Dave Rubin sat down with Andrew Gold, the former BBC filmmaker who now hosts Heretics. The title of the episode is the claim: if this is not stopped, the UK’s fall is irreversible.
Gold starts with psychology. Political tribes and social-media loops, he says, run on the same machinery as cults: belonging, status, conformity. Intelligent people get trapped because the group rewards the approved answers. People usually leave only after the group mistreats them. October 7 did that for some progressive Jews.
Then the machinery that is supposed to keep the argument open.
I wanted to share these two videos regarding The Daily Wire.
First: The Business Side
This clip from Valuetainment is a segment from a recent PBD Podcast. It discusses the company taking on more minority investors and exploring a potential IPO (similar in timing to SpaceX's moves this month).
Why does this matter? Before this news, The Daily Wire had been taking a serious beating. There were reports of major layoffs in May 2026 — roughly half the staff (around 100 jobs) in one round alone, part of multiple cuts. Former co-CEO Jeremy Boreing addressed the restructuring, while voices like Candace Owens sounded alarms earlier about ongoing struggles. Owens has since pointed to expensive missteps like the Pendragon project (over $50 million spent with little return), subscriber losses after high-profile departures, and broader leadership/operational challenges as key factors in the slowdown.
The outlet, known for voices like Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and Michael Knowles, is now seeking fresh capital at a reported $750 million+ valuation with IPO talks potentially reaching $2 billion.
He dropped this on Tuesday talking about the breaking of a dam in Ukraine which somehow is connected to a nuclear reaction which could meltdown as a result. And then of course an ongoing theme with Tucker since his departure from FOX News - and what a shame I have even less reason to watch them now - how the mainstream media lies to their audience. Perhaps even control how we think and how we see the world.
[VIDEO] I mentioned this on Friday and indeed Elon Musk put this documentary on his page. Although the owner of Tesla & Space X bought Twitter last fall, there are elements within his company that could still cause some problems. And interesting still this is even after massive layoffs at the social network.
What is a Woman is a great documentary which takes aim at the radical gender ideology that it seems is being spread to minors. There were two clips that were of scrutiny.
[VIDEO] Matt Walsh discusses the latest controversy over his documentary What is a Woman? It actually was released last year and back then saw the film on DailyWire.com, however, the controversy in 2023 is that Twitter is purposefully throttle the film.
Last year Twitter was heavy on censorship there were certain messages such as men can be women or vice-versa that the previous ownership & management didn't want to spread. Under the ownership of Elon Musk Twitter is advertised as a digital town square that values free speech.
What I discovered digging into this story was that someone has resigned from X, earlier on Thursday. I found this on Twitter, oh um X is the parent company of Twitter. Was this person fired over potentially limiting the reach of What is a woman?
Well I do see that Musk is working on making this right per his Tweets. Perhaps the issues that Twitter had pre-Musk ownership still hasn't been straightened out yet.
I wanted to share this Friday and got a bid sidetracked with the Biden got coronavirus news....
I shared the Uncle Tom documentary earlier this week and I took a snapshot of the embed on this blog seeing that it was age restricted. Then I saw a few other warnings on the video and the idea is to discourage anyone from wanting to view this content.
Let me just say it for the record, why is YouTube censoring Uncle Tom? One could start with the epithet "Uncle Tom" which is used against Black conservatives especially or those who just go against the mainstream opinion of Black America.
However, is it simply that someone out there doesn't want the Black conservative story to be told in any way?
What I've been seeing out there since the 2020 presidential race there is a divide in Black America and it's based on gender Black males voted for Trump and Black females opted for Biden. Interesting trend especially noted in this documentary.
Screencap from the YouTube app
Screencap from YouTube app
Screencap from blog
If you're interested in the film when you go to my original post just click through the embed itself or find [VIDEO] and click through there for your convenience. Strange, but it seems someone out there wants this suppressed.
This was the breaking news for today Elon Musk known for sending his own private rockets into space and his own electric automotive company has become the largest shareholder in the social media site Twitter. I wonder what this means in the long run. For example will Twitter become more committed to free speech principles.
Outspoken Tesla CEO Elon Musk purchased a giant stake in Twitter that makes him the largest outside shareholder in the social media stock, not long after criticizing the company for what he said was its failure to uphold the tenets of free speech.
Musk owns 73,486,938 shares of Twitter, which represents a 9.2% passive stake in the company, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission 13G filing released Monday. The stake is worth $2.89 billion, based Twitter’s closing price Friday.
The purchase comes less than two weeks after Musk criticized the company, polling people on Twitter about whether it adheres to free speech principles. “Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy,” Musk tweeted. “What should be done?”
While it is classified as a passive stake, investors were bidding shares higher on the chance this could lead to something more. Twitter stock surged more than 27%.
