What if I told you $400 million was spent by Mark Zuckerberg that changed our elections and with it, our country? We dive into that story, as well as supply chain shortages, and who s buying Hunter Biden s art?
00:00:00.000Hey, everybody, what if I told you $420 million was spent by Mark Zuckerberg that changed our elections and with it, our country.
00:00:07.000We dive into that story as well as supply chain shortages and who's buying Hunter Biden's art.
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00:02:04.000For years, we were told that it's a good thing that these tech companies have all of this power.
00:02:11.000The founding fathers did not just believe in limited government, they believed in limited government because they believed in the limited centralization of power.
00:02:22.000They believe that what Lord Acton famously said, that all of you know this quote: absolute power corrupts absolutely.
00:02:32.000Montesquieu, in the book, The Spirit of the Laws, wrote about the genius of checks and balances, about the necessary equal yet separate stations to be able to develop power structures.
00:02:50.000And what's really incredible is that when you read the Declaration and the United States Constitution, they both talk about this equal and separate stations.
00:03:05.000That the laws of nature and nature's God will allow human beings to pursue virtue, to allow themselves to engage in liberty outside of an intervening power source coming in and manipulating a specific prescribed way of life.
00:03:33.000In the Declaration, it says separate and equal station.
00:03:37.000And so we should have a check and balance on our leaders.
00:03:42.000Unfortunately, far too often, we don't have those checks and balances on our leaders.
00:03:47.000We should have checks and balances on our federal agencies like the CDC, NIH, and others.
00:03:53.000Unfortunately, far too often, that doesn't happen either.
00:03:57.000But the check and balance that is totally missing is what is the check and balance against companies and billionaires, tech companies in particular, manipulating elections as we know it.
00:04:12.000A new story from the Federalist says the 2020 election wasn't stolen.
00:04:21.000This is a true story of the account of how Mark Zuckerberg privatized the government's voter registration and vote counting for Democrats in 2020.
00:04:30.000The founding fathers always believed that if there was power, there must be a check and a balance against that power.
00:04:35.000What is our check and balance against Mark Zuckerberg spending $400 million?
00:04:43.000During the 2020 election, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn out likely Democratic voters.
00:04:51.000But this wasn't traditional political spending, William Doyle from the Federalist rights.
00:04:55.000He funded a targeted private takeover of government election operations by nominally nonpartisan but demonstrably ideological nonprofit organizations.
00:05:06.000This was done through the Center for Technology and Civic Life, CTCL.
00:05:09.000We've talked about this in great detail on this show, but this new story from the Federalist is shocking.
00:05:18.000You know, we talk, we are always under, we are always accused.
00:05:21.000You are a threat to democracy, as we did on the show previously.
00:05:25.000Just type in threat to democracy and then go to news.
00:05:29.000The Pandora papers are a threat to democracy.
00:05:53.000Or the $420 million spent by Mark Zuckerberg, who put money into local government official races, and it came with strings attached.
00:06:03.000Every single CTCL and Center for Election Innovation and Research grant spelled out in great detail the conditions under which the grant money was to be used.
00:06:14.000The mail-in ballot scheme that many of us know had shenanigans and tomfoolery, treachery, and likely illegal behavior associated was subsidized by a $419 million cash infusion from one person.
00:06:40.000This is not a matter of Democrats outspending Republicans.
00:06:42.000Private funding, the election administration, was virtually unknown in the American political system before the 2020 election.
00:07:47.000Here's how you have to run your election.
00:07:49.000The article continues by saying the CTCL and CER Money, Center for Technology, Civic Life and Center for Election Innovation Research, CEIR, money, had nothing to do with traditional campaign finance, lobbying, or other expenses that are related to increasingly expensive modern election.
00:08:09.000It instead had to do with financing the infiltration of election offices at the city and county level by left-wing activists and using those offices as a platform to implement preferred administrative practices, voting methods, and data-sharing agreements, as well as to launch intensive outreach campaigns in areas heavy with Democratic voters.
