Dem Influencers EXPOSED As Paid Shills For The Party!
A number of prominent Democratic influencers were secretly offered contracts funded by the dark money group 1630 Fund through its project Chorus, paying them thousands per month to push party messaging while prohibiting disclosure of the arrangement. Guest host Misty Winston and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger criticize the hypocrisy of calling this “independent media,” arguing it’s simply undisclosed paid propaganda. They highlight how Democrats, unlike Republicans who’ve built strong influencer ecosystems for years, are scrambling to manufacture online influence while censoring dissent and silencing criticism. The segment frames the scandal as further evidence of corruption, elite manipulation, and the hollowing out of authentic political discourse in favor of scripted shilling. Plus segments on the corporate vultures snapping up public utilities and how unhinged Israelis can be about genocide when they think they’re only talking to each other. Also featuring Jimmy Dore and Stef Zamorano!
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The right has won even arguably presidential elections because they're organized with regard to online and independent media.
They're killing us.
We've been so behind.
And this kind of support for creators is exactly what I've been advocating for.
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He contacted me yesterday, last minute, to see if I was able to fill in for him.
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Okay, so we're going to move on now to a fun story.
At least I think it's fun.
We're going to make fun of some influencers.
So Democrats have been paying for high-profile influencers, which surprises nobody in Jimmy Dore's audience.
I have no doubt about that.
This is very similar to what Republicans have been doing for a very long time, but this was just outed, I think, yesterday or the day before.
I think was when this article came out.
So a dark money group is secretly funding high-profile Democratic influencers.
So we're going to bring Kurt in here.
We're going to talk about this because this is some funny stuff.
Dark money.
What does that even mean?
It's just basically shadowy money that they weren't admitting to taking.
Like there was no admittance.
There was no like, hey, this is a paid ad or this is a paid political collaboration.
Yeah.
Yes.
But this was these this, it's going to get juicy here.
So, and this is kind of a lengthier article.
I tried to pick and choose the more like relevant pieces of information, but if you want to go check out the whole thing, I highly recommend that you do.
There's no way I'm not going to sit here and read the whole thing to you.
It would take forever.
So in a private group chat in June, dozens of Democratic political influencers discussed whether to take advantage of an enticing opportunity.
They were being offered $8,000 a month to take part in a secretive program aimed at bolstering Democratic messaging on the internet.
But the contract sent to them from Chorus, the nonprofit arm of liberal influencer marketing platform, came with some strings.
Of course it did.
Among other issues, it mandated extensive secrecy about disclosing their payments and had restrictions on what sort of political content the creators could produce.
In their group chat, influencers debated the details, saying things such as, quote, should we send a joint email with all of our email addresses or are we just going to send things separately and hope they change everything for everyone?
End quote.
Lorenzo, a non-binary creator in Columbus, Ohio, with over 884,000 TikTok followers, asked the group.
Some joked about collective bargaining.
Quote, any newsy fans here?
Eliza Orlands, a public defender and reality TV star known for her appearances on Survivor posted in the group, quote, we're a union just by saying so, end quote.
The influencers in the chat collectively had at least 13 million followers across social platforms.
They represented some of the most well-known voices online posting in support of Democrats and they're key to wherever the party moves next.
But ultimately, the group didn't make much progress.
So we're going to get into it.
There's been some tantrums thrown today.
You may have seen it already.
So for I'm sure the audience has.
For years, Democrats have struggled to work with influencers.
In 2024, President Joe Biden's White House snubbed several prominent content creators after they lightly criticized the administration over its policies.
And this is the Democrats problem.
If you even lightly criticize them, they will throw a temper tantrum.
Like even somebody like Hassan Piker, who is a douche canoe of the highest level.
He will throw a dandrum when lightly criticized.
However, his Israel policy doesn't line up.
Yeah.
So, but they like shunned him.
He has a massive platform and they shunned him because he like very lightly challenged Kamala Harris.
After the Democrats lost in November, they faced a recording reckoning.
It was clear that the party had failed to successfully navigate the new media landscape.
They've been struggling with this, which is fascinating to me given the fact that Obama was so successful.
He was like the social media president.
They were very good in the Obama campaign.
Obama, I bet, because he's one of those rare birds that supposedly wrote his own book, his own, you know, they all write their own.
Highly intelligent.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You can't run presidents like you wrote a Mein Kampf and then they all have a writer write it for him, but he wrote his own.
And so I bet Obama could sit and have a conversation without pre-approved questions.
For sure.
That's simple.
Rogan, yo, Kamal Harris could have won on Rogan.
He didn't, he didn't like Trump the whole time.
Or like Trump just literally could have a conversation.
And these people are such, they're so trained to be submissive to power that they think the quality of never saying what you really think is like really good and smart.
And that's what makes you a good leader.
They all think this.
I don't know why.
Well, I do know why mind control, but they all think an admirable trait is aligning yourself to things that you maybe don't even believe in, but you're just savvy and you know how to play the game and you know which hill to die on.
And so because they're perverse, they can't get it in their heads that everybody'd like to talk normally.
Because one thing I know about Rogan is he's really not pushing somebody.
He lets people talk.
A lot of times people hoist themselves by their own petard, like you're Douglas Murray's and Jordan Peterson's.
And all these idiots can't get through their head.
Try just being sincere, even if you're dumb.
And I know you're dumb, even though you think you're smart people, you're very, very dumb.
But yourselves, though, that's compelling.
I don't think that they have a self, though.
I think that these people are so warped in the brain that they don't even have like Kamala Harris doesn't have an ideology.
She doesn't have beliefs.
Like she doesn't have opinions.
She has things that she's force-fed and she regurgitates.
Like that, she isn't any of them.
Kamala Harris, any of them.
Kamala Harris is, I thought she was Wendy Williams for the whole first part of the campaign.
I don't even understand.
I understand.
Again, I don't understand why people think this is a real country.
That was one of your candidates.
Yeah.
I would have voted for that auto pen over her.
No, Joe Biden.
