Badlands Media - Badlands Daily: 5/13/26 - Dead Voters in Brooklyn, Warsh Confirmed, McConnell Being Handled

Episode Date: May 13, 2026

CannCon and Ashe bring Ash Wednesday with a show that ranges from the absurd to the consequential. Missouri's Supreme Court upholds redrawn congressional maps that effectively eliminate the only Democrat seat, and Mississippi sets a special session to redraw Bennie Thompson's district. Ashe and CannCon use the redistricting wave to make the deeper argument: the real problem is not who draws the districts but the 1929 cap at 435 representatives that makes political manipulation structurally inevitable. A Brooklyn Democrat assembly candidate has 90% of her 5,258 nominating signatures thrown out, including two from voters who have been dead for over a decade. Dr. Andrew Paquette's Why We Vote appearance the night before revealed 1.5 million cloned voter registrations in New York alone in 2020, and CannCon and Ashe show that US registered voter turnout hit 94.1% in 2020, higher than countries with compulsory voting. Kevin Warsh clears his Senate hurdle 51-45. Kash Patel eviscerates Senator Van Hollen live in committee. An undercover video catches a White House budget official calling Trump a madman. Trump calls out Mitch McConnell's Democratic-aligned handler Robert Karim by name.

All right. Good morning, Badlandia. Welcome to Badlands Daily. Ash Wednesday. That means that I'm joined by, of course, Ash. How you doing, Ash? I'm good. I'm doing well. It's finally summer. It's warm, sunny. You just go last week? Yeah, I know. It could change in a second. But I'm enjoying it right now. Do you not have a spring? No, not really. Now, we'll get like a couple of days where Burrard. Birds will creep out and start to build nests and then they'll get blasted with snow. And it's a whole thing. So it's like Florida in the inverse. We have like a week of winter and then summer one, summer two and summer three.

Yeah. I kind of could dig the going from winter to summer. I kind of dig that. I love spring. Spring is when like baby animals are born and you get, you know, buds on trees and tulips come up. out of the ground and here we get feet of snow. All right guys, well welcome to the show before we get started with today's news. Let's go ahead and check out our sponsors.

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All right. Missouri's congressional maps were redrawn back in 2025. The Missouri Supreme Court is now letting the districts stand. The redrawn districts, judges in two separate opinions determined on Tuesday that the redrawn maps do not violate the state's constitution. Long story short, the new map will significantly remove or significantly redraw the district of Democrat Emmanuel Cleaver. So might not see any Democrat representation. You know what? They said New England 21-0 and we said, hold our beer. We will not just take the southeast.

We're going to get into the Midwest as well. Are you kidding me? Let's go. I mean, this is, so great, right? Democrats bad. But we're talking about political manipulation of the Congress before a single vote is cast. No, the manipulation already occurred. We're re-und, this is the un-jerry.

The entire system by which we're doing this is political manipulation. There's got to be a better way. There's got to be a better way than allowing the beneficiaries of the rigging to engage in more rigging. It's the, it's the undoing of the, it's the ungerimandering. It's the, this is political manipulation. The previous was racial manipulation. Are you taking, well, actually, the previous was political manipulation, guised as racial manipulation, because you can't review political manipulation, according to the Supreme Court, you can only review it if there's a crime like racism.

And so they took political manipulation and they wrapped it in racist. This is the Louisiana Calais case, right? They wrapped it in racist messaging. But here's the thing. Like it sounds like you're taking the position, Mr. Lupo, that Democrats are bad and Republicans are good. And Democrat gerrymandering is bad and Republican gerrymandering is good. Is that your position? No, my position is that racial gerrymandering is bad.

and when you look at states across our beloved union, you can see the lobster shapes and the, you know, the horseshoes and all of that stuff. That's what I'm saying is bad. And to, you know, you have to. I'm also saying that this is the foundation of our elections is the actual process by which, not processed by the jurisdictions by which we vote and which we vote in. And so if you're going to revamp the entire system and fix the system, you've got to start somewhere and why not start at the very first part we've we've seen again you and i have been covering this for four years now the the move to you know fix the rest of it but this isn't this is also an

important aspect to it now in terms of um you know is this is this political versus racial gerrymandering um i mean if you have a majority in a state you draw the districts that's the way and that goes all the way back to the very beginning it's always been a political process there's no question about that. Yeah, but it's good. Well, I understand the fakeness of it. I understand. I get the fakeness of it. But at the same time, you got to take the Ws when you can take Ws. I mean, I guess. And I'm not, I'm not going to hate on it because it's all fake and it's, it's really hard to get amped up about this. But if we're going to go back to the beginning, if we're going to un-rigg the system, right, make a, and I don't think you can, as we've talked

about a million times. I think you have to you have to scrap this and you know, start, start clean. But if we're going to go back to the beginning, it's not looking at political janeeriment, it's looking at apportionment generally. And it's going back to 1929 and saying, hey, hang on a second. Why is this representation? Because that's like in and of itself, the problem is that we don't have actual representation. The reason that we have political manipulation of the districts is because, in my opinion, of the capping of representation at 435. So you have to draw that, redraw them so often to make them fair, right? So instead of apportionment being based on the numbers of your community of where you live and it scales with you, depending on the growth

of the population, instead of that, 1929, we have this lockdown process where instead of representation growing, the number of representatives growing, the number of people being represented grows. And that creates a whole bunch of problems in terms of fairness at the state level. So we need to insert this political process to draw these districts. That's rigging. And it's rigging before a single vote is cast. And that's the conversation that we should be having at this time when everybody in the world in the nation right now is looking at the redistricting process and saying, what is this? This is political. nonsense what this isn't representation but we're not having that conversation we're having the conversation of democrats versus republicans democrats bad republicans good and it's it's frustrating i'm looking at this

and i've made this argument i actually got into an argument with uh somebody over the weekend a democrat a black democrat uh i'm making i'm trying to make the argument here that hey if you guys don't like the 14th amendment it's unconstitutional because that's what they used to reverse uh calais or or that's what they use in the clay decision to reverse the the gerrymanders saying equal protection. And I'm making the argument. It's not the equity protection clause. It's the equal protection clause. So if you don't like the 14th Amendment, which was by the way ratified unconstitutionally, I mentioned that to them.

So hopefully maybe they'll look. Maybe, I mean, the Democrats have tried everything else to undo this process. They've, you know, talked about changing the retirement age of Virginia Supreme Court justices to undo that. You know, they're desperate. And so maybe we can get that. them on the bandwagon of a reconstruction or amendments need to be abolished. Everything passed the turn. No, we'd never pass it.

But also, also on that same line, on that same line, you know, when they redraw these districts, they're typically going to redraw state districts as well, Senate seats, state Senate and state legislature seats, legislative seats. And perhaps we could see more conservative state legislatures, which I think are a little bit more easy to insert, you know, the grassroots style activist level activist. And maybe we could actually get some movement on, on amendments like term limits and balanced budgets and all the shit that we actually should be doing. Yeah, Ray 56 said it's true.

Dem's bad. It's a unit party. They're all bad. Yeah, you're right. Mitch McConnell's a real good guy. They're all bad. Mitch McConnell, he's in the news today. I got a story on him, President Trump, talking about him.

But all right. So before we get that another case here, Magnolia Tribune, Fifth Circuit vacates order requiring Mississippi to redraw their state Supreme Court districts. And this one, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the liability order in Mississippi State Supreme Court. That was the judicial redistricting case. Governor Tate Reeves shared the Fifth Circuit's action on Monday saying that post-Colay, both the plaintiffs and the state jointly requested the action, meaning the dismissal or the lifting of the stay. the governor said that he would call lawmakers into a special session 21 days after the supreme court's decision on calais to address the redistricting that timeline would see them meet in jackson next week and the victim of this redistricting is going to most likely be benny thompson couldn't happen to a better couldn't happen to a better person i love that i do i do like that um i you know this clip is kind of stupid but it was a relatively slow news day so i'm going to play it anyways but This was Kevin O'Leary getting called a dick on CNN, which is always kind of cool, especially when he fires back with like logic.

More content like that, and I might watch CNN. That sentiment is that you were born in 1954. Yeah. Okay. You're 70. You're 71. Yeah. Right.

In 1950. By the way, the vampire. During your lifetime, we've actually had Brown v. Board of Education. I remember. Yeah, Brown v. Board of Education. I don't know how you remember it. I think you were like two months old. But I'm not finish it.

Real back to 50. Yeah, because you're still alive, right? And so there is an entire generation of people. Brown v. Board, it overturned Plessy v. Ferguson of 1890s. My point is, bring it, bring it. My point is that my mother was born in 1951. She desegregated schools. My father was shot in the civil rights movement.

