2023, what a shit year!
Social Media platforms using hate algorithms to suppress actual journalism in favour of AntiVaxx conspiracy theories distorted citizens into book burning acolytes with all the charm of your average Ku Klux Klan rally.
Mainstream media were crucified for taking journalism funding and threatened with sexual assault daily by incels.
The antivax transphobic collective rejoiced that their Conspiracy Swamp Kingdom myths were being implemented as actual social policy.
And the Woke screamed ‘Pure Trans Joy’ and found they had cancelled everyone who might have voted for us and the electorates fury at Jacinda saving 20 000 lives with her Covid leadership resulted in a grudge fuck against Labour that birthed this hard right racist Government bonded together only by a shared glee of bashing beneficiaries, renters, workers, Māori and the environment.
It’s been a train wreck of a year with climate change storms that have made everyone realise catastrophic climate change is no longer a theoretical threat at the end of the century.
It’s here, it’s now and we’re fucked!
600 000 Kiwis need food banks each month, 300 000 kiwis live with housing and energy poverty, 26 000 on the social housing wait list and hundreds of thousands more in poverty. Renters and Workers have been smashed by this Government’s first act of legislation and the corporate interests that donate to the Right are all getting the payday of their life.
We have a rigged capitalism, a fanatical hard right Government implementing culture war revenge fantasies and an aesthetic Left that is more interested in cancelling anyone who suggests female comedians aren’t funny than do anything materially meaningful in the lives of those the Left claim to champion.
On the bright side, if you thought 2023 was bad, it ain’t nothing on what will go down in 2024.
There are of course political winners and losers.
LOSERS:
NZ Mainstream Media:
The newsrooms are flooded by attacks from the woke for daring to challenge woke dogma and overwhelmed with threats from feral antivaxx conspiracy incels and gender critical feminists for daring to breath.
Winston threatened to sack hosts for asking hard questions and claimed the entire media were bribed.
The. Entire. Media.
Good story Winnie.
On top off this legacy media, (who were reliant on joke ratings systems), were decimated by online ratings which provided far more detail than a radio diary, newspaper poll or TV box ever could. Advertisers want online stats, not radio diary, newspaper poll or TV box stats which were always more art than science. The resulting fall out will see mass layoffs throughout the media industry.
The Environment:
Isn’t it hilarious?
The first extreme climate events smash New Zealand and we elect a Government hellbent on rescinding all the tiny steps taken to mitigate and by reintroducing gas and oil speculation, killing the EV rebate system and removing subsidies for public transport!
NZ First are openly climate deniers despite data showing temperatures jumping…
September 2023 Temperature Update
The following is a summary of global temperature conditions in Berkeley Earth’s analysis of September 2023.
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- Globally, September 2023 was the warmest September — and the largest monthly anomaly of any month — since records began in 1850.
- The previous record for warmest September was broken by 0.5 °C (0.9 °F), a staggeringly large margin.
- Both land and ocean individually also set new records for the warmest September.
- The extra warmth added since August occurred primarily in polar regions, especially Antarctica.
- Antarctic sea ice set a new record for lowest seasonal maximum extent.
- Record warmth in 2023 is primarily a combined effect of global warming and a strengthening El Niño, but natural variability and other factors have also contributed.
- Particularly warm conditions occurred in the North Atlantic, Eastern Equatorial Pacific, South America, Central America, Europe, parts of Africa and the Middle East, Japan, and Antarctica.
- 77 countries, mostly in Europe and the tropics, set new monthly average records for September.
- El Niño continues to strengthen and is expected to continue into next year.
- 2023 is now virtually certain to become a new record warm year (>99% chance).
- 2023 is very likely (90% chance) to average more than 1.5 °C above our 1850-1900 baseline.
Jesus wept.
The jump in heat is beyond anything we’ve seen in modern times.
This just as Labour and Green policy starts bearing fruit in NZ…
It may have been largely overlooked in the election debates, but New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions are finally on the way down.
Annual emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels are the lowest since 1999 and the 12-month renewable share of electricity is back above 90% for the first time since 1981. The Ministry for the Environment has advised New Zealand is on track to meet the first (2022-2025) carbon budget.
