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Cassandra

The next US presidential election is over two years away but in its system America starts the campaign about now.

Nate Silver is a really good pollster. His main job is sports forecasts but he has a sideline in politics. He rates Californian Governor Gavin Newsom as the Democratic front runner at present but Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear as more electable. Who, you say? Beshear is a moderate Democrat ie five bob each way. He supports the death penalty and abortion, which I suppose has a certain amount of logic to it.

But early days yet. My retirement village here in Tauranga has just listed as Book of the Week in its newsletter a tome on her losing election by Kamala Harris so I guess anything might be possible. Republicans would be happy if she was the nominee, particularly if AOC was also in involved.

My own pick is Newsom v Vance but my preference is Rubio.
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February 23, 2026 8:02am
- Wandering Star
  
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  Why would Rubio or Vance be leading candidates, when they are implicated as senior members in Trump’s damp squib of a second administration which has failed to deliver anything for its long suffering, but loyal, voters? Why indeed. Particularly current VP Vance, who is being heavily astroturfed as the front runner and “torch bearer of Trumpism” (although he is, in a way, although not in the way he intended to be presented) who, if he was any good, would be getting things done now, not from 2028 when the damage will have become even worse.
  
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  February 23, 2026 8:10am
  - Charlotte Wells
    
    What colour is the sky in this alternate universe you inhabit?
    
    Your reference to the ‘damp squib’ makes me ask your rating of the Biden administration.
    
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    February 23, 2026 10:57am
    - newview
      
      So Biden was a loser Charlotte. What’s your point.
      
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      February 23, 2026 12:28pm
    - Wandering Star
      
      Tell us what Trump has achieved. No more foreign wars? Nope. He bombed Iran last year and looks set to attack Iran again shortly, probably more forcefully. Mass deportations? Nope, a couple of protesters were shot so that’s the end of that idea (and what was getting done was performative and far from sufficient, given the scale of the problem). Nationalist economic policies? Nope, his ill thought out tarrifs were completely botched and dropped after only a few days. Now, the GOP will probably lose control of the legislature after the midterms, and because of that, he may yet even be impeached.
      
      So I ask you again what’s the guy actually achieved? I think it’s those long suffering and betrayed people who still support Trump who inhabit an alternate universe wherein Trump is a success.
      
      And I used to hold out great hope for the guy, too, until I realised he’s got nothing of substance.
      
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      February 23, 2026 2:07pm
    - [email protected]
      
      It is worth considering that with generative AI being able to create reams of text at the press of a button there is a very good chance that Wandering Star is just using AI to generate plausible sounding nonsense statements as a form of political psyop.
      
      Certainly having the text be auto generated explains the frequent disconnects from reality we see in WS’s posts.
      
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      February 23, 2026 3:45pm
      - mike
        
        I think you are mistaking the inherent weaknesses in a fascist’s argument for AI slop.
        
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        February 23, 2026 4:33pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Did you intend for you email address to be displayed to all and sundry? I thought the mods normally blanked that out for people’s own protection.
        
        Yes I have long suspected AI/bot action. Having said that there appears to be a new generation of youngish true believers in both communism (Soviet/Cuba/Venezuela style) and Nazism. I’ve met both in recent years.
        
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        February 23, 2026 8:17pm
      - Wandering Star
        
        I’m asking commenters exactly what of substance Trump has achieved, and you guys are struggling to tell me. It’s all bluster and executive orders that will be reversed at the stroke of a pen by a successor. He’ll be out of office in 3 years, and he’ll have had 8 years over a span of 12 years but with no lasting achievements whatsoever. What a huge lost opportunity.
        
        Honestly, it’s very flattering that you seem to think I’m using AI to produce my pearls of political wisdom, given that AI has access to millennia of thought of various geniuses.
        
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        February 23, 2026 9:09pm
  - leoj
    
    The US Congress should change the laws regarding term limits and change them to what applied during Roosevelt’s time.
    
    I want Donald to be president again in 2028.
    
    I also totally enjoy watching the left set their hair on fire.
    
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    February 23, 2026 12:10pm
    - Wandering Star
      
      “Owning the Libs” is so 2017. Not enough anymore.
      
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      February 23, 2026 2:09pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      Trump is awful compared to Vance or Rubio or De Santis. He is a decade too old, ill-disciplined and doesn’t do his homework on top of his outward personality shortcomings.
      
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      February 23, 2026 2:48pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        He’s certainly pretty rough around the edges, but is a much needed circuit-breaker. Western civilisation as it stands is doomed without serious disruption and rebuilding. I’m not sure Vance, Rubio, or De Santis have the desire or ability to do that though they do appear to be willing to support Trump’s radical overhauls.
        
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        February 23, 2026 8:22pm
  - newview
    
    Well said.
    
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    February 23, 2026 12:27pm
  - mike
    
    Give them a break – they’re building the concentration camps as fast as they can and talking up Anschluss with Canada.
    
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    February 23, 2026 12:32pm
- Simon
  
  Nate Silver is a regime hack. Republicans get cleaned out in 2028. Best for Rubio to lose in 2028 and Vance go for 2032.
  
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  February 23, 2026 8:11am
  - Cassandra
    
    He’s a Democrat.
    
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    February 23, 2026 9:46am
    - Cassandra
      
      But I agree that the GOP candidate will be vulnerable. Depends on who the Dems put up. Shapiro? Beshear? Harris or AOC are the two the GOp wants.
      
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      February 23, 2026 10:32am
      - leoj
        
        That’s because it is always more difficult to defend than attack. Memories are short and only the current administration gets attacked whereas the previous failed one is soon forgotten.
        
        We in NZ are going through that too. People have already forgotten how disastrous Labour was but look at the polls.
        
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        February 23, 2026 12:05pm
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      Boom. 🤣🤣
      
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      February 23, 2026 12:30pm
- kowtow
  
  ‘Book of the Week in its newsletter a tome on her losing election by Kamala Harris’
  
  Editor being a climate catastrophist , Ardern admirer?
  
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  February 23, 2026 8:25am
  - Cassandra
    
    Probably. Senior women are Ardern supporters. Irrational but ardent.
    
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    February 23, 2026 9:48am
    - Flossie
      
      This one certainly isn’t.
      
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      February 23, 2026 11:57am
- Scott
  
  I don’t think Gavin Newsom travels well outside of California? Indeed one wonders how he keeps getting elected in California where everyone is voting with their feet and moving to Florida?
  
  Rubio or Vance would both be good presidents in my opinion. Vance can stand up to the media, as can Vance, and they have both been excellent in office so far.
  
  Prior to the midterm elections I would like to see the Republicans abolish the filibuster in the senate. Then I would like to see them pass the Save act, abolish sanctuary cities and do something about tariffs. Also help president Trump fulfill his campaign promise and deport all illegals.
  
  The republicans hold the house, the senate, the presidency and the Supreme Court. What’s the good of all that power if you’re afraid to use it? Why not get America on the right path and stop the managed decline of the liberal left?
  
  An active Congress could swing the election and bolster president Trump’s agenda. Together they could deliver a prosperous and successful America once again.
  
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  February 23, 2026 8:58am
  - Wandering Star
    
    “….and they have both been excellent in office so far.”
    
    Can you please provide a few examples each which suggest Vance’s and Rubio’s “excellence” in office?
    
    I’m not talking about a speech or some other rhetorical statement, either, I’m talking about tangible things they’ve done, which are quite different.
    
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    February 23, 2026 2:17pm
    - Scott
      
      Wandering – let’s just take Trump who you “think” has not done anything.
      In fact –
      “The Trump administration has deported more than 605,000 illegal aliens, with an additional 1.9 million self-deporting, bringing the total number of illegals who have left the U.S. since President Trump returned to office to over 2.5 million.”
      
      https://www.whitehouse.gov/priorities/border-immigration/#:~:text=The%20Trump%20administration%20has%20deported,office%20to%20over%202.5%20million.
      
      So you are factually wrong about Trump. And I like to be a positive person and support people like Trump who is doing his best to save western civilisation.
      
