Who Rules the Democrats?

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Go to noblegoldinvestments.com. If you were to ask me, Charlie, what are the major power centers in the Republican Party, the conservative movement? I have great detail into what makes things happen in the conservative movement. Donors have some power. Donald Trump has almost power overall right now in the Republican Party. Conservative media definitely has some power, grassroots organizations have some power, the people have a fair amount of power, and I would be able to paint a picture of exactly how the Republican Party and the conservative movement operates when big changes are needed, when certain decisions need to come to fruition. It's been largely guesswork for those of us in the conservative community of how the left operates. Who actually calls the shots in the Democrat Party?

Where are their power centers? What are the centers of gravity in the Democrat cabal and the Democrat mafia? This continuing news story that will not go away of the attempted removal of Joe Biden as nominee and potentially president is giving us a once in a generation window, giving us clarity to exactly how the Democrat Party is constituted. This is fascinating stuff. The best I can describe it is that there are five major power centers in the Democrat Party.

And this is not a perfect summary because we're still learning in real time. We're still kind of seeing who really has the power? Is it Soros? Is it Pelosi? Is it the CIA?

Is it the FBI? And what is fascinating to see is that they're not all in unison. They're not all in harmony. You see, we sometimes believe that the Democrats are always in complete agreement, but history tells us that's not the case.

Is that even in totalitarian dictatorships, Stalin had tens of thousands of people just dedicated to protecting him as bodyguards because even people in his inner Politburo didn't want Stalin to continue. That even in the most totalitarian countries, there is dissent. So of course, there is going to be dissent in the Democrat Party, especially if the person they have selected to be in charge, Joe Biden, is showing unusual for them and historic signs of weakness.

You see, Operation Mockingbird typically presents one unified, unquestionable narrative. What is exceptional and noteworthy right now is how the party is not reaching a new consensus quickly. The Democrats have power struggles, but they typically end quickly. For example, do you remember when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became a Congresswoman and she said, I'm going to challenge Pelosi? Oh, they quelled that rebellion very quickly.

They sat her down and said, if you want so much as a parking pass on Capitol grounds, you are going to support Nancy Pelosi as Speaker. And they quelled that rebellion. You see, Democrats, they are masters at the administration of force, brute political power. They know how to use power for power's sake. They are obsessed with power. They worship it.

For them, power is the ultimate currency. Now, there's not a lot of room for error here. You have certain people going on CNN, like Senator Michael Bennet, who's a very smart man, who I actually think is a decent person. He's a cancer survivor. He votes terribly and all that. But he's hard to hate, Senator Bennet, and says, look, Donald Trump is poised to do very, very well in November, probably win. And he even says the L word, which we don't say on this program. He said the L word. They're disorganized.

One hand is not communicating with the other. So if I were to break down the power centers in the Democrat Party, it would be approximately this. It would be Democrat donors. It would be the electeds, which is very important.

Remember, they love power. It would be the administrative state. So it would be the CIA, the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Department of Defense. Fourth, it would be media.

Now, this is the most interesting one that I'm going to focus on for a little bit in a second. The media has always been the fourth estate. The media for the last three and a half years, and honestly, since Donald Trump came down the escalator, the media has not had this sustained, friendly fire campaign against the Democrat Party since Donald Trump came down the escalator. Since June of 2015, it has been nine years.

In fact, I can go a step further. I do not think Democrats have received this much friendly fire since the Bill Clinton impeachment. I'm going to say that again. I don't think the Democrat Party has had this sustained barrage of critical investigative media coverage since Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. And even then, they turned and pivoted and defended Bill Clinton. We are going on two weeks of what could be best described as a siege, a siege against the inner workings of the Democrat Party.

And you have to ask the question as to why. The media, if I were to go to the fifth category, would be Hollywood. So let's go back to the media. So donors elected administrative state, media, Hollywood, going back to media. The media is in massive recovery mode, because the debate exposed them as being frauds, liars, and sycophants.

