LOL “instead”…no, bby. Not instead.
Is this him realizing the mentioned friend’s job in finance was almost certainly a cover?
That’s usually the case more than actual asset assets. You can just platform people already saying what you want, there’s enough people out there that you’ll find em. Less leaky and cheaper.
Yep, the ideal is to make the career paths of true believers easier. There’s no “controversy”, as there is never any direct quid pro quo. And in the long term it’s incredibly effective at pushing narratives in your direction. Imo the way the Kochs have managed to completely normalize their relatively extreme ideas in a few decades by simply funding econ departments and think tanks is a great example.
People need to imagine this stuff being done in office buildings by office dudes they’ve worked with and not dark rooms where shadowy figures smoke cigars and they’ll get a way more real picture of how this shit works.
A lot of foreign policy plants only require paying off a local newspaper in another country and connecting it with a low level reporter at the targeted publication. They cite a stringer they “met in college” and point to a foreign language newspaper if anyone asks. The editors don’t know the difference.
Theory: he’s a Manchurian candidate who enters a hypnotic trance when he hears the word “brunch.”
He’s incredibly dumb. It’s like if reddit was a rich Harvard failson.
Matt Yglesias’s phone is blowing up right now with so many texts from people he knew at Dalton and Harvard, and his old coworkers at the Atlantic, like “Hey buddy! I was just thinking about you for no particular reason at all and wanted to check in and see how you’re doing!”
