Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / "Not a Mystery" (Thursday August 28, 2025, Hour 1)
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- 0:04Speaker 1: Twenty three year old Robbie Weston was able to leave
- 0:07what the police called a video manifesto.
- 0:11Speaker 2: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Mean jewort.
- 0:15Speaker 3: Said, steal me, step me every day, at least for work.
- 0:21Speaker 4: When the sun comes up.
- 0:22Speaker 5: Drops a pet of discovering the non.
- 0:25Speaker 4: Joe has everything a dream do.
- 0:27Speaker 6: All, the chasure said.
- 0:29Speaker 7: Needs no one that Joe's as smile, He only as.
- 0:36Speaker 8: Let them be.
- 0:38Speaker 4: Joe, God, bless you for letting us be of service
- 0:41to you.
- 0:41Speaker 2: I want to be.
- 0:44Speaker 4: Another day, another moment where you grapple with things that
- 0:51you feel like you should be grappling for but.
- 0:55Speaker 8: Are fairly apparent. Thank you for letting us be of
- 1:00service to you, however, and whenever we do it. The
- 1:06horrors of yesterday afternoon shooting in Minnesota, a transgender.
- 1:20Speaker 9: Person with what is described by.
- 1:32Speaker 8: Witnesses in the police investigation phrases like kill Donald Trump
- 1:40inscribed on the magazines he used to shoot up Annunciation
- 1:47Catholic School as mass was beginning to start the new year.
- 1:53Two children dead, seventeen wounded, fourteen of them children. Those
- 2:04are expected to survive. Westman, who went by the name Robin,
- 2:12though was born with the name Robert committed suicide before
- 2:18police could apprehend him. His mother taught at the school,
- 2:28And was it just Monday? We were talking about political violence,
- 2:39people who are told that they have to commit acts
- 2:45of violence to gain political position. The mayor of Chicago
- 2:51is threatening a showdown with federal troops like where Caracas
- 2:57and Venezuela, and the police supporting the mayor or going
- 3:01to square off with the army supporting El Presidente. Ironically,
- 3:13the police being asked to protect the idea of not
- 3:17arresting people who violate other people's rights, like the right
- 3:21to celebrate your faith in your own choosing and in
- 3:27your own way. And of course you feel like you
- 3:33should be grappling, and sadly, what is more apparent is
- 3:41that these are things that we saw coming. These are
- 3:47things that we've been warning about for time and time again.
- 3:57People on television saying violence is to be done to
- 4:03gain political position. People are being told that if you're
- 4:08not given special treatment, then you're being somehow discriminated against
- 4:17to all horrors, And I understand how you feel like
- 4:19you should be grappling with something that's.
- 4:23Speaker 4: Self evident.
- 4:25Speaker 8: Details gunman opened fire with a rifle through the windows
- 4:29of a Catholic church celebrating the beginning of the church's
- 4:34school year. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara confirmed the shooter's
- 4:39identity as twenty three year old Robert Westman of Richfield, Minnesota.
- 4:44President Trump Wednesday issued formal proclamations that all flags fly
- 4:50at half staff through the end of the month. President
- 4:55called the events senseless acts of violence. Meanwhile, more senseless
- 5:02acts of violence air Force granting full military funeral honors
- 5:10for Ashley Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was shot
- 5:13to death by security outside of a senator's office on
- 5:18January sixth, twenty twenty one. Democrat candidate for Governor of Virginia,
- 5:25Abigail Spanburger told a statewide newspaper that if she was elected,
- 5:30she would rescind the Governor of Virginia's executive order that
- 5:35requires state and local law enforcement to cooperate with federal
- 5:39immigration authorities. Governor Youngin took to social media immediately, saying
- 5:45that Virginia would turn into a sanctuary state under Spanburger.
