Badlands Media - The Narrative Ep. 80: The Strait Truth

Episode Date: August 31, 2026

A rare solo outing. Burning Bright kicks off Episode 80 by taking full credit for its title, one of the cleverest plays on words you have probably heard in the last few minutes, if not your entire life. No guest was lost. He simply wanted to get the ideas out of his head before they pile up like bad cache in a CPU. Only his second solo stream ever, this one doubles as practice and as a table setter. Starting into September he plans to alternate solo weeks with guest weeks, pending audience reaction. The substance is a State of the War address. Expect a run through his eight pieces of the Iran War thesis, the Strait of Hormuz as "Schrodinger's Strait," global energy and the oil cartel angle, and how the same template maps onto the Taiwan situation so you can keep a level head when the narrative arrives. Pure pattern recognition, delivered with his usual dry confidence.

The Badlands, one of the Badlands, explain those Badlands. That's a hell of their name. What's up, guys? Welcome to The Narrative. This is episode 80, The Straight Truth, which is one of the cleverest plays-on words. You've probably heard in the last few minutes, if not your entire lives. I came up with it myself. It's entirely possible dozens, maybe even hundreds of dozens of people.

have already said it in the context of the Info War, but tonight it is the title of this episode. It's going to be a bit of a different one tonight. I'm doing a solo show. I didn't lose a guest or anything. I just wanted to do a solo show. Really, this is so I can get things out of my head and subject you all to those things. because the way my mind works is once they're out of my head and I have burdened other people with my ideas good, bad, or everything in between, I no longer have to think about those specific ideas.

But when I do not get those ideas out, they basically pile up like bad cash in a CPU. And I can't have that. Nobody can have that. So that's what we're doing tonight. please let me know and be honest about it where my audio is at. I probably can't do anything about it, but I'm just curious.

I tried to up the gain a little bit, do a few things. I have a feeling that the reason I've had audio problems recently is because of my specific setup as it relates to Rumble constantly changing and Streamyard constantly changing. But anyway, let me know. So tonight, the straight truth. I think this is only the second solo episode I have done. Thank you guys for saying the sound is good. Okay, so this is only the second episode, solo episode I've done on the narrative.

I believe that means it's the only the second solo stream I have ever done. The reason I want to do the solo stream tonight is because a few different reasons before we get into it. Number one, I want to just practice, to be totally honest. It's funny, I've been on shows now for four years on Badlands and 99.99% of them are always with a co-host, which is great. I consider myself a conversationalist, which shouldn't shock any of you who've been watching me for a while. But I think most of the rest of the Badlands hosts have really mastered the art of going solo too. And I think there's different thought patterns, right? Like the conversations create a feedback loop that I really like.

We always end up going in directions that I don't expect and that my co-host doesn't expect, which is why I like having those conversations, because, If I'm doing every show solo, there's podcasters who obviously do that, they're never going to get live feedback. It doesn't even have to be pushback. It can just be live ideation. And ideation is the term that has been sticking in my head lately. I've been doing a lot of thinking of what I want to do on my substack, of what I want to do on my show, on the narrative. I'm still going to be doing guests on the narrative, but for a little while, starting tonight, basically moving into September, I'm going to be.

alternating. I'm going to do one week solo, one week with a guest, unless you guys just hate the solo show. So let me know in the form of likes or lack thereofs whether or not you like this episode. The only other solo stream I've done on the narrative was, I believe it was called sovereign disentanglement. I did that a few months ago. That was all about my basically running through the thesis I had in January of the macro geopolitical theme that would come to define 2026. I am biased heavily, but I think that that has been the best table setter that I have laid in my four, five years kind of working in this space. There's been predictions that we get right, predictions we get wrong, but I really try to map macro patterns, macro pattern recognition, the sovereign disentanglement template that I laid out back in January, I think has continued to map onto the battle space. So I did a whole episode kind of laying that out, going into detail of what that theory is. Tonight, I'm not going to do that.

I'm going to experiment with something different. Part of this is going to show you guys a little bit of how I think, which might not be good. But, you know, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. And John Drake says, basically, B.B. is jealous of no treason. I guess that's true. I guess that is true. So, again, I'm going to go on some rants.

I'm going to cover one giant topic tonight that has to do with the title of this episode, but I'm going to do it in a format that I really only reserved for my notes, which I call a cascade. So I try to think in cascades. Another way I've described this in the past is that I think in threads, sort of like a thread ripper on a CPU. I try to run multiple threads simultaneously at different speeds. Whether or not that makes sense, that's kind of what I do.

And rather than, you know, you guys are familiar with the ghost mind map, which he usually uses on his solo shows, that's how he organizes his thoughts. That isn't how my thought path works, my pathing, my mapping. My mapping is basically a cascade. So if you picture sort of a game of solitaire and you've got different topics and sub-topics, and then you picture the cards are basically concepts, related concepts piled atop each other. I think in cascades. So I sort of see or think I see patterns. Maybe we're just schizophrenic and that's what's going on. I see patterns and then I group those patterns in my head together in sort of vertical cascades. And then what I do is I take each cascade and I try to arrange those cascades into a horizontal cascade. Saying all of

this out loud sounds absolutely crazy and way crazier than I thought it was going to sound. I should have a cute little map like Ghost has to explain his schizophrenia. But that's what we're doing tonight. I'm going to take you guys through basically a cascade I've been working on and thinking about and puzzling over based on some somewhat recent headlines, a lot of very recent headlines. And as we go through this, keep in mind the theme of this show, the narrative, obviously. When I'm showing the headlines tonight, I'm not really that concerned about the headlines. There might be a few that I'm like, hey, look at this specific outlet saying this specific thing. The reason I show these headlines is because I'm looking for narrative deployments out of the enemy apparatus.

Most of these headlines are just examples of a deployment that you could have seen worded in a hundred different ways that day, that week, that month. they're more indicative of little touch points in my head and that I think can take us along this path that I want to take us down and see if it works. See if it works out loud. And I mentioned a word ideation a few minutes ago. You know, we have the age of AI that is dawning. We're all thinking about it a lot,

people that are in content creation, people that speak partially for a living, write for a living. Obviously think about it. I use AI to research. I consider it a range finder, a range extender. and it's getting more and more powerful. But while I do think my own writing,

people that have been writing for a long time like me, people that have subscribed to my sub-sac for a long time, know that I have a strange writing style, a unique writing style, I think that will stand the test of time. I'm not worried about AI replacing writing like mine for those who appreciate it. But what I have come to learn over time

from you guys in the chat, from you guys in comments sections, from you guys in person at guard events, is that surprisingly to me, which may surprise some of you, a lot of people, not just for me, but also for the other Badlanders, really like live ideation. They like the, it's not, and I don't, I used to think it was just, you guys like live podcasts, you like live, you like hearing a person, you like seeing a person that you identify with in some way. Maybe you know me, maybe you've met me, maybe you've just been watching for a few years. And it hits you in a different way than maybe

an essay I write and spend two weeks writing hits you. But I've really been thinking about that lately, and I think one of the keys to it is ideation, the ability to create ideas in real time. And the reason I want to lay that out is because that's what I'm doing tonight. I'm not trying to give a presentation. I'm not trying to, the sovereign disentanglement theory was a presentation. Here's what this theory is. I organize that, et cetera. This new format that I'm going to experiment with tonight is basically, here's a certain thing.

how I try to figure stuff out. Some people in the chat are saying it's a live dig. I guess it's my version of digging. I don't really dig into documents as you guys know, but these cascades I arrange of headlines and narrative deployments and then I group the headlines together and then I try to look for patterns and timelines, etc. map them onto different story templates and use those to project things. And that's what we're going to try to do tonight. So let me know whether or not you like it. As we get toward the end, the good thing about a solo show too is if you guys want to I'm not going to be able to keep as close an eye on the chat because I'll distract myself please obviously hang out in there if you guys do want to send a

rumble rant over I'll obviously get to boost at the end of the show I saw one of those coming already on a solo show like this I think I can spend more time on the rants like you know if you have a specific question whether it's something you want to talk about I can't promise to spend a whole lot of time on it but if it's something I'm talking about during the show tonight and you have a question about it or anything like that, if I see it come across the feed and it's relevant to what I'm talking about right then, I will, I will ideate in real time, you know, with you, go back and forth with you if you want to. Otherwise, you can just send some support over or send a comment or a question in that I'll get to at the end of the show if it's not specifically relevant to what I'm talking about. So before we get into it, I'm going to kind of give you guys an overall lay of the land of what I'm trying to communicate tonight. And then we'll just going to get into it. I'll see how far I go. I want to keep it to two hours or less.

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What am I doing tonight? What is the straight truth? Tonight, this cascade is going to take you from the straight of Hormuz. We're going to do sort of a state of the union on where are my theories at? Where's the narrative at? Where's the narrative at? Where's my narrative at? Are they in parallel?

Are they contradicting each other, et cetera? with regards to the fake Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz, things I said months ago, things I'm thinking recently, what has changed, what has not changed. I want to go from Iran to Venezuela. We're going to go from Venezuela to the cartels, which may not be related. We're going to go from the cartels to the banking system. We're going to go from the banking system to Canada. and that is where we're going to round things into a perfect symmetrical cascade that is extremely satisfying. Or I will butcher it the entire way through. Forget all the things I was going to say.

I have no notes. I have no notes. All of the notes are in here. They are all out of order. I am just going to try to think about this stuff in real time. I've obviously spent a long time thinking about this stuff. So I'm just going to try to arrange it in a way that is basically how I arrange this stuff when I'm thinking about these things and see if you guys like it. Let me know if you like the screen sharing and all that too, just for the visual representations or if you don't like that.

But it's just going to help me kind of keep myself anchored to where I am at and where we are going. So let's see where the cascade starts. I'm going to reference my own writing. I'm going to reference the central narrative. we're going to kind of look at the back and forth between those two things. Obviously, I'm not the only person who has said some of these things, but this is sort of the grand unified vision I have right now, August 30th, 2026, especially in the realm of geopolitics and some of the stuff I think Trump is doing.

