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[–] 33 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Why would you pay money to attend a political rally?

A right wing one at that?

Seems dumb.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Especially for a minor American pundit in Australia. What's even the point? She knows far less about Australian politics than American politics and that's already a very low bar.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    So do the people that bought the tickets I bet.

    Used to with with a guy that would not shut the fuck up about Trump. He was from New Zealand, living in Perth so he couldn't vote here, couldn't vote in America, and didn't vote in New Zealand. He thought the liberals were the left wing party here, couldn't tell you the PM's name here or in New Zealand, but he could tell you what Trump had for breakfast and recite his 40 latest tweets while he listened to Joe Rogan.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Sounds awful.

    I could tell you trump's last 40 tweets but for entirely different reasons. (OK not really). We recently had A Kiwi bloke at work that went over to the States. One of the reasons was to see "the comedian" Joe Rogan. I said something negative about Musk and this bloke defended him saying how doge had saved heaps of money for America. Lol.

    There were more things, anyway he's gone now thank goodness.

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    [–] 51 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's fitting that a right wing influencer would scam their right wing followers.

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    [–] 30 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    So you can just take their money, spend it, then not get in trouble for it? Brb, spinning up a right wing influencer touring business.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    But wait ! There’s easier way, let me show you build a site to sell patriotic « freedom phone »

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    lol

    lmao even

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    I love a nice feel-good news story. Also, sucks to suck.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)
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    Joel Jammal, the head of Turning Point Australia and a sponsor for the tour, said he believed it sold 15,000 tickets, which started at $95 and ranged up to $1,500 for VIP tickets, suggesting Rocksman sold at least $1.4m worth of tickets.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Okay, just to be clear here - fuck Candace Owens

    But . . . If you read the article she was actually scammed out of a bunch of money too. She even gave the promoter money to cover refunds and they just didn't refund it. Rocksman (the promoter) is the real villain of the story.

    I mean, it's messed up all around, but I'll at least give credit to C.Owens for trying to get people their refunds. Also I'm not exactly crying over these folks getting fleeced but holy shit it's crazy what the promoter did and got away with and what they stole.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    But…If you read the article she was actually scammed out of a bunch of money too. She even gave the promoter money to cover refunds and they just didn’t refund it. Rocksman (the promoter) is the real villain of the story.

    Conservatives always lie.

    I mean, it’s messed up all around, but I’ll at least give credit to C.Owens for trying to get people their refunds.

    Conservatives always lie

    Also I’m not exactly crying over these folks getting fleeced but holy shit it’s crazy what the promoter did and got away with and what they stole.

    C Owens is almost certainly in on the scam, but she needs to make herself the victim because conservatives always do

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Is the total amount swindled $3,750?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Why are still 15000 aussies willing to pay money to listen this American grifter?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago
    1. people are idiots
    2. we have a ton of right wing idiots and American politics is so loud that they get really into it.

    Our right wing is mostly about billionaires and corporate theft, with only the minor parties doing the racist schtick. So the racists tend to be Maga despite it not being all that relevant to our politics. Although Pauline Hanson's one nation is getting bigger since the liberals have fallen out of favour and she's good at racism.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Candace Owens is fake and gay

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    “Candace owes us” oh you conspiracy nutcakes, it’s even in her name.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    It’s grifters all the way down.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago
    33 comments in c/news@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 157 points 5 months ago

    The grifter party grifted its own members? Shocker!

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  • [–] 104 points 5 months ago

    Her 2024 Australian tour was delayed then cancelled after the Australian government refused to give her a visa as she had the “capacity to incite discord”, a decision the high court backed in October.

    lmao

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  • [–] 80 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    As an Aussie: Hahahahah fuck those cunts.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    As a non-aussie reading this sentence:

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  • [–] 76 points 5 months ago

    A grifter got grifted by grifters. hahaha I love that for her.

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  • [–] 49 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    She wants to place the blame completely on Rocksman, but wasn't she the one who decided to work with a shady company instead of a legitimate one in the first place?

    Also, she's out of pocket hundreds of thousands of dollars? This amount of money seems excessive to the point of absurdity. It's so high that it makes you feel like it's got to be a smokescreen. Like, that's exactly what you would expect her to say if this whole thing was her grift and she kept all of the money from ticket sales herself.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Hundreds of thousands of dollars seems a reasonable price for a multi-city speaking tour. Venue fees are expensive, considering the cost of the facility and the staffing, plus room and board for the people actually on the tour.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Going to try a homemade veggie cheesesteak with protein curls..... bought a huge bulk box of soy protein curls and they soak up whatever flavor you give them.

    Soaking the curls in mushroom stock then sauteeing in some kind of beefy sauce tbd. Sauteed green peppers and mushrooms, caramelized onions, melted provolone....and a mushroom au jus.

    Much better use of free will than these fucking losers.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Got a link for the protein curls? I need to stock up on bulk staples and was looking for these before.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    Oh no! Anyway,

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    I don't even know who Candace Owens is and I'm okay with that.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I wonder what that "promoter" did with all the money that "vanished".

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago*

    He identified $385,000 worth of transactions that might be “unreasonable director-related transactions … in favour of a director, a close associate of the director or to a person on behalf of [either]”.

    The company has debts with everyone (customers, government, talking head, sponsors), definitely a fraudulent* bankruptcy. The director's name (George Zacharia) is unfortunately too common, I wish that I could have found some cringe social media that was definitely his. Damien Costas and his many bankruptcies are easy to find back. I wouldn't be surprised if Zacharia was a strawman for Costas.

    *Edit to add: that disappeared money wasn't splurged on anything fancy, it was siphoned out.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    So what happens if a bunch of those people charge back credit cards?

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago*

    Rocksman collapsed with just 21 Australian cents in its bank account

    None of the 15,000 ticket holders for conservative influencer Candace Owens

    Get fucked, you motherfuckers.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    She's been in a full blown feud with the Leader of Turning Point USA.

    It looks like they've really sunglasses Turning Point..edly sunk Candice Owens

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    How about just ignore these morons. Don’t give them attention, don’t click on there junk like, podcasts, swag, video’s etc. We as in humans give these idiots power.

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    Could you please not jail the promoter, Australia?

    This couldn't have happened to a nicer group of people.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    The old "reverse-grift" gambit. Well done!

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Why was she even set to tour Australia in the first place? 🤔

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    [–] 25 points 5 months ago

    Those people are probably so used to getting scammed, they don't even realize it.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Wow. There're a lot of suckers in Australia, huh?

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    After my lifetime of travel I have learned one thing for sure: Geography does not matter.

    Roughly 30% of humanity is made up of garbage-brained morons whose only enjoyment is watching others suffer.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Supposedly Owens gave the money to the vendor to refund the people and they must pocketed that too.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Does not hit the wrong people, or for the wrong reasons. Absolutely surprizing for no-one to find just another criminal and conman in the right winger scene...

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    No refunds for 15,000 idiots after Candace Owens’ tour cancelled

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