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Badlands Story Hour

Discussion of entertainment, movies, and storytelling with Chris Paul and Burning Bright

Show starts at 9pm ET

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“Our intuition is that history has a destiny, and that free will and determinism are two versions of the same phenomenon. The human interactions that form history behave as though they were informed by a kind of destiny. Just as an electron plasma, a dense gas of electrons, behaves as a complex system, so do human beings. The freedom of individual movement by the electrons turns out to be compatible with highly organized collective behavior. As David Bohm said of an electron plasma, human history is "a highly organized system which behaves as a whole."

Understanding the way the world works means developing a realistic intuition of the way that human society obeys the mathematics of natural processes. Reality is nonlinear. But most people's expectations are not. To understand the dynamics of change, you have to recognize that human society, like other complex systems in nature, is characterized by cycles and discontinuities. That means certain features of history have a tendency to repeat themselves, and the most important changes, when they occur, may be abrupt rather than gradual.”

The Sovereign Individual - Rees-Mogg, Davidson

“As Will Durant wrote in The Story of Civilization, these changes did not appear to be the "fall of Rome" but merely "negligible shifts on the surface of the national scene." When Rome fell, Odoacer said that Rome endured. He, along with almost everyone else, was keen to pretend that nothing had changed. They knew that "the glory that was Rome" was far better than the barbarism that was taking its place. Even the barbarians thought so. As
C. W. Previte-Orton wrote in The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History, the end of the fith century, when "the Emperors had been replaced by barbaric German kings," was a time of "persistent make-believe."

"Persistent Make-Believe"

This "make-believe" involved the preservation of the façade of the old system, even as its essence was "deformed by barbarism."' The old forms of government remained the same when the last emperor was replaced by a barbarian "lieutenant." The Senate still met. "The praetorian prefecture and other high offices continued, and were held by eminent Romans." Consuls were still nominated for a year. "The Roman civil administration survived intact." Indeed, in some ways it remained intact until the birth of feudalism at the end of the tenth century. On public occasions, the old imperial insignia was still employed. Christianity was still the state religion. The barbarians still pretended to owe fealty to the Eastern emperor in Constantinople, and to the traditions of Roman law. In fact, in Durant's words, "in the West the great Empire was no more."

The Sovereign Individual - Davidson, Rees-Mogg p 57-58

Communist Axios: https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1816095023143735666?s=46

Devolution Recap Series - Part 7 - Foreign Interference

2:45 PM EST

Found some time to get another episode of the recap series in. In this episode we'll be covering Devolution Part 7 & EO 13848.

https://rumble.com/v589zg1-devolution-recap-series-part-7-foreign-interference.html?mref=nmtun&mc=4m0ok

Q&A for Locals subscribers after the stream:
https://badlands.locals.com/post/5912146/devolution-recap-series-part-7-foreign-interference

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Devolution Power Hour

Jon, Burning Bright & Just Human analyze recent events through the lens of Devolution.

Show starts at 10:30pm ET

https://rumble.com/v5883el-devolution-power-hour-ep-269-1030-pm-et-.html?mref=2ay364&mc=b2hfe

He may have been an illegitimate president but he was OUR illegitimate president.

Thank you for the red pills Joe.

H/T @GreenStar_17 for the edit

Headline is a bit misleading...

""We obviously know that Mr. Comperatore lost his life…two other rally goers were injured, seriously injured, and then the one that hit President Trump. Does that account for…were some of these individuals hit multiple times?" Jordan asked. "Where did all eight bullets go, is I guess my question."

Wray said he did not have that information to hand, adding: "As I said, I think with respect to former President Trump, there's some question about whether or not it's a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.

"So it's conceivable, as I sit here right now, I don't know whether that bullet in addition to, you know, causing the grazing, could have also landed somewhere else. But I believe we've accounted for all of the shots in the cartridges."

The Trump campaign has been contacted for comment via email."

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-might-not-shot-1930037

I believe that Cheatle/COG comment was a “nothing-burger.”

