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Thought Criminal

How many Jacinda Ardern supporters does it take to change a light bulb?

None. She tells them it’s done, and they all clap in the dark

Last repost. I promise.
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July 23, 2022 8:04am
- Scott
  
  The other day in discussion of masks and the lockdown measures generally, it was claimed that things would have been the same under National. They would have been just as draconian as Labour has been.
  I disagree with this premise and here’s why.
  
  First of all Labour has a spirit of socialist control. By that I mean at a deep level socialism is like a religion. And under the religion of socialism it’s essential to control people, because you know that you are heading for a socialist utopia. You believe in the maxim “to make an omelette you have to crack a few eggs”.
  
  At a deep, almost unconscious level, their attitude is to control people and to tell them what to do. They believe they know better because they are the enlightened ones and they see all that is wrong in New Zealand. So they use this as an opportunity to make radical changes. For example the new abortion law came in early in 2020 while we were in the grip of the beginning of the pandemic. While everyone was distracted a far-reaching radical piece of legislation was introduced and passed with very little comment from the media.
  
  When the pandemic hit they cheerfully closed down all businesses, with the exception of supermarkets and pharmacies. Command control of the economy is a feature, not a bug, of socialist governance. They also gained total control of the media with tens of millions of dollars given to promote left-wing causes. We now know the money is contingent on the media continuing to push the party line and if they don’t push the party line they have to pay the money back. We also know that most journalists are left-leaning and in their hearts agree with most of what a left-wing government does. We also see that given the rise of populist movements like Pres Trump, much of the media have abandoned any pretense of objectivity and have become left-wing activists.
  
  Now what would the situation have been under National? If National was the government, which it should have been sans Winston Peters, then I would argue things would have been completely different. First of all National does not have the spirit of socialist control. They believe at some level in free markets, they do not wish to turn us into a socialist utopia, they tend to be more measured and conservative and reluctant to introduce radical legislation, particularly in a pandemic or another emergency situation.
  
  Secondly they would not have the media on their side. They would not pay the media to push the party line. This is corruption on a massive scale and anathema to everything National believes in. Also they do not believe in command control of the economy.
  
  So under National, presumably Bill English, I imagine there would have been lockdowns of some sort? Every Western government appears to have followed China and then Italy and imposed some sort of lockdown. But it would not have been as long, it would not have been as drastic, as we have suffered. They would not have passed radical legislation and they would not seek to have changed New Zealand beyond all recognition. So the country we have now would essentially be the country we had prior to 2020.
  
  One would imagine that national would have opened up much sooner. They would be more sympathetic to the pleas of businesses and small businesses and got things going a lot quicker. They wouldn’t have spent as much money. The size of government would probably be half of what it is at the moment. We wouldn’t have had constant messaging on all platforms telling us to wear a mask, wash our hands, get a jab, etc, etc, etc.
  
  In summary National would have been more conservative, spent less money, locked us down a lot less and at the end of it we would have a country that is still recognisable. Also we wouldn’t now have a daily dose of ram raids and gun violence. Because if National knows how to do anything it is to crack down hard on criminal activity.
  
  While one would wish National to roll back the lefts agenda far more aggressively, it is also important to understand that we would still have the country of New Zealand that our ancestors bequeathed to us. National would adhere to its basic principles of freedom and free markets. Sadly Labour is giving us a trial run of socialism and that is what we suffer today.
  
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  July 23, 2022 8:11am
  - My
    
    Yup, and a Minister of Health that could understand and challenge the public health officials.
    
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    July 23, 2022 8:53am
  - Simon
    
    Wrong Scott
    
    Check this clown
    
    Officials proposed door to door vaccination and wider availability of less invasive testing (ie RATs) in September 2021. All consistent with
    @NZNationalParty
    ideas. Shame the government didn’t listen.
    
    https://mobile.twitter.com/cjsbishop/status/1549531955976638464?cxt=HHwWgMDUwdXGhYErAAAA
    
    National proposed a door to door coercion vaxx roll out.
    
    Bishop from only a few days ago. Given now everyone should know the vaxxs are rubbish
    
    National are Clown World
    
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    July 23, 2022 8:59am
    - leoj
      
      Amen.
      National have become just slightly less woke than the left. A bunch of pussies.
      
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      July 23, 2022 12:27pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    National would have demanded far more testing of a Vaccine that is not a vaccine. National would be asking manufacturers to please explain why they now say we need boosters.
    The whole fiasco has been a joke.
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:14am
    - mawm
      
      I can’t agree that National would have asked for more testing. They have all been captured by the false narrative of a calamitous event that would kill so many.
      
      The whole fiasco has been deliberate and malevolent.
      
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      July 23, 2022 3:36pm
  - JimBobJoe
    
    Maybe Scott.
    
    But the key feature of National is passivity. They equate this with being conservative, but in reality they are just a safe pair of hands working out how to actually deliver pieces of the puzzle lumped in by Labour which all lead to the Socialist nirvana.
    
    Timid with no guide principles, big talk in opposition but quiet acceptance and tinkering when in Power. Its the National Party way.
    
    National equals a managerial approach to governance which leads to a steady slip Left as National follow Labour as sure as the sun sets and rises daily.
    
    And this is a huge problem. We get rhetoric like Key decrying WFF as Middle class welfare, etc while in opposition AND then not getting rid of it when becoming PM. Yes they tightened the eligibility to WFF but it remained and it is the worst type of prop, both for workers who become reliant on it and employers who love as it suppresses wage growth
    
    People will say you need to be pragmatic, take the electorate with you etc etc.
    
    Actually NO! Most of the electorate pay zero attention to politics. They rely on the Media… and we all know fairness, balance and accuracy play little part in NZ media reporting on politics…
    
    The NZ media will always attack National, and National stupidly take a go slow process to reform as a result. Well its high time to say eff you to the NZ Media and just ram policy through and dismantle the Socialist BS permeating our government agencies and institutions.
    
    If that is done it will deliver economic growth and money in peoples pockets changes ideology. It is that simple.
    
    Reform the Tax system, make the first 25 to 30K of earnings tax free hence removing the need for workers to need a WFF top up. Dismantle the massive government machinery put in place – don’t put head count caps on, sack a raft of government employees and simplify regulations and rules to mean you dont need all those policy workers and enforcement agents. Let business grow and create jobs and wealth.
    
    Wont happen of course – NZ will end up with the wets like Chris Bishop run it in 10 years and the softly, softly descent into 3rd world status will continue
    
    National need to run a message base on NZ being a land populated by settlers who where bold and self reliant. And from that say we as New Zealanders of 21st century need to be the same to honour our founders, Maori and Non Maori, through our self reliance and enterprising spirit.
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:15am
    - peterwn
      
      The biggest issue for the next election is the preservation of democracy. Labour is already chipping away at democracy as far as it dares to try and secure the next election. If Labour wins the next election (especially without the support of Winston), New Zealand will effectively have a one party totalitarian government.
      
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      July 23, 2022 12:19pm
    - Rodion Raskolnikov
      
      “National need to run a message based on NZ being a land populated by settlers who where bold and self reliant.”
      
      They do need to do this and they would be successful in doing so, but they never would because implicit in the phrase “settlers who where bold and self reliant” is maleness and Whiteness, neither of which they are allowed to champion due to their self-imposed constraint by the dictates of progressive leftist doctrine. Having imbibed the same worldview of the left, rather than trying to appeal to their natural constituency, they’ll instead try to pander to Maori, other minorities and women.
      
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      July 23, 2022 12:25pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        For National to boldly speak the truth on NZ’s history would be “Trumpism” or the like to those pulling the levers of power in the party. Oh the horror! ACT kind of scratch the surface on this, which is better than National failing to launch at all I guess.
        
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        July 23, 2022 6:49pm
    - ISeeRed
      
      National: Managing the Decline Better
      
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      July 23, 2022 1:23pm
  - Ruahine
    
    Scott.
    A very good post.
    A trial run of feudal communism and co-governance.
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:29am
    - alloytoo
      
      And now they’re capping it off with masking provisions to torture young children.
      
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      July 23, 2022 11:50am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    In my experience, Lefties love ‘the people’ but dislike anyone outside their tribe.
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:02am
    - kowtow
      
      “The people” are simply cannon fodder .As well as a convenient excuse for the extremes of the inner circle , members of which don’t trust the others either.
      
      Just a contest of power, evil , oppression , repression and generalised misery .
      
