Badlands Media - Devolution Power Hour Ep. 454: WHCA Fallout, ESG Dormant, Trump's Reverse Psychology

Episode Date: May 3, 2026

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open with a week-later review of the WHCA Dinner shooting, including new video, conflicting stories between the DOJ, Secret Service, and the DC US Attorney, and a federal judge privately admonishing prosecutors for grandstanding in a session that somehow ended up on CNN anyway. From there the show covers the coordinated Ron DeSantis media rehabilitation push and what it signals about the 2028 positioning race. Then comes a sharp breakdown of the revelation that the NSA and Cyber Command's election security group has not been activated heading into the 2026 midterms, which the guys connect to Jon's Devolution Part 9 research and the broader question of whether the midterms are even going to happen. Trump's True Social posts on the filibuster, cognitive exams and "three terms," and the UNO wildcards card get analyzed as potential DevoComms. The show closes on a substantive conversation about Tucker Carlson's antichrist comments, Trump's weaponized reverse psychology communication strategy, and the dead Internet theory and how manufactured online engagement shapes reality.

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Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the Saturday edition of the Devolution Power Hour. As always, I'm joined by Chris. Chris, how are you doing, man? I am doing great, John. Man, that was really enthusiastic. Yeah, I wanted to sound like a sports reporter. I'm not doing great about sports, but you are, so that's cool.

Yeah, really cool. I mean, you and BV both had your teams lose out. Yes. And mine's still going. So I feel like you guys are obligated to cheer for the Minnesota wild now. I will do that, yeah. Especially because I playing Colorado. that's Asht's team.

Oh, that's pretty rough. Colorado's so good, man. But dude, the Wilder's so good, too. Yes, they are very good. And they're a very good team, but, man, the Avalanche is just a little bit. I know. We'll see. I think it'll be good.

They split the regular season series two to two, I'm pretty sure. I'm feeling weird about it because now after this first series against Dallas, a lot of, like, the sports people I follow on Twitter are now all on the Minnesota Wild Bandwagon. Like, man, I think the Wild are going to win this one. I think they're going to win this one. I think they're going to win this one. Don't do that. That's not.

I want you to go the other way. But whatever. You're worried about getting jinxed? Kind of. I'm a little superstitious. But anyway, yeah, tonight should be fun. You made the suggestion. I think it's a good idea to start off the show talking about what happened a week ago,

because last week's show was mostly focused on the shooting attempt, we're told. And we have some new footage, some legit footage, not footage of, footage that comes in super grainy so yeah I think it'd be a good place to start is reviewing that um seeing where we're at now and then uh we have a whole bunch of other topics we have ronda santis back in the news we have election narratives we have some trump truth social posts which are really cool uh spirit airlines taking cuba back Tucker carlson I mean man we're all over the map but lots of lots of fun stuff I think to talk about there is a lot of fun stuff in the last few days worth talking about yeah yeah yeah so how about this let's get a quick word from our sponsors

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Start with the clearest video yet of what happened at the White House correspondence dinner just last week. Crazy. It's been one whole week. Yeah. Once this happened. As you can see, that's him going into the room and the dog's like on him. Yeah. Well, but wait a second.

I am, I saw a video kind of breaking some of this stuff down that said that's actually not a room. That is kind of a doorway that goes into the main elevator area. Okay. So it's not like it's a storage closet or anything like that. Yeah, but you would think like this guy's job, we don't know if he's a drug sniffing dog or what he is, but the guy who has him, like if the dog that's there for police reasons,

keys in on somebody, you'd probably want to be a little suspicious of that person, right? Oh, yeah, especially if he's holding a shotgun. Yeah, but anyway, that's not what happens. The guy like yanks the dog away.

It's like, yeah, let's go. also weird to me why the president's in the building he's in the room sitting like just got there why are they taking down the security stuff well i guess if you are closing just from having worked many events in the past when everybody when all the arrivals are done and no one else is going to be let in to the venue well then you can start taking apart all the stuff that like the apparatus for the people arriving. So I think that that's probably what's happening there. And considering how the event had already started, I think that that's probably the reason for that. That part makes sense. Yeah. Okay. They just weren't going to let anybody in.

That is what I assume. Unless they were a full sprint with shotgun. Yes. Okay. So he pulls a dog away and like a second later, he bolts. Yeah. And that's like the shotgun in his hands. He runs right through the doorway. shoots at the guy down at the bottom right that's what we're told yeah and it looks like he's a few shots off too man what a blur he's so fast it's drunk last week posting the video immediately what could be funnier than that and then seeing this video like six days later yeah also um trump multiple times i think we had commented about the nfl draft and how fast this guy was yes The Jennings Dunker character, we showed the Jennings Dunker with his awesome ginger mullet and run.

Yeah. Super funny. But yeah, so he goes full sprint. I also want to show you one character that appears out of the doorway. There's a Halo right there. I used to do that. Yeah, you would just, you would camp out in a doorway. And then when people pop up on radar, you would pop out of the doorway and crush them.

Go get them. Me, my buddies used to play Capture the Flag on Halo quite a bit. That was always fun. It was pretty awesome. I had those lawn parties four on four. So you had eight people in one house playing Call of Duty with each other. Yeah, that's fine.

Notice at the top here, can you see my mouse on this? Yes. That lady. I'm pretty sure that's the Butler lady. Watch her come in. I think that's her. You remember, know what I'm talking about?

Yeah, of course, yeah. And I did see people posting pictures of her being there. Yeah, I don't know about, about this whole cool Thomas Allen thing. Let me show you one more thing. And this is why when I hit you up and I was like, maybe we should talk about this because, of course, we talked about many of the problems with what we were shown last week

and the initial analysis on what we were shown. And then some of the kind of epistemological concerns and processes that you go through when analyzing something like that. And then we started the week off. And all anybody could talk about, what was it, Sunday and Monday, maybe on Tuesday, was whether or not the event, whatever it was, was staged. Yeah. And then how bad people were for suggesting it might be staged.

Now, I'll tell you, a few years ago, we would never hear a conversation like this about whether or not it was staged. That conversation would be censored and pushed out of the mainstream. Yeah. That conversation is very much in the mainstream now. So anybody who's still trying to prevent the boat from drowning on the you can't say it's not fake or sinking, I should say on the you can't say it's not fake thing. I think it's probably time to give that up. These are the conversations we're going to be having now. And it's a thing that we're having these conversations.

100%. And then systems of power begin telling us how we are supposed to react to that thing or how they might change our lives in response to that thing. It is just a bare minimum level of responsibility that suggests we take some time and analyze what it is we're seeing and whether or not the suggested response is the right one. So I think all that stuff is super positive. Yeah, I would agree with that too. And I do think it was interesting last week when this happened, we were just having conversations about the Butler assassination finally being questioned. And originally my thought was, oh, well, now here comes this. We're not going to be allowed to question any of this stuff again.

But if anything, ever since this happened, I feel like I'm seeing more people online questioning both of them. And yet, they could be real or whatever. To me, it doesn't come down to what's real, what's fake, whether a stage or not, it's the siops that come out of it. But I think you're right with what you said there about just being allowed to have the conversations is so important because that's something they don't even want us doing. Yes. And not only just that it's allowed now, it's that and I mean allowed kind of in a more technical sense with the censorship algorithms and the rest of it. It's socially acceptable now because everybody is realizing that something is seriously wrong with how we get our information and the things that we are being shown. and they're no longer content to simply defend their side's position on the reality of kind of these underlying stories. So that is the most important part, I think.

Beyond the censorship, it is just now we are asking questions about these things that we don't realize dictate our lives, but do. We have to be questioning these things. And the answer one way or another is less important than the fact that we are beginning to become discerning about. what it is we are shown and then remove all the social incentives from having to side with one or the other and you know the part of the discussion that i thought was really interesting in the pushback on all this from the people like matt walsh and stuff like we talked about last week is that the only ways that they are able to to push back on any of it is by trying to identify anyone who questions what they're saying like their kind of rules of the road and their like story of what happened.

The only way they push back is by calling those people leftists and like interesting talking about how they want more political assassinations and stuff. It's like immediately assumptions about the character of a person who would make the claim. It like it's hard to even call it ad hominem because they're not addressing any particular person They're trying to shape the perception of a claim based on being able to identify that claim with this kind of group that they are that they are designating as the sort of people who would say that. And so they have to put them in the enemy column, which for them always is the left. But they're on the left. Like we are so far right of the people at the daily wire.

They are they are status. They want a total state in control of all that. stuff and so you know that that that attack that it's leftist that's not going to work no it's retarded but it's also a lot of the same people that during the charlie kirk assassination were the ones that were going after the people who like said mean things about charlie kirk afterwards or celebrated his death or whatever like it's all those people that that was its own little controlled opposition dynamic but there's this this clear like clear formation of people who wouldn't allow you to question anything about it they still have been that way and now that the same people doing the

thinking about this particular assassination attempt. And speaking of the Daily Wire, did you see they allegedly fired like half their people? Yeah, I think that that's so interesting. Like in October of 2022, I remember this specifically. Jason Whitlock said something, and Jason Whitlock, I find entertaining, like, from a sports perspective. And he just seems like, you know, a normie, but a very, like, very down-to-earth cool normie. He had said something about Ben Shapiro and how important he was or whatever. And I left in the comments that Ben Shapiro is like almost toast.

