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James R

@jecryan.bsky.social
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Living large and happy in the Bay of Plenty NZ - found myself to be more left wing as I get older - firm believer in the need for action on climate change, poverty, and equity for women, LGBTIQA+ and Māori all those things empower the world to be better.

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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Those two do not like each other one little bit you can see it in each other's face. I think they would rather set their heads on fire and put it out with a spade than sit next to each other! Aside from that he is 100% correct!
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I didn't vote for him or his party. The fact that he has managed to get what he wants including the part-time DPM jig shows how weak Luxon is. The man if full of sh#t. He wants nothing more than the Treaty ripped up and zero regulations in NZ so his rich mates can exploit the land and us!
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I stopped reading after I think 2 paragraphs some self indulgent BS. I even did the poll and more people thought JA was excellent versus awful!
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Happy Star Wars Day
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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 02/05/2025
Rep. Green Previews Articles of Impeachment Against Pres. Trump, Alerts of Constitutional Crisis. Watch the clip of Rep. Green's floor speech by clicking here: youtu.be/uT2gy4SS6uQ?...
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Rep. Green Previews Articles of Impeachment Against Pres. Trump, Alerts of Constitutional Crisis
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
He is the space where a human would be - I cannot take credit for the quote but I feel it is a perfect description of him
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I am just going to leave this here - sums everything up nicely - Luxon is no leader - he is a shinny head that managed to fail upwards. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
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Opinion: How breathtakingly bad was your Marmite sandwich line, Luxon?
The worst part about this response wasn’t just that it was a complete shirking of responsibility. It was the fact he didn’t seem to get why people cared so much.
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I am just going to leave this here - I have expressed my thoughts on Alphabet Inc and their cowardice
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Won’t somebody think of the…. Checks notes …… eggs!
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
And so begins the next phase in the Kakistocracy that America has decided to turn into.
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Love days like today - a walk through the bush with the family lunch at a seaside cafe and then a dip in the nice warm ocean. The best part I cannot remember that last time I heard the orange man’s voice.
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I have a lot of feelings about what David Seymour said in his "State of the Nation" speech today but they all boil down to one simple statement. David Seymour can go and F*CK himself with a canoe - sideways.
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Oh he is tungsten level density!
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
He is quite small I’d think you’d surprise yourself how you could throw him!
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Any day in the next 4 years when I don't hear his voice is a gift and I will cherish it!
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Would the new Minister for the South Island have anything to do with the ferry debacle? I mean post Kaikoura and Christchurch earthquakes which hit large parts of the island just got a Minister for recovery of those areas - so what’s changed other their ham fisted handling of the ferry issue?
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
What an absolute DB bag - it hasn't crossed his enfeebled brain that we can have both? Regulations to protect people from earthquakes AND funding for cancer drugs that saves lives.
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Man, that is grim reading - I rate him as a pretty ineffective MP let alone Minister. I am not surprised with his attitude - for a while he was National's education spokesperson, and he wanted to turn every school into Auckland Grammar!
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I think this is what the people used to think when the Roman Emperor made their horse Consul!
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The truly dumb thing is investing Health IT can actually do a lot of good with limited resources so rather than scaling back NZ should follow international examples and dive head first into this area.
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Yes CEO who don’t meet KPIs but also Public organisations that don’t met the KPIs set out by Ministers That could be judges, doctors university professors too Maybe I think too much www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/high-inco... High-income workers lose unjustified dismissal claim rights under new policy
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Workers on $180k won't be able to claim for unjustified dismissal under new policy
High earners to lose unjustified dismissal rights after the Government's rule change.
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I think that this would also work with judges and KC that they don’t like - so maybe this is NACT1 slowly weaponising things?
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
They will say that getting a plurality of votes is a mandate and that a vote is consultant - if that was true everything and I mean every policy and bill needs to be published before the election
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
When Act Party has lost big daddy Roger it shows they aren't what they were! www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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‘I never thought I would say it’ – Roger Douglas on Act, NZ First
The Act founder said his old party was 'sending NZ bankrupt'.
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I get that just not the fan of RBR is all!
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Super happy Liam Lawson has a seat in a major F1 team for 2025 but why did it have to be RBR?? Why not Mercedes or even better a McLaren!?
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Yeah who would have thought that?
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Weakest 6months since 1991! That’s is an accomplishment. Talk about taking us back to the lofty days of Ruthenomics
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I hear the economy has reduced again by 1% - wow so glad we have the fiscally competent party in charge of the Treasury benches it is making all the difference. Yeah keep telling me why a tax cut will fix all the problems we have
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Shows my age - I conflated the Hamilton game with the Auckland game - the flour bombs were in the Auckland game but pitch invaders was Hamilton
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I am showing my age - I watched the pitch invasions at Hamilton game and flour bombs with my Dad on TV and asked what was going on - I was way too small to really understand but to this day I recall the images. nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/1981...
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Tour diary
Select itinerary of the 1981 tour by the Springbok rugby team.
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I think it will once again come down to those pesky loyal NZF voters if they hang with Winnie then it will be National if they desert Winnie then Labour has a sniff But NACT1 are royally screwing everything so when Labour gets in next they will spend 3 years unscrewing it and then get the blame
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
And more cuts to come to the civil service. Unemployment is up and then they blame an increase in job seeker allowance numbers as a reason for not meeting targets - well what the heck did they expect to happen?
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
That goddam 👇
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The vast majority of people in Western nations are a 1 serious economic crisis from living in their car or on the streets + capitalism for someone to have lots someone has to have a lot less. Never look down on someone suffering because they are direct out come of the system & it could be you
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The other point to remember is that Americans have been a steady diet of too much Government is socialism eg: socialist healthcare and that socialism is communism lite so when the Dems try to sell the power of the government Americans don’t trust it so going around say otherwise is a tough sell
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I think government will be the definition of the term “tail wagging the dog”
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The press release stated that it is pro-tenant and pro-landlord which seem a touch illogical and then proceeded to give all the key features which make life easier for the landlord and a single improvement for the tenant - talk about trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Because I have not seen much rugby in this big beautiful Blue Space - there has to be a bit of Blackness!
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
If you can get that up and running that would magical
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Do it because a really good cafe with good food and coffee is a gift that keeps on giving - ideally nothing chain all independent please
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
As much as I wish this would make a difference - the reality is that it is a Hail Mary sort of action - there is no way KCIII will do anything www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Māori tribes make rare plea to King Charles for intervention in New Zealand politics
Exclusive: Open letter seen by the Guardian asks King to ‘ensure the government does not diminish the crown’s honour’ amid tensions over policy direction for Māori
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This government doesn't seem to appreciate how the South Island view the ferries - they are part of State Highway 1 and an integral connection between the South and the North. The Strait is a psychological and physical barrier between the two islands and playing roulette with them is shameful
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
You know age is kicking your butt when you have to change the size of the cursor on your computer. Not quite to the point of changing the colour but getting there!
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I find it appalling that many American parents have a celebration when they have paid off the debt for the actual birth of their child. I am pretty sure every other western nation the parents walk out of the hospital with their new child and not a single cent of debt
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
That’s the thing with this Government we are pro-cigarette racism and racing anti-planet!! It it a total shit show and they don’t seem to care who they piss off.
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Could one argue that it is a direct outcome of market forces?
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James R @jecryan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It also addresses issues like sexuality and that people are different like non-binary, trans etc. This goes against their traditional values so best way is not to educate people about it and try to keep them ignorant.
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