Badlands News Brief
The Trump-Musk Pincer Closes as Disaster Strikes the Regime
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 the Weekend that Was …
Elon Musk makes his first appearance at a Trump rally and casts the election in dire terms
Billionaire tech executive Elon Musk cast the upcoming presidential election in dire terms during an appearance with Donald Trump, calling the Republican presidential nominee the only candidate “to preserve democracy in America.”
The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla who also purchased X, Musk joined Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday at the site where the former president survived an assassination attempt in July. Musk said “this will be the last election” if Trump doesn’t win. Wearing a cap with the “Make America Great Again” slogan of Trump’s campaign, Musk appeared to acknowledge the foreboding nature of his remarks.
“As you can see I am not just MAGA — I am Dark MAGA,” he said.
It was the first time that Musk joined one of Trump’s rallies and was evidence of their growing alliance in the final stretch of the presidential election. Musk created a super political action committee supporting the Republican nominee and it has been spending heavily on get-out-the-vote efforts. Trump has said he would tap Musk to lead a government efficiency commission if he regains the White House.
Trump joined Musk in August for a rare public conversation on X, a friendly chat that spanned more than two hours. In it, the former president largely focused on the July assassination attempt, illegal immigration and his plans to cut government regulations. — AP News
Our Take: So ... Elon Musk joined Donald Trump in Butler, PA for a rally at the site of what will go down as an all-time American inflection point in a war defined by them?
I'm sure it's nothing.
Whatever narratives come out of the actual, the intent of the great Mind Movers on the game board tend to be where signal begins and ends; make no mistake, this is massive signal for the convergence refrain some of us have been talking about for years.
Elon remains the DOD's biggest defense contractor - contracts he was awarded under Donald Trump.
He took over (read: seized) the world's foremost communications platform from a US intel cabal.
And he came into the American Zeitgeist from the opposite side of the Culture War.
Coordination = Control. And yes, it was possible to see coming. —
Trump attorneys argue Jack Smith's obstruction charges be dismissed citing Supreme Court's 'Fischer' decision
Trump attorneys filed a memo Thursday in support of their motion to dismiss all charges brought against the former president by Special Counsel Jack Smith, discussing the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Fischer v. United States, which they believe further supports their argument to dismiss the obstruction charges.
The filing Thursday comes as Trump attorneys are using two blockbuster Supreme Court decisions—United States v. Trump, which dealt with presidential immunity, and United States v. Fischer, which dealt with obstruction—to attack the legal theories pressed by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Trump attorneys filed a motion to dismiss all charges brought against the former president by Smith last year, but the case was stayed. The filing Thursday is a reply brief to their motion seeking dismissal of all charges.
Trump attorneys in their brief on Thursday said Smith’s superseding indictment against the former president, which was filed after the Supreme Court ruled that presidents and former presidents had immunity from official acts, "seeks to assign blame for events President Trump did not control and took action to protect against."
"The Special Counsel blatantly ignores the fact that federal prosecutors have taken the opposite position in this District," the filing states. "It is apparently of no consequence, to the Office and those who support their efforts, that former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was caught on a previously undisclosed video accepting ‘responsibility’ for the events at the Capitol."
Trump attorneys also argue that General Mark Milley acknowledged, "long before charges were brought in this case" that Trump "had instructed the Defense Department on January 3, 2021 to ‘make sure that you have sufficient National Guard or Soldiers to make sure it is a safe event." — FOX News
Our Take: The US Supreme Court effectively dismantled Jack Smith’s case in the 2023 session, but that didn’t stop the illegitimate prosecutor. His only metric that matters is whether he is successful in getting Trump.
From the article:
‘Trump faces four charges: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction or attempted obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.’
These specific charges are interesting to me because, if you’re following the recent disclosures about embedded law enforcement at January 6, there is an obvious case to be made that these specific charges outline the behavior of Nancy Pelosi and the institutional establishment on that day.
That is, they conspired to bring about the events of January 6 in an effort to deprive all of us of our rights.
