Badlands Media - Badlands Daily: 4/21/26 - VA Gerrymandering, ActBlue Pleads 5th, Free Speech Under Fire

Episode Date: April 21, 2026

CannCon and Ghost bring the Geopolitics Tuesday energy and waste no time. Ghost voted that morning in Virginia's special election on a constitutional amendment that uses the phrase "restore fairness" to push a map that would flip an almost-even state to a 10-to-1 Democrat congressional delegation. The guys break down the naked power grab, CIA-backed governor Abigail Spanberger, and what it all signals about election integrity heading into 2026. ActBlue employees plead the Fifth on 146 questions during House Judiciary depositions, while Ken Paxton files suit over foreign money laundering through gift cards. Tariff refunds hit importers as CannCon and Ghost argue tariffs are America's most powerful non-lethal weapon. The FIU bomb-joke arrest exposes how Florida's antisemitism law is being weaponized against private speech. The Tyler Robinson hearing introduces new surveillance claims nobody has been able to verify. Plus, Gavin Newsom's PAC buys its own bestseller, the House Ethics Committee drops a 28-name misconduct list, and the Lubbock, Texas voting machines fail mid-election.

The Badlands, what are the Badlands? Explain those Badlands. That's a hell of their name. Well, good afternoon, everybody. And welcome to the Daily Herald here on Badlands Media. I'm your host, John Harold. And I'm feeling really good today because we finally got a new declassified document that's actually interesting.

It has to do with our elections. I have a lot I want to kind of talk about. We'll read some of it. Very, it very much confirmed. firms pretty much everything we already knew going back to 2020 so that part of it is like okay well we're like what are we doing here we're treating this as confirmation of something we literally already knew and has been confirmed in so many different ways shapes and forms but there are some interesting aspects to it so we'll we'll discuss the one downside about today though i will say is last night

my my wild team they lost they fought valiantly um I think it's kind of rigged. NHL can be rigged. The officiating. It's annoying. But yeah, we're going to talk about the new document. We got some, what else? Southern Poverty Law Center and how they pay informants to infiltrate groups.

Some Iran stuff, some Virginia voting shenanigans. Alex Jones is once again for like the 10th time being taken over by the onion or he's no longer going to be doing whatever it's happening again we'll talk about that's kind of silly um we have new the isaic accords i think he's interesting we had um another one of trump's cabinet members who resigned because she was being kind of naughty talk about that another tanker we boarded yeah so we'll see oh by the way guys congrats everybody the national debt has crossed the 39 trillion dollar mark it's real exciting stuff we are currently paying 8 $88 billion per month in interest alone, which, yes, that is outpacing our economic growth.

Real fun. Congress is awesome. Government's awesome. PJ Corrigan, Patel Patriot, did you know the twins don't have one foreign-born player on their roster? I actually did not know that. That is interesting to me. Does Dave St. Peter still run that organization? Dave St. Peter.

Let me double check that. yeah he's still the president and CEO of the twins he is an alumni of the same high school that i went to when i was a fundraiser for the catholic school system here uh we did one fundraiser every year in the cities and we'd go and like you'd get us a like a sweep at the twins field and we'd schmooze people so i've gotten to talk to him a couple times yeah the twins they were on a little bit of a tear there for a period what is going on one of the neighbor kids is out front

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Somebody asked if I saw Elon Musk's post about Doge. And so I'm scrolling through, seeing if I can find anything. Here we go. I think this must be this one. Show my screen here quick. So senior official Jeremy Lewin is the Undersecretary of State Informant. Affairs says on Friday the State Department of GHSD released its first wave of PEPFAR data during July through September 2025 after state took over USAID's life-saving health programs.

Contrary to false media narratives, the data shows that President Trump's Foreign Assistance Review maintained and improved frontline life-saving programs while reducing NGO bloat and costs. You know, there's something else I saw. I'm not going to go through this whole thing. But there's something else I saw this week and I wish I would have saved the post. but it was like an examination of some NGOs here in America and how there is like a significant chunk of NGOs that are 100% funded by taxpayer dollars and these people are making like hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars

that's just like government money government jobs it's ridiculous anyway Elon Musk said only the fraud was stopped by Doge and even then only some of the fraud and yeah considering there's no update on the Doge website. That sounds right. Gold, silver. Let me refresh this because it's probably changed since earlier. Yeah.

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There's a whole bunch of presidential actions. they're all tied to Trump using the Defense Production Act to... Where is that story yet? Oh, what that? I have the story somewhere. Try that again. Home for processing, guys. I thought it was all like...

