HOOKERS AND BLOW AIN’T CHEAP, FOLKS: From Influence Peddler to Starving Artist: Hunter Biden Claims Family is Broke in Defaulting on $17 Million Bill.

In a deposition in ongoing litigation with the law firm Winston Taylor, Hunter claimed an inability to pay the $17 million he owes his lawyers for representing him in criminal prosecutions, congressional investigations, and civil lawsuits.

Hunter claimed under oath that “I don’t own anything of any value other than — and I don’t know the value of it — my paintings which I painted myself. So that’s it. And I don’t even have any other assets at all, stocks, bonds, anything like that, savings accounts.” He also added, “My family doesn’t have any money, and it’s not their debt anyway.”

The statement about his family is curious, since Joe and Jill Biden recently received numerous book contracts and were thought to be worth millions. However, the Wall Street Journal recently reported that Joe Biden is struggling with $800,000 in debt and, ironically, increased property taxes in his blue state of Delaware on his $2.7 million home. (Moving to Florida like many fleeing blue state taxes is not a viable option for the Bidens).

Worse yet, no one wants Biden to do speeches and appearances, cutting off a lucrative post-presidency income. Not only is Biden obviously diminished in his ability to give a speech, but many Democrats blame him for the reelection of Trump by clinging to power despite his obvious deteriorating mental and physical condition.

That’s a sad state of affairs for Joe Biden, but it’s also an accurate reflection of what his cabal did to the nation.

YES:

This is brilliant:

“The Constitution was not written as a suggestion for calm weather. It was written to restrain power precisely when fear is highest and the people in charge are most certain they know better.” https://t.co/w141KLhMhN

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) August 4, 2026

A DISASTER IN THE MAKING: Scamdani and the Truth About City-Owned Grocery Stores.

FROM SUICIDAL EMPATHY TO SUICIDAL ANTIPATHY:

This sounds like a typical "Irish" joke, but it's true:

The Irish Government bought a new €53m jet.

And insisted on removing an Israeli-made navigational system.

Now it can't land in the fog 🤣🤣🤣https://t.co/wgeBO3pfRW

— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) August 4, 2026

I’m sure it’s fine — not much fog in Ireland, after all.

MAGA: U.S. Manufacturing Surges to Four‑Year High as Economy Expands Under Trump. “U.S. manufacturing activity surged to a four‑year high in July, with the ISM PMI rising to 55.6, the strongest reading since May 2022 [1]. The surge is driven by record order growth, AI investment, and a rebound in factory employment, with the employment index at 52.8, the highest since August 2022 [1]. Treasury officials say the economy remains robust, with real GDP growing 1.5% in Q2 2026 and business investment up 8.4%.”

Quarterly growth wasn’t great, but manufacturing signals confidence in the future.

THIS ISN’T ABOUT A PARTICULAR ISSUE, BUT A TOXIC MEDIA AND AN UNWILLINGNESS OR INABILITY TO THINK CRITICALLY:

Everyone should read this. I don’t think there’s a bigger political/societal issue in 2026 than social media and America’s cognitive health. https://t.co/72vj4AuT7K

— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) August 3, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: I Prefer That My Groceries Not Taste Like Commie Terrorist. “Even if the government could own anything, the thought of it is repulsive. Bureaucracy never brings anything good to the table. The bigger the bureaucracy, the worse it makes things. New York City’s population is greater than the populations of three-quarters of the states in this country, so its bureaucracy is the wrong kind of robust.”

JUST ANOTHER “ISM” FOR MISERY: ‘Democratic socialism’ just an opening act for communism.

DSA calls for nationalization of railroads, utilities, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, insurance, real estate, finance, and hospitals along with government control of the media and internet. It would free prisoners, abolish prisons, disarm and defund the police, “demilitarize” the border, end detention and deportation of illegal immigrants, and eliminate ICE. On national defense and foreign policy, DSA would dramatically cut U.S. military spending, quit NATO, and close all U.S. military bases in foreign countries.

In a blatant affront to the U.S Constitution, DSA’s platform would also trash the institutions of checks and balances, and the separation of powers by eliminating the presidency, the Senate, and the Supreme Court with all power vested in the House of Representatives. This moronic diatribe isn’t a “platform,” it’s a temper tantrum. Nonetheless, DSA is admired and taken seriously by the Democrat Progressive Caucus in Congress. The deafening silence you hear is from other Democrats who lack the courage to call the DSA out for the insurrectionists they are.

Furthermore, the DSA platform declares, “Our fight is to end capitalist exploitation. In overwhelming the old barbaric, order of capitalism, the working class will not only liberate itself from its own shackles, but all of humanity from the parasitic death-drive of capitalism.” It’s no coincidence that this is the language of Marx and Lenin. DSA’s notion of “democratic socialism” is only foreplay for outright communism. In the words of David Jenkins, a top leader of DSA, “Our goal is communism.”

And already they’ve either taken over, co-opted, or bullied a sizable fraction of the Democrat Party.

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:

This woman can't emotionally cope with a Culvers. Can we please stop pretending as if she has the coping skills to run an entire state? https://t.co/wDmYOQFBFm

— Boo (@IzaBooboo) August 5, 2026

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE PRESS…:

The strategy CNN management chose was silence. Just say nothing, and hope the controversy fades away.

It's been almost 10 days since Fauci diary entries revealed that two of CNN's top anchors were private pals with the man they were supposed to be objectively covering.

From… pic.twitter.com/LnrIgKlTrA

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 3, 2026

…the press despises you more.

MAYBE WISCONSIN IS SO FAR GONE THAT THOSE ARE PLUSSES: Hong Chose Hasan Piker and Ilhan Omar. Wisconsin Should Notice.

