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NeverMindTheBollocks

You know it’s election year when the media restart pimping the poor.

In this story Paula (not her real name, so critics won’t find out that she’s a longstanding Labour Party member, I think) is a superannuatant who retired promptly at 65, has no savings and rents. No health problems are reported. Perhaps picking up a few hours of work would help, “Paula”? Even if it does impact your accommodation allowance?

But, I digress. The story does not sheet home responsibility for the inflation that is eating into “Paula’s” income. NZ’s inflation is entirely due to Jacinda & Grant’s spend up, where printing money resulted in too much money chasing too few goods & services. The media ignore or are ignorant of how the economy works, so perhaps I should put it in terms they might understand. You can get pissed on alcopops in a few hours, but the hangover lasts well into the next day.

We need better reporters.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360932816/surviving-not-living-pensioners-and-beneficiaries-hit-hardest-inflation-2025
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February 5, 2026 8:04am
- Ghost
  
  She reached retirement age, what’s wrong with her retiring? Pensioners are being hit by the cost of living, is there a need to write posts attacking them for that and inventing little side bits that they must be a Labour Party member? Welcome to reality, people work jobs where they just get by, but it’s those jobs that if they went you’d be bitching that they no one is doing the low income jobs. It means they end up in retirement with little and rely on their pension, and in times like this struggle.
  
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  February 5, 2026 9:26am
  - cmm
    
    “She reached retirement age, what’s wrong with her retiring? ”
    
    Nothing. I am semi-retiring at 64.
    
    But the point is that she has had over 40 years of adulthood knowing that she would one day retire. She has only herself to blame if she didn’t put anything aside.
    
    If you’re only “getting by” on your salary and not saving anything then that’s because you’re living beyond your means.
    
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    February 5, 2026 10:04am
    - Taieri
      
      If you’re only “getting by” on your salary and not saving anything then that’s because you’re living beyond your means
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      That depends on the salary. Your perspective as an IT specialist is different from that of a Pak’n’Slave checkout operator.
      
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      February 5, 2026 10:15am
      - cmm
        
        No, still live within your means no matter what.
        
        If you’re a Pak’n’Save checkout operator then may I suggest:
        1) quite vaping, coffee, gambling (including scratchies) and such.
        2) there are hundreds of opportunities to up-skill. Just get off your arse and use them. Correspondence school is there for those that want a second crack and NCEA etc. Almost 100% paid for by the taxpayer.
        3) work just 2 hours of overtime a week.
        
        Saving $20 a week, just $3 a day, over your working career will give you $170k at retirement (assuming 5% returns). $170k will give you an extra $260 per week over a 20 year retirement period ($230 for a 25 year retirement). That’s in addition to Super.
        
        If you did that through Kiwisaver with an employee match we’re talking maybe $400k or so, and that is going to give you over $500 per week + super.
        
        Choices, choices… you can’t have it all.
        
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        February 5, 2026 12:09pm
      - Taieri
        
        No, still live within your means no matter what.
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        All I can say is that you don’t know what you are talking about.
        
        Not all poor people vape, drink coffee, gamble and such.
        
        Your reasoning reminds me of a certain politician years ago (Katherine O’Regan), who set out to prove that you can live on bugger all. She did. Exactly for a week.
        
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        February 5, 2026 12:32pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        I see that “Paula” still manages to have a Sky subscription.
        
        Relying on the free apps from TVNZ will free up some discretionary income.
        
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        February 5, 2026 1:04pm
      - cmm
        
        I provide some hard numbers there. What can you possibly disagree with?
        
        I’ll bet that every NZ worker could find a way to scratch up another $3 per day through:
        * being a bit more careful in their spending
        * increasing their earning potential (eg. a bit better education, a second job, or a couple of hours overtime)
        * choosing to have fewer children
        
        If they can do that then they are on their way to adding $200 a week to their retirement. That’s actually quite a flash lifestyle.
        
        I lived the first 30 years of my life in Africa where people had far less than NZ and didn’t go on and on about hardship.
        
        There is no real poverty in NZ. There is poverdee (ie. comparing yourself to others, ie envy).
        
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        February 5, 2026 2:10pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        So I am hound out on a limb here, if you have no savings, and you have expensive costs then you don’t retire, why do the left want government to wipe their arses all the bloody time.
        
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        February 5, 2026 2:37pm
      - Taieri
        
        I provide some hard numbers there. What can you possibly disagree with?
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        All that you do is stereotyping.
        
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        February 5, 2026 3:14pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      Cmm
      What a load of arrogant tosh.
      You have no idea of her background.
      Maybe a non working mother for many of those years who had a major financial upset before retirement.
      
      Life is about choices. Some have a number of choices available some do not.
      
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      February 5, 2026 4:18pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Cmm: “If you’re only “getting by” on your salary and not saving anything then that’s because you’re living beyond your means.”
      
      Unfortunately I think many people ARE financially illiterate most of their lives. Financially literacy should be a compulsory subject in primary and secondary school. Especially in NZ where there are few second chances (live the straight and narrow all your life, or suffer later on).
      
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      February 5, 2026 7:18pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Retiring promptly at 65 when you can’t afford it does not seem like a prudent choice to me. Perhaps she could have worked on for a year or two to pull together some savings?
    
    Speaking of inventing side bits, how do you know that she had a low income job? She could have lived the high life for all you & I know, and blown it at the track.
    
    We could find these things out, if the reporter had reported “Paula”’s name. But she didn’t. The whole article could be fiction.
    
    Any which way, the inflation that’s the point of the story arose from Labour’s profligate use of the country’s credit card. But the reporter does not say this.
    
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    February 5, 2026 10:08am
    - Ghost
      
      Some people retire before 65 because their bodies are fucked, you don’t know her circumstances, so don’t make them up.
      
      Actually what I’ve said is many people work low income jobs, jobs that are important and end up in retirement with little. If you want to decide I’m talking about her, that’s up to you
      
      Being labours fault doesn’t change the fact that people are struggling. Compassion for your fellow new Zealanders would be good for you to learn.
      
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      February 5, 2026 10:49am
      - cmm
        
        Nobody in NZ really knows what “struggling” is.
        Sure, they might be “struggling” compared to their favourite Tiktoker, but that is not really “struggling”. The real name for that is envy.
        
        South African state pension is R2320 per month. That’s $NZ240 per month.
        
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        February 5, 2026 12:15pm
      - mike
        
        So is cmm saying the reason so many Saffers fled democracy is to come to places with better welfare systems?
        
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        February 5, 2026 12:43pm
      - Nobby2
        
        Ghost, The story on her didn’t give any indication of what her working life circumstances were so you shouldn’t be surprised if people decide for themselves what her circumstances were. As someone else said the story could also be complete fiction.
        
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        February 5, 2026 2:16pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Ghost: “Some people retire before 65 because their bodies are fucked, you don’t know her circumstances, so don’t make them up.”
        
        Neither do you know her circs. 😛
        
        I do agree that once your body packs up, your options become quite limited.
        
