Let me see if I can get this completely fucking straight – despite almost 500 days to prepare and hundreds of millions pumped into our health sector we still have fuck all ICU beds than when we entered this Covid emergency???
There we all were, lounging around in Fortress Aotearoa like there wasn’t a global pandemic happening. Cruising the Shire without fully vaccinated border staff, refusal to build larger MIQ facilities and a devil may care approach to ICU beds propped up by a dangerously underfunded public health system.
What could possibly go wrong?
It is extraordinary in the extreme that the identity politics devotees will attempt to ignore the deceit used to remove a Maori child from a white step-family to paint this as a intersectionist power struggle between the heteronormative white cis male patriarchy and post MeToo feminism.
Graham Adams is increasingly becoming a must read Blogger over at the Democracy Project, he often writes well outside the narrative bubble and provides an enormous amount of insight and oversight.
His latest piece on the role of Jacinda’s Mormon upbringing in her semi-religious kindness art installation performances is interesting.
We have an obligation to raise funds to rebuild Afghanistan and take thousands in refugees.
The grief given NZ for putting the people before money by international critics says more about them than it does us.
Nothing sums up late stage capitalism better than watching all our TV current affairs hosts not hosting their shows because their MC corporate side hustles all became places of interest with Delta.
To attempt to intervene in the sacrosanctness of our independent judiciary so racist practices by Oranga Tamariki can be hidden is so disbelievingly outside the norms of our system it’s almost a Donald Trump level molestation of due process.
Why not celebrate the political life of Michael Cullen than with the memorial Cullen Capital Gains Tax?