// To be fair, according to the indictment, “Commentator 1” — who has been identified by journalists as Dave Rubin — was like (paraphrase) "Waaaaaait a minute! Are you sure EDUARD GRIGORIANN is a real guy?" and the Russians and their cutouts were like "Yeah here's a Glamour Shot of him and some facts you won't find anywhere on Google because he's fake," and Rubin was like "OK cool, just making sure!" //
Well, when you're a member of that particular set of morally-challenged individuals and someone's offering you 6 figures a month for crappy videos, you're not going to look too hard in that gift horse's mouth.
I often kinda suspect dumb is actually wilfully dumb. As in it’s a lot of money and yeah of course this smells funny and huh yeah maybe even me and my shouldn’t really be trusted alone with metal cutlery intellectual limitations can maybe kinda guess where that kinda money might have come from but I’m not gonna ask in any particularly determined fashion because what I don’t know isn’t my problem dumb...
(... and really that’s kinda Trumpism all over. You probably kinda know too the guy’s just a sleazy grifter and outside that one also kinda iffy skill he’s a droolingly incompetent shouty grandpa who probably can’t serve himself an ice cream cone from a soft serve machine without maiming himself let alone run the administrative branch but he’s got you all excited with this notion you can say awful things out loud about people you hate so just not gonna think too hard on that... Let’s pretend his increasingly senile babble actually makes some kind of sense to us and wilfully dumb lets us have our twisted fun.)
Did you see the screenshot of the actual one sheet primer they were provided on imaginary Eduard?
It is riddled with spacing/formatting errors, typos, and wrong grammar. I understand that pretty much the entire right wing idiotsphere is filled with overachieving incompetents, but even if the billionaire funder didn't seem too good to be true... wouldn't you have some reservations about going into business with a supposed billionaire who cares so little about their personal presentation that they couldn't spring for basic proofreading & copyediting? But the guy has $400k a month burning a hole in his pocket to pay the likes of TIM POOL?
am I the only one giving side-eye to the fellas Benny, Timmy & Dave (to be clear, not a Vaudeville act) released "a statement" about indictments, like they were serving as their own press secretaries? oddly uniform to me.
I will continue to say, until I'm gone or it's no longer true (it'll be the former with the Russian loving Constitution hating Republicans around), wherever Khrushchev is, he's laughing us to scorn, as he says, "I told you we'd bury you - we didn't think it would be with your help."
Quoting myself here: They would have done it for free. As long as it agreed with their world view. Whoever wasted all that money when all that was needed was some enthusiastic comments on Truth Social or the various other places these idiots played. If I was Putin, I'd send the lot of them to the Eastern Front. (Hogan's Heroes joke for you kids out there)
Let's see what we have here. They took the $$$ and read the Russian propaganda on social media, they like the attention and the $$$, they don't deny that. They had no idea who the $$$ came from, other than the name Eduardo Gregorian, they are the VICTIMS of the crime spree. You know who they remind me of? Remember the look on those guy's faces in the scene near the end of Donnie Brasco? The FBI went into their clubhouse and showed them pictures of "Donnie" graduating from the FBI academy, left their card and walked out. Our MAGA grifters are stunned and the MAGA social media swamp might be getting paranoid. They should be.
ell — if they don't REEEEEEALLY believe the horseshit that they peddle for free, they MIGHT get bored of it eventually and flood just a little less of the zone with just a little less shit — so Poot & Frendz made it easier to maintain their appetite?
I have two questions: 1. Why is Jan6er Taylor Hanson not receiving more attention as one of the MAGA commentators swept up in this indictment? 2. Will the six have to return the money they received if this is actually money laundering of dirty rubles going into their pockets, or will they have to serve prison time in addition to or instead of returning the money?
This is the nightmare of Citizens United. The 5 Cons who voted for it didn't think it would be a big fucking deal. Now it's a big fucking deal.
Good job Roberts and Kennedy.
oh, they ABSOLUTELY knew it was a big fucking deal. "Bought&Paid For" Thomas kew EXACTLY what the deal was, because "Bought&Paid For".
// To be fair, according to the indictment, “Commentator 1” — who has been identified by journalists as Dave Rubin — was like (paraphrase) "Waaaaaait a minute! Are you sure EDUARD GRIGORIANN is a real guy?" and the Russians and their cutouts were like "Yeah here's a Glamour Shot of him and some facts you won't find anywhere on Google because he's fake," and Rubin was like "OK cool, just making sure!" //
Well, when you're a member of that particular set of morally-challenged individuals and someone's offering you 6 figures a month for crappy videos, you're not going to look too hard in that gift horse's mouth.
