The irony of the ‘If-you-have-nothing-to-hide-you-have-nothing-to-fear’ Brigade is that if it was Helen Clark who was ramming mass surveillance spying powers through under urgency and giving the SIS extra powers after helping collude with them to stop John Key getting elected, they would make Trump supporters look moderate.
Long live the Queen!
The funding freeze on Radio NZ because the National Government hate them for asking hard questions is looking more and more dangerous with every passing natural disaster.
No one exploits a disaster quite like John Key. The Government’s economic policy seems to be to wait for a natural disaster to occur and then cut some crony capitalism deal for a rebuild that keeps the GDP as falsely inflated as the property market does.
Seeing as most of our Civil Defence systems seem to be a confused mess of volunteers trying to do the best they can, perhaps we should be seriously considering moving the Capital away from Wellington before we have to?
The new format will be a mix of the Tonight show with the Daily Show – which is going to be an incredible challenge because our standard for political satire is bloody 7 Days. Fart and dick jokes aren’t going to make this show work. The Project in Australia is pretty sophisticated and bloody smart, unfortunately we have a pretty shallow pool to work with in NZ.
Past the earthquake and shock at Trump’s win, last week another disturbing lapse into dirty politics was undertaken again by NZs largest newspaper, the NZ Herald.
Of all the people God could talk to, why would it be a shallow fart like Tamaki? Why isn’t God having conversations with Stephen Hawking, Michelle Obama or the new Pope?
Republicans purged electoral rolls in all the battleground States Trump needed to win. The numbers are damning.
If the Greens could perhaps stop self mutilating the launch of their new candidate and if Labour could possibly stop picking fights with one of NZs most respected TV Journalists, Professor Richard Dawkins is on the phone…