      So Trump is excellent, Rubio is good, secretary of state and diplomacy good. And Vance sounds more and more like a president in waiting. And his achievements include not being a crazy left wing progressive nor being a right wing nut job. Just a sensible guy who will make sensible decisions.
      Support your side. 😎
      
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      February 23, 2026 5:15pm
      - Wandering Star
        
        The White House says what about Trump’s record in The White House?
        
        The idea of marking your own homework comes to mind.
        
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        February 23, 2026 9:03pm
- RoboRob
  
  My preference is Rubio too. At this stage I actually think he is the more likely. Trump hasn’t endorsed either and talks both up. Come next election I suspect voters will have a preference for more ‘normal’ / ‘vanilla’ candidates and I think Rubio is much more traditional and mainstream then Vance.
  
  I think the Reps will want more traditional the question really is will the Dems want the same or do they want a more ‘activist’ type candidate. If so AOC is in. She would be a strong candidate even though almost any Rep candidate would destroy her on the debate stage. In my opinion Newsom is a much weaker candidate both in terms of appeal, baggae and general slimyness.
  
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  February 23, 2026 9:01am
  - MCōs
    
    Only the first George Bush, Richard Nixon and Joe Biden were previous vice presidents elected to the office of President in recent times.
    Others got there by default. Truman, Johnson, Ford.
    Sometimes the president barely tolerates the sight of his offsider. They’re just there to plug a hole in their support base.
    
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    February 23, 2026 9:28am
    - David Garrett
      
      MCos: Vice president John Nance Garner said, back in the 30’s: “the Vice Presidentcy isn’t worth a bucket of warm piss”
      
      Onet of the VP-‘s major roles is attending the funerals of all but top level PM’s and heads of state.
      
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      February 23, 2026 9:38am
  - septic skeptic
    
    The Dems will go with the candidate that their corporate donors want. Always have done.
    
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    February 23, 2026 10:39am
- NothingLeft
  
  Dems have a massive talent shortage. Newsom and Kamala are both awful respectively awful track records and intellectually deficient. AOC is an air head. Josh Shapiro might be OK.
  
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  February 23, 2026 2:51pm
  - AitchW
    
    That seems to be the case with the left across the western world. Look at our mob, Hopkins is the best they can do! Aussie has Albo….
    The UK has Starmer.
    
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    February 23, 2026 5:22pm
- mike
  
  Speaking of US presidents, which one said this?
  
  “So I decided to go to Iraq. I flew to Iraq. I was extremely brave. In fact, so brave I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor. I said to my people, am I allowed to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor?”
  
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  February 23, 2026 4:59pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Looks like someone joking around. But of course you need to believe he was serious.
    
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    February 23, 2026 7:52pm
Simon

South Auckland has a major dog issues with the welfare ferals. Dogs ripping people apart in the news, but dogs have been a major problem for a while.

In Luxon’s NZ what are people doing to protect themselves from the welfare ferals? Of course the LatAm third world solution is not to go into the bad areas in the first place.

So that is what NZ is fast becoming, you can’t go into certain areas. There is no point, just like the third world
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February 23, 2026 8:09am
- MCōs
  
  South Auckland is a big area. You need to be more specific
  
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  February 23, 2026 10:04am
artemisia

The out-of-control dog problem. Not new but appears to be increasingly damaging to people and livestock, particularly in Northland. 3 fatal attacks in Northland in the last 4 years.

A Northland farmer has had hundreds of sheep killed by roaming dogs. He tried shooting the dogs but he said it didn’t make a difference. “They just keep coming.”

Not surprisingly the SPCA says give us more money to desex dogs. Maybe that’s part of the solution, but meantime how about paying hunters for proof of kills? NZ has precedents.
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February 23, 2026 8:31am
- kowtow
  
  An awful lot ( not all by any means) of dog owners are incredibly “entitled” , they’re the middle class , city types who walk them without leads and don’t pick up the shit , which is everywhere , even playgrounds.
  City ferals are in a class of their own ,with their dangerous aggressive animals which seem to be an extension of the owners’ personality.
  
  Then the rural ferals ;like your example above .
  
  Anyway I blame to a large extent the authorities . These things are meant to be licensed and to follow the law ( morals no longer apply as these people seem to be o/s of normal , decent society)
  
  There’s so little enforcement that the law is basically pointless . When laws aren’t enforced they might as well not exist.
  
  Broken windows and all that.
  
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  February 23, 2026 8:48am
  - imalwaysright
    
    There seems to be more laws and regulations for having a dog than having a child.
    I’ve noticed the SPCA haven’t yet started supplying lunch to neglected dogs during term time…
    
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    February 23, 2026 10:29am
    - David Garrett
      
      Imalways You need a license to have a dog, but not to have a child…any feral can have one.
      
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      February 23, 2026 1:22pm
      - imalwaysright
        
        Presactly
        
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        February 23, 2026 6:39pm
  - MCōs
    
    There is a property up the road from me which resembles a tip. Garbage everywhere including an abandoned car that that is full of more rubbish. No fence on the street front. Naturally they have, or had, a free range dog that barked at passing kids and evacuated its bowels at random.
    The council will take action if they can detain the hound in the street being a nuisance. The problem of course is to catch the dog in the act.
    Anyway it’s gone so maybe they did.
    
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    February 23, 2026 11:02am
    - kowtow
      
      I understand it is a straight up offense not to have it properly enclosed in a suitably fenced property.
      
      No need to wait for anything .
      
      Therein the problem.
      
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      February 23, 2026 12:50pm
  - Damocles11
    
    Witnessed a dog backing itself up to some tree debris and excreting some fairly runny odure at a section of beach near Omanu. Not good for any little kiddies that may happen upon it in the course of their play.
    Imagine the amount of those green plastic bags that are being used every year to collect dog poop. The dogs must be laughing that the ‘highly evolved’ humans traipse around after them collecting up their dung, with often these full green bags somehow ending up in grassy areas, or roadsides, even in the road itself. As a nation we have far too many dogs, with many of these mutts being purchased as living status symbols rather than having any useful function.
    
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    February 23, 2026 12:47pm
- rouppe
  
  Not surprisingly the SPCA says give us more money to desex dogs.
  
  The sort of people that own roaming dogs capable of killing stock don’t get them de sexed so that’s pointless.
  
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  February 23, 2026 8:53am
  - David Garrett
    
    Rouppe: Quite so…the owners of pit bull types seem often to be pathetic little men compensating for their inadequacy by owning a vicious dog.
    
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    February 23, 2026 9:42am
    - Jack5
      
      I was walking a non-pitbull dog very early one summer morning when out of the mist a dog grabbed me by the right elbow.
      
      I froze as the owner appeared and called it off. I didn’t recognise the breed but its grip was strong enough for a check if the skin was broken. It wasn’t, but if it had wanted the dog could have easily crushed my elbow.
      
      I realised the dog was a pitbull as the owner emerged out of the mist. I was pleased I froze rather than resisted.
      
      Soon the pitbull and I were acceptable acquaintances, if not friends.
      
      I befriended another pitbull, a big fellow with a leg missing, often out walking-hopping with a woman pushing her child in a pram.
      
      I haven’t owned a pitbull, but the bull breeds make good companions for someone with the nous and will to be boss, and with good fences. Owning any dog comes with responsibility to control it as well as to look after it.
      
      Breed doesn’t determine dog aggression. Most vets will confirm that. However, a couple of pairs of dumb-arse Boxers acted most aggressively of dogs I encountered, and for nipping and aggresssive attitude, small lap dogs are worst.
      
      As for dog breed reflecting owner personalilty, I agree a pitbull might be a step too far for you, David G. Perhaps a Staffy or a bull terrier would be a match.
      
      Are stray dogs still a problem in Tonga?
      
      https://pmn.co.nz/read/pacific-region/who-let-the-dogs-out-tonga-s-sick-of-strays-ahead-of-forum-leaders-meeting
      
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      February 23, 2026 11:18am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “Breed doesn’t determine dog aggression. ”
        
        There are obvious patterns. EG Golden Retrievers and Labs (raised by mentally sound people) are generally safer around kids and are generally quite tolerant with them (within reason). Many other breeds are not. And there are obvious differences in bite strength.
        
        Persons desperate to appear “edgy” or tough often choose breeds known to be much more dangerous around children (and adults).
        
