Some More News - Some More News: Some Grifters Who Finally Faced Consequences
Episode Date: September 25, 2024Hi. Let's take a look at some lying grifters who may finally be facing consequences for their years (sometimes decades) of being awful. Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QGbXV9T2xJdhNsiXVa...K0lYZEQ70IUJ_3JuSlK0wb6vY/edit?usp=sharing Right now, Whisker is offering $75 off Litter-Robot bundles. AND, as a special offer to viewers, you can get an additional $50 off when you go to https://stopscooping.com/MORENEWS. Beam’s Dream is clinically shown to improve sleep. Click https://shopbeam.com/MORENEWS and use code MORENEWS to shop our exclusive discount and get up to 40% off. Get results you can run your fingers through! For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our viewers $10 off your first month's subscription and free shipping when you go to
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Hey, howdy, hody, here comes the show.
Cody is here with news.
Killed it. I'm trying something new for these intros here.
And you.
Liked. You liked it.
You liked it. Anyway, here's some news.
George Santos is probably going to jail.
That's neat. Remember him?
He's a former messy US representative and weird liar who lied about everything
and was part of the Stop the Steal movement,
a famous weird lie?
Well, it turns out that when you lie a lot
and do fraudulent things and just say stuff about people,
you can get in trouble for that.
I know that sounds outlandish,
especially if you've watched this show,
especially, especially if you've watched this show
talking about the many right-wing grifters
that can apparently just
openly lie about stuff and continue to be supported by enablers and rubes.
But it turns out that actions can have consequences.
Just ask the transphobic and Nazi adjacent super friends, Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling,
currently being named in a lawsuit for saying a bunch of lies online.
And boy, these guys are not alone.
Literally, as we were writing this,
Tim Poole and Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson
were exposed as unwitting Russian assets,
making millions of dollars and maybe pushing propaganda
for what they thought was a Belgian investor,
despite that person having no online record
and their name being misspelled multiple times on documents.
And they still did it.
They saw somebody offer $100,000 for a video garnering
like 5,000 views and they didn't stop to think,
who is benefiting from this besides me
and this ridiculous amount of money I suddenly have?
They willingly repeated the propaganda for money
because it turns out that grifters tend to be very stupid
and willing to say anything
if you pay them.
And that's all to say that it's very nice
to see these liars facing real consequences
for their many, many lies.
And so we thought it would be fun for a change
to actually check in with these weird lying freak liars
and see how that's going for them.
You know, to laugh and point
and perhaps some combination of the two.
We'll see if there's time.
["The Last Post-Code of the Year"]
People who found out.
Oh yeah, tis the season of finding out.
You know, like that meme or that meme or even that meme.
It seems that in the internet age,
people have forgotten that you can't just say things online,
even people who own entire social media sites.
We've far evolved past the days of anonymous usernames
on forums and chat zones, spelled with three Zs,
but I won't tell you where,
as the internet has pretty much taken over reality
as we know it.
And while that sucks and blows,
the one silver lining is that very stupid liars
seem completely comfortable saying very incriminating things
in writing for everyone to see and scrutinize and litigate.
So let's look at those dips.
Think of it like a,
like a where are they now for red hot spite.
And speaking of red things.
Alex Jones, a lifetime of pain and payin'.
No better appetizer than Infowars founder,
host and cherry flavored baked potato, Alex Jones.
Yummers.
Mm, no.
You know Jones?
He's that conspiracy theorist and brain pill spokesman
known for making such brave and bold claims
like the Boston bombing was staged,
or that the Obama administration tested weapons
that controlled the weather,
or that aliens were making cybernetic slaves
to serve the devil.
Actually, that last one,
kinda wish that was real.
Or at least a movie. Give know, give Ron Perlman
and Peter Stormare some work for crying out loud.
Anyway, speaking of crying out loud,
Jones kind of got away with being a conspiracy party clown
until he decided to profit off of the actual death
of children, which for a party clown
is generally frowned upon.
Alex Jones repeatedly claimed
that the shooting never happened.
Here he is on Infowars in December 2014.
But it took me about a year with Sandy Hook
to come to grips with the fact that the whole thing was fake.
You said the whole thing is a giant hoax.
How do you deal with a total hoax?
It took me about a year with Sandy Hook
to come to grips with the fact that the whole thing was fake.
I did deep research and my gosh, it just pretty much didn't happen.
Stumped by Megyn Kelly. All you have to do is say Santa is white, bro. She will hug you.
Calling the Sandy Hook tragedy fake naturally upset the surviving parents and families of those real, actual, factually dead children,
especially when InfoWars fans kept harassing
and accusing them of being crisis actors.
So they successfully sued Jones
for real, actual, factual defamation
and won a whopping 1.5 billion
with a big OB dollars in damages.
Jones had to file for bankruptcy
because that's what should happen if you lose a billion bucks, big OB dollars in damages. Jones had to file for bankruptcy because, you know,
that's what should happen if you lose a billion bucks,
especially a billion and a half.
Not that anyone should have a billion dollars
to begin with, of course,
but we're not talking about that today.
Not only did Jones lose his stake in Infowars
and his media company,
which is apparently called Free Speech Systems,
but he has to cash out his personal assets
in order to pay off the lawsuit.
Neat, Infowars is still able to exist
and remain in operation.
Neat rescinded, but the families involved in the suit
can make individual claims
to obtain any revenue Infowars creates.
Neat reinstated.
While it's unlikely that those families
will be able to fully collect $1.5 billion,
they essentially can claim any revenue that Jones makes going forward for the rest of his goddamn life.
Now, while Jones is trying to shift his money through the supplement company of his dentist father
in order to avoid paying them via loophole, these families can still legally pursue him and likely win.
And even though Jones still has a groundswell of fans that will support
him beyond all logic and decency, and Jones will bark, bray, and say he won't pay, he is significantly
in the shit and is treading water, treading shit water. And unfortunately for him and the frogs,
this water won't make him gay. For the foreseeable future, Jones will be bleeding money and on the brink of losing everything at all times.
I wouldn't wish that stress on anybody,
except Alex Jones.
