Badlands Media - Badlands Daily: 3/6/26 -Ceasefire Claims, Trade Pressure, and the Narrative Battlefield

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

In this March 6 episode of Badlands Daily, CannCon and Chris Paul analyze the latest developments surrounding the reported ceasefire between Israel and Iran and the broader narrative battle unfolding in global media. The hosts examine how quickly the public conversation shifted from fears of regional war to negotiations and diplomatic maneuvering, raising questions about timing, leverage, and strategic messaging. The discussion also turns toward the role of tariffs and economic pressure as tools of negotiation. CannCon and Chris Paul break down how economic leverage can reshape geopolitical dynamics without traditional military engagement, while highlighting how legacy media narratives often frame these strategies as reckless escalation rather than calculated pressure. Along the way, the hosts explore the importance of discernment in a fast-moving information environment, encouraging listeners to recognize how narratives are constructed and amplified. The episode blends geopolitical analysis with media skepticism, offering perspective on how strategy, messaging, and timing intersect in modern conflicts.

of the Badlands, explain those Badlands. That's a hell of a name. We're seeing the spell wear off, the hypnosis wear off. It's just a creation that exists in the minds of people who are still addicted to the Central America. All right, good morning, Badlandia. Welcome to Badlands Daily. Here we are. Another week in the book. We're joined on this Friday by Chris Ball. How you doing, brother? Made it through another one. that's like it's its own status at this point just just every day i see chris and i'm like shh it's friday there we go yep made it through another week in the bolt time is flying it is it really

is uh yeah i got a lot to talk about today man another another uh cast change you know costume costume change get rid of the woman put in the man get into that uh Lots of a lots of freakouts over that. But yeah, it is what it is. It's been a week of freakouts. Just a total discombobobulation. The discombobulator. Indeed.

We got the discombobulator right here, man. You got one? Yeah, dude. Look at that. I got the prototype for it. Wow. Wow. That's look at that.

That's pretty incredible. Yeah, man. That's from a it was declassified by Tone Ranger and Quilting Queen. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. So we've got the technology. We'll make it work.

It'll be like a moon landing. We won't be able to figure it out again for 50 years. Oh, man. Well, we're about to figure it out now. So there we go. So there we go. So yeah, I do want to make just a quick announcement here. There will not, unfortunately, be why we vote this evening.

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and then like the the mouth opens with the crazy teeth and whatnot no how have i not seen that one i have i have to i have to reach out to ash and get that one sent over immediately immediately All right, guys, let's go ahead and jump into the news for today. And the big story is that Chrissy Noem. Christy Noem is out at DHS and Mark Wayne Mullen is in as of March 31st. So from NBC News, what led to Trump to replace Christy Noem? I'm just going to throw this out there right off the rip that a lot of the people that were originally cast to be a part of this administration. are leaving and and and i think that was always part of the plan bon gino's out jeff clark just resigned uh you know

you've seen a lot of these these folks now this is the first one that kind of seems like trump fired her right let's call it what it is i i don't know that i've seen too many maybe mike walls right he he he kind of got fired and then put to the united nations um this is the first one that looks like an actual legit firing i don't know if you want to Yeah, I'm kind of going to be patient on that one. You know, I think that there's a bunch of interesting stuff going on with this story and the implications of the selection to replace her. So I'm kind of in a wait and see approach on this. And we can get into that once we get like some of the some of the foundation laid here.

Okay. So it says Trump was already frustrated with Christy Knoem, but her performance at two congressional hearings this week is what finally he cost her the job or could have just been one year and it's time for her to go. But, you know, she did her. She played her role. I don't know. We'll see. The president had been speaking with Republican lawmakers this week about his displeasure with Noam and told them he was considering replacing her according to Senator John Kennedy.

Mullen is expected to take over on March 31st, though he told reporters that he hoped his confirmation process would begin right away. Noam will assume a new role called the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas. Down there with the rest of the Avengers. Noam quickly said the shootings in Minneapolis by federal officers had appeared justified. She described good and pretty as engaged in domestic acts of terrorism or in acts of domestic terrorism. Federal law enforcement investigating the shooting took the unusual step of cutting out local authorities. And that led Trump to send in his border czar Tom Holman to Minneapolis. Those are just some of the frustrations according to anonymous sources.

In May, Nome's top advisor, Corey Lewandowski berated Coast Guard flight staff and threatened a pilot for taking off without one of the secretary's personal items on board. A heated blanket. I can just see that. Like it goes up to the pilot, you effin asshole, what are you doing? You took off without her blankie. I'm not trying to make comments about anybody's personal life, but haven't there been rumors about the two of them in a relationship? Okay. The president was particularly frustrated by her response when she repeatedly, when she was repeatedly asked about her role in approving contracts, specifically a $220 million ad campaign to encourage immigrants to self-deport.

Kennedy described Trump as pissed. Noam told Kennedy that Trump knew about her decision to approve. approve the ad campaign contracts. The ad contracts went out through a process that limited competitive bidding. I wasn't thrilled with it, Trump told NBC News. I spent less money than that to become president. I didn't know about it. Now, what's interesting to me is if that was kind of the straw that broke the proverbial camels back,

it's interesting that Trump is firing her over the misallocation of $220 million. Meanwhile, we have a hearing this week with Waltz and Ellison up in Minnesota justifying the misuse and misallocation of that kind of money. So, you know, when you talk about holding someone accountable for something, Trump is showing it while they're making excuses for it. I think that's kind of interesting. Reading on, it says Trump had been calling around on Capitol Hill asking for input on Nome since last year. Support had been cratering among Republicans. complaint was that she and Lewandowski had been slow walking critical disaster aid grants and were difficult to communicate with. Request for updates and briefings from Nome often went ignored.

And that is the extent of NBC's justification for why she was fired. Yeah, that seems awfully odd to me. I can't imagine that's the real reason. I mean, that just came out in a hearing a couple of days ago. and Trump immediately upon hearing that is like, oh, I've just heard this for the first time she's fired. I guess it's possible. It doesn't sound like that's the case. And to then remove a Republican senator and use him as the replacement, I think, is the particularly surprising part. And that's the one that has the implications on other storylines that we may get into today. I think that, yeah, okay.

So, and, you know, I maybe I'll just say. this as kind of an off the top thing and then we can get through some of it but the fact that the ken paxton primary happened on tuesday and then the comments from trump about the endorsement then paxton tying the endorsement to the save act then this all going down and then paxton saying well no i'm not going to drop out no matter what um that kind of seems like in orchestrated uh narrative move to undermine the save act to be perfectly honest and we can get into that um as we go through or well yeah we i mean yeah let's save that so save that undermining the save act by by appointing mullins uh i also think mullins you know i think trump was just talking the other day

about oklahoma he said you know a state i won every single county in so you know in terms of uh replacing mullins that is a relatively safe seat you know for you know if you're going to pick a state that you want to take the senator away and and risk him you know a fresh election putting somebody else in his place that would probably be one of the few states that is uh that is guaranteed uh not to have much competition yeah um good yeah i mean yes under a normal election scenario you'd be entirely correct with that the the difference is you know Oklahoma is one of those states that is not sending the DOJ their election data, right? Didn't they, weren't they among the states that were just added to the lawsuit there among the 29?

So were some other supposedly red states. Trump has called into question Oklahoma's election processes and some of the rest of it. He knows he's dominant in that state, of course, as he's dominant in many states, if not an overwhelming number of states. But yeah, they got election problems there. And Mark Wayne Mullen has never appealed to me as True MAGA, but obviously we could be wrong about those things in the affiliations. Mark Wayne Mullen has been a big supporter of the SAVE Act since the beginning, along with based Mike Lee. And, you know, again, we can get into that as we get into the SAVE Act portion of the discussion.

Yeah, Mullen, you know, Ash pointed out that Mullen was, you know, tied up in the story. of the boat to the Bahamas, you know, to save the election. You know, and so, yeah, let's go ahead and play this clip here. First, we'll talk about the Lewandowski thing because Fox News is going to talk about that alleged affair. I'm further told that Corey Lewandowski is expected to leave with her. Of course, the rumors of an affair between the two were one of the factors that I'm told compelled the president to remove her as DHS secretary.

both of them are married, and she had faced questions about her alleged affair during testimony on the Hill this week. Under oath, she did not deny it. She called the reports garbage, but she never denied sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski. And I'm told that he's expected to leave his post as a special government employee and advisor to her when she departs the Department of Homeland Security. Unclear so far, I'm trying to still get information on whether leave with her means go with her to this new, role that we are still fleshing out what exactly that entails or if that means leaving the government as a special government employee if that relationship has frosted over still looking for more information there but the president was unhappy I'm told with quote many of her unfortunate leadership failures which included Minnesota her public statements in the fallout to that

deportation campaign there also the ad campaign the 200 million dollars in spending and these rumors of an affair with Corey Lewandowski. And he's expected to leave with her, Martha. So Lewandowski, I mean, he's, he's OG, you know, the first campaign manager going back to 2016. He's been a pretty, you know, ardent Trump supporter, one of the close people in his network. I've heard things both good and bad about Corey Lewandowski.

So, you know, I don't have an opinion one way or the other on this. but it appears uh you know he's he's he's going with christy nome instead of sticking around in the trump administration although that i guess that just means they're going to shield you know they're going to hang out with nick fury and uh yeah i mean Corey Lewandowski's kind of always been a bit controversial a bit of a chaos agent he kind of has um like a young roger stone mystique to him you know he's like in a bunch of different places, always mixing something up. You know he's a kind of crafty operator, but not really sure what he's doing. And to be honest, there's way too many of those for a government that is

supposed to be of buying for the people ostensibly. So I would rather have everybody just be transparent and honest about what it is they're doing, but we're not in that world. So I keep an open mind about these people. I don't have any personal. feelings about him one way or another but he's kind of a wild cut yeah so um let's uh let's let's let's jump into senator kennedy talking about mark mark way that's one name by the way i i've always thought that that's so weird like mark way like mark mullin yeah yeah the most oklahoma name you can imagine like his his parents you know after he was born she the mom's like i want to name him mark and the son's like no wayne and the the nurse is just like why don't she just name him mark wayne just name him

Mark Wayne. Maybe they just left the space out between the first and middle. And I wonder if we're saying it wrong. It could be Mark Wayne Mullen. Like if he was on the Knicks or something. Mark Wayne Mullins. That's actually a good basketball name there. Yeah, right. All right. So let's, here's this clip here. The president, when he called me Tuesday night, the night of the hearing, when he was mad as a murder hornet. He asked me what I thought about Mark Wayne and I said, A, I like you. B, very smart. C, he's a very good businessman. And D, if I didn't believe the two things I just told you, I'd laugh to you because Mark Wayne would whip my ass. So he invokes murder Hornets and then basically says you can't trust anything I'm saying because Mark Wayne, Mark Wayne Mullen would whoop my ass. Yeah, I guess he used to be an MMA fighter. Is that correct?

