Mastodawn

Speaking of economic astrology ...

"... Without doubt, the number 1 thing is to make sure the economy is growing, and that people are feeling it."

#CLuxon, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=8ea2a808-b255-4337-88d0-1ab609252fde

As a statement, "the economy is growing" is about as meaningful as 'Jupiter is in retrograde'. After decades of financialisation and the FIRE economy, number-go-up in neoclassical economic measures has no relationship to citizens' standard of living.

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Strypey Dec 4

"[3 Waters is] fundamentally the creation of these 4 mega ... bureaucratic entities, that are actually stripping power away from local communities, and stripping those aasets."

#CLuxon, clip played on The Detail podcast, 2023

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/the-detail?share=58b425f8-6bc9-4e38-adf8-d9f921904eb9

The NatACT First campaign machines came up with a wide range of such faux-localist talking points while they were weaponising 3 Waters as a wedge issue against the government of the day.

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Strypey Dec 1

"What's I'm doing is focused very much on my job. As I keep saying; polls, commentariat, rumours, my job is to get on with the country, and getting it sorted for people."

#CLuxon, speaking to Ryan Bridge in 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=8e7b038f-039b-4c10-86c4-cb2a67ad34af

Oh dear. The political truism regurgitation machine has started stringing random clauses together into vaguely sentence-shaped objects, which don't really hang together (they also don't mean anything but that's not new.

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Strypey Nov 12

#CLuxon is doubling down on the #B416 social media ban for kiwis under 16. This is a terrible idea, for many well-documented reasons. But, if tech policy and civil rights activists allow ourselves to be pulled into a narrow, negative campaign against it, there's a risk this will push many people into supporting it on a 'better than nothing' basis.

What we need is a positive campaign for a suite of tech regulations that can actually shift power away from technofascists.

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@BobLefridge he was bitching about cluxon getting the rates rebate on his ten mill holiday home on waiheke and especially!!! the fact cluxon sought it #sorted #entitled #Cluxon

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Strypey Sep 11

"I just don't- (sigh), I'm focused, ah, I was elected to do a job. And I know what my job is which is to clean up the mess, turn it around, and get it heading in the right direction and that's what I'm focused on.

And that's, I know that's, yeah.

There's so many different things coming- that's what I'm focused on from beginning to end."

#CLuxon, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/572447/coalition-loses-power-in-new-political-poll

CLuxon can't even recite his own talking points convincingly anymore. I'm reminded of Todd Muller ...

Coalition loses power in new political poll

The centre-right bloc could not return to power if an election were held today.

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JustSaying Aug 11, 2025

#NZpol #Cluxon

Strypey Jul 26, 2025

"I'm not taking any lectures from frick'n Chris Hipkins."

#CLuxon, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=e209c491-f7d1-421e-abf2-a68afd0c9b0b

Ooh, the nice guy mask is slipping. CLuxon is rattled!

The NatACTs are running scared. Which is presumably why they've turned to blatant voter suppression, in a desperate attempt to avoid being turfed out in 2026.

https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/07/an-attack-on-free-and-fair-elections.html

#podcasts #RNZ #FocusOnPolitics #VoterSuppression

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Strypey Jul 20, 2025

This is the talking point #CLuxon pulls out when asked about health system failures;

"Basically I think that's the hangover of a Labour government that didn't care about Auckland, focused on Wellington, shut the joint down for 2 years."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=7c69e0c3-ba0e-47f7-a4fd-7b37a9e604d1

I'm just imagining the next tory PM blaming the previous government for health failures in Otago. Blatantly ignoring consecutive tory governments delaying and *defunding* the Dunedin Hospital rebuild.

#podcasts #RNZ #MediaWatch #health