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        February 23, 2026 7:23pm
  - cmm
    
    OK, I only did highschool biology, but I am pretty sure that killing a dog will desex it.
    
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    February 23, 2026 9:56am
    - David Garrett
      
      cmm: As an amusing aside…roaming packs of dogs used to be a big problem up here – I have had been attacked more than once.
      
      About 20 years ago the police announced that from a certain date, they would be shooting any dog(s) found roaming on the street. All well and good …but then on the day, among the dogs they shot was the Judge’s dog, which was lying peacefully on the verandah at the Judge’s house!
      
      But however it has been effected, there are very few wandering packs of dogs these days. I very much doubt many dogs up here have been de-sexed, but I may well be wrong.
      
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      February 23, 2026 12:39pm
- Southern Raider
  
  Dog licensing fees just seem to be another form of tax eg the good people pay it and the useless people spend it,
  
  In the case of dogs there would be a very low chance of a licenced dog causing issues and these owners pay the ever increasing fees and make sure their dogs are desexed, microchipped and socialised.
  
  However all the licensing fee revenue is used to chase and impound ferals who for the most part treat a dog as an accessory for their macho attitude and a form of patch security. These owners never socialise their dogs, never pay licence fees, never care for their dogs properly and are just a scourge on society.
  
  There is very few dog breeds that are a risk to the public if they are socialised and cared for properly.
  
  Nothing will change until the system is changed to licence owners not dogs and they start black listing a whole lot of people from owning a dog.
  
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  February 23, 2026 10:46am
- G152
  
  Kill a sheep, cut up and poison the carcass.
  The problem will solve itsellf
  
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  February 23, 2026 10:53am
  - jacthecat
    
    It’s the chase and the kill that the dogs enjoy … they’re not after the meat.
    
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    February 23, 2026 12:36pm
- Paulus
  
  I would desex them with a target rifle – in habitats with a silencer.
  
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  February 23, 2026 11:13am
  - David Garrett
    
    Paulus: See my comment above re desexing by rifle
    
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    February 23, 2026 12:40pm
    - OlderChas
      
      I commented a couple of days ago that there should be appropriately trained and capable persons licensed to roam the streets and shoot dead any unattended dog on the street, including any being “walked” without a leash. Cameras on telescopic sights these days would prove justification and proof of kill if necessary. They could also be sent out at night to kill any unattended cat they see.
      
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      February 23, 2026 1:11pm
      - wsk12345
        
        Awesome idea. Lets widen the net to also include feral kids roaming the streets plus those kids riding theor scooters on the footpath half a block away from mum who is engrossed on her cell phone.
        
        But why stop there? Anyone on the street when they “should ” be working! Who cares of they are shift workers or retired, how dare they walk the streets….
        
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        February 23, 2026 2:23pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        There has to be some justification for killing/shooting a dog. So grandma’s placid little King Charles spaniel that happened to walk out an open gate out of curiosity would be fair game for your proposal.
        
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        February 23, 2026 2:35pm
      - mike
        
        Spaniels are particularly nasty little dogs, and no dog should only the front gate between it and an innocent pedestrian.
        
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        February 23, 2026 2:44pm
      - Jack5
        
        Paulus’s I would desex them with a target rifle.
        
        A target rifle?
        
        Usually such a firearm has specialiseḍ sights and a sling and is designed for prone shooting on a rifle range. Typically chambered for .308 rounds, this might kill the dog, go through the fence and hit a two-legged neighbour.
        
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        February 23, 2026 3:57pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        …..and make him one-legged.
        
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        February 23, 2026 5:45pm
    - Quail
      
      Dog control ,
      The owner is responsible for the dog and it’s actions.
      All Dogs should be restrained by a lead in public.
      Members of the general public should not have to endure some dog sniffing their backside or worse.
      Some owners argue that their “doggie “was just being friendly, but if you don’t like/ want sniffing , jumping , licking etc it is unpleasant at the very least.
      And many of the general public just don’t like , or are frightened by dogs .
      They should not have to put up with any contact .
      At home Dogs should be restrained in house yards either with a chain, or secure run . Unless under owners direct control.
      Usually a house yard is insecure, or any enterprising dog can make it so
      This coalition government has recently passed new legislation limiting the use of dog chains citing dog welfare.
      So now questions should be asked on that front?
      There is no such thing as a safe dog. Given the wrong signals they all will bite or worse!
      
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      February 23, 2026 9:45pm
gravedodger

At this time in the cycle who might have rated Mcgovern, Carter, Bush 43, Trump 45 ( just visit You Tube for the plethora of idiotic responses from media, influencers and Politicians who authoritatively screeched Trump would never become POTUS LoL
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February 23, 2026 8:32am
cmm

Cops have new “move on” powers.
Sure, but the questions are:
a) Will they use them?
b) Is it too little, too late?

I have often seen cops pull up alongside texting drivers and doing nothing about it.
I have often called the cops about stolen cars with no cops turning up.
So why believe this new power is going to change the world?

This just smacks of being seen to be doing the right thing.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360941973/government-gives-police-move-powers-ban-rough-sleepers-beggars
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February 23, 2026 8:34am
- imalwaysright
  
  If Lucy Rogers can be arrested for standing peacefully in a public street its a fair bet that there are sufficient laws already. Loitering, Public nuisance, etc.
  
  Stand by for one of our judges to sentence one of them to Home D….
  
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  February 23, 2026 8:42am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Not that Lucy was loitering or being a nuisance. Sorry about the ambiguity.
    
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    February 23, 2026 6:42pm
- kowtow
  
  Yes , parliament can pass all the laws it likes ( to look like it’s doing something (( Yes Minister)) but then it must resource the pointy end , which they steadfastly refuse to do .
  
  It would be easy . Get rid of the tens of thousands of backroom DEI / treaty types and fund the front end.
  
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  February 23, 2026 8:52am
  - artemisia
    
    “Give us more money.” Same old, same old. Thing is pretty much all those ‘homeless’ have been offered help, probably multiple times, by government and charities. Some have been housed but asked to leave because rules were not followed. I get addiction and mental health issues but when does fruitless pointy end taxpayer money come to an end for them?
    
    (Wellington CBD always has an increase in beggars in cruise season. Rest of the year?)
    
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    February 23, 2026 9:33am
    - kowtow
      
      ‘CBD always has an increase in beggars in cruise season’
      
      So it’s not as the wokists bleat, a mental health etc problem .It’s a financial choice these people are making and they’re following the money as it were .
      
      They therefor logically can be incentivised to bugger off . They simply need the right incentives to be applied .
      
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      February 23, 2026 10:39am
  - AitchW
    
    I know a fellow whose adult sister chooses to live rough. I’ve met her a couple of times, she seems perfectly normal, well kept, tidily dressed with decent personal hygiene. But she can’t stay in one place for more than a week or two, then has to move on. I have no idea how she supports herself, I can see no obvious signs of illegal or immoral activity.
    I guess some folks just like sleeping rough!
    
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    February 23, 2026 1:09pm
    - artemisia
      
      I worked with someone whose father lived rough by choice. Family made many attempts to help with accommodation etc but father happy living free from. Intelligent middle class man as was the family.
      
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      February 23, 2026 2:29pm
- pdm
  
  Goldsmith seems to be the Minister in charge so don’t hold your breath for success.
  
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  February 23, 2026 8:53am
  - David Garrett
    
    Pdm: Why on earth Goldsmith – a non lawyer – has been made Minister of Justice is a mystery to me.
    
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    February 23, 2026 9:44am
    - Paulus
      
      Probably the best reason for such an appointment.
      
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      February 23, 2026 11:15am
      - mike
        
        Already too many lawyers in parliament, which is the simplest explanation for why so much legislation is useless.
        
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        February 23, 2026 12:39pm
      - David Garrett
        
        Paulus: that is a profoundly stupid comment…having old Mike Many Names agreeing with you should tell you something.
        
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        February 23, 2026 12:59pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      DG.
      Silly me. I thought Ministers were about policy and not points of law???
      
      And policy is “”generated”” by law commission idiots(all lawyers) and reviewed /massaged by Ministry of Justcie “”lawyers””.
      
      It would make sense to me to have a competent person (no idea if Goldsmith is such a person) challenging any policy proposals.
      
