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Pauline Hanson visits survivors at Bondi Beach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgIm-_N1v4
CHEERS & TEARS: Pauline Hanson receives EMOTIONAL reception at Bondi memorial
Avi Yemini
Rebel News
Why would ya. .
Te place has become a stinking cesspit of the left and the prophet.
Our country is becoming the India of the south.
Time for the Maori uprising.
Ed’s post from the other day got it right.
Who can vote, when, and why?
No wonder Luxflakes and Key et al suck up to the immigrants.
They own the Kiwifruit industry.
They are rapidly owning my local area.
The place is chocked up with Indian Uber drivers leaving no shopping parks.
Our Woolworths seems to have a pipeline to them. More and more every week.
Mainfreight and a dozen other companies have the same pipeline.
Now more than Maori in NZ.
No wonder the Maori are bothered about their land.
Indians are no respecters of others.
If they can put one across ya for an extra dollar or do a cheap job that leaves you in the crap they will.
But never mind they control the National party’s place in Govt.
Indian Money.
Not sure which is worse. Vatican or Indian.
Dead Heat
huntys right, youre a miserable old cnut.
aussies miles fucking better than nz, sure it aint perfect but still waaaay better.
Well fuck off back there then.
Be a plus for both countries.
giving it serious thought but tbh probs wont move permanently until after the kids have finished school.
already told the kids they aint staying in this shithouse country if they want to get anywhere in life, which is very true. we’ll probs all end up over there in the next 5 or 6yrs.
anyways im 90% sure ive got a temp gig in aus in a few months, $70 an hour, fully kept+ flights. only for a 6wks but meh itll mean i can take the winter off and just chill, could do seeding there aswell and make another 30k but cbf being stuck in a cab again and id rather go to the yukon mining with my mate and earn the same if not more if i were gunna be stuck in a cab.
anyways still dosent change the fact youre a miserable old cnut… and a dumb one at that for arrogantly believing nz is better than aussie. only thing nz has over aussie is our back country is alot nicer and fishing/hunting is better… but is that worth getting paid 120k less and getting ripped off by every kiwi retailer?
S.B. – By “could do seeding there as well” does that mean the same as getting ready to live on the benefit ???
Seeding Wild Oats?
nah youre thinking of the waimate benefit seeding events (just a normal waimo friday night spent with a cousin)
im talking 600hp tractors towing 80ft seeding bars going up n down 500ha fields.
S.B. 500ha fields. Are they called fields in Australia, not paddocks?
I have an old English friend say to me on Monday that one of the biggest things he had to get used to was the word paddocks instead of the English term fields. I suggested that perhaps the harder word paddock reflected a more working scenario rather than the passive field.
talk to 3 farmers youll get 3 different responses, maybe more.
paddock, feild, block etc.
my aus mate calls them fields but i think thats mainly due to zero livestock and zero fences. where i worked in WA they were paddocks but our 2 neighbours were blocks and fields. the blocks were literally just an entire small neighbouring farm theyd bulldozed everything and just 1 massive paddock- 1500ha block.
our blocks were still broken up into paddocks, we had 1-45 then k1-k12 and p1-p23. the k and p blocks were newer farms theyd purchased over the years, only kept paddocks as we ran 13k merino ewes otherwise there probably wouldnt be any fences.
Why is the kiwi so frigging big?
From time to time you ask some stupid questions, but this one takes the cake
Is it iced?
Why is the kiwi so frigging big?
Because it is a smaller kangaroo. 😝
That’s not a kangaroo. It’s a Wannabe.
Wannabe are becoming a pest around the eastern BOP. allowed to shoot the critters.
Perhaps the mussies thought they were out hinting in our wilderness.
Cause he has his red bands on.
You’re a miserable old cunt.
But albo said they weren’t radicalised.
Authorities piecing together a picture of radicalisationDecember 17, 2025 • 5:26am
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360914214/reports-shooting-bondi-beach
24 still in hospitals all around the place.
Got lots of similarity to tarrant with the behaviour of officials handing out licences to dodgy fecks.
i dont think they fucked up near as bad as tarrants licencing.
the father appeared clean, probably was algood too until the past couple of years when israels been milking oct 7 for all its worth and their continual slaughtering of civilians, then add in the pro palestine clowns have been encouraging hate and retaliation and viola you have a tragedy in the making.
there will be nutter fuckwits with guns/knives or a car here in nz of all colours/race just waiting for a straw to break the camels back and flip them over the edge and copycat attacks on innocents they see happening overseas.
its not a matter of if but when imo, no country is safe and really unless the perpertrators are dumb and mouthy theres not actually that much anyone can do to stop it unless you want full on big brother nanny state and even then i doubt it would stop someone whos very determined.
hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Pakistani Moslem = Giant Red Flag that any trained security specialist should have seen from 20 miles away.
