NEW PINNED TWEET: To settle speculation about my politics... I’ve given votes to Greens, Labour, National & ACT (gen & elec) over the years. I worked in the Leader of the Opposition's office in 2021. I party voted Green and electorate voted Labour in 2017. Within a year I was full of regret. The Governments of 2017-2023 were so bad on so many levels that despite any misgivings I have about some of the new Government's policies, I am relieved that they are there. I always allow a new Government a grace period to settle in before I start being super hard on them, but I seem to always end up in 'opposition' eventually. I was very critical of Key/English's Governments and Ardern/Hipkins'. I am a classic swing voter, I guess. I like bits of centre-left policy and bits of centre-right. I’m perhaps centrist? Definitely contrarian. I loathe extremists on both ends of politics and they loathe me right back. In my experience society today has much more tolerance for left wing extremists and so their craziness impacts us all more. I hate postmodernism. I hate identity politics. I have been called all sorts of variations of 'Uncle Tom' because I am a lesbian who opposes gender ideology and the impact trans activism has on women's rights, children's rights, and society at large. I am a women's rights activist who understands that for a cohesive society the two sexes have to find ways to work together. First step is to deal with male violence against women and themselves. Mental health/illness is something I care a great deal about. We aren't managing this crisis well in our health system nor in how we raise our kids. I am not ashamed to share that I have Bipolar 1 Disorder and have extensive experience in the mental health system. I am open about it and try to combat stigma, but I do get nervous about how it will be used against me. I am on the Council of the Free Speech Union & because people just don't seem to get it, that means I will defend your right to speech even if I disagree with you. However, I may criticise your speech. I might say it is offensive or rude or inappropriate. Criticism is not suppression. Also me blocking people on X is not a violation of their free speech. They can keep talking nonsense, I just don't have to listen to it. I am passionate about reforming New Zealand's justice system. In particular, reforming sentencing laws and finding ways to place constraints on an activist judiciary without totally destroying the separation of powers. I also want to reform name suppression laws to make it virtually impossible for criminals to get name suppression unless it protects the victims. Prison abolitionists are simply anarchists and should be taken as seriously as flat-earthers. I am a pretty open book so feel free to ask questions - just don't be a dick.

I really do not have the energy for this. Such desperate behaviour. The absolute reach it takes to turn these photos of Tama Potaka and Matt Doocey into some sort of equivalent to Kerrin Leoni’s situation, or the Greens and Te Pāti Māori visiting a Mongrel Mob pad, is astounding. Being approached for a photo at a large Kīngitanga event (in 2024) is completely different from choosing to visit a gang pad, address the gathering of patched members, and implore them to vote for you. Likewise I have been clear that gang members are entitled to access public services etc and if they are at an event (not a gang event) a minister should engage them in good faith. At least this guy with Doocey had his patch off…can’t really take the one off his face. The location, purpose, and circumstances are relevant because we aren’t all complete retards. It is clearly too much to expect intellectual honesty from some people. And I apply the standard to Chris Hipkins too. Even though he is carrying on like a pork chop about this being “hypocrisy”. Harry Tam has put up this photo of Hipkins in what reads to me as a fairly obvious “fuck you” after the Leoni fallout. But the photo itself looks like an ordinary encounter while Hipkins is out and about. It does not establish that he was courting a gang, begging for votes, or endorsing it. If someone asked him for a photo and he obliged, I’m hardly going to pretend that is evidence of him cozying up to the Mongrel Mob. See how easy it is to apply a consistent standard, even to someone whose politics I strongly oppose? Woooooow. Politicians meet thousands and thousands of people. Agreeing to a photograph is not an endorsement of everything the person beside you has ever done or belonged to. Deliberately turning up at a gang’s premises to seek political support is a different kettle of fish. The media and the left seem very keen to blur the distinction to try stem the bleed in the left’s campaign. But New Zealanders are smarter than this lot give them credit for. We can all see the difference and pretending otherwise just makes Hipkins and Labour look more shifty. How many more days left of this shit?

Julie, a 57-year-old lesbian, was shoved down by a male @ThornsFC fan and tumbled over two rows of chairs. All for wearing an @xx_xyathletics shirt. He later apologized and said he didn’t know why he did it, he was just following the crowd. She has filed a police report.