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      February 23, 2026 12:12pm
    - pdm
      
      DG why Goldsmith seems to be a Luxon favourite is an even deeper mystery to me.
      
      Maybe it is because both are procrastinators who will not take on the difficult issues.
      
      Like attracts like.
      
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      February 23, 2026 12:38pm
      - mike
        
        Possibly he has promised to write Luxon’s official hagiography.
        
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        February 23, 2026 12:40pm
- artemisia
  
  There’s quite a lot of support already but people have to accept it. Couple of personal experiences – one accepted help. one didn’t.
  
  First one, we offered a flat tenancy to an unhoused young couple, some mental health issues. The flat was adequate, only just, but cheap. A local charity helped them set up bank accounts under their ‘street people’ bank arrangement so they could receive a benefit and access it. Including paying rent. A year or so later with various support including from us, they were in a much more stable situation.
  
  The second, a person on a benefit in emergency housing. We offered work at a level the benefit was not abated, a few hours a week. (Through the books from our point of view, whether declared or not, unknown.) Several months later had to let him go after patchy attendance and turning up under various influences. On his second energy housing place by then for antisocial behaviour, not long after in the third. He did come by a couple of times threatening violence, reported to police.
  
  We don’t bother to help any more.
  
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  February 23, 2026 8:53am
- MCōs
  
  There is a small park in Wellington behind the Dixon St Flat, called Flagstaff Hill. Back in the eighties when I lived nearby it was frequented for a time by a bunch of rowdy, alcoholic, bottle smashing skin heads.
  The few local residents grizzled to the police who did not much. They preferred to keep them all together where they could keep an eye on them
  
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  February 23, 2026 8:57am
- G152
  
  And if they move where do they move to and what makes that a safe place….
  
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  February 23, 2026 9:00am
  - kowtow
    
    Secure nut houses , like wot used to be done.
    
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    February 23, 2026 10:41am
- cmm
  
  Currently there are people living in tents in the parks near Stanmore Rd and Avonside Drive. Apart from a bit of mess they don’t seem to be doing any harm. They’ve been there for a few months now.
  
  There were also up to about 20 vehicles at a time at that location too, but, quite likely, they were causing problems and were moved on. The number of vans and cars parked in Wetlands Grove has gone through the roof, so maybe they moved there.
  
  Bottom line is that the number of people that no longer fit mainstream living is increasing and society will have to adapt to this in one way or another.
  
  As much as I would like there to be a free market solution to this there really is not. These people are incapable of sorting things for themselves and society needs to step in one way or another.
  
  I think that there is a need for trailer parks and campgrounds and such. In Christchurch that’s pretty easy to do because we have all this red zone land available.
  
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  February 23, 2026 10:06am
  - Jack5
    
    A rational comment on the problem, CMM.
    
    The three National MPs who on TV highlighted the move — Bishop, Brown and Mitchell — have taken a punt this is a vote-winner.
    
    But only if the media don’t begin a long bombardment of the problems of the increasing number of misfits on the fringe of society.
    
    What if the media are able to saddle the problem as a National-instigated, heartless purge of the homeless?
    
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    February 23, 2026 11:42am
  - wsk12345
    
    Agree.
    
    My view is that the council shoukd fence off a big area of red zone as a trailer park, put in toilets etc and rubbish collection. Could even set up some coin operated gas bbqs. Charge a nominal fee to cover costs and have a 1 strike and you’re out rule for causing trouble. People could have reasonably permanent setups with trailers or vans. Even tents?
    
    Instead we have homeless areas all over the RZ. Most people just minding their own business but a few ferals causing trouble and making people feel unsafe.
    
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    February 23, 2026 2:41pm
- Taieri
  
  Cops have new “move on” powers.
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  Where will they move them to?
  
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  February 23, 2026 12:53pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Just out of business frontages and entrances it would seem. That appears to be the point of it all.
    
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    February 23, 2026 7:28pm
- OlderChas
  
  so – there’s going to be a $2000 fine for non-compliance (or up to 3 months in jail). What homeless/rough sleeper person is going to pay the fine? And can you see any judge sending one to jail?
  
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  February 23, 2026 1:14pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    A comfy bed to sleep on, 3 meals a day – what’s not to like?
    
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    February 23, 2026 2:38pm
    - mike
      
      Yes, it’s a wonder that the homeless folk are not already committing imprisonable offences just to enjoy the luxury of jail.//
      
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      February 23, 2026 2:46pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      “what’s not to like?”
      
      Being stabbed or beaten for being deemed not one of the psychopathic in-group?
      
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      February 23, 2026 7:30pm
slightlyrighty

Who remembers John Carter ringing John Bank’s show on ZB back in 1995….and posing as “Hone”

because a recent caller to C-Span gave me a reminder….

https://youtube.com/shorts/NQO9hnyGMTM?si=f2V58tgaqhltk3JY
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February 23, 2026 8:51am
- David Garrett
  
  Slightly: that guy was very good..needed to slow it down a bit though
  
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  February 23, 2026 9:48am
Anthony Melchett

Cultural and religious creep…

You must must respect and honour the culture. If you don’t do this, you are racist. OK, sounds fun. Let’s make the kids learn a couple of words and do a production at primary school on the simplistic old ways.

That’s not enough. Some of our people are poor. We need money. If you don’t do this, you are racist. Ok, let’s pay your leadership groups billions and call it treaty settlements. You will pass that money onto everyone though? Oh yea for sure (not).

It’s still not enough. We want you to speak a few words of our language. Why not start by starting and ending your emails with it. If you don’t do this, you are racist. OK, that won’t hurt anyone. Let’s force all public servants to do this. OK, we’ll it doesnt really affect me, I’ll just do it.

It’s still not enough. You are disrespecting our culture and are racists.

Ok, we will jam some more of your words into English and force prominent people to use them.

It’s still not enough. You are disrespecting our culture and are racists.

Ok, we will hire based on race and give favour to your people in the health system. We will also rename all government departments for you.

It’s still not enough. You are disrespecting our culture and are racists.

Ok, let’s change all the road signs so about 5% of the population can read them.

It’s still not enough. You are disrespecting our culture and are racists.

Ok, let’s start make all school kids pray to a maori god daily. Let’s make all public servants do the same.

OK. But remember, if you don’t convert to maori religion you are racist.

Now, I understand the respect of the culture and allowing it to exist as with all all other cultures, but I don’t remember signing my kids up for a religious school. I have no interest in being forced to believe in a maori god, the same as I have no interest in becoming a Christian, or converting to Islam.

How is this being allowed? Our schools are multi cultural and multi religion. Same with our general population.

This has gone past respecting a culture and race and is now becoming a cult. People just sit on their hands afraid of being called racist if they challenge it. Those same people happily laugh at Christians and jews though and that’s OK apparently.

Genuine question:

What percentage of maori are even religious? Or is it all and it has actually always been a religion as much as a race?

Or is this just part of the plan to takeover by stealth? The culture gets people interested and the religion locks them in.

What’s next? Over the course of 30 years it has gone from a few words to praying daily to a god.
With religion comes war. We are well on our way.

The normal kiwis are sick of it.

Dont force your language on me. Don’t force your ways on me. And dont force your religion on me.

I don’t want to be a maori anymore than I want to be Swedish. But I’m fine for you to be either and to me that means you are no better or worse than the next bloke. I judge people on character, not bloodlines.

If new zealand is to survive we need to stop the forced maori takeover of language, culture and now religion. These things are not making the place better, they are making it worse. To all those people who say it’s all good it’s harmless, come back to me in a few years when your local school and council are being run by the iwi and you have to donate to them every Sunday morning.
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February 23, 2026 8:54am
- sirknz
  
  “I judge people on character, not bloodlines.”
  
  Apparently this makes you racist, misogynistic, homophobic, islamophobic, and any other thing they need to call you to control your thoughts and behaviour.
  
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  February 23, 2026 9:41am
- imalwaysright
  
  AM
  
  “What percentage of maori are even religious? Or is it all and it has actually always been a religion as much as a race?”
  
  The points you make are spot on, but to think that they are because of racial or religious reasons ignores that they are more likely political.
  
  This is a political movement that has constructed a history, a culture, and a sense of victimhood, and applied it to an identifiable group.
  
