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There’s no way I’d be in that position at a Lefty Training Camp.
Robbo’s dream?
I swear I recognise Luxo in that group.
Yip, the closest one, with the Maori motif on his arse.
If you were a Lefty Saggs you would be exactly in that position going pick me pick me.
Target practice sites
Yep I was going to say that’s a mussy camp. Lefties would have their heads up their own arse.
If it was the Labor sex camp they wouldn’t have their pants on and Hopkins would be running around with a limp dick, going what do I do, Oh, what do I do!
40 frogs drown.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/40-people-drown-as-france-seeks-relief-from-record-heat/PVUA2T6OQREYNPEQDJUJRBZPVU/
I do hope the women who subscribe to a particular ideology were happy to see their men shirtless and swimming while they sat in the heat of a full body black burka.
probs mostly the peaceful religion type, theyre notoriously poor swimmers
MetService warns of downpours and thunderstorms for eastern Northland
look what thats caused.
Kiwis are getting a head start on the school holidays, with the busiest day for international departures set to fall a week before the break officially begins.
This Saturday, 15,000 passengers will set off for their winter getaways, the most popular destinations including Australia, China and Fiji.
Auckland Airport chief customer officer Scott Tasker said the earlier peak reflected steadier travel demand over the school holidays, which start on July 4 and run through to July 19.
“This year, the holiday period lines up across schools and universities as well as the Australian school break, which could be contributing to the early getaways, as families prepare for their winter holidays.”
With 680,000 travellers coming and going between June 24 and July 19, international travel is up 1.5% on the same period last year.
Morning, fair bucketed down last night up this way. The grass verge out front has gone under, looks like the big dry is finally over.
you must use kids’ sand castle buckets to measure your rain.
Auckland is collecting a bit for its new flood water system right now.
Hosing down again now but to be fair, the weather has been pretty good of late. Might have to declare summertime the rainy season – taking the boat out also seems to work pretty well on that front. Just thinking about it has been known to bring on a full scale monsoon.
Why Jacinda Ardern was the worst thing that happened to New Zealand.
Not because every problem started with her.
They did not.
Not because every bad decision was hers alone.
It was because she changed the moral direction of the country.
Before Jacinda, New Zealand still had a rough idea of what it was meant to be.
Free people.
Practical people.
Independent people.
People who worked, built, traded, raised families, solved problems, and expected government to mostly leave them alone.
Then Jacinda arrived with one word.
Kindness.
And that word did enormous damage.
Because kindness is voluntary.
You choose to help.
You choose to give.
You choose to care.
But when the state forces one person to live for another, that is not kindness.
That is coercion.
When the state takes your money and calls it compassion, that is not charity.
That is theft with better branding.
COVID exposed the worldview.
The government decided whether you could work.
Whether your business was essential.
Whether you could travel.
Whether you could see family.
Whether you could come home to your own country.
Whether your speech was acceptable.
Then they told New Zealanders the government would be the single source of truth.
That sentence should have terrified every free person.
Free countries do not have a single source of truth.
Free people think.
Free people question.
Free people disagree.
Free people are allowed to be wrong.
A society with one official truth is not free.
It is being trained to obey.
That was her real legacy.
She made dependency look moral.
She made obedience look virtuous.
She made fear look responsible.
She made control look compassionate.
She moved New Zealand away from the individual and toward the collective.
Away from freedom and toward permission.
Away from responsibility and toward dependency.
Away from truth and toward official narrative.
Away from production and toward redistribution.
Ayn Rand was right.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual.
Once you sacrifice the individual to the collective, there are no rights left.
There is only power.
The state decides who pays, who obeys, who is punished, and who is rewarded.
I do not judge Jacinda by the smile.
I do not judge her by the magazine covers.
I do not judge her by the international applause.
I judge her by one standard.
Did she make New Zealand more free or less free?
The answer is obvious.
She made New Zealand less free.
