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Lori Weintz's avatar

Agreed. Trump is still the best chance we have at this moment to right the ship, and he's doing more than any President has in decades to try to address the myriad problems that have been promoted, or at least allowed to develop, by past Administrations and Congress.

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AwakeNotWoke's avatar

Oh, absolutely—Trump's quiet genius in greenlighting that self-disseminating vaccine masterpiece? Pure benevolence. It's like he personally ensured the unvaxxed get a complimentary immunity upgrade via "shedding," turning every hug into a public health win. And thinning the herd? Chef's kiss—survival of the fittest, one awkward family reunion at a time. Who knew compassion could be so... airborne?

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Andrea Prickett's avatar

That was a big mistake. Have you never been fooled by anyone in your life into doing something you regret? My guess is most people would never admit but may try to correct? Hmmm?

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C.W. Smith's avatar

Well that's just it. Trump has never admitted fault OR tried to correct. Not even once. He is still, to this very day, insisting that he handled the Covid outbreak perfectly, and touting these poisonous shots as his crowning achievement.

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Andrea Prickett's avatar

Yeah Yeah yeah....we have all heard that multitudes of times. You obviously did not absorb the words in my comment.

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C.W. Smith's avatar

No, I just ignored them because they were largely irrelevant to the topic at hand.

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Barbara Charis's avatar

President Trump is trying to put America's interests first. I sure would not have liked Kamala in the White House. We have more freedom now... that the previous faux administration is out of the White House. We should be totally out of the WHO ...January 28th. The borders are being secured. Trump is into fighting crime in Washington, D.C., and in other cities, but Soros-Obama's judges are blocking him. Soros's money put Obama into office by hiding his background, which would have put him out of the running. Soros influenced his protege's running of America. If Obama's presidency was declared null and void, because of Soros, then, Obamacare and other issues, like putting corrupt judges on the bench would end. There are many critical issues President Trump has to handle...and I would not want his job for all the money in the world.

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Realist's avatar

"President Trump is trying to put America's interests first."

Oh, no, he's not. He is bought and paid for. He is owned by those who control this country.

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Brian Hampson's avatar

And who would you prefer?

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grahamlyons's avatar

You have a "Hobson's choice": Satan or Lucifer.

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Realist's avatar

"And who would you prefer?"

I prefer someone who was not pre-chosen by those who control this country. All presidents since November 22, 1963, have been titular to an increasing degree. Under the current situation, on significant issues, it makes no difference who is elected.

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Valerie's avatar

Love Jeff’s perspective !

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D&R’s Gma's avatar

👍

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Jacques Uze's avatar

We love Jeff Childers. He is daily reading for us.

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RSgva's avatar

A very good list of hyped up stories intended to distract us from how we and the younger generations have been robbed blind.

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Jimn's avatar

'bread and circuses.' some things never change.

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Realist's avatar

"A very good list of hyped up stories intended to distract us from how we and the younger generations have been robbed blind."

Yes, these 'stories intended to distract' are an effort at societal disruption to effect a divide and conquer situation. Rapacious megalomaniacs are behind this effort.

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Mike McAdams's avatar

I am skeptical anyone person will be arrested for the Epstein perversion ring. The elites are untouchable. They are the wardens of this prison house. Sure there maybe a sacrificial lamb, but the rest remain in power.

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Jason's avatar

It’s simple, either we reset them or they reset us.

There is no compromise, there is no middle ground, and there is no way to win this without a fight.

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Texaspeaches's avatar

I think (hope) your read on Trump is wrong and there is much more going on than we know.

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Countrywatch's avatar

I believe Mr Leake is very far off the mark with regards to President Trump. There is a systematic and forensic take down of the deep state, often behind the scenes, which, however, obviously is not proceeding fast enough for some.

Mr Leake should spend some time reading The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Bluff, deception, confusion, smokescreens, appear weak when you are strong are among the many strategies employed in winning a war against an enemy such as we have at the moment. I believe President Trump knows exactly what he is doing, but the naysayers seem to think he has not thought things out, does not know what he is doing, is easily led and so on. Nothing could be further from the truth.

None of us is privy to the intelligence that President Trump and those who are behind him have on all the deep state operatives. We are probably aware of only a fraction of it.

I find that the Badlands Media team have some splendid contributors (e.g. Burning Bright, Joe Lange, Erik Carlson, Joh Herold, Ghost), who seem to have effected a much more sophisticated and in depth analysis of what is really going on.

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Rachel's avatar

I agree with all your points but I wish you had used a different word than "satanic". Why? Well, first keep in mind I'm speaking as a former leftist. FORMER. I was a leftist when the left focused on economics. It doesn't anymore.

