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Jim Schout's avatar

OK, Timmy Walz is threatening to call out his National Guard to assist in controlling ICE agents from arresting illegal aliens. So, that will put the Minnesota military in conflict with the Federal agents tasked with doing their job. But I have a question. “Who will control the National Guard’s actions”?

To me the key word is “National”. Ultimately each guard member swears to defend and uphold the Constitution. So do ICE agents. So Tim, bring it on!

This should get interesting. As we have often said, this will ultimately involve the Military.

Joe Kronner's avatar

Tampon Timmy could not get the NG to fight against the Feds under ANY circumstance. Just like Sleepy Joe could not get the military to fight any place. I believe we are at, and have been for years, the point in the story where all the children must stay at the kids table while the adults go about their business.

Wild Bill's avatar

Trump can federalize the Guard. Which would take them out of the position of having to decide which orders were 'lawful' and which not.

Jim Schout's avatar

So, Walz is just pissing into the wind? Why threaten to call up the Guard if he really knows it will just help Trump?

I just stay confused with the Left’s nuttiness.

Wild Bill's avatar

If it's cold enough, when you piss into the wind it comes back as yellow snow. Maybe that is what he's hoping for.

But, IMO Walz is posturing, trying (in vain) to stay relevant. He's on a collision course with destiny, and it's too late for him to try to change horses.

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Re: "So, Walz is just pissing into the wind?"

Nobody can know for sure if he can only see, nor watch himself what he's doing at this very moment ! 😁😃🤗

Anna's avatar

I wondered the same.

Joe Kronner's avatar

Y’all have hit a real home run with your new format. I am loving the change.

Trump 2.0 is moving so fast and on so many fronts. You nailed it BB: ”The machine is recycling its playbooks not because they think the populace is going to fall for it, but rather because they’ve got nothing left.” And: “This is just the latest in an emergent cascade of narratives and actuals it seems MAGA is navigating into the path of before they can arm themselves, with the path of the mass psychological torpedoes cultivating public mandate for wholesale, systemic change and even dissolution on the back of them.”

I believe whatever Trump wants Trump gets. BB this is a perfect example: “Trump’s mortgage buy-back program, I expect, is the first in a rapid cascade of him demonstrating that he doesn’t need Jerome.} This is why I do not react to any of the micro detail minutia. Staying on the 40K level keeps me sane AND keeps me moving in then right (winning) direction.

Love it GBPH… Power means Power and Trump 2.0 has the Power! Trump-a-Mania!

P.S. Is Alina Habba coming back in a BIG way soon...:-)

Trump 2.0 is soooo much fun😊

God Wins!

God Bless!!!

Burning Bright's avatar

So happy to see the audience loving the new format.

We're having more fun working on it, too, without feeling beholden to the MSM formatting.

Joe Kronner's avatar

And not showing any MSM bullshit keeps me from throwing rocks at the TV :-)

Wild Bill's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Love it Joe!

ALtab's avatar

Me, too!!🤣🤣

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

What's a TV ???: 🤔😲

I don't have one anymore since a decade ! 😁

Featherjourney's avatar

BB excels at the 40,000 ft view…the mindset that keeps us from getting mired in the “distraction theater” 👍

Burning Bright's avatar

Ultimately, it's fun for us to play colored hat games, but they're not necessary to formulate a broad understanding of what's playing out on the Macro.

Multipolarity vs. Unipolarity.

Decentralization vs. Centralization.

Sovereignty vs. Collectivism.

ALtab's avatar

I’m at the high levels, too. It’s my natural viewpoint. Maybe because I’m an artist?🤔

Wild Bill's avatar

Your intel background helps, too. In that world you can't afford to take your eye off of the target, or you could end up in deep doo-doo. If you don't see the big picture, someone who does will swoop in and clean your clock. So you learn, to survive.

ALtab's avatar

Good point!!

