Are Podcasters Tim Pool and Dave Rubin Actual Russian Assets?

Tim Pool's response:

[quote] Pool wrote on social media, "Should these allegations prove true, I as well as the other personalities and commentators were deceived and are victims. I cannot speak for anyone else at the company as to what they do or to what they are instructed." He said his podcast was licensed by Tenet Media and existed before the license agreement. Pool also said he had full editorial control of the show and its contents, which he said are "often apolitical."

People on Twitter are posting some of Tim Pool's hot takes on the Ukraine War that mirror Putin's view of the situation.

There seems to be an entire shadow industry out there of online trolls insisting [bold]VERY VERY LOUDLY[/bold] that this has all been disproven because...reasons.

" "Should these allegations prove true, I as well as the other personalities and commentators were deceived and are victims"

Absolutely nobody will believe this bullshit claim, except perhaps his most die-hard supporters.

Didn’t Dave Rubin shift rather quickly to the right? It was odd.

[quote]Didn’t Dave Rubin shift rather quickly to the right? It was odd.

As did Matt Taibbi, after an extended stay in...Russia.

MAYBE THEY JUST DID THEIR OWN RESEARCH!!

[quote]If you are accused of being a paid Russian shill, it's a little awkward when people can find the Russian shilling in your timeline without even scrolling down much.

Tim Pool just announced that he is contemplating suing the Kamala Harris campaign for posting one of his videos that seems to indicate that he wants certain Democrats rounded up, imprisoned, or executed if Trump is elected. Maybe he believes it was edited or taken out of context? Not sure.

The Harris campaign's actual post:

[quote] Trump operatives [Tim Pool] say their Project 2025 plan is to give Trump total, unchecked legal power so they can jail and execute those who don’t support Trump if he wins. (They have since scrubbed this video from YouTube)

Russia is such a stinking shithole, always dragging down the rest of the planet.

This pretty much confimrs what most of us already knew but it took Garland long enough to move on anything.

One of the listed media stars, Lauren Chen, spends quite a bit of time accusing everybody on the Left of disloyalty to America and being controlled by Jewish money.

Weird, huh?

Now do Tulsi.

And Matt Taibbi. And Glenn Greenwald.

What about me? I was at that RT dinner with my boss, I mean the President of Russia.

Jackson Hinkle, Cucker Carlson, Jill Stein, RFK Jr, Mike Flynn, fucking Elon...

We get all our money from Russia!

Yes.

Next question.

We thought they were legit...

Lauren Chen is affiliated with Turning Point. They need to investigate Charlie Kirk and all these other organizations:

[quote] She has also appeared on Fox News, One America News, Newsmax, The Daily Wire, Rebel Media, and PragerU.

The Russian leadership have nothing going for them except acting tough to compensate for small dick.

I hope they go after Tulsi and David Sacks, too

The FBI would have to round up most of the GOP. Remember little spy Maria Butina honeypotting her way through the ranks of the NRA? Or Rand Paul going to Moscow to hand deliver Trump's love letter to Vlad?

This shit has been going on for almost a decade.

I've been saying this since Trump was running in the 2016 primary - all of this shit was happening in the open since Gamergate a few years before that. The Russian and global right wing propaganda alliance.

They all are more consciously complicit and on Putin payroll than they let on or even the indictment suggests.

This is obvious.

Hold up!

Treasury has gotten in in the act, too. Check out this snippet from The Treasury Department’s press release.

These fuckers about to get their BANK ACCOUNTS seized?

That would be *chef’s kiss*

Elon was helping spread their racist/"anti-woke" bullshit

Ruh Roh...

[quote] On Aug. 6th, RFK Jr. got lunch with Scott Ritter. 24 hours later, Ritter's home was raided for FARA violations on behalf of Russia. On Aug. 9, RFK Jr. thanked Tim Pool profusely for his support. Less than a month later, Tim was implicated in a Russian influence operation.

dear god, i know it's been a while since i prayed. i hope you're well. there's this guy called tim pool. please let his bank accounts be frozen and seized. amen.

Well thank fucking god they found the handful of shitheads being paid by Russia and absolutely nobody else was involved.