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      July 23, 2022 10:41am
      - Nickc2
        
        It sounds like you are describing Cindy’s utopia.
        
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        July 23, 2022 10:51am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Scott, you make a good point about a National govt led by Bill English. I think he would have been an outstanding PM through the covid period.
    
    And as a bonus, they would have avoided the clusterfuck of Judith and Todd.
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:06am
  - bjools
    
    Would National have done the same……NO
    I would suggest that they would have followed this
    https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/influenza-pandemic-plan-framework-action-2nd-edn-aug17.pdf
    Considering they wrote it.
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:51am
    - mawm
      
      bj – They would have been correct to stick to the pandemic plan already in place but do you honestly believe they’d have gone against a plan put out by the WHO for disease so little was know about (because of lies and deception)?
      
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      July 23, 2022 3:44pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I think what is agreed is the Nats would have been guided by the same experts.
    Agree that they would not have been so stupid to fully lock the country down for more than a year, and the bloody 33day home detention was pathetic. Business should have been allowed to function even if partly, for instance this idiotic government were told by Gib manufacturers that to not let the factories operate would create a shortage, that shortage happened and did not recover, common sense should have prevailed, but no not with these Marxists.
    Look at the SI were forced to stay in level 2 for one whole year without one bloody case.
    
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    July 23, 2022 11:55am
- Swifty
  
  It is a good one.
  
  This last week I’ve received a “Keeping In Touch” pamphlet from Deborah Russell.
  
  Full of spin, the minimisation or complete non-mention of problems, promise after promise and a number of spending announcements (as if that alone will solve things) and reading it you’d have no idea of the terrible state of the nations affairs.
  
  Keep them in the dark and fed lots of shit….
  
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  July 23, 2022 8:12am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    I have moved into a new electorate and the local MP is Labour and I got a welcome letter from him full of how good they are.
    
    It went into the round filing cabinet
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:06am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Spending other peoples money is easy; counts for nothing. Outcomes are all that matter.
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:08am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Strangely I am getting some of Labour backbenchers entering my FB feed, the Hutt temporary Mp is spouting how great they are with giving us some of OUR tax on petrol back, man you want to see the anger on her page, virtually no one in support
    
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    July 23, 2022 11:57am
- ClanMcleod
  
  A man dies and arrives at Heaven
  As he’s standing at the Pearly Gates, he notices a huge wall of clocks behind St Peter.
  
  He asked, “What are all those clocks?”
  
  St Peter replied, “Those are lie clocks, every time someone tells a lie, the hands on their clock move.”
  
  “Oh! Whose clock is that?” He says pointing.>
  “That’s Mother Theresa’s clock, it’s hands have never moved.”
  
  “Wow! And whose clock is that?”
  
  “That’s Abraham Lincoln’s clock, it’s hands have only moved twice.”
  
  The man asks, “Where is Jacinda Ardern’s clock?”
  
  St Peter replies, “We’re using it as a ceiling fan”
  
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  July 23, 2022 8:16am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Who winds up Jaspinda’s clock. Give you one guess.
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:18am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Post it every day to the left learn. They are a bit slow in the understanding department!
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:03am
- I remember when
  
  All of her supporters clap in the dark.
  It’s called believing that we have the most open and transparent government we have ever had.
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:27am
- lastmanstanding
  
  So who are the Winners and Losers in so called “Climate Change”
  The Winners.
  1. Governments. They raise ( and waste) taxes to “fight Climate Change”.
  2. Big Business. They raise prices and margins “to assist in the fight against Climate Change”.
  3. The Academics. They get funding to write papers to support 1 and 2.
  
  And the Losers. The poor and middle classes who are forced to pay for this Bull Shit.
  
  I say future generations will look back at these times and laugh just as we look back and laugh at the Bull Shit that the Earth was flat.
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:31am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    It is flat. Labour and Greens are standing on the edge, foaming at the mouth.//
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:53am
- Ra Henare
  
  I feel sorry for you poor buggers still using the google system and the chrome browser.
  
  Accidently used crome on my phone to catchup todays kiwiblog.
  Total confusion as swamped with adverts.
  Posts almost unreadable.
  
  Quickly swapped back to the BRAVE browser.
  Advert free and quick loading
  
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  July 23, 2022 12:41pm
Ronin

What happened to the Anne Frank post?

404-Page not found
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July 23, 2022 8:09am
Lee C

How does Jacinda Ardern change a screw-in lightbulb?

She just holds it up and the whole world revolves around her.
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July 23, 2022 8:11am
- Biscuit
  
  All this fuss about a bloody lightbulb…
  
  Me, I just wanna see one of those promised 100,000 houses to put said lightbulb IN…
  
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  July 23, 2022 8:26am
  - pdm
    
    Biscuit has Megan given you a `priority purchase deal’?
    
    Don’t hold your breath because you will be 110 years old by the time they complete even one of the proposed houses.
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:03am
    - alloytoo
      
      All they need to do is complete ten, sell one, take photos and walk away never to discuss the policy again.
      
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      July 23, 2022 11:54am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I think they are waiting for consent from the ten are coys.
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:20am
  - kowtow
    
    What’s the point of a light bulb.
    Under this mob’s policies there won’t be any power .
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:44am
- Tony Stuart
  
  How many social workers does it take to change a lightbulb?
  
  Only one, but first the lightbulb has to want to change 😜
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:51am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Can’t force the lightbulb to change, they have rights you know.
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:55am
  - Bluegrass
    
    Nope. It takes zero social workers.
    
    Becuz instead of fixing it, they run a workshop on ‘Coping with Darkness’.
    
    Nice little earner, too.
    
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    July 23, 2022 8:34pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  How many mice does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
  
  Only two, but God knows how they get in there.
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:10am
iMP

To watch the Democrat political kangaroo court against Trump and all his allies over the January 6 capital riot is galling, when the likes of Clinton and co get away scot-free. Now the contempt charges against Bannon.

Reading the articles is clear the whole House committee hearing is a political hatchet job on their opponents. This is why so many voters in America feel the system is broken, and why many of them gathered outside the capital on that fateful day up Pennsylvania Avenue.

Nancy Pelosi has much to do with the incident on January 6 as Donald Trump’s speech and his call for the protestors to go home and be peaceful.
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July 23, 2022 8:12am
- G152
  
  Watch now none of those on that ‘comittee’ dont get reelected
  
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  July 23, 2022 8:15am
  - RichardX
    
    Was the double negative intentional?
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:14am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Cheney! She has cooked her goose.
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:56am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Trump wanted to organise 10K to 20K troops of the National Guard two weeks before Jan 6th.
  As Speaker, Pelosi blocked it. She knew the peaceful rally would be infiltrated by all of the radical groups. Antifa, BLM, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, some FBI, many more leftie lowlifes.
  They turned up in protective gear with all sorts of bars, bats, some knives, and maybe some guns.
  This would never have happened if the National Guard were there.
  Something else – of ALL of the Trump Rallies, how come this was the ONLY violent one?
  Pelosi knew, and Pelosi wanted it – such is her TDS. She can’t even say his name these days, the HATRED is that bad.
  Anyone want to defend Pelosi’s actions???
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:35am
  - RichardX
    
    Steve Otto(North Shore)
    Trump wanted to organise 10K to 20K troops of the National Guard two weeks before Jan 6th.
    As Speaker, Pelosi blocked it. She knew the peaceful rally would be infiltrated by all of the radical groups. Antifa, BLM, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, some FBI, many more leftie lowlifes.
    They turned up in protective gear with all sorts of bars, bats, some knives, and maybe some guns.
    This would never have happened if the National Guard were there.
    Something else – of ALL of the Trump Rallies, how come this was the ONLY violent one?
    Pelosi knew, and Pelosi wanted it – such is her TDS. She can’t even say his name these days, the HATRED is that bad.
    Anyone want to defend Pelosi’s actions???
    JULY 23, 2022 9:35AM
    
    There is nothing to defend for Pelosi but that is a completely different issue to what you believe happened prior to and on Jan 6 and why you believe it.
    You have previously made the claim about Trump and the National Guard but the case you present is flawed and is considerably different to accounts I have read across multiple other platforms.
    
    I’ll ignore the Posse Comitatus Act and the various legal arguments that entails.
    
    Do you have evidence that Trump asked for the troops 2 weeks out?
    Was it made public at that time that he wanted troops there?
    Was a reason given at that time?
    
