Badlands Media - Devolution Power Hour Ep. 489: G20 Signals, Russia's Return, Ukraine Endgame

Episode Date: September 3, 2026

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open with some personal banter (mystery health scares, homeschooling law rabbit holes) before landing on the real meat of the episode: Russia getting invited back to the G20 for the first time since the Ukraine war started. The guys walk through why that timing lines up suspiciously well with CIA Director Ratcliffe's recent trip to Moscow, and what it might signal about where the Ukraine conflict is actually headed. There's a deep dive into the mixed messaging coming out of the administration, sanctions talk that doesn't quite match the rhetoric, and speculation about Trump, Zelensky, and Putin edging toward some kind of resolution despite public posturing suggesting otherwise. An older Zelensky extortion allegation also gets revisited for context. As always, it's a mix of geopolitical connect the dots and the hosts talking each other in and out of theories in real time.

The Badlands, what are the Badlands? Explain those Badlands. That's a hell of a name. Well, good evening, everybody, and welcome to the Wednesday edition of the Devolution Power Hour. As always, and unfortunately, so unfortunately, I am joined by Bernie Brad. Bernie Brad, how are you doing, man? Pretty good. Yeah?

Yeah. Nothing more, nothing less. Your eye at least looks better tonight, less distracting. Yes, it was very strange. I'm not entirely convinced I didn't have some kind of stroke, but uh... Maybe it's your Lyme disease. Everything could be now. That's just like the foundation. It's like anything happens. I get hit by a car and it's like, well, you know, the Lyme's acting up a little bit. It wasn't for that Lyme disease.

Yeah. Do you get like a disability sticker for that? I should. I should be able to park in handicapped spots and all the rest of it. We should have Congress, since they're doing so many important things, we should add that to one of their things that they pass because I think we need people with Lyme disease to have better parking spaces. Right. Well, RFK Jr. is, I think he put a whole task force together about Lyme disease, and he's been doing all kinds of stuff.

But did we get a task force on parking spaces? No. Parkinson spaces maybe is what we need to. Yeah, I had a little rage out today. Not a rage out. Yeah, a little bit of a rage out where Mrs. Bright was randomly looking up stuff that was making her mad. Yeah, like what? We will probably be homeschooling or at least exploring that idea.

It's years in advance, especially because of where we live. If things change, maybe we can consider not doing that. But, you know, I'm like, I'm thinking, yeah, if you homeschool, you'd, just homeschool, right? Like, that's just what you do. You just decide to homeschool because this is America, John. But it turns out every state has different laws around whether or not you can. I had no idea about this, totally ignorant of it. So it turns out that in Massachusetts, you have to like petition the town for permission to approve your curriculum. And you have to like enroll them in your school and they have to approve it. And literally, I looked it up and there's

like one lady in my town that we have to write a letter to when my son turns six to ask her if she gives us permission, like if our lesson plans are suitable enough for own schooling. Now, as far as I know, this is like this formality thing where I couldn't find. I. I couldn't I was only doing limited research on it because we're like four years away from that point. But it seems like one of those things that isn't really enforced. But if you don't, I mean, in terms of they usually just approve these things, I think. It's like, yep, you submit the thing. They sign off on it.

But just the idea that that's a thing is so crazy in a very state by state. And some of the states I would have thought would be like very based are not. and then some states that you'd think would be horrible are not necessarily because I asked rock like how do the different states compare about this what it'd say about North Dakota because my sister was one of the worst actually really what it said not surprised yeah I can't remember specifically what it said but they all had different like um there were some where if you don't have a diploma yourself it's like not allowed yeah that might be North Dakota which is just so crazy. But you know, it's just one of those reminders, not that this audience needs more reminders of it.

I think the tax issue is always the thing that is the most obvious way of saying like, hey, we're actually not free, even though we say we are, but just little things like that where I'm like, oh yeah, if you homeschool your kid, you just homeschool your kid, right? And it's like, well, if the government gives you permission, then you can, which leads me to the question of, what the fuck do they try to do if you don't? seek that permission. And I don't know. Yeah, you're probably get in trouble, find something to take the, take the kids away from you for some sort of abuse, I'm sure. Right.

Ridiculous, man, ridiculous. But interesting. I think you guys should move from Massachusetts first and then consider homeschooling. I think it's a great idea. Well, I would. And that this actually led me down a different rabbit hole, which I was asking state by state, like which states are good for this, which are bad for this. Uh, of the best is New Hampshire actually. In fact, funny timing, I was reading that in July 2026 they just disbanded, I forget the name of the council, but like there was a whole education board slash council in New Hampshire that was taking in these requests because they had a similar system to Massachusetts. And that council was just disbanded by the New Hampshire Supreme

Court. And essentially as far as I understand it, in New Hampshire now, you don't even have to notify the government at all of what you're doing. They can't ask you what you're doing. The only situation in which you would have to inform them is if you want your kids to play in public sports, which they should be allowed to do because you're paying those taxes anyway, right? Yeah. So yeah, but I was like, well, then I looked up data. I was like, what's going on with New Hampshire population levels? And the machine was telling me that in the last five years, the highest net the the the net migration increase in New Hampshire is a direct result of outgoing migration from Massachusetts really like oh interesting that is notable yeah hopefully they don't

leave your your policies with you in Massachusetts when those people leave I love how people say that it's like don't bring those you know those ideologies here to our fake elections we're going to talk about elections side by the way we're not just going to talk homeschooling policy the entire time Although that is interesting to me. We have military and their role in the midterms and somebody who talked about it or at least sent a letter. We're going to talk about General Raisin-Kane and what he's sent to Senator Slotkin. I think she's a known CIA or former CIA agent.

I'm not mistaken. Sounds like a total slut, too. That's the word on the street. Just a rumor, though. Don't sue us. She might not be, yeah. We don't know. Can not confirm or deny.

Oh, man. Women are getting the right to kill their kids soon, I think. Out of the womb. Did you see? Yeah. What's going on with that? I'm assuming this bright's been keeping closely up to tabs. She keeps telling me she's not because it upsets her too much, but then she gives me updates

like daily. She's not following it nearly as closely as she followed the Karen Reed trial. But she's following it like it's inundating her on her social media feeds. And we're talking about the Lindsay Client. Yeah, Lindsay Clancy murder, the whole murder thing. Yeah, that happened like within a half an hour of us. Yeah, there's like, what is it, three, three women on the jury? I'm trying to think of what I read tonight.

Three women on the jury that are like holding it up or something. I'm not sure who it is, but all I've seen out of the headlines is that, yeah, it's like they're, I think the latest is that they're in danger of a mistrial. Which would be hilarious. I don't know what that means. The state would have to bring the case again. They would have to retry her, which I think is what happened with. Karen Reid a couple of years ago. I think that was a mistrial.

But probably it's some crazy bitches on the jury. Women should not be voting. They should not be in the military and they should not be on juries. I mean, at this point, we're at the point where like women like my wife and Ash are pretty much, I think, ready to take rights away from their own sex. But and it's not even about the Clancy thing. It's that, you know, Chris in our chat earlier was talking about like, these are SciOps. They're meant to get people mad on both sides, which is true.

But I'm separating that from like in my real day-to-day life of like moving around in physical reality. There are a lot of women that we are connected with that are all in on her being the victim or being innocent. And what's so, I think, crazy about this situation is that Karen Reid, it was like, she either committed this crime against her husband or boyfriend or did not, right? Yeah. And people are defending her or not. This is like, oh, she killed him. She thought about killing them.

She planned out the killing of them. She knew what she was doing. She has full memory of the doing of it. And still were in a state where, like, hundreds or thousands. thousands or a million, whatever women are like, yeah. And the only thing I could think is like if, I don't know, maybe this will be the biggest backfire ever where we then get to set a precedent and say like, you can't make decisions anymore because you just, yeah, there's a viral video on Twitter about that right there.

It's like if this goes through and she gets off because of her mental instability and hormones or whatever, that precedent is going to set back the movement a few years. A little bit. Like, yeah, I mean, who knows? It's totally crazy. And obviously, it's, you read about these things. It's like, I know parents understand this, but it sounds annoying to you when you're not a parent when people who are parents say it.

And I know a lot of people in our audience understand this. But it definitely hit. Like, if I was reading about this two years ago, I would have been like, that's outrageous and ridiculous. Like, I would have known all of that. But you definitely feel it on a different level once you have a kid. Yeah. You know, the one angle, I haven't seen people really go into it with this. And I'm only thinking of this because I've been watching so many more horror movies lately.

Because of the woman in your life. Yes. A little concerning. That's true. But are we ruling out completely that it wasn't like some sort of. sort of demonic possession going on here. Well, here's my thoughts on that. Not a great defense in court, probably.

If you are a pussy-ass bitch who can get possessed by a demon, I feel like... Don't say that aloud, bro. You're compromised de facto, right? Like, there's a certain level of you've got to have a little more armor of God on. You know, it's that kind of attitude. have enough on. Everybody who gets possessed has had that same exact attitude, Burning Bright. That's how it starts.

Maybe that was what was going on with my eye. It was the beginnings of the possession. Oh, funny. We do have quite a few sponsors tonight. We should probably get to those. And then we can get into our topics. Or we can just keep talking true crime because that does seem to be all the rage these days. It deserves me, I've said before one of my random interests is like box office ratings and data and stuff like

that. And I like to weekly look at what is doing the best in entertainment, even though I don't watch any of it because I don't have time anymore. And every single week on Netflix, which is the biggest platform, true crime is in the top, either number one, two or three, every single week, all year for the last decade. People watching documentaries about or fictionalized versions of real crimes supposedly, which is just a strange. It's a strange place to be. I think that's one of the more disturbing trends. Yeah, they make it interesting though, man.

They do. I've gotten sucked into a few of those rabbit holes. Like there's a point in time back when making, was it making a murderer? I think that's what it was on Netflix came out. That was probably one of the first like really big true crimes like in this genre, at least the newer version of it. But and that, I mean, I watched both seasons of that like five times. I was convinced fully like, this needs all my attention.

This guy needs to be out of prison. There's no way he didn't do this. Then you start looking into some of the evidence they didn't show in the documentary. It's like, okay, well, I mean, that kind of debunks a few things. That kind of debunks a few things. And it's just funny how they can frame those things, make a guy look super like he's the victim here when that may not be the case. The media can do the same thing with people.

Yeah. least with the framework you're describing, I'm like, and or Karen Reed, which was, you know, there's going to be there, I think the rights literally have already been sold to like the Karen Reed story. I'm sure. That it for like, and if this was like close, this was in New England too, it was right where I grew up. Like a lot of like a lot of murdery stuff happening in the area I grew up in on the South Shore lately, which is kind of weird. But something like that or like making a murderer, I can understand the compelling through line of like, there is a mystery at the heart of this and there's darkness to it and all that kind of stuff. But there's also the potential that

we have wronged in his innocent person. And I can understand why that's compelling. Where I think things get disturbing is after the making a murderer thing, now it's just like the Jeffrey Dahmer thing and this one and this one and this one and this one. And it's like, these are not like, There's gray area in this situation. This is like, do you want to hear about how how messed up Jeffrey Dahmer was? Like, I'm sure he was pretty messed up, man. Like, no, no, no. Do you want to sit down for 10 hours and hear in detail?