*giggle*

Dave Rubin is a gay man living in Florida, married to another man and with two children conceived via surrogacy. Does he think his family is safe from Project 2025?

I had no idea who any of these fools were until this indictment came out.

R31, and when he announced he was having kids via surrogate, conservatives on the internet shrieked and said gay men shouldn't raise children

I remember learning about Rubin after the uproar about him and his husband hiring a surrogate to have twins. Pool is new to me, but they appear to be two of the stupidest men on the planet. Someone has to be propping these morons up. They make Joe Rogan look like a Rhodes scholar in comparison.

This is so delicious it has to be fattening.

Let's go - time to research ALL the bank accounts from these right-wing online shitheads, including Cat turd. The fact that a leading right-wing voice is called Cat Turd tells you everything you need to know about these stupid people.

Just another reason they want to defund the IRS.

R34 Rubin is just a nothing bimbo chasing a paycheck. He doesn't have any thoughts or ideas. Tim is a demented ragefueled incel, and a legitimately dangerous figure. This clip of him on this reddit post is pretty wild. As if he didn't know.

DOJ needs to set up some internal departments for this shit. It's been going on WAY too long. This didn't just start last year.

I remember now that Rubin is the same “libertarian” who Rogan interviewed and roasted over wanting to ban building codes because of his libertarian beliefs. When Rogan calls out your ignorance, it’s time to start taking night classes.

I would love to see Dave Rubin brought down.

Dave Rubin is a failed comedian and wanna-be 'star'. When he couldn't hack it - he went conservative and all of a sudden found his $$$$.

Republican commentators and politicians are like the thirsty young actresses in Hollywood who will fuck ANYBODY to get a role, some fame and money. Their integrity, morality, and reputation is up for sale CHEAP.

I wish I could sell a part of my soul for gain, but I just am not made that way.

There's a lot of money to be made in the right wing echo chamber. Just look at Trump and a lot of those hardcore MAGA congresspeople. There's always some merch, fundraising, linking to other RWNJs with their own online grifts. Hey, if you can find gullible idiots with a cult like mindset to fleece, why not? The sad thing is, they are more likely to spend their money on these scams than to buy health or dental insurance for their kids or elderly family members.

The target demographics seem to be the very young, the very old, and the very stupid.

I wonder how much money it takes to be a traitor. The amounts from American lobbyists that congress takes are laughable. Like $20,000 to poison the stream these assholes learned to swim in

$20,000? Oh my sides!

I'm sure the folks who "unwittingly" took Russian money to spread lies will be donating all their ill-gotten gains to charity. Any day now.

[quote]I wonder how much money it takes to be a traitor.

$400,000 per month per the indictment.

I wonder who the other, unnamed right wing personalities under investigation are. Jordan Peterson? Russell Brand? Steven Crowder?

Scum

Hopefully all of them, R48.

My guess is all the commentators investigated are affiliated with Tenet Media, and all are on the take one way or another. Not sure the ones r48 mentions are. But not sure. Is there a wider investigation beyond that particular company?

And of course, Putin could be funding all sorts of people through all sorts of fake companies.

I want to see Trump, Musk and the rest of these asshole MAGA fucks rounded up and thrown in prison. So tired of this country putting up with their ongoing criminal bullshit.

This is truly damning.

I remember casually watching Dave Rubin years and years ago. I was very into the Sam Harris/Chris Hitchens/Richard Dawkins intellectual scene in the late 00s, early 10s. Dave Rubin was an offshoot of that. (Or that's how I found him anyway.) But I quickly realized his idiocy was ocean sized and he did not belong in the same universe as Hitchens, let alone the same sentence.

So this does not surprise me at all.

[quote] I wonder who the other, unnamed right wing personalities under investigation are. Jordan Peterson? Russell Brand? Steven Crowder?

I think Crowder is one of them. Maybe, Ben Shapiro or Candace Owens.

New story and new charges filed today (although Simes is back in Russia and will undoubtedly not return to be arrested). This is getting good. 🍿

Yeah, Dave Rubin seems to be purely on the take. He started at The Young Turks as a leftist, but apparently wanted his own show with a huge paycheck. They turned him down, so he decided he was a libertarian instead and quickly realized the grifting is better on the Right, just cause you can always find rich wingnuts over there. And obviously, very interested foreign governments willing to shell out large amounts of money for even a semi-competent propagandist.

