Badlands Media - Badlands Daily: 6/3/26 - Trump Confirms Netanyahu Call, CA Primary Results, Principles vs. Personalities

Episode Date: June 3, 2026

Ashe in America steps into the host chair and Ghost brings the geopolitics on a lighter news day that turns into one of the most substantive discussions of the month. Trump confirms the expletive-laden Netanyahu phone call in a morning interview, says he would like to meet the Ayatollah in person, and does not walk back a word of the Axios reporting. Ghost maps out why Netanyahu has no choice but to keep pressing forward in Lebanon: ultra-orthodox coalition partners demanding Greater Israel have bayonets at his back, his political opponents are now calling him weak for yielding to Trump, and the minute he leaves office he faces three felonies. Ghost argues the Republican establishment is about to ride into the same suicide mission with Netanyahu. California primary results show Spencer Pratt leading Karen Bass by 25,000 votes with mail-in ballots still outstanding, and Steve Hilton advances in the governor race. The second half of the show becomes a sharp, wide-ranging conversation about personality worship versus principled thinking: why the truth community is more captured by personalities than the normies Ghost met on his Caribbean trip, why progressivism lives in both parties, and why the Republican Party forwarding Mark Elias election reform talking points is the clearest sign of a movement that has lost its principles. Lindsey Graham gets booed off stage again.

Badlands Daily. I'm playing the role of CanCon this morning and Ghost of bass Patrick Henry is, it's Ghost Wednesday today. And I was concerned about the music thing because I always messed that up. I think Ghost told me the hack and it worked and I'm so proud. I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of the community. Thank you. Yes. We did it guys. We did it. Oh, we have a relatively slow news day. Most of the news headlines are focused on the election activities. that happened yesterday, which is great because all shows are why we vote now, and we don't even really have to do anything about that,

because all news is why we vote now, except Iran or Iran. How do you say that? Iran, Iran. I say it both ways. I swing both ways on how I say it. And I think that kind of allows me to, I do this thing with Mark Levin's name, like Levin, Levine, Levine, Levin. Like, Levin.

I mean, yeah, I mean, I, I just depends, depends which, how ethnic I'm feeling when I'm, that day, when I'm saying. And by the way, I'm not like, like, I know I look really washed out right now. I have a giant window in front of me. I'm sitting at a desk and it's extremely bright today. It's a beautiful day. You look like you just stepped into the light, actually. I know. I know.

I think it's a good. You can see the hard shadows cast behind me. I have the lights off in the room and it's like the light is like intense. It's awesome, but it makes me look like I'm like. I have like the brightest light ever in my face, but it's just the sunlight. It's great. One person, one vote said if Ash is playing the role of Cancun does that mean she needs to mispronounce Nevada? And one person, there are some lines that I won't cross.

Did you? My best CanCon, but I won't do that. Cancon pointed out to me that, you know, Trump like said that. Like you gave everyone crap for the way that Canccon and I said it when he was in. Nevada but then after that he would just say Nevada like when he was in other places talking about it he would say Nevada so clearly he says it the right way he actually says it the right way he was just placating the crazy out West who say it who say it like Canadian is actually he says it the right way the way that can con and I say it which is Nevada that's not that's not real um he so I think that that comment where he's like oh you got to say it the right way did he play you that one Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because it hurt him.

Saying it wrong, heard him with the Nevadans because it's Nevada. And, you know, it's their state. Mm-hmm. He's a New Yorker. So he can't, he doesn't, he doesn't get to set. And Brian's from Florida. So, I feel like Nevada is kind of a kind of a New Yorker accent anyway. It's like Nevada, like the car, you go into the car.

Who's that Boston? Boston. One of the car, the bad, the car. Every New Yorker in the chat is pissed at you right now. Yeah, well. You're all Yankees to me, so. Right. Fact.

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gone viral so far. So the first one is the most breaking news of all of them, which is Trump confirming that phone call with with uh nanyahu's favorite story of the year i mean to be fair like the thing that i've been waiting anticipating for like years yeah so here let's let's watch it our phone call with b b b nettanyahu the prime minister of israel in which you were angry with him you said at you effing crazy what are you effing doing um i helped you stay out of jail is that true? Did you speak to him in those times? I did. I always say angry. I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon. You know, at some point I said, maybe we've got to stop this. We've got to stop it. But I have a very good relationship. We've done well, done well together.

He always is. We could never have done it, but everybody knows that we could have never done it with that the United States but we've we've we've worked very well together I like be a lot and I've worked very well with him we had a you know where he I'm a wartime president he's a wartime prime minister very important part of the world and I think we've done you know very well we've we've got along very well together you had a phone call with BB net okay so big deal because I mean just knowing Trump not knowing him personally but just having studied him that's the closest you're going to get to him just being like, yeah, like F, F, Net and Yahoo.

Like, that is, that is him. He did not deny or refute any part of the reporting, which he obviously knows the reporting. It was Caputo and Ravid who wrote it. So those are his guys. He didn't refute any part of it. He didn't say, well, they got this part wrong. I kind of thought he might have come out and said, nah, that didn't really happen. He was like, yeah, I mean, yeah, I did say that.

You know, I'm a little perturbed with him about the way this is going. This, I think this reinforces, like, because I thought there's two ways this could go. He might walk it back and pretend that everything's cool with him and Netanyahu. He's kind of confirming that he's pissed at the way that Nett and Yahu is acting. However, as I've been positing for a while, and I agree with Chris Paul. Chris Paul and I agree that Netanyahu is Trump's guy. We have different views on like their actual relationship. Which are by is that you who?

Our boy, you who is what Chris came up with. Yes. And I agree. He's the man in the arena that Trump wants in the arena. And here's why, because now we are in the most. moment, and you can appreciate this because of the news brief for years, and I've been, like, talking about this for years. And two years ago, it didn't make a lot of sense why I was talking about it, but now it does. The, uh, the crazies that he's brought into a security cabinet,

the ultra-Orthodox, like religious zealots who want to create greater Israel, they know this is their one bite at the apple. They got the bayonets at Netanyahu's back saying, we got to keep going. Like, there's no turning back. Like, it's now or never. We got to, we got a military campaign, military conquest, build the empire. and his political opponents they have an election in october previously were acute we're attacking him for basically destroying israel's reputation internationally they're like why do you keep you're a war monger you're you're taking this too far now because of this situation which has been seated a little bit for the past few months there's been rumors about trump you know saying stuff to

him now they're saying you're a wuss like you're capitulating a trump like you're not you're not the you're not the war hawk that you presented yourself to be. And this is all political posturing. They're just, this is opportunism. They're just trying to make him look weak in the eyes of the Israeli people because the one thing Netanyahu has is he's the defender of Israel. He's the guy who if you mess with them,

if you mess with Israel, he's going to blow up your house and kill your whole family. And so now his political opponents are accusing him of not being strong enough. So both his enemies and his allies are behind him now with the bayonets at his back. pushing him forward his only option now is to press forward with the war while trump is sitting there saying no no we don't want this so again i think what ends up happening is trump walks away makes peace makes peace and then and israel keeps going alone and that is going to basically cause the idea to collapse it on itself and here is i think some supporting proof of that here's and from the same interview um

This is also equally as big of a deal. So who's making the decision? Well, they say he is giving approval because that's the way it has been for a long, long time. His father. He's talking about the Ayatollah, by the way. It's a succession. But we seem to be getting along quite well. Would you like to meet him or meet any of the Iranians in person?