They are US ///
We are One
///////
[Well
one
ringWEF to rule them all ]Realistic.
Open ya fucking eyes.
I’ve been to India. I bet you haven’t, Viking. I bet you’ve never even been on a plane. Do you know something, Viking? I’ve never met a nasty Indian. I’ve never met a bad Indian. Ive never met an Indian I didn’t like. I’ve had Indian tenants. They were far cleaner than Kiwi tenants. I can’t comment on maori tenants because I refuse to rent to them. I’ve shagged a couple of Indian beauties. Guess what, Viking! They don’t smell of curry, and they didn’t steal my wallet. You’re a sour, miserable, old, worn-out oxygen thief.
here ya go. Another in the line up of upstanding Indians.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/businesswoman-sneha-patel-exploited-workers-failed-to-pay-50k-in-wages-entitlements/GGSMMS3CUJGA7IPSGLSOZXRPXQ/
Well, weren’t you lucky.
I also have experience with them, some fine obes and plenty of slimeballs.
If you can do something devious, they know how nd will try.
Just got rid of some from a rental.
Always paid had more in the house than allowed and left it filthy. No women involved.
Always pleasant to talk to.
But ironed the carpet and melted it. Never cleaned the walls or ceilings or windows and place stinks.
Last time I use a Property Manager.
I’ve had some that were great tenants. But I’ve also worked with quite a few who were full of shit. Won’t admit when they’re wrong, and one bloke in particular who couldn’t handle the fact that we reported to a woman.
yea indian nen and especially fillipino men have a massive issue with a woman being above them/in charge. many think women dont belong in a workplace
ive met a few scum indians hunty but on the whole theyre still better than youre average hori.
the scum indians are just seedy smelly fuckers, theyre the really black ones, the lighter shade indians are pretty much just normal and similar to average kiwi just bit smarter and eat a a few more curry or rice dishes.
id rather a bunch of indians that work vs feral bene bludging bros and dero wiggas
At least they have jobs or businesses unlike many of the workshy bludgers we accept as immigrants. Don’t have huge families they can’t support either. Even less of them donate up big to churches, then send half their pay back home then scrounge welfare top ups off WINZ.
Some are dodgy businessmen or ripoffs & they generally have a poor attitude to women which is cultural.
If harmony is our goal we’d do better to discriminate on religious than racial grounds. Who has the best Skydaddy is the root of most world conflict.
So the indians who bought up all the motels and would only take cash from bene’s were not nice. Being sold up all over the place now. The money all gone back to India and the taxpayer has been left with the bills.
Yeah fine arseholes.
Its been in the news hunty.
most of my contractors are Indian.
It’s the Fijian ones I can’t handle.
Indians from India generally don’t like Fijian Indians either. That might be a caste thing – the Fijian ones were generally lower caste, taken there to harvest sugar cane.
The end is near for the EU
https://x.com/dendolly1/status/2000798972852715609?s=46
Cant come soon enough – EU is the Evil Union modeled on another evil union run by Uncle Joe and now Vladimir
No it is not.
hope is Not a strategy
prayers are not a strategy .
Hungary is a road bump to EU
Hungary resistance in 1956 did not bring down the Soviet Union.
Bloody good job.
Ed’s a learner.!
Home of the future? NZ’s first on-site 3D-printed house completed
Pioneering 3D-printed house builder Kirill Ilin has completed his first on-site project, which will be a show home for his company.
Stuff featured the start of the build in a Waiuku, Auckland subdivision earlier in the year – the printing process fascinated locals and readers, who got to see the machinery in action. The house was built using a computer-controlled concrete pour. Even the interior walls, kitchen island and planter boxes were built from poured concrete.
Amcrete director Ilin, an experienced Master Builder, says because the project was a prototype and the first one of its kind in New Zealand (poured on site), it took longer than expected: “We had to completely develop a new way to do things. We reworked the mix, for example, for the best results.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/home-property/360914381/home-future-nzs-first-site-3d-printed-house-completed
An Irishman, who had been stranded on a deserted island for over 10 years, finally saw a speck on the horizon.
He thought to himself, “It’s certainly not a ship.”
As the speck got closer and closer, he began to rule out even the possibilities of a small boat or a raft.
Suddenly, there strode from the surf a figure clad in a black wet suit. Putting aside the scuba tanks and mask, and zipping down the top of the wetsuit stood a drop-dead gorgeous blonde.
Shaking her tresses, she walked up to the stunned Irishman and said, “Tell me, how long has it been since you’ve had a good cigar?”
“Ten years,” replied the amazed Irishman.
