Badlands News Brief
Super Tuesday Goes as Planned & the Deep State Loses a Player
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.
Many items feature original (and subjective) commentary. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see our writers’ Substack accounts and check out their other work.
Now, onto the news from Tuesday, March 5 …
Biden and Trump Win Big, but Haley Takes Vermont
President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump romped through the opening contests of Super Tuesday, piling up wins in states including Texas, the second-largest delegate prize of the night, as they moved inexorably toward their parties’ nominations and a rematch for the White House in November.
Mr. Trump’s primary rival, Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, secured Vermont, according to The Associated Press, depriving Mr. Trump of a clean sweep.
Even with that lone defeat, Mr. Trump took a giant step toward the nomination Tuesday night, winning 11 other states by 11 p.m. Eastern time, when polls closed in California, the state with the biggest delegate trove of the night. Speaking at Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach, Fla., home, the former president made no mention of Ms. Haley, instead calling for “unity.”
“We want to have unity,” he declared, “and we’re going to have unity, and it’s going to happen very quickly.”
On the Democratic side, President Biden has won overwhelmingly in every state called by The Associated Press on his way to an expected sweep. His one stumble came in American Samoa, a tiny American territory in the Pacific Ocean, where a little-known Democratic businessman, Jason Palmer, bested the president.
Mr. Biden also looked toward the general election, declaring in a statement: “My message to the country is this: Every generation of Americans will face a moment when it has to defend democracy. Stand up for our personal freedom. Stand up for the right to vote and our civil rights. To every Democrat, Republican and independent who believes in a free and fair America: This is our moment. This is our fight. Together, we will win.” — The New York Times
Our Take: “If you tuned into our Badlands Super Tuesday Coverage, you missed riveting conversation about GMO vegetables, P. Diddy, and Victoria Nuland, because the results came slow and it was relatively uneventful — a near clean sweep for President Trump.
The biggest surprises of the night were American Samoa, where Joe Biden lost to some guy named Jason Palmer, and Vermont where, as of press time, Nikki Haley is projected to win.
If you’re keeping score, that’s D.C. and Vermont for Haley, and the rest of the nation for President Trump. The media, of course, is focused on the Green Mountain State and Haley ‘preventing Trump’s shutout’ — because he lives completely rent free in their empty heads.
It’s also important to note that Vermont is an open primary, where Independents and Democrats play a role in the results, and Haley is projected to win by ~3,000 votes. Don’t call it a comeback. No, really, don’t.
Another highlight of Super Tuesday was the role that ‘uncommitted’ voters played in the Democrat Primary. In Minnesota, Massachusetts, and North Carolina, these totals reached 10% or more. The ‘vote uncommitted’ movement, a protest vote led by Rashida Tlaib and the Squad, is a show of force to push Biden on Palestine. Note that some of these voters may just be fed up with the dementia patient; regardless, the uncommitted coalition’s numbers are problematic for Biden, especially considering RFK, Jr. will erode his support in November.
President Trump took a victory lap late last night, and everyone should be feeling confident about the rest of the fake primary. Well, everyone except Nikki Haley.” — Ashe in America
Another Take: “Unless you're lost in all the worst ways, if you've been paying attention, you know Trump is the GOP nominee. Most of the Normie Layers of the Collective Mind know he is, too.
Last night wasn’t about them.
Making it official isn't the point of Super Tuesday, or all of the wins that preceded it or that will follow it.
Last night wasn’t about codifying Trump's (re)ascendancy in the Collective Mind. It's about demonstrating that he never left. That WE never left.
It was about codifying the existential threat that this movement represents to the System of Systems on the back of the utter panic pattern and narrative crisis cascade that's about to kick off in the aftermath of this public seizure of the zeitgeist.
Trump isn't just a leader. He's a symbol of all that has been stolen from us, and of all we will take back upon retaking the (public) reins of power in this nation. Not just political and administrative, but cultural as well.
We're in the narrowing phase.
We know it. [They] know it.” — Burning Bright
Victoria Nuland, third-highest ranking US diplomat and critic of Russia’s war in Ukraine, retiring
Victoria Nuland, the third-highest ranking U.S. diplomat and frequent target of criticism for her hawkish views on Russia and its actions in Ukraine, will retire and leave her post this month, the State Department said Tuesday.
