The Politics Thread

Today in gaslighting

 

This is a new one to me, but very good

 

Any chance of setting them off at PMQs...?

 

Mark Stain has been given the boot from GibletBlancmange News, after refusing to sign a new contract where he would be personally liable for the Ofcom fines his habitual antivax burbling that were presumably costing them a shedload of money

...why yes, this does sound uncannily like Steven Crowder's ranting and raving about why the $50m Daily Wire contract he was offered was "slavery" as he;d be on the hook for any FCC fines

So how has Stain responded? By setting up his own studio, where he sits in front of a Canadian flag where he talks **** to an even smaller audience

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It's time for the daily reminder that everything ****ty about 21st century Britain always seems to be traceable to the randy Honey Monster

 

In the latest edition of We're ****ed

 

Mark Stain update...

 

Oh look, the world's most clever tech boy is once again showing off what a clever, clever tech boi he is

 

****ing William Hague, of all people, correctly calling out two previous Tory leaders.
He was **** too, so he'd know.
"If you became Prime Minister with a majority behind you and a decent term in front of you, but were overthrown amid chaos, there is indeed someone to blame. It's you."

 

Laughably obvious corruption.

 

Let's see if this makes the Six O'clock News

Because its absence was pretty noticeable for the lunchtime bulletins...

 

Sounds a bit like Truss-o-nomics. Currently in the news because she was back recently apparently telling people she was right. This despite all evidence provign that 'trickle down' economics never works. Basically very rich people like accumulating money. Give them more the keep it, and don't distribute it. Also as shown by their love of tax avoidance schemes. All legal of course, but quite expensive. Basically if you can afford the lawyers and the avoidance scheme you can afford to pay the tax!

 

Some of the money trickles down to German car manufacturers, Italian, French and Swiss ski resorts, Cayman bank accounts, etc., etc.

Businesses can't smuggle exports out of this country, but the wealthy are free to piss it up the wall, all over the world.

 

That's also the point with the right wing grifters: so many of them are bankrolled by people with a vested interest in pumping out right wing propaganda which routinely says that the rich shouldn't have to balance out the plebs and you're a socialist if you disagree

That's why Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire had $50m to offer Steven Crowder and why he could reject the offer and compare it to "slavery" as he would've been on the hook for FCC fines whenever he said or did something racist so instead continues his own well-funded grift, while Candace Owens (of Turning Point, tying this all together neatly) is calling Crowder a soSHulIzT

And the same is happening here, with Mark Stain and Charles Manson bought off Wish both setting up their own sites now that GarglingBasalt News wanted them to pay Ofcom fines for spreading antivax bilge, with Stain quitting the channel and having a lot of psychotic sycophants saying he was an island of truth on that ****ing channel

The fact there's three examples of people turning down contracts and going it alone very easily makes it abundantly clear there's plenty of dark money funding these twats, in much the same way Charles Koch bankrolls Spiked

Meanwhile, left-leaning commentators are reliant on Patreon so they can stream on YouTube or Twitch

 

This is the bloke "teaching kids to be men"?

 

Quite a bad understanding of "trickle down" economics.
Its essence is encapsulated by the following question :

What are the "rich" driven to spend their money on ??

1. Necessities
2. Luxuries


On 1, they use as much toilet paper etc as the rest of us.
So as consumers they are not going to cause a surge in
demand for product from the domestic industries producing them.

On 2, this is so,

UK journalist Paolo (Italian surname - I cannot remember it ant tis
driving me mad because no doubt his documentary is online somewhere
) showed this with the "rich" buying flashy clothes/jewellery etc.
These businesses are small in number, so therefore cannot
generate significant profit tax revenue unless the "rich" are
perpetually frivolous in their spending (which they are not) .


"Also as shown by their love of tax avoidance schemes. All legal of course, but quite expensive.
Basically if you can afford the lawyers and the avoidance scheme you can afford to pay the tax!."

Untrue on the latter.

Some avoidance schemes have relied on customer
"economy of scale" (those that were used by CIT sector
freelancers etc) , The customer therefore could afford
to pay the tax savings gained, but could not have afforded
to pay a tax expert to devise such schemes "from scratch" .
Similarly the provider would make no money from such
schemes without a critical number of customers.

 

Really? The suggestion that there were a remarkable amount of porkies told about HS2? Who could have suspected such a thing...?