I was super excited. I was super organized for today's show. I had everything like I thought where it needed to be. And maybe I... Maybe I was wrong. Trump cites Defense Production Act to sign energy-related memorandums. President Trump invoked the DPA on Monday to sign a series of energy-related presidential memorandums. The White House announced with aims to tackle rising fuel prices as a result of U.S. and Israel's war on Iran.

He signed memorandums on coal supply chains, domestic petroleum production, natural gas transmission, and liquefied natural gas capacity. They also signed memos on grid infrastructure and other energy-related infrastructure. Today's determinations allow the Department of Energy to use funding. secured in the one big, beautiful bill to strengthen our grid infrastructure and unleash reliable, affordable, secure energy. The Defense Production Act is a Cold War era piece of legislation aimed at boosting production of goods for national security purposes. Rising fuel prices have triggered higher prices in U.S. on a range of goods and services from airline tickets and housing to fertilizer and groceries. So there's that. DeBralt says maybe there isn't school today.

just saw neighbor kids on the trampoline. My kids are at school. And I know for sure one of the kids goes to public school because their mom teaches there. Yes, I am discombobulated today. The dens are, this from new case, the dens are showing how scared they are rolling out Obama to push that ballot measure to amend the VA constitution so they can gerrymander and steal like a dozen house seats. Yeah, that's ridiculous. And it's funny because they're like voting on it, right? In an election, but our elections are fake which we're going to go through here shortly and so it's just the regime changing their own district name it's insane cec says it was their nanny and with three with the three littles she's peaked outside i'm pretty sure i saw the one that's supposed to be in school it wasn't but anyway let's um let's get into this the big story

i would say from the day is right here just the news john Solomon. U.S. Intel secretly flagged major 2020 election vulnerabilities, including voter data, according to a memo. Months before the 2020 presidential election, U.S. intelligence issued a secret but stark warning that foreign adversaries had the capability to compromise America's voting infrastructure and raise specific concerns about the vulnerability of voter registration databases that later would be penetrated by China and Iran, a newly declassified memo attained by just the news shows. The National Intelligence Councils, NIC's concerns were so extensive that officials personally briefed President Donald Trump at the White House in February of 2020, according to photos obtained by Justin News showing top CIA FBI and Homeland Security officials joining with NIC analysts to inform the president.

But the American public was never fully alerted, even after evidence emerged that China had gained access to voter registration data in multiple states and had even sent fake driver's license in the United States in a bid to help Joe Biden win the election. I'm going to go through the memo here in a second, and I just want to talk about one thing. So we had over the weekend, and I think I played the clip yesterday, I might have even played multiple clips yesterday. So the John Solomon one from Benny Johnson last week, where he was like, we're going to have hypersonic clarity. A whole bunch of declassified documents are going to be coming out soon. So stay tuned. Curious if this is part of that. The second interesting thing is Casper Tell when he was on with Maria Boll.

about a Romo, he was talking about the election stuff at the very end. He's like, you know, maybe stay tuned. You'll see some of that this week. I know what? I'm going to even pull that up. Cash Patel, Maria. I won't play the whole clip, but I'm going to play the very end of it where he says this because I think it's interesting.

Actually, this is only a minute long clip, so we'll play the whole thing. Well, Cash, hold on. Because when you started this interview, you said, Maria, you and I have been working together for a long time. And this is exactly what you were referring to. You were on my show repeatedly talking about the. the Russia collusion story. And our audience wants to know why there's never any accountability.

But specifically the question that I asked you was about election integrity and whether or not you had any information to verify what President Trump says all the time, which is the election was rigged. That's what I asked you, Cash. I'm sorry, Maria, I misheard. Yes. So what we are doing is folding that into our entire conspiracy case. And we will let the prosecution speak for him.

But we have the information that backs President Trump's claim. But because it's an ongoing prosecution and investigation, I can't get ahead of the DOJ and the president. But President Trump speaks truthfully when he says that. And that's what I've been talking about. When we find terabytes of data on computers from the last 10 years that we were supposed to find 10 years ago, that's what it took. It took his reelection. It took this FBI to go in there and find it. And it takes a long time to get through that material.

