Badlands News Brief
The Free Speech Battlefield Heats Up
The News Cycle is almost impossible to track these days. At least, to do so fully.
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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 the Weekend that Was …
Trump Warns Zuckerberg And Anyone Who Illegally Interferes In Election Will Be Jailed For Life
Donald Trump has warned that Mark Zuckerberg and anyone else who illegally interferes in the election will be jailed for life if he wins the presidency.
The claim appears in a new book written by Trump called Save America that is due to be published next week.
Trump says that the Facebook founder will “spend the rest of his life in prison” if there is proven meddling.
Zuckerberg’s Facebook played a key role in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election based on fake claims that the story was a ‘Russian disinformation’ operation, when in fact it was completely true.
Some observers say that the suppression of this story, along with a multitude of others, could have changed the outcome of the vote.
In the book, Trump says that he is “watching him [Zuckerberg] closely” ahead of the election in November.
While he was in office, Trump said that Zuckerberg would visit him and “bring his very nice wife to dinners, be as nice as anyone could be,” but was secretly mounting a “plot against the President”.
“He told me there was nobody like Trump on Facebook. But at the same time, and for whatever reason, steered it against me,” writes Trump.
“We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison – as will others who cheat in the 2024 presidential election.” — Modernity News
Our Take: So President Trump has a new book coming out next week called, “Save America.” Hang on a sec while I pre-order what is certain to be a timely, important, and enjoyable read. I certainly appreciated Art of the Deal.
As for election meddling, making the criminal cartel fear getting caught is a solid strategy. Yes, they’re criminal communists, but they’re also humans (at least most of them…I think…), and the info war is a battle of the mind. Trump is leaning into the panic permeating every public move his opponents make, and it’s popcorn worthy.
Add to this story that Zuckerberg apologized for caving to government censorship requests last week, and we have an interesting set of plot points, top of public mind — alongside the release Trump’s latest book.
Don’t you love it when a plan comes together? MAGA. —
Brazil Judge Bans X as Musk Challenges Top Court’s Orders
Brazil’s top court determined the immediate suspension of X in the country after its billionaire owner Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative for the social network in Latin America’s largest nation.
The banning of the platform formerly known as Twitter caps a months-long feud between Musk and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is spearheading efforts to combat fake news and hate speech that he says are harming Brazil’s democracy.
X has been contributing to “an environment of total impunity and lawlessness in Brazilian social networks, including during the 2024 local elections,” Moraes wrote in his ruling, saying the company has repeatedly and deliberately disrespected court orders.
“Extremist groups and digital militias” have been using the platform for “massive dissemination of Nazi, racist, fascist, hateful and anti-democratic speeches,” he wrote, adding that anyone using VPN to access the platform would be subject to daily fines of 50,000 reais ($8,900). — Bloomberg
Our Take: I echo what Ashe said above, while adding that, if you think it’s a coincidence that we’re getting this Narrative Deployment out of Trump entering the Story Cycle alongside the Musk v. Brazil chapter, Pavel Durov v. France and all against the backdrop of the 2024 election cycle, then I would posit that you haven’t been paying attention, else you’d see that Narrative Convergence is a feature of patriot control, and not that of the enemy.
While any of these deployments can and should be analyzed on their own, when stitched together, they form a tapestry of the current lay of the land that is the Information War, drawing a clear line of demarcation between the globalist hegemon—in this case represented by France and Brazil—and those who would stand against them—in this case represented by Musk and Durov—and whose target audience is less the observing Collective Mind and more the cretins occupying positions of narrative control and information dissemination still operating on the game board.
In the midst of short-term, “seeming” wins on the part of the collectivist superstate, I believe Trump is both threatening and codifying. He’s telling those still sitting on the fence that they’ll have to hop off of it soon, and throw in with the likes of Musk and Durov, or else take their chances with the globalist regime … and the advent of a second Trump Administration and how it chooses to handle servants of said regime.
Which grouping—Musk and Durov, or the Zuckerbergs of the world, should they choose wrong—do you imagine is going to enjoy said second admin more? —
The Constitution is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous?
The United States Constitution is in trouble. After Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he called for the “termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” Outraged critics denounced him for threatening a document that is supposed to be “sacrosanct.” By announcing his desire to throw off constitutional constraints in order to satisfy his personal ambitions, Trump was making his authoritarian inclinations abundantly clear.
