Democrats reveal their "coordinated messaging machine" | Hour 2

And again, thank you so much for your support. All right, so at the end of the last hour, I started on this. I'm going to re-rack it. We're circling back. We're Pasaki. We're Pasaki-ing back. We're circling back. Still don't know which one. The reference is getting kind of dated now, but it's a classic. We're circling back to this admission by Van Jones. This was bragging. It's what Van Jones was doing on CNN. He was bragging about how the Democrats pulled off the blue tsunami or the blue nami. And he says it was through this organization called the American Accountability Network. Okay. Well, I looked them up. I went to their website. They have a website, American Accountability Network dot org. Social Media Strategies for Real-World Impact. The network is a powerful consortium of advocates, content creators, organizers, and influencers who together have formed an ecosystem that has the ability to shape political narratives, reach the public at scale, and mobilize people to take action. They're not hiding this. The problem right wing misinformation and disinformation has permeated across social media platforms and heavily influenced public opinion in key demographics. This recent media matters report. Well, if you're citing media matters, you automatically know like that. These people are lefties shows the extent of the current asymmetry. This is one of the things. Media matters, folks on the left, like when you go full blue and on, which you should never go full blue and on, but when you go full blue and on, the folks over there believe that the media bias that exists in America is conservative. I'm not kidding. They honestly believe that there is a conservative media bias across all of the mainstream media outlets. Okay. So they say this is asymmetry. What's going on now when it comes to the reach and influence of right-wing versus left-wing online content. As a result, the Democratic base has been demobilized and our opposition has been galvanized. And then they have some stats. I believe this would be, I guess, the subscribers to the various podcast bros. Joe Rogan, 40 million. Ben Shapiro, $ 25 million. Jordan Peterson, $ 23 million. Russell Brand, well, that number is probably going to go down now. Russell Brand, $ 22. 5 million. Theo Vaughn, $ 22. 3 million. And then, this is interesting. Listen to who they reference as like their friends. Because those are all the top podcasters from the right, right? Joe Rogan is not of the right. Like this, this lie that Democrats have been telling themselves and, and America that like, we need to find our Joe Rogan. It's like you had Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan is not a conservative. Joe Rogan just saw that you guys were going crazy. And he also like buys into every single conspiracy theory that's out there. He had Donald Trump come on his podcast and, Simply him pointing out the insanity of Democrat positions and Donald Trump coming on and chatting with him for three hours, because that's how long his podcasts are. That was cited as some reason why Trump was able to make all of these inroads. He went on Theo Vaughn's show as well. I'd never heard of the guy. He's a comic, stand-up comedian. Again, not a conservative. But you guys went so far off the deep end during woke 1.0, which as AOC said, it was kind of crazy, which is like, it's not dead. That's coming back. Despite Piers Morgan writing a book called woke is dead. He is incorrect about that. And many things, but he is incorrect. It is not dead. It is simply hiding. It's about to come back. We just heard the leader of the Texas house. Guy's name is woo. And he's like, Once all of these non-white people, once we all recognize that we're being oppressed and there's one group of people that's oppressing us, I was waiting for him to say the Jews. But no, it's white people that are oppressing them. And once we band together, then we can make things fair. That's what he said in an interview. That's who's in charge in Texas. Oh, also, there was another one speaking of Texas. Let me jump over here. Because the new governor of Texas, what's her name? Hinojosa? Hinojosa? Oh gosh, I've lost it now. It was on my feed here. She had said, yeah, she's like, oh, we're going to, what are we changing? Gosh, I'm going to have to come back to it. Because you got the Houston mayor no longer cooperating with ICE. So that's gone. I'm sure that'll work out fine. No problem there. Yeah, I'm going to have to pull her thing up because... Yeah, she's talking about taxes or something. This is not the way to make things more affordable. But like I said in the last hour, this affordability line that the Democrats were using, I was saying this is absurd. Who's falling for this? I did not realize that this American accountability network was out there pushing this messaging through tens of thousands of what I can only believe are paid influencers, right? So they were paying people to amplify these messages. And when, so they, when this network on its website, they're like, we have to fight back against Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn and Russell brand. These are the guys. They're the reason why. The only reason, Actually, Jordan Peterson, he is more on the liberal side of things. The only actual conservative on this list is Ben Shapiro. You know who they name as their top-ranked podcast allies? Trevor Noah, the Young Turks, that's Cenk Uygur, The guy who put out the ad for Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan race saying that basically the Jews are responsible for jacking up the price of your bananas. Yeah, that guy, he sweats a lot too. He's very sweaty. The Breakfast Club. That's, isn't that Charlemagne? Isn't that that guy? Or is that a different show? I don't even know. The Midas Touch Podcast. Those are leftists. And Hassan Abiy. I believe that is Hassan Piker. That makes sense now, right? Why Hassan Piker is on the campaign trail with some of these people. So here's the solution. The network is a powerful consortium of advocates, content creators, organizers, right? So political organizers and influencers, um, you know, who have formed an ecosystem. Our core network online consists of thousands of advocates, including many who have hundreds of thousands and millions of followers. Across all major platforms, our. Network reaches an average of 200 plus million people each week. We mobilize this network in a rapid response capacity to move messaging, drive calls to action, turn out the vote, and create real-world impact in key states and districts across the country. Data centers, anybody? We organize our network to recruit volunteers for our phone banking... texting door knocking and other field activities to support democratic and progressive causes candidates and campaigns. So it's overtly political. These complimentary digital and field efforts have had a decisive impact in dozens of competitive races nationwide since 2018, 2018. They've been doing this. And then they have their field stats, uh, all of their voter contacts, 40 million voter contacts, 12 million phone bank calls, 28 million texts. Our field operations have been deployed virtually, in-person, and hybrid setups in competitive districts nationwide. Depending on the dynamics of each race, we can coordinate with the Democratic Party directly And then it has a list of all of the organizations it has worked with. And it is a who's who of leftism. From the Center for American Progress, DCCC, Hillary's campaign, Kamala Harris's campaign, Various state and local races. The Brady campaign. All of them. Feminist majority. Move on. Various state and local races. The Brady campaign. All of them. Feminist majority. Move on. Newtown Action Alliance. The gun grabbing group. Joe Biden. Senator Alex Padilla. Representative Mike Levin. George Whiteside's. Voters of Tomorrow, Vote Vets, Speaker Pelosi, John Ossoff, the SEIU, Our Revolution, Progress Now, People's Action. This is the murderer's row list. Since 2018, these guys have been around. That's who Van Jones is talking about during his CNN comments about this organization. and how they were able to pull this off. That Republicans had no idea what they were doing, and it allowed them to hammer affordability, only affordability, don't deal with any of these other issues. That's why Roy Cooper's campaign had nothing on the website about any plans, any policies, anything other than make stuff cost less, affordability. That's it. Hmm. I wonder who was supposed to find that out on the Republican side. 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I love everyone. Just don't mess with me or my family. How do we get here? Really? So I have the very same, uh, outlook, right? And most, I think most people, um, have the same outlook, which is just leave me alone. Basically. I think that's like a, that's a really American way of thinking. Just want to be left alone. Right. I don't care what you're doing. I'm doing my thing. Just don't bother me. There is a phrase though, that became popularized about 15 years ago or so. And it's, you will be made to care. You will be made to care. So even if you don't care about a topic, an issue, a person, their gender, their sexuality, whatever, like I don't care about these things, but I don't now have that luxury. I have been made to care because people transgress me in order to. advance the thing that they want to advance. And so you are made to care. We are all being made to care about things that we otherwise would not. And that's the, that's the problem is that now we are in this fight and there are all sorts of reasons for it. I mean the, and I always say the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. That's what's at play here. Underlying all of these issues, it is, It is an attempt to win power, win control, right? Whatever issue is the issue of the day, you just listed some of them. It's just that's the issue of the day. And right now, the issues are just used in service of a larger goal, which is the revolution, which is to fundamentally transform America into something else, into something other than what it is. That's the reason. And for people that don't want to get involved, like I said, you will be made to care at some point, you know? I