Badlands Media - Badlands Daily: 4/22/26 - SPLC Indicted, Intel Memo Drops, VA Gerrymandering Aftermath

Episode Date: April 22, 2026

CannCon and Ashe in America come in hot on Wednesday with a show that delivers. The Virginia gerrymandering amendment passed 51/49, and Ash breaks down the multiple constitutional violations the Virginia Supreme Court allowed to stand, setting up a messy legal fight ahead. A newly declassified intel memo confirms US intelligence secretly warned in early 2020 that foreign adversaries had the capability to access and manipulate election infrastructure, and then withheld that information from the public while China and Iran did exactly what was predicted. The Southern Poverty Law Center is indicted on 11 counts of wire and bank fraud and money laundering after being caught paying the KKK and other extremist groups to manufacture the racial threat they were supposed to be fighting. The New York Times obtains secret Supreme Court shadow docket memos from 2015 and 2016, raising serious questions about who is actually running the show. Plus, Kevin Warsh's Fed nomination hearing, three Democrat congress members resigning in a week, and a principled debate on due process in the Cherfilus-McCormick resignation.

Good morning, Badlandia. Welcome to Badlands Daily. Today's Ash Wednesday, so I'm joined by Ash. Thank you. That's not a blasphemy. How you doing, Ash? I'm doing all right. I'm doing our right.

You good after the Avs game last night? Yeah. Oh, yeah. The abs are going to sweep. We're going to take the whole thing this year. As long as it's not a Canadian team, I'm okay with it. as long as long as it's not a canadian the bolts beat the uh the canadians in overtime the bruin's gave bb a heart attack actually they didn't he wasn't even watching the

game i saw that between you too i'm like because they're up four to nothing and with like six minutes to go uh they score two goals in like in like a minute and then they you know with i don't know maybe four minutes to go they pull they pull their goalie and uh they were i mean they were all over they were peppering vasslatch i can never say his name uh they were not uh that's the lightning what am i thinking anyways i was i text bb and i'm like oh shit or in the chat i'm like oh i hope this doesn't happen again because the last game uh the sabers scored like three in a row like within like three minutes and so i was like oh man i hope this doesn't happen again to him but uh they ended up prevailing so there we go so how are um kaleb's hockey projections holding up uh so far so good i

I mean, we're only two games into most of the series. You know, I think, I can't remember what game it was the other day. There's a couple that are still at one game. So, so far, so good. I tend to agree with his assessments. And for those that don't know what we're talking about, Ash's son, Caleb was on Ychromes on Monday, filling in for alpha. And we made hockey predictions. Well, he made hockey predictions.

It was like 40 minutes of sports puck. Yeah, sports puck. It's better than sports ball, to be honest with you. 100% it is. It's the only real sport there is. Hockey's a base sport. And everybody loves to hate the avalanche. You hate us because you ain't us.

We're going to win. We're back-to-back cup champs. I don't want to hear that crap. Where are you at now, Brian? We're at home relaxing for the first time in four seasons. For the first time in four seasons. We went to three cups. We won two of them.

Florida's had the cup like five out of the last six years. Get off of us. The franchise said, you know what? We're just going to let somebody else have it this year. We don't even have snow in Florida. And we've got like, I think it's either four or five of the last six Stanley Cups down here. So eat it, eat it. You hate us because you hate.

Do you see the glass shatter over the Kings coach? That was crazy. It was crazy. Like coaches just sitting there. There was a penalty shot. And then like after it, like the fans were celebrating the save. And like the glass just breaks right on the coach. They had to stop the game and that was nuts, man.

That could have been dangerous. Yeah, but certainly looked dangerous. Yeah. He's going to be pulling ice out or glass out everywhere. Yeah, that was crazy. All right, guys, let's get into the show. Before we do that, let's talk about our sponsors. Guys, welcome to Benson Honey Farms, where every jar is pure gold.

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All right. Let's jump right into the news. And well, before we do that, I guess I have to get the screen pulled up here. And we got the vote yesterday in Virginia. Well, we didn't get the vote, but they got the vote. It's done. 50, what was it, 5149, Glenn Yonkin says, thanks to all the voters who turned out to vote against this egregious power grab. The race was much closer than the left expected because Virginia knows it's a 10 to one map is not Virginia.

I urge the Virginia Supreme Court to rule against this unconstitutional process that will disenfranchise millions of Virginians. And, you know, yesterday with Ghost, who's a Virginia, we talked about the way that this ballot was, ballot measure or constitutional amendment proposed amendment was worded and you know me and ash hashed it out a little bit last night on um on uh badlands book club because we're talking about stolen elections we finally we're done we're done talking about stolen election the book so we're definitely not done talking about stolen elections because all shows are why we vote now but we're done talking about the stolen elections the takedown of democracy's worldwide book by ralph pa zulu which has perpetually put me in a bad mood since we start

of it. So I'm happy about that. Correct. So yeah, again, the way that this ballot question was worded on the ballot, so you go to vote, right? You have no idea really what you're voting for. I mean, you maybe have a general idea of what you're voting for, but you go in there, you look at your ballot and it says, question, should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census. Now, you know, I immediately called out the term restore fairness. That is wildly partisan. And that is wildly leading, right? Everybody wants fairness, right? We are, we are a generation of

equity now from the last 10, 20 years in this country. But go ahead, Ash. Well, no, so, I haven't followed this race as closely as you have, but it sounds like to me that Democrats got power in the gubernatorial election last, you know, the last time that they held an election. I think the Schuitts, Spamberger was elected in 25, right? Yeah. Yeah. And so they and then they set about to redraw their districts to make it a 10 to 1. Is that right? Yep. Yeah. And so when we say when we say that elections are fake, And when I'm asked about this by like normal people that don't, you know, have all the information, when they said, what do you mean elections are fake? I started the drawing of the districts because it is a political process. And we saw this in the Louisiana case, the arguments before the Supreme Court about that redistricting case. It's a section two, VRA case. And the arguments centered on part of the discussion, part of the colloquies between the parties and the justices centered on.

on whether or not they could protect Mike Johnson's seat as speaker in Louisiana and draw districts in such a way that protected the controlling parties seat. And the thing that was astounding to me, we talked about this at the time, I think, was that everybody was in agreement that that was totally fine. Everybody's in agreement that it's totally fine

for the political parties to engage in a process that draws districts, not in a representative way, but in a way that protects their party power. That's maddening. That's fake. It's not real. That is not that is not representation. It is not democracy. It's certainly not anything resembling a constitutional republic. So here's now here's the deal yesterday. I mean, this was kind of relatively new to me, right? I mean, I knew this vote was coming. I didn't know the nuance and the details behind the vote and leading up to the vote. And there are challenges in this. And I think, you know, one of the things that really aggravates me about this process is that the Virginia Supreme Court. is allowing a process to continue that is going to result in like huge friction in the state of Virginia. And so here's here's just quickly how this went. When this was a proposed, excuse me, proposed the Republican Party did sue and they won in a district court in a circuit district court

and said put in a temporary restraining order on this. The Democrats, of course, challenged this and appealed it and went to the Virginia Supreme Court with it. The Virginia Supreme Court looked at it and said, well, we're going to use this little nuanced precedent that we can stay a temporary restraining order and treat it as a preliminary injunction. And we're going to stay this. But we're not ruling on the merits. So we're going to allow this election to continue on. And then if you win, we'll rule on the merits. If you lose, it's moot and we don't have to worry about it, which I get the moot and we don't have to worry about it. Like if something came up and you didn't have the time, there wasn't enough time to rule on this and you're just like, we don't have their time to review this.

Let's wait it out. They didn't say that. They said, we're going to let the election play out and then rule on it. Instead of going beforehand and saying what you did was unconstitutional on the facts, on the facts of what you did was unconstitutional. This has to stop. Now you've got a situation where Democrats have won the quote unquote quote unquote won the election selection whatever you want to call it and now if the Supreme Court does overturn this you're going to have Democrats outraged because we want it if they lose Republicans are going to look and be like look at the facts on this how do you not throw this out so let's look at the facts on this here is facts here is uh the decision from the Supreme Court in the first case appealed in this court Scott versus McDougall the

Circuit Court entered Declaratory Judgment on several legal challenges to proposed constitutional amendments. These judgments are currently pending review in this court. In those declaratory judgments, the court circuit, the circuit court held the General Assembly violated its own rules by improperly expanding the scope and purpose of the 2024 special session to consider and pass the proposed constitutional amendment. And thus the first passage of the proposed constitutional amendment is void ab initio so in other words in virginia there's a process you have to go through to propose a constitutional amendment you have to propose it congress the delegation has to vote on it then you have to have an election in the delegation and then they have to vote on it again okay so

there has to be and then it goes to the people go ahead so is that the is that the only way to get a measure on the ballot um we have that way here but we also have the people competition so there's some ballot initiatives here like the parent ones are good you know parents rights ones are a good example here the state legislature you know wants to trans everyone's kids any attempt to get a ballot measure on to make transing kids unlawful is dead in the water through the general assembly but we have a process where they can you know go and get signatures enough from the people to bypass the legislature and put it on the ballot and take it straight to the people do they have something like that in virginia even if i don't know if they do or not but if they do that's not the method that they chose to

use here. And so that's a moot point too. So I, um, word of the day. Moot, moot, moot, moot, moot, moot, moot, moot, moot, the moops, the moors. Old Seinfeld joke there. Um, okay, so reading on, even if the general assembly's first passage of the proposed constitutional amendment on October 31st, 2025 were valid, no quote, next general election of members of the House of Delegates occurred after that passage because the election began on the first day of early voting on September 19th, 2025, which is really interesting because what's one of the big discrepancies that we see with the court? And I think the Supreme Court just didn't the Supreme Court just rule on this, that election day is one day and it's election day. Yeah. So now we've got a situation here where

you have, well, the election. That applies. So as I understand it, the Supreme Court decision applies to election day and nothing after does not touch early voting exactly that's my point this is going to touch on early voting and whether or not the election begins on september 19th when voting begins or whether it's election day of november 5th or whatever it was a november 5th it was uh okay so that's interesting even if the general assembly's first passage of the proposed constitutional amendment were valid and even if the quote unquote election is defined narrowly as only election day and and not the entire period of voting, the General Assembly failed to comply

with the statutory notice requirement, requiring the clerk of the House of Delegates to provide copies of the proposed constitutional amendment to every circuit court clerk to post at the front door of the courthouse at least three months prior to the quote, next ensuing general election of the member of the House of Delegates. In the present case, different plaintiffs

again assert the second challenge above as a declaratory judge, as a declaratory, This is my new anonymity. As a declaratory judgment and their complaint pleads several additional declaratory judgments, I'm just going to say judgments, claims that were not raised. You can't skip the hard words, Brian. Come on. Sound them out.

