This is the foil Nicola Willis needs to send her polling to highs not seen since, uh, Jacinda Ardern vs Simon Bridges in 2020

Remarkable watching Govt inch slowly towards understanding magnitude of the fuel situation, so obviously blinded by optimism bias & ideological aversion to intervention... constantly a week or so behind those that have, errm, read the briefings. Some sense of what 2020 would have looked like I guess

This is by end of the year.Our treasury ‘worst case scenario’ for NZ is looking more and more ridiculous.

Let’s have some positive news for a change. At this point the electrification of everything seems not only possible but inevitable:

It seems that a large part of the under-construction Project 23550 ice-class patrol ship "Purga" went under water after the Ukrainian night attack on the port of Vyborg, Russia

This is disguising. This should not happen. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/associate...

To clarify, she is sunk but resting on the bottom (and the ship next to her which clearly stopped her capsizing fully) Given her location and shallow water Russia will likely raise her. But damage will be significant

Covid taught me one thing. People, on the whole, suck. We are self centred, short sighted creatures who mostly don’t give a shit about anyone else. Ultimately it will likely lead to our extinction at some point. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

This issue predates the fallout from the Middle East. It’s time everyone accepted this government is incompetent and their incompetence is destructive. It’s not luck, it’s them and their decisions. www.nzherald.co.nz/property/cra...

Go to Australia there is no future for you here. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

We are about to get a crash course in whether it’s really wanton household spending driving up inflation. Cause ya know unemployment is high, there’s barely any govt assistance to weather this storm and somehow… well somehow inflation will still be our fault.

Americans, please can we get a grown up to step in here somehow?

So if Russia phones in fake threats, as they did last time, our institutions will leap into action to do what Russia wants…. This is very transparent.

Now award costs against him, so maybe the next asshole plutocrat will think twice about trying to use the legal system as a blunt instrument to victimise independent researchwers working in good faith to tell the truth about the vile shit they get up to www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

“Is the new government support package enough?”

Brooke Van Veldon is retiring from politics so she take it easy and just have more time for herself to relax..

Moral of the story: Never let a hammered dementia patient hold a press conference.

I’m guessing next step from the government in their support package will be patronising lectures about growing your own vegetables and turning the lights out when you’re not in a room.

I’m guessing next step from the government in their support package will be patronising lectures about growing your own vegetables and turning the lights out when you’re not in a room.

According to the census there are 1.3 million families in NZ. 11% of those will get some help. The other 89% of us get get fucked apparently.

The market made a $2trillion swing between his truth announcement and Iran’s denial talks are going well, strike threat off the table for five days. Markets talked back about $1trillion. Someone made a shit ton of money during that time.

“I take no notice of performance reviews.I’m focused on doing my job as poorly as I have up until now and continuing to make the same mistakes repeatedly, that’s what my employers really want from me” www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Shocked and surprised that the government who has made things worse for school children, women, Māori, people on benefits, disabled people, public servants, people on the minimum wage, teachers, homeless people, are also gonna make things worse for people who are gonna suffer due to this crisis.

Back on track at hyper speed www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...

if you called these people stupid over the last 10 years you would get lectured about how they’re little babies with zero agency that we need to bow down to to win over because wokeness hurt their feelings

Probably just a coincidence

Quick, get Nicola out there in overalls and a hard hat! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

There are 3.78 litres in a gallon. Which means we are paying $12 a gallon. The Americans would keel over and die 🫠

Hungarian frog may croak it for the last time. Good. He's a worthless piece of shit just like the rest of the dictators.

This week both the Kremlin and the White House will ramp up their coordinated efforts to tamper in Hungary’s election to try and keep Putin’s puppet Viktor Orban in power.

If I may turn the racists' go-to remark back on them for a moment: LESS HUI MORE DO-EY, Nicola

It was your inquiry dickhead

Is snyone buying Willis's war time leader schtick? Feels toe curlingly cringe to me

That would never work in the US.

Russian intelligence reportedly suggested staging an “assassination attempt” on Orban to boost his ratings ahead of elections. 🤡 And then he’d be on stage screaming: “Zelenskyyyy…”

Because the president of the United States is the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. It's just that simple.

This war in the Middle East has produced something that has terrified Aucklanders to their very core. The need to use public transport.

Zelensky is everything that Trump is not. Trump hates that. Good!

❗️Ukrainian experts in the Middle East were shocked by US air defense tactics, citing the use of up to 8 Patriot missiles per drone and $6M interceptors against $70K UAVs, while poorly concealed radars were destroyed by cheap drones, The Times reports.

@jayinkyiv.bsky.social Applause in the European Parliament as Hungary's obese Russian-backed stooge Orban is called a useful idiot and tool of Putin. 3/19/2026 Video on X : x.com/jayinkyiv/st...

This is the quintessence of narcissistic sociopathy. And just plain stupidity. From @anneapplebaum.bsky.social:

Turns out Toyota Carollas come with a huge amount of on road costs

Headline: Grocery commissioner puts supermarkets on notice. The supermarkets:

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

Yep. Even a know nothing jag off like me can see this. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

The irony of the government being taken to court for cutting climate policies that would have significantly reduced NZ’s oil consumption from cars - our biggest user - and freight, just as the country faces an oil shock is ... difficult to ignore www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

The future for this country is depressing. Even if this govt is voted out it will take years to reverse some of the damage and not confident Labour will do what’s fully needed. If the coalition gets a second term & it’s looking quite likely it’s going to be grim. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I have a feeling the wizards at Treasury might be under cooking their forecasts again. No way is that worst case. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...