I've never thought of it, actually. It's a very good question. I'll think of it. Yeah, I'd like to meet him. I'd like to meet everybody. Everybody, I'd like to meet him. We probably will meet at some point, depending on how it all works here. So that's certainly a change in tone with his, like, oh, yeah, the I told.

Like, yeah, we love to have. I think the quote that everyone saying. This same thing that happened in Venezuela. Yes, it's the Venezuela model. That's what I posted about this one. It's like this is the Venezuela model. So post has been, it's correct. This is what he's saying.

He has been talking about the alliances that BB had to make in order to stay in power for literally years. And it didn't and I you know there's in time that I've tried to you know summarize that for normal people explain it to them and it is like this doesn't make sense like you're crazy like you know BB is Trump right he's the Israeli Trump is what the more neocon slash Christian Zionist factions believe right he's a messianic figure. Do you think ghosts that there is that there are parallels. And I don't even know if this question is going to make sense. But the, the, what we're seeing happen in Israel with this, you know,

tentate, unfortunate alliances to stay in power. Those partners that you've made alliances with doing a bunch of stuff that destabilizes and messes up the, you know, or goes according to plan, right? depending on how you see it. And, you know, leading to kind of where BB is in the public mind and what his brand is. It sort of feels like what it feels like Trump 1.0 a little bit. Do you see any parallels between our government and theirs in that respect? Well, I do and I don't.

So I think everything that the whole situation that we're in right now, as far as Israeli domestic politics, I think Trump game theory the whole thing out. And I've detailed that. for years in the news brief, you know, one little facet of the time. But basically the TLDR is Sheldon Aidelson who funded Trump's, all the Trump's campaigns, his wife, he's passed away. Yeah, he passed away like five or six years ago. His wife, Miriam Aidelson is now Trump's number one donor. Adelson is like the Roger Ailes of Israel. He's like the right-wing media magnet, right and so he's always supported net and yahoo he's always funded all net and yahoo's campaigns net and yahoo's

10 years ago 11 years ago 2015 an audio recording was released of net and yahoo meeting with basically adelson's like like counterpart the left wing media magnet because left wing guys all this newspapers were like attacking net and yahoo and digging up all these skeletons and he basically said look if you stop doing that i will start giving you scoops and i'll give you i'll basically cut out adelson and i'll give you all scoops. And so that's one of the charges he's facing right now. The three charges he's facing one of them is basically conspiring to like defraud the Israeli people or whatever by colluding with this guy to get, you know, positive press coverage. So I think what happened is that Trump spoke to Adelson and was like, hey, Netanyahu, it like betrayed you. Let's get this other guy,

Benny Gantz, this general in. And so when Trump spoke to the Israeli people in a 2021 interview, I played a few clips of it yesterday with Barack Ravid. Trump talked about how much he liked Benny Gantz in that clip. And he's like, well, I thought Benny Gans was going to be the guy. Netanyahu said he's retiring. Why is Netanyahu still in power? Like I thought he was going to ride off into the sunset. Vinny Gans, like he's, like I thought he was way more reasonable.

He'd make peace of the Palestinians. The Palestinians hate Netanyahu. They're never going to make peace with them. However, like I think that might have been the case. The charges that got brought against Netanyahu in 2019, I think Trump facilitated that. I think he used Sheldon Adelson. in the context that he has in the Israeli government to bring those charges against Netanyahu. And that becomes leverage against Netanyahu.

And Trump's basically just gaming all these people against one another. Because ultimately, most of them, the Zionists, want some version of greater Israel, whether it's the borders or just the power structure, the superpower. They want, though, the subjugation of the neighbors and the neighborhood to them. but I think what Trump did is he gamed it out so all of these people were at each other's throats and they're all like they've all turned on one another and so he's no longer talking about Benny Gantz now he's all about Netanyahu but Nettingy because he backed Benny Gans and because these charges got brought against Netanyahu his support from like the moderates

so to speak collapsed he lost their support that's why he had to turn to these super radical people who weren't even allowed to be in the government because they were so radical. They were like Christians should all be driven out of Israel. We should burn every church. That's literally what they say. One of them had to go to court because he was charged with like inciting violence for it. They weren't even allowed in the government. So Netanyahu made a law or amended a law in 2022 to say if you have these views, the existing law was you weren't allowed to serve in the government. Netanyahu amended it to say if those views are your religious views, and not your political views, that's okay.

You're allowed to think that as long as it's religious and not political. So now those guys are in the government. They're the most powerful men in Israel. And because they have this power, they're drunk off of it. And they're like, we're going full tilt. And so that's now created this dynamic where Netanyahu, like the undertow is taking him this way. He also has the incentive to stay in office because the minute he leaves office, he's going into court with those three felonies and they're going to put him in prison.

one of the things Trump said in the call. Like you'd be in prison now if it weren't for me. I think Trump's the one who brought the charge against him. So again, Trump's put Netanyahu in this situation. The ego and the narcissism and the Messiah complex, I think, you know, he was blind to what Trump was doing. And now Netanyahu's. Yeah, yes, yes. Netanyahu's narcissism and his Messiah complex, like, and his thirst for power made him blind to what Trump was doing behind the scenes there.

And now Netanyahu has no choice. He has to plow forward with war while Trump is sitting and you're talking about, you know, having lunch with the Ayatollah. So it's like Israel is going to go out of it alone. And I don't know how that plays out, but it basically isolates this radical element, these Zionists. And guess who's going to go with them? The Republican Party. The Republican Party is going to mount up on the horses. And they're riding into battle on the suicide mission with Netanyahu.

And I think that's how the Republican establishment gets destroyed is because they're going to go full tilt. And the minute Trump actually goes and has lunch with the Ayatollah and says, yeah, we're cool with them. All of these Republicans who right now look like MAGA and look like Trump's allies, they're going to turn on him like rabid dogs. And that's going to totally change the whole like political dynamic in America. Yeah. And just for the folks in the chat who want us to be talking about domestic elections first, you don't have to announce. your departure. We're super cool if you just bounce if you don't want to hear what we have to say. By the way though, but what I'm laying this out like this is domestic politics because

your your your Republican Party is controlled by the people I'm describing and if you need proof of that look at Thomas Massey. Okay. Look at what they're saying right now. They're saying this is the like the template moving forward is if you criticize Israel we're going to throw billions of dollars at your opponent or millions of dollars at your your opponent and we're going to primary you out and you're not allowed to be in the government yeah new cases i'd love to have all the time in my life back i wasted giving a shit about that wretched desert that's generally how i feel as well except ghost is right this is that the issue of u.s foreign policy towards israel is one of the main dividing issues both within the republican party and in the democrat party we have a set of

stories. In fact, why don't we just go there next? The do to do, here we go. Share this. Politico is pushing a narrative that I noticed as I was reading articles to prep for this. I was, you know, I did Politico. I also did Fox and, you know, looked at X and pulled in stories that I thought you guys would want to hear about. And Politico has in multiple stories of theirs today, they're talking about the normalcy of the Democrat Party and how the Democrat Party is tacking back towards the middle and kind of leaving the DSA. Behind, Democrats didn't take many chances in critical November battlegrounds on Tuesday. Voters played it safe and picking establishment back Josh Turrick to take on GOP rep Ashley Hinson for an open Senate seat in Iowa, putting up a moderate military veteran Rebecca Bennett against Republican rep Tom Keene.

