Badlands Media - Devolution Power Hour Ep. 442: Iran Narrative Unraveling, Public Reaction, and Information Discipline

Episode Date: March 22, 2026

Jon Herold and Chris Paul return for Devolution Power Hour to continue dissecting the rapidly evolving situation surrounding Iran and the increasingly fragmented narratives shaping public understanding. As new headlines emerge and prior claims begin to shift or collapse, the hosts focus on how quickly certainty can dissolve in a high-speed information environment. The discussion centers on the gap between what is reported, what is assumed, and what can actually be known. Jon and Chris examine how early reactions often solidify into strong opinions before enough information is available, leading to cycles of confusion as updates contradict initial narratives. They also explore the role of public reaction in amplifying or distorting events, particularly in online spaces where emotional responses can spread faster than verified information. Rather than chasing every update, the hosts emphasize the importance of slowing down, reassessing assumptions, and maintaining discipline when evaluating complex geopolitical developments. Throughout the episode, the focus remains on recognizing how narratives evolve in real time and why maintaining a measured, analytical approach is critical when information is incomplete or actively shifting.

That's a hell of it. Right about the fraud. Joe Biden can't be present. Congress, the chair declares the joint session. It's all. Well, good evening, everybody, and welcome to the Saturday edition of the Devolution Power Hour. As always, I am joined by Chris Paul. Chris, how are you doing?

It's been a long week since I've seen you, man. It has. It feels so long every time we're apart. Yeah, the distance makes the heart grow fonder or whatever. Totally. Yeah, another fun week, though, of warfare and true social posts and people on Twitter losing their mind. Not only are we in a war in Iran, but we're also undergoing a mega civil war, I'm told. I've heard that on the watch.

Yeah. It seems like the MAGA civil war stuff is being fought between people who aren't MAGA and that all of American politics is just. gossiping between mainstream media figures about whose team they're on. They like divide into teams and then just fight and like say mean things about like one of them. All the ones on their team rush to that person's defense. They pick one person on the other. It's like dodge ball basically. That's such a good point though,

but none of them actually being mega. Like they're trying to cast other people out of the mega movement from other side who aren't actually also in mega. It's a weird. I mean, Tucker's the only one you could even make a plausible argument for. And then it's just the rest of them are all sometimes Trumpers who identified themselves as MAGA

for the sake of the 2024 campaign. And they sold that they were MAGA really hard. So now when they turn anti-Trump, which they already were before, it seems like MAGA's abandoning Trump. Well, these people were never MAGA in the first place. Megan Kelly, like spent the week talking about Mark Levins micro penis. And I remember that she was the person who was, you know, so slighted in the Republican primary debates in the first cycle because Trump talked about.

Rosie O'Donnell. Her bleeding, yes, and Rosie O'Donnell, yes. That's right in the period stuff. That's right. Yeah. But now she's, she basically sounds like a liberal feminist talking about Mark Levins. micropinus. Mark of them might have a micropinus. I don't know. I don't think about those things, but yeah. And she thinks it's very funny. It's really weird. Megan Kelly seems like,

like the wine mom who's like a professional lawyer. And so she seems smarter and more with it than the other wine moms. And like all the guys are interested in talking to her because none of their wives can talk about those things, but Megan Kelly can. Interesting. That's an interesting way to look at it. I don't know. I wonder if Mark Levin does have a micro penis. So now I can't. There's like a certain set of 30 to 50 year old like middle to upper class white people in America who love Megan Kelly because she's just edgy. That's definitely part of it. But they think she's just edgy enough that they can argue successfully with their liberal friends and. really feel like they're taking it to them without actually ever being offensive, which is usually like the goal of being conservative in America.

You know, I don't know if I know of a single person that actually watches Megan Kelly. She's like, you do? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Like some of your former friends or what? Some people are still friends with. Yeah. Yeah, from your former life.

I mean, still friends, but like. Yes, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. Why? I don't get.

I mean, I think it's for the reasons I just described. But don't they watch like your content? Well, no, not so much. They think I'm crazy. You've been right about so much. Like, how do they still think you're crazy? Because it's not where they are. And there's a certain kind, and I used to be this kind, there's a certain kind of like college

educated American like elite or elite adjacent who thinks that knowledge comes from authority and if the things that I was saying were true there would be authoritative official smart you know academic people out there saying all the same things yes yeah exactly that's the thing they they think that these uh these media figures who like are very cleanly well spoken and you know do their monologues that they obviously didn't write like that presents to them as smart and and authoritative still. And so if somebody's going to argue with them, they don't think, like, oh, actually, I could just be engaging in a class of media that is entirely corrupted.

They think there's no way this one guy I know is right. And these 20 people who I've been listening to for the last five years are wrong. Yeah, it's just nuts to me. I will say, you know, going into this term of Trump, I was expecting a lot of things to move a lot quicker, you know, from the justice phase to election exposure to other than, I was hoping we wouldn't get the hose again, but we repeatedly get the hose, as you said. And one of the things I was hoping that we would get instead of the hose is some form of, I don't know, like de-legitimization or just these these podcasters like you're talking about, the Megan Kelly's. I was hoping they

maybe be taken down a few pegs, but that has not seemed to happen. No. And I guess now they're just all going to fight with each other. And at the end of the day, they're still selling the underlying claims of the central narrative as true. And so there's no escape from their controlled opposition. Some of them are branding themselves as very based and red-pilled about the Jews. And the other side is just protecting the Jews.

And it all comes down to that because people are going to then align with one side or the other. At some point, all of these people in the professional who are clearly part of a coordinated information campaign, they are going to push all the toxic views off onto the MAGA supporters, and then they will go right back to the mainstream. And that's actually the program. I'm pretty well convinced that's exactly the program that was run

in Germany in the 1940s during World War II and in the 30s leading up to it, I should say. And I think that they're just running that playbook again. book again and they're going to the the thing is man I don't know we didn't now we're in a total sidebar hey this is totally cool let's keep going all right so I was doing these episodes back in 21 or 22 when I first used these things and I called it the old switcheroo and the idea is that they are able to kind of subsume into the and you know I know that Mike Ben's used the blob term but it's a good kind of evocative image for this but they what they

need to do we talked about a little last week with the controlled opposition they need to find the more extreme parts of the quote unquote right and then bring them into that center mass so that they can be used effectively for selling election narratives and so the center will find ways to ally with these little groups that are a little further out and you know if nick fuentes for instance is controlled opposition well then he brings he goes out and gets the groipers brings brings them into kind of MAGA. So they have this affiliation with the Republican Party, but then Donald Trump gets pushed to the side. And now they have to find their other allies within that thing.

They're still with Fuentes. But now there's these other people that are all about that side of the Jew issue. And so they go with Candace Owens and blah, blah, blah. And they continue to set things up that way. They want to take on the identity, bring them in, conflate the two things so the ideas are the same, and then they will figure out ways to push all of the bad side of that belief system back onto that extreme fringe, marginalize them again. They'll take on the good identity and move it back to the center.

All the while protecting the fraudulent election system because they're all excuses for losing the midterms. And Fuentes is like really hardcore, like voting Democrat now. You know. Oh, yeah, I just saw that the other day. Yeah, of course. Yeah. So that's, I mean, that's the idea. They conflate the identities and then they remove themselves taking the good part of the MAGA

identity, for instance. We are the new carriers of the MAGA banner. Like it's what MTG tried to do. People can say whatever they want about MTG. Some people like it. Some people think it's KFAPE. Whatever it is, I don't care. I'm just saying that's the same strategy.

You can go out and essentially nullify. that fringe by taking on their good ideas, making that alliance seem real and then just leaving it behind. And that's what they want to do with MAGA in general. They want to turn Trump into Hitler, MAGA into Nazis, then they can all move on and they'll have their golden age and their tech age and all the control they could ever imagine. Wow. Yeah. Interesting. And we have definitely seen that play out right now. So it can be fun to watch. Because if Trump's going to navigate his way around that and through that, how does he do so? I mean, we're heading into it. We're heading into to the midterms, like those are coming at some point.

And we're still waiting on the election fraud, exposure, and all those things. What's Trump's end game with them, in your opinion? I mean, well, what I hope it is is that he is intentionally diverting things away from those media figures and removing what the core of their power is, which is that controlled opposition dynamic. They always have people to play off against. And then they always have their own team side of things. where they can go on each other's shows, talk each other up, defend one another, make the conversation all about them, make it so that they seem like the vanguard of every important American issue.

And so when they have regained everybody's trust, they can just simply say, no, Trump is actually the bad guy and move him off and successfully go right back on to the main path. I mean, Laura Lumer for as crazy as she seems to be about a lot of things and the militant Zionism is just so over the top. She mentioned Red Seed Ventures today in one of her posts, which is like Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly and Brian Kilmead and Will Kane and Jesse Kelly and that Brett Cooper chick and all these other people. And that's all this like independent podcaster network that is just right back under the Murdoch thing. And so, you know, it's just the rebranding of the mainstream media is independent. She pointed that out, but that really is how those media operations work. They all inflate one another. Yeah.

It's interesting. I mean, that was kind of the goal of like badlands in a sense, you know, like one network inflates everybody. We just, we don't quite have the funding they all do, unfortunately. Yeah, but we also, yes, and we also don't employ those strategies where we are manipulating single narratives and then inflating one another's posts strategically at certain times. Yeah. Anyway, lots to talk about tonight with the Iran War.

