Same ol' Westcoastrogue
@westcoastrogue.bsky.social
Hoping for the best. No. 286,584 on here.
I read this that the 1%ers don't like this kind of thing, but it's not actually so bad that they go as far as moving (ie it's not really impoverishing them, they just don't like the IDEA of more tax).
Hello #nzpol !
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I read this that the 1%ers don't like this kind of thing, but it's not actually so bad that they go as far as moving (ie it's not really impoverishing them, they just don't like the IDEA of more tax).
Dude's got range
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Dude's got range
I'd quite like to see reports of dirtbags & creeps also cover what their internet & media diet is too. It'd be interesting to be able to map the poisoning y'know?
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I'd quite like to see reports of dirtbags & creeps also cover what their internet & media diet is too. It'd be interesting to be able to map the poisoning y'know?
Someone net savvy should buy up coalitionofchaos.net or whatever and just run a permanent scroll of every thing that thing govt has botched or half-arsed. It'd be about a million pages.
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Someone net savvy should buy up coalitionofchaos.net or whatever and just run a permanent scroll of every thing that thing govt has botched or half-arsed. It'd be about a million pages.
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We have some good neighbors.
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We have some good neighbors.
So with Labour sticking with Hipkins while McAnulty is right there kinda feels like the All Blacks picking Luke McAllister over Dan Carter just to see if they can win without him.
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
So with Labour sticking with Hipkins while McAnulty is right there kinda feels like the All Blacks picking Luke McAllister over Dan Carter just to see if they can win without him.
Furthermore, I think Luxon should confirm now (seeing as he raised it) what he'd like to sell off. I reckon:
- water
- power
- health
- ACC
- Kiwibank
- NZPost
- Pamu
- water
- power
- health
- ACC
- Kiwibank
- NZPost
- Pamu
A mature conversation? Ok then. I sincerely think that politicians who have sold public assets without getting everyone's approval should be jailed for theft, and people who bought it should be done for receiving stolen property.
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Furthermore, I think Luxon should confirm now (seeing as he raised it) what he'd like to sell off. I reckon:
- water
- power
- health
- ACC
- Kiwibank
- NZPost
- Pamu
- water
- power
- health
- ACC
- Kiwibank
- NZPost
- Pamu
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Who did this? Coz we should definitely be friends 🤣 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Who did this? Coz we should definitely be friends 🤣 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol
A mature conversation? Ok then. I sincerely think that politicians who have sold public assets without getting everyone's approval should be jailed for theft, and people who bought it should be done for receiving stolen property.
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
A mature conversation? Ok then. I sincerely think that politicians who have sold public assets without getting everyone's approval should be jailed for theft, and people who bought it should be done for receiving stolen property.
So to journos having reckons about Labour being tainted by TPM's issues, I ask have they honestly put the same scrutiny on NZFirst being infiltrated by cookers, or ACT being a local proxy of the atlas network and how that reflects on National?
Yeah. thought so.
Yeah. thought so.
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
So to journos having reckons about Labour being tainted by TPM's issues, I ask have they honestly put the same scrutiny on NZFirst being infiltrated by cookers, or ACT being a local proxy of the atlas network and how that reflects on National?
Yeah. thought so.
Yeah. thought so.
Personally I don't think Nicola Willis really believes her economic policies will help average people. She knows it's all about the big end of town, lower taxes, having medical insurance etc etc. Saying she cares about jobs, cost of living etc, is an act I don't believe for a second.
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Personally I don't think Nicola Willis really believes her economic policies will help average people. She knows it's all about the big end of town, lower taxes, having medical insurance etc etc. Saying she cares about jobs, cost of living etc, is an act I don't believe for a second.
You mean it's not currently free? Fuck's sake. Where are our priorities?
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
You mean it's not currently free? Fuck's sake. Where are our priorities?
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FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy
Yeah put dental on it too
The Labour Party is promising free cervical screening to New Zealanders - the latest addition to its recently announced “Medicard”.
Labour would make cervical screening free
The Labour Party is promising free cervical screening to New Zealanders - the latest addition to its recently announced “Medicard”.
dlvr.it
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Yeah put dental on it too
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The only explanation I can imagine for the entirety of Cuomo’s campaign is that he has some kind of humiliation fetish. If true, I want to congratulate him on what I assume will be an epic nut tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The only explanation I can imagine for the entirety of Cuomo’s campaign is that he has some kind of humiliation fetish. If true, I want to congratulate him on what I assume will be an epic nut tonight
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This is the greatest last sentence ever written in an obituary. defector.com/dick-cheney-...
Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector
At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a ...
defector.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is the greatest last sentence ever written in an obituary. defector.com/dick-cheney-...
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1. Campaign on big issues that are directly relevant to your voters
2. Don't get distracted from point one
3. Present as a decent human with manageable baggage
4. Don't be old as fuck.
Go forth and do likewise
2. Don't get distracted from point one
3. Present as a decent human with manageable baggage
4. Don't be old as fuck.
Go forth and do likewise
Several European left-wing officials said they had been in contact with members of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in New York in the hope of emulating his success in future local elections.
www.politico.eu/article/zohr...
www.politico.eu/article/zohr...
Europe’s left flocks to New York to take notes on Mamdani’s meteoric rise
Several European left-wing officials said they had been in contact with members of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in New York in the hope of emulating his success in future local elections.
www.politico.eu
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
1. Campaign on big issues that are directly relevant to your voters
2. Don't get distracted from point one
3. Present as a decent human with manageable baggage
4. Don't be old as fuck.
Go forth and do likewise
2. Don't get distracted from point one
3. Present as a decent human with manageable baggage
4. Don't be old as fuck.
Go forth and do likewise
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
Ah yes I see now it was the asbestos that made me feel weird after many many long days at the Fitz drinking reckless amounts of grog and smoking doobs in the carpark.... www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Asbestos scare sees school shut after massive blaze in abandoned bar
Multiple crew were able to control the fire at an abandoned Palmerston North pub the old Fitz Bar by around 9pm on Thursday.
www.stuff.co.nz
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Ah yes I see now it was the asbestos that made me feel weird after many many long days at the Fitz drinking reckless amounts of grog and smoking doobs in the carpark.... www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Cool so now dairy farmers can go to the French government for handouts eh?
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Cool so now dairy farmers can go to the French government for handouts eh?
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A bit of a long thread on the strategy and cultural war the right is surging ahead with here in Aotearoa (while I’m tired and awake at a hospital bedside).
Fermenting from a few things, including a NZ democracy conference in Wellington last week and good chats with friends #NZPol
Fermenting from a few things, including a NZ democracy conference in Wellington last week and good chats with friends #NZPol
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A bit of a long thread on the strategy and cultural war the right is surging ahead with here in Aotearoa (while I’m tired and awake at a hospital bedside).
Fermenting from a few things, including a NZ democracy conference in Wellington last week and good chats with friends #NZPol
Fermenting from a few things, including a NZ democracy conference in Wellington last week and good chats with friends #NZPol
This kind of "analysis" is pointless. What about a piece that looks at similar funds overseas that have worked and ones that haven't and the lessons to be learnt? Perhaps a deep-dive on what kind of projects such a fund could, er, fund & why do they struggle to attract $$ from traditional investors.
October 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This kind of "analysis" is pointless. What about a piece that looks at similar funds overseas that have worked and ones that haven't and the lessons to be learnt? Perhaps a deep-dive on what kind of projects such a fund could, er, fund & why do they struggle to attract $$ from traditional investors.
This is good from the Greens - really sticking it to the Govt. I feel like there's a developing attitude on the left ie with Zohran Mamdani, Zack Polanski, Kat Abughazaleh where they're really calling out the right and I think it's working.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Greens accuse government of 'clownish' smear campaign over mega strike
The party has savaged the government's response to the looming mega-strike.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is good from the Greens - really sticking it to the Govt. I feel like there's a developing attitude on the left ie with Zohran Mamdani, Zack Polanski, Kat Abughazaleh where they're really calling out the right and I think it's working.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work
December 1, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work
So Luxon was on the news this morning saying we have no money, then at lunchtime Labour announce a policy about the future, then suddenly Luxo has a couple of billion to spend on roads?
Smells like panic eh?
Smells like panic eh?
October 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM
So Luxon was on the news this morning saying we have no money, then at lunchtime Labour announce a policy about the future, then suddenly Luxo has a couple of billion to spend on roads?
Smells like panic eh?
Smells like panic eh?