TaldenNZ

Partly I wonder if it’s just because some people like to watch the world burn…

Attaboy Mr President. You win ‘race to armageddon’… The ‘Pillock of Peace’ will be all yours once there’s no one around to make war.

November (7th?)… It’s gonna be a long year.

We don’t have the greatest controls here. A large amount of law passing has been passed ‘under urgency’ for the weakest of reasons - let’s you bypass most of the debate and public opinion. This government has no shame (not that a sense of propriety should be the control we count on to rein in political ambition and ideology… or possibly obligations to donors… ahem).

Mind-blowing indeed… since he managed to overlook all those deaths, the loss agency in their governance, the inequalities of wealth, education and health, the fact that home ownership looks likely to become a statistical anomaly for Maori.

…and you know, let’s remove use of their language and references to the treaty from education…

Please don’t lump all ‘old white men’ in with that arsehole.

You’ll hurt my feelings.

Amongst a smattering of largely ineffectual feel-good changes, there is a lot of horror from this government - in laws as well as words shaping our social landscape.

It boggles my mind that in two short years we seem to have stepped back into the 80’s for race relations, social policy, opinions on law and order, and on matters of the environment.

It’s a disgrace.

I do hope, come November, that enough victorious voters of this round are shamed enough to recognise their error - and that enough of those that didn’t vote because “it wouldn’t count” get up and make a damned difference.

Hysterical laughter is excusable. Something has to give or you’ll pop a blood vessel.

It gets crazier by the day.

It does start to look like another step on the journey to the land of “you won’t need to vote”

Weed out politic nay-sayers directly… we’re already seeing some of that going on.

Then make being a member of the armed-forces ideologically untenable for those who aren’t worshipping orange. Trump’s actions must be impacting the national-pride aspect of serving for some (and changing the political disposition at the recruiting office).

If this is effective, in three years, maybe you’ll have a military significantly dominated by active supporters (or at least fence-sitters)… Now that opens up some options.