…Bridges has had to be a dick to get media oxygen and that’s helped National but has burnt him. Over 51% disapprove of the job he’s doing, and remember this poll was taken as false accusations that Jacinda Ardern not only knew about a sexual assault but that she covered it up as well.
I’m less interested in this applying to Taylor and more focused on wanting it used on white people returning from Trump’s America with MAGA hats.
Young, poor and brown folk get the living bejesus smashed out of them by the Police and the book is always thrown at them legally, but Police won’t dare treat white boomers/Gen Xers with that level of force and in Wellington released everyone who had been arrested without charge.
I think in the last death throws of TV3, the journalists are just going to be dropping sick burns after sick burns until the plug gets pulled.
They claimed to Winston outside the NZ First conference that they ‘feel’ like they are victims in the Christchurch atrocity because they’ve lost their sacred right to own machine guns.
A University is EXACTLY the place to hold a feminism conference. A University is legally mandated to be the critic of society, they uphold that obligation with academic free speech. To conflate health and safety obligations to staff and students to protect them from ideas they don’t like is intellectually bankrupt.
Winston’s power has always been as kingmaker, but can he carry that off if the electorate all believe he will side with Labour?
…in a very real sense, allowing climate denial to become an openly discussed policy plank of the largest political party in NZ is probably more dangerous than anything else that happened this week.
…if we can pay Jeff Bezos $375m for a Lord of the Rings TV show, why can’t we save tv3?
Yes, there should be armed response units to protect us if an incident with a firearms presents itself, NO we shouldn’t allow the Police to expand that to anything they think ‘might’ be a risk.