Steve Bannon says Musk is owned by the "Chinese Communist Party", Elon lashes back!

[FelineOverlord]

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[tblue37]

1. Communist? (You got a "D" in there instead of a "C".)

[FelineOverlord]

3. Fixed

[Walleye]

2. Fight! Fight! Wealthy trolls in combat.

I am confused by Bannon, though. I thought they keep saying that Joe Biden is owned by the CCP

[Celerity]

12. Chinese businessman w/ links to Steve Bannon is driving force for a sprawling disinformation network

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/17/guo-wengui-disinformation-steve-bannon/

A sprawling online network tied to Chinese businessman Guo Wengui has become a potent platform for disinformation in the United States, attacking the safety of coronavirus vaccines, promoting false election-fraud claims and spreading baseless QAnon conspiracies, according to research published Monday by the network analysis company Graphika.

The report, provided in advance to The Washington Post, details a network that Graphika says amplifies the views of Guo, a Chinese real estate developer whose association with former Trump White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon became a focus of news coverage last year after Bannon was arrested aboard Guo’s yacht on federal fraud charges.

Graphika said the network includes media websites such as GTV, for which Guo last year publicly said he was raising funds, along with thousands of social media accounts that Graphika said amplify content in a coordinated fashion. The network also includes more than a dozen local-action groups over which Guo has publicly claimed an oversight role, Graphika found.

Graphika’s research sheds more light on Guo, a onetime billionaire real estate developer who, in addition to his relationship with Bannon, has drawn attention for the confusing mix of disinformation and invective he has broadcast since moving to the United States, including contradictory attacks on both the Chinese Communist Party and anti-CCP dissidents in the West.

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[Walleye]

13. There ya go. Every accusation a confession

[Celerity]

15. GTV Media Group

GTV Media Group, Inc. is a media company formed in April 2020 by Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui. The company operates GTV, a Chinese media platform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTV_Media_Group

Background

Prior to forming GTV, Steve Bannon served as an executive of Breitbart News and an advisor to the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Guo Wengui, also known as Miles Kwok, is a Chinese billionaire fugitive.[6][7] Guo paid Bannon $1 million for consulting services related to G News from August 2018 to August 2019.

History

GTV Media Group, Inc. was founded in New York on April 20, 2020. In August, The Wall Street Journal reported that GTV Media was being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to more than $300 million in private equity funding. Some investors had requested refunds after GTV Media failed to produce official documents validating their investments. Bank accounts of the company were frozen by Wells Fargo and Chase Bank, and a Bank of America account of GTV Media's parent company was closed.

The organization also attracted attention in August following the federal grand jury indictment of Bannon, Brian Kolfage, and several of their associates on charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with the We Build the Wall fundraising project. Guo responded that the charges were "fabricated" and claimed that they were part of a plan by the Chinese Communist Party to "take Mr. Bannon down".

Like other entities under Guo and Bannon, this organization has also participated in the spread of in the spread of non verified information and conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden as well as misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2021, GTV settled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations that it participated in the illegal sale of shares and digital securities called G-Coins or G-Dollars. In the settlement, the firms paid more than $539 million.

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[hlthe2b]

4. well, ignoring the grotesque creitin Bannon for the moment, I'm loving all this blowback on Musk

And yeah, it does prove he's pretty damned stupid--at least about people, politics, and "crowd behavior" to think that his sidling up to the worst of the worst--MAGATs, racists, homophobes, misogynists, authoritarians, fascists, NAZIs, ANTI-SCIENCE propagandists, and the rest would somehow "inure" him from intra-faction backlash.

Bannon is just one big and hate-inciter. Musk is in some ways worse.

[Walleye]

14. I think musk is just indulging his true feelings, and he can afford it

[Hortensis]

19. That's my general impression -- in a man with both great

personal assets and great flaws.

"The Donald" tRump illustrates how insulated even a mentally disordered sometimes-"billionaire" can be from managing to destroy himself, and Musk is/was "the world's richest man." He has lots of room to act it all out.

Maybe he's a "thrill-seeker" on top of everything else and now feels freer than ever to indulge. Or disinhibition unleashed got out of control.

...sensation seeking is the need for “varied, novel, complex, and intense sensations and experiences, and the willingness to take physical, social, legal, and financial risks for the sake of such experiences”. Traditionally, sensation seeking is conceptualized as having four distinct components: experience seeking, thrill and adventure seeking, disinhibition, and boredom susceptibility.

[Dirty Socialist]

5. Popcorn time!

And a glass of Scotch

[winstars]

6. Bannon, who spent his time during lockdown on some yacht owned by rich Chinese guy...

Nice.

[niyad]

11. Thank you for that reminder.

[Ocelot II]

7. A couple of scorpions in a jar.

[highplainsdem]

8. Bannon and Musk deserve each other.

Would love to see them have to share a room, or maybe an RV-sized desert island, for a week.

[Autumn]

9. Awesome. Two dirty assholes slapping each other

[Golden Raisin]

10. I hate to say this in the time of Covid but

a plague on both their houses.

[Botany]

16. 2 rats fighting ... go rats go

[Baitball Blogger]

17. Don't you just love it when they eat their own?

[grumpyduck]

18. I thought Musk was going to say

"Bullshit, I'm owned by the Russians."

[Midnight Writer]

20. "Finally the ogres all ate each other up, and the people of the kingdom lived happily ever after."

[Kennah]

21. I thought he was owned by the Bonesaw Crew

[NickB79]

22. Proceed