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CannCon opens Thursday's Badlands Daily solo with a USAID watchdog report on a new round of debarments, from a contracting officer an inspector general found misusing government equipment to two men convicted of defrauding taxpayers through a Project HOPE program. He then reads The New York Times on a military judge throwing out "clean team" confessions in a Guantanamo 9/11 case, comparing the account to Zero Dark Thirty, and digs into newly released Fauci diary entries, questioning Fauci's claim that confidential files were lost in a ransomware attack. After a look at two lawsuits over Trump's taxpayer-funded ads, Alpha Warrior joins. CannCon argues that percentage-based polls hide the real number of voters, and the hosts weigh Charlie Cook's "red undertow" theory. Alpha predicts Congress will start locking in Trump's agenda in the second half of his term, while CannCon counters that Trump has been going it alone like a strong hand in spades. Alpha floats limiting campaign donations to local contributors as Silicon Valley money pours in, and the hosts react to a Ken Paxton ad asking where James Talarico has been and to Trump's impeachment warning, then plug Badlands Book Club and Story Hour.