00:08:33.000So, the scheme that Zuckerberg and the Center for Technology and Civic Life concocted was that the true change is not going to come in another $200 million boosting Biden.
00:08:47.000It's going to say, hey, we need to fix the way that they count the votes.
00:08:52.000Now, I'm sure a lot of you are thinking the obvious.
00:09:08.000You have to go through the state legislature.
00:09:10.000You have to go through any form of the appropriation of how elections are done, not just infuse money and say, hey, I'm going to incentivize you to do elections the way I want you to do them.
00:09:19.000For instance, the CTCL-CEIR funded self-described vote navigators in Wisconsin to, quote, assist voters potentially at their front doors to answer questions, assist in ballot curing, and witness absentee ballot signatures.
00:09:35.000Stacey Abrams called these people happy faces, counting the votes amidst the election night chaos in Fulton County, Georgia.
00:09:43.000Mark Zuckerberg Center for Technology and Civic Life demanded the promotion of universal mail-in voting with their $420 million.
00:09:53.000By suspending election laws because people were too afraid to go vote in person, but they were okay to go burn down a Wendy's in downtown Atlanta.
00:10:04.000Extending deadlines that favored mail-in over in-person voting greatly expanded opportunities for ballot curing, expensive bulk mailings, and other lavish community outreach programs that were directed by private activists.
00:10:18.000This right here is the best example of how our economy is rigged: private-public partnerships colluding together to crush you.
00:10:45.000No one thought to say, wait a second, a private company can just come in with a bunch of money and tell the local city, like, this is how we're going to count our ballots?
00:10:55.000Isn't this everything that the Democrats said that this is the threat to democracy, we were told, for years?
00:11:01.000Private interests telling elections how to do their business.
00:11:04.000Silence from the left, obviously, because it benefits their political objectives.
00:11:10.000I'm just getting started on this story because there was an unprecedented intervention of private tech money that came into, and this is not to mention all the tech censorship, by the way.
00:11:21.000This is $400 million that came in as 501c3 corporations and said, hey, if you do not count the ballots, we want you to do the outreach the way we want you to, you're not going to get this money.
00:11:34.000It was incentivizing and subsidizing the takeover of American elections.
00:11:39.000You want to know what happened in 2020?
00:11:41.000This story right here that we're going through, I think is part of the smoking gun, part of the smoking gun.
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00:14:30.00025 of the 26 cities and counties that received a million dollars from Zuckerberg Center for Technology and Civic Life were won by Biden in 2020.
00:14:39.000The 10 largest Center for Technology Civic Life grants in Georgia are the following: Fulton, Cobb, Gwinnett, DeKalb, Clayton, Douglas, Cherokee, one by Trump, Henry, and Muskegee.
00:14:51.000If I mispronounce any of them, I'm sorry.
00:14:54.000But nine out of ten of the biggest counties received massive money from Zuckerberg.
00:15:00.000In fact, Fulton County and Cobb County and Gwinnett County received a combined $15 million from the Zuckerberg Center for Technology and Civic Life for the actual administration of election.
00:15:16.000I know a lot of you are saying, how on earth is this possibly legal?
00:15:21.000Well, the Attorney General of Georgia didn't think to do anything about this.
00:15:25.000The Secretary of State Brad Rauffensberger was perfectly fine with this.
00:15:29.000Governor Brian Kemp signed a consent degree of Stacey Abrams that allowed the downfall of Georgia to occur.
00:15:36.000The Federalists continues by saying the Center for Technology and Civic Life demanded the promotion of universal mail-in voting through suspending election laws, extending deadlines that favored mail-in over in-person voting.
00:16:05.000This was, in my opinion, one of the sneakiest, treacherous, most treacherous and deceitful actions.
00:16:12.000But honestly, the state legislatures in Georgia, they did not meet in the summer of 2020, best of my knowledge, about election integrity at all.