You're such an asshole. The ballot language passed by the General Assembly to be submitted to the voters regarding the proposed constitutional amendment is misleading and violates the submission clause of Article 7, section one of the Constitution of Virginia, because it. it submits a different question on the referendum ballot than the language of the constitutional amendment passed by the general assembly restore fairness is not in what they passed in the general assembly the term restore fairness is not in there that is a partisan word that is a leading phrase and you're not supposed you're supposed to have nonpartisan phrases and and and verbiage in plain english plain common english uh in these amendments yeah so we're supposed to

When we talked about this on book club yesterday, and I am still puzzled by how this could happen, because the language through which you put a ballot measure on should be, is here, don't know about there, but is here. It's quite the process, right? There's a title board committee and then there's other review committees, and it goes through many cycles to get single issue bills worded in a way that isn't gonna confuse the public.

And of course, they're always still worded in ways that confuse the public. Notoriously ballot measures are, you know, kind of a riddle that you have to figure out to determine which way you want to vote on them. But the, the, you know, temporarily redraw the districts to make things more fair before the next census. That is something that I I think even here in the communist country of Colorado would not have passed muster to be able to get on the ballot. And I wonder, how did this happen? How did you get like we're going to have everybody vote on a thing in fake elections, rigged elections, manipulated elections, outcome determined already elections. We're going to put, you know, restore fairness for the people of Virginia on the ballot.

That's I, I still, I'm still baffled by it. I don't get it. Exactly. Article 7, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia requires the proposed constitutional amendment to be submitted to the voters, quote, not sooner than 90 days after final passage by the General Assembly, end quote. Assuming that the second passage of the proposed constitutional amendment on January 16, 2026 was valid, the 90 day requirement before submission to the voters has been violated because early voting is scheduled to begin on March 6th. and 90 days after January 16th would not be until April 16th. HB 1384 violates the forms of laws clause of Article 4, Section 12 of the Constitution, which prohibits the General Assembly from passing laws that, quote, embrace more than one object,

which shall be expressed in its title. 1384 addresses multiple objects by providing for appropriations of public revenues, establishing the ballot question, and procedures for submitting the proposed constitutional amendment to the voters, repealing code 30-13 and transferring revenue to the Richmond Circuit Court for civil actions challenging the proposed constitutional amendment. So this case, even before it got to the Supreme Court, had numerous violations. I mean, there's at least four there. And they didn't even get into the partisan nature of the verbiage, the restore fairness, although they kind of touched on it. And so again, this is the problem that I see here, Ash, is that this is, I mean,

obviously the legislature this is a lot like in in pennsylvania remember act 77 when they circumvented amending the constitution in pennsylvania and the judges essentially from the bench said well this is this is how it has to be they they completely subverted the constitution in 2020 in the lead up to the 2020 election and said fine we'll deal with it after and this is the same situation here and this causes more problems than the court getting out in front of this and saying no you guys did not do this the right way you you can't do this but instead they said we're going to hold an election we're going to inject 70 million dollars worth of dark money into this election from democrats right we talked about this yesterday i mean this is this is bad like there's a lot of

damn it now granted i'm not pissed about wasting 70 million dollars of democrat money oh who who knows where that went you know but but this is i mean this is this is this is retardation at its finest right here yeah i think that this um is a is a great you use case of how centralization creates complexity and complexity breeds and hides corruption. There's plausible deniability at every level of our elections. And so, and then there's these, you know, we talk about this a lot on why we vote that there are, the time frames of the process are so gate kept that you have these tiny little windows. And that's what we're seeing here, right? They couldn't hit it in the window.

So, okay, we'll deal with it after the election, but then it's going to be, oh, well, you one so it's fine and all of these things that is that the this is why elections are fake not just rigged not just manipulated not not not just stolen the process by which the the the mechanisms by which the process is established are manipulated not just the election event not just the outcomes but the voter rolls the ballots the the machines the district drawing the manner in which the courts the that the law is established and the guardrails of the law have been written to define the process through which you can question i would argue that that's by design that we have gotten to this you know i'll draw a line in the sand and say 2000 hanging chat election 2002 hava gives birth to

this industry and over time the you know the contours of the law change and these you know different pieces and parts are um are put in place we're seeing we're living its end stage now. And that's, you know, I think, but burn it down. Yeah. Yeah. This is something that's going to cause, you know, complexity amongst the constituency. I mean, there's going to be, there's going to be, well, I got to hit a sponsor real quick. And then we will, and then we'll unpack this just a little bit more before we move before we move on. And yes, all shows are why we vote now. All right. All right. Guys, they can cancel your accounts, freeze your cards. They can decide what you're allowed to buy say or support big banks and financial institutions have total control and they use it that's why financial

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And yeah, so again, if, and we're going to impact this more on why we vote. We got a lot to talk about on why we vote this week. There's our final show on Friday, too, because we're moving while we vote to Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. Eastern time, starting next week, beginning next week. I think that will be a recorded show because next Tuesday is my 24th wedding anniversary. And this Friday will be. a recorded show because it's my wife's it's christie's birthday her uh it's her 10th anniversary of her 29th birthday i think no you just age 9th anniversary you're in trouble now birthday why i don't care we all age it happens you've told me your age i i i didn't i didn't

age the most important thing is she doesn't look a day older than the day i met how hot that she doesn't look a day she hasn't changed one bit since the day I met her in fact she's gotten prettier there you go um yeah so let's let's get into the next story here uh just the news more election stuff u.s intel security see excuse me US intel secretly flagged major 2020 election vulnerabilities including voter data memo shows uh months before the 2020 presidential election US intelligence issued a secret but stark warning that foreign adversaries had the capability to quote unquote 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. I hate the way that's phrased. I absolutely hate the way that's phrased because it did not specifically raise concerns.

Now, it raised specific concerns. I think those specific concerns it raised were inadequate, but it raised a lot of of concerns. And to me, my biggest takeaway from that was what they actually said about tabulators, about the voting machines themselves. But I digress. We'll talk about that on why we vote. The National Intelligence Council's concerns were so extensive that officials personally briefed President Donald Trump at the White House in February of 2020, according to photos showing top CIA, FBI, and Homeland Security officials joining with NIC analysts to inform the president. The American public, however, was never fully alerted, even in fact, we were censored from saying as much, even after the evidence emerged that China had gained access to voter registration data in multiple states and sent fake driver's licenses to the United States. The members of the election infrastructure government coordinating council released a mid-November 2020 joint statement declaring that, quote, the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.

That was of course Chris Krebs. And of course, that was a lie. The timing, so I just want to separate but related in March of 2021. I think it was March. Correct me if I'm wrong, Brian. We got the spear fishing. This was a letter that went to the EIA ISAC. So all of the people inside of the kind of, you know, elections, elections industries advisory council, this public.

private ecosystem of vendors and NGOs and government officials, election officials, that they're now, you know, those guys are now begging clerks and local election officials to fund them because they're funding to run these public-private, you know, kind of coordinating efforts, basically nationwide control of elections without actually having nationwide control of elections. You have state control of elections, and we've talked about Mark Elias attempting to, you know, get rid of the, the pageantry of democracy at the local level and then restrict the federal government so you centralize it in the hands of the state but then they also have this kind of connective tissue NGO global glue that runs on top of that that allows them to manage everyone right it's a change network

you're managing the people we saw this come to life in march of 2021 when there was a report from sissa that was issued that says uh you know 78 i think it's in the 70s i might have the exact percentage wrong but 78% of devices in U.S. elections across the nation are significantly vulnerable to spearfishing attacks. This is really important. We need to tell you guys about this because it's so important. We're actually going to tell you guys about this even after we've said safest and most secure election in history. That's not true, but this is a big vulnerability. So we have to tell you about it.

But they didn't tell anybody else. They put a traffic limiting protocol, Amber, on top of that report. Yehuda Miller. Shout out Yehuda Miller, discovered that through open records request. And this story that we're talking about right now is another example of that. And the timing now is going through that critical period where you have the election, you have the challenges to the election, you have the January 6th, you know, orchestrated trauma, mass trauma event on the nation to make people stop talking.

And the vulnerabilities, the problems with the elections, the fact that that had to Chris Paul 81 million real lawful American votes is absolute fabrication. Well, that was all handled. But the important thing to realize it was handled by the election committee, the elections industry. It was handled by this public, private ecosystem of people who are invested in keeping this system in place, even though this system is ostensibly designed to defraud. Yep. I want to hit the key takeaways here real quick. And just real quick, by the way, When we talk about this group right here, the election infrastructure government coordinating council, their private sector cohorts who also were, and just the news, doesn't allude to this in this part of the report, which I thought they should have.

The private sector council, which is also part of this and was also privy to this statement, is all of the election vendors. It's all of the people that have an interest in ensuring that their slush fund of election money, federal election dollars and state election dollars is not impacted by any investigation into all of this and they they have a vested interest they have a conflict of interest in putting out a statement like that but on november 12th 2020 we were all told this statement and we were all told that this statement is going to justify the mass censorship of americans and a lot of us lost our livelihoods because of this i you know i was kicked off of youtube that i've never been able to recover my personal channels because of that. I lost 50,000 followers on YouTube. I lost, you know, a very good income.

And all of it was stuff that now you're looking back, you're like, I was right. I was fucking right. Yeah. And they knew it. That's the word. Hold on, Ash. They knew it. Not only, not only like, did they know like this was going on and all that. But they knew that everything I was saying, they were saying, hey, this could happen. And boom, we have evidence that it did happen. And so, you know, These people, man, like there needs to be mass accountability for this. Because because the, these people are elected and appointed and hired, right? So elected officials, appointed officials, bureaucratic staff. Their primary responsibility, if they're in the elections domain, is to run a fair process, right? Be fair arbiters of a fair process.