With that, she reached over and unzipped a waterproof pocket on the left sleeve of her wetsuit and pulled out a fresh package of cigars and a lighter.
He took a cigar, slowly lit it, and took a long drag. “Faith and Begorrah,” said the castaway, “that is so good! I’d forgotten how great a smoke can be!”
“And how long has it been since you’ve had a drop of good Bushmills Irish Whiskey?” asked the blonde.
Trembling, the castaway replied, “Ten years.”
Hearing that, the blonde reached over to her right sleeve, unzipped a pocket there and removed a flask and handed it to him.
He opened the flask and took a long drink.
“Tis nectar of the gods!” shouted the Irishman. “Tis truly fantastic!!!”
At this point, the gorgeous blonde started to slowly unzip the long front of her wetsuit, right down the middle. She looked at the trembling man and asked, “And how long has it been since you played around?”
With tears in his eyes, the Irishman fell to his knees and sobbed, “Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Don’t tell me that you’ve got golf clubs in there !!”
My friend said the man was obviously a priest.
Not much wrong with that logic.
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/the-tribute-web-series-to-highlight-new-zealanders-covid-19-vaccine-injury-stories-2/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOuhBRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFjT0dJQkFWcmQ0cmhLWVZyc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgW7wIgPRl2ppa_ikt2RGdgh3FNVBS5DYpAvZmgDnvQad_0DPxpA-fwhUEW8_aem_pXKojMx-HXZ3v5xeAjAvMA
Can see this being compulsive reading for S.B.
oh yes i just so badly want to read about exaggerated stories and endless butthurt.
im kinda gutted the jab was a flop, we were told theyd all be dead in 2yrs and 4yrs later sweet fuck all have died. such a pity, we couldve had a decent clean out of society and rid ourselves of so many problems.
i still dont get the obsession of a jab you lot supposedly never had. who gives a fuck what other retards done, play stupid games win stupid prizes
There does seem to be a lot of very unwell 40 to 60 year olds popping up around here , i guess it could be normal as you say, but i haven’t noticed it like I do now but then maybe i never looked until I’ve got close to 60
The excess mortality numbers are mounting up, now in the thousands. Don’t worry about SB. Waimate or where ever he is, is NZ’s equivalent of the Truman Show.
its been growing for decades but echo chamber vax folk point shit out all of a sudden and then its noticed more.
pre 2020 when 20yr olds dropped dead or died in their sleep it was tragic, now its the jab… according to muppets that dont even know the victims vax status ffs.
i know more unvaxed folk under 40 with cancer or died suddenly than i do vaxxed folk so go figure.
the shit in our food and drink will have worse health outcomes and cause more death than the vax ever will… still wouldnt take the vax tho thats just dumb.
Ed needs to hide his crypto. The IRD is looking at this. Ardern should be high on their list.
i find it hilarious that most crypto bros dont realise their precious crypto is the most traceable currency in the world.
ird has been looking at it for a while but only just getting serious about it now as lots more tax $ in it for them to make it worthwhile.
once they obtain a wallet id youre fucked and gunna get taxed good. think Ed said a while back when i mentioned it that he does pay tax on it? but id guess that the majority dont declare the income and im not sure how it works with just trading etc and not cashing out.
All crypto exchanges HAVE to provide our IRD with ALL your trading activity. There is no escaping this. You have to provide them with all your trades. Then they crosscheck that with the exchange info.
What pisses mer off is the gains are taxed at your personal tax rate. It’s classed as income, not a capital gain/loss. Any other investment upon selling is not taxed the same way. So not only do you pay terminal tax, but also provisional tax, all in the same year.
Simple answer.
It’s not an investment, it’s gambling.
An investment produces income.
Selling crypto produces income.
Like any trading operation.
selling houses produces income too, where does that fall into vikey?
..So not only do you pay terminal tax, but also provisional tax, all in the same year….
Terminal tax is merely the top up to the provisional tax you did not pay in the prior tax period .
So any terminal tax and provisional tax in a calendar year relate to different income periods .
and if you are paying terminal tax you generally have this cash at your disposal until you pay it.
No use of money if correct method optioned at time of tax return .
That’s $400 for that consultation
with ya holiday pay and stuff Mr Ed lets make that payable on 20 January 2026 !!
and don’t forget your provisional on the 15th Jan 😁💲💲
Yep.
Mind you, I still get pissed with paying any tax after working hard when actually there should be no need.
bugger, so do you get taxed on your holdings and not just when you sell?
sounds flawed, it should be consistent with any other investment. why is it not just PIE/PIR taxed?
No they class your trades as income (profit or loss) last year was a proffit. So far this year it’s a loss so might get the provisional tax paid back
I can’t help but notice the Greens have been very quiet about the Bondi massacre. The fact that they haven’t condemned the actions of the murderers speaks volumes about what they really think. Will they still wear tea towels in parliament?
