The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 10th August 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Year: 2019
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Winston blows the only dog whistle he has left, “Blame Da Maaaaaaaris”
Winston is defending a system that beats the vulnerable and abuses them under the guise of intervening and ‘rescuing’ babies because he hates the talk of colonisation.
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To Kill A Fantail – What the latest Labour Party sexual assault scandal says about Jacinda’s office
Is that unfair and cruel? Sure, but this is where we are now.
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Political Caption Competition
TVNZ Management team post apocalypse
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A New Revolution?
Capitalism is in urgent need of new leadership. The neoliberal model, tested in Chile between 1974 and 1978, and then rolled out in the UK and the USA between 1979 and 1985, has failed to generate the broadly shared wealth Capitalism requires if it is to remain politically sustainable
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It Is Possible To Be Both Pro Ihumatao AND Not Anti Police
Watching the course of developments around Ihumatao over the past few months, it is hard to escape the sensation that something extraordinary has happened. What would, some decades ago, perhaps have been written off as a “Maori” issue by much of New Zealand – and consequentially, disparaged, denied, and turned into a pit of talkback-radio excoriation – has in fact managed to attain broad support from across the community.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 9th August 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Wow – what NZ First just did to Tracey Martin was the coldest most spiteful political kneecapping in NZ history
I have been incredibly critical of the Minister’s response to Orange Tamariki uplifts, but Tracey Martin deserved far better than what Winston Peters did to her over the u-turn on abortion.
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The real reason why an Abortion referendum is intellectually bankrupt and completely different from Cannabis reform & Euthanasia
Dear NZ First, you are in Parliament to work, so do your damn job and cast your vote based on your conscience otherwise you are political bludgers shirking their democratic responsibilities.
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The brutal, bloody, vicious and deeply counter-productive NZ War on Drugs ends in a defeated whimper
And then it was over. The guns finally stand spent, exhausted from decades of never ending war prosecuted with contempt…