Alex
@ShakingStick
Followers
3,735
Following
1,756
Media
6,721
Statuses
255,952
I want a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Standard of the Shit we are being Asked to Believe. ➡️ @Shakingstick .bsky.social
Wellington
Joined June 2011
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
#딥페이크_가해자_전원_신상공개
• 163095 Tweets
YOKO APASRA IN NANNING
• 152559 Tweets
#교육부는_성범죄자를_퇴학시켜라
• 139467 Tweets
熱帯低気圧
• 125576 Tweets
LINGORM SEPTEMBER WISH
• 106557 Tweets
متعب الحربي
• 82363 Tweets
Happy New Month
• 58555 Tweets
Rafah
• 55536 Tweets
Hersh Goldberg-Polin
• 54530 Tweets
#anation2024
• 50420 Tweets
新潟記念
• 49163 Tweets
ライトバック
• 32149 Tweets
金子引退
• 22008 Tweets
Cruz Azul
• 21643 Tweets
シンリョクカ
• 19351 Tweets
小倉2歳
• 18777 Tweets
ClariS
• 16116 Tweets
金子選手
• 14090 Tweets
金子侑司
• 11039 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
Gin is the new whisky. It is the time of gin, is what I'm saying. The zeitgeist. The vibe is bitter aromatics and wistful labels about tears and magic.
4
2
22
The ask the politicians owning rentals how much they've put the rent up in the last 5 years challenge 2021
4
49
438
Whole bunch of people who reckon te reo signage is incomprehensible seem to be comprehending the message loud and clear enough from a haka
10
63
409
mazing how when Labour gets hammered in an election it's a clear sign they need to pander to the centre right and when they smash the right in an election it means exactly the same thing
0
64
391
And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Whose is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful car
And you may tell yourself
It belongs to my beautiful wife
20
76
365
Is beating up a kid in their bed worse than not telling winz about having a flatmate? The system knows.
9
19
344
That Jacinda Ardern seems to be a pretty good judge of character
10
24
345
Psst, Wanna see Chris Bishop getting wrecked?
Good to see
@MattyMcLean
holding National to account for standing aside and letting Winston spread his conspiracy theories unchecked.
"Just saying what a lot of New Zealanders are thinking" is a piss poor response to amplifying unmitigated lies.
185
222
1K
24
46
346
Reckon if you get stripped of a knighthood level honour you shouldn't just revert back to being a normal non-titled citizen but should get a negative title, like The Disgraced, or the Ratbag bastard or some such
28
40
337
I would like to invite the leaders of our opposition parties to not be monstrous in the coming days.
14
25
315
It's not like all those cars and campervans abandoned on Wellington streets don't have licence plates, it a not mystery who should be billed
10
18
311
NZ calmly considering how many fucks to give about overseas pundit or Podcaster reckons about NZ is the real sign we've cut our colonial cringe strings
14
43
308
Because you are a professional wanker?
18
18
301
not sure how you could watch Taika Waititi's wildly successful films about NZ and think he doesn't both love NZ and think it has problems.
3
39
280
If you are, like me, a straight middle aged white dude and you haven't leaned a ton of stuff on here from all the people on here who are not those things then, umm, far out.
That stuff is far and away the best shit on this accursed site.
17
38
273
Psst
@nzherald
, by definition every opinion columnist is 'outspoken', the words you are looking for to describe Katie Hopkins is 'racist trash fire seeking to monetise racist trash'
7
18
272
Why isn't the cook strait a fucking road of national significance?
29
36
280
Imagine being a grown arse political party leader and making a fuckwit out of yourself trying to impress max key lol.
4
16
267
@realDonaldTrump
It's been, what, 3 days now,? And Hillary is still renting room in your head. sad.
10
17
235
@AJemaineClement
His wardrobe person is replacing all his ties with slightly longer ties every day to make him paranoid he's shrinking
6
22
243
Imagine having the ego to enter a popularity contest against baby dolphins and their mums lmao
6
36
255
Luxon's positioning that abortion is settled law in NZ seems familiar somehow
8
12
238
0
1
209
It was pretty damn easy to just ban over the counter pseudoephedrine which was more useful to more people than semiautomatic weapons.
3
36
216
Hasn't read it but just gonna shit on it. This guy is a proper prick.
15
20
214
Yeah the problem isn't that he 'started a constitutional whatever on twitter' it's that he's either a fool or a troll or both. And it's no good being a 'hard worker' if the work sucks
13
28
214
Ol luxon wants to throw in the towel on things as complex as wearing a mask. Wants to be Prime Minister of a whole damn country.
