The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday – 7th June 2020
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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A good round up of the news ,,,, where it gets so grim it gets funny.
And everyone gets to learn something ,,,, “How To Cover These Police Riots – SOME MORE NEWS”
https://youtu.be/iGxfNl9C6CQ
This is such deceptive title compared to the actual text of the Vance interview with Shaw!
“While NZ First will position themselves as a ‘handbrake’ on radical reform, the Greens election campaign will centre on pushing the Government to go “further and faster”.
“There are things that we could have done in the last two-and-a-half years that we have been prevented from doing together,” Shaw says. “If I have a frustration with Labour, it’s that they could have spent more political capital than they have”.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/121694108/portrait-of-green-leader-james-shaw-labour-wasted-its-political-capital
But the main thing I got from the article was the reminder of the pro-lifer nutter who fractured Shaw’s eyesocket last year. It was the day before the Christchurch shootings, so had slipped my mind. That was a bit of a surprise because it had been the female GP MPs getting the death threats.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/111305387/james-shaw-back-on-deck-sporting-black-eye-following-alleged-assault
His response at the time was very; “keep calm and carry on”, but there is a bit in the Vance interview that reads a bit like a description of PTSD triggered by similar body language:
“Over his shoulder, there was a guy who was acting quite erratically. [Dave] asked me a question, and God knows what it was. I couldn’t form a coherent sentence.”