Buck Brief - Building a truly MAGA Economy with Erin Elmore

Published Jul 18, 2024, 10:00 PM
Buck Sexton is joined by Erin Elmore. They delve into the early successes of PublicSquare and how platforms like Rumble and Twitter, under Elon Musk, are fostering a free speech environment online. Erin highlights the growth of PublicSquare and the importance of supporting businesses that share conservative values. Buck and Erin also touch on innovative ideas for the conservative market, such as a recruiting agency for conservative companies.

You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Buck Brief. We have Aaron Elmore with us.

She is the host of Public Square Alive, which is on Rumble among other places. We're talking a bit about the parallel economy. We're here at the R and C.

All right, let's start with that.

Actually, for years, when I got into conservative media as a career, as a calling, I might say, I was always wondering, when are we going to have companies that don't hate us? Outside of just media companies, I mean products and companies that align with our values. You're on the forefront of this. There's a lot of this happening now. Tell people about how finally there are companies coming to the forefront that like America, like the Constitution, like freedom.

Tell me about this well.

Public Square if people don't know about it, it's the conservative Amazon, right, and we know Amazon mostly everything's from communist China. Amazon, Jeff Bezos, Washington Post hates our values. So a brilliant man by the name of Michael Seiffert, who is my boss and CEO of Public Square, had this great idea, let's create a parallel economy. Let's start a platform. Whether it's businesses and services or goods. You can come on the platform and shop just like you shop Amazon, but you're buying from people.

Basically.

Public Square makes you sign a value pledge. You know, you're not going to be posting about pride, You're not going to be posting about liberal politics. You are aligned with us. And it's all of these amazing small businesses, a lot of veterans, a lot of police officers, organic products, natural products, everything basically made in America. And you're not supporting those big box retailers that I don't know sell tucking bathing suits for little boys who want to be girls, or diaper companies that support planned parenthood. So you're giving your hard earned dollars away. Why not give them to people who share your values?

And what are some of the early successes I mean, for example, you know, we will Rumble. Actually we were, actually we were talking talking to David Sachs recently.

There's a big Silicon valley.

His name is coming up everywhere.

Now.

Yeah, well he's on the board of Rumble and we're discussing how between rumbles assent Elon. Now we got kind of lucky on this one. This is you know, from on High or you know from Elon, switching Twitter from a platform that is so dominated by the left to now a free speech platform where you can build an audience, you can sell products. They're rapping up their advertising. I mean it feels like this is the beginning of not just parallel economy, about parallel internet, information technology, the ability to actually have freedom online.

It's like a bifurcated system, right. It's there's cell phone companies that are conservative, there's payment processing companies that are conservative, there's credit card companies. So basically we are basically creating our own lane, and we're doing it ourselves because when they talk to us on the left, they'll say, if you don't like it, you don't have to use it. And we decided then we're not going to And things are going very well at Public Scio, where we have a diaper brand called every Life. They donate instead to transgender surgeries, like Huggy's parent company does, into abortion clinics, like Pampers does, they donate to pregnancy crisis centers. So we're actually helping our values that we believe in, and it's just we're doing all of these things that are saying we actually care about America. We have conservative values, and we're not afraid to say it, and we're not going to be canceled for doing it.

I want to ask about the biggest challenges that you face or that you're seeing to just get this up to the place where people obviously know about it and it can start to compete at the highest level, which I think is going to be very important going forward. But we'll come back to that in one second, because I want to talk about Tunnel the Towers Foundation for a minute. Since nine to eleven, Tunnel the Towers Foundation has been committed to supporting our nation's first responders and veterans, heroes who put their lives in the line for our communities in our country. Here is like US Army Major Jonathan Turnbull. Major Turnbull sustained devastating, devastating injuries that the hands of an Isis suicide bomber. But Tunnel the Towers paid off his mortgage and gave him a specially adapted smart home designed for his needs. He moves around in his home much more easily now, and his home gives him hope with help from people like you. The Foundation supports families like the Turnbulls join Tone of the Towers and supporting America's heroes, our nation's catastrophically injured veterans and first responders, homeless veterans, gold Star families, and the families of fallen first responders. Doing it eleven dollars a month the Tune of the Towers at T two t dot org.

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Ninety five cents of every dollar goes directly to Tunnel the Towers programs. Aaron, what are the biggest challenges you're facing as you're trying to get this going?

It just seems like a great idea.

You have this the old line about Fox News, right, this tiny demographic of half the country to work with here. I think a lot of people who have been voting Republican for their whole lives are sick and tired of what they had seen from corporate America, particularly with the trends stuff in the last the trans agenda issue in the last decade or or so.

So what are the headwinds that you're facing?

What are the biggest challenges as you see it, for this movement of the parallel economy to grow.

Well, the positive part is we are growing so rapidly. I think the statistics something like we've grown faster than any social media platform ever had. And look how successful social media platforms are. So the challenge is getting people to know exactly who we are and what we're doing. The challenge is growing our brands that are on the platform, because we want to find those people that have just seen a problem in the market and they say I'm going to create a business. I'm going to start this company and I'm going to put it on Public Square. So it's getting the awareness out and just letting people know that we exist, we're here, and we really want to do the same thing that you do. And what I also say to people, why would you want a dog walker, a plumber, a hairdresser that's liberal. You're giving your hard earned money to someone that literally doesn't want your way of life to exist, doesn't support your family values. And we have on Public Square also businesses, so we need more of those businesses on the platform. John Junior said anytime he travels around, he's an investor in Public Square he uses the APT to find a restaurant because he's with a bunch of congressman and people that are very important the political world. You don't want to go to some liberal restaurant. God knows what they're going to put in your food. He's had great success on Public Square finding places to go in that capacity. So we really are creating great opportunities for people. But we just need to get the word out.

What is the next great conservative product idea in your mind, or the next area, the next sector that we're hoping to get really involved in.

Well, I have an idea, but I want someone to take it, so please do it. Okay, So recruiting, So if you're like a recruiter, a company recruiter, you're a conservative business and you don't want to hire these blue haired people that want to use pronouns. You want to hire someone conservative, a recruiting hiring agency that pairs conservative companies. Conservative hire eaes.

Oh, that's a great idea.

Someone, please do it. Just call it Patriot Hire and just I'll be your spokesperson for free fantastic.

I also want to tell you all about my friend Porter Stansbury and what he's done at his company. By the way, Porter has decided, even though he's the CEO of a publicly traded company, to take a dollar a year in salary. Now he's doing this to make a point for his company and just in general. He thinks there's a better way to save and get paid. Now, this isn't cryptocurrency, it's not precious metals. It has to do with a new form of currency that Porter wants to teach you about because he thinks that every American can benefit from this. All you have to do to watch his presentation for free is go to Secret Currency twenty twenty four dot com. That's Secret Currency twenty twenty four dot com. Aaron Elmore, spokesperson and host of Public Square Live, fantastic, Thank you for being here. We got to get crack at coffee by the way on public Store.

How do I do it?

Give us amazing coffee company. We're making the best coffee. It's delicious.

Why are you doing it?

Probably the best coffee.

Best coffee, big leg, big leagu coffee.

It's fantastic. How do we do we got you gotta tell me who I have to email.

Or something I will message you with. It's very easy and it doesn't cost you anything, by the way, And then you come on Public Square alive. You can bot a coffee and then you sell it.

Everywhere gets out fantastic. Thanks We're gonna make amazing things happen. Thank you, thank you. Good to see you.