There are many obstacles standing between progressives and getting elected to
Congress, but not all of them are exactly what they might at first seem to be we
are to give you an example and it's called the moderate packets.
A PAC they raise money and in this case the way that it's being presented is this.
Axios reported last week that the PAC, the Moderate PAC is planning to raise $20
million dollars to fight off Democratic primary challengers in 2024.
And quote, scare off progressive groups like Justice Democrats that
have backed several successful primary challengers and
helped create a growing squad of progressive lawmakers in Congress.
So look already at face value that's not great.
It's a group designed to stop the Democratic Party from ever becoming nearly
as progressive as its voters are.
So that's bad, but it's actually way worse than that and
when Axios did this reporting, they would just leave you with the idea that this is
like another blue dog or centrist democratic group or something like that.
But it's actually worse, the group's only consultant is Greg Schultz,
Joe Biden's former campaign manager.
So having someone so closely tied to the current president who seems to have as his
only goal in life stopping progressive from getting elected, that would be bad.
But there's some other things that you need to understand as well.
And in this case we have to give a lot of credit to Kayla Lacey at the intercept,
who dug into this group, not only who founded it, who works in it, but also, and
most importantly, who's actually funding this effort to control what sort of
Democrats make it through the primary process.
So first the founder and workers we have Ty Strong the Moderate PAC president and
founder worked for a decade as a financial and business management analyst at
Booz Allen Hamilton's before joining a smaller financial firm in
Pennsylvania back in 2020 that closed abruptly the following year.
He joined the Moderate PAC in october of 2021.
Marysue Strong is the chief financial officer at ProSync technology group,
a defense contractor that provides IT services to the federal government.
So already you're off to a great start,
you've got some financial people tied in with Wall Street,
you have defense contractors, you've got some Joe Biden former people and
here is how they would word their mission for this group.
Ty Strong wrote this Wall Street journal op-ed and
said,he criticized what he called a Democratic circular firing squad and
progressive purity tests that have threatened the political careers of
centrist Democrats like Mark Kelly and Kirsten cinema in Arizona.
If Democrats in purple states can't find a way to pivot back to the center and
avoid death by circular progressive firing squad Strong wrote.
Get ready for Republican control of both houses of Congress in 2023.
He is not interested in a circular firing squad, he is interested in turning those
guns outward towards any the outsiders who might run for office.
In any event he also said that moderate house Democrats often face primary
challenges from the far left we'll also facing competitive general elections.
We've seen the Republican Party cannibalizes moderate faction replicating
this on the Democratic side would be a big mistake.
So here's the thing, all of that is largely what you might expect.
As a group masquerading as very moderate when really it's there
to advance the interests of defense contractors, Wall Street and all of that.
But can you think of a way that it could get any worse?
What if all of its funding didn't even come from bad Democrats, but
came from Republicans?
And in this case, it is true since last year,
the Moderate PAC has raised just over $1 million all of it from a single donor
billionaire and co founder of a Philly Investment Firm, Jeff.
Yes, I say no in this case, but yes, Vice chair at the Cato Institute,
yes, has come under fire for
using creative money moving structures to avoid some $1 billion in taxes.
That's not enough for him he needs the law to be even more in his favor.
Most recently, he's registered as a libertarian occasionally gives
to centrist, local and national Democrats, but
the overwhelming balance of his political contributions go to GOP candidates.
And so we can get more into how exactly he's avoid paying taxes and how far he's
willing to contort the Democratic Party to make sure that his taxes never go up, but
that's who he is, that's who this group is.
They know where their funding is coming from, they know that it's Republicans
trying to choose what Democrats they'll face in the general election.
And all of these people, whether it's Greg Schultz or
Ty Strong apparently perfectly happy with giving that level of control over to
libertarian Republicans, Genk what do you think?
>> Well, okay, first, I want to look at the silver lining.
Okay, so when we founded just Democrats on this show, six years ago,
everyone in mainstream media and everyone in the moderate Democrats or
Republicans, as you name, it was like justice Democrats.
So there's no way that's gonna work right?
Now, they're organizing whole PACs funded by Republicans, getting millions of
dollars in an effort to make sure we got to stop the momentum of justice Democrats.
Well, that's a hell of a thing, isn't it, guys?
I mean, you saw it launched on this show, I remember the Goofy segment I did,
I was like, well, it's not just that we're seeking economic social justice.