But I would say stay tuned this week. You might see a thing or two. At the very end there, he says, I would say, stay tuned this week. You might see a thing or two. And then we get this from John Solomon. Now, is this what Cash Patel was referring to? Because if it is, it does confirm a few things. It confirms that the intelligence agencies, Cash Patel, D&I, Tulsi Gabbard or whatever,

they're all in on the release of these documents, and they're releasing it specifically to John Solomon. how did cash it again if this is what cash pettel is talking about one of the things he said a thing or two if this is it then he knew ahead of time that they're going to be releasing this and they did it to john solomon and that is notable those two worked together they were both trump's representatives to naro while biden was in office and remember i've said this so many times john solomon while he does like to sell the occasional fine persian rug he is the guy who was the last known person with the the russia gate binder remember i've gone through that story at least the this is the story we're told we don't know how much truth there is to it but allegedly mark meadows gave john solomon

the binder the day before biden was to be inaugurated and it was because it was all declassified right so john solomon brings a guy in with a scanner and they're scanning through every single page of this binder and then he gets a call from secret service or somebody at the FBI i don't remember which one it's like hey we need to declassify a couple more things out of there so we're going to come by and pick it up so in the morning somebody comes by, picks it up in like a Costco bag or something and takes it home. And that's the last we allegedly ever saw that. But John Solomon had the documents and he had a scanner. I believe he scanned him all.

He had them all the whole time. The whole story itself just doesn't make any sense. Anyway, so I think that that part of it is interesting. Another part of this, this was actually declassified on March 16th. If my math is correct, that was over a month ago. So why are we getting it now? It was declassified back then. Why did we not get it back then?

Why wait a month and a half? Do they have a whole bunch of declassified documents that they're just like feeding to us to placate us? I think that's a fair question. I know some people like you see a classified declassified document. It confirms something we already knew. so this isn't really any new information whatsoever. It's just showing that, yeah, the intelligence community knew about this ahead of time.

Obviously, they knew about this ahead of time. The whole thing was the inside job and a cover up. I mean, think of what was it, Chris Krebs, the most secure election in American history, that whole memo. They were totally in on this. They knew about this the whole time. This is not new information. It's just the same information in a new form, a new document.

So why couldn't this come up before? You guys get what I'm saying? I do have a clip from John Solomon today about the Rico Grande, so we'll we'll talk about that here in a minute. But I want to go through some of this document because probably one of my favorite lines in here that we've got like an admission from the intelligence community, the same ones who said that it was the most secure election in American history like six days after. No, no, there have been eight days, right? November 13th, I think that was of 2020. The election was November, was it November 3rd or 5th? I can't remember.

It's so freaking long. Isn't that crazy? Anyway, the most secure election in American history. Well, yeah, that's probably a little too soon for you guys to say. Key takeaway. This memo assesses the potential impact of cyber operations against U.S. election infrastructure for the 2020 presidential election, including the voting process and integrity of results. It does not assess adversary intentions or views of U.S. vulnerabilities.

They assess at least Russia, China. Iran and North Korea have the capability to access and potentially manipulate data in U.S. election-related computer systems, systems that tabulate, transmit, or display election results are vulnerable to localized exploitation. I'm going to skip down to that one because they go through the various different kinds, the centralized data repositories, voter data, all that. We know that they've actually gotten into that. They did that for sure in 2020.

But this other one, the vote administering systems. vulnerable to localized exploitation. This is the thing that they've always told us is not possible. And even in this memo, they kind of say, well, I mean, it's possible. It's just, you know, not at scale. The same thing the media said. Of course, of course voter fraud exists. Of course people can, you know, cheat in an election.

They just can't do it at the scale necessary to change the outcome. There's no outcome to turn determinative fraud or whatever, the phrases that they always used. I don't think that's necessarily true. We assess that systems designed to tabulate votes, transmit vote amounts, or display election results probably are vulnerable to localized exploitation, but would be difficult to manipulate at scale. There it is. For example, hackers have repeatedly demonstrated that some voting machines are easy to compromise. Direct recording electronic machines, which record and process votes digitally and store tabulation in removable memory, are particularly vulnerable to. to cyber operations, especially machines with no paper backup.

Such machines, however, are used far less than other, more secure types of voting machines. This is where it gets, these next couple ones are pretty juicy. Adversaries who obtained physical access to voting machines could alter how they function, manipulate the data in them, or install malware, according to U.S. state and academic investigations. At the 2019 DefCon Cybersecurity Conference, hackers demonstrated the ability to compromise more than 100 voting machines, all of which had been certified for use in at least one U.S. voting jurisdiction. That seems like kind of a big deal.

Poll book hacking example. Polbook was modified in 2019 DefCon Voting Machine Hacking Village to run the popular video game Doom, according to press reporting. That's hilarious. 31 states in the District of Columbia allow, eligible voters to submit absentee ballots via internet or fax, making these votes susceptible to disruption or manipulation. Four states allow voters to return absentee ballots via a web-based portal. Again, remember, this is all back in 2020. Not much has changed, though. Seven allow some voters to return ballots via fax only, and one allows mobile voting secured with blockchain

technology. Absentee votes, however, are small in number and typically closely monitored for anomalies. That's not true. We assess that vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results. Wait till you hear the explanation as to why they say that. The systems in each voting location are not connected to the internet. Surveyed to the side of that's not true. What is the thing that, what's his name says? Mori?