  This comes from the top down, its not a grass roots movement.
  Maori are being indoctrinated like the rest of us and are being used and abused as well.
  The only people the leaders of this political movement hate more than everyone else are the people they pretend to represent.
  
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  February 23, 2026 9:42am
- pdm
  
  Our Hastings District Council is almost there. Mayor and CEO fully on board.
  
  Hastings City now sign posted as Heretaunga-Hastings by stealth.
  
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  February 23, 2026 9:52am
- Yvette
  
  Anthony Melchett – ‘Cultural and religious creep … Maori takeover’
  
  Compulsion vs. Freedom
  Are children required to assent inwardly? Or merely present during a cultural moment? Secularism protects conscience, not insulation from exposure.
  
  Framing and explanation
  Are practices explained as part of New Zealand’s heritage? Or implied to be spiritually normative? The difference is subtle but significant.
  
  Proportionality
  Is Māori culture being presented as the indigenous foundation of the nation — which is historically accurate — or as the spiritual framework all must adopt?
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  “Implied to be spiritually normative?” – Yesterday evening on COUNTRY CALENDAR farming community moral-boosting gatherings in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle, people were shown singing in two shots, both times signing Maori songs. Was this truly reflective of the gatherings, or conscious/unconscious propaganda.
  
  Should “the true Treaty clauses in legislation policy” have been a wider all inclusive statement of adherence to proper representation of all cultures and religions (therefore none: neutrality) in Government activities and services?
  
  Should ACT and New Zealand First be urged to address this, rather than making English law (when such a law can not be discussed without English) or a Frankenstein Treaty Principles Bill have life re-breathed into it when something else to confirm Government secularism is needed?
  
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  February 23, 2026 10:39am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Wrong.
    “Is Māori culture being presented as the indigenous foundation of the nation — which is historically accurate ”
    
    Maori are NOT indigenous to NZ – despite the UN & wokeists saying so.
    I had no problem with the Country Calendar program – it was a Maori farm with many employees being Maori from the families of the Iwi that owned the corporation that owned the property.
    
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    February 23, 2026 11:13am
    - Yvette
      
      Perhaps partially right!
      
      Maori are the “nation’s first people” and somehow being here – or at least their ancestors were – endures Maori with certain (seldom named) rights.
      
      I will freely admit to now to being a racist – an ACCIDENTAL RACIST.
      So much has been thrust at us now that is not seated in reality, that the general bedrock of untruths makes me bristle at most mentions or evidence of Maori culture / religion on television or any media.
      The COUNTRY CALENDAR example may be as innocent as you say, or it may not.
      
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      February 23, 2026 12:03pm
    - Taieri
      
      Maori are NOT indigenous to NZ
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      Of course they are. As is everyone else born in NZ.
      
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      February 23, 2026 12:54pm
- artemisia
  
  There’s gold in them thar bullet points, AM.
  
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  February 23, 2026 11:01am
- Notsofast
  
  Maori is a cult now. Islam is a cult. These two movements are set to destroy our joy in life.
  Vote for the grandchildren and do anything to reverse this divisive evil stalking the west.
  Winston says he is mobbed, I believe it.
  This is the worst time in modern New Zealand history with these cultural perverts taking control.
  
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  February 23, 2026 12:01pm
- kowtow
  
  It’s worth looking up the Herald NZME story about the army adopting this stuff .
  
  Seems it started in 1994 ( who was the govt of the day) The army decided that all soldiers were now in the tribe of the god of war , and it’s gone downhill since then.
  
  Paradoxically therefor they are not soldiers , they are tribe members ( Maori) and have a god ( also Maori).
  
  Next question is where do your loyalties lie.
  
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  February 23, 2026 1:07pm
- Albie
  
  Anthony, I waited outside Middlemore Emergency Dept yesterday for half an hour for my wife to pick me up after a 4 day stay from injuring myself. The staff were fantastic and treatment was first class BTW. Across the road is the new train station. All announcements are in long winded Te Reo first, followed by English. The hospital signage is a mix of Health New Zealand with Te Whatau Ora underneath, or the other way around.
  Thankfully the Emergency sign is still in bold English.
  
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  February 23, 2026 1:21pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Weird isn’t it. Most Maori don’t speak Maori and the rest of NZ certainly doesn’t. It’s as if a minority group of self righteous woke underminers think they own NZ. Perhaps identify them and fire them for insubordination? How else will this crap be stopped???
    
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    February 23, 2026 7:35pm
- muzled
  
  If you wrote that AM it’s post of the year thus far.
  
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  February 23, 2026 2:08pm
Chuck Bird

The Cult | A Net Zero Watch Short Film 7 Minutes

The brilliant Colin Brazier returns for our second short film on the cult of Net Zero and how it protects ‘green’ policies from being questioned by stifling debate and cracking down on free speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yBPb5geE_I
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February 23, 2026 9:02am
- muzled
  
  I guess the 4 downvoters of this disagree with free speech?
  
  ‘you can say whatever you want, as long as you don’t disagree with ‘the science’…
  
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  February 23, 2026 5:07pm
KKNZ2025

Yet another example of why the NZ Judiciary are held in contempt.

Rotorua aggravated robbery accused found guilty after judge revisits verdict.

“Even though he did take the vehicle and did not return it or otherwise take steps to reunite [the victim] with his vehicle, I must consider his intent at the time he was with [the victim], pointing a firearm at him and telling him to get into the car,” she said in her first decision.

She found Laupama did not intend to permanently deprive him of the car, so the charge was not proven.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/rotorua-aggravated-robbery-accused-found-guilty-after-judge-revisits-verdict/WVRKQG4V4VBJ7HNBIIP76UURA4/
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February 23, 2026 9:07am
- cmm
  
  Shocking.
  
  It is still surely theft even if you do not intend to take the vehicle permanently.
  
  Were charges dropped on the other offending? It seems to me that there was also:
  * kidnapping
  * attempt as slave taking (you will work for me and earn me $900 a week)
  * theft of other things including medication (life endangerment)
  * house breaking
  * home invasion
  …
  
  We really need the ability to recall judges, but if we did, would anyone do it?
  
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  February 23, 2026 9:20am
  - peterwn
    
    In the old days people were charged with ‘car conversion’ because unlike ‘theft’ it could not be proved that they intended to deprive the owner of the car indefinitely. There were calls that ‘conversion’ should carry the same maximum penalty as theft.
    In the case in hand the prosecutor did not seem to allow for that contingency. Also the judge should have given the prosecutor the chance to amend the ‘theft’ charge if that action was available to the judge.
    
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    February 23, 2026 10:15am
    - cmm
      
      Perhaps NZ really has a problem with prosecution.
      
      It seems rather crazy that this bloke looks like he should have faced far more serious charges than what he did with the car (ie. kidnapping, enslavement, assault,…).
      
      Perhaps all the other charges were he said/she said and the main witness was dead so the prosecutor couldn’t be bothered chasing charges that might not stick.
      
      But no doubt he will be back for more and they can throw the book at him next time…
      
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      February 23, 2026 10:24am
      - imalwaysright
        
        The victim was an old white man.
        
        If he was of a minority, the harm inflicted upon him would have been considered in proportion to his minorities current political relevance and media presence.
        
        If this scumbag had done the same to Bussy, Laal, Waititi, John Campbell etc, he would be doing a ten stretch.
        
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        February 23, 2026 10:44am
      - Charlotte Wells
        
        Unlawful taking and unlawful conversion have different elements to the offence.
        
        It would be unlawful taking.
        
        Theft requires the intent to permanently deprive the owner or to deal with it in a manner in which it cannot be returned in original condition.
        
        To take a car and then leave it a few blocks away is unlawful taking.
        
        To drive it away and then set fire to it becomes theft.
        
        Conversion is when you have rights to drive the car but take an unauthorised use. If you have the use of a company vehicle during the working week but decide to go off-roading at the weekend would be conversion.
        
        Robbery is theft accompanied by violence or threats of violence. Agg’ Rob’ is doing robbery armed with a weapon.
        
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        February 23, 2026 11:09am
      - kowtow
        
        iamalways
        
        The old white guy is in a vulnerable minority . Just the wrong one.
        
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        February 23, 2026 1:08pm
      - cmm
        
        The law is an ass.
        
