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Kiwis flock to Jacinda Ardern memoir, smashing local sales records
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Then there is this;
No amount of book sales can dispel Jacinda Ardern’s ‘odd passivity’ that defines her fear-driven time at the topJacinda Ardern hardly moved the needle for the progressive cause as she presided over soaring house prices and deepening inequality, writes Nicholas Sheppard.
https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/no-amount-of-book-sales-can-dispel-jacinda-arderns-odd-passivity-that-defines-her-feardriven-time-at-the-top/news-story/720949835877f050f8aaddc1ad4a84e2
it is hard to think of any modern Western government that made so little of its mandate – that is the enduring, even puzzling legacy of Jacinda Ardern.
So Sad.
Jacinda Ardern’s book sales trajectory
EXCLUSIVES In brief • Jacinda Ardern reportedly received a $1.5m advance for her memoir, meaning 140,000 global sales are needed to break even.
Jacinda Ardern’s A Different Kind of Power has sold the most copies of any New Zealand-published book so far this year, despite being released …
Yer, but what are the sales figures, will she meet the 140,000.
So no matter what we think about the bitch she has sycophantic followers.
Watched a couple of clips of the sausage roll man. He is as bad as she is.
deranged and programmed, and still believes sincerely that what they did was the right thing.
The sooner those evil bastards die, the better.
I’m still left wondering how much money has been deposited in his name and that of the other scrawny arsewipe Ashley Bloomfield.
here’s another old report.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/i-disagree-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-at-odds-with-a-number-of-people-during-press-conference/MEE32AOAP6QY6NDXRVSVTJSPXM/
Anyway, Morning all.
Enough of talking about that Mormon slag.
The moon is shining bright, the rain has gone on down to visit Masterton, and all is well in the metropolis of our minor city with growing pains, unnecessary immigration, and nice beaches.
Still raining up here but not as bad.
Send it south, Vikey needs it, he has a drought.
It’s too much to hope a dry day would occupy the old codger with mowing the lawns and hanging the laundry out, but no. YSB still gets sprayed with c&p from all the msm outlets we choose not to read. FFS he hasn’t started on fb yet.
You can always read on by or don’t bother at all. It’s not your blog, you don’t make the rules, but you do complain a lot.
When I am 80
Haven’t mown lawns since 1992.
I do my washing, ironing, house work, garden and cook my own meals.
I work every week day for up to 12 hours and sometimes on the weekend.
I just don’t wander around wondering what to do with myself all day.
Just so ya know.
And in case you are wondering, watch this space. over the next couple of years.
DILLIGAF
I see you can’t manage anything but posting a slur these days.
Raymond Ibrahim (rightly) questions why there was international outrage when 51 Muslims were killed here, but silence when huge numbers of Christians are killed all the time:
https://pjmedia.com/raymond-ibrahim/2025/07/11/51-muslims-killed-global-outrage-1000-christians-killed-islamophobia-n4941664
I call it selective morality and it’s endemic amongst the pro Palestinian mob.
Its selective and endemic everywhere.
If a seafood restaurant opens and the Health Dept get wind of few people vomiting after going home, and a couple being taken to hospital in an ambulance, they will be rapidly down there in Starsky and Hutch style, shutting the place down, it would be all over the news within an hour, and talk of prosecution.
Yet tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people get sick, thousands have injuries or die, and the govt says “Nothing to see hear, its all disinformation. And if you do not get your butt down to Pfizers new seafood restaurant, and have the “pufferfish” injection, we will lock you out of society.”
Plunket manages to state the bleedingly obvious nearly a full five years after the likes of us knew what the story was. Listen to his deep musings if you can stand it:
https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/sean-plunket-reflects-on-new-zealands-covid-response
at least he got there tho, theres still plenty that think cindy was a hero and shouldve gone harder.
I am getting to the point where a gun would need to be held to my head to get me to watch plonker so I’ll take your word for it.
The wife and I used to watch the Platform most evenings. We are no longer going to put up with Plunket’s arrogant, self opinionated drivel. His treatment of Ali Bland was disgusting.
Plunket is annoying, but Michael Laws is growing in me. He presents a reasoned argument to agree/disagree with.
And apologised for some of his views during Covid. The only person I’m aware of to do so.
