Badlands News Brief
Badlands News Brief
Storms both Real and Political Converge in October
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.
Now, onto the news from Wednesday, October 9 …
Hurricane Milton lashes Florida with dangerous flooding after landfall
Hurricane Milton made landfall at around 8:30 p.m. ET near Siesta Key, Florida, as a dangerous Category 3 storm before weakening to a Category 2 as it came ashore, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Power outages have soared as Milton charges inland –– doubling to more than 2 million homes and businesses without power in about three hours, according to PowerOutage.us
You can track Milton here.
Here’s what CNN is seeing around parts of Florida:
Bradenton: The storm briefly died down but it has now just been “really pouring up,” CNN’s Anderson Cooper said.
Trees are uprooted and water from the river boardwalk is ”gushing in like the ocean,” he said.
The water is rising up around his knees, Cooper said, and his team will be moving to higher ground as they get waterlogged.
Sarasota: There’s been a fair amount of destruction and concerns loom as to what damage storm surges may bring to the downtown area, which is roughly 20 minutes away from where Milton made landfall.
“I keep thinking that the winds are going to die down and they just keep picking up,” CNN’s Randi Kaye said. “And also, here the temperature has dropped significantly.”
St. Petersburg: One of the four tower cranes on Central Avenue in the downtown area has collapsed and fell into a building, CNN’s Bill Weir said.
“Hopefully nobody is down here, and that it didn’t endanger anyone but it’s just an indication of the force of these winds,” he said. The city said in a statement no injuries have been reported.
Just a mile away from the harbor, the roof at MLB stadium Tropicana Field appears to have partially ripped off, video captured outside of the field by CNN affiliate WFTS.
Tampa: Trees are flowing past CNN’s Brian Todd and his crew as rain and debris slosh through the area.
“In Tampa Bay … we had to get out because the water started pounding against the seawall. The wind was extraordinarily powerful. We got rain that was just coming horizontally, slamming into us like pellets.” — CNN
Our Take: My parents are in the direct path of this storm, and thankfully evacuated on Wednesday morning. The decision to evacuate is tough for Floridians, especially those in Sarasota who have been spared a direct hit for generations. Many in the direct path — like General Flynn — have decided to stay. Every Badlander in FL is living that FL Man life. Brian, Zak… hell, Stormy Joe is grilling chicken cutlets during a down pour with expected wind gusts.
The storm is being downgraded as fast as it was upgraded, rapidly going from Category 5, to 4, to 3. The first rule of hurricanes is that they get it wrong. The storm is currently projected to make landfall around midnight ET, and by the time this take is published, we will have a lot more information.
The National Hurricane Center provides updates every few hours with projections. Regardless of rating, the storm surge is expected to devastate Florida’s west coast, which is still reeling from Hurricane Helene.
From its origin, Milton has been an anomaly. Prayers up for everyone in the path of the storm. And best wishes for Stormy’s chicken cutlets. —
'Thanks, Joe!' Is Biden's Farewell Tour Helping Donald Trump?
If Donald Trump wins the U.S. election in November, he might be expected to thank a few people who helped him along the way.
Those nods of appreciation have begun already, it seems, with the Trump campaign telling Newsweek that President Joe Biden's recent efforts warrant particular thanks.
As Biden spends his final months as commander-in-chief on a valedictory tour of the U.S., touting his administration's accomplishments, the former president is convinced the appearances are less-than-helpful for Kamala Harris. According to some prominent political operatives, he is not alone in this belief.
Karl Rove warned in an op-ed last month that Biden's tour has become a rouse for Trump, pulling attention away from Vice President Kamala Harris and reminding voters of the past four years.
"It's good," a Trump campaign official told Newsweek. "More Biden is good for us."
There is speculation that Biden's appearances in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan—three of the most critical battleground states in November's election—were paved by an early decision from the Harris campaign.
Last week, after Biden attended his first White House briefing at the same time as Harris' campaign stop in Detroit, the Trump campaign sent a press release thanking Biden for "upstag[ing]" Harris and "ensuring the eyes of the world were on him, not Kamala." During the briefing, Biden had told reporters that he and Harris were "singing from the same song sheet" and called his VP "a major player in everything we've done."
