The electorate has spoken, and apparently it has said, ‘These far right hate clowns are our new Government, I hate Jacinda for saving 20 000 lives from Covid’.

How charming.

First up, this election wasn’t won, it was bought!

How much per vote

Act: $20.90

National: $9.34

NZ First: $6.91

Green: $5.62

Labour: $1.79

Te Pāti Māori: $1.69

The knee jerk bullshit policy alongside counterproductive punitive measures alongside Real Estate Lobbyist wet dreams have all combined to vandalise our Egalitarian State!

We are collectively a far worse country for this outcome!

The only thing that binds this hard right racist Government is a shared hatred of beneficiaries, workers, prisoners, renters, Māori and the environment!

We are implementing culture ware revenge fantasies as policy FFS!

It’s like the lunatics have taken over the asylum, we should be ashamed of the first month of this cavalcade of circus freaks masquerading as a Government!

Thanks to the Conspiracy Swamp Kingdom Winston now rules, we are passing Qanon Conspiracy Theories as actual State Policy!

This hard right racist Government has turned New Zealand into Q Zealand!

I’m not pissed off National won, that’s democracy, what I’m pissed off by is that they won with such vapid and venal policy.

National will rob 2 year olds, mutilate public transport and literally steal from climate change funds to pay for rich prick tax cuts!

The reason why this mutilation has won? Because the electorate hated Labour so much for saving us from a mass death event.

Labour won the Covid war but lost the Covid peace because their ‘rebuild’ was the same incremental bullshit Labour have always pursued. We all sacrificed equally during Covid but it was in an unequal society so the bleeding gums of our inequality swamped us with bitterness.

That voters didn’t care National, ACT and NZ First would unleash madness highlights how much voters were burnt by Covid lockdowns and Labour’s grotesque incrementalism.

 

 

With the specials in, the Māori Party stole the election and took 6 of the Māori Electorates and generated an overhang that means ACT/National need Winston!

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Rat. Fucked.

This is the worst threesome in NZ History – they all cry out their own names when they orgasm!

We have just elected a Government of antivaxx quacks, anti-indigenous Māori racists and climate deniers who will do the bidding of the Real Estate Pimps, Trucking Industry, the Corporate Farmers, the Banks and the Gambling Industry FFS!

How will this cavalcade of political circus freaks manage to last 3 years is anyones guess.

GREATEST POLITICAL IRONY 2023: Jacinda saving 20 000 Boomers who followed Chris Trotter and voted NZ First

The greatest political irony of 2023 was Jacinda saving 20 000 lives with her Covid leadership, unfortunately they were mostly boomers and they all followed Chris Trotter off to vote for NZ First! No good deed ever goes unpunished! Next time there’s a pandemic, let the Boomers die first AND THEN put on the restrictions!

Oldest Wardrobe: Brooke Van Veldon

As a 30 year old, Brooke is the only woman in NZ who dresses like she’s 53! Brooke’s wardrobe will receive the pension before she does, which is probably why ACT are so keen to push Super up to 67! Surprise win for Brooke in Tamaki, and I say surprise because after the debate we held in Tamaki, I thought Simon O’Conner would win. There’s an odd glow that comes to Brooke’s eyes when she talks about the State standing over poor people and telling them how to live, like the way Gollum speaks about his precious. During the debate, Brooke almost seemed aroused by the idea of slashing 15000 Government jobs where as O’Connor took a far more dignified and compassionate approach by calling for no slash and burn. Unfortunately this is Tamaki, which is Maori for, ‘Angry White Rich people living near the beach’, and anything less than the sacking of all public servants and sowing salt in their gardens is unacceptable. Look out poor people, Brooke is here to smother you to death in her off pink robe. No seriously. She is. RUN!

BEST QUOTE: Shane Jones on rednecks in Northland

At one point during our raucous Northland debate,  Matt King asked me why did I keep calling his party a ‘Conspiracy Theory Party’ to which I yelled at him, ‘because I went on your website, read your policy and you are a fucking Conspiracy Theory Party’.

I then turned to the audience and said, ‘There, I said it to your face Northland!’.

The denial of climate change and Covid was bewilderingly deep in Northland and I could barely hear the hatred spat at Willow-Jean over the duelling banjos.

