Badlands Media - Devolution Power Hour Ep. 495: Xi in Town, Overton's Goalpost Theory

Episode Date: September 24, 2026

Jon Herold and Burning Bright compare notes on being under the weather before getting into the week's main event: Xi Jinping's upcoming visit and what it means in the context of Herold's older theory called Overton's Goalpost, the idea that Trump, Putin, and Xi are converging in ways the mainstream media can't quite make sense of. They break down the split media coverage, half framing it as Trump getting outplayed, half framing it as Trump dominating the negotiations, and argue neither narrative captures what's actually happening. There's also midterm talk and what Herold calls the ongoing struggle sessions around it, plus a tie in to the AI race and how Trump and Xi both seem to be racing ahead together rather than against each other. A slightly more subdued episode given both hosts feeling under the weather, but still packed with the usual geopolitical connect the dots.

The Badlands, one of the Badlands, explain those Badlands. That's a hell of their name. Well, good evening, everybody, and welcome to the Wednesday edition of the Devolution of Power Hour. As always, and unfortunately, I am joined by Bernie Bright. Bernie Bright, you seem a little down this evening. What's going on? I've got the post-gart flu. So, yeah, it's been sick the last 24 hours. Nevertheless, like Ruth Bader, Gins.

I persist until I die suddenly. I've been a little sick the past 24 hours, but not with an illness, just sick of the BS. With the fever. Sick with the fever, yeah, which we'll probably talk about a little bit. For those who watched my show today, I was on one. I was a little salty. I was happy. Yeah, I know.

People like the salt. I want to bring it out more often. But we'll probably talk a little bit about that. probably won't go quite as hard in the paint as I did my show today, but maybe we will. Who knows? We'll see what happens. But anyway, yeah, we got that, and it's all about the midterms and the struggle sessions around the midterms. It's also stupid.

It's all whatever. We'll get into that. But we also have Xi in town. Yeah, pretty exciting. There's a couple headlines. Maybe I can share toward the end of the show, but there's, I wrote a few years ago an article called Overton's Goal Post when I was talking all about that trend of what I consider some of the most encouraging patterns in the Info War.

We always look at mainstream media and propagandists as reverse indicators, right? Pretty much all of us do that. But when they don't want you to talk about something, they ignore it. Then they deny that it exists. And then at some point, at the end stages of Overton's Gold Post, they admit that such a thing exists and then they tell you why it's bad. And recently I'm seeing that they are, the media is basically talking about this convergence of Trump, Putin, and Xi. And what's interesting is they're not really talking about it from the framing of like, oh, these guys are literally all coming

together in an alliance. They're talking about it almost in a more threatening way to the system, which is that all three of them share a core philosophy that is basically winning on the world stage. And this is something we've been talking about for years. And it's like the whole heart of my whole theory on not just the sovereign alliance, but the power paradigm. So I think this week with the UN in town, it was another humiliation ritual that Trump subjected the globalist to. I think he's been great at that throughout the last decade. And but a decade ago, we didn't hear the globalists aligning him with, you know, Russia and China to the same degree that they are now. because I think it's becoming so obvious with Xi coming to town.

Trump just invited Putin to town today, I believe. He invited him to Miami, the G20. I don't remember when that is. But it's getting a little bit on the nose for even them to ignore, I think. Yeah, I mean, that's always interesting. It's definitely signal. I saw Zelensky came out of, I think I saw it was today, but he came out of the UN meeting with Trump saying that he's finally ready to sit down

with Putin and end that war. But we've kind of been like, they've teased this. meeting a few times now so not gonna not gonna hold my breath by any means but it should be interesting things are just kind of a lot of the things are still in like the same position they were there's just like new interesting rhetoric surrounding the same old same old so that's always fun but i am curious to see what what comes at the trump g meeting and i did say this on my show today earlier the one thing that i'm asking for like i don't care about how anything else goes but all i want is for trump to come out of there and say that's what g said and i would die a happy man

Yeah. And that'd be the best book of all time. He met him on the tarmac, which was a big deal. Why is that? He got the red carpet treatment. Trump met G. on the tarmac, which is... Is that really surprising? Like, isn't that how they greeted him and how all the world leaders read it? It is. It would make sense that Trump would show... It's not common for the American president. And I just, to your point, it's entirely sensible and shows respect, but I think it is signal. It is Trump's.

saying like, yep, they treated me this way when I went there. That's how I treat G. There's actually a couple of media hit pieces that I think are trying to get clever. And they're trying to appeal to Trump's ego by saying that basically G is winning the negotiations. So you've got like half the media saying Trump and G are clearly working together. Then you've got the other half of the media saying Trump is about to get bent over by G in these negotiations, neither of those matter if the alliance is as literal as I claim it is, because they already know what they're doing. In terms of like an actual deal or something, I don't, I could be surprised.

I don't anticipate some major thing. Like, for some reason, this AI crap is all over. We've been talking about it for weeks, and I'm actually interested in that storyline. But where it concerns Trump and G, the media is like layering this AI. topic into that and I think it's completely irrelevant it's like any agreement that they did they did come to regarding AI is completely non-binding so it's not going to matter at all I think what's going to be more interesting is just their overall posture and everything like that they'll probably talk about Taiwan and I don't think we're going to get anything seismic out of them coming together it's more

just as the gravitational pull of the Sovereign Alliance increases, I think these meetings between the two of them, the pairs of the three, and then eventually we're going to get the three. And these things are going to increase in frequency. Don't look for any seismic announcement out of one of their meetings, is what I would say. Yeah, because it's supposedly the AI people are going to end up meeting with Trump and G while he's here. And it's, I don't know, it's so stupid. Like the timing of this, I still come back to it being election interference.

We're starting to get all these stories now of how AI, like not just the hugging face one where AI leaked out and, you know, hacked a different network, but we got a story today where AI got out back in June. So they've known about it since June and they just reported it now that they hacked an Australian government. And with a story we went over on the DPH on Saturday of the bad AI intelligence almost led to war. I wonder when we're going to get the story of like, okay, open AI or whatever hacked the Chinese

government and that kind of tries to pit them against each other and some i don't remember who it was somebody just recently in the comments was like when are they just going to come out and say that these a i companies are hacking these foreign governments on behalf of the united states government and it's an interesting framing what i think is totally inverted i think when are we going to find out that these open a i or a i companies are hacking the united states government on behalf of our enemies like foreign countries so i think that's probably more likely these people are not um not Trump's friend by any means. And whatever they try to say or do, you cannot forget their past.

They are totally supportive of taking down the Trump administration. I think that's what they're doing here. Yeah, totally. Another humiliation ritual that's going on this week is that I think it was today the leaders of Open AI and Anthropic met with, they held a briefing with the UN, like a sidebar. And it was clearly, in my view, it was clearly supposed to be like the main event.

And if their op had gone a different way. I mean, think of just nine days ago. The entire internet was just flooded with like Terminator, Skynet, anthropic, open a. Yeah, we've got to do something. Save us all. And Trump just punched a hole in that balloon. All the air is coming out of it.

I don't think anybody's going to be talking about this shit in a month. And part and parcel to that is, or proof of it. of that is today I saw like coin telegraph was reporting on the meeting. Zero Hedge ran a story on it. Very few mainstream media outlets covered it. If they did, it was a little footnote. And it was clearly supposed to be this big thing. And Politico ran a headline that I think is related to it today where they basically said paraphrasing, the world may need to go it alone when it comes to AI because the US and China are not helping. So they're admitting that like this op of getting the US and China to to stop the forward

march of AI, Trump and Xi are full speed ahead. Both have said that publicly in the last seven days. So now now your your threat is for all the irrelevant nations of the world to slow down on this world changing technology. Why don't you let me know how that works out? Yeah, that's ridiculous. Real quick, before we do the sponsors, Flying Storm, just send it to Randon.

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I agree. And I think you're also a retard here because I just got word that Ash took the rest of the books home with her, two boxes of whatever was left. And so whatever you paid to shaback to you was not the books. So who's the retard now, Flying Storm? what's heading back to you i guess we'll find out just a huge bag of dicks yeah probably ash did have a big dicks with her she was handing out so uh man what an interesting situation but here's the thing here's the nice part we could probably figure out a way to uh you know i don't know ash we can brainstorm like if anybody wants a free

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Anyway, let's start the show off with the midterm thing. And if you watch my show today, you're already aware of what I'm going to talk about. If you've, I don't know, I guess if you follow me on Twitter, you're probably also aware of what's going on. But for a little context, and this is nothing new, depending how long you've been following Badlands, this is like the fourth iteration of this exact same scenario playing out. But one of the Badlands hosts, um is not a fan of the current situation not a big like believer in the behind the plan stuff which certainly helps the other people like we specifically believe there's bigger things going on behind the scenes but uh shipwreck you know she does her show she's a lot to say whatever the

heck she wants i don't care i will never censor her um i don't agree with everything she says but she says it and then she says things that people don't agree with and then i get messages like i can't believe you have like why do you have burning bride like she says she says she says she's not going to vote and to be clear i don't i don't know for sure if she's ever actually told anybody that they themselves should not vote she might and almost none of the people who talk about this stance have said that yeah i agree and but again i've not personally seen her saying right like you guys shouldn't vote maybe she has it doesn't change the the stance here so anyway i um i took to twitter after getting like i don't even know how many dms or messages are being tagged in posts about how it's

somehow my responsibility to ban somebody from my platform who doesn't say things that other people want to hear like apparently we want to be liberals and leftists and censor people or yeah um we want conformity and group think or whatever it is and so i made a point that that is not what badlands is about and has ever been about and i don't know how that's a surprising thing to people but apparently it is and this is that post. I'm going to read it to you and we'll discuss a little bit and maybe discuss some of the fallout too

because I do think it's important. I was thinking before the show like maybe we shouldn't go that hard in the paint. I think there is a discussion to be had here and I think it's worthwhile. And we do have more viewers here than on my show, which I know, it's shocking to me considering Burning Brights on this one.