Featherjourney's avatar

So when Trump said (quoting): “He gets up there, and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit," "But he's a violent guy, and he's killed millions of people. He's tortured. They have a torture chamber in the middle of Caracas that they’re closing up"

And referred to the dancing Maduro as “violent defiance”…that’s just kayfabe and cover for secret communication between Trump and Maduro to provide cover? I kindof love conspiracy theories and I hope Ghost is right. It’s a stretch for me. This just seems different to me than the Putin and Trump kayfabe. I had a pretty good grasp of Russian history that made it easy to believe in “Righteous Russia” and I could easily see Putin on the side of the Sovereign Alliance.

Time will tell.

Burning Bright's avatar

There is a 10 year history of Maduro fending off color revolutions by NGO's like the NED and USAID.

His pattern matches many of the others we've tracked along the world.

I would also suggest time will not really tell, because like many of these stories, they're not going to tell us haha.

They're never going to admi in US-Russia Kayfabe or it defeats the purpose.

Net Effects.

Maduro's Regime remains in charge, and is now under the US Sphere of Influence as the Multipolar World emerges.

Rose's avatar

I agree with your assessments of both Russia and Maduro, but people need to know what is happening.

think that Trump is using a lot of kayfab just as they do in wrestling. His connection to wrestling is signal that he operates the same way politically. However, the majority of these criminals in our government need to be exposed, prosecuted and severely punished. Watching the Minnesota fraud and the set up of Walz (which has been in progress for a while) is signal that much work is going on behind the scenes in other areas as well. Let’s see if this is a big show or are members of congress going to use their sound bites from the congressional hearing for their midterm election campaigns.we are in the exposure phase, but it is time to move on to prosecution and punishment.

ALtab's avatar

The ties to Mexican cartels might be a key point. I’m considering that the testimony may be key in exposing the CIA’s lead role in drug running.

Featherjourney's avatar

🤞 I hope so!! In this community of Badlanders, it’s easy to forget that there are so many who still don’t know the history of our corrupt CIA. ❤️🕊🕊🕊

ALtab's avatar

Like my TDS suffering friend from my teen years!

Featherjourney's avatar

My Mom was like that…I miss her dearly. But she was good practice for me to Love Unconditionally! As frustrating and sometime infuriating to talk politics with her, I loved her anyway. Keep your longtime friend anyway ❤️🕊🎶❤️🌟 I‘m sure you do!!

DJL's avatar

Yes, agreed. I’m going back and forth over Maduro’s role in all this. But then we see Venezuelans celebrating his arrest. Or is that newsfeed fake? Who knows anymore.

Featherjourney's avatar

Jordan Sather made a convincing argument about the staged performance of Maduro’s arrest

https://jordansather.substack.com/p/maduros-negotiated-exit-and-the-election

It doesn’t make Maduro a good guy…but cooperating for leniency for his crimes against humanity

Featherjourney's avatar

I think the Venezuelans celebrating are not actually in Venezuela…but are the ones who have fled Venezuela to countries where they don’t fear for their safety in expressing their joy over his capture. The actual residents living in Venezuela have been more subdued - perhaps fearing retaliation for being too happy about it!

Anna's avatar

Hi Feather. Interesting point. I'm never sure about videos anymore. AI is so convincing these days. And then there are hacks who take old footage from another time and place and label it as current ongoing chaos.

Q. Does kayfabe ever get revealed as kayfabe?

(Think WWE. At the end of the fight, the winner gets a big gold belt buckle, for what? Fooling everyone into believing the win. Life is crazy.)

Featherjourney's avatar

I was only reading articles (and only watched a couple videos on Venezuelans celebrating the day after it happened.)

But searching for how Venezuelans feel about Maduro to read different reporting, I got the impression that if you live in Venezuela right now, you are cautious about expressing your position. It wasn’t regime change after all 😉

But you are right about videos and AI!!! I even read a couple places reporting that Maduro dancing was staged performance.

Maybe in a Sovereign Alliance world someday, history will highlight the kayfabe stories and why the disinfo and confusion was sometimes needed 🙏🕊❤️🐬🐎🌟🐇

Anna's avatar

🙏👍👏🐬🕊🐎💕

Featherjourney's avatar

👍Only Truth is true.

Kayfabe may be necessary in a 5G War where information is the battlefield, but ultimately the Truth will come out. Taking a position to claim you’re right (BB and Ghost) on the assumption we can never know the Truth is an odd stand to support their theories.