Pool seems more insane actually. Yeah, he loves the huge payoff, but shrieking that Ukraine is America's biggest enemy in the world is a level of "commitment" that seems at least partly driven by insanity.

Fox News is already calling this "Russia Russia Russia" Part 2.

[quote]I think Crowder is one of them. Maybe, Ben Shapiro or Candace Owens.

I doubt it’s Shapiro or Owens, because they’re too sane and sober to be Russian assets, IMO. On the other hand, Peterson, Brand and Crowder all have demons (histories of substance abuse, sexual misconduct, etc.) and are easier to control through financial coercion and blackmail. Crackhead Mike Lindell is probably on the list too.

[quote] This is truly damning.

Do you think anything will be done about it though?

Also, Peterson has direct Russian connections, and he’s intelligent enough to have earned a legit fanbase, so he’s a triple threat as a possible Russian asset.

[quote] Yeah, Dave Rubin seems to be purely on the take. He started at The Young Turks as a leftist, but apparently wanted his own show with a huge paycheck. They turned him down, so he decided he was a libertarian instead and quickly realized the grifting is better on the Right, just cause you can always find rich wingnuts over there. And obviously, very interested foreign governments willing to shell out large amounts of money for even a semi-competent propagandist.

The Young Turks are basically far left wing grifters who also need to be brought down.

[quote]Fox News is already calling this "Russia Russia Russia" Part 2.

Text messages between FSB officials and Fox News producers dropping in 3.. 2.. 1..

R61, I totally agree.

I think the far left and far right are two sides to the same damaged coin. Both are crazy radicals, black/white thinkers, who fall too easily for a cult of personality (the far right is more prone to this) and/or a cult of ideology (the far left is more prone to this).

Far right is worse. But not by much. Not these days.

I am so sick of both being part of any adult political conversation.

R63 I agree with you.

But, it bugs me how the far left politicians and media pundits/content creators don't get called out as much as the far right ones do. Even on DL, there are people defending that far left fraud cunt Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Apparently, this Tim Pool idiot interviewed Laura Loomer and agreed with her that American traitors should be put to death. If that’s true, he should be on suicide watch.

What exactly do you hate about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez r65?

This is why a lot of us are deeply suspicious of the "both sides" types, like you. What exactly is her terrible sin and why should she be stoned in the marketplace of ideas?

It seems like again and again the people on the hard right are all legitimately assholes with a terrible vision for the country based on their shitty personalities and beliefs. The people on the far left can absolutely be ridiculous and extremist and even violent, but it always seems to come from taking a reasonably good view, like fighting racism, and getting insane and becoming complete dicks about it.

The "both sides" media types are particularly attractive for Russian propaganda as they more are more easily attuned to the "burn it all to the ground" messages that Russia likes to promote in the US for public destabalization

R65 AOC isn't a far leftist, she supports moderate social democratic policies that are mainstream in the rest of the world. concern troll.

I don't agree with everything AOC has said but she's not on the level of grifters like Tim Pool and Dave Rubin

AOC only appears as fringe because the center has moved so far right in the last 40 years.

Large Marge definitely should be high on the list for investigators.

[QUOTE]Didn’t Dave Rubin shift rather quickly to the right? It was odd.

[QUOTE]As did Matt Taibbi, after an extended stay in...Russia.

Don't forget Taibbi developed a rather nasty heroin addiction during his stay in Russia. He makes upwards of $1M from his substack.

Miss Greenwald is, of course, defending her Mother Russia:

[quote]"You're talking about a miniscule amount of money in the context of what is spent on our elections, let alone what the U.S. spends to influence the internal politics of other countries, including Russia."

[quote]The DOJ's indictment alleging Russian interference in the election claims Russian state media deployed about $10 million to secretly fund a U.S.-based content creation company. If the allegations are true, it is worth asking: how does $10 million compare to the billions of dollars spent within the U.S. on presidential campaigns?

Isn't it amazing how Greenwald's previously healthy 37 year old husband died from some mysterious abdominal illness? Hmmph.