- 5:51Health in Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior Wednesday
- 5:56rescinded emergency use authorizations for COVID nineteen vaccines and ended
- 6:02the FDA's broader authorization of the shots. Susan Monarez, who
- 6:08was declared out as director of the Centers for Disease
- 6:13Control and Prevention on Wednesday, pushed back through her lawyer,
- 6:17insisting she had not been fired and would not step down.
- 6:23The DHS reported at five point thirty Eastern Times Susan
- 6:27Monarez is no longer Director of Centers for Disease Control
- 6:31and Prevention. Mark Zaid, her attorney, posted this statement saying,
- 6:38when CDC Director Susan Monrez refused to rubber stamp unscientific,
- 6:43reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting
- 6:48the public over serving a political agenda. She will not
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- 11:00Speaker 13: Bruh, that's buzzed.
- 11:01Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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- 11:13Speaker 13: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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- 13:09Speaker 17: The sounds of plot.
- 13:11Speaker 2: Quit for you from Joe Thomas. It's first thing today.
- 13:21Speaker 8: So we continue our coverage of the State Policy Network
- 13:29and their annual meeting, brought to you by Daily Signal
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- 13:38Speaker 4: The Virginia Institute for Public Policy.
- 13:42Speaker 8: But this story out of Minnesota, annunciation and the shooting
- 13:52and the way the media is portraying.
- 13:56Speaker 4: Again, and you know that if he was wearing a
- 14:01maga hat.
- 14:03Speaker 9: Do I have to say it?
- 14:11Speaker 8: Robert Westman, the shooter killing two children, wounding fourteen other children,
- 14:21and wounding too adults.
- 14:27Speaker 9: With a manifest question, was.
- 14:29Speaker 18: On a possible motive and a relationship to the church
- 14:34or to the school.
- 14:35Speaker 19: I cannot.
- 14:36Speaker 18: I have no information to share on a motive other
- 14:39than saying again that there was some sort of manifesto
- 14:42that was time to come out on YouTube. It's been
- 14:46taken down and our investigators are going through that to
- 14:49try and develop a motive from that.
- 14:52Speaker 8: His mother worked at the school. Some reports say she
- 14:56taught at the school. Joel is saying she lives in
- 15:00Naples now in Florida, kah. He killed himself before he
- 15:10could be held to account for the horrors he rained
- 15:14down on Minneapolis yesterday. He posted videos with the arsenal
- 15:25of weapons he was going to use.
- 15:36Speaker 9: One of the.
- 15:38Speaker 8: One of the magazines had the phrase killed Donald Trump
- 15:43on it, according to reports multiple reports there. Then you
- 15:57know this is the kind of stuff, you know what
- 15:59what could have possibly radicalized Robin, which is what.
- 16:04Speaker 20: Motivate him and radicalize him to carry out this The
- 16:08shitting when you use.
- 16:09Speaker 21: The word radicalize, we tend to think of terror a
- 16:13more traditional terrorists, something that people came especially in this country.
- 16:18Speaker 8: This is a national security analyst. Terror is what Robert
- 16:25Westman rained down on Annunciation Catholic Church. To call it
- 16:31anything else would be ludicrous. And if you or I
- 16:36use this radio program to do anything of the kind,
- 16:43we would be called out immediately for it. And as
- 16:48I said in the onset of the program, the natural
- 16:53inclination is to feel like you need to grapple for
- 17:03meaning in this. But if you go through the collected
- 17:11works that you and I have spent morning after morning
- 17:14after morning in the data points begin to add up.
- 17:20It was just Monday we were talking about, yet again
- 17:23hearing from the radical left that violence had to be
- 17:30in the toolkit to battle against. Tim Waltz himself was
- 17:40asked a couple of times, according to church leaders, to
- 17:46provide better security for the non public schools in Minnesota.
- 18:01But beyond that, people in pain, and Robert Westman was
- 18:05in pain. Robert Westman had obviously.
- 18:13Speaker 9: Issues with who they were.
