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osgood

12 comments · +173 / −146 · rank #16124 of 40,276

oh dear. Any criticism of Ardern is now sexist. How very convenient. One assumes criticism of Robertson is now homophobic. This coalition crew is dysfunctional, and being a citizen in a country they run is like being a child with unhappy, mismatched parents who dont really get on. You hope they will, you want them to, but they cant. The chemistry is just wrong. Weird uncle Andrew hovers in the shadows, mad sister Claire gets trespassed from the house, big sister bully gets away with whatever she likes. while jumpy Jacinda would rather be down the creche. Sexist? Just life with people running the country who, according to their own advisers, cant keep their diaries in order and dont understand the household finances. Scary for the rest of us. Just plain scary.

+77−24

Im with reverly. This is a crock. Shooting murders were rare back then, and police could quickly assign the half dozen or so this fellow is claiming. Maybe he shot Slippery Phil, an Auckland junky shot between the eyes in about 1973? Nobody charged. It would be very easy to give this person the time and place coincident that could lead to solid evidence if he did shoot that many in gangland circumstances.

+23−2

The dragster on a rally track is the most salient comparison. The codes are totally different. Rugby players do not translate to gridiron and vice versa. Even league players struggle in rugby and rugby to league likewise, but they are much closer than gridiron and rugby. It is odious to make comparisons and I see Valkenburg is backing down now. Valkenburg. Even their names wear padding. Remember Eagleburger? What a handle. Shalk would dig it. But to the point, gridiron players are either defensive or attack, they are never both. The science of the two games is totally different.

+5−0

A week will pass. Another book will appear. Another impeachable scandal will break. The show rolls on. Our own media regurgitate what they think is the popular slant on this strange president, and he continues to render media everywhere impotent and irrelevant just as he did the first time he took to tweet. Trumps fitness, or total lack thereof, is not the story. The story is the impact he has had in separating the swamp dwellers from the Big Prize - the presidency. The story is in the impact he has had on aspiring kingmakers, and on the looong reach of the Clinton Foundation and the globalist agenda. Trump turned it all on its head. Thank you, Trump, for being the most unpredictable whacko to hold that office. Marvellous. The people who thought dropping TWO atomic bombs on Japan was a good idea are effectively the same people militarising the Middle East and Africa as it suits their corporate agenda. Obama TRIPLED troop numbers in Afghanistan at their behest, Bush invaded Iraq at their behest, Clinton did her filthy deals in Yemen at their behest. Trump is an innocent by comparison.

+1−0

The double standard is breathtaking. There is no media interest in Americas own poor, people attempting to migrate from poverty to the middle class, or the millions of fathers separated from their children by heavily biased custody laws. This is anti-Trump and attracts headlines, so the Democrats can mobilise this type of protest. They will move from issue to issue in a convulsion of anti-Trumpism. Meanwhile, the dork of the century who shows the world just what a soap opera US politics really is delivers on employment, trade, foreign policy with astounding consistency, more by accident than by design. You couldnt script this.

+15−14

Slabs of concrete holding up tons of steel, compressional buildings in an earthquake zone - have these people never heard of geodesics? The only construction technique given 100% indemnity by the US insurance industry in all natural events - typhoons, cyclones, earthquakes - the lot, and these dipsticks have never heard of them. If they have, they are not used because they dont fit with the construction techniques - ie boxes - that are all Fletcher and the NZ construction industry (Jerry Brownlies buddies) can build.

+20−25

I love the sheer wan hope in any air safety video. I love watching the aircrew do them before takeoff. I love the actual meaning in them, bear with me, follow the logic to its inevitable conclusion - you have just plummeted from 50,000 feet in a high-tech, multi-million dollar aircraft into some remote ocean with 300 other hapless souls and, should you survive that, you get out of the aircraft, get your lifejacket inflated and are in a position to actually be rescued and your survival comes down to . . . a 20 cent plastic whistle. Thats the bit I love, when the aircrew mimic blowing the 20 cent plastic whistle. Its 1 drek. Its almost art. It is definitely theatre. Hip Hop Mish Mash. Bish Bosh. Shaney Blarney. Who cares? Oh dear, ya gotta laff.

+0−6

Heavily biased opinion posing as ANALYSIS as the fake news rolls on. Nobody looks at Muellers deals with Lockheed and others over the years - graphic and obvious examples of the swamp people Trump threatens. There is nothing there to worry Trump except the constant nonsense itself. Anybody recall the accusations made about Obama and his connections when he TRIPLED troop numbers in Afghanistan and made a few powerful war-supply profiteers even more wealthy? Nope? Long since forgotten? Of course. Mrs Clintons deals with the Saudis in North Africa? Nope, all forgotten. Trump is nothing compared to them, a property guy and reality TV celebrity who fluked it - and totally freaked the power mongers out. Thats what Trump did. Won an election he was meant to lose and that the Clinton Foundation had lined up to promote their globalist agenda. Trumps crime was beating Hilary and separating powerful people from their control of the single most important asset - the US Presidency.

+9−17

They voted for Trump because the alternative was Clinton. Slack would be better employed asking why we still donate to the Clinton Foundation, Chelseas platform for her shot at the glass ceiling. Regurgitating the Washedup Post and CNN isnt honest opinion or even journalism. This flailing in the wind is unbecoming of the Left, which fails to find answers and compromises the future. Trump can go with unpredictable gut instinct, changing every day, and still have a far more solid effect on foreign policy than Obama or anybody else. He can do the same on trade and he will leave the US economy dominant in the world by 2025, which is essential in the face of the Chinese agenda. Trumps great value is that nobody can predict him. The Euros cant even agree a common interest rates, common deficit and banking rules, they do not have a 1 common market. Proving Trump is a dork, Mr Slack, is not news. Its barely an honest opinion. Trump makes dorkdom an art form and watching the PC Left tear their hair out is a significant part of his appeal. It is very funny. Lets see some journalism Mr Clack - youre better than this.

+10−19

Your total anti Trump bias has turned off so many people I know of all walks of life that I actually believe Im the only one of my network that goes onto your site.Why dont you begin to report the news versus becoming a biased opinion piece - Stevie, you are one of the few with both eyes open.

+3−13

Many thousands of words have been written and spoken about Trump, largely by a self-indulgent media in a race to be the most indignant.Trump thumbs two bizarre sentences and the whole lots goes down in a screaming heap. The media convulses, the political insight scribblers search for fresh hyperbole, the next add-on word of pure slant like ouch.I have seen that added by a leading US columnist at the end of a stack of over-boiled (fake) facts to suggest Trump would be suffering from their clever, cutting insight.The guy is a reality star. Almost a figment of Simon Cowells imagination. Give up. Short of being shot (the prime time tv value of that should make Trump nervous in itself) the guy will do two terms.I, for one of the billions of viewers, say lights, cameras, action. Roll on Trump

+4−26