And they're talking that's the that's the focus of this story is that Democrats are moving back to the middle. That also comes up in this story about Karen Bass. And they're saying that choosing Karen Bass is also a move to the middle. Wasn't she like a terrorist at some point? Yeah. I mean, isn't this the woman who is responsible for like the water issues in LA, I want to say? And the fires and she was in Guyana at the time. time of the fires prior to her run as mayor like back in her you know younger woman days she didn't

she didn't seem to care that she was like yeah i'm busy i'm like i'm traveling i'm sorry or not sorry but that's i mean the big story on uh on the elections last night there's a bunch of them but um the big story is spencer pratt and it seems to be a bit of a moving target i want to share this video uh because it's near i think this is narrative setting and we're We're still seeing results coming in and they're telling us we're going to be seeing results coming in forever. Remember, the final piece of the puzzle that we won't know tonight, right, is the late arriving vote by mail. And we're talking about probably like a third of the vote in Los Angeles. We're probably not going to be getting until tomorrow and maybe days to come after tomorrow.

The mail can still come in after election day. And there's indications, and there's certainly a ton of precedent here, that that late arriving vote by mail is going to be significantly more democratic friendly than all of the other vote, meaning that would be good news for Bass. That would be good news for Rahman. If she's going to come out of tonight behind Pratt, it's a huge if she's going to come out of tonight behind Pratt, well, it's not a huge if it at this point. She would then have an opportunity if she's close enough to catch him with that, but that is a 25,000 vote pad there. Eight percentage points that Pratt has managed to build. Remember, the final piece of the puzzle that we won't know tonight,

All right. And then, so that was earlier in the evening. This is Spencer Pratt. And there's another video. I don't, I didn't pull it, but this dude behind him in the glasses sort of gets removed. It's kind of a weird moment. Well, obviously God wanted five more months of me exposing all the failures of our mayor. So it's going to be a fun ride. I hope she's ready. Are you ready? I mean, I was bored for this clearly. So he is so last night the message was that he advanced this morning

what I was hearing is it's unclear whether or not he advances also so I don't know if you have anything to say about Spencer I love his ads I think he's great I also think he is a national it's a national story this LA mayor's race right I did a it has become that hasn't it I haven't really been tracking it but I have been hearing about it yeah I did this like super normie radio show yesterday afternoon where I was debating my DA about the Tina Peters case. And at the end, the last question that he asked me, he was that my DA was sitting in for the radio hosts and asked me to come on so we could argue about Tina Peters. And at the very last question was the very last question of a local Colorado radio show was, who do you want to win the L.A. mayor's election.

This is crazy. But, you know, his ads are so good. And it's been, it's been quite the, quite the campaign. And everybody's paying attention. So what is this guy's background? He's like a like a reality television. I think. Okay.

So he was like a reality television. I mean, I've seen like headlines like I'm looking at it. I'm looking at the search engine right now. And it's like he's the, he was a reality television villain. That's how they're describing him. Yeah, that's my understanding as well. I never watched that show. I never watched any reality television, including the appraisers.

I watched it in real world, right? What happened? Yeah. Stop being polite. And start being real. I watched that. I watched, there was one weekend that I went to my sister-in-law's house and that whole weekend, we binged real housewives, but I never, like, continued watching real housewives.

I'm not a huge reality. I've dabbled in reality TV. But if you're watching reality TV, it's heavily produced content. It's pretty produced, yeah. But as is as is reality by the way like as is like politics. Yeah as is the news. Exactly. Um, but yeah. So that's that's the background and you know he he has really, um, he has he has really kind of just become a viral sensation in terms of calling out the failures inside of the propaganda machine that is Hollywood. And I do. I like I want Spencer Pratt to win. And I want I'm glad that I hope I hope he is actually advancing to the runoff because I want. want him to keep making ads for the next fight. Yeah, exactly.

Because I have seen some of his ads and they are pretty good. So like this is where I see parallels between our situation and Israel situation. Because again, elections faking gay as far as we know until we have like reason to believe otherwise, it's like yeah, we need like concrete evidence that our elections are actually legitimate and can be explained. But that aside, the election sees. is still like a, it's like a reality television like contest. It's like one of those contests like Survivor, you know, where now it's become a thing where, you know, Hollywood's dead basically.

The new Hollywood is basically politics. And the politicians are all reality television stars. Donald Trump's a big reason for that. He kind of like, he kind of merged politics with popular culture. Something I didn't know that that's kind of what JFK Jr. wanted to do in the 90s. He was, JFK Jr. apparently was trying to do that in the 90s with his George magazine. I had no idea about this until I learned that recently. But not that he was trying to merge

reality television with politics, but he was trying to make politics more like culturally relevant so people would be more invested in their government. It was kind of like a sci-up almost. Interesting, interesting parallel there. But basically when you're in these election season, even though elections are faking gay, because these politicians, because of social media and because of like the way the way people are seen now is by going viral you don't have network television where everyone's watching network television and everyone's able to like see your interview you have to be able to catch people's attention and that requires you to you know do something that makes you go viral so these people find moments and opportunities it turns every politician

into an opportunist where they're looking for reasons to attack one another and i think what's happening now is these little fissures that have formed inside the Uniparty are being exploited where they're all at each other's throats and they're calling each other out for their bullshit. And like, for example, the Israel thing in the Democrat party, it's you can only be the candidate if you're willing to go hard against Trump for supporting Israel. And in a Republican Party, you can only be the candidate if you're willing to support Israel no matter what. Like that's kind of become one of the big topics, not the only one, but one of the really big ones that's getting money to the candidates. So I think Trump has exploited all of this.

And now he's turned the whole thing into like a reality television contest. Yep. Yeah, man. It's a great point. The point about like hooking, you got to hook people, you've got to grab them before you can actually get them to think. I was having that conversation last night with one of my friends. And you know, I always say fake vote. voters fake ballots fake counts right and the my friend is like that's a great you know it's it's like

it's a great headline it's not going to change anybody's mind and that's not the point the point is you want to trigger them enough to make them turn their brain on and yes once they turn their brain on and they start fighting you about the headline then you can take them through still short form because attention spans are shit but still short form but you can take Well, actually fake voters starts with the voter rolls. And when we have the voter rolls inflated and full of dead people and migrants and nobody can check them. And even though you could do like we did an assessment of the voter rolls, go through it and identify where there's 8 to 11% that are bullshit, right? You do that, then you tell the state, let's say they fix it.

