Badlands Daily: 5/12/26 - Brennan Dog Whistles, Netanyahu Aid Bomb, NATO Fracturing
CannCon and Ghost open Tuesday's geopolitics-heavy show with Ghost leading the charge. John Brennan goes on MSNBC and openly tells embedded bureaucrats to hold the line, and James Comey follows with the same message minutes later, giving CannCon two dog whistles in one segment to unpack. Netanyahu tells 60 Minutes he wants to zero out the $3.8 billion in annual US military aid within a decade, and CannCon catches that he skipped the 2020 Trump meeting entirely in his timeline of conversations about Iran. Meanwhile, Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich says the war must end with Israel changing…
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