00:16:20.000The summer leading up to the election, they should have had a special session in July, and they should have said, hold on a second, we need to have a pregame meeting here.
00:16:28.000And this goes to show how weak, incompetent, and spineless the Republican Party is.
00:16:35.000If the Republican Party actually care about winning elections, which sometimes they do, but they're so incredibly dumb sometimes.
00:16:44.000They don't know what, why do you not have a special session in July of 2020 in Arizona, in Georgia, in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and just be like, hold on a second, we're in the midst of the Fauci virus, Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
00:16:58.000We're about to have mail-in ballots go everywhere.
00:17:11.000And instead, these state legislatures, they were on vacation.
00:17:15.000They went to Pine Mountain or something, which is actually very nice.
00:17:18.000Or they went to, I don't know where they went, but this is my, and I say this privately all the time, and I'll say it.
00:17:26.000I don't really care about saying it publicly.
00:17:27.000I don't mind, is that these state legislatures and the leadership of these states, they were either too lazy or too dumb to do anything in the summer of 2020.
00:17:38.000And we're going to keep on going through the story with Mark Zuckerberg.
00:17:40.000And yes, hopefully his organization will be held accountable.
00:19:37.000And we're going to go into more detail on how the Center for Technology and Civic Life interfered with the 2020 election to a great degree.
00:19:43.000But this is how I want to change the mindset of the Republican Party.
00:19:46.000Stop taking excuses as answers from your spineless Republican leaders.
00:19:56.000Did you know that if you shop at Nike, they turn around and give your hard-earned dollars to pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and the Population Council?
00:20:04.000Did you know that Airbnb gave $500,000 to the Marxist Black Lives Matter organization?
00:20:09.000Your first vote is at the ballot box, but that isn't enough to defend our traditional Judeo-Christian values.
00:20:15.000Left-wing corporations are subverting our democracy by taking money from conservative customers and giving it to radical organizations that support abortion, gun control, and critical race theory.
00:20:26.000You have another vote, a second vote at the checkout line.
00:20:30.000And that is where massively important organizations called Second Vote come in.
00:20:34.000The courageous people at Second Vote are exposing corporations for how they spend your money.
00:23:23.000I want to get back to the Center for Technology and Civic Life story.
00:23:26.000And by the way, if any of you guys have any questions about that schedule, because I'm sure it makes your head turn, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:23:54.000We'll be back to the election integrity story.
00:23:56.000There is a massive supply chain issue right now happening in our country.
00:24:00.000And we've talked about this for quite some time, but now the White House has come out and they've said that there might be shortages as Christmas approaches, that there will just be some things that people cannot get.
00:24:10.000Quote from Reuters: White House officials are scrambling to relieve global supply bottlenecks, choking U.S. ports, highways, and railways, warning that Americans may face higher prices and empty shelves this Christmas season.
00:24:23.000The White House warning comes as shipping containers remain backlogged as ports on both of the country's coasts.
00:24:29.000Recent reports say that 65 cargo ships are waiting to dock the high-traffic port of Los Angeles, which is currently full.
00:24:36.000Additionally, 8,000 shipping containers are stuck at the port of Savannah.
00:24:42.000Now, I believe the same way that I believe that inflation was intentional, I think this bottleneck is intentional.
00:24:48.000To try to create an argument for mass immigration.
00:24:51.000Can't find the labor, can't unpack the boats, let's get an immigration bill through.
00:24:56.000Remember, almost everything the other side tries to advocate for is around this idea of expanding the amount of people coming into the country.
00:25:08.000And now, this is a very important question: which is what are the other possible reasons that we're having shortages?
00:25:16.000Could it be the vaccine mandates, paying people not to work?
00:25:20.000All of those things are much more likely to be a reason that we are having the supply chain bottleneck.
00:25:28.000And this goes to show, which I think President Trump needed to focus on this more, which is a robust and popular self-sufficiency agenda.
00:25:41.000People are very much in favor of making things in America.