[QUOTE]“His death, early this morning, came after a 9-month battle in ICU.” Greenwald said that his husband was hospitalized due to a “life-threatening illness… from a suddenly inflamed and infected abdominal region that quickly spread via his blood to multiple organs.”

Large Marge has been complaining about financial problems for a couple of years now. It wouldn't be surprising if she has sold out to Russia.

Stephanie Miller and Randi Rhodes have both said that they could "convert" overnight to being Republicans and make piles of cash like Rush Limpballs. But they have too much integrity to do that. There are a lot of former liberal leftists that took the cash like Tammy Bruce and Klandace Owens.

Some mighty uncomfortable people out there today.

"Project Good Old USA":

[quote]In late August 2023, Ilya Gambashidze was in a conference room at the office of Social Design Agency, a Russian IT company he founded that is based in Moscow, close to the world-renowned Moscow Conservatory. Gambashidze was relatively unknown in Russian politics at the time, but just a month earlier his name had appeared on a Council of the European Union’s list of Russian nationals subjected to sanctions for playing a central role in a sprawling disinformation campaign against Ukraine.

[quote]In the conference room, Gambashidze was laying out his plans for a new target: Along with his colleagues, he began drafting what would become known as the Good Old USA Project. The project was supposed to influence the outcome of the US presidential election in favor of former president Donald Trump, specifically targeting certain minorities, swing-state residents, and online gamers, among others, in a scheme that included a full-time team dedicated to the cause.

[quote]On Wednesday, Gambashidze and his company were named by the US Department of Justice among the architects of a disinformation campaign known as Doppelganger that has for the past two years been targeting Ukraine and, more recently, US elections. The Doppelganger campaign uses AI-generated content on dozens of fake websites designed to impersonate mainstream media outlets such as The Washington Post and Fox Business, using a network of fake social media accounts to disseminate pro-Russian narratives targeting audiences across the globe. Doppelganger is a Kremlin-aligned disinformation campaign that was first linked to the Kremlin in 2023 by the French government.

Squeal like a pig, ya traitors!

SQUEAL!

Great. Now do congress and the senate.

[quote]Great. Now do congress and the senate.

*cough* Marsha Blackburn *cough*

[quote]R58: I doubt it’s Shapiro or Owens, because they’re too sane and sober to be Russian assets, IMO.

Yes, Candace Owens is one of them.

[quote] I doubt it’s Shapiro or Owens, because they’re too sane and sober to be Russian assets, IMO.

Yes, and I have a very lucrative proposal for you. You just need to send me your SSN and bank account numbers.

Candace Owens, we don't know her.

Imagine shitting on your own country for $$$$ Fucking traitors.

[quote]there are people defending that far left fraud cunt Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

LoL, r65, you type old.

R63 yeah the planet loving liberals are just as bad as the people actively destroying livelihoods and our planet…..got it. While we’re at it Hillary Clinton will be president someday!

Tim is now cooperating with the FBI investigation "as a potential victim of a crime."

The crime was this: Russian criminals paid Tim $100,000 PER WEEK for one weekly episode of his show. In this particular crime, the "victim" becomes very wealthy.

How could Pool possibly not worry about the source of that level of income for a crappy podcast heard by maybe a couple hundred thousand losers? $100,000 per episode? He. had. to. know.

He's now cooperating with the FBI, but twitter points out that he previously called the FBI gay (as a slur).

[quote]r78 = Some mighty uncomfortable people out there today.

Play stupid games...

What a fucking moron. Yeah sure, you're a victim. Well he might be soon. Tim Polonium

Oh sweet baby Jesus PLEASE let Dave Rubin get busted for his shenanigans! Such a vile, pathetic person.

Nothing is going to come of all this. Nothing. Zero.

So what do you think, there are going to be trials? Trials that will drag on for years? We're going back to "The Red Scare"? Really?

And FYI: the US has freedom of speech. You can criticize the government. You are allowed to have your own opinion about cultural, societal issues. You can criticize the government's involvement in wars. Remember the protests against the war in Vietnam, against the war in Iraq. Criticizing the US government is an American tradition.

If anything, all of this will only give the people mentioned here, more fame and notoriety. It will play into their narrative about government overreach and censorship.

....

Who are these people mentioned? I’m so old I recognize not one name

R97 Exactly. Most of them are nobodies to the larger public.