We're even going to cast professional actors and act it all out so you can see how crazy it all was and how dark human beings are. It's like that might be where the SIEOP comes in. Yeah, I get what you're saying. Okay, we're going to get a quick word from our sponsors. Man, stop distracting me with Netflix documentaries. Women are crazy, that's what I'm saying. We're going to do three right off the bat,

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it's in response to it what sounds like a strongly worded letter I don't know if this one I would consider strongly worded but it does have words Kane tells Slotkin there are no plans to send military to the polls in November Joint Chiefs of Staff

Chair General Dan Kane told Senator Alyssa Slotkin in a letter that there are no plans to send the military to the polls in November midterm elections we're going to read the letter here in a second so I'm just going to skip down earlier this month Slotkin sent letters to Defense Secretary Pete Hanks

Seth and Kane requesting that they confirmed they wouldn't send the U.S. service members to polling places this year. Slotkin asked the two military leaders to confirm the Pentagon will not send federal troops to the polls or to seize election materials of any kind. Now, why would they be so afraid of that? This narrative that they've been floating around, and we can read the letter right after this, they've definitely been seeding this. And, you know, as somebody who's like planning on stealing an election, I think it's a great narrative to put out there that like Trump's going to try to like send troops out to the you know trying to get people to make that optic look like everything they wanted to create like they can

pre-see the narrative the negative way for it right and that's definitely what they're doing here it sounded just to be clear like you said you were planning to steal an election like if I was I would definitely said as somebody planning to steal an election this is what I think about this story but yes I mean, I might steal an election. It just depends on which one. If any of them come across my, you know, attention. I always said, when Trump finally backs out of the 2020 midterms for real, that my vote is up for sale. And I will help you steal an election, whoever you are.

Absolutely. Could be Flynn. Could be J.D. Vance. Could be Marco Rubio. J.D. being a little weird lately. I don't want to derail it, but I saw him in that story as well. Who? I don't know. J.D. Vance.

Oh, yeah. He's a little worried. Have you missed the decodes, though, tonight? I didn't see JD decodes, no. Well, okay. I can't believe I have to... You're my co-host on the show, and you're not up to date on the latest decodes. Like, what are we doing?

Trying to avoid the decodes lately. They're kind of enraging a little bit. You can't avoid them. It's like you can get contact retarded. That can happen. So it was announced. I don't know where I saw it announced. But supposedly J.D. Vance is doing some sort of White House

press conference tomorrow at 1 p.m. It's supposed to be like a big deal. And then shortly after- Not about the new school thing that the tradesman stuff, I think. Maybe. But then they put this out, a promo video. They've done this like 12 times. No, I take that back. They've done this 17 times now, so far since Trump's been back in where they put out a cryptic little short video. There's one where like you couldn't see anything except like a flag that flashed at one point. There have been some that have been like super blurry.

And every time it happens, everybody's going, not saying, it's tomorrow. It's happening tomorrow. See, look at this. Look at this QD code and look at what it means in the context of something, a number that was shown in here. Look at what's happening. One of them literally that they put flags up at the White House or something. They put new flags up. They put a flag in the center of the White House.

One of them was secretary of education, Linda McMahon or whatever, and some dinner she was going to. One of them was some stupid bill they signed. And one of them was like alien.gov, the website tracking aliens, and they rugged everybody on the UFOs. There's been a lot of them. One was just the White House app that everybody's freaking out about it. Did everybody download that? Have you guys what's going on on the app lately? Yeah. Not that I downloaded and I took it on my phone because it was so annoying. But anyway, so this is the latest one. And they're tying this to whatever J.D. Vance is doing tomorrow. And so I'm just coming out early saying it's probably going to be nothing. Maybe a little

announcement from his fraud committee. I don't know. It's not going to be what the decodes are telling you it's going to be you can come back and yell me next time or stop watching us all together because that's what people seem to do when we end up right about well i don't know if it was tomorrow but there is like a pre-planned what the hell is it um yeah i was just reading this earlier and this is all just out there trump's new foundry school so i don't know if they're relating to maybe they're calming about the technical skill levels that we need back in america Trump's new Foundry School aims to train America's manufacturing workers of the future. They will launch the Foundry School on Thursday, a national training program meant to prepare

entrepreneurs, engineers, technicians, John, and industrial leaders for the rebuilding of U.S. manufacturing, Vice President J.D. Vance is set to headline the event. So it turns out that the decode is just the thing that they're saying. How about we watch the video first? Okay. And see if they're connected. because they might not be. We don't know. But it's not going to be anything that these decoders are telling you what's going to be.

What? How did they put the red one in? Hold on. Back up. Do they put them both in at the same time? I don't know. But that's all it is. Channel 3 to 4. Red one? Wait a second. That's AI. It is certainly AI. Look at see. The red one just appears. Wow.

That was smooth if he had both of those in his AI hand there. Channel 3. Channel 4. That's it. And so you add those up and then also add another 10 to it, you get 17. That's three plus four plus 10. Yep. There's got to be 10 in here somewhere. We probably just missed it. Yeah. So we can look again. You know, and kind of the shame about it, the shame about it for the three people who get really mad at us making fun of this. People who we've never seen the chat before but are going to claim that they're done watching bad lens

Yes, that's true. It's never the actual chat. Is I like that announcement and that announcement's really cool and I think it's very encouraging, it has nothing to do with J.D. Vance, the fact that he's like he's spokespersoning it. But this is a lot of the switch theory type of stuff that you and I have been talking about on DPH for four years. The idea of this literal switchover from kind of white collar industry to blue collar industry. It's all converging around this data center narrative. give you guys yet another indicator of what they're trying to stop with the data centers. I think often we're talking about the AI age and is that good, is that bad, etc., 5D chess,

but on a just practical level, if Trump is saying he's going to resuscitate blue-collar jobs and lead to a blue-collar renaissance, we don't need the technologies anymore that the blue-collar workforce of 50 years ago was specialized in, right? But what do we need? We need people to build the data centers. So it's kind of like this is one of those synergistic type of things. That's what I would take this as. It's like, yeah, it's a calm. It's a fun, cute little, remember analog?

We're now moving beyond analog and we're going into, or that's not analog, that's digital, but we're going beyond stereo. We're going into the AI world. It's probably what they're saying here. They're just having fun with it. I mean, I don't even care. We don't even have to guess. It doesn't matter.

Yeah. Yeah. We don't have to guess. Yes. It's just people are saying, well, QDrop 34 is a huge marker. So if somebody wants to send it to me, you can. But I'm sure all the post is going to say is some like very vague stuff about how big and important and something. It's not anything specific. So nobody gets sucked to like any actual claims of anything. But when you ask people to explain like what does that mean? What is going to happen because of QDrop 34 that you were claiming this is tied to? They'll never be able to tell you. They never give an answer. Yeah, and my point is that if you the funny thing is that they think that we're not people like that think that we're like not trust in the plan because we don't think that this is a decode. But it's more than I just think the story is cool. It's like, yeah, I'm interested to see what Trump announces in terms of specifically funding. But, you know, either way, this is like the the go button, the go phase, it seems like of a switchover. I am interested to see how fast Trump can start accelerating this economic push because obviously

that's been the main thing dragging them down narratively. Yeah, I agree. Okay, let's talk midterms. Speaking of being drugged down narratively to a point of losing the midterms. This is the letter that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Daniel Kane sent back to Senator Slotkin. Slotkin, Slotkin, people pronounce it both ways. I've heard it both ways.

It's a letter he sent back in response after she asked him whether or not there were plans for the military to go seize the voting machines. Dear Senator Slot, and thank you for your letter dated August 18th, 2026, regarding the upcoming November 26 midterms.

And so it's unfortunate that it wasn't August 17th for obvious reasons. But on my show, I decoded this also. And if you add the two to the five in the zip code up here, 20510, add the two to the five, and then move it on the other side of the one and bam you have a 17 decode you're welcome everybody i appreciate the opportunity to respond and reaffirm our steadfast commitment to constitutional principles

the american military is a nonpartisan armed force as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff i provide my best military advice to the president secretary of war national security council and the homeland security council every member of the u.s armed forces takes an oath to support and defend the constitution of the united states and the joint force has acted and will continue to act in in accordance with the Constitution and the law. Election Administration and Security remain the fundamental responsibility of state and local officials. The Joint Force has no plans to send federal military personnel or federalized members of the National Guard to polling places during the 2026 elections.

Likewise, the Joint Force has no plans to use such personnel to seize ballots, voting machines, or other election-related material. I have neither received nor anticipate receiving any unlawful order concerning the role of the Joint Force in the upcoming November 2026 midterm elections. I stand ready to discuss this matter further with you or with other senators. So his response here is like pretty boilerplate politico speak or whatever. Like we don't have plans to do that. And we also don't have plans to do this other thing.

But we will follow any constitutional order that we get. Right. Like that's obviously that's what he's going to say. And obviously if like he might not be lying there either because maybe. he just hasn't received the order yet. Or, like, he could be, we don't know. Like, we've looked at Daniel Kane multiple times. We played the white, black hat, gray hat game with him.

Yeah. He could be the same pattern of all the other joint cheeses staff that Trump's come in contact with. Millie, who's for Millie? Esper? No, Esper. Yeah, yeah, I was just, I think. But he, okay. He was the guy who asked him to run.

Why can't think of his name now? I'm looking it up right now. Who asked Trump to run? Yeah, the general. I can't remember his name. Kellogg? No, not Calig. Dunford. Joseph Dunford. That's what it was. It was so Dunford, I thought was solid. Millie sucked. Everybody after Millie has sucked.

Dan Kane seemed like better, but I don't know. They painted him and J.D. Vance and a couple of the others is like the anti-war voice when it comes to the Iran story. Is he like participating in some sort of the narrative damage that the left is trying to do here against Trump by even responding to this letter in this fashion? I don't know. But what are your thoughts on it? Yeah, I mean, in terms of the white hat, black hat and all the rest of it, I think it's

always best to just look at what is the communication. And this one, you could read on either side of like this is at the very least, whatever side he is on on this stuff, if he's on a side. The communication is so vague that I think it's another indicator, both the letter that was sent and the response is an indicator that the machine doesn't know what Trump is going to do, if anything, about the elections or, you know, during the midterms. And I think that is one of the more encouraging things. And when I say encouraging, I'm not suggesting the midterms are going to get canceled or the midterms. terms are going to get solved, all that kind of stuff.

I more just mean... I would love that. I'd love that, too. I just mean on this timeline, it more just, to me, it signals that they are worried about the capabilities of the Trump administration when it comes to the election system, right? And that is encouraging in and of itself, because the people who designed the machine understand most fully how that machine could be compromised. And clearly they think that Trump could compromise it.

Now, is it a red herring that they're putting out there that, you know, the military is going to be seizing election, you know, voting machines and all that kind of thing? It's like there's a lot of game theory probably going on back and forth. But the posture that the sort of election system has leading up to the electioneers that they have leading up to this election, I would say is less confident than in the past. not because they think there's going to be a red wave or the Republicans are going to win, but more they seem less confident that they're just going to be able to do whatever they want without somebody looking into that or catching them in the act or seizing things. Because they just didn't seem as nervous about all these systems in the last few. See, I feel like they have it.