"Biden wanted to make it crystal clear that Kamala is tethered to every single one of his failures — and it worked," the Trump campaign said. — Newsweek
Our Take: When I coined #OurBoyBlue ... I didn't venture so far as to believe the Media Industrial Complex would pick up on the truth underlying the term.
Now, we've got headlines converging in the first Act of October that Kamala Harris is engendering panic among the Democrat Establishment (h/t The Hill,) Donald Trump "is everywhere" on the campaign trail and in American culture (h/t Politico,) and now ... that Joe Biden is doing more work FOR the MAGA movement than against it. (h/t Newsweek)
Of course, they're only picking up on surface signal, suggesting Biden's world tour tying Harris directly to his many "accomplishments" is actualizing the Trump campaign's Establishment rhetoric in a way rhetoric alone never could.
That said, from a Devolution perspective, everything from the on-shoring of US energy and manufacturing to tariffs on China represent the preservation of National Essential Functions and the continuation of Trump's silent term.
The choice to know has been yours.
Deep State most affected. —
Behind the Curtain: America's shocking agreement
At our most polarized time in living memory, the two parties have never been more unified on ideas.
Why it matters: Vice President Harris and former President Trump have vastly different worldviews — but actually disagree a helluva lot more about style than substance if you take them at their word.
The reason: A combination of shifting demographics and political coalitions has formed a loose American consensus on many major policy topics.
For the candidates, general election season often means sprinting to the center — both Trump and Harris have abandoned past positions and moderated on some of the campaign's biggest issues.
Reality check: Harris and Trump have massive disagreements on the power of the executive, use of the Justice Department, abortion access, environmental regulations, taxes — plus America's place in the world, including support for Ukraine. — Axios
Our Take: They called me crazy when I wrote this article last year.
But the truth is that America is much closer to consensus than we realize. The differences are marginal, in the grand scheme of things, and largely a product of intense psychological warfare operations being waged by bloodsucking traitors in the State Department and orbiting agencies. (Most people are simply getting bad information, and once that is rectified, things will get very interesting...)
Rest assured, America will unite, and when the moment ostensibly occurs, the bad guys in our government will likely seek to hurt as many Americans as possible—because they are the real terrorists, and always have been.
Nothing can stop what is coming. —
3 Scenarios for the Supreme Court to Intervene in the Election
The new Supreme Court term that began this week isn’t overflowing with obvious blockbusters. The justices have taken one big culture-war case — a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming health care for trans youth — but turned down invitations to deepen the court’s assault on the administrative state.
Will such modesty last? One reason to think not is this: The presidential election cycle is just getting to the point where political conflicts could mutate into constitutional cases. In fact, the Supreme Court has already shown it is unafraid to scramble electoral rules mere weeks before balloting starts: It recently accepted a Republican effort to require proof of citizenship for some Arizona ballots.
It’s impossible to predict whether another Bush v. Gore is around the corner. Yet the court may well soon face a high-profile dispute with no obviously “right” legal answer — and where the result decides the election.
Three paths already exist for the Supreme Court if it wants to reshape the 2024 outcome.
The first path lies through a challenge to a state court’s ruling on state election law. The Supreme Court ordinarily hears only federal law cases. But a 2022 decision in Moore v. Harper held that the justices could step in if state judges “exceeded the bounds of ordinary judicial review” in ruling on state election law. The justices never clarified what this vague language could entail. This means they have a free hand to second-guess state courts’ state law decisions when it comes to federal elections.
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A second path for the court opens after votes are cast. After a state’s winner is declared, a slate of electors must then be “certified” by each state before the Electoral College convenes to formally anoint the next president. What happens, however, if a state fails to submit its slate to Congress in time?
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The third path to the court opens up after a joint session of Congress has convened to bless the Electoral College tally. It is the least likely to unfold — perhaps happily, because it would also be the most explosive. — Politico
Our Take: I’ve been waiting for this deployment, and I expect it will develop in the coming weeks as we reach a fever pitch in the months between the election and inauguration.
