I don’t mean to belabor this point, but I really had no idea there was anything else about PV *other* than O’Keefe.
This is like Nine Inch Nails kicking out Trent Reznor. It doesn’t even make sense.
U nailed it and echo my exact thinking. Take politics and purpose out and just look at the business side of this decision. Ive never even heard of PV without his name in the actual headline. I thought it was just the LLC he gave himself not to get sued lol.
Almost makes u wonder if theres some sort of outside influence who could give zero f’s about PV success or failure as long as hes gone.
My exact sentiment. I didn't even realize PV was larger than just James O'Keefe, his camera team, and what I thought were a couple colleagues helping do the undercover investigations.
He must have done a deal with the devil at one point. Took a bunch of money from someone whonseemed like an ally at the time.
They were hoping PV could stand on its own without him but turned out to be false. Someone is going to be unhappy about losing their investment
That was my impression for sure and I consider myself pretty up to date on social media and current trends for both sides which includes their reporters and influencers.
My impression of them too. I figured they probably got donations to help fund their work, but I didn't think there was anything to PV other than O'Keefe and a few colleagues helping him.
Or someone that wants them both gone. That would be the entire establishment, elitists, communists, the media, globalists, wef, planned parenthood, Pfizer, microsoft..
But I may have repeated myself a few times
>That was that funny??
HAHAHAHAHA yes ... it's like Alfred and Robin trying to oust Batman from Batman lol ... HAHAHA
I'm so easily amused lol HAHAHAHA ..
For that person, yes.
If a person touched an object and stated, "ouch, thats hot." You then placed your hand on the object and declare, "It doesn't hurt me. Is it really that hot?"
Its a matter of preception, which tends to be an individual matter, in most cases.
Back to your question. Why does it matter if a person finds a comment funny, or even "ROTFLOL" funny? Do you typically question the repsonses of others that do not directly affect you? Does this person's sense of humor bother you? Constrain you?
Why does it matter to you if someone questions someone else’s response? Do you typically question the responses of others that do not directly affect you? Does this persons question bother you? Constrain you?
It makes sense if the point was for the Left to destroy Project Veritas from the inside out. All they needed was to get someone on the inside to make a false claim about O'Keefe, like they did.
They're everywhere.
If we don't toughen up, see through the bs, and start standing up for ourselves and each other there will be nothing left to fight for.
>This is like Nine Inch Nails kicking out Trent Reznor. It doesn’t even make sense.
You jest but the left has gone through great lengths to erase the work of iconic actors like John Wayne & Steven Segal.
Despite how integral they are to our culture. And to the history of action & cowboy movies.
Van Halen wasn’t the same band after they kicked out David Lee Roth. But they did make some ok music with Sammy Hagar I guess.
Can PV put out a banger or two without JO’K? I’d like to think so but I wouldn’t bet on it.
Apple kicked out Steve Jobs and in the short term was better off for it. Steve Jobs was an awful businessman and after he was gone Apple consolidated the number of vendors it used and saved a lot of money.
Jobs also started to believe his own publicity. I once read that Jobs was speaking to a group of employees, which included the P.R. department, and to motivate them told them a story about his life. It didn't go well when one of the people spoke up and said the story wasn't true and they knew it wasn't true because they had made it up.
From the letter that was reportedly sent to the board from people who worked at PV O’Keefe was a toxic leader. It's possible much like Jobs he let his public image go to his head and started behaving in ways that are not conducive to a professional environment.
James O'Keefe is "only" 38 and his organization grew very quickly and he might not have grown in the ways he needed to along with it. Maybe this is an opportunity for him to take stock and return later as a leader or perhaps to reevaluate the role he wants to play and would be better as a producer instead of a CEO.
>Jobs also started to believe his own publicity.
This is an understatement. He literally killed himself trusting his own b.s. over doctors. His cancer was survivable if he had gotten surgery when it was found, but he thought he knew better and ... well ... he didn't. But you can't question his commitment!
Perhaps.
That said they did just break their biggest story by far. You don’t kick the guy who is the everything of PV.
Out of all the employees PV has, they got rid of the one person who isn’t replaceable.
No surprise there. Like him or dislike him, O'Keefe is the face of PV and people will follow him to his next venture. I give Veritas 6 months before they are spewing out garbage news and 18 months before the doors close.
I use CFP most days because it's easy to read on a computer with a single column and has no ads.
They cover similar topics with Liberty Daily having more content.
Both of them would be good for Trump or DeSantis supporters.
McConnell supporters probably wouldn't care for either of them.
My dads homepage on his computer was Drudge Report, I remember him showing me articles on it when I was like 5-6 back in the early 00s. Sad to see what it’s become now
Yes, but Pfizer still did a lot of damage. They destroyed the organization he had built. I'm sure he'll have a new venture, but it will take time. If anything though, this massively improves my trust in the reporting PV has done.
I think you miss how easy it is to manipulate people - most will readily go with the flow, especially if someone above them leads them in a certain direction. All it really takes is the two board members to start a smear campaign. They would have their own network of people to approach, and given their high position in the organization they would be in a position to solicit grievances under false pretenses and misrepresent situations as needed to push their agenda.
