Dirty Harry2

Local government are running little kingdoms with ratepayers money. They need to be stripped of 90% of their power. These are not good people.

1/ You’ve heard about the 5,000 reserved visas. You’ve heard about the uncapped student channel. You haven’t heard about this bombshell. The floodgates are opened. 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 labelled as “Specialists” - no cap, no labour market test, and no future NZ government can wind it back without India’s permission. Annex 8K defines a “Specialist” as anyone with “advanced trade, technical or professional skills.” That covers a McDonald’s franchise manager just as easily as a software engineer. Pretty much any standard job ticks the box. What's more, Immigration NZ doesn't define "Specialists", Indian companies self-define their own roles.

Has anyone lost a Jack Russell. So sorry for your loss

Wise words for today: When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison. 2. To me, "drink responsibly" means don't spill it. 3. Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 pm is the new midnight. 4. It's the start of a brand new day, and I'm off like a herd of turtles. 5. The older I get, the earlier it gets late. 6. When I say, "The other day," I could be referring to any time between yesterday and 15 years ago. 7. I remember being able to get up without making sound effects. 8. I had my patience tested. I'm negative. 9. Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn't fit any of your containers. 10. If you're sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, "Did you bring the money?" 11. When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say "nothing," it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing. 12. I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever. 13. I run like the winded. 14. I hate when a couple argues in public, and I missed the beginning and don't know whose side I'm on. 15. When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I squint and ask, "Why, what did you hear?" 16. When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound like a goat chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery? 17. I don't mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get really excited. 18. When I ask for directions, please don't use words like "east." 19. Don't bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That'll freak you right out. 20. Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life out of nowhere, makes your heart race, and changes you forever. We call those people cops. 21. My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb. Just Sayin'

Hear me out. We take the $100b of debt Jacinda Ardern created for our country... We assign it to her... That seems extremely fair.

Jacinda Ardern will be remembered differently by different people. I will remember her by the numbers. When she took office in 2017, net Crown debt was around $60 billion. When she resigned in 2023, it was heading toward $175 billion. She oversaw the fastest deterioration of New Zealand's public finances in modern history. Not because of a war. Not because of a natural disaster that lasted six years. Because of choices. House prices under her government reached 8.3 times the median household income. The highest in our recorded history. She did not just preside over unaffordability. She created a generation of New Zealanders who will never own the home they grew up in. Then prices crashed nearly 20 percent from their peak, leaving the people who had finally stretched to buy underwater on their mortgages. She gave New Zealand the worst of both worlds. Unaffordable on the way up. Losses on the way down. Productivity. New Zealand workers already put in more hours than almost any developed nation. Under Ardern, we produced less per hour than the OECD average. Our GDP per capita went backwards. That is the number that matters most. It measures whether the country is genuinely getting wealthier or just busier. We were just busier. She raised the top income tax rate to 39 percent while the country got poorer. She increased the cost of productive people while decreasing what they produced. That is not economics. That is ideology. Then there was the statement heard around the world. "We will continue to be your single source of truth." No Prime Minister in my lifetime has said anything more authoritarian than that. Not framed as emergency powers. Not buried in legislation. Said plainly. On camera. With a smile. That sentence alone should disqualify a person from public office permanently. When the COVID inquiry came, she refused to front a public hearing and chose a private interview instead. A leader who controls information on the way in and avoids accountability on the way out is not a leader. That is a pattern. She resigned before the consequences fully arrived. She left the country, accepted international appointments, and collected global praise while New Zealanders dealt with the debt, the mortgage stress, and the productivity gap she left behind. Leadership is not measured by the applause of people who do not live with the results. It is measured by what you leave behind for the people who do. New Zealand deserved better. And we must never again confuse charisma for competence, or kindness as a brand for results as a record.

Is New Zealand really this fucking retarded?

@HapiLappey @the_salty_one_ facebook.com/share/v/1HogoD…

@the_salty_one_ Who else remembers that meme seems to be removed of ardern on the podium, 'Jessica, Tova ' Anyone have it

This must be the first time anyone has pulled out of Tova.

@Mick_O_B @kiwiwayne3 @JamesOnekaka 🤣😂🤣😂

@kiwiwayne3 @JamesOnekaka She can join her mates in training for L.A. 28.

#BreakingNews In an exclusive shock interview with Jessica… Tova says she can no longer hide her true feelings on the inside any longer!

@HapiLappey @the_salty_one_ The Lesbian triage...

Look at that little c#nt "Hipkins" smirking with his paid off MSM shitheads. Looking at his misogynistic behavior right in that moment just confirms to me that his ex wife wasn't lying when she described what an asshole the little worm is.

Disturbing & disrespectful behaviour from an increasingly dysfunctional media. But not surprising. Somebody with media credibility like Peter Williams or Karl du Fresne needs to sit them all down and read them the riot act on how to act and report professionally. We deserve better media. 🙏🏻

Luxon wants you to work 3 jobs & behave like an Indian.

I mean. If you don’t see it at this point...

@DesireeAmerica4 Lucky kids!!! They would have thought that was so cool...

A quiet 20mph zone exploded into a fiery spectacle in seconds. This was a chilling glimpse of how an ordinary afternoon can transform into something straight out of a disaster movie. Miraculously, the rider walked away, but the kids who witnessed it? They’ll carry that memory forever.

If New Zealand was a village of 100 people. 18 would be children. 18 would be elderly. That leaves 64 adults of working age. Of those adults, about 12 would work for the government. About 8 would be on a main benefit. Around 44 would be working in the private economy. Those 44 people generate most of the wealth that funds everything. The hospitals. The schools. The police. The military. The roads. The benefit system. And the entire government structure. A country only works when the productive base is strong. If the number producing shrinks while the number dependent grows, the arithmetic eventually stops working. This is not ideology. It is mathematics.

@WorldofOutlaws @Sbogucki84 @3stoogesracing Fantastic job Scott!!!

.@SBogucki84 is ecstatic 😃 The Series rookie wheels the @3StoogesRacing #51 from 9th to 2nd for his first World of Outlaws podium

Most New Zealanders have never heard of Marsden Point. They should. Marsden Point was New Zealand’s only oil refinery. It could take crude oil from anywhere in the world and refine it into petrol, diesel and jet fuel right here in New Zealand. At its peak it processed about 135000 barrels of crude oil per day. A large share of the country’s transport fuel passed through that refinery. It was not just an industrial site. It was strategic infrastructure. If global supply chains were disrupted, New Zealand still had the ability to refine fuel ourselves. In 2022 we shut it down. The refinery was converted into a fuel import terminal. Instead of refining crude oil here, we now rely entirely on importing finished petrol and diesel from overseas refineries. The argument was simple. Refining fuel locally was slightly more expensive. Environmental pressure also played a role. So the decision was made that New Zealand would simply import refined fuel instead. That logic works in a perfectly stable world. But the world is not stable. There is now a major war in the Middle East, the region that produces a huge share of the world’s oil and sits across some of the most important energy shipping routes on Earth. New Zealand no longer has the ability to refine crude oil. We rely on tankers arriving from overseas. If those supply chains are disrupted we do not simply turn Marsden Point back on. It is gone. Energy security used to be something serious governments understood. Countries built refineries, maintained fuel reserves and planned for worst case scenarios because modern societies run on energy. No fuel means no trucks. No trucks means no food distribution. No aviation. No construction. No functioning economy. Civilisation quite literally runs on diesel. This is a reminder that the real world still exists. Serious countries make serious decisions about strategic infrastructure. Sometimes those decisions are unpopular. Sometimes they are not fashionable. But adults understand that ideology does not power a country. Energy does. And energy security matters.