        If I take someone’s property but “intend” to return it, or dump it where ownership can be restored, then it is not theft according to the Crimes Act.
        
        That is nonsense. If you take someone’s property for just a minute that should be considered theft.
        
        What were the lawmakers thinking?
        
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        February 23, 2026 1:27pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Judge living in La la land.
  
  I suspect she has only revised her thought pattern as she’s finally been asked to account for her judgement.
  
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  February 23, 2026 9:22am
- imalwaysright
  
  In NZ the best Defence lawyer you can get is the Judge.
  
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  February 23, 2026 9:56am
  - pdm
    
    Definitely at the moment and for the last 7 years.
    
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    February 23, 2026 12:44pm
- Charlotte Wells
  
  The judge was almost right.
  
  It all comes down to the interpretation of the imposed condition by the offender on the victim.
  
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  February 23, 2026 11:15am
  - KKNZ2025
    
    If a person points a firearm at someone the only logical assumption is that they are willing to use it to kill them.
    
    The problem with the judiciary is their willingness to use the legal system to prevent justice.
    
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    February 23, 2026 1:01pm
- rjay
  
  Same judge who ordered return of gang patches
  
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  February 23, 2026 12:36pm
cmm

Lots of gnashing of teeth over Western BoP councilors getting a 57% pay rise.

I reckon it is worth it for good governance. Unfortunately a lot of the people getting voted in are 20 year olds who can’t even run their household budget.

I think that China has, or at least once had, the right approach. You couldn’t get any serious government job without having passed the public service exam which was more or less equivalent to a masters degree in public administration. That lasted until Mao who killed it off with all the intellectuals. AFAIK, it has since been brought back.

I personally think that nobody should be allowed to be an MP or councilor unless they have at least NCEA2 level attainment in all of: statistics, physics, chemistry, mathematics, English, accounting plus at least one useful degree (excludes basket weaving degrees) or having run a successful business.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/western-bay-of-plenty-councillors-get-average-57-pay-rise-to-80k/K6PXKAF62NCODMKTKTEWYCEJVY/
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February 23, 2026 9:14am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  statistics, physics, chemistry, mathematics, English, accounting plus at least one useful degree
  
  But if you’ve got this lot under your hat, why on earth would you subject yourself to years of sitting in boring meetings/debating chambers?
  
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  February 23, 2026 9:28am
  - cmm
    
    That is where you go full circle back to where MPs and such were not paid and it was seen as a service to the community.
    
    Paying MPs only started so that the Great Unwashed could join the party.
    
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    February 23, 2026 9:45am
  - David Garrett
    
    Maggy: Some of us at least take a pay drop and put up with endless Maori bullshit because we want to make a difference
    
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    February 23, 2026 9:52am
    - Cassandra
      
      Mostly lefty MPs have the best job and pay they’ll ever get when they enter Parliament. Right wing MPs take a pay cut.
      
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      February 23, 2026 10:35am
      - Ian Boag
        
        And your point is?
        
        If MP salaries were reduced, would that bring in a better class of MP? The absurd extension of that one is fairly obvious …..
        
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        February 23, 2026 12:23pm
      - cmm
        
        Ian, the highest quality MPs are not attracted to the pay. They could all earn far more doing something else.
        
        It is the low quality MPs that are the problem. Those for whom even a back bencher’s salary is far better than anything they could earn on civvy street.
        
        So if you are going to pay more to attract better MPs, then MPs need some sort of performance pay. ie. Just shining your arse as a useless back bencher should not get you the same pay.
        
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        February 23, 2026 1:21pm
      - Cassandra
        
        My point, Ian Boag, is that most Labour, Green and Maori Party MPs have never had real jobs. And if they were not in Parliament they’d have difficulty getting a job in the real world.
        
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        February 23, 2026 2:19pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        Ah. So to get better government we should pay righty MPs more because otherwise they are taking a (unfair) pay cut, and we should pay lefty MPs less because they will still be (needlessly) better paid than they were.
        
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        February 23, 2026 2:54pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  The Indian Civil Service exam in the days of the Raj was extremely difficult and still is today. Same as the Chinese one.
  
  Try passing the exams to get into a Japanese University and a Chinese one.
  
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  February 23, 2026 9:43am
- Ra Henare
  
  The problem is not the councillors.!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  Its the effing Renumeration Authority throwing a huge increase in the councillors pay pool.
  
  Long overdue for those cardywearers to be closed down.
  
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  February 23, 2026 12:22pm
  - MCōs
    
    Then what?
    Have the councils decide their own remuneration?
    Work for nothing?
    Public donations?
    
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    February 23, 2026 1:57pm
    - Cassandra
      
      Have all candidates state the pay they want for the term before the election.
      
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      February 23, 2026 2:21pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        Councilors member used to be unpaid – they were generally businessmen who were prepared to “give back ” to the community by service to the community.
        Now, it’s the money & stuff the rest.
        
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        February 23, 2026 2:45pm
- Graeme Hall
  
  Ignore the academic requirement. Instead, require MP candidates to run an inner city dairy for two years. After that you would know what is takes to run a profitable small business and the problems they face. Plus, you would know a fair cross-section of the population – both good and bad.
  
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  February 23, 2026 1:38pm
imalwaysright

Heard Sean Plunket on the Platform outline the job requirements for a job at NZTA.
One was to “manage and protect “Maori Data Sovereignty”.

This is the second time I’ve seen this term from the Public Service.

Are we to assume that data relating to Maori will now be restricted?

With Maori being at the wrong end of many statistics, is this a way of hiding those statistics and therefore erasing responsibility?
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February 23, 2026 9:21am
- westernScientist
  
  It is a lot more than that, it covers data that can be claimed as Maori, so for example, any data which is collected about ‘the environment’ or say Kauri trees, is considered “maori”. As a result, various people have to be consulted/paid to ensure that it is all ‘culturally appropriate’, how it is collected, stored, who gets assess to it, and who they have to pay to get assess to it, all those kinds of things. Here is the official government stance: https://data.govt.nz/leadership/centre-for-data-ethics-and-innovation/guidance/maori-data-and-ai-guidance-for-business
  
  In particular from the above link: What is Māori Data:
  
  Digital or digitisable information or knowledge that is about or from Māori people, language, culture, resources, or environments. For many Māori, data is considered a Taonga and subject to Māori Governance.
  
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  February 23, 2026 11:50am
  - Swifty
    
    FGS.
    
    Next thing we’ll be consulting mountains for advice.
    
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    February 23, 2026 2:26pm
  - cmm
    
    “For many Māori, data is considered a Taonga”
    
    Of course it is. Data that others gather is a zero-effort grift. A perfect way to make the honkey pay.
    
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    February 23, 2026 2:28pm
    - Hard Cheese
      
      If I hadn’t seen that stuff on a NZ Government web site I’d have thought it was a joke. I guess never underestimate the inventive ways for Maori to insert themselves into any process as cultural consultants with an associated consultation fee.
      
      I’d love to know where the idea of “Maori data” came from, it seems very recent so it must have been dreamed up and introduced by someone.
      
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      February 23, 2026 9:14pm
BarryB

Remember the strange white clots that turned up in a lot of middle aged people (- found after they died -) following Civid vaccine doses.
Heres some development informtion:
https://nzdsos.com/2026/02/04/breaking-research-decodes-the-mystery-of-the-rubbery-white-clots/
The clots are something never seen before – slowly, slowly the damage of those vaccines are being discovered. Its no wonder there is growing vaccine hesitancy.
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February 23, 2026 10:11am
- NothingLeft
  
  Shhh, we aren’t allowed to discuss things that might put certain companies, politicians, civil servants and professionals in a bad light. Even if they accidently killed a few million people. Move on.
  
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  February 23, 2026 2:56pm
rouppe

I’m not shy about calling out dud judge (or adjudicator) decisions, but here’s a good one:

Wasson has sought a discharge without conviction for her offending, telling the courts that being convicted would have a “detrimental impact” on her ambition to work as a teacher.

Honey, I think that ship sailed when it became known you’re a meth-head.

However, at sentencing in the North Shore District Court, Judge Evangelos Thomas said that a discharge was inappropriate because of the gravity of the offending.

