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Much to celebrate today.
It’s the start of the lunar new year, especially for the Chinese community welcoming the Year of the Rabbit.
We could also celebrate Ukraine’s Day of Unity, commemorating the 1919 agreement between the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the West Ukrainian People’s Republic.
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January 22, 2023 8:01am
- Matt Long
  
  We also get to see who joins Hipkins at the podium of uselessness.
  
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  January 22, 2023 8:03am
  - pdm
    
    Matt – Carmel Sepuloni, unpalatable as she may be to all of us here, seems to be the front runner.
    
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    January 22, 2023 9:01am
    - CJames
      
      If Carmel is their choice, then that in a nutshell is the summary of all that is wrong with the Labour Party. In what business would she rise to anywhere near the top? We can discount NGOs and Government Departments as they are more symptoms of the same disease. Identity trumps competence.
      
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      January 22, 2023 9:17am
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        As I noted yesterday, our education system is churning out huge numbers of useless people. Some know they are useless, the rest are employed by the taxpayer directly or indirectly. The country gets poorer as the useless/useful ratio increases.
        
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        January 22, 2023 9:27am
      - pdm
        
        CJames – it has just occurred to me that she could be a – like for like with Kelvin Davis.
        
        A token Labour Deputy Leader while Grant Robertson continues as Deputy Prime Minister.
        
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        January 22, 2023 1:12pm
      - House
        
        I work at a very well run NGO where competence is ahead of identity so not always good to lump us all into the same boat.
        
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        January 22, 2023 4:43pm
    - artemisia
      
      Ms Sepuloni, if Deputy PM, will be seen as a very weak link. Her next few months will not be pleasant.
      
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      January 22, 2023 9:52am
      - septic skeptic
        
        She can’t be much worse than Davis.,
        
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        January 22, 2023 10:08am
      - Flossie
        
        Davis is only the Party Deputy – therefore answerable to them, not the rest of us.
        
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        January 22, 2023 10:48am
      - david
        
        Everyone seems to forget that Grant Robertson has not ruled himself out as DPM. Choosing him would rule out promoting a “Chippie Cult”. If Sepuloni is chosen she would need to remain mostly invisible .
        
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        January 22, 2023 12:11pm
  - DeepBlue
    
    My pick: Grant R stays as Deputy PM and Carmel S becomes Deputy Labour Leader.
    
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    January 22, 2023 1:08pm
  - Fishing in the dark
    
    The new PM is carved out of the same Labour Ideology, by end of the day nothing will be changed. All what he will do just promise heaven on earth, if they get in a 3rd term, all is on including Co-governance, 3(5)-Waters, Capital Gains Tax etc.
    So far he has done nothing, in fact he stuffed up the education system, since he is in charge of Police the crime got worse, as a Covid Minister he stuffed up the entire nation etc.
    As far as Sepuloni goes, she has been brought in a household whereby benefit fraud is common event, her mother was caught and convicted for fraud benefit. Someone like that is in charge of MSD and possible the Reserve PM
    
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    January 22, 2023 2:12pm
    - jgw739
      
      I agree. Hipkins can’t make major changes to existing policy – he was an integral part of developing it. At best he can use his honeymoon period to axe some unpopular policies without appearing to flip flop. But no way will he touch 3 waters/cogovernance – he would have assured the Maori caucus already, which is why they didn’t meet yesterday.
      
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      January 22, 2023 3:00pm
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Chipkins-Carmel deadly duo will bury National come October. Bye Bye Luxon. Welcome nice Nicola the next Labour leader and possible PM in 2026.
    
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    January 22, 2023 3:10pm
    - Colville
      
      Great to see you back SCS.!
      
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      January 22, 2023 10:18pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  I never cease to marvel at the brazen arrogant and contemptous mentality of politicians and Government officials.
  Take inflation. The PM Min of Fin and RB Governor blamed Covid the war in Ukraine and in the case of the Governor citizens spending after he pumped billions in the economy much more than was necessary.
  Rather than showing contrition for their FU they double down and blame everyone else.
  And these Bozos wonder why thinking citizens dont trust them to run a bath.
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:24am
  - hmmokrightitis
    
    Problem is trying to explain different types of inflation to people – this bunch of robber barons know they dont have to.
    
    So, non-tradable inflation you say…
    
    Well yes, but that NASTY MR PUTIN!!!
    
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    January 22, 2023 9:38am
    - Jack5
      
      Different types of inflation?
      
      Inflation all boils down to the money supply, and Robertson and Orr blew it out by printing billions of dollars of money through their bond scam.
      
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      January 22, 2023 10:11am
      - Simon
        
        National supported the $50 billion printed and injected into the economy
        
        It’s about narrative. Labo blames Putin and National blames Labo spending
        
        National and Labo are bad as each other
        
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        January 22, 2023 10:59am
      - Jack5
        
        The posts on inflation by hmmokrightitis and Simon are foretastes of the falsities and distortion the Labour-subsidised media will spin this year about inflation.
        
        It is a direct result of Labour’s gross economic stuff-up over Covid: sending money supply soaring by printing (and buying) billions of dollars worth of bonds. It was Social Credit madness without a Social Credit government.
        
        Inflation will be a big topic this election year, and Labour will try to lie its way out of blame.
        
        Robertson was Minister of Finance: you can’t blame National, ACT, or the Maori Party for his incompetence and funny-money belief.
        
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        January 22, 2023 11:41am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Main thing is, it’s the year of the end of socialist utopia in this country
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:24am
  - GJM
    
    No such luck. We will have Labour Lite – ” like Labour but ones in blue” instead, and they haven’t got the balls to do what needs to be done. They just continues on te Labour policy but do it better. John Key was the best LaLabour peime minister this country ever had, and changed nothing significantly from Clark.
    
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    January 22, 2023 5:24pm
- Cassandra
  
  And the release of NZ On Air’s new policy on race relations ie the Maoris didn’t cede sovereignty and we’re all racists. Much to celebrate indeed.
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:02am
  - Simon
    
    Will National close down NZ on air? Like fuck they will.
    
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    January 22, 2023 11:00am
- Ra Henare
  
  I see the KB sheeple have automatically down ticked Mikenmild s non controversial post.
  
  I presume they then go on to accuse NZ voters of being sheep.
  
  Hip ock racey alive and well
  
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  January 22, 2023 2:08pm
Yvette

ACT – press release –
Leaked briefing shows co-government for education
December 8, 2022
“There’s yet another fight brewing inside the Labour Party, with Chris Hipkins refusing to rule out the Māori Caucus’ aspiration for a separate Māori education system”, says ACT’s Education spokesperson Chris Baillie.
“Labour’s obsession with imposing an ethnic and Treaty lens on everything has set it on a path towards co-government in education.

“An August 2022 briefing leaked to ACT shows the Government is considering the creation of an ‘independent statutory entity to lead and steward the Māori Medium Education and Kaupapa Māori Education System’ alongside the Ministry of Education.
“Today in Parliament, Hipkins refused to explicitly rule out a separate Māori education system. He clearly doesn’t want it, but he’s keeping his options open because the powerful Māori Caucus aspires to a separate body.
“A separate Māori education system would be divisive and there’s no evidence that it would produce better outcomes for students.

“ACT has shown what works in education: devolving decisions to parents and communities through Partnership Schools.
“An independent report by MartinJenkins on Partnership Schools showed student engagement was significantly improved, there were fewer stand-downs and suspensions, students gave positive feedback, families felt more involved, and very few students opted out.

“If the Government wishes to give Māori a greater say over the education of Māori students, it should use an established and successful idea that was supported by the Iwi Chairs Forum – Partnership Schools.”
https://www.act.org.nz/press-releases/leaked-briefing-shows-co-government-for-education

Will Chris Hipkins, although “he clearly doesn’t want it”, push ahead now with this?
Will the Maori Caucus push Chris Hipkins, although “he clearly doesn’t want it”, to push ahead now with this? In an Election year?

And if not in an Election year, will it be waiting for just after any Labour victory, now unlikely as that seems? So it should be discussed in an Election year any case, along with other matters Labour attempts to drop for Election year.

Or will timid reLuxtance allow that to happen – Labour victory, that is, or dropping of issues?
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January 22, 2023 8:01am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Get out of here, Luxon has stated their will. E no separatist services, that means education as well
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:09am
  - Simon
    
    Lol – Luxon has stated. Trust the plan.
    
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    January 22, 2023 11:02am
    - Jack5
      
      Jeez, you’re not … you’re not Simon Wilson, are you?
      
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      January 22, 2023 11:48am
      - nathie
        
        Ahah … now that makes sense!
        
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        January 22, 2023 12:20pm
      - Simon
        
        Vote ACT Jack. They will be coalition with those National party buffoons but they might achieve some good.
        
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        January 22, 2023 2:03pm
- Bob
  
  will timid reLuxtance allow that to happen ……
  Only the voting public can prevent a continuation of the disintegration of NZ incorporated.
  Joe and Joan public will need to vote a lot more intelligently at the next election, than THEY did at the last two elections.
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:14am
Tomtoddy

The term ‘hater’ is thrown around today with increasing abandon. Anyone criticising Ardern and her incompetence as the former leader of the country is quickly deemed a misogynist or a ‘hater’. It seems more common among lefties, sycophants who adore and don’t analyse and lightweights devoid of debating points.

Calling me a ‘hater’ says much more about you than me. Besides the mischaracterisation and the odium attached to the term it tells me:

1. You do not have a defence based on logic, common sense or intelligence.
2. You are mostly insecure, riddled with anxiety, struggling with self esteem.
3. You play the man not the ball stuff to create a diversion or shut down discussion
4. It usually means I have already won the point – you know it and cannot cope.
5. Often you use the term because you hate yourself and see me as the person you would like to be.

It also runs much deeper. Stifling debate by labelling people with extreme and obnoxious terms is aimed at removing critical thinking and constructive analysis. It paves the way forward for the growing band of totalitarians wanting to hobble democracy and impose their “superior” ideology. Not allowing any criticism of the catastrophic climate change meme, refusing to cover the negative aspects of Covid treatments are already bedded in. Nasty responses to any questioning using pejorative labels like “hater” is just another step down the road of rule by the elites. Sometimes called “the new deal”.
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January 22, 2023 8:01am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Ironic, isn’t it, that those who make a career of decrying the rich do their level-best to enrich themselves via generous state-funded salaries.
  
  That’s some kind of self-hatred, right there.
  
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  January 22, 2023 8:08am
  - Thought Criminal
    
    That’s the left’s whole ideology. Transfer wealth from business people and hard workers to themselves via taxes.
    
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    January 22, 2023 9:58am
  - Bob
    
    commonly called THEFT in past years.
    
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    January 22, 2023 10:16am
- Swifty
  
  Well said Tomtoddy.
  
  This is all an attempt by the left to shift the debate to areas where they think they’ll have more success.
  
  Anything, anything but debate and investigation of their actual results achieved.
  
  I have an ex who was a bloody master at it – constantly trying to shift debates to areas she thought were for her firmer ground. You started out talking about one thing but within minutes you found yourself debating something completely different.
  
  You see it one time and suddenly you’re seeing it all the time.
  
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  January 22, 2023 8:14am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    “Gaslighting” encapsulated.
    
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    January 22, 2023 9:48am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Tomtoddy – were back to narrative control again. Sound bites and memes instead of conversation and discussion, because to enter into discussion would see these ideologues exposed as the feeble minded fools that they are.
  
  The number of times I’ve seen the word “misogyny” in stories regarding Ardern in the last 24 hours is telling and it is global.
  This isn’t an accident. Its the same as the use of “anti vaxxer”, “misinformation” and “conspiracy theory” over the last few years. Meaningless terms used to vilify and end debate.
  
  There is nothing “misogynistic” about disliking Ardern and her tyrannical policies. Her biological sex has nothing to do with her unpopularity. Anyone attempting to use it is unable to present a valid argument to support their position.
  The Karens (and Kens) everywhere will cling to this belief until their dying day, that their princess was the victim of “far right misogynists.”
  They cannot face the fact that she was useless at the job, she divided a country, she destroyed an economy and she deliberately created a two tier society and punished good people for daring to not bow down to her.
  She was a tyrant.
  
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  January 22, 2023 8:28am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Ardern used ‘kindness and empathy’ to deal with underperforming ministers, Labour sex perverts, unpleasant truths, etc…
    
    She certainly wasn’t weak!
    