💰I can’t wait to claim MY reparations, Dawn… I’m going to be RICH! A quick look at my mixed DNA ancestry suggests I’m owed money from quite a few places including: 🇮🇹 Italy (Roman conquest of Britain, Gaul and parts of Germania) 🇩🇪 Germany (Anglo-Saxon invasions of Britain and invasions of France) 🇩🇰 Denmark (Viking invasions of Britain and France, and centuries of rule over Norway) 🇳🇴 Norway (Viking invasions of Britain and France) 🇸🇪 Sweden (invasion of Norway and military campaigns in Germany) 🇫🇷 France (Norman conquest of England and Napoleonic conquests of German territories) 🇳🇱 Netherlands (Dutch invasion of England and colonisation of Sri Lanka) 🇪🇸 Spain (1595 raid on Cornwall and military campaigns in France) 🇮🇪 Ireland (early medieval raids on Britain) 🇵🇹 Portugal (colonisation of Sri Lanka) 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (colonisation of Sri Lanka and historical invasions of France) 🇮🇳 India (Chola invasions of Sri Lanka) 🇨🇳 China (Ming invasion of Sri Lanka in 1411) 🇯🇵 Japan (1942 air raids on Ceylon) 🇹🇷 Turkey (Ottoman conquest of Hungary) 🇲🇳 Mongolia (Mongol invasion of Hungary) 🇦🇹 Austria (Habsburg rule over Hungary and wars against France) 🇷🇺 Russia (invasions of Sweden, Soviet occupation of Hungary and invasion of Germany) 🇷🇴 Romania (1919 occupation of Budapest) 🇭🇷 Croatia (1848 invasion of Hungary) 🇵🇱 Poland (wars against Sweden and military campaigns in German territories) 🇱🇹 Lithuania (Polish-Lithuanian wars against Sweden) 🇨🇿 Czechia (Hussite invasions of German territories) 🇲🇦 Morocco (Barbary slave raids) 🇩🇿 Algeria (Barbary slave trade and raids on Britain) 🇹🇳 Tunisia (Barbary corsairs and enslavement of Europeans) 🇱🇾 Libya (Tripolitanian corsairs and the Barbary slave trade) Which raises an obvious question… Where exactly is the historical cut-off for inherited responsibility? And more importantly, who do I send my first invoice to, Dawn?

This man just took the same plastic recorder that used to sound like a dying goose in elementary school and casually started shredding Sultans of Swing on it. Eyes half-closed, fully committed, fingers flying like he actually practiced this instead of just surviving Hot Cross Buns. Somewhere a music teacher is watching this and having an existential crisis. The recorder has seen things. It will never be the same.

A communist pro-Palestine terrorist tried to murder an Australian MP so the Australian media’s response is to blame Grand Theft Auto and pressure for GTA 6 to be banned.

RT @australian: Commentary | After begging Anthony Albanese day in and day out for more than three years to stand up against hatred, abuse…

Millionaire who hates millionaires gives $1 million to another millionaire who hates millionaires so they can defeat third millionaire notthebee.com/article/millio…

The Paris police have advised shopkeepers to hire private security ahead of tomorrow’s large street protests and expected looting. They say they can’t be everywhere

what Carl Jung believed were the fundamental ingredients of a happy life:

This is the BEST video you will see today 🤣 Byron: “Sir as a member of Congress” Trans Person: “I’M NOT A SIR I’M A MA’AM!” Byron: “Sir, we’re going to make sure…” Trans Person: “SIR AGAIN?!” *Meltdown ensues* So good 😭💀

The number of doctors in New Zealand fell by 130 when Ayesha Verrall was Health Minister. It turns out Labour don’t even have a target for their policy to hire nurses

It’s not until the 8th paragraph (!) that Jenna finally admits “….the picture was taken in January 2024 at the Hui ā-motu organised by the late King Tūheitia.” Luxon correctly says: “He's not campaigning. He's not fundraising. He's not raising funds for the Mongrel Mob. And go talk to Tama. He's very much against gangs, like the rest of us in the National Party for sure.” Good try, Stuff. #WeDeserveBetterMedia

Lewis bought his private jet through a BVI holding company to avoid tax He wears blood diamonds mined by African slaves He lives in Monaco to pay no income tax, but here he is to give you a lecture 😂

"Arena Williams has fronted some announcements impressively, for example. If I were to quibble, I would point out that this makes her relatively lowly position on that party’s list all the more puzzling." stuff.co.nz/nz-news/36104994…

Oooooh this one could go down to the wire

The enrolment rate at the 🇳🇿 election has already matched the final 2017 rate of 92.4%. It may exceed 93% since people can still enrol this weekend, and there'll be a backlog of enrolments to process. Youth enrolment is now at 69.9%, so could still pass the 72.3% level of 2017.

These men had to circle this young woman to protect her from violent trans activists so she simply could ask politely & scientifically, for fair sport! We have dropped so low it’s mind blowing. There should be zero argument over keeping a sports category for females free of all males.

This is just sad.

OPINION: literally nobody is worried about a billionaire stabbing them because they’re wearing the wrong colour t-shirt