Zoe did a half hearted condemnation in Parliament.
The Greens are nothing more than pond scum.
not fit for most self respecting ponds.
There are filters you know !!
Now settling ponds, there is an option.
They are confused about the river to the sea. Now the muzzrats are at the sea and killing infidels, the Greens don’t know how to get more votes out of that.
Ginny Anderson more concerned about the Hutt River to the Petone Beach !
They still need the towels to wipe up the shit and dribble!
theres a reason why farmers a spending wisely but not like drunken sailors this time high dairy payout has been forecast…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/global-dairy-trade-prices-drop-for-ninth-straight-auction-wmp-down-57/WM4ZD5ODAFHFBICRR5EBDWWHKU/
was hilarious last time watching them spend up large on new utes, toys, holidays etc only for the payout to crash and leave them all crying poor. i guess many learned a lesson and being a bit more conservative or spending on upgrades not toys.
…..”a bit more conservative or spending on upgrades not toys.”…..
Or paying down debt. Some of the tit pullers are so indebted that a few points increase in interest rates would send them over the edge.
I couldn’t sleep at nights knowing how factors, foreseeable but totally beyond my control, could wipe me out.
As a teacher I don’t have these issues… Our shit salaries never add up to much and the banks don’t bother lending much so we seldom get into sleepless nights debt. Don’t even worry about Tax as its all PAYE. Anyway, need to plan the next few weeks activities before I eventually think of returning to work mid February.
the last farm i was on they had been interest only for 26yrs and borrowed against several times over that period.
my neighbour carries over 22mil debt, other neighbour 12mil, thats why a new jetboat and new ranger dont matter, its all just ticked up and a only a tiny fraction of the total debt.
an old boss of mine told me the same when he got his 120k jetboat in 2014… whats 120k tacked onto a 6mil loan? then 2015 rolled around, payout halved and he was squealling.
Its going to be interesting to watch , new combines are 1.8 million , urea close to $1000 and aussie crops are huge bin busters , our grain price could go well below where it is now and now is breakeven. I have heard about multiple farms waiting for dairy conversion and the only thing holding them back is the price of the cows which is very high but with thousands of heifers being raised it might change in the next year.
My Cousin has the family farm been in the family since 1922
20 km direct from centre of Invers
He is now in his 60s and wanting to sell,
but no more dairy conversion there .
It has been sheep but one uncle once mentioned it was dairy early on; but sheep farming much easier without getting up early every day
a busy 3 to 4 weeks of lambing .
Milking much harder 100 years ago.
Back then income from meat and wool.
now, really just meat.
There must be equally crazy bankers out there as well, SB. I spent most of my working life in the seafood industry and at times I thought fishermen spent like drunken sailors, but nothing like you describe.
Bank managers need to go old school. 40 years ago when friends bought their farm their bank manager told them they’d be eating rice only for the next five years. In other words spend only on necessities.
mate of mine bought his first farm back in may… fiji for 2wks in winter, new everest for his missus and a 320k boat for him. all that after he had to jump through hoops for months to get a loan to buy the farm ffs, he had to lease some cows cuz the bank wouldnt stretch to what he wanted. to top it off he just spent 15k on game fishing reels but has a cry he struggling to pay his whopping gst bill.
Nothing but nothing says you have made it than spending 15K plus the rest of the “feelz good” matrix.
The “Hidden Persuaders” in advertizing working hand in hand with “peer pressure” and some of the so-called financial experts, advisors, pulling the strings to put one into the matrix.
I pick up on nasska’s comment, the price of a good sleep at night as it is now subverted by MasterCard.
“There are some things money can’t buy; for everything else, there’s Mastercard“.
And so that cycle repeats, and the division of new money versus old money; in part now that you have got it, are you wise enough to be able to keep it.?
The challenge of the meme “If you got it, flaunt it”. a quick way to lose it.
There are people who should never be in business. They’ll look at the deposits in the bank account & without thought of the box full of accounts that will need paid they race off & tick up some extravagant nice to have.
They may be excellent farmers, salesmen, mechanics or whatever but if they don’t have financial nous they’ll either go toes up at worst or struggle at best.
A friend told me there are three ways a business can go.
1) Instant success – no problem
2) Go bust quickly – no more problem
3) Struggling forever – the worst possible situation
Or the owner trips falls and sticks his dick somewhere it shouldn’t have been and then it a spectacular fireball.
how soaked will the bus ticket be that the dog/kid porn bigwig cop get slapped with today?
surely he has to get jailed for that to make an example and not just home d?
