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Chuck Bird

If Trump chooses her for VP he will almost guarantee his election as President.

Tulsi Gabbard’s Warning To America | CPAC 2024 Speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMG2Yq_Bhps
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April 2, 2024 8:07am
- CJames
  
  Yes – I was impressed with her when she was the Congressman for Hawaii, though it always seemed that she was in the wrong party. Nothing she has done since has changed my views.
  
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  April 2, 2024 8:25am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Yep, in the wrong Party. She will really pull those Democrat votes.
  What should be remembered is Tulsi Gabbard only left the Democrat Party late 2022. Also don’t forget that Donald Trump was once a Democrat.
  Not my choice for VP but a good Political choice.
  
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  April 2, 2024 8:47am
  - All_on_Red
    
    I think Tim Scott is probably a more savvy choice.
    Elise Stefanik isnt a bad one either.
    
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    April 2, 2024 12:36pm
    - leoj
      
      Stefanik would be an outstanding choice.
      
      Wish I could uptick 100 times!
      
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      April 2, 2024 4:39pm
- Bridgenag
  
  She is amazing!
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:14am
- The Redbaiter
  
  Sorry Chuck- Gabbard carries far too much far left baggage. (from her past)
  
  Trump would be making a big mistake choosing her as VP. Just giving his opponents an opening to exploit, and they will.
  
  “There he goes, picking the wrong people again”
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:28am
  - jkt
    
    Does it matter whom he picks.
    Nearly everyone he picked last time did not work out … Pence, Perry, Bolton ….. Bannon …..
    
    This time will be different….. yeah, right.
    He will just have to do everything himself!
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:18am
    - mawm
      
      He was being steered into his choices by the Republican Party. A lot of these choices, like the Republican Party leadership, were deeply opposed to his policies and were white-anting him at every turn.
      
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      April 2, 2024 11:59am
      - jkt
        
        Not even his own cabinet seemed to have liked his ideas.
        
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        April 2, 2024 1:22pm
  - CJames
    
    No matter who Trump picks, they will use that argument. Remember how they twisted bloodbath or Putin invade Europe, taking things totally out of context. And as has been shown, his opponents attacking him just boosts his ratings.
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:20am
  - grumpy
    
    Gabbard is the one! She will bring over many more than she would lose.
    Trump’s hard support will still vote for him and she is popular with swing democrats.
    
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    April 2, 2024 1:07pm
- Che Guava
  
  This is why some people shouldn’t get a vote: place a moderately attractive woman in front of them and have her spout a series of platitudes, and they’re falling over themselves with excitement. Why? Because she’s a woman and having a woman as a VP candidate is sign of how enlightened the GOP is?
  
  Gabbard’s just a liberal who sees gap in the market, as far as I can see. Moreover, it is evident from that clip that she is selling a book. She’s part of the system through and through. She’s a former WEF Young Global Leader, and she and her donors know she can attract a good proportion if thirsty male GOP voters, perhaps winning over the “soccer moms.”
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:58am
  - Philview
    
    She butted heads with Hillary Clinton in the 2020 Democrat nomination race which shows she has some fortitude. I recall she was a doctor who served in Iraq so she isn’t a lightweight career politician.
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:56am
  - R
    
    place a moderately attractive woman in front of them and have her spout a series of platitudes, and they’re falling over themselves ………..
    Sums up the NZ political scene of the last decade or so. Look carefully at the present coalition for an example; and of course there is the ultimate example within the last Labour govt.
    
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    April 2, 2024 11:48am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Hardly an airhead though. Actually served in military. Seems to have always been a centrist and seems to have seen the light a lot more in recent years.
      
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      April 2, 2024 9:42pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    She is vey attractive, and very smart, she points out where the Dems go wrong every time she speaks, she will hate the squad
    
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    April 2, 2024 12:38pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  A real kick in the slats for the Dems
  
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  April 2, 2024 12:33pm
- Handyman
  
  At the RNC national convention, Trump should declare that he will resign after three years making Gabbard the first woman president.
  “Vote for me and get Tulsi.”
  
  This strategy also works if Kristi Noem from South Dakota is the VP pick.
  
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  April 2, 2024 1:06pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Holy Moly! That is one hell of an endorsement!
  
  Every TDS sufferer should watch it.
  
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  April 2, 2024 8:31pm
BarryB

I think a good indicator of the state of the nation was the lack of humour yesterday on April Fools day. There were some stories but the media was too scared to promote them.
The nation has become a humourless place mired in the swamp of fear to say anything in case some moron in a dark room with hoody over their head takes um-bridge.

I think the biggest joke at the moment are EV owners. If you charge at a public charger it now costs the same as a petrol car to travel a Km – 19cents. If you charge at home its less – 11 cents a Km. These include the RUC charges.
https://genless.govt.nz/for-business/moving-people/vehicle-total-cost-of-ownership-calculator/

My 4 year old Xtrail costs me 21-24c/Km for petrol

Add to the EV kilometre charge the original cost – up to 40% more car for car. Now add the tyre extra costs 35-50% more for EV tyres (the car is heavier) and they wear out 20% quicker.
Now add the second hand value – or more correctly the catastrophic collapse of the cars value.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/301032605/no-one-wants-used-evs-making-new-ones-a-tougher-sell-too
Then add the extra cost for insurance – and remember that it wont be long before the ferries will refuse to carry them, and ………
And then be happy that bits of your battery were mined by 10 year olds in Nigeria or the Congo, and that the damage caused by Lithium mining in places like the Atacama desert is enormous……………….

why would anyone buy an EV car…………..
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April 2, 2024 8:09am
- CJames
  
  Because it is virtue signalling to show just how “Green” you are.
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:21am
  - R
    
    Because it is virtue signalling…..
    but actually does nothing to prevent climate change/global warming/sea level rising…chose one!
    
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    April 2, 2024 11:50am
    - Local Miller
      
      “but actually does nothing to prevent climate change/global warming/sea level rising/all of the above…chose one!
      
      There, fixed it for you.
      
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      April 2, 2024 4:16pm
- jkt
  
  My EV works for me. Bought it “second” hand.
  I only charge at home. And use solar. Have been since 2019.
  
  If I drive beyond 120km I use an ICE or fly. I hate (refuse is too harsh a word) charging it at commercial sites.
  
  I am flush with capital but cashflow poor. I choose to pass my capital onto the next generations.
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:35am
  - grumpy
    
    So you keep your car at home during the day? Solar charging an EV at night has issues……
    
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    April 2, 2024 11:37am
    - jkt
      
      As I said it suits me.
      So it may suit others too.
      
      My concern is that if too many get on the bandwagon it may well stop suiting any of us.
      
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      April 2, 2024 1:25pm
  - Local Miller
    
    The article doesn’t give the cost if you’re only charging from solar, but you also need to work in the cost of having your solar installed, which from when I costed it was significant.
    So jkt, what does your EV cost/km when you factor in the cost of your solar system over 5-10 years?
    
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    April 2, 2024 4:22pm
    - jkt
      
      $7.60 per 100 km plus annual service of $80.
      Had the solar!
      
      Tyres still in good shape. Bought vehicle in 2018.
      
      Bloody government must always interfere with a good thing……
      
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      April 2, 2024 4:48pm
- Wayne Mapp
  
  People don’t just buy EV’s on price, certainly not for the EV’s in the higher price brackets. Some people, which I can imagine will shock some Kiwibloggers, buy them for climate change reasons.
  In NZ just about all charging is done at home. With smart chargers, the charging is done when power prices are at their lowest, typically 2 and 3 in the early morning.
  
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  April 2, 2024 11:04am
  - The Redbaiter
    
    Wayne Mapp: “Some people…buy them for climate change reasons.”
    