Those people, I'm going to finish because you're being utterly disrespectful. Not at all. So I'm going to finish this comment. So what I'm telling you is that there are people in this country who fall. died and bled for the right to vote. Don't be a dick. Just understand. A Baccarry.

Just understand. I'm not a dick. I'm pointing something out to you. Constitution is being upheld. Hey, you just, you understand. I'm going to stop you.

Because I just want everybody to reset with a modicum of respect at this table. I want you to understand. There is a price that was paid for this right. There is a price that we uphold. And whether or not you value that, where you,

whether or not you, value that or not. There are people who bled, sweat and died and were in prison for access to the ballot box. And what we're seeing have access. What we're seeing throughout style is that their voice, their votes, their representation, and people who have lived experiences to represent them are not being sent to Congress or where they need to go. Oh my gosh. You don't know what it's like to be black excuse, which is the go-to. Nobody's losing their right to vote. The decision is you can't be, you can't be racist when fighting racism anymore. That's the key takeaway. And it turns out a lot of people want to be racist. Mark Elias is freaking out all the way about this. We have so, when we have a

slow Asaw of Na week, we have to do our mystery science theater on Mark Elias is we've got like a whole, I've got a whole playlist. I've got a Becker one coming out too, don't we have May 28th. Yeah, we have a Becker one coming up too. And these are my favorite things to watch these guys freak all the way out because their system of control that they've had, they have, they have tilted. You know, we're just talking about redistricting in terms of drawing the districts. This is the case in every single element, every domain of elections, fake voters,

fake ballots, fake counts. You have this, this central planner manipulation, some on the scale, tilted. the system in one direction and here we're watching at the districting level that being dismantled and you see all the right people freaking all the way out about it because it's not about racism or making sure that black people can vote it is about controlling outcomes of elections and they're very upset about it yeah it's been a very absurd argument and and you know the best part when they've pivoted from this but when the decision first came out and then Tennessee you the whole you know burning the flag in the you know the confederate flag in the uh in the capital

hill or the capital hall rather um by the way that's that's arson that's literally a violation of the law but you know let's go after all the j-sixers for you know they're walking through the velvet ropes when you saw that the first thing they came out with was we lost we're losing our black representation and you know obviously we pointed out right away that it's actually quite the opposite you're losing the white jewish guy the old jewish guy that's representing you and replacing her him with a black uh republican that was a banger poster yours yeah that was fantastic and him you know placating eating kFC on the congress you know in in chambers just absolutely absurd so then they pivoted to well black representative you're losing black representative votes but we're not being our voices aren't

being heard well now you're under the presumption that all blacks are going to vote the same way which is categorically absurd and you're seeing it's racist by the way incredibly racist yeah yeah and you've seen a trend in in in the black vote going away from the democratic party as a result of that type of you know plantation whatever you want to call it fence gatekeeping it's absurd man i love to see this like the the chaos that it's creating in the party you've got voters that are coming out and now saying like Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, you stop lumping me into that basket. I don't want to be in that basket.

Yeah. And that's the. So this, this is so delightful to watch because we're, we're watching Democrats. That the guy on the Abby Phillips show thing was a black guy, but we're seeing this mostly from white elections industry player Democrats who are freaking out and saying this is this, we're going to lose black representatives. Well, what you're saying is that black representation is Democrat. Well, oh, historically, you know, blacks vote for Democrats.

Well, you know, elections are fake. So we don't actually know historically how the black community votes. I think we can get a pulse in some ways. But I would, there's no universe in which I would believe those numbers outright, the result numbers, whether we're talking about 2016 or 2020 or 2024, because it's all manipulated. But this is the go-to tactic. And I'm so glad we're breaking out of this paradigm.

In my case, the president of the NAACP was being deposed. And she was really struggling because she didn't know anything about the case. She was recruited, in my opinion. She was recruited to be a plaintiff in the case so that they could make the lead NAACP and make it about race. It was never about race. It was never about anything. They made it up. But she wasn't able to answer questions.

And our attorneys, we had attorneys at the time, was pinning, her into a corner, right? Who did you talk to that was intimidated? Why did you bring this case? Why did you name these people? Why did you say these things? And she didn't have any answers. And in a moment of frustration and rage, we got, you don't know what it's like to be black. And this is an open carry state and guns are scary. I'm paraphrasing what she said. But you don't know what it's like to be black as a direct quote. And that's the go-to because it's the emotional blackmail. It's like the Rosa DeLoro, talking to Lee Zeldon when he pinned her into a corner on her climate arguments and her answer was you're a climate denier you're a climate denier it's this this go to the social shaming shut up

your guilty of wrong think you can't say these things anymore and we're done with that we're breaking out of that paradigm and breaking out of that paradigm on race is one of the most important places where it needed to happen happy to see it yeah um excuse me um let's jump into the next story here from the new york post dead voter signatures appear on democrat candidates forms our democracy nowadays i don't know why that's there the signatures of two dead brooklyn voters now i read that and i was like whatever appeared on a democrat candidates nominating petitions and now she's at risk of being kicked off the primary ballot state assembly candidate member marville shazada and her slate of democrat district leaders uh had 90 percent you kind of missed the line there in the the opening paragraph new york post 90

percent of her 5258 total signatures have been invalidated by the city board of elections some 3 000 people who supposedly signed the petition either lived out of the district or were not even registered to vote a third signatures from a woman whose family said she wasn't even in the big apple on the day that that she allegedly put her signature on the form record show both of the two dead voters would have been over a hundred years old and passed away more than a decade ago. It goes on to say 99 year old Lucia Gelbfish's family said she didn't sign the petition either. Now here's the crazy part. Merville Shazada now has a meager 479 signatures left out of 5,0002.

258, which is 21 short of the 500 threshold to run for the assembly. Like, why did you get 5,258 if you only needed 500 and you made all these fake ones up? Is it, you know, maybe to say that she's popular? Narrative. Yeah, maybe to fabricate the popularity of her. I mean, perhaps, but holy shit. How is that not? That's not.

That's not a mistake. We have 4,500 fake signatures and, oh, whoops. No, I don't, I don't like that. So that's the key is why is that not a crime? 90%, like one or two. It's forgery and fraud, but why, why won't it be prosecuted as a crime? Well, so I guess the 90% they're saying they live out of district or they're not registered to vote. So I mean, it's a matter of do you live here? Yes. Okay, sign here, you know,

plausible deniability. I guess, I guess, but I mean, the three there that are dead those are crimes that's that's you know forgery who signed those signatures that there needs to be accountability for that maybe and i'm just speculating but maybe this is a new a scheme to identify more smurfs well i mean you look at the the case that you and i both followed closely the pam anderson case out in colorado when she ran against tina peters she couldn't go to the assembly to the uh to the um what do you guys call it out there she could have she would have lost right she would have she chose not to yeah And so you have these people when they know that they're wildly unpopular, they go out and they get these signatures.

Who knows that these signatures are real? O'Keefe was exposing that just last month. Him and the other gentleman down there in California in Los Angeles. O'Keefe, I think, was in San Francisco. No, it's the other way around. O'Keefe was in Los Angeles. This guy was in San Francisco. And they're going out and getting signatures off the street from homeless people for three bucks a signature.

Which is a crime. Which is absolutely a crime. And so when somebody can't get on a. ballot through a in-person, you know, caucus-style election at a, you know, at a conference, then they go in and they get the signatures and then you go into the black box and then you make it onto the ballot and you win the ballot because you're in the black box and nobody can question the black box. Can't question the black box, except now apparently things are happening inside of it. And it's a it's kind of crazy. Of course, Pam Anderson was the executive director of the Center for

tech and civic life, the Zuckerbuck's scam in my opinion, at the time of the 2020 election. Her mother-in-law went on to be the lead plaintiff in Anderson v. Griswold, the 14th Amendment trial to keep President Trump off the ballot. My point being these groups of very serious election industry advocate people who are just super scared about protecting our democracy, our political hacks that are all on the same side and they're republicans in this instance but they're also you know like besties with all the democrats because it's a and uh just just real quick going back to the last redistricting story i just on a whim ask the machine about this and uh the current congress is about 14 percent uh of black members and uh the nation's about 15 percent uh of

of black or a combination of uh so they're actually over it's 13 percent yeah they're over representation by about a percentage point so maybe just you know take away i'm just totally kidding but but it's it's it's online it's and it's canceled it's within the margin of error the representation so to say that they don't have representation when 13 percent of the population has 13 percent you know representation and then to be fair there's republican black uh congressmen There's, you know, Democrat, black men and women. So, yeah, there you go. Now, going back to the New York thing, I want to play just briefly this clip.

