If Antifa is "just an idea"... who is cashing the checks? (10-14-2025--Hour3)

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There's no hierarchical structure to the organization because it's not an organization. It's just an idea, okay, Antifi. So we have a couple of developments on this front over the last few days, which if I was meaning to get to this last week, but then you know, Donald Trump had to come out announced you know, Middle East peace, and then like that just muscled everything off of the news cycle because he was given the note by Marco Rubio at this roundtable or I guess it would be more of like a square table, because it was set up as a square where they had all these people who are predominantly journalists, conservative YouTubers, influencers and such, who have personal knowledge and experience. They've had run ins, they've been targeted by this idea that is Antifa. The idea came along and you know, assaulted them, sending them to the hospital with injuries and such. This idea also, somehow or another rakes and millions of dollars. We don't know where it goes because it's just an idea, but some how another people are writing checks to the idea, which cards on the table here. I have never done. Okay, so I don't know how this works. I have written checks, but all of my checks that I've ever written in my lifetime they go to individuals or they go to organizations Okay, so that's just that's my fault, that's my limitation here. So I don't know practically speaking, how you would go about writing a check or maybe it's like a Venmo thing where you haven't you know, on your app and you just like wire the money or you just like digitally send it to the idea. I'm not really sure how that works. But but yeah, So there were all these people that had gathered at the White House for this discussion about the imaginary idea of Antifa, which doesn't exist, okay, the organization or the people, just an idea. Okay, So David strawm at hot air dot com. And by the way, you'll recall that Donald Trump has now designated Antifa the idea as a terrorist organization and they're talking about doing investigations into Antifa to find out, you know, how people and which people are funding this idea and how exactly that works. I guess, well, that's probably going to be part of the instigation. I would have to assume, right, I would have to assume that they would. They would have to get to the bottom of how exactly you are just like spending your money and it just goes into like the ether into the air or something. I'm not anyway, they'll get to the bottom of it. I am certain, So let me play for you a clip first. This is Seamus Brunner and he is a researcher sorry research director at the Government Accountability Institute, and he was at this square table event with the President. He said, the administration's whole of government approach is now fully underway. This is not just a story about violence and chaos, as you alluded to, mister President. This is a money story. And at the Government Accountability Institute, my colleague and I, Peter Schweitzer and my I and our team, we followed the money and we followed it to the top of what we call the protest industrial complex riot Inc. And we found a network at NGOs. It's not just the Soros network, the Open Society Network, it's other funding networks. By the way, Riot Inc. That's an awesome name for a company that's engaging in Antifah related activities. I'm just saying, like, if you like, if you haven't already taken that name. If it's not, I should check during the commercial break to see if somebody has the domain riot Inc. That's a great name or for a punk band either way. Arabella funding network, the Tides funding network, Neville Roy Singham and his network, foreign cash, and. It's also big left wing funders. Some of them are not citizens of this country, mister Hans Yorg vis of Switzerland. They're pouring money into this entire ecosystem. And so I want to share three money facts with you about what we call riot Inc. Number One, like any corporation, Riot Inc. Has many divisions. It doesn't just have the ANTIFA boots on the ground. It has pr divisions, it has marketing divisions, it has a very well funded legal division to get these boots on the ground back on the streets as quickly as possible. But it does have those investors that I mentioned. Number two, we have identified dozens of radical organizations, not just the decentralized antifaut organizations, but dozens of radical organizations that have received more than one hundred million dollars. From the riot Ink investors. These would be the lawyer groups, these would be the groups that advocate for calling good honest Americans fascists, et cetera. And then three, I think the most shocking thing is that we have found that more than one hundred million dollars in US taxpayer funding has flowed into these funding networks. How is that possible. It's just an idea. How are they getting taxpayer money? How does an idea get taxpayer funds? I've been doing this all wrong. I was today years old when I learned that I could just get some sort of government funding for an idea. I got lots of ideas. Hello, I've been talking about some of my ideas for a very long time on the radio. Nobody has stolen them for some reason, I'm not sure, But like I've got great ideas, like the cartipult. It's a great idea. There's no structure, there's no hierarchy, there's no organization at all. It's just an idea. Now, granted, it's of limited value outside of the city of Asheville, because that's where I came up with the idea. It was basically a tribuche and it would