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Activism vs. Astroturf: Dem dark money runs into reality; how the EU climate plan helps Putin
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In this September 2nd episode of the 10 Minute Drill, we break down five major stories shaping politics and policy: -Dark Money Reckoning: Bill Gates quietly cuts ties with Arabella Advisors, the left’s powerful dark money hub, raising big questions...
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How Europe's climate agenda is funding Russia's war in Ukraine. The left's dark money behemoths face a reckoning. And we have a fun story about school buses. All that and so much more today on 10 Minute Drill.
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Everybody get up. Get up.
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The story of America is the story of an adventure.
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I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God and I believe God intended for us to be free.
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Last week the New York Times reported that Bill Gates is quietly cutting off his support to the Arabella Advisors Network, which is known as the mothership of left wing dark money has funded everything from political campaigns to left wing political activity through nonprofit groups. They contributed $1.2 billion in the 2020 election cycle to elect Democrats across the country as as of 2023. Top donors to nonprofits within the Arabella Network include left leaning billionaires like Bill Gates, Hans Jorge Wies, George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, Pierre Omidyar and Warren Buffett. One name you'll remember in there is foreign pervert Hans Jorg Wis, the Swiss billionaire who's been accused of serial sexual harassment against women. He has not cut off his funding to the Arabella Advisors Network, but his involvement may be one of many things that's leading Mr. Gates away. Here's the New York Times. The Gates foundation decided in late June to halt making grants to nonprofit funds administered by the consulting firm Arabella Advisors, according to an internal foundation announcement reviewed by the New York Times. According to Americans for Public Trust. Just in. The Gates foundation has quietly decided to seize all funding to groups managed by Arabella Advisor, dealing a massive blow to the liberal dark money behemoth and its network. The Gates foundation was one of Arabella Network's largest funding sources for funneling nearly half a billion dollars into Arabella groups over the last two decades. Now that funding is no more. This comes after the Arabella Network has been under heightened scrutiny following our reports unmasking how they are the key vehicle for foreign money flowing into American politics, notably from Swiss billionaire Hans Jorge Wyss. And that's not the only left wing dark money entity that is currently under fire. This week, President Trump posted on Truth Social about George Soros and his network. George Soros and his wonderful radical left son should be charged with RICO because of their support of violent protests and much more all throughout the United States of America. We're not going to allow these lunatics to rip apart America anymore, never giving it so much a chance to breathe and be free. Soros and his group of psychopaths have caused great damage to our country. That includes his crazy west coast friends. Be careful. We're watching you. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Here's Caitlin Sutherland of America's Republic Trust, one of the most important watchtower groups in the country on this.
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As you know. You know, Washington, D.C. we have been absolutely ravaged by violent crime and President Trump is fighting back. But who's there? It's George Soros and other extremist groups who are mobilizing and bankrolling protests to fight back against policies that are going to keep our streets safe.