I think so. Yeah, he was like undefeated, wasn't he? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did read that, yeah. So now we got more of the more of the Trumpomania joining us here, this time, going from the totally K-fabe WWE to the UFC, although I don't think he fought UFC. I don't know if he did or didn't. But, yeah, John Kennedy, such a, such a likable guy. I like John Kennedy, invoking murder hornets,

bringing those, putting those back front of mind. Mark Wayne, Mark Wayne Mullen put this out on X as a kid from Westville, where he was born and raised on the playground. It has been the greatest honor and privilege to serve the people of Oklahoma for the past 13 years in both the House and the Senate. I'm grateful to President Trump for nominating me to lead the DHS. I look forward to earning the support of my colleagues in the Senate and carrying out President Trump's mission,

alongside the departments many capable agencies and the thousands of patriots who keep us safe every day president trump ran on restoring law and order and quickly delivered the most secure u.s border in american history i look forward to supporting potus's mission to safeguard the american people and defend the homeland also by the way you are taking over a uh basically defunded organization at this moment in time so wasn't there something yesterday where they um have like passed the DHS funding bill out of the House though or something. Did they? I didn't see that. Yeah, yeah. I think that I saw that, um, come across at some point. Hold on. Let me pull it up. The house has never been the difficult part.

The House passed the initial bill. It's the, it's the Senate, you know, and Schumer and all that. So now maybe that they have somebody that's a little more, uh, refined than Christy Knoem. Uh, maybe now they'll vote for it. Yeah. Uh, this is the second time legislation to fully fund the DHS and protect the nation's border has advance through the House, this from the Appropriations Committee. So, yeah, you're exactly right about that. The only other thing I want to say about the cause for Nome's departure being linked to what was revealed in the hearing the other day is that those hearings are just content

shoots, you know, like they really are clown shows. And it's funny because we can, I think people generally accept that congressional hearings in general are clown shows. And then if we are talking about the comments from one particular congressional hearing that has to do with this issue and this seems to be the cause for something else, it's like, well, because it caused her to be fired,

that means that what happened in the content shoot at the congressional hearing was true. Well, that's not necessarily true, okay? Like, it's entirely possible that that congressional hearing was set up to provide the content. context and the backdrop for this move from one position in the administration to another, and I think that the major takeaway here is not Christy Noem, the Instagram influencer,

leaving the DHS. It's that a senator has been pulled, a Republican senator has been pulled out of the Senate with these, you know, important pieces of legislation that need passing. And the DHS bill, I don't know where that stands right now, aside from having made it of the house again. But the DHS shouldn't exist. It is an anti-constitutional global embedment of the global security state in our government that was initiated after 9-11. And they are tasked with just a number of responsibilities that over the last 20 years, they have failed on across the board. They haven't done a good job with immigration. They haven't

done a good job with disaster management. They haven't done a good job. They haven't done a good job. with transportation security. They haven't done a good job with election security. They haven't done a good job figuring out who to censor. And they've been doing all those things. And they've been working on behalf of that global entity in doing those things. I don't know why any American would want the DHS to be funded or to continue its operation. If there are important sub-agencies there, those can be moved to other parts of the government

and continue on in their operations. None of this, of course, is an argument that illegal aliens should be kept in the country, but DHS isn't the only vehicle that can be used to deal with that problem. And so why would we want a DHS at all? The DHS shouldn't exist. If Christy Noem has done her job there, the job that Trump needed her to do. And you mentioned some of these people moving on from the administration. I made the case just after the election in 2024 that all of these TV characters were being brought in to

disseminate messaging ops, whether good or bad, and then eventually would move on. Well, that's what we see having happened. She did a bunch of different photo shoots where she would dress up in military gear and pretend to be involved in like illegal immigration raids. And then she spent $220 million putting out an ad campaign with her on horseback. That is the budget of a major Hollywood film. Like, you know, if you have a $100 million budget, you can also assume this is how the Hollywood equation works, that there's another equal portion to that on the back end that is used to market the film and the rest of it. So that is a major Hollywood picture release for a 60-second commercial of a government employee on a horse, and that's supposed to tell you that illegal immigrants are being taken care of and removed from the country. There's something seriously wrong here and we can't just like skip past all of these strange anomalies and inconsistencies just to get to the narrative that we are being given, which I agree is important and we should talk about that too. But it's not the only thing happening.

Let me ask you in terms like the comparison you made with Hollywood budgeting, does that include distribution? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. So you have like a $100 million production budget and then you assume another. 100 million behind that. And so like a hundred million dollar movie is a big movie. And I understand that we're in an era of extraordinarily big movies. But like a hundred million dollar was like the mark for a summer blockbuster for a long time. That is a ton of money. And especially in the

era of AI, there's there's just no excuse for why this would have happened. And they're using online marketing where did that money go and i think you know obviously that's at the crux of the situation and noem's responsibility but yeah very weird things happening you you can't you would have to assume i mean the production of that couldn't have cost more than a million bucks i mean that would be on the very very high end i would yeah yeah and even that would be totally irresponsible yeah i agree that yeah i agree and then so what a hundred ninety nine million dollars in distribution to online platforms and everything else. A rumble, YouTube, you guys got some answering to do.

Why are we not seeing significantly higher revenue from any of the pre-rolls with Christy Noem on horseback in front of Mount Rushmore? Yeah, that was definitely something that was very concerning. Let's go ahead and play this clip here. Mark Wayne Mullins talking more about the whole situation with Christy Noem. Thank you, Senator. Just looking at some of the criticism that Noem has faced. there are any learning lessons that you have picked up from noam in ways in which you want to

leave the agency listen christie is a friend and i haven't had time to call christie yet and our secretary noem and we we our families or friends um she was she was tasked to do a very difficult job and i think she has she has uh performed the best she can do and underneath the circumstances is there always lessons that we learned you know listen my wife and i we have over the years we have been fortunate enough to purchase companies and grow our companies and every day there's something you can do better. And so I think there's there's an opportunity to build off successes and there's also opportunities to build off things that maybe didn't go quite his plan. So first and foremost, holding that ball is kind of a weird thing for me. I don't know the story behind that. You know,

there's several videos that I've seen now of him and many of them. He was doing that interview with Benny Johnson a while back about the elections and stuff. And he's holding that same like a kind of like a fidget spinner type thing. But the interesting thing here, you know, going back to the beginning of this Trump administration and a lot of the people that go in there that are, you know, controversial in the influence sphere and the social media sphere, public figures that, you know, one side loves, one side hates, that kind of thing. Now maybe, you know, in the buildup to the midterms, now it's time. to put in i don't want to say the serious people but the more milk toast right the more kind of down the middle kind of guys although i don't know that mark wayne mullen mark wayne is necessarily

that that's stuck man that's that's that's stuck with me not that that that's uh you know necessarily a more down down the middle guy but he's definitely going to be a lot less controversial than christie know him i suspect he's going to get confirmed by the senate very quickly yeah perhaps i would just also say um you know this is kind of back to that point in 2024 i was talking about uh we have the tv characters out front they are doing the messaging part of the operation it's entirely possible that there are already those serious people in there behind that getting uh the work done to the extent that work needs to be done again we're talking about the uh administrative bureaucracy under the executive branch many of these agencies should not exist and the way that supreme court cases are

going and determining a lot of how the agencies are supposed to operate in accordance with the Constitution. A lot of them are operating outside the bounds of the Constitution. And so they need to be restrained in their actions to the extent that they still exist anyway. And so the extent of the operations within the administrative bureaucracy needs to be scaled back. That's part of what dismantling the bureaucratic deep state is and part of what it means. And, you know, for some reason, I feel like we have this personal attachment to some of these characters. They're serving Trump. Trump chose them.

That means that they're doing a good job. We have to want them to do a good job. And they're going to make the government work right. Well, that's not actually the job. And that's not what Trump pitched the American people. And that's not what most of us want. And now I understand that there are some people out there that want that. And fine, make your case all good.

But the other side of that case is that these agencies should not exist. And that we don't actually want people in there. We want people, we want these people doing the messaging, however they need to do it, so that the American people can understand what's going on while the administrative bureaucracy is dismantled behind them. And I hope that's what's going on. I don't know that. But when we keep that in mind, some of these situations take on like a different tone. And I think that we have to at least be mindful of that. I'm not trying to convince anybody to believe what I believe. I'm saying there are a whole bunch of other things. that need to be taken into account and the mainstream conversation drives always in the direction of ignoring all those other things. And I think that that's one of our biggest problems that we just allow all that stuff to go off to the side because what it does is make the situation a whole lot more complicated. And at the end of that, you find out, well, there really aren't the easy answers that were being sold by the influencer class online. one of the things that's interesting and i know that you know marquine mullins is not like the new

example of this this has been going on for quite some time but the the desire for somebody to leave a prestigious elected position and prestigious is you know i understand that's uh subjective but to leave you know there's only a hundred u.s senators right this is why i get after fetterman when i say guys out of all the people in Pennsylvania, this was the best you could put forward. And that was specifically in the campaign. I know everybody loves Federman now. But why would you want to leave the Senate to go work in a cabinet-level position as a secretary in the bureaucracy for a president that has three, maybe seven,

but three years left on the books? And you're going to go there and then completely give up your seat. take that seat hand it off to somebody else who's going to sit in that seat and if you do decide to run again you're going to face them as the as an incumbent now it just doesn't make much sense to me it's almost like there's something it's like the precious right in lord of the rings don't don't tell bb i'm referencing uh lord of the rings but it's like you know once you touch it there's just like this appeal to it and this desire you have to have it and i i understand the power aspect and dynamic of it and everything, but like I would think that you would want to stay in the Senate.

I, you know, I think you're 100% right, Brian, but I also don't think Mark Wayne Mullen had a choice. And look, that's interesting. Hold on. Let's unpack that. Let's watch this video first and then we can talk about it. Let's do it. Let's do it. You have to press play. Sorry. No, I, you know, the president I still got to communicate. Let me just put that back at the beginning. Talk about it. I think that, oh, geez, I can't operate my own video. Here we You know, the president, I still got to communicate, so we'll talk about it moving forward. But I appreciate it, guys. The president has already talked, obviously.

