Badlands Media - The Narrative Ep. 65: Commander-in-Trump

Episode Date: April 20, 2026

Burning Bright sits down with veteran and info war analyst CannCon for a wide-ranging episode that asks the questions most people in the truth community are afraid to answer. Is the Iran war actually a war, or is Trump wearing a neocon mask to disarm the neocon war machine? CannCon brings his combat experience to bear on the gap between the 9/11 narrative that sent him overseas and what he now understands about those conflicts. The two dig into the Venezuela model as a blueprint for sovereign disentanglement, unpack the role of NGOs as deep state staging grounds, and take on election fraud and the 2026 midterms. The episode challenges the truth community to ask whether cheering on the mainstream image of Trump is the same as understanding what Trump is actually doing.

The badlands, one of the badlands, explain those badlands. That's a hell of their name. I wish you good fortune in the wars to come. And now it begins. No. Now it ends. What's up, guys? Welcome to The Narrative, episode 65.

Tonight's episode is titled Commander in Trump, which I thought was exceedingly clever. And I hope that you will as well. I am right now turning off the thing I actually want to watch which is the Bruins who are currently up one to nothing over a hockey team that apparently

believes it exists and that is the Buffalo Sabres you have not heard of them I have not heard of them allegedly they have played in the Atlantic Division for a long time they seem to be the one seed nobody understands what's going on

and every time I try to to tell everybody that hockey is the best sport, they point out something like the Buffalo Sabres are the one seed in this sport that you are saying is good. And I must admit, you have a point there, hypothetical person I just invented. But you guys all know the rules. The rules are, if my team is in the playoffs, the sport is not only real, it's the most real of any sport. And if my team is not in the playoffs, that sport is fake and does not matter. So, chat, please give me up. updates on the score of the Bruin Sabres game. And otherwise, I'll try to get through this show. We're both going to try to get through this show and have a good one. And before I bring my guest in

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Protect your wealth of precious metals because in uncertain times, gold and silver shine brightest visit badlandsgold.com today for your free 2026 gold and silver kit and bonus by badlandsgold dot com all right guys my guest tonight is a returning guest we had a miscommunication last week that was mostly my fault so he thought he was the guest last week but i kicked him kicked him out right before the show uh but he's the actually the real guest this week and that is kank on how's it going on man what's going on brother i'm so sorry that you're not getting to watch the black and gold tonight. Well, you're not getting to either.

I figure we're both making sacrifices, right? Yeah. Do you want to talk about it? Let's get that out of the way. My sacrifice is way worse, man. My Florida Panthers shit to bed this season. Tons of injuries, though, but it was a good run. It was a good run.

Back to backs. How quickly fortunes change. And Florida is relevant to the Bruins in a few ways, along with my wife's alleged team, the Toronto Maple Leafs, because while Don Sweeney of the Bruins has had a very mixed track record as owner, he kind of fleeces everyone around the league when it comes to trades. And he definitely fleeced Toronto, although they got so bad this year that their pick swap,

they might keep it because it's top five protected. So we gave Toronto last season when we were selling off as a fire sale. we gave Toronto Brandon Carlo, who's now like a third-payer defenseman up there, for Fraser Mitten, who's our top-line center, and a pick swap this year, which could be top 10 if it conveys to us. And we also got the Florida Panthers' 2027 pick because of little Brad Marshwomp. Yeah, was it all injuries down there? How was the team? Yeah. Yeah, we lost, we lost Barkoff, our captain in the preseason. We lost Kachuk for three quarters of the season.

I mean, there was there was at one point where, you know, we have season tickets. And at one point, I had gone to a game and I couldn't tell you anybody on the team on the ice outside of the starting line. This is like, well, the good thing about a team like that, though, is once they get the guys back, this turns into cash and the bankie. of like draft pick and development of all those guys that wouldn't have developed otherwise, which is kind of what last year turned into for the Bruins. We all thought this was going to be a tear down. And now we're in the playoffs. And yeah, I was saying to somebody a little bit ago before the show that everyone says playoff sports are different.

Like the NBA says that, the NFL says that, everything says that. but as a hockey fan, you know, and any hockey fans watching the show know, that NHL hockey is a fundamentally different sport than regular season hockey. And it's so funny because I'm pretty sure, and I would never say I'm sure about anything in hockey, but I think the Bruins are going to beat the brakes off of Buffalo in this series, even though they're like the seven seed, just because it's Buffalo and it's the playoffs. So it is kind of one of those funny things. And in the NHL, it's just like, just get in and then see where it goes.

Yeah, playoff hockey in the NHL is like another experience. It's like up until recently, I used to watch the Olympics. Like the Olympics was like the crazy thing. Like I used to love being able to turn on the TV and get Olympic sports no matter what time a day it was. And that's gone away in the last decade or so. But NHL hockey, playoff hockey is the same way. You can turn on any game and you're immediately vested in that game.

Big time. Big time. So I, it's good shit. I'll make you a deal here when, and if and when the, the lightning get knocked out, I will root for the Bruins. Because I do have, I do have ties to Boston, I have family from there. I am a Red Sox fan. Okay. I don't know that.

Yes, I am a Red Sox fan. But so, yes, I actually have a Bruins jersey. jersey sweater. I have an Irish one, a St. Patrick's Day. It's all green. You've met my wife and her sensibilities are much more in line with being a Bruins fan. And I tell every year I say before the season starts, I say, do you want to get on the train? I give her an opportunity every year because she knows she secretly likes them. And it's all about Boston since moving here. But she just has that like survivor's guilt of being from Toronto. And I get it. I do get it. I give her shit. But you know that when the Leafs eventually win, like when our kids are grown and everything, she's going to be so upset if she jumps off the train. But yeah, in the meantime, she suffers in silence.

I think we all can agree anybody but a Canadian team. I will root for any American team. Also, there's rumors going around. Just throwing this out there. There's rumors going around that Connor Hellebuck might be a Panther. Really? Yes. Of the Winnipeg Jets. The Winnipeg Jets, yeah. Interesting. The guy that chokes in the playoffs every single season. But pulls off the performance in hockey history against the most stacked hockey team ever assembled in the playoffs.

And for people who aren't hockey fans watching this show, first of all, find Jesus. What are you doing? Jesus is obviously a hockey fan. And second of all, we'll stop speaking hockey and transition into the show. So, having a pretty broad show tonight. I intentionally only gave Kankan a couple brief notes. But I want to kind of hit this from a couple angles. This is less getting into the nitty-gritty.

I think the Iran war narrative has been, it's been one of those rare narratives in the Info War that is, in the context of the Info War, it's been running for a long time, right? It's like, what are we at seven weeks or something like that now, six, seven weeks. In media time, that's a long time, right? And we're so used to even media people acknowledge that the era of Trump is accelerated. So it's a long time for us to all be talking about the same thing. I'll say that while 2025 I was criticizing the writing of the central narrative.

I thought that even the Patriots and White Hats, the stories were kind of boring. We've been there, done that. I like the Iran war narrative. I think it's really interesting. I think there's a lot of angles to it. So we can talk about some of that, but I wanted to bring you on for a different angle of that. I want to talk about the state of info-war media, sort of in the second hour that you're here. But before we get to that, I want to talk about the military and not a logistical war strategy, war-gaming type of thing,

but the story of the American military. Obviously, you're a veteran, but you're the rare guy, you and Alpha, who are veteran and Josh, right? Veterans who are also info war guys, and that means something different, I think, than just media guys who are veterans because you acknowledge or realize a lot of the lies of the past, just like all of us have. And before we get into the Iran war stuff that's going on right now, I'm sure you've told your stories on sitrep and on other shows. But for me and for some of the people that watch the narrative, I'm wondering what in general was your call to go to war or to go to the military when you did when you were young? And I guess on that note, how do you feel about that in hindsight? Is, do you feel the same way or has it changed, you know, positively or negatively since then? Well, I mean, so obviously, I think anybody that enlisted post 9-11, that was the driving force right there was

was 9-11, right? We, I mean, I was a senior in high school when it happened and, you know, we watched it on the TVs and it's, you know, there's kind of that silence in the room as, and I went to a Catholic school very, you know, it was a very good school. High, you know, high rate of students that ended up going on to college a lot of ivy league schools and stuff like that i was not one of those um but there was a lot you know you could kind of see the the the air get sucked out of the room as all the guys are looking around at each other like holy shit we're we might be going to war you're like you know this this this could be it i didn't enlist until five years after i you know i had gotten out i went i went and you know i was

going to go to the uh annapolis i when i had got out i tried to get my appointments to annapolis didn't end up going that route um went and started a business worked for my dad for a little bit on the side to make ends meet while i was getting and running and then just one day i was like you know what man like this is something i got to do like this is something i this is something i know when i'm 50 years old 60 years old i'm going to be like shit i really should have went enlisted now i bought into it hardcore yeah i bought into it hardcore like i was one of the guys that was on social media Facebook at my space back then my space the early days of social media engineering mr tom never censored nobody um yeah and i was i was one of the guys was like just

carpet bomb the whole fucking thing yeah carpet bomb the whole thing like just kill them all yeah and uh full-blown you know bush retard uh back then now obviously that's changed significantly the the interesting thing about this war bibi is there is no 9-11 moments right we don't have that moment with this war we don't have that everyone's together rallying together flying american flags out of our you know off our car windshields we just don't have that and some of the things you know and and trump has said this others have said this mainly others have said this you know the whole well it's been coming for 47 years I think J.B. had set it at guard, right? This is payback for 47 years ago. That's not how it works. You know, that's not how it works. 47 years ago, those different administrations, different, you know, people alive in the planet, different people commanding the military, all sorts of things.

And so to me, like, that was just like, you know, like when, when, I don't know if you have brothers or sisters, but when you, when one of you gets in trouble or when you get in trouble, you try and like pass some of that blame off. And you're like, well, she did this like, you know, six weeks ago. and that was fun. That's what it kind of felt like. So yeah, I'll stop that there. Yeah. No, that's great. That's kind of the direction I want to go in because I think what you lay out is, again, the theme of this show and what I talk about mostly is the narrative. And you're right that 9-11 is an event I refer to as an actual narrative event, actual dash narrative event. And it's not unique, but it is unique in terms of how powerful it was. By that I mean

9-11 happened Very very few people dispute that I actually went to high school with a kid Whose dad was on the plane that left I forget which flight it was but that left from Logan Airport So like that was in my town in terms of Trying to figure out what was going on there His mother ended up years later being invited to like the Obama White House

As part of the truther movement 9-11 truther movement of course In high school hindsight, I feel differently about those Obama days than I did at that point. I was like, Obama's going to get to the bottom of 9-11 man. He's going to tell us what happened there. But the actual event was a mass trauma event. And then the narrative, I say this not because I'm endorsing it, but from a storytelling perspective in the Hegelian dialectic problem reaction solution that I focus a lot of my time on, it is hard to find.

in modern times a more compelling and powerful example of that Hegelian loop as 9-11, right? Because everyone in the country saw the thing happen. Nobody really disputed that the thing happened. And they so quickly had the story ready for who did this thing and what we got to do about it that even a lot of liberals, and I was a kid. I was 12 when that happened. So I wasn't old enough to be forming opinions on it besides just being traumatized by it during school. But a few years later, I distinctly remember when I was 14, 15 is when I started being like, you know, there was arguments in schools about it.

There was arguments on TV about it once we were committed to these wars that you ended up being involved in. So I started to understand like, oh, the whole country doesn't kind of just get on the same page with these things. things. The country can be fighting a war that half the country is not okay with. But again, which you brought up, the story of 9-11 was so powerful that I wonder with the benefit of hindsight, you know, you've kind of reflected on that time. And I know you've done that a million times. But specifically for tonight, I'm interested more in how are you able to main things? that pride in the U.S. military because I think you and a lot of military members do, and a lot of Americans want to have pride in the military. And to your point about the Iran War,

is that, are you finding the military people you know that have looked back at 9-11 and everything with hindsight? Are they responding differently to the Iran War narrative than they did to the 9-11 one? Like you said, there was no rallying event, or are they largely responding in a a similar way. That's fascinating, man. So the only thing I can say in terms of my personal knowledge of this, my sister is much younger than me. She's 19. And she was, she was dating a guy. I think he was in the Coast Guard and was going over there. Like he's being deployed over to the straight somewhere, you know, OPSEC and all that. And they're excited. Like they're, they're excited to go over there so i i can't say that for every branch i i think i could say

i would say unequivocally your marines are for sure all in like we yeah to sign up for and and there are different levels of readiness in my opinion mental readiness and mental willingness in in in our military and you know you you don't join the marines to to get the g i bill right nobody joins the marines to get the gai bill you don't typically join any infantry army you know any special forces anything like that to get the GI Bill you're you're doing it to go kick some ass and so I think you know at that level yeah they're excited about this they're all in whether or not they're going to have that epiphany uh you know years later who knows we we don't know because we don't know the story yet right we just know what's being told in the media uh you know at badlands we tend to look a little bit deeper than than most people I was having a conversation with a bunch of guys today uh out on the water and uh they they they just have no clue, you know, what's actually going on with this. And they think it's just, you know, we're going over there and we're kicking their ass because they bombed us and they can't have a nuclear weapon, right?

