Ben Shapiro, yet again, spent a bunch of time on his program talking about how Trump’s policies are putting the US economy at risk. He’s been doing it a bunch.
Can you guys make a video taunting him and highlighting the rift between him and MAGA on tariffs? The republicans are way better at making Dems fight with each other than Dems are at making republicans fight with each other
About Derek Chauvin and pardons . . . he was convicted under Minnesota law, and Trump can not overturn that jail sentence. A Trump pardon would be effective as to Chauvin's federal conviction, but he would still have to serve out his state sentence. So Trump would be doing it mostly to make a statement, and (of course) to get some publicity. Not sure it would the kind of publicity that would help him ... ?
Is it just me....or are a lot of MAGA media types starting to appear as they are a bunch of resentful theater kids who hate that people do not recognize their entertainment "brilliance"?
How I understand it is that the national Republican Party and at least Texas Republican party aren’t democratic organizations any longer. they are full-blown authoritarian with the exception of maybe five or six elected officials out of 40 or 50. And I say this living in Houston. One question I have is are the MAGA’s Christian nationalists? Or are they fascist or both?
All of these various RWM setups are basically rooted in entertaining the MAGAts... and if the MAGAts are not sufficiently entertained, you are in trouble... and as time passes, you need to be more and more extreme to be entertaining--because people quickly get jaded.
If you were seriously into informing rather than entertaining, the dynamic would be different and it wouldn't matter who the tlking head was. But in the infotainment industry (with the stress on the 'tainment), it does. You could see that already back in the day with Rush.
Things are also very personality-based... and once you establish yourself, it remains a question whether you should continue to toil along as a cog in someone else's machine or get your own machine going.
The only way I can be happy is if the Daily Wire gets rid of Ben Shapiro. I doubt that’s possible to get rid of the founder it’s hard to tell what level of ownership or power he has but if it ever did happen I’d be ecstatic. He is truly one of the worst human beings. Him and JD Vance must’ve been separated at birth because they are identical in their repulsiveness.
Amazing article but I will have to say this is the loosest definition of the word ‘talent’ when saying “the company has been bleeding talent.”
One of the hallmarks of the rise of Fox News and right wing media was that you didn’t need talent at all to make big money. Tucker is loathsome & evil but he was talented. Same for some others like Will Cain who could actually run a successful talk show on sports on ESPN radio.
But so many of these absolute morons could write a book with a cover title of Barack Obama is a socialist Kenyan terrorist and leave the next 100 pages blank and it would be a bestseller because that’s what the base always spent their money on.
Think of Diamond & Silk, Dan Bongino, Pete Hegseth, Candace Owens, Greg Gutfeld and so many others. The dumber you sound the more your appeal.
Ben Shapiro is not without talent but he is nowhere near the intellectual mind that right wingers tried to bestow on him back in his Breitbart days. God Milo was smarter than Shapiro was.
But the Daily Wire only path to success is not through talent but through trolling. To stand out in MAGAverse you don’t need to make intellectual entertainment just need to be as demagogic & lizard-brained on the cultural issues that play to the low information consumers.
Oh, this is delicious. A proper right-wing media bloodletting, complete with fragile egos, backstabbing, and delusions of empire. The House of Shapiro is cracking, and honestly, who’s shocked? These grifters were never in it for the long haul. They were just in it for the biggest, dumbest payday possible before the entire conservative outrage economy collapses under the weight of its own hypocrisy.
And of course it’s all a mess behind the scenes. The right-wing media landscape is a never-ending cycle of bad-faith operators eating their own. Once you’re not radical enough, you become disposable. The “young right” is charging full steam toward Nick Fuentes-style fascism, and Boreing’s little culture war puppet shows for toddlers just aren’t edgy enough anymore. He bet big on a King Arthur fantasy epic, which, let’s be honest, is probably a Renaissance fair fever dream funded by an unhinged billionaire, instead of focusing on the grift that keeps Daily Wire running. Selling terrible chocolate and overpriced razors to guys who think Gillette is part of the deep state.
But the best part? The real tell? Boreing wanted to sell out. He said it himself. He spent years building Daily Wire into a rage-click money machine, dreaming of an epic cash-out. And now? That dream’s dead. Shapiro barely managed a “we’ll see what he does next” in his farewell, which is corporate-speak for “he’s dead to us.” The man who thought he’d be the next Murdoch is now a glorified consultant, probably negotiating his exit package while watching his ex-employees laugh about it online.
