Posts by Kracklite
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Still, running after the “Waitakere man” (whoever he is… and where’s Waitakere woman?) vote and losing more votes than are gained (none) seems to me to have been at best a pointless endeavour anyway, so antagonising a few rednecks doesn’t seem so disastrous after all. IMO, it’s the fear of antagonising the rednecks which led Labour along the path of least resistance, which as everyone should know, inevitably leads downwards. No-one will ever appeal to everyone.
Still, respect to Lucy; I’d never be a successful advisor.
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Speaker: John and Phil meet Bob, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
In contrast, a response along the lines suggested by Kracklite would be more likely to antagonise, and make Artless sympathise with FF.
Oh yes, I do know that, which is why I would be utterly unelectable if I were ever to think that I didn’t have better things to do than aspire after a Crown BMW with a seat-warmer.
I’ll leave it to that great fictional statesman (and aren’t all great statesmen fictional?), Francis Urquhart. The universal response to any question regarding his motives he had was, “You might very well think that, but I couldn’t possibly comment.”
Oh, the elegance of it.
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Speaker: John and Phil meet Bob, in reply to Russell Brown,
I would expect no less of you, sir.
Come to think of it, would you settle for Huey Lewis and the News?
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Speaker: John and Phil meet Bob, in reply to George Darroch,
To oppose politicians speaking at the Family First or Destiny conferences…
Well, for entertainment’s sake, I’d love to see one say, “Well, I’m here today to say that I think that I abhor every word you have ever said in your entire worthless lives from the very first ‘Gaaaah, boo-boo’ you uttered as babies and you should all be buried under fourteen point five tones of badger manure, have stakes driven through the point where your hearts would be if you had any, buried at crossroads and have salt sown in a circle about your so-called ‘resting places’ before the USAF sends a B-2 to nuke the site you utter, utter fundamental orifices, so there.”
Then I would applaud.
Key, on the other hand, seems to want to know what the popular position on any given issue is, and was desperate to give non-answers for that reason.
If I may indulge in some psychobabble – and thank you, I will – that seems to be his fundamental flaw. He displays, as T’ Standard would say, the characteristics of a psychopath (and I would know – I used to work for Massey University, which is a superb and compendious menagerie of personality disorders). Many think psychopaths are slick masterminds, like Palpatine or Lecter, but really, they are aimless, deeply needy people and what strikes me most about Key, apart from his desire for self-aggrandisement, is his desperate need to be liked by everyone.
“You can fool all of the people some of the time…” and so on, as the saying goes. In Key’s case, if he knew, it’s “You can be liked by…”
But not everyone, and not forever.
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Speaker: John and Phil meet Bob, in reply to Russell Brown,
the one bit that was on the news rather defied my expectations.
I'll be the first to admit - proclaim, even - my cynicism, so my question now might well be, "Where is the real Phil Goff and how have you managed to produce a substitute who hints at competence and why did you wait so long?"
And if you so much as even so much as hint at me even intimating at the possibility of the hypothetical etcetera of "credit given where where credit is due", I will hunt you and your family down and do horrible, horrible things to you all with a cheese grater, a blowtorch and Justin Bieber CDs.
@James.
That’s because there might be something in it for them – votes.
Oh yes, that...
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Just when the CGT thing seemed to be going so well, as if someone in Labour had grown a spine and someone else had finally understood how the media works, this happens.
Ah, Labour, you never fail to let me down. Just when the faintest scintilla of an intimation of the hypothetical potential of my considering entertaining the possibility of letting the merest hint of the thought of voting for you again even rouses from its slumber and in a half-somnolent state imagines that it might, almost as if by accident, cross my mind, you go off and do something stupidly vile once again.
As for Key, well, try as I might, I find it absurd to hate him. A smallpox virus is certainly a bad thing, but it isn’t sentient and therefore what’s the point in hating it?
Some people involved in Labour, so I hear, are sentient, so I do want to know what their excuse might be for this latest exercise in ham-handed cynicism.
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Light bulbs? How about taking away their Glenn Gould recordings? That’ll really hurt.
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I look forward to another sanctimonious blog on Beige Alert from Grant Robertson saying that he'd "like" an inquiry, but I suppose even that would constitute some sort of follow-up. One of that hypocrite's canvassers wasted my time the other day and I made it clear that if he thinks he can do without my vote and refuse to answer correspondence, then he will do without my vote.
Goff did the same with Stevenson's revelations about Afganistan: it was "unacceptable" and there should be an inquiry. Nice headline, and then not a peep.
I'm phuqynge sick of politicians exploiting scandals with such brazen insincerity. Yes, I know they're insincere, but do they have to be so damned obvious about it? Doing it so badly is simply an insult.
I heartily agree with all of Luke Greally's points.
I wouldn't even call this hyperbole:
What’s more, the Police involved absolutely hate Aspies and despise any quarter being shown them.
Considering the humiliation they've been shown by the release and exoneration of a man who was falsely imprisoning for years on rape charges because the thug in blue who investigated knew in his gut (where apparently he does most of his thinking) that he didn't look at him the right way, I'm not at all surprised.
If Erasmus is trying to pull that, I can have little faith in the rest of his assurances. This stinks.
Yeah, that's the carefully disingenuous presentation of a man who know's he's speaking bullshit.
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Hard News: Perception and reality in the…, in reply to Sacha,
Goff saying "Me too!"? Nothing more certain!
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
They probably destroy the ozone layer with all their flying around.
Interesting how after being all serious and emotional I get just plain silly.
Penguins, Antarctica, ozone hole... you put it together...