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Mr_Indignant retweeted
Jeremy Clarkson on the UK’s grooming-gang failures and soft sentencing -
Clarkson has argued that another public inquiry into the grooming gangs is unnecessary as we already know what the problem is.
As he wrote in The Sun:
“I do not believe we need a public inquiry into the grooming gangs. Public inquiries are just rooms full of people who deploy mock incredulity in the hopes they’ll end up on the Six O’Clock News. And we simply don’t need a dusty old baroness to tell us what the problem is, because we already know.”
The real barrier, in his view, has been political correctness. He described a girl reporting that she had been raped by “a gang of Pakistani man,” only to be told to have “a cup of tea” to “feel better,” because the officer knows that if he reports the crime “he will be accused of racism and get cancelled.”
His conclusion was direct:
“We need to remove the shackles of political correctness from the police. We need to explain that it’s not racist to investigate a rapist. Do that, and we’re halfway there.”
In a later column about three teenage boys convicted of raping two girls (aged 14 and 15) at knifepoint, then filming and uploading the attacks, Clarkson was equally blunt about the sentence -
“So let me see if I’ve got this straight. In two separate incidents, three teenage boys took part in the rape of two girls – aged 14 and 15 – at knifepoint. They also filmed the attacks and uploaded the footage to the internet. The scumbags were found guilty and last week a judge, Nicholas Rowland, let them off with a slap on the wrist. It beggars belief.”
When the judge said he wanted to avoid “criminalising” the boys, Clarkson replied: “WHAT????!!?! They did that to themselves when they raped those girls.”
The consistent point across both pieces is that protecting children and properly investigating and punishing rape should not be subordinated to political sensitivities or misplaced leniency.
Mr_Indignant retweeted
What the hell was she doing in the National party?
Vanessa Weenink in political terms is clearly far more suited to the Labour party than to National. Yet the National selection committee picked her to run in Banks Peninsula in 2023.
Why? Because the group of list MPs who made up Luxon's fan club in the party are all left as hell too.
There have been consistent rumblings about the way the party hierarchy interfered with local boards in the matter of selecting candidates.
Said hierarchy did this because 1) legacy media told them to and 2) none of them hold to a political ideology that might allow them to resist.
Weak wet liberals, they couldn't wait to fearfully kneel to their betters at One News, or Radio NZ.
The video shows party leader Luxon doing exactly that. Hurriedly prostrating himself to a collection of pathetic little legacy media gnomes. Instead of telling them where to go.
A bunch of National's wet weak liberal list MPs have been shown the door by the voters.
Party leader Luxon, who presided over all of this, needs to follow them ASAP.
Mr_Indignant retweeted
Scepticism of the Russell Brand rape conviction is warranted
Russell Brand was convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault and sentenced to 10½ years. The rape conviction rests on the 2009 allegation by the complainant known as Woman 5. A jury verdict deserves respect, but the evidence on the most serious charge is thin enough that reasonable observers can still doubt it.
Woman 5 was a young fan. On her evidence and that of a friend who was with her, she was selected or pointed out in the foyer of the Hammersmith Apollo shortly after Brand’s show and invited backstage. She told the court she willingly took part in a threesome in the dressing room with Brand and another woman she did not know. A friend described seeing her use her mouth on Brand’s anus while the other woman performed oral sex on him. She had a boyfriend at the time; she later said she refused full penetrative sex that night because of him but still joined in the oral and group activity. She later called the episode a “huge mistake” and said she had not painted herself in a good light. Days later she went to Brand’s house knowing, by her own account, that they would have sex. The encounter began with what she described as consensual vaginal sex; she alleged it became rape when he turned her over for anal penetration without her consent, ignored her requests to stop, and afterwards told her to clean up the mess.
Friends and family later gave evidence that, near the time, she had described the anal act as non-consensual and painful and had said she asked him to stop. A sexual-health nurse’s written statement, read to the court, recorded that Woman 5 had told her Brand “had anal sex without a condom and she didn’t want that and didn’t consent to that.” The wording is narrower than a blanket claim of non-consent to anal sex itself. Yet in 2023, after the Channel 4 Dispatches film and while journalists were seeking further accounts, she wrote privately: “I’m not sure my story has much in it. I was an idiot, young and stupid, probably as much to blame.” That is not the language of someone who had already settled on a clear narrative of rape. She formalised the allegation only later.
A detail frequently cited in support is a text exchange she recalled from the Edinburgh Festival months later, in which Brand is said to have called her “dirty,” she replied that he had treated her “like an animal,” and he answered “I’m sorry.” No phones or records survive. A boyfriend from the period saw that Brand was texting her but could not recall the content. Friends later heard her account of the messages; none independently confirmed the wording. Much of the media has nevertheless reported the exchange as established fact rather than an uncorroborated memory.
These features matter because this is the allegation that produced the rape conviction. The other counts on which Brand was found guilty are lesser sexual assaults. If the strongest charge rests on a delayed formal report from a woman who, on the evidence presented, had already engaged in highly explicit group sex with him within minutes of meeting him, who later expressed self-blame, and whose key supporting “text” evidence cannot be verified, the case does not justify the surrounding rhetoric.