mean, I do care. Yeah, yeah. I don't mean it like that. I mean, like, you will be made to take a position, right? You better put that little avatar on your social media page. You better put that little ribbon or whatever, right? Like, you're going to have to take a position. You can no longer not care about a particular issue. You know, I think that one of the reasons why I think the way I do is because I haven't been on social media. I have been off of social media for, let's see, about 15 to 20 years. I don't get on social media because it's like you're living in a fantasy world. Your people are showing you, oh, I'm at the beach and I'm doing all of these things when their life is really hard. They are posing to be someone that they're not, and I don't have time for that. I go through things. I have problems. I have situations. And being on Facebook and making people think that I don't have those problems is a lie. I don't have time to lie to people to look like I'm above my own standards. Well, then you've got Beatrice. Then you've got other people that post up there about all their problems. They do it for the sympathy clicks. That's what therapy is for. That's what therapy is for. If you can't get out of your own problems, and I tell this to my godson who is 19 years old and he's in college, I tell him that the decisions that you make lead to the consequences that you suffer. Oh, no. No, no, we can't be teaching people that. Oh, I got no, no, no. No, not today's day and age, because that might mean people could actually control their own destiny, and it's way easier to convince people that their problems are not of their own making. Somebody else did that to you and you could be mad about it. No, no, I'm sorry. I believe in accountability. I do too. If I'm driving and I slam into your car, how am I going to jump out and be mad at you when I need to be mad at the fact that I wasn't paying attention or driving correctly to not have the accident? See, I'm responsible for all the things that I do. I'm responsible for the things that I do to other people. And I'm responsible for the negative things that I say out of my mouth that people will... They will take that because that's what they're looking for. So what I do is I just give people positivity. I have had people... Now, mind you, I work in a job where I deal with people face-to-face. I go into their home. I have had people call me the N-word to my face. Oh, N-word, just do what I'm telling you. And it's not that I won't get mad because it hurts my feelings, but at least you're being honest with me about how you see me, and now you've served the ball to me, and either I can react, the way you want me to, or I can just be like, you know what, God bless you, and just move on. I don't have time to argue with people. I don't have time to make my company look bad. I don't have time to be a bad person by reacting to your negativity. I have got to move on, and I've got to remember that every single day, there's somebody watching me. There's I want people, I want us to be better than what we are right now. I can't allow someone to guide me into thinking that things I know are wrong. If you drop a bomb on a school and you kill innocent children, I'm appalled. I don't care if it's a war. If you say, hey, that was a mistake, I'm so sorry, then that's a thing. You can't do that and not know that the Good Samaritan story in the Bible is really the way to live your life. I can't see people being happy about negative things. Oh, no. People love negative things, Beatrice. People love negative things. Trust me. I appreciate the call. God bless you. Thanks for negative things, Beatrice. People love negative things. Trust me. I appreciate the call. God bless you. Thanks for chatting. God bless you all. All right. Got to run. All right. That's Beatrice. All right. Real quick. Every government number gets revised, right? Every projection gets walked back. Gold does not file corrections like GovCo. 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Unlike what we have here in North Carolina, out in Texas, more than 100 retail providers compete for consumers. under a deregulation law. And so. People are saying the industry folks are saying like you're going to create a shortage of electricity by doing this it's actually one of the fundamentals In Econ 101, Jeff on the text line says, price freezes are the left's only idea to make things cost less, which will lead to less suppliers and create shortages. Yes, that is how that works. Like, always. Always. All right, let me go over to the text line for some more texts. A bumper sticker idea. Fix affordability? You really thought they meant that? That would be a good bumper sticker. Jeff with a G. Another Jeff, gosh, we got a bumper crop of Jeffs on the text line. So the Democrats ran on making things affordable and people voted them in for it. So what's going to happen when they can't fix it? Well, I think the plan is to ram as much stuff through as you can in order to solidify your power for. As long as possible. What have I been saying? The thing about Communism is that you vote yourself in, but you have to shoot your