18 December 2024 - Question Time

Final session. Opened with a Government motion about Vanuatu. Can't write about it right now. Too paranoid. Had a cone. - Didn't enjoy it. Would rather leave and do something else next year. Feels like I'm dying of ALS when I get high. It's a reaction to how physically debilitating my anxiety attacks sometimes are. - Gary reckons we should watch the adjournment speeches. I'm not feeling welcome in the space, but I think with an outfit like this, I was totally able to have that confidence. He said that my Instagram profile was the nutty one, so I'm going to leave Instagram. I'm kinda interested in the idea of a Substack, but Gary was just telling me that all the former journalists doing vlogs aren't attracting their old audience. Paddy was there today, so we talked about a serious project. Radula marginata. NZ on Air is probably my way to get funding, but I'm not famous enough. - Too chicken to really talk about my feelings. That's the vibe of my songs. 1. Hipkins to Omelette CH 6, PO 4 'Inflation is down' - a whole laundry list of these. 'Every year this team delivers. Period.' 'The member has no economic credibility' - to Hipkins. 'It's amazing when they shit the bed and blame somebody else' - Gary. - 2. Chloe to Omelette 'We're on track to deliver net carbon zero by 2050' or perhaps earlier, going by something that he said. Is there a job for every New Zealander? - Chloe. A bunch of waffle, but not much. 'Average rents have not increased' - Omelette. 3. Rawiri to Omelette All soundbites, no substances. 'We don't believe that big bureaucracy' is the way to improve Māori outcomes. - Omelette regarding Te Aka Whai Ora. 'Who's getting rich?' - Chloe. She left after this. 'We are finding a balanced approach' - Omelette. 4. Carmel to Upston 36,000 projected regarding increased jobseekers by 2026. 'The only thing keeping the numbers down is people leaving the country.' - Gary. 'Unemployment by design' - Labour interjection. 30,000 people off the benefit and into work, according to Upston. 'It is challenging when someone loses their job' - Upston. 'patronising bitch' - Gary. 5. Kirkpatrick to Willis Didn't take notes. Couldn't focus. 6. Foster to Jones Tuned out. Lots of cringe laughter at all the deja vu! Something shocking happened, though. Jonesy said 'That's enough from the kumara munchers' That was a shock. Gary said 'if anyone else had said that, they'd call it racist.' 7. McCallum to Slimeon A particularly slimy patsy question. 'Endorsing tourist activities for Northland isn't part of your ministerial responsibility' - Brownlee, in a rare display of chiding the government. He ended the question, which is actually an instance of what Gary is always claiming that he wants to see, which is Brownlee sanctioning the Government. 8. Edmonds to Willis

Total waste of a question. Stopped paying attention. Nicola had a nasty tone. 'Our Christmas present to Kiwis is tax relief for the first time in 14 years.' Of course, that was mostly a lie, given how poorly implemented their tax policy truly was. 9. Garcia to Doocey Strategy meeting between Kieran, Carmel and Chippy. Ben shined in his supplementary, asking the tough question about why there isn't any rainbow-specific mental health funding, rather than than this competitive innovation fund with all kinds of other health issues. National's agenda is increasingly discrimination by stealth, by pretending that every person has equal advantages and opportunities, they're able to support The Pink Skull's need, not race ideology. Like, right now it seems that there's a lot of rainbow health issues that are the result of the mamae that's suffered when people don't apologise. The documentary is likely to be a campaign film in that Dakumentary vein. - To Gary: Yeah, nobody believes me, but I remember how that night felt re: Tory's hui. I'm not feeling persecuted: I am persecuted. Watch the films, and it definitely demonstrates that Tory's a fan, but she does seem to have been a bit slow on the uptake re: my gender orientation. I feel like she sees me as a man. I blame the drag queens, but it was her name on the tickets, and I'm somewhat unimpressed by her as the Mayor. Hear me out about my ideas for the city. This blog is why it's easy for people to stalk me. They're telling me that I'll probably have to be more careful about my privacy if I go pro. Showing people that much information about my life was a bit of a security no-no, but I'm not an MP. I'm a student on the dole. Getting it out in the movie: that's the performance art aspect. I felt strong feelings, and I'm satisfied that I voiced those. They definitely heard me, even if they're not so keen to say that they overreached and set a precedent that made me alternate between loving and hating Chloe. Hard to trust a woman who introduced you to her friends by insulting you. As long as the Weeded Out movie isn't my 'community service', then I'm fine. - 10. Willow-Jean to Chhour No reduction in OT funding. Yeah right! 11. Stephenson to Seymour ECE report. 'He never seems to grasp that the regulations are the result of past fuck-ups.' - Gary, opining that The Pink Skull doesn't appear to know much history. 12. Meager to Bayly Even a Christmas grinch can get excited about these savings' - Bayly. Something about lowering card fees and surcharges. People had been slowly ducking out, so the festive atmosphere seemed to have most people anxious to leave. McAnulty moved a motion of no confidence in the speaker, which wasn't carried, but I'm very pleased that they finally did so.