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AMPP - 2026 campaign results to date
While I campaign on many platforms, Facebook is where I pay for advertising. My intention was to spend around $10-15,000 total on my 2026 campaign. Some of that is for electioneering/gigs, but most of it is for ads. - $1,239.87 Spent. 118,959 Meta Accounts reached. 225,305 Total Impressions. 84,605 Page Engagements 1207 Page Reactions 269 Comments - As the Green Party can see, these numbers are really healthy. I'm not kidding when I say that The Dakumentary = an engaged
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 151 min read


'retire'
No. For starters, the AMPP effect being real doesn't mean that I should shut up. I was extremely clear that I was intending to take the 2026 election seriously. Unlike the real parties, I published my manifesto last year, and leapt into action with some solid hits and policy discussion in January and February. Then they found two comments that they interpreted in a deliberately malicious manner, and used those to shut me up until late April. By that point, Collective Memor
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 152 min read
To Steve Barr
Mate, you can't have my songs, my stories, my likeness or my filmmaking abilities. I hate you with every fibre of my being for being a self-centred, abusive prick. Disney made you into a monster. The idea that you could steal my screenplay, bully me into losing my job, then leverage your social connections to threaten me into performing the leading role is corruption, not competent producing. Any competent producer would have met me. They would have negotiated fairly, then
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 152 min read
To Paul Thompson and RNZ's senior staff
Look, after Michelle's brutal beating, you have to call a moratorium on threatening me. No more 'stow ed away' -- editor's tricks = intentional aggravation to piss me off. My bulge isn't illegal and your bigotry is. - Steve Barr and Christopher Luxon are suspects in a front line investigation. The NZ Police have good reason to believe that they have systemically harassed me. RNZ is going to have to admit some level of involvement, but please pin it on them. I don't blame
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 151 min read
'Why won't you be Tina?'
It doesn't work like that. Once you accept that AI didn't write my script or songs, then you have to accept the primacy of copyright law in all jurisdictions. Are my copyrights suddenly invalid because I'm a New Zealander? Does making Working For Each Other disqualify me from IP rights? Steve Barr is a sleazy creep who tried to steal my idea and make money from it. Let's focus on that truth, rather than being pawns of the Trump or Luxon administration. I own the rights to
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 151 min read


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Amanda Riddell
Jun 140 min read
To the SIS etc.
I am not a designated threat and you have no warrant. Your anti-AMPP actions breach the Intelligence and Security Act, so you must cease. This is no-brainer stuff. You can't let Trump or Luxon lean on you if a left-wing PM wouldn't be able to expect the same level of toadying and ethical breaches. No more text injections. No more AI porn injections. No more threats. No more manipulated headlines. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZSjERDDTrtQnuGj40XCQxI81BvYIoP56/view?usp=sha
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 141 min read


Pink & White: Mendes/Mescal standoff
Sam Mendes was killed as well; they're drip-feeding information to me. 'I'm switching sides...'
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 141 min read
Entertainment law
Might sound like incomprehensible jargon to Andrew Little, but it's not to me. That's how I get paid (or not). That's how I get to make films (or not). - Everyone in Wellington thinks they know something, but I'm telling you respectfully to butt out unless you're an entertainment lawyer. My case is rock-solid. It was the first thing that Apple Corps checked when inducting me. Steve Barr has no legal right to my IP. I'm yet to meet an entertainment lawyer regarding this,
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 141 min read
'non-negotiable absolute loss'
What do I mean by that? It means that Weeded Out is dead, and that all monies that were given to Mr. Barr will be given to me via an account of profits, not merely returned to the Film Commission. It means that Red Scare Theatre Company has to dissolve while Mr. Cain and Ms. Tse are facing jail terms for their actions. It means that Tory Whanau will return from Australia and face a criminal charge. It means that Nadine Walker will be convicted. - It means that the New Ze
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 141 min read
'Please play Sir Paul; our actor died'
He died in a shootout with the fucking police because he tortured Sir Paul and Michelle. It's over, Nancy and James. The Beatles is dead; long live Beatles Invade New Zealand. - Jane Asher was curious if the Virgin Islands are going to be in our film... Yes, they're likely to be the opening sequence of our second film. - Paul Mescal was an actor. I'm a musician and broadcaster. I don't sound like a Liverpudlian and I'm not magnetic. What I'm able to do is play the guit
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 141 min read


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Amanda Riddell
Jun 140 min read
Am I generating faces?
Outside of a few people like Trump, the answer is no. Unlike Huffer, mine aren't explicit likenesses, as the images are usually caricatures. That's why I have my object head characters instead. They don't resemble people.
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 141 min read
Circumventing Death: what's the truth?
It's not about Taylor. I recorded my piano part in the lounge of my boarding house. That's why it has some Iranian music in the intro, and a microwave going off at the end. - It's mostly for Chlöe. Mike made it about Jane. Golriz contributed a lyric: 'revive what was'
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 131 min read


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Amanda Riddell
Jun 130 min read
To the Green Party
Please stop taking Hollywood's side in a dispute where they're clearly the bad guys! It makes the green movement look bad when you cover up fraud because y'all might want to use one of their movies as a fundraiser instead of a local film. The behaviour of the New Zealand Green Party's Parlimentary wing was shocking. They openly tortured me and Ms. Swarbrick because we're more magnetic than them. Instead, you should be celebrating that a Beatles film with an ungodly carbon
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 121 min read
To my enemies
Look, if I'm investigating you then the time for compromise under your terms is over. I'm not returning to my alma mater. I'm not producing Weeded Out. I haven't been charged or convicted. I sincerely doubt that the SIS has a warrant to spy on me. That means I'm not going to be doing a film as diversion. That requires a charge. - There's nothing that can persuade me to join the Disney stable. I'm not interested. Same goes for all the other creeps that sextorted me. -
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 121 min read
'But cannabis causes psychosis!'
Do you blame food when you get food poisoning?
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 121 min read
Dirty Creatures
That's Michelle's story, both in the past and over the last several years. It's fiction, but it's close enough to the truth.
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 111 min read
'just overdub Shipwrecked: make it an album'
No. The SIS and other pissed-off groups will need to stop forcing me to compromise. If I'd wanted to sing the songs myself, I wouldn't have written a script. I'd much rather hear Ella or Ingrid singing Joanne.
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Amanda Riddell
Jun 111 min read
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