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Kirkiriroan gully dweller. Airbnb valet. Possessor of a lovely black ebike. Serial pedaler of te Awa. Opinionator of things political.
My other car is a canal boat.
[pics: a deck I built; my Kona Sutra e-tourer]
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Am I having a stroke, or is some fuckstain trying to claim that Toitū te Tiriti and Groundswell are fucking equivalent?
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2023 Polls said we’d get 2 MPs. We got 6.
Polls are skewed by who they ask, then skewed again by how media spin it.
They don’t count Māori roll switches or overseas voters.
This is MMP. You don’t need to back the biggest party back the one with the biggest backbone.
We are building a movement.
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Sorry. Preaching to the converted etc etc
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The most pathetic thing on close viewing is that Bish was specifically complaining about the standing ovation for Walker's performance being 'performative acclaim', yes that is what a standing ovation is, genius. He was sour-graping his discomfort at being in a pro-Tiriti crowd. Snowflake shit.
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A very odd but of reportage.
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Also, why is he referring to himself in the third person in that news release? Weird.
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Otoh Bishop's drunken racist rant has strong Muldoon-era vibes, so in many ways it's on-brand for this government.
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"Just take the articulated lorry full of free flags and fuck off"
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I mean I was a tribal labour voter up till then.
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If you'd said in 2023 that future me would be seriously considering voting tpm in the next election, well, I would have said you were crazy. But here we are.
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And of course this new policy has nothing whatsoever to do with party donations from those dreadful tax dodging childcare oligarchs.
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The locks and bridges date from the mid 1600s, and have UNESCO World Heritage status.
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Espresso ftw.
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Vacuous
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Bullseye!
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Spectacular work, well done, Parliament, well done. Wanting to jail Indigenous MPs for a haka -as an act of protest on their land, against the removal of their rights- is giving us international coverage that makes us look like village idiots with no grasp of democracy, let alone history.
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And what time period are we covering? The last week? Last month?