And last night, we had Dr. Andrew Piquette on why we vote. And just a little segment here. Overall, I think it was a fantastic interview. The work he's done on exposing this through. Very, very meaty stuff that we got into. Yeah, through New York citizen audit. And then his continuing work in Bear County, Texas and throughout the United States has been absolutely fantastic.

check out this just quick segment here. The duplicate is legal. So that's when you have the same personal identifying information, and you also have the same ID number. A clone has a different ID number and everything else is the same. And the reason that one is illegal and the other isn't is a duplicate can't do anything on its own. It can be used to generate a ballot,

but once that's done, that's in the record and you can't do it again. But with a clone, you can generate as many ballots as you have clones. So that's why those things are illegal. So the guy I'd asked to look into that, he came back with a number about 700,000 of those. And that seemed pretty high, especially for a system that by law can't have anywhere near that many. The error margin was something like 10 out of the whole state, right? And so I was pushing him, and I suddenly realized that he was actually limiting his search in a couple of very important ways. it turned out there was more like a million and a half of them.

It wasn't 700,000. He was only looking for the clones that were active during the couple weeks of the 2020 election. So it got worse and worse. And I was thinking, you know, so he's talking about New York there and the clone problem they had there. And we've had, you know, on why we vote, we've had Marley Hornick on before to talk about that and the work, you know, years ago, back when this was kind of a little bit more fresh. But Dr. Piquette was, you know, the research behind that. And, you know, one of the things he said last night is, you know, he had a guy that had 11 clones, right? And he went to go investigate this. And the guy turned not only, not only did he have 11 clones, but he himself wasn't real. He didn't exist. He was completely made up. And then he's talking about, you know, signatures of these clone, you know, documents that would have not just the same signature, but identical signatures as in like scan marks of like dust debris that was on the scanner. Like, literally just copy and paste copy and paste copy and paste and so when you look at new york the

last thing they say in this article here and then i'll hand it over to you ash but the last thing they say in the article here is uh registered democrats outnumber republicans nearly two to one by a nearly two to one ratio and registered independence outnumber the roughly 19 000 republicans with 85 000 registered voters in the district and so you got it you got to kind of speculate like what are the actual numbers what are you know in our registrations what are the real numbers we don't we don't even know that so foundation crap so I think that you can look at this finding and you know you're at a fork in the road you take two you have two possible options you can look at it and say hey

man I think some of this stuff might be inflated and there might be some fraud involved in here and we should investigate that and figure out what's going on with our voter rolls and our registrations and see who these voters are. And shouldn't we actually have a master source of truth of voter registration that is that is real, right? That is verifiably real. The other path you can take is to say, oh my gosh, Democrats are out registering Republicans two to one. We need to deploy Scott Pressler and go out there and find as many people as we can and pad the voter rolls further. The thing you can't do is both. Yep. You cannot reconcile those two things and the the get out the vote NGO machine

that seeks to make sure every voter is registered right a reminder according to Pew research in the 2020 election U.S. turnout was 94.1 percent among registered voters but we need we we we we we we're 81 million real lawful American votes uh Chris Paul always said about the 2020 election and Joe Biden's take more than Obama, more than anybody anywhere ever, and the institutional establishment Republican responses, we need to register more voters. You can't you, we can investigate and solve the problem or we can continue to perpetuate the problem and participate in it and legitimize it. And that's the choice when it comes to this specific issue.

I liked my theory yesterday that these clone voters that he was talking about are created so that when you have 81 real lawful American votes, 81 million real lawful American votes, and you have a 94% turnout, you have to have, 94% is very improbable, highly improbable. Oh, it's an outlier on the chart. When you see the chart, because this was nationwide, it was nations, so the Pew Research Study was looking at turnout among nations,

and you've got kind of this, you know, trending down from nightly, the most corrupt countries are up at the top at like, you know, 90, 100%, and then trending downward and you have the U.S. in the middle for some reason and all the way over to the side where the corrupt countries are. I actually actually probably would find it if you want me to. But yeah, it's an outlier. It does not make sense. And everybody's just like, oh, well, you know, the pandemic made us have way more people vote. What?

Yeah. It was a fantastic episode. I would highly recommend you guys go back and check out last night's why we vote if you have not seen it yet. You know, we kind of skipped the pleasantries and got right into it. with Dr. Paquette and I think we got a pretty good explanation. Definitely gonna have to have them back because there's a lot more questions that I have on the work that he's done.

And he's where we are, by the way. You can't use the system. You can't, you can't, this is designed for fraud. We can show you all the ways in which it's designed for fraud. That needs to be the problem that we're solving, not, hey, let's figure out how Republicans can win the fraudulent election. Well, I know how the Democrats can win, Ash.

How's that? You put Jesus Christ on the ballot. Oh, I saw that, yeah. Just a little humor. I put this up. Jennifer Asper sent this to me on X and I thought it was pretty funny. So Jesus Christ is running in for Democrat Party president in Los Angeles, California. 9-0-061. There you go.

You guys want to vote for, I don't think Jesus Christ would be a Democrat under these parties under this party's platform it would definitely be proudly unaffiliated yeah like definitely yeah I just want can I show this yeah yeah so this is the Pew research uh excuse me I don't think so right click open a new tab right open image and new tab I got it hold on now there we go okay so US voting age population turnout is still behind many other countries despite its recent rise. The registered voter turnout is remarkably higher.

So here we are. 62.8 is total voting population turnout. So these are of the entire ecosystem, not registered voters, but entire ecosystem. But among registered voters right here is 94.1% for the United States of America in 2020. that puts us up with Uruguay and Turkey and Peru and don't tell me we had a turnout issue in 2020. That's that's nonsensical. And it's not that's not Ash saying it.

It's Pew Research. Do any of the top countries have compulsory voting? Uruguay, I think has mandatory voting. Let me look that up though to check. I thought Turkey did too. Okay. I will check. that while you go through whatever your next story is.

If we had higher voting than them, but okay, let's go ahead and check out this story here. Appellate court temporarily pauses order that would declare Trump's global 10% tariffs unlawful. It says the federal appeals court

paused the lower court order, declaring the global 10% tariffs unlawful. The move will allow the appellate court panel time to consider equities on both sides of the dispute before considering it did not rule on the merits and it is noted that this is the same court that gave him the the stay the request to stay the decision on last year's uh trump tariffs so again it is what it is both turkey and uruguay have compulsory voting mandatory voting so pull that pull that chart back up knowing that the top two countries have compulsory

voting and we had a higher turnout than both of them yeah That's crazy. But Scott Pressler, we need, everybody needs to be a Scott Pressler. Let's go out and register more voters. Michelle Obama has this, I think it's called When We All Vote, is her umbrella organization where all of the get out the vote entities kind of fit under there. And they form this network of players in the get out the vote space. And they're all focused on making sure that every single American is registered to vote.

they cannot, in my opinion, check eligibility in that ecosystem. Same thing with Scott Pressler. This is actually what got him to block me is that I said, how are you checking eligibility and all these voters that you're registering? And he couldn't answer the question, and he didn't like being challenged. And so he just runs away from the conversation like a little bitch. But that's the problem is that they're out there patting the voter rolls. As we are in the states, activists in the states, state governments,

trying to remedy the problem. President Trump certainly the Save Act, trying to make it so that only Americans are voting in elections, you have people out there under the guise of when we all vote. It's so important that we all make sure everyone votes that are padding the voter rolls with duplicates, as we talked about with Dr. Piquette last night, with fake people, with dead people and illegals and all of these things. And they call that democracy and they call it good. and when we challenge it, we say that we're being told that we're suppressing the vote. But it's not the vote. It's fraud. Just real quick, Uruguay, Turkey, Peru, and Argentina all have compulsory voting.

Indonesia is the only one in the top five that does not. And Sweden does not either. I did not check the Philippines. I gave up after four of the top five. And we have a higher turnout than all of them. Okay. Okay, let's jump into this next story here. So the tariffs, we'll see what happens with those.

Trump, you know, me and Chris Paul talked about that. I think on Friday where Trump says, you know, well, this is two out of the three ways that we have to implement these tariffs. And of course, the courts are saying, no, no. Now, this one's going to be a little bit different. So when you go back to the first decision that was made there, it was what, five to four, I think. The tariff decision. And Gorsuch actually went with the liberals in that. But Gorsuch, when he went with the liberals, if you read his dissent and or his opinion, excuse me, and Ash and I both read it and highlighted it.

