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exmarx posted:melissa lee's time to shine lmao bro she is so bad at this hahaha https://vimeo.com/917747481
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I needed a laugh today thank you.
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Vimeo is still around and parliament has an account there?!?! Chuck it up on MySpace why not
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exmarx posted:bro she is so bad at this hahaha god what a poo poo show, how did they make Barbara Kuriger a deputy speaker? Why does Reuben Davidson sound exactly like Murray from Flight of the Concords? Why can't Melissa Lee speak coherently when she's not reading from a sheet of paper?
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i was about to say that kuriger is way better than assistant speaker  maureen pugh , which reminded me to post chippy's speech on the smokefree repealhttps://vimeo.com/917315987 way better than chlōe's 
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voiceless anal fricative posted:Why can't Melissa Lee speak coherently when she's not reading from a sheet of paper? Because she's dumber than gently caress. She can't even speak coherently when she has the paper either. klen dool posted:Vimeo is still around and parliament has an account there?!?! Chuck it up on MySpace why not Corp and govt is exactly what Vimeo exists for. Paid accounts for hosters without 3rd party advertising shoved on to your content. BuckyDoneGun fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Feb 29, 2024 |
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Love hearing Luxon describe people being on social welfare as "obscene" and "perverse" then finding out he gets a $50k supplement to go with his 7 houses and enormous salary because of course he does.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Love hearing Luxon describe people being on social welfare as "obscene" and "perverse" then finding out he gets a $50k supplement to go with his 7 houses and enormous salary because of course he does. Meanwhile the Maori Development minister went on newshub and cautioned that "the New Zealand taxpayer is not a free ATM card". https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/510589/luxon-s-criticisms-of-profligate-spending-come-back-to-bite
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I think when people say "free ATM card" what they actually mean is an unlimited source of free money, which is not what an AtM card is of course
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Also we are because the govt can just print more money, as much as they want.
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/510604/watch-prime-minister-christopher-luxon-speaks-from-queenstown lol he's doubling down
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The benefit is also an entitlement that is within the rules but for some reason we feel content to police that and change the rules around it
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(the reason is gently caress the poor)
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lol https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/510614/pm-christopher-luxon-says-he-will-pay-back-his-52k-accommodation-allowance quote:Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he will pay back his $52,000 per year accommodation allowance.
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Confusedslight posted:https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/510604/watch-prime-minister-christopher-luxon-speaks-from-queenstown Doubling down in Queenstown
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Confusedslight posted:lol Congrats to luxon on teaching the media how easy it is to roll him. They may be demoralised and at the mercy of their corporate overlords but they are still capable of smelling blood in the water.
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Stick to airlines bitch
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https://x.com/benmackey/status/1763417169579389040?s=20 another lol
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Oh shoot so all we need to do to influence the National party leader is call in to newstalk zb? But that means we need to pay attention to it...
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you don't need to pay attention to call in, all you need is a phone number
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he did basically the same thing with the clean car discount lol. he's stupid!
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exmarx posted:he did basically the same thing with the clean car discount lol. he's stupid! He's not stupid he knows no one important gives a poo poo
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https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-...ls-funding.html guess which minister this te kūiti grandmother with half her body amputated can complain to: melissa lee
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quote:Stick to the Saudi navy bitch
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"[ACC] just don't care. I said I'll live under a bridge, and she [case worker] is like 'do what you want'," McIndoe said. I'm sure the case workers are overworked and underpaid but have a bit more tact when you're loving with peoples lives.
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You can't though. You can't do an evil thing and say sorry because that means living with the evil thing you did. You have to act callous so you can pretend what you did wasn't evil, so you can sleep at night. People that cannot do that don't do the evil thing, and end up either putting it off until someone else has to do it or get fired/transferred for not doing it.
