Sumo Si.

@Tiare_MP Is it also damming that we haven’t had an Asian or Pacifica PM? What is with the pre occupation with race in this country?

It is very damning that we haven’t had a Māori Prime Minister yet, and we’ve only had one Opposition leader be Māori and he didn’t even make it to an election. America elected a black President nearly twenty years ago.

@bobmccoskrienz @nzherald Psychiatrist needed. Problem solved.

In today’s @nzherald - an appalling & shamefully one-sided puff piece about transing kids with chemicals and then likely castration. “Zoe was still singing nursery rhymes when she knew she was in the wrong body…” “Zoe's mum struggled to accept her daughter's gender identity” In other words, she knew the truth that people can’t change their sex by chemicalising and cutting off body parts. Prof Paul Hofman is quoted and uses the now-disproved ‘suicide trope’ while ignoring the presence of other mental disorders which are affecting the suicide ideation and gender confusion. The real questions are: * how much did PATHA pay the NZ Herald for this advertorial * when will the NZ Herald interview detransitioner Zara 😡

@Tasmanviews Maybe Fitch would give Iwi a credit rating because that’s where all the money goes.

“Credit ratings agency Fitch has effectively downgraded its credit rating for NZ by attaching a “negative outlook” to its “AA+” rating for its foreign-currency sovereign debt”. Another own goal by the Coalition Govt. thepost.co.nz/business/36097…

@NuZillund Her beard is well on the way

Hear me out I have a great idea for the next Ayatollah ...

@MbarkCherguia Slim

What’s his cowboy name?

FFS. stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360953…

@honeymoon250 Keith Richards

@Beno10_MFC 3

Which car if put in reverse will solve the traffic problem?

@Matt_Pinner Australian.

First thought when you see this kitchen?

@HawkEmDownChris G

Who’s your favorite female athlete of all time? A) Serena Williams B) Diana Taurasi C) Simone Biles D) Mia Hamm E) Candace Parker F) Florence Griffith Joyner G) Jackie Joyner-Kersee H) Cheryl Miller I) Ronda Rousey J) Comment another athlete ✍️

@Amelia558rs BBQ

@Mishi_2210 52

Everyone says 20 ,but that’s not the real answer If you solve this, you’re in the top 1%

@TheRedbaiter @Rockynz_1 The Platform is excellent.

If you're annoyed at left wing propagandists dominating New Zealand's media then the latest news will disappoint. Arch communist John Campbell takes over Radio New Zealand's Morning Report on April 13th. Tova O'Brien, who is IMHO at least as far left as Mr Campbell, takes over the TV One Breakfast show next Monday week. Mike Hosking still dominates morning radio. In Auckland, he has about 223K listeners compared to 133K for Radio NZ, The latest ratings show his numbers are steadily declining. My guess is its Hosking's strident TDS (with US correspondent Richard Arnold) that probably makes many reach for the off button. The brains trust at Radio NZ think the overly dramatic and eternally preaching Campbell might steal some of Hosking's listeners. Its shows you how out of touch they are. As for Ms O'Brien, she too was hired a few years ago to try and displace Hosking ("A more balanced Mike") but after a few months her station folded after hardly making a dent in ratings. (see chart) So how does someone so unpopular get a gig on state TV's flagship breakfast show? You know the answer. "Who will you listen to in the AM" survey done by the NZ Herald.

@TheNzRocketeer Exactly, the word RNZ is searching for is audience.

The people who go to Polyfest. Same as with any other form of entertainment.

@Amelia558rs Mazda RX2

@aniobrien @SteveGr69741681 Thanks for being a journalist!

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.

@saltyreigns @NewZealandBoss Every time I post asking what government agency enforces this nonsense, I am blocked. It’s total media driven bullshit.

I don’t like these rāhui’s. It capitalises on tragedy to ram a culture that isn’t ours down our throats. And if you criticise it - you are accused of being insensitive. It’s covert bullying.

@Soaringeagle45 Bacon and Egg

Pecan

@ronsterd89 Roberta Flack

@wilderpeople Are families able to attend as well?

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