AllyM

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

Funniest thing online all week

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

Brilliant 💥👏😂 Dave Hughes check this out!

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@DarrenAdams1967 @belinduhpyne 🤦🏻‍♀️

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@cmclymer @MFWitches Yeah nah, it was tedious.

Meant lightheartedly
Undoubtedly
But tedious, and yes emphasizing all that about American exceptionalism which bores us

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

So, let's recap, shall we?

This week the @PressClubAust managed to:

* cancel at the last minute, the questions and subsequent presence of renowned journalist Margo Kingston, who’d travelled over 2 days to Canberra to ask her question of Pauline Hanson – and yes, they were questions initially requested and organised by the Press Club itself 9 days ago.

* cancel the press gallery membership of long-term journalist, Greg Jericho, allegedly because he works for the @TheAusInstitute. Although Greg has been employed by the Aust Institute for 4 years, his membership cancellation only came yesterday after he publicly called out the Canberra press gallery - which is of course a highly fortuitous coincidence and not at all connected to his criticism.

* somehow allowed a person or persons unknown to enter the Press Club premises and put up a 3 metre wide electronic banner, without anybody in the Press Club noticing them doing it. How several people enter a private club carrying something that large, then proceed to wire it up on an open stage and nobody at the premises noticed in any way, is yet another display of the NPC’s staggering incompetence.

* release an unnecessarily detailed, high-school level statement about said banner incident, a statement that reeks of defensiveness and hysteria, while also prejudicially naming an alleged culprit and arguably sinking to the bottom of the barrel in terms of the journalistic standards it supposedly represents. Read it below and remind yourself that people who work with words for a living wrote that.

* allowed the speaker, Pauline Hanson, to defame one of their own - a journalist from the Guardian who dared to ask a hard-hitting question - by calling her "trash". This was only weeks after calling the same journalist a "nasty bitch". Mirroring, Trump’s “Quiet piggy” incident, the journalist's alleged colleagues all sat mute, as did the moderator, Tom Connell from Sky News during the abuse. No rebuke, no blow-back, no support for their fellow journalist, standing alone under Hanson's hissing vitriol. Just pusillanimous silence.

The National Press Club outdid their already dubious reputation this week, spraying themselves in a spectacular shower of self-inflicted shit – wall to wall, dripping effluent.

Australians currently suffer some of the most timid, captured political journalism in the western world, and if the actions of the #NPC this week are the metric, then we can all see why.

What a national and international embarrassment of an organisation meant to serve as a vital democratic institution and a cultural conscience – and one that has offered us neither.

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[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@myaccount_goals @mariashriver @NickKristof … things that never happened #28943758356

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@ProLifeRosary @Pontifex As a Christian I cannot stand by as children are born into situations where they are unwanted, unloved, neglected and abused
Supporting children means committing to support them all, always

Many so called Christians seem to forget them as soon as they are born

Let’s start there

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@Bondiward @MFWitches Yep. Exactly They could have reprimanded without sacking.

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@EmStarrTHISxoxo @MFWitches @jabattoir13 I used to like Charlie but he’s not landing for me on Drive - his slightly supercilious mocking tone which worked as a comedian really is grating now and this latest incident was just bs

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@AndersAxelson1 @nawagadj @aaronsmith There is vulgar, and there are slurs

One can be polite and well mannered in how one delivers a deeply hurtful and offensive slur.

Doesn’t make it less hurtful or offensive.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

@AndersAxelson1 The Victorian Liberals might consider releasing official guidance on which forms of misogyny they endorse and which slurs against disabled people they're comfortable with.

Asking for the whole state.

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@JaneCaro This is such a beautiful way of expressing why abortion is necessary

Women have the right to choose
And children deserve to be wanted and cherished.

[Nina Garcês🌹 @teffiisuda]

Eu sou a favor do aborto simplesmente porque acredito que toda criança só deve vir ao mundo sendo querida e toda mulher só deve ser mãe estando feliz com essa ideia.

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@DebbieGarratt @JaneCaro Many women also experience coercive factors towards keeping a pregnancy they do not want or feel ready for

We actually have a healthcare system where women are supported to make the choice that’s right for them, independently

We need those who seek to influence them to butt out

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@JamieRadford66 @RonniSalt @batteries9484 Oh I’ve heard it. 1982 in the primary school playground.
Even then it scored someone a detention

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@rjensen822 @jfulla7 @libby94949 @Craig_Foster Trollin man

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@jffry8902 @shesbonky Women can actually earn $ on their own you know.

It’s 2026
They can even have bank accounts and get loans.

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@brianmolyvade @Winca24324913 @shesbonky Some people, women and men, want to have romantic relationships with men.

Others prefer to have them with women, or not at all.

I’m not seeing the issue?
You’re welcome to have a relationship with any woman who wants to have one with you.

But no one is compelled to

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@brianmolyvade @shesbonky And are being paid to do so.
That’s just capitalism, surely?
Is that a problem?

[AllyM @Idreamcaffeine]

@TeamBitcoin @shesbonky You’ve not heard of buying shares?

I’m not really seeing the difference.

[Kate Emerson 🇵🇸 🔻🍉 @KateEmersonBri]

@noplaceforsheep When you have people like Deborah Conway giving evidence, you are going to have a really skewed outcome...I am sure you have read this...
https://t.co/Lq524bfIxQ