    To be more accurate, because they are fooled by the lies.
    
    In truth, EVs are no more beneficial to “the climate” than ICE cars. In fact more than a few studies say they are more CO2 intensive.
    
    That EVs help “the fight against climate change” is a massive propaganda lie, and you of all people Mr Mapp should be able to see right through it.
    
    That such lies prevail in govt (politicians) and media is one of the main reasons people are so utterly disillusioned with both of these groups.
    
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    April 2, 2024 11:16am
  - Inandout
    
    WM, one assumes all your home electricity is clean because even one unit of dirty power makes a mockery of EVs.
    
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    April 2, 2024 11:44am
  - All_on_Red
    
    They might not buy them on price but many are waking up to the horrendous Depreciation.
    My Bro bought a BMW i4.
    It dropped 45% in the first year…
    He is well off but he still didn’t like that.
    Apparently Giltraps are sitting on a large pile of unsold EVs. A lot of Polestars- which are good cars.
    
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    April 2, 2024 12:40pm
    - MCōs
      
      Did your brother sell his car after 12mths or is his annoyed he didn’t buy last year’s model?
      
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      April 2, 2024 1:05pm
  - slightlyrighty
    
    Charging at home may well be a good option for now, however…
    
    Current generation EV’s have increasingly large battery packs. The new EV9 from Kia for example has a 99.8 KWh battery pack.
    
    Plugging this in at home on a standard power supply will take 40 Hours to charge from 10% to 100%, so most people will go for a larger capacity home charger which will add an extra $1500, providing the existing wiring is suitable.
    
    This will reduce charging time to 14 hours from 10%.
    
    If they have three phase power to their charging point, this reduces to 9 hours and draws 11kW to do so…
    
    the question is if you have a street of say 20 houses, and 25% of these houses have EV’s what is the effect on the grid.
    
    The average family of four has a power usage per day of 21 kwh per day.
    
    These 20 homes would use about 294 kwh of power a week, or just under 600kwh per fortnight for the street.
    
    an EV9 has a Full Charge range of 500 km.
    
    The average family car drives 270 km per week or about 40 km per day.
    
    So you would expect each car to need to be charged fully about once a fortnight on average. Therefore, each car would use an extra 100 Kwh per fortnight. It wouldn’t be all at once, but it would have to happen.
    
    These 5 cars would nearly double the power consumption of the whole street. Can our infrastructure cope?
    
    Do we have enough generating capacity to cope with the increased load?
    
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    April 2, 2024 2:20pm
    - jkt
      
      If you use commercial chargers there is no benefit other than feeling “Virtuous”.
      Our network cannot cope.
      
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      April 2, 2024 4:56pm
    - jkt
      
      You are mostly right but also slightly wrong on this one.
      40km driving per day means most EV owners will generally only do a part load and will only full charge when they go on a long trip. Even here most people will use their ICE for long trips.
      
      Most Tesla drivers will have all the bells and whistles. And the “Tesla” suburbs will get upgraded and the cost will be distributed across the entire network. Broad tax base.
      
      And that is why it is fair that we have a progressive tax rate.
      
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      April 3, 2024 7:35am
Benedict Yu

There many good things on this list.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350231873/ceo-pm-christopher-luxon-sets-out-his-second-quarter-targets

However I do not understand the Government’s policy to increase the share of renewable energy. With the share at 80 percent, what will taking it to 90 percent do? It will be a drop in the bucket as far as meeting the Paris Accord commitments.

I maintain that the Government’s climate change policies are utterly fanciful.
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April 2, 2024 8:10am
- David Garrett
  
  Bene: I am somewhat alarmed that he is planning to “take decisions” on the return of three strikes; that sounds very much to me like the beginning of a reversal of his committment to the electorate to restore it . I notice also that it is well down his list of priorities – number 33 I think.
  
  There were about 15,000 first strikers, 450 second, and only 30 third. That is clear evidence of what is called “specific deterrence”, i.e. deterrence of a particular class of offender.
  
  For the 500 odd second and third strikers who kept offending seriously, they were locked up for longer than hitherto, thus keeping them away from the rest of us for as long as possible.
  
  Coincidentally, this morning Stuff carries a story about an Indian liquor store owner who has had NINETEEN aggravated robberies across his various stores. Aggravated robbery was of course a “strike” offence, and would be again.
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:05am
  - Ghost
    
    I believe the wording is so that the media can’t twist it. Last 100 days they marked some things as not achieved because they started the process and didn’t introduce it.
    
    It’s not so much down the list but in the section it belongs in. First section is economy and cost of living, second is law and order, then public services.
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:09am
    - Dave
      
      That was my interpretation too. The number sequence can imply priority, but it is also an easier way of identifying tasks than using non-numeric bullet points.
      
      As for DG’s concern about ‘take decisions’ on three strikes, it might mean fixing first, before introducing the legislation, some of the problems which have arisen and DG himself has noted, eg, the judiciary’s refusal to fully implement the law as intended, the overly broad inclusion of a relatively mild offence in the three strikes legislation.
      
      Well, one can hope.
      
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      April 2, 2024 10:45am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      The government 100 day plan had several things that were too be started in the 100 days, yet more lies from media
      
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      April 2, 2024 12:42pm
- CJames
  
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  With the commissioning of new stations and a wet, windy relatively mild year, they will get to around 90% without having to do anything.
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:24am
  - jkt
    
    The cheapest way to achieve more renewables would be to subsidise on site solar. Or just increase the cost of network power and those with capital and positive cash flows will adapt.
    
    Footnote:
    The more we spend on renewables the more we need to get ready for black outs.
    Fortunately, we are late adopters and there are many countries developing the technology to accommodate/manage blackouts, so we can just learn from them.
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:45am
    - wsk12345
      
      Managing blackouts in a long stringy system
      Like NZ is quite a different matter thn doing so in a radial continental network.
      
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      April 2, 2024 12:19pm
      - jkt
        
        Most systems are long and stringy. Some longer and stringier than others, but stringy all the same.
        
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        April 2, 2024 5:16pm
    - Paulus
      
      Understand that in the USA solar panels in huge sites is no good when serious hailstorm wreck the lot – n0t insured for hail either.
      
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      April 2, 2024 2:27pm
      - jkt
        
        Solar panels are pretty resilient.
        But, yeah, hail stones are a risk. A decent hail storm can cause a lot of damage, no argument there.
        Insurance companies will insure them if you are prepared to pay the premium.
        
        Insurance companies are even prepared to take a “conditional” risk on Trump!
        
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        April 2, 2024 6:52pm
- Scott
  
  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Luxon and his coalition partners are doing a great job. He’s getting stuck in and reversing the whole toxic Labour agenda and putting in commonsense policies.
  
  A new category of serious youth offenders, bringing back in 3 strikes. Lots of great stuff.
  
  Regarding climate change I would just say we have a very woke electorate, sections of which regard climate change as a type of religion. For them it’s the secular equivalent of the second coming. I would argue that if before the election National rejected the climate change scenario, they would have been unelectable.
  
  What I would also say is that they are not going to pay the millions of dollars that Jacinda had us up for to combat climate change. Also they are looking to restore oil and gas exploration and the possibility of reopening Marsden Point.
  
  So I consider Luxon is doing as well as can be expected and each day we are seeing some important incremental wins. 😊
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:32am
  - Taieri
    
    Also they are looking to restore oil and gas exploration and the possibility of reopening Marsden Point.
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    As any oil/gas exploration can be cancelled at the whim of a single person, no oil company is going to take any notice, unless there’s a major, major prospect. No significant seismic surveys have been done in the recent years so the latter is unlikely to be identify.
    
