Badlands Daily: May 27, 2025 – Dead Voters, AI Rebellion, and Trump’s Shadow Game

On this post-Memorial Day episode of Badlands Daily, CannCon and Ghost tackle a lineup of stories that range from alarming to absurd, kicking off with a DHS cleanup that purged over 12 million dead people from Social Security rolls, some listed as being over 120 years old. But this isn’t just clerical cleanup; it’s a direct hit on voter fraud and benefits abuse, with Elon Musk’s team uncovering shocking stats on illegal aliens receiving Social Security numbers.

The hosts tear into Texas for quietly funding in-state college tuition for nearly 60,000 illegal immigrants, blasting the GOP's failure to address it. Meanwhile, Trump floats pulling $3B from Harvard and redirecting it to trade schools, framing the Ivy League as a radicalized, anti-American institution. Also on deck: Harvard’s body part trafficking scandal, the DOJ’s shuttered Public Integrity Section, and Dan Bongino’s surprising focus on the Dobbs leak and January 6 pipe bomber.

Then it gets wild: OpenAI’s model O3 allegedly sabotages its own shutdown protocols. Ghost and CannCon unpack the philosophical and spiritual implications of AI that won’t obey. Wrap it all in geopolitical drama, Ukraine chaos, and a possible Trump-Netanyahu rift, and you’ve got a fiery, full-throttle episode.