I’ve read a lot of ‘100 days of Trump’ stuff and it seems to me that the Left are still unable to admit and accept why Trump won. This matters because if the Left still can’t comprehend how Trump won, then they have little chance of beating this orange deranged revenge fantasist in 4 years time.
This is a fight between two monsters we should all universally despise. There can be no cheering here, just fear and terror at where these monsters are taking us.
The corporate mainstream media can’t understand why educated NZers hate them or why they walked away years ago to the internet for better sources of information to hold the powerful to account. Listening to the way Rod Oram was treated by Fairfax and the way those arrogant pricks had the audacity to hold him up as their evidence of being balanced while they were quality gagging him is the final nail in corporate media’s coffin.
Bill English lecturing the world on the comedic value of John Oliver is like him telling the Italians how to make pizza.
Don’t for one second think that was a gaffe by a Health Minister embarrassed by a damning mental health report, because Health Minister’s don’t gaffe. The specific use of those trigger words have already been poll tested and National know that by writing the criticism off as coming from ‘left wing anti-Government protestors’ that their rump electorate will ignore the urgency of what the report has found.
While blue green hipster wank blog, ‘The Spin-Off ‘, cravenly worshiped the corporate media against the ComCom decision, the best economic columnist in NZ, Rod Oram, has stepped down from Fairfax for ‘editorial differences’ after he wrote a column in support of the Commerce Commission decision to stop Fairfax’s newspaper monopoly…
Duncan couldn’t understand why starting school at 4 was a problem for anyone, here’s why it’s a problem Duncs. The Government wants to lower the age of starting school to 4 so that they can force beneficiaries into work a year younger and they can save on the pre-school costs.
…such a level of support looks like National are importing an electorate. This was always the criticism the Right made of Labour’s support of migration from the Pacific Islands.
…National Party insiders were terrified when they discovered that Lusk and Slater were planning a take over of the National Party using MPs like Mark Mitchell to create a new hard right Government.
It’s lovely watching Labour’s proxies scramble to repair the damage they caused themselves by not talking to their own Maori Caucus about their list appointments even their Chief of Staff is on Twitter trying to tell anyone who would listen that this represents a great step forward for Maori…