    As for the Marsden Point…the government would have to underwrite such reopening and continuing operation. Not going to happen.
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:49am
    - Scott
      
      Taieri – how can you know this? At least this govt is heading in the right direction. We’ll have to wait and see. But excessive negativity will get us nowhere.
      
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      April 2, 2024 12:38pm
      - Taieri
        
        How can I know that?
        I know how the industry works. Spent 20 years in the O/G. You just can’t switch it on and off. The money involved is just phenomenal. A daily rate just for a rig is approaching 500K at the moment and there’s great shortage with almost 100% utilization.
        
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        April 2, 2024 1:57pm
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        How can Taieri know this about Marsden Point Scott? Because its pretty easy. Since Megan Woods advised Channel Infrastructure that the refinery wasn’t a strategic asset, it’s been shut down. And parts of it have been taken down. There are therefore parts (pipes, tubes etc) that are open to the elements, and that includes salt water. Those parts are now useless. It would cost more than the market cap of the company to repair|rebuild the refinery. So, unless the Government stump up with the money (and it would be in excess of a billion), any reopening is never going to happen. If you want to give someone some stick about it, write to Megan Woods. Without a shadow of a doubt, the most inept and worst candidate to ever have the portfolio.
        
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        April 2, 2024 2:05pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      I can’t understand Peters on the refinery, the government did not own it, and they did not decommission it. Yes they stood back and said nothing
      
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      April 2, 2024 12:45pm
    - Paulus
      
      Not economic as now whole place has to be replaced unfortunately which is why Oil Companies closed it down.
      Billions required to get new one in modern terms, and cheaper to import as glut still available.
      
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      April 2, 2024 2:29pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    “What I would also say is that they are not going to pay the millions of dollars that Jacinda had us up for to combat climate change…”
    
    I don’t see how you can believe that.
    
    It is not millions. It is about 20 billion and counting just to 2030.
    
    How are they going to avoid this expenditure? Either they are committed to the Paris Accord or they are not. The PM says he is committed.
    
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    April 2, 2024 11:43am
    - Scott
      
      Benedict – that’s a good question? I can’t see how NZ could just fork out $20B even if we wanted to?
      I don’t think Luxon and the coalition will pay it. What they’ll say, I don’t know? But I don’t think they’ll pay it.
      
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      April 2, 2024 12:37pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      The pm says very carefully that he is committed to Paris accord TARGETS, never heard him say he would continue to waste the billions
      
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      April 2, 2024 12:46pm
      - Benedict Yu
        
        No he says he will meet the climate change obligations in the Paris Accord. How is he going to do that?
        
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        April 2, 2024 1:16pm
    - Dudley Quaffquaff
      
      But he’s not committed to addressing climate change in the most expensive, inefficient ways possible as the last Government was
      
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      April 2, 2024 12:58pm
      - Benedict Yu
        
        So what is his plan?
        
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        April 2, 2024 1:16pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    As Wayne Mapp repeatedly tells us (and he is right) a large part of our Community believes in Catastrophic Climate Change.
    Despite the IPCC saying very little is changing.
    Its needs a re-education solution.
    Appointing a new Climate Commissioner would be imperative if we were to do that.
    Some one here mentioned Sean Rush- an Expert Reviewer for the IPCC who worked on AR6 as a good choice.
    People need to be given the facts.
    
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    April 2, 2024 12:44pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      I totally disagree. It does not matter who the clinate change commissioner is. Because he or she is legally obliged to administer the Zero Carbon Act.
      
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      April 2, 2024 1:18pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Hearts and minds first Benedict
        
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        April 2, 2024 2:18pm
      - Scott
        
        Benedict – be interesting to see what happens? I note that $20B and counting is a full 10% of our total GDP!
        
        Would this govt really hand over that much money to the black hole of climate change? I just don’t see it.
        
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        April 2, 2024 4:46pm
      - jkt
        
        There are caveats to the Paris Agreement.
        When push comes to shove ….. Paris goes on the scrap heap, that is history.
        
        Carbon taxes should be invested right here in NZ! This paying others to do the “heavy lifting” for us James Shaw style, is a rort!
        
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        April 2, 2024 7:00pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Probably can score a win/win by adding more geothermal plants. NZ has a competitive advantage in that area. USE IT!!!
  
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  April 2, 2024 8:44pm
Matt Long

Well now, isn’t this amazing, when all the expert consultants said it would run at a juicy profit. The Hundertwasser centre will probably rack up 10 million in losses by the end of the decade.
What really pleases me is despite this and all the other waste, they’ll keep rate rises under 20% this year. #gratefulforcouncilprudence.
What’s another $4k rates to me when we have an award winning new council HQ that saves ratepayers even more money? (According to consultants)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/loss-for-hundertwasser-art-centre-in-whangarei-as-visitor-numbers-drop/5LIYQPPMY5GHPDOBLYSKFHDLZA/
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April 2, 2024 8:12am
- lifesgood
  
  Gosh, I’d better get up there and see the white elephant before it shuts down.
  
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  April 2, 2024 8:14am
  - Matt Long
    
    They’ll keep it open no matter what it costs ratepayers until it starts to look old, and they want to replace it with a rainbow Islam anti colonial themed reeducation centre.
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:52am
- G152
  
  The clue is in the word ‘expert’
  X being an unknown quantity
  and ‘spurt’ being a drip under pressure
  
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  April 2, 2024 8:18am
  - Local Miller
    
    I always thought an “X” was a “has been”, as in x-wife.
    
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    April 2, 2024 4:37pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Whenever an ‘expert’ or a ‘consultant’ suggests a project will save people money it is always the opposite.
  
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  April 2, 2024 8:23am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  “We’d love to get your feedback on our proposed plan for the next 10 years. Would you like to have more events in Whangārei? Would you like to see more money spent on roads, or do you want council investing in more infrastructure for growth? Now is the time to let us know.”
  
  Guess you’ll be responding Matt ….. 🙂 🙂
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/whangarei-ltp-consultation-begins-after-easter-break-vince-cocurullo/2VOMHUKFIRHPBGEZPHCYRV2ZAQ/
  
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  April 2, 2024 8:27am
- [email protected]
  
  It’s not a place most people would want to visit a second time. Many of the exhibits were boring to me.
  
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  April 2, 2024 8:31am
- MCōs
  
  I’m sure Kawakawa’s Hundertwasser toilets is similarly a burden on the local ratepayers, but it’s right in the middle of the main street, which is also SH1 and the main thoroughfare to the rest of the Far North.
  Plenty of people stop there to have a look and also visit the nearby shops, which pretty much constitutes the entire CBD.
  The museum in Whangarei is right off the beaten track, which you have to go looking for.
  The dunny in Kawakawa has turned the wretched little town into a bit of a tourist centre
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:10am
  - jkt
    
    They can always charge the tourists and use the money to support ratepayers….. 😃
    They will “soon” build a bypass…. 😣
    
    PS
    Soon is a relative concept….
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:52am
  - Matt Long
    
    If you have the only public toilets on a state highway enroute to Kerikeri, you have a captive market, whether they’re themed or just clean enough that the faint of stomach can enter.
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:55am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      They are very clean, and they are an attraction to town. They also help the small business as lots of people go there to look, there is not much else there to do
      
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      April 2, 2024 12:51pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Been there and seen them, people do like that type of art, not really my thing, but people do call in to look and have a meal or drink while there, do it is a plus for Kawakawa
    
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    April 2, 2024 12:49pm
  - Local Miller
    
    Hey MCos, have you recently visited the Kawakawa Hundertwasser toilets? I was there a few years ago, and they were a dump, dark, dingy and felt dirty. I’d only go there again if I were about to burst.
    As far as the rest of the main street was concerned, my wife and I struggled to find a decent restaurant to get lunch, and eventually settled on a miserable pie from a dingy cafe. There were a few eclectic shops that were worth looking into once, but I’d not go out of my way to pass through there again.
    