Because that's what everybody is telling them. So in the military itself, I think there's a push for it. Like they want this. Like that's what they signed up for. We're a volunteer force. So yeah, I'll land that there for you. Yeah. Well, it's interesting because and to your point, you just ended on there with the

I've been saying recently, especially in 2026, the Iran War narrative for sure has revealed, I think, that we truly are at Badlands and just as people who know that there is such a thing as the Info War. We are in a bubble, the likes of which maybe we didn't even realize. Like, I'm starting to feel that way, where I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing. I guess you could go either way with it. But it is, it does feel like we are operating in a different. reality. And then the only caveat I would put on, you know, I agree with you that we try to look into things deeper, right? But we have our opinions of what's going on over in Iran. You and I might see it completely differently. I don't know. But I think we do a pretty good job of not,

of not pretending we know exactly what's going on. In fact, a lot of our rhetoric is that we don't know what's going on. And ironically, that has become a controversial thing to say, right? It's kind of funny. Like the most controversial stuff badlanders say is you don't know that for sure. And people get really mad about it. But just that alone, just saying, I don't know what's going on. And I'm not going to pretend I do know what's going on. And I'm not going to pretend there is something actually going on over there. And that alone separates us from most people that you talk to. It just demonstrates. that even though I talk about the narrative all the time and I say everything comes down to narrative, your anecdote of being out on the water with these guys, like, we have so many of those, everybody

watching the show that, what is that? What are you describing? You're describing that these guys are being told the story, even if it's by the good guys. And the de facto settings of human beings, of Americans, is just, that's the story. That's what I'm going to react to, right? And the funny thing about the guys you're talking to, I'm sure most of them are Trump guys and military. guys, et cetera, but both them and the liberals that hate them and that hate us are all basically aligned in accepting the central narrative as it is being told to us, which I don't know. I mean, I guess with that note, I wonder, I shouldn't have taken it as just an assumption at the beginning of the show, but with all the guys you know in the military, has there been a retroactive

change in how they feel about the post 9-11 era, forgetting the Iran war situation in Donald Trump. Do they feel differently about that war? Like, have they gone through the process that people like you and Alpha have? Or do you think you and Alpha are pretty rare in terms of having gone through that? Like, why was I over there? What was going on sort of process? I think they're all, most of them, I can't say all, but only says to deal in absolutes. But I think most of them are now at the point where they're like, shit, I don't think Ben Laden was going to be able to do anything inside of the United States.

I don't think, you know, this was the war that we were told it was. Now, have they gone as far as the, you know, the opioid pandemic and tying that and the poppy and linking that to Afghanistan or, you know, some of the financial interests that we had in Iraq? You know, we all obviously bought into the WMDs and we got to make sure Saddam doesn't have the. WMDs and sounds just strikingly, you know, shockingly familiar to, you know, the Iran story, 47 years, right? They could have a, for 47 years, we could have a bomb tomorrow. Same kind of thing there. I think most of them, so I'm reading a book, my buddy, and if I'm going to plug it, maybe I can't find it.

One of the guys I served with just wrote a book and it came out. I got it, yes. I got it, I think, on Thursday. and like I read 150 pages in the first like two hours. I couldn't put it down, but it's the story that I was. But hearing him describe that war and, you know, how, you know, we were going over there to fight the Taliban. Well, we weren't really fighting the Taliban. We didn't fight the Taliban nearly as much as we believe we fought the Taliban.

We fought a lot of drug lords, a lot of drug lords that were trying to protect their community, trying to protect their village, trying to protect their property, their land. You know, it wasn't the Taliban quite as much as we thought it was. And just kind of reading some of the things that he says about 9-11 and the emotions that he felt following 9-11. And I, you know, I've had this conversation with him. I don't know where he was at writing the book, but we've had this conversation before actually up in Massachusetts. And I know that he understands that the war we fought in Iraq, Afghanistan was much more political than we want to let. on and and and you know we we thought we were going over there to to get revenge and get the guys that

did 9-11 but 20 years later you know people start saying what the fuck this is not that have you have you seen um that makes me think of i don't i think i might have asked you this in the bad land chat a month ago but me and chris recently did the movie warfare alix garland's warfare 25 have you seen that i have not i saw the previews for it and it looked pretty intense so i yeah i and I would like, I normally would be like, who fucking cares, right? But I've seen a lot of war movies. Obviously, I've never served in war. But that one to me felt as a non-veteran. Like, if I was recommending this to a veteran, I would definitely hit them with disclaimers and say, I don't know how you do with stuff like that. But the whole premise of that film, from what I understand, is that, I mean, it was literally, it was the special, or not special. Where did they spell? They were seals. The seals who were involved in the, to True Story Mission, I believe in Afghanistan from, I forget which year it was, but the seals who were involved in consulting on that film, which is not uncommon in these military-linked films, they were so involved

that one of them ended up getting a co-director credit or a co-writer's credit on the film. And Alex Garland in Hollywood circles is very well known. Like, he's a well-known. like he's a well-known screenwriter. So the fact that they put the SEALs name right next to him shows how intricately involved he was. But that's just to say that the whole movie takes place in like one house. Like basically these SEALs take a house. They're waiting for next orders. And the locals figure out that they're in there.

And, you know, all hell breaks loose, right? Very intense, very tough to watch. So I don't know how you deal with those things, but it might be interesting for you to watch. or not but either way one of the things chris and i talked about people who are insulated from having had those experiences is that there is an advantage and a disadvantage of that right the advantage i think for people like us is we probably are more naturally objective when looking at a situation like that than people who experience it directly are right the disadvantage is that is that The disadvantage is that we don't, we aren't feeling the human cost of those things.

We didn't know the guys who their legs were getting fucking blown off and all the shit that people have seen and people like you and Alpha have seen. But the reason I thought of that movie is because you just mentioned the Taliban. And one of the most interesting unwindings, I think, of the Trump era, technically occurred during the Biden administration, right? And it was the Kabul withdrawal. I think this is related to how somebody like me sees what's going on in Iran, which is admittedly a very specific framing. But if you look at the Kabul withdrawal, we've talked about this.

Joe Biden was the president, our boy blue. The central narrative was this is humiliating for the commander in chief. This is kind of humiliating for the military. But what were the net effects after the Kabul withdrawal? The American military is out of Kabul. you know, this disentangled or this entangled forever war situation. And the Taliban end up with a ton of weapons. And then the Taliban start using those weapons in the next year to hunt down ISIS burrows in the region.

And as our old friend, Just Human, had said in 2021, I don't know if he still believes this or not. But at that time, he was like, well, if the. Taliban end up going after ISIS, that would consummate Donald Trump's proposed Doha agreement with them. And that's one of those narratives that you don't even have to get into what Chris Paul talks about, which is like the ridiculous looking Afghans running after the last plane out of Kabul, to question what's going on with these Trumpian situations because you just look at the after effects and think, are we better off now? And I wonder, you know, you brought up the Taliban.

That's who you were fighting over there, presumably. Do you think much about, you know, whether or not, I guess another way to put this is, while a lot of military people have looked back on that period of time and thought, hey, maybe we got into that war for the wrong reasons. I still notice that a lot of them are like, those were the bad guys, though. Those were still bad guys. The controversy is should we have been fighting those bad guys? over there. But there's a slightly emerging train of thought that is, was the Taliban the bad

guys or were there some other bad guys over there? I wonder what you think of that. There's so many factions that you dealt with over there and have you changed how you've thought about any of those factions that you did come across at that time in hindsight? You know, a lot of that boils down to perspective and that is the thing that is so hard for people to understand and me and alpha have this discussion in in roundabout ways all the time because you know we'll be talking about like iran and he'll be like well we need to focus be focused on the muslim brotherhood and i'll be like yeah but the muslim brotherhood is is is a suny thing it's not it's not a shia thing so it's you know more in the arab world as opposed to the persian world and so we you know we always have

these back and forth and you know when i talk to you know kind of people that are more in line with the Fox Newses of the world, and we talk about these kinds of things, you know, they'll say, well, you know, they chant death to America. And I'm like, yeah, but from their perspective, it's a hedge money. Like we, we are the, the oppressor of their nation. We have been for, for years, for years and years, you know, the intelligence operations that we've ran against them, Operation Ajax in 1953, Ajax in 1953, you know, in 1970, what's that? Yeah, I don't even know that one. Oh, yeah, that's where we

overthrew. We installed Pahlavi. We overthrew the prime minister there. What was his name, Musa Day? I think it was Musa Day. We overthrew him and installed in conjunction with MI6, installed Pilavi. You know, flew him in from the EU from, well, it wasn't the EU at the time, but I think from France. And installed it. And they went through, you know, 40, 20 years. with with uh palavi and then it started de-stabilized there as well and that's when the iranian

revolution kicked off which our intelligence wasn't as and this is just you know surface level from what i know our intelligence wasn't as involved in that but my six was big time from from what i understand from you know what i what i believe in this um they were big time involved in that and and so when you look at somebody chanting death to america and you actually ask somebody that is what do they mean what do you guys mean when you're saying death to America well we don't mean we want to go over there and kill all of you we mean get your intelligence the fuck out of our country stop putting your influence on our country same thing we did in in in Venezuela and this is where you know President Trump's Venezuela plan that he said that in in

Mara not Marlago in Durala a month ago when he said well we've got the plan from Venezuela right yeah the model the Venezuela model the Venezuela model we're gonna we're going to use that in iran and that's why i think how many is going to end up being you know matabha how many is going to end up being the leader there because that's the same thing that happened in venezuela but venezuela was another product of this this was another country that yes it was it was tragic one of the guys that was out in the water with today is from venezuela and and i live in south florida was he one of the secret boat venezuelans that saved the election or no no okay no he didn't know anything about that he he had heard of bad lands though he watched rumble nice and uh i told him i was with

badlands he saw my hat and he's like i've seen badlands on rumble before i was like well now you're going to have to watch it but but you know he he's like the same thing there i told him you know he says well everybody was miserable in venezuela i said yeah but you guys were miserable because we created that misery we are the ones that destabilized that by sanctioning you and and making everything difficult for your government to be able to you know effectively work anywhere with any partners anywhere on the globe, right? And so I think a lot of the war itself boils down to perspective. And I will say this, man, like when we were in Afghanistan, the, the poshtun people in the villages that we were at, they loved us.

They loved us being there. Now, as far as the Taliban, a lot of people don't realize that the Taliban, you know, when they kind of rose to power in Afghanistan, I'm not going to say it was glorious and they treated everybody great and everything. But a poppy, that was a no go for them. You were not allowed to grow poppy under the Taliban initially. That wasn't until we came in and took over that they were allowed to willingly grow this stuff. And again, tying back to the intelligence and the actual, what I believe to be the actual justification for us being, or the intelligence justification for us being over there. I love what you said about Venezuela, which I want to get deeper into. But you just mentioned that the people of the Pashtun, is that what you called them?

Washington. Who, why do you think they were excited to see you? Like who, who did they feel oppressed by? Was it the Taliban or was it Al-Qaeda and proxy groups? Like, who did they, is it because they considered themselves oppressed and they liked seeing Americans there? You know, I think broadly, I don't think they appreciate the poppy. I because I mean it doesn't all make its way to the United States to you know get pushed on the opioid epidemic of the 2006 2007 2008 era it doesn't all make it over there

and there was you know rampant drug use in a lot of these small villages and so you know I don't know if that was it or what now I do I do know if you've ever seen um uh lone survivor the Marcus LaTrell story with Mark Wahlberg at the very end of that uh you know after uh Mark Walberg character, Latrell, after he, is it, that's Marcus, that's not Marcus Latrell, who is that? Yeah, that is Marcus Latrell, yeah, because he's in the movie. What am I thinking? At the very end, they talk about. Yeah, LaTrell. Walbert plays Latrell. Yeah, and he- I knew Taylor Kish was in that, a random note. I had just watched that Dark Wolf show, and I was like, this is not the first military show. I've seen Taylor Kish in, and I couldn't, I didn't remember that

he was in Lone Survivor. Dark Wolf is the, is the sequel, but it's a prequel. It's a prequel to Terminal Lid. It was good. I was surprised. I didn't think it was going to be very good, but I quite liked it. But yeah, anyway, go ahead. Did you watch Terminalist first? Yeah, I did.

I saw that a few years ago. That was good. Ash made me watch that, and Christine and I both. I find the Terminal List sort of, I like watching these because I like seeing what the propaganda is, what the angles on the propaganda is. I found the Terminalists to be less propagandish than something like Jack Ryan. Which that show I like. But, oh my God, Jack Lion is just, Jack Lion, Freudian slip.

Jack Ryan is just a lionization of the CIA. And in hindsight, if you watch Jack Ryan season two, it's basically all about destabilizing the Maduro regime in Venezuela. And there's like a female populace that's running against him that's backed by the National Endowment for Democracy. and Jack Ryan is trying to help her out. So you're like, oh, man, it's fascinating. If you guys want to watch, like, out in the open, paint by numbers, this is the CIA plan in the years ahead to destabilize sovereign alliance operations. Jack Ryan is the show.

It will tell you, like, in order, we're going to destabilize Venezuela, then we're going to destabilize the Middle East. We're going to go after season three, I think, was about that. them trying to start a war between Russia in the U.S. with Ukrainian oligarchs involved. It's pretty incredible. But anyway, you were making a point about a lone survivor. And again, he does end up with those people, right? The Pashtun people.

Yeah. And at the very end, they have a little, like, I don't know what you call it, like a credit at the end where they talk about Pashtun and they have an actual code among them that when you're in their presence, when you're in their village as a guest, they honor you, regardless of, you know, what they think of you. And we've had, when we were in Afghanistan, I mean, we had people that, like, we had a guy that, that came to our hill. I was actually just reading it in the book. We had a guy one time that came up on her hill and somebody had shot his daughter in the leg.

And she came up on the hill to get medical treatment or whatever. And, you know, we, of course, are going to treat her. We don't know if we did it or not. It was in a firefight and, you know, who knows what happened. But he came up there. And you would think that when somebody is in, your neighborhood in your village like this and they're not welcome you don't know why they're there you don't know the politics of why they're right but you're genuinely happy that they're there's

there's there's something going on with that and right i mean these are people that had no televisions they don't have radios uh you know some some of them have radios but they really don't have uh you know cell phones and that kind of stuff so they're very cut off i'm i'm talking very primitive people here you know All they want to do is prey, farm, and live their life with their family. And that's it. They don't do anything else. And they were excited to have us there. And so you got to think that there's a reason for that, whether it's because we brought

security to the region, whether we were building, you know, we built schools and wells and things like that for them. Who knows what that reason is. But I tend to think that there is, and this is to a point you made or a question that you kind of threw at me earlier. um do we you know is is there any regret in what we did over there and how does the military you know perceive our actions while we were over there and like what do we think of the military moving forward i mean obviously i have a lot of animosity and and and you know i have a grudge

against the leaders that sent us over there bush obama but that doesn't take away from you know everybody probably at about lieutenant colonel and below that don't know all the details now there's colonels and generals that absolutely knew what the hell was going on and i've got no love for those guys but for the most part you know the guys that were on the ground with me you know from from a lieutenant colonel my battalion commander and below mad respect for those guys we did what we signed up to do we did what we thought was right at the time and that doesn't take away from the intent in our hearts while we were over there Yeah, and that makes sense to me even as somebody who never served, and obviously I was a liberal-minded at the time.

