Daily review 29/01/2025

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This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).

Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

13 comments on “Daily review 29/01/2025 ”

  1. joe90 1

    'Murica

    /

    https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3lgtbuo3sus2m

    @thetnholler.bsky.social‬

    Wow — What a dickhead… GEORGIA Republican Rep. Rich Mccormick says low income kids who qualify for free lunches should just go get jobs:

    https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3lgtbaj26nk23

    • joe90 1.1

      They're very unpleasant people.

    • mpledger 1.2

      From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labor_in_the_United_States#History

      "Since 2021, at least 28 states have introduced legislation to weaken child labor laws and 12 states have passed them. Modifications included lowering the age in which children could work certain jobs, expanding the number of and timing of hours they could be required to work, often to include school time, and shielding businesses from civil liability for work-related injuries, illnesses, or deaths sustained by such workers"

      So, yea, he probably means it.

  2. Kat 2

    An insignificant has-been politician gets a stab at another fifteen minutes of fame……..

    • SPC 2.1

      How the right wing de-legitimises any other perspective on governance – one very common tactic is the personal attack on the female who represents it.

      This is to intimidate both other women who support it and also to infer men should find common cause otherwise.

      An example Pelosi and Biden represented a similar political perspective within the Democratic Party, yet only one was told (in public) they would no longer get communion because they were going to hell.

      The word is misogyny. (Note most women here and in the USA, do not vote for the right).

      The rest is mansplaining. Farmers (mostly men) who own property. The other is earning money from jobs, the international capitalist marketplace – before the well-being of society (environment, maintaining the public commons, nation state sovereignty).

    • adam 2.2

      Laws is a misogynistic piece of shit.

      I suppose it's understandable, as his micro penis needs a little blue pill to even rise 1 centimeter these days.

  3. SPC 3

    It appears that NZF is under pressure. Thus the attempt to grandstand as against foreign values*, to distract their own supporters from more immigration and the coalition plan to sell out to foreign investors.

    *Meanwhile NZF is supporting legislation that is a real threat to our values – whistleblowers, government transparency, right to protest, freedom of speech.

    https://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2024/0093/latest/LMS1003049.html

    ^NZF and being part of a 2026 government planning a sell off of our public assets.

    No real values NZF .

    For mine the tell that this party is done, was when Shane Jones railed about high power prices (but has no plan to lower them) and without reference to past NZ First opposition to the sale of 50% of power companies (leading them to a profit first motive in management).

    What a Trump like fixation on "foreigners" while it is part of a government suppressing wages and developing a place servile to oligarchy capital – sell out of the environment and undermining government capability to provide a public commons.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360563844/nz-first-mp-shouts-send-mexicans-home-identity-war-sparks-parliament

  4. Dennis Frank 4

    Apparently there was a lack of decorum in parliament…

    The Green Party is asking the Speaker of the House and Prime Minister to reprimand Government ministers over comments made about migrants.

    New Zealand First Minister Shane Jones yelled "Send the Mexicans home" during a debate on Christopher Luxon's statement yesterday.

    Green MP Ricardo Menéndez March, born in Mexico, said the comments were "outwardly racist and xenophobic" and needed to stop.

    Mexico isn't a race though. It's a nation, so Shane was being nationalist – a suitable way to express solidarity with the National Party (he could have rationalised it as). A similar reality check applied to xenophobic is likely to induce Shane to deny that he is afraid of Mexicans. So Lux has a golden opportunity to prove that Ricardo was wrong on both complaints – and we can be confident that he won't spot it.

    What about the Speaker, though? He may thumb through the rule book, looking to see if he can impose a penalty for wasting his valuable time on delusional complaints.

    Jones also told 1News he felt the behaviour from the "foreign-born" Green MPs towards his party leader was "grossly inappropriate". "They've got to stop trying to impose their alien ideas and comply with the rules of parliament."

    Skating on thin ice there! Obviously the Speaker would have disciplined the Greens if they really had been too stroppy & broke the rules.

    https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/29/send-the-mexicans-home-greens-ask-luxon-to-condemn-rhetoric/

  5. adam 5

    Any one else notice when the media class worked out working people didn't hate Luigi. But, instead hate the private healthcare providers – have gone deathly quite on the topic of Luigi and healthcare all round.

    Someone should remind seamen smeg head about what people think of private healthcare providers and their greed.

  6. SPC 6

    Greenwash is over.

    It was only genuine if they continue with it.

    The pressure from the Republicans comes after U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing government agency chiefs to dismantle DEI policies at federal agencies, federal contractors and in the private sector.

    Companies such as Meta Platforms (META.O), Amazon.com (AMZN.O), JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) and Boeing (BA.N), have modified their initiatives, scrapped their DEI goals or ended participation in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's corporate equity index.

    https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/republican-state-attorneys-pressure-costco-drop-diversity-policies-2025-01-28/

    https://bsky.app/profile/ruthannereid.bsky.social/post/3lgt2i2gfa226

  7. SPC 7

    AP

    Reports for the English speaking world on the future of downsising in the USA.

    I will have downsised, you will have downsised, he will have downsised, we will have downsised, you will have downsised, they will have downsised.

    https://www.theconjugator.com/english/verb/to+downsise.html

    Downsizing, referring to the process of reducing workforce or streamlining operations.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360564008/trump-offering-federal-workers-buyouts-about-8-months-pay-effort-shrink-government

    Exporting people from government, removing people from the USA, returning hiring policy to that before anti-discrimination rules of the 1960’s.

    • SPC 7.1

      A memo from the Office of Personnel Management, the government’s human resources agency, also said it would begin subjecting all federal employees to “enhanced standards of suitability and conduct"

      Project 2025’s update on HUAC. Before the Great Society there was Smallville America. The GOP redblooded American heartland between the coasts.

      • Incognito 7.1.1

        The Great Purge is in full swing and reaching to grassroots levels of (federal) government. Little Ole NZ is still stuck at purging top levels and enforcing NDAs, and changing the Rulebook.

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