Exposing damage we're causing to climate, our environment and our futures. We think we can adapt to the
#climatecrisis
. Nothing could be further from the truth!
I've watched for 30 years while dairy farmers have laughed about cow farts, doubled the herd, trashed every river in the country and pushed 4,000 native NZ species to the brink of extinction. I'm over these fuckwits and am now calling them out whenever possible. Join me! 🤓
Here's a picture of a cow floating in the middle of th Pacific Ocean. I've been in the middle of the Pacific. Trust me: it's no place for a cow. This cow drowned in Gulf Explorer 1 with 5,999 other cows. Live exports are banned in New Zealand. Luxon's National will bring it back!
2023 will be the year we look back on as the year where climate change took a very significant turn for the worse. These three graphs should be causing us to panic. Instead, they're hardly getting a mention.
This one shows variation in sea surface temp in the North Atlantic >>>
So let me get this straight. National is full of bullies and Act is full of sex pests. And yet crusty old white people searching for 'decency' and 'law and order' support this shit. WTF is wrong with them?
In case you didn't read the article, shellfish poisoned by dairy farmer effluent in the Firth of Thames are: Mussels, oysters, tuatua, pipi, toheroa, cockles, scallops, catseyes, kina (sea urchin) and all other bivalve shellfish. Note, cooking shellfish does not remove the toxin.
Just while we're all being 'horrified' at the Ku Klux Klan incident in Kaimai over the weekend, know that NAct have invested millions into nurturing the hate that Groundswell farmers started a couple of years ago. This is the result!
#RacistAsFuck
!
The main thing to realise with New Zealand politics is that if you're old, white, selfish, racist, scared and don't give a fuck about future generations, your choice is clear. Vote Luxon!
#VoteNational
!
Just to be clear, b/c we do seem to be neglecting this, it's becoming increasingly evident that the
#ClimateEmergency
won't be something we can 'fix later'. We either fix it now or we commit to a crazy rollercoaster ride into an unknown, unstable future.
You're probably all sick to death of me banging on about cow farmers, but what the fucking fuck, New Zealand!
Friendly reminder! The ex-CEO of planet-wrecking filthy Fed Farmers was sworn in as the Minister of Agriculture for Aotearoa today.🙄
800,000 New Zealanders are drinking water poisoned with toxic nitrate fertiliser. A new map from Greenpeace lets you find out if you’re one of them.
This is about to get a whole lot worse as ex-CEO of Filthy FedFarmers becomes the Ag Minister today.
My partner quits her government job today. 5 years community (nationwide connector); 6 years local government; 7 years central government. She knows the whole system. She refuses to work in Chaos! We're outta here 😄
For years, deniers have been telling us a couple of extra degrees will make for a nice day at the beach. This is what a day at the beach looks like in 2023.
#ClimateBreakdown
#ClimateEmergency
Hey
@iamjohnoliver
! Are you watching New Zealand cigarette lobbyists (AKA NZ Government) led by ex-tobacco lobbyist now MP Chris Bishop supported by MP medical Dr Shane Reti overturn our smokefree legislation to fund tax cuts for the rich?
The only thing you need to know about Chris Luxon and his National Party is they still think
#liveexports
are a good idea. Cows locked in a hold, thrown about, bruised and broken, sick, underfed and dehydrated. Farmers' greed knows no bounds, and National is happy to feed it!
NZers rated recycling as the No.1 personal action they can take to act on climate. It's actually rated 60th as an effective measure.
Only one in ten NZers rated living car free as an effective measure. It's actually No.1🤭
One litre of milk pollutes 1000 litres of water. Dairy is completely terrible for climate, water, forests, wetlands, biodiversity, animal welfare and more. It's the most destructive food you can eat. Quitting
#dairy
has so many benefits for our country. Just say no!
The other thing about Chris Luxon is that if he’s such a nice guy, how come he’s leading a party full of arsehole greedy, selfish, planet-wrecking dickheads? Answer me that!!! 🙄
Dairy farmers tell us how much they love their cows. Yet, every week the news has a story about animal abuse on on farms. Much more happens at the back of the farm where no one can see. I quit dairy because I could no longer consume this cruelty. This photo was the start for me.
