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NeverMindTheBollocks

A green lanyard with sunflowers, invented by Gatwick Airport to identify passengers needing extra assistance, has been seized upon by activists as a new way of showing their specialness.

Harsh? The clue is in the word “they”.

“Disabled Kiwis say a green lanyard with sunflowers is helping them get extra support, without the rigmarole of having to explain their disability to strangers.
Christchurch resident Eliot Forrest, 24, has chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyaligia (a nerve pain condition) and post orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) – conditions that can make them feel dizzy and faint.”

All of these afflictions are essentially self diagnosed, cannot be objectively tested for and don’t affect life expectancy.

Smell a rat?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360470935/how-sunflower-lanyard-helping-kiwis-invisible-disabilities
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November 9, 2024 8:01am
- Cassandra
  
  These conditions all sound a bit dodgy but they are nevertheless real for many people. In fact I have all three of them sometimes. Used to get one or more every Monday morning but now that I’m retired I’m much better. But for all that, we have a neighbour afflicted with CFS and it’s very real for her.
  
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  November 9, 2024 9:05am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Yep, I’m not saying those conditions aren’t real (though POTS is apparently the maladie du jour among young people). The coincidence I’m referring to is that the person who has all three also has gender identity issues. Of course, these ailments may spring from any gender-transition drugs, if any, being ingested. Or, they might just be a manifestation of LAMS*.
    
    *Look At Me Syndrome
    
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    November 9, 2024 9:55am
TripeWryter

I must commend the stuff journalist Tony Wall for his effort published this morning about Tom Phillips, the Marikopa solo father who is in the bush with his kids.
Wall goes to a great deal of effort to be fair. Certainly a lot fairer than some of the anti-Phillips reporting and commentary of late. Even by hacks working for his own outlet.
He went and talked to people, and he appeared to treat Tom Phillips’ parents with respect.
Some of the reporting of late has worried me.
I have questions about Cat, the children’s mother.
Why do the media not identify her by her full name? Her Phillips children are identified by name, and even by photos.
Why can’t she be more than just ‘Cat’?
There’s a lot of chat up in the Waikato and King Country about her that doesn’t get reported in the legacy media. Stuff that our fearless hacks haven’t asked her about.
For example, is it true that Cat has a criminal record?
Is it true that her convictions result from dealing in drugs and some other illegal activities?
Is it true that a partner – not Thomas Phillips – sexually abused one of her young children and she did nothing about it?
Knowing the answers is pertinent to a public that is being sold a story, that is being asked to sympathise with a mother appealing for the return of her children to her.
Our media have been far too partisan. I mean, for God’s sake!, The New Zealand Herald tried to give the story extra legs by trying to suggest that the Army’s Special Air Service be sent in to join the hunt.
Hunting a solo father on the lam in the bush with his kids is not what the SAS is for – he’s not a terrorist.
The notion should be resisted.
Media have also tried to give the story oxygen by finding ‘experts’ to comment about how this living in the bush might be affecting the children.
They don’t know because they don’t know the kids. So why bother?
It seems evident that the police are not trying their damndest to find Tom Phillips and his kids.
They have most likely realised that they have bigger priorities – like tackling gangs and their profiteering from drugs.
I also read that a judge had awarded custody of the Phillips children to the chief executive of Oranga Tamariki.
Can you think of a stronger, better reason for a man to gather his kids about him and protect them than letting them into the clutches of a chief executive who could not explain to Heather du Plessis-Allan his failure to protect Malachi Rain Subecz?
Or his failure to protect so many other children known to his agency and who were bashed to death by people charged with loving them and caring for them.
The bush might not be ideal but the kids might know that they’re safest with Dad.
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November 9, 2024 8:02am
- BananaLlama
  
  What i want to know is if OT are going to be given custody of the kids? that would completely change my opinion if true.
  
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  November 9, 2024 9:02am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    They are already under the “care” of OT.
    
    Tom Phillips had custody of the children, but lost it after he took them bush the first time.
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/532022/missing-marokopa-family-detective-spearheading-the-search-for-tom-phillips-and-his-three-children-reveals-what-he-believes-phillips-motive-is
    
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    November 9, 2024 9:44am
- pdm
  
  I read that too TW.
  
  A good piece and I wondered how he managed to get such a well thought out and presented article past the Stuff Editors who in the past have promoted a much different narrative.
  
