WTF?

www.beehive.govt.nz/release/gove...

Has there ever been a government in NZ that hated free speech & endorsed cancel culture as much as this one?

It's time for the biggest triennial battle in Auckland!
Who will join the Golden Eagle club, placing 3rd for Auckland Mayor. Past 🥉 luminaries include:

2010 Colin Craig 8.83%
2013 Stephen Berry 3.97%
2016 Chlöe Swarbrick 7.33%
2019 Craig Lord 8.04%
2022 Craig Lord 6.18%

Oi, Labour people! You need to replace your leader.

If your Chippy tries to corral everyone to the "centre" we just get another Labour-led govt that is devoted to neolib continuity and alienates an increasingly hard-pressed electorate. Do you seriously want us to end up like the US?

1/200 S2E163 - US and Them

Western governments, led by the US, continue to become more fascist. NZ PM Christopher Luxon engages in open voter suppression. NZ refuses to recognise Palestine & continues to be complicit in genocide

w/ @oriwa.bsky.social @l11p.bsky.social @kyledchurch.bsky.social

as the famous musical saying goes, when the string is loose then hamas is loose, when the string is tight then hamas will fight. nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.

This is why I say Trump's line on Korea 'after listening for 10 minutes, I realised it's not so easy' is the ur-text for his foreign policy. He is simultaneously aggressively incurious, happy to flipflop & easily influenced.

www.bbc.com/news/live/cp...

Palestine has been hit with more tons of bombs in 2 years than the total of London, Dresden, Hamburg, Hiroshima & Nagasaki in WW2.

Now the UK, Australia & Canada decide that while they continue to arm Israel, they will make recognition of Palestine conditional on the victim unilaterally disarming.

If you read headlines you could be forgiven for thinking Shane Jones/ New Zealand First want to renationalise the electricity market.
Jones wrote a letter about options for changing regulatory settings to produce more gas... & even that isn't NZF policy.
The headlines were just not accurate.

Great point, def truth to that. But even so, I think a significant degree of the choice of language is based on anticipated outcomes.

Who do you think makes the decision that an MP should resign?

These Ministers can break basically any rules & never get fired. So media has largely retired using words like 'embattled' or 'disgraced', because they know they won't get resignations. The idea of media pressure forcing a Minister out was always made up.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Thank you for listening 🙏

Also it cracks me up how these 2 headlines are a year apart.

sorry stuart but you must be This Divorced 📈 to ride this gravy train

Haven't seen a turnout comparison after the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election so I chucked this together

Please Don't Make Erica Stanford Leader, Auckland hates it in the briar patch

they just want everyone to have fun.

Most Nat voters wanted Act in Govt & most Nat voters wanted a single Party govt.

A higher % of voters from National, Labour & Act wanted NZF in government than the % who actually voted for NZF.

Most Nat voters want Act to be in Govt. Most Labour voters want Greens in Govt.

Interesting how unpopular one-party govt has become.

my prime minister told me australia keeps employing his nurses so I asked how many nurses he has and he said he just goes to asia and gets a new nurse afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding asian nurses to australia and then his daughter started crying

1/200 S2E155 - No Take, Only Throw

This week - austerity & attacks on the public sector. This govt has declared war on teachers & healthcare workers, alongside renters, young people & the working class in general

w/ @l11p.bsky.social @mythros.bsky.social @bootstheory.bsky.social @pmax.bsky.social

ok hear me out. what about Local Water Done Badly

This is exactly the sort of news story the regime is attempting to prevent with its move to classify health professionals as public servants in the Pae Ora Amendment Bill.

I was away when this came out, but have finally listened & of course it's a banger.
Put this ep at the top of your list.
A perspective you are unlikely to hear anywhere else & on top of that... he's right.