"Gosh that little lady seems to have got it wrong, let me wade in with my big man brain and explain it to her"
Stop right there, Sport, here is a bin, get in.
@asphodelmoon
I love the way that he associates "bad behaviour" with "masculine traits" - my dude, you are so close......so close to working it out.
It will change nothing. Really really hope he never breeds.
Kinda feel the need to remind everyone that while a couple of rich dudes were doing space tourism in a pandemic, Dolly Parton was funding vaccine research with her money. The only reason Dolly isnt richer than those wankers is that she keeps giving her money away.
#DollyStan4Life
Notice how Labour's approach to getting kids to school was to remove barriers - lunch, period products, no donations
Seymour's plan is just to fine poor families to make their lives harder.
If you support his approach over Labours, you are a horrible person
So just so we are clear:
Fletchers making record profit while building costs soar
Banks making record profits while interest rates rise
Supermarkets are making record profit while the cost of food increases......
This is all accurate, yes?
Maybe corporate greed is the problem...
You get to a LOT of misogyny when you tweet positive things about the PM.
The very specific way that people hate on women still shocks me. And it is very specific.
Has anyone got a good reason to oppose 3 waters? A serious non-racist reason? This is probably our most valuable resource & the smaller a community the worse it is maintained. 3waters will mean that regional water supply will get maintained at the same level as big cities.
Gutting. But too many death threats, too much misogyny. We never deserved her and the media in this country sucks. Live: Jacinda Ardern announces she will resign as prime minister by February 7
Novovax has landed. That should quiet a BIG tract of the anti-vax crowd rushing to get the jab.
Spoiler: they wont, the "anything but Pfizer crowd" will suddenly have an issue with Novovax.
Racists are so boring. One of the coolest things about moving to Aotearoa and having Maori names for govt depts is they are uniquely Kiwi. It’s glorious and melodic but most importantly - unique.
I know some want to beige the fuck out of the place, but I am not one of them
Just to recap;
Drs got a pay cut
Police are in a pay dispute
Disabled children have services and equipment reduced
Children’s lunches getting downgraded
Politicians getting pay increase
Landlords getting tax cuts
Debt massively increasing while income dropping
Back on track?
So apparently people voting Nats in this country voted for:
Landlord handouts
Tobacco handouts
Cuts to health
Cuts to benefit
Less social housing
Asset sales
Well done National voters - were you awful or gullible?
So Wellingtons hospital will be overwhelmed shortly from protestors with dysentery, pink eye, gross mold infections and no doubt COVID.
They will expect those they threatened with hanging to fix them - probably wont even be grateful.
Horrible people,
Genuinely shocked at the amount of cookers opposed to sex education in schools.
There is a certain type of person who wants to keep children ill informed.
Teaching children about their own bodies is as important as maths.
Education protects children from grooming.
Mayor Wayne Brown is quite awful, isnt he? He just said
"Wonder how well Wellington would do in a major earthquake"
Because he was held to account for the response from Auckland Council......
@larryelder
@ShanChan_37
We get you read this one article. But carry on denying peoples lived experience while you were born with every single advantage possible.
@NataliaAntonova
He'd be an amazing soldier. Incredibly fit and agile, upper and lower body strength, stamina, speed, accuracy, discipline. Able to process complex tasks. And a patriot. Amazing.
So it now appears that now Ardern's gone, the govt is ditching all the hard stuff.
So Ardern was the one trying to fix the hard stuff. Man, she was up against it.
@tricia_selin
@RexChapman
As an Aussie in NZ - you are right. Population density varies around the country - like all countries. One thing that drove us, our tiny country had zero slack in our hospital system. We had to protect it - and we did (PM was honest about that - that's important)
If you think Labour "hasn't done enough".....why on earth would you vote for the laziest party on the planet - National - who have only told you what they will repeal? Not one single real policy. That has to be next level acting against your own best interests, doesn't it?
Nobody in New Zealand should work a 40 hour week and not have enough money for a decent life. Nobody on welfare should struggle for the basics.
I don’t think these things are either too much to ask, or unattainable. We just have to decide that the minimum wage and welfare matter
Anyone else find it off that Nationals entire "business"focus is on sunset and unproductive industries:
Tobacco
Oil and Gas
Landlords
No innovation, no added value. Just 'make a quick buck and get out' industries that add nothing to society.
Just in case any Americans are wondering - this doesn’t happen in the rest of the developed world (probably the rest of the world) and this prosecution is infinitely more expensive than the cost of treatment. Get it together USA and provide health care for your people!!
A system in which an educator is charged for helping a sick student obtain medical care they could not afford to pay for is a fundamentally broken system.
Casey Smitherman, used her son's name to get medical treatment for a sick student who didn't have health insurance
A SHERO
Did Seymour get washed away? Haven't seen his smug little dial in the media considering how hard Epsom got smashed....or is he busy with something else we probably should all know about?