When faced, when they are faced with a problem. with the election system and we see this over and over again. I was talking about this, you know, in relation to the Nick Memo, but the Jenna Griswell BIOS password thing, right? When we see that there's a problem over and over again, we see them engage in a cover-up rather than solving the problem, trying to get to the root cause of the problem. That is an indicator, you know, I've talked before about independence

and how in the SEC audit world, the conduct of officials in publicly traded companies is important for auditors to watch and to, to note when conduct is red flags, when there's obstruction, when there is, you can't look behind this door kind of stuff. We see that with the government and their private partners. We see that over and over again in elections, but there is no independent standard

when it comes to government officials in elections. So we're just told that we're the problem. We're a threat to democracy. We're dangerous. We're terrorists. We need to have our rights taken away. You can't talk about that. You can't have a livelihood.

You can't, you can't, You can't share these messages. We can say them now, but many would argue it's too late. I mean, it doesn't matter now. It doesn't matter to say them now. The Biden administration is over, right? We shouldn't have had a Biden administration because the election was fake. But the reality is that these people have all the classic earmarks of mass corruption.

And it seems like we're going to get to the bottom of that. We're not still supposed to be talking about this. I saw somebody in the chat earlier, but it's like, how's it going trying to solve the 2020, election. Listen, bro, if we weren't winning this fight, nobody would be talking about the 2020 election anymore. The reason that we are now at, you know, 62% believe the elections are stolen and over 80% believe that weaponized government is a threat to democracy is because we're seeing that. And people are having their minds changed over time as more evidence comes to light. It didn't take us five minutes to get into this position. It took 20 years at least

to get into this position. It's going to take us some time to get out of it. But we're closer than we've ever been. I'm more bullish on accountability than I've ever been. Amen. So just real quick to run through. I'm going to go through the key takeaways. Again, we'll cover this in depth on on the actual why we vote. Not all shows are why we vote, but I would not. I wrote an article for Gateway yesterday about this because again, I thought that the just the news, great job getting this, but I thought the article itself was a little little, um, it, it, it, wasn't enough, right? It didn't go deep enough. And, you know, this has been my passion for the last six years. This is what I've written about extensively for six years all across the country and,

you know, being able to take every single little assessment in here and say, oh, that happened here. Oh, that happened here. Oh, we're going to, we're going to do that on why we vote. So key takeaways, this memo assesses that potential impact, 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. We assess that at least Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea have the capability to access and potentially manipulate data in U.S. election-related computer systems, but we do not know whether they have specific plans to interfere with the functioning of these systems.

It doesn't matter whether you know they have plans or not. The capability of them being able to do that is enough to say, we got to fix this. Absolutely. And don't forget that most of the experts, you know, we have one in the chat. He can weigh in if he'd like. But certainly Jay Alex Holderman before the 2020 election made a big point of saying that it would be undetectable. If a lot of these vulnerabilities were exploited, it would be undetectable. You wouldn't know what happened. Yes. He changed his tune, of course, because risk limiting audits and whatever paper. But he only changes his tune when the politics of the matter of stolen elections. changed and that is because J. Alex Hodderman is a political hack. We assess that centralized election related data repositories such as voter registration databases, poll books and official election websites are most vulnerable to exploitation and adversaries could use access to these systems to disrupt election processes.

Here's the thing. All of our elections are being centralized. Every aspect of our elections right now and for the last several years have been centralized. There is no decentralization of our elections anymore. Yeah. Centralization creates complexity and complexity breeds and hides corruption. And our resident expert in the chat agrees with me. Yes, easily undetectable, he says. Yes.

Systems that tabulate, transmit, or display election results are vulnerable to localized exploitation, but would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to alter the election outcome. Again, I think that's bullshit. Do I think it's more likely to be exploited locally? Yes, absolutely, absolutely. But does that mean it's impossible? No, Ash has the memo from the Colorado Secretary of State saying, hey, make sure your systems are not connected to the internet,

that they didn't accidentally connect to the internet. I have pictures of the ESNS machines in Miami with the little checkmark in the top right hand corner saying, yes, you are connected to the internet during the logic and accuracy test. I mean, I still don't understand how that wasn't a bigger story, man. They spent, they spent two years. So these machines don't have this capability. It's not possible.

you crazy election denying sore losers how dare you question our election systems also clerks uh you know we have primary coming up just go in and check and make sure that your machines don't accidentally reconnect to the internet in the middle of the election event we wouldn't want that to happen here's the dominion manual for where you can go in and figure out how to check what here's here's this is maybe one of my favorite lines of the whole uh report right here ash adversary claims of manipulation would be difficult to disprove and could undermine public confidence in election results. This is coming from the mainstream media that has told us for the last six years, there's no evidence of widespread fraud.

Also, there's no evidence that we've done any sort of investigation other than trusting the authoritative sources who said there's no evidence of widespread fraud. And now you have the intelligence community telling you, we wouldn't be able to tell you if there was or there wasn't. It'd be very difficult to disprove any claims that there was. Safe as and Most Secure. Speaking of Safe as and Most Secure, have we ever gotten, I keep forgetting to check on this. Have we gotten any updates or resolution on the investigation into Chris Krebs? No. I actually pulled that clip up and I was going to play it by I decided the John Solomon

Bannon hit yesterday was better because John Solomon. Oh, does he ask about that? No, but he makes a comment in here that's very interesting. and I had, you know, anonymous sources verify what he says, unsolicited. But yeah, check this out here. You now know, as of this morning with the new document that Tulsi Declassified at our request and that I put out this morning that the intelligence community unanimously assessed in January and February of 2020 that America's election infrastructure was highly vulnerable to foreign intrusions.

And of all the things that they flagged, the most vulnerable were the voter registration databases, the very things that China and Iran just a few months later would happen. Now, why is that important? We've been sold to the story that this was a secure election. It wasn't. We were kept from very important information during the 2020 election that identified these vulnerabilities. They could have been closed.

There could have been greater offensive measures taken to make sure that the things that did happen, China and Iran hocking into the registration databases, China sending fake driver's licenseeers hoping they could get ballots that would vote for Joe Biden. Those things could have been warded off with a more aggressive and assertive campaign. But instead, when the president, President Trump did get briefed on this particular memo. Now, he didn't get briefed on the later intrusions by China, but he did get briefed on this memo. Why wasn't he briefed on the intrusions by China? The president of the United States? It's an excellent question.

I don't I don't know what I don't know what to call this but in January February of 2020 they assess that there is there are massive vulnerabilities to foreign intrusion in U.S. elections this is January February is when COVID is kicking off right so you have the the you know go to Chinatown come enjoy Chinatown with us no don't go to Chinatown stay home oh my gosh everybody's going to die right that's that's the same period of time that the intelligence community assesses that we have massive vulnerabilities in our elections and their response is to do nothing, not repair them, not patch them, and then lie and gaslight everybody about safety and security. What do you call that? I mean, I think if we prove the foreign component and it sounds like they have, I think we call it treason. Treason, yes, absolutely, absolutely. And this goes back to remember what Mark Millie said, General Millie said, you know, about I had my back channeled, Chinese comrades, colleagues that, that, you know, I assured them that if President Trump did something, I would let them know in the back channels before anything came about. Remember that?

I mean, you start piecing all of this together and how much did they know about what China interfered with? How much did they know about China's involvement in COVID-19 specifically? You had, remember D. Dong Shang, the Tucker Carlson piece where this guy was doing a de facto TED talk in China and was like, oh, we've got a favorable regime in place now. The Trump administration's out. We've got our friends back in the higher echelon of U.S. government. All of this needs to be hashed out in a big, big way, big way. Let's keep going here. He told the people, there's a picture up on the website. You can actually see the meeting. All the president's men and women around the desk and the rest of the desk in the Oval Office. He said, did classify this information,

get it out to the public? So why didn't they do it? it. Trump said declassify this and get it out to the public. Why didn't they do it then? And is insubordination of the president, so not doing it, right? What is that? What do you call that? That's a crime. Insubordination itself is a crime. I don't know if it's going to rise to sedition or treason or anything along those lines, but insubordination is absolutely a crime. Yeah. According to Chris Porter, the officer who wrote this memo, who couldn't talk about it until today when it was declassified the CIA and others thwarted the president's will did not declassify that information's edition left the states state election systems the secretaries of

states and others in the dark about the vulnerabilities that were going on i think that's an extraordinary statement and then later when the vulnerable some of the vulnerabilities are exploited and china gets does the driver's licenses does the hacking into the other thing iran hacks into one state and takes 100,000 voter IDs and starts using them in the election, they don't tell us. They keep us in the dark and they keep telling us and they force feed us a false narrative that it was a secure election. It wasn't. This is not the most exposed to stuff that Tulsi Gabbard holds in her hands. And we'll end it there.

Love that. And that last statement, I have, I can either confirm nor deny its validity. What is that the GOMR response? I'm going to take the GOMR response on that one. I mean, this is, I can't wait to see what else she has. It's only Wednesday. Why we vote isn't until Friday? I feel like they're building so that we have the full or a more full picture.

Unfortunately, we're going to record that show. I think today, right? Yeah. Yeah. I think so we saw Cash Patel started the week off on Sunday on, on Barteromo, who by the way, had tip to Maria Bartoromo. She's been the only person at Fox News. with Lou Dobbs passed away that has stayed true to, you know, holding up to this election thing.

She was, she's always been kind of the mainstream fighter on this. But she had Cash Patel on and asked Cash Patel about, you know, Trump's claims about the 2020 election and Cash Patel goes off on this Russia gate, you know, the grand conspiracy down in Florida and all that. And she says, no, no, no, that's not what I'm talking about. Talking about the 2020 election, the integrity that Trump claims the all of this. And he says, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we're getting on that. Look for some arrests later this week.

Yeah. So it is. I love to see it. I'm still, you know, I know that there's a load of cash Patel hate out there and everybody wants to say he's, you know, a thousand different things. I'm still, you know, what we did government gangsters, he understands the assignment, right? We know he understands the assignment. We know he, I think it's pretty clear.