And unfortunately, this is the controlled opposition dynamic that Chris Paul talks about all the time. One example of the controlled opposition dynamic is something like the U.S. military that you were part of and the Taliban, right? That's a very literal kinetic version of it. But an American micro of that is the left-right paradigm, the pro-war, anti-war, right? And that's how you were framed. People like you and people defending you were being framed as pro-war, which is not really necessarily true. And people like me that were anti-war, anti-that-war, for partisan reasons in hindsight,

I developed an animosity toward the military, toward the U.S. military. And that has, I've been able to shed that, but it's taken a long time to shed that. And I think the same thing happens with military veterans, right, who and their families toward quote unquote leftists who are. And this is one of the dynamics that I've tried to explore in different ways, especially with the Iran narrative, because I trust Donald Trump. That's why I think a lot of what's going on here is narrative. I do think it's sovereign alliance coded.

I think Venezuela set the template, as Donald Trump told us, and as he mentioned. But I still think this Iran war situation is an opportunity. to see where everybody is at in the American zeitgeist, right? Because some of the points you led the show with demonstrate that most Americans, left, right, and center are observing the world as they are being told it is. They are observing the world. Whatever Donald Trump says is going on over there is going on over there. If you like Trump, you're in favor of it.

If you hate Trump, you hate it. But I guess I've been a little surprised and it's been sobering for me to see that it feels like as a nation, we didn't actually take away a lot of the lessons from the Last Forever War situation over there. You know, again, I've tried to look back and say, okay, I was demonizing the military when really they were the ones being sent over there. And the reason I can still watch things like these war movies and quote unquote true stories and really get something out of them besides propaganda is I do recognize that like there's all these moments of micro heroism that are occurring in these engineered wars, right? They're people that are there, most of them, are there altruistically. I think the reason I bring up the Taliban, and I'm not claiming this, I just think it's an interesting thought experiment. in light of Donald Trump being willing to make deals with them, he's not willing to make deals with ISIS, right?

And that, that says something to me, right? Like that, to me, that isn't just, we don't want to be at war anymore over here, so we have to make friends with our enemies, with the bad guys. To me, I read that more as the Taliban might not have quite been what we were told they were. And how is Donald Trump supposed to communicate that? Rarely, normally in the Info War and what we do, what you and I do, we're talking about how does Donald Trump convince like normie retard liberals of what he needs to do?

This is the rare situation in the Middle East where I still think he's working on the conservative sphere and the military sphere. How does Donald Trump translate to a generation of veterans like you that are not? like you and alpha who have woken up to this stuff, hey, we're going to do some deals with the Taliban now. And I just wonder what you think of that because I do think he's he's kind of de facto drawn a line of demarcation between like, ISIS we're still bombing the fuck out of any chance we get. And we're helping the Taliban bomb the fuck out of them. But the Taliban, like, we're cool.

We're renormalizing relations. And if that changes, what might have been going on, you know, the reason I say that is because I mentioned these microcosms of heroism that people like you engaged in and witnessed. But could you argue that that was going on on the Taliban side too, that they're like, these guys are in our village with green uniforms on and they are not us. That's exactly what it is. And that goes back to the perspective thing. You know, there's there's two sides to every story. And one of the things that has been really different. for me to do and and I get a lot of I get a ton of shit for this like it whenever I say something like when this war first kicked off and and you try and picture things from the perspective of the enemy and you know again like you just said what are these green these men

in green uniforms doing walking around in our village they have no business here well try and flip that around to you know where we're at and and picture your community and all of a sudden you have this foreign occupying force come in and set up a patrol base in your community and they start walking around now you know that they're inferior excuse me superior to you in terms of capabilities right they have more firepower they have more they have aircraft that fly overhead that you've never seen before right well maybe you know if they're alive during the uh the the um muja hadine they might have seen some russian aircraft but you're you're going to you're going to resist that you're going to push back against that and and that is why i don't have

have any animosity towards the people we fought over there. I totally understand that. There's also a warrior, you know, code, and this is something, again, that other people don't understand. Like, I have a tremendous amount of respect for the people that, that we fought against. Like, the people that went toe to toe with us in Afghanistan, even the ones that killed people I know, doesn't mean I don't like them, but I respect them. And I understand what they did and why they did it. And that's the hard thing, is looking at perspective like that. And that is one of the things like this this war when it first kicked off right i i remember february 28th right i wake up in the morning it's saturday morning uh i actually saw ash had posted something on x at like two o'clock

in the morning eastern time and i'm like what the fuck yeah we're going to war with iran and i was i was pissed that was my first reaction is what in the fuck is this so then i you know i i wait the next day i'm reading through all this and we can get into you know what drove that war and why i think that that war kicked off, quote unquote, war. But nothing about this war makes sense. This is not anything anywhere near what we saw in Iraq or Afghanistan. I mean, again, this is a good thing, but 13 KIAs and seven of which were in an accident, you know, were two planes collide, two of our planes collided, right?

Our downed aircraft were shot down by our allies in Kuwait, three F-15s, which by the way, that's fucking weird as shit, you know, following the exact. plot of behind enemy lines well that well that's that's that's uh that's 24 this was like within the first like week or so when they're like oh yeah Kuwait just accidentally shot down two three f15s and it's like how do you there's there's steps that you have to go through before you're able to target an aircraft like that there's there's communication lines that are you know between the pilot and the in the the country they're flying over none of that made sense so again what you're you're you're saying about you know how does trump reach the people on the left first and foremost the

only way to reach the people on the left is to do the exact opposite of how you want them to feel because they're so fucking deranged that nothing like trump could iran could come out the next day and be like hey you guys are awesome we're totally going to sell you oil at a discount everything's going to be fine no peace in the middle east and the left will melt down over yeah and so you have to do it in the opposite form Yeah, I totally agree with that. And that's where, you know, the Trump discombobulator is something we've been talking about. And when I say I trust him, it's because I believe that, you know, when he's talking about the Venezuela model, that was the signal right from the beginning.

And I think the problem with the truth community right now is most people are interpreting the Venezuela model as the military operation story we were told about, right? So when they see Donald Trump say, we're doing the Venezuela model, they're like, nice, go in there, swap out a regime, send the boys in, do whatever needs to be done. Glass of Desert if you need to. And like, nip and tuck it will be good. I don't see the Venezuela model that way. I see the Venezuela model as give them the image of a regime change, block the globalist version of the regime change, and then renormalized relations with the host nation. A little bit ago, you mentioned something that I think is very important that very few people understand about color revolutions. You mentioned it in the context of Venezuela.

Venezuelans, I had said at the time, are the last people I would ask for an opinion about Nicholas Maduro. And a lot of people in our audience were like, what do you mean? Aren't they the best people to ask? No, they're the last people to ask. Because that would be like going back to 2005 and asking a person who became a Trump supporter, 15 years later, what they think about the Bush administration. Yep. Right?

Or alternatively, whatever. What a liberal, you think a Russian is going to get an accurate portrayal or representation of how the American people feel of Donald Trump by selecting an American at random? And if you pick out a liberal, I know a lot of people can say like, oh, it's the liberals are stupid and everything. It's, yeah, sure. Well, the conservatives were stupid for, from the perspective of a liberal. you mentioned perspective and controlled opposition dynamic. From my perspective, conservatives were obviously being retards for 10 years there. And I think a lot of them still are because they're looking at this Iran situation and being like, nice, glass to desert.

There's somebody in our chat who just said that, probably a troll. But either way, that rhetoric is real and it's out there. And I think the Venezuela model was Trump's way of saying, like, we don't actually want these wars to be real things. We want renormalization. The Trump State Department last week I've been signaling put out a press release talking about the U.S. embassy in Venezuela and Caracas reopening. And in that press release, they said, we are now embarking on a political reconciliation directive.

And we're going to see that in Iran. I don't know how much longer this storyline is going to go. I think it's a much more complicated disentanglement. But the whole concept of my show I did two weeks ago before Gart, the solo show I did, was all about sovereign disentanglement and what I think is going on here. But it is, to your point, it is a, it's this irony I feel right now in the truth community where your reaction on February 28th, from the moral perspective, is the correct reaction. It's the correct reaction. If you think Donald Trump is actually getting us into a kinetic hot war that he literally ran on not getting us

into and that was not provoked by the way, no matter what anybody in the audience wants to say, that's bad. And you should react that way to it. We're the rare people, I think, at Badlands who can say that is the right reaction, but I think Trump is playing a different game, which is why I support him. But I think there's an irony where the Q people and truth community people are attacking anyone who questions what's going on in Iran. And it is giving me flashbacks to the neocon Bush Wars era, not because I think Donald Trump is doing that,

but because unfortunately, I think he could. And we are seeing that 99% of MAGA would be all in. Of just like, and I don't know. I mean, I don't have a conclusion there, but I thought your perspective would be interesting besides just as a conservative before I was, but I'm a veteran of that. maybe we actually haven't learned a lot of these things and Donald Trump is maybe exposing a little bit of that. Like, it's almost like people get more excited when he talks about blitzing around than when on Friday he's like the war's over again. And you almost feel this deflation in people where they're like, ah, all right, well. And then it escalates again on Sunday and people are like, ooh, we might get him this time. I don't know. I don't know what you think of that, but yeah, you did get attacked. And a lot of us got attacked for that stuff, which I don't think is, I think is crazy that we were being attacked for that.

You, you hit the nail, like, smack dab on the top of the head right there. When I saw, like, I sat back, you know, so I do my show on Saturday morning and I'm like, this is my reaction to it. I still, I said on Saturday morning the day after, I said, did Israel jump the gun on here? The exact phrase I said, and I played the clip, I said it, did, did Israel leave, Roy Jenkins this shit in Iran and Trump had to react and because if Trump doesn't react, then there actually is an imminent threat to the United States. Because if Israel goes in and bombs Iran without the U.S. involvement, we're still going to be retaliated against, period.

Yeah. They are going to automatically lump us in to that, you know, into that group right there. And we would be attacked. So that when Trump says there was an imminent threat, maybe that was the imminent threat. Yeah. Right. But so, you know, what and and this goes back to the Joe Kent, letter. And I don't remember if I said this at Gart or not, but I've said this on a few shows

where if you read the Joe Kent resignation letter and you cut out the part where he's saying, I'm resigning, and you read through that letter, you don't know what his actions are going to be. The way he writes that letter, he says, you know, I think that we jump the gun on this, but, you know, looking back at Donald Trump, this is not who Donald Trump is. This is not what he's represented. This is not what he's, he's gotten our minds out of that warmonger, mentality where everybody in the Middle East is automatically our enemy and we need to fight everybody over there. And he brought so many people myself included kind of out of that rut and so quickly we go right back into it. And that was the most depressing thing that I saw coming out of that is people

going out there and, you know, claiming that they're MAGA and America first and and we're no new wars and they were all over that for 10 years with Donald Trump. And then Donald Trump does one thing and all of a sudden they're like nuke them motherfuckers glass the desert right and i'm like man you guys just completely flip script here now i did i did immediately say that you know donald trump given his track record and given what the results that we've seen from this war again 13 k ias is nothing that is a training accident in in the in the u.s military we've had we've had training accidents with far more people killed than that and so that's a a blessing but it just doesn't feel like a real war. So Trump is doing or telling us he's doing one thing, but we're just not seeing what we should

see as a result of that. Does that make sense? Totally. And that brings up another point along the same lines that I think one of the very strange things to be attacked over is that point that some of us do not believe this war is quote unquote real in the way it's being communicated and that that is a good thing. That is the weird thing. Like I am saying, I think Donald Trump is disentangling the Western hegemon that the U.S. military has been the kinetic power projection arm of, right? The Western hegemon doesn't just include the U.S. It's NATO. It's the EU, right? That might be the heart of it. It's Israel, which you just mentioned. Whatever nation you want to put, you know, put their flag in there, how has the hegemon operated?

This is, again, there's cognitive dissonance, I think, hitting a lot of truthers because they're pro-Trump, which makes sense, and they think there's a plan, which makes sense. But when you say, guys, the plan might be to tell us the story of a fake war to disarm the real war that was going to occur, which is similar to the point you just made about Israel. I think, just like Trump did this in Venezuela, I think Trump intercepted a regime change. in Venezuela that was going to be Maria Karina Machado, National Endowment for Democracy, Nobel Prize. He intercepted that. He blocked it. He put Delsi Rodriguez in, who is what, just the Maduro regime. And then he does all the deals with her. And I said this the week of Venezuela. I said, watch for, if I'm right about this being an interception, watch for Machado to call for a second regime change, which she did. Yep. Right? They wanted Maduro out and then she goes on Fox News and calls for a second regime change on Rodriguez.

