Open Mike 14/01/2026

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    Trump attacks Wall St (Dems will be horrified): https://apnews.com/article/banks-trump-jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-credit-cards-bny-b4f31993a64c31687c91f17beab0a98a

    “Everyone should support great Republican Senator Roger Marshall’s Credit Card Competition Act, in order to stop the out of control Swipe Fee ripoff,” Trump wrote.

    Liberal hearts will bleed in anguish all over the place at the prospect of top capitalists being unable to bleed plastic card users optimally. Swipe fee ripoffs regulated by the state?? Gotta be a socialist conspiracy. Ah, Trump doing it? Hmm.

    Journos will cogitate at this a wee bit. One may even ask him at a media event if he's a closet socialist, which will give him a chance to explain how politics works: "Yeah, the left & right join up at the opposite side of the magic circle, so I can be both fascist & communist simultaneously. Fun, eh?"

      1. 2.1.1

        How about a competition to give new wording to the MAGA acronym?

        Here's my entry, triggered by the CoC's deliberate war on nature and its efforts to gut the RMA:

                              Mutilate Aotearoa's Green Aura

        Shane Jones obviously thinks MAGA means “Mine Aotearoa’s Greatest Attractions”.

    1. 3.1

      lol Free from political interference, but also free to interfere in politics…

      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/economy/treasury-boss-iain-rennie-on-whats-required-to-bolster-the-books-in-the-absence-of-high-immigration-and-house-prices/premium/YIPWSFT4YZBRVC622UCCJBUKCY/

      Let's not make the mistake of defending the neoliberal consensus simply because the Mango Mussolini is doing the criticising.

      Iain Rennie's extraordinarily overtly political comments in that Herald piece should, in any normal democracy, mean the first order of the day for any reformist Labour leader would be to fire him immediately on being elected.

  4. 4

    Interesting backgrounds on RBNZ and USA Feds and 'political interference'. The Onion could have made up a great little satirising song about that.

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