  Mr and Mrs Phillips senior came across as very sensible and decent people.
  
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  November 9, 2024 9:02am
  - Mike
    
    Mr and Mrs Phillips do not appear to be responsible for their son becoming a violent criminal.
    
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    November 9, 2024 9:14am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Slipped it through while Stuffed management were undergoing emotional support counselling on Thursday.
    
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    November 9, 2024 9:57am
- Damocles11
  
  The man is an alleged armed robber. “Oooeeerr…..just let him be free.” 🤦🏻‍♂️
  This country is in serious trouble. All the innuendo in the world about the mother is not going to change the fact that Phillips is out there committing crimes. ‘If’ she has a criminal record – and I said ‘if’ – then that means she submitted to the authorities and accepted her punishment. Tom Phillips hasn’t done that. This is a man who allegedly fired a shot at a member of the public in the aftermath of his bank robbery. The people supporting the guy on this site obviously support criminal behaviour, no other conclusion can be reached. You could ‘look after’ your kids in the bush, but when you start stealing from others and carrying out violent crimes then you have crossed a line and don’t deserve sympathy. Tom Phillips would have a criminal record himself if he manned up and stopped his selfish ongoing carry on. And the thing that is no doubt staying the Polices hand in bringing this whole thing to a conclusion is the fact Phillips is armed, dangerous, and may do something to those children if cornered. Nobody has the right to behave as Phillips has behaved, nobody.
  
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  November 9, 2024 10:12am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Unbelievable that Police can not fined Phillips and the kids.
  Do the Police not have any bush sense? Sure there are other people helping him, but overall the Police are a joke.
  
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  November 9, 2024 10:29am
Yvette

Hikoi baggage

AI – Charles “Chuck” Colson [not to be confused with Tucker Carlson], who served time in prison following his involvement in the Watergate scandal, observed that many African American inmates were “enslaved a second time,” but not physically; rather, it was a mental and systemic form of enslavement. He noted that many prisoners were trapped in a cycle of poverty, lack of education, and limited economic opportunity. Colson believed that this created a sense of hopelessness and dependency, which reinforced the cycle of incarceration and poverty, keeping these individuals “enslaved” to a system that did not offer a realistic path to self-improvement.

Colson’s prison ministry work, founded after his release, aimed to address these systemic issues by promoting rehabilitation, faith, and support networks to empower individuals and break the cycles of re-incarceration and socio-economic disadvantage. His perspective emphasized that true freedom required not just physical liberty but the means to overcome psychological and social barriers that inhibit growth and independence.

A couple of decades ago Colson was interviewed by legendary New Zealand journalist Brian Edwards and the impression of a second “mental” enslavement of a people who had been physically enslaved, had very obvious parallels to a people who were once colonised (to various degrees), being colonised a second time, mentally, and often by themselves.
“Each Maori child is a clean slate, until someone else writes on it”

“After nine years of this National Government, propped up by the Māori party, there’s not a lot to brag about. Māori are more likely to be overweight, depressed, homeless, incarcerated and uneducated according to these disturbing statistics produced under National’s watch” – Kelvin Davis, quoting the most negative mantra regarding Maori (perhaps “hate speech” if that were law) but this time attempting cheap political gain against the Maori Party. “There’s no mana for Māori who support a waka that’s shackled to the National Party.” [1]

Davis’ Maori mantra is about FAILURE, as much as He Puapua is about SEPARATISM (enough separatism to breach the Treaty, which we forget while David Seymour is damned for the same ‘crime’).
This realm of Maori suspended between failure and aspiration is one mind-set that will see what is expected to be a massive, imminent display of unity – a Maori hikoi – without any state-owned television current affairs analysis of what is happening, as was when COMPASS, INQUIRY and GALLERY – Brian Edwards, Geoff Walker, Joe Coté, and Dairne Shanahan et alia – at least attempted to inform a nation.

What is there in its place?
The Dog House Australia, the Voice Australia, Shortland Street, Seven Sharp and MKR

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 [1] https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1702/S00255/no-mana-for-maori.htm
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November 9, 2024 8:02am
Grunter

Hey Ukraine – your bank just closed!
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November 9, 2024 8:02am
- Eastlander
  
  Maintaining the Ukrainian war effort is something the State Department and the Pentagon are deeply committed to, and the latter in particular will ignore orders they don’t like. Aid will continue even if it means sacrificing materiel previously earmarked for east Asia.
  