But Trump took all the air out of the balloons, which is something Chris Paul said at the time. So look at that, look at that model with Iran. I think it's a positive take to say, I don't think this war is real. The war is not real. And Lindy, who freaks out in the chat every Sunday night. Yes, the war was not provoked. I am saying it's not a real war. I am saying Donald Trump is disarming a war. I am saying Donald Trump is disarming a war and that the there if there is coordination here, I think the coordination but is between Donald Trump and whoever is going to end up being the new Iranian regime. I happen to agree with you. I wrote an article called sovereign disentanglement during the Venezuela op. And in that article, I said Iran is next and that little Khomeini is going to be the new regime. And that that would

be a marker, a retroactive marker that we didn't swap out a regime. We gave the regime a new story and we're going to be friends with them now. Now, will that happen? We don't know, right? He might be a fake and gay phantom Ayatollah. He might be very real. But there's a lot of this strange cognitive dissonance, I think, right now in the truth community where people are cheering on Trump, but I think they're cheering on the mainstream media image of Trump, which is not. not the real version of Trump, right? Like I've seen so many people, even our audience, be like, man, Trump's really putting the screws to China and Russia. And it's like, really? How's he putting the screws to China? Is it by getting the Iranians to settle oil trade in Yuan? Or is it by unsanctioning

the Russian oil that they're now selling to China to help them deal with the energy crisis? How exactly is Donald Trump putting the screws to Russia and China? I don't know. So it's a ramble. but so the the china thing is is is interesting because this this war does this quote unquote war does adversely affect china china china is getting they're they're no longer going to be able to pick up that sanctioned iranian oil you know for 20 percent discount whatever they were selling it for it i think i read somewhere that they they they were buying that sanctioned oil about 15 dollars a barrel cheaper than than the you know the market rate for it so that is going to have some impact on on them at least in the short term you know i don't know about the long term but the fit

The point you made about Venezuela was absolutely fascinating because, you know, the whole idea that Trump goes in there to try and get ahead of the regime change that was being orchestrated. And they've been planning regime change in Venezuela for a long time. Oh, yeah. I think this whole election fraud thing, you know, Ash and I are doing stolen elections, the book on Badlands Book Club. And it's, it's atrocious. It's, it's one of the worst written books I've ever read. And I'm disappointed because I just found out the last episode that I'm cited as a source in the book. And so, yeah, I get to the back of the book and there's my name under the sources.

And I'm like, well, they didn't cite me for any of the Venezueless yet. But did you see? And that narrative is out there as well to make us think Maduro's stealing elections around the world. Right. Yeah, it's all come back. It's all, it was all Maduro the whole time, right? Every, every assault on democracy around the world has been Maduro. It's the worst election rigging you could ever imagine because there's not a favorable nation in the world that they're alleging has had their elections rigged by Venezuela that has leadership that's favorable to Venezuela.

So they'd be, you know, they'd be rigging elections in foreign countries to put in leadership that is not favorable to them. But to the point with the CIA op, you know, in the lead up to that operation that Trump, you know, conducted down there, for the first time, I think, and ever, a president comes out and tells us the CIA. is operating in Venezuela. Yeah, right? He says this publicly. Right. And then after that, we get this story that the Navy SEALs are on the ground in Venezuela, targeting buildings, and the CIA is operating drones and taking these buildings out.

That's in reverse, right? And I made sure that I'm getting this right. It should, I mean, the other way around, right? It should be the the, the CIA. is giving the intel that these buildings need to be hit and the and the seals are on the ground going in and on the ground blowing it up and instead we get this narrative that it's you know this story that it's in reverse again was trump putting that out there in order to say hey look they're getting ready to move on the meduro regime machado is their girl that is who they want

in there and so we're going to we're going to jump the gun on this on this deep state operation and we're going to go in there ahead of time you know i was listening to somebody the other day that's like, Maduro was out there saying, come and get me, come and get me, come and get me. And Trump was like, ha, ha, ha, watch this. And came and got him, thinking like Trump was like calling his bluff. No, no, no, that was Maduro literally crying out to Trump and saying. Yeah, bro.

Dude, and, and Ghost, like, we've all nailed, we've all nailed, like, something specific over the last few years. Ghost called that a year in advance. He did. Ghost said Trump was going to grab Maduro in a special operation, a special military operation, and bring him to the U.S. to turn state's evidence and that we were going to be told there was a regime change there. And he even floated Delsey Rodriguez as his replacement. But I think Ghost, and you guys can check with him, I think he thought that was going to be too obvious with Delsey so that they wouldn't do that. but it turns out they're, I think they are trying to make it as obvious as possible.

But, you know, as part of the whole theme of this episode is, apparently it's not obvious enough because there's a lot of truthers who were like, we totally got those Venezuelans down there. Now we're getting them Iranians. But yeah, man, it absolutely felt like a swapout. I called it a burn card. It's one of the terminologies I've been using is that, you know, these color revolutions, they are designed to, in keeping with the theme of this show, color revolutions are mostly narrative until they are actual, right?

A color revolution, whether you think it's good or bad, is designed to do what CanCon has been the word you've been using all night, destabilize a given country. And what are they really destabilizing? They're destabilizing the faith of the people in that country's current leadership. And how do they do that? The very broad macro way that the Intel, usually U.S. Intel or British Intel, to your point, or Israeli Intel does this, is by making life very difficult on the people of a given nation and then engineering media stories, including a populist uprising within said nation that frames all of the issues they're dealing with as the fault of the current regime. And if you guys want an example of where this has been done over the last 10 years, I would present to you the United States of America. What do you think the BLM, the election fraud of 2020, the no kings, pick your deployment that we've been covering for 10 fucking years and for four or five on badlands, you for longer than that?

that is a color revolution, right? That's not controversial to say. Well, again, that's why you can't pick an American out of a lineup who has been the subject of the clip John plays about Donald Trump from a couple years ago. He plays it all the time, the clip where Trump says, the American people have been subject to illegal psychological warfare operations for years. Who was doing that? United States intelligence. U.S. Intel was the ones conduct. a color revolution on you. And that's why when the people in the truth community should know that, they do know that. That's why they're in the truth community. If you don't know that you've been subject to a color revolution against Donald Trump, you would just be a normal Republican. Why would

you even be here? Why would you be talking about stolen elections and the rest of it? And I think there's an opportunity here with Venezuela and with Iran to understand oh shit, is Donald Trump untangling color revolutions in these places the same way you all have woken up to a color revolution here? And I don't pretend to know exactly what's going on over there, but man, you know, you can map these things in advance and just say, if we do end up with totally normalized and like, let's just say positive, like really positive mutually beneficial dealings with Iran, this year, whatever that happens. Is it realistic to imagine that we have this super hot war with them and then that paradigm emerges on the back of it? Or is it more likely that you were told the story of some extremely dramatic war in order to get us to that point? That is absolutely fascinating, you know, to the point with the color revolutions, and you mentioned earlier that, you know, the last person you want to talk to is somebody that's on that.

the ground living through one of these and that and that's because they are very good at what they do and you're going to see you know so when this guy that was talking to says um you know people were getting shot by the national garden of venezuela well why were they being shot by the national garden in venezuela well because there was riots well why were there riots because nobody could get any food why couldn't you get any food because we couldn't get any food because there was sanctions on on imports into venezuela and we couldn't get trade and all these other things you know And this is going much more political here in terms of the explanation. But that is the whole point.

And that's how you orchestrate. If you've never read and I don't know if anybody, I don't know if you've read it, but tales of an economic hitman. No, I have heard of that though. It is. I mean, it is just, it is, it shows you how economics and the same way Trump is using the economy as a weapon, right, to keep away from war. it tells you how the intelligence community and not just the intelligence community a lot of this is done through NGOs right the NGOs which are essentially quasi intelligence um but these NGOs are able to do it freely government funded grants and everything else and go in and pull off these operations and destabilize these regions and people have no idea they have no idea what is what is causing this they just know that he's the man in power while this is happening so he's so he's bad so he's bad And that's the same thing we see, you know, like I would love to see instead of, you know, instead of the war narrative that we have to see right now roll out in Iran.

I would like them to just say, you know what, fuck this. I'm going to give you a clean slate, no sanctions. We're going to open up trade with you, all right? But I'm telling you this one time. And this is something Trump can do because he has a position of power when he speaks. You fuck with us. We're going to fuck you up. But let's shake hands.

Let bygones be bygones. and let's see what's going to happen as a result of this. Maybe the war narrative that we're seeing right now. And remember, there's only 2% of Iranians right now, allegedly, that have Internet, right? So the stories are not getting out from inside of Iran. We have no idea what the hell is actually going on in Iran other than what we're told by the talking heads on the Fox News and CNNs and everything else. So, I mean, that's kind of where I want to see this go. And I think there's a very real possibility that that's actually what Trump is doing.

with this you know i mean Kushner's intimately involved whitkov jade vance you know trump himself involved that very well could be what's actually happening here while at the same time satisfying the lindsay grams of the world that want to see you know a full-blown fucking war yeah trump has to operate in multiple battle spaces right he's got to ibn the infamous uh rich higgins memo that again john has brought up on the power hour going back since he started it, Donald Trump operates from the battle space that the enemy has set. And I totally agree with you. People wonder, like, why do you think he's telling stories then that don't conform to what he's actually doing? Well, because if he told those stories, nobody would believe them and he would

lose the public mandate to do the things that need to be done here. So I do agree with you that he's essentially, he's essentially wearing the mask of a neocon right now to disarm the neocon war machine. And that sets us up. You also set us up for our next discussion point, which is all about how that color revolution in the United States was consummated, how it peaked in 2020, which is what you've been talking about the most for several years, and perhaps in the context of this Iran war, how that color revolution is very much still going on in the U.S. I want to talk about that, but I want to hit a couple of sponsors. And the first one is ourselves and J.Triot's mom. In a quiet town, at where beards grow wild and lips dare to crack without permission,

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thousand rabbit holes, right? Like we all have of what needs to be fixed and what's really going on in the world and how can we make it better. You have stayed pretty focused on that as your primary issue of choice. And I wonder just why that is and how that has evolved since you first kind of got obsessed with it. Well, I mean, first and foremost, it's the most important thing we do in our society as as an American citizen, right? In terms of for the general good of the population, voting is the most important thing that we do. And in a free and fair election.

Now, again, following the 2020 election, or prior to, much like with, you know, with my then allegiance to George Bush and my respect for him at the time, my opinion on voting changed as well. You know, I live in Broward County, which is the hanging Chad from 2000. So we got a taste of that.

destiny well we got we got a taste of that in 2000 and um i'd never seen anything like what i saw on november 3rd 2020 when i went to bed and i i didn't go to bed i fell asleep on the couch and i wake up and there's still no no definitive winner and you know i can remember elections before playing drinking games you know for for elections we would play drinking games i was in my teens 20s well 20s for for legal purposes we'll say 20s but but but but it was like I've never seen anything like this and so then you know I start I started digging into it a little bit and I'm like okay this doesn't make much sense and I start I I honestly I don't know I started reading everything I could about elections I started reading everything in the news about what they were saying I started listening

to everything I was listening to press conferences that that elected officials quote unquote elected officials were putting on and everything. And I think the thing that really like made me stick by this is how I saw the censorship start to kick in. And when I saw that, I was like, we are we are destined. And this was in addition to COVID. COVID, I also would, you know, lump COVID into the censorship regime back then. So when I when I saw that, I was like, fuck, something is up here.

I got to stay on this. And, you know, it's, it's one of the hardest things for people to understand because they all believe that we do elect this because, you know, they tell us, right? They tell us, hey, this person got 3,578,174 votes. And it's like, how the fuck could they know that if it was fake? And there's no verification process whatsoever. There's no validation for you as an American citizen. There's no way for you to ensure that that's accurate. And so once you see that, you can't unsee it.

Now, what I've seen since then has been the continuation of the regurgitation of those same narrative talking points, those same regime points, right? No evidence of widespread fraud, right? I just got done reading a report for the Fulton County stuff. You know, the folks that submitted the evidence or submitted the report that ended up becoming a part of that FBI complaint in Fulton County to get that. warrant. I mean, those people are friends of mine. Those are, those are people that I talk to very often. And so when I saw the report that Stephen Ritcher put out in response, Stephen Ritcher, Ryan Macias and another guy that I've never heard of, I think John Grimmer, I think is his name, I started reading this report and I'm like, this is a 58 page report that nobody's going to read. They're going to read the executive summary on this report, and they're going to see that there's absolutely nothing or they're not going to see that the report itself contains absolutely nothing in terms of an investigation any work that they did to validate or invalidate they clearly went at

this with with a specific agenda of discrediting the claims that were made not deciding whether the claims were valid or invalid but to discredit them and when i saw that i had just gotten done me and ash had just gotten done interviewing stephen richer like three months before that and And in that interview, I went back and listened to it again yesterday. In that interview, Stephen Richard did not know whether, remember the, remember the Federalist paper that came out the story, 350,000 votes that have no signed on the, on the poll tapes. That's came out. When Stephen Richard was talking to us on why we vote three months ago back in late December, early January, four months ago at the time,

he did not know whether it was zero tapes or closing tapes. that the Federalist was talking about and that were missing these signatures. He completely butchered that over and over again. And so the whole reason I bring this up, and again, I had Kevin Monclaw on that show, who's one of the guys that drafted that report, Stephen Richard either would have had to go like straight laser focus on this to get this report enough information about this to write this report

in a three or four month period, or he just put his name on there because he's the guy. guy that has a little bit of credibility because he's the Republican from Maricopa County that was an elected official and so people will trust him. So the whole thing's fucking bullshit. And I just can't stop on it because if we let them win this battle, we lose the country. It's gone. Well, and I think, and you know, I like how you frame these things because you're somebody who's focused on election fraud for years. Obviously at Badlands, there are some here who have controversial takes on voting and all the rest of it.

Chris Paul comes to mind, of course. Alpha and him had a spirited debate, which I think was good in Nashville. Now, so I'm not asking what we should do about whether or not we should vote. I think that's deeply personal. I'm not really that interested in litigating it. But more to the point you just ended on is that it's bullshit and we've got to focus on this. I take away from that that you are talking about the election system and the problem of election fraud, right? And I think that is what gets lost in this debate of voting and you should vote harder and Trump told you to vote, et cetera.

again, whether or not you in the chat or as an American think you should vote to help Trump overwhelm the fraud or whether you think you should abstain and call for a canceled election like somebody like Chris Paul talks about, that's beside the point to me. What I was trying to express to some people in Nashville who we had good conversations, a lot of the badlanders there. I was actually very pleasantly surprised. Very little vitriol was coming out of people there against Chris, even ones that disagreed with him, which is not the case. from a couple of years ago. There was like a lot of vitriol in Myrtle Beach when he was advancing this rhetoric in 2024. And that was good to see, but I'd said, I think people are still misunderstanding a stance like that. I think they think that Chris doesn't care about elections when to me the entire purpose of his stance is what you just said, is saying, we not need to focus on this issue and only this issue. And that issue being, our elections are fraudulent.