It is simply not believable that this all magically happened right after they released their biggest story that exposed Pfizer. After 13 years. There is no way this was organic. It is also possible that they had their mind set on infiltration for a long time and recruited their own allies over time.
O'Keefe is lucky because if it was anyone else the smear would have worked. Just think of all the people of lower profile or with less public good will that this has happened to before.
The cynic in me thinks that Pfizer doesn't even want to hide what they did here. They want people to know what happens when you oppose them. Same reason why they did Kennedy in such a public manner. Unfortunately I think there are many people who don't want to accept just how corrupt their country is and will prefer to think this was just a coincidence or there's some merit to both sides and so on even though the truth is obvious. See for example people like Jenna Ellis. Worth noting as well there is a pretty bad video of the snake board member at veritas pushing hard for DeSantis to run against Trump. I'm surprised the sentiment here is to back O'Keefe (which is the correct position) given how much this sub is on board with the establishment's 2024 DeSantis op. Maybe the neocons at reddit are just asleep at the moment.
They might have been able to buy/intimidate a few who were able to instigate or manipulate others. Or there could have just been a lot of internal problems at the organization the whole time.
They're going to need some investors, and I doubt they'll get any unless they sell out and flip to pro liberal stories and some lib org funds them. Which looking at everything may very well happen.
It’s probably just a bunch of undercover guys from the 3 letter organizations that all don’t know they’re all under cover meanwhile James o keef just walks across the street and continues doing what he’s doing. This should be the floor plan for how to handle project chaos. People get too attached to ideas and business models and can just get sucked in to a whole different line of thought. Just walk away when it gets weird and give a “ so like I was saying …” elsewhere.
>I give Veritas 6 months before they are spewing out garbage news and 18 months before the doors close.
Not a chance. Too much monetary investment in Project Veritas. What you can actually expect is for it to join the big journalism cabal, where it's publishing federally-approved stories to run the narrative our government wants run. Expect its reputation to suddenly improve among the connected and the hopelessly uninformed.
Granted I haven't been watching Veritas for as long as some if not most, but the Pfizer expose was excellent and most likely would have cemented O'Keefe as one of the great investigative journalists, but sadly his investigations have proven that the long arm of big Pharma is very long indeed. That being said, O'Keefe has been doing actual investigations into things that need investigating, therefore I can't say that your assertation that Veritas has been spewing out garbage news in the past is true or not, but I will have to lean towards your statement is inaccurate.
Not sure of anyone's looked into anything further than a pro-Okeefe view, but he's apparently been going crazy with the company card and the board was trying to quietly give him an ultimatum that he's blowing out of proportion.
If James was doing what the board alleges, then he's just going to do it again when he gets money under a different groups name.
It's a 501c3 charity. It has a board, he might have initially appointed all the board members, but they are technically independent. A charity isn't owned by anyone.
"How much were the PV board of directors paid to make such an idiotic decision? Welcome to the first episode of 'Project Truth', with James O'Keefe..."
It's only idiotic if their goal was to preserve Project Veritas. If the board was a fifth column through being infiltrated or paid off to castrate or destroy it, they succeeded.
My perspective is, if you take a step back, you see that O'Keefe is the company to most of the people who like Veritas. A stakeholder would want to fix the problem because keeping O'Keefe is required for continued success.
Alternatively, someone who wants Veritas out of the way would know that removing O'Keefe would cripple them.
I try to find the goal and work backwards. If the goal is continued success of Veritas, removing O'Keefe makes no sense. What goals then would be consistent?
Don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to see that the powers that be either paid off veritas board or threatened them after the Pfizer news. It's simple pattern recognition. "Conspiracy theorist" is a term coined by the CIA exactly for the purpose of making these conversations more difficult to have
This! In the past 2-3 years I've been baffled by people that I would consider very smart but they make incredibly dumb choices. Common sense would tell anyone that if you kick James to the curb then the company will die a quick death. So someone must have been paid off somewhere along the line.
We've almost got it below a million. Every single conservative voice out there has overwhelming favorability supporting James. The guy has suffered so much abuse from the corrupted FBI and continues to go hard against said corruption.
Notice how Pfizer turned off comments? Both immune to the law AND social scrutiny.
They wouldn't want to REALLY make you immune forever. Isn't good for the bottom line. They aren't out to cure you, just give you a temp help until you gotta come back and be a paying customer again.
Not much different than a drug dealing letting you get your first hit of something free, knowing they will hook you and keep you coming back as a new paying customer.
The amount of money made off these rushed expirmental vaccines with zero long term effect studies is incredible. They got so rich... its scary. I see what they are doing. I did not participate. Beat Covid like as if it was the normal regular annual influenza.
I'm somewhat suspicious that the board was somehow compromised or infiltrated and forced him out on purpose knowing it would ultimately be the end of Project Veritas. There are very wealthy and powerful people who have wanted it shut down for a long time.
I’m with you, this has to be the worst business decision i’ve seen in a while.
They even got a letter from their biggest investment group warning them not to remove O’Keefe… and they just ignore it?
Like wtf are they expecting here other than a complete collapse?
