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Very Andrew Cuomo-esque, saying that he shouldn't have resigned despite being a piece of ****.

This is where RWers are these days. No accountability, no shame.

And yet Trump still gets to take credit for this "ceasefire", and the media still plays defence for the Israel Occupying Force.

The whole economy is reliant on house prices rising without fail. I don't see how this is a gotcha.

Just a polite reminder that Labour had the mandate and the political capital in 2020 to implement radical tax reform, but Jacinda Ardern ruled it out because she was trying to appease to RWers that would never vote for her anyway.

Let's stop revising history and pretending she was great.

#nzpol

Because Labour are centrist neo-libs and always need to water down good policies to keep people (who never planned to and never will vote for them) happy.

They won't be happy regardless of what they do, so they might as well have actually released a policy with some teeth.

If people like Lee Vandervis who is once again campaigning to go back to FPP don't like how STV works, they need to stop appealing to the dumbest voters who don't understand how this system works.

To vote STV, you rank the LEAST likely candidate #1, and the MOST likely candidate last.

Barker’s win came down to the wire Dunedin's new mayor did not take the lead until the 13th of 15 rounds in the STV vote count. Sophie Barker had been trailing Andrew Simms in the...

Don't let these articles confuse you about STV vs FPP.

STV is designed so that people can rank candidates that are the less of several evils. This is a good thing. It means we aren't wasting votes when we rank ideal candidates #1 but also rank centrists #13.

#nzpol

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'Excessive': Exec pay at Mike King’s charity soars after $24m public funding boost I Am Hope has defended a significant increase in executive pay over the last year.

BREAKING NEWS: Corrupt mental health grifter uses government funding for paying cronies instead of for mental health services.

#nzpol

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The Woke Pope 2.0 - The Wopening

Let's be perfectly clear: there is nothing wrong with the government borrowing during trying times if that money is being used wisely on infrastructure and to keep the people safe, warm and healthy.

However that's not what's happening. It went to landlords to make their wallets thicker.

#nzpol

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Hipkins said on BHN last night that the current regulations "were introduced for good reason because buildings literally collapsed ... but some of them did go a bit too far."

I can't see how any of the changes are reasonable. Auckland is literally on a fault line. Why is it exempt?

I'll make you even more mad...

Labour support these changes.

#nzpol

NZ 'can be proud' of decision not to recognise Palestinian state: PM Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says New Zealanders can be "proud" of the government's decision not to recognise Palestinian statehood. New...

I sure as heck wasn't proud of this decision, but now that our hairless leader says that we should be proud of it, I'm damned ashamed of it.

Palestine's recognition shouldn't come down to whether Hamas exists or not.

Disgusting.

#nzpol

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The Venn diagram of those complaining about the speed bumps and those who would complain about noise from people speeding down their road is a circle.

Like seriously, this sort of shit fucks me off. We are facing huge rates increases BECAUSE of National and their anti-Three Waters campaign.

And their solution to fucking things up is to just fuck things up more.

We are governed by morons.

Large majority of Kiwis support govt rates cap: poll An overwhelming majority of New Zealanders support the government putting a cap on the amount councils can increase rates each year, according to...

BREAKING: Large majority of Kiwis are morons who don't understand that rates caps means councils will not be able to pay for infrastructure.

Yet another victory for a campaign from TPU.

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New Zealand, Roy Morgan poll:

Seat projection

Labour (Centre-left): 42 (+4)
National (Centre-right): 36 (-2)
Green (Green): 17 (+3)
ACT (Libertarian): 13
...

+/- vs. 30 June - 27 July 2025

Fieldwork: 28 July - 24 August 2025
Sample size: 873

➤ oceaniaelects.com/new-zealand

So Tim Pool was just flat out coping when he made up this elaborate story that Trump isn't a paedophile.

Occam's Razor, everyone: the simplest explanation is the answer: Trump is a paedophile.

Exactly this.

Bullying of candidates by union alleged Dunedin City Council candidates say they have received a barrage of emails using "bullying and intimidation tactics", urging them to sign a New...

I don't know if it's intentionally dishonest, but headlines like this imply it's a trade union behind this.

Nope. It's the fucking TPU (not a real union) bullying candidates to be more evil.

Fuck off, TPU.

#nzpol

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Water rates surge ‘predictable’ A southern mayor says a near-doubling of water rates in Waitaki was "predictable", but central government should shoulder much of the blame for...

The "Stop Three Waters" campaign was easily the most successful operation in racism in living memory.

They managed to convince people to accept far more expensive rates and infrastructure all in order to keep brown people from having a seat at the table.

#nzpol

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Bill trying to weaken councils: Radich The Dunedin City Council is questioning what the government regards as "core services" for it to do. It has suggested the government’s list should...

BREAKING NEWS: Puppet gets angry at it's puppeteer for lying about localism.

#nzpol

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The current system if applied to all vehicles is completely cooked. The scale starts at all vehicles below (IIRC) 3.5T, which if we assume the Ranger is correctly used by tradies and farmers weighs twice as much as a Toyota Aqua, but pays the same in RUCs despite causing more road wear.

Residents could lose homes: Mayor Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher fears residents could lose their homes over an astronomical rise in water charges which will cost households over $200 a...

This is all Three Waters fault!

Oh wait no... It's the opposite. It's because we didn't implement Three Waters and we went with "Local Water Done Well".

Who saw this coming?

#nzpol #blamelabour

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Dude doesn't even hold any portfolios, so he doesn't even have the excuse of being busy and tired.

He is the laziest, most self-entitled PM we've ever had.

He'll just mirror what Starmer has(n't) done in the UK.

This is why it's absolutely imperative that we stack as many @tepaatimaori.bsky.social and @nzgreenparty.bsky.social MPs as we can

Labour are just going to do nothing
#nzpol

Hipkins needs to resign. He's as useful as a wet paper towel, and has less spine than one as well.

Kids ask what words mean all the time, and I'm talking about English words here.

We have normalised them asking what English words mean, why do we refuse to normalise explaining what Maori words mean?

It's called LEARNING.

Us EV drivers have been pointing out how broken this system is since it was rolled out onto us, and the right just pointed and laughed.

Even still, those who drive inefficient cars will be better off.