A Deeply Fractured US
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Tenet Media: DOJ alleges Russia funded US company linked to Tim Pool and Benny Johnson | CNN Politics
The unnamed Tennessee-based company that the Justice Department alleges was being funded by Russian operatives working as part of a Kremlin-orchestrated influence operation targeting the 2024 US election is Tenet Media which is linked to right-wing commentators with millions of subscribers on...
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It’s one thing if a politician says it, it’s quite another if the DOJ says it.
Indeed. Interesting point to note- the indictment explicitly says that ‘Company 1’ (that would be Tenet Media) founders, ‘founder 1’ and ‘founder 2’ - (that would be Lauren Chen and Liam Donovan) - were knowingly part of this. It puts them right in there with the two accused. Yet in neither makes them nor refers to them as “unindicted co-conspirators”. My bet is Chen and Donovan are both charged on a sealed indictment, and likely flipped on their handlers to cooperate with the investigation. Random fun fact, Chen is Canadian.Tenet Media: DOJ alleges Russia funded US company linked to Tim Pool and Benny Johnson | CNN Politics
The unnamed Tennessee-based company that the Justice Department alleges was being funded by Russian operatives working as part of a Kremlin-orchestrated influence operation targeting the 2024 US election is Tenet Media which is linked to right-wing commentators with millions of subscribers on...
It’s one thing if a politician says it, it’s quite another if the DOJ says it.
A few prominent social media personalities have been skewered and deeply embarrassed by this. It’s one thing to be accused by your comments section of being a foreign adversary’s useful idiot; it’s another to have it laid out in an indictment where it’s super easy to determine who “Commentator 1” and “Commentator 2” are.
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Aside from the ice cream shake (which may be stranger than the “Dijon mustard” thing the GOP tried to slag Obama with), the whole argument doesn’t make sense.
Sure, some women may not love Tim Walz, but that’s not necessarily (or usually) down to a single-issue thing like masculinity. There are all sorts of reasons why they might not love him. It does tell me something though - Jesse Watters is trying to reduce a wide range of reasons to “women love manly men”. If this was on the Five or some other panel show with women, I’d hope they cut to the women in that panel to see their reactions.
…and that’s besides the point - I may support certain politicians but I don’t love any of them.
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Harris seems more masculine than Walz. The hand and arm waving on stage is just weird…
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Well it’s probably a good thing that elections aren’t decided on who is more manly.
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24 years of service seems pretty manly to me. What an odd thing to nitpick on.
Just to piggyback on what the VP is saying, it would behoove you to keep the Sergeant Major’s vanilla milkshake out of this. Tracking?
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After seeing him on stage being weird, there is a reason why he was picked as a VP candidate. Don't want tooo strong of a VP to overshadow Harris.
It is. Par for the course…
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The Hunter Biden laptop was also Russian disinformation wasn't it? 
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For a $100,000 a week I might be convinced too
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I believe Hunter plead guilty to tax evasion todayThe Hunter Biden laptop was also Russian disinformation wasn't it?
Yes he did, pled guilty to all charges. His trial was supposed to select a jury today.
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Yes he did and I won't wade in on that.
However, that has nothing to do with the democrat machine hiding and labeling the laptop as Russian disinformation to skew the election in 2020 using and coercing social media. An election many feel biden would have lost had the true story been made known.
The US isn't a baby in the woods with this stuff either. They interfere in lots of elections in other countries. They have also intervened with coups, assassination attempts and military action in places where they didn't get along with the current regime.
The U.S. is no stranger to interfering in the elections of other countries
Update: President Obama on Thursday slapped Russia with new penalties for meddling in the U.S. presidential election, kicking out dozens of suspected spies and imposing banking restrictions on five people and four organizations the administration says were involved.
www.latimes.com
The U.S. is the biggest election meddler of them all, new book claims
"Meddling in the Ballot Box" says the U.S. has meddled in 81 foreign elections since WWII, while Russia/Soviet Union has in 36 (including America's).
www.usatoday.com
There's lots more links for people that want to read.
And another one; this time in Georgia, four dead (2 teachers, 2 students) and 9 wounded.
'Hate will not prevail': Sheriff chokes up after Georgia school shooting
A Georgia sheriff choked up Wednesday at a news conference as he and other law enforcement officers shared details about a mass shooting at a high school that left four dead and nine hospitalized with injuries.Colt Gray was identified Wednesday afternoon by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as...www.rawstory.com
Shifting my rely from the election thread to this one since it fits better:
Police have arrested the father of the shooter and have charged him with multiple crimes including second degree murder and manslaughter. Reportedly the father bought his son - currently 14 - the AR used in the attack, and gave it to him this past Christmas. If my understanding is correct, that would mean he bought his son an AR after the FBI interviewed them in co junction with the son’s previous school shooting threats. Absolutely unreal…
Georgia high school shooting suspect was previously interviewed after FBI received reports of online threats
The teen accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School, identified by authorities as Colt Gray, was interviewed by Georgia investigators in 2023.
www.cbsnews.com
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From the US DoJ info-machine ....Tenet Media: DOJ alleges Russia funded US company linked to Tim Pool and Benny Johnson | CNN Politics
The unnamed Tennessee-based company that the Justice Department alleges was being funded by Russian operatives working as part of a Kremlin-orchestrated influence operation targeting the 2024 US election is Tenet Media which is linked to right-wing commentators with millions of subscribers on...
It’s one thing if a politician says it, it’s quite another if the DOJ says it.
Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company that Published Thousands of Videos in Furtherance of Russian Interests
An indictment charging Russian nationals Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, 31, also known as Kostya, and Elena Afanasyeva, 27, also known as Lena, with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and conspiracy to commit money laundering was unsealed today in the Southern District of...
With a bit of HR fallout already happening ....
Judge Merchan in New York has delayed Trump’s sentencing in the hush money case until late November, after the election. It’s a reasonable decision, explained in a four page letter here: DocumentCloud
EDIT TO ADD: Forgot to mention, prosecution did not oppose the request by Trump’s defense team to delay sentencing. There is still a motion on the SCOTUS immunity decision’s impact on this prosecution that the court needs to consider and rule on. That decision will come down on Nov 12, just after the election. It will likely be appealed either way so I personally expect sentencing to slip farther.
EDIT TO ADD: Forgot to mention, prosecution did not oppose the request by Trump’s defense team to delay sentencing. There is still a motion on the SCOTUS immunity decision’s impact on this prosecution that the court needs to consider and rule on. That decision will come down on Nov 12, just after the election. It will likely be appealed either way so I personally expect sentencing to slip farther.
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