Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 27 April 2025

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As usual thanks for all you do bud!!

“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
1 Corinthians 1:18 (King James Version)
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

Having to go pick up a birthday cake in a Whole Foods market I thought it would be fun to go in with a Trump hat to get some dirty looks. Walking around not only did I not get nasty looks, the people were extremely friendly. The black lady who did the writing on the cake was nicer than she could be. The checker was also very friendly and wished me a Happy Easter which really shocked me. Was he a believer too?

Is it possible Trump is making a positive impression even on the most liberal people in the country? Have the Dims gone so far off the reservation that they have lost all but the most radical of the tribe? Are they beginning to question their most visible issues such as wanting to keep violent gang members in the country? How can anyone believe their latest reasoning saying if you can deport an alien, they you can deport citizens too?
It is possible the Dims are down to their last ten percent of voter.

President Trump is one of the greatest communicators to ever occupy the office. He has stayed with common sense issues forcing them to take the most unpopular issues in the country. You can only push unpopular issues for so long before you become the face of unpopular issues. This is what is happening to the DiMS-13 as their leaders become more and more disenfranchised with voters to the point of looking down the barrel of another election blowout.

This was similar to the finding Trump supporters in the young voters at apartments and young kids saying they like the hat; it looks like hard leftists even in Portland are giving Trump a chance. There were lots of positive vibes whether they were holding their noses or actually giving him a second look it is hard to say, but there were no nasty looks like you would get a year ago.

In reality the true revolutionaries are Trump supporters who are tearing up the establishment systems by their roots. While they get their support from fellow corrupt agencies, these people are terrified of where this revolution is going to the point of the Supreme Court is now on the side of the tyrants. Trump is for more freedom and the courts are hardcore Stalinists.

This is the second or third revolution this country has seen, only this one is for more freedom rather than less. This one will make the most open and free economy the world has witnessed. When MAGA gets through with all the changes it wants to make happen, this will be the freest most open economy the world has ever seen. The Dims only have fear and hate to run on since all of the issues they are promoting are foreign to what the people want.

Just when you wonder what else they can do worse than supporting a gang member who smuggled people into America, now they push Old Curmudgeon Bernie and AirheadOCommie to fight against the rich…er…Oligarchs.

You have two Oligarchs running against The Oligarchy. This is like Hillary running against the Clinton Foundation and hope nobody notices who runs the Foundation. Good luck with that boys and girls. It is not going to fly.

Pray for America

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.

I’m not familiar with the details; does the Constitution allow DJT to run again, and then just resign on or before 1/19/2031, or is he not allowed to run at all in 2028?

Just when you think the dems have reached bottom they pull off a Wisconsin which will cost us two seats in the House. To do it they put up 80 million bucks in a contest for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme court. Usually, not a hundred million dollar race.!

Ever wonder where all that money might have come from? Many do.

Here's a piece done by some brilliant researchers who have a pretty good idea of who is behind the money flow. It's here":

I did this one about an hour ago.

I have been working on this when I can for most of the week after Mel K revealed it all on her show this week. This post is long but it's so comprehensive I could not boil it down to a few paragraphs.

https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/22/meet-the-wealthy-private-firms-controlling-the-democrat-party/

Meet The Wealthy Private Firms Controlling The Democrat Party

By: Logan Washburn

April 22, 2025

Financial Investment Corporation and Apax Partners, along with subsidiary Bonterra, gained control over significant portions of the American left's get-out-the-vote and funding infrastructure.

While Democrats prepared for November's election, which they lost by a landslide, they began wondering whether it was a good idea for a private firm to control their entire voter database, according to The New York Times.

(Is this the major funding for the dirty dems?)

The multinational private equity firm Apax Partners acquired the parent company of NGP VAN — the Democrat Party's comprehensive voter database — in 2021 and subsequently placed it under subsidiary Bonterra.

Just before that, in 2020, a subsidiary of the Financial Investment Corporation had purchased majority ownership of the infamous Arabella Advisors — which controls the American left's dark money empire. In doing so, Financial Investment Corporation and Apax Partners gained a chokehold on the Democrat Party.

“They've seen the houses that the grifters can buy, and they realize how much money there is in lefty political organizing,” Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, told The Federalist. “This is an enormous industry, a multibillion-dollar-per-year industry. So, of course, private equity is going to come in and try to get a piece of it.”

If these companies hypothetically wanted to secure policies to boost their incomes, Thayer said, they could simply pull the rug out from under Democrats ahead of an election.

