Normally we wouldn’t have to ask this, but seeing as the NZ Right are just taking feral Republican culture war talking points whenever they can, and we see how McKee is attempting to bring guns into NZ, we’ve seen this Government agree to America’s latest war, so we now need to ask, seeing as Simeon Brown, our new Minister of Health, was president of anti-abortion group, ProLife Auckland, will evangelical Luxon guarantee no MAGA Abortion laws?
We require a clear statement from the Prime Minister that our abortion laws are sacrosanct and our new ProLife Health Minister won’t attempt to bring extreme MAGA Abortion tactics into New Zealand.
We really do require that.
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…This just keeps getting worser and worser…ugh
How on earth did we end up with these extreme weirdos in power …not only weird but absolutely useless at their job…
Brown got in talking about potholes and roadcones…
potholes caused by National…
Joyces underfunding of essential infrastructure ..ie.. roads…
combined with a dramatic increase in the number and size of trucks on the road because they have a pathological hatred of rail..
Brown got in rubbishing the results of the decisions made by his own party….now he’s New Zealand’s Minister of Health with no experience whatsoever…
Make no mistake …we are screwed..
Early election coming up…
All opposition parties need to be ready to govern within the next 8 months.
The potholes were caused by Labour letting our refinery (built under Muldoon, the last PM with a sensible economic policy, wih our money) be destroyed, which means we barely have fuel supplies for the next few weeks at any time and we can’t get bitumen that won’t fall apart instantly.
https://voted.nz/people/reti-shane/
What a load of hogwash…
I see you’ve not talked to anyone involved in road engineering in the past few years. Or do you work for ‘Z Energy’, the company that (as majority shareholder in Refining NZ) shut down the Marsden Point refinery, and then skimmed so many tens of millions of dollars off the top selling garbage Indonesian bitumen that NZTA cut them out of the supply contracts?
I think the point is that most eco friendly infrastructure saving and life saving form of transport is rail..but the petrol lobbies have the government’s balls in a firm grip…it’s literally inferred in the article
“How on earth did we end up with these extreme weirdos in power …not only weird but absolutely useless at their job…
Because Hipkins and Labour were the alternative choice.
Joke of the year…
Ada. Pre-election, the Nats were being deliberately vague re policy. A Nat candidate I spoke with about damaging and prematurely sexualising school children with transgender ideology, said so, he but said that they were ‘ on top of it ‘ etc. Peters for whom I voted because of this issue, was the only high calibre candidate to address it, but the MSM boycotted his meetings, while also failing to call out National for being so nebulous.
Well Snow White you are now in very good company with Trump. Here’s to many many more children and young adults living in the closet because your world just like Trumps is so black and white.
We need more pro-life people in our government. Our country has been blessed to have Luxon leading us, as he has been given a God given mission to ban abortion. With the help of the National Party, he must introduce sweeping laws to convict anyone performing abortions and sentence them to death by hanging!
Did you miss reading the parts of the NT where Jesus tells his followers to love their enemies, it’s in Mt 5:44, Lu 6:27, 35 as well as many other examples of God’s compassion and mercy throughout scripture. All sin is condemned which includes lies, worshiping idols, false gods etc so since your comment is false you are under the same condemnation that you make against the doctors.
Is that the same bible that’s found in the ‘Fantasy & Science Fiction’ section of book shops now, next to the Koran and Talmud Bonnie?
If you shop at budget book shops who cares what section they put books in. I know that the bible tells us all we need to know regarding current events and your consistent record of being wrong about almost everything you claim means that your comment has no credibility anyway.
No that’s the Bible in Trumps bookcase where you can grab em by the pussy and set criminals free, that book.
That’s the problem, it’s in his bookcase and not in his heart. Martyn can find plenty of texts that show that Christians should be the nicest people on Earth so the actions of many bible thumpers who are completely evil is not evidence for anything. Jn 16:2 even tells us that those persecuting God’s people will claim that they are serving God, the dark ages is an obvious illustration and they are coming back so you need to have more than a superficial knowledge of what scripture says if you don’t want to be deceived.
Usually I agree with your comments so I can handle a bit of disagreement especially when as you point out most of those who claim to be Christian are evil in some regard, unfortunately those who deny God also range from nice to evil as well. By their fruits you will know them is the easiest way to see what people are like.