I know I want to revisit that one post from Trump where he says Iran is faking, you know, military explosions and stuff because that's like right up your alley. And I feel like that was a direct come to you, Chris. So big out of boy from Boston with that one. Well, I like the Grenet. I liked the Grinnell. The Grinnell, you sound vaccinated on Monday. That was fun.

Oh, that was awesome. And we had a bad land shout out from Bannon over the weekend. Well, yeah, the Department of the Interior. Well, it was actually, I think it was maybe even Tuesday for, I think it was St. Patrick's Day. Oh, that's right. That's right. We should pull it up. It's pretty funny.

Yeah, I'm going to read our first sponsors. Okay, I'll find it. I want to pull that up. Then we have a whole bunch of other posts. One thing I want to talk about is Trump keeps talking about Tina Peters and releasing her from jail. And what I want to talk about is nothing to do with that aspect of it. It's him constantly getting her age wrong. He keeps posting about how old she is and he's wrong every single time.

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Bannon because of all the hate he's gotten lately, which is so stupid. Anyway, let's talk about it on. It's like, And by the way, Burning Bright, people were like Burning Bright's crazy that night that he said, this is going to be gone in two weeks. It was. Okay. We could talk about that.

I shall almost. It'll come back. It'll come back. For sure. It's not going forever. He was also, he was, he was technically right by what he meant. Yes. But he was wrong how he said it.

Yes. Yes. I don't remember the specifics though. But anyway, I want to talk about this first. We have so many true social posts we can go through. through. Well, let's do, let's do these first because he keeps doing this. And I don't know why.

And I don't know why nobody's corrected him yet. Every time he talks about Tina Peters, she's 71 years old. She turns 71 in March anyway. I don't know if she's had a birthday or it's coming up. But she keeps saying, he keeps saying a 73-year-old woman, you know, and saying to release her out and everything. And this is multiple times he's done this now. Let me see if I can find the other one that was just, I think he did it twice today.

I don't know why he keeps, I can't find it. But he keeps doing 73 years old. So there's got to be a decode here from somebody. If anybody knows, let me know. That'd be appreciated. Okay, here's the one I really want to talk about with you. Hold on. He keeps messing up, he keeps messing up another thing too,

which is when he makes the post about the Save America Act, he's been writing mutilation instead of mutilation. Yeah. Really? Yeah, two or three times. now. Mutilization and he'll go back and forth between mutilization and mutilation. Did you see that they uh so the bill that I think we talked about the son of power hour I think was the one two weeks ago that we recorded where you were saying like the reason he keeps saying no transgender or men

and women sports is to kind of like make sure the Democrats can't vote for it. It's one of the ways he's nuking the bill well yeah dropping Mark Wayne mullen out and then ruining their calculus even further with the tranny stuff yeah well they tried to make an amendment to actually add that to the bill because it wasn't actually ever in the bill right and i'm pretty sure that got downvoted today i think on saturday which is funny so it's not in there anymore but i bet he'll keep posting about it but anyway um here's this i rent and we we did this wednesday and i know we've talked about this a lot but i'm going to read the whole post one more time because again this is right up chris's alley It is. And we need to have this conversation with Chris.

Iran has long been known as the master of media manipulation and public relations. They are militarily ineffective and weak, but are really good at feeding the very appreciative fake news media false information. Now AI has become another disinformation weapon that Iran uses quite well, considering they are being annihilated by the day. They showed phony kamikaze boats shooting at various ships at sea, which looks wonderful, powerful, powerful, and vicious, but these boats don't exist. It's all false information to show how tough they're already defeated military is. The five U.S. refilling planes that were supposedly struck down and badly damaged, according to the Wall Street Journal's false reporting and others are all in service, with the exception of one, which will soon be flying in the skies.

Buildings and ships that are known to be on fire are not. It's fake news generated by AI. For instance, Iran working in close coordination with the fake news media shows our great USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, one of the largest and most prestigious ships in the world burning uncontrollably in the ocean. Not only was it not burning, it was not even shot at. Iran knows better than to do that. the story was knowingly fake and in a certain way you can say that those media outlets that generated it should be brought up on charges of treason for the dissemination of false information.

The fact is Iran is being decimated and the only battles they will win are those they create through AI and are distributed by corrupt media outlets. Radical left wing press knows this full well but continues to go forward with false stories and lies. That's why their approval rating is so low and I can win a presidential election in a landslide getting only 5% positive press. They have no credibility. I'm so thrilled to see Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, looking at the licenses of some of these corrupt and highly unpatriotic news organizations,

they get billions of dollars of free American airwaves and use it to perpetuate lies, both in news and almost all of their shows, including the late night morons who get gigantic salaries for horrible ratings and never get, as I used to say in the prentance fired. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. And real quick, kind of echoing my statements from Wednesday,

it was interesting to me how he started talking about how like war footage can be faked, transition that into the media uses this stuff and they should be brought up treason. But anyway, you have the floor, man. Take it. So the treason thing, I heard you guys talk about that a little bit the other night. And that is a tough question. That doesn't just jump out to you as something that immediately makes sense.

I look at all this stuff through Good Twin, Evil Twin. There are two factions in the world. there is a centralizing faction and a decentralizing faction. The centralizing faction works toward global governance of one world liberal rules-based international order, however whatever words they use to describe that system. And then there is a faction that works against that in every country around the world. And so identifying Iran as an enemy or China or North Korea or our, you know, fake. allies as Trump talks about them. I don't think he said fake yet, but he essentially hints that they are not allies and we can talk about the NATO posts as well. When he's talking about Iran is doing this,

well, what is Iran when he's talking about it? Are we to believe that the Ayatollah's regime and the IRGC are the best propagandists in the world so good at propaganda that they can fake their war communications and then their side of the war communications are picked up and then broadcast in the United States. We're getting the Ayatollah stuff indirectly. I don't think that's what it is. And I don't think for a second that Trump believes that Iran are the greatest media manipulators in the world. Who are the greatest manipulators in the world? I would suggest that Hollywood are probably the greatest media manipulators and the American political media and the British media.

So we're talking about global propaganda media and, you know, people are going to have different opinions about where all of that ultimately flows back to. But it is one singular entity that operates worldwide. And there are people in the United States doing their part to operate that entity here. So that's the treason part. And so I would suggest that that would apply to the election malfeasance and whatever. But election malfecent, again, is another thing that is largely just manufactured by media. And I don't mean that our elections, I don't mean to say that our elections are legitimate that way. I'm just saying that what our elections are primarily is a narrative battle waged at a media level that influences the minds of Americans,

makes them accept the results of these elections. And so I can pause there and then we can continue with the fake stuff. No, I think you're absolutely right. I mean, this always reminds me or this did remind me of my favorite clip. of Trump where he says, you know, this is being done by the same weaponized intelligence community that's been conducting illegal psychological warfare campaigns against American people for the best seven years. I think they obviously do this quite a bit.

But also, if I were to choose who was the best at, you know, which entity has the best technology ever, you know, like if you had to pick one entity in the entire world that is the most technologically advanced compared to anybody else, I would say it's our United States military and if Iran is able to do this stuff imagine what our military is able to do and all we're getting is like video game like footage from the White House and our military and like these true social or Twitter accounts showing that they're bombing stuff like if Iran's doing it you got to believe we're doing it too you know yeah yeah and I mean where would they have learned it from in the first place it the idea that war

can be broadcast, that fake events in wars can be broadcast and believed by people as real, and that Trump is worried that our media is doing that and convincing the American citizens about war events that just never happened. Well, that's a pretty big revelation. Now, it doesn't have to be the United States of America creating the propaganda and the fake war events that are then broadcast to Americans. where Americans will then believe whatever they are shown, doesn't have to be an American operation to confuse the American people.

But what difference does it make, honestly? Like we can be lied to about war. We can be fooled about war. It's not hard. It's super, super, super easy. And people are starting to actually kind of, I think, begin to wrestle with this question. And there are people who send me Twitter posts when they see something that's like kind of in my wheelhouse. And my pal Esther sent me Mike Cernovich post where he's talking about kind of some of this stuff, not really realizing the full scope of it as you know, you would expect from him.

But people are starting to think. I think so. Yeah. I mean, I do. Joe Kent. He's the guy who said Joe Kent and Tucker Carlson are going to be on the presidential ticket in 2028. and well because white white good looking in shape white dudes are something i don't remember i'm totally butchering this paraphrasing but i just remember thinking that's kind of retarded

yeah it could be retarded i mean there's definitely something with that grouping of people when you start talking about the control systems behind them i think that there's probably probably a connective tissue between joe kent and tulsie gabbard and j d vans and tucker carlson and that goes up to that teal thing and the Rockbridge network and some of these other organizations trying to build out the quote-unquote tech right, which isn't actually on the right, but that it's going to be the Trump replacement after they usher him offstage in 2028 or whatever. But yeah, the idea that war events can be faked is something that I think is pretty disturbing. And I think that people's being disturbed by it is what makes them so angry

when someone like me brings it up. But, you know, we're trying to figure out how to operate in this space and operate in our world and do things in a way that's more responsible than the ways we've been doing them, the ways that got us here. You know, it's not like just some powerful entity began taking advantage of us all the time and we're unable to stop we have a relationship with that entity and we don't stop you know so there's there's got to be uh other other things going on here and other ways to approach these subjects and so i think if we are honest about what it is we don't know and can't possibly know in these other places that's when you go back to first principles and say it's not that i know this is wrong it's not that i know it's the opposite of what it is

It's that there's no way that I can know this thing. And therefore, I can't build any argument on the basis of this, you know, this fire that I'm told is in an oil field. Well, I can't, I can't justify going to war with strangers 10,000 miles away because I saw a video on the internet with a caption about how they attacked an oil field. Yeah. None of these things are like things that we even contemplate at all or have any expertise in. unless that's your industry, of course. And then we get these massive, like, important emotional feelings about what we need to do. We haven't even checked like how we know.

