Taranaki Annie

@Suitandtie9999 @FullTwatforward Ground crew at a small airport would be too distracted doing their job, maintaining safety and doing logistics to be lining up and gushing over VIP. Kids watching parades and state visits by foreign dignitaries would be excited and waving.

Two press gallery journalists on the same pacific island trip with the PM. Two completely different takes. RNZ's Anneke Smith: Luxon’s unpopular in the islands - ground crew didn’t even wave back. NZ Herald's Julia Gabel: “Kids, teens, community leaders, and elders absolutely loved him as he toured their nations.” Biased coverage like this from our state broadcasters is shaping up to be a massive issue in the election campaign.

@danwallacenz @RusselNorman There's personal transport technology that doesn't require roads. Our airspaces should be better utilised

@RusselNorman Absolutely. Let’s let people keep the independence of having personal transport though. Plentiful electricity to power self-driving cars and a road network to keep us efficiently connected.

It cannot be repeated enough that we need to rapidly decarbonise our economy, particularly transport. This has benefits for climate change as well as energy resilience. Policy support for more buses, trains, ferries; protected cycleways; safe walking; e-bikes; e-cars; e-trucks.

@RusselNorman We need greater expansion of public transport. Bus, rail, ferry and aviation. Cycling is obsolete and unhealthy. Bikes have been pushed over public transport. It's been expensive and obstructive to people getting around. Join the country up . Keep it moving.

@OpinionistNZ It was originally settled by strict religious conservative sheep farmers to be a coal and wool metropolis. Then the mines closed and the wool trade dried up. Even the prison was abandoned..

@AnnetteConroy3 We locked our doors and kept driving. It was a spooky place. Deliverance was mentioned in the car at the time. Back of beyond gangland.

Apologies all. I deleted my post about Oakura being scary. I meant Ohura. Big difference.

@OpinionistNZ I had people that lived somewhere between Oakura and Opunake too. And Kaponga . More scary places

@OpinionistNZ Ohura has always been scary. My GT GT grandparents settled there in the latter 1800s, after living in Christchurch, Sanson, Ohakea and Raetihi. The King Country is trendy again for some reason. [ Oakura gives me the heebee geebees too]

@Charleton_Hone @OpinionistNZ Other coastal areas around New Plymouth have picked up.

@OpinionistNZ A big difference 😬🍻 property prices in Oakura have re-adjusted

@PronouncedHare Women don't find him so entertaining

This man, who spends an inordinate amount of time of the day regularly accusing me of being a homosexual, replied four times to this single tweet over a 24 hour period.

@aniobrien Willis is winning in all of this. She can bask is the glow

READ: aniobrien.substack.com/p/a-week-is-a-… Fuel crisis, Hipkins, NZ rejects WHO pandemic amendments, teaming up on defence with Australia, economy, evil chatbot in health system, changes to immigration, cool reception for Cook Islands PM, a Lion King lawsuit, and more.

@quinnjin2009 You must really hate New Zealand and New Zealanders

These #Atlas cult idiots live in a fantasy land, totally delusional, Completely out of touch with reality. #nzpol

@TheWarRoomNZ Same reason they are silent on people coming forward after the government asked people to report abuse by public servants , post the Royal Commission into abuse in state care report.

Why did the #NZ National, Labour, & Greens political Parties stay silent on 2011 about witness's coming forward about the #Dunedin Police & VIP child sex abuse

@FullTwatforward That strange noise is Andy Little cleaning his pipes out

Who'd believe hot air could cause issues? In Wellington no less 😂😂😂😂 rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

@FullTwatforward @kaiviti_cam @aniobrien @Mountain_Tui She obviously lives in an alternative reality. Her avatar has that Lord of the rings vibe. She's protecting her "precious"

@kaiviti_cam @aniobrien @Mountain_Tui Her blog is even funnier 🤣

Hey @Mountain_Tui - let me help you out. Jade posted on 15th. Having seen it I was talking to her when she got a friend request from a NZ political editor. Then a text from a journalist. We were like ‘oh hell here we go’ so I posted that as she had been warned she would be portrayed as crazy. She posted again on the 16th. Richard Fanselow you are embarrassing yourself with these conspiracies. Helen is discrediting herself by sharing them.

