The Daily Blog Open Mic – 8th January 2025

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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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9 COMMENTS

  1. What on earth is RNZ doing pushing Amanda Luxon as New Zealand’s “First Lady ? “ King Charles is our Head of State, so legally our First Lady is the Queen Consort, not Luxon’s wife. The USA’s president’s spouse is First Lady, because in her case, her husband is the head of state. Mrs Luxon is the PM’s wife who accompanies her husband and supports him as good wives do, but being dubbed First Lady like a president’s wife is new territory.

    Amanda charges $100+ bucks for afternoon teas to fund raise in her hubby’s interests, but money raised by First Lady the Queen Consort is above politics, and it is used for charitable purposes.

    Amanda dancing in the kitchen also suggests a National Party disconnect. Yep, Meghan Markle dances around in the kitchen too, but more than ever, New Zealand mums have to work quite hard in their kitchens with the budgetary challenges of high food prices plus frequently holding down an outside job as well, and too knackered after a hard day’s work to be hugely inclined towards dancing.

    • Sounds like RNZ at the top, are becoming similar quislings as we have in other important positions for our little state. Bow and scrape you little minded people – worship the money and don’t hold back from kissing the ring of who is at the top and you might one day be able to be in the presence of one of the owners of the world and receive largesse from them if they find a use for you.

      • Greywarbler. I ‘ve only read the headlines, but I see that Luxon and wife also enjoy dancing together – great – great – and that she says that he’s a good dancer.

        Well, she would, wouldn’t she, but how and why RNZ thinks that this sort of info warrants broadcasting to the hoi polloi is decidedly odd, but if Chris the Luxon and his dancing queen ( with apologies to wonderful ABBA) are waltzing us to the end of time, the they should just speak for themselves, and waltz right off the planet.

        If ever anything showed a tenuous grasp on reality, a rich man’s wife warbling about dancing certainly does when that man – whatever a man is – is a Prime Minister imposing austerity on the people who employ him, and RNZ are a waste of airwaves and of my hard-earned taxpayer funds.

        Of course, this may be non-subliminal political advertising and RNZ may be dumb enough to think that hordes of people will be salivating to vote National now because of their ham-fisted meanderings. Happy New Year, to you.

  2. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/538488/repairs-underway-after-digger-damages-fibre-cable-leaving-thousands-in-northland-without-internet

    Northland! It suffered from a tragic occurrence before- supposed to be connected with Judith Collins and illegal trade in valuable rare fossilised wood. Somewhere, somehow a digger cut a pipeline taking aircraft fuel to Auckland from Whangarei. However gummint doesn”t have the likelihood of that recurring – they sold the company!

    …A Spark spokeswoman said the damaged fibre-optic cable contained a mixture of Spark and Chorus cables, leading to broadband outages across multiple providers.
    She said Chorus technicians were on site and making progress on repairs. As of 6pm one of the damaged cables had been repaired.

    The spokeswoman said broadband customers could make use of Spark’s outage assist service, which offered free mobile data while fibre connections were down.
    A Northpower spokesperson said the cable supplied broadband to all customers in Dargaville, Ruawai, Paparoa and Maungaturoto.

    More than 2070 customers were affected, with many businesses forced to close or switch to cash-only transactions.
    Northpower said the damage was caused by a digger pulling up the main fibre cable.
    [Whose digger, who or what is responsible? The Grinch who stole Christmas? And why were positioning diagrams not available to the presiding engineer? and machine driver?? And who or what is going to pay damages to people and businesses whose lives have been disrupted, and how soon and how much?]

    Dargaville resident Rose Dixon said there were huge queues at the town’s supermarket because Eftpos was down and customers without sufficient cash had to fill in credit notes instead….

  3. Greywarbler “ … if they find a use for you” The thought of that fatty baldy using Johan Sebastian Strauss to dance to makes me want to puke. Strauss, who uplifted ordinary people, would be aghast to be used by a self-loving vulgarian who calls folk bottom-feeders and boasts of his wealth.

    Ironically, Donald dancing YMCA imparts a message much more realistic than Christopher ever can.

    • Gentle Annie – Don’t go all purist – even creeps should try to appreciate the arts and elements of the finer aspects of other people’s brains. Just think how awful it would be if men weren’t allowed by culture to play music and dance. How would we ever get together? And that we must do in better ways than now eh. They produce such great music and art. There is hope for us all yet if we can work things out and put value on such, and relegate mere money to advanced milk tokens exchange for service or goods or just goodness.

  4. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/538498/new-zealand-still-considering-sharing-criminal-offending-info-with-five-eyes-nations

    What Five Eyes governments might tell other countries about their citizens
    New Zealand World
    16 minutes ago

    They already work together on broad issues, but may even share details of their citizens’ criminal offending.
    Related

    ‘Minors can pose the same credible terrorist threat as adults’ – Five Eyes joint report
    NZ in talks on what data it will share with partners about criminals – including NZers

    And so it goes.

  5. Ok, but Donald Trump using splendid YMCA has been hugely successful, and my politically-cynical side wonders if Christopher is cashing in on this, but using waltzing to appear a little less oafish than he sometimes seems to be.

    “Men not allowed by culture to dance” ? Well… they do burst into haka pretty regularly, and not necessarily out of goodness, and Parliamentary viewers are now treated to song and dance acts, but only from one culture with no Morris dancing, or clog dancers, or highland flings which are also part of our rich cultural heritage. I’d not be averse to a Dying Swan being performed in Parliament though…

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