It might be time for Aotearoa to choose its own head of state
If the Andrew saga has shown anything, itβs how little control we have over the reputation of our own head of state. We inherit it β scandals and all.
I don't think this has been thought through very well as a rational reason to trigger dropping the royal family. Firstly Andrew is not our head of state, and secondly didn't the USA pick their head of state? We have a PM, the King is merely an apolitical figurehead.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
16.02.2026 16:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by Superette - Topic
Disappear
A supercool band that grew out of JPSE and Fang, Superette was short lived but left us an awesome CD in Tiger and a pretty cool EP with Rosepig
Disappear...Superette
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeHE...
16.02.2026 03:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Not just any "democratic" AG, but any AG from any political party.
Trump has "normalised" this kind of insane behaviour among his minions, they think this is how to behave now.
16.02.2026 02:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by chillblue07
Squash - Purple Girl (live)
Flying Nun royalty playing a bit of Chills.
Peter Gutteridge, David Kilgour ,Martin Phillipps, Robert Scott,
Alan Haig
Purple Girl...Squash
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq3D...
15.02.2026 05:14 β π 16 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
But there will be, if they get their way
14.02.2026 03:04 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Need to amend the act to make access to all documents needed to vote to be supplied for no cost at all. My guess is there are other restrictions in the act as well to suppress certain demographics ability to vote
13.02.2026 19:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Usually the President works for the people too
13.02.2026 17:31 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
As have many many other victims, and perpetrators
13.02.2026 16:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
YouTube video by Flying Nun Records
The Hasselhoff Experiment | Drag Racer
The Hasselhoff Experience...Drag Racer
More from the heavier side of Flying Nun
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IVx...
13.02.2026 03:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I don't know why a sitting President should be immune from being criminally prosecuted for crimes committed which are not associated with doing his job with good faith.
Trump decided Venezuela's sitting President should stand trial, so we know he agrees they should be able to be charged for crimes
13.02.2026 01:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
YouTube video by jeremyslim333
MItch Hedberg - I used to do Drugs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndBj...
13.02.2026 01:17 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
He's proud because he used to snort it off a toilet seat, now he gets to snort it off the resolution desk
13.02.2026 01:16 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"The Superbowl half time show" show his problem isn't loss of "white culture", rather the celebration of any other culture.
Does he realise nearly all of present-day California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, along with parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming were originally Mexican
13.02.2026 01:14 β π 20 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Trump has surrounded himself with the people who know what he got up to with Epstein. He also knows what they got up to with Epstein as he was like the pedoring's main man according to Sascha Riley.
It's simply a way to shut up all the people who could speak out against pedoprez
13.02.2026 01:00 β π 17 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
YouTube video by PlasmaKong2
Mitch Hedberg - I Used to Do Drugs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHA...
13.02.2026 00:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by PlasmaKong2
Mitch Hedberg - I Used to Do Drugs
was he talking about lunchtime today?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHA...
13.02.2026 00:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
that behaviour used to cost a President their job.
12.02.2026 20:12 β π 32 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
The weirdest thing about this is that some things like the latest poll numbers are so easily verifiable.
Massie is on 71% and Gallrein is on 28%, so it's Massie doing the "crushing in the polls"
Why does the pedoprez lie when it's so easily refuted?
12.02.2026 20:10 β π 55 π 7 π¬ 8 π 0
Trump is only mentioned one million times. It's not like he's a big part of this!
12.02.2026 17:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
what about the murders they are covering up too? (Sascha Riley and others have said)
Your President raped children and participated in or covered up the murders of some of them
12.02.2026 17:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by Dim Rulz
Solid Gold Hell (SPUD) - Breakdown Town
And here's Solid Gold Hell playing some SPUD at The Kings Arms for the Flying Nun anniversary
Solid Gold Hell (SPUD) - Breakdown Town
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYBZ...
12.02.2026 17:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by Flying Nun Records
Solid Gold Hell - Bitter Nest (Music Video)
While we're at the darker edge of Flying Nun it'd be remiss of me to not play some Solid Gold Hell.
"bastard-heavy songs into great meaty chunks and then make them swing like a dinosaur's dick."
"Well it ain't pop music, never was meant to be"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmVX...
12.02.2026 17:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
No one can tell me that was conduct becoming an attorney.
Surely there must be members of Congress preparing an indictment after that disgraceful display.
12.02.2026 16:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
there really has to be some mechanism put in place to prevent future abuse and corruption as we have seen with Trump and his pardons
12.02.2026 06:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Maybe then the next administration will enact a law that nullifies all presidential pardons, and then redact the ability for presidents to give clemency.
12.02.2026 03:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
YouTube video by chillblue07
NRA (Not Really Anything) - Glitch
"NRA (Not Really Anything) were one of those Flying Nun bands of the late Eighties/early Nineties that you either got, or steered well clear of."
The darker side of Flying Nun, where The Gordons, SPUD, HDU, Solid Gold Hell, LUC, The Skeptics and others hung out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8AP...
12.02.2026 03:28 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
anti-science luddites
12.02.2026 03:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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