That's not true? Like that's not true. We've had countless examples of these machines being connected to the internet. or to each other and many methods for exploiting them rely on physical proximity. Many, not all, by the way. Although an adversary could manipulate voting results across multiple jurisdictions and enough states to influence a presidential election, think of that admission right there.

Yes, they qualified it with an although and have a sentence afterwards, which we'll get to in a second. but this is an admission that an adversary or somebody could manipulate voting results across multiple jurisdictions and enough states to influence a presidential election. So even though in other places it would be difficult to do at scale,

they can do it, but not to change the outcome of the election. That's bullshit. It can happen. But the reason that they said, well, it's unlikely is because conducting such a campaign would be difficult, of course,

but not that difficult if you have a willing and complicit intelligence community and a willing and complicit entire party, a uniparty even, trying to get rid of Trump. And then the media who helped get helped cover it up and the DOJ that was willing to look the other way. When you have like everybody in positions of power, social media, censoring people who even wanted to talk about this stuff, a campaign like that actually wouldn't be that difficult at all. And that's what they had. They had every lever of power working against talking about this or getting to the bottom of it. And then here this last line.

And that post-election audits and paper trails very likely would uncover such an effort. Yeah, you'll wonder why they don't want us to look at those ballots. You wonder why we haven't had an actual proper audit of any of these things. Look at what Tulsi Gabbard's doing down in Georgia right now or the FBI, whatever, Tulsi Gavro is down there. everybody freaked out. I want to know why they're freaking out is because of this right here. Actual post-election audits and actual paper trails probably do exist showing the fraud and how bad it was and they don't want us looking at it.

But this is like one of the biggest lines I've seen from the intelligence community, even though it's nothing that we didn't already know. And maybe knows a strong word. Maybe we just assume this to be true and we need an official intelligence community document to be like, oh yeah, I guess that's true. But this is a new information. This is what we lived. We lived the stolen election of 2020.

There's no way in hell that Joe Biden got 81 real lawful American votes. We lived that. We lived the four years of Biden. The 2024 election was no better. We've had this discussion just because Trump won, our election systems are not fixed. And Trump has repeatedly said that as well. And know the Save America Act is not going to save America or our voting system. So them attaching that to the FISA thing.

is retarded don't allow it but we've we've lived this and this is the first time i've seen i think the intelligence community actually admit that yeah i guess it is possible that they could manipulate voting results to a scale that could actually change the outcome of an election it's amazing c s usb geocam another black this isn't a black this is amazing this is a great day we got new documents and they confirm all the biases we could ever want confirmed. It's great stuff. Spetzel says post-election paper trails

would uncover such an effort in quotes. Then he says, only if you could actually look at the paper trails which is prohibited in every state. Yes. Isn't that ridiculous? They think we're dumb and you know, it's probably true, we are dumb. Maybe not

we as in like Badlands and you guys in the audience but at scale I would say the people are retarded and they capitalized on that in 2020 Spencer says Pfizer is going to pass why not attach to Save America Act

I mean if it's going to pass regardless Congress is illegitimate I'm just saying like don't celebrate that as a victory like they are literally taking away your right they're infringing upon your constitutional rights but don't worry you guys get the Save America Act I bet they won't even get that through though they're not going to be able to attach it

John trust the plan man John it's far past time to bring back the but the people are retarded guy I think I have that guy in here I can add that screen hold on I got that saved in my folder somewhere I think it's this one Scott Galt says I don't think that people are retarded

I think they are naive and entertained beyond belief where they won't pay attention to this stuff I mean yeah I get what you're saying that's definitely part of the problem and maybe I'm being a little harsh maybe people aren't retarded although I do actually think they are. I just think not enough people cared back in 2020.

And I think a lot of what's happened, not enough people cared this time around. And maybe now they're starting to care a little bit more with this Iran situation, which is kind of cool. But the people are retarded. Joe Gilmore says, in Scott Pressler's gay cowboy boots, we trust. Yeah, fuck that.

I was about to say fuck that guy, but I didn't want him to think that was me coming on to him or something. Let's listen to this video. This is from John Solomon this morning on, on with Bannon, talking about the big conspiracy. And again, this is,

this isn't really new information. I thought, I thought we already knew this, but he's talking about this new declassified memo and how it relates to the Rico Grand case going on. It is interesting. I'm going to speed it up, though, a little bit to 1,25. In a second.

