Badlands Media - RattlerGator Report: 4/22/26 - The Technological Republic, SPLC, and Middle East Triangulation

Episode Date: April 22, 2026

JB White is still sick, still showing up, and still not pulling punches. This episode digs deep into Palantir's Alex Karp and Jeff Park's "The Technological Republic," walking through all 22 points of their framework for what America must become to survive the AI age. JB agrees with most of it, pushes back hard on one, and ties it all together with his take on national identity, hollow pluralism, and why the SPLC's manufactured race narrative finally appears to be meeting its end. He also touches on the brewing Saudi Arabia vs. UAE tension in the Middle East, explains why Trump has to navigate it carefully, and shares why he believes the Iran chapter is already closed. A packed show from a man who refuses to take a sick day off from critical thinking.

The badlands, one of the badlands, explain those badlands. That's a hell of their name. All right. Good morning. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Rattlegator Report. I am scrambling and still sick, still recovering, but largely over everything. But, yeah, let me see if I can get through this show yet again. Welcome on this beautiful.

Day in Creation Broadcasting Live from the beautiful capital city of the great state of Florida, somewhere close to the highest of Seven Hills and the campus of Florida A&M University. What is this? Today is April 22nd, 26, and this is episode 16.2. I've scripted what I plan to focus on of the superseding events are happening every day, it seems, and maybe more topical. But I'm going to try and stick to this stuff. And let me see if I can, you know, let me see.

I may need to protect myself to my wife. Let me do this until she gets out of here. Okay, I think everything is presenting properly. But yeah, let me greet you. Until vile, hallocalls, good morning to you. North Georgia, dog, good morning to you. Lisa, good morning love, kinship, good morning. Maga Keys, good morning.

Dobie, good morning. Dale, good morning to you. Okay. I need to bring up Rocky Top, good morning. I need to bring up my ex account. I may just riff off of some of my latest replies. So incredibly happy that they are going after the SPLC. I, okay, talk to you later.

Talk to you later. And I did do a post. Let me see. I did a reply. And I want to maybe get this out of the way. Let's see if anybody has. I meant to try and go get. The SPLC is run by a bunch of Jews.

Yeah, okay. I mean, a front man, perhaps. I do love the way some people insist on Jews being Superman. It's hilarious to me as black people who insist white people are all powerful. They do everything. They control everything. They're responsible for everything. I just want to beat the I believe the above and shit out of people like that.

It's just that stupid. And it robs people of agency, which is the number one job of the devil. You do understand that, right? I mean, I just stop it. Stop it. Maybe I should go to my account and just look at my post. I do still have Donald Trump pinned at the top of my ex-account. As Big Daddy Billy Badass, and I am more confident of that every single day.

Let's see here. Here we go. Here's my comment. Elon posted. Maybe I will do this and come back to, because he's commenting on flapper.net posted something. Quote, we pay people to be racist so we can fight racism, unquote. And this is why I'm so happy that they have targeted.

SPLC. In fact, let me present this screen if I can. And okay, I can get rid of that since she just stepped out the door. Okay. I got to think about what I'm trying to do. Present is what I want to do. Okay. I've got an appointment this morning and that's really my focus. This is Elon following up this Flapper account saying their scam work for decades. And he's absolutely correct about that. I have what I think is a little bit of personal experience. I want to just relate. An observation I made, you may remember me saying, hey, man, I was firmly within the Democrat camp for most of the,

wow, I'm so old now. Is it even most of my adult life anymore? I don't know, but until 2004 is when I made the switch. But it was the mid-1990s with the Joe Biden-led, what do we call it, a lynching of a sort, attempted lynching of a sort of Clarence Thomas. And I recoiled against that. There's nothing wrong with Clarence Thomas. He's gone through a transformation, but there's nothing wrong.

