I haven't watched it yet. Ben Shapiro on the France and Italy riots that blew up over the weekend after a month of school protests: the crowds aren't there for better schools or lower prices. He says they are there to break the cities.
I put this on because the title was sitting there. The school protests that fed the weekend’s riots started about a month ago—teachers striking and students blockading a lycée in Créteil over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and run-down buildings. It spread, with repeated marches and closures through early October. The large-scale violence (Limoges town hall torched, shops looted, thousands arrested) broke out Saturday when those actions joined a planned cost-of-living day with unions and former Yellow Vests.
Patrick Bet-David put it as an or. Islam, or a West that has gone soft. Raymond Ibrahim would not take the or. He is an American historian, born here to Coptic immigrants from Egypt, fluent in Arabic, a former Arabic specialist at the Library of Congress, and the author of *Sword and Scimitar* and *Defenders of the West*. This is his hour on PBD Podcast #869, posted Thursday. Bet-David opened on the title. The answer was yes to both.
Bill O'Reilly's NewsNation special, The Siege of London, aired Sunday. He was a student at the University of London. The hour opens on street footage from London, Southampton, and Belfast, then the line he says Americans give him when they go back. O'Reilly was here a few decades ago. What the hell happened?
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.
Konstantin Kisin, the Russian-born comedian, Triggernometry co-host, and author of An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West, sat down with John Anderson and said something most British politicians still won’t: the country is poorer than its people think, and the people in charge keep telling them otherwise.
The interview is called “The Politics Of Gaslighting.” Kisin walks through the numbers without the usual hedging. Most Britons, according to polling he cites, still believe their country is in the same wealth league as Switzerland, Singapore or Australia. On a per-capita basis it isn’t. Britain sits much further down the table and is close to being overtaken by Poland. The pie is shrinking. The argument is over who gets the next slice.
That’s the part that travels. GDP can be juiced by importing more people. Per-person living standards are a different story. Kisin’s point is that the political class has every incentive to keep measuring the first number and ignore the second. Anderson, who has seen the same productivity stall in Australia, keeps asking the obvious follow-up: how do you tell people the truth when they have been trained to treat it as an attack?
Yesterday and today, Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta was hit by one of the largest single migrant surges in recent European memory.
Thousands of people (Spanish Interior Ministry figures later put the total who crossed or attempted to cross since Thursday morning around 50,000) poured in from Morocco. Many swam around the border fence. Reception centers for unaccompanied minors hit 2,400% of capacity. Local authorities declared a humanitarian and social emergency. At least nine people died in the water. Spain deployed military units to back up the Civil Guard. Morocco cooperated on rapid returns, and tens of thousands were already turned back by Friday.
President Trump addressed it during a cabinet meeting at Camp David. Here are the key lines:
“I saw Spain yesterday, and I watched the catastrophe that took place. It looks like an invasion of a country… hundreds of thousands of people.”
“That same thing’s going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected, except worse. Much bigger… our country will be invaded at levels that made Spain look small time.”
“They’re coming in by the tens of thousands. They’re just invading the country… weak law, bad management, but very liberal law… That will look good compared to what’s going to happen to the United States.”
Bill O’Reilly’s Talking Points Memo on the July 21 No Spin News episode zeroed in on Minnesota and called it what he sees: Loonville. The claim is straightforward. Rough progressives now control roughly fifteen states. In those places, ideology has crowded out ordinary standards of accountability, crime, and common sense. Minnesota, once a more measured place, has become one of the clearest examples.
O’Reilly focuses first on Governor Tim Walz. He describes Walz as a far-left progressive ideologue. The concrete case is Tou Lue Vang, a Hmong man from Laos convicted in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. He repeatedly sexually abused a girl beginning when she was ten. He received probation rather than prison. In June 2026 the Minnesota Board of Pardons—Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and the state Supreme Court chief justice—voted to erase the conviction. The board cited a letter of forgiveness from the victim and immigration concerns. The pardon removed the legal basis for his pending deportation.
Let’s start with who is Andrew Wilson. My A.I. assistant offers this brief insight:
Who is Andrew Wilson?
