This post is titled in recollection of Alte, who would generally follow her most scabrous, accurate and cynical observations by using Ebonics, or more accurately, Trash Talk. Well, she has had to survive in Philadelphia, and that does things to a woman, even one who is a Lady most of the time.
Kiwis based in some of the most far-flung places on Earth still managed to have their say http://t.co/3yWnkMln3i pic.twitter.com/kME9m5nr1L
— nzherald (@nzherald) September 21, 2014
So some truths, before the bureaux tell us that we cannot talk about the election. That this episode shall never be mentioned again. From the Whale, where the joy of a right wing victory is being dissected.
At heart the political left is populated largely with poisonous people who are vicious, unethical, sanctimonious and dishonest.They kid themselves they’re humane and wonderful but to prove the lie all you’ve got to do is look at their reactions right now to what the people have said.
The rock’s been lifted and the lizards are angrily hissing.
“@cassieroma: A spring storm is brewing over the Auckland Harbour Bridge. #auckland #rain pic.twitter.com/EOZyd1Y5rm” #AklPhoto
— Local Auckland (@LocalAuckland) September 21, 2014
Pam Corkery had a realngo at me this morning at TV3 for saying Internet Mana had failed. It's not personal Pam. Just truth. No grace.
— Duncan Garner (@Garner_Live) September 21, 2014
And the greens are electoral poison. Because they over regulate. Keeping things fair, this is from the Dim Post — run by a bloke who voted Green, but is examining the entrails of this election and thinking things have to change.
… to guote the guys I work with they> became ” a party for gay people and school teachers” the guys saying that are all like me labours traditional voting base. When Cunliffe bought the unions closer to the party and gave them more say, most people have nothing to do with the unions anymore and their last big push into the public consciousness – the hobbit fiasco which led to anti union protests on labour day.
And finally they can’t govern without the greens, for labour to win they need the greens and to give them some power and policies. I can’t express the depth of loathing there seems to be amongst tradies. When you want to put a halt to roads, mines and drilling it’s not just the big corporates you affect its the people who’ll be doing the building work the plumbing work , servicing the vehicles , driving the vehicles etc etc. You’re asking a lot of them expecting to vote for a labour green coalition and in return when they don’t give the result you want they get called selfish .
But the left don’t speak it, and don’t get it. They tend to talk jargon — such as using maori in English tweets — and are moaning about the results. In every election, the cannon fodder — often good people — get rinsed while the leaders who caused the defeat remain.
Really sorry to think that @MoanaMackey won't be around as a voice for science – and wahine – in parliament. So few MPs who get science :/
— Nicola Gaston (@nicgaston) September 21, 2014
The last quote for today is from the Pagini, who was hated by the left for saying their tactics are wrong. She’s got one mistake in this: as a chick she got a half pass. If she was a bloke she would have got the full SJW hate, including the comments that she should die, usually reserved for Tories like me and Cam Slater. I would add that when I made a similar comment on a normally sane left wing site today it was removed.
I am least confident about Labour’s ability to confront some deep-seated cultural problems.
1. There was a tone of entitlement from people who cheered the departure of Shane Jones, Many would-be Labour supporters felt that their values, language and lifestyles were being sneered at.
2. Related to this is the hostile tone of too much debate on the left. I welcome vigorous debate of ideas and policy, but the personal abuse and vilification is damaging for Labour’s support, especially among women.
Most of the aggression directed at me comes from men. Criticise my argument all you like but the personal vilification and marginalising have no place. It needs to be confronted.
Deb Mahuta-Coyle got the same torrent of invective when she dared to voice opinions on TV last week as well. There is a pattern of condemnation here.
I would personally try to change the left’s aggro at women before I brought in rule changes like all-women shortlists because the aggro is going to drive women out.
When half the country have just voted for John Key there is no future in vilifying him or persuading them he is evil. It sounds like a tantrum and a frustrated lashing out.
I think the Greens usually get this in a way that Labour does not (and the far left never will): For all the horrible attitudes exposed in Dirty Politics, the left can’t take the high ground when many on the left attack the person not the issue.
We should be known for our better way of doing politics.
Change in the party has to start from the members up, not the leader down. No more heretic seeking. Time to open the doors and welcome people, even if you don’t agree with everything they say or do.
Because the PM, now re elected, and reading the herald with his wife, will not just sit there. He has a plan. And he is not stupid enough to go full SJW on anyone who disagrees with him, destroying them for a point of ideology.
This was the real moment of truth delivered by the voters, writes Claire Trevett http://t.co/ysc1cN22Sw pic.twitter.com/iauDikbDGP
— nzherald (@nzherald) September 21, 2014
Two elections without being close and an increase in votes for the incumbent? Well, perhaps the Left need to consider that their cathedral does not exist, and that the workers they look down on may be wiser than they are. So let’s finish with a quote from the Alte, which will annoy all those goodthinkers who cannot tolerate dissent.
If anything (and I have this from a reliable source — namely myself), it will be a sincere relief to the male engineers around her to finally interact with an intelligent and competent woman who is easily recognizable as female. So many of the few females who venture into that domain are veritably indistinguishable from their male colleagues. This is the problem in engineering, and not that the men are in any danger of going into diabetic shock at the sight of a cute smile and even cuter shoes.
Not only should highly intelligent women not attempt to behave in a masculine manner, I would posit that they should not even attempt to behave in a sex-neutral manner. The very idea that intelligent working women should cloak their beauty, vivacious charm, and pleasant personalities with boxy pants-suits and dour expressions is an aspect of feminism that I roundly denounce, and it saddens me to see it popping up at an otherwise decidedly un-feminist blog.
Like totally.