All that said, while I'm glad for the outcome
and have no sympathy for Alex Jones specifically,
the whole thing is still just sad.
Sad for the families who lost their kids
and then were harassed for years, obviously.
But also like, Jones has kids, four of them,
one with a new wife and three with his ex-wife
who very understandably fought for custody many years back.
And it's sad to see this very weird and toxic dude
double and triple down on this deranged legacy
of scummy conspiracy grifting
and pass that burden onto other people.
Like one of his kids apparently did an Infowars video
that's since been taken down.
It just has that Westboro Baptist Church stink to it
where this one dude has started this weird little toxic cult
and dragged everyone around him down with him
because it is a cult, albeit a one-person cult.
Jones can claim to be a performance artist in court
and that his life is pure misery while never actually seeking any kind of
change or atonement, even when it's no longer even financially lucrative
for him to spread his lies.
So this is just his life now.
There's no going back from this.
There's no way to rehabilitate, not even in a media
landscape that will absolve unflushable turds like Glenn Beck.
Jones will just keep spiraling forever
and take as many people as he can with him.
And that's kind of sad, not as sad as your child dying
and then being harassed for it.
So, you know, saying that out loud,
I guess I'm not sad for Jones anymore.
And speaking of sad guys,
James O'Keefe, undercover idiot.
If you're unfamiliar with James O'Keefe
or Project Veritas, that's good.
It's good to not know about, read,
or watch anything they've made.
Not because they're dangerous per se,
potentially harmful, but also like worthless.
A waste of everyone's time.
The borderlands movie of political operatives
down to the obviously terrible editing.
Project Veritas is a right-wing media group
seemingly obsessed with exposing the libs
with hidden camera operations.
I guess the idea was to get left-leaning figures
confessing to bad stuff on camera,
like the ending of A Few Good Men.
The problem being that it was completely hinged
on people acting like movie characters and badly written ones at that. This is all to say that in actuality, Project Veritas
was just a group of very dim people trying very poorly to frame progressives as being sinister,
only to end up looking like a gaggle of dipshits. And the reason they keep doing it is because,
to their credit, this tactic of lying and manipulative editing
has kind of worked for them.
Well, it's at least worked once for them.
And O'Keefe has been chasing that high ever since.
Like when your dog finds a squirrel in a bush one time
and then forever has to check that bush on every walk.
It's not gonna be there, Maggie.
I'm so sorry.
It's just not.
We're on a walk.
We gotta keep going.
This success story started back in 2009
when O'Keefe sold videos to Breitbart
of a two-person sting operation
against the Association of Community Organizations
for Reforms Now or ACORN,
not to be confused with people enacting acronyms needlessly
until the title indicates nothing germane or peanutting.
ACORN had several objectives,
but was primarily focused on fighting for housing
and better wages for low income workers and families.
In various cities, O'Keefe and his journalist partner,
Hannah Giles, secretly recorded visits into Acorn offices
and their interviews with the staff.
Posing as a stereotypical pimp and prostitute,
O'Keefe and Giles asked the Acorn members
how to launder their money
and disguise their underage sex trafficking business,
bringing over 15-year-olds from El Salvador
to work in their brothels.
At the time, Congress partially funded Acorn,
and so this expose got a lot of media attention.
Do we have clips?
We should talk to you about, which might complicate our taxes,
is that we've got a couple girls overseas coming over, you know what I mean? Do we have clips? I'm interested in taking care of them and getting them used to the area. And they're very young and we don't want to put them on the books.
They're from El Salvador. There's like 13 of them.
Okay.
And they're probably going to move into the house.
Okay, seems bad. Do we have another one?
There's like 12 of them. Is that okay?
12?
12.
12 girls.
There's 12 girls, but they're like, there's like 13 to 15 years old.
Yeah.
So just looking at those videos,
that really doesn't appear good.
And it makes sense that this would ping Fox News,
Glenn Beck and Forbes among other outlets.
But did you notice all those jump cuts in those clips?
Seems fishy, right?
A little sus, like a sussy fish.
Well, the Brooklyn district attorney also noticed that,
which led to no charges being filed against Acorn,
because it turns out that in the unedited footage,
O'Keefe never claimed to be a pimp
in front of the Acorn employee,
which is what he specifically leads you to think
in his videos.
He even cuts in sequences where he's walking around
dressed like a pimp,
as if that's what he wore to these meetings.
Yes and yes.
Except he didn't wear that at the meetings. He put on a costume, did some b-roll, then changed back
into a suit to get the actual footage. Also, sorry, correction, he dressed like what a suburban
conservative kid thinks a pimp looks like. He dressed like what a suburban conservative kid
thinks a pimp looks like.
He looks like Chester Cheetah
if he was a mascot for oat milk.
See what I mean about them being very stupid?
As for context, another thing these videos didn't show
was the fact that at least one Acorn employee
was specifically fishing for information
so he could report O'Keefe to the police,
which when you think about it is exactly what anyone would do in this situation.
You wouldn't confront them there in the office, you'd report them after.
This is why James's entire model is so inherently deceptive.
Most people don't immediately push back if they think you're a criminal.
They nervously smile and nod and then quietly deal with it once you're gone.
And yet, instead of pointing any of this out, Acorn went into full PR damage control, firing some of their employees,
including that guy who was planning to report the meeting.
That dude ended up suing O'Keefe for $100,000 because of that fact.
So as a grift, this actually cost him money.
But maybe that wasn't his goal.
Maybe he just wanted to destroy a group devoted to helping low income families
to get some right wing cred, you know, you got to get that right wing freak cred
and destroy he did and cred he received.
Even though those videos were clearly faked, the damage was done.
And that ammunition helped push Congress to cut off Acorn's funding.
And in spite of O'Keefe's fraudulent expose reporting being expose-ed, Breitbart still
supported O'Keefe in his quest to repeatedly trip on his own terms, up until the time he
tried to do a sting on CNN, only to get stung by his own stinger.
Izzy told me the plan was to bring me close to the dock
and then ask me if I would consent to having my meeting
with James recorded on an audio recorder.
If I said yes, she would get me on the boat
where James was waiting
and where hidden video cameras were rolling.