Of course all of this 1950s McCarthy-era Red Scare style bullshit will only increase their fame and viewership.

It's not so much the propaganda they were spreading, protected by the First Amendment. It's that they accepted money from Russia.

How to say "I've taken a plea deal" without saying "I've taken a plea deal" @ r89

Someone I saw just pointed out something really funny. These guys are supposedly the ones who see through all the conspiracies. The proud, don't fuck with me fellas types, who ain't gonna be fooled by no FBI, no CIA, no Deep State!

But Boris and Natasha show up in a big truck labeled "Don't Worry, Iz Legitimate Bizness," and start throwing money at them, far more than a few videos spewing nonsense about Ukraine are worth, and their only thought is, yup, this looks right to me!

Uh huh.

R95, what role do you play in Tenet Media?

[quote]r98 = Of course all of this 1950s McCarthy-era Red Scare style bullshit

Bullshit, huh?

Actually, I’m glad the Russian oligarchy wasted their propaganda funds on these clowns… it only makes them look as foolish and naive as the dumbasses they’ve been throwing their money at.

[quote]It's that they accepted money from Russia.

It will have to be proven that they knew. Or that they were victims of a scheme.

So when will the trials start?

It's cute that they've wasted millions on these unknown losers speaking to other unknown losers, but unfortunately we're all now in dangerous place as the Russians have also given millions more propaganda funds to MAGAt Congress and the former occupant of the White House

[quote]Someone I saw just pointed out something really funny. These guys are supposedly the ones who see through all the conspiracies. The proud, don't fuck with me fellas types, who ain't gonna be fooled by no FBI, no CIA, no Deep State!

"Because I've done my own research" usually translates to "I believe social media propaganda created by our enemies."

R95/R96 = Hi Tim!

[bold]THIS MOTHERFUCKING CHOAD DUMPED ALL HIS SWEET SWEET KREMLIN MONEY INTO TRUTH SOCIAL AND LOST HIS SHIRT.[/bold]

Oh god, this is the funniest shit I've ever seen.

What’s Pool spending all his rubles on? He should have at least gotten some hair plugs. He’s too young to be bald, and too old to wear that beanie. The beanie makes him look like a chomo.

All of the short-selling Wall Street banks, brokers, traders et. al. thank Tim profusely for buying at the top.

Maybe Russia could invest this money back on their own people...so they aren't drunkards starving to death.

They should at least get some non soviet era weapons so kill Ukrainian civilians with.

Seriously, the man never takes off the knit cap. Is he a Monkees fan?

[quote]Seriously, the man never takes off the knit cap. Is he a Monkees fan?

He's a bald 30 year old. Sometimes it's just that simple.

He must have a freakish looking head if he wears the beanie everywhere, even to formal events, R115.

I can hook him up with a lovely toupee

I can hook him up with a lovely beard

It's his homage to Hedda Hopper.

I had never heard of Tim Pool until today.

This is his YouTube channel. Checkout his lineup of videos.

Are we supposed to be worried about this guy being a Russian asset? Is he the best Russia can do?

He’s pushing 40, so it’s time for him to swap the incel beanie for a newsboy cap or creepy fedora.

Ya can't beat a tam.

How about a tin foil hat?

Unfortunately you can't wear any hats when you're in a federal penitentiary

R120, the worry isn't that Tim Pool is some huge fish. He's not. But he's not unknown either.

The worry is how many other Tim Pool's are on Russia' payroll? Slowly chipping away at people's belief in our system?

Also, you might not have heard of him, but I have. And so have hundreds of thousands of other people.

You might also have never heard of Dave Rubin. But I have. And so have hundreds of other people.

And many look to these morons for political guidance. Now we know that "guidance" isn't anything more that Russian propaganda, bought and paid for by Moscow.

It’s telling that so many (most?) of the prominent figures on the “new right” landscape are failed screenwriters, comedians and actors - and that they tend to be either breathtakingly stupid - like Dave Rubin, Tim Pool and Benny Johnson - or have fairly obvious personality disorders - like Candace Owens, Stephen Crowder and Rod Dreher.

Remember when Tucker went to Russia and said it was better than America?

R126, never heard of any of them until this thread.

