Daily review 16/11/2023

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  1. SPC 1
    16 November 2023 at 7:34 pm

    A Senator from Oklahoma calls out someone at a Committee hearing for a fist fight. Sanders reminds him – you're a Senator.

    (from 7 min 30 seconds)

    He does a celebrity tour – Fox News News Max etc saying he is of the old values – Andrew Jackson punched someone at a dinner, had many duels and advocated the caning of other politicians.

    He says he will bite in a fight.

    A GOP Congressman accuses the former Speaker McCarthy of a rabbit punch to the kidneys with an elbow as he is going past, chases after him and calls him names in front of journalists.

    The GOP has gone down the rabbit hole in support of Trump for so long it does not know how to behave in public places anymore.

    Maybe a new Warren Commission is required so that the death of the Great Society does not become the epitaph of democracy in America, the ultimate outcome of the southern strategy – the undead in white race nation Christian dominionism fascism hoods.

    • SPC 1.1
      16 November 2023 at 7:59 pm

      Basically Late Night Shows are finding that they do not need Trump as POTUS to write their scripts for them, just the undead GOP legacy.

    • Ad 1.2
      16 November 2023 at 9:58 pm

      Great to see the union leader never backed down.

      We need more of this standup and in your face from the Democrat side, not more weak outrage from "activists" who do nothing more than type vegan outrage on their phones like that's useful.

  2. Muttonbird 2
    16 November 2023 at 8:14 pm

    Optics of the next government conducting their government forming deals in 4.5 star hotel boardrooms instead of the halls of parliament are there for all to see.

    1. Boardrooms are where private companies make decisions to maximise profit for their shareholders, which includes minimising labour costs of workers. They are privatising government in real time.
    2. They are hiding from the public now, and always will do. Holed up at The Pullman in Auckland away from the place specifically created to do governing shields them from the media and therefore from us.

    If you want an idea about how the next three years will go, have a look at the last three weeks.

  3. Jilly Bee 3
    16 November 2023 at 8:21 pm

    I see that Newshub is airing more complaints about Ginny Andersen. Is Ginny as bad as these (anonymous) people make out or is it an orchestrated campaign against her. Amelia Wade has certainly got her knickers in a big knot about this. I do have issues about anonymous complaints being made about a relatively high profile person – I realise it's often justified in extreme cases, but is this getting out of hand.

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/11/ginny-andersen-two-former-staffers-make-fresh-allegations-against-labour-mp.html

  4. Muttonbird 4
    16 November 2023 at 8:58 pm

    I'm surprised Auckland Council has voted 18-2 in favour of investigating Brown Wayne's $5 a trip congestion charging between Greenlane and Te Atatu on SH1.

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/11/auckland-council-agrees-to-bring-in-congestion-charges-here-s-how-it-will-affect-you.html

    1. This is a regressive tax which will cost workers an extra $50/week. Rich pricks don’t use the motorway at peak times, or don’t care about $50/week.
    2. The people of Auckland have already paid for these roads.
    3. For the desired effect to eventuate, workers will either have to remove themselves from their families earlier so no-one is at home in the morning to get the kids to school, or later so no-one is at home to make dinner for the kids. Full family time is out the door under the Auckland Council plan.

    Basically, they’re saying to workers we are going to make your lives and the lives of your kids that much harder because we can’t work out a way to get hundreds of thousands of low skilled immigrants in without fucking the network.

    This city can get in the sea as far as I'm concerned.

    • Visubversa 4.1
      16 November 2023 at 9:49 pm

      State highways are a Central Government responsibility – let's see how the Tory government likes that idea as they will be the ones that have to implement it.

      • Muttonbird 4.1.1
        16 November 2023 at 10:02 pm

        The right and especially the hard right love a flat tax. User pays, they say, because it allows businesses and the wealthy reduce costs at the expense of their workers.

        This is one example where each vehicle is taxed a flat amount regardless of size, purpose, or profit.

        The other one I think these clowns (Simian Brown) want to introduce is RUC for everyone, replacing petrol taxes.

      • Belladonna 4.1.2
        16 November 2023 at 10:04 pm

        I suspect that the congestion charging cameras will be on the CBD motorway exits. Which would make it a Council, rather than a NZTA operational issue.

        However, who knows….. It sounds as though there is quite a lot of planning and 'consulting' to do before they actually have a proposal to critique.

        The design and prices haven't been finalised but it's expected to be operational by December 2025.

        Given the current progress rate on Council projects, I'd regard this as a highly optimistic timeframe.

        • Ad 4.1.2.1
          17 November 2023 at 6:48 am

          If you get a chance, go visit ATOC.

          This is the integrated command centre of Auckland Transport and NZTA which has a very large bank of screens something akin to the Starship Enterprise. The local-central transport networks are fully integrated from every bus way and motorway right down to every sequence of traffic light.

          So it's pretty easy to operationalise the camera operations.

          But to your point of who would do the revenue collection: disabuse yourself of any notion that central government would ever let local government collect this scale of revenue. This is going to be an NZTA gig start to finish.

    • Ad 4.2
      16 November 2023 at 10:03 pm

      Agree.

      Pretty tiring to hear Auckland's business leaders on RNZ say the tax was better than requiring freight to move only at night because the warehouses weren't open at night.

      Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg requires trucks to only go at night. Takes that ;health and safety risk completely away, and yes warehouses open at night.

      But no, tax the workers an socialise your costs before business does anything.

    • Belladonna 4.3
      16 November 2023 at 10:10 pm

      Several of the traditionally 'left' councillors, have definitely voted in favour of the congestion charge (e.g Richard Hills & Alf Filipaina).

      I think that the rich most certainly do use the motorways at peak times – they also have ‘free’ company provided parking – and will be delighted if their commute is quicker – because others have been forced to change. An extra $50/week is nothing off the salary of a corporate lawyer.

    • Muttonbird 4.4
      16 November 2023 at 10:20 pm

      If this desperately flawed concept is to encourage commuters onto a desperately flawed public transport system network then perhaps along with the congestion charge a penalty is paid by AT back to users every single time a service is delayed even by a minute.

      Surely there's an app for that.

  5. SPC 5
    16 November 2023 at 11:19 pm

    South Africa is 42-4 off 14 overs. But there is rain. It is likely though that they will have the time to come back and finish the innings before it rains again.

    But they would have to use the reserve day for the Oz innings – the chance of play tomorrow is not good.

    This is going to end TMO'ed out and the Yappies winning.

    Deja vu.

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