Why is his goal to get me on the boat?
She said because on the boat,
he's gonna be there, dressed up, and he's going to
have strawberries and champagne waiting for you.
And he was going to hit on you the whole time.
Hey, question.
What?
So apparently, in an attempt to expose hypocrisy, O'Keefe tried to, big boy quotes,
seduce a CNN reporter on a boat
that reportedly had a ceiling mirror,
pornographic posters, sex toys, and hidden cameras.
You know how women love being lured onto boats
in the middle of nowhere
by men whose attire and environment indicate
that they do this all the time?
I feel like we could do an entire episode
on the many ways this plan was sad and weird,
including but not limited to the fact
that O'Keefe was just clearly trying to film
a sex tape on the company dime.
And this is what he thought was sexy
or romantic or alluring.
Kind of like how he thought this is what a pimp was.
Anyway, O'Keefe's then assistant exposed the ruse
to the reporter, probably because it was fucking creepy.
And the story went from an O'Keefe exposee about CNN
into a CNN exposee about O'Keefe.
And again, I don't know how many times I can say
that he's a dim freak.
Anyway, that was the last straw for Breitbart
who dropped O'Keefe in 2010.
This was on top of the fact that earlier that year,
O'Keefe had been arrested in New Orleans
for attempting to tap a senator's phone, which is a wild thing to do unless you don't know what
crimes are. So after pleading guilty to a lesser charge and serving probation that limited his
travel, on top of losing his grift job, O'Keefe had to start fresh, and he launched Project Veritas
that same year as a non-profit. A non-profit! I guess to his credit, and he launched Project Veritas that same year as a nonprofit. A nonprofit!
I guess to his credit, it sure doesn't seem like
he's very profitable considering all of the lawsuits.
At this point, James had a taste of the spotlight,
albeit as a laughing stock and a fraud,
but he just couldn't walk away.
In 2011, he attempted a repeat of his Acorn video success
by launching a similar sting against NPR,
posing as a Muslim group attempting to bribe NPR executives
in exchange for favorable coverage of Islam.
The video footage, as you probably guessed,
was yet again heavily edited.
Still, the move garnered favor in conservative circles,
I wonder why, and forced those NPR executives to resign,
even though in the unedited
footage, the NPR executives repeatedly expressed that donor money wouldn't influence NPR's coverage.
Basically, all of O'Keefe's victories stem from bureaucrats playing it safe as opposed to exposing
any actual wrongdoing. This pattern would continue when Project Veritas went on to get a boost from this guy.
In 2015, the somehow future president would donate around $20,000 to Project Veritas for their support. Hey, isn't that exactly what they accused NPR of doing?
Taking bribes for favorable coverage?
But now funded by MagaBucks,
O'Keefe and Project Veritas
attempted another sting operation
on Hillary Clinton staffers
to expose them as troublemakers,
inciting violence at Trump rallies.
It doesn't matter what the fricking legal and ethics people
say, we need to win this motherfucker.
Hillary is aware of all the work that you guys do, I hope.
The campaign is fully in it.
And then they tell Hillary what's going on.
Well, Hillary knows who changed her mind.
Yeah.
I'm not suggesting we wait around.
We need to start this shit right away.
Cool graphics, James!
As you can tell by the really slick introduction
that they probably stole from Andrew Kramer
and the fine people at Video Copilot,
much of the video is heavily edited
to make those staffers look extra bloodthirsty
for Mr. Trump.
But in spite of the video being doctored,
Trump still cited them in several campaign speeches
to falsely blame Clinton for the violence at his rallies,
which as the pattern dictates,
caused some low-level Clinton staffers to step down.
So by now you might think
that Project Veritas was indestructible.
However, they did have an Achilles heel
or rather a thermal exhaust port.
And that was the fact that they were run
by a wannabe theater kid and dummy
from the New Jersey suburbs
who thought a pimp looked like a cartoon character
and women love it when strangers serenade them with butt plugs.
O'Keefe was, by all accounts, a spoiled dipshit who reportedly
spent hundreds of thousands of Veritas dollars on private expenses,
while also being a general dick about it to his staff.
Some of those private expenses, by the way, seem to be all in service
of O'Keefe's desire to be like a musical theater star.
He used project Veritas money to be in Oklahoma
and tried to DJ at Coachella.
Most of his sting videos
tend to have some kind of musical element.
And it all just seems clear
that while trying to pretend to be a serious journalist
or political operative,
much like a lot of his compatriots
in the right wing griftosphere,
he just wants to perform to be a star.
Let's watch.
["The Land, The Land, The Land, The Land"]
Ooh, nice try.
Don't quit your day job.
Do get forced out of it though,
because by 2023, O'Keefe was so disliked by everyone
at Project Veritas that employees
wrote up a letter of no confidence, citing various complaints about O'Keefe's leadership
and behavior, such as forcing employees to take a polygraph test to sniff out a mole.
He also yelled at a co-worker during a public trial in front of the jury because he was
hungry and, no foolin', stole a pregnant woman's sandwich.
Jesus H.B.L-T Christ.
What a fucking weird dim sheltered freak.
Project Veritas had enough of O'Keefe's shit
and ousted him entirely.
Then O'Keefe launched O'Keefe Media Group,
which, since this segment is all about initials
and acronyms apparently, was coined.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Hey, my gosh.
Hey, can't help but notice that all of O'Keefe's grifts seem to involve making hot women go near him.
It's almost like he's incredibly creepy.
While it sold half a million dollars worth of subscriptions within 24 hours
of launching, OMG has ceased uploading content to its website,
with its last post being in 2023,
which, here's some news, was last year.
It currently relies on YouTube and X as a platform
and depends on sponsors to generate revenue.
In 2024, he just rehashes old news
with a scumbag scandal coat of paint
with very timely topical trolling
like harassing Disney employees for being woke.
Because what's sad and pathetic in 2022
can be sadder and pathetic-er in 2024, I guess.
O'Keefe went from being a headline-making,
wonderkinned, yellow journalist
that was frequently on national television
to a shitty 40-something man on the street harasser
that has less than 300,000 subscribers
and barely has any videos that break past 150,000 views.