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        February 5, 2026 7:23pm
      - Ghost
        
        never said I did know her circumstances. I’ve given a general comment about people, some people lack the ability to take that and have decided it’s her circumstances. I take no responsibility for the stupidity of people who want to put more into what is written than is there, especially those who lack the ability to have compassion for their fellow citizens.
        
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        February 5, 2026 7:35pm
    - Paulus
      
      Labour do not use Fiction !
      
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      February 5, 2026 11:14am
    - Ra Henare
      
      Nevermind and others who are happy to assign current inflation on to Labours 2020-2023 reign of terror.
      
      To get some facts to offset your ideological mis information can I respectfully suggest you ask your favourite AI platform (Chatgpt/Grok/Gemini et al.)
      
      what are the causes of modern day 2025 2026 inflation in NZ.
      
      One could argue from their responses that the Coalition by doing nothing!!!! are a major contributor!!! eg Electricity prices, Rates, Insurance etc etc
      
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      February 5, 2026 4:25pm
  - Paulus
    
    We, and many of our retired friends are very happy financially in retirement, as we looked forward to that time, and made additional financial provisions, in that we get some personal addition to the Government Super.
    We are very satisfied with the Government share.
    Wow, now I am in trouble !!!
    
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    February 5, 2026 11:13am
    - JerJer
      
      No. You just planned. I planned to retire with a passive I don’t which exceeds NZ super per month, so 12x super. I made that plan when I was 21, when I finished university. Plan working very well, I’m just already there with 15 years before I’m 65. Planning is everything and easy. I had a low income when I began, and saving was easy, but I wasn’t an alcoholic, didn’t smoke, and didn’t have a bunch of kids I couldn’t afford. Lefties on stuff go spastic when you mention all you need is a plan, 30 years ago. I’m quite bored of all the complaining and sorry stories that could have been easily avoided and yet are someone else’s fault, like NACTs fault. I can’t reconcile how 30 years of a random persons incompetence can be sheeted home to the current government.
      
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      February 5, 2026 2:51pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    They need to prepare all their life for retirement. They need savings, they need shelter sorted, and if they are paying huge rents and can’t afford life, then they have no option but to not retire. It’s simply crazy to immediately retire then whinge about not making ends meet.
    
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    February 5, 2026 2:35pm
    - Sacha
      
      I wish I had known about Dave Ramsey’s ‘Baby Steps’ financial plan when I was young. I never had any real savings plan until I went back to work when the kids were at school.
      Admittedly he’s an American, a good old small town boy, but his advice works here too.
      Have a look at his YouTube channel especially if you have kids planning to go to work.
      
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      February 6, 2026 12:40am
- Simon
  
  You vote for it. National are very big on equality, this story just camouflages the massive welfare state that National runs, mainly for working age people. The person in this story is very much the exception in the bloated welfare state.
  
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  February 5, 2026 9:40am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    It’s a cry baby load of bullshit from
    The left that means absolutely nothing, who cares what the left spout?
    
    But of course this stupid woman who should not have retired without savings is all Bats fault ffs.
    
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    February 5, 2026 2:42pm
- artemisia
  
  A conversation I frequently have with my family. Most people, regardless of age, have no interest in money apart from spending it. Except in many cases buying a home once they figure out they are paying someone else’s mortgage.
  
  Some of my fam is in that ‘most people’ group, regardless of my considerable efforts and $$. And pretty much it is the females in that group, sadly.
  
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  February 5, 2026 11:31am
  - cmm
    
    And they will all be bitching when the party is over…
    
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    February 5, 2026 12:16pm
- wsk12345
  
  I think many beneficiaries are doing very nicely.
  i recently helped a friend out by advertising for and selecting a cleaner for her holiday rental (she lives out of town). Lots of responses to an ad on the local facebook page, most of them beneficiaries. All of tis subgroup wanted ro be paid under the table so they didn’t lose their benefit. All were solo mothers, and some did half a dozen such jobs. one told me she got over $1100 per week from the benefit (2kids). She commented that she “gets extra accom supplement because I live in a high rent area” (it’s a small town, she could have moved 5 min away from the beach and paid a more normal level of rent).
  
  I met her at her house. Way flasher thsn mine, she had nicer clothes too and a designer dog. I had a moment of thinking that i wouldnt mind her life, all that free time and a lovely standard of living. Then i remembered that i have well earned self respect.
  
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  February 5, 2026 1:18pm
  - rouppe
    
    There was a guy at the pool who recently told me he’d been on the sickness benefit for 4 years by telling his gp he heard voices and was worried he might “do something”.
    
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    February 5, 2026 8:11pm
  - Ghost
    
    What a load of bullshit.
    
    I’m going to end up on a benefit once I stop fighting everyone saying it’s time,and even maxing out what is available including the disability allowance it doesn’t even come close to being something you can live off comfortably, and doesn’t even come close to covering my medical costs,
    
    Some of you really do live in a fantasy world so devoid of reality, and with your snobby little heads stuck so far up …..
    
    Btw, I have a neighbour who has been on the benefit for 5 years now, and no it’s not a comfortable life, if it wasn’t for his wife I doubt he would cope. But hey, what else can he do, a builder who had a massive stroke in his early 40’s, he’s lucky to be able to get by as he does. But no doubt the up themself people on this blog would think he has a great life being on a benefit.
    
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    February 6, 2026 12:33am
Cassandra

The Aotearoa Liberation League (sic): the Government has been bashing Maori apparently. That sets the scene for today’s Waitangi parliamentary pōwhiri – and a planned “peaceful, non-violent” protest against some of its participants. 1News reportsthat an “activation” is planned to block government MPs and Christopher Luxon from reaching Te Whare Rūnanga.

“This government has been overtly anti-Māori, the worst in decades, and we cannot allow their term to end without challenge,” the organisers’ social media post reads. Participants in the non-violent action will link arms to stop the coalition gaining access, but Labour, Greens and Te Pāti Māori will be allowed to pass through.

I hope it’s televised . Sends a powerful message that a left wing government will favour Maoris over the rest of us.

Time to scrap Waitangi altogether. Give it back to the Bledisloes. The Treaty itself has become a farce.

Matua Jones says that New Zealanders are suffering Treaty fatigue. Understatement is not normally a Jones habit.
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February 5, 2026 8:07am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Remember the wailing when the PM decided to attend celebrations other than at Waitangi?
  
  Perhaps those who want the PM to front up at Waitangi should have a word with these idiots.
  
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  February 5, 2026 8:19am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Isn’t it funny, he spoke today and Māori media said he was not interrupted the whole speech, turn MSM on and he was shouted through every word, who the he’ll do we believe ?
    
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    February 5, 2026 2:44pm
- Nikola Donatello
  
  What exactly has the Government done that is “anti Maori”?
  
  The Treaty is still there. The Government killed the attempt by David Seymour to end the ‘partnership’ paradigm.
  
  The use of te reo, Te ao Maori, and a commitment to ‘partnership’ have all deepened and expanded under this government. I say that as someone on the ‘inside’ of those institutions.
  
  There has been no austerity affecting Maori.
  
  I genuinely do not get it.
  
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  February 5, 2026 8:22am
  - Cassandra
    
    Some Maoris define bashing as withdrawing privileges. Making prayers in the Maori language voluntary and in your own time, for example. Apparently giving millions to family holiday centres aka maraes, is not enough.
    
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    February 5, 2026 8:33am
    - pdm
      
      Exactly – go to You Tube and have a look at Duncan Garners latest podcast which infers that the National component of the Coalition is very receptive to and supportive of Co Governance in my opinion.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yqKie1xvsA&t=1724s
      
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      February 5, 2026 9:09am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Luxon said from day one there will not be any separatist services, those have been wiped, and no where in the treaty does it say that Māori have special services
        
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        February 5, 2026 2:46pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        G don’t forget the BS treaty obligations the loony left have made up and created a religion out of.
        
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        February 5, 2026 7:57pm
    - cmm
      
      “Some Maoris define bashing as withdrawing privileges.”
      
      Some? Most, surely.
      
      The majority of Maori are on the Maori roll. To do that surely requires that you think you are special. I doubt many of them would go back to normal without some level of squealing.
      
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      February 5, 2026 2:14pm
  - Fender
    
    and that’s your problem in a nutshell, its unwinnable and trying to apply logic to a rort is only going to make your head hurt. They are relying on your guilt to get results and just making shit up faster than you can defend or reason with.
    It would make zero difference if you gave them the 3x what they wanted in payments there own hospitals and schools and then all the water, beaches, mountains and even the south island, it would still be all your fault.
    do you think crime, child bashing, wife beating numbers would come down even after all those gifts
    Moerewa for example would not look any different except for a few more ford rangers
    
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    February 5, 2026 8:37am
  - artemisia
    
    It’s politics. Closely trailed by ‘follow the money’. Simple.
    
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    February 5, 2026 8:46am
  - Swifty
    
    ‘Maori Bashing’ is the term frequently used these days to describe any situation where politicians decline to do something that a Maori person or some Maori people has asked them to do – doesn’t matter how insane it is, ill-considered, socially damaging, benefit-free, costly, counterproductive or how much it will lead to unintended consequences.
    
    None of that matters – it’s just automatically framed as ‘Maori bashing’.
    
    It is exactly the same as a parent, rightly declining a request from a small child on the basis of safety, or fairness, or cost etc being labelled with ‘child abuse’.
    
    The whole thing is dishonest and designed purely to raise public and Maori antagonism towards the politicians saying ‘No’ – and to wear them down over time and raise the likelihood of a ‘Yes’ some time in the future.
    
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    February 5, 2026 9:00am
    - gravedodger
      
      There are NO Maori, only persons with mixed genetics or maybe simply a belief they wish it so?
      
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      February 5, 2026 9:14am
  - Nikola Donatello
    
    Just to illustrate my point, there is an article at RNZ “Climate change is a priority for Iwi leaders at Waitangi”.
    
    Here is my informed guess. “Climate” killed and destroyed the lives of Maori on a larger scale before the early 20th century. Cyclones, winter storms that could not be forecast. They simply arrived and wiped out basic structures and folk drowned.
    
    What has protected Maori from death and destruction from the climate? Colonisation and modern forecasting technology and modern building methods.
    
    Climate change should not be on the agenda for Waitangi day.
    
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    February 5, 2026 9:33am
    - David George
      
      They should be pleased if it’s a little warmer.
      The mini ice age was devastating for Maori. They had no temperate climate crops, their tropical/subtropical crops (yams, taro, kumara principally) failed to flourish as they did in the much warmer climate they arrived in. The extinction of the moa and accessible seal colonies (and virulent warfare and cannibalism) followed .
      
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      February 5, 2026 10:30am
    - kowtow
      
      ‘Climate change should not be on the agenda for Waitangi day’
      
      If there’s OPM to be had ,it’ll be on the agenda.
      
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      February 5, 2026 10:53am
    - Kevin
      
      But, but , but, what will those who hope to make a living that way do, if it’s understood to be all baloney? Not just the ‘we must do this and my way’ gang, but also the ‘this is baloney don’t listen to that gang’ other gang.
      With the possible burning capsizing and sinking British Labour gov taking with it the last dying hope of (comfortable) Marxists, what will the Left in NZ do?
      NZ Labour are the poor devil in the diving helmet trying to stay alive, fed air by a dodgy compressor on the sinking Fabian Society boat.
      No wonder ex PM Clark is singing a deep voiced dirge.
      Far more fun to watch than anything about the CC hoax. Which is also going for the big sleep.
      
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      February 5, 2026 7:58pm
  - Northshoredoc
    
    Damn you and your reasonable questions Nikola!
    
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    February 5, 2026 9:41am
  - Ian
    
    And now I see just after posting earlier, that the ALL have called the protest off – “We’ve decided to heed the call to respect the chosen pōhiri process laid out by the haukāinga. We do not want to contribute to the narrative of disunity amongst Ngāpuhi,” the group said, in a statement issued this morning.” Maybe they got the word from the elders…
    
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    February 5, 2026 10:50am
    - kowtow
      
      “We do not want to contribute to the narrative of disunity amongst Ngāpuhi,”
      
      Helping to prove the very point .The whole thing is loaded with disunity .
      
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      February 5, 2026 10:55am
  - Paulus
    
    It is called Money !
    
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    February 5, 2026 11:15am
  - nova
    
    The perception that the government is anti-Maori is being pushed by people such as Chris Hipkins, who tried to claim on One News last night that “Christopher Luxon said he wouldn’t support the Treaty Principles Bill, but yet he voted for it”, or words to that effect.
    Even though National did exactly what they said they would do all along, and supported it at the first reading, and voted against it at the second reading.
    Chris Hipkins needs to start being more constructive, and not be constantly on the attack, and misconstrue things. The exchange last week where he raised a point of order over David Seymour saying King Charles the Fifth was both amusing and disappointing. In that case the reference was to the Holy Roman Emperor of that name and not the current King Charles III. Even if it had been a mistake, it was a petty thing to raise, and not an appropriate use of a point of order.
    
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    February 5, 2026 1:04pm
- Nikola Donatello
  
  Other nations have treaties of various sorts with indigenous people.
  
  What is different about New Zealand is in having a single, named 1840 treaty that is treated as a central constitutional document and continues to be invoked across legislation, case law and policy. It is the subject of news stories every day. It creates animosity and division every day. There is deep disagreement about what it means. Every day.
  
  So yes other countries have internal ‘treaties’ but in New Zealand, it has become this insidious intrusion. It covers race relations, science, education, law. Everything. We are in the midst of wailing by schools because the government told them that they did not need to ‘uphold the Treaty’. You know, because your job is to teach children to read and write and do maths.
  
  It cannot go on like this.
  
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  February 5, 2026 8:31am
  - Debsta
    
    Yep, the treaty is a dead weight on NZ and ALL its citizens, and will continue to hold us back until we break the shackles. Surely anyone with a functioning brain can see this reality. As you say, it feels like a sick joke…every single day. We used to be so much better than this.
    