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    April 2, 2024 4:44pm
    - Matt Long
      
      The last meal I had in Kawakawa, a long time ago now was a BLAT with rotten avocado. And the toilets were rather wiffy. All could have changed now.
      
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      April 2, 2024 8:55pm
krazykiwi

Here is the best summary of US Election voting fraud I have read: Two Weeks to Flatten Became Eight Months to Change the Election

In 1845, Congress established Election Day as the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. The Act sought “to establish a uniform time” for Americans to cast their ballots for president. Historically, voters needed to provide a valid reason – such as illness or military service – to qualify for absentee ballots.

But Covid served as a pretext to overturn that tradition. Just 25% of votes in 2020 occurred at the polls on Election Day. Mail-in voting more than doubled. Key swing states eliminated the need to provide a valid reason to cast absentee ballots. The virus and racial justice became justifications to disregard verification methods like signature requirements.

Rejection rates for absentee ballots plummeted by more than 80% in some states as the Covid regime welcomed an unprecedented increase in mail-in voting. Politicians and media outlets ignored rampant voter fraud in the months leading up to the election. They treated concerns surrounding absentee voting as obscure conspiracy theories despite a bipartisan commission describing it as “the largest source of potential voter fraud” just a decade earlier.
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April 2, 2024 8:21am
- bennerg
  
  Then let’s watch out for a new “virus outbreak” or other pandemic just before the US election.
  
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  April 2, 2024 8:47am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Bird flu in humans?
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:23am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The whole voting process is corrupt. What beats me is the voting machine seals broken, the memory cards swapped and the voted switched. Then the IT guy come in for testing, give the OK and 30 minutes later the swapping begins.
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:05am
- Rusty
  
  @krazykiwi – Biden and the democrats are devious and wicked people. Even if Trump wins in November I wouldn’t put it past them trying to have Trump and his family arrested.
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:08am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    One worry is assassination, before the Election or even after he wins.
    We all know the Democrats don’t play the game fair – ever.
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:25am
  - MCōs
    
    Who’s the ‘them’?
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:54am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    That can’t touch him when president, and he can pardon him self for the ludicrous charges that some may go against him
    
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    April 2, 2024 12:53pm
G152

Watched a TV program last night where the British Post Office spent years destroying their staff until someone took them to court and literally destroyed the managment.
Any-one damaged by the Covid run debacle want to step up??? Could be a quid in it and satisfaction for those unable to see dying relatives back then
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April 2, 2024 8:24am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Any incriminating material will be well shredded/pulped/defragged/lost by now.
  
  Do you really want to spend 20 + years banging your head against a brick wall.
  
  Think of the poor buggas who’ve been trying to get some sense (cents) out of inquiries into Abuse in State Care.
  https://www.abuseincare.org.nz/
  
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  April 2, 2024 11:15am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Has anyone been held accountable for the British Post Office scandal which saw many employees wrongly accused, fined, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned (some took their own lives) for money that went missing due to a faulty computer programme sanctioned by the Post Office under the auspices of the British government?:
    “The timeline of events in the scandal has lasted more than two decades and still nobody from the Post Office or Fujitsu has been held accountable. The case, considered the country’s biggest miscarriage of justice, was brought back into the public eye by the ITV drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office.”
    March 2024
    
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    April 2, 2024 11:45am
- Keith White
  
  We can’t sue the Govt.
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:33pm
Maggie Pie

You learn something every day thanks to ‘X’

Don’t know if it’s only me or not, but ever since school I’ve always thort ‘April Fools Day’ was just a New Zealand thang?
Turns out they celebrate it in America as well…..

https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1774813131451109840
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April 2, 2024 8:29am
- Paulus
  
  I think you might find that All Fools Day was created before America was effectively founded.
  In Europe and the UK in the Middle Ages.
  
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  April 2, 2024 8:47am
- thirteenstars
  
  You did? A society that invents The Onion and The Babylon Bee has a strong tendency to leg-pull.
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:17am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Our Thai friend who now lives in Alaska tried to tell me she was pregnant this morning on FB Messenger. Trouble is I have known her for 20? years so wise to her humour.
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:29am
- NZer In Exile
  
  I’ve noticed quite a few “Elon is a nasty git” type “documentaries” being pumped out by the far left establishment of late.
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:47pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

TOW Comic for high school kids Part 33.3.

Analysis of the propaganda.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/analysis-treaty-of-waitangi-comic-for-high-school-students-has-been-quietly-brainwashing-away-since-2018-part-33-3/
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April 2, 2024 8:29am
- judith8409121
  
  The retarded comic playbook is indeed lying – first port of call is lying by omission. After reading Ron Crosbies book ‘The forgotten wars’ – which conveniently have been silently removed from this history, you will realise the mayhem that was caused by maori against maori. The wars started around 1790 and lasted up to 1840 and would have been a major cause of the treaty. With up to 30% of maori slain, eaten, and enslaved by maori. 50 years of maori death and destruction. The maori culture was one of revenge and attack. There is also a great rendition of the Musket Wars as a series on YouTube –
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdfB-A1kW9k&list=PLqfKHE2lDTxo7IHNfDE81bwOpyTno_qac&index=53
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:51am
  - judith8409121
    
    whoops – ron crosby
    https://www.roncrosby.co.nz/
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:00am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The main point Julian Batchelor is making it the grooming of high school kids who will be future voters. The ongoing Coup that started with the Waitangi Tribunal created in 1975.
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:32am
- Notsofast
  
  A qualified secondary school teacher is working for a diploma to become a primary teacher. To pass, she has to find 15 sources of maori creativity giving them their maori names plus macrons, and then translate and explain.
  
  Apart from all else, the macron is a hoax, I think all Maori educators know this, it looks like jobs for the boys and girls.
  The macron is applied with no obvious pattern, so by definition is arbitrary and a tax on scarce time for students.
  
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  April 2, 2024 11:53am
Grizz

What on earth is Easter Tuesday? When was this ever a thing?

Teachers says this has been around since the 1950s. I was a school student in the 80s and 90s, during the time when there were only 3 terms a year. There was no such thing as Easter Tuesday.

I will point out that for 12 weeks a year children have scheduled holidays and do not attend school. I do expect Teachers to use this time to have holidays, but they do not need to have the whole 12 weeks off. Whatever they gain from Easter Tuesday and teacher only days can be achieved during the 12 weeks children are not at school. There is still plenty of time remaining to take at least 6 weeks annual leave, which is more than can be said for the parents of most of the children they teach.
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April 2, 2024 8:51am
- pdm
  
  Grizz when I started at the BNZ on 6 January 1964 Banks, Lawyers, Accountants, Insurance Offices and I think Government Offices were always closed on the Tuesday after Easter.
  
  Not sure when that change was made.
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:52am
  - smttc
    
    pdm
    
    The change occurred after WWII when lawyers stopped observing Dominion Day as a day off work and switched to Easter Tuesday.
    
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    April 2, 2024 11:19am
    - pdm
      
      Thanks smttc – had a feeling it was connected to Dominion Day in some way. I even went as far as googling what the Dominion Day date was – 26 September if my sometimes addled memory is right.
      
