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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 15m

Jim Bolger was a poor Prime Minister but a very good ex-Prime Minister
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 16h

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 17h

Trump threatens removal of World Cup games from Boston, Olympics from LA"
Only cowardice prevents UEFA and the IOC from taking these events away from America entirely.
You'd think these institutions would have learned from Berlin 1936.
#uspol #olympics #uefa

Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 1d

The media and coalition spokegits are obsessed with trying to make the Labour Party responsible for perceived chaos in its potential coalition partner TPM.
Is Luxon's party responsible for its actual coalition partner ACT's leader actively defending its paedophile president For Years?
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 1d

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe that's what Winston means: we've saved billions in the current government's term by pushing the contract back to 2030. Never mind what we pay in 2027-30, that will be some other government's responsibility.

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 2d

Yet Winston says we are saving “billions”. Probably by moving the port rebuild into a separate column in the spreadsheet and making it “earthquake mitigation” - which the coalition has decided isn’t very necessary cos who cares about health and safety, right?

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 2d

Good to know you're anti-anti-fascist, my dude, but you do know what a double negative means, don't you?

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking of sending this; trigger warning: sweary
#nzpol

Text of a letter sending a short sharp message to Christopher Luxon, PM, in the light of his many policy failures. The short sharp message is in the sort of clear unequivocal style we have come to expect from our beloved leader...

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 2d

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 3d

“Gangsters we spoke to say it’s time to change the law to legitimize what they do”.

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 3d

In keeping with its desire to drag NZ back to the 1960s, this government has a completely unrealistic idea of how important farming is to our economy

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 4d

The NZ government is convinced that the best way to insulate NZ against climate change is to exacerbate it. The war with reality has a cost; the tragedy is that it is the next generation that will have to pay it.
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 4d

I'm with you. Not with them.

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 4d

Luxon apparently likes "sending a clear message" to kids, loungers, scroungers, businesses, unions, teachers, civil servants, investors, etc.
I wonder if he would like to receive this identical very clear message from each of us.

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 5d

We are approximately twelve months away from America's final war: the struggle over whether America is to become TrumpCorp, MuskCorp, or ThielCorp.
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 5d

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 7d

This government doesn't want to hear Maori voices except as tourist entertainment.

Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 8d

Those lines were spoken by Mark Antony in Julius Caesar. Curious that Willis likens the current situation in Aotearoa to the one where the Roman emperor was about to fall.
Antony and Chloepatra, anyone?

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 8d

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 8d

Can I point out how most of their jokes start out as genuine expressions of intent or opinion which only become "jokes" when the pushback gets serious enough to unsettle them?

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 8d

Winston's hypocrisy is more transparent than his window ever was
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 8d

A little boy with more beard than brain said what?

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