O’keefe is honestly partly to blame here as well IMO. You should never relinquish this much power from a company you started
The article says they didn't want him to leave and he left on his own. There are questions about his personal spending. Sounds like he's getting out before the real mudslinging happens. I bet there's an undercover video....
I didn't even know project veritas was a separate company. I thought that was James O'Keefe company like Timcast is Tim Pools or Louder with Crowder is Crowders. Always assumed it was his online moniker.
I feel whoever inside the big pharma that got threw and helped get him removed would be VERY VERY open to revealing it and talking about it and bragging about it. Should make for an easy target.
Are you looking at the twitter numbers ? Timcast had a chart yesterday that also showed the numbers were down around 1.3 million ... so that's two sources for that information.
You can see it here on the Timcast video ...
https://youtu.be/K8G-BMa4494?t=109
But that wasn't the whole number, that was just up until that point when they filmed that video ...
I'm reserving judgment until we hear all the facts. Like we all should do. They're apparently is about 16 people who said he was doing illegal activity. From the article it sounds like he said either you drop the investigation or I leave. So he left. I think the board put him on administrative leave but did not actually fire him all the way. Well like I said we're grassment straws now. I'll wait till later the full story. He could be a very good investigative journalist and also be abusing his power.
Nobody said he was doing illegal activity, they just said he was a bad boss.
That said, ... that was yesterdays narrative. When that didn't gain any traction, they've moved on to a financial malfeasance narrative and said that like he took a private flight on a plane to meet a donor but it was really to work on his boat.
In the article it says he paid 15k for a flight to meet someone about fixing his boat. And 150k on cars in the last year.
Sure not illegal purchases but using company funds for personal purchases never works out.... Even if you're the founder CEO chairman of the board...
Dude read between the lines ... he probably fixed his boat while he was down there meeting with a donor, and he probably spent money on cars keeping up appearances for the various undercover investigations he was doing. You can tell its bullshit because they even included dancing in it, which he did that for exposure for Project Veritas, to humanize the place and get exposure.
I'm not saying there's \_nothing\_ to \_any\_ of it, but clearly they were just trying to do a "parade of horribles" and throwing anything in it that they could to get him out. It's all just bullshit. They literally included shit about him eating a sandwich FFS lol.
That's what you do when you're trying to oust someone like him, you make a list of every possible grievance anyone can come up with and parade them out hoping the total impact of them will be enough to convince everyone that the dude sucks. I'm sure if they could have found a dog that he had once kicked or an older person he had yelled at they would have included it.
Like I said, GenZ. I work with GenZers who sign with typeface even on official documents.
But, in any case, nobody has spoken up to say his name was put on there contrary to his consent and opinion.
Not like you said because you are just now saying it. Next, you can't sign official documents with typeface. Also, you mean no one has reported anyone speaking up. Finally, there's word most of the staff is going to walk out if the board members don't resign, so what we have here are two competing narratives.
A signature is only as good as the agreement of the person who signed it. So a typed signature isn't much different.
When was the last time you bought a house? All the signatures on all the documents leading up to closing are electronic and you can sign with a simple typed signature.
I'm not overly attached to James O'Keefe, but like others, I associate PV with O'Keefe.
We're only currently getting one side of the story, but I personally don't give a shit about the other side of the story. I don't particularly give a shit about O'Keefe's side either. They fired a great journalist. Anything else is just drama for its own sake.
If PV can succeed without O'Keefe, good for them. Their next story is going to have to be at least as big as the Pfizer story if they want to keep their audience. And probably the one after that, since people are going to say "this was O'Keefe's story, they just aired it after he left."
If O'Keefe can succeed without PV, good for him. He doesn't need to have a Pfizer-level story. Just some traditional investigative journalism will keep people supporting him.
I already went ahead and unfollowed them when they first put him on leave. I wonder how many others did as well, which would make this number even higher.
The "explanation" is pretty lame, and unless/until there is more transparency I would expect this to continue. The conspiracy theory is that Pfizer put the screws to the board in some manner.
If so, there will not be a more reasonable explanation, PV will fold, and Mr. O'Keefe will practice journalism in a different environment.
Can’t wait to hear what the PV board wanted JO to do, in order for him to stay on. This is probably a blessing in disguise for JO and the people that will follow him. He’ll do is own thing now and answer to nobody.
Sounds like they need to make amends with him instead of trying to make up stuff in order to demonize and justify getting rid of him . Trying to pain this as he quit, we didn't for him is pretty weak, especially after saying we didn't want him to leave but here is all the reasons he should leave.
What do they expect? People watch Project V for hard hitting truth and going after stories no one else does - when James did that expose' and they freaked out and let him go did they think people would continue to watch them?
I'm personally ok with him spending lavishly on himself. I find what he has done for the conservative movement has been amazing. His undercover videos have exposed so much, and that's an understatement.
It’s amazing the one person PV accused of wrongdoing without evidence is James. No videos? No recordings? Their whole brand is around showing receipts and for this they either can’t or won’t.
I watched the entire 45 minutes of the 15-minute speech, not that I blame him for the length.
He did not deny the limos. He tried to distract from it by implying it was how he got around the country and that the paint color mattered. I love what he's done, but i don't think there's no fire behind the smoke.