That is her legacy.
I wrote about a very similar thing here: The Political Cruelty of Kindness: How Sentiment Became a Soft Authoritarianism – No Minister
“She made New Zealand less free.”
Only because citizens chose to obey the State. It was our own fault. We had agency, but we chose not to use it.
Aid to the poor…
The state house next door. The washing is lying on the ground under the clothes line, soaking up the rain here in Auckland. Some more of the clothes lie tossed over the giant trampoline a few meters away.
Did they not know that the rain was coming? Did they not care?
This is the same family who don’t wear seatbelts and who don’t buckle in their children. Our leaders tell us that the poorer outcomes these poor people experience are the result of our collective “oppression.”
I suspect that our leaders have never had to live next to the “poor” or deal with them.
You mean they never had free car seats as babies and never belted in as they grew up.
That’s not fair! All that free money been given away and made no difference.
Might as well have given them an old Vanguard cut down as a ute and let the travel on the old lounge suite on the back.
“I suspect that our leaders have never had to live next to the “poor” or deal with them.’
OS, never a truer word has been said.
Just take a look at the likes of Chloe Swarbrick who will tell all about the downtrodden and why your hard earned money should be taken off you and given to the eternally lazy and how it will improve their lives.
This from a person on $181,200 Base Taxpayer funded salary, plus $36,240 Taxpayer funded Kiwi Saver contribution as well as every financial perk imaginable, overseas business class flights on other peoples dime, along with her 20 Retirement or Superannuation Schemes according to her 2025 Parliamentary Pecuniary Interest Schedule. And it goes on.
Hardly living next door to Alice, knowing the poor or having to deal with them.
Who The Fuk is Alice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUy83PKjkOI
Alice has long sinced moved out.
The current up grade in the UK & still in residence.
Living Next Door To Ali – Parody Song
https://youtu.be/Efox-uWtjwg
3 mins 32 secs : May 29, 2018 : Daniel Bostock.
Sadly, unless the UK changes Alice will be wearing a burqa.
Ricky, Old spoon, you are showing your age, but there again you may not be.
The Australian group New world sang Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman’s song “Living Next Door to Alice” in 1972 and then Smokie, an Yorkshire Band made it a worldwide hit in 1977. Smokie always had a pause in the song at their Concerts and the audience yelled out “Who the Fuck is Alice”.
So there ya go.
I thought it was ‘abbos’.
…..”Who The Fuk is Alice”…..
The star of a classic fantasy franchise originating from Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The NZ Labour Party after embracing the principles of DEI appoints Chris Hipkins as leader. A quick makeover & a perfunctory sex change later sees they/them fall down a rabbit hole into a bizarre, illogical world filled with anthropomorphic creatures, nonsensical rules & famous characters like the Mad Hatter, Jacinda Ardern, the Cheshire Cat & Saint Ashley of the Pestilence.
The film inspired many current Labour Party positions ie.
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Also contains quotes from the Leader of the Opposition such as, “I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
I don’t know why she’s leaving, or where she’s going to go…🎶
Like a lot of people anywhere but here!
And after 24 years!
Miles Davis and Rikki Morris put out the 2011 “24 years” song referring to 24 years since New Zealand had won the Rugby World Cup. It worked, they did.
Never again will they win it. Mommies girls!
Comments regularly here, she’ll probably post something soon.
Won’t someone think of the children.
https://x.com/its_The_Dr/status/2069228587207520748?s=20
Police overreach in the UK
https://x.com/Andrewplb165/status/2069285647970410599?s=20
https://nitter.net/Andrewplb165/status/2069285647970410599?s=20
Now I know I’m getting old. Those ladies look like 3rd formers (or whatever the year equivalent is these days).
In New Zealand:
#. There is no general stop-and-identify law in New Zealand. The default is that you do not have to give your name to police if they have simply seen you on the street.
