Speaking of economic astrology ...

"... Without doubt, the number 1 thing is to make sure the economy is growing, and that people are feeling it."

#CLuxon, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=8ea2a808-b255-4337-88d0-1ab609252fde

As a statement, "the economy is growing" is about as meaningful as 'Jupiter is in retrograde'. After decades of financialisation and the FIRE economy, number-go-up in neoclassical economic measures has no relationship to citizens' standard of living.

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#podcasts #RNZ #FocusOnPolitics #FIREEconomy #growth

"[3 Waters is] fundamentally the creation of these 4 mega ... bureaucratic entities, that are actually stripping power away from local communities, and stripping those aasets."

#CLuxon, clip played on The Detail podcast, 2023

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/the-detail?share=58b425f8-6bc9-4e38-adf8-d9f921904eb9

The NatACT First campaign machines came up with a wide range of such faux-localist talking points while they were weaponising 3 Waters as a wedge issue against the government of the day.

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#LocalDemocracy

"What's I'm doing is focused very much on my job. As I keep saying; polls, commentariat, rumours, my job is to get on with the country, and getting it sorted for people."

#CLuxon, speaking to Ryan Bridge in 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=8e7b038f-039b-4c10-86c4-cb2a67ad34af

Oh dear. The political truism regurgitation machine has started stringing random clauses together into vaguely sentence-shaped objects, which don't really hang together (they also don't mean anything but that's not new.

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#podcasts #RNZ #MediaWatch

#CLuxon is doubling down on the #B416 social media ban for kiwis under 16. This is a terrible idea, for many well-documented reasons. But, if tech policy and civil rights activists allow ourselves to be pulled into a narrow, negative campaign against it, there's a risk this will push many people into supporting it on a 'better than nothing' basis.

What we need is a positive campaign for a suite of tech regulations that can actually shift power away from technofascists.

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#TechPolicyNZ

@BobLefridge he was bitching about cluxon getting the rates rebate on his ten mill holiday home on waiheke and especially!!! the fact cluxon sought it #sorted #entitled #Cluxon

"I just don't- (sigh), I'm focused, ah, I was elected to do a job. And I know what my job is which is to clean up the mess, turn it around, and get it heading in the right direction and that's what I'm focused on.

And that's, I know that's, yeah.

There's so many different things coming- that's what I'm focused on from beginning to end."

#CLuxon, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/572447/coalition-loses-power-in-new-political-poll

CLuxon can't even recite his own talking points convincingly anymore. I'm reminded of Todd Muller ...

#NZpol #Cluxon

"I'm not taking any lectures from frick'n Chris Hipkins."

#CLuxon, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=e209c491-f7d1-421e-abf2-a68afd0c9b0b

Ooh, the nice guy mask is slipping. CLuxon is rattled!

The NatACTs are running scared. Which is presumably why they've turned to blatant voter suppression, in a desperate attempt to avoid being turfed out in 2026.

https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/07/an-attack-on-free-and-fair-elections.html

#podcasts #RNZ #FocusOnPolitics #VoterSuppression

This is the talking point #CLuxon pulls out when asked about health system failures;

"Basically I think that's the hangover of a Labour government that didn't care about Auckland, focused on Wellington, shut the joint down for 2 years."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=7c69e0c3-ba0e-47f7-a4fd-7b37a9e604d1

I'm just imagining the next tory PM blaming the previous government for health failures in Otago. Blatantly ignoring consecutive tory governments delaying and *defunding* the Dunedin Hospital rebuild.

#podcasts #RNZ #MediaWatch #health

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/567491/inflation-predicted-to-hit-12-month-high-for-june-quarter #nzpol #backontrack#nickynoboats #cluxon #laserfocused

Listening to CLuxon's interviews with Tame and Espiner, it's become clear to me that our PM is a plausible sentence generator in a man suit.

Like ChatGPT, he generates sentences based on the data he's been trained on - in this case talking points - and the prompt he's given. But he has no idea what any of it really means. He just blurts out some variant of the talking point he associates with the keywords in the question.

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#NZPolitics #CLuxon #MOLE

Gotta love this one ...

Espiner: "51% of people say you're out of touch."

#CLuxon: "Well I just say to you I think I am, because I'm out and about talking to New Zealanders ..."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=514c090c-041b-48b6-8c90-bf6986a67eb2

Even as he tries to deny it, his unconscious knows what Espiner said is undeniably true (that 51% of people in survey X see him that way), and let's the cat out of the bag.

He's not even a competent liar, let alone a competent leader. The classic Hollow Man.

Listening to Guyon Espiner's interview with CLuxon. He starts off sounding a tad more human than he did with Jack Tame, but the chatbot-speak kicks in about 5 minutes in;

"But what we are doing, is we have refreshed all of our Defence leadership, from heads of the Forces, through the Chief, through the Defence Secretary, through to the Minister, obviously. And I've asked them for a new strategy on our defence strategy."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=514c090c-041b-48b6-8c90-bf6986a67eb2

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#podcasts #RNZ #30 #CLuxon

@isaacfreeman @jsr

Perhaps it's simply the hipkinetic power of Chippy's aura that becomes a labour to escape once under its spell?
As cluxon would call it "his mojo" which he can tell you he hasn't lost, he's still got it, just can't remember exactly where he left it.

#NZPol #Hipkinetic #Hipkmentum #Cluxon