I understand now that left/right is a synthetic division, that it's manufactured from above and pushed (hard) on us. But it's empty. Once you dig, you realize it's an empty distraction. But the problem is that most Americans are not intellectually curious enough to learn that left/right is bullshit. Love my fellow Americans, but most don't have the opportunities/time to develop their intellect. So these sweeping generalizations calling one group "satanic" are embraced.

"Satanic" is a cue word. If triggers the attention of those brainwashed to embrace "the right". Good to get positive attention from that group. But the flip side is that the word "satanic" is an even stronger prime to Democrats and Identity Leftists, to immediately reject and discredit anything with that word as "right wing propaganda".

So, if your goal is to strengthen these empty partisan divisions, you would want to use the word "satanic" in your title, because no Democrat or Identity Leftist will ever buy that book, but they may make it a hit by mocking it. People "on the right' will buy the book. What does this achieve? More division.

I mean this as a constructive criticism. I want a revolution in the USA because it is the ONLY chance we the people have to save ourselves. So I want people to stop with the left/right stuff and start realizing who the real enemy is.

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Rachel's avatar

P.s. I realize now the title doesn't include the word "satanic", so yay! Apologies for the soapbox, but I'll leave the comment because it's still relevant.

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PabloRG's avatar

Spot on, Rachel.

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The Great Santini's avatar

Yes, the globalists are arrogant and will be tyrants if given the chance. But all wars are not distractions. When a group of people declare you their enemy and swear unremitting hostility to and violence against you, it is utterly foolish not to take them seriously. When a group surreptitiously attacks your citizens it is foolish not to counter them. Only the dead have seen an end to war.

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Laurie Newsom's avatar

“While most Americans live in a low information world and are chronically distracted by frivolous amusements”. As long as the Fed continues to prop up the country with faux dollars the citizens will never act to preserve our constitutional republic.

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Jennifer Jones's avatar

The answer, to me, is "Local." Concentrate on being the best person you can be in your community. Help make your community better if you can. Support your family. Encourage your friends.

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D&R’s Gma's avatar

When in doubt… take a leap of faith! Let the man work!

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edward's avatar

Mr Leake-

I needed to only read the headline to understand what mountain you are surveying the landscape from and what you have to say. I am of the same mindset and I bet a lot of others as well are in the same boat. The crowd here have very few fools amongst them and it is my belief the enemy is utilizing us as an indicator of how unaware the mindless grazing herd are. I have always believed learning is a voyage and not a harbor but as I am inclined to consider my lack of knowledge, I am best served by intaking info and analyzing it thoroughly.

There are as predicted, many wars and rumors of wars out there but there are many directions the enemy can take and has utilized by merely taking a cursory look back the last few decades. It seems all is fitting together like a jigsaw puzzle and while the frost is not yet on the pumpkin in its fullness there are de facto indications of it at the moment.

In my existence I have travelled and worked in many professions, with all of them dangerous. For some reason I was spared the cut of the cold scythe wielded by the Grim REAPER ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS and I saw clearly my time to decease at moments over my life was somehow put on hold. Witnesses to these events involved at heights working of 356 feet and my next profession more dangerous than either police or firefighting were not sluffed off and I became a Believer as taught by a Salvation Army mother and a Methodist father.

You are correct in the coming "raison d'etre" of the next catastrophe that may already be planned. In my case I correlate with scriptures and the vast knowledge of older people and Bible scholars, most who are low key but that consist of many different denominations.

Two songs hold me fast to the anchor of sanity but many are trying to run in the same direction at the same time and I am sitting atop a mountain watching them all. I and a lot of people here cannot be fooled again and I am of the opinion the arrogant enemy has under estimated the herd. While slavery imposes itself on others, it is far more likely that most of the sheeple tangle themselves in its chains voluntarily and by mute ignorance.

The two songs I refer to are "Nothing Can Stop the Shape of Things to Come and "What Ain't to be Just Might Happen."

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John Ost's avatar

You left out Israel and the Zionist genocide of Palestinians.

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Eric Muller's avatar

"Genocide of Palestinians"..ok, Israel must really suck at it,huh?; Gazas population is growing ,obesity is higher than the US, they rain leaflets on the areas they are soon to clear of the masked murderers who keep the Gazans in front of them when they attack the IDS; they FEED the People of Gaza (& hammy-ass cowards steal it), but, hey, if that's genocide in your warped view, have at it & " Happy CNN",blind man.

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John Ost's avatar

Eric Miller is a liar.