- 18:20Speaker 8: And after enough time of being told that if you're
- 18:22not being treated special, you're being discriminated against, and that
- 18:30you have to fight back against that how many times
- 18:34do you have to watch a Sunday morning newscast or
- 18:38read a post on somebody's substack about fighting back for
- 18:44your rights when no rights were being denied. Special treatment
- 18:50might not have been provided to the degrees that one
- 18:55might have expected, but Westman, as much as anything, in
- 19:07grave pain for what I'm sure was years. And those
- 19:18who will claim that you can't bring these things up
- 19:21because it victim shames, He's not the victim. He's the
- 19:26perpetrator and his mother is going through the horrors. That's
- 19:35so few, but still so many in the United States
- 19:38know the pain of finding out something horrific had happened
- 19:42at the hand of one of your children.
- 19:50Speaker 4: Where were the people and where are the people who in.
- 19:57Speaker 9: The name of this.
- 20:00Speaker 8: National security expert radicalized? We don't know what radicalized him.
- 20:07Speaker 21: To seem to be familiar with in the post nine
- 20:09to eleven era, right, So when you talk about radicalization,
- 20:12you talk about writings that reference suicide, extremely violent thoughts
- 20:17and ideas, and those multiple videos that are posted online.
- 20:21Speaker 8: No radicalization, that's see you're talking about the end result
- 20:25of radicalization. Radicalization is being told that all the other
- 20:34people don't matter. And I know that sounds unusual coming
- 20:43from somebody in a profession who most of our projections
- 20:48to this because we have egos and we sit inside
- 20:53your radio because we have this case of listen to me,
- 21:01but we're only listened to if we're serving your needs.
- 21:06Those who come on and insist that you listen because
- 21:09it's their right to speak, and therefore your responsibility to
- 21:13listen somehow wind up in these positions. I'm not defending
- 21:23Robert Westman, who shot up this Catholic church on Wednesday.
- 21:31I'm just saying that there were points along the line
- 21:36where the flags were waving, and the same people who
- 21:39insist that we have red flag laws now want to
- 21:47dance around the subject of all the red flags that
- 21:50had been waving in this young man's life prior to this,
- 21:57and where they addressed or or purported.
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- 24:23It makes sense to me that preventing or reducing inflammation
- 24:28is a key component to our overall health. The Mayo
- 24:31Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation, has
- 24:36antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent cancer
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- 25:02Speaker 12: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
- 25:05warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
- 25:10Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
- 25:13will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
- 25:17personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
- 25:21are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
- 25:25threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
- 25:29call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
- 25:33your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
- 25:37or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
- 25:42or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
- 25:46enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
- 25:51dot SSA dot gov.
- 25:55Speaker 13: Uh oh brah, that's buzzed.
- 25:56Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
- 26:00Speaker 8: And now a speech.
- 26:02Speaker 14: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
- 26:06heart and brain.
- 26:07Speaker 8: Who's with me?
- 26:08Speaker 13: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
- 26:11brain is saying when it's time to go home, Somebody
- 26:14call me a ride.
- 26:15Speaker 22: Love that guy, me too.
- 26:16Speaker 5: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
- 26:19it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
- 26:23Speaker 15: Did you know that more than half our household energy
- 26:25costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
- 26:29good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
- 26:34One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
- 26:36energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
- 26:40learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
- 26:44That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
- 26:47leaks around windows and doors, check ducts for holes, and
- 26:50improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
- 26:54when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
- 26:57energy star logo and read the energy guide later. And
- 27:00there are day to day things you can do. Lower
- 27:03your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
- 27:06close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
- 27:09air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
- 27:13reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
- 27:18a tip from the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer
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- 28:08Speaker 2: In making mornings great again. First thing today on the
- 28:16Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas, the car.
- 28:19Speaker 4: Of Build the Rights the Constitution.
- 28:23Speaker 8: What's it work? You know they're going to grind.
- 28:28Speaker 13: Us down.
- 28:31Speaker 2: Until it really hurts.
