Open mike 31/05/2020
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Media
Twitter takes on Trump
Donald Trump is engaged in an escallating war with Twitter after the Social Platform hid one of his tweets calling for Minneapolis rioters to be shot.
Open mike 30/05/2020
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Open mike 29/05/2020
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Open mike 28/05/2020
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New leadership same old tactics
National has released a social media ad suggesting that New Zealand’s per head of population Government debt figure will be worse than Greece’s by 2014. But the data used presumes the effects of Covid 19 in New Zealand’s figure but no effects of Covid 19 in Greece’s figure.
Open mike 27/05/2020
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Ko Paora Goldsmith tenei
National’s new brains trust has not had a great day today. They responded to claims that their front bench looked awfully white and had no Tangata Whenua by claiming that Paora Goldsmith was from Ngāti Porou. The only trouble was that he wasn’t.
Open mike 26/05/2020
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Two Tier. Bull. Shit.
I thought we were “in this together” or some such?
Todd’s MAGA hat
Todd Muller has spent the weekend not introducing himself to the country and talking about his ideas for our future but by defending the displaying of a MAGA hat in his office.
Open mike 25/05/2020
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The current National party.
The change of leadership inside of National is essentially meaningless. All it seems to have started is exposing the kind of internecine factional warfare that is lurking below their party surface. I can’t see the inexperienced National team, even with Amy Adams back in it, being able to make the kinds of long-term decisions required in a modern world.
Open mike 24/05/2020
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Open mike 23/05/2020
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Nat Vote: And the Loser Is ….
The Nation holds its breath as the dullest political leadership race in a generation snores to a close. Who will win by losing? Who will lose by winning? Who cares?
UPDATE: It’s Mullertime!
UPDATE: Bennett dumped!
Open mike 22/05/2020
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Open mike 21/05/2020
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This is exactly why the MSM should be scrutinised as much as the government
The Herald’s misleading, clickbait sound-biting of Labour MP Tamati Coffey isn’t even close to what we need in reporting from the Epidemic Response Committee.
Dead man walking
The media is reporting there will be a vote of no confidence in Simon Bridges’ leadership at next week’s National caucus meeting.
Open mike 20/05/2020
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Mark Richardson for National leader!
Michelle Boag thinks that Mark Richardson should be the next National leader after Simon Bridges. Here at the Standard we wish to endorse this proposal.
Pollwatch for Newshub/Reid Research poll, 18th May 2020
The latest Newshub/Reid Research poll is a bloodbath for National- but who are the likely victims? Pollwatch is back, this time with a model for electorate winners and losers to add onto the party vote stats.
Open mike 19/05/2020
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Newshub Poll Shock!
The May 2020 Newshub/Reid Research poll is astonishing. You’ve have, quite literally, never seen anything like it.
Open mike 18/05/2020
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Open mike 17/05/2020
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Don’t infect your feline master!
In terrible news, our feline masters can both get covid-19, and they can infect other cats. Fortunately so far they have largely been asymptomatic apart from some big cats.
We don’t know if there can be cat to human transmission. But I suspect it is likely. Obvious implications about being a issue for breaking transmission chains.
Open mike 16/05/2020
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Open mike 15/05/2020
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Open mike 14/05/2020
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Open mike 13/05/2020
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Open mike 12/05/2020
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Open mike 11/05/2020
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Open mike 10/05/2020
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Go Joe.
The clock is ticking on Joe Biden.