[quote]You might also have never heard of Dave Rubin. But I have. And so have hundreds of other people.

I have. I've watched his videos a few times.

What was I seeing that was so horrible? Please point to a few of his videos that are "slowly chipping away at people's belief in our system".

BTW: can our government and institutions be criticized?

Wonder if the disgusting blob Alex Jones is going to be snagged in this as well?

Wouldn’t that be lovely? He loses his fat as sin court to the Sandy Hook parents and then gets tossed in jail for tax evasion for not reporting income from Russia.

R130 I hope so. Someone’s dark money is keeping that turd afloat.

Is the Pope Catholic?

You bitches may not have heard of these pathetic also rans, but you sure as hell have heard of me.

Now that's some great return on their ruble investments

[quote]Remember when Tucker went to Russia and said it was better than America?

Rod Dreher is doing the same thing with Hungary and Victor Orban. He says that the Western media is too "slanted" to portray Orban as the saintly strong leader that he is.

Dreher moved his family to Hungary to continue spewing this stuff. I wonder how much he's making from the Hungarian government.

Tenet founder Lauren Chen with Marsha Blackburn

R129. It's not what they're saying, it's who's paying them to say it and why. Willfully ignorant or really ignorant

Why is the DOJ so focused on Russia money and Russian propaganda? Russia isn’t the only foreign country spreading propaganda in the U.S.

Qatar owns A Jazeera. AJ+ is constantly spreading far-left propaganda to cause political division. Qatar is responsible for all these campus “Free Palestine” protests.

I don’t care whether propaganda is from Russia or not. I care whether it is true and whether it has merit.

R126 - remember Reagan? Yeah - b-list and failed entertainers have always gravitated to the Republican party.

R137- because it's part of Russian interference in our elections? Are you dumb?

[quote]r137 = I care whether it is true and whether it has merit.

It's not and it doesn't. Are you retarded? You're retarded, aren't you?

Marsha Blackburn aka Senator JBF Hair does seem dumb enough to take the Russian rubles and not ask questions.

Part of what Russia does is financially back and platform people who are already on their "side". Or near enough to it. They don't necessarily tell the "influencer" what to say. Though they might do that too. But they give the influencer a bigger microphone.

Tim Pool got paid 100k an episode to sound the lunatic he already was. But amped up.

And with a bigger platform? That means more followers. More followers means more acolytes. More acolytes means more incels thinking they have a "voice". They then use that voice, telling their idiot online friends about how cool Tim Pool is and to fuck Ukraine, fuck the West, fuck democracy.

One of those friends tells your weird cousin this exact thing in some Reddit thread. And pretty soon your weird cousin, who was always strange but generally harmless, is now ranting and raving about how Putin is misunderstood, fuck Biden, fuck Harris, all while proclaiming Trump is the only true leader.

Rinse and repeat.

I like what Kim Iversen has to say. If you’re going to go after influencers for secretly taking money from Russia, you should be going after anybody secretly taking money from Israel or Qatar.

But, if what the indictment says about Lauren Chen is true, what she did was very wrong. Influencers are constantly being accused of being paid Russian asssets. So when it turns out that that’s the case with Lauren Chen, that makes everyone else look suspicious, even if they’re innocent.

R138, you’re not concerned about Israel or Qatar interfering with our elections or legislation? What is Russia doing that Israel or Qatar aren’t also doing?

[quote]Why is the DOJ so focused on Russia money and Russian propaganda?

Because Russia is the sworn enemy of the United States, pumpkin.

Chine bankrolled GHWB. Saudi Arabia bankrolled GWB. Republicans have always been willing to sell out the USA for cold hard cash, at least since Reagan.

R134: I always wondered why Rod Dreher merited THREE extensive profiles in The New Yorker over a period of several years.

I know a Dutch journalist who interviewed him in Budapest for a current-affairs weekly. My acquaintance said that when Dreher first relocated to Budapest, he would occasionally move his "office" to one of the local "Scruton Cafés" (named after the conservative British philosopher). He said it was ironic that people in those cafés like to rant against globalization and take pride in Budapest being "like the rest of Europe was a century ago" while the background music, oat milk chai lattes, pulled pork sandwiches, ambience, furnishings, and magazines on display are as generic and "globalized" as can be,

But... but.... George Soros!

