Posts by Steve Barnes
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I nearly fell off my chair reading this...
Jamie Whyte is going to Parliament
Friday night’s TVNZ Colmar Brunton poll puts Jamie Whyte in Parliament. TVNZ rounded down the poll result (ACT was on 1.2%). With the high wasted Conservative vote, just 1.2% makes Jamie an MP. It is ACT, not NZ First that will hold the balance of power. ACT is rising in all the polls taken last week.
He goes on to jest...
American psychologist Jonathan Haidt research demonstrates the only time we change our vote is when someone we respect says to us (for example) “’I have decide to vote for Jamie Whyte. I think having someone who can think has to be an advantage”.
LOL
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Jake Starrow,
The thing that gets me the most is the extent to which New Zealand Inc. has fallen for this convicted bullshitter.
New Zealand Inc.? is that an American company?
And it is news to me that John Key has been convicted of anything, however unpalatable that may be to honest people.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to stephen clover,
Please, can we not?
What, hear alarm bells?
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Sir, you should, in your current capacity as a galvaniser of words, be inducted into the Hall effect of fame. You should find it an Ohm from Ohm.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
you’re not that good an actor.
So that’s why Hollywood is ignoring me?
&*(
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Capacity is 1539 on three levels.
Sorry Hillary, my mistake, concert chamber, of course.
So 1539+800=not quite 2500 but that 800 might have been more and the people on line..... -
Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Tom Semmens,
seeing hundreds of people show up, and thousands watching online, to a town hall event
The Capacity of the Town Hall is 497, add to that the estimated 800 people who could not get in is 1300 prepared to get into town, not an easy task what with parking, the price of a cab and the less than perfect public transport system. If it were a protest march it would be considered significant. The thousands on line just add to that and when you consider the Herald’s “Your Views” Poll as to who believes who then John Key’s Teflon™ coating seems to be as substantial as the proverbial Emperor’s clothes exposing him as a truly Sub Prime Minister.
As an aside also. isn’t it nice to know that in our country, as opposed to the US of FA, we don’ have to mock up our Town Hall meetings.The self-enclosed world of conservative spin increases the risk to the president by insulating him from the truth about how his plan is going over. Meeting only with handpicked audiences in rehearsed “town hall” meetings, Bush not only encounters little substantive challenge to his views but also avoids getting any realistic sense of how little traction his plan has gotten. In this way, the propaganda president risks becoming the real victim of his administration’s own fake news.
I an surprised John Key hasn’t adopted this idea, he could use the same sound stage as Colin Craig’s Moon Landings were shot for his fake Town Hall.
ETA Apparently he has…
National Party campaign launch was much bigger. That event had 2500 – many bussed in.
Thanks Hillary.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to stephen clover,
will give you the phone numbers of all attendees (with GPS turned on.)
More than that. Even without GPS you can place a cellphone within less than 30 mtrs by triangulation from cell towers. Add to that the number of people using mobile devices that are not strictly phones but using WiFi and you have everybody who was there with any kind of device turned on (in some cases the device can even be switched off). Include security cameras, in the Town Hall, in the street outside and in local businesses and you have close to total surveillance.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to CJM,
Hmm, this then?
Unfortunately, yes.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
it’s hard to credibly shit on the media for not doing in-depth reporting on a textbook October Surprise.
Oh perleeze. A. not a surprise if announced months in advance and B. The MSM have been ignoring the corruption for just as long. Why don’t you just say “John Key is a Saint and cannot tell a lie, everybody else is just evil” like the MSM has been doing but with a few flouncy words thrown in.
I have wanted to say this for a while but if you, and others of your ilk, like the US of fuckin” EH? so much why don’t you just go and live there and let us live our lives of blissful “ignorance” in peace.