9
16
204
Never forget that Brian Tamaki is many things and one of things is a stone cold, verified, often claimed rarely proved, but in his case deffo legit false prophet. He prophesied he'd have been ruling the country by now. Said God told him this. Open shut case. False prophet.
7
24
203
People on
@ThePanelRNZ
saying 16 year olds don't have the 'critical thinking skills' to vote, or can't make 'informed decisions', should take a long hard look at what us old buggers write, as a cohort, on places like Stuff comments.
17
28
197
Said it before and I'll keep saying it. Fascists win coz tories vote for them if the choice is between a fascist or anything left if tory.
10
33
189
Other obvious thing about Nick Smith quitting for the good of his party and family over a verbal altercation that turned into year long employment dispute as yet unresolved, is that he's quitting because it's going public, not because it happened.
12
20
190
Landlord lobbyists complaining about inflation when one of the biggest contributors to inflation is rents is some predictably fucked bullshit I am being asked to believe
1
19
194
Yeah nah with this 'genuine protesters' and 'rogue elements' talk. Yes, there are different types of protesters in the group with different levels of militancy. But none are more genuine than others. They are literally standing in solidarity with each other.
6
25
192
Collins nailing herself to a cross about how the police and others are working and she can't in good conscience not work even though she'd rather be at home in lockdown ignores the hordes of us working from home and trying to make that work. She's so bad. Worst I've ever seen.
4
14
185
Hi
@chrisluxonmp
you said you don't want to see politics becoming polarised around identity politics and I'm happy to take your word on that. Will you get your MPs to stop using the word 'woke' to denigrate people who disagree with them about these issues?
4
20
185
3
4
153
This fckn guy. This is fake arse shit you'd expect from someone who wants to use numbers to get away with as much as they can for short term benefit and who isn't planning based on long term trends and strategic thought. ie CEO shit
30
27
183
Watching journos get on high horses about allegedly ambiguous or wrong messaging in texts or some shit idk. I'd care more if a day ever went by where a major news org didn't mislead the fuck out of its consumers to get a click
3
31
178
If you want to know how weak Luxon is look at his leadership of the National party's position on ACTs treaty bullshit. He's absent. Dude is sleep walking his party and this country into a clusterfuck because he doesn't have the stones to publicly take a stand agin 8% Seymour.
19
31
182
People knowing my views has hindered my political career. This is someone else's fault
National MP Simon O'Connor says being outspoken about his socially conservative views "probably" held back his political career.
"It always comes down to what leaders want. But it probably has had an impact. But I went into Parliament to be me," he tells
@WhenaOwen
12
0
4
2
28
175
This is cool not just because what she said agrees with plenty of my priors but coz it will drive her critics bonkers. Cope and seethe ahoy
25
27
177
David Seymour thinks a government has to budget in exactly the same way a family does presumably because he is an idiot
9
11
169
Chris Bishop all of a sudden not being available to discuss the Nats plan to scrap MIQ and open the borders is a new variant of behaviour from him huh
3
8
170
Labour party giving people who hate them the stupid things they ask for and then standing around acting sad and confused when they get blamed for the results, or, A History of the New Zealand Labour Party.
7
44
168
Campbell: 'When Jones talks about it, it sounds punitive; but what you are describing sounds meaningful and hopeful, are you appealing to different groups?'
Harawira "Shane's always been a bit of a dick that way"
6
40
166
Holy shit. Just saw that
@MarkMitchellMP
described voting as a privilege rather than a right. So if you had any doubts about where he sits on the political spectrum there's a big ol' data point for ya.
9
20
159
Look I appreciate the thought behind people saying Australia should become part of NZ but the simple fact is they would massively out vote us and to be frank, voting for things does not seem to be a core competency they have worked very hard on getting any good at.
10
24
162
Saving you a click here: the 2 sides of this are the experts saying it's a bad policy and Chris Bishop saying it isnt
'Commonsense' or 'financially irresponsible'?: Experts react to National's KiwiSaver policy to cover rental bonds
8
1
6
2
35
163
Am I bad for lmao while reading this?
37
14
167
Luxon gonna turn around the fortunes of the struggling National company by cutting links to regional centres
5
19
166
Contains classic kiwi use of 'fuck off' by one of the staff who absolutely come across as the gcs in the whole scenario
Video has emerged of Mitre 10 Helensville (
@Mitre10HV
) staff assaulting a man for not wearing a mask.
743
79
414
17
2
163
Luxon now selling his foreign buyers tax thing by saying it'd be cool to have tech guys living half their life in San Fran and half their life in nz, if you're wondering what sort of weirdoes he's pitching this at
20
26
162
Jokes about Tamaki being beaten or raped in prison aren't funny, ffs.