The statement went out, but we need to talk with the president, and we're going to get on the same page and do what things. When did you find out, sir? When did you find out, sir? A little bit before you guys do. Do you want the job? Any changes? Senator, did you expect this? Guys, I'll talk to y'all board.

Do you want the job, Senator? Does he want the job? Doesn't sound like he wants the job. Doesn't sound like he knew he was getting the job. That's exactly right. Didn't sound like he knew. Like he's, he's kind of surprised by this. You know, there's, uh,

they're saying that he was at a lunch in the Capitol when he got the phone call from the White House switchboard and just got up in the middle of it completely surprised and went off, like left the room to take the phone call, came back out. He says he talks to President Trump often. He says, you know, frequently um that that is interesting that is interesting but what what do you think could be the uh the the intention of of something like that i think president trump is submarine the save act okay so let's just let's just jump into that well let me let me cover real quick this one last

tweet from noem and then we'll jump right in we'll call the audible we'll jump right into the save act so uh christie noem put this out uh thank you potus for appointing me a special envoy for the shield of the Americas. Secretary Rubio and Secretary Hegset are incredible leaders and I look forward to working with them closely to dismantle cartels that have poured drugs into our nation and killed our children and grandchildren. The Western Hemisphere is absolutely critical for U.S. security in this new role. I will be able to build on the partnerships and national security expertise that I forged over the last 13 months as Secretary of Homeland Security. this is a totally new made up position um it's kind of interesting you know it seems like when

president trump fires somebody they don't actually he doesn't actually fire them he just kind of sends them off into a dark corner of you know ambiguous like irrelevancy yeah waltz for example u.n ambassador to or ambassador to the united nations we haven't heard shit from mike waltz since he And say, who were the prior people for UN ambassador? Nikki Haley, who he shipped off to Siberia, Elise Stefonic, who he made UN ambassador, then withdrew, then she went back to Congress, then she pretended to run for governor. Now she's out. Where is she?

Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, she's been shipped off to nowhere. That I don't know what to make of that other than he needed to remove somebody so that he could subtract one senator from the Republican caucus. Yeah, that is definitely kind of interesting there. All right. So let's call this audible here. Before I do that,

I have to actually find where the heck I have it on my long list of tabs up here. Oh, it was next anyway. So there we go. All right. So Politico, Trump puts Paxton on notice in Texas Senate primary an interview with Politico. Trump appears to be leaning towards endorsing Senator John Cornyn, issuing a stark warning to state attorney general Ken Paxton. Paxton recently said he would not drop out of the race, even if Trump endorses Cornyn. Well, that's bad for him to say, Trump said. That is bad for him.

So maybe that leads me to go the other direction. And then the actual post that Ken Paxton put out, the Save America Act is the most important bill. The United States could ever pass. I can't even. There it is. I'm committed to helping President Trump get it done. I would consider dropping out of this race if Senate leadership agrees to lift the filibuster and pass the Save Act. John Cornyn is a coward who has refused to support abolishing the filibuster to pass this bill. Now fake news reporters and the establishment are trying to destroy me with misinformation.

The truth is clear. No one has been more loyal Donald Trump than me, fighting the stolen old 2020 election, being in Mar-a-Lago, being in Mar-Lar-Lawagos, being in marlago when he announced his 2024 campaign and standing with them in the new in new york in the face of lawfare for the good of our country and for the good of passing president trump's agenda i'm determined to help him get this done so okay you guys i i saw you said this i think john had alluded to this um that it could submarine the the save act i think it could be the opposite it. I think this because Mullen's is staying and Mullen, Marquane is staying until March 31st. So that would give them almost four weeks, three and a half weeks to get this out there, to get this on the floor. If Trump alludes to, you know, backing Cornyn and puts the filibuster up as the bargaining chip, I think this could enhance it. It could also submarine submarine, right? You don't have enough votes. But. Do you have Trump's truth?

I can grab it if you don't, but Trump's true social posts from yesterday. Is that part of your rundown where? I don't have it pulled up. Yeah, yeah. Trump had the post that he normally posts. He's posted a number of times now on the Save Act. And here is the one from yesterday. Oh, yeah, the rug on this one.

Yeah. So he added number four and number four. five, no men and women's sports and no transgender mutilation surgery for children, in addition to, you know, the other parts of the same act that he mentions. Did you go ahead? Pull that back up real quick. Did you see what he did with that truth? I think that he, well, you can tell me.

He deleted and replaced it. Exactly. Yeah. And I think he changed something in the replacement. This is the replacement. I don't, I don't know if you have access to the original. No, it just the original number five, the transitioning children. He had, there was a stipulation there that without parental consent.

And he took that. He took that. So there was already some controversy with the SAVE Act about the transgender business because they were claiming activists on the Uniparty left, et cetera, were claiming that this would be discriminatory toward trans people because if they had to show an official ID when they went to vote, the official ID would not match. their chosen way of identifying. And so they would be discriminated against. And that was a move that they were attempting to use to get rid of the voter ID thing. And, you know, the voter ID is its own

conversation. And we can leave that aside for now. If, let's just say, and I accept that your scenario, as you laid it out, might well be what happens. They might put the Save Act on a condensed timeline, try to rush that through, destroy the filibuster, get that through so President and Trump can sign it and all of a sudden elections are saved even though they absolutely are not saved. And we may see that direction go ahead. I would suggest that if we go in that direction, what that is going to mean is that we get the hose again and continue to do so for about a year, which would be extremely annoying as far as I'm concerned. But we've been doing that for the last few years. So what's the difference? If a Republican senator is taken out of the picture when it comes to getting

the SAVE Act passed and then they still want to push through the filibuster, how are they going to pass the SAVE Act at that point? Well, they'd need Democrat votes, right? And I don't know how quickly they're going to be able to replace the Oklahoma Senator. Some states, and maybe you've already checked this, some states have special elections for these sorts of things. Some of them are governor appointments, which means that it would be seamless from one to the next. But it's going to be impossible to get Democrat votes on this at this point, unless the Democrat want to say to their party, hey, you know that trans thing that you're worried about, that we've all been on board with protecting for all these years? We're just going to have to let that one go on this

because for some reason it's important to pass the Save Act. Are they going to try to run the Save Act through with Democrats on board? Are Democrats going to be involved in helping to save the elections through legislation that can't save the elections? I mean, this is a mess in terms of the narrative moves from all of these different perspectives. Go ahead. Okay, so in Oklahoma, Governor Kevin Stitt will have 30 days to appoint a replacement after the vacancy. The eligibility has to have been registered voter in the same political party as the outgoing senator for at least five years and has to sign an oath stating that they will not file as a candidate for the Senate seat in the next election. So someone who's, you know how, Brian, you know how the NHL trade deadline is today? And they talk about, oh, why you got to remind me of that?

The Panthers got rid of Bobby. Oh, that already happened? I think so. Oh, wow. I'm willing to see that. So anyway, they talk about guys who are unrestricted free agents being traded to like playoff caliber teams. These guys are seen as a rental. So they're going to, you know, you give up your trade assets.

You get this guy for, what do we have, three months if you become. the Stanley Cup champion. It's about three and a half months from now. So you have the player for that amount of time and then someone else is going to go in there. So it sounds like we're basically having that rental model for the next Oklahoma senator, assuming that that is named on that timeline. So I guess, go ahead. Well, I was going to say it is interesting that whoever's the replacement cannot file as a candidate for that seat in the next election. So it's almost like a like you said it's a placeholder for mark quain uh to go do his thing at dhs i when was mark quain up for re-election hold on that's good question let's see uh real quick uh he was up

for re-election in november 2026 so whoever's replacing him can't run in this election so it has to be so so it's literally going to be somebody that comes in for six months and and knows that they're they might even leave this seat open i don't i don't know that would not make much sense given you know what they need from from the seat with the save act and everything else huh yeah um and who knows maybe maybe mark wayne only goes uh to dhs for a little while and goes back and runs for his oklahoma senate seat again i mean we're we're dealing with insane levels of orchestration. You know, these situations cannot be looked at in isolation. You really have to try to get the big picture and the big picture looks a lot different. Yeah, this this one is is kind of interesting.

I don't know what the strategy is here. But, you know, again, if, if, Governor Stitt appoint somebody, I, I, the only reason, Chris, that I discredit the, is this to submarine the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, save act is because it's already submarine right the the save act as it sits right now is not going anywhere there's refusal to you know to to uh call for the talking filibuster to you know pass the talking filibuster uh so right now all the democrats have to do is say hey guys we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna filibuster this and publicans are going to be like oh my gosh no we can't do this so i don't want to sit here for 24 hours and listen to you speak so we're just going to concede i yield that that was already going to happen by holding that seat i and i do think this is the

the goal. I think we're going to see, you know, Trump in that in that Politico article says, well, I might just have to go the other direction because Paxton won't back out. And so what does Paxton turn around and say? Paxson turn around and says, well, you know, if you decide to endorse Cornyn, maybe I guess I will back out because the Save Act is more important, getting, you know, placating more on on, on, on President Trump's gracious by saying that. You know, that's a bargaining chip right there. Trump comes back to corner and says, hey, you know, I'm not going to go that way. Paxton is doing the right thing here. Paxton is a team player. He's willing to do this.

You're not a team player. If you want to be a team player, I need to see this filibuster, the talking filibuster, put in place for the SAVE Act. Whatever's going to happen has to be happening quick. I expect this weekend. We see something from President Trump on, on Cornyn versus Paxton in that regard.

So I'll land. Pull up that. Yeah. So this is February 11th. So three weeks ago, Trump slams Ryan know, stit over national governors association dinner. So Trump calls the Oklahoma governor a rhino and that Oklahoma governor is now going to have the opportunity to replace Mark Wayne Mullen, who Trump has removed from the Senate and to put in a job that shouldn't exist.

Very, very interesting. That's, yeah, that's, yeah. All right, well, let's, let's jump into this story here just real quick from just the news. Oversight Committee Chairman suggests criminal referrals are possible in the Minnesota fraud probe. No shit. A new report from James Comer's committee concluded that the senior Minnesota government officials, including Tim Walts and Attorney General Keith Ellison, were for years aware of claims of widespread fraud in the state's federally funded welfare programs, but failed to act other than to retaliate against whistleblowers. Quote, we've given the Justice Department the report today that shows Waltz and them new. I don't know that it's a crime. Incompetence isn't a crime.