As always, Upton Sinclair to the rescue: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'
Here's me, sitting here waiting to hear if/when PragerU comes up as getting some of those freshly spin-dried dollah dollah bills.
I often kinda suspect dumb is actually wilfully dumb. As in it’s a lot of money and yeah of course this smells funny and huh yeah maybe even me and my shouldn’t really be trusted alone with metal cutlery intellectual limitations can maybe kinda guess where that kinda money might have come from but I’m not gonna ask in any particularly determined fashion because what I don’t know isn’t my problem dumb...
(... and really that’s kinda Trumpism all over. You probably kinda know too the guy’s just a sleazy grifter and outside that one also kinda iffy skill he’s a droolingly incompetent shouty grandpa who probably can’t serve himself an ice cream cone from a soft serve machine without maiming himself let alone run the administrative branch but he’s got you all excited with this notion you can say awful things out loud about people you hate so just not gonna think too hard on that... Let’s pretend his increasingly senile babble actually makes some kind of sense to us and wilfully dumb lets us have our twisted fun.)
Did you see the screenshot of the actual one sheet primer they were provided on imaginary Eduard?
It is riddled with spacing/formatting errors, typos, and wrong grammar. I understand that pretty much the entire right wing idiotsphere is filled with overachieving incompetents, but even if the billionaire funder didn't seem too good to be true... wouldn't you have some reservations about going into business with a supposed billionaire who cares so little about their personal presentation that they couldn't spring for basic proofreading & copyediting? But the guy has $400k a month burning a hole in his pocket to pay the likes of TIM POOL?
It's intentional "ignorance."
It's exactly like this https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/professor-manitoba-netflix-crypto-1.7078707#:~:text=Halayko%20says%20that%20it%20was,no%20connection%20with%20the%20organization.
Man. I wish the Russians would pay ME $400K/month to lie to all 19 of my YouTube subscribers.
am I the only one giving side-eye to the fellas Benny, Timmy & Dave (to be clear, not a Vaudeville act) released "a statement" about indictments, like they were serving as their own press secretaries? oddly uniform to me.
performative "sputtering outrage" to get in their side before averyone else.
You will notice NONE of them are giving the money back...
They don’t even know how to spell EDOUARD properly. It’s E.D.O.U.A.R.D. Jesus, people - at least get your fake villain names right. Amateurs.
That Norm joke is the most Chekovian shaggy dog story ever.
I will continue to say, until I'm gone or it's no longer true (it'll be the former with the Russian loving Constitution hating Republicans around), wherever Khrushchev is, he's laughing us to scorn, as he says, "I told you we'd bury you - we didn't think it would be with your help."
As I recall, he said we'd sell him the rope to hang us with.
I believe that was Lenin, speaking about capitalists, but I certainly could be wrong. I often am.
It appears your recall is better than mine. Thank you.
Thank you for letting me know - and making me search my not always reliable memory.
Pool et al knew damn well where the money was coming from. Any other country they'd get the noose, and not in 3-4-5 years but today.
Quoting myself here: They would have done it for free. As long as it agreed with their world view. Whoever wasted all that money when all that was needed was some enthusiastic comments on Truth Social or the various other places these idiots played. If I was Putin, I'd send the lot of them to the Eastern Front. (Hogan's Heroes joke for you kids out there)
Let's see what we have here. They took the $$$ and read the Russian propaganda on social media, they like the attention and the $$$, they don't deny that. They had no idea who the $$$ came from, other than the name Eduardo Gregorian, they are the VICTIMS of the crime spree. You know who they remind me of? Remember the look on those guy's faces in the scene near the end of Donnie Brasco? The FBI went into their clubhouse and showed them pictures of "Donnie" graduating from the FBI academy, left their card and walked out. Our MAGA grifters are stunned and the MAGA social media swamp might be getting paranoid. They should be.
"They’re on the same side, generally, from a 36,000-foot view."
Hell, Evan. they're on the same side, generally speaking, from a 6-foot view....
If these commentators were already doing what Russia wanted, why would Russia pay them?
ell — if they don't REEEEEEALLY believe the horseshit that they peddle for free, they MIGHT get bored of it eventually and flood just a little less of the zone with just a little less shit — so Poot & Frendz made it easier to maintain their appetite?
otherwise i got nothin'
That wedgie gif made me glad I'm working alone at home today, because if I read this on the train the laugh would have gotten me a lot of funny looks.
I have two questions: 1. Why is Jan6er Taylor Hanson not receiving more attention as one of the MAGA commentators swept up in this indictment? 2. Will the six have to return the money they received if this is actually money laundering of dirty rubles going into their pockets, or will they have to serve prison time in addition to or instead of returning the money?