with the man? Why in the hell are we sitting up here trying to do this manufactured attack when this woman is obviously lying? It's hard for me to believe how people could not see that this is obvious lies and people are sitting there acting like they're giving this bullshit credence. This is this is absurd. And so he's like, yeah, okay, it slowly but surely started dawning on me. Yeah, I got to I got to get the hell out of this political party. It ain't what I remember. It's not what I signed up for. But it also made me start opening my eyes. You know, I'm working in the Florida legislature in the mid to late 1990s. And, you know, as a political science major undergrad, I'm following politics

more than most people. And here I am now working in the legislature of a mega-sacliad. state okay and then I noticed these election cycles you know in fact let me just show you what I posted it if I maybe on Friday show I'll pull up while in law school at FSU I almost single-handedly did a conference my last year and it was called African-Americans and the law in Florida I think 1990 in the question mark underneath that was a return to the past. And it had a picture of the major black pastor in town during that period. And on the front lawn of his church, Bethel Baptist church,

and he's holding a cross that had been burned. And I look back on that. I think that was 1991 I did that conference. And you know, we'd have these election cycles. And you pay attention to every election cycle. It's every two years you have an election cycle. It may not be for governor, but every member of the House of representatives is up. Anyway, but you get some random report about some KKK act.

I hope that is showing. And so this is what I post. I'll never forget being in Tallahassee in the 1990s, early 2000s. In every other election cycle or so, we'd get some random report here in Florida about some KKK activity in some rural town like Perry, Florida. It had to be some outlying area. It could not be. And, you know, I originally fell for this bullshit, but it finally struck me as bullshit after an election cycle or three. And these random stories would keep popping up.

Now, no black people have been affected by the KKK for motherfucking decades. No black people have seen any KKK. It is bogus bullshit of the worst sort. But, you know, these white people had figured out, we just play this little bullshit. game and it's going to spook people. You know, I think I've told you about my old, I mean, this girl I fell in love with it first sight at UF,

now a criminal defense lawyer up in Atlanta. And I can remember I had a first cousin living out in Dallas, Georgia, and I drove her out one day to Dallas, Georgia. And she was genuinely concerned about these people

out in Dallas, Georgia. Paulding County, if you know the Atlanta area, it's west of town. And I was like, girl, these people out here do not give a damn about you. They are trying to live their damn lives, earn some money, take care of their family. That is all they are really concerned about. They don't give a damn about you. But this is the game these Democrats have played. They have fooled people.

And I see the Trump administration is going right at the heart. of the bullshit. That pleases me to no end because the fakery that's been going on in this country, the nonsense that a lot of black people have bought hook, line, and sinker

foolishly, but not just black people and then perpetrated by black, white, all kinds of people, just this fakery. I'm just tired of the fakery in all shapes and

forms, all shapes and forms. So yeah, I could, I could just, boy, we could talk. Anyway, let me, let me, let me stop sharing that. Hopefully everything is working, right. I can get back and what did I post in the chat. I want to get back to this Alex Karp, Nicholas. Oh, wow, I can't remember his last name. But it's a beautiful, it's a beautiful post. I think I want to singularly go through one of them and just kind of talk through it a little bit. I think that's what I want to do. But before I do that, you know, let me get back here into the chat real quickly. And where did I leave off?

Oh, my goodness, you know what? I haven't even given myself a thumbs up. It's hard to remember all of this crap, you know. It's not the most important shit to me. Eagle for Pat, good morning. Another stolen election last night in Virginia. Is that right? Some of these aren't going to last long.

I may be wrong, but I'm not sure they're going to last long. We shall see. Good morning, Denise. Good morning, Cindy. Cindy. I sound congested. I am. I feel so much better. You just, you can't believe it. The way my body works, it's usually when it get a bad bug, it's a week and maybe a week in a few days to clear out the congestion, even once I physically feel so much better. And I physically feel so much better. But the congestion is real and, you know, trying to, I don't want to, I don't

want to become a guy. I mean, I could show you, but anyway, it's stubborn. It is really stubborn. I actually purchased some iodide. I'm wondering if any of y'all know, I may have to call Diana after this show. I saw a representation as Dr. Elizabeth Bright. I think I may have said this on the other show. She impressed me. but for some reason something she said made me purchase some iodine and I did and I did a couple of drops on the tongue yesterday and a couple of drops on the tongue this morning but I got to go back and read now why am I doing these couple of drops you know should I be doing these couple of drops I don't know justice Thomas is one of the

most honest and patriot yes I want him to whip that ass so bad and I know I know he wants to look that ass he wants to look that ass yeah Rocky Top trust me believe me I know okay I know about those Polly side degrees okay you don't have to tell me that's why I proudly wore that JV's roofing shirt you know in Nashville okay oh my goodness and I will get off track but I I haven't had a chance to talk to my wife about my suggested revision to her college. But yeah, I just, I don't think she gets it. I don't think a bunch of people get just how much is happening and how much is getting ready to change.

And the opportunity. Sun Tzu is correct amidst the chaos, there is opportunity. But you've got to understand it. And you've got to be ready to seize the moment. Good morning, Rebel. Sean Douglas, good morning. Yeah, I really don't feel like doing a real dedicated show. You can tell.

I think you can tell. Now we know why, yes. Well, you know, she's, she's, ordinarily she's out of here before the eight o'clock show starts. And she was not out. She's had some incredibly long hours. The president's investiture just happened. And anyway, there's been a lot of stuff going on beyond her normal duties. And so, yeah, she was going to have to walk by so that the camera would get a good shot of her.

And, you know, she is crazy private. You know, sometimes women, I mean, just give a damn about things that this man does not give a damn about. And, you know, rather than have to, you know, it's like, okay, I can solve that problem. I can put up this screen. Nobody will see you. walk your happy ass on. So, you know, I just, oh my goodness. But it solves a problem. It solves an internal problem. But yeah, and, and, you know, my congestion is such, I may have to stop at some point, go clear myself, and then come back to the show. I can be really crass, okay? I'm just,

I would not be ashamed to blow my nose on this program, even with all I don't give it to him. I don't give it to him. I think this map election in Virginia yesterday was some fakery. Virginia, my God, is they are ground zero for the rogue elements of the CIA and the FBI, who are now panicked. And they really do think they are hanging their hopes on the fact that they're going to be able to steal the midterms. And Donald Trump has said, yeah, look, that's not going to happen. Well, the Congress comes through and does what they need to do on the Save Act or not. He's got a safety.

And that safety is not going to allow that bullshit to happen. So I ain't worried about it. BG88, so true, J.B. My father was military. He taught us to treat people the way you want to be. That's the American way. He did not teach us. We had different color skin.

We were all the same. If I could get through the Alex Karp posting, 22 points. There's this guy, I think his name is Jeff. Jeff, oh goodness. He did a great follow-up, and I want to Jeff Park. I hope to be able to read that in conjunction with what Alex Karp did.

We'll see if we get there. we get there and that was definitely a crime it's it's a shame I just you know it's what they what they did to clearance I think I've told you all on here before I mean he's a hero of mine and I don't tolerate people talking stupid shit about him I just don't and I was in Philadelphia and if somebody had caught me on videotape me and one of my sisters best friends was at Wall Street guy and was raising big time money for the Democrats but was lying his ass off about Clarence Thomas.

Like, yeah, you're going to shut that stupid shit up. I'm not, I'm not tolerating that. You're not going to sit up here and just lie about this man like he's deaf, dumb, and blind. Get the fuck out of here. Get the fuck out of here. Susie Graham, good morning, love. Racism is taught in fuel. It is not natural.

You put a bunch of toddlers together. They don't see it at all. 100%. We've all seen that. Many of us have lived it. But even racism is not a thing. It's a construct, you know, and it's just going to be decades trying to extricate. It's like America trying to extricate ourselves from this European empire stuff.

