# New Zealand Prime Minister lets slip his plan for global domination

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-zealand-prime-minister-lets-slip-his-plan-for-global-domination/738866>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 28, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-zealand-prime-minister-lets-slip-his-plan-for-global-domination/738866 "2015-11-28T20:36:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-zealand-prime-minister-lets-slip-his-plan-for-global-domination/738866/1 "2015-11-28T20:36:33Z")

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The [puppet media](https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/its-all-part-of-my-global-master-plan-key-makes-front-page-twice-by-mistake)may pass it off as a joke, but the truth is now out there…

[QUOTE=John Key]  
“It’s all part of my global master plan to increase my sphere of influence in the world and make people believe I have so many more people under my control,”  
[/QUOTE]

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**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-zealand-prime-minister-lets-slip-his-plan-for-global-domination/738866/2 "2015-11-28T20:53:42Z")

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Aha! That explains the hypnoflag!

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**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-zealand-prime-minister-lets-slip-his-plan-for-global-domination/738866/3 "2015-11-28T21:26:37Z")

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Kiwis with frikkin laser beams…

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**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-zealand-prime-minister-lets-slip-his-plan-for-global-domination/738866/4 "2015-11-28T21:31:02Z")

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> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#):
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> Aha! That explains the hypnoflag!

That reminds me, I need to send my [flag referendum](https://twitter.com/hypnoflag)vote in.

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-zealand-prime-minister-lets-slip-his-plan-for-global-domination/738866/5 "2015-11-29T04:03:50Z")

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The page at that link makes clear that it was merely a case of mistaken identification. They really meant Donald Trump.