Badlands Media - The Daily Herold: 7/31/26 - The Spain "Invasion" Op and Hunter Biden's Redemption Tour

Episode Date: July 31, 2026

Jon Herold spends Friday breaking down what he sees as a suspicious media push around footage of migrants overwhelming Spain's Moroccan border enclave, questioning the timing alongside a recently pinned Trump post praising Morocco's king. He also digs into the tense Todd Blanche confirmation saga with Senators Cornyn and Tillis, plays a few clips from Trump's televised Camp David meeting covering Iran talks and the newly announced Gaza disarmament agreement, and reacts to Hunter Biden's media appearance defending his business dealings, tying it back to the Burisma and Blue Star Strategies email trail. A caller named Med Beds joins for a discussion on media trust and information warfare. Other topics include a new CISA election security blueprint facing skepticism, and Gavin Newsom's tax return release. Sponsor reads, meetup details for Jupiter, Florida, and a lively chat session round out a busy Friday show.

The Badlands, what are the Badlands? Explain those Badlands. That's a hell of their name. Well, good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the Daily Herald here on Badlands Media. I'm your host, John Harold. And I do recognize now I see that it says July 30th in the description of this video, when it should say July 31st. I can't believe it's August tomorrow.

My birthday's coming up this next week. Do want to ask for some prayers for a couple members of the Badlands family. First of all, Amy, our sales team, keep her and her family in her prayers, especially her dad. Her mother had passed away and she's been dealing with that this week. So keep them in your prayers. And also, I just got word a little bit ago to keep the costs in your prayers. I haven't reached out because I literally just found out. but I'm going to reach out to them and see if I can be more specific on air,

but just keep them in your prayers, be appreciated. But I hope you guys are all having a good Friday. I think we've got a few interesting things to discuss. This whole Spain invasion thing, it's an op, guys. And I want to talk about it because how, what we'll get there. There's an op afoot. There's also some weird stuff going on with the Todd Blanche confirmation, Tom Tillis, John Cornyn.

I'll probably get into that a little bit. There's the usual propaganda floating all over the place on the left wing media, some interesting Twitter stuff. Trump's at Camp David doing one of those show and tell type meetings. I think it's the first televised Camp David meeting that they've done. So there might be a couple clips we'll get into.

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Let's talk about the Spain thing first off. Actually, no what, we'll do this. We'll get a quick word in about gold at 4,000. It's down a little bit from yesterday. Silver is down just a hair as well, 5819. Bitcoin was up quite a bit last night, over 65, but now it's down below 63. It goes up and down, up and down. National gas average at $4.10, so up about a cent from yesterday.

But okay, let's look at this. This is floating around all over the social media sphere. Thousands pouring into Spain shores, no resistance from the government. This is an immigration. It's an invasion. There's no audio to that one. There's that. We got this video. Sure, another way. Some of them waiting in chaos at the border of Spain's North African enclave in Morocco.

This is a city called Suta. You're watching as thousands of migrants break through the fence and completely overwhelm the border police. Their video showing huge groups of people, mostly young military age guys cramming into inflatable tubes or arriving on shore another way some of them waiting in the water as they break okay so i want to talk about why i think this is an op and i have a few questions of this phil scarborough in the chat said the spain invasion thing is way overblown i have friends in spain who had no idea what i was talking about when i asked them about it yesterday okay so first up this is spain right here spain portugal's on the west coast over there the way they're framing this is like thousands of people are pouring over the borders of

spain they're they're invading spain right now all these military age whatever the place that's being invaded right now is way down here this little this little cut out way down here queta it's part of freaking Morocco like if anything to me there this is them like that that should be part of Morocco why is that part of Spain and then why are we like pretending that this is Spain being invaded when I just I can't get over this Chris Paul pointed out that there's a this town of medic here my dick right not how he's saying it but i think it's really funny yeah this just doesn't make sense so why are they like making such a big deal out of morocans coming over this border and they're making it look like they're all coming from

the sea maybe they are i don't know it just seems a little little suspicious they're making it seem like there's this huge invasion going on when they're not like getting mainland spain or anything they're getting this little territory here that's swapped hands so many times and should just be part of morocco it's so stupid but like this is what trump is saying about it Let me pull this video up. This is what he said this morning. I'm sorry, my screen's not sharing. Hold on.