Nuland, a career foreign service officer who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Europe during the Obama administration but retired after Donald Trump was elected president, returned to government as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Biden administration.
She had been a candidate to succeed Wendy Sherman as deputy Secretary of State and had served as acting deputy since Sherman’s retirement seven months ago but lost an internal administration personnel battle when President Joe Biden nominated Kurt Campbell to the no. 2 spot. Campbell took office last month.
Nuland had served at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in the tumultuous 1990s and was in the city during the attempted coup against former Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
She then became U.S. ambassador to NATO before being tapped to serve as the State Department spokeswoman under former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton during President Barack Obama’s first term. — AP News
Our Take: “Well, well, well.
It looks like the Deep State Department is seeing some departures at quite an auspicious time.
Just weeks after Vladimir Putin’s now-infamous sit-down with Tucker Carlson allowed the Russian leader to present his version of the Narrative War that’s been waged between his forebears and the Prussian Globalists of the western hegemon for centuries, one of the prime architects behind the CIA-backed Maidan Coup that destabilized Ukraine in 2014 and resulted in the Russian seizing of the Crimean peninsula has retired.
Our own Ryan DeLarme included Victoria Nuland in his Deep State Spotlight series, which I highly recommend checking out here at Badlands Media.
Suffice it to say … she won’t be missed by most, and for any that do lament her departure, we wish you continued misfortune in the wars (both real and imaginary) to come.” — Burning Bright
Doritos Spain fires transgender influencer over controversial tweets about doing 'thuggish things' to a minor
Doritos Spain terminated their relationship with transgender influencer Iván González Ranedo, who goes by the stage name Samantha Hudson, after the company came under intense backlash for posting a video on Instagram featuring Hudson.
A spokesperson for Doritos Spain confirmed to Rolling Stone magazine that a short promo called "Crunch Talks" was posted on Sunday and then removed on Monday. It emphasized that the video was not part of a larger brand ambassadorship campaign. The spokesperson also revealed that Hudson had been terminated from the company due to making controversial comments in the past.
"We have ended the relationship and stopped all related campaign activity due to the comments," the spokesperson said. "We strongly condemn words or actions that promote violence or sexism of any kind."
Hudson has made controversial statements on capitalism, the family and even child sexual abuse in the past. — FOX Business
Our Take: “Every once in a while, manifestations of this war crystalize themselves to make things extra clear for the normies.
I’m extra grateful for degenerates like Iván González Ranedo, because when we need someone to point to who embodies all the dangers of Neo-Marxist queer theory, we can just point at Iván.
Someone who openly states that they advocate for the annihilation of the traditional family, and also promotes child rape, helps us immensely.
Those two particular dangers are often hard to get mainstream minds to cognize together.
Not to mention that Iván isn’t an anomaly. He is the end game. He is the destination. He’s like a really great ‘just say no to Neo-Marxism’ PSA.
Thanks Iván!
Also, just to slip the health freedom angle in here, Doritos are trashy’ poisonous food, so it shouldn’t be a big deal to stop eating them now.” — Simon Esler
Attorney General Merrick Garland Vows to Fight Voter ID Laws: ‘Disadvantage Minorities’
Attorney General Merrick Garland has vowed to fight voter ID laws, which he characterized as a plot to “disadvantage minorities.”
Appearing alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday, Garland called voter ID laws and other voter integrity laws “discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary.” The two were speaking at an event commemorating the fifty-ninth anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma.
Garland recalled the history of voting rights for black Americans since the end of slavery, which he said has “never been steady” into the present day, charging that voter ID laws have made it harder “for millions of eligible voters to vote and to elect the representatives of their choice.”
Garland said at Selma’s Tabernacle Baptist Church:
Those measures include practices and procedures that make voting more difficult; redistricting maps that disadvantage minorities; and changes in voting administration that diminish the authority of locally elected or nonpartisan election administrators.
“Such measures threaten the foundation of our system of government,” he added. — Breitbart
Our Take: “It almost defies belief that, with 8 million known criminal migrants in the interior, the Biden Department of Justice would prioritize the elimination of ballot security measures in the run up to a presidential election. Almost.
Let’s set aside for a moment that claiming black people cannot get ID is inexcusably racist. It is, and he should be berated by the black community for even suggesting it. White leftists have always been, and continue to be, the most bigoted faction of modern US society. But let’s set that aside and focus on the overt play that Garland is making here.