As the debate ended, Shane Jones leaned into me and whispered, “They may not vote red mate, but their necks certainly are”.

He laughed.

I laughed.

And we both died on the inside.

Chippy’s incomprehensible blindness to why Labour lost is terrifying Award

The lies that the Wellington Beltway are telling themselves as to why Labour lost are all about ‘the vibe’. These cushioned middle class Labour arseholes in Wellington tell themselves they didn’t do anything wrong and Chippy seems equally confused!

They tell themselves that despite an unprecedented MMP majority, it wasn’t their fault that the policy incrementalism that has robbed them of any mana was to blame, oh no, it was ‘the vibe’.

Dr Incremental, Max Rashbrooke – the Wellington Woke General most responsible for the Wellington Left’s love affair with tiny insignificant gains and calling that a revolution, has been on the accursed The Spin-Off (surely NZ on Air is turning off the light on that woke social engineering notice board any second now?) and The Project (which has been cancelled) to assure us all to always look on the bright side of life…

12 graphs that show New Zealand isn’t doing as badly as you think

Trend lines show that we’re heading in the right direction in all sorts of ways, from race relations to ram raids. Max Rashbrooke celebrates the Upturn.

…we can not allow Labour Party apologists like Rashbrooke dominate the debate and let Labour and the Greens off the hook for the pitiful wins while they were in power!

Let’s look at Max’s evidence that things are great and not really that bad.

Greenhouse gas emissions – Sure the tiny incremental changes Max loves (which are all about to be thrown out by the new hard right racist Government) have shown a lowering of those emissions, but those numbers really dropped because of Covid lock downs. In light of the enormity of catastrophic climate events and temperatures last month that were 6 sigma out all point to run away climate change meaning everything we’ve incrementally achieved to date is meaningless.

Child poverty – The level of poverty desperation is hidden by Dr Incremental, Max Rashbrooke, whose pitiful defence of Labour’s foot dragging over at the eternally compromised Spinoff is made nonsense by CPAGs criticism that the numbers he’s relying on are horrifically compromisedand show none of the true magnitude of poverty.

Race relations – As the new hard right racist Government announce a purge of every reference to the Treaty and work to legislate it out of all Government policy, Dr Incremental tells us Race Relations have never been better.

Smoking rates – The new hard right racist Government have just dumped all plans to be smoke free by 2025 meaning everything he wrote here is now trashed.

Ram raids – On this he is correct but it doesn’t mean a fuck of a lot. Ram Raids are coming down and the work Labour did in providing wrap around services to damaged kids left feral by a system that doesn’t give a shit has worked, but not before the damage to the public perception has crystallised.

Justice reform – Again, doesn’t matter because a hard right racist Government has won and intends to build a new prison empire with far harsher sentences. It’s not enough to release people from prison, you need to release rehabilitated prisoners with the right wrap around services from prison and we on the Left failed at winning community support for that.

School attendance – To justify his argument that we should always look on the bright side of life, Max argues…

Last year, regular student attendance – defined by the Ministry of Education as students being at school at least 90% of the time – fell to just 39.8% in term two, the period when children are most absent due to winter illness.

In term two this year, the rate was 47% – hardly great, but an improvement nonetheless.

…when your position is 47% attendance rate is a success because it was 39.8%, I think you are becoming desperate for examples to prop up your incrementalism. All school truancy is destructive.

Emergency housing – John Minto has attacked these numbers so many times it’s weird Max is trying to defend them. We have 24 717 on the social housing wait list and are kettling beneficiaries into unsafe motels. The petty level of state housing builds is only made impressive because National did nothing for. decade. That isn’t progress, it’s incrementalism.

Public transport use – Shit Max is getting desperate. Public Transport use trending up only highlights the economic desperation many are now forced into , that’s not a symptom of good, that’s a symptom of economic desperation.

These were all ‘good first steps’ but there is only so many times you can hear that in 6 years and not realise that all these ‘first great steps’ are just amounting to jogging on the spot.

The Wellington Professional Managerial class that Rashbrooke represents will tell us that incremental change is the only change which is just a Wellington myth.