Soaked home detention of 9 months
18 months in prison was commuted to 9 months home detention, Judge Black noting that McSkimming “would a prime target for serious violence.“
With reports assessing McSkimming’s reoffending risk as low, it was not appropriate for him to be placed on the sex offender register, the judge said.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360915192/home-detention-sentence-disgraced-former-top-cop
Fuck, someone needs to pay some Hori a few bucks to give this guy true justice.
1 law for ’em, 1 for the rest of us. Throw the mother F in with the rabble. He’ll probably enjoy it.
Police Commissioner Chalmers has appointed his new deputy commissioner today.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/12/17/new-statutory-deputy-commissioner-of-police-appointed/
Mike Pannett has been appointed as a statutory Deputy Commissioner of Police.
The Deputy Police Commissioner works with the Commissioner of Police – currently Richard Chambers – and the executive leadership team to address changing demands, improve public safety and maintain trust and confidence in policing.
“He is a highly experienced and respected leader with more than 40 years in policing. He has shown strong leadership in complex and high-pressure situations, both in New Zealand and overseas,” Mitchell said.
Chambers welcomed the announcement, describing Pannett as “a thoroughly decent person with integrity and determination and has the leadership experience needed for this position”.
“I want to congratulate Mike on his appointment after a lengthy and very thorough selection process,” he said.
“This appointment means I can now establish my wider leadership team after what has been a challenging period.”
Lets see how long this one lasts….
Were there dogs involved? That’s disgusting. I was thinking just maybe sheep or goats.
Saggy >>> Shaggy
So you have preferences of the other species then.
Favourites !! ??
Maggots. Gets you off the bestiality charge, downgraded to necrophilia.
Saggy is fairly easy to please. So long as it has a heart beat & a spare hole he’s okay. 🙂
Heartbeat? Fuck you are fussy!
Trump not happy with UK. $31b tech deal for Britain at risk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EblLyOclgWE
Trump CANCELS UK Deal
Michael Heaver
When is Islam going to be declared a terrorist organisation?
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1MqqadhoQu/
Many of the attacks, listed here, with more details, of time, date, country, dead & injured.
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
So many in the western world, particularly many leaders ignore this in the name of being kind, of equity for inclusion;— “They are Us”.
So we should all suffer together.
As for many of the western socialist leaders, taught by academia echolands; amplified as narrated by the media, that islam gives them means to develop further controls over the citizens, like in free speech, free expression, to gun controls, as muslims can be so easily offended & be very activated to enforce many of their goals in revolutionary style.
The issue is not the issue; The issue is long may the Revolution continue.
It all comes down to which one will eat who at a later time.?
To then be in full command & control.
We’re all sick of being gaslit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNoAqBpQReU
Australia’s Greatest Strength.
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Ben Harvey pinpoints the three leaders who should fall on their swords over the Bondi massacre and explains why their failings will be exposed as a national shame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_xth3TmuO0
An American looks at what the Police actually said at press conferences.
EXPOSES Incompetent Police Response to Bondi Beach Shooting
https://youtu.be/SxaofN4_NYQ
9 minutes : Dec 17, 2025 : Warren Smith – Secret Scholar Society
Reporters question the Officer in charge of the response at Bondi Beach.
It quickly becomes apparent that this was a terrible, tragic, preventable failure.
There were many acts of heroism, and officers who did their best, but something is very wrong here.
But, but there was a bomb there, and they are illegal.
Note the DEI police hire.
Remember the police control over any one supposedly not in compliance during the covid days.
How can one trust the government, when the seconds count & the police are minutes away, & even worse, so much ” ‘ealth & ‘afety” clip-board tick-boxes on all possible things must be completed before action can take place.
In the mean time police training will go into enforcing the digital ID, messages, who is offended, etc..
Will Australia and New Zealand now move to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and deport its members and associates and their families? If countries like the UAE and Egypt consider the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization should we not be paying attention?
Alice
To answer your question; Probably not, since ‘muslims’ provide money to political parties (Even in little old NZ), and because no politician ever wants to ‘turn off the tap, nothing will be done.
‘Donors rule’ OK…!
The Golf Warehouse have a proposal in to redo Takapuna golf course.
The council wankers want to make it a reserve for once in 100 year floods.
Golf course was an old swamp and low lying land that was drained and purposed .
They spend much additional funds for drainage 15 years ago .
It did absorb water in the big flood of 2023, 27 January.
But not good enough for council wankers .
It worked to absorb water and was closed for 2 months for remedial work
but
it gives the proletariat a leisure activity and joy (and sorrow, on a golf course)
So Golf warehouse have a $20 million proposal in for big changes and revert from 18 hole to 9 hole course.
AND
They donated $20,000 for Mayor Wayne Browns reelection fund.
Shock horror to the media filth bourgeoisie !!