Right after the 14th Amendment ruling from SCOTUS in December 2023, Jamie Raskin and Jerry Nadler told the world they were going to work on implementing legislation to prevent Donald Trump from taking office if elected through our totally free and fair election system. For democracy, or something.
This was largely ignored after the initial headlines, as the institutional press apparently decided to give these commie legislators time to move the ball down the field, outside the public view. Now Politico is dutifully telling everyone that a Trump victory is likely to be challenged, and that gaps in the statutes are likely to be exploited.
From this article, it appears Politico is expecting Trump to win in November, and they’re previewing what will happen when he does. As shown above, the groundwork for this upcoming challenge strategy is actively being laid, and has been since the Colorado case was annihilated by SCOTUS. What challenge strategy?
From the Politico piece:
“Consider then the possibility that some Democrats wish to remind people that Donald Trump played an active role in the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, and want to make a last-ditch effort to derail his return to the presidency.”
Laughably, they say this is a super unlikely option, despite the fact that Democrat legislators have been working on this for over a year. They never shut up about the insurrection op, and the regime has proven there is nothing they won’t try to stop the return of Trump. But Politico is all, “consider this super rare coup that probably won’t happen.” Good stuff.
“Recall that Colorado tried to disqualify Trump from the primary ballot, on the ground he was an insurrectionist…The Supreme Court rejected this argument. But the justices did so by holding that only federal actors, and not the states, could disqualify a presidential candidate… the court’s disqualification opinion doesn’t rule out an eleventh-hour finding that Trump, as an insurrectionist, cannot hold federal office.”
They’re seeding it now, which means Raskin his co-conspirators are entering a new phase of their months-underway operation. They’ve been working on this legislation since the opinion came down.
Just remember, it’s for democracy that they have to plan months in advance to subvert the will of the voters. —
Russia has proof of US’, UK’s involvement in sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines — diplomat
Russia has proof of the United States’ and the UK’s involvement in the Nord Stream gas pipeline sabotage, and publication of said evidence will depend on the situation, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
She made this comment, answering a question about the data, obtained by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).
"This evidence exists. As to whether we will publish it - which will also tell you what kind of evidence it is - that would depend on how the situation around the investigation unfolds," Zakharova said. "Because we have repeatedly offered cooperation to everyone, we did it both publicly and via the available legal channels between law enforcement agencies, we have contacted them repeatedly. We supported these legal requests, both politically and publicly, and we received zero response."
"Therefore, in my opinion, those who carry out the investigations abroad, in Germany - it has long been clear in Denmark and Sweden, but Germany must be interested in exchanging materials, in obtaining information from us and in provision of corresponding information to us," the diplomat said. "And we were not simply ready for this - we insisted on this."
"Moreover, we were ready to present everything that we have within the investigation under the UN aegis, initiative on our initiative," she pointed out. "But the West has blocked this as well. Therefore, we carry out our own investigation, and, naturally, we have the information that Russian officials talk about - [SVR Director] Sergey Naryshkin in particular. The evidence base also exists. As to how we manage it: in addition to our national investigation, we will proceed from expediency and the developing situation. They [the West] have stripped themselves of an option to obtain the corresponding information from us on their own volition." — TASS
Our Take: Yesterday, reports emerged that the US and UK were behind efforts by Neo-Nazi terrorists in Ukraine to blow up infrastructure at the Kursk nuclear power plant.
Today, the Kremlin claims to have proof that the US and UK were behind the bombing of the Nordstream Pipeline.
Starting to see a pattern?
The State Department is the largest and most sophisticated terrorist organization in the world.
That's it. That's the take. The world despises our government almost as much as we do (maybe more), because our government has habitually destroyed their neighborhoods, enslaved their kids, and overthrown their governments.
With friends like the State Department, who needs enemies? —
Break up Google? Justice Department says it may ask judge to force Google to sell Chrome, Android, other units
The U.S. Department of Justice is considering asking a federal judge to force Google to sell parts of its business in order to eliminate its online search monopoly.
In a court filing late on Tuesday, federal prosecutors also said the judge could ask the court to open to competitors the underlying data Google uses to power its ubiquitous search engine and artificial intelligence products.
