YouTuber David Pakman (@davidpakman.bsky.social) is secretly getting paid to shill for the Democratic Party
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Slow news day...
aug 29, 2025, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
That’s business
aug 28, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Many such cases
aug 28, 2025, 9:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Not surprised. His politics are totally bland and in line with Schumer and Jeffries.
aug 28, 2025, 2:16 pm • 21 0 • view
It was completely obvious. It's what he always did in a very blatant manner. People caught on and stopped listening to him so now he's taking money because he is desperate to stay relevant. He will eventually just go full conservative right wing when he has nothing left.
aug 28, 2025, 2:48 pm • 2 0 • view
So many morons commenting on this thread seem not to realize that the article had to post an editor’s note and change key paragraphs to show that content makers are communicating with each other and about their funder. Oh, and ironically Taylor Lorenz gets paid $8000 per month from the same funder.
aug 30, 2025, 1:32 pm • 3 0 • view
And for all the pwogwessive edgelords who are looking for an “edgy” candidate, who’s your alternative? Or are you still relying on your 90 yo magic grandpa to save the day?
aug 30, 2025, 1:34 pm • 1 0 • view
literally nobody but you people is still talking about bernie
aug 31, 2025, 12:46 pm • 6 0 • view
So you have no one of your own to take on the leadership role. Good to know.
aug 31, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view
dawg just run pritzker
aug 31, 2025, 2:53 pm • 2 0 • view
JB Pritzker you ignorant troglodyte. Doesn't matter anyway, your racist ass is gonna be voting for Vance in 2028 and you're gonna be some coward who makes up some excuse like "I had to vote GOP this time because the Left was too mean to me on social media". Loser.
aug 31, 2025, 4:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Another big irony: one of the funders is Pierre Omidyar, who also funds this buffoon Klippenstein.
aug 30, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Buffoonish man with a buffoonish take. Let’s remind everyone that Ken may still be working for a billionaire, Pierre Omidyar.
aug 29, 2025, 12:21 am • 1 0 • view
The names mentioned are paid shills the people on Bluesky follow and quote. Blue MAGA is a big net and lives comfortably on this platform. Just watch them eating up every word paid for by Democrats’ dark money. (Dark money is only bad when the GOP do it)
aug 28, 2025, 2:43 pm • 3 1 • view
Might as well get paid to do what he is gonna do anyway
aug 28, 2025, 2:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Turning Point and Tenet media have entered the chat…
aug 28, 2025, 2:14 pm • 17 0 • view
The target of these influencers is the progressive wing of the Democratic Party not conservatives. Your analogy is off.
aug 28, 2025, 2:36 pm • 13 0 • view
It wasn’t an analogy. Just a “hold my beer” moment. Influencers being paid by a domestic party to help with messaging & narratives is nothing new. Accepting cash from Christofascist groups & the Russian government is a much bigger story than the article chose to publish.
aug 28, 2025, 7:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, all journalism about poor decisions by the DNC must be accompanied by a story about Russia.
aug 28, 2025, 7:50 pm • 8 0 • view
Why can’t we have both? It’s obvious, dare I say a given, that most “influencer savvy” leftist viewers already understand that part of any narrative being pushed is being financially backed by someone else or a bigger message from “the higher ups” in their party.
aug 29, 2025, 12:15 am • 0 0 • view
Is the DNC looking like a busted up Toyota Prius in an era where many independents don’t give two shites about Al Gore/Obama vernacular? Yes. Is it wrong for tired “BlueAnon Demagacrats” in our little bubbles to also expect a bit more context or comparison as we wade through a fascist frog boil?
aug 29, 2025, 12:15 am • 0 0 • view
Ken found a scoop. What did your comment add to the existing knowledge of literally everyone on Bluesky?
aug 29, 2025, 12:18 am • 1 0 • view
In self reflection, I suppose just more “rabble rabble” while I procrastinate replacing a cracked presta valve on my cycle in the garage.
aug 29, 2025, 12:30 am • 0 0 • view
Also, Ben Shapiro has an organic audience regardless of funding. Olivia Julianna does not. The point is that they're trying to give the impression that there's an enthusiasm for Newsom that doesn't exist outside of paid influencers and Bluesky blue MAGA scolds like you.
aug 28, 2025, 7:53 pm • 5 0 • view
I understand your point about there being a highly fertilized grass roots message building around Newsom. I’ve always held the feeling that he follows the barometer of whatever-is-best-for-Gavin. Do I think others who aren’t “blue maga” are expressing the same enthusiasm as liberal bubbles? No.
aug 29, 2025, 12:26 am • 2 0 • view
Maga will have to implode from within before any single candidate of actual substance is able to permeate each of our neighbors’ unique algo-ecosystems. Besides, this entire Newsom project right now is essentially yet another DNC realtime A/B testing program. Am I wrong?
