thaibeachlovers

To reply to some of those complaints. I'm not going to get into racial comments on here, but everyone I know wants a New Zealand for all citizens without special privileges based on race. The National party is hardly extreme right wing and is quite moderate in comparison to those on the left of politics in NZ. If they get into power it will be as a reaction to and rejection of the policies espoused by labour and it's allies, not because they offer a better future. And One who has courted the red necks among the Gun owners of new Zealand. In that case all gun owners in NZ are red necks Look possibly for a "For Sale sign" on new Zealand following the election. LOL. NZ was sold off many years ago by both parties. How many major banks are NZ owned? In 1991 a national Government passed labor laws (Employment contracts Act) which destroyed workers rights and set us back 50 years. No dispute there. Some National governments were really, really bad, for everyone, not just for the workers, but it's not 1991 now, is it? Now we face a worse possibility so the next 3 years could see the greatest fragmentation of New Zealand in its history. Just My view. My view is that NZ has been fragmented beyond repair already and no one is putting it together again. Damage done and will only get worse. IMO the farmers elected the present government by foolishly thinking it would keep the greens out of government, but they won't be making that mistake again. IMO every farmer in the country will be cheering if labour is out.

Your lot has been saying that for the last 6 or 7 years. Never happened though. I'll keep cheering as long as he's against the establishment.

You missed "always being right and the opposition are always wrong"

Given the situation has never happened before, it would be uncharted territory. However, the political fallout if Trump was denied secret service protection and was assassinated would be astronomical. BTW, I doubt Trump needs a pension.

Sounds like something a woke person wrote. One does not have to be woke to have any or all of those qualities, and I know woke people that don't qualify on some of them.

Not so. Men coupling with many women is a genetic imperative for the survival of the species. Do dogs mate for life? Do wild stallions only run with one mare, do male elephant seals only stay with one female? Are men not an animal species governed by genetics?

I'm agog waiting for your explanation of that statement.

I never disputed that. I said gravity is a fact, that the sun rises in the east is a fact etc. When there is a dispute about anything, that thing is not a fact, eg MMCC.

Not being a climate scientist and frankly having zero interest to find out I am unable to answer that. However, that does not mean that MMCC is correct, as pointed out by multiple varied sources and I choose to believe them rather than your side on the subject.

I have a hard time remembering what I ate yesterday, so if people remember things wrongly I can empathise with that. Even if he changed the story, it doesn't mean that he raped anyone.

So, how under any criteria should this self confessed economic migrant be eligible to be allowed to stay in the EU? I wonder how she had the idea that all she had to do was cross the border to be welcomed with open arms? Why are Euro governments not informing people in countries that they come from that economic migrants are not permitted to stay? Also, how does a poor woman from Somalia afford to travel all the way to the Polish border? Who has paid for her transport, her food, her shelter along the way? IMO there is much on this subject that the media is unwilling to inform us of. I've noticed that all the stories are of people arriving at foreign borders, but never about those that are repatriated or rejected to exist in some other country. Do they have no story to tell?

If that's true, why did he start building the wall to keep them out?

Were you in the room to know that?

Seems to me that the problem is that when the accusations are false, the women making false claims are not punished for doing so. IMO any woman convicted of making a false complaint of rape should suffer the same penalty as the man would have if proven.

I think any non criminal has a problem with it, but when it's apparently CAUSED by the state government what can they do about it?

I can't disagree with you, but that's by no means restricted to the Republicans. I have difficulty in finding any government that is doing a good job in these crazy days.

Yes, they could lock him up, but I'm pretty sure they realise what the political fallout would be if they did so. Seems they bit off a bit more than they can chew with this defendant. Meanwhile Trump just keeps getting more support every time he appears in court.

Can you elaborate on that somewhat pointless comment?

You might want to trade in your crystal ball. You are wrong, Gaetz won. McCarthy is out.

Just seen on Al Jazeera. McCarthy is out. Removed by a small margin in the vote. Probably have a caretaker speaker now, till a permanent one can be elected. Seems that a majority believe that he wasn't doing a good job.

I'm lovin' that. Gave me a good laugh to start the day.

Notice that all the problems have occurred about the labour party and it's ally. The labour party has become very unpopular in the past few years, and the days when it was brilliant under David Lange have long past. I don't know anyone that supports it any more, and the fervent desire is that it gets well and truly routed in the coming election. If it loses, there will be cheering throughout the country. If it was still first past the post election the outcome would be a foregone conclusion, but under the current MMP system that is unfortunately not guaranteed.

Four replies and all insults about a certain poster. Do you guys have nothing better to do than post pathetic insults? Perhaps you could say something about the topic.

Without actually putting themselves on a war footing, it would be hard to justify that. Armaments are very expensive and the money to do so would require cuts elsewhere, which would cause political problems.

Sounds good in theory, but in practice an offensive takes a great deal of time to prepare. It would be somewhat difficult to prepare to use such weapons without actually possessing them for training purposes. Also, that's in winter, which would make any offensive very difficult.