Like this guy is declining rapidly. And I remember how much shit I got in the comments of that post. And like a year later, it was basically the beginning of the end for Ben Shapiro with the paragliding go card incident. Yeah. I mean, they're always going to have their audience. you know like they're always going to have people watching them you think but maybe not I don't know if it drops 85% now who knows if those numbers are real but yeah an 85% drop

indicates that people are checking out now I get why they might check out with us because we're annoying and crazy but uh if you're checking out with normie ben in the middle man yeah that is a little nuts I don't know I've when people check out with us I feel like they eventually not all but they come back I've seen a lot of familiar faces returning to some of the chats later which is been cool and I'm sure they'll leave again and but they'll they'll find the way back and once they realize we're right it's usually on the hills of a of a Trump true social post or something which we got a few of those we got to get to this week too but

weren't you gonna show something a video or oh there was this this CNN article so I just thought some of these quotes were hilarious this is CNN from I guess this evening. Exclusive judge privately admonishes prosecutors for grandstanding at hearing for press dinner gunman. Okay. So see an exclusive on this and this apparently is supposed to be the judge, although this might also just be like a halfway finished one of those caricatures. you might get down on the boardwalk. I mean, what is her at the fair?

What is this? It's UFO disclosure. We got a first alien picture. All right. So highlights here for people reading along. I mean, this is just pretty amazing. A federal judge privately admonished prosecutors for attempting to grandstand. So an assassination of the president and the prosecutors are already in court five days later.

and attempting to grandstand okay so this is the detention hearing for cole thomas allen and this is according to a transcript obtained by cnn of a private like what it says a federal judge privately did it so yes how is it private if we're getting a transcript out i guess well couldn't have been that private maybe it was leaked out i have no idea maybe they published transcripts but i guess i guess it sort of makes sense if the court session was private close the public so she says the judge's name by the way is moxzilla upadah up up at yaya or maybe mohila moxilla uh i don't know moxilla yeah no firefox uh i don't know what's going on here i know that you want to present your case i guess to some audience other than the court oh you mean like

the at-home television audience. So this is what she told to the prosecutors, out of the ears, out of earshot of public and press. And she says, I don't want this to turn into a circus. Well, lady, too late. So the comments highlighted dynamic that has arisen in the day since Cole Allen was taken into custody, with Trump administration officials aggressively describing

their theory of the alleged attempted assassination of the president in news, interviews and unsolicited court filings. Several times DC U.S. attorney Janine Piro and others in television interviews have gone much further and given more definitive descriptions of the shooting than the detail that's been presented in court from the FBI and the Justice Department line prosecutors. So administration officials and U.S. attorney Janine Piro, at D.C. U.S. attorney, And by the way, there should be no D.C. district court and there should be no federal city. So that job is already bullshit.

But they're telling a different story than FBI and DOJ. And I'll pause and then we can kind of go through some of the- Can you scroll up to her drawing again? Sure. It could be Jenny and Piro right there. Okay. No, you need to send me this link because I want to do a side by side of what she actually looks like, No, Zillof Firefox and her because it's-

Did you look it up? I did. That's so great. Here you go. I'm sending it to you in the stream yard. And it's not a very great depiction. Not very friendly, I would say. I did a few years ago when Trump was on trial. I was having AI render courtroom drawings of Trump. That's awesome.

Let me see if we can find them. I might be able to. Can I share my screen? Okay, ready? Yeah. I mean, now that it's side by side, it actually doesn't look that far off. It could be worse. Yeah. What the hell?

Well, anyway, that's up at yaha, yeah, yeah, yeah, or whatever. Okay, we can go back to your screen. Okay, so. Okay, but it's interesting. So we're getting two different stories, the public one, and then she's like mad because I don't know who you're talking to here. It's almost like the Truman show when the ladies like trying to sell the the coffee beans or whatever. It's like, who are you talking to? You know, that's like the judge.

That's what I picture. Yeah. I mean, are they creating a television show and the judge isn't aware that her court is being used to officialize this story? I don't know. I wonder who appointed her. Let me continue here though while you're looking that up. Secret Service director, Sean Kern on Thursday. said Alan shot an officer at point blank range.

So that's what we saw. Piro said on Fox News Thursday, he fired at the Secret Service officer, which I guess means not hit. Court filings describing the events have been less definitive. So three different versions, at least, no one knows.

And then we got stories throughout the week, multiple times in press conferences and some consistent consistent discussion in some of the news shows about how it definitely wasn't friendly fire, which only makes it sound when they tell us, when they tell us that something didn't happen and we hear that before we've even heard the claim that it did. I always think, oh, they knew that claim was coming and so they cut it off. That's just me being crazy. Okay, so this lady, I'm just looking at more on this judge.

she's from India she uh I mean you probably could get a guess that based on the name she is a magistrate judge and she was appointed by majority vote of the active district judges of the court which is weird to me like judges electing other judges

but also this is the lady who when Trump was the charged for the January 6th stuff and the election stuff the interference of 2020 election the case was inevitably assigned to Tanya Chutkin, but, but the arraignment that he had when he actually went to the courtroom, that was this lady, this up at yahya. And at the hearing, she up at yada warned Trump against influencing witnesses through direct discussion or intimidation.

So it doesn't seem very, I don't know, probably anti-Trump, I would say. So maybe that's why she's like saying all this stuff. Well, yeah, it could be. I mean, it could be that people from the Trump side of things, or at least that she perceives to be from the Trump side of things, are trying to make this into a television clown show. And it seems to be that's what it is. So if I was a judge wanting to be taken seriously because I had always presented myself as a serious judge, even though I was presiding over other clown shows that weren't televised, created by the sorts of people who appointed me, well, this is like a reality. reversal of that, I would say. That's how I look at this stuff. Interesting. Okay.

Okay, so prosecutors were prepared in court to show new video and photos they had of the shooting, Allen's weapons, and of the hotel crime scene. Up at Yaya stopped them from doing this in court. The prosecutor, this is Ballanty, responded, we're five days into this investigation. As soon as we have finalized reports and discovery, meaning evidence, that the defense team can review, that we're in a position to be able to accurately provide to counsel. We will be doing that. We take our discovery obligation seriously, so they haven't given the defense discovery yet. Valentine then says the U.S. Attorney's Office wasn't ready to discuss an open court the documents they have so far from the investigation. Following the hearing,

the U.S. Attorney's Office put into the court record and posted on social media the videos and photos they had prepared so the story all of the evidence in this story is coming from their side of things yeah and they are changing the public narrative and you know people can have their own judgments about exactly what it is we are witnessing here but it's getting weird i would argue it's always been weird chris i would also argue that yeah i mean this will be a fun one we also have uh what's the the Charlie Kirk assassination, that trial's getting weird. It almost seems to be that most people, they don't even care about what actually happens in the trial part of it.

It's more what they can, what story they can tell the public while the trial stuff goes on. Yes. Well, I mean, I also don't believe the trials are real, just like I didn't believe Trump's trials were real because I didn't believe his indictments were real. The Alex Jones trial a couple of years ago didn't seem all that real. Tal-written House trial didn't seem all that real.

Derek Chauvin trial didn't seem all that real. Alex Jones finally had to shut his doors, we're told, only to like restart that same day with the same number of following and viewers and everything. Like, oh, that shit's so fake. Yeah. Yeah, now it's the Alex Jones network. They're not info wars anymore. No. I guess that means the info war is over.

Yeah, I wish. That'd be nice, wouldn't it? The info war never ends. It also never begins. And it's always gay. Always gay. We, do you have anything else on this you want to talk about? Yeah.

Okay. Um, I did think it was interesting though, like how this played into the Comey indictment this week, which a lot of people got super mad at me for not taking that super seriously. You know, the whole eight six four seven Instagram post. I had stated like, you know, of all the ways and reasons that we should be seeing James Comey behind bars, you know, it'd be this is the, the weakest in gas. I think that's the word I use because it is like it's. anyway people did not like that um but here he is i think in the wake of this shooting and them

bringing charges now like a year and a half later right in the like aftermath of that i think is interesting which i also think that is a uh a weird trial we talked about this a little bit Wednesday i think me and burning bright but the the whole of defense that he's using about the political persecution and then the very next day we get another story um of them going after Comey potentially for here we go for the leaking stuff do you remember that back when

gosh it might have been like six months ago maybe even maybe even more when the story came out they declassified documents John Durham was the one who was put in charge of the leak investigation into Comey and he decided not to bring charges against him his attorney or and then like James Baker I think was he the other one no I Baker I don't know about oh shoot what's that guy's name I have a Twitter posted photo find it but so now we're going to have potentially three separate indictments of of Comey if they

follow through on this one it's just getting weird but I love this one this one I think he is guilty of and this one I would absolutely love to see him go to prison for but anyway the timing of the assassination attempt in his 8647 indictment I thought was interesting this week I saw that gate I didn't even bother reading the story but gateway funded earlier published a story saying that 86 some graffiti person had put 86 47 at the bottom of trump's new reflecting pool just gonna just gonna just gonna go trash everything what man i don't i don't know i mean it's all this stuff is bullshit so it is all bullshit but um now that i have that pulled up i did go look up my twitter post i don't know why my browser's being so slow every time i open the new tab it like freezes for a

couple minutes. Okay, this is the post I had back in August of 25 about the Durham investigations, the leak he didn't do anything with it. But his investigation revealed that James Baker leaked it with the instruction and authorization of James Comey. And he recommended no prosecution of Baker or anyone else. I'm pretty sure that's the same James Baker, as Rokhan Watnik just posted this. Same guy who allegedly laundered payments to to Stephen Halper as part of the illegal operation to spy on and take down President Trump. Interesting choice. And he's the, he's getting a, what is it, a head of a think tank, anthropic strategist in residence.

Super weird. But same James Baker. And as her Cohen just posted this today. So that's interesting timing for those two stories to kind of be converging. I just realize that now. The anthropic thing with the defense department is so weird. And that is a defense industry publication. The defense war.

Yeah. Yeah, here I'll read a little bit from this. United States is a tight window to adapt to the civilizational challenge of AI, according to a former senior Pentagon thinker who's joining Anthropic as a strategist in residence. James Baker led the Defense Department's Office of Net Assessment, often referred to as Pentagon Think Tank from 2015 to 2025. It was temporary closed by the Trump of Minutes. administration at Anthropic, the AI company now amid a six-month withdrawal from federal service.

