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Empty Fridge and a Full Press Conference
Outlawing the signal that keeps the supermarket stocked is not compassion. It might be how you get some votes. It’s also how you empty the fridge.
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Dragging New Zealand Left
New Zealand First and National are not right-wing parties. Their willingness to engage in economic interventionism and steal each other’s policies places them both firmly left-of-centre.
This Is a Naked Inconsistency
What the reaction to another Sydney Sweeney advertisement reveals about consistency, power, and political double standards.
Quick Hit: Ten Point Eight Million. And The Veto.
Greens still sell KiwiMart at $10.8m a store with the library costing locked. Same week Seymour brings the aisle veto and National leaves ComCom out. Soft communism with a locked drawer. Campaign promise with coalition scissors.
Giant Douche. Turd Sandwich. Take Your Pick.
Every leader underwater. Luxon worst at 54/25. Hipkins ahead on seven of eight. Ardern still the only net favourable figure. South Park already named the ballot.
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Face of the Day
Macklemore said on Tuesday that Sheeran had been given an ultimatum following his pro-Palestine performances at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… zeugma (noun) - : the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each word in a different sense (as "opened" in "opened the door and her heart to the stray
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.