Hard Hat & A Hammer
Alan Jackson
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Posted on Bowalley Road on Thursday, 7 November 2024.
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Ruminations of an Old New Zealander
About Me
- Chris Trotter
- Chris Trotter has spent most of his adult life either engaging in or writing about politics. He was the founding editor of The New Zealand Political Review (1992-2005) and in 2007 authored No Left Turn, a political history of New Zealand. Living in Auckland with his wife and daughter, Chris describes himself as an “Old New Zealander” – i.e. someone who remembers what the country was like before Rogernomics. He has created this blog as an archive for his published work and an outlet for his more elegiac musings. It takes its name from Bowalley Road, which runs past the North Otago farm where he spent the first nine years of his life. Enjoy.
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8 comments:
If it’s the Martyn I think you mean, the song should be a hard head and a hemorrhoid
Thank you Chris, a great acknowledgement of, and tribute to, the people that really do keep the world functioning.
I can only imagine what motivated the dedication to "Martyn" (I've long since ceased reading TDB; the hateful, spittle flecked invective was just too much) but outright contempt for the working man is pretty pervasive in the woke left generally. Fortunately "The Deplorables" are fighting back.
Nice
Their voice was heard clearly this week across America.
Off topic but too good to ignore: President Trump on his plans for free speech.
https://x.com/i/status/1855144438139330754
"Comrades, I see a glorious day when everything you say will be ignored because you didn't get a degree in gender studies, when this movement will be ruled by effete middle class wankers.
This is the Left wing dream we can build together!!"
Inspiring!
Matyn may wish to review his graphic for TDB. He has featured on several occasions as mesh up of the Nazi flag with the Star of David. Whether you disagree with the Israeli government or not, this is deeply offensive to a ethnicity which has sought safety and security having suffered some of the worst excesses of the last century. That meshed up flag is the subject of hate speech prosecution in NSW.
He has also used a photo of Australian Aboriginals in chains to illustrate stories unrelated to them. This is simple explanation of indigenous suffering. The glib insensitivity is made worse by the Australian First Nation people's restriction on the images of the dead.
It often seems Martyn is insular and cares not which vulnerable group maybe discarded to make an obscure point.
You can't have free speech; the big picture<\i> would make the oligarchy look like narcissists, theives and parasites.
1. Progressives are people who take us beyond tribalism to a broad acceptance of humanity<\i>, as their tribe. The problem with that is that we are a tribal species and so when "self-abnegating elites" don't elevate the lowest citizen above potential migrants, the border doesn't go away, it becomes within<\i> society. Hence "if you aren't doing well in life, don't blame migrants, look at yourself" [Dame Ardern at Bologna]; Gordon Brown and Mrs Duffy; "NZr's aren't poor enough" (the corollary of "rich nations like NZ") [Giovani Tiso and Stu Donovan]; "NZr's are a deeply racist people" [Helen Clark to Ian McKellan]. Being so much better than the ordinary individual (lower human nature), while actually<\i> being one of life's achievers, fuels narcissistic supply.
2. House price inflation isn't wealth creation; it simply transfers the charge to first-home buyer and renter. So when John and Max are in Italy ["about 5 years ago" when John was downplaying the effect of migration on house prices (Check point) vs upping them to the Property Initiative - Paula Bennett], and he's saying the way to "massive wealth" is through property, this is the situation he wants to achieve.
Also Key created the glorious tourism industry with it's decreasing marginal product, pressure on land and need for taxpayer funded infrastructure. Spoonley tells a tourism conference that "you guys ought to tell the good stories".
Now, Caller John discussed this with Duncan Garner on the 20th Sept, and including the realities of what John Key refers to as "a bit of density" (a two year old Japanese kid cried when she got back to their danchi having played on my Christchurch lawn). He also mentioned the John and Max discussion.
The latter has been erased. "Flipper" (who spent weekends with Jim and Joan Bolger) was another member of a group who were pretty p***sd at what * was saying about migration [Savings Working Group; TP 14-10]. At the end of the conversation Caller John thought he heard the young producer say it had been making her mad, however that isn't in the replay.
No wonder Sean hates Caller John; in "25 years of broadcasting he's his most boring caller". On the other hand Sean has "never thought we have too much migration"; so why are journalists so out of touch?
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