It wasn't like, it wasn't saying like Trump's wrong. It's like saying, y'all are a bunch of freaking hypocrites. You know, like let's stick with the with the plan here. So we'll see what happens with the 10% global tariffs. Again, I think, you know, Ash's segment in the intro, Trump is balancing global trade and resuming fairness in the American economy. the courts are saying no you need to put that burden on the taxpayer because the fed needs to get nice and fat from the hill warsh trump's picked ahead the federal reserve clears it's senate hurdle it's amazing how fast the the senate works when it's the federal reserve chair that they're trying to get through it's amazing like he's still got nominations that haven't been nominated from over a year ago but when it's the federal reserve chair we got to make sure it's done before Powell is on his way out the senate voted 51 45 to confirm Walsh to the Warsh, excuse me, to the Fed's board of governors, and then 51 to 45 to advance his nomination to replace Powell. Every Republican who voted supported the nomination,

and even centrist, that's how we're describing him now. Centrist, John Fetterman, was the only Democrat to vote for Warsh. Powell's team as Fed chairman, our term as Fed Chairman, expires on May 15th. That's Friday, I believe. Though his term as a member of the board of governors runs through January 2028 and he intends to remain on the board of governors until the chairman until his time ends which is unusual usually when you leave the chair they they ride off into the sunset and leave but not Powell we got to make sure he sticks around yep right it was a slow news day so again let's go ahead and play some fireworks here between cash Patel and and and send Van Hollen, you might remember him notoriously from the Ecuador trip that he took,

sipping martinis or margaritas. Occasions when your security detail had difficulty waking or locating you. Is that right? No, if it's a total farce, I don't even know where you get this stuff, but it doesn't make it credible because you say so. I'm not saying it, Director Patel. It's been written and documented. You are literally saying it. No, I'm saying that these are reports, Director Patel.

Unlike for baseless reports, the only person that was slinging margaritas in El Salvador on the taxpayer dollar with a convicted gangbanging rapist was you. You know, the only person that ran up a $7,000 bar tab in Washington, D.C. This is a lobby to ask you. This room that has been drinking on taxpayer dime during the day is you. Director Patel, come on. These are serious allegations that were made against you. The allegations are false. You drinking margaritas with a gang

and you're true and on video. You're running a $7,000 bar tab at the lobby bar has been filed by your own office. This goes to show during the day, that's you. This is the ultimate example of hypocrisy. I will not be tarnished by baseless allegations and the media.

The fact that you mentioned that indicates you don't know what you are talking about. Now here, I was talking about. that's awesome so the uh then he put out a post cash pettel put out a post uh showing the uh schedule b f c form three showing that he was at the lobby bar on december 12th uh 2025 and ran up a 7,128 bar tab uh holland van holland claims that it was for a staff uh christmas party uh if that's the case that's a big staff to drink seven thousand dollars worth of booze and

the midday midday seven thousand dollars like we could do it let's uh john accepted bad badlands bar tab let's see if we can run up for for journalistic purposes i think we should see if it's possible to actually do that at the next guard i am uh checking real quick to see when was december 12th was it at least a friday or was it a work day but i mean also they get like six weeks for Christmas so um can we really call what they do work December 12th was a Friday it appears it was a Friday so at least they had a you know at least they were doing it on a Friday during the day but yeah they get like three weeks off uh and then also um van holland posted on X that uh let me get this pulled up here that the uh the glasses were placed in front of us but we did not drink them

like Bill Clinton I did not inhale male. Yeah. I know that may be confusing concept for director Patel and then I mean they've got like are those margaritas like if you look at the glass let me pull this out and just zoom in again slow news day guys. Let's just let's just zoom in. Is this a margarita? Because there's it doesn't appear to be ice, although it appears to be cold. It's got a salted rim. It's got a cherry. So it's probably actually sugar not salt. What is in that glass? Is that like straight? Jetpack Jones says Chris Paul was talking about whiskey. Oh, I thought that was talking about this picture. $5,000 a bottle whiskey. Wasn't there like a Woodford Reserve that Patel like branded with the FBI logo or something? And like there was like a picture going around of it being like half.

He gave it to somebody like half gone or something. I don't know. I seem to remember this stuff. Who cares? So our chat is like full of trolls and by using the term troll to include all Scott Pressler fans. So I'm probably going to close it down at the moment because it's distracting me. So if you want us to respond to something, put it in a rant and we'll see it then. Yeah.

And speaking of we are reading the rants in real time. So Monty 710 says, I recommend overview of America on YouTube and a book, The Shepard. of power by James Perloff. Well, thank you. Very cool. I love book recommendations. Book the shadow. A book, the shadow of power.

The shadow of power. Not to be confused with the creature from Jekyll Island, which is a shadow government. And we are covering that on Badlands Book Club Thursdays at 2 p.m. And it's fantastic so far. Chapter three tomorrow. Chapter three. It's not too late to get caught up. It'd take you about 20 minutes to get caught, maybe 30 minutes.

to get caught up if you're a slow reader like me hours if you get caught up by watching the show because we take a little bit longer because we talk about it as we go yeah that too that too definitely would highly recommend 10 out of 10 watching the show highly we 10 out of 10 recommend our show so let's uh play this clip here so omg apparently omg hired owen treyer i guess like when Alex Jones closes his studio for like the 15th time you have to go find new work eventually eventually you're like was he recently worked he was no he had a falling out with Alex Jones a while ago didn't he who I think I vaguely remember that I don't think any of those people are real I think that they're all actors playing roles and this season we're fighting and next season we're

best friends and and don't forget you have the mandatory closures those are like season and fineries like every single time the info wars is going off air then and then it opens like the next day is like info wars with a z instead of an s and now remember when um tim pool was like this is the last time i'm ever streaming and then he was like back on the air the next day yeah i don't remember unfortunately when it when it happens to real people you don't get that type of advanced announcement you just wake up the next morning and go to stream and it's like the little monkey with the YouTube signs smashing something and he's like, this channel doesn't exist.

Ask me how I know. Yeah. Yeah, that's how real people get canceled, not this fake bullshit. But this was pretty good expose here. Got a couple senior advisors in the White House on record talking about some shenanigans. We'll play about a minute and a half of this.

The decision making processes are a little bit. A White House policy advisor opens up about the internal decision making processes throughout the White House. I think it's just the overall tone. I'm like, you know, the government right now, but I'm curious. I'm curious. Max and Lott even acknowledges that official below Trump will often make decisions for the president,

presuming what his stance would be. In theory, everything should start to come to the president. Yeah. But at my company, the level below him, where they're like, they're like, I think I know that the president well enough to say what he would say on this. Oh. It's like, yeah, we would want to do that, that would be popular. And then at my level, like, I know, my level is below or whatever.

Still, there's a lot of discussion to be like, this is, This is clearly not something as one of these. And this is apparently done with no financial analysis or concern. It is just based on assumptions or on what, quote, feels like a good idea. There's no like, oh, well, this will cost 10 million, but like, save people turning out. It's like nothing like that.

It's just like, it feels like a good idea. Or like, you're good. I like the questions you asked. Oh, thank you. Meanwhile, another White House official, who, according to Maxim Laude could be entrusted to make budget decisions on the Trump administration's behalf, openly declares, quote,

we've got to get rid of Trump. I want to get rid of Trump. Seriously, he's a mess. He's fucking about everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Benjamin Elliston claims that Trump is a dangerous madman and insists that no one can know that he feels this way. He's a madman. He's convinced me that. That's against me. And that's dangerous. Do people know that how you feel about the president?

No, yes. No. Oh, but they. Okay. So we'll land that there. I played that mainly for the last guy. Yeah. Literally a senior budget analyst and a funding manager at the White House saying that we have to get rid of Trump. He's a madman. Like, who's vetting these people? Who is it? Camino, the head of personnel now?

Well, now, yeah. But I mean, there's 3,000 people that work at the White House. That is an uphill battle to vet. Or that's an organizational process though. There's 3,000 people that work a lot of places and they can figure out how to not have absolute traders undermining the principal executives agenda and plans. If you were in the private sector, you'd be fired immediately and potentially prosecuted for speaking outside of your NDA. But this, you know, how real are these videos? videos Owen Schroyer doing James O'Keefe slash project Veritas OMG undercover videos with insiders at the White House talking shit about Trump let's see what happens are

people gonna get fired are they gonna get in trouble or they gonna get is anything going to happen or is this you know entertainment media that's being put to keep the people captivated and not doing anything he and so did I miss something Or did O'Keefe get back on the graces with Project Veritas? I was wondering that too, that Project Veritas and O'Keefe Media Group in the same shot. Because I usually, you know, they have similar treatments on their videos when they do these undercover videos. And you kind of have to check and look and see, are we dealing with Matthew Tirmand? Are we dealing with James, James O'Keefe?