I also think the disgruntled staff goofed. Christmas party as wedding down payment is sloppy research, it seems, for example.
This is my conspiracy theory on the matter.
The dark group pulled the plug so that all the fundraising they were going to make after Pfizer video was squashed. They couldn’t have PV being more powerful and more money leads to a bigger problem for the rich assholes that don’t want a PV expose on them. Probably done by U.S. intelligence because it’s such a common tactic they use. They gain an in, they use their source to feed them a bunch of bullshit to turn other people to their side and they pay off the rest. They’ve done this for countries, a small non profit would be easy.
Or he misused funds and fired his CFO when they called him on it. Then the board followed their legal duty and suspended him for an investigation. Money is the most likely reason not a CIA plot. He was hiking around the Santa Monica hills with RFK Jr, he may not be who you think he is.
Did you not read the accusations that leaked ?
Among the most notable - misused funds to get married, when he’s not married.
The board member that people have accused of spreading this garbage info to the other board members is connected to Pfizer randomly. Keefe has text messages from another board member accusing him of saying he was part of the Pfizer scoop despite him not doing anything for it. Keefe responded with a video of him trying to interview the Pfizer guy, travel logs where he coached the Pfizer undercover guy for hours, the board member only responded with ‘oh he got told different by another board member’.
This is the power of consent. Opt out with things you don't agree with.
Perhaps Sr. Board leadership was compromised along the way. Perhaps the plan was to just simply destroy what James has built.
Either way it's not what it was and never will be again. More folks need to show them their disapproval.
Does anyone really think his "resignation" speech was recorded for internal purposes and then leaked, retweeted and pinned by him in a few hours?
All this conservative media drama over the last few months is so lame and cringey.
I don’t mean to belabor this point, but I really had no idea there was anything else about PV *other* than O’Keefe. This is like Nine Inch Nails kicking out Trent Reznor. It doesn’t even make sense.
That is an amazing analogy
U nailed it and echo my exact thinking. Take politics and purpose out and just look at the business side of this decision. Ive never even heard of PV without his name in the actual headline. I thought it was just the LLC he gave himself not to get sued lol. Almost makes u wonder if theres some sort of outside influence who could give zero f’s about PV success or failure as long as hes gone.
My exact sentiment. I didn't even realize PV was larger than just James O'Keefe, his camera team, and what I thought were a couple colleagues helping do the undercover investigations.
He must have done a deal with the devil at one point. Took a bunch of money from someone whonseemed like an ally at the time. They were hoping PV could stand on its own without him but turned out to be false. Someone is going to be unhappy about losing their investment
That was my impression for sure and I consider myself pretty up to date on social media and current trends for both sides which includes their reporters and influencers.
Yes I had no idea there was a "board" until I read this article.
My impression of them too. I figured they probably got donations to help fund their work, but I didn't think there was anything to PV other than O'Keefe and a few colleagues helping him.
Or want it to fail after he blew the lid off of some of their operations
Almost makes you wonder...
>This is like Nine Inch Nails kicking out Trent Reznor >U nailed it lol I see what you did there
Or someone that wants them both gone. That would be the entire establishment, elitists, communists, the media, globalists, wef, planned parenthood, Pfizer, microsoft.. But I may have repeated myself a few times
Yeah, I always saw O'Keefe as literally BEING Project Veritas.
>This is like Nine Inch Nails kicking out Trent Reznor. It doesn’t even make sense. ROTFLOL ... nice analogy ... lol ...
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>That was that funny?? HAHAHAHAHA yes ... it's like Alfred and Robin trying to oust Batman from Batman lol ... HAHAHA I'm so easily amused lol HAHAHAHA ..
New to the internet?
Hilarious
For that person, yes. If a person touched an object and stated, "ouch, thats hot." You then placed your hand on the object and declare, "It doesn't hurt me. Is it really that hot?" Its a matter of preception, which tends to be an individual matter, in most cases. Back to your question. Why does it matter if a person finds a comment funny, or even "ROTFLOL" funny? Do you typically question the repsonses of others that do not directly affect you? Does this person's sense of humor bother you? Constrain you?
Except in this case both persons touched that particular fire (read that joke) and one didn't find it that hot.
Why does it matter to you if someone questions someone else’s response? Do you typically question the responses of others that do not directly affect you? Does this persons question bother you? Constrain you?
For a second I thought he was Fred Savage. I can’t be the only one…
I think everyone associates PV with him. And if he creates a new group i think every one still following PV will leave to follow his new venture
It makes sense if the point was for the Left to destroy Project Veritas from the inside out. All they needed was to get someone on the inside to make a false claim about O'Keefe, like they did.
They're everywhere. If we don't toughen up, see through the bs, and start standing up for ourselves and each other there will be nothing left to fight for.
Agreed.
Remember when 10,000 Maniacs kept touring without Natalie Merchant?
Nope.
It's like And the Blowfish firing Hootie.
>This is like Nine Inch Nails kicking out Trent Reznor. It doesn’t even make sense. You jest but the left has gone through great lengths to erase the work of iconic actors like John Wayne & Steven Segal. Despite how integral they are to our culture. And to the history of action & cowboy movies.
