In a normal world he would be in prison for treason. There is no way he wasn’t aware of what was happening when he was being paid 100,000 a week.
I don’t understand these guys. They know what they’re doing, and they know it’s to help a sick and despotic country wreck the United States. If that effort is successful… what do they think their dollars will be worth when the “full faith and credit of the United States of America” no longer means anything?
These motherfuckers can’t see further than their nose. It’s a common problem with the right wing. Their motto should be “Modern problems require shortsighted solutions.”
“Fuck em, I got mine.”
Cash money, for the next several quarters. Or they’re converting to crypto, I’m guessing.
I mean the silver lining / horrifying truth is that they aren’t able to support their show with the audience they have. The movement to prop them up is losing money on it and is not effective.
It’s effective enough that Trump is a coin flip away from being president again
Unfortunately, these shows aren’t why it’s a coin flip. The tim cast channel has just over 1 million subscribers and the recent episodes struggle to crack 100k on the best days.
The reason the election is a coinflip is cause there’s swathes of the US that are barely connected to any form of media except fox news and spend their days in ultra-conservative ultra-religious echo chambers.
Don’t get me wrong, the foreign and domestic shadowy investment money is working, just not the portion that was allocated to propping up the tim cast.
A million subscribers in the swing states is not easily dismissed. If the election was just a popular vote I’d agree, his numbers are inconsequential. But unfortunately it’s the swing states that really matter for the presidential election.
Holy christ 100k a week? How was the FBI not on that?
I think they kind of were honestly, the goobers didn’t even last two years before getting busted.
They’re Republican operators, there are no laws applicable to them when the DOJ is run by a Republican
Unfortunately the only evidence that we have of the Tim Pool show ending is that Tim Pool said it. Does anyone have a more trustworthy source?
The thing under his beanie said it
From my understanding of what was in the article, the DoJ indictment has Laura Chen, founder of the company that employs him and Dave Rubin, stating that without the funding of their Russian contact, their profitability isn’t enough to sustain the show and all the staff.
Hopefully I will never have to hear about Tim Pool and his stupid fucking beanie ever again.
Like what a transparently shallow fuckhead. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with going bald, it happens to a ton of people. If you’re self conscious about it that’s understandable but for the love of fuck all don’t put a beanie on and wear it 100% of the time, even when it’s 99% humidity outside, and pretend like it’s your fucking brand or whatever. Just take that $100k an episode AND GO GET HAIR PLUGS YOU STUPID FUCK LOOK AT MUSKS HAIR WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU TIMMY.
I really, really, really hate Tim Poole.
It’s a MAGA secret, but Tim Pool’s beanie is also his nightly cumsock.
So, as a Majority Report fan… there’s a bit here that makes this even more funny and ironic.
Putting this in Spoiler because its a gigantic wall of text
So, sometime last year, Emma (MR’s primary cohost) went on Tim’s show, actually on location in his compound.
During their exchange, Emma brought up how right wing shows such as Tim’s, just generally have a whole lot more funding than similar left wing shows…
… alluding to how most right wing shows tend to have large donations or grants from wealthy right wing businessmen, or their ‘foundations’, whereas left wing shows tend to get much smaller donations from far more people, which sum up to a whole lot less than what right wing shows get.
(This is all like a year before the Russian funding story broke)
…Tim’s response to this is to deny that his show has any large benefactors, begins talking about no, we just have a larger audience and thus better ad deals, and the suggests to Emma that the Majority Report should focus on stories people want to hear that draw a larger audience, and that they should a CTO to manage their finances better.
…
So ok fast forward to now, and it’s all but certain that Tim got all this Russian money, assumed it was legit, and normal, despite it being a very large sum of money, for very little extra or specified work…
… and then he massively expanded his operation with this money.
And then he not only lied to Emma’s face, in person, but also had the gall to magnanimously critique the financial operations of the Majority Report and pretend to be some kind of helpful, well intentioned business guru.
… And now that Tim’s stupendous Russian donor that he lied about not having isn’t funding the his operation any more, welp uh it appears to be time to close up shop.
…
So this is on its face just astoundingly, perfectly representative of the total falsity of the ‘self made man, bootstrapped my empire from the ground up, I’m just better at business and thus life than you’ narrative that basically all wealthy people, and certainly all wealthy conservatives in America promulgate.
…
But it gets even funnier.
You see, in the last, roughly two weeks…Sam Seder, MR’s main host was invited to Tim’s show, for an in person appearance and discussion with Tim… on November 1st.