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    January 22, 2023 9:19am
  - jgw739
    
    Strange isn’t it? These people throwing around the term ‘misogynist’ are the same people who promoted her womanhood at every turn since the 2017 election. Almost like they can only see in one dimension.
    
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    January 22, 2023 9:28am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Misogynist is a usually a term used with gay abandon by hardcore gender bigots!
      
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      January 22, 2023 1:54pm
  - David Lenny
    
    An uptick from me, even though I think ‘tyrant’ is far too strong a word for her.
    
    Last night I read this comment by Martin Bradbury @ thedailyblog:
    
    Wow, Colbert’s tribute to Jacinda has to be seen to appreciate how important she has been to building our global profile…
    
    So, how many NZers were promptly treated by their DHB or housed through our enhanced global profile? He didn’t say.
    
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    January 22, 2023 9:29am
    - backster
      
      The Welfare stats are her legacy.
      
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      January 22, 2023 9:46am
- kowtow
  
  See karl du Fresne’s latest blog .
  An Australian member of our press gallery tried to get him cancelled on those very grounds .
  
  http://karldufresne.blogspot.com/2023/01/who-is-ben-mckay-and-why-is-he-saying.html
  
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  January 22, 2023 8:29am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    kowtow – telling observations in that. It’s a cancer.
    
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    January 22, 2023 9:53am
- Yvette
  
  Calling gathered protesters a group of anti-vaxxer misoynistic conspiratory river of filth is not going to encourage your leader to venture out, or send representatives, whoever, to invite a delegation of perhaps 10 to come in and put their collected views.
  
  Had Ardern, or a representative, done that when say the first fifty or so protesters arrived, it would have meant – when thousands had gathered and called her out – those first few would have had to say “She’s been here, done that”
  
  Jacinda should be remembered for what she didn’t do – as well as the little she did do.
  
  Jacinda could have saved Trevor’s lawn and slide
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:14am
  - Gravelroad
    
    ‘I shouldn’t have been arrested for doing nothing more than protesting’,” Hipkins said in 2009.
    Disappointing then, that Mr Hipkins apparently did nothing to respect, or even speak to, the mandate protesters when they first arrived at Parliament last year.
    Seems a tad hypocritical to me.
    
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    January 22, 2023 11:50am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  It was fine to hate Key, English, Bridges, Collins and Seymour, we know we know, that’s different
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:25am
  - nathie
    
    Yep, if all these (leftie) political commentators, Labour/Ardern supporters and media opinion writers also came out against the misogyny, misandry, bigotry, effigy-burning and effigy-pooping and throwing of sex-toys at National MP’s at the time then I would take their current views seriously.
    
    However none of them ever did (and some of them even uncritically “promoted” the perpetrators of these acts against right-wing politicians) …. so they can go ****themselves.
    
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    January 22, 2023 10:26am
- G152
  
  Labor bought the media.
  No way will the media ever question their master
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:38am
  - Simon
    
    National will not close down NZ on air. Just watch it will be as if the corruption never occurred
    
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    January 22, 2023 11:07am
  - Paulus
    
    Over Coffee Shop morning I saw a Stuff Sunday Paper – what an appalling piece of garbage – won’t even look in future and suggested Coffee Bar owners be more selective but is the other one any more prejudiced.
    
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    January 22, 2023 11:23am
- Benedict Yu
  
  “Hater” and “phobic” (Islamophobia, Transphobia etc) are labels screamed by people whose actions are governed by faith rather than reason. Jacinda was guided by a belief that she was right. The COVID elimination strategy was right. When people used logic to point out it was absurd because the vaccines didn’t stop transmission, those people were the spreaders of disinformation.
  
  The “trans” movement is also based on faith. Anyone who identifies as a woman is a woman. This is big in the UK, and especially Scotland. There are lesbians in the UK who feel (unsurprisingly) that they do not want to have sexual relationships with trans women. Many of these women are being targeted as “Transphobic”.
  
  The world has gone mad. It will self correct. However, that could take some time. It will get worse before it gets better.
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:45am
  - NothingLeft
    
    The correct greek suffix in most cases is actually ‘aedia’ – disgust/dislike rather than ‘phobia’- fear
    
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    January 22, 2023 2:18pm
- crikey
  
  TT: It’s OK for women to call men misogynists but not acceptable to talk about the misandry* we hear from those women who get free reign on their views in the media (*hatred, dislike, or mistrust of men).
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:19am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Don’t forget the lifelong effect their bigoted loony views have on boys!!!
    
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    January 22, 2023 2:11pm
- herb1
  
  Isn’t it sad and telling that those who are at the frontline calling for equal treatment of women , are the same people calling for different treatment for female PMs.
  Negative comment on Ardern is not allowed but negative , nasty stuff about male PMs particularly a National one, is to be applauded.
  I’m still waiting for anyone to show me articles of Ardern being assaulted on Waitangi Day, political campaign meetings of people chanting FU Ardern or media coverage of a close personal friend of an opposition MPs, song about doing nasty things to her daughter.
  Arderns had it easy. There aren’t many highly paid import jobs that effect the lives of so many, that would accept her total failure of pretty much everything she said she was going to do or achieve
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:58am
- oldpark
  
  @Tomtoddy
  Check out the opposite of Misogynist.
  
  Seems there are alot more Misandrists lurking in NZs bought and paid for Media by Ardern/Hipkins Control freak Government.Just Saying .
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:03am
NeverMindTheBollocks

So, is anyone running a book on Cindy getting a Damehood come the Kings Birthday Honours?
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January 22, 2023 8:04am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  She will do a Clark and flick the bird
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:10am
  - NothingLeft
    
    No narcissist would turn down a title.
    
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    January 22, 2023 11:40am
- Jethrod
  
  I reckon it will be an ONZ, 4 vacant spots at this moment.
  1 for the Duck.
  2 for our Cindy
  …..Leaving 2 spots for s9me other entitled person.
  
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  January 22, 2023 12:01pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  How to bring total public contempt down on the honours system!
  
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  January 22, 2023 2:16pm
Matt Long

I wonder if these children would like to see a more stringent screening of who gets to adopt or foster children. Caution, vile content.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-couple-accused-sexually-abusing-adopted-boys-husband-bragged-molesting-son
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January 22, 2023 8:06am
Ruahine

Was Ardern’s resignation the Great Reset that the left has been banging on about and which would be wonderful for all of us, Comrades. It certainly looks like it.
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January 22, 2023 8:07am
Paulus

Hipkins – more as more as, but can he keep the Maori on side – doubt he has the ability – look at his Education portfolio – from worse to worse.
Now he can fluff it again.
Sepuloni possibly something, but did not keep the Islanders on board in the Auckland Mayoral Election.
Hipkins, enjoy the UK Coronation, and the next 9 months whilst you can, before you get the boot – which is why no others contended.
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January 22, 2023 8:10am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Bribed up media is building up Chipkins as if he is the next best thing to slice bread.
  
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  January 22, 2023 3:20pm
- GJM
  
  Don’t forget the PM gets $530k per year plus perks and pension. The 9 months of being PM is Wortham least $100k after tax to chipper. Why not take the money. A good bit of coin for 9months “work”, being a payrise equivalent to 2 average peoples pay packets.
  Let them eat cake.
  
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  January 22, 2023 5:33pm
Yvette

Theft in supermarkets is common. It has increased dramatically since someone decided that criminals would not be stopped if they had got passed the checkout and that police would not be notified. Staff are not allowed to interfere at all. Security can only intervene if culprits can be caught prior to checkout. We are not talking about women with large coats nicking a few items in their inside pockets – it is loaded trolleys pushed out the door in full view.

It is one reason for higher grocery prices – we are subsidising petty crooks. Retail theft amounted to $1.2 Billion last year. That’s the recorded stuff only. Double it at least. It’s over $800 a household and maybe well over a $1,000 if unrecorded crime is added in.

If you buy weekly, your grocery bill could be $25 to $30 higher just to keep the crooks happy.
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/owen-jennings-the-new-normal

And of course that $25-30 isn’t for a weekly buy, it is just over a week as a statistic
But it will be more than you might give a guy sitting cross-leg with a cardboard sign outside the supermarket
And he likely isn’t an actual criminal
Instead those, who mostly do night work, may be home sleeping off a hangover and very slowly dying of lung cancer
But – That is what it is, yep

And – like everything else Jacinda has left Chippie to figure out – that doesn’t need to be what it is
Although trying unplugging New Zealand and plugging Aotearoa in, is not going to fix it.

… the medication and morning coffee is on the way …
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January 22, 2023 8:11am
- Jack5
  
  But liberals dream they can cure crime.
  
  These folk who think some sort of youth counselling can prevent ram raids:
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/big-brothers-big-sisters-help-prevent-crime-by-mentoring-kids/KAHR5RAKL5HHJNQ4N4EQ6VN3AM/
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:13am
- NZer In Exile
  
  “If you buy weekly, your grocery bill could be $25 to $30 higher just to keep the crooks happy.”
  
  And the rest, when you factor in all the technology that has to be installed to catch/deter these crims.
  
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  January 22, 2023 2:14pm
Suze Wainwright

Heh, just read the social media posts of a couple of dedicated Auckland lefties visiting Wellington for the first time in a while and bemoaning the lack of vibrancy in the city now after 9pm. One of them even said Cuba Street had lost its ‘buzz!’

LOL! Such a lack of awareness…
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January 22, 2023 8:11am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  But, but, but, where else can they be beaten up and mugged by gang members so conveniently? Just a short walk from one’s hotel.
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:52am
RockyJ

Monday morning Chris Hipkins writes his “To Do” list.
1. Can Three Waters
2. Cancel farming emissions restrictions
3. Stop health restructuring
4. Cancel history curriculum
5. Fire Mahuta
6. End Public Interest Journalism fund
7. Fire Orr
8. Reverse Polytechnics merger
9. Get maorification out of public service
10. Apologise for lockdowns, vaccine mandates, travel restrictions
11. Commission youth detention facility
12. Start Covid enquiry
13. Grant Cindy immunity from prosecution
Morning tea
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January 22, 2023 8:13am
- Benedict Yu
  
  If he really did that and pulled it off, I might vote for them. 😂
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:48am
  - Hollyfield
    
    The problem is, all those policies would likely be right back on the table on the first Monday after election day.
    
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    January 22, 2023 10:38am
- backster
  
  Fraid not he had to endorse all those and more to get the unanimous vote.
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:02am
- Cassandra
  
  15. Renew ACT subscription.
  16. Get overcoat (for when He’ll freezes over).
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:04am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  And the job tax ?
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:13am
- Grumpy Silver Haired Female
  
  Oh how I wish this wasn’t fantasy. Maybe we could pray to our diverse deities for it to become reality?
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:49am
- ecco
  
  That gave me a few giggles!! If I were him, the first thing on the to do list would be to fire himself? Lost cause!
  
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  January 22, 2023 12:32pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Look! A unicorn! 😆
  
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  January 22, 2023 2:22pm
softail 1450

Tomtoddy, the throwing around of those terms has a more useful role for the liberal left especially now that the disastrous reign of Jacinda Ardern is over ,if they accuse enough people of being hateful and misogynist Arderns authoritarianism and crushing of basic human rights will be forgotten quicker instead of what should really happen which is we will never forget or forgive what she and her disgraceful government did to their own people.
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January 22, 2023 8:14am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Never forget. Well said.
  
  Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
  
  It’s been repeated often for a reason.
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:56am
Matt Long

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/michael-bassett-chris-hipkins?postId=11e36f2f-1b40-4509-bf9c-35a567120948&cid=db970c6d-6f12-48e2-a04d-5c512f666dee
Good article on Hipkins.
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January 22, 2023 8:15am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Michael Bassett is not optimistic about NZ under Hipkin’s Leadership.
  
  I suspect that six years of a mostly dead-loss administrative record will sink the Hipkins Ministry. It’s a pity. With more able, less dogmatic colleagues, he might have had better prospects.
  
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  January 22, 2023 8:19am
  - Grumpy Silver Haired Female
    
    I read Michael Bassett’s post and it was depressing. He suggests that Chippy is shallow and ineffective. We’ll see.
    
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    January 22, 2023 11:50am
- Tomtoddy
  
  I am concerned that Hipkins will outsmart Luxon in the House and give the MSM a crumb to work with in their campaign against National and Luxon.
  
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  January 22, 2023 8:28am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Hipkins will outsmart Luxon in the House
    
    I’m taking that as a given.
    
    the MSM a crumb to work with in their campaign against National and Luxon.
    
    That’s already happening.
    