We all agree on that. The question is, how fraudulent are they? Chris would make the argument that it's a binary. You either have legitimate elections or you have fraudulent elections. It sounds like you agree with that. And, you know, I want to transition this more into the context of the current state of MAGA and Info War media, you know, the media personalities. And you've been in, and the audiences, you've been in this a lot longer than I have. You were in the YouTube days. You know, you've been doing this stuff for quite a long time talking about election fraud since 2020. Do you, what do you see as the current state of rhetoric within MAGA? about election fraud and whether or not it's this big thing we have to deal with compared

to when you first got into this and started banging the drum on that. So the good thing, I think MAGA, after the 2020 election, I think everybody knew something was up. And I don't think the problem has ever necessarily been with proving whether or not there was election fraud within MAGA. The problem with the MAGA movement, in my opinion, in terms of the election fraud aspect is a lot of them got complacent because Trump won. And they're like, okay, we fix the system. Now Trump's going to come in and fix it. It's still not fixed. You know, and do I have faith that Trump is going to do it?

I have faith that he's going to do everything he can to do it. The problem is, is I don't know what he's going to be able to do, right? These EOs keep getting slapped down. He's the president. He's not a legislator. You know, he's not in the legislation. So it's limited there. Now, but going back to your point with MAGA, I think everybody does understand that. Now, what we're noticing now, and this is one of the reasons why Ash and I decided to do that book, is now that there's a consensus within MAGA and even in the Republican Party as a whole, and even a lot of Democrats, you know, the Democrats are, if we're to believe polls, you know, around 30 to 40 percent believe that fraud out impact the 2020 election.

Like that is the huge narrative shift compared to 2021 when, you know, these retards were screaming at us. Just move on. Just move on. Right. And so now what we've seen is this kind of deployment that it's, it's, it's outside influence. And I don't think it is. Like, could it be.

Yes. So there absolutely could be outside influence into our, you know, over our elections. I'm not saying that it's not possible. But from all the, you know, the stuff that I've. research, the work that I've done, the reports that I've read, the stories that I've written, that's all organic. That's all stuff that's happening within the United States. And this is all being, you know, kind of promulgated by NGOs, right? These NGOs that are receiving the same NGOs that destabilize other nations. You know, if it has something like democracy in its name,

it's probably fucking intelligence. And that's a reverse indicator. Yeah, you should probably have nothing to do with it. You know, protect democracy, uh, state. States United was the organization that just put this out. Like, anytime you see an NGO that has a name like that, run the other direction. No, absolutely. Good. Dude, that's a great. It's a great point.

And it perfectly leads to where I kind of wanted to take this, which kind of ends up looping back to how we started, which is talking about Iran, talking about Venezuela and color revolutions. And you mentioned, you know, the situation down in Venezuela, the narratives leading into Venezuela, you mentioned were largely. connecting U.S. election fraud to the Maduro regime and the Venezuelan regime and all that. And another side to further the point you just made, I had mentioned this earlier in the show, but just to dig a little further into it, the reason I had flagged Maria Carina Machado as the batty in Venezuela, or the symbol, the front of the baddies, was A, she was backed by the National Endowment for Democracy, and NGO with the word democracy in it. So NGO is one mark against you.

And you're absolutely right that NGO with the word democracy in it is deep state central. Like those are deep state staging grounds nationally and usually internationally for the U.S. hegemon, U.S. intelligence, globalist intelligence. Second point was, let me look this up to get the name right. Maria Carina Machado was also involved in Oh, she could overthrow. You're talking about when she tried to overthrow the government and they had a 10-day coup? Yeah, I'm looking for the, yes,

and I'm looking for the name of the organization she was with. I can't find it right now. Sumate, that's exactly. So Delci, not Delci, Maria Carina Machado founded or was involved in the prime NGO funded election fraud detection service, or put another way, election integrity arm of Venezuela, right? So Maria Carina Machado was funded by Western intelligence directly, and she had a nonprofit that was focused on election integrity. And I'm sure you would agree in all of your research that in addition to the point you made about NGOs and democracy being reverse indicators, if you are a government organization that is called election integrity or that has that in your mission statement, you might not be trying to make our elections or give integrity to our elections. You might be trying to protect the integrity of elections.

And one more point before I hand it back to you. Sometimes I go on my spurgouts about etymology and the origins and true meaning of words. And I know sometimes I'm reading too much into things. But a lot of people in this audience understand that if we are dealing with a satanic sort of inversion cabal that's kind of at the heart of this deep state globalist network that we all talk about, One of the things that a lot of people in our audience understand is that they use inversion and they use humiliation and they use these public rituals, right? And what is one of the main rituals they use? They tell you what they're doing to you.

So what is another word or definition for integrity? Strength. Another synonym for the word integrity is fortification. Does that remind you of a famous article from several years ago about how they weren't. stealing the election, they were fortifying the election. So this is one of the ways I say, they don't actually lie to you all in the way that you think they're lying to you. She didn't say she was trying to bring honest elections to the Venezuelan people.

She said she was running an election integrity outfit because she was trying to fortify the Venezuelan election system, which is fraudulent. And like that's I think a lot of the framing that you've dealt with for years that these people say no no no we didn't say we're bringing you open and transparent elections we're strengthening them and defending them from you right she so Machado also I think it was around like 2002 I think was involved in the Carmona decree and this was a literal two day long coup where they overthrew the the the Chavez regime and abolished the National Assembly, temporarily, it didn't last. But, you know, that is, you know, a testament to where Machado is, you know, where her intentions are going. And of course, you can all go back and look. She is a Yale educated.

She came over here and participated in the globalist seminar at Yale. I think it's like a six-month indoctrination camp where they teach you how to be a good little Western, you know, coup orchestrator, color revolutionist, you know, you know, she's got pictures of her in the White House back in the day with with George Bush. She was actually pretty attractive back then by the way. I don't know if you've seen that picture. She's a very good looking woman. But this is the same thing they rolled out in Ukraine, right?

With with, well, we got me and J.B. got into this at Gart, right? Because he was talking about, well, yeah, if we overthrow a government that's favorable to Russia, then sure. Right. regime change is a good thing. Yeah, exactly. regime change is a good thing if you're overthrowing a government that is favorable to Russia and it's like no never like we have to have our sovereignty but to the point with with with Venezuela and the op that's being orchestrated on or being thrust on the American people right now and especially MAGA and it's died down a little bit is um you know that the Venezuela's rigging all the elections they rigged our election they've been rigging elections for years and years and years there's a former CIA spook that's going out there talking about this, a former DEA asset that is probably a spook as well that's going out there and saying this. And they linked up with a New York Times author to publish this book saying all

of this stuff that can be debunked with not all of it. I mean, there's a lot of stuff in that book that's true. But the narrative they're trying to put out, the assigning the, the, the responsibility for the operation to specifically Venezuelans and a handful of Venezuelans, ignoring the globalist control that Smartmatic has become, right? Smartmatic was bought out in 2014, essentially, was bought out by SGO Corp, which is Lord Malick Brown, Open Society, George Soros, Sir Nigel Knowles, another oligarch in London. You know, a bunch of oligarchs from London now own that business.

And that is when 2014 is when all of this began to take place. Sure, they might have been rigging elections in Venezuela before. for that i don't believe that necessarily but you know i i think elections across the entire globe are probably manipulated at some level because there's not enough interest not every country has had that glaring charismatic once in a lifetime once in a in a millennium figure like donald trump come out and then get beat by that bag of wet socks joe biden right the fucking retard that didn't know what he that's our boy blue he was the best fake president we've ever had they had to roll him out man yeah and and and so that is to me that is telling me that

we are very close to being over the target in in in terms of elections and and getting something done on this that the people that you know may or may not have well i don't think they were involved in it but they represent agencies that i do believe were involved in it and now all the sudden i mean i got a phone call from the author the author of that book called me to talk to me and did not know what the fuck he was talking about like I was I literally said you know like I think CIA has been rigging elections and he said yes you know we and then like five minutes later in the conversation I said well you know you acknowledge the CIA's been rigging I never said that ash was on the phone with me she heard it so it's it's really

fascinating to watch all of this play out and the desperation that they're getting and I think a lot of this does have to do with what president Trump did cutting off USAID and national endowment funding. I think that was a driving force with a lot of this. And even though the systems are still in place, they still require money and assets to be able to run. And Trump is doing a pretty damn good job at dismantling that system. So that's the actual side of the dismantling of the election fraud system

that I do agree and have faith that Donald Trump is going to do whatever is in his power to untangle that and disarm it. Now, is he going to do that before the 2026 midterms? I have my strong doubts. But I want to focus on the narrative of that. And again, this has been a theme specifically to my earlier question. There's framing we throw around a lot, con ink, whatever you want to call them. The concerning thing to somebody like me about the response to Chris Paul's rhetoric,

is that it is very hard to distinguish the response to that rhetoric from the very people in what we call Conn Inc. now who said all of this stuff in 2022. You know, I'm not going to name the names. You guys all know, they're all the usual suspects who have had all their millions of followers and never got banned from anything. And they all went all in on the DeSantis operation in 2022. they all said that Donald Trump was the reason that the Republican Party lost seats in those midterms. And all of them unified, all of those supposed MAGA voices unified in saying that Donald Trump had had announced his candidacy for 2024 too early. And my theory on that is that he rug pulled, speaking of interceptions, he rug pulled the DeSantis announcement, right? Because DeSantis was supposed to announce in January too early. and then if Trump announced after him, they were going to accuse Trump of doing what?

Disrupting unity. Yep. And what does everybody say Badlands does around here, Kankan? We're just those unity disruptors, right? So I wonder what you think of this, specifically in light of the election fraud narrative. We don't know whether or not these things are going to be fixed before the 2026 midterms. But in terms of the rhetoric in conning and in these supposed Trump favorable voices, it seems to me. me that there's a lot of people in that sphere. Alpha has become one of them, unfortunately. I know

everybody loves him. And I love Alpha, too. I just think he's being retarded right now. His rhetoric is indistinguishable from like Benny Johnson, completely indistinguishable. Because they're basically, the narrative right now is, if we do not win the midterms, we're doomed. And I would argue that you might just be defending a fraudulent election system by forwarding that stance but you've been in this longer you've dealt with those voices a lot longer than me i wonder how you see 2022 versus right now so to chris to the point you remember making about chris paul saying you know the voting thing and in that whole debate between alpha i was on that panel i was kind of the guy then middle shut up the whole time and was like i'm not getting involved

in this because i'm i can understand both points in that but to being tongue-in-cheek people about alpha Pat, I'm on the show. Oh, we love it. You know, to the point that Chris was making, and this is where John Drake came in pretty clutch in this and saying, you know, if you're voting, you're consenting to the system, right? And I understand that. And I agree with that. I think the system's there no matter what, whether you vote or not. But by voting, you are actually acknowledging it and saying, I want to take part in the system.

you are you know it doesn't matter if you vote or not you're still going to have to take part in the system if you live in these united states you're going to have to take part in the system but to what chris paul is saying is that by not voting you are essentially checking out of that system you are saying i am not going to or excuse me what john drake's point is you i'm not going to consent to this system when you when you see these people like you know the the influencers with millions of views that went all to santard earlier on um when you see those people saying hey This is dangerous rhetoric. Well, okay, so two things can be true here.

One, they can genuinely believe that elections really aren't rigged and that we need to, everybody needs to vote because we need the most number of people going to the polls on that day to get our Republican across the line. Maybe. Or they know that by not voting, you are checking out of that system. You are stepping out of that system. And they need you in that system. They need you to participate in that system. Now, I think my take on that is that you can participate in that system and still participate as a rebellion, right?

You can participate it as a rebuke of the system. That's what voting is fundamentally supposed to be. If you don't like something, you go to the ballot box and change it. And so I'm going to continue doing that. It's only going to take, you know, an hour out of my day on, you know, the first Tuesday in November after the first Monday. no problem but I can also I can totally get Chris Paul's point on that now in compare it like as far as 2026 goes every fucking election BB man we hear this is the most important election of our lifetime if we don't fix it here we're all going to fucking die and it's like you guys are so

retarded I now what I will say this one is slightly different because it is it is potentially our last election with Donald Trump involved in it I mean he's not on the ticket but he's involved in this and would I like to see President Trump get fighters in Congress especially in the primaries and that's the key right there is the primaries the establishment once we get to the general election that means fucking nothing that means absolutely nothing that means that just red blue by that point yeah exactly it's red blue and they're the same thing everybody's colorblind

in reality. They say red blue. BB's literally colored by. Remember that shit in Cocoa Beach? Did I? Nazi? Oh, yeah, yeah. You remember Jackie's phone?

You couldn't see like the phone? All you saw was a red. Allegedly, that could have been a sci-op. How am I supposed to know? That was not a sci-op, man. We filmed it. We filmed it from another phone. But anyways.

That's why I don't get caught into this election stuff like you people. It's all the color. The color coding doesn't work on me. Well, yeah. And the last thing I'll say, my point is that. that like the dooming out over what's going to happen in 2026. Guys, if we lose the house in 2026, it's not going to be any different than it was in 2018 when we lost the house in 2018 or when we didn't have the house in 2020.