I feel like this is what they do every cycle. I feel like it's the same repeat pattern, especially of 2020 for being the last time Trump was in there for an election cycle. like they were doing all these things where they were preceding narratives about Trump can't use the military they were war gaming scenarios just like they have been this time mark Elias is probably a little more public I guess but he's I feel like he's also a lot more well known now after a lot of the Durham stuff has come out I don't just it's to me it seems like same old same old and the fact that like I just I feel like we don't have as many changes as I would have hoped going into any form of election cycle so like where they are freaking out or you can see you can tangibly see the pushback on some of this stuff because the media is going to do what the media does all the time it's the the lawsuits and the the rogue judges having to do with the

United States Postal Service you know that there there is some genuine freak out there and and I don't think there's any like one thing that these people do to steal elections either like there is it's death by a thousand cuts and they're trying to preserve as much of the system as they can and you know anytime somebody's coming after one of your

one of the parts of your system even if it's not the whole thing and it's just part of it you're obviously going to fight back with everything you can to protect that. So it makes sense that they're fighting back where they can. They're fighting back loudly in the areas where the battle is being fought, like the courtroom and on the media. Yeah. And one of the ways I guess that I'm thinking about this now, I agree with that, especially the USPS part, which I think, you know, we'll get to in bigger detail. But it's, I think, you know, I've definitely learned from getting on these rugs of the elections. And instead of adopting, like, I don't have a negative mentality necessarily aside from thinking,

that they're fake, but I think that that's more of just a realistic mentality. The positive mentality I have is that, as you said, they are trying to defend the different aspects that make the system work. It is a system, which means there's various components and strategies that go into stealing elections. It's not just that they push a button. If you think on a long enough time horizon, like if the Trump administration or if Trump starts closing off these avenues. I don't think all of these avenues are going to get closed off before the November midterms. But each one that does get closed off, it's sort of, it feels like he's funneling them in some way. And I think the weird other positive way of reading this is that,

as Chris says, and I'm sure you'll talk about this a lot on Saturday, we've been saying this all year, Trump's posture does not seem to be a man who is existentially dreading the outcome of the midterm elections. That gives me a lot of hope that the result of whatever we're told happens in the midterms, fake elections or not, is not what decides the future of this country. And so in the meantime, I think that it does seem like if he gets some of these orders pass, which it seems like some of them are actually going to go into effect for the midterms, such as the mail-in ballot thing, et cetera, then... We have a story on that where the judge is holding that up again.

Let's say for the sake of argument that the mechanisms through which the election is run is different at this midterms than it was two years ago. Doesn't mean they're fixed, but it's different, materially different because of what the Trump administration orders. I think of it as like a lens on a camera and the aperture. Like, it is the more systems that are shut down. down the the fraud is going to remain the elections are going to remain fake but the more narrow the aperture is the more narrow the gap is the more obvious the fraud is and i don't mean from a public

optics perspective anymore i mean for trump uh and you know the feds of just saying like hey these are the systems that they're still using these are the people that are still using them i just i don't think that they fear the midterms as this existential moment and so that's what's what one of the weird reasons I don't think we're going to solve them. I don't think it's this existential like we got to pull out all the stops and make sure the GOP stays in power. Yeah. Yeah, this is something me and Chris been talking about.

Chris always talks about this. Like, yeah. There's a story that he put out. We could probably even pull that up. Yeah, I don't know if he'd want to talk about this on Saturday. Yeah, we can probably say that for Saturday. But generally speaking, it's another, you know, I would say affirmation that Trump may not care as much about the midterms as.

sometimes people want to believe that he does. I don't know, man. It feels like we're gearing up to get the hose again. There's a story in the hill today, and I know what's the hill. So grain of salt, whatever. It's an opinion piece anyway. But they're talking about some of the polling, which is obviously fake. But I'm more so focusing on the narrative that they're saying here, of talking about impeachment.

That looks inevitable. As the final primaries wrap up and we head into the full gale of the judge. general election campaign season, the consensus is that the Republicans are all but certain to lose their very narrow House majority. If you ask Nate Silver and his team, they'll say there's an 86% chance of Democratic control with the highest probability of a 15-seat majority. And they go on and on and talk about these polls. And I don't think, you know, even as people who recognize the polls are fake, the amount that they're doing this and how long they have been seating this like Trump doing bad and is under the polls, even when you recognize it, they are subconscious.

chiping away at you and think of the people who aren't like actively aware of people trying to sigh up them The effect that this does if they go a year and a half even if they just comb combed on Twitter and don't actually open the thing to read it or click the thing to read it Every time it says Trump record low polling Trump even complete fake news when they come out and steal an election They in their head it clicks forms I go oh obviously that was going to happen look at all the times I scrolled Twitter and saw the fake polling stuff so that's absolutely that's That's why they do predictive programming. And I think people have, people use that term a lot. And I think they try to ascribe some sort of magic to it. And the magic to it is Kabbalistic with a K.

There is magic to it. But the magic is mass psychology, as you point out. And the advantage or worth the value in predictive programming is in the future. It's in guiding the reaction. Or to your point, the lack of a reaction to something happening to, yeah, exactly. And, you know, that's why it's effective, which is why one of the theories I like playing with, which is hopium, but it's just, it's just fun, is if elections are as fake as we think they are, and I think they absolutely are.

I think the fakeness goes both ways. I'm one of the people that definitely believes that Trump knows how the narrative war works. And I think it would be funny if the entire. media escape for the entire year, including Connink, including all the conservative media, have been sounding the alarms about Trump's mandate, you know, dissolving and all this kind of stuff. A quote unquote red wave, even if we don't trust the GOP, is going to be seen narrative that Trump has not lost public mandate. And it would be hilarious if that is what happens after they've gone all in on every indicator you could possibly use right, left and

center, Trump has lost the mandate. And I think we talked about this in the last few weeks. We've talked about it in other election cycles. It's always a good thing if you can get the machine, or it would be a great thing if you could get the machine to start calling the elections fake. And one way of reading all this stuff is that Trump is getting all of them on the rug, just like we've been on the rug for all these elections. He's getting all of them on the, the rug, not because it's a real election all of a sudden, but because it's rigged in a different direction. And because they're just going to announce like, yep, red wave couldn't like crazy thing. Who could have seen this coming? No pollster in the country saw this. And by the way,

even from the machine, there's been at least a little bit of hedging on that front. I think it was Axios a couple of weeks ago, put out a thing saying, why are the polls so wrong in this election cycle. And they were talking about a lot of the primaries with Democrats and DSA. We went over that on Saturday. Yeah. So that's, you know, they play with these game theories just like we do. And there's at least some people in this machine that are hedging their bets and going, what if Trump just tells everybody that the GOP won everything and the TV stations say the same thing? What do we do then about our machine? Yeah, I don't want that outcome. I mean, totally honest. And I don't think Trump does either because that's the same thing that would happen in 2024 where hey

Trump got in there they were going to hibernate right hibernate theory they're going to protect their system and if that happens again like we had a majority in both houses this term and we haven't gotten Trump's agenda like Trump has to do everything by himself which I think is fine because he's been able to successfully do it to an extent but there are real damages that are being done by everybody else in Congress by stonewalling him, but those are being pinned on Trump. And that's the part that sucks about it.

I don't want another stalled Congress because we just got to do it again one more time. Maybe in 2020, that's our year. If we have the majority, we can finally get things done. No, these people are anti-Trump. I don't want any of them to win. I want the system to I want to start over. I want a new

system completely. And we don't get that by another win. I don't know. We need drama, we need like, we need something juicy to get everybody like all eyes on. Let's figure out what actually happened here. I don't know. We need something super dramatic. Yeah, I agree with all that. I just think this is one of the things we've been talking about, especially on DPA for a couple of years, ever since the start of the second term. We just need to also, you know, reconcile other paradigms. I don't just mean possibilities with specific elections, but other paradigms of if there's a plan with Trump and if there are people behind this plan, et cetera, is it always going to take the form that we think? In other words, is fixing American elections like at the absolute top of their list?

I don't know if it is, at least on the short term. And I think one of the hints in that is the way Trump has been governing. You just hinted at it. We've said this for two years. We've said this since the start of the second term. Everything he's been doing has been essentially through his executive decree. The article that Chris will go into greater detail on Saturday is the latest example of the media machine saying this. throughout 25 and 26, they've been saying, but he's ignoring Congress.

And, you know, we've been kind of the broken record saying, like, you know, the GOP controls Congress, and it's kind of weird that they keep stonewalling him. So Trump has known all this and has been governing accordingly. And at least one of the paradigms I play with is he's saying, like, this is the way it needs to be done. We're redefining. We used to talk about, we used to talk about a few years ago. maybe Trump is going to narrow presidential authority. If anything, he has expanded greatly the definitions of modern presidential authority.

So I think we were broadly right that Trump was going to redefine presidential authority, but maybe we thought it was going to go in a different direction. And part of the reason we thought this has to do with how we've been programmed into thinking of Congress as this important thing. And at least one scenario to play with is, do we want to want to be? Congress in the future. Do we want this kind of thing? I mean, we have these conversations going all the way to the presidency, et cetera. But most of the people in this audience, I think, right now, would say, if I could put out a poll to the badlands community and say with everything you believe for the next two years with Donald Trump as president, would you rather there be a Congress or not?

And what do you think the results of that poll would be? So pretty obvious. Yeah, but like that is a pretty big thing. And if Trump is saying these people are irrelevant, these people don't matter, we should stop looking to these people with how we're going to run the country. It might be one of the reasons why they're also not giving a shit about the mid- terms because they're just going to ignore Congress anyway. Yeah, but I'm thinking more so like long term.

We're trying to win the thing, right? I mean, clearly having a majority of both chambers did not help advance the awakening, in my opinion. I think more people, if anything, have black-pilled than not. Like, we talked about this last week. What are they black-pill-on, though? I mean, all sorts of stuff. It's mostly black-pilled by people in the community tell them they don't trust the plan

hard enough. Remember we talked about this last week. I don't remember where I was going with that. Well, you're saying it's not going to wake people up, which is I would agree with. I don't know. I'm just, I'm getting antsy for the reckoning of the election fraud system. That's just all it is. Where I was hinting out with that question of which direction is it going is I saw this either yesterday or today.

What was this? Yeah, I read that on my show yesterday too. Or was that today? Yeah. Now is this good or bad? Oh, that's great. And that's a result. I'm just, I'm spinning everything into white pills.

Is that a result of white peeling or black pilling? That's a result of black pilling. And that's the funny thing. Like for truth community people, I don't think the black pilling is good. But I don't know. If you just asked me like Normies, like have you ever spoken to normies? brutal. And one of the crazy things, we were even joking at the start of the show, I'm joking, I'm joking about women in the vote and all that kind of stuff. But really, honestly, certainly in the

last couple of years, conversations we've had at Badlands, seeing blackpilling, seeing dooming about this stuff, recognizing that some of these big foundational issues with our democracy have not been solved, such as elections, it's time to start looking at what are the conversations that we feel called to be having in the Badlands community in the last two years. Besides talking about elections, a lot of what we've been talking about in the last two years is the fundamental role of the American government in the American people's lives. In my opinion, we would not be having those conversations if we fixed elections two years ago. We would be voting in the elections.

And I think this is a harder path, a harder mental path, maybe. even a harder, you know, physical path, etc. Things are difficult. But, you know, let's look at a cue drop, only at the precipice and people have used that decode. I'm just using it in a first principle, not in a specific decode. What does that mean? Well, maybe part of what it means is the sooner we get away from thinking that the plan revolves around fixing an election system so that we can put people in charge of us, maybe the sooner we get beyond that as the end goal, the sooner we start to recognize that the plan that Donald Trump is a part of is much bigger than what we gave it credit for. And that the power back to the people refrain that, you know,

that's at the start of this show, was not about returning the power to vote for authority figures to the American people. Maybe it was more about, no, I'm not saying you are. I'm saying when I look at 89% polling and all this kind of stuff, it is seen as negative by most people. It's like, oh, this is how negative everybody is. And I'm like, well, yeah, they're at all negative about the same thing, though. Republicans, Democrats, and centrists are all pissed at the government. And I'm kind of like, we've never been in a better place in terms of the people not trusting or liking their government. Yeah, this is the greatest thing ever.

