It's so hideous.
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It's so hideous.
Jesse Watters started his career by producing a racist man on the street segment mocking Asian Americans. Last week he kept making racist statements about Black Americans. He also jokes that he is Black himself since a DNA test showed he was 0.1% African. š¤¦āāļø
Jesse Watters started his career by producing a racist man on the street segment mocking Asian Americans. Last week he kept making racist statements about Black Americans. He also jokes that he is Black himself since a DNA test showed he was 0.1% African. š¤¦āāļø
I sometimes wonder if JD Vance thinks of ways to make himself less likable. The Vice President issued a statement about referees when he heard Taylor Swift got engaged to Travis Kelce. Vance does NOT have the rizz.
Jesse Watters accidentally declared that the Fox News merch is made in China. So much for America First and made in the U.S.A.
Conservatives - More people need to get married! Also conservatives - Who cares about Taylor Swift's engagement. Fox News seems to aggressively repel younger viewers. They wouldn't know who Tyrus was anyway (retired professional wrestler).
Several members of the group provided receipts in the form of dated posts where they openly admitted to being in the group.
If Trump does soon MAGA will splinter. Theyāll be some who will claim Trump isnāt dead and or theyāll claim heās been murdered. Vance wonāt be able to keep it together.
Lorenz is also funded by the same fund. She gets $8000 from another foundation that is fed by the same fund. If you have a problem with chorus because of that than Iām not sure why sheās given a pass. I donāt get a dime from any foundation. Iām 100% crowd funded.
Canadians accepted the assignment and excelled.
Easy block.
If you think people can fabricated dated posts you do not create content yourself. Again this wasnāt one person but several. Lorenz also didnāt disclose that she also got $8000 a month from a foundation that ultimately got its funding from the same source.
So creators showing proof in DATED videos that they said they were involved with the group would not be proof for you but a contract would. Lorenz gets money from the same foundation. I donāt. Cheers.
I donāt even make $8000 a month much less from a nonprofit Iāve never been affiliated with.
You really shouldnāt make accusations about people with no evidence.
Do you want to give someone a seizure? That gif is basically a strobe. Lorenz also gets $8000 a month from the same foundation. I donāt get a dime from them but go ahead and smear total strangers. Iām not blocking you for sport.
I love how Iām getting lumped into an organization I have no relationship with. I have never had a large donor.
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@lavndr-macaron.bsky.social please read. I posted this a couple days ago. How can I be a shill when over 1000 people support my work - no large donor. No sponsor. No organization. bsky.app/profile/deco...
What a sad account. I guess they are illiterate. My pinned post explains how Iām funded. My biggest contribution from any single supporter/subscriber is $25 a month.
Read my pinned tweet. I guess youāre illiterate. My largest contribution from any single supporter is $25 a month.
I kind of accidentally became a researcher of the Proud Boys and that led to this. I also have a MA in journalism.
Easy block.
I donāt get a dime from any large organization. My pinned tweet explains this at length. My largest contribution from any individual is $25 a month from Patreon.
Thank you
You may be a clown. But for anti-Trumpers everywhere, you are OUR clown.
A Russian group made a fake media company and was paying rightwing influencers $400,000 a month for content. Some of them knew they were getting paid by Russia and some didn't. They all trashed Biden and Democrats. That's what we are up against.
The right has been cleaning our clock on this for years. They have several billionaires who give tons of money to think tanks and media companies that spew out misinformation all day long. They are coordinated as you can see the exact same phrasing published at the same time on several accounts.
I have zero problems with the group Brian Tyler Cohen put together and think it's a great idea. From what I saw from the creators involved they aren't told what to say but the organization helps them improve their videos, memes, posts, etc.
I found the entire endeavor odd because the right wing funds entire media companies and think tanks with billions of dollars and they do put out coordinated messaging - word for word exact copies across the internet all the time. A bunch of them were even paid by Russia. That's the real problem.
It's 450 square feet to be exact! I joke about it on my podcast which she probably got that tidbit from a review that mentioned it.
Research it yourself. I don't have time for this. It's not my work to defend. I found several people who work with this organization who posted proof that they had not hidden their involvement. I also so no actual evidence of coordination like I described earlier.
Again the people involved with the group provided proof in the form of old posts that proved they had not hidden their involvement with the group. Do I go with an accusation or proof? Iām going with proof - dated posts.
I believe several people who published receipts that the contract that she cited wasnāt accurate. Iām not going to go through all of them but it was at least half a dozen people. Sheās an experienced journalist but she likes to trash anyone on left who isnāt as far left as she is.