aug 29, 2025, 12:26 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 2:26 pm • 2 0 • view
The issue is, even as this is looking as wasted money considering many of them (especially Brian Tyler Cohen) wanted to defend the DNC establishment agenda.
aug 31, 2025, 3:34 pm • 0 0 • view
All these people duped into supporting an orange child rapist desperately trying to change the subject before people start asking the real reason they support them.. Yall just got kids you trying to F...
aug 28, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve never heard of a single one of these “influencers”…
aug 28, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
We know.
aug 28, 2025, 2:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Pause it
aug 28, 2025, 2:20 pm • 5 0 • view
I heard this comment in Sam Seder's voice XD
aug 28, 2025, 2:35 pm • 3 0 • view
And about 90% of their audiences either won’t read this or even care. I’m disappointed but not shocked considering these people’s content. Anyone only meaningfully critiquing 1 party is suspect. Criticism doesn’t have to be evenhanded, but to assign all agency to 1 side is to misunderstand politics
aug 28, 2025, 2:34 pm • 2 0 • view
I wouldn't be so fatalist. I listened to pakman a while ago but lost interest and shifted further left because of the things he won't cover, like gaza
aug 28, 2025, 3:00 pm • 4 0 • view
I’m not really being fatalist, more saying that these creators basically already cater to Partisans. They mostly attract + hold onto people who are only interested in hearing how shitty the GOP is. I don’t think that audience will be so aghast to learn that these creators are getting bonuses for it
aug 28, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Who knows? I'm seeing a lot dissatisfaction with the Dem leadership according to polls. We'll have to wait and see.
aug 28, 2025, 3:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Well, so thats a no on organic then
aug 28, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Secret? The Lincoln Project was secret at first. Shill? Or cover their topics? High profile? Who is this guy? Come on now. Both sides are not the same and there’s plenty of news bias to go around. Any messenger not a Fox messenger that can make money is a hero by me.
aug 29, 2025, 12:40 pm • 1 0 • view
The bar is in hell
aug 31, 2025, 12:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Now it makes sense why he's always sounded like a sellout, because he is one.
aug 28, 2025, 2:35 pm • 6 1 • view
Least surprising reveal of all time.
aug 28, 2025, 3:58 pm • 3 0 • view
The funny aspect about this: -A good part of the accused people and their minions are using the Trump playbook to attack the person but not rebuking the article itself -The responses of Pakman, BTC and company are so ambiguous giving suspicion of guilt. Again no surprises. Both are so obvious.
aug 31, 2025, 3:17 pm • 1 0 • view
It's clearly obvious they are centrist liberals defending the status quo and some of the thoughts are like coming from The Atlantic, but don't pretend they are "Left" and "independent". I mean, in recent weeks Brian Tyler Cohen makes Charlie Kirk a proper philosopher lol
aug 31, 2025, 3:26 pm • 1 0 • view
And it shows: bsky.app/profile/davi...
aug 28, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
@majorityreport.bsky.social
aug 28, 2025, 2:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Nothing here confirms he was getting paid though, right? Is there any evidence that the style and/or volume of his content changed after these "communications" happened?
aug 28, 2025, 3:12 pm • 2 0 • view
ShillWare Needed Suggest you create a Bluesky labeler for the accounts that that have secret sponsorships (along with links to supporting evidence that validate the designation). I, for one, would like a straightforward way to know if a specific "influencer" is being "influenced" by money.
aug 28, 2025, 2:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Doesn't failure to disclose sponsored content violate the T&C of every single major streaming platform...?
aug 29, 2025, 9:07 am • 1 0 • view
It’s always the ones you most expect.
aug 28, 2025, 2:16 pm • 61 0 • view
Cant wait till someone leaks the names of whoever is behind it. My money is on Thiel or somebody similar. Its not gonna be someone cool like George Clooney.
aug 28, 2025, 2:20 pm • 4 0 • view
Yeah it sucks they made the funding secret. GOP ghouls are going to revel in this. Even though he's a halfway decent political commentator. Sometimes he's wrong, sure, but he has a ton of very good interviews, and he at least uses sound logic and reasoning around many topics. Ugh, nuance is dying.
aug 28, 2025, 5:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Right. If you believe the blatant misrepresentations of a disgraceful “journalist”
aug 30, 2025, 3:53 am • 2 0 • view
Don’t care. Everyone in the manosphere & right wing influencers are all paid some by Russia. If the left once to balance that in the big scheme of awfulness that is happening as we slide into authoritarianism nothing to get riled up about
aug 28, 2025, 2:22 pm • 12 0 • view
Indeed. The Democrats must combat right-wing propaganda with the truth, not more propaganda. They need an assortment of influencers, each with the magnetism of Rogan, and with strict ethics, who dispel the right wing's lies with the truth. It's critical to understand and remember...