He interviewed a friend of mine prior to the 2023 election. Told my mate beforehand it would be about x, y and z, then during the interview went down a totally unrelated, “gotcha” path, trying to paint him as a bad actor.
Totally unprofessional.
Labor could not have achieved all it did without the support of all political parties and their MP’s, the sycophants from the government depts, like Health, Police etc, assisted by a sycophantic media with it’s reporters all with big heads!
It was like a monopoly with the bitch and the sausage roll kid, at the top.
There should be an inquire with the ability to enforce jail terms!
or public floggings and then hanging.
hilarious, another national/act? party weasel worded policy.
they made a big deal outve ending the farm to forestry conversions, they even backdated it a bit to put a halt to any last minute fomo deals…. well theres plenty of loopholes and its still pretty much all go.
the 2 big local ones here that sold to overseas companies for forestry conversions were supposed to be scuttled by the new changes… bwahahaha yeah right, theres numerous loopholes, 1 the company had already purchased the trees so theres a clause saying if significant investment is made then they can continue…. they ordered the trees a week or so prior to the bill passing.
the other farm already had 350ha planted by the previous owner but the rest is a large working farm but because theres already trees there the sale could still procede.
then last week a big farm in the catlins just sold to overseas for a full carbon forestry plant out. i dont know how they got that one through but guess theres other loopholes.
thats just 3 i know of within an hours drive of me, im sure theres more so just imagine how much nationwide! lying fucking cunts just window dressing.
The nats have used a stupid govt land classification level . This doesn’t take into account class 5 are the breeding properties , dumb fucks like luxon and todd whats his face have been hoodwinked by govt officials still pushing a green agender .
SB, you want to see what they have done to the large Beef and Sheep Stations between the Waimiha/Ongarue Turnoff on SH4, Taumarunui out to Ohura and Kurukau on and off the Forgotten World Highway and the turning from productive hill country farms into Carbon Forests. It is just criminal. No wonder the cost of Beef and Sheep meat has gone through the roof with a shortage of processing stock, now these types of farms have disappeared. Many of these farms being in the 5,000 acre and up size. Someone needs their Balls drawn for allowing the destruction of such good productive land, but it will never happen.
His surname is SHAW.
Tarquins buddy.
yup, theres quite a few down here like that aswell. some places that have been planted are steep and shitty but other places entire farms planted that you can tractor mow the entire farm ffs. its criminal, i have no worries steep or scrubby farms being converted but its the good production land thats so devestating to nz farming.
i also think there should be better incentives to plant natives vs shitty pine or fir. imo credits for pine should start alot later and native kick in earlier at a shorter height…. preferably remove the carbon credit scam altogether but we know that only act and maybe? nz1 would do that. no way woke nats or labout ever would.
All based on major flaws, ideologies,
tractor mow the entire farm ffs. its criminal
That is for real.
The problem is that Carbon Forestry can pay by far the most amount of money, and the District & Regional Council just love the new valuations that are placed on neighbouring blocks so they can fully charge rates on it.
remove the carbon credit scam altogether
Agreed, in not only “trees” but also “fuels” etc., which all have major flow consequences.
Even just bringing about inflationary factors.
That just go on bringing an onslaught of more laws, regulations, rules, etc.. to action fees, levies, fines, that are based on flaws, like Climate Change, Peak Oil etc..
———- —————- ————
“Taxes are what we pay to live in a civilized society” they say.
But what do places like Germany, Norway, and Belgium have to show for it?
Energy prices are through the roof. Germany and Belgium fall in the top ten list of countries with most expensive electricity costs.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/progressive_exit_taxes_become_the_new_berlin_wall.html
All of it goes on to create more shit in our lives in so many ways.
‘Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them…well I have others.’ —Groucho Marx
Loop-holes, exemptions, grand-fathering, legacy, persuasive arguments, koha, bribes, ethics in Essex, on hold, making better judgements, fairness, different priorities, resolving a conflict of interest.
All well supported by people, of their compliant representatives of ‘us’, being in government.
They are no different than the ones seeking 16 year old voting, broader DEI with further support of multi-culturism, open borders, & to throw money at any issue with no accountabllity.
The original “tree-planting” principle is well & truly flawed by Climate Warming, Increasing Sea Levels, Climate Change, which bought about global Carbon Emission Trading Scheme, that is set to transform to the guise of “free market”.
This will be ruled by just how many Carbon-credits will be issued as assessed by the techno-bureaucrats in governments.