Sounded better.
He can't even put a coherent sentence together.
And both Bidens, the tall one sounded better and the other shorter soup for brains one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, I mean, it really is a joke.
But here, we're going to get into like some of the specifics about who was in this.
So just so you guys know, this is it's called chorus.
It's the chorus creator incubator program, which is the program that they're talking about here.
It's funded by a powerful liberal dark money group called the 1630 Fund.
The program kicked off last month and creators involved were told by chorus that over 90 influencers were set to take part.
Creators told Wired that the contract stipulated they'd be kicked out and essentially cut off financially if they even so much as acknowledged that they were part of the program.
Some creators also raised concern about a slew of restrictive restrictive clauses, which we'll get into some of those as well.
So here's who some of them that were involved.
So influencers included in communication about the program and in some cases, an onboarding session for those receiving payments from the 1630 fund include Olivia Juliana.
I'm sure some of you are very familiar with who she is.
The centrist Gen Z influencer who spoke at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
Lauren Perretra, I don't know, probably butchering it.
A former Playboy executive who hosts a podcast.
I can't laugh all day.
I know.
You're going to make it?
But Barrett Adair, a creator who runs an American Girl doll themed pro-DNC meme account, which is weird.
Suzanne Lambert, who has called herself a quote unquote Regina George liberal.
I don't even know what she means.
The actress?
Who's, okay.
I don't know.
Suzanne Lambert?
I don't know.
Regina George, I think that's the Mean Girls reference, right?
I've never seen it, but I think that's a Mean Girls reference, the movie.
I'm not sure.
I think she's like the head mean girl, maybe.
I need to watch that.
So she's a shit lib?
That's what that means.
Pretty much.
Yeah, pretty much.
Ariel Fodor, an education creator with 1.4 million followers on TikTok.
Sander Jennings, a former TLC reality star and older brother of trans influencer Jazz Jennings.
You know what happened to Jazz Jennings?
Jazz Jennings is miserable, I think, right?
Yeah, nobody talks about how bad it ended up for old Jazz Jennings.
It's real messed up.
I haven't heard about her in a long time, but yeah, that's like a whole other, we can't even get into it.
That's a whole other ball of wax.
But David Pakman, guys.
That would make them lose all elections.
Are they insane?
Okay, go ahead.
Yes.
David Pakman.
David Pakman, who hosts an independent progressive show.
Glenn Greenwald called him APAC, David APAC man.
Is he an APAC guy?
Yeah, I think so.
He's a Zionist for sure.
Or at least he is a Zionist by convenience.
Like, it's good for him.
Like, it's politically advantageous and career, it's good for his career.
So, I don't know if he's an actual, like, he has a Zionist for me.
Yeah, he is really a Skobag on every level.
Yeah, he really is.
Which is why I love seeing him exposed in this way.
And Lee McGowan, who goes by the online moniker Politics Girl.
Oh, Midas, these are all Midas Touch?
These are all Midas Touch people.
So, that's the Moses brothers.
Yeah, they're, Hillary Clinton.
I've seen the Politics Girl, I think.
She's, like, dirty blonde hair, maybe?
She's, first of all, Canadian.
Is she?
She's in the kitchen, like, she's a working mom.
Yeah, in the kitchen.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She's not a mother of anyone.
Okay, I thought that's who it was.
That's the only one whose name I really recognize is David Pakman.
Yeah.
No, I don't know any other than the Jennings person.
And I don't know that person.
I know Jazz.
So, I don't know.
Yeah.
The first two declined to comment.
The rest did not respond to requests for comment, of course.
But David Pakman did put out a video, which we're going to play, which I thought was it's funny.
I got to get a drink to spit out for these things, I realize.
Yeah.
So, according to copies of the contract viewed by Wired that the creators signed, the influencers are not allowed to disclose their relationship with Chorus or the 1630 fund or functionally that they're being paid at all, which is insane.
Doesn't that make sense?
of liberal influencers are believed to have been approached by chorus about the 1630 fund financing opportunity this spring they were told that chorus appreciated the work they were doing online blah blah blah uh They wanted to expand their reach and influence following initial outreach.
A lot of them, which good on those of you that expressed concern, there were people that turned it down because this is shady as hell.
So if you are one of those people that turned it down under those circumstances, good for you because turning down eight grand a month, which not everybody was offered eight grand a month.
There was a variance of like fees that were offered.
But if you are somebody that turned down any amount of money because it was shady, good on you.
That is unfortunately rare.
I see a lot of these messages to a lot of people, not just from Democrat sources.
I've seen a bunch and it's a pretty standard thing that anybody that has a pretty decent following in a podcast can show you their emails where they get these offers.
I have never been approached.
Oh, but aren't you like you the trend?
I'm very vocally like anti all of this shit, though.
So I don't.
Nobody want and I sell the hell out of Hawk TuaCoin and nobody offers me any, you know, nobody offers me any of those.
Nobody's ever.
I mean, I have like over a hundred, some odd thousand followers on Twitter.
Nobody's ever reached out to me for any of this shit, but I think that it's probably pretty expressedly clear that that's not a thing I would do.
But it would be fine if somebody would do it.
I will expose them though.
So maybe they won't, but it would be fine.
Most of the things are set up in fake.
And even if they're not funded by the DNC, they'll be funded by weird, creepy sources that you're like, why are they funding this?
Yeah.
Like the Tate Brothers or something.
That's a lot of fun.
Yeah, the Tate brothers are a whole other ball of whack.
So here's some of the stipulations.
Creators in the program are not allowed to use any funds or resources that they receive as part of the program to make content that supports or opposes any political candidate or campaign without express authorization from chorus in advance and in writing per the contract.
So basically, you don't get to make content unless you ask permission first.
The contracts reviewed by Wired prohibit standard partnership disclosures, declaring that the creators will quote unquote not publicize their relationship with chorus or tell others that they're members of the program, quote, without chorus's prior express consent.
Why is that legal?
I'm not talking about dark money.
