Dot.Right-wing podcaster shelves show after Russian money dries up.
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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.
kescusayI 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?
chemical_cutthroatThese 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.”
“Not my problem” until it is, then it’s “who did this to me?”
“Fuck em, I got mine.”
Cash money, for the next several quarters. Or they’re converting to crypto, I’m guessing.
It’s not about the dollars, but about what they will get as a reward for their work and a new regime comes in. My guess is they hope they are continued, and safe, as the new dictatorship takes over and they think they will continue being useful as a mouthpiece of propaganda or given a position of power.
That’s my guess anyway. It’s sick.
Because they don’t think of it that way. Many want to return to the gold standard as well but that’s nuts. Regardless yeah, they see it more as attempting to rebuild the US into a fascist ally of Russia. I don’t think they actually understand that their actions devalue American currency by breaking the faith in the country.
Also few people seem to really understand that the sole real value of the US dollar is that it’s the only currency that the US government accepts.
they know it’s to help a sick and despotic country wreck the United States
And it’s defenders of justice, the constitution and democracy that are getting death threats from MAGAs today- SMH.
FenrirIIIThey’re Republican operators, there are no laws applicable to them when the DOJ is run by a Republican
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.
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.
But it’s a million across all states, and statistically most of that million are in NY and CA, especially because that’s where younger people who are more likely to know about a show like this live.
I was more referring to the whole ecosystem of Fox News rejects than Tim in particular.
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.
Yeah the fbi tends to act slow and not strike without certainty.
morrowindIt’s not treason, they haven’t interfered with the government or leaked secrets, that I’m aware of. They spread misinformation, but beyond that nothing illegal
According to U.S. code:
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
He is taking money from Russia, who is an enemy of United States, and has the intent to undermine the current government and this year’s election. He didn’t report it and benefited financially from it. Sounds like it fits the code well to me.
Does spreading misinformation count as treason? Otherwise having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, doesn’t apply.
SoleInvictusThe States convicted an innocent woman of treason for similar, if far less.
Taking large amounts of money from foreign nationals to spread misinformation is beyond just being unethical. Getting paid $2,500 an hour is obviously fraudulent.
There are definitely laws that could be twisted to charge them but we really should codify this so there is no question about its legality.
UnderpantsWeevilhe would be in prison for treason
Treason against whom? It’s the billionaires’ country, we just live in it.
Guys like Tim Poole aren’t any more treasonous than Peter Creedy from V for Vendetta. They’re the voice of the establishment not some upstart insurgents rebelling against the people in power.
Right now, we have a large tranche of white nationalist conservatives who are fully in alignment with Putin’s extremist ideology. He’s tapping into their propaganda network with their blessing.
Yeah but he sold himself to enemy oligarchs.
he sold himself to enemy oligarchs
They’re not enemies to our oligarchs though. That’s the catch. Plenty of American’s plutocrats see Russia as a model and Putin as an ally.
Treason.
I agree.
Must he have known what he was doing?
I disagree.
Tim Pool is extremely stupid.
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.
osaerisxeroNice detail with the “colorized” 😁
There’s been a rash of new accounts posting right-wing garbage the last few weeks. I just block them.
Lmao, the tankies don’t need money to shill for [insert any country against the US]
Hopefully I will never have to hear about Tim Pool and his stupid fucking beanie ever again.
borariLike 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.
That’s the secret glue he uses to hold the beanie on his head.
I hope he blew all that money on stuff like staff etc, believing it was all his efforts making it possible.
Yeah. Modify your body to fit your desires (but if you do you’re a massive hypocrite if you judge others for the same) or learn to accept that your body will sometimes change in ways that you don’t like, but for many of those changes you can learn to live with it and be happy in it. The beanie is weird. Like if it was just a style thing I’d be sympathetic, my wife wears flannel in the dead of summer too, but he acts pathological about it.
Balding is a part of life for many people. Dihydrotestosterone is a byproduct of the metabolism of testosterone. As someone who personally hated all of the effects of a testosterone dominant body I sympathize with not liking it, there are DHT blockers that can even help with that. But just hiding the hair loss is a strange choice.
seaQueueUnfortunately 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
Vladimort?
vaultdweller013Nah its his parasitic twin skkeg.
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.
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
tacosanonymousNo 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.
All those toll calls to mother Russia gets expensive.
TransplantedSconieI 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.
I thought he was still pretending he wasn’t far-right? Anyway, pleased to see him forced out. Hopefully more pieces of shit lose their far-right radicalization podcasts.
At least he’ll have plenty of time to spend with his wife and kids… which he doesn’t have.
Nooo! Sam Seder was suppose to go on his show! This is just an excuse to chicken out like Crowder did.
acquiring that family
Whoever wrote that doesn’t seem to have much emotional intelligence.
Why is he always wearing a meg beanie? Is he balding?