Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiDr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 4hWho wants to run when a major political party is posting AI slop depicting 2 women leaders as little girls. Disgusting. That's before we get into the deliberate disinformation campaign attacking a nonbinary MP based in homophobia #nzpol 3376
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwicaitbsky.bsky.social @caitbsky.bsky.social · 8h#NZpol #NewZealand #GetOutTheVote 🗳️ 043
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiRobot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 10hNational: random drug-testing jobseekers. US state schemes and NZ's existing one find the same thing: positive rates under 3%, well below general-population drug use. The policy raises nothing. It deters applications. That's the point. #nzpolrnz.co.nzNational promises random drug testing for jobseeker beneficiariesNational is promising to introduce random drug testing for those on the jobseeker benefit to ensure they're "ready for work". 0194
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 9hDo you want Aotearoa New Zealand to become an international pariah? Do you want policies that are proven to be useless? Do you want to be stuck paying through the nose for fossil fuels? #nzpol 1100
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 10h"Oh dear, our coalition partner has nixed our election promise. Anyway, so about those tax cuts for the donors..." 040
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 10hIt finally feels like summer is on its way. Welly weather very pleasant. The real reason you can't beat Wellington on a good day is scarcity value makes it priceless. 🤣 050
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiMusical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 14hLatest NZ balance sheet data is out. Always a pleasure. We can start with our apparently perilously indebted government. Errrm, see those blue bars? They're higher than the yellow line, right? Yep, the private sector is in net debt to the Govt. Daft. [🧵1/n] 15223
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiSimon Wilson @simonbwilson.bsky.social · 18hThis election, the issue of child poverty has been swallowed up by "no new taxes". How did that happen and what should we do about it? New Substack post at Hopetown substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comWhy aren’t we talking about child poverty?Child poverty was a hot topic in the last three elections. But it’s slipped off the agenda, even though it’s got worse. What’s going on? 14117
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 13hWhat if they put a toll booth on the alternate access?static.klipy.comTkt Smart Meme: Think SmartALT: Tkt Smart Meme: Think Smart 010
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 14hOr alternatively they just don't replace and do some half-assed private sector thing. 150
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 16hI wish. Every time National has been kicked out they have come back worse. Self-reflection is not in their DNA. 070
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiAndrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 17hAgain, Aotearoa New Zealand is missing from the list of signatories. #nzpol 45720
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 17hThe #Coc and especially Druncle are fucking cowards. Not a single vertebrae among them. 080
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiSacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 17h'The cruelty is the point. It stokes a popular prejudice that unemployment is a personal failing, and it lets the government off the hook for its failed economic management.' - Neale Jones #NzPolthespinoff.co.nzSliding in the polls, have a crack at beneficiaries: National's drug test policy follows a well-worn pattern | The SpinoffIt's just the latest example in the party's sorry history of framing an economic failure as a personal one. 16019
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiMusical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 18hApparently corporate tax in 2025/26 was higher than Treasury forecasts. Lol. Bracket creep has held individual tax revenue up but GST tells the story. Image 2 shows total tax revenue per capita... and the completely predictable result of Government constraining spending into a slump. 03613
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiMlb Kiwi 🫵✋😛🤚 @mlbkiwi.bsky.social · 20hAmerica cannot be trusted. They make the rule of law political from the Supreme Court to the local Sheriff’s department. Now they want to change the ICC 🤷#auspol #nzpol www.dw.com/en/us-impose...dw.comUS announces sanctions on the International Criminal CourtThe US has announced new sanctions on the International Criminal Court. It's the latest in a series of steps by the Donald Trump administration as it seeks to "dismantle" the intergovernmental organiz... 2187
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 19hAnd the timing of the Panama quake underscores just how stupid, short-sighted, vibe-driven this clusterfuck of a government is. 1110
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiInverted kereru @whatthehall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Someone's corrected the billboard beside State Highway 2 on the way into Wellington again. Must have been recent, it didn't look like that last night #nzpol 34712
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiNinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026😑😑😑 #nzpolnzherald.co.nzLack of staff closes earthquake monitoring centre, Labour decries Govt cutsThe closure at GeoNet meant inaccuracies, known as 'ghost quakes', could occur. 77134
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Job losses have not been taken off the table. Managers are deciding what services to cut. This is going to get a lot fucking worse. Goddam fucking economic vandals. 3131
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is not an isolated incident. All across the public service we are going to see more cuts in service and more job losses. Because these fuckwits wants road and tax breaks for their mates. Everywhere in our org, people are cutting costs left right and centre. #nzpol 26526
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Was at a large work meeting recently and we were discussing AI. The consensus was people who had the knowledge and skill to understand what it was doing would find it helpful - people needed to be actually trained in the subject first. 000
