Same ol' Westcoastrogue
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Hoping for the best. No. 286,584 on here.
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Who did this? Coz we should definitely be friends 🤣 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Who did this? Coz we should definitely be friends 🤣 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol
A mature conversation? Ok then. I sincerely think that politicians who have sold public assets without getting everyone's approval should be jailed for theft, and people who bought it should be done for receiving stolen property.
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
A mature conversation? Ok then. I sincerely think that politicians who have sold public assets without getting everyone's approval should be jailed for theft, and people who bought it should be done for receiving stolen property.
So to journos having reckons about Labour being tainted by TPM's issues, I ask have they honestly put the same scrutiny on NZFirst being infiltrated by cookers, or ACT being a local proxy of the atlas network and how that reflects on National?
Yeah. thought so.
Yeah. thought so.
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
So to journos having reckons about Labour being tainted by TPM's issues, I ask have they honestly put the same scrutiny on NZFirst being infiltrated by cookers, or ACT being a local proxy of the atlas network and how that reflects on National?
Yeah. thought so.
Yeah. thought so.
Personally I don't think Nicola Willis really believes her economic policies will help average people. She knows it's all about the big end of town, lower taxes, having medical insurance etc etc. Saying she cares about jobs, cost of living etc, is an act I don't believe for a second.
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Personally I don't think Nicola Willis really believes her economic policies will help average people. She knows it's all about the big end of town, lower taxes, having medical insurance etc etc. Saying she cares about jobs, cost of living etc, is an act I don't believe for a second.
You mean it's not currently free? Fuck's sake. Where are our priorities?
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
You mean it's not currently free? Fuck's sake. Where are our priorities?
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FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy
Yeah put dental on it too
The Labour Party is promising free cervical screening to New Zealanders - the latest addition to its recently announced “Medicard”.
Labour would make cervical screening free
The Labour Party is promising free cervical screening to New Zealanders - the latest addition to its recently announced “Medicard”.
dlvr.it
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Yeah put dental on it too
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The only explanation I can imagine for the entirety of Cuomo’s campaign is that he has some kind of humiliation fetish. If true, I want to congratulate him on what I assume will be an epic nut tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The only explanation I can imagine for the entirety of Cuomo’s campaign is that he has some kind of humiliation fetish. If true, I want to congratulate him on what I assume will be an epic nut tonight
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This is the greatest last sentence ever written in an obituary. defector.com/dick-cheney-...
Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector
At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a ...
defector.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is the greatest last sentence ever written in an obituary. defector.com/dick-cheney-...
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1. Campaign on big issues that are directly relevant to your voters
2. Don't get distracted from point one
3. Present as a decent human with manageable baggage
4. Don't be old as fuck.
Go forth and do likewise
2. Don't get distracted from point one
3. Present as a decent human with manageable baggage
4. Don't be old as fuck.
Go forth and do likewise
Several European left-wing officials said they had been in contact with members of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in New York in the hope of emulating his success in future local elections.
www.politico.eu/article/zohr...
www.politico.eu/article/zohr...
Europe’s left flocks to New York to take notes on Mamdani’s meteoric rise
Several European left-wing officials said they had been in contact with members of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in New York in the hope of emulating his success in future local elections.
www.politico.eu
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
1. Campaign on big issues that are directly relevant to your voters
2. Don't get distracted from point one
3. Present as a decent human with manageable baggage
4. Don't be old as fuck.
Go forth and do likewise
2. Don't get distracted from point one
3. Present as a decent human with manageable baggage
4. Don't be old as fuck.
Go forth and do likewise
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
Ah yes I see now it was the asbestos that made me feel weird after many many long days at the Fitz drinking reckless amounts of grog and smoking doobs in the carpark.... www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Asbestos scare sees school shut after massive blaze in abandoned bar
Multiple crew were able to control the fire at an abandoned Palmerston North pub the old Fitz Bar by around 9pm on Thursday.
www.stuff.co.nz
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Ah yes I see now it was the asbestos that made me feel weird after many many long days at the Fitz drinking reckless amounts of grog and smoking doobs in the carpark.... www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Cool so now dairy farmers can go to the French government for handouts eh?
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Cool so now dairy farmers can go to the French government for handouts eh?
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A bit of a long thread on the strategy and cultural war the right is surging ahead with here in Aotearoa (while I’m tired and awake at a hospital bedside).
Fermenting from a few things, including a NZ democracy conference in Wellington last week and good chats with friends #NZPol
Fermenting from a few things, including a NZ democracy conference in Wellington last week and good chats with friends #NZPol
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A bit of a long thread on the strategy and cultural war the right is surging ahead with here in Aotearoa (while I’m tired and awake at a hospital bedside).