They don't, but let's say they fix it, they can be re-corrupted like that because they're digital. And so fake voters are the foundation of it because fake voters determine who gets all the mail-in ballots and who's allowed to vote. And here in my state, they paper the, they drop ballots from helicopters, right? Like, not accurately, but drop ballots from the sky. And the fake voters are getting the fake ballots. And then you put those ballots into a black box machine at no point in this process. Can you check it? Can you verify it?

Can you determine with any that the outcome of the fake election is, the will of the voters. And if you ask, you're punished. If you take that position and you try to pursue it, you will be punished by the state. That means it's fake. It's not real. If we can't validate how we are giving our consent, our consent to be governed, giving away our decision rights in society, we're giving our decision rights to other people. The best among us, apparently, no, not the best among us. Look at the politicians. They're like the worst among us. They're the people that can't do things otherwise. If we can't validate it, then it's fake. But you can't get people to even consider that possibility unless you can hook them first and trigger them enough

to turn their brain on so they can hear you. So that's why I think like I have no problem with the you know, the quips and the I think Trump does this really, really well, right? Say things that that will make his supporters and you know and some of the people like like the dissimps who now have to be on the fence about him again, right? Like as soon as there's a moment where they can jump ship and turn on Trump, they will. They always do. But sometimes they have to pretend to like him, right? There's that he drag stuff in that makes those people very uncomfortable.

And putting the spotlight on those things makes us actually be able to deal with them. Makes us actually be able to have the conversations about them. But you have to trigger the people first to turn their brains on. I actually had firsthand experience with this back in 2019, 2020. going through like the whole murder case with my brother where like we stumbled on to the fact that the prosecutor was corrupt and was potentially colluding with the with the with the with the defendant um and i was trying to get i was trying to like incite the masses i was trying to get people involved and people invested the fact to how corrupt their government their local government

was and so i was doing interviews with like the local media like you know the like the local affiliates and you would do like a 20 minute discussion with them, but only a five seconds of that makes it on the air. They only take five seconds of it and they put it in like a three minute segment, right? And so I learned very quickly that if you wanted to get your message in the segment, you had to figure out a way to say something really interesting that was going to be the thing they pluck out. And so I'm like, damn, that's exactly what Trump does. Like Trump says the really provocative thing, like we're going to build the wall and Mexico's going to pay for it. That's a brilliant way to communicate with people that.

that your intention is to build a border wall because they're going to make fun of you for thinking Mexico is going to pay for it. But that's how he does it. That's the only way though that you get people to pay attention is by like you said triggering them. And I saw that firsthand because you can give the most thoughtful like in depth answer, but nobody's going to like they're not even going to put it on on the air because it's just not it doesn't grab people's attention. And so but that's where we are right now as a society. It's sad, but it's just it's just dealing with the circumstances, the arena as it's presented to you. And to your point, I've said this a bunch lately, but the past month I've been with a lot of old friends and they've been bringing up to me politics because they know that I'm into this stuff. I found that it's been much easier to talk to my friends who've had

TDS for 10 years and have hated Trump this whole time. It's been much easier to pitch to them the sovereign alliance than it has been the people who voted for Trump in 2024 and are now very like disillusioned and blackpilled over what he's doing like like the optics of it because they're convinced that like something's wrong with him and that something's gonna miss whereas the people who have always hated Trump

and have always kind of like bought into like what the media says they're much more open to the idea that like that the government's corrupt and that these foreign leaders would be standing up to it and that maybe Trump's working with them as opposed to working with you know the deep state it

was really interesting like I had multiple friends, close friends who were like, wow, I'm actually going to start looking at Trump a little differently now. Like, that's interesting. I don't know if I'm convinced, but I'm going to think about it. Whereas the other people were kind of like, ah, Trump, Trump, Trump's corrupt. Those are the Trump voters saying that. So you're right, it's like, but it's weird how that works. It's weird how some people have such tunnel vision because they're so certain of a thing. But other people who have been thinking about or have been locked into this one way of thinking for 10 years are suddenly more open to a different way of looking at it.

Yeah, you know, if there was one, if I could, if I could boil down the change I want to see in the world right now in this moment, you just touched on it. I want people, the people to turn their brains on, obviously. I've been saying that forever, but I want people to stop focusing on personalities and start focusing on ideas. Yesterday was the anniversary in 1774 of the Quartering Act, which was the last of the coercive acts. And it was, you know, less than two years later, they would declare independence because of the, also called the intolerable acts, right? Because the government just kept creeping. They just kept taking more power and just kept infringing upon what the, you know, colonial Englishmen at the time viewed as. natural law and their natural rights and and the government is so far outside so far beyond what was intolerable to our founders our government now is so far beyond what our founders

saw as intolerable and people can't even fit that in their brains like what what will what will what will happen ghost if we get rid of the republican party like what's going to fill its place we are actually and organizing locally in our community and people building the communities that they want to see well no we can't do that because you know people don't know nobody's told people what to do right nobody's told nobody's told nobody's told us what to do oh my god yeah like great the the mental chains are so entrenched and i've i've thought i've thought this was the plan all along right we us the people we're the plan we're like you step up taking your power back there's no reason that the government should be involved in all of these things federal

or state some local stuff i can understand but there are so many things that have um that the government is involved in that they have no business being involved in and like this includes in my opinion marriage and the reason government is involved in marriage is because of taxation largely right yeah yeah and so like it's there's so many things it's like this is not the this is not the america that we were promised it's not the america but people just can't do it just can't like can't break their can't break the like can't imagine can't imagine an after of the system and i feel like we talk about the after of the system a lot right we're we're we're actively trying to get through this war into the after where we can build a golden age but we can't have

a golden age without accountability for what's happened in my opinion that's my opinion but i think there has to be a justice phase for there to be a golden age and i think that's what we're seeing right now and we can't have real elections until we're honest about how they've been and those are two things that are starting to kind of come in we've been saying these things for a while we're starting to see movement in the narrative and in the storytelling that implies that that that's happening right that we're getting a justice phase that we're going to get election justice that these kind of things are happening and people are still arguing about the personalities and who's running in the fake election and oh my gosh and so-and-so is going to control

the republican party bitch the republican party needs to die if we want to get to the golden age we have got to get past this two-party uniparty dynamic that has been controlling us and keeping us subjugated here's the interesting part though and this is what i texted like in our private chat i said this like when i was when i was down in the in the virgin islands for my best friend's wedding um this was after like multiple weekends of being with different groups the cover story for his um operation yeah yeah it's my cover story It's when big stuff happens, you're always in the Caribbean. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

But I told you all this. I was so encouraged walking away from all these conversations because these are all people, a lot of them I was like, oh, these are people who aren't even into politics. They were very far more well informed on the issues than I ever would have expected them to be. They were all way more based than I would have ever expected them to be. And they weren't at all obsessed with the personalities. They didn't really care about the personalities. I mean, they like understood Trump, right?