Here’s the truth. Conservative media is imploding. The grift economy is eating itself. While the movement lurches further right, the old-school grifters like Boreing are getting left behind. The only real question is who’s next?
Nick Fuentes trying to rebrand himself as some intellectual dissenter after years of being a loud, racist, misogynistic, Holocaust-denying fascist is nothing short of comedy gold. The man built his entire persona on being a professional edge lord for disaffected incels, openly worshiping authoritarianism and shilling for Christian nationalism. Now, after getting too toxic even for Trump-world, he’s suddenly found principles? Please.
Let’s be clear about who Fuentes is. He has a long history of praising fascist regimes, including Hitler’s Germany, while downplaying the Holocaust. He has openly called for stripping women of the right to vote, promoted racial segregation, and aligned himself with white nationalist movements. He was a central figure in the “Stop the Steal” movement, showed up at the Capitol on January 6th, and has been banned from nearly every mainstream platform for inciting hatred. Even Kanye West, while in the middle of his own Nazi spiral, decided Fuentes was too much of a liability to keep around. That’s how radioactive this guy is.
And now he’s turning on Trump? The same Trump he once worshiped as the savior of his far-right fantasy? What we’re seeing isn’t ideological purity; it’s a desperate attempt at survival. Fuentes is facing real legal and financial consequences, his movement is fracturing, and he’s scrambling to stay relevant. The only thing more predictable than this pivot is that it will fail. No amount of faux-intellectual posturing will erase years of being the human embodiment of 4chan’s worst impulses.
Nick Fuentes isn’t a threat anymore—he’s a punchline.
It’s very funny how so many of the DW types come across as people who couldn’t hack it in Hollywood, got mad about it, and decided it was the fault of "woke"!
Ben Shapiro, yet again, spent a bunch of time on his program talking about how Trump’s policies are putting the US economy at risk. He’s been doing it a bunch.
Can you guys make a video taunting him and highlighting the rift between him and MAGA on tariffs? The republicans are way better at making Dems fight with each other than Dems are at making republicans fight with each other
About Derek Chauvin and pardons . . . he was convicted under Minnesota law, and Trump can not overturn that jail sentence. A Trump pardon would be effective as to Chauvin's federal conviction, but he would still have to serve out his state sentence. So Trump would be doing it mostly to make a statement, and (of course) to get some publicity. Not sure it would the kind of publicity that would help him ... ?
In the composite picture, which witch is which? Fortunately I've never seen Shapiro or Boreing before.
Is it just me....or are a lot of MAGA media types starting to appear as they are a bunch of resentful theater kids who hate that people do not recognize their entertainment "brilliance"?
It's especially rife at the Daily Wire. Just about ALL of their on-air "talent" are theater kids whose dreams of Hollywood washed out.
Russia money dried up for all the bro podcasts.
Wake me up when they catch Ben Shapiro in bed with James Lindsay.
How I understand it is that the national Republican Party and at least Texas Republican party aren’t democratic organizations any longer. they are full-blown authoritarian with the exception of maybe five or six elected officials out of 40 or 50. And I say this living in Houston. One question I have is are the MAGA’s Christian nationalists? Or are they fascist or both?
Looks like he spoke up a bit too forcefully about MAGA's Brownshirt Energy
All of these various RWM setups are basically rooted in entertaining the MAGAts... and if the MAGAts are not sufficiently entertained, you are in trouble... and as time passes, you need to be more and more extreme to be entertaining--because people quickly get jaded.
If you were seriously into informing rather than entertaining, the dynamic would be different and it wouldn't matter who the tlking head was. But in the infotainment industry (with the stress on the 'tainment), it does. You could see that already back in the day with Rush.
Things are also very personality-based... and once you establish yourself, it remains a question whether you should continue to toil along as a cog in someone else's machine or get your own machine going.
The only way I can be happy is if the Daily Wire gets rid of Ben Shapiro. I doubt that’s possible to get rid of the founder it’s hard to tell what level of ownership or power he has but if it ever did happen I’d be ecstatic. He is truly one of the worst human beings. Him and JD Vance must’ve been separated at birth because they are identical in their repulsiveness.
Amazing article but I will have to say this is the loosest definition of the word ‘talent’ when saying “the company has been bleeding talent.”
