Valuetainment - April 26, 2025


＂Infiltrated & Taken Down＂ - Andrew Callaghan EXPOSES FBI’s WAR On Activists


Episode Stats

Length

6 minutes

Words per Minute

212.02899

Word Count

1,463

Sentence Count

119

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with my good friend and former co-worker, Alex Blumberg, to talk about what it's like to be a leftist in California and why it's a good thing we don't have a big government.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I would not describe the Democrats who control California as leftists or progressives.
00:00:05.000 What would you call them?
00:00:06.060 Liberals, Democrats.
00:00:07.620 Liberals and Democrats?
00:00:08.660 I think it's different.
00:00:10.220 So what's the difference?
00:00:12.020 I think liberals are more oriented in maintaining power for themselves, dominating the political landscape of the state.
00:00:20.100 You don't think leftists are?
00:00:21.500 I don't think leftists have any semblance of political power in the U.S.
00:00:24.480 Why do you think?
00:00:25.480 I just think they've been disenfranchised by the liberal establishment, the democratic establishment.
00:00:29.140 I think progressive people's movements.
00:00:31.440 Also, if you look at, you know, there's been over half a century plus of infiltration of these organizations by the FBI, breaking them down.
00:00:38.880 And we're not just talking about, like, you know, communists and far left stuff here.
00:00:41.700 We're talking about people's organizations, Black Panthers, Brown Berets, American Indian Movement, farm workers unions, environmental groups.
00:00:48.320 They were all infiltrated and taken down by the government.
00:00:51.460 And so you have the democratic establishment claiming to be a progressive organization, but I do not think that they are.
00:00:56.400 So, you know, it makes me think.
00:01:00.360 Anthony Scaramucci said something very interesting the other day, actually very interesting, where he said a guy, the way the U.S. system is set up is, guy said, I'm going to go be a congress because I think I can make some changes.
00:01:12.020 And you realize you can't do shit.
00:01:13.700 I'm going to go be a senator because that's where the power is.
00:01:15.520 I can make some changes.
00:01:16.880 And you can't do shit.
00:01:18.060 I'm going to go be president because, you know, you can't do shit.
00:01:20.060 So the American system is built that somebody can't.
00:01:21.960 So even if the leftist that you think could change something, if they get in, they still have to go through the other people that if you give the money to them, it's not like they're going to personally go count the money and do something good with it.
00:01:34.580 Yeah.
00:01:34.940 The money is still going to go to these institutions that's ran by people that have been there for decades that you can't do nothing about them.
00:01:40.000 Yeah.
00:01:40.120 It's kind of depressing.
00:01:40.940 It goes back to the Luigi Maggioni thing.
00:01:42.760 When you talk about this deeply entrenched bureaucracy that's halting change, that kind of thing makes sense.
00:01:47.420 You know what it makes me think about, though?
00:01:49.020 So it makes me think about what would you trust more, a bigger government or a smaller government?
00:01:54.780 Small.
00:01:55.280 Yeah.
00:01:55.780 Small but effective in actually working for the people.
00:01:59.060 So a small government means more money stays with you and I.
00:02:02.040 Leave it in the market.
00:02:03.460 I trust you knowing better what to do with the money with a million dollars than the government.
00:02:07.600 Yeah.
00:02:07.920 I trust you instead of paying 45% of, let's just say you made a million bucks last year, 45% went to taxes.
00:02:14.200 You kept 550.
00:02:16.320 How many more jobs would you have had if that was only 20%?
00:02:19.020 Yeah.
00:02:19.220 And you would have kept that $250,000.
00:02:21.440 Realistically, let's just say you had an additional 250 last year of tax saving.
00:02:24.940 What would you have done with the 250 in California last year?
00:02:26.560 Hired more employees, been able to expand the newsroom at a quicker pace.