They wait for the draw. Yeah, that's got to be it. So this is the post I put out there. a midterm message from badlands media i'd like to start with my favorite part of the declaration of independence we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed but when a long train of abuses and ursurpatients and i did skip a few

things in there pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce the them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to go to their nearest precinct and vote in the midterms because nothing can stop what is coming, except for people on social media who think voting for uniparty candidates and fraudulent elections in order to win the midterms is akin to taking first place in the Special Olympics for at the end of a fortnight without art retarded. I'm not sure if you can tell which part of that was me ad-libbing and not the actual declaration of pendants, but it's pretty great.

And then I said, stop being little bitches and tattling on the badlands posts who don't believe we can vote away out of this, which is a totally valid, opinion, by the way, believing that we cannot vote our way out of this. That is a totally normal and valid opinion. First and foremost, I will never tell anybody on this platform what they can and can't say. Any of the hosts will confirm that to be true. This inevitably leads to a variety of opinions and plenty of friction. We embrace that friction. If you think voting is a solution, then F-in-vote. If you don't think voting is a solution, then don't. I do not care what you do, and it's none of my business. And all that is true. I do not care. And it's not my business.

If you're so retarded that you need somebody to tell you what to do and what to think, then you don't deserve the sovereignty you seek. The American Revolution was founded on the radical idea that political authority depends on the consent of the governed and that the people can challenge the legitimacy of a system they believe has failed them, which many of the people who participate in the political sphere and believe that our elections are fraudulent, they believe that the system has failed them. And they believe they can challenge it. And this is the way that they believe they can do that.

not necessarily asking other people to join them. And then I said, so the founding fathers challenged the legitimacy of the system, the loyalist to the crown defended it. These struggle sessions are pathetic, and they won't work on us, just like they haven't worked the last 17 times. And yes, that is a decodable opportunity,

considering I use the word 17. And I don't know if you have anything you want to add to that before I get into the Q crowd stuff and the constant struggle sessions they put forward. for us well that's basically where i'd go with it we can go back and forth a bit i mean on that in in this statement here um first of all i think i think um it's it's so crazy that this stuff has to be talked about but it is inherently it is wild that even if you are strongly opposed to the position that someone like ship or G holds or John Drake perhaps even if you genuinely are strongly opposed

to that position to think to feel threatened by someone holding that opinion is absurd and I think it's it's not just absurd in like a cowardly strange sort of way it's absurd just logistically, like you think that a few people online or whatever, whatever number of people, you think you're going to convince her to change her mind about this by struggle sessioning her? You're just confirming what people, yeah, you're just confirming what people like us think about people like you, which is that, as Chris Paul would say, your statists and your defenders of the system. My favorite quote that you had on your show today, which was a great rant was a loyalist to the crown um and these kind of people as you said also on your show

voting does not make you inherently i don't think a loyalist to the crown but struggle sessioning other people to do something that's against their will and to express their sovereignty in the way that you think their sovereignty should be expressed is that it absolutely makes you a loyalist to the crown it makes you a systemite makes you a shill. And it also makes you weak because there's this inherent, if the idea of voting is so synonymous with sovereignty and Americanism, et cetera, voting for the GOP and the midterms, then if you think there's this America First movement and this rise of sovereign nationalist sentiment in the West, then surely people like Schip or John Drake or G are outlawful.

and you have nothing to worry about, right? Otherwise, if you do have something to worry about, then obviously you're not selling a very compelling story, right? So it's like, again, I always try to argue from like enemy framing. I try to actually inhabit the mind of the person arguing with me and be like, how can I steal man this? And from that perspective, it's sort of like, well, you're kind of revealing that you're really worried

about what people think of your position. And you know who's not working? And you know who's not worried at all about what you think of their position? People who don't hold it. And that's kind of like, you know, you also said, like, we're not going to, we're going to go back and forth about the struggle session aspect of this. But it's like the people who subject other people to struggle sessions are the ones who are clearly overcompensating for not having confidence in their own position.

Otherwise, you wouldn't be doing it. If your position was the inherent logical foundational baseline position, then why do you have to subject people to struggle sessions online in order to propagate it? It's crazy. As you said earlier, like leftists, this is leftist thinking. The idea of leftist thinking, we all know, is to pretend that a minority position, such as that gender is fluid is a rule of nature. It is just this walking cognitive dissonance that is the mind of the modern leftist. They walk around pretending it's a totally viable position to hold that gender doesn't exist, except they don't hold that position silently.

They have to subject anybody who doesn't hold it to struggle sessions, even premature struggle set or preemptive struggle sessions, just in case you don't hold that opinion. And if you're doing that with this, it's just a bad sign for your own argument. Yeah, I think it's so much worse than that too because the struggle sessions you're met with, if you actually like engage with them, which I did on a few occasions today, they, they are totally disingenuous and totally dishonest with everything they say in response to you. I'm going to give you a great example here of just somebody straight up lying about what, what I said and what was said here in this in this post. So this guy, Justice Cometh, he responded to my post with. this. Let me share my screen again.

And I should almost give the full exchange, but I don't know if it's even worth it. Because he just keeps saying retardant stuff. The founding fathers also asks us to do one thing. Vote. Trump was elected in 2016, 2024. He has a 96.8% success rate in the midterms. I do want you guys to keep in mind this part here. The founding fathers also asked to do one thing, vote because I bring this up later. And he takes my response to him saying this as me saying,

not to vote, even though I explicitly have said on thousands of occasions that if you want to vote, go vote guys. And I'll say it again, if you want to vote, go vote. Nobody's telling you not to vote. Trump's messaging is to vote. And I think this is especially retarded because, like, you simultaneously claim that Trump is fighting 5G warfare and conducting siops and all this stuff. And then you pick and choose when to take him at face value.

And this just just so happens to be the one time or not the one time, one of the times that you take my face value. He has done nothing but fight for us. And you, John Harold, say what you want, but messages like this. or turning your back on him. That is utterly untrue. He fights for his daily, not voting for the Trump agenda, is an easy way to get rolled in the midterms.

Yeah, no problems still do exist with our elections, but the simple fact remains. Trump is our president. We elected him, turning your back on him. Now after we win, after win, after win, after win, makes no sense at all. Your message is disguised as patriotic, but its core message is a message of apathy and defeat. God bless you with a huge platform and you use it for messaging like this. One day people will figure it out.

vote vote and this one is for my real cue peeps out there and the real patriots out there Patel Patriot you are neither one of those things. Patriots vote, Patriots fight, they don't give up and Patriots vote. And so I responded right on Q. This is the exact struggle session I'm talking about though, guys. Right on Q we have the struggle session. My post was calling out. I explicitly said if you think voting is a solution, then F and vote. I was met with an appeal to authority. Trump says vote a purity test. Patriots vote a loyalty test. Questioning voting. means you're abandoned Trump. The founders didn't vote their way out of the crown.

They declared the system illegitimate and walked. So remember that too, because this is my response to him saying the founders asked us to vote. And then he responds, I think he actually quoted me, quote tweeted me on this one. How do I check? I think it's this. Yeah. So after I said that, he says again, John Harold saying walk away from voting. I hope you're all paying attention, which if you'll notice is not at all what I

said whatsoever yeah the second time now I explicitly said I'm telling you guys if you want to vote you go vote like it's it's beyond strong it's a straight-up line and then he does this you're advocating not to vote and walk away from the system so yes you did you're clever but I see right through you just nailed nail me to the wall right but this is the behavior I'm talking about like they're not actually addressing any of the arguments we're making they're not actually even addressing the fact that what they're claiming we said was never said.

But this is what they constantly do. And this is the behavior that is unique in my opinion to the Q community. And this is something I talked about on my show. And so I'm just going to do it again. Ever since Badlands started, we have been subjected to op after op after op. Okay. We started in like in the pre-launch phase of Badlands media. Yeah, the month before.

Huge op against Badlands trying to basically destroy us from the start. It was aimed at me. The whole Cash Patel thing was involved. Cash Patel's. buddy and it basically like split up we the media and I got blamed for that even though just like not long ago somebody from within we the media who were like this guy's the guy trying to split we the media I don't know why you guys are blaming me he admitted that his stated goal of joining we the media was to split it up okay like that's out there we knew the whole time and then we the media started

or sorry badlands started and we are subjected to the badlands is the reason that we lost the the 2022 midterms. And then after that we have, I mean, I don't remember what the one after that was. There was one more. Then it was the lawsuit and all the Q people in the Q like Q community who were all in on that supporting that still are to this day spreading rumors lies. Well, after 2024, we were subjected to the we don't support Donald Trump because we still think the election system is fraudulent struggle session. So that was a couple months after November 2024. Yeah. And literally our position about the election system. system has not changed, which is why we've said this is the 17th time.

Nor is our support for Donald Trump changed. No, not at all. And so the, but all that stuff stem from people within the Q community. Like I'm not all Q people are bad. That's not what we're saying. We're just saying it is a verifiable fact that all of the attacks on Badlands up to that point have been from the Q community and been from within people who are like QD coders. Okay.

That's just the it is what it is guys. That's the facts. And yeah, there was something I was going to say about that too. Oh. most of the drama that has like happened from within badlands as well as come from people who call themselves like cue people cue decoders there were people on this network who left not only after stealing money essentially you know i bought bought them things and they weren't paid back until well after they were gone and only after they were called out and somebody who was on a draw meaning i

paid them a salary above what they were actually earning under the impression that like once you make more money you it would get paid back left on a net negative $10,000 balance. So essentially stole $10,000 for me and then claim the draw didn't exist, even though I have the text message proving it. Like straight up liars. And then on their way out the door, tried to create as big of a mess as possible, but going as far as texting people who are bad land supporters who they only knew through

badlands and coming to these garden events, telling them a whole bunch of lies about me, badlands, how much money we're making. None of it was true. That's why we always do the joke about me being a billionaire. But they were texting with them trying to draw their support away from us to go over and watch them. Straight up frauds and liars. Okay. That is all, it's all from the Q community. Okay. And then you have this stuff now. All the people that are doing the struggle sessions are also from the Q community. Again, not all Q people, but this is a

pattern that is like undeniable. And then also in the arguments is the reframing of what people actually say to mean something that they've never actually said. And this is this, it was more apparent to me today, not only engaging with him, but engaging with somebody else. And witnessing how this happens, like they say something, you deny it. And like say what you actually said. And then they reframe what you just responded with to something completely different. They shift the burden. They do the straw man arguments, the logical fallacies.