It's it's all fucking stupid. What I am really excited about is when we do finally get these elections squared away and we actually get representation that represents us and not just the establishment, you know, status quo. Yeah, and I agree with that. And besides the, and that's why I try not to focus as much personally on, you know, when that's going to happen just because we can't control it, right? We don't know. So we can't control most of these things. But I really focus a lot. In addition to focusing on the narrative, I de facto focus on the storytellers. I focus on the people with big megaphones, not just politicians, but media members. And certainly media apparatus. And that's more what I'm signaling in 2026. I think it's part of what Chris Paul talks about as well when he's not talking about the election system specifically. It's like, I think it is concerning when your rhetoric, even if earnest, about vote, vote, vote, is potentially lending a lot of power to the narrative that these anti-Trump, fake MAGA voices are forwarding. You made a good point about the, I totally get what you're saying about participating like a conscientious objector, basically. I voted in 2024. I still believed

these things, but voted. I don't know about 2026. I've never liked midterm. I don't even like the idea of it. I hate the way the whole system works. I hate the primaries type of thing. Same type of thing with presidential elections, but I voted for Donald Trump and that was more symbolic for me. I didn't have any faith that my vote mattered in any meaningful way, especially in Massachusetts, but I still did it, would probably do so again in 2028. But more so, I think if you're looking for the threat of why is it threatening to go all in to the point you just made of like, we're going to, this is the most important election ever, this is the most important midterms ever. I think the more credence we as a Trump and MAGA

movement lends to that narrative, that I think is a color revolution. I think that is a is part of the color revolution. And people go, well, why? Why would like supporting voting for pro-Trump voices in the 2026 midterms be forwarding a color revolution against him? But what if they don't win? They are already starting. What if we are told in a fraudulent election system

that they don't win? I'll tell you what happens because they did it in 2022. All of these voices will say Donald Trump is the reason that we lost, the Republican Party is weaker now, the MAGA movement is weaker now, and the proof that the MAGA movement is weaker is the result of this unverifiable and largely fraudulent election system

that a lot of you are telling us to support and to stop undermining by voting really hard in it. Well, if we all vote really hard in it, and then we are told we lose, what I think you've lost a lot of ability and power to call a system fraudulent if you lose, right? It's sort of like, like you said about the Democrats, quote unquote, in 2020, that's the stance they were using.

It's like, hey, we won, so the elections are real, we lose, the elections are fake. That's how it goes. Well, you don't want to start playing that game if you're the people that called 2020 fake. And unfortunately, I think a lot of people are playing that game. So that's the concerning thing, regardless

of whether you think participation is right or wrong, it's concerning to me that a lot of these supposedly MAGA media figures and large influencers and everything, they're the ones banging the drum on voting really hard more than anybody else. And, you know, I guess the secondary, I'd want your response to that with the media figures in particular. And secondly, if Donald Trump is aware of all these things we're talking about, including the media figures that are undermining him using the election system, why do you think what do you think his plan is in terms of the narrative not in terms of the actuals of the election system but why doesn't he seem freaked out about that he does seem comfortable uh even though he probably knows these

people are trying to undermine him in the media that's a that's a great question and that is one of the things i mean you know obviously he's the the leader of this movement and you have to have you know what's the old expression about a duck you know like calm and you know uh peaceful on the surface but kicking like hell underneath. Oh yeah, yeah. And, and and that is that is actually going on right now. I mean, you saw cash Patel come out on today, actually, this morning and say, you know, we're looking at the, we're looking at the evidence. We got out of Fulton County and we're, there's going to be some arrest. Now, are we going to see arrest? Who knows? Who knows? Right. But the, the whole concept, you know, Bibi, this is something, another thing I talked about at

Gart. The, the whole concept of, and what you said, I don't particularly like, the midterms you said um i'm i'm with you on that and the reason for that is because even if the midterms themselves were legit like elections in general even if they were legit the idea that you're going to go and elect a man like president trump in 24 well first in 2016 but then again in 2024 because you fundamentally want to change a system and then you're going to you know that's that's that's what the consensus was i mean president Trump got the first Republican to win the popular vote in this last election since I think like maybe Bush's first term in 2000 or I think maybe then. So he goes off and pulls out. The mandate is crystal clear, right? And so now you give him he's got two years, right? He's got two years to go through and root out a bureaucracy that is so fucking deeply rooted in D.C. that you don't have.

even know how deeply how deep it goes right does it end at these these uh these these these institutions the dhs does it end at the fbi does it end at the the the cia does it end at the doj or how much deeper does it go beyond that how much i mean you just saw pam bondi left right and you saw pam bondi and i can't remember who the guy the j sixer that was a senior advisor to uh ed martin in the weaponization group he left as well and then you just saw um Lions, Todd Lyons, the DHS secretary, acting secretary, because we haven't had an actual secretary since 2017. Senate confirmed DHS secretary since 2017. You see those three leave.

And what did they all three tell us? We can do more in the private sector. And when you think about how deep this rot actually goes, the public-private partnerships that we formed with these bureaucrat—you know, bureaucracies where these bureaucratic institutions feed these NGOs they feed them oh you need a grant well sure we'll give you a grant here's two billion dollars oh by the way the president of your NGO is the former you know so-and-so that was in this administration that worked in this same exact establishment for 15 20 years they know how this works and they're able to effectuate whatever they want whatever policy they want they're able to do it through that NGO and you're you're

expecting and and this isn't exclusive to president trump but you're expecting somebody to come in in two years and fix that that is the fundamental problem in this country the problem is not we have enough we don't have enough republicans in the house no the problem is we have deep swamp deep state swamp motherfuckers that are in these bureaucracies for decades and we can't get rid of them and trump has gone on the war path trying to get rid of them for the last year and a half since he took office and and And you get just push back after pushback after pushback. It's absurd. It is a fundamentally broken system when because he wasn't able to accomplish this by himself in two years,

now all of a sudden you're going to re-elect or you're going to elect a complete. And this happens to every president. Yeah. They lose the house, right? They get the house in a mandate. They lose it in two years. And now it's somebody else that comes in there. And now all of a sudden, the system is just going to keep it protects itself.

And it's all through rigged elections, man. Man, very well said. And, yeah, as we as we get toward an ending here, I think that's a great, that, that sums up a lot of how I feel about midterms in general, right? There are, there are some people, Chris might be one of these who says, like, participation in any of these elections is a bit of a humiliation ritual. I'm not going to, I'm not going to argue with that. But I absolutely feel that participating in the midterms is a humiliation ritual.

And I agree exactly how you framed it. that is leaving aside the legitimacy of the elections themselves. Because the bottom line is, I didn't elect or throw my weight behind, none of us as sovereigns, through our power behind Donald Trump and our faith behind Donald Trump, because we really like Republicans in Congress, right? Like, to your point, to your exact point, we want him to fuck this. system up. We want him to drain the system. And if you were to pull, this is one speaking of polls, you mentioned earlier, if you were to honestly poll a bipartisan American audience, the one,

what is the one institution? Everyone can agree is corrupt to its core. United States Congress. United States Congress beats the IRS in American, uh, in lack of trust among the American people. There are three institutions in the American public and these numbers might fluctuate back and forth that have the least trust among the American public. The IRS, the media, the mainstream media, and Congress. And Congress is usually in last place. And to everything you just said there, to put a bow on it, did you, whoever you are out there, did you elect Donald Trump to rest. faith in Congress, to restore faith in Washington, D.C., to restore faith in the swamp? That's not what I want them there for. And that's why it's very, it actually kind of goes back full circle to our Iran discussion, where you and I both had a similar reaction at the beginning, while both trusting Donald Trump and believing his intentions are not to get us into a new forever war in the Middle East. I apply a lot of that framing to the U.S. election system in the midterms

and beyond and say, you know, I can understand why Trump is telling people to vote and like endorsing Lindsey Graham and playing this kind of game while also looking at his actual moves. And one of the kind of white pills on this whole discussion for me is given that Donald Trump is basically leading by executive order. And are you guys seeing a lot of headlines in the last year and a half that Donald Trump is working with Congress? No, very few. I mean, don't. we control Congress right now? I'm told that we control Congress. Why is it that Congress doesn't seem to be doing anything Donald Trump wants and that he has to lean on them every single month to do something that he wants? And that when they inevitably don't do the thing he wants in the way

he wants it, he signs an executive order to circumvent them, that the court system, by the way, the third branch that we're supposed to trust very much immediately tries to block. So of the three branches of government right now, which one of them seems to be representing the will of the American people, and which two seem to be diametrically opposed to that branch that we supposedly control right now? So that, I think it's great how you frame that. And it's a different way of attacking this election argument. I'm saying like, let's stop arguing about the election system for a second and just say, do you feel represent? by Congress or not. And maybe that's a bigger discussion that we need to have,

but that maybe we're not ready for it. And maybe to the comfy point and the duck underwater point you made, maybe that's part of why Donald Trump isn't actually that worried, because he seems to kind of be putting a framework together of leading the American people without really needing certain things to happen in these midterms. I you could be spot on with that and that would go that would go back to what he said where you know he said I only need you to vote from this one time I don't need you after that you know I and I don't know what that looks like I don't know you know what what sparks that like you know what kind of uprising what kind of chaos has to come about from that but but I mean I think you know ultimately realistically I think you know he's going to continue fighting through the executive orders and trying to get Congress to actually fucking do something

at the Save Act to your point you were making earlier. 83% approval, 86% approval, and they won't do shit about it. You know, but yeah, I think that's a spot on point, man. Like, Congress has been wildly ineffective.

The Swalwell files coming out right now is exposing that. It's showing us how, and the timing of this, if you were to believe that there is some sort of you know, operation that's been game planned out in advance. The timing of this would be perfect. Nancy Mace.

Now, I don't, you know, I don't, I'm not a fan of Nancy Mace at all. I think she's, I think she's pretty awful, actually. Not even dumb titties. I mean, she's good looking woman, but she, she introduced that resolution to expose Congress's, uh, misconduct, right? Sexual misconduct, put them in the public. And then a couple months later, or a month later, if not even a month later, we get the Swalwell coming out.

Gallego's going to go down, I think, too, next. Just keep your eyes on that. I think Gallego's next. Tony Gonzalez from Texas, where congressman from Texas resigns because he was sleeping with his staffer. Yeah. When you see all of this come out, and I was talking to one of those guys out in the water today

about the same exact thing, I really feel like the people that make it through the primary process through our fake elections and make their way into Congress, all of them are fucking owned. All of them have some sort of blackmail that can be dangled, you know, in front of them to make sure that they tow the line, to make sure they do the right thing, stand with the party, like that kind of bullshit. Oh, man, somebody needs to go back and read Washington's farewell address. Well, you know, it's amazing.

Myself, Ash, Ghost, Drake, Chris, in various ways. one of the things we've been talking about lately a lot is just that of saying like it is so strange that some of the most controversial takes that are advanced on badlands are directly in line with the most famous and lionized of our founding fathers right directly in line and what's more interesting is that when you go back and read whatever primary source documents you can find of that era letters arguments transcriptions of debates, they were not popular stances at that time because they were fighting the same, you know, besides the British Empire, they were fighting that same subversion from within.

You had cucks like Alexander Hamilton trying to systematize everything and largely succeeding, and you had other founders calling him an abject traitor to the vision of what they wanted for the American people. So, you know, I don't know if it's unfortunate or fortunate, but I'll choose to spin it in a positive light and say, you know, these arguments are nothing new, but I do think a concerning trend that I'm certainly trying to push back at. I think you are. And I think actually it's really good that you push back on that kind of stuff because you're somebody who's been talking about the election system for so long. You know, you're not, you're not just one of these like, blow it all up, blow the whole thing up. And I think it's good when somebody who's been

balls deep in the election system like you have been is saying like, we should still have the conversation about whether or not this whole system should be here and what we're trying to even do with this system, but that your primary focus is like, first of all, we need the system to work as it was intended in the first place, or rather, as we the American people would intend it. Whether or not it's working as intended is probably, you know, an argument for a different day. But you might think the system thinks it's been working just fine for them. Yeah. I think if we can fix the voting system, I think we have a possibility of of putting this country back on the right course.

And without it, though, I think, I think, and again, I don't want to doom out. I mean, I think we'll be okay. You know, you're, you're going to go about your normal daily life. Like nothing, you know, is, and that's the problem is it doesn't get uncomfortable enough, but they slowly, slowly, it's like the boiling frog, right? We're slowly a boiling frog at this point. As long as we stay comfortable, we keep our faces down at our iPhones and we start losing the interaction with, We have with one another on a personal and physical level and we don't know who our neighbors are.

You know, as long as we allow that water to keep boiling, eventually we'll just, we're just going to get burned in it. And I don't think it'll be during our lifetimes, but your son, you know, that's a possibility. Right. Which is why we've got to keep having these conversations and doing this shit. It's all for the best. All right, man. Great talk. Great to have you on the show.

I'm sure we'll do it again. What do you got coming up the next week? I'll be on Badlands daily Monday through Friday at 10 a.m. with a consortium of hosts. And let's see. That's about it. I did a I did a really good show if you guys want to check it out on Saturday morning at on my on my Rumble channel. President Trump signed the, um, uh, an executive order to promote research into psychedelics. And, uh, what he did with that with that executive order. By the way, Joe, Rogan being there was hilarious because Joe Rogan and him are supposed to be like hate each other and all that shit. It's so funny.

But what he did with that, if this Ibo gain, if we can get usage of that in the United States, that could be the biggest blow to big pharma that we'll see in our lifetimes. And that includes the most favored nation status that he just got through. It would, it would, people don't understand what Ibo Gain is and what some of these psychedelics are capable of doing. and you know this is why i'm cancone cannabis conservative because of alternative medicines and like this this is it could be absolutely fantastic and and trump i would highly encourage people to go back and watch that press conference especially towards the end uh there's a guy that starts talking and somebody in the audience you know a member of the media is like president trump asked do they work referring to ssr i's and antidepressants and she chimes in and this is

unheard of you don't do this in in oval office signings like this she chimes in from the peanut gallery and says no they don't work i'm on a couple and they don't work and president trump just kind of seemed like he was blown away by this and he's like wow i did not know that well then we need to do this we need to get into this i i'm so excited about that right there man that's uh i've been talking about this uh in my own life a lot lately because i uh i deal with uh debilitating nerve pain and um It got a lot better for a while. And I had a bunch of surgeries and then fucking got Lyme disease two years ago. And that just brought it out.

Well, I was diagnosed with Lyme disease two years ago. They think I've had it for quite a long time, which is why these things are probably related. Turns out nerve injuries, catastrophic nerve injuries mixed with Lyme disease are not a good combination. But for me, personally, cannabis does not help me. I've tried it many times. It, it, just the way it interacts with my brain, it actually makes me focus very heavily on my nerve dysfunction. But I have tried psilocybin and I have a much better reaction to that, ironically, where some people freak out on it, right?

