Right Wing Influencers Secretly Paid By Russia

[@LegalEagle]

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[@davea6314]

Probably yes. Putin figuratively has Trump in his pocket...

[@johnniequinn3215]

​@@BotvsBotsPost some good media.

[@NSGrendel]

How is this news to anyone with a room temperature (Farenheit) IQ? No offence. I mean... the US senate? Bought out by Russia.

[@highlordlaughterofcanada8685]

My man you should get some comment moderators to deal with all these bots

[@InternetDarkLord]

I'm proud to say that I am a Russian-American who has attended antiwar protest in Washington DC. I met other antiwar Russian-Americans protesting on Lafayette Square.

[@RandomU5erName]

The “Do Your Own Research” crowd didn’t do their own research

[@chernobyl169]

The "Do Your Research" crowd thinks Russian propaganda counts as research

[@GothAlice]

They don’t know what the word “research” means. Power of the dollar counts as “research” to them.

[@adamb89]

It all goes back to Watergate. Nixon dealt a death blow to the Republican party and members quit in droves to join the Democratic party. Desperate to bolster their numbers, the remaining Republicans changed their message. They kowtowed to the racist south by egging them on about Jim Crow laws, abolition of segregation, the "injustice of civil liberties" and so on. Now these were people who had never been catered to before--these were the worst of the worst. The bottom 10% who couldn't even qualify for military service. There were millions of votes waiting to be claimed, and that's where the modern Republican party was born. To claim the votes of the criminally stupid, and willfully ignorant.

[@nicholaszikos3851]

Yeah the conspiracy theorists took money and asked no questions 😂

[@nihilist_wolf]

Instead they took the entire book of propaganda culture war BS that the Kremlin was handing out and just ran with it without question

[@jasonparadis]

"Gormless morons who saw conspiracies everywhere except the mirror" is one of the greatest things ever said on KZbin. I'm stealing that one, don't sue me!

[@Pretermit_Sound]

Nah, he’s not Illuminaughti 😉

[@michaeln1856]

Literally came to say this. I'm going to type it out again. "Gormless morons who see conspiracies everywhere but the mirror". 😂😂😂😂 absolute poetry

[@numbersix9468]

i dont even know what a "gorm" is.

[@robbieshand6139]

That whole opening monologue was just *chef's kiss* wonderful.

[@nitehawk86]

@@numbersix9468 Kirk got into a fight with one.

[@bobbycrosby9765]

I hate it when I'm the victim of being given millions of dollars. Please, please, please, don't victimize me in this way.

[@HighAsHeckPriestess]

😂

[@rembrandt972ify]

I would rather be broke in a messed up country than rich in a post Project 2025 world.

[@dmf4254]

Truly, it would be a shame

[@TheHornet44]

You’ll get what’s coming to you!

[@KingTez1983]

​@@rembrandt972ify Facts!

[@cashcleaner]

As an aside. What kills me most about Tucker Carlson's expose in Russia, is that much of the clean streets and well-maintained subway stations he is praising are the result of taxpayer funded upkeep. Carlson and others will rail against even the some of the most necessary improvements to public infrastructure when it happens in their own country, but are amazed when they see its effect elsewhere. Yeah, you can have clean streets, beautiful subway stations and even more - if you think it's worth charging a bit more in taxes.

[@pvshka]

That's not the western way. In the west, you gotta be careful not to solve the problem so you can continue charging money for it. - Sincerely, a Slav

[@alextrivunovic644]

Russian taxes are way lower than American taxes.

[@Tina06019]

I was in that Moscow subway station in 1976, fifteen years before the fall of the Soviet Union. Those gorgeous decorations were installed by - gasp- the Communists. Just saying.

[@sillyking1991]

i would argue we don't even need to charge more in taxes. we just need our respective state governments to actually handle taxes better.

[@cashcleaner]

@@sillyking1991 There’s definitely waste in government, no doubt. And at all levels.

[@maeburekaiser]

Notice the guy warning people not to get baited by the FBI. But not warning them to avoid becoming a paid Russian propogandist.

[@SkyhawkSteve]

that got my attention too. I thought he was going to say "Stop spouting Russian talking points", not "don't get caught spouting Russian talking points".

[@pansepot1490]

I was looking for this comment. The FBI is the bad guys, not the Putin’s agents. 🙄 McCarthy and Regan must be rolling in their graves. 😏

[@HarryDirtay]

It's not like the GOP aren't all in on supporting russias interests over those of the USA. They have been for the good part of a decade now.

[@thieupham493]

There's nothing illegal about being an idiot. It can even pay well as long as you sign those declaration forms.

[@xrismanessa3993]

What about if it was his way of diversion? Because he knew this might come?

[@Justme42yay]

Remember when these guys were mocking everyone for “victim mentality”.

[@TitaniumTurbine]

Yep, most of them have a deep-rooted persecution fetish as well. When it comes to other people that are not on their “team”, then they can call out their own antics in a blaze of hypocrisy.

[@rick4580]

Conservatism are the ultimate victims. Their entire ideology is that other people victimize them just by existing.

[@RobertTrey-ov1lz]

The ones that do this always end up playing the victim card 😂

[@cicalinarrot]

Finding conservative's hypocrisy is as hard as finding hay in a haystack.

[@MasoTrumoi]

Every accusation is a confession. Matt Walsh is the first ghoul to call queer people groomers, and yet he's the one who famously ranted about how 16 year old virgins are the best for marrying.

[@na3rial]

"I'm a victim and if you say otherwise, you'll hear from my lawyers" is a hellova statement for a "victim" to make.

[@akaimizu1]

@@vetinaris1297you know that statement can be used for every single person that was attacked, in that way. It’s not like the perpetrators are going to make Good from their attack, by themselves. It’s a completely different scenario so not comparable.

[@TsumeAri]

Just like the FBI is looking into him because he's a "victim"

[@BakingBadOBX]

@@vetinaris1297 right, remember how Jean was being paid by a foreign nation to smear Trumps name? yep, totally the same thing

[@darianistead2239]

​@@vetinaris1297Wrong. She sued the attacker not just anyone who "says otherwise". Educate yourself..

[@mickelodiansurname9578]

I told him to sue me on his X account after outright suggesting he gets the death penalty

[@pwoolcoc]

The worst part about this is that it forced me to find out who Tim Pool is, truly I am the real victim here

[@LukeBoxMusik]

🫂Emotional support clip

[@myfredo32]

I've been auto-subscribed to him twice! Had to unsub multiple times. I get Tim Pool sponsored videos in my feed constantly. I don't know much about him but sometimes I have auto play on or my phone just pulls up his video randomly (I guess I accidently touched the screen while holding it? It happens way more with sponsored videos than regular videos, maybe it's me, or maybe KZbin really really wants you to 'accently' click on sponsored videos so thier campaign programs seem like a better deal with better click-through rate). I don't know anything about Tim pool, aside from his sponsored videos are very annoying and from his titles and thumbnails he does...indeed come across as 'a helpful idiot'.

[@BigChiefTushkalusa]

How did you not know? The FBI has been following Trump since the 80s it's their fault it's gotten this far.

[@Kulepennstrek]

For a while I was really interested in his antics. Following twitter profiles that post clips of the insane outright lies he says. But like after a week it stopped being funny and became really really depressing

[@mcglubski]

I've been a real Shallow Pool victim since his days at Vice, when he had some semblance of integrity.

[@bojordan64]

Right off the hop, claiming Ukraine is North America's greatest enemy should have been a huge red flag. That math just doesn't add up no matter how you calculate it.

[@newb431]

Quid pro Joe agrees with you

[@RussellBeattie]

Looks like the Russian bots have arrived! Thanks @newb431 for showing us a perfect example of stuff the Russians post in order to sow discord among Americans.

[@emmaarmo379]

@newb431 you’re all over this comment section aren’t you, buddy? Gotta white knight for your hero! The mean internet bullies are making fun of Tim!! 😭

[@daedalus6433]

@@emmaarmo379 I mean, Joever Bidone loved abusing Ukraine too.

[@doublepinger]

To be "fair", Trump was winking at Putin since 2016 saying "It's not the US's responsibility to help Europe". You kinda gloss over how doggedly, for years, any US aide to Ukraine was attacked. Republicans won't remember this, the same way they forget how much goose-stepping there was during Bush's years.

[@Itharl]

"I'd rather be a Russian propagandist than anything that might be mistaken for progressive" is pretty on the nose even for these guys. Geez.

[@First-Last_name]

That's pathetic too.

[@taags]

Who would ever wa not to be a progressive? It makes everything worse.

[@jimkeo6926]

lol, thought y’all was against deep state. Russia is the deep state lmao. Rt isn’t allowed to say anything that isn’t approved by Putin 😂. Jesus would say y’all need to wake up

[@sassysince90]

So wild 😭

[@eeyun5279]

They’ll gladly do/say even the most pathetic stuff in the world just to “own the libs”. Look at the gop, they don’t even try to pass laws or put forward a platform to govern with, they just complain about democrats and collect checks

[@mockturtle1402]

The fact that Dan Bongino is warning against working with the feds, but not against working for Russia is telling.

[@chickensdone1]

He’s intentionally trying to sow more distrust in the American government and division.

[@jordisaura6748]

They side with the enemies of their own nation. Shameful

[@mickelodiansurname9578]

Well you can choose NOT to work with the feds... of course all that will do is wind you up in prison when they pin money laundering on you... and none of these folks would go to prison for their own mother let alone Russia! Also... wheres the money... do they get to keep the money?

[@poeticvogon]

I took it as him saying to watch out for feds pretending to be Russians when you go after that delicious Russian money. Which is just as bad.

[@caryeverett8914]

That's not what he was saying. To accurately interpret his statement, you need to interpret what he was saying through the perspective of his Alt-Right audience. He is falsely suggesting that the US government is an attempt to entrap conservatives by pretending to be Russians. A systemic entrapment scheme. This is intended to sow doubt on the accusations covered in the video. Same way Alt-Right hosts talk about false flags and similar knowingly false accusations of hoaxes.

[@devonglide1830]

I like how pool claimed 100k per episode isn’t suspicious at all. I checked out his channel and his videos get like 10k views. Sure Tim, 10bucks a view is “totally normal”.

[@galaxyanimal]

Yeah, $10 a view is somewhere in the middle of what you'll get with pay-per-view, not advertising/sponsorship.

[@michaeld9682]

Lauren and also Laura southern are heros

[@atypicalprogrammer5777]

These guys managed to find a less ethical KZbin sponsor than BetterHelp or Established Titles.

[@MedievalGenie]

Established Russians.

[@adventurevehiculist]

This made me cackle

[@catdogmousecheese]

Yeah, they should only take money from ethical sponsors like p0rnhub and OnlyFans.

[@shadowdaber284]

BetterhelpRussians

[@shubhamcweb]

@@shadowdaber284 Lmao perfect 😂

[@Schism404]

We are in another cold war. If russia is willing to spend 10 mil on KZbinrs, imagine what they're willing to spend on other, more influential individuals and corporations.

[@RedSpade37]

_Exactly_

[@peter65zzfdfh]

Billions on a president. It’s a cheap way of owning the US. And yet all that president has to do is not mention the members of their campaign jailed for being Russian agents, and tell their followers it was a hoax and their followers are too willing to follow to bother checking the facts.

[@cyanhacker]

America pays youtube to delete all "propaganda" 😂

[@yeahok1839]

Its working. Large numbers of people that were historically anti Russia have suddenly switch to pro Russia, anti democracy and very snowflakey about everything.

[@johanalejandrocazadordepin7225]

It's more a propaganda war but yeah

[@GaganSingh-nx2yv]

Received 100k per week Also them : I aM a ViCtIm

[@CaydeVanlue1999]

Yeah, funny that xD

[@neale3871]

I'm a victim who still can't look in the mirror 🪞

[@belsamethtaken4107]

I *really* want to be a victim as well, all of a sudden :p

[@gertjanvandamme2068]

and the worst part is that they were correct that these were the normal rates for rightwing pundits, there is an unholy amount of money going around for rightwingers to spew nonsense so the people remain focused on minorities

[@henlohenlo689]

the 100k a week is irrelevant. they was still not aware of details of advertisers. atleast at this time period. until further investigations.

[@shrekwes8119]

If an “influencer” pops up out of nowhere with no credibility and a fancy podcast, they are being funded by outside sources

[@grzegorzswist]

This is true for many internet celebrities. Many of youtube successful channels are outside backed to be aggressively promoted by the algorithm.

[@shrekwes8119]

@@grzegorzswist how exactly would outside forces effect the KZbin algorithm itself? I think it’s more so having very high quality equipment and being able to churn out these crazy talking points while being bankrolled so they don’t have to stop

[@kushbisen]

like talk tuah?

[@shrekwes8119]

@@kushbisen no, I don’t think Hauk Tuah is a political puppet. That would be hilarious tho

[@galacticspecter4364]

Brett Cooper is a good example of this, she’s a product of the daily wire that pretends to be this down-to-earth influencer streaming from her bedroom.

[@Matuse]

They were getting $100,000 per week, and never suspected anything. Suuuuuure.

[@pola5195]

>that's the regular market rate! For... Foreign agents?

[@Usernameping]

@@pola5195 I mean, I could definitely imagine seedy conservative billionaires pumping an obscene amount of money into terrible ideologies and takes. Otherwise how could Nazi-adjacent rubbish like Breitbart or the Daily Wire function the way they do.

[@westbourner]

reuben googled "time zone in russia" according to the doj report when their contact missed a scheduled call

[@aaronleverton4221]

I am absolutely worth a hundred grand a video and I'll sue anyone who says otherwise. I have to assume they are too stupid to understand that it's their greed and ego that got them trapped.

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

@@westbourner If only they used Onion DDG lol.

[@TanaMSchiewer]

I remember getting into an argument with someone about Tim Pool a few years ago. They INSISTED he was simply a logical, centrist individual and that I was just bound and determined, as a "leftist," to see nefarious intent where there was none. Welp.

[@knuckles543]

I’d rather be wary of nefarious intent than blind and obedient to their propaganda You were in the right

[@greengelacid2061]

I bet the person that said all those word didn’t understand any of them themselves…

[@thatradfailure5197]

He seemingly used to be. Back in 2016 I started watching him, but admittedly? I was in some Yikes political circles at the time, so Idk if he was just liberal compared to me when I first began my journey of change, or if he's genuinely changed THAT much. Either way, though, he is absolutely not the centrist fence sitter that he claimed (or claims, if he stills says it) to be. At this rate, he'd willingly take a paycheck from a certain German mustache model from the 1930's /reference

[@laughingalex7563]

They all claim to be centrist when they are not. A real centrist woudnt pick a tribe for one.

[@keaien]

He used to be many many years ago, did even some good journalism loooong long time ago, but then he slowly ascended radicalisation pathway, with slowly moving more conservative and more unhinged. I guess it pays really well to be a sellout like him. I haven't watched him in years, but I mean that's one easy way to milk one's past reputation.

[@SgtWicket]

“I was the potential victim of a crime.” Oh what were the damages Tim? Oh you MADE $5M? That’s rough buddy.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Megalomaniacal narcissists are extremely easy to spot... for intelligent people. Unfortunately, most of the population ain't so smurrt. 🙄

[@emu071981]

What's going to be rough is when the feds come knocking on his door trying to seize the proceeds of the crimes. How many of those influencers would actually still have enough assets left to pay the money back without becoming destitute?

[@julesdalli9716]

Ah, the victims of success. May we all offer them our condolences.

[@SgtWicket]

@@julesdalli9716 Tim should sue for negative $5M in damages

[@InXLsisDeo]

In any other country, this would be obvious passive corruption. Because corruption requires two criminals: the payer and the sellout. In normal democracies, both parties are indicted. But for some reason, in the good old AmeriKKKa, conservative sellouts and traitors aren't indicted. At the very least, Tim Pool's sister, who dealt with the Russians, should be arrested.

[@darkartsdabbler2407]

If just ten years ago you had told me that American conservatives would start shilling for the bad guys from Rocky IV I would not have believed you

[@lococomrade3488]

Russia hasn't been Commie since 1990.... Not the same. It's Nationalists.

[@kenrickman6697]

Oh, I would have completely believed that. American conservatives have been for sale to the highest bidder for decades, and they threw out any pretense of truth, honesty, or morality long ago.

[@ronaldeliascorderocalles]

Right-wing KZbinrs: "WE WANT FREEDOM" Also them: (Get support from a totalitarian regime)

[@SwampyThingy]

Cannot get more hypocritical than that😂

[@JanKowalski-wb8ih]

They want freedom to oppress

[@J-manli]

The insidious thing is, they do want freedom. BUT what they mean by freedom is freedom for them to be openly bigoted and abusive without consequence.

[@ElitheDryeena]

@@J-manli freedom for me. not for thee.

[@drblais5193]

thats why they love Israel

[@jemborg]

In Australia, we call that, "cash for comment". Those pro Russian influencers knew who their "anonymous" benefactors were.

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

I've heard "Blab it n' grab it" my whole life. "Cash for Comment" sounds like what the news here would call it.

[@lazymansload520]

I like that term

[@klingonartdealer]

Oooo that’s a good idiom

[@PositiveOnly-dm3rx]

na, they didnt know. they were just repeating russian propaganda verbatim. how would they know?

[@lazymansload520]

@@PositiveOnly-dm3rx it’s a little suspicious when someone who claims to not be a Russian operative gives you a bunch of money in exchange for saying things that will bolster the states goals of the Russian government. And they’re always asking you to say pro-Putin things. Doesn’t take much of a genius to put that one together.

[@cerealbox7872]

Did anyone else absolutely 100% see this coming? Everyone did? Okay.

[@SwampyThingy]

We all can see Russian propaganda from a mile away.

[@inefffable]

Tim Pool fans' fetish is being lied to and manipulated

[@venanziadorromatagni1641]

The one thing I didn’t see coming was that the Russian guy would actually be called Kalashnikov. If they ever fictionalise the story, they’ll have to change that because no one will believe it. 😂

[@SkySong6161]

When the we-never-got-over-anything-and-the-cold-war-was-something cohort suddenly thinks Russia is Just Swell Actually, it's pretty transparent that they're being paid off.

[@patrickgriffiths889]

Next step is one or more being indicted for lying to the Feds.

[@GamerX13X]

I like how Bongino isn't saying "Be careful you aren't working with the Russians because the Feds will get you," its "Be careful because the Feds might trick you into talking to them"

[@jloiben12]

Pim Tool: I am independent media that can’t be bought. Also Pim Tool: I am a literal paid Russian propagandist

[@derdoctor1895]

Better learn that there is no independent media

[@beepboopsneepsnoop]

I am shocked, I tell you. Shocked!

[@joshmerchant8737]

@@beepboopsneepsnoop well, not that shocked

[@monykalynf3604]

yes he thinks he's always the smarted idiot in the room.

[@SuperMadman41]

I like Dim Tool.....😂🤣🙃

[@Oll1000]

As an Eastern European, I can attest that Russia's been pulling this kind of nonsense since the mid 2000s, but somehow it was all dismissed as a conspiracy theory until it started overtly happening in the US.

[@PositiveOnly-dm3rx]

it was dismissed as conspiracy theories by the people who, ironically, think everything is a conspiracy. They knew exactly what they were doing.

[@petrhorak3268]

I am from Czechia and Russia tested these methods here before exporting it to the USA. There was a bomb attack by Russia and many conspiracy nuts see it as our government conspiracy and not GRU terror attack. We also had a Trump before it was cool in the USA. 😂

[@codybishop7526]

Once they started backing a US presidential campaign, and said Presidential nominee began promoting pro Russian interests once they got into the White House… we all realized it was true

[@antonSugar]

True. I remember when everything that came out of Russia was drunks doing crazy stunts. Then it slowly shifted to Russia stronk memes.

[@KasumiRINA]

Yes, people saying "hybrid war started in 2016" HELLO, they invaded Ukraine in 2014 and Manafort meddled in elections there in 2010? How about Georgia in 2008? Ah but we're all "Eastern Europeans" so at best considered noble savages.

[@andersbodving4510]

Funny thing that Pool ranted about "death penalty for traitors"...

[@Markle2k]

The only time that you will see me “being fair” to Pool is to say that he is actually against the death penalty. That was Laura Loomer sitting across from him saying that.

[@mimszanadunstedt441]

who decides who is a traitor tho

[@vvvvvvvvvvv4082]

@@smartman20A Who's calling him a traitor? The only thing people are saying is the fact that they are all pushing literal Russian propaganda at the directive of the Russian government. Directly or not, they're still propagandists for a foreign state.

[@KasumiRINA]

for traitors against kremlin, he meant

[@roycampbell586]

​@@smartman20AHope russia is at least paying you minimum wage for playing defense on their behalf

[@JimLadBossMan]

Call them what they are, traitors.

[@BrightBlueJim]

Since we are in a proxy war with Russia, and these guys are giving "aid and comfort" to that enemy, I guess they are proxy-traitors.

[@Maswartz226]

What amazes me the most is that apparently Russia thought Tucker was laying it on too thick.

[@theobservarator6424]

I think putin even mocked tuck to his face that their interview was a soft ball.

[@sertorius3319]

Propaganda is useless if it’s too transparent, you need to at least feign credibility.

[@mnxs]

​@@sertorius3319Spot on. Much as I hate to admit it, the Russians are very, very good at mass propaganda (it's scary, frankly), and they tend to have a very good grasp of how to work their messaging. (They've been masters of human intelligence as far back as Stalin, when they managed to steal much of the Manhattan project research, despite the immense security and secrecy.) Tucker's messaging was dumb and super transparent. It might have went down well with _some_ - those already truly lost - but to those less convinced, and especially to the rest of us, it seemed (was) weird and shady as can be. Since the core believers are already "won", the battle is for the rest of us, and so if we _really_ notice the messaging as being messed up, it failed, because it makes us more suspicious. Thus it damages the overall utility of the avenues of manipulation that the content touched.

[@KasumiRINA]

And that Southern and Pool sharing the video of "look there is imported French bread in Auchan supermarket in mordorstan" was too obvious...

[@DmytroMasliei]

Tucker goes: "Wait, how much you guys got paid?"

[@archaeopteryx981]

Tim Pool: “I have been contacted by the FBI as a potential victim of a crime. The FBI believes I have information to an ongoing criminal investigation and have requested a voluntary interview.” Tim Pool wants us to believe that since the FBI is seeking to interview him, that makes him “a potential victim of a crime.” Yet the two counts in the indictment are “Conspiracy to Violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act” and “Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering.” Neither crime was committed against Tim Pool. At most, Tim Pool was an unwitting beneficiary of the crime, not its victim. He just can’t stop lying.

[@seanwallace9269]

The FBI could also be pulling the old ' you're the victim, now tell us everything you know' trick.

[@seanreynolds1266]

I robbed a bank. I have an account at the bank. The police have contacted me about this crime and I am speaking to them now.

[@adamk.7177]

@@seanwallace9269 He has the right to remain silent, but not the intelligence to remain silent

[@BubblewrapHighway]

Never thought I'd see right wingers who HATE COMMUNISM worshipping the birthplace of communism.

[@Josh-99]

He's not an "unwitting" beneficiary. He said what he believes and was paid for it. The fact that the money may or may not have come from an adversary of the US didn't matter to him, and his only regret is that he was caught.

[@inexister7371]

Tim Pool calling for civil war repeatedly and then acting like he's an innocent victim in all this. What a POS.

[@Malky24]

He's a traitor and should be treated as such.

[@thefirelord3148]

Where are you getting your info from, Media Matters?

[@shacktime]

@@abetterfuture4787 That’s like saying stoking a fire isn’t the same thing as starting it.

[@angelainamarie9656]

​@@abetterfuture4787saying it over and over and over again is effectively calling for I mean you can split that hair is fine as you like but if you're constantly saying we're about to have a civil war, and you're on the payroll of a foreign intelligence agency, starts to be really hard to deny you know exactly what you're doing.