Videos of criminal migrants flowing across the border are a daily occurrence. We’ve also seen videos of criminal migrants claiming they can vote because they believe themselves to be here legally (likely because the NGO traffickers told them they were). It’s also true that, at least in Colorado and all the other ERIC States, local elections officials are prohibited from asking about citizenship for voting registration.
So 8M ‘new people’ — that we know of — are now inside our borders. They are, by definition, ineligible to vote, but believe themselves eligible. And the response to this crisis by the chief law enforcement officer in the nation is to remove election security measures to ensure that these criminal migrants can vote.
Can someone explain to me how this is not treason?” — Ashe in America
AMD Hits US Roadblock in Selling AI Chip Tailored for China
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. hit a US government roadblock in attempting to sell an artificial intelligence chip tailored for the Chinese market, according to people familiar with the matter, part of Washington’s crackdown on the export of advanced technologies to the country.
AMD had hoped to gain a green light from the Commerce Department to sell the AI processor to Chinese customers, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the situation is private. The chip has lower performance than what AMD sells outside of China and was designed to meet US export restrictions, they said.
But US officials told AMD that the chip was still too powerful and that the company must obtain a license from Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security in order to sell it, the people said. AMD didn’t have an immediate comment, while the Bureau of Industry and Security declined to comment. It’s not yet clear whether AMD is applying for a license.
The US has been working to limit Chinese access to cutting-edge semiconductors that can develop AI models — and the tools used to manufacture those chips — out of fear that Beijing will gain a military edge. President Joe Biden’s administration unveiled an initial set of export controls in 2022 and strengthened them last October to include more technology and curb sales to intermediary nations that might undermine the ban. — Bloomberg
Our Take: “While the War of Stories continues to go swimmingly for the America First movement domestically, and for the sovereign movement worldwide, it is increasingly devastating for the twin philosophies of globalism and collectivism, which are, of course, merely reskins of the communist ideology that subverted and destroyed the far east throughout the 20th century, and that would visit the same fate upon the west, if given the opportunity.
That said, in keeping with the Devolution research of Jon Herold, there are Actuals that pop up from time to time that, while seeming contradictory on the surface, suggest the groundwork is being laid for not just a return of the American dream, but of a cooperative sovereign dream across all lands.
‘China Joe’ is a nice Narrative, but his supposed policy actions have resembled anything but globalist subservience. And President Xi has followed suit, focusing on the on-shoring of production as well.
'The Switch' is well underway.” — Burning Bright
BONUS ITEMS
Meta's Facebook, Instagram back up after global outage
Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram were back up on Tuesday after a more than two-hour outage that was caused by a technical issue and impacted hundreds of thousands of users globally.
The disruptions started at around 10 a.m. ET (1500 GMT), with many users saying on rival social media platform X they had been booted out of Facebook and Instagram and were unable to log in.
The White House National Security Council was monitoring the incident and not aware of any specific malicious cyber activity at this time, a spokesperson said.
At the peak of the outage, there were more than 550,000 reports of disruptions for Facebook and about 92,000 for Instagram, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
"Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue ... for everyone who was impacted," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X, without elaborating on the issue. — Reuters
"No Tesla Is Safe": Eco-Terrorists Attack German Power Grid, Causing Outage At Gigafactory
A far-left militant/environmental group, known as "Vulkangruppe" (Volcano Group), has claimed responsibility for an attack on Germany's electricity infrastructure on Tuesday, paralyzing vehicle production at Tesla's European Gigafactory near Berlin.
Police in the state of Brandenburg said someone set fire to a nearby high-voltage tower, causing a blaze that cut off electricity to the Gigafactory and more than 60,000 people in the surrounding area.
A Tesla spokesperson confirmed to Reuters that the attack on the grid caused a power outage at the factory, resulting in a production halt. The spokesperson added that the site was evacuated.
"We sabotaged Tesla today. Because Tesla in Grünau eats up earth, resources, people, labor and spits out 6,000 SUVs, killing machines and monster trucks per week. Our gift for March 8th is to shut down Tesla. Because the complete destruction of the Gigafactory and with it the sawing off of "technofascists" like Elend Musk are a step on the path to liberation from patriarchy," the eco-terrorist wrote in a 2,500-word attack on Tesla.