00:25:48.000Why do we have to import all these things?
00:25:50.000Why can't we make it here in this country?
00:25:52.000We need to be more clear and more upfront about how we want to re-domicile American manufacturing here in America, manufacturing here in America.
00:26:06.000We're going to keep our eye on the supply chain issue.
00:26:10.000And by the way, and this is just something to look at, if the economy crashes, supply chain issues, currency being inflated, debt everywhere you can see, that can bring in the great reset.
00:26:41.000The Center for Technology and Civic Life drove the proliferation of unmonitored private drop boxes, which created major chain of custody issues and opportunities for novel forms of mail-in-ballot engine electioneering.
00:26:54.000Allowed for the submission of numerous questionable post-election day ballots and created opportunities for illegal ballot harvesting.
00:27:00.000The Center for Technology and Civic Life increased funding for temporary staffing and poll workers, which supported the infiltration of election offices by paid Democrat Party activists, coordinated through a complex web of left-leaning nonprofit organizations, social media platforms, and social media election influencers.
00:27:17.000The amount of additional money these groups poured into the election offices in Democrat voting areas, we were told it's nonpartisan, it's garbage.
00:27:25.000This was a Democrat support operation was staggering.
00:27:32.000To put it in perspective, federal and state matching funds for COVID-19 related election expenses in 2020 totaled $479.5 million.
00:27:41.000The Center for Technology and Civic Life and CEIR money totaled $419.5 million.
00:27:49.000These two private nonprofits were responsible for an 85% increase in total additional election funding.
00:27:55.000Although the Center for Technology and Civic Life and CEIR are chartered as nonpartisan 501 companies, the research that the Federalists did suggests that the spending that took place was highly partisan.
00:28:07.000Of the 26 grants the Center for Technology and Civic Life provided to cities, such as in counties in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia, $1 million or larger, 25 of the 26 went to areas won by Biden.
00:28:24.000The only county on this list won by Donald Trump was Brown County, Wisconsin, received about $1.1 million, less than $1.3 million, $1.3% of the $85 million that CTCL provided to the top 26 recipients.
00:28:41.000But even in Brown County, Wisconsin, where heavily Democrat Green Bay is located, funding disparities are stunning.
00:28:48.000The Wisconsin legislature provided roughly $7 per voter to the city of Green Bay to manage its 2020 elections.
00:28:55.000Rural counties in Wisconsin received approximately $4 per voter.
00:28:59.000The Center for Technology and Civic Life boosted Democrat voting Green Bay resources to $47 per voter, while most rural areas still had the same $4 per voter.
00:29:09.000Preliminary analysis shows that this partisan Zuckerberg funded $420 million targeting of the Center for Technology and Civic Life funding was repeated in battleground states across the country.
00:29:23.000The figure below shows that the counties that received the Center for Technology and Civic Life ranked per capita the CTCL spending in Texas.
00:29:31.000As can easily be seen, the counties with the highest per capita levels of CTCL spending were Democratic counties.
00:29:42.000And it continues, it says, did Zuckerberg flip Wisconsin and Georgia?
00:29:47.000The Federalist writes, and this is a PhD, William Doyle, PhD principal researcher at the Cesar Rodney Election Research Institute in Irvine, Texas, Irving, Texas.
00:29:58.000He specializes in the private funding of American elections.
00:30:03.000I should have him on our show and ask him about this.
00:30:05.000Our preliminary results in Georgia and Wisconsin suggest a similar impact on Biden's vote margin from CTCL spending.
00:30:12.000And spending in those states was likely large enough and targeted enough to have shifted them into Biden's column.
00:30:18.000The research and analysis projects will culminate in the creation of a counterfactual electoral map based on the combined results of state-by-state analysis.
00:30:28.000It will reflect how the election results would have looked after the last legal ballot was counted if CTCL and CEIR did not spend $419 million in 2020.
00:30:39.000He writes, quote, We have good reason to anticipate that the results of our work will show that CTCL and Zuckerberg's involvement in the 2020 election will give rise to an election was not fair.