just fling the vehicles over the city because they didn't like the tourists and stuff for so long until Hurricane Helen hit. Now they need tourists again. But like the radical lefties in Asheville, they didn't want tourists coming, and so they were constantly, you know, just trash talking tourism and the industry, and they were trying to block everything at city council meetings. So I came up with this brilliant idea to have like this catapult that would just fling the vehicles as they approached the city on the interstates, and you would just fling the vehicle over the city, see, and so they would not be able to stop in the city. And when the car is flipping over in mid air, all of the money would fall out of the vehicle and land in the streets. It would be raining money on the communists that would then just go scoop up the money, you know, and then the car would I haven't I never did figure out the landing part of the idea. But still, if I can get an NGO to fund my idea, I mean, antifuzz got one, how come I can't have one. I feel like I should have one. And that's just one idea. Including at least four million dollars to these very groups themselves, not just Antifa types. But there was an event in Atlanta called Stop Coop City. Over sixty rioters were charged with domestic terrorism. These groups received money for that from both the billionaire class as well as taxpayer money. So wait a minute, taxpayer money was funding those moon bats in Atlanta. Now I'm mad. One of those, by the way, you know, was the son of a very well connected Charlotte elite, Michael Marsicano, the former leader of the Foundation for the Carolinas, which is you know, they got their fingers in all sorts of public private partnerships and such, in philanthropy and all this other stuff. Huh. So the Antifa cop City, stop cop City protesters that like firebombed machinery and attacked law enforcement, they were getting taxpayer funds. Again, I have been doing this all wrong, all wrong. So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and before he died, my mom and my dad took care of him as he got worse. Forty years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family. But things are different today because of the work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina. It's a great organization with awesome people with huge hearts. I've been a reporter for twenty five years. This cause means a lot to me. I participate in the annual Walk to end Alzheimer's and I'm leading a Charlotte team again this year and it's called once again Pete's Pack. You can sign up and you can join the team and walk with us. It's on October eighteenth, that truest field. 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You pay Antifa through your taxes, your taxes funded left wing NGOs, and then give the money to the idea of Antifa. Right, It's just an idea, people. I'm curious if I were a billionaire, and who's to say I'm not. I'm not, But if I were a billionaire, if I was a billionaire, if I was a billionaire and somebody, I'm sure as a billionaire, you get hit up all the time for donations, you know, I mean I get hit up all the time for donations, and I'm like a hundred air so I can only imagine the scale would be just crazy at that level. And I suspect that if somebody were to pitch me on making a one million dollar donation or something to an idea, I would, first off, if it's like some sort of business idea, like I would ask, okay, well show me your business plan, right because right now it's just an idea, but I want to see like a proof of concept, like I would run them through the whole shark Tank experience, you know. And if I were a billionaire, well, hell, I'd probably be on Shark Tank. I'd be one of the sharks, and I'd be asking all sorts of questions. I'd want a proof of concept. I'd want to see the product you have made you know now, or service you are offering, Show me how it works. Do you have an app? I want to see it? Right, and you are making a pitch. You are a person. You're standing in front of me making a pitch for my money. You want me to give it to you so you can fund your idea. Okay, I now have somebody to write the check too, right, I'm putting your name on that line. Well, if Antifa just an idea, then who am I writing this checkout to? Who receives the check, who cashes the check? What billionaire would be handing over money to some non organization, non person, right, without any kind of proof of concept, without any kind of understanding about where the money is going to be spent, how it's going to be spent, what it'll be used for. Who's going to be in control of the funding? Right? Who's to say it's not just some fly by night huckster of some kind, some con man that's just trying to take my money. Right, It's absurd, it always has been absurd. It's a lie and it always has been a lie. Again. This is Seamus Bruner, research director at the Government Accountability Institute. He cited bail fund networks that allegedly in a will repeat offenders to return to protests. He pointed to GAI investigations showing coordination across cities like you may want to sit down for this when I read this list of cities to you. Okay, here we go. There's coordination across cities like Portland, Seattle, and Chicago. No, yes, involving paid and transported individuals, including homeless people exploited to participate in unrest. He pointed to major funding sources, including billionaire George Soros's Open Society Foundation as well as the TIDES Foundation, foreign donors like Swiss billionaire Hans I think it's how he pronounces that. To curb funding for unrest, he said