Valuetainment - April 26, 2025


＂Zuckerberg PANICKED In 2024＂ - Andrew Callaghan INVESTIGATES The Billionaire Takeover Of Politics

Topics
corporate donations to politics
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Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Trump Mark Zuckerberg Joe Biden Zuck Elon Musk Citizens United Lockheed Martin Charles Schwab Jim Jordan Joe Rogan Humberto COVID-19 Burisma Moderna Soros Bezos
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In this episode, we discuss the role of corporate money in our political system, and the impact of Citizens United and the deep state. We also discuss how much money is being given to the Democratic Party and the Republican Party by the Fortune 500 companies.

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00:00:00.000 And when you see the funding, the paper trail of Soros and what he's done with his money, there's plenty of tracking to what he's doing as well.
00:00:07.600 What about people on the other hand who are like funding the Trump campaign?
00:00:10.240 What about his top donors?
00:00:11.120 But to me, the way I would look at that, your counter argument to that would be, what about the fact that Elon Musk spent $250 million to win Pennsylvania?
00:00:19.220 Right?
00:00:19.680 Guess what?
00:00:20.460 The answer to that is what?
00:00:21.520 It's open.
00:00:22.900 But the money is what?
00:00:24.260 If you do this, here's what it is.
00:00:25.840 I just think Citizens United should be repealed.
00:00:28.080 It's crazy that corporations can be so powerful that they can speak more than a human being possibly could, even though, I mean, how much, what's the, how many, before Citizens United, what was the maximum amount of money that a person could donate to a political campaign?
00:00:43.680 Oh, by the way, I would love that.
00:00:46.220 It would never happen.
00:00:47.420 Yeah.
00:00:47.680 I would also love to get the lobbyist out, but it will never happen.
00:00:51.240 It would never happen.
00:00:52.200 One of the first steps to it is if they're able to get big pharma from that advertising, that's a first step.
00:00:59.760 Because out of all the countries, only two countries are allowed to advertise big pharma, us and New Zealand. 0.99
00:01:05.100 Oh, shit. 0.99
00:01:05.760 Really? 1.00
00:01:05.960 Did you know that?
00:01:06.320 So in Europe, they don't have commercials for oxycodone?
00:01:07.840 Zero.
00:01:08.380 You cannot.
00:01:09.920 You cannot.
00:01:10.840 Yeah.
00:01:11.020 So it says that individual contributions to candidates could only be as much as $2,400 per election to a federal candidate.
00:01:18.220 So $4,800 total per cycle.
00:01:21.040 And then after the Citizens United is passed, you have corporations who are donating millions and millions, if not hundreds of millions, to political campaigns.
00:01:28.840 They use that money to then subsidize large-scale advertising campaigns and different PR optics to put themselves in time.
00:01:35.400 So call this.
00:01:35.800 Who do you think gives more money? 1.00
00:01:37.640 You think the bigger companies give more to the left or the right?
00:01:40.240 It depends what you're talking about.
00:01:41.140 Because back then, of course, it would have been the left or not the left, the liberals, the progressives, the Democrats.
00:01:46.080 What do you think it is today?
00:01:47.280 I would assume.
00:01:48.440 Well, there's so much.
00:01:49.000 That's the thing is there's a second sort of deep state, I believe, forming around the trade.
00:01:52.320 This may not help you, by the way, because a lot of money.
00:01:55.300 Okay.
00:01:55.940 So do you know by company how much leftist companies, big Fortune 500 companies give to the Democratic Party versus the Republic?
00:02:05.040 Do you know the dollars?
00:02:06.160 Yeah, how much?
00:02:06.700 You ever seen this?
00:02:07.600 Is it a breakdown of it?
00:02:08.960 Oh, dude, I love the fact that you're seeing this for the first time.
00:02:11.540 But, I mean, Elon, Zuckerberg, Bezos, they all support Trump, right?
00:02:14.740 No, no, but watch.
00:02:15.640 Watch what happens here.
00:02:17.120 You're going to see where this goes.
00:02:17.980 This isn't it, Rob.
00:02:18.740 Nope.
00:02:18.940 There's one that says, Brandon, Humberto, if you guys can send this to Rob, there's one that shows.
00:02:25.580 It's not this one.
00:02:26.540 There's another one that shows 98%, 97%, 96%.
00:02:30.320 You have it.
00:02:30.800 We've shown that once before, maybe eight months ago.
00:02:34.380 And we have that chart.
00:02:35.800 But it breaks down by company on what they gave 2024, 2020, 2016.
00:02:44.600 You will be blown away by this number.
00:02:47.040 So even if we get rid of that.
00:02:48.540 I'm curious to see it just because that's just all wasted money.
00:02:51.720 Well, but watch it.
00:02:52.480 I mean.
00:02:52.820 Watch it here.
00:02:53.640 Watch to see what happens.
00:02:55.180 It's that one right there, Rob.
00:02:56.000 The second lane, third one.
00:02:59.860 Yeah.
00:03:00.840 Zoom in.
00:03:02.540 Okay, watch this.
00:03:04.460 This is blue, left, red, Republican.
00:03:08.360 But I mean, even those top companies, like if the top blue donor is Facebook, we know that
00:03:13.980 Mark Zuckerberg is now partial to Trump.
00:03:16.080 He's not running against him.
00:03:16.980 He's not, though.
00:03:17.380 That's not about being partial to Trump.
00:03:19.220 That's where the money is going.
00:03:20.440 So you think that as political power, if it's conservative, they're following it that way.
00:03:24.300 Your argument was the fact that citizens, if they get rid of companies being able to
00:03:28.720 give to big super PACs, and this number is even further opposite side today.
00:03:33.840 That's 2017.
00:03:35.500 It's worse today for 2024, Rob, if you do have it.
00:03:38.740 Just stay on that one right now to just kind of show that until we go to the next one.
00:03:42.240 And these guys will send it.
00:03:43.940 You will see the numbers.
00:03:44.860 Look at that.
00:03:45.560 Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, BlackRock, Charles Schwab, IBM, Cisco.
