In case it wasn’t already painfully obvious, failed presidential candidate/ex-LGBTQ ally Tulsi Gabbard and once-respected gay journalist/defender of statutory rape Glenn Greenwald have officially gone over to the dark side.
The pair is teaming up with Rumble, the conservative alternative to YouTube, to create propaganda content that emboldens right-wing extremists inspires debate.
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Rumble recently announced plans to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on influencers who “challenge the status quo.” Gabbard and Greenwald have both signed their names in blood in exchange for some of that cash.
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Gabbard announced this morning on Twitter that she will be launching a channel on the platform “soon” and that she’s super excited to be partnering with a company “where free speech is celebrated.”
I may disagree with what you say, but I and every service member is ready to sacrifice our life to protect your right to say it. Censorship of speech must end. I'll be launching my channel soon on https://t.co/gTfwLsFxuw where free speech is celebrated -> https://t.co/e2Ob2OimZa pic.twitter.com/L6jSQuOasK
— Tulsi Gabbard ? (@TulsiGabbard) August 12, 2021
As for Greenwald, he’s been trumpeting Rumble on Twitter for over a month, calling it a platform “devoted to resisting this liberal homogenization and authoritarian censorship.”
There are platforms that are now devoted to resisting this liberal homogenization and authoritarian censorship. Substack is one. Rumble is another. Parler was one but succeeded too much so Dems demanded Apple, Google & Amazon destroy it and they obeyed.https://t.co/qD9OdwlPbV
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 9, 2021
Rumble, which is partially funded by gay billionaire Peter Thiel, has become the go-to place for people who are banned from other platforms like YouTube and Twitter, usually for things like spreading misinformation, pushing conspiracy theories, or inciting insurrections.
Some of its most famous users include ex-president Donald Trump, Fox News host Sean Hannity, right-wing extremist Dinesh D’Souza, former KKK grand wizard David Duke, antigay Rep. Jim Jordan, and now Tulsi Gabbard and Glenn Greenwald.
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In a press release, Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski says, “Rumble is challenging this power structure, and the addition of these prominent creators further strengthens the cause of free thinking, open debate and discussion. Rumble will never censor civil discourse, opinion, or act like the arbiters of truth.”
Pavlovski’s statement, however, isn’t entirely true. Rumble does censor users. While they’re free to talk sh*t and spread misinformation about anyone and anything they want, the platform does not allow criticism of itself. The terms of service state that no commenter may disparage it in any of its own forums.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
jayceecook
GG sure did drink the Kool-aid.
Looking at this company’s TOS is hysterical,
“Notwithstanding the foregoing, Rumble reserves the right to monitor messages on Comments and the Forum and to remove messages which Rumble in its sole discretion determines to be undesirable, inciting violence, harmful, offensive or otherwise in violation of these Terms of Use. Rumble is not responsible nor liable for any failure or delay in removing such messages, or for the removal of any messages it deems inappropriate for any reason at its sole discretion.”
Sounds a lot like censorship to me.
Cam
I love the fact that Tulsi seemed to be a plant to fool Democrats and yet was exposed to early and so completely that she just dropped out and couldn’t even run again.
The 4 people on this site will probably earn them 3 cents a month.
Mister P
I’m sure the founding fathers couldn’t imagine that people wouldn’t understand what free speech and freedom of religion meant. They probably should have defined it.
I’ll help. Telling lies to the masses is not protected free speech and religious freedom does not mean it can be used to discriminate or to be an asshole.
barryaksarben
I am so glad that TUlsi is finally being herself. a pig a lying pig. I was so angry when she was trying to fool people into wasting their dem vote for her so called presidential run knowing she was still a giant homophobic liar and had not changed at all. But like a previous comment stated no one seemed to be fooled at all. All the liars on the right think they are fooling SOO many people when I think it is just themselves they are fooling. THis crappy platform will not catch on with the general population so is already a wasted space for these deplorables
toddlicious
Funny how free speech is only valued by these scourge when it’s filled with hate and lies…
Fahd
Tulsi is a failed Russian plant, but I guess she still owes the Russian political mob some destabilization efforts in the States.
Too bad she’s not good at what she’s trying to do. Within a few years she will be working as a retail clerk or assistant in a doctor’s office. (Let’s hope that’s in her base of operation in Russia.)
