Badlands Daily: August 29, 2025 – CDC Shake-Up, Vaccine Integrity, and China’s Chip Wars

CannCon and Chris Paul kick off the Friday show with laughs over fantasy football before diving into breaking news. They unpack Trump’s firing of CDC Director Susan Meneris, the mass resignations that followed, and RFK Jr.’s launch of the “Vaccine Integrity Project,” questioning its real purpose. The hosts expose how the media spins school shootings into trauma ops, connecting SSRIs, transgender ideology, and intelligence manipulation to a wider agenda. They then shift to geopolitics and economics, covering Trump’s clever play on Chinese student visas, Nvidia’s deal to pay the U.S. government for China chip sales, and how America is decoupling from globalist dependencies. From Kamala Harris’ fundraising flop and lost Secret Service detail, to Exxon’s quiet talks with Russia and AI-driven cybercrime, the episode delivers sharp analysis, skepticism, and humor all the way to the close.