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5:30 pm, October 1st, 2024 - 13 comments
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Daily review is also your post.
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 …
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350435767/im-wealthy-and-im-sorted-pm-makes-no-apology-capital-gains-wellington-apartment
Would the wealthy and sorted luxon have had to pay cgt if he hadn't shortened the bright line test back to two years?
I would guess he would.
No Right Turn (in the side bar) leaves no doubt that Luxon rorted the system!
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2024/10/luxon-just-became-poster-boy-for-taxing.html
Definately. Tomorrow's post …
Must be nice to make laws that directly make one wealthier and more sorted!
It's called a conflict of interest.
Unfortunately there are too many of them conflicted to do anything about it.
I get the impression luxon isn't feeling conflicted though , he believes it's OK.
He has that in common with the other landlord MPs.
Lewis Black nails the problem with even thinking about the shit from p diddy.
John Key thinks Trump will and should win the presidency, "should" meaning he "is better for the economy……"
This is the PM that played golf with his 'mate' Obama……….
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350434743/why-sir-john-key-thinks-donald-trump-should-win-us-election
Luxon is touted as a John Key understudy, money, money, money, oh and the economy is all it's about for these two peas in the shallow pod. Certainly will be interesting to see how the US voters swing in November.
God he sounded like a greasy, ignorant, opportunist pillock on TV3 tonight. Like some embarrassing and shameful incident from one's past that makes you wince. As in "did my beloved country really vote for this goose three times?"
I suppose if nothing else, we can now see it confirmed that he has terrible judgment, no moral compass, and utterly conventional far-right economic views.
"You just fake it until you make it. I have spent a whole career doing that" – Christopher Luxon.
Ta-Nehisi Coates to the talking head insinuating he’s an anti-Semite: apartheid is wrong, morally, and there's nothing Palestinians could do that would make it any less wrong…..
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@CBSMornings
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, “The Message,” is a trio of interconnected essays that examine how the stories people tell — or avoid telling — can shape and even distort reality: “I am most concerned always with those that don’t have a voice.” https://cbsn.ws/4gJxe2g
https://x.com/CBSMornings/status/1840749848703770679