Good case then for binding referendums.
Never trust the Nats to do anything right. They are slippery, slimy bastards and haven’t changed in 50 years. Like Labour, they need gone.
Former National Party president Sue Wood slams the Government’s pay equity changes
Former National Party president Sue Wood has described the Government’s retrospective repeal of pay equity claims as an affront to democracy, calling it a “dastardly deed done in the dead of night”.
Former National Party president Sue Wood has described the Government’s retrospective repeal of pay equity claims as an affront to democracy, calling it a “dastardly deed done in the dead of night”.
Wood became National’s first female president when she was elected to the role in 1982.
Two years later, she was at Sir Robert Muldoon’s side when he called a snap election, slurring his words at an infamous late-night media conference at Parliament.
During her time on the executive, Wood fought for legislation on equal pay and the fair division of matrimonial property. Now, she says she no longer recognises the party to which she dedicated so much of her life.
“Any signs of arrogance that you know best and you’re not listening to people is not good,” she told the Weekend Herald.
“I felt very comfortable [in National] because it was such a broad church. There was room for all opinions and respect across the divide. I think I’d be quite uncomfortable now.”
The Pay Equity Amendment Bill was rushed through under urgency in May, in a move Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said could save billions of dollars.
Thirty-three current claims, representing thousands of workers, will be dropped, and applications must be made to start them again.
Wood criticised the Government for a lack of consultation and clear communication about why such a drastic course of action was justified.
“Retrospective legislation is always chilling,” she said.
“You’ve got to be really careful that you take people with you when you’re making big, tough decisions. I was very hurt by the fact that the Treaty Principles Bill even got into Parliament, for the same reason.”
Wood, a former teenage national swimming champion and Onehunga High School head girl, was a feminist and social liberal in her early 30s when she was elected as president of the National Party, despite opposition from the more conservative old guard.
Initially, Muldoon welcomed her as a fresh voice, and the pair worked closely together. However, his decision to go behind her back with an early election call backfired on them both.
Wood, who had strongly advised against any premature move, was left with one month to run an election campaign at a time when National was short of funds and riven by internal divisions.
Muldoon then turned on her savagely when Labour swept into power. He was later rolled from the leadership by Jim McLay.
Despite facing concerted attacks, including a protracted defamation case that was eventually dropped, Wood stayed on as president for a further two years, stepping down in 1986 on the National Party’s 50th anniversary.
Now living on Waiheke Island, the 76-year-old has begun writing her memoir of a colourful life that put her on an international stage.
A longtime critic of MMP and the influence it has given to minor parties, she believes the current political structure has also undermined access to a genuine voice in Parliament.
“I’m not sure the extent to which members of political parties, certainly the major parties, are listened to now in the same way.
“The power is centralised around the respective caucuses and the machines that are funded to support them.
“MMP was the worst they could have chosen. I’m not saying go back to first past the post, at all, but it’s not serving us well. I don’t believe political parties should have that power over representation.
“I’m affronted that half the members of Parliament now are not accountable to real people and real electorates. That is not how democracy is meant to work.”
A big down tick for Sue, not you Viking.pay equity is communism, not free market capitalism. I’m guessing Sue has no idea of the difference of equality and equity, or was in the wrong political party.
That’s a feminist for ya. Also shows that Muldoon was a lefty as well. despite all his bullshit and bluster. Control freak mental ability.
What about all them mils
https://x.com/bro_cooked/status/1943595869636575523?s=46
Un equal Justice.
5:00am
Foster mum blames state care for imprisonment
VIDEO CREDIT: Stuff
Bianca Thomas is serving a jail term for a $10,000 shoplifting spree. Her former foster mother says she was failed by her family and the state as a child, and is calling for changes.
TONY WALL reports.
Bianca Thomas stood shyly on the stage at her intermediate school graduation as her teacher spoke about her achievements.
A video of the ceremony shows her foster mother, Ursula Elisara, paying tribute to Bianca’s personal growth, as the 13-year-old beams next to her.
“It hasn’t been easy, but every time you’ve been down you’ve got back up … and put a smile on your face,” Elisara told the assembly, adding that Bianca had dreams of one day having a big house with a paddock for horses, being a teacher and a foster mother.
Today, the 23-year-old is in prison, serving a 21-month sentence for what a judge called a “major problem with stealing”.