"For more than a decade, Google has controlled the most popular distribution channels, leaving rivals with little-to-no incentive to compete for users," the antitrust enforcers wrote in the filing. "Fully remedying these harms requires not only ending Google's control of distribution today, but also ensuring Google cannot control the distribution of tomorrow."
To that end, the department said it's considering asking for structural changes to stop Google from leveraging products such as its Chrome browser, Android operating system, AI products or app store to benefit its search business. Prosecutors also seem to center on Google's default search agreements in the filing and said any remedy proposals would seek to limit or ban those deals. — CBS News
Our Take: From a recent Trump appearance on a popular podcast:
"And I believe they were foreign-based apps ... they haven't opened them, and they're foreign based. And you know, you hear about Iran ..."
Once more, Trump tells us MUCH more between the beats.
For years, Anons have been discussing "the plan" from the perspective of MIL INT, and some of us believe this plan (and Trump's role in it,) goes back a LONG ways.
As such, it's important to take a look at all "big moves" on the game board with both MIL INT and Devolution/Continuity of Government framing in mind.
To wit, Donald Trump is putting the spotlight on Apple for its alleged role in (at the VERY least) interfering with an investigation into the origins of two assassination plots on Trump, while putting them in the same sentence as Iran.
And this happens the same week we're told the DOJ is aggressively moving forward with its anti-Trust cases against Apple, Amazon and Google, the latter of which they're even threatening to break up.
Sort of gives off EO 13818 vibes, does it not? —
Israel dragging region towards catastrophe, Iran FM tells Saudi crown prince
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warns Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the dire consequences of the Israeli regime’s ongoing deadly aggression against the regional countries.
“The Israeli regime is dragging the entire region into a catastrophe,” the top diplomat told the Saudi royal in the Arab country’s capital Riyadh on Wednesday.
Araghchi was referring to the regime’s October 7, 2023-present genocidal war on the Gaza Strip that has so far killed nearly 42,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, as well as its escalated attacks on Lebanon, which have claimed thousands of other lives.
“Insight, wisdom, courage, and cooperation are what the region needs to overcome this challenging time,” he added.
Araghchi said he had held “very important” discussions with bin Salman concerning “vital issues of common concern.”
He also commented on an earlier meeting with his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan, noting that the countries would always be bonded as a result of geographical contiguity and stay each other’s brothers through faith. — Press TV
Our Take: Yesterday, Colonel Macgregor appeared on Judge Andrew Napolitano's show, and compared Israel's current situation with the events leading up to The Battle of Little Big Horn—often referred to as "Custer's Last Stand"—when Colonel George Custer went riding out into the Black Hills (the Badlands) looking for Indians to kill, and ended up unwittingly uniting the tribes of the Sioux and Cheyenne, who had been at perpetual odds with one another until Custer gave them a common enemy.
When they did finally come together, led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, they were able to ambush and completely annihilate Custer's forces, down to the last man.
As Macgregor points out, Custer's fatal mistake—aside from his pompous arrogance and repugnant view of the natives as lowly vermin who needed to be exterminated (exactly how Netanyahu sees the natives of the Middle East)—was going out looking for trouble, but also vastly underestimating his enemy. He presumed that there were only small pockets of Sioux braves, who could be hunted down and destroyed, one at a time. But it was Custer's belligerent behavior that had driven these braves into an alliance, and he ultimately found out that there were far more than a few hiding out in the Badlands...
Macgregor says he now sees the same kind of alliance materializing in the Middle East, and as this audience well knows, I completely agree with him. What we are witnessing is something that the world has never seen before. It's not a caliphate, nor an empire. It doesn't even have a formal governing body that presides over all of the factions. It is a coalition of sovereign Muslim nation-states that are working in cooperation against a common enemy. (Netanyahu)
It was also reported yesterday that Saudi Crown Prince MBS told the Iranians that Netanyahu should face criminal charges for the crimes he has committed— something that he said, publicly, back in July.
This all fits right into my core thesis for MBS. His path is a massive redemption arc that demands justice for what was done on 9/11. That's how I've long figured that he and Trump were sworn allies that will not betray each other, because they both want justice for that attack, coming from different perspectives. Many sides were wronged by those who wanted war in the Middle East.