There’s nothing sustainable except maybe Thiel’s bankroll in Rumble.
jniceny
Take 10 minutes to study recent Russian history. After the fall of the Soviet Union, it’s the United States that send in Larry Summers and his neoliberal shit economist crew who prescribed “shock” economy of rapid privatization of state owned resources–which created the oligarchs and lowered the life expectancy of Russians by almost 10 years in less than a decade. And as portrayed on a cover of Time magazine we meddled in their first democratic election, sending Gray David’s campaign team to work Yeltsin, who the state department knew to be both corrupt and severe alcoholic. Yeltsin was so corrupt that he worried about his fate after his presidency–this is a country with a 700 year history of nonpeaceful, nondemocratic, and complicated transfers of power. But Yeltsin found someone he could trust–Putin. Putin is literally blowback from the US meddling in Russia’s election. But how could you know this, when MSNBC hires spooks from the CIA and NSA to tell you about Russia, instead of Russian historians or academic authorities on Russia.
Fahd
@jniceny
Are you writing directly from the consulate copying poorly translated “position papers”? I’m only replying because of your line about how it would be better to have Russian historians and authorities tell us about Russia. Very funny indeed. Russia has a backward, homophobic government which victimizes its own population the same way Russian governments have historically victimized their own population. The Russian government kills its political dissidents. Gabbard has been exposed, so I suggest you move on.
Ronbo
Exposed as an idiot, don’t double-down.
History requires one to pay attention – not cast aspersions, like this author.
JRamonMc
She sure was the wolf in sheeps clothing for the democratic party. Hillary called her out early on.
blackhook
Tulsa is one of the creepiest characters EVER! Spewing nonstop nonsense on the American scene…
jniceny
what is the nonsense of Tulsi Gabbard? Her stance on Syria. Yeah, she doesn’t approve of the United States funding, arming, and training Islamic extremists and terrorists to start a civil war in Syria, which has killed 5% of the population, and displaced 1/4 of the population and turned 1/4 of the population in to refugees. I don’t agree with a lot of Gabbard positions, but the reason she was smeared by establishment Democrats and corporate media is that she told the truth about war.
meikaku
As for Tulsi and Glenn having “gone over” to the dark side, that’s very old news. They’ve both been there for nearly a decade, tricking and dancing in Putin’s putrid, weaponized political miasma.
BoomerMyles
Don’t understand Glenn Quagmire Greenwald who was so hostile toward President Obama comparing him to an autocratic but yet remaining noticeably silent never criticizing tRump during his administration.
Greenwald actually praised Putin even though Putin would prosecute him for being gay in a heartbeat.
Hope he and Tulsi fail!
jniceny
We in the US love to criticize other countries on human rights and democracy. Yet we will overthrow democratically elected governments all around the world if they don’t let US or multinational corporations use their resources. We ignore ethnic cleansing by Israel, but give them more aid than any other country–even though Israel has universal healthcare and free higher education. But without evidence we accuse China of genocide. We tell Russia to get its troops of the border of Ukraine, even though the troops are in Russia and China is aggressive for having their navy in the South CHINA Sea, while we have at least 3 ships at any given time patrolling 3 miles from China’s mainland. We say China is being aggressive because of their increased military spending, when their total military budget is equal to the US’s typical increase to military spending each year. We criticize Hong Kong for their cracking down on free speech and democracy, forgetting that it was a COLONY before. On the news I saw democracy protestors beating the police with pipes and beatting up elderly people, and in the same 30 minute news report I see the police beating the shit out of and using tear gas on peaceful protestors. No country even comes close to putting such a high percentage of its residents in jail, prison, or detention. And in a country founded on settler colonialism and slavery, we now use prisoners–especially the nonviolent ones–as de facto slave labor for state governments and ultracheap labor for corporations. And as millions of people die from COVID-19 around the world, and the US govt spends trillions and the Federal Reserve creates trillions of dollars (with $18,000 going to corporations for every $1000 in direct cash relief sent to people) in “stimulus”, because we care more about publically funding the majority of the vaccine technology, research, development and trials and then giving pharma companies monopoly patent rights to the profits–we are losing the race against COVID variants when we could vaccinate half the world in year for $30-$50 billion dollars.
jniceny
When Trump became president I was worried about a slide to fascism. At first this was based on Trumps calls for violence at rallies, his scapegoating Muslims and Mexican, his unconditional support of police violence, his calls to imprison a political rival (Hillary), his manufacturing of crisis after crisis, and his inspiring White nationalist violence–Charletsville (sp?), El Paso, New Zealand, Oregon, Nevada (the last being something he should have been impeached Trump for in Year 2 of his presidency.