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    February 5, 2026 8:45am
    - RichardF
      
      Just look at the size of our government relative to countries with similar sized populations. The amount of money spent on ‘Maori’ is obscene. You’re right; it is holding our country back. I couldn’t care less about Waitangi day or the Treaty, ditch it and create a New Zealand day.
      
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      February 5, 2026 9:10am
  - mandk
    
    I agree, it cannot go on like this.
    
    The Treaty is void and should be ended (although I confess I do not know how this could be done).
    
    Māori do not believe that were ceding sovereignty to the Crown when they signed the Treaty, and it absurd to imagine the Crown believed it was entering into a partnership with Māori.
    
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    February 5, 2026 8:47am
    - RichardF
      
      The ones who signed it knew exactly what they were doing. Its modern revisionist activists who are trying to move the goal posts.
      
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      February 5, 2026 9:12am
      - septic skeptic
        
        I don’t think they are trying to move the goal posts – they have succeeded. Parliament is more united on the principle of partnership than it is on almost any other issue. All parties bar ACT have clearly endorsed the partnership doctrine, and the TOW has been turned on it’s head. What was originally a treaty uniting all races as equal citizens (subjects) is now a treaty that permanently divides us into two classes, subjects of the crown and partners of the crown.
        
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        February 5, 2026 10:03am
    - Nikola Donatello
      
      AFAIK the Treaty could be ended by an Act of Parliament.
      
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      February 5, 2026 9:15am
      - kowtow
        
        It was a simple nullity.
        
        Now the activists tell us it’s a foundational / constitutional document .
        
        Funny old world.
        
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        February 5, 2026 9:31am
  - Yvette
    
    Nikola – It cannot go on like this.
    
    A great deal of mental ill-health occurs where people are unable to distinguish between their inner perceptions and outer realities.
    
    An example of this can be arguing over whether Maori ceded sovereignty or not, but at the same time the reality is that elected Governments are making laws, giving rights and responsibilities – allowing sovereignty to be exercised regardless of any mental attitude to it.
    
    Can that go on like this?
    
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    February 5, 2026 8:55am
    - Dave
      
      Whether or not Māori chiefs in 1840 believed they were ceding sovereignty, over the next 100 years many acknowledged that they had ceded sovereignty; after 1945 when many Maoris left their impoverished homes in the countryside for the cities with schools, modern housing, better jobs and health services, they largely or partly exchanged tribal organisation and support systems for those of the colonisers.
      
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      February 5, 2026 1:00pm
  - Paulus
    
    Why do not part Maori, be consistent in Honouring the Treaty ?
    
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    February 5, 2026 11:17am
- artemisia
  
  So government attendees have had advance notice, Cassandra. They will have a plan.
  
  Suggestions? How about they make very sure incidents are filmed, faces shown and named. Be nice if the protesters look highly ridiculous in any vid releases. But perhaps government attendees are more likely to smile and wave as they head back to their cars. That would be a suitable response – dignified but final.
  
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  February 5, 2026 8:39am
  - Paulus
    
    Sales of sticky war paint must increase exponentially when the so called Maori dress up and paint themselves into a morbid and violent obesity pantomine, which is what they look like.
    Obesity will and probably is the greatest killer of Maori, not overwork, and they appear to be looking more so whenever they show off.
    
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    February 5, 2026 2:47pm
- septic skeptic
  
  The joke is that half of those offended by the continued racist policies will vote for Winston and Shane. Hoping that their anti grievance industry rhetoric will translate into some actual action. Bless them – such blissful ignorance.
  
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  February 5, 2026 8:41am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Then NZF throws koha
    
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    February 5, 2026 2:49pm
- imalwaysright
  
  The ‘Treaty’ industry is a thinly veiled extortion racket.
  
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  February 5, 2026 9:11am
  - Paulus
    
    Why thinly ?
    
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    February 5, 2026 2:47pm
  - R
    
    It has never been THIN. INITIALLY it raised the standard of living and conditions of Maori. Then the grandchildren of the original Maori signatories, went to University, just at the time that MARXIST indoctrination was spreading through FREE WORLD WESTERN Universities. Hence the rise of Maori activism, and the deterioration of what were generally a fine motivated people 1940s and forward to now.
    
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    February 5, 2026 5:37pm
- Simon
  
  The Aotearoa Liberation League. Who funds it? Follow the money and there will be a grasping grifting race hustlers. Ultimately funded by taxpayers.
  
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  February 5, 2026 9:44am
- cmm
  
  I say liberate them.
  Liberate them from the taxpayer’s wallet.
  
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  February 5, 2026 10:05am
- Ian
  
  Does the position of the ALL fly in the face of the iwi/tribe/elders (not sure who) responsible for the Waitangi celebrations and that they might want to welcome the government of the day onto the grounds with a powhiri? Have the ALL people the approval of the iwi/tribe/elders to to carry out this protest. Does the iwi/tribe/elders have the fortitude to stand up to these protesters, or are they silently condoning it? Is this another case of iwi/tribe/elders being made to look disrespectful by being hijacked by a radical protest? If the protesters are only going to allow opposition MPs through the line, shouldn’t Hipkins, etc. refuse to do so in solidarity with respect to all parliamentarians – can’t see that happening…
  
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  February 5, 2026 10:35am
- Damocles11
  
  Labour Lite and the hapless hopeless appeaser Luxon are in foetal position at Waitangi, with Luxon ‘acknowledging’ that “the Treaty Principles Bill was incredibly challenging for Maori”.
  Luxon sees Maori as a homogenous bloc; apparently if you identify as Maori then you share the exact same thoughts, feelings, and opinions as every other Maori. Very sad that ‘leaders’ take this view in what should be enlightened times. Luxon also uses ‘incredibly’ with nauseating regularity: he is incredibly excited, incredibly passionate, this is an incredible country, he has an incredible team….when everything is incredible, nothing is.
  
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  February 5, 2026 11:28am
  - Taieri
    
    Luxon sees Maori as a homogenous bloc
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    Just as most of New Zealanders.
    Some of them with enchantment, others with despair.
    
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    February 5, 2026 2:01pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    No, he said the TPB was challenging when he was asked is your party racist. He never said for Maori, so get facts in order.
    
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    February 5, 2026 2:51pm
    - R
      
      ‘G’….don’t confuse the writers mind with FACTS. Spoils the activist credibility of his agenda.
      
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      February 5, 2026 5:40pm
imalwaysright

$250,000 for the Tauranga Council to ask staff and others what they did in the 24 hours preceding the slip…
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February 5, 2026 8:13am
Simon

Is goyim a permitted word on kiwi blog? Is there a list of banned kiwi blog words anywhere ?
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February 5, 2026 8:13am
- pdm
  
  Simon if you use it add a definition as well please.
  
  I have never heard of the word goyim before now.
  
  Am I the only one?
  
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  February 5, 2026 9:45am
  - Jack5
    
    “Goyim” — non-Jewish.
    
    The word has appeared on Kiwiblog a number of times.
    
    There have been some strongly anti-Jewish posters here over the years.
    