As ordered by President Trump, Baker will lead. Baker will to lead analysis of how AI is affecting U.S. institutions and competition with China. Yeah, that's interesting. Is that the same James Baker? It doesn't seem like it would be. But it would have to be, wouldn't it? There are so many James Bakers going all the way back to the, I think it was the 80s or maybe the 90s in Reagan and Bush. years. It's now confused. I think that might be a different James Baker. There are two James

Baker's in the Russiagate scandal. Is that true? Well, okay, let's see. I haven't paid attention to this stuff in so long, the Russia gate stuff. Is this guy the same as this guy? Hmm. A balder version? Is that possible? Could be a few years apart. Let's see again. Camera one, camera two. I don't think those are the same guys. The earlobes don't look the same. Well, have you heard about plastic surgery, John? Yes, I have. By the way, defense one, I thought this was the defense industry publication,

but I may be stating that incorrectly, and I do not want to do that. I'm not entirely, I don't remember what I had seen last time, but I want to nail this down a little better. It's part of the X-Gov, I don't know. I'm trying to just trying to figure out if this is the same, guy. Well, is there, I was going to say, should we ask the machine? We could.

Government service, he was the, Baker's office for Congress defending the Patriot Act. He was promoted to deputy council for intelligence operations. From 2001, he served as acting council. in 2002 he was appointed counsel in 2014 he was appointed general counsel of the FBI as of December 2017 newly appointed Christopher Ray reassigned him from his role and then in 2018 he resigned that doesn't sound like the same as this guy who was with the Department of Defense's office in that assessment that can't be the same guy but that means there's two separate James

bakers in the Rushgate hoax which is nuts about defense one by the way the guy who owns its like umbrella company also owned the atlantic from 2000 until it was sold to lorraine powell jobs in 2017 what was the name the name of the man is david g bradley but the company is called atlain Atlantic media. So he owned the Atlantic and then sold majority ownership to Steve Jobs' widow. And so now Defense One is owned by Steve Jobs' widow? No, I think Defense One is still there, just the Atlantic. Oh, just the Atlantic. Okay. Gotcha. Yeah, Defense One is, I don't know, they have some interesting story sometimes. I was hoping to see if they had the, the Dolphins.

kamikaze dolphins or whatever do you see that story this week i did and then i saw i guess like mike bens was pointing out that in every war there are claims of weaponized dolphins really yeah i don't remember where i saw it so maybe there there's this guy that i follow on truth social who posts like all sorts of twitter posts throughout the day so i think maybe i saw it there oh well i guess i've never never seen that claim before but anyway interesting nonetheless um anything else on that's well you have seen sharks with fricking lasers attached to their freaking heads yeah so are we trying to say that that was a documentary awesome i i wouldn't say it's not it might be um like a pre documentary i wonder if uh

there's a better word for that yeah just it documents a future that hasn't happened yet that's interesting i don't know sometimes i feel like it has happened yet well i mean it hasn't happened when it came out i mean think of when they go in the rocket chip and everybody's like looking at the giant penis in the sky yes and then we had the sky balloons or the spaceships ourselves like i don't know man disclosure uh anyway let's move on from that and maybe talk about other fake and gay things like Ron DeSantis getting super pushed lately. He's trying to bring those high heel boots back in style. But if you guys haven't noticed,

the last like six months, it's been kind of subtle. Like I haven't seen many major stories about Ron DeSantis other than like Trump would come out and talk about something or try to implement something. And then he gets met with a bunch of challenges from Congress or runs into all these stonewalls, whatever. but then DeSantis and Florida just executes it in a way

that Trump never could. He did this with the voting stuff and the redistricting now and it's just it was multiple different stories like that, the Dojanine. And now we have Ron DeSantis finds second act as key Trump ally. Will his third act be a 2028 run? He looks super depressed in that picture.

Yeah, that's not a great picture of Ron. And it's weird that they're doing so much to try to pump him up this week. Yeah. He really has had, I mean, there's a serious push by all the people that used to support DeSantis. And then you see all these people coming out of the woodwork who were kind of a little bit more on the edge back then supporting DeSantis who are really getting behind him. Like people you wouldn't expect to. I saw posts today from Robert Malone like pumping up Ron DeSantis and that guy Tom Luongo, just a bunch of people really getting behind DeSantis right.

now. They want him to either be the AG who takes the spot. I guess Todd Blanche is just in Trump, or they want him to be placed on the Supreme Court, or they wanted to be back in the running for presidents or vice president in 2028. And he's also getting a big push right now. And I'm sure that this is part of the reason for the PR campaign, but he is like staging some effort in Florida to regulate AI and you know that the system of control absolutely wants the public to demand regulation of AI. Yeah. Well, I mean, there's a whole list of stuff here that he's done. And if you read through all these, it's all Trump agenda stuff, immigration, sheriffs, detention centers in Florida, Department of Government Efficiency,

school vaccine stuff, how colleges pay student athletes. That's all Trump stuff. But anyway, you're right. There's this weird push for him, and they even say it in here. It's like his job is up in January. He needs to either, you know,

get a job in Trump's Washington or position himself for the Republican Party after Trump. And what I think is interesting, and this is what I kind of said to you before, like there's this weird push. And it's almost like, it's either him or probably, what J.D. Vance

are the, you know, the era parents to Trump. I would say J.D. Vance probably more so, but then over the last couple months, you know, maybe he's gotten knocked down a few pegs and maybe this is their opportunity to push Ron up. I would say that public perception-wise,

I don't think this is reality, but if you're looking at this, now would be the most opportune time for them to try to like siphon off some of the mega base because we're told that the the Trump's support is fracturing over this war and you have all the mega influencer wars and all that stuff now it would be the time to go in and

siphon up i don't think that's based on reality but it's not surprising to see them try to push desantis up again it was bound to happen no and while i agree with you that those are all trump priorities that you just listed those are also firmly within the conservative establishment priorities as well you know and i'll show you what that dynamic is can't And Khan and I talked about this yesterday. Did you see the Thomas Massey ad that he released this week? I did not. I just sent you the link in the stream yard chat.

This video I think is really kind of telling about this strategy. Okay. Let me pull this up here. So there's no sense in trying to avoid it. Let's just talk about the elephant in the room. I agree with President Trump. A whole lot more than I disagree with him. The list is long.

The Save America Act to require proof of citizenship to vote. Stopping immigrant welfare, fighting the woke agenda, defending the Second Amendment, protecting the life of the unborn, securing the border. I'm Thomas Massey and I approve this message because President Trump and I have a whole lot more to get done together. Walking with an elephant, that's super gay.

Weird. Weird. Weird vibes from that. Like they've been at each other's throats and all of a sudden he's, Like, does he think he can't win without Trump? Is that what this is? Well, maybe. But you notice that all of those issues as well were just boilerplate establishment

Republican issues that Trump is also on board with. But whose like agenda is that? That's the Republican establishment agenda. Just like Ron's stuff, that's the Republican establishment agenda. Now, Trump is the avatar in the face of that agenda right now as president. So when they support those things, they can say they're in line with Trump and they will be perceived as in line with Trump. But that's just the stuff they would have been doing anyway because a lot of these dynamics and a lot of the stories that we find ourselves discussing are things that were certainly scripted in the response to the great reset narrative. You know, these things have to work in controlled opposition the entire time.

You can't just push one side of everything. There has to be the pushback or it doesn't feel natural and people don't end up converging on in the place where they are needed. So do you think these are not like part of what Trump actually wants to accomplish? I think that they are part of what Trump wants to accomplish. But they are not the critical issues that Trump deals with. Like for instance, if in the 2020, midterms. All of these were issues. And they were these exact same points in that election. Those are all the same issues we were dealing with back then because the conservative establishment

knows they just need to push these things in opposition to whatever the left, the left, quote, unquote, is pushing. And just the difference alone is their sales pitch to the people. Hey, well, you could have that, so you're going to have this instead. What they didn't talk about in 2022 was the stolen election. What they didn't talk about is really the truth about COVID. They tried to create some separation between themselves and the Democrats over COVID, but a lot of it was Ukraine focused, just stuff that wasn't the real crux of the MAGA issue, which is the legitimacy of the government, all the corruption, any accountability for that. They don't pursue that stuff. They just pursue the same issues they've always pursued.

And that the fact that Trump also pursues those issues sometimes, then they say, oh, we're with Trump on all these things. We're just not going to focus on that other stuff because our voters don't want that. Yeah, that's a good point. And so Trump does, did have some great to post this. Did you see this one today? The crying and the filibuster and whatnot. So ironic that crying Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are hiring sleaze bags like Barron. Raku, San Obama's crooked former Attorney General Eric Holder and others of that ilk to look into

voter integrity when the same group of human garbage rigged the 2020 presidential election. Get tough Republicans. They're coming and they're coming fast. They're no good for our country. They're almost destroyed it and we don't want to let that happen again. These are highly dishonest people who are in many ways treasonous in that they are trying to destabilize the United States of America in what some would call a war, and I'm calling this a badlands boop, and I'll show you why in a second. Republicans must terminate the filibuster and approve all of the necessary safeguards we need for elections to protect the American public during the upcoming midterms, make America great

again, President Donald J. Trump. Now, the reason I call that a boop right here and what they are trying to destabilize the United States of America and what some would call a war, how many times have I played my favorite Trump clip where it says pretty much just that. Don't forget this persecution is being done by the same weaponized agencies that for seven years have been running illegal psychological warfare campaigns against the American people, much as if they were trying to destabilize a foreign country from the Russia. There go. And I agree. And also consider the context here. He's talking about Barack Obama and Eric Holder trying to prosecute the case of rigged elections against Trump,

as though Trump is the one who rigs them. And so that is what he is saying will be destabilizing. See, I haven't heard any stories of Eric Holder being hired to do anything. Yeah, I don't know. Let me see if I can find anything. Eric Holder. Terminating the filibuster is another interesting one. Brian and I talked about that yesterday as well.