But another feature of fascist governments historically, is that they take power when most or all of the major political parties have become corrupt and support policies that are antithetical to their supposed core values). That is true of both parties now in the US. But it’s the Democratic Party I fear more now. The right complains about “cancel culture” when there is a boycott of advertisers or more often someone just disagrees with them. But it’s the Biden govt telling facebook and Twitter what sites and pages to take down, a clear violation of the 1st amendment, It’s was Ted Cruz and then Hillary Clinton who paid a foreign agent (of an ally country) who then paid foreign agents (of Russia) and produced a dossier of evidence-free accusations and now known false claims, which the FBI used along with the reporting of yahoo news to get a secret warrant in a secret court (but lied to the court and omitted that yahoo news didn’t collaborate the dossier, but in fact was given (leaked) the dossier–a warrant on Carter Page which allowed the FBI to spy on Trumps presidential campaign. The cherry on top is Carter Page wasn’t a Russian spy, asset, or useful idiot, but was working for the CIA. And now it’s the Democratic Party, MSNBC and CNN personalities, and Democratic voters who are to the right of many Republicans on censorship, foreign intervention and war, and protecting corporate monopolies. Glenn Greenwalds going on Fox and going on the most-watched news channel show, Tucker, when that is the only mainstream/corporate TV news that would have him, gets him called a Putin puppet for pointing out the lack of evidence and the inconsistencies of the Russiagate narative. Mearly pointing out that many of Trump’s bad and horrible polices are in fact the same or similiar to policies of Obama is seen as proof he is a rightwing stooge. Trump was creating crisis after crisis on Twitter creating mass psychosis of Republican voters, but the Democratic Party and MSNBC and CNN created mass psychosis in Democratic voters with 4 years of Russiagate and Ukrainegate nonsense. Keith Oberman recently said we need to round up and jail not just Trump (jailing political rivals is fascist) but Trump supporters. That’s almost half the country–puting half the country in jail is to the right of fascism–that’s insane. Democrats long for the days of George Bush, who along with the now loved FBI and CIA lied us into a war that killed a million innocent civilians and authorized the CIA to create an international kidnap and torture program. Nothing Trump said is was for torture and was for carpet bombing ISIS, but nothing Trump ordered, implemented, or orchestrated and none of Trump’s policies even come close to the disregard for human life and the violations of international law, and
Kangol2
You really go off the deep end with a lot of this gaslighting verbiage. To take but one point, both the Mueller Report and the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee investigations, issued in several reports, found extensive connections and ties between the Trump campaign and various Russian entitles, and Russian interference in the 2016 campaign (which continued into the 2020 campaign). Moreover, the Mueller Report conclusively showed numerous attempts by Don the Con’s campaign and administration to obstruct justice, for which Don the Con should have been charged. Additionally, numerous officials in the Con campaign, transition and administration were alleged to have lied and in some cases convicted of lying to the FBI about contacts with Russia; if they did nothing wrong, why on earth did they lie to the FBI? We have since come to learn that these investigations only scratched the surface; we have subsequently learned that Giuliani and others repeated importuned Ukrainian officials to smear Biden, because Don the Con’s goons rightly recognized that Biden would be the Con’s greatest threat to reelection, and, as we witnessed, they were correct. All of that treason and corruption worked once, in 2016, but failed in 2020. It also is telling that most of the Con’s major foreign policy moves benefited Russia again and again; that outrageous display we saw in Helsinki was only the tip of the iceberg. Just go down the list. Of course the other point is that many of the Con’s foreign policy efforts (punishing China, drone bombing in northwestern and eastern Africa, the attempted coup in Venezuela, the attempts to weaken NATO, etc.) proved failures or were seriously bungled. The very terms “Russiagate” and “Ukrainegate” are absolute nonsense, and as history will continue to show, the level of corruption and treachery displayed by the Con administration with regard to Russia alone has had no equal in the annals of American history.
Ronbo
Gaslighting yourself? “Connections” exist between every man, woman and child on this planet. The “We believe that…” type of accusation is merely FOX-style “some people say…” nonsense.
Stick with facts, not assertions and allegations. There is actual email evidence that the DNC-instigated activity with Russia. Read their OWN emails.
Invader7
@ Kangol2 ..You tell it … The FACTS make right wing LIARS and UNPATRIOTIC gop goons & trolls cringe .. Peter Thiel is a selfish CREEP.. . Giving UNPATRIOTIC so-called Americans another platform to spew their unhinged garbage is obscene.
ducdebrabant
Greenwald has never been a left-wing figure, any more than Snowden was. Like Gabbard, he is an asset of the Russians, and the reason he hasn’t had any scoops lately is that the Russians haven’t fed him any. This makes perfect sense to me.