- 28:33Speaker 8: Now you're on the State Policy Network Annual meetings and
- 28:38brought to you by the folks at Daily Signal dot
- 28:42com as well as Virginia Institute for Public Policy. Certainly,
- 28:45we will continue to continue coverage of the shooting in
- 28:50Minnesota and get with you another enormous story. Kristin Eastlike
- 28:57from the Capital Research Center is going to join us.
- 29:00Speaker 19: Uh.
- 29:01Speaker 8: Just a massive story from behind the scenes, UH that
- 29:06we want to get into. But let me get to
- 29:08you at four three four eight A two four two
- 29:10one seven.
- 29:11Speaker 4: Who's this, Hey, Joe, It's Clark. Hey Clark, good morning, sir.
- 29:15Speaker 9: How are you?
- 29:16Speaker 8: I'm good and you I'm just trying to keep it
- 29:20all on the radio because people are tuning in. It's
- 29:23it's the crisis, you know reporting, you know, because there's
- 29:26the flashpoint moment when something horrific happens, and then days
- 29:32and days and days of nothing new to report, and
- 29:36people insisting that they have to just sit there and
- 29:39say nothing new here and uh and find new and
- 29:43long way winded ways of let's get an expert on
- 29:46the set and see see what they can tell us
- 29:49about the radicalization of and and and it becomes almost
- 29:53comical if it wasn't for the tragedy of the dead
- 29:57children and the wounded children.
- 29:58Speaker 4: You know what I mean, It's a tragedy.
- 30:01Speaker 17: So let's do a couple of things real quick on
- 30:06things we should have learned but apparently didn't. You remember
- 30:09roid rates, Joe.
- 30:11Speaker 9: Oh yeah, absolutely.
- 30:12Speaker 8: When this that's the what that's called when you lose
- 30:15you have your temper you know, when you take anabolic steroids,
- 30:20you have temper issue.
- 30:24Speaker 17: Extra hormones. Wasn't a good thing, right? And uh, are
- 30:28we allowed to use anabolic steroids? Is a growth promote
- 30:33and cattle and stuff or is that a bad thing?
- 30:37Speaker 18: Well?
- 30:37Speaker 8: I know it's a bad thing too, you know. And
- 30:40you know there's a lot of people who go out
- 30:41looking for organic you know, non you know, we manipulated beef.
- 30:48Speaker 9: I don't know if it's not.
- 30:49Speaker 17: Bad to do that now, right, because it's a bad thing. Now,
- 30:53if you had a heart problem, what kind.
- 30:55Speaker 26: Of doctor would you go, say, cardiologists, a cardiology how
- 31:00about like if you had a kidney problem, a nephrologist
- 31:03or an internal medicine person.
- 31:05Speaker 9: Yeah, at very least they'd refer me to a nephrologist. Yeah.
- 31:09Speaker 17: So if something is not a mental health issue, because
- 31:14that's what they're telling us, how come it's treated by
- 31:16mental health professionals.
- 31:18Speaker 4: Hmmm?
- 31:19Speaker 17: Makes me wonder about that. Now, maybe we shouldn't be
- 31:23giving royds to people that see mental health professionals. I
- 31:28don't know, Joe, it just seems controversial to me. Maybe
- 31:33a bad idea. Things we should have learned now. Shifting
- 31:37over to cracker barrel real quick. There was a farm, Yeah,
- 31:42and on the farm there was a goose, and this
- 31:45goose laid golden eggs Joe. But one day the farm
- 31:49got a new farm manager, and she made a very
- 31:53big deal of dragging the goose over to a stomp
- 31:57and announcing that she was going to chop the goose's
- 31:59head off, and then she did, and everybody said, what'd
- 32:02you kill the goose?
- 32:02Speaker 19: Fur?
- 32:03Speaker 9: What'd you kill the goose?
- 32:04Speaker 17: Fur? Realizing her mistake, she got a needle and thread,
- 32:09and so the goose is head back onto the neck.
- 32:12But guess what, Joe already didn't lay golden eggs anymore.