Worse (better), they — the J6 Committee — actually destroyed documents, a key element of 1512(c) charges when it comes to obstruction of an official proceeding.
This case may be the best boomerang ever. —
As Empire Of Lies Crumbles, Hillary Clinton Warns: "We'll Lose Total Control" If Social Media Stops Censoring Content
Far-left elite 76yo Hillary Clinton told CNN host Michael Smerconish that social media companies must moderate content on their platforms or else "we lose total control."
We wonder who Clinton is referring to when she says "We"?
We're sure it's not 'We The People' - it's more or less the Censorship Blob, a mixture of the Feds, MSM, big tech, and 'fake news' fact-checkers, that have had a monopoly on narration control for decades, such as more recently, attempting to convince the American people that Covid was from a seafood market, Hunter Biden's laptop was 'Russian disinfo,' inflation is not a problem, Ukraine needs billions more, there is no migrant invasion, Biden doesn't have dementia, Kamala is not a communist, and the list goes on and on.
"We can look at the state of California, the state of New York, I think some other states have also taken action," Clinton told CNN, adding, "But we need national action, and sadly, our Congress has been dysfunctional when it comes to addressing these threats to our children."
Clinton called for repealing Section 230 of the Communications Act, which protects social media platforms from liability for third-party content.
"We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section 230, which gave, you know, platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs, that they shouldn't be judged for the content that is posted," the 76yo baby boomer said.
"But we now know that that was an overly simple view, that if the platforms, whether it's Facebook or Twitter/X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don't moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control," she warned, noting, "And it's not just the social and psychological affects, it's real life." — ZeroHedge
Our Take:
"Nowadays, people can go to all sorts of different sources for the news, and they are much more questioning about what we are saying."
Damn right, lady. Don't you ever forget it.
The crones are crowing, like harpies roosting in a boneyard. They, too, can feel the shift that the rest of us are feeling, as the public awakens to the sobering reality that our government(s) has been suffocated by a transnational crime syndicate, and is under their control—like a parasite that has outgrown its host, and now carries it around like a sock puppet.
On Saturday night's DPH, I mentioned the anecdote of the Hartford Convention of 1814, when the Federalists met to whine about how they had lost the support of the public after losing 4 consecutive elections—two to Thomas Jefferson, two to James Madison—and now detested the government they had fought tooth-and-nail to establish. The main topic of discussion was a plan to gather what states they could and succeed from the Union, potentially allying with the British—who were in the middle of fighting America in the War of 1812. (Turns out, even the champions of strong centralized government hate it when they aren't the one on the throne.)
This was one of the reasons the Federalist Party was abolished when the war ended in 1815. It was also probably one of the reasons that all of the Anti-Federalists often accused their rivals of being traitors with incendiary rhetoric.
There are some men who only care about power; They would rather see the world burn than see somebody else wield it.
Then there's this little succubus. I'll let Colonel Wilkerson speak for me on this one—at the end of the clip.
(Just kidding, I have a take.)
It sure is great to see the cameos from Satan's least favorite mistress becoming more routine. She really brings the venom that is often lacking in the two clowns goofing off in the White House right now. She just has that glare that could crack glass or curdle milk; an aura that makes dogs bark and children upset.
But seriously, this is how I see the meetings between these criminals happening. (I know why they are panicking...) —
FEMA whistleblower details 'waste' of taxpayer funds and staff waiting in hotels during Hurricane Helene
The federal government's disaster response agency has been painfully slow to deploy first responders to help Hurricane Helene victims and making things worse of the ground, multiple whistleblowers have alleged.
The bombshell allegations of mismanagement at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) come just days after the agency took a beating for its boss Alejandro Mayorkas admitting it will not be able to foot the bill for this historic hurricane season.
A letter from a whistleblower to Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. details how the department has wasted and misappropriated funds in the wake of Helene and is now 'exacerbating the emergency.'