I mean that.
It should be a paid advertisement.
Why is there not a paid advertisement around like they had to do in print?
Yes.
Nobody got around to that.
Well, there's, they get into it a little bit in this article.
And again, highly recommend you guys go check out the entire article.
It is very lengthy.
There is no way I was going to be able to include all of the information here.
So go check it out for yourself.
I'm sure multiple people will be covering it.
I know Glenn Greenwald's already been talking about it.
Multiple people have been chattering about it on Twitter.
So go and do like the looking into it for yourself and make your own conclusion because there's obviously the denials are everywhere right now.
So a screenshot from a slideshow was shared with Wired following the articles, this article's publication by Graham Wilson, a lawyer working with Chorus that offers several talking points if a member of the cohort wanted to discuss chorus publicly.
They also forbid creators from quote disclosing the identity of any funder and quote and give chorus the ability to force creators to remove or correct content based solely on the organization's discretion if that content was made at a pre at a core chorus organized event.
There are some quote there are some real advantages to housing here.
This is where we get into it, Kurt.
Quote, there are some real advantages to housing this program in a nonprofit, end quote, Wilson said to creators on a Zoom call reviewed by Wired, quote, it gives us the ability to raise money from donors.
And also with this structure, it avoids a lot of the public disclosure or public disclaimers, you know, paid for by blah, blah, blah that you see on political ads.
We don't need to deal with any of that.
Your names aren't showing up on like reports filed with the FEC.
That's great.
That's great.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Wilson obviously did not reply for a comment.
Well, I wonder if Mark Marin knows about this.
I'm sure he doesn't.
Don Heater or Heider, I don't know.
I don't care.
The chief executive of Markula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University says that the outline restrictions violate ethical norms.
You think?
Quote, if the contract for getting money from a particular interest group says you can't disclose it, then it's pretty simple.
You can't take the money, end quote.
We're living in an era where a lot of powerful people have basically taken the rule book and thrown it out the window.
I mean, yeah.
It's been lit on fire.
Yes.
Wilson maintained in a post-publication email that, quote, creators are free to work with other groups or take on other partnerships outside the course program and say whatever they want as part of that work or on their own, end quote.
The 1630 Fund has emerged as a powerful funder in Democratic spaces in recent years.
Its website notes that issues supported by the organization include economic equity, affordable health care, climate solutions, racial justice, voter access, and other, quote, essential social change goals, end quote, whatever that means.
The organization was founded in 2009 as a liberal response to conservative dark money groups and organizations like the Koch Network.
And under Trump, it has soared.
In 2018, the 1630 fund provided $141 million to more than 100 left-leaning causes in order to bolster Democratic support during the midterms, according to a tax filing obtained by Politico.
In 2020, the fund distributed more than $400 million, according to the organization's public tax filing, which Politico said was used, quote, in effort to unseat then-President Donald Trump and Republicans' Senate majority, end quote.
In 2022, the 1630 fund spent $196 million backing state ballot measures on abortion rights, heading into the midterms, according to NBC.
Just four donors accounted for close to two-thirds of the fund's revenue in 2023, according to its tax filing.
The largest donor gave the group 50.5 million, with others donating 31.4 million, 21.8 million, and 13.6 million.
So Chorus, which is described in contracts reviewed by Wired as a quote-unquote project of the 1630 fund that handles operations for the creator program, launched in November 2024 with ties to Good Influence, a for-profit influencer marketing agency aimed at helping content creators connect with social good campaigns.
It sounds so creepy.
Good Influence was founded in October 2020 by Stuart Perlmutter, the former communications director for Representative John Yarmuth of Kentucky.
Seeing an opportunity after Kamala Harris's loss last November, Perlmutter co-founded Chorus with Democratic influencer Brian Tyler Cohen, who has over 4.6 million subscribers on YouTube and leads messaging check-ins for the, yeah, that guy, who leads messaging check-ins for the creator cohort on quote rapid response days.
So you guys have seen it when there's something that happens and people are being critical of a candidate or a Democratic Party, something or other, and you suddenly see an influx of all of these tweets that sound the same.
This is the kind of stuff that they're getting them from.
There is a script.
They're doing a great job, as you can see by how they keep winning.
So it's totally worth it all of this.
Well, to be fair, the right's been very effective with it.
The Democratic Party is just dumb and slow as fuck to catch up to how things work.
Look, I'm not impressed that people pointed out reality over and over again while a bunch of morons were putting tampons in the boys' room.
Are you clowns?
You will never be in power again.
In fact, are they trying to ruin the Democratic Party?
Because they did.
And now they're going to ruin the Republican Party.
I mean, they both sucked assholes.
They're the same.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter.
It's a fool if you believed in one or the other.
But guess what?
Democrats are coming back.
Because first of all, let's look at the big glaring issue, which is the Israel thing.
So all these little stupid social back and forths, none of them matter because it's going to be what Israel wants.
And that's where you see Hassanabe clashing with the other.
It's because of that.
Because at the end of the day, they're all just getting paid to do it.
Everybody knows this.
All the kids know this because here's why the kids are smarter than their dumb parents on this one issue.
They don't want to get real jobs and they hope to get influencer jobs one day.
All of them.
So they know how the business works already.
They're going to see through it faster than anybody.
And I don't understand how no one works anywhere that is figuring this out.
I think they just don't care because they get paid to do a bad.
It's like getting paid a billion dollars to fix homelessness.
Dude, if you want to fail up, get a job in politics.
Yeah, this is a real inverted pyramid we live in.
For sure.
I mean, if you want to really suck at your job and still continue to get promoted and continue to make a crap ton of money, get into politics because we've seen it time and time again.
They just keep failing.
Oh, no, I don't want to do a real politics.
I want to be like a little gay catboy Nazi that says offensive things on the on Twitch streams.
And then I talk to other, like the centrist idiot who's also for some reason a gay guy.
He's got the opposite.
And every, it's basically pro wrestling.
And we're, it's literally to get you like half aught, you know, 1 in 32 autistics now.