…National, ACT and NZF will make these numbers worse.
Global temperatures will go up under National, ACT and NZF because they have no plan to lower them.
They will also reverse the things that have helped drive our emissions down.
We have no comprehension of what is coming and we are simply not prepared for the age of consequences.
Watching National, ACT and Corporate Farmers use their economic and political muscle to avoid responsibility for what comes next can only be resolved by civil unrest and a campaign of civil disobedience against those interests.
Just consider how the Corporate Farming Lobby have managed to avoid any tax on their pollution since mid 2004!
They have pushed and pushed and pushed it off for 20 years!
National have already promised ANOTHER 5 year extension which will mean the agricultural industry have managed to stop any tax on their pollution for quarter of a century!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That photo of a National MP driving tractor up the steps of Parliament was a declaration of political war and they have lived up to that declaration.
John Key sold 49% of our Hydro Assets to create a $400million irrigation slush fund that was used to intensify dairy farming while polluting our water and generating climate changing gasses!
The entire economy is forced to bend over backwards for a sunset industry that will crash the millisecond the fast food industry can create a synthetic milk powder!
Claiming that NZs emissions mean nothing in comparison to China and India isn’t a justification to do nothing, it’s an acknowledgement that radical adaptation is the only move left because those Goliath economies have already doomed us to a dangerous climate change future!
We are out of plays and the focus surely must be self sufficiency over trying to eternally trade on a burning planet.
Māori:
Middle class woke activists:
Renters:
Beneficiaries:
Prisoners:
Labour – Look, I’m not saying there wen’t some gains over the last 6 years: Free school lunches, trust tax, new top income rate, free prescriptions, most state houses in 50 years, record investment in housing, healthcare and investment, regulate property managers, clean car discount, apprenticeship scheme, benefits to wages, FPAs – all great first steps, but after 6 years of ‘first good steps’, you realised you were just jogging on the spot! We were promised transformative, what we got was less left wing than the British Tory Party! Labour are over run by the Professional Managerial Class, they see the solution is better bureaucratic structures rather than an upgrade of the Capacity of the State and so spent 6 years recreating bureaucratic structures without the necessary upgrade of capacity. Labour refused to explain what the hell 3 Waters or Co-governance meant because Jacinda hated conflict (her Cabinet meetings were nicknamed ‘The Good Ship Lollypop’ because she wouldn’t tolerate any negativity) and wouldn’t engage on co-governance or 3 Waters which allowed astroturf dark money to take over the debate and manufacture it into an existential race issue. Fundamentally Labour needed to tax the rich to pay for the social infrastructure we needed, but because Labour at heart are intellectual cowards, they refused to engage in that, which left voters asking, ‘why bother voting for Labour’.
Why indeed.
WORKERS:
WINNERS:
Property speculators:
Privatisation agenda:
Alongside the Real Estate Pimps, every consultant wanting less regulation and more juicy public private contracts are rejoicing at this win. We can already see anyone who donated to National are now in a conga line for a tsunami of crony capitalism the likes of which we’ve never seen before.
…National’s conflicts of interest are about to make all Labour’s collective sins look like child’s play. We will yearn for the day Stuart Nash sent Cabinet briefings as the highest point of ethical standards in comparison.
Boomers with untaxed capital gains:
Settler NuZilind
The Conspiracy Swamp Kingdom
FINAL WORD:
Ultimately the biggest losers are New Zealand. NONE of ACT’s, Nationals or NZ First policy will provide well thought out consequences.
This wasn’t an election, it was a grudge fuck!
With a 78.4% turnout, so it was lower than 2017 when Labour barely won.
That’s over a million who could have voted but didn’t.
That’s a heavy rejection of the options presented.
An embittered and angry electorate wanted to hurt Labour and voted accordingly, Labour didn’t help by being hopelessly incompetent. The poorest amongst us will fund a tax cut to rich landlords while the most vulnerable from beneficiaries, state house tenants, prisoners, drug addicts, the working classes and the disabled are all going to face insufferable and punitive sanctions.
A National/ACT/NZ First Government will only serve to compound counter productive policy that will deform, punish and mutate those stereotypes the Right despise and used to whip up the worst angels of our nature.
