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    “useful idiots” comes to mind, though one might qualify that as “suddenly rich, useful idiots.”

    First of all - hilarious sentence.

    Second - Tim Pool is the incarnation of useful idiot, no surprise here.

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    I dunno US law, but wouldn’t accepting money from Russia to propagate the US he some form of light treason.

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      Amusingly enough, a few days ago, Tim Pool claimed he was going to sue the Harris campaign for defamation for claiming he advocated the death penalty when it turned out that there was a longer version of the video preserved elsewhere that he didn’t post to YouTube where he does exactly that- saying he supports it for treason.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8kRQ0ATdWI

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        Hey now do you even know how much a skate park costs. Or how much a man has to pay to keep in all that beanie drip?!

        LOL but seriously yeah I watch that last night dude is full of shit and dead to rights cooked. As Sam put it any lawyer that takes the case that doesn’t require payment up front is only getting what he deserves. Old shallow pool doesn’t have a leg to stand on in any lawsuit.

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      It’s legal, but any income over a certain amount from abroad requires you to register. Guess what they never did. Hence why this legal case is happening.

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      In the allegations, the company that paid them lied to them about where the money came from, so they unfortunately have plausible deniability

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          Yeah the company founders are fucked fucked, but the grifters they hired will likely walk away with little impact.

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        Lol “plausible”… Why don’t we let a jury decide that? Let’s hook these traitors up with some charges already.

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        We’re gonna need proof of that since I don’t trust any of these jokers to tell the truth. It’ll come out in the trial.

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    Following this bombshell news, video evidence of pro-Russian commentary from Tenet’s personalities has resurfaced, such as the clip above, which appeared on the r/JoeRogan subreddit. The clip appears to show Pool blaming Ukraine for the incursion of Russian military forces into their country before demanding the US “should apologize to Russia.”

    This is psychotic. Ukraine is the enemy of this country. Ukraine is our enemy. Being funded by the Democrats, I will stress again, one of the greatest enemies of our nation right now is Ukraine. They are expanding this war. Now, don’t get me wrong. I know you’ve got criminal elements of the US government pushing them and guiding them and telling them what to do. Ukraine is now accused. A German warrant issued for blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline is triggering this conflict. Ukraine is the greatest threat to this nation and to the world. We should rescind all funding and financing, pull out all military support, and we should apologize to Russia.

    Morons.

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    tim pool is a shitlib that repeats CIA propaganda and his statement doesn’t even make sense. an enemy of the US? we COUPED THEM IN 2014. they’re our puppets. we got them to kill tens of thousands of civilians in the independent republics.

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      Look, as an enjoyer of American hegemony, I appreciate you thinking the CIA is powerful enough to psyop over 70% of a whole entire country to be in favor of joining the EU, then forcing the president to say “naw fuck that we love Russia,” but you’re delusional if you think that’s actually the case.

      Oh and the “independant republics” that somehow pulled russian equipment vehicles and checks notes Soldiers out of their asses to fight for independence. Yeah, totally organic.

      Tl;dr: tank elsewhere.