I mean, it should be at 100%. Like we need 100% because that's the way it should be. Yeah, no, this is a great thing, this poll. Then you couple this with how many people actually like trust the media or anything the media says. Probably about the same percentage of people that trust the media are the same people that don't think the government is corrupt. We should look that up right now, actually. What percentage? What is the trust in media polling at?

Yeah, and that's at all, either way, it's all at all time lows, to your point, it's all converging. New low of 28%. 28%. That seems high. My God. I guess it depends on how they define media, right? People can be talking about alternative media, podcast, who knows. 70% of people report little or no trust in media. So, I mean, not quite 90%, 89%, but 19% off.

Another one from this past week, and there's been a bunch of these lately, you know, sending them back and forth with Mrs. Bright, but the media has been freaking out the last couple weeks about vaccine hesitancy for some reason. There hasn't even been that much news around it, but I guess it's some stuff with RFK, but I was reading a piece in the Atlantic yesterday, just talking all about the trends. And these are trends that are now hitting speaking of schooling. They're hitting public school enrollments. And now they're seeing like the media framing of this is, we thought that this trend around RFK Jr. and post-COVID distrust of the CDC, this MAGA mistrust, don't trust the science. We, the media, thought that this was going to be a flash in the pan. But it is showing up in the way Americans are actually living their lives at a point that is accelerating.

And they were showing basically like school enrollments as one example, one of the reasons that people are saying, exciting for not doing the enrollments is vaccination schedules and, you know, mandates and all that kind of stuff. And these things are just increasing. They're compounding. And right now, I think the number was like less than 2% of kids are being homeschooled and less than 2% are abstaining from all this. But that the rate at which that 1% is growing is frightening to them. You know, it goes from 0.9% to 1.1% to 1.3% year after year after year. And it's like, man, that's starting to look a little bit like an exponential curve. And what does that have to do with? Trust. Trust in the establishment. Trust in the science. Trust in the medical industry. Trust in the government. Trust in the military. Like all this stuff is down. And you know, you and Chris talk about this a lot on Saturdays. It is time for this community to start taking Donald Trump more seriously. when he is talking about power back to the people, because inherently, power back to the people does not revolve around trust. It revolves around the removal of that trust from mortal men who are figures of authority placed in front of you to solve all your problems.

Yeah. Trump's swollen cancels in the chat says, who cares, people can't afford to live, young people can't buy a $500,000 house. I will say that is like one of the more successful siops going on here, that everybody's problems are all Trump's fault because again they try to pin everything on him congress they could be helping to address a lot of the economic issues trump has a whole agenda worth of stuff they aren't passing know what they are doing though today burning bright did you see what they did today they did the super super serious important business of condemning socialism oh yes and even some democrats said i agree that that is bad thing over there yeah this is exactly what they passed today this resolution states that the House of Representatives condemns and denounces socialism in all its forms, including the Democratic

Socialists of America and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States. The House of Representatives also reaffirms its support for free, fair, and secure elections and calls for enactment of the Save America Act. It reiterates that American elections are for American citizens only and recommits itself to upholding the U.S. Constitution. So they voted, not even unanimously, but almost 50-50, whatever. The people, this won, whatever this was won, and this is what they voted for. Do you want to know what it actually did? Do you want to know what it actually accomplished?

Like, did it, did a bill change? It stopped socialism, didn't it? You would think it would. You would think that this strongly worded condemnation would stop socialism in the tracks, but it turns out it literally did nothing. Literally nothing happened. I'm positive. Well, we should give it till the weekend.

if there's any socialism left. Like these sometimes there's a lagging effect here. Can't you feel it? Yeah. Well, you know, this reminds me of how Marriatic Brandy Buck must have felt in the two towers when he was appealing to the Entmute, which I know you're well familiar with John, but this is the part- Is that Lord of the Rings or Hobbit?

It, oh my God. He is a Hobbit, but it is in the Lord of the Rings. Okay. But this is when he is appealing to the Ents at their counsel for aid to Helms-deep. You guys are big and strong tree people. You need to help us out. And the Congress of the Yence, they deliberate for hours and hours and hours. And then the first thing they say to Mary is, we have determined, what?

Nothing. Keep going. He says, we have determined that you are not orcs. And then Mary says, what about the war? And he's like, oh, we haven't, we haven't gotten to that yet. Yeah. And then they decide not to, right? And then they walk them to the edge of the forest and they see all the trees.

He's sciops him. He's sciops him. He's like, let's bring these stupid-ass trees over to look at all their dead tree buddies and piss them off. This is their own version of Pearl Harbor. Got them right into that war. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

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All right. Let's talk. Let's talk about the whistleblower that we got this week. This is kind of crazy. You know what? Let me pull up. I think Trump should install an actual whistle. For people to blow us?

Yeah. So you just go out to it, you blow on the whistle, and then the press comes and you hold the press conference. Yep, they come running. They bring the burnbacks in advance. So that you can put whatever you need. to in there. I like it. I like that. I just it would make it a little bit more formal. I think a lot of people get confused about the process because they're like, where did, where is the

whistleblower sign up for? Yeah. How does how does one know if I'm blowing the whistle or just complaining about some stuff? Okay, well, let's let's go through this. So, Deng Dick, right, Blumenthal, is that what they call him? Sure. He, he received a whistleblower complaint. Whistleblower says Trump officials are defined. court orders on voting by mail. The Postal Service disputed allegations by the whistleblower that the agency had violated several court orders that should have halted work on the plan. And so this goes back to the whole executive order that Trump issued in March of this year having to do with like barcoding, mail and ballots. And I think the even bigger battle that they're

kind of undertaking right now is who gets to decide the list, the list of voters. Because a big part of the mail and ballot schemes that they do is they use it to backfill the machine. At least that's what I think they do. And by having as many or the ability, to mail out as many mail-in-bals as possible, or mail them out, quote-unquote, then you can later use the ones that you mailed out to backfill in. But if those people aren't on your list, you're not allowed to do that anymore.

And there's a big fight over who gets to control the list. But this whistleblower came forward. After the Supreme Court came out and told them they could proceed implementing this stuff, writing the rules, the lawsuits aren't done. I think the rogue judge in California, I want to say, or something, she issued another stop to this. I think it was Massachusetts, or at least there was one.

There's multiple fights going. There's at least two separate cases, for sure. It's California versus Trump, and that's Trump versus the League of Women Voters. And I thought they were both under the same judge, but I could be wrong. Yeah, I don't know. I just, I know there was a Massachusetts woman was one of the ones blocking his stuff, cock blocking him lately. Yeah. They're getting crazy in this state.

I've got to round them up. Yeah, it's not, I don't know. Good luck with that, man. So a U.S. Postal Service guy came forward. as this is all going on and for a period of time there it seemed like we may be on the verge of implementing these changes and he's blowing the whistle saying they're doing it almost scandalously they have alleged that the agency is moving forward with a secretive rushed effort to carry out president trump's order exerting federal control over mail and voting despite a court order blocking

those plans the official filed a whistleblower report published on tuesday morning by the office of senator richard blumenthal asserting that the risky and haphazard implementation of trump's order could lead to catastrophic failure in the mail ballot system ahead of this year's midterm elections. Reports of the agency had planned to complete a new digital system overseen mail and ballots by September 1st. And so I want to show you guys the actual whistleblower thing here because there's some interesting connections to be made. If you scroll down, this is all from Richard. And then you get to this. This is the letter from the attorneys of the anonymous whistleblower within the United States Postal Service alleging all this stuff. It's the

same group i want to show you this this whistleblower aid group there were a 501c3 that got started up in 2017 and they help whistleblowers who need to come forward and blow the whistle on something an example of something they had previously blown the whistle on you'll never guess at burning bright upending president trump's pressure campaign against vladimir zalinski anonymous intelligence officers disclosure about trump's attempt to extort ukraine zalinski led to trump's first impeachment Whistleblower aid was critical in providing funding, physical security, technological support, and encrypted communications for the legal team who represented the unnamed whistleblower. So the same group that brought the whistleblower forward from the perfect phone call,

which led to Trump's first impeachment. The same group is now bringing forth this whistleblower about the United States Postal Service rushed and haphazard implementation of the new ballot code system for the mail-in voting. And it just has my Jimmy's Russell. little bit. Like, there's this whole article we just, I showed you guys about the inevitable third Trump impeachment. And Trump had his own quotes. I think it was either over the weekend or last week, where he's like, they're going to impeach me. They don't know what for yet, but they're going to impeach me. I bet we're seeing a lot of narratives right now, especially the ones that are tied to

corruption or they have to do with whistleblowers that are probably easy, easy play. That's where I bet your money on polymarket. Like, what is Trump going to be impeached for? Bet it on stories like, like this one with whistle and whatnot, especially when they're brought forward by the same group. Well, they've been most cleanly washed, right? This is, uh, this goes back to, I think, the last two weeks, we had discussions about the wrap-up smear on a, on a mechanistic level, on a, on a legal level. This is what the wrap-up smear is for, and this is a great example of it. In that conversation, we were talking about congressional committees, U.S. intelligence is laundered through U.S. media. U.S. media gets laundered through politicians. Politicians londer that

intelligence back to the intelligence assets in congressional committees, and then they help each other wash the narrative or wash themselves of the narrative while deploying it for all its damages. And this would be the same type of thing, just coming from a different direction. You protect the op, you protect the identity in the op, you protect the legality. You protect the legality. of the op then everybody not only gets to everybody in the machine not only gets to talk about it they're compelled to because you see they're servants of the people and they need to take whistleblower complaints seriously and launch official investigations they don't want to do any of this they just they have to because it's an official complaint and all of this besides the impeachment I agree with you on the

impeachment but besides that this demonstrates that all of these The more software you add into a system, the more code you add into a system, like the more you're going to create spaghetti code, as they call it in the business, where you've got to untangle 15 knots to get to the actual route that you were trying to implement in the first place. This is obviously how our legal code works. And any of these protections of anonymity that we basically apply to whistleblowers, media, unnamed sources, intelligence. Obviously, those are some of the biggest mistakes we've ever made.

Last week, I was more focusing on the media. The idea that the media has special protections that are not afforded to, like, average U.S. citizens is absurd, because it's literally putting them in a protected class, as is this. And a lot of people bipartisanly will argue in favor of this of saying, like, of course you should be able to be anonymous if you're working for the Postal Service and you're whistleblowing on them. No, because this is how these kinds of things get laundered. And ultimately, if you're dealing with a corrupt service, then all that should be out in the open. If you come out with your full name and title and you say all this stuff and you say where you got it all,

if that information stands up to public scrutiny and legal scrutiny, then you're fine. You have nothing to worry about. And if it doesn't, then you have a lot to worry about, which, you know, these are just the ways they protect each other. The other last point I'd make on the midterms, or on the, well, is on the midterms, but the impeachment that you bring up, man, how great would it be if a red Congress impeached Donald Trump? Like, if we were looking for like, what's the rug besides elections that MAGA will not quit, the rug, the drug, whatever you want to call it, that the Republicans are the good guys. And I've been saying all year, I want them to edge out further and further on there. We don't really like the Iran war. Trump hasn't been good for energy.