Hanging….ohhh I don’t think so Zelda, thrown off tall buildings maybe along with the gays, save money by dbl executions.
Public beheadings could be in the mix, unsure where they could be held to accommodate the large audience who would turn up to enjoy the spectacle.
My choice would be sport stadiums, natural amphitheatres and clear viewing.
Make it so Zelda, you know the right people to make this happen.
I’m right. Must you give them ideas? They could charge for watching public executions, and would.be selling blood from beheadings as well for making black puddings, or to hospitals to subsidise the burgeoning health costs, and see the whole thing as a new income stream. This is when politicians can get carried away.
With Brown letting cars speed past schools now, there could be more injured kiddies needing that blood. Better just toss them into the harbour at night. Bodies thrown off buildings might hit innocent insomniacs, or Chris Bishop’s hungry old dad wandering around looking for sausage rolls, or encourage rats, and there’s enough of them in Parliament. Compulsory vasectomies for all males would also do the trick. Or ban men.
Zelda, Why not hang the bastards who provide the cause for abortions in the first place ? Preferably by the balls ?
Well Zelda it looks like that sexual misogynistic president is on your side no abortion,no transexual people, next step homosexuality will be illegal again
About bloody time eh? @ This is my Government…the sexual minority can all get on with their life without shoving it down everyone’s elses throats. (the straight majority)
Marvellous
So you’re androgynous with no sexuality . Amongst your so called straight majority are many many people hiding in the closet because they simply can’t face people just like you
So if a hideous drug addicted alcoholic psychopath, with serious violence issues, beat up and raped your beautiful innocent 16 year old daughter, resulting in pregnancy, she should be forced to have the baby and lovingly look after it for the rest of her life?…
Her life , through no fault of her own, would be fucked…wtf are you on?..
This is the impractical ideological idiocy that Luxon, Simeon Brown and a handful of others, by the looks of it, believe in…
This gives a clear example of the warped mindset of the type of zealots currently running the country. ..
How on earth was this allowed to happen?
They need to be gone!
This scenario is ridiculous. This is something that nobody would suggest is going to happen. Stop straw manning, do better.
Dear Zelda
You begin your comment “We need more pro-life people in our government” and end with “sentence them to death by hanging!”
Well, well, well.
Christopher Luxon is not pro-life. He approves of children in Gaza being blown to pieces by the most intense mass aerial bombing campaign known to inhuman history. That includes Christian children. So what kind of Christian can Christopher Luxon be? If God gave him a mission to ban abortion, then God is going to be disappointed because Luxon will only do those things that he thinks will help to make him more wealthy and sorted. Banning abortion is not on that list.
Geoff – sociopaths like Zelda the Zealot are driven to tell people what to do with their bodies and lives – logical fallacies are beyond their meek understanding of reason
MAGA troll Zelda
We’ll be lucky. Clear statements are not Luxy’s forte.
He’ll say, ‘What I can tell you is….’ and then he’ll tell us nothing, as usual.
Oh you’re a hard woman, Joy. For two consecutive Christmases the guy has pranced around the place getting himself photographed in pyjamas, and those were consistent sort of statements.
Photos with a disturbing ‘Ted Cruz staffing issue’ vibe…
When I saw this picture I wanted to spew. I still do
Yes, this is the political caption pic for the day too. I said I felt that if these boys really respected Brown, they’d have tucked their shirts in and stood up straight. They think he’s a joke, as we all do.
However, the joke will be on us if he carries out maga policies. People need to be ready to protest and vote this year.
I hope some of these kids see this pic and read the comments.
NZ women need protecting from them.
Joy, There’s a good chance that one or two of their mothers may have a word to say about this. Unfortunately, though, Brown isn’t a joke, zealots rarely are.
Pee Wee Brown, as someone who wants to restrict women’s reproductive rights on a religious nutter basis should not be allowed near the health portfolio.
Correct, but whoever inflicted PM Luxon upon New Zealand has to be a sociopath who hates us all.
The Nats caucus is stuffed with feminists and social liberals. Any leader of the Nats who tried to roll back abortion laws would be gone by lunchtime.
Correct. Most of them know they’d have been aborted had it been legal, but on the other hand, the minor parties are living advertisements for abortion, and NZ First and Labour, the most normal.
Where are they? They should roll this lot of sociopaths off the front benches and stand up for the party they could be.