And of course New Zealand drowned 6,000 cows in steel cages in the middle of Pacific Ocean. In a typhoon! Imagine what life is like for a cow under the decks in a typhoon, sliding around in their own shit. This is what Luxon and National want to bring back! For farmers' greed!
The only thing you need to know about Chris Luxon and his National Party is they still think
#liveexports
are a good idea. Cows locked in a hold, thrown about, bruised and broken, sick, underfed and dehydrated. Farmers' greed knows no bounds, and National is happy to feed it!
One great thing about Seymour and his meat head mates is that he’s unifying Māori after Pākehā have spent 180 years trying to divide them. Fucking bring it on!! 😁
This beautiful animal's home is being destroyed for palm oil. Every year, New Zealand's imports two million tonnes of palm kernel expeller to feed to dairy cows from these people. Dairy is an environmental disaster!
Hey Wellington! Sick of our Māori and women being 'held to account' for behaviour that white men get away with every second of the day? Let's start standing up for our Māori women. Here's a place to boycott as a start!
Being an ex-smoker, I thought New Zealand’s anti tobacco leg was also the ‘cleverest’ as well as the ‘best’ in the world. It’s takes a special kind of ignorant turd to fuck that up - a three headed push-me-pull-you!
Lots of cis white male rapists and sexual abusers in the news this week. Funny thing - not a single one is a trans person. Not one! Wild that the hate machine can be so wilfully fucking blind to the worst kinds of humans that abound within its ranks!
Amazing the shit that fuckwit dairy farmers get away with. Cows' tails are an extension of their spine. This shit head farmer intentionally manually broke the spines of 116 cows and got a slap on the wrist! Welcome to animal abuse in New Zealand!
Funny old thing! Invercargill Mayor Nobby Clark expresses his anti Māori, anti te reo views in full public view and makes hardly a ripple. Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau forgets to pay for dinner and every RWNJ on the planet digs in. Do we see how racism works in New Zealand?
I'm really not quite sure how selling $20 billion worth of New Zealand assets to international corporate leeches who aren't even permanent residents could ever be considered a good idea to anyone except the absolutely most desperate braindead money grabbers on the planet!
Grant Robertson on Nicola Willis' tax plan:
"It's an inflationary policy. It'll push up the price of housing & it's simply not credible. They will have to make even deeper cuts into public services. It's not even clear who it applies to. Is it residents or is it tax residents?"
Here's a photo of a New Zealand feedlot in Canterbury. You might notice what appears to be a dead cow just below the centre of the photo. This is obviously not 100% grass-fed beef as claimed by our farmers. They are lying to us across the board.
Photo by
@geoffreidnz
New Zealand claims it's beef is grass-fed. Nothing could be further from the truth. These Canterbury feedlots show the true picture of what's happening. Time to end beef and dairy in the country.
It doesn't have to be this way. Look at these pics of a dairy feedlot &
@BallanceNZ
's gas/fertilizer factory.
If I was employed by Jobs for Nature or a Ministry of Green Works, I could help plant new vegetable gardens around the feedlot or build public housing on the factory site
I may be wrong, but I'm not sure that calling New Zealanders "very insular, inward looking, wet, whiny and negative" is the flex that Luxon and National think it is. As wannabe PM, I imagine something more positive might win hearts and minds! 🤣
More fantastic news today!! Our biggest dairy customers are demanding a 50% reduction in emissions across the board. BY 2030! Our farmers were planning 5% by 2030 and next to nothing after that! 🤣
@chrisluxonmp
Kind of weird that you're willing to turn up to face a bunch of kids whose futures you've abandoned with your reckless take on climate and the environment. If only they knew enough to call you out on it 🙄
Once again, I am writing to our Māori partners to apologise for the despicable, embarrassing, shameful and selfish behaviour of my Pākehā brothers and sisters. Yet again, we're moving into a time of 'holding on'. Know that, at least you have some Pākehā holding on with you🤎
National needs Act to form a government. Seymour already said that he will abolish the Ministry for Women. Add Luxon's anti-abortion, anti-contraception stance and we see clearly that both intend to weaken women's rights and remove their control over their bodies. Evil!
Farmers: "Hey scientists! Fix our climate emissions."
Scientists: "Here! We've created animal-free milk using precision fermentation. It's identical to cows' millk with 95% fewer emissions, and it uses 90% less water and 80% less energy."