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  November 9, 2024 10:02am
Grunter

Hey Big Pharma – you are about to be uncovered! And we know it’s not just the dud COVID jab.
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November 9, 2024 8:04am
Bridgenag

In which insane German delusions about the near-certainty of a Harris presidency are dashed on the rocks of Trump’s decisive victory
Every now and then, reality emerges from the shadows to crush the hollow propaganda of the press and the hallucinations of our politicians. We must enjoy these times.

“The people who rule us play farsighted, smart and intelligent statesmen on television. In fact they are a lot of histrionic, uptight and anally retentive ninnies who have developed a bizarre moral panic about political populism and anything perceived to be “on the right.” This started out as a cynical political strategy to delegitimise and perhaps even outlaw the populist opposition in the Federal Republic, but in the course of just a few years it has become a fully developed and totally official system of political hysteria. There aren’t any adults in the room anymore – just a lot of overgrown and emotionally incontinent children who feel that things should be a certain way, and for that reason alone are totally incapable of perceiving the way that things actually are. On Tuesday night reality kicked them all right in the teeth, and man does that feel good.”

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/in-which-insane-german-delusions?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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November 9, 2024 8:09am
- Philview
  
  I was watching TVNZ News last night and looked like a fairly large anti Trump protest was going on. I get the impression the media aren’t reporting this. I googled and seems like large protests have been happening in several cities. Are these the people Biden was referring to when he said dial down the temperature?
  
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  November 9, 2024 8:30am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Trump ( The Great Misogynist) appoints Susie Wiles his campaign manager in 2016 and 2024 as the first female WH Chief of Staff in history.
  The Lefts heads explode (again).
  
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  November 9, 2024 8:56am
Bridgenag

Friday Funnies: The Winning Hand
God Bless America

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/friday-funnies-the-winning-hand?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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November 9, 2024 8:10am
artemisia

Identity politics plays a big part in our current Parliament and our public sector. Embedded actually, not much mood for change apparent.

Meanwhile identity based policies, and funding, has just taken a palpable hit following that election. Possibly a sea change.

Could it happen here in local body elections next year? And 2026. I’m picking timidly bigger waves breaking on the shoreline is more likely.
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November 9, 2024 8:10am
Notsofast

Trump is to sanctify male and female genders only, and these are as assigned at both.
Extraordinary how gravely wrong New Zealand parliament got this.
Time for a citizen referendum with proper education and understanding of the long term issues to reverse all this and save the women and children.
The rainbow crossings will become anachronisms and reminders of a dark place the west got to.

https://twitter.com/HeidiBriones/status/1854894952351940841?t=0woqZQMdNiAMs_43XEdsmw&s=19
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November 9, 2024 8:16am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Just a small but important correction. Sex is not “assigned at birth”. Sex is determined at the moment of conception. The “assigned at birth” language is part of the problem.
  
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  November 9, 2024 9:17am
  - Swifty
    
    Indeed.
    
    Sex isn’t assigned, it is observed.
    
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    November 9, 2024 9:33am
  - Notsofast
    
    Yes thank you.
    I was quoting Trump from the video for simplicity, and in the hope the room temperature IQs in Parliament might relate.
    
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    November 9, 2024 9:40am
peterwn

So the Electricity Authority is concerned that a lack of hedging products may disadvantage electricity customers in the form of higher prices. While there is hedging available to cover most circumstances, unsurprisingly there is no hedging available to cover low chance events such as low hydro lakes and lack of gas, wind and sun. Such hedging would require access to a deep level of risk capital, something which smaller retailers do not have access to. The ‘gentailers’ do simply by virtue of there significant capital bases in the form of generation plant. To illustrate this, Manawai Power (formerly Trustpower, now just a generation company) has taken a significant hit in its latest financials since it could not supply the power it contracted to sell so had to buy top-up power at sky high prices to meet its contractual obligations. Manawai is not complaining since this is par for the course in the business. The smaller pure retailers potentially face wipe-out in similar cases, cannot hedge (since there is no suitable hedging products on the market) so lobby for the ‘gentailers’ to be forced to provide such hedging at little or no cost. Assuming deep hedging products were available (similar to Swiss re-insurance or Lloyds underwriting) the annual ‘premiums’ would make the operation of the smaller pure retailers less economic or even untenable.
So the Electricity Authority is dancing the head of a pin trying to please all of the people all of the time.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/533111/electricity-authority-concerned-a-lack-of-risk-management-tools-for-power-companies-could-lead-to-high-pricesn-for-customers
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November 9, 2024 8:17am
- JackRabbit
  
  So the Electricity Authority is dancing the head of a pin trying to please all of the people all of the time.
  
