Cat

Opinions my own. Visitors with no sense of humour are advised to turn back now - management is not responsible for damage to feelings. Breast cancer survivor.

[Amy Jones @Light42Lime]

Low risk is not the same as no risk.

This guy imported and possessed over 11,000 files of child sexual abuse material, some involving toddlers and extreme violence. He's a member of a wealthy, well connected family and will be out in a relatively short time. The public, especially women and parents in his social circles, have an absolute right to know who he is.

Name suppression in cases like this protects the offender and his family's reputation far more than it protects the public. He absolutely must be named. Open justice should actually mean something.

[Ro Edge @rosey_nz]

A druggie arrested for good reason dies “supposedly’ at the hands of police & the MSM forced the world to grieve.

A young man who did no wrong is stabbed & police wrongly handcuff & arrest him as he dies & the MSM ignore it.

The difference - colour.
Who are the real racists?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

When you tell a woman she must pretend a man is a woman, you’re asserting the right to control her speech and perception of reality, while also trivialising and devaluing her female-specific experience. You’re asking her to agree that ‘woman’ is a concept men can embody at will.

[Kiwiwayne3 ex kiwiwayne1/2 @kiwiwayne3]

‘Kindness’

“You will not say goodbye to dying loved ones”

“You will not attend their funerals”

“You will inject your teenagers with a know harmful vaccine”
(Even though teenagers weren’t at risk from Covid)

Keep your ‘Kindness’ thanks!

[Infideliter 🇳🇿✖⚖✖🇳🇿 @Infideliter2022]

If you choose to be in the arts,but need constant govt subsidies then you are NOT an artist - you are a beneficiary
https://t.co/lHfoJys5TO

[Simeon Brown @SimeonBrownMP]

Chris Hipkins just stood up in the House and delivered a speech he'd written before he'd even seen the Budget. Think about that. He didn't read it, he didn't consider a single line of it, he just dusted off the attack lines his team cooked up days ago and read them out word for word.

That tells you everything you need to know about Chris Hipkins. He isn't interested in what's actually good for New Zealand, he's interested in opposing for opposition's sake.

The Budget National delivered today is all about securing New Zealand's future.

It means more surgeries, more cancer treatments and shorter wait times for patients who've been waiting too long. It means more police on the beat, more prison officers keeping communities safe, and more criminals being held to account. And it means Kiwi kids getting a world-class education, with the basics taught brilliantly and real pathways into the trades and industries that will power our economy.

Hipkins opposed every one of those boosts to frontline services before he'd even read the Budget. He'd rather play politics than back the things that will actually make a difference to New Zealanders.

And he had nothing to offer in return. Nothing on how Labour would grow the economy, nothing on how they'd pay for their planned wasteful spending, nothing for the small business owners, tradies, and families doing it tough. Just spin, slogans, and the same recycled lines Kiwis have heard a hundred times before.

Not once did he mention his capital gains tax. He knows Kiwis don't want their houses taxed, their KiwiSavers taxed, or their farms taxed.

This is the same Chris Hipkins who delivered 30-year high inflation, soaring interest rates, and tens of thousands of households and businesses going backwards. He had his chance and he failed.

He's opposing every good idea and offering none of his own.

Only National is fixing the basics and building the future, so you and your family can get ahead.

[Tony Stuart @TonyStuart55]

Credit to NZ First. There’s no going back from this declaration. A vote for Labour is a vote for the Greens and Te Pati Maori.

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

It beggars belief that not a single journalist has challenged Tamatha Paul or Chloe Swarbrick on why they have never contacted Oranga Tamariki for help — despite openly admitting to knowing about, and claiming to regularly interact with, numerous vulnerable children running around and sleeping rough in the streets of Auckland and Wellington’s CBDs.

[Infideliter 🇳🇿✖⚖✖🇳🇿 @Infideliter2022]

Now that the UN has admitted it's prophecies of climate doom are utter bullshit, lets have an honest conversation about reclaiming good productive land and getting livestock back on it. Lets re build our rural communities to their former glory.