@kaiviti_cam @aniobrien @Mountain_Tui Their avatar indicates they live in Mordor or a nearby valley. They have a great view of the nearby mountains ranges

@aniobrien @Mountain_Tui Mountain Tui is clearly a Lab/Green staffer, always complaining about propaganda but running their own propaganda without a shred of self reflection

@aniobrien It's perverse that it is women largely defending the male offender. Left wing matrons. Not content with blaming the woman victim they have targeted women speaking out about his misdeeds. One would have thought his political party would have been swift to excise him

My Timeline (because I foolishly refuse to be lied about): Jade’s post had been up for about an hour when I first saw it around 6.30pm on Sunday 15 March. It had lots of comments and likes already. Jade and I exchanged a couple of messages, and at around 8.30pm she sent me a screenshot showing a New Zealand political editor had sent a friend request to her. I didn’t see that message for about an hour. When I replied at 9.39pm, I said: “She must have heard about your post, right?” Jade responded: “Yeah a few others did too,” and sent through a screenshot of a text from another journalist. Both of those journalists know I did not give them the post. They also know where they did get it. At 9.50pm I tweeted that “they” would call “her” crazy because Jade had been warned they would. By 10pm, two MPs had messaged me asking if I had heard about Jade’s post. I continued tweeting about completely unrelated things including, for what it’s worth, a Marco Rubio meme. Monday 16 March I woke up and had forgotten about it. I replied to a tweet about something else, got annoyed about Keir Starmer’s attack on jury trials, watched Nicola Willis on Q&A while getting ready, and went to work like a normal person. At around 10.30am I remembered and messaged Jade to check how she was doing. At 12.06pm I saw that the account SuitandTie999 had posted a screenshot on X. I know the exact time because I sent it to Jade. I never posted the screenshot. I never even retweeted it. Later, I responded to a few people who asked if I had seen it etc. To be clear, due to the amount of notifications I get I only ever see a small fraction of them. Newsroom said someone replied to one of my tweets with the screenshot but I never saw it. At 2.20pm I tweeted noting that Stuff claimed they wouldn’t publish unsubstantiated allegations despite doing exactly that about Luxon the day before. I also pointed out people were already piling on and calling Jade “drunk”. At 12.43pm I tweeted: “Perhaps you all might understand my visceral dislike for Chris Hipkins a bit better now.” Ill-advised, perhaps. But hardly evidence of some coordinated “amplification” effort especially when I still had not shared the screenshots that others were circulating widely. I continued tweeting and retweeting about a range of unrelated topics. Once media outlets began suggesting I was somehow involved in a political operation, I publicly refuted it. I made one further post defending myself and then went largely quiet. Not because I had anything to hide, but because I was dealing with a flood of abuse across every platform. It was vile. The same media now wringing their hands about “toxic social media” played a direct role in fuelling it. At the same time vultures from across the political spectrum circled, contacting me for info or trying to get access to Jade. To portray this as a solely right wing thing is false because a few former Labour MPs and staffers definitely had schadenfreude. I’ve been online a long time. I’ve taken more than a decade of abuse for my views. But this week was particularly awful. People didn’t just criticise me, they attacked and they invented an entire narrative that I was orchestrating something. That I was using a long-time friend for political gain. And was some kind of shadowy operative. They were confident and gleeful. It was cruel. And none of it was true. I hope media, if they are serious about accuracy, will take a close look at this timeline and ask questions of each other about who actually received the post and from whom. Because the journalists who had it early know exactly where it came from. They also had every opportunity to correct the record once the conspiracy theories started. They chose not to. Cheers for that, ladies.

@OpinionistNZ Single mothers and their children face greater hardship and inquiry that any other group. That doesn't get spoken about

Lol.🤣 The only ‘vicious cycle’ is the media rinsing and repeating this same old hoary chestnut at every election! Despite the billions spent! nzherald.co.nz/nz/vicious-cyc…

@FullTwatforward Single mothers and their children face far greater inequity and inequality. You don't ever hear Waititi, Jackson or tamihere speaking out about that

"Māori are disproportionately affected by rising fuel prices due to lower average incomes, geographic isolation, and limited access to public transport. For many whānau, fuel is not a discretionary expense but a "lifeline" required for survival" - Rawiri Waititi

@NZMAGAMike NZs new bourgeoisie.

Nats pretty much the fourth. #ApartheidNZ

@kaiviti_cam The bourgeoisie in the left are outraged that low paid mums and kiddies will given priority by policies. No regard for hard working mums trying to keep their childrens heads above water.

@my_mark1 @Dame__Jane @_chloeswarbrick @MaramaDavidson @NZGreens @nzlabour Abuse thrives in silence

@Dame__Jane Not a PEEP @_chloeswarbrick , no SQUEEK @MaramaDavidson , complete silence @NZGreens . Nothing from TPM. Not a whisper from @nzlabour . Nothing from any of the usual vocal left representatives. Not even a neutral comment in the interest of women. Their silence is deafening!

I was gonna type “I’m surprised” (or disappointed) at the lefty luvvies attacking Jade—but I’m not. They’ve become so nasty it’s actually their normal. Doesn’t make it easier to accept tho. For me? I cannot understand how any woman can defend a man who abuses a woman. Even if it’s just “allegations” at this stage: the level of hate directed at Jade is just .. wrong.