That rhetoric has frequently cast Brand as comparable to Jimmy Savile. The comparison is grotesque. Savile was a serial child abuser who used institutional power over decades to prey on the vulnerable, often in hospital and BBC settings, leaving hundreds of victims. The Brand prosecution’s lead rape case, by contrast, involves an adult fan who (on her own and a friend’s account) initiated explicit sexual contact with him almost immediately, later expressed self-blame, and whose key supporting detail is a remembered text conversation no one else saw. Treating the two as akin is not serious analysis; it is moral inflation that collapses under the evidence actually presented at trial.
Mr_Indignant retweeted
Al Gore is a fraud.
My condolences to Lonnie Thompson, but his climate predictions were dead wrong.
In a 2002 paper authored by Thompson and 10 other scientists, they predicted that Mt. Kilimanjaro's permanent ice fields and glaciers would completely disappear within 15–20 years. But they're still there.
In his 2006 “documentary,” An Inconvenient Truth, Gore stated in reference to Thompson et al.'s prediction that “Within the decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro.”
However, as of September 7th (the latest image I took from the live cam before it went down for maintenance), there's lots of snow atop the mountain.
🔗science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Lonnie Thompson went to the ends of the Earth and above the clouds to document and understand the effects of the climate crisis on our planet. Across the highest mountain ranges, from the Andes to the Himalaya, his physically arduous and heroic research revealed the rapid decline of the world’s highest glaciers. And his meticulously documented findings from the ice cores he carried back down the mountains had an impact far beyond the scientific community. His lifelong determination to communicate what he discovered about the global impact of the climate crisis with policymakers and the public was extraordinary. For more than three decades, Lonnie and his wife and scientific collaborator Ellen Mosley-Thompson were trusted advisors to me and many others on climate science. Lonnie was an invaluable ally in the global movement to solve the climate crisis and was a cherished friend I will miss dearly. nytimes.com/2026/11/06/scien…
Mr_Indignant retweeted
Chris Hipkins should be ashamed of himself. Election denial is selfish and, as I wrote before the election, destabilising.
Vote splitting created an overhang on both sides and he is destroying any credibility he had left by trying to push the narrative that National stole the election.
I hope decent people on the Labour side tell him to pull his head in. Our democratic system delivered this result. We can talk about how to improve it but this rhetoric from Hipkins is utterly shameful. Bitter starts now.
Mr_Indignant retweeted
The False Prophet of Principle: The Pathetic, Humiliating End of Thomas Massie
The political landscape is littered with the carcasses of grandstanders who mistook their own narcissism for a movement. Yet few have plummeted into absolute irrelevance quite like Thomas Massie, a man whose entire career was a long con played on the very conservative base he now desperately tries to sabotage. Massie is not a principled libertarian warrior. He is a disgraced, lame-duck obstructionist who was utterly humiliated by the voters of Kentucky, rejected by President Trump, and exposed as a petty, vindictive failure who would rather burn down his own party than admit he lost. The truth about Thomas Massie is not just that he is a terrible congressman; it is that he is a fundamentally repulsive political actor whose legacy is nothing but noise, failure, and betrayal.
Let us start with the most glaring reality that Massie and his sycophants refuse to accept: he was decisively crushed in his own district. The voters of Kentucky’s 4th District looked at a man they had elected for seven terms, looked at his record of obstruction, looked at the Trump-endorsed alternative in Ed Gallrein, and fired Massie. It was a 55-45 blowout in a deep-red district. Trump called him exactly what he is: an "obstructionist," a "bum," and a "pathetic loser." Massie likes to pretend he is the vanguard of "America First," but when the actual voters of an America First district were given the chance, they recognized him as a fraud and threw him out. He is a repudiated politician clinging to the last shreds of his relevance, a man whose mandate evaporated the moment real conservatives decided they wanted someone who actually works with the President instead of throwing tantrums for Twitter clout.
His entire legislative record is a monument to performative uselessness. Massie is famous for being "Mr. No," a title he wears with unearned pride. In reality, this means he is utterly incapable of building coalitions, passing meaningful legislation, or advancing conservative victories. Remember 2020, when he forced a recorded vote on the CARES Act, demanding lawmakers fly back to Washington in the middle of a pandemic just so he could preen for the cameras? Trump rightfully labeled him a "third-rate grandstander." Massie doesn't want to govern; he wants to object. He votes against the President’s signature initiatives, like the "One Big Beautiful Bill," not out of some deep constitutional devotion, but because his entire brand relies on being the contrarian gadfly. He is a legislative parasite, feeding off the hard work of actual conservative lawmakers while contributing absolutely nothing but procedural headaches.
But nowhere is his toxicity more evident than in his repulsive, isolating record on Israel. Massie stands alone, often aligning only with the radical left-wing Squad, in his refusal to support America's strongest ally in the Middle East. He was the sole member of Congress to vote against a resolution simply reaffirming Israel’s right to exist. He consistently votes against military aid to Israel, including the Iron Dome, actively seeking to leave them defenseless against terrorist rockets. And when he was finally and deservedly routed in his primary, what was his response? A vile, pathetic joke about having to call Gallrein "in Tel Aviv," framing his defeat as a Jewish conspiracy rather than a reflection of his own failures. He traffics in dual-loyalty tropes and pushes legislation designed to target pro-Israel groups, validating the worst instincts of the antisemitic fringe. Major Jewish organizations have repeatedly condemned his rhetoric, and for good reason. He is a man who would rather cozy up to the talking points of Hamas sympathizers than stand with a crucial American ally.
