Funds dwindling and support waning, human tick Milo Yinnopoulos has reportedly laid off the small staff at Milo Entertainment Inc.
Politico reports that the move comes after a series of blows for the noted blowhard.
First, Milo’s infamous deep-pocketed former patrons, Robert and Rebekah Mercer (shudder), severed all ties with him.
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He’d been expecting a large cash infusion from banking heir and cryptocurrency billionaire Matthew Mellon, but Mellon’s sudden death this month of an apparent drug overdose laid those plans to rest.
So with no wealthy benefactors left in his corner, Milo has been forced to make cuts.
“He fired everybody,” someone familiar with Yiannopoulos’ company told Politico.
Still operating is his other business entity, Milo Worldwide LLC.
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As he continues to seek out financing, all energy will be focused on the remaining company.
And while Milo brushed it off as a minor setback, because of course he did, sources familiar with the situation say “people are very, very furious.”
Then again when Milo is involved, when aren’t they?
Earlier this year, Yiannopoulos withdrew his $10 million lawsuit against Simon & Schuster for canceling his book deal.
barkomatic
His ties to Richard Spencer were indisputable after the karaoke video surfaced despite his previous denials. It was clear Yiannopoulos couldn’t explain why they were in the same place together or why Spencer and his friends were giving him a Nazi salute. He tried to brush off the question every time he was asked.
PinkoOfTheGange
Wait 4th cousin Matt died?
Kangol
He should go knock on Kanye’s door; maybe Yeezus is looking for a post-Twinkish side piece in the sunken place.
mhoffman953
@Kangol
I guess that’s too scary for you and too hard to accept that a black man, Kanye West, has a different opinion than you
Black conservatives were right when they said the plantation owners of the Democratic party are out in full force
Kangol
@mhoffman953, no, I have no problem with Black people with different opinions from me. For example, Colin Powell is black and a Republican, and I respect him. I thought he disgraced himself making the case for George W. Bush’s failed war, but I still respect him. I also respect Black Republicans like Parris Denard (do you know who he is?), Christopher Darden (remember him), Congresswoman Mia Love (do you know who she is), and Senator Tim Scott (though he should speak up more). I strongly disagree with their positions but respect them. Kanye West is a misogynistic, grandiose idiot who, I gather, you’re now defending because he’s praising Trump. Listen to some of his music. He’s been no fan of white people, BTW.
Apolodorus
@mhoffman
It’s hard for me to accept black conservatives in any way, being black myself. Especially supporters of a man with a clear and well recorded racist background (and yes he is, yes it’s been recorded, no it’s not just the case of the Central Park 5, please see the link below https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/opinion/leonhardt-trump-racist.html?mtrref=www.google.co.uk&gwh=68DFE3FF776E10C19F5DA564E00207D7&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion , and if you subscribe to the “ lying NYTimes” conspiracy just do a google search).
Democratic plantation owners? You do realise that means nothing. It’s just empty rethoric. Do you know what means something? The last 30 years republican policies of disenfranchisement that swept accross America at a state level.
Kanye’s blindness to his privilege is explainable – it’s no different to the one exhibited by the majority of people who think they are where they are in life solely through the strength of their talent or personal self worth. It’s an ingrained need to deny the role that luck, chance, birth circumstances that are out of their immediate control got you where you are. That they are intresically the same as everyone around them at the core. That they don’t “deserve” the place they have, they just landed there.
I’m not denying his talent by the way. But there are millions of people around the world that are talented, bright, entrepreneurial but do not have a luck.
Cylest Brooks
@Apolodorus… I think I might be in love with you.
mhoffman953
@Kangol
I’m fully aware of who all of those people are and I’m fully aware of Kanye’s music, I even have some on my iPod for when I go to the gym. People are allowed their own opinion and I support freedom of speech. I like seeing people who aren’t indoctrinated by group think and can demonstrate they have independent thought
@Apolodorus
“Democratic plantation owners? The last 30 years republican policies of disenfranchisement that swept accross America at a state level.”
Since the focus of my comments were on black Americans, if we look at places in the US that have been run solely under Democrats that have a high number of black Americans, it doesn’t look like complete Democratic policies are helping. Look at Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Oakland, Detroit, Los Angeles, and the list goes on. Those places have been under Democratic rule for decades upon decades and all they have is political corruption, high taxes, broken school systems, high crime, joblessness, and poverty. Doesn’t seem like its working.
If the Democratic party loses the black vote, they’ll never win an election again. That’s why they are afraid of independent thought.
@Apolodorus & @DCguy & @PennMASTERS
Blurting out that everything and everyone you disagree with is racist, bigoted, and stupid won’t win any arguments. By doing so, it’s indicative that one cannot defend Democratic policies but instead will degrade people who don’t ascribe to them.
By removing the neocons, outliers, and RINOs, one is left with current policies which protect the border, respect the Constitution, lower taxes for everyone, strengthen America’s image globally (as seen by the denuclearization of North Korea), smaller government, social programs to lift people from poverty and not make them lifelong dependents on them, energy independence, free and fair trade – not just free trade, and opening up the free market with fewer barriers to entry.
I’m not sure how those ideas are “racist and bigoted” ideas, but that’s the usual retort anyone has when they disagree on here. No one ever debates actual merits but uses logical fallacies / insults instead
When one looks at both parties, both have some good ideas and some bad, but to act as if one party is bad 100% of the time and to subscribe to 100% of the other party’s ideas doesn’t show independent, critical thinking.
DCguy
@mhoffman said….
“”Black conservatives were right when they said the plantation owners of the Democratic party are out in full force””
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Except it was white conservatives who’ve been saying that for years and when called out they’re now claiming it was black conservatives who’ve been saying it.
chris33133
To my barista this morning: I’ll have my usual coffee; but today, could you please add a heaping side order of schadenfreude?
prarie pup
LOL!! Make mine a double because schadenfreude is completely in order here. How low hath the mighty fallen? Milo richly deserves every bit of scorn that can possibly be heaped upon him; I don’t feel a bit sorry for that THING.
DCguy
Right wingers were tricked into donating to a “Scholarship Fund” Milo set up to give scholarships to white kids. Funny, all the money is now gone and most of it doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere but into his pocket.
SportGuy
lmao, that’s some good old fashion karma for that piece of trash
James
HE IS NOT EVEN AMERICAN, CAME HERE FROM ENGLAND. IDIOT SUPPORTS DEPORTING PEOPLE FROM A COUNTRY IN WHICH HE IS A TOURIST. ONE OF THE BIGGEST SELF CENTERED CREEPS EVER TO LIVE. THROW HIM OUT.
Steve9999
Just waiting for the day when I meet him and he says, “Would you like fries with that ?
Doug
Hopefully this little rodent will eventually disappear into the woodwork, where he belongs.
paul dorian lord fredine
milo had staff? that’s the news part to me.
Kris
I know right?!?!
prarie pup
@mhoffman–who cares what Kanye West thinks? He’s batshit crazy and his career is in the toilet.
mlnave
I’m sure Milo will be back on his feet in no time. I’m sure the Trump White House is hiring.