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All the things I’ve pointed out about Season 1 [of Aftermath ], and predicted for Season 2, go beyond the pale of what I even predicted in terms of how denigrated this whole process has become. I mean, it’s become this culture of complaint, fantasy land, where you get 15 minutes of fame and suddenly you’re inventing new facts. And that goes for the talent as well as the stars, Remini and Rinder.
If you go back and you look at what they’re saying now against what they were saying earlier, they’ve literally—they’re literally creating new realities. So, this reality TV business has gone to the full end of the spectrum of create your own unreality, okay.
And, you know, there’s a few overriding things to look for in the series as you go through it that apply through the whole series. First is Mike Rinder, who’s listed as a consultant, and is making beaucoup bucks for being the “consultant.” He’s saying less and less and just sagely nodding and confirming what Leah Remini is saying. And, of course, Leah Remini’s in no position of expertise on these things she’s talking about. And so, she’ll just create facts and Mike Rinder will acknowledge it and say, “Exactly right, Leah,” or “Absolutely, I agree with you 100 percent,” or simply nod. He doesn’t even say anything, okay.
And the irony of it is, is that, throughout the entire season, virtually every victim that they bring in, “victim,” was on Mike Rinder’s watch. I mean, he had direct jurisdiction or involvement—or should have—in virtually every one of those stories that was told. And I’ll go through it chapter and verse with you.
And yet, there’s no recognition of that or admission of that anywhere in the entire 14, 15, whatever amount of episodes there were. So that, you know, if their story were not exaggerated or untrue, you would expect that he would be providing admissions, apologies and details—corroboration. He doesn’t do any of those things throughout.
Another interesting indicator of just how much projection and, you know, how exaggerated and dramatized everything is, is the level of partisanship that these people are displaying. I mean, it’s getting further—they’re further and further radicalizing themselves. To the point where, the guy who’s the consultant, who’s supposed to be the level-headed arbiter of facts or, you know, verifier of facts, published this recently about Scientology: “Scientologists are like cornered rats and will ultimately be wiped out entirely because they are such menacing antagonistic and rabid vermin.”
That’s Mike Rinder, just back—October 3rd, okay, of 2017. That’s the guy who’s supposed to be the objective expert—that’s his sentiment about the subject.
So, you know, the third leg of the three profiteers, or the Troika, as I refer to them as, Tony Ortega—there’s Leah Remini, Mike Rinder and Tony Ortega, who’s their silent partner, who pimps and promotes the show and gets all of the advance notice of it so that he can start spiking—putting out the meme lines to try to get seed in the media.
So, Tony Ortega is the third leg of the Troika, or the three profiteers. And I call them the three profiteers because they’re the only three people that profit in the anti-Scientology thing. It’s a monopoly. Everybody else is putting money into it—they’re the only ones that are getting money, okay. And they very carefully guard that hierarchy.
