Badlands News Brief
The Regime is Totally Winning Amidst Continued Meltdown
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 pick news items of interest from the previous days to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community with some Badlands flavoring to help wash it down.
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Now, onto the news from Tuesday, August 13 …
X Conversation Between Musk And Trump Generates Over A Billion Views
A conversation between Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk has generated over a billion views, as Trump officially returned to the platform Monday.
Elon made the observation following the 2 hour conversation between the two.
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The conversation was streamed live on X spaces, but had to overcome huge technical issues dues to a sustained DDOS attack on the platform shortly before the stream began.
The attack followed sustained moaning by the dinosaur media, complaining that Trump would be allowed to say “whatever he wants to” by Musk. — Modernity News
Our Take: I just can’t get enough of the public actualization of the Trump-Musk Narrative Pincer that I’ve been projecting since 2022.
As we’ve been discussing on the Power Hour for the better part of two years—and as Kash Patel famously pointed out in a FOX appearance—Elon Musk was THE top contractor for Trump’s Department of Defense.
If you think that’s where the two magnates’ relationship started … or ended, then I don’t think you’ve been watching the same movie some of us have.
At the time, since I focus predominantly on Narrative Warfare, I suggested that a Narrative Pincer between Trump and Musk could be as catastrophic for the Deep State as it would be unifying for the Collective Mind because the two men have become more symbols and cyphers than people in the War of Stories, and because they rode opposite sides of the sociopolitical zeitgeist into mass psychological prominence, with Musk representing (at the time) the Neo, Techno Optimist emergent Left, while Trump took the nationalist, conservative and even disaffected liberal flank, forming MAGA out of its scattered ashes.
I’ve said many times that, in order to truly lead the way into the future, our chosen leaders need to be seen not as destroyers or conquerors, but as builders and unifiers. Trump is and was a builder. Musk is and was a builder.
Now, they’re beginning the public unification.
Ironic, that self-branded Collectivists seem most affected by this trend, as evidenced by the following graphic of media headlines decrying their conversation as a threat to … ah, who gives a shit anymore? —
A year later, sprawling Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump has stalled
A year after a Georgia grand jury accused Donald Trump and others of illegally trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state, the case has stalled with no chance of going to trial before the end of this year.
When Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis secured the indictment a year ago Thursday, it was the fourth and most sprawling of the criminal cases against the former president. Trump narrowly lost Georgia to Democrat Joe Biden, and Willis used Georgia’s anti-racketeering law to allege that he and 18 others had participated in a wide-ranging scheme to subvert the will of the state’s voters.
Willis’ team notched some early victories in the case, but explosive allegations raised by one of Trump’s co-defendants early this year have caused a delay and could even derail the prosecution. — AP News
Our Take: The AP is lamenting the impending death of Fani’s RICO.
‘Trump and other defendants have appealed McAfee’s ruling…the appeals court has barred McAfee from taking any further action in the case against Trump and the others…while it is pending.’
Thoughts and prayers.
This article threw me when I first read it. ‘What’s the news?’ I wondered as I read it and re-read it and searched for other headlines. Then I realized that the anniversary of Fani’s doomed endeavor is the news.
That’s hilarious — there isn’t any news about Fani’s RICO because Fani’s RICO is stalled indefinitely.
The lawfare campaign against 45 failed in spectacular fashion. The cases where The State got wins backfired as Trump became more popular. The cases billed as ‘the walls closing in’ are dismissed or stalled.
This campaign is so unsuccessful that the DOJ now has to shift resources to defend against Trump’s credible tortious abuse suit for $100M. Remember Trump’s lawyers not being able to observe? Or the staged photos? Or the rampant political leaks? It’s all ostensibly admissible evidence in this new lawsuit.
The regime failed to stop the Return of Trump, and AP News is sad enough to remind us about what could have been — but never will be — in Fulton County.
Said another way, Trump has been unburdened by what has been, allowing all of us to imagine what can be.
President of Precedent.
What a time to be alive.
Those who took pleas in Fani’s RICO must be drowning in regret. They just keep taking L’s. —
Progressives face an existential threat from AIPAC. And there’s nothing to stop it.
Progressive Democrats just watched pro-Israel super PACs spend jaw-dropping sums to wipe out two top liberals in Congress. And leaders fear they have no way to stop it from happening again in 2026.