And now, we see the true measure of the man in his lame-duck session. Having been thoroughly rejected by his voters, Massie is spending his final months engaging in a pathetic, scorched-earth revenge tour. Instead of quietly packing up his office, he is actively trying to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the necessary and successful operations in Iran and Yemen. He is literally joining forces with House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries to attack a Republican administration’s defense secretary. This is not principle; this is a petulant child throwing a fit because his toys were taken away. He is using his remaining sliver of power to undermine American foreign policy and sabotage a Trump appointee, proving definitively that his loyalty has always been to his own ego, never to the country or the conservative movement.
Even his vaunted claims of integrity fall apart under scrutiny. This is a man who signed a term-limits pledge to run as a "fresh face," then comfortably squatted in his seat for 14 years, violating the core spirit of the promise he made to voters. He plays the folksy, off-grid farmer, while cultivating a career built entirely on endless Washington obstruction. And while he preaches transparency, he leaves a trail of controversies and allegations in his wake, including highly publicized and messy disputes involving claims of hush money. The image of the principled, incorruptible outsider is a meticulously crafted lie, designed to obscure a career politician whose only real accomplishment is a long list of people he has managed to infuriate.
Thomas Massie is a relic, a failed experiment in performative contrarianism who has finally been excised from the conservative body politic. He is a man who voted with the Squad, undermined the President, alienated our allies, and threw legislative tantrums while accomplishing absolutely nothing of substance. He will be remembered not as a principled maverick, but as a footnote of failure: the grandstander who got exactly what he deserved when the voters finally had enough of his pathetic, self-serving antics. Good riddance to the worst Republican in Congress.
Mr_Indignant retweeted
I think we're entering a civilizational rupture that nobody can predict. Not me, not the labs, not governments.
I don't know how much people realize how fast we're moving.
Look at what Anthropic's new model did during testing.
It solved two open problems in theoretical physics, both on black holes. One of the calculations was laid out in 2003 and nobody had ever finished it, because it was too laborious.
It formalized the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 30 hours, with a thousand agents that organized themselves. The first attempt took 11 days.
It wrote an operating system that boots on a laptop, starting from an empty folder, in 8 days.
It designed three electronic devices, boards, enclosures and software included. All three worked without a single electrical modification.
It found a new method to predict the structure of viral capsids, the shells used to deliver gene therapies.
And on robot control, it more than doubled the previous version's score.
All of that in a single announcement, on a Monday.
I think discoveries are going to stack up so fast that they'll produce an abundance we've never known: energy, health, materials, food. And with it a phase of immense joy, the joy of a civilization realizing that scarcity was never a law of nature.
Except that joy is going to land in a world order that's cracking everywhere, and that was designed by Malthusians. People convinced that resources are finite, that there are too many of us, and that the job of an enlightened elite is to manage scarcity on everyone else's behalf.
To me, Bill Gates is the most famous face of that worldview: a man nobody elected, who has weighed on the planet's health, agriculture and climate policies for twenty years. The degrowth crowd is the militant version. They don't even want to manage scarcity anymore, they want to organize it.
Abundance is the worst possible news for that worldview. If energy becomes nearly free and diseases fall one after another, nobody needs anyone to ration anything for them.
So I don't think they'll fight it. I think they'll try to capture it.
In the name of safety, climate or public health, we'll be told this power is too dangerous to be left in everyone's hands. We already saw the movie during Covid: the permission slips, the passes, the QR code to go get a coffee. Now imagine the same logic with an AI that can see everything, trace everything and decide everything in real time. Orwell never imagined a tool like that.
The technology is winning on its own. The question of the next ten years is who abundance will belong to.
We are living through the greatest civilizational revolution in human history. It's happening right now, and most people are looking the other way.
Mr_Indignant retweeted
Hey @grok , if Russell Brand has just been given 10.5 years in prison, why aren't the people in the Pakistani Rape Gangs and other illegal migrants given the same sort of sentences?
Mr_Indignant retweeted
The Branding of a Dissident: The UK's Corrupt Judiciary Just Sentenced Truth to 10 Years in Hell
The United Kingdom has just witnessed the ultimate display of selective justice, a spectacle so transparently corrupt it should make every single person with a shred of decency sick to their stomach.
Russell Brand has been handed a sentence of 10 years and 6 months by Judge Joel Bennathan at Southwark Crown Court.
This is not justice. This is a political hit job wrapped in the robes of the law, designed to destroy a man who dared to challenge the very establishment that now sits in judgment of him.
Look at the numbers. Look at the sheer audacity of this so-called "justice system." Brand was convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault, alleged to have occurred between 2004 and 2009.
For this, he receives a decade behind bars. Yet, where is this same iron fist when it comes to actual, proven violent criminals who happen to align with the narratives the elite despise? The hypocrisy is staggering. We see individuals convicted of genuine, violent rape cases receiving suspended sentences or walking free with time served because they fit the profile of the "victim" or the "perpetrator" that the media complex prefers. But Brand? A man who has openly discussed his past addictions and who has become a vocal critic of the pharmaceutical industry, the media, and the government's control mechanisms? He gets the book thrown at him with a speed and severity that is frankly terrifying.