aug 28, 2025, 4:07 pm • 1 1 • view
we're not fighting a single man, but an entrenched ideology and the extensive propaganda apparatus that keeps the base in the constant state of agitation required to ensure their fealty. Those forces can only be subverted and dispelled by telling the truth, always and forever.
aug 28, 2025, 4:07 pm • 1 1 • view
When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse. -Hannah Arendt
aug 28, 2025, 4:07 pm • 1 0 • view
The anger is that the money is being used to push out messaging in favour of the status quo, despite the status quo being what got the Dems into this mess
aug 28, 2025, 2:30 pm • 41 2 • view
Packman is pushing for the status quo? Brian Tyler Cohen is pushing for the status quo?
aug 30, 2025, 2:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Also, he needs to drop the pretense of being an independent voice. He should be required to disclose that he’s getting paid to promote official approved viewpoints.
aug 28, 2025, 3:07 pm • 10 0 • view
Return fire with appropriate force.
aug 28, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
You think Pakman needed 8 grand a month for what exactly? to keep doing what hes doing but also follow a secretive docket of talking points? is that beneficial for fighting right wingers? or is it to support centrist dems?
aug 28, 2025, 2:38 pm • 7 0 • view
Several in the right wing are paid by Russia hundreds of thousands. RNC pays others. If Progressives want to join in the fray online more power to them
aug 28, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
but theyre paid that to push the Russian propaganda line. what is he being paid to push?? Leftism or Centrism?? its a big deal and major difference
aug 28, 2025, 2:47 pm • 6 0 • view
It's incredible how, after 11 years, you're unable to identify the real enemy
aug 28, 2025, 3:55 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm not sure it's a secret. The fact that he's hypocritical, partisan dogshit has been hanging out in the open for years, during every one of his shows, every time he opens his mouth. He's kind of been shouting it from the rooftops, loudly & proudly, the whole time. This is just more confirmation.
aug 28, 2025, 2:27 pm • 6 0 • view
The main lesson of that is, whoever is paying Cohen, Pakman and company, you're clearly wasting money with minimal results lol. Even in their own corporative language, this is a losing business since 2022.
sep 1, 2025, 12:30 am • 0 0 • view
No way, you mean the guy who does an ad-read at the end of all his videos?
aug 29, 2025, 7:38 pm • 1 0 • view
A whole $8k a month, eh? Sounds like they have some work ahead of them if they want to catch up to Tenet Media...
aug 28, 2025, 4:15 pm • 1 0 • view
I’ve never even heard of this nerd.
aug 29, 2025, 4:45 am • 0 0 • view
www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...
aug 28, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep. Resumed like that
aug 31, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I am very suspicious of any online podcasters who rarely if ever talk about Democratic wrongdoing or compare Republicans to failed Democrats like Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. They already failed us so comparing them to Republicans is a bad strategy.
aug 28, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
in other breaking news, water is wet
aug 29, 2025, 1:53 am • 2 0 • view
Isn’t @katmabu.bsky.social also a part of this? Also it’s not really a secret who’s part of Chorus they make it kinda obvious. @adammockler.com is @briantylercohen.bsky.social is Etc
aug 28, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Kat Abu is absolutely not part of this, wtf are you talking about? She is one of the good ones.
aug 28, 2025, 2:23 pm • 5 0 • view
They follow each other on insta it’s kinda obvious she’s involved
aug 28, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
That's not really evidence of anything. Her actual policies and actions have been critical of the Dem establishment, so if they are paying her, it's backfiring pretty hard, lol.
aug 28, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
You should recalibrate the pattern recognition part of your brain
aug 28, 2025, 3:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Now the question is, who else? They said over 90 influencers on YouTube! I have my suspects in mind.
aug 31, 2025, 3:36 am • 0 0 • view
Packman's gushing about meeting Kamala Harris seemed like a clue.
aug 31, 2025, 3:33 am • 1 0 • view
I knew his shit stank like propaganda.
aug 28, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, no shit? I'm going to go follow and then immediately mute
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow
aug 28, 2025, 2:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Where does your funding come from, ken?
aug 29, 2025, 4:38 am • 2 0 • view
Have you written about the GOP side of this?
aug 28, 2025, 2:22 pm • 2 0 • view
If he is secretly getting paid then how do you know he is getting paid? Doesn't sound like much of a secret.
aug 30, 2025, 10:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Pakman taking money is the least surprising thing ever. If he makes it 5 years without making the Cenk heel turn, I’ll be shocked
aug 28, 2025, 2:16 pm • 4 0 • view
Cenk isn't named in this.
