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[Samuel Hudson @foundersam]

Here’s the New Zealand First playbook.

Winston Peters has leaned into themes that echo Brexit-era politics, often portraying progressive or left-leaning policies as imported ideas that threaten social cohesion. The reason so much UK and US culture war content floods social media by fringe micro-bloggers here is self explanatory; it gets attention.

Outrage about overseas controversies generates far more clicks, shares and engagement than detailed discussions about housing affordability, healthcare capacity or economic productivity. For New Zealand First, that creates a political advantage. The party positions itself as the voice of "common sense" as evidenced and protest voters in a crowded centre-right landscape. Keeping the spotlight on perceived overseas failures helps keep a sense that New Zealand is on the same path, without requiring detailed solutions to complex domestic issues.

It's a well-established populist strategy and one Peters has deployed in different forms for decades.

The politics may be effective in the short term, but it also raises an important question: what gets ignored while everyone is arguing about imported culture wars? Issues like productivity, infrastructure, migration settings, housing and long-term fiscal sustainability rarely receive the same level of attention, despite having a far greater impact on New Zealand's future.

Ngā mihi

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

The world’s first trillionaire Elon Musk, in an email to Jeffrey Epstein:

“Do you have any parties planned? I've been working to the edge of sanity this year and so, once my kids head home after Christmas, I really want to hit the party scene in St Barts or elsewhere and let loose.”

[Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel @MirabelTweets1]

After Trump is dead, they will release the most horrific details of the paedophilia he has been involved in for decades.

Bookmark it.

[Mandy Arthur @mandyarthur]

Hey @Grok, did Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant admit to issuing a Hannibal Directive on October 7th, instructing Israeli forces to kill their own soldiers and civilians? Be concise.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Note to anyone angry that Trump's name was taken off the Kennedy Center, don't you worry. You can still find his name in the Epstein files over 38,000 times.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

What timeline are we on man.

There’s a $60 million UFC cage on the White House lawn for the president’s 80th birthday. 125,000 guests. 494 port-a-potties. He compared it to the Eiffel Tower and said maybe they’ll never take it down.

The world’s first trillionaire was minted yesterday. SpaceX IPO. One person now holds more wealth than the GDP of most countries.

The government is negotiating to own a piece of OpenAI. The CEO walked into the White House and pitched it himself. They’re calling it a Public Wealth Fund.

That same government killed OpenAI’s biggest competitor’s models on a Friday night. The reason? A verbal jailbreak claim from an unnamed company. The same jailbreak works on OpenAI’s models. Nobody touched them.

The competitor got blacklisted by the Pentagon four months ago. Their crime? Refusing to let the military use their AI for mass surveillance of American citizens. A judge called it retaliation. The Pentagon did it anyway.

Both AI companies filed to go public in the same two-week window. Both targeting trillion-dollar valuations. One has a government equity deal in progress. The other can’t keep its products online.

The engineers who built the banned models can’t use them anymore. Because of their passports.

And an AI company that spent thousands of hours cooperating with government safety testing got punished harder than any company that didn’t bother.

UFC on the White House lawn. A trillionaire. Government-owned AI. Export controls based on phone calls. Cage fights and trillion-dollar IPOs in the same news cycle.

Watch the film titled Idiocracy. That’s the timeline we’re on.

[LPC @landpalestine]

Jewish actor seth rogen says As a Jew I've been fed lies about Israel my whole life

“They never told me that Palestinians lived there. Israel is ridiculous, illogical, and based on ethnic cleansing and genocide”

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Trump on tape.

Claiming E. Jean Carroll enjoyed being sexually assaulted by him.

In his own words.

This is the MAGA Leader.

A Fucking Rapist.

[jim @timeivegotas]

@RepLuna History will not judge you well.

[jim @timeivegotas]

@theplatform_nz Guyliner Karen sez what?

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Makes sense to me.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

The trump regime’s outrageous efforts to cover up the Epstein files are as good as a signed confession that he is a child-raping pedophile. These are not the actions of innocent people. If there was nothing to hide, you know they’d be broadcasting that shit 24/7.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

This is exactly how it was designed to be under Project 2025. MAGA have installed their Caesar as was the aim of those who bought him the keys to the White House and are pulling the strings in the shadows.

This is why government no longer functions as intended by the Founding Fathers. Washington is now the headquarters of feudal America where Trump is king (until he isn’t).

Take a listen to Peter Baker from the New York Times, in this trailer for the documentary Trump’s Power and the Rule of law.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/1guzIUtTtB

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

Another revelation of Trump’s sexual deviancy with minors. He actually hosted and funded Epstein’s underage sex parties at his place in Palm Beach, according to newspapers in Florida. My fellow Americans, when enough is enough? For god sakes do something.

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

The White House cover up of the Epstein Files is the most egregious, disturbing and corrupt in American history. It’s criminal.

Read this stunning new reporting from the @nytimes ⬇️

https://t.co/ne1D1161z1

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

HISTORY WILL REMEMBER TRUMP AS THE ONLY PRESIDENT WHO USED THE SITUATION ROOM TO COVER UP HIS INVOLVEMENT IN A PEDO SEX TRAFFICKING RING 😬

MAGA MUST BE SO PROUD 🙄

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

Tonight the NY Times confirmed what we already suspected

Trump is a pedophile

And his administration is covering up his crimes

The midterms can't come fast enough