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Discontent Provider // “Aid Thompsin & Other Disappointments” podcast https://www.youtube.com/@aidthompsin

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · Jan 27

Predictions for coming year

- Gold, BTC prices continue to rise
- Defaults on credit cards, utility bills continue to increase
- Labour, BoE forced to "make difficult decisions" (cuts, tank int rates, QE?, run on Bonds?)
- Tabloids will pretend this is incompetence
- Farage + Tories gain popularity

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 4h

While you’re here

Nope, Sorry, Kemi Badenoch Is Still Hopeless.
youtu.be/7gpH_ilNIHY

Nope, Sorry, Kemi Badenoch Is Still Hopeless.

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 4h

ADHD? Oh man, it just made everything make so much more sense to me.

I mean, once somebody broke it down into a list of bitesize digestible factoids.

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 7h

Anti-Immigrant Town-Cryer Matt Goodwin is complaining £1 in every six spent on "benefits" goes to a non-Brit. Says total of £10bn. Or "enough for 200,000 nurses!"

Though with falling birth-rate, ageing population, no young people - he neglects to mention where he'd find those nurses from.

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 16h

I mean, “lived a good life” is obviously very subjective

But it’s prob safe to say you should live your life in a way that - on exit - people laud you like Diane Keaton, rather than laugh that you got merked TF up in prison.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

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I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

⁦
@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 19h

Tricky day for me to avoid accusations that "the Left celebrate death!" tbqh

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 21h

youtu.be/7gpH_ilNIHY

Nope, Sorry, Kemi Badenoch Is Still Hopeless.

YouTube video by aidThompsin CLIPS

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 23h

Got that same bleary eyed bloodshot fatigue as I used to get from 8 pints, two tequilas and half a gram.

Except now it’s just down to staying up too late and my daughter waking me up at bastard o’clock.

Fatherhood is the new “sesh”.

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 1d

Out to Patreons and Members now

EP409 // WEAR THE "GOOD" AS A GET-OUT
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EP409 // WEAR THE "GOOD" AS A GET-OUT

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 1d

Very fun show last night. We covered

🔵 the bemusement at people pretending Kemi Badenoch has just saved the Tories

😬 why the Royals are basically Russell Brand

🎤 is Bishop’s son Westwood about to go Goddy- now he’s being prosecuted for sex crimes?

LOADS MORE…

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 1d

It's good to end with a HAPPY NEWS STORY...

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 1d

It's good to end with a HAPPY NEWS STORY...

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 1d

Guys i'm going live, join me over here where i'll be talking absolute fucking SHIT about all of, err....

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Aid Thompsin

Sup, i'm Aid. I do the "Alternative Paper Review" most mornings and host the "Aid Thompsin and Other Disappointments" podcast twice a week. BACKGROUND: I started this nonsense in 2021. Mauled by the ...

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t wanna bum you all out but Jesus did just literally come back and I showed him how fucked everything is and he nailed himself to the cross again, was wild.

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 1d

Live show tonight at half 7

Wind up your week with a wound up rant-artist

Or go fuck yourself.

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 2d

“Why aren’t people spending money?!”

Because you gave £10bn away to people who just used it to buy more land instead of leaving it with people who might have spent it on the high street.

This isn’t rocket science.

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 2d

Water Bills, Council Tax, Income Tax/VAT… it’s all going up, again, v soon

And at some point the UK Govt of the day - be it Labour or Farage - are going to have to reckon with the reality that you will never achieve growth if the burden falls on those with the disposable income that would power it.

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 2d

This is going to age like Melanie Griffith in a tan lounge.

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 2d

FAR-RIGHT WATCH wise...

God help me, I'll be doing a Q&A video soon, so if you have a question you'd like answered about the Far-Right, flags, conspiracy theorist lunatics or the weirdos i've been covering, drop it as a comment on this post. Peace x

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 3d

Gonna be a weird fucking October when Trump wins a Nobel Peace Prize just as his own country collapses into Civil War.

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 3d

I won't hear different.

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 3d

“I am hopeful,” I say, “that the *twenty* point peace plan negotiated by a war criminal and career con-man is a success.”

As I deliberately shut out all memory of the last peace deal they ignored & carried on killing regardless.

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 3d

I think it was @lewisgoodall.com who said yday it was a good speech but if polling stays as-is, will prove nobody’s listening - which I think is correct.

And I also think it will do nothing for her/Tory polling.

IMO she is very much toast, brown-bread and other bread related terms that mean done.

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aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 3d

"She's SAVED The Tories!", they cry.
"What a speech, we are so BACK!"

Word to the wise: this was the coverage from the day after *her* Tory Conf speech (Thur 6/10/22).

She was gone 14 days later.

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