Farmers:
Thanks to the dedication of The Capital Kiwi Project, the first two kiwi chicks were born in the wild in the Wellington region in over 150 years.
Find out more:
Mīharo! 💚
The thing I look forward to most about a National loss in this year's election is watching the farmers go mental about it and watching Chris Luxon being fired. It's gonna be so good🤣
Make sure everyone you know gets out to vote, people. Start prepping them now! 😊
My understanding is Willis has never been elected as an MP by anyone anywhere in New Zealand. She inherited her seat as list MP from Mr DildoHead Steven Joyce in 2018, lost Wellington Central in 2020 and looks like losing Ohariu in 2023 when the rest of the country flipped blue!
Just to be clear... these photos are from Southland New Zealand in Winter 2023. This is after the government made it's 'best effort' to stop this farmer behaviour.
Southland farmers started Groundswell to fight laws preventing this behaviour among other environmental crimes.
Dairy farmers keep banging on about how it's just a few bad apples that ruin it for everyone, except:
1. they all fight laws that prevent this
2. they never speak out against the bad apples
3. this keeps happening every year
4. they're destroying our country!
Photo
@MattRiverman1
Anyone else seeing john key manipulating the justice system to prevent his son getting thrown in the slammer? The sense of provilege, and the actual privilege, runs deep with these whiteys!
#NationalNotFitToGovern
Te reo Māori lesson for 1 Dec 2023:
1. whakakore - to cancel
2. matatika - fair
3. utu - pay
Brought to you by the letter 'Chris' and the number 'Greed'.
Welcome to New Zealand - the place where 10,000 greedy dairy farmers get a free pass to trash the places we all love and 4,990,000 decent Kiwis pay the price for their profiteering 🙄
Here’s a metaphor for our society - using precious energy to make snow for rich people to play in because the climate emergency is limiting snowfall with the result that future hydro shortfall will increasing the price of electricity for poor people 🙄
Just to add some perspective... seems the cost to New Zealand for benefit fraud every year is $30 million. The cost of tax theft is $7 billion. Rich business owners steal 23 times as much money from New Zealanders as do desperate people below minimum wage on a benefit! Think!
The wheels on the bus go… Actually, the wheels are falling off!
Seymour heavily targets benefit fraud while our very worst thieves - business owners - get a free pass to steal $7 billion every year!
Our previous government ushered in progress towards equity for Māori on a scale I have never seen, and I have been immersed in work towards this end for a couple of decades. To dash the hopes for a better future on the rocks of racism was a very foolish thing to do!
To be clear, Luxon gets $45,000 taxpayer handout for the office he owns. We taxpayers also pay off his residential property in Wellington. AND he's still claiming a clean car discount he hates so much, 'because he's allowed to'. Is that grifting?
And just by the way, Luxon has seven properties, two of which the taxpayer is currently paying for, but he still feels the need to squeeze every last cent out of us that he is entitled to. Key word here is ENTITLED!
Dairy farmers keep banging on about how it's just a few bad apples that ruin it for everyone, except:
1. they all fight laws that prevent this
2. they never speak out against the bad apples
3. this keeps happening every year
4. they're destroying our country!
Photo
@MattRiverman1
Jesus fucking Christ! The corruption just keeps getting worse and worse. Nicotine Willis' dad makes a living off legally defending the people fucking our climate and trying to fuck our environment. Where will it end?
Well well well.
Seems like Daddy is donkey-deep in the oil and gas industry, not only in a legal capacity but also as a managing director, consultant, company director and chairman....
Note: this document is publicly available.
To decent NZers, these are calves. To dairy farmers, they're waste product.
Welcome to the world of bobby calves - male calves that are nothing more than a pain in the arse for dairy farmers. These ones - in hot Ssun without water - are waiting to go to their death. Quit
#dairy
!
Hey everyone!. Nearly everything the government is doing ATM seems to be designed to make us look the other way while they transfer billions to wealthy landlords. Don't be distracted. Keep focussing on the theft from the people of Aotearoa New Zealand! Pass it on if you agree 🫤
Our rivers polluted with e-coli and nitrates from dairy farming on the Hauraki Plains. Now the whole Firth of Thames has a biotoxin outbreak making all shellfish unsafe for human consumption. Our regulators are failing to protect our precious environment
Luxon’s National isn’t dog whistling anymore. He’s barking like a dog. Make no mistake! This election is now about racism, about history, about fairness, about whether you want Aotearoa to return to the 1950s, or you want to move forwards as a nation.