But it looks, it's merged back together. I vaguely remember James O'Keefe doing that, like, a few months back where he started pulling in the project veritas stuff again but i am not read in on what what's going on with that um corporate structure or who has the power and control of it interesting interesting um monte 710 said uh you should interview wayne morrow he talks about all the things you two talk about he goes on podcast and does interviews on the radio as well i really think you would like him i don't know who that is but i will uh i will check it out Raved Daddy 523. I wonder how many undercover gay dates.

Oh, remember that Ryan Long. Who did it, right? Wasn't the comedian that did that Ryan? That was hilarious. You have to do a lot of gay stuff. Mama of three boys found my husband's name being used for Win Red and Joe Collins for Congress. $250 each on the lookup site you gave last week. What do I do with that?

How do I get his name off of that? So that go ahead. So it's a crime. So first of all, check in and see if you actually paid those 200, if those came out of your accounts. If there was $250 exchange to those candidates and campaigns. Because if that was done without your knowledge and consent, that's wire fraud and a whole bunch of stuff that you can pursue criminal charges for. If not, if there is no $250 donations in your bank accounts, that means. that your identity or his identity in this instance was stolen.

It is a portfolio of crime. If you go on to Badly and Substand or go on to my Twitter, because I think I put it out last week, it's easier to find. It is a full list. I have a full list of the federal crimes that are violated by this smurfing process. There's also state level crimes that attach as well. And your husband has standing, but you have to report it. have to report it. You have to report it to the election officials. I would also report it to your

local law enforcement and press charges. But do your due diligence first to understand exactly what those $250 donations are if they're real, if they're straight up smurfed. That's how you do it. In terms of getting his name off, good luck and Godspeed. It's like trying to get, it's like trying to get off the President Trump communications list. So there are, there are IRS implications because our campaign donations tax deductible I don't think they are or are they no they're not right so but there are IRS implications FEC is one place you can send a complaint IRS FBI for you know fraud but again like Ash said first make sure that you didn't unknowingly or knowingly make these

donations and then Jessica in the chat asked what's the website at you can go to FEC dot go over what's the one you gave election watch dot info is where you can look up that's peter burniger's site and i think chris as well and they you can go and look up your and i did my whole family when they came out with that site and um but yeah go you can you can you can go look it up and see if there is any if there are any smurfing seeming seeming smurfing activity on your identity and again nothing's going to happen nothing's going to get fixed nothing is going to change no one's going to get in trouble if nobody reports the crime So you got to report the crimes.

And also, Mama of three boys, shout out to you because I also have three boys and we're awesome. Blackromes. And also shoot me an email. I would like to talk to you about that and see if I can help you out in any way. Cancon at cancon.net, C-A-N-N-C-O-N at C-A-N-N-C-O-N dot net. Don't forget the net. A lot of people think it's dot com. Okay, so let's keep moving here.

I've got this story here just to brief. show how old and decrepit our Congress is. Senator Mitch McConnell getting directed by the AIDS during a hearing yesterday. McConnell's going full Feinstein. He doesn't glitch out, but he's going full Feinstein. The vote is about over. Secretary has to get with the president on the China trip. I'm going to ask Senator Mikowski to wrap up.

And thank you all for being here. Baldwin, Shaheen and Kennedy. Mm-hmm? Baldwin, Sheehan and Kennedy still have questions. Wrap up after. Hold here. Obviously, there's not a whole lot of time for a second round, so we'll get through everybody.

And Senator Mikowski, I appreciate you. You're taking over. Thank you. It's time for putting. If you ever needed more evidence that we have a captured electorate, I don't know what to do for you. This has given me the Feinstein vibes and just for nostalgia, the late Diane Feinstein. This was probably close to her one of her last big hearings. She's down there in the green jacket standing out from everybody else.

I would like to support a yes vote on this. It provides $823 billion. That's an increase of $26 billion for the Department of Defense. And it funds priorities submitted. Yeah, just say aye. Okay. Just. Aye.

Thank you. Senator. I'm being told you. He's in a hell of a lot better shape in that clip than Mitch McConnell was in the clip you played of him. Yeah. I know. And then these people are a million and they want to die in office because then they have their immunity intact and they can't face any scrutiny. There's a whole bunch of them left too, Nancy Pelosi. For example, Mitch McConnell still. And this is unbelievable. The Mitch McConnell clip is inexcusable. There are incredibly smart people in our nation that could be doing the work of the people in those chambers if those chambers were legitimate. and I don't believe that they are. But the fact that it's that guy, why?

Because he's just so good at it. I'm sorry, weren't we just talking about a great reset because the world is broken and the United States government is a big part of that. And the United States Senate is a big part of that. And so why? Oh, that's right. Elections are fake. So they just keep, they just stay.

People, what people want to be damned. So President Trump put this out on truth saying the guy that came up to Mitch McConnell today when McConnell thought the hearing was over and started speaking in his ear for Mitch to belatedly introduce some other people. All Democrats and by doing so made Mitch look foolish and completely out of it should be immediately fired. This was a case where Mitch wasn't confused. He just didn't understand why he was being asked to do something when it was too late. And people were wrapping up to leave. They wanted to go home. His name is Robert Kerem and he's a never-Trumper and was grandstanding trying to.

show how quote unquote important he was karem has tremendous democrat support far greater than he should have and is praised relentlessly by obama's people he is probably the reason why mitch mccanell is stupidly opposed to terminating the filibuster and refuses to help with a 97 percent issue by the way it's gone up 10 percent 97 percent now uh the save america act fire the bomb president donald j trump love the post from trump because it is putting pressure on mccanell it is calling attention to something that would have otherwise gone under the radar nobody would have seen that and seen how belligerently out of it, Mitch McConnell's 84 year old Mitch McConnell has no clue what the hell is going on. And also calling out the fact that he does have a

lifelong Democrat working in his deeply, as, you know, right hand man. Well, yeah, and not just calling out that he's working with a Democrat, but pointing out the tactic of being handled. Mitch McConnell is being handled by the lifelong Democrat who wants to prove how important he is, etc, et cetera, et cetera. I think that's interesting. When he says fire the bum, I think that that could apply to everyone in the Congress and all of their staffers. Literally every single one. But yeah, that is a fantastic strategy of Trump right there. Fire the guy that's advising you not to pass the filibuster act because he whispered in your ear when you forgot the procedure. Like, there's two more people that had the right to speak. And you were willing to close the, you know,

like what Trump is saying, the reason for the guy whispering in his ear, was actually the correct reason. Like, hey, you still got two more senators to have to speak. But calling attention to the fact that McConnell is being handled by a lifelong Democrat and a never Trumper, go for it, man. It's inexcusable that Mitch McConnell is sitting in that chair with the power that he has. After the first glitch, he should have been out. After the second glitch, he should have been out for sure. And then after he tripped and fell or was pushed, whatever you want to talk.

Yeah, I mean, I would argue that after he and John Boehner destroyed the Tea Party, in 2011, 2012, that he should have been voted out, but elections are fake. So that didn't happen. And here we are. Yep. All right, let's jump into this story. Like Trump in 2024, independents in California are breaking for Republicans with quote unquote common sense policies. Not that it matters, but it is entertaining. The latest California poll from Crete create strategy shows that independent voters are showing a clear shift towards Republican candidates with Steve Hilton, who leads the field at 22 percent, edging out Xavier Basharrow. the Democrat at 20% in the top two primary format.

Create says that it was not paid by any campaign or outside organization for their polling. Sheriff Chad Bianco, another Republican, is polling at 13%. And I want to just show you guys real quick this poll, the polling data. So when Swalwell dropped out of the race, Bashara was the significant winner. He went from, or vote gainer. He went from 3.8% all the way. up to 16.7%. Steyer got a little bit of a bump. He went from 11% up to 14.8. And Bianco took a little bit of a hit right there. Now, the interesting thing about this is, have you seen the interview that Bashara did? Because he's getting fried too now.

I don't know. So check this interview out. This is how, just two clips from it, but this is how the interview begins. This is not like informalities, before the interview. This is the beginning of the interview. By the way, this is a profile piece. This is not a gotcha piece, right? Well, look, I think these questions are fair. It's in order to learn about you as a candidate. So long as about the profile. I don't know how you define profile, but I'd like to begin the interview. The way I describe profile is you talk about all the things that I've done, things I want to do, and along with some tough questions, but not only...

Not a good look. Definitely not a good look. And then he had this segment here during the interview. Let's go. I am all for this. Call this motherfucker out. Oops. Hold on. Where's the volume? Sorry, guys. During your time as a strategist secretary, a New York Times investigation found the health department couldn't find some 85,000 children it had released. That's not accurate. What you just read is not accurate. First, that's what I'll say. Because it was never the case that we could not find kids. You're essentially, I don't know, you've got those talking points from Donald Trump. It's from a new news article. That's not what the New York Times article said. The New York Times said that individuals,

yeah, the agency could not reach more than 85,000 children. Overall, the agency lost immediate contact with a third of migrant children. But that's not what the New York Times article said. The children and their sponsors did not respond to cause. They didn't say we couldn't find kids. Working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs, operating machineries, in factories, children as young as 14 years old.

That part occurred after these children had left the care of the Department of Health Human Services. Do you let these children go into those individual sponsors in their responsibility? Some of these kids, probably because they needed to earn some money, started working in places that were very exploitive. It's the kids fault. The kids. Blame the kids.

Yeah, you know, kids today. um and then it's not a shout out to her though good on her for for going hard i actually want to go watch that whole interview now i'm hooked yes but bashera is going so he's the frontrunner right now behind tom stayer which again i think there's an opt to move stayer into uh into that's that role he wants he he i think he's going to be the next governor of california um you know steyer or stayer whatever he can't he's so Silicon Valley a billionaire tech billionaire um came out of nowhere and only got on remember remember when they had the the debate that they were going to have in cal i think it was at stanford or uc berkeley or one of the the schools so southern cow um

they were going to have this debate and it was supposed to be based on polling or fundraising and he was relatively new polling like 1 percent and he got on the the ticket for the debate and then They're like, oh, it's all white people that are on the ticket. There's no minority representation up there. No blacks, no Hispanics, whatever. It's only the white people. And I was kind of like, well, they're all the top pollers except for stayer, Steyer, whatever.

He got on because of fundraising because he injected a whole shitload of money into his campaign and all of his tech bro, you know, billionaire buddies in Silicon Valley jumped in with him. And now you're seeing him just barely behind Besheera and Bashara getting the, you know, the act. so to speak here with that interview airing that clip you know just before the interview whether or not that was live or whether that was an edit that made its way out there I don't know but it's it's it's pretty fascinating to watch how this is working out can I rant about that for a second so this is something that because it's it's also Colorado's gubernatorial election this year and it's been crazy the the race is crazy and we have you know

So everybody complains about money in politics, right? That there's too much dark money in politics. We have to do something about the outside influence and the dark money in politics. But when it comes to gauging who the best candidate is and who the front, quote unquote, front runner is, in addition to things like polling, which is fake, with internal polls flying around right now is being framed as though they are some arbiter of, you know, reality when in fact it's paid, it's paid research by campaigns to make them look good. And that's and people are like, oh, look at the results of this poll. But the number one thing, Brian, for how we determine who the best gubernatorial candidate is,

who's resonating most with the voters is the money. And it's so frustrating because everybody seems to understand that the money is fake. It's being laundered. certainly this audience the money with coming from act blue uh and win red in those ecosystems um and it's it's every platform every payment processor if you talk to chris or peter peter or any of those guys it's every so every everybody their truth truth movement everybody generally understands that the the the campaign finance is the product of laundering dark money from out of the outside sources, at least in part, I think in large part in some areas.

But then it's the same thing where it's an election year now. So we're going to turn our brains off and we're going to put our jerseys on and jump up and down for fundraising numbers. The governor candidate here, a guy named Victor Marks, did his FEC reporting at the end of April. And his top line message was that he earned 1.6 million. He had 1.6 million donated. That was more than the two Democrats in the state of Colorado. It is a quite unbelievable accomplishment metric.

So we asked some questions about it, right? And it got Peter and Chris, the Smurfing guys involved to look at Mark Cook got involved and kind of looking at this. And he ended up having to take his campaign filing down, edit it and put it back up. But that's the thing is that this idea that fundraising numbers account for something. thing real in terms of public opinion is false. That is a that is a fake narrative, but it's just like everything else with the election year. People will turn their brains off, put their jerseys on and just forward the messages

coming out of either the campaigns or the legacy media about the campaigns. It is beyond frustrating that in 2026, we are still doing this. Yep. Spot on. And just think, you know, the accountability that you guys were able to get, you know, from people like Chris Gleason and Mark Cook and everybody. else calling this out, holding them accountable, getting some rallying, you know, support behind it. And then boom, they have to make an edit, which by the way, you know, according to Mark

Cook's most recent video, the edit still doesn't. It doesn't do anything to explain away the smurfing on there. And he lays out some examples. So that was actually really interesting how they had. And I don't think I've actually talked about this on the air at all because I haven't had the time to like lay it out and put it in. But there is one account that came out. And it's a local anonymous kind of political commentary account that came out and put a point on the addresses being mixed up in the file.

Right. And then that got amplified. That became the reason that they took the filing down. Oh, we had a bad database sort. So the problem statement was presented by this, you know, what I think is a campaign surrogate account. But regardless, the problem statement, oh, there's a database thing. here then reaction oh my gosh we have a database uh sort issue we've got to fix this solution we're going to put up the new filing we put up the new filing all that stuff's been debunked now didn't you listen to the campaign what are you stupid are you stupid can't you read why didn't you listen to the campaign didn't you see that they debunked it and it's like well actually that whole thing of the database sort was just an invention that happened so that you can say it was debunked

And that's the kind of stuff that we're dealing with. I hate election years. All right, guys, before we move on, let's go ahead and hit one of our final sponsors, I believe. And let's go ahead and jump in. There we go. All right, chat, real talk. If you want to actually grab our attention, there's now a clear line to do it. Here's how it works.

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Oh, wait, no, we didn't. I thought we did. I thought we had another one come in. I must have been wrong. Okay. So real quick, last thing on the Cal, California thing. Did you see the Spencer Pratt Labor Union ad that they ran earlier? I don't know, but I'll always watch a Spencer Pratt ad. It's like a little mini movie.

You like Spencer Pratt? I like the ads. Oh, well, so the labor union ran an ad over the week. No, it's not his. It's against you. And they're like they're like Spencer Pratt wants to stop using your taxpayer money for to build houses for unhoused Californians. He wants to hire more police. officers and get rid of the social workers instead of social workers he want like and it's like yeah no shit yeah yeah all of this stuff like at the end of the ad it's just like take off the vote no or or you know don't support spencer pratt and just change it to vote for spencer pratt and you've got a good to go ad so his campaign put this ad out as kind of like a spoof rebuttal what does dangerous Spencer Pratt have in mind for Los Angeles. I make a living, giving drug needles to unhoused individuals, and Spencer wants to put me out of

the job. Spencer wants to force me to get treatment and turn my life around instead of dying on the streets. What kind of bully forces people to do things? As a busy mom, running away from the crazy drug addicts in our park is the only exercise I get. Spencer wants to get rid of them. Does he want me to be fat? A vote for Spencer is a vote for change. Why would you vote for change when everything is fine. Stay the course with Karen Bass. Smile, damn it. Don't take the beach.

Stay the course with Bass. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you just got to love the ads. He's crushing. He is crushing the political ad game. Embrace the AI, man. Embrace the AI. Speaking of, uh,

crushing me to get treatment. The only exercise I get is running from these zombie drug addicts. Do you want me to stop getting exercise? You want me to get fat? So good. Did you see a little Marco going to China on Air Force One? So this is Marco's get up. That is the same-

Do you think this is like a standard sweatsuit that they have or something in some domain? Or is he trolling? I think Marco is partying with Nicholas Maduro in his little, in his little secret. hideout that he has and he was like you know I mean you know he's he's he's he's a Latin he's Lat tinks what tinks he's Latin you know him in Maduro they're going back and forth probably smoking a cigar Cuban cigar you know Tinks is the most inclusive way to refer to South of the board brown people I am told by the leftist who've coined a latinks

oh his his his staff came and got him and was like hey what are you doing bro we got to be on Air Force One in like 20 minutes. He's like, oh shit. I don't have a suit. I don't have a suit. And Nicholas was like, I got you, bro. I got you. And he's like, he's like throws him over his track suit. And Marco's like, hey, I like this look. Can I get it? Yeah. And so there we go. All right. Now he is the headphones is the. Um, all right. So let's get into the big story of the, well, actually, it's probably worth mentioning that, uh, uh, uh, FDA commissioner Mark Macary is out. He is stepping down or he resigned yesterday.