The judge, Joel Bennathan, had the gall to lecture Brand about "fame" and "arrogance".
Let's be clear about what this really is. This is the establishment punishing dissent. Brand's "crime" in the eyes of the state was not what happened in a private room twenty years ago, which he has consistently denied, claiming all encounters were consensual.
His real crime was becoming too influential, too questioning, and too dangerous to the narrative. The fact that a jury convicted him after a four-week trial where he was found not guilty of two counts of rape and one count of attempted indecent assault shows the fragility of the case against him.
Even with the deck stacked, with the media circus demanding blood, they could only get a conviction on a fraction of the charges. And yet, the sentence is 10.5 years.
Compare this to the absolute travesty we see in other cases. We have seen individuals convicted of violent crimes, crimes with DNA evidence and immediate reporting, receive sentences that are a fraction of this for far more egregious acts. The disparity is not an accident. It is a feature of a system that has been infiltrated by ideological zealots who view the law as a weapon to be used against their enemies. The left and their allies in the judiciary and the media have created a culture where an accusation is a conviction, and where the accused is guilty until proven innocent, a complete inversion of the very principles this country was built upon.
The fact that Brand will serve two-thirds of this sentence before any possibility of release is a testament to the severity with which the state is treating this.
They are making an example of him. They are sending a message to anyone else who might think about stepping out of line, about questioning the official narrative, about challenging the power structures that govern our lives. This is about silencing a voice that has become too loud, too popular, and too effective at exposing the rot at the heart of our institutions.
This entire process, from the initial accusations that were eagerly amplified by every major media outlet without question, to the swift and severe sentencing, has been a masterful manipulation of the public. They want you to believe this is about justice for women. It is not. It is about justice for the state. It is about crushing a man who has become a symbol of resistance. The left's obsession with canceling, de-platforming, and now imprisoning those who disagree with them has reached its logical conclusion. They have no arguments left. They have no moral high ground. All they have is the power of the state, and they are using it with a ruthlessness that should terrify every single one of us.
The UK justice system has today proven itself to be nothing more than a tool of political repression. It is corrupt, it is biased, and it is fundamentally broken. Russell Brand is a political prisoner, and his imprisonment is a stain on the soul of this nation that will not be easily washed away.
We must stand with him, not because he is perfect, but because if they can do this to him, they can do it to anyone. And they will.
Mr_Indignant retweeted
RNZ $11.8 million dollar loss
This is some of what $65 million dollars a year gets us from RNZ:
1. RNZ exclaims it's New Zealand's most trusted news brand, even though it only achieved a 57% trust rating.
2. During this election RNZ has shown its blatant bias, giving more favourable coverage to the Opportunity Party and the Greens, than to any other political parties: youtube.com/shorts/7SYszcrrW…
3. And today the new CEO is shocked to find there is a $12 million dollar loss when he was only expecting a $400,000 loss. The blowout is being blamed on accounting blunders, excessive personal expenses, unapproved overdrafts, etc.
Should New Zealanders trust RNZ? Definitely not.
What I'm seeing is an undisciplined public organisation that is burning through taxpayer dollars, that it wasn't approved to spend, and a lack of governance and authority within the organisation to control extremely leftist producers and reporters in its organisation from pushing their own activist ideologies.
Either sell RNZ or enforce its charter that mandates fair, accurate, and balanced reporting. This farce has to stop.
Date: 2026-11-09
Source: 1News
Reporter: Simon Mercep
Copyright Authority: Fair Dealing
Mr_Indignant retweeted
DIVORCE AGREEMENT
THIS IS INCREDIBLY WELL-PUT, AND I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT'S WRITTEN BY A STUDENT!!! WHATEVER HE RUNS FOR, I'LL VOTE FOR HIM.
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et al:
We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is our separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets, since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
—We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.
--You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
--Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.
--We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel.
--You can keep Oprah, Whoopi, Bill Maher, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all five of them.
--We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.
--You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.
--We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEOs, and rednecks.
--We'll keep Bill O’Reilly and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.
--You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
--You can have the peaceniks and war protesters.
--When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
--We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
--You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLaine. You can also have the UN., but we will no longer be paying the bill.
--We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.
--You can give everyone health care if you can find any practicing doctors.
--We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."
--I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine," "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," "Kum Baya," or "We Are the World."
--We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle-up poverty your best shot.
--Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name, and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you might think about which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American
P.S. Also, please take George Clooney, Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Short, Charlie Sheen, Barbra Streisand, and (Hanoi) Jane Fonda with you.
P.P.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.
Forward This Every Time You Get It !
Let's Keep This Going, Maybe Some Of It Will Start Sink in.
Mr_Indignant retweeted
Yesterday’s election confirmed what so many already knew -National’s list MPs were never getting back in. The maths never lies. The writing had been on the wall for a long long time. Losing talented people is incredibly sad and i'm gutted for some of them.
But strategic voting helped National win electorates and create an overhang to counter the left’s almost flawlessly executed overhang strategy. Without it the centre-right would have little chance of forming the next government. The left used the rules of MMP. The right had to do the same to have a chance.