John Key this morning when he realises that the guy he once called “a screaming leftwing conspiracy theorist” has been honoured for his investigative journalism (including into Key’s office in his book Dirty Politics) by the very honours system Key himself brought back.
Whenever I come across a
#climate
denier, I always check their timeline. Inevitably, they’re also a NAct supprting, pro-live export, antivax, meat mad, racist animal farmer. This stuff seems to come as a set.
Last week some bint starved 600 calves to death and an awarded young farmer starved 29 cows to death. The week some Waikato farmer arsehole left more than 180 cattle to fend for themselves. 80 starved to death. Fuck cow farmers! They’re all animal abusers!
Climate denier: ‘Fuck you, Greta!’
Climate change: ‘No, fuck you!’
It doesn’t get much better than this! Thank you, thank you, thank you to whomever took this photo and thank you climate change 😂
Probably an unpopular opinion, but is it time to ban drive throughs? Fat, lazy people sitting in cars chewing through fossil fuel because they can't get off their arses to go inside a building to get coffee should be on the list of things that need crossing out!
The people leading the charge on this are Groundswell. Every time these old gits have a rally, they bring together the very worst in New Zealand society - crusty old white racist farmers and every other kind of planet wrecking, antivax right wing nutjob. We need to make it stop!
@TheMorganics
Same thing going on in New Zealand. Farmers are fighting tooth and nail to maintain the right to continue destroying our rivers. Please avoid New Zealand meat and dairy and tell everyone you know. It's a complete disaster for our environment with everything in huge decline!
Probably a really unpopular opinion, but is Israel using the holocaust as an excuse to do whatever TF it likes? Does the world shy away from reining in Israel for the same reason? Why has the UN been unwilling to step in to control what has been happening in Palestine for 75 yrs?
My understanding is that if you hang out in bowling clubs, Fed Farmers meetings and rest homes, you'll start feeling that New Zealanders are very insular, inward looking, wet, whiny and negative.
Can someone please get Chris Luxon out of these places? It's just not good for him!
Does anyone give a flying rat's behind that this farmer is losing $150,000 per year? Feels more like a cause for extreme celebration that this man's unbridled greed is being curtailed 🎉🍾🥳🎉🪅🥳
Families all over New Zealand know the shock and heartfelt pain of a police officer arriving on their doorstep to tell them their lives have been crushed forever through loss of a loved one in a car crash. Speed kills! Know that Luxon and National are pitching for more of this 👇
Jesus! I’m so gonna try really hard to quit twitter once this stoopid election is finished. The place has been invaded by right wing shitheads 😂 (Wish I was laughing. Not really 🙄)
Good riddance to this racist, shit-head, cow farmer lobbyist selling his whackjob climate denier BS. I see he has a new account. Watching and waiting!🤣
It works out, behind the smokescreen of rage about te reo, tobacco, boosting fossil fuels, cancelling public transport, and all The Skinhead's other crimes, he is conducting another massive transfer of wealth from the HaveNots to the HaveYachts. Are we all watching this, people?
"...Shane Jones says the Waitangi Tribunal – and the courts – need to start listening to parliament."
How fucking dumb is this screwball! He doesn't understand even the very most basic fundamentals of our system. 6% of New Zealanders voted for this turd! Are you fucking seious?
With mining interests anticipating a boom on the West Coast under the new government, we asked newly elected local MP Maureen Pugh whether logging of native trees could follow
Whena's full story:
The very great thing about Groundswell is that... Are you serious? There's nothing great about Groundswell. Here they are railing against supermarkets trying to reduce emissions. Farmers! 🙄
The wheels on the bus go… Actually, the wheels are falling off!
Seymour heavily targets benefit fraud while our very worst thieves - business owners - get a free pass to steal $7 billion every year!
As a kid, I used to ride through Ruakura Research Centre every day, past cows with metal plates bolted onto their sides for scientific experiments. Oh, the unrelenting joy of being able to stick your hand inside a cow for the
#dairy
industry!