    But at the end of the day, voters want affordable food and shelter…..accessible health care…and protection from violent thieving thugs.
    
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    January 22, 2023 8:37am
    - Gravelroad
      
      It will be interesting to see if the msm start trying to make Mr Hipkins into some sort of cult figure as they did when they realised that Ms Ardern actually had warm, fuzzy celebrity status rather than professional ability.
      I guess the PM’s department will be spinning up a way of giving Mr Hipkins a make over as we speak.
      He’s got the union, academics and public service markets in his pocket.
      But what is he like at spinning a disc?
      Will his face on the cover sell out an edition of the Woman’s Weekly?
      
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      January 22, 2023 9:09am
      - 7kiwi11
        
        I expect we’ll be subjected to lots of overuse of the Chippy nickname. There will be meme’s and tshirts trying to appeal to the yoof.
        
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        January 22, 2023 9:19am
      - Suze Wainwright
        
        Gravel, but that cute boyishness – someone told me he looks like Alfred E. Newman the other day
        
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        January 22, 2023 9:22am
      - Jack5
        
        Gravelroad, the bought-off media’s beatification of Hipkins has already begun.
        
        The subsidised newspapers, State TV, and State radio have a lot at stake in Labour’s fate.
        
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        January 22, 2023 10:17am
      - Gravelroad
        
        I am replying to myself, I know, but these comments are intended for 7Kiwi and Suze below:
        I wouldn’t rate a pet name of Chippy , or Chip. Too reminiscent of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Worse than Cindy, I reckon.
        Youngish family member here who grew up watching TV programmes such as Happy Days, reckons Mr Hipkins is a dead ringer for Richie Cunningham – aka Opie from the Andy Griffith Show.
        
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        January 22, 2023 10:19am
      - Bob
        
        THEY HAVE ALREADY STARTED!
        
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        January 22, 2023 10:22am
      - Lance
        
        @Suze
        Are you mad 😛
        
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        January 22, 2023 10:29am
      - kowtow
        
        [Prince George believes William Pitt the Younger to be a schoolboy]
        
        Blackadder:
        Mr. Hipkins is the Prime Minister, sir.
        
        George:
        [in disbelief] Oh, go on! Is he? What, young Snotty here?!
        
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        January 22, 2023 11:07am
      - Tony Stuart
        
        Personally, I can’t look at Chris Hipkins without thinking of Alfred E Neuman of the long-gone Mad Magazine:
        
        https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/2019/07/04/mad-magazine-quits-newstands-after-67-years/1650759001/
        
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        January 22, 2023 1:01pm
      - Jack5
        
        Re Tony Stuart’s 1.01 post …
        
        I don’t think Mad Magazine’s dead yet:
        
        https://www.madmagazine.com/
        
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        January 22, 2023 8:04pm
    - Bob
      
      voters want affordable f……
      AND THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GET THAT FROM A HIPKINS LEAD GOVT!
      
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      January 22, 2023 10:22am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Labour believes in large amounts of BS.
      
      National knows that much of what Labour and the other delusional parties believe in is BS, but will go along with much of it so as not to offend those in the populace who’ve been conned and bullied in to kowtowing to fashionable BS.
      
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      January 22, 2023 2:31pm
- Nickc2
  
  Can a privileged white boy put Labour’s Maori Caucus in its place? I very much doubt it!
  IMO, there may be an eight months lull in proceedings but Mahuta, Jackson, and Davis will be back with a vengeance (albeit from the Opposition benches).
  
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  January 22, 2023 8:29am
Scooter

I just had a scary thought, what if this is all a devious plan and Cindy is planning a come back in 2026. I mean is it that crazy an idea that she leaves now, has a rest, does a few gigs overseas. Then rejuvenated for the 2nd coming.
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January 22, 2023 8:19am
- nathie
  
  1. Unlikely, she will still have a lot of baggage to contend with (from 2017-2022).
  2. What does that say about Labour’s talent pool (if they have to resort to that)?
  3. But the clincher is …. she doesn’t do hard work (so why would she)!
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:40am
  - Scooter
    
    1. Media are already painting her as a Saint, been hard done by etc etc and memories fade fast.
    2. Labour have no talent pool, I couldn’t believe it when Hipkins said they have the best team, and will win and NZ is the best place in the world to live. He is even more delusional than Cindy.
    3. Cindy doesn’t do hard work but for her to stage a come back (I doubt overseas will want her) would be something not many others have done.
    
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    January 22, 2023 11:13am
    - Ghost
      
      The Saint of pathological lying?
      
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      January 22, 2023 11:33am
- Grumpy Silver Haired Female
  
  Scooter, do mean after her WHO or UN stint? Surely not, PM of NZ would be beneath such a lofty personage!
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:53am
  - Paulus
    
    Why do you think that the UN and WHO will giver her a job ?
    As an employer they do not want anybody who is a trouble maker and contentious.
    Helen Clark was not very well thought of at the UN which is why she did not get another appointment.
    Even she was out of her depth.
    
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    January 22, 2023 1:49pm
  - Scooter
    
    I don’t think living overseas will suit her, she will sink into oblivion and become irrelevant. And where will Clarke go fishing in NY?
    
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    January 22, 2023 7:36pm
Bridgenag

For those that like the graphs. This is an post about the deaths in Australian nursing homes. Our numbers probably the same.

https://open.substack.com/pub/metatron/p/the-killing-fields-of-australian?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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January 22, 2023 8:21am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Bridgenag – the evidence is overwhelming but the mainstream media refuse to go near it.
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:01am
SmokerGuy

I despair at the rose tinted view of Hipkins presented by our media over the last day or 2. None of the nasty shit he’s done is mentioned or the absolute shambles he is making of polytech merger. I think this election is less likely to be a National win now than it was as the media are quite clearly going to back Hipkins. It’s still the same bunch of numpties who have screwed up this country, just with a new leader. I really hope kiwis remember that when they vote.
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January 22, 2023 8:25am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Well my spies tell me that for the last 5 years, while Grant was attempting (and failing) to keep the economy at least appearing like normal, Chippie was shoring up his base within the Party.
  
  Grant was the affable human face supposed to keep business and international markets calm, and Chippie was putting in the building blocks of the socialist revolution and the mass centralisation to come – the “commanding heights” if you like.
  
  Cindy was always a glove puppet, her job was to be adored and sell “brand kindness”
  
  Unfortunately:
  1. Cindy started to believe her own bullshit
  2. The maori feudal aristos never had the brains or the patience to play the long(ish) game.
  
  So here we are. Cindy’s body is floating down the river, and now we see the start of raw power politics, will the Communists be able to deal to the Maori feudal aristocrats, or vice-versa?
  
  Couldn’t happen to nicer people. It’s like 1789 with no tumbrils (yet). We already know who fancies himself as Napoleon when Robespierre’s mob runs out of steam.
  
  Shame that the rest of us will have to pay for the entertainment…
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:00am
Maggy Wassilieff

I wonder if Jacinda Ardern realised how poorly educated she was…..

she had acquired skills only in communication, and in other respects had been poorly educated, possessing little knowledge of New Zealand’s political history,…..

and
(Hipkins) comes across as himself, and not scripted like Ardern by those in the back office.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/michael-bassett-chris-hipkins
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January 22, 2023 8:25am
- kowtow
  
  Little knowledge .
  
  Yep , her first day on campaign trail after Little’s demise and she didn’t know it was a reserve bank ocr meeting. She didn’t know the articles of the treaty she so famously tries to promote .
  
  Empty suit , hidden behind a hagiographic media pardy.
  
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  January 22, 2023 8:32am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  Suspect she realized her lack of capacity very early on with her GDP/NZD boo boo – hence 5+ years of empathy word salads.
  
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  January 22, 2023 8:45am
  - NothingLeft
    
    That was truly gob-smacking after she’d been in parliament 9 years where it should have been heard in conversation daily.
    
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    January 22, 2023 11:48am
  - kowtow
    
    GDP / NZD boo boo
    
    Please elaborate .I’m all ears.
    
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    January 22, 2023 1:13pm
- pdm
  
  Hipkins will be a step up from Ardern in my opinion if he:
  
  1. Gives a straight answer to questions.
  2. Retuns to weekly interviews with Mike Hosking.
  
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  January 22, 2023 8:47am
  - Cinematic
    
    It’s not hard to be a step up from the Jacinda myth.
    
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    January 22, 2023 9:03am
  - RoboRob
    
    But should Mike take him back?
    
    You shouldn’t be able to have your cake and eat it too. If Labour want the coverage being on hoskings gives they shouldn’t just come on in election years, they should come on and answer questions for all three years.
    
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    January 22, 2023 9:13am
    - pdm
      
      Robo – it was only Jacinda that blackballed Mike and NewstalkZB. Chippie was often on taking the flak Jacinda should have.
      
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      January 22, 2023 1:17pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    A straight answer? Ghez, he has been a total numpty on HDA several times, all because he wouldn’t give a straight answer
    
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    January 22, 2023 9:39am
- ClanMcleod
  
  All relevant and accurate observations by Bassett, but of course the leftie sycophants will label him a misogynist hater. That’s how the current left in NZ operates these days.
  It’s depressingly repetitive.
  
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  January 22, 2023 8:52am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Next thing we will get Bassett rabbiting on about ‘true history’ to complete his 50-year transition from academia to the more lucrative realm of glib political commentary.
    
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    January 22, 2023 9:23am
    - Jigsaw
      
      What a typically nasty comment !- one that adds nothing to the debate. You must be extremely strange/ill to get off on this sort of comment.
      
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      January 22, 2023 9:34am
      - hmmokrightitis
        
        Its Mike lefty MO – ball, what ball, fuck the ball, after the man! Let me just make some shit up and here we go…
        
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        January 22, 2023 9:44am
      - Bridgenag
        
        Just downtick and move on. I am weaning myself off the downticks as a new years resolution…..will take time…..such an easy target. Sad thing is…we are probably paying him to be here……….sigh
        
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        January 22, 2023 1:06pm
    - David Lenny
      
      1) Is his glib political commentary more lucrative than his academic career?
      
      2) What role did Bassett’s experience with the Waitangi Tribunal play in this predicted transition to rabbiting on about ‘true history’?
      
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      January 22, 2023 9:42am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      At least his history won’t deny Māori killed each other in their tribal laws, unlike Arderns engineered history of only white fullas doing the killing
      
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      January 22, 2023 9:44am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Clearly you haven’t read the posted article…
      
      For Dr Bassett (author of 15 Books on NZ History)
      http://www.michaelbassett.co.nz/books.php
      
      is scathing about the new curriculum
      
      Making matters much worse has been his and Jacinda’s determination to re-design school curricula, introducing a demonstrably false history syllabus for schools.
      
      Feel free to tell us about your History qualifications.
      
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      January 22, 2023 9:46am
      - Swifty
        
        Cathy exemplifies many on the left – in that they reserve a special hatred, very special indeed, for those who were once left but have now seen the light and switched camps.
        
        Come the revolution these treasonous vermin will be first against the wall.
        
        😀
        
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        January 22, 2023 10:06am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      “comment hidden” in 3,2,1……
      
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      January 22, 2023 10:34am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Centre voters will see through that bullshit, infact this blaming anger for Arderns demise will push some undecided voters away from Labour
    
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    January 22, 2023 9:42am
- Bob
  
  she is a graduate of the WEF, isn’t that enough education?
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:25am
- Benedict Yu
  
  The other thing is her Mormon upbringing. She would have been taught unwavering belief in the church’s teaching. In my experience, this encourages a “faith based” approach to thinking. We saw that in the “single source of truth” speech on COVID. No person who had an education that involved critical reasoning would say such a thing.
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:32am
  - nathie
    
    Hmm does that mean …. the “leftie” MSM have been idolising the very one thing most of them usually appear to be bigoted against …. a follower of (a particular form of) Christianity? 😂
    
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    January 22, 2023 12:02pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Kindness is a big thing in the Mormon Church:
      
      Kindness is the essence of a celestial life. Kindness is how a Christlike person treats others. Kindness should permeate all of our words and actions at work, at school, at church, and especially in our homes.
      
      https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2005/04/the-virtue-of-kindness?lang=eng
      
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      January 22, 2023 1:42pm
      - nathie
        
        Thnx … so she copied that too, and never once acknowledged her teachings when the NZ media, international media, politicians and celebrities praised her for her “kindness” (probably, literally hundreds or thousands of times)!!
        