The computer's frozen. Come on. Hold for process. Here we go. You know, I saw Spain yesterday, and I watched the catastrophe that took place. It looks like an invasion of a country by hundreds of thousands of people. And that same thing's going to happen to us if the Republicans don't get elected, except worse.

much bigger, much easier to get into, despite the fact that we have built thousands of miles of wall, which I said we were going to do, but we didn't have that for getting it. We have the safest border in the world. If we're not in office, our country will be invaded at levels that made Spain look, small time. And when I watched it, I said, boy, I said, I'm going to say it because I knew you were going be at Camp David and I say that's going to be a talking point or the midterms because when you look at what happened to Spain they don't know what to do and it's happening again today they're coming in

by the thousands of thousands it's just it's just invading the country and what that is is weak law bad management but very liberal law they passed a couple of laws and people read you know people are smart They read from other countries and they swam that three-mile swim room, however they got in, but nobody's seen anything like it. That will look good compared to what's going to happen to the United States. The biggest thing, the worst thing that Biden did is allowing 25 million people into our country, because many of those people are criminals. They have murderers, a lot of murder, 11,888.

A lot of them are gone now. We got them out. But they allowed people to come into this country that you can't allow to come into a country. So many ways to look at this. I would argue that the 2024 election and Trump's 2016 election 2020, one of the biggest parts of his platform was illegal immigration, getting the illegals out, closing up our border, all those things. And it worked. I mean, he's got the mandate of the people. I wonder if they're trying to like, hey guys, look over there at Spain.

Look at what happened here. If we don't get a, if we don't get a handle on illegal immigration, we're going to end up like. them remember remember how bad illegal immigration is we're gonna end up like that so let's not let's not do that another interesting part of this and I just noticed this now is five days ago Trump on true social posted this video and it says thank you to highly respected Muhammad the 6th the king of Morocco such a great honor I look forward to traveling the entire length of his this great highway someday hopefully soon President Donald J. Trump. That was five days ago.

In the last couple days, we've had this immigration thing. He pinned this to his profile now. So this is the top of his profile on true social. And again, that invasion is taking place in Morocco, the Spanish little cutout, whatever you can call it. That should be Morocco territory, in my opinion, having no familiarity or knowledge of the geopolitics of Morocco, Spain, and why this is part of Spain.

So just let's clear the air there. I have no idea how this is Spanish territory in the first place. So yes, maybe I'm being ignorant saying that it's just Moroccans invading Morocco. But anyway, this is what he posts. I'm not going to play the whole thing. I'm play a little bit of it. But it's kind of weird, ironic, maybe funny. My computer keeps freezing every time I try to share a new screen.

What does a road really connect? Two places? Perhaps. But the roads that shape history connect something far greater. Under the visionary leadership of His Majesty King Muhammad VI, and thanks to the historic courage of President Donald J. Trump, the Moroccan Sahara has entered a new era in the pursuit of peace, dialogue, and prosperity. In 1777, Morocco became the first nation to recognize the United States of America.

Nine years later, the Treaty of Peace and Friendship laid the foundation for what remains the longest unbroken diplomatic relationship in U.S. history. For two and a half century... Okay. Anyway, it's on Trump's true social. If you guys want to watch, you can go do it. Just super silly that he shared the Morocco thing

as he's like criticizing the invasion of the country of Morocco. So we'll see what else plays out with this up, but a lot of people are running with it, especially con ink. And so I just, I don't know, There's something here. I don't know the full. I can't explain to you what this op is, but it is not. I can tell you that.

Let's talk a little bit about the John Cornyn situation and the Todd Blanche. Yesterday we talked about how there might be a situation where they can't get Todd Blanche through because of Tom Tillis and John Cornyn. Trump had said, you know what? Maybe I'll just withdraw the nomination. Well, there's been a, it's been an interesting, gosh, 24 hours on this front. There's this account here. Laura Weiss

She's got a whole bunch of Oh dang it Laura There we go Laura Weiss She's been following this pretty closely I'm going to scroll back down to Here so I'm going to

This is 23 hours ago Senator Cornyn on Trump's post saying he could withdraw Blanche AG And try again next year The President has a unique way of negotiating He may think that he's got us where he wants us But the fact is there's no guarantee you who the senators are going to be that are going to replace Senator Tillis and myself. And he may have a weaker hand next year than he does now. And it's unfortunate because we tried not to escalate this fight because I think Todd Blanche is about as good a nominee as you're going to get from this administration.

So it's really not about him. Why are you making it about him? Some Senate are opponents of the anti-weaponization fund now say Trump shunning a deal makes them skeptical he wouldn't revive it. And then here 21 hours ago, senators. Cornyn and Tillis are meeting now with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. Comes after Trump said he would just withdraw Blanche altogether. DoJ and the two GOP holdouts have been trying for days to get a deal. Isn't that a little silly too?