Sing along
https://x.com/drclownphd/status/2000915825969258609?s=46
https://nitter.net/drclownphd/status/2000915825969258609?s=46
One will see that in the comments that there is a real classic old times New Zealand connection too.
For the book club. 😀
Merry Christmas arseholes
https://x.com/johnrich/status/2000949322246951011?s=46
AI is a horrible thing, it’s taking all the fun out of genuine retaliation.
Blame it on climate
https://x.com/jamesmelville/status/2000999873408328142?s=46
Brilliant , makes me want to watch all the Carry On series again.
Reality check.
Easter bunny ✔️
Tooth fairy ✔️
Be Kind ✔️
Notional will reduce spending ☑️
I could never tell a lie ✅
Oh dear, how sad. Nevermind.
BREAKING: FORD JUST KILLED THE EV NARRATIVE
They burned $30 billion chasing electric dreams.
Today they wrote off $19.5 billion and buried their flagship Lightning.
The stock rose 2%.
Read that again.
Wall Street rewarded surrender.
This is not a pivot. This is a confession.
The entire premise of the “inevitable EV transition” rested on one assumption: permanent government subsidies would bridge the gap until technology caught up.
The subsidies are dying. The gap never closed.
THE NUMBERS THEY BURIED
Ford’s EV division hemorrhaged $5 billion annually.
The Lightning sold below projections every single quarter.
Their solution: put combustion engines back into “electric” trucks and call it innovation.
THE SIGNAL
When the second largest American automaker abandons its EV flagship and the market celebrates, something fundamental has broken.
Not in Ford.
In the thesis itself.
WHAT COMES NEXT
GM follows within 18 months.
European automakers scramble to reverse mandates.
The $1.2 trillion global EV investment thesis faces its first true reckoning.
Tesla’s moat, once dismissed as temporary, reveals itself as structural.
THE LESSON
Industries built on policy instead of demand collapse when policy shifts.
Ford bet $30 billion that governments would force consumers into EVs forever.
Consumers voted with their wallets.
Governments are changing.
Ford is retreating.
BOTTOM LINE
December 15, 2025 marks the day legacy auto admitted what markets long suspected:
They cannot profitably build electric vehicles at scale.
They never could.
The transition was always a transfer, from taxpayers to balance sheets, until the transfer stopped.
Now the bill comes due.
$19.5 billion is just the first installment.
Watch who pays the next.
I remember Ford screaming Poverdy ! over EVs in 2022.
It was clear from their signaling then that it was never an economic equation with EVs
and
required a large taxpayer handout to bridge the gap, per vehicle
Even the NZ10,000 was not enough/
I suspect all along the Big Detroiters knew it was nuts
EVs have been tried before.
and the battery technology had never improved to match the need .
Petrol and Diesel is easily storable, has a shelf life of at least months if not years (some reduction in volatility) .
I can fill a tank and drive open road 750 km
Had a Corolla rental last year in South Is that had a range of 750 km on a 40 and a bit litre tank
in the US, for a country that privatises medicine , it was absurd to socialise private motor vehicles.
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Noting that in the UK 20 years ago (B.liar/Brown) they incentivised diesel cars even small glorified shopping baskets, because it was not petrol
totally mad
and of course diesel does not suit small vehicle/short trip situations
and local pollution is worse.
Back in 2007/2008 the US diverted corn into ethanol to make 80/20 fuel mix.
This pushed bread prices up; even here in NZ to $5 a loaf. more than today
it was quietly dropped in the GFC.
politicians are fuckwits as well as crooks .
Yep they are unemployable tossers
Oh dear! That’s bad! How sad!
Hopefully they can now waste money on reducing emissions in sane ways. This will be unlike a Mitsubishi Triton I drove last week.
The owner neglected to tell me that if you stop for more than two seconds (for any reason) the engine turns itself off. It does start again automatically when you touch the accelerator but the delay is horrendous.
When you’re trying to make a right hand turn in heavy traffic it’s a fucking death trap!
The (ex) cop who wants to stick his cock in livestock
The Mac Skimmer
got a mere 9 months Home D
there is NO justice
there wont be under current settings
cops, courts pollyticians
all failures .
Bet the cat’s pretty unhappy about that sentence.
As pigs can fly.
Link above on this, in this thread above.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-603/#comment-462572
No squealing pigs of bestiality identified.
From S1’s link. The sentencing judge said:
#. “The resulting 18 months in prison was commuted to 9 months home detention, Judge Black noting that McSkimming “would a prime target for serious violence.“
The potential for prison justice can be managed adequately by prison authorities.
#. “With reports assessing McSkimming’s reoffending risk as low, it was not appropriate for him to be placed on the sex offender register, the judge said.”
The slimeball effectively got off scot free. He must have some really good dirt on other offenders in the police or justice orbits.
