Flying Pig Monkey is an apt moniker.

America is a failed state. Has been for some time. It has more debt to foreign nations than it is able to afford. The Euro Zone has more people than USA.
USA is now ruled by Trumptler. ICE are the new brownshirts.
USA is a nation on the descent.
It’s fun watching Rome fall in real time.

I still don’t understand how a wildly unpopular PM, leader of a party doing wildly unpopular things, is still front runner to form a govt after Election 2026???

The mind boggles.

For a few more decades before it gives up the ghost and becomes the 7th state, assuming QLD votes yes along with the other 5 that will. Australia’s extraction of wealth from NZ via banks will inevitably lead NZ to the only viable option of joining the federation. NZ has no 50 year plan to not.

I recall an actual investigative news story (rather than uncritical PR republish) in like 2015 where it was revealed that these business con surveys are only completed by 70-odd people who all are involved in MNCs and Large Businesses and has no input from actual entrepreneurs and SME owners.

Massive fan of the Canterbury crusaders when he was a wee nipper too!*

*before the crusaders even existed.

Trump has already started laying the groundwork for cancelling elections during a “war”. Trump doesn’t care about mid terms as SCOTUS already say no criminal charges for things done as POTUS.

War will begin in 2028, as Trump will want to avoid any voting on 11/5/2028.

Declaring that USA would “run” Venezuela is Trump’s Anschluss. Wanting to annexe or purchase Greenland, along with talk of annexing Canada, is all in that same vein.

90 years ago, this all happened before. It all will happen again. Trump is doing his best to repeat Hitler.

ICE are the new brownshirts. In 50 years, the name Trump will, and should, evoke the same level of vitriol as the name Hitler.

Trump is all but following the Hitler playbook. Except Trump’s wanting to get rid of all people of colour, white non-USA citizens, and others who don’t agree with him.

Yeah, but the demoncrats are so pathetically lily livered that not a single candidate will campaign on this. They’ll put up some old has been as their 2028 White House candidate. But it won’t matter as Trump will start WWIII in 2028 and claim USA can’t have elections during a war.

Need something similar to Australia’s health privacy laws which provide for $50 million penalties if private sector companies don’t take due care of health documents. (Mainly due to AUs acceptance of the americanisation of the health insurance scam). NZs $10k global fine, after court, is pathetic.

Adelaide festival organisers have obviously capitulated to the zionist enabled IHRA definition of “anti-semitism” which includes criticism of the Israeli Governments actions.

Criticising a genocidal government is not anti-semitic.

This sums up the USA in a nutshell.

When did congress authorise this act of war?

I thought MMH had been outsourced to an overseas dev, with management relinquished to NZ once built?

Time for a government, any government, to grow a pair and set a cap on CEO pay to be no more than say 10x the salary of the lowest paid outsourced contractor (ie cleaner).

The downside of outsourcing to an overseas company.

Perhaps a future government might dare to dream about generating a “Ministry of Apps” that hires NZ based coders, developers and UI analysts, and applies an all of govt approach.

Lol. That’s called forward thinking. Can’t have that in NZ.