I hope they are right but the logic of such claims doesn’t convince me. 🧐

❤️🕊🕊🕊🌟

Anna's avatar

I see your point. I took it to mean that we may never know all the details, as in, if its classified, will it be declassified? I think we will have to judge the final outcome on the fruits that come to bear. From a purely logical perspective, I think it has to remain a theory if it can't be proven or shown as truth.

Featherjourney's avatar

Good points, Anna.

The Age of Acquarius is about truth and transparency …moving away from the secretive trends of the age of Pisces…Aquarius emphasizes individual sovereignty, unity consciousness, and the exposure of hidden truths in society. And we are in “The dawning of the Age of Aquarius” 🎶🎶

❤️🕊

Joe Kronner's avatar

Part of the pure joy I get from these narrative deployments is that no one knows for certain... and it makes the DS Rat Bastard's heads explode. Glorious!!!

Featherjourney's avatar

Great quote by Ashe:

“The Founders believed liberty depended on clear lines of accountability, not on bureaucratic insulation.” ❤️🇺🇸

HisGloriousVictory's avatar

#Ashe: "A “for cause” standard that effectively prevents presidential judgment undermines Article II. Fight me."

SO...not going to fight you - but I am a bit curious.

Your experience in change management in the corporate world serves you well as an example of that world's lines of authority. My experience proves that the best way to invite litigation (in the corporate world) is to assign "cause" to a termination. It is much "better" (as a means of "resource management" - which includes "human resources") to eliminate the "job" so that you don't have to fire/dismiss the employee and prove cause. Most states (including CO I believe) in which I have worked, hired, and dismissed employees are "at will" employment states. We set standards of behavior, but when we listed failure to meet or maintain them as reasons for "termination of employment" we all but guaranteed a law suit. Thoughts?

Jim Schout's avatar

Firing an employee has always been difficult in our litigious society. This created the Peter Principle and I witnessed it myself. Totally inept clowns ended up in high level positions but were rendered harmless because they had no real authority. That was in a corporation.

Applied to government it is deadly. The inept clowns have huge power. That is what created the deep state and firing them is next to impossible because they possess plausible deniability. Everything they do is “For the People”.

When all Congress needs to do is vote to fund these inept clowns, and all the FED needs to do is create more national debt, We the People are screwed. The bottom line is we have inept clowns voting to get other inept clowns to create money to pay even more inept clowns. And none of this inept system is in our Constitution.

Wild Bill's avatar

There is a fundamental difference between the corporate world and the government world, which as you know is the necessity for a corporation to make a profit. That incentive drives at least a certain amount of thrift and efficiency, though sometimes the path of least resistance may be to create a 'loser silo' where the losers can be placed, paid and quarantined off from damaging the rest of the corporation.

In the government world, inefficiency is celebrated and rewarded. Every dollar of appropriations that goes to fraud and waste does two things: (1) creates the demand for 'more funding,' and usually (2) that fraud and waste, at least in part, circles back to the inefficient actors in the form of campaign contributions and bribes and kickbacks.

In an organizational sense, we call this 'perverse incentive.' The very system is incentivized at its core not only to be inefficient, but to be outright fraudulent. This is not something that can be 'corrected' by 'more oversight' -- it is baked into the cake.

If you want to see an organization squeal, hit it where it hurts. Right now what hurts the Demonrats and their friends is any threat to the presence of their imported illegal voters. They cannot get many American citizens to vote for them anymore, so they depend on illegals and a fraudulent voting system. Trump has both in his crosshairs -- so they are squealing like the stuck pigs they are. Magnificent.

Jim Schout's avatar

Thank you for that synopsis of our craziness. Yes, illegals voting to propagate the fraudulent system makes complete sense, but I still think the driving force is money. Congress using an unlimited credit card in the form of the Federal Reserve has to be stopped.

To me, this credit scheme is what has created the illegal voting scheme. 20 years ago the FED scheme funded the exportation of manufacturing to China. China then used their trade deficit dollars to buy our Treasury Bonds that the Congress happily wasted.