But at the end of the day, if some of these fraudsters implicate a coordination with A.G. Ellison or Governor Walts, then I think that you could see some referrals for the committee. Okay. Whoopty freaking do. You've referred this to the DOJ. Are they going to do anything about it? I hope so. But I don't know why we needed Congress to do that. We have, I mean, this is no, like there was nothing in that hearing yesterday except the shock value of, of brandy, of brandy. and gill and nancy mace and everybody else showing that the autism funding for their their medicaid programs has gone from a million dollars in 2017 to over 320 million dollars in 2020 or whatever year it was 2020 2021 whatever that that's unacceptable you know one million dollars to 340 million dollars there is no there's no facet of private life where an exponential increase like that would not throw up not just red flags, but it would probably lead to your business being immediately seized until they can figure out how the hell you did that, right? No.

I mean, we're, go ahead, good. We just, and maybe professional sports has something to do with it, but the numbers that we deal in are astronomical now. That is an extraordinary amount of money. I mean, that's a third of a billion dollars. What are they using the money for? I mean, all, it's like this, the amount of money is almost unimaginable for a normal person, right? What in the world could you possibly be doing with $330 million?

Are these problems that complicated? I would suggest that probably not that complicated. And so who is getting all that money? And it turns out that an entire system has been built out. all of it runs on the fuel of fiat currency that is created from nothing and then pass through our illegitimate government to make it seem as though this isn't just one top-down orchestrated system. The money goes in certain directions so that the entities receiving it help to install this agenda. And man, I hope that we can move ourselves past this point quickly. But part of that

is understanding that the government is not here to help us. You know, one of the clips that I did watch yesterday was Nancy Mace questioning Waltz. And Nancy Mace, of course, is running for governor of South Carolina. So she had to get her, you know, subtle campaign gotts in there saying, you're the governor and you don't know how many autistic people, how many children live in Minnesota and how many of those are autistic. I'm not a governor of South Carolina, but I know that we have. have 1.1 million kids and that 31 and 36 kids are autistic. So there's probably, you know, X number of kids. It was, it was pathetic. It was absolutely pathetic. I should be a hatchack by.

No, I'm just kidding. He's running for governor. Yeah. I did not know that. That is hilarious. Yeah, she's running from governor. Um, but, but you know, it came up that essentially she was able to break down an estimate that Waltz has about 33,000 autistic kids living in Minnesota. If, but, you know, it came up, that, you break that down, assuming every single one of those kids gets equal access to that $330 million, which they don't. You know, I mean, what percentage of them are actually going to take advantage to that half? It comes out to a little over $11,000 per kid in government subsidies. And that's just exclusively because they're autistic. And again, autism nowadays, you know, one of the arguments that they make, why is it up to 1 in 36 kids?

well because they've expanded the definition the umbrella that that encompasses autism yeah that's the excuse they give us and so you have a lot of people i mean we joke all the time about you know the slightly autist brain like elan musk you know we call him an autist and all this stuff and very well could be you know a lot there's a lot of people with autism that are perfectly functioning individuals so that 33 000 number i mean who knows how much they're really getting per kid and how many of those kids are actually real so yeah i'm with you man that that is a disgusting shot number. All right, let's jump into this story here from Fox News, called it. Clinton appointed judge orders government to begin refunding $130 billion in Trump tariffs after the SCOTUS ruling.

Judge Richard Eaton laid out the estimated $130 billion refund process saying it would begin with customs and border protection calculating what importers would have paid without the now invalid tariffs. Eaton also made clear that he has sole jurisdiction over the refunds, which more than 1,000 companies have sued over in the U.S. Court of International Trade. Quote, the chief judge has indicated that I am the only judge who will hear cases pertaining to the refund of international IEPA duties. So there's no danger that another judge, even one in this court, will reach any contrary conclusions. Holy authoritarianism right there. Especially when you're in the court of international trade, that should not exist either.

I mean, the idea that we are subject to international laws is already a problem. We don't have to get off into that discussion, but I encourage people to actually spend some time thinking about that. What is international law and what compels us to be part of that? If not the centralization that globalism requires, the top-down control system that makes all the pieces work in harmony or theoretically would be making all the pieces work in harmony if that was actually possible. And it's not possible because, of course, human nature and the ways of the world do not allow for that sort of thing. So instead, we have a global entity that still believes in the theoretical possibility enough to continue trying to get it, which requires more force and more authoritarianism at every turn to make that possible. And that's kind of the, we're kind of in the final stages of seeing that authoritarianism rise

as the control system has bitten off way more than it can chew and begins to collapse under the weight of its own complication. Yes, I agree. Let me keep reading here because this, you know, was I on with you last week when we talked? about FedEx being the first one to sue post post-scotus ruling something about that sounds familiar but i don't remember it all right well reading on it says the supreme court decided six to three in february to block trump's use of the of the emergency law to impose sweeping tariffs on trading partners all importers who paid those duties were entitled to benefit from the supreme court's ruling eat and said except the supreme court said no such thing eat and said cbp should

calculate the affected imports as if the tariff had never applied, which the judge signaled would eventually pave the way for refunds to the companies. The Supreme Court majority left the refund process unaddressed in its decision, leaving it to the lower courts to meet out. Kavanaugh in his dissent says how the Treasury could go about refunding companies to the tune of billions of dollars, warning of, quote, serious practical consequences. Quote, the United States may be required to refund billions of dollars to importers who paid the AEPA tariffs, even though some importers may have already passed on costs to consumers or others. As was acknowledged at oral argument, the refund process is likely to

be a mess. Now, this is what I hit on when I was talking about FedEx suing because they sued them for a little over a billion dollars, I believe, in tariff loss. We have been told that the tariffs were a tax on us. So any company that was just absorbing these and they weren't actually raising their prices, which we were all told was going to happen. All, you know, all the tariff money is, it's a tax on the people. That's all it is. Okay. So again, they don't have standing to bring this case. If, you know, if you go through their books and they raise their price, any small percentage of, you know, they don't have standing to bring this case. Hmm. It, this, I mean, you're talking $130 billion. That is a big chunk of change. When you look at what President Trump has been

able to do with the tariffs, the deficit, you know, shrinking of the deficit, the trade deficits, the extra revenue coming in. I mean, we were celebrating, you know, this is the most historic, you know, month in tariffs in the history of our country. I think it was September of last year. Or last year, yeah, September of last year. Anyways, my whole point is, is I think this is going to, I mean, obviously it's going to be appealed, I would, I would think. And it will go up to SCOTUS. I can't believe SCOTUS left that like unaddressed, the whole refund process. Kavanaugh, you know, they, they knew it was going to be a problem, but they decided that they're just not going to address it.

So here we go, kicking that can down the road again. I don't know. I'll land that there. Huh. The, Trump, Trump had made a post. back when the decision came out a few weeks ago. And I was trying to recall the post and trying to find it, but that's not working. So he made the comment, if I remember correctly, he kind of alluded to the idea that these other countries who he had talked to are not attempting to renegotiate any of the tariff agreements, regardless of the decision that the court had made.

And I would expect that that dynamic is probably going to play out a bit here too. This is one of those instances where the media has a federal judge that they can, they have this decision from a federal judge that they can then take to the broadcast media level and say to the American people, look, not only was Trump wrong about the tariffs, but now all these companies have to pay back those tariffs. That's how wrong he was. Now people are getting punished in the real world because of that wrong thing. Trump did.

And so you just have it like step by step through their narrative process where they can like really hammer home that Trump did a very bad thing here. He's not allowed to do that thing. He's never going to be allowed to do it again. And if he tries to do it, you have to be against it because look what happens when he does it. Then it creates a whole mess for everybody. You have to pay more money. Look how bad this thing that Donald Trump is doing. actually is. And so they want to run through that whole process. And I would think that this is

another link in that chain. Yeah, it was, I'm sure he put it out in truth as well, but I know he said it during his initial address after the ruling came down. He said, you know, we don't have to worry about it. We talk to all the countries and they're all saying we're still going to stay with the with the tariff. So yeah, that's, I'm sure he posted on X as well. All right. But yeah, I just thought that that was pretty crazy that we were just talking about the Fed. X last year and that was or last week excuse me and that was the point that I made about this is a tax we they've already passed this on and Kavanaugh comes out and says that in the in the decision there. Let's take a quick break. We got another story that is already less than 24 hour cycle before they have to walk it back in the mainstream media, but we called it here on the show yesterday with Alpha. But let's go ahead and hit our next sponsor before we do that and uh, uh,

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We called it. I said right away yesterday on the show, I said it's this, this is a nothing burger from the New York Times and whoever else it was that put this out. It's not, I don't believe it's that they're not, they're dropping the case. It's just that it's not a criminal case. Okay. And so they're confirming that here. DOJ continues Biden autopen probe despite former president unlikely to face charges. I literally said that yesterday, guys. I said you can't charge Biden for this. You can't. DoJ is continuing its investigation, focusing on pardons and commutations through a senior official said though a senior official said Biden is unlikely to face criminal exposure.

The official pointed out that the use of an auto pen by a quote unquote sitting president is established law. The issue under review is specifically whether Biden personally approved each name included on pardon and commutation lists. Quote, these types of cases are tough. Executive privilege issues come into play, the official said. The target of any potential prosecution would likely not likely be Biden. quote, it's hard to imagine how Biden would be criminally liable for pardon power. Now, you know it's really interesting there, Chris? Executive privilege issues come into play.

Well, President Trump can just waive executive privilege, even for previous administrations. We learned that during his off, his, his, you know, persecution when they went after him. And they can just, the Congress can just say, hey, Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, you guys don't have executive privilege, you know, they can just waive it for anybody. It doesn't have to be that president. A 2024 Supreme court ruling that originally involved current president Donald Trump would also apply to Biden quote. We conclude that under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of presidential power requires that a former president have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure in office,

at least with respect to the president's exercise of his core constitutional powers, this immunity must be absolute. So maybe we could get a, you know, Biden testimony. Tell us specifically what you knew about these pardons. Imagine Joe Biden testifying. I mean, we kind of had a glimpse of that with the Robert Her thing, right? Wasn't there a Biden testimony recorded? Gosh, a live Biden testimony would just be hilarious television.

The auto pen thing, as we have said from the beginning, is like an explanatory narrative layer over the fact that Joe Biden was never president. This is the sort of thing that you would expect ultimately. And big picture, I think that there are two sides of main unit party central narrative, right? There are these underlying claims about what's happening in the country.

These are all put forward by the main, mainstream media and agreed to by both sides of the controlled opposition that say to one another, yes, that thing happened. I have position A, you have position B, and we are in permanent argument on our position A and position B, although we agree with these underlying claims. The idea that Trump is just part of position B and is fighting against position A, like if position A is the uniparty left, the Democrats, and position B is the Unip Party right, the Republicans. The idea that Trump is part of position B is to me absolutely insane. He does not accept the underlying claims that are foundational in that controlled opposition dynamic.

