The Daily Blog Open Mic – 8th August 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Oh sweet. The om going to become a place where the buffalo play and the skies are not cloudy all day….
NZIFF Wellington screening of “2+2=5” selling out fast. Worth a look.
“Raoul Peck, the acclaimed documentary chronicler of power in America, looks to George Orwell’s writing of 1984 as a prescient guide to our modern era of Trumpian rule and reality manipulation.”
https://www.nziff.co.nz/2025/te-whanganui-a-tara-wellington/orwell-22-5/
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/569444/nelson-mayor-nick-smith-launches-his-re-election-campaign
WTF RadioNZ running virtual free advertising for the in-trough politicals. The Mayors need to have a CV template that they have to fill out with details, education, experience, interests, intentions to achieve etc. Small photo at bottom not smiling!
Smith, standing for Mayor again, was MP for Nelson since Adam was a cowboy, roughly from when Labour decided that ‘workers’ were well represented by ‘lawyers’ though totally different viewpoints – I suggest that the lawyers is more likely to be through a camera obscura – very sharply focussed on full stops and ‘for the Party of the first part!.’
Sickening how these people can drag themselves on and on. Running the country on a business model huh – they don’t have to make a profit, worry about a soggy offering (just too many plums in the pie-chart), and we are supposed to accept this while they try to find some little thing we want so they can pretend they are interested in the people. Oh everyone is nostalgic about hokey pokey so that’s flavour of the month.
Again I make the point that there should be an age limit – possibly 60 and it would be good to limit re-election after 4 goes, 12 years. Let someone else have a go. Stick
a whoopee cushion under the ones we don’t like in the parliament – let’s have some simple fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeAYOimTGjM