What is the deal with this? a right-winger on a political discussion board I waste time on teased this, this morning, prompting me to look it up (looks like 40% -ish of the NYT parent corporation is owned by 7 funds including one of Warren Buffett's, and a BlackRock one, and a Vanguard one (if memory serves, re the last one)...curious as to what the disinformation game is here. Was posed as a question on that board, too, just like above.
They aren't freaking out about it because they get to keep the money they were paid. It should be sanctioned away from them and their YouTube channels shut down completely, but that won't happen. Rules are different for rich white rethugs.
As suggested elsewhere, if they really were "victims," they should give the money to the US government or donate it to a legitimate charity. If they keep the money, that tells you all you need to know about how APPALLED they really are.
It was a promotion for these clowns. They went from being "idiots" to "useful idiots". At no point did they think it was odd to be pushing so much Putin propaganda. Since they were already pushing Russian and other white "Christian" supremacist/nationalist propaganda, they saw nothing unusual in someone paying them to push more of the same.
Funny how similar the outlooks of U.S. RWNJs are to those of Putin's propagandists. What an odd coincidence, the convergence of America's homegrown Fascists with the regime of Vladimir Putin. I remember when the Moonie newspaper, the Washington Times, tried to launch a front page scandal based on then-Oxford scholar Bill Clinton's trip to Russia, alleging that he was recruited by the GRU as a Manchurian Candidate, taking orders direct from the Kremlin, and at that time the Right used any contact with Russia to red-bait any Democrat, because not blindly hating Russia was a bad thing, at the time.
The stupid lies they told about Bill Clinton was beyond ignorant. They never apologized, corrected the record or anything else. Old propaganda still circles around. It's truly sick. Ya know, it's not red-baiting if it's true & it is with regard to the traitorous fascist cult GOP. These never trumpers trying to act like it's all trump are full of it. That party was a pile of festering dung before he got to it. I can't stand those clowns thinking they'll take the party back to where it was. It's been crap since those cowards started stealing taxpayer money from everyone to award to their rich psychopath pals. ReTHUGs are hypocrites. When they were tea baggers they were posting that stupid picture of their lover Putin bare chested riding a horse...
It is beyond bizarre that a political party that, during my lifetime, engaged in the most ruthless, vicious, destructive anti-Communist and anti-Russia demagoguery imaginable, is now getting its talking points and money from Moscow. These people, simply put, believe in NOTHING.
It's also confusing. So they still accuse Dems of being Commis, yet they lick the boots of Putin. Then again, he's not a Communist, no he's actually worse....a fascist in a Kleptocracy.
I wish Wonkette writers would stop using material from Norm MacDonald, a "comedian" most famous for saying that he thought trans people should just die.
“So I won’t do those jokes anymore. Which is fine, because the reason I didn’t do the joke on the special is because I came to an understanding that other people came to much sooner than I did.
Which is what? Which is that a lot of people are idiots.
You don’t want to have a joke be misunderstood and then someone goes and beats up a trans person.”
One of the people involved is a man named Tayler Hansen. I was confused, and was afraid that the story referred to Taylor Hanson, who was a member of the popular singing group, Hanson. I was relieved to see that they're two different men.
If you're accepting yuge bigly payments from mystery sources to pump Russian propaganda into the MAGA info sphere, I'm not sure how "unwitting" you can claim to be.
Willful ignorance at best.
Who's funding the NYT?
Try harder Bobski
What is the deal with this? a right-winger on a political discussion board I waste time on teased this, this morning, prompting me to look it up (looks like 40% -ish of the NYT parent corporation is owned by 7 funds including one of Warren Buffett's, and a BlackRock one, and a Vanguard one (if memory serves, re the last one)...curious as to what the disinformation game is here. Was posed as a question on that board, too, just like above.
They aren't freaking out about it because they get to keep the money they were paid. It should be sanctioned away from them and their YouTube channels shut down completely, but that won't happen. Rules are different for rich white rethugs.
As suggested elsewhere, if they really were "victims," they should give the money to the US government or donate it to a legitimate charity. If they keep the money, that tells you all you need to know about how APPALLED they really are.
I feel like Paul Manafort was associated with some company named Tenet. Am I imagining that? If not then is this the same one?
The Tenet name is familiar to me somehow too.
Could be- I know I've heard that name before, somewhere.
Norm is gone, but that fuck Dennis Miller is still with us! The injustice of the universe!
It was a promotion for these clowns. They went from being "idiots" to "useful idiots". At no point did they think it was odd to be pushing so much Putin propaganda. Since they were already pushing Russian and other white "Christian" supremacist/nationalist propaganda, they saw nothing unusual in someone paying them to push more of the same.
Funny how similar the outlooks of U.S. RWNJs are to those of Putin's propagandists. What an odd coincidence, the convergence of America's homegrown Fascists with the regime of Vladimir Putin. I remember when the Moonie newspaper, the Washington Times, tried to launch a front page scandal based on then-Oxford scholar Bill Clinton's trip to Russia, alleging that he was recruited by the GRU as a Manchurian Candidate, taking orders direct from the Kremlin, and at that time the Right used any contact with Russia to red-bait any Democrat, because not blindly hating Russia was a bad thing, at the time.
The stupid lies they told about Bill Clinton was beyond ignorant. They never apologized, corrected the record or anything else. Old propaganda still circles around. It's truly sick. Ya know, it's not red-baiting if it's true & it is with regard to the traitorous fascist cult GOP. These never trumpers trying to act like it's all trump are full of it. That party was a pile of festering dung before he got to it. I can't stand those clowns thinking they'll take the party back to where it was. It's been crap since those cowards started stealing taxpayer money from everyone to award to their rich psychopath pals. ReTHUGs are hypocrites. When they were tea baggers they were posting that stupid picture of their lover Putin bare chested riding a horse...
They would have done it for free. As long as it agreed with their world view.
We should find a way of harnessing the energy from the spinning-in-the-grave of our Founding Fathers.
Thinking of all the soldiers and vets that fought and sacrificed for keeping our democratic way of life and free society.
It is beyond bizarre that a political party that, during my lifetime, engaged in the most ruthless, vicious, destructive anti-Communist and anti-Russia demagoguery imaginable, is now getting its talking points and money from Moscow. These people, simply put, believe in NOTHING.
It's also confusing. So they still accuse Dems of being Commis, yet they lick the boots of Putin. Then again, he's not a Communist, no he's actually worse....a fascist in a Kleptocracy.
They believe in amassing power, money and priviledge by any means necessary.
It's not THAT bizarre if you consider they used white supremacy to reel them in
https://youtu.be/pAEfTLZirHM?si=8OmUEXhexWyz_e2u
https://youtu.be/1-qh-JtBGHY?si=20cQm01LZ6Eb_ntX
They used the same propaganda to instigate anti-immigrant violence in Europe too
https://youtu.be/GJADAmwKxP0?si=-LElI5D4rEkKV49i
No, they believe in M-O-N-E-Y.
I wish Wonkette writers would stop using material from Norm MacDonald, a "comedian" most famous for saying that he thought trans people should just die.
From 2021 interview:
“So I won’t do those jokes anymore. Which is fine, because the reason I didn’t do the joke on the special is because I came to an understanding that other people came to much sooner than I did.
Which is what? Which is that a lot of people are idiots.
You don’t want to have a joke be misunderstood and then someone goes and beats up a trans person.”
People can learn and change.
Well...that doesn't sound like him saying he wanted trans people to just die.
It sounds like he finally caught on to what Terry Pratchett meant by good satire punching up, not punching down.
One of the people involved is a man named Tayler Hansen. I was confused, and was afraid that the story referred to Taylor Hanson, who was a member of the popular singing group, Hanson. I was relieved to see that they're two different men.
Great stuff! And the Norm McDonald video is definitely the perfect setup.
I love it that Eduard Gregorians resume lists his degrees and areas but doesn’t say what institution issued them!!
and cum laude, even too!
Go$$$h!!1!
If you're accepting yuge bigly payments from mystery sources to pump Russian propaganda into the MAGA info sphere, I'm not sure how "unwitting" you can claim to be.
"unwitting" is an accurate description of the MAGAts, whose beliefs are uncontaminated by the thought process.
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Wow, this is definitely a case where Russia fucked the cow when they could have gotten the milk for free.
"...90 PERCENT of the money for this hot new upstart right-wing media company came from Russian shell companies."
So I'm guessing Pool, Johnson, et al. will be seeing major cuts to their salaries any minute now. The poor little dears or should I say dumbfucks?
Those checks all cleared. That's what matters to these willfully ignorant grifters.
Not to worry, the wingnut welfare system will cushion their fall.