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We would note again that George Soros is one of the primary funders of the protests against President Trump's efforts to stop the murders in Washington, D.C. while while he also has been one of the top funders of the progressive prosecutors around the country who were elected and refused to prosecute crimes, seems pretty clear what his objectives are. Over the last few years, we've seen a massive population shift. A part of it began during COVID with people leaving from big cities into the country, but we've also seen a very big shift from blue states into red states that could end up impacting the Electoral College. The New York Times has a report, red states to gain Electoral college seats by 2032 due to population shifts. And if you look at that map, Texas could gain as many as three Electoral College votes. Florida 2. Idaho and Utah both could gain an Electoral college vote because of population shifts into their states. Meanwhile, California could lose three electoral votes. Illinois could lose two. New York could lose one. Rhode island could lose one. As someone who was born and raised in the great state of California, I would love to see it succeed. But the main people who seem to not want to see it succeed are the elected officials who have terrible policies that continue to chase people out into other more free red states, similar with Illinois and all the other states listed here. So we'll see how this shift happens and if anything ever happens to change the terrible leadership in California that's driving everyone away. President Trump has been working for several months to fine tune what was initially a framework for a tax deal with the European Union. One sticking point in this has always been Europe's efforts to impose digital service taxes or unique taxes on American tech companies to try and make up for the fact that they have almost no tech or industry of their own. President Trump posted this on Truth Social. With this truth, I put all countries with digital taxes, legislation, rules or regulations on notice that unless these discriminatory actions are removed I as president of the United States, will impose substantial additional tariffs and on that country's exports to the USA and institute export restrictions on our highly protected technology and chips. The Washington reporter dove a little bit deeper on this. Congress praises Trump's warning to European Union about attacks on American tech companies. Trade policy experts explained why Trump's move is necessary. Joe Grogan, the former director of Trump's Domestic Policy Council, noted that his former boss's EU trade deal was a hard fought win for American innovation, especially in dismantling Europe's unjustified digital trade barriers. The president is absolutely right to call out EU officials now claiming they made no commitment on digital regulation or taxes. European leaders should understand that backpedaling and other bureaucratic workarounds to sustain an untenable status quo simply won't be tolerated. President Trump will use every lever of power at his disposal to stand up for American interests. You'll remember that President Biden always touted the fact that he could get any European leader to pick up the phone whenever he wanted. The reason they were always willing to pick up the phone from him is because he rolled over on all sorts of insane policies they tried to force on America and American companies like this digital services tax. President Trump simply wants to make sure that American companies aren't mistreated for doing business overseas with markets that are desperate for American tech and innovation. Is Europe's net zero and climate agenda advancing Russia's war in Ukraine? Absolutely it is, and here's why. Europe has instituted upon themselves net zero pledges to try and get rid of fossil fuels. They instituted rules like legally binding net zero 2050 target and a 55% reduction in emissions by 2030. They created new standards and tightened emissions caps to make coal, oil and gas power less profitable. And they did silly things like thermostat limits to reduce energy use. As we talk about here, Europe doesn't have air conditioning because they would rather Virtue Signal. Meanwhile, people are dying of heat exhaustion. What this has done is cut off their own energy supplies, putting them in a national security predicament. In order to make up for that shortfall of energy, they are buying Russian liquid natural gas to make up for it, which then is in turn funding Putin's war in Ukraine. Now they have tried to say they're reducing, but the problem is in 2024 they bought more Russian energy than ever from the Financial Times. LNG imports from Russia hit record highs despite slashes in pipeline gas. Europe imported about 16.5 million tons of Russian LNG in 2024, up from 15.2 million tons in 2023. I would also note again that the European Union is spending more on Russian oil and gas then they are spending an aid to Ukraine. So again, if you want to see the war in Ukraine end, Putin has two primary things at his disposal. One, a giant population that he's willing to throw into this fight. Two, is continued money from other countries buying their energy and funding his war efforts. For today's you can't make it up segment, we are looking back at one of the more hilarious pet projects of the Biden years, the effort to electrify school buses. Unfortunately, it hasn't gone well back to gas. School districts revert to diesel because Biden's electric buses can't be repaired. From our dear friend Thomas Catnachi at the Washington Free Beacon Lion Electric, which received $159 million in federal funds to manufacture electric buses, has fallen into bankruptcy and failed to deliver $95 million worth of buses. One of the biggest challenges for so many of President Biden's grant programs that were given out through the inflation reduction act, the infrastructure bill, the, the American rescue plan is they were trying to get grant money out the door as quickly as possible before getting swept out of office that they didn't vet so many of the companies that got our tax dollars. And one thing that we have predicted here at 10 Minute Drill is we would see over 500, if not 5,000 or 500,000 Solyndras that come out of this bill. Now, if the word Solyndra sounds unfamiliar, you may be too young to remember, but President Obama gave over 500 million tax dollars in a loan to a solar company called Solyndra and it went belly up, was a giant embarrassment and led to tons of investigations and inquiries into waste, cronyism, things like that. The Biden administration created hundreds, if not thousands of similar Solyndra situations that we're going to continue to hear about for years to come. We know one person who will be absolutely devastated about this school bus news.
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I love electric school buses. I just love them.
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That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us on 10 Minute Drill. Please like subscribe. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Tell a friend. Have a good day.