It would also be an “appalling insult to the victim”, he said.

Damn straight.
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February 23, 2026 10:24am
Swifty

I hope National get caned for for this:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/587482/family-s-chance-for-a-fresh-start-thanks-to-new-social-housing

Government disfunction. Different branches of government working against each other – one part dedicated to housing our existing poor and sick, the other increasing the numbers of poor and sick looking for housing. One part of government charged with reducing demand for health services (through healthier lifestyles etc) another part of govt increasing health services demand.

And all needlessly. New Zealand families should not be taxed to provide health services and housing (and quite possibly benefit payments) to foreign nationals – and certainly not when we’ve got unmet demand from our own people.

Our politicians just don’t give a rats. They’re just not serious. Either that or they’re just plain incompetent.

No wonder trust in our govt and institutions is at an all time low and getting lower.

And we’re just bloody mugs for putting up with it.
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February 23, 2026 10:32am
- ISeeRed
  
  Arrived one year ago from Samoa! SEND. THEM. BACK.
  
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  February 23, 2026 11:28am
  - RoboRob
    
    We have a ‘deal’ that allows Samoans to move here without regards for normal immigration rules. We cant just kick them out.
    
    I assume that normal rules require new immigrants to have work sorted prior to entry or at least a time period where they must find work. The concept of allowing people to move to your country and to then go immediately on the countries welfare system seems ‘crazy’*. Perhaps it is time we stop / alter our arrangement with various pacific nations.
    
    * obviously that is different for refugees.
    
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    February 23, 2026 1:30pm
    - cmm
      
      Any “deal” can be changed and if they are not actual citizens they can be kicked out.
      
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      February 23, 2026 2:27pm
    - Jack5
      
      Roborob’s …We have a ‘deal’ that allows Samoans to move here …
      
      What was all the fuss about the “dawn raids” as
      officials looked for illegal immigrants, often from Samoa?
      
      Perhaps Roborob’s referring to Samoans born between 13 May 1924 and 1 January 1949.
      
      Red Radio explains:
      
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific/563015/explainer-samoa-citizenship-bill-and-the-pension
      
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      February 23, 2026 4:09pm
Swifty

European culture is better:

https://x.com/tamtrib/status/2025645263709491218?s=46
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February 23, 2026 11:19am
- Sir Henry Morgan
  
  Yes. The institutions built by European civilizations are being used to destroy them by imported ingrates.
  
  Indigenous Europeans need to start unapologetically displaying the same type of in-group ethnic and racial preferences shown by everyone else.
  
  BLM was a real wake up call for me. Blatant racial bigotry and all flowing in one direction.
  
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  February 23, 2026 3:01pm
Paulus

Monday Morning
Congratulations to NZME baby the Bay of Plenty Times.
AGAIN
they have reproduced a good article from a usual advisor on people spending.
Full half center page left hand paper page.
Then again opposite they have printed the same article.
But they have changed the title so all right.
Not the first time recently.
Are they really that stupid
Don’t answer.
We know that they are desperate for anything but do they deserve to remain in business – I only buy because for over 30 years my wife insists in doing some of the crosswords every day – she is a stroke person, so I pay.
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February 23, 2026 11:31am
Swifty

“Whoever says the Hadith on camel urine treatment is incorrect or insulting to Islam deserves death and must be killed.”

https://x.com/yossibenyakar/status/2025682297073123387?s=46

Just what we need to make NZ better, yep, let’s import a whole lot more people who think this is a correct way to conduct themselves.

What could go wrong?
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February 23, 2026 11:39am
- cmm
  
  It’s not just those you import. It is their offspring.
  
  They outbreed the rest of us at an alarming rate. So many of Tarrant’s victims were “Loving father of six”.
  
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  February 23, 2026 2:26pm
cmm

What sort of woman stays around when her “partner” jumps up and down on her to try to kill the baby inside her?

This piece of shit would get the rope in a fair society, but the woman and her “loving whanau” need to wear some of this too.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/te-kuiti-baby-death-mukzameel-ali-admits-killing-10-month-old-mustafa-ali/5U32LB3YYVFL3KPMQVAWTBL6DA/
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February 23, 2026 12:13pm
- AitchW
  
  What a psychotic piece of subhuman garbage. He should be locked up forever.
  A condom is all that that was needed to prevent this.
  
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  February 23, 2026 1:20pm
  - cmm
    
    Yes he is sub-human garbage but, as I said, the partner and her whanau must wear some of this too.
    
    Why the hell would you have anything to do with scum like that? Why would you let your daughter get involved with him? Why would you leave a child in his care?
    
    Perhaps he is awesome in bed. Perhaps he supplies discounted smuggled cigarettes and other contraband, but is that really enough?
    
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    February 23, 2026 2:10pm
mandk

I didn’t get the chance to listen, but I hear that the man who left the nation in a state gave a State of the Nation speech earlier.
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February 23, 2026 1:20pm
- Yabster
  
  more weasel words from Teflon Chris..
  
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  February 23, 2026 2:55pm
MCōs

Breaking news on NYT

Trump Considers Targeted Strike Against Iran, Followed by Larger Attack

Translation
I really, really, really mean it this time
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February 23, 2026 1:28pm
- mike
  
  What’s he planning to strike? Didn’t he announce last year that the nuclear sites were “completely and totally obliterated”?
  
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  February 23, 2026 1:41pm
- MCōs
  
  Iran may or may not be on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon, but we’ve been spun than line for many years as a pretext for the USA to attack the place on behalf of you know who.
  Iran is a big place: population 93million.
  I don’t know how popular the current administration is, but if the country is attacked by USA/Israel Im picking they won’t welcome them with open arms.
  Nobody likes an invasion by foreigners
  
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  February 23, 2026 4:41pm
cmm

I am not at all opposed to women having various roles in the military.

One of the best officers I dealt with in the South African Army was Colonel Hilda Botha when she was at Army HQ (the only female Colonel at the time). For a time she was Officer Commanding the women’s college. AFAIK, she was never part of any combat command structure.

But having a DEI-pushing female Chief of Army Major General Rose King is another thing entirely.

In my opinion, for what that is worth, combat troops need to be able to look up to their leadership and trust that their leaders not only understand what they are doing, but could do the job themselves.

Clearly Major General Rose King is not up to being able to do infantry work.

I did my military time developing computer systems – nothing at all physical. The Colonel and Brigadier I reported to openly admitted they did not understand computers. That’s fine. They were not telling me what to do. They were not providing technical leadership. They were sorting out the military side of things and giving us techies space to do our thing.

It is entirely different in combat roles. The best combat leader I had the opportunity of dealing with in the SA Army was Colonel (later General) Koos “Bom” Laubscher. Colonel Laubscher was in charge of artillery. He pushed his men hard and achieved amazing results. He was also super fit and an amazing artilleryman and would ask his men to do nothing that he could not do himself – be that having a neat haricut, running, carrying ammunition (155mm artillery shells are not funny) or sleeping in the rain in trenches. Every soldier that reported to him 100% respected him and would do anything for him. They did that because they knew they were never being asked to do something their officers would or could not do.

Wokery is maybe OK in the HR department, but no combat solder should ever report to a DEI officer. This completely erodes any leadership.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/winston-peters-and-david-seymour-upset-over-armys-new-bicultural-plan-with-waiata-quota-and-te-ao-maori-gods-and-how-judith-collins-responded/premium/7U4OE3GUT5GDBGJJVOYX2UKYHI/
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February 23, 2026 2:06pm
- mike
  
  What particular ‘infantry work’ do you expect the major-general to do when NZ has, at best, about one and a half battalions of said infantry?
  
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  February 23, 2026 2:36pm
  - cmm
    
    Just being able to jump out of a vehicle, have a history of fitness and combat and know which is the pointy end of a rifle is a good start.
    
    IIRC, Rose King is ex-logistics. Yes, logistics is extremely important (that was my area), but it is not a combat role. She is probably just the lass if you’re running short on supplies.
    
    When the shit is flying the troops really need confidence that their leaders know what they are doing and understand the commands they are issuing. They need total trust in the competence of their leadership. There is really no substitute for combat experience.
    
    According to people in the know that I have spoken with on the matter the two most important things for morale in combat are are:
    * Being able to 100% trust the competence of your leadership.
    * Being able to trust your ammunition.
    
