Political Caption Competition

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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!

42 COMMENTS

      • O’Toole Goodness me. What a foolish man he has turned out to be, and doubtless too big a fool to know what a clodhopping slapper he is. Merry Christmas.

      • Joy, Don’t forget that last year he pretended to be in Te Puke when he was really in Hawaii. That’s not just pathetic, it’s deceitful, and gaslighting the Kiwis who he’s meant to represent. I’m wondering if he has early-onset dementia.

        • Posing for stupid photos like this which I have read, is an American thing, and releasing them in public here, seems really odd doesn’t it? Strange that the wife goes along with it. How undignified.
          Is he ignoring advice? Is he so far gone he thinks it’s funny or makes them look normal?
          It’s really weird. I thought last year’s effort was silly but this shows it wasn’t just a moment of bad judgement.
          Happy to mislead us, thinks he’s being clever. A petty wee man with no sense and no real purpose. Has no portfolio and can’t control his partners.
          Can you imagine Bolger or even Muldoon being this stupid?

  16. How sweet, a cloying image for the portfolio making hay from Christmas goodwill, wearing the special political promotional smiles. Wot me worry?

  18. Thankfully they haven’t culled the pj routine. It has provided some of the best banter for tdb political captions 2024. Disappointed in the dull colours and lack of silkiness this year though.

  20. A modern version of Joseph and Mary and young. Joseph looks a little jaded and bemused – been there and done that!

    • Greywarbler With respect, nope. Joseph was a carpenter, a skilled tradie; Mary spoke lovely poetry, never flogged costly afternoon teas, and Jesus did not look like the happy happy Christian lad here. He was a Jewish revolutionary, come to free people from the oppression of governments like Luxon’s.

    • He’s seriously creepy, God botherer or not, and the four of them in their shorty pj photo look deranged, although we were spared the sight of Amanda’s toned biceps this time. His Christmas video message to New Zealanders was patronising self-satisfied preachy-preachy, and if you haven’t seen it, then don’t. None of us need this at Christmas.

      I don’t know who he thinks he is, but he’d have been better advised to zip it rather than do a disturbing parody of the Queen’s Christmas message with himself as some sort of comic figure come to save the world. I think he is mad. He has to go.

  23. Richard Christie “ Who the hell thinks wearing pyjamas make for great photo shoots ?” Media advisors do, advisors paid for by we the taxpayers.

  24. Pjs with the fam…what a great photo idea…except it is a lame, creepy shot, do the kids have no pride?

  25. But they are clever these pollies and media advisors – they give us pjs to go on about, and take our minds off ferries and huge inordinate cost of buying them, though the wrong size for their working area, and cancelling them to replace with second-hand jalopies when we need reliable hands-on and not tech-driven working ships with reliable captain and crew who know their job and shop thoroughly.

    Maori could manage in waka and with great seriousness. We need today to be serious about this traversing between the islands and do as well as Maori. We are so modern and clever aren’t we. Aren’t we?
    Take note of this about the Wahine disaster: A tropical cyclone sweeping south met a southerly front, producing freak winds of up to 230 kilometres per hour around Cook Strait. As the Wahine tried to enter Wellington Harbour through the narrow passage at the heads, it was blasted by hurricane-force winds. Massive waves over 10 m high pushed the ferry onto the hidden rocks of Barrett’s Reef. Taking in water, the vessel was then blown into the harbour…
    and
    [In the early days of the brave, capable, practical and resigned Maori:] The combination of conflicting currents, variable tides and strong winds can create extreme conditions in the strait. Māori greatly respected these waters. A canoe crossing of the strait was an occasion for ritual designed to ensure survival.
    All those who had never crossed the strait before were blindfolded. Only those
    who had previously crossed used their eyes. They acted as pilots.
    https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/video/cook-straits-dangerous-waters-roadside-stories

    This isn’t the relatively placid mediterranean or equator smooth territory, we are wild, free? and at present unable to cope. Some facts about the sea in particular areas of the world.
    Some of the smallest tidal ranges occur in the Mediterranean, Baltic, and Caribbean Seas. A point within a tidal system where the tidal range is almost zero is called an amphidromic point….
    The world’s largest mean tidal range of 11.7 metres (38.4 feet) occurs in the Bay of Fundy, Canada (more specificially, at Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia).[4][6] The next highest, of 9.75 metres (32.0 feet), is at Ungava Bay, also in Canada,[4][7] and the next, of 9.60 metres (31.5 feet), in the Bristol Channel, between England and Wales….
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_range#Geography

    I include all this as an example of the need for pollies etc to stick to thinking about pyjamas and PR! And let the rest of we citizens get capable people who have greater understanding of the important facts relating to our modern living and trading, and the equipment needed and tasks and skills involved. The role of our parliament and electoral system has become outdated and produces inadequate leaders offering people who have passed exams and organised something successfully using systems set up by others. They are as useful to the nation as children or artists building elaborate sandcastles or sculptures by the seaside; the tide comes in and sweeps them away. In comparative modern times it is technological change that produces great things shortly but then soon competition replaces them with supposedly better.

    (Marx said it – ‘Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation…All that is solid melts into air;’… https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/quotes/index.htm
    Marx and Engels weren’t complete fools were they, after some rethinking!)

    • “But they are clever these pollies and media advisors ”

      So that in the future we can all now envisage them in their pjs every time they try to make a serious statement to the nation.

      Winning strategy that, very clever.

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