50% of this conspiracy was carried out on Donald Trump's watch against it by the people that he trusted around him. Now, I put that photo out this morning so everybody could see who's in the room. Gina Haskell, CIA director, top FBI officials, top whole man security officials. If Chris Porter is right that the president ordered those documents released that day, and those people walked out of the room and say, I ain't going to do it, there should be a consequence for that.

That is defying a presidential order. If after that, if some of the things that happened in the 2020 election, because they were still vulnerable, occurred and we didn't tell the American people, we came out and said it was a perfect election, most secure election in history, those people could be held to account. I thought the single most important thing that Cash Patel said on Sunday with Marie Marta Roma wasn't the deadline because you and I've been talking about that deadline now for about a month. It was the fact that he considers some of this election matters to be part of the grand conspiracy. So there looks to be a fifth element. All right, we got Russia collusion,

Ukraine impeachment, classified documents, Arctic Frost, which is the effort to repackage January 6 into some sort of insurrection against the Constitution. But Cash Patel saying the fifth element, which falls between 1-2 and 3-4, is the end. effort to hide vulnerabilities that were going on in the election and perhaps allow certain election rule changes to occur that violated state laws. I want to remind everybody that when Cash rated Georgia, he said that the law, so the reason I played this is based on this new memo that came out, I, again, I think it's speculation on my part for sure, but I do think it's the same thing that Cash Patel was talking about, meaning he knew ahead of time John Solomon was going to be releasing this.

It was time the memo was declassified a month ago, over a month ago. That's all interesting to me. And now he's coming out talking about something I think we already had talked about many times. I think it was obvious. But the Rico Gran case, he's like, yeah, this election thing is now part of that. It was all part of the whole thing, obviously. If the Rico Gran case does what it's supposed to be doing, and it sucks that it seems like it's had to almost start back at square one, maybe a little better than square one with the firing of the prosecutor and bringing in a new one. But if it does what it's supposed to do, you should very easily be able to,

tie a string around all these different events from Russiagate to the impeachment hoax to COVID, which I don't think they're bringing that in there yet, but they should. But the COVID was kind of done for the election situation, which is he's now saying is in there. And then into the Mar-Lago raid and all that other stuff after the fact. Those are all connected and all done by the same people. So yeah, cool, cool to see some more declassified documents. I hope we get more. Hope we get more.

New case, I hate that work interrupts the conversations in Badlands chat I'm trying to have. Don't they know who they're inconveniencing? Yeah, that is annoying. New case, I remember Solomon saying there wasn't enough fraud in 2020 to reverse the outcome. Still have a hard time trusting him since. Yeah, I agree with that too. Like anybody who said that, that's ridiculous. And there's a lot of people who said that dating back to, you know, prior to 2020, even like,

elections are fine. Trust elections, we'll trust results, all these things. They all kept their plans. platforms criminal in my opinion but while we don't have to necessarily trust john solomon it does appear at times that he is part of the disclosure rollout of a lot of these things monti seven i good to see a monte says sarge likes to say pro tarded professionally retarded there a lot of those out there um anyway so yeah that that has me excited today the declassified documents we'll see um hopefully we get more soon. Oh, we have this. Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces a Justice Department

criminal probe over paid informants. Southern Poverty Law Center says the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department faces possible charges over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. I mean announcement Tuesday saying President Trump's administration appears to be preparing legal action. The Southern Poverty Law Center previously paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups and gather information on their activities, often sharing it with local and federal law enforcement. It was used to monitor threats of violence, he said, adding that the program was kept quiet to protect the safety of informants.

I think it'd be interesting to see, like, if they do bring charges, if they ever came out with a list of people that did that. I wonder how many people in like our little corner of the world get out at as, like, that's not sure, or paid informants, whatever for the enemy. You know, there are so many people out there that do not. like they want to pretend they're authentic and operate with integrity but they're total either infiltrators paid or just the worst kind of people in the world totally dishonest they're out there um bay theater david i'm still standing on the everything everywhere

all at once rug the rico grande maybe the big reveal none of this gets sorted out gradually i hope that's true man that is one comfy soft cozy little rug i think there's plenty of us standing on it. What else we got? We have Virginia's voting today on the redistricting plan that could boost Democrats' seats in Congress. Like I said earlier, they are using a fraudulent election system to increase the number of seats Democrats have in Congress, in the illegitimate Congress.

