Badlands News Brief

Trump Hits Back at the Deep State, Confirms Their Fears

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, December 5 …

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Trump Campaign Strikes Back At 'Dictator' Hit-Piece In WaPo, Gaetz Says 'Green-Lighting Assassination'

Over the last week, several outlets published articles warning that a second Trump term would turn America into a dictatorship.

The Washington Post most notably ran a piece written by Robert Kagan, husband of Former State Department official Victoria Nuland (who was deeply involved in peddling the Steele dossier) titled "A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending."

Many suggested this was a clear call to assassinate the former US President.

Let’s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality: There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. In 13 weeks, Donald Trump will have locked up the Republican nomination.

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[…] Are we going to do anything about it? To shift metaphors, if we thought there was a 50 percent chance of an asteroid crashing into North America a year from now, would we be content to hope that it wouldn’t? Or would we be taking every conceivable measure to try to stop it, including many things that might not work but that, given the magnitude of the crisis, must be tried anyway?

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said in response on X, "They're obviously green-lighting assassination." — ZeroHedge

Our Take: “If you missed Jon’s interview with Roger Stone on Monday, you should definitely check it out. They discussed this topic, and the discussion was eye-opening.

While this piece discusses WaPo declaring — without evidence or substance — that President Trump is a likely dictator, you cannot detach this reporting from Business Insider’s November piece entitled, ‘Here's what happens if Donald Trump dies while running in the 2024 presidential election.’

Gaetz is correct. They are absolutely green-lighting assassination. They are prepping the narrative across multiple regime outlets and, if the headlines were focused on Biden, the DOJ would be investigating. This is overt and dangerous.

But all the rules go out the window when it comes to President Trump, as the uniparty regime views President Trump as an existential threat. And he is — to their illegitimate tyranny and ongoing criminality.

One thing that these headlines make crystal clear: The deep state is panicking, and they don’t appear confident in their 2024 fraud abilities.” — Ashe in America

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Speaker Johnson tells White House Ukraine aid is ‘dependent on’ border policy changes

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) responded to the White House’s latest request for increased aid to Ukraine, telling President Joe Biden that any additional funds approved by lawmakers would be “dependent” on the enactment of stricter security policies at the southern border.

In a message given to Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young on Tuesday, Johnson laid out a number of requirements the speaker said must be met for the House to consider the president’s supplemental aid request to Ukraine. Among these requirements include “transformative change” to the country’s border security, information on how military aid has already been used, and the Biden administration’s strategy to “prevail” in Ukraine.

“I reiterate that President Biden must satisfy Congressional oversight inquiries about the Administration’s failure thus far to present clearly defined objectives, and its failure to provide essential weapons on a timely basis,” Johnson wrote. “American taxpayers deserve a full accounting of how prior U.S. military and humanitarian aid has been spent, and an explanation of the president’s strategy to ensure an accelerated path to victory. In light of the current state of the U.S. economy and the massive amount of our national debt, it is our duty in Congress to demand answers to these reasonable questions, and we still await the answers.” — The Washington Examiner

Our Take: “When Speaker Johnson was installed recently, I forwarded the theory that the 'Congressional Paralysis' pattern could be a highly beneficial and Bicameral Deployment in keeping with the Devolution Operation theories as we head toward 2024.

On a Narrative front, the Collective Mind has been inundated with stories spilling out of Congress throughout 2023 that demonstrate total ineptitude (inaction) at best and threats to both the economy and national security at worst. That Macro has continued under the stewardship of Johnson.

On an Actual level, I believe Johnson (and other rotating proxies) have been installed (or allowed to be installed) by patriots during the 'Biden Transition' in order to protect the National Essential Functions deemed necessary in a Continuity of Government operation.

By 'freezing' aid to the Deep State's proxy war in Ukraine, and thus far preventing it to the new one they're trying to spin up in Gaza, Johnson keeps Congress as lame as its lame duck 'President.'“ — Burning Bright

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Liz Cheney says she may launch 3rd party bid against Trump, claims he could end democracy

Former Rep. Liz Cheney, a top House Republican-turned-fervent critic of former President Donald Trump, is weighing a third-party bid against him as she issues dire claims about how Trump returning to power in 2024 could be the end of American democracy.