He is not, he is aligned with Republicans sometimes and the rest of the time he is just Trump, which means he is only just Trump and happens to align with them when necessary, right? So if you need to explain a way, if you need to, in a world where Trump doesn't exist as president right now, if they were able to successfully move on and make J.D. Vance or Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley or someone else president during this term, you would still need to be able to unwind a number of things that Joe Biden did during his time as fake president. Well, how can you do that in the narrative, having already sold Joe Biden as a real president the entire time? Well, you would need something like the auto pen. And the auto pen is a perfect example.

If they can successfully use the auto pen story to remove a bunch of the things that Joe Biden did, well, then you can just brush your hand. You can, you know, your hands are clean on the fake and illegitimate Biden term. Without the auto pen story, well, then it's a big question. How do we resolve all that stuff that Joe Biden did? At that point, maybe you have to get down to the more fundamental issue, which is that Joe Biden was never a little. legitimate president in the first place. If you are trying to protect the controlled opposition dynamic and the central narrative as it existed from 2021 through 2025, you need to preserve

Joe Biden being a legitimate president and still wipe out much of his presidency. The auto pen allowed them to do that. Okay. The auto pen was never the explanation for Joe Biden's illegitimacy or for why none of those policies are actually legitimate themselves. There is a much more important explanation that we in the badlands community need to press for right that's the purpose of what people like me are attempting to do yes i get that the country will understand joe biden's uh the illegitimacy of joe biden's presidency on some level via the auto pen story that's not good enough okay we need to understand that joe biden was not actually voted in as president he was not properly installed. He did not actually serve as president and commander in chief for those four years.

That is a much harder hill to take, but it is nonetheless the hill that we must take. So seeing the Autopenn story collapse is irrelevant as far as I'm concerned, but it hasn't, as you pointed out, even collapsed. Even Janine Piro went out yesterday and tweeted, we cannot comment on ongoing investigations. Yeah, I mean, I understand the baby steps you have to take in kind of piercing the normy mind with this whole. idea that Joe Biden is illegitimate and delegitimizing the, the pardons would be a, you know, a monstrous first step in doing that, uh, sitting on the back of everything that's coming out in Fulton County. I think Maricopa is going to become very relevant here, very shortly.

We're seeing all sorts of stories about the midterms, the, excuse me, the primaries that just took place. I've got a story here from Calhoun, Texas, where, uh, you know, they, they were counting votes and the machines just decided not to count certain. ballots because they appeared blank. Yeah. So we're seeing a lot of this stuff. And we'll be unpacking this guys. I know there's still fog of war with that primary in Texas, but there's a lot of stories that have been tracking and researching and stuff that we'll bring forward. But yes, your point, Joe Biden is completely illegitimate. That is a much harder sell than the Autopenn concept, right? And you need the Autopen because there are a lot of things that people are clamoring for.

and that is, you know, the prosecutions of Fauci and Adam Schiff and, you know, all of these people that were pardoned except Hunter Biden. His pardon was legitimate, according to President Trump. Very interesting. And you're going to need this. And again, you know, we're still on my timeline here that I kind of believe is going to happen and that these will become relevant prosecutions following the midterm elections. So we shall see. if you I was going to call the audible and jump over to

yeah just real quick this story here Jennifer Asper pointed this out to me on X great follow if you want to follow she has some fantastic best aggregate of election information out there 24 hours after polls closed Calhoun County officials are still counting ballots this was on the fourth so they might be done by now I don't know

but Cindy Krause with the Calhoun Republican Party he said, quote, we have found some discrepancies within our voting machines where they did not pick up votes that were marked blank, but were not really blank. You just couldn't determine the voter's intent. While we continue to improve the machines, we have a lot of people in the community who want to make sure they are a part of the system and they want transparency in the election. Explain how you are ever supposed to check a system that can just indiscriminately, maybe indiscriminately or planned just not count a ballot. I mean, they keep giving us these excuses and writing them off, you know, human error, technical glitch, all the same bullshit we've been hearing for five years around our election, six years now.

There is no public trust in the system that can do something like that. And you can explain away, we're making it better. It shouldn't, you shouldn't be making it better. These are our elections. These are the foundation of our constitutional republic. Making it better is not the excuse. You make it perfect before you implement the system. This isn't a trial by error system where we just get to go through and every election is going to get a little bit better.

And where you're going to get more and more. No, no, F that shit, man. We are not. Nope. Can't happen. Anyways, that's just one of the stories. I'll let you jump in on that. Yeah.

It's one of those things. that I find baffling and frustrating, and that's, of course, you know, me and my problem. But when we come out of one of these fake primaries and our elections are fake, the primaries are even faker. Yes. Primaries are private corporations deciding who is going to run in a contest between two private corporations who then get to pretend to lead us, but really just tell us. us what the government is going to do on behalf of the foreign occupation that controls the government. Okay. The people's votes in primaries are meaningless. And I'm sorry, people,

that's just how it is. We have these problems. These problems are publicized widely every time so that we understand those elections are not legitimate. And what do we do? How do we react? Well, the day after the primary happens, we cheer like we just won the Super Bowl, like as if that was like totally meaningful as fans at home to be jumping up and down i used to do that all the time um and that's what i was thinking about there but dan krenshaw have you do you remember when dan krenshaw was like djing a couple of months ago yes the videos about jasmine krocket is like an instagram influencer trying to become popular with her political position and she did it you know and we're cheering that these people have been voted out in their prime

marries okay those are manipulated systems the system got exactly what the system wanted we are cheering the election results which tells everybody that we believe the election results are legitimate we are legitimizing fake elections through our behaviors which again gets us the hose get it again and again and we will get it in perpetuity as long as we continue to respond this way because Our response says to the system, hey, you know, we say that we're on to what you're doing, but the truth is we don't care. We just want you to feed us entertaining stories on the television that we can pat ourselves on the back about with our friends online, all of them just anonymous strangers.

That's crazy town. And it's so unfortunate because everything you said is just absolutely spot on and people will move on, you know, rooting and Ron. And I mean, we cover this is a daily news show. This is so we had to cover Crenshaw losing and all that stuff. But people are out there celebrating it. I'm like, if Crenshaw lost, there's a reason that he lost. And the next person that comes in is going to be equally as bad, perhaps worse.

Perhaps they have a blank slate. So they're able to pretend that they're better for a certain amount of time. And people will move for them. And their ex profiles will go up insurmountably, you know, astronomically rather. and all of a sudden they're the hero and then man it's that is that that is the point that is the point right there someone can brand themselves as super pro maga and then a few years later we find out oh man that person is not really as maga as i thought they were and this always happens in congress you can run down uh the list of characters and a lot of these people you know a lot of people in

our audience believe that all these people are wonderful people and just playing their roles and maybe you're right but if we are to have a real good government where these elections do matter and our government has actual authority and they are representing the people, then we need to move on from like the unipanunabankas and the Lauren Boberts of the world. And we can just go down the list. Do a lot of people think that MTG is MAGA? I mean, she's made herself a wild card intentionally and we get it. Are people huge on Byron Donald's the way they used to be? Are people huge on Corey Mills the way they used to be? And I'm not trying to attack any of these people, you know, cast aspersions on them.

I don't know these people. I don't know their heart. All I can do is deal with what I am witnessing and what they are putting out. And none of these people seem to be headed in the right direction. None of them have taken any extraordinary measures to try to fix our elections or to even let the American people know the true status of our elections because they got there on the backs of these elections. And so, you know, if we're going to dig our way out of the holes that we've dug ourselves

into over the course of our lives, we've got to get straightforward about a bunch of this stuff. And I think that the point you made is an excellent one. Dan Crenshaw is no longer viable as a MAGA-oriented Republican. And he was in 2020. He spoke on the stage at the RNC for Trump. Okay. And now he's in his congressional office DJing. Here you go, Brian. And so what happens when they just creates a new character and everyone loves that person instead. So, yeah, it's good to be around. The E&C wants more fun than the rest. The rest of our life.

He's just chilling out and DJ. Okay. This looks fine. Jasmine Brockett with her dance videos. I was trying to find the video. I played one of them yesterday, but they did this. And you probably remember this, but following the 2020 election, when everybody, here it is. Wait, this is the actual, oh, man.

Do you remember the ad he did where he jumped out of the plane? He's on the plane and he's all dressed in his battle rattle like a Navy seal back in the day, you know. And he's on the phone with President Trump. And he says, yes, sir, Mr. President. I'm inbound. And he jumps out of the plane. and lands on the hood of a car. Like, just so fucking cringe, man.

Yeah, but I mean, we're watching a clown show, and we are desperately clinging to it as real. You know, it would be like engaging with Game of Thrones, like as if the dragons were in Saudi Arabia right now. I'm almost embarrassed to admit that, like, I was motivated by that. when that ad came out and I'm trying to find it in the background. Yeah, you probably could even find the video of me playing it and being like, oh, okay, here we go. And now it's like just so gay.

So gay. All right. Let's jump into this story here. And then we'll get into some international news and we'll open up the phone lines here. Job shock. US lost 92,000 payrolls in February far below the lowest estimate as unemployment rises. Again, not really concerned about this. Chris and I have talked about job reports almost every single first Friday of the month for the last three years.

And the numbers, I mean, they're widely fake. One of the things that's interesting here is they included 30,000 jobs from a company that's on strike, a pharmaceutical company. And there's like in California and Hawaii. And there's 30,000 jobs that were included in this report from people. that are on strike. Like that's how kind of lame the numbers are that, you know, these people are going to get what they want and either go back to work or be fired and the company goes away. But again, President Trump is creating no jobs in the federal bureaucracy and the government. That was one of the biggest things. And he said that, I think during the state of the union,

he said, you know, jobs are going up and not that great, but none of them are in the government. And that's huge. I mean, we've covered Joe Biden's, quote unquote Joe Biden's jobs for the last four years, three years, and almost all the time. You're seeing huge numbers in government sectors and not as much in the private sector. So Trump is creating no new government jobs. He's eliminating government jobs, which is going to factor into the jobs report. And he's, they're U.S. citizens. That's what I'm trying to get at. You know, that was one of the talking points he had a couple months ago was that all of the jobs that you're seeing right now are U.S. citizens. Whereas before, you know, you could have and green card holders, to be fair, work visas and stuff like that.

