Autopsy of a failed outrage stunt – McCarten + O’Brien + Slater vs Taxpayers’ Union Fudge Fake Debate

All that money wasted on their Nicola Fudge campaign by a Fake Union for a Fake Debate between two of the worst neoliberal architects, must be raising alarm bells for all the dark money funders of the Taxpayers’ Union.

To simply waste all that cash for so little gain must be demanding some type of review?

How can they blow all that money and still not have a fucking debate?

Hobson’s Pledge (another client of the Taxpayers’ Union stable of astroturf influencers) had so few Māori mates they had to keep creating them using AI for their Billboards to pretend they weren’t racist.

They are deceitful and manipulative which is maybe the most honest thing that can be said about them.

I’m not saying Taxpayer’s Union is a gold digger, b-u-t their byline should read, “Dirty Deeds done surprisingly expensively”.

When’s the debate?

The Taxpayers’ Union Fudge Fake Debate wasn’t the only failed outrage stunt, the McCarten + O’Brien + Slater character assassination attempt on Willie Jackson was also an extraordinary swing and a miss…

…O’Brien of course was one of the main instigators of the Benjamin Doyle smear where a squiggly blue line was held up as evidence that Benjamin was not only sexually assaulting their own child, but that they were coaxing other men to also assault their child.

That Ani is surprised no one believes anything she says is the only surprise.

Samual Hudson who has set up a new Kiwi journalism outlet makes the following point about Slater…

…that’s what makes a Left wing legend like Matt McCarten turning to Slater to pimp his attack on Willie Jackson so disappointing.

When you as a Left Wing Champion are forced to pimp a story on Slater’s hate podcast, and then The Platforms Hate site AND THEN the Centrist Hate Blog, that’s a lot of hate to try and digest.

Slater isn’t the gutter he’s the fucking sewer!

In terms of the legitimacy of the claims, Audrey Young put out the most forensic timelineand it undermines much of the narrative and allegations made by Matt against Willie.

I love Matt, he is a comrade and always will be, I consider myself a protege of the man, but when things get personal as they have between Willie and him, (as we have seen with the  Māori Party meltdown), shit gets cray real quick.

This employment story was first shopped around to Tova and Maiki Sherman  who both dumped it because it didn’t stack up which forced Matt to lower himself to Slater, Michael Laws and the fucking Centrist.

When you dance with the Devil, the Devil doesn’t change, you do.

Matt has done a Chris Trotter to his mana.

This is the saddest political kamikaze suicide of 2025.

The only pleasing part of the failure of both these outrage stunts is that Kiwis are withdrawing from having their petty bigotries manipulated by right wing hate trolls.

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