Starting with many of you who are subscribed to my substack or have just heard me bring this up on the shows over the last few months, will be familiar with the Iran War series, which I did not know I was going to write on the Burning Bright substack, but I started with this one. I ended up writing eight parts to this series. I could have written many more. I even wrote some addendums to it that are basically part of this series, but I ended up writing eight, what I categorized as eight pieces to the Iran War.

Often what I do in my writing is I'll write a feature that is not titled as part of a series. Later on, I'll end up writing maybe five or six of these over the course of a few months. I'll retroactively go back and order these things into a series just so that it's easier to share for people. So the Iran War, in the first article about the Iran War that I wrote, March 6th, 2026, this was about a week after the situation kicked off. The headline was Donald Trump on the path of the torpedo, the subhead, which is more important, in a world of shadows and stories, when is a war, not a war. Now, obviously, this is not anything new to this audience, this kind of concept. Fake wars, real wars, fake, you know, sciops, etc. We all understand this stuff. This is shorthand.

Many of you probably saw that I was on a YouTube channel. The YouTube channel John was on a couple weeks ago. Rich does politics. I was on there last week on a couple of episodes. I was actually scheduled to talk specifically about the Sovereign Alliance, which we did end up doing an episode on that. But in an offhand comment backstage before we did an interview about the Sovereign Alliance, one of us mentioned something about the Iran War, me or Rich. And I said, oh yeah, the fake war, as an offhand remark as if I was talking to one of you guys at a Gart. And it seemed to take him completely aback. And this is like a truth or YouTube channel.

Very polite, very respectful guy. It was a fun conversation. So he said, I think we need to pivot and we need to do an episode about what you are talking about when you call this thing fake. Now, obviously, the patron saint of calling things fake, or at least not assuming they're real at Badlands Media, is Chris Paul. He's been highly influential on my thinking on these things as well. That's why I like a lot of the synergy at Badlands. And him and I share sort of an approach to narrative. And he wrote an article a few months ago called Chicken Egg Chicken on his substack.

That was his version, his way of expressing this idea. But something that you guys have heard both him and I say for years going back on multiple shows, especially Story Hour, where we analyze story structure and we just use specific movies as an excuse to do that. We have both said narrative often, narrative does not usually follow actually. narrative usually or just as often precedes actual. In other words, human beings think there is a, there is a, there's an event, whether that event was good guys, bad guys, or random, and then stories are told about that event. And sure, that happens, right? There's an event that happens. Stories are then told about that event. But often, what Chris and I say is, stories are usually

told leading into an event, which then cultivates the reaction to that event. That is the Hagellian dialectic. Most people in the truth community talk about the Hagellian dialectic, if they understand what that is, in a broad cascade, a broad sort of sequence problem reaction solution. Usually, that's correct, but usually they're talking about that as actual. there is a problem that occurs, the machine engineers a reaction to that problem, or the machine engineered the problem in the first place, and then they try to implement or get the public mandate for the conclusion to that problem, the solution to that problem rather. This is thesis, antithesis, synthesis is the actual sort of logical framework, but it's easier to say problem reaction solution. I actually think people should get more comfortable with thesis, antithesis, synthesis, because it's actually more accurate to describe what this is, especially through narrative.

So what's the difference? Well, as Chris often points out, it's not just important to consider whether or not something might be fake when people are telling you it's real. It's the most important thing to do, in my opinion, and I believe in his opinion. Why? Because you don't even have to go through the Hegelian dialectic and try to figure out which parts of the actual event are engineered and which parts are organic. If you can discern some level of engineering leading into the actual event, which is why we always talk about narratives preceding actuals. I saw people saying seeding the narrative, Goose in the chat, preceding S-E-E-D,

is absolutely something they do. They precede the narrative. But we are talking about preceding. P-R-E-C-E-D-I-N-G, proceeding before. And this is what Chris was getting to in his article, Chicken Egg Chicken. The good thing about that is that if we're right, and if they precede the narrative, if narrative precedes actual, both forms of the, that word, then it stands to reason that if we see these things coming in advance, we can not only

protect ourselves psychologically and sort of shell up and become immune to the Psiops that we would have fallen into if we buy into these things the way the Hagellian engineers designed them, because these things are designed. These Psiops and sciacs are designed, obviously. None of you would be here if you didn't believe that on some level, even if we may disagree over the nuance. of one event or another, one story or another. But the other encouraging thing is that it stands to reason, if we call attention to narratives that are preceding would-be actuals in advance, we can literally undo the enemy's predictive programming.

We can literally, in my opinion, and Chris talks about this, we can literally stop the Hegelian dialectic from being actualized. And to get away from the Higelian dialectic, when I named the first series in the Iran War this, this was a few days in. My standard operating procedure is not to assume that the news I am being told, even by Donald Trump, is real, is actual. The reason I don't assume that, I think even if it is proven to be real in the event of the Iran War, by real or fake, I'm not saying nothing has happened by real. I'm not saying everything has happened, right?

I'm saying, broadly speaking, are the kinetic events, are the actual events I'm being told about occurring halfway around the world, actually occurring at all, occurring in part, or occurring, not at all, not occurring. If you just stop to ask that question, you have already basically taken a psychological vacuum,

vaccine against the first step of the Hegelian dialectic, the first weakness that makes the Hegelian dialectic work, which is an emotional response. The reason the Hegelian dialectic always starts with a problem, whether that problem is a kinetic event or the fear of a kinetic event to come, they start with fear because it's a powerful emotion. Although truthers spend a lot of time on fear, which they should, it's not the only one, they can also make you angry. For example, I am not defending violent migrants in Sayuda, Spain, or however you pronounce that, or Belfast, Northern Ireland, or anywhere in Europe, or anywhere here. But I am pointing out that when the mainstream media, when the alt media,

when all the biggest influencers, many of whom this audience doesn't trust, all get on the same talking point about the migrants, the migrants, the migrants, the migrants. They're going to kill you, they're going to rape your daughters, etc. Maybe that's true. It's something we need to guard against. I certainly believe in Trump's border policies. I am a sovereign nationalist. But that's a pattern.

At the very least, that is a pattern. And what is that pattern attempting to get you to do? react emotionally. What is the emotion that all the Sayyuda influencing is trying to program? A little bit of fear, but I would say the biggest one is anger. They want you angry. Now maybe it's justified anger. Maybe that's good anger that we should have. But we're also not there. We don't know what's going on. I'm not calling the migrant invasion fake. I am saying when you find all these different media apparatus, when you find the central narrative coalescing

around one dramatic, emotional narrative, you need to be careful because if a Hegelian dialectic is in the offing, they want you angry for a reason. That reason might be that they actually force or engineer a migrant invasion on the local populace and you say, okay, well, now the two parts of the Higali dialectic are being translated accurately. What's the problem, B.B? Why would I not be angry about the migrant invasion? Because what if the machine realizes they have lost the narrative.

They have lost the narrative on porous open borders. They've lost the narrative on the melting pot subversion, not just of the U.S. but of the Western world. They've totally lost that narrative. So what does a machine want? What does the machine want when it loses control of a narrative, when it loses control of reality? It wants chaos. The machine wants chaos. And how could you get chaos out of engineering an emotional response to a violent migrant invasion in advance. Well, when that invasion happens, you're ready to fight. You should fight with these types of things, right?

I believe, though, that some of the final fail safes that the machine has at its disposal can only be triggered if the machine engineers a violent response on the back of an emotional response, in order to engineer chaos. So they could provoke a justified reaction. This is something like self-defense. You know, obviously everybody knows I used to fight.

But we got it very drilled into our heads from my trainer of not to do that because it doesn't matter how tough you are, how good a fire you are. If somebody hits you in the back of a head with a bottle or if you get jumped by three guys instead of one-on-one, which usually happens in street fights, it doesn't really matter how good your roundhouse kick is. But one of the other things they used to tell us is if you hurt somebody, even in self-defense, whether or not they bring up lethal weapon crap, which is varies by state and is very rarely literal in the way that movies have told us, oh, I'm a lethal weapon, so I'm going to get charged with whatever. What they will do is they'll throw the book at somebody

who has a particular set of skills because that person should exercise. more restraint. They should have more control. So all I'm saying, and I'm not saying that that's right, but I think we should apply that to the Info War, we should apply that to the media. You, knowing that Sciop's are running every which way, they're being launched every which way, just like fake missiles all over the world, and real ones, probably, you should have the control not to get angry or upset or fearful over the narratives you're seeing play up. Back to the Iran War, That was my modus operandi. That is my modus operandi. That's how I responded initially to the Iran War by saying this might be fake. If it's fake, if the story is communicating something that is not representative of corporeal physical reality, why would Donald Trump not just be participating in this narrative, but essentially leading it? The reason I call this one the path of the torpedo, is because my initial theory at that time was that Trump was attempting to do many things at once,

which is what this cascade tonight is about. Chief among them, though, is I think he was trying to stop a real war, or a series of real wars, by provoking a fake one. Chris talks about this in similar framing. John Harold talks about this in framing, in the devolution framing, that Donald kicked off the devolution operation partly, in part, to avoid a civil war. He basically abdicated the public throne, the public presidency, to avoid a civil war. He told a story, or allowed a story to be told about a stolen election and a Biden regime. He allowed that to do its work. But why didn't he intervene sooner?

One of the operating theories, and certainly one of John's, is that they knew Trump and whoever's behind him knew the consequences of stopping this stuff at the time we all wanted it stopped could have resulted in a net damages, a civil war, etc., you name it. So is Donald Trump in 26 from Iran, from Venezuela to Iran to Cuba to Ukraine to Taiwan, etc, etc., etc. Is he attempting to disarm a series of powder kegs by telling the stories about those wars before the enemy gets to live them out or act them out?