As being frauds, liars, and sycophants. So the media is in complete catch-up mode right now, where the media, they were unable to put a filter. The New York Times, a week before the debate, guys, you got to get the article, where they were accusing us of saying right-wing provocateurs and right-wing conspiracy theorists continue to push false narratives around Biden's health. And people are now asking the question, which is exactly why the bottom is falling out on the Democrat Party, which is why we must lean in, shoulder to the wheel. The bottom is falling out on the Democrat Party, because people are now asking this question. If the media lied about Biden's health, what else are they lying about?

And that, my friend, is what we call a red pill moment. Huh. The vaccine didn't work the way they said it would. Russia is not defeated.

The border's not open. Inflation is still rampant. And they said Biden was really healthy. Maybe these people deceive you for a living. Maybe when Donald Trump called them fake news, it was an accurate term.

Right there. Look, on June 21st, the New York Times came out and said how misleading videos are trailing Biden as he battles age doubts. A flurry of recent clips, many of them edited or lacking context, laid bare a major challenge for Biden as he tries to persuade voters he has the energy for a second term.

One week later, the New York Times publishes, quote, it's frightening Democrat voters worried by Biden's struggles in the debate. The brilliance of what Donald Trump did in the debate and the mid-summer debate was that there was no filter. There was no commentary. There was no cutting to commercial. It was on full, transparent display for anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear.

They could see, I have been lied to. The cognitive dissonance. People are still in a fallout mode. And then Donald, and then Joe Biden is doing these rallies and he can't even say his words straight, saying I'm the first black woman ever to become president, slurring his words and shuffling papers and screaming at Morning Mika and Morning Joe. It's not getting better.

It is getting worse for him. And now we see these power centers and of all of them, donors elected, administrative state, media, Hollywood, the one that is worth emphasizing. And we're going to go through the whole list because this is not over. If you would, this thing is changing by the day, by the way, this thing, depending on the hour, depending on the minute, depending on the day, the likelihood of Joe Biden staying or Joe Biden being removed, this is the most fluid situation that we have seen in American politics in quite some time. We are living through possibly the most dramatic political moment since Donald Trump won the shock presidency in 2016. Let me say that again. This is one of the most dramatic and exciting, unpredictable moments.

And we are now seeing the fog is lifting. Who actually calls the shots in the Democrat Party? Is it Soros and Laurene Powell Jobs and the Emerson Collective and Arabella? Is it Pelosi and Hakeem Jeffries? Is it the CIA and Merrick Garland?

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Magbreakthrough.com. So this morning, one of the oligarchs of the Democrat party, it's not clear how much power she actually has. Now, if somebody needs to take a cognitive test, I think that we should have multi-cognitive. Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell. Do you think Mitch McConnell with all them could pass a, I mean, it's just an interesting question.

You then got Donald Trump, he already passes with flying colors, and then Joe Biden. Nancy Pelosi goes on Morning Joe, and here's a question. Did Nancy Pelosi mean what she said, or she's afraid that she said something she meant that she wasn't supposed to say? Nancy is sort of like a scout ship probing Biden's defenses. How much power Nancy Pelosi actually has is unclear.

I believe quite a lot. I believe that Pelosi still carries a tremendous amount of clout with donors, elected officials. Here is Nancy Pelosi, who by the way, I think she's 84.

Is that right? She is. Yeah, she's 84 years old. I'm going to say she looks good for 84.

Her surgeon deserves a lot of credit. Play cut 73. As long as the president had the president, it's up to the president to decide if he is going to run. We're all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short. He's beloved, he is respected, and people want him to make that decision. I want him to do whatever he decides to do, and that's the way it is.

That's the way it is. Whatever he decides, we go with. And I've said to everyone, let's just hold off.

Whatever you're thinking, either tell somebody privately, but you don't have to put that out on the table until we see how we go this week. Ooh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Back it up, back it up. This week?