Those groups, chiefly the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC, spent a combined $25 million on ads to defeat Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) this summer in what became the two most expensive House primaries ever. As a result, two more mainstream Democrats, George Latimer in New York and Wesley Bell in Missouri, are advancing in safe blue districts rather than two stalwart progressive voices.
After both Bowman and Bush crumbled under that avalanche of spending, prompted by their criticism of Israel in the country’s war with Hamas, progressive Democrats have awoken to a bleak new reality that could haunt them for years to come: They have no organized way to counter that kind of money. And they fear AIPAC and allied groups will be more empowered to take on even bigger targets next cycle and beyond because they know their strategy works.
“I think they smell success,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said of AIPAC in an interview with POLITICO. “The point is not just them going after Jamaal and Cori, which is terrible. It is the intimidating presence they have over every member of Congress. ... It bothers me that there hasn’t been more outrage.”
In the days after Bush’s defeat last week, senior liberals in Congress, including Sanders, have begun to reckon with the size of the problem. Until then, progressives were not sure if AIPAC’s success against Bowman, who had plenty of his own political flaws unrelated to the Middle East, could be replicated. Then Bush’s loss rattled progressives even more. — Politico
Our Take: This is where it gets interesting; Because this is where Trump's 5D chess comes into play.
I'm going to get a little speculative here, so bear with me; this is mostly my opinion and intuition, based on everything I've observed and read over the past 10+ years.
I believe the controlled opposition dynamic—as it relates to Israel—was always set up to culminate with the Right/Left dynamic playing out as we are witnessing it.
Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman clearly are nefarious actors, likely funded by oligarchs like George Soros. Soros is a confusing oddity, because he is a Jewish Nazi (literally joined the Hitler Youth as a boy living with his well-connected uncle in World War 2 Budapest) who helped the Hungarian Nazis identify Jewish families in 1945. He openly admitted to doing this in a 60 Minutes interview that was filmed in the 1990's but never aired. (A disgruntled employee obtained the footage and leaked it to the internet, which is purportedly how we now have it.)
Soros has said that he supports Israel's right to exist, but would not help the Zionist quest to expand their territory. Instead, he has used his obscene wealth to fund the [often militant] controlled opposition groups that were necessary to justify the Zionists' militancy.
It was the creation of these groups—such as Hamas—that subverted good-faith actors like Mahmoud Abbas from establishing a peaceful Palestinian movement that would ease tensions and seek harmony with the Israeli people. These groups were absolutely necessary to create the conditions for Forever Wars.
I suspect that the details of Soros's schemes (funding these groups) was willfully disclosed to the public, in order to consolidate support on the "Right" for Israel and against Palestine, and Islam at large. Oligarchs like Soros don't care what the commoners think of him, as long as the commoners subscribe to the "program." (The controlled-opposition dynamic.)
Here is where the op gets more complex:
I believe that this emerging "Hitler was right" movement was always intended to emerge, as a by-product of the Soros disclosures.
As it became more clear that Soros was funding these mass-migration movements (something we've known about since the Obama era) as well as these progressive politicians, free-thinkers would pursue alternative theories on the truth of our reality; and the theory that has been proffered in the anonymous corners of the web is that "The Jews" are to blame for our suffering. It is a platitude that is intellectually lazy, because it is no different than blaming all white people for the Atlantic Slave Trade. (Or blaming all black people for degenerate hip-hop culture.)
This platitude is something that I have earnestly engaged, in an attempt to decipher the truth, and the conclusion that I have drawn is that it is actually a gangster cartel—a satanic cabal—that wears skinsuits, one of which is Jewish identity. (There are plenty of "gentiles" in this cabal, such as the Clintons, Obamas, Bidens, etc.) Funny enough, this cabal is seemingly responsible for all the things listed in the previous paragraph, including the Third Reich.
I have been documenting my research in this newsletter for months, and I don't know if I'm right, but I feel like I'm on the right track. Because I honestly believe that The [Black-Hat] Plan has always been a bicameral plan: Either destroy Israel in a giant satanic ritual that is intended to feign the prophecies of the Book of Revelations (more likely outcome, in my opinion), or maybe the Zionists succeed in establishing Greater Israel, and Jerusalem serves as the throne of the globalist empire—in a satanic inversion of the Kingdom of Heaven—which is exactly what Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion told Look! Magazine was his vision in 1954.