00:30:51.000The 2020 election, with many loopholes, money poured in, and it was bought by Mark Zuckerberg.
00:31:00.000We have always been lectured what happens when there's a massive intervention into elections from private interests.
00:31:14.000I was told that democracy dies in darkness.
00:31:17.000That's the top of the Washington Post.
00:31:21.000And despite all of this, that all of this happened, now all of a sudden you're seeing more people pop up and say, despite all of the shenanigans, as we mentioned yesterday, the conservative movement has become anti-fragile.
00:31:38.000That Trump's popularity, his power in the Republican Party, has grown since he has left office, Bob Woodward has said.
00:31:47.000What's going on really now is an iron curtain of obedience to Trump.
00:31:51.000It's not just polite deference, it is obedience.
00:31:54.000It really is an iron curtain because it is so strong.
00:31:59.000And Vox came out a month before the election, Vox, which is a liberal outlet, and said that these billionaires spending all this money is going to have an astoundingly large role in shoring up all of these issues.
00:32:13.000And they said this is the downside of billionaires funding elections.
00:32:17.000But of course, when it helps them, they're silent.
00:32:21.000Attorney Generals across the country need to investigate the Center for Technology and Civic Life.
00:32:25.000And the state legislatures, the Republican legislatures, I hope you guys know you let this happen.
00:32:40.000President Trump could have sent out one tweet at the time he had a Twitter account and said, I demand a special session in Georgia, and it would have happened.
00:32:49.000Instead, this happened in the shadows.
00:32:51.000This happened without people's knowledge, without their consent.
00:32:56.000One of the reasons why the American system has lasted so long is consent of the governed, not the consent of the tech billionaires that come in with unlimited money and blur the election lines, interfere with how we actually do elections.
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00:36:15.000Hunter Biden is still under investigation for tax issues.
00:36:20.000I'm sure that'll get cleared up pretty soon because Merrick Garland is too busy investigating moms and dads who children are being raped in bathrooms because they're complaining.
00:36:32.000Merrick Garland says, you're a domestic terrorist, actually.
00:36:35.000Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley says this, quote, with these new disclosures, we have accounts being used to pay both Hunter and Joe Biden and money being reimbursed to Hunter Biden from an individual associated with a company called Rosemont Seneca.
00:36:48.000Now that's a company that has been tied to payments to China and Russia.
00:36:52.000And so this is getting more and more serious.
00:36:54.000The question is, why is the Justice Department considered the appointment of a special counsel?
00:37:01.000And where's the Republicans calling for that?
00:37:03.000We know there's a criminal investigation into the tax issue, possible money laundering.
00:37:08.000But there's also serious questions about whether the Biden family conducted an extensive influence peddling operation involving not just Hunter, but his uncle and potentially the president of the United States.
00:37:19.000Now, this is not new for those of us that have been covering the Biden family for a while.
00:37:23.000We know that they're purchased by China, and we know that when it comes down to it, Joe Biden will yield to his employers, China, when it comes to the seizure of Taiwan.
00:37:34.000We know that Joe Biden and his handlers believe in a strong China, not a weak China.
00:37:42.000Instead, they are perfectly comfortable and fine with the Chinese Communist Party, the evil, tyrannical Chinese Communist Party, coming to power and employing them, including Russia as well.
00:37:56.000Interestingly enough, Russia has now come out, since our own intelligence apparatus says we must be enemies with Russia.
00:38:02.000Russia was like, fine, if the Americans don't want us, let's just go make friends with China, which was so dumb because we could have had an alliance with Russia, and they're a bunch of thugs and gangsters, but it would have been helpful to create an international coalition against China, not the first time that we would have partnered with Russia for a greater good despite their own shortcomings domestically.
00:38:22.000But now China and Russia are together and Russia has come out and said that Taiwan is part of Russia, a part of China, that Taiwan is part of China.