aug 29, 2025, 3:00 am • 0 0 • view
okay?
aug 31, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah?
aug 31, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
like that isn't relevant to what they were saying
aug 31, 2025, 5:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Okay?
aug 31, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Whoa the guy who ignored reports about Palestine was paid by the DNC?
aug 28, 2025, 4:07 pm • 3 0 • view
Second worst crime since stealing Sam's backdrop
aug 28, 2025, 2:14 pm • 38 1 • view
If you know, you know.
aug 28, 2025, 2:34 pm • 9 0 • view
“We see you!”
aug 28, 2025, 8:48 pm • 3 0 • view
🤣🤣🤣🤣
aug 28, 2025, 2:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Politics girl too. I knew it!
aug 28, 2025, 2:22 pm • 2 0 • view
I unsubscribed from Pakman a couple years ago when he started smearing anyone trying to primary senile Genocide Joe. He's good at making fun of Trump and Repubs, but otherwise just a Dem establishment bootlicker.
aug 28, 2025, 2:28 pm • 10 0 • view
Doesn't shock me.
aug 28, 2025, 2:16 pm • 4 0 • view
Errr, so what? 🤔 They should pay more influencers even more money. Do you really think the army of right-wing disinformation peddlers make their living by picking daisies in the village meadow?
aug 28, 2025, 2:30 pm • 27 1 • view
This. The rightwing has figured out how to build an internet ecosystem while dems flounder in this aspect. And since more people get info online, it's been detrimental. The only problem I have with this specifically is the control that's exerted over what the influencers can say.
aug 28, 2025, 2:37 pm • 17 1 • view
I share that view. But faced with the overwhelming flood of right-wing misinformation, can we really afford to be picky? The liberal and left circles tend to waste energy on infighting instead of directing their full firepower against the right’s disinformation.
aug 28, 2025, 2:41 pm • 12 0 • view
Sure. Pay to get a better message out. Pay to fact check the disinformation and hate speech. OK. But why hide where the money's coming from? Why control to the letter the message of independent content creators? The subterfuge is the problem.
aug 28, 2025, 3:17 pm • 9 1 • view
Is that really our biggest problem? 🤔 Schumer is incompetent and Jeffries has never managed to find a strategy against Trump and his cronies. I’d say both the internal and external opposition have far more urgent matters to deal with. But hey, I’m not the one meant to be coordinating a proper fight.
aug 28, 2025, 3:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Its a problem because the Democrats won’t allow them to be critical of things like Israel which are losing positions that the Dems have taken. So if you want to lose yet again this isn’t an issue, but if you want the politician’s feet to be held to the fire until they hold popular opinions it is.
aug 31, 2025, 4:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Sorry to break it to you, but right now the American people have far more to lose than just the government’s position on Israel. And frankly, many of those saying “we don’t like Joe Biden’s stance on Israel” either voted for Trump or sat it out — making them partly responsible for the mess we’re in
aug 31, 2025, 4:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Alternatively it’s the democrat party’s responsibility to have good policy stances so people will want to vote for them. Keep your mindset and dems WILL lose again.
aug 31, 2025, 4:31 pm • 2 0 • view
It's not dems who will lose. It's all of us who will lose.
aug 31, 2025, 4:32 pm • 3 0 • view
To add, I think you people are under the mistaken perception that Dems are a foil to conservatives and where we are. They aren’t. They’re a part of the ratchet that has brought us here. Their immigration policy proposals were Republican wet dreams that allowed the ratchet to ICE raids.
aug 31, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Then Dems better consider that.
aug 31, 2025, 4:33 pm • 1 0 • view
EXACTLY
aug 31, 2025, 4:41 pm • 1 0 • view
I genuinely feel sorry for you. You wallow in selfish self-righteousness while America slides into authoritarian rule, yet you cling to your pet agenda. You’ve learned nothing from the Weimar Republic or the Chinese civil wars. In the end, you’ve become Trump’s second strongest ally. Congratulations
aug 31, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
I genuinely feel sorry for you. You stand for absolutely fucking nothing and want everyone to be as morally void as you so you don’t feel alone.
aug 31, 2025, 4:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Is dark money and a lack of transparency with who's paying for political influence with our party and our politicians our biggest problem? Is not being able to trust where the message is coming from and if the message is accurate a problem? Yeah. It's definitely up there.
aug 28, 2025, 3:37 pm • 10 0 • view
Wow, glad you see it that way. Until two minutes ago I thought the creeping coup in the US was the main problem. But hey, if we’d rather fret over a bit of infighting while Donny grabs the country, so be it.