To think Mac Skimmer got off scot-free
and Derek Chauvin is imprisoned because George Floyd was a drug addict on his self made death row.
But Chauvin was stitched up
22 fecking years.
Presidential pardon please .
Muldoon had the guts to free Arthur Thomas immediately he knew the cops lied.
Fucking johnny keys and judy collons stood by when it was clear Teina Pora was not the killer claimed by crooked cops
Like Pora or despise him, he was stitched up and incarcerated illegally, and the cops would not let up they lied and lied and lied
as they normally do .
Meantime Malcolm Rewa went on to rape many other women and whatever other crimes
because
cops, dudges, and pollyticians are gutless, self interested, pocket-lining, pervy, porno-soaking creeps.
Dudges and a crooked lawmaking (law-shaking) system .
less than useless
this crook as you say got off scot free .
so because of a deep dive they found this when vetted for commissioner of piggery.
How many others are like this in the pig sty who simply have not been caught because they have not been examined?
we can guess it is pretty bad when so many top cops had to bail out this year and top doggie, coster, was in on it too.
Trust NZ cops
…sure cant .
McSkimming was the only pervert actually uncloaked. The rest of them walked because of misplaced loyalty and/or poor executive judgement. We may have witnessed the cleaning of the stables but on the other hand we may not have. Time will tell.
The loyalty to the brotherhood of the blue uniform has to be understood. Front line policing is very much a blue collar job. The clientèle are hostile, the management are far removed from the coalface & although the risks are overstated its a challenging workplace. IOW it’s teamwork like no other.
Such an environment breeds a culture of overlooking your fellow’s imperfections. The workmate you nark on today might not be quite so ready to go gungho on the next 200kg methed out PI who wants to separate your head from your shoulders.
Today’s junior constable learning to “fit in” is possibly the deputy Commissioner in thirty years time.
If there’s a foolproof answer it escapes me.
Another failure from the Karori housefrau.
Miss Head Prefect screwed up, again
The Road Cone hotline
(a useless website that launched a 1000 Toyota Hiluxes
and 20,000 hi viz vests)
has closed
it was allocated to Chrissy Bishop and Brooke van Veldenberg.
They declare it cost $150,000
but I would say with all the headless chooks involved it would not be less than $5 million all up when crews went out to inspect cones, count, count again ,take pictures, report back, letters and reports flying everywhere, multiple people reading reports, giving feedback et al
Zero productivity gain and the taxpayer has a Bill of over $5 million
and still Notional spend more for nothing /net zero outcome .
Seems even the Aussies think their place is fucked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezAx09lB-a4
The pressure is on, already out of the sprinting blocks here in New Zealand, demanding to bring many more controls on the internet, social media systems.
While their is mention of further gun controls, but the internet, digitalization, social media & platform controls is where they seem to really want to go.
The Bondi massacre didn’t happen in a vacuum; social media is radicalising, incubating and amplifying intolerance and hate and needs to be regulated like drugs and alcohol, according to an expert in collective behaviour from Auckland University’s School of Psychology.
Fifteen people were killed in the mass shooting at a Jewish Hannukah celebration at the Sydney Beach at the weekend.
In the aftermath fake social media posts and misinformation around the Bondi shooting have been all over the internet.
Honorary senior lecturer at Auckland University’s School of Psychology, Robert Bartholomew spoke to Lisa Owen.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2019017360/social-media-s-impact-on-the-bondi-massacre
7 mins : 12 December 2025 : Click on the red arrow in the drop-down box.
This will just keep trickling out of from the academia in various ways, but always on point with their agenda, and then stoked along by the media.
New Zealand is already sliding along to be in lock-step with Australia to gain control of all functions of it citizens via digital, algorithimic thought controls etc.. to prevent too much thinking, & to put people on to the “correct official narrative”
The professor advocating for what the government wants – gee, I wonder if they pay him to say that?
”needs to be regulated like drugs and alcohol” The regulation of drugs has been a colossal failure. Therefore, government will think it is a path to follow.
Mazda’s new rotary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1wd_MwQl8o
Bunch of Wankels.
How was the recent change to the use of puberty blockers put in place? Was it a change in the law? If so, how has a High Court judge put a pause on the ban, today.
This looks like Trump’s America with rogue judges making the law suit their ideology.
This afternoon at the Tauranga Vegetable Care Centre: 🙂
Upvoted for Vegetable Care. You can expect some lame insults.
Iaasb must be able to hear the 2 helicopters circling Gore.
The paramedics & ambulances despatched by the cursed hones, in full song with the police?
Do not know about the fire brigades, but they might as well ring a ding ding to fire every one up.
Fire arms involved, that one could say Shot fired, or was it a barrage?
