*Chortle*

I see what you did there.

Thanks, good backgrounder.

I'll never forget this bold confession by Nancy Pelosi: "We're capitalists..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRmLCzcQI2U

Hope you're doing well Quinn. Always.

Damn good article.

Nice use of "Team Luxon" in that caption.

Amazing

>> I didn't agree with them, but I could see their reasoning, their commitment to their business & farming community 'constituency'.

Agree on all your points about Bolger. In my experience he was also a Leader of the Opposition, then PM, who took the time to explain his goals. Once dragged me down the corridor to Bill Birch's office to get Birch to outline reasons why the Nats would dissipate an ACC surplus rather than invest it.

"By comparison, the National Party’s own favourability sits 10 points higher, at -13. That gap indicates Luxon is now a drag on the brand rather than an asset to it."

Oh. I see. "...a drag on the brand...."

So we remain vigilant & deeply grateful to our allies.

For Signal, Chat Control is an existential threat. If we were *forced* to choose between building surveillance into our services or keeping our integrity, we would choose integrity & leave the market. We hope it never comes to this. 7/

I was, and still am, impressed that Marama Davidson offered exactly ZERO pandering to that dipstick conspiracy theory-laden ‘question’.
No need for rapport building with cookers.

I once attended a Green Party pre-election candidates meeting at Oneroa, Waiheke. Speakers were Chloe Swarbrick & Marama Davidson.
After their presentations, the FIRST QUESTION from audience was about 5G towers.
Gee that’s a test, I thought.

Marama shot it down, immediately, citing ‘science’ #whew