Here is why

Here’s what an election would look like if it wasn’t rigged for Democrats:

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Devolution Power Hour

Jon, Patrick & Chris analyze recent events through the lens of Devolution.

Show starts at 10:30pm ET

https://rumble.com/v58nfml-devolution-power-hour-270-1030-pm-et-.html?mref=qxa4n&mc=51udw

Was the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump earlier this month part of a secret CIA program involving brainwashed killers? That’s the claim being made by some far-right accounts on X, but the U.S. intelligence agency is taking the unusual step of directly and forcefully denying the claims.

When it was revealed in the 1970s that the CIA had tried to develop a mind-manipulation program called MKUltra, it sounded like the most absurd conspiracy theory around. Unfortunately, it turned out to be true, even if the suggestive results of the program–and potential for creating Manchurian Candidate-like killers–have been exaggerated in the subsequent decades.

But MKUltra has become quite a meme in the 2020s, with many conspiracy theorists jumping into the fray after Trump was shot at by a 20-year-old during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.
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Devolution Recap Series - Part 8 - How & When

3PM EST

Going live with another episode of the recap series. After the stream I'll do another Q&A for Locals subs.

Rumble: https://rumble.com/v58xjsj-devolution-recap-series-part-8-how-and-when.html?mref=nmtun&mc=4m0ok

Locals: https://badlands.locals.com/post/5931284/devolution-recap-series-part-8-how-when

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Hindsight 2020

Patrick Gunnels and Chris Paul take a look at our recent past through a current lens.

Show starts at 9pm ET

https://rumble.com/v58wdtt-hindsight-2020-ep.-10-900-pm-et-.html?mref=qxa4n&mc=51udw

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Baseless Conspiracies

Zak Paine takes Jon Herold to conspiracy theory school, exploring new topics every week.

Show starts at 10:30pm ET

https://rumble.com/v58wfhp-baseless-conspiracies-ep-92-1030-pm-et-.html?mref=qxa4n&mc=51udw

Man, I hope these “anti-communist protestors” are as well-intentioned and correctly labeled as the “anti-fascist protestors” here in America.

If not, that would mean all the based and redpilled influencers are cheering on BLMAntifa on behalf of a globalist puppet candidate they’d never heard of three days ago.

https://www.tg-me.com/elon_alerts/46143

🚨🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A Secret Service counter sniper sent an email Monday night to the entire Uniformed Division (not agents) saying he will not stop speaking out until "5 high-level supervisors (1 down) are either fired or removed from their current positions." The counter sniper also said the agency "SHOULD expect another assassination attempt" before November and complained that he is no longer proud to be a USSS counter sniper after leadership failed the officers at the Trump rally in Butler on 7/13.

"This agency NEEDS to change," the sniper wrote in the email. "If not now, WHEN? "The NEXT assassination in 30 days?"

"Sadly we have fallen short for YEARS," the counter sniper lamented. "We just look good doing it. I have conveyed these thoughts to not only supervisors (to include the current Captain of CS, but those responsible for training us (SOTS/CS). Only to be brushed off as those with less experience somehow knew more than me."

"The team I was once proud to be a part of, is something I have to somehow hide as I move into my next career," the counter sniper continued. "Who wants to hire a USSS CS guy who failed? That's the public perception I'm not faced with. The USSS CS team is a stain I will never be able to cleanse."

He concluded with these two lines: "The motto of the USSS...CYA. And every supervisor is doing it right now."

The agency quickly deleted the email, a knowledgeable source told RealClearPolitics.

Full email with name redacted above.

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"In May and June 2024, the Brennan Center organized five nonpartisan tabletop exercises premised on an authoritarian candidate winning the presidency to test the resilience of democratic institutions. The antidemocratic executive actions explored in the scenarios were based on former President Donald Trump’s public statements about his plans for a potential second term in office.

We do not predict whether Trump will win the November election, and we take no position on how Americans should cast their votes. What we have done is simulated how authoritarian elements of Trump’s agenda, if he is elected, might play out against lawful efforts to check abuses of power."

https://brennancenter.org/democracy-futures-project