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Xik posted:"[ACC] just don't care. I said I'll live under a bridge, and she [case worker] is like 'do what you want'," McIndoe said. I liked when ACC insinuated it was her fault because they had "trouble communicating" with her. Yea I'm sure the lady who has half a body and needs a carer to turn her over at night is real loving hard to get hold of 
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klen dool posted:You can't though. You can't do an evil thing and say sorry because that means living with the evil thing you did. You have to act callous so you can pretend what you did wasn't evil, so you can sleep at night. People that cannot do that don't do the evil thing, and end up either putting it off until someone else has to do it or get fired/transferred for not doing it. it looks like they funded the surgery, two rooms for two years, a live in full time carer and an entire purpose built house, and she's got a place to live (albeit not the one she wants), so i don't think evil is quite the right word here? i maybe have a little ACC-PTSD from working there, but I'd take reports of what caseworkers said as one person's view of the conversation. happy to eat all the crow if it turns out i'm wrong, but clients with that many needs get a lot of scrutiny, it's not just a caseworker.
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Our local MP (Nats) is based in town and has a stall at the market most Saturdays. I went along this morning so I could ask about the Luxon thing and segue to MPs (what I consider excessive) KiwiSaver entitlements and that whole "still get paid another 90 days after you're fired" thing. I engaged in good faith and mentioned right from the start that I'm not a national voter but given he's the local rep, I wanted to speak up as a local. We had a civil conversation but right off the bat, he was defensive both in tone (that kind of rising tone like a child being scolded) and attitude. I acknowledged that yes, Luxon was technically entitled to that allowance but did it pass the sniff test given their statements about the cost of living crisis, "NZ is not an atm" rhetoric and all that? His response was "remuneration authority, we don't control it" and did not budge. Gee I didn't know the remuneration authority was an uncontrollable power unto itself It just disappoints me that instead of empathising, he tried to hand wave it all away as not a problem and at the end took some turn into how over the last 30 years Kiwi have lost all respect for the quote sacrifice that people who go into politics make and he hopes it doesn't continue to degrade. My guy you're in bed with Act, what point are you trying to make here? Overall 6/10, a civil conversation with no raised voices despite me feeling really pissed off over the whole topic and that ended in handshakes at least, but I am doubly not voting National next election and will actively campaign against them
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sebmojo posted:it looks like they funded the surgery, two rooms for two years, a live in full time carer and an entire purpose built house, and she's got a place to live (albeit not the one she wants), so i don't think evil is quite the right word here? I skim read the article so I could be wrong. My point stands though, I just don't know if ACC was being evil or not
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sebmojo posted:it looks like they funded the surgery, two rooms for two years, a live in full time carer and an entire purpose built house, and she's got a place to live (albeit not the one she wants), so i don't think evil is quite the right word here? Why would they do all of that but not fund the accommodation until the house was finished though? Like is the 2 years just an arbitrary cut-off or something?
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Also she said ACC only gave her a week's notice and ACC said nah we gave her a months notice as if that was any better.
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sebmojo posted:it looks like they funded the surgery, two rooms for two years, a live in full time carer and an entire purpose built house, and she's got a place to live (albeit not the one she wants), so i don't think evil is quite the right word here? She has a place to live because of a friend, not because of ACC.
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I made this for a meme page so now you all have to see it too 
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The whole ACC thing is very weird, we are definitely not getting the whole story but as usual the health matters only one side is free to tell their story to the media.
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Saros posted:The whole ACC thing is very weird, we are definitely not getting the whole story but as usual the health matters only one side is free to tell their story to the media. Yeah, bottom line is that lady's life sucks unbelievable amounts of rear end and i don't want to understate that, but mostly acc does try its best.
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Weatherman posted:Our local MP (Nats) is based in town and has a stall at the market most Saturdays. I went along this morning so I could ask about the Luxon thing and segue to MPs (what I consider excessive) KiwiSaver entitlements and that whole "still get paid another 90 days after you're fired" thing. The mistake here was treating them like they were a human being and not stabbing them (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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You actually shouldn't need to disclose who you voted for in conversation. There was an incident in the Key government where Maggie Barry was being asked a pointed question and she asked who the person voted for. She was reminded that she's meant to be representing all her constituents, not just the ones that voted for her.
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