Chris often talks about this in terms of basically taking the enemy's plot lines, running them in whole or in part, narrative versions of these things, which robs them of a lot of their reality. Many of you will recall back in January when I wrote the Sovereign Disentanglement article, I said in real time while that event was going on, the Venezuela op, that I believed Donald Trump was executing a fake regime change operation to stop a real one, which would have been piloted

or manifested through Maria Carina Machado. I said that before it became very obvious that that's what was going on. Not because I'm a genius, but because I applied this template to it. In that sovereign disentanglement article, I said, I think Iran is going to be next, as in, I think Iran is going, we are going to be told a story about a fake regime change in Iran in order to stop or head off a globalist version of the same thing. And now I did not expect the Iran War narrative to play out as long as it has,

as dramatically as it has. So there's tons of wiggle room in these things. Tons of wiggle room in the templates. And these are just about mapping the macro. So that's just to lead us off. In March, when people like myself and Chris said, I think this might be kind of a little bit fake, guys. We got obviously the mainstream or people who hate us anyway

would say, well, that's insane to even suggest that this could be fake. But even large segments of the truth community and the Maga Corps came after us for saying, first of all, not everything's fake. You can't just say everything's fake. But the bigger point is they thought this was somehow an affront to Donald Trump. They think us saying this might be fake, this might be a fake war, is us taking something away from Donald Trump. When I believe it's adding to his legacy. Remember, I wrote the master series on my substack, which is not about how great a president Trump is, nor general, nor commander in chief. It is how great a narrative war master Donald Trump is. And I mean that literally. I have always meant it literally. I didn't know

how literal it was going to become when I wrote that. But I said in that series, I believe Donald Trump is so powerful a narrative setter or a narrative disarmor, he can start and stop real wars and fake wars through the power of story alone, through narrative alone. I think that's exactly what he's doing with Iran. And one of my ways of determining without proof whether or not I end up being right about the Iran war situation is all about projected end states. That's what I call it. The broad projected end state for me in Venezuela was, if my fake regime change swap out theory was right, we would broadly speaking see the Maduro regime remain intact

and the Maria Karina Machado regime soundly rejected by Donald Trump. That is exactly what played out there. And there's still people huffing hopium, or really I think it's their blackmail. but they don't realize they're black pilling by saying that we swapped out the Maduro regime and the majority regime is no more despite the fact that his vice president

and loyalist who still says she's loyal to Nicholas Maduro is running Venezuela which we'll get to in a little bit more detail in a little bit. My end state in Iran is that despite how crazy things looked in February, March, April, May, June, July, and now

I said, I think Donald Trump is going to make a deal with Iran, with whichever Iranian regime we're told controls Iran, and that said regime would resemble the one we are told we are at war with. I did invoke Khomeini's name in that. It may or may not be him. But that's just a big table center. I said the war was fake. I said Trump was waging a fake war in order. to stop a real one. Now, this isn't proof that I'm right, but it is notable. I always say, I map retreat along previously held narrative ground, which is to say previously held mass psychological ground. The central narrative is designed to influence and control mass psychology. That's what it's for. Look at what

the central narrative is saying just five days ago, the central narrative, the Atlantic, and you guys can find plenty of other articles to this effect. One of the prime signal setters in the mainstream media who was freaking out, just like a lot of MAGA people were, back in February, March, April, about Trump waging this war in the Middle East, is now asking the questions that we were asking the first week of the war. Ghost and I did a show about this. Remember how we kept calling the Ayatollah fake and gay in keeping with the meme? And then Donald Trump started calling him gay and the media just kind of had to get on board with it. And then they started calling him fake. You don't think this is them calling him fake? You think,

A globalist paper of record doesn't know if Mojdeba Kamene is dead? You think they don't know whether or not he's dead? I think what this is is retreat. They have lost the narrative of the secret underground gay Ayatollah waging a war against Donald Trump because Donald Trump made that idea cartoonishly absurd, partly by making the Ayatollah gay in the central narrative, and partly, and through coordinated leaks in the media, through the military industrial complex, and partly by dragging the conflict on, meaning the narrative, on as long as it has, as long as he has. So the Atlantic, is Mojtaba Kamene dead?

the office of Iran's supreme leader has fallen quiet, fueling uncertainty in a country with decisions to make. Look at this subhead. The office of Iran's supreme leader has fallen quiet, fueling uncertainty in a country with decisions to make. That might not sound like much to you guys. Does this sound like an American paper putting a subhead on?

Or does this sound like an intelligence agency looking for information and trying to compel action. Because I think it's the latter. In a country with decisions to make, they seem to want Iran to make decisions that are not in line with the decisions they've been making that are coming out of the faking gay Ayatollah this whole time. Don't have to go through all of that. So I would say just broadly speaking, that is one tally in the column of the war might not be as real as some people think it is. Because some of us called the faking gay Ayatollah faking gay in February back when that was considered absurd to say.

And now we have headlines in the Atlantic speculating as to whether or not the gay Ayatollah is fake. Remember the New York Times article that I was writing about in April, May, where they openly said that if the Ayatollah comes back, he will not look or sound the way he used to? I mean, that doesn't sound like an enemy in control to me. Let's move on to more of the logistics angle. The major narrative and actual to come out of the Iran War narrative, the Iran War situation, has been global energy, right? Global energy, even in Normieville, from gas prices to geopolitical sort of systems, dynamics, frameworks. It's the macro theme, energy, namely, coming out of the Strait of Hormuz, or affected through second-order

effects by the Strait of Hormuz. People that have been engaging with this narrative, as if there is a very real war and as if every single narrative coming out of it and coming out of Donald Trump's true social feed is true in real time, have found themselves in a psychotically retarded position of late. This is where the terminology of Schrodinger's Strait has come from. Schrodinger's war, Schrodinger's Strait. The first time I saw it, that said was Tom Luongo, but I don't know if that's where it came from. A lot of people have said it. But either way, it's a great framework. So we've got Schrodinger's Strait, Schrodinger's War, Donald Trump alternatively saying the straight is open and closed back and forth, right?

Well, this past week, we've now got the mainstream media who has been saying the Iran War, I mean, the Strait of Hormuz is closed and has been closed the whole time. Now they're doing a little bit of this. U.S. conducting stealth operation to transport oil through Hormuz. Okay. Not a huge deal, right? What's the date on that? August 19th.

This is Barack Ravid, by the way. Ghost brings him up a lot. He's basically considered in the Western media the man on the inside when it comes to Israel, for better or worse. So you can basically take his deployments to the bank. They usually end up proving, proving themselves factually correct down the line, which is to say nothing of his intentions. Let's move on to this one. This was published four days later.

Iran is losing its grip on Hormuz. Straight traffic explodes nearly 400%. Right? So straight of Hormuz is closed. It's not going to return to normal for months and months and months, if not years. Well, I mean, besides the stealth operations that have been conducted in the straight the whole time. Oh, and, you know, besides the 400% explosion in tanker traffic that we forgot to tell you guys about. Other than that, it's completely closed.

Oh, and besides the fact that there's no mines in the strait, they've been cleared. well they were never there but you know if you guys if it hurts your feelings that oh there were what there were minds there and the straight was actually very real closed very certainly closed then sure we didn't hear anything about this the iranians didn't say anything about this none of the yosintekan said anything about this none of the intelligence network said anything about this um we heard no kinetic escalations this entire time who cleared the mines guys who cleared the mines that some scuba divers went out there and cleared hundreds and thousands of mines, hundreds or thousands of minds from the Strait of Hormuz,

which is under, in a state of war. They just cleared them all, huh? Iran can't put any more in there. So this is what I call along Overton's goalpost. This is narrative retreat. This is all sides that help set and codify the central narrative, coalescing. around the general idea that, well, when we said the straight was totally closed, like, we meant it was, but we are finding out through different channels that, I mean, it's been a little

bit open the whole time. It's been, I mean, it's been pretty open. I mean, thousands, hundreds, thousands of ships have been getting through the entire time. Or rather, they could have been getting through the entire time. They could have been getting through, bringing me to this header. This is from, what is that, Friday. Trump, that sucker is open. U.S. gains the upper hand in the battle for Homoos. Again, Barack Ravid. And again, published by Axios, I use these publications, not because I like them, I use them because I am looking at what I consider to be propagandist outlets, enemy intelligence, centralized intelligence. That's what the central narrative is.

Central intelligence is telling you, the U.S. has gained the upper hand. They are quoting Donald Trump who is saying, that sucker is open. There's only one problem with this headline in this retreat. Trump has been saying that since March. Donald Trump has been saying, the Strait of Hormuz is open, and the minds have been cleared since March. And this is where people are coping when they want to believe that this is real.

It is silly. It is silly. You're reading truth social posts from the president, and you're reading centralized intelligence networks that are publicly opposed to that president say stuff in headlines to formulate. your opinion of whether or not something is or is not happening in the world. Which doesn't mean we can't orient ourselves by using the narratives and specifically, in this case, the narrative retreats. Trump has been saying, the Strait of Hormuz is open the entire time. Ships can get through. There's nothing stopping the oil.

The Strait is open. It has been declared open. And then the media has declared that it has been closed. Actually, it's closed. Oh, okay. One of the two is lying, right? Can we at least, we can get to that, right? Can we meet whether you're a real person or a fake person on the Iran narrative?

Could we meet in the middle and say, the straight can't be open and closed? Schrodinger's straight is a construct. It's a paradox. It's either open or it's closed, or it's some degree of the two, right? But that's not what either side has been saying for six months. One side has been saying it's open, one side has been saying it's not. Now the media is saying, I mean it is now, but it might not be in the future.

That's narrative retreat. important to Mark. The reason I think that's important gets us into a topic I'll transition into in a minute or two about who this war is really against, among many. But before there, let's take a pit stop at another piece of this cascade. I'm going to throw you for a little bit of a loop. Iran's Galabath declares this weekend. Persian Gulf oil flows for all or none. Quote, security of the strait depends on the absence of U.S. forces. We have said many times that the situation in the strait will not return to what it was before the war. Situation in the strait will not return to what it was before the war. Okay. My theory,

leading into 2026 was named sovereign disentanglement. I said in part two of the Iran War series, which is called the Iranian knot, which was inspired by the Gordian knot, the legend of the Gordian knot, March 20th, on the true Kobayashi-Maru and Donald Trump's Info War posture. It's part three, actually, not part two.

the Iranian knot. In this article, I said the Iran War cannot be cut. The not, the Iranian knot cannot be cut. It has to be disentangled. Let's see if I can pull this up in real time. This is the problem with me doing these kinds. These kinds of streams.