They never actually respond to what you're trying to ask them or respond to them with. And they just continue to move the goalpost and then attack you for it. Attack you over and over and over. Call you subversive, call you all these things a traitor. And it's just total BS and total disingenuous. I'm just like sick of it. In the past, I would just ignore it. I wouldn't have even engaged with any of these people.

But it's for whatever reason. I just got so annoyed the last like 24 to 48 hours with this behavior. And it's repetitiveness that I felt like I needed to respond. And so I don't know what it is. If it's just the egos within the current Q Decoder movement or if it's purely money or if it's just nefarious. I don't know what it is. I'm not going to claim to know what the motives are. But the fact that it's all coming from the same group or I don't even know how to describe it, but it's all coming from the same area, that can't be ignored.

Like there's something there. Yeah. It's, uh, that's the aspect of it that's bothered me the most over the years is that I've said a million times it, it became like a cliched, uh, even for me, uh, fallback of every time I would say something about. the constant attacks to us, to you, to badlands, and our rhetoric, that's always 100% of the time coming from prominent Q accounts and their followers. I would caveat it always by saying, I'm a Q guy. Look at my most popular article. I was, I'm Q guy since day three, whatever it is. You know, but it's very difficult to ignore the pattern. And I can only look at it basically two different ways, which is that either the movement either I have changed from what that Q movement

was and I'm no longer aligned with what it was and I just kind of look back at it with rose color glasses or what I think is my default is I do think it's different I think the modern state of the Q I called it the decode industrial complex at GART

which people enjoyed the dick I think that that is fundamentally different because one of the funny things is when I say when I even say the term Q people today and as you said hashtag not all Q people I don't immediately think of a lot of the people at Badlands and the funny thing is a lot of the people at Badlands

or some of the people left at Badlands are some of the original Q people you know Jordan Saither I always bring up as arguably the original QD coder The original YouTube Q decoder was Jordan. Zach Payne was an OG day one sort of Q guy. And he was doing this stuff even before Q came around. So it's just funny that even guys like that,

while they still refer to the drops or they still, you know, they still felt that the drops were good and had a good effect on them and gave them actionable information, just like I felt that way, they no longer identify with that community. And I think that is telling. That's more in keeping with what you're saying. The community acts in a way that is totally antithetical to this idea of awakening when all it really is is communist struggle sessions.

I mean, Chris Paul's been calling this out for the entire time. You know, I used to think it was more selective, but it's true. You know, you can't see the trend when you're early into the trend. You can't see the trend when it's been one or two times that you've been attacked and it happens to be these Q accounts. Now it's every year, Badlands has been around now for four years, going on five years. And every single year, especially when there's an election involved, we get attacked by unity people, by Q people. And I think Chris said this in another chat. But it's uncanny how the prominent Q accounts rhetoric and vectors of attack,

toward other people are mirroring the attacks of con ink we often bring up the 2022 midterms i had had written an article at that time called the wolves among us which was all about the disantas op again chris paul was about six months ahead of the curve on that one if not a year calling the de santa op out saying it was forming saying that that's what they were going to go all in on i wrote an article in november at that midterm cycle talking about like hey the good thing about the disantas op is it has given us all in the Q community, in the truth community, it's given us all some midside baseball to see all these con-ink influencers who they are when they turned on Donald Trump. Excuse you.

And I said, commit their names and faces to memory. Just remember them. Remember all these con-ink accounts. And now, four years later, 2026 midterms, it's all the same accounts. It's the daily wire accounts. It's all those accounts. It's the TPUSA accounts and all the adjacent kind of influencer complex, a con ink complex.

It's all of them saying like everything comes down to the midterms. There is no before the midterms. There is no after the midterms. There is only the midterms. And the difference between now and 2022, or I suppose it isn't different. It's just my perception is different, is that the Q people are all in on that as well. And I just think that's usually, you know, I know it sounds simple every time I say I use reverse indicators, but reverse indicators usually work pretty well. If people you hate are telling you

that something is really, really important, it's probably not. Like, it's usually a good idea. And I'm not saying not voting is how we win, right? What I'm saying is it's a distraction op. It's a demoralization campaign. The funny thing is, the people who are talking about the elections being a demoralization campaign. The struggle session commies are the one trying to demoralize everything. It's like, you think you're going to bring unity to the movement by subjecting people

to public struggle sessions on the internet? That's how you're going to wake up the normies. Like the normies saw you yell at somebody for questioning the integrity of the election system that, oh, by the way, every single one of these accounts said was fraudulent and fake circa 2020 and 2022. And this is what happens. I've said, I said this a few weeks ago on a different show. It might have been this show. I don't remember. But if you try earnestly to put your, to put yourself in the mind of a normie doesn't even have to be a liberal. Just a normie who isn't plugged into this stuff, who isn't like a Trumper, who believes elections are real. And you have been telling them that elections are fraudulent or were telling them for four years from 2020 through 2020. for until Trump won, that elections are fraudulent, and now you're saying they're not,

or that it doesn't matter, you look ridiculous to that normie. You look exactly as partisan and sycophantic for Trump and MAGA and Q as they think you are. The irony is when people like us talk to normies in our lives, at least where it concerns elections, we've been saying the same thing with Trump winning elections and losing elections. My rhetoric toward my family and friends has not changed one iota about what I think about elections. So they at least see me as consistent with that stance. And I bet a lot of people in the Q community, the MAGA community, they've been telling everybody in their lives the elections are fake and then the orange man wins and all of a sudden everything's fine. So it's not waking up anybody.

In fact, it's probably doing the opposite. So it's something to consider. Yeah. You know, the part that kind of drives me nuts the most is like they'll say like, all these people are, you know, telling people not to vote or whatever, to trade or subversive. And then you're like, well, where did I say it? Where did any of us say not to vote? Like, well, you implied it. And so, okay, well, how do we imply it? And they can never, they typically dodge the question.

But if you ever get a response, it's like questioning the legitimacy of the system is doing that. And then my, my response is, okay, well, why are we not allowed to question the legitimate, me of the legitimacy of the system and why is questioning the legitimacy can't say the word why is questioning the legitimacy of the system being equated to telling people not to vote and like sometimes people will question the legitimacy of the system and maybe say that they personally will not vote i have not done that i haven't told anybody what i'm going to i voted in every single election that i've participated in or been eligible to participate in up into this point and you guys don't know whether or not i'm going to vote in these upcoming elections it's not your business you'll know

whether or not I'm wearing a sticker that day but the fact that they equate those two things and they never actually address that and the problem and the reason they don't is because by addressing the fact that people questioning the legitimacy of the question of I am retarded right now people are trying to address the question of whether or not and when people can question the legitimacy of elections is a problem because Donald Trump himself is the one who question it the most. And so they almost make it a thing like where you're only allowed to do that. If you also say you have to vote in the elections. I don't think that's, I don't think that's completely against the First Amendment, but it's like, no, you are questioning legitimacy

of the elections. We are going to tell people that you are implying that people should not be voting, which is something that we're not doing. And then they paint us as the enemy for that. And it's just totally dishonest behavior. And people in the chat wondering why like we're doing this or talking about this because this is relevant right now i mean this is not going away we're 50 days from the midterms this is um this topic is only going to get worse badlands is only going to get more attacked in the coming days we're probably going to be met with another op where people flame out of badlands make it this whole big thing and pin pin on how like we're the enemy and it's just like it's happened the last 20 times 17 times whatever like it's this this behavior isn't

new and waiting till after the midterms when it all dies down that is when it's just going to pick up for the 2028 election like it's never never ends. The second never ends. It just ebbs and flows. Yeah. And, you know, I'm paranoid with this stuff for a good reason, but, you know, even the chat. There's some names, obviously, that I recognize who don't agree with things we're saying, but it's

usually, it's a flood of names I've never seen that are various numbers and characters that never watch our shows or anything like that, that just appear when we're talking about this. Oh my God, you're beating a dead horse. Move on to another topic. It's like, well, you don't care about the other topic because you don't actually watch us.

Are you trying to say that, Laura, the account Laura Lumer's crusty cunt is not a regular in the chat might might not which makes you wonder guys right I've said this before but there's a lot of money in sciops uh if the last couple years taught us anything being uncovered it's that so you know put it this way as you just said people are defending the system when they're attacking us for questioning the legitimacy of elections. When we're questioning the legitimacy of elections, we're questioning the system itself, as you said. So what exactly is going on when there is a coordinated assault, not just on us as the hosts of Badlands shows, but on you guys in the chat and on you guys in our telegram group,

and you guys in our comments sections, and you guys in our replies and all that kind of stuff, you guys in your groups with each other. What does that say? Who wants to demoralize you? Who wants you to conform with the system? Who wants to suppress the questioning of the system? Do sovereigns want to suppress the questioning of the system? Or does the system want to suppress the questioning of the system?

So as you said earlier, the reason it peaked my interest when you said, loyalist to the crown. The funny thing is, I don't think a lot of people understand that they're being loyalist to the crown. There's a thing even in New England. I remember we went to a random party that an acquaintance of ours held, my wife's friend and her husband. I was subjected to talking to him for a little while. It was just a retard. He had this party at like a historical house in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

shout out to Gar Plymouth. And he was like bragging about how the house was historical and this and that. And I said afterwards, he was like, yeah, it was one of the only ones that wasn't burned down. And I said, you know why it wasn't burned down, man? It wasn't burned down because the ones that weren't burned down in Boston during the revolution were loyalists. If your house wasn't burned down, you shouldn't be celebrating that it's from the Revolutionary War era because it means that they were loyal to the crown. That's why it wasn't burned down.