aug 28, 2025, 3:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Well, a person can recognize more than one issue inherent in a problem. You can have a multimodal fret approach to our current state. It's also possible to look at underlying and long term implications of a thing. At some point, we have to look at how we got here. And what comes next.
aug 28, 2025, 4:24 pm • 7 0 • view
Well, I’d go with terms like “first”, “urgent”, or “democracy-shattering”. But if you’d rather stay lofty while the ground is pulled from under your feet by right wing goons, be my guest. That’s how the Democrats kept losing. Forgive me if I and some other folks don’t join that masochistic trip.
aug 28, 2025, 4:31 pm • 0 0 • view
LOL. OK, sorry for the fall of democracy, I guess
aug 28, 2025, 4:51 pm • 5 0 • view
Agree, we can't do the "when they go low, we go high" anymore. Hopefully we can stay above the scum and still defeat the slime but hey, at this point, whatever it takes to secure our democracy. We'll worry about "etiquette" later.
aug 31, 2025, 5:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Are you being paid? Tell the truth.
aug 30, 2025, 1:57 pm • 1 0 • view
I didn’t just comment for nothing, I saw you actually care and have a kind heart. Check my last post and you’ll understand. Honestly, we have zero energy left, swear to God, I just wanna rest, seriously.
aug 30, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, funded by the liberal deep state — but shh, don’t tell anyone!
aug 30, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I think it’s Keir Starmer
aug 31, 2025, 8:04 am • 1 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 8:17 am • 0 0 • view
do you know Biden & Dems made us the only country in modern history to let criminal overthrowing seditionists off scot free? Extra bonus—same criminals gleefully, fully, publicly announced their plans for all of this. Dems voted FOR their appointments over & over Yeah we got an information problem
aug 31, 2025, 7:54 am • 0 0 • view
Haha incompetent. Do you know wealthy they’ve gotten to be ‘incompetent’? And if you don’t know, then you should know the media you’re consuming isn’t telling you shit and that’s worked perfect
aug 31, 2025, 7:51 am • 0 0 • view
Wow, I’m sooo flattered 🥰 you’re stalking my feed, comrade. ♥️
aug 31, 2025, 8:16 am • 0 0 • view
Oh you’re silly. You flooded a thread I read and as a number of other people pointed out, you confidently say streams of wrong shit Including the above
aug 31, 2025, 8:18 am • 0 0 • view
Sure, comrade. Anyway, thanks for stalking me. 🥰♥️
aug 31, 2025, 8:28 am • 0 0 • view
Yes when ‘picky’ means billionaire interests that already run the Dem Party, have us fully partnered in genocide, surveillance, police state, vast corruption, worst healthcare in developed world, praising ice, discarding trans people and more as their agend also controlling information for $ Jfc
aug 31, 2025, 7:49 am • 1 0 • view
Well, that’s worked a treat so far, hasn’t it? You geniuses gave us Trump — but apparently that seems just fine for you. But sure, carry on with your cosy saloon socialism at the expense of the American people. You get to feel righteous while they get screwed. Cracking outcome, comrade.
aug 31, 2025, 8:12 am • 1 0 • view
Why are they doing it secretly?
aug 31, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s your big question? While kids get snatched by ICE from playgrounds, federal workers are sacked, the CDC’s torn apart, Putin gets a free pass, Trump going for a third term, and low-income families lose healthcare and face higher taxes? Really? Go get yourself some help.
aug 31, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah like all those other problems caused by anonymously funded million and billionaire money so I'm asking why you're okay with them potentially doing the same thing with useless pundits that get paid to, for example, not discuss big topics relevant to voters like the genocide
aug 31, 2025, 7:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Not a "big question" either, pretty simple one you for some reason don't want to answer
aug 31, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, fair enough — you’re into Trump, we’re trying to get rid of him. Not exactly a “big question,” is it? Now jog on, MAGA boy.
aug 31, 2025, 7:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I have single payer healthcare here in Canada :) I want it for you guys too, even if you're all this stupid and aggro
aug 31, 2025, 7:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh wait you're a fucking Brit accusing me of being MAGA? Jesus even non-USain are getting their moron sickness
aug 31, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 8:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Breaks my heart buddy but don't wank too hard over it. Now bugger off or start attacking other members of the Trump opposition.
aug 31, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Buddy, I’ve no issue if you’d rather like to see Trump in power — I’m sure he’ll deliver all your political dreams. Until then, bugger off.
aug 31, 2025, 7:51 pm • 2 0 • view
The problem is that they're paying liberal influencers to silence the left. Dems always fight the left, then roll over for the right.
aug 28, 2025, 4:54 pm • 4 0 • view
The problem is that the left spends more time attacking liberals than confronting the far right. Whether that’s because it’s easier, or because the far left and far right share certain traits, I can’t say – but I don’t like either.