I said, you can't cut. the Iranian nut. You have to untangle it. Right? A few months later, a few weeks later, we had one of my favorites, Sergei Lavrov, say the Iranian nut needs to be untangled, not cut. So I wrote an article a few weeks before that, calling it the Iranian knot and saying, the only way to solve this problem is through what I call sovereign disentanglement. We must disentangle the Iranian knot. Sergei Lavrov seems to agree with that.

What is this leading us to? What am I getting to? What is the projected end state? That now the media is starting to frame. Keep in mind, Galabath out of Iran, we are told, said, the situation in the straight will not return to what it was before the war. One of the faults among many in the Maga Corps, in my view, on the situation, has been not understanding the intent, the projected end state of Donald Trump himself. I still believe Donald Trump when he said he wants to disentangle us, and remove us from foreign affairs unless we're absolutely necessary.

Donald Trump wants to remove us from the Middle East. We've talked on Badlands for a long time. You guys remember John talking about this, Kyle talking about this. We've talked about the Kabul withdrawal and how it looks to on paper have consummated the Doha agreement, the terms of the Doha agreement. We're largely consummated, despite Joe Biden being president, despite the Marines, we are told being killed the day after the then director of the CIA visited with the Afghan army, who were the bad guys the whole time. The same Tory gate that the Taliban were helping to defend, by the way, and that many of them were blown up in that attack as well, we are told. The same

Taliban who took the weapons and munitions, we are told, were left behind by American forces to hunt down, ISIS, which was founded and funded in part by Western intelligence and or presidents that you guys know very well. That was all part and parcel to the Doha agreement, which you would think if we ran away from Kabul with our tails tucked between our legs, the Taliban would not consummate the conditions of a deal they had struck with Donald Trump when he was no longer president. And yet they did. So that's relevant to this. Why? Because I believe Donald Trump is disentangling us from the Middle East. He is cultivating the collective mandate to remove us, to remove foreign interests, U.S. interests, from these lands. Which is why I believe Donald Trump would agree that the situation in the Strait of Hormuz cannot and will not return to what it was before the war started. What will the situation look like after? Well, go back to the Atlantic.

Iran unleashed. The dominant power in the Middle East from now on will not be the U.S. or Israel, but Iran. You guys have been listening to Ghost Spurge out and us Spurge out about regions of responsibility? How can you have a multipolar world if there's only one, two, or even three powers in that world? You can't. It might work for a little while. You have a macro mesh. The U.S., Russia, and China can, on a macro level, create a new framework and a new paradigm, and that's what the entire backing of the Sovereign Alliance, that's the foundation of Sovereign Alliance theory. It's not just that I think they're aligned. It's not just that I think only them are aligned. It's that they are the biggest power projectors on the game board. So you can't have a multipolar world. You can't have a new sovereign world. Without those three poles, all three of those polls, on board with it. And for people that think, oh, the U.S. can control everything. Obviously, it can't.

Or else we would have had world peace with the U.S. in charge, right? But we don't, because that's a silly thing to think. With no basis in reality. You need regions of responsibility. Need mutually enforcing polls, acting in accordance with their national self-interest, while playing by a sovereign rulebook that is not a rulebook. It's simply about honesty, morality, honor culture, and mutual gain and competition.

So we're not going to go into a whole sovereign alliance thing tonight. But I'm going to read actually a little bit of this one, Iran Unleashed. Think of this as a projected end state. Keep in mind, guys, that this is the corporate media saying this would be bad. Okay? This is where reverse indicators come in. It's pretty cartoonish and simple. It's a little black and white.

But if the globalist media is saying something is good, we usually don't want that thing, right? If they're saying it's bad, we usually do want that thing. Or at least we should consider whether or not we do. So in the column of bad, the media is saying Iran could be unlawful. unleashed, they could be a new power in the Middle East. Israel won't be in control of them. The U.S. won't be in control of them. Nobody will be. They'll be sovereign. There's a word for that. Sovereign. They will be sovereign.

Why did I name sovereign disentanglement, sovereign disentanglement? Because the theory lays out the idea that from Venezuela to Iran to Cuba to Taiwan to Cuba to Taiwan, to Ukraine to on and on and on. The global proxy war states or nations that are fake nations, Donald Trump is going in and executing a series of fake or real, if you want to think it's real, regime change optics and ops operations, in order to disarm the predicates, the stories for the wars the enemy had planned or had already engaged in in these regions. If Donald Trump removes the United States from Iran, from the straight, and declares victory, and if Iran declares victory and saves face, what happens?

Iran's standing on the world stage increases. It doesn't decrease. And what's the step after that in sovereign disentanglement? Reconciliation. Reconstruction. Do you guys think Donald Trump doesn't know where this is going when he's already drawing up the contracts for the reconstruction and reconciliation with the regime he's in a war with right now? That doesn't make any sense. But let's hear a little bit, put your inversion goggles on and listen to this.

For years, Iran confronted a balance of power in the Middle East that tilted against it. the region was dominated by a hostile American superpower, a nuclear armed and militarily superior Israel, and significant local actors, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE that were strategically and economically aligned with the U.S. Today finds Iran in entirely new circumstances. It has gone head to head with the superpower and Israel, which stood up pounding from their most advanced weapons and more than survived. As a result, Iran has, with American help, completely reconfigured the power structure in the Middle East, and the Persian Gulf. Listen to that again.

As a result, Iran has, with American help, completely reconfigured the power structure of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. The dominant power in the region going forward will be Iran, not the U.S. or Israel. Neighboring countries are already making their adjustments to this new reality. More distant powers will too. They're talking about Russia and China. For years, the world has been dealing with an Iran consistent. strained. It will now discover what Iran unleashed looks like. Iran doesn't need a deal with the

United States. The common assumption that a weak and impoverished Iran would eventually have to make some accommodation to American power, open the strait, and set about tending to its badly damaged economy has proven mistaken. The Islamic Republic has rarely appeared weaker or more vulnerable than it has over the past few years. Last February, President Trump renewed his maximum pressure campaign of international sanctions, which severely damaged Iran's already weak economy and cut billions in state revenues. Israel and the U.S. then launched a 12-day war to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities. Remember, Midnight Hammer, the plot of Top Gun Maverick, as Chris Paul often says. The war's significant, literally, by the way, guys, if you're new to that theory,

it's literally the plot of Top Gun Maverick is how we are told we stopped the magical bomb-making factory of the Iranian regime. The war significantly damaged Iran's program and revoked. revealed just how vulnerable the country was, Israeli and American strikes. Then the U.S. and Israel launched the most recent war with the killing of the regime's supreme leader and the great majority of its senior officials, followed by more than five weeks of unremitting attacks on Iranian military capabilities. Yet through all of this, the regime has survived and made no concessions. So you don't have to buy into every little piece of that. That's certainly not what I'm trying to drive at. What I'm driving at is a general

recognition that if the sovereign disentanglement template holds and if Donald Trump's publicly stated intentions for the U.S. role on the world stage hold, he wants American boots on the ground removed. He wants boots off the ground. He wants military interests removed from the Middle East, as he's been saying for 10 plus years, for those of you have been following him that long. you either believe he wants those things or you don't. So when the media is talking about the way things are going, Iran might be unleashed, Iran might become a power in the region, and the U.S. will be nowhere to be seen.

And I would submit to you all, if you ignore the threat of the very scary and very real Iranian nuclear program that has been obliterated, as Donald Trump tells us on true social, which is how you know it's true because it's on true social and Donald Trump said it. Does that look like it's in keeping with Trump's promises of removing us from the Middle East and of setting up the Middle East as a region of responsibility with interlocking and competing and cooperating superpowers?

Because it kind of looks that way to me. A couple little tidbits along these lines. This is more ghost territory, but I'm going to do a whole show about this, either on my substack or here in the next few weeks. The U.S. removed Syria from list of state sponsors of terrorism. Kind of a big deal, huh? Hey, wait a second. Isn't that that al-Qaeda guy?

Ahmad al-Shara. I remember when he was, Jolani. So, did we have another thing? coup another regime change op Syria I'm being tongue in cheek this is this is a signal to read sovereign disentanglement guys or watch the show about it that I did a few months ago Syria actually set the template for sovereign disentanglement even though Venezuela was the most dramatic narrative the reason Syria set the template there or rather the reason the Syria setting of the template is less

obvious, in my view, is because the U.S. was not Player A in that up. Donald Trump is codifying the end state of the Syrian sovereign disentanglement playbook, in my view, by signing these deals with a quote-unquote terror regime. Who was Player A in that deal? Russia. Russia removed their military forces. They granted Bashir al-Assad asylum, which he still enjoys to this day in Moscow, or parts unknown. in Russia.

They let Jolani walk in the door. As the Russians moved out of the region, U.S. SentCom struck. Who did they strike? ISIS. So whatever the central narrative told you, the end state of Syria to present day looks a lot like the end state of Afghanistan. The U.S. withdraws, or a sovereign alliance player withdraws,

The U.S. withdraws, in retreat, they withdraw, tail-tuck between their legs. And then the Taliban consummate the terms of the Doha agreement. Weird. Bashir al-Assad flees Syria and the Russians with him so as not to get involved with Jolani al-Shara. What happens in the months in the two years since? Well, Jolani breaks from previous programming, recognizes gay pride in Syria. which was a pretty funny troll he did in the early days of this. And now is signing defense deals with the Russians who are harboring the previous regime.