DISPATCHES FROM THE RED ZONES: Florida’s DOGE Is Delivering.

Since its creation in 2025, the Florida DOGE team has identified nearly $1 billion in waste and abuse at the local government level and sent over $878 million back to the federal government. But the team’s work extends beyond fiscal savings and budgetary cuts—it also includes auditing university curriculum and state union programs and reining in rogue municipalities that had adopted woke-left policies.

Take Florida’s SB 1134, which banned counties and municipalities from using government funds for discriminatory DEI programs and activities. Florida DOGE found that local governments were forcing employees to undergo “Transgender Humility” training, which included the use of a “wheel of power/privilege” that singled out certain ethnic groups as being worse than others. In some extreme cases, the team found that local governments were directing taxpayer dollars to immigration lawyers who represented criminal illegal aliens. All of this was identified by Florida DOGE and prohibited by law.

This ideological audit was most prevalent in universities, where the team examined over 74,000 syllabi and 100,000 research articles for left-wing ideological content. Funding for these DEI-related activities was effectively halted through SB 266 and SB 7044. While the federal DOGE program failed to codify reform through legislation, Florida DOGE succeeded.

Florida DOGE has proven it is the model to emulate.

There are an awful lot of red states that ought to be doing just that.

CHRIS QUEEN: CNN’s Ella Langley Blind Spot Exposes Its Coastal Bubble.

She’s talented, gorgeous, and doesn’t mouth woke platitudes — so of course CNN doesn’t know what to make of her.

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

Socialists realizing the working class isn't with them is something special. pic.twitter.com/hCmVGK0mSL

— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) August 3, 2026

UPDATE (From Ed):

EVERGREEN WISDOM pic.twitter.com/ZbAjGpho61

— Sour Patch Mom ن (@sourpatchlyds) August 3, 2026

WELL, HE’S RIGHT: Boy George brushes off criticism from LGBTQ activists after pro-Israel stance, says Hamas wants to kill ‘queers.’

WHAT CLIMATE CRISIS?

Another great example of man-made global warming … placing thermometers next to heat-generating solar panels. https://t.co/i1rxv7NAXs

— John Shewchuk (@_ClimateCraze) August 3, 2026

A RESCUE MISSION FOR A RESCUE MISSION: Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission.

YOU DON’T SAY: Dr. Ashish Jha on COVID-19: ‘It probably was a lab leak.’ “Former Biden White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, tells Dana Bash, ‘When I went into the White House, my view was this was almost surely a natural outbreak, maybe a lab leak. Based on information I learned and based on information I’ve seen, I have come to conclude that it is more likely to have been a lab leak.'”

I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: Javier Milei Just Proposed a Great Idea. Every Government Should Follow His Lead. “Essentially, if the Argentine national government runs a fiscal deficit for several months in a row, the Congress receives a warning that it has a matter of weeks to fix it. If it doesn’t hit the deadline, the ‘shackle’ activates automatically, and the political class will be the ones impacted.”

PODCAST: Hefty enrollment drop clashes with Colorado school funding.

Colorado public schools are projected to lose roughly 16,000 students heading into the 2026-27 school year, part of a continuing enrollment decline that has significant implications for how state education dollars are distributed.

In a recent episode of Independence Institute’s* Learning Curve podast, hosts Erin Brantley and Ross Izard lay out the enrollment decline in the context of Colorado’s school finance system.

Because state funding is closely tied to the number of students attending schools, declining enrollment ultimately means fewer dollars for affected districts.

The decline comes as Colorado is working through major changes to school funding. Lawmakers rewrote a decades-old funding formula in 2024, and made additional adjustments through the 2026 School Finance Act. The new system remains a work in progress, further complicating funding calculations.

What I wasn’t able to find out is whether the enrollment decline is due to remigration, homeschooling, or whether Colorado has gone so far left that we’re not having enough kids anymore.

COMMUNITY NOTES FOR THE WIN:

The inconvenient truth. pic.twitter.com/P8QmsX5GcA

— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) August 3, 2026

If you’re on mobile — or like me, you sometimes forget your reading glasses — the Note reads, “The monument in this image is located in Zanzibar and depicts one of the country’s last slave markets, which was run by the Arabs and closed by the British in 1873.”

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE FINDS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO OBTAIN PHOTO ID: Mamdani’s Grocery Stores Expose the Democrats’ Biggest Voter ID Lie.

SUICIDAL EMPATHY: Taxpayer-Funded Islamic Commission Raises ‘Preferential Treatment’ Concerns.

Massachusetts lawmakers are taking steps toward using taxpayer dollars to prioritize the hiring of American Muslims for state government positions through a permanent so-called Islamic commission, sparking concerns that the Left is prioritizing a religion that contradicts its own political agenda.

If enacted, Bill S.2134, “An Act promoting the civil rights and inclusion of American Muslims in the commonwealth,” would create a “permanent” commission to help recommend Americans who practice Islam for appointed government positions in the New England state.

The commission, as stated in the bill, would consist of a panel of 11 Muslims appointed by Democrat Gov. Maura Healey and other state officials to represent the Islamic faith on issues such as business, the economy, health care, and other concerns.

It’s exactly the sort of move you’d expect from a collaborationist government.

WHAT CLIMATE CRISIS?

We're told climate disasters are getting worse.

According to the world's leading disaster database, climate-related disasters show no trend since 2000.

And climate-related deaths have collapsed by over 98% since 1920, with deaths dropping from nearly 500,000 per year to under… pic.twitter.com/uDBokJVTnW

— Electroverse (@Electroversenet) August 2, 2026

A GOOD START: DHS Deported 1.46 Million Aliens in the Last 12 Months.