They're working a plan. How deep that goes. I don't know. But, yeah, I'm excited for it. Let's see what happens. Yep. And before we move on, and again, you're not going to want to miss why we vote. It's going to be we got Act Blue. We got this report here. We've got the Virginia thing. We've got a lot to talk about on why we vote. So we won't crush all that right now. But I do want to point this out. Remember the Chris Krebs when Trump took away his security clearance, which we talked about a little bit ago? Do you remember who was in the room when he did that? No. I just saw my post about this. And it, it. spark like I knew she was in the room at one video but look at that oh yeah remember and

she had that picture and she covered her face yep that was the same day right trump trump announces the uh the chris creb's secret secret clearance removal pulling his clearances and gretchen whitmer is in the room love to see it all right let's uh get into the next huge story today or yesterday from just the news federal grand jury charges southern poverty law center with fraud over hate ratings i'm so excited about this brian i'm so excited about this story i like i have it just makes me tear up a little bit i'm with you a federal grand jury in alabama indicted the southern poverty law center on 11 counts of wire and bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering quote the SPLC is a nonprofit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups as a acting AG Todd Blanche.

The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred. What did President Trump say? This country has had psychological operations. has run against it for the last however many years. I think he said seven years, but it's way more than that. He said the same weaponized agencies running illegal psychological warfare operations on the American people, much as if they were trying to destabilize a foreign nation. Yep. The group was charged with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count

of conspiracy to commit money laundering. The SPLC has paid at least $3 million to eight members of these extremist groups. Among those groups that received funds were the Ku Klux Klan, the United Clans of America, the Aryan nation, and the nationalist socialist party of American Nazis. Yeah. So the supply to meet the demand for racism that the SPLC and really the ACLU, in my opinion, is the umbrella organization that ties these things together. They have different purposes within that change network. but the SPLC delivered the narratives about what the white supremacist threat, the far-right threat. Remember, Joe Biden stood up there in the red sermon with the red, you know, behind him. It's just the far-right mega-extremist.

It turns out. Hold on. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Donald Trump and the MAGA-Republicans. Maga-Republicans. Maga-Republicans.

Maga-Refigestion. Maga forces, MAGA failure, Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans, extreme MAGA ideology. Maga Republicans and Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And MAGA Republicans. Maga Republicans. Maga Republicans. They said we were dangerous.

They said we were racist. They said that we were clan adjacent. For many of us, they attached our name to the clan. Happened to me and my co-defendants happened to true the vote and down in Georgia. there was no supply. They made it up. The SPS, the Southern Poverty Law Center was funding the KKK. Now, I don't know if you saw it.

I don't have it pulled up. I can find it if you'd like to see it. But in the past, the NAACP has been a huge advocate of the SPLC. They've been, you know, white knighting for them when the SPLC has come under attack. before i believe in the first trump administration the nbacp has come to their defense so the splc is funding the kkk and the nbacp is white knighting for the splc bryan does that mean that the nbacp by proxy supports the kkk it sounds like it it sure does doesn't it almost like they're a group of NGOs they're all huddled together secretly to disrupt this country and create division and animosity amongst us

and propagandize the people into believing that we all hate each other based on the color of our skin? Not just belief to inflict punishment and consequences. We talk about the punishment, the process being the punishment. Those narratives gave the premise for them to engage in that process punishment. In my appellate brief, I go in depth about how I believe the case against me was a playbook from this voter strikeback article. I think you've read it. It's very long. People don't need to read the whole thing, but it's instructive because since 2015, they have been trying to expand the definitions of extremism, expand the definitions of intimidation to cover speech and assembly and association that they don't like. And it appears now from the information that's been declassified, they couldn't make that case because there wasn't an extremist threat that gave them the support and the premise to go after and make that case.

So they had to fabricate it. They had to, the SPLC was funding the KKK. This is how we've orchestrated color revolutions through intelligence. And granted, I went and looked, I was looking this morning for funding to the SPLC to see who specifically is funding them. Of course, it's all sheltered. It's all shielded. We don't know it yet. But I guarantee you now with this indictment, we're going to figure out who's been funding the SPLC.

because according to, according to this site right here, check this out. In 2024, the SPLC's total revenue dropped to $129 million, with $106.4 million of that coming from grants and contributions. What are the odds that that is government funding that is going to the SPLC, whether it's USAID, whether it's national endowment, whether it's any of these intelligence-linked organizations or even businesses, corporations that have been funding this and there's tons of CIA, you know, intelligence relationships with corporate America. But listen to this. In 2023, the most recent year for which

the nonprofit financials are widely available, it reports a higher total revenue than the Special Olympics, which boasts millions of participants worldwide. The same is true of the United Services organizations, the USO, which has 250 plus centers and were visited by more than six and a half million times by members of the military the national park foundation the ymca make a wish foundation the helen keller international spielc does better than all of these southern poverty law center also the same organization that's heralded out there to uh refute any sort of thing that pushes back against the the the establishment narratives go ahead yeah i mean i think this is so excited if you if you take this in the context of everything else

right the other stuff john solomon is talking about and breaking The updates in the broader Russia collusion part of the RICO, the fact that election fraud is now a part of the RICO. And you consider, this is what we have been talking about for years. This is the reason, one of the reasons that I started the show Culture of Change is the public-private partnerships with the NGOs as the glue is how they change the world. It's how they control us. It's how they keep. When you look at here, it's not just the narratives they're generating. It's not just that they, you know, very fine, John posted on X yesterday.

Turns out very fine people was both sides was the SPLC, right? The very fine people on both sides was just the SPLC. Yeah, I butchered his tweet. Sorry, John. But that's true. When you consider that that, think about the narrative impact of very fine people, right? It wasn't just, oh, Trump is a racist. It was used to justify not debating him.

It was used predominantly, the thing I remember most, and if you remember what else it was used for, tell us in the chat, but it was used for people like Rachel Maddow and MSNBC and the folks over at CNN to say, we're not going to carry him anymore. We're not going to cover what he says and the president of the United States.

We're not going to carry him his words anymore. We're going to have to, Donald Trump is putting us in this very dangerous situation where we have to, you know, monitor the president. And we're just, we're not going to let him give you misinformation and disinformation. So we're not going to carry the president anymore. The narratives of the SPLC were used at the state level to change the law. They are pushing for voting rights acts at the state level. We've talked about this before.

The federal voting rights act has been gutted. They can't use it in the way that they want to. This goes back to that voter strike back thing. So they're trying to rebirth them at the state level. The narratives of the SPLC are the under underpinning those efforts. This is not just, oh, this one rogue NGO, you know, they got a little ahead of themselves. This is driving right to the heart of the centralized public-private, corrupt apparatus that has been stealing the will of the people. I'm so here for this.

How much of this, Ash, do you think, was uncovered by Doge? Well, I mean, I generally think that Doge was tooling. So, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, it could be. I think that I think that that effort and the tooling that was put in place through Doge has given us a lot of revelations. I also think that, you know, on election night, uh, 2024, I was talking about a transformational change program and what we would expect to see and that we would expect to see kind of like the, remember Mo Godot's scary smart when he talks about the teenage years of AI. We're going to see like really destructive kind of phase.

It's going to be chaotic and crazy and horrifying. But then we're going to get to, you know, this kind of utopian vision. And I don't believe in everybody knows. I don't believe in utopia. But, but I think that that is what we would expect to see in the run-up to America's 250th birthday. And having a celebration to celebrate all of our accomplishments. Seems like things are happening very quickly. we might just, Brian, have things to celebrate and things to accomplish, you know, things to really jump up and down about accomplishments to jump up and down about on July 4th, 2026. Let's go. That's true. I agree with that 100%. There's no question in my mind that the benchmark for President Trump right now is July 4th, 26. And, you know, the Iran War, I think we get resolution on the Iran War. I think we have Cuba wrapped up by a bow by July 4th. We haven't even begun really in Cuba. We just, we just, we

just sent a delegation over there last week and I think we've got Cuba wrapped up by July 4th. Trump knows. And when you look at kind of the timeline on how this is all unfolding, you know, a lot of us have said this here on Badlands. We've said that, you know, there is, you know, game theory involved in this. This is everything that we're seeing right now has been gameed out and strategized over the last four years. And I'm, I can almost guarantee you that there is, uh, artificial intelligence involved in, in the, the plot of this, right? In the laying out of this. Like, exactly. tooling exactly and that's where doge comes in that's where all of this comes in so at this point at

this point we are living in a movie i and i i believe that and you know i i i had an interview with john franklin or frankman uh last week on my channel and he's the guy that president trump you know asked him he was a a green beret that was kicked out of the military for refusing the covid vaccine and when trump i didn't realize this until i watched the clip there but trump calls me he says ah you're straight out of central casting We got another central casting this week. Did you see this? Let me see. I'll pull it up right here. Check this out. We got another central casting yesterday. This is Warsh, Kevin Warsh, that Trump tapped to run the Federal Reserve. In one aspect of President Trump's economic agenda with which you disagree. Well, Senator, the Federal Reserve in recent years has wandered outside of its remit, wandered into other areas. That's not something I'm prepared to do. If I'm confirmed the federal reserve should stay in its lane.

Just one little place. How the hell is she still there? I do have a disagreement actually, Senator, with the president. I think even this morning, he said that he thought I was out of central casting. I think central casting, I'd look older, grayer, maybe show up here with a cigar of sorts. Great answer. I like him. Yeah, I kind of do too.

after anybody that rubs Elizabeth Warren's nose in it as a friend of mind yeah so it's still there how is that what how is oh so election fake election elections are fake that's how yeah i mean it is it is very interesting the timing of everything that we're seeing right now uh you know is very interesting i think you know what i think might be uh a good and i'm sure the doj already knows this but you know you just you just pull out spLC indict them you know who should all also be investigated and this is directly and tied to the 2020 election the ACLU. I think the ACLU should be investigated for the 2020 election. We just get this report that voter registration databases and all that stuff are decentralized or

excuse me are centralized easily vulnerable and everything else. We know we know that in the 2020 election in Fulton county the ACLU had lawyers in every precinct and those lawyers had access to the voter registration that E-NET in Georgia on their personal laptops. This is testimony from Bridget Thorne, who is a board of commissioner in Fulton County now. Well, not testimony. This was on our show.