Look at how romper stomper the Right are about to go the millisecond they take power, while the Rashbrooke’s of the Left sing to us…

It’s not time to make a change
Just relax, take it easy
You’re still young, that’s your fault
There’s so much you have to know
Find a girl, settle down
If you want you can marry
Look at me
I am old, but I’m happy
I was once like you are now
And I know that it’s not easy
To be calm
When you’ve found something going on
But take your time, think a lot
Why, think of everything you’ve got
For you will still be here tomorrow
But your dreams may not

…fuck incrementalism and everyone pushing it on the Left as our way forward while the romper stomper hard right racist Government set fires to our cultural libraries.

Incrementalism, the Wellington Professional Managerial Class and the Woke are not the future of the true Left and they must be burnt out of any leadership role whatsoever if we are to have any hope of winning back political power in 2026.

We need a revolution at the ballot box, we do not need more incrementalism that makes middle class woke activists feel unthreatened about their privilege!

Bernard Hickey has argued, “We could have gotten $200 billion in extra tax revenues if only there had been a fair tax system which meant that capital gains were taxed at the same rate as every other type of income.”

In a liberal progressive democracy, it doesn’t matter what role you play in the complex super structure of our society and economy.

It doesn’t matter of you are a garbage collector, a dr, a nurse, a drain layer, teacher or tradie – if you all stopped doing your jobs the system can’t work.

Everyone deserves to share the collective harvest of civil society with public services and policies focused on the public good enshrined in the intrinsic civil liberties each individual has.

Wealthy individuals who become mega rich thanks to the landscape generated by those values are required to pay more back into the system they have benefited from beyond the bare necessity of ruthless accountancy practices.

These rich pricks have designed the system for themselves, ‘you can’t tax unrealised capital gains’ the Right scream, like bullshit we can’t!

If it means the mega rich have to sell a mansion or two to pay the tax bill, so fucking be it!

The obligation of the Government is to regulate Capitalism so that we the people benefit from the competitive dynamics of competition!

The disgusting right myth is that NZ is an over taxed, over regulated economy when that is total bullshit!

There are 14 Billionaires in NZ + 3118 ultra-high net worth individuals, let’s start with them, then move onto the Banks, then the Property Speculators, the Climate Change polluters and big industry.

You should be angry, NZ Capitalism is a rigged trick for the rich and powerful. The real demarcation line of power in a western democracy is the 1% + their 9% enablers vs the 90% rest of us!

Do not allow their smears of ‘Envy’ dilute the righteous rage you should all be feeling!

There’s no point making workers pay more to rebuild our resilience, tax the rich!

-Sugar Tax

-Inheritance Tax

-Wealth Tax

-Financial Transactions Tax

-New top tax rate on people earning over $300 000 per year.

-Capital Gains Tax

-Windfall profit taxes

-First $10 000 tax free

Lift the tax yoke from the workers and the people and place it on the mega wealthy and have them pay their fair share for once!

The true demarcation off power in a liberal progressive democracy is the 1% wealthy + their 9% enablers vs the 90% rest of us.

Stand. Stand now and demand more from this rigged capitalism!

The political project of National and ACT is to starve the State of revenue so that it can’t redistribute wealth in the first place.

That Chippy has no concept of ANY of this and is just blaming the ‘vibe’ is deeply worrying.

 

Political Media most deserving NZ on Air Funding Award: A view from Afar + BHN + Chris Lynch

When you look at the shite NZ on Air funds, there is real frustration that there are those in NZ who are doing incredible journalism who get nothing! A View From Afar with Selwyn and Paul is the best foreign affairs commentary in NZ, BHN do an amazing job of critiquing the news agenda and Chris Lynch continues to be one of the best journalists in the South Island! If NZ on Air have millions to waste on The Spin-off, surely they can find $100 000 each for these far better journalistic enterprises!

The worst time for a break up Award: Jacinda Ardern

The left-wing commentator, Martyn ‘Bomber’ Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog, says Ardern’s greatest strength – empathy and kindness – was also a political Achilles heel.

“To my mind, there are two Jacindas – the one with superhuman emotional intelligence in moments of crisis that had us bonded in solidarity to one another, and the super cautious domestic policy Jacinda who, despite having our hearts soar from the rhetoric of transformation, always managed to disappoint in delivery,” he says.

“There are only so many ‘good first steps’ before you accept you are jogging on the spot. In the end her kindness exacerbated anger because when you are hurting, having someone smile at you makes you angrier.”