On top of that, New York prosecutors are going after him
for all of his money mishandling and being a shitbag to employees
because it turns out the whole nonprofit thing has rules.
Meanwhile, Project Veritas laid off most of its staff
and paused any fundraising due to O'Keefe's misuse of their funds
as the group continues to be crushed by the weight of lawsuits against it,
either by those they exposed or from former employees.
And the moral to this, and a lot of this video,
is that if your entire business model
is based on scams and lies,
it's only inevitable that you end up scamming
and lying to everyone around you.
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Okay, are we back from break?
Can I start speaking? Can I start speaking?
Am I already speaking?
Hey, Cody, I didn't expect to see you here.
What is this?
Just do the bit.
No bits, idiot.
Ugh, sorry.
That was supposed to come out cute.
I just wanted to see how you were doing, you know,
since Warren Bow locked us into the studio
and also my house a few weeks ago.
Oh, I'm good actually.
I started eating dead things.
Great to hear.
Fun story I listened to.
Hey, unrelated question.
Do you have any food that I could like eat?
You ate all your food after abandoning me here?
Is that it?
You abandoned me here because you had food,
but then you ate all the food and now you want food.
Did I get that right?
You make it sound so unseemly, but yeah,
that actually perfectly describes why I am calling.
You couldn't ration, do some bootstraps pulling?
See, you would think that,
but I made these 10-layer nachos
and they don't really reheat that well.
And I'm not a big leftovers gal, to be honest.
10 layers?
Yes, so what you do is you actually start
with a layer of cheese, then you add the canned beans,
then take these survival ration bars,
mash those up.
So welcome back.
We were discussing some of the grifters and liars
that skated by for way too long
until they actually saw consequences,
which is thematically fitting, it seems.
And fun, this is mostly fun.
No reason to stop having fun is my motto, fun Cody.
So let's choo-choo that fun train
and talk about Jacob Wall
and that other guy who hangs out with him.
Jacob Wall and Jack Berkman, world's worst liars.
I know I've mentioned how a lot of these grifters are dim,
but to their credit, yes,
to the credit of Alex Jones and James O'Keefe,
they were at least marginally successful at lying for at least a small amount of time.
Jacob Wall and Jack Berkman, on the other hand, have never been good at lying, to the point that you almost feel bad for them.
Like, if they're watching, hi, thanks for watching. I highly suggest that you find some other line of work that is not grifting.
Snowboarding?
I don't know. Anything would be better. For a little background, Jacob Wall is a far-right
activist that got his start as an early 20s Twitter finance bro, who flaunted investment
strategies to his followers while secretly cheating his clients out of his investments.
But when Trump got into office, the guy completely switched to right-wing grifter mode and began to smear anyone
who was even remotely anti-Trump. In 2018, he and his associate, Republican lobbyist Jack Berkman,
tried to set up Robert Mueller by paying women to accuse him of sexual assault. It didn't work,
of course, but despite getting their dicks so thoroughly pushed in the dirt, amazingly,
the two tried the same fucking plan against Pete Buttigieg,
this time paying young men to lie. The alleged victims would end up immediately confessing to
lying, because it turns out that even when you do it for money, it's not worth the incredible
scrutiny you face when you publicly accuse someone of sexual assault, which is why most
people don't do that unless they're telling the truth. Something to perhaps note.
Anyway, later in the year, Wall held a groundbreaking bombshell of a press conference
regarding yet another, I'm sure, totally real sex scandal, this time involving Elizabeth Warren
and a military veteran escort. I'm seeing a pattern. So how did that press conference go?
Today we're presenting some very serious allegations against Senator Elizabeth Warren.
She was involved in a very explicit relationship with a male escort who stands to my left
side, a decorated U.S. combat veteran, somebody who served our country, a war hero, truly.
I don't think this is a funny thing.
Yeah, it didn't go well.
It appeared that the only reason anyone from the press came
was just to put a little fun in their day
because they knew about the pattern.
But okay, I just got finished saying
that we should believe victims,
even if those victims are hanging out
with serial sex scandal hoaxers.
Was there any proof?
You can see two scars here.
That was from the Katonine Tales.
That was from Senator Warren's transgressions.
I'm sorry, is that a triple X tattoo
from the Vin Diesel film?
Does that man have a tattoo from the 2002 Diesel film, does that man have a tattoo
from the 2002 Rob Cohen action film, Triple X,
the one where Vin Diesel snowboards down an avalanche
to stop a terrorist organization called Anarchy 99
that he had previously infiltrated
after being recruited by agent Augustus Gibbons
for a secret extreme sports spy division of the NSA
on account of Vin Diesel's pass as a lawless Robin Hood type
who crashed a crooked Senator's car
and would go on to fake his death only to return again
when called upon by the CIA to investigate the assassination
of agent Augustus Gibbons after a satellite crashed on him
whilst he was busy attempting to recruit
the Brazilian footballer Neymar Jr. while in a diner
only to learn that agent Augustus Gibbons
and also Neymar faked their deaths and was rebuilding the Triple X program all over again.
He got that as a tattoo, really.
That is...
It's awesome.
I want that.
I should be Triple X.
I'm a family, right?
Anyway, this was all a lie and didn't work
or even hurt Warren's reputation at all.
Also, that guy's military record turned out to be fake and he wasn't actually an escort.
But still, that tattoo is legit.
So at this point, you would think that this embarrassment would slow Wall and Berkman down or at least give them some pause.
But amazingly, they just kept doing this to pretty much any public figure the right was mad at.
Fauci!
They of course did it to Fauci early in the pandemic.
And that still didn't work after the accuser
once again confessed to lying 10 days afterward.
It's like Bard grabbing the cupcake.
Just stop.
Stop it, guys, stop it.
And as if they weren't being punished enough,
that same year they got back on that loser horse
and co-ran a robo calling scheme.
85,000 or so robo calls they are accused of making
to mostly minorities in cities including Detroit,
trying to scare people from voting by mail.
That if you vote by mail,
your personal information will be part of a public database.