So, yeah, I'm again, these numbers don't concern me. So the, let's let's think about this on like a continuum from left to right. And on one end is all government jobs, right, are our society, all the jobs in our society are government jobs. So this would be like pure form, total collectivism, communism. The state is legitimately everything. Okay. And then on the other end, there are no government jobs. If we have a government with 3 million or 4 million by some estimations government employees,

that is a massive chunk of our workforce with government jobs, entirely dependent on government jobs. And to just eliminate that in a minute. And by the way, I'm not saying that I'm against. eliminating it in a minute and just ripping the band-aid off and having society adjust to that, I understand that that would be more jarring and more disruptive, and I don't believe that that is the strategy being pursued, and I understand that there are arguments on the other side of that. I would push to leverage the other option, but I'm not unreasonable,

and I don't want the society to collapse, right? So what we need to be doing, though, and what I believe Trump is doing, is moving from one end of that spectrum back toward the other end and trying to write that ship without allowing any chance for the ship to capsize because there is a big hole blown in it and we're not able to recover quickly enough. And I think that this is structured the same way as the argument that suggests Trump did not want the country to devolve. into civil war and chaos after the stolen election of 2020. And I get that there are both sides of that argument, and I would be happy to take either side of that argument and get fully behind it, because I think that there's really some force

behind both sides of that. But if that's what we are doing, then we would continue to see very few jobs may be created in the private sector, but movement in that direction, and not a bunch of jobs eliminated necessarily from government, but none added. And then over time, it just kind of slowly shifts along that, that continuum back in the right direction.

I hope that that is what is occurring. And I think, you know, to the extent that any of these numbers are trustworthy at all, I think that what Trump is communicating in combination with these numbers kind of suggest that that's what's going on. And I hope that's what's going. All right. Let's jump into some international Iran war. We got an update on Cuba here. We got a lot of stuff. This is Admiral Brad Cooper talking, giving us an update on the situation over in Iran.

Intensified. You may have heard the president say just a little while ago that we have sunk her to destroy 24 ships. That was true at the moment. We're now up over 30 ships. And in just the last few hours, we hit an Iranian drone carrier ship, roughly the size of a World War II aircraft carrier. And as we speak, it's on fire. The president gave us another task to raise or level Iran's ballistic missile industrial base. So we're not just hitting what they have, we're destroying their ability to rebuild.

And so as we transition to the next phase of this operation, we will systematically dismantle Iran's missile missile production capability for the future, and that's absolutely in progress. This is going to take some time, but our forces are well supplied, as the Secretary said, said, and we are absolutely ready to prosecute this mission decisively. Our combined joint forces have relentlessly destroyed Iran's air defenses over the past few days, and they've continued hunting for more systems to kill. Our air defenders are operating at the very top of their game. I couldn't be prouder to shoulder with our partners in the region in many cases,

providing the most integrated air defense network in Middle East history. We are fighting to win. So we get news now that we've now taken out 30 ships. I don't know how many ships I ran has. I thought 30 was about the number that they had. So the funny thing is I woke up this morning and I'm listening. And here is the imagery. Let me pull this up while I talk about this.

I woke up to the news that we had hit this World War II-sized drone aircraft carrier. And I'm thinking of myself, wait, wait, wait, did we skip over the, I was thinking the whole aircraft carrier was actually drone piloted. It took me a minute. So apparently they take off from these aircraft carriers, World War II style diesel engines. Who was I talking to yesterday? Wait, the drones take off from aircraft carriers? Yeah. Yeah.

Why? This is a drone, I guess, for mobility. range, you know, keep on the move. You know, if you think about it, if Iran wanted to hit, you know, the United States or some other country like that, you would bring your ship within range and then launch a swarm of drones, I guess. It's weird that all these countries that are supposedly at war with us never actually attempt to do that, don't you think? How come they never drive their ships over here? Yeah, you know, I was I was talking yesterday with Alpha after the show And I was and one of the things that

We were talking about is we're seeing a lot of action here in Florida with the P8s the Poseidens their sub hunters going out But you know people are freaking out about this they've been doing that for like As far back as I can remember since since the 2020 election when everybody all of a sudden had a fat in infatuation with watching radar like aircraft radar Now that granted there's some people that have been doing it for a while. But yeah, you see these, you know, P8 Poseidens flying over Florida. Well, now they're going further and further out into the Gulf of America. You see them going out further. I mean, it's, it's smart to be, you know, cautious about this kind of thing. But you're spot on. Like, we attack all these countries. You know, Iran has this Navy. Um, you know, Trump says we got to

destroy the Navy. They can't have a name. Like, that to me is shocking. Like the idea that we can tell another country, like you can't have a Navy. It's pretty crazy, but, um, well, we kind of did that with Japan after World War II, didn't we? Yeah, but that was that was in the face of defeating them in World War II. And we basically, Germany too, we told them, you know, you know, you guys got to have, you can only have a local defense force, right? You're allowed to have like a national guard, basically. And now I think they have a Navy now. Japan has a Navy now. Yeah, I mean, my, my take on the situation.

broadly is that all of the war-oriented stories, the war-mongering stories, the narrative ammo that the neocons have built up over these last 50 years and obviously much longer than that, but particularly with the Iran issue, all of that is being eliminated. And that's great. And you know, this is what we discussed last year around the Top Gun Maverick 2 strikes, take out their nuclear capabilities and you can't really sell the idea that Iran is a nuclear threat and therefore we should go to war. And we actually saw them attempt to do that over the last couple of weeks. You had J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio talking about how their nuclear capabilities were being reconstituted. Donald Trump kind of made some allusions to it in his speech the other day,

always in the framing of they can't have a nuclear weapon. But one by one, you take away these causes for war, one being that the people wanted to rise up and depose the Ayatollah and take over the country. Well, it turns out there's not actually a people's opposition movement to the Ayatollah in Iran. There's no one there to rise up and take over the country. There's not another leadership structure in place. There's no viable means of overthrowing that government in the first place, nor anyone to replace them. So, you know, these have been pillars of the neocon warmongering narrative apparatus, let's say, and they are being knocked out one by one. Iran can't pose a threat to all of the democracies in the region if they don't have a military and they don't have a

Navy. You know what I mean? And if the regime that was threatening everybody no longer exists and they don't have nuclear weapons and they don't have ballistic missiles that can reach Europe and blah, blah, blah. We can go on down the list through all the justifications that Trump laid out in his speech and then everything else that we can find the neocons and warmongers selling war with Iran on over the last couple of decades. And we can see one by one, all of those pegs are being removed by this Trump narrative operation. And I think that's the point. That's just me. Sorry. I don't know if you caught, I was muted. I, because I was listening to something in the background just quickly. But, you know, speaking of warmongers that you were talking about there, I don't know if you caught this during the state of the

Union. But did you see Lindsey Graham when President Trump was talking about NATO paying their fair share? No. To Republican in Congress, we're investing that record number of dollars have no choice in the United States armed forces. Also creating a lot of jobs, but we're not even doing it for that reason. Because as I said, we have more jobs, more people working today than ever before in the history of our country. And NATO countries are friends and allies. They are. There are friends. our allies have just agreed at my very strong request to pay 5% of GDP for military defense just looks so like he's like licking his lips he's like he sticks his tongue out at one point

he's like yeah give it to me daddy give me more of that nato money whether whether lindsay graham is like actively trying to help out the warmongers or not that is what he's doing and I am totally pleased with him going full Lindsey Graham as often as he can it doesn't make me mad I only think oh good now more Americans will be turned off from that utterly insane point of view yeah so good that's a good way to look at it I get I get mad I'm not saying it's not worth getting mad at I just you know this fall into this whole thing it's It's like anger is maybe not the most productive response. Yeah, it's probably not anger.

It's probably more, keep exposing yourselves. The people of South Carolina genuinely hate you and you're still going to win an election. So maybe one day they'll look in and be like, perhaps this election thing is not what we thought it was. And it's and Trump will endorse him. Yeah. Yeah. All right, let's jump into this real quick. The Qatar energy minister warns Iran will force Gulf to halt energy exports within weeks.

It says the country's energy minister, Sad al-Khabi, has halted production of LNG, liquefied natural gas on Monday as Iran continues to strike the Gulf countries in retaliation for Israeli and U.S. attacks. The country's LNG production is equivalent to 20% of the global supply and plays a major role in balancing both Asian-European markets. If this war continues for weeks, GDP growth around the world will be impacted. Everybody's energy price is going to be higher. There will be shortages of some products and there will be a chain reaction of factories that cannot supply. Even if the war ended immediately, it would take Qatar weeks, two months to return to normal cycle of deliveries. He forecast crude prices could pass $150 a barrel in two to three weeks if ships and tankers were unable to pass through the straits of Ormuz.

And then we got this from zero hedge. A China-linked ship and now a U.S. sanctioned gas tanker transit through the Hormuz checkpoint, choke point, excuse me. So they go through just fine. It says a U.S. sanction carrier, a tanker carrying Iranian LPG, the Danuta 1, transited through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday without incident. Shortly after a China-linked bulk carrier also exited the world's most critical energy choke point. Quote, the Strait of Hormuz is currently too risky for legitimate ship owners to cross from a commercial standpoint, as well as for safety of the crew, which explains the dozens of tankers stuck waiting in the Gulf and unable to exit.

This is Charlie Brown, an advisor to the United Against Nuclear Iran. Dark fleets or sanctioned tankers may take a calculated risk to sail through possibly after communication with Iranian forces. the Chinese linked bulk carrier was called Iron Maiden and transited the narrow waterway without incident after reports circulated that Tehran would permit Chinese vessels to transit. You know what the Iron Maiden is made out of? Iron? Heavy metal. Nailed it. Brian, check this out. So let's look at who is presenting us with this quote right here. Charlie Brown. Yeah, Charlie Brown from that.

United Against Nuclear Iran. Okay. So this is influence watch.org. Whenever I see a name like that, first of all, united against nuclear Iran sounds extremely globalist and extremely neocon. This is a neocon think tank 100%. Yep. So you know that looking in financial backers, Thomas Kaplan. Oh, look at that.

Sheldon Adelson and donors trust and the Jewish United Fund of Mexico. Metropolitan Chicago, that's a small amount. Wait, wait, wait. Read the Sheldon Aedelson quote. Read that. The late casino moguls, Sheldon Aidelson, reportedly provided the majority of the U.A.N.I. funding before his death in 2021. So majority. So he's not just like here's a couple million dollars.

Yep. Here's everything. Look at this roster. Joe Lieberman, Mark Kirk, uh, field marshal Lord Charles Guthrie, uh, John Bolton. Who else do we have? Muhammad is a Javad Zarif. I'm almost sure he's on the board of the international. Oh no, sorry.

