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I go to sleep, expecting another boring day of clipping a livestream, only to awaken to news that Tim, aka Commentator-2, is part of a federal indictment, & was allegedly being paid by Russian-state media to post videos through their go-between, fellow mixed race Asian, Lauren Chen. The whole indictment has been appended to this post, but I am clipping the sections relevant to the beanie boy:
The story begins with an alleged effort by RT to circumvent restrictions & sanctions placed upon the outlet in the wake of the 2022 Ukraine War. Via funding "an entire empire of covert projects", including Tenet Media, using shell companies, & an imaginary investor named Eduard Grigoriann, "to weaken U.S. opposition to core Government of Russia interests". Two employees of RT, Elena Afanasyeva & Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, spearheaded the operation & sought to influence the editorial decisions of alternative media outlets without it coming directly from Russia:
This would involve using Lauren Chen & Liam Donovan, co-founders of Tenet, as a way to circumvent the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Lauren had previously been paid by RT to publish articles & videos. This offered an avenue for RT to approach her, albeit under false identities to fund & direct Tenet's content:
Lauren & Liam would seemingly be aware that they were working for "Russians" & not a purported Western European. Supposedly, this was never mentioned to Tim, during negotiations Lauren & Liam had with him.
But in order to staff Tenet, Lauren required funding, which the two RT employees were happy to provide, even after Lauren warned that it would cost "well over 2 million a year" to establish a contract for Tim to join Tenet. Persona-1 said that is fine, so long "as we get the right person on board". With this approval from Persona-1, Lauren reached out to Tim to have him join Tenet but Tim argued that he required "100k per weekly episode to make it worth his while":
But, rest assured, Tim Pool is no fool, he insisted on speaking with this Eduard chap, himself. After having his request for Eduard to directly call his phone denied, the representatives for Eduard pushed to use WhatsApp, or Zoom. Apparently this went well, as Lauren said Tim was "happy with the licensing arrangement", but still wanted to know more about whom he was going to work with. To assuage his fears, Lauren recommended that Tim just "finalize the contract and begin working to put his show together", first, as there would be plenty of time to get to know his new business partners, after:
This argument must have worked, because Tim signed the contract:
The greatest part of this is not that Tim may have been duped into taking money to push the propaganda of a foreign power. It is the fact that Tim was a bad return on investment for the foreign power. RT thought they were getting quality content creators to push their message, but Tim only "shared...one video this week" of his Tenet content, despite being one of three commentators consuming nearly all of the $9.7 million that was given to Tenet:
Tim had Anthony Constantino, CEO of Sticker Mule, as the guest.
Hannah & Ian were the co-hosts.
While Tim did make the show about himself, due to the recent news, Anthony & the rest of the panel were able to circumvent it for a good bit of the episode, so it was not as beanie-blather dominated, as usual.
Clip Collection:
-Tim knows well enough not to talk, at length, about his upcoming lawsuit against Kamala Harris. But Tim is always happy to talk about being included in a federal indictment:
-Hannah complains about how the media is talking about the indictment & not other major news stories. Only for Tim to go on to discuss the indictment, at length, which means less time for more meaningful stories:
-Ian discusses the need for a shared language to prevent confusion, but agrees with Hannah on the value in having one's own particular verbiage as well. Ian compares this to how in Dungeon & Dragons, there is Common which nearly everyone speaks but there are racial languages, "Dwarves also know Dwarvish, the Elves know Elvish", with intelligent humans able to speak them, too. Ian points to Anthony, noting he is clearly intelligent, as he speaks Spanish, as if it were another one of the non-human languages. Anthony looks confused on how to take this statement:
-Anthony does make an astute observation, where mail-in ballots are more vulnerable to people being intimidated into filling out a ballot & have no privacy to vote as they truly want:
-Tim mentions wanting to bring Donald Trump onto The Culture War, which was the same show which was licensed for Tenet. I expect this would certainly not be a bad bit of optics, considering the recent news. Surely, Trump appearing on a show that was recently funded by Russia could not be a colossal misstep for him to do. Ian volunteers to join Tim to talk with Trump in order to keep the conversation lively. I can guarantee if Ian was at the same table as Trump, it would certainly be something:
*Kostiantyn Kalashnikov: Russia Today (RT) employee
*Elena Afanasyeva: Russia Today (RT) employee
*U.S. Company-1: Tenet Media
*Founder-1: presumably Lauren Chen, wife to Liam Donovan
*Founder-2: presumably Liam Donovan, husband to Lauren Chen
*Eduard Grigoriann: a fake investor, used by the Russians to cover their involvement