But that number was dwarfed by the FCC,
which is now proposing a $5.1 million fine for the payer,
the largest ever under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Guys, stop!
Find a different job,
or at least different business partners.
It is not working out.
Guys, guys, guys, stop.
Since this scam was done across multiple states,
that meant that multiple state attorneys general
and prosecutors specific went after this,
including Ohio's Cuyahoga County common please court,
which fined them, put them on probation
and gave them a community service sentence
of 500 hours of registering voters.
Because if you do a crime in Cuyahoga County,
you best know that justice is gonna be poetic and ironic.
Wall and Berkman are still facing consequences
from their robocall bedshitting
as the two settled with New York's attorney general
for $1.25 million this year
for violating the Voting Rights Act and the KKK Act.
They're both still going through the Michigan court system
for criminal charges,
and Berkman has lost his license to practice law,
though curiously not his license to shred the gnar.
Just saying guys, just saying.
If getting hammered by state courts wasn't enough,
the FCC has fined them $5 million too.
And so surely by now they would stop doing scams.
Like at least James O'Keefe had a mediocre success
where you can kind of understand
why he's chasing that high again.
But with these guys, it's never worked.
Stay down, you lost the fight guys.
And yet amazingly, just this month,
it was revealed that Jacob Wall and Jack Berkman
have been secretly running an AI lobbying firm
and lying about who their clients were,
creating false screenshots on their webpage
claiming that they worked with Home Depot, Visa,
Capital One, Lockheed Martin, Toyota, Microsoft,
Pfizer and fucking Palantir.
Are they addicted to being sued?
Is it their common fetish?
This is like watching a gambling addict, except statistically speaking,
gambling addicts sometimes win.
Just pick any other job.
Guys, seriously, do they have any close loved ones
who can perhaps step in?
Or you know, whatever, I don't care also.
Let's move on.
Sean King, because both sides.
Fair and balanced, assholes.
I got you, because leftists can be grifter sometimes,
less often for some reason,
but yeah, very slime people on both sides.
So Sean King is an activist and organizer
in the social justice space,
rising into the spotlight on social media
during the Black Lives Matter movement
throughout 2014 and 2015.
King gained a heavy following as he called out injustice
and rallied others for the movement,
asking people to donate toward BLM or other such causes. King certainly said the right things and
made the right enemies. Far, far right enemies. Conservative media, including Milo Yiannopoulos,
man you don't really hear about him anymore, I wonder why, I wonder where he went, what's going
on Milo, where'd you go? Questioned King's race, claiming that he wasn't really black or biracial,
because apparently all the far right cares about
isn't actual substantial criticism, but identity politics.
This bad faith attack against King
granted him some credibility from the left
and even some top level support,
most notably from Bernie Sanders.
Steal the burn!
But okay, nothing nefarious so far.
However, this burst in popularity also came
with a burst in funding for his various ventures.
And it turns out that when you make a lot of money,
it messes you up for some reason.
There should be an easy two-word saying for that.
Money,
bads.
That's pretty good.
And so reportedly, King began a very simple grift.
Helma, nonprofit, kickstarters,
or some other money raising cause,
take money and then abandon that cause.
By the time people would start wondering
where the money went,
he would have moved on to something else.
He basically began to survive
by swinging from one fundraiser to the next,
like a grifter Tarzan.
In 2011, he held a fundraiser to tour and climb mountains
throughout the world and then by his own admission,
quit four days into training.
He then developed a university that was essentially
a life coaching course that he also bailed on.
Maybe you need the life coaching course, you can bail on it.
In 2015, he started an online fundraising campaign
for the mother of Tamir Rice that garnered $60,000.
But King failed to mention that to Rice or her attorneys.
That money was seized by the court
and was eventually placed in a trust
per the instruction of Rice's legal team.
After, that legal team took out nearly half of that money
in legal fees.
Hey, wow, I feel like that bears repeating.
Sean King started a fundraiser
for Tamir Rice's grieving mother,
who at that time was homeless,
and then didn't actually involve her in that fundraiser.
He's claimed he was going to give it to her,
but we'll never know.
Also, Sean would continue to have a bad relationship
with Rice's mother for years to come.
So that seems like a clear sign you haven't actually helped someone. Also, Sean would continue to have a bad relationship with Rice's mother for years to come.
So that seems like a clear sign
you haven't actually helped someone.
It's not a great look to have an ongoing beef
with a grieving mother.
And this wouldn't be the last time he funded something
without actually having permission.
King also promoted a fundraiser
to help the Refugee and Immigrant Center
for Education and Legal Services
reunite immigrant children with their families
during the Trump administration.
And then took credit for its success,
even though the organizer said King never coordinated
or spoke with them.
So either he just fundamentally doesn't understand
how fundraising works in that you have to actually talk
to the people you are raising money for,
or he's not actually concerned with helping anyone.
Also, you may have noticed that we don't have any clips of Sean King in our segment.
That's not to say there are no videos of him, but to his own admission,
he doesn't do press conferences or interviews because, as he puts it,
he just wants to do the work. That work being starting fundraisers that may or may not actually go to something
or someone besides him.
Yeah, I see why you might not want
to put yourself out there,
but darn it, it also makes it really hard
for us to break up this video
with some kind of clip to cut to.
Come on, Sean, help us out somebody.
Boobies, butts, a penis.
Perfect interstitial,
took the words right out of my boobies, butts, a penis. Perfect interstitial, took the words right out of my
boobies, butts, and a penis.
Anyway, in 2018, King raised money
through multiple investors and subscribers
to launch The North Star,
a media company that he stated would bring hard news
and commentary regarding social justice topics
through videos and podcasts,
featuring several journalists
and White House correspondents.
But currently, The North Star Star is as of this writing,
just a fucking sub stack newsletter
that only King himself writes
with only five people on staff,
including King and two of his relatives.
It's a blog, like what you could make right now
with your buddies.
And yet incredibly the fundraiser made
at the lowest estimate, $1.5 million a year
for his blog.
Like you can go on the blog
and see that every reasoned article
was just written by this one guy, Sean King.
It's a blog, but making over a million dollars a year
to do your blog still wasn't enough for Seanathan.