But it's also since they're not taking corporate PAC money for just us and
has justice Democrats, you saw all that with your own eyes coming out of my mouth
in the corny way that I do it right?
You saw o'Connor come on here and said, I'm gonna be the first just Democrat.
Now look at how scared they are of them.
See, they tell you that you can't get anything done because that's a way of
depressing you and making sure that you don't fight back.
Look at this when you do fight back, they get scared and
they organize their actual friends which are Republicans to come fight you.
Now to the idea of the circular firing squad.
Now, well, that's interesting because moderate Democrats also
financed huge campaigns against progressive incumbents, AOC,
Ilhan Omar, Rashida Turi, Cori Bush etc.
So what happened to the circular firing squad?
The same guys, not these exact guys, but the same group of so
called moderate corporate Democrats.
And sometimes literally the same exact owners and that's because they don't
believe in, we have to make sure all of our incumbents are protected or
we don't care where they are in the political spectrum.
We just don't want a firing squad where we're firing at each other.
But instead of the terrible dastardly Republicans, yeah,
I'm taking money from Republicans and
they're using it in attack against progressives in the party, okay?
They're literally creating the circular firing squad and
it is literally Republicans firing at other Democrats.
>> It's where the access didn't go into all of that.
>> Now, that brings me to my favorite point, of course jJohn so
look, that's why you need independent media, like the intercept, okay?
And so great job of breaking out the actual facts.
So who is yaas queen?
Okay, well he's given $47 million to Republicans before,
it's not like he's a little Republican.
So why does he care about supporting the Democratic Party wink?
It's because he's buying corrupt Democrats and there's a giant silver lining there.
Hold on, I'm gonna get to the second silver lining in this story, but
he's supporting moderate Democrats because they actually agree 100% with Republicans
on the number one issue that he cares most about, which is tax cuts for the rich.
So John's gonna get into his tax schemes in a second.
But look at how brazen this is but yet Axios which broke the story originally
before they intercept didn't mention that he's a Republican as finance Republicans.
By the way also Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, I'm your friend,
don't worry, I'm such a good friend.
I'm gonna do all your policies, Bernie,
$15 minimum wage Bernie come to this party because it's a wedding,
it's a little red but don't worry about it, come on, come on, come and see.
And so, and then meanwhile the minute he gets into office, like I'm not gonna do,
he brags about it in a super bowl interview,
like seconds after he got into office.
It's like I'm not doing $15 minimum wage and he screwed Bernie and
progresses on everything now one of his top allies is
heading the group to make sure none of Bernie's allies with, okay?
So this is what corruption looks like.
And then, but the extra twist guys is that the next time we have a contested primary,
for example, Nina Turner versus Chantelle Brown, everyone in mainstream
media will pretend that the progressive is more against the Democratic Party,
which makes it sound like they're more Republican.
But everyone in media knows it's the Republicans that are financing
calling progressives Republicans and the media 100% goes along with
it because they're actually not at the fringes of corruption,
the media is at the epicenter of corruption.
>> Yeah.
>> All right, I got more, but go ahead.
>> Yeah, well, and I don't want to get into his taxes,
I do have to fact check you because as ever you're spreading fake news,
you said that he had spent $47 million dollars in donations.
No, he spent $47 million dollars just last year alone in just federal elections,
that's a tiny bit of all of the money that he's given.
>> Good fact check.
>> For the course of many years in state elections after all, he backed Republican
candidates in Pennsylvania at all different levels last year.
So there's a lot of money to spread around, not enough for
him to just mind his own business and go away and
never bother us again there's no amount of money that will ever cause him to do that.
He like most of the rich in America has dragon sickness and
he's ruining our country in his pursuit of pointless wealth.
In any event over six years, he saved $1 billion in taxes,
paying an average federal income tax rate of just 19% lower even than
other Wall Street traders, let alone other rich people.
That's not a 19% tax rate, that's a 19% income tax rate and I guess I'm a dummy,
I'm not rich, I don't even know how that's legal specifically to pay that
low in income like he's paying a lower rate than you are dear viewer.
Does that seem appropriate for a guy with billions of dollars?
I don't think so.
He has a group by the way called the Commonwealth Foundation, it advocates to
take the state's public policy this is for Pennsylvania back to its roots.
The group is drawing criticism for pushing policies that yes, critics say,
help him continue to accumulate wealth while avoiding taxes,
like cutting funding for schools and public services.