So it's to, it's, it's specifically to manipulate the emotions of highly compartmentalized, you know, douchebags.
And every time I see somebody, who falls for this?
There's huge swaths of people that fall for it, I guess, but they're not going to fall for it if you don't do your job.
Yeah.
Right.
I think who falls for this?
And then I realize a lot of people.
A lot of people.
And that's why they thought Kamala could win.
But yes, you still got to, the slop has to have some nutrition to it.
They're going to notice if the slop is suddenly vegan.
They'd rather have pink slime.
That's Trump, than vegan garbage.
That's basically what it comes down to.
Yeah.
No doubt.
So the structure of the program highlights the vast differences between how Democrats and Republicans attempt to amass online influence.
And that's what I was talking about.
Republicans have spent decades building up and they have a very powerful, as it says, independent media ecosystem.
They have so many people, high-level influencers who are, I mean, massive platforms that are making a ton of content on a regular basis, bringing in a crap ton of money.
And the Democrats have nothing.
There's nothing on the quote unquote left that even almost resembles that.
So Republican, as I said, they spent the decades.
In September 2024, a federal indictment alleged that the Russian state-sponsored network RT was covertly providing millions.
You guys remember this, the tenant media thing, which was working with right-wing influencers, including Benny Johnson, Temple, Dave Rubin, and Lauren Southern.
In 2024, the National Republican Congressional Committee spent nearly $500,000 on work with Creator Grid, an influencer marketing company whose website says, quote, it says it, quote, connects Republican candidates with the internet's most powerful conservative influencers, end quote, according to analysis of campaign finance filings from the Washington Post.
And then here is Dave Pacman.
Here's David Pacman.
We're going to watch this video.
Yeah, here's David A. Pac-Man, and he is trying to justify taking money to be a paid propagandist without disclosing that situation.
For years, I've been saying the left needs to organize independent media.
First of all, he's not left.
In the way that the right has been doing, the left needs to fund independent creators the way that the right does.
The right has won.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
This right here, right here.
Okay.
No, independent means you're not being funded by a party.
Exactly.
You see how he's conflating Rogan.
That's Drogan's podcast, a guy who was always liberal.
Okay.
And he just has what he wants on and no one tells him.
He got pressured to have Netanyahu on a lot.
And he was like, okay, but I want to ask him what I want to ask him.
They said, no.
So that's all independent means.
You can't give me ad copy to read with your idiot political person.
That's all it means.
And there's no way you can pay for that.
This is the nonsense.
there's no independent anything if they're independent you're not funding them you moron so you're dependent that's an ad exactly exactly that's what i mean like he's trying he's talking makes no sense and now he's throwing a temper tantrum on twitter you can go and see his tweets where he's saying he's trying to claim that this article has already been debunked is the debunking in the room with us right now because i've seen nothing debunking any of it i'm not he just said out loud the thing that he's guilty of yes okay there's no such thing as funded by a political group independent
media no that's uh you know like a chick with dicks i'll accept before i'll accept that yeah yeah it makes no sense it's nonsensical okay i went back a couple seconds just so we didn't miss anything this is very short by the way does the right has won even arguably presidential elections because they're organized with regard to online and independent media no stupid killing us we've been so behind and this kind of support for creators is exactly what i've been
advocating for so you've been advocating for paid advertising yeah being a political propaganda a paid political propagandist without disclosing to your audience that you're being paid that is shady no he's independent yeah hey you're so independent gamer gate gamer gate was about this very thing and i don't know what moron liberal it's your bad harassment no it was about this exact thing that because that's some nerd crap who cares about them right so that's where they first came in with
wheedling this nonsense because it's tech and now his job is going to be justifying that but he can't why because october 7th was the death of wokeness and that's the day that where the alignment of your hasanabis and your sarah silver persons went separated forever yeah and so now they're going to try to sell you 20 ways that's okay to be a paid shill and it doesn't make you a shill look you're a shill these kids don't know their peepees from their
weewees but they do know a paid shill because it's their dream job so you're not going to get away with that dude
and this person this to me this very clearly and plainly states what the issue is so john del minico sorry john if i mispronounced that the democrat influencer discourse is so wild because the people defending the influencers are like this is why the left can never get anywhere on social media hacks will demand unrealistic standards and the standards are literally just declare when you do a paid political ad that's the bare minimum standard that anybody should be requiring of anybody in independent
media if you're getting paid by anybody it should be up front you should be honest with your audience about the fact that you are taking money from a political party a candidate organization whatever it's look well the main thing is they all say the same thing these assholes like oh the right is really organized and coordinated yes by you assholes every stupid social engineering thing that everybody hated which is part of some larger
dialectic scheme of an oligarch that's what organized everybody everybody hates you know they destroyed the movies all that slop propaganda they used to be better slop propaganda would end would It's so ruined it all with boutique leftist horseshit.
Yeah.
All the things that used to be good.
Then you could see who's a punk because they started defending that.
What organized everybody was hating you?
I don't understand why it's so hard to understand.
No, it's not the rights organized.
You suck.
And everybody.
So hard.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they just can't take.
They're like, no, we just got to find an independent.
And then they want to do nothing that it would entail.
Because obviously the left is not going to deliver shit to anyone in a left, you know, any working class.
They hate working class.
That is all Frankfurt School where the working class betrayed us people.
They hate you and think you're hecks.
Maybe that might be part of the problem.
Because that's what the scumbag right wing says too.
But they've always said it.
They didn't pretend.
The idea that the quote-unquote left, I hate calling them the left because they're not fucking left, but that they're trying to justify it by saying, oh, well, the right does it.
Okay.
Okay.
Why are all of you?
First of all, it's not that I think Israel is the head of the snake.
It's not.
It's just an extension of colonialism of Britain, blah, blah, blah.
But I look at what they're all on the same team about and there's no arguments and you realize that your concerns don't matter.
The Ukraine war that Trump was going to end day one.
I'm watching now people like, oh, I think that's not going so good.