And it feels like they've been being baited along and baited along. So I would love that possibility if it's like, oh, we won red wave. Yay. Everything's great. And then Trump continues doing his Trump agenda. And optically, the GOP is like, we need to, enough is enough. I can see getting there if Trump tried to run again. I could see some weird stuff going on, like where the Uniparty starts fully exposing themselves.

Yeah. That could get interesting. But then he'd have to, I just, oh man, it's going to be such a fun. And by fun, I may not mean fun. It could be. Well, that would be fun. I was about to say it's going to be a really fun year, but then I'm thinking of like the November midterms and the possibility of the hose and how that might not be as fun. I mean, I'll have a lot of fun with it, but other people and their thoughts about are having fun with it will probably not be that fun.

But it's going to be real fun to see how some of the stuff gets resolved. Yeah. I just like gaming out. I guess one of the main things in the U.S. political world that I've been gaming out all year and beyond it is, I think it is necessary to wake up MAGA. And I understand that this audience, that's not what I'm talking about when I say MAGA, there's always like one person who's like, I already knew the Republicans were bad. Yes, you're a badlander.

You know, it's just a MAGA person. I think that is necessary for a larger grouping of MAGA, because that is a sizable portion of the American mind, MAGA-minded people. But there's a huge portion of that portion that are just Republican identified. And I think that I've always been gaming out, like, what form does an exposure of the Republican Party take? take because to people like us and to many of the people watching the show, you've got everything you need. You've had everything you need before the Trump era. And during the Trump era, you've had everything you need. And as you said at the start of the show, the last 18 months or so, the last 20 months has been par for the course. The Republicans are not forwarding Trump's agenda.

They're doing everything possible to stop it in its tracks. I mentioned two weeks ago, you know the reason we don't have an official U.S. sovereign wealth fund right now because the Republicans are literally blocking it. It's like, it's crazy. You can look this stuff up. None of it's a secret. Why is none of this stuff getting through? Because the Republicans are trying, as you said, hibernation theory, which you and I said before the election. We said they were going to do this before the 2024 election. We called it hibernation theory in November 2024 and said this is exactly what they were going to do. And we were including the Republicans there. So I just try to game out. Like, is there a narrative that MAGA people who are bought into Trump,

would accept to turn on the GOP. And maybe it does have to be something like Trump baiting them to the point where they fully publicly turn on him. They do gay press conferences. You know, it's not just one rhino saying, I'm not so sure. Or unnamed senators to Politico, which happens every day right now, by the way. Unnamed Republican senators bitching about Trump. But maybe it has to be something a little bit more direct where he's like, no, show everybody who you are, bitches. and 2028 would be great if he's just like, I'm king now.

What are you going to do about it? Yeah, it would be great. That's one of the things I'm looking forward to seeing how he navigates the whole argument, the constitutional argument of him getting another term. Let's talk about this story really quick, too, because it kind of has to do with the elections. It's election adjacent. It's investigating an election, the justice phase,

accountability phase of something to do with our elections we've been wanting for a long time. and the DHS is going to provide us with that justice accountability because they're going to be launching voter fraud investigations this Tuesday. The Department of Homeland Security is planning a surge in its efforts to investigate voter fraud in select states starting Tuesday, which was yesterday. According to internal federal guidance reviewed by CNN, I think this, yeah, this was yesterday. Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, which, by the way, did you see that he almost was in a plane crash? No, I did not. Yeah, apparently one of his engines went out, and so they had to like emergency land the plane, but everything, he's fine. But decode that one for me.

That's good. Yeah, Homeland Security Secretary Markway-Mullin has accelerated efforts to make the Department of Central Force in President Donald Trump's hunt for purported, purported widespread election fraud. DHS has pushed states to share their voter rolls for audit and has vowed to withhold grant funding from those that refuse to adopt a broader set of election reforms. I feel like every month or so we get a story just like this. where DHS is planning to send poll watchers here. DHS is planning to do this here on and on. Like it's a literal repeat story. It's happened throughout every election of the primary so far.

I don't think we haven't really seen from it as any form of. Yeah, guys, we've gotten cheating. Yeah, I mean, and I think the annoyance there is that it's even always framed as monitoring. Right. It's like we're going to monitor this stuff. Okay. We've been monitoring this stuff for a decade. And we have it all, right, John?

We just need one more cycle. And I do think we do have it all, by the way. So I'm not making fun of that. And again, that's the irony, right? Like, that's kind of one of the ironies of some people that would frame this is like, clearly we need to monitor the elections to catch them cheating. But those are the same people saying we have it all, which means that we don't need to monitor these things.

We already know these things. So, you know, I think it's, I'm fully off the rug. I mean, I am fully bought into they know about. the fraud they meaning the good guys meaning trump i think they could do something about it they either are or are not going to that's my 5d chess analysis if they don't if they don't why that's what i like thinking about i don't have the i don't have the answer for it but that's what i like thinking about because there is a reason i you're not allowed to ask a question without giving us the answer yes i am that's haven't you been told us all allowed

method, man. That's not allowed. I'm going to invite you to five. You can't talk about the problems unless you have a solution. Right. I forgot about that. I don't dare you. That's the thing. But yeah, I'm not worried about it, not because I think the midterms are going to be fine, but because I don't think they're going to be and have already accepted that. And it's also, I don't like the Republicans and don't think that they are necessary to govern the United States of America. See, I think our approach about this, too, is like, we, People always give us shit about not trusting the plan or whatever, which is so so that we've talked about this a million times.

But it's literally our confidence in something bigger going on behind the scenes that makes it like, well, whatever happens, we don't care. Exactly. It's because I do trust the plan. I don't think the plan is about the midterms. Exactly. In fact, and I've been saying that a lot, that's kind of been my personal way I've been framing this for the last year, is that I trust the plan in that, or what I find more annoying about the trust. the plan people who are trying to waterboard us with vote in the midterms, which is fine, vote in the midterms. I'm not telling anybody not to. It's just, I think it's a very reductive way to look at the plan. Like, you guys are talking about the plan to save the world and you think it's about the midterms. What, like, have you watched any of these Republicans that you're voting for? Have you listened to anything they've said? Have you seen how they've implemented or not

implemented Donald Trump's agenda? Like, it's so crazy to me. none of that matters. Yeah, it's so crazy to me to think that that is the plan. And, you know, again, I sometimes think, and Chris talks about this with the hose, but I sometimes think about, like, Trump as like, he's the father figure, right? Like the father figure of the plan. And I think he sometimes is looking at us in the truth community, in the MAGA world and being like, that's what you guys have got out of this?

That's what you've got out of this. We've had our allowance taken away. That's why gas prices are so high. Yeah, like you really think after the humiliation ritual that I've been putting the GOP through for two years, if not 10, that this is what the plan comes down to. And, you know, there's even people that would say, well, that's not what I'm saying. The whole plan is it's just the next part of the plan that we have to do now. I don't give a shit about the next part of the plan. I give a shit about the end of the plan and how can what little tiny part can I play in accelerating us in that direction?

And if that is going to destroy it, I mean, I don't think it's going to. I think that Trump would love it if his entire base adopted that mentality right now. I do too. So with Trump as a father figure, we could say the 10 days of darkness is us getting our cell phone's taken away. Yeah. Or hitting us in the basement or doing something crazy. Well, that's weird. Something really dark.

Yeah. Okay. Now you ruined it. I had a great joke and you completely ruined it with something. than disgusting. So thank you for that. Speaking of dad's stuff, my lawn is looking good now that it's become September. Yeah, this is a good time of year.

We had such a crazy heat wave for like, like I was watering my grass or trying to like keep up with it. My neighbor never did. And his grass got like super gross in yellow mine was not looking great because it was so hot so long in a row. And then now like you go outside and both yards are the same kind.

Like what the hell was I doing? Why didn't they even bother? Yep. I don't have irrigation and my yard is quite large, so I could not spray it all. Do you sprinkle it in any fashion? No. Not even like... I'm planning to install irrigation at some point,

but I haven't yet. Are you going to do yourself, though, right? The grass all came up in the last couple days, so it turns out. I'm just confused. How does one not water their lawn at all? I feel like half of it, at least half of being a man is watering your lawn.

The way the sun hits my lawn in the summer is it is a futile effort to attempt to that battle. It doesn't do anything. I would need like irrigation running 10 times a day. I get what you're saying. You do have a nice backyard. It's not always nice, but it's large. Nice and big. Yeah.

You have a ghetto backyard. Big. Whatever. That wasn't funny. Hold on. I have one more story I wanted to talk about, I think. And I can't remember what I sent you. You sent me a Fox article. Trump says I like our position.

I don't think this is the one that I wanted to actually go over. I think I sent you the wrong article. It seemed like you to send me in Iran War article. Yeah, that is definitely not the one that I want to. Let me go back through my notes here. Because there was... Futile, Clarkechat. Not futile.

Although I would love a feudal yard. A feudal or fertile? Fertile low. I do oversee my lawn every September. Well, there you go. I want to talk about Dan Driscoll leaving. Oh yeah, yeah. That's what I want to talk about. Not, okay. I'm interested in what you think about this. I'm not really sure. I'm not really sure that I care. These names, sometimes some of these random names have circulated in your spurging. Yeah, this guy's name has not come up in the Devolution series, at least that I originally wrote.

But let me, I didn't even look at his Wikipedia. Let's do that real quick before we get into this. Dan Driscoll breaks his silence after resigning as the Army secretary. So anytime there's a major move in the military world, we like to discuss that. And let's look at who Daniel Driscoll is, former investment banker. Former military officer. He served as the director of the, that's right, the director of the ATF. I forgot about that.

Oh, he went to University of North Carolina. He's a Tar Hill. Imagine not having real sports teams in your state. Yeah. Wait, what? I didn't even get it, guys. Wait, what did you say? Nothing.

About real sports teams? Do you see North Dakota State Bison? They went up to FBS, the highest level of college, and they won their first game. John, I have never watched a college sporting event proudly because we have no need of that. You shouldn't be proud of that. That'd be like being able to have five-star steak dinners every night and then just going in and out instead. What do you do when your kid play? All your kids are probably not going to play sports.

He's going straight to the pros. Okay. Straight to the pros. That's right. He's probably going to fight. He seems actually Got a dad story about that But we can we can save it for the end

Well let's hear almost had to Almost had to throw hands at the at the mall Speaking of the ghetto You did half of my saw Yep Almost But it didn't get to that point Well let's hear it

Okay you can save it for the end that's fine Yeah yeah Let's talk about what Driscoll had to say I didn't find anything super interesting in his Wikipedia Dan Driscoll broke a silence late Tuesday announcing that his last full day As the Army Secretary will be Wednesday but he did not offer a reason for why he is resigning from the post he has held for 18 months.

It's too bad that wasn't 17 months. Otherwise, we would have known for sure this is part of the plan. As a third generation army veteran, it has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as the secretary of the army under President Trump and Secretary Hague Seth. Tomorrow is my last full day in this role. He said on a Twitter post, our soldiers, civilians, and their families are our nation's very best. And they have inspired me every day. I'm sincerely thankful for their service. I had the privilege of working with them to modernize and accelerate how the army manned trains

and equips the most lethal fighting force on the face of the earth. We could not have made the progress we did without the support of Secretary Hague Seth. What I'm praising him, blah, blah, blah. Just went to the White House on Monday and spoke with the president about the current state of the army before tendering his resignation, according to a bunch of fake news media outlets. So no idea if that's actually true, but that's the story they're going with. His departure underlines how Hakeseth is imposing his will in consolidating. power at the Pentagon. How dare the Secretary of Defense run the department in his own vision?

