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Comment:Open mike 04/09/2022
Date published: 5:28 pm, September 7th, 2022. Thanks, Anker ... I've really appreciated your support (both politically and health-wise).
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Comment:Open mike 04/09/2022
Date published: 7:43 pm, September 5th, 2022. Cheers, Red ... I've noted your recent absence here ... I'm guessing partly a consequence of your recently-diagnosed serious health issue and partly that you've simply had enough. You're one of the sane ones here, calmly grounded in reality, always ...
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Comment:Open mike 04/09/2022
Date published: 6:20 pm, September 4th, 2022. The "Left" has slowly but surely been captured by Woke dogmatists among the professional middle class ... a little cult of arrogant, authoritarian & utterly deluded followers in culturally & socially powerful positions. Their understanding of reality is ...
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Comment:Daily review 31/08/2022
Date published: 7:49 pm, August 31st, 2022. It’s the political outcomes of this (professional-managerial) class relentlessly following its own self-interest that are bad. Danyl astutely applies the arguments of Christopher Lasch in The Revolt of the Elites ... and, by extension, the theories of ...
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Comment:Labour poised to resolve housing supply crisis
Date published: 11:28 am, August 27th, 2022Thanks for asking, Pat. Deserves a considered response ... have a few major things to deal with at moment ... but I'll respond here in next few days.
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Comment:Labour poised to resolve housing supply crisis
Date published: 4:56 pm, August 25th, 2022. Pretty much describes my elderly parents' situation for the last 4 and a half years ... slightly different in that they own their house, have lived there for almost 60 years, nice, leafy community-minded street with beautiful sea-views, very socially-...
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Comment:Open mike 23/08/2022
Date published: 10:00 pm, August 23rd, 2022. The Tamaki Religious Cult ... the Green Upper-Middle Pakeha Woke Cult ... the Maori ethno-nationalist Cult ... none care too much for liberal democracy, majority sentiment or fundamental human rights. Each grounded in a remarkably crude & distorted ...
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Comment:Open mike 22/08/2022
Date published: 9:42 pm, August 22nd, 2022Ahh that's a real shame ... I understand you were 6 years, 3 months & 21 days sober ... until tonight.
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Comment:Open mike 22/08/2022
Date published: 7:36 pm, August 22nd, 2022. And let's nor forget their (BJP's) attitudes towards women. Maybe that's why Sharma had trouble working with colleagues? They need to keep you the hell away from Jury Service. Wild unsubstantiated rumour followed by wildly speculative smearing.
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Comment:Open mike 22/08/2022
Date published: 7:34 pm, August 22nd, 2022. A (sic) hear tell Dr. Gaurav Sharma has some links to local BJP types in NZ ... he is going to form an Indian NZ party and try and tap into the not inconsiderable resentment in the local expat Indian community, a group that contains many with at least as...
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Comment:Open mike 20/08/2022
Date published: 4:15 pm, August 20th, 2022. By stealth or by arrogance, they don't care, they just want power. Are we subject to the same steady takeover from delusional cult members? An almost perfect description of the Critical Theory Cult ... Wokedom relatively weak among the wider population ...
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Comment:Open mike 17/08/2022
Date published: 10:04 pm, August 17th, 2022. More Clark vs Brash in the run-up to the 2005 Election ... which was close.
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Comment:Open mike 17/08/2022
Date published: 9:52 pm, August 17th, 2022.. Peters is still well below Seymour in preferred PM league. Irrelevant to the question of whether or not the doubling of his personal rating (making it almost twice as high as current committed NZF supporters) indicates a latent potential pool of support...
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Comment:Open mike 17/08/2022
Date published: 6:15 pm, August 17th, 2022. Left & Right blocs essentially neck-and-neck ... TPM holding balance. Luxon's initial fall in popularity didn't affect National's ratings, now it's beginning to. While NZF is only rating 2.6%, Winston almost doubles his personal popularity to 4.2% ... ...
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Comment:What to do with Gaurav Sharma
Date published: 6:31 pm, August 16th, 2022She's doing well in the standup, but she is pissed! Suggesting the Prime Minister was exceedingly drunk during a stand up is a very serious allegation indeed ... I hope you can either back that up with solid evidence or confirm that you watch far too many...