It's ridiculous. Virginia voters on Tuesday are deciding whether to ratify an unusual mid-decade redrawing of House U.S. House districts that could boost Democrats' chances of flipping control of the closely divided chamber as the state becomes the latest front in a national redistricting battle. A proposed constitutional amendment backed by Democratic officials would bypass the state's bipartisan redistricting commission to allow use of new congressional districts approved by state lawmakers in this year's midterm elections. The referendum, which needs a simple majority to pass, test the Democrats' ability to push back against Donald Trump, who started the gerrymandering competition between states after successfully urging Texas Republicans to redraw congressional districts

in their favor last year. Virginia is a second state after California last fall to put the question to voters. It also tests voters' willingness to accept districts gerrymandered for political advantage. Coming just six years after Virginia voters approved an amendment meant to diminish such partisan gamesmanship by shifting redistricting away from the legislation. just later later this is the let's look at the statewide view current boundaries proposed boundary look at that right now virginia is represented excuse me in the house by six Democrats and five Republicans that could change of voters pass the redrawn map the new boundaries show

the party makeup could be what they could be okay I want to see the numbers anyway ridiculous final demand for five dollars says Nancy Mays taking a shot and spitting it into someone else's mouth, who then proceeds to spit into someone else's mouth, is the video I didn't think I would need today on X. What? Give me that link. I want to see that link. You have to, if you give me a $5 for a rant for that, we all have to watch it. Need happen. Does Badlands have rugmerch yet? We've talked about it. I don't think we've ever actually done it. Tommy's Russell. Trump's starting gerrymandering. Retarded. Aren't we getting some SCOTUS ruling that is going to stop the Dems from cheating with gerrymandering? Yeah, we're

supposed to get that ruling, but they're delaying it. Everybody's saying they're delaying. it's too late for it to have any impact on the midterms. Where's the clip of Nancy Mace, guys? Somebody share it with me. I don't really want to search Nancy Mace spit, but I will. I'll just search Nancy Mace, see what pops up. I know there's a lot of drama about Nancy Mace, though. Like, she's going after Corey Mills and Corey, like, they're both trying to file

things to kick each other out. It's weird and stupid. Yeah, I don't see how many video out here. I'm not going to search Nancy May spitting, but I don't see it. So I'll wait for you to share it final demand. Otherwise, we're moving on. The Onion launches new bid to take over Alex Jones InfoWars and turn it into a parody platform. The Onion is back with a new plan to take over InfoWords platforms of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

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approved by the judge. they're going to turn into a left-wing comedy network, which is basically what it is right now. The final demand shared a link. Ew. So she's doing shots. Spits in somebody else's mouth. They don't spin.

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Big sale going right now. Yeah. So looking forward to his last dream of video where all he talks about is selling supplements. You know, it's coming. Yeah, I mentioned earlier. The U.S. debt has reached a $39 trillion. Super fun. It's up from 38.5 trillion in 2025 and 36 trillion in 2024.

That's not. We've gone three trillion in just two years. Realty's accelerating to add another trillion in five months. I think by the end of this year we're going to be at $40 trillion. I think that's what we're on pace for. Interest payments alone are at $88 billion per month. Nothing to see here.

Everything is fine. We got, I don't even know what to say about this. Like negotiation stuff, nothing really new. Trump says he's going to bomb them if we don't, you know, reach an agreement, but he's not extending the deadline, but we're probably sending more people to Pakistan soon. It's also stupid. Rerun, rerun, rerun.

Trump definitely shared AI pictures, though, of people. Like, these are definitely AI pictures. Some persons like, not a word from the international community or so-called human rights organizations about the Islamic Republic hanging eight women. Trump shares that. To the Iranian leaders who will soon be negotiations with my representatives, I would greatly appreciate the release of these women. Don't exist.

I am sure that they will respect the fact that you did so. Please do them no harm. Would be great start to our negotiations. Thank you for attention to this matter. It just further to me confirms my thoughts that sometimes Trump just is like on the toilet taking a shit and scrolling through his true social feed and it's like, ah, I'll truth this post. This makes sense. Some things are super like serious and he does him with intention. Sometimes I just think he's boomer scrolling and looks for things to show.

share. Hewlett says, remove China's debt for EO 13848. That'd be fun. Make it 50 trillion. I was just going to keep going on. Skeptical, I was waiting for him to say, go get your soft disclosure.

Should we propose him being an affiliate of ours? Yeah, let's read through some of these. Operation Midnight Hammer was a complete and total obliteration of the nuclear dust sites in Iran. Therefore, digging it out will be a long and difficult process. Fake news, CNN and other corrupt media networks and platforms fail to give our great aviators the credit they deserve, always trying to demean and belittle losers.