Like, how dare he? Apart from the turf war, Driscoll has been embroiled in with Hakes out the defense secretary's house and several senior army leaders with whom the Army secretary has worked to modernize the service branches' warfighting efforts. He'll see a bunch of names. But yeah, Driscoll cultivated relationships with lawmakers in both parties on Capitol Hill. Some of those same lawmakers were unhappy with his departure from the administration, criticizing Hakesheth for firing or sideline, more than two dozen senior military officers since taking the helm of the Pentagon. You can look at this multiple different ways.

Like, I'm by no means saying that Hague Seth is, you know, less than 10, part of the plan, part of devil, any of that stuff. I mostly look at him as a TV character, as Chris would say. And also, I mean, he's literally from the mainstream media. So trust in him is minimal. But he's the kind of guy. Like, if Trump came in and tasked him with like, hey, I need you to just do this. I'll have people that take care of the actual day-to-day military stuff that I need.

Your job is to depoliticize and fix some of the more culture stuff at the Department of Defense. Do it however you see fit. He's the guy who wrote the book. Was it War on Warriors or whatever, I think it was called? I'm pretty sure I read it. I think it was like the War on Warriors. Getting us back to like the macho American military type thing, I think that's what he's doing. And that could be a lot of the reason why some of the stuff, like, it might not be as conspiratorial as people think.

But it could also be, he might just be firing all deep state people, who knows. Yeah, it is the war on warriors, by the way, 2024. But, yeah, I mean, you know, going back to kind of plan and not plan stuff, this is, I won't even call a pushback, because I'm not saying that when Chris Paul says TV characters, you know, he is the one who mostly says that. has been the whole time. I'm not saying he doesn't say this as well or leave open the possibility, but I don't see that as an automatic pejorative against these people or that they're not part of the plan, right? So I would agree with you that I certainly do not think Hegg Seth is less than 10 and on that level and he's in skiffs and this this and that. I do, however, think and agree with

a lot of ghost framing of these things when it comes to The Apprentice and that kind of stuff. stuff, you don't even have to get into 5D chess of it all. I think Donald Trump knows who people are. He has an eye for talent. He knows how to use people in the way in which they're most useful to him. And I think he probably knows who is and isn't loyal to him, right? Now, it's entirely possible that a guy like Pete Hegseth, while not being a 5D chess genius or read in on the white hat plan for the last 10 years, is a good dude who, at

actually believes the stuff he wrote in that book. He got that spot on Fox or whatever. Trump knows this and knows that he'll do what he tells them to do. And these TV characters, I apply this to RFK Jr. too. I know a lot of people shit all over him, but it's like all I see when I look at any media headline that has to do with RFK Jr. Is the medical establishment freaking out about everything he's doing and saying he's been catastrophic for trust in the science. So that doesn't have to be me thinking that RFK Jr. came up with the whole plan of like what's going on. It's like, yeah, he's a TV character.

He's a TV character that Donald Trump put in his administration as a TV character to do something. And in this specific story, it kind of makes sense to put that guy there. If to your point, it is a culture thing. It's not like a, you know, we need Pete Hegseff to find the deep staters. I think those framings of things are silly. I don't think we needed Pete Hagseth. But I see Driscoll and a lot of his comments coming out of here, admitting I knew nothing about him before any of this,

as a total pussy. And the key word, it comes up in this article, comes up in every article referenced about him, is modernization. Like, that's what kept sticking in my head all day when I was reading about him. He was, and, you know, they talk about drones, they talk about this and that, but he was also heavily involved in the cultural modernization of the military. He was a part of all these committees going back years,

these think tanks, etc., talking about the modernization and another keyword, the diversity of the U.S. Armed Forces. And this isn't the most important thing in the world. But if you want to convince me that Pete Hegeseth was basically put at the Pentagon to bait all the of these pussies into raging out and complaining to the president about him and that Trump is using that to know anybody who's on the fence like, well, this guy's a bitch. I'm firing him. I think that's exactly what happened. I think Driscoll, we know we already got reports even leading up to his resignation that he

was literally tattletailing on Pete Hegseth at the White House to President Trump. And right when he left that room, Trump takes out a red marker and crosses him off. It doesn't mean that Driscoll was part of these big deep state plans, but it means he's a bitch. And, you know, he can, I think Pete Hexeth would probably be the type of guy that would be really good at triggering all these total bitches that are in the Pentagon and getting them to out themselves on a cultural level. I'm curious to see if we get any appearances on mainstream media. Like next Dan Driscoll goes on the view and he like tries to spill the tea or whatever on Donald Trump. Because that's like been, that's been the pattern that we see with these people. that are truly like anti-Trump deep state shills whatever they will get a book deal they'll write a book like

my time serving the country and in the time of Donald Trump like something super ominous and retarded and then they'll make the house to me into a locker yeah they'll make the rounds on all the tv late-night talk shows building the narrative an anti-trump narrative and maybe they'll try to use something in the future impeachment that we're going to get i don't know but i'm i'm curious for because that'll be the indicator if he starts going on anti-trump rants on mainstream media or even podcast stuff, then you'll know where he really stood. Yeah. And I also think another feather in the, and again, these are not like conclusive, but another feather in the cap of Heg-Seth might just be a TV character,

but he might be a good one, is the anti-Heg-Seth op, the anti-Hegseth narrative has been very consistent with the anti-Cash Patel narrative. They're almost the same op. Like both of them have been hit with reputational attacks going back 12 months and most the reputational. Yeah. Like, and most of those are- The signal gate. Signal gate I'm thinking of from early on.

Right. The one I was thinking of is like the alcohol. Like both of them are getting hit with their alcoholics. They're like, hey, maybe that's true. Maybe it's not. I'm just saying that the establishment, and remember, these media smears on them are washed through the wrap-up smear and the wrap-up smear that is coming from inside the Pentagon or inside FBI headquarters, unnamed sources close to the situation are saying

Cash Patel's drunk every day and it's a big jerk. Everybody's saying Pete Hagseth is drunk every day and is a big jerk. And it's the same exact op. So again, like... Just because they're drunk every day doesn't mean they're jerks. Exactly. There's a method to the method. They're method actors. They're method drunks. And, you know, I just, it's not concluded. none of these reverse indicators are conclusive, but it's like, I don't think that they're faking hating Pete Heggseth. And I also don't think that that means he's in a skiff and is part of the less than 10. I just think he's great at rage baiting people. And the people he's rage baiting maybe need to be rage baited.

You mean Hegsev needs to bait people off? Yeah, bait him off. That's disgusting. You know how hard it is to do this show with somebody who trusts the plan so little? Yeah, well, you know, I just I'm trying to find my trust, my faith But it is It is only reserved for the less than 10

Can you tell me who those are? I don't want to say it right now I'll tell you off air in the skiff Okay, do Oh man, what else Is there anything else that you want to talk about That's not super boring He says ominously

Don't say don't talk about anything boring There's nothing short I would want to talk. I can't think of anything. Here are your parameters. I don't want to hear about Iran. All right. There hasn't been any like substantial.

We could talk real briefly. The war's back on though. I know. And we once again, for the 50th week in a row, have full control of the Hormuz Strait. And then tomorrow we will not. And then tomorrow again later, we will. If they continue to fight us though, if the obliterated army continues to fight us in that straight, we're going to obliterate them even harder.

I know. Could you imagine what that would be like? I mean, at some point, you'd think they would not have the ability to fight back. But hey, this is... Well, they don't. They've already been sunk to the bottom of these Hormuz sea. True. But then the boats were obviously filled with mines first because we've been taking mines out. We get all the mines out of the straight. And then a couple days later, they just find a whole bunch more that came out of a boat at the bottom of the ocean. Right. But if you'll remember a few months ago, even their capability of laying the mines was totally obliterated.

Right. Did they rebuild that? Of course, the ability must have. Over the weekend. Yeah. You know, so dastardly. It's so dastardly what they're doing over there. Every time we obliterate the whole army, it's like all of a sudden they're back. You know, we'd have a lot more success, I think, winning this war if they would stop putting

their citizens next to critical infrastructure, like on bridges and power plants. because we can't we can't bomb those with people around right yeah this is a challenge okay but anyway I don't want to talk about Iran war and I was going to say I don't want you to spurg out over your gay lover Bessent

why he's doing a lot of gay stuff I know he's doing a lot of really great gay stuff we could though kind of talk around that because there is some interesting narratives going on when it comes to this is me not talking about the Iran war just talking about something else okay

so because of the operation economic theory or whatever where we're like hey if any of you guys do any business with iran you are in the biggest most trouble ever we are going to be so mad at you and you can't come play at my house anymore and then two weeks ago or last week can't remember which one it was we had c a rachcliffe director of c a rackliff go to russia to meet with some what we're told is counterparts there's no confirmation he met with putt or anything but it's supposedly to warn them not to attack NATO, okay? Right.

But then it comes out that Russia is like, we fully support you, Iran. We will continue to help you with whatever you need. While that's happening, and Besson again reaffirms like, guys, no, no, nobody do business with Iran. We know who you are. Russia supports them.

And then we invite them to the G20 and everybody gets super pissed at the United States that this guy's there. And I think there's just, there might be, one or two contradictions in the story somewhere. It's tough to pin down exactly what those are. But there's some contradictions here. And it's kind of notable. I'm beginning to think maybe Russia and the United States might be up to something. Love seeing that. Love seeing people

pretending that lots of people haven't been talking about that for 10 years or five years or whatever it is. But yeah, the G20 thing is notable. And again, with these things, I don't look at it as, oh, this is another confirmation of the Sovereign Alliance. I'm like all the way on that. take. I see, I look at these things more as, are there any hints we can take from this narrative deployment as to where we are at in a timeline? And that is what I think is interesting. What is true is that Russia was invited by the U.S. to the G20. They're not the only ones who can invite people. So that's notable. It was the U.S. who invited Russia. And it was the first time since the Ukraine war kicked off. So that indicates at the very least a phase shift, an optical phase shift. And we said

this last week when it came to Ratcliffe flying to Moscow in the C-17. He wanted people, or at least definitely did not care that people knew that that's what he was doing. And by the way, those kind of comms and signals, they're now, they're like on YouTube channels, like newsy YouTube channels are talking about that kind of stuff now. They're talking about. the fact that obviously the CIA director wanted everybody to know about this trip to Moscow. That's interesting. This used to be, I noticed that over the last week. That used to be reserved for like, hey guys, he might be sending a signal.

That was like stuff weirdos like us would talk about or Q people or truthers, et cetera. Now it's like, okay, the CIA director under Trump, his plane lands in Moscow and its headline news before any meeting takes place. Obviously, they wanted people to know about that. Yeah. The mindscape is generally aware right now that Donald Trump will get things into the media, his administration, when they want the media talking about those things. For sure. Obviously, the Trump administration wants the global media talking about the fact that they just invited Russia to the G20 for the first time since the Ukraine war.

