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
Vladimort?
Nah 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.
I wish him well in his journey to become a father and not get arrested for accepting foreign cash to divide us.
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.
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.”
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Well duh. The money was always the only reason. These trash humans will just move on to some other grift. Its clear they are completely lacking in any morals or ethics.
Why is he always wearing a meg beanie? Is he balding?
Yeah, he’s bald. That might be it, or it might be something else. He gets REALLY upset if you knock off his beanie.
He claims it’s to hide his identity in public… as hilarious as that sounds
Seems to be happening a lot right now. Even on Lemmy.
Lmao, the tankies don’t need money to shill for [insert any country against the US]
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.
Nice detail with the “colorized” 😁
There’s been a rash of new accounts posting right-wing garbage the last few weeks. I just block them.
He has 30 people on staff? Why? I could do his show, and do it better, with a fifth as many people.
The problem is that the only people willing to work for obvious grifters are other grifters.
Probably script writers, people to keep up with the latest narrative (I refuse to call them researchers), some people to handle the business side to get in money, some people to handle pr and comments and lastly some people to handle the publishing side like takedown requests etc etc.
Half of that sounds like the job of a single PR person. And the rest sounds like 1 or 2 people can write and research.
This of course begs the question of what exactly Tim does on his own fucking podcast. If he’s not writing, researching, securing business deals, or doing anything but reading a script, is it really his show?
I have no idea what something like his show takes to run, but if it doesn’t require 30 people and really does only require even say 10-15 people, he’s doing the exact same thing that people like him and Elon do - “I could do it better and with fewer people on the payroll! What a waste!”
So part of me hopes he really is just getting ripped off.
If Simon Whistler can host a thousand youtube channels and a new podcast every day of the week with just a handful of staff, freelance writers, and a couple of editors…
That guy is insane. I like his content, but dude needs to sleep at least a couple hours a month.
As someone who has looked at Tim Pool’s “show”…
He doesn’t have writers. His show is just him looking at headlines and “reacting” live.
Half the time the bullshit he peddles is debunked by the article itself, as he reads it.
He never acknowledges this. It’s just a stream of consciousness mixed with right-wing brain rot in real time.
Are you implying Tim Pool the creative mind behind Timcast and the band, Timcast, both of which are controlled by his holding company Timcast media group. Is some kind of idiotic fraud with no talent?
In response, I’d just like to say, “Timcast”
With these grifters it’s probably a problem of the ones who are true believers are too stupid to be competent and the ones who are competent know it’s all for the money and will negotiate accordingly and are only in it for the cash grab.
Who knows what mix Pool had working for him
Do lemmy next
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The ones they’ve got here are probably unpaid interns trying to get in to one of the Twitter or Facebook teams.
I love this for him!
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
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.
They’re Republican operators, there are no laws applicable to them when the DOJ is run by a Republican
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?
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.
“Fuck em, I got mine.”
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.
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.”
“Not my problem” until it is, then it’s “who did this to me?”
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.
Cash money, for the next several quarters. Or they’re converting to crypto, I’m guessing.
he 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 and betrayed his class. That’s just rude, you’re only supposed to do one under nationalism.
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.
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.
I was more referring to the whole ecosystem of Fox News rejects than Tim in particular.
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.
It’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.
The 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.
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.
Treason?
I agree.
Must he have known what he was doing?
I disagree.
Tim Pool is extremely stupid.