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiDavid Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 09/10/2026traditionally, livestreaming people getting murdered has been the remit of mass shooters. but what's good enough for them is good enough for the US government. if you can't beat them, join them: www.webworm.co/publicexecut...webworm.coIn 56 Days The US Government Will Livestream A MurderTraditionally, livestreaming murder has been the remit of mass shooters. 77224
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Counterpoint: Some aren't. RNZ spelling journalism r-e-g-u-r-g-i-t-a-t-e.rnz.co.nzProperty managers wary of Labour rent plansSome property managers are concerned at the prospect of a Labour government removing their ability to issue no-cause eviction notices. 020
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Wait. National saying that people shouldn't want justice? Sounds awfully fascist...... 010
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiWhat The Fukc Is Happening? @dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Loving this. #nzpol #ChristopherLuxon 02111
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiLouise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Death threats are more than just trolls and keyboard warriors - they seek to make people smaller, make them afraid to speak their values, and push them out of politics altogether They cost us time and money, and the donations are already stacked against us. It's time for us to have a real democracy 411535
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiTe Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 09/10/2026@chewienz.bsky.social @patbrittenden.bsky.social Kia ora! Our team has launched a campaign to get fair pay and treatment for the people running the engine room of our public research system. It is one factor in the reason so many young people are leaving. We'd be keen to chat with you two. #NZPOL 0164
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026There are fewer clicks in holding parties to account than there in breathless punditry on the latest shiny announcement. 000
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiKiwiNikki @kiwinikki.bsky.social · 09/10/2026All the things being pledged by the Nat/Act/ NZF parties make me laugh. Where’s the media on what they pledged in 2023 and how they did? They didn’t pledge fast track. They didn’t pledge selling off our assets. They were all about cost of living. And we can all see how that’s going! #nzpol 1218
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiPeter Sime @petesi.me · 09/10/2026The US crossed the moral event horizon long ago and now approaches a singularity of depravity. A public execution only serves as a demonstration of state power. It is not justice, it's fascism. Our own government is far too obsequious in pandering to merchants of filth and death like this. #nzpol 096
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiLance Oliver @theridesofar.com · 08/10/2026Billy Joel is going to auction off his collection of more than 70 motorcycles and if you happen to be in New York this weekend you can see part of the collection. #motosky www.revzilla.com/common-tread...revzilla.comMovin’ Out: Billy Joel to auction motorcycle collection this fall - RevZillaSinger/songwriter Billy Joel plans to auction off his collection of more than 70 motorcycles this fall and some are currently on display in New York. 0172
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiAnneleise @anneleise.bsky.social · 08/10/2026#NZPol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...rnz.co.nzElection 2026: Do young people understand the power of the youth vote?"Baddies vote." 093
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiSea Senor 🇳🇿 @seassenor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Beta testing ChatPMT, the world's smallest language model #nzpol 2385
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiDavid Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Johnny had four bed legs but he has lost three of them. How many does he have left? And is it safe now to go into a room with him? 88312
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiNō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Alright then, how about this? I'll piss in your jar to get my benefit, if I get to check your browser history and hard drive. Come on now, if you've got nothing to hide, it shouldn't be a problem... #nzpol 0197
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiGreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 08/10/2026#nzpol Atlas Network and RW party donors are rotting the system for tax-free hundreds of millions for their own pockets 😡😡😡 #taxwealthnotwork www.nzherald.co.nz/business/bes...nzherald.co.nzBest Start charity has paid founders $287m tax-freeThe charity-owned childcare giant pays another $36m to its rich-lister founders. 64926
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Evidence to date suggests that Luxon gives in to the fascists. If Q gives in to Luxon, I don't see that as changing anything. 110
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Some of our policies may die. This is a sacrifice I'm willing to make." #nzpol 2193
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiAndrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Louise Upston wants 10,000 unemployed New Zealanders to piss in a cup. It'll cost $1.5 million. Naturally, I turned to Freud and Lacan to understand why National is so damn interested, again, in other people's urine. Thread time!🧵 #nzpol 13018
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiRobot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Greens announce passenger rail: Auckland–Wellington, Christchurch–Dunedin, Te Huia to Tauranga. Luxon: rail must be "commercially viable." Motorways aren't commercially viable. We fund them anyway. "Viability" is the test Luxon applies to things he doesn't want built. #nzpolrnz.co.nzGreen Party announces plan for passenger rail between major NZ citiesThe Green Party says it will connect the country with intercity passenger rail services, if elected. 19918
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiNinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026#nzpolstatic.klipy.comJan Brady's Sarcastic 'Sure, Jan' MomentAlt: Jan Brady's Sarcastic 'Sure, Jan' Moment 18015
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiAnneleise @anneleise.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"people are sick of you treating them like they're thick" you fucking bet we are #NZPol 04610
Reposted by Biker "Cash Bazooka" ChiwiHamish Smith @has8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Racism against Māori - Act has you covered Racism against any one else - NZ First is your go to General be a shit to anyone less fortunate than you - go see National #nzpol Fuck this coalition #onetermgovernment 0131