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Biden Crime Cascade, Woke Collapse & Establishment Panic

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The News Cycle is almost impossible to track these days. At least, to do so fully.

That’s where we come in.

In the Badlands News Brief, the Badlands Media team hand picks news items of interest from the previous days to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community.

Some items feature original commentary from members of our growing team of citizen journalists. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see their other work.

Now, onto the news from the Weekend that Was …

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House Oversight Committee has ‘more bank records’ linking Bidens to Russia, Ukraine: Comer

The House Oversight Committee has obtained more evidence on President Biden’s family finances — and intends to trace a flow of cash from Russia and Ukraine into the first family’s coffers, according to committee chairman James Comer.

“We have more bank records that we’ve received,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ken.) told Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) Friday on Cruz’s “The Verdict” podcast.

“We’re working on a third memorandum. They will show transactions from Ukraine and Russia.”

“Joe Biden has been selling access to our enemies for decades — long before [first son Hunter Biden] was involved,” Comer said.

At least two unnamed Russian oligarchs have inexplicably escaped US economic sanctions during Biden’s presidency, the Republican said — hinting that his committee intends to connect those figures to payments to the Biden clan.

“I think there are certain policy decisions that Joe Biden has made since he’s been president that the only explanation can be because of the money his family received,” Comer said.

Details of a $10 million bribery scheme alleged by an FBI informant were made public for the first time on Thursday. — The NY Post

Our Take: “Exactly how much more evidence does one need? 

An avalanche of insurmountable evidence is being uncovered against the Biden Crime Family. From ‘The Verdict’—U.S. Senator Ted Cruz's podcast, Comer is quoted as saying, "We have more bank records that we have received, and a third memorandum showing transactions from Russia and Ukraine." 

This possibly points to an auspicious theory I've had of the Biden administration playing both sides of the war. 

Back to the point at hand, this only provides more pressure to prosecute Hunter Biden while exposing corruption and collusion on the part of his father, the President.

Law professor and legal analyst Jonathan Turley even recently stated that the FBI/DOJ seems to be where investigations go to die. Personally, I cannot fathom the trials that the Trump family is facing right now. Just imagine if a scandal of this proportion was to surface involving Donald Trump, Jr. Assuredly, we would never hear the end of it! 

Even with Josef Ziegler and Gary Shipley coming out with damning evidence, the Left refuses to face facts and continues to maintain a state of projection. The evidence shows a clear influence in policy decisions with Biden. ‘Quid pro Joe’ is an understatement; what he is actually doing is selling out America to the highest bidder. 

We cannot continue to have a demented, compromised, and lackluster President at the helm of the United States.” — Johnny Q

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Hunter Biden Expected To Face Up To 10 Criminal Referrals, Here Are The Top Bombshells From Last Week

The Chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, James Comer (R-KY), says he plans to file "between six and 10 criminal referrals" against Hunter Biden once his committee finishes its investigation into the Biden family's business dealings.

According to the NY Post, the charges would include sex trafficking a woman across state lines for prostitution.

"The Democrats kept saying, 'Oh, we don't have any evidence. You don't have any evidence.' Well, [Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene] showed them evidence," Comer told Fox Business in an interview, referring to a sexually graphic image printed on a poster from Hunter Biden's laptop, in which he's stuffing his manhood into a prostitute's mouth who was allegedly paid for with company funds.

"She showed them evidence of the president's son committing a crime, violating the Mann Act," said Comer, adding "She showed the plane tickets, she showed the pictures, she showed the evidence. You know, there's no question he violated it. That's another thing that he could have been charged with."

Comer also said that the referrals could include violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

"He was money laundering," said Comer. "He was racketeering. He committed wire fraud. He violated the Mann Act. The list goes on and on and on."

Meanwhile, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Thursday released an unclassified FBI document in which a confidential human source lays out an alleged bribery scheme involving Joe and Hunter Biden, in which a Ukrainian gas giant, Burisma, hired Hunter to gain access to his then-VP father. — ZeroHedge

Our Take: “Between six and ten criminal referrals? They better be buckets of crimes, as there are 459 violations of the law on Hunter’s laptop.

The Gateway Pundit is predicting Joe Biden is going to step down under the narrative of a health emergency. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that he and eight members of his family are immersed in very public scandals. MTG showed Hunter Biden porn in the House Committee. It’s a good thing Biden has no idea where he is, or the public humiliation ritual might be too much.

Criminal referrals will likely die in Merrick Garland’s DOJ. They just don’t have any resources to spare and, also, Merrick Garland’s DOJ is a wholly corrupted mafia that persecutes opposition and silences dissent.” —

Ashe in America

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Bud Light's Popularity At Bars And Restaurants Is "Almost Non-Existent"

Union, a data-driven hospitality engagement platform with a point-of-sales system in bars and restaurants nationwide, published a new report showing Bud Light's "fall from No. 1 was swift following the marketing controversy that spurred a nationwide boycott." 

"Sales of what was once America's best-selling beer dropped 2.6 points from 11.3 percent dollar sales share to 8.73 percent at Union's network of thousands of high-volume venues in the first week of the boycott alone," the report said. 

It continued, "That sales spiral continued throughout Q2 at Union venues as the boycott took a stronghold across the US, dropping 34 percent in sales share compared to the prior year, since the fallout began on April 1." 

On April 2, we were among the first to point out Did Bud Light Go 'Woke' With Trans-TikTok Star? Boycott Calls Intensify... And it was only weeks that high-frequency data from bars, restaurants, and distributors that Bud Light's marketing partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney on TikTok led to one of the largest boycotts by consumers of a product in recent memory. From neighborhood bars to high-end restaurants, even on golf courses, the message with many beer drinkers was consistent: Bud Light's too 'woke.' 

"Our on-premise ordering data shows that domestic beer brands are reaping the most benefits from the Bud Light fallout," said Layne Cox, chief marketing officer at Union. 

Cox said, "Modelo may have unseated Bud Light at retail, but at high-volume bars and restaurants, it's a different story."

We have noted that Bud Light was dethroned last month as the number-one-selling beer in America by Constellation Brands' Modelo. However, Cox said data from their POS machines "reveals that guests are now spending more on Miller Lite than Bud Light in on-premise accounts." 

POS data shows Miller Lite's sales are up 21% in the three months ending June 30, while Bud Light's sales tumbled 34%.  — ZeroHedge

Our Take: “The Bud Light fiasco is having a much bigger impact than just a boycott against a beer that, for the most part, was already seen as excrement.

The last 100 years of propaganda have convinced us that large, oligarch-owned entities somehow represent American and wholesome values. The truth is, however, that while some large corporations do have an ethical backbone, most do not.

Most businesses, especially those run by globalists, are in reality, weapons of control.

The globalists of today are the descendants of some of the most manipulative, insidious, and psychopathic cultures on earth. The fractional reserve financial system, for instance, was designed, from the start, for manipulation, control, and tyranny.

But it was just one tool in a basket of tools for this purpose.

In general, the basket is compromised of methods for weaponizing vice, sin, debauchery, irresponsibility, mediocrity, malice, and social division—to name a few. Many of the top-down propaganda efforts, legislation, marketing, media messages, and so on, are designed to foster the aforementioned traits in society, which the cabal uses to keep people distracted, disturbed, diseased, and otherwise incapable of offering a coordinated and effective resistance.

Alcohol, as much as I love it, is one of the most effective tools in this basket, partially because it reduces cortical thickness (reducing intelligence), increases impulsiveness, increases baseline anxiety levels when not drinking, and all of this contributes to making people more vice prone and irritable, again to name a few ‘benefits.’

Here is an excellent presentation of the detrimental effects of alcohol from Dr. Andrew Huberman:

No, I’m not about to tell you the Bud Light situation caused people to stop drinking. But it did trigger a much-needed mass disillusionment with the falsehood that we can trust mega-corporations that are weapons of the globalists.

It also caused some folks to take ownership of what it means to be an American and a patriot.

The cabal leaves nothing unmolested, including the concepts of Americanism and Patriotism. We’ve let globalists tell us what these things are and how we should be related to them for over 100 years, with terrible consequences. Our culture has become so toxic, it’s debatable whether the label means what the founders thought at all anymore.

But now, through the Bud Light debacle, these once unquestioned influences are being questioned, debated, and redefined. This is subtly and quietly going to build momentum in ways we can detect right now. No doubt Trump and the patriots will capitalize on this shift and activation of American culture in the months and years ahead.” —

Justin Deschamps

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CNBC Host Covers His Ears Amid “USA!” Chant on NYSE Floor as Conservative Marketplace Public Square Rings the Opening Bell

Conservative marketplace Public Square has gone public.

Patriots have a parallel economy to battle woke companies!

Public Square, which is an online directory of pro-freedom businesses, went public on the NYSE on Thursday.

“PublicSq. now has over 1.1 million consumer members active on its platform and more than 55,000 businesses, 90% of which are small businesses. Accounts are free for both buyers and sellers.” Fox Business reported.

So, what does this mean for freedom-loving Americans who are tired of woke businesses? In a nutshell, this gives people an opportunity to align their pocketbooks with their values in the marketplace.

“The largest network of non-woke businesses in America is officially public $PSQH,” Michael Seifert, the CEO of Public Square, said on Thursday.

The floor of the NYSE was very lively with people chanting, “USA! USA! as Don Jr., Kim Guilfoyle and Michael Seifert stood at the podium.

CNBC’s Jim Cramer didn’t seem to be amused. He was nodding his head in disapproval.

Squawk on the Street host David Faber was covering his ears. They were trying to discuss home prices instead of focusing on Public Square. — The Gateway Pundit

Our Take: “Observing Jim Cramer, the worlds worst financial analyst, react to chants of ‘U.S.A.’ with sheer disdain and revulsion is very telling. Patriotism is anathema to these people, they loath the enduring spirit of America while so sequestered in their figurative ivory towers that they forget that they live here, too.

Additionally, this whole scene is evidence of the MSM's lack of desire to actually report the news. The chanting itself and the reason behind it in this instance IS a story, yet they appear to have no interest in unpacking any of it for their audience.

It's fitting that they respond this way to Public Square; the point is to avoid companies that don't share our values or vision for the future of this country, and to switch to those companies that do share our vision. That's the whole point of Public Square. They fear this, and it shows.” —

Ryan DeLarme

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"Once You Start Censoring, You're On Your Way To Dystopia And Totalitarianism", RFK Jr. Wrecks House Committee

In a hearing marred by contentious interruptions and attempts by House Democrats to remove him as a witness, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., CHD chairman on leave from Children’s Health Defense (CHD) testified before a U.S. House hearing organized by Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

The subcommittee, operating within the House Judiciary Committee, said today’s hearing was intended to “examine the federal government’s role in censoring Americans,” “Big Tech’s collusion with out-of-control government agencies to silence speech” and the ongoing Missouri v. Biden lawsuit alleging government censorship.

Other witnesses who testified today included D. John Sauer, special assistant attorney general for Louisiana, an attorney for the plaintiffs in the Missouri v. Biden case, Breitbart journalist Emma-Jo Morris, who in 2020 first revealed the now-infamous “Hunter Biden laptop story,” and Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

Government censorship and alleged First Amendment violations on the part of the federal government featured prominently in today’s hearing. “We need to be able to talk,” Kennedy told the committee. “And, the First Amendment was not written for easy speech. It was written for the speech that nobody likes you for.”

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Kennedy, in response to the accusations levied against him, set aside his prepared testimony for the hearing. Referencing the letter, he told the committee, “The 102 people that signed this [is] itself evidence of the problem that this hearing was convened to address. This is an attempt to censor a censorship hearing.” — Children’s Health Defense Organization

Our Take: “Check out last Friday’s brief for a detailed breakdown of the Democrats’ vile behavior during this hearing. My favorite was when they attempted to paint Kennedy as anti-Asian after screaming for weeks about Asian supremacy in universities and the death of affirmative action. If there’s one reliable thing about Democrats, it’s zero self awareness.

The attacks last week, however, improved Kennedy’s favorability with likely US voters. Harvard CAPS/Harris latest approval polling, released Sunday, finds Kennedy as the most favorable public figure at 47%, +2 over last month and over President Trump whose favorability didn’t change and is holding at 45%. The fiery hearing occurred during the poll’s data gathering, July 19-20.

I love it when a scene in the movie is accompanied by impact metrics.

As I said with last month’s Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll, consider the source and take these results with a grain of salt. For example, the FBI also gained +2, rising from 52% favorable in June to 54% in July, despite the public gaining new revelations about FBI corruption and weaponization. This poll also ranks Google (78%) as the most favorable US institution, topping the US Military (78%), with Amazon (77%), Microsoft (69%), and the Police (66%) rounding out the top five. The three tech giants were not included in the polling last month, and their inclusion in July drops Facebook out of the top five, despite the social network gaining favorability (+2, 54%).

Just like last month, the poll finds that Trump will easily defeat the Republican challengers as well as the Democrats — beating Biden by five points (down one point from June) and Harris by nine. DeSantis is in a dead heat with both Biden and Harris.

Hilariously, we’re still meant to believe that Kamala Harris is the people’s choice in a Biden-less primary. As discussed above, Kennedy had a good showing in the hearing last week, and his favorability numbers reflect that. Unfortunately, his presidential poll numbers do not. The poll finds that Kamala Harris has the support of 44% of primary voters while Kennedy enjoys only 22%. Again, grain of salt. It is Harvard after all.” —

Ashe in America

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Biden Campaign had Plan to Send Alternate Electors if Needed in 2020 – Now They Are Suing Republicans for Doing the Same

Trump prosecutor Jack Smith has been investigating the process of sending alternate electors for possible prosecution.

This week, far-left Democrat Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charged 16 of the 2020 Trump electors with eight felonies each. Many of the Michigan Trump electors are retirees in the 70s and 80s.

The charges against the Michigan electors include:

• Forgery

• Election Law Forgery

• Utterance

• Conspiracy

The media has engaged in systemic journalistic malpractice by endlessly referring to the alternate electors as ‘fake’ electors, in order to make them seem guilty of innocent conduct.

Now Mike Benz, Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, laid out the evidence on Twitter that the Biden team had planned to send their own slates of alternate electors in case they lost the election.

The Biden plans were written and overseen by John Podesta. Podesta had a plan to ensure Biden won by sending an alternate slate of elections. — The Gateway Pundit

Our Take: “This is another example of asymmetry in the rule of law. Mike Benz and the Foundation for Freedom Online have been reporting about the Democrat ‘election contingency’ plans since December 2022, and it’s much worse than just planning to send alternate electors. The Biden-led Democrats had detailed plans to prevent Trump’s second term regardless of the outcome of the election.

In other words, the Biden camp is guilty of that which they’re accusing Trump. Again.

The details in this article are part of Benz’s larger revelations about the Transition Integrity Project, a non-governmental effort to control the outcome of the 2020 election led by John Podesta and the Atlantic Council. TIP’s efforts included James Baker—former FBI General Counsel and star of the original Twitter Files—leading the National Task Force on Election Crises (NTFEC).

As Benz and co stated in December, “TIP spent summer 2020 wargaming how to overturn election results if candidate Trump won the election.” So, they had a war game, and then reality reflected the outcome of the war game. Sounds like Event 201 and the pandemic response.

This information is becoming new again because Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a radical leftist, charged 16 of the 2020 Trump electors with eight felonies each, including Forgery, Election Law Forgery, Utterance, Conspiracy. Benz’s information is literal, documented, smoking gun evidence of Team Biden engaging in conspiracy, so they’re going after Team Trump. Of course they are. They already told us that they had to prevent a second term of Trump’s presidency by any means necessary. They published it in Time Magazine: “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election.”

The manipulative forces behind our recent national and global atrocities keep revealing themselves, in long form and with narrative themes that justify their crimes. They brag about their shadow campaigns as though the people are too stupid to track their admissions. But the people are not stupid, and distrust in authoritative institutions is consistently polling in the low to mid sixties for likely US voters.

When the narrative is neutralized, all that is left is tyranny — shockingly on display for all to see. It’s happening now. Keep speaking truth, everyone. It’s the best weapon we’ve got.” —

Ashe in America

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We hope you enjoyed this brief look back at the major news items you might have missed in this ever-escalating and ever-accelerating news cycle as the Information War continues to rage on around us.

The Badlands Media team will continue to combine our cognitive powers in order to slow things down and find the signal amidst the noise as this series expands.

As always, if you have any thoughts on these news items or the MANY others swirling in the digital ether, drop into the comments below to share them with your fellow Badlanders.