    “Kea,” a high-IQ, highly nutty poster was the most fervent. She/he seemed to be a mature (in age) physics student living extremely modestly while working furiously in string theory.
    
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    February 5, 2026 9:58am
    - nova
      
      Are refering to Marni Sheppeard? Not doxxing as she died 5 years ago and I think the link is already established.
      
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      February 5, 2026 1:18pm
      - Jack5
        
        Yes, Marni Dee Sheppeard — on Kiwiblog “Kea”.
        
        In addition to winding up fellow posters and occasionally lapsing into an anti-Jewish outburst, Kea sometimes wrote about tramping in the mountains.
        
        This link confirms Kea’s death while tramping:
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bone-found-on-west-coast-belongs-to-missing-tramper-marni-sheppeard/ZPU6S2DEP5DXXLDYZOVOPECHNI/
        
        This earlier report tells of Kea going missing, and at that stage (early 2021) in a mission shelter after earlier “living on the streets”:
        
        https://explorersweb.com/mountaineer-goes-missing-again-in-the-same-place/
        
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        February 5, 2026 5:47pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Kea is now WS?
      
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      February 5, 2026 7:25pm
  - Southern Raider
    
    Is a Hebrew word which translates to “nations” or “people” in relation to others who aren’t Jewish. Similar to you saying “foreigners” to describe people who don’t come from NZ.
    
    However antisemites try to position as proof that Jews see themselves as superior to others and that it’s actually an offensive term.
    
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    February 5, 2026 10:23am
    - Cassandra
      
      Yiddish, I think. In Hebrew it means nation. Yiddish for non-Jew.
      
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      February 5, 2026 11:09am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Often seen on “red pill” style channels with lots of anti-Semitic loons (probably ROP supporters given the level of hatred) in the comments sections.
      
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      February 5, 2026 7:31pm
  - SoloView
    
    goyim
    
    Plural form of goy
    
    A person who is not Jewish.
    In Jewish use, a nation.
    A non-Jew, a Gentile.
    
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    February 5, 2026 10:48am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Goy is a Jewish term for anyone that is non-jewish. Goyim is a non jewish nation or people. It is yiddish.
    Like other Yiddish words, it has found its way into English.
    Glitch, schmooze, spiel, bagel, tush, nosh, schtick among others.
    
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    February 5, 2026 10:53am
    - sungsamning
      
      My mistake, I thought it meant cattle.
      
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      February 5, 2026 3:20pm
  - sungsamning
    
    It means cattle, as far as I know.
    
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    February 5, 2026 12:57pm
- Simon
  
  Thanks. Wasn’t sure. I have had a few posts not cleared moderation. “Epstein was Jewish”. Is this a fact permitted? Allowed through moderation?
  
  Gonna do this one point at a time. Break it down so to “speak”
  
  [Mod – drop the abuse]
  
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  February 5, 2026 9:47am
  - Jack5
    
    Epstein was Jewish? So was Jesus.
    
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    February 5, 2026 5:50pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Here’s another election year story, this time from RNZ. A grandmother who’s on a disability benefit is finding it hard to fund the two grandchildren she (we) are bringing up. Debts to the previous school for uniforms? No worries, a grant from you and me covers that. And now there’s new uniforms to buy, and why? Why, she’s been given the keys to a bigger state house, in another area requiring her grandkids to attend a new school.

Not a word on where the parents of her grandchildren are, but you just know that they did not die of some unfortunate medical condition because if they had, you’d be told all about it.

Not a word of gratitude either for the taxpayers who fund this lifestyle. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good that she’s stepped up in place of her child, but the generosity of strangers could be acknowledged. But, that would counter the dog whistle, which is that the National-led government is cruel to poor brown people.

http://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/585990/everyday-living-is-just-so-hard-families-going-into-debt-to-pay-for-school-uniforms
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February 5, 2026 8:14am
- artemisia
  
  Of course the liable parents are paying child support, and this is going direct from IRD to the caregiver. Right?
  
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  February 5, 2026 8:54am
- wisteria
  
  If she raised the parent of these children then should she be the carer of said children.
  
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  February 5, 2026 8:57am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  As the principal care giver of those two children the grandmother will receive $7921 for the eldest child and $6454 for the subsequent child in Working For Families Tax Credits.
  Not bad, eh?
  
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  February 5, 2026 10:50am
  - Taieri
    
    She’s on invalid benefit. Is the WFT credit applicable?.
    
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    February 5, 2026 2:09pm
  - MCōs
    
    Except she’s on a sickness benefit
    I can’t be bothered with the way people will look for any way to put the boot into people who struggle along
    Why can’t you just accept that life’s not easy for her?
    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUWe1WAlBnW/?igsh=YXZ0MmwyMml1bDc3
    
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    February 5, 2026 3:23pm
    - Tauhei Notts
      
      I wrote “tax credits”. I did not write “tax rebates”.
      Social welfare beneficiaries get the benefit upped by the sum of tax credits.
      
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      February 5, 2026 4:18pm
AitchW

I find the lack of respect for senior politicians from activists deeply galling.
These people demand respect for their tikanga and mana, yet show no respect at all for the mana of the position of PM.
The hypocrisy is infuriating as much as the absolute lack of self awareness is staggering.
Maybe one day they will be prepared to have an adult and respectful discussion about their “grievances” and be prepared to listen to the viewpoint of the government, or the crown if you prefer, until then no government MP should set foot in Waitangi for the annual ritual abuse.
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February 5, 2026 8:23am
- septic skeptic
  
  I look at this the other way around. The (National) PM knows they will get shit flung all over them at Waitangi, figuratively if not literally. That’s as certain as the sun rising in the East. So why does Luxon choose to participate in this charade, which demeans the office he holds? The solution is as you say simply to stay away. Not for one year, but for all time unless and until the climate changes. It will be a very long time before these leopards change their spots. IMO it is Luxon dragging the office of PM through the mud, not the mudslingers themselves.
  
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  February 5, 2026 9:39am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    The climate changing at Waitangi is about as likely as that other type of climate changing.
    
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    February 5, 2026 12:37pm
- mike
  
  The worst example in our modern history being the smelly rabble allowed to camp outside Parliament for far too long.
  
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  February 5, 2026 12:51pm
  - Jethrod
    
    Brilliant segue Mike, see the essence of the story not going your way, so change the direction!
    
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    February 5, 2026 4:25pm
    - mike
      
      Some protests are more important than others?
      
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      February 5, 2026 5:34pm
- Jack5
  
  Disrespect comes from the media as well as from Maori activists.
  
  A heckler will be reported in detail nearly matching that of a Coalition speaker.
  
  TVNZ has been trotting out for the umpteenth time trot out its ageing video of Don Brash being pelted with mud at Waitangi.
  
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  February 5, 2026 2:26pm
- Paulus
  
  It is the media trained experts who are the leaders in denigrating our leading politicians – especially the women who hate other women more than men.
  