15000 kids admitted to star ship with “housing related illnesses” . Who would like to hear landlords complain about how healthy home standards are eating into their massive profits while kids suffer and no health system picks up the bill?
@Breakfaston1
A year ago (approx) everyone was screaming for housing to drop. All the pundits screaming at Labour to fix it. Now that there has been a double digit drop AND 20% increase in first home buyers in the market and the reporting is negative and they are recommending immigration? WTF?
New Zealand voted to fuck up the poor & give handouts to the most wealthy in the hope that trickle down still works.
Australia voted to stay racist & not let the fist nations people have any kind of meaningful place at the table.
All through conservative fear mongering and lies
Just heard that our deficit is $4B less than anticipated - good tax take.
Where are all the victory laps being run for that? Isn't this a great indication of good economic management? In a global pandemic that is screwing the while world?
It still shocks me daily that a chunk of this country voted for landlord welfare over good infrastructure because they were scared that Maori might ask for their stuff back (by stuff I mean all the land stolen that has enriched white families for generations).
Never forget that the protest in Wellington was essentially protesting the government of the day saving their lives from a pandemic in the most effective and fastest way possible.
They only achieved slowing that down.
#Clownvoy2022NZ
#GoHomeConvoy
I have to be honest. I am still not over John Campbell saying that Chris Bishop had done a good job.
Does everything actually think his job is to undermine the COVID response? - because that is all he has done. Anti-New Zealand is how I see Bishop.
I think the reason I like watching Campbell's interviews and cannot stand 5 seconds of Hoskings is that Campbell has a love of life and a basic respect for everyone. Hoskings is so full of grievance and is emotional and angry. He has no joy, no happy. Even his jokes are nasty.
Any looting gangs do is small potatoes. Lets look at the real looting:
Supermarkets
Banks
Fuel companies
Freight companies
Construction
It isnt even tough to investigate - who posted record profits & what is the CEO to shop floor salary ratio.
We just need the political will..
Watching some QI last night and I heard Alan Davis talk about 6 months of lockdown. I think in Aotearoa we forget what an amazing job our govt has done and how easy we have had the pandemic (lack of death trauma) & realise how easy it is to be whiney when we have had it so good.
To all those who are "Labour ruined this country", you have short ungrateful memories. They did that FOR YOU. They put people first. You or someone you loved WOULD have been in that 20,000 with this sized country. Probably several.
AND despite Nats lies, economically back to AAA
So the blow out in “ferry costs” was the earthquake strengthening and future proofing of the docks…..and the work on the docks still needs doing regardless of ferry’s?
How badly did NoFACT fuck this and why is Winston not being asked anything?
@McvicarNeil
@thejstoobs
Yes, because it is legally determined that a CHILD cannot give consent. Think very hard about what you are trying to diminish.
So it looks like Christchurch has totally dodged the Delta bullet.
High vax rate BEFORE Delta hits the community appears to be the way to go.
Vaccines save lives.
It kinda looks like the govt made the right call - again.
Hi
@NicolaWillisMP
So the books were open prior to the election, so how was there ANY surprises? Did you not bother to read it? Or are you just making shit up?
I was deeply upset by the comments made by the Chaplain during Uffinfell's time at King College and I characterised those comments and got a bunch of people rushing to the Chaplains defense, and it bothered me so much. 🧵
A little part of me hopes a man takes the leadership of Labour, simply because then there will not be an expectation of perfection at all times. They will be allowed to be human & there wont be the hideous vitriol. Wins will actually get celebrated.
Isn't that just fucking grim?
Pretty sure when Labour negotiated with Winston they managed it without flying around the country staying in 5 star hotels.....
Luxon is not cheap to keep. He will cut back services, but not his luxury tastes...
@morey000
@SteveRattner
I cannot understand USA obsession with make insurance companies rich. They ad nothing to medical outcomes (other than stress and poverty )
I feel that we blipped over the level of corruption that has Chris Bishop set up a $500k hit job report on KO via text with Bill English that concluded that Bill English’s family company could fIx it.
That was wild corruption.
I sincerely do not understand why farmers are not on the front line of climate change. Surely they will be massively impacted. Possibly, as an industry they will pay the biggest price. They should be lobbying the govt to do more.
Is it just denial or is it dollars or both?
Have I missed it? I was SURE Patrick Gower would have been tweeting every 10-15 minutes about how long Luxon is taking to form government.
He doesn't even have to count or check anything, just get 2 people to agree with him.
Why doesn't Gower care we still dont have a govt?????
FFS Kathryn Ryan - you might have missed it, but I fully understood that mandates were always temporary. It did NOT get buried, some commentators like you chose to bury it. Urrgghhhh
@radionz
Why did a Labour MP lose his portfolio over $15k of long term family owned shares that were obviously immaterial to the deal?