[@glyndwrjohn6383]

@abetterfuture4787 I hope the friend who challenged you to come here and repeatedly demonstrate that your education system let you down so badly pays up swiftly. You definitely won the bet.

[@BaggioOmbre]

Now this is a video that needs to be seen by everyone.

[@feedingravens]

The same happened here in Germany, to the right AND the left. Russia is primarily interested in sowing division and chaos in all western democracies.

[@BakrEvon]

Yes Louder, I say

[@briannelson27]

wait, in germany the left wing gets money? holy shit!

[@ayoCC]

funding edge ideologies so they can clash and cause unrest. Also increasing male vs female divide

[@rbgerald2469]

It's basically Active Measures and Gray scale/Hybrid Warfare

[@lynnefox4892]

The Kremlin used some left wing organizations in Florida. They were indicted a year or two ago. I haven't heard anything since, but I imagine they are cooperating.

[@grimaffiliations3671]

That Ukraine is our enemy clip makes me laugh every time, bro said ima earn this cheque

[@thorr18BEM]

"apologize to Russia" 😂

[@jamesdominguez7685]

He's SO CRINGY. Real "not the director's first choice for a role in the high school play" level of acting.

[@ezbody]

Incidentally, that also shows that he knew what he was doing; deliberately dehumanizing the Ukrainians when they are most vulnerable doesn't happen by accident.

[@HighAsHeckPriestess]

​@@jamesdominguez7685 he played the coal in the furnace in the school's production of A Christmas Carol. It took him far, I'll give him credit for that😂

[@eattherich9215]

@@HighAsHeckPriestess: 😂😂😂

[@ramy9103]

Don’t forget Tim Pool calls himself an “investigative journalist”

[@Rzepik]

I've seen him quoting low-quality 'shooped version of leaked documents on the show.

[@adamgates1142]

@Rzepik A decade ago (haven't seen him since) his entire show was reading articles off the daily mail (a disreputable British tabloid paper) and leaving out all the parts he didn't like. Usually whatever small amount of nuance was there. I don't remember for sure if it was Daily Mail but it was daily something.

[@adamgates1142]

People told me to watch his "journalistic" videos and the first one I watched had him correcting the title in the description box.

[@aaronleverton4221]

Well, sure, why not? I mean, Trump calls himself a stable genius.

[@kotlolish]

He was at one point an investigative journalist by going to locations and film. But we can assume it's fake and such. Like yikes.. a lot of centrist looking guys have gone so far right off scale... that I am like: "This used to be the guy I believed was thinking straight?" Yes I followed Tim Pool like a decade ago... but when he stayed at home and podcast I quickly was like: "What is he babbling about?" Lately I unsubscribed to most "Centrist Media" since they were either doom and gloom, doom and gloom, not very accurate, respouting information in a vague way and more. But yeeeeesh Tim Pool is toooo far off the deep end.

[@Jcairo94]

"as for his lawyers saying they will handle anyone who says he wasn't a victim bring it on" Legend respect for that

[@JonoSSD]

The worst thing about this situation is that their followers don't really care. They'll keep listening.

[@joancooney7724]

Only the uneducated would believe their tripe

[@F.o.s.t.e.r.]

These are the same people that wore shirts stating "I'd rather be Russian than Democrat" They've made their beds and got extremely comfortable in them.

[@SilverAlex92]

I mean since a while now the republican party, specially those followiung Trump have been suuuuuper russia friendly, and we know Trump and Putin are political allies. Its no surprise these people dont care lol.

[@jupiterkansas]

@@F.o.s.t.e.r. I would gladly donate to a fund to help them move to Russia if they want.

[@kyledabearsfan]

In fairness as someone who listens to their channels. Im very pro-Ukraine. But im very anti-Democrat. I just dont fundamentally agree with a lot of their talking points, to each their own. I was always a bit bothered by Pools rants especially but I liked some of his other points. Things arent inherently black/white, good/bad. But, i will note. I find it suspicious that the DoJ went after right wing influencers after failing to indite Trump. It seems like the weaponization of the DoJ is commonplace and it heavily damages my trust in any accusations they lay.

[@afrolund80]

I heard someone else put it perfectly. Republican donors didn't pay Clarence Thomas to change his position. They paid him to keep doing what he was already doing. A lot easier than trying to get someone to change their position. Clarence Thomas is basically the Tim Pool of the Supreme Court. 😂

[@pansepot1490]

I agree with everything except the 😂. Not at all a laughing matter.

[@srk4044]

Exactly. These people are the same people they always were, with the same beliefs. It's just that the Russians paid for them to keep doing what they were doing

[@markmorris8532]

​@@srk4044 And amplify...

[@cady__]

@@pansepot1490😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@trevor_kelley]

Then why did they immediately change their stance and claim to be victims? They knew it was wrong, a bunch of morals for sale cowards that will do anything for more fame and money.

[@Enjoyurble]

To be completely fair and balanced, this seems like one of the least surprising things that's happened this century.

[@franciscoacevedo3036]

PotemkinGanda*

[@autarchprinceps]

And yet some people believe this alt right stuff, hard enough to commit crimes, treason, or the like for it, and in many countries, a lot of which long had a similar connection to Russia revelead, up to the very tops. They didn't care.

[@ronfhs58]

It was as obvious as RFK being part of the trump campaign the entire time.

[@TitaniumTurbine]

Yep, anyone who reads through KZbin comments knows for a few years that it’s been flooded by foreign bots/bad actors commenting on even unrelated subject matter videos with far-right propaganda. Though they also routinely start flame wars on news media channels.

[@jadenmurray1325]

Nikocado solos this easily.

[@oghidden]

Man the sheer amount of bots running damage control in these comments is crazy 😂

[@armornick]

"The Culture War Company." Is that guy even real??

[@jeffersonclippership2588]

​@DontReadMyBio777 Pakistan zindabad 🇵🇰

[@Szriko]

@DontReadMyBio777 joke's on you, my heart's stopped beating multiple times already!

[@sertorius3319]

Anyone who makes a living commentating on the culture war lacks the self-awareness to not realize how stupid that sounds.

[@bru9]

I lol'd when I heard that too 😂

[@kiraina25]

You think this is bad, there's a novel out there literally called "Trigger Warning", where the supposed "liberal leftist takeover" of college campuses is a major plot point and the back-cover blurb openly sneers at the idea of things like "safe spaces" or "microaggressions", and where the red-blooded AMURICAN protagonist has to coach the sad snowflake leftists into fighting back because a terrorist cell inflitrated an American college for... reasons. Also it's done by J.A. Johnstone but you'd never know that because instead he puts his much more famous father's name front and center on the cover (and then a very small "with J.A. Johnstone" in the corner).

[@AnimarchyHistory]

And its just a coincidence that all of these influencers are notably Pro-Trump.

[@1123elemental]

For what it's worth, the vast majority of that money is going to right wing groups from sources that are trying to destabilize the country. But there are plenty of left leaning people / "leftists" who are also on that payroll. Jill Stein, Jimmy Dore ect.

[@Mysteryspy]

While that could be related, that has no bearing on the evidence presented in this video and is an unrelated connection. Let's get these guys in jail for what we know is done and deal with the rest later

[@thomasbecker9676]

Are you saying that's a cause or an effect?

[@derdoctor1895]

​@@Mysteryspy jail for free speech yea

[@legendaryfuze6738]

Obviously not a coincidence

[@richardtorpy7881]

"I'm not a real traitor, but I play one on youtube"...

[@bobbolan4672]

Faux "news" networks whole defense in it's defamation lawsuits. Bunch of traitors in my eyes.

[@arturoaguilar6002]

"I'm not a real bank robber buy I play one at Western Union"

[@PositiveOnly-dm3rx]

more like "I'm a traitor, but I pretend not to be on youtube"

[@PitLord777]

"We are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful on who we pretend to be."

[@arturoaguilar6002]

@@PitLord777 I wish you could convince the "it's just satire! He really doesn't believe that!" crowd about that.