Now you're watching because somebody rich decided, all right, maybe I want to take my investment out.
That's all.
Nobody wanted that and asked for it.
Nobody wanted all this shit.
And nothing you asked for gets done, up to and including Epstein stuff or JFK stuff that will never be done.
That will be paid for the people in charge of you.
So like I said, I don't understand why people think they have a democracy.
You clearly don't because nothing wants gets done.
And you're going to have $40,000 copays when you pay for insurance.
That's where you're going to be.
Yeah.
Right.
Everybody else, like, does David put that together ever?
I think he doesn't.
I don't think he cares.
I think he's able to do the mental gymnastics that are required to justify what he's doing because he's making a shit ton of money doing it.
And so he likes that.
So of course he's going to be able to make those justifications in his brain because he doesn't want to stop bringing in that paycheck.
And I think that's vile.
But I guess Dave Rubin.
He's just the Dave Rubin of the faith Democrat side.
Luckily, they're both loyal to Israel who's fighting for its life right now.
But it's all the same.
So that Israel thing is kind of, you know, aside from the horrific genocidal tragedy of it.
The good thing about it is it's so the cognitive dissonance it requires is so intense, most people can't hack it.
Yeah.
And you can only turn your head and not look because the people don't know, don't want to know, or they do know when they're in.
And there's a lot of don't want to knows, but they're being forced to know.
So this is destroying all of the political parties right now.
Yeah, which is great.
Love to see that.
Yeah.
And frankly, it's destroying mainstream press, which really was on its way out anyway.
It's been like destroying itself from the inside out for a long time.
But really, the Israel thing has started to put like a final nail in the coffin, which as somebody who really despises mainstream press, that is lovely to see.
But the problem is, is that as we're witnessing, what's taking over mainstream media is really just mainstream media.
It's just the internet version of it.
You don't think MS, what is it called?
MS MSNBC?
The new name.
Oh, I don't know.
It's like a it sounds like a MaxiPad name.
It's called MS Something.
I forgot we did a story.
They just changed it and rebranded.
Did they?
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
Oh, well, wait till you see the new brand name of MSNBC.
What's with all the rebranding?
MS Now.
They changed it to MS Now.
MSNBC is now MS Now.
Yeah.
it sounds like a multiple sclerosis uh thing yeah it does or a maxi pad yeah that's ms now
it's like when diddy changes his name after a crime happens you know it works you get another extension his name was puffy back in the day he's got like 40 every time a conference name it was sean combs and it was puff daddy and it was like value jet yeah yeah like a low-budget airline when a door falls off and they're owned by a larger airline who doesn't care about the press and they just change the name of it and then they make it the next low budget airline all right so
there you have it democrats are also paying influencers uh under the table shady money to do their bidding and be their propaganda arm so i always recommend that people and i like obviously i'm not like a david pacman and like hold all of these people accountable look at everybody with a side eye like be very mindful well was he gonna be mad at daily wire they support israel too right that that's the other shady influencer that if you're wondering like jordan peterson yeah but but
you know like especially the they work the dialect if you got canceled like so jordan peterson wasn't going to be compelled to use pronouns good for him i'm for it so but then you the one side is going to like just try to ruin your life especially if you're some hokey canadian you're not prepared for that and the other side lionizes you yeah and then somebody comes your rescue and gives you 60 million dollars which is what daily wire gave him yeah from what i understand and now he is owned it's very obvious and then you're not allowed your psychologist that can't tell the truth
now so what's going to happen your brain you can start wearing different colored suits like when a chick messes with her bangs yeah because she can't handle cognitive dissonance that's jordan peterson my bangs yeah yeah it's coming out in his goofy suits that he has to hold these incongruous things together he's a union guy right so he yeah you could just see it coming out of him yeah it's probably really hard to try to make that fit in your soul i couldn't i don't think i have that in me i could be wrong six million dollars could probably sway just about anybody i think but
yeah the title of influencer is a bullshit thing i hate that word right but that's what they do they got to make this category so yeah the fact if you set out to be an influencer it's already it's it's fuck from the start it's garbage okay yeah if you like oh god i hate influencer culture so much i wish it would go away it's not going to last job there is before the ai can do it so i mean yeah i really really you know i mean it is kind of like what if you want to be uh in lore about it what the devil does
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There's a thing happening right now.
You know, private equity, BlackRock, Blackstone, Vanguard, and how there's really only three companies in the Western world that own everything.
Well, now they're buying up utilities.
And what do you think is going to happen when BlackRock buys up and Vanguard buys up your utilities?
I bet, I bet that once they get a monopoly on your utilities, your price is going to go down.
Probably not.
So let's play the first.
You don't have the updated file on this?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I do.
Nisha, did you put the video at the top like I asked?
Yes, Steph did.
This is the utility one.
The one that I gave you was for private equity in hospitals.
Oh, okay.
All right.
Let's play this then.
Yeah, so we're on target.
All right, here we go.
Get ready for your electricity bills to skyrocket.
Both BlackRock and Blackstone have begun purchasing American electric companies.
Here we go.
So private equity firms, BlackRock and Blackstone, are both in the process of acquiring their first electric utility companies.
BlackRock is buying one based out of Minnesota for a little over $6 billion, and they provide services to right around 100,000 people.
Blackstone is buying a utility company in New Mexico for just over $11 billion.
And why is private equity starting to get into electricity companies?
Well, let me share a little insight with you.
PSEG, which is an electric company out of New Jersey, just reported its first quarters of 2025 to be up 47% over last year.
They claim that 90% of this energy usage is from AI and data centers.
Let that sink in, people.
Your energy bills are going to go through the roof.
Okay, well, see America, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Of course, it's just a light bulb that costs $200 a day to stay on, but it's a light bulb.
By the way, I've lived through something like this when private companies take over your power.
So back in 2000, I lived in Los Angeles and they had private, a few years earlier, they had privatized the power in the state of California, except for the city of Los Angeles.