aug 28, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
The dems always shut out the left. Look at what they did to Bernie twice. The left is fighting back because the dems are bending over for the right. Hakeem Jeffries went to cry to the same people who donated to Trump earlier this year. They're not serious about anything other than money and power.
aug 29, 2025, 4:25 pm • 5 0 • view
Ridiculous Kindergarten games. And besides, it hasn’t really delivered much for “the left.” Honestly, for me it seems it’s far easier for "the left" to bash liberals already on the defensive than to take on the hard right.
aug 29, 2025, 5:49 pm • 2 0 • view
The Blue dog dems, aka Liberals, are establishment statues quo, APAC shills, pro Capitalism, complicit with fighting fascism = Blue MAGA
aug 30, 2025, 8:44 pm • 3 0 • view
The game come from the people trying to hide there true intent. The political landscape has shifted drastically in my 42 years. Dems are shifting farther right with the GOP going full Fascism and the Far Left is still fighting for social programs and for the good of all people.
aug 30, 2025, 8:45 pm • 1 0 • view
If you see more name calling its cuz we are fed up of not being heard, because we give our money to people that don't take money from shady places or follow a script like the propaganda machine.
aug 30, 2025, 8:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Sure..., Viva la revolution, comrade!
aug 30, 2025, 9:03 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s just lazy, I’m a Progressive a Democratic Socialist. There is a difference, DS focuses on worker empowerment and social programs within a democratic system, while communism is a more radical, overarching system that includes the eventual abolition of the state and private property. ANTIFA DSA
aug 30, 2025, 11:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh, you're just a stupid person. Nevermind your embarrassing course of actions makes sense. Liberals empower the far right. You might want to check where the overton window's at because the vast majority of people in America are right of center whether they realize it or not.
aug 31, 2025, 3:45 am • 1 0 • view
As said, “Socialists” haven’t won a single election in Western countries, your programs and manifests are fancy but never get a majority— but instead realising that your battles against moderates and liberals is splintering the opposition and hands power to right-wing populists. Welcome to reality.
aug 31, 2025, 7:00 am • 0 0 • view
Every flag in your profile name makes your comment even funnier.
aug 30, 2025, 3:36 am • 3 0 • view
Sure thing, mate — viva la revolución! Got your ticket booked to La Paz, Beijing, or Pyongyang yet? They could really use you there, pal. 🤣🤣
aug 30, 2025, 8:26 am • 1 0 • view
I'm sure that made a lot of sense in your head
aug 30, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
aug 30, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
🤔
aug 28, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
was this really a secret?
aug 28, 2025, 2:15 pm • 7 0 • view
I find it hard to call it secret dark money when BTC was openly talking about being a part of a group of liberal content creators going to Washington to meet with Democrats to encourage them to "embrace independent media." If this was intended to be secret, they're worse at opsec than Hegseth.
aug 28, 2025, 3:34 pm • 5 0 • view
The “independent media” part is what irks me the most. We KNOW that voters value honesty, so why attempt to deceive right out the gate?
aug 28, 2025, 3:40 pm • 4 0 • view
I have not heard of a single one of these people. That’s not some badge of honor, it just shows how out of touch I am.
aug 28, 2025, 2:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe it’s just time for a new party.
aug 28, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
No, the fake democracy you've got won't let a new party succeed. You have to burn the whole system down.
aug 31, 2025, 10:35 am • 2 0 • view
The GOP started that arms race. Let's not cry about Dems bring a knife to the knife fight... finally. Being paid by the DNC makes the man biased, not "wrong".
aug 28, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 0 • view
You seemed to have missed the part where it's a dark money group that is trying to REMAIN in the dark while influencing political influencers. "Get money out of politics" includes stuff like this as well.
aug 28, 2025, 2:34 pm • 5 0 • view
I didn't. Just tired of wishing for ideals while Republicans ignore or undermine them. It's been many decades of this shit from the right. They set the rules. $ in politics and $ is "free speech" are things Mitch McConnel specifically fought for and won. So be it.
aug 28, 2025, 9:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Never would have guessed
aug 28, 2025, 2:14 pm • 4 0 • view
I'm curious how this doesn't run afoul of FCC regulations that require disclosure of any kind of paid promotion
aug 28, 2025, 5:07 pm • 8 0 • view
The GOP does the same and those people are paid to push lies and hate.
aug 28, 2025, 2:28 pm • 2 0 • view
He should change his name to David PACman.
aug 28, 2025, 3:04 pm • 5 0 • view
David AIPACman
aug 31, 2025, 10:58 am • 3 0 • view
I had a feeling. Unsubbed from his channel months ago, it just wasn't really hitting for me with kinda propping up certain people.