    Do you have evidence that Pelosi blocked the request?
    
    Your claim that Pelosi “knew the peaceful rally would be infiltrated” makes no sense.
    
    Who was claiming it was going to be a peaceful rally?
    According to you, Trump knew it was going to be violent, otherwise he wouldn’t have wanted the troops.
    You also claim Pelosi knew it would be violent so where does “peaceful” come from?
    
    If Trump knew something was going to happen, as he must have to request the troops, why did he still direct those at the rally on Jan 6 to march on the Capitol?
    When he already knew it was going to be violent and then he actually saw the violence on TV, why did he not take any action or intervene in any way for some hours?
    
    Something else – of ALL of the Trump Rallies, how come this was the ONLY violent one?
    How many of the other rallies were conducted near the Capitol during the certification of an election that Trump claimed was fraudulent?
    At how many of the other rallies did Trump direct the crowd to take direct action then and there?
    
    Again though, you claim Trump knew at least 2 weeks out that this would turn violent, why did he do nothing, repeat nothing, to change the outcome once his attempt to “organise 10K to 20K troops of the National Guard two weeks before Jan 6th” failed?
    
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    July 23, 2022 11:37am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Dick, ‘do I have evidence?’ Trump has said it many times in many videos. Pelosi stopped the troops.
      Your last paragraph “why did he do nothing?” He tried. Even as Commander in Chief, he could not do it.
      You must watch different news/info/email outlets than I do. I do not go near CNN, MSNBC, or even “The View” as you obviously do.
      Gave you an uptick for trying hard.
      
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      July 23, 2022 12:07pm
      - RichardX
        
        I do not count Trump saying something as evidence unless it is corroborated.
        
        Saying “Pelosi stopped the troops” is not evidence that Pelosi stopped the troops.
        
        What did Trump try?
        Did he try telling the protesters to go home? Not until it was too late.
        
        I partake of a wide variety of news sources and do not rely on any 1 in particular.
        You should try it.
        It may make you think….but then again.
        
        What about answering the rest of the questions?
        
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        July 23, 2022 12:24pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Steve, your answer to Richard boils down to “Trump said it, so it must be true”.
        I still find it remarkable that people can be more fervent believers in the word of that huckster than the most faithful Catholic who believes the word of the Pope. It’s an emotional response, and in many ways it’s good that you don’t try to argue the point rationally – you have accepted that belief in Trump is an act of faith,
        
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        July 23, 2022 1:37pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Listen up Dick. I am not a Lawyer, so don’t ask me to provide evidence. Do you think I have that much time to go through everything I have read or seen in the last two years??
        What is the matter with you, troll?
        Bad as Mike/Ross. It is all there if YOU YOU YOU want to search for it.
        Now you have Mike backing you, WOW, Mike is your parrot now.
        How ’bout that?
        Best I don’t engage
        
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        July 23, 2022 4:22pm
    - Nickc2
      
      The Clinton News Network (CNN) must be paying you overtime Richard or you are very selective in your reading/viewing habits eh?
      
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      July 23, 2022 12:21pm
      - RichardX
        
        As lacking in fact or evidence as your “Frazer[sic] House” paid commenter assertions.
        
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        July 23, 2022 1:37pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        I think Dick needs better sources.
        https://townhall.com/columnists/deroymurdock/2022/04/07/this-opinion-just-in-insurrectionist-trump-approved-national-guard-troops-for-dc-on-january-6-democrats-said-no-n2605581
        The acting Secretary of Defense, the Pentagon Chief of Staff, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff all said he did ask
        
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        July 23, 2022 2:01pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        oops
        https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sund-riot-national-guard/2021/01/10/fc2ce7d4-5384-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html
        Capital Hill Police Chief Sundberg asked House and Senate Officials for permission to request that the DC National Guard be placed on standby. But Sund said they turned him down.
        
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        July 23, 2022 2:12pm
      - RichardX
        
        Nothing in AORs links state Trump asked for troops 2 weeks out as Steve claimed.
        
        Noting in AORs links state it was Pelosi who stopped the troops as Steve claimed.
        
        Nice try though.
        
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        July 23, 2022 3:53pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Cheers All on Red.
        I was in no way going to search for Dick. Leftist Media can make people strange – which once strange they watch “The View”
        RichardX may be Mike!
        Told someone the other day about not encouraging people to have/get many aliases.
        DickX has/is in the NZ Media somewhere, and has a team behind him..
        Bring it RichardX
        
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        July 23, 2022 4:40pm
      - RichardX
        
        Make up your mind Steve. Either you don’t want to engage or you want me to bring it.
        You’ve said both, less than 20 minutes apart.
        Is it that hard to think for yourself?
        
        I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible.
        Either you have evidence of what you believe that would convince me it is true or you don’t.
        It is a very simple logical proposition.
        
        You claim “Trump wanted to organise 10K to 20K troops of the National Guard two weeks before Jan 6th.
        I have not seen evidence to support your claim. You, nor AOR, have not provided any evidence to support your claim. At this stage I have no reason to believe it.
        
        You claim As Speaker, Pelosi blocked it.
        I have not seen evidence to support your claim. You, nor AOR, have not provided any evidence to support your claim. At this stage I have no reason to believe it.
        
        Those are the simple statements of fact.
        The deeper issue is why Trump would behave as he did.
        You claim he knew violence was likely, otherwise, why would he want the troops?
        When he failed to get the troops, what actions did he take to minimise or mitigate the violence?
        
        Your inability to provide evidence supports Mike’s theory that your belief in and support of Trump are acts of faith.
        
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        July 23, 2022 5:05pm
      - RichardX
        
        Steve Otto(North Shore)
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        RichardX may be Mike!
        Told someone the other day about not encouraging people to have/get many aliases.
        DickX has/is in the NZ Media somewhere, and has a team behind him..
        …
        JULY 23, 2022 4:40PM
        
        Now you are displaying a worrying persecution complex.
        Feel free to contact DPF about you being persecuted by the same person using multiple aliases.
        I’m sure he would enjoy the laugh.
        Your baseless assertions on; the country in which I reside, the industry in which I work, and the non existent team I have supporting me, provide a clue as to why you are susceptible to believing bullshit unsupported by evidence.
        
        Instead of getting all defensive when someone challenges what you believe, think about why you believe and be prepared to back it up.
        If you can’t back it up, do you actually have valid reasons?
        
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        July 23, 2022 5:19pm
      - blue collar
        
        Pelosi is our mallard . If not the national guard she sure as shit could hv got a fuck ton of cops in . Aswell as requesting the national guard . Did she ?? If you don’t ask you dont get . It’s her patch , not trumps .
        
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        July 23, 2022 5:59pm
Matt Long

Here’s one for Batman, Regressive columnist admits he was wrong to bash Trump supporters and that pushing the Russian hoax was also a mistake. https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/07/22/nyt-columnist-admits-he-was-wrong-about-trump-supporters-gets-eaten-alive-on-twitter-1264490/
The NY Times also has the column but you have to subscribe.
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July 23, 2022 8:13am
- MCōs
  
  If you do subscribe to the NYT, or even read that article you would know the columnist is mainstream conservative Brett Stephens.
  He made the same mistake as Hillary Clinton by labeling a section of American society as deplorable.
  Trump appealed to the same people and became president.
  
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  July 23, 2022 8:57am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Batman seems to be MIA. Will he ever say that he was wrong to single out Trump supporters here, when this is all over?
  Mad-terms not that far away, Dems are even asking Dem supporters to register as Republicans so they can vote RINOs in, (Liz Cheney is desperate)
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:40am
blue collar

Four lovely yellow daffodils in the garden , mt egmont glorious in its winter snow from the cold southerly ….
Gonna be a cracking day
Oranges n lemons on the trees
Bit of colour to brighten up winter , nature succeeding in its purpose
I guess our purpose is to breed at the end of the day , and enjoy the ride til death , the rest is detail
Anyone else got daffys blooming at the mo ?
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July 23, 2022 8:13am
- Biscuit
  
  Sounds divine, blue collar…
  Life is to be enjoyed…
  We are off, once the frost dies off!, on a day there-and-back bike ride of the Remutaka Rail Trail.
  With electric bikes, heh…
  There is dark TUNNELS involved!
  And a gnormous swing bridge.
  Littlies will scream in glee…
  I may even utter a ‘Wow!’ or 69 myself…
  
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  July 23, 2022 8:34am
  - blue collar
    
    Sounds grouse biscuit , hv a goodn , used to travel that way to surf lake ferry spots and castle point .
    Great part of the country
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:02am
  - krazykiwi
    
    A fun ride. It’s a family outing for us, rather than an extreme trail bash. We park at Maymorn station and cycle right over to Featherston for coffee where after we take the train back through to Maymorn. It’s a good way for visitors to Welly to see some picturesque scenery while getting a bit of exercise.
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:13am
  - Antoine
    
    How are you planning to 69 yourself???
    