It was a part of the system. So it should be marked as part of the historical record as loyal to the British crown. And that's what's going on here. And the great irony that I've pointed out many times we've had these discussions is that if and when Donald Trump, through whatever means possible, renders the election system illegitimate, or rather codifies it as illegitimate, and does what we've been advocating for him to do the whole time, all of these people are going to cheer for that. And yet, I think the most important point is, if Donald Trump does want to call out the system,

if he does want to dismantle the system and rebuild it and legitimize it, people that are suppressing us talking about it being illegitimate are the exact thing standing in Donald Trump's way. Like, people will often ask, us why do you think Trump is saying to go vote well as you said he's also alternating between saying that and saying he doesn't care about the midterms every other day in all these different contexts so you're picking and choosing but let me straw man myself and steal man you out there and say that

Trump really Trump is consistently saying we have to go vote why is he saying that if he's historically been saying the whole time the election system is fraudulent because of you he's saying it because of you because if Donald Trump says what we're saying and says the system is illegitimate, the machine is going to use that to codify a story of an election, which is all elections are. And Trump doesn't want to sign off on that story. And he knows, unfortunately, that a lot of his base is weak. And if he tells them the truth, which is that the elections are fraudulent and don't matter at all, then they're going to black pill. And all these people tell us that we're black pilling. And I don't think that calling a fake

system fake is blackpilling. I think subjecting yourself to a humiliation ritual and convincing yourself that what you're doing is real, even though you walked around for five years saying it was fake with nothing changing in the interim. That is blackpilling to me. And it's not where I want to be. I agree. I was going to play a clip. Um, they don't know what the fuck they do. Do you understand that? I can find the appropriate time or place to fit it in. That's what she said. I'm going to play the part of my show earlier today where I talked about the loyal

to the ground. My rant today was so much better than the land. I just didn't. I hate to say it was so much better. But I'm going to play this now. It's just like 45 seconds. But it's spot on, in my opinion. And it adequately, I think, represents how I would highly encourage you all to go.

And this is not just me shamelessly plugging. Go watch today's show. I think it starts like four minutes in my rant and it goes for like 25 minutes or something. But again, none of this is to say, even if you question the legitimacy of elections that you shouldn't vote, you should all go vote if you believe that is the solution. Take a listen to this. But then to call me a traitor because I, I spit it up. I'm going to slow it down.

I was already talking super fast. Don't even need to speed this up. I allow people to say like they don't believe voting is the answer. they would be calling George Washington and Sam Adams and all those they would be calling them traitors like if you went back in time these are the people these are the loyalists to the crown that's what these people are like they claim to be you know participating in this you know info war and winning all these you know winning back the the country and doing all these things but they are operating like loyalists to the crown a bunch of pussies I'm sorry

and I'm not calling people who like believe voting is the solution And if you think that's the solution, that there's nothing wrong with that belief. You can believe that the election system is illegitimate. You can believe that the government is corrupt and all these things. And you can still think like, well, what else can I do? At least if I vote, they can't steal it or whatever. I'd rather say that I voted and tried than not. There's nothing wrong with that.

It's just not people don't agree with you. Not everybody agrees with you. they have a different solution there shouldn't be anything wrong with that either yeah and they go on to say you'll really see one side attack and the other and then also another op that that keeps coming up and this one i think is specifically badlands related it's the people who are like well elections they're they're not fake they're they're illegitimate they're just rigged and people they're just they're just rigged they're illegitimate they're fraudulent but they're not fake because calling it fake that means people shouldn't vote them and they're not real or whatever that is also not what they're saying and that is also not

true and it is not the way that Donald Trump uses it when he equates being fake to rigged like it's it's semantics but people are keen on that word because there are some people on badlands who use that word specifically and they do it sometimes now just because it pisses everybody off don't get to twist it but it's semantics and i'm going to prove it to you that don't has called elections fake and he uses it just like if it's rigged or fraudulent or anything it's all the same thing and so using that against us as if it's some sort of like people who call elections fake or being subversa whatever that's not going to work on us either you guys are retarded over the past several weeks we've amassed overwhelming evidence about a fake election this is the

presidential election it's a disgrace what's happening and i don't think the country's going to stand for it much longer they're they're disgusted You have a fake election, you have an election with voter abuse and with voter fraud like nobody's ever seen before. We can never let another thing happen like what happened to us with a fake election, with a rigged election, where a guy like Joe Biden assumes the presidency. So again, multiple examples, and I probably could have found 10 more of Trump calling elections fake. But once again, nobody's saying not to vote. And if by us even having this discussion, you think that's what we're saying, you have totally misunderstood.

the point and you're you're you're putting forth the exact behavior that we are calling out it's you are lying about what we're saying and you're trying to use that against us and that is just it's a straight up lie that is not at all what anybody has ever said on this show and if you think that us talking about fraudulent elections this way is going to get people to not vote then i don't know what to tell you that's retarded nobody here is trying to control what anybody thinks what a fantastic tell in the chat when one of the people trolling us just starts posting 107 in all caps and predictions on that. If we didn't know we were on over the target before, then that's enough. But Trump's saying, Trump's saying I don't, in one of those clips he played, I don't think

people are going to stand for it. That's kind of interesting. And again, what I was just saying couple minutes ago. Are they though? Donnie? I think they are. Not only do I think they're going to stand for it, I think they're going to subject anybody who isn't going to stand for it to humiliation rituals to make them stand for it. One of the jokes that wasn't a joke that I said you were you were asking us when you did the man on the street in Vegas. You were asking some of us, hey, what kind of thing should I ask. And the first thing I thought of was ask normal people on the strip if they think the election system is real, if they think elections are real, basically, or legitimate. And my thesis was, won't it be funny if more normies believe the election system is fraudulent than

truthers? And lo and behold, there are very few normies out there who think elections are legitimate. By the way, guys, the number of people who participate in midterm elections is very low. And that's not the fault of Badlands Media, by the way. Yeah, yeah. You're basically saying that most Americans are not real Americans, and there is an elitist sort of demeanor to that. There's a subtle, Ghost was talking about this recently in our chats a few weeks ago. He's, you know, he's back on the job site. He's obviously having conversations with more normies. than he has been in our bubble for the last few years in this sort of info war bubble.

And one of the things he said is, you know, Normies are more base than people think they are. They might not be as read into the stuff that we are. They might not believe. They might kind of dismiss conspiracy theories. Certainly there's a merit to digging into the things that this community digs into, really trying to learn all the things we can learn

about the system, the enemy, the deep state, just how far back it goes. And then in positive ways, all the things that we think Donald Trump is actually a part of. I think that's cool. I don't think Normies are, you know, read in on that kind of stuff or read themselves in on that kind of stuff. But they know elections aren't real. A lot of them know elections aren't real. It's like if they've ever watched a George Carlin sketch, they know elections aren't real. This isn't a new epiphany in the American mind. Most normal guys, I would say out there, if you ask a blue collar working class,

class guy, if he thinks elections are real, most of them are going to laugh at you because they just have this knowing that they're not. And again, that quote, I don't think people are going to stand for it. The great irony here, and I love that you invoke the Boston boys, Sam Adams, but the great irony, the great irony is that you're absolutely right. The people like the G's of the world, like the John Drake's of the world, even, like us talking about these things who are are saying the election system is fraudulent and we are not going to stand for a fraudulent election system. And our way of not standing for it is not to call for a kinetic revolution, even though others would. Our way of not standing for is to not shut up about it. And it's just

hilarious to see people watching others not move from the moral and correct position on the election system that you used to pretend to hold and subject them to a humiliation ritual and think that you're the sovereign American in this equation. It's a humiliation ritual. One more point on it would be, I see a lot of comments, and it's not just in chat, I see this, I see this just like across the battle space. I used to see this all the time when I was a liberal in the conservative media sphere. Conflating Americanism with voting, or as you pointed out in your show, what you say? Patriotism. It's not just Americanism.

Patriotism, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Patriotism, as you said earlier in your show today, the founders equating that in your post with voting is utterly ridiculous. There are 25 plus quote unquote full democracies in the Western world that hold systems very similar to ours where they vote for elected representatives. They vote for the leaders of their countries.

If you, depending on which chatbot you're talking to, you could be looking at between 70. I was looking at this earlier, between 70 and 115 democracies that would basically pass muster as what constitutes a democracy. So then when I present that to these kind of people, that voting in the midterms is what the military was dying for, where they're pretty fucking stupid if that's what they were dying for. And I, for one, don't believe, I don't know a single military member that went to war so you could vote for Republicans in the midterms. Are you kidding me? They went to war to protect the American way of life. They're supposed to have gone to war to protect American sovereignty and freedom.

They went to war to protect the Constitution in many cases, none of which has to do with voting. Voting in elections that are fake is the same right that dozens and dozens of countries hold in the world. So if that is your peak, your sum total of what it is to be a patriot and what it is to be American, I think maybe you've missed the point because you might as well call Germans Americans and English and French and Canadians and Mexicans. All of them have democracies. All of them hold elections. So what are theirs fake, but ours are real now? Yep. It's ridiculous.

Ukraine, yeah? Well, they're actually based because they're not holding elections anymore. So they got something right. But, you know, it just, I think it's demoralized. The people that think that's demoralizing, it's like, man, I would hate to have died for my country and to have people boil down my sacrifice to I can vote for John Toon in the midterms or Lauren Bobert. Like, thank God I threw my life away so somebody could vote for Thomas Massey to make a new Twitter video. I mean, I mean, technically, you know, like there's many reasons people go to fighting war. and it's like one of the things is yes they fight for partially your right to be able to do lots of things

and one of those is the the illusion of voting that we have that's technically true but yeah to like when people use arguments like that it's it's not because they're trying to necessarily make a point or win the actual argument based on facts and like what you're actually talking about they insert stuff like that because it's an emotional appeal yeah it's emotional blackmail yeah but they can they think that they can win the argument because now like you know See like by by even questioning the voting system you are shooting all over the grave of anybody who ever's fought for this country and it's just it's ridiculous and going back to like the founding fathers too and the people who say you know let's just say that because this is one of the things too you say I don't think the elections are legitimate and without you don't even have to go any further because I typically don't again

I've never said not to vote I've never said you shouldn't vote I never said I'm not voting so that's not a thing But they'll try to get the argument to, okay, well, if you're not going to vote because you're implying people shouldn't vote, again, not an argument we've ever made. Then they're like, well, what's next then? What happens next? And that's the thing. Nobody actually knows what's next because it's not happened. And the reality is we've had multiple elections now where we've lost the midterms and we haven't had a revolution or anything again. Nobody's calling for that.

