Badlands News Brief

Lake Round 2, Woke Brokeness & the Soros Slug

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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 picks 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 commentary from members of our growing team of citizen journalists. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see their other work.

Now, onto the news from Tuesday, May 16 …

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Maricopa County Judge Confirms Kari Lake is Going Back to Trial May 17, 18, 19

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson reaffirmed a previous minute entry, setting trial dates for Kari Lake’s trial on the remanded fraudulent signature verification claims in her lawsuit against the 2022 election.

Kari Lake is going back to trial on May 17, 18, and 19!

Thompson ruled that the arguments by Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County to dismiss Count III regarding fraudulent signature verification failed and were “not persuasive.”

However, Thompson dismissed Count II regarding intentional election day tabulator failures, despite newly discovered evidence that Maricopa County rigged the election and secretly tested voting machines to fail Republican voters. The new findings show “clear misconduct and intent,” argue Lake’s attorneys.

Kari Lake voters turned out 3:1 on election day, and Maricopa County intentionally screwed them.

The Gateway Pundit reported on the testimony by Lake’s attorneys that Maricopa County installed malware on the voting machines at Friday’s hearing. — The Gateway Pundit

Our Take: “Take two of the Lake v Hobbs trial begins today at 12PM EDT, and we will have live Badlands coverage for every moment of the trial, which is expected to run through Friday.

This case has delivered more whiplash than an afternoon a Six Flags, and the latest rounds of motions — and orders issued Monday by trial court Judge Peter Thompson — are no exception.

Disappointing in Monday’s order is the court’s denial to reconsider Count II. The plaintiff’s motion sought to introduce new evidence of a secret logic and accuracy test, which Maricopa County previously hid from the court (and Arizona voters). The new evidence reportedly includes technical analysis and whistleblower testimony, and Plaintiffs allege it proves intent — the inexplicably high standard on which Count II failed in last year’s Christmas Eve trial.

In other words, plaintiffs can now prove intent, but the judge won’t hear the evidence, claiming that Count II was already fully adjudicated.

The matter before the judge this week is Count III, which will consider the legality of the signature verification methods employed by Maricopa County during the 2022 midterm. The order states that Lake must, ‘demonstrate at trial pursuant to her concessions that Maricopa County’s higher level signature reviewers conducted no signature verification or curing and in so doing had systematically failed to materially comply with the law,’ and also ‘prove a competent mathematical basis to win.’

This is another high standard set by the court, but plaintiffs maintain they can demonstrate that Maricopa County’s signature verification violated the law in large enough numbers to affect the outcome of the election. They’ll begin making their case this afternoon. Lake v Hobbs is the Space Mountain of emotional rollercoasters, so strap in at Badlands today at 12PM EDT and keep your arms inside the vehicle at all times.” — Ashe in America

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Bud Light Backlash Shows No Sign Of Letting Up, And Now There Is Contagion To Budweiser, Busch And Michelob

It will probably not come as a surprise to anyone - except some woke millennial Harvard MBA grad - but Bud Light volume and sales declines have worsened, according to the latest industry point-of-sales data, suggesting the tranny-influencer backlash is showing no signs of letting up.

As Bloomberg's Janet Freund notes, the most recent third-party point-of-sales data from both Circana (formerly IRI) and Nielsen show that declines in Bud Light dollar share, volume share and sales have continued to worsen.

“Bud Light’s US market share slide continued in the latest Circana market scan to 8.3% in the 4-week period ended May 7 compared with 9.1% only two weeks prior,” Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Kenneth Shea said, citing IRI data

“With other top AB InBev brand share also eroding as well, it appears that the company is in need of a pivotal marketing strategy to halt the trend,” he says, adding that Coors Light, Miller Lite and Modelo still appear to be “soaking up the lost share.” — ZeroHedge

Our Take: “Normie Conservatives be like: ‘It was a little hairy there for a minute. Thankfully only Bud Light was tainted by the trans-woke agenda, and all other major multinational beer and alcohol brands are not in cahoots with the globalists ... Oh. Oh no. Wait, it's much worse than I thought.’

It turns out that nearly every major corporation on earth is in some way forced to or willingly participating in the globalist agenda, in and through the woke ESG or DEI initiatives. So the question becomes, where do we draw the line? It's a question that, I suspect, will expose a much bigger solution and how it's connected to this problem.

Boycotting one or two globalist entities isn't enough.

Bear in mind, profiting is just a bonus for these people. Money isn't the end; it's the means to the end. This is why, companies and corporations, which one would think would be primarily focused on maximizing profits, are instead burning money to advance the woke agenda. It's not about wokeness, it's about control. It's about indoctrination. It's about a grand global psyop in a long line of grand global psyops.

The agenda is nothing less than total and complete control of all human activity. And the system is set up so that the very people who will be subjected to this neo-hell are the same people who are rallying the charge to implement it.

We work for their companies. We pay taxes that fund the agenda. We stay quiet to maintain the big lie. At nearly every level, we're feeding into the very system that's killing us.

So no, boycotting Bud Light or some other newly woke company isn't enough. What we need is a fully functional and superior parallel economy. Everywhere money is spent that props up their system, we need to take it out and pump it into truly freedom first, America first supporters, businesses, and entities. The best time to do this is right now. As the globalists intentionally implode the economy, we can defect therefrom and set up our own systems—especially as the general population starts to realize what's going on.” — Justin Deschamps

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George Soros’ Investment Fund Sells Off Entire Investment in Elon Musk’s Tesla

Soros Fund Management — the principal asset manager for the Open Societies Foundations, founded by left-wing billionaire and Democrat donor George Soros — has sold all of its stock in Elon Musk’s Tesla.

