Kia ora Comrades, Merry Christmas to you and your whanau.
Good will and peace to all.
Remember- It’s not Christmas until you have a huge argument defending Fairytale of New York, Love Actually and eating anything that casts a shadow.
Today Joseph and Mary would have to pass through 15 checkpoints to get from Nazareth to Bethlehem, but seeing as most of Gaza has been flattened by a war crime level response by Israel, plus the ethnic cleansing, you could make it a round trip within 30 minutes now.
The realistic nativity scene looks like this…
…how soul disturbingly sad.
Radio 1 to air censored version of Pogues’ Fairytale of New York
Offensive words in the Christmas song to be removed or altered for Radio 1, but remain unchanged on Radio 2
For many Christmas is a Season of Good Will, family, friends, whanau. A time to sit in each others company and celebrate the shared harvest of the year. It is joyful, it is welcoming, it is us at our best as a species.
For some however, it is a season of estrangement, a bitter cold loneliness whose each passing hour gnaws relentlessly into bone marrow that never heals. A 24 hour carnival of wounds made mockingly humiliating by the the cheer of the vast majority.
For those some, Christmas is a struggle of bruises with gift wrapped injury. For them, the bitter sweet working class lament ‘Fairytale of New York‘ sums up all the wasted hope of Christmas and allows pain to sit at the table in an exhausted detente with our more damaged angels.
Micro aggression policing Millennials decry this song for its hate speech language of ‘Slut’ and ‘Faggot’ and demand with all the nuance of Mao’s cultural revolution that this relic of pre-woke be burned at the virtual signalling stake.
When those some sing the insults with such ferocious gusto, it’s not aimed at homosexuals or women, those are insults being screamed at themselves once the distance between what was hoped and what was delivered is measured from heaven to the gutter.
Those some will not stop singing this pain, because this pain is the only guest at the table.
Meanwhile in NZ…
‘Not mistletoe and holly
To ward off melancholy
Carols in the chapel
Plum pudding and crabapple.
But to camp for a week
By a mountain creek
With fresh taken trout
And tinned pears to eat
With tea boiled in a billy
And the morepork in the gully.’ – James K Baxter
…plus the 12 days of Christmas from the new National/ACT/NZFirst Government…
On the first day of Christmas,
My libertarian vampire gave to me
A handjob for the bourgeoise
On the second day of Christmas,
My libertarian vampire gave to me
No Fair Pay,
And a handjob for the bourgeoise.
On the third day of Christmas,
My libertarian vampire gave to me
Bosses right to sack,
No Fair Pay,
And a handjob for the bourgeoise.
On the fourth day of Christmas,
My libertarian vampire gave to me,
No Gaza ceasefire,
Bosses right to sack,
No Fair Pay,
And a handjob for the bourgeoise.
On the fifth day of Christmas,
my libertarian vampire gave to me
Contrived Boomer things,
No Gaza ceasefire,
Bosses right to sack,
No Fair Pay,
And a handjob for the bourgeoise.
On the sixth day of Christmas,
my libertarian vampire gave to me
No Māori speaking,
Contrived Boomer things,
No Gaza ceasefire,
Bosses right to sack,
No Fair Pay,
And a handjob for the bourgeoise.
On the seventh day of Christmas,
my libertarian vampire gave to me
Rivers too polluted for swimming,
No Māori speaking,
Contrived Boomer things,
No Gaza ceasefire,
Bosses right to sack,
No Fair Pay,
And a handjob for the bourgeoise.
On the eighth day of Christmas,
my libertarian vampire gave to me
10 000 cows milking,
Rivers too polluted for swimming,
No Māori speaking,
Contrived Boomer things,
No Gaza ceasefire,
Bosses right to sack,
No Fair Pay,
And a handjob for the bourgeoise
On the ninth day of Christmas,
my libertarian vampire gave to me
Feral Cookers dancing,
10 000 cows milking,
Rivers too polluted for swimming,
No Māori speaking,
Contrived Boomer things,
No Gaza ceasefire,
Bosses right to sack,
No Fair Pay,
And a handjob for the bourgeoise.