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    February 23, 2026 3:08pm
    - mike
      
      You are ignoring the fact that previous chiefs of army have been logisticians because your real objection to King is her gender.
      
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      February 23, 2026 3:17pm
      - Jack5
        
        Whether King is a suitable Army commander or not, DEI has been a disaster.
        
        It’s being unwound in the US armed services.
        
        If not DEI, what is it that has stuffed the NZ Navy?
        
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        February 23, 2026 3:45pm
      - mike
        
        Chronic underfunding and disastrous political choices.
        
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        February 23, 2026 4:25pm
      - cmm
        
        “disastrous political choices”
        
        DEI Generals being one of those political disasters.
        
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        February 24, 2026 7:57am
- Sir Henry Morgan
  
  If nothing else a young, white, heterosexual male would have to be an idiot to join the armed forces when his prospects for advancement are so obviously going to be sacrificed in the name of DEI.
  
  And of course it’s not just the armed forces. It’s basically every taxpayer-funded organization, plus a good chunk of private businesses.
  
  Meanwhile the likes of Judith Collins respond to a captain ramming her ship into Samoa by banging on about sexism.
  
  It is clown world.
  
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  February 23, 2026 3:10pm
- rouppe
  
  I don’t think gender plays much of a role in some combat roles:
  * pilot, including drone pilot
  * navigator
  * weapons specialist (eg Hercules gunship gunnery specialist, Apache gunship, similar roles in the Navy)
  
  though competence when stuff goes wrong (aircraft shot down, ship holed etc) also comes into it I suppose.
  
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  February 23, 2026 3:26pm
  - cmm
    
    You are correct. Gender does not play a role in some combat roles.
    
    However here we are lalking about the Army in particular. The backbone of the Army is the infantry. In infantry gender certainly is a factor.
    
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    February 24, 2026 8:01am
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360942380/teaching-council-ceo-lesley-hoskin-resigns-after-investigation

Between the corrupt practices and the total maorification this unionised place is a disgrace.

“We support teachers to use the Code of Professional Responsibility and the Standards for the Teaching Profession | Ngā Tikanga Matatika, Ngā Paerewa in their everyday practice. “

Rubbish !
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February 23, 2026 2:17pm
- cmm
  
  Is a resignation really enough?
  
  That’s $1.7M of what, on the face of it, looks like embezzlement.
  
  Surely there should also be some sort of prosecution?
  
  ““These shortcomings created avoidable organisational and reputational risks and have the potential to undermine trust in the Teaching Council.””
  
  Yeah, what fucking trust! That trust is long gone.
  
  If they want to rebuild trust in government organisations – and the way taxpayer money is splashed around – then this needs to go far further than just accepting her resignation.
  
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  February 23, 2026 2:23pm
  - AitchW
    
    No one politically to the right of Karl Marx trusts any of the unions. They have changed from champions of workers’ rights to be the mouth piece and muscle for the Labour Party.
    I suspect that the Teaching Council’s “conflict of interest” is but the tip of a very much larger iceberg of corruption, aided and abetted by Labour.
    
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    February 23, 2026 2:39pm
  - cmm
    
    I see the article has been amended to say there was only $1,115,515 involved. Not the $1.7 quoted originally.
    
    Well I suppose that changes everything.
    
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    February 23, 2026 3:22pm
cmm

Do I have to pay anyone koha to watch the lunar eclipse next week?

“According to Nasa, the totality of the eclipse will also be visible in eastern Asia, Australia, the Pacific, and North and Central America.”

Yeah, who cares what NASA says, I want to hear what Mātauranga Māori has to say.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/total-lunar-eclipse-new-zealand-has-front-row-seat-to-only-lunar-eclipse-of-2026/Q7EVDUZAPRAFZPILRXGLCQPAH4/
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February 23, 2026 2:35pm
- mike
  
  Googled this for you to save seconds of your valuable time:
  In Māori culture, lunar eclipses (marama kūtia or ataapō) are celestial events connected to cosmic balance, often viewed as a temporary battle between the Sun and Moon, or a time when the Moon is obscured by darkness. Rather than fear, they are respected as natural phenomena, sometimes signaling a need for caution and spiritual grounding during the “blood moon”.
  The red color of the eclipsed moon is considered sacred, often associated with, but distinct from, stories of Rona who was taken to the moon.
  Some iwi interpret the eclipse as a time of disruption or a fight between light and darkness. It is often a time for calm reflection and, in some traditions, seen as a “war” involving Whiro, the deity associated with darkness.
  The eclipse, while a special event, fits within the broader understanding of the Maramataka (Māori lunar calendar), which guides daily activities based on the phases of the moon.
  
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  February 23, 2026 2:40pm
  - cmm
    
    Well I am retiring at the end of this week and will probably need some “spiritual grounding” next week so the blood moon is exactly at the right time for me.
    
    Sounds like Mātauranga Māori for the win.
    
    As a guilt-ridden whitey, I feel I should be paying someone…
    
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    February 23, 2026 2:55pm
    - rouppe
      
      Pay the Babylonians.
      
      https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/astronomy-and-astrophysics/first-recorded-lunar-eclipse
      
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      February 23, 2026 3:12pm
    - Jack5
      
      As for poster Mike’s …Maramataka (Māori lunar calendar), which guides daily activities based on the phases of the moon.
      
      But did olden-days Maori predict eclipse dates?
      
      They, pretty much as every other pre-civilisation society, used moon phases, or months. When the primitive couldn’t explain phenomena scientifically, they created imaginary stories.
      
      Next, Mike, you’ll be comparing Polynesian seashell trumpeting to the internet.
      
      https://www.teachastronomy.com/textbook/The-Earth-Moon-System/Historical-Studies-of-the-Moon/
      
      CMM: all the best for a long and enjoyable retirement.
      
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      February 23, 2026 3:37pm
  - rouppe
    
    So in Maori culture it could be any one of about four things, whereas in science it is a single phenomenon, explained clearly.
    
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    February 23, 2026 3:09pm
  - Inandout
    
    mike, IMO what utter garbage. I can imagine early Maori would be scared witless when they saw eclipses. Did any thoughts eminate from the eclipse, like hey that is shaped round and if we could make something like that out flax…? I think they were more obssessed thinking about when a neighbouring tribe would cross a hill and attack them. And people actually get diplomas studying what you quote.
    
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    February 23, 2026 3:46pm
    - mike
      
      I can imagine lots of things too.
      
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      February 23, 2026 4:27pm
- MCōs
  
  I’ll take your money off your hands if it’ll make you feel better
  
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  February 23, 2026 5:43pm
BeaB

This morning on RNZ Ingrid Hipkiss spent so much time in her interview with the PM on flogging a dead horse she ran out of time.
“We’ll get him next time,” she told us. What could she have meant?
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February 23, 2026 2:36pm
- MCōs
  
  Here’s the interview here, which I didn’t listen to
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2019024146/weekly-interview-with-prime-minister-christopher-luxon
  For both participants it’s a contractual obligation
  
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  February 23, 2026 5:58pm
cas

There’s a full page ad on the back of this week’s Listener advertising Morning Report with Ingrid Hipkiss and Corin Dann. It says ‘ Start your Day with Something Substantial’ all in caps.

They must be desperate.
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February 23, 2026 5:14pm
Gulag1917

Fringe stuff.
Huckabee’s Israel land remarks condemned as ‘dangerous and inflammatory’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/22/mike-huckabee-israel-comments-condemned-arab-muslim-countries
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February 23, 2026 5:45pm
Jack5

Michael Laws at The Platform cuts loose on what he describes as “the sinister cultural/religious takeover of the NZ Army”. A 17-minute video.

Samples: “The Christian God’s out now with [the gods of] the Norse men,” and “the NZ Army is going to have travelling with them cultural advisers who play the role of the Soviet padres …”

[Laws is alluding to the Communist Party commissars in the Red Army.]

Laws:

https://youtu.be/fwL4R2nNYp4?si=8jhU62B0H_OXkY21

The document on Army culture:

https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/assets/Uploads/DocumentLibrary/NZDF-Kia-Eke-Maori-Strategic-Framework.pdf
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