The letter also alleges 'hundreds if not thousands' of first responders and service members have been 'without deployment orders' with some waiting around in hotels while others 'have sat idle' as Americans throughout the southeast are in dire need. — Daily Mail
Our Take: Every day, there are new stories of FEMA failing at its core mission when it comes to the devastation of Hurricane Helene.
NBC News is reporting that 220 people have died. Appalachians on the ground are reporting that entire cities have been washed away, thousands are missing, and the death toll is apocalyptic.
FEMA is using its resources to publicly ‘debunk’ the ‘rumors’ about their response. They’re begging Americans to ignore any information that doesn’t come from ‘official sources.’ This after Mayorkas, Buttigieg and other administration officials have grounded drones, private search and rescue flights and, according to dozens of reports from those on the ground, confiscated supplies and punished ‘unofficial’ responders.
Gaetz’s strongly worded letter to Mayorkas is about the most we can expect from Congress. It’s fascinating that, buried in this article, we find the detail that Congress appropriated an additional $20B to FEMA only one week before Mayorkas announced that they weren’t effectively resourced for the remainder of Hurricane season.
Milton intensified into a hurricane Sunday and is currently heading for the west coast of Florida — where residents are still surveying damage from Helene, and the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico are expected to strengthen the storm into a category 3 before it makes landfall.
The National Hurricane Center is also tracking Kirk and Leslie, two tropical depressions in the Atlantic. These storms have the potential to compound the recovery situation of Helene-impacted states and citizens.
If the Appalachian response to Helene has taught us anything, it’s that the massive bloated government bureaucracy exists to feed itself and justify its own existence. In a tragedy, FEMA isn’t just unable to help. They actively obstruct the people from helping themselves.
Makes you wonder why WE justify their existence at all. —
Could A Clear Israeli Victory Help Next U.S. President Make Peace?
Amid fears of a broader war in the Middle East, observers searching for glimmers of hope have suggested that a decisive victory by Israel over its adversaries could create the conditions for the next U.S. president to push for new peace talks in the region.
One argument holds that Israel may listen to international calls for a post-war plan that could include the creation of a Palestinian state if it ends the war in a position of undisputed strength, having severely weakened Hamas and Hezbollah and the militant groups' main benefactor, Iran.
Whenever the fighting is over, the thinking goes, the U.S. and its allies can take advantage of a newly reshaped Middle East to pressure Israel to resolve one of the most intractable conflicts in the world.
"The premise [is] interesting, but it assumes all of this is going to give Israel greater strength," said John McLaughlin, a former acting director of the CIA under President George W. Bush. "That's plausible, but we don't know yet where it's going."
One year into the war, Israel has decimated Hamas in a relentless military campaign in Gaza that has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, according to authorities there. They do not say how many of those are fighters. Hamas sparked the war with an attack inside Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 that killed 1,200 people.
Hamas is still actively fighting Israel in Gaza and still holds roughly 100 hostages. But its military capability has been drastically reduced and it does not pose the same threat to Israel that it did before the war.
Israel has also exacted a heavy toll on Hezbollah in Lebanon. Roughly half of the group's vast weapons arsenal has been destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in recent days, according to military experts, and the ground operation Israel launched in southern Lebanon is expected to reduce Hezbollah's ability to fire rockets into northern Israel. — Newsweek
Our Take: Man that sounds familiar. Can we all now agree that these two conflicts—Israel and Ukraine—are directly connected?
Especially now that we have Putin making demands of Netanyahu, that he pull the IDF out of Lebanon. Sounds very similar to the demands Putin made to Zelensky regarding the Azov Battalion in Eastern Ukraine.
Wait a minute...
What Iran did last week was a lot more significant than people realize. Not only did they demonstrate overwhelming superiority in ballistic technology to Israel, and that they could strike with precision:
They also debunked the corporate/criminal media's narrative that Iran was this lunatic regime that would destroy Israel the moment it had the means to. Obviously, we can see that they have had this capability for some time, and have not chosen to push the button. They also contacted the US two hours before the attack to inform them of the strikes of the airbase, so that personnel and aircraft could be evacuated. (The only few casualties were from falling debris in the flight path.)