She disclosed this. But yeah, I think they need to be looked at as well. And the more the public-private partnership between NGOs, and you and I have talked about this ad nauseum, is how the government, the deep state, so to speak, this is how they act like this. And the Act Blue Exposé that we're getting right now

is going to be a huge chunk of funding out of these NGOs. Peter Berniger has talked about billions of dollars going, you know, broadly across the country to these NGOs through this type of money laundering. And so I really think Doge has uncovered a lot of this. They canceled USAID. They canceled National Dallement and a bunch of these other pro-democracy funds. And let's go, man. This is freaking epic. Yeah. So I asked, how is she still there? And Mimi of two boys times two said, Duh, Ash, it's because she's Indian, which I thought was delightful. I think you're spot on about the NGOs.

I do think that the ACLU is in a category of its own. This is my opinion based on the information available and based on my personal experience. We were sued under the KKK Act and the Voting Rights Act. A bunch of different NGOs came together for this, right? So you had the NWACP, the League of Women Voters, Me Familiar Vota, The free speech for people was kind of the activist law, they're kind of acting as the PMO of what was going on with us. The, you know, some of the witnesses that came out were other NGO members. The ACLU didn't come up as people involved in the case, except every member of one of those NGOs was also an ACLU associate.

and the core of the reporting that so the our case was the it was basically copy and paste of this guy Eric Malbatch is reporting about us he is you know a journalist at a progressive outlet but on his LinkedIn he's an ACLU researcher so there's this connective tissue underneath and it's you know card carrying members kind of all you know lock arms but go out into these other there other kind of I think that there is a lot of communication that happens through that organization. I think that there's a lot of coordination that happens through that organization. Our case was born in Washington, D.C. from NGO members who are all ACLU associates. And you know, you could say, hang on a second, you know, all kind of lefties are ACLU members.

They get registered in high school. They get registered in college. Whatever. I'm not talking about their association. I'm talking about all of the people in school. engaging in a bullshit effort to drive a narrative about election deniers, which is what my case was, they all happen to be a CLU. I'm talking about the execution, not the association in and of itself. Hell of a coincidence if it's not, but it would take a lot to convince me that they are not the connective tissue of the whole ecosystem of NGOs.

And you'd need that, right? You would need, if we're talking about people and executing plans through people and through different entities you would need in my you know my my my belief my experience running change programs you would need that kind of centralized PMO ability to to affect change and i think that's the role that the ACLU plays again my my opinion i want to uh probably the in in light of yesterday's indictment this is probably the greatest meme i've ever seen it says me it says me when the spLC check hits my account yeah one of the great memes I've ever seen a given yes you said it wins the internet forever it wins the internet

forever yes you can say forever I it if until forever is yet so far okay wins the internet forever so far no forever so far okay fair enough we could get something better we could get something um how much like so as this all starts to come to fruition and start to see this built up and we've seen a lot of these cases it's not just the SPLC there's been a lot of other you know uh kind of nuanced things have come out how how desperate do you think they're actually getting that they would do something like what they just did in virginia in order to take over five extra seats you know or four extra seats in order to get that in congress we just saw three democrats in one week it's been one week seven days a calendar week we've seen three

democrats resign from congress yeah so i i i think they're getting desperate man i think i think i think we're starting to see what's going to come about so it does seem like these stories are coming more quickly and in a court i would i would argue john solomon is releasing information on a coordinated and well-planned um exit you know execution time frame yep and he is a very intimate relation not that kind of intimate but very intimate relationship totally gay uh with cash patel oh no new york times breakdown of five days of secret Supreme Court memos of this story. John and Chris talked about this on Saturdays DPH.

And I talked with Chris a little bit behind the scenes about this. I think this story is a devoutroof. Really? Yeah. Interesting. Well, let's get into that. Because it's now, it's now getting a lot of more traction. I had it queued up earlier, but again, I wanted to save this for, I, I appreciate that.

I formulate my shows based on my host. And this is more in your. your wheelhouse than, you know, Zach and Ghost from Monday and Tuesday, so I saved this for Wednesday. Breakdown of five days of secret Supreme Court memos, the New York Times obtained a trove of documents illuminating the inner workings of the court as it embraced a secretive track for making major decisions. Over five days in the winter 2016, the justices of the Supreme Court exchanged an extraordinary series of confidential memos about how the court should address an ambitious climate change initiative from Barack Obama. The debate yielded an order,

the program five to four in a five to four vote without any explanation legal scholars called the episode the birth of the modern shadow docket the court has used its truncated it used truncated procedures cloaked in secrecy to block or allow major presidential initiatives in terse rulings ordinarily justices confidential papers are not disclosed until after their deaths meaning the public might not learn what happened and why for decades the new york times of course obtained those memos so uh they don't show them to us well they yeah they do not all of them yeah we get we get the whole tranche yep oh i miss that i guys i've got their summaries of them right here oh right on i'll have to go back and read them um the character the characterization of this exchange uh and correct me if i'm wrong because i haven't read this since like saturday uh morning but uh is that in 2015 something sort of shifted and changed inside of the Supreme Court in late 2015. John Roberts started, you know, ex, there's a bunch of cases, a bunch of legal efforts that the justices are getting their thoughts down on the record, but in the decisions, you're just getting, you know,

and oh, it's 9-0, it's 6-5, it's whatever, or 6-3, whatever, math is hard. You're not getting, the thing that really struck me about this is that the, the, there seems to be like a lack of urgency and a sort of resignation to we have to do this thing. There doesn't seem to be the kind of robust back and forth debate of ideas happening on the shadow docket decisions that there are on the public docket and the oral arguments that we hear and that the justices in 2015 start doing things a little bit differently and a little bit more unprecedented, right? Talked about that in the beginning of that article. in response, you don't see the liberal justices outraged by it. They seem sort of resigned to it. And then we fast forward to the death.

What's that? Yeah, the death of Scalia, sudden when it happens, you know, in Texas on a ranch out there for a hunting trip, I think, right? And he's, and he dies suddenly and to get to the point of the Devo proof, That seat Obama wanted to fill with Merrick Garland and he was unable to. He was not allowed to. And that is kind of the key takeaway. And they talked a little bit about it in their characterization is that there seems to be kind of this resignation that we have to do these things,

which to me, if you read this article and I'm going to go back and read the memos to see if, you know, my assumption about it is correct. But if you read this article, you get the sense that they're executing a, a plan but they're not really in control of it. Exactly. That's what I was just, that's, that's so a lot of people, I mean, there's been a lot of speculation about Scalia's death and whether or not no autopsy, you know, none of that stuff. He was traveling, he was away. It was sudden traveling.

He was smothered with a pillow or, or they say he suffocated in. No, he wasn't a lot of people speculated. Alleged heart attack. I think is what I read. Let me, we cannot say he was. Let me, let me backtrack. People speculated. People.

speculated that he was smothered. But yeah, heart attack, official cause of death. There was also RBG. They were saying for a long time, she was already gone. She was already gone, right? She was on ice and they just put her out there

as if she were actually alive. And so the premise of this is that releasing these documents, the way that they are, could make these justices vulnerable to an assassination before they're able to actually cast that vote. that's what they allude to in terms of the Dobbs memo when they leaked the Dobbs decision okay so what we're getting now before they before they're gone are the the memos back and forth the discussions but Dobbs was unique in that we got an actual decision that was supposed to be coming down

before the actual decision was was made also i think it was very and again this is just me being conspiratorial but i remember the exact moment that the Dobbs decision was leaked And it was with eight minutes left of 2000 mules in the nationwide premiere in movie theaters that was sold out across the entire country. And so when I got out of that movie theater and was like, holy shit and went on X and was like, hey, or Twitter, but then Twitter and was like, hey, this 2000 mules is crazy. Everything was Dobbs decision leaked. Dobbs decision leaked. And they had the whole thing ready to go. So that's just me being conspiratorial there.

I'm sure it was a total coincidence. The one other thing that I think is important to realize is that this article, this New York Times article, talking about the shadow docket of the court, says that the court, that this change, this shift in the longstanding, you know, precedent of the way that the court operates, that this shift happened in 2015. The composition of the court is very different in 2015. There were four of the justices, of the nine justices that are there. Four of the justices were not there. in 2015. And I find that interesting as well because President Trump went on to a point three justices. You know, Biden gave us Otto Penn Jackson and I think that she's got to, you know, she's got to go because that whole thing was illegitimate. But, and obviously she's retarded, right? I mean, we see her in oral argument. She's, she's often the one dissenting justice and she's dissenting on something, you know, on a principle that is roundly unconstitutional, but she's going to stand on it. That's, you know, maybe part of the movie as well, right? is to see how bad it can get with Autopen Jackson.

So one of the other kind of concepts of this release right here is that the Supreme Court is taking on this new role because of this new policy of basically governing by executive order rather than by congressional decree, decressional legislation. And you kind of wonder there in that article, I think it's the New York Times. I had a Fox News article as well, but I think it was the New York Times that essentially delegitimizes Congress. No, it was Fox News. It is Fox. Here, I'll show you where it is. Jump down here and it says, they cite a law professor, quote, An increase in emergency motions coincides with the rise of executive orders and other forms of unilateral executive action,

really as the primary form of lawmaking in our country, with the disappearance of Congress. And that has posed enormous challenges for all of the court, says attorney Cannon Shan McGam of the Federalist Society, or during a Federalist Society panel. And so, you know, I kind of wondered, we broadly think Congress has been delegitimized, or they are delegitimate, but they've been delegitimized.

They're, you know, delegated essentially to. Elections are fake. Right. And so now what they do. If elections are fake, we didn't consent. for any of these people to govern us, they have usurped that power, they are illegitimate. But I mean, essentially all they do now

is pass continuing resolutions and name post offices and streets and illegitimate shit like that. They did get Trump's one big beautiful bill through. But other than that, I mean, what they won't touch this save act. And you know, that's not getting through. I just, I don't know, it was a very interesting article. It is. It should definitely read that shadow docket article.

It is, it's quite, it's quite the tail. And, um, you know, it kind of supports a lot of the things that we speculate about here on badlands. Obviously, we don't know. None of us know, but we can read the documents. We can read the, um, you know, read them in their own words, listen to what they say and try to figure out what's going on. What's going on is certainly not what's being told to us in the headlines of the legacy media though. Oh, agreed. All right.