We are a poorer people for this change.
The Left needs a good hard long look at themselves.
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A dreadful year ending on a bright note with the removal of the worst government in our history Labour.
Bob the Cock. You’re that little bit of sick that comes up at inopportune moments. You linger in the craw like a stale fish finger. You’re the fucking mold on the bread you thought might still have a day left but oh no, there you are. You’re worse than a cunt. Even a complete one. You’re a fucking dumb cunt. You’re the dumb trumpet in a one toot band. You squeak and wheeze and spurt dull grey brain jizz but worse, you’re fucking dumb but you’re also boring. It’s fucks like you who stall the revolutionary process. You drag back and hold down. You’re like fish hooks and sellotape stirred into glue and flung about to cloak every creative and focused mechanism of necessary and vital change. You’re society’s hand brake. Just fuck off will ya!
There’s nothing bright at all about the ending Bob. Cost of living crisis and these f’wits are changing the names of ministries. After a few months people will realise that’s all they have. A bunch of climate change deniers with the tin foil brigade in tow. How very Trump. We just went from bad to worse
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ele-group-collapse-concerns-hundreds-more-workers-at-risk-review-of-labour-hire-called-for/EA3QSDOYIFGC7IGXP72YYQJRCQ/
Not such a bright note for these workers, just another sign of what happens when a dreadful right wing government is voted in…
National did it.
Sorry Bob. The worst government in NZ history would be National under Muldoon.
Yes a close run thing I agree.
Look on the bright side @Bob. You could become the next Air NZ CEO. Maybe rebrand and introduce some new uniforms using that pyjama material
Bob the something. How can you possibly take a pollie, a PM, seriously, who photographs the whanau in pyjamas for a hugely symbolic western global occasion, then okays gonging a hooligan like Mallard. The power mongers are mocking all of us, and that includes you. Just you wait and see.
Jacinda Ardern used to go live on television wearing her pajamas?
Why do you continue to make demonstrably false claims on here Bob? Surely it must be tiresome to be this wrong all the time?
A good all round summary of Bob the cock/something.
Actually P-man I love it.
And still you remain as thick as fuck and that you still haven’t got the message, no one likes you Bob the cock and not only that, you are irrelevant.
Bob, you love being wrong all the time, or making false claims?
I just love the attention you give me it lights up my day so please keep it up.
And loving it Wheel.
Winston Peters is a complete wanker. He had a go at the media because they exposed him for bullshitter that he is.
As for Bananas in Pyjamas Luxon, that photo is hugely symbolic. Standing in front of a screen with a fake fire. He’s all about illusion. All the smoke and mirrors to mask that he really represents a fraction of the population.
Yep read this.
It will make you sick.
https://www.tophamguerin.com/work/the-digital-campaign-that-rewrote-nzs-political-playbook?
Lovely family photo.
When wokies are let loss to do as they please, away from the influence of men. They have not come up with a cornucopia of great inventions and discoveries. Instead, they have aborted humdreds of thousands of infants and tens of millions world wide. Blame all there problems on men. Voted extreme leftists into parliament. Become excessively promiscuous. Gotten worthless varsity degrees and demand equally worthless made up jobs. They believe that wealth falls like golden eggs from heaven. They believe marriage is temporary and destroyed children’s lives through easy divorce and single parenthood and rationalised every bit of it.
your incel projection is showing
That’s cope. By the time woman hit the wall (35 years old when they enter into whats called Geriatric pregnancy) they realise that being a hoe was a big mistake. Guys don’t want to marry sluts. Why would any guy want to risk poverty just to watch a woman take there kids and manipulate children against men you’ve got to make more sense dr. doom.
Labour Did It!!
They blew a majority government and funded the NACTNZF political parties in 2023 with the main beneficaries of Robos $100b Bazooka! Good fuck’n job!! Add to that the 24% muddle class who pig’d out on that and went and bought houses that they cant afford to keep or sell with the mortgage worth more than the property!!
Good fuck’n job!
In the words of Ayn Rand, Jamie Dimon, Larry Fink and other Wall Street Bwankers. ‘You get what you pay for!’