- 32:18If only our fourbearers could come up with some kind
- 32:22of axiom or fable to demonstrate you shouldn't do stuff
- 32:28like this, well, I mean, you know, this is this is.
- 32:33Speaker 8: The Bloker broke Well, it is history, and and this
- 32:39is the hubrius of the American left that they think
- 32:42they can, I don't know, write new history, right, you know,
- 32:46write their own history, write it the way they wanted
- 32:49to go.
- 32:51Speaker 4: And yeah, I understand, I mean we we all don't.
- 32:55Speaker 8: Nobody wants to be derivative. But at some point the
- 32:59collection of human knowledge has got to mean something, right,
- 33:02doctor Clark.
- 33:06Speaker 17: It would be nice. You know, the thing we learned
- 33:09from history is we don't learn from history, I.
- 33:11Speaker 8: Guess unfortunately too frequently. Yeah, absolutely, But.
- 33:16Speaker 4: So you not going back to cracker barrel ever again?
- 33:21Speaker 5: You know.
- 33:23Speaker 4: The type two I don't get to eat out much.
- 33:26Speaker 17: And if I did I think cracker barrels is like
- 33:29stuff that I really shouldn't eat. Okay, so I can't
- 33:34say I'm gonna boycott cracker barrel because of what they did.
- 33:38Now if I did eat there, I would, you know,
- 33:41I have made it a point to find out whatever
- 33:44a Unilevor product is and not purchase that. That made
- 33:48life kind of rough.
- 33:50Speaker 9: Oh oh yeah, because there's a lot of them.
- 33:52Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
- 33:54Speaker 17: Yes, incredible what mega corporations control. But yeah, I mean
- 34:02stuff we don't learn from history, and uh just keep
- 34:07doing the same stuff over and over.
- 34:09Speaker 4: Yep, and we keep reporting the same stuff over and over.
- 34:12Speaker 8: And this is why I said that. At the onset
- 34:14of the program, I know that the inclination is to
- 34:16feel like you're supposed to be grappling for you know,
- 34:20the answers or the meaning or anything.
- 34:23Speaker 9: Like that here.
- 34:24Speaker 4: But I don't think we need to be grappling. I
- 34:27think we know.
- 34:29Speaker 8: I think we know what's going on, and we're denying
- 34:33its reality out of some well, I think out of
- 34:36the same mindset that leads to the cracker barrel, the
- 34:40CEO chopping off the goose that laid the golden egg,
- 34:44is that you know, there's there's new markets. Everything wants
- 34:49to be new. There's another fable about a dog, a
- 34:52bone and a pond where the dog wanted the new
- 34:56bone because it was bigger, and then realized it was
- 34:59his in a pond, and now he had no bones.
- 35:03And that's where we are as a society. We want
- 35:07something new and bigger. We feel like that's our birthright,
- 35:11is to have more than the last person had. And
- 35:16rather than helping people who are expressing that they have problems,
- 35:21we are too many in our society feel like that's
- 35:25not fair. You shouldn't do that. It's victim shaming or
- 35:30any number of labels that the American Psychological Association puts
- 35:35on these things. And rather than treat it, how many
- 35:40times have we talked about this? Rather than treating, they
- 35:43encourage and they celebrate and they say this is a
- 35:47great thing and this makes you special. Rather than saying, hey,
- 35:51you might want to see someone about that, you're told that, no,
- 35:55this is what makes you unique. Yet we put more
- 35:58and more people on the autism spectrum and tell them
- 36:01that you know, they're never going to be able to
- 36:04do half the things the rest of the society does
- 36:07because there are now on this ever expanding spectrum. It's
- 36:11crazy because we'll do the opposite thing depending on I
- 36:15don't know whatever, you know, the perceived political bounce of
- 36:21one group or another. If transgender people were on the
- 36:27autism spectrum, we probably wouldn't be celebrating them, because we
- 36:31don't seem to celebrate people who wind up on the
- 36:33autism spectrum as it is.
