Tenet Media is no more.

The conservative media network folded Thursday night, just one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing it of being funded by Russian state-controlled mediaaccording to Tenet Media field reporter Tayler Hansen.

The indictment accused Tenet and its founders of receiving nearly $10 million from employees of Russia Today as part of “a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Wow. I gotta admit I’m a bit surprised the parties involved killed the operation so quickly. This wasn’t “the FBI shut us down”. This was “lol we got caught red-handed, quick, pull our money out asap”.

    It’s less of a smoking gun, and more like finding someone holding a smoking gun in front of a shot person, and they see you seeing them, so they quickly yeet the gun into the river and run away. Like… bro: we see you, and just watched you do that. The context is utterly damning.

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      2 months ago

      They’re not responding. Quick! Google time in Moscow for the imaginary man in Paris. That’s some stooges level of competence.

      Insult to injury Tim’s father regularly contradicts and pushes back against the narrative his son peddles in his own way. But in the wake of this he even called into the majority report. And had a discussion with Emma Matt and the others.

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          2 months ago

          Explain the context, please.

          P.S. I tried watching Always Sunny, but couldn’t get past second season. I feel like being an American is a soft prerequisite.

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            Dennis is explaining that having sex with a woman is easier on a boat because of “the implications”. Mac asks him if he means the implication of rape, and Dennis unconvincing argues against that characterization.

            Further context: Dennis is a sociopath, and generally a bad person.

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              Thanks.

              And from what I’ve seen, the entire cast of characters are psychopaths and terrible people, so it goes without saying.

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            You’ll have a better understanding of the references and jokes if you’re American, like watching TV from any nation would be, but IASIP is… Not for everyone.

            I get the desire to watch it every few years, and get to around season 7 or 8 before burning out, and I have to admit the only reason I watched past episode 2 was because all my friends kept insisting it gets way better… But it’s not usually my cuppa.

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            2 months ago

            It definitely helps. And even then it’s not for everyone. It’s ironically become a near perfect totem for American conservatism/conservatives. Sociopaths all the way down. You don’t watch the show to identity with a character. And if you do even the actors will tell you that’s a bad thing.

            The entire gang are irredeemable sociopaths. Who get up to selfish, childish antics. But always get hilarious schadenfreude in the end. Over in Europe and especially the kingdom the closest analog I know is bottom.

            Basically the trump administration would have been Danny Devito’s character slathered in orange. Charlie Day playing a more loveable Eric. Rob McElhaney playing junior as he sees himself. Katlin Olson as ivanka and Glen Howeton as jarred. Different names, same antics.