Badlands News Brief
The Media Melts Down as MAGA Rises Once More ...
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.
Some items feature original (and subjective) commentary. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see our writers’ corresponding Substack accounts and check out their other work.
Now, onto the news from Tuesday, January 16 …
Maddow Melts Down Over "Rise Of Fascism"; Joy Reid Says Trump Iowa Caucus Landslide Proves White Christians Are Racists
In an early glimpse of what to expect from coverage of this election, MSNBC and CNN hosts went into full rage mode with the Iowa caucus results.
Leftist hack Rachel Maddow complained about a “rise of fascism” after Donald Trump easily won the Iowa Caucus in a landslide over his Republican opponents.
As Steve Watson reports at Modernity.news, Trump scored a record breaking win, with over 56,000 votes, more than double that of his nearest rival Ron DeSantis, clearly outlining that he will be the GOP nominee.
It represents the biggest victory for an Iowa challenger in modern history.
Naturally, leftists had an absolute meltdown, with Rachel Maddow heading up the line, declaring she is “worried about potential rise of fascism in this country.”
“If we’re worried about our democracy falling to an authoritarian and potentially fascist form of government. The leader who is trying to do that is part of that equation… Is a much bigger part of that equation,” she added.
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Maddow was not alone in her melt-down-ness...
As Jonathan Turley reports, MSNBC host Joy Reid led this effort by declaring that “White Christians” are racists who want minorities to “bow down” to them. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “We're midway through January, and for an Establishment media apparatus that loudly and proudly declared the 'results' of the 2020 election in favor of a potato, they seem rather panicky based on the reported results of the Iowa Caucus.
Many of us have speculated that a full rug-pull scenario involving another theft of the 2024 election in full view of an even more engaged and motivated American populace represents the biggest wake-up opportunity yet, and I don't think that can be argued ...
That said, I always tend to look at the enemy media Narrative to gauge the System's play, and while I absolutely believe they will try to steal the 2024 election, the early returns and their collectivist reaction to them suggests it may be a lot easier said than done this time around.
In fact, most of the Establishment and media rhetoric this time around is focusing on the seeming inevitability of Trump's revenge tour ... AFTER he's reinstalled as president.
Curious & comfy.” — Burning Bright
China on Iowa: ‘The World Should Prepare’ for Return of Trump
The Chinese state-run newspaper Global Times urged the world on Monday, shortly before the beginning of the Iowa primary caucuses, to “prepare for the possibility of Donald Trump being re-elected as president.”
Trump, who served as president from 2016 to 2020 and maintained an aggressive anti-communist foreign policy, decisively won the Iowa caucuses hours later by the largest margin in the history of the Republican contest. As a candidate running against incumbent leftist President Joe Biden, Trump has prioritized challenging the Chinese Communist Party’s espionage efforts in America and seeking redress for the Party’s role in causing the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
Trump has also condemned Biden, whose family has been involved in business dealings with regime-linked Chinese businessmen for years, for being insufficiently serious in addressing the threat China presents to America and the world.
The Global Times routinely shames the United States for holding presidential elections, calling it a “low-quality democracy” compared to the totalitarian, repressive rule in China under genocidal dictator Xi Jinping. The newspaper called upon its stable of American politics “experts” on Monday to assess the Iowa caucuses before they happened, who lamented that Trump would likely emerge as the Republican presidential nominee and perform strongly in Iowa.
“As the US election year race kicks off in Iowa on Monday, experts suggest that the world should prepare for the possibility of Donald Trump being re-elected as President of the US and a United States that is more divided,” the Global Times predicted. — Breitbart
Our Take: “China is telling the world to prepare for the return of Trump, and they are spot on in calling the plot in this latest installment of political theater.
‘Trump is so popular, the Global Times assessed, that the biggest obstacle to his return to power is the Democrats’ attempts to remove him from presidential ballots through the court system.’
China is calling predicting the return of Trump, and the regime is wigging. But this latest announcement from the world’s second superpower has me, as Burning Bright says, ‘comfy.’
That is, this feels like a wink from the sovereign alliance.
It doesn’t help China, Biden, or globalism for the Chinese state-run media to prep the collective mind for the return of Trump. It runs contrary to the past three years of continuous narrative deployments that Trump is finished, unelectable, super insurrectiony, and soooo indicted (h/t Chris Paul).
The Biden Administration’s relationship with China is unprecedented. His son’s — and his — private interests with the US’s most powerful geopolitical adversary deserves much scrutiny. It also deserves due process, but the precedent must first be set for going after former presidents for corruption and other crimes while in office. That’s happening now, on every front.