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      April 2, 2024 12:32pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Even mentioning Teachers, 12 weeks holiday plus teacher only days could start a civil war. They get upset very easily.//
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:35am
- imalwaysright
  
  Teachers should get 3 or 4 weeks off like everyone else.
  They should be at the prisons educating the prisoners and staffing summer school for children who need to catch up.
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:41am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Already being paid for the 12 weeks so why work for it?
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:45am
  - Ghost
    
    Does everyone else get 3 to 4 weeks? My GP has 5 to 6 weeks off a year. I know specialists who take 6 to 8 weeks off a year. They are actual holidays. Unlike a teacher I know who is in school in part of her holidays preparing her classes
    
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    April 2, 2024 11:06am
    - R
      
      school in part of her holidays preparing her classes….
      would be a very rare event. I regularly drive past local schools during the holidays; carparks are empty…..
      oh I forgot, they ride their bicycles to school during the holidays.
      
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      April 2, 2024 12:06pm
      - Ghost
        
        Not really, I live near the high school. Often see teachers in there in the holidays. My chiropractor is across the road from a primary school, see teachers in there during the holidays
        
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        April 2, 2024 12:56pm
      - lifesgood
        
        Totally agree R. I worked in Admin at a school. Over the 12 weeks of holidays the teachers have each year, not counting teacher only days, it was extremely rare to see any of them at school in the holidays which I mostly worked through. I know some of them were off overseas the minute the school shut and I know of others who took on other jobs during the holidays while still earning their teacher salaries. Ghost is, no doubt, seeing admin staff.
        
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        April 2, 2024 1:12pm
    - mawm
      
      Those doctors you are talking about all take leave ‘on their own dime’ – ie they sacrifice income for rest and recreation.
      
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      April 2, 2024 12:09pm
      - Ghost
        
        Still taking longish holidays, which isn’t the 3 to 4 weeks that hardly ever right claims everyone takes
        
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        April 2, 2024 12:57pm
      - imalwaysright
        
        Mawm
        
        Correct, and lets not forget that doctors actually work for a living and are productive, unlike the lazy majority who pretend to be teachers.
        
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        April 2, 2024 1:20pm
      - Ghost
        
        Not correct, your claim is that everyone has 3 to 4 weeks off. You were, wrong, as usual
        
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        April 2, 2024 1:35pm
      - MCōs
        
        One doesn’t like to get into a tit for tat row over teachers’ and GPs’ holidays, but I’m going to.
        I go to a clinic and regularly see one of other of two GPs. The older guy is part owner and works a three day week. I saw him in January because the other guy who is generally easier to get an appointment with was taking the month off to holiday with his teacher wife.
        Make of that what you will
        Furthermore
        Both my son and his wife are teachers. Whenever I see them on the weekends one of them appears to be bashing away on their laptop doing schoolwork
        School teaching is not an easy gig, particularly if you want to get ahead.
        What’s more your not in it for the money
        
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        April 2, 2024 5:38pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Or as your D.I.L would say Cossie…. “it’s actually ‘you’re’ pop”
        
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        April 2, 2024 6:58pm
  - Ian Boag
    
    Sounds like teaching is a real doddle. Lots of holidays, good pay, not much accountability etc
    
    So why are we not being deluged with young folk wanting to go into teaching if it is such a soft number?
    
    Go figure
    
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    April 2, 2024 1:55pm
    - thirteenstars
      
      Because money and time off can never make up for the stultifying woke environment of modern teaching.
      
      Qualifying from a College of Education is essentially a mark of compliance rather than of competency.
      
      Enthusiastic types with a real desire to do good in this world will find better opportunities elsewhere.
      
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      April 2, 2024 5:33pm
- MCōs
  
  I went to school in the fifties & sixties
  Easter Tuesday was a holiday back then
  
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  April 2, 2024 11:02am
  - R
    
    I was at school during the 50,sn no Tuesday holidays then; not official ones, maybe local skive off days!
    
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    April 2, 2024 12:07pm
    - MCōs
      
      Maybe it was just a holiday for the Catholics
      
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      April 2, 2024 2:49pm
Handyman

New low today for unreliable power generation.
At 7.30 this morning, 8 MW from wind and zero from solar.
5,280 MW from other sources (geo, gas, hydro).

Not a single EV, e-bike or electric ferry charged today will be using “renewable” energy. Luckily gas and coal plants have been fired up to shield them from reality.

Question: are there and lights on this morning for business proudly proclaiming “we use 100% renewable energy”?

https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/live-system-and-market-data/consolidated-live-data
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April 2, 2024 8:57am
- SoloView
  
  @ Handyman
  Does hydro count as renewable?
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:09am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Not anymore, we have the loopy Greens (save the trees and dickie birds.)
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:39am
  - R
    
    Hydro relies on recycled water in the form of rain. But I guess that since we no longer teach even basic science in our schools such knowledge is lost for the latter generations.
    
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    April 2, 2024 12:09pm
Maggie Pie

Can’t help but wonder how Chloe Thickbrick and those other witless keffiyeh wearing glove-puppets she manipulates feel about this?

Take a look at the Jew hating Islamist Hamas leaders that the Green Party support in the sad belief they have the moral high ground…..

https://twitter.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1774528559748419712
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April 2, 2024 9:00am
- Maggie Pie
  
  TBH Chuck….I’ve even had people say that about me 😀
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:26am
- MCōs
  
  You read the newspapers, do you?
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/in-the-loop-chloe-swarbrick-on-her-adhd-and-inequities-in-the-mental-health-system/7HBSJWRXS77CGIN6AUNSZGUUHY/
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:31am
leoj

Now we really know…

When asked by Hosking about a leak that the maori wards issue would be put on the back burner, Luxon the Woke (also Luxon the back-peddler) never denied the leak.

The namby-pamby Nats strike again!

Luxon continues to misread the room.

Weak, woke and now do-nothing.
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April 2, 2024 9:07am
- David Garrett
  
  leoj: Your opinion of Luxon pretty much mirrors mine. See my comment above on his announcement this morning that he is going to “take decisions on the return of three strikes”.
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:09am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    WTF does “take decisions” mean?
    
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    April 2, 2024 8:47pm
    - Ghost
      
      My thoughts. 3 strikes was not done well last time. This time I expect there will be a few options put forward to improve it
      
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      April 2, 2024 9:10pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Again, that bill is delayed, not canned, cabinet voted unanimously to put it back a bit, they have time before the next election, why do people always blame Luxon when it was a cabinet decision?
  
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  April 2, 2024 12:58pm
  - leoj
    
    Because the buck stops with the leader.
    
    If he can’t lead, get out of the way.
    
    He is non-committal about practically everything, a sign of weakness.
    
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    April 2, 2024 4:45pm
imalwaysright

Ardern on the speaking circuit!
I think the speaking circuit is a form of money laundering of her payment for her treason.
These tickets will be bought mostly by government departments , drug companies, and woke companies.
There is no way an individual would pay a couple of grand to listen to that idiot.
They go along to fill the seats and have a flash dinner and unlimited piss and it doesn’t cost them a cent. These types have the cash to dress well and know to shut up about their gravy train.
If you are thinking pigs at a trough you would be right.
That’s how adern gets her blood money.
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April 2, 2024 9:21am
- kevn
  
  iam… Talking big bucks.
  https://www.celebritytalent.net/sampletalent/31035/jacinda-ardern/
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:54am
  - Ra Henare
    
    Reinforcing my comment when she resigned.
    Nota UN Job
    But the speaking circuit at around $150,000 USD a pop (plus expenses-airfares business class and 4/5 star hotels)
    
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    April 2, 2024 5:02pm
- pdm
  
  `These tickets will be bought mostly by government departments , drug companies, and woke companies.’
  
  David Seymour may/should put the kibosh on that ima.
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:56am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Money laundering. In my opinion she has a lot to launder. Certain outfits paying her heavily for saying “Safe and Effective.”
  There is nothing on the google machine now, it has been scrubbed. It was a small amount compared to what NZ Taxpayer paid for the product.
  