Either way, I believe the "Hitler was right" psyop was designed to capture the intellectual loyalty of earnest free-thinkers, who would see the Third Reich as tragic heroes, and foment intense hatred toward "normie" Jewish people—which would metastasize in the cultural zeitgeist, and ultimately justify the expansion of State Powers (The Patriot Act) to go after those people online and in real life.
In other words, it's a giant honeypot meant to usher in the penultimate version of the Orwellian police state we are already witnessing. There are already earnest MAGA supporters who believe such measures should be implemented— due to their religious beliefs. They don't realize that they are the controlled-opposition counterpart to the Woke Left cancel mobs, calling for the exact same style of censorship against those who are raising legitimate concerns of the government of Israel and its ostensible control over Congress.
This is why I have dedicated so much bandwidth to this issue, because I believe it is arguably the single most important intellectual issue of our time. Because ultimately, the hate speech laws being passed in Republican-controlled state legislatures are not about censoring criticism of a religion; they are about censoring criticism of a foreign government. And that precedent, I fear, will one day be used to justify similar measures against criticisms of the US government.
It is critical that we continue this dialogue, and work through our understanding of this issue. Because if we succumb to fear, and comply with the Party of False Decorum, then the voices that will fill the void will speak platitudes that could lead us to our ultimate doom. (Collective blame is not an intellectual argument.) We need courage now, more than ever.
I do see a silver lining, because I think the earnest Left and the earnest Right now have common ground for earnest dialogue. That is Horseshoe Theory and "Trump's Gambit" coming together to save both America and Israel from certain doom. This is why Israel had to be saved for last; because it requires surgical precision in a "controlled" geopolitical environment.
I don't know if I'm right, but I am willing to try to diffuse this bomb. —
Biden's handoff to Harris set for DNC in Chicago
President Biden plans to address the Democratic National Convention on its opening night, touting his partnership with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Why it matters: Biden's speech Monday night in Chicago will amount to a changing of the guard ceremony for Democrats, as the president kicks off a convention that he had intended to close as his party's nominee.
It will be a goodbye that Biden resisted for weeks, as pressure built within the party for him to drop out of the race after his disastrous debate against Donald Trump in June.
Now Biden, as a sitting president who wanted another term, will be in the unusual position of celebrating his own accomplishments while trying to persuade Americans to pick another Democrat for the White House.
Democrats want Biden to focus on his legislative legacy, including the passage of a bipartisan infrastructure law, a massive climate and health care bill, and the Chips and Science Act.
Party planners typically have months to plan four nights of political choreography. Since Biden's sudden withdrawal on July 21, they've had four weeks to rework a convention that will honor Biden and re-introduce Harris to America.
Driving the news: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also is slated to speak Monday night. Former President Obama will take the prime-time speaking slot on Tuesday night, as NBC News first reported and Axios confirmed. — Axios
Our Take: The DNC is ostensibly supposed to represent the grand culmination and official coming-out party of the left-wing agenda—a projected victory chariot onto which the newest fake candidate for the Globalist Regime is given his or her flowers and anointed as the new prophet of the Hope and Change movement … until they inevitably leave office in shame, only to be replaced by the next Hope and Change candidate looking to undo all of the Hope and Change the previous one laid upon these lands.
And yet … try as they might, the establishment can’t seem to project a unified narrative or brand heading into this election cycle’s coronation, with everything from Our Boy Blue’s ironically-threatening energy hanging over it all, making what should seem like a celebration double as a state funeral, and amidst the confident bravado of a Trump movement that’s never been stronger or more popular, judging by his recent BILLION-view conversation with the enigmatic Elon Musk.
And yet, the signal in all the noise, to me, is the predicted presence of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, THE two names most synonymous with the US contingent of the Globalist Deep State, in my estimation, and arguably Trump’s two original enemies on the sociopolitical and cultural battlespace.
Convergences abound in the current persuasion of the Info War … and it seems like some familiar—and infamous—names are about to get a major reintroduction into the War of Stories as the Third Act rockets toward a series of inflection points.
I’m looking forward to it.
Are they? —
‘The CIA Writes Her Paycheck’: Venezuela’s US-Backed Opposition Flounders
The United States has taken a keen interest in the results of another foreign election, with observers noting Venezuela possesses the world’s largest proven crude oil reserves.
Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), the highest court in the country, is examining the results of the country’s most recent presidential election as opposition leaders and their foreign backers allege fraud.
The country’s National Electoral Council (CNE), the government body responsible for managing elections in Venezuela, has submitted records to the court in an attempt to resolve the ongoing dispute. The TSJ has noted its legal authority on the matter, noting that its decision will be final and binding. But the opposition has refused to take part in the process, drawing criticism over its failure to present requested evidence to the court.
“No Venezuelan party that alleges to have 40 percent more votes than President Maduro (as the opposition claims) would hesitate to present the evidence to the National Electoral Council (CNE),” said Venezuelan constitutional expert Dr. Olga Alvarez in response to the development. “Whoever cries election fraud must irrefutably prove it, the onus is on them not on the CNE to prove there wasn’t.”
“She’s been operating as a foreign agent on behalf of the United States. The CIA literally writes her a paycheck,” alleged House, speaking of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. — Sputnik
Our Take: This is a fascinating development. It certainly isn't a definitive indicator of which side the CIA is backing in this Venezuelan coup, but it does align with my own research into Maduro and the role he played in going after the oil oligarchs at Glencore.
The civil action lawsuit brought by Maduro against 40 "Big Oil" executives seems to have contributed to executive actions taken by the Trump Administration, as well as the recent indictment of former Glencore executive Alex Beard.
A Venezuelan politician publicly accusing the oppposition leader of being on the CIA payroll does not qualify as definitive proof—even if it affirms our existing bias against the CIA—but Niko House does present compelling logic to back it up:
"House also noted Venezuela's robust electoral system, which includes multiple “checks and balances” and allows the opposition to monitor the counting of votes at electoral precincts. “The most simplistic explanation is the oil, right?” House said of the United States’ interest in the election."
(He is referencing the Glencore situation.)
House brings up a great point: Biden hasn't called for an audit of the 2020 election—and why would he?
Doing so would expose the fact that his cadre stole the election on his behalf. Whether House is accurate in asserting that the Venezuelan electoral system allows for the opposition to easily monitor vote counting at precint locations is not something I can independently verify, but the statement and behavior of Maduro (calling for an audit) is what you would expect from the earnest actor in this situation.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. If Maduro succeeds in publicly proving the election results, then perhaps that could be a template for doing the same thing here in the United States. —
Fewer Americans want companies to take stance on politics
Fewer Americans want companies to take a public stand on current events and public policy, new results from a Gallup-Bentley University study reveal.
Why it matters: By taking a stance on political candidates, companies risk taking a hit to their bottom lines.
By the numbers: Just 38% think businesses in general should take a public stance on current events, according to the survey of 5,835 U.S. adults fielded from late April to early May.
That's a decline of 10 percentage points from 2022.
Notably, the biggest drops in sentiment are within groups of people who were previously the most receptive — including Democrats, Americans under the age of 45, Black Americans and Asian Americans.
Republicans were one of the only cohort that saw a rise in the share of people who want businesses to speak up.
What they're saying: "We may be seeing a shift over a three-year period due to none other than fatigue," Cynthia Clark, professor of management at Bentley University and one of the creators of the survey, told Axios. — Axios
Our Take: We’re winning the info war.
As I’ve said many times, while I don’t believe polls are presumptively accurate, I do believe they provide important data points. This one is a doozy. Also, Axios is calling this a study, not a poll.
A Gallup-Bentley University study showed that only 38% of Americans want business to engage in shaping their moral world view. This is a direct rejection of Stakeholder Capitalism, the World Economic Forum agenda that’s given us the Sustainable Development Goals; Environmental, Social & Governance; Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Public-Private Partnerships; and more.
This globalist change agenda of weaponized empathy is overwhelmingly driven through businesses, global and local, with the complicity of NGOs and third party associations — and without any opposition from those who swear oaths to protect our rights.
This is why rainbows and fists show up in your consumer product packaging, your children’s public school curriculum, and your workplace culture. It’s coordinated and calculated to bring about social change for the New World Order.
This Gallup study reveals that 62% of Americans reject this agenda. Of course they do. Appeals to emotion can only work against reason for so long, and they rarely work in the face of an all out assault on self interest.
The number of Americans rejecting the global cabal’s agenda is growing. Unwinding their influence from American lives and American businesses is a long game, and it begins with hearts and minds.