It’s no surprise, then, that liberals charge Trump with being a menace to the Constitution. But his presidency and the prospect of his re-election have also generated another, very different, argument: that Trump owes his political ascent to the Constitution, making him a beneficiary of a document that is essentially antidemocratic and, in this day and age, increasingly dysfunctional.
After all, Trump became president in 2016 after losing the popular vote but winning the Electoral College (Article II). He appointed three justices to the Supreme Court (Article III), two of whom were confirmed by senators representing just 44 percent of the population (Article I). Those three justices helped overturn Roe v. Wade, a reversal with which most Americans disagreed. The eminent legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky, worried about opinion polls showing “a dramatic loss of faith in democracy,” writes in his new book, “No Democracy Lasts Forever”: “It is important for Americans to see that these failures stem from the Constitution itself.” — The New York Times
Our Take: More jabbering from more baboons.
We talked about this at GART in Deadwood during the "Federalism/Anti-Federalism" panel.
When most people these days cite the Constitution, they are actually citing the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights were not a part of the original Constitution— which was ratified in 1789—and were later written and ratified in 1791 by James Madison of the Federalist Party as an olive branch to the Anti-Federalists, who demanded that the rights of the people be addressed. (The Constitution, they said, seemed to exclusively focus on the rights of the government.)
This is why all of the articles in the Bill of Rights are called "amendments;" because they amended (superseded) the Constitution to establish that American citizens hold, as human beings, inalienable rights that come from God, and if any government ever questions or threatens these rights, that government is unworthy of existence. (That's literally what the founding documents say, which is why these jackals all hate it so much.)
The government should be on its hands and knees right now groveling before We The People, begging for our forgiveness, for our mercy, and for our grace. It should be pleading with us—snot bubbles, tears, and all—to not abolish it, and replace it with a more suitable and practical form of government.
Instead, the reprobates in our government are issuing poorly-veiled threats, and using their media assets to gas-light the idea of throwing away the Constitution.
I would argue that the Constitution was already subverted many years ago, and is somewhat of a failed concept; Patrick Henry was 1,000% right when he said that Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Paper #67 ("The Executive Department") was an abomination that would lead to a new form of tyranny; Hamilton had argued that the federal government wouldn't become a monarchy or a dictatorship, because power would be decentralized within the Executive Branch by appointing unlimited bureaucrats who would individually possess a portion of power, so that no single person or agency alone wielded absolute control. Hah!
Time to resurrect the Federalist/Anti-Federalist debate. —
Nancy Pelosi Says The Quiet Part Out Loud To Bill Maher
The southern border invasion, fueled by the Biden-Harris administration's disastrous open border policies, has been a devastating blow to this nation.
Our borders have been flooded with millions of unvetted, unvaccinated illegal aliens (remember, 'trust the science' Democrats wanted to jail people for not being Covid vaccinated just a few years ago...), including ISIS terrorists. Iranian assassins are roaming freely, hunting ex-Trump admin officials, while cartel criminals and the Chinese Communist Party wage 'reverse opium wars' with fentanyl that has sent the drug death overdose catastrophe just north of 100,000 Americans per year.
In Colorado, armed Venezuelan prison gangs have seized control of entire apartment complexes, and the overwhelming number of illegal aliens across the country has pushed some local governments to the brink of chaos.
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On Friday, elderly Nancy Pelosi said the quiet part out loud on "Real Time with Bill Maher," openly stating her desire to turn all 'undocumented' migrants into 'documented' ones. She also supported the idea of providing subsidized housing for illegal aliens. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: Nancy Pelosi should be in prison. Here she is co-signing Gavin Newsom’s plan to give free housing to criminal invaders while also admitting that the plan with the open border is mass amnesty.
I’m paraphrasing, of course, but that’s the gist. Check it out for yourself.
Here in Colorado, the criminal invaders are taking over apartment buildings and the government is dismissing it as ‘isolated incidents.’
In a fun twist, Saturday there were reports on X that the Hell’s Angels are en route to Aurora, Colorado.
‘Merica.
Generations from now, will our nation’s occupants recall, with pride and patriotism, how easily their ancestors conquered America?
Or, perhaps, will we deport the criminal invaders, lock up Nancy Pelosi and her allies, and make America great again? —
Russia slams Israel in attempts to gain power and influence in Middle East
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov put out several statements over the last few days that include claims that Israel is provoking Iran, and suggesting that Hamas and Hezbollah cannot be defeated.