Right after Rackcliffe meets with him, meets with Russia. While Bessent is condemning people supporting Russia and they're supporting, supporting Iran and they're supporting Iran. Exactly. And that's what I call, you know, it's like that bridging. I think we talked about that the last couple weeks. Like you look at, hey, the U.S. is signing or, you know, coming to military and security agreements with Syria. And Russia is coming to security agreements with Syria on both sides of Syria. Like, hey, guys, like, one plus one equals two sometimes.

And I think that's what they're doing here. It's also a humiliation ritual on Europe because, and that came through very clearly, even in the broader media landscape, even the European media accidentally amplifies the humiliation ritual by talking about how humiliating it was. And the funny thing, too, is that, you know, I think the guy's name is Samolev, the finance minister of Russia who was there.

But one of the funny things is, you know how they really got him at the G20, the Europeans? They refused to take pictures with him. Yeah, that showed him. He was not invited to any individual pictures with them, and he was not invited to what they call the family photo. And then the only other, what actually came out of this? So he's not part of the family? No, he's not.

But Scott Besson, what he said, there was all these reporters that were gathered around the face-to-face between Besson and Simeleev. And what did Besson say? Apparently, the reports out of everybody at the G20 was that the Russian finance minister approached. Bessent to start up talks about U.S. sanctions relief, basically about economic deals with Russia or sanctions relief with Russia. And Scott Besson stopped him and said, none of this will be discussed and none of this will be signed until after the special military operation in Ukraine is over. Bessonov that? That is reportedly what he told him. Who's who reported that?

like everyone pretty much every reporter that was there every like financial times everybody so i believe it's true but he did this in front of all these reporters so does that does that contradict the sovereign alliance well one of the things i've been writing about for the last two years is that donaldon trump vladimir zelenzziah vladimirovov davidav every character you can think of that could somehow know what's going on with the sovereign alliance has used almost the same terminology when it comes to when the conflict will be over, which is not a timeline, but they all say only at the final stages, is how it translates from Russian. And Trump says only at the end stage. Scott Bassin says only at the end stage. So what he says there is being framed as this condemnation of Russia, where under my framing, the special military operation from Russia was signed off on de facto by the Trump administration.

And all Scott Bessent is saying very publicly is we're not going to do these deals until after the mission's over. He didn't say to stop the mission. But so, you know, people just see what they want to see. Has there been any indication or has he been asked if they're going to be sanctioning Russia? Because based on the Operation Economic Theory and what's happened in the last couple days, they would be a logical person. Like this is the contradiction I'm talking about where, okay, clearly. they should be sanctioning Russia for the deals they're supposed to do with Iran. But has there been any indication of that?

There's no new sanctions on any Russian entity that I'm aware of. Yeah, I haven't seen that either. But John, they're already, just like Chris said famously, about Trump being so indicted. Russia is already so sanctioned. Like, could you even sanction Russia anymore? Well, we've completely de-dollarized for the, maybe not completely, but for the most part. It's just, again, these are the contradictions I look for and love because it's for people to actually talk through them when they've been selling it as something different

the entire time like these these truthers that are out here being like see this is exactly what Trump's doing he's going after all the people that are funding and supporting or this is about the city of london and then it's like oh but but russia trumps they don't know how to talk around this issue you know what i mean so like i'm curious what you think is actually going on yeah well obviously i think that they're coordinating the the bigger news i think from a sovereign alliance front or that would again on the surface seem to contradict the sovereign alliance is that the biggest news to actually come out of the G20 besides the Russian finance minister is the what happened with China on the last day, which I believe was Wednesday. Yeah.

I think it was Wednesday. So China was obviously there. And there was a joint declaration that Bessent made, like Besson was apparently the figurehead of this joint declaration. Basically, it's just like you read about Congress a little while ago. It's just a statement. It's a statement of intent. But the layman's term's version of it is the G20 wants to condemn the exporting of cheap goods to undermine the domestic manufacturing capability of other countries. They were all talking about China, obviously.

They're like, hey, if anybody in this room is exporting cheap goods at extremely competitive prices that are undermining anybody else in the room, please stop doing that. And if we all get on stage and say we're going to stop doing that, that would be a good thing to do. There were 20 people at the G20, 20 countries. Are you sure there were more than that? There were. There were 20. 19 of them signed off on this declaration, including Russia.

The one who did not was China. And they very vehemently were like, no, that's retarded. And that made all the big news. So the stories coming out of the financial media are Scott Besson versus Xi Jinping. And this does not contradict my U.S. China theory because my U.S. China theory is that Donald Trump, through Scott Bessent now, but it was him in 2020, 2025, are executing a mutual decoupling against China. and that I've been saying this on the show for years, that they are going to decouple their economies from each other as much as they can in order to get into that economic version of the regions of responsibility we talk about.

Does this G20 declaration and the fact that China said no accelerate or decelerate a decoupling with Chinese manufacturing? Obviously it accelerates it. And I think what it does is it gets best. and Trump, the shielding, to go to Europe and say, look, we literally did the thing that you wanted us to do. China said no anyway. So none of that matters. The only way out is for you to stop being dependent on Chinese manufacturing, which is what Trump has been telling them the entire time. So the only way, I think this was all about Europe, the only way that Europe has a way

out of this is to mimic what the U.S. is doing, which is onshoreing their own production and restarting their own economies and cutting government government regulation, which the core theme coming out of every side table at the G20, all these little groups they do, the key theme that Bessent was communicating through all the Americans that were running these, these, uh, breakouts was deregulation. Europe needs to deregulate its markets. And all they, all, All I think China did is China is giving them the reason that they need to deregulate their markets because otherwise they can't compete with China and only the U.S. can. Yeah, I think it's getting to a point where it'll be pretty obvious that Trump, like he's,

Trump is giving the European Union enough rope to hang itself with where like when we do inevitably walk away from NATO and the EU or whatever, they're like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. Like, look what they were doing. You know what I mean? That's what I want to see is I'll just leave NATO. Yeah, I mean, we're de facto gone. We're just waiting for it to be made in a joint declaration where they say it on a stage, even though it doesn't matter. We need Congress to submit a resolution saying we've left NATO.

We probably do, right? Yeah, we probably actually do. We probably do need Congress. But this is another example to tie all the themes together tonight. Does it feel like, is NATO in the room with us right now during the Trump administration? because it kind of feels like they're not. It kind of feels like they don't exist anymore. And like who are the three parties, not parties, but groups that have kind of demonstrated that NATO doesn't exist anymore.

I would say that's the U.S., Russia, and China. So you could argue the EU doesn't exist either. So I'm just looking to see if there's anything else that I wanted to specifically talk about. I have way too many tabs open right now. I don't think so. Trump did issue a new coin. the $1 a dollar one dollar coin i tried to get on the website earlier and uh i could not make it on like it took forever and then i stopped looking and maybe it's maybe it's fine now maybe i can do it

speaking of crashing the internet man the uh gta six looks super gay oh i've seen one trailer for that but i haven't uh seen is it like out now no i think it's coming i don't know when it's coming up but they did their big like here's the game that's going to change everything and i was like where you play as a five-foot Latina woman? Like, what? Yeah, that is an interesting decision. Not really, yeah.

Yeah, I don't know. Supposed they've been working on for like 10 years. My buddy DJ, you remember DJ for Deadwood? He texted me, he's like, hey, what was that? He's my buddy. Okay, our buddy DJ. You haven't gamed with us once, so he's much more my buddy than you always. I should change that.

Yeah, you should. What's this in you play? What's this new play? on do you play anything? I have to see if it still turns on, but yeah, I haven't. We can figure that out. Chris joins us sometimes. Yeah, one of these days we're going to do like a big

Badlands media, call a duty thing. Like, just get our own room. Yeah. I'm not great at cod, but can dust off the sticks. That's better for the rest of us. Okay, let's, I don't know, man, let's wrap it. Oh, I want to hear your mall story. Oh, so nothing happened, but this was, I was a little bit sad as a dad because, you know, my kid, he's so cute and great.

And I was a little sad driving home from the mall last night because he's such a nice little kid and he's got such a good heart. And I just think the world is not that nice. So we take him to an arcade. We do this on rainy days because we don't spend any money and he just runs around and like touches. the games and thinks it's fun. So we were doing that. And then outside of the arcade, there's like one of those just common areas in the mall

where there was this little kids area. So walked over there. The mall in my town is in kind of the ghetto area. So there's, you know, ethnics are often around. And but dad was there. So everything's fine. So there's this little slide. And my son first,

First, he goes to walk up the slide because that's one of his favorite things to do right now. And there was another- I love doing that too. Yeah, he loves walking up the slide, usually falling on his face on the way up and, you know, sliding back down. But half the time he laughs about it. So he's 20 months old. There was a kid on there who was probably three, something like that. And he was already sitting on the slide.

So I grabbed my son and I was like, all right, hey, like that kid's on the slide. But that kid was like yelling at him and like, get like right when he's except on the slide, he's yelling at him and everything. So I was like, okay, that's a little aggressive, but fine. Like, yeah, my son shouldn't be on the slide. So the kid goes down the slide and his dad was there, kind of observing. Then second time, so the kid's gone, nobody's on the slide.

My son goes to walk up the slide a second time. His kid comes running over when he sees him, jumps in front of him on the slide, and then winds up to hit him. What? Like literally swings at him. And I saw him doing it, so I grabbed my son and pulled him back he didn't make contact with him but i was like oh my god saw red looked over

the dead that didn't seem to see it because he was talking to some other guys that he knew so i was like all right i have a choice to make here of making a scene killing a few people seeing what happens giving given the area i was in or i can just sort of let it go and move away so i let it go i didn't say anything to the kid. Then, oh no, there's more. The kid goes to leave,

supposedly, his dad was trying to get him to leave the whole time. And so I'm like, perfect, this is our chance, bud, crawl up that slide. So he crawls up the slide,

sits down at the top of it. Kid comes running back over. Dad's looking right at him. He crawls up the slide like my son did. And my son, when the kid's coming toward him, smiles. He so socially loves kids.

If he sees a group of kids, he runs over to them. He just thinks everybody's great. And the kick comes up the slide. My son thinks, and I thought, oh, he's probably like he's going to play with him or something. Runs up to the top of the slide just shoves my son, like full-bodied in the chest at the top of the slide. And this is like a little mall slide. But behind it, there's just like a three-foot drop to the floor. So I literally grab my kid with one hand, grab that kid with the other, and yanked him

down the slide and said, do not touch my son. And the dad came like running over and just like grabbed his son and sort of walked away, ran away. He was like, yeah, yeah, don't push that kid. And I let it go, but it was just like one of those moments where I'm like, man, that dad, I'm just like, he wasn't even like a ghetto dad, although he was black. So not helping the stereotypes. No. But he wasn't like ghetto black. He was in nice clothes.