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        January 22, 2023 4:16pm
  - Paulus
    
    She was believed to have been a Mormon for the first 25 years of her life and left because the church did not support homosexual marriage.
    
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    January 22, 2023 1:53pm
kiwikidsnz

Konstantin Kisin speaking at the Oxford Union for the motion “This house believes that Woke culture has gone too far” – 9 minutes.

https://youtu.be/JKIOSnKX96E

The Union voted 89-60 in favour of the motion.
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January 22, 2023 8:31am
- ClanMcleod
  
  It was excellent, but the fact that 60 opposed the motion highlights much of the problems in the education system. Only the most delusional ideologue could oppose the logic in that speech.
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:05am
Hugh Jarse

The Platform has some interesting commentary and interviews on the compliance framework given to the media seeking funding by New Zealand on Air related to supporting the Treaty of Waitangi. It is an indication of the work that has been going on in this area by this government. It’s well worth a listen, from Plunkets first expose through to Seymour’s and Peters comments. The framework makes a number of assertions on New Zealand that appear to be accepted government policy now. I.e. New Zealand is a racist country, Maori never ceded governance to the Crown and there is a need for two systems, one for pakeha and one for Maori. So despite a change of figurehead, this government will still have the same policies and ideology. It may get hidden by Chippie through to the election but it’s there and will be brought back into policy once they get back into power whenever that maybe. It’s an insight to where this country is headed.
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January 22, 2023 8:43am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Like I have been saying, after last election Labour is not trusted, that is why the anger has arisen, putting Māori stuff aside will make no difference to the level headed voter
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:47am
  - Matt Long
    
    After the last election? Unlike every other iteration of Labour then?
    
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    January 22, 2023 3:13pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  The ToW clearly states in both English and Maori versions that the Chiefs conceded governance to the Crown in return for the Crowns protection and receiving all the rights of British citizens. Its there in black and white and no amount of but but but can change it.
  None of us where there at the time but we can understand the Chiefs were concerned with the tribal wars that had they continued would have eventually wiped out Maori. They were also concerned that the French might expand their control and they knew how the French treated the people of their colonies and it was a damn sight worse than the British. So they rightly figured the British were a better bet.
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:48am
  - kowtow
    
    There was a very clear context.
    People like the Wakefields were making a big stir in London about buying up land for colonists .
    
    The govt didn’t want competition from the private sector on that account and Hobson was sent with instructions to gain sovereignty and the sole right for the Crown to control land sales .
    
    That is the key to the treaty.
    
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    January 22, 2023 11:02am
  - Nickc2
    
    How did Maori know anything about how the French treated people in their colonies?
    Here’s a bit of history, note the dates in relation to the ToW (1840).
    
    The Nanto-Bordelaise Company was formed in France on 10 August 1840 with the goal of establishing a settlement at Akaroa.
    In 1839 King Louis-Philippe agreed to provide assistance. Captain Charles François Lavaud, the French representative for the settlement, sailed for New Zealand in April 1840.
    
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    January 22, 2023 1:11pm
    - kowtow
      
      Marion du Fresne , French explorer.
      
      “The next five weeks were spent exploring the Bay and repairing the ships. On 8 June Marion du Fresne was welcomed at a special ceremony, but within a week he and 24 of his crew were killed by members of the Ngare Raumati tribe. As the French ships could not leave promptly while repairs were incomplete, a counter-attack was organised, which soon turned into violent reprisals and caused an estimated 250 Māori casualties.”
      
      https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/marion-du-fresne
      
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      January 22, 2023 6:45pm
hmmokrightitis

So, putting Chippie in the big seat means that labours Mr Fixit (and Mr Joyce he aint) has to drop a ton of his current workload.

And that workload has seen some spectacular failures. Take MoE as one. Attendance rates, the consolidation of tertiary institutions etc. Arguably our education system is in its worst shape since forever. Trouble is our measures of success and failure are held from us, the taxpayers who fund it all.

So, raises questions:

If Chippie isn’t taking these big ministries, who will? And we can expect better outcomes from them? (Stop sniggering)

The Maori caucus is a law unto themselves – will he dare reign them in and risk a snap election?

Did he mean to destroy education, and if so, why?

and the real kicker for me…

When will all those bleeding hearts put their chardonnay down and remind us that he is pale, stale and male?
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January 22, 2023 8:50am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Nash was minster of police after 2027, so that is sorted, Education will probably go to the whinge teacher who stood against Uffindell in the Tauranga bye election
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:50am
ecco

Interesting article in the Telegraph that you won’t see in the NZ msm re the NZ housing collapse (predicting a 28% fall by end of this year), basically attributing it to poor decisions by Ardern, Robertson and Orr. Also interesting to note that Brad Olsen, infometrics economist, a definite fan boy of Ardern and Labour, now starting to change his stripes and call them out for mistakes.

I guess Olsen can also see the writing on the wall and will be seeking consultancy work from the Nats down the track post election. Reading this article will definitely make you feel like leaving NZ or at least encouraging your young ones to go offshore. Especially if your livelihood depends on the NZ economy and you don’t have a mortgage free house.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/news/how-jacinda-ardern-primed-new-zealand-catastrophic-house-price/

Here’s an excerpt:

“A failure to build homes in the last several years has only led to more price inflation. The Government is making moves to reform the planning system, but builders now face a “behemoth” of red tape and rules slowing down the process, Olsen says.
As part of her pledges to voters in 2017, Ardern had promised to build 100,000 homes over 10 years for first-time buyers.
The target was scrapped in 2019 – at which point only 258 homes had been completed under the scheme – with a minister conceding that the target was “overly ambitious”.

“It was a bit of a laughing stock,” says Olsen. “The Prime Minister was elected partially on quite a strong focus around the housing market, affordability and home ownership for Kiwis,” he adds. “In fact, we’ve seen that affordability has gotten worse.”

Olsen concludes “New Zealand’s housing market has been “cooked” for a long time but Jacinda Ardern’s tenure has not helped, Olsen says.
“The current Government was voted in partially on trying to fix housing incomes,” he says. “That certainly hasn’t occurred.”
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January 22, 2023 8:54am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Olsen has often rubbish this government’s path, he has moderated more than likely to threats of losing work with Arderns media pardy
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:51am
- nathie
  
  Thanks for the link, it’s a very interesting article and not easily accessible so here are some other brief snippets:
  
  Soaring Immigration
  
  Before the pandemic struck net migration had reached 85,106 people, compared with 55,353 when she took office in October 2017, according to official figures from Stats NZ. Net migration had reached its highest point since at least January 2002.
  
  “The conversation around migration has been fairly poisonous in recent times,” says Brad Olsen, an economist at Infometrics, a research consultancy. “Realistically, the issue wasn’t that we had a high level of migrants coming in, it’s that we didn’t plan for and fund for that growth.”
  
  So Labour campaigned on reducing immigration and did nothing, well not quite, allowed immigration to rise to its highest levels since 2002??
  
  Tax on landlords
  As demand outstripped supply, this only increased prices further, with tax regulations adding to the froth.
  
  “The tax system is oriented in a way that encourages investment in property effectively as a form of savings,” says Michael Gordon, acting chief economist at Westpac Institutional Bank.
  
  “So we’ve tended to have house prices basically being dictated by their investment value rather than their value as a dwelling. It’s the investors that set the pace and anyone who’s been looking for their own home has had to pay up to match the investors. That’s been a long running issue.”
  
  An attempt to change that without addressing the underlying issue of a lack of supply and excess demand has only pushed up rent prices.
  
  In March 2021 the Government announced that landlords would no longer be able to offset their mortgage interest costs against their rental income. Landlords have responded by passing on rising costs to tenants.
  
  Yet this was pointed out to Labour (and Greens) over the years that their “idealism” on controlling landlords would make things worse. But not only did Labour (and Greens) ignore that, the majority of the MSM instead of informing its readers/listeners/viewers, paid scant regard and were largely uncritical of Labour’s policies making things worse. PM Ardern was never held to account over this by (most of) the MSM (instead they gushed at her social media posts).
  
  The impact of low interest rates
  All of these issues came to a boiling point when New Zealand’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, dropped interest rates from 1pc to 0.25pc in March 2020 response to the Covid pandemic.
  
  Interest rates had already been steadily falling in the preceding years, which coincided with an uptick in house prices.
  
  “Since the pandemic came through the huge levels of both government stimulus, but more importantly, monetary policy loosening and ultra cheap interest rates meant that a huge amount of people piled into the housing market because it was cheap,” says Gordon.
  
  The Reserve Bank of New Zealand had followed the lead of other countries that had dropped interest rates, but it did not take into account a divergence in Covid policies.
  
  New Zealand shut its borders early on and was able to stick to a “zero-Covid policy”, with its residents enjoying much more freedoms than other countries that had endured tough lockdowns.
  
  “That freedom plus very low mortgage rates caused one of, if not the biggest, house price booms in our history,” Gordon says. Prices went up by nearly 50pc from 2020 until the end of 2021.
  
  This is a massive failure that the Minister of Finance, Grant Roberston and RBNZ Head Adrian Orr are soley responsible for. Both of them should be resigning in disgrace ….
  
  A bursting bubble
  
  Gordon says policy decisions should have been trying to take the heat out of the housing market rather than creating a bubble, which finally burst when the Reserve Bank of New Zealand started raising interest rates in October 2021 to tackle inflation. The bank’s main policy rate has now reached 4.25pc.
  
  “Mortgage rates have now gone back to where they were in the mid 2010s,” he says. “Some people won’t have seen rates like this before, and that’s really changed the arithmetic in terms of what anyone, whether they’re an investor or a homeowner, would be willing to pay for a house.”
  
  Olsen says households who bought when interest rates were low are now facing much higher mortgage repayments. Mortgage rates have more than doubled within the last twelve months.
  
  “That’s a pretty significant hit to current owners who are having to find the money from somewhere to pay their mortgage, but also has severely limited the number of potential buyers that can get a mortgage,” he says.
  
  Labour are destroying the Kiwi dream of owning a house for new buyers and making it tough for existing homeowners.
  
  Labour (Ardern, Robertson and now Hipkins) should be held to account, but instead all we see is Ardern media sycophants “blaming the people” for being “misogynists” …. granted there is no place for misogyny and threats against ALL politicians, but there seems to be a disconnect when it comes to understanding why people “hate” Labour/Ardern etc. Sure some of it is ridiculous …. but some of it is from everyday Kiwi’s struggling with the cost of living increases (that Labour’s policies accelerated) and housing/rental affordability that is impacting on wide sectors of NZ’ers (eg not only poor and low income but also the middle and working classes).
  
  The buck stops with the top i.e. Labour …. but Ardern sycophant commentators are too blinded to see any of this.
  
  (Oh but they will “hold the top to account” once there is a change of Govt later in 2023 … confirming they are partisan leftie hacks)!
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:13am
  - ecco
    
    There’s several good articles in the telegraph. Just put ‘Ardern’ in the search field.
    I like the comments section. They aren’t censored out of existence like we get in nz msm.
    
    It resonated with me one of the comments from a Brit who had just visited nz who said that all there was in the Nz media were articles about the Māoris and climate change. He called it Woke Central 🥴.
    
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    January 22, 2023 12:46pm
    - Ghost
      
      Probably didn’t read the media much when here or he would have seen it full of ram raids, murder, some liar claiming the crime rate hasn’t increased, more murders and ram raids. Sometimes I feel like I’m reading American news…..
      
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      January 22, 2023 12:52pm
Cinematic

Hipkins as leader has happened too quickly, too smoothly. Factions will emerge. I’m picking a complete caucus cluster over the next few months. Hopefully it will distract them from wreaking further destruction prior to the election.
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January 22, 2023 8:55am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I think they are waiting for the blood to be let after the election
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:52am
  - Biscuit
    
    Agreed, Cinematic and G the giant.
    
    One of two scenarios was, imho, involved:
    
    1. The eventual choice was by far and away the most stellar of the possible candidates
    
    or
    
    2. All the other possible candidates thought ‘Hell, whoever wins is going to have to justify the policies that got New Zealand into the mess it currently is in’ and thought “What’s 8 months? Let us ‘unite’ behind the only candidate dumb enough to take on the job, roll him after the October 14 election debacle and run with a real, uncompromised-by-Jacinda leader after then…
    
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    January 22, 2023 10:31am
    - Nickc2
      
      Para 2 may work, but do we want that? I’d suggest not. IMO, this devious decrepit and incompetent Govt must be hung out to dry. The remainder of the country must see them in their true light.
      However, will that make any difference with a dyed-in-the-wool socialist/communist MSM?
      Speaking of our so-called MSM, will Silly Willie Jackson (Red Willie) proceed with his amalgamation of TVNZ & RNZ over the next eight months? I’m sure he’ll be looking for something that people will remember him for eh? I can’t see anyone with his ego going anywhere quietly.
      
