Deconstructing Headlines

If only we could put in as much effort  lifting children out of poverty as we do on middle class tax breaks for electric cars, a billion dollar bike lane and hate speech legislation.

I think one of the darker cultural values that we have as a people is negative egalitarianism, the ‘so you think you are smarter than me’ mentality that is deeply rooted in our collective psyche.

A Police State starts with the promise of security.

This constant need to purge art for the grim joyless woke utopia continues with all the nuance of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

I appreciate you all think you are gaining the power to smite the dirty racists, the dirty misogynists and the dirty transphobes with this hate speech power.

…I had felt very confident of Labour + Green winning the 2023 election, but the growing list of policy delivery failures in housing, mental health and infrastructure alongside knee jerks like the bike bridge alongside alienating cancel culture hate speech madness opens the door to National + ACT + NZ First = 51%.

There are two interesting issues with Muller announcing his retirement 2 years from the next election for leaking.

…I’ve only been pointing this out for 2 years.

The extraordinary ruling by the High Court that has forced the Palmerston North City Council into allowing a Feminist group (Stand Up For Women) to meet and discuss the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill is as brutal as lemon juice on a schism paper cut.

You’ve seen the woke, you’ve seen the glee with which they cancel anyone who disagrees with them – do we really want them gaining the power to criminalize disagreement?