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Comment: Open mike 27/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 12:21 pm, February 27th, 2025
Meanwhile in America Lalaland the stupidest man on earth reposts this. :roll: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PslOp883rfI] Trump faces Truth Social backlash over AI video of Gaza with topless Netanyahu and bearded bellydancersComment: USA – unreliable, undemocratic, and its citizens are not free compared to me
Written By: Macro - Date published: 5:07 pm, February 26th, 2025
Meanwhile.... Twenty-one federal technology staffers resigned from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, citing concerns over dismantling public services. The employees, formerly part of the U.S. Digital Service, said they would “not use our ...Comment: When will Luxon be rolled?
Written By: Macro - Date published: 1:50 pm, February 23rd, 2025
He's christian, and christians know they must ask God many times for something until he wills it to them. They teach that cause and effect are related by repetition. What a load of crap! eg Matt 6: 10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it ...Comment: Open mike 20/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 3:26 pm, February 20th, 2025
Trump's approval rating has dropped to 44% - down from 47% on Inauguration day. This latest rant could see some of the more sane GOP pollies will wake up to the chaos they have let loose, and they see their chance of re-election disappearing. We live in ...Comment: Open mike 20/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 9:01 am, February 20th, 2025
There are signs of some misgivings within the more sane members of the GOP. The overall support for the GOP has been in slow but consistent decline in recent years. This current disruptions in the US, (eg the canning of support for solar has hit the mid ...Comment: Open mike 20/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 8:37 am, February 20th, 2025
Yeah. Been thinking that for a while now. Also Trump verges on certifiable stupidity, and that is equally dangerous. Not only is he being manipulated by Putin, he is also being manipulated by Musk. Both evil. Bonhoeffer's theory of stupidity is now playing ...Comment: About Karen Chhour’s youth offending claims
Written By: Macro - Date published: 3:45 pm, February 19th, 2025
For them - only alternative facts matter.Comment: Open mike 18/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 9:08 pm, February 18th, 2025
:roll: So The UN pushes Soviet propaganda!! lol Wow!Comment: Let me nitpick on the government RSS feeds
Written By: Macro - Date published: 2:34 pm, February 18th, 2025
Practically everything that emerges from this incompetent "Administration " seems to be a direct result of their cut backs. Today we heard on RNZ Kathryn Ryan's show that fewer people are accessing mental health services - not because of increasing ...Comment: Let me nitpick on the government RSS feeds
Written By: Macro - Date published: 2:21 pm, February 18th, 2025
What happens when you cut funding for services, so as to give rich pricks more money.Comment: Open mike 18/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 2:04 pm, February 18th, 2025
You do realise that Hamas only has the support that it has in Gaza because of 75 years of Israeli occupation and harassment. Israel's continued harassment can only foster continued resentment from subjugated people. On the one hand, framing the plight of ...Comment: Everyone must go
Written By: Macro - Date published: 11:45 am, February 18th, 2025
Well when you pay peanuts... What does this "Govt" expect - brilliance? When they chase many of our brightest and best offshore.Comment: Open mike 17/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 11:50 am, February 17th, 2025
Up until recently - Yes. I'm unsure of the current situation. But as both my parents were from UK in the 1920's and I was born in NZ in the 1940's, I can apply for a British passport. https://www.gov.uk/apply-citizenship-british-parentComment: “As long as it takes”
Written By: Macro - Date published: 9:00 pm, February 14th, 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/feb/12/ben-jennings-donald-trump-elon-musk-cuts-cartoon#img-1Comment: “As long as it takes”
Written By: Macro - Date published: 8:55 pm, February 14th, 2025
What he is trying to prevent is a return to the disastrous policies of the Yeltsin era By murdering anyone who disagrees with him. Lovely man.If that's not tyranny I don't know what is.Comment: “As long as it takes”
Written By: Macro - Date published: 9:55 am, February 14th, 2025
He tolerates oligarchs providing they don't get involved in politics plan to knock him off his perch, FIFY BTW He doesn't tolerate any other opposition to his tyranny either.Comment: “As long as it takes”
Written By: Macro - Date published: 9:46 am, February 14th, 2025
Well said RP. I think a good many would agree.Comment: Daily review 12/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 2:36 pm, February 13th, 2025
Exactly. Muck and his gang of nasty little shits.Comment: Open mike 08/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 5:06 pm, February 9th, 2025
And Medical Research! Trump administration to cut billions in medical research funding National Institutes of Health said the $4bn loss will affect ‘indirect’ funding of buildings, equipment and staffComment: The Anti-China Consensus is a Matter of World War III
Written By: Macro - Date published: 4:45 pm, February 9th, 2025
Comment: Open mike 08/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 4:43 pm, February 8th, 2025
We have more to fear from stupid people than evil ones Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bonhoeffer argues that stupidity is worse than evil because stupidity can be manipulated and used by evil. He also argues that stupidity tends to go hand-in-hand with acquiring ...Comment: Open mike 08/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 3:33 pm, February 8th, 2025
Musk and his band of racist neophytes have blood on their hands - but what do they care?Comment: Open mike 08/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 3:28 pm, February 8th, 2025
hmmmm that would be useful if you wanted to follow the American path to public illness.Comment: Open mike 08/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 3:20 pm, February 8th, 2025
I think the word is "Tyrant". Dictatorships can be good or bad. Trump is just evil. When will the Republicans grow some balls and impeach the bastard? We cannot hope the Dems will do it. Repugnants - particularly the MAGA crowd - will only vote against ...Comment: Open mike 07/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 12:51 pm, February 7th, 2025
FFS! Trump signs executive order imposing US sanctions on international criminal court Donald Trump has signed an executive order sanctioning the international criminal court (ICC), the White House has confirmed. The text of the order, posted on the White ...Comment: Open mike 07/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 11:33 am, February 7th, 2025
There are now 34,000 more unemployed in NZ since this CoC took office - and that does not include those workers in the 128,000 who who left this country permanently last year.Comment: Open mike 05/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 4:24 pm, February 5th, 2025
Just in:Comment: Open mike 05/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 4:17 pm, February 5th, 2025
Regrettably removing Trump from office - even as he continues to display total insanity - is near impossible.Comment: Open mike 05/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 3:44 pm, February 5th, 2025
Nah - Trump just wants to build another Mar-a-Lago and staff it with "refugee" Palestinians.Comment: Open mike 05/02/2025
Written By: Macro - Date published: 11:16 am, February 5th, 2025
Exactly - and the religious right believe they have the backing of prophecy behind them - for example: Isaiah 61: 1-9 3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and ...
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