But I'm really interested in this because I'm, you know, in a lot of pain lately and need to, I have done a good job in my life of staying very far away from opioids because there's history of my family and I was around too many fighters who got totally fucked on all that stuff. And I'm sure you, knowing all the veterans you know, have seen that story a million times. But yeah, you know, we're little microcosms of these things. But to not have to like skulk around in the shadows to try to find help would certainly be something. And yeah, I mean, that's really encouraging. Those, I'm glad you ended on that point because we talk about all these big picture things of like elections and wars. those little things.

But a lot of the most encouraging things to me are these orders and these things that are getting announced every day that could fundamentally alter our future in very bright ways that are going to have these lag effects. So yeah, that's a great one to end on. But I'm certainly personally interested in it too.

Yep. And if they're able to cripple Big Pharma, I mean, that is, that does a lot for the info world. It crushes the media. It's a huge deal. So I'm hoping he follows through with this. And yeah.

Good shit, man. Great to have you. I'm going to hang with the people for a little bit, but I'll see you on my. Hey, when are you doing Sword Punk on Book Club? I think the next book we're doing, I think is licensed to lie. And then we'll probably do it after that one. We're trying to make it to the midterms and stay on, you know, with election related and writing this thing.

Do something fun after the midterms. Yes, exactly. We want to have that a moment where we can actually be. Plus, I also want to read the book first. I haven't had a chance to read it because I'm on this book. So as soon as we get that done, we'll get I'm pretty sure I have a copy. Yeah, I have a copy. I have a copy. I have a copy. You gave me one. All right, brother. Appreciate it, man.

All right, dude. Good to see you. All right. Take care, guys. All right, guys. That was a fun one. That one sort of stayed on topic. and ended up closing some loops we opened at the beginning of the show. That worked out pretty well. It's almost like he's been doing this for a while with hosts of various persuasions. I was told that the fake Buffalo Sabres defeated the Boston Bruins in a comeback in what is now.

You know the rules. Once again, a fake sport. It was real before recording. It is now fake once more until Tuesday night or whenever the Bruins next play. The sport has a chance to be real again. I'll hang out with you guys for a little bit here and then get out of here. But before I transition into a little solo section here and get to your rants and boost, if you want to send anything over, go ahead and do so.

I'll get to it before I sign off. I do have another sponsor to thank, and that is by, once again, our friends at Rumble. And that is, let's see if I have it right here. Or I can, uh, I can hit your rants first. We have Tom Terrific, who sent 25 bucks over for the cause. Thank you, Tom, always supporting the show. We also have Gadget New. I pronounced it goo earlier, which is incorrect, but it's actually Gadget New.

Had sent that over using Rummel Wallet, so thank you for using that. We also had 15 Tonya Ba, or Tonya, Bay who also tipped via the Rumble Wallet. Well, that's pretty sweet. Thank you. And then Envo said, what happened to OPEC that used to be the boogeyman that altered the price at a sneeze and there's nowhere to be heard? That's actually a really great rant. That's actually a really great rant to lead us into some of what I want to talk about right on the back of that discussion. And Kankan actually teed us up for some of this as well. But before I get into a little bit of that I also want to do a little call to action first of all can you

guys please hit the thumbs up button I appreciate you doing so when you do so speaking of sword punk let me trundle over here oh no what a disaster this has become this last one minute okay I love that word trundle did you guys ever have trundle beds growing up is that a new England term my cousins had trundle beds. So when we slept over, they would have like a regular bed, but then a little bed would pull out under the bed, and it was called a trundle bed. They made for incredible wrestling opportunities, except if there was a wood frame on the real bed, you were liable to crack your head open on that wood frame if you were engaged in mortal combat. And my cousins and I did have mortal combat tournaments

where our parents thought we were just playing, but we literally fought each other like tooth and nail until submission. And some of those battles did wind up with hospital trips, including for me, unfortunately. My elder cousin of four years whipped me into a wood-framed bed and split my head open down to the bone. And I came back to the party after I got stitches. So yeah, trundle beds. Anyway, we should bring trundle beds back. They're pretty awesome. I want to bring up Sword Punk because there are right over in the corner there, I have eight copies of Sword Punk left from the limited edition leather bound print run of this book. The only way there will ever be another is if I write a sequel. If you guys want me to write a sequel, it was teed up for a

sequel. I will write a sequel and at that point in time, I would probably put these, I'd probably do a new print run of book one to give people an opportunity to get it again. The reason I have some extra copies is because they were people who pledged to donate to the campaign to produce these books and then withdrew those pledges, but I had already put the orders in. So I already, I already paid for these books to be produced, but then lost the money that was donated to produce the books. So if you are interested in getting a signed leatherbound edition of Sword Punk, which is all about crime syndicate being taken down by badass martial artists in a near future South Korea, then check out Sword Punk. Email real Mrs. Burning Bright at gmail.mail.

MRS Burning Bright at gmail.com. Tell her you're interested in a copy. You do have to pay for it. There's 75 bucks that includes shipping to the U.S. The reason they're so expensive is because they're leather bound, their quality with cream paper, and I already paid for the production and the packaging and all that kind of stuff. And the shipping, we do ourselves.

So if you're interested in that, reach out to her and she will tell you how to submit payment and we will get that shipped over to you as soon as possible. There was a bunch of people that reached out in the last couple of weeks around Gart, Nashville, and they have received their copies. So, yeah, just want to let people know about that. Also, another little public service announcement, Badlands Story Hour, the movie show, the movie framed show that I do on Tuesday nights with Chris Paul at 9 p.m. is moving. It is moving to Thursday night in the 1030 p.m. slot. And this is because G. Money is taken a step back, not from Badlands. He's still a bad lander.

I believe he's going to be in Deadwood at Gart, but from streaming as frequently as he's been streaming. And he's had that Thursday night slot lockdown for a while. So he just said, hey, if I'm not going to be doing this or I don't know how much I'm going to be streaming with Rugpole, give the spot to somebody else. So Chris and I have talked for years about that Tuesday night slot, not necessarily being the best slot for us for a couple reasons, in my opinion.

Number one, it's not the latest slot. Number two, I think Tuesday night, people in this audience are so geared up and in the info war. They're in the meat of the media cycle, right? It's a story cycle, the news cycle starts Mondays, Sunday night, really. It just rockets you through Wednesday. You get DPH Wednesday night. You get all these shows. You get DefCon.

You get baseless. And we were actually asking people. John was asking people if they wanted a new show. You still might get a new show. I don't know what the details are on that. But if they were to get a new show, what do they want the theme to be?

Do they want it to be political? Do they want it to be analytical? And I saw like 30, 40 responses out of our Gart chat and none of them were requesting a political show. All of them were like, hangout show, something casual, something chills, something cultural. So we thought, hey, we'll try it out on Thursday night, 10.30 p.m. Eastern.

I think that it'll be, give us a little more breathing room. And I'm interested if more people want to check the show out. Tattooed teacher is one of our OG's Story Hour, True Believers. If you guys have not tried Story Hour, give it a try. If you are into what I do on Sunday nights with the narrative and narrative warfare, all these things that some of us were talking about five years ago that have become ubiquitous in a good way in the truth community, just talking about narrative and who controls the story. Story hour, Chris and I use a movie, a specific movie, and as people who watch that show know,

we really use that as a jumping off point for discussions on how the story framing and plot structure is used in the current zeitgeist of the Info War and Psychological War. And we also use it to kind of play hindsight with how these structures work. And we just have some really big picture philosophical discussions that those movies often provoke. And sometimes when we do something like Armageddon last week, we just talk about how funny it is and how funny some of our reality-defining paradigms are. So check it out. The movie for this week. This week, we are moving to Thursday night. So this week, the movie is my selection, and that is Eastern Promises, starring Vigo Mortensen, directed by David Cronenberg. That movie

deals with trafficking. It deals with Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs and organized crime. It deals with intel elements and subversion, infiltration over invasion. It's also just a fantastic movie. And it's got some very heavy Russian thematic themes motifs throughout it. One of my favorite films, and it was directly requested by Mr. Risattire, who's been pestering me about it for months, and I kept forgetting about it. It is one of my favorite films. It is right over there on my shelf in that area. So check that out and join us on Thursday night, 4.4.

that one. Okay. Famous last words. This is going to be a short little solo section. I wanted to just follow up a little bit on the sovereign disentanglement discussion. By the way, I know a lot of these shows are topical. There's not a lot of time to rewatch things in the Info War. All of us have this issue. But if you guys want my framework for what is going on in Iran and we'll go on in Cuba and Taiwan and what has been going on in the Ukraine and what went on in Venezuela, etc. Check out last week's, two weeks ago episode of the narrative, episode 64, Sovereign Disentanglement. I did a solo episode for the first time. Really appreciate your feedback, a lot of great feedback to that.

People love the guests, but they also just like me being retarded at times. And I wanted to lay out a template of what I feel sovereign disentanglement is. That is a term I made up to encapsulate and define what I think. Trump is doing and why I do not think it's a deemers take to think that Trump is lying to us about what's going on in Iran. That's the template. I'm not going to go through that whole thing tonight, but I think I just want to show you a couple examples of how I think we can see this in the often. Offing throughout this stuff. We had a post yesterday, I believe it, no, today, earlier today, from Iran, from Donald Trump. Iran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the state of

Hormuz, a total violation of our ceasefire agreement. Many of them were aimed at a French ship. I'm not going to go through all of this thing. But there's a couple little tidbits, and you guys are as crazy as me. So, you know, let's read too much into things. That's sort of what we do. Iran recently announced they were closing the straight, which is strange because our blockade had already closed it. They're helping us without knowing, and they are the ones that lose with the closed passage, $500 million a day. The United States loses nothing. In fact, many ships are heading right now to the U.S. complements of the IRGC, always wanting to be the tough guy. We're offering a very fair and reasonable deal. So, and then he says here at the end, they'll come

down fast, oil prices, power plants, bridges, et cetera. They'll come down easy. If they don't take the deal, it'll be my honor to do what has to be done. So that's one little calm there. Another one, he's talking about the firing incident, the Gulf of Tonkin. We're getting a new Gulf of Tonkin here. I had predicted that the Gulf of Tonkin rerun was going to be in the Taiwan Strait. I still think it might be, but we got a little mini Gulf of Tonkin here. It did not involve a U.S. ship.

I think the U.S. Gulf of Tonkin rerun is going to be Taiwan Strait. But we got a preview of that in the Strait of Hormuz. look at what Trump says here. He says, the Tio Yuska, the Toska, is under U.S. Treasury sanctions because of their prior history of illegal activity. We have full custody of the ship and are seeing what's on board. Kind of interesting. Today, an Iranian-flagged cargo ship named Tewska, and then he says, Tusca is under U.S. Treasury sanctions because of prior history of illegal activity. Could this just be an Iranian tanker? Sure. Sure. Anything's possible.

Could it also be a little hint as to what Donald Trump was talking about in Venezuela when we're seizing Venezuelan flagged tankers? Were those really Venezuelan tankers? Or were they OPEC tankers? Were they globalist tankers? I mean, I think that's part of what's going on here. My foundational theory here is that Donald Trump is affecting a pincer with the so-called Iranian regime against the globalist deep state. And what's so interesting to me is that Friday's de-escalation was all about the Iran situation. and one of the things I've been saying in the Iran War series I've been writing on my substack is that all of Trump's attempts to de-escalate are immediately met with a fresh escalation

escalate to de-escalate. That's been a pattern here. But one of the things I've been pointing out is pay attention to who is reporting on the escalations, not the de-escalations, right? Pay attention to this going forward. I think there's a pattern here. You can see kind of the disentanglement that's going on. Donald Trump, most of his proactive narrative deployments regarding Iran are de-escalatory, right? Most of the time that Trump wakes up and just blast a true social post out that is not in response to something, a proactive narrative setting post is usually de-escalatory with Iran. He's usually saying, the war's over, it's going well, we're in negotiation.

things are going great. Then it's usually globalist or mainstream media that reports on fresh escalations in response to Trump's de-escalation, right? Trump de-escalates on Friday, says everything's cool. The media reports that the Iranians disagree. And then the media reports and the French report and the British report that they're being fired on by the IRGC. And then Trump responds to that, right? It's this ratcheting up. But I think you can read between the beats a little bit here and look at Trump's rhetoric saying, you know, I've said the war is over a million times, 37 times, and they keep just escalating it.

And the easy framing of that is that the Iranian regime is escalating things. That's not how I read it. I think we're watching sovereign disentanglement. I think Donald Trump is actually freeing Iran from the clutches not necessarily of the Iranian. regime, but of the globalist oligarchy, the globalist NATO system. A couple of these headlines, I don't think were there as of my last show, or maybe they were, and I don't remember, but sovereign disentanglement operation, let's look at how the media is retroactively reporting on Venezuela. Venezuela seems to be going well, question mark,

sort of like some of us predicted. The administration's plan is working, but democracy remains elusive. This is out of the Atlantic. I've been telling you guys for several years, the Atlantic is one of those key narrative setters within the media protectorate. And they actually made news today Sunday, April 19th. I'm sure many of you saw this with the Cash Patel secret special report about how he's a drunk Indian whatever.

Is that true? probably not but that's what they do they set narratives so they're setting this narrative they're codifying venezuel's going well but democracy remains elusive that goes in line with a lot of what kank con and i discussed tonight democracy is one of those flag trigger words that is uh usually the opposite of what they say it is the other headline in in light of this from cnn Iran's new regime looks much the same, only harsher. Interesting. Could it be that the globalist media is seeing that Donald Trump's Venezuela model

worked really well for Donald Trump and for the American people in Venezuela, and that he is doing that in Iran, and that the regime change that Trump did in Venezuela, and that he is doing in Iran might not be real regime change? and the media is picking up on that? And is there another place where I said this template had been set? And now everything is being normalized there and relations are being normalized. But we were told there was a very serious and scary regime change.

What country would that be? Would that be Syria? Where the last U.S. convoy is exiting after a brutal 14-year regime change proxy war? where in Bashir al-Assad was chased out of there by a brave new regime and given asylum in Russia, in Moscow. And then I said this would happen in Venezuela, and then I said it would happen in Iran and then in Cuba. Interesting. So the macro framing of what I think is going on here and that Iran is a microcosm of, is we are in a multi-polar war on the rise of the new axis and the fall of our so-called allies.

