The more attention on neck ties in Parliament, the dumber this country gets

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How can the war on neckties gain MORE media attention than our national carrier helping the military of a country currently involved in war crimes?

The ‘I’m-not-racist-but’ brigade are frothing and foaming that this most basic gesture of cultural respect for Māori will see the end of the Westminster Parliamentary system while the ultra woke scream victory against the patriarchal heteronormative noose of the cis male white coloniser.

I simply can’t care.

1 in 5 children are in poverty, over 22 000 are on social housing wait lists, there is a climate meltdown occurring in real time  & entire generations have been locked out of home ownership by obscene inequality.

I don’t care about bloody neck ties.

If overthrowing neck ties is truly the measure of our success, how low were our expectations?

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9 COMMENTS

  1. Ask the Maori Party. Instead of raging at our government’s pathetic whimpering response to the housing crisis, which surely affects their constituents worse than most, we get some turkey in a 10 gallon hat strutting about the barnyard going look at me. They were to right chuffed their little pointless protest pissed off so many. Job done team! So so easy to distract though.

    If this is what we can expect than nothing of any consequence can be expected from them.

    • xray: “Ask the Maori Party. Instead of raging at our government’s pathetic whimpering response to the housing crisis, which surely affects their constituents worse than most, we get some turkey in a 10 gallon hat strutting about the barnyard going look at me.”

      Exactly. That Waititi fellow evidently thinks that he’s been so clever. But he’s shot himself and his party in the foot, all in pursuit of some meaningless piece of ethnic chauvinism. Many of us suspected that the Maori party would be a pointless waste of space in parliament. Now we know for sure.

      • A Sky News Australia report on that fellow’s problem with wearing a tie, included comment that the tie is a phallic symbol. So taken to it’s logical conclusion, it looks as if he’s rejecting a basic piece of male equipment.

        The lady co-leader does however appear wearing the phallic symbol, maybe supporting Freud’s contention that women suffer from penis envy, and I do wish that she wouldn’t do that. Freud’s work was based on rich middle class Jewish ladies, and extending his conclusions to Maori women is interesting, objectively, and may indeed be true, who knows, but politics is nutty enough already without this party going all gender confusing in public.

  2. Why don’t we start putting the heat on the feckless 4th estate? If they don’t report on this then it doesn’t become a big story.

    The collective behavior of the 4th estate since the beginning of covid has been 1/10. Simply put, with a few exceptions they haven’t done their job and our election coverage if you could call it that, was a national disgrace of ‘gotya’ exposes and gag-inducing partisan cheerleading. Now, our main game is ‘cancelling’ journalists and presenters that don’t agree with the current perverted ‘group-think’ woke culture. FMD (little) Aotearoa just hit the turbo button.

    Economically we are sleeping walking into a giant mess of stagflation yet shark scare porn, (little) Aotearoa puff pieces and shit like the subject is what we get. I fully expect simple Simon to wear a pink ‘pussy’ hat in the upcoming weeks as a show of solidarity (sic). And don’t be so smug on the left – once they have finished with us they will come for old style lefties as well. You are not part of their puritan tribe.

    Bomber time to name, shame and ridicule the feckless ones and start holding them to account.

  3. That hat? What about that hat? Only Texans wear Stetsons inside. Neck tie? Schmeck tie but that hat!? Oooo Eeeeeee Son.

  4. The tie fiasco has given us a laugh, and some of us needed a laugh. The real shame is that it has been debasing for Maoridom, and that the Maori Party did that all by themselves. Their call.

    The silence of the media on New Zealand’s complicity in war crimes and the plight of our poor homeless children could be for any of four or five reasons.The Daily Blog, Hager, Stephenson, Trotter, other odd columnists read by the few, remind us of our moral obligation to ourselves, if not to others, so cheers for that.

  5. “If you don’t read the newspaper you’ll be uninformed, if you read the newspaper you’ll be misinformed” – Mark Twain. I’ve switched off watching, listening and reading the Mainstream flatulence.

    • How would the maori party react to a pakeha not following marae customs and procedures!!
      Just to expect to have longstanding traditional Parliamentary systems changed to suite them.
      Quite laughable really with that hat, graffitied face and silly little bib and expect to be taken seriously.

  6. Nothing more pathetic than watching blokes going through their midlife crises.
    Good on Waititi for pushing the boundaries – as ridiculous as he looked in that Texan hat – altho’ not half as ridiculous as the retail politician with an ego that’d rival that of the Don Trump. (Didn’t work out that well for either of the Dons)
    But then, Mallard – taking the bait! Did he object to the hat? no. Desperate as he is (while doing his own MLC – see! – I can do acronyms too) to walk in the two worlds of parliamentary tradition and respeck for kulcha.
    BTW (that’s ‘by the way’), what’s the story on kilts and sporrans?
    I vote we insist our elected reps devote some time to setup a committee – with all the stakeholders involved – Joe and Jane Public excluded of course). It could call for submissions from all interested parties in that space going forward. Could even call for PWC or some other “Independent” consultancy voice. ( /NOT)

    I quite like watching all these patheticisms. There are so many I’ve forgotten a lot of them.

    I do remember the Lees-Galloway episode, if only because I was wondering how long it was going to take for his colleagues to see the bleeding bloody obvious, and where the various ‘loyalties’ were going to lay, and who was going to pull him aside for a little word in his ear.
    And his “victim”. Fuck! Does it take longer these days to grow the fuck up? A mid-twenties (supposed adult) victim with “its” [#respekthepronoun] own agenda in the service of the ‘public’. Sincerely – I hope its gotten over its trauma. However, I seem to remember we fought for the legalisation of prostitution – and it didn’t come with any sort of dependency of common sense.
    If I had to get into the MSM, it’d be a book. Oh – and the uni-tasker Fa-a-aaaaaaaaa-f-f-f-Foi who’s just announced some new measure costing a few $mill out of supposed concern for the now perilous state of the MSM (that’s “Mainstream Media”).
    There’ll probably be at least two reasons why the planet ends up being burned with the least deserving humanoids its greatest casualties. One is the neoliberal ideology/religion/cult, the other is identity politics – which is probably a last ditch function of the first.

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