Why do the smarter ghouls push so hard for private pensions? Basic gist is that the vampiric finance industry wants the whole fking world investing in their funds... so that they can extract their rent from our collective gamble on the future price of shares. Anyway, more myths to bust... [5/n]

Looks like a good time in the news cycle to tackle three big myths 🧵 ❌ NZ pension costs are an unsustainable burden ❌ Seriously, no, for lots of reasons. 1. Our current Govt spending on pensions is low compared to most other advanced economies. And... [1/n]

That smell on Winston Peters' breath isn't uranium - it's Netanyahu's arse. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

fuck this pissweak, useless, waste of oxygen, toiletbreath, shit-for-brains government #nzpol

Nitrate-contaminated drinking water and $11 butter. Yay, us. 😞

There goes the First Amendment.

These wars are going to spread, aren’t they. 🥺 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Bad bet. #nzpol Listener cartoon from early 2024

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

It would take less than ten (10) people in Congress & less than two (2) Supreme Court justices TO STOP ALL THIS‼️

National promised 1000 social homes would continue being built in Auckland each year. They've done 45. Labour oversaw 18,000 over its term. National is now at -577. Incredible #nzpol

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

The much vaunted primary sector jobs revival... Yeah, nah. (4/n)

A pussy and a pair of tits

If you meet a candidate who's signed TPU/ACT pledge, ask “What are baseline costs required to sustain our region? What will we lose from this? What are risks to to ignoring pipes, sewerage, road etc What is backed in contingency & when they look blankly, ask why they signed this pledge #nzpol

Health NZ illegally hid staffing data for over a year to conceal their systemic understaffing of our public health. More than half of all day shifts and more than 1/3 of evening shifts last year were understaffed. The Ombudsman ruled that concealment illegal. #nzpol #kiwi

I am no fan of Chris Bishop, but I’m fine with him finally telling the truth about NZ’s housing-as-investment problem, and trying to do something about it.

We’ve published an Open Letter calling on NZ leaders to deliver risk-based AI regulation & a national oversight body. AI has huge potential, but harms (deepfakes, gendered abuse, bias) are real and rising. Read the Letter (and sign it if you agree!) #nzpol regulateai.nz

One of the drivers of the cost of living crisis is spiralling insurance cost, and one of the drivers of that is the cost of climate-amplified extreme weather events. So when Luxon Govt, Fonterra, and oil cos fight efforts to cut emissions, they are adding to the cost www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

What a fucking embarrassment.

I’d take an mRNA vaccine to boost my immunity against a virus over horse dewormer, bleach, bright light or chloroquine any day of the week.

I threw the sandwich but I did not kill the deputy

WE FUCKING TOLD YOU SO #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Pfff, yeah right. Even nat voters think she sucks. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

NZ has now paid 120% of the full cost of 2 next generation, hybrid ferries for *checks notes* nothing at all. Those ferries were on track for 2025 & 2026 delivery. Extra points: our only rail enabled ferry is being retired on Monday & maintenance costs have doubled Should be sackable #nzpol

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

"Art of the deal", lol

Chlöe Swarbrick at "peak theatrics" says man who drove car up parliament steps to distract everyone from the "Tim Jago thing"

Key point being (as I'm sure everyone on this thread knows) you can't argue the alternative choice was 15k more deaths & "life as normal". The alternative was 15k more deaths plus overwhelmed hospitals, a traumatized healthcare workforce, a borked economy AND months of restrictions + closures

"That brings total project costs for the scrapped iReX ferry project to $671m." DOWN THE FUCKING GURGLER. And no ferries. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol

After undermining and/or cancelling infrastructure projects all over the motu, these pricks show up for photos and ribbon cutting and crow about how great it is. Weasels, the lot of them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

This is the camera footage Shane Jones and his industry donors want to keep hidden from the public with their proposed changes to fishing laws. They don't want you to see all the dolphins, seals and albatrosses they kill and fish dumping. You can see it at 28.25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkgX...

What a cunt.

Fuck AI.

It's because we're all bogans. www.rnz.co.nz/life/lifesty...

I’ll give them this- they’re finding a lot of different ways to say “let them eat cake”

If I believed in hell, Hobson's Pledge would burn in it.

He was just bloody good on RNZ Morning Report, slamming both the Coalition for this crappy bit of lawmaking, and journalists for not really holding them to account to for it. Enjoyed that enormously, FWIW. (Because luxon gives zero fucks about good lawmaking, and is generally inept anyway)

Tax. The. Rich.

Every country has its big lie moment. This was the right's - the economy. National inherited a AA+/AAA credit economy, one of the lowest OECD debt to GDP ratios, “better than expected” finances & positive growth expectations. Importantly Treasury always forecasted inflation drops & no recession.

Sooooooooo back on track. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

This much I know about the changes to secondary education: While one in ten New Zealanders rely on food parcels to eat, and one in a thousand New Zealanders live rough, a huge number of young people will struggle to achieve their true potential whatever happens with NCEA.

Bishop canned 1500 new home builds. Potaka threw people out of emergency housing onto the street. Chhour slashed funding to community services. All of us are struggling, services are slashed to bare bones, families already overcrowded. What did these out-of-touch Ministers think would happen?!

Just walked past the new Elon musk Tesla diner in Hollywood. Lots of protesters making lots of noise. I ❤️LA.

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

Let’s call it what it is. Scrapping pay equity claims for women, then saying limiting human rights is “justified” to protect employers, isn’t neutral. It’s misogyny baked into lawmaking. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

My grandmother was a born-again Assembly of God happy clapper, and she informed me, when I was a pretty small kidlet, that Michael Hill was the leader of a band of witches. True story. (Also, Rainbow Brite was satanic, apparently).

More and more back-on-track-ness. 👍😀 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...