Soros Fund Management’s first-quarter holdings report with the SEC reveals that it no longer has any stock in Tesla, according to a report by Barron’s.

The foundation previously had roughly 130,000 shares, as well as some call options. But they are now nowhere to be found on its portfolio.

While sales from famous investors or large shareholders can move stock prices, this did not appear to have happened with Tesla, as the company’s stock is up about 0.4 percent in premarket trading, with futures on the S&P 500 being down 0.2 percent, the report noted. In morning trading, Tesla shares are actually up by about one percent. — Breitbart

Our Take: “The tweet that Elon Musk is responding to in this article comes from the notorious intellectual failure Brian Krassenstein. In his tweet, Krassenstein equates merely existing during WWII to being a good person and mentions George Soros' ‘good intentions’.

Let's examine George's memories of his childhood during the war, as well as what his good intentions have wrought.

Here's a story about the war that George gleefully recounts on an edition of 60-Minutes that he tried to have banned. He talks about how he was tasked with confiscating belongings and deporting his fellow Jews, something that Soros boasts had no emotional impact on him whatsoever. You can see the clip HERE.

He actually compares selling out his own people to how he interacts with the markets. 

Those ‘good intentions’ Krassentein mentions? I'm still trying to figure out exactly what intentions he's talking about. Maybe it was how George benevolently crashed the British economy and made over £1 billion in profit by shorting the sterling. Or maybe the good intentions Brian mentioned had to do with all of the other countries he's ruined financially? Or maybe how he seems so eager for World War III to break out?

The left will bend over backwards and firmly lodge their skulls in their own asses if it means that they don't have to acknowledge the myriad, glaring red flags strewn about this withered old goblin.” — Ryan DeLarme

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Elon Musk: George Soros “Hates Humanity”

Twitter owner Elon Musk declared Monday that he believes billionaire globalist George Soros “hates humanity,” prompting leftists to immediately accuse Musk of being anti-Semitic. — Summit News

Our Take: “He said it. We were thinking it. Will the normies finally stop denying reality? Probably not. But at the very least, Musk is making the idea more popular that globalists aren't the good guys … they're the baddies.” — Justin Deschamps

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Supreme Court throws out convictions in sweeping New York corruption probe

The Supreme Court delivered a double blow to federal prosecutors Thursday by throwing out corruption convictions in two cases, one of them concerning an ex-aide to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who was convicted of taking a bribe from a real estate developer.

The court in a 9-0 vote threw out Joseph Percoco's conviction for accepting the $35,000 payment when he managed Cuomo’s re-election campaign in 2014. In doing so, the justices narrowed the scope of a federal anticorruption law.

The court ruled that Percoco’s conduct was not covered by the federal law that requires that “honest services” be provided to the public. He was not working for the government at the time, so he had no duty to provide honest services, the court said. — NBC News

Our Take: “The most amusing part of this story for me is NBC News’ complete inability to hide their DOJ bias: ‘In each case the court, whose members face claims of ethics lapses, made it harder for federal prosecutors to bring corruption cases.’

The DOJ’s legal theory here is that someone commits fraud if they deprive another person of ‘potentially valuable economic information.’

Is that like Nancy Pelosi not sharing her stock tips? The high court unanimously (9-0) found that, ‘The government cannot use vague fraud statutes to advance novel and sweeping theories in prosecutions of political actors,’ and that the standard for fraud requires a loss of money or property. ‘The government cannot …’ is my love language.

There are related corruption cases still waiting to be heard by SCOTUS, and it’s refreshing to see the high court uphold limits — any limits — on the authoritarian Executive branch and its wholly corrupted justice department.

Now, how do we quantify the money and property loss from 81 million fraud-derived votes?” — Ashe in America

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Toronto’s ‘Anti-Capitalist’ Cafe Closing Down After Just a Year in Business

Toronto’s supposedly ‘anti-capitalist’ cafe, The Anarchist, has announced that it would be permanently shutting down after just over a year in business.

In a “nobody saw that coming” moment, a Toronto cafe that describes itself as an “anti-capitalist, anti-colonial cafe, shop and radical community space on stolen land,” announced that it would be shutting down permanently by the end of the month.

To counter the idea that the business was itself a capitalist enterprise, the cafe introduced a “pay what you can” coffee, which the owner said cost the business money, but was supposedly subsidised by more expensive drinks on the menu.

Yet, this was seemingly not enough to keep the coffee shop afloat, with owner Gabriel Sims-Fewer writing this week: “Unfortunately, the lack of generational wealth/seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources left me unable to weather the quiet winter season, or to grow in the ways needed to be sustainable longer-term.” — Breitbart

Our Take: “This is one of those headlines that you would assume came from the satirical Babylon Bee, but is actually very real.

This whole ‘anti-capitalist’ business model is the perfect microrepresentation of what communism or socialism would actually look like, but unfortunately, these types are somehow unable to compute what is right in front of their eyes. 

The business introduced a 'pay what you can' coffee, which the owner said cost the business money, but was supposedly subsidized by more expensive drinks on the menu. So, in essence, to offset the sheer failure of their ‘anti-capitalist’ gimmick, they tried to balance things by introducing—wait for it—more capitalism!

This whole story perfectly showcases the kind of logic (or lack thereof) employed by these thoroughly indoctrinated socialist types. You might recall that the leftist utopia that was CHAZ collapsed as well, yet they still push that same proven failure repeatedly.

‘The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.’ —House of Commons, October 22, 1945” — Ryan DeLarme

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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.

The Badlands Media team will continue to combine our cognitive powers in order to slow things down and find the signal amidst the noise as this series expands.

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