#. You must give identifying details if you are driving, if you are arrested, if you are carrying a firearm, if you are suspected of being under 18 and drinking in public, or if police are exercising a specific statutory power.
Under section 114 of the Land Transport Act, drivers must give name, DOB, address, occupation and phone number, and can be required to wait up to 15 minutes for police to verify identity.
#. After arrest, give your basic details (name, DOB, address, occupation) and then say nothing else until you have spoken to a lawyer.
#. Lying about your identity is a separate, often more easily prosecuted offence than the original interaction. Tell the truth or stay silent. Never invent.
#. The cleanest opening line in any uncertain interaction is “Am I being detained, or am I free to go?” If the answer is free to go, you can decline to give your details and leave.
#. Carrying ID is not compulsory in New Zealand outside the driving context. You can be required to give your name and address verbally, but you do not have to physically produce a document.
https://newswire.co.nz/resources/give-name-to-police-nz/
Very interesting and educational video. Thank you.
Very interesting interactive graphic showing where US aid has gone year by year since 1946. Look at the amount going to the UK, even up until the last 10 years.
https://t.me/thewhiterosenz/197707/351597
I think the top meme could also apply to National/Luxon , especially given the latest poll.
To confirm this I have just looked in the letter box –I have a letter from Stats NZ saying my address has been selected for a General Social Survey for some place called Aotearoa New Zealand. Apparently it is a legal requirement, under the Data and Statistics Act 2022 that I have to complete the survey.
Since I live in New Zealand I think I will tell them where to stick their survey.
If the Government Ministers cannot get their Department to use the correct name of out country they don’t deserve to be there. Hopeless idiots.
“Since I live in New Zealand I think I will tell them where to stick their survey.” YOU MUST!! And fill it with expletives!!
I have written to them and Scott Simpson, Minister of Stats NZ and said because I live in NZ any information I gave them would be irrelevant for their survey for Aotearoa New Zealand.
I know I have wasted my time and will get no response but if we don’t object NZ will get more like the UK where 6-8% of the population ( the Muslims) are effectively running the country, as Ed’s post showed yesterday.
Nothing like your response is a waste of time. Unless we stand up to them we will be going down the British way.
I completed one of those surveys a decade or so ago before Aowhatsit became a thing. The survey want to know everything about you, including who you live with, income and when you last had a good scratch.
Your dilemma is not anew one. As far back as 22 October 1910 concerns about the obtrusiveness of census questions were raised;
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/imageserver/imageserver.pl?oid=TO19101022.1.18&scale=30&color=32&ext=gif&key=
So did I about the same time as you wg. Very intrusive.
The occasional common sense decisions taken by the coalition remind us that even a pseudo right wing government is marginally better than the fruitcakes of the left. National & Co got together to repeal Labour’s half baked 2023 ban on the use of fossil fuels for industrial heating processes.
From https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/17/govt-to-quietly-scrap-looming-ban-on-coal-boilers/
#. “The coal boilers of greenhouse growers have received a new lease on life, as ministers move to quietly repeal a scheduled 2037 ban on coal for low-intensity industrial process heat.”
As can be expected the news gathered little support amongst the rabid left “journalists” & the idiots who wish to ban CO2.
Fontera will be excited.
Didn’t we, the taxpayers, fund some big new wood burners for them?
And for a bunch of schools as well.
Yep. The last Labour government in their ideologically driven focus on decarbonisation madness incentivised Fontera to switch from natural gas & coal to biomass. There’s nothing inherently wrong with biomass as a fuel & it utilises waste which otherwise would be destroying our infrastructure & polluting our coastline in the form of ‘slash’.
Rather it’s the insane belief in anthropogenic climate change coupled with the hatred of traditional capitalism which creates an unholy alliance of corporatism & communism that concerns me. Labour are happy to get into bed with Fontera & squander untold billions of taxpayer money on rainbows & unicorns but ignore the opportunity to force the foresters to clean up their shit & turn it into biomass. National, in solidarity, have spent the past three years carefully avoiding the issue.