That's, I'm messing that up. Okay. So anyway, let's move on. CPAC coordination and the rest. So this is a neo-conan establishment Republican aligned organization. And the key word in that paragraph in the quote from him is legitimate shipping companies. And so if you were. to take this what we see happening in terms of the rerouting of shipping the rerouting of the oil

trade different countries making relationships ending relationships with certain countries and forming relationships with other countries um there's been a lot of talk about the insurance issues um from lloyds of london and then trump backing up the insurance claims i think that what we're seeing is a reorganization of global trade resources energy the rest of it. So to me, that screams this is some aspect of the great reset that is occurring right now. It is either a counter to the great reset or it is just the great reset. And then we have these other layers over the top that are going to explain how these things resolve. It could be Trump with all the leverage here, the Iran war providing all the narrative cover needed to rearrange the Middle East and some of these very important energy relationships. And I think that all of this is more about what's happening there than it is about taking out the Ayatollah and regime change in Iran and making sure that they can't have fake nukes and the rest of it.

So yeah, that's how I look at this, man. And, you know, people are going to come back and they're saying, oh, you're saying Trump's not doing this or everything's fake. No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that something real is going on. You are being told a story by the corporate news. And then at that point, Trump has a series of choices that he can make. Is he going to say, no, all of that stuff is not happening? Or is he going to say, okay, I understand everybody believes that stuff is happening.

I'm going to use that to accomplish all the goals that I have. And I would suggest that that's what he did in 2020 after telling us that COVID was a hoax and all of us saying, well, sir, you just don't understand the science. And then everybody in the country going, whole hog into we are actually dealing with the very deadly pandemic here, which is well within the underlying claims in that controlled opposition dynamic. So the entire Republican establishment goes along with the very deadly pandemic narrative. What is Trump going to do? He's going to tell us all of it is fake and wrong. No, he's going to use that and reroute that. I think that that's what he's doing here as well.

Yeah, he's deploying the counter the counter strategy and that, you know, the insurance, right, we got to destroy the Navy. Why are you afraid to navigate the straight of Hormuz if the United United States has their fleet there and they are actively pursuing Iranian ships. Who are you afraid of, you know, in going through there, right? If one of those ships gets hit, there's going to be hell to pay for that. They're well aware of that. But you're spot on. And the U.A. and I, you know, kind of impromptu dig on that points exactly to what you're saying

is that, you know, this is a battle, a battle, at least, of the Great Reset versus, you know, the Great Awakening or whatever you want to allude to there. 100% one more just one more point on that to go back to the claim about the legitimate ships and the legitimate shipping companies again we're talking I'm guessing this man's perspective because I'm not familiar with him but we can see what the organization is designed to do okay so that is part of the top down centralized control structure over the global economy which controls the movement of global resources, energy in particular. So their system is what they consider to be legitimate.

If this operation is cutting off the ability for their legitimate transportation to move through while still allowing other ships to access the Strait of Hormuz and pass through, that is a blockade of what they believe is legitimate, but would be counter to the sovereign movement around the world. And so I would suggest that this is a separation of those things and control by force saying, actually, it's not going to be your program anymore. And so all of this, by the way, people are somehow like thinking that this is like dooming or that I'm saying Trump is doing something bad. No, I'm saying Trump is doing the greatest possible thing. And all of us going along with the mainstream story that Fox News and the other neocons are pitching.

is us failing Trump in our analysis of what he is doing. Well, yeah. So you're going layers deep on this. And I agree that's something you need to do. We've gotten a ton of pushback from people there saying, oh, you're black pilling on this. No, no, no, no, we're black peeling on the official narrative. What, what President Trump is saying publicly is, is concerning, right? Like if it was anybody other than President Trump, if Joe Biden came out and said,

we are going to bomb any country outside of Iran because they shouldn't have a Navy, they shouldn't have nukes, which the nukes I get, but they shouldn't have a Navy and they shouldn't have ballistic missiles. We would, we would have raised hell. Like that would have been crazy. That's what Trump is telling us. But then you look at like Chris just pointed out here, you know, the whole UA and I, the globalist kind of narrative on why legitimate shipping can't get through.

You pair that with the article that Alpha had me read yesterday after the show. about Politico put out about China's oil and how they're feeling the squeeze on this energy crisis. And while I kind of disagree a little bit with the implications of that article that China is going to somehow be like, you know, strangled for energy, they'll find it elsewhere, right? We've already seen deals with China and Russia to supplement the loss from the Strait of Hormuz. But then we also see ships being permitted to go through, like Iranians letting those, you know, unsanction or those sanctioned tankers go through. Here's the thing. Iran and Venezuela both have been supplying China with oil.

Not because there's some overwhelming demand and they need to get it from Iran and Venezuela, but because they get it at a significantly discounted price compared to anywhere else. Now, at the same time when we were talking about Venezuela last week, we went off on kind of a tangent or a couple weeks ago, went off on a tangent of this guy that says, you know, if we start bringing in energy from Venezuela and an oil from Venezuela, and we're able to bring that price down to, you know, $1.50 a gallon, talking about gas prices. The amount of economic growth that you will see from that type of cost reduction would be astronomical. It would be insane. Think of the same concept with China.

If China is getting energy millions and millions of barrels a month from Iran and Venezuela at 20% discounts compared to what the rest of the world is paying, They would crush us. They would absolutely obliterate us. And so I do understand the point that Alpha was making yesterday on that. Although I kind of just like I don't think China is going to run out of oil. They'll find it somewhere else. But they're not going to have that 20% discount, which is going to rebalance the, the shift of trade.

I believe, I believe it will help re onshore with the tariffs and everything else. Some of these companies back into the United States. So to believe that we downstream. from the mainstream media, which is downstream from the military industrial complex, global intelligence and transnational corporations, to believe that we have the same information that the people making these deals have, and that it is playing out on the timeline we are being shown by the mainstream media is utter retardation. We have to move on from that. These people are way ahead of us. These deals are already done. They know what is happening.

We are being shown a story about what has already happened on television. to make us think certain things. And those certain things are the things that align with the military industrial complex, global intelligence, and transnational corporations so that we will build the world in the image of those entities. And the people who get upset with arguing against Trump, let's go back to 2020.

Remember when Trump was on board with lockdowns? Is that a good idea? Should we have spoken out against that? Remember when he was on board, sort of, with masks? Was that a good idea? Should we have spoken out about? that. Remember when he said that the vaccine was good and people should get it if they want it? Is that good idea? Should we have been on board of that? And I mean, we can think of a thousand

of these examples where Trump says something that's for and against the very same thing. Can't be both. So the trust Trump thing is just out the window already. Not that that's not already an embarrassing level of grovel that the founding fathers would have laughed at, but it's already out because he's saying contradictory things on purpose to create the argument. And then we won't have the argument because we are like so committed to protecting Trump and protecting the Republican Party. We're supposed to just say what we want as the people so our representatives can implement that.

And if we're not saying what we want, how are they supposed to know? We are making it, John and I talked about this a little bit on Saturday. but we are taking all of Trump's leverage away. Trump's base is taking his leverage away by just saying, hey, whatever you get us is good, whatever you get us is fine. We don't push. Why? Do we want this stuff or not?

Okay. And if the answers no, just say, hey, Trump, we love you. You're maybe the greatest hero America has ever had. But come on with that, right? What is wrong with doing that? What is wrong with doing that? Yeah. I get to hear an answer to that question.

we've gotten a lot of flack. It's always on this. And here's the thing. I have always prefaced what I said about this war as given what we are told, this is not a justifiable war. Given what we are told, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Iran can not have ballistic missiles. Iran cannot have a navy. Two out of those three things, we are not the arbiters of whether or not they're allowed to have a navy and ballistic missiles.

the nuke i get it but when you here's the problem is all the pushback that we were getting from people like i was i was reading the chat yesterday and the day before and the day before and all the pushback are nothing more than the fox news talking points we've been at war with iran for 47 years no we fucking haven't no we have not i mean other than our cia but that's a whole different topic but the the way that chris just articulated it right there and the way that alpha you know me and him talked about it after the show yesterday that makes sense I can get behind that. But too many of these people are just like, it's Iran and they're the greatest threat to Israel.

And they're the greatest threat to Iran is not a threat to us. Iran is not a threat to it in terms of actual kinetic warfare. All right. The last thing I want to cover just real quick. You know that meme where the guy's like poking something? He's like, come on, do something. Come on do something. Jerusalem Post, IDF, surprised that the Houthis are not joining the Iran war believes they still.

could those sources say idea of sources expressed surprise that yemen's hootis have not yet attacked israel as part of the wider regional conflict imagine imagine imagine waking up and reading this and you're like in you're in you're in Israel right now and you wake up and you're reading the paper having your your your your coffee and you see jerusalem post saying hey come on hooties what the fuck are you doing attack us damn it it was expected by many in the idf that the hooties would join the attack uh join in join in on the attack once Khmeri had been assassinated or if not then once Hezbollah joined in on Monday. There has since been speculation that the Houthis are staying out of the conflict because the U.S. is involved. It is possible also that they have concluded Iran is too defeated to provide assistance

to. Also, there's speculation that they will still join the conflict. So just anything, really. Yeah, just anything. Like they literally wrote an article where they're like, all of these things could happen we we don't have any idea that they're going to happen we don't have any support that they're going to happen we don't believe that they're going to happen but the hoodies could join or they could not join they could not join because hesbel is not here yet or because kamani's dead or because iran's too defeated or because the united states is what the fuck oh man i thought that i read that article this morning was just like that's freaking hilarious yeah the idea that iran is too defeated seems just ridiculous to me. I mean, China and Russia are over there. China and Russia are allies of Iran. Iran has

plenty of allies in that region. The idea that everybody is just allowing Iran to be destroyed just seems preposterous. I agree with that. That is one of the key pieces of evidence right there is Russia and China's reluctance to get involved in this in any way, other than just a strongly worded tweet um president trump put this out on true social there will be no deal with iran except unconditional surrender after that and the selection of a great and acceptable leader or leaders we and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners will work tirelessly to bring iran back from the brink of destruction making it economically bigger better and stronger than ever before iran will have a great future make iran great again mega thank you for your attention to this matter i feel like we

coined that like a couple months ago maybe even longer what's that mega mega yeah huh i feel like me and ghost coined that really yeah well if you did the president's using it now but i thought he had coined that to be honest i don't know i could it could be wrong i could be wrong no i mean i mean You guys could have been saying that three years ago for all I know. Yeah. Let's just real quick. I do want to cover this. And maybe we'll take one phone call because I kind of shit the bed and went a little long.