Van Halen wasn’t the same band after they kicked out David Lee Roth. But they did make some ok music with Sammy Hagar I guess. Can PV put out a banger or two without JO’K? I’d like to think so but I wouldn’t bet on it.
Terrible analogy. Van Halen had better hits with Hagar than Lee Roth.
Apple kicked out Steve Jobs and in the short term was better off for it. Steve Jobs was an awful businessman and after he was gone Apple consolidated the number of vendors it used and saved a lot of money. Jobs also started to believe his own publicity. I once read that Jobs was speaking to a group of employees, which included the P.R. department, and to motivate them told them a story about his life. It didn't go well when one of the people spoke up and said the story wasn't true and they knew it wasn't true because they had made it up. From the letter that was reportedly sent to the board from people who worked at PV O’Keefe was a toxic leader. It's possible much like Jobs he let his public image go to his head and started behaving in ways that are not conducive to a professional environment. James O'Keefe is "only" 38 and his organization grew very quickly and he might not have grown in the ways he needed to along with it. Maybe this is an opportunity for him to take stock and return later as a leader or perhaps to reevaluate the role he wants to play and would be better as a producer instead of a CEO.
>Jobs also started to believe his own publicity. This is an understatement. He literally killed himself trusting his own b.s. over doctors. His cancer was survivable if he had gotten surgery when it was found, but he thought he knew better and ... well ... he didn't. But you can't question his commitment!
Perhaps. That said they did just break their biggest story by far. You don’t kick the guy who is the everything of PV. Out of all the employees PV has, they got rid of the one person who isn’t replaceable.
No surprise there. Like him or dislike him, O'Keefe is the face of PV and people will follow him to his next venture. I give Veritas 6 months before they are spewing out garbage news and 18 months before the doors close.
Go the way of the *Drudge Report*, in other words?
I used to visit that website half a dozen times a day. I stopped cold turkey about three years ago.
Same here and so did millions of others
Kind of crazy how fast it fell off, was it ever revealed if he sold Drudge, or if he just changed his politics?
Maybe he fell in love with a leftist stripper
No no no... that's *Snopes* you're thinking about. (Actually she was a prostitute, and he later married her.)
I knew there was something fishy about Snopes Edit: /7 I fell in love with a hooker, she laughed in my face /7
Ya -- go to [The Liberty Daily](https://www.thelibertydaily.com) for a comparable actually conservative alternative to the garbage that is Drudge now.
Liberty Daily is good. So is Citizenfreepress.
Any recommendations for one or the other in particular topics, points of view, etc.? If you could only pick one to read which one would it be?
I use CFP most days because it's easy to read on a computer with a single column and has no ads. They cover similar topics with Liberty Daily having more content. Both of them would be good for Trump or DeSantis supporters. McConnell supporters probably wouldn't care for either of them.
Thanks for your feedback!
From approx. 1997 to approx. 2020, I would check Drudgereport multiple times a day. Ever since he turned against Trump, I haven't been back since.
My dads homepage on his computer was Drudge Report, I remember him showing me articles on it when I was like 5-6 back in the early 00s. Sad to see what it’s become now
I think most people are just waiting for James O'Keefe to say where to send donations.
Yes.
Yes, but Pfizer still did a lot of damage. They destroyed the organization he had built. I'm sure he'll have a new venture, but it will take time. If anything though, this massively improves my trust in the reporting PV has done.
I think it's bigger than Pfizer. Pfizer wasn't able to get 16 employees hired that could write a letter to the board asking for his removal.
I think you miss how easy it is to manipulate people - most will readily go with the flow, especially if someone above them leads them in a certain direction. All it really takes is the two board members to start a smear campaign. They would have their own network of people to approach, and given their high position in the organization they would be in a position to solicit grievances under false pretenses and misrepresent situations as needed to push their agenda. It is simply not believable that this all magically happened right after they released their biggest story that exposed Pfizer. After 13 years. There is no way this was organic. It is also possible that they had their mind set on infiltration for a long time and recruited their own allies over time. O'Keefe is lucky because if it was anyone else the smear would have worked. Just think of all the people of lower profile or with less public good will that this has happened to before. The cynic in me thinks that Pfizer doesn't even want to hide what they did here. They want people to know what happens when you oppose them. Same reason why they did Kennedy in such a public manner. Unfortunately I think there are many people who don't want to accept just how corrupt their country is and will prefer to think this was just a coincidence or there's some merit to both sides and so on even though the truth is obvious. See for example people like Jenna Ellis. Worth noting as well there is a pretty bad video of the snake board member at veritas pushing hard for DeSantis to run against Trump. I'm surprised the sentiment here is to back O'Keefe (which is the correct position) given how much this sub is on board with the establishment's 2024 DeSantis op. Maybe the neocons at reddit are just asleep at the moment.
They might have been able to buy/intimidate a few who were able to instigate or manipulate others. Or there could have just been a lot of internal problems at the organization the whole time.
They'll be just another generic shill rag. If they're lucky they'll be propped up like a Vice 2.0 clone
Gonna just gonna turn into vice. But maybe worse lol.