aug 28, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Not surprised, honestly. After Pakman started side-skirting the Gaza g*nocide when it all kicked off and that made me very unsure of him as a commentator. Plus his condescension towards people who call in or send msgs just rubbed me the wrong way. Eat sh*t Pakman!
aug 28, 2025, 2:30 pm • 5 0 • view
David HACKman
aug 28, 2025, 2:16 pm • 7 0 • view
Cool. Leftist infighting will take us to the places we want to get to, right? Let's make sure to keep attacking the people on our side for not being pure enough. Surely nothing bad will come of this infighting!
aug 28, 2025, 2:26 pm • 2 0 • view
This isn’t leftist infighting lol. Status quo dems aren’t left. They’re conservatives.
aug 31, 2025, 12:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Some of y'all got a stick up your ass about purity politics when the people you're complaining about just want the Dems, which they can't do of they're just pushing out the status quo.
aug 28, 2025, 2:33 pm • 6 0 • view
Just want the Dems to win*
aug 28, 2025, 2:34 pm • 5 0 • view
Right now I'll take "status quo from 2015" over whatever hellscape we're entering. Like fuck Gavin Newsom, but I'm glad he's fighting on our side right now.
aug 28, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I understand that's what you want, but y'all got to think about what everyone else wants. Dems are at record disapproval rating, and registrations are cratering. You may prefer "2015 status quo" to whatever is happening now, but the fact is that the majority of people don't. A visionary is needed.
aug 28, 2025, 3:19 pm • 3 0 • view
You can be angry at an amorphous blob of unaccountable voters, or non-voters all you want, but it doesn't change the reality that you can't force people to vote and people DO NOT want to vote for the status quo Dems.
aug 28, 2025, 3:21 pm • 2 1 • view
So then the solution is to wait for the magic savior that is everything to everyone and THEN we can finally unite against Trump and fascism. I'll hold my breath for that one.
aug 28, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
No the solution is for people to get politically organized with their local communities so we can build working class collective power and stronger, more resilient communities that can oppose fascism and demand a better system. Stop waiting for someone to elect to do the work for you.
aug 31, 2025, 12:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Or like it was proposed even post election in 2024, hear the real bases of the voters and search solutions while creating boundaries of action instead of being closed in towers. Pragmatism doesn't mean allowing everything. And Tim Walz was right: "This time we need to offer more and better"
aug 31, 2025, 3:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't understand why so many people, when confronted with the criticism of low standards, suddenly act like any deviation towards higher ones is an affront to physical reality. Don't you realize that behaviour like that literally harms the Democrats? Demands for higher standards =/= Fantasyland.
aug 28, 2025, 4:51 pm • 3 0 • view
All people are asking of you is to advocate and support for higher standards than the ones currently being pushed by the DNC. The answer to Newsom is not "slap his face & kiss his ass", it's relentless mockery and advocacy towards better & more representative candidates of the base for the primary.
aug 28, 2025, 4:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Then if we're unwilling to compromise because the choices we have available to us aren't the perfect option we want, we can just keep living under fascism and see who gets sent to the concentration camps next. Before we can build in a golden tower, we have to fill in the fucking pit we've dug.
aug 28, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Advocate all you want for better candidates, we DEFINIITELY need them. But I draw the line at shaming someone for "taking money from the Dems" when we're facing down what we are.
aug 28, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
wink wink nudge nudge it’s a secret
aug 28, 2025, 11:03 pm • 1 0 • view
My cat needs acupuncture and stem cell treatments, I want this job! I put out a post saying I was available to troll. So far - nothing.
aug 29, 2025, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view
Its great that democrat corruption is now in "independent" media. God I hate these squirmy liars.
aug 29, 2025, 5:48 am • 3 0 • view
It’s been pretty obvious for a while. He’s supposed to convert progressives into liberals
aug 28, 2025, 3:30 pm • 2 0 • view
And for that, it shows how wasted money became after all these years.
aug 31, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Relieved to learn he isn’t doing it for free.
aug 28, 2025, 2:17 pm • 6 0 • view
He made good money off youtube already...
aug 28, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Right wing “media” has been doing this for years. It would be nice to take all political money out of this but that’s not reality and Dems are way behind. You can’t unilaterally disarm.
aug 28, 2025, 2:18 pm • 12 0 • view
The struggle isn't just GOP vs Dems. It's uniparty vs most of the population. These types of bribes mainly benefit oligarchs and protect a corrupt establishment that does their bidding.
aug 28, 2025, 2:23 pm • 35 1 • view
This. So much needs repeating. This. Get big money out of our representation. You cannot serve it, and your constituents.
aug 28, 2025, 2:31 pm • 14 0 • view
I think people are less upset about the money going to Dems, and more that it's going to Dems who push the status quo/party line, despite that being the very thing that's fucking them over right now.