Andrew Wilson is a British-born cultural commentator, debater, and host of The Crucible — a platform where he tackles politics, faith, philosophy, and modern culture with sharp logic and unapologetic intensity. He’s gained a strong following online for his no-holds-barred debate style, especially in viral confrontations on topics like feminism, Islam, progressivism, Christianity, and masculinity.
Background and Rise
Wilson comes across as a thoughtful but fiery thinker shaped by personal trials and a return to Christian faith (influenced heavily by his wife). He’s known for blending deep reading in history, theology, and politics with quick-witted takedowns of bad arguments. His style mixes intellectual rigor with a willingness to call things as he sees them — which has made him both admired and polarizing.
Brief Synopsis of the Clip
In this 14-minute excerpt from his December 2025 appearance on the PBD Podcast, Andrew Wilson and Patrick Bet-David discuss which poses the bigger long-term threat to America and the West: progressive ideology or unassimilated Islamic immigration. Wilson argues the two forces are intertwined — progressives act as “useful idiots” by keeping immigration pathways open, which Muslims strategically exploit for demographic growth while rejecting progressive values like feminism and secular degeneracy in their own communities.
The clip features Wilson referencing long-term strategies (such as high birth rates, often summarized as “the woman’s womb” being the ultimate weapon) and tactical voting. It also includes segments where he deploys statistics on inbreeding (cousin marriages) in Muslim-majority countries versus Christian societies during a debate — an approach I find uncomfortable in group-IQ framing, but one he uses effectively to troll and challenge his opponents. Overall, it’s a direct, provocative exchange that gets to the core of assimilation, values, and civilizational questions.
Ben Shapiro went live on Tuesday (see my earlier post on the SCOTUS ruling) after the US Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship. On Wednesday on his latest podcast he further breaks down the immigration trends in American history. Let's look at what he said.
The episode reacts directly to the Supreme Court’s June 30, 2026 decision striking down President Trump’s executive order that sought to limit birthright citizenship. Shapiro calls the 6-3 ruling a “legal abomination” on constitutional grounds but refuses to treat it as the end of the story. Instead, he walks through the long arc of U.S. immigration policy to show that America has successfully adjusted course before — and can do so again.
If you're tired of recycled punditry on cable news or endless hot takes on social media, channels like The Narrative with Will Sexton stand out. Will Sexton delivers structured, big-picture analysis on politics, culture, and power without sensationalism or partisan cheerleading. He zeros in on institutions, incentives, funding flows, and historical context—connecting dots that many overlook or avoid. His clear, sourced, and thoughtful style makes the channel worth following for anyone trying to make sense of why American politics feels like it's shifting under our feet.
In his recent video, "The Political Realignment Nobody Saw Coming | How Woke Failed," Sexton traces the arc of the last decade: the rapid rise of progressive cultural dominance after 2020, the money and machinery behind it, and why that era is visibly unraveling now.
U.S.Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) joined Miranda Devine on the latest Pod Force One episode for a wide-ranging, no-nonsense discussion on foreign policy, immigration, surveillance, and holding power accountable.
Full episode of Sen. Paul's interview here (duration 40 mins) [VIDEO]
This morning on the PBD Podcast, British MP Rupert Lowe joined Patrick Bet-David for a wide-ranging, no-holds-barred conversation. The episode — focused on the Rape Gang Inquiry Lowe recently released and Keir Starmer’s resignation — pulled no punches on Britain’s institutional failures, mass immigration fallout, and the rapid turnover of prime ministers.
It’s the kind of direct talk that rarely makes it through mainstream British media filters. Here’s a clear breakdown of who Lowe is and what stood out, especially his comments on the “revolving door” in the Prime Minister’s office.
Who Is Rupert Lowe?
Rupert Lowe is the Restore Britain MP for Great Yarmouth (elected in 2024 originally on the Reform UK ticket). He previously served as a Brexit Party MEP and built a career as a businessman, farmer, and former chairman of Southampton Football Club.
He split from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK after internal disagreements and launched Restore Britain as a harder-edged alternative focused on mass deportations, scrapping net-zero targets, and confronting what he calls the grooming gang cover-up. Lowe crowdfunded around £600,000 for an independent inquiry into organized child sexual exploitation, which he released recently. The report estimates (conservatively) up to 250,000 victims — mostly white British girls aged 11–13 — with perpetrators overwhelmingly of Pakistani Muslim background, alongside other groups.
