#dirtywork

@cestfleuve@mastodon.nz I'll never forget, I was a twitter user back then and when that #NZPol Eminemesque ad dropped I posted a youtube link of it to #Eminem suggesting I thought it sounded like this #NZPol RW party had ripped off "Lose Yourself" it appears #Eminem didn't disagree. 🤣 #Dirty #DirtyPolitics #DirtyWork#JukeboxFridayNighthttps://youtu.be/7YuAzR2XVAM

Video of the Dirty Work book launch, published by the NZ Herald; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4m_-zwPV9k Nicky Hager looks only slightly less exhausted when he comes to the mic. It seems this book was a bit of an own goal for the Taxpayers Onion. Hager said he had no plans to write about them. But then in 2023 they issued some preemptive reputation laundering claiming that he was, and within days sources started coming out of the woodwork 😂 #TaxpayersUnion #DirtyWork #NickyHager #NZHerald

"Some may have wondered if the political landscape today is different to the one Dirty Politics exploded onto in back in 2014. What, in the year 2026 – the year of a foreign affairs minister telling a Chinese MP to go back to where they came from – really passes for dirty work? What’s bad enough these days to actually make heads roll?" #LyricWaiwiriSmith, 2026 https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/23-09-2026/a-dispatch-from-the-sweaty-feverish-launch-of-nicky-hagers-new-book-dirty-work Sad that this level of political scumbaggery has gotten so normalised. #DirtyWork #DirtyPolitics #NickyHager

"...he released his accusations at a carefully choreographed media event, in the middle of an election campaign, knowing that the headlines would be written before we could even obtain a copy of the book - let alone check its claims." #JordanWilliams, 2026 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/1523329/nicky-hager-s-new-book-dirty-work-expose-of-taxpayers-union Williams is kind of outing the Taxpayers Onion here. This is the kind of thing the leader of an electoral party would say. If TPU really was just a nonpartisan watchdog, why would the timing matter? #TPU #DirtyWork