federal authorities could use RECO statutes to target networks, and he urged the IRS and the Office of Management and Budget the way former Congressman Dan Bishop works for OMB now former lawyer. I want to put him on this. I think he would do fantastic. He wants these government agencies to review or revoke tax exempt status for nonprofits that are misusing charitable funds. If those agencies find that funding supports criminal activity, he said, they could force organizations to open their books and then justify their grants. Here's the rest of what he Uh, well, I don't have time to play. Yeah, I don't know. Okay, I'm gonna have to revisit this. I'll play the rest of his SoundBite after the news. This is, by the way, I'm reading from foxnews dot com about this roundtable which meeting, which is actually a square table, but it followed Trump's order to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, part of the administration's broader effort to curb crime and illegal immigration, a move temporarily blocked by a federal judge the other day. Antifa is a far left military, sorry, militant movement that describes itself as quote anti fascist, and so if you're opposed to Andifa, then you must be for fascism, goes the childish, immature, intellectually stunted argument being deployed by democrats and media. But I repeat myself. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion. 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This is again Seamus Brunner, research director at the Government Accountability Institute. He participated in the square table maybe rectangular table discussion with the Trump administration last week. This story got bigfooted by the Middle East piece deal, the ceasefire deal. So uh, Brunner was talking about what he called riot inc. Right, this. Organization that these various entities participate in to fund Antifa and leftist violence. Okay, and he identified some of them. They've done extensive investigations into the funding, who's responsible, where's the money going? And here's the rest of his comments. Here one other thing, this money helps fund the decentralized crowdfunding platforms. These are ways that Antifa, the John Brown Gun Club of Elmfork which had links to that attack on the Ice facility, the Socialist Rifle Association, and just because they don't have LLCs or EI n numbers doesn't mean they can't get paid. Some of these funding platforms. Crowdfunding platforms are funded by this network that we call rioting. So again I want to thank you for your leadership, for the whole cabinet's leadership on this. We're going to keep following the money and appreciate everything you're doing. Sir. Do you know the name of any of the funders? Do you know the names? Because if you do, I'd like you to give them to Cash or Pam. Absolutely well, Christy, yeah, we'll do it as soon as you can. That's all of you, because you probably know the names. After a certain period of time you tend to find out. But these are people that do not have good intention for the country, and that's cruising this probably. So if you could, if you very important, if you could do that, it would be great. Nobody would know better than you. You'll figure it out. Right, So David Strom at hot air dot com says what was once nearly a throwaway line meant to defend antifa's NGO accomplices in the legal and nonprofit worlds, including the Tides Foundation and Act Blue, which have funneled a lot of money to anti fun linked organizations. This claim that it's an idea not an organization being repeated often and with vehemence. There is a reason for this. Donald Trump's order that labels Antifa a domestic terror organization ups the legal anti quite a bit, and some of these NGOs could be in real trouble. So what was an occasional claim has now become a mantra. Antifa has been around for years. There is absolutely no doubt that Antifa is very real. It has websites, it has legal representation, it has access to significant sources of funding. It has gatekeepers to ensure that infiltrators are kept out or punished. It has a flag, It has a handbook. The handbook was written by a professor who literally just fled the country. Mark bray is his name, fled the country for Spain, although he's still doing his classes at Rutgers University by zoom and is still paid by Rutgers to be the associate professor that he he is literally wrote the handbook called the Antifa Handbook. It's got lots of supporters both inside the Democrat Party and on the left. Glenn Beck has been documenting the ties with these various NGOs and organizations on the left for years doing his talkboard diagrams and all of that stuff. He's been doing it for years. Well, the other day he did another one of these presentations, and I saw last night that he was talking about this on a show that over the weekend he got a call and the call said, the director of the FBI would like you to meet with some agents. And so of course Glenn Beck was very nervous. It's like, what is this. Good or bad? Like what's happening here? So he did. He met with them and they spent he said, they spent about two hours in Glenn Beck's living room with his wife and his researcher and Glenn Beck and they went over all of the information. They gave them everything. And Glenn Beck seems to believe that the I think he said there were two maybe three agents that came. He said, they are taking it seriously. They are investigating, which I would submit is the reason why that Rutger's professor who wrote the handbook, Mark Bray, That's why he fled because that guy has been acting as a pass through for funding Antifa organizations, and