Like you're going to come up with a deal for a guy to be Attorney General? What would happen if I went to Todd Blanche? And I was like, hey, man, I can get you to be the AG. You just have to do this for me. And then I go work behind the scenes with other senators or whoever and get that approved. Like that would be illegal, wouldn't it? But here we have two senators admitting publicly. Like, yeah, we're coming up with the deal so that we can put them into office.

That's a little shady. But anyway, we have this. Progress is made, but no deal at this point per another source familiar with the meeting. They just wrapped up and they said they are very near a resolution. And then we have. this. The DOJ, and this is from like an hour ago, the DOJ has offered Cornyn and Tillis language saying the anti-weaponization fund is rescinded, and she'll have no force or effect, per the screenshot below. Cornyn and Tillis have praised Blanche over the last day or so and finally met with him in person on Thursday. They seem happy with Blanche and believe their problem is someone in Trump's orbit.

Tillis is now accusing an incompetent personal advisor to the president of blocking the deal. And here's that post. I'm not going to read it. Tom Tillis is a loser. But let me play this video from today. A couple comments from Trump on Todd Blanche. There we go. Todd Blanche is a very, very good man.

And he shouldn't be in the middle of this. He should get approved because you will never get anybody like him. You're never going to get anybody. And to make him a pawn on this whole thing, this is being done by a senator. I don't really blame it, to be honest with me. I endorse his opponent. As soon as I endorse his opponent, his opponent went through the roof,

and he won the primary election in Texas, was Senate. And the man that lost, the man that I didn't endorse, has become very angry, and it's okay. I mean, I understand that I probably would do the same thing. Do you want another truth? I think I do this. So there's that comment, and then there's another one here. POTUS, the anti-weaponization fund. Do you agree with the acting attorney general that the anti-weaponization fund is dead?

And why not just put that in writing? It's dead. But, you know, I wish it weren't, to be honest with you. I think people were horribly treated, horribly abused. This has nothing to do with her. This was me. Horribly abused. And I'd like to see them compensated for the pain.

They lost their families. They committed suicide. Many people committed suicide. They went down for an. innocent journey. And I'm not only talking there, I'm talking about not even having to do with that. The way they were treated, the Biden administration and the Obama administration weaponized government and destroyed lives. Do you agree with you? You haven't seen the end of that story. And then just a couple, here's Trump on Iran. I just think these are interesting to see where

Trump's heads at on any given day. By this afternoon or this evening, he might say completely contradicting things about the same topics. With the acting attorney. Did that video play? I'm going to throw my computer through a wall. Oh my gosh. Didn't play. Let me try this again.

They updated the stream yard like tab share thing. It used to be, first of all, it used to be like way on the left side of the tab. And it's been that way for like ever since I started streaming four or five years. And so they moved it to the middle now. So annoying. But also, every time I try to share a screen, it won't do it unless I do it like four times. Anyway, let me try this again. What is the status of talks?

Who would from the administration? Well, they always want to talk. But they break their words so often. Steve is talking, Jared. We have very good people. JD's involved, very strongly involved. We have great people talking, Marcos involved. Because they say talks aren't happening.

Very good people. We have the best people. But they'll be very good people. make a deal as an example we'll talk about nuclear and we'll be in there talking about nuclear for seven hours i said why is it what do you need seven you can take 10 minutes you have five minutes you should solve but seven hours and then they'll go out and i'll say they discuss nuclear and they'll go out and they'll say we never discuss nuclear and i say why what do they say all they do is make me angry you know you just make me angry what is the status of talks there that played last thing i'm

I'm going to share from this is some of Trump's comments about President Zelensky and the weaponry and stuff. Let's see if I can get this to share before I play it. There we go. Greatest weapons in the world. We have the greatest drones in the world. By the way, guys, I'm going to send in, I'm going to put the link to join the show in the chat, just in case anybody does feel the need to join in and talk about whatever you want. I have pinned that to the stream or to the

rumble chat for anybody wants to hop in okay back to this we have the greatest weaponry of the world we have in the case of President Zelensky you'd like to have some patriots I'd like to have some Tomahawks which is you know lethal one-off but give somebody

come on anybody want to buy a computer it does say my computer needs an update right now So it makes sense that I'm having issues. It's not necessarily your computer can run perfectly fine, just like your phone, perfectly fine. And then as soon as you need an update, it all of a sudden stops working fine. Like it didn't have any issues before, but now it needs to be updated. It's going to like go haywire until you update it.

It's a pyramid scheme. It's a scam. I don't like it. So anyway, I'm going to ignore the rest of that. Patriot Blizzard and finally caught you live. Thanks for everything you do, John. Thank you. Welcome to the show.

Glad you could watch it live. Better update. I'll update after the show. I'm not going to do it right now, unfortunately. Trump did have a true social post about John Cornyn. I don't even really care about reading that. We can talk about this. Today, the Board of Peace reached a historic agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas

and all other armed groups in Gaza. This is a monumental step toward lasting peace and security. This agreement is a critical step towards Gaza finally being governed by a new Palestinian government that will work close. with the border peace to help the Palestinian people. At the same time, Israel will have the security it deserves, with Gaza no longer being used as a base for terror attacks. This is a major milestone in the implementation of the Trump 20-point plan.

The agreement will be carried out in carefully structured phases as disarmament is completed. Israeli forces will withdraw, and the international stabilization force will work with a new Palestinian police force to take responsibility for Gaza being safe for its residents and its neighbors. Is this like, what is an international stabilization force? Is this similar to how like NATO has like NATO peacekeepers or whatever? Hmm. One year ago, there was a violent raging war,

humanitarian crisis, and hostages kept in brutal captivity. We made historic progress and there are still so much work to do. Do you remember, was it at like CPAC? Or maybe, um, maybe he was that the GOP thing when they brought up that hostage that they rescued, quotes on stage. And he told the story. He's like, there was no light. I couldn't see anything.

I couldn't even see the hand in front of my face. And then like the very next thing he said was every night I used to read my Bible. It's like bro, you can't even see your hand in front of your face, but you were reading the Bible. Come on now. Get your fake story straight. Anyway, I want to thank the mediators, Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey for their important efforts. And especially my outstanding team whose tireless work made this historic. breakthrough possible. The threat that emerged from Gaza on October 7th will not be allowed to rebuild.

Under this agreement, Gaza will finally be in the hands of a new Palestinian government that serves its people. Congratulations to all on this amazing development that everybody said could never be reached. Donald J. Trump, president of the United States of America. Marine in the woods, what's going on with Dong? Good question. I did ask Jen Van Laar that recently, and she did not respond. So I have no idea. Medbeds Co says Gaza is decimated. Here comes the 15 minute city. Very well could be the case.

I have a question if you are still planning on throwing a link. The link is pinned on the top of your chat. So you should be able to find it there. But I'm going to continue. We have this in the election realm. Sisa prepares fresh election security blueprint for the midterms. The cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency is moving ahead with a new public plan due in 30 days that will detail cyber and physical security resources available to

states for the upcoming midterms. Acting Director Nick Anderson said the plan will offer states the cyber tools they need, including no-cost voluntary services such as threat information sharing, technical expertise, vulnerability scanning, and other risk mitigation support. SIS also plans to apply a security approach at previously used during the World Cup to safeguard the midterm elections. An internal memo email to Capitol Hill staff this month lays out more of the administration's approach and has been shared publicly. Remaining staff are being reassigned into new liaison roles expected to build trusted relationships with state and local elected officials.

Following demands from President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen for a sweeping overhaul of the agency's election work, for nearly a decade after elections became critical infrastructure in 2017, CIS staffed 10 regional offices that ran exercises, cyber tests, threat advisories, and later physical security checks. The specialists were forced out after the admin took office and most of their work was paused. The shared information portal still runs, but now on a paid subscription model. I have an issue with this because this is what they were already doing, and this is kind of like how they worked to steal the election. If you remember my part 11, go to devolution.us, part 11, scroll down to, it's about halfway through.

It's going to find it. The 2020 election. Okay. This is where CrowdStrike gets involved in securing our elections. The Center for Internet Security makes the connected world a safer place. Blah, blah, blah, blah. It's the home of multi-state information sharing and analysis center, the MSISAC, the trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery

for U.S. state, local, tribal, and territorial government entities. in the elections infrastructure sharing information sharing and analysis center which supports the rapidly changing cybersecurity needs of the U.S. elections. So the Center for Internet Security was all about, we're going to just share information. This article. Where is the rent information sharing, technical expertise, vulnerability scanning other risks.

This is what they were already doing. And if they do it again under the Center for Internet Security, which, by the way, they gave this. elections focused cyber defense suite away to state local tribal governments for free to get them out everywhere. And again, as I said, this is what had CrowdStrike running EDR services on all of our elections. And that's what this sounds like. Are we getting the same exact thing?

