In this clip from his recent appearance on the PBD Podcast, Ben Shapiro addresses the broad drop in views and engagement across much of conservative media since the intense political year of 2024. He breaks down the different audiences that various right-leaning personalities actually reach and draws a clear line: he would rather have lower ratings than abandon his principles. Shapiro says he prefers Democrats not running the country over chasing clicks that depend on perpetual conflict, and he notes that he has held positions (on 2020, January 6, and other issues) that cost him audience rather than reverse course for numbers.
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In a recent episode of Miranda Devine’s Pod Force One, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich delivered a characteristically sharp and historically grounded analysis of where American politics stands in mid-2026. With Donald Trump back in the White House and the nation engaged in conflict with Iran, Gingrich laid out a high-stakes vision for the upcoming midterms and the deeper ideological battle facing the country.
Here are the core insights from Gingrich’s appearance, condensed and organized for clarity.
[VIDEO] Tommy Robinson is an activist making his rounds in conservative (right-wing) circles that has a lot to say about immigration and his thoughts on Islamic immigration. What he says seems infuriating, however, when you consider the whole idea of illegal immigration or unlimited immigration you might want to rethink what that entails.
Why does it seem like they want to fill up western nations with people who have little in common with the society? Could it be an invasion?
[VIDEO] Knowles interviews Tracy Shannon who was married to a man who had issues with cross-dressing and eventually opted to transition to become a woman. This interview is very shocking.
How the husband (who essentially became the wife) conducted himself around his children. And I got to say he cross-dressed, transition to be a woman, and even subjected his children to his various partners other than his wife was definitely a very toxic situation.
And the wife, it seems she was shamed into accepting her husband's gender transition. A counselor (who according to Ms. Shannon now advocated for the gender transition of children) basically called her "close-minded" because she had an issue with her husband's transition. In her words whatever life they had the husband effectively threw it all away for their gender transition.
I find this a very sad story. Now the description talks about transgender ideology and I don't know if this is about that. My hot take on this was this was a troubled man who allowed his transition to ruin his relationship with his wife and children.
My next post tomorrow shares a video regarding 9/11 as we approach the 24th anniversary of that very sad event in American history.
Then something tragic happened today out of Utah. Charlie Kirk - consevative activist - was about to debate on a college campus about gun rights was shot in the neck. Allegedly I hear he was shot by a sniper, and I would liken this to what happened with Donald Trump in Pennsylvania during the 2024 campaign.
I see some people are celebrating on social media and those are evil people. Some people are using his own words about the 2nd amendment against him.
We can only speculate, but by Kirk's supporters his death is being termed an assassination. And we're living in volatile times were it seems political discourse can quickly escalate to violence.
I'm just very sorry that he's not with us at the age of 31. I didn't really follow him but am aware of him, perhaps now is the time to look up some of his discourse. Agree or don't agree he was a husband, father, brother, and a son.
I hope they catch the person who killed him.
I really liked this pic that I found of him on IG.
[VIDEO] I do consider myself right wing and find them often correct on a number of issues, my goal these days is try to remember that they're not perfect either. And what if they're prone to the same insanity as the "liberal left progressives". What did I see at the end of the video discussions of white/christian nationalism, misogyny, anti-religious freedom, etc.
If the right goes nuts what hope does Americans have against the current insanity of the left? And we're seeing some of that in Los Angeles right now as they are rioting against Trump's immigration policy.
[VIDEO] This is funny and I admire this guy's spirit. He has a right-wing store in California and we see the reaction of those people who don't like it.
It starts off with someone looking for a Biden flag and it ends with the owner showing a Fcuk Biden flag. 🤣🤣🤣
You know what how many people display signs or flags with Fcuk Bush or Fcuk Trump. One creative one I had seen once-upon-a-time was Buck Fush....
Anyway if you like what you see support this man at Beachin Seal Beach before some unhinged California leftist actually does shut him down.