They updated the article to provide a correction. The left has grifters too and itās a bit much for her to take $8000 a month from another group - not disclose it - and then come at chorus for doing the same thing. When several of them posted proof that they were transparent about working with them.
She came at me over something I posted about measles and made a number of claims about COVID that had nothing to do with what I posted. She also didnāt provide any sources for anything. Then she said I had fallen for misinformation. I muted her and unfollowed her on all accounts.
One thing she didnāt show that I see all the time on the right. The exact same phrasing used on multiple accounts published at the same time. Thatās a weekly occurrence on Twitter with rightwing accounts. Itās word for word the exact same language.
This is all it takes to get an academic to quote in an article - You call or email an academic they agree to make a statement.
Itās not an accurate article. If several people offered proof, which Iāve seen, the refutes the article then Iām going with the proof over a journalist who has a shady track record. She came at me once over some nonsense about COVID
It also has a retraction on it.
No joke but Lorenz is also getting $8000 from another group but she didnāt reveal that in the article. I donāt get any money like that.
Itās not accurate as a bunch of the same creators posted old clips where they didnāt hide their affiliation with the group.
I look at it this way if I put it all out there then thereās nothing they can use against me. I always repost it when they come at me like this.
Yes an articles I wrote about my life. Itās so shocking. š¤£š¤£ She also misspelled Schaefer - there are nine spellings so that happens a lot which is why I took my ex-husbandās name - Jeske.
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I can walk on stilts and I play two instruments.
This woman thinks she burned me by finding things a kit myself that Iāve published myself. None of this is secret and it doesnāt have anything to do with my job. Her name on Twitter is @MAGAJerseyGirl
This is the truth about most independent journalists. I have no problem with the organization Brian Tyler Cohen put together but Taylor Lorenzās article has some folks thinking we all get paid by foundations. We donāt. She actually gets $8000 a month plus whatever she makes from Substack šš»
Iāve never received a dime from any political organization. I still owe the IRS $1000 from last year. My quarterly tax payments are $2400. Itās hilarious when a hack journalist tries to take down an influencer and random people on Bluesky assume I make $8000 a month. So funny.
I guess we are supposed have rich parents or a spouse and work for free. I work about 80 hours a week. I donāt make $8000 a month. I pay for my own health insurance, retirement fund, I get no sick days, no paid vacation and I canāt get unemployment. I also pay thousands in taxes - 4 times a year
The joke is Taylor Lorenz, the person who wrote the article, gets $8000 a month plus a travel stipend. She didnāt disclose that. Seems kind of ridiculous for her to criticize other people. I donāt have a single donor who pays me more than $25 a month.
See my pinned tweet.
Taylor Lorenz also gets $8k a month from the same foundation. She gets it from a different nonprofit but the money apparently comes from the same place. I do it the hard way - hundreds of subscribers and Patreon supporters.
Heās alive. I just saw proof of life. Heās a mortal being of this earth. That is all.
I have no new news. I just love this song. youtu.be/r6cnryxwH6A
I have no new news
Yawn. How to get blocked. Do you wonder why you donāt have a bigger following? Bullying people to get them to agree with you doesnāt work. Have a nice night.
I just posted a source on that thread that shows exactly where the money comes from. Open Secrets is a tremendous resource.
Here's the link. You should do the research yourself not rely on clickbait. This is what I do for a living. I've made spreadsheets from raw data. Read the list - republicans mega donors dominated the last election in terms of large donors www.opensecrets.org/elections-ov...
I even added up the exact amounts give by the top twenty mega donors in both the midterms and last election and it wasnāt close. The Republicans dominated in both. They also find things like Turning Point, The Federalist, MRC, and The Heritage Foundation - you might have heard of it.
You should do more research than a Forbes article. Iāve gone through this exhaustively since the last Midterm election. The Republicans have a lot of extremely wealthy mega donors. Democrats get more small donations.
Also another point - many of Trumpās cabinet members are billionaires themselves. Have a nice night. Oh and on Open Secrets, Soros is nowhere near the top donors. You can search by election cycle. A man who owns the company Uline, is usually in the top two. Heās rightwing.
This is nothing. Go to Open Secrets right now. It tracks political contributions. Republican mega donors dominate everything in nearly every election. Out of the top ten donors in the last election nearly all of them were Republican.
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
I donāt think he will have the same appeal. He will try but heās not P.T. Barnum like Trump is.