They trumpet his speech the other day, said that John Thune was a good man and he was telling John Thune that he just wants to keep having votes because there are at least four Republicans who will not come along with anything he does and he wants to show them off to the American people. And then he went in talking about the filibuster. So one of my theories about what's going on with the illegitimate Congress and the Senate is that they are trying to legitimize them. themselves by claiming credit for a lot of the things that Trump has done without any of their help. And I pointed out the Rand Paul post the other day about the ballroom and how he wants to get the ballroom put together. It's like Trump already has that thing happening. It's literally being built already. Your work in Congress and the Senate doesn't have any bearing on that.

You could only potentially take credit for what he's done. And so if they wanted credit for all the things that Trump is doing, they could just kill the filibuster and pass the entire agenda through with majority votes, right? And they could claim full credit for all that stuff. But somehow they're not able to do it or they don't want to do it. And in either case, we are back into kind of Trump's territory. relative to the Republican Party. Yeah, I don't anticipate them ever and terminating the filibuster. I don't see it happening, but maybe I'm wrong.

I could be wrong. I still think something different is coming. And I think you're on to something with your canceling the midterms, which we can talk about here in a second. But I think this might be what he's referring to. It's the only stories I can find recently of both Obama and Eric Holder having anything to do with voter integrity efforts. and it's the Virginia redistricting stuff.

So I don't know. But there's another true social post that we had from Trump where I would say this is, you know, in a way, a boop to you, Chris. Because he gave props to what's his name from Louisiana, Jeff Clark or something? No, that's not his name. Jeff Landry, the governor.

Jeff Landry. Who was the Attorney General there? Yes. I was going to find it. right here the great governor of louisiana jeff landry sorry thank you to the great governor of louisiana jeff landry for his leadership on the very important calais case and for moving so quickly to fix the unconstitutionality of louisiana's congressional maps he has shown tremendous vision strength and leadership thank you jeff keep up the great work president donald j trump

and do you know what his tremendous vision strength and leadership is it is him can't canceling the primary elections because right now they would be rendered unconstitutional as they stand. Yes. And Trump is saying that's awesome. That is visionary. That is such strength in leadership by canceling the primary elections. Who to thunk it? Yeah, I don't know.

The funny thing about that decision is as well, those districts did not just become unconstitutional. That means that they were already unconstitutional. And we have been holding unconstitutional elections in those districts. districts and all of that should be resolved. All of this stuff by law must be resolved. And the fact that we don't even demand that it be resolved is the biggest problem as far as I'm concerned. I would agree with you.

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And for those who don't remember in my Devolution series, I think it was Devolution part nine. Double check that. Devolution. dot us go down to yeah part nine the military the second half of this article is all about general knock asoni and how we set up the election security group and how they were there to defend the midterms and it's all about like offensive cyber security capabilities and all these things super interesting um this article kind of goes into that but in a weird way for the first election cycle in years u.s military and intelligence officials have not yet activated

A specialized team dedicated to detecting and thwarting foreign threats to elections, according to comments from those agencies to Congress and CNN, alarming some lawmakers and former officials who have served on them. Failure to activate that the team would be a major national security mistake and I hope they will correct it in the weeks to come, said Senator Angus King. Is that guy a Democrat or Independent? It says right there. For every general and midterm election since 2020, the ESG has been a hub for a

from the National Security Agency, Cyber Command, and, yeah, NSA and Cyber Command, to share intelligence and launch counterattacks against trolls from Russia and Iran and elsewhere who are trying to undermine U.S. elections. They have an anti-troll operation, we are told. That's ridiculous. At this time in the election cycle, even months from Election Day,

the group is normally activated, staffed, and briefing Congress on its efforts. Former Cyber Command officials said, but the newly minted head of the NSA and Cyber Command indicated lawmakers this week that the group was still dormant heading into the 2026 midterms. That is strategic malpractice, says Jason Kickeda, who helped design the ESG. We're at war with Iran, which impersonated the proud boys to threaten American voters in 2020. How far will they try to go this time?

It's like he's, it's like he's just screaming out that the proud boys are feds. Well, and it's super funny because. Oh, hashtag not all proud boys. Okay. But it's super funny. This just like a week ago, two weeks ago, we had the SPLC story. And everybody's like, well, yeah, clearly they're funny. The proud boys.

And now they're just brought up again. It's just what timing. The bigger danger, though, is not what foreign actors do. That doesn't even matter, guys. But it's what Americans believe foreign actors did. Kikita told CNN, we are heading into the midterms, partially blind to foreign influence. and right after an attempted assassination of the president generated conspiracy theories almost immediately. It's as reckless as it is foolish.

It did not generate conspiracy theories. Well, maybe it generated conspiracy theories, but that's only because these things are conspiracies and also why would we react any differently. But, John, scroll back to that quote just for a second. Hold on. I've been forced to give a shout out to Tamarack Flats for sending in a five. dollar Bitcoin. Thank you, Tamara Fouts. I don't see a comment with it. But no, any, thanks. Thank you, Tamara. Good to see, man. Okay, which quote? The bigger danger is not what foreign actors do, but what Americans believe foreign actors did. So what they did is not important.

What Americans believe they did is what's important. And if you want Americans to believe that they did something well this is how you would normally go about that you would have to have a special group like this that could officialize the claim you wanted to make about what the foreign actors did and then launch a PR campaign to convince americans that the foreign actors did that so the foreign actors didn't have to do any of that but they can certainly make you believe that they did yeah the way i see this is i'm looking at every single election integrity effort that that has ever been established by our government or military or intelligence community. You have Sissa, douchebags.

I mean, everybody used to look at Siss and be like, these guys definitely helped us out. But then three days after the election or whatever it was, they comes, Chris Krebs comes out and is like, it was the most secure election in history. And now he had a whole executive order after him where Trump's like, fuck that guy. Fuck Chris Krebs executive order. If you remember that from April of 2025. And then inside Sissor, kind of in conjunction with that, you had those. subgroups the e i sac or whatever there's like a couple of different of those there's the center for

internet security the c is group that was offering free tech um support to any state local tribal whatever community for election stuff and that is how crowd strike got put in on all these election groups like every time we've seen the government have any role or the intelligence community have any role in protecting our elections look at all those the intelligence community assessments that we got from the intelligence community. Those were pretty much put out because of Trump in the executive order 13848, but every one of those things has been used against election integrity. Like everything we've seen from these people and these things that have been set up to defend

our elections have been used against us and weaponized against us to create narratives that, oh, everything's fine. Look, we were there protecting that everything's fine. And never once have we gotten to the bottom of the election stuff. And so to me, seeing them not actually being set up now, it's not a bad thing, in my opinion, but it's it's probably purposeful what if you know it's going to come out that you know these guys actually weren't ever doing anything the other way to look at it on the heels of what we just talked about is what if we aren't going to have the midterms because Trump's going to

cancel them and so it doesn't matter if this group is set up or not I think I mean listen I that's the way I want to see things go I think that's the way things should go in 2024 I wanted the television to announce that Kamala Harris won so that the entire country would understand immediately that we have fake elections. I want the truth to come out. And until that happens, until the country suggests that we are ready for the truth to come out, we're going to keep getting the hose again. So I think that the cancellation of elections will make it so that this issue has to finally be dealt with, which I very much look forward to. We can't keep having elections to elect illegitimate rulers and still give them the power to rule us. That has to

has to stop. Like every other, every other problem springs forth from the fact that we are unwilling to say that we don't want to be ruled by people who are unelected and clearly working against our interests, but we're not willing to say that. We have this post too. This is in line with kind of everything we're talking about too. And I would call this a bad lines boop as well. anybody writing for president and i'm going to tie this to what you just said anybody running for president or vice president should be forced to take a cognitive examination prior to entering the race by doing so we wouldn't be surprised at people like barak hussein obama or sleepy joe biting getting elected in quotes our country would be a much better place i took the exam three times

during my all caps exclamation point three in quotes and parentheses terms as president and aced it all three times an achievement that even on a single exam according to the doctors has rarely been done before president donald j trump now obviously the devolution series is one explanation for how trump didn't fully go through with just like actually handing overpower to joe biden can be interpreted a million different ways. To clarify here, I've never actually thought Trump remained president. I thought he devolved his power. That's what devolution means.

Devolution series, devolved his authority and power to other individuals, military, whatever. The fact that he says this in the same post, he's talking about cognitive exams, I think is hysterical and a little bit of trolling because anybody that reads this is going to be like, okay, so he's saying that he's a-stall of his cognitive exams, but he's also saying that he took it three times and was president three times i think that's kind of funny but then also when it comes to elections and stuff and i had a really good point about something i was going to tie to what you just said and i don't remember how i was going to do that you talk and let me see if i can remember it uh okay or don't talk we can just sit here in silence too i was kind of just listening to

what you were saying but yeah three times as president uh clearly we are the the people who have been saying that for the entire time. And I am very happy that we did take that approach to all of this. I was suggesting to Brian yesterday, you know, not all of the litigation about the 2020 election was finished when they installed Joe Biden. And to have a presidential election under contest and install under protest. Yeah, protest contest. Yeah, protest contest. whatever it is um it was still being contested in the courts i mean uh to to install somebody whose election hasn't even been verified through all those channels that all of that is just crazy so could trump have just continued being president while that litigation took place i think

he could have sure yeah i don't i can remember my point i thought was really good damn it john no cognitive exam I had something to do with that. I feel like I need a cognitive examination now because I forgot my thing. I would not pass this like Trump does. Well, not at this point of the night, but on a normal morning when you had a good night's sleep, I'm sure you would ace it all three times. Yeah.

