Watching the livestream of the Billy Te Kahika rally in Auckland. I'll live tweet the highlights (lowlights?) in this thread

Woman I don't recognize speaking, says she represents thousands of South Islanders. Accusing the media of "spewing unreseached propaganda"

She has mentioned masks, vaccines, 5G and Agenda 21. My conspiracy theory bingo card is almost full already

A man on the platform wearing a Qanon t-shirt, holding a flag with a picture of a gun and the words "come and take it" and a Trump campaign flag

Woman speaking now (Karen Brewer) says they all need to exchange phone numbers because social media is shadow banning them.

She is claiming parliament is full of Free Mason child abusers

Two more big Trump flags visible.

Karen is calling the Free Masons "the foot soldiers of filth" so if anyone is looking for a name for their black metal band, there you go

She mentioned 1080 and an audience member yelled out "ban 1080!" Cross out another square on your conspiracy theory bingo card

Current speaker saying the harvesting of children's blood is now one of the words biggest industries, satanists and free mansions apparently involved

"I need your help to wake up the sheep of New Zealand"

The first speaker is back, introducing the next speaker saying "without this person we would all be mute"

Spoiler alert the next speaker is Billy Te Kahika

Te Kahika is flanked by two security guards in tactical vests and wrap around sunglasses

Billy now talking about The Great Reset, claiming it's a plan to being in tyranny, and it's all part of the UN Agenda 2030 plan

Someone in the crowd has a big picture of Jacinda Ardern with devil horns and fangs

Billy now claiming there is a "plandemic" and covid 19 is a bioweapon.

He just called Ashley Bloomfield "Ashley Doomfield" so theres another potential metal band name for you

A ban in the audience just yelled out "release the kraken!" A reference to a Qanon meme about alleged election fraud in the US https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55090145

Billy now making his claim that New Zealand will go back into lockdown on the 15th. He has no credible evidence for this claim

Billy and Vinny Eastwood now having technical difficulties as the next speaker is speaking via a smartphone that they are holding up to the mic

Speakers is making the false claim that the covid 19 vaccine will alter your DNA and make you sterile, which is apparently part of a bigger "sinister agenda" no real evidence is given for these outlandish claims. Billy says "corrupt media" is hiding this story

Meanwhile, my girlfriend has had enough of Billy and gone to clean the freezer, a much more enjoyable activity than watching this rally. I have apologised for what me putting this on her smart TV will likely do to her YouTube recommendations

More signs in the crowd: "We do not consent!" (Someone keeps yelling out this slogan as well)
"Agenda 21 = Slavery"

Next speaker is once again via the smart phone held up to the mic, the organizer of a similar protest in Melbourne, which Billy has described as being under the jackbooted tyranny of Premier Dan Andrews

Woman in the crowd has a home made sign reading "NO NO NO LOCKDOWN FORCED VAX 5G" another has a professionally made pink banner reading "WOMEN FOR TRUMP"

Karen back on the mic, now talking about the Christchurch shooting, and how some of the interviews are being suppressed for 30 years, wonder where she is going with this...

Now they've got the organizer of the concurrent Tasmina protest on the phone, you'd think with all these people speaking remotely they could have organized a TV screen or something. Tasmanian guy says they will have an anti-vax speaker at their rally shortly

Someone in the crowd now angrily yelling at Billy, Billy claiming that man has been paid to disrupt the rally

The group have now started marching, Vinny Eastwood leading a chant of "we do not consent, no!"

A few people stop him to say hi, Vinny is a local celebrity in these circles. His YouTube channel has 50,000 subscribers (though presumably a lot of those are from overseas)

The chant had now changed to "no forced vaccines!" Behond Vinny a man wears a MAGA hat and a woman holds a sign reading "NZ HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO SOCIALIST BRAINWASHING!" another protester has one reading "STOP STEELING OUR FREEDOM COMRADE JACINDA!"

Vinny has yelled about water fluoridation and "chemtrails" so get those conspiracy theory bingo cards out and cross off two more squares. If you're playing the drinking game you are drunk by now

There a signs reading "no social distancing!" But Queen Street shoppers appear to be staying at least 1.5m from marchers, least they been seen as part of the march

Vinny now chanting "No AI, controlling our lives!" Which I have to admit is a new one

Vinny is now singing the words "you can stock the New World Order up your arse!" To the tune of "she'll be coming round the mountain" and throwing in the occasional "yea-hah!"

An incomplete list of things Vinny Eastwood has yelled to stick up your arse today:

- Lockdowns
- The New World Order
- Covid
- "The Bill Gates vaccine"

March has arrived back at Aotea Square, there were some Falun Gong folks there so Vinny started chanting "communism doesn't work!"

Didn't stop it earlier but a woman has a sign with a pizzagate hashtag on it. Billy now encouraging people to sign a petition to ban 1080

Billy has invited one of the falun gong practitioners to speak to the crowd about the Chinese Communist Party, who Billy says have huge influence in New Zealand

Vinny now being given a platform to promote his YouTube channel

Billy encouraging people to "become freedom fighters in your whanau" if you're wondering how your uncle/aunt that disrupts family gatherings with conspiracy theory talk got that way

And that's it, what an event eh