way out, right? That's the idea. Scott says, how do we break perhaps a multi-generational cycle that believes that government handouts are okay? Well, you have to have a multi-generational campaign against it. And you've got to now retake institutions that were surrendered for the last 40 years. and maybe not surrendered, but conservatives have been run out of these professions, K-12 education, higher education, right? Newsrooms, media, but like, why do you think like going to that website, the American accountability network and their influencers, like, oh my gosh, the misinformation, disinformation, and look at these conservatives. No, my gosh, they're, they're, they're getting their message out. It's misinformation, right? Like, why are conservatives so big in the new media space? They never stop and think about that. It's because you guys have run conservatives out of all of those existing spaces. And so now conservatives go over into the digital space, and that's where they have been very successful. All right. David says, how do we deal with parties using influencers on social media, all reading from the same script and being paid to do it without disclosing that it's paid political advertising? This seems like it should violate campaign laws, but maybe law hasn't caught up yet. This was one big social experiment and it worked big time. Yeah, I don't know. Like, look, I'm on the FCC airwaves here. FCC regulated airwaves, right? I cannot do that. If like, if I take money from somebody, I have to disclose that. That seems to me to be a pretty good rule, you know, but on the digital, in the digital space, that's not the case. Influencers get money from all sorts of entities and people and they never disclose it. I would prefer the disclosure. Um, seven Oh four prophecy says in the 26 election, the blue cheated again and will be caught. 26 was a red wave. Okay. That's, I don't know about prophecy. I don't know. Who's your prophet there. Um, George says you're too young to have been a voter in 92. Bush was flying high following desert storm. He was drubbed by Clinton on the strength of James Carville, single campaign focus. It's the economy. Stupid. I actually, uh, that was the first presidential race I could vote in. Um, Tracy says, how sad to hear that journalists and journalism has turned to social media and influencers. It sounds like the blind leading the blind. I have watched this happening, and I hope the country will get smart about the BS. That's possible. Once this stuff becomes identified and then people recognize it for what it is, then maybe you get people becoming immune to this, but very difficult to see that being the case. Kevin says, I see where you're coming from. How do you know that the Democrats taking the House and Senate is not part of a larger plan God has in mind? I don't. Pete, have a little faith that if this present course is from men, it will be overturned. But if from God, do you want to be found a fighter against God's will? This thought was expressed by Gamaliel at Acts. Okay. Look, you can find whatever reason you want, Kevin, to not fight, and you can say that that's God's will, and that is a very convenient thing to do. That's not me. So I'm going to stand up against things that I believe are wrong. When they are wrong and I identify them as wrong, I will say that's wrong. And I also value the sacrifices of all of those who came before me to hand this experiment that is America over. off to me as one of its citizens to act as a caretaker to then pass it on to somebody else. And, you know, you may think it's all part of a plan. I would prefer that if we can avoid a lot of people getting hurt in the process, I would prefer that we try to avoid a lot of people getting hurt because that's when, when I look at the policies and the behaviors, like I want to avoid people getting hurt. Um, Bain says, why would Democrats tip their hand on this strategy? Is it to brag on how tactically smart they are? Help me understand, Pete. Is it a flea flicker you can only use once? No, they want business. They sell their services. This American accountability network, they sell their services, right? They work with groups. They need to raise money, right? So At some point you have to say like, look at what we did. We're responsible for this thing. That's so awesome. So this way everybody else wants you to help them so they can win too. That's the idea. All right. And then he sent a follow-up text. I will get to more texts in a moment. Here is the audio clip from Van Jones describing how they did it. Now the truth can be told, he says. Now it can be told. How did we win the narrative on affordability? Was it just these nice little Democrats out there running for office and going to? No, the Republicans never figured out what we were doing. There's something called the American Accountability Network. Tens of thousands of online humans, not bots, coordinated. to make the affordability message a winning message online. 