    A.
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:44am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Normal way, are you missing out?
      Spine Doctor can fix that——
      
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      July 23, 2022 4:43pm
- krazykiwi
  
  I love nature. Our suburban home has seen a massive increase in native birds thanks to a long-running pest eradication program that mrs kk and I have been supporting. Load of territorial Tuis. A few Kereru. Last week we had a group of Kingfishers stop by. Are earlier in the year a Morepork move into a tree outside our bedroom window. His/her call was initially pretty cute, but it hard to unhear at 4am.
  
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  July 23, 2022 8:40am
  - blue collar
    
    😅
    Again Sounds grouse kk .
    I believe one of the fundamentals for raising kids is to teach them how to embrace and appreciate nature .
    It’s free , it’s all around us , can take joy from it our whole lives even when your whole world is crumbling .
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:08am
  - iMP
    
    Do tell. What traps did you settle on?
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:09am
    - krazykiwi
      
      I have no idea what they’re called. Wooden box with mesh a one end. I just help check them from time to time. In more than 12 months I’ve seen only a single rat.
      
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      July 23, 2022 9:16am
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        I had endless trouble with rats and possums in our cabin roofs until I put in an 11kv electric fence wire up there. They really seem to dislike that. I don’t know if it has taught any of them to fly.
        
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        July 23, 2022 10:24am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Alan, not many will know about 11kv.
        Enjoy your breakfast of them, no BBQ needed
        
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        July 23, 2022 4:49pm
    - GJM
      
      The Good Nature automatic traps are good. Powered by a sparklet CO2 cartridge, it spikes them then resets itself and even keeps a tally.
      
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      July 23, 2022 8:11pm
- pdm
  
  We have had a few daffodils for about a week in Hastings.
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:05am
  - blue collar
    
    Earliest so far pdm !
    Whitebait season getting close , time to patch the net up
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:11am
- rockape
  
  Yes in Wakefield even the bloody tulips are well on their way to blooming and a cold hard frost this morning.
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:07am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep.. tho’ they’re past their best now.
  
  I’ve a couple of dutch irises now in full bloom…and one of my rhodos. (My other rhododendrons won’t flower until Sept-Oct)
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:08am
- mandk
  
  Miniature daffs have been in bloom here in Upper Hutt for several weeks.
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:39am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Mt Egmont must be in New Zealand, and not in that R. T. Rower place//
  No daffs here yet on the Shore. Back lawn gets covered in them. Shame to mow them down.
  Lemon trees have had their last harvest. We put them in a bin at the gate, ‘free’
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:45am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I put M t Egmont in the comments section of pics of said mountain in the Taranaki today section, some vulgar leftie took my post down, why ? It is Mt Egmont, yes a left shit hole changed the name to Taranaki, but why should the correct name be taken down, if I said Mt Coo instead of Aoraki, it would have been left as is
    
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    July 23, 2022 12:04pm
    - blue collar
      
      Yeah officially they binned egmont in 2020 but I don’t care . Been calling it egmont for 47 years , will stay that way .
      I don’t care about the politics , so long as someone knows what I’m talking about job done . We are all free to call whatever any name we want . No one has the right to tell how to think or express yourself .
      No one has to agree either , it’s cool either way , if offence is taken , it’s the person who takes offence who has the problem .
      
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      July 23, 2022 5:33pm
- Ohm my
  
  No daffys but we have 8-9 Daphne all in bloom. A lovely walk around the garden with those in flower.
  
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  July 23, 2022 12:45pm
Lee C

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=100013502892726&attachment_id=373246778256873&message_id=mid.%24cAABa9hnBt26IVKJkUmCI10VUOI5W

it’s over.
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July 23, 2022 8:17am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Link not working for me.
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:08am
  - Lee C
    
    It was a HIGHWIRE article citing an article in Australia by Susan Dunham, Clan:
    https://yournews.com/2022/06/16/2361245/susan-dunham-what-we-learned-from-hating-the-unvaccinated/
    You can also find her article on:
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-we-learned-from-hating-unvaccinated/5781072
    
    MInd you it was posted first in April…
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:45am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Lee, typical lefties. Fully vaxed and they get Covid, someone else is to blame. The Govt said the vax was safe and it will protect you, so the sick fully vaxed then blame the unvaxed.
      There are also unvaxed who had Covid, therefore natural antibodies, so no need for a vaccine. They may get it again? So what? it is just like the flu.
      Those dying have underlying conditions or are the elderly.
      NZ Govt has lied and played us.
      
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      July 23, 2022 10:18am
      - Hebe123
        
        Same as the flu??! Speak for yourself.
        I’m unvaxxed and mine was way less than the flu. Ditto all my family – both v and unv.
        
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        July 24, 2022 6:39pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Thank you. That is a very good article.
      
      I have problems with Facebook. I deleted my account a year ago, I set up another one just to scan the nonsense from time to time.
      
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      July 23, 2022 10:30am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    URL is,
    FB.com/messenger
    That would be why it does not open, it is not in the Newsfeed or in a saved folder.
    I will look at the other links Lee has provided.
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:08am
- Sacha
  
  Blank screen.
  So what’s over?
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:51am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Follow the alternative link given above. It’s worth the effort.
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:31am
Nickc2

Another Cindy success – NOT!!
Her claim that Aust would cease sending 501 deportees to NZ ain’t gonna happen. Albo cant get the law chance through Parliament.
~~https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/australia-scraps-501-law-changes/~~
The linked page has been taken down – Govt Censorship?
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July 23, 2022 8:30am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Looks like it. Page not found but then diverts to MSN News. Not on there either.
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:23am
- ClanMcleod
  
  We’re sadly in an era where you need to either download or screenshot this sort of stuff as soon as you see it. The “memory holers” working for Ardern and others are earning their overtime money these days.
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:33am
- MCōs
  
  Nobody ever claimed the Australians would stop deporting 501s.
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:46am
  - Nickc2
    
    The media claimed she did!!!
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:57am
  - I remember when
    
    Implied?
    
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    July 23, 2022 3:06pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Albo said at the time we will still be sensuous scum home, but we will do it more kind or some bullshit
  
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  July 23, 2022 12:06pm
- Ra Henare
  
  A little bit of digging finds out teh truth.
  
  This was not a law change to reduce 501 deportation (as Cindy says they will)
  
  This was a bill to make the deportation regime more stringent!!!
  
  And said bill lapsed because a change of government. Like every bill in progress.
  
  But I guess the facts dont stir the emotion the same as a hit against the NZ PM
  
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  July 23, 2022 2:24pm
Inandout

The woke in Portland have gone completely mad, eating their own. It defies belief.

https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/portland-bar-forced-close
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July 23, 2022 8:39am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Crazy. Who is really behind this nonsense?
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:31am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Klaus and his backers.
    The woke shit, climate change narrative, covid circus, food shortages, material shortages, energy price crisis, all being pushed to create the required environment to implement the great reset and the dross associated with Agenda 2030.
    I know, I’m a foil hat wearing nutter. It gives me something to do in semi retirement……maybe it’s all just a random coincidence that the shit is hitting the fan everywhere at the same time?
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:51am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Nah. Retired or semi retired just means you notice more idiots/fuckwits.
      It is quite fun to know that we are 5 steps ahead of them.
      
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      July 23, 2022 12:11pm
- C-Town
  
  The scary thing is that the owners of the bar are going to accede to those loony demands and re-open. And so the cycle continues with the woke looses becoming more and more emboldened and demanding. At what point will the moderate left stand up and say “enough is enough”?
  
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  July 23, 2022 12:19pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

From the lunatic fringe:

Former woman-turned-man complains of missing out on cervical smear invite, shortly before choosing to be spayed.

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2022/07/health-software-system-not-set-up-for-gender-diverse-people-to-get-cervical-screenings.html
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July 23, 2022 8:48am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I don’t see the problem. The software obviously knows there are two genders. Female becomes male and gets treated as a male. Software has done it’s job correctly.
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:36am
- alloytoo
  
  This is an own goal, this idiot should know full well that their healthcare needs are not the same as a man.
  