We merely trade one fraudulent scheme for another. But it is the FED that funds it all. If we don’t put an end to them, the Congress will just invent another fraud. Instead of picking at the edges, let’s pull the rug out from under the whole mess.

In your corporate example, the FED is the government’s profit center! The profit is the $38.5 Trillion of debt. The company’s product is DEBT.

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Hi Jim !

I'm convinced I'm not alone to think Wild Bill and you are both absolutely RIGHT, but just in different and complementary ways we all enjoy !

Jim Schout's avatar

Thanks! If we think about it, the FED’s product is DEBT so the less efficient the system it funds, the better. If the government was balancing its budget annually, the FED would not be needed.

Why is this so hard to understand? It makes complete sense to me.

Wild Bill's avatar

Yes, I don't see much disagreement, just a bit different angle. That's what makes Badlands readers great -- variety of experience and perspective.

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

I didn't write about disagreement, I just identified (useful and interesting) differences in your points of view: the same things viewed from one point and another one, each being correct ! 😉

We say the same thing there too, just with different words and I agree 💯 💯 with your conclusion !

🇫🇷💕🫂🕊️🙏🏻🇺🇲

HisGloriousVictory's avatar

Just an aside: Dr. Laurence Peter, who made that principle "famous" was a Canadien who was also known for saying "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than being in your garage makes you a car." The full title of his book: "The Peter Principle: Why Things Always G Wrong" © 1969 certainly affirms your analysis!

Danimal28's avatar

You guys are awesome! Further vindication of your reporting: the 'republican' controlled Senate voted 52-47 to block Trump military actions in VZ. The Deep State has been siphoning drug money from there forever at the very least... Lobbyists gotta lobby.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/08/venezuela-senate-voting-on-halting-military-action-after-maduro-capture.html

I live in MN... When Walz took orifice in 2018 Somali couriers ramped up there cash - TSA verified - transfers to 'the homeland'. The last two years they took $350M - per year - of YOUR cash - via plane - back to the drug lords.

Wild Bill's avatar

And the House just voted to keep the Obamacare subsidies for 3 more years.

All bullshit. Posturing. No way in God's green earth either of those bills get to Trump's desk and if they did, he'd veto and with their slim margins, no way that veto can be overriden.

This is why Congress is such a damn mess -- they waste their time on useless posturing and demonizing the 'others' rather than actually doing something which might actually be possible to do. But what is the use -- it's always been that way, pretty much.

Danimal28's avatar

They aren't working for you, just their paymasters. The almost-always America First constant in Sodom on Potomac is Trump and his close advisors, nobody else. Disgusting.

Wild Bill's avatar

Part of the exposure is for the Normies to see just what you describe. It's happening, slowly at first and then... suddenly.

Jim Schout's avatar

The Democrats are setting this up for another shutdown later this month. Their back is to the wall economically. Without the fraud, they must rely on stupid people to donate money. Those donors have to agree with the Democrats giving “Free money” to Somalis to kick back to them.

As the fraud is exposed, this should get more and more interesting. The violence will need to escalate and U.S. conservatives will need to reject Civil War. This stupid game worked in 1861 when the Democrats fired on Ft. Sumpter because it took weeks for news to get out. Now the news is basically instantaneous because we are the reporters.

This time, let’s not allow the Democrats to flip the story on us. The newspapers in the South in 1861 reported that the North had invaded the South! That is how the ignorant poor farmers were persuaded to fight to preserve the rich plantation owner’s wealth! Think about it.

It’s all about the damned story!

Wild Bill's avatar

And as Burning Bright says, "We are in a war of stories, and we are winning because we have better writers."

And because, as you say, we are the reporters now and [they] cannot control the story. With all the cellphones, bodycams, and social media influencers out there, the truth is now available to everyone. [They] can no longer manufacture fake sympathy for fake heroines like Renee Good, like they did even as recently as 2020 for George Floyd. If anything she is far less un-likeable than Floyd, but it isn't working this time.

Game over.

Jim Schout's avatar

I find it interesting that the Democrats fake stories in 1861 got uneducated southerners to be willing to die for the cause. Then, just ten years later, we got the Act of 1871 that was intended to enslave all of America.