Now that's one of two explanations. Either Nancy Pelosi has ordered a metaphorical political hit on Joe Biden that is looming this week, or it's about Joe Biden's big boy and NATO press conference. Now, I've been talking to a couple of reporters and the reporters say, you really need to keep your eye on this NATO press conference. The White House press corps are going to be like famished dogs against Joe Biden. Every one of them now, according to reporters I have been talking to, they are now looking at this as an opportunity to make their career in an otherwise very boring, uneventful, heavy industry where they could be the one that took out Joseph Robinette Biden, and also potentially be called a hero for taking out Biden because his numbers are so terrible and the Democrats are doing poorly. So Joe Biden is going to get up there with his NATO delegation and he's going to open it up for questions allegedly from the media. And trust me, the media is not going to ask about budget allocations of how much each country has contributed to NATO. They are going to grill Joe Biden relentlessly.

The eyes of the entire planet are on this. This is two weeks, by the way, from the debate. If Joe Biden is able to survive that press conference, again, surviving is not quelling this chatter. The Stephanopoulos interview, people said, OK, it wasn't as bad as the debate, but it was still bad.

It was terrible. Play cut 80. After that, the president will hold a press conference, I guess a big boy press conference, we're calling it, and take some questions from you all. This week, President Biden will speak to national labor leaders of AFL-CIO, host the NATO summit to show the unprecedented strength of our alliance, hold a press conference, a big boy press conference, according to Justin Sink from Bloomberg.

This is this is really, really risky. You got to wonder, this is a very dumb strategy. They build it up and all he can do is fail. Biden almost certainly is no longer capable of having a home run public event.

He can only barely survive. And understand, fairly or unfairly, anything that Joe Biden does that is a sigh or, you know, can't quite, is going to be amplified. By the way, breaking news back in my category of electives, we got to go through the whole list in the next segment, by the way. Da Nang Dick, stolen valor, Blumenthal, who is very powerful elected Democrat, very powerful, top five of all elected Democrats. Da Nang Dick, quote, I am deeply concerned about Joe Biden.

Whoa. So you got Pelosi going on MSNBC saying, I support whatever he supports. He's doing very circular logic there, Pelosi. And let's see what happens this week. You got Michael Bennett going on CNN saying this potentially be a landslide. We don't say that word on this program.

We're just quoting. Blumenthal said, I'm very concerned about Joe Biden. This is infinitely interesting. Donors, elected leaders, administrative state, media, Hollywood. This morning, one of the pillars, one of the leaders of the pillars came out against Joe Biden. And that is in the Hollywood bucket. So there are two major figures in Hollywood that are now coming out against Joe Biden. The first of which is Jon Stewart. And I want to play some piece of tape from him in a second.

But I want to go through the entire list. In the Hollywood bucket, we have George Clooney and Jon Stewart. This morning, George Clooney wrote an op-ed in the New York Times saying, Joe Biden's got to go. Elected officials calling for Joe Biden to go is Angie Craig, Lloyd Daggart, these are all congressmen, Raul Grilova, Seth Moulton, Mike Quigley, Mickey Sherrill, Adam Smith. No, not that Adam Smith, not an inquiry into the cause of the wealth of nations, a different.

Adam Smith. Jerry Nadler in a private call, Joe Morrell in a private call. In the media, that's the media bucket now. James Carville has called for Joe Biden to drop out, the Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial board, the New York Times editorial board, the Atlantic, nearly all of CNN, the Boston Globe editorial board, the New Yorker editorial board, and George Stephanopoulos, who was caught on the street yesterday and said, I don't think he can survive another four years. These are people who are now publicly saying he will lose, but stop short of calling for Joe Biden to step down. It's in the elected official category. Pelosi, but she's all over the place.

Jared Golden and Marie Perez. I want to emphasize though, Michael Bennet. Michael Bennet is a Senator from Colorado. He seems like a very sweet person, cancer survivor, almost too nice and too pleasant to be a Democrat. His voting record is abysmal. He's totally radical. However, he's wise. And I don't say that very much about Democrats very often. He comes out and he's just kind of very calm on CNN being like, I don't know why this is such a controversial topic, but if we want to beat Donald Trump and the stakes are high, well, you watch the clip, you'll see.