But outside of that, they didn't have any, it didn't appear to me that they had any sort of like connection or tie to any specific person. They were just more talking about the issues. And those conversations I felt were so much more refreshing in the conversations I see happening in the truth, the quote unquote truth community. Because the truth community basically is like on the micro analyzing sciops every single day, which involve all these characters. So they're still hyper, like we're still hyper focused on the characters and hyper focus on the personalities. Whereas it looks like to me that Normies are actually have kind of almost defected from that because the personalities are so obnoxious that they don't even want to like deal with the siops. Like they don't look at it. They don't track it the way we track it.

They they catch the news here and there from wherever they're getting it from. But they're kind of just living their life and, you know, whatever. I think what Trump has done and I think what this the past 10 years has done is the idols have been torn down. Like the idols have been torn down so we can focus on the issues. I see the normie's already doing that. I mean, they may not fully get it yet. They may not fully be where a lot of our audience has gotten, but at least they're not obsessing over which personality is going to be in charge next.

That is not what I heard from any person that I spoke to over multiple weekends, all of them bringing up politics to me, all of them of different across the spectrum. None of them brought up a personality outside of Trump. None of them cared about a specific person. And yet, all I see in the truth community is people talking about, which personality is more important than the other one. And it's like, dude, fuck all of them.

Like we should put, don't put the personality on a pedestal, put the issue on a pedestal and see which person stands up and meets your standard. That should be how we qualify any person running for offices. Here are the issues. Here are the principles. They're all the way up here. If you can't reach that point because of the things you're saying and you're doing, then get out of here.

Like we don't want nothing to do with you. I don't care what your name is. I don't care what your background is. If you can't demonstrate to us that you're principled and that you have good ideas and that you can actually like execute on them, then get out. I don't care about you. Yeah. It's such a great point. And the principles thing is real, man.

Because the like, so I, you know, also do local media. And it's a governor election here in Colorado. And so everybody's crazy. And the, the trying to have a discussion about the first principles of America. America, right? Like the, the principles that formed our government, specifically I'm talking about representation. We have gotten, I'd love your take on this. I don't know if we've talked about this. There is this idea, and I think it's pretty mainstream and it's accepted that the opposition, not by us, but you know, by the normies, conservatives versus liberals, right? So there's Republicans versus Democrats, but, you know, that doesn't have the kind of weight that it did anymore. But conservatives versus liberals is kind of the other, you know, It widens the tent. It expands to people with the beliefs outside of the party. The problem is that the opposite of conservatism is not liberalism.

The opposite of conservatism is progressivism. And progressives and conservatives exist in both parties. And I think that they have been very successful at making us forget that. So that when you think of the word progressive, you think about the DSA, right? You're like, oh, well, that's just the leftists that are trying to move the Overton window. And it's like, well, hang on a second. It's not just leftists. It's unipartisan.

And making people forget that progressives exist in both parties has led us to this advocacy for, I'm going to use the example of elections for progressive elections. So right now, the Republican Party, and I would say majority of the factions in the Republican Party are advocating to abandon representation, the principle that we send people to represent. And now I know it hasn't lived up to its promise this principle. Right. And we've really failed to hold the line on it. But the very idea of representation is under attack.

And nobody's even talking about that because they get caught up in the personalities or they get caught up in the process, right? Like this process is cumbersome and I don't like the outcome of it. And so I want to change it. So let's do rank choice voting. Let's have jungle primaries. Let's use the blockchain in our elections. Let's expand the public-private partnership of elections. Let's progress past the silly little pageantry of democracy.

That's Mark Elias's talking point. It's Mark Elias's agenda for elections and it's being forwarded by Republicans. And when I bring up, hey guys, you're abandoning representation. You really should think about this before you do it. I'm a crazy person with crazy ideas. And that's where we're at in this mind virus of progressivism that has infected both parties. Nobody's talking about it. Yeah.

I mean, I remember years ago in 2023, when turning point, USA gave Scott Presler a $5 million contract to go do ballot harvesting. And I remember that everyone on Badlands, look, we were attacking that. We were like, this is ridiculous. This is what we were against, you know, with Biden in 2020. Like this is what we said was the wrong thing to do. You have to fight like the left ghost. Exactly.

And we were like, we were attacked for doing that. And people were like, you can't attack Scott Pressler. He's on the pedestal. You can't attack Charlie Kirk. He's on the pedestal. Turning Point USA on the pedestal. And it's like, now look where we are. Now we're talking about what you just said.

Like now ballot harvesting has become the standard. And it's like, all right, well, you have to chase the ballots in order to win the contest. And winning the contest is the only thing it matters. And we've totally lost sight of what actually matters here, and which is being principled, having good ideas and having good governance. And governance that actually reflects the will of the people. All that's out the window. It's just about winning the damn contest and making sure the personality that you like,

you know, is getting your vocal support. which again goes back to the very first thing I was talking about with Israel and now what's happening I think with like the Spencer Pratt thing is that they're all turning on one another and in their fight to get the sound bite and their in their fight to get noticed right and I think those little fissures are being exploited and they're all kind of like tearing each other down in a way that's great because I think we should get away from the personalities away from the idolatry go back to ideas and like championing ideas which even the truth community I think struggles with that they like like they they say they want that and then we kind of like oh man but

i really like this personality it's like oh but like who's going to be trump successor i don't give a shit about who's trump successor i want who is going to be the champion of good ideas here are the ideas who meets that standard that should be the litmus test yeah i i completely agree with that i i also don't care who trump's successor is because if we have not gotten through the critical phases of the transformation program by the time there is a Trump successor, then we are fucked. Yes, exactly. We have got to make the systemic change. We have got to change the institutions, transform on the inside, shut some of them down,

hold people accountable, right? Tree of Liberty, as Thomas Jefferson talked about, we have to hold people accountable. And I'm not, I mean, within the confines of morality and the law. But we have, we have to, we have to make this change now. this is the time to make the change. If we fail and Trump can't do it by himself, that's the thing that, and it goes back to, you know,

where this hang up and the mind is for people is that, well, if we just get the right person in the right seat inside of the government, then we can make the government hold itself accountable. That's retarded. Yes. Yeah. People are telling me we're running out of time and we're taking too long.

Yeah, this is also going to be a short show. Oh, maybe we're running out of time in the Trump administration. I think it's moving rapidly. I think that the, and you know, I've said this before, people think that I'm crazy. But I think that it's not a badlands, outside badlands, people think I'm crazy. Inside badlands homies, right? We all think we're kind of watching a movie in a sense of the narrative deployments that we're getting are not the, not a one-to-one reality of what's actually happening with the change. What's actually happening is restructuring is to show.

shifting power dynamics. We see this in foreign policy and in domestic policy. Stories that we're getting are sensational and personality driven and outrage driving. And that's possibly intended to keep the people distracted, possibly intended to trigger them enough so that they will stop being distracted and turn their brains on. I don't know. Maybe it's both. I think it probably depends on who's driving the story.