Bradbury called it “neo-kindness”.

“The level of toxic social media hate algorithms spewed against her demeaned us all as a people. She saved us from a mass death event, yet we turned on her,” he says.

“The day she stood down, we gasped as a country at how we ended up breaking her.

“When China tries to tell the history books that their authoritarian model and state coercion was the best way to defeat Covid compared to the weak democracies of the west, New Zealand can proudly hold its head up and point to our results based on being open and frank with our citizens and trusting in them to act in the common good.

“We could only do that because we had Jacinda as our leader. History will remember her boldness and we won’t forget it either. We will just wish she did so much more.”

Bradbury says it is important to properly farewell and thank Ardern, hailing her for her ability to inspire women.

“Her legacy is that she made every woman I respect and love stand two inches taller. Her leadership as a woman was authentic female power at its most humanly powerful. Kindness was a strength, not a weakness,” he says.

Best question: Does Chris Luxon believe in Dinosaurs?

Of course Chris believes in Dinosaurs. This picture proves it!

Dumbest Minister: Michael Wood, Kiri Allan, Nanaia Mahuta and Stuart Nash 

It was impossible to pick worst Minister because all for were such enormous fuck ups!

What the fuck was Michael Wood thinking? You get the feeling his wife set everything up, got it wrong and then didn’t tell him she was wrong and he took her assurances and destroyed his now career and when challenged, he was too kind to his wife to drop her in it. If that’s what happened, let’s give Michael some love, if that’s not what happened, what the fuck Michael???

The enormous question hanging over Nanaia was, did she mislead her Cabinet about what was really in 3 Waters or was she too lazy to read it? If she truly misled Cabinet she deserved to get beaten by a 21 year old. If she was too lazy to read it, she still deserved to get beaten by a 21 year old!

Fucking Stuart Nash! Thank Christ he got nailed for passing on Cabinet details to donors and not cutting dodgy deals with the Forestry Industry!

Kiri Allan is the luckiest Māori lesbian in NZ! If it was a male doing what she was doing it would be toxic heteronormative white cis male privilege-o-rama. Ironically her current attempt to weasel out of her charges is pretty white male to be honest.

Worst Fundraising idea – Pole-dancing for the Green Party

Ummmm…

…can we pay her not to?

Worst Answer – Luxon’s claim of a $60 a week shopping bill

Luxon claimed during one of the debates that he spent $60 a week on grocery shopping which seemed so weird and produced a flurry of news stories trying to ascertain what the hell he was eating that cost a mere $60 a week. In the above photo he has spent half his weekly supermarket spend. It was obvious he was pointlessly lying when he said he only spent $60 a week, like the way he lied about his wife gaining the Tesla subsidy while he was raging against it. For Chris these little white lies are a means to gloss over issues so one can move ahead positively. You know, like a middle management grasper who gains CEO promotion through sheer toadying.

Worst twitter temper tantrum – Chris Bishop

Look, if I had run the National Party campaign as poorly as Chris, I’d be throwing temper tantrums too, but this one which was so easily proven wrong by the media who invited everyone felt like a new low even for Chris…

…Bishop acted like a teenage tantrum for most of National’s disastrous campaign, and kept attacking things like a dog chasing parked cars. For a 40 year old, his gaunt bitter appearance has aged him, I can’t work out if it’s nicotine or being in the National Party.

Biggest Arsehole – Simeon Brown 

The more I see of Simeon Brown, the more I dislike him…

…Simeon gets sadistic kicks out of race baiting about da gangs da gangs as if he’s some tough guy. His misrepresentation of the engagement with gangs and his virgin moralism marks him either as an idiot, a liar or a sociopath. Personally I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he was caught with a huge number of unexplained children’s shoes under his house.

You have to cut her head off when you bury her to prevent her coming back Award: Judith Collins

Wait – what – Judith Collins as the Attorney General Minister AND Minister of GCSB and NZSIS???

Jesus fucking wept! No one as ruthless, dangerous and manipulative as Judith Collins should ever be allowed anywhere near the Intelligence Apparatus! It’s like giving an arsonist a flame thrower and a subscription to Burn Porn! She is the most unsuited human being for that level of power and if ANYTHING keeps you up at night, it should be Judith Collins as the Minister for Spooks!

