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The News Cycle is almost impossible to track these days. At least, to do so fully.
That’s where we come in.
In the Badlands News Brief, the Badlands Media team hand picks news items of interest from the previous days to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community.
Some items feature original commentary from members of our growing team of citizen journalists. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see their other work.
Now, onto the news from Monday, May 8 …
US Virgin Islands can't find Google co-founder Larry Page to subpoena him in a lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase for 'enabling Epstein's sex-trafficking ring' - as prosecutors try to reach him through parent company Alphabet
The US Virgin Islands is unable to subpoena Google co-founder Larry Page over potential ties to Jeffrey Epstein because he cannot be physically located, federal court filings reveal.
A motion filed by the attorney general for the US Virgin Islands said investigators tried to identify a physical address at which Page, 50, could be personally summoned to appear in a court.
After identifying four possible addresses, none of which were 'valid', prosecutors are requesting the federal government allow Page to be summoned via Alphabet, Google's parent company, as he is still a member of its board.
The motion to subpoena Page by 'alternative' means was filed last Thursday and makes up part of a case in which the Virgin Islands alleges JPMorgan facilitated Epstein's sex trafficking ring by handling his payments to recruiters and victims.
Page's whereabouts are largely unknown, though he was said in December to have spent the bulk of the COVID pandemic on one of his growing number of private islands - some of which are within the US Virgin Islands. — The Daily Mail
Our Take: “Google Co-Founder Larry Page conveniently goes missing right as the U.S. Virgin Islands wish to subpoena him for his connections with Jeffrey Epstein.
Well, of course he can’t be found. He knows the walls are closing in and has probably retreated to some off-the-wall country to avoid being subpoenaed. The subpoena the U.S Virgin Islands wishes to serve is for ‘enabling a sex trafficking ring’.
I’m not sure how many folks are paying attention, however, the Epstein stuff is not going away. It is only getting bigger and they won’t be able to hide from it.” — Paul Fleuret
Broad doubts about Biden’s age and acuity spell Republican opportunity in 2024: POLL
President Joe Biden's job approval rating hit a career low in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll and a broad 68% of Americans say he's too old for another term as president -- views that put him in a trailing position against top Republicans in early preferences for 2024.
Just 44% see Biden's potential opponent, Donald Trump, as too old. (Trump is 76; Biden, 80.) Beyond chronological age, Trump far surpasses Biden in being seen as having the mental sharpness and the physical health it takes to serve effectively as president, with wide doubts about Biden on both fronts. — ABC News
Our Take: “It can be easy to dismiss political polls, given the dubious nature of their sources, their flawed data acquisition practices and their ability to skew public opinion more than reporting on it, but that power goes both ways.
Given the Media Industrial Complex sourcing for this news, it's clear that the Establishment doesn't want Biden anywhere near the 2024 ticket.
Ironically, Biden being the D nominee for '24 would be a proof of both Devolution and Patriots in Control theories all on its own.” — Burning Bright
Anheuser-Busch CEO Blames Bud Light Boycott On Social Media "Misinformation"
The CEO of the "inclusive" AB InBev blamed "misinformation" on social media for stoking a nationwide boycott of Bud Light following the brewer's move to promote the beer with TikTok trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
People often talk about this topic in social media like noise... You have one fact and every person puts an opinion behind the fact. And then the opinions start to be replicated fast on each and every comment. By the time that 10 or 20 people put a comment out there, the reality is no longer what the fact is, but is more [about] what the comments were," chief executive Michel Doukeris told the Financial Times.
Instead of taking the blame for the company's catastrophic attempt to virtue signal, even if it means alienating the vast majority of its clients, Doukeris instead blamed online "misinformation and confusion", including reports that Mulvaney's Bud Light can is "a production can and every can would be like the one that was in that post . . . We never intended to make it for general production and sale for the public." Well, that's just a brilliant way for InBev to also alienate the progressives after scrambling to distance itself from the entire fiasco. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “Can you say gaslight?
Apparently, simply saying the word ‘misinformation’ causes otherwise-demonstrable realities to evaporate. It wasn't the fact that Anheuser Busch put Dylan Mulvaney on the Bud Light can packaging, causing the majority of their fans to boycott the company for completely ignoring the fact most Bud Light drinkers think the trans agenda is nuts, to say the least.
It's not that the trans agenda brutally mutilates thousands of children, causing untold psychological harm, distress and confusion to millions of others, which Anheuser-Busch seems to agree with and even support.
No, it's not that. It's ... misinformation.
What misinformation? If your accusation that someone lied is true, you need to do more than just say ‘they lied.’ You need to demonstrate that for it to have any real meaning, for it to convince rational people to believe you. Typical of the deep state narrative pushers, anything that is counter-mainstream narrative is almost always labeled misinformation, or hate speech, or what have you, all without ever demonstrating how or why. That's a serious red flag we shouldn't ignore.