Macquarie's time atop FDA is over. Diamantus has been named the acting commissioner. The embattled FDA administration administration commissioner resigned. After just 13 months in the job, the decision was months in the making according to a senior administration official granted anonymity. He upset anti-abortion Republican. Do you say anonymity all correctly on the first try. And fast, you didn't even pause. I'm so proud of you.

Old news. Now, if only we can work on your pronunciation in Nevada. Nevada. He upset anti-abortion Republicans keen on having the FDA restrict telehealth prescription of the abortion pill. Miff-opressist. Miffopressone. Is that how you said that?

Miff-a-prostone? The anti-abortion pill. Yeah. And was pressured by Trump to authorize, flavored. It's not the anti-abortion pill. It's the abortion pill. Yeah, there you go. That's what I meant.

anti-abortion activist. It's the anti-pregnancy pill, because it will terminate it. Yes, there you go. He was pressured by Trump to authorize flavored vapes after initially raising concern about the products and was criticized by biopharmaceutical companies that argued Macquarie's agency was inconsistent in its review of their medicines. I'm sure we'll be seeing more to come out on this. President Trump had nothing but good things to say about him as he boarded Air Force One.

Okay. Now, let's get to the big story of the United States. No. Are we going to talk about China? Because I was really hoping to get read in on what's going on with the Trump's trip to China. Because I have no. Yes, you've named yet. Oh, I thought they just, I thought somebody said, okay.

Okay. Okay. From the New York Post, D and I Tulsi Gabbard probes U.S. funding more than 120 bio labs abroad. I went down the rabbit hole this morning. I went through all my own anywhere in Ukraine. Exactly. It says, Gabbard is investigating more than 120 bio labs abroad. that were funded by U.S. taxpayer dollars for decades as part of an effort to end risky experiments with viruses pursuant to Trump's executive order.

Her team is going to, quote, identify where those labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what research is being, quote unquote, research is being conducted to end dangerous gain of function research that threatens the health and well-being of American people around the world. The foreign labs extend into more than 30 countries and several had received funding in the past. passed through a DOD program that sought to dispose of weapons of mass destruction after the end of the Cold War. Of course. More than 40 of the biolabs under review are located in Ukraine and could be quote could be at risk of compromise due to Russia's war. OD and I officials noted. Now I got to wonder, you know, we always talk about like Chris Paul talks about all the time. Are these events, did they already happen?

and we're just, you know, kind of finding out about them in real time or whatever. One of the prominent things that was the leading up to the war or, you know, one of the things disclosed after the war was Russia going in because of these biolabs as part of that process. And it's like just now we're like, oh, look, there's biolabs and Russia might compromise them. This is a four-year-old war. Russia's gone full bore on those biolabs. They've either been cleared out or Russia's taken them over. The Biden administration denied the existence of U.S. owned or operated chemical or biological laboratories in Ukraine, dismissing the claims as Chinese and Russia propaganda in a March 9th, 2020 statement,

a month after the Kremlin forces invaded. The DoD watchdog has previously been unable to determine how many possible enhanced potential pandemic pathogens were being researched in China or other nations, despite more than $1.4 billion being spent on such experiments outside of the U.S. between 2014 and 2013. Now, 2014 was when Obama issued the moratorium banning the gain of function research in the United States. And, of course, we have to go down memory lane, take a trip, like play some music, grab some popcorn. Let's go down memory lane.

This was business insider, a debunked conspiracy theory about, the U.S. bioweapons in Ukraine that was seized on by Russia and the Chinese media outlets. And then, of course, the Department of State beat on March 9th, 2022. The U.S. is in full compliance with its obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention and does not develop or possess chemical and biological weapons anywhere. Of course, because it's the bioweapon threat reduction laboratory. They're not making them silly. They're gathering them all into one, place and then destroying the order listen if they don't make them and somebody else is going to make them and deploy them and we're not going to have the ability to fight them because we didn't

make them so we need to make the bio weapons to stop the bio weapons is the uh answer that we're given president trump has arrived in china i have a four minute video whenever you want i will pull that up as soon as i'm finished with this segment we can do it at Yeah, we didn't do your whole show and then do it at the end. And then of course, we have to get into our favorite secretary of state now, Marco Rubio, when he provided shielding to Victoria Newland during her Senate testimony. Let me ask you. Does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?

Ukraine has biological research facilities, which in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of. So we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach. I'm sure you're aware that the Russian propaganda groups are already putting out there all kinds of information about how they've uncovered a plot by the Ukrainians to release biological weapons in the country and with NATO's coordination. If there's a biological or chemical weapon incident or attack inside of Ukraine, is there any doubt in your mind that 100% it would be

the Russians that would be behind it? There is no doubt in my mind, Senator, and it is classic Russian technique. Only a sin deals in absolute. 100%. And that's the shielding I'm talking about. All the classic airmarked. E.C. was here. Is just waiting to go after me on this one, I think. Why is he? Because I said Rubio was shielding Newland. And he was. Rubio interrupted Newland as she's spilling her guts out about all of this. And he interrupts her. And he's like, yeah, but it would totally be Russia.

If there was a bio weapon released in Ukraine or somewhere like that, right? It would totally be Russia, right? Oh, yes. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, Senator Rubio, for saving my ass as I'm literally spilling the beans on the bio labs in Ukraine that we're we've been told we're conspiracy theorists about because we exposed all this back in 2022. Yes, thank you, Senator Rubio. Yeah, I mean, maybe, maybe he was wearing the Maduro get up for a different reason, Brian. Propaganda to groups are Russian forces should they approach. I'm sure you're aware that the

like she wasn't done talking. She wasn't done talking, Marco. Yeah, that was narrative shield. Yes. I don't know I don't know what's happened since the Trump second term. If Trump, you know, gave him a firm, Thurn talking to, but Marco Rubio is or was, and probably still is,

a neocon. He is an establishment figure. He's doing the right things that we all feel great about now. And he's working Trump's, he's working Trump's policy and he's doing very good, effective things. But again, a lot of people are playing along to get along until the end,

when Trump's, you know, rides off into the sunset. And then they will emerge. Go ahead. Alternative reading. This was, when was that? What year was that interrogation? That was 2022. 2022.

So that was during ostensibly during the Devo term, right? Could be narrative shielding. Could be that he was helping her. Could be that he was directing the conversation into the direction it needed to go because that is an official proceeding with an under oath official record attached to it. And I, I am not willing. I'm not saying you're wrong, right? All appearances, you're correct.

By the appearances of that hearing, the appearances of what we know now, you're correct. However, things are not always what they seem, and I think that a big part of what happened during the Biden administration was building a record, and we're seeing that record be executed on right now across all domains in the American federal government

and in, you know, geopolitics and the way that we engage in some of these scandals, right? The Russia collusion investigation is a grand treasonous conspiracy now. And a lot of what forms the substance of that portfolio of crime and the investigations and prosecutions, hopefully fingers crossed, that are coming from it, tie back to that impeachment hearing. And so maybe Marco Rubio was giving Victoria Newland, narrative shielding and trying to help her. But maybe he was taking the conversation and the direction it needed to go to establish the record required for the justice phase that we're going

to see now. Very well could be. I still believe that Marco Rubio is the same little Marco that he was in 2016 and not much has changed there. We'll see. The signs were all over the place, by the way. This is from the U.S. Embassy in Keeves' own YouTube channel. The work we do in the Biological Threat Reduction Program is complicated, and it's difficult to communicate it sometimes to outside audiences. And I think our adversaries like Russia can take advantage of that with some of the propaganda that they put out. What we do here is it's complicated. We can't, we can't, how is it complicated? Aren't you supposed to be just reducing the threat and just get eliminating it it's kind of complicated you know shit look at clay parake's

comment in the chat we say damn i hate to have all this round to can con i agree with him not ash well well i usually does he just he just sides with the pretty ladies over over the that's not true that's not to don't don't diminish the fact that clay usually sides with me over you take the win on this round but don't step in it any further clay is what we call a blue foul in the Marine Corps. What does that mean? You'll have to ask Clay. Southern Research wins contract with Black and Veach.

All of these contracts, this was 2011, guys. This goes all the way back, all the way back. This is the Defense Threat Reduction Agency under Barack Obama before it was all shipped offshore. This was to Armenia. Then, of course, we've got the, I shared this one back in March of 2022, right after that, what came out. Southern Research wins Black and Vech. subcontract for threat reduction in Armenia as a member of a dedicated and integrated management team Southern research also continues to work with Black and

Vech on enhancement of disease detection and reporting in the Ukraine where achievements include construction of a high containment laboratory and development of a biosafety level three training program we also go back to these contracts that were all archived fortunately I saved these in my my bookmarks as well um ukraine this was in kev the institute of veterinary medicine where is it what they were doing uh permit for working with pathogens uh we had what was the next one we had another one here in turnople not Chernobyl but turnople in ukraine we had another one in De Nipro de Nipro Petrovsk, which is I would guess in the Donbass.