Yeah. Speaking of experts in that field, I'm having Polymathenon join me on Monday. He's very cool. He works in the oil industry. We're going to talk a little bit about that stuff. One question I have, you know, speaking of being lied to and whatnot, the story that's like really go on bonkers the last week we can have two weeks even is the situation surrounding the straight of or moose okay we're being told that iran is able to completely affect the price of oil

globally by basically shutting that down and my question is like the story we're being told about who iran is as like these these terrorists these evil people that want to destroy the world and everything then how come they haven't been shutting down the oil trade through the of Hormuz prior to this conflict. Like if they can inflict this much damage right now by having that thing shut down, why we're not doing that before? Why have they never done that previously? Like we're told that the reason the oil prices are shooting up to,

I don't even know what they're at right now, but it's because Iran is not allowing any of these boats to go through the Strait of Ramos. And Trump is telling everybody we need to come. And even though we already won the war and we don't need any of your help at all, you guys all need to come to the Strait of Ramos and keep this thing safe so that these boats can come through. And then we took away sanctions off of the Iranian oil sitting in the boats there just that was like two days ago.

There's just this weird story around this that doesn't make sense with who we're being told Iran is previously. And I'm curious what your thoughts are on that. Well, I think you're right about all that. The night three weeks ago that we came on this show having this Iran war event start that morning. I think that the case I was making is what this is is a rerouting of resources and energy trade and the rest of it, a part of the Great Reset or thwarting of the Great Reset. I'm totally happy to take the optimistic view on these things, but none of this stuff just happened as the result of a war. And then we're getting war narratives to explain away different layers of this story as the kind of the narrative pillars of forever war. are all being knocked out.

If you think about this as a long-term information war and narrative warfare, there are a bunch of narratives that have been set up for a very long time that can be deployed whenever they want that will get people to want war immediately. They gave us a pandemic narrative in 2020, very little of which, and maybe very little of which turned out to be true. Maybe the entire thing was totally false, the entire time. time and we went forward hook, line and sinker and let it dominate our lives for multiple years.

People still wear masks. Exactly. And so it is entirely possible to convince us of absolute bullshit and make us completely change our lives. And then in the ways that we change our lives, our interactions with the world change. And we then change the world in that manner. And so why wouldn't they just keep doing that over and over and over again while they complete the steps and the great

reset. They're going to take all of these different aspects of the system that controls the world, bottom them, bottom them out, make people want something different, and then they're going to present the different option. And everybody's going to say, oh, that fixes all the problems that we discovered with the old system. And they're like, yes, just like we designed this. We can see that happening, all right? We don't need to like lie that that is still ongoing. It's going. It's good that there's a path out of that. I think we should take that path. That path is dependent on all of us recognizing the path and then choosing to take it. Or we can go along for the ride still and end up in that kind of post-Trump era that I was just talking about. I mean, that's clearly

what the other side of the controlled opposition, like we have the great reset. We think that's all about the Green New Deal and all of these like global liberals, progressive, woke-minded people, But there's a controlled opposition to that that is pursuing the great reset in every bit the same way, just under different branding. And that's what we saw combine with the MAGA movement in the pre-election period of 2024. And then, of course, those people want to take all the credit for all the good things that were done right after the administration began. Yeah, and they're trying to set themselves up to be what takes over after Trump. Right now they're framing J.D. J.D. Vance as the peace president. Like, he's, he's the one person in the administration.

And we called this. And Tulsi. Yep, him and Tulsi, we called this, that they're the ones being set up as like the voices of reason who are against this conflict, which is pretty interesting. But I want to show you these two posts real quick. These are back to back, maybe not time wise, about an hour apart. The United States has blown Iran, whoops, has blown Iran off the map. And yet the lightweight analyst, David Sanger, says that I haven't met my own goals. Yes, I have.

And weeks ahead of schedule, their leadership is gone. Their Navy and Air Force are dead. They have absolutely no defense and they want to make a deal. I don't. We are weeks ahead of schedule. Just like their incompetent election coverage of me, the failing New York Times always gets it wrong, President Donald J. Trump. It is interesting that he is not only saying like all these things, which he'll later contradict,

but the fact that he's like they want to make a deal but I don't like that's um you know for first for me personally that and I know this is a sciop but just I'm trying to put myself in the shoes of a normie like your president is telling you that we can end this conflict right now if if we wanted to but I don't want to I want to keep bombing I want to keep bombing the shit out of these people that's a weird thing to say you know but again we know he's like playing these SIOPS, but then right after that post, he does this one. If Iran doesn't fully open without threat, the straight of Hormuz, within 48 hours from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their previous

or their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. So this is the straight of Hormuz thing like I was just alluding to. But the messaging from Trump, as we keep saying, is he's carpet bombing the entire spectrum of the narrative he's all over the place and these are just a couple examples not more too but if you have anything you want to comment on um did you see scott besant talking about the straight of Hormuz this week and talking about how um iran uh ships from iran were getting out to india and to china and they according to besant well obviously now we know

that they never mind the straight of Hormuz because all of these ships are still passing through. It's my understanding that the ship transit is greatly reduced but not actually shut down. Like certain ships are getting through and other ships are not getting through. And again, I would suggest through good twin, evil twin, we have two competing factions. and we can just use the shorthand of sovereign alliance on the one side, but think of that as the good twin, the decentralizing faction versus the top-down controlled economy. So if the top-down controlled economy has been doing, has had their system operating,

and they are the bulk of the transit through the Strait of Hormuz, and they are shut down while the sovereign alliance side of things is still allowed to move, to have safe. passage through there to get their resources out. Well, when we're talking about the actual war that's happening, it makes total sense that the enemy in that war is frozen in place while the allies in that war are still allowed transit. So I don't find this stuff all that weird. And like strategically, I mean, and then when Besson talks about the straight being totally passable and business occurring and then we hear about the ability for the iranian oil that is

already offshore in various ships or whatever that's i guess what the sanctions were removed from it's not like all of iranian oil but um anyway if this is the clip we can yeah pause there we can go through this i think this is the clip well the let's pull that apart so we we are seeing more and more the fuel ships start to go through the iranian ships have been getting out already, and we've let that happen to supply the rest of the world. We've seen Indian ships go out now, so the Indians who rely very heavily on Gulf oil, we believe some Chinese ships have gone out. So that should start ramping up before there are any flotillas or protective armadas in the Gulf. So we think that there will,

be a natural opening that the Iranians are letting out. And for now, we're fine with that. We want the world to be well supplied. The other thing that we did, we gave a 30-day waiver for Russian oil that was already on the water. I think he meant Iranian oil, but maybe Russian. Yeah, I thought it was Iranian too, because like everybody's freaking out. Like, why are we taking the sanctions off of Iranian?

oil doesn't that only help iran it's so funny when you see them like he's saying that he's obliterating them but he's also giving them money yeah it's not kind of weird there's a lot of instances like that though where trump will say something and then there'll be something that totally contradicts it like the the post um that that he did about the gas fields where he was like listen iran it wasn't us who bombed your gas field that was israel They did it without permission. They didn't tell us they're going to do it. Stop bombing Qatar.

Bomb Israel instead. But if you do continue to bomb Qatar, then we're going to bomb the shit out of you back. So just don't do that. It wasn't us. So funny. Negotiations on just geopolitics happening right in front of us on truth social. Yeah. See, stuff like that, you'd imagine that there is some sort of, like we got to have some sort of back channel to Iran, right?

Like Trump is, Trump is not honest. honestly communicating these messages to Iran. He's communicating that to us and a million other people. Who knows who his audience is, but it's not the Ayatollah, I don't imagine. You know, so why post something like that unless you want to put Israel on blast? You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, if he is, so talking about the good twin, evil twin, when he's saying that Iran is doing

something terrible, if that term Iran is kind of a catch-all, for the global entities involved in the Iran situation on the other side. Some of these statements take on different meanings. And a lot of the time, I just think he's straight up talking to the enemy and that we can see them get really, really angry at the things he says. It's like, who's the enemy? Well, you've got a pretty good indication right there that the people who occasionally, even if they say nice things about Trump sometimes, the ones who you know. know are going to jump up in anger and virtue signal to their in-group every time Trump, like, defies one of their personal preferences. Maybe that's a good place to start. Yeah, maybe. He

hasn't mentioned the discombobulator one single time either so far at this conflict. Yeah, I hope. Disappointing. Yeah. Maybe we'll never hear about it, hear about it again. I don't know. That'd be sad. Maybe we feel a little close, too close to the sun with the discombobulator. Maybe. Frederick Leathers in the chat said, it's an interesting comment to a, a nation at war with us that we already won. You know what I mean? Like we already obliterated them. They have no offense or defense left, but hey, don't bomb us or Qatar,

bomb Israel with the offense that we already took out off the field that you don't have. Yeah. It is. It is pretty silly. There's rumors too now. I saw a post. There's like a, there was a flight of, I think it's 82nd airborne that went down. There's preparation. A lot of this week, too,

the discussion was that we're preparing for some sort of ground invasion somewhere, whether that's Carg Island or somewhere else. There's a couple boats that are on the way to the region, but a lot of the narrative that was being laid Thursday, Friday was about some sort of ground forces being put into place. So curious to see if that actually happens or not, because I think that would be the moment that people who have been kind of justifying this would be left without any narrative recovery. Even if it is like a small scale thing doesn't matter. I almost anticipate some level of ground forces being put into

plate just to take those people like take away there any narrative reasoning for them to be defending it. You know what I mean? Yeah, we could see that. The initial justification for that was

that they had to go seize the enriched uranium because if it was left there, that would be a big problem. And now it's to take out, to to take control over the oil infrastructure in Karga Island, if I have that, correct? Yeah. I think there's still, I saw stories about the enriched uranium as well.