The city of Los Angeles was run by the Department of Water and Power.
And why do I tell you that?
Because in 2000 and 2001, there was an electricity crisis.
As soon as private companies took over the power in California, there was immediately an electricity crisis.
It was also known as the Western U.S. energy crisis of 2000 and 2001.
And it was a period during which the U.S. state of California had a shortage of electricity supply caused by market manipulations and capped retail electricity prices.
The state suffered from multiple large-scale blackouts.
One of the state's largest energy companies collapsed, and the economic fallout greatly harmed then Governor Gray Davis's standing.
Guess what?
I lived in Los Angeles at the time on Hollywood Boulevard.
There was blackouts all over in Pasadena.
Schools would lose power.
Hospitals would lose power.
The traffic lights would go out because private equity took over the power company.
So what they did first was they bribed the politicians.
So the politicians got bribed and then they changed the rules and the laws.
Instead of the government regulating the power, they gave it over to private company.
It was called Enron.
I don't know if you remember that, Enron, all those guys went to prison and they immediately started gouging people.
You can't believe the stuff that they did to jack up their profits.
So, there was a drought and delays in approval of new power plants also decreased the supply.
This caused an 800% increase in wholesale prices of electricity from April 2000 to December of 2000.
I'll say that again.
This caused an 800% increase.
So, if you think privatizing, if you think government doesn't work, try privatizing your power.
See how well that works.
So, we did it in California in 2000: 800% increase in wholesale prices in one year.
In addition, there were rolling blackouts.
It affected lots of businesses, dependent upon reliable supply of electricity, and it inconvenienced many retail customers.
A demand-supply gap wasn't organic.
It was created by energy companies, mainly Enron, to create artificial shortages because they don't care if you get electricity.
If they can make more money having rolling blackouts and raising their rates, that's what they'll do because that's what they did immediately.
Energy traders took power plants offline for maintenance during days of peak demand so they could then also increase the price.
So, they, you know, it's supply and demand.
If you reduce the supply of energy, the price of the energy goes up.
So, that's exactly what they did.
They took power plants offline during peak times, like when it's 100 degrees and everybody's got their air conditioner on, that they would take energy plants offline.
The state government also had a cap on retail electricity charges.
So, this market manipulation squeezed the industry's revenue margins, causing the bankruptcy of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, known as PGE, and a near bankruptcy of Southern California Edison in early 2001.
So, that's why this is horrible.
So, again, people who like, I don't want the government, the government screws up everything.
Well, I lived in Los Angeles.
The power was run by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, never missed, had never had a blackout, never had increased rates, none of that.
Why?
Because the government ran it and they didn't have a profit motive.
As soon as you turn over a utility to a private company with a profit motive, they're going to screw you.
And that's exactly what happened.
And that's exactly what's going to continue to happen.
So, let's go to the next slide.
So, there it is.
Private equity is coming for public utilities.
Go to the next slide.
As the AI boom promises soaring electricity demand, private equity giant BlackRock is waging a scorched earth campaign with the help of suspiciously timed advocacy from labor allies and ostensible clean energy groups to acquire an electric supplier and get a slice of newfound energy profits.
So, everybody's corrupted, right?
So, you got labor allies, you got clean energy groups.
Everybody's got a price.
BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, and it has its tentacles in all facets of American life.
The behemoth is buying up grocery brands, dental practices, apartment building, nursing homes.
But the opaque industry of private equity has mostly stayed away from electric utilities, the regulated companies that supply power to homes and businesses because they often don't yield quick returns.
That's changing.
Last year, the BlackRock subsidiary Global Infrastructure Partners and the Canadian Pension Fund announced a $6.2 billion deal to buy Minnesota Power, an electric utility that serves more than 100,000 customers in northern Minnesota, including the city of Duluth.
The proposal faced fierce opposition from consumer protection groups and environmental watchdogs who worried the deal would lead to massive rate hikes and hamper efforts to shift the plant to renewables, given private equity's extraterrestrial short-term business model.
This spring, Blackstone, another private equity firm, announced plans to buy a major electric utility in Texas and New Mexico if regulators give them the green light.
Keep going.
Go to slide 11 and start reading, please.
In the wake of Judge July ruling, several unions in the state swiftly proclaimed their support for BlackRock deal.
In at least one instance, union comments bear the fingerprints of an attorney working for BlackRock document metadata shows.
What's more in recent weeks, a litany of clean energy advocacy groups in Minnesota have lined up to support the Wall Street acquisition, prompting skepticism from other energy watchdogs.
One of these groups is currently advertising a benefit event sponsored by Minnesota Power and law firm representing BlackRock in the deal.
If BlackRock is successful in muscling enough support for the takeover, it could prove historic.
While it's not the first instance of an electric utility being acquired by a private equity, it's the first such takeover, watchdogs say, by a global firm of this size.
We're viewing this as a precedent-setting case, said Elisa's Jane Schaefer, climate director.
Hang on, can I just say, and remember, folks, after a certain point, they're not doing it to make more money.
They're doing it to take all of your money and ruin you.
They were never our friends, and now they're just coming out and admitting it by their actions.
And, you know, we love those clean energy groups because the entire purpose is to launder derney money.
Thank you, Clean Energy Group.
Okay, keep going.
Elisa Jean Schaefer, climate director of the Private Equity Stakeholder Project at Private Equity Watchdog Group, which opposes the BlackRock takeover.
This is a new thing, a new potential strategy.
In the last several years for most Americans, the cost to keep the lights on has spiked.
Since 2022, residential electricity costs have outpaced inflation and they show no sign of slowing.
Utility watchdogs argue that privately owned utilities are at the heart of the problem.
These power companies are typically regulated monopolies.
Ratepayers are captive to watch electricity company serves their home.
As Carly Weinman, research manager at the Utility Watchdog Energy and Policy Institute, explained to the lever, customers do not have a choice in who they buy their electricity from.
Across the country, from Maine to Arizona, movements have sprung up in the support of public power, replacing private power companies with publicly owned utilities and returning their governance to the hands of the people.