aug 28, 2025, 2:29 pm • 5 0 • view
Who is talking about “unilaterally disarming”? If we want to act like “our side“ has a moral high ground then we should hold ourselves to standards consistent with that goal. Otherwise, you don’t have any principles.
aug 28, 2025, 3:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Cool. Fascism doesn’t care. Thats where we’re at right now.
aug 28, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Indeed. Fascism doesn't care. That's why it can be cozy with centrist liberalism when they need.
aug 31, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re right. Fascism doesn’t care. x.com/dpakman/stat...
aug 28, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
IMO, we expect the Democrats to do it. But it's important for us to be able to distinguish grassroots from astroturf. We want to know, for our own sakes, who's a paid shill.
aug 28, 2025, 2:21 pm • 4 1 • view
Do you really need to know though? Pakman is very clearly more partisan/pro Democrat and less principled and progressive.
aug 28, 2025, 2:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely. Ditto Brian Tyler Cohen who's more a propaganda shrill of the Democratic establishment. This is why I always puke when they call themselves "left" and "progressive" when they aren't and are defending a status quo which doesn't want a confrontation of change
aug 31, 2025, 3:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Same. And I know the U.S. is pretty far right, but I'm not sure these people really count as "the left" even in a relative sense. It's really easy to launder a lot of people with terrible ideologies when Trump is in power. Criticizing Trump is cheap and easy. Look at the Lincoln Project.
sep 1, 2025, 3:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, no question. But if we're interested in where the pulse of population is, there's a big difference between a YouTuber who has bad politics because they're ignorant, and one who has bad politics because they're paid.
aug 28, 2025, 2:30 pm • 4 0 • view
Checks out. Personally guessed this back in 2024, when Pakman was doing the "I don't see convincing evidence of cognitive decline." That amount of gaslighting, in the face of the OBVIOUS, can only come about from one thing: somebody paying him to say it.
aug 28, 2025, 5:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Gotta fight fire with fire. I don’t care. Pay more people.
aug 31, 2025, 5:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Brian Tyler Cohen and Politics Girl too. And this PAC tells them who they can and can't interview and they have to run interviews by them. Interestingly, none of these people speak up on the genocide in Gaza.
aug 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 22 0 • view
Any "progressive" voice that tip-toes around the Palestinian genocide, or gives a luke warm "I support a 2 state solution" take, is 100% a Democratic PAC shill
aug 28, 2025, 6:11 pm • 14 0 • view
He should have shilled for Russia to get the big bucks.
aug 28, 2025, 2:14 pm • 6 0 • view
Ken continuing his 10 year misinformation campaign
aug 28, 2025, 4:03 pm • 2 0 • view
this sounds like the setup of a very middling YouTube sketch
aug 28, 2025, 2:17 pm • 17 0 • view
Things you couldn't waterboard me into doing:
aug 28, 2025, 4:21 pm • 6 0 • view
TBH it doesn't matter to me if she's a paid shill or not 'cause the moment you call yourself the Regina George of anything, I'm done. Really wish other Millennial women would stop looking at Mean Girls and thinking, "Yeah, I want to be the teen movie bullies." It's gross.
aug 30, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Not so secret anymore
aug 28, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe this is just me but this doesn’t seem like a huge scandal? Like yes obviously a political party is going to want to endorse and incentivize creators who talk good about them. Obviously it’s not ideal, but this has been the political climate for years
aug 28, 2025, 4:17 pm • 2 0 • view
But they pretended and are still pretending that this didn’t influence their coverage
aug 28, 2025, 5:13 pm • 5 0 • view
I think this whole endeavor is less ‘we need a Joe Rogan of the left’ and more like ‘we need a MSNBC on the tik tok and instagram’
aug 31, 2025, 8:07 am • 1 0 • view
Moron
aug 28, 2025, 7:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Yawn
aug 28, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm honestly surprised they paid him to shill for them 'cause he always seemed like one of their guys, anyway. Seems like they paid for something they coulda got for free.
aug 30, 2025, 5:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Where in the Wired piece does it say that?
aug 29, 2025, 7:24 pm • 0 0 • view
For anyone wanting to read more: www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
aug 28, 2025, 2:20 pm • 8 3 • view
I honestly did not know who that was. But yeah, shills gonna shill.
aug 28, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
@briantylercohen.bsky.social too. This is how they respond to fascism: by further exploiting our campaign finance system.
aug 28, 2025, 2:14 pm • 9 1 • view
He’s always been not that great at politics. He supports Zionism for example
aug 28, 2025, 2:15 pm • 10 0 • view
Wrong
aug 28, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
And this surprises nobody
aug 28, 2025, 3:05 pm • 3 0 • view