But there's another story today that was funny. Bebebe and his press conference the other day said that Iran can no longer make ballistic missiles. So 30 years, go ahead. But also, we got stories the last couple of days, how they shot a ballistic missile or two of them at whatever Diego Garcia. a base. Yeah, yeah, I heard that. 4,000 kilometers away, which I mean, how perfect that just, you know, now they can

bomb all of Europe, so prepare for false flags there. But we were told that they didn't have that capability, and you're right that they said B, B, B, said they, we bombed all their ballistic missile sites or whatever. And there was also this story that I thought was retarded.

Because I thought we blew Natanz off the map. I thought Natanz didn't exist anymore. Yeah. And now we hit it again. Yeah, I don't know. I can't believe that they rebuilt it and then put that ventilator shaft in there. Yeah, that's so stupid, man. So, Bibi, though, for 30 years, has been saying that Iran is going to have a nuclear missile in two weeks or a bomb.

I can't, I don't know if it's a missile or a bomb. Nobody does. It's a magical bomb. They're going to have that for third in two weeks for 30 years. And now all of a sudden he's like, oh, you know what? They can't make magical bombs anymore. It's amazing that he's admitting something like that. And the funny thing is it was in the same speech where he declared that Jesus Christ has nothing on Genghis Khan and that ultimately evil will overcome with sufficient strength in numbers. Evil will overcome even Jesus Christ.

And then there was, did I send you the, did you watch that AI video that I sent last night in the chat? I don't know. Okay, check this out. It's crazy. I watched this. I was like, wow, this is really something. Before you pull that up real quick, on that note of BB and taking away the ballistic missile, like that narrative is one that he always wants because that's why he can continue to push the war effort.

But we had a whole week of AI Netanyahu. Like everybody's like, oh my gosh, does this AI? Is BB really dead? And so it's just funny to think like, what if, what if there was an AI Netanyahu put out there to say that the ballistic missiles are gone because the whole reason Trump, we thought, did the Operation Midnight Hammer back in June of 2025, was to narratively take away the justification for Israel to continue to go to war against Iran. Okay, well, they no longer have the ability to make nukes. The tons has been destroyed. The nuclear capability is taken out.

What if they're implementing AI to do the same thing? Total speculation. Maybe it's retarded, but thought of it. Well, we also haven't seen, we also haven't seen the uprising in the streets yet that we were promised. There has been absolutely zero of that. And again, that's another thing that we said, the first night of this. What uprising in the streets were he promised? And is in Iran?

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Right at the beginning when Trump was like, it's your turn now. Just stay indoors, but also go out and take your government back. Exactly. Okay, go and press play on this. Every conqueror who ever lived believed what you believe right now. They are gone and I am still here in two billion hearts.

You cannot kill truth. You cannot bomb it into submission. Love is the only force in this universe that does not eventually destroy the one wielding it. Jesus. Choose it before the choice is made for you. What you call strength is often fear in armor. For what does it profit a man to gain the world and lose his soul? The question isn't whether evil can win for a time.

The question is, what are you becoming while you try to win? I almost look like Jim Kivissel a little bit. I just can't believe that like that message can be so coherently delivered in like a narrative form that people are accustomed to and that they can like really interact with and capture. You know, you can write a think piece on that and write 1500 words, something really, you know, quick and descriptive and clever and tension grabbing. And it still can't communicate what that did in a minute. Yeah. Yeah, he has become something else. You're going to love our outro. You already saw our outro.

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We can talk about Trump's Mueller post. Oh, yeah. Everybody's losing their mind over that. Let's do it. Let me pull it up. A lot of his post up. He didn't delete that. Did he?

No. Never. I could not imagine. That would suck. I don't think he did. I was way, I was looking at posts from five days ago. You see, he posted this. This is great. The early days of Mar-Lago. Yes, sir. Yeah. Okay. Let's see. Sporn and here we go.

Yeah, so Robert Mueller just died. Good. I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people, President Donald J. Trump and I will say for me personally it's kind of a shame that he died not in a prison cell like that dude deserved to be in a prison cell based on the information at least we knew but yeah everybody's losing the mind over this all the people that love Trump I think it's hilarious I think it's hilarious all the people that hate Trump think it's the most disasable thing of all time and I swear to God there was another post like this I was telling you this before the show

I can't remember what it is but there was something that happened recently maybe was somebody who died a couple months ago or six months ago or something and he had a similar post like this and I feel like we're living through Lala like we're watching the same op play out again with all the same people hating on him for him being not politically correct which is so stupid none of Trump's base voted for him because he's expected to be politically correct it's so stupid uh he uh I think that he kind of did a sort of similar thing like in a narrative move sense with the Jesse Jackson thing a couple of weeks ago. I don't know what the media has planned and what the establishment has planned in terms of like a Robert Mueller death thing.

You would think that they would do some retrospectives and have some characters from the deep state coming on their cable shows to talk about how wonderful a man Robert Mueller was and then get into some of the Russia gate and the rest of it, probably to sell it as Trump bad again. And posts like this make it impossible for that sort of thing to be taken seriously. It's also really funny that the people you're talking about who have been, who are getting mad at him for this, have been by and large praising him relentlessly for how much he's been helping Israel. And there's a lot of crossover in that part of the establishment. And it's just funny to watch them go back and forth between vehemently anti-Trump and just glowingly pro-Trump in the span of hours back and forth.

Yeah, this is the post. It was Rob Reiner. Oh, there you go. When he was basically killed by his Trump arrangement syndrome, even though it was like a son murdering the shit out of him. But everybody, like, freaked out about this one as well. And thank you, Chad, for pointing that out. But, yeah, you're absolutely right.

And this is what he does. Anytime somebody was hated on him or been disrespectful to him or gone after him or whatever, if something happens and they happen to pass a, way, he does not hold back. That just kind of is what it is. It really does change the discussion, though, and that's the kind of power that Trump has with his, you know, the megaphone that he has, the support base he has, the control over social media platform.

Like, he's going to dictate the conversation all the time whenever he chooses to. And so whatever the response to the Mueller death announcement would have been, now it's the thing that Trump wants it to be. Which is the Russia gate stuff, which is interesting. I mean, that's why Trump hates him, right? The Russia gate stuff. It's interesting. Well, he also, like, wasn't he also partially responsible for going after Jared Kushner's dad?

Yeah. I mean, there's a whole host of things. He was put into office, I think, a week before 9-11. Like, there's connections there. There's connections all over the place. The dude, what was a bad apple? But I think it's more interesting. Like, we went six months or something without any news.

really from the Rico Grande situation. I think the one thing we had a couple months ago was John Brennan getting a subpoena. We just got word this week that James Comey was getting subpoenaed. I think I have that story somewhere. Yeah, so this is the update. And so I think the timing is interesting. We always joke about none of these people actually die. They just go to Witzk.

Witzk gained another angel a day. I don't think that's true, obviously. but it is interesting that we got this news coming out and then Mueller dies, Trump posts about it, and Mueller's balls deep in the Rushgate stuff. So you're right. I mean, him dictating the conversation, that's what he does. He's the lighting rod, as you say. You're spot on.