Change happens one conversation at a time. That conversation leads to a changed mind. A changed mind leads to changed behavior. Changed behavior leads to a better world.
Never stop fighting. We’re winning. —
BONUS ITEMS
If Harris Rejects 'Unscripted' Face-Offs, Two Proposed Debates Will Become Trump Town-Halls
A pair of proposed presidential debates could instead become town hall meetings for former President Donald Trump, his campaign confirmed with The Epoch Times on Aug. 11.
The Republican presidential nominee and his Democrat opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, have both agreed to participate in a Sept. 10 debate on ABC News. This comes despite the former president’s concerns over a conflict of interest with the network, which faces a lawsuit in which Trump alleges the network defamed him.
He is now waiting for Harris to accept two additional proposed debates - Sept. 4 on Fox News and Sept. 25 on NBC News.
If she rejects those proposals, which Trump made during an Aug. 9 news conference, Trump will appear solo on those national TV networks, a Trump campaign adviser said.
The Epoch Times has sought comment from the Harris campaign.
“I look forward to seeing Kamala at all three Debates!” Trump said in an Aug. 11 post on his social media platform, Truth Social. — The Epoch Times
FTC says judge in Google case has power to undo app store monopoly
U.S. judges have broad power to restore market competition and punish companies that hold illegal monopolies, the Federal Trade Commission on Monday told a California judge who is weighing proposed reforms to Google’s app store Play.
The FTC offered its views in a friend-of-the-court filing, opens new tab to San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge James Donato, who is presiding over a lawsuit filed by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games accusing Google of monopolizing how consumers access apps on Android devices and how they pay for in-app transactions.
Epic last year persuaded a jury in San Francisco that Google unlawfully stifled competition through its controls over app distribution and payments. As a remedy, Epic asked the court to require Google to allow consumers to download apps from third-party app stores, such as Epic’s, and from other internet sources.
Epic also urged the judge to allow developers greater freedom to tell users about payment options for purchases within apps.
The FTC did not take sides in the case or back any of Epic's specific proposals. It said U.S. federal judges "may order whatever relief is necessary to restore the competition eliminated by the illegal conduct," and Donato should focus on how to allow competitors to enter the market.
Donato is set to resume hearing evidence from the companies on Wednesday. — Reuters
Harris campaign's Google ads rewrite news headlines
The Harris campaign has been editing news headlines and descriptions within Google search ads that make it appear as if the Guardian, Reuters, CBS News and other major publishers are on her side, Axios has found.
Why it matters: It's a common practice in the commercial advertising world that doesn't violate Google's policies, but the ads mimic real news results from Search closely enough that they have news outlets caught off guard.
According to Google's ad transparency center, the Trump campaign isn't running these types of ads, but this technique has been used by campaigns before.
The ads say that they are sponsored, but it's not immediately clear that the text that accompanies real news links is written by the campaigns and not by the media publication itself.
What they're saying: "While we understand why an organization might wish to align itself with the Guardian's trusted brand, we need to ensure it is being used appropriately and with our permission. We'll be reaching out to Google for more information about this practice," a Guardian spokesperson said.
Spokespeople for brands such as CNN, USA Today and NPR, whose links appeared in Harris for President ads, said they were unaware their brand was being featured this way.
Reality check: Google said the ads don't violate its rules, but platforms have in the past wrestled with whether this type of format can spread misinformation. — Axios
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.
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Great Takes today!
My biggest laugh came from BB: "Ironic, that self-branded Collectivists seem most affected by this trend, as evidenced by the following graphic of media headlines decrying their conversation as a threat to … ah, who gives a shit anymore? — Burning Bright". I spit out some of my coffee:-)
I keep laughing at the DS Rat Bastard's minions. They are so absurd.
I am looking forward to Joe Lange's next acticle because I am so looking foward to the Justice phase of The Plan.
God Wins!
God Bless!!!
You are ignoring the history of British MI6 involvement in the creation of radical Zionism and the Muslim Brotherhood. Your discussion of the controlled contest between the two sides is useful as far as it goes. You should look at Richard Poe's book "How the British created Communism, . . . and blamed it on the Jews". It'll widen your view, and maybe cause you to see that both sides are totally controlled as is the Congress. Please note that the intent behind the British led intelligence game, is the destruction of the Republic of the United States, which without Trump's election, is a certainty.