[quote]Dreher moved his family to Hungary to continue spewing this stuff.

No, Dreher abandoned his family and moved to Hungary. His eldest son, the only of his three children who are still talking to him, later moved to Hungary to be with him.

Dreher, who has long said the family is sacrosanct -- he's much like his buddy JD Vance in that regard -- is divorced and estranged from his ex-wife and their two youngest children.

R110 he lives on a neverland like compound with a giant personal skatepark.

R141 they were being told what to say - the indictment shows a little discord argument about shilling the russian grocery store video with tucker carlson

R125 he IS huge - 1.87 million subscribers is huge for an independent pundit.

[quote]he IS huge - 1.87 million subscribers is huge for an independent pundit.

Larger than the average daily audience of Fox News.

The people saying this isn't a big deal, what happened to freedom of speech, etc reek of borscht tinged vodka vomit

[quote] Qatar owns A Jazeera. AJ+ is constantly spreading far-left propaganda to cause political division.

Is far left in the room with you, hon?

[quote] you’re not concerned about Israel or Qatar interfering with our elections or legislation? What is Russia doing that Israel or Qatar aren’t also doing?

Threatening to nuke the US and Europe on state TV every day?

Guys just block and FF MAGATs and Russian agents. Force them to buy new accounts.

[QUOTE][R110] he lives on a neverland like compound with a giant personal skatepark

He said he was out skateboarding when he heard about the indictments. Guess he was just in his backyard.

He left school a year younger than Kyle Rittenhouse.

[QUOTE]Pool attended a Catholic school until completing the fifth grade[10] and left school at the age of 14.[9][11]

Why would anyone listen to a moronic high school dropout's political opinions in the first place? How did he become popular?

R158 He's basically if a channel like TheQuartering got more heavily into politics. There is a massive audience of young men who only want to watch videos about how video games and sci fi movies are being destroyed by gay people and feminists. He's a gamergate guy through and through. These channels are huge - there are so fucking many of them and they are all making TONs of money with hundreds of thousands or million plus subscribers. TheQuartering has 1.7M subscribers for example and is a morbidly obese retard who says the same thing every day. Actually, looking at TheQuarterpounder's channel now it's more explicitly political than usual - but for years this was all about how video games and comic books and your favorite nerdy hobby is under attack. He's a guy who became an anti-woke youtuber after getting banned from Magic The Gathering tournaments for harassing people and creeping out women.

YouTube subscriber numbers aren't audited and can easily be manipulated so no reason to believe that many people are actually watching these videos.

TheQuartering was just defending Pool, so he should be lawyering up now as it's likely he's next on the investigation list

R160 it’s pretty big - if you’re familiar with that online space at all the anti-woke hysteria has basically been the only thing nerds have talked about for almost ten years now. Every possible channel, content platform, message board, chat room, etc.

R155, is that really what Russia is doing?

Go back to your Kim Iverson, r162.

[quote][R155], is that really what Russia is doing?

Putin has specifically threatened the use of nuclear arms on numerous occasions, R162, not the least of which was just last week when the Russian defense minister warned "the West" that a war in Europe won't stay confined to Europe.

Russia has a list of thousands of influences

"They're making a list, checking it twice..."

Imagine thinking it's totes cool to take money from Russians to spread their propaganda. I bet even the Russian troll farmers feel a little bad about it

his braindead fans are just calling everyone mocking him a pedo over and over again

R167 and making a lot of neo nazi and heil hitler inside jokes

IF these people do their taxes - shouldn't the IRS be on top of this? Or of any transaction that gets wired into a personal or business account?

Of course, many of these people don't care - and their followers don't either - just as long as they make their money that they would never be able to make working at the 7-11 or Chili's where people of their education and skillset usually work.

[quote] …(Tim Poole) lives on a neverland like compound with a giant personal skatepark.

I’d guess that was the first thing that tipped the feds off.

I thought Matt Taibbi considered himself part of the "non-identitarian left." Has he adopted right-wing views? Is that why he no longer co-hosts the "Useful Idiots" podcast with Katie Halper? (her co-host is now Aaron Maté).

he's a rancid cunt

I guess Tim Pool never saw Goodfellas. You can’t take back a skate park!

