Tauranga Port Covid ticking bomb – politically we should move to level 3 now
The fear was always that Covid gets into NZ via a means that us so gloriously incompetent that the voters turn violently on the Government, that moment looks like now.
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
The fear was always that Covid gets into NZ via a means that us so gloriously incompetent that the voters turn violently on the Government, that moment looks like now.
The grace, skill, determination and mastery of the Games in all its facets is a thing of beauty and allows us to briefly see peaceful human competition and collaboration with no higher horizon than the best is probably us as a species at our greatest.
New Zealanders don’t understand that the representative democracy they interact with once every 3 years is merely a masquerade of democracy, a pretense to keep you voting and giving the process the flimsiest of legitimacies, the real powers are the Wellington bureaucracy and a Party’s success is determined purely by how much they can force the Wellington bureaucracy to actually implement policy.
We need to be kinder to individuals and crueler to Corporations.
Late stage Capitalism never looked so insipid.
This is why the Left needs Winston!
While our Government spends all its political capital on woke overreach legislation like criminalizing free speech, imprisoning Parents for 5years for stopping puberty blockers, announcing climate emergency virtue signals and doing sweet fuck all on the housing crisis and child poverty, the planet is burning.
The submissions closed yesterday, this is my submission to the Ministry of Justice on the Hate Speech proposals.
Criminalizing Christians is one thing, criminalizing parents who stop their teenagers from using puberty blockers by putting them in prison for 5years is another fucking world!
…with Labour we are trying to get Jacinda to live up to her rhetoric on combating global warming, with National we are still trying to get them to admit there it’s even happening.