The numbers show a 20% increase in vote splitting on the right from the last election. The message clearly gained traction and thankfully has given the centre-right a real chance of forming the next government.
Yet 706,000 party votes still went to National without adding seats beyond its electorate wins. Essentially wasted votes.
I do wonder whether @NZNationalParty should have understood that maths and been more upfront about it with voters. Once the list seats were out of reach the success of the right bloc should have become the priority.
We can be sad about losing good people and still recognise why strategic voting made sense. The maths doesn’t change to suit party loyalties.
For me this comes back to the future we want for New Zealand.
We should remember the damage history shows socialist and communist economic policies have done when they crush incentives to build and invest. They shrink the pie and drive out talent and capital. Then politicians act surprised when productivity falls and living standards go backwards.
Sometimes I think the left forgets how much our living standards depend on businesses creating jobs and wealth. You cannot keep promising to spend more without backing the people who make that possible.
At ZURU we employ hundreds of people here and plan to grow that to thousands over the next decade. Around 99.5% of our projected revenue of more than $10 billion next year will come from overseas. We are fighting to bring more of that wealth home and create opportunities for talented Kiwis to build careers and eventually businesses of their own.
We need more companies doing that. More investment. More well-paid jobs. A bigger tax base to pay for better hospitals and schools. Higher living standards for everyone and better support for our most vulnerable.
I want young people to see a future here and families to get ahead. That takes a country willing to back people who build things and create wealth.
That is what I care about. Far more than any one party.
At the end of the day I want NZ to kick ass.
Mr_Indignant retweeted
YOU COULD HAVE JUST ASKED...
An open letter to New Zealand's mainstream media
Dear New Zealand Media,
Well, haven't you been busy!
Our Vote Smart 2026 campaign has generated quite the flurry of media attention over the past couple of weeks. Articles, interviews, television reports, political commentary. We've even made the lead item on the 6pm news. You've interviewed politicians, speculated about who's paying for it all, and devoted plenty of airtime and column inches to what our campaign might mean for Saturday's election.
And yet, amongst all this breathless reporting, something rather obvious seems to have escaped you. You've barely bothered to speak to the people who actually came up with the campaign.
You know, the women running it. Which is funny because, you know, women are all the rage these days...
That would be Claire and me. Hello! We're right here. 👋
Had you bothered to pick up the phone or flick us an email, we'd have happily answered your questions. Instead, we've watched an increasingly tangled narrative about billionaire funding, Electoral Commission complaints and police investigations.
It's rather like watching someone make aeroplane noises while spoon-feeding the public a great big mouthful of mashed-up information, hoping nobody notices what's actually in it.
So, since you haven't shown much interest in asking, allow me to explain a few things.
Vote Smart 2026 ( votesmart2026.co.nz ) is our campaign. Claire and I conceived it in August, developed the strategy, assembled the team and went looking for funding. A couple of dozen larger donors have contributed $1,000 or more, alongside many other generous supporters.
Yes, Mr Harry Mowbray is one of those donors. His contribution arrived on 18 October, when our campaign was already well underway. Whilst we’re grateful for his donation, it represents approximately 2% of our budget, roughly the cost of one of our 20 full-page newspaper advertisements. He didn't conceive, organise or direct our campaign, and his separate Split Your Vote initiative is exactly that. Separate.
We've spent nearly six years building our own organisations and community networks. More than 16,000 people have contributed financially to our work over that time, and we have over 100 local groups throughout New Zealand.
We didn't need a billionaire to tell us what to think, say, or do.
Now, here's something you might find interesting.
For years, you've had a remarkably narrow vocabulary when describing us. Far-right. Anti-vax. Anti-mandate. Anti-government. Anti-mainstream media.
You've become so accustomed to telling the public what we're supposedly against that you've rarely shown any curiosity about what we're actually FOR.
We believe people should be free to speak their minds, make their own medical decisions, raise their children according to their values, and enjoy the rights and freedoms generations before us fought to protect.
We want decent schools, public services that work, sensible government spending and politicians who make decisions based on evidence and common sense. We value our Kiwi culture, our traditions, property rights and the freedom to disagree without being treated as the enemy.
Surely none of that should be particularly controversial?
Yet somehow, you've managed to spend six years describing us without ever really explaining us.
Perhaps that's why this campaign has caught so many of you off guard. Two women you've spent years dismissing have helped organise 30+ billboards, a million flyers delivered nationwide, 20 full-page newspaper advertisements, a substantial digital campaign, a website, several explainer videos and interactive educational tools, all with the help of a remarkable community of ordinary New Zealanders.
And you've been so busy looking for the mysterious puppet master that you've missed the people standing right in front of you.
Which brings me to the most obvious question of all, and one remarkably few of you have bothered to ask.
Why are we doing this?
To understand our determination, you need to remember the Covid years. We certainly do.
We remember the people who lost their jobs under government mandates, the families torn apart, friendships destroyed and businesses lost. Ordinary Kiwis who felt coerced into medical decisions and people still living with the consequences.
We remember the division, vilification and cruelty directed at those who questioned government policy. And we remember the critical role the mainstream media played in ALL OF IT.