Supposedly breaking news,
So is it a synagogue revenge, or a mosque being taken down?
Or just a rabbit, wallaby hunt & some things have gone astray.??
A story still to be filed as so far based on the din of sirens, helicopters going on in Gore.
https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/firearms-incident-reported-gore
Is our stupid boy on the spot, just waiting to file that report.
Not on the job as I suspect, knocked out by gold fever for the night.
Maybe a gold claim jumper dispute?
“Labour has 8-point lead over National in latest poll”
Hey Luxon, you just continue your march to defeat. Don’t worry about sorting out all the shit that you got voted in on. You’re running out of time to find your spine.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/labour-has-8-point-lead-over-national-in-latest-poll/5SHIS2GOQJEMHFGP7VSBPDHSVA/
Winston’s final speech for 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmRPlMHiuvQ
David Seymour
Today, the Government announced merging four ministries into one -Environment, Local Government, Housing, and Transport.
This is a good thing. In fact, it should be only the start. Developing land and connecting it together with roads and pipes should not require four different departments. Too many cooks in the kitchen have made building harder than it needs to be.
In May this yea,r I said to the Tauranga Business Chamber ‘We currently have 82 ministerial portfolios… held by 28 ministers. And under them, we have 41 separate government departments…’ A smaller, more efficient Government would have 20 Ministers and no more than 30 Ministries.
Ireland has the same-sized population as New Zealand but only sixteen Ministries. Today’s merger is a step in the right direction, but there is more to do. My comments were dismissed at the time, but now it’s happening because it makes sense.
The advantage of a smaller Government is greater efficiency. Under ACT’s proposal, which we will take to the election, no minister would have more than two Departments, no department would have more than one Minister.
Right now, some Ministers have seven portfolios, and one department answers to 23 Ministers. Everybody has a boss, but 23 is ridiculous. If we want a Government that’s responsive to the people, it needs to have an organisational chart that doesn’t look like a bowl of spaghetti.
The advantage of a smaller, more efficient Government is that you pay your taxes, get your services, and move on. That’s much better than unending bureaucracy and processes that sucks up resources but don’t make the boat go faster. Today’s been a good step to a smaller, more efficient Government, but there’s a long way to go.
When are they going to grow the balls to completely disestablish some ministries, like the Ministry for Women?
Especially when the leaders of some political parties don’t even know what a woman is.
Anyone remember when Auckland Council was supposed to be more efficient than the old local authorities? Economies of scale and all that. How did that work out?
The voters then elected socialist Mayors who were less than useless at stopping the bureaucracy. Need I remind you that you were one of those voters?
The trick will be to cut the number of Ministers. and employ hard-nosed useful ones.
Few Nats meet that criteria, and if you vote Hipkins back in they will bloat it as they always do.
The first thing to fix is the allowance to vote. Minimum criteria 5 years resident and tax paying.
Will it come together as the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Or is Like the curate’s egg, if you have the stomach for it.
So by all counts, are MBIE Ministry of Business, Incentives & Employment a great success, streamlined & efficient???
Labour did as they always do, bloat it because as a individual most are lazy and have no idea about being efficient.
The Nars are mostly the same.
There are a couple of standouts. Luxon flakes ain’t one.
Will they be able to turn some public servants into beneficiaries!
If only to get more “discovery” particularly of what was covered up or kept hidden, maybe?
Dr. Michael Yeadon: De Grote Reset Op De Proef
https://youtu.be/nOrIHgSWLyY
18 mins 12 secs : Dec 16, 2025 :
Lawyer Peter Stassen has filed a lawsuit against the architects of The Great Reset and has included expert testimonies from Sasha Latypova, Catherine Austin Fitts, Dr. Joseph Sansone, Dr. Michael Yeadon, and Katherine Watt in the file to prove that Bill Gates, Mark Rutte, and Albert Bourla have committed crimes against humanity. [Translation from Dutch to English]
Brevity of half a dozen points
1) No new disease, although there are viruses mis diagoniazed, to create fear.
2) Treatment was radically changed that actually made things worse for respiriatory problems.
Like over loading people’s bodies on those ventalitors, plus various morphine.
3) What were the toxic liabilities that are put into vaxxes.
a) Gene sequences being Spike protein to manufacture a foreign protein.
Some people were good at manufacturing this, so caused problems.
Fortuanately for others very poorly or not as obviously damaged.
b) Has found other spike proteins that have been proven earlier as toxins that caused other problems to the body
c) Lipid nano particles, to promote uptake & carry the vaxx much further into the body, but are known to be toxic & cause a mild damage.
4) Some of the reasons why Yeadon is speaking out.
Good on them, as shining a light on them, in judicicial courts.
To see what one can see, & distill what is the truth !