So let's jump into, uh, I, I kind of called, called an audible in the Warsh. clip there. But let's jump into this article from CNBC. Kevin Warsh hearing takeaways. Trump Fed chair nominee defends finances and says, president never demanded rate cuts. And it says questions about the fed's long cherished independence have dominated the discourse surrounding the central banking, the central bank during President Trump's second term. Warsh gave a qualified endorsement of Fed independence. Oh, a Fed independence, but noted he doesn't believe that dynamic is indebt. endangered when the central bank's actions are questioned by elective leaders. Good answer.

A theory has swirled for months that Trump's ultimate nominee for the Fed chair may attempt to seize control of the institution by attempting. That's nuts. The Fed chair might try and seize control of the institution. I mean, that's what he's kind of appointed to essentially do. Might attempt to seize control of the institution by attempting to fire the presidents of the Fed's regional reserve banks. A rotating set of those banks, bank presidents vote on monetary policy.

Replacing them with loyalists could help Warsh get rates down faster. What's that? They're just arguing about like that's hilarious. So President Trump's policy, his agenda, the agenda that people elected him for, a big part of that underlying, you know, calculus for what he plans to do is lowering interest rates. And these guys are like, they're going to replace it. with loyalists to get interest rates down. It's like what are you even doing?

CNBC? Like do you hear yourself right now? Listen to this comment right here. Senator Lisa Blunt, happy 420, Rochester tried to draw a commitment, tried to draw a commitment out of Warsh that he wouldn't attempt to do so. Warsh was often said that he wants quote regime change, has often said he wants regime change at the Fed. Does that mean firing the regional Fed presidents, this senator?

ask, I mean policy regime change, Warsh said. Senator Gallego questioned Warsh on his insistence that Trump has never demanded he cut. Oh, wait. So yeah, go back up to this. So I missed the, I missed the hook there. So Rochester said tried to draw commitment out of Warsh that he wouldn't attempt to do so. So you're on one hand, like Asha just said, you have a mandate from, you know, the president of the United States elected with the first Republican receiving the popular vote,

allegedly, voting's gay. I agree with that even when it's our guy that wins. But he has the popular vote. He has the mandate. We saw the rallies across the country. We saw everything, right? So Trump has this agenda. And Rochester is saying, we want a commitment that you won't cut to his agenda,

and you'll go abide by ours. That's fucking crazy right there. Yeah, but they're saying it out loud. Yes. And that is the thing that is encouraging about so many of these stories is that Trump's derangement as a kind of narrative device is still driving a lot of the, you know, immediate rhetoric. Any time President Trump does something or one of his appointees starts to execute the agenda, we end up with some sort of Trump-deranged response, right?

And the Trump-doranged responses are very purposeful because they're used to abandon traditions and norms and long-standing precedents to go after Trump in a different way than they've ever treated any other president in the history of the United States. And that's... That to me is very encouraging because they've done all of that in the shadows before. We didn't hit they are so the the the central planners, the regime, the people who are desperately trying to keep the status quo in place, they have never been this exposed. They are usually operating in the shadows and you know, proxies and NGOs and lawyers and all of these things and there's still some of that happening but we can see them clearly now and I think that's a big part of

why it had to be this way, why we're going through this in the way that we're going through it, is so that the people can see and have understanding and make different choices when given the opportunity to legitimately make choices, assuming that happens, which I still believe it will. All right. So next story here, Sheila Sherfellus McCormick, my representative here in in South Florida in Broward County. Every time I hear her name, I think of you. 20th baby she's out sure for us surefulness she says this was not a fair process the ethics committee refused my new attorney's reasonable request for time to prepare my defense by going forward with this process while a criminal indictment is pending the committee prevented me from defending myself

i will not stand by and pretend that this has been anything other than a witch hunt i simply cannot stand by and allow my due process rights to be trampled on and my good name to be tarnished i said it when it happened i agree with her and that's going to be an unpopular opinion with people here because we We are so tribalized with all this stuff. I agree with Sheriff Alice McCormick on this. But she's out. She resigned. First time since 1857 that we've had three Congress people to resign in a week.

But yes. So again, and I'll rehash this. And again, this is going to be an unpopular opinion. I think what they did to her was unfair. She had a pending indictment. She was facing criminal charges for this. She had a criminal case coming up on this. And Congress went and held an ethics hearing and found her guilt.

They used the word guilty in an ethics hearing. Before she had due process. Or she had due process. Yeah, I'm with you on that. And again, I don't like her. I did not vote for her. It doesn't matter. It's irrelevant.

That fact is irrelevant that whether or not you like the accused. Yep. That's weaponized government. Yep. I agree. And I said that today and a lot of people gave a shit for it and you know, it is what it is. But the Constitution is the Constitution is the Constitution and you have a right to due process and Congress interjecting itself in that is, is trampling on the judicial branch of our government.

And I thought it was incredibly wrong. Yeah, I don't understand why this is so hard. I mean, I guess sort of do because everything's so political and we're in an election year. So people have turned their brains off. They've put their jerseys on and, you know, it's blue team, red team. And the, the refs are the, the refs are idiots if they call something against my team, right? However, the principle in this transformational season where institutions are being completely transformed, we're seeing disclosure in ways that we never have and we're hoping for reforms.

It is more important than ever for us to be principled, for us to hold to, you know, what do we want to see? The thing that I have a hard time with like, why is this hard is, in my view of the world, You should never ask the government to do something that, you know, give the power to the government to do something that you wouldn't want the worst tyrant on the opposite side of you imaginable to be able to wield that power. Right. And the reason I struggle is that we went through this in COVID. We went through the tyranny. We went through seeing the government assume powers it shouldn't have an inflict all manner of, you know, unconstitutional oppression.

onto the people out of the fear. I'm shocked that Americans didn't learn a greater lesson during that season because they're abandoning the principles. So to cheer for this, that she would be publicly condemned and have a finding of guilt before she's actually had proper due process. To cheer for that means you think it's fine if it happens to you. If the government turns around and is run by Democrats and and they turn around and they wield that power against you, you're okay with that.

Of course you wouldn't be. Of course you wouldn't be. You're just being unprincipled. And we have to stop that shit because what truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people and the people need to stop being retarded. And case and point, congressional procedures and rules are not bound by due process though. It doesn't matter. You're interfering with due process by putting out a guilty. a guilty verdict like that, which is not, there's nothing guilty about it.

They're not a court of law. Congress is not a court of law. They're not finders of fact. They don't find guilt. That is specifically and explicitly left to the judicial branch of our government. Congress has no role in that. And by doing something like that and somebody in the chat said it happened to Santos too. And it was horrible when it happened to Santos.

It was not right when it happened to him either. Yeah. But she was corrupt. Sammy, this girl says, if she was, if she was corrupt, prove it through due process and through the system preserving her rights. We, we cannot, we cannot bend the rules. This is what happened to Tina Peters, right? We cannot bend the rules, relax the standards of due process because we really super duper know that they're guilty and we know that they're corrupt and they really need to get what's coming for them to them. So let's abandon the rights of the accused and, you know, the rules.

that govern fairness in this process we got a secure a conviction we really got a secure a conviction that's not how this works and you do not want that happening to you you do not want that happening to you which is why the holding the line on the principle is important yep another one disagree we have to go scorched earth on these clowns on both sides i maybe you're not maybe you're not disagreeing with me with that statement perhaps but again that you don't go about it this way so in in a court of law versus an ethics committee there's a lot of processes that you go through there's there's discovery in a court of law there's discovery there's you get to build your case and all that stuff to put that forth in ethics committee and and and and you know kind of subvert the

prosecutorial process it makes no sense like there was no reason for her to put up a fight in the ethics committee when you have that coming up in a fight for your life this is a fight for a job that you're elected to every two years it granted it's a you know it's a good job prestigious job great pay and everything else but you're going to be fighting for for your life in just a few months. Like Congress could have waited until she had that guilty decision. And that's the point. Like there's a couple of people saying ethics is part of the process.

Ethics is important. You know, she this is separation of powers. Uber Claude is saying it's separation of power. She's in Congress. It's not the judiciary. The reality is, is that there is that there is a judicial process playing out. The ethics probe associated with that may be. really important for them to do, but the timing of that seems political and releasing findings

front running her trial ostensibly, right? Ostensibly she's going to have a trial where she's going to have to convince a jury. Having having the one branch of government weigh in on her guilt or innocence before she goes through an actual criminal process. Like the Congress's ethics probes and findings are almost never they may result in a criminal referral right that's like pretty much the furthest you'll get from congress is that you'll it'll result in a criminal referral we already have a criminal referral here she's going through the criminal judicial process so to to do the ethics committee and release those findings before a jury is seated before she has you're you're just manipulating the process in my opinion and in a in a congress that can't get anything done they were able to prioritize

this effort to front run her criminal trial, don't tell me that that's just the process and separation of power is working out. Pass the fucking save act. Yep, yep, yep. I'm there with you. I am there with you. There's something I saw that. Didn't, so, so

and I'm, I'm kind of maybe I'm, you draw better pictures of this than didn't they do something like this similar to Trump about keeping them off the ballot while he had pending criminal charges? Yeah, well, so, so are you talking? talking about the 14th amendment case uh yeah the insurrection right where he's never charged

and convicted of insurrection but they tried to remove him for insurrection and it's like yeah same same concept here and we were outraged by that because it was trump yes like oh you guys got to and that and you're right that criminal trial i don't remember exactly what status jack smith's january 6 insurrection trial was in at the time of that um 2023 case uh but you're right he's There was a number of criminal charges that whole, that whole season, and I'm still really hopeful that we're going to get justice for what happened with Norma Anderson versus Jenna Griswold, which was a K-Fave case. It was Anderson and Griswold, in my opinion, based on the information available and the players and the lawyers and the NGOs that were involved in that case. It is my opinion that that was, you know, it was theater intended to, you know, oh, Jenna Griswold, you have to keep them off the ballot. No, I can't do that. Okay, let's sue. President Trump had to intervene. He had to, you know, put together a defense of absolutely bogus charges. We got the oathbreaking insurrectionist finding out of that. It was a civil trial. And we got a criminal finding of insurrection coming out of that trial. But, you know, nothing we can do about it. Kept him on the ballot overturned, took him off the ballot at the Colorado Supreme Court. And then, of course, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated that and put him back on the ballot.