The Hamilton District Court heard in June that Thomas went on a shoplifting spree over several months last year, stealing groceries, clothing and petrol worth about $10,000 from stores in Hamilton and Auckland.
Thirteen of the charges involved incidents that took place while she was on bail.
Thomas told police: “I only steal to survive. I can’t get by on the $120 I get per week from WINZ.”
Judge Noel Cocurullo considered home detention, but in the end concluded: “The only way we could stop her offending is to lock her up. That’s the sad truth of this case.”
Compare that to what Golritz got.
A slap with a wet bus ticket.
What a prick the judge is.
There are better options than hardening her life in jail and making the result worse.
There’s more to the story.
Orana Tamariki wins no praise.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360749722/how-lovely-little-girl-became-prolific-shoplifter
She’s right about MMP and the lack of representation for voters, with all political parties run from their centralised party agenda.
Politicians treat voters like mushrooms, keep us in the dark and feed us bullshit.
🍄🟫🍄🟫🍄🟫🍄🟫💩💩💩💩
Sorry, that was meant to be under the Sue Wood on MMP post.
I agree with you and that’s why I upticked the Sue Wood post.
Article paywalled.
Not on my phone. 🤔
Only to tight arses.
There once was a toad that was excluded from all Green Toad activities because he was a handsome shade of yellow. So he went to visit a beautiful fairy in the town over who had the power to grant wishes.
“Fairy,” he said. “I would like to be green, so I can play with all the other toads.”
“Granted!” said the fairy, who turned him yellow. Unfortunately, his little toady penis was still yellow.
“What about my penis?” he asked the fairy.
“Oh! For that, you’ll have to go see the wizard.” And so the toad hopped off to find the wizard. Soon, a pink elephant visited the fairy, and he wished to be turned gray. She granted him the wish, but, as with the toad, his penis was still pink. So she told him to visit the wizard.
“How do I find the wizard?” he asked.
“Just follow the yellow dick toad.”
Rules of surviving.
Too much for some, it seems.
That’s been around long enough to get a pension. Get some new material.
But they read it anyway. 😆
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwbZVlLSe8A
The State Is the Enemy | Interview With Rupert Lowe
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
Carl is joined by Rupert Lowe for a discussion on Restore Britain and how we are going to take our country back.
a quick and easy life hack ROL uses to get free tittie pics…
https://youtu.be/ux68azVry7M?si=Bbe9KGJD40hUhE-T
Quality control may be an issue unless you aren’t fussy.
well he has a thing for huntys exes so i doubt rol is very fussy.
Hunty is enquiring as to your where abouts. He wants to have a chat about taste and your lack of it
He’ll be okay. As he’s in the trade the Vatican give him a freebie for every package of twenty indulgences he orders.
Interesting article in Good Oil about how Aussie history is bring re-written.
Rings a few bells on what has happened in this country.
“I started with Henry Reynolds’ claim in The Other Side of the Frontier that 10,000 Aborigines had been killed in Queensland before Federation. The reference Reynolds provided for this was an article of his own in a work called Race Relations in North Queensland. This was a typescript publication held by only a few libraries but I found a copy and read it. To my surprise, it was not about Aboriginal deaths at all. It was a tally of the number of whites killed by Aborigines. Nowhere did it mention an Aboriginal death toll of 10,000. Reynolds had provided an inaccurate citation of his evidence.”
https://goodoil.news/is-this-australias-greatest-academic-fraud/
Curious
Sadly, this is nothing new and is just another example of Mr Reynold’s attempt to rewrite Australian history and to present a ‘Whiteman bad’ no matter what’ narrative, a view which resulted in his (Very) active participation in what is known in Australia as the ‘Australian History Wars’, the fallout from which still continues…
Should you be interested in learning more about said ‘conflict’, and as it’s rather complicated and involved, I would recommend a Wiki search for ”Australian History Wars’ and that, after reading it, you draw your own conclusions.
Curious, It was “his Truth” /////
~
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XRW6LqNXnZA
“You’re a white, privileged man”
#short
Bit quiet around here, trendsetters. What’s the goss? Make something up. 🤷🏻
Hunty’s favourite part of sex is right at the beginning when you lift up the tail.
I’ve been secretly in touch with your besty, the feathered fiend. He’s not a bad fella. I don’t understand why you used to bag the boy constantly.😏
Moi ?