[@croaker517]

If they were such unwitting victims of fraud and crimes by a company lying about its ties to Russia, then they should have no problems returning all of that money, right?

[@IAmNumber4000]

Pretty amazing how these liars are getting paid stupid amounts of money to do basically nothing. Makes me have second thoughts about what I do for work, but then I realize, NO amount of money is worth publicly debasing myself the way these people do.

[@SergeantSniper]

Good. I'd rather be a pauper than a spineless shill for the worst people imaginable.

[@angelainamarie9656]

I used to go into right-wing discussion threads back on like news Vine and such in the 2000s and loudly talk about how rich I could be if I could just figure out a way to morally grift off of these people but you know I never can figure out a way to make money off of this crap without you know becoming the kind of person that I couldn't look at in a mirror. It's sad to realize that all that really separates any of us from wild riches is an unwillingness to be a piece of s***.

[@chloeroloson]

​@@angelainamarie9656 I'm glad you didn't go to the dark side 😂

[@saturationstation1446]

think thats bad? this year alone, well off eurocentrics who get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to NOT PRODUCE ANYTHING OF MEASURABLE VALUE, will spend over 75 billion dollars on stuff that no one needs and any adult should be ashamed of spending money on...

[@NSGrendel]

And then you have the senate. Who just do this out of positive belief in a better American. Not one schill amongst them.

[@TheRealHungryHobo]

There's only a handful of possibilities here and all of them are very, very bad. 1 - These are their actual opinions and they took the money completely unknowingly, and didn't let it change their opinions. This is just what they think.... terrifying. 2 - They took the money and let it change their opinions but didn't know it was from Russia. Terrifying. They openly admit to being completely for sale. 3 - They willingly did Russian propaganda. Terrifying. The above, but will gladly do so for an "enemy" nation. There is no possible situation here that doesn't involve them being incredibly dumb and immoral.

[@horushyperion76]

The money can convince people to sellout their families, communities and societies.

[@MazDance]

Pretty much exactly. Doubly proven by Tim Pool’s sudden pro Ukraine shift.

[@khill8645]

Yeah, maybe they're not malicious... but then too little focus has been placed on them being _at best_ utterly incompetent at doing the kind of analysis that they're supposed to be good at.

[@ursulakavaliauskas4463]

Dumb enough to think they could get away with unethical behavior. So yes, a bit of both.

[@angelainamarie9656]

Yeah Tim doesn't really understand that by admitting that he was too stupid to check into who is giving him those huge checks he is basically boxing himself in.

[@Neenerella333]

Imagine teenagers watching makeup videos being more skeptical of sponsored content than adults watching political content. But I suppose if you're already a soldier in a culture war, you're just watching like me at a doom metal concert. Lotsa head nodding.

[@NeutralDrow]

To paraphrase an old tweet I read... Parent (in 2004): "Now listen here, my child! Don't believe everything you read on the internet!" Parent (in 2016): "OMG, trufax.eagle says Hillary Clinton drinks baby blood!!1!"

[@annana6098]

It's the danger of hearing what you want to hear. Everyone wants to be special and have the secret knowledge of the truth, and they've convinced themselves that the emperor isn't naked.

[@jbern2185]

In your analogy, the girl doing the make-up tutorial is also saying "trust this makeup company I'm using, they're great. Dont use the other makeup company cause they're anti-american, eat babies, and push a woke agenda that we hate". Not suspect at all and they're nodding along like a death metal concert. Good visual!

[@jbern2185]

​ Exactly! These "enlightened, deep thinkers" are too lazy to do any actual research. They're not gonna read the NYT, the Atlantic, or the work of anyone that won a Pulitzer or Peabody award for journalism. It's too much work and even my eyes start to glaze over reading a lengthy nyt article at times. So it's easy to just believe conspiracy theories & listen to charlatans who say they have the "real truth". Further, these ego-driven, r-wing conartists do the same thing: they don't provide the audience with any actual information, they provide the audience with emotion based on their cognitive dissonance. They rile the audience up with anger, hate, fake persecution, fake victimization, fear, paranoia, tribalism, fake tribalism, etc. They make them feel they're the "real Americans" and "the others" are the reason for all the misery in the world and in their own personal lives.

[@Neenerella333]

@@jbern2185 Pretty much.

[@obiwanpez]

“I’m the real victim here” is a funny way of saying, “I don’t understand the meaning of ‘treason’.”

[@manicpepsicola3431]

It reminds me of when John wayne gayce said "I'm a victim of circumstance" 😂

[@serSafir]

How did they commit treason?

[@obiwanpez]

@@serSafir Actively undermining the United States government and the interests of the American people. Russia has been trying to drive a wedge between the American people since WWII, and it *finally* worked for them: pump up some conspiracy theories on both sides, then pay off some influencers most susceptible to the rhetoric they created.

[@generaltom6850]

@@serSafir In most countries taking money from a foreign country to promote their views in a way that contradicts the interests of the home country while not disclosing that, counts as treason.

[@umjackd]

It's endlessly fascinating to me that American conservatives can be so caught up in the domestic American political "culture war" that they'll ignore any concept that they'd be targeted as useful by international actors hoping to use them for their own agenda. The last clip suggesting that this whole indictment is a covert op by the Feds to crack down on conservative influencers is hilariously out of touch.

[@knightwolf3511]

wait till you see china that pays Europeans 😅

[@trippingthelight]

​@@knightwolf3511 oh? pray tell.

[@pokermitten9795]

​@@knightwolf3511if China pays European outlets, does that make Tim Pool respectable again? It doesn't, it's just a cope.

[@leefswgoh7558]

I doubt many of them became right wing influencers because of their core beliefs. I'm willing to wager most political influencers (on either side) cater to their audience to make money. They mainly seem to care about their career and viewership rather than spreading conservative values or having america's interest at heart.

[@Strider91]

​@trippingthelight that guy's a Bot, ignore him. He's in every comment thread talking about Europe and China. . .probably a Russian bot deflecting

[@Rob_F8F]

These guys got mugged. Their attacker maliciously shoved piles of cash into their pockets!!! Please have some sympathy for these poor guys.

[@dirtpig02]

Lol

[@klisterklister2367]

Oh no! I hope i don't get robbed by someone putting huge amounts of cash in my pockets

[@lajoyalobos2009]

"Help! He put a gun in my face and a wad of cash in my pocket! I've been victimized!" 😂

[@lambentlamprey]

@@lajoyalobos2009 "Oh, fiiiinnnneeee. There was no gun" 🙄

[@minko595]

If these were liberal creators, it would be the story of the century. Since they're conservative, they can do anything they want and people will still watch them.

[@zyeborm]

@@minko595 it'll make them more popular if anything

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Well yeah, liberals and leftists have standards and hold their leaders accountable.

[@adamgates1142]

@Duchess_Van_Hoof Is Joe Biden as sharp as a tack? Did anybody vote for Kamala? YOU HAVE NO ABSOLUTELY NO STANDARD AT ALL... and I think you know it.

[@DeathsRHM]

@@Duchess_Van_Hoof That's just patently not true to be fair

[@termitreter6545]

@@Duchess_Van_Hoof Many of those liberals dont got many standards either, but conservatives are clearly beating them in a race to the bottom. Leftists not at all though, many of them love russian propaganda and will spread it. Horseshoe theory stuff, both far right and far left are pro-Russia often enough. And peeps like Hasan on twitch dont mind bringing houthi terrorists on (and then lie about it later), which is actually worse.

[@myboysd5772]

Remember Americans, a vote for Trump is a vote for your old enemy, Russia.

[@esmith8818]

“It’d be easy to drag these people for being, at best, useful idiots” Proceeds to drag the idiots for a full minute “But let’s not do that”😂

[@_gamma.]

No, continue!

[@thatjeff7550]

And then further goading them to "take legal action against anyone who says I was involved." I have to wonder if anyone has been dumb enough to sue Devon.

[@col.hertford9855]

Who knew that lawyers were so funny 🤣

[@col.hertford9855]

@@thatjeff7550 that horrible Iilluminaughtii threatened it. Then Devon sent a response.