In 2026 I see the same tactics being used to maintain their power. What America needs is a history lesson!

Simple logic should easily prove that common, hard working people do not go to war to defend slavery that only benefits the wealthy. But that is what happened to get 580,000 Americans killed and to bankrupt our country!

Somehow, that reality has never been explained. But, the Democrats have somehow covered up the logic. That amazes me.

Wild Bill's avatar

Drip, drip, FLOOD! It is starting to come out, Jim. All of it, a little at a time...

Even the Normie Hivemind is starting to wake up. The Speed of Trump is getting their attention -- for the most part, even those who were not Trump fans are starting to come around.

Kelly McCulloch's avatar

Land strikes on cartels in Mexico. Taylor Sheridan has Oak and I fully primed and pumped for this. Do IT!

Burning Bright's avatar

Good point! Sheridan's stories feel like they're at the leading edge of an American Cultural Renaissance ... with some quality seeding in there for good measure.

Undoing decades of pro-CIA programming.

ALtab's avatar
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—-👀We’ve known for decades that the cartels control Mexico. Who knows how many there and in the US have died at their hands. Of course, the ever cabal-obeying CIA is deeply involved. What if Maduro testimony is the key to take down the CIA (our greatest internal enemy)? Thank you, Ghost!

—-BB’s coined another accurate term, ‘…NGO protest industrial complex…’. Exactly!! I’m sure you’re right that they have no other option but to follow their same playbook. (Kind of sounds like the foreign actors in the Iranian protests…and everywhere else.)

—-Concur completely, Ashe! The new lesbian poet is just a distraction from the sobering truth. ‘Convict & Exile Complicit Americans…Exile them to Somalia.’ Great idea!

—-Ghost coined a new one, too!👏👏. ‘…Republicuck congressman…’

—-‘The Federal Reserve exists entirely by statute.’ Yes, in a treasonous move by then Congressional traitors in both parties. Nothing there has changed…YET.

—-Dismantling the cabal’s international crime syndicate IS the entire point. We must remember that ‘we the people’ are not the US government the cabal’s system is attacking. That system is merely trying to retain its shadow control system in our government. That’s the one Trump is exposing and defanging.

—-DOJ, particularly the corrupt activist judges appear to be on tap…👀

—-I still have a friend from the 60s that continues to suffer from TDS (on steroids). I can’t respond to her posts about it, however, I did post the vaccine meme and asked the question if the disparity in numbers was the reason for the change in # of required vaccines.

—-2026 is beginning according to plan be all appearances! God bless those digging to get the truth revealed.

Wild Bill's avatar

Federal judges serve lifetime appointments 'during good behavior.' It's always been assumed, though I cannot find it in the Constitution, that the only way to get rid of them is impeachment. Which is these days basically impossible.

I see no reason that Trump, or Pam Bondi, cannot fire them for 'bad behavior.' Let them try to challenge the firing. In what? The courts? Seems like they would be disqualified from hearing any such case due to conflict of interest (as the result would at least indirectly affect their own conditions of employment).

Bring it on!

ALtab's avatar

You have such good ideas, Wild Bill!!

Wild Bill's avatar

Thanks ALtab. So do many others here, including yourself. Too bad TPTB do not read Badlands Brief. Might actually change things in the cesspool...

DJL's avatar

Just when I thought Walz couldn’t get anymore stupid….

Joe Kronner's avatar

I have complete confidence that he is no where close to bottoming out anytime soon:-)

Wild Bill's avatar

You are correct, Joe. The man is in an Ouroborosian loop. Self-immolating as we watch.

I'd feel sorry for him, except that he is such an evil idiot that I have no sympathy for him.

Good riddance is what I say. Get rid of the fraud in Minnesota and he would never have won, who was it Norm Coleman I think (former GOP senator) that ran against Walz and Walz only 'won' by a couple points. This proves to me that Minnesota is at worst a purple state and possibly red -- they tune up the fraud to give a reasonable-looking result. Remember all those elections back east last fall that the Dems won what was it, IIRC 56-44 everywhere? Including places where the Dems were ahead in the polling and places where the GOP was ahead. Only one race with that creep was different, he won 53-47. All programmed into the machines.

