Badlands News Brief
Badlands News Brief
Kamala's Coming Out Party is Kinda Lame ...
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 Thursday, August 22 …
Kamala Harris Defines Herself — But Not Too Much
The election is a “fight for America’s future,” Kamala Harris said in her speech to the Democratic National Convention tonight. She painted a picture of what a second Trump presidency might look like: chaotic and dangerous. Donald Trump would take the country back, whereas she would take the country forward. “I will be a president who leads and listens, who is realistic, practical, and has common sense, and always fights for the American people,” she said.
How she’ll fight, well, that’ll be worked out after Election Day. Harris did mention some specifics in her speech: she’ll push through the recently derailed bipartisan immigration bill, for instance. For the most part, though, Harris pointed to large goals like ending the housing shortage or affirmed general commitments, like supporting NATO.
According to multiple campaign advisers and Democratic officials, this campaign is for laying out a vision, for convincing voters Harris is on their side, and for getting to 270 electoral votes. In 2019, I worked briefly for Harris’s primary campaign before becoming a journalist, and I remember how wonky the environment felt. Over the four days I spent among the Democrats in Chicago this week, I didn’t hear the words “white paper” or “study” one time.
In fact I probably heard more about Trump’s policy agenda than Harris’s. Democrats have repeatedly brandished Project 2025 on stage, calling attention to the 900-page presidential transition blueprint produced by the Heritage Foundation. Harris mentioned it tonight, too. But Harris has no Project 2025 equivalent. And Democrats seem at peace with that. — The Atlantic
(Editor’s Note: The original title for this Atlantic editorial was … ‘Kamala Harris Wants to Be Everything to Everyone.’ Kind of an odd editorial change, huh?) —
Our Take: The Astro turfed joy campaign reached a fever pitch on Thursday as Kamala gave her acceptance speech. If you missed the awkward word salad, be sure to watch it on the Badlands feed. The overlays were on point.
Harris said she’s no stranger to unlikely journeys. She attempted to paint a picture of inclusive, kind community while openly advocating for communism and repeating long debunked lies about her political adversaries. She invoked the civil rights movement, hoping the public will forget about her record as a prosecutor in California. She begged people to ‘just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails.’
We are all in this together, she claimed. For the people, she claimed. She also claimed to have fought cartels on border security… despite all evidence to the contrary. Kamala stood on big government as a virtue, defending her abysmal record by rewriting it.
Prosecutor presiding rising. —
Donald Trump reveals he doesn't want intelligence briefings so he can't be accused of leaking classified information
Donald Trump said Wednesday he would not be getting intelligence briefings as the Republican nominee for president for fear of being accused of leaking classified information.
U.S. spy agencies offer briefings to presidential candidates once they have secured their party's nomination to prepare them for life as commander in chief.
But after the F.B.I. recovered government documents including classified papers at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, critics questioned whether Trump could be trusted with sensitive information.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, the former president said he could now get the briefings if he wanted them but sensed a trap.
'I don't want them, because, number one, I know what's happening. It's very easy to see what's happening,' he said before attacking President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, his newly installed election opponent. — The Daily Mail
Our Take: “Trump doesn’t want our intelligence briefings.”
Why would he? You clowns have proven to be utterly incompetent, almost beyond belief. You have been wrong about basically every public proclamation you have made over the past decade.
I mean, you can’t even do propaganda anymore. Even when you completely fabricate news stories and deploy the digital tools to reshape our perceived reality by altering websites, censoring voices, utilizing celebrity surrogates and generating hyper-realistic AI renderings, you still can’t get it right. The fake stories and anonymous quotes you feed your mockingbirds in the corporate media now seem half-baked and kind of retarded. It’s actually pretty pathetic.
And after years of publicly threatening President Trump, he actually gets shot in the head, and you all clam up and refuse to give the public any information or transparency on the matter? And we’re suppose to believe none of you had anything to do with it? Really? You think we are that stupid?
And now, you are mocking Trump for not accepting your lousy insights? When you have lied to him and the American People for [at least] the past 8 years?
This is pure, unadulterated sociopathy. There’s no other way to describe it. I’m so ashamed to share a country with these invalids. What a disgrace.
(Trump said he knows everything. He has it all. And he’s coming back. LFG.) —
Elon Musk’s X reveals investors in court filing
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Elon Musk’s X to unseal the list of shareholders involved with X Holdings Corp., giving the public an official look at the investors who aided his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform previously known as Twitter in October 2022.
Shareholders named in the document include some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture capitalists and entrepreneurs — as well as a fund linked with hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The filing lists nearly 100 entities with a stake in X, although many appear to represent different funds controlled by the same firm or person. Other investors include venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud; Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey; and 8VC, a venture capital firm co-founded by Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of intelligence contractor and data analysis platform Palantir.