They are gearing us up with the hose, guys, and it's going to be a real good hose. Anyway, I see MedBeds go in the background here. Let's bring you on, man. How you doing med beds? you there or did you freeze on me oh I think he froze on me

Rout row yeah what's going on with the tech today let's try this again are you there man I am here can you hear me I can hear you're a little frozen but I can hear you now

what's going on I'm having bad with problems in the mountains so so my question is this you know, I'm a I'm a sold out Badlands fan. You know, I, I sculpt chats, and I got to say, a lot of your shows are a little too late in night for my old ass because I get up early, but I do my best, and I'm very proud of you

for building this thing that you've got going here, John. Thank you. You know, my attitude, my stance in this, what we're going through right now is that we are in the Third Pike War, the Narrative War, as established in the Pike Letter, in 1871. So my question is, how do you see this playing out? Because the last couple of weeks, we've had a lot of actions by the mainstream media that should qualify for the revocation of their licenses to broadcast. I would agree. Should qualify. They are shown that, and I know the Smith-Mundack made it possible for them, a repealing of it by Obama, to be able to come in and

basically say whatever they want you know propaganda used against the u.s. citizenry is at the core of smith munn yeah so by my estimation as much as 50% of the interwebs is bots and npcc so how how do you see your your strategy here as as this plays out because i i think we're going to see a collapse of the mainstream media by revocation of license to broadcast so how do you how do you see that move forward to to be able to stand and not get decimated during that process because I think that's a real that's a real action that could be taken. They just wipe out everybody because if they can't play with the ball, then no one can. You know what I mean?

Yeah, that's interesting. You know, if the mainstream media did get completely wiped out, I don't think that would necessarily be a bad thing. It really, I mean, it could be a half measure too. Like they might wipe out the mainstream media and then whoever they allow it to take its place. You know, that might be the solution. Whether it's a limited hangout, it could end up being no better than what it was before.

I have zero faith in the, the government being like, we're going to replace the current media with this new set of media. Because look at what they did with the new media at the White House already. They've been terrible. And it's been nobody knew. And it's all conning grifters and all idiots. So I don't know. Like in terms of where we would fall into that, like we're pretty well established in terms of how we do things and, you know, where we stream to and how our audience finds us.

It's a matter of reaching new people. we're never going to get the opportunity, I doubt, to fill in for any of those main true. That will never happen. We'll never allow that to happen. It really comes down to the gatekeepers on all these social media platforms and whether or not they allow us to actually reach the public. We're having some success on YouTube, which is nice. We've been growing over there, but I'm still like a little leery and skeptical. Yeah, I don't know how that plays out. That's definitely one of the things that has to happen, though. There's like a whole checklist of things that I think need to take place

before we can comfortably say that like the tides have turned in this greater narrative information war one of them is fixing our elections the other one is the complete dismantling of the mainstream media and I'd be okay with nothing going in their place that's why it should be

and I think Trump can fix both those things whenever he wants and he has chosen not to do it to this point hopefully that's coming sooner but yeah that's just like two of who knows we could probably make a huge list of things that need to be fixed It's very long. And while good things are happening, we haven't made a whole lot of, you know, progress on some of those bigger issues. But anyway, that's a good comment.

Any other follow-up comments or thoughts? The architecture for this process, this mainstream media confab really began in that when Turner Media became a company, you know, in the late 70s and early 80s. And Ted Turner came in and, you know, brought in the Turner Old Movie Network and ESPN. got legs they said oh they'll never be enough news for a 24 hour cycle people are just going to get overwhelmed and and i do believe that that is true so i just hold on um so i don't look yeah how do we how do we build i guess the question which is an unending question is how do we build the resilient narrative that's got that and you've done a good job with this with your host lineup has got the same anti-talking points because that's i run into people on a regular basis and i say things like

No virus has ever been isolated. That's true. Yeah, all disease is parasitic. That's true. You know, that 99% of what you see on television is fake. That's true. And it's just coming up against the normies, you know, the cognitive dissonance has to start taking root because I believe that the mainstream media dies on the vine through apathy. It just people just don't watch anymore. And I don't know, maybe one of those pivot points is stopping big pharma ads because that's a lot of the revenue stream. But we're seeing it collapse and I just want to hold my hand up and say I'm proud of you. You're doing a good job and just don't quit bro. I think you're one of the only ones standing that just actually got some character left. I appreciate that. A lot of character. That wasn't a slam. We do our best.

We got a good crew here. I've said this so many times. I want to take you out my bed scope while I talk on this. We have such good crew here. And it's why we've been so slow to add people is, you know, if when I think back about how we started with Badlands, like we had, we had too many people and too many people that didn't actually fit, fit with kind of our core ethos. And they, most of them showed themselves out. There was only a few that I had to, you know, boot out the door myself. But I'm very slow

to grow in terms of personnel because of how hard it is to find, find good people. Yeah, man, that's, it's such an interesting conversation. Like the, the apathy being what, what we need from the Normies, very true. I think a lot of people already are there and apathetic. But then what do they do? Like people, people who stop watching the mainstream media, it's not like they're just going to all the sudden magically search out like, I need somebody else to watch and find us because we are very difficult to find. Like the best way still, I think for for people to find out about Badlands media and our community is through word of mouth. Because I don't trust the, like we're not going to be found on Instagram. We're not going to be found on TikTok.

every now and then we might have a video go viral on YouTube or Facebook but we're still very limited and so that's the powers that be keeping us at bay so it's just as important that when people turn away from the mainstream

media it's just as important who they're turning to and a lot of the times it's the machine feeding them just the next mockingbird mainstream talking points but maybe

like one rung out so it's i don't know it's it's difficult see and stewart replaced ghost with mell gipson well ghost isn't leaving we don't have to replace him that's silly i found you when you were on elijah's stream with johnny enlo yeah that's you know doing interviews and stuff with other other people is a good way to you know grow your audience but again then again too like that's tough for me personally it's tough and i don't care if other people other people go on interviews all the time that's totally cool i just have such a hard time because it's a mutual thing right it's like i'm going to go on your show different platform different whatever and it's kind of a mutually beneficial thing like my audience will be exposed to you and then there might be some people who

come and watch this other platform who otherwise wouldn't have seen it and not that the cross pollination is bad it's just i have such a hard time sometimes of How do I phrase this? I don't say sharing my audience, but I just, I feel like I've, I've built up such a, maybe rapport is the wrong word too. It's very, this is a very difficult concept for me to like verbalize because, and it's only something that like I've learned through experience of how many people have tried to take advantage of me.

Like there were people who they've, they've never, they've never been there for me if I've needed something not that I would ask publicly anyway but it's just always about them it's always about like what they can do to grow their thing and it's not about the message it's not about you know the movement there's no goal there it's just I want to do what I can to grow grow my audience so like there are some shows that they're who invited me on like to be their first show or you know very early on to like tell the story that they're starting this new show and then they never never want to talk to me again. It's like they just want to get the word out about their stuff.

And it's, I don't know, I'm just sick of being used. So I have a very hard time going on interviews anymore, unless there are people that I think are good. And even then, it's like, how do you know?

Anyway, Ramone 222 for $5 says to help out with the lawfare against badlands. You guys are great. Thank you so much. We appreciate you. What's your favorite books? Is jealousy so hurtful and more frequent than I think is realized. Yeah, I mean, we do a pretty good job of and maybe we don't.

For a while there, we were pretty bad about like voicing our complaints about the broader truth movement because of all the all the degenerates that are out. I mean, there's so many of them guys. I've been doing this for five years. I've been in multiple big groups. I've come in contact with a ton of people. And there are so few genuine people who are like doing this. for the right reasons most of the people in here in like the space are only doing it for the money

and they've showed you that time and time again if you just like pay attention to recognize it it's it's just gross so gross rfv 1160 john i've found you and followed you since you were in nino's corner that was a long time ago So, first garbo, my friend Jeff saw John's devo, devo post on telegram and said to me saying, hey, check this out. Been here ever since. You've been great, Phil. Spirit, attitude, motivation, have to be aligned with truth. I think that is what you're trying to say, John.

It helps that givers gain. This is the guy working for the money. Well, I mean, I do this for a living. But you guys would be astonished, I think, with how much money, how much money there is potentially in this field. And, like, I've said this so many times. Had I not started Badlands, I personally would financially would have been so much better off. You guys have no idea. I've given away more money starting bad.

I mean, yes, there's been benefits to it as well. But I've given away. And like anytime anybody comes and asks for for money when working with Badlands, I always say yes. I've basically been robbed repeatedly doing this, doing stuff that I never had to do. I never had to give out loans. I never had to borrow people money to pay for whatever they needed at that time in their life, people's funerals and computers. Yeah.

So, no, I'm not in this for the money. I can vouch for that. But I do it for a living. That makes sense. Maybe it doesn't. Let's see if there's anything else actually interesting in the news to talk about. The show has kind of gone off the rails. No, nothing really else interesting out there.

I'm kind of in this holding pattern where I'm waiting for new documents, which John Solomon said yesterday were coming. So Gavin Newsom revealed his tax returns. He's making his moves to run for office for sure. Oh, interesting. Look at this headline from CNN. Trump's election security plan is coming too late and states have moved on anyway. Trump-Avon tries to rebuild election security infrastructure. It gutted as midterms near.