On X, CEO Elon Musk responded to the incident by saying:
"These are either the dumbest eco-terrorists on Earth or they’re puppets of those who don’t have good environmental goals. Stopping production of electric vehicles, rather than fossil fuel vehicles, ist extrem dumm." — ZeroHedge
Government Admission: Biden Parole Flights Create Security ‘Vulnerabilities’ at U.S. Airports
Thanks to an ongoing Center for Immigration Studies Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the public now knows that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has approved secretive flights that last year alone ferried hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens from foreign airports into some 43 American ones over the past year, all pre-approved on a cell phone app. (See links to prior CIS reports at the end of this post.)
The Biden administration’s legally dubious program to fly inadmissible aliens over the border and directly to U.S. airports has allegedly created law enforcement vulnerabilities too grave to release publicly.
But while large immigrant-receiving cities and media lay blame for the influx on Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s busing program, CBP has withheld from the Center – and apparently will not disclose – the names of the 43 U.S. airports that have received 320,000 inadmissible aliens from January through December 2023, nor the foreign airports from which they departed. The agency’s lawyers have cited a general “law enforcement exception” without elaborating – until recently – on how releasing airport locations would harm public safety beyond citing “the sensitivity of the information.”
Now, though, CIS’s litigation has yielded a novel and newsworthy answer from the government: The public can’t know the receiving airports because those hundreds of thousands of CBP-authorized arrivals have created such “operational vulnerabilities” at airports that “bad actors” could undermine law enforcement efforts to “secure the United States border” if they knew the volume of CBP One traffic processed at each port of entry.
In short, the Biden administration’s legally dubious program to fly inadmissible aliens over the border and directly to U.S. airports has allegedly created law enforcement vulnerabilities too grave to release publicly, lest “bad actors” take advantage of them to inflict harm on public safety. — Center for Immigration Studies
Andrew Cuomo subpoenaed by congressional subcommittee investigating COVID-era handling of nursing homes
The House subcommittee tasked with investigating the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday subpoenaed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in relation to his administration's handling of nursing homes during the pandemic, according to documents first obtained by ABC News.
Specifically, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is seeking to question Cuomo about one of his administration's most controversial COVID-era directives: instructing nursing homes to admit recovering COVID-positive patients from hospitals, a move that has faced criticism that it led to increased deaths in nursing homes.
The subpoena and letter from the Republican-led subcommittee is the latest development for the former New York governor, who has faced intense scrutiny into his administration's handling of nursing homes during the pandemic. In 2021, ABC News reported that federal prosecutors in Brooklyn were investigating Cuomo's coronavirus task force with a focus on nursing homes. No charges were brought. — ABC News
Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona says she won’t seek reelection, avoiding a 3-way race
Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced on Tuesday that she won’t run for a second term after her estrangement from the Democratic Party left her politically homeless and without a clear path to reelection.
Sinema’s announcement comes after Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border and deliver military aid to Ukraine and Israel — a deal that Sinema spent months negotiating. She had hoped it would be a signature achievement addressing one of Washington’s most intractable challenges as well as a powerful endorsement for her increasingly lonely view that cross-party dealmaking remains possible.
But in the end, Sinema’s border-security ambitions, and her career in Congress, were swallowed by the partisanship that has paralyzed Congress.
“I love Arizona and I am so proud of what we’ve delivered,” she said in a video posted to social media. “Because I choose civility, understanding, listening, working together to get stuff done, I will leave the Senate at the end of this year.”
Sinema’s decision avoids a three-way contest in one of the most closely watched 2024 Senate races. That hard-to-forecast scenario had spawned fierce debate among political operatives about whether one major party would benefit in the quest for the Senate majority. Most analysts agreed Sinema had faced significant, likely insurmountable hurdles if she had decided to run. — AP News
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“Ban Voter ID Laws”
Ban DHS. Since requiring ID is discriminatory. Get rid of TSA and every bit of their intrusive policies and procedures. As a token of federal sincerity and goodwill.
Victoria Nuland. Retired? Officially maybe yes. But don’t kid yourself. These Marxists NEVER, EVER retire or quit. They move on to special assignments. And as the left moves on to their post-Supreme Court loss “strategy”, she is moving on to special assignment status. Trust me: you have NOT seen last of this anti-American.