Lesser-known shareholders listed in the filing include UnipolSai S.P.A., an Italian financial services company based in Bologna. Many of the larger investors had previously been reported, but X had not publicly detailed its stakeholders before. X did not immediately return a request for comment. — WAPO
Our Take: This one is totally saturated in "planned long ago" vibes.
The fact that these shareholders are only being (officially) revealed now, on the eve of the final push in the election cycle seems like a planned deployment meant to catalyze influential fence-sitters while spooking those who may have chosen the wrong side since the realized coup on Joe Biden.
Horowizt and Andreessen recently endorsed Trump. Dorsey is one of the most enigmatic and interesting figures in the Info War, one who could be playing a MUCH larger role behind the scenes than most believe. Lonsdale is directly affiliated with Peter Thiel, who kicked off the Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic collapses.
And Alwaleed bin Talal has not been in control of his assets since 2017, when they were seized by Sovereign Alliance player Mohammed bin Salman.
Musk and Trump are executing a MIL-CIV pincer on the Cabal.
If the enemy didn't know who was helping them before, they do now.
Truth is stranger than fiction, and more encouraging. —
Trump campaign rolls out plans to get tougher on crime — including pursuing the death penalty for child rapists, return to ‘stop-and-frisk’ strategies
Former President Donald Trump blasted Vice President Kamala Harris’ “anti-police” policies in a law enforcement-centered speech on Tuesday, as his campaign rolled out plans to get tougher on crime — including pursuing the death penalty for child rapists and a return to “stop-and-frisk” strategies nationwide.
Trump accused Harris of waging an “anti-police crusade” and supporting “extremist, pro-crime, anti-police” policies such as “defund the police.”
“We will never even think about defunding the police,” said Trump, flanked by local Michigan sheriffs. “The concept is so chilling and so horrible.”
“We’ll re-fund the police,” he vowed.
Trump blasted low arrest rates under President Biden and Harris, arguing that the current administration “goes after guys like me but they don’t go after people that kill people.”
He also blamed Harris for a crime spike since he left office. — NY Post
Our Take: Damn, Deep State. Y’all just can’t catch a break. Here I was thinking that we were done hammering you for acting like a bunch of creepy weirdos who want to feel up kids, and then The Boss comes swinging in from the rafters to announce that he’s going to execute pedophiles and child traffickers when he returns to power.
So now I guess I’ll take this opportunity to remind you all that Putin has made several big speeches since the Ukraine War began, one in February 2023 where he accused the West of being run by a bunch of perverts who are also a bunch of satanists:
And here’s another speech from February 2024, where Putin says that these satanic perverts can’t beat Russia on the battlefield, so they resort to information warfare. (They aren’t that good at that either— we make way better memes.) Putin goes on to remind everybody that they are trying to normalize pedophilia— as if any of us are actually going to go along with that bull****— and then insists that these weirdos read some scripture.
This must be a tough week to be an elitist pedophile. Putin is shutting down your supply-lines in Ukraine, while Trump is openly talking about legally killing you. Devastating stuff. Sovereign Alliance hitting on all cylinders, right now. —
"Must Have Been Tipped Off": Jack Daniel's Cuts Woke Training Ahead Of Robby Starbuck's Next Exposé
Hiding behind the veil of "progressivism," the toxic woke mind virus has infected corporate America, transforming companies into left-wing activists.
In response to woke corporate America, commentator and filmmaker Robby Starbuck has waged an anti-woke crusade, which has already led Harley-Davidson Inc., Tractor Supply Co., and Deere & Co. to reverse or entirely nuke diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and other woke programs.
In an overnight Wednesday post on X, Starbuck announced that Jack Daniels would be his next target for exposing internal DEI programs. However, unlike previous big reveals, Jack Daniels' parent company, Brown-Forman Corp., had been tipped off well in advance...
"They must have been tipped off by us going through employee LinkedIn pages," Starbuck said. He posted an email from company executives to employees about the 'evolving' situation surrounding its DEI program. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: It’s been a long time since ‘The Customer is Always Right’ was an American axiom. The rise (and impending fall) of globalism resulted in destabilized markets, corporate confusion, and black pilled customers for decades.
Now, however, ‘the right’ has figured out how to fight back with their voices and dollars, and the societal transformation that once seemed unstoppable is no longer inevitable.
So what changed?
I have ‘the right’ in scare quotes because it’s not real. Right and left are uniparty designations to keep people trapped in a false binary. More than 30% of Americans reject the two party construct, identifying as independent or with a third party. And this mindshare is growing.