Watch Rupert Lowe on the PBD Podcast (Full Episode)[VIDEO]
In the conversation, which dropped amid news of Keir Starmer’s resignation, Lowe doesn’t hold back on Britain’s leadership instability and the grooming gang scandal.
Fresh reports say UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer could announce a resignation timetable as early as Monday. The Observer detailed his weekend at Chequers and internal pressure, while Reuters and BBC covered the shifting mood inside Labour and speculation about successor Andy Burnham. President Trump weighed in on Truth Social, declaring “Keir Starmer will resign” and citing failures on immigration and energy.
I watched Bloomberg Originals’ This Is What Brexit Cost the World amid this news. Here’s a concise breakdown.
In this eye-opening Glenn Beck interview, South African farmer Jason Bartlett describes escaping what he calls a hidden massacre of white farmers and building a thriving new life in rural Alabama. The conversation is raw, hopeful, and full of contrasts that make you rethink everyday American freedoms.
In 2021, on this blog I shared a video from the edu-tuber Mr. Beat. He breaks down historic figures in a straightforward way, and one of them was billionaire George Soros. Here's what I wrote back then:
As of late you hear a lot about how Soros uses his fortune to fund politicians favorable to his political ideology. He's also been accused of funding soft on crime prosecutors here in this nation from Los Angeles to San Francisco to Philadelphia. Even right here in Cook County/Chicago with our current State's Attorney.
That post stuck with the basics—his funding of progressive causes and DAs. It didn't dig into the "why" or the full picture of what Soros represents.
Recently, I came across a video from Michael Franzese, a former mobster who's shared a lot of raw stories about living that Mafia life. He often steps back to look at bigger issues in the world today. This time, he takes a hard look at Soros.
The West is hitting a dangerous tipping point. Native citizens in countries like the UK are being pushed aside by policies that favor mass immigration from the third world, often at the expense of safety, culture, and basic fairness. Anti-white racism, demographic replacement, and elite contempt for everyday people are fueling growing unrest.
[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?
Before sharing the recent news video from Des Moines, Iowa regarding the schools superintendent there.
I was shocked to hear he attempted to flee and was detained by ICE. It turns out he was not an American citizen, and it caused me to wonder how could this happen in of all places Iowa.
From what I've see so far it appears that soon to be former Superintendent Ian Roberts lied about his immigration status. And perhaps the folks at the Des Moines Public Schools had failed to adequately vet Mr. Roberts. This article from the Des Moines Register says the Des Moines schools had used an outside firm to vet him.
And reading that article further he seemed to have not be forthcoming about where he actually got his degrees. He misrepresented his doctoral degree at Maryland's Morgan State University although he later got his doctorate at a private for-profit university.
I just got to say this whole story was a mess. This is what happened yesterday in Des Moines. From the start we hear students had walked out in support of Mr. Roberts via this report from KCCI. Roberts had submitted his resignation. [VIDEO]
I have to say, the immigration issue is a charged issue right now. There's no middle ground here so perhaps I shouldn't be too surprised if there are people who want to support Mr. Roberts.
However, where I stop at is the fact that he misrepresented his citizenship and his academic record. That really bothers me and I wonder if the people who are supporting him actually realize how he arrived in this position.
My position is to point the finger at him as much as I would at the school district who hired him.
[VIDEO] Episode 30 of Tucker on X/Twitter - not X, Elon, XTwitter. Anyway he discusses the immigration issue. He discusses this in terms of the great replacement theory.
That is you want chaos in America bring in people who don't share the same values as American citizens. And as we learn from a Polish politician Dominik Tarczynski this issue affects all nations around the globe. It especially affects European nations as Tarcynski points the finger at not allowing any Muslim migrants into Poland.
Again it's about bringing in people who share mostly the same values as people who may already live in a nation. If you have people who believe in tribalism as opposed to the rule of law. If you have people who believe it's OK to treat certain groups of people unfairly just because. Then there is no cohesion.
Of course the main issue for most Americans is who are these migrants, how many of them are really looking for new opportunities? Or how many of them are actually criminals who were smuggled up by these criminal drug cartels?
As for great replacement theory, it seems very difficult to find a non-baised source that doesn't refer to it as racist.