The comments were seen positively in Iran, where state media reported on them. Lavrov said the “assassination of the head of the Hamas politburo [Ismail Haniyeh] was an attempt to provoke Iran and that Iran will never submit to provocative actions,” IRNA reported.
The report is based on comments Lavrov gave to RT, which was subsequently reported in RIA Novosti.
“Iran categorically does not want to succumb to provocations, to get involved in any large-scale military actions. They are trying to provoke it. The murder of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran at the new president's inauguration ceremony is, of course, a provocation. Iran did not react then, but stated that it reserves this right because its territorial integrity and sovereignty were violated – a guest of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran was deliberately eliminated,” Lavrov said.
Iranian state media re-reported this sentence, noting that “it seems that Tel Aviv is the only party that wants to start a big war between Iran and Israel with the intervention of neighboring countries,” RIA Novosti quoted Lavrov as saying.” — The Jerusalem Post
Our Take: Something very historic is happening in the Middle East. It is the thing that inspired me to first write the "Arabian Nights" article, and seeing now come into full fruition is pretty amazing.
The Ottoman Empire lasted over 600 years, and stretched from Central Europe to Russia to Iran and across the north coast of Africa.
Ankara—the capital of modern-day Turkey—was the seat of power, though Damascus (capital of Syria) was considered one of the most important cities in the empire.
The Ottoman Empire is viewed as a malevolent entity in surveys of western civilization, because it usurped and ended the Byzantine Empire, which was a Greco-Christian civilization that lasted a thousand years—longer than the Roman Empire. It is a subject matter that is almost completely ignored by mainstream school curriculums, and I suspect that is because teaching children about the Byzantines would be detrimental to the Satanic agenda.
As
and I have covered on Breaking History, it wasn't actually the Ottomans who defeated the Byzantines. It was the Christian Crusaders from Italy. During the Fourth Crusade—which is near forgotten—the Knights Templar stopped off in Constantinople on their way to the Holy Land to do some raping and some pillaging. They were so successful in sacking and destroying the city, and collecting loot, that they were forced to immediately return home with their stolen treasure. They ultimately decided to abandon the Crusades, demonstrating that the Crusades were never actually about God or Christianity— it was about gold, conquest, and glory. (The Crusades were launched by the Templars, who came out of Konigsberg, Prussia. It is/was a satanic organization that was deeply entrenched in the occult.)So yes, the 1,000 year old Constantinople fell because a "Christian" (read: Satanic) army destroyed it.
It was the British who convinced the Saudis, the Hashemites, and others to revolt against the Ottomans during World War 1, and then the British, of course, betrayed those allies, stabbing them in the back and refusing to give them what they had promised (freedom and autonomy.) Because we in the west are ruled by dishonorable reprobates, spendthrifts, and cut-throats. Those are the people who have long run our governments.
But now we see the Middle East healing, after a century of turmoil and massacre. It all began with MBS bringing Assad and Syria back into the Arab League back in May 2023, after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had used her clout to expel Syria from the organization in 2012.
Back in July, we saw a similar rapprochement between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
Last year, when Turkey was facing financial collapse, due to the inherent failures of the central banking system—another degenerate grift concocted by parasitic cut-throats in the west—it was Saudi Arabia who stepped up and injected billions of dollars of cash to keep Turkey propped up. Erdogan repaid that deposit last month.
And if you needed further proof that this is the Sovereign Alliance at work, yesterday the Financial Times of London ran a story entitled "Turkey’s expanding leverage in Africa," citing Erdogan's efforts to settle the escalating conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia—two places that we haven't otherwise discussed, in relation to the Sovereign Alliance.
Not to mention, MBS called Erdogan the other day. As reported, they discussed the exact situation Lavrov is describing.
The article also mentions Turkey's growing influence in Sahel, which is the western region of northern Africa—Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria—a place we have been discussing, extensively, in relation to the Sovereign Alliance.
But Sergei Lavrov makes an important point: “It seems that Tel Aviv is the only party that wants to start a big war between Iran and Israel with the intervention of neighboring countries."
Indeed. It has been 33 days since Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran by the IDF, and the hand-wringing over what Iran would do in retaliation began. We were assured that they were about to attack "any day now."