Yeah, call me. And this should better not be a rug. Rico grot stuff. Like probably, though, you know. Yeah. probably the thing is man people are like well that's that's black filling and dooming you're saying it's gonna be a rug why is that black filling and doing I'm saying we are we're getting hit with this information thing we already know this

you want other normies to know it and if like the story doesn't come to full fruition they're just gonna tell you you're full of shit again and not believe it and that's what people want to avoid and I totally understand that like I really used to be in that space where I was trying to convince these people. I had told them over and over again, all the stuff I knew about the thing. I wanted the television and all the official people to confirm to my friends, all the things that I had said. And then somebody's like, well, that's never going to happen. Well, that's very disappointing. And I understand that. But like, that can't be the goal, can it? Like, are we really doing all of this

just so that the TV will someday tell our friends and family that we were right the whole time? and if that's the end goal what the fuck are we doing you're spot on man i mean it would feel nice to be able to say that to my friends and family that i was right i'm not going to lie but that's not why i'm doing this you know but i but the thing is that a lot of them will silently uh already know that we're right and then not want to say it because we keep trying to shove this bullshit down their throats that's so true and then once it like if we ever do get confirmation none of those people are actually going to want to talk to you like they're not going to give you the opportunity to be like see i told you so yeah yeah but it's between that and the it's this rug and the lecture

it's not even like it's not even about it's not even about being able to tell people you know i told you so for me it's it's really about if if we don't get some semblance of justice for this bullshit like how do we how do how do we move forward how can we move forward maybe the point is not to be able to move forward which i can totally be down for that conversation but between this and the election stuff if we if we don't get those things i don't care about the exposure like we can put that i just want that shit fixed so it can't happen again and i think the exposure goes hand in hand with those but man i don't know it could be it could be it could be that i mean i'm i've been on team seeking accountability for the entire time and i've

always expected that we're going to get that and the extent of the crimes i think is extraordinary and accountability is totally justified and deserved and it seems like we need that sort of thing for some catharsis or closure moving on as you say but there's also just you know we should be doing the right things in our lives individually and then trying to do those things in our communities and if we were doing that i think that the bottom up pressure would maybe cause some more of that accountability as things scale. We have no real access to affect the federal government except for withdrawing our consent. And, you know, that's the one thing that people don't want to do because our lives have been built up around the federal government as the source of all,

like, authority and control. And we kind of worship the federal government. I mean, we've talked about stateism a number of times. The idea that that entity needs to be there and is going to be the ultimate source and solution to all of these many problems. I don't think that's how it's going to go. I don't even know what mechanism they would be using or who they could possibly prosecute because they're all equally guilty. I mean, they're operating an illegitimate government and telling like tens or hundreds of millions of people how to live and all those people are just going along with it

because it's the only thing we've ever known. Like if we're not going to apply some principles in our own lives and start like living by choice according to those principles and then applying them when we get into groups rather than like trying to access public power because our company needs to get permitting for a building we want to build. You know what I mean? Like people will access that system of power and use it to their own benefit because there are things that they want. Well, every time you do that, you're like trading favors with that system of power. So it gives you some strength.

You give it some strength. And like if we want to take the strength away from the system, we have to stop giving hours to it. Yeah. Well, I think it was John Adams who said public virtue cannot exist without private virtue. As in like, we can't expect the government to have, you know, these virtues and this morality or anything that we ourselves don't have or display. And I think that's kind of in line with what you're saying. At least that's what made me think of.

If we don't do it in our own lives, how come we expect the government to do it? And I think you're right. And a lot of this is from the cultural degradation that our society has gone through. Like it's purposeful. We've gotten so morally bankrupt as a society, generally, not everybody, but generally, that our government is representing that. the public infrastructure that we have here in this country is representative of that. And it's just sad and unfortunate.

And we've had this conversation so many times that, you know, maybe we're just at that point where we need to wipe the slate clean and start over somehow. And I think one of the things that, especially in our subset of the community, the truth or community where everybody's looking for the exposure and fixing of our elections and the justice and accountability for all the things going back, if we don't get that, that group I mean I don't see how they they'll maybe they'll just stop like sitting on their hands and their asses you know trusting the plan when none of that stuff comes if it doesn't come yeah I mean all that is a possibility man I don't know I think that some of

this is that you know and I know this from having spent so much time in Hollywood as an adult and lived in a very transactional society where people are moral relativists you know you don't hold other people accountable so that you will not be held accountable. You know, you don't demand honesty from other people so that if you want to slip a few curveballs by every now and then, you're able to do it. You know, you just operate in a different society. People don't hold themselves to standards. They don't hold other people to standards. And if everybody is working together for a certain set of like worldly benefits and no one is holding any of them to any standards,

by which they are, you know, trying to achieve those benefits, the actions they take, the things they say and the rest of it. Like, we're going to end up with that society, you know, and you can't, you can't then ask the state to solve that problem. You know, we can't legislate the morality. You can't make people do these things. People have to choose to do these things even when other people aren't going to choose it. And even when those other people are going to continue reaping the rewards of those choices, you know, if the reward set that you're after is like material stuff in this earth, experiences, status, objects, whatever it is. Followers.

Whatever, exactly. Whatever it is that you are seeking, you know, you have to like let those things go if you want to. like live a more principled and moral life and it means that you're going to see some of the people you used to be competing with excel in those areas they're not excelling in the areas that you are ex excelling in though you know what i mean like probably not the areas that matter yeah right exactly well it depends i mean that's that's about value sets and like what you actually value in the world if you're going in the right direction you're not going to get the stuff all the prizes that you can win going in the wrong direction, you're going to get a different set of prizes

that you can't get down there. Yeah, but I mean, I can't imagine God. And I can't speak for God. Nobody can. But I doubt God is going to be like, oh, you got to, you know, 200,000 followers on Twitter. I see that definitely moves you up a notch. You know what I mean? Like there's, there's some of those worldly things. I'm pretty sure God did not, you know, care for people having that as part of their core value system. But no, I absolutely agree with what you said there. Jules Patriot left a $5 RAN said 139 people were subpoenaed with Comey Pacer.gov shows 700,000 sealed indictments.

Do you see this letter signed by Trump? There's a post with it. And, you know, this, the whole seal and diamond thing, just how long are we going to be doing? How are we doing that? We've been doing that for literally 10 years. And nothing's been unsealed. Nothing, not a single thing.

thing like is that where are we even getting those numbers from I mean yeah pacer's like one of those like legal document sites isn't it yeah I use it actually when I look up case stuff yeah I mean that sort of thing is hard to go on you know what do you make of it are are there cases against all these people I could I can be I can believe that there are I just don't know that they're yeah I don't know either and you know Pacer is where I go to look up it you can look up any court case any federal court case through pacer it's a good tool you have to pay like three cents a page which is nuts but once it's downloaded once by somebody anywhere then you could also access it on court

listener because they they do a pretty good job of staying on top of that stuff too had another comment i was going to make so we talked about the the sealed indictments on my show the other day and now i don't remember what it was um Sarah carter on handy December 11th, 2018, lots of sealed and diamond shan. Huh. Yeah. I don't know. Anyway, we should talk about this quick.

If I can find it, the ice stuff. These are pretty, Trump's had a few posts about ICE and TSA and the shutdown. We have this one from, a bit earlier today, this morning. If the radical left Democrats don't immediately sign an agreement to let our country, in particular, our airports be free and safe again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ice agents to the airports

where they will do security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all illegal immigrants who have come into our country with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia, we've totally destroyed with the approval of corrupt governor, Attorney General and Congresswoman Alain Omar, the once great state of Minnesota. I look forward to seeing ice in action at our airports, and there's also this,

no that's not it old for processing see a tool today didn't he yeah I don't know I remember that one I guess where there's another one maybe I'm wrong I'll look as well as I'm looking through right now but I guess I don't see it I could have swore there's another one though anyway I mean the point the point still stands I think it's a brilliant idea yeah I have I think I have the other one. It hurt so many people. Yeah. Okay.

So the other one is here. Let's, oh, damn it. Just lost it. Here we are. No. Sorry,

I just closed my window in it. Disappeared that post. Here it is. This is a really annoying hold for process. No worries. I'm not that annoying. Oh, okay.

Well, I am. He said the radical left Democrats have hurt so many people with their vicious and uncaring ways. What they have done to the Department of Homeland Security are fantastic TSA officers, and most importantly, the great people of our country is an absolute disgrace. If the Democrats do not allow for just and proper security at our airports and elsewhere throughout our country,

ICE will do the job far better than ever done before. The fascist Democrats will never protect America, but the Republicans will. Just like the radical left allowed millions of criminals, to pour into our country through their ridiculous and dangerous open border policy, the Republicans closed it all down, and now we have the strongest border in American history. Likewise, I look forward to moving ICE in on Monday and have already told them to, quote unquote, get ready. No more waiting, no more games. President Donald J. Trump, no games, he says, with a very stern look at the desk in the

oval office. So he said at airports or anywhere else in the country. And I really think it's interesting that he's going to put ice at the airports because who knows what effect that has on illegal immigration, cartel movements, trafficking, and the rest of it. Well, I think it's brilliant. I mean, this back and forth in Congress was so predictable and so stupid. Back when the Minnesota thing went off and, you know, the killing of pretty and good. or whatever and the the list of demands from schumer and jeffreys when they're like yeah we will not stand for this unless christine omer signs which she's not there anymore and this whole list of 10

things they don't want to fund ice when they separated out the ice or the the dhs funding from the rest of the bill it was game i was like they're never going to vote to refund this thing like what what are the republicans doing unless they're clearly uniparty board all that shit but just from the looking at it from the other perspective the the two-party perspective it was the most dumb thing they could have done so predictable and here we are and now trump doing this like he totally defangs that entire debate the narrative all of it by putting putting ice in there and then you sent that article over have that somewhere yes funding yeah early february just uh it was about the one big beautiful bill and how in that quote unquote

there was $75 billion for ICE and Border Patrol. And so, you know, one of the first things we were saying about all of this, I don't know, it was six weeks ago or so, whenever it was, was that I think we were talking about hoping that DHS, like, would just never come back, and that the agencies under DHS that were necessary could be moved to other parts of the government for however long they are necessary. but so so ice and border patrol are funded ice could go take over the airport security that doesn't sound bad at this point but the truth is they should just be scaling that back like the airports are

the the tsa area at the airport is the the point at which i feel that i am most interacting with the dystopia that could be around the corner. Oh, it sounds good. You look up and everything you see is like an eye on the ceiling, looking at you, reading your biometrics, knowing everything about you, shipping all that data off to the great cloud in the sky so that whoever can analyze it.

