Badlands Media - Devolution Power Hour Ep. 465: Iran Oil Heist Exposed, War Economy Switch, and DNI Sidelined

Episode Date: June 11, 2026

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open the Wednesday show with Trump's True Social feed doing most of the heavy lifting: an Apache helicopter gets shot down over the Strait, Trump announces Iran's military is "completely defeated," and then discloses mid-interview that the US secretly extracted 100 million barrels of Iranian oil through the supposedly closed Strait over the past month. Burning Bright unpacks why that disclosure confirms what financial media had already noticed: oil prices never moved the way they should have if the blockade was real, because it was never real. The Strait has been a narrative operation against the global energy cartel, not Iran. Trump's $1.5 trillion Recon 3 defense budget post lands with the SAVE Act attached, and McConnell and Collins immediately say it won't pass. Burning Bright's war economy switch theory frames the whole thing not as a weapons bill but as a translation layer for funding a domestic technology and manufacturing overhaul modeled on the post-WWII fifties boom. Trump's clip calling out how Steve Hilton got "approved quickly" once heat was applied gets a full breakdown alongside a resurfaced Tim Pool 2021 clip calling election fraud talk "voter suppression." Bill Pulte takes over DNI on June 19 and Trump asks for a FISA 702 extension, while Burning Bright argues Intel is simply being siloed and put in a closet while the real operation runs elsewhere.

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Welcome everybody to the Wednesday edition of the Devolution Power Hour with Girls. If you're watching on Instagram, we're doing a little test run because we always get replaced on Rumble by the After Hours with Girls show. And so I did title the episode on Instagram, Power Hour with Girls. And we're going to see, I bet we're going to get like a million views tonight just because of that. I don't think you can downvote on Instagram either, so jokes on them. This is going to be good. And I think we found the hack. We're just going to start putting with girls after every show name, why we vote with girls, breaking history with girls.

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I test, that looks pretty fresh, but then you go and feel it and it's like, it's squishing spots. It's not supposed to be. You know what I mean? Right. I don't think they want to get to discovery, though, is what I'm saying. So sometimes that's enough. Also, is the fresh and fit supposed to be like the guy hosts?

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going on with this? And is this a money laundering up? Well, it is a money laundering operation always. Yeah. Do you know some malls like they're terrible on purpose because they're right off for like huge real estate developers? Like we have a mall in the malls himself.

We have a mall, we have two malls in Bismarck and the north one is just like there's not many stores. Most of them, the stores are vacant like nobody's ever there and the stores that are super random. And it's like how the hell does this place make money? And when I was selling doors and windows way back in the day, me, my boss were talking about that. He's like, oh, yeah, they don't make money.

They don't make money on purpose because it's a write-off for the guy who actually owns it. He owns a bunch of property down in California, and he wants those properties to be the good ones. So we just loses. Interesting. I've always wondered that with these malls, especially like in the last 10, 20 years, because there is no way. You'll go into these malls and you'll see like the iPhone case store. Yeah. Like what are you selling two of these a day?

I mean two ten dollar cases I don't know how anybody would buy that stuff I get I guess I I have like my uh my phone whatever that's called on the back oh my my daughter gave me a unicorn sticker but this the Trump thing whatever that thing is called I bought that at a malchiaus once because I said I had to have kept him afloat based on the uh the sale come through the quota for the month sign up for another month yeah yeah that's interesting that makes more sense because I have wondered I'm like are these brands using stores as huge loss leaders, but at a certain point, how much can you lose? But if they're basically paying no rent, they're probably all on barter deals.

Probably. The malls, these places probably barely pay any rent. I'll give you 16 fidget spinners and one iPhone case for rent this month. Yeah, for 2,000 square feet. Yeah, ridiculous. Anyway, does anybody want to, do you want to recite the intro video for everybody since since we didn't play it man how does it start now i'm totally discombobulated need some music but i think out the music i mean i could i could pull it up elsewhere and

share my screen if we really need it far i honestly i wonder if something happened to my folders did i get hacked oh still all your bitcoin and the intro yeah that would be my luck I need to do a double check. You are sounding a little glitchy, so maybe you need to free up some RAM, only for a second. Well, whatever. I'll figure this out later. Tonight show, though, should be a fun one. We got, I think, plenty to talk about.

And none of it's like new stories, but it's updates on old stories. So like the Iran War, for instance, nothing's really changed, but everything's changed. but everything's changed. It's a perpetually violated ceasefire. Yes. But also, it is a war, but it's also not a war because

for various different reasons. Because if you call it a war, then you get in trouble in the truth community. And also, tonight, like, there's posts everywhere. We have launched our defense strikes.

But now we're done with our defense strikes. Do you guys know what defense strikes mean? like that's not a real word a strike is in and of itself is by definition offensive at least the Bush administration said preemptive strikes yeah they didn't say defensive strikes

yeah I'll find you though which command was that's right over there to me that that in a nutshell is like the dialectic that's going on here and it's either that we are in a really bad spot

as a nation or more likely that this is part of the game that's being played. Like, is the media actually going to report that we are launching defensive strikes? Self-defense strikes. Self-defense strikes. They're retaliatory strikes. Let's call them what they are.

They're retaliatory strikes. But whatever. We're going to use the label self-defense strikes. It is what it is. So we got that and, you know, us stealing a bunch of oil from Iran, a super top-secret operation. Nobody's supposed to talk about it, but so naturally Trump did. We'll talk about that.

We have election stuff. we can get into the d n i we can decode some d and i stuff if you guys are feeling up for it um there was another story what was it i can't remember some ai stuff a i stuff congress stuff too trump is calling on congress to not like not only could they not pass the save act like that they're having a hard time just doing that now they want to also pass it with a big military spending bill raising it up to like $1.5 trillion in defense spending, which if we're being honest with ourselves, the only people who benefit from that kind of spending are the military and defense contractors. So like most normal citizens should not be okay with raising expenditures like that,

especially in the deficit and debt that we're running. But we'll get into that. I personally think he's trying to nuke the entire thing. But yeah, we'll get to all that. There's another read on that that is related to the story you preceded it with. Yeah. Well, there may be an AI connection there. Could be. Yeah, that clip where he talks about everybody getting rich and shit. Yeah. Well, there's that, but I'll get into it. Okay.

Well, I just feel so weirded it out right now because I didn't get that intro video. And well, it gives us a little more time before we get replaced by the thoughts. Yeah, that's true. Let's get a quick word from our sponsor. And then you can pick. We can either start with the DNI stuff, the election fraud stuff, or Iran stuff. do you uh are we using the right background because i don't see our sponsors there um this sponsor the sponsors we have tonight are rumble studio ones we don't use a background so mind your own business and well you've fucked everything up tonight royally so let's not uh just just double checking uh yeah we'll start with fake wars i think i was going to come out and talk so much like positive things about clod and all the cool things i'm doing and then i'm pretty sure it hacked my computer and remove some files. Yeah, Klop's just going through all your shit right now.

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because it's pretty funny this week. You would. We have the latest that, or is it, Trump said. Pull up on screen. Pull up his tweet, his truth. I think this is the latest on the Iran war anyway. This is the super secret mission last month. I directed our great U.S. military to execute a series or a secret mission to support oil tankers and other commercial ships.

Hold on. Are you doing this in order? Maybe not. I think we should go through this chronologically. Okay. Don't you think? I guess. Let's go with Trump himself then.

Yes. Go down. I think you have to go back to like. I think it was before. Today. Yeah, it was today. Man, it's so exhausting with that feed now. I know.

He's got his gems in there. So he went after Stephen A. Smith in between the war posts about Iran. All right. This is the first one. Okay. And then keep your screen up, though, because I'm going to go. The one that you just had on the screen is next. Iran's military.

Right here? Hold on. Let me read my first. Let you go. Okay. I've just been informed by our great military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There were two pilots involved. Both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must of necessity respond to this attack. Thank you for attention to this matter.

Keep in mind, this was posted on June 9th yesterday at 1138 a.m. Okay. So they bombed us or attacked one of our helicopters. This is on the heels of over the weekend, Israel and Iran are like trading missile shots and everything. And we're just Trump's like, okay, guys, stop it. Stop it. Don't do that. Don't respond. Don't respond.

And then he comes out and is like, okay, but we're going to respond. Like Israel, you can't respond. We don't want you to respond. Right. Now you can go. Yeah, we had to. Yeah. Yeah.

Then today he says Iran's military is a complete and total mess. Much of it like their Navy and Air Force doesn't even exist. anymore. They have been completely defeated. Iran is all talk and no action. The bully of the Middle East is dead. They've taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them. Now they will have to pay the price, right? So, which is definitely something you say while saying you are not at war and are in the midst of a ceasefire. Yeah. He then later on said, Hold on. You missed one about the blockade and the fake news. Go down a little bit further, a little bit further.

Right there, the fake news. Oh, okay. Fake news media refuses to report how effective the U.S. naval blockade is. The most successful blockade in the history of naval warfare. Nothing gets through unless we want it to. It's a steel wall. Iran is doing zero business, not paying their military or any of their bills, and quickly becoming a failed nation. Lots of oil is getting out. Praise VT. you all right forgot he said that yeah so good so good that's great we got that one and related to it

we had the follow-up on the oil um this was coming right on the heels of santa john before the show of zero hedge and a bunch of financial media have been basically saying if the surface level narrative that we have all been being told for three months was accurate namely that the the Strait of Hormuz was as closed as it was said to be by like all sides, then oil wouldn't be trading at $85, $90 a barrel. It would be at $200 pretty much. Like that's what all the analysts say. So a lot of them were saying there is no way that the stray is fully closed. And I thought this was interesting timing because it felt to me like I saw this stuff. on all the financial media I read on a daily basis.

This was like the major news story of today, earlier today before Trump posted this at, when was this, 150 p.m. So all morning, Zero Hedge and all these financial traders are like, I feel like ships are getting through because this doesn't make any sense. And Trump then, it feels like one of those news unlocks thing. He says, last month, I directed our great U.S. military to execute a secret mission To support oil tankers and other commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, today I am pleased to announce this effort has resulted in more than 100 million barrels of oil making its way through the Strait and into the open market. More than 200 commercial ships have safely traveled through the Strait.

This wildly successful effort is because the United States of America controls the Strait of Hormuz, not Iran. Their military is defeated, their economy is lost. It's over for Iran. Thank you for attention to this matter. Let me play the video of this, too. I think this is worth it sometimes. talking about it you know I can say it now something you didn't know we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil nobody knows it you know who doesn't know

about it Iran until right now we took out the other night 22 ships late at night with no lights because they don't have any radar because we blasted the crap out of it we took that's why oil is $85 a barrel I mean you take a look remember when I did this, I said, look, the one bad thing will be, we hit the best economy we've ever hit. And I said to my people, I had Scott, I had Howard, I had Pete, I had all. I had Todd in the room. I said, the one thing we have to do now, we had just hit the highest stock market in history, highest 401 case in history.

Everything was going well. And I said, I hate to do this to you guys, but Iran's going to have a nuclear weapon very soon. we have to go in attack. So we hit him with the B-2 bombers. We took a lot of courage. It was totally successful. We buried it, very hard to get. But now we had to make the second move.

And I said, you know, the bad part is the stock market will go down by a lot based on predictions of what I think is funny. And why I pointed out that post earlier where he's like, we got struck by them and we have no choice but to retaliate. Trump just said the other night we took out 22. Like, did I ranch shoot at a helicopter that was like covering us taking out tankers, but like stealing their oil? You know what I mean? Like, and then we're going to retaliate because of that. You know what I mean?

Yeah. It's, I mean, the whole retaliation, Tiff or Tad is just surface level hilarious. I mean, the latest statement, and this wasn't a statement from its true social feed, but like this was, these are all like unnamed sources, but, uh, are, This was on a Fox News. Let's see what this guy said about Trump's latest. Actually, we'll get to it after this. On the oil tanker and oil situation, I think there's a few interesting things going on.

I mean, at the end of that clip you just played, Trump gets to a point that I've made on this show for a few months, which is that one of the big exposures coming off of this straight-a-ho-moos situation is not just the energy situation. That's probably the macro sort of theme. a secondary theme is that global financial markets are fake. And by that I mean, they are comprised and informed entirely by narrative. And way back in March, when it had only been going on for, I don't know, three weeks or something, we did an episode where I was showing Zero Hedge, Rabbo Bank, a few different financial, like, alt media types, who were saying they were calling it Schrodinger's,

war because even back in March, remember, Trump one day was in the morning he was saying the war's on, at night it's off, at morning it's on, night it's off. I think that trend only accelerated through May where it became a daily thing, which we talked about the last couple of weeks. At the beginning of the conflict, it was almost a weekly cycle where on Friday there would be really bad news that would come out about what was going on in Iran. And then on Sunday, there'd be really good news. and the financial market analysts were basically saying, okay, there's a very real and serious war going on here, but they are using narratives to manipulate financial markets.

Now we're at the point where there's like this cynical, confused resignation in the financial media. Anytime anyone says anything about the Strait of Hormuz, whether it's Trump or the Iranian regime. because they're at the point where it doesn't matter. Like this morning, Trump said we were good. And then by the end of the day, he said, they asked him, what's your next move? And he said, I'm going to bomb the shit out of Iran during the ceasefire.

Keep in mind, he's not going to bomb it without violating the ceasefire. He's just going to, you know, bomb the shit out of the city. Of course, all this is fake. But I think there's a little bit of a humiliation ritual going on on these analysts. And then besides that, I think there's a genuine exposure going on that he highlights at the end of that clip he paid where he, I think he is suggesting the global oil supply has not been materially affected in any way. And it's unfortunate that the markets front ran news that they would be disrupted. And I've started to invert that. I used to think, okay, there is a disruption in energy, physical energy markets because of this, that eventually is going to be undone.

I have completely inverted that and gone full fake. I think there has not been a physical change in energy markets. I think it is entirely a narrative change. And I think Trump is saying the suppliers have the oil. and the markets, oil prices are not dictated largely based on the price of a barrel of oil that these suppliers are selling for. It's basically being priced at the end of the chain by futures markets. And now, you know, we're starting to see prices fall a little bit. I mean, it's still not great.

But I think the reason there's no real meaningful change going on. In fact, my theory on this, oh, these ships got through. I think that's a bunch of bullshit. I think ships have been going through the whole time. And I think that they're trying to pass off narratives to explain why oil prices are dropping. And I think the only reason oil prices are dropping is because the suppliers still have the oil. So the market basically can't keep the prices artificially elevated anymore. They don't have the narrative to keep them artificially inflated.

And I think Trump is kind of telling you you can apply this to anything in the financial markets, not just oil. But he's saying like, yeah, we've got oil. The U.S. is doing fine on oil. It's too bad that prediction markets. I think that's the term he used. Prediction markets have been saying we're not going to. So your gas at the pump has been higher. Well, why are we paying futures prices for oil starting at the first day of this conflict that was purchased three months earlier?

None of it's ever made any sense. Yeah, I mean, that's the question. I wish he would actually come out and directly say that because, I mean, he's, he's kind of hinting at that rhetoric, but he's, but he's not directly saying it necessarily and he should be because you're right. We don't know whether or not the oil is coming out or not. We can only get access to what we've been told. Gas a month ago was like at $4.50. That was a national average. It's down to $4.15.

And a lot of the stories lately surrounding gases like the suppliers are telling us that they're depleting all their reserves and they expect. prices to go up. We've had like stories since Thursday or Friday last week saying pretty much that. Like we're in for a rough one here if this war doesn't end soon. And yet as they're saying those stories, the national gas price. What? Sorry. I said and now these ships are through all of a sudden on the back of those narratives. Well, no, what I was interested in is that they're, the actual price of gas was contradicting the stories that they were running. They're like, yeah, we're kind of freaking out here because our oil is going to run out. Yet the gas price continues to come down every single day, even if it's only by like, you know, a quarter cent,

half cent, whatever. I thought that was interesting. It's like weird. It's like if the prediction markets were doing what they normally do, they would be going, they would be loving this, this fearmongering and shooting the price back up. So I don't know, there's something we're going to also with the Iran situation and like the peace talks and the negotiations. Part of the deal that we were told was coming was that the Strait of Hormuz would be fully

blockaded still for like 60 days until they finished their discussion on the nukes or whatever the nuclear dust and so now that trump is confirming that like yeah we've been taking oil out i wonder if and confer i use the word confirming loosely i wonder if um i don't know like to me that's him like giving up on the deal he's like yeah we're not going to get the deal more now i can kind of disclose that yeah we've been fucking you guys this entire time yeah yeah i mean that's from the framing of that we are fighting with the Iranian regime. And this is the type of show where we don't have to employ that framing. I don't.

My framing of this is that it's part of the, I've been calling it sovereign disentanglement or a disentanglement operation. Sergei Lavrov used that exact word like two weeks after I wrote that article. He said the Iranian knot has to be untangled rather than cut. And I think, so from that premise, I think you've got a game of chicken going on here. We've been talking about that as well. But even if you go back to the oil prices that you were just talking about, isn't it kind of interesting that back in January, we obviously had this whole Venezuela absolute resolve narrative run? And right during that window, Trump had all the oil industry executives at the Oval Office for sort of the red wedding.

And we played some clips of that at the time where he was he was particularly going after ExxonMobil and some of these guys and being like, you know, fuck you basically about crying about losing your monopoly on the Venezuelan market. Yeah. Well, early on in this before I spent three months being autistic about like what drives oil prices on the back of this, I was confused at the beginning saying, well, if we're the world's like foremost supplier or, you know, know, should be one of the world's most energy independent nations. Why are our oil prices skyrocketing on the back of this? And why are the American oil companies at the beginning of this crisis freaking out when ostensibly this crisis was granting them the perfect shielding to gouge all of us, as we just talked about? They're making record profits right now. So why are they freaking up. And I think it's because this has been a disentanglement operation where all of these foreign

nations that these American production companies have basically had monopolies over are now onshoreing their own production. Everybody's drawing inward because of this grand narrative, first Venezuela, now the straight of whore moves. And these companies know that they can no longer lever this. So if they have, and we also had it was the, I believe it was the, I believe it was the UAE has been the first of the Gulf states to publicly announce that they're leaving OPEC. Yeah, they already left. And they left. And that's massive because that has what has been artificially raising a floor for oil prices.

They all agree on the floor, not the ceiling. So that's been rugged from them from American energy producers who are selling into that same global market. If the Middle East starts undercutting everybody on energy prices, the American companies are going to have to start following them down. And I think that's the game of chicken that's going on here. Like, the central narrative has been all about Donald Trump warring with Venezuela that we're now best friends with and the oil's coming out of it, as Trump keeps telling us, and warring with the Iranian regime.

Meanwhile, the people that are most pissed at Trump are the energy companies that should be raking in record profits right now. So why is that? What is he actually disentangling? What is he actually going after? And I think it's the global energy cartel. And I don't think that that is the Iranian regime. I think that's these companies that have been levering it, and it's not just American companies.

Is it a city of London? Is those companies? I was going to say British Petroleum. Yeah, it comes from there. But yeah, everything is the city of London now. But, you know, I think I'm not saying that's the only thing that's going on. But I sort of think this is one of those games of chicken where Trump is just, Trump and the Iranian regime are just going back and forth with the same narrative every single day

that nobody can independently corroborate. And meanwhile, it's like he's just staring down the energy markets and saying, you guys going to come down now or what? Because nothing has actually changed on a material level. Yeah. I saw our views going down and I went to check if we got replaced by a freshman fit. We have it. I think somebody's bought in us right now.

Interesting. Yeah, that is interesting. But again, I didn't listen to like the second half of what you said there, but it's okay. I'm sure it was good. I'm sure it's good stuff. The energy stuff, you know, I don't pretend to be an expert on a lot of that stuff. I obviously know that Trump is not, the enemy he's facing over there is not the one that everybody thinks it is. I may not know 100% who it is.

I still love ghost frame. I can't get out of my head and he keeps like bringing it up now and then. What if Trump is fighting a proxy war with Israel using Iran? And I just, that it just hits home. Some of the stuff, some of the rhetoric, especially after Trump called Israel to be like, yeah, guys, don't bomb them back. Don't do that when they were pushing for it. And then Israel and people, you know, supportive of them,

it's like, hey, maybe we should just like tell the United States to go home and we'll just do this ourselves because they're not going to give us the green light to fire back in Iran. that is the best case scenario in my opinion because I don't want to be over there in the first place right best case scenario is Israel telling the United States to go home all the people that are pro-Israel here that are like pro-Trump bomb the shit out of Iran for Israel are they going to be mad at at us for going home when they're the ones asking us to do it I got I would love to see that actually happen. I'm going to retroactively say that they knew that that was the plan all along um I'm sure but yeah I agree with that and I just think there's I think there's multiple kind of enemies on the game board that are being

isolated you know ghost framing of Israel makes sense or in my earliest writing on this this year I was talking about the another group another quote unquote enemy that's been exposed as this as a part of this whole thing is NATO the NATO alliance okay so the freshies it was fresh and fair that was wrong all right The NATO alliance has been completely exposed as a result of this. People watching a show like this. And even many Maga Normies have already known that NATO is a paper tiger. But remember, in March, most of Trump's rhetoric at the start of this fake war was against our allies. It was saying that he was using the term paper tiger and saying Europe doesn't back us up.

They don't have our back. They're not helping us free up the straight. And then that was leading to a global conversation of why not? Well, is this political? Is this cultural? Oh, it turns out they don't have militaries anymore that can do anything like what we're doing over there. So that was a big exposure.

And, you know, there's many different narrative unwinds or disentanglements that I think can come on the back of this. One is the one ghost talks about the most, as you just pointed out. However, it's going to happen, the public mandate for American entanglement. in the Middle East and specifically on Israel's behalf is at record lows. And that's like all sides are telling you that. The people who are pro-Zionists, the people who are anti-Zionists, everybody in between is telling you, Israel has never been less popular in the American mind on a bipartisan basis right now. I don't think that's a bad thing. U.S. involvement in foreign wars has never been less popular than it is right now. And Europe has never been less popular than it is right now in the American mind. Canada has never been less popular. And the irony is America has never been less popular to Canadians and to Europe than it is right now. And I don't think that's a bad thing because I think part of what's going on here is Trump is basically just dominating the game board in such a way right now that it is forcing

even the globalist collectivist nations to act sovereign. You've got Mark Carney up in Canada, all of a sudden deploying like Canadian Trump rhetoric about how he's going to make Canada strong again. Why is he doing that? He's responding to what Trump is doing. And I think it's the perfect, it's that Kobayashi-Maroo framing I always use where I think Trump has basically put the globalist superstructure

in this position where if they go along with what he wants them to do, they're assisting him in disentangling the world from the globalist system. And if they resist it, the only way they can resist what he's doing is through nationalism. So it's like a perfect, it's a perfect paradox. And that's why I don't think he minds how long this is taking, quote unquote. Oh, yeah. He doesn't care how long this goes on.

Exposed a lot of people. But we should transition into his most recent post on true social because he talks about the military and the budget. And he ties it into passing the Save America Act. And I think this is pretty interesting. Unless there's anything else you wanted to talk about. It's the same old. It'll be the same thing next Wednesday, I'm sure.

Yeah, well, we are allegedly bombing now for the first time in a while. But is the three, he said, he didn't say, though, that that negates what he said yesterday, which was that in two or three days we would have the deal. Yeah, he said Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Wednesday we'll have a deal. And then he said they have until, I think he said today, they have until tomorrow to sign the deal. Or we're going to bomb the shit out of them. But we've also already started the bombing, but there's self-defense strikes. So they don't count as real strikes.

And if they respond to these self-defense strikes, we will defend ourselves vigorously. And yes, in self-defense. That's how it works. But it's not a war. It's not a war. It's just mutual self-defense. Mutually assured self-defense, something like that. This is like an hour ago, I think.

Yeah, roughly. two hours ago. No other president has ever been more committed to both rebuilding our great military and saving our great country and now is the time to make it happen for generations to come. I'm hereby calling on Republicans in Congress to immediately advance

and pass the forthcoming $350 billion reconciliation bill, recon three, which at the request of our Great Department of War will include the Save America Act as well. No games, no delays, and no weak compromises do this ASAP. Keep this in mind that because it's a reconciliation bill, they do not need the full 60 votes

to pass it. They just need the 51 or 50-50 with J.D. Vance is the tiebreaker. This is a generational investment in our military, even bigger than President Reagan's recon three, or sorry, even bigger than President Reagan's. Recon 3 is the only path to the full $1.5 trillion military budget our warriors need in order to build the arsenal of freedom i love how he's branding it now the arsenal of freedom yeah we will defend the homeland with the golden dome launch the unstoppable golden fleet dominate the skies with the f 47 and the b21 supercharger ammunition stockpiles and achieve total space force and drone dominance this budget reignites american industry creates hundreds of thousands of high paying american jobs and secures our global dominance without feeling inflation also the save

America Act and will protect our elections for generations to come. Our warriors protect our most sacred rights and voting is at the top. Time to defend that right for every American. Pass all $350 billion and the Save America Act to secure the nation for our children and grandchildren. And it goes through the entire list of the Save America Act, of which two of them are not actually in there. The All-American voters must show photo ID. All voters must show proof of citizenship. No mail and ballots, except for illness, disability, military travel. And then the two parts that aren't actually in the bill. no men's in women's sports and no transgender medialization surgery for our children.

Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. And my comment on this mainly hinges on this $1.5 trillion military budget, considering our deficit, considering the debt, it's going to be $40 trillion by the end of the year, I think, currently running at like a $1.8 trillion dollar deficit.

You know, not saying that the golden age isn't going to come and all those great things, and money's not going to come rolling in. Tariffs are being a little delayed. We're having to pay some of that back. Things have not gone as, you know, according to what we were told the plan was initially. And so I am not too thrilled

about a $1.5 trillion defense budget. I just, I think that's, that's absurd. It's a lot. Yeah. But so for them to be like trying to sneak in the Save America Act and increase the military budget for that, I'd much rather our money go to the military than foreign countries or, you know, fraud and all these other things. If you got rid of those and did this, I'd be a little more, it'd be a little more palatable.

But to me, it's like, is he trying to tank both these things in one fell swoop? That's a reading of it, but I know you have a different reading. Well, I don't know which is right. I just, I think it's good to explore. for my the counter reading I'll bring up a couple articles that I saved I think this was back in April this was here we go this was the Wall Street Journal so this was yeah April 15th Pentagon approaches automakers and manufacturers to boost weapons productions senior defense officials have talked with GM Ford and others about shifting capacity Trump administration wants

automakers and other American manufacturers to play a larger role in weapons production reminiscent of a practice used during World War II. So keep that in mind. And then here, this was zero hedges framing of it. War economy returns from trucks to tanks, Pentagon looks to automakers to rebuild America's arsenal. Now, what you're talking about is beyond that. But I had saved this because I've been working on an article on again, off again for a while, all about this war economy idea. The way I look at this, and this is tied directly into the AI stuff, I think this is a bunch of bullshit and that this is the switch theory that we've been talking about on the power hour for years. Trump or whoever feels that they need what I would call a translation layer in order to justify CAPX, the likes of capital expenditure, the likes of which only the biggest private companies can spend, right?

If you're the American government, the whole narrative, including that Trump has been touting before he became president again publicly, is austerity, cutting the debt, cutting the budget, all this kind of stuff, right? That doesn't jive with record spending. So I think he's using this war economy framing as the means of getting the Uniparty on board with it. Ironically, a lot of the criticisms you would have about this and that you just voiced, I think he is leaning into that and saying, okay, $1.5 trillion, but what's it all going toward? Before we even touch on AI, they're approaching all the biggest American car manufacturers and steel manufacturers, all this kind of stuff in the country, and asking them to allocate their supply chains to the government, basically, to government projects and defense contractors.

Even last week and many times for years on the show, we've been talking about who's the biggest defense contractor? It's SpaceX. It's Tesla. It's Elon Musk. So I'm not even making this whole thing about Elon Musk, but if you pay attention to who's getting defense contracts, it's not defense companies. It's not exclusively defense companies anymore. If this headline came out in 2004, we would be seeing Raytheon, Halliburton, all that. And I'm sure they're getting contracts. too for for weapons and missiles and all that but the companies that are getting the deals in twenty six and twenty twenty seven it's anthropic and spacex and tesla and open a i and meta and google and amazon is getting defense contracts because they're data centers and what is the big if you believe that there is this golden age switch going on what we used to talk about before trump 2.0 was the data center build out in the United States.

Well, that's not all being funded with private enterprise. What he's disclosing here, in my opinion, and actually, there was a Department of Energy comment, goes put it in the chat yesterday, where they're talking about the nuclear buildout. All of this is being framed as defense, national defense, national economic defense, national kinetic defense, the Golden Dome, all this kind of stuff. I don't think Trump is building new missiles. I think that's a narrative translation layer. What he's actually doing is diverting record military spending into a complete transformation of American manufacturing and technology.

And all of it is being framed as a war economy. And the last point on it would be the reason the World War II is important to keep in mind, if you get the war part out of the way, what is considered the golden decade of the United States? decade of the United States, bar none is the 1950s. It's not even close. Why? Because on the back of World War II, all of the American military industrial complex funded a reconstruction of the United States while Europe was literally rebuilding itself because American contractors got all the contracts to rebuild Europe. So I I think, and my framing and my writing has been, we are getting a new 1950s golden age boom.

It's going to be military spending again and reconstruction, but the wars are going to be fake this time. Man, I may have to debunk some of what you said, and I hate to do it. But I'm looking at USA Spending right now. USAspending.gov I'm looking at this is the year 2026 this is everything awarded by the Department of Defense

and it is interesting they have Department of Defense here still instead of Department of War and this is like in order of biggest ones and they're all like your traditional humanitarian government is the biggest electric boat corporate never even heard of them Boeing Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin Boeing

I actually haven't even seen SpaceX on here yet but I know they just got one recently These are all new deal The AI deals He's been having these summits about in 2026 So I don't even know if these are inked or anything yet Yeah Plus they could be DOE deals

Or at least that was the nuclear buildout Is DOE I could add them in here too Oh I was going to show this real quick too Um Where did I have that article? I had an article talking about the third reconciliation bill. I thought that this was interesting in notable context.

This came out, is today the 10th? Today is the 10th, right? This came out today. Two Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee warned Tuesday that a third reconciliation package to supplement the Trump administration's $1.5 trillion defense budget is really not an option, raising concerns about the future of key Pentagon priorities, such as munitions production and the Defense Department's ambitious Golden Dome Mission Shield, Senator Mitch McConnell, still can't believe that guy's alive,

the defense subcommittee chairman and Suzanne Collins, who's probably going to lose to that, what's the Nazi guy, Planner, the Appropriations Committee chairwoman, publicly acknowledged that Congress is unlikely to approve the $350 billion in reconciliation funding, the Pentagon is counting on to support its massive $1.5 trillion budget request. And this was this morning. for Trump's post. So is Trump's post going to get it over the edge? Maybe. But it's not a good sign when two of the Republicans on the subcommittee, the Appropriations Committee, even to get it to the Florida

vote isn't going along with it. So maybe this is Trump's way of like continuing to put pressure on the Senate to like show people like, hey, I want this done. The people, because I want it done all the people who cheerleader are going to want that done too, why isn't the Senate doing it? And therefore it puts a ton of pressure on on the senate not that they cave to public pressure they cannot be a hellicly cannibal by us because of the illegitimate voting systems that we have in place which we'll talk about in a little bit but but that's one reading of that as well you know yeah i had sent this i think this came out the day after our last show i had sent it to you but as an example because i think last week we talked a lot about the gop and the uniparty and all that um and we talked about the atlantic that night as a signal setter Well, the next morning, June 4th, is the GOP starting to defy Trump. Republicans aren't automatically falling in line anymore. So this is a big op-ed. There were a bunch, though, that came out that day.

That same day, there was like Axios, there was the Atlantic, there was the Wall Street Journal. There was all these different mouthpieces that came out with op-eds talking about this GOP revolt against Trump. And to your point, I do think, I think there's many streams going on at once here. I do think we're having this switch theory. I do think we're entering a new war economy. I mean, Trump is literally framing every single economic move he makes as a national defense directive. Which I like. The economy could, I can see why he frames it that way.

I would do. But I do agree that whether this is an attempt to directly tank the SAVE Act or not, leaving that aside, I do think Trump is calling attention in his MAGA base to the fact. I mean, the thing that I think only we have really been saying consistently, maybe don't put all your trust in the GOP since it doesn't really seem like they're on the Trump agenda. They seem to be blocking him. For everybody that keeps just going on and on about how we need to win the midterms, I mean, sure, fine. But don't we have Congress right now? And then the response is you're like, oh, well, yeah, but there's like a dozen bad eggs in there. It's like there's always a dozen bad eggs in there that keep.

stopping these things. They only need a certain number to block Trump's agendas, at least in the House. Obviously, they can't in the Senate right now. But, you know, I do think he's drawing attention to that and saying, like, I think the way I'd put it, I don't know if it was on this show or not, but I think it was on this show. Does Trump seem like he is trying to get his agenda through Congress or around Congress? And I would say most of his public statements, without even playing 5D chess about it, he he like precedes the inevitable counter from Congress by telling the media that he's got a bunch of workarounds

already figured out. And yet I'm supposed to believe that the midter, like the MAGA agenda depends entirely on who fucking wins the midterms. When Trump doesn't even know who's in Congress as much as his whole true social feed is endorsements, right? Copy and paste endorsements every night that we have to look at the entire year. Like please, Donnie, create a separate account for that. Trump totally wrote every one of those, Bernie Brad. I don't know what you're talking about.

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I think part of going back to the 50s and getting a new 50s going here is forcing women back into the kitchen. Yeah, we should put that in the reconciliation bill. Like, if we are not guiding America toward just the, what used to be the cover of monopoly or life, the board game, then I don't want to be involved. I'm with you, man. Let's watch this quick video on election stuff. Then I'll decide if I want to play the soft of school draft. So just a little context for those who have been living under a rock last week. It was last week Tuesday, right?

We had the primaries down in a few places around the country, but one of them was L.A. And Spencer Pratt came out of it, election I'd use in the second place. and they've slowly, but surely, stolen it from him, very obviously. But they didn't steal up for Steve Hilton. Now, I do want to play a couple of things or show you a couple of things from other people talking about the Spencer Pratt situation. But I thought Trump's framing and discussion about Steve Hilton was interesting, especially if you consider what happened to Trump in 2024 where everybody thought they were going to steal it from him. They didn't. So why would they not do that?

They obviously have it in place. But they're like, we couldn't, you know, we couldn't risk. actually exposing our election probably had to preserve that so we allowed him in there it's kind of what trump says happened with steve hilton and look at the election in california's example after a week they determined that the kid who's leading and had all the mojo all of a sudden he doesn't make the runoff and then i i hit them hard on that but i started talking about steve hilton who's a fantastic guy and i saw them say it was going to be two weeks before they knew and i started hitting them It's going to happen to Steve Hilton too.

It's watched. You've got to watch. And they approved Steve Hilton very quickly. There was too much heat on him. The only reason he got approved. He had all the votes he needed, probably to be first place. But the only reason they approved, Steve Hilton, it was going to be two weeks.

They said it. And then they approved him that night because the heat was on that. Because they had cheating dogs. And you can't have a great country when that happens. That's why Los Angeles. That's why that. state is in such trouble. Yeah, so he pretty much

says it's like, because it put the pressure on it. Well, and this is what Chris most strongly in 2024 in the lead up was saying about that election, right? Like, it's not all hindsight, despite what people claim. It is possible to apply

these logical frameworks to the future, which sometimes is more worthwhile than applying them to the past because then you can act accordingly. But yeah, this is why when people emotionally basically freaked out, the inflection point of when a certain number of people decided to freak out about Badlands, it was basically because they couldn't handle what Trump just said there.

Obviously, he's applying that framework to one specific individual. Because people, I think, you know, even earnest people who were freaking out about us at that time, 24, early 2025. We're saying like, I don't get it. Trump won, et cetera. And this has been the framework. It's not it's not to be a doomer and say the American election system is still fraudulent. It's to say, if you blindly cheer for a result at the end of a fraudulent system that you wanted, you are then codifying the system that gave you that result. And you see this just across, way outside of the info war. You see this in, you see this in, normie media all the time and all these influencer shills that good result happens in election

and the set like for maga i mean the subhead is always maga endorsed candidate wins another one we're overwhelming them this is proof that we are the majority in the country and then we lose and it's fraud well you can't say both of those things it has to be just that the whole thing is fraudulent and that's the only thing that we're going to say until you know everybody gets on this on board as chris would say i'm just going to keep getting the hose and trump is i think maybe telling you how many different settings the hose has yeah um speaking of people getting mad at us for things you say the new thing they're probably going to get mad at us for is our june tithad for softest goes i think i want to play it okay and uh i quick combed through it and and uh i i

originally got the idea and we were going to do somebody in blackface and we didn't quite do that so we should be all right but check it out what permanent blackface yeah everybody saved everybody even me especially you you mean i just have to use a uh promo code to get the discount bb truly is an idiot you are is it very convincing there I was just reminded by seeing that that I had forgotten about Greenstar's DM from several days ago where he was like, do you want to record some voice lines? I'm guessing that that was what the voice lines would have been for. Yeah, that's probably it. And I do realize I accidentally left the Chef IQ ad QR code up for like six minutes.

So I wonder if we're probably going to get paid out from that now because whatever. That was super funny. and absolutely nailed it again. I would say, blackface, Zach looks less dark than regular Zach. Well, the original ideal actually came from Spetzel in our chat.

And he's like, dude, I got a Juneteenth idea for you. You should have like somebody trying to go get lotion. And he thinks it's only for the black people. So he like dresses up in, and you can have Bernie bright dress up in blackface. And then he realized like,

oh, like the discounts are for everybody. I don't have to wear blackface to get it. And it was a pretty good idea. But I think this is probably better, better way to execute it. Oh, man. Freaking Green Star. He's amazing. He was looking good there.

Yeah. Anyway, okay, I don't know what, and we shouldn't get kicked off of YouTube because that's all original AI music as well. So I wanted to show you Tim Poole on. Oh, please don't. I have to. Because he's talking about election fraud again. We need to remind the people about what Tim Poole once said.

Okay. So this was him. This got shared by Elon Musk. It was everywhere. 26 million views. When you're rushing to find the votes to knock out the sole Republican, you don't have time to balance out the count to look plausible. Okay.

Harpen on the election fraud. Just want to remind everybody what he said in December of 2021 about discussing election fraud. Okay. Super important. Joe Biden is the president. An illegitimate president. And well, as soon as you bring up the election stuff, we are completely obligated to address it. We absolutely have to.

We'll be deleted off YouTube for two seconds because of that conversation. And so I think one of the biggest impacts on the 2020 election was universal mail in voting, not because of any kind of fraud. I certainly think like what Bill Barr said, yeah, there's fraud. You know, we don't think there's that, you know, is there enough? And I've not had anybody come to me. You know, you've got wild and crazy accusations from people like Linne, Dundell and Cindy Powell. But when it comes to the more like, you know, we want to do a

forensic audit, nothing definitive has come out to the point where it's been laid out. And I agree with Mike Cernovich, too. When Trump came out and started talking about all this fraud, it was effectively voter suppression because they convinced people not to go out and vote. So I look at this two ways. We've had multiple people on talk about this. I have not been convinced. And we and then we've also seen the detriment to other, to future elections because of the narrative that there's no point. And I think that that is. something we need to avoid. Man, the second half of that I had forgotten. Effectively voter suppression, which is more relevant now because the, you know, everybody in this community in that sort of Trump

base before 2024 was on the same page in terms of the election was stolen in 2020, et cetera, right? But going back to the previous conversation here, the number one cudgel that is used to go after us within Badlands, Koff Alpha, Koff. And without it, is that exact argument that Tim Poole is putting forth. And, you know, it doesn't mean that Tim Poole has never said anything true. usually you have to mix a lot of truth into your bullshit in order to grift really effectively. But my sort of code or one of the reverse indicators I would use to live my life is if you find yourself mirroring Tim Poole statements, maybe you're not info-waring really hard. So anyway, if you guys, if any of you guys in chat have been any of the people coming after us and saying we're going to suppress.

the turnout in 2024 for the midterms that's that's the company you're in yeah i just think it's it's ridiculous to me and chris says this you know about a lot of things anytime he's been like proven right we're actually just talking about this earlier today anytime it's like proven right about something you know that he said four years ago and when we talk about it like it's not us trying to get credit for being right although maybe for some people that's what they do but it's more so being like it was true then and it's also true now and we could have been saying it we can change it yeah you could have just kept saying the thing or you know like what we're seeing right now with the spencer pratt thing this is like the most socially acceptable it's been to talk about election

fraud in a long time and it's it's not trump on the ballot either it's freaking reality tv star who ran a pretty fun and interesting AI campaign and now it's all like all the influencers who never got kicked up youtube never got kicked up twitter they're the ones that are like yeah we're going to make talking about election fraud cool again but guess what i bet nothing i don't know i'm skeptical anything will come of it but it also reminded me because the the rhetoric we're seeing is is again like i'm accepting i'm expecting them to find fraud they're going to prosecute fraud i think they already prosecuted some lady that james o'keef ended up finding um you know harvesting ballots or what i don't even know what she's doing exactly

but she's going to face like five years in prison but it brings me back to this declassified memo we got back in April. And it's a memo from January of 2020. And in here, it's our own intelligence community acknowledging that an adversary could manipulate voting results across multiple jurisdictions and enough states to influence a presidential election. Like that is possible. Our intelligence community said it was possible. The reasons they said that it wouldn't actually happen is because we would have like audits, which we'd never gotten. We would have like, it involved too many people and like the media would be there to be like well what's going on here guys we've never had any of those things right we've never had an honest reporting or audit or any of

that with the with the election system they allow it to go on they're willing participants but this is the type of discussion that I think we will be having more in depth I'm hoping next week or whenever I think Bill Pulte is starting on June 19th and I believe Tulsi Gabbard said she is releasing the reports before she leaves office so If that time line's right, that's like a week or so, and we'll get those things. So we'll see what happens. Yeah, and then, of course, the retroactive, you know, circle jerk is going to be, oh, we knew that the election system was fraudulent. Well, the people, the only people who were saying that during the elections that we, quote, unquote, won were demonized by all of these people who are then going to say.

So to your earlier point about, like, this was true at the time and Chris's been saying this stuff for years. the reason we get so pissed off about it is not like this ego thing it's and yeah it's annoying want to respond to it but it's that if you think as somebody in sat just said almost like we're watching a movie like yeah if you think there's a plan then isn't the plan to figure out that the election system is fraudulent isn't that one of the parts of the plan right do you guys think the plan is to have people trust in the fraudulent election system so if the plan is to wake up let's just take that at face value the plan is to reveal to the people that the election system is fraudulent and you think that us talking about

the election system being fraudulent is threatening the plan? It's crazy. It really is at the point where it's like if you actually front run the plan, you're helping to push it along, I would think, by calling the system fraudulent if the plan is to have everybody understand that the system is fraudulent. So it's like this Santa Claus type of thing going on in segments of the truth community where we're not supposed to talk about the thing. It's not even like the truth, the truth community doesn't believe this. What makes it so much worse is they do believe it. They just don't think we're supposed to talk about it. And Alpha does this all the time. He will talk till he's blue in the face about how the system is fraudulent and it's rigged and all this kind of stuff. But we shouldn't be

talking about it the way we are. And that just doesn't make any sense. Yeah. I mean, I also think there's a certain, there's a certain subset of people out there who are like, oh, Badlands is irrelevant. They're, they're dying. They're irrelevant. But also, they're going to cost us the entire midterms. Exactly. Like, which one is it, guys? Are we irrelevant or are we too relevant in costing the midterms because of our words? Can't be both. But yeah, I mean, this debate, we've been saying already for like six months or longer that it's not going away. And the people, like, nobody's going to change their opinions.

The people think we should be voting. They still think and always will think that we should be voting. The people don't. They're not going to change their opinion either. But everybody's, you know, it's emotional time. People are so angry on, on social media lately. Maybe ever since the, the black guy murdered the white kid, everybody just sat each other's throats.

That whole conviction came out yesterday, sentenced to prison 35 years and another race war is about to start. Well, speaking of that, there's definitely in terms of normie internet, not even saying not for good reason, but Europe is popping off with back to back in the last few weeks. We've had the Henry Novak story and then the Belfast stabbing a couple of days ago. Oh, yeah. Which, you know, these are, let's assume that they're real. Let's take them at face value for the purposes of this show. And yeah, I mean, it's crazy.

And it is important to guard against being whipped up into a frenzy because that's what the system wants you to do. But it is tough because we've also talked on this show for a few years about the idea that, or at least I've advanced, the idea that I think things in Europe are going to be a little bit more kinetic and rough on route to whatever. world we're moving into than it is here. And I think, you know, I'm not necessarily saying that's a bad thing. You've got that stuff going on in Belfast. And, you know, it really, it does get

to that point. We had this conversation on Only Lands on Friday night. I started the show by saying, like, yeah, we, we like to suppress conversation about another civil war. And then Alpha and Ash, we're talking about how sometimes it's necessary. But I think that it's the most difficult conversations to navigate in the quote-unquote like awakening space because it does get to a point, just like we talk about with the fraudulent election system, where if voting isn't working, let's say you're in Ireland, it's not really working. And when your police force and government is just taking victory laps about the invasion that they are fomenting against you, I don't know what the recourse is.

I mean, the founding fathers of the United States did kind of mark it down pretty clearly what you're supposed to do in that situation. But I don't know, man. Like, I think the, I think things are getting a little crazy over there. I got to tell you, when I was reviewing, like, on Tuesday, we had our, like, a little team meeting with people in the back end. And we were reviewing, like, the YouTube copyright. Like, because we'll get flagged for copyright stuff all the time. And Onlylands got flagged. Normally we take Onlylands off YouTube for the Outtrue.

videos and stuff at the end. And it's like, what the hell? What do we get flake for? And went and looked and it was like guerrilla mating fight or something. Like something ridiculous. We watched a bear. We watched a bear fight.

Really? That got us copyrights. I thought it was like music only that was going to get us. It was bear mating. Wow. So it was like whoever, whatever photographer owned that. Yeah.

Wow. We got a copyrighting for that of all things. It's super funny. But anyway. I will watch it. I will watch bear video. What we're going to have to start doing is have AI reproduce the clip we want to use just in really dumb down time and just like change it up a little bit.

Oh, we could totally do that. Yeah. We could describe like, hey, this is the video. This is how we wanted to go doing like super cartoonish dumb format. And then we can play that for people. Like this is the gist of it. Apparently the next just came back in one. They were down 29 points at one point.

That's nuts. Basketball is faking gay, though. So that's true. Well, it's definitely gay. But watch them spin this again against Trump somehow because when Trump was there, they lost. And everybody likes, oh, it's Trump's fault. That energy in the building was just down because Trump was there. Yeah. And now that they won, they're going to invert that. And it's because it wasn't there. Everything's a Trump anti-Trump op. Yeah. They're all freaking out about the White House event comparing it to the Roman Coliseum and everything. And I'm like, Like, it's one of those situations where I agree with the framing, but just invert what it means. But I do think he's playing into a lot of this stuff. You know, Trot, Ghost on the narrative like a month ago, we did the whole episode that a lot of people really liked about Trump and the sort of the NWO. And we were looking at the speaking of copyright claims, I kept begging Ghost to stop playing eight-minute segments of the Netflix documentary. But he just ignored me.

but he was talking about the idea of like the Trump heel turn Trump's been a heel to half the American people the whole time in their minds but that there's a more direct heel turn going on right now and a lot of it the first half of this show it's like he's talking about building the freedom arsenal and man if you told me it was George W putting all those true social posts out if I thought things were real this is the funny irony, the paradox of my position in the Info War or somebody like Chris,

I think most of this is fake, which is why I think it's so great, because I think it's having really good effects. If I thought it was real, like for the few people in our audience who think everything is real, and they're like, why don't you think it's real? If I thought it was real, as described, I would probably not align with almost anything that's going on because on the surface level, I don't want to be carpet bombing the Middle East. But many such cases. But dude, that's the point. Like, you're not supposed to align with half the shit because half the shit Trump does

right now. He's doing on purpose because he doesn't want you to align with him. And some of it's cartoonish. Like literally. Yet people just, this is the whole, and we've got all this, people don't like it, but I don't really care. It's the cheerleading. Like Trump does not want cheerleaders.

Even though he says he wants them, that's another good example. He doesn't actually want that because he's not going to be there forever. He's trying to teach you how to operate when he's gone. He wants to give the government back to we the people. He wants you to act like in your own self-interest for the things that you actually want to operate on first principles. And so many people are refusing to do it. I totally agree. During the early part of my Iran War series, I named the second entry in that Trump's test.

And it was really about it was not necessarily, it was not only about the American people, but that was one of the actions I named in there of saying, like, who is being exposed on the back of the Iran war narrative? And it's exactly what you're saying. In my opinion, if you are just blindly cheering for these things, you're not only not doing, you know, not helping Trump's agenda. I think you are actively undermining it and subverting it. And this ties right back into our election conversation that we're unfortunately going to have to have until it is solved. if you are trying to suppress the people who are calling the election system fake, which the only other figure doing that is Donald Trump,

you might be stopping the plan that you think we are stopping by refusing to acknowledge what Trump wants you to acknowledge, which is, this is fake, I will no longer participate in it. you as the Tribune of the People must do something about it. Many such cases. I just think the UFC framing and the Coliseum is funny because I really think he's leaning into this like Emperor Trump motif. I love it, but. It's the caricature of Trump.

We used to talk about this all the time. Like we'd play that old clip of Trump back in the day when he was like super measured and calm and like thoughtful in his response. And he's almost cartoonish now because. he leans into what the media like portrays him as and they believe that he is that thing when he's not it allows him so much leeway to operate um it kind of like do things beneath the surface that they do not expect of him or just don't don't even pay attention to whatsoever because they they they have such low expectations of him because he leans into the stuff i mean i'm mostly looking forward to um the the UFC fight because of the decoded and

promised now military tribunals that we're going to be having. Did you already pull that up on another show? I did on my show. Yeah. I mean, it's a bad one, like for the decode community. And it was from a big name. They're all bad ones. It was from one of the bigies.

Yeah, they're all bad. But I mean, there's a lot of them that usually the decodes have so much plausible deniability and innuendos and generalities built into it. that they're never right or wrong. It's like Gandalf arriving to the Shire. He's never early. He's never late. He arrives precisely when he means to.

If they didn't nail the decode, it's because you didn't interpret their decode correctly. So this isn't the- I think this isn't the one that we originally saw, but it's some other... This guy has 200,000. That's insane. You'll see the EBS logo in the backdrop of the UFC stage.

The end, 162, Nix, 162. I don't understand any. The stage is set. Whatever. The screen part, though, this is what I kind of harped on, is they've literally done this. Yeah, do you have those screenshots pulled up? Yeah, I'm trying to find them right now. Literally every other.

Yeah, so for anyone who doesn't get the context or didn't see that show when John talked about it, it's the jumbo-tron or screen test that the UFC does, I'm sure, every sporting event or concert. or whatever does this at every single event in history ever they've been doing it since the 60s and at rock concerts and beyond and you had big there you go UFC 193 that's how far back they were planning plan stuff November of 2015 and I can go back further with this one this is a 129. What was 193? 123? 129. Geez, that's how far back. And in Toronto. That was at that fight, actually. That was, um, I think, unless that's the St. Pierre fight. I was at John Jones versus

Alexander Gustafson in Toronto. And everybody there thought it was going to be, uh, one, one way traffic. And it ended up being like one of the greatest fights in MMA history. Gussifson, almost got them. Yeah, but this is what we're poking fun at. Yeah, on two levels, and I know we harp on this, but this is why. You've got the account I saw posted originally was a big, one of the biggies of Q fluencers. And this is the great irony. As I've said, I've been a Q guy.

And for the people that think us shitting on shit decodes, is upending the plan or somehow disrupting the plan if you believe that there's a plan and if you believe in the veracity of the Q drops, which much of our audience does and I still do, this is the type of shit we're talking about. You've got people posting a screen test for a UFC event and saying that it's worked into the plan. On two levels, it's insane. The first level is that it's obviously wrong. and if you thought for one second before posting it, you would know it's ridiculous. A ridiculous decode has nothing to do with any plans or anything.

Second, if it was part of the plan, it's almost worse. Because what you start to ask these decoders and they can never answer you is like, okay, let's say it was part of the plan. What is it for? You're telling me who are they signaling to? They're signaling that something plan related is going to happen at the UFC event, that you're all going to watch anyway and decode the entire thing. But they're like they're signaling somebody.

No, no. There was no explanation. It was just EBS, 10 days of darkness. But the problem with people endorsing this stuff is not that they're going to ruin any kind of plan because I don't think it affects anything. I don't think it is messing with Trump's agenda. I don't think it actually affects us in a negative way. But the funny thing is when you're retweeting people like this, that decode stuff every day and they're wrong about every single thing they decode and they use the same decodes over and over and over again for different things.

When you do that, you are actively making them money by them doing that. So you're actively incentivizing false decodes. And that that is what has become of large segments of the Q audience is that they are. monetizing false decodes. So it's become the ultimate irony where it's like you're creating the engine of the very thing that is siphoning psychological energy away from the movement that you think you're supporting. Yeah, that's what I guess. But we've probably harped on this enough and people are getting mad at us for it regardless. So is what it is. There's another story. Should we talk about the Bill Pulte stuff too? Talk about blown up decodes because Trump did

that a couple times today the last couple days and you'll see what i mean i mean maybe it won't it was decoded i'll just say it was decoded that tulsie gabbert was leaving on june 30th and that aligned with something else and so it's like ah see whatever they didn't explain what it even meant there's like here we go told you and then um trump came out and said this totally upending the the date William Pulte, who is working closely with Tulsi Gabbard, will be taking over as acting Director of National Intelligence on Friday, June 19th, which you would think that those who decoded the June 30th would have come out and apologize and said, oh, I guess I was wrong. No, just totally move on, laser-focused. Disinformation is necessary, John.

That's true. I always forget that one. He will remain as director of the Federal Housing and Finance Agency and Chairman of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. thank you for your attention to this matter and then he goes on to put another one by the way congrats to lindsay graham on his victory because of trump's endorsement is you know the senate's greatest power bottom god these things are so annoying i hate it when he does this you're absolutely right he should have a whole other account for it yeah you just do that sigh when you go to check his feed and it's like the endorsement picture that you scroll scroll scroll And then you'll skip past like a nice, a nice beefy post about the resumption of the very violent ceasefire.

Yeah. Well, this is actually a pretty interesting topic here when it comes to Pulte and the 702 stuff. Just like they did on the border funding, the radical left Democrats are trying to take our national security hostage because of unrelated issues. They should stop playing politics with the safety of our great country. I've named William Pulte to be acting director of national intelligence who will take over on June 19th and have asked, him to execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office of reverting staff to their home agencies. At the same time, I'm looking for a permanent OD&I nominee with experience in national security. FISA 702 is very important to our military and keeping the American people safe,

especially during the World Cup and America 250 celebrations. If nothing has done, this important law will expire this week. I'm asking Congress to send me a short-term extension of FISA to provide time for the selection and confirmation of a permanent head of the agency. I would like to thank Director Pulte for his time and commitment, President Donald J. Trump. You know, obviously, it's interesting he's talking about downsizing this. We talked on Saturday about him potentially dismantling this. I think that's even more interesting, talking about sending all the, because it's made up of all the different intel agencies, reverting them all back to their home

agencies. Love it. The FISA 702 thing, though, Trump was originally against this. I've always been against and most people should have always been again like end the Pfizer program and all of a sudden Trump is like switches he's like yeah I want this thing now

and then he nominates the guy that he probably knew this was going to happen from the beginning that it wasn't going to get like they were going to do this and he's continued to move forward with it he's asking for a short term extension ironically like him saying we need to pass this because we have the World Cup coming up

if you think for a second that our intelligence community is not going to do what they always do anyway, regardless of whether the FISA 702 authorities passed or not, you're joking yourself. They're going to do it regardless. It doesn't matter. Yeah.

But right now they have the green light to do it. I'm okay with that not being there. Right. Yeah, and the secondary point, or the point I'd make on this is last week we talked about the Pulte appointment under the framing of, does this seem like a very serious appointment if you are looking to amplify the U.S. intelligence community,

would you put somebody in charge of it who has no experience in that line of work? And we had said, no, you probably wouldn't, because if there is a military plan, who is that military plan against? It's against an American insurgency. Who is the power structure of that American insurgency? American intelligence. Have the clip. Have the clip.

Let me play the clip. 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. Yeah, destabilize a foreign country. And, you know, I like the Linda McMahon framing of Pulte, but it doesn't even have to be this dismantling. I kind of, I think I had put it last week, like, he's. putting them in a closet he's putting into intel in a closet he's just putting you know if you think of it as a controlled demolition that's fine uh you're muted but said right next to the burn bags that's where yeah exactly it's in the same closet that's where everything is capped so that's a

way to look at it even if there isn't this dismantling going on it just looks like a siloing of the u.s intel community while the uh the adults do the real work yep um no i think you're spot on the intelligence is are the enemy Trump finally signaling like he's he's going to move forward with that and that's what we always wanted right so think about the interim period between Trump getting into office and everybody's like let's destroy the intel agencies Trump gets in nominates Tulsi gabbard who everybody all of sudden loves and like okay now we love the intel community and then today or recently anyway he's like okay well I actually want to get rid of the intel community a lot of people got mad at us for not cheerleading again I know we keep

apartment on this but it's on a long enough timeline we've been right about most things but we get shit for it all the time and so I know we we we said earlier we don't bring it up or we don't bring it up because like it's a pride thing or whatever we said but it partially is because you guys don't understand how much shit we've got for some of these things but maybe cheerleading for it the entire time in the middle was the wrong thing to do and I think we're being proved right about I hope you fucking dismantles the shit out of that and same with the Department of Education yeah it's it's the thing is and you know Chris is obviously the one who talks about this from a first principles framework a lot but if you if you believe in the original like on a

foundational level if you believe in Trump's 2017 Steve Bannon written speech about returning power back to the American people ostensibly everybody in our audience probably thinks the American people i.e. them deserve that power back. So So that would imply that you, in the audience, believe that your vision for your life and for the future of this country is a good one, and that you should have some measure of control over that, that the American people should have some measure of control over that. The idea that advancing first principles logical and most importantly moral arguments toward the direction you as an American want the country, country to move in is going to disrupt the plan is what the biggest problem to me is. It's not even about the credit, the shit talk, or all this kind of stuff. It's more like on a foundational level, if we're all broadly right that there is this plan

for Donald Trump in the military to return power back to the people. How do you think you exercise that power? Like, do you, what does that mean to you? to you if I would tell you if I know exactly what it would be if you think we're disrupting it it's like so when you have the power back then are you allowed to forward first principles arguments about what you want the government to do or would you at that point be disrupting the freedom government by questioning it so it's a silly paradox it's not something most people in our audience are

afflicted with a condition like that But it's almost like a plan derangement syndrome. Like, you know, it's, you believe there's a plan, but you think if you say what you want that plan to be, you're going to ruin it. If that's true, then it means you didn't agree with the plan. And yeah, it's just, no, and we've had this discussion so many times. It's the fact that nobody actually wants to admit they don't know what the plan is. But then everybody gets mad at people who don't agree with their whatever version it is. is you know like that's what i think we get the most hate for when we talk shit about not the

q drops but certain decoders and their behavior um yes that's why we get so much shit for but it i think we deserve to like call it the bullshit when we see it even though we don't do it directly mainly because a lot of them are involved in the lawsuit shit but maybe maybe eventually is this called esoteric i got a in the chat um something the chat was saying like i want my constitution back I think it was a rock justice. The Constitution, that's all I want. That is what we've been advocating for, and that's what we want to. We want to go back to the more original form of the Constitution.

He said, and the Fed, like, yes, get rid of all of these unconstitutional agencies. That takes a lot of, like, there's so many things that are, our government is so damn big, that need to be stripped away and completely dismantled. And to sit here cheerleading for a lot of this stuff, thinking that those agencies are going to fix those agencies. That's just absurd. Like, that's just such a warped train of thought. And I don't know how we even got here sometimes when I look at the state of the truth community. Well, Napulte example, to bring us back to that, is an example of our framework is plan oriented.

It is informed by the framework with which we approach a lot of Trump's appointments and moves is that there is an overarching plan that broadly aligns with our vision for the country, this audience's vision for the country. So when we look at an appointment of somebody like a Pulte or a Linda McMahon to the Department of Education, we are operating from that foundational layer that Trump has the plan that is broadly aligned with our vision. This is why it's actually not that difficult to do this without having to decode anything. Because if, for example, the Department of Education, do you in the audience in the MAGA movement think there should be a powerful Department of Education? The answer to that is no. So when Trump appoints somebody to it and we say on a show, I think that they should just tear the whole thing down and that this is kind of a nothing appointment, this is not a serious thing. And then are criticized for it, it turns out that that is what the plan is, right? It's like steel chair from the top rope on the Department of Education.

Not that I'm saying that has actually come to fruition, but that's what we were calling for at the time. that's what we're also calling for when it comes to Pulte's appointment. That's all plan-oriented stuff. So I think it's all good stuff and good things to advocate for. Sorry, I've got to show you this. I saw a great meme. Did you see this stuff with the Kushner and the island he's doing? Apparently he's trying to build a resort near Albania

and a bunch of people are taking to the streets to protest. In Albania against this, like a bunch of people over there are super pissed off. And then I just saw this meme. Jared and Ivanka warn Trump that Albania is just three weeks away from New York That's good This is a great name We have to see if there was Sorosian funding for the protests But anytime I hear protests now

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I watched this Tuesday night. I had never seen The Godfather. movies somehow never seen them godfather one was uh really really good it held up 1972 godfather part two was absolutely incredible to me um i knew it was good i heard it was good and i heard it was considered one of the better sequels ever made um i'm not sure how the godfather audience feels about which is better between the first and the second but man i thought the first was a great movie I thought the second one took it to a whole other level. Lots of stuff to discuss in that one.

We talked about comparisons between how Donald Trump operates and Vito Corleone. Now, speaking of Trump heel turns, is Trump kind of affecting a Michael Corleone turn in his second term? I think that might be what's going on. And then besides that, so that's tomorrow night, 10.30 p.m. Eastern, Badland Story Hour. Chris and I have been saying recently, you're probably going to be. getting more news about real things talking about movies from 1974 than looking at true social posts about the Iran War every day. And also, in the place of the narrative, Sunday night, we will be doing, I will be hosting the Badlands Watch Party, basically, for the UFC Freedom

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It's a reference to the Godfather. By the way, I have so not seen the Godfather that I didn't know Robert fucking De Niro was in the Godfather Part 2. Man, I've seen it. It's been so long since I've seen it, but yeah, I knew that. I feel like I already knew that. It's weird that you haven't seen it. controversial it's very weird that I've never seen it controversial take I kind of like Robert

De Niro's veto Corleone better than Marlon Brando's version of him they're both great very different watch of electrical Marlon Brando plays the original older Corleone and then I see Robert De Niro pop up I'm like is that De Niro what so all the Italians and and unfortunately they all became trumped arranged which is so crazy why watching how base they seem in movies like The Godfather. It's all that man, fucking ruin people. Yeah, anyway, 1 p.m. tomorrow. I'll be on tomorrow night for Burning Bright, 10.30 p.m. Eastern Hem and Chris.

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