Did Trump actually coin the phrase nuclear dust? Amazing if you did. I'm talking about Tim Cook, who's resigning or retiring, whatever. It says Virginia vote no to save your country. Iran has violated the ceasefire numerous times. Never allow the traitor Democrats like low IQ person, Hakeem Jeffries or crying Chuck Schumer or the totally corrupt fake news media such as the phony and decaying Wall Street Journal, the failing New York Times, subscriptions way down,

or dying 60 minutes to demean or criticize Operation Midnight Hammer, which totally obliterated the nuclear dust locations to the point where bloodthirsty Iran has been unable to get to it or dig it out. Space Force has cameras on every inch of the three sites that were so brilliantly hit last June. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Hold on. So the whole reason we're told that we went to war with Iran because we can never let them get a nuclear weapon. But now we did such a good job bombing their nuclear dust locations that they can't even get to it or dig it out. So what does that mean? Seems like one of those contradictions everybody's talking about. don't care about a book don't care about endorsements

yeah I think that's all I got on his true social name I have other stories Jay Hamstoneface says the problem with lies you have to remember your lies Ramone 2-22 the nuke dust can be identified by the isotopes that may be the incentive

to have it to prove where it came from the U.S. Yeah a lot of people are saying that and I think it'd be very, it'd be very interesting, like obviously a big part of the story, if that's true. But I think it's all speculation so far. Joe Gilmore, I see a solid video game on the horizon. What kind of video game you talk about, man? Trump tells CNBC he expects to make a great deal with Iran.

He says it's going to end up with a great deal to end the war. Trump cities does not expect he will extend a ceasefire with Iran. We've taken out their Navy. We've taken out their Air Force. We've taken out their leaders. So who we negotiating with? I think they have no choice, Trump said during the interview. When asked what he expects to come out of the second round of peace negotiations,

yeah, nothing new. We'll keep going. Another rogue judge is blocking the Trump administration's actions to stop solar projects, win projects. And this is exactly what the founding fathers intended, like one rogue judge being able to totally derail a president and his agenda. Federal judge on Tuesday Black President Trump's administration from enforcing a series of permitting policies

that wind and solar energy industry groups say have stymied the development of new energy generation projects. Ridiculous. Oh, look at this, guys. This is new on Politico. Mark Cuban is finally moving on from Kamala Harris. The bravery it would take

to like just now in, what is it, April of 2026, to move on from Kamala Harris. Like that is just stunning and astounding bravery. Like I cannot wait for the documentary of Mark Cuban and is moving on from Kamala Harris. What a vagina this guy is, by the way? I'm gonna hate Mark Cuban.

A bunch of propaganda about how the Republicans are allegedly trying to quash the Epstein investigation. If anything, these stories, the Democrats and Republicans, whatever back and forth is even happening, it's all to keep the narrative alive. Johnson, Mr. Speaker Mike Johnson

in his nice package. He touts bipartisan path for FISA reauthorization, but obstacles remain. Speaker Mike Johnson is raising the possibility of a bipartisan path forward on extending a key spy authority after negotiations among House Republicans blew up late last week.

What do you think the founding fathers would have said about FISA? I mean, not that they could have probably conceptualized the technology at the time but just the principle of it especially if like they heard of the abuses like secret courts secret warrants nobody to represent the side being spied upon kind of feel like the founding fathers would have not appreciated that if anything they would have been like yeah that's kind of what they went to war against wasn't it the king secret courts and shit the taxes, obviously. Tommy's Russell.

So what's your take? John Trump said it should be ended a few years ago, didn't he? Yes. He did. So all like the Republicans that are like, we got to use the Save Act to pass this thing. They're not going to pass a Save Act no matter what. Like, I understand Spetzel's point in the chat earlier where he said,

well, if they're going to pass this anyway, which they are, might as well attach something, you know, something to it that we want. They're not going to attach a save act to this. The emergency short term reauthorization, Congress cleared last week expires April 30th, putting pressure on lawmakers to reach a deal quickly. Among the GOP leaders are discussing among the options, if the Senate can advance a three-year

extension of Section 702 of the FISA Act or Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act with policy changes, the House could then pass it with a majority of Republicans and some Democrats, according to three people, granted anonymity to share direct knowledge of the ongoing conversations. It's also possible Johnson could put that measure on the House floor under the expedited or under a expedited procedure that does not require prior adoption of a party line rule. We need two-thirds majority. I ain't getting two-thirds. Most Democratic leaders, meanwhile, aren't promising cooperation, and they are skeptical, Johnson,

is as close to a deal as he might suggest. It's all so stupid politics are ridiculous. What else? I already did that story. I think those are all new. I think I'm out of my headlines. Let me see if there's anything else new quick. It's so funny doing like the, I just do the for you like search thing on Twitter.