00:02:30.240 We expanded to the Middle East and Mexico and elsewhere as well, the UK and New Zealand.
00:02:34.240 Would have been able to do that a little bit faster.
00:02:35.860 I was still able to do it, but definitely there's not quite a sting like getting an invoice from the IRS after working your ass off for an entire year.
00:02:45.540 And like I said, that sting wouldn't be as bad if they were using the money well.
00:02:48.940 I mean, if I was living in a world where there was no traffic, where people were happy and there wasn't this massive working class despair taking over, you could feel it in the air in California and elsewhere in the entire country.
00:03:01.260 If that didn't exist, I would probably be okay with a higher tax rate because I would say, okay, well, I don't have to – people at large, the community, this American experiment is progressing in a mutually beneficial way.
00:03:10.020 Yeah, but if they were efficient, they wouldn't need to tax us more.
00:03:14.000 You get what I'm saying?
00:03:15.040 Like if there wasn't such bureaucracy in the government and the IRS.
00:03:18.380 Yeah, and so bless you.
00:03:19.940 But to me, it's also deeper than that.
00:03:21.440 Think about it.
00:03:21.840 Like let's just say I got five C-suites that are working for me, a CMO, chief marketing officer, CFO, CTO technology, chief strategy officer, and chief compliance officer.
00:03:32.280 And we have a meeting at the end of the year.
00:03:34.060 What's your budget?
00:03:34.660 My budget is $5 million.
00:03:36.160 My budget is $4 million.
00:03:37.240 My budget is $3 million.
00:03:38.160 My budget is $10 million.
00:03:39.200 Great.
00:03:40.320 If a guy at the end of the year had a $5 million budget but ended up hitting his budget for the year and the BHAG, but they did it on 80% of the budget.
00:03:49.840 So he didn't spend $5 million.
00:03:50.740 He spent $4 million.
00:03:52.160 You're like, dude, good job.
00:03:53.640 Right?
00:03:53.940 You saved the company 20% of your budget.
00:03:55.900 But if a guy that had a $10 million budget doesn't hit his goal but asks for $50 million and spends $50 million, you don't have credibility.
00:04:03.880 So it's that simple that for me, I would much rather take more power away from them.
00:04:09.440 Because they don't have a track record of getting good things done.
00:04:13.260 Yeah.
00:04:13.560 They keep making it bigger and bigger and bigger at what expense?
00:04:16.520 So that's the part where I think a part of why Kennedy and Trumps are so hated is because the one thing those two have in common is the establishment couldn't stand these guys because they couldn't control them.
00:04:29.380 What do they have in common?
00:04:30.100 They both have money.
00:04:31.760 And they both had the ears of who?
00:04:34.560 Yeah.
00:04:34.820 Some of the most powerful people in Hollywood and they liked them.
00:04:37.660 Yeah.
00:04:38.200 Trump on the right, Kennedy on the left.
00:04:40.460 Yeah.
00:04:40.600 Right?
00:04:40.920 So it's kind of like that relationship where they were both hated.
00:04:46.920 CIA, FBI, the Fed, who the hell are these guys?
00:04:50.320 Trump's not getting along with the Fed.
00:04:51.920 Kennedy didn't get along with the Fed.
00:04:53.440 There's some of those commonalities where now the flip side of it, guess what Trump and his camp have to do?
00:05:01.020 If they don't produce results, guess what happens?
00:05:04.460 What?
00:05:05.320 Oh, the other side's going to come on and say, you had him.
00:05:07.980 What did he do?
00:05:08.600 Nothing.
00:05:09.020 And that's kind of where I'm at as well.
00:05:10.660 Like, I'm obviously not really a big Trump guy.
00:05:12.840 But if positive things happen for the country during the Trump term in these next four years, I'm going to report on that.
00:05:19.540 You know, I'm not going to be, I'm not dedicated to making Trump look bad.
00:05:21.780 I know you are.
00:05:22.400 I know you are.
00:05:23.560 Yeah.
00:05:23.840 If great things start happening, it's not like I'm going to look for an alternate angle that undermines the success.
00:05:28.880 I'm just looking at how average people are living every day, happiness and, you know, fulfillment.
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