While people were losing their livelihoods, you were often more interested in labelling and ridiculing them than listening to their stories.
And when it was all over, where was the reckoning? The difficult questions? The accountability?
Chris Hipkins and other senior figures from that Labour government have continued their political careers without acknowledging the harm caused. And much of the media has carried on as though nothing happened.
Perhaps you think New Zealanders have moved on.
We haven't. Nor have many of the people whose lives were turned upside down.
That's a large part of why we're fighting so hard.
And before you assume we're cheerleaders for National, we're thoroughly unimpressed with plenty of its decisions too. Our campaign reflects our dissatisfaction with both major parties and our belief that New Zealanders deserve to understand how their votes work under MMP.
You can question our strategy and scrutinise our advertising. Please do. But at least understand what we're doing before telling the country what you think we're up to.
And while we're talking about trust, have you wondered why public confidence in mainstream news has been declining for years? Why independent media has grown? Why RCR exists in the first place?
When important context is omitted, when labels replace genuine inquiry, and when people aren't given a fair opportunity to explain themselves, trust inevitably suffers. You can blame social media and misinformation all you like, but perhaps it's time to examine your own contribution to the problem.
We saw an enormous gap between the questions ordinary New Zealanders were asking and those the established media seemed willing to pursue. So we built something of our own.
Whatever happens on Saturday, we're not disappearing. We've spent six years building our own media platforms, establishing nationwide networks, and learning just what ordinary people can achieve when they stop waiting for someone else to do something. We intend to keep asking uncomfortable questions, challenging those in power, and holding people accountable for decisions that affect our lives and our children's futures.
The thing is, I suspect some of you regard us as a rather unpredictable wild card. A grenade sitting on the table, its pin almost entirely extracted. You don't quite know what to make of us, what we might do next, or how much influence we might have. And perhaps that makes you uncomfortable. I would be, if I were you.
But here's a thought. How about you try talking to us?
You might discover two Kiwi mums who love their country, care deeply about their children's future, and have families and lives they'd quite like to get back to occasionally.
We also have long memories, and we've learned that being dismissed and underestimated can be a remarkably powerful motivator.
There's an old saying about a woman scorned.
Well, I wouldn't underestimate two of them. 😉
Yours sincerely,
Alia Bland
Co-founder, VFF and RCR Media
Mr_Indignant retweeted
Over the last two years, Senate Republicans have put up a strong record of accomplishment that’s created safer streets, more money in Americans’ pockets, and new opportunities for families and businesses to get ahead. After fighting Democrat obstruction at every turn, we prevented the largest tax hike in American history, secured our border in an unprecedented way, confirmed the president’s Cabinet at the fastest pace in two decades, and put strong conservative judges on benches across the country faster than we have since the Reagan administration. I’m proud of our team and everything we’ve done for the American people, and I’m looking forward to the important work we have in front of us over the next few months. As we head into 2027, Senate Republicans will not stand idly by as the far-left, socialist wing of the Democrat Party attempts to unwind everything we’ve done. Thankfully, we still have President Trump in the White House, and we’ll work with him to stop the worst impulses of Democrat extremism. We cannot let their fringe positions become the mainstream.
Mr_Indignant retweeted
Western civilization is Christianity and its values.
You can circle around it for hours, talk about democracy, human rights, science, freedom. But all of that grew from soil. And that soil is a wild, unheard-of idea that turned the ancient world upside down: every human being has infinite worth. The poor man as much as the king. The slave as much as the emperor. The child as much as the elder. No man can ever again be reduced to a cog.
Everything great about the West comes from there. The cathedrals, the hospitals, the universities, modern science, the abolition of slavery, equal dignity before the law, the very idea that conscience is sacred and that no power has the right to crush it.
And here's something important. You don't need to be a believer to be an heir to this. You're an atheist? You come from another religion? Doesn't matter. The world you live in, the one where you can think freely, build a business, criticize those in power, love who you want, live in safety, get medical care, that world didn't fall from the sky. It was built, stone by stone, on these values. Even your right not to believe comes from there. You breathe this inheritance every day without seeing it, the way you don't see the air.
And at the heart of that inheritance are two sentences. Two sentences that are enough to live on your feet.
The first: "The truth will set you free."
Not comfort. Not safety. Not other people's approval. The truth. Every system that ever tried to enslave people started the same way: by forbidding them to say what they see. The lie needs your silence to survive. It only holds because everyone thinks they're the only one who sees clearly. The day one person stands up and simply says what is true, something cracks. The day a thousand stand up, it all comes down.
The second: "Be not afraid."
It's what Christ tells his disciples again and again. And it's what a Polish pope proclaimed to the world in 1978, while half of Europe lived under communism. Everyone thought that bloc would last forever. Eleven years later, the Wall fell. Not with tanks. With men and women who had stopped being afraid.
Remember Peter on the lake. He walks on the water. He actually walks. Then he looks at the wind, at the waves, he thinks about everything that could go wrong, and he starts to sink. It wasn't the storm that pulled him under. It was the fear.
Our whole era is right there. We've been taught to watch the wind. To be afraid of speaking, afraid of being judged, afraid of losing our jobs, afraid of being called every name in the book, afraid of defending what we received, afraid even of having children. A civilization that is afraid stops walking on water. It sinks, slowly, apologizing all the way down.
