Posts by Trevor Nicholls
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Someone's taking RNZ National a mite too literally.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Jake Starrow,
That's all I can come up with.
You make statements. People dissect them and critique them. You refer them back to your statements. That's not a discussion, or even an argument.
Thank God NZ has your incisive and articulate mind to inform us of the realities of life. Without you we just wouldn't have a clue.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Jake Starrow,
I know there are no such words as "bitter" or "cynical" or "envious" or phrases such as "chip-on -the-shoulder" on Planet Key.
On Planet Key there is no middle ground. John Key is right and anyone else is wrong. Throughout his changing stories, First Citizen John Key has been right all along.
He's a man without a moral compass and without conviction. A bit like you, I think.
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It doesn't undermine his comments at all. But I'm sure you get a vast sense of satisfaction saying it does.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Jake Starrow,
I won't compromise on my Key-admiration status.
I do wonder what this admiration is based on.
I'll tell you why I don't admire him, not at all. I suspect a few others on this site share my sentiments.
I have not seen a single statement of his that was delivered with conviction and which he stuck to despite it being unpopular or inconvenient. Not a one.
- He does not tell you the truth, instead he tells you what he thinks you want to hear. If he doesn't know what you want to hear he stalls and comes back with an answer tomorrow (probably, we now know, after some rapid Curia polling).
- He does not answer questions honestly and truthfully, instead he says whatever he thinks he can get away with. Until he can't get away with it any more, when he changes his answer to whatever looks like it will work in the light of new data. And again the next day. The daily changes to the position on GCSB surveillance are just the latest in a whole series of these volatile positions; it's the M.O. which we have seen over and over again for the past six years. As Bob Amsterdam rightly said, the man is a trader. His experience is in volatile markets and that's the experience he draws on in his present office. Honesty doesn't matter, what matters is being ahead at the end of today. And tomorrow. The positions change, the competition, the game, doesn't.
The fact that people like you, and evidently they make up a majority of the people responding to opinion polls, find this personal characteristic something to admire is really rather horrifying. It's just a further demonstration that, faced with a comfortable lie or an uncomfortable truth, almost everyone opts for the comfortable lie. And almost everyone prefers the comfortable liar.
I think it's shameful, myself.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Alfie,
he is "comfortable" that is not happening
The Prime Minister is of course such an ordinary man that if he's comfortable, the rest of newzild should be comfortable too.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Dirty Politics, Rawshark, Moment of Truth, a copyright lawsuit from Eminem... I can't think of a more interesting & surreal NZ election campaign since Muldoon called the Schnapps Election.
Planet Keystone (cops, for those under a certain age).
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Defenders and enablers everywhere:
“Innocent people have nothing to worry about.”
Privacy and secrecy are not the same thing.
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It's a newspaper game show
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"No. It's not happening. These criminals and traitors are making it up. And this is why we have to do it anyway. I mean, that's the GCSB's job, innit?"
- shorter Bruce Ferguson on Campbell Live. I think he left his intelligence behind when he left the service.