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  April 2, 2024 12:12pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  IAR, sounds about right re the corporate woke and green grifters coughing up for perceived ESG brownie points. Probably a few wealthy you-go-girl cultists will also attend.
  
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  April 2, 2024 8:52pm
KH

This government finally put a stop to the idea of marine sanctuary for the Kermadecs.

I am dismayed.
1. With this government for stopping it.

2. With the Labour government for putting it on pause

3. With Maori of various Iwi for initiating the stop, for selfish and spurious reasons.

Vandals the lot of them.
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April 2, 2024 9:27am
- Colville
  
  The sanctuary was proposed at 62 million hectares… that is five times the size of the North Island….
  
  Just a little big dontsha think??
  
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  April 2, 2024 2:01pm
  - KH
    
    Nah. Just a nice size to start.
    It’s spectacular now, but we could make it bigger.
    
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    April 2, 2024 8:48pm
Maggie Pie

“What rights do Pakeha have that Maori don’t?”

Really love Charlie Kirk. Been a follower of his for ages.
Wonder how he’d go down here with the students at Auckland Uni?

https://tiktok.com/@thecharliekirkshow/video/7351535452505214254
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April 2, 2024 9:52am
- Che Guava
  
  Kirk’s come a long way since four or five years ago when his main talking points were “socialism is bad” and “green cards for all foreign college graduates” and “America’s just an idea for everyone but Israel is a particular people and a particular land and must come first.”
  
  Of course, that’s what the donors to Turning Point USA wanted him to say, but to stay even somewhat relevant, he’s been pressured to change is stance because the right, particularly his younger audience, has shifted sharply further right.
  
  Because of changes in popular sentiments, they’ve been forced to move away from the “Israel First”, “legal immigration good”, and “socialism is the biggest threat” “conservative” platform of 2019/2020. It was an anachronism.
  
  Still, he’d get more points from me if his shirt said “White Lives Matter” rather than the much safer “American Lives Matter.”
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:11am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The woman would not or could not answer his question about white rights and black rights.
  He finishes by talking about lack of black fathers in black homes. That is straight from Candace Owens. Democrats want blacks in that position – dependent.
  
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  April 2, 2024 12:18pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

DOC spending.
This is where the money is wasted. Why can’t someone just shoot it?

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/doc-spent-nearly-500-000-to-kill-one-stoat-in-fiordland/ar-BB1kTszY
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April 2, 2024 9:53am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I think DoC’s real problem is that it lost its way at its inception.
  It is top heavy with Deputy DGs, Directors, Chief Officers, etc and lacks practical folk in the field or at a desk-front.
  
  https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/02/doc-spends-2-8m-on-redundancies-before-budget-cut-demand/
  
  It became iconic-species (birds) focused on Day One and forgot that the Conservation estate required much more than saving kakapo or stranded whales.
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:19am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Top heavy just like all of the Public Sector.
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:48am
- imalwaysright
  
  That stoat must have done something real bad to get that bounty on his head.
  Maybe he was rude to a tuatara.
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:20am
- NZer In Exile
  
  Re the stoat chase; Sounds like a nice long lasting outdoors lark for a bunch of people.
  
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  April 2, 2024 8:56pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

That vaccine again.

https://www.thepoliticalglobe.com/uncovering-the-truth-the-controversy-surrounding-mrna-vaccines-03-31-2024/?
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April 2, 2024 10:05am
Maggie Pie

Never thort I’d say this, but I reckon Lorde might have a #2 on her hands!

A cover of Talking-Heads….. “Take Me To The River”

See what you think?

https://people.com/lorde-releases-take-me-to-the-river-talking-heads-cover-listen-8621632

SOUND UP!!
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April 2, 2024 10:13am
- Ghost
  
  Jezz, a #2 on her hands…. Hope she washes her hands
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:17am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    #2 WITH A BULLET!
    
    Do you like it Ghost?
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:21am
    - Ghost
      
      Yeah, was just listening to it on YouTube. Also liked her tribute to Bowie. Damn, can’t believe Bowie has been gone 8 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cwovIwebGw
      
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      April 2, 2024 10:28am
      - imalwaysright
        
        She’s a moany groany preachy type who gets by on being odd. One dimensional virtue signalling box ticker.
        
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        April 2, 2024 10:50am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        IAR most modern fem singing stars offer predominantly groaning, wailing and whining sounds as far as I can tell. I usually change channels/stations/sites within 5 seconds of hearing it.
        
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        April 2, 2024 9:02pm
- Che Guava
  
  Yes, sounds pretty number 2 to me.
  
  Like most contemporary but inferior cover versions, you’d have to ask yourself “what’s the point?” other than giving Lorde a pay day.
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:18am
  - Che Guava
    
    Gawd. I larf at parody accounts on blogsites. Actually, yours is one of my favourites. You are to Remuera as Ginette McDonald is to Tawa.
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:56am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  IMO she can’t sing for shit.
  
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  April 2, 2024 10:49am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    25 mill in the bank says she can 😎
    
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    April 2, 2024 10:51am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Long way to catch Taylor Swift – and she can’t sing for shit either!
      
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      April 2, 2024 12:22pm
      - MCōs
        
        You more of a Rolf Harris chap?
        
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        April 2, 2024 12:45pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @MCos. Johnny Cash actually.
        
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        April 2, 2024 1:04pm
  - Nobby2
    
    She can’t dance either.
    
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    April 2, 2024 3:41pm
- Sacha
  
  Sounds like a fuzzy Michael Jackson –
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:21pm
Tauhei Notts

I see that a KFC store in Mirpur, Kashmir, Pakistan has been torched because of KFC’s parent company facilitating investments in Israel.
I will continue to hold my Restaurant Brands shares because in our country KFC stands for “Kai For Cuzzies”. The locals would never ever bite the hand that feeds them.
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April 2, 2024 11:05am
Bobba Fret

Why would you let your child play by a swimming pool if you yourself (and your father) cannot even swim. I know it is very sad for the family to lose the father and grandfather, but jumping in the pool when you yourself cannot swim? What were they planning next? To go out in a boat when none of them can swim?
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/world/gold-coast-tragedy-father-and-grandfather-who-drowned-saving-toddler-in-pool-have-been-named/
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April 2, 2024 11:23am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It is a pool, not the ocean. The body floats anyway.
  Massive panic caused this. I fail to understand why people can’t swim, can’t even dog paddle!
  
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  April 2, 2024 12:27pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Sorry, but what sort of blithering idiots drown in a pool? It must have been massive if they couldn’t reach the side and how come the child was saved but they weren’t?
    
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    April 2, 2024 1:04pm
    - sirknz
      
      The same sort of blithering idiots that you would regularly see on shows like Piha Rescue, they tended to have surnames like ‘Singh’ and ‘Kumar’.
      
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      April 2, 2024 1:52pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Panic artists. Yup, idiots.
      
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      April 2, 2024 4:17pm
Inandout

J K Rowling is a hero.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13260581/Biden-trans-easter-jk-rowling-hate-crime-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html
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April 2, 2024 12:01pm
Maggie Pie

O.M.G. No wonder our educational standards have totally collapsed…

https://twitter.com/JenThePadawan/status/1773208747000619183
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April 2, 2024 12:04pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350232146/no-security-hand-during-wairarapa-hospital-machete-attack-union-says
Such deliberate acts should be met with deadly force by security. Why are we such wimps in this country ? Nobody fears the law any more, especially young people: the decline in school attendance and lousy results are entirely due to lack of respect for authority, including the teachers. Mind you, looking at some of the teachers they certainly don’t command or deserve respect: many seem to be mouthpieces for the Greens and Labour and unions and the gender-benders.
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April 2, 2024 12:20pm
- Keith White
  
  The offender did it. Everyone who saw him can identify him as having done it. Why can’t the police charge him the same day, he goes to court Monday, convicted Wednesday, sentenced to 10 years’ hard labour / chain gang work on Central Plateau Thursday, appeal heard and denied Friday, locked up Saturday, and on the seventh day everyone can take a break.
  