“Musk could try to take a more aggressive stance here on Twitter,” Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “This eventually could lead to some sort of buyout.”
“This makes sense given what Musk has at least been talking about, at least from a social media perspective,” Ives said.
Want to see the conservative side of this news check out Instapundit. The wokies might not like Mr. Musk although I don't characterize him as a committed conservative. However, after hearing about censorship on social media - even going through my own relatively minor episode at the end of 2020 - there needs to be a shakeup in that space.
New social media like President Trump's Truth Social is a great start for example. However, who holds the most attention a site like Twitter can that place be redeemed to be a great place for a great flow of new ideas.
[VIDEO] Entitled young people cause enough of a scene that they don't just disrupt an event on campus they disrupt classes and faculty meetings. These young people go to one of the well known reputable schools in the world and show that they can't handle being told to grow up.
Seems to be an ongoing thing in higher ed right now. You shout down people you disagree with. You try to shut down an event that you have an issue with. You're not interested in a real debate or discuss you just want to take over the discussion and declare yourself the victor.
And if academia causes this, then academia has only caused you to not look at the world with great discernment. You just have your opinions about the world and just hold on no matter what and the real logic just doesn't sink in.
[VIDEO] Add Larry Elder who ran for Governor of California last year and a long time radio personality has a complaint about the censorship at the popular social media site Twitter.
UPDATE: Click video link within brackets since the embed doesn't appear to be working for the moment. A message states live event is over, however, I assure you if you click the link there is a video for you to watch here. Thanks and my apologies if you were thrown off when you saw nothing to play...
[VIDEO] Why is this the case? Because of his interview with a Dr. Robert Malone who discusses the mass formation psychosis theory which many seem to consider anti-vax misinformation.
You can see that discussion that Tim Pool notes in the video below. I already posted it here earlier this month. [VIDEO]
Just to clear the air. I'm not anti-vax, however, there is plenty of dis-information going on with both sides as far as this pandemic. The worst part of this misinformation is that one side seems hell-bent on burying any information that they don't like or contradicts their own notions of this pandemic.
Why not share the information from Rogan on mass formation psychosis. I do think the misinformation that's out there is designed to freak out the public. That not only goes for the "virtual-signalers" who are all about masking up, social distancing, or even those who on social media like to advertise that they're vaxed. I would also throw in those people who are anti-vax.
A lot of info on both sides and only sharing info that supports their own agenda. I want to get out of this pandemic, however, I think both sides are making this crisis worse.
[VIDEO] One of my favorite YouTubers on IG took aim at Tucker Carlson's segment on a BLM Utah chapter (see the post below) who stated that the American flag is a racist symbol on another nite Tucker takes aim at burning churches in Canada.
I wrote a tweet mentioning Black churches and deleted it believing it was in poor taste. Now a burning Black church would get our attention here in America as it could be considered a hate crime. Historically targeting a Black church has been cloaked in racist intention.
Now however when we talk about burning churches in Canada no less - our friendly personable neighborhoods in the Great White North - Tucker takes a look at the political implications. And the tweet about Black churches was replaced by this.
Progressivism is literally a mental illness #Tucker
Ahh, this is what it's about is it. The so-called - and by myself anyway - progressive left liberals don't like organized religion. Actually they don't like Christianity as it represents "whiteness". I've ran into a few online no less who believes burning a church is OK.
Tucker shows tweets from a few in Canada's gov't who seem generally supportive of this destruction. One tweet came from a member of a Canadian civil liberties group who says burn it all down (tweet has since been taken down and account private). I couldn't find yet the other tweet mentioned in the above video from Gerald Butts who Tucker calls a close confidant to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, however this one is even better.
There is no legitimate justification for destroying churches. Freedom of religion is guaranteed under the UN Declaration on Human Rights. Moreover, arson puts firefighters at risk. And during wildfire season, setting fires endangers public safety for entire regions.
— Geoffrey P. Johnston😎🇨🇦 (@GeoffyPJohnston) July 6, 2021
Wait! I got some research to do. These destroyed churches or Indigenous Canadian churhes. So these arsonists are going to these indigenous communities (think either American Indian or Native American - or the very first Americans from whom Europeans stole the new world from) are destroying these churches.
And the best that Butts can offer is it's understandable that someone would want to burn a church? Really? Aren't the progressive left liberals concerned about people's rights? Perhaps they're not concerned about the right to worship as they please.
Also the response by the Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau was to only say this wasn't the way to go. Which is hardly a strong condemnation.
This seems like "wokeness" run amok, however, I don't have much information to go on. As a man who rarely attends church services anyway I believe people have the right to worship as they please and strongly condemn any arson on a religious structure. This should be condemned as an other God-given right is threatened.
I found this out through a local crime blog CWB Chicago. Over the weekend 2nd City Cop written by a police officer(s) went off line and is in restricted mode. Over at yet another Chicago crime site HeyJackass we see a letter left to their readership by 2nd City Cop. Now it has me concerned, as they're concerned about the issues of "Big Tech".
[VIDEO] Well you can't cancel Dave Ramsey because no one else owns his platform but him. If you cancel him on YouTube or anywhere else he'll find a way to get his message out. Plus if you're listening to him or reading his tweets for something offensive what are you listening to him for? Are you not interested in advice on personal finance?
I don't normally post on Sundays although that custom has been broken fairly recently, but I just needed to share this lunacy from Reason:
David Peterson is an art professor at Skidmore College, a private liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York. In late July, the professor and his wife, Andrea Peterson, attended a "Back the Blue" rally—not as supporters of the cause, they say, but as curious spectators.
"Given the painful events that continue to unfold across this nation, I guess we just felt compelled to see first-hand how all of this was playing out in our own community," he later told the student newspaper.
They stood on the edges of event, watching pro- and anti-law enforcement demonstrators argue with each other. After 20 minutes, the Petersons left to eat dinner.
But unbeknownst to Peterson, the couple's attendance at the rally was noticed. Now Skidmore students are demanding that both Peterson be fired for "engaging in hateful conduct that threatens Black Skidmore students," according to Times-Union columnist Chris Churchill, who wrote about the controversy.
All Professor Peterson and his wife did at this Back the Blue rally was to observe. If you're down with BLM and their fcuk the police rhetoric they can't be observers, they have to say fcuk the police....
So here's the truth of this matter with these students with the professor feelings over logic. Logic is thrown out of the window. If you're not with the students who are there for an education and likely utilizing student aid, student loans or even their family's money to say their boycotting a member of the faculty because their classroom is no longer considered a safe space is utter lunacy. No longer a safe space because they were observers to a pro-police rally and the people who demonstrated against the rally. 🤷
I will refer you to my free expression page, although if you're a passive observer not taking either side free expression doesn't apply here unless someone out there just decides your presence and lack of participation constitutes expression.
On one of my other blogs I created a free speech or free expressions page and someone who looked it over said it needed something extra for it to gain some traction. Well as you see it's not my expertise, though I realize there are so many ways you could get some traction.
I see that free speech or expression is under attack. It's been under attack for years, however, it's really under attack currently. For expressing your opinion you could literally lose your livelihood or even reputation over your expression. Often what protects you from any attempt to destroy your life is to express more "popular" opinions.
So hearing about the attempts to limit speech and expression on college campuses in recent years that's why I wrote the page which includes the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution and the appropriate section from the Illinois state constitution. Then again I also recognize that while we do have a universal right to free speech or expression as enshrined in our federal & state supreme legal documents there are those who still try to silence those they disagree with.
I've ran across a video years ago that showed a group of college students of various backgrounds claim that you've lost your right to free speech the moment you express hate. Really? Define hate. Is it racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. I get the idea it just won't stop there, anytime you disagree with someone who has this idea of limiting expression due to "hate" it could really become you express hate because you disagree with a particular point of view and it makes one uncomfortable.
Either way check my page out on this blog or the other page I have created. If you have some ideas to take it further leave a comment there. Otherwise I'm sure one day it will get some attention.
Also I wanted an excuse to share this video from John Stossel, one of his more recent videos. It shows what fair, right thinking Americans are up against. It doesn't matter your profession or even your political leanings, people who think of disagreement as hate will turn on you and decide you have no rights. [VIDEO]
As that video illustrates such individuals are beginning to infiltrate newsrooms. If conservatives think the media is heavily biased, if you got individuals willing to play with the livelihoods of other members of a news room we haven't seen the worst of this bias yet. Just consider a scathing resignation letter written by a now former NY Times opinion editor.
[VIDEO] If this doesn't scare you about the dangers of social media I don't know what will. A woman who does a podcast raising questions with regards to #MeToo, causes a firestorm. It's not enough that there are people who don't like Nancy Rommelmann's podcast and its premise. They also want to take down her husband's coffee business.
I like that social media provides everyone a platform which you could either choose to consume or not. The problem with social media is it provides everyone a platform and if you're perpetually uninformed and willing to attack that which you haven't educated yourself (something that I could be accused of occasionally) then you have a platform. Such individuals have a platform to remain ignorant and uninformed and then find others of the same mindset.
This is what you see Rommelman discuss in the above video from Prager U. The damage may well have been done, but who knows how much. If I could support her husband's business (Ristretto Roasters) - although I'm not an ardent coffee consumer by any means - then I would. We shouldn't support this ignorance and stand behind it. We should support free expression and of course due process which is how this all started in the first place.
I'm sorry I missed this yesterday, the President of the United States can't block twitter users from his personal twitter account. WOW! The Volokh Conspiracy further explains a ruling from a federal district court.
