Louie Encabo: 2018 marked National’s gradual descent into populism
In 2018, the National Party – under the leadership of Simon Bridges – very clearly attempted to push for the “Trump vote” in a bid to increase their voter base.
New Zealand Politics
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Too woke to joke. What the NZ Left desperately need to understand about alienating voters with smug cultural supremacy
Alienating voters to the Left forces them to to vote for the Right, even when the Right’s economic agenda actually ends up hurting those voters while empowering the already wealthy.
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Dow Jones plunges 660 points, NZ Herald focuses on brawls, fetish photos & naked hack scandals
Maybe explain to the Millennial staff the impact this will have on the price of avocados and it might get some coverage? How about suggesting the Stock Exchange liked a Louis CK joke on Twitter or did a micro aggression against trans inclusion?
Could the economic armageddon get some coverage then?
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Donna Awatere Huata’s Herald Column, the latest Climate Scientist warnings and why radical Green Socialism will become a thing
The truth is that the vested interests that create the pollution and economic framework that is making climate change the catastrophe that it is will not do anything meaningful to disrupt their interests.
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Lois Griffiths: Welcome to 2019 (or is it 1984?)
US citizen Bahia Amawi is a language specialist who works with autistic and speech-impaired children. She received a master’s degree in speech pathology in 1999 and, since then, has specialized in evaluations for young children with language difficulties . For the last nine years she has worked with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school children in Austin, Texas. Each year she signed an annual contract that allowed her to continue.
But now she has been told that she is fired!
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I’m sorry, National had the audacity to say WHAT about State Housing?
I simply can not take this bullshit seriously…
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Bryan Bruce: Prof. Kelsey’s new year message
I wasn’t going to write today but last night I received a press release from Prof Jane Kelsey about the fact that the TPPA- minus America ( and now called the CPTPP) went into force yesterday.
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Pessimistic predictions for 2019
If 2018 was a lost year where the woke left & alt right dominated debate, 2019 could be the year of reactionary entropy.
I’d like to be optimistic, but there’s just no actual reason to be anything other than pessimistic about the damaged horizon looming like a fractured mirror in front of us.
Here are some worst case scenario reckons mixed with some run of the mill ones..
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Ross Meurant: Nash is right, the black markets impact on our lives
The essence of my proposition is: The State should become the provider of goods currently provided by the Black Market (which means gangs and organised crime), and thereby nullify the impact of crime syndicates which can and do e.g. Noriega in Panama and Escobar in Columbia -ultimately control governments and/or pervade the Hallowed Halls of power with bribes.
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TWITTER WATCH: Far Right Hate Merchant David Moffett doesn’t believe I am real
Hi David, yes I’m as real a person as you are a dangerous far right lunatic who might be able to successfully hold up some of the ideological excesses of my Woke Comrades to manipulate the spooked hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind.