Badlands Media - Devolution Power Hour Ep. 463: APL Smacked, Blanche Permanent, and the Congress Problem

Episode Date: June 4, 2026

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open the Wednesday show with Anna Paulina Luna's assault press conference, complete with video of the tap on the arm that launched a thousand charges, and use it to make the principled argument the community keeps refusing to hear: if APL is actually a white hat, that should worry you more than it reassures you. From there, breaking news drops mid-episode: Trump announces Todd Blanche moves from acting to permanent Attorney General, and the guys connect it to Kurt Olsen quietly joining the Southern District of Florida under Joe DeGenova for the grand conspiracy Rico probe. Bill Pulte as acting DNI gets the Last Refuge treatment: he is a placeholder while the real target for the role is Rick Crawford, and the intel community itself admits that Ratcliffe is the one actually running Trump's intelligence agenda. Trump's Miranda Devine interview confirms on camera that the 2020 election was rigged 100% and that 2024 had rigging too, and Burning Bright reads Trump's deliberate silence on accountability as the most encouraging signal of the week. The House War Powers Resolution passing with four Republicans leads to the show's sharpest argument: Trump is not working through congress, he is working around it, and anyone still pinning the movement's hopes on midterm seats has misread what Trump is actually doing.

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as always and unfortunately I'm joined by Bernie Bright and it looks like we're matching tonight. That's pretty cool. Oh yeah? I guess so. It's possible. That's the gay V-neck part of it, but color-wise, if you can even see the color that we're wearing right now. I'll take your word for it, I suppose. You do know that's a V-neck, right?

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period of every year because for 10 weeks i am uh significantly younger than my wife and boy does it show yeah once she kind of hits that june mark you could see just a little more comes out of her a little bit more unless she's a cougar huh is that yeah she is robin the cradle and i just just kind of get I kind of get this extra burst right when she ages up and I'm like you know what I'm feeling better than ever I've actually been feeling worse than ever but because of her birthday I'm feeling good and yeah it's great being young man what can I say I feel that um you probably feel like crap because of the line you know the lime propaganda has really taken off lately it takes stuff it means everywhere oh yeah I mean it's it's something I'm terrified of now

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I've always considered getting on steroids, and I think it's time. It's getting to be that time. It might help with the Lyme disease. It could cure the Lyme. It could accelerate the Lyme. It will give me cancer no matter what. But I figure if I'm already, I'm already halfway out the door. Lots of possibilities. Man, tonight's show, I'm all over the place today. Like, there's a lot to talk about. It just might be a little discombobulating as we remember and try to sort stuff out.

But I got to start out the show with a little Anna Polina Smolet because this is hilarious. Be careful, man. She's quite litigious. Yeah, clearly you'll see from this video. Have you seen this yet? I just saw that it happened, but I didn't watch it. You're going to love this. So, Anna Polina Luna, you know, I never make fun.

fun of her for being a grifter. I never say anything mean about her. She's totally honest all the time. Never just calling for attention or any of that stuff. Right. Take a look at this is the video of her coming out saying she was assaulted or I think she used the word smacked. She was smacked by somebody for code pink. Yeah. Take a listen. So I was questioning Senator Rubio on code bank, which is a foreign funded organization. And I've been going after far, et cetera. And so as I was leaving, they were asking questions. I don't have an issue asking questions, but when you were berating me and trying to block me from being able to come vote. It's an issue, but I continue to answer them. I was walking out of Rayburn, and as we were trying to walk away from them,

I guess they didn't like what I'm saying. So one of the lead organizers actually smacked me. And so at that point, I brought on. Can you like reenact how you were hit? I was literally walking, trying to walk away from this person, and they smacked me. In what part of the body? They smacked my arm. Are you injured right now? I mean, look, either which way, if you don't touch anyone, especially if you don't like what they're saying, you cannot physically harm someone, you can't hit them, So already you can tell like by him pressing her, she's like, okay, maybe I shouldn't have said that. Yeah, like not not smacked. Like just kind of either way, don't touch somebody.

Jostled. This is not good. I'm going to let it play a little bit longer. I think there's a couple more things she says here. Block people from being able to vote. And so what I will say is I have file charges. There's footage of this. They have multiple angles of this.

There's multiple witnesses. Yes, they do. And I think that she's going to be getting in a lot of people. So yeah, I just saw you speaking with a group of police officers. That was you pressing charges. Well, I'm giving my statements and they're basically investigating for assault. Yeah. Okay.

They're investigating. But I think they have more than enough evidence. But if you're able to, you definitely will be. You can't hit people. What do you hope happens to the person? Look, look, we live in a day and age when people feel like they can hurt people because they disagree with them politically. We've seen this happen to many conservatives, but I'm sure it also happens on the left

as well. That's unacceptable. You shouldn't be doing that. I'm just glad that there was footage of it. And I think that we have more than enough evidence to hold this person accountable and responsible and let this person be I symboled everyone else that's going to come up here and try to hurt people because they disagree so you were just walking out of the hearing someone comes up and smacks it was a group of code pink I was specifically questioning secretary Rubio on code pink's foreign funding ties and links to the

cccc and that was a group that was surrounding me they at one point tried to block me from actually walking across the street to come vote which you cannot do and then when I did not give them responses that they liked I got smacked based up your conversations with police okay so I'm going to stop there we're going to go to the video of her being smacked now for for those who may be sensitive to like assault stuff and physical beings like I'm gonna ask you now to probably turn off the screen for a little bit of your discretion is advised this is it's pretty brutal you know I'm not even sure how she survived to be honest policy of cutting off oil cutting off every single way that government can get money to keep the hospitals going to actually get each to people to you because it doesn't

sound like you do no because marco rubio has been sanctioning the Cuban people which is hurting them by is a billion by the billions. No, that hurts the people there. They have no power. You are misinformed. What? What? What?

You just touch me. You're going to walk away right now. I'll call to call Capulco. Oh, go touch me. Bye-bye. Yeah, look. Where did she touch her? I didn't even see it.

They're zooming in. Oh, my God. No way. Yes. Even for this, I thought. I thought she was at least going to slap her arm. She touched her. Like, hey, can I have your attention?

Like, they're walking together. Hey, I'm trying to tell you something. Holy crap. Even for APL, that's, uh, wow. Yeah. I'm genuinely shocked. Are you, though? I get just, you know, I'm not.

Part of her modus operandi, though, is saying stuff that, I mean, clearly, she social media farms, right? Code Pink is in the news and all that kind of stuff. So it's like, so naturally she does a hearing on it. Yeah, whatever the topic is, she inserts herself right into the top of the topic, the middle of the topic. But her modus operandi, I feel like, is usually saying completely unsubstantiated bullshit that can't be confirmed or denied by any human being in the world. Right. So she just, it's like the believe all women, but the MAGA version of it. This was, she knew it was filmed from multiple angles

and decided to just say a bunch of stuff about it as if it was going to make her look good. Obviously doesn't make the old lady look good. Nobody gives a shit. She was an annoying agitator, but it's like you've got to be able to handle that shit. But, you know, there's always like one person who's upset.

We criticize people like this because they represent themselves as super ultra maga. But man, no matter who you are, it makes you look so weak and pathetic that that's the super powerful populist leader of a nationalist American movement that's going to sue somebody because she poked her on the arm to get her attention. Yeah, like you press charges for that. That's insanity, man. And yeah, we've been given shit to Anna Polina Luda since before it was acceptable. Chris in the chat said that was like, what do you say? Now people are on board.

Yeah, it was something, that's not quite what he said. I remember when it wasn't okay to joke around about Una Panuna. Like this shit is insane. And yeah, you're right. There are people in the chat that are like, I disagree. This was totally assault. That was not assault, guys. Give me a fucking break.

This is pathetic. This makes us look bad when we have, like you guys have, not you guys, I shouldn't say that, but there are people in our movement who have propped Anna Palina up because she says all the cool things that everybody likes that's hot and, whatever, she's such a grifter. It drives me nuts. But anyway, and now she does this and you are forced to defend that as assault. Like, come on, guys, be real. That's retarded. Don't be retarded. And as simple as it is in all these situations, if you were to reverse, it's what shows the people that are, you know, actual Info War people, actual MAGA people from the people who are

purely red blue, red versus blue, right versus left cheerleaders. Because if you reverse this, in any sort of situation, could you imagine the reaction from like the MAGA commentarian and MAGA people and InfoWR people, I don't know, pick a person. If this was a, if this was AOC, that's like the perfect analog for the APL of the quote unquote left. And if some MAGA woman touched her on the arm and she pulled this, the memes about it would be incredible. Yeah.

But she wouldn't even do something like this. Yeah, and like people in the chat saying it's not assault, but they shouldn't feel free to touch. Like that wasn't, there's a difference between like going to like touch or grab somebody and just like you're walking and talking with somebody and you like hit their arm to like get their attention as you're saying something. That is this is there's like no, I don't know, animosity even and towards what she's doing here. I don't even think. Yeah, I was expecting like a backhand slap of her arm, which, you know, she shouldn't be doing and whatever. That still would have been ridiculous to make that big a deal of it, but I mean, I thought I had missed it. It's difficult to even see that there is physical contact made in that clip.

Yeah, so she's pressing charges, which is hysterical. I'm curious to see what they actually do with that, too. Because it wouldn't shock me if they, like, follow through with it and, like, try to go after her for assault. And then watch that shit go to trial or whatever. It's a joke. That's, hey, a big part of the movement rests on her, man. without Anna Polina Luna we don't get disclosure

we're never going to get to the bottom of the cue drops we're never going to get the Alliance of Sovereign Nations as she named it we're never going to get all them in a room together so lots going on I totally agree with you I think depends on her no just kidding I need to sort out our ads here

because go on what's it called what's the show just go on the thought show. We should or she should? That will supplant us. She should. I'm surprised she hasn't enough from being honest. It's the big Wednesday night thing, you know. Hold on. One of our ads is supposed to be in studio, but it's not right now.

I mean, there's also the, speaking of AOC, if none of this had happened, there's the, of course, partly it's because I'm sexist about women in politics. Sure. women in general. Yeah, that's fair. But the way she even speaks is embarrassing. It's embarrassing. Like she has that, an AOC is the poster child of this who's probably even worse the way she speaks. If you took all partisan politics out of it, if you took anything, you know, agree, disagree with what these people say out of it, when you have the equivalent of a valley girl, you know, standing in D.C., any supposed.

majesty, your supposed to glimpse out of the power of the republic. And you've got a woman standing there, even when she's not talking about being viciously assaulted by a tap on the arm. And she's talking about like, you know, like the sovereign alliance and like we really need to get our money out of Cuba. And, you know, I just really am fighting for the MAGA agenda. It's embarrassing. Just like everybody in this movement would say, have said it's embarrassing. when AOC does that, but you have your own version of AOC. And again, as Chris said, some people were talking about this, what, two years ago, a year and change ago. And I have another one for you.

You know who we talk about sci-ups all the time? You know? We do. Well, just today or yes, maybe yesterday. I think it was eight hours ago she posted this. Secretary Rubio, thank you for being here today. I was wondering if you could let me know if you are familiar with the name of Neville Worsingham. Yeah, he's a, I think an American millionaire living in China who's funding all of these left-wing radical looms.

Correct. When you were on Senate intelligence, you had actually sent a letter encouraging the Department of Justice to look into him for a FARA violation. For those people who will see this clip later on the internet, can you just briefly explain what FARA is? It's the Foreign Agent Registration Act, and it means if you're operating on VARA, behalf of a foreign country, you have to register and declare yourself as such. To provide some context for those looking at this, Mr. Singham's in total given $1.3 million to an organization called Code Pink, as well as over $278 million to various nonprofits since 2017. Secretary Rubio, it's in my opinion observing what's been happening on both sides, really contributing to the political divide in this country, that many countries are engaging

in influencer operations to include psychological operations on the American people. with the intent to undermine that part there like this that is the clip that i keep playing 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 russian not just our foreign policy from the administration's perspective but also to pit us against one another would you concur with that statement There's no doubt. Absolutely.

You're muted. You're muted. I don't remember what I just said. I was just pissed. Just annoyed. But at least something like this where the assault thing, whatever, assault gate, maybe it'll get more people to stop taking her so seriously because you shouldn't be. You shouldn't be taking to any of these people seriously. They're all fucking jokes. But especially the ones who very obviously shouldn't be taken seriously. It's just absurd. And, you know, these, This is the problem with the white hat black hack game. People play.

And I fell into that years ago. Like, and of course, it's not unreasonable when we understand that there are psychological operations that we've all been subjected to. And that we believe that people in this audience believe have also been wielded in our favor. You know, there's sci ops going on every which way. There's information warfare going on. It makes perfect sense to wonder with. each of these different characters and congressmen, etc., hey, are they one of ours?

Are they one of theirs? Are they just out for themselves? It's not unreasonable to try to do that. But when you have to play a binary, when you try to slot everything into a decode or as part of the plan, and you pigeonhole yourself into saying, well, this person said something about the sovereign alliance,

this person made a reference to a cue phrase. This person repeated Donald Trump's talking points. You put a colored hat on that person. You put a white hat on that person. Rather than as you and Chris often talk about on Saturday nights especially, rather than recognize the incentive structures of the Info War and of just grifter culture in general, the modern digital age in general, then you get stuck with this. This is what you get.

You get saddled with stuff like this, where you look completely absurd and you should feel completely absurd. I'll tell you what. If Annapolina Luna is a white hat. we're fucked. Okay? Like, that's not a good thing. Like, you, you shouldn't want that to be the case. You should be praying that this person is so far removed from anything even resembling a Patriot Disclosure Plan that, you know, we're protected from because the alternative is pretty damn concerning about what exactly the plan is. Now, I don't think this person, I do think there are plans. I do think Trump knows what he's. doing I do think there are real people in the administration or under the administration and behind it who have our best interests in mind but yeah in the meantime they just kind of I think let these people fight for cameras and

social media attention and unfortunately good portion of the truth community just laps it all up yeah I just I don't think you're watching the water hard enough I think that's your problem if you if you would you'd understand what what this means and why like wet t-shirt contest maybe ooh I can probably get behind that T-code now we're talking I think that you went wrong somewhere. I'm not saying that Apollina Luna has no future. I'm just saying it's not in being a secret white hat.

Because doesn't she also grift off the fact that she served in the military? Like she just recently posted a picture of her like on duty with her gun and they know all suited up. Yet that's her assault. Like you fought in the military, but that's assault. Like, come on. Okay, let's get away from the Annapal Luna stuff. We should talk about a much more serious topic like our fake election. and some of those things and some of Trump's comments.

Man. We're just going to piss everybody off. If we have any audience left after tonight, I'm be real proud of myself. Our audience, they're on board with this. They are on board with us. I think we're talking about the beauty of our audiences, even though there are many in our audience that are not on board

with some of the stuff we talk about, they're okay with that because they embrace the friction and understand that we can have these discussion and that's the purpose and point of free speech and this platform in general. But let's get a quick look, Mark. Before you do, I just think we should consider only talking about things that Donald Trump says we're allowed to talk about. And last I checked, he doesn't cast any doubt on American elections, especially after winning in 2024. So we should consider that.

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your in person ticket coming out with us. It's a great place to vacation. Great people. Great conference. Great conversation. Great fun. Right before the fourth. There's going to be some fourth shenanigans up in that area. Hell yeah. It's going to be awesome. All right, let's do a couple Trump comments from his interview with Miranda Devine. This is about elections. So speaking of things that you're not allowed to say. Polls show that you would have won the election if people had known about it and it was censored. And the Dirty 51 letter, those CIA former directors, they'd rigged to the election.

And I mean, is the Department of Justice looking into it? Well, I won't get into that. But they're looking into plenty of things. No, the election was rigged 100%. Now, the only thing I can say is that I think we're probably having a better term than it was a second term. I won't three times. Yeah. But I think it's a more important term than it would have been if I did it the other way.

A lot of damage done to the country by Joe Biden. That's right. The one thing is that we wouldn't have had 25 million people pouring to our country. That's a big thing. And we wouldn't have had the war with Russia and Ukraine either. Yeah. That's a big thing. So many people have died.

They're losing 25,000 people a month. That wouldn't have happened. I'm going to transfer over to here the actual YouTube video. Hopefully won't get like a ding on it. But I want to show this part right here. So are you happy with the pace of what the Department of Justice is doing this so much? trying to find out. Well, much more so now than at the beginning.

Yeah. They are, yeah, there's a lot of things going on right now. There's a lot of problems inside. Look, we had a rigged election. We can't have a rigged election. You know, we can be nice about it, we can be politically correct, or, oh, I don't want to say. I used to say that a year and a half ago, the election was rigged, and the cameras would literally turn off. Yeah.

And the anchor would say, sir, you're not allowed to say that, you're not. Now nobody ever turns off the camera because it's been proven to be rigged. Look at what happened in Georgia. Look at all the stuff that we found out. It was a rigged election. Biden lost in a landslide. Yeah. And we might have some breaking news right now, actually.

Really? I need to interrupt here. But I believe Donald Trump just made Todd Blanche the AG. Could it be? Really. Yeah, let me see if I got the right. Yeah, right here. attorney general tomorrow i'm instructing dan and everybody else that's involved in that very complicated

process which is going to go i think very quickly that we are going to make him permanent attorney general there we go look at that todd blanche from acting to permanent just like that but that kind of goes to real yeah kind of goes to what we're talking about here with the election and stuff from the department of justice and he's talking about election fraud right now so i'm going to finish letting this clip play out then we can talk about all this shit it's you know to think that this could happen now because of that we have russia ukraine that would have never happened with me because of that we had opened border with 25 million in many cases remember not all and sentinel deaths everything yeah he was a worst president and

We were left out all over the world as a country. We're not left out anymore. We have the hottest country anywhere in the world. So how do we... So someone has to be punished for that. So how do you do that? Well, I don't need to punish them more. Yeah, I know.

I'd rather not get into it, but... Are you confident in something? I don't want to talk about it. Yeah. Let's see what happens. The election was rigged. We know who rigged the election. We know everything now.

You know, we have information that nobody thought was possible. but when you get to office, all of a sudden, people start giving you things. You know, it was a great, I'll tell you, 24 was a great election. That was a lot, there had a lot of rigging going on there too. Because, you know what, I wonder at a landslide, but there were areas that were just rigged. I could see it. In other words, rigged against me. Yeah, of course, of course.

The anti-weaponization fund, have you dropped that? No, of court ruled against it. Yeah. It's not blind since they dropped it But yeah, so there he is talking about the rigged election Was that the clip? Did we talk about 2024 to? I wasn't listening so I was trying to sort out the No, I've got that one

Are you sure? Do we not get to it? Oh yeah, it was just Yeah, it was right here Yeah, right here Let me Yeah, he did say it I don't think you were listening Maybe. I was listening, but maybe I wasn't recording anything in my brain.

We know everything, man. You know, we have information that nobody thought was possible. But when you get to office, all of a sudden, people start giving you things. You know, it was a great, I'll tell you, 2024 was a great election. There was a lot, there had a lot of rigging going on there too. Because you know, 24, a lot of rigging there going on there too. What are your thoughts on all this, man? you can take the floor, Blanche, to this, to whatever. I mean, I don't have a lot of specific thoughts on some of these characters, like Blanche.

I know that others, like I know, Ash follows these specific people closely. You follow them more closely. I sort of see them as like meat puppets for whatever agenda is going to be wielded through them. That isn't a condemnation. It's like, hey, I think it's probably a good sign. I don't think justice for American elections relies on Todd Blanche. I don't think it relies on any single person. I don't think it relies on the AG.

If we're broadly correct that a devolution operation was put in place as a result of the 2020 election, it stands to reason, as we've discussed for years and years, that whatever plan, whatever sting operation, whatever counterinsurgency was put in place, has never, been reliant on somebody getting into the right position at the right time. We got the right guy into the right position at the right time. And that's Donald Trump as the president of the United States, right? So when I look at these things, I focus less on, it's Todd Blanche. I like him or I don't like him. It's more Donald Trump is clearly pushing something into a different phase. That could be a pure narrative phase by making him, you know, permanent AG as opposed to acting AG, but it broadly

signals forward motion when it comes to Trump's Department of Justice. And, you know, we've talked about this for several weeks on DPAH this year in the spring. While there hasn't been like this overwhelming blitzkrieg of American justice, I think there have been signs of pretty encouraging signs, the ones that I thought were the most encouraging, speaking of Code Pink, are some of the actions targeting these NGO networks, which do seem like legitimate actions. We have actual charges being filed. We have indictments being filed. We have subpoenas being issued in those kind of networks. And, you know, ostensibly that's coming through Todd Blanche. So I think it's less about him. I think I look at the sort of negative indicators. I look at what's not said. And for me,

some of the most encouraging signals are sometimes when Trump says what he doesn't. want to talk about in those clips that you just played. It's notable when a guy who is the person in this world who has most highlighted the falsity of elections doesn't want to talk about what they're going to do about them when his entire campaign in 2024 was about doing something about them. I don't take that as a negative sign of, oh man, something shaped. for the worst. I take that as that silent running sign. You don't need to decode anything to figure out that he's saying, yep, there's going to be action here. I'm just not going to talk about it because he needs distance from it. He wants distance from it. Yeah, I mean, he answered that kind of how he always does. Every time he says, I'm not going to talk about that, but here I'll

spend a minute and a half, two minutes talking around it about it, kind of. You know, I'm still hopeful, a little bit on the rug. Obviously, I think it's hard not to be about some of the recap. stuff. We have a story we'll get to about Kurt Olson being moved down to be part of the RICO investigation. He's like the election guy. We're just at a weird time right now. With Tulsi Gabbard leaving, we have

Pulte, William, Bill Pulte, getting put in there as the acting DNI, which is an interesting move. And then now, obviously, Todd Blanche being put in at as permanent AG. I just have questions. I have so many questions because to me, I don't know or trust that he could actually get confirmed.

And if that's the case, I wonder if this is Trump kind of moving him off the table, you know, because he could have kept him in there as acting AG for like 200-some days, maybe even longer if you wanted to. I don't know if you would pass the Senate confirmation, considering how slim it is. And obviously,

if you would have done it after the midterms, maybe would have been harder. Who knows? But the election topic is just such a, I don't know, it's so up in the air right now because we've been looking for election product exposure for so long.

And we keep being told by everybody, just one more cycle. We'll have all the evidence we need then. And yet along the way, we never get any actual exposure or accountability or anything. So I'm hoping out at some point the shoe drops. And Trump keeps, you know, kicking the can down the road on our behalf about that shoe dropping.

I hope he's true to his word about it. But we also got to be prepared and temporal expectations that, hey, it's possible we never actually get that. So how do we proceed and move forward without them presenting? the election fraud stuff that we know to be true. Because just because these people come out and tell us all the things that we already know to be true, it doesn't make it any more true. We've already known it this whole time.

Yeah. So we've just got to start maybe acting as if we do know it, you know? Right. Yeah, yeah. That's it. I mean, it should never be framed that, hey, we're going to get it revealed that there was election fraud. It's got to be, we get action on behalf of the fact that there has been election fraud

and our elections are fake. and yeah, I don't think blindly marching toward a new election is the way to do that. I'm not saying we get some full, you know, I'm not getting on the, our election systems get fixed before November 2026. I don't believe that. But I just, I have this overall macro view. Most of this comes from how Trump is communicating about the Iran War over the last few months, but I think I would apply it as well to this election narrative. Everything in 2026, feels to me like Trump is aware that optically, people are suggesting he's at the weakest he's been as president.

People are suggesting, and that may be true. You know, I'm still a huge supporter of his. I know you are. I know pretty much everybody at Badlands is and everybody in our audiences. From a normie perspective, the media and Connink, all these influencers, are clearly turning on him. It's ahead of a new midterm cycle. we talked about for months how it's reminiscent of the 2022 turns on Trump.

But because of that, I feel like a lot of the, I don't know, sort of culminations or resolutions in these various narratives and actuals, whether you're talking about Iran and whatever's going on over there, Cuba, all these like war scenarios and things domestically, justice campaigns, it feels to me like Trump is allowing the timeline to stretch out for a specific reason. Like we've all got our guesses of what those reasons are. I don't think those reasons are we need investigations to be completed. I think those reasons have more to do with psychological operations. I think there's a reason he's pretty much every time he tells you that, yeah, we're going to continue bombing Iran or whatever.

He also tells you that the war is over and that he's in no way. rush to end the war that he says is over at 7 a.m. every day. So what is he actually talking about? Who's who's being squeezed here? And in the Iran war scenario, I've been talking about narratively, it's all the globalists, it's all the warmongers. I think it's Congress. We can maybe get to that on this show. But when it comes to the election fraud narrative, the election narrative, maybe part of the reason he doesn't want to just come out and be like, here's all the cards and here's the actions on the back of it. He's, I don't know, he's allowed. people to commit fully to their MAGA is dead, Trump has lost the mandate, the elections are all that matter type narratives.

But what good does that do by them committing to that? What's the end result of that? I really don't know. I mean, because in 2022, I can map the pattern pretty closely or suggest that it was all to rug pull the DeSantis sort of counterop on. Trump and the MAGA movement, which I think was effective, you know, Trump front-running that. But he allowed a lot of it to play out and then he rugged them. So I don't know specifically what would be rugged in 2026. It just feels to me like he's behaving in a similar manner as he was in 2022. And it feels like the battle space is behaving in a similar manner, where people are once more turning on him, people are like declaring their loyalties. I don't think this is a wake-up-the-normy's thing. That's not what I'm arguing.

because people should either be woken up or they're not at this point. But I do wonder. It just feels to me like he's waiting for something or there's certain things that need to be checked off before this happens. I just don't, I don't know what that is. Yeah. I mean, that's a good thought. I mean, it does feel like we're in a kind of a holding pattern. You know, we pay attention to like where we try to anyway to the whole game board.

And like you can see the chess. Chess pusses. Chess pieces being moved kind of all over the place. that like clearly it clearly appears there's something being set up and we think it's this is it really that is it something else i don't know and but the election one is just one that's such a such a darn i don't know and let's let's talk about this story because this is kind of goes hand in hand with it we have um we've by the way i was talking with chris earlier today about election stuff and the it's one of the most successful siaps of all time that our elections like are

legitimate in any former fashion. And so many people are stuck defending that still. But this is a story. A lot of people know who Kurt Olson is. Election official joins the DOJ role in grand conspiracy probe of prior investigations of President Trump. Kurt Olson, a White House official, was assisted President Trump's efforts to examine the 2020 election results, has joined the Justice Department as a senior attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. The Justice Department spokesperson confirmed he began his role on Monday. He's reporting to this Jason Quinonez. He's going to be working under Joe D. Geneva, who is the guy heading up the RICO case down there now.

And it makes sense. Like we've been talking about this RICO case for a while. It should cover a huge window of period going from the Russia collusion stuff all the way through to the political persecution of Trump and maybe even stuff after that and everything in between, including the stolen election. So it makes sense that they would add like a stolen election element to this. I was torn on like, I'm not sure. I don't know Kurtles and well. Some of the people I do know that do know him well are not as excited. And then today,

Catamaran Jack responded to one of my or one of our Badlands posts. And he's like all in on this thing. I'm talking about Patrick Byrne, by the way. And that makes me question whether it's a good thing because I look at him as kind of a reverse indicator. Because he's a admitted liar and, former in quote CIA agent. So I know this might upset some people in the chat to who love Patrick Byrne, but he admitted to being a CIA agent and lying about it for years.

Like if you don't question this guy, I don't know, you're not doing it right. A plus Kurt is a former Navy SEAL turned successful Washington, D.C. lawyer. In December 2020, he got in the fight. We agreed we would take this to the firing squad. He has been one of the most important members of this fight. And this is a great appointment by Trump. I don't know if Trump. I don't know if Trump appointed him, by the way, but...

The firing squad rhetoric is always a flag. It's just weird. Like, that makes me question it more than anything now. Like, is this a rug? Are they adding, you know, some square footage to the rug for us? Right. Well, this is tangential to it. I mean, I don't have a lot of thoughts on Olson,

but the other appointment this week was Bill Pulte there. I don't know if that's how you pronounce it. I think it is. And I'll say this was a little, a little divo adjacent. So we've got, you know, there is plenty of this going on. Trump's Intel picked a lights maga and shocks the nation's spies. I picked that one specifically because it's the only headline I saw. It's the only article I saw out of the mainstream media that was specifically talking about the Intel community.

Most of it was talking about, you know, the media's response, how he has no experience, Congress's responses. I saw a lot of that. But this one's talking about like, hey, the Intel community doesn't like this. Well, talk about reverse indicators. I like that. Anything the United States intel community doesn't like, I'm a huge fan of that, and I think we should do a lot more of it. But here's the little Devo boop in here, I thought.

Brian O'Neill, a former CIA senior executive, said the practical impact of Pulte's appointment may be limited, especially as CIA director John Ratcliffe appears to be the president's senior intelligence advisor. The reason I thought that that was notable is because that is coming from, you know, a spook. Good, bad, I don't know. But it's one of the people that Politico was talking to for this story. And again, the premise of the story is that the intel community is not happy with Trump's pick here. But that intel community also says, it doesn't really matter. what he's doing with the DNI because John Ratcliffe is his guy.

And that just made my Devo Jimmy's Russell because I'm thinking, yeah, if anything we've theorized for years or that you wrote about years ago in the Devo series is true, is accurate, and part of a larger framework. Of course, the bad guys in Intel know that and a lot more, right? like pretty safe to say media spooks maybe not like those people really do seem retarded they seem to pick up they seem to grab whatever bone trump throws into the media and just tear it up but actual spooks actual spies that have worked in the intelligence community to run these intelligence operations against donald trump and against the maga agenda and the american people they know what's what they should be concerned

about and they know what they shouldn't be concerned about. So I thought it was kind of interesting that he's like, I don't really care what Trump is doing on the public stage with the puppet show of, as Chris would say, the TV characters. This is why it's not a black pill to say Bill Pulte is a TV character. I think the white pill is buried right in the middle of articles like that where the intel community is saying, don't look at Pulte, look at John Rackcliffe. What is he doing? That's more indicative of what Trump is, what Trump's intel agenda is. Yeah, and there's also something to the idea that I think, you know, if you look at face value of

Bill Pulte as the guy leading the DNI, like you're, I think you're pretty much required to have some sort of military background to have that position, like some sort of clearance background, which he doesn't have. It is kind of like, okay, Trump, what are you doing? You're installing a yes man there. That's what it seems like. It's a Trump loyalist.

He's going to do what Trump wants him to do. And maybe that's exactly what is needed in that role. I'm not going to claim to know better than Trump does. But I also not going to claim to not recognize that Trump is always doing shits. Not always. Trump is doing shit sometimes specifically to like get a reaction and it's not always for the reason that we think it is.

There's a pretty good article from the last refuge about about this. Deputy D&I Aaron Lucas remains in place. Within the construct of the DNI office, Lucas remaining as deputy actually facilitates the installation of a placeholder that would otherwise not be possible because the legislative regulations and preferences on the DNI post are specifically designed to favor only nominations with background experience in military intelligence and or long-term intelligence status. Bill Pulte is viewed as a loyal trustworthy and solid team player. As a placeholder, Pulte makes sense, and that explains retention of his current job as the

federal housing finance agency while he fills the role of acting D&I. Given the legislative expectations behind office, Pulte would seemingly have no path to permanent confirmation by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. under the scenario in my head, that seems to make the most sense. The White House would seem to favor current House Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford to fill the DNI spot. However, with only one seat margin in the House, pulling a Republican member of the House to the cabinet is not possible or plausible. In this scenario, an acting appointment makes sense. And then they go on to talk about like, well, if we win the midterms, maybe then you can pull Rick.

But if you don't, maybe not, like, where do you go from? it also maybe shows that there are very few people that Trump can actually trust in some of these key positions that he has to pull from people that he knows he can trust over people with actual like experience or background in the specific area well and this is more i mean just good to go back to the rackcliff point or rather the cia or the intel community talking about rackcliff uh do you if you're if the premise of if the whole premise of the info war, whether you're talking about the cue drops, Devo, Trump publicly talking about the deep state in general,

the deep state has come to symbolize anything bad to all of us. I use it too. A lot of us use that term interchangeably. A lot of people watching the show have used this term with your families and friends interchangeably with anything bad, globalists, etc. But the term originally comes. comes from United States intelligence.

That is what Deep State has been referring to. Going back to the Kennedy era, going back to the JFK era, the term Deep State is referring to counterintelligence assets within the United States working to undermine the Commander-in-Chief and working against the American people. That is what the deep state is. Now if you were going to, now the other premise here, whether you're talking about devolution or you're talking about the

Q-Drops, whatever. people think of that, good, bad, or anything in between. The premise that is laid out therein is that the plan that we talk about is a military plan. Why is it military? Because it's against the intelligence community. It is not comprised of the intelligence community. So I think that as obvious as that stuff sounds and it's kind of shorthand to people that have been watching this show for years and digging on this stuff for a decade now ever since Trump really publicly surfaced it, it's worth reminding ourselves of that every now and again and saying like, hey, instead of thinking Trump's people are in Intel, Trump's people are leading Intel, Intel is good

now. I don't think that's the way to look at these things. I think the way to look at these things is Trump is going to do whatever he can do to keep intelligence in a closet, to surround them, and to keep them far away from whatever he is actually doing that is against them, because that is the enemy. That's not even touching on the fact that, as we've said many times, these organizations, these administrative agencies literally should not exist. I want them abolished. Now we can-D-I was created in 2004 in the wake of the terrorist attacks.

Exactly. We can have a discussion. We can have a discussion about military, do I think military intelligence? Do I think intelligence in general is required for a modern nation? Of course, it makes perfect sense. You need intelligence operations. You need counterintelligence operations. But if those intel operators are not beholden to the commander in chief because of all this bureaucracy,

it's astounding to see people in the truth community and in the MAGA community, even Normie Magaville, basically de facto defending deep state institutions because Tulsi Gabbard is leading one of them. When, speaking of reverse indicators, some of the best headlines that made me go, oh, maybe she is doing a good job in 2025, is that any reports coming out of the intelligence community were freaking out because she was supposedly doing a lot of damage to the intelligence community. That's what we should want to see. We don't want reformation. We want dismantling and demolitions. So, you know, I just don't think, anytime I see these figureheads, I see it more as Trump just saying like, stay over there. it reminds me of a departed clip

where Mark Wahlberg said he said about feds the FBI comes into the crime scene, the Boston crime scene and he said feds are like mushrooms feed him shit and keep them in the dark and I like that's kind of what I think is going on here with all of Trump's various appointments around Intel

yeah you know also I don't know what our expectations should be when you talk about the Tulsi thing I know we've had this discussion before like yeah she was seem to be afraid of her, right? But we're going to get reports on things. Are reports on things good enough? Like, if those reports don't come with criminal referrals, where do we go from there?

Like, what does that mean? Because we all, we've all read plenty of reports on the 2020 election. I don't know. I just have so many, I have very high expectations, or at least a high standard of what I think needs to be coming in order to get us progress to the next level. And I'm just very skeptical we're going to actually get anything that gets us there. You know what I mean?

I could cheer you up. because we do have, if we could get us, if there's a Sargent Dignam on Trump's team, I imagine this is what the actual meetings are going on. We'll save that for our outro, so we don't have to get off YouTube right now. How about this? Unless there's anything else on this you want to specifically talk about, we should do another commercial break,

and then we can come back and talk a few other things. We can figure out. We're going to talk gay Ayatollahs? Gay Ayatollahs? Speaking of assault, Bill Pulte and Scott Besson said that he would kick Bill Pulte's ass. Did you see that, exchange? No.

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No, sir. I actually said it was going to kick his ass. Good. Okay. Good. I share the emotion. Thank you. And as I said, that was last summer, summer 25, and many teams have fights in the locker room and then go out and win for the team on the table. Yeah. I was just curious because everybody's going to be showing that. I made it clear. I'm not going to support Paul T. Lee. Tell us the douchebag. But for those who didn't hear it, it's not my fault. There was that. you know low on volume it was the clips fault but he said did you really tell pulte you were going

to punch him in the face and besant goes no i did not i said i was going to kick his ass just a great response yeah beston's the greatest he's he's my favorite character he's like yeah i'm fucking threatening people uh oh great power top we need more of those in the white house do we though do i think man but there's slim pickings if this is what we got to to work with he's the only one fighting people and i think you need some more of that we need some uh exhibitions at the ufc 250 uh which by the way we're going to do a watch party for that guys yeah i forgot about that so um sunday june 14th trump's birthday in place of the narrative i will host a watch party anybody else on badlands is welcome to join me we're probably not going to show the fights on the stream

So, you know, you guys watch the fights with us. We're going to do a show. But, you know, you guys should, I'm trying to get all of you into MMA. This is kind of my secret Trojan horse to do that. But there's going to be, obviously it's a big MAGA thing. It should be fun. There should be a lot of stuff going on in terms of who's there and all the shenanigans that happen around the event.

So we'll probably be pulling clips up and pulling stuff up throughout the show. But the actual fight started 8 p.m. on that Sunday. So we'll either go live then or we'll go live at 9 or something like that. Is that after Gart? That is before Gart. Before Gart. Okay. Yeah, June 14th.

Awesome. Yeah, I mean, there's rumors. Trump is just going to leave that thing up permanently, which would be hilarious if we did. But do you imagine like any time there's like a disagreement between White House administration TV characters, they just go out and duke it out on state like Scott Besson versus everybody? Yeah. It's so funny. By the way, guys, for anybody asking, the fights are going to air on.

Paramount. Paramount Plus, that's a streaming platform. It's not a pay per view. You don't have to pay like 70 bucks anymore for the events, but you do need a subscription to Paramount, the streaming service, which is why I don't want to screw around by showing too much of it on streams. Zach was saying we might be able to get away from some stuff, but as somebody who has worked in the combat sports industry for well over a decade, I can tell you that the UFC is probably the most litigious sports league in the world by a wide margin. And when it comes to anything like that, they will fuck you up to make a point out of it. So you guys watch the fights. We'll pull up clips and do fun stuff and just sort of hang out. Hammer Guy 35 in the chat says Q did say to

watch the UFC fights with BB. We got it wrong. I thought it was watched the water, but it was watched the UFC fights. That's what it was what was implied. Yeah. And also based on yesterday's election, I heard we were supposed to watch California. I saw that decode floating around. Spencer Pratt was going pretty well, and then he, you know, he did the thing yesterday where he said, if we lose the election, then you have only yourselves to blame. So we got the, we got the voter, the voter shaming out of Spencer Pratt. He was doing well, right up and saw that. Yeah, his first comments on election fraud being blaming the voters is unfortunate. This is how it's breaking down right now. Karen Bass is for sure advancing to the runoff.

And it looked really good for Spencer Pratt, but some of the odds now, like the odds makers, and by that I mean polymarketing culture. So people betting on it are starting to pick Ninta or whatever name is to beat Spencer Pratt. So it could be interesting. We'll see what happens. But I didn't expect him to actually win this. And I don't know anybody in the right mind who did considering the election fraud problem in California. Right.

Not have been shocked to be actually. And the California problem in California. But yeah, mostly the election fraud problem. Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. this. I mean, you know, especially the fact that Karen Bass is a infamous figure. It's not like these are just nameless, faceless Democrats that the blue state is voting blue on. These are the most infamous ones in the state. So I don't know. It really all across the board with the election fraud stuff, it really does recall the precipice framing, speaking of the drops earlier. A lot of people have said

that, you know, people only find the will the will change at the precipice. Only at the precipice will people find the will to change. And I don't know, maybe, maybe maybe it really is that simple. Maybe there, you know, for as many people as there are in communities like this.

I mean, look at how often we're arguing with supposedly our own community about whether or not elections are fraudulent. And if you were like running any kind of psychological scenarios or game theory scenarios, as the white hats and you're thinking like yeah

everybody's angry enough about this they're just going to let it go until I don't know wonder what that presby looks like man can't get there quick enough if you ask me let's get into a couple other stories if I can find

we can talk about this I know we already did that the war powers thing should we get into that Yeah. The House voted to rebuke Trump over the war with Iran. It was passed a largely symbolic war powers resolution over Republican leaders' objections that it would weaken the president's hand in negotiations with Iran. I'm freaking hate mainstream news sources.

House offered a rare rebuke, blah, blah, I read that. It was one of two Democratic-led measures opposed by the White House that advanced in the GOP-led House. Think about that. You have Trump as president, right? We're supposed to have a majority in both chambers. And the White House, your president, was against a couple measures. And yet it still got through the supposed GOP-led house. Ridiculous.

Wonder how that works. Llamikers later passed a motion that would unlock a vote on sending aid to Ukraine. Yay. You're going to send one of the Ukraine. Thank goodness. But yeah, the War Powers Resolution was offered by Gregory Meeks. Been heading for a vote before the House left for its Memorial Day recess, May 21st. but it was abruptly pulled from the floor.

When it appeared, too many Republicans were absent to defeat it. On Wednesday, it passed 215 to 208 with four Republicans joining all the Democrats in voting, yes. The resolution directs Trump to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran unless Congress votes to declare war or authorizes using military force against it. Interesting stuff. It's more of a symbolic expression of disapproval. But still, it's retarded. Yeah, what I focused on here is this article. doesn't matter, but just the headline and the framing, I thought, was interesting. It's what I always

look at. I always look at what is the media propagandists, like what are, what is the protector framing this stuff as? So Politico says Iran vote caps, Trump's congressional losing streak. The House vote to halt the Iran war while largely symbolic further stymies the administration's political priorities during a week where the GOP has already scuttled several of the president's goals. So what I had said to you before the show is, you know, for the people who call us subversive and whatever else they want to call us about the midterms, let's leave aside for the moment fraudulent elections. Let's say we did have full trust and faith that elections were not fraudulent heading into the 2026 midterms. I still find it insulting and demeaning that the MAGA movement gets reduced.

to who's going to win the midterms every four years. Like, that's, I get presidential elections. I get why people do that. But when I see headlines like this, we control Congress ostensibly. And when you see stuff like this, you're seeing the mainstream media cheerlead about basically their victory lapse is that Donald Trump's control of Congress is, is not all that ironclad because there's a lot of snakes in there. And you can go one or two ways with that. One way is to say that a lot of the GOP representatives who are in there are fraudulently elected.

I mean, leaving aside fake elections in general, specific figures who are against the MAGA agenda are fraudulent. They shouldn't be there. They're frauds. The other way to go with it is to say that they're not frauds and the quote unquote Republicans in GOP are actively undermining Trump's agenda. And I had bad Lansos freaking out at me because I said that three months ago in private chat that, hey, why are we pinning our hopes and dreams as the MAGA movement on the GOP in Congress? Like, I'm looking at this more as a Trump movement. And in my opinion, a lot of how Trump has been operating in this second term is to do, is to, he has, he is triaging everything he's

doing and he's commenting on the fact that he's triaging these things to the media. Every time he comes out with something that he knows is not going to get through Congress, he tells the media in advance he has a bunch of other levers he can pull to try to get his agenda forwarded because Donald Trump is not trying to forward his agenda through Congress. He's trying to forward his agenda around Congress, which suggests to you that Donald Trump doesn't consider Congress part of our movement. And I don't know why anybody else does. Yeah, I mean, we talked about this a little bit Saturday, too, when Trump had some recent comments where he said he packed as much as he could.

He packed four years worth of legislation into the big, beautiful bill because, you know, just you never know what can happen or however we phrased it. But I think you're right in terms of like even our own rhetoric as kind of like a community or movement or whatever. We used to be all about the idea that, yeah, we got to destroy the Democratic Party. Then we got to destroy the Republican Party. Republican Party. We got destroying both. That's how we take the country back. Get rid of the two-party system, all those things. And it's definitely, you know, and it's been aided by Trump, I will say, but it's definitely kind of shifted to, well, as long as we just get rid of the Democrats, you know, and just maybe we just can, you know, rebrand and save the Republican Party. That's, I don't know,

the mindset shift is certainly concerning. I don't think Trump wants that. I don't think Trump is trying to do that. I think if we expose our election fraud system, there's so much more exposure that comes with it. And getting rid of like the uniparty itself as it exists in the two-party system, I think it could be a benefit or like a side product of that. But I don't know. Like it's just so, it's such a slow, slow process. Like there's been no progress in my opinion on actually getting to that point that it makes you wonder if that's, that's going to happen while Trump is even in office. Like when and how does that happen? Yeah. And that that's why I, I don't know. I look. When it comes to Congress, weirdly enough, I think about elections less than the president. By that, I mean the

veracity of elections. I look more at whether or not Trump is trying to forward a public argument about the checks and balances system. This is the type of stuff that when it gets clipped out, and I'm totally fine with it, like the NGOs and leftist organizations would freak the fuck out that people like me are sitting here being like, I don't know if Trump should be going through Congress for his agenda. And I'm talking about if we had a legitimately elected Congress. The type of people that run for Congress in general are not the type of people I want representing me. I just talked about Anna Polina Luna. If she legitimately won a real election, get the fuck out of here with that shit. You think I want you representing me? You think I want you signing off on laws

that govern my life, any of these people? You guys listen to any congressmen or women, whether or not you think they're legitimately elected, and you think you want to give them power over you? I mean, that's the conversation we need to get to, but, you know, people aren't even at the point where they can have the conversation of whether or not they're legitimately elected. I'm saying we need to have the conversation about whether or not there can be a legitimate Congress. And I know Chris says this kind of stuff as well.

But, hey, I don't know. As much as I'd like, as much as I just said, maybe we're super far from those conversations, why else is Trump constantly highlighting that he's basically circumnavigating Congress, circumventing Congress in every turn? I don't think he's afraid of that conversation either. Yeah, and look at all the people that have been like stonewalling his agenda. You look at Thune, right? He's been the one that at least all of the community has been focused on, laser focused on,

in terms of like he's the problem. If he could just, you know, end the filibuster and pass the Save Act, Everything would be just fine and dandy. We'd save the world that way. But Trump has hardly put any focus on Thune himself. Like if Trump wanted Thune out of there, I bet he could get them to do a new vote and get some other leader in there. But he hasn't done that.

But I think you're right in terms of the framing the conversation. You know, we talk about like all the things that have gone wrong on this country, all the fraud and all the problems and everything. The founding fathers, like their mindset of when it got to this point was, yeah, like, you guys, that's when you, that's when you, I mean, you kind of overthrow your government there that's what we did for much less like that's what you guys are supposed to do when the government becomes unsalvageable yet we're stuck in this loop where everybody's of the mindset that it's okay we can have as long as trump's in charge of the government

the government can salvage itself and it's that's just never going to happen i mean think of it this way this is again let's assume for the sake of the exercise legitimate elections and maybe if I want to go out on a limb, let's assume good intentions by congressmen in some like incredible golden age future. When you talk about the founding fathers, the point, the original point by the good ones and not the pussies was small government and to codify in an agreement, in a document in the constitution, a framework through which. the government could remain as small as possible, which means what? Does that mean more laws,

everybody watching? Or does that mean fewer laws? Now, what does the legislature of the United States do? They create laws. They write laws. I'm saying even if they are legitimately elected, and even if their intentions are good, the idea that we need more laws in this country is absolutely absurd on its face. It's like, you know, in my other job, I work in software a lot, databases, software, that kind of stuff. And if you're talking about the Bitcoin protocol, Michael Saylor has great comments on this. People are always want to change the protocol. Let's make a little faster. Let's make block sizes bigger. They fought wars on this over this with the original protocol. And he said, if we have something that works, the last thing you should do is add to it.

And I think you could boil down most of the issues with the United States, forget about fraudulent elections, to new politicians coming into the fold, new Americans coming into the fold and saying, you know what, I like that little constitution you got there. What if we added something to it? And one of the great arguments I saw recently that I just never thought of was, you know what undermines gun rights in the United States more than anything else? The Second Amendment. And I read a whole argument about this because it said by codifying wording about the right to bear arms in the Second Amendment, the American government put in doubt about whether or not it was a God-given natural right to bear arms and defend yourself in the first place, that the amendment itself was the original subversion of gun rights in America. And you can apply that to speech as well. What is the biggest threat to free speech in America? The First Amendment.

And, you know, again, it's not that Congress is the only problem in our society. Of course, we can get to the court system. We can get to the presidents, all that, right? I'm just saying the idea that we're all rallying around like, man, if we get great MAGA people in there, you want to write new laws. You want new rules to govern your life. I mean, it's crazy. We're going to get away from that mindset.

Did you see, I think I saw something today, and you were, would know that Strickland is not invited to the White House UFC event for his Israel comments? Is that true? According to Strickland, I have not, I have not sourced that being true. I don't know if it's true or not. He is claiming that he was not, he was claiming he was banned, but it matters whether or not he simply wasn't invited. And even if it was about the Israel comments, I think as somebody again who's been in that world a long time, I know Strickland, like, to casual Normie MAGA people is, like, fun,

and he says he's a MAGA guy. He's crazy. He's a crazy dude. And a lot of these fighters who have branded themselves as MAGA over the last, you know, over the last decade, a lot of them have done it for clout on social media. And he's a very unstable guy with a very unstable guy with a very unstable history. So if he wasn't invited or if he was actively banned, I would say it has way less to do with his comments on Israel and way more to do with the fact that when you put

Sean Strickland at public events, including fights in the UFC in general, there will be a public incident. Like he's had caged side fights. He's had fights in the crowd. He's been involved in assault situations, even against himself, because he talks a lot of shit. And like he was involved in a situation where I think a fan attacked him and he beat the hell out of him and he got off on that because he was attacked. But, you know, it's not a guy. I wouldn't invite him to an event like this. Yeah, well, that's fair. I just thought I saw that when you were talking First Amendment.

And there's been such a push lately about the anti-Semitism stuff. And we, I mean, we talk about this Saturday. I don't think we need to get into it now. But the whole, everybody's running with the phrase merger, like that the United States is merging with the Israeli army. it's not true. I've been trying to like, I've had no time this week because my kids have been so busy, but I've been trying to like piece together some examples showing that everything in them that we're supposedly merging with this stuff we've already been doing pretty extensively for decades or more. Like it's so stupid the sci-opt shit that everybody falls for.

But hey, that's the hot topic right now. So that's what everybody's doing. And I saw the bots tonight. I always think it's interesting what the bots are talking about. There was a few I zapped earlier that came in and called us Zionists. Oh, yeah, we got that Saturday, too. We get, we get, on opposite, opposite side of the spectrums, we're Zionists, and then we're also anti-Semites. Like, we're somehow... Yeah. Or no.

It's just like, it's so stupid. On Twitter and social media, some people accuse us of being both things, it's just ridiculous. You didn't play the most important segment here. It's eight seconds long. Oh, yeah, this is great. And I thought this was the most important thing. Is it the gay Ayatollah? He's involved.

Absolutely. Yeah, I think they have a lot of respect for him. Is it the gay Ayatollah? He's involved. This one was good. Just in case anybody, you know, wasn't, in case anybody forgot how serious the very real war around war is. This is how Trump's talking about. So who's making the decision?

Well, they say he is giving approval because that's the way it has been for a long, long time. His father and then him, I guess it's a succession. succession but we seem to be getting along quite well would you like to meet him or meet any of the iranians in person i've never thought of it actually it's a very good question i'll think of it yeah i'd like to meet him i like to meet everybody i'd like to meet him we probably will meet at some point depending on how it all works out we're going to get together meet great stuff where are we out on the war i saw um i saw there's more bombings taking place today but yesterday that whole story was so stupid but Trump comes out of their saying like he swore it, Netanyahu.

And I was like, you know, I'm probably not going to take this at face value until we get some sort of confirmation. And Trump will probably comment on at some point. And he comes out. I was, you know, I was just perturbed at him for his actions in Lebanon. I was like, well, that's funny. Yeah, that was great. Well, where we're at is exactly what we said last Wednesday. I said that there was a dialectic, a daily dialectic now where in the morning there is de-escalation.

and now almost immediately following there is immediate escalation. So that's just what's happening to the point where it's become a mainstream talking point. And it's kind of funny because I kind of alluded to this earlier when I said I'm starting to think about applying the Iran War filter to the election stuff. I'm just way less confident about it because I don't know what it would be accomplishing. but with all the sort of sovereign disentanglement theory I've forwarded and the fact that I think we have these disentanglement operations going on, that's the word I'm using. But it's also the word Sergei Lavrov is using and he started using it after me, two weeks after me. So I think there's something to it. But Trump did refer to you.

I'm just not just pulling this out of my ass. Trump has been consistently referring to the Venezuela model when it comes to Iran, right? So now people disagree on what the Venezuela model refers to. I've got my own extensive thoughts on that. But at the very least, Trump is telling you he has a very specific framework he's following when it comes to Iran. Part of what I think he's doing with this on again, off again, like timeline stretching. That's the easiest way to put it, I think, is Trump is the one, Trump and the Iranians, we're told, they're basically mutually just, stretching the timeline of this narrative out.

And I don't think it's just simple to say, hey, Trump wants peace and the other guys don't. That's why it's not ending. Trump is telling the media at every turn. He's totally fine with it going on as long as he wants it to go on, while also telling them that he can end it at any point he wants to. So if we follow Trump as this fifth-gen warrior and all the kind of stuff we think is going on here, and you believe him that he has the power to end these things,

I do. That implies that he's not ending whatever this thing is for a reason. And it makes me look at, well, who is actually being affected by the perpetuation of this narrative. And among many other theaters of it that we've talked about, just from a media angle and a markets angle, you're literally starting to get like mainstream media questioning whether or not the things we're being told in Iran are happening. which sounds like stuff we were saying three months ago. And I think part of why they're questioning this stuff is because none of it is making sense to basically anybody who's engaging with the central narrative at face value anymore. And maybe that's part of the feature here.

Yeah. I don't really care to even talk about that around situation. Like I said, nothing's changed. I think you're right about your reading on it. There are a couple of true social posts we could, I don't even know which one to talk about. there's a few of 20 he's talking about jd vans and the fraud how jd vans doing such a good job and uh he brings up the utilization here so i'm just going to read the second part of that talking about lowering taxes amazingly democrats are fighting us all the way this is something that i'm

surprised at because i thought this would be bipartisan effort it's looking like they're in on the act democrats uh don't want us to find hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud this goes down along with men playing in women's sports the transgender mutual of our children, mail-in-bossed, no voter identification, no proof of citizenship in the scale of ridiculousness. President Donald J. Trump. Scale of ridiculousness, indeed. Yeah. Maybe that's all

I really... He's going to the G7. That could be interesting, considering how much shit he's talked about NATO. Yeah. What else? I know there's one more story I wanted to talk, but I closed... I accidentally close my tabs, and now I can't find it. By the way, the odds do not favor our boy. Which boy? The Freedom Fight's 250 event for anybody in the audience who's a casual

when it comes to combat sports. We've got a Spaniard versus an American in the main event. Who's the American? Justin Gagey. He's not very good or what? He's very good. He's just he's fighting Elia Tuporia. He's a Georgian ethnicity, but he's Spanish by nationality. but he is a what we call a phenom in the striking realm. And Justin Gagy is probably the best brawler in modern history. Really powerful, really tough guy. But the number one thing you cannot come into contact with if you are a brawler is a precision knockout artist, and that is exactly what Toporia is.

So we'll see if he survives, you know a few exchanges. It might go well, but this could be a case where Gagie gets slept within like two minutes in this big American event, which would be kind of funny. Yeah, that would be. I mean, it would be kind of funny. And the Colmian event is a Brazilian fighting of Frenchman, which is kind of weird. Yeah, I mean, I don't really care about the fights either from being honest. But I'll watch it.

I might join that stream with you. What was it, June 14th? Yep. It'll be fun. They're actually good fights, though, on paper. There's some good stuff on it. So are you not doing the narrative that night? No, I'm just going to do that.

I'll just hang out. That'd be cool. That'd be fun. Anything else? Any stories that you want to specifically go over? I saw this little tidbit that I thought was interesting. I haven't followed this story closely.

I'm sure you have on your show. Senator Republicans moved to extend spy powers. But this is what I thought was interesting. Where is it? So in the middle of this, a copy of the bill reviewed by Politico would extend the program through June 2029. It also includes a three-year ban on the Federal Reserve issuing a digital currency,

a gesture toward House Republican hardliners who have pushed for a permanent ban. So this is in the Section 702 extension. This is surveillance powers, right? And I think it's interesting. It makes sense to me, but I think it's interesting signal that the MAGA side of the equation is like, yeah, make sure this also bans the Federal Reserve. It's just, I think to Normies or anybody who hasn't had the discussions we've had about Bitcoin, about Digital 1776 with G money and all that,

and about maybe something going on there, something bigger going on in the realm of digital finance, it's interesting to see the Trump administration trying to use surveillance bills to squeeze out the Federal Reserve Bank. Does it actually ban the central bank digital currency or just all digital currencies? It specifically references the Federal Reserve's creation of a digital currency. But yeah, because their digital currency would be like a legally recognized U.S. dollar substitute, which they do not want. Basically, the way I understand it is the reason, the reason, the reason, the real thing,

The reason you can have stable coins and that whole thing going on and cryptocurrencies is that these are private organizations using private currencies that people can choose to exchange in or not, right? The difference would be if the Federal Reserve and central banks around the world start printing digital, I mean, they already do, but central bank issue digital currencies, then your bank, your local bank will then be converting your fiat into digital currencies and there's all kinds of uh implications that go on there not that we should be on a fiat system but it's basically like the the ultimate doom doom loop endgame so i think it's always notable whenever the trump administration like kicks that can down the road and freezes them out yeah but i mean the the fact that they're not going to vote um i don't know Because the whole pollty thing, because I've seen stories out there where they're never going to vote like for the FISA thing extension with him in there. But now they're including this and there to get it through.

I don't know. I just, I don't think the bill should be passed in the first place. I think Trump has flip-flop on this, guys. I know people don't want to talk about that. But Trump has flipped off on this issue multiple times. Super against FISA reauthorization. Now he's not. It's okay to say that when it's true.

I'm super against it as well. I do not think our intelligence agency agency should have the authority or ability to spy on like this. Yeah, the digital currency thing is certainly interesting, especially with Bitcoin going down so much right now. Yeah. It's notable. Are you keen in on the, the SpaceX IPO? That's like eight days away or something? Yeah, I'm not, I don't have any money to put in it, but I'm also, I wouldn't even if I did. Not because I don't believe in it. I think it's going to be huge. It's not right away. Well, my, I'm part of the, uh, I subscribe. to the theory among many, many sort of Tesla maxis, which is definitely a thing that Tesla and

SpaceX are going to merge. A lot of people who are very read in on this are basically saying this. And by the way, besides that being like a market reading of what market movers think is going to happen because it's practical and pragmatic, I think that this further lends credence to the idea of Elon Musk being involved with something that we've long speculated on. I know that people don't trust them and, hey, I'm not saying you should, but all of Elon's companies are consolidating and converging. And as I said, I think last week or the week before, all of those companies basically are the prime market proofs of all the infrastructure projects that Trump needs for his golden age, and that is 2025 executive orders layout. So the other thing is,

SpaceX and Tesla already have a bunch of deals with each other. They're both Elon companies with their separate companies, but they're purchasing hundreds and hundreds of billion dollars of dollars worth of equipment from each other and, you know, compute. So they're going to merge. Have they purchased as SpaceX purchased Tesla stock yet? Because that would be how they do it, wouldn't it? I don't know which way it would go.

I've seen, I've seen the speculation be that Tesla would merge into SpaceX that way. But yeah, the rumor right now is that they're going to IPO at like a $1.75 trillion valuation, which would by far be the biggest initial IPO ever. But I've seen the concerns from Tesla investors about a merger would be you don't want to dilute. Like part of Elon's claim to fame among the reason he has such loyalty among Tesla investors. He made them a fuck ton of money. But there's also Tesla investors are kind of like Bitcoin maxis. They don't sell.

And because they think Tesla stock's going to be the most valuable company in the world. So what you can't do is dilute them. So you'd basically have to wait until the stocks were at, the valuations were essentially equal. And then when you merge, you're not really diluting anybody on either side. All right, man. Anything else otherwise, I am, I know it's a little earlier than we normally go, but I'm ready wrap it up. I was such a freaking busy week with the kids. That's it. Baseball started up again for my son.

I'm coaching and it's quite quite a good time. Are you coming down here yet? Did you have you decided before or after guard? I highly doubt we're going to be able to. What the fuck, man? Yeah. Why? Well, it didn't help that my dog, who we thought was going to be awesome when we went to Florida, we put him back with the breeder that he was at when we went to. to Florida last time for Gart. He was great. Last time we went. And then this time we got back. I was like, oh, how was he? And they were like, really horrible. He was being really aggressive and

growling at everybody that went near him. So, man, he is tough. I figure out a different solution for him. Well, pretty much only likes us. I always bring him off. I got a big backyard. I'm going to run around a little bit. All right. Do you want to check if we got any boosts? Yes, they haven't updated on the site, but I got the emails for them. We got 1027.js, the 20 bucks as usual. Good evening. Thank you. Joe.

I fell in North Dakota. Whereas John would say, good evening. I'm trying to find a clip, just so you guys know what I'm trying to do. You know, during the speaker vote, back in 2023, when they went like 16 rounds, I'm trying to find a clip. I'm trying to find a clip of Anna Polina Luna going up to somebody and tapping them on the arm to talk to them so we can show that she has also committed assault. So it's a long process because I can't find her, but she's here. Now if like if two congressmen brush by her in a hallway, is at a gang bang? Oh, that might be.

That's like, that might even be close to some sort of like attempted murder, I would think. I would think so. Yeah, that can't be allowed. And then Shelly sent over $250 to the Wednesday DPH and says, thanks for all you do, didn't want to leave Burning Bright out. Yeah, she did that for the Saturday once. Thank you, Shell. You know, the problem with that is that that means you're doubling up on John.

And that's okay. That's clearly intentional, you know? Well, I mean, it seems like you were just kind of collateral there. But now my daily herald. feeling left out. You don't want that to feel left out either, so. Thank you, Shelly. No, thank you, Shelly. I really appreciate that. Yeah, very much appreciated. No, it's tough out there. It's tough for everybody out there.

Yeah. I wanted to let people know, tomorrow night, we're doing a little indie film on Badlands Story Hour, The Godfather. Hell yeah. Until... Indie film? Yeah, until last night, I had never seen this, shockingly. What did you think of it? It's great. I mean, it's one of those movies, I think, that because it was such a genre setter and trend setter, if you see it and you've seen gangster movies for the last 30, 40 years, so many things imitated what the Godfather did in 1972. But given that, it still held up really well for me, never having seen it. It's just that there wasn't really anything novel in it for me. Because I'm like, oh, I saw Goodfellas rip this off.

I saw Casino rip this off. I saw The Departed ripped this off. But, yeah, it's great stuff. Marlon Brando is great. I've really not seen a lot of movies with him. And Al Pacino, back when he was a serious dude who wasn't Trump deranged. Yeah. Well, it's a good movie.

What time is that 1030 Eastern? 1030 Eastern, guys. Join us for the Godfather. And Chris said he wanted to talk about, he was thinking about this recently because of how Trump is sort of behaving in the central narrative right now. So hell yeah. Awesome. Getting the knives out on Donnie and he's going to remind him who he is.

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idea you're on to something there man um the real mega mama leaves a couple here says explain how congress just voted to end the war when they didn't vote to start the war i mean this was kind of a bad look. Yeah, I mean, I don't think they care about the looks of this stuff. They don't care about the optics. All they do care about is the optics of it. I mean, it's about like the optics, but they don't care if it goes against

their party. Like, they don't give a shit. They're not held accountable to the voters, so they don't give a shit about that. Yeah, that's what I meant to say. It's almost like they're not on our side. It's seem that way sometimes. And then the real mega mama again says, just proves Congress is fake and gay. That is true.

And I'm just checking over on uh youtube see if we got anything and a few people popping in and out thanks everybody um do's favor hit that thumbs up on all the platforms if you don't mind you got our outro video lined up uh i sent it to you in the chat did awesome youtube right this is an actual clip from a meeting um mark walberg is playing scott bass into this clip all right and i'm gonna take us off a YouTube so they don't get kicked off. So thank you, YouTubers. I'll be back on tomorrow. 1 p.m. Easter on the Daily Herald, so make sure you guys

tune in. And with that, Burning Bradd as always, it was the worst. Worst a couple hours of my week, but we'll do it again next week. Same time. Yeah. Catch you later. My people are out there.

They're like fucking Indians. You're not going to see him. You're not going to hear about him, except with me or Captain Queenin. You will not ever know the identity of undercover people. Unfortunately, this shithole has more fucking leaks than the Iraqi Navy. Fuck yourself. I'm tired from fucking your wife. How's your mother?

Good. She's tired from fucking my father. Good. Today, girls, what I have for you is micro-processors. Somebody, as you may already know, stole 20 micro-processes from the mass processor company out of Rule 128. These are the kind of processes they put it to computers that could put a cruise missile up the ass of a camel from a couple hundred miles away. These little pieces of plastic are worth about 100 grand a piece. I get this, we got a guy working for the company, two months, walks right out the front door with a box of processors on Tuesday, has a ticket book for Florida on Wednesday, but on Thursday, he gets found in the dumpster.

You know where that dirtball started his life? Southby Projects. What was his name? The depotty. Miles Kennefic got the job to forge UMass transcript. UMass Boston, which happens to be in. You're a fucking genius, huh? Who forge your transcript, dickhead?

Hey, this guy's, his old man runs the Hibernian Lickamont, Kenifix. We're not here to solve the case of the missing scumbag. We're here to nail Costello. All right, look, you got a guy who says he hears Costello's moving the process to China. He set up the whole fucking job in Pop Kennefic. You do not want to miss it if Costello takes a doubt. We'd miss a lot less if you made your informants available to us

and have cost it a bill. Without asking for too many details, do you have anyone in with Costello presently? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe fuck yourself. Like theory on feds is they're like mushrooms. Feed them shit and keep me.

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