And the only, the concern I have with this, to the extent I'm concerned with it, like I want TSA to go away, I want DHS to go away. I want most of the federal government to go away. But I want that to be replaced with humans, not with technology. And it seems like this is one of those places that we could easily have, like be out of the frying pan and into the fire when it comes to that.

You know, when we were coming back from Florida, a couple weeks ago, we were going through TSA at the Florida airport. And it was super early in the morning. So there weren't many people there. And we get in to the line, right? like we don't don't have the TSA pre-check and we started zigging and zgging and zgging and zing and like just back and forth back and forth in this empty room when there's no line but they had the thing set up and we had to go through there so it's it's a fucking humiliation ritual yeah it is

it's so part of the airport is like that yeah it's so stupid and yeah i hate TSA it's it's uh ruined my days more than than one time. It's ridiculous. But I agree. It's, you know, every time you go and you have to like give your ID and they take your picture, it's like, okay, which database is this going into? I heard you can opt out of that or something. You can. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but and I do that and then I have your picture a million times. I think what was the point in doing that? Yeah. And then it's just like I don't do it just because I'm going to submit to the machine as few people. times as I can even though I know that I'm about to be forced into like the den yeah I'm not

going to let you guys take my picture but I'll stand there while you give me a full body scan yes yeah well and they are already like taking your picture from every possible direction yeah that's ridiculous it is so creepy the whole thing but yeah I wouldn't be opposed to um I mean I'm sure there's some nice people that work for TSA and I hope they get their back pay and whatever but in terms of the narrative like that's playing out, I think it'll be interesting to see Trump do this, and I think he will because it'll totally take Congress out of it again. I mean, Congress is the reason we're told that the shutdown is happening.

They're totally irrelevant. They haven't done anything meaningful. They even interviewed a congressman this week and basically told him that, and he basically agreed with me, and Trump is just doing it all without him. We don't need them. Yeah. And so then the question is,

what are we trying to win the midterms for? well because if you don't try then you're the problem did you see what's his name peter tickton on why we vote i haven't watched it yet did you see that clip no was there a clip no oh i got a clip for you here we'll go to ashes we'll go to ash's uh twitter here i can't if you didn't see this i posted in the private chat i missed it i don't know how i missed it okay take a listen to this It is a real question for the electorate right now. Why should we vote if we know that elections are essentially fake? If you don't go and vote, you're not giving us a chance.

And that misery that you're going to be living in is going to be partially caused by you. So there's no option here. We don't have the choice to sit back and just say, oh, well, it's fixed anyway. I'm going to be lazy today. It's not about being lazy. It's not about being lazy. it's about legitimizing a system that is by definition illegitimate. And you gave a bunch of examples around the world about democracies that have devolved into despotism.

And I vote. And I'm not telling anybody not to vote. But I am questioning the logic of why we're continuing to legitimize an illegitimate system. And if you don't bother to get out there and vote and we get a way of basically making sure your votes count, they won't be there to vote. So you need to be there to do what you. need to do to help us preserve and keep democracy. If you don't do it and we lose it, it's on you. If you go out there and vote and we lose it, well, then you've done everything you could do. But don't you dare not go out and vote and think that that's okay by any stretch of the

imagination because why should you preserve or show your approval by participating in the what we have okay yes we're under attack that's not the time to stick your head in the sand and rationalize inactivity yeah i see can't comp in the chat must have his ears must have been burning but i do encourage everybody to go watch that interview on why we vote um it was it was an interesting one to say the least but it seems like he's never been asked that question and maybe hasn't really thought about it well that's that's the thing nobody's having that conversation except us. I don't think a single group out there is having that conversation and they should be. You know why that is? Because all of the social incentives are set up against

having that conversation and all the financial incentives are set up against having that conversation. And unfortunately, most of the people who have these conversations are concerned primarily, if not only with the social and financial incentives around avoiding that conversation. Yeah. And MZ. Mauser here. I mean, this is the point. or we aren't saying not to vote. Ash asked an important question. And even listening to that, like, I think Peter Tickton, he's obviously a smart guy. Sure.

But that answer, like, he didn't answer the question. He didn't give a good answer. People can't imagine solutions outside of the system. And so what they do is seek solutions inside the system, which requires accessing the system's power and the access of the system's power increases and legitimizes the system's power. Okay. I don't know how much clearer to make it than that. There is no way to trick the system into doing what you want it to do when it is designed to make sure it doesn't do that.

Yeah. It's ridiculous. But yeah, go watch that interview guys. This conversation is not going away. Oh, I see Drake in the chat too. Chat is pop up. Can't Connor. Are you going to join us on gaming tomorrow?

Chris, are you going to join us for? gaming tomorrow i will try to do that now that we've got it um set up yeah by the way speaking um about getting involved and whatnot and and getting active locally we're i'm starting a new series i recorded the episode already but every sunday at one pm eastern uh it's a series called america first stories and we're me i'm going to be interviewing mostly our sponsors but we're going to be telling their story it's not like infomercially it's just talking about the people and what they do and how they got into what they're doing and whatnot. And I interviewed Mo Benson of Benson Honey Farms. Oh, cool. And she, she's kind of a badass. Like she is super involved. Like she got,

she's following the precinct strategy. She started in her local community and she's worked a way up and she's like the vice chair of the Republican Party in in Nebraska now. And like, she's connected to the senators and Congress people. Like, and she's, she's making changes. She knows what she's doing. So I encourage you guys to watch that interview. Not only will you learn a lot about the honey industry, which is fascinating in and of itself, but you'll, we'll talk a lot about the precinct strategy, which is, I think, the way to go. Cancun says it's tough to drop out of a system when your non-participation is a guarantee of a loss. It's not a guarantee of a loss. It's, it is already a loss either way. Like, I don't know what people think they're going to get

out of electing one side of the unit party over the other side of the unit party. You can see that the Congress and the Senate aren't doing anything, okay? People are, going to be like, oh, well, then Trump's going to be impeached. Well, we've watched him be impeached twice already. Those were fake impeachments, especially the second one when he quote unquote wasn't even president. It's all so ridiculous and they're setting up this impeachment. Well, what are they going to impeach him? Well, the Iran war. Who's going to impeach him? The Democrats, the Democrats are going to what, win that election. So we need to go vote to make sure the Democrats don't win. Well, how many Democrats are going to win? Are they going to have like an overwhelming landslide? And then

what happens if we pass the SAVE Act? Because if we pass the SAVE Act, we're all going to agree that elections are legitimate. Everyone, even the people who are the biggest election deniers in the country, are going to celebrate the passage of the SAVE Act, which is going to then legitimize preemptively whatever government they give us in the midterm elections. And so if they say, well, hey, the Democrats won anyway, what is it going to be for? Because they're all so mad at Donald Trump for the war. That's what they're going to tell us about why the Democrats won.

then we're going to get the impeachment what are the establishment republicans going to do the people who have wanted to move on from Donald trump for a decade what are they going to do are they going to go uh with trump and protect him from that impeachment or they're going to go along with it and say well i guess we can just do two years of j d vans and start that whole thing now yeah that'll be fun i can't wait for our outro i did invite can't con on i'm not sure if i'm regretting that or not but i kind of want to hear what he has to say says i broadly agree with chris however we still have to participate if we're going to figure out how the f they do it Yeah, I think that that's just smuggling in the, the, I'm still like on this team sort of thing. I don't, I have not heard anybody make a rational case for that. Yeah, you should invest in Patriot Protect. I think Peter Tickton hacked your account. Anyway, don't come out. I would love to have, I would love to have a real rational case for how that is going to benefit us. and like which are the people that we need to elect.

And once we elect them because we need to so much, what are they going to do? Because we heard this in 2020, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025. And here we are. And the elections have been fake the whole time. We've been getting terrible results. We're supposed to have a red wave in 2022.

We did not have a red wave. And instead we were told that MAGA was to blame because Trump had supported MAGA candidates. And the people in the country had talked about how our elections were fake and therefore we lost and the Republican establishment needed to take control back and then we had fake primary campaigns all of that was a joke the the ballot measures in the last few years that popped up in various states to support abortion after the Dobbs decision yeah what does

it mean that we are allowing fake elections to decide whether or not abortion is legal in these states and we still support the elections. At what point does the government become our responsibility when we know it is illegitimate, we know it cannot be legitimate, and yet we still treat it as though it is because we don't know what else to do. And we want to do the one thing that we've been taught to do, which is nothing, which is show up and punch in our opinions on an iPad at a high school cafeteria and then just hope for the best. That is not a strategy. no john drake says tune in to no treason tomorrow for a discussion of majority rule which is the de facto way our system operates incompatible with liberty and something in the chat also mentioned this and i was going to talk about this at some point um there's a bunch of hearings this week of all the intelligence you know heads in the country and they're in front of the senate i think or congress i don't remember which one but gabber did confirm

that we have the Puerto Rican voting machines, which I thought was an interesting back and forth. I might be able to find the actual video here. Hold for a second. Yeah, I think this is it. It's about a minute long. Okay. Director, the ODNI has confirmed on the record that your office took custody of voting machines from Puerto Rico last May. Hold on, real quick, before we even do this,

Cancon says, Gabbard just acknowledged we have 2024 machines from Puerto Rico. If we stopped voting, we wouldn't have those. Okay. So with that in mind, listen to what she actually says here. I'm not aware of any previous DNI taking similar actions. Did your office promptly notify the committee about taking custody of Puerto Rico's voting machines? I don't believe we did. However, this was done at the request of the Puerto Rico.