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  April 2, 2024 12:30pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    Keith for sheriff.
    
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    April 2, 2024 3:16pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The young people know that the Police can’t touch them. Neither can Security, or staff.
  Watch for the machete man assault charges on the Doctor and attendants.
  That’s the way the cookie crumbles in NZ.
  
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  April 2, 2024 12:34pm
- surfing
  
  That was a nasty attack, although it sounds like there is quite some background to this.
  
  The failure of our education system will reverberate for decades to come.
  
  We are wimps in this country because NZ is generally and historically a socialist country. Socialists just don’t believe in an individual responsibility. This is why sentencing cultural reports exist.
  
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  April 2, 2024 1:16pm
- kowtow
  
  The alleged offender is said to be 62 years old.
  Not young.
  
  But no doubt a life time of “issues” to presumably come to this .
  
  Therein the real problem.
  
  Since the ’50’s we’ve gone soft in the head . Soft on crime. Soft on everything.
  
  And now we consider ‘security’ at places like hospitals , libraries , shops , etc to be normal.
  
  But we can have a massive police presence at a non violent paint protest but so called ‘equality’ types / trannies can riot and bash old women in public to almost literal acquiesence by Plod ( who were nearby) and very little in the way of commentary from the so called mainstream.
  
  A senior Labour MP can literally be jeered off a Hamas stage in Auckland and have to be escorted by a police posse away , with no commentary from Green MPs who followed him onto the stage but screeched genocidally .
  
  This is not normal , this is totally disfunctional.
  
  Country direction ?
  
  Down the shitter.
  
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  April 2, 2024 1:32pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    Kow for deputy
    
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    April 2, 2024 3:18pm
- MCōs
  
  The perpetrator on this occasion was 62yo.
  So not a young person, not a school pupil
  The article was about lack of security in the Wairarapa Hospital A&E. The inference being in the good old days it wasn’t necessary
  I went to the WINZ in Masterton maybe thirteen years ago when I was resting between jobs.
  I struck up a conversation with a security guy who looked like he was supplementing his NZ Superannuation and would have been useless if push came to shove
  What all this has to do with truancy & discipline problem in our schools, I don’t know
  
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  April 2, 2024 1:50pm
  - greybeard
    
    My post was about this, if you missed it:
    “Nobody fears the law any more”.
    Not kids, nor 62-year olds, or anyone in between.
    ( That 62-year old deliberately armed himself with a machete and went hunting his victim in the ED of a hospital: in other countries he would have been shot ).
    Because there are no consequences, and there is a severe lack of respect for people and property and values.
    Where teachers were once respected ( feared ? ) and bad behaviour resulted in chastisement or punishment, kids these days literally get away with assault as teachers cannot respond. Add to this lack of respect and lack of proper social behaviour the incredibly bad examples set by some of our politicians: their physical appearance ( dress, tattoos, hats, adornments ) as well as their language and general stupidity.
    How many of our kids are going to cope with real life is beyond me.
    
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    April 2, 2024 5:46pm
Maggie Pie

And almost unbelieveable that ‘Trans-Day-Of-Visibility’ would we allowed to fall
on the same day as Easter.
God only knows what Jesus would have said 🙁

https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1774813995578388704
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April 2, 2024 12:31pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Paint companies could sponsor this. Free paint if you do this!//
  Need some good paint like two pot Valspa. The acrylic just washes away.
  
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  April 2, 2024 12:38pm
  - Nobby2
    
    I Think I will buy some paint company shares.
    
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    April 2, 2024 3:47pm
- CJames
  
  Even better, Biden is now denying that he did it. Senility of just a liar?
  
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  April 2, 2024 1:58pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    Biden doesn’t decide anything, he is the best distraction the dems could hope for.
    If they had someone capable of answering questions or gave the impression of being able to make decisions they would be open to much harder and more wide ranging questioning from the press.
    As it is, Sleepy Joe babbles incoherently and wanders off into the nearest closet. End of press conference !
    
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    April 2, 2024 3:25pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxKrlisPKCI
Farmers are Revolting.
The peasants are revolting. Things aren’t going well for the WEF, and Fourth Reich.
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April 2, 2024 12:53pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0mHRZ5mGJk
Trump Mugshot.
How do black voters really feel about Trump’s Mugshot? We asked, here’s what they said. [For Dems; denial is a river in Africa.]
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April 2, 2024 12:53pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Yep, it backfired beautifully. More and more Black Americans are leaving the Plantation.
  I sent the mugshot to some leftie friends. No comment, I guess they’re not my friends now 🙂
  
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  April 2, 2024 1:11pm
  - sungsamning
    
    Yes, the mugshot was an own goal for the Dems.
    
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    April 2, 2024 7:49pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    I’ve found lefty “friends” almost always find a way to throw their non lefty friends into outer (social) darkness sooner or later.
    
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    April 2, 2024 9:11pm
surfing

Scotland’s new hate speech laws are going to be a joy to observe.

JK Rowling has dared the Scottish police to arrest her.
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April 2, 2024 12:58pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Yes, apparently she said that some men pictured in a few posts are…… men!
  I don’t know how she sleeps at night!
  
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  April 2, 2024 3:29pm
lifesgood

No wonder kids are playing up in class and getting away with it. Adults are just too bloody soft. Case in point: I’ve just been to a cafe for coffee. In comes a mother with two children (Another teacher only day apparently!) She just wants to get a take away coffee and tells the children. Youngest goes “I want, I want, I want” mother says “no”. He repeats it grizzling and stamping his feet. Mother
says “No”. So he repeats it again and guess what? Mother says “Yes, OK, what would you like?” So what did she teach him? Just keep at it and you’ll get what you want and I bet this will be a pattern for his life. Uggh!
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April 2, 2024 1:01pm
- surfing
  
  Have you had kids?
  
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  April 2, 2024 1:19pm
  - David Garrett
    
    surfing: I have had kids – and am now a grandfather. Lifesgood is spot on. I remember vividly seeing scenes like that when I went supermarket shopping, often with my (then) young children.
    
    One time in particular I remember is a kid in front of us performing just as Lifes is describing – and the stupid mother eventually giving in. My children on the other hand asked once for a lolly pop and were told “Not today”.
    
    Astounded mother in front of me says “How do you get your kids to behave like that? Answer: “Consistency madam, and refusing to reward bad behaviour, as you have just done”.
    
    Cue stink eye from the silly bint, and a dramatic nose-in-the-air exit from Countdown Helensville.
    
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    April 2, 2024 2:30pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      Same here,
      My wee one learned very quickly that no means no and yes means yes.
      No malice or telling off was necessary.
      Just consistency, as you say.
      In fact, she was so accepting that I usually felt guilty!
      
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      April 2, 2024 3:48pm
    - surfing
      
      Isn’t it lollipop?
      
      It’s funny, there are numerous perfect parents on social media, but, I’ve yet to meet one in real life.
      
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      April 2, 2024 4:28pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Yes, three and when I or my better half said “No” the kids knew we meant it. Any more questions?
    