But the fight is right now. It is right now that we have to make this change. We have a once in the history of the Republic opportunity. And I've been doing America 250 updates for almost a year. Tomorrow will be June 4th, which means I have one month left on my commitment to myself to do this every single day. And so far, so good. I hope I don't fumble in the end zone.

But it's been incredibly illuminating to see how many times our republic has been been through a transformation process. And this is, I think, the only time that we know it's going on. We have self-awareness. Self-awareness. Yeah. The American people have self-awareness of the fact that we're being transformed. And President Trump is begging us to be involved in it.

It's begging us to take the power and to do our part, all of us collectively, whatever our skills, talents, and passions are doing that part in this transformational season. And there's way too many people that are like, but what about J.D. Vance? Is he going to be our next president? Is he going to be our next daddy? Yeah. And what really matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. That's the strategy.

That's the plan. That's what we have to do. Okay, we're going to move on also in California. Steve Hilton, I know him as a Fox News contributor, but he has a nice accent. So, you know, that probably will help him in the polls. but he also will advance. We're not there yet, but it's looking good. It looks very much.

It looks very much as if Californians really will have the chance to vote for change in November and take our state and take our state in a new direction. A fresh start for our state, which is long overdue. But I just want to say something to every single person who vote. for me and every single person who voted in this election whether you voted for me or not i am here for you for every single one of you we're not there yet all right this is a nice accent right yeah i mean so who's this fuzzy little fuzzy little foreigner is he is he he didn't

used to have the beard the beard is new but he's he's i think his ideologically is aligned kind of america first uh more more maga ideas but he has kind of a liberal like a liberal libertarian bent to him. I watched back in the day, back when I watched Fox News, so before the 2020 election, because that's when I stopped watching Fox News. He was kind of more of the more of an American populist when before 2020, before Trump even, or maybe, you know, in the first Trump. I'm trying to remember when he came on the scene. Anyway, ideologically, I think is a great choice. Californians love to elect foreigners as their governors.

He is an American. Yeah, but was you running for local office or is you running for? Okay, governor. I'm sorry. I missed that. It's a governor. Okay. Okay.

Yeah. So that's good. All right. We have Lindsay Graham getting booed off the stage. That's always absolutely must watch television. I know. We have to put it. Anytime it happens.

It's to be put up. And as we said, you guys, this is going to be a shorter show. We've got we both have commitments ghost has a family commitment I have a I'm going hiking with a bad lander commitment my friend Stephanie is in town from Nashville and we're going hiking today and it's going to be amazing So we are going to have we're probably going to end around 1115 1120 so just so you guys are aware of that we're going to motor through the rest of the headlines and like I said it's a short news day and Yeah. Okay. So here is Lindsay Graham Thank you all for goodness.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. You want to find some to come? It's three minutes long. Thank you all. Thank you all very much. Welcome for Pickens County.

A little more about this county. Just count down for something. Nope. I don't like this. Nope. Pickens County has four benefits. He has four federal bonner wounds for Canada than any place in the nation. Way to go, South Carolina.

I was born in this county. I live 15 miles down the road. This is a place where people pay the taxes, like the wars, and tell you what they believe. You'll rise the tires that she was there. Really? How many people do you know, and Donald Trump was a great president? Oh yeah, yeah. Then of course he's in a name drop. He's the name drop. Well, Trump likes me. Trump like me. What happened? How come to grab the president from? It took a while to get there, folks.

But let me tell you what happened. I thought you like President Trump. They never found me. I love it. And we got that in common. This is exactly how the people should be treated. Exactly. Yeah, right. Theires says we boot him off stage. Epic. Let me tell you if I want to go. if I want to help residents or out there I was on the front road tearing down the idles and I've never seen anybody this come for a hair how many have you heard the phrase we like Trump policies but we won't somebody do if you heard that let me say this

There are no Trump policy. You love to see it. Yes. And that's exactly how you treat them. And Lindsay Graham is the, you know, not an exception. But, you know, like you said, we have to watch it. So, yeah. So like this is a great example.

So like the people that I've been talking to, the normies, who don't track this stuff day to day. Like they don't really care or know that Trump and Lindsey Graham like appear to be buddies, right? they don't really care. I doubt they even really know who Lindsey Graham is. But all the truth community who do track this stuff obsessively like we do and are junkies for it, they see Trump boosting Lindsey Graham. And they're like, well, Lindsay Graham must be a good guy then. No, no. Trump wants Lindsey Graham on stage for that moment right there. Because without Lindsey Graham on stage in the soap opera, you don't get that moment right there, which is the people ostensibly, visibly rejecting the Uniparty,

the GOP establishment. The same reason he wants Netanyahu on stage right now, because Netanyahu is serving a useful purpose. It's like this is why he casts people in his little soap opera, even people that I don't think he likes. He said enough about Lindsey Graham to lead me to believe he doesn't like Lindsey Graham, but he's useful. It's not because he needs Lindsey Graham's vote in the Senate.

He could fill that seat with any number of people and get the vote. He likes the optics of Lindsey Graham and the dumb shit he says all the time. That whole idea is just so stupid. well we need Lindsey Graham's vote no you need a Republican vote and any Republican that you put in there is probably unless you know find a Murkowski or Collins type right yeah going to end up you don't need live they do the same thing with Lauren Bobert who I met the other day I met her on Saturday she is tiny did you did you yeah yeah I was and I was wearing heels at the event that I was

at so I was even taller like but she is she is a little tiny thing she was lovely it was a it was a very I was the event that I was at I had to agree to not news gather or to like act like an asshole. So I was just I was just nice to her. And we spoke for like two seconds. But she's a little tiny little thing. But that same idea. Right. Well, we need Lauren Boberts vote. Why? Why? You know, like it's the the like any Republican that you put in the CD4 seat is going to vote with the president because that's CD4. We had great options in the last primary for CD4 after Ken Buck left. And, then Lauren Bobert was airdropped into our district carpet bagged as the president said and the

primary was effectively over and a lot of people didn't vote for and it was the closest that race has been in a very long time. I feel like that's a similar kind of Lindsey Graham type of thing, right? Yeah. Yep. All right. We're going to take a quick break and talk about our good friend Jessica Storm and all good all goods lineup keeps getting bigger and better with the weird with the weird tick news lately. Is there weird tick news? It's the perfect time to talk. about bug out bomb. Nobody wants to feel like they need a hazmat suit just to go outside.

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By the way, the tick news is like this alfalfa gal or alpha gal. I think it's how you say it. It's like a syndrome. It's the meat allergy that you get from ticks. The news that I've seen circulating, I haven't like dug into. to it, but there's like a white paper that's out there that basically these psychopaths in science and academia have, they're like, we have a moral obligation to infect as many people with this disease as possible so they'll stop eating animals.