  Indeed.
  
  Peter,
  
  As we all know, when consumption exceeds production, production has to increase. In the case of electricity, it is production capacity that has to increase, to not only match consumption, but to have an abundant surplus to meet the most demanding circumstances.
  
  And to cater to demanding circumstances, said capacity has to be available 24/7. And any capacity that is scalable to meet demand, is the most cost effective.
  
  Solar and Wind don’t cut it, but Hydro does. (As does Nuclear.)
  
  Need more power, we’ll just put more water through the penstocks.
  
  Instead of faffing around playing games, the Electricity Authority should be advocating more hydro (and/or nuclear).
  
  Hydro done correctly, is the least polluting, most sustainable of energy production compared to solar or wind, and the one that results in lower prices for customers. The next level up in efficiency and cost is nuclear.
  
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  November 9, 2024 8:34am
  - wsk12345
    
    I am a huge fan of hydro electricity.
    
    But don’t kid yourself it’s cheap.
    
    The existing large hydro stations will never pay back the costs building them let alone maintenance and ops and cost of capital. Levelised lifetime costs ranged from 15c/kwh to over 20c as calculated at the time. The wholesale price hasn’t reached that 50 years on from the build.
    
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    November 9, 2024 9:16am
- G152
  
  And how will they provide electricity for a growing population.
  Hard enough now with only 5 million or so
  
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  November 9, 2024 8:35am
  - peterwn
    
    The main gentailers are up to the challenge but there are wrinkles. These gentailers and Manawai (which is a pure generator) all have programmes to build capacity to meet increasing demand. However they will only commit to actual construction if they are reasonably sure of selling the product. If they build too late they face a possible shortfall in supplying their customers and contracts. If they build too early they have to pay interest (or their shareholders forgo dividends) on the idle capital tied up in underutilised generation. So they operate on a knife-edge. This is the whole stuff of doing business in this game, something which many commentators and others do not seem to understand. If say the Electricity Authority, Government etc decree that electric generators are to provide a particular margin, the issue becomes who pays the cost of capital to meet this margin. The two options are:
    1. The end customers meet the cost of providing this margin through increased tariffs or a Government mandated levy directly on customers or on customers via the generators.
    2. The long suffering taxpayer meets the cost of providing this margin. If the Government wants to avoid the taxpayer paying out, then see 1. above.
    The proposed (and abandoned) Lake Onslow project was a good example of this. The previous Government were very warm to this suggesting that it was a good idea and implying the Government (ie taxpayer) would find it (Robbo and co assumed the Government had a bottomless pit of money). Sure as eggs when completed the Government would want a return on the investment and charge the industry (ie the end customer) accordingly.
    In the old days the Government took the sovereign risk involved with building power stations which was acceptable as construction and demand increases were roughly in step. But starting in the 1970’s the usual 7% per annum increase in demand started slumping and overbuilding occurred. So Roger Douglas, Richard Prebble and co rightfully asked why is the Government taking this commercial risk. Surely it would be better for private enterprise to take this risk. So this is essentially what we have today.
    Personally I think the system is doing what was intended despite much wailing and gnashing of teeth to the contrary.
    
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    November 9, 2024 10:01am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump won in 2020, so now what?

https://babylonbee.com/news/4d-chess-democrats-admit-trump-actually-won-in-2020-and-is-now-unable-to-serve-third-term?
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November 9, 2024 8:25am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

All of the rights you lost now that Trump has been elected:

https://babylonbee.com/news/here-is-a-complete-list-of-the-rights-you-just-lost-now-that-trump-has-been-elected?
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November 9, 2024 8:26am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I can’t read the article that is linked.
  
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  November 9, 2024 8:50am
  - CJames
    
    I am not sure if you are being sarcastic or not BY (no marking), but the list is deliberately blank because none are lost.
    
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    November 9, 2024 9:10am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      No I was not being sarcastic. 😄 It is a cultural thing. I know what sarcasm means, but I I often miss it. 😕
      
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      November 9, 2024 9:20am
  - john1234
    
    Disable your irony filter, BY!
    