19
2
159
I think we should shorten the parliamentary recess, too much time off in the summer heat seems to stunt their reckoning powers and they erupt in late January with a bunch of nonsense.
6
25
155
How about using 'money'
Christopher Luxon: National to use education, economy to alleviate poverty
43
5
27
8
6
154
Missed the news, did Goldsmith get dragged as hard as a leftwing politician would if they failed to understand basic tax policy the way he did today?
7
20
154
Can someone explain to me like I'm a high schooler how these 'alternate funding methods' are cheaper than govt borrowing?
28
29
150
Cafes and pubs run by sovcits have to let you leave without paying the tab if you tell them they have been great hosts binding them to stand under the ancient laws of hospitality.
4
26
155
The answer to the question: 'so where was antifa on Jan 6?' appears to be 'at home, archiving your incriminating feeds'
1
14
151
Siri, show me something scientifically designed to break wingnut brains
4
27
146
'Are the greens too wokety woke now that they have abandoned socialism and environmentalism for wokesterism? I asked Bradbury, Trotter, Hooton and Farrar'
Fckn lol man. Have some self respect.
6
8
146
The National Party's finance spokesperson just said she thinks NZers who can't buy a house are just blowing all their money on overseas holidays and offshore investments, fckn lol.
12
29
144
Tfw when your whole twitter premise has absolutely not been completely owned by an article
6
6
146
Hooton owned by so many people today National have announced that if elected they will privatise him in their first 100 days
6
13
146
the National party pretending to respect the teacher unions now is fucking hilarious
6
19
142
David Farrar claims he's doing us all a service by hosting Islamophobia and 'cultural conservatives' on his site coz otherwise they'd be on 8 chan getting radicalized. What an idiot.
13
20
144
Waiting on the gallery to write their analysis bits on how seymour is making things difficult for National with his purity politics that frightens middle New Zealand and how Luxon will need to respond and how this is a gift for Labour coz nz likes stability not fringe weirdoes
7
28
143
Lol NZ terf now going on about critical race theory in schools in a huge shock development
11
10
146
Idk maybe if journos were less wildly reckless and performative and wrong with how they reported on OIA'd documents civil servants would be less insanely defensive about releasing them. Just a thought.
3
12
141
Weird how pol journos criticised the hell out of Clark for saying Ferals and Clinton for saying Deplorables, to the extent these became iconic political gaffes, but Luxon on Bottom Feeding seems to have attracted no such commentary at all.
10
16
140
If that article about the guy with 70 houses bracing for a 45k tax bill doesn't have a stab at estimating the capital gain on 70 houses in the last year then it's bad and everyone involved should feel bad.
4
9
144
I want a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Standard of the Shit we are being Asked to Believe.
9
74
133
Funniest part about the Nats cascade of errors over the last day or so, objectively speaking from an informed position free of any bias, is that it's all happening in the area of economics and numbers where they rate themselves as godkings for no good reason at all.
1
20
138
Went down a rabbit hole of NZ RW twitter and learned that Ardern is an incredibly lazy part time PM who has already instituted full communism in NZ. Imagine what she'd have managed if she applied herself.
9
15
138
Nationals stated reason for not releasing policy is that the government might steal it. lol
13
10
131
Fckn incredible journalists are calling these savings rather than cuts. Like. Fucking. Amazing.
The government has found almost $7.5 billion in savings, it revealed in today's 'mini-Budget'.
This comes from stopping a range of work the Labour government had under way.
43
1
6
5
18
137
Why don't editors ever seem to tell opinion columnists that this is boring and childless and we've already published a dozen versions of it?
10
10
135
Sharma resigning from parliament to produce a 6 part Netflix doco series titled 'I shall never rest until I find the real bully'
6
8
138
Barry Soper, hard bitten news hound who holds the powerful to account unless they shout him beers twice a year.
4
5
135
Imagine launching a policy supposedly all about transparency and accountability of public spending and having absolutely no answer to the question 'how much will it cost and how you gonna resource it?' beyond shrugging and saying 'idk, robots could do it probly'
6
23
136
It's all very tiresome innit, but I'm just gonna leave it here that the Greens increasing their vote when everyone thought said tide would be going out somewhat KIND OF indicates that a bunch of Labour voters voted tactically to keep their influence on the govt alive
11
8
129
Imagine being in her caucus watching that bizarre af video of Collins rolling her eyes at the 'woke' idea that 'the housing market should provide suitable housing'. Imagine watching her day after day and still cowing to her. She's terrible at politics guys, really bad
5
1
132
Fresh
19
2
132