I would imagine all of these are Black and Veach by the way. We talk a lot about EcoHealth Alliance. We need to look at Black and Beach. A blue falcon Marine is a snitch. Is that right? Not really a snitch, kind of like a buddy fucker. What? Yeah, like he doesn't take my back. He sides with the civilian instead of backing up the Marine like we should always have each other's back but he doesn't do that because he's a blue falcon disloyal i love clay i'm just kidding around uh clay said uh on on because i said how dare you and he said one time out of how many give him this one so it's fine you can have this one i got a lot more

in just one but that's okay um how about how about this one from february of 2022 they scrubbed it after the march ninth to us state department came out and said nothing's going on the biological threat reduction program the u.s embassy in ukraine and um wouldn't you know this look at their active research projects ash only four bullet points you want to read the highlighted part prevalence of crimean kongo hemorrhagic fever and onto viruses in ukraine and the potential requirement for differential diagnosis of suspect leptospirosis patients so we should start we should expect to start hearing about leptospirosis soon i think i'm just going to go with hey Is this hantavirus that used to be transmitted by mice, but now it's going to be transmitted air to air by person?

Are we looking at firm? Was there a penguin involved? No, there was a, dude, you didn't catch this story. It was like a third world country trash dump that an ornithologist went to to go look for a white-throated Karaara, and he ended up stepping on like a pygmy lepsis rat or something and got infected by that rat. Sure, yeah. And that's how the whole thing happened. That's how it happens. Yeah, worldwide domination as a result. Meanwhile, the bio-Ukraine labs have been researching Hanta viruses as one of four active projects.

Brian, it's just a coincidence. Totally coincidence. And then I just, I can't wait till Tulsi Gabbard's done with this research because this was my post in March of 2022. Uh, egg on the face. And I will land that segment there and give it over to you to talk about China. Yeah, I mean, I just, you know, we, you said that he hadn't landed yet. And then everybody in the chat was like, yes, he did. There was a big ceremony.

So I went and pulled the ceremony. Do you want to watch it? It's four minutes. Sure. We can see the arrival down the steps of, a hard hitting coverage. He's taking the second step now and then the third. 250 feet away.

but yeah that's Donald Trump being welcomed onto the red carpet through the gauntlet of Beijing students waving Chinese and the stars and stripes of the United States welcomed at the foot of the steps by the vice president of China also the ambassador to Beijing David Perdue alongside that vice president hang Zhang. It is quite the spectacle that the military have been enlisted to play

a welcome march. We are told not the Chinese national anthem, but it's all cordial at Beijing international airport as we watch Donald Trump make his evening arrival. It's just after

8 o'clock, 8 p.m. in the evening so, which is why he's arriving in He's like William Wallace. I can tell you here, Jane, the Chinese, very interesting in events as they will unfold over the next couple of days. So much writing on this for them, of course. I'm looking around at a Chinese press pack of around a hundred Western journalists here too. And Donald Trump will make his way towards the beast. That's his destination at the end of that red carpet as he walks alongside the Chinese

Chinese vice president Hang Zhen and he'll enter the beast the presidential so she didn't greet him there in person huh something like really vehicles make his way to central Beijing and after over nighting then the real business of this visit will begin let's just listen to the welcome here on the tarmac at Beijing Oh, wow. Eric Mora Trump there. Does I give you anxiety from a security standpoint? This whole thing is giving me so much anxiety from a security standpoint.

We've got to run. Go over there. Go over here. Welcome from 300 Beijing students on the tarmacan, the international airport. Jay Liu Hang-Ying, they shouted. They repeated to their guests. there are very important guests, very important for a whole number of reasons in terms of the economy, the war in Iran, avoiding a war over Taiwan very much in the minds of Donald Trump and

of President Xi when they get together in the Great Hall in central Beijing tomorrow morning. That's when the negotiations will start. Elon Musk, he, He, we've seen him on the red carpet, also next to Lara and Eric Trump, the rest of the political party that includes Secretary of State. Marco Rubio, that's interesting because he's a man who has twice been sanctioned by the Chinese when he was a senator. He spoke. Looks like that's it. All right. I got this iconic shot.

Trump should have, he should have stayed on Air Force One and called Xi and been like, Xi. Where the fuck are you, G. Why are you not here to greet me, G? No, I mean, I think President Trump appreciates the production and the build of suspense up to the moment of the meeting between President Trump and President G is that that's that's good storytelling. Right. And think about art of the deal and some of those, the way he played the press in some of those exchanges in art of the deal. I think President Trump would be fine with this and appreciate it. other folks could say it's disrespectful.

I think that the production and presentation of what we see tomorrow when they're meeting together is going to be the thing. And is that, is that tomorrow, like, is that going to be tonight, I think? Oh,

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Beijing is 15 hours ahead of Pacific time. It is already 8 p.m. there, I think. No, 15 hours ahead of Pacific. Oh, Pacific time. So yeah. So I think it'll either be tonight, like later or overnight. that that meeting would take place. So we would get the updates of it tomorrow. You'll have the kind of readout, I would think, with Alpha tomorrow morning.

You know, you could just be like, what time is it in Beijing on Google? And it would tell you it's 1140 p.m. It's 1140. Eastern. Yeah, Eastern. No, Central standard time. Oh, or CST means probably Chinese standard time. What?

Yeah. Well, it's 1140 p.m. in Beijing right now. So that wouldn't be Eastern because it's, Oh, right, right. 11.40 a.m. here. So it's exactly 12 hours from Eastern time. It's 1140 in Asia. Oh, right, right. Sorry.

It's 1140 Eastern time. So when you go to Asia, depending on where you are in the United States, you either go east or west, right? So when I went to Vietnam, I left out of Seattle and went to Seattle to, uh, Seattle to Hong Kong to Vietnam. When I went to India, I left out of Atlanta and went straight to Mumbai. So that's my time zone head was getting mixed up because I couldn't figure out which way we were going. With all this world traveling. And also math is hard and I suck at it. So that's why I rely on you because you're actually really good at math. All right. G font, you're actually really good at math. As opposed to words. Yeah.

GFontes 119, only 94 plus 94% of all campaign funds to Massey for Congress 2028 so far are reportedly from both individual and out of state as he's only representing a district inside Tennessee for example. What? He's representing a district inside Tennessee. Only 90 plus 94% of all campaign funds to Massey for Congress so far are reportedly from both. quote unquote individual and quote unquote out of state as he's only quote unquote representing a district inside Tennessee for example i don't know what that rant means right there but uh i don't know the op against thomas massey on x is fantastic to watch like oh my god it's so hilarious now we're all in love with ed whatever's name is the i pack uh guy it's fantastic what's i pack

What's IPAC? Do you mean APAC? IPAC. So you're just making up your own pronunciation and then shaming people when they don't adopt it? Okay. No, no, you got to take the American part of it out. There's nothing American. Oh, I don't think so.

Oh, I don't think that we take the American part out because I think that the Americans are the ones who need to be punished most in that exchange. They need to have their dual citizenship revoked and sent back. That's why it's my time. What I sent back? Well, I mean. You can't have dual citizenship in this country. You got to get rid of dual citizenship. And this isn't this isn't against you need to need the people with the dual citizenship to vote on removing the dual citizenship, Brian.

So good luck. I don't disagree with that. All dual citizenship in the United States should be gone. You're either fucking American or you're not. And that has no carve out. Right, no car vats. That has nothing to do with Israel that has to do with every single country that's not the United States of America. Yeah.

I mean, my, my number one on that exchange isn't even Israel. It's Canada. obviously so yeah all right EC was here do you know how Victoria Newland first came into being he was once an elf he was an elf once taken by the dark powers tortured and mutilated and ruined a terrible form of life yeah I mean know what to make of that she was cute she was very cute yeah when she entered public service she was cute and she does look like she got caught up in some sort of lab somewhere and then was redeployed after getting a experimental shot or something. It's like a movie, like the foundation of a movie plot.

I think EC was here is on to something. Although he might actually have like some insider knowledge on this. So it's very interesting. All right, guys, that's all we've got for today. Thank you so much for tuning in. It is Wednesday. So smash that thumbs up. You've got Daily Herald coming up here in about an hour and 15 minutes, followed by I'm sure there's some live coverage of the China thing, although it's 1140 PM.

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