Half of this social media platform is openly joking that Trump is dead. He might be. We all know MAGA dies with him. Vance doesnāt have the rizz.
From what Iāve seen online this whole mess boils down to leftists getting angry with people left of center who arenāt as radical as they are. They want everyone to use their talking points. They are acting like a bunch of bullies. I find them useless for the most part.
Mind you when she made her claims about COVID she didnāt back anything up with a source. I did provide multiple sources on Measles about how contagious it is. It is considered one of the most contagious diseases in the world and without vaccines it can be lethal.
She came at me once over something I posted about Measles. She inserted a bunch of stuff about COVID. She tried to say it was just as contagious as Measles - itās not. Then when mildly pushed back she said I had fallen for misinformation. I stopped following her and muted her on all platforms
My friend Adam Rinn, the artistic director of the nonprofit Coney Island USA, discusses why the neighborhood does not need a casino. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
This has never happened before - I was watching Trump talk and I suddenly got acid reflux so bad I had to stop. It runs in my family. Iāve had issues with it for years but itās never been quite that dramatic before. He does that to a person. š¤£š¤®
I just blocked the account. It was following two people.
Iām laughing so hard at this. I figured there was a Pantone color match but I didnāt know how to find it.
Amazing
This rectangle in the middle of the screen is a color I pulled from Trump's face in Premiere Pro and then filled a shape with it. He's worn that insane orange makeup for years but in his meeting with the South Korean leader it was especially Oompa-Loompa.
I worked as a researcher of the far right before I got this gig. Iāve consumed hundreds of hours of far right content and thousands of hours of Fox News. In terms of media there are SOME on the left who bring a photocopy of a spoon to a knife fight. The right gets BILLIONS in donor money.
They did issue a partial correction. You might want to check it out. Cheers.
In the video you are responding to Cohen goes on and on at length about the funding and how influencers who get it are NOT directed to say or publish anything. Several people involved with the project have said the exact same thing.
Taylor Lorenz was also receiving $8000 plus a stipend from another group. I donāt get a dime from anyone but my Substack subscribers, Patreon supporters a a tiny amount from YouTube and Facebook ads. No single donor pays me more than $25 per month.
It doesnāt have strings attached. Thereās inaccuracies in the article. The definition of ādark moneyā is also just about any funding in terms of non-profits. Go look through a tax form for any nonprofit they are available online. You wonāt be able to figure out every donor.
Here's David Pakman explaining it, for those who don't have X accounts. youtu.be/oQl5JcBnQ9A?...
The right wing has multiple billionaires that fund all kinds of media projects and think tanks. The Heritage Foundation is the biggest but thereās a small army of them. They drown in donor money.
As usual @NewsHour gets this right. The network focused on the victims and the community - NOT the shooter. This is how these events should be covered. Obsessive coverage of the shooters creates more shooters (IMHO) youtu.be/NmSIddB4jVI?... via @YouTube
@briantylercohen.bsky.social is helping newer influencers. Iām a journalist not an influencer although the line between the two can get blurry sometimes. Cohen could just build his own empire but heās helping others build their own. Thereās absolutely nothing unethical about that.
No but I wanted to make it 100% clear how Iām funded. I wouldnāt be comfortable taking a large check from anyone unless I vetted the source extremely carefully. I donāt even want the appearance of anyone thinking I work for some billionaire.
Decoding Fox News does NOT have a large donor. Iām not in a program that gives me a stipend or travel expenses. Iām supported 100% through Substack subscriptions, Patreon supporters and small amount from Facebook and YouTube ads. No single supporter pays me more than $25 a month
It sounds more like a desperate move on his part to argue to the court that flag burning is inciting violence. It will be easy to shoot down as any decent attorney could find several examples where it didnāt incite much of anything.
On Monday Trump spoke to the American public about how a Supreme Court Order invented the toughness test and how flag burning results in DEATH. - You won't have to listen to his voice or see his face - It's Trump Without Trump - The quotes are 100% accurate.
I like to break up his cadence because he sounds crazier when someone else reads his words. We are so sick of him we tune him out.
On Monday Trump spoke to the American public about how they might get murdered in DC, $2 roads and solid gold trophies. - You won't have to listen to his voice or see his face - It's Trump Without Trump - The quotes are 100% accurate.
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Lawrence Jones has a habit of assuming things without having any evidence to back it up. Trump did NOT make a deal that would offer Ukraine article 5 protection. Trump got no deal. Trump had a meeting with European leaders but no formal deal was made with them or Putin.