Month: September 2024

Yeah, in news that will shock about three people at most, Russia’s been fiddling with American media… the US company referred to in the above graphic is something called Tenet Media, which I was not previously familiar with; it was co-founded by this ghastly individual, and it stands accused of taking ten million dollars from RT and funnelling it to a variety of other ghastly individuals on their dubious talent roster. The accusation levelled against them don’t actually name specific names, but that hasn’t stopped people from working out who Tenet has been paying on Putin’s behalf… including such figures as Grim Fool and Dave Rubin. I don’t recognise all the names, but those two stood out to me. Tim I’ve spoken about before, and, well, this news certainly casts recent hysterics he had about Ukraine in a different light; Rave Dubin is primary notable for the loudness with which he “left the Left” and the shamelessness of his grifting despite the blatant contempt with which most of his fellow right-wing goons view him.

Rubin was quick to note on Twitter that the indictment presents him and the other unnamed “commentators” as victims of RT/Tenet’s perniciousness, and that’s how they’re presenting themselves. Technically I suppose that’s correct, insofar as they didn’t know who they were actually being paid by… but weird, isn’t it, how little curiosity they all appear to have had about exactly why they were being paid some ridiculous amounts (Rubin made $400,000 per month for his efforts, apparently, and Beanieman was getting $100,000 per individual video) to be all ra ra (Ras)putin; I’ve seen an article claiming actually was curious about where this money was coming from, but he was easily fobbed off by a bullshit profile of a non-existent person the RT people cobbled together to conceal themselves. I suppose when you’re a victim of being paid nearly half a million dollars, you don’t pay too much attention to who’s victimising you.

Anyway, Lauren Chen also used to work for Glenn Beck‘s network The Blaze, which shows just how shitty she’s willing to get. I say used to because The Blaze rather hastily dumped her once this Russian business was announced… apparently even a professional liar and all-round scumbag like Beck has limits regarding who he’ll associate with. Still, I’m sure she’ll be fine, her Russian friends will probably look after her, and in the meantime I suspect we’ll eventually find this was just the tip of an iceberg containing a lot more pieces of right-wing shit shilling for mother Russia, whether knowingly or not. As long as they’re being victimised with lots of money, eh…

Another day, another fuckwit I’ve never heard of until now. Meet Darryl Cooper…

Liberals and conservatives alike have turned on Tucker Carlson after controversial podcaster and self-proclaimed historian Darryl Cooper claimed on Carlson’s show that “millions of people ended up dead” in Nazi concentration camps.
Cooper also painted U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill as the “chief villain” of World War II.
Carlson said on X that Cooper “may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States” when posting The Tucker Carlson Show Monday episode, which featured topics like Christianity and authoritarians like Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin.
The episode went on to feature a series of easily debunked claims by Cooper, who previously achieved virality on the MAGA fringes with a lengthy Twitter thread in July 2021 which claimed to explain that the Jan. 6 insurrection happened because Democrats had lied about Trump.
Of Churchill, Cooper told Carlson, “Now, he didn’t kill the most people, he didn’t commit the most atrocities, but I believe… that when you get into it and tell the story right and don’t leave anything out, you see that he was primarily responsible for that war becoming what it did,” Cooper told Carlson.

I somehow missed that earlier thread, but it sounds like it was of a piece with this bullshit. Admittedly it was nice of him to acknowledge that Churchill being the bad guy didn’t make Hitler the good guy, but… look, my mum fucking DESPISED Churchill—she came from a Scottish mining community and never forgave Winnie’s actions against miners in his earlier years—and even she would never have called him the “chief villain” of WW2. That requires a misunderstanding of history that in turn requires malice rather than mere stupidity and ignorance. Also, Darryl posted this recently…

Yeah, Darryl apparently would rather see Paris with Nazis than with drag performers. He’s evidently deleted this one, whereupon, the Independent article notes,

…Cooper appeared to address the backlash. “I like posting provocative s***, seeing how close I can step up to various lines with going over them,” he said in a post on X. “But there are a few people who, even though they often disagree w/me, try to give me the benefit of the doubt, and when they tell me I’ve crossed over, I check myself. Simple.”

I presume that “check myself” in this case means “think of something else that’s just as if not more ludicrous”. This is all before we even consider his take on the Holocaust, which he seem to acknowledge actually did happen, in that millions of Jews had indeed died by the end of the war… so I suppose that’s something in his favour, but he seems to think those millions of deaths just kind of happened, as if Operation Reinhard hadn’t been a thing. Like the Nazis just accidentally built Chelmno and Treblinka and Sobibor and Belzec purely to exterminate Jews. Like they installed gas chambers at Majdanek and Auschwitz by mistake. Like they didn’t mean to murder a million Soviet Jews in Operation Barbarossa, but all those Jews just died anyway. One of those things that just happens, they shouldn’t have been there if they didn’t want to die, OBVIOUSLY. Lebensraum? Never heard of her!

Gods, FUCK Darryl Cooper, FUCK Fucker Carlson for promoting him, and FUCK OOLONG FOR THIS:

Now the stupid cunt has apparently deleted this endorsement for reasons unknown, which I suppose indicates he actually can be made to recognise he’s done something that makes him look bad… but yeah, in the same week he also posted this:

…and that’s still up, and he’s clearly OK with looking like he’s opposed to democracy and cool with oligarchy, presumably as long as he’s one of the high status males in charge. So much blabbering about freedom of speech, so little interest in freedom of voting by the look of it. No wonder he’s amplifying Hitler enthusiasts. Wonder what Fox News would be doing now if Tucker were still there and promoted this Cooper shithead on his show with them instead of his own network…

I’m always impressed by just how fucking stupid hysterical anti-left propaganda can get. Sometimes, though, you come across an older example of that sort of thing which is so detached from reality it makes even current Republican bullshit look rational. This thing, which I spotted on Threads this evening, is a premium example of that.