So apparently they like genetically modified a bunch of ticks to have this thing and then release it into the wild. That's like the story, whether or not, you know, the accuracy of it, I haven't dug deep into it, but that's the weird tick news. We should really stop embracing mad science and, as, you know, as. as a race, right? As a human race, we should stop letting the mad scientists have access to do things. That's a great segue to actually the thing that I,

kind of the one thing that I think is worth like me bringing to the table today, which isn't necessarily geopolitical. You already brought the Iranians, though. Well, this is domestic, actually. I think this is domestic and this is what's a little domestic because it involves a Canadian. But, I mean, the one story that I would say that we have an eye on is I just saw that Ukraine attacked the spief in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg in Russia, they're hosting what's called the Russian Davos, which is like the

World Economic Forum, but the Russian version, 20,000 businessmen and people figures meeting in St. Petersburg from around the world. And apparently there is just a terrorist attack there. So that's probably the deep state trying to kill some pretty base people. But we'll see what happens there. This is what I want to spend the rest of the time or my time talking about is this. So Kevin O'Leary, Mr. Wonderful, he put out this video the other day. It's like four minutes long.

I don't think I'll play the whole thing, but you'll get the gist of it. This is about data centers and AI. I think you'll appreciate this. Yeah, let's play this and listen to it. I have another mission that has emerged from this that I did not see coming. And maybe we want to segue into what happened the evening of May 4th at 830 because I have 12 million plus followers on various social media platforms. I got a call from one of our IT guys and he said,

there's something wrong here. There's a massive influx in DMs going on on two specific platforms, X, formerly Twitter and Instagram, not a small increase, tens of thousands of percent increase. He said, well, is that a mistake? Is there a technical glitch on these platforms? He said, unlikely, they're two different complete platforms. So he had a first look and he said, wow, there's a lot of similar IP addresses here. And so he did an initial scan and we realized, wait a second, there was bots operating here.

There are nefarious accounts out of the country dumping stuff that's completely false about Utah. So we didn't wait. The next morning we hired and started working with a very advanced data science team. And what we learned was, to me, shocking, just stunning. I couldn't believe it. I mean, I still can't because I'm getting the data by the four-hour cycle now. The content itself was coming from two batches, two, like the actual pixels, the images, were from the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the People's Dispatch.

I'd never heard of them before. You do a search on them, you'll find them under investigation by multiple branches of Congress. Most of the within the IP addresses in Utah were coming from two IP addresses, Alliance for Better Utah and one called Elevate. So we found out that Alliance for Better Utah was actually a tax filer. And we went to the IRS Form 990s, which are public. And we started to drill down into what the filings were. And lo and behold, multiple filings through multiple entities all over the world,

all going back to something called Arabella. Neville Singham under investigation, multiple branches of, of the government, shares offices with the CPP. So then I said, I want more. Can you tell me the exact amounts? And we got those the next day. We're talking about millions, hundreds of millions of dollars here. It's not just Utah.

These guys are doing campaigns everywhere there's a proposed increase in power and or a data center. More digging, more. more salt lake party for socialism and liberation salt lake democratic socialists of america than this one today the cuban institute for friendship with the people what the hell are they doing marching around box elder county i mean what is this and so i i called my contacts at the white house i raised a flag and i raised a flag and i I said, what the hell is going on here?

They put me in touch with various law enforcement agents. We had a meeting last week with my entire data set team and multiple law enforcement agencies. And we started sharing data. I gave them 90 pages of IP addresses all from all over the place, all around the world, hitting these locations. You see where I'm going with this? I'm not okay with this. And I found it in Alberta, Canada too.

So there's a war going on, I guess, a PR war or whatever you want to call it. A narrative war, an information war? I mean, is what you're suggesting that these entities are sort of taking funds from the Chinese Communist Party and using those funds to sort of run a digital sort of blackmail campaign against your projects? I'm not suggesting it. It's an irrefutable fact. This is IRS 990 filings. with the exact... So, yeah, a fifth generation warfare,

psychological warfare operation is what he's describing. And so what he's saying, like the premise of all this is that he's trying to build a data center in Utah and there's all of a sudden there's this like online movement to shut it down. And so he's figured out that this online movement is actually coming from these NGOs that have millions of hundreds of millions of dollars in funding. And they've basically created this artificial opposition to his data center. And then people like on the ground are using that as like, hey, look, we have real opposition against you. We can't build this data center.

We can't, you know, this is golden age stuff. This is stuff that he's working with Trump on. Yeah. And that and Arabella is, you know, one of those umbrella type entities with their tentacles and a lot of different things. They also are heavily invested in local media. So running local opposition media, they, they fund a couple. of sites here that have been on the fore like the you know I've mentioned in the past the um the outlet that put me on a list and called me the fifth most dangerous election

denier back in 2021 that was arabella funded outlet wow yeah so that that social change stuff but hang on one second we're gonna hit a we're gonna hit that and then we'll come back and talk about this i have a couple other AI stories too so we can just kind of start to wrap up um i want to share a quick story about a family supporting this channel. Their father had a rare form of cognitive decline due to his military service that made him unable to work. Their mother had to stop working too so she could care for him. Their sons discovered a new U.S. Library of Medicine Studies on various mushroom blends that could significantly support cognitive function. So they began creating a complex mushroom supplement based on that research, not just to help their own family,

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So what you just saw, he said this all started on May 4th, at June 3rd. This is less than a month this all happened, right? Now, he has the benefit of money. He's a billionaire. So he went and he hired experts. He hired consultants. He has contacts in the White House. So he was able to expedite this on a very condens.

in its time scale. But basically what he just did is he went out and he became an expert in one thing, with the help of consultants, in one thing, he compiled evidence. He presented the evidence. He just presented it in a media public presentation format. He also has presented it to law enforcement. He's presented it to the White House, right? And that hopefully will lead to consequences and retribution. Now, this is what I've been saying everybody should be doing. Everyone's like, what can we do? What can we do? What can we do? I mean, yeah, you can run for office, of course, but what you can you also do is you can become an expert in one thing. All of you have passions. All of you have things you're already very knowledgeable about. Go figure out how to apply that knowledge to our situation, become an expert in it, and then compile data, and then figure out how to present it to us so that it's easy to comprehend for people who are laymen. So we can understand different facets of corruption, different facets of how the system is screwing us and how there are problems that need to be resolved. In this situation, it's online campaigns funded by NGOs, probably from the State Department, that are intended to shut down the golden age, shut down energy production,

shutdown data centers, etc. This is how we win is by educating ourselves, becoming experts, so that the media and the NGOs and the government, we don't rely on them for information. Like when they try to tell us stuff like you, Ash, when they try to tell Ash about elections, Ashton's like, no, no, no, no, no. I know more about elections than you do. Here, let me tell you how elections actually work. When they try to tell me about the Middle East or geopolitics, I'm like, no, no, no, no. I've been looking at this for years.

This is actually what's going on. This is actually what this guy has been saying. That's how we beat them is by we become the experts and we then are not beholden to their narratives. And I think that's spot on. And I think it is for every individual, right? It's not just, oh, well, now I'll rely on badlands to be my experts instead of relying on the mainstream media to be the experts. It's no, you have to do the work.