But many of these movements have been stymied by the enormous political influence their private electric utilities have developed in local communities.
As in Minnesota, electric utilities across the country often operate charitable foundations, which give generously to community groups and local organizations and later cash in on political goodwill along with copious lobbying to advance their agenda.
Ultimately, sounds like there's no conflict of interest there.
Nothing.
No conflict.
Everybody, what?
It's just electric utilities Operating charitable foundations and then giving generously to community groups, the local organizations, and then cashing in on that goodwill.
That's right.
It's good.
Next slide.
Ultimately, the deal's final arbiter is the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.
In advance of the commission's likely decision of the matter this fall, BlackRock has also been working the revolving door.
Dan Lipschultz, the attorney working for BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners, is a former Minnesota Public Utilities Commissioner who started in 2020 to establish his own consulting firm.
It's almost like there's a revolving door of people fleecing these taxpayers.
That's weird.
Boy.
Ryan Barlow, another attorney representing BlackRock, worked as a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission general counsel until April 2024, according to this LinkedIn page, one month before BlackRock deal was announced.
Furthermore, a staffer who worked in the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission's executive leadership, Mike Bull, worked as a consultant and policy advertiser to the Minnesota Power from early 2023 to August 24 during its preliminary negotiations with BlackRock.
So is this, let me just say to the audience, so is this the way you want to get your, I mean, it's all corruption.
So now we're turning into a third world banana republic.
That's what this is.
So if you think government regulating power and electricity is bad, wait till BlackRock takes it over.
Wait till it's again, I lived through it in California in 2000 and 2001.
Rolling blackouts, 800% increases in rates.
People can't get energy.
Wait till you see it.
So again, this is one of those types.
There's certain things government does well.
And certain, I mean, look at the fire department, right?
Could you imagine if we had private fire departments?
They show up, your house is on fire.
They're like, oh, you know, you didn't pay your premium.
So we're going to let your house burn down.
So that's what this is.
So there's certain things that government does well.
This is one of those things.
But government is completely corrupted.
This is a story of corruption.
So you see how capitalists, people with money, can corrupt government, get control of your utilities, and then screw you.
Your rates are going to go through the roof when this happens.
There's not a scenario in the world where a private equity firm takes over the delivery of your power and your rates go down and you get better service.
That is not going to happen.
You're going to call, if your power goes out, you're going to call them.
You're going to be transferred to somebody in India.
That's going to help you.
This is what's so again, this is like a banana republic at this point.
This is like a third world country.
And if you don't think it's coming to your state, it's coming to your state.
And I don't see Trump going to stop this.
We'll see what happens.
There's one more slide, right?
Opponents of the deal say they hope that the Utilities Commission can look beyond these familiar faces and scrutinize what's at stake in the potential utility sale.
It's a lot of posturing and we're seeing around this sales pitch, said Elisa Jean Schaefer, the private equity stakeholder project.
But if you look at the information that we have, there's very little reason to trust that BlackRock is going to do the right thing here.
Yeah, there is, yeah, there's little reason to trust that BlackRock is going to do the right thing.
Yeah, I know.
Little reason.
That's like saying there's little reason to trust that my lucky money Buddha bobblehead is ever going to pay for itself.
So, I mean, but if you want to, if you want to, you know, feel the power of my comedy, you can come see me in Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton, Chicago, Appleton, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Louisville.
And then we're going to be in Hermosa Beach, Sacramento, and San Francisco.
Go to jimmydoor.com for a link for tickets.
But I wonder what people are saying in the chat.
I can't wait to go after this story and see what they're saying because there's always people, government screws up everything.
Wait till you have private equity handle your energy.
It is a disaster.
It is an absolute disaster.
It's just like when private equity take over hospitals.
The reason why hospitals are understaffed, the reason why you can't get good is because private equity is running them.
And all they care about is profit.
They don't care about service.
In fact, if they can make more money by cutting you service, they do it.
That's how they did it in 2000 in California.
They reduced the supply of energy.
They would take energy from California and they would sell it to other states.
So they would decrease the amount of energy available for people in California.
And then they could raise the jack up the rates.
And they didn't care.
All those people ended up going to prison at Enron, by the way.
I don't know if you remember that.
Ken Lay and he was friends with George Bush.
And so they, so it's been about 25 years that since somebody tried this, and now they're trying it again.
And it's not going to go well.
It's not going to go well for Texas.
It's not going to go well for Minnesota.
This is a horrible idea.
You want government to control your utilities instead of the good old private equity.
You know, the thing that fixed the Cracker Barrel logo, Bud Light, dorms on planes and healthcare.
You know what I mean?
Private equity.
So what you don't know, ladies and gentlemen, is what the Israelis are really saying.
So they tell you one thing.
They tell the Western press one thing in English.
But when they speak in Hebrew, they have a totally different thing what they're saying.
So there's like, it's like, you know, how the mafia has two sets of books, and there's the one you show the IRS, and then there's the real book.
So that this is kind of what Israelis do, the Zionists do.
They have the fake message that they give to Western media, and then they talk, the real message, what they're really saying, they say, so let's go to Glenn Greenwald.
He says, if you want to know what Israel is and who Israeli leaders really are, just listen to what they say in Hebrew.
On Israeli media, when they don't have to pretend to soften their language to deceive the American and European sensibility, this is who we are.
First of all, here we have Glenn Greenwald, the archetype of a self-aiding Jew.
Anyway, let's go.
Go ahead and go ahead and play it, Steph, and you read it.
All right, here we go.
I believe in the value of revenge.
The enemy also believes in the value of revenge.
And I'm telling you, if the enemy heard this, as I told the chief of staff at the beginning of the war, I told him, I want you to avenge the blood of the murdered loved ones, of my murdered loved ones.
He tells me, I don't know such a value.
I told him that's the problem.
That's the problem.
We're dealing with a cruel enemy, a murderer.