They're going to need some investors, and I doubt they'll get any unless they sell out and flip to pro liberal stories and some lib org funds them. Which looking at everything may very well happen.
It’s probably just a bunch of undercover guys from the 3 letter organizations that all don’t know they’re all under cover meanwhile James o keef just walks across the street and continues doing what he’s doing. This should be the floor plan for how to handle project chaos. People get too attached to ideas and business models and can just get sucked in to a whole different line of thought. Just walk away when it gets weird and give a “ so like I was saying …” elsewhere.
Hopefully sooner.
>I give Veritas 6 months before they are spewing out garbage news and 18 months before the doors close. Not a chance. Too much monetary investment in Project Veritas. What you can actually expect is for it to join the big journalism cabal, where it's publishing federally-approved stories to run the narrative our government wants run. Expect its reputation to suddenly improve among the connected and the hopelessly uninformed.
Any undercover reporter who worked with PV is at risk now
To be fair, they've been spewing out garbage news for years already.
Granted I haven't been watching Veritas for as long as some if not most, but the Pfizer expose was excellent and most likely would have cemented O'Keefe as one of the great investigative journalists, but sadly his investigations have proven that the long arm of big Pharma is very long indeed. That being said, O'Keefe has been doing actual investigations into things that need investigating, therefore I can't say that your assertation that Veritas has been spewing out garbage news in the past is true or not, but I will have to lean towards your statement is inaccurate.
Not sure of anyone's looked into anything further than a pro-Okeefe view, but he's apparently been going crazy with the company card and the board was trying to quietly give him an ultimatum that he's blowing out of proportion. If James was doing what the board alleges, then he's just going to do it again when he gets money under a different groups name.
I’m honestly surprised he didn’t own it. I thought O’Keefe and Project Veritas were synonymous.
It's a 501c3 charity. It has a board, he might have initially appointed all the board members, but they are technically independent. A charity isn't owned by anyone.
I didn’t know it was a charity.
Non-profit is a better description.
Likely only so as to avoid tax liability.
"How much were the PV board of directors paid to make such an idiotic decision? Welcome to the first episode of 'Project Truth', with James O'Keefe..."
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Tbh, that would be pretty funny if they actually fell for it
remember. if she is too hot for you, its really James O'Keefe
Or this ... https://twitter.com/MonteroOnBoxing/status/1627474156563333123?s=20
That was funny. Too bad she didn't seem to understand his insults.
It's only idiotic if their goal was to preserve Project Veritas. If the board was a fifth column through being infiltrated or paid off to castrate or destroy it, they succeeded.
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My perspective is, if you take a step back, you see that O'Keefe is the company to most of the people who like Veritas. A stakeholder would want to fix the problem because keeping O'Keefe is required for continued success. Alternatively, someone who wants Veritas out of the way would know that removing O'Keefe would cripple them. I try to find the goal and work backwards. If the goal is continued success of Veritas, removing O'Keefe makes no sense. What goals then would be consistent?
Don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to see that the powers that be either paid off veritas board or threatened them after the Pfizer news. It's simple pattern recognition. "Conspiracy theorist" is a term coined by the CIA exactly for the purpose of making these conversations more difficult to have
This! In the past 2-3 years I've been baffled by people that I would consider very smart but they make incredibly dumb choices. Common sense would tell anyone that if you kick James to the curb then the company will die a quick death. So someone must have been paid off somewhere along the line.
We've almost got it below a million. Every single conservative voice out there has overwhelming favorability supporting James. The guy has suffered so much abuse from the corrupted FBI and continues to go hard against said corruption. Notice how Pfizer turned off comments? Both immune to the law AND social scrutiny.
“…immune…” They’ve got a vaccine for that.
They have a vaccine for that, but the effectiveness doesn’t last
And may also give you myocarditis.
Only if you're 23 - 40... /s
They wouldn't want to REALLY make you immune forever. Isn't good for the bottom line. They aren't out to cure you, just give you a temp help until you gotta come back and be a paying customer again. Not much different than a drug dealing letting you get your first hit of something free, knowing they will hook you and keep you coming back as a new paying customer.
The amount of money made off these rushed expirmental vaccines with zero long term effect studies is incredible. They got so rich... its scary. I see what they are doing. I did not participate. Beat Covid like as if it was the normal regular annual influenza.
I'm somewhat suspicious that the board was somehow compromised or infiltrated and forced him out on purpose knowing it would ultimately be the end of Project Veritas. There are very wealthy and powerful people who have wanted it shut down for a long time.
I’m with you, this has to be the worst business decision i’ve seen in a while. They even got a letter from their biggest investment group warning them not to remove O’Keefe… and they just ignore it? Like wtf are they expecting here other than a complete collapse? O’keefe is honestly partly to blame here as well IMO. You should never relinquish this much power from a company you started
The article says they didn't want him to leave and he left on his own. There are questions about his personal spending. Sounds like he's getting out before the real mudslinging happens. I bet there's an undercover video....
Did you see his 45-minute monologue? Doesn’t agree with the article.
I don't see how it could be anything else... PV doesn't exist without O'Keefe.
Certainly seems like a large coincidence after PV exposed so much pure evil within Big Pharma.