AUSA attorney. It's a yes or no question. The answer as you have acknowledged is no, you did not inform the committee about the taking of a territory's voting machines. Is there a specific foreign threat? And I've read the reporting that you were looking for possible foreign threats, but is there a specific foreign threat that drove you to take this action? There were questions about whether or not there were vulnerabilities that a threat could

have taken advantage of and that was the purpose for they're requesting us to look into those vulnerabilities. Where are those voting machines now? I believe they are held in a secure facility at ODNI. Have you or other ODNI officials taken any other state or territories voting equipment into custody? Not to my knowledge. So I'm not sure how us voting affects us also having Puerto Rican voting machines. Can I'm confused.

I think he's suggesting that if no votes have been put into those machines, then they're reviewing it wouldn't yield the results that we would need. I don't think that we would be searching for results based on those things. But either way, we've had numerous elections where all of this can be and has been recorded. And the truth is that regardless of what happened in Puerto Rico's 2024 elections, they could be running this particular info op either way. Also, like, I have a very difficult time believing that this is like the first time the intelligence community or the military whoever is at access to a voting machine and like this is the first time they're reviewing vulnerabilities in the voting machines like give me a break there's no way i mean we have to like enter the story world and pretend it's real yeah but that's all this is is the story of like oh

we finally discovered all these massive vulnerabilities and the machines that trump has been talking about since 2020 but we only found them because we got porto rico's machine well we just got the from just the news the chinese story about connect right Um, yeah, Connick story. Connick, whatever it's called. Yeah. Um, so that was from the pit three and a half years ago. Yep.

Almost four. Yeah. I mean, three and a half. Yeah, whatever it is. That's an old story. And that's, uh, Greg Phillips on that. And then he had a front page story on CNN. Just like yesterday, they were trying to write a hit piece about him.

Um, and try to make people think he was crazy because he said something about teleporting one. Yeah. And he's a criminal. I don't know. But yeah, there's a lot of reruns in the election realm right now. We have we have that story, the Connick story. We also have, what was the other one, the one where USAID money that was sent to Ukraine was being funneled back to Joe Biden's campaign. That was a rerun. We also had the story of the intelligence community burying election shenanigans by the CCP or whoever by China, Russia, because they, They didn't want to help Trump. That was a rerun. Lots of those going around. I think we talked about that Wednesday. And, you know, my speculation, if I had to would be that they do this when they know that there's a bigger story coming. And they want to, like, lay the narrative groundwork again.

So everybody's, like, caught up and read it on the story. Like, don't forget all these things. And here's the big boom that's coming. That's why they do the reruns. Yeah. And I've made that case myself and I totally get it. I understand. I want that to be true.

but one thing that we do know is they're telling us an old story as though it is a new story. And that is very, very weird. That's very hard to deal with because you know already you're dealing with one layer of obfuscation, dishonesty, however you want to frame it in your mind. It's not the straight up direct truth. And when you're talking about this issue now, five and a half years later, and you're still not able to deliver the straight up direct truth to people, I don't care who's disseminating that op at this point.

That's just not true. And we need to deal with that because if we are getting info opt into correcting the election system and we're just going to keep on going, well, somebody's got to tell me when the story part ends, right? Unless we want to be just guide our lives by this great story that is told to us all the time, except the story's not that great. And we can see that the results of believing that story and devoting our lives to the following of that story is an ultra materialist culture where everyone is totally atomized and spiritually dead. And so I don't know if that's really the way we want to go. You know, if we're going to guide our lives by stories, there are certainly better stories than the American political soap opera to by which we should guide our lives.

well they took away the uh the sunday night soap opera because bachelorette got canceled i don't if you saw that i had no clue that bachelorette was still a thing yeah apparently still thing i didn't know either but there was those big story this week is are you watching bachelorette scouts honor i don't watch bachelorette but it was a big story this week that the whoever the lady was was like like a domestic abuser or something like she got a huge fight and it was like her boyfriend and recorded it and they like leaked out this week and so they canceled the whole thing so i just thought was funny um but no back to the election stuff you know with the save act it's being voted on now they started voting on it this week or started the process and it's not going to pass and so what does

that do for the midterms because everybody has you know built this save act thing up is like if we don't pass the save act our elections are going to be fraudulent like we need the save act to save this country It is the most important thing ever. That's how everybody's talked about it. And I think, you know, the Republicans part of the Uniparty, they wanted to pass this. And the Unip Party in general wanted the Save Act. They're not going to get it. But now that if that doesn't happen, where does that leave everybody when Trump and all these people told you that you need this?

Otherwise, we don't have a country. But now we don't have it. But please go vote. Like, where are we at with that? Yeah. Well, the first thing is if Trump didn't want Save Act to pass because he knows that the, the, Congress and the Senate are illegitimate and that the legislation wouldn't do anything to actually make our elections real. Well, he has two choices. Don't support it and then get blamed for not supporting it or support the shit out of it and make it impossible for them to pass it and watch these people spin themselves out.

So if it doesn't work, well, this has been a massive national PR campaign for the fact that our elections are enormously problematic. And now, again, I would just ask people to consider knowing that this is a congressional election for that is not going to be a real election, by the way, because we don't have real elections. None of these people you really care about being there. They're not doing anything for Trump now. They're not going to do anything for Trump in the future. What would be bad about simply canceling them until our election system is, for Trump? dutable to confer legitimacy. That seems like just such an obvious thing.

And the truth is that every bit of government should have been canceled since, you could either say November 3rd, 2020, or January 20th, 2021, whichever one of these dates would be the official date on that. December 7th. That should have been the end of the American government operating, period, until that situation gets settled.

And the situation is still not settled. There's like still ongoing issues. from back then and we just keep going on and allowing the system to rule us even though it has no legitimacy and everybody knows it and it's still under contest and he's come back around and told us the elections are still fake just cancel them like are we going to miss having an election from still going to be there it's not like if we don't have an election trump disappears i know some people miss them we don't need the house we don't need the senate we already don't have them in some important sense so like just let it go

And then when this if the system actually wants to present present us with an option of an election system that can actually confer legitimacy, well, by all means, presented to us. Like we're reasonable people. We still want to have a country, you know, but we're not going to like continue living under this ridiculous delusion that we are influencing these events in ways we clearly aren't. if that's our birthright, give us the damn birthright, and go us a system that allows that to be realized, and then we can have that discussion. You know, maybe we should start the movement to cancel the midterms. You know, it's funny. I should cancel the midterms.

I'm totally down with that. But Esther, as I was talking about in my chat, in my chat, a person who sends me a lot of interesting stuff, kind of like, I don't know, figured out my wavelength or something, or maybe she's just a super advanced AI. Yeah. Could be. Who knows? Well, she is a wonderful person who might be a pot. What a wonderful person. So she sent me, she had put the clip of me talking about canceling elections on Badlands Daily. She had put it through an AI to like transcribe and caption it and anthropic like rejected it.

Why? You're like definitely not allowed to talk about that. Apparently that is the the no-go. in the midterms apparently canceling elections is the no go zone by the way and people are going to be like you can't do that prop is the one who suggested it yeah he did that's true and ukraine hasn't had an election in a coon's age like i know and everybody loves that everybody loves ukraine too so silly not everybody would yeah yeah man we're we got to do it we should we should be the ones that emanate this and so start this even though it's kind of already started but give Trump that like thing to latch on to you know because sometimes he'll start the narrative himself but he does that to get other people to like start you know and then he can get on there and draft with it so let's let's be the ones that do it well you know the funny thing is just the fact that we are um talking about the problems with our elections in direct and honest ways as we have been for many years now by the way and and everybody else is super obsessed with winning the midterms for some reason. First of all, they're still seven and a half months away.

Like, everybody can choose to go out and vote and who they're going to vote for the day of the election. We don't need to commit to doing anything right now. It's like people don't want leverage. They want leverage in like the social media environment and the attention economy online. That's where they want to. leverage. They don't want the leverage actually with the people so that the people could demand a legitimate, an election system that could confer legitimacy. And I mean, of course, then once we talk about that, then we get to the Jonathan Drake of it all. But it's weird that people don't

want leverage. Maybe people just don't know how to gain leverage in negotiations, but the ability to walk away and the willingness to walk away from the negotiation and people like, yeah, well, we're going to be fine. We'll just, we'll just take. take it. You guys can do whatever you want to do. We're not going to participate. That is serious leverage if the other side needs a deal and the other side does need a deal. Yeah, but I think a lot of that comes down to people not recognizing their own power. It's almost like they think and believe they have power, but they believe that power is by voting. And it's really the other way around. But there's one more topic I wanted to get into tonight. Did you see Trump's AI legislate? framework? I don't think that I did, no. Yeah, the White House put out, and if there's anything else on that topic you want to go

through, we can. We've talked that to death and we're only going to continue talking about as we go forward. But I thought this is funny because it has to do with government and Congress. Trump put out this whole AI framework, protecting children and empowering parents, safeguarding and strengthening American communities, respecting intellectual property rights, preventing censorship and protecting free speech, laughable, enabling innovation and ensuring a American AI dominance, educating Americans in developing an AI ready workforce. By the way, the free speech and preventing censorship when Anthropic just censored your video from being run through AI.