He started yet another nonprofit,
the Grassroots Law Project,
and raised over $6 million in its first year.
Its stated goal was to fund the review
of prosecutorial injustices in major cities
after the death of George Floyd.
Those projects, as you have probably predicted,
didn't launch off the ground.
Not even a little piddly sparkler's worth of a launching.
But that didn't stop King from taking a nearly quarter
of a million dollar cut from the funds that were raised.
After all, he earned it.
So heck, Spanx on rice.
It sure would be nice if this stopped.
While King has yet to be charged with any crimes,
the audience he garnered has waned
as his reputation is scrutinized
by fellow activists and podcasters.
Dozens of former collaborators
from various groups King was involved with
wrote open letters discussing King's shoddy management
of their funds, along with a 2019 social media post
signed by activists from BLM, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Ferguson Response Network,
among many others that stated, quote,
"'In the past four years,
King has launched several efforts,
all of which failed or faded away without explanation.
Each of these efforts had substantial monetary investment
from both community and donors
with questions that remain unanswered to this day.
Boy, really seems like a bad sign
when a bunch of people come together
to specifically tell you to stop.
Like the latest cause that Sean King is involved in
is stopping Sean King.
But you can't keep a grifter down.
King would focus his efforts towards Gaza in 2024
and was invited as keynote speaker
at a Council on American Islamic Relations event.
But luckily, people started to actually get wise,
and his invitation was revoked after community members brought up the whole
grifting performative asshole thing.
So hey, that's a start.
And I don't know, maybe this is why there are fewer grifters on the left?
Because they seem to get pushed out of the movement like a splinter.
At least,
eventually. It's pretty telling that philanthropy was the viable route for this grift, and that definitely speaks to the left's willingness to toss money at an injustice
without checking if it's going to the right people or helping in the right way.
And in terms of just taking money directly from people by lying, Sean might be the biggest grifter on this list.
So damn, maybe we should just buy coffee mugs
that say conservative tears
instead of giving the money to him.
Oh snap, that actually reminds me of this other thing
we gotta do again.
So let's just do it.
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Yeah, totally.
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Okay.
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Just, I don't know, mail me some food.
I'm locked in the studio.
You'll have to fend for yourself.
Fine, fine, fine.
I am resourceful.
I can hunt.
There's bound to be a deer in this house somewhere.
You see, okay, I recently moved.
I know I shouldn't enjoy suffering,
but I enjoy her suffering.
So we've gone over a lot of the dingy grifters, you know, the people mostly hidden behind
the veil of a social media or internet show, those cowards!
But now it's time to step it up a bit.
I'm guessing a lot of right-wing online grifting feels innocuous to some people precisely
because it's online, which is also why these people thought
they could get away with it.
For most of us, they existed as these abstract characters
with no real connection to reality.
But then before we knew it,
grifters like Andy No began to show up
at serious Senate hearings.
Actual politicians started listening to these freaks,
several of which were Russian assets, it seems.
And then came January 6th,
when all that abstract grifting suddenly became this
very real thing.
This is all to speculate that perhaps the reason
we're actually starting to see more consequences
is because authorities have realized the dangers
these liars can cause specifically to our elections,
which brings us to all the Insurrection Freaks,
specifically these Insurrection Freaks.
Ali Alexander and Sidney Powell, Insurrection Freaks.
There are of course, many more people
that march under the Insurrection Freak banner.
One of them wants to be the president again.
I lumped these two together because they're lower level
and titles aren't cheap, folks.
You know how many whales we have to kill for one title?
Too many.
It's more than zero.
I'm still not sure why.
Find out why.
There have also been a lot of arrests so far
for the actual people who stormed the Capitol,
including at least one cast member of Mr. Show.
And man, we will get the rest of them someday.
Choo-choo, the herky-jerky insurrectionist.
But it's always sort of rubbed me the wrong way
that the actual people who incited this event
have managed to slip by
because they weren't physically connected
to the insurrection attempt.
Ali Alexander is of course one of those people.
He was one of the key activists
in the far right behind the Stop the Steal movement,
who teamed up with several MAGA diehards and congressmen
to pressure Congress to overturn the 2020 election.
How do we know he did this? Because he told us.
So I'm going to let you guys know how we're responding, because I was the person
who came up with the January 6th idea with Congressman Gosar, Congressman Mo Brooks,
and then Congressman Andy Biggs. We four schemed up of putting maximum pressure on Congress while
they were voting so that who we couldn't lobby, we could change the hearts and the minds of
Republicans who were in that body, hearing our loud war from outside.
Now to be fair and balanced and super naive,
Alexander has gone on record,
lamenting the fact that people entered the US Capitol.
So his defense is that he was simply organizing
a peaceful protest that got out of hand.
And honestly, I'm sympathetic to that in a climate
where politicians are looking for slimy ways
to make protesting a crime, specifically targeting the people who organize these events
to make them responsible for any damage caused during them.
That is wrong, and dare I say, bad.
However, Alexander's claim that he didn't want
to incite violence or have people storm the US Capitol
would go down a lot smoother
if he hadn't literally filmed himself
watching people
storming the Capitol while directly saying,
I do not denounce this to the camera.
I want to say something.
I don't disavow this.
I do not denounce this.
My absolute goodness.
The gall of claiming you didn't do a thing
when you literally filmed a video of you doing the thing
while saying I 100% support doing this thing. Incredible. These people are so bad at doing
crimes. Anyway, we also have multiple quotes of him saying that he totally wanted to incite violence.
Not that it matters when he literally filmed a confession, but for example, two weeks prior
to the Capitol storming,
he spoke at a rally saying, quote,
one of our organizers in one state said,
we're nice patriots, we don't throw bricks.
I leaned over and I said, not yet, not yet.
Haven't you read about a little tarn feathering?
Those were second degree burns.
We're going to convince them to not certify the vote
on January 6th by marching hundreds of thousands,
if not millions of patriots,
to sit their butts in DC and close that city down, right?
And if we have to explore options after that, yet, yet.
So yeah, yet was the key word there.
And that's not the only example.
