A historically awful presidential campaign was also a cash cow begging to be milked.
Kamala Harris ran a disastrous presidential campaign that cost a billion dollars – but the elites of the Swamp made out like bandits. It sounds like the political version of Wall Street villain Gordon Gekko raiding a company for its over-funded pension plan. Only, instead of working stiffs getting the shaft, it is all those trusting Democrat donors who desperately yearned to defeat the dreaded Donald Trump.
Decisively defeated Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris managed to blow through more than $1 billion in less than four months after replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the blue ticket. Yet the circle involved in this spending orgy is remarkably small. Just four firms closely associated with the party’s Swamp establishment gobbled up nearly $600 million of that bloated war chest, The Washington Free Beacon reported Nov. 25.
Given that it has now been revealed that internal Harris campaign polling never had her ahead of her Republican rival even as a friendly big-box media duplicitously promoted the notion of an excruciatingly close race, and with time to absorb the dismal results of Nov. 5, one question should be racing through the minds of all those who helped fund this debacle: Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
In It for the Money?
“Seventy percent of the [Harris] campaign’s known total spending flowed through four firms: Media Buying & Analytics, Gambit Strategies, Bully Pulpit Interactive, and Dupont Circle Strategies,” the Free Beacon observed.
Those four companies appear to share an overriding trait: They are helmed by well-connected veteran Democrat political insiders.
Media Buying & Analytics is owned by a company run by Bobby Kahn, who the Free Beacon details is “a longtime Democratic political activist who made his name running the gubernatorial campaigns of former Georgia Democratic governor Roy E. Barnes in 1998 and 2002. He was later elected chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia.”
Media Buying & Analytics collected a whopping $281 million from the Harris campaign.
Megan Clasen, a founding partner of Gambit Strategies, has worked in media and advertising capacities for Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 run, and Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker’s 2018 team, the paper notes. Another founding partner, Patrick McHugh, has “held senior roles at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic National Committee, and several Democratic campaigns.”
Gambit hauled in a $122 million windfall conducting media services for a media-shy Kamala Harris.
Bully Pulpit Interactive has used its Democrat political roots to forge out a role as a leading global marketing services corporation. The firm founded by former Barack Obama operative Andrew Bleeker today boasts big-brand clients such as General Mills, Goldman Sachs, McDonalds, the NCAA, golf’s PGA Tour and Walmart.
The Harris campaign paid BPI a cool $101 million.
The ownership of Dupont Circle Strategies is more murky, the Free Beacon states, yet “public records indicate” the company “could share ties with Chong and Koster, a [Washington,] DC-based Democratic consulting firm.” Chong and Koster has “worked closely” with the Democrat National Committee since 2016, the paper writes.
“[I]n late 2023, [Chong and Koster] performed some political strategy consulting for the Harris campaign,” the paper reports. “But the Harris campaign’s payments to Chong and Koster dried up in December 2023. The following month, in January 2024, Harris campaign dollars started flowing into the newly formed Dupont Circle Strategies by the millions for ad production and placement, FEC records show.”
Dupont Circle Strategies made more than $94 million on the Kamala cash bonanza.
The conclusion is inescapable: an awful lot of Democrat voters are devastated over Harris’s resounding loss while a select few blue power players are grinning from ear to ear.
Conned By Kamala?
Will progressives who gritted their teeth and reluctantly checked a box for 48-year Swamp veteran Joe Biden in 2020 and anointed-without-a-primary Kamala Harris in 2024 now stop to ponder how an intimate pack of political careerists monetized their anti-Trump zealotry? These were the people who were told repeatedly that they had to coalesce around the DNC establishment to keep “the greatest threat to democracy in American history” from “seizing power.”
One leading Democrat megadonor certainly feels burned. John Morgan, who made his fortune as a trial lawyer, told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo on Nov. 25 that all that money being shoveled into Team Kamala’s coffers fueled a feeding frenzy.
“All of a sudden, everybody’s got the keys to the candy store, ad buyers, talent consultants. There’s 100 days to do it, and the money started pouring in,” Morgan said.
A glance at Bully Pulpit Interactive’s website spells out how shallow these “media buys” could be. The firm touts its skill at harnessing social media influencers to boost client images. Fast food giant McDonald’s is a showcase example, as BPI says it uses “influencer communications” to “drive brand trust.”
“We drove persuasion-level frequencies, leading to broad-based gains both on favorability and on the perception that McDonald’s ‘serves food I feel good about eating,’” the company claims.
Kamala’s brand shelled out $100 million for buzz slang like this.
Read more:
https://www.libertynation.com/kamala-blew-a-billion-bucks-and-swamp-insiders-got-paid/
Washington, D.C., is bracing for an unprecedented show of support as over 100 Navy SEALs prepare to descend on the nation’s capital, standing in solidarity with President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth, a decorated Army combat veteran and prominent conservative voice, has faced relentless media attacks in recent weeks.
