Graham Beever

So let me get this straight. It's 2025. No silver spacesuits, no flying cars, and the infectious diseases are COMING BACK???

Great to know that competence and honesty are now requirements for Trump appointees, and I look forward to rest of the administration being fired in the near future.

If I’m honest I see a lot of myself in Donald Trump. Mainly my two year old self, my four year old self, and my future senile self.

Bear in mind these are the same people who want to livestream a firing squad...

Hospital vs Insurer AI bots mechanically battling it out to push up the cost of healthcare sure does sound like peak capitalism to me...

The best way to minimise fraudulent claims in your healthcare system? Universal public healthcare.

I think the point Ed Sheeran was missing was that our outrage wasn't really about Gaza and Israel as such. It was about the idea that a billionaire capitalist who owns a stadium can ban an artist from it because he doesn't like something he said.

Why am I supposed to be impressed by a machine that can run faster than Usain Bolt? I drive to work in a machine that goes twice as fast as Usain Bolt.

Normalise dropping "URGENT" from the subject of an email thread once the issue is no longer urgent.

Do the Germans have a word for when a political movement that has revelled in celebrating and boosting climate denial, starts wilting and flaking out in the record-breaking heat on what should be their proudest day?

If the capitalists are going to insist on replacing all our jobs with AI then, yes, I think a Universal Basic Income is the least they could do.

What exactly does the "do your own research" crowd have in mind when the only research that could possibly illuminate the question is a large-scale clinical trial that has already been done?

Who says Trump and Netanyahu aren't achieving their objectives? They're both staying out of prison.

Grown men beating each other senseless in a cage actually sounds like a pretty good metaphor for the United States right now.

This is a stain on the conscience of every American who voted for Trump. They TOLD you they were going to do this!

How about a new reality TV show where the teenage tech bros who slashed US foreign aid last year have to travel to Congo and Uganda to help contain the ballooning Ebola outbreak that has gotten away from the under-resourced local health officials? We could call it "Survivor".

In New Zealand when we say our politicians are behaving like schoolchildren we mean they’re taunting and yelling at each other in Parliament. In America when they say their politicians are behaving like schoolchildren they mean they’re cowering under their tables hiding from an active shooter.

When the reckoning comes, let's not forget about Musk and his teenage tech bros whose reckless and incompetent actions have casually killed half a million children.

The “daring rescue” I would like to see involves the 25th Amendment. And actually not that much courage at all…

In a gift to future war crime prosecutors Pete Hegseth has proudly stated that under his leadership the US military is pursuing a policy of "MAXIMUM LETHALITY, NOT TEPID LEGALITY". I believe the legal term for this is "confession".

One does not simply “end” a war in the Middle East.

Make the shipping news boring again.

When will America and Israel learn? These wars to “make the world safe” only work for as long as it takes the children you bomb today to grow into even more radicalised teenagers.

“Lifting 2.4 million people off food stamps” is an odd way to talk about lifting food stamps off 2.4 million people.

Another beautiful summer’s morning in New Zealand! Fresh coffee, the sound of cicadas, and threats from the President of the United States of “powerful” and “obnoxious” tariffs.

Is my life better because corporations can predict what I’m going to want and provide it to me before I know it myself? Um… Hard No! Turns out the choosing and anticipation were the most human parts of the process.

I can see why the Supreme Court is taking its time to issue its tariff ruling. The fate of a nation depends on it. And that’s just Iran.

“RFK Jr is right about some things”. Yeah, or to put it another way: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing!

Just to simplify the task for the US Government: you can safely assume that EVERY visitor from overseas has said or written SOMETHING disparaging about Donald Trump at some point in the last five years, so it may be simpler just to close your border.

Auckland Chamber of Commerce boss Simon Bridges is complaining that “international businesspeople see New Zealanders as ‘life stylers’ more interested in their work-life balance than in growing the economy” and I for one plead GUILTY AS CHARGED!

In no other modern democratic country would this be possible. Only a perfect storm of ignorance and stupidity in the United States could have accomplished this. 😳👇

I'm seeing reports that Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school and everyone's shocked. Hang on, what?

“We can’t tax billionaires because they’ll take their money elsewhere” isn’t an argument against taxing billionaires, it’s an argument in favour of international co-operation.

The American conception of “freedom” overlooks the fact that if you’re dead from a gunshot wound or an infectious disease you have no freedom whatsoever and your pursuit of happiness is in even worse shape.

Jesus Christ, how Bad is this Bunny? They're sending in ICE?? to police the half time entertainment at a sports event??!?

Grateful to live in a country where we're famous for the ratio of sheep to people, rather than the ratio of guns to people.

RFK Jr is in danger of getting his long sought after controlled trials for vaccines! West Coast states are forming their own alternative to the CDC to ensure best practice public health. Meanwhile Florida is providing the "control arm" by actively discouraging its citizens from getting vaccines!

Anyone willing to hazard a guess as to how many people have died/are dying/will die because of the policies of RFK Jr?

The reason parliamentary democracies don’t have the type of problem the United States has right now is that a Prime Minister serves under permanent threat of removal from office.

Night of the Long Syringes.

At least during the Dark Ages they didn’t know better. What’s our excuse? 🤔

RFK Jr: “I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges...you see tell it from their faces, from their body movements, and from their lack of social connection.” Dude, THEY JUST GOT OFF A LONG HAUL FLIGHT!

I’d send you a care package America, but the New Zealand Post Office won’t carry it because they can’t work out the tariffs.

#TaylorSwift is engaged? Not the Breaking News from America I was hoping to wake up to, but I’ll take it!

Major media once thought a Trump dictatorship was impossible, so they didn't warn the public about it. Major media now see the dictatorship arriving, so they're afraid to warn the public about it.

This is an industry that isn’t used to hearing the word “NO”. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.