It's a long-ass process. And we're getting there. We're getting there. Differences are real. Okay? This is what has protected the species down through the ages. Differences are real. How we interact with them. That's another thing where agency is important. This is the zig and the zag I talked about the other day. I think the left will be hoisted by their own partard over the map election. I think so.

I agree. I only agree. Yeah, there's only one race and it's like this is the whole thing. Do you believe that? People say they believe that and then they go off on all of this other? Yeah, one species, one humanity, all kinds of different ethnic groups, subgroups, nation states. Yeah, I have turned a corner, Sydney. I have. This may be the last day of any real effort in of the sickness. We'll see how it goes. I've got a close personal friend here, Fraternity Brother, who's been diagnosed with prostate cancer. And it's going to require surgery. And so I'm kind of focused on that as well. I have my own urology appointment today. Eleanor, a good morning to you. I keep, I got to remember one of the times when I'm over here, we need to have lunch or something.

I'd be happy to drive up to Thomasville. Yeah, Bunny, we gotta pray for Virginia. Virginia is gonna be so important. That's why, look, every state is gonna be important. Every state. I use iodine nose spray. Oh, okay. I'm, yeah, I'm gonna figure out what it does

and what I can legitimately use it for. Yeah, observing consciousness, look, look, I'm going to have to wait on that, Cindy. I am a fan for the most part. When I saw a post the other day, it's like, oh, hell no. No, sir, buddy. No sir, buddy. But, you know, this is the thing about America. We all have our opinions.

and the more the merrier just put some music on them. I have music playing in the background here. And I do think Virginia is something of a litmus test date. I agree. Rita B., thank you for joining. Thank you so much. Yeah, exactly. You've got an obvious CIA agent as governor,

and she ain't the best. This is the thing about them now. They're in trouble. They are in trouble. It's just a matter of time. We are walking them down. You know what? I better quit. I better quit. I better quit. I better quit. I think I saw the ads.

I think I've prepared for the ads. And maybe, maybe do I want to read Jeff Parks piece first, which is backwards. backwards, but it kind of fits with some of the discussion we've casually had this morning. Let me see. Let me see. Does it make sense? Let me get rid of these editing marks. Where do I put that?

I'm doing it wrong. Okay. I think I put Jeff Park. Jeff Park. I think I put him in the chat. So let me, Alex Carp, Technological Republic. No, I did not put Jeff Park. Okay, let me do that link right now. I need to do this. Jeff Park on the Technological Republic Post. Oh God. How am I? What is going on here? I am a bit our sorts more than normal. Let's see, Jeff Park. I'm crediting only Alex Karp, but it was another executive along with him that did the post. I just can't remember Nick's Nicholas's last name. Ain't a big deal to me.

Hopefully it won't be a big deal to him. So let me put it in the Rumble Chad underneath the show as well. And then let me check that block before I get to my, yeah, they were never in fear of getting caught, never in real fear. I mean, they knew they had so much control, much broader than we, than I ever contemplated than I ever thought possible. But you know, that's why we have a savvy adversary. That's why I give 100% doubt to Donald Trump. It's why I get upset when I see people within our ranks talking stupid shit about this president and his selections. And it's like, yeah, You're not operating in the best of American traditions.

We're at an existential point of our republic. We've got to save the fucking republic. Sit down and shut up with the foolishness. I don't want to get started on that again. But I am dead serious about that. It upsets me greatly, genuinely. So, yeah, buddy, I understand. I understand the challenge is real.

There's going to likely have to be some. extraordinary action by our president. I'm a okay with that. I'm ready for it and ready to defend it. But I have no doubts about the challenge. I have no doubts about the challenge. Okay, let me try and bring this bad boy up and try and just read it.

Hopefully it will make sense. Okay, that's the wrong one. What am I doing here? I'm doing this. Oh, shit. I don't want to confuse myself any more than I already am. Window. Jeff.