“The Democrats are absolutely, completely reliant on that stuff,” Thayer said. “If they wanted to, they could make all kinds of bets on oil companies, and then sabotage the Democrats right before midterms.”

Capturing Left-Wing Infrastructure

“If it's not in VAN, it doesn't exist” — or so the saying goes among Democrat operatives, according to The New York Times.

(key paragraph here!!) The phrase(VAN) refers to NGP VAN, which “contains billions of records amounting to nearly every piece of information the party has collected about tens of millions of Americans,” according to the Times. This is used by “[v]irtually every Democratic-aligned campaign or group” to “persuade, organize or mobilize voters.” Apax is a massive, London-headquartered firm that has directed more than $77 billion in funds. In 2021, it acquired NGP VAN’s parent company EveryAction

(Every action hides behind the green BS as it funds the dirty dems--Its well sheltered by the search engines as well)

to “be combined” with Social Solutions and CyberGrants. Apax merged these companies, along with the Network for Good,

(wow check this bullshit out from the network for good look what they hide behind:)

https://www.networkforgooddaf.org/

Since 2001, when Network for Good was founded by tech executives from AOL, Yahoo!, and Cisco, we have been a leader in digital philanthropic innovation.(yeah right) In the organization's earliest days, our goal was to make “giving” a friction-less activity within the emerging internet ecosystem.(they hide so well) Since then, our infrastructure and technology have evolved to transform the fundraising landscape, enabling individual and corporate donors to raise unprecedented levels of funds. to launch Bonterra, according to its website.

“A British private equity firm being one of the most powerful forces in American politics — something seems wrong with that,” Thayer said.

Early last year, Democrat officials began to internally question Bonterra’s control over NGP VAN, according to the Times, due to layoffs and slower service. They began discussing their nuclear option — a built-in backdoor to capture the party's data from NGP VAN and move it to another platform.

Democrat officials ultimately decided against this out of fear it would “backfire,” and continued allowing Bonterra to control their comprehensive voting database.

(in other words the dems are screwed and stuck with Bonterra for better or worse)

(check this!!)Bonterra refers to itself as “the second-largest social good software company in the world.” (checkthese numbers the are huge!!)Bonterra supports 650,000 nonprofits and more than “38 million donors and volunteers,” according to Apax.

(So bonterra controls 650,000 non profits--an amazing number-- and 38 million donors who are also volunteers!!What a force to be reckoned with!!)

Bonterra oversees NGP VAN’s parent organization, EveryAction, a left-wing “fundraising and engagement” service. Mobilize America (which was used to help organize the recent anti-Tesla and “Hands Off” protests) and Action Kit (which helps leftists “supercharge … online organizing, advocacy and fundraising”) joined Bonterra in 2022 as part of NGP VAN.

Bonterra is “trusted by leading organizations” including Pfizer(its all connected!!) (the manufacturer of a widely used Covid-19 vaccine), the NAACP, and Target, according to its website.

“[Bonterra] owns more than 50 percent of the left's get-out-the-vote, canvassing, text messaging, and calling infrastructure,” Thayer said. “Conceivably, Elon Musk could just show up and buy it and delete NGP VAN. … They have the nuclear option, so they could probably save NGP VAN, but all the rest of the stuff — he could just get rid of it.”

Apax’s creation of Bonterra “[t]ies closely with Apax’s long-standing focus on ESG [environmental, social, and governance],” according to its website. An Apax representative declined to comment on the record. And while The Federalist reached out multiple times, Bonterra did not respond to requests for comment in time for publication.

According to OpenSecrets, individuals affiliated with Apax Partners have donated more than $95,200 to the DNC Services Corp., more than $45,000 to ActBlue, and $25,000 to “Democratic municipal officials.”

Daniel O’Keefe was a founder and managing partner of Apax Digital — the “growth equity arm of Apax” — from 2016 to 2023. According to Open Secrets, he has given nearly $200,000 to Democrats since 2018.

Buying a Dark Money Empire

Before Apax acquired NGP VAN, Concentric Equity Partners

https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/arabella-advisors/

— a subsidiary of the Chicago-based Financial Investments Corporation — had acquired majority ownership of the enormous, left-wing dark money network Arabella Advisors in 2020.