Conservatives push through and to force vote on Save America Act. They've been pushing him to do that for like six months it feels, maybe longer. He's clearly not going to pass it. And then everybody's like, oh, well, you must resign then. If he's not going to do the thing you want him to do, you think he's going to resign instead. Give me a break. He's not going to. anywhere. He's doing exactly what the unit party wants him to do. And he's going to continue to do that.

Yeah, I think that's all I got. Unless you guys got anything for me. The weakness of our leader in the Senate soon will just take the American Save Act out of the bill. They're all unit party guys. They are not going to do anything that can help us or help Trump in his agenda. Oh yeah, Polly, I heard you're on No Treason podcast. I knew you were going to be on there, but I haven't had a chance to watch. But I want to. I heard it was really good. E.H. Kyle says the founding fathers would have said it's totally unconstitutional.

Yeah, that's kind of my thoughts too. Liberty Alliance says they would have hung a bunch of people. That's probably true as well. Lots of things wrong with that. But it's just, it's funny to watch like how social media works with these things. Because yeah, like it's unconstitutional. If you would have gone back to 2024, the rhetoric around reauthorizing FISA, especially when Trump's like, you can't do this, don't do it. Everybody on social media, all the influencers were totally in agreement with that.

I was unconstitutional and it's like totally corrupt, all these things. But now they're okay with it, as long as we can get the Save America Act in there. Well, now Trump said this time we better do it. So that's cool. We better do it this time because Trump likes it this time now. even though he admitted that's giving up his constitutional rights to do it it's ridiculous escape the matrix this is news a four-star admiral testified earlier that bitcoin shows incredible potential as a tool for u.s national security ooh that is juicy let me see if he post that on

twitter so i can't like it's not there's no easy way to share telegram i think it's this right here it's another subject of competition with china is isn't just about military strength, it also includes monetary strength as well. You know, last year the Chinese Communist Party's main monetary think tank published research on Bitcoin as a strategic asset. You know, this came after President Trump moved to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve. Admiral, how does leadership in Bitcoin impact leverage, resilience, deterrence for Indo-Pacom against China? And do you think that a strategic Bitcoin reserve helps America compete against China?

Senator, our research into Bitcoin is as a computer science tool. It's the combination of cryptography, a blockchain, and a proof of work. And Bitcoin shows incredible potential as a computer science tool that through the proof of work protocols, it actually imposes more cost than just the algorithmic securing of networks and our ability to operate. And Bitcoin is a reality. It is a valuable computer science tool as a power projection. and outside of the economic formulation of it, it has got really important computer science applications

for cybersecurity. Thank you. What recommendations do you have for us here in Congress on how the U.S. can lead on Bitcoin competition? You know, I have to go deeper on that with you for the record, and I can go deeper on that case, but Bitcoin is a reality. It is a peer-to-peer zero trust transfer of value,

anything that supports the all instruments of national, power for the United States of America is to the good. Thank you. Going to the good. Real quick, guys, one more sponsor of today's show. And then there's a comment in the chat. I really need to address. Super important.

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That's what I want. honestly if they can't get a running back like Jeremiah Love which is going to go very early not going to get him the other Notre Dame running back is super good but they could probably

they could probably get a running back to second round they need a running back but my sneaky pick that I think that I wish they would do like every like they're going to go defensive safety whatever I kind of want to see him get either wide receiver or that that tight end Sadiq or whatever from Oregon

runs like a 439 or something crazy. I think that would be cool. So those are my sneaky picks. It's probably going to be a defenseman. But if I had to like, hey, do something a little out there. Kevin O'Connell, you know he wants another offensive weapon. We'll see what happens.

Free with a $15 book every 21 days. Tourville is a great football coach and most call him coach. Always draft defense. I mean, I would just do best player available. That's what I mean, everybody always in the drafts. You always see like these people that try to get like super, like we have, we're super strong everywhere. We just have one need at, you know, left tackle. So let's go just get the best left tackle in the draft, even though he's probably not better than somebody else available.

You can, you can sign people in free agency. And like, yeah, you can draft projects or whatever. But if I were a GM, you know, which maybe after I'm done being a lotion mogul and. you know, future tampon, you know, Zar and this whole media thing. Maybe I'll move into NFL GM stuff. It's always best player available all the time. That's how you put together Super Bowl rosters.

PJ Corrigan, charges are going all offensive line, all nine picks. Anyway, guys, I'm going to get out of here. I think Ghost is live. So I'll raid you guys over to him. Hope you guys have a good rest of your day. I'll be back here tomorrow at 1. 1 p.m. Eastern right here on the Daily Herald. You guys keep it real. That's you later.