"Several years ago, I would not have contemplated a third-party run … I happen to think democracy is at risk at home, obviously, as a result of Donald Trump's continued grip on the Republican Party, and I think democracy is at risk internationally as well," Cheney, who helped run the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, told The Washington Post on Monday.

The former Wyoming lawmaker's vocal critiques of Trump in the wake of Jan. 6 and his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss helped lead to the end of her congressional career; she was defeated in a 2022 primary by a Trump-backed Republican opponent.

On Tuesday, Cheney released a new book, "Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning," which focuses on the fallout of the 2020 race and the events around Jan. 6 -- describing Trump as "the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office." — ABC News

Our Take: “Liz Cheney should be in prison for engaging in a coup (Nov 3), cover-up of the coup (J6), and cover-up of the cover-up of the coup (J6 committee). You will recall that Liz Cheney lost her primary in 2022 to Harriett Hageman, an impressive America First leader based on her debut performance this term.

America First is winning, bigly.

Liz Cheney can’t even win her House District primary, but we’re meant to believe she can have a meaningful impact on President Trump’s chances in the 2024 General by running third party? More likely is that the Cheney will run as plausible deniability for election fraud.

As we saw in 2020 and the amazing work of Draza Smith — who discovered Edison Zero — third party candidates are useful to the regime, serving to mask real time vote manipulation on election night. Having two third-party candidates arguably makes this even easier, especially when coupled with narrative shielding that the people are defecting from the two party system.

They are, of course, defecting from the uniparty — which is a vote for Trump, or maybe RFK.

The only people who would seriously consider Cheney are Ron! supporters that don’t think Nikki Haley goes far enough. All five of them.” — Ashe in America

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The Supreme Court Case That Could Upend Parts Of The Tax Code

The Supreme Court on Dec. 5 will take up an important but little-noticed case about "unrealized" income that considers the constitutional limitations on federal taxing power.

The case is significant because the court could use it to strike down the Mandatory Repatriation Tax (MRT), also known as the Section 965 transition tax, which was part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act approved by the Republican-controlled Congress in 2017 and signed into law by then-President Donald Trump.

Conservative constitutionalists say if the Supreme Court finds that the MRT violates the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, such a legal precedent could prevent Congress from enacting legislation to tax wealth.

Wealth tax proposals regularly surface in Congress. For example, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) recently introduced a plan to tax the unrealized capital gains of high earners.

Liberal groups worry that invalidating the tax law could unleash chaos.

The left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economy Policy said the case "could become the most important tax case in a century."

That's because "a broad ruling could destabilize our tax system, enrich many profitable corporations, and widen existing economic and racial inequalities." — The Epoch Times

Our Take: “Today, the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in a tax case that could prove seismic once a decision is handed down in June.

While Moore vs. United States is being branded as a case that will determine whether or not US Congress can enact a communist tax on 'unrealized capital gains,' also known as profits that do not exist in corporeal reality, legal experts say the court's decision will have implications that apply to the 16th Amendment itself, one of the least popular among Americans who understand that Income Tax itself WAS and SHOULD BE prohibited.

I often talk about how winning is all around us, if you cultivate the eyes to see it and the mind to discern it; in the midst of continued economic, international and political chaos that is continuously waking the American populace up, the framework is being put in place to charge into the America First future of Donald Trump's second term with a full head of steam.

Don't be shocked if Taxation itself gets a shock in 2024.” — Burning Bright

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BONUS ITEMS

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Israel Readying Risky Plan To Flood Miles Of Gaza's 'Terror Tunnels' With Sea Water

Israel's military has reportedly put in place controversial and high risk plans to flood Gaza's vast network of underground tunnels used by Hamas with sea water. High powered pumps have already been set up at key locations in the Gaza Strip.