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  February 5, 2026 2:49pm
  - MCōs
    
    That’s a sweeping generalization
    
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    February 5, 2026 2:56pm
Yvette

In one way UNDRIP is simple.
How can Labour (Maori Caucus) progress He Puapua, any further than they have attempted, without now being accused of doing what has been utterly rejected in ACT’s Principles Bill: altering in any way the status of the Treaty or any aspect of it?
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February 5, 2026 8:28am
- pdm
  
  Yvette yesterday I saw something that implied another Labour Maori MP (other than Henare) was jumping ship.
  
  No name no clues though and I have seen nothing since.
  
  If true and a couple more go there will not be much left of the much vaunted Labour Maori Caucus, or Labours Parliamentary Caucus either.
  
  Rats leaving a sinking ship?
  
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  February 5, 2026 9:49am
  - AitchW
    
    There are always retirements at election time. As the economy improves Labour’s chances of re-election become slimmer. List MPs down the list will recognise this, those with no chance may well jump before they are pushed.
    “Spend more time with the family”….
    
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    February 5, 2026 10:02am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Reading between the lines…..
    I suspect the Maori leaders who are associated with businesses have realised that they’re more likely to advance themselves under deals with National than with Labour.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360934098/did-peeni-henare-tell-maori-read-between-lines-mystery-deepens-mps-resignation
    
    https://iwichairs.maori.nz/reehita-nicf-membership/
    
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    February 5, 2026 10:32am
    - kowtow
      
      One gang of grifters grifting against a different gang of grifters.
      
      The only thing that stays constant is either way the taxpayer still must pick up the bill.
      
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      February 5, 2026 10:45am
      - imalwaysright
        
        The grifters must be weakened by reducing the money supply. That will increase the internal in-fighting.
        
        A simple email from the Government will do the job:
        “Funding suspended pending audit.”
        
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        February 5, 2026 11:08am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Jo Luxton has not put her hat in the ring for Rangitata, Labour have not got a candidate for the selection, and it’s passed their day for candidacy
    
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    February 5, 2026 2:57pm
sungsamning

London and Wall Street arent Mr Warsh’s biggest fan. Its back to the American System of tariffs, industrial policy, and economic policy. This is the republican New Deal. [Bailouts are off the menu. Reshoring is on it. The usual suspects are not amused.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVWjKarWA_Q
London and Wall Street are in a Total Panic Today.
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February 5, 2026 8:29am
- MCōs
  
  Wall Street is holding up remarkably well considering its in total panic.
  
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  February 5, 2026 2:43pm
sungsamning

President Trump has cut off the flow of taxpayer dollars to WHO. The A limo service is under threat. Caviar helper has been substituted for the real thing. RFK said WHO had “tarnished and trashed everything the US had done for it”. [Great idea. there’s no point giving money to a useless organization. Will Xi make up the shortfall?]
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/02/03/w-h-o-begins-cutbacks-as-lack-of-u-s-taxpayer-dollars-bites-hard/
W.H.O. Begins Cutbacks as Lack of U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Bites Hard.
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February 5, 2026 8:29am
- MCōs
  
  He prefers the incorruptible FIFA
  
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  February 5, 2026 9:52am
  - MCōs
    
    When the FIFA Women’s World Cup was held here the Park Hyatt Hotel was booked for three weeks at $21k per night by the FIFA president.
    He stayed there three nights.
    
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    February 5, 2026 10:04am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Yes, American tax dollars have been subsidising an awful lot of other countries welfare states. For a long, long time.
  
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  February 5, 2026 10:55am
  - Taieri
    
    Maintaining an empire costs money.
    
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    February 5, 2026 3:39pm
Philview

I read an article yesterday claiming that Keir Starmer appointed Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to the USA in full knowledge of his links to Epstein. The article speculated that Mandelson must have had some dirt on Starmer. In the comments under the article there were multiple references to Starmer and the Ukrainian lads. This cause me to google said Ukrainian lads and it seems comments refer to 3 Ukrainian male models who firebombed Starmer’s properties and his car. There is much speculation that the male models is a euphemism for a different sort of job. It makes me wonder if Starmer’s career is about to explode.
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February 5, 2026 9:34am
- NothingLeft
  
  Starmer’s Ukrainian rent boy rumors are known about by most in UK, and I think subject to a super-injunction meaning Media are not allowed to report on them. Mandelson is gay so perhaps some personal alignment with Starmer.
  
  But Starmer and Labour are less popular than vomit. They are all electorally dead-men-walking with Labour in mid teens % support. So there is no longer any need for them to pretend to be moral or ethical in their behaviour, they can just double down on being unhinged socially and economically destructive far left nut jobs.
  
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  February 5, 2026 11:30am
  - Jack5
    
    Nothing Left’s …Mandelson is gay
    
    He’s married to a man, but there are photographs of him in underclothes with a woman presumably from the Epstein harem.
    
    Virginia Giuffre, perhaps the best known of Epstein’s young victims, mentions a British politician in her book.
    
    CNN reports:
    
    ‘In the US version, Giuffre claims she was raped by a man whom she had “taken pains to describe in my legal filings only as a ‘well-known Prime Minister.’” In the UK version, the passages are almost identical but refer to the man as a “former minister.” It was not clear what accounted for the discrepancy.’
    
    https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/20/uk/virginia-giuffre-memoir-epstein-prince-andrew-intl
    
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    February 5, 2026 4:34pm
MCōs

I initially downloaded the twitter app sixteen years ago as an alternate source of news about the unrest on the streets of Bangkok to the BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera who were all there with sometimes conflicting reports of what was happening to the local news, which was restrained by chaps in uniform with big guns.
After a month or so the army moved in on the dissidents, killed a whole lot of people and dispersed the crowd
I still had Twitter and over the years a steady flow of tweets showed up of photos of Jews who had been killed by the Germans in various concentration camps.
More recently a steady stream of tweets have come along showing Palestinian families killed by Israeli bombs.
Now the White House is using AI to doctor images. In this case of a black woman to look pathetic with tears streaming down her face
The medium has gone from presenting the news to being the news
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/white-house-ice-protest-arrest-altered-image?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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February 5, 2026 9:45am
Swifty

Are we all ready for the tiki Olympics?

https://x.com/fulltwatforward/status/2018962595504697778?s=46
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February 5, 2026 9:48am
- muzled
  
  Tiki Olympics
  
  10/10!
  
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  February 5, 2026 12:34pm
- Jethrod
  
  Waititi looks like he could use a bit of support in the chest area. Also he and the guy next to him look like they have bought tiki from The Warehouse, so cheap looking!
  
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  February 5, 2026 4:34pm
NothingLeft

From discussion of how the US election had no significant proven fraud; a long legal report on USA Fulton county Georgia (Half of democrat dominated Atlanta) 2020 election legal and administrative breeches, the various impossible and clearly fraudulent counts that were ‘certified’ as correct by dishonest/colluding officials, the lies they told to cover it up, and the since discovered cover-ups and faked audits done to try and hide all their dirty doings and breaches of law.

https://www.scribd.com/document/989542479/Report-of-Investigation-Fulton-2020

Biden’s margin of ‘victory’ in Georgia was 11k votes, but there are numerous compounding evidences of fraud far larger than that – like 22k more votes that magically appeared in Fulton county than what the tabulated number of voters who were recorded as having actually voted, and a voting roll with 114% of voting age population registered to vote.