That's assuming I've ever gotten a good night's sleep, which rarely happens when you have kids. But anyway, yeah, maybe I'll remember it some other time. and I'll let you all know. I'll write it down and we'll talk about it next week. I love these posts when he does this. Badlands Boops, whatever DevoCombs, whatever you want to say. It seems like there's a cottage industry developing of people who told us not to talk about devolution related topics for five years and now they're coming out with pieces about

how they've figured out how the whole thing worked these last few years. Hey, there might be something to Trump not having left. Oh, really? Yeah. And no, what? We do at some point need to reconcile. And it's not necessarily we, but like, why do people get so upset when we say elections are fake and, you know, whatever. But when Trump does it, nobody bats nigh.

Like Trump is, it's a daily thing. It's literally a daily thing, whether it's during his press conferences or on true social, where he, is saying that the elections were rigged 20-20 election was rigged yet joe biden is the one that they said and got installed right we got to reconcile that at some point what that means well john you would be able to figure this out if you knew the plan yeah yeah man we went the whole show so far without talking about the plan now here we are um what's well here here's another the post he made this morning and you can probably find it pretty quickly but with the uh the uno cards oh yeah Like all the, you didn't see this one?

Uh-uh. I can see it in the screen on the backstage. Oh, there it is. Keep going, keep going, keep going. By the way, he just, Nate Morris in Kentucky was J.D. Vance's guy. And Trump asked him to step out of the Senate race there so that he could endorse Mitch McConnell's guy. no and oh yeah and then jadie's guy in ohio the vague ramaswami i guess has made news letting everybody know that

jesus is just another god yeah i saw that clip god he's he's so bad at this milania there by the way that's the press event you can see the the after the shooting yes the former who is that guy next to alami he's drunk as fuck I don't know, but she sure has a very large happy grin on her face. Yeah. In the time shortly following the supposed assassination attempt, Hakeem Jeffries as a thug. Keep going.

It's like two more posts up. Oh, there it is. I have all the cards, Donald J. Trump, and all of those cards are Uno Wildcards. And I just, maybe this is not going to appeal to everybody, but it seems like if the plan is exclusively using wild cards, that's not necessarily a plan. No, that's just like a crapshoot. Maybe, maybe. I don't know.

I mean, wild cards let you do whatever you want. So he could be saying they can be anything. So his plan could be anything at all the time at all times and by the way I think that that actually is how it is for him like no matter what the adversary does his response is going to conquer what they did because of the control over the information space and because he has catalyzed the emergence of so much truth over the last year that the adversary has no chance at this point. Yeah, you know, I go back to the Marjorie Taylor Green thing. And we were kind of talking about this in our private chat this week a little bit. And I don't know if that whole thing is real or fake or k-fib or whatever. Again, don't care. Don't know, don't care.

But she did say something on social media that I personally believe is at least partially true when it comes to some of this stuff. There was a while back she was talking about how people behave on social media and like within the administration, how they will, they will do things and say things specifically geared towards like the Q community or even our community sometimes because they know that we're going to eat that shit up and they'll like privately laugh about in the background and I wonder how much of that they really do

because you know you know they know how we respond to everything and there is just it's it's reality guys there are people out there that as long as Trump says the right number or use the right phrase or post a picture with where we go one or we go on it or whatever nobody will question a single thing that happens yeah and that's just how it is and if if i were them and i knew that like and you wanted to keep a consistent support base that was always there and all you had to do was post an image sometimes like i would fucking do that too it just makes you wonder

like how often does he just scroll through twitter or his replies or whatever and just like i'll post this one i'll post this one this looks cool because it's a great picture of me i'll I'll post this one. And just to get the reaction from us. Like even our bad lens boops sometimes, you know, like we call them boops or whatever. Are they really boops or are they just trump like. Yeah. Our boobs are way different, of course.

Obviously, ours are way more accurate and serious. But for everybody else, no. But I mean, that's the boops just illustrate how ridiculous the match game is. Yeah. You know, especially when we are focusing on similar subjects to people who are totally disconnected but consistently talking about the same subjects, we're probably going to end up saying a bunch of the same things, a bunch of times, and maybe in predictable ways, maybe in ways that can be matched by numbers and the rest of it. But damn it, there was something that I wanted to say. And I have about the administration.

And the fact that people in the administration like laugh about that stuff. I'm sure that there are people there who do that. I don't know that they're closely connected to Donald Trump, though. I always take, you know, the White House as when they're saying the White House, people at the White House say that doesn't mean Trump to me. And the administration is also not a term that I would substitute for Trump. Trump is distinct from the administration and from the White House in my mind. Yeah, I would totally agree with that. I also, you know, it depends on who runs Trump's true social account.

You know, like I do believe it's Trump sometimes. I don't think it's always Trump. But this is the post that I was talking about from her. Again, you could hate our MTG. This could be totally fake. She could be just making this up to piss people off. I don't know. But I do think this is like it's an obvious way that I think they probably operate.

But what you said is true. There's a distinction between Trump and his administration. and then even lower level cabinet people and then people on like Fox News or even one step removed from all that. Anyway, correct. And then they intentionally post Q nods and laugh about how mega eats it up.

Wake up, you've been brainwashed. It should be guilty of that too, hypocritical. I think Jordan pointed that out behind the scenes. But anyway, yeah,

we can continue. There's other, lots of other stories we're going to get into tonight. I feel like we barely scratched the surface. Yeah. Spirit Airlines shut down today. That kind of came out of nowhere.

Yeah, and it seems like it's getting a ton of coverage and yeah, this is the article I sent you right? Yep. Yeah, super interesting little wrinkle in this toward the end of the article. So there was a potential merger that got thwarted by, I guess the, or we're being told by the Congress or the Senate or what have you. it was going to be a merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines, and they were worried that this was going to push things in too monopolistic a direction so that just four or five airlines would dominate the entire business space. I mean, that whole industry is a disaster, and it's a disaster because it is so heavily regulated, which makes it so anti-competitive. And of course, obviously, if you have to have airplanes, there's a high barrier to entry for the industry and the rest of it. But the airline industry is a disaster.

Spirit Airlines has kind of always been a disaster. I don't know if you've ever flown spirit. It is not. It is like bare bones. I have standards, Chris. Come on. Yeah. Okay.

But it's like a flying bus, essentially. And if you just need to go to a city that's an hour and a half away and you're not taking a bag or anything. like that you know fine book a cheap flight and go if you want to bring baggage or the rest of it then you're just buying the most a ticket on the most bare bones airline for a little bit less than the other ticket and you have the worst possible experience so i have nothing good to say about spirit airlines the the airline industry to me is like the ultimate form of if the government could get their way about everything this is how life would be everywhere like it sucks it's one big humiliation ritual it's so expensive and it's all the name of your security like you have to do all

this bullshit because they're trying to just keep you safe um but yeah so the the funny thing about this is when they're like right now nobody knows who to blame and so all of the left is and people who are anti-trump are blaming trump obviously for this and then everybody who's like mega cheerleader is blaming elizabeth warren for this so it's kind of funny to see the the back and forth about who's really at fault yeah And when you bring this part of it into the discussion, the idea that this is a normie Democrat Republican issue that should just be fought over with the two sides of the establishment and we'll determine that our side is right about it rather than theirs.

No, there's something else going on here. And so there was a proposed $500 million bailout. And then this says the Trump administration's proposed bailout would have given the U.S. government a 90% stake in the airline. Spirit's cash reserves had dwindled in recent days as talks with the government broke down, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, said Trump was like a dog in a bone

trying to figure out a way to keep Spirit afloat. But in the end, a deal couldn't be reached. So, and then I thought this quote was so weird, the Trump administration made an extraordinary effort to try and save, spirit, but you can't breathe life into a corpse. And that was from one of spirits creditors. I mean, that's so weird.

Yeah. So, but Trump, I think it was this week, posted again about the success that Intel is having. Yeah. Intel is the chip manufacturer that 10% stake in. And so he wanted to take a 10% stake of Spirit Airlines. Now, he wanted a 90% stake. or sorry, 90% stake of Spirit Airlines. So the airline industry is already heavily regulated.

And when you regulate that heavily and you're controlling the whole industry, and then there's other kind of public and private partners throughout that industry, and all of them are regulated too. You really have total control over that industry. And assuming that there is some benefit that you are receiving on your end, I mean, it's not government ownership directly of the companies. suppose, but if you can control everything they do, it's not that far off, public, private partnership.

I mean, this would be, I mean, technically, like, fascism is the combination of the state and the corporate as a governance structure. And you can think about this both sides because the corporations influence the government's activity as well. But so we already have that. That's already the scenario as it exists now. So is it worse to have a publicly understood public airline option? And I know that public option is a terrible phrase from the Obamacare debates and the rest of it, I understand.

If that is the one option, and then we have truly private airlines besides that, and then the marketplace is allowed to work and people can with the less regulated industry, the airlines, the airports, I should say, don't have to be so centralized. I mean, there are air strips all over the country and small regional airports all over the country. And I'm not sure that we are seeing the air travel industry maximized to meet market demand. In fact, I'm certain that's not for sure. And so, you know, the public option sounds like, oh, you're pitching government involvement in this industry that is right now private.

A, right now it's not private. B, even if it is private, it's not the way it operates is not the result of free markets. So if you were able to make 90% of the market freer and have a public option in addition to that, is that better? I think that's better. That's interesting way to look at it. I hadn't thought of that. I mean, first glance, I am against government. government bailouts, full stop all the time.

I think it's retarded. Spirit Airlines, obviously, they suck too. Like my only knowledge of what Spirit Airlines is is when I scroll Twitter and see a bunch of black people fighting in a Spirit Airlines terminal. I feel like that's every day. That's a new story of that. When it comes to the public-private partnership, I mean, I don't know. Like, you're definitely right about the government basically owning the industries without

owning them in the first place. I mean, they run all the security. And look what happened when TSA didn't get funded. and what happened at the airports like it was a shit show and you look at what happened when you know the government gets involved and there's you know outages or whatever and shuts down airlines for an entire day like it's it's also stupid i do think having uh more competitiveness like an actual free market would help the airline industry that's one of things that's missing like it's it's so stupid but do we need the government owned free public

option in order to get that part of it too well that i mean that part i don't know maybe uh the centralization of those airports is important for other things like shipping or other kinds of transport. I have no idea. I'm not an expert in that. I just look at how bad that industry is now with total government involvement and cannot imagine that it could get any worse. And I would rather like take the shackles off private industry and see how people can make it better. I mean, there are companies out there like Jet Suite X. Are you familiar with that company? Yeah, that's the one where you can just walk right onto the plane pretty much, right? Well, it's not just walking onto a plane.