Sometimes I forget that not everyone agrees with everything. And one reminder of that is that Ben Shapiro seems to have fired shots - well more shots - at his colleague Candace Owens from The Daily Wire.
Candace, if you feel that taking money from The Daily Wire somehow comes between you and God, by all means quit. https://t.co/qachKhAuHo
Candace Owens later took to Tucker's X/Twitter program to further discuss this. She was largely diplomatic in talking about any possible rift with Shapiro. She mentions how pro-Ukraine, pro-vax, or certainly pro-Israel Shapiro is. Although he has backed off of being pro-vax and I do recall has been heavily into the vax once it became available.
As someome who has never been vaxxed I will only say that Shapiro is entitled to his opinion as far as whether or not he thinks everyone should take that coronavirus vaccine. I would still say regardless it's your choice if you want to be vaxxed or not.
So anyway I will share Owens' appearance on Tucker on X/Twitter.
[VIDEO] To be honest, I almost thought this was an April Fools joke.
Well April is almost over! Tucker Carlson is one of the hosts I enjoyed watching at FOX News when the WWE wasn't on. Now I don't know if I will be able to continue watching that network.
I can put FOX up there with CNN and MSNBC in the category of no reason to watch. I'm sure Tucker has enough of a following that he might do some independent media. Tucker also at one point ran this website known as The Daily Caller. Perhaps he'll do something similar now that he's out at FOX.
Perhaps the lawsuit that FOX settled recently regarding Dominion voting machines had something to do with this. Perhaps some of his January 6th stuff - I mean who knew about Ray Epps on that fateful day - caused a fear of lawsuits at FOX and they said Tucker got to go.
Who knows, however, if FOX represents establishment Republicans as MSNBC & CNN represents establishment Democrats what represents the populists. Who represents that hard right?
[VIDEO] I've followed Steven Crowder off an on for many years. He was on PJTV and most recently he worked with The Blaze. He used to make appearances on FOX News. He's know for going onto college campus picking a controversial issue and then debating with students - for example the issue of whether or not there are two genders are an issue on college campuses. He's known for humor and is also known according to Anthony Brian Logan as the biggest conservative personality on YouTube currently.
So what you see here by ABL is Crowder's comments about how right-wing media isn't on the same page as their consumers. And then we hear a response from Jeremy Boreing at The Daily Wire. You see The Daily Wire - who is known for personalities such as Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and Candace Owens - made an offer or was in talks with Crowder. Daily Wire wanted to do business.
However, due to Crowder's comments which didn't specifically refer to Daily Wire, Boreing was compelled to respond with documentation of his talks with Crowder. I suppose this has to be a lesson with regards to contract negotiations and how talent should be able to discuss business with a potential employer.
I could liken this to a wrestler or any athlete negotiates with a promotion or a particular team. The promotion or team is a business. Both sides want to make money, however, the business wants to make money with the talent. Of course Crowder is the talent and it's in the best interest of Daily Wire to ensure that Crowder as talent is able to produce content that makes that company money.
I suppose what I'm not entirely clear on is what Crowder was up in arms about for him to make these comments. Is it possible he's only proving to be very difficult to work with?
[VIDEO] I fell off on watching Tucker and he's spot on as always. He connects the signing of the Respect for Marriage Act and other measures against interracial marriage or contraception or even drag queens performing in front of children with an effort to "degrade" America. This nation is supposed to look foolish to the rest of the world.
We're supposed to be this awful nation hateful towards people of color or towards people with a certain sexual preference or identity. Meanwhile there is a world in crisis as we take on these issues, issues that really aren't huge issues in China and Russia. And let's also consider China signed some deal with the oil producing nation of Saudi Arabia.
Perhaps Tucker is letting us know our degradation of America shows we're no longer leading the world. :(
I just had to share this without because I hadn't posted in a while!
[VIDEO] This past summer I viewed Matt Walsh's documentary What is a Woman? The video above well the documentary hadn't premiered online at DailyWire.com when this video was uploaded in late May 2022. I have seen the documentary which is a shocking look at this idea of radical gender ideology and that gender is a social construct and the efforts to transition children & adolescents to another gender.