32.5 million people hit on Instagram every day. 88.8 million hit on Twitter every single day. And 185 million Facebook hits every single day. And they never figured it out. The Republicans could not understand It wasn't bots. It was actual human beings. The most effective online organizing campaign called the American Accountability Network flew under the radar screen, never been told before. And they were talking about the issue or they were saying you need to elect Democrats to deal with this? Driving the kitchen table affordability message And tying that to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative, the Republicans never figured out. What we were doing. And what that meant was everywhere you go, people were talking about affordability and they were talking about kitchen table issues. They couldn't get any traction on these cultural war issues anymore because we figured out how to get around all that. So it's not just all the door knocking that was done, which is amazing. It's not just our amazing candidate quality. We had something called the American Accountability Network. Don't get mad at me. I was given permission to reveal this. They never figured it out. And that network is going to continue to push for kitchen table issues and hold our Democratic lawmakers accountable. That's fascinating. Yeah, that won't happen. They're not going to go after Democrats on this stuff. They're not going to primary Democrats. They want more clients. They want more Democrats. But that's what Van Jones says. This is how the, quote, affordability... topic came to dominate you don't have to believe it but that's what he's telling us and you look at the numbers if these numbers are correct 33 million on instagram every day 89 million on twitter every day 185 million on facebook every day every day that's a like more than a quarter of a billion hits every single day with tens of thousands of people that are amplifying all of the messages It's like a new and ubiquitous advertising campaign. And then everybody just like knows it's there. You don't maybe even remember where you first heard it, how often you've heard it. You just know you've heard it. You've heard it a lot. Everything's unaffordable. I can't afford anything. Andy, the plumber says, if that's not a propaganda machine, I. Don't know what is. Yep, that is what it is. Let's see here. So Stanley says, what this group is saying is that the other side's misinformation campaign has been better than ours. This might be why our founders thought free speech was so important. They made it the First Amendment. Me putting out dumb ideas is a right, but it's up to everyone to analyze them. And if they're so inclined, put out their dumb ideas. We collectively get to decide which dumb ideas have the most merit and enact them into our lives, culture, and governing policy. Sounds like a great system to me. Okay. U.S. Household debt hits record 19 trillion auto repossessions. Credit card, you're just giving me stats here to make the case. What, Chris? Didn't Trump promise to cap credit card interest rates at 10%? Yeah, and then, you know, it's going to happen when he does that with Elizabeth Warren. People won't be able to get credit. There are trade-offs, people. Everything in life is trade-offs. Everything. If you have a terrible credit history and I can't charge you for that risk and I can't try to incentivize you to pay off your credit card by threatening a 25% interest rate. Or whatever, I'm just not going to loan you the money. That's how that goes. Oh, unless of course, government comes in and forces lending, which then of course is how, that's how we ended up with the mortgage crisis. Same concept, right? But you want to do it for credit cards. Now I'm sure it will. I'm sure it will turn out differently. Uh, Timoteo says my fellow Republicans voted away our freedom in exchange for a cheaper tank of gas, curse them forever for it. Um, Olivia says, I like that lady caller. She's so right. You rock, Beatrice. Beatrice was spot on. Stay off of social media. That's why I say that when you enter, when you get online, especially social media, you are in an informational battle space. Let me see here. Do, do, do. Beatrice, Kevin said Beatrice's point was spot on. Conservatives believe in personal responsibility while the left believes in personal liability and the gap seems to widen with every election. Um, Vince, are you, okay. You're trying to text Vince. Vince is not on right now. Vince is on from 10 to noon. Chris says Beatrice is the most sensible person of color I have ever heard. Call you. That's not true. Uh, it's refreshing to hear, uh, people of color not going along with Democrat plantation talking points. Okay. Good job, Chris. Yeah. Um, over the next two years, Democrats who run these States are going to ruin things as much as possible so they can blame Trump in 2028. Yep. I mean that, that will be part of the messaging as well. And hopefully now when you see it everywhere online, maybe you'll think about the American accountability network. All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support. And the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like, please support them, too, and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecalinershow.com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.