Wow.
Paul Goldsmith’s performance on Q+A today came across as a bit much didn’t it?
Goldsmith comes across like a your average sadist on amphetamines this morning and it felt all a bit gross.
His ugly support of his bullshit crime rhetoric is sick because all he is really doing is feeding his redneck cracker electorate who want a public lynching.
National want you focused on tough on crime bullshit to distract from the cost of living crisis and believe they can do that with a range of crime virtue signals to an angry and reactionary electorate without explaining how these new crime laws will actually work because:
1 – We already have laws against assaulting First Responders.
2 – They can’t tell us how many Coward Punches occur each year.
3 – The Vigilante Shoplifting Law by Paul ‘Mad Max’ Goldsmith will lead to a Vigilante wonderland where you can GET YOUR BASH ON!
The problem is that we have a mainstream media who drench crime porn clickbait which emotionally fires us up and we have this perpetual anger that turns poisonous inside us and turns us into a Lynch mob on law and order.
My fear is that angry cracker rednecks are salivating at the chance to use the new Vigilante Shoplifting Law so they can go full turkey on some poor brown kids in the supermarket.
We are beyond being rational thanks to social media hate algorithms that are driving All Tribe No Village polarised politics now.
Goldsmith’s sadism hides behind a mask of Epsom respectability.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a large number of children’s shoes are found under his house with empty Amyl bottles.
He is the worst political punishment freak and he seems to really like it.
A lot.
Like too much.
Waaaay too much!
His bullshit position on Māori ceding sovereignty is a fucking joke, he may as well be a member of Hobson’s Pledge.
NO ONE IS SAYING THE CROWN ISN’T SOVEREIGN! WE ARE SAYING MAORI DIDN’T CEED SOVEREIGNTY!
Maiki was hopeless as a host.
She didn’t even bring up Paul ‘Mad Max’ Goldmsith’s new ‘Vigilante Nation’ GET YOUT NASH ON! (trademark pending).
According to Maiki, it’s almost as if Paul hasn’t ‘t just pushed for not only store owners but bystanders to be able to physically attack suspected shoplifters.
Paul has empowered every ZB Dad, Redneck Cracker and Culture War Boomer to start attacking suspected shoplifters and Maiki doesn’t really think that’s worth challenging.
Bring back Jack!
This wasn’t Fourth Estate accountability, it was a propaganda session for the Government.
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Martyn, no one comes across well on Q&A whether it’s Swarbrick or Goldsmith. I don’t know why you bother watching it. It’s on Sunday morning for a reason.
He’s to be pitied. His name forms first impressions and has implacably bent his being. Another is Richwhite. The fact that they can cope with those names and keep them is an indication of how strongly they influence their possessors. Now people with the surname of Death I understand tend to alter it slightly to lessen that influence and spell it D’Ath. I can’t see a suitable condensation for the other names, perhaps just revert to Smith and Brown would enable them to realise their humanity more profoundly.
Pee Goldshower would suit
God, he’s hideous. A fertile little fascist with Korean taekwondo training.
It was an interesting thing I found when I was training in Whu Shu about a million years ago. Right wingers were really fragile little things. They’d go out onto the mats full of brimstone but the moment they new they’d get their arses kicked, literally, they’d flake out and lose their focus. They’d just run out of puff both literally and metaphorically. The Right wing’s like that generally. So long as things are going their way everything’s cool but the moment the pressure comes on they flake out. It’s as though they have no substance to their existence. Is that why luxon was quoted as saying he fakes it until he makes it. Surely then that means while that while he might have ‘made it’ he’s still a fake.
That’s the thing with the vile coalition. luxon, seymour and peters are all flakes. Weak, sneaky, flakes.
He’s not very bright.
Fuck me no wonder they pulled him from Epsom!
” This wasn’t Fourth Estate accountability, it was a propaganda session for the Government ”
I have been saying the same thing for years. Its all about getting the soundbite for the 6PM propaganda bulletin and TVNZ online content.
Tonight it will either be this interview or a story about the All Blacks that will fill the first 12 minutes.
Fourth estate accountability never really existed in the first place.
I’m normally in church on Sunday morning but saw Q+A this morning.
Goldsmith said that there was a disagreement between the Crown and Maori over whether sovereignty was ceded in 1840.
I think sovereignty was ceded otherwise how could the British give Maori the same rights as British subjects without exercising sovereignty
Also why would Maori fight in wars alongside the colonisers?
So the laws around fraud are what I am interested in. Billions of dollars worth that we miss out on in taxes every single year. Aaaaah but many of them are his mates living in Epsom.
Goldstein’s like an 80s version of AI.
No charisma, no brains, no personality and a few wires plugged in the wrong socket.
But all credit to him, he knows that’s what his audience wants.
Poor, um, Paul. His, ah, mouth, um stumbles to, ah, keep up, ah, with his, um, nonsequitor, and ,ah, jumbled messages, from, his, um, right-leaning lobe in, ah, his, er, cerebral, um, matter.
Is he really the best they can come up with as Justice Minister and Minister for Treaty Negotiations?
Spare us if it is – which looks to be highly likely when we see the government’s front, second and third benches.!
This discombobulated rabble have to go. 2026 cannot come soon enough.
Yep
Goldsmith has been instructed to promote violence against brown people all the while blocking Treaty payouts because that would mean Willis would look even worse than she is .If they had to pay out a billion where would she get that money from because she has already used the money allocated for tax cuts for land lords and tobacco industry .
And the right calls the Greens looney what does that make Goldsmith, loopy