I can see Tim Pool falling out some window in the near future.

To Dave Rubin’s credit, he doesn’t flaunt his ill-gotten wealth, so he’s 2nd dumbest in right wing media, with Tim being number one.

Timmy hates it when people make themselves a victim. Yet here he is, claiming to be a victim. The hypocrisy is delicious.

Russia media pundits are calling on Putin to grant asylum to his American minions.

Wondering if that includes Donald.

I hope ALL these fuckers "accidentally" fall out of some windows

[quote]Russia media pundits are calling on Putin to grant asylum to his American minions

Good. These coddled man-babies are in for a shock when THEY become the lazy migrants looking for help, but are looked down upon because they can’t speak the language and don’t fit in.

I'll never understand why the film ACTIVE MEASURES didn't get talked about more.

I had heard something a while back that you can buy downloads and social media followers. Maybe that's the case with some of these pro-Russian podcasters.

US social media puppets seeking Russia asylum will go straight to the Front Line (of the list - wink wink)

This evening in The Atlantic:

Tim Pool talking about the indictment - the comments are so disheartening. The only reason it doesn’t really upset me is I know plenty of them are paid disinfo too. Tons of stupid voter fraud talking points - where every clerical irregularity is proof of ballot stuffing. I just hate these hordes of tards so fucking much and they scare me.

R180 The gun pointing at them off camera could bring an exciting new energy.

[quote]US social media puppets seeking Russia asylum will go straight to the Front Line (of the list - wink wink)

… where they’ll be introduced to the Russian method of manhood initiation they so richly deserve!

I want to know why the hell Youtube is still hosting Russian disinformation. Their terms of service disallows misinformation and hateful content - Tucker Carlson's holocaust denial interview is on there. Just like CNN they're terrified of MAGA whining.

AI won't allow you to use a curse word in a comments section, even if you put asterisks over some of the letters. Because the little Braydens and Jaelyns of the world might read a cuss, damaging them for life.

But let's just allow a bunch of Russian garbage to permeate the internet.

R188 - Facebook and Google are addicted to bot traffic $$$. This has been going on for over a decade - they could stop all of it, but their ad revenues would drop by 40-50%. You have no idea how much as fraud is out there - it's insane.

Russian operative Lauren Chen says women shouldn't have the right to vote

Fucking cunts and liars

IIRC somebody estimated that roughly 50% of all current internet traffic is just automated bots gabbling away at each other.

Good for business I guess.

[quote]Russian operative Lauren Chen says women shouldn't have the right to vote

She certainly shouldn't have the right to vote.

Lauren Chen was born in Canada and grew up in Hong Kong. Why is she screwing around in U.S. politics anyhow? What business is it of hers if Americans allow women to vote?

R194 - she's also Canadian born and raised in Hong Kong, trying to tell Americans that half the population shouldn't be allowed to vote.

She should be deported ASAP.

Jinx, R196 …

If the bitch doesn't think women should vote, then she shouldn't be offering her worthless political opinions anywhere.

If we're taking away women's voting rights, how's about we start with Boebert, Cro Marge, Marsha Blackburn, and Ann Coulter.

Wiki says this is why Ann Coulter supports taking away women's voting rights:

[quote] "If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president."

Reminds me of the crazy-eyed "female Andrew Tate" anti-feminist Pearl Davis. Who has her on the payroll?

(Trigger warning: links to slimy Piers Morgan)

I want to know how anyone can stand to listen to any of their voices. How are they broadcasters?

Fucking cunts

Now we're calling YouTubers "broadcasters"?

Well, technically they are. "Content creators" will do too, I suppose.

Chaya Raichik, the Libs of TikTok twat, has an extensive history of interacting with these Tenet Media "personalities"

I cannot bear her, R206. The way she is all triumpant and gleeful about all the jobs people lost as a result of her videos. Is she mentally ill?

R200 I think what Ann Coulter really means is, “If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democracy.”

[quote]The way she is all triumpant and gleeful about all the jobs people lost as a result of her videos. Is she mentally ill?

She openly brags about the trans people they've harassed to the point of suicide, so I'm gonna go with "yes."