2024-2026 is when the world will blow up with global war(s) & the wokeratti will get a good reaming.
Good fuckn job!
@ Den. You’re a fucking idiot. In you, I thought there was a little hope but you’re just as fucking idiotic as the loony liar cadre of neo-liberal criminals currently swinging their little dicks ll over us. Just fuck off!
I’m confident we won’t have hyperinflation. We are heading toward stagflation. High unemployment, inflation, cpi and low growth. I think we’re there. Real unemployment 11.2%, Inflation 5.6% & CPI 6% and we’re in the 3rd quarter
What a nasty chap that countryboy is.
What a dick head that Bob is.
Well said Den.
I wouldn’t worry Martyn, because 2024 will be the end of the Western Neoliberal Financial system which NZ is now hyperdriven into with the Election of the Right Wing, Boomer Govt? Why do I say this? Because America & the EU are about to seize Russia’s Sovereign Wealth Funds of $300 Billion in February 2024, a illegal theft which is forbidden under International Law! When that happens, it will send shockwaves to every Country in the World & send the message that their Dollar based funds are not safe in the West, that the US can just steal your funds whenever it wants? The result is West that can’t be trusted & once you lose this trust it’s gone forever, you can’t put the genie back in the bottle, which will result in a Tsunami of Capital flight out of USD dominated securities in the Trillions to other safe havens & signal the end of the USD as the World’s Reserve Currency! This one act will split the World’s Financial system in two & NZ will go into Financial collapse along with its Western Allies! It’s already started & God help us because the moronic National Party will be in charge when this Financial crisis hits & they aren’t good Economic managers or good at managing us thru a crisis because they are incompetent so we are going down with the rest of the West! 2024 will be the Year of the Black swan event that ends the US Empire & it’s Lapdog lackeys like NZ!
Let’s hope the Western World leaders read your piece and change their monetary policy. I sure you will be richly reward for your insight.
Happy 2024
That’s so stupid Antforce62.
Very intelligent Antforce62, particularly when Bob the something disagrees with silly little one liners.
NSC you are funny.
As are you Bob but not in a humorous kinda way.
300 billion? That wouldn’t even fund the AUKAS deal.
Labour Government could spend that in an afternoon.
No wonder infrastructure spending blows out all the time. You don’t pay upfront costs you got to do it on stages or developers just drag it out.
Martyn – Sir Trevor Mallard?? Check the New Year’s Honours…99% of the Honours are great…
The Israel lobby, also known as the Zionist lobby, are individuals and groups seeking to influence the United States government to better serve Israel’s interests. The largest pro-Israel lobbying group is Christians United for Israel with over seven million members.[1] The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is a leading organization within the lobby, speaking on behalf of a coalition of pro-Israel American Jewish groups.
see why Israel can kill innocent children with American taxpayer at
https://www.tiktok.com/@ocats5/video/7307690018770799877?lang=en&q=why%20dont%20Americans%20knowl%20what%20you%20have%20seen%20&t=1701880206555
See how innocent children are killed by the most poufel American arms at
Al Jazeera English Live
at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCNeDWCI0vo
if you do not do something then you do not have a HART
Q:”There must be some kind of way outta here
Said the joker to the thief”. (~ Bob Dylan)
To answer one song lyric with another………..
A: “Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
Do you know that you can use it?” (~ The Clash)
Remember: 400,000 unionised workers in Aoteoroa. 10,000 cops to defend Cluxon & the establishment parasites.
The rort only persists because WE let it.
Go here. Look at this, the first image ? LOOK AT IT! A crying mother holding a bloodless little hand.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2023/dec/29/mesmerising-magritte-and-chilly-macaques-photos-of-the-day-friday
That’s our future. The scum who’ve dragged us down to steal our money to build their fortunes are already planning The End Days.
They’ve destroyed our farmers, they’ve killed our futures, they’ve slaughtered our hope. Now, they’ll be coming after our turangawaewae and they’ll walk over our bloodless corpses to get it.
Thanks National and your loafer parasites. Well done. Good job.
Bully boy Mallard getting a knighthood is a shocking start to the New Year. It debases those who may have actually deserved public recognition. Gives the royal seal of approval to men behaving badly.