[@c4tl4dy76]

​@@col.hertford9855Honestly, the ABA should hire him as their spokesperson. He's performing miracles in redeeming the public perception of the profession. 👍

[@Rin_Rainbow]

Hey. Thank you for covering this topic. I'm from Ukraine, and while for people from US or other countries these "influencers" could be a mere annoying inconvenience or just another media drama, their actions could possibly cost lives here in my country. Misinformation is actually dangerous, when the topic is about a real war. Thank you again.

[@blazernitrox6329]

Don't worry, friend - there are still plenty of us here in the States that understand that point very well. I believe in the freedom of speech, but as the saying goes, "your freedom to swing your fist stops where my nose begins." When your misinformation is actively, demonstrably causing harm to someone - be it folks catching a major disease at home or allied soldiers fighting for their homeland abroad - then it's not _just_ misinformation anymore.

[@abetterfuture4787]

@@blazernitrox6329 Unless you're the MSM and you get free pass after free pass to spread misinformation. We only call for accountability from influencers because they're a threat to the MSM.

[@glyndwrjohn6383]

​@abetterfuture4787 ​would you like to buy some magic beans? I only have one packet left and it appears you'll buy anything.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

NGL, the wealthy, powerful, influential, and popular have full control here in the U.S. All others are *SILENCED*, cancelled, or invisibilized. Anyone attempting to expose facts and empirical data MUST be wealthy and powerful enough to "shout louder" than the default censorship. Unfortunately, those folks are few and far between.

[@detdeet]

@@blazernitrox6329 This is an argument effectively against Reagan's defense of American communism in the HUAC, it's gone full-circle and now we find the socialist wing in America going hard in the other direction and not return the favor but instead support HUAC-like persecutions and dillute the first amendment on the basis that it was never meant to be "absolute" even though it really is and that is why in spite of accusations of subverting the national unity, the Communist Party was never banned in America and why the HUAC eventually fell under and all this in the height of the red scare. If the American public can be convinced to stop supporting Ukraine and do so and this ends up costing lives in Ukraine is not a justification to censor anyone who speaks in America against Ukraine, i'm sorry, but the simple fact people can be swayed politically by words is not an enabler of limitations on the first amendment. People being dumb is no justification for fascism or dictatorship or any other curbing of inalienable rights that the US constitution (as the UN human rights charter after it) enshrines upon every human being as a moral maxim.

[@mynvision]

Back in 2016, there were already conflicts within the US, with citizens literally siding with Russia against their own countrymen. Remember that Trump allowed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak into the Oval Office, where he proceeded to relay classified information to them. Additionally, a Russian Foreign Ministry photographer was allowed in to document the meeting, but US journalists were barred. I remember a friend of mine, who came to the US over 20 years ago from Ukraine, shaking his head and going, "This is bad, this is so bad." That was insane. I'm not surprised by these traitors doing what they are doing, and taking money for it. I am surprised by the amount of money paid to them...for doing something they were already doing. These are the people who should NOT be considered Americans.

[@zeitgeistx5239]

Mitch McConnell unfroze Prighozin’s frozen billions after he promised to build a factory in Kentucky and then quickly laughed and moved his money out of the U.S. This is how dumb we are as a country. The guy funding Russian English speaking trolls to fake your aunts and uncles on social media is totally gonna build a factory in Kentucky.

[@nguquaxanguyen5224]

you forgot the part where he kicked out all his advisors and generals themselves were absolutely dumbfounded.

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

It was also during this time that such right wing grifters, including Pool, were more than happy to call the inquiries about Russian interference as democrat pearl clutching, IIRC. Darkly ironic tbh, with this coming to light.

[@daedalus6433]

What is the source on any of this? Pretty sure the Russian interference thing was debunked years ago.

[@Firebert79TA]

Trump wasn't president yet in 2016, that was the election year.

[@Somejaun]

“Ukraine is the enemy of America” while he takes money from our actual enemy

[@vulpixelful]

I can get a traffic ticket for some obscure law that I have a responsibility to know about, but the founders can't be charged because they had to know it was unlawful to violate FARA. Amazing.

[@BrightBlueJim]

I think that's the difference between an infraction and a crime.

[@Bubble-Foam]

@@BrightBlueJim It’s just wild that something involving the movement of millions of dollars wouldn’t be more harshly prosecuted. I mean, it isn’t actually surprising given that this is America, but still.

[@basedokadaizo]

it never ceases to fascinate me in a certain way how Russia's greatest concern with the United States is keeping it as far away from progressive government and legislature as possible, then pushing that we're in the midst of a Civil War, with one company blatantly branding itself "Culture Wars Co". it's only "fascinating" in that i can't look away from it no matter how hard i try. that's telling me a LOT.

[@TheoRae8289]

It's like watching a huge crash on the interstate

[@johnbachner9901]

I think they just prop whatever side is on the bottom. Republicans hold mass societal sway though very few lens. If populist conservativism was the societal norm and widely accepted I suspect Russia would be propping liberalism just to sow the maximum amount of conflict.

[@basedokadaizo]

@@TheoRae8289 weird thing is i do have a traffic accident story that kinda evoked the same feeling in me? i was on my way to work and stopped at a red light, and in the lane right beside me, a red sports car (maybe a mustang? couldn't be sure) zoomed RIGHT past me and ran the red light, then ran the next one. only thing i could think at the time was, "that idiot's just asking someone to hit him". i get to work and do my shift, it's uneventful. on the drive home i try to go back the same way i came only to find the highway blocked. where i lived at the time, the highway would only be fully blocked like it was in the case of a road fatality. once i make it to the lane opened up going the opposite way, i manage to pass the wreckage to see that same sports car FLATTENED under a logging truck with a full load-- that seemed to have spilled out and over the rest of the car after the nose hit the side of the trailer. i felt very very weird about being right that day. same kind of weird that i feel today, honestly.

[@MrCobalt]

It's all about creating division among people, distrust of and lack of faith in our institutions, and sowing chaos in general. Google Russia's geopolitical playbook "Foundation of Geopolitics" and check the wiki article for it. Find the section concerning the United States and tell me if it doesn't sound familiar. Then check the section on the UK. Brexit had Russian money involved in it, too.

[@infin8ee]

​@@MrCobaltPutin had said over 20yrs or so ago that he wanted these things to happen . The breakup of NATO etc, anything that would make it easier for Russia to "have their way" with the West. It's all so blatant that it's almost unbelievable.

[@RoboBoddicker]

"I just want my viewers to know that I had complete editorial control over ALL the Russian state talking points I was secretly paid to promote on my channel."

[@dootthedooter]

That is not what he said.

[@adamredbeard5232]

​@@dootthedooterI think it essentially was.

[@knuckles543]

It’s called “implying” Learn English, and then “English” English

[@pola5195]

>I had complete editorial control the Kremlin just likes what I have to say

[@anticswithmydogz]

​dootthedooter it is nonetheless the only logical conclusion of what he did say so in effect it very much is what he said

[@pavarottiaardvark3431]

I'm willing to believe that Tim Pool didn't know about the Russia connection. Because Tim Pool doesn't know anything.

[@jamesdominguez7685]

He knows about male pattern baldness.

[@trippingthelight]

​@@jamesdominguez7685 lmao and then some!

[@HighAsHeckPriestess]

He knows how to make beanies look ugly.

[@VayaKahvi]

I mean... He dropped out of school when he was 14, how much could he really know?

[@PariahThistledowne]

This is why actual skeptics call him Dim Fool, and have for years.

[@evrfreez]

Tim Pool, a few years back, talking about how foreign interests could buy KZbinrs wasn't a warning, it was a suggestion.

[@fitosolares]

Yeah he was talking as someone who had experience doing that, or at least had done a lot of research on how to do that. But the way they actually did it was much more sophisticated - obviously he never stopped researching and improving.

[@keaien]

Honesty, looking back it was just an advert,bro. 😜

[@lajoyalobos2009]

He was basically soliciting in hopes one of these foreign agents would "dupe" him into doing the same 😂 a jury would have fun with that video excerpt

[@kiraina25]

"Russia, if you're listening..."