Play cut 65. Why do you think he can't win in November? I just think this race is on a trajectory that is very worrisome if you care about the future of this country. Joe Biden was nine points up at this time. The last time he was running, Hillary Clinton was five points up. This is the first time in more than 20 years that a Republican president has been up in this part of the campaign.

Donald Trump is on track, I think, to win this election and maybe win it by a landslide and take with him the Senate and the House. So for me, this isn't a question about polling. It's not a question about politics. It's a moral question about the future of our country.

And I think it's critically important for us to come to grips with what we face if together we put this country on the path of electing Donald Trump again. So Senator Bennett, he isolated something very important that typically Democrats are the ones that enjoy sizable polling advantages over the summer. Republicans come home. That's what the convention is all about.

Remember when Mike Pence at the convention in 2016? All the Republicans out there, it's time to come home. It is rare for Republicans to be enjoying a summer polling advantage. And it's not just one poll there, one poll there, because the thought process is, well, maybe they're manipulating the polls and they're putting the tabulation to oversample Republicans. And some polls, I think that's the case, like that poll that showed Donald Trump up 15 in Arizona.

Not so fast, my friend. However, if you have 50 different polling companies, and they're all competing to be the most accurate, and they're all competing to be the gold standard, and they're all showing a similar result within four points, five points, four points, five points, three points, four points, five points, four points, five points, six points, seven points, four points, then you've got problems if you're the Democrats. Because, and I've said this before, Donald Trump is the best closer, he's the best finisher that politics has seen in the modern era. Those last 30 days, Donald Trump locks in like Tom Brady in the fourth quarter, or Tiger Woods on the 18th hole in the Masters, and he sees victory. Donald Trump will outwork Joe Biden the last 30 days, he will out rally Joe Biden, he will out raise Joe Biden. There will be parity, if not domination, of Donald Trump on the television advertising spend the last 30 to 40 days. And the Democrats who are smart, like Michael Bennet, know this, where Donald Trump brought his poll numbers back from the dead. Donald Trump pulled off the Lazarus effect in 2020, when he was down 15 points. One Wisconsin poll showed him down 12 points or two weeks to go and fell 21,000 votes short. And also, it's important to note, there is a component in this election cycle that is no longer controlled by the oligarchs. We have Twitter, and in 2020, we did not have Twitter.

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That is salemnow.com, salemnow.com. I want to play here now Jon Stewart from the Hollywood bucket as now George Clooney, who is one of the ring leaders. He just tells the Hollywood folks here, give money to this Democrat, give money to this Democrat. Remember George Clooney, two weeks ago, hosted Joe Biden and Barack Hussein Obama with Jeffrey Katzenberg in Los Angeles with all of the Hollywood bigwigs. They are one of the core power centers in the Democrat party. The media used to be and the media now is turning on the Democrat party for reasons that we've described in great detail on this program today. But now you have Hollywood, George Clooney and Jon Stewart, who are openly calling for him to go and Jon Stewart openly mocking Joe Biden.

Play cut 76. And arthritic status quo, unable or unwilling to respond in any way to the concerns of voters who just received new and urgent information about their candidate also erodes confidence and faith in the system of government. Get on board or shut the up is not a particularly compelling pro-democracy bumper sticker. Nor is money going to do. There was no real primary.

Biden ran against Dean Phillips. That's not even a real person. That's a stock photo on the package for a garden owner.

It's not a person. Jon Stewart's got talent. You got to give it to him. Jon Stewart leaned in and mocked Joe Biden right after the debate.

Play cut 75. How did Biden do not talking? He should have had him out a long time ago because I didn't have legislation. I said, close the border.

We had the safest border in history. Not great. But a lot of people have resting 25th Amendment face. Resting 25th Amendment face. Donors have been largely quiet and donors are following. Elected leaders are speaking out more and more.

Blumenthal says he has big concerns. The administrative state, they'll do whatever they're told. In fact, they like that Joe Biden is president because they've been able to do whatever they want to do. The grift is on in DC.