But how does anybody know what's going to happen next? And then invoking the founding fathers, too, about like what they did. When they, when they walked away from the crown, as I said earlier, like there was years, maybe decades of transgressions, the crown forced upon the colonists. And they tried to petition their governments and get them addressed, but they wouldn't. And if you read through the Declaration of Independence, which I've done now like multiple times the last couple days, the last 24 hours, I would encourage you all to go do that. It is a worthwhile exercise and go through the list of things that they put in there.

I can even show myself, I still have it open from earlier today. I was talking about one of these days we should do a show where we go through this list of things that the king was doing against the colonists and equate them to modern day parallels because there would be many. But they listed all these reasons as to why they said that you no longer have legitimate authority over us, which was the super based appropriate thing to do. And then what did they do? The king gave orders to the Redcoats to march on Concord and Lexington or whatever and go after the colonist armory. or whatever and we don't even know who fired the first shot but in a different world the king would like well okay I guess not but the king was the aggressor there we don't know if that's what happens this time around if enough people are like yeah this is this is ridiculous we don't know

so to assume that you know what's going to happen in in a situation where enough people decide to opt out and it's not just opt the other voting that's that's one small piece of the pie there There's many parts of the pie. It's opting out of the authority of those who are elected based on that system. Exactly. But there's so few people that are actually willing to live the life that that would require. And so we keep going through the motions. And again, this is all to say.

Nobody is telling you not to vote. But we are going to continue to talk about the election system being fraudulent. And I'm going to continue to allow people to express their opinion if their opinion is that they're not going to vote. I'm highly doubtful that anybody maybe other than G is going to tell you not to vote. But I feel like nobody takes that seriously anyway because most people tune G out, even though he's been right about more things than anybody else. But anyway. Yeah, it's again, to me, one of the biggest things here is,

I think just reducing what it means to be American to this. Again, not telling people not to vote, but to reduce like raising my son. Am I going to, hey, dad, what's the most important thing about being American? Voting. And people, I'm not even joking. A lot of people say that that we get to vote in elections. That's a subversion.

That's a Prussian subversion programmed into you by the Prussian public education system. Voting is not inherently American. They do it all over the world. They were doing it at the time. Yeah. not obviously not in America because we were under a king which was the whole problem but they were still doing it in other places in the world and they've been doing it for hundreds of years since in all sorts of places in the world what it means to be an american is the right to say no to something and overall not just no to voting but the constitution was meant to enshrine or recognize unalienable rights that are god-given and inherent those rights this is this is the problem and this is why somebody like john

Drake and you know Chris and a lot of the stuff they talk about are having a lot of the most important conversations these days and starting to attract people to have those kind of conversations, which are why it's great when we get together at Garts and have these conversations. We need to remember what rights were originally trying to be enshrined there. And the idea was that these were inherent rights. The big sciop of elections is that we have lent so much power. to the elected officials that come on the back of these humiliation rituals, that we basically conflate our right, our rights to do anything,

to engage in free commerce, to engage in financial interactions, to where we live, how we conduct business, how we conduct ourselves, what we can talk about, all these things we conflate with elections. Well, if the wrong people get elected, then our, constitutional rights are going to be threatened. Well, that's a big fucking problem, isn't it? That means that we have a big problem with the thing that comes after the elections, which is called the government. We have a really big problem with the government, and that includes Donald Trump's government. If your government has the power to suppress your unalienable God-given rights,

it must be abolished. Now, I'm one of those people that thinks that Donald Trump is attempting something of a controlled demolition of that government. That doesn't mean I think we're going to end up with no government, but I think Donald Trump is trying to reduce the authority of government, not increase it. But going back to that quote of, I don't think the people are going to stand for it, which is what Trump said. I think how large government is and how powerful government is at the end of the Trump era depends entirely on how much permission he gets from the American people to go

where he needs to go. And these kind of conversations just demonstrate, unfortunately, that the vast majority of his supporters and the vast majority of truthers do not want to upend the system. They do not want to change the system. They just want Republicans to beat Democrats in elections. Yep. And there's a couple of great comments in the chat. I wish I could get to them all, but I'm not going to, but somebody said, see we can find it. Oh, like this conversation is not going change any minds and that is the funny part and but whoops I don't know why Siri did that um but we're not we're not trying to change your minds like this is something that's relevant and going on in our sphere maybe it's not affecting everybody but it's relevant to us and we're literally

not trying to change your minds we don't care what you guys do i mean not to not to like belittle anybody or but we just don't care we don't but then somebody in the chat julia jane now is leaving our rants and read a couple of these because this is a great point you have to do what is right for you there aren't enough people who aren't going to vote to make a difference or not pay your taxes agreed there aren't enough people to not shop at target to shut it down or stop going to petal land to make a difference but i choose not to support those companies because that's what feels right to me be thankful we live in the USA where we have a choice to vote or not at least for now i do believe trump is fighting for all of that that is why i stand behind him we all stand behind him too but you're making a good point with um like remember in the woke days of the binary like these woke companies will come out of and do a woke thing and something stupid and we could inflict financial damages on them for sure and

we would all go away how many people still shop at amazon like how many times we talked about putting your morals where your mouth are and how many people actually live by that and do that and we sit here and try to like we preach that all the time but not everybody does that like we sell the best lotion product you will possibly ever find that is my opinion that is not a you know an fda approved statement or whatever but how many people still go get Juergens from Target versus ordering some soft disclosure at soft disclosure.com. Like you have the opportunity every single day to make a decision to do things and

we try to tell you to do those things and we can get some people, but not everybody. But then when we don't say not to vote, we get accused of losing the midterms because we have such crazy pull and like it's just, it's ridiculous and it's not consistent logical behavior which makes us question what the larger op behind it is. And that's why we have these conversations truthfully because we see them as an op and we see that something bigger is coming at the tail end of the op and it ultimately ends with some sort of larger struggle session of how bad lands is the enemy and all these things and that's why we're calling this out now we're getting ahead of it so that when it inevitably

happens yeah you guys are like it was easy to see coming oh yeah they they did say this was coming for like a year now so you're welcome it's coming i know you guys won't fall for it but it's going to happen time and time again it's going to probably get to a point where it's just going to be like me Bernie Bright and Chris doing shows and like Ash. I guess can't probably Zach. Yeah. Ash, Kankan, G money. Yeah.

I guess I can probably read through Drake. We just added somebody by the way. We're adding, which I'm excited about. He already quit, I think. He probably already did quit. Because you heard about the voting thing. Yeah. I want to respond to actually what I was just going to say.

Oh yeah, go ahead. Yeah, Matt McDonough. He's starting to show if you guys saw my interview, I did, with him. I was supposed to have mom for like 10 minutes a couple weeks ago to talk about AI because it was right after the AI companies came out and said oh we reached AGI like our 98.5% AGII and but it was right before the AI was going to kill us all up and the 10 minute conversation turned into a full episode discussion. It was really really good and it was the second time I've had him on both times he was really good he's he's intelligent he's got great you know whatever camera

presence whatever that means like you know it's not retarded on screen like I am and like some other people are and he's very optimistic too which is going to really clash with the badlands is dooming on everything brand yep very optimistic and he's he's like he's based too like I've talked to him I'm in DMs over the course of the last many years and he's got good insight and so I think he's gonna be a great fit I think you guys are gonna like him he'll come to a couple guards he might I think he's gonna be on only lands Friday too like so he'll be around to shoot the shit with all of us which would be fun but I I'm excited to get him on

board and grow the badlands team before people try to destroy the badlands team. I happened to see Matt. I watched a few shows of his like a couple years ago before I knew that you were in contact with him and definitely long before he was on Badlands because I was educating myself the last few years on Bitcoin and the financial system and stuff. So I happened across his videos and found him to be very. interesting and refreshingly optimistic the even a lot of Bitcoin maxis were going down the dooming on AI rabbit hole and he was like the first guy in that sphere that I saw calling them

you know very politely he's a polite guy but calling them retards and he just kind of smiles when people start dooming out which I like he's like ah here we go don't worry I'll pull you back we're going to be okay the machines aren't going to get us I wanted to respond because the thing I was going to say is is perfectly in keeping with a rant we just got so I want to respond to that now. Dragonfly sister sent 50 bucks over so thank you for that first of all. A long time watcher, I think you're losing viewers because shows used to have humor. Now so serious, there's less levity. I love Onlylands and of course DPH on Q Newbies Awakening. So thank you for the rant and you know if that's your opinion, that's your opinion. The funny thing is the point I was just

going to make is related to that and I mean this earnestly so I'm not going to shit on you. In the back channels tonight at Badlands. We were talking about about how people are calling Badlands grifters. They call John a grifter, these Q accounts, these struggle session accounts, they call John a grifter, they call me a grifter, they call Chris a grifter. Mostly it's John and Chris that trigger people the most.

A grifter is somebody who holds an opinion or purports to hold an opinion that is lucrative for them to hold. It is advantageous for them to hold. It is a popular opinion. That is the point. the point of grifting the point of grifting is to pretend you hold an opinion that the larger group or the more powerful group holds to be in keeping with consensus to attain monetary and

reputational reward that is what the point of grifting is so let me just use that and let's just say that that's true because you might be right dragonfly sister us having these kind of conversations has lost us viewers. Let's say that's true. That's okay. We don't give a shit. The people who are left at Badlands are the only people

who actually meant it at the beginning of this Info War stuff that we're going to keep saying what we believe no matter what. Social consequences are. Yeah, no matter what the reputational and social consequences are.

and especially no matter what the financial consequences are. We could make a lot more money as a business and as individuals, and some are finding this out in their own theaters, by joining collectives, by adhering to groupthink, and by pushing incentivized social and monetary topics. And we have chosen over and over to advance unpopular, but moral and logical viewpoints. And that's why, by the way, the other side of this coin is that we do know, especially when we meet people in person, but it's not just in person.

