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HAHAHAHAHAHA

"We didn't know where the money came from?!?! Why would we ever ask why they wanted us to say Russia is super cool???"

I'm positive most, it not all of these other right-wing media shitheads like Tucker Carlson, NewsMax hosts, Bannon...etc have all received dirty Russian money, and they know it.

We need this all to be brought out in the open ASAP.

Things that are objectively true:

They parroted pro-Putin talking points.

They were paid by Russia.

They claim to be victims of a Russian smear campaign.

How does that even work?

Russian assets deny being Russian assets. Cool beans, ya fuckin’ traitors.

"Conservatives admit that they were easily manipulated by Russia"

Nobody being paid $400,000 per month is a victim. "Accomplice" is the word.

I believe they're confusing the term victim with the word volunteer.

Well, if being a victim means 400k a month going into my pocket I can only say where do I sign up!

Seriously though. It is obvious getting paid around $2,500 an hour is pretty fucking suspicious. They definitely knew they were engaging in fraudulent behavior.

If you rob a bank and get shot by police, are you a victim of a bank robbery?

"I don't come up with this stuff. I just forward it along. You wouldn't arrest a guy who's just delivering drugs from one guy to another."

I'm waiting for one of them to pull out the Michael Scott defense!

This is IMPOSSIBLE because Republicans are KNOWN to do their Own Research!

“Okay it happened, but I didn’t know about it”

Next I assume will be

“Okay it happened and I did know about it, but it’s too late to do anything about it so it doesn’t matter”

I'll accept that they were victims if they henceforth renounce the stupid shit they've spouted for the last decade.

If I'm behaving in a certain way that makes me attractive to cartoonishly evil Putinesque cunts, I don't care how benign the behaviour is, I'm not doing it anymore. If as a result of these revelations, Tim Pool et al. dial down their divisive nonsense, even if it's only by 10%, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

I'm not holding my breath, though.

I took the rubles and made the content! That makes me the victim!

Sounds like treason to me.

Fucking idiots. How the hell are they unable to see that they’re just useful idiots???

They were victims of getting rich by knowingly spouting Russian talking points. Even if they weren't sure the money was coming from Peter Thiel or Vladimir Putin, that's what they were doing.

DARVO.

These clowns are victims of pro-Russian disinformation in the same way that David Berkowitz is a murder victim.

I've been studying the propaganda of Tim Pool for years and years. The content focus shift from the alarmist "we're all progressives, but these progressives have taken it too far and we need to reel it in" to "Democrats are all evil incarnate and we need to vote Republican to save the world" was a deliberate and calculated long-term conversion campaign beyond what I'd expect someone with Tim Pool's resources should have been able to strategize and execute.

It won't surprise me if the DOJ decides to push charges for unregistered foreign agents, but it could also backfire with such high profile figures by playing into censorship rhetoric. Election season would be the worst time for it, if at all.

The equivalent of “my wife did it.”

They say this shit all the time. They don’t accept responsibility for anything they do.

Waterboard them for the truth.

How dare they be manipulated to shill for russia with less than adequate bribery!

How are they not in prison awaiting trial yet

They weren't victims of anything.

These were co-conspirators, and they won't know true victimhood until the hands of the American people wrap around their throats.

Hasnt shut them up though

Yea, "victims". Hand me some soap so I can cry.

Victims who get raging mad if you point out things like this about their talking points. Not even the least bit concerned about the truth, just about spreading whatever they think helps their cause.