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  July 23, 2022 12:03pm
Nickc2

As regards my link re Aust 501 deportees, the link was restored.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/australia-scraps-501-law-changes/ar-AAZQ9AP?li=BBqdg4K
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July 23, 2022 8:54am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I have Adblock Plus blocking 47 ads on this page. Somehow a few are now getting through. Guess I’ll do a re-install to fix it
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July 23, 2022 9:01am
- crikey
  
  Try DuckDuckGo as your browser.
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:23am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    It has fixed itself. Turned adblock off then on again
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:39am
krazykiwi

Some back of the fag packet math. Last week approx 64k NZers reported testing positive for Covid-19. Lets assume the real figure is double that, ie that there’s an under reporting factor of 2. Lets assume the illness lasts 7 days (infectiousness apparently lasts 10 days for the ‘vaccinated’, but let’s ignore that too). Assuming the infection rate stays static for a week (if we net off risk of increase with risk of decrease) we can postulate that around 900k New Zealander have Covid-19 right now. That’s around 17% of our population. Of course in reality this could be 20%, or 10%. But what it most certainly isn’t is 0%

The experimental genetic ‘vaccines’ don’t seem to be too effective but I expect surfing, Aunty and milky to be along shortly to comprehensively prove me wrong.
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July 23, 2022 9:07am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I suspect the word vaccine has undergone a shift in meaning in the last year.
  
  When I was a youngster, it meant a substance that prevented you from becoming infected (by means of
  stimulated active immunity)….
  
  now the word “Vaccine” seems to mean anything that offers you a degree of protection from dying from a disease.
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:28am
  - mandk
    
    ” now the word “Vaccine” seems to mean anything that offers you a degree of protection from dying from a disease.”
    
    For this to be true, you need to show that unvaxxed people are more likely to die if they get the disease.
    
    Are they?
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:36am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      ‘Are they?’
      NO!
      
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      July 23, 2022 10:48am
    - alloytoo
      
      We (as average) citizens lack the data to accurately evaluate this claim.
      
      I can say conclusively that based on studies conducted in England in Januarym it doesn’t appear to make a stitch of difference for under 18’s.
      
      For five to eleven year olds the risk of adverse events appears to be five times greater than the risk of hospitalization with O2
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIFSvnB1WlQ
      
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      July 23, 2022 12:09pm
  - kevn
    
    @Maggy… Seems to mean anything in a syringe can be a ‘vaccine’.
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:37am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Even saline, LOL LOL!
      
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      July 23, 2022 10:49am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Yes Indeed,
    As CNSNews.com reported on May 4, 2021, the CDC at that time defined vaccination as “The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.”
    
    But that definition has changed over time. The CDC website now defines vaccination as “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease.”
    
    The CDC’s definition of “vaccine” also has changed: Last spring, CDC defined a vaccine as “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease.”
    
    The definition of “vaccine” now reads: “A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.”
    https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/cdcs-definition-vaccine-has-changed-over-time-protection-vs-immunity
    
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    July 23, 2022 9:58am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Yep, that flexibility in the meaning of words is Orwellian
      
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      July 23, 2022 10:13am
  - kowtow
    
    “a shift in meaning ”
    
    1984 should be compulsory reading .
    
    Recall ;
    
    You can trust us…..
    
    We will continue to be your single source of truth.
    
    Unless you hear it from us it is not the truth.
    
    We will continue to provide everything you need to know.
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:31am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Vaccine is now just like taking Linctus Gee for a cough. It don’t fix the cough, it makes it easier to breathe.
    Now if only the manufacturers and the Govt had told us that. We could choose to take is or not take it.
    But no, we will do as we are told.
    “Nobody will be forced to take the vaccine, and those who choose to opt out will not be punished”
    JA.
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:47am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      “Soldier on with codral……”
      
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      July 23, 2022 11:00am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Can’t have anything with Pholcodine – Anaphylaxis.
        Same with Suxamethonium, nearly killed me.
        Medic Alert tag.
        
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        July 23, 2022 12:16pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    So basically like aspirin? “Yep, yep, that’s exactly what it is” to paraphrase a very famous and intelligent person……
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:56am
  - Paulus
    
    Surely it is from Vacca – a Cow Pox – Edward Jenner 1798 tested it first in Gloucester UK.
    
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    July 23, 2022 1:24pm
- emmess
  
  I think you got your maths a bit wrong.
  You said last week 64k Kiwis tested positive and then multiplied by 7 as if it was a daily figure.
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:34am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Hopefully they can explain why Ardern, Baker and the others did a U turn on their mask position while they are at it.
  
  https://rumble.com/vyd6re-new-zealands-mask-mandaters-unwittingly-help-dr.-byram-bridle-demonstrate-w.html
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:53am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I followed the mask position very closely in 2020…
    and even posted here some links to making your own masks.
    
    In the first few weeks of the Covid-19 outbreak, it was clear that NZ didn’t have enough PPE masks/gowns/gloves in the country for our health and care staff.
    
    Siouxsie Wiles and co were worried that ordinary folks would buy up all the available medical-grade masks and so she and Baker poo-pooed the need for ordinary folks to mask up.
    
    Facemasks are not that useful for preventing infection. Most people don’t wear them properly and tend to fiddle with them which increases their chances of transferring virus particles from their hands to their mouth/nose/eyes.
    
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/28-02-2020/seriously-dont-panic-but-we-must-get-prepared-for-the-arrival-of-coronavirus
    
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/06-04-2020/siouxsie-wiles-toby-morris-should-we-all-be-wearing-face-masks-to-prevent-covid-19-spread
    
    But their position changed when NZ secured a decent supply of masks for the health professionals and the WHO started recommending mask-wearing by the general populace.
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:12am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      No masks.
      Jaspinda said she had got a factory in Wanganui to open and make masks. This was a lie by omission. The product required to make the masks was in a warehouse in Melbourne – and no planes coming to NZ.
      
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      July 23, 2022 10:58am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Planes never stopped coming to NZ
        
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        July 23, 2022 12:08pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      You don’t actually believe that nonsense do you?
      The lack of efficacy of masks for an aerosol based virus has been known for many years. This wasn’t a naughty little “white lie” to protect the health workers.
      The evidence of lack of efficacy has been around for many years and it is even more clear now after a couple of years of real world studies and available data. Masks do close to sweet FA to prevent infection or transmission of aerosol based viruses.
      Plenty of studies to choose from here.
      
      https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/
      
      I can’t understand how in the light of what we’ve witnessed for ourselves in the last couple of years, that people still believe the bullshit that was spat out by the comms team on the 9th floor.
      
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      July 23, 2022 11:07am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  And if 100 kiwis per day die normally, then 1 million having covid over a given month will mean 20 a day (or 600 total) would be officially marked as dying ‘with covid’ even if they all died from other things.
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:04am
- MCōs
  
  No vaccine for anything is 100% guaranteed to prevent infection.
  Some are so close that if everyone is inoculated then the disease doesn’t spread. Measles for example.
  Also most don’t need a booster or prior infection provides protection.
  The covid-19 vaccines don’t provide 100% protection from infection, needs boosting and prior infection doesn’t help.
  Polio requires for jabs for almost 100% lifelong protection.
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:59am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Yes, this particular “vaccine” is amazing. Well worth the societal devastation and economic destruction of the lockdowns while we waited patiently and excitedly for it to get here.
    
    https://dailysceptic.org/2022/07/22/new-zealand-covid-deaths-soar-to-record-high/
    
    Of course, Ardern also managed to create a sub class of untermensch we can fall back on to blame for all this eh? Or maybe not……
    
    No, we obviously didn’t lock down, mask and vaccinate enough. We need to up our game.
    
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    July 23, 2022 11:18am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      You are making lefties heads spin, they can’t keep up
      
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      July 23, 2022 12:19pm
- alloytoo
  
  That’s about a 6th of the gross population, how many have had omicron in the first half of the year?
  
  That is to say, what percentage of the general population are boasting natural immunity,
  
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  July 23, 2022 12:11pm
- I remember when
  
  “Some back of the fag packet math.”
  That’s one seriously expensive calculator.
  
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  July 23, 2022 3:08pm
Cinematic

Anyone else dazed and confused by ABs inaction?
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July 23, 2022 9:27am
- kowtow
  
  I suspect there’re more important matters in the Kingdom to be dazed and confused about.
  