This is also how I've long figured that Netanyahu isn't walking away from this, given his past sins, and that's something that I think he, too, came to understand during President Trump's first term. —
BONUS ITEMS
Democrats start to hit the panic button
Democrats’ nerves are at an all-time high.
Two months ago — even a month ago — they were feeling bullish about Vice President Harris’s prospects of defeating former President Trump.
But now, with less than a month to go until Election Day, they’re increasingly worried about a number of issues plaguing the Democratic nominee’s campaign.
On Tuesday, there was grumbling from some Democrats about the vice president’s interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”
There’s also concern on everything from the static poll numbers in the race to the vice president’s messaging and even her standing with men — not just white men but Black and Hispanic men, too.
Some of this perhaps can just be chalked up to normal Democratic nerves ahead of what looks like it could be among the closest presidential elections in history. Either way, it’s nerve-racking for Democrats.
“Everything is deadlocked and the composition of the electorate is unknowable, and there are so many things that are unprecedented,” said Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons, who served as Harris’s communications director until last year.
“We can’t look back with any level of security because we haven’t had an African American woman on the ticket. We haven’t had a former president running again. We haven’t had a campaign with two assassination attempts. We haven’t switched out a candidate two months before Election Day before.”
“So it’s just hard to know,” Simmons explained. “If you’re not nervous, you’re not paying attention.” — The Hill
Judge Denies Deadspin's Bid To Dismiss Defamation Suit Involving 9-Year-Old Chiefs Fan
A Delaware judge has refused to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against online sports magazine Deadspin over an article accusing a 9-year-old boy of wearing “blackface” to a football game.
In an Oct. 7 ruling, Judge Sean Lugg of the Superior Court of Delaware rejected Deadspin’s argument that the article in question was opinion and thus protected from defamation liability.
“Deadspin published an image of a child displaying his passionate fandom as a backdrop for its critique of the NFL’s diversity efforts and, in its description of the child, crossed the fine line protecting its speech from defamation claims,” Lugg wrote.
The lawsuit was filed by Raul Armenta Jr. and his wife, Shannon, on behalf of themselves and their son, Holden, who is of Chumash Indian descent.
According to the complaint, Holden painted his face black and red - two of the colors used in the Kansas City Chiefs logo - and wore a Native American headdress during a Nov. 26, 2023, game between the Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders. He was shown briefly during the television broadcast of the game, with his red-and-black face paint visible.
The next day, Deadspin writer Carron Phillips published an article calling out the boy’s attire, with a featured image of the child that showed only the side of his face covered in black paint. — The Epoch Times
Walz: ‘The Electoral College needs to go’
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee, suggested Tuesday night that the Electoral College should be abolished during two West Coast campaign stops.
Walz mentioned the concept during fundraisers in Seattle and in Sacramento, Calif., while talking to donors in the deep blue areas.
“And we know, because of our system of the Electoral College, that puts a few states in real focus,” Walz said in Seattle. “I’m a national popular vote guy, but that’s not the world we live in.”
In Sacramento later in the day, he was talking about the pivotal battleground states that will decide this election and said the Electoral College should end.
“I think all of us know, the Electoral College needs to go. We need a — we need national popular vote,” he said. “But that’s not the world we live in. So, we need to win Beaver County, Pa. We need to be able to go into York, Pa., and win. We need to be in western Wisconsin and win. We need to be in Reno, Nev., and win. And the help that you give here today helps make that happen.”
Trump’s campaign responded on the social platform X, suggesting Walz’s remarks show he hates the U.S. Constitution. — The Hill
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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"We can’t look back with any level of security because we haven’t had an African American woman on the ticket." [and we still don't]. Lol
Prayers for everyone affected by the hurricanes.
GBPH while your comment is true " The world despises our government almost as much as we do (maybe more), because our government has habitually destroyed their neighborhoods, enslaved their kids, and overthrown their governments." I would suggest that our government has done all of that to We the People as well.
Appreciate your hard work.
God Wins!
God Bless!!!