That was a subhead I put out before Christmas in 2025. Do you guys think things are going well from the perspective of Donald Trump's rhetoric for our so-called allies? Are things going well for the French and the British and the Europeans? How about our Asian allies? For all the squeeze and energy squeeze, I'm hearing that China is under, right now. Do you know how things are going for Japan or South Korea or Indonesia in light of the energy squeeze? Do you know how dependent they are on the Strait of Hormuz, on this globalist chokehold? We are not dependent on that as the United States. China is not dependent on it either.

I believe less than 20% of China's energy comes through the Strait of Hormuz. That's sizable, but it's not crippling to them. Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia are much more heavily squeezed. Australia is much more heavily squeezed. So where do these people turn to? They turn to the United States. They turn to Russia. The United States and Russia are the two prime beneficiaries of the disentanglement that's happening in Iran.

This is part of the multipolar war. framework I laid out last year. People kept asking me, like, you know, what do you think the sovereign alliance is doing? Obviously, I've been writing about the sovereign alliance and the concept for years that was inspired by the QDrops. Well, I think that they are waging a multipolar war against the globalist hegemon. And I think they are using a core mechanism that I wrote on January 11th called Sovereign Dissentanglement on Maduro and the Mad Kings of Multipolaria. So go revisit these pieces, a multipolar war and sovereign disentanglement. These are macro pieces about the macro framework.

What is the war? What is the nature of the war that is playing out? The real war, not the fake one that everyone's reacting to all the time. Second, what is the mechanism by which that war is being waged by the sovereign alliance? I would say it's using sovereign disentanglement. And you guys, if you watch the Blitz on Saturday, by the way, Ghost and I recorded the Blitz on the Badlands Subsdack. Badlands.substack.com. Let me just bring that up to share. Ghost, Ash, and I work really hard on this Monday through Friday. We do the Badlands brief five days a week, which is supposed to be like a war room for the Badlands audience.

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This is my favorite headline selfishly that I have seen in ages that ghost flagged to me that we talked about on that Blitz episode. From RT, the Iranian knot needs to be untangled, not cut. this was from Sergei Lavrov Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov Man are there some signals here and our chat you decide narrative chat you decide

because I it would not be humble of me nor would I ever presume to take credit for a hat tip or a boop but you guys decide is this a sovereign alliance boop to yours truly let me lay out the case put a one in the chat if it's a boop and put a two if you don't think it was a boop so sergey laura the iranian knot needs to be untangled not cut puts this out april 15th well january 11th on maduro and the mad kings of multiple polaria sovereign disentanglement and that's not all folks on

On the subject of sovereign disentanglement, I said the following in this article. This article was prompted by the Venezuela operation. But what did I say in this one? By the way, you don't have to be a genius to know this. I just take Donald Trump at his word when it comes to the fifth-gen info war, not when it comes to voting in fake elections. But I digress. I said, speaking of templates, the info war is picking up on one to have

been set for Iran as well. January 11th, 1st Venezuela, next, Iran. And my commentary. Another hotbed of regime ops that is currently in the midst of its own color revolution. Many even in this otherwise discerning audience have fallen for. I got to take my shots, guys, because I take a lot of them. So I got it spank you a little bit, right? Mrs. Wright might enjoy that.

You don't enjoy it as much. You're not supposed to. It's weird if you do. So sometimes I got to spank the class. thank you in front of the class. Then I said, so is Trump going to spirit away Khomeini only to leave the rest of his ruling party in control while rug pulling the global regime's planned version of the change event? And is he going to grant Khomeini the same sort of photo ops as Maduro? That's a secondary point. Hasn't really come true. But that's pretty good, right? And then what did I follow this one up

with? On March 20th, to my knowledge, I am the only person. person in the context of the Info War with any degree of readership or following that has used this terminology. You guys know I have been calling Iran and Israel Donald Trump's Kobayashi Maru since 2023, since right after October 7th. Now, I know that Elon Musk stole that framing and some of these other people, Michael Evry of Rabobank, stole that framing and lots, that's what people do with us. They steal our stuff and remonitize it. But I specifically referred to the Iran situation as the Iranian knot. And that was a reference to the Gordian knot. How many of you are aware of the Gordian knot? How many of you know what the Gordian knot is all

about? Hmm? Alexander the Great, we heard about him? Well, let's give you a little refresher. The Gordian knot is a legendary, impossibly intricate knot. from the Fregean tradition that Alexander the Great untied in 333 BC by slicing it with his sword. The act represents a bold, unconventional solution to a seemingly impossible problem. Today, the phrase symbolizes cutting through complexity with direct decisive action. The Gordian knot is an impossible. intricate knot. The reason I framed the Iranian situation this way is because I directly referenced to the Gordian knot. And I said that according to the central narrative,

Iran and Israel is a Gordian knot. It is an impossible to untangle situation. And the only person who can untangle it is Donald Trump, because he's Captain James T. Kirk. That's the Kobayashi-Maru scenario. I've been laying out for months. The Iranian knot was a reference to the Gordian knot. And my premise here was that Donald Trump was not going to cut the knot because cutting the Iranian knot would result in catastrophic damages that we are seeing little ripples of, little kind of echoes of what could have been

if it was cut. But it's being disentangled instead using this sovereign disentanglement playbook that you should read up on or watch that show I did on it if you prefer video version of this. So Sergei Lavrov says the Iranian knot needs to be untangled, not cut. And he's referencing Israel. Israel's erroneous belief that it can destroy Iran should not be supported by the U.S. the Russian foreign minister has said. Quote, Israel appears totally convinced that Iran must be destroyed.

I cannot understand how such a belief is possible. So obviously there's still some K-Fabe going on here between the Russians and Donald Trump. But basically, I think that Sergei Lavrov, who is basically the mouthpiece of the sovereign alliance, I saw some people in chat saying that, did he, Spotsil? Is that true? Spotzel says when Lavrov was talking about Russia-China U.S. alliance leading to world peace, I replied with your first sovereign alliance peace. He liked the post. Damn. Well, if that's true, that's cool. But anyway, they won't say that terminology yet. But it's coming. You know it's coming, right? They are using the multipolar war framework quite a bit.

But that was, I don't know, guys. I actually don't say everything. a hat tip despite my tongue-in-cheek nature, but it is hard to look at that one and think it's not a little bit of a tip, just the tip. And how is this not being untangled? Dissentangled. The sovereign disentanglement playbook is not just about the US. We need other nations to be involved in it, which might tell you why the invisible enemy that Donald Trump has been talking about, is trying to foment discord between the sovereign alliance nations. China rejects baseless smear its sending weapons to Iran after Trump warns of big problems. We had another attempt to escalate between sovereign bros.

State Department says Cuba is linked to thousands of fighters supporting Russia in Ukraine war. Interesting. Proxy v. proxy. But then Trump comes out here. rugs the anti-sovereign alliance rhetoric a little bit. Trump says China is very happy with the Strait of Hormuz move and claims cooperation on Iran. Cooperation. Interesting.

Is this sovereign alliance members backstopping each other and helping each other survive the disentangling of the Iranian knot? Do we have any other signals that that's going on? Russia vows to fill China's energy resource gap amid Hormuz crisis in Lavrov-Ghi. meeting speaking of Lavrov. So keep in mind what's going on here. The disentanglement of the Iranian knot, which is crushing the globalist hegemon and NATO countries, the EU and Asia outside of China. They are getting crushed by the disentangling of the Iranian knot. The Sovereign alliance

pillars are helping each other backstop their energy reserves and transition to survive the fallout of the Iranian disentanglement. That's my framing. It shouldn't shock anybody that Russia is helping China. But what might shock a few who have still not seen the light of the sovereign alliance, the U.S. Treasury extends Russian crude waiver amid supply disruption. It's kind of a boring headline, right? Ah, energy shit, sanctions, supply chain mumbo-jumbo. This is a continuance of the United States Treasury's freezing of sanctions, meaning unfreezing of these tariffs on seaborne Russian energy. Where is this Russian energy that is now unsanctioned by the United States during the Iran crisis? Where is it going? To China. So to put that together, the globalist hegemony,

is being crushed by the fallout of the Iranian knot from an energy perspective, right? They are sending all of their tankers and menagerie of tankers and embarrassment of tankers to us, to the U.S., to buy our energy. And the ones who can't do that or who won't buy our energy, but mostly they can't because of these sanctions, Russia and China are helping each other with the fallout of the Iranian knot and who is allowing them to help each other, the United States, by unsanctioning their energy. So for everybody telling you that Donald Trump is putting the squeeze on China, Donald Trump is literally unsanctioning the Russian oil that the Russians are now selling to China, to alleviate

the energy pressure on China and the financial pressure on Russia, while all of the financial and energy pressure on NATO and on the Paper Tiger is coming to the U.S. We are alleviating the pressure on them, not because we're helping them, but because it's boosting us. So this is all in line with a series of writings that I did some time ago. And one of the macro themes, I wrote an article in July, Axis and Allies flirting with war on the path to peace, but this is all about the inversion of the Axis and Allies paradigm that we have been programmed with in the Western mind heading back to the aftermath of World War II. There is an inversion going on in this piece.

Speaking of predictions, and yeah, I took a bunch of victory laps. Spotsul clarified it was Camille Demetriyev, not Lavrov, still cool, but I do want my Lavrov shutout, although we can count that as a soft show, a half chub, like just the tip, bit of a half chub shoutout by Lavrov with the disentangled and Iranian knot little markers there. So in the Axis and Allies piece, I talked about the inversion of the Axis and Allies paradigm, a slow inversion, and I specifically said that the media, the globalist media, was going to start framing, quote, a new axis, which was going to include, Who was it going to include, guys?

Who was it going to include? I have to find the actual passage because unfortunately I write a lot of things. Observe how the new axis represented by Russia and China are making the inroads with Iran. So I said the new axis was going to be Russia, China, and Iran. And a few months after this, the globalist media referred to these people as the axis of upheaval. This is one of the NGOs that said that. A new crank. Axis of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

I also mentioned North Korea in that piece, by the way. This stuff isn't hard to see coming. So it's just interesting. Back to the sovereign disentanglement playbook, what does Donald Trump need to disentangle this operation, to disentangle the globalist hegemon? He needs villains. He needs adversaries. He needs people to posture against. He needs nations to posture against.

He needs the mandate to remove U.S. interests from these regions. How does he get that mandate given the immediate short-term? disruptions to Americans that such a disentanglement operation begets. He needs villains. He needs to be responding to an axis. Who is that axis? Iran, Russia, and China. He is helping all of them while the public narrative is that he is warring with them by proxy, which I also said in my latest article before my latest one. This is the arc of the peacemakers bending toward convergence once again. The invisible enemy's entanglement strategy is being turned against it.

The villains we need are doing their part. The collective mind is registering the contrast very slowly and then all at once. The EU and NATO alliances that once presumed themselves the unchained architects of a unipolar forever empire are in free fall, while the U.S. can play this game all day. What I also say in here is that Russia and China can as well. and they are signaling to you the U.S. that this has a good ending. Europe is drafting a post-war plan to free up Hormuz without the U.S. So they're already scrambling, while Trump is talking about no more Mr. Nice Guy,

escalate to de-escalate, right? But what's really going on here to me is the construction of a new multipolar world, a new multipolar world order based on first principles and a concept I call sovereign radiation. I know I name a lot of things. I do that because they're complex topics I'm trying to distill. So this is my latest article. You guys should head over to burningbrite.substack.com. It's called of breakers and builders from sovereign disentanglement to multipolar reconstruction.

We've got the boys here with their golden age crew. I believe we are watching a controlled demolition of the system of systems. Many of us talk about this on the U.S. front, right? Election systems, Congress, congressional authority, presidential authority, the NGO infrastructure, intel agencies, the administrative state, right? That's going on in the U.S. The U.S. is a micro. On the macro, I believe this is going on using sovereign disentanglement, and it's leading to multipolar reconstruction. I don't have time tonight, but in this piece I also go through a lot of hints that are being dropped that I think we're going to enter a new post-war economy.

A post-war economy without the real war that tends to proceed such a post-war economy. The Pentagon approaches automakers, manufacturers to boost weapons productions. That may seem, again, like another one of these random headlines, but I think it's signal as to what's really going on here. Let me just respond here on the back end. We're going to get out of here in a minute. This may seem like another random headline about carmakers and the manufacturers. What this is indicative of to me is sovereign disentanglement.

and a post-war boom, like post-World War II boom, but that was coming off the back of a World War. I think the war is a translation layer. I think the war is a means to an end, a narrative means to an end. And that what's really going on here is the reconstruction era. Reconstruction on the back of a controlled demolition that I call sovereign disentanglement,

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And I'm going to outro with the intro. And I will see you guys next week. Remember, the war is a story, the story is a war, act accordingly. We were sleeping. I've been sleeping. I've been turning away from the truth I wanted not to face. There is a wound that won't hear at the center of the galaxy. There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything we need us.

We let it grow. Now it's here. How many men have you killed, no? No? 50? 100? Countless. Countless has a nice return. How many lives have you saved? Half a million. Tell me if you're precious, Randy,

I've commanded you to kill your own thought. And stand by thousands of men, I thought you've done it. Our time has come. We grew stronger, and rested in your cruelt. cradle of power. You were trusted to lead the republic, but you were deceived. You assumed no force could challenge you. And now, I finally have returned. The visions are clear now. I see possible futures. All at once, enemies are all around, and in so many futures they prevail. But I do see a way.

There is a narrow way through. It's not a prophecy. It's a story that you keep telling, but it's not their story. It's yours. They deserve to be led by one of their own. All is heartbreaking. We gave them something to hope for. That's not hope!

We have survived by hiding from them, by running for them. But they are the gatekeepers. They are guarding all the doors. They are holding all the keys, which means that sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them. I wish none of this had happened. So do all live to see such time. But that doesn't come for that.

All we will have... Forgive me. They'll say that it affects you all. I know what strength. I wish you good fortune in the wars to come. Now it begins. No. Now it ends.