  The attacks on the constitution being fairly near the top of the list and the regime’s relative but continued support .
  
  Bread and circus anyone.
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:21am
- MCōs
  
  AB de Villiers
  
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  July 23, 2022 4:35pm
Loddenthinks

Snowflake has a (slightly) bumpy introduction to the real world, and is starting to realise that airlines can’t control the weather. “I was literally on the phone with my dad crying….” Like, literally.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/300643944/do-better-jetstar-teenager-left-terrified-and-stranded-after-flight-chaos
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July 23, 2022 9:27am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Did she want the plane to crash in Wellington?
  I have had a few closies in Wellington. Plane is flying sideways and goes straight when it hits the ground.
  I would say that the plane was going from Queenstown to Auckland with a drop off in Wellington. Wellington was aborted, good choice in my opinion.
  
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  July 23, 2022 11:07am
  - MCōs
    
    When was the last time a passenger plane crash at Rongotai Airport due to high wind gusts?
    Never.
    The reason the airport was closed the other day was it was too dangerous for the baggage handlers, I read.
    
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    July 23, 2022 5:00pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Nice satire Mac! I like.
      Brother lives there, and I have seen Wellington on a good day – once/three times a year.
      
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      July 23, 2022 5:11pm
      - MCōs
        
        https://twitter.com/WLGAirport/status/1549896098226966531?s=20&t=qRJiwDbE8FilbF_6pWPzhQ
        
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        July 23, 2022 6:48pm
- MCōs
  
  A 15yo stranded alone in Auckland, even in the airport, is no small thing.
  For a start that part of Auckland has less than the best of reputations.
  A Qantas plane I was on about eighteen years ago was diverted to Frankfurt due to difficulties at Heathrow. Everyone was taken to a nearby hotel for the night.
  Then again, although Jetstar is owned by Qantas I wouldn’t expect they care too much about their customers’ well-being once they have their money.
  
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  July 23, 2022 4:57pm
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

Blue collar – since you are so happy, how about paying more taxes to restore social justice??
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July 23, 2022 9:29am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Baaaah, no bites – change bait …..
  
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  July 23, 2022 5:13pm
  - blue collar
    
    😅 just seen it , don’t get it .
    Is it not ok to be happy these days ?
    I hate this govt , am broke , work in mud n shit and live sewerage from dawn to dusk .
    Still happy though 😁
    
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    July 23, 2022 6:05pm
Yvette

How many Jacinda Ardern supporters does it take to change a light bulb?
None. She tells them it’s done, and they all clap in the dark

What We Do in the Shadows

National database will reach patients in drug shortages – but ‘no magic pill’
Health NZ Te Whatu Ora is developing a national ‘data warehouse’ for New Zealanders’ primary care information – a tool it hopes will cut out the middle-person and help it talk direct to patients in crises like this month’s drug shortages.
Pharmac admits it isn’t able to directly contact the countless people affected by drug shortages.

… [Chair Rob] Campbell reveals that Te Whatu Ora is developing a central store of patient information, which it plans to have up and online from late 2023. “Our team is working on a national primary care data warehouse which might be capable of direct contact if that was appropriate.”
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/national-database-will-reach-patients-in-drug-shortages-but-no-magic-pill?utm_source=Friends+of+the+Newsroom&utm_campaign=59b9f75833-Week+In+Review+16.07.2022_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_71de5c4b35-59b9f75833-97987242
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July 23, 2022 9:32am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I am from the Government, and I am here to help you….
  
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  July 23, 2022 11:11am
  - Yvette
    
    Steve Otto (North Shore), I show my age but, same deal –
    
    Burt Reynolds once asked me out
    I was in hi house at the time.
    – Phyllis Diller
    
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    July 23, 2022 11:42am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Phyllis Diller, wow, there’s a blast from the past.
      Man she was crazy/funny
      
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      July 23, 2022 12:21pm
Maggie Pie

@ ZB NEWS …..

1. Ian Foster retained as AllBlacks coach.
2. Same Kain to remain as AB captain.
3. NZRugby coy about future changes to coaching team.
4. Jason Pyne to speak with CEO Mark Robinson after noon today.
5. Russia signs Treaty with Ukraine to release 20 million tons of wheat to feed the worlds starving
nations.

SHEESH!!
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July 23, 2022 9:32am
- Cinematic
  
  Your point?
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:45am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    I get the feeling you wouldn’t get it if I shoved it up ya’ bum 😀
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:07am
    - Cinematic
      
      Losing your looks?
      
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      July 23, 2022 3:59pm
- blue collar
  
  I get it Maggie … but shush …. Don’t tell cinematic ….. totally agree btw 😅👌
  
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  July 23, 2022 6:09pm
Suze Wainwright

In my younger years, I once chuckled at a joke that Scottish men have long, thin d!cks because they’re a pack of tight-fisted w@nkers.

Does that mean I’m inherently racist, sexist, genderist, ethnicist or just an unwitting believer in unfounded stereotypes (and scapegoats)?
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July 23, 2022 9:33am
- Nookin
  
  “Does that mean I’m inherently racist, sexist, genderist, ethnicist or just an unwitting believer in unfounded stereotypes (and scapegoats)?”
  
  I guess much depends on the extent of your research and the diversity of your sampling, Suze.
  Or was that a rhetorical question?
  
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  July 23, 2022 11:54am
- alloytoo
  
  means you have a sense of humour.
  
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  July 23, 2022 12:14pm
  - blue collar
    
    And a great one at that suzie!
    
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    July 23, 2022 6:10pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Billy T James used to joke about being half Scottish and half Maori; one half of him wanted to get pissed, and the other half wanted someone else to pay for it 😀
  
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  July 23, 2022 2:45pm
Opie

Given that both the princess and captain underpants have been caught out this week not wearing masks, can we just accept that they don’t help and aren’t that important.

Shows over
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July 23, 2022 9:36am
- kevn
  
  @Opie… Not quite, I read that school children from year 4 up will have masks again. MinEd says.
  Interestingly, re the big unmasked group photo, I didn’t see any sign of masks being held after being (supposedly) removed. You would think a blue/white tinge in someones hand would be easy to spot. Of course the photographer ‘may’ have photoshopped that out, maybe.
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:16am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Removing masks for photo shoot – but nobody holding one.
    Just another lie – get used to it.
    
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    July 23, 2022 11:15am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    If they try this on that’s our daughter coming out of school. Again. I detest these people. They are destroying lives.
    
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    July 23, 2022 12:05pm
    - Opie
      
      Our kids had mask exemptions last time they tried this rubbish and were some of the last kids at the school to catch it.
      
      When they did get it, one was asymptomatic and the other was a bit off colour for half a day.
      
      But I suppose I should have got them vaccinated as well so they could have been laid up for 2 weeks like the vaccinated kids?
      
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      July 23, 2022 9:46pm
I remember when

Why are Labour and the Greens so keen to give the vote to those 16 and over.
Would it be because for up to 1000 hours (less the multitude of teacher only days, etc) their knowledge will be provided by paid-up Union members.
Ditto 17 and 18 year olds.
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July 23, 2022 9:38am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  At 16 they have been programed (indoctrinated) and ready to make Socialism work by doing it the right way//
  
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  July 23, 2022 11:17am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    As Churchill (and others) said, “If you’re not a socialist at 18, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative at 30, you have no brain”.
    
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    July 23, 2022 2:50pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      That aphorism has many claiming to own it. I heard that it was Disraeli.
      
      But, since success has many fathers, I guess there’s more than a grain of truth there.
      
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      July 23, 2022 7:58pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  The Youth Parliament apparently overwhelmingly supported the lowering of the voting age to 16. The following day, a whole lot of Youth MP’s walked out of the Youth Parliament in protest at a speech about guns from Act MP’s Nicole McKee’s Youth MP.
  
  One thing that comes with maturity is the ability for your opinions to be challenged without you lashing out. I would suggest that those MP’s who chose to cause a stunt by walking out have done the cause of lowering the voting age more harm than good.
  