On the tenth day of Christmas,
my libertarian vampire gave to me
Greedy Landlords a-leaping,
Feral Cookers dancing,
10 000 cows milking,
Rivers too polluted for swimming,
No Māori speaking,
Contrived Boomer things,
No Gaza ceasefire,
Bosses right to sack,
No Fair Pay,
And a handjob for the bourgeoise.
On the eleventh day of Christmas,
my libertarian vampire gave to me
Winston Peters media bribing,
Greedy Landlords a-leaping,
Feral Cookers dancing,
10 000 cows milking,
Rivers too polluted for swimming,
No Māori speaking,
Contrived Boomer things,
No Gaza ceasefire,
Bosses right to sack,
No Fair Pay,
And a handjob for the bourgeoise.
On the twelfth day of Christmas,
my libertarian vampire gave to me
Tesla subsidy bumming,
Winston Peters media bribing,
Greedy Landlords a-leaping,
Feral Cookers dancing,
10 000 cows milking,
Rivers too polluted for swimming,
No Māori speaking,
Contrived Boomer things,
No Gaza ceasefire,
Bosses right to sack,
No Fair Pay,
And a handjob for the bourgeoise!
…and finally…
…the Luxon family gather in matching pyjamas to festively burn workers, renters, Māori, the environment and beneficiaries this Christmas.
May the blood of the lamb cleanse you.
A sardonic and depressed festival of late stage capitalism consumerism on a burning planet to you all!
A toast to your good health!
Season’s Greetings Comrades!
TDB 2023
Amen! Thank you Martyn.
What to do about “God”. The most hateful, evil, spiteful piece of shit ever invented by men’s imagination. Twisted into three of the most malevolent social organizations to exist. Acts of extreme atrocity and genocide performed in His name for over 2,000 years.
I have run out of ruth.
How many leaders from how many countries will at some stage today pray to Him? Some with devotion and some as a political act. That’s an actual question by the way. If there are 200 countries how many of their leaders will pray to the same jumped up God of the desert?
And then go back again and again
“with their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns”
Seasons Greetings Martyn. Enjoy time with your family, for next year, we march. lol… Waitangi Day should be doozy. Here’s to Winnie getting a serve and doing a lot of navel gazing on te local marae.
America wishes Palestinians a Genocidal Christmas
The five days of genocidal Christmas
One UN Resolution passing
Two hundred aid trucks arriving
Three bombs a falling
Four UN Aid Workers killed
Five hundred thousand Palestinians starving
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres bluntly states that the UN aid mission in Gaza cannot be conducted while bombs are falling.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/23/un-resolution-on-gaza-aid-criticised-as-insufficient-meaningless
Yesterday, NZ time, so called Christian country America forces a farcical resolution on the United Nations Security Council that prevents a pause to allow aid to be delivered into Gaza. The US blackmailed and threatened the other nations of the Security Council, that the US would veto the resolution, if it contained the words “Cessation of Hostilities” to allow aid to be delivered.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/12/22/un-says-more-than-1-in-4-people-in-gaza-are-starving-due-to-war/
WHO relief workers reported “unbearable” scenes in two hospitals they visited in northern Gaza: Bedridden patients with untreated wounds cry out for water, the few remaining doctors and nurses have no supplies, and bodies are lined up in the courtyard….
…This week, Israel began allowing aid to enter Gaza through its Kerem Shalom crossing, which boosted the number of trucks entering from around 100 a day to around 190 on Wednesday, according to the UN. But an Israeli strike Thursday morning hit the Palestinian side of the crossing, forcing the UN to stop its pickups of aid there, according to Juliette Touma, spokesperson of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. At least four staff members at the crossing were killed,….
Compliments of the season to you all.
My hope is for peace and goodwill between all nations and people.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too, Martyn.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all TDB readers!
Who is taking the Luxon pyjama photos?
a). The maid?
b). The butler?
c). The pool cleaner?
d). The chauffeur?
e). David Seymour?
f). Judith Collins?
g). The pet cat?
h). A higher being?
i). Self timer setting? (least interesting).
Merry Christmas
I wonder how many people could afford Christmas this year thanks to Labour’s wage increases, benefit increases, free preceriptions and jobs for anyone who wanted one.
But, as the old saying goes…
Bad news — 2024 will be worse than 2023
Good news — 2024 will be better than 2025.
Go Merrily fuck thyselves dear comrades.
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