On top of which no signature verification was done (as required by law) to check that mail in ballots matched filed signature of mail in voters. This was known to officials, though they claimed otherwise (lied) for years about it and meant that any number of faked and stolen mail in ballots could be introduced (deposited by ‘2000 Mules’) without any means of detection.

Of course none of the law-breakers in this were ever called to account even as they have been gradually revealed in subsequent years, because the authors of the fraud – the election winners – have effective control over police and judiciary.

US 2020 Biden ‘victory’ was most likely fraudulent, given all the mail-in-ballot fuckery going on in Blue Cities.
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February 5, 2026 10:21am
- Lance
  
  A good reason for Trump to cancel future elections. Cause Trump is sooooo honest, he is the most honest politician in history, nobody in the history of the world has ever been more honest than him.
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  February 5, 2026 12:10pm
  - Christopher Thomson
    
    Trump is not a politician. Politicans are inherently dishonest and corrupt.
    
    Trump is a leader. Leaders are rare and we will see only a few in each lifetime.
    
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    February 5, 2026 1:33pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    >80% of polled US adults, white black and hispanic, want photo voter ID. Yet Democrats are implacably stonewalling laws to implement this requirement in congress and senate.
    
    That tells you all you need to know about the obviously misnamed ‘Democratic’ party. It’s an open declaration that they have lost the public and are heavily reliant upon electoral fraud to hold on to power. There can be no fair elections in Democrat held states like hopelessly corrupt California while this situation persists.
    
    Trump is a twat, and seems to be using his office to enrich himself and his family in various questionable ways, but at least he was elected by the people twice (perhaps thrice) as the least-worst alternative, and has been generally trying to do what he perceives as being best for the future of the US however misguided he might be on some issues. The democrats by contrast look more and more like an organized crime syndicate whose only focus is personal power and wealth, flagrantly breaking the law and fucking the short and long term interests of the US and its citizens.
    
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    February 5, 2026 1:41pm
- Raphael
  
  I’ve always had questions of the 2020 results, because I was watching a livestream of the count, from Stephen Crowder.
  And in Michigan (could have been Minneapolis, as I often confuse the two states, and it was six years ago, but I’m 90% sure it was Michigan) Trump was ahead of Biden and was tracking to win.
  Then at 1am local time, they announced they were stopping the count for the night and would resume at 8am. (no problems there).
  The doors were closed, and most notably, the observers left for the evening. Crowder did his sign-off, chatting for about 30 minutes (so now about 1:30am local time).
  Then around 45 minutes later I got an alert that Crowder had gone live again.
  They had started counting votes again at 2am local time (after all the observers had left), and there was a nice big jump, putting Biden in the lead (and both counts then followed the basic trend lines they had been).
  
  I’ve been told that the bump was because they inputted a bunch of urban votes and they all went for Biden. and it’s waived off as a valid explanation.
  
  What I want to know is why they sent all the observers home, and then during that time, Biden had the big jump on votes?
  
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  February 5, 2026 12:22pm
  - Christopher Thomson
    
    It will be intersting to see what comes out of the FBI raid on Fulton County.
    
    However, I think Trump not winning an immediate second term was a blessing in disguise.
    
    His first term was overwhelmed by sedition, lawfare, and white-anting. The dubious 2002 election result and Trump’s loss and subsequent lawfare, served to harden his resolve and show him what he was up against.
    
    I doubt we would be seeing what is happening now if he had got an immediate second term.
    
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    February 5, 2026 1:37pm
Notsofast

Stephen Franks on the ongoing gender medicine scandal:

“…but in my opinion eventually the enormity of the scandal, the breaches of requirements for genuinely informed consent, the ravaged victims, and the deceit and cowardice that has enabled the breaches will assist a plaintiff across the high ACC bar to gain exemplary damages. As we told Ministers of Health and NZ providers of ‘gender affirming care’ in writing a year ago.”

https://x.com/i/status/2019115694655435013

Can’t happen soon enough.
In a sane society medicine is available for treatment to improve physical health.
Any other application should be deemed criminal like Class A drugs.
This is the most morally unambiguous issue of the present time.
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February 5, 2026 10:23am
- cmm
  
  ACC is surely only there to cover accidents. It is not there to provide gender-affirming operations etc.
  
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  February 5, 2026 12:17pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    “I accidentally thought that I was a boy, not a girl”
    
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    February 5, 2026 12:42pm
  - cmm
    
    Some might argue that being “born a woman in a man’s body” is an accident of birth and therefore ACC should cover fixing this.
    
    OK, should ACC then cover all cosmetic surgery for the people who think they are pretty but just accidentally born in an ugly body?
    
    C’mon ACC, step up for all the boob jobs, lip filling, hair straightening, hair colouring, teeth whitening,…
    
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    February 5, 2026 12:54pm
- NothingLeft
  
  They should go after the institutions and individuals that pushed the dogma (deregister the people responsible for changing psychology standards to push this insanity) and enabled and performed the mutilation. To serve as a deterrent to future promulgation of non-science destructive academic fashions.
  
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  February 5, 2026 12:34pm
NothingLeft

Seems there may have been something to the ‘Pizzagate’ child sexual exploitation conspiracy theories that rose in fringe right wing out of Clinton wikileaks emails – with a whole lot more references coming to light in just-released Epstein files:

https://youtu.be/tQhhWwiyAKA

The post 2000 world is turning out to be far more corrupted and weird than any reasonable person would have believed a few years back. Main Stream Media and Big Tech have been propagandizing us and censoring things that should have had more light on them.
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February 5, 2026 10:40am
- Philview
  
  It is weird alright. I read an article this week on Spiked about the UK and plans to diversify the UK countryside away from being a place for white people. Per the article English country pubs were described as intimidating places for immigrants. It made me think that the mad people pushing this DEI ideology will be violently confronted at some point.
  
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  February 5, 2026 11:22am
  - Sir Henry Morgan
    
    People have been banging on for years about the English countryside being “too white”. There were campaigns to encourage more non-white people to go hiking. The National Trust was wringing its hands over how not enough non-white people were visiting its various properties. From memory the National Trust either sacked or disciplined volunteers (some who had given decades of free part-time work) for questioning some new “anti-racism” policies.
    
    Across England, just as in many other western countries, there is an obsessive drive to displace white people from any place where they appear remotely comfortable. This gets sold as “anti-racism”.
    
    It’s like the decades-long campaign to remodel any area where males are overrepresented to insert more females in the name of fighting “sexism” – whether that’s the hard sciences, Scouts, rugby, men’s sheds, the armed forces, police, etc.
    
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    February 5, 2026 4:47pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      Academic/Marxist malignancy. They manufacture and construe conflict as their raison d’etre given paucity of actual content in their fields marxist sophistry was all they had to cling to, and then due to unfortunate status and job incentives funneling ever more easily indoctrinated young women through humanities departments where any heretics were cancelled and destroyed socially, professionally and economically they have constructed an electorally dominant self loathing middle class. Probably unfixable at this point.
      