When an accusation is not paired with evidence, especially when it comes from mainstream pushers, it's usually an indication that it's bogus.
I guess we just have to trust the Anheuser-Busch CEO blindly, like so many other things, such as vaccine efficacy, and our faith and confidence in the election system.” — Justin Deschamps
SICK. Corrupt Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates Says He’s Suffering From PTSD, “Crying” Over Election Criticism – Compares Himself to World War Two Veterans
Corrupt Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates, a so-called Republican, says he is experiencing PTSD as he grips with “election denialism” following the rotten 2020 and 2022 elections that he seemingly helped steal in Maricopa County.
Bill Gates is a pathological liar. Why should we believe this? Why should we care?
This condition is commonly experienced by war veterans who witnessed horrible things while serving their country. But after all, according to the Democrats, RINO Bill Gates is a “defender of Democracy.”
As reported by Yvonne Wingett Sanchez for WAPO, “Gates and the other supervisors said they trusted the [2020 election] results and went beyond what had ever been done to ensure they were accurate. When the board met in late November to accept the results, Gates compared their constitutional duty to uphold the election results to the experience of his grandfather, who ‘went to Europe to fight for democracy’ during World War II.”
Like the radical left Democrats, Gates also sees himself as a war hero, akin to World War II veterans who fought — and died — for our freedoms. He clearly has no respect for our military heroes. — The Gateway Pundit
Our Take: “So we have this weasel back in the spotlight once again.
You all might recall the blatantly-rigged Arizona midterm Gubernatorial election and the total soyjacks who’ve since become literal poster children for weak and incompetent men.
I’m of course talking about supervisor Bill Gates of Maricopa County and his creepy little buddy, Steven Ritcher. Now, we have Bill Gates saying that he's ‘suffering from PTSD’, going so far as to claim that his trauma is comparable to those of the brave men who served in World War II. So not only is Mr. Gates a detestable, sackless little man, but he also is trying to equate being a Deep State patsy for personal gain to going overseas, fighting and dying for your country.
Just when you thought this man couldn't be any more unlikeable, he spouts something as disrespectful and deluded as this.
I don't know if this guy is willingly corrupt, brainwashed into thinking he's in the right somehow, or if he buckled under pressure from all the powerful and deadly forces that had a vested interest in a particular outcome in AZ. The state is about to be the nation's largest chip producer; it's an important gateway for the invasion of illegal aliens, the flow of guns, drugs and human trafficking that could very well be funding the various black ops happening behind the scenes, and of course they likely feared having an overtly America first governor in Kari Lake.
Of all the midterms, AZ’s was probably the most critical for them to win, and it all came down on the shoulders of these dweebs.” — Ryan DeLarme
‘The View’ Reacts to Texas Mall Shooting: Hispanics and Blacks Can Also Be ‘White Supremacists’
On “The View,” Ana Navarro stirred up a debate by claiming that being Hispanic or Black does not prevent someone from supporting white supremacy, while discussing the recent mass shooting at a Dallas mall.
According to law enforcement sources, 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia is the suspected shooter in the deadly attack that left eight dead and several others injured. Anonymous law enforcement sources claim that Garcia may have been motivated by white supremacist ideology, citing extremist social media posts and a patch on his chest that read “RWDS.”
While Navarro’s co-hosts were surprised by the suggestion, she insisted that the shooter’s Hispanic background should not preclude him from holding white supremacist beliefs. Other progressive personalities have made similar claims in the past, including Jemele Hill and Bree Newsome Bass, who argued that Black police officers can be motivated by white supremacist ideology.
“We all have to remember that the head of the Proud Boys. His name is Enrique Tarrio. The Proud Boys is a White Nationalist group. Look, being Hispanic or being Black does not, or being anything does not make you immune from being racist, from being radicalized, from being a White supremacist, from being evil, from being homicidal. And we are seeing it over and over again. There are people who, they don’t see themselves as what they are,” Navarro said. — Becker News
Our Take: “The cackling from the hen-house, known as the view, rises to all new levels of ridiculous and absurd in a single bound.
Apparently, having morals, principles, and values can make you a white supremacist, even if you are Black or Hispanic … heck, any ethnicity.
The View never fails to amplify woke virtue signaling like a megaphone plugged into an amplifier the size of a baseball stadium. Furthermore, why let a good crisis go to waste? Never mind that people were just killed. The left is more concerned about spinning these events to fit a narrative. Essentially, even if we have to label Black and Latino people racist against their own, we will do so until society falls in a complacent line.
This is why the left has disenfranchised their own so badly. They have become the Marxist monsters they claim the right and conservatives are. Regardless of any point of view, shows like ‘The View’ and the radical left as a whole continue pulling this card until our guns, freedom of speech, and our identity are stripped from our souls.