Does this make Iran the opposite of everything that's been said about it? No, it doesn't. It's impossible for us to know, for certain, exactly what the state of affairs is in Iran, to what degree its leadership is malevolent, and whether that potential malevolence comes from radicalization or Deep State control—or both.
But what it does mean is that Iran is not exactly what we have been told it is. At the very least, the people running it at this moment are not using this moment to obliterate Israel, with people across the Middle East (and world) calling for just that.
Iran is not taking the bait. For now, that makes it the infinite player in its conflict with Israel. —
Saudis Declare Neutrality On Iran-Israel Conflict, Not Wishing For A Repeat Of 2019 Aramco Attacks
The world's largest oil exporter Saudi Arabia says that it is staying neutral and on the sidelines when it comes to the ratcheting wars in Lebanon, Gaza, and Yemen - and the Iran vs. Israel showdown.
Other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - which includes Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, and Kuwait - have also this week "sought to reassure Iran of their neutrality" in the Iran-Israel conflict, Reuters has reported.
Prior to the Gaza war, Saudi Arabia was widely seen as on the cusp of signing a full normalization and diplomatic relations deal with Israel, as part of the Abraham Accords - but that was derailed in the wake of Oct.7.
At the same time, Riyadh and Tehran have recently made peace. The kingdom is now seeking to assure Iran it will not join Israel's side.
The Saudis and other GGC states wish to avoid the kind of attacks which could impact its oil production and exports, such as the 2019 Abqaiq–Khurais Saudi Aramco drones strikes. The US blamed Iran for those historic attacks, but Tehran leaders never owned up to it.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has been in Doha this week. He told Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan on Thursday, "We consider Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia, as our brothers, and we emphasize the importance of setting aside differences to enhance cooperation."
Bin Farhan also expressed the desire to set aside all rifts. "We aim to permanently close the chapter on our differences and focus on resolving issues, developing relations as two friendly and brotherly countries," he said, as cited in Iranian state media.
Regional tensions are soaring, and global oil markets have been reacting with each big headline and statement related to reports that Israel could be preparing major strikes on Iran's oil and gas fields. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: Last week, I wrote about the Bibi Netanyahu speech at the UN, explaining that the Deep State plan—from their own rhetoric—was to turn Arabia and the West against Persia and the East. Netanyahu explicitly showed the maps—same maps he showed to this group a year ago.
At every milestone through these geopolitical events, I look for the signal that the Deep State's trap(s) has been thwarted, the bait denied. After October 7th, it was Saudi Crown Prince summoning the entire Muslim world. (Many feared it to be a call to declare war on Israel.) As I said last week, what I was looking for this time was Saudi to signal that was not against Iran. Because that would mean the Deep State's plan to start WW3 had been subverted.
The next signal I'm looking for is what Russia will do.
In a discussion with Judge Napolitano on Thursday, Colonel Wilkerson doubled-down on his previous report that CENTCOM would not follow the IDF into Lebanon. He also shared some interesting intel on Russia getting more involved.
PS - Praying for King Salman. This isn't the first time he has been hospitalized in the past year with a lung infection. —
BONUS ITEMS
Haunted by 2016, Democrats fear Kamala Harris is playing it too safe
Democratic operatives, including some of Kamala Harris’ own staffers, are growing increasingly concerned about her relatively light campaign schedule, which has her holding fewer events than Donald Trump and avoiding unscripted interactions with voters and the press almost entirely.
In interviews with POLITICO, nearly two dozen Democrats described Harris as running a do-no-harm, risk-averse approach to the race they fear could hamper her as the campaign enters its final 30-day stretch.
With early voting by mail and in person already underway in more than half of the country, Harris spent just three days of the last week of September in battleground states. On Sept. 28, when Trump gave a speech in Wisconsin before flying to Alabama for the Georgia-Alabama football game, Harris was attending a fundraiser in San Francisco. And beyond concerns about her schedule, Democrats argue that Harris would benefit from venues that allow her to introduce herself to voters in a more authentic way, such as town hall events, more sit-down interviews and unscripted exchanges with voters.