Double standards, just like the media letting this slide. No harassing him at lunch cause he isn’t a brown lady.
Just watched a press conference with NZ PM and California Governor on You Tube. You Tube. Not any of NZ MSM, You fucking Tube. It is wild how they intentionally dismiss her trip. California is the 8th largest economy in the world. Big goddam deal.
The narrative that National are “getting spending under control” is such obvious bullshit. They aren’t “saving” that money or investing it in infrastructure. They are cutting services to give more money to the already rich. That’s all. We won’t save money but the rich will.
So in general, countries run by old white conservative men suffered excessive deaths during COVID. Women run and progressive countries with more social support have done much better.
Media will platform conservative men over and over to attack more successful strategies.
@DonnaBlue88
There is a LOT of lies around having children. This is one of them. Children are are lot of things - responsible for their parents happiness and connection is not one of them.
Heard RNZ replay a bit of Luxon’s interview where he talked about nz dropping the ball on trade deals.
The Key govt secured zero trade deals. Every trade deal we currently have was won by Labour.
Who dropped the ball? Who won trade deals & who didn’t? Come on RNZ, you know this
I truly never expected the Luxon led government to be this incompetent. I expected them to be terrible, I simply expected them to be more competent at it. Like Key: shady as fuck and dodgy as hell, but he could manage an international visit without humiliating the country.
Ardern actually lived quite humbly for a PM.
Look at how much Luxon costs taxpayers while enriching himself.
We pay for him to use 2 freehold properties. At or above market rate. Probably fancier than required
Who wastes money?
Labour spent the money on us not themselves
While everyone is being reminded about the creepy entitled men in National, let us all remember a Senior ACT member currently has name suppression for sexual abuse charges.
Can we stop using "Business Confidence" for anything. It is just mainly rich white dudes getting together to decide how they feel. Emotional BS. Not a measure of anything except how whiney they feel on any particular day. How about we make them deal in facts on feelings?
I love the way the press in this country don’t give a shit that Luxon missed a major deadline. He didn’t get his plan out in time. End of story. Voting opened & one major party in this country, who weren’t even busy running a country,
Should be front page everywhere.
Maybe we should all start calling Luxon at 4pm each day to see how the Uffindell report is coming along. Are meeting deadlines a KPI for Luxon?
#outcomes
I have been on wage subsidy (paid my full wage) and I will NOT be losing my job, because business is picking up. Wage subsidy gave my employer time and space to when businesses suffered. Is tough, but we are building business back with an open domestic economy. Thanks
@nzlabour
Pretty sure that all the men coming to Seymour's defence are not really helping, just reminding us that some men are quite predatory and will blame school girls for he behaviour of a 40 year old man in power.
Everything about this Allen thing looks more and more like National trying to sabotage an important overseas trip by out Prime Minister.
They will undermine our country for a political hit. You should be embarrassed if you support that.
I mean JAG had to cross the floor to show doocey the evidence because he hadn't or choose to ignore & now we find out he hasn't bothered to read the state abuse report
Sack him now
Must be hard watching NZ not let people die while being told that your country had no choice about the death toll. That your country did all it could, when it didn't. I honestly understand not wanting us to succeed, because the implications for your leadership are pretty dire.
There’s a very high profile case involving the exACT party president, Key has an insider trading case hanging over his head,
MacLeod has donations referred to police, Costello acted “contrary to law”, Kruiger intimidated mpi staff
Media lost their minds over PTSD shoplifting.
How can anyone can look at the damage done to the fabric of society by Trump, Johnson and Morrison, and still think that a conservative govt is a good idea?
Seeing all the "OMG the schools are shut" tweets from the right just shows why we cannot have RW govt in with the on going climate disasters we are experiencing. They always resent helping people, & focus on money and "productivity" regardless of how many people are put in peril
Anyone else notice the absolute lack of price gouging on RATs in Aotearoa? Turns out the govt prevented this by they way they approached the RAT distributions and giving them away. You can easily get a RAT for $NZ6, Aus average $AUD15 and USA around $US15.
#churArdern
John Campbell is such a delight. I love his long form interviews. It is really obvious that both Ardern and Campbell are thoughtful and both incredibly astute. It isn't like he isn't holding the govt to account - he is.
I do prefer an intellectually curious Prime Minister
Isn’t it awesome* that this govt is downgrading childrens food to save $100m to give away as free money to rich adults.
*fucked is what I mean. Utterly fucked.
#shitshow
So when a 30 year old mother has died of COVID in Australia, I would like to say again, the economy doesn’t fucking matter. It is the morally right thing to pursue elimination with every fibre of our country.
It is morally the ONLY right direction.
So the supermarket duopoly have all of a sudden been able to hold/drop pricing. They are suddenly concerned about Kiwis and suddenly happy to eat into massive profits....
Wonder why they are doing it now *cough costco*