You're essentially riding on like a small plane, like a private jet style plane with like, I don't know, 20 people total. And it's very, very high end. And the tickets are more expensive, but it flies to smaller airports. They only do a few routes. But the travel experience, if you don't have the money to travel prior to. it, but you do have the money to pay for premium experience. It's certainly a lot nicer than flying commercial. I also want to say one thing back to our last discussion about the NSA and the election

tracking. I remember like, I don't know, six months or so ago when we were talking about Mike Johnson's package in one of its various forms. I don't remember how big it was when we were talking about it, but it was one of the leaning. I mean, toward the left of the time, but it always is, you know. One of the things we said when they were talking about the DHS funding, we talked about organizations like SISA and some of the other election-oriented agencies under DHS and how they

wouldn't potentially be available for this election cycle. Now we see that same pattern happening over here. And I know it's not a funding thing because this is under the Department of War, but interesting kind of pattern match. Yeah, that is a good one. Also, Mike Johnson was another one who was, like, fully supportive of shutting down the elections in the state of Louisiana while, you know, we get this redistricting thing figured out. So he is a wartime speaker. And Trump says he's his guy. Yeah.

It's just seems weird. It's weird for me to think that there are anybody in Congress or Senate that are actually like Trump's people, you know, how many of them actually got there legitimately? If Trump needs a guy to stop the narrative progress that the establishment might make in the Senate while being plausibly on the side of the establishment, John Thune seems like a pretty good pick. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. We had a, we got a guard in, where were we? Was that the one in Cocoa Beach? And somebody sat at my table who was running for, I think it was Congress in South Carolina.

Dakota at the same time. Maybe she was running for like to be a state rep while he was running for something in South Dakota. And she fucking hate it. She did not have nice things to say about him. And she knew from personal experience a lot of things like dirty, dirty skeletons in his closet. And I never really got the chance to follow up with that. If you're watching, it should somehow get a hold of me. Very interesting. Yeah, I would be curious to talk about that again. Anyway, speaking of guard, guys, we have Deadwood coming up here. in just a few months, not even.

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Merch packages are also now available for both in-person or virtual ticket holders. Get your Gart 12 tickets today at badlandsmedia.tv. What else? We have so much. We have Trump on Cuba. This is great. An architect who's really talented. He's done a lot of work for him.

He's got a flare, a beautiful, Hispanic flair in particular. And he comes from originally a place called Cuba, which we will be taking over almost immediately. Now, Cuba's got problems. We'll finish one first. I'd like to finish the job. On the way back from what we'll do, on the way back from Iran, we'll have one of our big, maybe the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the biggest in the world. We'll have that come in, stop about 100 yards offshore.

And they'll say, thank you very much. We give up. Is that the path of the big? Carriers take they go, that sounds like that. Yeah. Snake pattern, V pattern. Was he talking about Rubio there at the beginning? The designer.

Yeah, maybe. I don't know. Didn't he say it was a designer? I thought he meant like in the building business. Let me just play this beginning part one more time. An architect who's really talented. He's done a lot of work for him. He's got a flare, a beautiful, Hispanic flair in particular.

Okay. I thought he was, for some reason, talking about Rubio. and which is why I wanted to show this Ruby is DJ and Now you're going to get kicked off YouTube It's going to hear the song in the back and be like That's copyrighted material Well anyway everybody's probably seen this anyway

Well it's probably an original from Rubio if I'm guessing There's no way he uses other people's music He's using his Hispanic flair Yeah who was the other guy that I think you said it in the chat iPatch guy Yeah yeah DJ DJ Dan Crenshaw.

He's out of there now. It's amazing how much time these guys have to become DJs. It's really not that hard. I think I DJed once in college, you know? Like you just throw a bunch of songs on a playlist and press play and pretend you're DJ and it's not that hard. This you sent over, I thought it was interesting. We should have probably touched on this earlier when we were talking about the Daily

Weimar. Politics is down. People are checked out. Everyone can debate why. That's another subject, not surprised by the Daily Wire. It's a structural issue. I will say I feel like there is this feeling of being burnt out that is going around. I have noticed that from even people I know personally.

I think people are getting like sick of the bullshit. So he may not be wrong about that. Well, when you've done nothing but step on rugs for your entire life in so far as you have been aware of politics, if that is all you've done on social media, very, very publicly, very passionately, very angrily, very offensively. You know, if you are one of those people who spend all their time posting like that, and now you are reaching the point where you are understanding that the foundations of the issues and the events that you are seeing and analyzing online just isn't there when people have been telling you that it's not there for years and

years and years and now you're kind of coming to those conclusions well all the stuff that you've said begins looking really dumb and this stuff strikes to people's core and their identity and how they perceive themselves and that's really the crux of the issue is whether or not you're willing to let go of that and be like whoa we all got hoodwink pretty hard I guess it's time to do something other than continue saying this shit. Like Thurnevich ain't going to get there. That dude doesn't think he's gotten hoodwings. He thinks he's been on track the entire time,

even when he was telling people to wear a mask. Or a fucking mask. Yeah, exactly. It's crazy to me because there's a certain, and we see it a lot, and it exists on quote unquote the other side. But Republicans who have supported Trump and have kind of taken the very central lot, you know, it's kind of the middle path down the quote unquote right of Twitter.

All those people think that they've been right this entire time or close enough to right or like relatively right enough compared to the rest of the people on Twitter. None of those people are going to admit that they've been wrong this one time. No, never. He has me blocked, but I can actually play this video. Wear a mask. I wear a mask. Not because I'm afraid of coronavirus, but because I think you should be polite. People are freaking out. It's not a big deal. Just wear the fucking mask. What a bitch. I think you're right though. This is what I've been saying.

You know, people get so mad at us when we like don't just cheerily at all the time. We're just like, hey guys, just temper those expectations. And maybe, just maybe you won't get the rug pulled out from under you. this do you want to do you want to the under the end of Tate one oh I just thought it was interesting toward the end where I mean if you do it put it at like 1.5 or whatever I don't want to listen to this for almost five minutes

but the talk about how people are kind of made controllable oh yeah I think that stuff I think now again this is like a shill on shell podcast So take it for what it's worth. What do we call that?

It's not quite scissoring, but it's very similar. I mean, this is a mainstream media interview. Yeah. So what does it call? If it's not scissoring, it's not like sword fighting. It's something there. It's like some sort of mix of the two, but gayer somehow. But yeah, well, I'm just going to skip it up and speed it up.

understand them and they might take it to extreme, you know. In this hypothetical scenario, he was hypothetically approached by four or five different agencies. Let's say the Israelis tried. Let's say the British tried. Let's say the Americans have tried. And they've told him exactly what he can say and he can't say. And they explained that probably around 90% of the interaction you are currently seeing

on the internet is fake. It's all bots. 90% of what you're reading on Twitter and the comments you're reading on streams. and the Facebook accounts, all of it is bullshit. And it is narrative that is deliberately being shaped. This was first done during COVID. Do you remember when COVID first came and people would tweet out their symptoms? There were these stupid accounts who would say, oh my God, I have COVID and my throat is so bad. And then they wrote these little paragraphs and it got like 55,000 retweets. Do you remember this? Not many people remember this, find them. And they were everywhere, convincing everyone

to be afraid of this disease. That was all fake. That was the beginning of it. If they want, for example, me to definitely end up in jail or for people to accept that I get shot in the head or to get myself in trouble or for me to lose cover from a nation that's decided to protect me because they believe I'm innocent. If they wanted me to get in trouble, what they would do in this hypothetical scenario is take a nightclub event and then bought the replies that I sold out to try and convince me to sigh off me into standing up and doing something stupid. Do you understand what I'm saying? And then people who read the comments, the people who read the comments because they're sheep, they'll see everyone else calling me a sellout. So they'll be like, and they join in. Right. And before you know it, I've set myself on fire and I'm dead.

Okay. That kind of went off the rails at the end, but a little bit the 90% that he's talking about of the internet being fake and the engagement being fake and the commentary in these comments. I mean, how often do you go? through this is something I used to do when I was spending a lot of time on social media, I would take a look at the comments and see how people were responding to different pieces of content. And a lot of times you can pick up patterns and the responses, then it starts to seem inauthentic. But if you're not a person who's tuned into that dynamic and you're not thinking about it like that and you see a thousand comments of someone hating something that

you had liked, you'll be like, wow, maybe I, maybe I kind of saw that the wrong way. I can see all these people in the comments telling me that this person's a traitor, that this is racist or whatever it is, and it's totally deranging. Yeah, I try not to go through comments and stuff. Just, I don't know. I used to back when I first started doing this, but I quickly realized, you know, how awful some people are and just like for my own mental sanity, not to subject myself. So that is at least as little as possible.