that if Antifa gets labeled an international terrorist organization, which people have been advocating for. That makes him liable. That puts him squarely in the crossairs because he has been saying that he donates half of the profits off of his book too Antifa activities, which again is so weird. How do you how do you write a check? To an idea? Ray may have an explanation for this. Hello Ray, Welcome to the program. Hello Pete. I do have an idea on that. Okay, it's a simple. A simple listener out here in radio land got me to thinking. When you write a check, instead of writing the name of the corporation in the pay to the order of the line, you just draw a picture of someone throwing a bottle of frozen water at a police officer, little federal building on fire. Yeah, and draw a big circle around that and then have several smaller circles trailing off from that in the pay two order line. How's that sound thing? I like? That makes perfect sense. Maybe just like a flaming Molotov cocktail into a police vehicle or something. Yeah, I mean it does require some some doodling skills, I will say that, but that would make sense. I like it. Thanks, yes, sir, no I appreciate that. That now, that explains it. That explains it. That's how you would pay an idea. I am curious about the routing number though you know. Stories are powerful. 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That's the NLG, the National Legal Guild, I think, or Lawyers Guild. I talked about them the other day. Who's funding them? Who writes the check that the lawyer cashes? And don't tell me that's all pro bono work. Okay, I know some lawyers all right, and that is not pro bono work. You're not going out there in the middle of a freaking riot and not being compensated somehow. Somebody's cutting a check, where's the check coming from? What is the bank that issues it? They attack police when one of their members is arrested. They call it de arresting. I've seen this happen. This happened in Asheville. When somebody crosses the cops, assaults a cop or something, and they go to arrest the person. All of the Antifa people they have tactics that they practice, and they all rush in and they swarm the cops. They dog pile the cops in order to create too many people to arrest at one time. And then of course they're all dressed the same and so then they all scatter and the cops can't figure out which one was the one that assaulted them, and then it all falls apart when they get in front of a leftist judge that's like, well, I can't really tell if that's the person that you claim it is. They also then. Set fire to police cars, they slash the tires. Every single person defending the claim that antifa is a right wing fantasy is simply a propagandist. That's all you are. If you're saying Antifa doesn't exist, it's just an idea. It's a luciphil, it's unstructured, there's no hierarchy. You're saying these things, you are either lying, you're a propagandist, or you don't know what you're talking about. They've been pushing this propaganda because Trump's designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization now threatens to separate the brown shirt wing of the Democrat Party from its funders and drive them underground. That is exactly right, exactly right. This cancer has been allowed to grow for the last fifteen years in America. Few Antifa rioters have ever been prosecuted because they are when arrested, released by left wing prosecutors in these blue cities who are taking money, by the way, from the exact same funders of the Antifa organizations. Antifa is quite dangerous, escalated from mere rioting and beating people up to actual attempts to assassinate people. Andy No has been in their crosshairs for quite a while. Andy No had to. Flee the country for his own safety for simply reporting on the riots as they were occurring. Going back I think probably pre twenty twenty even, and they almost managed to kill them a couple of years ago. Now they're attacking law enforcement directly, they're ambushing ice facilities, and it's only going to get worse. David Strom says, I'm pretty sure the Democrats are not going to be able to control the organization they helped create. I guarantee that. By the way, I guarantee it, that is always the case. The street thugs are to be dispatched when they are no longer necessary by the powerful that ascend. You're not needed anymore. You were simply there to create the chaos, right, to create the environment required for the people calling the shots to ascend to power. And once they have the power, well they don't need destabilization anymore. This is seen over and over and over and over again throughout history with leftists. It's always the same model. Whether you're talking Stalin, you're talking mal you're talking Venezuela, it's always the same. Right, you enlist these street radicals, right, they then sow chaos, They beat people up, they murder people, they intimidate them. Right, they shut down buildings and businesses and such. And then when the powerful ascend. They don't need the destabilization. They only need a destabilization on a temporary basis so they could ascend once they do. Now, destabilization threatens them and they don't like that. Members of Antifar are willing to act like this because they are true believers. True believers are not going to listen to their establishment allies. And here's the thing, Strom says, Trump has three years to work on destroying this group. Let's hope the administration remains focused on it. 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 thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.