Deconstructing Headlines

Much has been written in scorn of the Greens somehow losing their moral and ethical compass in supporting the waka jumping legislation.

I am not one of them.

It’s been an interesting conference and I think some of the surface headlines suggest deeper moves we aren’t picking up on.

Charter Schools always seemed to be a solution searching for a problem.

The Woke Left would protest the Vagina Monologues for not being sensitive enough to women without vaginas. It’s like a Spinoff TV dinner party where Simon Wilson has just finished a 5 hour powerpoint presentation on the importance of cycle lanes while you’re stuck between Lizzie Marvelly and Toby Manhire arguing over who hates men most and who can firebomb the Pop-Up Globe fastest. You can’t get to a democratic majority of 51% if people suspect you want to legislate infant girls being gifted anything pink as a hate crime.

We got trolled by two right wing Trolls and the very foundations of our liberal progressive democracy shuddered.

Trust the National Party to take all the fun out of cannabis – what’s their encore? Orgasm free masturbation?

Cannabis reform, welfare culture reform and climate change – if this is the best Labour and the Greens can muster to central issues of the Left, they need to be replaced because this crap is window dressing, it isn’t leadership.  

Rather than punish the user, go after the bloody industry. Consistently raising the price so the end user is forced to get more and more desperate to feed their addiction is not a solution. Create a vice tax that goes on the profit margin of the tobacco company. Put the pressure on the corporation to pay more of their profits rather than endlessly punish the end user.

Winston will hope this inquiry wraps up quickly before Simon realises the talkback gold he’s been gifted.