Both of the major parties are propagating globalism and demonizing nationalism. Second to climate, the weaponized empathy of DEI is one of globalism’s most powerful munitions. Yet, a March 2024 Rasmussen survey finds that ‘just 25% of American Adults think diversity, equity, and inclusion programs make companies better.’
And the more they know about it, the more they reject it.
The People want to make America great again and put American interests first, even if they don’t like the branding or the Orange Man. Trump represents American interests while Harris is openly bragging about expanding global communism.
You gotta give the people what they want.
Harley Davidson gets it. At the end of the day, despite the immense pressure and payoffs from the Davos crowd, the customer is, actually, always right.
Reject the interests of those pushing globalism and stand up for the interests of your family, your community, and your nation.
Your voice. Your vote. Your value exchange.
That’s real power.
America First. —
Merrick Garland's DOJ Goes After Putin's Mouthpieces in US
Americans with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin's state TV networks are being investigated by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland's Department of Justice as part of a sweeping push to quash potential interference by the Kremlin in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The development comes after the FBI earlier this month searched the homes of Scott Ritter a former United Nations Special Commission weapons inspector, U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer, and a convicted sex offender; and Russian-born Dimitri Simes, a former adviser with Donald Trump's first presidential election campaign in 2016.
The Times, citing U.S. officials familiar with the situation, said the FBI is likely to conduct further searches soon, and did not rule out criminal charges.
Ritter has regularly contributed to Russian state media and often mirrors Kremlin talking points on Putin's war in Ukraine. Simes is the host of a weekly current affairs program on Russia's state-run Channel One.
In January, Ritter visited the Russian republic of Chechnya, offering its leader Ramzan Kadyrov and his fighters "friendship" with the United States during an address in the capital Grozny. — Newsweek
Our Take: Sooooo…
…this has nothing to do with my take yesterday, where I shared videos of Russian military officers recounting stories of finding organ trafficking farms (children kept as livestock), reiterating
’s original thesis of Righteous Russia?Is the DOJ going to accuse me of being a Russian propagandist simply because I post a video of President Putin telling those weirdos to leave the kids alone?
But really, Deep State guys, why are you so obsessed with kids? Are we wrong to call you “pedophiles?” Because you certainly act like pedophiles.
Or am I guilty of being a “Russian agent” simply because I shared a badass Russian military recruitment video that shows all the different faiths praying to God as they go to war against the Satanists in Ukraine?
I mean, the video is very inspiring. Let’s watch it again.
Damn, that’s a cool video. I wish the State Department could be half as inspiring as those guys. Maybe if they were, they wouldn’t be losing this war to Putin.
What about posting a video of Vladimir The Great hanging with his Muslim homies in the Chechen Republic, kissing the Quran in an act of solitude and reverence to God?
Is Vlad wrong when he accuses you Deep State freaks of worshipping Satan? I mean, do you? Worship Satan? (Let us know.) —
BONUS ITEMS
Judge Finds RFK Jr. Can Bring Censorship Lawsuit Against Biden Admin After Supreme Court Rejects States’ Challenge
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can continue to pursue his censorship lawsuit against the Biden administration.
The Supreme Court ruled in June that state and individual plaintiffs who alleged the Biden administration violated their First Amendment rights when it pressured social media companies to suppress speech did not have standing to sue. District Court Judge Terry Doughty found Kennedy meets the standard set by the Supreme Court because there is “ample evidence” to show he has been censored in the past at the direction of government actors and “substantial risk” that the censorship will continue.
Under the Supreme Court’s Murthy v. Missouri ruling, Doughty explained that “a court must make specific findings that a particular defendant pressured a particular platform to censor a particular topic before the platform suppressed a particular plaintiff’s speech on that topic.” — Daily Wire
Supreme Court partially reinstates Arizona voting law at RNC’s request
The Supreme Court on Thursday partially agreed to the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) emergency request to revive an Arizona law that strengthens proof-of-citizenship requirements for voting.
In a 5-4 vote, the justices reinstated Arizona’s law mandating officials reject state voter registration forms if the person did not provide proof of citizenship.
The court’s three liberal justices — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — dissented alongside conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
But in voting to deny the RNC’s other request, those four found themselves in the majority, bolstered by support from at least one of Chief Justice John Roberts or Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“A seismic win in the fight to stop non-citizens from voting — more to come!” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley wrote on social platform X. — The Hill
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Nice finish to the week y'all, I loved today's Takes.
Loved this quote from GBPH: "Putin is shutting down your supply-lines in Ukraine, while Trump is openly talking about legally killing you. Devastating stuff. Sovereign Alliance hitting on all cylinders, right now. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry" - - - - LFG!!!
Have a nice weekend.
God Wins!
God Bless!!!
Go Vlad!