One of the hallmarks of the rise of Fox News and right wing media was that you didn’t need talent at all to make big money. Tucker is loathsome & evil but he was talented. Same for some others like Will Cain who could actually run a successful talk show on sports on ESPN radio.
But so many of these absolute morons could write a book with a cover title of Barack Obama is a socialist Kenyan terrorist and leave the next 100 pages blank and it would be a bestseller because that’s what the base always spent their money on.
Think of Diamond & Silk, Dan Bongino, Pete Hegseth, Candace Owens, Greg Gutfeld and so many others. The dumber you sound the more your appeal.
Ben Shapiro is not without talent but he is nowhere near the intellectual mind that right wingers tried to bestow on him back in his Breitbart days. God Milo was smarter than Shapiro was.
But the Daily Wire only path to success is not through talent but through trolling. To stand out in MAGAverse you don’t need to make intellectual entertainment just need to be as demagogic & lizard-brained on the cultural issues that play to the low information consumers.
Ladno, kogo volnuyet?
How odd. Trump really wanted to be in the movies and bought his property along the West Side Hwy to turn into a movie studio.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jfortwa/p/make-their-first-100-days-their-last?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1qbkbi
Oh, this is delicious. A proper right-wing media bloodletting, complete with fragile egos, backstabbing, and delusions of empire. The House of Shapiro is cracking, and honestly, who’s shocked? These grifters were never in it for the long haul. They were just in it for the biggest, dumbest payday possible before the entire conservative outrage economy collapses under the weight of its own hypocrisy.
And of course it’s all a mess behind the scenes. The right-wing media landscape is a never-ending cycle of bad-faith operators eating their own. Once you’re not radical enough, you become disposable. The “young right” is charging full steam toward Nick Fuentes-style fascism, and Boreing’s little culture war puppet shows for toddlers just aren’t edgy enough anymore. He bet big on a King Arthur fantasy epic, which, let’s be honest, is probably a Renaissance fair fever dream funded by an unhinged billionaire, instead of focusing on the grift that keeps Daily Wire running. Selling terrible chocolate and overpriced razors to guys who think Gillette is part of the deep state.
But the best part? The real tell? Boreing wanted to sell out. He said it himself. He spent years building Daily Wire into a rage-click money machine, dreaming of an epic cash-out. And now? That dream’s dead. Shapiro barely managed a “we’ll see what he does next” in his farewell, which is corporate-speak for “he’s dead to us.” The man who thought he’d be the next Murdoch is now a glorified consultant, probably negotiating his exit package while watching his ex-employees laugh about it online.
Here’s the truth. Conservative media is imploding. The grift economy is eating itself. While the movement lurches further right, the old-school grifters like Boreing are getting left behind. The only real question is who’s next?
There’s a Fuentes clip going around where he trashes Trump as a populist demagogue.
Nick Fuentes trying to rebrand himself as some intellectual dissenter after years of being a loud, racist, misogynistic, Holocaust-denying fascist is nothing short of comedy gold. The man built his entire persona on being a professional edge lord for disaffected incels, openly worshiping authoritarianism and shilling for Christian nationalism. Now, after getting too toxic even for Trump-world, he’s suddenly found principles? Please.
Let’s be clear about who Fuentes is. He has a long history of praising fascist regimes, including Hitler’s Germany, while downplaying the Holocaust. He has openly called for stripping women of the right to vote, promoted racial segregation, and aligned himself with white nationalist movements. He was a central figure in the “Stop the Steal” movement, showed up at the Capitol on January 6th, and has been banned from nearly every mainstream platform for inciting hatred. Even Kanye West, while in the middle of his own Nazi spiral, decided Fuentes was too much of a liability to keep around. That’s how radioactive this guy is.
And now he’s turning on Trump? The same Trump he once worshiped as the savior of his far-right fantasy? What we’re seeing isn’t ideological purity; it’s a desperate attempt at survival. Fuentes is facing real legal and financial consequences, his movement is fracturing, and he’s scrambling to stay relevant. The only thing more predictable than this pivot is that it will fail. No amount of faux-intellectual posturing will erase years of being the human embodiment of 4chan’s worst impulses.
Nick Fuentes isn’t a threat anymore—he’s a punchline.
It’s very funny how so many of the DW types come across as people who couldn’t hack it in Hollywood, got mad about it, and decided it was the fault of "woke"!