With a soft Western language in a soft Western language, you won't be able to vanquish a cruel guerrilla force.
We can vanquish them exactly in their own way.
That's why it's not just a word.
You know why?
My photos are shown at Hamas demonstrations around the world.
Why unphotoshopped photos of me are there?
Because I say to attack them without mercy.
And here I turn to the people: stop being afraid of headlines and stop being afraid to talk about revenge and stop talking.
Blot out the memory of Amalek.
This is my moral command.
This is my code of values.
This is my heritage.
And this is how you defeat Hamas.
There's no other way.
By the way, Iran believes in revenge.
By the way, Hezbollah believes in revenge.
By the way, Palestinian Islamic Jihad believes in revenge.
By the way, the Houthis believe in revenge.
By the way, very, very specific groups with Lebanon also believe in revenge.
A vengeful God, I believe that too.
A vengeful God.
I mean, so these are the, so these people are just like, oh, yeah, so God is very much like Satan.
He's very much like the worst person you know in the world.
He's all about revenge.
I thought the Bible preached against revenge.
Maybe that's the New Testament.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm not too familiar with the Old Testament.
I'm with the New Testament.
But that just sounds like a weird God.
My God is a vengeful God.
Oh, okay.
Well, your God sounds like an asshole.
He sounds like I don't need, why do you need God to tell you to go be vengeful?
You're already vengeful.
So these are people just using God to justify the worst evil you could possibly think of.
But now what I want you to do is play it with the sound on and just listen to what it sounds like.
Okay, here we go.
I agree.
זאת לא רק לא מילה, את יודעת למה תמונות שלי נמצאות בהפגנות חמאס בעולם?
התמונות הלא מרוטשות שלי נמצאות שם.
כי אני אומרת, ופה אני פונה לעם.
תפסיקו לפחד מכותרות, ותפסיקו לפחד מלדבר על נקמה, ותפסיקו לדבר מחות עם חיית זכר המלאק.
זה צו המצפון שלי, זה צו הערכים שלי, זאת המורשת שלי, וככה מכניעים את חמאס.
לא בשום דרך אחרת.
אגב, איראן מאמינה בנקמה.
אגב, חיזבאללה מאמין בנקמה.
אגב, ג'הד איסלאמי פלסטיני מאמין בנקמה.
אגב, חוטים מאמינים בנקמה.
אגב, גם קבוצות מאוד מאוד בסיון בתוך לברון מאמינות בנקמה.
אין נקמות השם, גם אני מאמינות.
remembered.
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עKevin צו laundry, חכה, שרח שהגל עם מימד.
תודה רבה.
תודה God is very bloodthirsty.
Boy, that God in the Old Testament, real piece of shit.
Am I wrong?
Oh, boy.
Wow.
That's something.
I like how Solidus says.
Sounds like she was asking, what would Jesus do?
That's but, by the way, you know how much she sounded like?
That's what step sounds like after Kurt leaves the toilet seat up.
Anyway, that's true.
Wish I was kidding.
Yeah.
Wish I was kidding.
So that's what they really, that's what they really say in Hebrew.
When you're not listening, you know, when they're speaking in English, they're like, the Palestinian people are not our enemies.
We are not.
We like, well, we care about journalists.
Care about medical workers, but when they there it is, that's what they.
And if you go to the next slide, uh, Sam Husseini says, Yes, but imperial Israel wants far worse than revenge.
That's a cover.
So, what he's saying is that even that woman is still hiding their real agenda because their real agenda is the Greater Israel Project and the complete ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinians.
Uh, but uh, so they're just using, so just like uh, you know, Benjamin Netanyahu is using October 7th and the hostages as a pretext to go in and do what they've always been planning to do, which is wipe out the Gazans, the Palestinians, take over Gaza, the West Bank, not Syria.
By the way, they're still occupying Syria, they're that they're occupying Israel.
That's part of the Greater Israel Project.
So, I think that's what Sam Hussein is referring to: the Imperial Israel, Imperial, meaning that they're going to occupy other people's lands and steal it from them while committing genocide and slaughter.
So, that's so the thing about, oh, we're just doing this for revenge on October 7th.
No, you've been doing this, has been your plan all along.
You're just using revenge as a cover.
Um, so if you go to the next slide, um, so this is a another perfect example of this.
So, in English, Israel calls, remember when they just bombed the hospital?
We covered it yesterday.
Israel bombed a hospital in South Gaza, I think, probably the last hospital around in Gaza.
They bombed all the other ones, flattened them.
So, they bombed the hospital.
And then, when the emergency workers came to help the people who were bombed, they bombed the emergency workers.
That's called the double tap.
It's the one worst things you could do.
Look how it, so this guy catches it.
Look how it was reported in English in the West.
And so, if you go to the next slide, it said, IDF admits mistaken attack on hospitals, killing journalists.
Oh, it was a mistake.
But look how they report it.
Look how they report it in the Jewish newspapers.
Our forces operated at Nasser Hospital, which became a terrorist headquarters.
In the past 24 hours, the level of fighting in the Gaza Strip has increased, and a targeted attack was carried out on the Nassar Hospital complex in Khan Yunus.
So, they admit it.
So, in their own newspapers, they admit that they were targeting.
Yes.
Go to the next slide.
Go to the next slide.
They admit it that they were targeting the hospital.
But when they speak to the West in English, they're like, oh, whoops.
Sorry.
We didn't mean it.
We're not at war with the hospital workers or journalists.
Of course, they are.
They target it, especially journalists.
They target journalists on purpose.
And in our next segment, I'm going to show you that they admit it.
They admit it in Hebrew on their own live television shows.
So we're going to show you that.
But there you are.
That was a nice job of Glenn tweeting that out and making me aware of it.
And yeah, so you see the difference, right?
So Zionism requires to be a Zionist requires non-stop lying.
Because if you told people what you actually thought and what you actually, what your actual mission was, what your goals were, the world would not be on your side.
Well, the world's not on their side.
But it would be even harder for you to do your horrible evil.
Put it that way.
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