Fermenting from a few things, including a NZ democracy conference in Wellington last week and good chats with friends #NZPol
Fermenting from a few things, including a NZ democracy conference in Wellington last week and good chats with friends #NZPol
This kind of "analysis" is pointless. What about a piece that looks at similar funds overseas that have worked and ones that haven't and the lessons to be learnt? Perhaps a deep-dive on what kind of projects such a fund could, er, fund & why do they struggle to attract $$ from traditional investors.
October 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This kind of "analysis" is pointless. What about a piece that looks at similar funds overseas that have worked and ones that haven't and the lessons to be learnt? Perhaps a deep-dive on what kind of projects such a fund could, er, fund & why do they struggle to attract $$ from traditional investors.
This is good from the Greens - really sticking it to the Govt. I feel like there's a developing attitude on the left ie with Zohran Mamdani, Zack Polanski, Kat Abughazaleh where they're really calling out the right and I think it's working.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Greens accuse government of 'clownish' smear campaign over mega strike
The party has savaged the government's response to the looming mega-strike.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is good from the Greens - really sticking it to the Govt. I feel like there's a developing attitude on the left ie with Zohran Mamdani, Zack Polanski, Kat Abughazaleh where they're really calling out the right and I think it's working.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work
December 1, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work
So Luxon was on the news this morning saying we have no money, then at lunchtime Labour announce a policy about the future, then suddenly Luxo has a couple of billion to spend on roads?
Smells like panic eh?
Smells like panic eh?
October 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM
So Luxon was on the news this morning saying we have no money, then at lunchtime Labour announce a policy about the future, then suddenly Luxo has a couple of billion to spend on roads?
Smells like panic eh?
Smells like panic eh?
75% chance they came with this list of roads on the way to the presser.
October 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM
75% chance they came with this list of roads on the way to the presser.
I hope the first big infrastructure project from the future fund is the long-awaited Waikumete-Rosebank Bridge! Yes it's niche but it's probably got a better ROI than anything the current govt are proposing ...
October 20, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I hope the first big infrastructure project from the future fund is the long-awaited Waikumete-Rosebank Bridge! Yes it's niche but it's probably got a better ROI than anything the current govt are proposing ...
Plenty of details to come obvs, but this sounds good.
Will earnings go back into the fund forever? i.e. the benefit for the country is not and annual cash return from the fund into govt coffers, rather the benefit is the economic and social benefit of improved infra etc....
Will earnings go back into the fund forever? i.e. the benefit for the country is not and annual cash return from the fund into govt coffers, rather the benefit is the economic and social benefit of improved infra etc....
The Future Fund...
- a sovereign wealth fund
- starting with assets we already own plus a capital injection
- run by an independent team
- earnings going back into the Fund
- assets in the Fund protected in law
- a sovereign wealth fund
- starting with assets we already own plus a capital injection
- run by an independent team
- earnings going back into the Fund
- assets in the Fund protected in law
October 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Plenty of details to come obvs, but this sounds good.
Will earnings go back into the fund forever? i.e. the benefit for the country is not and annual cash return from the fund into govt coffers, rather the benefit is the economic and social benefit of improved infra etc....
Will earnings go back into the fund forever? i.e. the benefit for the country is not and annual cash return from the fund into govt coffers, rather the benefit is the economic and social benefit of improved infra etc....
So immigration is one of the big issues these days right? Here's my questions for journos/economists/politicalists:
- Is immigration essential? What are the assumptions behind this?
- What drives the jump in immigration over the last few decades?
- What happens if immigration is stopped?
- Is immigration essential? What are the assumptions behind this?
- What drives the jump in immigration over the last few decades?
- What happens if immigration is stopped?
October 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
So immigration is one of the big issues these days right? Here's my questions for journos/economists/politicalists:
- Is immigration essential? What are the assumptions behind this?
- What drives the jump in immigration over the last few decades?
- What happens if immigration is stopped?
- Is immigration essential? What are the assumptions behind this?
- What drives the jump in immigration over the last few decades?
- What happens if immigration is stopped?
You want a blast from the past? I'll give you a blast from the past.
Complete episodes on YT. If you like Aussies who drink, smoke and argue with 0% self-awareness, this is for you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cqg...
Complete episodes on YT. If you like Aussies who drink, smoke and argue with 0% self-awareness, this is for you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cqg...
October 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
You want a blast from the past? I'll give you a blast from the past.
Complete episodes on YT. If you like Aussies who drink, smoke and argue with 0% self-awareness, this is for you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cqg...
Complete episodes on YT. If you like Aussies who drink, smoke and argue with 0% self-awareness, this is for you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cqg...
Hey looks like like NZ does know how to get rid of a bland dickhead
October 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Hey looks like like NZ does know how to get rid of a bland dickhead
The current Stuff campaign about swimming is kinda funny. Wouldnt be surprised if 6 months from now they were publishing pieces from the NZ Initiative about how drowning is good for the economy.
October 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The current Stuff campaign about swimming is kinda funny. Wouldnt be surprised if 6 months from now they were publishing pieces from the NZ Initiative about how drowning is good for the economy.