A dark money group is paying pro-Democrat influencers up to $8,000 a month to spread their leftist talking points. Who are these influencers and where are they coming from? And why are they being paid?
00:06:41.480And by the way, it's the same thing that we were concerned about when we would show all the news media.
00:06:46.860Do they all get a notice in the morning from somewhere?
00:06:49.280Remember all those clip assimilators that were put together and you'd find out the news media was saying the same thing in the same way on the evening news all across USA?
00:07:01.760Gosh, where did they all get the playbook?
00:07:03.460This is just a playbook for influencers.
00:07:05.440Rob, can you go back and ask ChadGBT the following question?
00:07:08.200Ask the question of who funds chorus dark money.
00:07:26.900Larger network and known backers, larger networks and known backers are Arbella Advisors, Washington, D.C.-based philanthropic, philanthropic consulting, administer 1630 fund.
00:07:37.680Arbella manages a network of politically oriented nonprofits, including New Venture Fund, Hopal Fund, Windward Fund, North Fund, and others.
00:07:45.880Okay, known financial contributors are Hansorg Wiss, a Swiss billionaire who has donated $245 million.
00:12:24.400Well, if you take the lobbying out of it, there's going to be a lot more variability in our elections.
00:12:30.520Because someone who's in the seat, who now has the people in their pocket, that's very hard to overthrow.
00:12:36.960It is very, very, very, very, very hard to defeat a U.S. senator.
00:12:41.080Go look at the number of incumbent senators.
00:12:42.900There's, absent some terrible scandal that could, I shouldn't say overthrown, that sounds revolutionary, that are defeated.
00:12:49.780The most powerful word in American election lexicon is incumbent.
00:12:56.100Because incumbent means there are people that you are serving that want you to stay there.
00:13:01.880And the industries have the lobbying behind it.
00:13:04.780Pat, if that wasn't there and those lobbies were there, then it would be much easier for people with new ideas and new focuses to run against, especially in the perpetual two-year race.
00:13:17.080Because it's every two years for congressmen, every two years.
00:13:20.640Without that incumbent label, without all the lobbying money that they get, they would now be raising money from grassroots, people like you and me.
00:13:28.160Or unions could give directly, but you wouldn't have the active lobbying groups.
00:13:35.880Remember, there was one of the biggest white-collar crimes in Washington was, what was his name, Jack?
00:13:42.780He always wore the little black bowler hat.
00:15:12.720Because let me tell you, all of corporate America wants to lobbyists because it makes their lives more stable because you don't have regulation coming and going.
00:15:21.920Corporate America wants it, especially energy and pharmaceutical.
00:17:17.260There's certainly pros and cons in it.
00:17:19.120Like, for instance, you know, when I go to these Fonseca insurance type conferences, we go to the Hill and try to educate our congressmen on the benefits of financial services and, you know, using our expertise that helps the general public and representing interests.
00:17:33.700And all these groups are special interests.
00:17:36.380But the problem when when you can just, you know, you hear they're bought and paid for, bought and paid for, bought and paid for when you have so much money, whether it's the farmer groups or whether it's big oil or whether it's a big, big war, you could buy these politicians and put them in your pocket.
00:17:51.820And then that's how you get crony capitalism.