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  July 23, 2022 2:49pm
TripeWryter

I’ve just read a long piece in The New Zealand Herald written by Jane Phare.
It’s about the meanness and nastiness of [mainly] men in the Family Court.
The story is heavily pro-women-as-victims.
It might be useful if Miss Phare gets to write another story, about how some women use the Family Court to their advantage
My contact with the Family Court was negligible. The former Mrs TripeWryter, God bless ‘er, had higher priorities than me and our kids.
Our arrangements were pretty straight-forward, and she and he went on their way to live their new life elsewhere.
But in the last 40 years I’ve known men who had to fight to see their kids at their own expense.
Their former partners were funded by legal aid. And the mothers can come up with all sorts of plausible reasons a man should not be anywhere near his kids especially his young daughters.
I knew a man who tried to fight his ex in Court for several years. Mostly about custody arrangements and visits. In the end he gave up. His former wife was more cunning and more manipulative and she was egged on by her well-known woman brief.
In the end he gave up and went overseas. I drove him to the airport.
After several years the children defied their mother and went to visit him. He didn’t justify anything. If they asked him he told them. They decided that he had been done a huge injustice.
They live in the same area now. The missus is on to her third marriage here in New Zealand. The children have nothing to do with her.
I have no doubt that women suffer in the Family Court. But from what I’ve been told it cuts both ways.
Maybe Jane Phare will write a story about that one day.
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July 23, 2022 9:41am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Things like that did happen to me. Quite stressful and difficult. A lot of the problems were instigated by social workers and the like.
  All the shit has gone now. My ex Wife and her Husband are my friends. So are the grown up Children.
  
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  July 23, 2022 11:26am
- Bernard Black
  
  Tell me about!
  My ex wife has a bad case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
  Because I refused to let her sell the family home and spend all the money on herself we separated.
  We had one son together who was 2 years old at the time.
  She immediately decided she would take him and move far away, I was forced to stop her via Family Court.
  I won and secured a Parenting Order giving me regular weekends with my son, at the cost of 15k in lawyers fees.
  For 6 years I never missed a contact day, then out of the blue she emailed me and said she was moving 800km away and taking my son with her.
  I pointed out that she can’t do that but she did it anyway.
  
  Back to Court I go, she was made to adhere to the Parenting Order, she has done this by flying 800km and back every weekend and flying my son every other weekend as well.
  It’s been almost 2 years now and a hearing date still won’t be until next year, meanwhile I have spent another 15k on lawyers and it’s not over by a long shot.
  As Maggie would say…… Sheesh!!!
  
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  July 23, 2022 12:29pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Whish you the best. Sooner or later the hate settles, and it becomes what it is.
    There is no reason to carry on the shit.
    
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    July 23, 2022 5:20pm
    - Bernard Black
      
      Thanks Steve.
      I don’t hate her, I just wanted our son to see both of his parents and know his dad, as it is always in the child’s best interests to see both of their parents regularly, fact.
      
      She has been diagnosed with depression and medicated several time but she will not listen to me, or her doctor, or her lawyer.
      So frustrating 🙄
      
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      July 23, 2022 7:22pm
I remember when

Like all good sales pitches.
On Tv last night backing up in support of the masks in school direction.
“Wear a mask,” said Ashley Bloomfield. “Bingo.”
Is that like Lotto, our twice weekly gamble.
Incidentally, weren’t the school holidays going to be our Winter covid circuit-breaker.
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July 23, 2022 9:44am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Targeting the kids because it’s easier to bully and coerce them. Bastards.
  
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  July 23, 2022 12:55pm
I remember when

Winston’s ‘black eye.’
Has he had a cataract operation?
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July 23, 2022 9:46am
- mandk
  
  You don’t get a black eye from cataract surgery.
  
  I’ve had both eyes done.
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:24am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    I wish they would front up for my second one. Supposed to have happened in January.
    
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    July 23, 2022 11:51am
    - mandk
      
      Sorry to hear that.
      
      Fortunately I was able to go privately.
      
      I was told my problem wasn’t severe enough for it to be treated on the state, but the ops made a huge difference to my vision,
      
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      July 23, 2022 11:59am
  - I remember when
    
    Literature suggests you can get black under the eye the resembles a ‘black’ eye.
    But really was just wondering if anyone had any news relating to it.
    
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    July 23, 2022 1:35pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I have taken my Mum and Daughter to the Greenlane Eye place. They have some great equipment there.
  I watched and was quite impressed with the tests.
  
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  July 23, 2022 5:25pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Just watching AlJazeera. Someone has re engined a 1962 VW Bug to electric. Other so called classic cars are getting the same treatment.
Who would do such a thing?
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July 23, 2022 9:49am
- Nickc2
  
  Mindless socialist idiots!
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:53am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The program was repeated.
    Classic BMW, a Corvette, and a Delorean. Electric motors come from crashed electric cars, seems there is no shortage. The transmission stays and the Electric motor has an adapter plate. Manual or auto does not mater. Manual has a clutch same as before. Auto has the same fluid clutch.
    New Tesla batteries. Cost – $18k to $33K. Must be fucking mad!
    
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    July 23, 2022 11:34am
    - dubya
      
      I mean, the BMW aside, those cars listed had pretty awful engines from factory (especially if it was a Malaise era Corvette, the 1982 barely made 200hp from a massive 5.0 V8!) The Renault 2.7 V6 in the Delorean was always panned as underpowered, too, at around 130hp/97kW – less than a new Suzuki Swift Sport 1.4.
      
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      July 23, 2022 12:44pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Interesting though. I could drop a motor out of a VW Bug in 20 minutes.
    Conversion HP goes from 20hp petrol to 120hp electric.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVtOss1U7_s
    
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    July 23, 2022 11:43am
- ClanMcleod
  
  “Woke” virtue signaling twats.
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:02am
Tony Stuart

The Taxpayers’ Union delivered boxes and boxes of Three Waters submissions to Parliament yesterday; 62,782 of them, individually printed out.

Why? Because someone in Parliament decided that e-mailed submissions were not acceptable. I understand that the printer was still going late into the night, and there were additional deliveries made. In addition, more than 15,000 submissions were made via the National Party’s web page, in addition to those which were made directly to the Parliament website.

The Government should be in no doubt whatsoever that Three Waters is deeply unpopular with the voting public. I look forward to my invitation to make my submission to the select committee in due course, by which time the polls will be sending even more dire messages to Labour MP’s as to their employment prospects beyond 2023.
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July 23, 2022 10:00am
- Nickc2
  
  Ah, but Cindy has said 3Waters will go ahead regardless of submissions. So much for democracy eh? Dictatorial bitch!
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:04am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    You missed an adjective: clueless.
    
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    July 23, 2022 10:29am
- Matt Long
  
  Why did they decide emailed submissions are not suitable? A. They want to stem the flow of submissions,
  B. They don’t care at all about the environment or resource wastage.
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:52am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    I’m guessing they were afraid of being spammed. Instead the Taxpayers’ Union has given a number of Parliamentary Service staff a massive job to do from Monday onwards, sorting through boxes and boxes of individual submissions.
    
    A bit of an own goal, methinks, and lots of trees destroyed in the process!
    
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    July 23, 2022 2:39pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  e-mails not acceptable?
  Welcome to the old USSR
  
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  July 23, 2022 11:46am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Lenin personally banned emails. True fact.
    
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    July 23, 2022 3:27pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      On form today sonny!
      
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      July 23, 2022 5:30pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Does that mean an invoice sent by email is not acceptable?
    
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    July 23, 2022 7:44pm
cas

What’s happened to Thomas Cranmer’s twitter account. Eager to keep up with the latest scandals from Mahuta Corp I went there this am and it said kehetauhaunga hadn’t tweeted. Did the Labour Party shut him down?
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July 23, 2022 10:34am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Still there; he’s posted this morning about the funding arrangements that underpin Three Waters. The bloke is doing an epic job.
  
  https://twitter.com/kehetauhauaga/status/1550589772820729856
  
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  July 23, 2022 10:46am
  - cas
    
    Thanks. I agree, he is posting some marvellous stuff. A shame the MSM are ignoring it all.
    
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    July 23, 2022 11:36am
Maggie Pie

Twitter bestie identifies as a Cat…. 😀

https://twitter.com/ramseyboltin/status/1547606632187629569
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July 23, 2022 10:41am
- ClanMcleod
  
  I’m banned from Twitter and they want me to log in to watch it. Damn.
  
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  July 23, 2022 12:00pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Honestly Clan, sign in!
    Listen to her amazing “meow” when she tries licking her bum 😛
    
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    July 23, 2022 12:08pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Maggie – they won’t let me sign in!! I’ve even tried different accounts. Spent a week trying to get around the buggers but they’re technologically smarter than me. Must have my IP address.
      Maybe time to get me a VPN!
      
