Where's all the "there's no Russian interference" people at now? Are they doing the mental gymnastics on how they're going to flip this as being the Democrats fault?
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2024
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Waiting for the hydra's next head to pop up and give them their talking points.
They are not getting paid anymore...
That we know of. This was an extremely simple and silly scheme that was exposed. It wasn't even the first. And it won't be the last. Plus there will be a few slightly more competent ones that we may never know about in our lifetime.
Babylon Bee promptly started posting 'satire' pieces about Clinton whining about Russian interference the moment the news dropped. The right's response appears to be to connect this to the prior cases, which they already got people to believe a false narrative about.
These people were too busy creating some bullshit called Trump derangement syndrome and accusing people of having it. They don't live in reality and want to drag us down with them.
But...but..Putin openly endorsed Komrade Kamala...very strongly. Many say Sir, it is the strongest endorsement a communist has ever made.
No they are saying straight out that on fox news that it's good if Russians help the Republicans win
Wow, I'll be honest, didn't see that one coming. I figured they'd spin it some more.
Wow. I gotta admit I’m a bit surprised the parties involved killed the operation so quickly. This wasn’t “the FBI shut us down”. This was “lol we got caught red-handed, quick, pull our money out asap”.
It’s less of a smoking gun, and more like finding someone holding a smoking gun in front of a shot person, and they see you seeing them, so they quickly yeet the gun into the river and run away. Like… bro: we see you, and just watched you do that. The context is utterly damning.
They're not responding. Quick! Google time in Moscow for the imaginary man in Paris. That's some stooges level of competence.
Insult to injury Tim's father regularly contradicts and pushes back against the narrative his son peddles in his own way. But in the wake of this he even called into the majority report. And had a discussion with Emma Matt and the others.
What? Tim who? And the rest... I seem to be missing some serious context here.
Edit: I have educated myself.
The accused will claim McCarthyism, even though this time there's actual proof of connections, unlike in the 50s.
Make sure everyone knows Blaze Media was ‘duped’ as well
The fallout from the alleged propaganda scheme lost Chen her broadcasting gig with another far-right media group, Blaze Media,
And on the odd chance they aren't a Russian propaganda machine, then at best they can't seem to distinguish their own work from Russian propaganda
Hopefully means no more Glenn Beck or Dave rubin
The Russian funds paid for videos by popular far-right personalities, including podcaster Tim Pool and Lauren Southern. Pool has since described himself as a “victim” in the Tenet scandal.
How horrible for those poor, alt-right wing influencers. Imagine finding out that Putin has been paying you all along when you thought you were spewing Russia's talking points for American scum bags.
Thanks to cognitive dissonance they are doing fine.
Wasn't there some kind of media or internet crash in Russia during the 2016 or 2020 election? I was on reddit then, and remember there being 2 or 3 days of a solid 99% reduction in pro-Trump posts cuz all the bots suddenly stopped.
Yeah, the Internet connection between Russia and everywhere else went down, and the number of right-wing trolls plummeted.
Kinda wish that connection was severed entirely.
Womp womp
This is an outright attack on democracy - and something that a majority of conservatives are in support of. It's very shameful. I'm very grateful that schemes such as this have been exposed.
Good riddance, Tenet Media - and also Blaze Media. Good riddance.
"Neten Media" being founded with the same headquarters address and many of the same employees (purely by happenstance, of course) in 3... 2... 1....
They should just outsource this work to whoever is doing it for Israel. Obviously better at their jobs.
It's called AIPAC.
I suspect $10mil. is what they were able to track but isn't it just a pocket change in the american media world, especially with such a mission?
Politicians can be bought for embarrassingly low amounts, I dont see "media personalities" as generally being any better.
Those rubles and bots are going to go somewhere else soon enough. Id wager some middeling podcaster is about to get a suspicious boost in audience and funding.
But how is little Timmy going to pay for his new skate park and music videos now?!
He was a sk8r boy, she said see ya l8r boy (he was a threat to dem•oc•ra•cy)
Great song by Avril Lavignova
Beanie fund done dried up.
I think the owners were indicted and this is what usually happens.
Wait, that's a Canadian entity, interesting.