I get nice emails. John gets nice emails. Sometimes it's human nature to respond to the negative shit. We all do that, right? But man, I get, I got a, you know, older couple who gave me like 300 bucks cash in Deadwood, after I, or in Vegas, you know, I told them no a bunch of times just because they're like, oh, we don't chat and whatever. and it's not about the money, it's about people approach us and tell us the positive effect that these conversations have had on them by making them feel not alone and making them feel like they can have those conversations. And this is the only goddamn place on the internet where you can have those conversations and you're encouraged to have those conversations. And the fucking Q community and the truth community and the MAGA community is not the same thing. If you have any of these conversations out there and everybody in the badlands has thought about the elections at one point.

Or you've taken, if it's not elections, you watching the show, you've had some opinion that has been off the reservation from other people in the Q community or truthers or MAGA and you've been afraid to voice it because they just pile on to you and tell you to get back in your pen and get back to Groupthink. And that's not what we're here for. That's not what we're here for. We lose money for it and maybe we lose viewers for it. But I, don't want those viewers and i don't want that money do not and the funny and and last point on it the funny thing about that is that the people that are the most triggered by these conversations keep flooding our chats and comments to tell us to stop to tell us to stop having them and what does

that tell you what it tells you is that this message is reaching way more fucking people than you want to admit and you know it you know it's reaching a lot of people otherwise you wouldn't care. Nobody would care. If nobody's watching us and nobody agrees with us, why do you care? Why are you in the comments of the chat? Why are you in the comments? Why are you watching? What a sad existence. So, you know, or a paid existence. So, you know, that's just to say that. We'll say it plenty more times. And, you know, adjacent topic to this is just outside of the struggle session thing. The unfortunate thing with all this that I think about, I said this before the show, but the midterms, whatever. I understand it with presidential elections, but when it comes

to the midterms, it's like, man, there's actually a lot of, like, really interesting stuff to talk about all the time. There's interesting stuff on financial systems, on what the hell's our boy, Scott Besson, you know, the gay assassin doing, what's Vladimir Putin doing, what's Xi Jinping doing, what's the sovereign alliance up to, what's going on in the Middle East with Ghost? There's a lot a cool shit happening. And the thing I hate the most about the midterms, the irrelevant, useless midterm elections is they stop everybody from talking about any of those things. And you know what's going to happen one week after the midterms, no matter what we're told happens in the midterms, whether we get the blue wave and everything's over and we lost our country or we get the red wave

and in spite of those doomers at badlands who we're going to steal everything for us and ruin the movement. Nobody's going to be talking about the midterms because they won't have mattered. and you'll be talking about all the things we were talking about a month ago. We'll see. We'll see because if we lose the midterms, it will be our fault. Now it'll be the topic of discussion for a while. But if we win the midterms,

everybody will still be like, we're lucky we just, we did this, you know, even with bad lands there on the fringe, telling people not to vote. But the funny thing is if we do win, we're going to get a unparty candidates and we're going to have the same two years of nobody passing Trump's agenda.

But I love what you said there because I have tried to say the same thing, essentially and have not done it so eloquently. But you described the path that we have chosen to take and stick to very, just very, very well. There's actually a point in time a while ago where Chris Paul was, we were having a text discussion, me and him. And he was like, hey, man, by the way, like, I think it was after a power hour when we were having a discussion similar to this.

And he was like, the chat was super mad. And he was like, you know what? if at any point like me being on here and having like these opinions and discussions are like become not fiscally beneficial or like are hurting the business you just got to let me know and I'll go and I'll be like I will I he was genuine too he was being genuine he would mean that and I said I don't care if we go bankrupt I would much rather be able to have a discussion like the ones we're having where we can speak honestly with no agenda and say the things that we believe to be true whether anybody gives money or subscribes or whatever we do not care about them but we've never been about the

money and you're right that we're the only ones that have ever actually meant that when they say that yeah and so it is funny that we get accused to be grifter's because it's it's utterly just false it's utterly false and yeah our repeated behavior we're not good at it it's like if we're trying to grift no we could we could get into the the way what you phrased it as the decode industrial complex bible verses rinse and repeat vote. Yep. You appeal to like vague things that you claim to know are going to happen, which never happened. And then you like, but if you don't agree with that, I'm also super into the Bible. So you can't criticize me either. Otherwise, you're going to hell. It's just, it's so stupid. But we don't do

that. And we don't care if anybody else does that. People will always be allowed to say what they want to say on this platform. And that's that. Whether you agree or not, don't care. So I'm glad you said that, B, B, that was awesome. Yeah. There are a couple of things we should talk about. Sure. I didn't know if I was yelling. Take your Faustian bargains and go yonder with them. Real quick, we're gonna do one more sponsor, my favorite sponsor. Well, we have a lot of great sponsors.

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I wanted to reiterate too. do appreciate, you know, the kind of funny thing, we've called it. We've been calling it the sifting, I think, since 2024. Yeah, it's been a long sifting process. You know, there's been sifting at badlands. There's been sifting within the badlands, which is you guys. I know, you know, there's so many people, one of the coolest things about badlands. I've never seen something like this where we've got, you know, organic incubators and groups of badlanders all over the country that have self-organized. And we try to give them pathways to organize, but they'd have done it without us.

They do it without us, which is great. Now, some of those groups hate us and used to love us. But hey, that's their prerogative. The irony, though, is a lot of these actual grifters, they're really jealous of that. They're really jealous of the sort of self-organizing community that we have here, where Badlanders take agency, they make their own groups, they do their own meetups,

then obviously they come to guard. They watch the shows, et cetera. Everybody's got different favorite hosts and different favorite shows and all of that. But these people, no other business, even ones way bigger than us, literally bigger than us in terms of money and in terms of viewers, can do that. They can't reproduce it. And there's something there. And it's not because people hide behind Q drops and voting in Donald Trump. That's not what it's all about.

Those are topics that come up a lot, but there's something at the coalitions. there's something at the core of badlands and on the topic of that sifting it is absolutely the case to me that especially in the last year of garts i would say that in person face to face the energy and and a lot of the people who are there were at the original guards too but there are people that sifted out that don't want to watch us anymore and there are new people that come in every time and the power level is different the demeanor at these guards it's very calm It's very stable and steady. And even people that like vehemently disagree with various things, whether they're on stage or with each other, it's, we're cultivating something.

And we're going to come through this sifting, I think, as an actual community within one that's been masquerading as a community, but that has not been. So I'm not worried about it. I think there are plenty of Americans who really do share these values and share these morals and first principles. and we're going to keep finding them and you guys are going to help us keep finding them. Totally great. Speaking of that, guys, I just got word

that... Oh, shit. The tickets for the next card are now on sale. The Great American Restoration Tour, number 14, St. Pete Beach, November 12th through the 14th. You go to badlandsmedia.tv slash events. Look on this little more info icon

and you can get your tickets. And if you've never been to one of these, I highly encourage you to attend. This is actually the last one we have scheduled. We don't have any scheduled for next year yet. And we are switching it up next year. We're not doing four. We're just getting so hard on everybody to do for a year, not just economically,

but life's busy. It's fun and the host logistically. It's just, it's a challenge. So we're cutting back to two, I believe. And I don't know exactly when those are going to be or where. But we'll eventually get this out. But this is technically the last. I know, but I'm not going to tell John yet.

Yeah. It's technically the last guard on the schedule. So if you have been to one of these, this is the one to go to as well. I know a lot of people who are gearing up saving for saving for this one. So we're very excited about this. It's a new location. The venue is stunning, at least in the pictures I've seen. It's on the beach.

It's going to be a great time and we're going to have some great discussions as we always do. You can yell at us about whatever it did or didn't happen at the midterms. Yeah, that'll be fun. It'll be real fun. So get your tickets, guys. Badlandsmedia. TV slash events, you're not going to want to miss it. Yeah, I, I, when Mrs. Bright happened to be down, Mrs. Bright and I happened to be down there

in May, we were at Indian shores just on a family trip. So we drove down to check out this venue. I think she was in the process and negotiating with them. And she wanted to get eyes on. And we drove down to St. Pete's like 30 minutes from Indian shores. We weren't able to go inside the venue because they were renovating it. I believe the Hilton bought them. But the grounds were awesome so it's going to be a great place there's a nice big pool there's an outdoor bar there's a whole fire pit area right off of the bar outside and then there's obviously a little boardwalk to a huge white sand beach so should be fun I think the weather's gonna be pretty good I mean we'll see but I think it'll be like in the

70s so that's swimming rather weather for a New Englander yes just swimming rather rather iron wo man says St. Pete Beach is Get Central. Why else do you think we're going? Why else? Like we're trying to get Scott Besson to go. Scott Besson is a speaker and we figured this would be the best way to do it. Super funny. But yeah, get your tickets, guys. It would be fun to see you guys down there. You also got a follow-up rant from the person, Dragonfly Sister, who earlier said, I remember what she said. Oh, how she, the shows were, there's less levity. She now says, okay, I guess more levity sucks. Wasn't talking about any subjects you cover. Thanks for being honest. Was that the last guard? I guess I'm not welcome

to my honest thoughts. Thanks, BB. My whole point was to say thank you for that rant. And I understand that that might be true, but that that's not going to stop us from talking about these things. So, yeah, I mean, okay, this is, this is part for the course. Like, if you're going to give out the criticism, we can accept it, but we're going to respond and you've got to be able to accept it. That's how these things work. No, no, it doesn't. That's how this works. They get to play victim B, B, B, and immediately appeal to that victimhood and appeal to previous support, giving them the right to criticize us without us responding. You're allowed to have your honest thoughts, but I'm allowed to have mine, too.

We learned this in first grade, and even the Prussian education system. Yeah, that's pretty crazy. Okay, there are a couple of things I want to talk about, but it's already 11 o'clock. So let me buzz through at least one thing I want to talk about, which I thought was notable. The Department of Defense, the Pentagon, sorry, Department of War is creating a new Homeland Defense advisory board. And there's like a million of these boards. There's also like a million of attorneys that work within the Pentagon and with the DOJ and with the president. And so I thought it was notable because part of the board's role here is going to be providing advice for navigating the complex legal and operational boundaries of domestic military operations as well as countering foreign influence.