The fake news media have leveled accusations ranging from outdated and disproven sexual misconduct claims to allegations of public drunkenness and financial mismanagement during his tenure at Concerned Veterans for America (CVA).
Critics on the right are pushing back hard against what they view as a deliberate effort to derail a nominee poised to shake up the Defense Department.
Randy Lair, a trustee at CVA, categorically denied the whistleblower allegations, describing them as “sensational fabrications designed to undermine a patriot.”
In an exclusive letter to the New York Post, Lair emphasized that Hegseth left CVA on good ...
‘Charlatan’ vaccine promoter Dr. Peter Hotez said multiple viruses will be unleashed on America one day after Trump is inaugurated next month.
“We have some big picture stuff coming down the pike starting on January 21st,” Hotez said to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace before rattling off a list of viruses:
Of course, Dr. Hotez failed to mention the measles outbreaks and Polio cases are primarily a problem with the illegal migrants invading the US.
Dr. Peter Hotez previously made headlines for refusing to debate author, activist, then-presidential candidate, attorney and now Trump’s nominee for HHS, Robert Kennedy, Jr., on the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Rather than accept the challenge, Hotez lashed out at both Robert Kennedy Jr. and Joe Rogan, who invited the two to debate the facts on his show.
Hotez refused and ...
Several weeks of mysterious drone swarms over the skies of one New Jersey county near the military research and manufacturing facility Picatinny Arsenal have sparked concerns among residents and prompted an FBI investigation.
"It's kind of unsettling," Mike Walsh, a Morris County resident who has spotted the drones on numerous occasions, told local media outlet PIX11 News.
He said some drones "are very big, probably the size of a car."
Since Nov. 18, Walsh and many other residents have spotted these drones in the night sky.
"They're kind of go slow," he said, adding, "They come towards you. Then they change direction a little. They're all going different ways."
We first detailed the story on Nov. 19 in a note titled "Spy Drones? "Unusual Activity" Reported Over Morris County, New Jersey, Near Military Research Facility."
The potential national security threat piqued our interest, considering multiple reports that the mysterious drones were observed near Picatinny Arsenal.
PIX11 News said...
Tucker’s involvement in Iran is being highlighted:
https://x.com/papitrumpo/status/2033223935739781299?s=46
The Triggernometry boys are on Rogan. Konstantin, the guy on the right, thinks Trump has a strategy and this war isn’t random.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3BdFe6n86CdMnPi2kieLRj?si=4cPLp0tpRJOUOYgcZrkRsQ&t=1259&pi=8e-9xKzNRZC0e
Dale Carnegie wrote about a name trick in his 1936 classic How to Win Friends and Influence People. He called remembering and using a person's name "the sweetest and most important sound in any language" to that person.
Stoicism, an ancient philosophy from thinkers like Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, has surged in popularity because it equips people to face modern chaos—like the endless pull of social media—with calm and purpose. This article draws from those timeless ideas to show how you can cut through digital noise, regain focus, and protect your mind.
I'm going to break down the core problem of social media overload, introduce Stoic basics, and explain key principles with real-world applications. By the end, you'll have tools to apply these ideas yourself, whether you're scrolling less or debating online. Think of this as a guide to spotting overload in your life, judging how it affects you, and starting small changes that build resilience.
Introduction
Imagine picking up your phone for a quick update, only to lose hours in a storm of notifications, comparisons, and heated arguments. This scenario traps billions worldwide. Social media overload drains energy and creates anxiety, but Stoicism provides a clear path out.
Stoicism offers tools to regain control and find peace amid the digital chaos. It teaches you to focus on your responses, not the endless feed.
This article explains how ancient Stoic ideas apply to modern online habits. We'll cover the overload issue, Stoic foundations, specific principles, benefits, and practical steps.
This story focuses on Elon Musk of course, as the news tends to focus on every X post or reply he makes.
If you read this story, you may have noticed that it quotes Scott Adams' reaction to a previous story about the idea of issuing $5,000 "DOGE dividend" checks, questioning why we would do that when we are facing such massive budget deficits and an enormous national debt. Elon responded to that stating that he thought we needed to balance the budget first.
This isn't the only story written about this.
What it doesn't state is that my post about the $5,000 DOGE check idea is what prompted this whole conversation. 😎
https://x.com/OwenGregorian/status/1892184391717384462
It's also notable that the whole thing started with an X post from James Fishback (@j_fishback) that included a letter he wrote with a detailed proposal about the idea:
https://x.com/j_fishback/status/1891933120313663493
It's still a trip to think that an ordinary person like me can have even a small impact on the national conversation.
Don't underestimate the influence what you do on this platform could have. And thank you for your support, and for coming along this strange journey with me.
