Daily review 18/10/2024

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, October 18th, 2024 - 11 comments
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  1. thinker 1
    18 October 2024 at 6:29 pm

    Arguably, Andrew Bayly made Luxons fricken outbursts look positively polite.

    Was it Churchill or someone else far more distinguished than Andrew Bayly who said "You can recognize a gentleman by the way he treats someone who can't possibly be of any benefit to him"?

    It was definitely my grandparents who told me "Old Money doesn't need money to be Old Money, but New Money does…" The following article explains why…

    National Minister Andrew Bayly apologises for telling person to 'f*** off' https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/531215/national-minister-andrew-bayly-apologises-for-telling-person-to-f-off

    • observer 1.1
      18 October 2024 at 6:49 pm

      As so often happens in these stories, it's the "apology" that makes it worse:

      Bayley (from RNZ link above):

      "I don't believe I used that word [= "f*ck"], but the bigger issue I put him in a situation where he felt offended and for that I have apologised, I have apologised to him twice."

      Translation from poli-speak into real meaning: "His memory is false or he's lying, and he felt offended but that's his problem, eh?"

      So the RNZ headline is wrong. Bayly has not apologised for that. He denies it.

      • AB 1.1.1
        18 October 2024 at 7:09 pm

        He's offended only because he's already a 'loser'. 'Losers' take offence, 'winners' cause it – that's the natural and healthy order of things in the Tory mind.

    • Drowsy M. Kram 1.2
      18 October 2024 at 9:49 pm

      Arguably, Andrew Bayly made Luxons fricken outbursts look positively polite.

      Bayly didn’t use "bottom feeder", or wet, whiny" (did he?), but Lux and Co are simply calling (some) Kiwis as they see them – Oh Lord it's hard to be humble…

  2. SPC 2
    18 October 2024 at 6:39 pm

    Mathew Hooton would dance with Cossacks for a 12.5% company tax rate, like Ireland.

    https://archive.li/wqKcU#selection-3829.0-3839.174

    https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/ireland

    https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/ireland/corporate/taxes-on-corporate-income

    Stamp duties.

    https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/ireland/corporate/other-taxes

    Ireland has CGT (33%), gift duties and an estate/inheritance tax.

  3. Grey Area 3
    18 October 2024 at 7:45 pm

    Bayly is clearly unfit to be a Minister or even an MP and should resign, but in this alternate CoC universe we currently live in it's all good.

    “Commerce Minister Andrew Bayly “doesn’t believe” he told a worker to “f*** off” during a site visit, but has refused to give further detail about what was said.”

    Probably pissed as claimed. Bayly should do what he told the worker to do.

    These people are awful human beings.

  4. weston 4
    18 October 2024 at 11:35 pm

    Personably i couldnt give a FUCK about a person any person telling another to FUCK OFF and i think its weak and pathetic to hide simple swear words in fact slang behind lots of xxxx etc The word FUCK is in the dictionary ffs !!People all around the globe use the word FUCK very often many times a day .Ask yourself how many times have I told someone to FUCK OFF !! Im amazed that people can get fixated by trivia such as being offended that someone has used the word FUCK in conjunction with addressing someone else .When swearing is compared with BOMBING THE FUCK OUT OF A WHOLE POPULATION swearing is like presenting that person with a bunch of flowers !!

    And when you consider that the people doing the bombing are a bunch of racist to the core natzis hiding in plain sight masquerading as this cute little state with god on their side and over and over again you hear the mantra " ISRAEL has the right to defend itself " it feels to me that its puke oclock .

    Really ????? they have the right to kill maim torture and imprison whomever they like ??? 40 plus thousand killed outright half being women and children not counting those still buried under their bombed out towns

    So they have the right to injure and cripple another 100 thousand or so and do their utmost to ensure that its extremely difficult or impossible to receive hospital treatment by virtue of blowing up as many hospitals as they can get away with at any one time or shooting dead medics and aid workers and blowing up ambulances ??

    Does the deliberate starving of a whole populace and ruining their water and sewerage systems , arming and encouraging militant settler groups to pillage and destroy and otherwise impede aid convoys also come under the heading of " defending oneself " ????

    I would contend it s not GOD on ISRAEL's side its something else …..

    • weston 4.1
      18 October 2024 at 11:50 pm

      Vid to go alongside the above comment .this is the condensed version of a much fuller documentary from the same filmmakers .



    • David 4.2
      19 October 2024 at 5:38 am

      Easy there weston, it’s possible to discuss other issues than the current Israeli/gaza war. Besides we need to hold the behaviour of politicians to a higher standard, it’s entirely possible for someone to tell another person to “fuck off” with a certain style, this dickhead didn’t.

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