Daily review 18/09/2025
Daily review 18/09/2025
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5:30 pm, September 18th, 2025 - 11 comments
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After flatlining for two years, the New Zealand economy is now in freefall.
Tariff damage is vastly overstated and the Chinese economy can't get enough of us.
Willis should resign or Luxon should fire her in a reshuffle.
We must be getting close to Prime Minister Chris Bishop as caretaker.
Problem is they built a house of cards around this group of senior politicians. Against the advice of officials in heaps of ministries, they said they know best.
They have to keep up the Emperors New Clothes charade, or someone will say the government is walking naked.
Option 1. The current lot stay in place and the government drips popularity.
Option 2. The government proves it didn't know best after all and the government drips popularity.
There are only two ways to recover:
1. to run a tighter ship, so that people compare Luxon to Winston
Churchill rather than Colonel Custer.
2. To send Judith Collins back to church to pray for a miracle.
I'm not sure which is the low-hanging fruit.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/573531/nicola-willis-rejects-accusations-she-is-doing-nothing-for-a-tanking-economy
Wow, I called that one right and amazingly fast!!!
The ship must be going down by the head faster than we thought.
Hopefully more Kiwis realise Austerity is foolish. Playing Jenga without collapses is beyond their skill level. Sadly, they will "Double down" as they apply more leeches to our economy, and say, "just another year".. Interest rate at 2.25%? And more spending without result for "the squeezed middle" and b all for the "Bottom Feeders.
Kimmel's last opener.
Kimmel talked about how the right's first reaction was to label Robinson as left wing and how the tRump regime is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics.
The regime responded by shutting him down.
A representative for Kimmel did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The stunning decision came just a few hours after the Trump administration official responsible for licensing ABC’s local stations publicly pressured the company to punish Kimmel.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-trump-fcc-brendan-carr?
House Un-American Activities Committee trumpdated?
I hope they stand together united !
A couple of old men let the coalition government know that criticism of their economic management performance is not partisan.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/573459/former-finance-minister-sir-roger-douglas-calls-for-finance-minister-nicola-willis-to-resign
Trump intends to declare Antifa a terrorist organisation by executive order.
Except it is not an organisation.
This is of an attempt to silence critics for fear of investigation for being a terrorist.
It is a means to place regime critics on a terrorism watchlist and to remove dissent from media platforms.
To threaten consequences for the exercise of free speech.
Trump is intent on glorifying right wing free speech and censorship at the same time.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/17/trump-antifa-terrorist-organization-00570555
I wonder if Trump is shooting for the Nobel Peace Prize.
https://theconversation.com/right-wing-extremist-violence-is-more-frequent-and-more-deadly-than-left-wing-violence-what-the-data-shows-265367
It’s tempting to extrapolate and generalise but that could easily lead to wishful thinking and speculation without bold evidence for bold claims.