They're signing defense deals with the Russians. And now they're signing economic agreements with the United States that are going to come on the back of Donald Trump removing them from the state sponsor of Terrorless. This was on August 25th, Donald Trump re-posted, a Mario Nothel Twitter article, X article, America is about to make a fortune in the Middle East and the Gulf. And the general framework of this article

was all about Syria and another nation. Both Syria and Iraq are examples of nations that underwent regime transformations and are now building strong relationships with the U.S., which is on the verge of one of the largest commercial windfalls in the region in decades. So Afghanistan, we withdraw, and now ISIS gets wiped out. Syria, we withdraw, the Russians withdraw, rather.

ISIS gets wiped out. The U.S. comes back in, Russia comes back in. Venezuela, the regime gets swapped out. The new regime gets put in, which is the same as the old regime. and then we get to our next topic in a minute of what's going on in Venezuela and on and on and on it goes. Iran, the United States will leave Iran

in a manner of speaking. The conflict we will be told is over and then, crazy as it is to think right now, we will sign a series of deals with Iran, which I don't think will be about energy. I think they will be about, partly about energy, partly about nuclear energy as well. I think they will be non-aggression agreements, non-proliferation agreements, which is not shocking. Most people would think that would happen. But I think there will be economic reconstruction

agreements with Iran, with multi, multi-tens and hundreds of billions of dollars. contracts going to U.S. private companies, brokered by the Trump administration, gladly accepted by the new so-called Iranian regime, just like in Syria, just like in Iraq, just like in Afghanistan, just like in Venezuela. Fake regime changes to get real change, all of which is part and parcel to the sovereign disentanglement playbook. I believe Trump executed a faith in a faith in the state. regime change op in order to intercept the real one globalists had been planning for a decade and attempting in various stages that is what I said in January of 2026 about Venezuela I then said speaking of templates first Venezuela next Iran another hotbed of

regime offs that's currently in the midst of its own color revolution many even in this otherwise discerning audience have fallen for Is Trump going to spirit away Kamani 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 then, you know, I dropped Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba in here in January. Columbia, we got a bit of it. That was more political. Cuba?

We'll see. Mexico. That one would be dramatic. We'll see. which brings us to the big news heading into the weekend. How Trump took control of Venezuela's Democratic transition. You guys remember the line, smooth transition to a second Trump administration.

Are we witnessing a smooth transition to a second Maduro administration? Are we witnessing a smooth transition to a second Assad administration? a smooth transition to a second Taliban administration a smooth transition to a second Iranian regime that kind of looks like the old one just without the fake and gay Ayatollah but all the same players regardless Envo sent a rant over 20 bucks when is the point to accelerate the narrative to regain the support of the exhausted base

to secure the midterms even though they are fake you all talked lots on it lately I'm not talking of the timeline yet. I do not believe this is about the midterms. I don't, I'm not saying the midterms don't matter, but I do not believe any of this is about the midterms. Your point though, your question, if I can get through this, I don't know, we'll see guys, we'll see how this goes. Can you believe I often don't think I'll be able to go for two hours? If I'm solo, especially. I don't know how my voice is going to recover. I am going to get to that point. the midterms do play into a little bit of what's going on,

but I don't think it's what Trump has going on. I think it's what the media machine has going on. So let's get more into this Venezuela thing, current news. Donald Trump, Friday night, the U.S. has just entered into an agreement with the country of Venezuela on the biggest oil deal in world history. At my direction, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Pete Higsep, Interim president of Venezuela, Delci Rodriguez, and through a partnership with private business,

have secured majority U.S. control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in Venezuela at no cost to the American taxpayer. 65 billion barrels, not dollars, barrels. That's a lot. This historic transaction more than doubles American oil reserves greatly increases our oil. supply and will substantially lower gas prices for all Americans long into the future. While helping to continue to set Venezuela on a course toward tremendous success and great prosperity, this transaction will greatly strengthen the already growing relationship between Venezuela and the U.S.

Okay. That doesn't sound crazy to you guys, right? Just let it sink in for a minute. But I would like to take you back to January of 2026. in the dead of winter when Operation Absolute Resolve and discombobulators and seals with laser guns on their heads

were storming the beaches of Caracas with invisibility cloaks on and spiriting away Maduro who was meaming this weekend. I don't know if you guys saw that. Ghost was all over it. It'll probably be in tomorrow's Badlands Brief. He's meming from prison.

As you do in a very serious coup, right? regime change up. The great growing relationship with Venezuela strengthened the already growing relationship between Venezuela and the United States. When we called, when some of us called the Venezuelan regime change operation fake in January, and people freaked out, if we were to show you the August 2026 headlines about Donald Trump signing the biggest energy deal

in world history with Nicholas Maduro's administration, who, by the way, are defending Nicholas Maduro in U.S. court, meaning introducing evidence alongside Nicholas Maduro, as Ghosts projected, two or three years in advance, one of his best calls. Will that ever be codified in the central narrative? I don't know, but this is one of those choice to know things. Let's move on to where this takes us. Whoops. It's a strange look. Venezuela weighs OPEC exit as

U.S. discusses oil fields stake. OPEC. You guys remember another country that left OPEC recently? That would be the Arabs. The United Arab Emirates. Emerites.

UAE. They left OPEC. What does OPEC do? It doesn't set the price. of oil, it sets a floor for the price of oil that the Gulf states mutually agree to hold. It sets a floor. Speculation, efficiency, market deals, geopolitics determine the ceiling for these different nations. They've got their own partnerships worked out. Some of them deal with Russia. Some of them deal with the U.S., etc., right? But OPEC means they're all a global oil cartel. This isn't new.

This isn't something we figured out. This has been known by liberals, actually, for a long, long time. But by Americans, by everyone in the world who took an interest in geopolitics. All the Middle Eastern Forever wars are about this, to some degree. Certainly not all of it. So Venezuela might depart OPEC. Now, they're not a big player in a lot of. OPEC, even though they're a big oil player. But I think this is more about the direction rather

than the impact of this specific move. Once a few players remove themselves from OPEC, the ability to set a floor goes away, or at least is threatened. But that's not actually the biggest move to me. More so than the ability to set the floor being threatened, the reason to agree to set a floor goes away. In other words, if the Arabs and the Venezuelans start playing a free market game with their oil reserves, I believe they are going to kick off a game theory price discovery mechanism that we have never seen in the global oil markets. Think about what that means. why is Donald Trump so confident that the price of oil and energy can decrease so rapidly before we even get into nuclear fusion zero point all the fun theories in the info war let's just

talk about oil why is Trump so confident oil prices can go down not just much lower from where they are but much lower to where they've ever been on a nominal basis i don't think it's because he knows the supply is what it is. I think that's only part of it. It's because if the cartel that sets a floor on prices dissolves, price discovery trends towards zero in a free market with an abundant resource. And I believe the greatest lie we have been told and sold is that of scarcity, which I'm not going to convince everybody.

But let me move a little faster here. So OPEC is obviously in Trump's sites. Now it's in Venezuela's sites. It's in the Arab sites. So I think game theory is in the offing here. Trump says one of the things I'm going to do with the Venezuelan oil is fill up the strategic national reserves, which because of Sleepy Joe Biden has been virtually emptied. The topping out process will begin very shortly and is a gift from Venezuela to the people of the United States.

Thank you. This was posted on August 30th at 10 a.m. Did you guys watch Onlylands on Friday night? Alpha made this exact point. What if Donald Trump uses the Venezuelan oil to fill the strategic national reserves? Well, that was a good call, first of all. but why is that seismic? I actually think the secondary point

is that it will lower oil prices. What's the primary point? To me, it removes the narrative, it removes the narrative shielding, rather, from the American oil cartel to artificially keep the price of oil as high as it is. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is back to full. We're just told in a true social post, by the way.

Which is how you know the Strategic Reserve was actually running low this whole time, right? It couldn't possibly be that Donald Trump's government said that to engineer a narrative or to lay a series of traps for the U.S. and global Freudian slip oil cartel. it's where I get a little crazy. What was the last part of the Iran War series on Burning Bright? Collapse of the global cartel. From Venezuela to Iran, Donald Trump's master plan is coming into focus. May 3rd, 26.

I said, in many, many, many words, sorry not sorry, that Donald Trump was not targeting the Iranian regime. He was targeting the global oil cartel and he was attempting to destroy OPEC and destroy the global oil cartel and he was going to use Venezuela and Iran

rather an unleashed Venezuela and Iran and their energy reserves to destroy the narrative of artificial scarcity. And in so doing, he was going to rob the global oil cartel, i.e., the U.S. oil cartel, of its ability to lever the market. I wrote this a few months later.

By hook and by crook, how Donald Trump has trapped the American oil cartel. Here's why I bring this up. And I know somebody said, Rosh Sharks, BB's having very well-deserved pet on the back tonight. I know that's what this sounds like, and sure, I said on Friday night, being right is actually fun, and we should take something out of it because there's a reason God puts those endorphins into our mind. God wants us to be right more often. God wants us to figure things out more often. So it should feel good when you figure something out, right? It should feel good. And we should stop apologizing for it.

Because if we figured something out, we can retrace our steps, which is what I'm trying to do tonight. night and see where I got things wrong and see where I got things right. Distill the template that I used at the time that was very rough back in January and with all the new data, harden that template and see what else we can apply it to in the months ahead so that when you are told about the Taiwan situation, you will be able to clip this out and not freak out and be retarded about that whole thing, which again, I assume only badlanders will actually be able to do. So I want you guys to take a look at this short clip.

Remember, I just said in the Iran War series, I claimed Donald Trump's war was against the global oil cartel, which includes the United States oil cartel. that he ran on bolstering. Remember guys, he ran on drill baby drill. The American oil cartel, my friends, does not want to drill baby drill. Do you know why they don't want to? Because they know how much oil there is.

And if they drill baby drill, the price of oil goes down. Donald Trump wants them to drill. They want to profit off of forever wars that they pay the military industrial complex and its presidents to engineer to keep oil scarce by keeping it expensive and dangerous to source. The oil cartel, I believe, is stopping the American push into energy sovereignty. Donald Trump, in my opinion, is trying to force their hand. And how is he doing this? I think he is going to remove them from Iran by forcing Iran to remove them by unleashing Iran by unleashing Iran. And if that sounds crazy to you, I want you to ask yourself why.

Donald Trump, in the midst of a very serious and real war with Iran, is spending as much time attacking American allies, supposedly, and more to the point, American energy companies, for raising prices on the back of a war that we are told could do nothing but raise prices. How could Trump possibly say this about the American oil cartel? integrated all US just announced record profits seconded yeah unbelievable for for Exxon for instance 14 million has they had an over decade for Chevron for the more highest in history by 12 times on the back you saw that yes I mean

I don't like it workers paying higher yes whatever is our they're making too much money okay based on a shortage They're making too much money. I don't like it. And I should be the last one to say because I'm a big free enterprise guy. Nobody bigger. And, you know,

you're going to see oil. When we're finished with Iran, you're going to see the prices drop through the floor. But they made too much money. Too much money. Chevron, too much money. Exxon Mobil. Too much.

Too much money. When you look at one company where they made 12 times what they made the year before, they're going to give some of that back to the public. And they better cut the retail price, the consumer price. Too much money. You're surprised I'm saying it?

I'll say it loud and clear. I'm not happy about it. Go ahead. Did you guys pay a lot of attention to that when it hit the airwaves a couple of months ago, a few weeks ago? Donald Trump, the king of free market enterprise. drill baby drill Donald Trump. Donald Trump, the art of the deal, the most famous capitalist in the world, thinks the American oil industry is making too much money. Why? Because oil is not scarce. And because the wars were funded and started by these companies.

That's why he's saying that. So no, it is not a contradiction for the MAGA America First, sovereign nationalist, capitalist, free market enterprise thinking Donald Trump to call for price caps on the energy industry, nor is it a contradiction for him to imply that the American people should be getting dividends from the free market American energy industry. Why? Because there is no such thing as a free market in the American or global oil industry. It is a cartel. Do you guys know how cartels make their money? Traditional cartels, the ones you see Netflix series about. Do you know how drug cartels make money? is it by selling drugs that's a second order effect how do they make money by controlling the supply of the drugs opium is infinite there is an infinite amount of opium in the world because you can grow an infinite amount of opium there is an infinite amount of oil in the world because as

Chris and I talked about at length on Story Hour last week. The dinosaurs didn't make it. You are not traveling around in your F-150 on stegosaurus bones. Okay? That's a humiliation ritual. You believe monsters melted millions of years ago so you can drive to work. Vladimir Putin said,

20 years ago, the oil supply on the planet, or beneath the firmament, whatever you think, is vastly understated. He also said, it replenishes itself. As Deborah Starr said in the chat, oil is a renewable resource. It renews itself. It is unlimited. That does not make it free. That doesn't make it worthless. It has direct application.

It takes a great degree of money, time, and ongoing effort and risk to get. So it's always going to be valuable. But the premium that is placed on oil is a premium placed there using the Hegelian dialectic that I started the show with again. The American oil cartel has created an artificially scarce market. And as I said months ago, before Donald Trump made that clip viral, about redistributing the wealth of American oil companies, because that's what he said there, guys.

He said he's going to redistribute that wealth. Will he do it literally in the form of dividend payments? I actually think he might. It's going to be hilarious to see MAGA people cheering for, Donald Trump's socialized payments taken under duress from American private companies while pretending that everything we've been watching is as we've been told it is. The media is starting to call Donald Trump a socialist because they know what he's doing. Because the free market seizing the means of production from a controlled Higalian terrorist cartel,

which is what the U.S. oil industry is, is not socialism, it's justice. Donald Trump is going to free the market by capturing the market. He's going to capture the market by capturing the global and U.S. energy cartel. That's what I've been saying for months. You guys have heard me on DPH say it, and I'm sticking to it. Chevron, too much money. ExxonMobil, too much money. Give some of that back to the public. They made 12 times their profit margin because they're a cartel.

They have used the Iran War narrative. This loops back into our first topic. How does this cascade spin out from the Strait of Hormuz? And my opinion firmly held that it has been open the whole time. why is Donald Trump been saying the straight of Hormuz is open the whole time guys because the oil companies control the flow of tankers through waterways in this world the straight is open the oil tankers have not been going through because the oil cartel has not been sending them through one thing i sit on d phh months ago

actually I wrote in reality wars in 2025 one of the things one of the key aspects of the matrix that I wanted Donald Trump to go to war with most earnestly was the futures market do you guys remember him talking about the futures market he talks about it a little bit in that clip there why did the oil industry why does the oil industry set to make record profits in 2026 if the cost to them on the back of the Iran war is so significant, right?

All the pundits are saying this. All the politicians are saying this. All the industry experts are saying this. Because they price your gas at the pump based on a future that has not arrived. But they do not price your relief based on that future. This is the trap that I believe Donald Trump. has set for them that I spoke about with Alpha on Friday night. I believe the trap that Donald Trump has set for the American oil cartel is being closed by Iran

on one side and Venezuela on the other. Trump just said the strategic reserve is full. He just signed the biggest energy deal in world history with Venezuela. How? if the oil cartel prices its market based on futures, can the price of oil remain high next week? How can it only be shaved by 10%? It should be down 50%, 70%. Because the oil cartel, the oil industry, the American stock market prices based on futures, right? We literally know what the future is going to be with U.S. energy production.

We know what the future is going to be with Venezuelan energy production, which is now American energy production. We don't know what the future is going to be with Iranian oil production and transport. Really, that's what they control, right? That's the choke point. The knowns favor low energy prices. The unknowns favor high energy prices. So I think there's a reason Donald Trump does these things. He's saying in his post over the last few days, now that we've signed the deal, I expect oil prices to drop.

Guys, that's a promise to the American people. But more so and more to the point in the theme of this episode, it's a threat to the oil cartel. If you do not lower prices based on the same futures mechanisms, you have raised prices and taken profits on the back of, you are committing crimes against the American people. And you've been given an out. Couple quick hits on this same subject, because the oil cartel, while maybe the biggest or second biggest, is not the only one. You guys remember Trump's bad bet on beef this past week? Two weeks ago, Donald Trump announced a reduction in foreign tariffs, a reduction in tariffs on foreign beef production, right? This was very controversial among all of our favorite con-ink influencers and never-Trumpers.

This is going to hurt the American beef industry, they said. Donald Trump is going to import cheap foreign beef to temporarily lower American consumption. consumer beef prices, heading into the midterms. And he's doing this for the votes, we're told, by the cynical press, right wing and left wing. But this is going to hurt the American beef industry. Then what's he do the next week? He lets those narratives marinate. No pun intended.

Don't know what I want a stake. He lets that narrative marinate. Donald Trump is attacking the American beef industry. Until we got the cross. That was the jab. This is the cross. Jab? Cross.

What's the cross? Ranchers and farmers have always been number one priority for me. They work very hard, are smart, efficient, and immaculately clean. But for years, I have heard that they have had a tremendous problem with the big processors, who many say are a nasty monopoly. There are essentially four of them a very non-competitive number, and they make life miserable for our wonderful farmers and ranchers. and I can't let that happen, can I?

So in order to break up this powerful monopoly with much of its ownership based outside of the U.S., I am authorizing legal documents to be drawn in order to allow farmers and ranchers to be given the right to process their own food. This should move quickly. What did he just do? This is related to my oil cartel rants tonight. What did Trump just do? Trump just used what I have been calling since 2022, the core animating engine of his negotiation method.

His greatest sciop. He's using the reverse Hegelian dialectic. Donald Trump created the appearance of a problem. I'm going to import cheap beef. He then reacted to the problem he created. Independent ranchers and farmers are upset about this because their beef is more expensive. Why is their beef more expensive, guys?

because they're not legally allowed to process it themselves. They have to outsource the processing to who? A cartel of beef processors. Who are foreign-owned entities that Donald Trump is calling a monopoly? That's why American farmers and ranchers have to charge you more than Danish farmers and ranchers for beef that is grown and processed in the United States rather than across the Atlantic

fucking ocean. Why does that make any sense? How does that make any sense? It doesn't make any sense. It only makes sense if the big four have colluded to do what another cartel I mentioned earlier does.

What does OPEC do? What do Chevron and Exxon Mobil and all these players do? They don't set, ceilings, they set floors and none of them dip below the floor. The big four meat processors in the United States set a floor. They build their profits based on the margin. They can't survive that margin dipping. More so, they can't survive the meat producers withdrawing their supply from the processors because the meat producers are going to become the processors.

Right? We literally, in the last few days, watched Donald Trump execute the same one-two-punch combo to trap the U.S. oil cartel as he did on the U.S. beef cartel. Same thing. Now, this one is not consummated yet, but just a little shameless plug for the Badlands Breastair.

reef and Ash? Deloitte settles with federal government over discrimination suit. So you guys saw this, the DEI thing. It's only $21.5 million, so it's a slap on the wrist, as Ash says. But what does Ash say here? Ash in America, what is Deloitte? Deloitte is a professional services firm. There are four big ones. PWC, KPMG, and E and Y are the other three besides Deloitte. These firms employ auditors and accounts and tax. professionals and consultants to provide services to the world's largest companies across all industries, publicly traded companies and private ones and government entities and high net worth individuals. In other words, the whole system. The entire American stock market, every player

in that stock market, must literally go through a systems cartel that Donald Trump is now targeting with federal action. He's also going after the media cartel. Which shouldn't surprise anybody. He's been going after them forever, right? Fake polls used by our crooked media are out of control.

