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Pegasus Actual

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Trump is the God America needs and Musk is the saviours son. True America has been dormant for too long, these four years are payback.
 
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Banjo64 said:
Politico seem to have been funded by USAID
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Funded by USAID?

According to the linked source, USAID isn't even on the top 5 of the agencies that sent money to Politico.

Also, looking at the source, they're tagged with the code 519130, among others, which represents internet publishing and broadcasting portals.

Using this site, you can see that it's government employees paying for Politico Pro subscriptions, which runs 10K a year. Politico Pro is an enterprise tool which allows users to have up to date and detailed information about policy changes in the government, which would be useful information.

Annual Subscription Politico Pro

On 11/18/24 DOE Headquarters issued Special Notice 89303025NMA000085 for Annual Subscription for Politico Pro due 11/28/24
www.highergov.com www.highergov.com



digiday.com

Politico now has 20,000 paid subscribers that account for half of its revenue

Six years after starting with three newsletters, Politico Pro now employs over 200 people and accounts for nearly half the politics publisher's yearly revenue.
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The new products come as Pro has gone from a 2010 side project to a 200-person operation that drives half of Politico’s yearly revenues. Over the past three years, revenue has grown 30 percent year over year, and it maintains a 90 percent renewal rate with its client base, according to the company.

“A lot of organizations have gotten a ‘Trump bump,’ which has died down. It hasn’t for us,” said Bobby Moran, Politico’s vp and gm. “[Pro] is not a luxury item. This is something [our subscribers] have to have to do their jobs.”
By digital media standards, Pro serves a small audience. Just 20,000 of Politico’s 30 million monthly unique visitors read Pro content, according to Moran.
Yet those readers are incredibly valuable. A five-person subscription to Pro costs $8,000. Institutional subscriptions cost even more. That same subscription cost $2,495 when Pro first debuted in 2010 — “We actually underpriced ourselves in the market,” Moran said — but it also offered a lot less content back then. Pro now covers 16 legislative areas, up from the three it debuted with in 2010. It also delivers Congressional Research Service reports and maintains a congressional directory and a calendar of public policy events happening not just in Washington, but in several other capitals Pro serves.
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So it looks... normal? One might say that the Politco Pro subs aren't needed and that it's a form of money laundering, but that seems like a bit of a stretch.
 
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Grildon Tundy

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I don't see this as definitive. The timing is interesting, and could prove damning, but it's missing the concrete link between USAID deletion and funding loss.
 
DownLikeBCPowder

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Grildon Tundy said:
I don't see this as definitive. The timing is interesting, and could prove damning, but it's missing the concrete link between USAID deletion and funding loss.
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Not sure that it (the missed payroll) actually is related - but more importantly is that funding is headed there regardless of the truth of the relation to the first portion.
 
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DownLikeBCPowder said:
So the White House Press Secretary is now a "MAGA Influencer"? Asking for a friend.
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“Digging in on the claims, Associated Press reporter Byron Tau explained that Politico was not receiving funding from USAID but appeared on the government’s expense sheets because staff were buying subscriptions to Politico’s Pro editorial product. This, he added, was the case across many federal government agencies and departments and was not because Politico was being grant funded.”

How are you people this simple? Just zero critical thinking. If the claim aligns with your biases, it’s true no matter how ridiculous, and any evidence proving it wrong is swept away as MSM fake news.
 
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DownLikeBCPowder

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Puscifer said:
I dunno, I decided to read several other articles and it isn't exactly what people are making it out to be. It's like saying Sony is government funded because I bought a PS5
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Only if you're receiving government capital with the goal of purchasing Ps5s. In that case, sure.

kbear said:
“Digging in on the claims, Associated Press reporter Byron Tau explained that Politico was not receiving funding from USAID but appeared on the government’s expense sheets because staff were buying subscriptions to Politico’s Pro editorial product. This, he added, was the case across many federal government agencies and departments and was not because Politico was being grant funded.”

How are you people this simple? Just zero critical thinking. If the claim aligns with your biases, it’s true no matter how ridiculous and any evidence proving it wrong is swept away as MSM fake news.
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This makes sense to you? Expense sheet implies it's a government covered expense - the "pro editorial product" is thousands of US dollars. Why is this happening and why is it expense paid? Even if it's "lol just this" - this is acceptable somehow to you?

digiday.com

Politico now has 20,000 paid subscribers that account for half of its revenue

Six years after starting with three newsletters, Politico Pro now employs over 200 people and accounts for nearly half the politics publisher's yearly revenue.
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This article claims it's over half of politico's revenue.. as of 2017.
 
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DownLikeBCPowder said:
This makes sense to you? Expense sheet implies it's a government covered expense - the "pro editorial product" is thousands of US dollars. Why is this happening and why is it expense paid? Even if it's "lol just this" - this is acceptable somehow to you?

digiday.com

Politico now has 20,000 paid subscribers that account for half of its revenue

Six years after starting with three newsletters, Politico Pro now employs over 200 people and accounts for nearly half the politics publisher's yearly revenue.
digiday.com digiday.com

This article claims it's over half of politico's revenue.. as of 2017.
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Hey bud, did you hear about what Soros and Gates pulled the other day?

TLDR: Jewish space lasers
 
kbear

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Listen DownLikeBCPowder, Soros is behind this. Possibly Rockefeller and Schwab as well (also Jews). This Politico state funding has their Jewish hands all over it! Check out this post on Twitter I just found for proof:

…holy shit, this country is so fucked.
 
DownLikeBCPowder

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kbear said:
Listen DownLikeBCPowder, Soros is behind this. Possibly Rockefeller and Schwab as well (also Jews). This Politico state funding has their Jewish hands all over it! Check out this post on Twitter I just found for proof:
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So many things I never once said. You having fun being what you claim to be opposed to?
 
kbear

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Listen, if you don’t believe what Benny Johnson on Twitter is saying, you’re a MSM shill (and probably Jewish).
 
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AJUMP23 said:
This thread is most assuredly getting locked.

10 points for calling out maga influencers. And another 10 for calling out the call out.
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Benny Johnson is totally not an anti-semitic nutjob peddling bullshit. He’s the voice of reason!
 
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ChuckeRearmed

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Media has always been a propaganda machine for the government. Nothing has changed really. The government was afraid of social networks and the Internet and wanted to regulate them when it could not control them.
 
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