President Trump had enter Miami, which I did not even realize won the America Cup. I don't even know what they call their trophy. But President Trump made some remarks at that event about Cuba. We also got this little, this one's only 30 seconds. So we'll play this one. No, we won't play this one because it's one of those stupid. aircraft ones. Politico had an exclusive interview talking about Cuba, though, and President Trump alluding to a regime change in Cuba, president bullish on Iran, eyeing regime change in Cuba,

and impatient with Ukraine. In an interview on Thursday, he dismissed concerns about the Iran war, told Politico the United States would help choose Iran's next leader, predicted the downfall of the Cuban regime, and attacked Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in the tech giant Anthropic, facing domestic political backlash over the criticism of the Iran war and within from the and excuse me from within the MAGA coalition and also unrelenting attacks from Democrats over the cost of living quote people are loving what's happening Trump insisted he predicted that Iran's government would not be the last to buckle in a Trump initiated confrontation Cuba is going to fall too we cut off all oil all money or we cut off everything from coming in

from Venezuela, which was the sole source, and now they want to make a deal. Asked whether the United States was playing a role in the Cuban government's demise, Trump responded, quote, well, what do you think? For 50 years, that's icing on the cake. Venezuela is doing fantastically. Delci is doing a fantastic job. The relationship with them is great. Trump also confirmed the United States is in touch with the Cuba's communist leadership. They need help. We are talking to Cuba, Trump said. Well, it's because of my intervention, intervention that this is happening, Trump said. Obviously, otherwise they wouldn't have this problem.

We cut off all oil, all money, everything coming in from Venezuela, which was the sole source. How long have you been hearing about Cuba? Cuba, Cuba for 50 years. And that's one of the small ones for me. Talking about Iran, he said, I'm going to have big impact or they're going to have, they're not going to have any settlement because we're not going to go have to do this again. We'll work with the people in the regime to make sure. that somebody gets there that can nicely build Iran without nuclear weapons.

Trump also weighed in on Khomeini's son, who is in contention to be the new Supreme leader saying that, quote, now they're looking at the son. The reason the father wouldn't give it to the son is he say he's incompetent. Yeah, we can pretty much land there. The Cuba thing was the most interesting part to me. If he can achieve that, I mean, again, the rest of the country probably doesn't focus as much in Cuba as we do here in South Florida. But that would be a monstrous accomplishment, monumental, I should say, a con accomplishment.

The discombobulator is going to take care of that, just like it is taking care of Iran and just like it took care of Venezuela. I mean, again, there you go. If the point is ending these warmonger narratives so that the United States, the people of the United States can never be hoodwinked into another never-ending, pointless, forever war, started on false justifications, well, the way to prevent that is to show everybody just how false and immoral all those justifications are. And if you can get rid of all of them at once by creating total narrative chaos, that is what you would do. And that is what Trump is doing. We can see it happening in the real world now. And, you know, just go along with the discombobulator. it's doing its job the point is not getting discombobulated all right um let's go ahead and we'll

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Save Act so real, President Donald J. Trump has made it even harder to pass by making a senator, the DHS secretary. I disagree. I think I think we're going to see the talking filibuster now. And I think that this is going to be the bargaining chip. and it will happen within the next two weeks. So, but let's focus on the first part of this point that, and I didn't when we were talking about this earlier. So if the SAVE Act passes, what you will have in the passage of that and then the post passage part of it, and then maybe even with some of the primaries, is you'll have people on our side declaring that our elections are now legitimate.

right? And so if we are then told in November that the Democrats have swept the midterms, who is going to point out that the elections are fake at that point? I will continue. But wouldn't you have spent by that point seven or eight months convincing people that our elections have been fixed? No, no, I will not have. So you want the Save Act to pass. And when the Save Act passes, you are still going to talk about how elections are not fixed. Yes.

Okay, then why would you want to say back past? Well, because you, I mean, you're not going to get an all-encompassing all at one time. Everything's going to be totally and completely fixed. I think there is a massive. Well, the mega act, what make elections great again act? No, no. I'm saying, I'm saying that I think of it as an on and off switch, right? There's a binary.

We either have legitimate, transparent, verifiable elections or we do not. Okay. there's not like a 60% or 70% legitimate standard because that can't that still can't confer legitimacy on a government and we have the people uninformed about the true status of our elections still because every election cycle we tell them yes you have to commit to voting yes these people once they get elected are your legitimate rulers and those two things do not work together you can't inform the people about how bad our elections are while telling them to vote in them and that those elections confer real legitimacy on a government. So you've got to choose one.

And the people don't at this point know or if they have an inkling, they don't fully accept how illegitimate our elections are. And so we are saying that the solution is for members of the illegitimate government to put a new election system in place that we know isn't going to work, but that everyone will believe does work. Okay. And that's what the Save Act is. It is a PR campaign to convince Americans that their elections work even though they don't.

And after the midterms, the idea that we're going to then go back and say, hey, guys, yeah, we told you the Save Act would help. Turns out it didn't. We still have this huge problem. Nobody's going to be credible on that. Okay. So let me let's unpack this. First and foremost, I think that there are steps that need to be taking in undoing this. just like there were steps that were taken to get our elections to the point where we're at today,

which those steps could have been taken since the inception of the first election we ever held, right? As long as you have elections, people are going to try and figure out how to cheat in them, especially with the amount of power that has been bestowed upon these people now, which is progressively getting more and more and more. This is one facet of the election, and granted, is it going to be all-encompassing? Absolutely not, not even close. But it is, you know, so in my eyes, there's three main parts of the of the election. There's the voter rolls and who can vote, the process by which you vote and the process by which you report the votes, right?

That you report that. So this, the Save Act is dealing predominantly with the first part, the voter rolls. Also a little bit with the way you vote, you cast your vote based on the mail and voting aspect of it. And the ID stuff. And the ID, well, the ID stuff. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But to me, that just goes that tax on to the voter role because you have to prove who you are in order to. But, you know, it's kind of the crossover in the process. I think that you're going to have to, in order to enact the Save Act, you're going to have to completely dump the voter rolls, which is like, I'm trying to think there. What's that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. With you there, yeah. And I think, you know, going back to what Elon Musk said about the Social Security administration, having 440 million people in the database, that is a big step. And, you know, in correcting that is dumping the voter rolls as they sit completely.

Also getting non-governmental organizations like Eric out of the administering of or the securing of our voter rolls, the cleansing of them, so to speak. I think it's a step in the right direction. And I think that we actually could see. If they somehow get the Save Act passed and implemented before the midterms, I predict that we will see, um, some some big upsets. I think. Again, again, that's, that's a, that's definitely the optimistic outlook on what,

and I think you would admit that. The optimistic outlook on what the SAVE Act could potentially do. My concern is that if all the election integrity people on our side, who have spent years working hard and faithfully on this project, get behind the SAVE Act because they think it's going to be a solution, I would suggest that there are going to be very few credible people who can make the case that our elections are still broken after the midterms because I don't believe that the midterm, that the SAVE Act is going to change our elections from fake elections into real

elections and they will still be totally rigged. They will be selections. They will be decided in advance. And if it turns out that the Democrats are the Democrats are the ones who, you know, quote unquote, win those elections, it's going to be very hard for those. those election integrity people to get back on the election integrity horse after having declared victory on the save act. And I think that that is an extraordinary existential risk for the election integrity movement.

And it is very concerning to see people get so on board with this thing. I agree. I do agree with that. And I also believe that a lot of the people that I work with in the, you know, that I follow and everything else in the election integrity movement. I don't think they're going anywhere if the SAVE Act passes. I don't think that's, yeah. I hope that's the case, Brian.

I really do hope that's the case. The amount of time spent on the SAVE Act and the energy put behind it, especially within these last four months, as though it hasn't existed since the fall of 2024, suggests that there's something else going on there, particularly with the kind of election disclosure stuff, the nonsense that we saw coming out of like Patrick Byrne about Venezuela and the rest all of that seems geared toward the passage of the save act which is a system oriented solution that keeps the system in place and doesn't actually solve the problem well i mean burns argument would get rid of the machines too though and and that's a huge step in the right direction

as well so so i look at these and we'll move on from this but i look at these is like when you're in a fight right if you're if you're a boxer and you're in a fight you don't just go in there and try and throw wild haymakers and knock a guy out in one punch right you're working the body you're you're moving around you're getting them winded you're gassing them you're you're taking chunks here and there and i think that that's what that is i think the save act is a body blow here it's going to put them on their heels it's going to uh you know it's going to make it more difficult to cheat without the universal mail-in balloting uh with and without the widespread mail-in ballots it gives a much greater opportunity of catching them in the process when you when you take away certain vellating

of which they're able to manipulate the system and manipulate the elections. I think it makes it a little bit easier. You narrow that focus. So again, I am cautiously optimistic. I think President Trump still has more things that he'll try and get across the finish line before the actual midterms in November. And yeah, we'll see, man. I just hope I hope that we have the midterm elections canceled because that's what they show you.

Well, I mean, I don't totally disqual. agree with that you and i will probably have many uh discussions of this variety and oh i'm sure in the guards this year and on this show this year and i look forward to all of those i'm sure we will uh lee wald and a hoi can con con and chris chris much appreciate your insight and common sense approach stay frosty kids all right thank you temper paratus uh i think that's how you say that's the coast guard's little slogan do you remember during world war two the enemy used merchant vessels as disguised tankers and were at warships subterfuge yep yep i do remember that shannon brock happy friday my two my second favorite f word with some of my favorite badlanders

thanks for being so hard working reasonable and not retarded oh and the best f word is freedom not fudge that's a good rant that's a good rant all right guys thank you all so much for tuning in apologize for not being able to get to the calls uh we went a little bit long. I honestly did not plan on doing that. Again, I do have to cancel. We do have to cancel why we vote tonight. We'll make it up. We got a great show already planned for next Friday. And so Chris, I know you got DPH coming up tomorrow night. Anything else? No, no, I think that's it. And for anyone out there who is unaware, my social media presence is entirely on Substack now. So I'm your moderator.substack.com. So depressing, man. It's not depressing, man. It's great.

Not depressing, depressing. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's not depressing. It's great. Being outside of the mainstream information flow allows a certain perspective that being right in the middle of it every day does not allow. And I've been in all the places. I'm not trying to cast judgments or anything. I'm just saying I think it's important to look from different angles and this is one of those.

I'm just going to pour some out from my homie that's no longer in the All right guys, thank you all so much for tuning in. Have a great weekend and we'll see you later. Thank you so much for joining us and don't forget to hit the thumbs up on this video. And a special thank you to all of our advertising partners. Please remember to shift your dollars to support those businesses that support Badlands Media.