Something must be done about it. FCC to the rescue. That's from today. Sunday, August 30th. So Donald Trump is going after the energy cartel, the food cartel.

the bureaucracy cartel, the systems cartel, the media cartel, all of whom have convinced even a good part of the conservative audience that they are operating on the gains gotten in a free market that doesn't exist. because the mom and pops must pay the processors to process the meat that they are entirely capable of processing. Because OPEC controls the pricing floor so that Venezuela cannot undercut that floor and reduce energy prices for the entire world. A company cannot enter the publicly traded stock market nor even get Series B investing without one of the big four audit firms clearing their balance sheet to the tune of millions of dollars in fees and signoffs and compliance. You want to play the free market game. You have to go through a cartel. A cartel gets you into the market. A cartel gets you into the grocery store. A cartel gets you to the gas station. A cartel gets you on TV, which is why we are not, right?

Fox doesn't want to talk to us, CNN doesn't want to talk to us, MSNBC doesn't want to talk to us, nobody wants to talk to us. Why? Because they are a cartel who feigns free market ideas and competition when they are not in competition. Fox and CNN are not in competition. Fox is not run by secret white hats. ExxonMobil is not run by secret white hats. Tyson Foods is not run by secret white hats. Deloitte is not run by secret white hats.

The presidency is run by a public white hat. That's the truth. And what's the biggest cartel out there? What's the biggest cartel? Central banking cartel. As I've been saying on recent shows, and I wrote in my latest long form, I'm going to do fewer articles.

I know I'm schizophrenic with that shit. I can't burn myself out on it, which is why I need to do more of these streams and think in real time with you guys, because it just like, it fries my brain to write too many of these a month. So I'm going to try to take my time on them and write just a couple of them a month and try to supplement it with these kind of shows, if you guys like it.

If you don't like it, I'll go fuck myself, I guess, but, you know. Tea was a recent one I put out on the final exposure of the European Collectorate. It's another cartel, right? Do you guys think it's weird that in the midst of a very serious war that's definitely against Iran and not on the globalist cartel, that Scott Besant is doing more press conferences than Donald Trump? Have you guys ever seen a war? war the United States has been involved in, where the commander-in-chief didn't really seem to be

running the war, he's trothing about it a lot. Who seems to be running the war, guys? Is it maybe the guy who was talking about Operation Economic Fury back in March? Is it maybe the guy who's been in the machine? Is it maybe the guy who just did a press conference last week to close the week out alongside military generals, encounter terrorism, task force leaders, is the Treasury Secretary taking the podium to talk about the war on Iran because of the Strait of Hormuz and missiles and boots on the ground? Or is it because there's something else going on here? Besson launches operation economic outcast. He warns countries helping Iran face expulsion from the dollar system.

On the other side of the ledger, we have Kevin Warsh, Donald Trump's new Fed chair, a friend of Scott Bessent. The two of them came up under the same institutions and the same mentors in the investment world, Warsh and Bessent. But they are signaling opposite things. Why did the markets freak out about Kevin Warsh from Friday? Because he said something that I will loop into a point. Forward Guidance and Markets.

Do you guys remember earlier in the show? I talked about futures markets. Futures markets are not inherently bad. You can't have a market. You can't trade stocks. You can't invest in a company unless you're investing in the future, right? That's good. I don't think that should be taken away.

That's what the American stock market, that's what's so special about it. That was the promise of it. Invest in an idea and in a team and in the people you believe in to bring that idea to fruition. That's a future that you're betting on. What's happened, though, is that market makers, hedge funds, investment firms, central banks, have formed a cartel in the financial industry. The banking cartel. You may have heard of it.

The banking cartel has so much money, a.k.a. ammunition that they can deploy into the financial battle space, that when they do so, they make the market. If the market they are making is based on a future that will never arrive, What kind of a market do we have? A fake one. How do the market makers make the market? They have insiders.

The insiders are not secret black hats. They're black hats who go to podiums and tell the market makers how to make the market. We call them Fed chairs. We call them Treasury Secretaries. They hold closed-door meetings and then open-door meetings. They give Fed minutes and they tell the people who control 90% of the world's money,

90% of our money, where they are going to set rates in the future. Those words about future market rates are plugged into algorithms by BlackRock, by Vanguard, by State Street, on and on and on and on. Those bets are called leveraged futures bets. They are bets on futures that may not occur. But when enough bets pile up, the stocks trade at futures prices, which means the market becomes what the futures market wants it to be. And why is Kevin Warsh getting so much pushback among his central banking friends?

It's not because he's doing anything, guys. It's because he's not doing anything. He's not giving the futures market the future. Warsh restated his opposition to regular forward guidance. What is forward guidance? Futures. Calling it a crisis-era tool that has overstayed its welcome. He warned of a hall of mirrors problem in which the Fed and markets feed off each other and

misturning points. Pretty polite way to put it. He rejected publishing an explicit reaction function or mechanical rule, arguing the economy is too uncertain and that 2021-style guidance delayed the response to inflation. Here's the killer. Markets should form their own views from real data. The Fed should not be the primary source of the next trade. The Federal Reserve Chair just told you, that what he is there to do

is make a real stock market not a fake one which yes I did say was going to happen in reality wars I even named it revenge of the real and I even did manage

to turn this into an Iran war analog in this article by saying how the real war is being won beneath the headlines of the fake one. In this series, which started in 2025, I said that Donald Trump, Scott Bessent, and whoever his next Fed share was going to be, which we didn't know at this time, were going to engineer the breaking of a fake financial market. And how were they going to do that? I laid that out on Friday night.

I suggest listening to OnlyLands. But the brief version, this is my projection. Scott Bessent, his public comments recently in the U.S. Treasury Secretary, the U.S. Treasury, are being taken by the market as easing. In other words, Scott Besson is being seen as bullish for dollar liquidity. His public comments. Kevin Warsh is being framed as hawkish Bessent is being framed as doveish

Warsh is being framed as hawkish I believe they are working together how is that not a contradiction don't they seem to be in opposition I believe that the market thinks we're going to get rate hikes

the market thinks that Kevin Warsh is going to raise rates. Well, let's get away from that. Because let's say, I'm totally wrong. That's my leaning, right? But it's a binary. We raise, we lower. We've been holding in a holding pattern

for months and months and months and months. Why does it matter so much? Why does raising and lowering rates matter so much, guys? It's not because of lending. It's not because of the loan you pay when you get a car. It's not even because of mortgages. Compared to the money that's sloshing around on Wall Street, none of those things are meaningful. We are not meaningful in terms of the amount of money that we're moving in markets.

So why is the Fed Funds rate so important? That is what the market makers trade based off of. They trade based on the future rates, before the future rates are wrong. in the realm of the real. Before your mortgage goes up or down, the market makers have bet on which direction they know it is going to go in. What I believe is going on here is that Besson and Warsh are signaling in opposite directions. I believe they're doing this in concert. And I believe they are trying to get the hedge funds to hedge.

I believe they are trying to get them to capitulate and submit to their base natures. I believe they're trying to get them to make a bet with a lot of leverage. And then I think they're going to swerve. That swerve could be a hike. My personal opinion is that swerve is going to be a shock cut. A shock cut. Put the bunny ears on the wrong word. Super awkward.

Ridiculous. a shock cut. I believe Kevin Warsh is going to shock the stock market in 2026. I might be wrong about this. But in the meantime, the market cannot price in what these two guys are doing because these two guys seem to be pushing monetary policy in opposite directions. But these hedge funds, this cartel that operates and controls are global, our U.S. market, which is the global market, they're Jonesing guys.

they're the Chappelle meme. They are jonesing to make a bet. And once one of the big hedges makes a bet, the others will follow in a cascade. And I think in the place of a 2008-style housing crash, we will have a forced liquidation and a transfer, so to speak, of hedge fund money from weak hands to strong hands.

Scott Besson said in 2025, when he took the podium, he was sworn in his Treasury Secretary, Wall Street had its day, and it was time for Main Street to take over, which is why, in what shockingly was my most popular feature of 2025, I wrote The Wolf of Main Street, and I said that Scott Besson was Donald Trump's secret weapon against the puppet masters, and I explained why. I did not know that Scott Besson was going to be doing military-style briefings in front of the nation about a fake war. I did, however, think that he was being brought in because he is the world's foremost

demolitions expert when it comes to hedge funds and when it comes to banks. Scott Bessent made his career blowing up a bank for George Soros, which is why everybody underestimated him or put a black hat on his head, which is why these binaries are so dangerous for us to fall into. I highly suggest you guys read this one if you want some background on Scott Besant and why I believe he's been chosen to engineer the greatest demolitions campaign that we've ever seen and one that will ultimately be good for us. And oh by the way, if you're wondering about that whole Soros thing. Besson's war on left-wing NGOs may strip the Soros network, SPLC, and C-A-I-R of tax-exempt

status, which basically eliminates 50% of the reason for forming an NGO in the first place, the other 50% being legal shielding, which the SPLC is doing a good job at dissolving on their own. Bessent issues the first threats, guys. You should watch Scott Besson's press conferences. You should listen to his words. Scott Bessent launched Operation Economic Outcast. He said that he was waging an economic war against those who supported the Iranian regime. But I want you to ignore the Iran part of it for a minute.

And I want you to consider why. Donald Trump, the same day that Scott Bessent issued Operation Economic Outcast, decided to launch an economic war with Canada. Do you know who currently leads Canada? That would be Mark Carney. Mark Carney is the former head of the Bank of England. Do you know which bank? Scott Bessent liquidated

on Black Wednesday in the 90s? Do you think that Scott Besson was talking about Iran when he said Operation Economic Outcast the same day that Donald Trump posted this? Canada has been ripping off the United States of America for years. We don't need Canada.

They need us. They do 95% of their business with the U.S. with us the exact opposite. Lots of bluster from Doug Ford, who is the premier of the Canadian province of Ontario. America has been carrying Canada for decades but no longer. The USA will always be far bigger, richer, and stronger than Canada. Without the United States, Canada couldn't survive. August 24th, Besson threatens new,

Secondary sanctions says Trump is asking world leaders to cooperate. Operation Economic Outcast. Donald Trump, the same day, they do 95% of their business with the U.S., with us the exact opposite. We don't need Canada. They need us. Are you guys wondering who the target of Operation Economic Outcast is? Are you guys wondering why you're starting to see headlines like this? The trade war came too soon for Mark Carney's Middle Powers Alliance.

