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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 14h

Every single thing this coalition have done during their term has made conditions worse for the majority of New Zealanders.
Every single thing.

Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 1d

More waves crashing on the sandcastles of hopium. I'm famously pessimistic, but the data continues to surprise me to the downside. It's relentless. We've not seen anything like this for 45 years. Compounding, mutually reinforcing, job-killing dynamics. (1/2)

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously the vendors are already charging the “ypu look like unreliable clients here is our fuck you price”

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 1d

Nicola Willis need to resign.

She fucked our transport artery for years. Christ the incompetence. Mind blowing and so wasteful.

Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 1d

So-orig it was $551m for 2 top of the line Korean rail ferries delivered this year & next. It cost National $671m to cancel them. We don’t know the added price for these Chinese Ferries-hopefully they won’t be full of asbestos like the rail carriages were #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/14/g...

Govt confirms shipyard for new Cook Strait ferries

The shipbuilder was the "largest modern integrated shipbuilding enterprise in Southern China," Peters said in his media release.

www.1news.co.nz

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Skip McCabe @skipmccabe.bsky.social · 1d

Stuff NZ pays Damien Grant.
Stuff begs for donations.
Fuck Off!

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 1d

Wishing Luxon Willis Peters and Seymour the day they deserve today.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

The bleakest thing about this video is that all the things this guy loves about the UK are relatively cheap and easy to build. Alabama could have a better train system than England inside of 10 years if we decided that was a priority. We are a rich country that chooses to live like a poor one.

Kelly C @kacphl.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. This guy nailed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qv...

How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

www.youtube.com

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cryoutloud26 @cryoutloud26.bsky.social · 2d

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 1d

The state the police. Holy shit

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

a foundational belief of the modern right is that there is no such thing as organic disagreement with their policies, it’s all directed from the top down

they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 2d

Luxons message to young people taking their first steps into adult hood and careers is very clearly:
“We will not catch you cause you don’t matter”
He manages to make sure we all know he hates us and our children and we can all fuck cause he is wealthy and sorted.
We really should vote accordingly

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 2d

Is knowing that you are posting utter shit, then announcing that when everyone calls it shit you have won, smart?
It’s not a badge of honour, it’s just you being objectionable.

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely - when National fuck up trade deals, who does Nicola Willis blame - the “future Labour govt”

Christ I loathe the coalition

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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like I misunderstood what they meant by back on track

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 2d

The amount political journalists who are part of NZ initiative is wild and very very concerning

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · Sep 7

This took me about ten minutes off the top of my head: 30 Reasons to Hate Christopher Luxon #nzpol

1. Said he owned a scooter and the Tesla was his wife's
1a. Has never, one single time, been seen anywhere near a scooter
2. Said we don't "just do bottom-feeding and focus on the bottom" when talking about poorer NZers
3. Said he catches the train in Auckland when badmouthing Te Huia, the train from Auckland to Hamilton
3a. Has never, one single time, been seen anywhere near a train
4. Claimed rebates on the Teslas he says he doesn't own then got into government and scrapped the rebates
5. Took a limo a few hundred metres to Parliament after he became National leader to bignote himself
6. Called NZ "the best little country on earth" like a fucking weirdo
7. Called NZ's democracy "an experiment" like a fucking AMERICAN weirdo
8. Gave the same speech at Waitangi three years in a row
9. Sang Lunchmoney Lewis' "Bills" desperately at a reporter and we all had to see it
10. Called his parenting philosophy being "caretakers, cops, coaches and consultants"
10a. This was taken from a fucking weirdo fundy parenting camp in the USA, which he attended
11. Said he wanted to be an "intentional" prime minister
12. Was "unaware" of contracting to the Saudis as AirNZ CEO
13. Was "unaware" of Uffindell beating up a kid with a bed leg as a teen
14. Was "unaware" of Uffindell scaring a flatmate so much she had to flee the house
15. Agreed with an interviewer that abortion was "tantamount to murder" when first made National leader
16. Tried to make Nicola Willis hold his hand on stage
17. Has said "what I'd say to you" so many times that everyone in NZ hates him for it
18. Said he was "entitled to his entitlements" after he got paid by us for living in his own flat in Wellington
19. Said he was "wealthy and sorted" when noting that everyone else was "doing it tough"
20. Said he stopped attending the weirdo fundy prosperity gospel church The Upper Room years before becoming a politician
despite other members of the church saying they saw him there more recently than that
21. Said NZ wa…

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 2d

Poverty is a policy choice and charities are performative bullshit machines that lets govts off the hook for their MAJOR AND MOST IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITY. And churches in particular have enabled discrimination of giving - if they didn’t hoard realestate and did their job, poverty would not exisit

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 2d

I do object to her “everyone hates Labour. Was only because the media (and Verity herself) let national campaign on obvious lies with fuck all push back and the population were mad at Labour for saving them - which is wild.

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 2d

Todd McClay saying farmers don't need a stick to do the right thing 🙄

Yeah National, only 18 to 19 year olds need to be beaten with a stick

Have you considered hitting the farmers with some of your tough love Luxon? Well of course not, we all know farmers are special and we're not #NZPol

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 2d

Yup - he is just tone deaf, work shy (so so so very soft and lazy). Let’s face it, he gave Peters and Seymour’s the keys and left them to fight it out while he gad about on expensive travel junkets all sweaty in poorly fitting suits

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Christopher Luxon, like a modern day Marie Antoinette

Opinion: In his head, I think the prime minister is doing the whole tough guy bit.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 2d

Charities are actually part of the greed problem - and all churches are guilty. Rather than countries simply care of everyone, they allow charities to “relieve rich guilt” while also picking and choosing who is worthy.
But churches like this are just as greedy - and have not done the job at all.

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 3d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting how Mark Michell - our mercenary law and order expert, hasn’t resigned after failed so utterly

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 3d

Under National, gangs are doubling their money as the govt loses experienced cops & police budget constraints hit.
Domestic violence, sexual assaults. meth and cocaine use are all up & thousands of retail crime incidents go uninvestigated #nzpol #kiwi

Gangs making large profits amid 'bizarre' increase in meth use

New Zealand’s meth consumption rose from 732kg in 2023 to 1434kg in 2024.

www.1news.co.nz

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 3d

Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm.

MAGA will all smile in unison like a side show clown machine.

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 3d

Are you fucking kidding me.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 3d

They are the real “idealists” stuck in their dogma that they accuse those on the left of. All projections machines.

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 3d

That makes sense. Why I won’t ever link the article when I bitch about him and I refuse to read it.

But yeah - it sucks that being a soulless cunt is good for sales, but here we all are.

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 3d

How does Damien Grant get so many opinion pieces?
Honestly I enjoy the dog next door barking more than his crap.
He can shove his opinion about the Greens leadership fair up his ass, too. It will be the most tired pale stale whine.
There are better opinions to seek, Stuff!

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