of regulatory capture run wild. #nzpol

Dumbest government move when fuel stocks are dropping and prices are climbing: pay people so they can afford to consume the same amount. It's a free gift to the oil companies and a crisis intensifier to the rest of us. #nzpol #FuelSubsidies

David Seymour believes that children are not old enough to vote until they have been corrupted by money and greed #nzpol

Today’s remarks are a reminder that Nicola Willis has no understanding of economics and the advice she trusts comes not from trained economists but from “think tanks” funded by the mega-wealthy. We are living in a rich pricks’ economy and they are willing to invest heavily to keep it that way #nzpol

Claim: "It would add billions of dollars to the national economy" This is true - the problem is that most those billions are going to be on the negative side of the ledger. #nzpol #OtagoMining

If Winston doesn't want to work with racists, why is he in the same party as Shane Jones and why is he in coalition with Paul Goldsmith? #nzpol

Least popular PM in decades thinks it's a killer argument to pour shade on the most popular PM in decades Out of touch, out of ideas, (soon to be) out of office #nzpol

If James Bond was real and on the side of the good, who are the main people he'd be licensed to kill?

Between now and the election, I do not want to see the media focussing on how badly Luxon is managing his caucus. I want to see them writing about how appallingly Luxon's government is managing the country. #nzpol

Nicola Willis's attacks in Parliament read better than they sound. Shrill doesn't convey the half of it. #nzpol

Nobody in NZ calls it a bus “rout”. Our PM is laser focused on US culture, it’s all he knows #nzpol

What he really thinks: Labour f'ed it up trying to pivot away from fossil fuels when anyone with a financial advisor and a fortune knows the solution is to get as rich as possible on oil and gas while it lasts so we can survive a bit longer than everyone else

The only real crisis in NZ was that Luxon's rich mates weren't making enough money. When he claims the country is back on track, that's the only measure he cares about. #nzpol

Interviews with JC and Tova, he'll be gone by breakfast #nzpol

Luxon tells us he's not racist but you can't lead a government like this and not be very comfortable with racism in its ugloiest forms #nzpol

Why doesn't most of NZ like Luxon? Because he is the perfect example of the manager we've all had in the past who took credit for everything we did and blamed us for every mistake he made. #nzpol