Back in early December of 2020,
Alexander talked about efforts
to overturn the election results
in an off-camera interview on a far-right channel.
If you believe what I believe,
which is that our election was stolen,
if you believe what I believe,
and that's that we'll never have another fair election
again, then it's time to burn the house
before giving it to the enemy.
You can see how slippery he phrases things,
at least when he's not saying,
I do not denounce this directly to a camera.
Everything else is vaguely figurative in that theoretically,
if an election was stolen,
the only recourse we have was to escalate
in the direction of violence.
But that would be a lot more persuasive
if the election was stolen, more on that in a bit.
Alexander had several other videos
of him discussing plans for January 6th,
but after the failed insurrection,
he deleted many of them for some reason.
And for a long while, that's it.
He never really saw consequences.
Twitter kicked Alexander off the platform,
but then Elon Musk brought him back
because of course he did.
However, recently,
Alexander seems to have been suspended again.
That's interesting.
I wonder why.
Probably has something to do with him
grooming underage boys and trying to buy their silence.
Yeah, that might be why.
Authorities in Texas and Colorado
are now investigating Alexander for that.
And he has since been trying to hide from public life.
And so this is all to say that he finally is facing
some kind of legal consequences for his actions,
just not the actions he's most known for.
So good enough, I guess.
Anyway, maybe we'll have more luck with Sidney Powell.
She was one of several lawyers on Trump's legal team
that attempted to get the election results overturned.
Her strategy was to adopt election fraud conspiracies,
such as accusing Dominion voting machines
and the Smartmatic software of flipping votes for Trump
into votes for Biden.
And China and Venezuela helped.
The Dominion voting systems,
the Smartmatic technology software,
and the software that goes in other computerized voting systems here the Smartmatic Technology Software, and the software that goes in
other computerized voting systems here as well, not just Dominion, were created
in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chavez. They did this on purpose.
It was calculated. They've done it before. We have evidence from 2016 in
California. We have so much evidence,
I feel like it's coming in through a fire hose.
Oh, damn, we're gonna get hosed by evidence.
Drowning in it.
Civilization will become more evidence than a human.
Anyway, there was no evidence.
Shucks.
And because of that lack of evidence,
Dominion filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit
against Powell in 2021.
Because you can't just say things.
And in what was an absolutely mind boggling defense,
Powell's lawyers would claim the statements she made
were legally protected because, quote,
no reasonable person would conclude
that the statements were truly statements of fact.
To expand on that, she was basically saying
that nobody would assume that her statements
were official findings and were pending an investigation,
which would perhaps be more believable
if she hadn't put on very official looking press events
like she just caught the Zodiac killer, Ted Cruz's dad.
It's pretty wild how often this seems to happen, isn't it? Where a right-wing
loudmouth will claim anything and everything up until the moment they have to go to court.
Then all of a sudden they were a performance artist and assume audiences know they exaggerate
and should be taken with skepticism, even though literally nothing they do presents themselves that way. Get a puppet for God's sake! Goes a long way. So yeah, Powell's argument that tricking gullible
people was all in good fun did not work in court, and that case is currently pending. Powell also
pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in Georgia for fucking with the election process and is facing
$150,000 sanctions in Michigan
for abusing the legal system
by bringing in a phony election fraud case to their court.
Boy, it seems like if you're going to completely ruin
not only your career, but life,
you should really double check if it's illegal
to try to overturn the results of an election
without any evidence of voter fraud.
That's like the first thing you should bing.
But as I keep going back to, it really seems like something has fundamentally gone wrong with these people.
The same way a lot of MAGA folks seem to have completely abandoned reality
and gone completely all in on Trump.
And we just have to watch them ruin their lives in real time as they melt away
like Gollum getting sucked off by jewelry.
And speaking of melting and getting sucked off,
Rudy Giuliani, America's sad uncle.
Man, it is hard to even know where to begin with Rudy.
The dude has had one of the biggest public downfalls
of anyone in modern history.
He's like the anti Robert Downey Jr.
Because when we talk about grifters,
we often allude to the fact that most of them
know full well that they are liars.
And that's why the smart ones don't tend to get into
too much legal trouble.
The dumb ones take bribes from Russia apparently.
But Rudy really presents himself as a true believer.
Not necessarily in the election fraud, mind you,
but in Trump himself.
He is the encapsulation of exactly how the internet
ruined the minds of a lot of boomers
with zero media literacy.
If Donald Trump is Avon Barksdale, Rudy is Bubbles.
And his faith has put him on the front lines
of every goddamn defamation lawsuit
anyone could come up with.
He has pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges related to the fake electors scheme in Arizona
and is facing similar prosecution in Georgia. And these lawsuits are causing him to bleed
millions of dollars either to the plaintiffs or to his own lawyers that he couldn't pay.
You might suggest that he should just represent himself since he's a lawyer,
except he was also disbarred from practicing law in New York.
All of this has left Rudy so bankrupt
that he requested that a judge change his Chapter 11 bankruptcy
to a Chapter 7,
so his assets would be put into a trust
that he could use to pay off the $153 million he owes
to several different creditors.
To get out of the deep financial hole he put himself in,
Rudy has been shilling his name for Rudy Coffee,
which is priced at $30 per bag.
But even that got him in trouble
because that money made through coffee sales
was diverted away from creditors,
not that it really matters,
because the coffee roaster behind Rudy Coffee
is also bankrupt.
So since that's not working out,
Rudy decided to get a sponsor called
Balance of Nature Vitamins for his podcast.
How is that going?
It's natural.
It gives you incredibly big boost in energy
you would not expect
pretty much right away.
Maybe two, three days.
I don't know, it seemed to me right away. Boy, he's housing those vitamins like a little squirrel.
You gotta chug the vitamins, Rudy.
That's the secret.
Anyway, welcome to podcast advertising, former mayor.
Here's a quick tip.
Maybe don't make so many flippant personal claims
about the product.
After all, Balance of Nature recently settled
a $1.1 million lawsuit for false advertising.
So how does this happen to a person?
To America's mayor?
I know I just said Rudy was a true believer,
but I think it goes deeper than that.