Federal, state, civil, criminal — there is no judicial avenue in which Biden will be protected from accountability given the precedents being set right now.” — Ashe in America
Media outlets defend early race call for Trump in Iowa
Media outlets are defending their decisions to call the Iowa caucuses for former President Trump a little more than a half-hour after caucusing began — and while before the caucuses concluded.
The Associated Press, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News all called the race at 8:31 p.m., citing projections from exit polling and early voting totals in a handful of precincts across the state.
The projections were the earliest in some time for the Iowa caucuses, and they immediately triggered criticism from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign.
“It is absolutely outrageous that the media would participate in election interference by calling the race before tens of thousands of Iowans even had a chance to vote,” said Andrew Romeo, a representative for DeSantis, late Monday night. “The media is in the tank for Trump, and this is the most egregious example yet.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper remarked live on air that it was the earliest he could remember the network making a race call.
CNN told The Hill it had enough information from entrance polls to make a projection as early as 8 p.m., once it was clear the race was going to have an overwhelming winner. — The Hill
Our Take: “Perhaps the most delicious bit of irony to emerge from Monday night's Iowa caucus win for Donald Trump was the Vivekian troglodytes and DeSimps accusing the Establishment media of calling the race ‘too early’ in favor of the Orange Man.
Obviously, this recalls the inverted scenario we saw on November 3, 2020, when FOX News and other MSM outlets called Arizona for Joe Biden with less than 1% of the vote reported.
What's more ... the Associated Press actually had to double down on their Trump call and explain the mechanisms they used to come to it.
It's always possible (perhaps even probable,) that they're setting the stage for an early call against Trump come this November, but the cognitive dissonance currently assailing the Con Inc. hivemind regarding election interference is already provoking a crisis of faith within the Uniparty Establishment.
Vivek may be cozy with Trump in the public Narrative, but to the Narrative-setters, he and RON! were supposed to be the future of the Uniparty ... but the Uniparty, it seems, is already dead.
And they're JUST starting to notice.” — Burning Bright
Just-released Jan. 6 videos show Capitol Police officer lied in Oath Keepers trial, Blaze Media investigative journalist says
Just-released U.S. Capitol closed-circuit TV video clips from Jan. 6, 2021, show Capitol Police Special Agent David Lazarus gave false testimony in the Oath Keepers trial, Blaze Media investigative journalist Steve Baker reported.
Baker penned an analysis in October calling into question Lazarus' testimony — which helped convict the Oath Keepers — noting that time-stamped CCTV videos Blaze News observed show Lazarus in other parts of the Capitol complex at the time he said he witnessed now-former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn interacting with Oath Keepers on Jan. 6.
Baker and others could view the Jan. 6 videos only on Washington, D.C., House subcommittee terminals in a limited and restricted capacity. What's more, at the time of Baker's Oct. 4 analysis, Blaze News was permitted to publish only a single Jan. 6 screenshot of Lazarus in the Capitol after then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted the previous day, putting video permissions on hold.
By early November, U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Georgia) released multiple Jan. 6 video screenshots of Lazarus' movements in the Capitol, telling Baker in a statement that he did so because "an allegation of a Capitol Police officer lying under oath is very serious and must be fully investigated." — The Blaze
Our Take: “I am now convinced that the entire reason for withholding the J6 footage from the public is not, as they claim, to protect the security of the Capitol but, rather, to prevent the public realization of all the perjury that occurred during the sham J6 committee AND the ongoing judicial proceedings against J6ers.
Our own Brian ‘CannCon’ Lupo has already reported on the government’s abuses of Jeremy Brown. Now it is revealed that Capitol Police Special Agent David Lazarus lied about his experiences under oath during the OathKeepers’ trial.
Ironic. He told a story, and the video tells another story. How much more of this will be revealed if the people are able to fact check the government against their own video footage. I bet there’d be a lot.
The truth will out. Always. It’s happening now, and we must demand accountability for three years of the fabricated insurrection narrative. Release the prisoners, punish those who lied under oath, and demand accountability of those for whom they lied.” — Ashe in America
Europe's Big Powers Back Out Of US-Led Bombing Campaign Of Yemen
Europe is divided over the US-UK bombing of Yemen, one of the world's poorest countries, as Italy, Spain, and France have refused to take part in the operation...
Washington and London carried out late-night strikes on Yemen Thursday evening, which targeted several areas of the country, including the capital, Sanaa.