There we go. I think this is it. Yeah. He starts out this way. Again, in response to the Palantir, 22 points. And I hope to get to those 22 points. today. I believe the Technological Republic by Alex Carp is going to be the definitive manifesto for the upcoming generation. There are times as I was reading this book that I thought Carp had

excised my own mind, for I did not realize that there were other people who thought like this, finding courage in such a company. I wanted to add my own unique stories, which helped me shape my own belief structure that found this book so morally compelling and important. as a person who had the privilege to live both Western and Eastern lives. When I got married in Korea several years ago, my uncle, one of Korea's most transformative critical theorist and later a political party, he told me during this event, something I will never forget, surrounded by the radiant diversity of all my international friends in this moment of love celebration, his life advice to me, was. You might feel like an American today, but never forget, America is homeless. As someone who considers himself American, I was instinctively a little annoyed, but I also knew exactly what he meant.

This feeling is precisely what Alex Karp is intimately describing in his book as the abandonment of belief. As America fundamentally abdicated the notion of a national culture in the name of inclusivity, This begged then the obvious question, inclusion into what? The U.S. does not have the moral clarity of a unifying cultural identity for which there is a sense of belonging, mostly because the technocratic republic has destroyed it in the name of market triumphalism as a consumption-first model, correctly blamed on Silicon Valley's insurmountable appetite for the search-slash-ad business, which by definition must have no identity to maximally cast the widest net for consumer eyeballs. Have you all noticed that?

There is no such engineering instinct on a national security-related tether that brings the people together in the name of what America aspires for and to be. That is what my uncle meant by homelessness, having many communities who only believe in vehement secularism is having no community whatsoever. There is an interesting Japanese word called Koku Tai, which has no synonymous word in the English or Korean language. Wikipedia calls it national body slash structure of state. Or Herbert Bix in Hirohito calls it a national essence. The lack of such a collective belief in the American identity is precisely why the Ukraine slash NATO thing is increasingly unbridgedable among Americans.

When the elites describe a, quote, shared goal by taking a moral stance that, quote, America can do better, are comfortably watching the Oscars. Many Americans who actually served and lived or are currently living, the war will ask, quote, shared goal with whom? And what risk did you take, motherfucker? Because they were actually the ones that fought and died on the line to defend your right to be comfortable at home tonight. it is simply not enough to project moral superiority as a, quote, superpower outward internationally if you are not able to enthuse your own national identity to believe that you are one. Karp notes that reconstruction of a technological republic must require a collective experience of shared purpose and identity of civic rituals.

In Korea, one of the defining kinships all men have with each other, regardless of whether you are a World Cup soccer player, billionaire son, or a regular citizen, is a certain duty, the patriotic conscription into mandatory military service. This is also why I know that no matter how well I speak Korean, act Korean, live Korean, the moment I answer, quote, I never serve, I immediately become othered into, quote, the foreigner, despite my lifelong flesh. After many years of being caught in an existential fog, I have come to understand and accept this. Because my uncle is also wrong if he thinks America being homeless somehow equates to my having a home in Korea. I love Korea, and I always will. But a nation is

simply, quote, a vast solidarity constituted by the sentiment of the sacrifices one has made and of those one is yet prepared to make." And while I was once belonged, I no longer belonged there. Similarly, Lee Kuan used Kokutai to rebuild Singapore was called Junzi. America needs to rebuild cultural specificity as it relates to education, politics, and technology. It needs a mandatory conscription of ideas, actions,

and ultimately sacrifices on behalf of a shared mythological national goal. Of the countless many brilliant, quotable sentences in the book, by far the most important statement, if the book could be reduced to one line, is this, quote, the challenge we now face in rebuilding a technological republic is directing that engineering instinct and indeed ruthless pragmatism toward the nation's shared goals, which can be identified only if we take the risk of defecutive, who we are or aspire to be. Thank you, Alex and Nicholas at Palantir Tech

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owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible and they said the engineering elite Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 100%. And I want to give special shout out to Alex Karp because he's been so strong on this in the face of bullshit opposition. He has not blinked. And this man is a patriot and we need to honor him as such. Point two. Okay, where are we? I got a different way to do this. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative, if not crowning achievement as a civilization?

