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*Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays*

Government ‘kicked the tyres’ on solar subsidies but went with ‘minor’ tweaks instead It is one of the cheapest ways to cut power bills - yet documents reveal the government shelved a subsidy.

"Correspondence released from Simon Watts' office shows sustained engagement throughout 2025 with large electricity generators on dry-year risk and wholesale market stability.

One industry report provided to ministers argued strongly against interventions that might soften "price signals"." #nzpol

Meanwhile Chris Bishop and Luxon continue their #WarOnNature www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Muldoon may well have led a one term government, as National received a lower percentage of votes than Labour in both the 1978 and the 1981 elections. An MMP election would have required him to form a coalition with Social Credit to retain power, and I cannot imagine that going well

Luxon: our position is X for reason A

Q: A also implies Y or Z, would you support Y or Z?

Luxon: umm look ah, I wouldnt say that, err I don't know how to be more clear

I am not sure that Luxon is capable of critical thinking. He can repeat talking points and slogans with confidence but that's all #nzpol

Freshwater poll approval chart from https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360952728/postfreshwater-strategy-poll-christopher-luxons-approval-drops-sharply Approval of Key Figures Hipkins and Labour are perceived significantly more favourably by voters when compared to Luxon and National Favourable Never heard of Neutral Unfavourable Jacinda Ardern 47% 18% 35% +12 Labour Party 42% 24% 34% +8 Christopher Hipkins 36% 1% 26% 37% -1 Winston Peters 34% 1% 25% 40% -6 King Charles III 30% 2% 44% 24% +6 National Party 34% 20% 46% -12 NZ First 29% 30% 41% -12 Chlöe Swarbrick 27% 15% 24% 34% -7 Green Party 28% 1% 28% 44% -16 Wayne Brown 13% 31% 30% 26% -13 Christopher Luxon 27% 1% 22% 51% -24 Debbie Ngarewa-Packer 9% 34% 24% 33% -24 ACT 21% 2% 29% 48% -27 David Seymour 23% 2% 24% 52% -29 Elon Musk 16% 2% 27% 55% -39 Te Pāti Māori 13% 3% 27% 56% -43 Donald Trump 16% 14% 70% -54

It is not very surprising that Luxo does not have a coherent explanation for his instinctive support of Trump's illegal war against Iran

What is more surprising is that the people around him have not done enough to put him even slightly on the side of the 70% of the NZ electorate who oppose Trump

Culture wars creep into local councils, and communities pay the price “We elected our councils only last October, but the culture-war warriors have started to flex their middle-aged muscles across the country.”

Spot bloody well on. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Government ‘kicked the tyres’ on solar subsidies but went with ‘minor’ tweaks instead It is one of the cheapest ways to cut power bills - yet documents reveal the government shelved a subsidy.

New Zealand has more sunshine than Germany.
But only 1 in 35 homes here has rooftop solar.
Australia? 1 in 3.

Why? I tried to find out - despite some strange secrecy

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

These fucking people. The BBC is claiming my neighborhood was bombed because the Ministry of Intelligence was two blocks from my house. NO, IT FUCKING WASNT. There is nothing around my house like that. Its just apartments and businesses and one courthouse. Intelligence Ministry is way further north.

Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran

I have had this song as an earworm for the last week and now it's popped up here.

It’s been eye opening during this whole Iran situation to see just how intellectually limited Luxo is. I knew he was no genius but hooo boy this is a guy in a role so far above his ability he’ll be getting nose bleeds.

What a cringing humiliation Rutte is turning out to be for NATO

To think they COULD have had Kala Kajas and went for Rutte

I actually find it pretty damning that plenty of people are willing to overlook a guy having the actual no-joke SS logo permanently etched on his skin because he says a handful of the right lefty buzzwords, despite his actual job history demonstrating absolutely no adherence to those principles.

BREAKING
It’s been revealed that the Luxon government ‘kicked the tyres’ on game-changing solar subsidies to cut power bills but decided to let us keep paying rising prices - and then to make it even worse with costly gas imports:
www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/588...

one of these day's he's gonna show up to the white house as a melting pile of green goo and karoline leavitt will start screaming that anyone who asks about it will be beheaded on the spot

MSD have had a systems failure that is apparently preventing them publishing benefits data. BUT, fear not friends! The IRD release (via Stats NZ) is still coming out 🙏. So, here we go, the post-Christmas surge in people reliant on benefits is upon us. Any sign of a slowdown in that growth? [1/2]

I tried and gave up in despair, but I think you have more fortitude than I have

Hoooooooly Christ this man is a dipshit (not you Henry) #nzpol

He doesn't even know how to pronounce Iran

My physio has been using an AI transcription service. I asked her how it’s going and she said “The other day it said that a conversation about haemorrhoids was about plantar fasciitis”. So that’s great.

I tried, but after 6 minutes I could not bear it any longer. Luxon is an ignorant bumbling fool as well as being a stooge for the US

@joncarl on X: “Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."”

Trump says the US’ Iran regime change aim was “so successful” that it killed the US post-Iran regime change candidates.

So. Much. Winning.

“I am the son of the guy whose secret police force used to terrorize you, please install me or my friends, for democracy” is an amazing pitch from the shah’s son

I shall never forgive Chris Bishop for what he has done to Kāinga Ora. Under the Labour government, Kāinga Ora was building public housing at a rate that was making a real difference to homelessness and Bishop destroyed it #nzpol

50 Years After the CIA’s First Overthrow of a Democratically Elected Foreign Government We Take a Look at the 1953 US Backed Coup in Iran After nationalizing the oil industry Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the CIA and British intelligence. We speak with Stephen Kinzer author of All the...

The US and Britain organised the 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected government because the leader planned to nationalise Iran's oil industry. They have never been interested in democracy, only in stealing the natural resources of other countries
www.democracynow.org/2003/8/25/50...

So is Luxon. Us peasants need to learn our place, and be grateful for the crumbs this government give us

Literally, at work this morning:

Clinician: Patient should stop medication A, but must keep taking medication B.

AI VR transcription of this: Patient should stop taking medication B.

Seriously NEVER LET A DOCTOR USE AI FOR YOUR APPOINTMENTS. NEVER. UNDER ANY FUCKING CIRCUMSTANCES.

Child poverty stats are so fucking annoying to me like the children are not in poverty the parents are you people are so pro-inherited wealth that you can’t handle helping parents so they might help their kids.

What the hell do you want a poor 5 year old kid to do exactly.