The US and UK are seeking to target Yemen's Ansarallah-led forces for their efforts to target Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea in response to Israel's brutal bombing campaign in Gaza, which many view as genocide.
The US-UK strikes were supported by Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Korea, and Bahrain, who all signed a joint statement backing the bombing.
However, Europe's major powers, France, Italy, and Spain, refused to take part in the strikes and declined to sign the statement in support of them. — The Cradle
Our Take: “I gear most of my public commentary toward an attempted Bicameral view of Actuals and Narratives, doing so with the understanding that the Actuals are virtually impossible for us to suss out, while allowing that they're likely visiting powerful Net Effects onto the world around us.
When it comes to the engineered chaos in the Middle East right now, specifically in the Red Sea and Yemen, one of the storylines that I think has flown slightly under the radar is the refusal of the great power bloc of Europe to publicly endorse or join in with the Biden Administration's efforts at 'peacekeeping' in the region.
This started with their refusal to commit to his Operation Prosperity Guardian, and it's continuing with the maligned strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
IF Actuals are occurring, here, and IF Devolution is in play, then I think the refusal of legacy EU powers to endorse said Actuals points to them being net positives for the emergence of the new, peaceful and multi-polar world.” — Burning Bright
BONUS ITEMS
Collusion!? Jan. 6 Committee Inserted Itself Into Fani Willis' Georgia Case Against Trump
In the spring of 2022, Georgia prosecutors investigating Donald Trump over his actions related to the 2020 election received an early boost from another set of investigators... the House Jan. 6 select committee.
In mid-April of that year, Committee staff quietly met with attorneys working on the case in Fulton County for DA Fani Willis, right around the time she was preparing to convene a special grand jury investigation - during which she employed her alleged paramour, Nathan Wade, who would also coordinate with the Biden White House on their case.
So - Fani coordinated with both the J6 committee and the White House, who helped them assemble their case against the former president.
According to Politico, the Jan. 6 committee attorneys allowed the DA's team to review (but not keep) a 'limited set of evidence' they had gathered. — ZeroHedge
Ukraine's Zelensky meets with JPMorgan's Dimon in Davos in another pitch for economic aid - day after asking Switzerland to broker 'high level peace talks'
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky told the world's most powerful banker that his country is open for business as they met for the first time today.
Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan said 'God bless you' as he shook hands with the Ukrainian president ahead of a sit-down with Wall Street financiers at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
It came amid continued wrangling in Washington over a planned $61billion package of military and financial support, and a day after Zelensky asked his Swiss hosts to organize a 'high-level peace conference' amid the ongoing war with Russia.
'Attracting private capital to rebuild Ukraine is important to us,' Zelensky tweeted as he emerged from the meeting.
'We hope that JP Morgan will help attract a large number of global investors and corporations to the Ukrainian economy.' — The Daily Mail
#TrumpVivek2024: Vivek Ramaswamy as Donald Trump's VP? X conservatives love the idea
To say that the MAGA crowd are enthused about Vivek as Veep is as obvious as saying that the Bulls love Scottie Pippen.
A day after the Iowa caucuses result, former President Donald Trump, who registered a big win, held a rally in Atkinson, New Hampshire on Tuesday (local time) with fellow GOP leader Vivek Ramaswamy and thanked the Indian-American leader for endorsing him.
After dropping out of the race on Monday (local time), Ramaswamy had straightaway endorsed Trump and urged Republican voters to put an "America First patriot" in the White House.
On similar lines, Ramaswamy again endorsed Trump at the Atkinson rally stating that there is not a "better choice" than him and urged people to do the "right thing".
"There is not a better choice left in this race than this man right here. And that is why I am asking you to do the right thing as New Hampshire and to vote for Donald Trump as your next president," Ramaswamy said in his address. — Hindustan Times
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💯 “I am now convinced that the entire reason for withholding the J6 footage from the public is not, as they claim, to protect the security of the Capitol but, rather, to prevent the public realization of all the perjury that occurred during the sham J6 committee AND the ongoing judicial proceedings against J6ers.” 🏆
THE insurrection was Federally-sponsored and instigated against The People.
Amen Ashe: "It’s happening now, and we must demand accountability for three years of the fabricated insurrection narrative. Release the prisoners, punish those who lied under oath, and demand accountability of those for whom they lied.” — Ashe in America" I was there that day and anyone who pushes the Insurrection narrative is flat out wrong. Some are stuck in the bullshit the DS Rat Bastards spewed (even in court filings & cases) and some are Treasonous Rat Bastards. But this one really makes my blood boil.
Thanks all!
God Wins!
God Bless!!!