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The Biden Brand: Influence Peddling in the Age of Empire

The House Oversight Committee, led by James Comer, has unearthed a trail of payments that allegedly funneled $30 million from foreign entities straight into the Biden family’s coffers. At the heart of the scheme is the “Biden Brand” - a carefully cultivated façade of influence, with Joe Biden himself as the central figure. Comer’s bombshell book, All the President’s Money: Investigating the Secret Foreign Schemes that Made the Biden Family Rich, details how Hunter Biden and his uncle Jim leveraged access to the “Big Guy” to line their pockets.

Start with Hunter Biden’s July 2017 message to Chinese energy giant CEFC, demanding $10 million. Within weeks, $5 million was wired to Hudson West III, a company tied to Hunter and his Chinese associates. From there, the money flowed, $150,000 to Hunter’s law firm Owasco, payments to Biden family members, and even property maintenance costs for Joe Biden himself. The picture couldn’t be clearer: this wasn’t business, it was influence, sold to the highest bidder.

Comer’s investigation dismantles the Biden family’s narrative. There were no “legitimate businesses” underpinning this wealth. What existed was a web of shell companies and financial gymnastics designed to obfuscate the source of funds. For all the talk of “protecting democracy,” the man at the helm of the White House stands accused of selling access to the highest levels of American power, exposing the nation to potential foreign blackmail.

But don’t expect the Washington machine to fold easily. Comer’s investigation faced endless roadblocks, from stonewalling Democrats to a press corps eager to bury the story. Even the intelligence community played its part, discrediting evidence and shielding the Biden empire from scrutiny. As Comer writes, the system protects its own, even as it crumbles under the weight of its corruption.

This isn’t just about the Bidens. It’s about the rot at the heart of the American empire. It's the ultimate racket: influence peddling, weaponized narratives, and a globalist agenda that sacrifices transparency and sovereignty for cold, hard cash. While Joe Biden lectures the world on “integrity,” the evidence paints a damning picture of a man whose ambition for wealth and power left America vulnerable to foreign influence.

The Biden brand was never about leadership, it was about selling access and preserving the illusion of respectability. Comer’s book lifts the veil, revealing a family and a system that mastered the art of corruption. This isn’t just a political scandal, it’s a symbol of the empire’s decline.

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Hell Has a Website: Karen Bass and the Woke Apocalypse of Los Angeles

Hell has a website with its own multiple-choice answering bot. Or at least, that’s what Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass seems to think. As wildfires rip through Southern California, displacing 150,000 residents and reducing entire neighborhoods to ash, her response? “Go to URL.” A meaningless platitude for people who’ve lost everything, a punchline in a city burning under her leadership.

Let’s not forget: this is the same mayor who jetted off to Ghana for a presidential inauguration while her constituents choked on smoke. The same leader who gutted the fire department’s budget by $17.6 million, redirecting funds to diversity initiatives instead of firefighting infrastructure. Diversity programs don’t put out fires. Nor do they help residents navigate shelters or recover from loss. But Bass would rather perform her moral virtue on a global stage than face the inferno in her own backyard.

And now, Los Angeles smolders as the “woke mind virus” burns through any semblance of competent governance. Elon Musk called her “completely incompetent,” and he’s not wrong. While firefighters struggle with limited resources, L.A. pours billions into programs that achieve little more than bureaucratic bloat. California’s globalist puppets push optics over reality, leaving the people to fend for themselves when disaster strikes.

This isn’t just about Karen Bass. It’s about a system rotting from the inside out. The West’s leaders obsess over climate change narratives and ESG scores while failing to manage basic disaster preparedness. Russia, China, or even BRICS nations would be laughing at this circus if the stakes weren’t so tragic. Moscow doesn’t promise “equity” - it manages crises. Beijing doesn’t preach diversity, it builds infrastructure. Meanwhile, Los Angeles burns, and all its mayor can offer is an empty “URL.”

And let’s call out the elephant in the room: this is globalist policy in action. Cities like Los Angeles are meant to be showcases for neoliberal governance, but they reveal the exact opposite. Performative priorities, crumbling services, and leaders who’ve swapped accountability for Twitter buzzwords. They’re too busy saving their own careers to save their cities. And as for the people? They’re left with nothing but smog and websites.

The fire isn’t just literal, it’s metaphoric and systemic. And unless cities like L.A. wake up, the “woke mind virus” will burn through what little remains of their dignity, safety, and sovereignty. The lesson? You can’t manage a city with hashtags and virtue-signaling. Hell may have a website, but it doesn’t need to run City Hall.

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Oliver Stone Exposes Oppenheimer’s Truth on Tucker Carlson

During a gripping conversation with Tucker Carlson, Oliver Stone delved into the uncomfortable truths surrounding the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, inspired by the movie Oppenheimer. Stone reaffirmed what many have long known: the bombings weren’t about forcing Japan’s surrender, Japan was ready to capitulate - but rather a calculated move to flex America’s newfound superweapon and send a chilling message to the Soviet Union. Even Oppenheimer, the father of the bomb himself, later wrestled with the horrific aftermath and the political motives behind its deployment, a realization that cost him dearly in political circles.