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      February 5, 2026 5:55pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Have you not seen ‘Midsommer Murders’? Originally the cast reflected the reality of the English countryside, ie overwhelmingly white. A few years ago the cast became ‘aspirational’ in terms of ethnicity.
    
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    February 5, 2026 8:24pm
- Raphael
  
  Alex Jones seems to be right again.
  
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  February 5, 2026 12:23pm
Raphael

Well that’s not good: https://notthebee.com/article/fbi-finds-chinese-biolab-in-vegas-with-phials-labeled-ebola-malaria-and-dengue-fever

The FBI discovered a Chinese lab in Las Vegas that contained vials labeled with some of the most hideous diseases known to mankind, including dengue fever, malaria, and Ebola.
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Several people became sick from an illegal bio lab running out of a Las Vegas home that also served as an Airbnb, according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained.
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February 5, 2026 10:58am
Swifty

Sabotage?

https://x.com/nzpfu/status/2018954385905369443?s=46
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February 5, 2026 12:32pm
Swifty

There are times I feel quite uncharitable towards Mr Kapa-Kingi.

He’s an extremist, consumed with politics, thinks everyone is out to get him, and exhibits a permanent victimhood.

It seems he wishes to live his life with one purpose only – to maximise what he can ‘get’ from others. And where he doesn’t, where he is denied, he just throws tantrums and accuses others of all sorts of foul words and deeds.

I’ve said once before on here, I thought his Jack Tame interview was both damning and very revealing of him.

After having banged on about Maori sovereignty, Tame asked him what it would look like in practice Kapa-Kingi then freely admitted he hadn’t thought about it and that he’d leave that to better qualified others to determine.

Gotta say, I lost all respect for him at that moment. Imagine forcefully demanding the country make a seismic shift in its constitutional arrangements (and which will bring with it massive social division and disruption) that you haven’t even thought through, cannot describe in any detail, are blissfully unaware of the dangers or pitfalls of wha you demand and casually wave it away as something for others to do the work on.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360933056/live-waitangi-day-2026
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February 5, 2026 12:57pm
Swifty

Australia has issues – but don’t see them taking decisive action any time soon:

https://x.com/firstfusilier/status/2019084255603708380?s=46
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February 5, 2026 1:12pm
Swifty

Re my earlier post on Kapa-Kingi – some good brief points from Duncan Garner:

https://x.com/kiwistreamnz/status/2019163776386506910?s=46
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February 5, 2026 1:19pm
Swifty

Countless times over the last few days I’ve seen leading NZ lefties online blaming National for the recent Health IT outages we’ve seen.

I’ve pointed out to a couple of them that outages happened under Ardern too, and have been met with crickets.

Anyway, going by this logic, shouldn’t the left be hammering Wellington Council for the massive disaster at Moa Point? Screaming about under-funding and dereliction of duty? The Wellington Council that has been Labour and Green dominated for how many years?
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February 5, 2026 1:48pm
Swifty

Garner praising Seymour on the reopening of St Stephen’s School:

https://x.com/kiwiwayne2/status/2019152192192803052?s=46

Very good points.
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February 5, 2026 2:02pm
Swifty

Marama Davidson flat out lies:

https://www.tickaroo.com/e/Gt7MgEQ4iJR09UWN

The treaty was never ‘about’ equity. It doesn’t come within a bull’s roar of even mentioning anything like it. Even hinting at it.

Equity, an equality of outcome, was as unknown a concept to Maori as it was to Europeans.

‘Equity’ is an entirely modern, recent, socialist invention and Davidson is openly and deceitfully trying to rewrite history to include it our past.

She is being utterly and entirely dishonest when she suggests that the treaty somehow guarantees it.
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February 5, 2026 2:12pm
Swifty

An OJ Simpson juror says she believes 90% of the jury thought him guilty but acquitted him as ‘payback’ for Rodney King.

https://x.com/travelingflying/status/2019092362480542075?s=46

That’s fairly interesting.
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February 5, 2026 2:20pm
- Sir Henry Morgan
  
  There’s been a bit of research suggesting juries tend to be swayed by race. Most ethnicities exhibit in-group racial preference in their decisions on guilt vs innocence when acting as jurors. The only exception seems to be white jurors, who show no equivalent racial preference and make decisions based on the actual evidence.
  
  As the Anglosphere countries become increasingly racially diverse, this phenomenon will undermine the justice system.
  
  Luxon and co may be wrong to view people simply as interchangeable economic units. It may be that our institutions will cease functioning when stuffed full of people from alien cultures.
  
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  February 5, 2026 7:12pm
  - Swifty
    
    Yes, I’ve seen that research in the last few weeks.
    
    Quite shocking actually.
    
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    February 5, 2026 8:50pm
Swifty

Here’s a post from Ayn Randy, a prominent lefty poster on X.

“White supremacist colonialist David Seymour makes it very very clear where he, his racist proto-fascist wee party, and his rich, racist white supremacist donors stand at Waitangi.”

https://x.com/aynrandy666/status/2019211073329717633?s=46

Demented with hate. No attempt at discussion or debate, just hurling abuse and labels.
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February 5, 2026 3:25pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  “White supremacist colonialist David Seymour
  
  But David Seymour is tangata whenua – Maori – by every definition legally accepted in NZ and according to his tribe’s tikanga.
  
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  February 5, 2026 6:19pm
  - Swifty
    
    Yes, but once they deem you a traitor then all bets are off. They’ll even deny your ethnicity in their rush to abuse and label you.
    
    I’ve even seen the ‘white supremacist’ label thrown at Winston.
    
    Just what goes through their heads I don’t know.
    
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    February 5, 2026 6:51pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Total BS comments like that are more an indication of how hateful and demented the author of them is.
  
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  February 5, 2026 7:35pm
- Jack5
  
  zz mistaken post- sorry!
  
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  February 5, 2026 7:49pm
Swifty

“Imagine if Luxon was showered with dildos from all angles at Waitangi tomorrow.”

https://x.com/aynrandy666/status/2019256158226440272?s=46

Not something I’d write.
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February 5, 2026 6:48pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  I used to revel in stuff like that when I was an 18 year old lefty dipshit.
  
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  February 5, 2026 7:36pm
- Jack5
  
  Looked at some of the X posts by “Ayn Randy”. They include this:
  
  “The best thing that could happen to NZ is to bring in a CGT (like nearly every other major country in the world).”
  
  Randy Ayn doesn’t know NZ already has capital gains tax.
  
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  February 5, 2026 7:50pm
Swifty

I’ve heard of colonialism. I’ve heard of colonisation.

But I can’t say I’ve ever heard of ‘colonialisation’.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens/movies/new-maori-gothic-film-marama-draws-on-horror-of-colonialisation
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February 5, 2026 9:00pm
Swifty

Gower and DPF interviewed on us joining Aussie.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360934751/paddy-gower-vs-david-farrar-nz-becoming-australian-state
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