I mean, I think you're right, the dead internet theory. There was a study that just came out. I think it was last week where they, it was some internet group. It's like we can now confirm that 50% of the internet is fake. I was like, I definitely think it's much higher than that. But it's interesting that they're even like acknowledging that much, like that level of it, that internet theory. Yeah. And again, this is stuff we've been talking about for a while.

if the posts and the interactions online are fake and many of them are describing events that are also fake where are we with all this stuff I mean you cannot fake timeline it's a new timeline yeah you can't construct your reality your external reality based on what you see on the internet it is not a representation of what's happening in the world and there are people who deal with what's happening in the world, business leaders and the rest of it, but people who are in some small town or in some city going about their life, going to work every day, hanging out with their friends, visiting their family, or whatever. They don't know anything about what's happening in the world. And I'm not saying I do and they don't. I'm saying none of us do. It's ridiculous to think that we

do. Think about the locality and the local nature of our lives and think about the things that we spend our time on, the things that we truly do know as opposed to the things that we think we know, but actually don't know directly at all. It is so disproportionate. The picture we have of the world, almost everything is external to our real environment and the real life that we are really experiencing. Almost everything we know is all out there somewhere. Most of it we will never experience. And that's the stuff that we think we know best. that's so true but also if like if we don't get the straight of her moose open how am i going to be able to go into tomorrow like i don't know i don't know but um but i just had a thought though kind of blew my

own mind you know how in the movies they're like the ones that have to do with like different timelines alternate realities like oh my gosh you you go back in time and if you mess something up you've completely changed the timeline well on twitter what do they call your feed like your timeline right and it's all manufactured and bullshit most of it i don't know that that kind of just click for me and I thought that was interesting. Well, yeah, I think that's important. And I think that the social media algorithms and AI do that at hyper speed. But what I talk about with informational time travel and the informational time machine is something that the mainstream media has been doing for decades for its entire existence in the United States.

If they, and we've talked about this with documents and stuff, right? Like a week or so ago, we had breaking news for from 2016 about about Russia gate stuff. So that is a 10 year delay on that information. And for the 10 years, yeah. So if that particular information was at the crux of certain decisions that we made in our lives and we were deprived of that information for 10 years, we would have made a bunch of bad decisions based on the bad information that we had before that.

So what they essentially did by preventing us from receiving that information was halt us along a timeline relative to that event. So we couldn't progress in our understanding of that event because we had been deprived critical information. So 10 years later when we get that information, well, we can apply it to our thinking back then in 2016 and think, was there anything else that I decided that was contingent upon that fact that was left out. If there was, those things were probably all bad decisions, and all of them need to be unwound in the same way. And so if you do that about 100 or 1,000 different aspects of different issues, we might end up living our entire lives trapped at various points on an informational timeline. All of them in the past never able to make good decisions in real time corresponding to reality as it emerges. And so it's an enormous information gap problem that social media and AI have only accelerated. Speaking of people holding us back in terms of the informational timeline, this was going crazy today.

This isn't the clip you sent. It's a different one, but I think it's just funny how things come full circle, especially when it comes to Tucker Carlson. Because remember, we used to talk about Tucker Carlson about how he was his dad's CIA. He's probably CIA. We don't know for sure, but he applied and got denied and went on to be the biggest, most famous news media figure in the world. Didn't make sense. Called out some of his inaccuracies and lies.

And then he started saying things that people like to hear. And there was like, oh, yeah, Tucker's awesome now. And I got a bunch of shit for being like, well, let's slow a roll a little bit, guys. Let's maybe hold off a little bit. We don't know that. And then now that Tucker's gone the other direction again and everybody's hating on him for the stuff he's saying about Trump, it's just weird how things come. full circle. But let me play

this clip and show you why everybody's freaking out what I was saying, which is you cannot mock other people's gods and put yourself in their place, period. That is a deal killer for me. That's worse than the war with Iran, in my opinion. Yeah, but I ask because you know, you've been talking on your

show about whether Trump is the Antichrist. I have not said that. On your show, the day after Easter, you noted he did not put his hand on the Bible during his swearing and ceremony as president. You said, and I'm quoting, maybe he didn't put his hand on the Bible because he affirmatively rejects what's inside that book. And then on a recent show, you went further saying, here's a leader who's mocking the gods of his ancestors,

mocking the God of God's and exalting himself above them. Could this be the Antichrist? I actually did not say could this be the Antichrist. Here's a leader who's mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of gods, and exulting himself above them. Could this be the Antichrist? well who knows I don't know where that comes from but I know that those words never left my lips because I'm not sure I fully understand

what the Antichrist is if there's just one I actually tried to understand it I may have said some are asking that I'm not weighing in on that because I don't understand it just to be totally clear and revelations obviously I think it's funny you got caught in a pretty big lie there but also if you go back to Trump right after or sorry Tucker right

after January 6th or the November election, there's a big lawsuit with Fox News. And we got access to the texts and transcripts and whatnot. And he allegedly called Trump a demonic force and a destroyer, which is, this is one of the things that I pointed to when everybody was like jumping back on the Tucker train is like, slow a roll a little bit guys. We don't know what's going on here. He could just be grifton.

He could just be riding the Trump coattails. And now everybody's like, pissed at Tucker. And it's just funny how things come full circle where I got so much shit for saying this stuff and pointing these things out at the time but everybody liked what he was saying and so i was the bad guy for questioning his motives and who he who he is but now it's like oh yeah he did call him the antichrist no he's clearly caught lying and no he's not cheerleading for trump anymore and so he's he's the bad guy so i don't know anyway just wanted to yeah those those texts always seemed a little weird back then the tucker texts and maybe there are so many weird things with

Tucker, man, the idea he got fired from Fox News for the Dominion lawsuit. Fox News and Dominion had like a friendly settlement. Fox News just claimed they were going to give them almost $800 million far more than the company was ever worth. And Dominion's discovery documents expressed the substance of the claim that was made, which is that their machines are unreliable. I mean, the idea that Tucker got fired for that court case happening is impossible to believe. And now Red Seat Ventures, which is the company he's back at, is under that same Foxport umbrella.

So that all came back around. I mean, the Tucker thing is so strange. It's even stranger that it's being made such a big deal. I saw yesterday it was some effort to just celebrate how amazing and huge. is like Tim Poole just the most groveling post of all time maybe he wanted to be a guest on Tucker's show or something but uh just bragging about how Tucker's the most important voice ever in media I mean who could possibly believe that yeah and you know I'm I'm I'm still very like neutral on Tucker I think he's an op I think he's constantly pushing psyops I do like his um it's kind of my little my my dirty little secret that I I chew every now and then, you know, it's probably more than a little every now and then, but his L.p product, like, yeah. Yeah, they're actually, um, we haven't, we didn't even talk about this.

We're actually, they're affiliates of ours, Badlandsmedia.tv. Elp, um, ALP. Oh, how they LP like this? Because I used to do the Zin stuff and it's a habit I've, you know, had off and on since playing baseball was like, you couldn't get away from it in baseball. I used to do the Zins and then I saw how much they gave to like abortion funding and stuff. I was like, well, I can't do that anymore. And so, you know, And so Alp was an alternative and I'd like it.

So, right, anyway, random aside. There was the clip that you sent over though, that we can play this here. And this is a little more interesting when it comes like narrative warfare stuff on browser. Okay, there we go. This is Trump and his spell on people. Instead, you know, there were a lot of cowardly people,

as there always are, and Trump engenders cowardness and the people around him through intimidation. And there is a kind of quality that he has. that's spell binding. And I think it probably literally is a spell. And the effect is to weaken people around him and make them more compliant and more confused. And I've experienced this myself. You spend a day with Trump and sort of like you're in this kind of dream land.

It's like smoking hash or something. It's interesting. Very interesting. And there may be a supernatural component to it. I'm not a theologian. But it's real. And anyone who's been around him can tell you it's real. Instead, you know, there were a lot of cowardly people as there are always.

Yeah, what are your thoughts on that? Well, I don't know that Trump makes people cowardly. I think that Trump has actually kind of made a lot of people braver. I would say that he's made me braver over the years. I think that he is, I think that his communication strategy, and that's what I'm kind of writing about now. I could have mentioned it before, actually, when we were talking about the wild cards.

He's able to win from every angle all the time. And it's because he has. So what I believe big picture is that the adversary, which in like the big sense is Satan, right? The devil uses inversion. And that is the tactic. The tactic is to redefine words and concepts to reverse the meaning of events so that everybody kind of lives in this conceptual false reality where all the positives and negatives are reversed. You think you're working for your greatest possible benefit and a lifetime of happiness and fulfillment.

And it turns out you're just pursuing the thing that is going to destroy you, that sort of thing, the ultimate purpose, right? You want to be living a good, purposeful life. And instead, you're living an empty life of material pursuits that is only going to lead to destruction. So the inversion is what happens. and to get people to live fully in that inversion, you look around at all the aspects of the world and invert each one of them individually until everything is misunderstood as its opposite.

And so that is, if you want to talk in Trumpian terms, that is a rebranding process that takes place over time. You change the definition of things so that people view those things in a different way. Trump, the master brander, is coming back in and rebranding all of those things back to their original meaning. He is uninverting or sometimes I call it reverting. I still am not sure exactly the best word for this. But he is kind of reversing that inversion process so that we can see things in their natural form. And I'm also totally comfortable with the people that are like, oh, well, Trump's not actually the good guy who's doing all that. You know what? It doesn't matter if he's a good guy or bad guy or whatever. That is the effect of his communication strategy that we've observed closely for a decade now. And whether it's by accident or fully intent, intentional from his own goodwill and good nature, the result is the same. And we're getting back to that basic form. So I think if you apply that broadly, the attempt to rebrand all these things is, uh,

just one of the most critical parts of the pattern that we can witness right now. Yeah, that's brilliant. And he's definitely like the bull in the China shop. When it comes to like him making people braver, I would say that he's done that for me too. I mean, there's a lot of things that I've done in my life since I've gotten to the Devolution series and really like went all in with with this media company and everything that I don't know. I wouldn't have done for if it wasn't for Trump. I mean, I don't know. I totally agree.