Rules for Thee, Nukes for Me

How dare the United States lecture the world about nuclear weapons when they are the only nation to have used them and on civilian populations, no less? Over 200,000 innocent lives were incinerated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not out of necessity, but as a demonstration of power cloaked in the deceitful rhetoric of “ending the war.” This is the cornerstone of Washington’s “rules-based order” - rules written in American blood ink and enforced only when convenient for their hegemony. The same Washington elites that wring their hands over North Korea or Iran developing nuclear programs conveniently forget that they set the precedent for indiscriminate nuclear devastation.

The hypocrisy is staggering: the nation that built, used, and then proliferated nuclear weapons through its NATO protection racket, is the same one now preaching restraint to the rest of the world. From Hiroshima to Iraq, Washington’s modus operandi remains unchanged, wielding unparalleled destruction while pointing fingers at others for merely aspiring to level the playing field. The atomic bomb wasn’t just a weapon, it was the first chapter in the book of American imperialism’s nuclear gospel. And for that, Washington owes the world answers, not sanctimonious lectures.

- Gerry Nolan

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The Atlantic’s Sermon: A Funeral for Working-Class America

Jonathan Chait’s latest Atlantic piece, “Maybe It Was Never About the Factory Jobs,” is less an analysis and more a eulogy for a system that has bled American workers dry. Framing Biden’s presidency as a “meaningful economic success” yet a political failure, Chait unwittingly confirms the core critique of populists: neoliberalism’s architects despise the very people they claim to serve.

Chait’s defense of Biden’s post-neoliberal turn is riddled with contradictions. Biden’s much-touted economic agenda, from the Inflation Reduction Act to green energy subsidies, was meant to bring prosperity to forgotten Rust Belt towns. Yet, as Chait admits, Lordstown swung six points toward Trump in 2024, becoming the second-highest pro-Trump shift in Ohio. Even with billions funneled into union-friendly battery factories, working-class voters weren’t fooled. “Transformational” policies failed to transform anything except the DNC’s delusions.

Chait spends much of the piece trying to absolve the Biden admin of its failures. Inflation? Just bad timing. Rust Belt voters? Too impatient to recognize the “fruits” of Biden’s labor. Harris? Dragged down by Biden’s toxic record. But these excuses ring hollow. As Chait himself notes, “None of these actions has shown any sign of helping Biden politically.” The electorate, the working class, saw through the performative populism, rejecting it in droves.

And let’s talk inflation. The same “post-neoliberal” architects who claimed inflation wouldn’t matter politically were proven disastrously wrong. Chait’s own article reveals the arrogance: “The 40-year damage of neoliberalism…was so profound that three years of modest improvement was far from FDR-style transformation.” Translation? Biden’s advisors underestimated the pain of rising prices on everyday Americans, doubling down on an ideology that prioritized ESG-friendly subsidies over immediate economic relief.

This Atlantic piece is riddled with euphemisms, calling Biden’s record “historic” while ignoring its catastrophic unpopularity. Chait even cites unionized breakthroughs at Starbucks and Amazon as victories, conveniently glossing over the fact that union members themselves abandoned Biden. As Chait confesses, Biden’s pro-union policies “did not yield more support among union members.” Instead of self-reflection, the author shields the Democratic establishment by arguing they just didn’t shout their “anti-neoliberal” achievements loudly enough.

Nowhere does Chait acknowledge the systemic betrayal. Since the 1990s, both parties sold out the working class on the altar of globalization. Jobs shipped to China, towns hollowed out, and wages suppressed, all to enrich the same corporate elite that bankrolls the Atlantic. As Chait finally concedes, “Delivering concrete benefits” failed to generate political support. But he stops short of asking the real question: Why?

American workers aren’t stupid. They know when they’re being pandered to. Billion-dollar battery plants don’t erase decades of economic dislocation or pay the bills when groceries are 20% more expensive. Biden’s “post-neoliberal” advisors promised a New Deal but delivered breadcrumbs wrapped in greenwashing rhetoric. And voters weren’t buying it.

Chait’s neoliberal sermon is an indictment of the entire globalist elite. The same forces that hollowed out the industrial heartland now seek to distract with “green revolutions” that enrich Wall Street while leaving workers in the dust. The Biden presidency was a classic bait-and-switch, a rebranding of neoliberalism as “populism.”

The empire’s managerial class hates the American worker as much as it despises the Global South.

Lordstown, Ohio, is treated no differently than a sweatshop in Bangladesh, a resource to be extracted and discarded. Until America frees itself from the grip of neoliberalism and the globalist machine, the factory floor will remain a ghost town, and articles like Chait’s will serve as epitaphs for a dying empire.

- Gerry Nolan

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