[@buttass5000]

kind of a shame that the people who need to see this most will write it off as propaganda

[@infin8ee]

Sadly you're right about that. You can show some people black and white evidence but they'll still not believe it or they become "what abouters".

[@speedracer2please]

lol everything is propaganda to them except literal, provable propaganda

[@Moody3863]

Indeed. People see what they want to see.

[@PositiveOnly-dm3rx]

they dont live in reality. everything they say proves that.

[@JBravo69]

Their brains have been hacked

[@BigTylt]

Love how as soon as this story broke, they were already out there throwing each other under the bus and trying to dodge blame.

[@facundotorres175]

The absolute hypocrisy of these "for america" influencers just filling their bank account while making society worse for everyone

[@onetwothree4148]

I mean they aren't the ones funding a foreign forever war...

[@Girkon]

To paraphrase Tim Curry “What could be more American than that?”

[@doublepinger]

That's - that's where Republicans have been since the 90s. When did Rumsfeld shake hands with Hussein? Right, 80s.

[@Maswartz226]

What gets me the most is that nobody was surprised. Like it was all the exact people you would imagine doing this.

[@christophergreen6595]

They're just doing capitalism :p

[@RockiesCanada]

@@christophergreen6595 I mean if RT is funded by the Kremlin which is receiving Russian tax dollars, then it's publicly funded propaganda technically no? The only thing related to capitalism here would be people making money-it doesn't seem like there's a case of labor exploitation by the elite to extract profit in this particular circumstance, so I think Marx would at least disagree.

[@plantyfan]

For sure -- and yet it you try to tell a diehard MAGAt, they'll say it's the Deep State 🙄 At this point I'm pretty sure "Deep State" is just a not-so-secret-code for "Russia"

[@robertturni2845]

I would hate to be victimized by Russia for 400k USD a month :(

[@Faint366]

$20 says all these people were still begging viewers for patreon donations while already getting millions from Russia

[@DeaDiabola]

@@Faint366 Oh they were

[@Brahmabullz]

Imagine not knowing where 90% of your money comes from.

[@mytruecrimelibrary]

Yeah, I've been saying for years that right wing and kremlin propaganda is the same.

[@bigpurplepops]

Yeah man, anyone who disagrees with you is the enemy. Healthy, adult mindset...

[@Sayid-al-Furat]

I'm right-wing and I hate Russia?

[@klipk7296]

@@bigpurplepops lol thanks for providing the internet version of "lalala I can't hear you lalalalala"

[@KattReen]

@@bigpurplepops But it is objectively true? Look, if it makes you feel better, if the left side was even half as divisive, that would be what the Kremlin would fund because they genuinely do not care if Americans agree with them. Their missive is to cause discord withing the american populus and to weaken the united states as a democracy since it's their biggest competitor on the international stage.

[@rchltmedia]

that's why elon likes it.

[@acid_milk]

These same people blame the poor for being poor but when their crimes are brought to light they of course paint themselves as being as fallible as the common person.

[@tfat00]

If you’re pro-Russia and not being paid $100k per month then you’re a sucker 😂

[@JHe-f9t]

Russian propaganda wing: "So! How much to sell out your country?" Tim Pool: "100,000" Dave Rubin: "5 mil" Tucker Carlson: "You guys were getting paid!?"

[@movestattoo4561]

$100k a WEEK 😁

[@hollister2320]

Hasan😂

[@selectionn]

@@JHe-f9t bold of you to assume tucker isnt on the kremlins payroll dude literally went to a grocery store in russia and said "THEY HAVE BREAD :O"

[@paulalcohol]

So, Hasan Piker and Tucker Carlson are sucker's 😂😂😂

[@Custodian123]

Just like Trump has said, "the greatest enemy is the enemy from within". Isn't Trump sympathetic to Putin?

[@PwnySlaystation01]

"Be very careful who you're emailing. Be very careful who you're talking to" I love how he doesn't say "Be very careful who you're taking money from"

[@FragmentJack]

That roast at the beginning though.

[@neale3871]

Ya trying not to smack a troll when they're on the ground 😅

[@fuzzjunky]

spectacularly brutal

[@magewareinc]

​@DontReadMyBio777 The irony is dense enough to be osmium.

[@goraxe01]

Savage

[@jupiterkansas]

I play these videos at .75 speed because he talks too fast, but it makes him sound drunk. I gotta say that roast was so much better when drunk.

[@ErgoCogita]

Dim Tool, 15 years old and going on 39, is devoid of even a sliver of critical thought. He was the perfect mark.

[@newb431]

Aren’t you a special little critical thinker… yes you are lol

[@emmaarmo379]

@newb431 I love how you people will crow all day about not trusting mainstream media, but sure, you’ll give fools like Tim or Dave Rubin the benefit of the doubt 🤣

[@MJ-rl7pj]

​@@newb431It's OK to take the beanie off Tim.

[@invalid_420]

​@@newb431public subscriber and 41 comments on this channel. do you have nothing better to do?

[@jeganv1473]

​@@invalid_420Perhaps they got 50 rubles for each comment.

[@KougarManx468]

Let them live in russia as an average citizen to see the "free speech in russia" .

[@plaidchuck]

Lol yep. Everyone wants to live in a non-woke country, well have at it, China and Russia awaits.

[@Gutsman968]

Russia:"Here is $400,000 a month for lambasting Ukraine and undermining popular support for it" Conservative media personality and astute political commentator- Dim Fool:"wHo cOuLd PoSsIbiLy wAnT tO pUSh tHiS NaRrAtIve? I aM a vIcTiM"

[@teru797]

lots of americans dont support ukraine so it's not really a big question

[@Valhan177]

​@@teru797 "Lots of people already believe Kremlin talking points, so why stop now" I am glad this sh*t is falling apart. All this effort, all this pr gone right down the drain. Trump's relection is looking weaker by the day.

[@teru797]

@@Valhan177 Yeah but those talking points are true. We have Americans struggling to pay rent and instead of help we're sending billions to other nations. That's the nation we want to be?

[@Valhan177]

@@teru797 We have given orders of magnitude more money to israel, yet ukraine gets the vastly disproportionate use of this arguent. Also, do explain in detail how military hardware earmarked for international shipments will magically turn into lower rent prices. I want specifics. Try again, I ain't buying it.

[@AndrewAMartin]

​​@@teru797 We are NOT sending money to Ukraine, we are sending stuff that is nearing its expiration date (and would cost us billions more to dispose of properly) and spending the money to replace it. That money is going to US companies paying US citizens' salaries, stimulating the US economy. Hypocritically, those people claiming that we should be helping Americans with that money (which we indirectly are, in the favorite Conservative method, paying corporations), are the same ones who decry any sort of assistance policy that directly helps citizens as 'Socialism' even though they don't know the meaning of the word.

[@babalonkie]

"Ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law"

[@Argosh]

Objection, ignorance is an excuse under some law, it's just ignorance of the law that isn't.

[@babalonkie]

@@Argosh Overruled.

[@CMDR_Hal_Melamby]

​@@babalonkie you might want to read your original statement, counsel.

[@kultur-vultur]

He knows, he is playing dumb cause he obviously wants leniency.

[@MugRuith]

Willful ignorance is akin to complicity.

[@graceqiu7234]

Why am I so unsurprised?

[@brdane]

Because it just happens so much nowadays.... which is beyond sad.

[@StuntpilootStef]

@DontReadMyBio777 Really? Translate this: འདི་ལྟ་བུའི་ཐབས་ཤེས་སྤྱད་ན་ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས་ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་བརྙན་འཕྲིན་ལ་རིན་ཐང་མེད་པ་ཁས་ལེན་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད།

[@MutteringCondolences]

Because the Mueller investigation into Russian interference resulted in multiple convictions, tens of millions of dollars in seizures, 12 Russian diplomats being expelled from the USA, and Robert Mueller stating, in no uncertain terms, that the only reason Trump was not charged was due to Bill Barr's memo.