[Cat @CatEllen2]

Muddled it? Yeah... right. A deliberate slur.
Yet more concerning is the amount of effort Labour is putting into this kind of shite. Where's their policy? Where are their ideas for moving the country forward if elected? Hint... there are none. Waste of taxpayer dollars.

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

The actual audio of Labour’s Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds referring to Nicola Willis as a “duck-faced horse” and hearing her laugh about it, is far worse than seeing it in print.

Truly nasty stuff from Edmonds and Labour.

[Dane Giraud ✡️ @Dane_Giraud]

Very unfortunate that Stuff would seek comment from Shaneel Lal on the passing of Jools Topp considering Lal is a rank misogynist who incited violence against women in a park a few years ago.

[Leah Panapa @LeahPanapa]

Unbelievable! I have run media training and this is ridiculous! There are hardworking kiwis struggling day to day and they are making up songs? Just childish and quite frankly a total waste of our taxpayers dollars paying this lot!

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

Thanks Chris for highlighting this silliness. Vanessa seems to be on a crusade to lose National votes on this issue.

[Chris Penk @ChrisPenknz]

To recap, we now literally know more about Labour's attitudes to horse-ducks and duck-horses than we do about *checks notes* their Future Fund policy 😬

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

If I thought the Ministry of Women actually did anything to improve the rights or realities of women in New Zealand I would be demanding a new Minister for Women. But theyre a complete waste of space & just as hopelessly captured as their minister.
Just disestablish it. Or rename it the Ministry for Men Who Want To Be Women. I don’t care.

[Sande Chin The Underinfluencer @SandeChin]

I see Chippie and Labour are not supporting the What is a woman bill. For fucks sake. They have had over 3 years to work this out. Is this seriously the type of person you would want running the country?

[🐺~𝖂𝖔𝖑𝖋𝖊𝖘𝖘~🪶 @wahinetoa7]

If I look back at my 20yr old self I would never in a million years have thought we would in the future, need a bill to remind us all what a woman is....its frigging crazy isnt it!

[🐺~𝖂𝖔𝖑𝖋𝖊𝖘𝖘~🪶 @wahinetoa7]

Friday thoughts.....
Why have the NZ Police not visited/made a phone call or asked that Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer go to the police station to "discuss" their social media public racist rants which they have been doing on a regular basis for years?

[Winston Peters @winstonpeters]

It has been reported that police have recently visited Renee-Rose Schwenke about a so-called 'offensive' social media post she posted. Not threatening, not inciting violence, just that it allegedly offended someone.

If this report is true, this is '1984 thought-police' level overreach. It should seriously frighten every New Zealander who believes in freedom of speech.

This is not about whether this particular post was offensive or not. There will always be personal responsibility and consequences for people voicing their opinions that are viewed by some as tasteless or gormless or offensive - but those consequences should not be by way of a police visit.

No one has the right to not be offended, nor do they have the right to be protected from having hurt feelings. In fact it is precisely the right to be able to offend which is the foundation of freedom of speech in our country.

This has happened overseas with more regularity where social media posts, opinions, views, expressions, and even jokes are now deemed offensive by some authoritarian power and have been met with threats from police, arrests, or even convictions in court.

We never thought we would see this happen here and it has a chilling effect on where we are going as a country.

As Oliver Wendall Homles Jr said, freedom of speech also comes with responsibility of speech - you cannot falsely yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre without there rightly being a consequence. We already have laws around 'responsibility of speech' ranging from defamation to incitement of violence, and that is important - but people's freedom to have their own free opinion is something which should be aggressively defended.

We don't all have to agree with each other's opinions, but we should all fight for each other's right to have them. This is the essential foundation of our free democracy.

If we start to accept this kind of overreach by police to curtail individual freedom of speech, our democracy will fall into the type of totalitarian oblivion that will destroy our country.

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

Matthew Tukaki yesterday pledged no more online attacks. Today, he attacked me. Is he bi-polar?