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      January 22, 2023 12:55pm
    - Hollyfield
      
      Option 3. The messages to all MPs via the media that they have to fall in line and support Chris Hipkins made sure nobody else dared to challenge.
      
      https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/watch-hipkins-tells-newshub-consensus-about-new-labour-leader-would-be-far-better-for-nz/ar-AA16wLdg
      
      And tackiest comment of the year award goes to Greg O’Connor: “the queen is dead, long live the king”.
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/labour-mps-arrive-at-parliament-ahead-of-vote-for-new-leader-sepuloni-tipped-to-be-deputy/7ULUHW3WQVHWRPRPXZ5WWTCWH4/
      
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      January 22, 2023 1:36pm
- Bob
  
  The Ardern resignation/ Hipkins appointment is part of a scripted AGENDA.
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:31am
- kowtow
  
  Ah so .
  
  But will the fearless ladies and gentlemen of the ‘holding power to account’ so called fourth estate do their sacred duty and report the ructions , the back stabbing , the dirty deals done in corridors behind the backs of the electorate …………….as they gleefully did in relation to the long travails of the National party .
  
  Rhetorical question. We all know there’s 55 million reasons why not , along with their natural commie bent.
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:54am
- Lee C
  
  They are frightened of losing their jobs.
  
  They are desperate to stem the blood.
  
  They could have been doing things for their constituents instead of riding on Jacinda’s popularity.
  
  The clock is ticking and they know it.
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:38am
Maggy Wassilieff

Why would you bother getting re-hitched at 93?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/21/buzz-aldrin-marries-fourth-wife-93rd-birthday/
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January 22, 2023 9:01am
- Gravelroad
  
  @MW-
  Rupert Murdoch, 91, has new girlfriend after recent divorce from Jerry Hall.
  It’s a new trend.
  Some old people have a lot of money.
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:15am
  - Bridgenag
    
    surely cheaper to call someone in…..
    
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    January 22, 2023 1:09pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  A true hero of the space age. Punched a guy who demanded he tell the ‘truth’ about faking the moon landings.
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:24am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I guess you think the US government flew the planes into the buildings too
    
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    January 22, 2023 9:54am
  - JackRabbit
    
    According to NASA, gamma radiation outside Low Earth Orbit is so intense that death can occur within minutes or hours, without the sophisticated shielding alloys they developed in the last decade or two, in order to be able to get to Mars.
    
    Do the math!
    
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    January 22, 2023 10:34am
    - NothingLeft
      
      Solar flares and the occasional danger they present in orbit (with days of warming) are well understood, and humans can handle a lot of radiation exposure with only small life-time increase in cancer risk. Flares take 2-6 days to get to earth, meaning there was only a few days of high risk in the Apollo missions.
      
      These days a storm shelter – small cavity inside heavy shielding provided by fuel or water or other useful mass is generally designed into long-duration missions outside the earths magnetosphere.
      
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      January 22, 2023 12:07pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  I’m willing to bet he’s not the first man there either!
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:48am
  - rockape
    
    It would be Kina
    Da unusual to be a 63 year old virgin.
    
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    January 22, 2023 1:18pm
- andydownhere
  
  He married her for sex. What else matters? Yes, I bet you he still can at 93
  
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  January 22, 2023 1:06pm
mogg

Some of Hipkins achievements as minister for education;

“But the true scale of Labour’s education disaster reveals itself when we look at the results for children from low decile schools.
“For decile 1, fewer than one in four students passed the reading standard, just 10 per cent passed the numeracy standard and, tragically, just 2 per cent were able to pass the basic writing standard.

“The fact just two out of every 100 students in decile 1 high schools could pass a basic writing test should be a national outrage.
“The results for decile 2 students aren’t much better, with pass rates of just 30 per cent for reading, 12 per cent for numeracy and 8.5 per cent for writing.
“A world-class education system should be judged by how well it lifts children from underprivileged backgrounds and provides them with the opportunity to succeed in life. On this measure, Labour is completely failing and has no plan to turn things around.
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January 22, 2023 9:13am
- lastmanstanding
  
  And we know the vast majority of the prison population cant read cant write and cant add up.
  
  I expect crime will increase and keep increasing. These decile 1 students are going to grow up to join gangs. I understand the gang population is now 8000 and growing. Thats the size of a decent town. Am I the only one who is concerned about this because the Government sure as hell isnt.
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:54am
- Swifty
  
  Let’s face it, New Zealanders got a better education in the 60s and 70s.
  
  Far better.
  
  State and union inflexibility and a head in the sand behaviour from the Education mandarins have wrecked, in just a couple of generations, what was once a world-leading education system.
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:43am
ClanMcleod

Just as the covid narrative was enabled by deliberately dodgy data, so it will be with the next attack on our freedoms and way of life. The pivot to “climate change” is blatant.

El gato malo once again does exquisite analysis and provides lucid commentary on how we got here, where this is going.

democracy dies in data adulteration
control the data, control the technocracy

the public punditry rages around policy and “decision makers” but what informs these people? the data. and who generates that data? who knows? you never hear their names or numbers called, but they are producing the “facts” that feed and inform all else.

who decided to define covid deaths as “any death with a positive PCR test at a 40 Ct” or even a death within 30 days of such a positive test?

who decided to count as a covid case any positive test result using a monstrously over-sensitive diagnostic underpinned by a regime of mass testing of the asymptomatic never before undertaken in human history?

this did not come out of nowhere. someone made these choices and determined what the “data” was going to be for this whole affair. and that person pivoted the whole world upon the fulcrum of this seemingly small technical choice.

Indeed, who are the people who came up with these clearly idiotic numbers? In NZ the CT for PCR testing was run at 40, monstrously inaccurate. Who here decided that was appropriate? It wasn’t Ardern, we know she isn’t very intelligent, but someone told her and Hipkins that it was a good idea.

It is the same with the “climate change” nonsensical numbers.

and if you think this is bad (covid data) you should see what’s going on with climate science where the data is of such low quality, so adulterated, and so deliberately misrepresented that it takes 2 weeks just to really explain to someone how to read it critically.

these people have been caught cheating and hiding the data so many times as to disqualify them from ever being trusted again. the “hockey stick” used by al gore and the IPCC in AR4 was a complete fraud. the math was so bad that it created hockey stick shapes from random number strings.

and the issues go all the way to the base data.

the US temperature system run by the NOAA has one-sided warming slanted error rates that far exceed the century scale signal they seek to measure. the system as a whole almost certainly has a > 2 degrees C warming bias from bad siting near heat sources, increased urbanization, and a reduction in sampling sites in rural areas.

and just like covid, they did not even know it because they steadfastly refused to look.

How and why does this happen? Follow the money. Every time.

THAT is the power of the denizens of data definition and the talliers of tables.

in a society as beset by regulators, experts, and agencies as our own, it has come to constitute a form of commanding heights in the war over the perception of consensus reality.

and this has become deeply dangerous as the folks producing data are not honest brokers nor interested in truth. most are incentivized to push narratives and crisis because it’s good for business. it expands agencies, keeps the grant money flowing, and guarantees sweet sinecures “in industry” later. it does not need to be a conspiracy (though i’m sure some try). it’s just an emergent phenomenon based on the self-interest and self-selection of the cogs of this machine.

Remind us again, who got $6 million from the government to produce covid “models” predicting 80,000 dead?

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2110/S00081/why-is-sean-hendys-modelling-group-getting-6m-for-advice-treasury-is-paying-30k-for-elsewhere.htm

pretty much no one goes into “temperature data study” because they are fascinated by thermometers. and once they have the jobs, their views on “activism” slant and inform their methods and choices especially because crisis is the path to prosperity.

words you will never hear:

“we the experts and technocrats empaneled to study this crisis have determined that it is, in fact, not a crisis. please accept the return of the remainder or our budget and put it to some other use.”

Read the full post, it is thorough and it is incisive. An excellent read.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/democracy-dies-in-data-adulteration?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=323914&post_id=98073279&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
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January 22, 2023 9:19am
TripeWryter

Simon Wilson, then an editorial writer at The New Zealand Herald, Alison Mau and a whole lot more …
Stuff hacks and hackettes, TVNZ cheer-leaders, also an ex woman prime minister who demonstrated that she had more balls than all the men in her cabinets and who was the most vindictive and unforgiving when she wanted to punish …
All deplore the ‘vitriol’ and ‘misogyny’ that Jacinda Ardern was subjected to.
All trying to portray Ms Ardern as some kind of ‘female victim’.
Sir Keith Holyoake once told me you had to have a thick skin if you were to survive in politics.
He often had his manhood questioned. Whether he had a spine. A whole lot more, too, He gave back as good as he got. Even among hairy-armed, muscular unionists with Pommy accents.
Mrs Holyoake – a genuinely kind woman – was never spared, either, by those on New Zealand’s left.
I was never a Jacinda fan. OK, I believed that she probably was kind. She was the Mormon cop’s daughter from Morrinsvile. She probably assimilated all that religious bullshit about ‘kindness’.
She was faultless in Christchurch after the massacre. Our horror and disbelief that this had happened in our little land was etched with hers on her face.
She had a baby while in the job – the women would love that and it seems they do.
She is lauded for White Island. Why? What did she do? She didn’t fly a helicopter into an erupting volcano to rescue people. Que?
She locked us down in 2020. Fine. I could do that. Over a month-six weeks I drank two bottles of black rum.
I tolerated the other lock-downs and I obeyed the rules and dictates. As a septuagenarian I was supposed to be in a higher-risk category.
I took the vaccine and the boosters: most of my family live overseas and if getting vaccinated was helping me to see my grandchildren then so be it.
I really started to go off Jacinda in her second term. Now she was not sounding sincere. Now she was not being ‘kind’.
A friend could not get home to meet his mother’s dying wish that she see him one last time.
She was obfuscaing and she was spinning in answers to questions she did not want to answer.
Now we started to hear about He Puapua and co-governance and Three Waters.
Our bought-and-paid-for media were not doing their journalistic job.
Why was it semi-retired pensioner-type, non-mainstream journalists such as Graham Adams who assumed the burden of digging into what was going on behind the scenes with this government?
Where was Jessica? Where was Tova? Where were Henry and Thomas and Jason and Aaron and Audrey – particularly Audrey because she’s been around so long and knows better – and Claire, too.
Why were our bought-and-paid-for media giving the government such a soft run.
Oh, OK: perhaps because they’ve been bought and paid for.
They deny it, of course, but like the Bible says, you know them by their fruit.
As I said before, I got vaxxed and boosted and obeyed all the rules and dictates.
But I was deeply unhappy when several hundred of my fellow citizens were vilified and smeared – and in some cases I would even say defamed – because they dared to go and take their protest to Parliament.
Many of these people are rock-solid New Zealanders. They’re the kind of people who probably grew up in circumstances Jacinda would recognise – her neighbours, her friends, men who would drop everything to help someone out, women who would whip up batches of scones, cook meals all the while multitasking in ways that men never quite can.
And yet Jacinda and our media smeared and vilified them and made them out to be more dangerous than they were.
I was surprised to hear and read reporters wittering on about how afraid the protestors made them feel.
Oh, for fuck’s sake!
Journalism can be dangerous. I’ve been chased by gangs and their rottweilers. The cameraman and I made the car just ahead of the enamel on the dogs’ fangs.
A bottle filled with petrol and with a rag in the neck was thrown at my bedroom.
But I was lucky that I wasn’t in Vietnam, Rhodesia, or Northern Ireland where journalists out reporting the action could be shot and killed.
The journalists at Parliament weren’t like the courageous colleagues who report from Kyiv, Kherson, Karkhiv. They can really get killed there.
And you can’t keep saying that they’re the victims of misinformation and disinformation – you belittle them when you do that. You sound like finger-wagging school marms. You take away from them any sort of intelligence.
Our self-righteous, sanctimonious, sin-inventing woke Left hated it when mostly decent, law-abiding New Zealanders rebelled against the dictates of Jacinda’s government.
And if they had things to say about that and about her that wasn’t ‘vitriol’ and ‘misogyny’ – that was them expressing their right to free speech.
And it was a lot less lethal than bombs and bullets.
Chris Trotter writes about Jacinda’s potential; she reminded him of Norman Kirk.
She did have the potential. But behind her toothy smile and her earnestness she became fake.
That’s not ‘vitriol’ nor ‘misogyny’.
That’s how she was.
She squandered all that potential.
And as Sir Keith Holyoake – one of our great prime ministers – would say: ‘You have to have a thick skin to be in politics.’
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- nathie
  
  Thanks TripeWryter, this is a fantastic summary that perfectly sums up the situation.
  