Jennifer Steans, president and CEO of the Financial Investments Corporation, is listed as the “single beneficial owner” of Arabella Advisors LLC, according to Influence Watch. Steans is also chair of Arabella’s board. American Banker named Steans among the “25 Most Powerful Women In Finance” in 2013, and she has given at least $226,000 to Democrats since the 1990s.(movers and shakers behind all this hide behind women and the green movement to hide what they are doing)

Steans’ company, the Financial Investments Corporation, “manages investment commitments of well over $2 billion,” and its subsidiary Concentric Equity Partners is among the “beneficial owners” of Arabella Advisors Holdings, LLC. Concentric Equity Partners “held a majority stake in Arabella” as of January 2023, according to Georgetown University.

Concentric Equity Partners “invested” in Arabella Advisors five years ago because it is a “well-established firm that provides operational and strategic support to philanthropic clients,” an Arabella Advisors representative told The Federalist.

“Arabella is not a political organization. We do not make grants, accept donations, or engage in advocacy or electoral activity. Instead, we offer professional services to a wide range of clients working on diverse issues across the nonprofit sector,” the representative said, claiming the group does “not engage in political activity.”

(yeah right!!)

The Federalist asked if Concentric Equity Partners still owns a majority stake of Arabella, but did not hear back in time for publication.

Arabella became infamous for channeling billions through nonprofits and “pop-up” groups across America to advance leftist causes. The group has five branches: the New Venture Fund, the Hopewell Fund, the Windward Fund, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, and the North Fund. These branches incubate and support smaller groups, which move funding and organize volunteers to accomplish the aims of their anonymous donors.

In 2020, the New Venture Fund gave $24.8 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life, which funneled $350 million in “Zuckbucks” from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to boost Democrat turnout in the presidential election. And from 2020 to 2021, the New Venture Fund also gave $675,000 to the other “Zuckbucks” group, the leftist Center for Election Innovation and Research. But Arabella’s influence goes far beyond elections. Its branches have given vast sums to support drug legalization, climate legislation, and abortion across the globe.

The largest donor to the Arabella groups is the Gates Foundation, which gave $456 million between 2008 and 2022, according to the Capital Research Center. The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation gave Arabella-affiliated groups close to $28 million in 2020, and the Rockefeller Foundation gave them a total of $15 million, as The Federalist previously reported. The Wyss Foundation — of the Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, who earned the nickname the “new George Soros” — helped start an Arabella project to shape pro-Democrat media coverage.

Arabella fired its CEO and laid off 10 percent of its employees in 2023, as The Washington Free Beacon reported at the time. The same year, Bonterra laid off 350 employees. According to Thayer, Democrats are growing uncertain about private firms’ growing hold on the party.

“They're worried about this,” Thayer said. “It testifies to how much money there is in lefty politics — how much dark money, how much PAC money, how much nonprofit money.”

The multinational private equity firm Apax Partners acquired the parent company of NGP VAN — the Democrat Party's comprehensive voter database — in 2021 and subsequently placed it under subsidiary Bonterra.

Just before that, in 2020, a subsidiary of the Financial Investment Corporation had purchased majority ownership of the infamous Arabella Advisors — which controls the American left's dark money empire. In doing so, Financial Investment Corporation and Apax Partners gained a chokehold on the Democrat Party.

(does Apax partners control major links to funding of the demonrat party,if so can we stop them?)

https://thefederalist.com/tag/arabella-advisors/

follow this link above to many others which lead to much of the story of how it all works.

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All this boggles the mind. Such a weave of interlocking corp. winding up with the buffet/Gates groups being key players.There are enough links here to write several books on what is going on with democrat party funding,we need to use it to stop them first in 2026 and later in 2028. If we are successful in stopping the Arabellas of the world and voter fraud we have an excellent chance of saving the nation.

5,335 posted on 4/27/2025, 7:22:16 AM by rodguy911 (Home of the Free Because of the Brave!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY:UNTIL ITS NOT!!)

All that with the boss and then Z claims he still wants a Ukrainain victory!! Yeah right. He knows if Ukraine signs on to a peace treaty he’s gone and in hiding for the rest of his life.

I dont know anyone who has the answer to that one.

Z and his cronies have made billions.

No.

Twenty-second Amendment of the US Constitution

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.

For sure but that has always been the case in the Ukraine.its one of the biggest laundries and know for unbelievable corruption.

How much of that Ukraine money made it to the DNC coffers?

Its about time the race carding phony wound up in jail. if nothing else this will show just how much the cia actually backs zero since he has always been as asset.

Midget Rice,looking older than the hills, is used to having her way. She better get used to “not” having her way