This should give American citizens more of a drive to stand and reject this attempt at subverting our constitutional freedoms.” — Johnny Q
Anti-Trans UFC Fighter Says He Could Beat Up Any 10 “Trans Men” in a Row – Transgender MMA Artist Accepts Challenge
UFC star Jake Shields made headlines after he challenged 10 trans male fighters without a break between bouts. Now, wrestler transgender MMA artist Mark Beggs has accepted the challenge and vowed that he will ‘f**k up’ the former world title contender in the upcoming match.
Former UFC fighter Jake Shields issued a challenge to a battle to “the toughest trans men” on his Twitter account last month.
“Since trans men are real men I would like to challenge the 10 toughest trans men in the world to a fight I fight them with no training camp and no rest between each fight,” Shields tweeted on April 20.
“Let’s go, alphabet people get your 10 best and prove me wrong,” he added.
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Biological girl turned transgender man Mack Beggs of Texas announced on her Instagram that she accepts the challenge and is ready to fight Shields one on one.
“We just going to make this an official call out, but Jake Shields I will take you up on your offer,” she said via OutKick. “But the offer isn’t going to be 10 versus one and 10 trans men you’re going to be fighting for the rest of the night.”
“You’re going to do a one-on-one type match.— The Gateway Pundit
Our Take: “As Burning Bright has said many times, UFC fighters are a special breed.
Psychologically, single-player sports are far more demanding on the player, who can't hide their less than full investment in the sports endeavor behind other superior players on the team. In American football, for instance, a player might have unfaced personal challenges that hold them back from reaching their full potential. Their 80% effort is masked however, behind those other players and the team itself when wins are accrued; i.e. the pareto distribution.
But in the octagon, or ring, or golf course, it's just you, your training, your heart, your will, and the field. For this reason, real merit and true skill are more prominent in these sports, which require one to bravely accept the truths of life. Similarly, a great many heroes and warriors walk among us, surmounting personal challenges that go unnoticed and uncelebrated.
The aptitude of such players, and people, to accept reality as it is and confront lies when they see them, which is required in themselves to become truly good players, makes them good candidates to call out subversive cons and deceptive social influences, of which, the trans ideology is one of the most anti-truth and unfair agendas on earth.
The (former) UFC Fighter in this case, Jake Shields, appears to be using the octagon as a symbolic stage for invalidating the falsehoods of the trans movement, and by extension, the falsehoods of this world in totality. This underscores a much underused tool in the quest for true freedom on a world filled with con artists and fraudsters. The power of good competition to awaken minds and loose the shackles of state-sponsored propaganda is well nigh limitless.
This is why the Deep State avoids true debates. This is why they need fact checkers and censorship. Because on the octagon of truth, the weapons of liars crumble to dust in the presence of a truth imbued mind.
A battle, a competition, whether with words, fists, or hearts, always has the power to expose the truth by those who have worked harder to embrace it via their training and skill. Whether the people as spectators have the courage to embrace the truth revealed through a competition remains to be seen. But at least the spectacle will provide one of many merciful opportunities to dethrone falsehoods in the mind.” — Justin Deschamps
Read the new gag order muzzling Trump in his hush-money case
A New York judge banned Donald Trump from posting any evidence on social media in his ongoing "hush-money" case after prosecutors accused the former president of having a history of targeting witnesses.
State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan fulfilled prosecutors' request this week in issuing a social media gag order on the former president, who is facing criminal charges stemming from allegations he oversaw hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
On April 4, Trump was arraigned on 34 counts of falsifying business records. Prosecutors allege he covered up a $130,000 non-disclosure payment just two weeks before the 2016 election in order to silence porn star Stormy Daniels over an alleged affair between the two. Trump has denied the affair and any wrongdoing.
Merchan's Monday order comes as Trump's legal team attempts to move the state criminal case to federal court. The order also stops Trump from publicly discussing details about witnesses involved in the case or any other evidence prosecutors plan to use against him. — Business Insider
Our Take: “The gag won't work. The evidence will come out eventually. But in the meantime, the Soros-backed Deep State AGs of the world look the fool. And that says quite a bit.” — Justin Deschamps
We hope you enjoyed this brief look back at the major news items you might have missed in this ever-escalating and ever-accelerating news cycle as the Information War continues to rage on around us.
The Badlands Media team will continue to combine our cognitive powers in order to slow things down and find the signal amidst the noise as this series expands.
As always, if you have any thoughts on these news items or the MANY others swirling in the digital ether, drop into the comments below to share them with your fellow Badlanders.
With exception of the last two headlines showing increasingly panicky minions, today’s take could be entitled, “Here a weasel, there a weasel; everywhere a whole herd of (very corrupt) weasels”....
I loved Ryan DeLarme's comments about the weasly Bill Gates of AZ. One small correction: "the total soyjacks who’ve since become literal poster child's" - the world 'child's' should be 'children' to be plural.