The multi-trillion dollar theft of our taxpayer dollars into their pockets has gone uninterrupted. The media has turned on Biden because they're afraid this would be an extinction event for the media. And they're right. If the media was not doing what they were doing right now, they would have absolutely no credibility, even mainstream Democrats, and it would be a wipeout for the American media core. And by the way, they all deserve the humiliation and the ridicule. This does not win good favor with them. They were covering for Joe Biden. They were covering for this presidency in this administration.

And now Hollywood. There is one man who could speak out and end this entire thing. And he has chosen not to, and that is Barack Obama. Obama is the Pope of the Democrat Party.

That we don't have any sort of question about. Obama being the grand maestro of the modern American Democrat cabal. And Joe Biden was just at a campaign stop. The more Joe Biden talks, the more people have concerns. This is breaking right now. At a campaign stop with union leaders, Joe Biden randomly grabs the mic and starts talking about DEI and the campaign Cut the Feed, Play Cut 81. I promised I was going to have a campaign that looked like America. And it does.

More minorities, more women, more labor. I'm serious. Think about it. That's who we are. That's why we're strong. We're diverse.

We're strong. We've got to stop looking at it like it's a problem. It's an asset. That's a real, they just pulled the feed. As soon as he gets the mic, the campaign staff just pull the feed, pull the feed, pull the feed, pull the feed, pull the feed, pull the feed, pull the feed.

They know. And this campaign staff is protecting him. The cascade continues against Biden. Tomorrow's press conference, the big boy, or should we call it the big guy press conference? Can we call it the 10% for the big guy press conference?

All right, I got an open betting wager. How long until the New York Times writes the article, the little known story of the Hunter Biden laptop? How long until that New York Times article comes out? How long until the Washington press corps starts to say, sir, what was 10% for the big guy?

How did your family get so rich? What business was the Biden family in? And just so you understand, Hunter Biden, who is also a convicted felon, they like to say, oh, you know, a convicted felon, worst thing ever, whatever, is basically chief of staff of the White House right now. Mike Quigley says that we are in a horrible situation.

He is from Illinois, play cut 67. The fighting spirit and pride and courage that served the country so well four years ago, helped Joe Biden win, will bring the ticket down this time. He just has to step down because he can't win.

And my colleagues need to recognize that dismissive letter is not going to change any minds. Fox News tried to find a single Democrat to come on and defend Joe Biden staying in the race, play cut 29. Now, before we get to our guests, I want you the viewers at home to know something. Our team has spent days reaching out to dozens of lawmakers and Biden advocates and allies. We've had numerous interactions with the Biden-Harris campaign, but not a single potential guest was either able or willing to join us on today's show to defend the president and his decision to stay on the ticket. So we will be having a conversation without that voice, which we have been working around the clock to avoid. So is it going to be donors?

The elected officials, the administrative state, media, Hollywood, which one of those is the most powerful? Here's Stephen Colbert continuing that sort of attack vector from late night comedy play cut 82. The competing virtue here, there's another competing virtue and that is self-sacrifice. And self-sacrifice takes a particular kind of courage and that is a courage I believe Joe Biden is capable of. I believe he's a good enough man.

He has a good enough president to put the needs of the country ahead of the needs of his ego. And however painful that might be, it is possible handing leadership to a younger generation is the right thing for the greater goodest or good as either one. This is going to get very hot in the next week.

There is a forcing function that looms. Ohio requires the nominee to be official to get on the ballot in the next couple of weeks. The deadline is basically July 21st. The donors have remained largely silent. There's not yet the chorus of elected officials.

The administrative state doesn't care. The media is totally against Joe Biden now. Hollywood is starting to perk up. And I got a text from a reporter. Am I going to tell you who?

I asked the question. I said, is the coup still on? And he says, it's going to get bad.

That is the second reporter that I've talked to that's very, very well sourced in the Democrat Party saying, this is just beginning to heat up. So what do we do about it? We find new voters. Your mission statement is this is all helpful. This is all entertaining.

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