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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 8h

And with the parents "smoking, drinking and buying lotto tickets" with their disability money (thanks Penny Simmonds, I will never forget that disgusting statement) what hope do the kids have.
The cruelest government both in policies and words.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 10h

Oh yeah... #nzpol

Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 10h

Has everyone seen this? Seems significant that we are not just linked to 5 Eyes through sharing intelligence but also now in military cahoots with them against PRC. I'm not okay with this. I don't want to be militarily aligned with the authoritarian US regime. 😱 newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/s...

Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

The National-led government has been avoiding questions about whether it is joining in preparations for a US military confrontation with China. A series of Official Information Act requests on this su...

newsroom.co.nz

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 12h

Unless he does a deal with whoever takes his spot to be in the 2026 honours list.

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Good C**t @c-u-next-time.bsky.social · 23h

"The deficit was based on the government's new formula, which excluded the cost of the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC)."

Cooking the books and still half a billion more in debt than last year?

Who are the "economic vandals" again? 👀👀👀 #NZPol

Government deficit of $9.3b shows 'progress', Finance Minister Nicola Willis says

The deficit - $869 million lower than predicted in May - was based on the government's new formula, which excludes the cost of ACC.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 15h

As always, it sounds good until you get into the detail. JK saying all the things he's learned over the last 20 years is what everyone now needs. Nope. Not even close. Once again the neurodivergent community are clearly forgotten and how about those with mental illness other than depression?

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

Very naughty!

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

I predict 27 or 28 November that he will "graciously" step aside because that's the date he gets his lifelong PM entitlements that he's entitled to.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn't that be brilliant! Or sanction Seymour for using his phone constantly in the house, including recording videos which he's not allowed to do.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

He's scared of losing his white privilege if he allows any indigenous customs into parliament.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

*likes to think

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

It's interesting that he lives to think he's getting one over on you. When I spoke to him at his street corner meeting about gun control he slipped on something about pronouns and looked for my reaction. I just ignored it and he was disappointed. He's such a teenager.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

bsky.app/profile/veba...

Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

Another haka and another display of Gerry's wonderful understanding of tīkanga.

A sign from the 2024 hikoi with many faces of Gerry Brownlee looking upset or just bored and the words "NO DON'T DO THAT"

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

Another haka and another display of Gerry's wonderful understanding of tīkanga.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

So when he's in the House and supposed to be participating in QT etc but we see him on his phone... this is what he's doing?

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 2d

So I guess you're from the US right? I'm not and I find that to be a really basic argument and it's false. I've met and spent time amongst many Palestinians in my country, Aotearoa. They are warm and kind. They meet with and share meals with Jewish folk. Maybe go and meet some more people.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 2d

Rana, Youssef and Samuel are in Jordan! They have their passports but no possessions. They are in a hotel that they are funding themselves... no taxpayer money is helping them. ❤️💚🖤
#nzpol

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 2d

The scarf is a keffiyah and has hundreds of years of history behind it. The Palestinians and their supporters do not have lose their history and culture in order to survive.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 3d

Yup, people had done so before I saw it (and the post had only been up for 22 minutes!)

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Paul. I've been following Bridge's misogyny since his time in breakfast tv. He has always been demeaning to female politicians but especially Chlöe. He has seemed joyful in his bile ridden rants, often teaming up with Seymour to try and discredit her. He's a woman hating hack.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 3d

😔

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 3d

That's an excellent insight. Totally agree.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 3d

They deserve it but the Palestinians deserve it more. Shine the light on them, as Greta would say.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 3d

It's sickening. It will blow over in a few days but it's so gross to be anywhere online or near media today. We should be listening instead to Greta talking about the genocide but instead we're distracted by this faux outrage created by the instigators of hate.

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