  I somehow wish for those in the MSM be able to see this and reflect on your insights … how could they possibly not agree?
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:30am
- Swifty
  
  Excellent.
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:46am
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  Thanks Tripewryter – I really enjoyed your post.
  
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  January 22, 2023 9:54pm
Alan Wilkinson

Alison Mau playing the misogyny card. It’s enough to make me misogynistic.
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January 22, 2023 9:29am
- ClanMcleod
  
  It’s beyond lazy. Pathetic is the best word to describe it and those who use the term.
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:12am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    It is the Left’s invariable refusal to engage with conflicting facts and opinions by resorting to personal attacks and dismissal – ironically the very thing they both complain about and provoke. Basic stupidity.
    
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    January 22, 2023 11:39am
- kowtow
  
  In all their continuous bile , vitriol and obsessive hatred of Trump , never once was it described as it should be given this fashion for genderism , misandry .
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:43am
Yvette

When unpleasant things happen in our lives, we come either wise or wounded – that is our choice – Sadhguru

And that is fairly much what Viktor Frankl, neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher and Holocaust – Theresienstadt Camp.survivor, said – ““Everything can be taken from a man [or, of course, a woman] but one thing the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way”

So Jacinda Ardern is now wounded – her confession, or media labelling
Whether a desperate mother, that is still one favoured situation in the circumstances she foresees.
It is a position that makes a crisis of your life, when crisis is your fortē
It leaves you able to recover, as she already has “sleeping better again”, so open to any new employment anywhere in the world

And people should not attack a woman (in particular – because to do otherwise is misogynistic) so I apologise now for having just done that – to a wounded woman
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January 22, 2023 9:43am
Maggie Pie

COMRADES!

And what a cheek to be wearing Anzac Poppies.

https://twitter.com/shouldveknown11/status/1616629211627937794
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January 22, 2023 9:49am
Taieri

With all the accolades written about our wonderful soon to be former Prime Minister it’s a bit funny to read something like this:

“By taking herself out the campaign, Ardern has drawn much of the heat out of what was shaping up to be a fractious and divisive election year, capping a fractious and divisive term.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/131022203/hipkins-is-a-political-terrier-and-national-should-beware-the-underdog
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January 22, 2023 9:52am
Pineapple Lumps

A Question for the Experts:

Do we have laws in NZ that protect us from corruption of our members of parliament and public service leaders? How comprehensive are they?

1. Are their earnings fully and publicly disclosed and accounted for?

2. Are all sources of income audited?

3. Where they gain income from acting in their official capacity does this have to be passed back to the employer ie the NZ people? eg Womans Weekly Articles, TV appearances etc
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January 22, 2023 10:10am
Captain Mainwaring

Joseph Parker took on a much lighter guy in what was an undercard fight and couldn’t put him on the floor.
Looks like Parker has reached his peak.
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January 22, 2023 10:12am
- rockape
  
  That peak happened a few years ago. I expect as an overweight 76 year old to get called up for his next fight.
  
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  January 22, 2023 1:24pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/maori-medical-doctor-in-the-1960s-predicted-what-was-going-to-cause-the-downfall-of-the-maori-race/
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Dr-Paewai-blog-post-1.pdf

Dr Paewai telling the truth 60 years ago.
Maori Education. “If it is to be for the Maori people only, then we are buying nothing but trouble”

Pre 1840, all Maori tribes had when they went on a raid was clubs and spears. Then muskets.
Today they have much more sophisticated weapons – computers, media of all kinds, spin doctors, through massive government funding the ability to hire the best European lawyers and consultants who have shown them how to pull off a coup, social media, a parliamentary system (MMP) which has opened the door for minority groups to have a crack at taking over the country, an ex PM who believed in the re-distribution of wealth from those who have worked for it, giving it to those who have not, and so on. Just what Dr Paewai was on about.

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January 22, 2023 10:12am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  For those still doubting, here is the booklet explaining what is going on.
  Enlarge with the +
  https://issuu.com/esisite/docs/3481_jb_-_go-governance_-_a5_booklet_-_online
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:21am
DeepBlue

Click bait rules and is wildly effective on SM.

Yesterday this header on Newshub caused 850 comments ‘New Zealand scientists find kawakawa has dozens of positive health effects’. The finding was about spectrum analysis of the beneficial compounds not the medicinal uses.

Most popular comments were that:
1. scientists were not needed to discover what we (Maori and Pacifica) have known forever
2. Govn is going to steal our knowledge and stop us collecting our own medicines.

On the first, if they had read even the first paragraph they would see this was iwi engaged research with AUT.

On the second, how many will submit to the legislation currently open?
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January 22, 2023 10:24am
Biscuit

What adjective will Helun run with as her excuse for when Chippie starts getting flak?

Misandry?
Gingaphobia?
Remutakaism?
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January 22, 2023 10:34am
- emmess
  
  I’m going with Gingerphobia.
  A real thing, by the way
  https://phobia.fandom.com/wiki/Gingerphobia
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:43am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Last 48 hours the unforgiving seat has claimed 5 people. Takapuna, Narrowneck, Manly, and Piha.
[Mod – you’ve posted this link already and it has zero to do with the drownings]

Seven Mile Beach parents did not read the rip. Father and Daughter drowned.
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January 22, 2023 10:37am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  The two deaths at Glenorchy are weird, why the people can not get back to shore in the lake is weird, unless the dart river is creating an under current something crazy is going on
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:57am
  - Dougal10
    
    Rees river
    
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    January 22, 2023 12:08pm
  - Taieri
    
    Plenty of eddies there and a fairly big drop-off, that’s why people drown there.
    
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    January 22, 2023 12:55pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I must have screwed up copying the link. Try this:
  https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/five-auckland-drownings-within-48-hours/ar-AA16BlFv
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:48am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

If Ghislaine Maxwell’s client list was all Republicans, it would have already been published in the New Yok Times.
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January 22, 2023 10:42am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  york*
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:51am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

2021.
https://uniteamericafirst.com/joe-biden-gets-rid-of-mask-at-lincoln-memorial-hours-after-signing-executive-order-forcing-americans-to-wear-mask-on-federal-property/
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January 22, 2023 10:44am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Brilliant line seen another blog.
“The last time Democrats were this angry was when a Republican president took their slaves off them.”
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January 22, 2023 10:48am
greybeard

Ardern’s resignation and Hipkins’ apparent rise have come at an incredibly bad time: Kate Hawkesby, Mike Hosking and HDPA are all on leave and have missed the chance to be involved.
What a pity.
Maybe Ardern picked her time wisely….
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January 22, 2023 10:49am
- Ghost
  
  All back monday
  
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  January 22, 2023 10:51am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Hosking is not back till the following Monday
    
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    January 22, 2023 10:58am
- Inandout
  
  grey, Hosking start dates were changed like underpants..23rd..31st..back now to 23rd. Amazing what political changes can achieve.
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:03am
Paulus

Is it true that Grant Roberstson is trying to get away from Finance and be replaced by Auckland Uni Tax Expert MP Dr Deborah Russell ?
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January 22, 2023 11:03am
slightlyrighty

I saw a facebook post from someone calling for everybody to organize a “match” to Wellington in Support of “Jacinta Arden”

Such a fan they can’t even spell either of her names and probably refers to the National Leader as “Luxton” I’d bet…..
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January 22, 2023 11:09am
- nathie
  
  Was the poster real … or one of those “paid for overseas bots(?)” (eg that attacked Simon Bridges’ facebook post during 2020 lockdown) that has now gone rogue and rudderless due to last Thursday’s events? 😉
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:49am
  - kowtow
    
    The facebook campaign to villify/unseat Bridges has to be one of the bigliest untold stories of recent NZ political history.
    
    I’d love to know who /what was behind it . But all is shtum.
    
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    January 22, 2023 12:57pm
- nathie
  
  Hmmm … Breaking News!!
  
  NZH’s Simon Wilson & #1 fan to lead a march to Wellington to show support and thank Jacinda Ardern!
  
  His Missus will then record a documentary of the event!
  
  So this march in support of Saint Jacinda will be ~~bought~~ brought to you by NZ on Air!
  
  ka-ching! 🤮
  
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  January 22, 2023 12:14pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Simpsons.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+simpsons+November+21+2010&view=detail&mid=2A18FB991540B7B6B35E2A18FB991540B7B6B35E&FORM=VIRE
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January 22, 2023 11:12am
Maggie Pie

Paid a visit to the ‘Human Zoo’ last nite.
Went to dinner in the city with a couple of overseas friends, we left the restaurant about 10ish and took them for a drive up and down K’Rd a few times before dropping them back to their hotel.

Unbelievable to see the ‘dregs-of-humanity’ all congregating in one place. Needless to say, not a Cop in sight when we were there.
And can’t say I blame them.
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January 22, 2023 11:17am
Lee C

The people who support the Labour vision are hypocrites when they rail against ‘misogyny’.

The are more than happy to engage in misogynistic slurs when it’s the likes of Judith Collins or Paula Bennett they are targeting. They just happen to be the wrong ‘kind’ of woman – so are considered fair game.

They are more than happy to circle the wagons when young interns are getting digitally raped by more senior staffers in their own Party, or attempt to evade prosecutions for the male when females are sexually abused at Labour Party Youth Camps.

They are more than happy to ‘heart’ rappers who audibly state they would like to rape a female simply out of revenge for happening to be the offspring of a politician they disagree with.

They are only concerned about ‘misogyny’ when it suits their own agenda – to use females as human shields so they can get to abuse anyone they choose with impunity.
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January 22, 2023 11:32am
- Mike
  
  All female politicians face misogynistic abuse. Particular targets in NZ have been Richardson, Clark, Shipley and Ardern.
  We have ar least one commenter here who regularly ascribes our country’s mild problems to ‘female voters’.
  
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  January 22, 2023 11:40am
  - Swifty
    
    He is merely doing what the left has done for decades – believing that groups think and vote similarly as a block.
    
    We see it daily with people saying they ‘represent the gay community’, the ‘Muslim community’, the ‘trans community’ or speak for ‘Maoridom’, ‘my people’.
    
    Your lot started it and do it daily and I don’t hear a squeak from you about it.
    
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    January 22, 2023 11:57am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    If you vote for someone because of their gender, then you’re the problem, regardless of which gender you vote for
    
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    January 22, 2023 12:56pm
  - Taieri
    
    NZ in general is very strong on misogyny. It permeates all aspects of life and social fabric in this country and women face insurmountable obstacles in their everyday lives.
    That’s why we (still) have a female PM, female GG, female Chief Justice and 61 female MP’s.
    
    The situation is even worse for Maori and Rainbow communities who face life-threatening persecution on virtually daily basis, being deprived of jobs, education and housing as evidenced every day in the articles on stuff.co.nz
    
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    January 22, 2023 1:07pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Female voters elected and maintained Jacinda in power. Therefore they are responsible for the damage she has done.
    
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    January 22, 2023 1:32pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      I guess I need to point out the blindingly obvious to Mike/mma that those facts apply to a subset of women, not all women. Of course he knows that but wilfully misrepresents as usual for Lefties.
      
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      January 22, 2023 1:35pm
Yvette

If Jacinda just didn’t have enough in her tank, will Hipkins (says he’s running on full) now take over Waitangi Day cooking bacon and eggs breakfast for those gathered, or will it still be cancelled for security reasons – so the antagonism labelled misogyny and directed at Jacinda is something different now against Hipkins.

“Hipkins is a political terrier, and National should beware the underdog” may have seemed a meaningful headline this morning.
So will the same pack now make a dog’s breakfast of Waitangi Day?
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January 22, 2023 12:12pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I hope Hipkins will have the sense to give Waitangi a big flick and just encourage all NZers to enjoy a day commemorating 6 Feb 1840 on their own turf in their own manner.
  
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  January 22, 2023 1:20pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Unlikely. His party will expect obeisance to their gods.
    
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    January 22, 2023 1:28pm
    - Paulus
      
      He is off to Ratana on Tuesday as Labour Leader.
      
