Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I doubt it, the only urban Maori his organ has any consistent interest in are rugby players, corpses or referred to as "the defendant."
I fully admit to reading this twice before I realised you meant the Fairfax machine.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Rich Lock,
The tweet was sent from an iPhone. Cheetolini usually uses an unsecured Android device.
Yes, it's usually his staff who use the iPhone. That said, he's also said that he dictates his tweets and someone else sends them, so who the fuck knows?
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Farmer Green,
They would revert to the last draft agreed by the founding group
I don't know if they could do that. I suspect not, as the ground has changed under them. The problem, even for the P4 nations, is not knowing what the Orange Elephant in the room will do next, because it doesn't know either.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to John Farrell,
But English said an amended TPP and a bilateral deal would both be "quite a significant challenge" although a TPP without the US would still offer gains.
Not sure what English is smoking, but the TPPA doesn't exist without the participation of the USA (or Japan) - it's right there in the agreement. For it to exist the agreement must be ratified by all original signatories, or (within 2 years after signature i.e. Feb 2018) ratification by at least 6 states corresponding to 85% of GDP of original signatories. This is impossible without the US. A new agreement could be negotiated by participating nations, but they would technically have to start from scratch without the US standover tactics to enforce stuff that only benefits US corporations.
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Hard News: Taking the stage in Mount Albert, in reply to Bart Janssen,
As I said I don't care which way you sell it, just so long as you vote Labour or The Greens
My point is that the motivation to vote (or "selling") is vitally important, if you want it to actually happen.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to David Hood,
I see Donald Trump has presidentially decreed Jan 20th, the date of his inauguration as "National Patriotic Devotion day"
Sweet Jumping Jesus!
"Now, therefore, I, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 20, 2017, as National Day of Patriotic Devotion, in order to strengthen our bonds to each other and to our country - and to renew the duties of Government to the people," the order says.
"Our Constitution is written on parchment, but it lives in the hearts of the American people," the order continues.
"There is no freedom where the people do not believe in it; no law where the people do not follow it; and no peace where the people do not pray for it."
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Emma Hart,
And you can't fix a problem until you correctly identify it.
If we'd reached the fictional "level playing field", I'd be inclined to say identity politics has had its day. BUT we are so far from that that it hurts. While one of us is in chains, none of us are free.
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Full-on faux socialist channels the orange guy. Given that you've been posting Pauline Hanson's talking points here for years now, I'm not surprised.
I'm afraid I scroll on by, these days. Thanks for doing the dirty work for me ;-)
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Hard News: Taking the stage in Mount Albert, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Uh huh. So all those people who couldn't be bothered protest voting against Trump have been vindicated??
Eh? That's got bugger all to do with it, Trev. People did protest-vote against Trump - almost 3 million more than actually voted for him. And despite those numbers, substantially fewer people voted than in the last election. Those that didn't vote Democrat did it because a) they thought Clinton had it in the bag, or b) they couldn't bring themselves to vote for Clinton. Clinton presented no vision to inspire them to vote FOR her, counting on people to vote against a proven liar and fraud. Look how well that turned out.
It's not about protest voting. It's about deciding that for all their faults ... they are still better than the alternative. ... Those aren't protests, those are positive decisions.
Which is what I said but not what you said. That was:
It's not about voting Little into power - it's all about voting National and ACT out of power.
Either mean what you say or say what you mean. Voting National and Act out of power is protest voting. You have to vote for Labour/Greens to do it, but it's a protest against the status quo. We thought it was going to happen in 2014, especially with #dirtypolitics and it didn't, because not enough people were inspired/convinced by Labour (essentially) to vote for them. To get enough people to vote FOR Labour/Greens will require a vision that is easily explained to the electorate, not a mishmash of self-contradictory half policies and factional ructions that we were exposed to then.