That's hysterical. What's great about this is every single one of these, like they put out this framework and they all rely on Congress to do any of it. We're calling on Congress. We're calling on Congress. We're proposing that Congress does this. were proposing guardrails calling on congress well this would be encouraging congress this would be the right way to go about that if congress was legitimate and this was the sort of issue that could be effectively legislated they should not be allowed to do anything regarding yeah i mean the

idea that the federal government gets to do this at all is crazy yeah the federal government it even says in here is uniquely positioned to set a consistent national policy that enables us to to win the AI race and deliver its benefits to the American people while effectively addressing the policy challenges that accompany this transformative technology. I look forward to working with Congress in the coming months to turn this framework into legislation,

which is funny because he also said he wasn't gonna sign a single bill unless they pass a Save Act. So if they don't pass the Save Act, how are they gonna work with Congress to do anything? Did you see the other day when he was like, Congress must pass the Farm Bill, now and i i wrote back i was like uh pardon me sir but didn't you say that you wouldn't that nothing could get passed before the save act and then like two minutes later he's like

congress must pass the save that's that's so funny i talked about that in my show he's like he forgot about how important to save act yeah yeah yeah i didn't realize the farm bill was a thing so funny anyway man uh how do you feel about uh yeah let's do it going through some rants and boosts is there anything else that we missed that we missed we should have talked about. If there is guys, leave us a rant and we'll discuss it. Did I get real quick, I'm going to do our Gart promo one more time. We have a bigger audience right now than when I played it before. I just really want you guys to get your

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AI is accelerating people's disbelief. There we go. Love that. And 1027.js, Joe, my fellow North Dakota, and says, hello guys for $20. Thank you, Joe. Appreciate Joe. Let's do some rants here.

We've got quite a few of them. Ty, I think I read this earlier, but I'll read it again. Three weeks from tonight is one of the coolest things about in-person Gart, the DPH Live. Gart fever is real. Also 17 days in a wake-up. We will be in Nashville. Got to be a calm.

Definitely a calm. And I will say the DPH live is a lot of fun. Me, Chris. Burning Bright, unfortunately for that last one. All in the same stage hanging out. It's a good time. Flying Storm says you want to see the world trip out.

American flag planted on Iran. Re. Does that happen yet? Wait, what's that? American flag? Yeah. Who knows? When it does happen, it will probably also be fake.

I think we'll get an American flight planted on Iran before we get one planted on Mars? Yes. Okay. Good answer. But zero percent for both of them. Old School 69. ironic how Elon volunteers to pay air traffic controller's salaries after he shuts down the free version of GROC AI video, generation a few days earlier, to quill public outcry of his grave.

read. Interesting. Isn't he the guy? We were talking about this last night on Onlylands. He's like, yeah, eventually there's just going to be robots doing everything, always, everywhere. And we're just going to give everybody enough money to be super incredibly rich. And you guys don't have to anything. He has said things like that before, yes.

Just starting that early. Flying Storm, why can't C-35s fly over Iran and AirDrop Iran's citizens' rifles to fight for their freedom? Pallets of guns. Well, I suppose they could, but I'm not sure that there are any number of Iran citizens who actually want to go do that. I mean, I'm not sure where the notion comes from that there's this massive overwhelming majority of people who are being oppressed by this brutal regime. Like, they have coffee shops there. Well, Benny Johnson on Twitter said that the people are celebrating the streets, Chris. Yes, I know.

maybe that maybe they're celebrating here yeah i don't remember maybe we should drop guns to them instead old school 69 chris you and bbb should review the 1953 movie martin luther about reformation on story hour such a contrast between luther fight for faith against corruption and trump's fight of freedom and sovereignty well i will look it up there you go didn't you guys do uh the killer once is that the uh the why can't i think of his name he's one of my favorite actors is that michael fast yeah yeah that movie is amazing it's great we just watched it like i think it was yesterday we just watched it super good everything about that's like one of my favorite movies i think it's super good um the boom digity says a little extra info on what bescent

meant when he was talking about russian oil tankers thank you for the fifty dollars by the the way. For that, I will pull up what you sent over. This U.S. temporary lifts sanctions on Russian oil tankers. Besant stated, according to a license issued by the United States Department of the Treasury, foreign countries are allowed to purchase Russian oil that was loaded onto tankers before March 12th and is currently at sea. This limited short-term measure applies only to oil that is already in transit and will not provide significant financial benefit to the Russian government. The temporary authorization will remain in effect until April 11th unless it's extended. According to the minister, the administration of Donald Trump took the step to

maintain stability in global energy markets, keep fuel prices low, and counter threats of Iran. Let's see how it wouldn't bring significant revenue to Russia. Is that, so is that that that's not the same though as the Iranian thing, right? I think they did that too. Yeah, I think there are there two things, I think is the question. I guess I'm not sure. Yeah, I'm going to have to go back into that. Yeah, me too.

But thank you for the rant, boom, digity. Dules Patriot says 139 people were just, we're subpoenaed with Comey, Pace Rock, Gov shows 700,000 sealed and diamonds. Did you see this letter signed by Trump? And I pulled this up, and I don't know if there's any way to validate it because I could literally type up anything I wanted, slap Donald Trump signature at the end of it and call it real. Yeah, you could even write a birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein and make his signature like pubic hair.

Yeah. Oh, if I was going to do that, I'd probably like outline a shape of a woman's body on there. Yes, yeah, that's a good idea. I bet Epstein would love that. Yeah, some poetry maybe. It'd be real cool. Yeah, I'll look into that, though. Thank you for sending it over.

Jules Patriot. Flying Storm says, what is this one? And then I tried to open this earlier and I could not get it to open. Kept giving me this screen here. So I don't know what to do with that, but I will keep trying after the show. Jules Patriot, it had 900,000 and there's been over 100,000 CEOs worldwide resign and disappear. And that number seems a little high.

Ice can also work in the airports, customs Elon offered to pay TSA Dems. Said no it's illegal 90,000 passed through airports today Sleep State, deep state actor Robert Mueller as FBI director during and after 9-11 helped cover up the crime lots of innocent people got hurt back then Trump was too nice in his post Could be thank you sleep say tamarack flats gave five dollars of Bitcoin Appreciate it tamarack are you guys going to be in Nashville looking forward to seeing you guys there so I hope you are J Drake 83 tune in to no trees tomorrow for discussion of majority rule, just the de facto way our system operates and

compatible with liberty. And he also says, Jay, um, they gave Biden 81 million votes in 2020. He can't outvote that. And they actually like arrange where those votes appear specifically to achieve the results that they select for the down ballot races as well. Yep. Line storm, remove your damn creator sponsor cell phone. but it's sad not many of you watch why we vote tick and said he pulled first day of voter primary austin caught the cheat that's why you vote i did watch the show though i was just saying his answer specifically to ash was not very good one yeah everybody should go watch that show uh real pup stuff says why don't we skip the middleman and the people vote yay or nay for the save america act

i would vote nay yeah but if we could do that then we wouldn't need to save America act or Congress. Yeah, but that's true. Yeah, if the people could successfully register their vote in a legitimate way, then that would be fine. And we've talked many times in the show, the data that they already have right now, the like amalgamated data of everybody, they have a pretty good idea of what people already want.

And then the unfortunate question becomes, are they already doing what all the people want? Like, are we already just run by the amalgamation of that data, like, as fed through AI, and those are just the decisions for everybody? And we think, well, no, that's not what we want. And we don't want AI to run the government. I mean, AI is, like, wrong all the time. And AI is also kind of a reflection of the people who use it. an input output thing, you know?

So now we just have this kind of circular feedback loop of wrongness and maybe it's our fault. Yeah. And by the way, so like I want to clarify if we had the ability to cut out the middleman and vote yea or nay for the Save America Act, I would vote no because if we had that ability, I would vote for all the actual changes that we need to our election system on top of just the voter ID. and there is a mountain of them. Flying Storm,

why we vote is by far the most important show on Badlands. I mean, I take that a little personally, considering how many shows I have on Badlands that are not why we vote, but whatever. I get it. It's a important show for some people, whatever.

But with that, guys, appreciate you tuning in. Hit that thumbs up. Again, tomorrow at 1 p.m. Eastern will be the America First Story Show, the debut episode with Mo Benson from Benson,

from Benson Honey Farms. And then right after that, We'll do a little bad gaming for premium subscribers. I think Zach will be doing it for sure. We'll see whether Badlanders can get on. And then otherwise, I'll be back Monday with Daily Herald. And Chris, he'll be back Tuesday. Tuesday night with Badland Story Hour.

And we are doing three days of the condor. Awesome. Yeah. Awesome. Well, we're going to get out of here with a pretty killer video. It's not AI, though. Complete player. Actually, I'd revise that.

If we're being honest, he's a weapon. You know, when everyone first sees him play, they say, wow, he's lethal on the fast break. And they're not wrong. He's fearless. He respects senior citizens, and he's got an attitude that screams USA. Off the court, he's a model citizen. Loves drinking beer, not light beer, but beer with a capital B.

and after he cleared up those DUIs, that's when he really developed some long-range game. When you stop getting tanked all the time, you can really focus on the stuff that matters. Like draining long-range buckets, impressing high-quality women with big hearts, and living life for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And that's exactly what J.D. did.