I heavily criticised Andrew Little for quitting and allowing all of the reform and expansion of the Intelligence Agencies to have so little check and balance by arguing he had left all the moving parts for a Police State to be assembled by whoever took the job under National.

THAT PERSON IS JUDITH COLLINS!

She is an utterly inappropriate person with a long history of abusing power to be handed so much power.

That Judith Collins will now be the Master of Spies should scare the shit out of everyone.

WORST COMEBACK: Winston Peters

The suave silver fox of NZ politics has conned his way back into the hen house by appealing directly to the feral antivaxx lunatic fringe and climate denier electorate and it’s been just enough to hold the country to ransom for his list of petty culture war bullshit. Minister of Pork Barrels Shane Jones gets his $1.2billion slush fund and Winston gets Foreign Minister perks and is also the Racing Minister, an industry endlessly donating to NZ First. NZ First is like a bad case of chlamydia that never goes away.  The best part of Winston being the new Foreign Minister? He is now Trevor Mallards Boss, the same Trevor Mallard who attempted to trespass Winston from Parliament.

Worst Campaign – Liz Gunn, Brian Tamaki and the antivaxx movement

Liz Gunn got her list in late so she had no party list beyond 3 names. Getting your paperwork in to start your political movement is kinda 101 stuff and that she cocked it all up so magnificently at the first hurdle is as funny as it is pitiful. At this stage, I just think she needs some mental health intervention because this was never rational and was always unhinged.

Tamaki has gloriously screamed at ‘gutless Christians’ for his poor polling, but seeing as God tells those Christians who to vote for, isn’t Brian’s fury at the Lord rather than his vassals, and if that is the case, has God turned on Brian? Thoughts and Prayers.

The wider more feral Antivaxx conspiracy vote went nowhere…

…and only found solace in NZFirst who has given them political voice.

Thank god these narcissistic egos are so toxic they can’t work together and were eclipsed by the greatest Ego of them all, Winston Peters.

Worst Neighbourhood Watch 

Cross burning race crime or friendly bumbling pakeha bloke wanting to pat on the head to a young Māori Party candidate? Who can say? What would be nice is for Māori to be able to wander through pakeha private property with the same gleeful abandon.

Worst Election Stunt – Luxon in pirate costume

What the fuck was he doing? Fighting for Colonialism?

Best Political Podcast: The Working Group

If you didn’t think I’d pick my own podcast show as the best political podcast, this must be the first time you’ve ever visited this blog! We hosted 7 live televised debates with 5 electorate specific polls, no other network minus state funding was able to dot anything like that! We reset the election debate paradigm and had every other news producer in NZ desperately attempting to copy what we were doing without ever acknowledging they were watching us in the first place. We see you! TWG returns in the new year with a massive change that will finally destroy all other political podcasts.

 

Conclusion:

This election wasn’t won, it was bought by private interests manipulating your anger at post Covid bitterness.

This knee jerk crap alongside counterproductive punitive measures alongside Real Estate Lobbyist wet dreams combine to vandalize the Egalitarian State.

Taking from the poor to give to the rich ain’t my bag baby and we are a collectively worse nation for this outcome

The only thing that warms the cynical black splinter of what is left of my heart is the thought of Winston, Seymour and Luxon all having to work together.

If that’s ‘winning’, losing don’t feel so bad

If you thought Labour were awful, after 3 years of this National/ACT/NZ First nightmare, you will be screaming for Covid to make a come back!

Many Kiwi will be shocked at how extreme the first month of this hard right racist Government has produced and that shock will quickly turn to disgust as voters realise just how corrupt the policy platform will be.

The rich have won an incredible class war victory against renters, workers, the environment, Māori and beneficiaries.

Connecting with those about to be smashed by the right and get them too vote Left will require policy that focuses on the material well being of voters as opposed to alienating woke dogma.

No poor families were sitting around the kitchen table cancelling each other for misusing pronouns, they were trying to work out how to pay the fucking bills!

We are a lesser people for this new hard right racist Government and mass civil disobedience will be required to blunt their war on the poor.

Buckle up, shit bout to get real in 2024.

Predictions 2024 will be published shortly.

 

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