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Retired teacher. The future, if there is to be one, is Green.
Gary's Economics - tax wealth not work.
Bish is fiddling while the economy is dying. The CoC has cancelled ferries, forced councils to merge for water, then councils must merge with regional councils, now this merger of ministeries. All while still working! What has this gvt actually built?
December 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
In 2019, a white Australian shot 51 Muslims at prayer in AoNZ. He came here specifically to carry out this heinous act bc NZ is a safe place. He tk advantage of lax gun licensing. NZ's banned semi-automatic weapons & introd a gun register. ALL RACISM ANTI-IMMIGRANT/ANTISEMITISM/ISLAMOPHOBIA is WRONG
December 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
When debating starts in earnest next year, I trust you'll have at your fingertips how much debt Cullen passed to English, then debt passed to Robertson & debt passed to Willis. This gvt has made such a thing abt the debt they inherited. Media haven't pushed back. They're financially illiterate/lazy?
December 16, 2025 at 2:04 AM
😱😢 And yet, the CoC is still ahead in the polls overall. As a Lab candidate I'd like you & Dr Payinda to push Hipkins on his lacklustre vision cf to Greens. Look at Mamdani.
December 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Santana is interviewed here on Bernard's Hoon. Scroll thru. Yes, Santana is v clear on dangers, which is worrying.

thekaka.substack.com/p/the-weekly...
The Weekly Hoon: Inside an important document
Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale chat with Cathrine Dyer, Robert Patman & Sanjana Hattotuwa about the importance & meaning of Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy of the United States for NZ
thekaka.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Saturday: cooked quiche mincepies, made kombucha, went to The Nutcracker, came home & packed
Sunday: watered all my plants inside & out, finished packing clothes & food, went to library, set off on holiday, realised 40 mins later I'd left phone in library, dbled back, finally arrived at bach. Whew!
December 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Don't forget, in 2019 51 Muslims were shot by a white Australian who specifically came to AoNZ to do this. He chose NZ bc our gun laws then let him buy an automatic rifle, our gun licensing was loose, & it was unexpected. ALL RACISM SHD BE CALLED OUT whether anti-immigrant/antisemitism/islamaphobia.
December 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I haven't voted Labour since the Alliance formed. When it disbanded I didn't move back to Labour bc they didn't increase benefits. In fact, Cullen gave bribes aka tax cuts. Lab is neolib light. Hipkins & Edmonds' speeches at conf lacked vision. JA was inspiring, but I still prefer Green policies.
December 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
There is enough money in AoNZ for everyone to live well now. There's just a distribution problem. We need a wealth tax & CGT & not tax the 1st bracket. Gvts make choices. The table is tilted atm twds the wealthy.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Chloe: Why can't we have nice things?
That's why I vote 💚. Aspirational.
December 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Juliet blocked me on X. Every time she posted, I did a counter post. For Eg, she posted abt a Jewish child killed so wldn't have a birthday. I posted on Hind Rajab. I was never rude, but she didn't like me undermining her one-sided victim story. So glad a Muslim hero stepped up for humanity!
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Cousin's son (he & wife are nurses) just sold his 3 b/room house in Swanson. Paid $988,000 two years ago, sold $820,000. Bought a 4 b/room home in the same dvpt for $1.15m.
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Scientist son points out bird poop causes issue for other birds & plants, algae create toxins that we must remove from water to drink/kills fish/sucks O2 from lakes/make shellfish deadly, trees like kauri produce leaf litter that acidifies soil so prevents competition by other trees....just saying!
December 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I've read them all in AotearoaNZ! Sadly our RW gvt elected in 2023 is very Trumpian: supp fossil fuels, trashed CC policies, rolling back Maori rights & crit in UN rept 2025, curtailing voter enrolment, fast forwarding laws to ensure mining & bldg, cancelled pay parity,
Reg Bill fav property rights.
December 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Luxon, Peters & Upston all refused Q&A this year, but ZB & RNZ no problem. Imo the shorter time frame helps ie. they can stall for 7 mins but Q&A is 30 mins or more. And Jack researches for deep dive interviews not soft soap ones.
December 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Wayne Brown had over $600000 in donations & the CoC had huge donations from wealthy voters in 23. Combine this with the Reg Bill, attack on te ao Maori, CC policy rollback, ff support, beneficiary bashing, cuts to civil service, voting curtailment, AoNZ is looking increasingly Trumpian.
December 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
😱😢🤬💔🙏
December 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This explains the MAD for censorship. See alt text for more info.
December 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM