For many years now Scientology has spread a lot of garbage about your proprietor, and we do our best just to ignore it. The exception we’ve made is to talk a little, for the movie Going Clear and for Leah Remini’s series, about some of the in-real-life stuff Scientology has thrown at us, with private investigators trying to intimidate our loved ones.
But most of what they do is a lot of online smears that they spread around with their various social media accounts. And for years, they paid for ads on Google so that if you searched on our name their garbage popped up at the top of the page. Yawn.
Again, we tend to ignore it and we don’t bring it up here at the Bunker. However, we thought it might be time for another exception.
We’re blocked from seeing it directly, but apparently Scientology took out a couple of Twitter/X ads about us recently, and enough was paid to get them some very prominent placement.
One of the ads was made from footage stolen from our own coverage of the first Danny Masterson trial, when we thanked Karen de la Carriere for helping us save money by allowing us to stay at her place. (We figured it was good manners to be thankful for that kind of generosity, but you know, no good deed…)
We only found out about the ads because we started to see the reactions to them, and we thought we’d share some of those reactions with you today. We figure you might find them as amusing as we did. Way to go, Scientology, thanks for helping raise the Ortega profile over at Elon’s playpen.
And why now? Was it the 60 Minutes Australia appearance? Was it our personal news, and Scientology thought we made a more vulnerable target right now? No idea. We just thought it was interesting that they tried out this new tactic against us, and it appeared to backfire.
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“This spot we are going to call A. This spot we are going to call B. This spot we are going to call C. This spot we are going to call D”. Oh my god they literally are USING the letters in that photo.
If you remember my podcast with Tony, that silly process is part of actual auditing commands of SRD.
ETA: you are literally paying thousands of dollars to have someone point at the letter A and say “this spot we are going to call A” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
And as the one who became a millionaire with this sinister invention said when he said: “we cannot defend ourselves (( with so many lies )), we can only attack”, and that is what the financiers of the current soulless billionaire do.