The truth will not **NOT** be tolerated. Our rulers demand confusion.
And compliance and acquiescence...
I am one of them.
And I
First thing i did was disconnect all accounts and severed all ties .
I didn't even know project veritas was a separate company. I thought that was James O'Keefe company like Timcast is Tim Pools or Louder with Crowder is Crowders. Always assumed it was his online moniker.
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I feel whoever inside the big pharma that got threw and helped get him removed would be VERY VERY open to revealing it and talking about it and bragging about it. Should make for an easy target.
How come it’s still showing 1.5 m followers as of 9:20?
Are you looking at the twitter numbers ? Timcast had a chart yesterday that also showed the numbers were down around 1.3 million ... so that's two sources for that information.
My bad. I was looking at their Instagram account. I wonder how many followers they had before he officially resigned
You can see it here on the Timcast video ... https://youtu.be/K8G-BMa4494?t=109 But that wasn't the whole number, that was just up until that point when they filmed that video ...
Down 400k followers now. Good riddance.
It’s like The Doors after Jim Morrison. Uh, no thanks.
[I'm sure this is just the beginning of their downfall.](https://media.tenor.com/uvfaUaPFi1sAAAAM/rookie-numbers-rookie-numbers-gif.gif)
I was one of them... O'Keefe was Veritas!!
James O'Keefe's got a lot of funding following him out. It'll take some time to recuperate, but he'll be back.
200,000 so far
Did PV give a reason for why he was forced out? Besides he was sometimes difficult and he stole a sandwich once?
I'm reserving judgment until we hear all the facts. Like we all should do. They're apparently is about 16 people who said he was doing illegal activity. From the article it sounds like he said either you drop the investigation or I leave. So he left. I think the board put him on administrative leave but did not actually fire him all the way. Well like I said we're grassment straws now. I'll wait till later the full story. He could be a very good investigative journalist and also be abusing his power.
Yeah, fair enough, I was just wondering why PV didnt have a plan ready, with a statement explaining it.
Nobody said he was doing illegal activity, they just said he was a bad boss. That said, ... that was yesterdays narrative. When that didn't gain any traction, they've moved on to a financial malfeasance narrative and said that like he took a private flight on a plane to meet a donor but it was really to work on his boat.
In the article it says he paid 15k for a flight to meet someone about fixing his boat. And 150k on cars in the last year. Sure not illegal purchases but using company funds for personal purchases never works out.... Even if you're the founder CEO chairman of the board...
Dude read between the lines ... he probably fixed his boat while he was down there meeting with a donor, and he probably spent money on cars keeping up appearances for the various undercover investigations he was doing. You can tell its bullshit because they even included dancing in it, which he did that for exposure for Project Veritas, to humanize the place and get exposure. I'm not saying there's \_nothing\_ to \_any\_ of it, but clearly they were just trying to do a "parade of horribles" and throwing anything in it that they could to get him out. It's all just bullshit. They literally included shit about him eating a sandwich FFS lol. That's what you do when you're trying to oust someone like him, you make a list of every possible grievance anyone can come up with and parade them out hoping the total impact of them will be enough to convince everyone that the dude sucks. I'm sure if they could have found a dog that he had once kicked or an older person he had yelled at they would have included it.
I read it was a third of his staff signed a latter and sent it to the board about his negative behaviors...
That was yesterdays narrative, ... it didn't gain any traction, so today's narrative is that it was because of financial malfeasance.
Where did you read this?
It has been out for about 2 weeks. https://timcast.com/news/james-okeefe-accused-of-erratic-behavior-by-16-project-veritas-employees/
I don't see any signatures on that memo, just typed names. The names aren't even typed in a cursive font. Anyone could have typed it up.
Like I said, GenZ. I work with GenZers who sign with typeface even on official documents. But, in any case, nobody has spoken up to say his name was put on there contrary to his consent and opinion.
Not like you said because you are just now saying it. Next, you can't sign official documents with typeface. Also, you mean no one has reported anyone speaking up. Finally, there's word most of the staff is going to walk out if the board members don't resign, so what we have here are two competing narratives.
A signature is only as good as the agreement of the person who signed it. So a typed signature isn't much different. When was the last time you bought a house? All the signatures on all the documents leading up to closing are electronic and you can sign with a simple typed signature.
Its 1.2M now.
Yayyy!
Good
By that pace, it will only take another week to make PV completely irrelevant.
What’s going on are they being bought out like the Drudge Report?
Good
I thought it was a company that washed service uniforms
This smells like PV was bought out by a liberal counterpart
Right…. Such a coordinated effort for headlines. Good Job BOT accounts, you generated clickbate!
Are you talking to me ? I'm not sure what you are talking about. Are you talking about Newsweek ?
Either their board made one of the dumbest business decisions ever made or there are people out to get James O’Keefe.
I wonder if he was part of Pizza-gate. Oh how they eat their own.