- 36:37Speaker 17: Let's see mental health. We've gone from asylums, two lobotomies,
- 36:49to elect drive shock therapy, to ice baths, to anabolic or.
- 37:00Speaker 9: Hormones.
- 37:00Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, there's there's a there's a history there. And Joe,
- 37:06I got a wonder. Can you cite me one person
- 37:10that's written a manifesto that was not crazy? Could we
- 37:16just make maybe that ought to be like a test?
- 37:19Have you written a manifesto? No you can't have a gun,
- 37:24or yes, yes you can't have a gun.
- 37:27Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it is.
- 37:28Speaker 4: It does seem to be correlation at very least, if
- 37:31not causation.
- 37:33Speaker 9: Good stuff, don you? We could maybe we.
- 37:36Speaker 17: Could replace are you a Fugitive from Justice? With have
- 37:40you written a manifesto?
- 37:41Speaker 9: On that application?
- 37:44Speaker 8: I have a good morning, sir, Take care four three
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- 40:02Speaker 22: You were strolling along in Goodwill when just past that
- 40:05mid century side table and denim jacket, you spotted them
- 40:08nestled in their display case, miniature donut earrings. Oh yes, yes,
- 40:16your favorite half breakfast pastry, half all day dessert food
- 40:20made into your favorite form of ear candy. Oh my,
- 40:24those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger within you.
- 40:28Speaker 5: Shh, do you smell that?
- 40:32Speaker 22: That's the sugary center of shopping.
- 40:34Speaker 4: Success for this is goodwill.
- 40:38Speaker 14: And with every item you buy, you fund local job
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- 40:49Speaker 22: So much good to your community. Goodwill, bring good home.
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- 41:03neither is half as hard as dying. Sadly, type two diabetes,
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- 41:56disability is not a limitation. I'm Julius, I'm a vet.
- 42:00My victory was going from homeless tall.
- 42:03Speaker 19: At DAV we're on a mission helping veterans of all
- 42:06generations get the benefits they've earned.
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- 42:21Speaker 3: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
- 42:25Freedom of speech, freedom of.
- 42:28Speaker 2: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble.
- 42:35Speaker 4: Freedom to petition the government.
- 42:38Speaker 3: Only the United States has these five freedoms. So simply
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- 42:47Speaker 24: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
- 42:52Speaker 23: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
- 42:55first date?
- 42:56Speaker 17: Sure?
- 42:57Speaker 10: We'll probably stay together.
- 42:58Speaker 24: Probably, it's been twenty three minutes since I ate I
- 43:03can probably swim.
- 43:05Speaker 17: You should wait thirty minutes.
- 43:07Speaker 4: Okay, now tell me what to do?
- 43:09Speaker 2: Can it ball?
- 43:12Speaker 11: Cramp?
- 43:13Speaker 2: I have a cramp. I can probably hit the green
- 43:18from here.
- 43:19Speaker 4: Probably can I get a Mulligan.
- 43:26Speaker 8: Ready to go?
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- 43:29Speaker 14: Yeah?
- 43:30Speaker 4: I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
- 43:35Speaker 24: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
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- 44:11Speaker 2: The home of the First Amendment.
- 44:13Speaker 8: First thing today, we are at the State Policy Network
- 44:39annual meetings in New Orleans and all of us here
- 44:43from the Virginia Institute. It's been an incredible time for me.
- 44:47I've never been. It's literally a convention center full of
- 44:50people just like the Virginia Institute for Public Policy from
- 44:54all the states and all the Union's federalism on the March.
- 44:58One of our good friends from the Capital Research Center
- 45:02is Christian Eastlick back on the program because she has
- 45:07enormous news and there. I haven't oversold it, have I? Christien?
- 45:12Speaker 20: I don't think so this is pretty important.
- 45:14Speaker 8: Okay, guys, I didn't want to kind of you overdo
- 45:17it and then kind of make it. You know, I
- 45:20really truly believe this. So why don't you tell everyone
- 45:22what happened just this week while we've all been here
- 45:25at the State Policy Network meetings.