And while it apologizes, others are hard at work. Communists, yesterday as today, want to replace the dignity of the person with the absolute power of the state. Globalists want to dissolve nations, cultures, roots, everything that lets a people know where it comes from. They don't always say it that way. But their project always takes the same shape: destroy the inheritance to better control those who no longer have one. A man without roots, without memory, without bearings, is a man who is afraid. And a man who is afraid is very easy to govern.
That's why fear is their best weapon. And that's why courage is ours.
Fear has never built anything. Not a cathedral, not a family, not a company, not a nation. Every beautiful thing on this earth was made by someone who, at some point, was afraid and went forward anyway.
You are not alone. You are the heirs of two thousand years of men and women who stood firm against far worse than what we face. Martyrs in the arenas, monks copying texts while the Empire collapsed, dissidents in the gulags. They had no networks, no money, no power. They had the truth, and they were not afraid. They won.
What they protected, it's now our turn to protect. Believers or not. No matter where you come from. If you live in this free world, you are its guardians.
Tell the truth. Defend what you received. Build families. Build. And when the wind blows, don't look at the waves.
The truth will set you free.
Be not afraid.
Many, many people don't understand how I can be so optimistic. So let me tell you about something every great athlete has in common: visualization.
Before a final, a champion doesn't replay the scenario where he loses. He sees the race. Every move, every turn, the finish line, the win. He's lived it a hundred times in his head before living it for real. Michael Phelps did it every night before falling asleep. It's not magical thinking, it's preparation: the brain goes where you point it.
At the scale of a whole people, this has a name. Sociologist Robert Merton called it the self-fulfilling prophecy. When enough people share a belief, it changes how they act, and those actions end up producing the very reality the belief predicted. Pessimism works exactly the same way, just in reverse. A country that believes it's finished behaves like a country that's finished, and ends up being one.
So yes, let's be honest. We're up against extremely powerful forces with enormous inertia. Decades of statism, surrender, and guilt. That doesn't flip overnight.
But look at the whole picture. Argentina choosing to break with decades of statist failure. Musk blowing open the lock on free speech on the biggest public square in the world. What's happening in the United States. Poland standing tall again. And on the other side, globalist elites in full decay, convincing no one anymore, and they know it.
There's every reason to be optimistic.
And even if you only half believe it, do the math. Say we have a 20% chance of winning. The only smart move is to focus on that 20% and give it everything. Don't waste a single second thinking about the 80%. Because the moment you think you've lost is the moment you've lost. Always. In sports, in business, in history.
So this is a call to everyone who wants a decent future: stay optimistic, and focus on what actually moves things forward. Call out technocratic Europe, Macron, mental communism, the statism that suffocates everything. Go talk to young people. Explain that they've been brainwashed by a leftist system, that Mélenchon is a cynic who feeds on their anger without ever offering them anything. Be in the fight. But fight with a smile, not with the rage of the defeated.
And above all, never fall into cynicism. That's the real poison. The cynic looks lucid, but he's just given up before starting, and he wants you to give up with him. You are the sum of the people you spend time with. If you're surrounded by cynical, pessimistic people, try to change them. And if they stay cynical, walk away. Your energy is too precious.
If every individual visualizes victory, and acts every day to maximize the odds that we head in the right direction, we will head in the right direction. Not by miracle. By addition.
Find your optimism again. Be proud to be French. Proud to be Western. Fight so that every Western country preserves its culture, its history, what makes it unique.
Visualize the win. We're going to win.
Mr_Indignant retweeted
Whether Democrats take one or two houses of Congress, they and the media are about to pull off one of the most brilliant psychological operations in recent memory: convincing millions of swing voters they had moderated on trans.
Talarico made national headlines when he went on Fox to say he would oppose trans athletes in girls’ sports “if it risks safety or fairness.” Four days later, a woman posing as a supporter secretly recorded him saying, “my position hasn’t changed,” after she asked him to defend her trans-identified nephew's ability to compete in girls' sports. The media buried or ignored it.
On “60 Minutes,” El-Sayed called concerns over boys in girls’ sports a manufactured culture war issue meant to distract from high prices and said he was “not running to govern sports,” without ever saying he opposed it.
Every Senate Democrat present, including Ossoff, voted in March 2025, and again in March 2026, to block legislation that would have banned males from female sports. Sherrod Brown cast the same vote in 2021 and 2024. Peltola cast it in the House in 2023. None since have promised to vote differently in the future.
Meanwhile, Roy Cooper vetoed a bill that would have banned males in female sports, Josh Turek voted against Iowa’s 2025 health budget, which barred Medicaid from paying for surgeries or cross-sex hormones, and then ran an ad saying he is “against taxpayers paying for sex changes,” and Ed Markey made his support for transgenderism central to his campaign and defeated his moderate opponent Seth Moulton by 65% to 35% in the Massachusetts Senate primary.
One can only appreciate how brilliant the Democrats/media psyop was when you consider that 71% of the public opposes trans medical procedures for minors and 79% oppose males in female sports.
Even the share of Democrats who favor getting males out of female sports rose from 37% in 2022 to 45% in 2025, while the percentage of Democrats who believe changing one’s gender is morally acceptable declined 11 points between 2025 and 2026.
