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Kelly McCulloch's avatar

People with TDR think Trump is a bumbling idiot. He plays the role well when it serves his purpose. We can see right through it to the bicameral, but (as I stated in today’s News Brief) his communication strategy is amazing to behold.

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Burning Bright's avatar

Many people "on the right," or who consider themselves very serious intellectuals, as Chris Paul would say believe it, too.

It's the biggest blind spot you could have in this war.

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Kelly McCulloch's avatar

I have three siblings. Two are “on the right” and one is a “very serious intellectual.” All are hyper-anxious and all think Trump is a Dufus

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ShikaG's avatar

It’s maddening when people who are pretty smart but still operating in the matrix say that Trump didn’t quite think things through… 😤🙏🏼😑😴

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Kelly McCulloch's avatar

Post Script: I do believe General Kellogg, who has been recorded as stating that the tweets are crafted by group participation (which I read as “committee”)

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Marie's avatar

One blogger I follow calls him "General Cornflakes" !😊

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Deb Buckingham's avatar

Thanks BB! It's always very helpful to read your breakdown of the narrative. My husband and I have committed to NO TV! Just movies and lots of reading. We gain so much peace and in this case, ignorance is bliss of what Fox is spewing!

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Aimeslee's avatar

Same here! But I also listen to music...a LOT! To me, that is the greatest mood healer and peacemaker ever.

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ALtab's avatar

Me, too!! My husband still watches Varney on Fox Business, but I just pass through…

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Deb Buckingham's avatar

It can be a struggle to adjust our typical daily habits! I printed Badlands TV schedule so we can watch the latest from truthers rather than the MSM. We are committed to a 30 day total blackout for now and hope that will just keep us going.

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Burning Bright's avatar

Much appreciated, Deb. That's a good move. Thanks for supporting this work.

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ALtab's avatar

I still have friends who have absolutely no clue and were so excited about the No Kings’ saga. The depth of brainwashing that still exists is astounding to me.

Your work, for the 3+ years I’ve followed you, has been such an education for navigating the ‘understanding’ of this entire war and proof that old dogs can learn!

Thank you for your assessment and reminders of connections as it keeps me calm about all of this! I’ve told my awakening son-in-law (whose nephew is enlisting in the Army causing him worries), not to worry until I do.😀. I’m providing reasons, too, and my active involvement can be directly traced back to you.

So, thank you, Fearless Tiger!!

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Burning Bright's avatar

Amazing how returning to a piece from just a week ago can give us perspective and show us that these really are just chapters in a narrative war. They seem like the biggest things in the world ... unto they're gone, replaced by the next biggest thing in the world.

Thanks for your long-time support, ALtab.

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Bryce E. 'Esquire' Rasmussen's avatar

Same here. A bit worse in Canada. My friends ignored that most of the No Kings in LA was restricted to a few blocks and the rest of it was seniors with walkers wandering about.

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ShikaG's avatar

You can tell your son-in-law that one of your online conspiracy theory friends said the Army will be primarily used as defense for the homeland. Check out their latest commercial.

Trump made Space Force for a reason - it’s all in the air now. Precision strikes, the Air Force, Navy and Marines managing the logistics.

No more traditional warfare with troops on the ground. We have the technology to carry out Kennedy’s vision of precision attacks.

Assassinations? Kinda, yeah. But if it saves hundreds and thousands of soldiers, our children we love…

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ALtab's avatar

Thank you! I will tell him and you’re right! Can’t believe I didn’t consider the Space Force (I was an AF civilian for 25 years).🤔

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Sarah (Pippi)'s avatar

I’d love to read your fiction work!!!

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Burning Bright's avatar

Probably going to be announcing my first foray back into this world in July, with a campaign in August.

We'll see if people are interested.

If so, I'll keep it going. If not, it was worth a try!

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Sarah (Pippi)'s avatar

Great!!

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Dick's avatar

👏🏼🙏🏼💥🌟🔥💌

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Dick's avatar

Me as well. Have anticipated that for years … plus BB’s collected substacks — in two volumes: 1)Righteous Russia and 2) short & long ‘Stacks….& maybe more, about when BB Jr gets his first bike, say, another 3 years hence. We are ready and burning brightly with anticipation.

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Burning Bright's avatar

Haha thanks Dick!

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ALtab's avatar

True!! They will be classics one day.

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Tony's avatar

Thank you

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Anna's avatar

Thank you BB!

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Burning Bright's avatar

Thanks Anna!

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Emil Möller's avatar

thank you for the time and energy you dedicate to inspire the court of public opinion to be brave

the joy you manifest while communicating is infecteous

I'll sign up early for your publication

ps: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DrHSDNBeWvzfz2lcqWIt6xUIk5mhkO2HC-thEPL7M9w/edit?usp=drive_link might interest you, since it shows an X ray of major AI's ethical failures, which is something that might be increasingly relevant in the times ahead, when people start asking questions

as is https://bernhardguenther.substack.com/p/mass-psychosis-egregores-and-the?publication_id=5022417&post_id=165796814&isFreemail=true&r=qxbqk&triedRedirect=true

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Burning Bright's avatar

Thank you for your continued support, Emil.

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Emil Möller's avatar

winning (the war of stories) is addictive

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ALtab's avatar

Very telling on the impact of who designs the AI. Definitely exposes the vulnerability of the AI to whomever is controlling its actions…

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Emil Möller's avatar

what would happen when center for the dev't of ethically driven AI would be created

who could draw in the talent, the movers and shakers in the field, allowing this idea to come to fruition > Musk, Bukele, Q+?

imagine Noosphere valley, featuring Kant's Categorical Imperative, the Stoics' Logos, Buckminster Fuller's Livingry in an area where people are naturally drawn: safe, clean, affordable, agreeable climate, can do - upswing Zeitgeist

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ShikaG's avatar

We just like you, BB. We’ll probably like your fiction. Praying for your property rights. Praying for all kinds of miracles with the bureaucratic gangsters.