That was the same, it was, you're right, it's the same, it's the same dynamic at play. It's a civil trial front running a criminal effort and getting the finding, the guilt finding of the criminal matter in place on the timeline that they want to. In that, in that respect, it was intended to interfere with an election. I don't know if we can say that about your surefulness lady, but it certainly was with President Trump. All right. I think, where are we going to go from here? Hold on one second because that kind of threw me. All right. Let's, I think we can hit another sponsor here before I get my stuff together.

I was going to say a different word, but I'm not going to say that. Yes, because you're all of a sudden don't swear. I don't. Oh, oh, I did want to add just real quick that. So I mentioned the 1857 thing. NBC put this out the last time three members resigned from Congress was an 1850. 57. That was in New York when William Gilbert or Samis, Madison, and Francis Edwards resign as they all face threat of expulsion over corruption allegations involving their support of legislation in exchange for money. That's like the norm today, by the way. They quit over it. That's like everyday business in Congress today. But it's it's laundered through campaigns now. They got smart. They don't just write them a check anymore. They write their.

We don't talk about that story? Which one? Act glue? No, that's for why we vote. I talked about that on Monday. But listen to this. Most recently, three members announced their resignation in a single week. Former Representative John Connors.

Coiners. No, what's his name? I can never say it. John. What was his name? How do you pronounce that? C-O-N-Y-E-R-S-Conners? Anyways.

It was like Quineers. He had a weird, no, he had a weirdly spelled name. Isn't that the kid's name in Terminator? John Connor? But you had Trent Franks and Al Franken, all two Democrats and a Republican, just like this one with, with Gonzalez Bean. I think I said earlier three Democrats resigned it.

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and that is gaining all sorts of pushback from people. Anna Paulina, Una Pununa Banca, we'll go ahead and do it right off the bat. representative unapunna bono bonka just so americans know after two weeks in recess john thune is no longer considering the save america act then on her personal account she says no voter ID no fiza and then we got this message here from based mike lee totally based with this stupid take the american people want the save america act the swamp wants fiza 702 reauthorized without any meaningful reforms The Senate is doing it exactly backwards. We've got to get back on the Save America Act. We've got to get it passed. And if one's going to take precedence over the other, it sure as heck shouldn't be the one that Americans hate and the D.C. swamp wants.

Let's get back to work on the Save America Act. That's what the American people want. It's almost like they're proving the illegitimacy of Congress in real time. Do you remember there was a very, a very famous founding father who once said, He who would give up a little bit of liberty for a little bit of security deserves neither. Who was it? I was something about a kite and, you know, all that. This is literally, you know, time with the French.

This is Mike Lee and Unipanuna Banka going out there and saying, hey, guys, roll over and die to this FISA bill. Roll over to the deep state and give them what they want in order for you to get what you want. The last time I checked, as Ash said earlier, this is a constitutional republic that is of foreign by the people. We don't want FISA. We want the Save America Act. We don't have to fucking compromise with you. We should not have to compromise. There is overwhelming support for the Save America Act and there is absolutely no support for FISA.

So why are you putting them together? You sound like a deep state actor. And I'm not saying Mike Lee is by any stretch of the imagination. He's maybe he's just very passionate about the Save America Act and is willing to, you know, give away our individual liberties and freedoms in order to and our, you know, Fourth Amendment rights in order to pass that Save America Act. I'm not willing to do that. So you can fuck off with that. Get rid of the filibuster. Take Chad Katon's idea right here, which is to, let me pull this up, Chad Katon's idea right here to get rid of John Thune and bring somebody in who will bring this to the floor and nuke the filibuster. get rid of it yeah so a couple things um p j corgan says that kite story is the most ridiculous made-up shit ever um probably yeah also um ben franklin allegedly had like a bunch of bodies and human skulls in his um basement there's also i figure you were gonna say in his body count because that dude was a man whore in france oh yeah allegedly yeah it's what we're told you love the french women

He's also incredible man. Yeah. So in terms of, you know, the Save America Act, Sammy the squirrel said, I thought Trump wanted the Senate to pass this. I'm not so sure. Chris Paul has talked a lot about this, that he thinks that the, you know,

President Trump seems to be sinking it. Every time he's talked about it, he attaches gender stuff to it, which is a point in that favor, right? To say, we need to, we need to say, you know, voter ID. only citizenships no men and women sports and it's like what like what are you what are we doing are we trying to get this past um the the save america act i have had so many people tell me if we just

pass the save america act we have real elections no we don't that is um i think that there's a good case to be made that that's what the save america act is intended to do is convince the people that we've solved the problem and there's no problem with our elections anymore shut up election deniers, let's get back to it. President Trump does not seem like it's a major priority for him, but it's also hilarious to me that in the run up to the midterms, TM, that we would have this, this level of division. Like, what are we going to do? Oh my gosh, Brian, if we don't win the midterms, we're not going to be able to pass legislation. But we're not able to pass legislation now, but it's going to be like super bad worse or if we lose the midterms. Congress is illegitimate.

You should watch for the audience out there. Go watch Sunday's narrative with me and Bibi, especially at the end when we started talking about elections and the facade that is the Kabuki theater that is our election cycles that mean absolutely nothing when we're putting people in there for four years and two years that even if we were getting the people we want in there, which I think if we if that does happen, we might actually be able to effectuate some change. But as it sits right now, this idea that we need to get enough Republicans in there to take out the deep state, fuck that. That deep state is so rooted in there. It would take it would take anybody maybe other than Trump.

It would take them decades to root these these these commies out of our government. So that that whole. A lot of them self identifying now though, which is absolutely. They don't they're not afraid to anymore. They don't have to worry about it. They own the entire media complex that is. going to put them out and just and just usher them in and herald them as heroes case and point i disagree with that is somebody who has helped planned coup data you know not here but you

know other places that should have been in the media arrest he should have had cops waiting for he should have federal here waiting for him out of the studio you plan coup d't tas you over through foreign governments and acknowledge that on public tv but what does he get instead jake tapper just kind of like gives him a side eye and that's it and that's it yeah i I agree that John Bolton should be in prison. Also for the book that he wrote, right? There's so many reasons John Bolton should be in prison. Probably so many reasons that when compounded, it shouldn't be prison.

It should be something else. But I, I, hold on. Here's another one. I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, the prize. And of course, after that, people showed up to Brett Kavanaugh's house. So yeah, I agree with you, especially on that one. But yeah, they should, they should, what, what's happening to these people?

Why are they still walking around? Are they still walking around? I don't know. I can be convinced that Chuck Schumer is a clone. Well, his, well, never mind. I'm not going to go there. I was going to say something very disparaged. Oh, it's a good point.

Green Ozone reminded, they all got auto pen pardoned. So that's why they're walking around free. Yeah. All right, Axio scoop to Santa's begging Trump for a prime role. in administration. President Trump has told confidants. Only if he wears the boots. President Trump has told confidants

that Florida Governor Rhonda Santas is quote unquote begging for a job in Trump's administration, including Attorney General. Axios has learned. You have to revive this story with Chris on Friday because Chris really needs to weigh out on this story. I guess I can, I guess I can figure out. I'll figure out a way to get Chris Paul.

You save that other story for me on Wednesday. This is definitely Chris, Chris has earned the ability. to comment on this story. DeSantis has also expressed interest in being secretary of defense. Oh, fuck no. This is the guy. This is the guy.

If he wears the boots, the white ones, the I'm a little alligator boots. This is the guy that yesterday we talked about when the woman, the student from FIU was having her First Amendment rights and Fourth Amendment rights absolutely violated in a court of law because of, quote unquote anti-Semitism and a threat having to do with quote unquote anti-Semitism. This is the guy that went to Israel to sign that law to hold Florida accountable to anti-Semitism. And anti-Semitism is asking Netanyahu to drop bonbons on a center in a joke, clearly a joke. I don't think anybody actually has the ability at the student level at FIU to ask the prime minister of Israel to drop bombs on America.

But anyways, she's now in court for that. She's in jail for it. And yeah, no way I'm letting that guy that went over there and did that in charge of the secretary, in charge of the Department of War. So anyways, he's also asking for a spot on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to six sources, Ash, six sources. That's a lot. Are they all anonymous?

Yeah, it's got to be. true if there's six of them though yeah they're all anonymous but it's got to be true it's like you're at you're in your news desk and you're writing an article and you're like man i need more sources hey would you be a source yeah sure put me down you're anonymous you don't have to be anybody it's the news is such bullshit it is so unaccountable and it's almost almost every story is anonymous sources these days when i was in journalism school that was viewed as like the last resort of you know and you've got to have other support and foundation for it if you're going to use anonymous sources, all of these kind of things, they just threw that out in the age of Trump.

And it's, it's really sad, but it's also sort of hilarious. I wonder, and I'm curious, and I'm going to, I'm going to tickle Sammy the squirrel's spidey senses here. But I wonder how much of this came about following the Smithmont Modernization Act in 2012. The anonymous sources, like no accountability for horrible reporting. And then you've got the press club now boycotting or they're going to, they're going to wear like a handkerchief, a pocket chief, pocket square to go against President Trump for censoring the press or something like that. I don't know. It's so stupid.

DeSantis has to leave office at the end of his second term in January and is looking forward to what to do is looking for what to do next. Is his wife not going to be first gentleman or something? I don't know. Just ride off into the sunset, bro. Wasn't his wife running for governor? Yeah, she was. I don't know if she still is. How do you're in Florida?

How do you not know this? I don't give a shit about Florida politics. Oh, Brian. So, dude, I, oh, Brian. Why would I care about faking. Why we vote, Brian? People that capture, I'm all about elections, all about it, all about it. Iron Donald's, I'm, I'm actually backing fishback in this election, James Fishback. I like that guy. Oh, yeah, he did he post a Q hat yesterday. I like that guy. I like him. I like him. I like him. I like him. So DeSantis has to leave the office second term. After the two had met for lunch at Trump National Dural, one confidant relayed the remark to Axos that Trump said, quote, Ron was begging me to be attorney general.