- 45:28Speaker 20: Well, it actually happened barely twelve hours ago. This reporter
- 45:32at the New York Times, who is great on nonprofit issues,
- 45:36he just announced that Bill Gates has decided to stop
- 45:40running money through a large consultancy, a large democratic consultancy
- 45:46that has been causing a lot of problems for liberty
- 45:50minded people nationwide. It's an organization called Arabella Advisors, and
- 45:54it works by having a number of fiscal sponsors so
- 45:58that you don't always know what group is responsible for
- 46:02the kinds of campaigns that they're running. And it's campaigns
- 46:05for everything. It's everything from trying to drive voters to
- 46:11the into the election based on how they're going to vote,
- 46:14which is something that isn't allowed by the IRS. Partisan
- 46:18advocacy isn't allowed. They fund abortions, abortion advocacy, they fund
- 46:24climate advocacy. They have funding for pretty much any project
- 46:29that is out there that threatens threatens our liberties, that
- 46:35threatens a free economy, and they are now going to
- 46:38lose up till now. Gates Foundation has given them four
- 46:42hundred and fifty million dollars and they are going to
- 46:45stop doing that.
- 46:47Speaker 8: So that last number, because I was going to ask you,
- 46:49because I like to be that guy in the room,
- 46:51I was going to ask you you are we sure
- 46:52it's the same Bill Gates, But I don't know if
- 46:55some guy named Bill Gates in Indiana has that kind
- 46:58of scratch, you know. And so so so Arabella, we've talked,
- 47:04you've been on the program before. You guys at the
- 47:07Capitol Research Center really have Arabella down cold for all
- 47:12of the spider web that it goes out into. But
- 47:16this is George Sorows, this is open society. This is
- 47:22where they go. Uh you ever watched if you ever
- 47:25watched James Bond and you know, and there's there's Christoph Walls,
- 47:29you know as as Blowfeld, and he's got the room
- 47:33with all the people around the meeting table That's basically
- 47:37what I want you to imagine when you think of Arabella.
- 47:42This is that room full of global you know, you know,
- 47:46the the nice white, white hat wearing ones of the
- 47:49World Economic Forum ones, and the black hat ones are
- 47:52the ones that don't don't ever want their name spoken.
- 47:55Speaker 13: We like to.
- 47:56Speaker 20: Describe this as kind of a pyramid of information. So
- 48:00sitting at the top is Arabella, and then the second tier.
- 48:03They manage organizations that are nonprofits. So some of them
- 48:07are classified as charities five to one C threes, others
- 48:11are classified as social welfare groups, and they can do
- 48:14unlimited lobbying. They can also tell people who to vote for.
- 48:19They can pursue party politics. But these groups often work
- 48:23in tandem. So the charity part of the group, the
- 48:27education fund angle, will put out the studies, they will
- 48:32build some sort of infrastructure. They'll get people talking about
- 48:35an issue like let's say healthcare for America. Now, that
- 48:38stuff that works for the C three, and then they
- 48:41have the Healthcare Action Now that then gets to lobby
- 48:46on healthcare issues. It gets to push Medicaid expansion, or
- 48:49it gets to give money to campaigns to help elect
- 48:54people who will do those things. So that's the layer
- 48:57in the middle. And what happens is that the Healthcare
- 49:00for America. Now they're at the very bottom of the pyramid,
- 49:03and it's hundreds and hundreds of groups. One of these nonprofits,
- 49:06the one that gets a lot of Gates money is
- 49:08the New Venture Fund. Uh it was the Arabella's president
- 49:13or New Venture Fund's president admitted that Gates gives two
- 49:16percent of their entire revenue through New Venture Fund. That's
- 49:21the group that would run Healthcare for America.
- 49:24Speaker 2: Now, so when you.
