For those who don’t know, Beau of the Fifth Column is a fairly popular “leftist” YouTuber who makes videos sympathetic to power under the guise of radicalism and about a month ago he decided to step down from his channel due to being “overworked” with his wife taking his place. I find it very interesting he decided to do it around the time his history as a human trafficker has started to really gain traction in online spaces. The two can’t POSSIBLY be connected, right?

    • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.net
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      13 days ago

      I think Bad Empanada (which is random af lol) exposed him. Beau said he worked as a merc in Uzbekstan to save jewish people or whatever. In reality he was taking immigrants and sending them to work in shitty jobs while he would steal money and the passaports from them.

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        13 days ago

        The feds had Justin King dead to rights on it too, but for some reason they decided to just let him off with a slap on the wrist and let him keep over a million dollars worth of his ill-gotten gains. After that, I think he did some military and police contracting work before inventing his phony “Beau” character. He’s either a fed or a grifter.