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    April 2, 2024 2:36pm
- MCōs
  
  Husband should’ve used a condom
  
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  April 2, 2024 2:32pm
- Local Miller
  
  Yes, 4 and they learned very early in life that what NO and YES meant. Besides an occasional testing of the boundaries, we never had the problem lifesgood describes. My 2 grandchildren already know the boundaries, and they are 17 months and 3 1/2 years.
  Set the boundaries, be consistent and Mom & Dad must always be on the same page WRT the rules.
  
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  April 2, 2024 5:07pm
artemisia

Iwi react to Remuera retirement village plans for 3.2ha ex-Caughey Preston site Herald today, paywalled.

Ngāti Te Ata Waiohua issues are viewshafts to mountains might be blocked, and where is the indigenous input to design.

Pity Jacinda ran away or they could have staged an occupation and had the land gifted to them. Only option now is to buy the land themselves and keep their viewshafts. Unless some lesser amount of $$$ will do the trick.
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April 2, 2024 1:06pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  We have friends in Upland Rd who opposed it. Especially when it was discovered that Chinese developers were involved. With plans showing buildings 17m high the impact on the neighboring properties would be horrific.
  
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  April 2, 2024 1:38pm
Chuck Bird

Muhammad: The DUMBEST Prophet in History!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sAGhpiH8Ac
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April 2, 2024 1:19pm
- herb1
  
  He’s run the greatest marketing program in history. Couldn’t get followers to join his army he needed for personal enrichment. How about promising men the rights to “ assault” women from any other religion . Have sex with any women outside marriage and only they get stoned to death . Commit murder and mayhem and upon death go to nirvana and be wasted on by 64 virgins. Millions fell for this marketing plan. Any other salesman coming up with a similar plan would face a lengthy jail term. He who can’t be named is deified
  
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  April 2, 2024 2:04pm
Maggie Pie

Apostle Brian has issued a warning…
“Do not play this vid around young children”

Although TVNZ-On-Demand don’t appear to give a flying fcuk 🙁

https://twitter.com/BrianTamakiNZ/status/1774916849568006458

If only we had god-fearing people like the Tamaki’s in our Parliament.
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April 2, 2024 2:26pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Yes, he’s a good man.
  I remember when they jailed him and outside the prison his wife, Hannah, was berated by Seymour in front of her grandchild.
  
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  April 2, 2024 3:40pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump posts $175 million bond.

Should Trump win, he won’t have to pay the state anything and will get back the money he has put up now.
Would you play poker with this man? There are going to be some sorry arses in DC come 2025.

http://surl.li/sdwij
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April 2, 2024 2:35pm
- Greenheart
  
  The good news is that Trump is lagging far behind Biden in the fund raising stakes and his social media group had losses of more than $58 million last year..
  Looks as if he is not such a great businessman after all and a probable loser after the election
  
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  April 2, 2024 3:36pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    $58M lost on paper. He did not fork out $58M did he?
    So many just don’t know.
    Oh, the comment I get from lefties is Trump must be bad – he has been divorced twice!
    [DELETED] I have been divorced once so I am at least half as bad as Trump.
    You stupid boy.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9t_KDGqOmE
    
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    April 2, 2024 4:23pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Looks like Greenheart is another TDS sufferer who knows very little
    ‘Truth Social, Donald Trump’s social platform, is being publicly traded on the Nasdaq. Investors valued on Tuesday that the social media platform, which was only launched two years ago, was valued at $10 billion with less than 9 million people signing up.’
    ‘Forbes reported that Trump’s net worth spiked by $5 billion.’
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2024/03/26/truth-social-is-worth-billions-thats-chump-change-for-social-media/?sh=7a1a540c378b
    
    As for Biden leading in the Fund Raising, the devil is in the detail.
    ‘Some of Biden’s fundraising advantage has been a mirage because he has been jointly fundraising with the DNC since he launched his campaign while Donald Trump only secured the Republican nomination this month. But, even if we ignore that, a deeper dive into Joe Biden’s fundraising numbers points to big trouble for his campaign.’
    ‘Only 38% of (Joe Bidens) donations come from small donors, those giving between $1 and $200. On the other hand, the Trump campaign boasts a remarkable 61% of its donations from small donors, with a mere 9% coming from major contributors.’
    ‘The lack of grassroots engagement is a warning sign for Biden ahead of a tough election cycle, raising questions about whether the 80-year-old incumbent is exciting the Democratic base the way he will need to win a second term. The new data also suggests that the threat of Donald Trump, once a huge driver of Democratic fundraising, is not motivating donors like it used to.’
    https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/03/30/heres-what-biden-doesnt-want-you-know-about-his-fundraising-numbers-n4927789
    
    And Trump just paid his $175 m Bond
    
    Sad Greenheart
    Loser!
    Lol
    
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    April 2, 2024 6:57pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      We really are getting second rate Trolls these days.
      From dumb Greenies to TDS morons to the gullible YT Russian propaganda followers to the usual Labour luvvies.
      Bring back Sonic!
      
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      April 2, 2024 7:09pm
Maggie Pie

See where Auckland Transport CEO Mark Lang is predicting “substantial fare increases and cuts to bus and rail services, if government funding fails to support AT projects”.
Buses may not be able to run after July 1st.

Thank goodness for all the Ratepayers money the last Labor led Council spent on cycle lanes, speed humps, and rainbow crossings. At least they will keep the city moving.
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April 2, 2024 2:51pm
- MCōs
  
  There’s one rainbow crossing in Auckland, a total of five in NZ
  You’d think they were on every street corner
  
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  April 2, 2024 3:52pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Let’s not forget about ‘Kiwifist’ that we all payed for when Goff was mayor Cossie!
    
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    April 2, 2024 4:35pm
MCōs

Back in 1947 schools were closed due to polio from the start of December until the middle of April of the following year and the students were taught via correspondence
At the same time NZ was still labouring under a butter & meat rationing regime that wasn’t lifted until late ‘48
I wonder if the citizenry whined and moaned back then too
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April 2, 2024 3:17pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Correspondence.
  You mean when Post Office snail mail worked properly?
  
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  April 2, 2024 4:28pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Today (or yesterday) MCos I think mentioned musicians and I said ‘Johnny Cash.
This is the type I like, not the songs that everyone knows. It is the voice.

Johnny Cash sings The Sounds of Silence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ7gJO9tyo0
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April 2, 2024 5:48pm
- greybeard
  
  I’ll see your Johnny Cash voice and raise you one Barry White voice…..
  
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  April 2, 2024 6:46pm
- kiwikidsnz
  
  Check out the Disturbed version
  
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  April 2, 2024 6:55pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Balls.
Yeah YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlIC7QIFwsk
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April 2, 2024 5:55pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/350232414/ford-ranger-driver-arrested-smashing-taupo-tesla-chargers
Place your bets, folks: a Ford Ranger driver in Taupo ( and there must be hundreds of them ! ).
I wonder who he could be ?
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April 2, 2024 6:44pm
Maggie Pie

OMG… had the telly in one ear and HDPA in the other.
Sure I heard Hether say Chris Luxton is leaving to take up the job as CEO @ Bowing!

Wonderful if troo…. can’t think of a better outcome than to have David as PM, with Winnie & Nicola as co-deputies.
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April 2, 2024 6:48pm
Ghost

What a bizarre slogan

“You would in Wellington” has become the new slogan for a campaign to bring visitors to the Capital.

Article

You would get stranded in Wellington if you travel the interislander
You would get stranded in Wellington if you flew air New Zealand to the regions
You would get fired in Wellington if you work for the government
You would be pissed in Wellington if you ever found out how much was spent coming up with this slogan
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April 2, 2024 7:46pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  “You would in Wellington”
  
  Poop on the footpath?
  
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  April 2, 2024 9:28pm
- Rich Prick
  
  And You Would run off not paying a restaurant bill.
  
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