If you don’t follow online political drama much… basically no conservative talking head will agree to debate or even discuss anything with Sam, because he’s been doing this shit for like 20+ years, and basically, in a rather composed manner, he always makes fools out of any conservative he’s ever verbally sparred with, or the conservative ends up cancelling or backing out for some reason.
… So… November 1st is a Friday.
And Tim Pool appears to have stated that if the show does continue, well Fridays he won’t be there, it’ll just be his cohosts and guests.
… As it currently stands, Sam legitimately does not know if he will be appearing on Tim’s show to, you know, talk to Tim.
… So…Tim may have also (inadvertantly?) added himself to the list of conservative talking heads that are too afraid to talk to Sam.
That is fucking glorious, thanks for taking the time to put that beautiful wall of text together.
You forgot the best part. The Russian deal had just come in within days of Emma being on his show. Likely around a week before.
Wait, it wasn’t like a year ago?
… fuck.
I am apparently still brainfucked in the ‘how does time pass’ department from covid and the just non stop insano-hyper reality that US politics has been since.
Oh well, that does objectively make the story even funnier.
we just have a larger audience and thus better ad deals
What is it about being a conservative and lying about the size of your… audience? “I’m just very good at making deals” also has a certain right wing vibe to it.
Excellent recap, love seeing a similarly obsessed Majority Report fan out in the wild. How’s it going friend?
Well, after about a year of self directed physical therapy (can’t afford healthcare, car got stolen so I couldn’t get to it anyway), I’m now not in constant, screaming agony anymore, and I finally found a place I can actually afford to live at off of meager SSDI income.
So… things are looking up, actually!
I’m sorry to hear it but I’m also glad that things are looking up?
Been a rough one sounds like. I too am a year and a half out from a brain injury, thankfully my insurance covered most of it, but it didn’t cover the basement flooding, wife’s layoff or kids braces 😆. Election aside, things are also looking up for me.
In all honesty, take care, sorry you’ve been having troubles. I’m not trying to belittle them with mine, just know that you have friends out there who feel your pain.
In all honesty, take care, sorry you’ve been having troubles. I’m not trying to belittle them with mine, just know that you have friends out there who feel your pain.
Right back at you man.
I’ve had a number of concussions and contusions over the years, but never so severe I needed brain surgery.
Best of luck, I know that recovery from major surgeries, especially brain surgeries, can be extremely challenging in unexpected ways that are often dismissed or not understood by everyone around you.
Thankfully mine wasn’t surgery, just a nasty knock to the noggin and subsaquent internal bleeding, but thank you. Up and forward, all we can do. Keep fighting the good fight friend, and keep listening to the right sort of people :)
Tim Pool is a bald traitor. He is unhealthily insecure about his hairless scalp, even denying its existence while in full view. Frankly, he put more effort into hiding the top of his head than he did in hiding his ties to Russia. It’s okay to be bald. It’s not okay to be Tim Pool
Good.
Why is he always wearing a meg beanie? Is he balding?
He claims it’s to hide his identity in public… as hilarious as that sounds
Yeah, he’s bald. That might be it, or it might be something else. He gets REALLY upset if you knock off his beanie.
Seems to be happening a lot right now. Even on Lemmy.
i haven’t been certain about whether there are foreign influence campaigns active on Lemmy, but their ripples are undeniably visible here. Particularly on the communist instances and the smattering of far right spaces.
You are one.
DUN DUN DUNNNNNN
How can I be part of a foreign influence campaign when I’m trans? Unrelatedly, here are six reasons we should cease arming Ukraine and give Taiwan to China.
I saw the headline before leaving work and a “Wouldn’t it be glorious if it’s Tim Pool?” thought popped into my head.
Fuck this bald traitor scum. May the offspring of a thousand fleas find refuge apon his genitals.
As I recall he went far right after meeting Laura Southern of the Canadian far right “Rebel News”.
Which is also on the list as getting Russian cash.
No fucking way. His show can’t even sustain itself without hundreds of thousands of dollars from foreign agents? It’s a shitty fucking podcast.
With 30-some-odd staff, apparently, lol.
I constantly get/got ads on YouTube to subscribe to his show, one as recently as a couple of days ago, so the funding must have dried up very recently very quickly.
(I’ve also had full like hour long episodes of Louder with Crowder as a skippable pre-roll before, has to be being served to me purely by demographics because I don’t watch that shit.)
That’s code for “I’m fleeing the country and moving to either an underground bunker or a one story home with no windows, so I don’t “accidentally” fall out of one.”
At least he’ll have plenty of time to spend with his wife and kids… which he doesn’t have.
acquiring that family
Whoever wrote that doesn’t seem to have much emotional intelligence.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