So much so as to necessitate the latest commissioned SI Fontera milk powder drying facility to import their initial biomass from Vietnam.
At one point when Pablo Picasso was a young struggling artist, he was several months behind in the rent.
The landlord came by and told him that if he didn’t come up with the money he would be evicted on Tuesday.
Picasso exclaimed, “Before you kick me out, just think, years from now people will look at this building & say the great Picasso lived there.”
The landlord looked at him blankly & said, “And if you don’t come up with the money they can start doing it Tuesday.”
Read & weep. From https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360997275/opportunity-polls-46-takes-swipe-nostalgic-and-backwards-nz-first-contest-centre
#. “The Opportunity Party, led by Qiulae Wong, has aspirations of being the “kingmaker” after November’s election. It styles itself as a centrist party that can work with either National or Labour. The party achieved a 4.6% result in Tuesday night’s poll from TVNZ and Verian.”
#. “They want a land tax, they want to make every New Zealander a beneficiary with a universal basic income,”
And that’s what a UBI will do. Make everyone beholden to government for their income. “Any government powerful enough to give the people all that they want is also powerful enough to take from the people all that they have.” (unattributed).
It gets worse. A Stuff poll currently sits at 50% for a UBI, 37% against with 13% undecided.
So 50% of the people in this country are proven morons, and for 13% the jury is still out.
50% is on the low side.I believe in the 80/20 principle. 80% are morons 20% are people like us here on ysb.
Saw that. Never underestimate the stupidity of the average kiwi especially those that are influenced by Stuffed. Though there were 37% who were against not too bad on this issue. I doubt Topless will make the 5% but we could be in a lot trouble if they do.
65 can’t come fast enough for this youngster. I’m getting a semi on just thinking about that lovely weekly top-up.
Come on, tax dodgers, lovely land plots on the market at Kamala Beach, Phuket. Choose yours, get in first. Brush that dust off ya wallets. You can’t take it with ya. (take note nasska)
Never get him on an aeroplane, hunty.
Perhaps you could arrange a waka for him.
I’m still inclined to give it a try. Mind you, in your circumstances I wouldn’t bother.
Even wrapped in asbestos it would melt. 🙂
You can have the best plot nasska. Right fkin next to mine.😁
Rain is a bit heavy. Imagine the Mount will be covered in slips tomorrow again.
Gold Coast just had a month’s worth in 24 hours.
Climate change again.
Hunty will be expecting lots of visitors.
Lots leaving for Bali this weekend.
Phukets Thailand. Balis… can’t remember, but I’m pretty sure it’s Musso City/Paradise.
Indonesia.. that’s right.
A Northland mill is set to close, resulting in the loss of 60 jobs, and National and Labour are trading blame.
In March, Japanese-owned Juken New Zealand Ltd announced a formal consultation process over the future of its Northland Mill and Triboard Mill, both in Kaitāia.
At the time, Juken NZ Managing Director Hisayuki Tsuboi said the move reflected a “combination of ongoing structural and market pressures” affecting their operations, including “declining demand” in key export markets and increasing operating costs.
Marcus Coverdale of Workers First Union said staff from the Northland Mill were called to a meeting on Wednesday morning and told that no buyer had been found during the sale window.
Propaganda TV have picked the party they will promote. Apparently “The Opportunity Party is middle of the road and could work with either side of politics.
Only if their voters are naive and economically illiterate and like to be taxed.
“Only if their voters are naive and economically illiterate and like to be taxed.”
Got it in one wg.
Wasn’t that Gareth Morgans Party?
Yes but he got out of it soon after their first go in an election. That is, a long time ago.
So NZ is following trends overseas where they combined total for the two main parties is dropping quickly. In Australia it has dropped from about 85-90% down to about 60% in about the last 10 years.
Act and NZfirst together will be the dog the nats try to wag