[@Dommifax]

I'm not sure if it's the same in the US, but over here it was always suspicious for the extreme right and left to suddenly agree on something and that thing being their love for Putin - at least for our extreme right party it has been kinda confirmed last election when their two top candidates were cought helping a Russian spy with number 2 being cought with loads of cash (funnily number 1 was also cought spying for China at the same time)

[@cobrabeebop]

by the steele dossier and the russia collusion hoax?

[@mariaassunta7237]

These are the kind of asses that are influencing my dumb nephew.

[@mattsargo6083]

If someone wants to victimize me by giving me $100,000 a week; I'm down.

[@redlady222]

Why are the influencers not forced to give back foreign money? That seems ludicrous. What is the incentive for others not to do the same? Their morals aren’t going to do it.

[@elizabethsohler6516]

They may still be investigating.

[@InSearchOfSin]

Why isn’t anyone talking about the fact they never told their audiences of this mysterious sponsor? KZbin has rules about sponsors.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Nah, brah. MONEY is all that matters, period. 💪😎✌️ The whole "Mr. Bleast" thing would tell you everything you need to know about that. Popularity, cash, power, influence, and viewership are the key elements in what is permitted. Be rich, and you will be rewarded. ⚔️💵⚔️

[@cashnelson2306]

Because they aren’t promoting a product, and that’s what the rules (and more importantly, laws) cover. You don’t have to disclose the fact you were paid to make a video; you have to disclose the fact you were paid to talk about a product or service that you mentioned in the video. Nearly every youtuber above a certain size is being paid by some MCN or other group for their time, and it isn’t disclosed like product sponsorships because there isn’t any possibility of false advertising. There is no conflict of interest present, like there would be in presenting a product in a favorable light without disclosing you were paid to do so.

[@ksc1406]

He mentions that in this video...

[@Blittsplitt5]

@@cashnelson2306 So how come videos from RT have "this is state-affiliated media" attached to it whenever they're uploaded? Convenient excuses huh?

[@InSearchOfSin]

@@ksc1406 yeah, he did after I commented on. He’s the first.

[@squidwardo7074]

Why isn't this considered treason?

[@MrJmanrey]

The worst part is the damage is done. Who knows how many people these paid influencers have indoctrinated?

[@breveth]

There have been more than a few people indoctrinated into moving to Russia. Because: "Russia doesn't support the LGBTQ "agenda"" seems to be the main selling point. They seem to ignore the fact Russia is an authoritarian nightmare.

[@knightwolf3511]

wait till you see china with Europeans

[@jamesdominguez7685]

Dozens! BAKER'S DOZENS!!!

[@welliamd2463]

@@breveth I'm not sure if they are ignoring it, they kinda seem to like that part.

[@derdoctor1895]

​​@@knightwolf3511wait till you see america with middle east and post soviet block

[@don5062]

It's very telling that Danny Banana is more worried about talking to someone who might be working with "the feds" than he is about talking to someone who might be working for Russia.

[@dracoargentum9783]

😂Danana Banana…

[@icin4d]

Tim Pool, the self proclaimed investigative journalist. Totally oblivious about the influence and origin of the large sum of money he was victimized with.

[@TheOffkilter]

Yeah Ive got a jar of air from Antarctica for anyone who believes that one!

[@teru797]

even if he knew, it was still legal.

[@pokermitten9795]

​@teru797 so? Legal vs respectable are different things. Tim has become completely unrespectable compared to the man he said he was 8 years ago.

[@leefswgoh7558]

I remember watching left leaning tim pool years ago to gain a different perspective, back when he was boots on the ground at occupy wall street. From thát to a paid russian rigthht wing propagandist is absolutely hilarious.

[@teru797]

@@leefswgoh7558 Any idea why so many people seem to be going from left to right?

[@Soulstar098]

Imagine Russian spending that much money and I’ve never even heard of these “influencers” 😂

[@martindorn3983]

You guys remember when we found out that Louder with Crowder was funded by the Saudi royal family? Seems to be a theme going on among right wing KZbinrs

[@Pazuzu4All]

Could I have a source for this? I'm not saying you're wrong, I just would like to know the details.

[@matthewmiller6568]

​@@Pazuzu4AllLook it up. He mentioned it on one of his podcasts. Although the clip i saw was not enough to determien if it was a joke or not. Tho he did feel the need to say he wasn't changing his content for them

[@mariolongtin8271]

It's both sides, look at all the tech bros and entrepreneurs influencers, most of them are democrats besides Elon

[@martindorn3983]

@@mariolongtin8271 yeah but they’re tech bro entrepreneurs. Not political journalists

[@littlefurrow2437]

​@@mariolongtin8271 both sides?

[@Ryuujinv01]

"Secretly" We all knew this was happening the entire time. We just didn't have access to the bank statements.

[@merphul]

And the FBI only found one Russian back channel out of what can only be assumed is one of many. To speak nothing about the domestic sources of dark funding. There's way too many of these guys playing in the right wing commentary space making way too much money to be explained by just this one source.

[@richards3648]

Should have known something was up when they said the real threat to democracy was "Moose and Squirrel."

[@hollowheaded9319]

Russia has been trying to hunt down Rocky and Bullwinkle for years after they defeated they singlehandedly destroyed the Soviet Union, it all makes perfect sense now!

[@FlarGarg]

A spicy one. Greetings from Kyiv.

[@MugRuith]

The sick thing is, they will keep the money, they will go on spouting Russian and fascistic propaganda, the their supporters will circle the wagons. Corruption is incredibly hard to root out once it sets in.

[@cobrabeebop]

this is not the first russia collusion hoax

[@TraceguyRune]

You sound jealous.

[@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr]

@@TraceguyRune you sound corrupt

[@deathsyth8888]

You can't convince me otherwise that the real "Tim Pool" is the black beanie on top of his head and the "person" is just some random guy that was attacked and assimilated by it, 'Half-Life' headcrab style.

[@HighAsHeckPriestess]

That's a terrifying thought, but it explains a whole lot😂

[@Enjoyurble]

Why am I never the victim of hundreds of thousands of dollars? 😿

[@Valhan177]

"Help me doctor! I've been struck by wealth!"

[@Marineisme]

To be fair a doctor (in america) would be able to quickly solve that.

[@tannerdenny5430]

I love how he just impales the right wingers in the beginning for like 3 full minutes 😂

[@sarahs472]

Tim Pool is really unconvincing in his victimhood. He's blinking so fast in that "Ukraine is the enemy" clip that he's about to levitate out of his highchair. Nobody blinks that much when they're saying something they really believe.

[@billc5433]

Tim Pool did believe the money though.

[@pattheplanter]

$100,000 buys a lot of cocaine, allegedly.

[@ericp6496]

The Ukrainian government is an enemy of the people of the USA. If you don't realize that, you aren't thinking enough.

[@Akabeche]

Anyone tried to translate the morse code in his blinking ? The rabbit hole might go deeper... (it won't)

[@lordofshades9852]

Imagine though ​@@Akabeche

[@Spondre]

Hearing them refered to as victims is like hearing about a homeless man in Central Park being a victim of a mugging where he was forced to remove his clothes and put on a new suit, his old newspapers were replaced by stacks of $100, and his shopping cart is now made by Maserati.

[@Spondre]

@@welshgit You got me there. I will have to come up with a better analogy.

[@myblujl7503]

Irony of someone saying "Dont work with the Feds" and not "Dont work with the RUSSIANS". Shows clearly what side your on.

[@cashnelson2306]

you’re*

[@BrokenDesktop]

As much as I wanna agree, the Feds stink. Your privacy and anything personal to you is gone instantly. Not to mention one time they seized a Computer Program site and KEPT IT UP for a bit.

[@pattheplanter]

@@cashnelson2306 That is not a sentence. It makes no sense. Would you like to try communicating like a proper commenter? Start with a capital, use several words, finish with a full stop/period.

[@cashnelson2306]

@@pattheplanter Do you think you did something there?

[@pattheplanter]

@@cashnelson2306 Well done, you crafted a sentence. I seem to have influenced you. Now try to stop your obsessive need to correct grammar on the internet so rudely.

[@nightkil13r]

100 grand per video, and that alone didnt raise red flags? 🤣