So yeah, I mean, look,
that puts him in good company with most of the rich in America.
This is a guy who has so much money that he can save a billion in taxes alone and
believes that in the pursuit of yet more billions that he will never spend,
never see, it's pointless wealth it doesn't mean anything.
Your kids, education should be shoddy subpar services that would affect you and
your family and your friends should be cut so
that somewhere in an online bank account,
he'll have an extra zero at the end of an account that he will never tap out.
>> Okay, so John now I'm gonna do a fact check on you.
>> Damn.
>> Okay, [LAUGH] Yeah, you can play this game.
Now listen, it's not a matter of conjecture as to whether he has gone
too far and trying to avoid taxes, he's been audited and lost.
So that's a matter of fact so this guy does this on a serial basis,
that's how he managed to avoid about a billion dollars in six years in taxes.
That's a billion dollars that could have gotten to your kid's education so
they can have an opportunity to be as rich as him.
But he doesn't want him to have that opportunity.
Look, that's a twofer for them, they save money in their infinite greed because
the extra billion would do what for you?
Yaas queen, what can you buy with the extra billion that you couldn't buy now.
Nothing, nothing at all like you're just doing it for
because you're insatiably greedy, it's actually quite sick.
But the second win for him is good, no other kids can compete with my kids,
no one else can cross the moat, they love destroying opportunity for
others like that.
That's why his second cause is make sure we destroy the public schools.
It's really, it's unbelievably disgusting.
So what do corporate Democrats do?
go, yaas, queen, you have destroyed opportunity for others and give the rich
even more tax cuts, what do you think moderate Democrats were created for?
So they love it, right?
And by the way, guys, there are now leftists who think eat the rich and
all the rich are bad and there should be no billionaires, etc.
And then there's different groups within that cuz John,
okay, so I hear you John, but you're wrong.
In the telling of the story, they explained it in a different article that
he has first got rich off of this thing, where he figured out the stats on
a race track and which horses are more likely to win, etc.
And he was like 100 and $60,000 along with a couple of other guys, and
then they won like 750,000, and they're like, can you believe this?
And I was like, wow, that sounds really good.
I figured out a way to win those bets and take it to the racetrack and
I don't mind him making the money on that, that's great, okay?
Later he went on to do finance in ways that, look, some might say it's great,
some might say it's terrible, etc, that's open for debate.
That's not the issue, guys,
the issue is that he then takes his money and buys politicians.
The Supreme Court has legally, it has allowed for legalized bribery and
we've talked about this many times wolf-pac.com to get rid of it.
But so he says, okay, this is not enough me making money let's say he made money in
the most pure way imaginable and not really true if you're into details,
but let's say it, right?
Okay, then why do you need to go and
bribe politicians and say, I want more tax cuts, right?
And the goddamn public schools, like he didn't say and the public schools,
but he's advocating for policies that we believe lead in that direction.
Why do you need to do that?
Because you can't help yourself?
Okay, you're just like the dwarves in Lord of the Rings, right?
Just dig and dig and dig until you get the balrog out, okay?
And so that's what these guys are.
Okay, now, I promised you a second silver lining.
What's the other silver lining?
Well, now, you know, definitively, who is not corrupt?
Cuz the entire point of this PAC is to fight against people who are not corrupt.
Yaz doesn't want him in the Democratic Party doesn't want him in Congress at all.
He's saying no eliminate everyone who won't give me tax cuts.
So, and who are the people that he's targeting just as Democrats cuz
they're the only ones in Congress not corrupt.
They don't take corporate PAC money so they're not wed to people like gas.
And he hates that idea, he's like, let's eliminate them so
that 100% of Congress is corrupt, so that is a significant silver lining.
Now, you know who the good guys are, by the way,
these are all facts you can look up all these facts.
In fact, I want you to look up all these facts and
you're not gonna find him in like Randolph, like we're not right wingers.
Randolph Joe said on facebook, No, these are verifiable.
>> Agoriffle.net is where I get all my news.
>> No, so read the intercept story, read all the stories about it.
>> Follow Keila Leyshy she's on the network she's been on the daily report.
>> Yes terrific, right?
And and everyone in mainstream media can confirm every single one of these facts.
Yet you will never see a mainstream media article that says next time that
it's actually the republic Democrats have gotten in bed with Republican
donors to destroy the only non-corrupt Democrats in the country.
And that's exactly what's happening.