00:03:50.140 There's a Trump.
00:03:50.580 If you go down, there's also a significant amount of money being given to political campaigns.
00:03:54.520 Exxon, Las Vegas Sands, Morgan Stanley, Lockheed Martin, Goldman Sachs, Delta, Johnson & Johnson.
00:03:59.980 Those are all giving equal amounts, if not more, to conservative campaigns.
00:04:04.100 It's more to the goal.
00:04:05.620 Okay, just look at the chart here.
00:04:07.000 You have to be able to see it.
00:04:08.500 Can you tell me where 50% is?
00:04:11.000 I see what you're saying.
00:04:11.700 Go to where 50% is right there.
00:04:13.040 So go up.
00:04:14.000 You're right.
00:04:14.440 The bottom what?
00:04:15.400 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
00:04:19.820 Give more to the right than the left.
00:04:21.240 But now let's count.
00:04:22.220 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one.
00:04:31.440 Twenty-one is left.
00:04:33.840 Only nine is right.
00:04:36.000 So the control, if they stop doing that, liberals get their money from the wealthy.
00:04:42.220 Billionaires support more liberals than they do conservatives.
00:04:44.800 As weird as it is.
00:04:45.640 No, I actually agree with that a hundred percent.
00:04:47.140 And just to clarify, I mostly agree with you.
00:04:48.700 Like, I'm not a supporter of the Democratic Party either.
00:04:50.800 So, I mean, I just.
00:04:51.600 No, I get that.
00:04:52.320 But I also see that as you're going through this process, when you're going to it, the one thing that is phenomenal to see is the data to show what's going on with it.
00:05:03.040 And eventually, Zuck realized he effed up because I think Zuck's play, Rob, when did Zuck come out and talk about the fact when he put that tweet out about Joe Biden and his camp, forced him to take down some content, and the $400 million I regretted, when was that tweet?
00:05:19.600 Do you remember when that tweet was?
00:05:20.760 August 27th, 2024.
00:05:22.680 Can you put that tweet and pull it up?
00:05:24.300 So this, I'm assuming, goes back to his Joe Rogan podcast where he wore the gray T-shirt and he was like kind of admitting that the Biden administration was pressuring him to take down posts on Facebook related to what he saw as COVID-19 misinformation.
00:05:36.480 So you see the timing of it, though.
00:05:37.940 You know when the timing of that tweet was?
00:05:40.080 The timing of that tweet, if you can find the tweet, just go to the tweet if you can.
00:05:45.240 The timing of it was, it's important to see the dates.
00:05:49.240 So I think this is the part where...
00:05:55.240 So he wrote a letter.
00:05:57.740 I have the letter.
00:05:58.800 August 26th, 2024, to Jim Jordan.
00:06:01.720 That's right.
00:06:02.120 And he says what?
00:06:02.760 I appreciate the comments.
00:06:04.140 There's a lot of talk right now on U.S. Interaction.
00:06:06.000 I want to be clear about our position.
00:06:07.480 Our platform is for everyone.
00:06:09.020 We're about promoting speech and helping people connect in a safe and secure way.
00:06:13.340 As part of this, we regularly hear the governments around the world.
00:06:15.760 In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our team for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree.
00:06:29.820 Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take the content down.
00:06:32.580 And we own our decision, including COVID-19 related changes we made to our enforcement.
00:06:37.260 In the wake of this pressure, I believe the government pressure was wrong.
00:06:39.960 And I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.
00:06:42.380 I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't have made today.
00:06:47.660 Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any administration in either direction.
00:06:54.300 And we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.
00:06:56.760 In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about a potential Russia disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the end of the 2020 election that fall when we thought it was in a New York Post.
00:07:07.220 So he's explaining that they effed up, right?
00:07:09.580 You know what?
00:07:10.000 But what's the date?
00:07:11.080 Go for it.
00:07:11.760 I don't think that Zuckerberg would have done that if he thought Trump was going to lose.
00:07:16.480 I agree.
00:07:17.160 Yeah.
00:07:17.560 Because realistically, he's doing that as a concession because he's worried about retribution with the new Trump presidency.
00:07:23.780 And he's seeing power shift, right?
00:07:25.380 And he wants to be on the right side of history because he knows that he's going to lose his financial backing to go against.
00:07:29.720 Or could it be that he realized he was wrong?
00:07:31.820 Well, I think that if you – people always ask me, why do you think Trump won?
00:07:34.860 And I think that Facebook censorship in 2020 played a huge role in that.
00:07:38.540 I've said it before.
00:07:39.520 Sure.
00:07:40.520 I think that's a constructive Tiananmen Square moment for so many people who are critical of the vaccine and lockdown mandates.
00:07:45.840 Because whenever you're banned from a social media platform, your first logical next step is I'm banned because I'm speaking the truth.
00:07:54.820 Not I'm banned because I'm propagating misinformation that's going to be harmful to people.
00:07:59.120 You think if the establishment, if a large social media company takes little old me's page down for expressing my First Amendment right and saying my opinion about the Moderna vaccine or something like that, whether it's right or wrong, you feel that you are an anti-establishment person who is inherently telling the truth that's being censored by the greater machine.
00:08:18.380 And so someone like Trump comes along and he's seen by them as being like the arbiter of truth and justice.
00:08:23.880 And so Mark Zuckerberg and all those people during 2020 who colluded to de-platform people are paying for their mistakes big time.
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