What Walsh takes a look at is a reaction to a trailer for his soon to premier documentary and as you see his goal is "cancel" them. The person in question is trans and they seem to have an issue with the concept of Walsh's documentary. So as Walsh and a "transman" with regret is denounced as a transphobe, an African tribe for their own cultural sensibilities seems to get a pass (perhaps she doesn't want to be cancelled for racism.
Now I mention a "transman" with regret here. The "transman" is one Scott Newgent who as a woman was very beautiful, however, at 42 she went into transition. Now she looks like a typical middle-aged white male, however, you can tell by the inflections of his voice and by his displays of emotion that you can sense something feminine there. He realizes that going into such a vulnerable point in his life caused him to arrive at the point of no return. He realizes that all the procedures to turn her into a middle aged man might one day end his life where he shows scars from a skin graft used to create for him male genitalia.
Yeah that's a transphobe....you know one thing learned in the documentary is that puberty blockers are also used to chemically castrate sex offenders. However, what I'm learning more and more about this issue is that there is a human tragedy going on.
My perception is that this is being pushed more and more into the mainstream and worst still it's being pushed on far more vulnerable people than Scott Newgent. The vulnerable includes children and adolescents who may not have a concept entirely of what it means to be "trans" and worse still becoming trans includes medical treatment. It means hormones and it means surgeries - surgeries that unfortunately are irreversible so there's no coming back from that once it's done. And it's totally horrible to do that to vulnerable people in their childhood & adolescent who are still developing mentally and physically.
I suppose all I can add to this is that, we need to question this. It's not transphobic to ask questions about the mental and health effects of medically transitioning human beings to another gender. We have to question if it's even healthy.
With this said I do believe everyone has the right to live their lives as they see fit. I'd have to say Scott Newgent at 42 years old knew what she was getting herself into and now regrets that decision and knew he was vulnerable going through it. If she made that decision to go through that medical transition she made that choice, what we must have an issue with is allowing at the very least a very vulnerable adolescent to make the same life altering decision. Newgent is now actively trying to help parents keep their children from going through what he had and knowing that they shouldn't be allowed to make that decision.
[VIDEO] Chad O. Jackson introduces this documentary from 2020 which also has Larry Elder as executive producer talking about Black Conservatism in America. Uncle Tom of course refers to Uncle Tom's Cabin a 19th century novel which features Uncle Tom as a main character. Uncle Tom is these days used as an epithet against Black Conservatives or any Black person who is perceived as trying to fit in with whites or does anything that is perceptively "anti-Black".
As I write this I'm almost half-hour in the documentary very interesting indeed.
[VIDEO] Hmmmm, well we've been hearing how now more right wing twitter accounts are now gaining followers while more liberal or far left accounts are starting to lose followers. Then again we all know that in some respects the game has become rigged with how they enforce their rules over "misinformation". Under the ownership of Tesla's Elon Musk as he builds electric cars, a neurallink, spaceships, and boring tunnels will Twitter ultimately become a more conservative platform?
[VIDEO] If you don't know what a "victicrat" is this is Elder's way of calling out those who adhere to the victim ideological. It seems that mindset is winning right now and in a letter which he addresses in this video released today.
Probably one thing we might already know Larry Elder is conservative. There are other Blacks who don't like conservatives and have fallen for the ideology of progressivism. Or perhaps even this idea of systemic racism which seems to be the new buzzword of our times.
Elder dispelles in the above vid the notions of systemic racism or even of white supremacy or even "redlining" that creditworthy Blacks can't get mortgages. He especially promotes the idea that you get in life what you put into it. If you think you're helpless then you will act accordingly, however, if you put some work into your aspirations it's better you put effort than to blame others who have.
Well that's my take anyway I hope you enjoy. Perhaps I should look into LarryTube.com since his YouTube channel with just over a half-million subscribers has been demonetized.