The Canadian Prime Minister called for pro-trade democracies to resist great power coercion together. Seven months later, he is largely fighting Trump alone. Operation Economic Outcast is about Canada. It is not about Iran. Iran is helping Donald Trump wage an economic. war with Canada, with the UK, with the Bank of England, with every central bank. But since I want to keep these shows close to two hours, I will leave that there. And I hope you guys enjoyed that. I don't know how it came together. I left about 50% of my tabs

open. But anyway, that's what I think's going on. So if you guys think that's going on too, then hit the like button. If you don't think it's going on, then hit the like button and then get out. Get out of my face. But other than that, thank you guys for watching. Please hit the thumbs up button. It actually does send a signal to me of whether or not you like these. I will go through the rants here.

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instead of writing 50,000 words a week like a psychopath that is like killing myself to do that. Tonight was an experiment to basically let you guys into how I think about these things in real time. That thought process ends up producing those long forms that I then referenced, which I still plan to keep doing. But this will be less taxing for me mentally. And if you like it, maybe it's a win-win. Maybe you like it better than reading the Bright Brief or something like that. We do have the Badlands Brief five days a week. We have the Badlands Blitz on the Badlands Substack.

Please support us over there if you want to. But it is free, just like this show is free. Just like my substack is free. I'm just trying to, you know, see what you guys want me to do and see. if there's a way I can do it while being more efficient with deploying my time. The reason I've never done these kind of shows before is because as a writer, I'm a very like, this is the finished product. This is what I think, the wolf of Main Street. I'm thinking about this for three months, this is the article. And you guys might be like, how are you putting out two articles a week if you're thinking

about it for three months? Because I'm actually thinking about a lot of things for three months at a time and they come out in a cascade like that, which is very mentally taxing, and it's not meant to be a poor or me thing, but I have some issues with that, with keeping all these things in my head. I tried to purge some of it tonight. No offense, but you guys were the recipients. Let me know what you think about it. Genuinely want to know what you guys want out of me and how I can be of use. And I know that some are going to see this as like victory laps and all that kind of stuff. And fine, it's your prerogative. You can see it as victory laps if you want.

to. I definitely do take victory laps when I think I've been right about something. I get a kick out of it. I'm a competitive guy. I like figuring things out. And when I feel like I figured stuff out, I feel good about it, especially when that stuff makes me feel really good. Donald Trump is a master. Donald Trump has engineered something that 10 years ago when I was balls deep into the Q drops, I still couldn't have fathomed just the level of engineering that has gone into what I think is the biggest disentanglement, controlled demolition, and controlled transition project transformation program, as Ash would call it, ever engineered and for the better. And I look forward to continuing to dig into this stuff. I am trying to make this financial stuff and spurging out a little bit more

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Worldwide oil revenue. Biggest deal in world history. Seaside Lady, 10 bucks. Thanks, BB, for a great show. Thank you, Seaside. Blow Gabriel, blow. 20 bucks. Challenge accepted.

Excellent show tonight. Well, it was a $5 challenge? How does giving me a $20? Make any sense. Unless it's a number of points, the number of $5. So Blow Gabriel Goat isn't... Why can't I say that? My God.

I'm falling apart. I'm having a stroke. Blow. Gabriel, blow, 20 bucks. Thank you very much. No glass, 50 bucks. Thanks, BB. Really appreciate you. Thank you very much. That's 10, $5 challenges. I like those challenges. I can't get greedy though. I appreciate it. Funky Joe Medina, five bucks. Awesome show. Love the content and the presentation. Thank you. Rocky Top Apologist. 20 bucks. I can't not donate to the show too good, probably because I'm up so late and drinking. for really you just flat out are laying some shit out thanks rocky appreciate it that's how i roll in the hood and yeah i was drilling in defense posts minutes before i went live and was schizophrenic for the whole night and you're sending me 20 bucks for it what's that say about us

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because they're going to be scared. Spread the word if you guys actually like it and be like, just ignore the last whatever happens. And, you know, scrub through, it's two hours. Put it on double speed. Don't hurt yourself. Thank you, AJC. Fran VT.

Five bucks. I'm always impressed by your analysis, but tonight was excellent and really clarified and helps me with geopolitical understanding. Bravo. Thank you. I hope to get better at it. I hope that wasn't just like everything I had.

My throat hurts, though. having voice problems recently. Justice free misconduct. Canadian here. Canadian here. As much as I hate the harsh impacts of what's coming from the trade war, it needs to happen. Carney's reputation needs to tank here in Canada before real change can happen. I'm not just being funny. They need your mentality. They need your mentality. They're trying to boil the pot. And I think Trump is trying to boil the pot. And the pot has you in it. But as you know, being a Canadian and as I can attest, with all my

my Canadian laws, the pot needs to be a little warmer because Operation Economic Outcast needs to let Canada know what happens if they are left out in the cold. More importantly, they need to know why that's happening. They need to know that Canada should be self-sufficient. It should be energy efficient. It should be food independent. It should be able to defend itself. Why can't it do any of those things? Because your government sold you out to us. That's why. Profit 60, 10 bucks.

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Thank you so much. R.C. Joan, where can we read your article? I repeat great show tonight. My article as if it's a singular. My goodness. Burningbright.substack.com, guys. that is where everything is.

This is my recent one, T-Day, on the final exposure of the European Collectorate. This one was pretty popular, kind of weaves together. Kind of what I did. This really served as the inspiration for tonight. I distilled these thoughts into T-Day. They kind of came out in a different, more spurgy manner tonight. But this was basically my way of combining what do I think Operation Econ- What do I think Operation Epic Fury was?

and how do I think it converges with Operation Economic Fury? And that's where I came up with T-Day. So that's a good one. But I highly, highly recommend that you read this one, which turned into a three-parter. 2025 reality wars, the breaking, winning the game by breaking it. The series seeks to make sense of the economic and financial shadow war.

Donald Trump is waging against the Matrix and who he brought along for the ride. and then the other one that I would recommend, besides all of them, is the wolf of Main Street. This will give you some background on Scott Bessent, and why I said last year I thought that he was one of the figures in Trump's orbit that the enemy was most concerned with. And I think that he is starting to show you and people like Mark Carney why that fear was very well placed by the establishment. But then again, I'm alternatively branded, alternately branded a doomer and a hope huffer sniffer at once. So I don't know what I am anymore. Gateway MAGA 5, 10 bucks, great show, BB. By the way, my articles on burningbrite.substack.com are free, but you can support me over there in the form of coffee donations.

It's like a tipping platform, buy me a coffee. Or paid subscriptions. So what I want to do going forward is like I said, I'm going to alternate the narrative. Guest episodes, solo episode, guest episode, solo episode, the guest episodes ironically are more freestyle because we get the feedback loop going. This one is the cascade. I hope you liked the cascade. I hope you're not scared. And, you know, on my substack, I plan to start doing some solo shows there.

Probably on the weeks that I do as a guest narrative, I'll do a solo. Substack and on the weeks that I do solo narrative, I'll do a feature on substack. I don't know if I'll be able to keep up that pace, but I'll try to. So, you know, check it out. Gateway Maga, great show. I just did that one. True deplorable 20 bucks. While, BB, as I said Friday night, brilliant.

I only caught the last 20 minutes, but we'll definitely watch from the start. I hope you still think it was brilliant. Thank you, true deplorable. And Machinon 10 bucks. The people that watch your show have a similar thought pattern, can't pause a thought and write a strongly worded article every time based on. and gay Bessent is the best character. So far, Rubio second.

I will admit, even though I don't trust anybody, Rubio, he's pretty good. We do also have a boost for the narrative from Frontline 1021, 20 bucks. Looking forward to the show. Look forward to the show every week. Thank you and keep up the great work. Thank you so much, Frontline. And Babbage, with a $5 holler at the end.

I think this has been your best episode. Thank you. Seriously, guys, let me know what you think. Let me know either in the comments of this show. Let me know on Telegram. Let me know. To be honest, I don't read my Twitter comments or my two social comments because I can't then I memorize it all.

But I do for some reason read my every substack comment and usually respond to them all. And yeah, probably something wrong with that. But hey, you got to pick and choose what you pay attention to. and again the best way to show if you like this oh i got a paid subscription that came through like a half an hour ago to my sub stack i'm guessing that was from one of you guys so thank you thank you for doing that appreciate it um what was i going to say i'm running off the rails next week on the narrative we are doing a guest episode and my guest is going to be Zach Payne.

Red Pill 78. Zach Payne. I love talking to him. It's his birthday weekend this weekend. So we can actually thank Zach, if you liked this episode. Zach, being unavailable, about a week and a half ago when I asked him, made me think for a while. Do I want to go in a different direction? Or do I want to just do it live and see if people like it?

And I chose the latter. So join us next week. Zach will be around. and otherwise, as I always say, the war is a story, the story is a war, act accordingly. I'll see you next week. I'm first going to remove the stream from YouTube and press the buttons in the perfect sequence that they could ever be pressed just to show everybody how professional I am at this. And I will not keep talking straight through.

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 want us. We let it grow in our team. How many men have you killed my alone? 50? 100?

Countless. Countless has a nice room too. How many lives are you safe? Half a million. Population of King's Landing. Tell me if you're precious, Randy, commanded you to kill your own thought. And stand by one of thousands of men.

When you killed and burned a life, would you have done it? Kept your oath dead. Our time has come. We prepared. We grew stronger. rested in your cradle of power, trusted to lead the republic. But you were deceived.

You assumed no force could challenge you. We have returned. The visions are clear now. I see possible futures all at once. Our enemies are all around us. And in so many futures they prevail. I do see away. 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 we would have to happen. So you all live to see such time, but that there's not for them to decide. Forgive me, it lost so. They have failed you.

I'm not more strength. I'm like to say. I will not have the rest. I wish you good fortune in the wars to come. Now it begins. No. Now it ends.