The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 19th March 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Most Recent Blogs
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How did a far right attack troll know about the Labour Party Summer Camp scandal 24 hours after it happened?
…how did a far right Troll know about this scandal before anyone else in the Labour Party hierarchy?
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UPDATE: The Greens have managed to self sabotage themselves with the glee of a depressed goth Kamikaze pilot
On a very technical level at a Wellington-Central-vegan-cycle-friendly-consent-contract-signed-after- work-function that is chaperoned, you could mount an intellectual argument that Governments can’t and won’t hold themselves to account so giving the Opposition extra questions to do that is a technically principled position to take.
You could mount that argument.
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TV REVIEW: What the Marae show missed in their stripping Bob of his Knighthood story
Debate about this petition calling on Bob Jones to lose his knighthood was good, but it missed the 4 reasons why the petition is misplaced Twitter outrage…
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TV REVIEW: Q+A – Jacinda under omnishambles pressure + the madness of the Greens
I’ve seen the Greens do some spectacularly stupid things in the past, but handing over one question to the fucking National Party every Parliamentary Question Time is fuckwitedness at a level I’ve never witnessed.
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When will the Human Rights Commission shut down Shakespeare Pop-Up Globe?
…apparently this is a hate crime against humanity because finding any humour in men dressed as woman is transphobic hatred.
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We live in a country where the news will cover cyclists protesting about not wearing helmets but won’t cover NZDF lying about war crimes – consider that for a moment
I feel the only way the NZ media would bother focusing on the 21 Afghan civilians we killed and wounded would be if the SAS had instead of launching an attack on the village gone in with lots of booze, gotten everyone drunk, inappropriately harassed 15 civilians and groped 5 others.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 18th March 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Dr Liz Gordon – The pursuit of happiness
I doubt if Judge Joe Watts would have stopped the rampage of violence against women and girls demonstrated by the Howse brothers, if he had properly convicted and sentenced Peter that day. But it would have been another brick in the wall, wouldn’t it?
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Mark Mitchell – Flights of fancy?!
Former Defence Minister; failed National Party leader aspirant; one-time mercenary-for-hire, and current (for the moment) National defence spokesman, Mark Mitchell, may have opened a 44-gallon drum-of-worms with his assertion that Coalition Defence Minister, Ron Mark, has been “using the Air Force as a personal taxi service”.