Another source said, quote, there was a conversation at that lunch. I don't think AG is real, but he's going to be looking for work and Trump likes him. Jumped down here and it says, DeSantis is 100% not interested. in the AG job, but he would be interested in two things, war secretary or Supreme Court, which would be his dream job, said another source anonymously familiar with the discussion, meaning the guy at the news desk right next to him. DeSantis and conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, quote, almost have a father-son relationship and would be a hell of a legacy for Trump, end quote. There's big reason the president wouldn't pick Ron to be his attorney general. There's way too high of a

chance that he would try to fuck the president over that's actually what it says i love that it no it literally says it's surprising right and then lastly trump needs someone at justice that he absolutely trust but the defense department or supreme court or something else sure what we need somebody at the doj you trust which i agree with that but defense department like it's somebody that's in charge of the military you don't want trust in that it's kind of a stupid story but well hang on saying you can't move off this story yet oh what do we got trump we got stasis in his high heels i need a second it's help for processing oh whoops that's well while you're doing that guys smash that thumbs up if you have not done so yet a little over

3,400 people watching and only 853 thumbs up please do better guys helps us out a lot a lot a lot Oh yeah. Yeah. So a hat tip, Chris Paul coming in clutch in the moment. And wait, there's a better one. Hold for processing. One more. Trump needs someone.

I think what you said was that the quote was Trump needs someone he can trust in that role, right? This guy. That's the guy. Chris Paul and X was so much fun, man. Yeah. I miss that. All right. And then last story before we get into a couple of overseas stories.

Also from Florida. And this one's a good one. Interesting. Attorney General James Utmire launches criminal investigation into open AI and chat GPT. Allegedly, the guy that shot up Florida State University last year was being coached by chat GPT on how to do it, on how to do it. And Utmeyer, our attorney general here in Florida, says that it rose to a level that if it was a person saying these things to this guy, they would have been an accomplice. And so this is going to be a novel legal theory here,

tried out. And it is, it does note down here at the bottom that Florida has already taken significant actions on combating crimes related to the use of AI. This action includes a 135-year prison sentence for a predator who possessed child sexual abuse material, some of which was AI generated, and another child predator is currently facing 100 criminal charges, including 46 counts of AI-generated child sexual adult abuse materials. So that's something we've, you know, you and I had talked about probably about a year and a half ago or so, wondering where this is all going to go. And it appears that it's going in the right direction. you cannot create AI generated child porn.

Also, AI cannot coach you how to commit a murder or a mass shooting. Yeah. It's going to be, it's going to be tricky to see how they enforce it. Right. So, you know, against the law to do it, when are you going to find it? I'm drawn back to those stories. I think that Sound of Freedom movie had it. A lot of the, you know, the crime dramas, law and orders and those kinds of

show CSIs, they have this kind of visual of the people in the FBI that are monitoring the CSAM and the child porn material specifically. Rooms and rooms of it, you know, there's so much of it online. They know where it is, but they're tracking the networks because we're, you know, going after RICO. It will be interesting to see how this is, how this is prosecuted, investigated and prosecuted and then if the convictions hold up in court because I feel like that will be it will be challenged if it's determined you know you go to you're going to prison for child porn that is exactly that like you're getting the sentence for as if as though it was regular porn if it's AI porn I would imagine that you know the disgusting despicable people that engage in that would challenge that

and say you know it's a victimless crime it's no harm we've talked about this before because it's AI, it's not real. I would argue, I think you would agree with me that the impact on society and on the mind of that person, because this behavior, this conduct of going after children cannot be rehabilitated, they cannot be made better. The, the AI nature of this is going to drive escalation. It's going to make the problem worse. I think as a society, we can decide that we're not going to tolerate that and it's going to be unlawful. I have no problem with that. I do, I wonder about how they're going to be able to enforce it. And I don't think that that's a green ozone.

I don't think that that's freedom of expression. Yeah, I'm with you. But you have a right to face your accuser. So how do you? Yeah. No, it's tricky. It's a tricky legal landscape. All this AI stuff, you know, it's currently very slowly making its way through the courts.

And it is a bit unprecedented in terms of, you know, creative rights. And do you have, if you, if you spend, this is one of the cases I saw early on a couple years ago, I think around the time that we were doing scary smart, I saw it. But if you have an AI created artwork that you've spent hours and hours on the prompts, right? Tweaking every single aspect of it. Like it is your creation afterwards, but it's an AI creation. Do you have rights over that? The law right now says no. If it's AI artwork, it's not your intellectual property. But that's working its way through the courts as well. We're going to, we're going to, we're going to, see this stuff you know come to be figured out a little bit concerning because you know people in in judicial arbiter roles finders of fact generally technology retarded yeah it is a it is a very we are going into the final frontier with that and uh all right let's jump into uh this clip here pope leo doing some strange stuff kind of kind of agreeing with trump here after a rough tumultuous two or three weeks with the president check out what he says about Cameroons, is that what you call them Cameroons in Africa and migration?

I forgot it's in Latin, so I should read this. Dear sons and daughters of Cameroon, dear students, in the face of this understandable tendency to want to migrate or emigrate, which can lead us to believe that we'll easily find a better future elsewhere, I invite you, above all, to take an up with a an ardent desire to serve your country and put the and to put knowledge you are acquiring here to work for your fellow citizens it's almost like uh the tps comments we had last week when they're like look at these Haitians that want that that want to stay here in the united states they're doctors and lawyers and engineers and all these great things send them back to Haiti and let them go to

work on their own country and fix it yeah why would we take their best people That seems terrible. Wow, that's that's exploitation. Where you these people suggesting the great migration advocates are suggesting that we engage in in exploitation by taking their best most highly skilled people out of those nations and bringing them here to centralize all the best and brightest of the world here. That doesn't seem fair or right. We should they should yeah like you said go back to Haiti, go back to Cameroon, go back to Somalia, Ilhan Omar, and make your own country great again. Those are those that's collateral damage though.

Ash, keeping those people over here is collateral damage for the mega corporations that that actually need the slave labor from those migrant groups. Who's going to pick the crops, Brian? Exactly. Exactly. That's incredibly racist. Who's the apps, Brian? That's incredibly racist according to the SPLC though. So be careful with that.

I mean, but that's the KKK. So. All right. Let's jump into this story from CBS News. U.S. embassy officials among four killed in car crash following a Mexican drug lab raid in Mexico. Now I'm not laughing at them dying. Okay. Okay. I'm laughing at the way that this is phrased. I'm laughing at the way this is phrased, not the death. Okay. Just put CIA. No, no, no. Should there be some sort of CIA

person involved. It's just a rogue actor, Brian, because the CIA are super duper good guys and everything bad that comes out of the CIA is a rogue actor that can be explained away and probably Venezuela's fault. No, Ash, it's totally the guy that makes the pastries that go out every morning for the ambassador at the embassy. It's totally that guy that was on a drug lab raid in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Mexico. Yeah, were they like fleeing the scene of the drug? Let's read. Let's read the story. It's actually kind of interesting because you got competing narratives here for people including two american embassy workers let's just call it what

it is likely cia could be you know something like i don't know dev grew which i'm hoping not you know obviously i don't want anybody in our military being i don't want any americans being killed period but um yeah two embassy two american embassy workers were killed in a car accident following a major drug rated in northern mexico on friday and saturday six clandestine synthetic drug labs were rated in Morelos after a three-month investigation, according to state prosecutor, Cesar, hagueri, how are we, how do you say that name? How regi. How regi.

I'm going to say how regi. Cesar, it could be Jaregi. It's not Juregi. There's no Jase sound in Spanish. It's a ha. Nevada. No, you are wrong with that. How.

Howeigui, howegui. Perfect. He's crushed it. Yeah. Howragui initially said that the accident happened while the officers were returning from the drug raids. But after Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum, real Spanish last name, said she was unaware of any U.S. participation in the U.S. operations. The prosecutor later said that the Americans weren't actually involved in those operations. Quote, it was not an operation that the security cabinet was aware of, Scheinbaum told journalist, we weren't informed.

It was a decision by the Chihuahua government. Chouaguay. Shout out to lily pad. While Ray, then clarified later Monday, quote, the operation involved the participation solely of agents from the state investigation agency. That's the SIA, not to be confused with the CIA.

And the Mexican Navy, Hua Rui said that the Americans were, Quote, primarily engaged in training activities, located some eight to nine hours away from the site where the operation was taking place. Quote, they were not coming home from the operation. They were simply taking for granted that they had participated in the operation itself. What the fuck? A victim's vehicle. Wait, they were not coming from the operation.

That is why, obviously, the president stated that we were not. a prize of their participation. It was simply taken for granted that they participated in the operation itself. I was notified of this at two in the morning. The information I had to provide was simply the information I possessed at the time. So was it completely unrelated to the operation or was it taken? I'm so I'm confused. Well, let me read this last part and then we can unpack this. The victim's vehicle, which was leading an official convoy of five cars, skidded off the road and plunged into a ravine. The Americans killed were quote unquote instructor officers who specialize in training on drones and other tactics. So they were CIA.

Yeah. Or or. No, no, no. They were Venezuelan. And they were stealing elections. And they were stealing elections. and you know to the extent that there may have one or two CIA guys you know adjacent or attached to this thing they were just rogue rogue actors Brian because that's how that works so that's every single time so that's how Mexico got a president whose last name is shine bomb that's right because of the people voted for elections interesting Heather Jones says ash you don't say I'm confused. You say I'm Katanjid.

All right. And then, when I call her Autopin Jackson, you know what I hear in my head is outcast. Otto Pan Jackson is that bitching real. We were jamming to that in Nashville. Yes, we were in Nashville. Um, what else do we have? I had, oh, did you see the clip of Ilhan freaking out at the Lindel TV reporter? Where'd that go?

Now, we have two minutes left on the show. All right, we'll end it there. All right, let's go ahead and jump. Actually, you know what? Before we jump into Rumble Rance, let's talk about, yeah, do we? I don't think we do. No, none. None.

So let's go ahead and land the show there. And let's, uh, give me, give me the one you want to play, Ash. As we talk about soft disclosure. Oh, let's go. I want the Brian in the sky with lotion. In honor, no, in honor, in honor of the SPLC, we're going with Alpha again. You got it. Yeah.

We're going with Alpha. Alpha. Bad runs. Provo code. Bad runs. All right. We'll see you guys. What's today?

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