Joe Kronner's avatar

Yes, Tampon Timmy is a train wreck and proof positive that elections are fake & gay.

Our Election system is FUBAR (along with our government...) and I pray that when we get to the other side that it is all put together where Truth rules.

The No Treason episodes on Badlands has really opened my eye to some new ideas about what government should be (We the People actually direct it).

Sorry for the rant, I could go on for hours:-)

Wild Bill's avatar

Love reading your rants, Joe!

🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸's avatar

Hi Wild Bill !

So do I, with great respect!

👍🏻🫂🕊️

Anna's avatar

👍👏🙏

Rose's avatar

The situation is bad in Virginia as well

Wild Bill's avatar

We're about to find out it's bad everywhere, and worse in some.

Wild Bill's avatar

Alex Krainer today:

"... it looks like the Russians and the Americans have put the same enemy into their crosshairs.

Is this the third alliance?

If this proves right, it could turn out to be a massive victory for humanity. It will also be a small redemption for yours truly: ever since I published my book “Grand Deception” in 2017 (promptly banned 6 weeks later), I’ve maintained that the best hope for our emancipation will come with the third alliance between Russia and the United States.

The first alliance spanned most of the 19th century. The second alliance was during World War II and the first defeat of Naziism. I’ve been hoping and praying that we’ll see the third alliance within our lifetimes, and it looks like we are. But don’t expect bells and whistles just yet: the alliance, if it exists, is hidden behind a veil of adversity and even hostility at times."

https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/yuuge-trump-withdraws-us-from-66

More and more are seeing the Sovereign Alliance take shape.

Featherjourney's avatar

Thank you for that great comment!!! I subscribe to Alex Krainer, but hadn’t read it yet!

Love it 💖🕊🕊🕊

HijoDeSu2's avatar

What is the common theme when bad news is about to break (against them)?

Stay vigilant.

Jim Schout's avatar

A major problem in Minneapolis is George Floyd’s death was allowed to generate the “Summer of Love”. The whole thing was based on a lie. The lie was in claiming Derek Chauvin murdered him when in fact Floyd died of a drug overdose. This has never been made right.

So, how about stirring the pot and getting this straightened out? Why not have Trump call for the release of Derek Chauvin? That would call attention to the real problem and blow up the protests.

Today, the Left is attempting their same old game plan. They are claiming the death of that female protestor was murder. But this time the video is much clearer. Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s neck was iffy, but the acceleration of the dead woman’s car is not. She was the attacker and the ICE agent was threatened. So, I’m of the opinion that it is time to expose the stupidity of the Left in Minnesota. It wasn’t murder in 2020 and it wasn’t again in 2026. Creating the “Winter of Hate” isn’t going to fly.

You can’t blame stupid people for trying. But we really need to educate them. As Forrest Gump said, “Stupid is as stupid does”. The Communists believe they found a winning strategy in 2020 and plan to parlay it now. We need to correct their error.

Wild Bill's avatar

It's a hell of a lot harder to sustain rent-a-riots in January in Minneapolis than in July. [They] have their hands full. That won't stop them from trying, perhaps, but it will be a lot harder to sustain. As with military operations, the weather must always be considered. Especially when the rent-a-rioters are basically a bunch of fair-weather pansies.

Jim Schout's avatar

In 2020 the money to fund these riots was being recycled out of our tax dollars through government subsidized NGOs. I hope the funding now is bankrupting those NGOs because DOGE cut off the money stream. If that is true, the protestors will have a lot more to protest when they fail to be paid.

Wild Bill's avatar

Yeah, now it's got to come from Soros and friends. But the inevitable consequence is less rioting, so they'll have to be more selective. I'll take the win.

KW NORTON's avatar

It certainly feels quite insane out there in LaLa Land.

Dan Driscoll's avatar

Ashe, have you seen the Prometheus Action group, doing good work for a long time.

Roz Dixon's avatar

Hello, please help me remember the general who has been in attendance at numerous GART conferences? Operation GLADIO, and general military operations significance. Thank you. Is he on any social media sites? 1712Roz