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Comment:Daily review 15/08/2022
Date published: 9:14 pm, August 15th, 2022. If National (and, indeed, the British Tories) had any sense they'd move in a decidedly centrist direction on fiscal/economic policy while simultaneously adopting an overtly anti-Woke position on cultural issues (emphasising the latter more from a liberal...
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Comment:Open mike 13/08/2022
Date published: 5:50 pm, August 13th, 2022. Anyone…who has ever had the unfortunate circumstance of dealing with a narcissist bully…or worse, the Dark Triad, will maybe be (sic) seeing some similarities here. Look in the mirror. More than a few narcissists among the Woke Dogmatist element here. ...
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Comment:Open mike 12/08/2022
Date published: 8:37 pm, August 12th, 2022. Yep ... astonishing double-standards ... ...partly the usual lack of principle you find in all partisan echo-chambers (as George Orwell brilliantly dissected way back in the 30s) ... but also, for Woke dogmatists, Sharma's probably the wrong identity ...
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Comment:Molloy drops out of Mayoralty race
Date published: 8:12 pm, August 12th, 2022. Right-wing blokes – they'd be a joke if they didn't have so much power to do harm. Right-wing blokes and Woke dogmatists of both sexes.
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Comment:Open mike 11/08/2022
Date published: 10:07 pm, August 11th, 2022The difference is the Horizon poll is only of those who expressed a clear intention to vote Is that really all that different from the other, more established Polls ? For example ... 1News-Kantar only includes those saying they are 'quite likely' or 'very...
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Comment:Open mike 10/08/2022
Date published: 7:54 pm, August 10th, 2022. Also the most widely-liked Party leader in the early-mid 90s (among NZ voters as a whole) according to the New Zealand Election Study (ie stood out from other leaders for being liked by voters across the political / ideological spectrum).
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Comment:Daily review 08/08/2022
Date published: 8:30 pm, August 8th, 2022. Probably overshadowed in swing-voters' minds by inflation / cost of living ... but: As a rule of thumb, if Governments, in all their arrogance & hubris, allow themselves to get too far ahead of the voters on fundamental issues then the electorate will ...
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Comment:Daily review 08/08/2022
Date published: 8:02 pm, August 8th, 2022. This 1 News-Kantar Poll raises questions about the fairly popular notion among media commentators that the Māori Party (TPM) are currently enjoying a surge in support (supposedly as a result of some sort of unprecedented mobilisation of non-voters) & may...
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Comment:Open mike 04/08/2022
Date published: 5:44 pm, August 4th, 2022. Certainly a message that dogmatic Woke Cultists urgently need to hear (but, of course, their inherent narcissism, self-righteous delusions of grandeur & love of indiscriminately wielding power over others renders them deaf to all critique).. Critical ...
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Comment:Open mike 04/08/2022
Date published: 5:13 pm, August 4th, 2022Older brother was a massive Collingwood fan (eclipsed only by his loyalty to Liverpool FC (UK football) & St George Dragons (NRL)).
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Comment:Open mike 03/08/2022
Date published: 10:48 pm, August 3rd, 2022Oh Shit, sorry to hear that, mate.
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Comment:Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey Valedictory Lecture
Date published: 4:36 pm, July 29th, 2022. Generally sound critique of neo-liberalism ... but otherwise bordering on the horrendous. Exemplifies the fake moral posturing & radical chic of affluent Upper-Middle Wokedom ... imagining themselves heroic subversives ... dripping with the narcissism & ...
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Comment:Best yet in National Party splatter series in production
Date published: 3:58 pm, July 28th, 2022. his statement wasn’t never cleared with the party My understanding is he didn't say nufing ! I'm guessing you were brought up in Dickensian London, Simon. Don't get me wrong, Guv, you're a right Gent and no mistake but that double negative was a right ...
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Comment:Really bad takes on the Green's leadership issue
Date published: 7:00 pm, July 26th, 2022 -
Comment:Really bad takes on the Green's leadership issue
Date published: 6:06 pm, July 26th, 2022. Mickysavage: It was a close thing about what was published first. Bryce’s hot take or Chloe Swarbrick announcing that she was not going to stand thereby completely repudiating every single paragraph of Bryce’s analysis. Bryce Edwards: Another possibility...
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Comment:Open mike 25/07/2022
Date published: 5:01 pm, July 25th, 2022. If only Woke Dogmatists within the Green Party would "listen and reflect" for the first time in their cosseted lives.
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