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Burning Bright's avatar

Much appreciated, Shika!

Publishing rights are a Gordian Knot unto themselves, but progress is slowly being made.

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Marie's avatar

Thank you for your work-- I just love "The Master"! Meanwhile, what might be the significance of the two Flag Poles Pres. Trump had installed this week? I feel like he is sending a message....

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Burning Bright's avatar

Thanks so much!

Many were speculating about False Flags, but again, it didn't come to pass.

Sometimes, Trump likes trolling.

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Lee Walden's avatar

Time Well spent Stay the Course BB

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Burning Bright's avatar

Thanks Lee!

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Lee Walden's avatar

Latest Article from@ Massie Patriot Act and Loss of our Rights

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Bryce E. 'Esquire' Rasmussen's avatar

There are others who are saying the same. There is some discussion about how much of the missile attacks are real, how much is wag the dog? All we really know is that there things said, and pictures showing damage, videos of missile attacks. I wrote a bit on X about that, for it seemed that the missile videos seemed to follow specific cinematic forms.

I ask myself what is Iran's role in this? What is it's part in the story? Why the focus on it? Time will tell.

I've noticed a possible pattern that has repeated itself over the years, accelerated now. An event. The purpose is to move us forward. Such as Donald's mugshot. There are many others. Some are small, but there are events that are climactic and are followed by a period of quiet. As if to give us pause to absorb it. In the middle of the Iran Israel 'conflict' we seem to be having a quiet moment, after the missile attacks. In the quiet, people argue, try to work out what happened. I feel that this summer is crucial and maybe a crucible. There are parts that need to play out before the ring gets thrown into the volcano.

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sharonmo's avatar

I am more than interested. However, thru a really good source I got another outcome which I did not read here...Kerry Cassidy posted that Iran does not have nukes of any kind underground, right here on substack. They are preserving something worse that that. They hacked into "Nutty Yahoo's" computer and computers of MOSAD and found the REAL Epstein documents on MOSAD and Israel (which is not really Israel but created by the Rothschilds as 3rd arm of the Kasarian Mafia name stealers) and it will expose who did 9-11 and who are the pedophiles being blackmailed. Could it be that Nutty Yahoo, who paid Hamas to attack Israel, is on that REAL EPSTEIN LIST?

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ALtab's avatar

Hmmm….

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sharonmo's avatar

Yes this is really different and in all of this I have found, (even with my own family and life) it is never the obvious and it is never what you expect it to be.

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Dick's avatar

This Kerry Cassidy?

Really? https://thebasesproject.org/kerry-cassidy-bio/

What a nutter!

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Wild Bill's avatar

Same info appears here... no idea how credible, but at least a 2nd source:

https://x.com/589bull10000/status/1935027152707027099

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Dick's avatar

Wild Bill, my friend, it was kind of you to offer that after my flip comment. 589bull’s conjecture hasn’t held up very well these days.

I think conjecturing about Epstein & all that is pretty much an irrelevant distraction for us right now. By n by it’ll be known. A list of visitors has been known for a long time already. Shenanigans, yes. But Justice will be served in its good time.

Just my opinion here.

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Wild Bill's avatar

I agree justice will be served, and I do respect your opinion. As far as these 'Epstein conjectures' go (and I've since seen them repeated elsewhere), the jury is still out. We have no idea what exactly Iran got from Mossad's servers, if anything, and it could indeed be a big nothing-burger.

As the old saw goes, 'the tales grow taller on down the line' referring I believe to the childhood 'telephone game.' And as BB and the other writers on Badlands posit, we are in a 5GW, which is a war of narrative, in which the truth or Actual matters less than the belief or Narrative. Thus, the important thing to come of all of this is Exposure -- more and more folks are hearing about Epstein's escapades, including the reports that Epstein was spirited out of his New York jail cell by Mossad and returned to Israel. The greater the number of people aware of all this, the better -- regardless of what ends up being true.

Even though it may seem mundane to those of us who've been following this all for a while, it is new to some and they need to understand too. To be ready for Disclosure, when it all comes out including the hundreds of thousands of sealed indictments.

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Burning Bright's avatar

Consensus manufacturing = reality crafting.

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sharonmo's avatar

I am looking at all things offered and I am looking at cross references. I have also read Trumps book he wrote and have listened to Kerry interview others. She really does bring out things that no one else does. It encourages me to look outside the box.

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Dick's avatar

Sharon - I meant no disrespect for you or your desire for info — & looking outside the “box”. I think that’s how we all got here & it’s to be encouraged! But, many, like her, are influential charlatans or swept away by foundational deceptions. Their influence can & often does lead into many true-seeming “boxes”.

Practice wise discernment. Note their sources, premises & other works. Look behind, underneath & around the box they’ve constructed. Question everything & test the deliverer. Base all you find on your foundational, solid grounding. Tuck away plausible conjectures — if they check out upon examination. …Try to disprove your own assumptions & conclusions! If they stand the test, hold on & continue testing against new solid info.

That’s why I posted that link in response & called her a nutter. Perhaps a sincere lady, but that she’s hard at being an influencer makes it all the more imperative to proceed with caution. That page on her site says everything we need to know. I’d still give her a very wide berth.

All the best!

— Just a fellow reader.

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