- 49:26Speaker 8: Tell you and these the difference is, you know, the
- 49:29C three, C four, you know, and then you become
- 49:32a political action committee. But unlike in our space where
- 49:36the political action committee is like Spirit of Virginia and
- 49:39everyone knows it and they you know, and you've seen
- 49:42their placards and whatever else, these are five oh one
- 49:45C fours that nobody has ever said their name except
- 49:48for Kristen and the other folks at Capital Research Center
- 49:52out there. And they don't want it because they want
- 49:55all of these groups pardon me, to appear grassroots. Oh
- 50:02it's it's just a bunch of old you know, you know,
- 50:06cute kids you know from college saying we want healthcare
- 50:10and we want it now, when it.
- 50:11Speaker 20: Really is exactly And the interesting that why would the
- 50:16Gates Foundation, who can give money directly to a five
- 50:19H one C three charity and they do that, why
- 50:21would they need to pass the money through a democratic consultancy?
- 50:25And it's because there's a lot of coordination that happens
- 50:28between and amongst these groups. You could have a situation
- 50:30where there's a letter out there supporting some public policy
- 50:34issue and it has twenty signers that are all Arabella
- 50:37related entities. So it looks like you're absolutely right. It
- 50:41appears as though we call this AstroTurf. And the scale
- 50:45of the way that this organization operates, it's usually per
- 50:48political cycle, a roughly two billion dollar organization, give or
- 50:54take a few million. And again, they do receive money
- 50:58from many many foundations that could otherwise give directly to
- 51:01the organization.
- 51:03Speaker 9: You know, and when you talk.
- 51:04Speaker 8: About foundations, we're talking about Rockefeller, We're talking about Carnegie,
- 51:08We're talking about a lot of these twentieth century industrialists
- 51:12whose families continue to run their fund. I call it
- 51:16laundering their reputation, whatever you want to call it. This
- 51:19that's where the Rubinstein Foundation all these folks are out
- 51:24there giving money to this group. How How does this
- 51:28I mean to me? This really puts a serious crimp
- 51:31into the activities of a group like Arabella this close
- 51:35to the midterms. You know, if if a conservative group
- 51:39pulled out of some you know, make America Great pack,
- 51:43this would be front page.
- 51:44Speaker 4: News, bad news for the midterms, you know, big whatever.
- 51:49Speaker 8: So codify that for me. What does this mean for
- 51:52the midterms?
- 51:52Speaker 20: Well, first, let's explain what we're talking about by this
- 51:55money being withheld. First, they announced that they are going
- 51:58to be not making new investments with Arabella related organizations.
- 52:03They're also going to not renew existing grants, and they
- 52:07are going to explore possibly pulling back money that has
- 52:10not yet been It's pledged, but it's not been spent.
- 52:13Speaker 8: Oh, so they're actually going to lose money that they
- 52:16already thought they had. Kristin Eastlake from the Capital Research
- 52:22Center excellent work, as always, Hang on a second here
- 52:26at the State Policy Network Annual Meetings New Orleans, brought
- 52:33to you by The Daily Signal Daily Signal dot com
- 52:36as well as the Virginia Institute for Public Policy. Obviously
- 52:41continuing to cover the stories coming out of Minnesota as well,
- 52:45and so much more coming out for you at four
- 52:47threety four eight eight two four two one seven.
- 52:51Speaker 27: Crime across the country is at an all time high.
- 52:54It feels like even a family road trip is taking
- 52:56a risk. We don't want the feeling of being unprotected andvulnerable.
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- 53:04us the help we needed to apply for a legal
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- 53:14it's all online. We used their free qualification process to
- 53:18answer a few questions and applied for our permit right
- 53:20from home. Thanks to reciprocty laws between states, when you're
- 53:24issued a new Hampshire concealed carry permit, you can legally
- 53:27carry in any state that recognizes your new Hampshire permit.
- 53:30It only takes minutes to apply, so don't wait. Exercise
- 53:34your rights today. Ensure you're protecting your family at home
- 53:37and in other states have peace of mind. Apply today.
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