*Persona-1 to 3: assistants to "Eduard", also false identities
*Commentator-1: Could be either Dave Rubin, or Benny Johnson
*Commentator-2: presumably Tim Pool, unwitting Russian propagandist
*Elena Afanasyeva: Russia Today (RT) employee
*U.S. Company-1: Tenet Media
*Founder-1: presumably Lauren Chen, wife to Liam Donovan
*Founder-2: presumably Liam Donovan, husband to Lauren Chen
*Eduard Grigoriann: a fake investor, used by the Russians to cover their involvement
*Persona-1 to 3: assistants to "Eduard", also false identities
*Commentator-1: Could be either Dave Rubin, or Benny Johnson
*Commentator-2: presumably Tim Pool, unwitting Russian propagandist
The story begins with an alleged effort by RT to circumvent restrictions & sanctions placed upon the outlet in the wake of the 2022 Ukraine War. Via funding "an entire empire of covert projects", including Tenet Media, using shell companies, & an imaginary investor named Eduard Grigoriann, "to weaken U.S. opposition to core Government of Russia interests". Two employees of RT, Elena Afanasyeva & Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, spearheaded the operation & sought to influence the editorial decisions of alternative media outlets without it coming directly from Russia:
This would involve using Lauren Chen & Liam Donovan, co-founders of Tenet, as a way to circumvent the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Lauren had previously been paid by RT to publish articles & videos. This offered an avenue for RT to approach her, albeit under false identities to fund & direct Tenet's content:
Lauren & Liam would seemingly be aware that they were working for "Russians" & not a purported Western European. Supposedly, this was never mentioned to Tim, during negotiations Lauren & Liam had with him.
But in order to staff Tenet, Lauren required funding, which the two RT employees were happy to provide, even after Lauren warned that it would cost "well over 2 million a year" to establish a contract for Tim to join Tenet. Persona-1 said that is fine, so long "as we get the right person on board". With this approval from Persona-1, Lauren reached out to Tim to have him join Tenet but Tim argued that he required "100k per weekly episode to make it worth his while":
But, rest assured, Tim Pool is no fool, he insisted on speaking with this Eduard chap, himself. After having his request for Eduard to directly call his phone denied, the representatives for Eduard pushed to use WhatsApp, or Zoom. Apparently this went well, as Lauren said Tim was "happy with the licensing arrangement", but still wanted to know more about whom he was going to work with. To assuage his fears, Lauren recommended that Tim just "finalize the contract and begin working to put his show together", first, as there would be plenty of time to get to know his new business partners, after:
This argument must have worked, because Tim signed the contract:
The greatest part of this is not that Tim may have been duped into taking money to push the propaganda of a foreign power. It is the fact that Tim was a bad return on investment for the foreign power. RT thought they were getting quality content creators to push their message, but Tim only "shared...one video this week" of his Tenet content, despite being one of three commentators consuming nearly all of the $9.7 million that was given to Tenet:
Tim had Anthony Constantino, CEO of Sticker Mule, as the guest.
Hannah & Ian were the co-hosts.
While Tim did make the show about himself, due to the recent news, Anthony & the rest of the panel were able to circumvent it for a good bit of the episode, so it was not as beanie-blather dominated, as usual.
Clip Collection:
-Tim knows well enough not to talk, at length, about his upcoming lawsuit against Kamala Harris. But Tim is always happy to talk about being included in a federal indictment:
-Hannah complains about how the media is talking about the indictment & not other major news stories. Only for Tim to go on to discuss the indictment, at length, which means less time for more meaningful stories:
-Ian discusses the need for a shared language to prevent confusion, but agrees with Hannah on the value in having one's own particular verbiage as well. Ian compares this to how in Dungeon & Dragons, there is Common which nearly everyone speaks but there are racial languages, "Dwarves also know Dwarvish, the Elves know Elvish", with intelligent humans able to speak them, too. Ian points to Anthony, noting he is clearly intelligent, as he speaks Spanish, as if it were another one of the non-human languages. Anthony looks confused on how to take this statement:
-Anthony does make an astute observation, where mail-in ballots are more vulnerable to people being intimidated into filling out a ballot & have no privacy to vote as they truly want:
-Tim mentions wanting to bring Donald Trump onto The Culture War, which was the same show which was licensed for Tenet. I expect this would certainly not be a bad bit of optics, considering the recent news. Surely, Trump appearing on a show that was recently funded by Russia could not be a colossal misstep for him to do. Ian volunteers to join Tim to talk with Trump in order to keep the conversation lively. I can guarantee if Ian was at the same table as Trump, it would certainly be something:
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