Because what you'll find with those authoritative people coming to tell us about geopolitics or elections or whatever is when you actually counter them with the facts about how these things are and how they work when you counter them, it's like they don't, oh, I've never heard that before. I've never seen that before. It's like, well, hang on a second. You're the authority. You're the authoritative mousepiece on this thing. And you got to go. Yeah, I got to go. Okay.

Thank you, ghost. See you guys. So I got to run and got my cheerleading stuff. All right. See you. Bye. That's adorable. He's going to do adorable things with the little cheerleaders.

His little daughter's doing cheerleading. It's adorable. But that ghost is right. Ghost is right in that we need to look beyond the headlines. You know, one of the biggest things that happened to us. Americans generally, but I think the world and humanity as a whole as well, is over the past several decades, the attention spans have been intentionally degraded. I think part of that is a side effect of the rise of technology, but part of that rise of technology, I think, was hijacked

intentionally to flood the system with noise and make the people have short attention spans. CNN headline news back in the 80s ran on a loop every 30 minutes. You'd get all the news that you need and you get basically a headline, maybe a couple of sentences about it, but you left that 30-minute program believing that you knew you were informed right you watch the news you don't have to watch a lot of news you can just watch this 30 minute cycle and then you know exactly what's going on the problem with that is that whoever writes the headlines controls reality if that's what people believe and that's where we're at right that was that was back in but you know started back in the in the late 80s and now we have 240 characters on twitter and people think that they're informed and that's a problem

so one one of the things is that people have to um people have to turn the brains on and you actually have have to get beyond the headline and figure out what the facts are. It's one of the things that's great about the Badlands Brief is that we, the story summaries, back before this year, we used to have just mainstream media news stories in there. What we do now is we pull the facts, the facts of the story, get rid of their framing, pull the facts of the story, give you the facts in the story. Like here's, sometimes it's one fact, right? There was a meeting that happened, but you'll have Politico, right, you know, 3,000 words about what that meeting means, but the actual fact is that the meeting occurred.

And so we do, we pull that out and then we'll give you our opinion on it, but it's separate and framed as here's our take on this story or on this set of facts. And so encouraging people again, badlands.substack.com check out the news brief. Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order on AI. It was very quiet, kind of no fanfare around it like he's done with his other executive orders. The key takeaway from it is that there's a 30 day period in this executive order where companies with AI need to let the federal government see what they're doing before they release it to the world. It was 90 in a previous version. It changed to 30 and the cited reason for that was competitiveness with China.

But that happened so everybody can check that out. We hit some other AI news. I think we're I have two stories that I still want to get to but I want to make sure that we hit on prayers up for Tulsi Gabbard her husband had surgery yesterday for his bone cancer she did a video about that and scotis said that the the Alabama maps the congressional district maps in Alabama can stand commies are big mad about that and there's a lot of angst about it on the internet Kurt Olson has been on badlands before. Let me pull this one in.

Been on bad lands, been on why we vote a few times. I know Kurt. I know some folks in the chat. No, Kurt. He is moving. So he was in special government employee designation, and that's a short time thing, right? It's a set of months.

And then when it's up, it's up. And as I understand it, his time as special government employee, he was working in the White House on election-related matters. And that time, he timed out of that role. He is now over at the Justice Department, joined Monday. It was announced Monday. Trump 2020 election denier Kurt Olson joins Justice Department. Kurt Olson, White House official who aided the president, President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election, has joined the Justice Department as a senior attorney reporting to a prosecutor seeking to build wide-ranging criminal case against the president's foes.

He joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, On Monday, a Justice Department spokesperson confirmed. Notably, that is the US Attorney's Office that Cash Patel worked at in the first part of government gangsters before he went to Washington, D.C. That's the office that he was in. Olson didn't respond for comment. There's a part in this.

So he's going to work for Joe D. Genova. Off to a fast start building our Criminal Civil Rights Section, the May 19 Post read. He's already assembled a team of 12 prosecutors with more joining every week, a photo accompanying the post included Olson among a group of people standing outside the U.S. federal courthouse. We saw that picture. Olson, an attorney with no prior record of experience as a prosecutor was previously

sanctioned by a federal court for making false statements while representing Trump ally Carrie Lake in a case challenging Arizona voting procedures. I thought that those sanctions were in Arizona state court. I might be wrong about that. But so there's that. Olson has been leading the Trump administration's election integrity effort, including reexamining Trump's 2020 defeat and investigating disproven vote rigging theories. Disproven vote rigging theories. They've never been disproven.

They've just been ignored or explained away. And they, I'll give you my opinion here in a second. A special government employee within the White House. Olson's work has included probing potential foreign intervention in the U.S. elections and seizing voting machines and materials. in Puerto Rico, Georgia and Arizona to aid the investigation. He has, they keep saying disproven theories, disproven theories. Here, this is the part I wanted to read. Olson's work on election related matters predates his Justice Department role.

As Reuters reported, he has worked across agencies on efforts to revisit Trump's 2020 defeat. No, not defeat. Joe Biden did not get 81 million real awful American votes. That's a stupid thing to believe. and disproven claims of voter fraud. It is unclear whether Olson's election-related work has been folded into the Justice Department. Blanche and FBI director Cash Patel have said in recent weeks, their offices are examining potential voter fraud in the 2020 election. And I think that this is interesting.

So I have said many times that on why we vote, if you watch why we vote, then you've definitely heard this, that if there is one person in the country that has the full picture of election integrity and election fraud and what happened in the swing states and what happened in the other states and what the legislation is and what the lawsuits are and where the players are

and what the vendor landscape is and what the challenges are with elections. If there is one person in the country that has that complete picture, it's Kurt Olson. Because for four years, Kurt Olson was working for Mike Lindell and everywhere that the election story went,

Kurt Olson went as well. and capture the, you know, the evidence, the drives, the legal arguments, the whatever it is. He's got the full picture. So when he was assigned, you know, named a special government employee for the president on election integrity, that was a very exciting thing for us election deniers because Kurt Olson knows where the problems are. He knows what the truth is, you know. We should. That's my opinion on it.

So now the special government employee time is up. It's not that anything happened that is getting him, you know, removed and shifted and whatnot. It's that that time is up. Same thing that happened to Elon. Same thing that happened to other friends. You know, some of whom are in the chat. The special government employee designation ends. And then it's so now he's going into the Southern District of Florida.

Again, that's where Cash Patel's government gangster story starts in terms of his work with government. and the it could it could signify a new phase of this thing. I'm not going to pretend like I know what's going on because I don't, but I think it's interesting. And the fact that he's not just going back to private life, but he's going into a prosecutorial function, I think is ostensibly a good thing. So we will see what happens with that. Congratulations to Kurt Olson on his new role.

And with that, you guys, I am going to get out of here. because I'm going to go hiking before it rains and I've been hiking in ages. So, okay. I'm not going to mention that because you get mad at me when I, when I do. But with that, please hit the like button. I know it's a short show today. You guys, apologize about that.

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