Instead, Iran is working with Russia to help bring Syria and Turkey—two long-time enemies, as Turkey invaded Syria in 2012 alongside NATO and still holds northern territories—together. “We are now proceeding from the expediency of preparing the next meeting. I am confident that it will take place in the foreseeable future. We are interested in our partners in Damascus and Ankara normalizing their relations,” [Lavrov] said. —
AfD Makes German Election History 85 Years After Nazis Started World War II
The far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has won its first state election in Germany since the Nazi era in a landmark result.
The AfD emerged as the clear victor in Thuringia, in the east of the country, securing between 32-33 percent of the vote, according to projections by ARD and ZDF public television. This places the party well ahead of the center-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which garnered around 24 percent.
According to projections, the party was also in close contention in the neighboring state of Saxony, signaling its growing influence.
The CDU has maintained power in Saxony since reunification in 1990, but projections showed a tight race with the AfD, as both parties hover around 31-32 percent of the vote.
The election outcomes underscore a deepening discontent with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government, which has been mired in unpopularity and internal conflicts. — Newsweek
Our Take: The irony, here, is that the Nazis didn't lose World War 2, Germany did. The Nazi high command have since ruled continental Europe as the bureaucrats of NATO and, more recently, the EU, which was created in 1993—the founding documents for which very closely resemble the post-war plans that the Third Reich had for continental Europe.
In fact, The EU's founding documents are basically a photo-copy of those plans.
So I don't really know what the hell these baboons are jabbering about. The return of the Nazis? The Nazis never left. They have been in charge for the past 79 years. Did you miss the standing ovation that Waffen SS veteran received in the Canadian Parliament last year? Do you really think those people didn't know he was an elite Nazi soldier? —
BONUS ITEMS
Jack Smith leaves the Trump trial timeline in Judge Chutkan’s hands
Special counsel Jack Smith opted against proposing a new timeline Friday to bring Donald Trump to trial over his effort to subvert the 2020 election, instead telling U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan it’s entirely up to her.
In a 10-page joint filing with Trump’s attorneys — a response to Chutkan’s request for guidance and a schedule after the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity upended the case — Smith emphasized that the timeline for the case is her call.
“The Court’s decisions on how to manage its docket are firmly within its discretion,” prosecutors wrote in the filing submitted late Friday night. They added that they are prepared to advance the case “promptly at any time the Court deems appropriate.”
Rather than propose a timetable, Smith instead simply urged Chutkan to tackle Trump’s many efforts to dismiss the case at roughly the same time. Doing so, prosecutors said, would keep the case moving forward.
The murky stance from the special counsel is a sharp break from the urgency he demanded for much of the last year since he initially charged Trump with several conspiracies related to his effort to derail the transfer of power to Joe Biden. Last year, he urged Chutkan to set a very quick trial date, and then when Trump’s immunity arguments delayed the trial, he asked the Supreme Court in December to expedite the case, urging the justices to move with “extraordinary” speed because “this is an extraordinary case.” — Politico
Musk's X Lawsuit Against Media Matters Can Proceed To Trial: Judge
A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk's X against Media Matters can proceed to trial, after dismissing a request by the Democrat-run enterprise.
"Because the Court has personal jurisdiction over Defendants, venue is proper, and Plaintiff has properly pled its claims, Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss is denied," wrote Judge Judge Reed O'Connor in his ruling.
X, formerly known as Twitter, filed the suit in November after Musk threatened to bring a "thermonuclear lawsuit" against the left-leaning nonprofit and "all those who colluded" for "completely misrepresenting" the real user experience on X."
According to the lawsuit, Media Matters - founded by Democratic operative David Brock, who left the organization in 2022, used manipulative and deceptive tactics to convince advertisers like Apple, IBM and Disney that 'hateful' content was being displayed next to their brands - leading them to pause their X advertising campaigns.
X claims Media Matters fabricated the results. — ZeroHedge
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Nancy Pelosi is insane. Ronald Reagan never dreamed we would have NO borders in the U.S. and we the taxpayers will now subsidize the entire world. The American Dream was meant for Americans and that includes Immigrants that entered the U.S. legally. For years immigrants were excited to assimilate into the American culture and learning English went without saying. Now people come here and cling to their own cultures and flags and don't intend to become Americans but want to sponge off Americans. And Diversity, for Pelosi's information, has brought down many nations its not the miracle of all miracles. This woman should be taken out of the population she's dangerous.
It's important to not get discouraged by so much crime being revealed. The justice phase is just around the corner. Keep the faith! God wins.