The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. That is true. I have refused to ever purchase an iPhone. Never. But anyway, I don't want to get started on that. I got all kinds of friends who love the iPhone, most Americans do.

Free email is. not enough is point number three. The decadence of a culture of civilization and indeed its ruling class will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. True. This man is just killing it on these points. Four, the limits of soft power of soaring rhetoric alone have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, motherfucker, and hard power in this century will be built on software. There's the key.

We've got to understand this connection between the two. Point five. The question is not whether AI weapons will be built. It is who will build them, and for what purpose? Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed while operating in the United States of America by pimping movements that stunt our progress in this way. Have you not noticed our environmentalism? It's pimped by the Russians and the motherfucking Chinese.

Have you not? net zero bullshit. All of this nonsense when people don't understand we're in a war and you need to understand that. Point six, national service should be a universal duty and here's where I think they made a mistake and I say this as an army man. I think many other military people will agree with me. Their point is we should as a society seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. And I think that is stupidity. And this is when you dance in the direction of being a nerdatious somebody who doesn't

understand the broad 180 degree context. We don't need fucknuts in our military. And if everybody's going to serve, you're going to bring in a bunch of fucknuts. The all-volunteer force works. We do need national service. but it should not be for military service. It should be for civic service. And there's a wide array of things that Americans can do

that would tie in to the point of what you're trying to do in terms of this national cohesion. I understand the larger point. I agree with the larger point. But don't fuck up our military. No, sir, buddy. Point seven. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle,

We should build it and the same goes for software. 100%. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm's way. Yes, I agree with that. Point eight, look at my time. I might get close. Public servants need not be our priest. 100%.

Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public service would struggle to survive. The federal model needs to be tweaked quickly. Point nine, we should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. Agreed as somebody who served was in the Florida legislature and was a political science major. I have tremendous sympathy for public servants, whether in all. or working in the government. There's a balance, however. But I don't throw out the baby with the bathwater,

and I don't shit on these people who have taken up the challenge to serve. Somebody's got to do these jobs. The eradication of any space for forgiveness, a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm. We will grow to regret. This is where you most need to understand. and never make the perfect, the enemy of the good,

never make these human beings who are serving into something other than human. Point 10, the cycle adjacent of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life, finding expression in people they may never meet,

will be left disappointed. This is where the Democrat have fucked up so badly. And that's where they need to clean up their act. If they are to survive, I have a feeling the D&C, the Democrat Party, is not going to survive what's coming over the next series of months. We'll see how it plays out.

I don't think they're going to survive. Our society, point 11, has grown too eager to hasten and is often gleeful at the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. Another beautiful point. Point 12, the atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending in a new era of deterrence built on artificial intelligence is set to begin. And that is how you need to look at the challenge facing the nation right now.

Point 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect, but it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. And this is quite obvious by the wide range of global citizens who desperately want to get to this country. And no other country. Point 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations, billions of people and their children and now grandchildren have never known a world war because of the United States of America.

Point 15. The post-war neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany, was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. I 100% agree they are the straw that stirs the drink in Europe. And they should be because they are that damn good. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintain, also threatened to shift the balance of power in Asia. Japan is the same thing in Asia as Germany is in Europe, in my opinion.

Point 16, we should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk's interest in grand narrative as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves. Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. And really envy of the rich. this man should be championed everywhere on the planet. Elon must. Point 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors

in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 100%. Point 18, the ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves has become so unforgiving that the Republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. That is a tough but accurate point. We have to do better.