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    November 9, 2024 9:52am
Conservatarian

“Trump is a fascist and a Nazi but now that he’s won the election we wish him all the best.”

The before and after is really quite something to behold.
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November 9, 2024 8:30am
Chuck Bird

I wonder what Luxon will say if Trump asks him what he think of climate change alarmism.
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November 9, 2024 8:36am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Luxon will reply with a Harris type word salad.
  But the good news is that such a word salad will not be followed by an extremely irritating Kackle.
  
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  November 9, 2024 9:14am
  - pdm
    
    TN – first two words from Luxon.
    
    I mean…………………………………..etc etc
    
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    November 9, 2024 10:12am
Paulus

Cannot understand why the media apparently worldwide are delusioned as Harris did not win despite their extensive efforts.
New Zealand is one of them we see too as like our elected Coalition Government, and likewise Trump, was elected fully in his own right.
They appear in the USA to be getting ready, to like our hyppocrites, to do everything they can to thwart Trump especially telling the Public Service to lead the way.
Sounds familiar !
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November 9, 2024 8:41am
Benedict Yu

Some women in the USA are so disappointed in the Trump win that they are going on a “sex strike”. 😀

https://www.nysun.com/article/delete-your-dating-apps-liberal-women-vow-four-year-sex-strike-to-protest-trumps-victory

That might be a good thing. Plenty of fish in the sea and other similar metaphors come to mind. 😄
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November 9, 2024 8:45am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Making a virtue of a necessity
  
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  November 9, 2024 8:50am
- John Loveridge
  
  It’s very likely that nobody will be missing out on any sex as a result of this protest.
  
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  November 9, 2024 8:58am
- Conservatarian
  
  I urge you and others to go onto YouTube and enter the phrase “lib meltdown”. You will be able to view a plethora of videos featuring mentally ill women (and some men) who are filming themselves in tears, swearing at a camera, vowing revenge on all men or her Trump voting Catholic parents, vowing to go on the above-mentioned sex strikes, and actually shaving their heads to own men. One young black woman is in pieces and actually said something to the effect of “I don’t know whether tomorrow I’m going to wake up and have become a slave”. Another woman is red and snotty faced and hysterically telling people how evil they are for caring about cheaper groceries.
  
  It is funny but also sad. These people have been hopelessly propagandised to. This could be the future of an [admittedly small] portion of our young people especially our daughters and granddaughters, unless this woke mind virus becomes a social fad that went away.
  
  There appears to be a common view on these videos that any so-called minority (which also now appears to be any woman) is about to be targeted in some way. Some of the women have even said “but not me because I’m white.”
  
  Certainly, any illegal immigrant faces an uncertain time in the US, as Trump has campaigned on this.
  
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  November 9, 2024 9:16am
- wsk12345
  
  At least abortion won’t be an issue.
  
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  November 9, 2024 9:17am
- alloytoo
  
  It will solve the abortion problem
  
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  November 9, 2024 9:40am
- Handyman
  
  So men and women all agree no one will have sex with these women.
  Trump is uniting the country already!
  
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  November 9, 2024 9:59am
Paulus

I read today that the affirmative selection of people for Otago Medical School are going to increase for those with special ethnicities.
They have apparently been doing this affirmative for over 30 years,
Then tell me why the Maori and Pacfica Health has made no improvement over that time ?
Is this a waste of taxpayers money as those places could well be filled by educated with higher results people wishing to be come Doctors, and the like, to the benefit of all of us ?
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November 9, 2024 8:48am
- pdm
  
  Paulus – another question is how many of those with `preferential entry’ drop out because they cannot meet the standards required to progress further?
  
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  November 9, 2024 9:10am
Benedict Yu

Historians will write about the 2024 election for years to come. I look forward to reading them.

IMO one of the lessons will be that people have a breaking point when it comes to gas lighting.

Being told that the “border is secure”. Yes the Haitians were really eating the cats and dogs.

Being told that late term abortion is about “reproductive health”. Well no. The choice and safety of birth control has never been as great as today.

Being told that amputating the breasts of teenagers is “gender affirming care”.

Finally being told that you are garbage and that Trump is a Nazi. That was a big mistake. 😄
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November 9, 2024 8:59am
- Conservatarian
  
  Also men were told that being masculine is simping to what females want or being a “cheerleader” for women. This breeds the type of man who pretends to be liberal just to sleep with women. Democrats ran these crazy series of adds and initiatives targeting male voters, but it was almost always segregated by race e.g. White Men for Harris, getting Obama to talk [down] to black men, various campaigns specifically targeting Hispanic men. And don’t forget the bumbling hapless running mate Tim Walz.
  