He like was acting totally normal with his guy friends. I think he was just a pussy. He was actually like kind of jacked too, which is one of the reasons I was like, this is going to turn into a big thing. If we go back and forth. And yeah, it was just, I've never seen anything like it where it was like, your son has now like assaulted another toddler twice in a row. another dad just grabbed your toddler and reprimanded him and he didn't even acknowledge me

there was no eye contact there was no statement there was nothing he just basically kind of like ran away but it was just wild I guess on the one hand I was a little sad for my son because I'm like hey buddy this is your first lesson of like some people are dickens

I mean yeah yeah I mean yeah a little bit in certain neighborhoods yep that's definitely what's going on because I think if that kid wasn't white, that wouldn't have been happening in that same way because a bunch of other kids of the same persuasion were in the area and that wasn't happening. So that absolutely does happen with black people. But besides that, the guy, I'm looking at him just being like, this is that

gentle parenting shit, right? Where it's like, that kid, he didn't even whine when I grabbed him. He looked totally shocked. Like, what couldn't even put together that I was saying, you can't can't just attack other kids. I just think you're lucky, like, honestly, like, something like grabbing somebody else's kid, even if you pushed the kid off the slide or the kid pushed your kid off the slide, you grab that kid, you could be in trouble for that. Oh, yeah, I know. I was expecting, even besides like, legal trouble or something, I was expecting, like, the guy

to attack me or start yelling at me or something. And I think it was so, I literally had to grab him, by the way. Like the situation was such that he was trying to shove my kid off the slide. Yeah. So, and my son is like not big enough. Your son didn't actually fall off the slide, did he? No, no. I grabbed him. He was literally falling backwards. I grabbed him and grabbed the other kid because he was kept his hands on him and was trying to shove him all the way off. Yeah. So like I had to bodily remove him. But yeah, it was, I think it was so over the top ridiculous that that's why the dad didn't say anything and like couldn't say anything. But it was just wild where I'm like, how often is this happening with your kid? Like, I've interacted with your son for 10 seconds and he's the worst person I've ever met and he's three. Yeah.

So, man. But anyway, it's just one of those. But I'm glad Mrs. Bright. And she said the same thing. She was like, I'm glad I didn't see that because she was in the bathroom or something because she has a way of escalating those situations. I was like, I've told her many times like you got to you got to know where we are and how these things work. That's crazy, man. So I waited for the potential jumping scenario to dissipate outside before we left.

Well, that's good. How long do you have to wait a couple hours? No, I could tell the guy was wearing non-getto clothes. So I was like, this seems like a dad who actually works. He probably just went to his car, embarrassed. Yeah, anyway. Crazy story, man. Let's go through the boosts and the rants.

And if you want to find an outro video, that'd be kind of cool. We did get a new member over on YouTube, so thank you, Sue in Washington. We appreciate you. We got a good YouTube chat going tonight. I get over 300 for a little bit, I think. What is going on here? Would you like to invest in a robot insurance company? Yes.

Most comprehensive drone and robot insurance you can get. Is it insurance for our robots or against other people's robots? because it's unclear. That's a great question. Because those are opposite things. Yeah. Anyway, 1027JS over on Badlandsmedia.TV slash boost said thanks for $20. Thank you, Joe.

We got a lot of love from the final demand tonight. By the way, guys, I know that the parenting is not about race, but I'm also not going to backpedal from the fact that it is a trend this is something that talk openly about with people like Cam and J.B. Who will be the first to tell you that this is obviously. You can't call us racist when I have... Yeah, we have black friends. We have slaves, guys.

We treat them well. Pay them slave wages. It all works out. Flying Storm for $10. Let me share my screen. green here. Thank you so much. Left three rants in a row says tonight's power hours, episode 49 and Q drop

49 is U.S. taxpayers are paying for it all. Paris Accord equals scam. Red Cross equals scam. Four and eight equals scam. War equals scam. See, we've been building to this for 49 episodes. We've been waiting for somebody to figure out that every one of our episode

numbers is decodable and lines up with a Q drop. Every single one of them. Like, what other show can say that every one of their episodes perfectly lines up with a Q drop. Not many, I bet. Zero. But none. Yeah.

It's just ours. So, congrats Flying Storm. You win. You are now dubbed the Badlands Q&Aid-Aidson, leading promoter, badlender or something. Flying Storm again says trillions on and on. Who out's where the money actually goes, who actually receives the money. The U.S. taxpayers funding the very people we are engaged in taking down. Slush funds everywhere.

think George Soros pays for Antif out of his own pocket. The hole is deep. That's what she said. Feel sick yet? Thank you. It's a lot in there, man. It's a lot, but thank you for the rants. T. Minzi rated the stream.

Don't know who that is. I mean, based on the avatar, that could be the father that you ran into at the... That might have been. Might be him. These things seems to be in good spirits, considering he raided the stream. Keith O'Higgins for a dollar says, I think it means JD will be laying his white cable into a white input as compared to him using the brown input. Gee, a lot of racism lately.

I guess I started it, but. Yeah, don't forget to find a YouTube video or an outro video. Let me think. Think hard. Final demand says, for $100, thank you very, very much. Lily Tang, who is running against Jake Sullivan's wife in New Hampshire, the House race won't answer what she thinks about election integrity. New Hampshire's 90% of the state uses machines.

don't move here, Beebe, you will be disappointed. If he bases his choice of living based on whether or not as election fraud, he will not be allowed to move anywhere. That's true. But yeah, some are better and worse than others. Dirty white boy for a dollar says if no one votes, no one wins. Do the politicians just stay home? Ironically, probably not much of change.

Max Southwast Patia for $17. Sent a YouTube link. We'll check out a little bit and says, better and talk about this soon because you the podcasters are next i don't know if i think the youtube video if i'm not mistaken was some i don't know let me pull it up hold on the second i want to say somebody that was demonetized yeah this is the dozens of first amendment auditing channels youtube demonetized long island audit this youtube channel is the police union behind it um Maxoth's Patriot, we've been demonetized like, we were first.

Like, so they're not going to ask us. Yeah. You were demonetized first. We are experts in being demonetized. Yes. We were pre-demonetized. Yeah. And then he says, Long Island Audits, lawfare is way more important than the regurgitated

political talk we get now at the final demand. Oh, yeah, final man left a $100 rant and says, challenge anyone in the chat to tell me what podcast is even close to the level of discourse you've gotten for years on badlands name one and i will call you a pussy-ass bitch and move on seriously though i like that he i like that he follows that up and is like i won't actually do anything but i'll let you know that that's stupid yeah we appreciate the support philemona you are awesome very much appreciated uh the max health is patriot says law and all it's law fair is way more important than the regurgitated political talk we get now is that are you talking about us doing that?

Watch this for two minutes and tell me I'm wrong. We agree on somebody you're watching a show and it's getting real old. So let with some real life for a change. Dude, I'm in the middle of a lawsuit. Like, what the hell are you talking about? We've been demonetized and I've been sued and in the process of being sued. Yeah. Like you, I don't understand you.

It's a new business model as like people pretending that YouTube is after them on YouTube. Yeah. with their big YouTube videos. Crazy. Streamweaver gifted a subscription to Burned Spy, not to be confused with Burning Bright. Did you see that? Yeah. So yeah, that was pretty funny.

Yeah, you can explain it to the... Yeah, so I was on that Rich Does Politics YouTube channel last week, and when I was on, my handle was written as Burned Spy because he was on the next day. Yeah. And then he was on the next day. But yeah, there was a big kerfuffle and confusion where he was like, I am not burning bright. Yeah. I watched his show today, actually.

It was pretty good. You have to check that out. I know I was going to go back on there at some point too. Yeah. Hammer Guy 35 says, but little B.B. A vanilla ice cream cone. I think he went by. And then, uh...

He can't eat. He seems lactose intolerant or issues with it. But we have been going to an ice cream place. that has this stuff called Dolewip that he likes. It's like the company Dole, like the fruit company. Oh, yeah. So it's like soft served fruit ice cream. Weird.

But it's not made with milk, but it's good. It's actually good. Interesting. Woke Antichrist says, easy Papa Bear. One day you will look back on your experience and laugh. And then Max South's Patriot. It's not just Long Island audit that got demonetize. It's all of them.

Bro, like I said. Everybody in the world got demonetized? Well, and even so, like, we've been there. We've been demonetized for literally four years. So, like, I'm sorry, I'm not going to care about a YouTube channel that has 1.7 million subscribers. That was there through the entire Biden arrow without getting censored. The only people who got allowed to stay on doing that were not the people telling the truth. They're talking about election fraud or COVID or any of that stuff.

So for them getting demonetized now, I don't really give a shit. They can come demonize us again. Don't really give a shit. We've lived that a million times and we'll live through it again. I expect it from every platform. Literally all of them. It's going to happen. Yeah.

The people trying about it on YouTube are basically just displaying that they went all in on the most censorious platform on the internet. So sometimes you play stupid games. You win stupid prizes. PennW for $5 says thanks for all you guys do. Thank you so much. And thank you for the support tonight, guys. Did you find me a video?

I did. Is it going to suck? No, it's a great jam. Is it going to get us a copy route, right? I don't know. It's like an independent song. Well, then we're definitely going to take it by to YouTube just in case. So, YouTubers, we appreciate you.

Hit the thumbs up. If you don't mind, we'd appreciate it. I don't think we missed Rance. I think we got one. Oh, Keith. B.B. sounds like that kid and father were on the spectrum when you're black it's the sickle cell spectrum oh my gosh oh my goodness that's funny lorry zanadu why isn't trump declaring a national

emergency on election still vote by mail began in my state today well didn't he declare one six years ago executive order 13 a48 and it's never been undeclared yes per use but it's a sanctioned one it's not i don't know you know i've been thinking about that more i would love to see him do something like drastic maybe it's a national emergency although there's a are already like 50 or 70 or something, some crazy amount of national emergencies that are already in place. So he has the authority to do. He has authority to do whatever he wants to do, whether or not he wants to do it. It's just like going back to 2020 election. He had the choice to interdict in elections, get the machines, there's a draft executive order. He probably

had the ability to sign the Insurrection Act. Some people speculate that he already did. Maybe, I don't know. He also had what I think was the implementation of some sort of continuity government plan. There's a whole array of options that he had, and he chose whichever one he did. I think it was one closely resembling some sort of continuity government. Maybe you can call it something else. It's going to be the same way with this. He has options to do all sorts of things. They've already decided or they're waiting longer to make that decision. I don't know. What are you going to get that the business model is just saying the truth, John, and then changing your opinion about it every week? Yeah. But you mean that's lying. Say it with great service.

That is not the truth. And obviously, and not obviously, E.H. Kyle thinks I meant Sherbet, sherbet ice cream, which is my personal favorite. No, I did not, because it turns out that Sherbert has milk in it. Oh. Which I didn't know, but it does. I thought it just said Sherbert in it. So my son does not do well with milk. So instead he has Dole Whip from Bob Dole Hewip. From Bob Dole himself. That's gross.

It has no milk. Dole whip from Bob Dole. Now it changes the context of it all completely, and I think that's disgusting. He makes it. He delivers it. Talks to you when you're eating it. Disgusting. Okay.

Goodbye YouTube. We're saying goodbye to you. And let me save that quick. You're not to watch this whole thing, but we can just fade out. Well, you sent it. So this is Burning Bright's idea, whatever it is if it sucks. It's his fault. It's just my.

olive branch to the ethnic community to make sure I know how you are and I understand you. We understand each other. Gotcha. Thanks, everybody. Hit the thumbs up and we'll see you next. What's the movie, by the way? Oh, the movie is Lawless, 2012. Lawless with Shailabuff, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain.

Yeah. Just Guy Pear after Bangor. It's good stuff about prohibition. in the 20s. So that should be fun. 10.30 p.m. tomorrow night. Yeah, it's a good movie. I like that movie.

All right. Thanks, everybody, good night. We'll see you tomorrow. I'll be back on tomorrow at 1 p.m. Eastern on the Daily Herald. You guys have a great rest of your hump day. So you want to beat the week. I just had, listen, I copped all white margillis. I got a born.

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