After dismantling, the federal system designed to protect U.S. elections, the Trump admin now says it has a plan to rebuild it, less than 100 days before the election, and just weeks before ballots begin going out in the mail. The memo, which U.S. officials emailed Capitol Hill earlier this month, reveals more details. This is the same story we talked about earlier about SISA. It's like their framing of it.

Met with months of mostly radio silence from Sisa. Actually, here, let me go back one paragraph. Or two paragraphs. But election officials and nonpartisan experts, It's too deep into the election cycle for any major changes to their security protocols. They are skeptical that the agency's hollowed out workforce can deliver even the baseline support to states before the midterms. In closed door briefing this month, a CISA official recently assigned to election security told congressional staff that the agency has been so depleted of staff that it wouldn't be able to provide its normal election security systems ahead of the midterms. It's almost like they're framing it as like, yeah, we're not going to have security.

at our elections now because it's too late. So I'm confused because like the mainstream media, CNN being guilty of this, have repeatedly said that our elections are fine. There is no vulnerabilities in our election. There's not enough fraud at a scale to change the outcome in an election. But now they're saying that these election security measures won't even, don't have enough time to take place, take footing, which is at CNN

contradicting yourself uh yeah I mean everything's talking about the freaking migrant stuff seeing New York Times here Spain rushes to control border after tens of thousands of migrants

flood into enclave or exclave that is from the Wall Street Journal Washington Post is talking about the same thing migrants overrun a Spanish outpost during outrage from White House and Europe's right it's everywhere guys when when all the mainstream media

and con ink is talking about the same story there is an op at play and I saw earlier in the chat people didn't like that I'm willing to admit that I don't know what exactly is going on but I can recognize an op anyway that's what I see it's not I just don't know the end game yet we got to let it play out a little bit here we have um from MS now Trump's as Trump's approval rating reaches embarrassing depths the GOP faces a difficult choice. The president won't be on the ballot again, but congressional Republicans will, as to support plummets to new depths, their options are limited. And so I'm not going to bother reading the article, but they're one talking about the polls, probably fake. They're trying to

shape a narrative about the midterms. So you have CNN talking about how we're not going to have election security. You have MS now talking about how Trump's polling is at an all-time low and it's going to affect the midterms, they're going to steal the midterms. And any seats they don't, like, they're going to be ones to cry fraud, I bet. If the Republicans start winning stuff, it's going to be so stupid. I hope they freaking cancel it. But other than that, guys, I may be done. I may not have any more stories.

I'm just coming through a couple things to see. Let me check my telegram too, because I do usually send myself stories throughout the day. Oh, let's talk about this. Take a listen to this. There's an email to me, you know, like, hey, 10% for the big guy, you know, all that bullshit. You know when that happened? My dad was neither president or vice president. I went to go into business with a couple guys that I did not get into business to.

And one of them sent me a email that said, what about 10% for the big guy? And I didn't do business with those guys. But not because of that. They were trying to get my dad involved in a business deal that I was in. It's totally legitimate business deal. What the fuck is wrong with that? I ask everybody, you got a problem with that? My dad's no longer Vice President and President.

You got a problem with that? He's not an elected office. I'm a Yale educated lawyer going into business doing something that I would have been proud of and had to do with natural gas and it had to do with the production here in the United States thing. I guess it would depend on what the business deal was. To make money. I could see it being a problem with a company that I actually do that against you.

I'd actually do it. Okay, but my point is this. My point is this is that I think let me finish the point. Real quick. Here's the point is that I said no to the whole deal, but that is literally the only thing in 22 years that you will ever find. They had every email, every text message, every deleted text message, every voicemail, every deleted voicemail, literally everything for 20 years. Not a single instance in which you will find me emailing someone or someone emailing me saying, hey, I need my dad to get to do this. on behalf of this person that I'm getting played for. Not one.

And I think that that's dispositive evidence. I agree with you. So he's doing his little redemption tour here. I can't believe this, these hosts are actually like giving him this much room, wiggle room to lie because this is so easily disproven. It has been so many times, but they're just like letting them say it. Here's a great example. He says, let me rewind this just a little bit.