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      January 22, 2023 2:06pm
  - david
    
    Too true MW, they could even spread their legs and get some fresh air.
    
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    January 22, 2023 4:54pm
Swifty

This quote should be pinned to every notice board and desk and loo in every NZ government department, and every school, and every sports club and every marae and stuck on the PC or laptop of every Labour and Green politician in NZ:

“Generally business is good for New Zealand, and we should support businesses and this current government’s noise and the actions they take is burdening businesses to the extent we’ll have less of them. And that’s not good for New Zealand, because then who’s creating the work?”

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/300787662/insurance-company-founder-naomi-ballantyne-i-have-to-be-someone-my-mother-would-like
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January 22, 2023 12:12pm
mogg

Jacinda is not a ‘victim’, she is a softy who couldn’t
face up to the current conflict within the Labour Party.
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January 22, 2023 12:15pm
Littletramp

We will soon find out if Hipkins has any chance of survival and will come down to priorities.
If he continues the path of virtual signalling climate change/green energy, funding Ukraine, Vaccination obsession, pro maori theft of public funds, forcing 3 waters, Treaty of Waitangi bastardisation, identity politics, deplatforming opinions, etc then he is doomed.
If he turns focus back to the basics of fixing NZ infrastructure, education issues, health availability, crime concerns, government transparency, business opportunity, return of tourism and agriculture, promotion of family and community then he may have a chance.
We should get some idea very quickly if he is his own man or just a puppet.
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January 22, 2023 12:18pm
I remember when

Alison Mau: Misogyny
Sharon Murdoch: Misogyny
Misogyny: Hatred of, aversion to, or prejudice against women.

Nothing to do with performance.
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January 22, 2023 12:36pm
slightlyrighty

I, for one, am pleased to be able to criticize the Labour Leader without being accused of Misogyny.

Not that it was a factor previously, despite what certain sectors of the public might think.
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January 22, 2023 12:54pm
CAKE FACE1

Comrade Trotsky asks the question about Cindy Ardern – “Is The Prime Minister “Evil”?”

https://theplatform.kiwi/opinions/is-the-prime-minister-evil

Alas, he fails to answer the question. I will have a go.

I suspect that proving that someone is inherently evil is problematic. However, it is possible, in my opinion, to prove that someone has said and done evil things.

I think when we look at the legacy of Cindy Ardern, what will always define her is desire to create “two classes of people”. Yip, yip, that’s exactly what it is. Creating two classes of people was Cindy Ardern’s categorical, unequivocal ideology. To me, it defines her world view and approach.

Adolf Hitler was apparently a charming man, who loved dogs, and was great with children. He was vegan and teetotal. Some argue that he wasn’t evil. I don’t agree with them.

Hitler’s ideology that there should be “two classes of people”. There was the German volk, and there was the Untermenschen (the sub-humans).

Cindy Ardern’s “two classes of people”, is straight out of the National Socialism playbook. This belief system is certainly evil, in my opinion.

In my view, Herr Hitler, with his characterisation of different classes of people (Untermensch versus the rest), was definitely evil.

Perhaps you could argue that that Cindy Ardern isn’t inherently evil. However, in my view, it is almost impossible to argue that the words and actions of Cindy Ardern weren’t evil.

The creating of “two classes of people” will be Cindy Ardern’s enduring legacy.

How can history not record her push for “two classes of people” as an evil ideology?

Evil.
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January 22, 2023 1:00pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I think she lacked a real understanding of how ordinary NZers live.
  
  When she told us Not to talk to our Neighbours during the Pandemic Emergency, I wondered if she had ever given a thought to how much of NZ functions.
  
  When the power goes down, when a storm hits, when a neighbour is striken with a bug, when the curtains aren’t pulled back, when a roaming animal arrives on a front lawn, when a car crashes into a lamppost, etc… We (My neighbours and I) are in the habit of checking up on each other…. bubble or no bubble.
  
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  January 22, 2023 3:15pm
  - Ghost
    
    She knew, but she wanted to try and break that, she failed because at least here we kept talking over the fence, seeing if anyone needed anything when going to the shops. She tried to isolate us but she failed.
    
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    January 22, 2023 3:21pm
Chris Nisbet

Hipkins wants to unite the country (according to some news report I heard). Is that an admission that the previous PM was not uniting the country? Is that some veiled promise that we’ll see the back of policies designed to divide the country?
Or by ‘unite’ does he mean the exact opposite, IOW pushing forward with splitting the country in two?
Politicians often mean the exact opposite of what they say, so I suspect he wants the division to continue.
Please, can we have an election and get this vile bunch out of our lives?! There must be many of us who are starting to think there is no hope for regular folk in this country. If this lot manage to scrape together another term I think that group will grow.
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January 22, 2023 1:08pm
- Swifty
  
  In the words of Sir Robert Jones “Never, ever give Labour Governments a third term. That’s when the real crazy stuff starts.”
  
  A wise maxim in my opinion, but perhaps a little generous.
  
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  January 22, 2023 2:00pm
Maggie Pie

Hard to disagree with this headline in ‘THE HORRID’…..

“The-Visions-of-Jacinda Ardern”

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1616550011516379137
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January 22, 2023 1:12pm
- Ghost
  
  She’s let herself go since retiring….
  
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  January 22, 2023 1:14pm
BeaB

The worst misogyny are all those commentators who portray her as a helpless wee lady driven out by nasty people saying mean things and now all she wants to do is stay home and be a wife and mother.
And, worse, they don’t even believe her when she states clearly that abuse is not the reason for her throwing in the towel.
Clearly they know better than she does and will speak for her.
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January 22, 2023 1:17pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Clearly they know better than she does and will speak for her.
  
  I somehow don’t think our Media ladies will like you for pointing out the bleeding obvious.
  
  Nek minit they’ll be telling us that a female means Yes when she says No.
  
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  January 22, 2023 3:03pm
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION

Is Chris Hipkins the first ever solo-parent Prime Minister?
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January 22, 2023 1:18pm
- cas
  
  Well he can’t claim to be one of us as he would like us to believe because he had his wedding at premier house with Robbo as best man.
  
  A boy from the Hutt would get married in the Hutt surely.
  
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  January 22, 2023 1:25pm
  - kowtow
    
    Te Media Pardy caught lying already .
    
    The boy from Hutt with the common touch but has exclusive wedding venue that real ordinary NZers would never get near for same.
    
    Once again , our political class shown to be the elitists they really are.
    
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    January 22, 2023 2:40pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Seems it didn’t last long either.
    
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    January 22, 2023 3:02pm
rockape

If I was in Luxon’s shoes I would direct all parliamentary questions to Labours incompetent ministers. I would ignore Hipkins totally. Let him just answer his own MPs patsies but attack without mercy the Ministers he appoints.
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January 22, 2023 1:33pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Hipkins is in a cleft where he either creates a rift in his party or is stuck with Ardern’s policy blunders. Either way he is vulnerable.
  
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  January 22, 2023 1:39pm
- septic skeptic
  
  Hipkins IS one of Labour’s incompetent ministers. His performance in education has been truly awful.
  
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  January 22, 2023 2:21pm
  - kevn
    
    @ss… So long as we don’t forget hipkins role in scrapping successful Charter Schools.
    I wonder what happened to the children who were in that programme.
    
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    January 22, 2023 3:03pm
    - Swifty
      
      Borstal.
      
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      January 22, 2023 3:22pm
  - BeaB
    
    And police, law and order, vaccine rollout, MIQ, state services performance. All his job. All done badly. But the media gush he is Mr Fix-It.
    It is an Orwellian world we live in.
    
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    January 22, 2023 3:28pm
- septic skeptic
  
  The thing with Labour is that their standard is so low that any minister who avoids shitting the bed for a couple of months is touted as a top performer!
  
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  January 22, 2023 2:24pm
Hugh Jarse

If criticism of a female leader is misogyny as labelled by the owner of Stuff, what is criticism of a male leader ?. Is it actually the case that criticism of left leaders is not allowed now and must be shut down. This is why a lot of the general population have had enough of this government and the media and it’s nothing to do with misogyny.
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January 22, 2023 1:37pm
- MCōs
  
  A misogynist labels someone a poor leader because they are a woman.
  
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  January 22, 2023 5:57pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

UK Homeland Security. They spelt binary wankers wrong.
https://valiantnews.com/2023/01/uk-homeland-security-staff-told-not-to-say-mate-or-homosexual-must-work-to-support-non-binary-colleagues/
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January 22, 2023 1:53pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  My only pronoun starts with the letter “F”
  
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  January 22, 2023 1:54pm
I remember when

Is the major reason for the failures in our education system being overlooked.
Are our students being held back by the restrictions being placed on their ability to freely research and discuss all sides of topics.
Has certainty removed the need to use comprehension, deeper research, debate and critical thinking.
No need to look any further you already know everything, the science is settled.
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January 22, 2023 2:04pm
I remember when

Announcing her pregnacy three montha after her meteoric rise to PM in October, 2017.
“I’m pregnant, not incapacitated.

Did that come later?
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January 22, 2023 2:11pm
Maggie Pie

My partner’s mum just described Chippie as…. “an empty suit”

LOL!!
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January 22, 2023 2:42pm
kevn

@Maggie… hipkins education unionist mother told him to scrap the Charter Schools.
It’s not about the children…
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January 22, 2023 3:04pm
Swifty

Dr Suze Wilson from Massey wastes her time and that of Stuff’s readers in screaming it’s misogyny that drove Arden from office:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300789382/shame-on-our-misogyny-its-no-wonder-jacinda-ardern-was-driven-from-office

The evidence she cites? None and even mentions that Ardern didn’t claim it either, but according to Suze Wilson it ‘surely must’ have driven her decision.

And, for good measure, she points to other luvvies claiming the same thing – so that means she must be right:

https://mobile.twitter.com/suzewilsonnz/status/1616914438740914177?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

But you’ll note, not one single mention of the numerous promises Ardern made and broke, the expectations she cynically raised to get votes but then smashed, the policies she pursued that had the opposite effect than was intended, the waste, the division, the explosion in homelessness, rent and house prices, the damnable crisis in education, the absolute proven bullshit she poured on us during Covid, the heaping upon businesses of more cost, burden and complexity and then attempting to blame Putin for the rising prices of staple goods and services, the sitting on hands while street crime exploded, the massive increase in our indebtedness through reckless borrowing and spending – nope, not a single mention of this stuff. Just hatred of women.

Suze Wilson must think we’re idiots.

I think Ardern, while she had her moments, was a terrible PM – she demonstrably failed the acid test of her time in office, that of New Zealanders being better off after her service.

It’s got absolutely nothing about her being a woman. Nothing.

For Wilson to be right, that would mean a future female NZ, who enabled/delivered widespread prosperity and achievement, who delivered on her promises and stayed the hell out of our lives would still be reviled and cursed by a misogynist NZ public.

If she believes that then she’s got rocks in her head.
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January 22, 2023 3:21pm
- Swifty
  
  Thanks to CAKE FACE1 below, I’m reminded of Margaret Thatcher.
  
  I had nothing but deep respect and admiration for the way she went about her business, her conviction, her policies and the, in my view, great positive effect she has on Great Britain.
  
  I’d I was ever to have a political leaders mug up on my wall it would be hers, after WSC of course.
  
  But according to the learned professor I must automatically hate and want to abuse Thatcher because she’s a woman doing a man’s job.
  
  I was never clever enough for University but even I can read the situation better than the august Dr Wilson.
  
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  January 22, 2023 3:51pm
  - david
    
    Indeed Swifty. What is that old saying about staying silent and being thought a fool being better than opening the trap and proving it beyond doubt.
    
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    January 22, 2023 5:00pm
BeaB

For some reason RNZ thinks mediocre music is more important that our being able to listen to the whole press conference. We listened to a whole lot of blah and spin (why are they always humbled?) and completely missed the Q and A.
What is wrong with our state broadcaster?
Do they just want to broadcast musack and gushing, fawning interviews?
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January 22, 2023 3:25pm
- greybeard
  
  BeaB: be patient, it will be so much better after the Great Union between RNZ and TVNZ.
  I promise.
  