He's like the guy. He'll stand up. It's all the slings and arrows that he takes for us, right? Like when he says that, it's so true. When you see him doing that and you see somebody who's willing to like take heat and give it back to people, even though we don't always operate that way, like there's been so many times where we could have, you know,

said publicly what's going on privately and all these things. And we kind of, we're a little more reserved. But where Trump doesn't do that, he's just like, this is what's going on. on F these people. He doesn't give a shit. He takes no shirts from anybody. But yeah, everything you said was spot on. But that's kind of where I'm at with,

with how he operates with these people. Yeah. One of the dynamics that I'm really trying to capture, and that's what's taking this article so long, is that, you know, if you know that everybody, not everybody, but you know that a huge portion of the population is operating within that inversion.

And they think that good things are terrible and terrible things are good, well, you have to identify yourself with all of those things so that each and every one of them is reassessed in public and that argument is had, and the people can come to terms with whether something is good or terrible. And this is the easiest example, like the Transformers, men are men, women are women. If you redefine women as also a man, okay? So if you redefine the thing, it keeps its definition as the thing and then is also redefined as the opposite. So now a woman is not just a woman.

A woman is a woman, but sometimes a woman is a man. That's where we were. You need to redefine both men and man and woman and highlight what the distortion is. And he does all those things by identifying as the side that will be a. in any scenario, right? So he's friends with Caitlin Jenner and they say, Trump supports the trans agenda. And then he goes out and he does a speech about men in women's sports

and the weightlifter that's struggling. He actually just mentioned that today. Actually, did you see the clip with the YMCA thing? No. Watch this. Can't wait. Hold on, I just need to get to the right folder here. Check this out.

Now she's done a great job, but she hates it when I do the thing on weightlifting. She says it's so unprecedented. She hates when I dance too at the end too. Yep. He's told that story before. She hates when I dance to what sometimes referred to as the gay national anthem. You know that. You know, that song was number five, 32 years ago.

Did it go and it went to number one? Did it skip on your end? A little bit, yeah. Yeah, hold on. Let's just make sure that everybody can get that. She hates when I dance to what sometimes referred to as the Gay National Anthem, you know. Oh, maybe it got, I don't know, on purpose. You know, that song was number five, 32 years ago, and it went to number one, 32 years later.

There's never been anything like it never hit number one. It was number five, 32 years ago, and it went to number one for months during the last months of the game. We love that song. so i just want to play the gay national anthem part trying to add up the cons is 32 plus five plus he said five twice so that's 10 10 13 14 15 i think he said number one twice too i think we're i think we have a 17 here man wow yeah my math is correct but don't replay it i don't i don't want you to correct me but i'm pretty sure it's 17 it's too much adding um so anyway the idea though is that Trump identifies as both sides of all these issues because whatever Trump identifies

as gets attacked. He knows that he can make the enemy respond to him in particular ways if he provides certain stimulus. So he does that and then the enemy ends up looking bad and destroying their own the branding job they have done to protect this inversion and eventually the inversion collapses and people start seeing things with their own eyes. And I can speak for myself, but I think it's probably the same thing you dealt with. Like once that stuff starts falling away, like the scales falling from the eyes, right? Once that stuff starts going away and you begin seeing through that trick, you look at the world and you're like, oh, well, this ain't exactly the place that I spent all my time preparing for. And so if the place is like this, I guess I better prepare in a different way

and take some different, you know, make some different moves, pursue different strategies for my life. And you kind of do have to develop some courage to say, okay, I know that actually this is the right way now. I was wrong before, but this is right. And now I'm going to move forward. I think that that's a courageous process to undertake. 100%. It's also Trump, like, I'm pretty sure he said this recently, but he said this multiple times in the past where it's almost acknowledging the thought process that you're talking about, where he's like, you know, if I would have just come out and said that I didn't want a wall, the Democrats would have funded it for me.

Like, they just always do the inverse of what I do. So if I would have come out and said I wanted the thing or didn't want the thing, they would have given me what I actually wanted. So he understands, you know, the battle he's in. And you're definitely highlighted around. I'm pretty sure he said that, like just yesterday or the day before. It's so crazy. I started writing this article two weeks ago in the original title to it was weaponized,

reverse psychology. And I really think that that's what he was. he's been doing this whole time. I think it's worked spectacularly well. And again, the problem is if you know he's doing reverse psychology and you're going to say trust Trump on a literal or figurative interpretation, your choice, that's really just nonsensical. Well, see, that's interesting because in my experience, especially with my kids, attempting to use reverse psychology, sometimes it really works well.

sometimes, especially as they get older, they recognize it. Once they recognize that you use reverse psychology, they no longer fall for it. So what does that mean for the people who aren't recognizing that Trump is doing reverse psychology and going with him everywhere he goes all the time? Do they really, do they not understand Trump? Or what does that mean? Well, probably child brains. That's part of it. But the other part of it is even if they recognized that it was reverse psychology, they wouldn't be able to resist it because all of the social incentives around them make it. So they have to attack Trump anyway. So he can use their, he can use that fact against them all the time.

And it never, ever, ever fails. There's no chance that it can fail unless the people who have created, these branded personalities for themselves that are totally false and totally fake want to try to be authentic, but they can't be authentic because they're not actually that person. All of that is the brand. Well, that's so interesting because you're talking about the people that attack Trump, but it also works the same way for the people that always support Trump no matter what all the time because those two factions are always going at it all the time over all the

various issues, even when Trump is playing reverse psychology. Yep. And it works on all the controlled opposition as well. It works on anybody who is not capable of authentically representing themselves and is trying to operate through associations with other concepts, with products, with things, whatever. People's personalities in general. I used to make this point 10 years ago back in Hollywood seeing like the rise of the Instagram era. People build their, we used to have our identities. Like it was really a function of who we are and how we treated people and the things that we thought.

things we believed, things we were passionate about, et cetera. Now it is often because of social media and because of the visual aspect that so much of our life is picture related with the selfie culture and the rest of it, is that people become a collection of brands that make up who they are. And so they'll just show off different aspects of their personality. None of them have to be real. It's all just display for social media. But anyone who has an understanding of them, because no one actually knows them personally,

the way that people out there understand them is a total fabrication of what they are. And it's a fabrication that is constructed based on different brand associations, the things that they like, the different kinds of clothes they wear, the car they drive, the sort of place they live, the sort of restaurants they visit, all that. Did you see everybody freaking out over the Angel Studios Animal Farm movie and all the influencers who have been pushing it, even though it has nothing, And it's like nowhere near the same as the original book. And it's actually like a anti-capitalist.

Wow. And that's Angel Studios? Yeah. That's strange. Yeah. You guys should do that for Book Club whenever it gets out for streaming or whatever. Yeah, I mean, or not Story Hour. Did I say Book Club?

Yeah. No, story. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. Yeah. Anyway. It better be worth watching.

I don't want to watch a terrible movie just for that. Yeah. But I think it's interesting dynamic to what you're talking about because you could go through the concept of the movie what it was supposed to be and what it actually is. And this is, I haven't even seen it yet. So I'm just going based off what I've read. But then seeing all the social media influencers like the Riley games of the world and a lot of the TPSA people. And they're even being criticized by like the Tim Pools of the world,

which makes it even more interesting. So there's some sort of op at play here. But yeah, I don't know. It's interesting. But hey, let's start going through the boost and the rants. How do you feel about that? Wow, two hours already, John. Yeah, it's crazy.

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That would be a significant change if he started talking about the uniparty. But he does say they're not all that different a lot. He's been going after the Republican establishment for many, many years. So he certainly hinted at it. The election stuff, he does point out how they don't want to pursue any election fixes in so far as. like the SAVE Act does that and it doesn't but it still makes his point yeah he does often operate like Rich Higgins says within the normie battle space like he will operate within the battle space that they present to him and it's what I mean I don't know it is what it is I do wish he'd talk

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History of Feudem Fighter. So funny, there's a poppy trumpo video. And she also said, and Marco Rubio was DJing at the wedding tonight. Hi, hilarious. She might have just sent over the video you're talking about. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, mine. some dog barking at Marco Rubio yeah maybe I'll play that as part of the outro

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In Trump's own words, the $300 million ballroom is just a shed for what lies beneath to what exponent of $300 million is being spent on the White House back cave being built by the military. And I approve 100%. Yeah. So I wanted to make sure that we mentioned this. Trump the other day said that only a couple of people know what's happening with, the Iran talks because he was getting asked by the mainstream media, oh, are the talks this happened and this happening? Because, you know, they always have a new story about what's going on

with the Iran talks every day. And none of them know because none of them are actually talking to them. None of them are engaged in a real negotiation. It's just a bunch of global aligned factions in Iran, if even that, supplying these stories about how the talks are going. But none of them know he switches it back and forth every day. He switches the position so that people can get mad at both positions back and forth like the right quote unquote is all on Trump's side one day, all against him the next day, back on his side, back against him, same thing on the other side. And all of that stuff is so totally disorienting for people who are used to just turning on the TV or turning on a podcast and having someone tell them what to think. And that's why people

are checking out because they can't get anything that lasts for longer than a day as good information and it's not good information for even a second just to be clear but they there's there's virtually nothing usable out there it's almost like people should have taken a different approach yeah think you spot on do you get the outro video uh i sure did here it is the link is inbound all right well everybody do us a favor hit that thumbs up. We truly appreciate it. Don't forget to go over to YouTube and give it a thumbs up over there as well. I know people hate YouTube, but you're supporting the stream. You're not supporting YouTube. So I'm going to post the link in the chat once again. Head on over there and give

that thumbs up. And with that, we're going to get out of here with our two outro videos, one from Misrea Freedom Fighter and then the one Chris said, and they're both having to do with Marco Rubio. So Chris, as always, it's been fun. Yes, sir. We'll see you all next time. What's the matter, Mr. Secretary, afraid of a little gold. I'm down on my luck, Marco. Please, just one question.

Just tell me which country you're attacking next. I'm trying to win some money on Polly Market. I'm trying to win some money on Polly Market, man. Just give me a wink if it's Kazakhstan. Looks like you're going to have to take over spirit too, Marco. Looks like you're going to have to take over spirit too, Marco.