Every text message, every delete. a text message, every voicemail, every deleted voicemail, literally everything for 20 years. Not a single instance in which you will find me emailing someone or someone emailing me saying, hey, I need my dad to get to do this on behalf of this person that I'm getting paid for. Not one. Not one time, he says that you could find proof where he did something or needed his dad to do something by somebody who's getting paid from. well let's let's see what the record says this old post old thread from

23 May 25th of 2023 on 1129 2015 Hunter attended a breakfast meeting with Devin Archer Vadim Pizarsky and Sally Painter this meeting is confirmed by emails we'll go check it out Hunter and Devin Archer joined the board of Burisma in April of 2014 so this is like the following year Vadim is the Burisma's fixer, some details on him. Sally Painter is the co-founder of Blue Star Strategies. They're an advisory group that provides clients with external affairs, foreign and security policy guidance, research and analysis,

and global business development strategies. Two days after the breakfast, BSS sent a revised proposal and contract, an initial invoice for Burisma Holdings. So they meet for breakfast. Two days later, Sally Painter, Blue Star Strategies, sends over a proposal contract initial invoice and everything for Burisma. Vadim, the Burisma guy, said that the scope was lacking concrete, tangible results that we set out to achieve in the first place, complaining it lacked names as key targets for improving

Nicolay's case and his situation in Ukraine. Nicolay was the actual owner of Burisma, and he was being pursued and persecuted by the the investigator they're in the prosecutor. The email went on from Parsiski Vadim says that he understood if the contract didn't represent the scope to be safe and cautions. That's what he said, not cautious. He said cautions.

But as long as all parties understand the true purpose and that we're on the same page regarding our final goals that we would be comfortable moving forward. So he's like, I understand you might not be able to directly say this is a pay for play scheme. And we're going to pay Hunter Biden to get his dad to get the prosecutor off our back. But as long as we all understand that that's the goal here, we're good to move forward. Then he would go on to detail that the ultimate purpose of the contract was to get widely recognized and influential current and or former U.S. policymakers

to close down for any cases slash pursuits against Nicolet in Ukraine. The whole point was to get them to get this case closed down. Hunter would reassure Vadim. that Sally understood the true scope and he told Vadim to go ahead and sign and they would sign that contract on 1118 of 2015 then just two weeks later two weeks vice president joe biden was about to head to ukraine they were doing a conference call and the conference call was titled vice president's upcoming trip to ukraine blue star strategies sat in on that conference call while they were contracted to Burisma and that's a contract that was mediated and like created because of Hunter Biden. And then Blue Star Strategies sent the minutes of that White House meeting to Burisma.

And then just six days after Blue Star Strategy sat in on a White House conference call about the vice president's upcoming trip to Ukraine, Joe Biden would tell Poroshenko that the $1 billion in loan guarantees was linked to the removal of prosecutor Victor Shokin. one investigating Nikolay Zlovchewski and Burisma. So what was that, Hunter? Like this is my favorite. This is my, like the timeline, it's undeniable. The timeline, the emails where he's like,

look, the scope doesn't actually say what we're doing, but we're all on the same page about what we're actually paying for here, right? It's all here. And Hunter was the guy that like worked the in-between. He was the go-between. It's ridiculous. I think it's all I got. John, how many Jaguaz and Always will watch this file cheat and believe it?

Yeah, a lot of people are going to watch that and be like, oh, maybe we should be more sympathetic to Hunter Biden. Because you know that's happening. Otherwise, why wouldn't he be doing it? They were already teasing like a vice presidential run. He would be on the ticket with Gavin Newsom. I think he's the one who said that. He's like, the only person I would be vice president for is Gavin Newsome. It's ridiculous.

Anyway, guys, I'm going to end it here. Let me see who we got for OnlyLands tonight. I was on it last week, but I may be on it again tonight because I don't think I'll be here next week. Because next week, I will be in Florida. And if you guys are in Florida, you should come hang out. We're going to be going to Jupiter, Florida, August 9th in the afternoon. We would love to have you come hang out with us.

Just send an RISP to Badlands Meetups at gmail.com. and we will probably be sending out the location and exact time here this weekend, or maybe Monday. But we're waiting to see how many our final number, or at least close to the final number is going to be. So, yeah, make sure you guys are SVP. And for Only Lance tonight, I don't want to promise I'm going to be on. It may not be, but we'll have Jay, Matt Trump.

What's a date today, 31st? Zach, oh no, Zach Cam, Matt Trump, Jay, then maybe me. So I don't know if you have any way else. Anyway, you guys have a great rest of your day. I will be back on tomorrow for the power hour at 10.30 p.m. Eastern. Then right back here Monday, 1 p.m. Eastern here on the Daily Herald. Catch you all later. Oh, is it's ghost going live? Let me do one more thing here.

I don't think he is. I think he's out of the country. Yeah, he's not. Okay. Catch you all later, guys. start