And this is a post I put out there the other day, so you can go and read the exact quote and where it's from. But why I think this is so interesting is we've already seen the, I mean, number one, the issues with foreign influence that's been very pervasive. I don't think we've adequately addressed that over the years. I think there's more to come on that, hopefully. But specifically, having to do with like domestic, like, why would they need a board that's going to tackle the the how's the phrase again here the complex legal and operational boundaries

of domestic military operations we've already seen multiple times now this first trump admin where trump has been challenged in courts for his use of the military domestically like multiple different occasions and it's not just like the doj but like trump's own personal attorneys and the office of legal counsel who have like addressed some of these uses of the military domestically And so I think this is notable. And I'm not trying to claim to know why I'm not trying to say that something's coming. What about your inside sources close to this situation? My inside sources have sworn me to secrecy on this specific topic.

So we just got to trust me, bros. No, but I think this is notable. Like there's a there's a there here. Instead of they're there, there. There's a there here. And I don't know. I just somebody to pay attention to it. It reminds me of,

Yeah. It reminds me that Adam Schiff back in 2023, I think it was, when he was trying to sneak into the NDAA, that any intelligence information or, you know, whatever intelligence that was gathered during the use of military's domestic operations. So if the military gathered intelligence in the domestic operation that somehow went against posse comitatis, it couldn't be used in any form of legal proceeding, whether that's from the courts to congressional hearing or anything in between. And it's like, why are you doing that, bro? Like, what are you worried about? Like, what do you know? Like, what, what do you think the military has been doing domestically that you think is going to be against posse comitatas? So, I don't know.

There's just thought it was notable one to point it out. Yeah, this is not my wheelhouse. I have no idea what this could mean. But for some reason, it made me think of sci ops as well. Like, just, I don't know, like navigating the complex legal and operational boundaries of domestic military operations. that that is probably just like normal language but one of the fun topics that we've been discussing for years on this show is is the fifth-gen warfare environment and psychological warfare operations on the American people and the alternative what do the so-called white hats do what part do the so-called white hats play in that how much informational chicanery are they involved with even if it's for good reasons.

You know, I wonder. I'm partial. At least I think that there's a there there to the, ah, what the hell is the law? Now I can't think of it. The Obama, the infamous Obama. Smith Monact. Smith Monact.

Yeah, and I don't think, you know, if the white hats are quote-unquote lying to us, that they're like, I declare a Smith-Munt, and they throw it down like a, who-no card. Maybe they do, just for Schitt's and getting it.

but I can believe this is the weapons of the enemy refrain I've been talking about for a long time, that maybe there have been things that the baddies set up that our team has been kind of using against them, we're using to their own advantages. The hope there would be that there's an unwinding of that stuff and a closing off of those of those sort of avenues as we are sliding out of this age. Yeah. And I don't know. I don't know if this would represent any of that, but.

You know, I always find that argument because you see this a lot in the truth community, like, we need to repeal or re-end, I don't remember if it's, we need to repeal or we need to reinstate the Smith-Mund Act. Like, I don't remember, I always forget which one-a- There's a Smith-Mund Modernization Act. So it's, Obama's was an amendment to, there's. Smith-Mont Act. Yeah, but whatever, whatever it is.

There's always this push to, like, revert back to where it was before. And my thought process on this is always like, well, that is not going to stop the sciops. Like, the sci-ups are not going anywhere. And so, like, the status- But it's illegal now, John. Yeah, but then, well, that's the thing. Like, okay, so if we're going to make siops illegal, that means we're going to penalize

people for deliberately speaking falsehoods. Who's going to be the arbiter of what is true and false? And that is where the issue comes in because if they repeal that thing and we somehow lose the midterms and maybe, you know, get people in office who who don't have our best interests in mind and happen to hate America and hate all the freedoms that the founders stood for, how do we know that they are not going to criminalize things we say? Like when we say that elections are fraudulent. If speaking, you know, or propaganda or whatever, speaking those things was a crime, you easily could have seen the Biden administration's ministry of truth or whatever we call. it, putting people in jail for saying elections are illegitimate. They would have used that as a reason to go after Donald Trump. So I'm skeptical that will ever happen. Yeah. Well, from what I've been told very recently, as recently as tonight, the founders themselves would have thrown us in jail, John, for questioning the legitimacy of elections.

That's true. That's true. I think they would have. Maybe Alexander Hamilton would, that cuck. Yeah, there's a few. It's fun to go back and like, oh, I guess not going. It's funny. I use the super-futuristic AI to go and read things the founders said about any given topic. So like if there's just anything that's interesting to me, I'll be like, what did the founders say about this? Give me quotes, some of the best quotes. And yeah, they were pretty damn based those guys. So how far we have fallen.

You know, what's also really cool about it is that it demonstrates that appealing to first principles. Like the only guys whose names we know are the ones who like survived that sifting, right? was a lot of people probably involved early on that there were conversations with that had a toe in the in the revolution but they're not remembered the ones who were remembered they were speaking in first principles which is why none of their none of their statements very few of their statements are anachronistic very few of them are in keeping with the time in which they lived you know they're not talking about if you're reading them besides the english way that they're speaking like the vernacular

they're using, you wouldn't inherently know when they're talking, which is good. That's a good sign. It's like they're talking about ideas and ideas are what should survive for the long term. So if we find our way coming back to these ideas, some of the best indicators to your point is when you think you've thought of something and maybe you even have organically thought of something. And then you find out that some based alpha chats back in the day were like, I thought of that too. And then they were all reading the Greeks and the Romans. And it turns out the Greeks and the Romans thought a lot of that shit as well, hundreds or thousands of years before they did. So they remember they were the modernists at that time.

And that's the fate of anybody living in the time that they are living, is that they are modern. But eventually we will not be. Oh, man, I was going to say, oh, you made a comment about like how they wrote. Like, they used to write and speak so much more eloquently than we do now. Like, we all are so stupid. And I definitely learned that while perusing the streets of Fremont Street. Some of the people I conversed with.

Yeah. Bland news. Language matters. I'm a book nerd, but it's like, you know, there is definitely something to. Spellings matter too. Yeah. Right. There's a degradation of society that is inherent in the way.

people speak to each other yeah totally agree um i did see this just came out or maybe it didn't come out just now but i saw it's up on the badlands website i'm let me see we can find out when this was actually written um but apparently the democrats are suing to block armed federal agents at polls and they see dhs voter integrity checklist that they're like suing over something that hasn't happened yet. And that's why I think this is funny, based on just like my initial reading. But they're doing it because of words that DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen has said. They seek a, what here? They cite statements from Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen that ICE agents could make arrests at polling places. I'm assuming of illegal aliens voting. But anyway, Attorney General Todd Blanche's

endorsements of law enforcement near voting sites and FBI directors Cash Patel's recent testimony. They seek a court order barring armed forces. from the vicinity of open polling places from early voting through post-election, pointing to a federal statute that prohibits sending armed federal agents or troops to polls, except when such forces necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States. So that's funny. They're suing preemptively suing over something that hasn't happened yet. Yep.

I thought these were funny, speaking of the midterms, and how we definitely need to do everything in our power to make sure that the GOP is representing us, a couple these are these are every day now these have been happening every day for weeks but i've been saying one of my themes on this show is uh one of my sub themes has been is donald trump attempting to bait out the disloyalty inherent in the gop through many of his moves i don't think that's what it's all about but i think there's a reason he's decided to keep the iran narrative going through the midterms rather than ending it before the midterms If he end the Iran war situation in September, the entirety of the GOP would march and lockstep behind him.

Why? Because it would be popular to do so. We were just talking about grifting, right? What do grifters do? They try to grab onto whatever the most popular movement is. And right now, it seems the most popular movement is to be against Trump's populist movement. So we've got he is kryptonite. Republicans start breaking with Trump.

candidates in tight races are publicly distancing themselves from a president whose low approval rating is dragging the party down. And then we add a bunch more, but GOP is breaking with an unpopular Trump. Congressional Republicans are increasingly breaking with an unpopular president on foreign policy and pocketbook issues as they try to stop their majorities from slipping away. Now, you might dismiss that as just media propaganda demoralization, but it is a very important. true these are a lot of these congressmen are openly quoted who are running in tight races as distant distancing themselves from Trump so you know people can use the term rhino if they want but there are not many MAGA Republicans out

there and the further Trump perpetuates these narratives that he's got going that I think are necessary I've been a Trump maximalist the whole time and every year that goes by I am even more loyal to the Trump vision and what I think the little glimpses and projections of that vision that I come up with encourage me and make me want to support that vision even more and I said in July on this show I was reading a bunch of articles about concepts about the dirty break which is the Democratic Socialists of America wanting to wear the Democratic Party like a skin suit and then destroy it from within and I suggested might we see Donald Trump?

Have we been seeing Donald Trump doing that on the right? And I think that's exactly what's going on. And you're starting to see the cracks. But I said in 2022, hey, when these people show you who they are, believe them. So I wonder if we'll believe them this time. We shall see. All right, man. I think you should wrap her up.

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his ads are fire you know i don't remember what he said i think he uses a mix of things i think rock is one of them um but i'll i'll ask better and better yeah he's so good so good he says there's a recurring theme in these soft disclosure ads apparently if i don't shave my beard women old enough to be my mother won't date me they're supposed to be a downside oh no you pretty much nailed it man that's great good to see you at guard bicentennial john rumble does not save rant comments in the history. Come on, Rumble. Why? They do actually, if you scroll all the way up.

Or if you have this like app that we use. Heathrow Higgins. They disappear. The Hebrew school down the street for me has their kids playing false flagged football. That's funny. Clever. And then the flying storm has got some more comments about the books thing. That's your answer, John.

I didn't ask for it. But I asked you and you said yes. I even sent you the receipt. You asked me if you could send the books. And I did say yes to that. But I didn't ask you to send the books. You asked me if you could send the books. I didn't promise you that all the hosts would take them.