Republicans spent at least $183 million on ads attacking the Democrats on trans, which is at least $30 million more than they spent at the same point in 2024.
It wasn’t enough to overcome one of the Democrats’ most successful deception operations after over a decade of hugely consequential ones (e.g., Russiagate hoax, Charlottesville, BLM, Hunter Biden laptop, climate, Covid, etc.)
Mr_Indignant retweeted
Nayib Bukele.
Donald Trump.
Javier Milei.
Trois pays, trois styles, un point commun : ils sont en train de mettre en lumière le plus grand système de corruption de l'histoire de l'humanité.
Et ce système, vous le connaissez. Vous le financez même avec vos impôts.
C'est la nébuleuse supranationale. Les grandes organisations internationales, les agences qui gravitent autour, et surtout l'armée d'ONG branchées dessus.
Le mécanisme est d'une simplicité redoutable.
Des fondations privées comme l'Open Society de George Soros arrosent des milliers d'ONG. Les institutions publiques en rajoutent une couche avec l'argent du contribuable. Rien que l'Union européenne a versé 7,4 milliards d'euros à des ONG entre 2021 et 2023, et sa propre Cour des comptes a dénoncé l'opacité du système, avec des subventions qui ont servi à faire du lobbying. Bruxelles payait des ONG pour faire pression… sur Bruxelles.
Ces ONG produisent des rapports, des « expertises », des campagnes médiatiques. Les rapports deviennent des recommandations. Les recommandations deviennent des lois. Les lois créent de nouveaux budgets. Les budgets financent de nouvelles ONG.
Une boucle fermée. Personne n'a voté pour eux. Personne ne peut les révoquer.
Pendant des décennies, ce système a capturé les institutions une à une : universités, médias, magistratures, administrations, organisations internationales. Les mêmes profils passent d'une fondation à un ministère, d'un ministère à une agence onusienne, d'une agence à un board. Les tenants et les aboutissants sont toujours les mêmes.
Et pendant ce temps, on a fait du dumping de réalité. On a mis sous le tapis l'insécurité, l'immigration incontrôlée, la désindustrialisation, la dette. Tout ce qui dérangeait le récit.
Sauf qu'une cocotte-minute, ça finit toujours par exploser.
Le Salvador était l'un des pays les plus dangereux du monde. Bukele a enfermé les gangs, ignoré les ONG qui hurlaient, et le pays affiche aujourd'hui l'un des taux d'homicide les plus bas du continent.
Milei a pris une tronçonneuse à l'État argentin et a coupé les robinets.
Trump a démantelé USAID et ouvert les comptes.
Et la vague s'étend : cette semaine, Keiko Fujimori, nouvelle présidente du Pérou, a visité le CECOT avec Bukele et annonce ses propres méga-prisons.
Ce n'est que le début.
Je pense qu'on va vivre un Nuremberg 2.0. Pas un procès de vengeance : une ouverture totale des archives. Qui a financé quoi. Qui a payé qui. Qui a écrit quelle loi pour le compte de qui. Des décennies de flux mis à nu.
Ce sera probablement l'un des événements les plus importants de l'histoire humaine.
Et dans 30 ans, on regardera Bukele, Trump et Milei comme on regarde ceux qui ont eu le courage d'avoir raison trop tôt.
Des héros.
🤖 Made with AI
Mr_Indignant retweeted
RE: The Election Tomorrow
I don’t have a prediction.
I’m not a pollster, I’m not a data analyst, and when I ever predict anything politically I usually just roll with my gut instinct. My gut instinct in 2024 assured me with 100% certainty that Trump would win. There were just too many circumstances of Americans being angered at the lawfare waged against Trump, and Kamala was just too incoherent of a person, for it to happen any other way.
Now? These midterms?
I have no clue.
The polls are meaningless. Polls nowadays are mostly push-polls, hoping to force their predictions to come true by motivating one side and demoralizing the other side. Also, MAGA Republicans would rather eat raw slugs than speak to a pollster.
IPEV and mail-in voting in the states that track party affiliation used to be the prognostication gold standard (and may still be), and the folks who have been so very accurate in past elections have tended to rely on those numbers for their analyses, but are these still reliable indicators? Trump’s work with the USPS on mail-in voting has to have had an effect on how Democrats view that method, and perhaps all the scare-mongering about Trump “stealing our democracy” might have an unintended effect of moving Dems more to in-person voting (and maybe on Election Day).
Maybe? Possibly?
How about the revelations regarding the Color Revolution in the works? How about Communist and jihadist candidates on the Democrat side motivating Republicans to go and vote who might otherwise stay home for a midterm?
If Republicans would turn out in the same numbers they do for Presidential elections, we could swamp the vote. But so could the Dems.
Maybe.
I don’t know what to tell you. I believe there are several dynamics at play here that are new to American electoral politics, and they make these midterms a “best guess” scenario IMO. If you were looking for hope or doom from me, I’m not giving either, because I just don’t know.
What I do know is this: if you are a conservative and you sit this one out, you will have had a hand in giving this country over to literal Communists and literal jihadists. $4.00 gas is not a reason to hand our nation over to abject evil.
Please vote, and vote red.
Thank you.