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  January 22, 2023 3:38pm
greybeard

Carmel Sepuloni as Deputy PM ?
That will be about as successful as them backing Efeso Collins to be Auckland mayor !
Does Labour have some sort of inbuilt suicidal wish ?
Have they never heard of “reading the room”, “ play to your strengths”, “stupidity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results” ?
Don’t they realise that there are many voters in NZ who don’t live in Auckland?
Who cares ! I can’t wait for them to be obliterated next October.
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January 22, 2023 3:26pm
kevn

Anyone else picking a next poll number that begins with 2?
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January 22, 2023 3:29pm
- rockape
  
  Give it two months. That’s what it will take for the mini honeymoon to be over.
  
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  January 22, 2023 4:48pm
- kowtow
  
  I reckon that’s why she’s jumped .
  
  Some poll somewhere will show death spiral . No chance of recovery.
  
  Also with a huge fight on her hands perhaps wanting to drop some of the really unpopular with the electorate Maori stuff that she’s championed , she didn’t want to hang around for her legacy to be tainted as the PM who promised so much to the Maoris to then take it all away and still lost the GE so badly .
  
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  January 22, 2023 5:39pm
CAKE FACE1

My favourite politician over my lifetime is Mrs Thatcher.

A strange choice for a supposed misogynist, I know…

Of course, Mrs T doesn’t count as a feminist icon to the Cindy lickspittle media, because she was a Conservative.

I also thought Judith Collins would make a great Prime Minister, but she was relentlessly bashed by the same Team of $55 million Cindy lickspittles who are now accusing CAKE et al of being misogynists.

Cindy Ardern was the most popular Prime Minister in our history, and has slowly become widely hated, due to her sustained cruelty and incompetence.

The alternative argument of the lickspittle media, is that the population has over the past year has suddenly en masse quite magically become misogynistic. This propaganda doesn’t even make any sense.

I knew that the Team of $55 million would run with the revisionist “stab in the back” misogyny conspiracy theory.

Cindy’s cruelty caught up with her. She is a fake, a phoney and a fraud. Her main legacy was to create “two classes of people” – a monstrous decision that will cast a shadow over society for decades.

Cindy probably has a cushy “job” lined up at the WEF or the UN. Good. Please go away, Cindy, and don’t come back.
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January 22, 2023 3:30pm
- Keith White
  
  I have heard from an overseas source has previously been reliable, and who is plugged into the military contractor community, that the ex-Prime Minister is being offered a seat / place with Blackrock.
  
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  January 22, 2023 5:41pm
  - GJM
    
    While I could believe it, what value would Cindy bring Blackrock? She no longer runs the country, so can’t do them favors, and her influence is waning and probably only lasts for a few more months. This assumes we will have an election in October and it is honest.
    Bankers, financiers and vulture capitalists aren’t very sentimental and unless she can make them money, she is of no use to them. She is not clever enough to provide value through her own skills and brains.
    
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    January 22, 2023 7:26pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      what value would Cindy bring Blackrock?
      
      We’ve never found out why she visited Blackrock Head Office last year.
      
      https://fyi.org.nz/request/19630-blackrock-meeting-minutes
      
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      January 22, 2023 8:36pm
      - Ghost
        
        No minutes or notes, that’s odd
        
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        January 22, 2023 8:42pm
Maggie Pie

Chippie just made his first mistake as Prime Minister…

He selected someone taller than him as Deputy.
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January 22, 2023 3:30pm
- Ghost
  
  Isn’t everyone taller than him?
  
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  January 22, 2023 3:32pm
- BeaB
  
  She has always been filmed lurking just over Ardern’s shoulder. She may have arm-wrestled him.
  
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  January 22, 2023 3:33pm
BeaB

I hope Luxon is ready for some really unpleasant stuff.
Hipkins is from the Mallard school of politics and has a nasty tongue. That boyish smirk disguises an ambitious and ruthless politician who will say or do anything, as we have already seen with the so-called prostitutes, Charlotte Bellis, Bill English and interference in Australian politics.
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January 22, 2023 3:32pm
Matt Long

A special welcome to the incoming Prime Minister https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/03/03/a-boy-with-no-birthday-turns-sixty/
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January 22, 2023 3:39pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Biden media blackout.
https://thegoptimes.com/biden-just-set-the-record-media-blackout/
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January 22, 2023 3:49pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This Fauci guy is a good guy right?
https://thegoptimes.com/forgotten-monument-to-dead-orphans-from-faucis-deadly-testing-photos-2/
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January 22, 2023 3:56pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Breast Inspectors to determine if nipples are trans?
Jesus H Christ, there are some mentally disturbed out there.
https://rossduhboss.com/facebook-instagram-may-employ-breast-inspectors-to-determine-if-nipples-are-trans
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January 22, 2023 4:02pm
Benedict Yu

The Labour Party is not big on accountability. Carmel Sepuloni oversees ballooning welfare dependency, as blogged earlier by DPF. Next minute she is promoted to Deputy PM.
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January 22, 2023 4:11pm
- Swifty
  
  But at least she tried.
  
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  January 22, 2023 4:25pm
CAKE FACE1

I suspect that the first few polls show a honeymoon period for Labour, where chimpkins will bounce in the polls, followed by a relentless decline until election day…
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January 22, 2023 4:15pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Cancel some songs, woke wankers.
https://independentminute.com/2023/01/20/heres-a-list-of-some-of-the-songs-they-are-going-to-cancel-soon/

“Tell me more, tell me more / did she put up a fight?” Sickos making something out of nothing.
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January 22, 2023 4:23pm
Jack5

Joel Maxwell, the part-Maori Stuff reporter who seems to be an enthusiastic promoter of Maori separatism, was a late learner of the Maori language, but now foists it on all Stuff’ readers.

He has an additional enthusiasm, veganism, for which he seeks a Maori angle in Stuff.

Joel could research cannibalism in pre-Westernised Maori, and conclude what would happen if, as a young, brownish warrior, he refused a slice of roasted enemy.

That would have gone down well.

Perhaps he would have then been offered a semi-vegan alternative, a sacrificed slave, fattened on indigenous berries.

Imagine the response to Joel’s polite decline to that: “Again, no thanks, Bro, I’m vegan, vegan, vegan.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300768949/kai-stands-still-for-nobody-can-you-be-a-real-mori-and-pursue-a-vegan-diet
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January 22, 2023 5:04pm
Keith White

…and now for something completely different…

American Airlines (the carrier brand, not the country) have experienced a 300% increase in long-term disability claims between January and July 2022. In other words, peak post-mRNA jab damage timing.

This would also explain why in October last yearthe FAA quietly revised new acceptable-to-them EKG manifestations to ‘allow’ more pilots to keep flying. Of course the question is, are these cardiac-damaged pilots safe to fly?

Then, and I swear I’m not making this up, apparently it’s a verified tweet-whatever: Bill Gates has stated that “vaccines in our food supply solves the problem of vaccine hesitancy”.

Well, Bill. I suppose by your standard, then drugging people whom you date, solves the problem of informed consent? Gah. Evil.
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January 22, 2023 5:49pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  What DID the vaccines actually stop?
  
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  January 22, 2023 6:37pm
  - Keith White
    
    They did not stop infection.
    
    They did not stop transmission.
    
    They did not stop reinfection.
    
    They did stop people from exercising freedom of choice, freedom of association, freedom of movement and freedom of speech.
    
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    January 22, 2023 6:43pm
  - Inandout
    
    Maggie, they effectively stopped our freedom and we became vaccinated statistics.
    
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    January 22, 2023 7:06pm
Swifty

Sepuloni immediately starts talking shit:

“Sepuloni, who is also New Zealand’s third woman deputy prime minister, said gaining the position was “a huge significance to our community in terms of the representation””

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131035394/historic-moment-carmel-sepuloni-is-nzs-first-pasifika-deputy-prime-minister

What Sepuloni doesn’t say however is that for the remainder of her term as with the last five years her government’s policies will not only not progress life outcomes for her community but will actively work against them.

Political representation, alone, means nothing. Absolutely nothing.

The NZ Chinese community are some our most upstanding, successful and productive citizens and for the last 150 years have had essentially no parliamentary representation.

None.

Bit they have achieved nonetheless.

The notion that because Sepuloni is deputy-PM this will somehow result in great gains for Samoans, Pacific folks generally or the rest of New Zealanders is a sick joke.

They’re trying to fool NZers, yet again.
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January 22, 2023 6:04pm
- Swifty
  
  Day fucking 1 and already the spin has started.
  
  I can only shake my head
  
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  January 22, 2023 6:06pm
CAKE FACE1

The Team of $55 million current propaganda is that Mr Hipkins is somehow a “Mr Fixit”.

Mr Hipkins was statistically the worst Minister of Education that New Zealand has ever had.

Mr Hipkins latterly presided over the Police Department. He didn’t fix crime, unless “fixing crime” means being embroiled in the worst crime wave in New Zealand’s history, and helplessly flapping.

What has Mr Hipkins fixed? Anything at all?

He did defame a few women, calling them prostitutes, during the Covid fiasco (did he ever apologise for that?). He sent Ms Bellis into the hands of the Taleban (he fixed her!).

I suppose the “Mr Fixit” moniker is on account of the fact that Mr Hipkins has been given a huge number of roles. The problem is, he performed all these roles abysmally, without exception. He fixed absolutely nothing…

I suppose the one moniker that Mr Hipkins is extremely unlikely to get is that of being “The worst Prime Minister in New Zealand’s history”. This achievement is almost certainly nailed on to continue to be held by Cindy, hopefully forever. Cindy is the GOAT (greatest of all times) in the useless Prime Minister stakes.

Mr Hipkins will need to content himself with his previous award, of being New Zealand’s worst ever Minister of Education, in our long history.
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January 22, 2023 6:13pm
- greybeard
  
  I suspect the same people who gave the “Mr. Fixit” name to Hipkins are the same ones who defined Ardern as a “consummate Communicator”.
  ( probably Ardern herself ! I never thought of her as having exceptional communication skills, in fact rather the opposite. Her pronunciation is appalling, she never directly addresses the subject but waffles-on to deflect from the issue, and her facial expressions and hand-waving are very distracting ).
  
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  January 22, 2023 8:22pm
Swifty

“Ministry of Māori Development Willie Jackson has already said he would pause work on the implementation of the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous People, which many assumed would result in more co-governance.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/no-one-understands-what-that-means-chris-hipkins-on-co-governance/YMZHZEFWPVEBNCIS3MACXRHZZQ/

Note he says ‘pause’. Not stop. Not consign to the dustbin, never to be raised again.

Pause.

Wanker. We ‘assumed’ more co-governance because that was what Jackson was explicitly campaigning for, and what He PuaPua called for, explicitly.

Now Jackson says “These are not the droids you’re looking for” while waving his hand slightly and hoping we’ll just turn away and carry on as if nothing has happened.

For the hundredth time I say, these people treat us as idiots.
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January 22, 2023 6:44pm
Ghost

Hmmm, so what are you going to do to bring the cost of food down, hint you won’t do anything that will have any real meaning

West Auckland’s Avondale Market is not far from Carmel Sepuloni’s Kelston electorate and was busier than ever on Sunday. And there’s no doubt the cost of living is the major concern here.

“People are angry because the food prices have gone up,” one person told Newshub.

“At the moment, we are really in a hard situation,” another said.

As a west Auckland MP, Sepuloni is expected to provide solutions to those problems and even more so now, that she’s been confirmed as our next Deputy Prime Minister.

“As Deputy Prime Minister, I will continue to be focussed on what I always have been focussed on, and that is serving our communities and whanau and Aotearoa,” she said.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/01/election-2023-carmel-sepuloni-s-constituents-reveal-key-issue-for-labour-after-selection-as-deputy-prime-minister.html
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January 22, 2023 7:41pm
Albie

Just experienced a flight from Akl-Wgn return this weekend on Air “Aotearoa”.
The whole experience was infuriating, from the pathetic flying waka safety video to the cabin crew turning themselves inside out to speak in Manglish, except of course important emergency instructions I am sure by international law they have to speak in English.
I am sure we all agree that greetings and farewells in a countries native tongue are readily accepted in international travel.
Problem is, New Zealand, as usual, has to lead the world in going completely over the top!
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January 22, 2023 8:28pm
Hugh Jarse

Looks like heaps of lipstick being applied to the labour pig. Anyone who believes for a nano-second that they are getting rid of the co-governance policies because Chippie and Carmel have dropped using Aotearoa is dreaming. It will back as soon as they get re-elected.
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January 22, 2023 9:54pm
kiwikidsnz

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/end-of-an-error-auckland-farmer-mows-troll-message-as-jacinda-ardern-quits-as-prime-minister/D3QXM7RETNED5KJHBRY4OZ3QGI/
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