Because when you look at Rudy Giuliani,
you can't help but feel like he's Trump's picture
of Dorian Gray.
Trump just keeps on going, free of consequence, while Rudy appears to be literally crumbling before our eyes.
And I think that's why Rudy is so ride-or-die.
He looks at Trump and thinks, why not me?
They are both dudes who got big in New York back in the 80s after all, they're bosom buddies.
So why does Trump have this weird magic
where he can say or do anything and excel in life?
Heck, Rudy is the one who started in politics.
Why doesn't he get to be the crime president?
And going back to why
we're starting to see actual consequences,
I actually think we owe a little bit of that to Trump.
It's weird to say,
but Trump made a lot of people think that it was okay,
and perhaps more importantly, easy to lie and grift.
Like, you know how Kennedy was the first Catholic president,
and that was seen as opening a lot of doors for Catholic people?
That's like Trump for grifters.
Trump is just like John F.
Kennedy is apparently what I'm saying.
Only it turned out that in true grifter fashion,
Trump's presidency only helped Trump.
And so all these grifters came out of the woodwork
thinking it was okay to grift,
only to learn that this magic invulnerability to consequence
only applies to Trump for some reason.
Maybe it's the way he talks,
like his rambling somehow throws the media off
and they don't know how to handle it.
Or perhaps he's just lied so much
that he's worn everyone down.
We've gotten so used to Trump lying
that the 2024 presidential debate between him and Joe Biden
was initially more focused on how Biden disappointed
rather than on how Trump was pathologically fibbing.
He pathologically lied during his term as president.
He's lied throughout the 2024 campaign,
but he seemingly built such a cult of personality
based completely around grievance that his supporters just don't care.
They don't care about anything except him.
He can spend years pushing a lie and then just completely move on from it.
Going so far as to lie about saying that lie in the first place.
Like, remember how the election was stolen from him and all those people we just mentioned
ruined their entire lives backing up that claim?
We get the most votes of anybody, of any sitting president in history.
And he beat us by a whisker.
Fucking oh!
Turns out that didn't actually happen.
And boy, you would assume that anyone who went all in
on the election lie, who perhaps is facing jail time
for storming the Capitol,
would be extremely pissed at this man right now.
Or I guess he was just being sarcastic.
You know how he loves saying sarcastic things
with absolutely zero sarcastic inflection
in a way that was clearly not actually sarcastic.
You know how like, it's actually kind of hard
to even imagine Trump specifically being sarcastic?
But I'm sure that absolutely terrible explanation
will be good enough for his thrall,
because that's how cults work.
Trump has essentially built a political cult,
which when you think about it, wasn't hard to do.
If we owe anything to him, it's that his success points out
how the civility and procedure of politics
was always kind of a lie,
and that building a two-party system inevitably
leads to tribalism, especially after a lot of the country
no longer tethers to their physical reality,
but rather to the internet.
But if this year is any indication,
we might be finally getting a handle on this problem.
I know it's hard to see it
since he has gotten away with so much
and potentially will get away with a lot more.
But all of Trump's many lies
are finally starting to catch up with him.
He's been ordered to pay $355 million
after lying about his net worth
and might have to sell off property
in order to pay that penalty.
Trump's denial about raping E. Jean Carroll
has also been found to be a lie by the courts
and he owes her over $80 million for defaming her.
The results of Trump's grifts and lies
have him owing more than half a billion dollars.
That was just in 2023 alone.
More recently, Trump got a guilty conviction
on 34 counts of falsifying business records
to cover up his affair with Stormy Daniels.
Of course, it's possible that he'll be able to delay
and overturn and wriggle out the way he always has,
but, and take this with a pile of salt and caveats,
maybe not?
It might actually depend on whether or not
he wins in November, which when you think about, is a hilarious problem for someone to have.
Trump either has to become president or go to jail.
That's gotta be a lot of pressure, you know?
I guess what I'm really saying is that this year we have reached a pivotal moment in the fuck around and find out equation.
We have a man who has fucked around so much that he's seemingly gone past the event horizon
of consequences, or he's simply been edging
those consequences so hard that he is about to find out
harder than anyone who ever lived
in a torrent of come sequences.
It all just depends on what happens in the next election.
No pressure.
It's like this, Trump becoming president
was just one of the worst things that's happened
to Americans, but it could also be one of the worst things
that's happened to him.
He had spent most of his life as a rich, mediocre crime dude
who managed to stay off everyone's radar.
Then his ego took over and he accidentally became
the president, a job he absolutely did not want.
But instead of playing it safe,
he doubled down and just started pillaging.
Much like all of these grifters,
his ego and greed simply could not stop.
Also, he's stupid.
He's very, very stupid.
And now he either needs to become a fucking dictator
on day one or else his life is going to fall apart.
He has gone all in. There's no going back.
He has dove into the maw of hell
and the only way out is forward or not at all.
Or maybe Michelle Obama will make us think
he's cute and harmless in 10 years.
Who knows?
Soup's on, dirtbag.
You found food?
Really?
It's like the Bible says,
if your enemy is hungry, enjoy soup in front of them.
Okay, gotta go. I learned nothing.
I don't think that's in the Bible, but I'm not certain enough to color out on it.
I'm gonna check my Bible.
In the beginning. Ooh. Okay, I did what you said.
Can I eat the soup now?
Very good, Katie.
Your loyalty has been rewarded.
Mmm.
Mmm.
What kind of soup is this?
Is this skin? Is this your skin as soup?
No. No, it's this lentil soup. Why would you eat it if it was-
Listen. Honey. Boyfriend. My beautiful fiance. I gotta say. All this betrayal and dark corn
magic. I don't know. I mean, the skin soup is great and all, but this better be worth
the sixty bucks you promised me.
Oh, it's worth it. For it is not just soup that awaits, but a soup of infinite corn supremacy suffocating
the entire globe until all that was will be corn.
Okay but that's still just soup.
You will witness the final chapter of mankind.
All will die oh my god there's an eyelash in this soup! That is...
Disgusting!
Oh no.
What have I done?
And then Jesus died. The end.
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Oh, that was the wait.
No, he came back.