The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. That is the gods. That is, oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. I just. This is what the conservatives found, because we had savvy adversaries who knew how to play us, it pushed us into a box where we kept bringing forward these Charlie Brown Republicans who didn't know how to fight, but they did know how to dance and dance and dance. And we are a nation that doesn't give a damn about that. We've hired you to do a job. We want you to be damn good at that job, not at...

Dancing. Point 20, the pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. Elites intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. And this is one of the crises covering so much

of the country right now. And if you've been, you've been a very much of the country. paying attention and she might, you know, we've got people who are easy to toss out the word simp when in fact they are the sims doing the bidding of our adversaries. And those, they have a disrespect of pure religious belief, fervent, honest religious conviction. And I see an effort from this Dugan motherfucker and people who have fallen prey to the bullshit. They're trying to take advantage of some return to. No, this has to be an Americanized way forward.

This is what Mike Huckabee understands. And that's why Donald Trump appointed him ambassador to Israel. And again, why I had such a visceral response to foolishness. And I will not back away from that. It is embarrassing what has been done and said, just like this dumb assery from Candace is dumbassery from Megan, this dumbassery from Nick Fuentes, and most especially, yes, the dumbassery

from Tucker Carlson. Absurd. Point 21, some cultures have produced vital advances. Others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are supposedly now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact

that certain cultures and indeed subcultures, have produced wonders. Others have proven middling and worse, regressive and harmful. We could have a full show on black America as an example, unfortunately, of this point. Point 22 in the final, we must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We in America and more broadly the West have for the past half century resisted declining or defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity, but inclusion into what? It's a fool's goal. It's a fool's errand. We have foolishly walked into a trap laid by our adversaries who envied this nation. and luckily because of Donald Trump, we are turning away from that foolishness because big daddy Billy badass ain't playing that bullshit. And he's using some harsh language, just like I do,

to make the point and stand ten toes down in it. Now, either you can deal with it or you fucking can. So be it. But because we are in this existential war, that we must win. I'm sorry. Your feelings are secondary. At best. At best. Okay. All right. I'm raised through it.

I'm happy I did. There are some points that I made this morning on X that I think I'm going to try and incorporate into Friday's show. We shall see. But yes, so much is going on. So freaking much is going on. let me see how do I I don't have time to really raise through the chat Huckabee has been summoned to Washington

that was enlightening in fresh thank you thank you I appreciate that yeah I'm good with that I'm good with him being summoned to Washington there's a whole conversation we could have about the reasons of responsibility and cooperation and listen Donald Trump is having to navigate serious stuff. Netanyahu is not my president. I am

Donald Trump all the way. And Israel is making a play in the Middle East that involves the United Arab Emirates and Somaliland and Ethiopia. In the United States, he's saying, hey, hey, hey, hold up. We're trying to work with Saudi Arabia. MBS has a plan he is working.

That's an opposition to what Israel wants and most especially what the UAE wants. Okay, so this is a Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates fight and their sides. You need to understand that. The United States is

going to have to figure out how we're going to triangulate all of this stuff because we want to be supportive of Israel and we want to be supportive of Saudi Arabia. That ladies and gentlemen is the current, because we've, look, we've won the Iran war. People can think

whatever the fuck they want. We've won that. That is just playing itself out. But this little thing here is going to be more than a notion. The Saudi Arabia, Israel thing is going to be more than a notion. And Team Trump is going to have to be on their A game as we navigate the path going forward. All right. That's it. That's it for me. I hope you all enjoyed this show some way somehow. And Friday morning, I expect to be back in beautiful Northeast Florida. We shall see, and I hope to be almost 100% normal and not trying to just get through a show. We'll see how all of that goes.

But thank you all so much for hanging in there with me. And I look forward to seeing you the next go-around bright and early on Friday morning. Later, Gators. Thank you so much for joining us and don't forget to hit the thumbs up on this video. And a special thank you to all of our advertising partners. Please remember to shift your dollars to support those businesses that support Badlands Media.