The plan is to force Hamas militants above ground or else drown them, utilizing a series of pumps to pull water from the Mediterranean Sea, which are expected to provide enough water to fully flood the tunnels within weeks. According to details in The Wall Street Journal, US defense officials have been briefed on the 'option' - and with pumps now in place - but it's not believed that the Israelis have pulled the trigger on it yet. 

"The Israel Defense Forces finished assembling large seawater pumps roughly one mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp around the middle of last month," the report indicates. "Each of at least five pumps can draw water from the Mediterranean Sea and move thousands of cubic meters of water per hour into the tunnels, flooding them within weeks."

Some US officials were cited as expressing "concern" about the plan, also given the potential to kill more civilians and further destroy the Strip's infrastructure. A prime issue is that some 137 Israeli and foreign hostages remain in Hamas captivity after the end of last week's ceasefire and prisoner swap deal. 

Very likely all or many of them are being kept somewhere within the tunnel system and its cavernous rooms. Hamas even has subterranean offices and command centers within. Israel has thus far identified at least 800 tunnels, but believes the network is still much bigger than what's known.

"We are not sure how successful pumping will be since nobody knows the details of the tunnels and the ground around them," one unnamed security source told the WSJ. "It’s impossible to know if that will be effective because we don’t know how seawater will drain in tunnels no one has been in before." — ZeroHedge

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Man believed to have fired shots before a Virginia house exploded died in the blast, police say

The owner of a Virginia house that exploded as police tried to execute a search warrant is believed to have died in the blast, officials said Tuesday, as details emerged about numerous grievances he expressed against neighbors and others on social media and in lawsuits.

James Yoo, 56, was identified by Arlington County Police Chief Andy Penn at a news conference as the person whose actions brought police to the Arlington home after he fired a “flare-type gun” from inside the house into the neighborhood more than 30 times.

Penn said police responded to the house about 4:45 p.m. Monday after receiving reports of shots fired. When attempts to communicate with Yoo were largely unsuccessful, police obtained a search warrant.

As officers breached the door to enter the home, the suspect fired multiple gunshots from within the house, Penn said. He said it wasn’t clear where in the house the shots were coming from or what the suspect was firing at.

Soon after that, just before 8:30 p.m., the house exploded, shooting flames and debris into the air in a blast that was felt for miles.

An investigation into the cause of the explosion is ongoing, fire officials said. Police asked that anyone with photos or video of the area share them with investigators. — ABC News

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Labor Market Implodes: Job Openings Crater, Prior Data Revised Sharply Lower

For months we have been warning that at a time when the US economy is careening into a hard landing recession, the manipulated, seasonally-adjusted, and politically goalseeked job openings data released as part of the DOL's JOLTS report is sheer rubbish (see "US Job Openings Far Lower Than Reported By Department Of Labor"; "Handle The JOLTS Data With Care", "Just Make it Up: Job Openings Unexpectedly Soar As Labor Department Now Guessing What The Number Is"). Today, the BLS finally got the memo.

With consensus expecting only a modest drop from the reported September 9.553 million job openings, what the BLS reported moments ago instead was a stunning collapse of 617K job openings to just 8.733 million, the lowest since March 2021...

... and was a 6-sigma miss to the consensus estimate of 9.3 million.

It gets better: the actual drop would be far worse if instead of the sharply downward revised print, the BLS had actually reported a correct number for once. Indeed, if we used the original September print of 9.553 million, the monthly plunge would have been over 800K, which would have been the 4th biggest monthly drop on record.

And speaking of downward revisions to "strong" data, something the goalseekers in the Biden administration have become extremely adept at, the September downward revision to the openings print means that the in addition to revising almost all jobs reports lower, the BLS has also revised 4 of the past 5 job openings prints lower. If one incorporates all the adjustments, the latest revisions mean that the number of job openings was 848K lower in the past 5 months, suggesting that the Fed was still hiking this summer on fake, manipulated "strong" data. — ZeroHedge

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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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