“There’s a time at which you just have to barnstorm these battlegrounds,” said David Axelrod, the longtime Democratic operative who helped lead Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns and was an early critic of President Joe Biden’s campaigning style. “These races are decathlons, and there are a lot of events, and you have to do all of them because people want to test you.”
“It’s the most difficult oral exam on the plan for the most difficult job, and part of that is just that spontaneous — town halls, all kinds of interviews, and not just friendly interviews. OTRs where you interact in a substantive way with people, all of those things are valuable,” he continued. “And I would be doing them if I were her.” — Politico
'Trump is going to win' — Democrats are losing their grip on the Latino vote. I visited the Texas border to find out why.
Political analysts have been questioning whether Democrats are losing their long-standing advantage among Latino voters. How had a candidate who once called Mexicans "rapists" done so well in a Mexican American county? In July, before Biden exited the race, polls found his support among Latinos had fallen below 50%. And even since Kamala Harris won the nomination, polling has indicated she's likely to win no more than 58% of Latino voters — a far cry from what Democrats used to muster. That's especially significant this year because Trump doesn't need to win a majority of Latino support to retake the White House. If he can peel off enough of the 36 million Latino voters, especially in hotly contested swing states such as Arizona and Nevada, it could prove to be the margin of victory.
In late July, after Biden dropped out of the race, I traveled to Starr County to see why this longtime Democratic stronghold has been shifting steadily to the right. To be sure, Starr differs from other border towns in some significant ways, especially in its relative dearth of recent migrants. But the county underscores how being Latino is becoming less predictive of how someone will vote. The area is working class, and its politics are similar to much of rural America. There's a reverence for law enforcement and the military, a sense of economic instability, and a nagging suspicion that liberal elites in Hollywood and on Wall Street think of locals as ignorant hicks. In Trump, they see a man who offers something different. "People tell me they're going to vote for him," García says. "Trump is going to win." — Business Insider
New York Dems are queasy over Cuomo’s potential comeback
Andrew Cuomo wants out of the political wilderness. Many fellow New York Democrats wish he would stay there.
Concern over Cuomo possibly running for New York City mayor has led a nascent collection of labor, business and advocacy groups to consider an organized effort to counter any political comeback, according to a person familiar with the planning and fundraising who was granted anonymity to discuss the internal conversations.
Separately, some Democratic leaders are privately encouraging state Attorney General Tish James — who helped run Cuomo out of office three years ago — to mount a bid for mayor if Eric Adams steps down. A James mayoral run could box out Cuomo: She would likely draw support from Black voters in her home borough of Brooklyn, a base that is vital for the ex-governor if he runs for mayor.
It’s all a sign of just how quickly the political landscape has shifted in New York as Adams defends against a federal corruption indictment, other criminal inquiries around him and calls for his resignation. Cuomo has been considering a comeback bid, and the collapse of Adams’ career would offer an opening. — Politico
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All of their narratives are crumbling. Hollywood. The music industry. The Clinton cabal. FEMA. they are scrambling like roaches now that the lights are on. And I’m loving it! Let me go refill my popcorn……
What a great start to my week, although Eye of the Storm and Defected last night were fantastic too.
Ashe your highlighting the fact that the Smith case is a perfect boomerang for the J6 committee bullshit really made me smile. Also, your FEMA highlight (actual low lights) shows the total disregard the DS Rat Bastards have toward We the People. But as the people in Western North Carolina showed we will take care of each other in times of need. So FEDs get the hell out of our way and give us back the money you stole from us via taxes so we can get the job done. BTW, go sit in the corner and stay out of our way!
GBPH your dismantling and exposure of all the DS Rat Bastard cockroaches as their empire of lies collapse was hilarious.
Keep the heat come, looks to be another monumental week!
God Wins!
God Bless!!!