At least you could have done is handed them out to the moderators. That's how you treat people. This is, I mean, this is honestly retarded flying storm. I can't force anybody to take things they don't want. That is. Yeah, also we're running an event for hundreds of people and you're not the priority. So, sorry. Like, this is ridiculous.

You guys, the whole theme of the show tonight is struggle sessions. Fuck off. Flying storm at Burning Bright, $700 to throw out the window, BB? You threw it out the window, man. Yeah, I don't know what to say, yeah. I mean, I appreciate your love of Eric Metastus this new book, but other people just might not be that interested, man. Don't know what to tell you. It's not our priority to serve you, okay?

We're not doing these events for you specifically. Yeah. just to be fair other people pay money to give away their stuff at the events or sell their products at the events like sponsors yeah so just saying woke antichrist voting may be pointless and that is fine but what does not voting accomplish how can we expose election fraud if the enemy doesn't have to cheat to win elections let me move it over this a hundred times nobody is telling you not to vote so please stop assigning us that position woke antichrist furthermore people need to see the republican are their enemies too? What better way to expose them than giving Republicans a supermajority

and watching how worthless they truly are? That's my favorite scenario. That's my favorite scenario is that we do get a red wave. Donald Trump gets to take his victory laps, but the GOP still does not advance his agenda and maybe even steps up their efforts to stop it, considering they're going to have the, uh, think of it this way. In the first two years of Trump's second term, if the GOP are enemies of Donald Trump, which they are, they're going to pretend to be loyal to Donald Trump. Why? Because of the midterms. The same reason we're being subjected to struggle sessions is the same reason that the GOP would pretend to be loyal to Donald Trump in 2026, 2025 and 226. because if they break from Trump publicly too early,

Trump will not endorse them for the midterms. And they know that Trump is the kingmaker. So what happens with these GOP senators and congressmen in 27 and 28 when they think he's going away? I bet that's going to be really interesting to watch. Yeah, I agree. I agree. That would be a fun and interesting thing, especially if they try to push to impeach him and whatnot. A bipartisan impeachment.

Yeah. The final demand for $100. Thank you very much. This is incredibly generous. Oh, wow. Thank you. Nobody, and I mean, nobody has the conversations that you get at Badlands Media. Love, love, love of this topic because it triggers people.

Thank you, 90% of my state New Hampshire uses machines I'll pass. That is your prerogative man. Nobody is telling you what to do or not to do. GFontas 101, saw her show. Glad she's free to voice her thoughts and how ladies can be fickle. If people don't vote no matter what happens, they'll know they didn't vote for it. Maybe they can even say so. That's a good point.

Keith O'Higgins, 250 years ago, Patriots voted with muskets. Today, patrons vote with memes. I like it. I senten to John, ask anyone who says, show me the evidence to prove elections are real. These people couldn't prove anything they believe. Peak retardation. Sorry for the cheap rant. Life hurts right now.

You're not the only one feeling that way, but appreciate the rant. Don't worry about that. I never apologize for that. Julie Gianni, I came here for research, or come here for research, your knowledge and to give me different perspectives. You help me to think. I don't always agree with you. We're not asking you to.

I usually talk back to my phone when you say something retarded, as you should. As you should. Did you get the Julie JN ones from earlier? Did I miss those? Yeah, I'll do all those. Yep, I did. Rughead 1037, love you guys in Badlands, keep up the great work. Thank you so much.

$50 again from the final demand. Thank you so much. This LMAO, what's our boy Scott Bessing up to, the gay assassin? You'll never hear him if you know. Not until it's too late. you know to stop him i forgot i forgot to duck for $20 says you guys are awesome always learning when tuned to your show keep being based

thank you so much creature berry is now a monthly supporter thank you appreciate that and then uh lin yoda $50 you and bbb are awesome thank think you're stuck with me thanks for all you do and again we appreciate this support especially we appreciate it the bs you can already see like the whole uh the lawsuit people everybody supported that with all the They're all converging. They're all like all in on this whole anti-badlands thing by assigning us the position of people here saying not to vote when that is not what anybody, maybe other than G money, has said.

So just keep eyes for that. That op is going to pick up hot and heavy over the next. You know what's the funny thing about that too? Is all these people pride themselves on being like truthers and info war people here for the last 10 years? besides everything we already talked about. They've been digging into stuff, decoding, fifth gen warfare, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And what is the sum total to them of what they believe their power projection capabilities are to walk into a voting booth and vote for a Republican? That's what they think the sum total of their responsibilities and their powers as an American are. That was the sum total of every Fox News-Huffing unawakened Republicans circa 2015.

That's what they thought too. So you've regressed into just doing the same thing as them and just saying that that's the sum total of your American expression. And I think you should think more highly of yourselves. And what's funny too is like some of the people that are coming after us and hating on us and calling us scriptures and all these things are literally begging people for money to pay their bills right now. Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't laugh, but sometimes it's deserved.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's ridiculous. But that's what happens. Like, to me, that's the karma of things. Like, when you're going to come out and lie about me and about us and do all these things, at the end of the day, you're going to get what you deserve. That is going to come back and bite you in the ass. And I'm not going to feel sorry for you when it does. Apologies. Actually, I'm not sorry about that. That is, I stand behind that 100%. Here, look at this. Who was it? Southwest Girl made this. It was a direct quote from tonight. That's great. It's a good one.

That was really good. We needed an AI video to end with. What's the name of that account that does all the retarded mega personal one that was like that? Those are so good. If you can't laugh at those, then you're in them. Yeah, I think it's funny. That's sort of the, that's out. Penn W just sent $10 over.

I think you concentrate too much on what's being said online, but I get it. Now, I understand that sentiment, Penn, and I think that at times you are right. Oh, you're definitely right. We talk about this behind the scenes. Yeah, and that even goes to Dragonfly. It's just that, hey, you opened up a topic, so I responded to it. accordingly. In this case, I think it's worthwhile every once in a while having a discussion like this, because since we are in the gravitational pull of the midterms, we know that we're not the

only ones being subjected to this harassment and, you know, struggle session campaign. And it's important to talk about at times. But yes, it is something, as John said, that we don't want to focus on this stuff. As I said earlier, I want to talk about AI, accelerationism, optimism. I want to talk about the sovereign alliance. And we will. We'll talk about all that stuff. But unfortunately, the space just gets consumed with election gravity anytime this happens. So we'll just get through it and then all the fun stuff comes back. Yep. All right. that we have a YouTube Oh you? Hold on

Let me check Oh man we get a lot of comments We're on YouTube Thank you guys I forgot for a little bit We had YouTube going through our Rumble studio And so we couldn't actually see the YouTube comments In the stream yard

We couldn't actually see him at all It was kind of dumb But so we switched it back so we could see you guys And I forgot we did that So we just did it like yesterday And so I apologize But Yeah we did get

drops trades LLC says I'm never offended I just called them idiots LOL well we do that too and sometimes worse things but thank you for the two dollars I did find a new video we are forbidden another another Brian Kate's meme here so you guys check it out have a great rest of your night and we will see you next night wait what's the movie this week eagle eye eagle eye oh guys guys I've said this before

I didn't expect this going in Chris selected this movie 2008 shy LeBuff, Megan Monaghan, I think, Michelle Monaghan. This is the most Badlands Relevant movie we've ever done. It's about, it's got AI, government AI system, deep underground data center military bases, predictive programming, and a ton of continuity of government devolution stuff that Chris has been doing research on in addition to the movie that actually kind of holds. holds up in some very strange and disturbing ways. So, you know, I think the movie itself was up and down, but it's absolutely full of interesting stuff. And I think it's especially interesting that it came out in 2008, right at the advent of the Obama era. What was all that about?

Yeah, interesting stuff. I want to watch this because I want to like, again, Chris told me, there's a bunch of cog stuff in there. So I'm going to try to watch a second, watch your guys show for the first time. I heard it's some people. like it. Some people do. Yeah. And then I'll be back on tomorrow, guys, 1 p.m. Eastern on the Daily Here's also, we've been doing more content with Rich does politics. And I know you've done a few interviews, ghost did a really good interview just recently. I've done a few. So make sure you check those out too. It's funny. I was saying this on my show earlier today too. It's like, we've been talking about a lot of these topics and subjects for years. And then we go and like

do an interview with a different audience. Like the guys never heard it before. And it's like they're blown away by these concepts that it's like we talk about them. so much that people it's hard for us to even imagine that people don't understand the things we're talking about so I encourage you guys to go check those interviews out we need a chance as well they should be on my just dropped yeah ghost just dropped yesterday does that do those post those posts on the badlands channel too when that happens yes they're on the badlands channel as well so you can get to them from either side cool so yeah yeah thanks guys thanks for tuning in we appreciate you and uh we will see you next time

Hit that thumbs up both here and on YouTube. And let's get out of here. Magatard, get off the scooter. Maga what? My wheels. Magotard, listen. They rigged your scooter like those pages. You've got to come with me now.

Why do you keep calling me Magatard? Who the hell is they? They! They, damn it, the transnational human explosion, yoke. Yoke? Yoke. Then why did the yoke blow up my scooter? They wanted you gone.

You are the chosen one. Chosen for what? Damn it! They found us. Move! We're running out of time, damn it. Larry Dumer is working with A. You mean Laura? I thought she was a patriot. And I thought he was a she. Looks like we were both wrong. Dumer and they are planning an attack on American soil bigger than anything we've ever seen.

They're going to use artificial intelligence to usher in the Antichrist. What the hell's that got to do with me? Your hat. Original 2015 production run. The stitching inside the brim contains the final sequence of an authentication key. Dumer gets that hat. They complete the key. I paid 12 bucks for this thing.

Alex. Oh, Alex. Come on out. and give me what I need. Don't you do it. You will not have your antichrist, Larry. Hand over the briefcase. Ruh!

Don't do it, Alex! President Trump, I don't do this often, but I pray. I pray that this is a part of your master plan. 5D chess, 5D chess. He answered my prayers. 5D freaking chess.