😏😜
Hi Ya Hunty – Just as well you didn’t put up a letterbox as it would have floated away.
But if you use concrete to set the post, no problems.
Mate, we in the rainy season over here at the mo, but nothin like you fullas have had. I blame the cnut face Ardern.
Nah its still the fallout from Hungahungatongahonga. You don’t send that huge amount of water into the atmosphere and expect it to drop back all at once.
tonight’s full moon is like me Nice and white, now all the rain has washed all that ash out of the sky. Even the snow is white again.
You will find SB out a howling to naaska.
Yeah..cough, my thoughts exactly..🗣️cooough. Sounds murri to me. We’ll blame the poohys
Funny how water ceases to be a sacred taonga owned exclusively by tangata whenua when there’s way too much of it.
fkin nig nogs
Never forget how much these fuckers lied
https://x.com/kiwiwayne2/status/1943895792034652378?s=46
The sausage roll munchers was at her should through the whole episode!
Did you get RCR’s email about their new book Ed?
…..”Created initially as a foundational briefing for Phase Two of the COVID-19 Inquiry, The People’s Position serves as an independent and irrefutable reservoir of damning evidence that exposes the lies, cover-ups, contradictions, and power plays that defined the COVID era.”……
It promises to cover:
I’ve ordered a copy. Should be an interesting read & a useful reference about who spoke which lie & when.
as mentioned the other day its a big fucking grift on gullable butthurt nutters and you just got suckered outve cash to keep them grifting.
its NZs version of BLM grifting, just plays on ppls feelz and greivances.
The first part of the enquiry was a preordained litany of shit as it merely tabled what happened from the Government’s point of view. The second part of the enquiry largely involves matters subjective. As such it will cover the effects on New Zealanders & will be intuitive.
It isn’t a waste of time because we are not automatons. 50% of Kiwis are female & tend to think with their ovaries. It is they who will put the fear of the non existent Skydaddy into the craws of the arseholes who will be running the country when they stage the next scam for the benefit of the WEF & the UN.
Put up with it. It’s the best hope we have at this stage.
NZDSOS also have a 350 page document they submitted as evidence. Available to download for free from their website. Despite that have made a donation to help costs. I thought they did very well on thursday when they appeared in font of the commission.
Oops in front not in font
I bought a chicken to make sandwiches. It doesn’t. It just shits on the floor. I’ll see myself out…..tough crowd
Hi ya Mike. Send us some sunshine! 🙂
Replying to your above commen.t The ysb hall monitors get very picky about what’s posted.
Hey WG! Lol will do. It’s 31deg here. Sweatin’ like a murri comin’ up for parole.
Stop eating the curry then and eat ya veges.
curry muncher.
All a bit slow here tonight then?
Ok 😜
Hunty
So You’re ‘Chickening out’ then?
(Asking for a friend).
disgusting
tell a woman shes beautiful 100 times and she wont beleive you.
tell a woman shes fat once and she’ll remember it the rest of her life… thats cuz elephants never forget
IAASB
I would suggest that it would probably be wise to neither confirm or deny the accuracy of that statement, and that you may be ‘living dangerously’ as a result of having made it…
(Just saying)
I’m sure that deep down they appreciate being told if the start getting a bit chunky Komata. After all it’s easier to get rid of an extra packet of Timtams than a pregnancy’s worth of blubber caused by a calorie intake equal to that of a marching army.
It works too. Fifty five years ago I told Mrs Nasska that she would be a solo mother if she ran to fat & she’s never topped eight stone in all that time. 🙂
Try feeding her, then you miserable sod.
yeah mrs sb has always said she wants me to tell her if shes ever getting fat… i have been brave enough a few times to point out that shes growing.
shes paranoid about being a fat pos like her sister, so far mrs sb has kept it in check… me on the other hand, fml tractor and truck driving dosent do the body much good!
She is rather rotund though. I had to roll her in flour to ..well, you know why…🐖
I come from genetic stock that dictate large shoulders & skinny legs. Working as a truckie before the days of pallets & forklifts when everything was moved in hundredweight bags didn’t do much harm either.
But the years catch up. Once I hit the dreaded forties the rot set in & the weight migrated south to my gut. I shudder at the thought of the shape I’d be now if I’d ended up a desk jockey.