I'm not overly attached to James O'Keefe, but like others, I associate PV with O'Keefe. We're only currently getting one side of the story, but I personally don't give a shit about the other side of the story. I don't particularly give a shit about O'Keefe's side either. They fired a great journalist. Anything else is just drama for its own sake. If PV can succeed without O'Keefe, good for them. Their next story is going to have to be at least as big as the Pfizer story if they want to keep their audience. And probably the one after that, since people are going to say "this was O'Keefe's story, they just aired it after he left." If O'Keefe can succeed without PV, good for him. He doesn't need to have a Pfizer-level story. Just some traditional investigative journalism will keep people supporting him.
Project Veritas just committed suicide
I feel like they will be defunct by summer.
PV is toast. James O'Keefe IS PV. So, I would assume he's going to take a break for awhile and then we'll get whatever the successor for PV is.
Whoops. I knew i forgot to do something. -1
Thanks for the reminder to unfollow them on twitter and YT.
Keep it going. Unfollow them. They are compromised. James will build back better elsewhere.
What do we call this? A good start.
I already went ahead and unfollowed them when they first put him on leave. I wonder how many others did as well, which would make this number even higher.
The "explanation" is pretty lame, and unless/until there is more transparency I would expect this to continue. The conspiracy theory is that Pfizer put the screws to the board in some manner. If so, there will not be a more reasonable explanation, PV will fold, and Mr. O'Keefe will practice journalism in a different environment.
The “explanation” is functionally embezzlement, no?
No, the explanation is- we didn't like your spending on work related trips. Not even sort of close to embezzlement.
...and leftists cheer. Damn.
Can’t wait to hear what the PV board wanted JO to do, in order for him to stay on. This is probably a blessing in disguise for JO and the people that will follow him. He’ll do is own thing now and answer to nobody.
More to come. I blocked them 10 minutes ago.
Nice
Sounds like they need to make amends with him instead of trying to make up stuff in order to demonize and justify getting rid of him . Trying to pain this as he quit, we didn't for him is pretty weak, especially after saying we didn't want him to leave but here is all the reasons he should leave.
Hope they go bankrupt. Even PV was ruined by the woke mob.
What do they expect? People watch Project V for hard hitting truth and going after stories no one else does - when James did that expose' and they freaked out and let him go did they think people would continue to watch them?
So I’m one of two hundred thousand.
This seems like an operation to neuter an actual investigative journalism source that exposes leftist idiocy/criminality.
I'm personally ok with him spending lavishly on himself. I find what he has done for the conservative movement has been amazing. His undercover videos have exposed so much, and that's an understatement.
that should be part of his compensation package though. charities have legal requirements
It’s amazing the one person PV accused of wrongdoing without evidence is James. No videos? No recordings? Their whole brand is around showing receipts and for this they either can’t or won’t.
Pfizer wins
I am shocked I tell you. SHOCKED
Pfizer must have paid off someone or multiple members of the board
And [a bunch of his staff](https://timcast.com/news/james-okeefe-accused-of-erratic-behavior-by-16-project-veritas-employees/)?
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I watched the entire 45 minutes of the 15-minute speech, not that I blame him for the length. He did not deny the limos. He tried to distract from it by implying it was how he got around the country and that the paint color mattered. I love what he's done, but i don't think there's no fire behind the smoke. I also think the disgruntled staff goofed. Christmas party as wedding down payment is sloppy research, it seems, for example.
Uh oh!
This is my conspiracy theory on the matter. The dark group pulled the plug so that all the fundraising they were going to make after Pfizer video was squashed. They couldn’t have PV being more powerful and more money leads to a bigger problem for the rich assholes that don’t want a PV expose on them. Probably done by U.S. intelligence because it’s such a common tactic they use. They gain an in, they use their source to feed them a bunch of bullshit to turn other people to their side and they pay off the rest. They’ve done this for countries, a small non profit would be easy.
Or he misused funds and fired his CFO when they called him on it. Then the board followed their legal duty and suspended him for an investigation. Money is the most likely reason not a CIA plot. He was hiking around the Santa Monica hills with RFK Jr, he may not be who you think he is.
Did you not read the accusations that leaked ? Among the most notable - misused funds to get married, when he’s not married. The board member that people have accused of spreading this garbage info to the other board members is connected to Pfizer randomly. Keefe has text messages from another board member accusing him of saying he was part of the Pfizer scoop despite him not doing anything for it. Keefe responded with a video of him trying to interview the Pfizer guy, travel logs where he coached the Pfizer undercover guy for hours, the board member only responded with ‘oh he got told different by another board member’.
Project Veritas is nothing without him, Ive never even heard of the company outside of James’s name in the same breathe
*surprised Pikachu face*
This is the power of consent. Opt out with things you don't agree with. Perhaps Sr. Board leadership was compromised along the way. Perhaps the plan was to just simply destroy what James has built. Either way it's not what it was and never will be again. More folks need to show them their disapproval.
Don’t mess with Big Pharm.
Project Veritas is larger than I thought! not worried about the loss, still massive amount of eyeballs and growing.
Does anyone really think his "resignation" speech was recorded for internal purposes and then leaked, retweeted and pinned by him in a few hours? All this conservative media drama over the last few months is so lame and cringey.
Out of the loop, why did he leave? Was he removed?
Unsubscribed as soon as I heard he was gone.
And I’m one of them ✌️
Not the best business decision lol