Totally agree Hollyhock it’s a disgrace.
Put forward by the Labour Government.
Reinstated by the Key government
Yep the moment Key was knighted for physical abuse of a young lady was the day they should have done away with honours, actually the day before he was knighted.
Ahh, that was done when Key was knighted for his ponytail fettish.
Blame the Boomers, so easy to demonize a sector of society. The idea that if born between 1945 to 1964, determines your personality and political beliefs are deemed to be self, greedy and vote solely on what’s in it for them, is simply propaganda. From what I’ve seen in society the younger generations seem to be more me me me and long live the independent person.
Sadly I’m predicting more suicides by way of the new government, of which will be the worst government in our history since the Key years.
Gosh what a jumble of words that is.
Bob the no one acting pathetic NASC
Well said Antforce62!
Congrats to my landlady for her award. Unlike Bob the first she is an achiever, quiet and of the highest integrity. Never ever have I seen her on this site promoting herself. Bob could learn a thing on humility. Yet given his self adulation, there is never a chance of that happening.
Most Landlords are successful people bert thank you for acknowledging that.
Thank you for acknowledging and confirming my summation of you. Neither was your reply one of humility or understanding of what success looks like young rob.
Summary from the Left:
“The Election didn’t go our way so it wasn’t an election. Had we won, then it would have been a fair election.”
PATHETIC!!!
The Labour Party and Donald Trump have a lot in common Jonzie.
Summary from the right:
“this election wasn’t won, it was bought!”
MHK acting pathetic Jonzie.
Jonzie if Bob has your back you should be very worried as he is a complete loser.
Been quite successful actually.
What is pathetic is that people like Bob support Nationals policy of increasing the countries road speeds which resulted in so many people losing their loved ones over Christmas. The blood is on your hands pathetic Bob.
You are an embarrassment.
MHK happy new year and many thanks for the attention you afford me,please keep it up through 2024.
Thank you for your continued correspondence in affording me affirmation of your embarrassing delusions. It’s pleasing to know there are reasons behind your stupidity. Keep up the stupidity, you are truly TDBs number 1 idiot.
Thanks MHK much appreciated.
And loving it.
And yet you are to thick to see the irony in your post in continually replying to me.
watch this and see how the right won the 18 to 34 year age group vote.
It will make you weep.
This is what the left is up against.
https://www.tophamguerin.com/work/the-digital-campaign-that-rewrote-nzs-political-playbook?
wow. Trevor Mallard knighted. Politicians giving each other knighthoods is always nauseating (Sir John Key? Fuck off) but this seems a particular low.
“Lest we Forget ”
Ruthless Empire
When we give people something for nothing some things have no value.
What Left?
You’re not just asking what left. You are saying that New Zealand’s history ends here. That the only solution is the least evil thing to do. That there are no other alternatives to that of neoliberalism. And because governments spending and large bureaucracy is bad we can not do nothing about anything. That there are no solutions except for minimising taxes and budget cuts and for the most part it’s true. New Zealand is fucked while the current government posts feel good pictures online displaying there opulence. Like do some fucken work before you start resting.
Well I’m a boomer, born right in the middle, 1956, but if your definition is right then I’m decidedly atypical. In fact, if your definition is right, then I’m anti-boomer. And not just me. Probably, three quarters of my family, friends and acquaintances. Actually, I think your definition of boomers is so wrong, it’s arrant nonsense. Fully two thirds of boomers got shafted by the ACT governments of Lange and Bolger, so don’t you fucking dare lump us in with the other wankers. As far as climate change goes, who the fuck do you think educated and turned out the active millennials? We left wing boomers have been fighting the fight for decades before you johnny come latelies arrived. Now we’ve passed the torch, so less of the insulting generalisations, yeah? We know better than you do, that the planet has until 2030 to get CO2 emissions eliminated, before methane from the melting tundra pushes the mean temp above 3 degrees. If it does, then bye-bye civilization.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/301023462/25yearold-with-cancer-faces-move-overseas-in-bid-to-extend-his-life
I’m surprised this man is having to head overseas, didn’t Reti say he was going to fix the situation around funding cancer treatments. Surely Reti wasn’t lying?