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      July 23, 2022 12:50pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Michael Bassett reports on the imploding Ardern dream:

We are experiencing the worst government of my lifetime, one that has caused more damage and divisiveness in our society, than there has been at any time since the Great Depression.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/michael-bassett-the-gradual-collapse-of-jacinda-s-new-zealand?postId=2c23b77e-0f1d-40c3-9cfa-7ed1789e754f&utm_campaign=5a44b45a-2d4f-4042-beac-1492f7125460&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&utm_content=8f860d52-3cf8-4b58-a31d-aeab02513f03&cid=97dcfc5a-d72f-4e9e-8f08-4ade510cfdc2
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July 23, 2022 11:17am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Excellent. Spot on commentary.
  
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  July 23, 2022 11:29am
ClanMcleod

Russell Brand – “when people say disinformation, what they are really saying is shut up, we don’t want discussion or debate”.

NZ under Ardern summed up right there.
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July 23, 2022 11:31am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Jaspinda just says “I refude that – next question”
  I have seen her do it no fewer than 4 times.
  
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  July 23, 2022 11:49am
  - info@cruzpro.com
    
    Sorry Steve,
    
    The “likes” and “dislikes” really need to be separated with a bit more space. Can’t actually see that being that hard.
    
    I end up pressing the wrong button sometimes on a tablet. It’s got to be a lot harder hitting the right button on a smaller screen like a cellphone.
    
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    July 23, 2022 6:30pm
oldfella

Apparently both a NZ Herald article AND a Newstalk ZB Heather du Plessis-Allan audio segment discussing a NZ On Air-funded documentary on political activist Dr Siouxsie Wiles have been “disappeared” from the Internet.
Anyone know what this is all about?
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July 23, 2022 12:01pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I think it is about this short documentary “Siouxsie & the Virus that received public funding in 2020.
  
  https://loadingdocs.net/siouxsie/
  
  On Thursday evening 21st July 2022, the NZ Herald published details of the funding the film producers had received … but by 9am 22nd July, the article had disappeared from the NZ Herald website.
  
  Discussed here……and comments that follow
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2022/07/general_debate_22_july_2022.html#comment-3213089
  
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  July 23, 2022 3:45pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Some fun:
10 Questions. There are 10 questions, so you should be able to answer them all in 5 minutes. DO NOT look at the answers found at the end of this document, that would be cheating! Write each of your answers down, it makes a difference!
QUESTIONS:
1. Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?
2. If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would it be before all the pills had been taken?
3. I went to bed at eight o’clock in the evening and wound up my clock and set the alarm to sound at nine o’clock in the morning. How many hours sleep would I get before being woken by the alarm?
4. Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get?
5. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many live sheep were left?
6. If you had only one match and entered a COLD and DARK room, where there was an oil heater, an oil lamp and a candle, which would you light first?
7. A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction, each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes along. What colour is the bear?
8. Take 2 apples from 3 apples. What do you have?
9. How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the Ark?
10. If you drove a bus with 43 people on board from Chicago and stopped at Pittsburgh to pick up 7 more people and drop off 5 passengers and at Cleveland to drop off 8 passengers and pick up 4 more and eventually arrive at Philadelphia 20 hours later, what’s the name of the driver?
ANSWERS :
1. All of them. Every month has at least 28 days.
2. 1 hour. If you take a pill at 1 o’clock, then another at 1.30 and the last at 2 o’clock, they will be taken in 1 hour.
3. 1 hour. It is a wind up alarm clock which cannot discriminate between a.m. and p.m.
4. 70. Dividing by half is the same as multiplying by 2.
5. 9 live sheep.
6. The match.
7. White. If all walls face south, the house must be on the North Pole.
8. 2 apples. I HAVE 3 APPLES, YOU TAKE 2, WHAT DO YOU HAVE?
9. None. It was Noah, not Moses.
10. YOU are the driver.
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July 23, 2022 12:28pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I actually got 8. Very fitting.
  
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  July 23, 2022 12:57pm
  - mandk
    
    I got 8 too, but you wouldn’t want me doing any engineering.
    
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    July 23, 2022 4:28pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I can teach you.
      
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      July 24, 2022 10:18am
Alan Wilkinson

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July 23, 2022 12:35pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Last year, and this is not Jaspinda.
https://rumble.com/v1d3i6l-well-that-didnt-age-well-at-all.html?
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July 23, 2022 12:54pm
Yvette

Wellington named the global capital of baby talk
From small tribes in the remote Pacific islands to the teeming cities of China, humans share the common language of baby talk – but new research has discovered that Wellington, New Zealand, is the global capital of cooing.
An international study, published in Nature Human Behaviour, collected 1615 recordings of 410 people from 21 societies speaking and singing to an adult and then a baby in more than a dozen languages.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/22/gaga-for-goo-goo-wellington-named-the-global-capital-of-baby-talk

All New Zealand / Aotearoa voice samples were from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and none of the 50,000 people from 187 countries, who listened to the recordings could tell the difference – an adult speaking to other adults or children
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July 23, 2022 1:02pm
- cjn
  
  I’m surprised that Kamala Harris didn’t beat JA in this competition.
  
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  July 23, 2022 5:58pm
waripori

Three Waters is apparently going to save local authorities from Borrowing 185 Billion Dollars. This borrowing will be off the crown balance sheet so presumably at some sort of premium to Government stock. There is also the cost of 4 chunky bureaucacies and a bit of maintenance. Even without paying for the nationalised assets there will an enormous amount of cash to be found every day to pay for all this. Has anyone calculated how much water users will need to pay per cubic meter and any explanation as to how this will be $9,000 per household ( which I think is what Jacinda said it would be ) less than if all this was left to local authorities?

It all sounds like fairyland economics to me.
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July 23, 2022 1:39pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

‘Having a period isn’t just a feminine thing.
People of ALL genders can experience periods’

– education.govt.nz

>>>And it gets worse….

https://twitter.com/SamuelHillNZ/status/1550438384090226690
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July 23, 2022 1:53pm
Yvette

Yes Maggie, many have been going through quite a bad period starting about November 2017 until now, including old, stale, white males, and perhaps some being those who assembled on the Auckland motorway later this morning, without anyone taking advantage of the target they presented.
Even as the Police let them wander on, they don’t have anything heavy like SWAT armoured vehicles to drive north, as was shown by the lack of Police heavy-towing capacity outside Parliament earlier in the year.
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July 23, 2022 2:18pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/300644427/10-big-questions-raised-by-the-2022-highestearning-movie-stars-list
1. If Tom Cruise was actually 6’4″ tall and not 5’4″ tall which screen characters would he have played ? And therefore which of his films would not have been hits ?
2. If Tom Cruise was actually 6’4″ tall would he have been chosen to play Jack Reacher in those movies ?
3. I know Jack Reacher: we have been friends since high school in Whangarei. when I spoke to him about Tom Cruise he said “Oh! I know him ! He is one of the Wiggles !”.
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July 23, 2022 4:29pm
- MCōs
  
  Jack Reacher is only a non de plume for a guy who works in the PR Dept for a chain of supermarkets in the US.
  He travels around the shops reaching to get stuff for little old ladies from high shelves.
  
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  July 23, 2022 5:08pm
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    Humour! Love it
    
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    July 24, 2022 10:23am
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/114832273/jim-hubbard-cartoons
Jim Hubbard: very close friend of Sharon Murdoch.
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July 23, 2022 5:44pm
- mandk
  
  Except that the polar bear population is increasing.
  
  But hey, let’s not let the fact get in the way of an opportunity for another feeble cartoon.
  
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  July 23, 2022 7:20pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh Dear..

is Chlöe going to roll James?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300644340/james-shaw-not-reconfirmed-as-green-party-coleader-nominations-to-be-reopened
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July 23, 2022 6:16pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  And has the MP-for-Tijuana put his sombrero in the Ring?
  
  😛
  
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  July 23, 2022 6:57pm
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  What, Cannabis Chloe for co-leader? The mind boggles. Perhaps James should have had a cut-n-tuck.
  
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  July 23, 2022 7:52pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Look for my post in the morning. No point in posting now, everyone’s asleep.
  
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  July 23, 2022 9:08pm
Maggy Wassilieff

The KINDNESS of Jacinda’s government

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300643807/mbie-apology-after-debt-collectors-chased-bushfire-pilot-over-paid-miq-bill
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