  A 25 year old white guy is told how “privileged” he is, but all he sees is that he is at the bottom of the pile when it comes to landing a “good” corporate job because a number of Democrat client groups are explicitly preferred in the recruitment process. So he wants to go do something with his hands, where he can create and build, where there is no HR department.
  
  Men ran away from voting for Harris. Women who care about the future of their sons and grandsons and brothers ran away from voting for Harris.
  
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  November 9, 2024 9:38am
- artemisia
  
  Plus the right picture is worth a thousand woke statements. Or more. Fight, fight, fight! For example.
  
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  November 9, 2024 9:42am
- Handyman
  
  The left have no sense of irony or self awareness.
  The same people chanting that Trump was “like, literally Hitler” were the same people chanting “finish what Hitler started”. (ie From the river… etc)
  
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  November 9, 2024 10:04am
igm

Why are our parliamentarians (left) supporting immigrants with these values?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360481231/iraq-lower-age-consent-girls-nine
Defies decency and logic.
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November 9, 2024 9:11am
Bridgenag

“What should I do if I’m scared because of Donald Trump?” – Spiegel consults a behavioural therapist on how to deal with the mental health consequences of Trump’s victory

Lots of laughs here………………

https://open.substack.com/pub/eugyppius/p/what-should-i-do-if-im-scared-because?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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November 9, 2024 9:27am
Ghost

Another person going to leave the USA. Hope he’s got his visa sorted, vaccinations and ummm, who wants tell him?

https://ibb.co/m9wV0XB
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November 9, 2024 9:35am
Ghost

Australian bill

Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024
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November 9, 2024 9:41am
- Bridgenag
  
  Book worth looking at
  
  PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order exposes the history and tactics of modern psychological warfare on the American people and offers a way forward for citizens to resist totalitarian control.
  
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  November 9, 2024 9:47am
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  All comes down to Humpty-Dumpty’s philosophy on the meaning of words again. Whether something is misinformation or disinformation is all in the eye of the beholder. So the courts would have to end up adjudicating what is misinformation or disinformation. The UK Court of Appeal effectively ruled in the Chiropractors case that this was not really for the courts to decide (UK chiropractors unsuccessfully sued the writer Simon Singh for defamation for effectively claiming that chiropractic was quackery. Which in my opinion it is).
  
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  November 9, 2024 10:13am
bennerg

So the NZ Herald & Stuff are starting to take a more balanced stance on the Tom Phillips situation, by finally printing a bit of the other side, with a quote from Tom’s father Neville, where he highlights the unbalanced reporting so far:

“There’s one conclusion,” Neville Phillips told Stuff from his King Country home.

“Just leave [Tom] alone, walk away.”

The whole thing was “a rort right from the beginning”, Neville Phillips told Stuff.

“So we’ve just got to stop it somehow.”

He claimed police and the media had lied about aspects of the incident, and also criticised reporting on matters before the Family Court.

Police have previously said they believe the reason Phillips was on the run with his kids was to do with a custody battle.

“Do you have any idea what it’s like being a parent with what’s coming out in the media and very little of it is the truth?” Neville Phillips asked Stuff.

“There’s two sides to the story, and only one is coming out.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/marokopa-fugitive-father-tom-phillips-dad-neville-phillips-on-how-to-end-hunt-for-son-jayda-maverick-and-ember/5FXCV3TFFBH3JIYMMGKXXZ7UWI/
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Tom Hunter

I don’t know why but this piece of Gen-X era music and humor is making me laugh every time I see it.

The start is a very upset young woman using a well-known piece of “happy” music with her own lyrics, but one Steven Hilton steps in with a more appropriate tune.
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November 9, 2024 9:59am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Black Men Break the Mold: Why They’re Rallying Behind Trump.
I have been saying this for a long time – Black Americans are leaving the Plantation.
Democrats do not give a shit about them, just want their vote. Keep them welfare dependent in fatherless homes. Candace Owens (Turning Point USA) has been on about this for ages. Black Americans went the Trump and the Republicans.
Video 0.58.

https://conservativeadvocacy.com/black-men-break-the-mold-why-theyre-rallying-behind-trump/?
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