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Eric Muller's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣:as they say,"f#late me",loser.(&,its Muller, ostomy-bag,defender of misplaced Egyptians/Jordanians,Syrians/African tribes). 'Palestine' was a Roman word for Israel,when they TRIED to make it disappear in, ,oh,about AD 159,or so,but,failed as will all the new trys. Go back to grade school Social Studies &,this time pay attention,ok? (The people they graduate these days ,w/o spell check & AIs phrasing their comments, standards slipping,woke teachers, gullible twits who believe ,uncritically,false narratives, sheesh!😘)

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John Ost's avatar

Liar

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Bobby's avatar

And what about the JFK files and RFK files and MLK files? A government that hides the truth from its people is not trustworthy. "We" can't handle the truth? But the ones hiding it can? Oh yeah, they are so much better than us. We are just stupid and don't understand.

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mejbcart's avatar

Epstein files 'finally released'??? Well, please listen to:

https://rumble.com/v71utmq-theyre-about-to-bury-the-epstein-files-again.-heres-how-redacted-w-clayton-.html?mref=5grgb&mrefc=7

or Tom REnz:

https://tomrenz.substack.com/p/the-left-the-right-the-uniparty-and

and you will get the picture of your hope falling into a giant sink hole!!!! That alone due to Clintons' announcement today, they won't come to the House hearings...

The CRIMINALS have too much money to do everything what they want to, absolutely without consequences, even if it kills millions, like covid genetically modifying jabs.

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Peter W Allen's avatar

John, you once again hit the nerves that rattle us all: let me add two: The massive censorship and turning news into propaganda; and the devastating effect of feminism, the fraud that women are victims, an iunsurmountable abyss of psychological apocalypse causing a schism in THE fundamental relationship binding society. This masterful creation of destructive taboos - you cannot say you have a covid shot injury..what!!!! cannot discuss early treatment..what!!! - and holding a door open for a lady, or even, making a pass on a lovely girl you took to the movies and dinner..sexual abuse...what!!!!!!!!

Larry Summer's did what every man in creation has done since creation: man talk , locker room talk, beating your chest that you can seduce...that is not a crime but the dream of every man since eternity. Epstien I suspect was a master at locker room talk with those who probably lacked the ability to succeed, and he could produce where failure left most men wanting. Who would ever want a date with Bill Gates except a gold digger. And that is what Epstein provided. I dont see the crime. All those young women were eager to participate. they never said no. Till the tables turned.

I do like your image of Trump the tragedy..indeed...his copious narcisism now imitating Israel in blowing boats up in international waters to show his prowess, firing those who speak the truth, castigating the truth tellers like Tom Massie, Rand Paul, M T Greene...I suspect he will be consumed by his self.

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On an island's avatar

Judging by John's crime writing background and his previous posts, it makes no sense to me why he would say that Trump "seems desperate to prevent full disclosure of the Epstein files". If anything, Trump has seemed aloof and disinterested to a large degree, wanting to focus more attention on the gains he has made in running the country.

The whole flip flopping saga seems like a rope-a-dope tactic that has carefully positioned the Democrats -- who didn't give two sh*ts about Epstein and his victims before -- to be the ones responsible for whatever fallout may occur. If there was actually anything that could ruin Trump, the Dems could've pushed for release years earlier. It wasn't until Trump started saying it was a Democrat hoax that they jumped onboard the virtue signaling wagon and used Epstein's victims as leverage to see if they could get Trump (yet again). Now that the President is basically telling Bondi and the DOJ to release whatever is legally available and also to investigate certain "important" people, the chips will fall where they may. And if a bunch of prominent power brokers crumble like a house of cards, well... who were the ones crying for full disclosure? Not the President.

As for the victims, like it or not, it's not really about them. It's only about politics and taking down people with a lot of money and power.

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Roisin Dubh's avatar

It is really about the victims, although it is not playing out like that. I don't care about party positioning; I care about justice for raped children. If that is not the priority, society really is depraved. However, most citizens on both sides do care, and that will win out.

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On an island's avatar

I wish you could be right, but if recent current events have taught us anything it’s that true justice is a long road that sometimes leads to nowhere.

Why? Because people ARE depraved and sadly, MOST citizens are checked out, blissfully ignorant and actually couldn’t care less. And if they do care, what are they willing to do about it anyway?

The Trump Admin is the only hope for redress of any kind and i’m sure there are ALOT of gov’t insiders who would like to see the important details buried so certain people never face justice in this lifetime. No different than we’ve seen with Russiagate, J6, the Hunter Biden laptop, President Autopen, the Covid scamdemic, Thomas Crooks, the killing of Charlie Kirk, etc etc etc. Mistakes were made 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Roisin Dubh's avatar

You are right about people. I think this issue has struck a primal chord though, in a way other issues would not. We will see what happens.

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