[VIDEO] He hasn't actually announced but Reuters stated that he's hinted at a future run. And also restated that he repeated his election claims (Reuters call it a lie). Former President Donald Trump was a headliner at the past weekend's CPAC conference in Florida.
Meanwhile Doug Tennapel makes no reference to the so-called election "lie", however, he especially discussed any rumors that Trump could instead run as a third party candidate. It seems Trump wants to lock in the Republican Party so that there will be another Republican president in four years. [VIDEO]
Believe it or not, we have just arrived at over a month since Joe Biden was inaugurated. Well 2024 will be here before we know it!
[VIDEO] This aired on the IL Channel recently from this weekend's CPAC conference where former President Donald J. Trump will speak in his first public appearance since leaving office last month. We see Leo Terrell and Congressman Burgess Owens and three other people not sure who they are speak about Black issues.
I wonder if we're seeing a trend as of late. More Black Republicans are being elected to public office especially Congress. Owens took office just last month and he's not the only Black Republican in Congress. And of course we have longtime U.S. Senator from South Carolina Republican Tim Scott. We also have the Attorney General of Kentucky in Daniel Cameron. I could continue, but here's hoping Republicans can continue to chip away at the Democrat's hold politically of the Black community.
Some might term this as the "Trump effect" as the former President ran for re-election last year was able to get more Black votes in his second run. He had some appeal for sure.
I'm sorry to say I have strayed away from his radio program over the years. There was a time I used to peruse his website almost everyday even was a 24/7 member on occasion when I could afford it. At one point in time he was one of those sources who I found credible and trusted.
The last time I heard his voice on the radio his voice was different. It wasn't that strong radio voice I had gotten used to perhaps it was because he was almost 70 years old - the age at which he had passed into the great beyond. Perhaps it was because of the illness that ultimately claimed his life - lung cancer. What I can say was that his voice in my opinion sounded different.
I was a listener when he announced that he was going into rehab for his oxycontin addiction. I vaguely remember when he was briefly employed on an ESPN NFL panel. I remember his impersonation of President Bill Clinton I think those individuals had quite a rivalry well more so Limbaugh than Clinton...
Either way I'm sorry that I hadn't listen to him more. It would've been entertaining to have heard him talk about the Obama years. And he'd have pulled his audience together during what looks to be the difficult Biden years.
Now it'll be up to other conservative voices. And now we don't just have AM talk radio for which he has a strong legacy. He have other mediums especially the internet with social media - even upstart social media like Parler which is back online now or Gab. Conservatives voices are out there and there may never be another Rush Limbaugh, however, the voices are out there and someone can fill the void that sadly he left behind with his passing.
After I found out about his demise on instagram primarily I was driving home when I heard the outpouring of love from his listeners on his longtime Chicago home WLS 890 AM. A few callers were just about in tears so his demise has affected a number of people. And I hate to report there was one troll who referred to Limbaugh as a racist and a bigot.
One commentary from me is that I really hate that those terms are really used as an attack more than it is a realistic aspect of one's personality.
A Chicago native I really like this story about conservative thinker Shelby Steele. Pay attention to the part of this story where his swimming coach didn't invite him to a retreat because the coach was willing to accomdate his mother who didn't like Black people. There's a real history there that perhaps most may not know about since he's a conservative.
Also, it's simply amazing that he and his twin brother are polar opposites politically and work on the same university campus but yet pass by without speaking. They're not on speaking terms.
[VIDEO] I'm sharing with you a live feed provided by Breitbart.com. You may have heard of "Blexit" with Candice Owens and even Kanye West since Donald Trump has been President. Blexit is designed to encourage Black Americans to leave the Democrats and become Republicans.
One criticism I have is that it could be a lot more broader than steering Blacks into a different direction. You can consider Blexit in the same way as Brexit when the UK left the European Union by popular vote. Since I did mention Trump, some people consider his election as President in 2016 as akin to the British vote.
I wonder if any prominent Black Republicans or conservatives are marching in Washington, D.C. today.
