Steven Crowder is a smart and witty voice, generally a happy warrior who has been in the battle against the cultural and political progressive movement for over a decade. He’s been in the fight for quite a while and deserves a great deal of praise for bringing a generation of younger people into the fold. I respect his long-established time in the trenches of the cultural war, and we are helping him deliver his message.
Crowder’s audience, the “Mug Club”, is likely a mix of Gen-Z and Gen-X rebels throwing sand into the machinery. He does a great job producing content that deconstructs the insanity of the political left in a way that works and expands his audience. Crowder has almost 6 million YouTube subscribers and while I don’t follow him closely, the message he delivered yesterday is very pertinent.
The problem he outlines is an inside baseball dynamic taking place in the background of the conservative media. It essentially boils down to a financial issue CTH raised a long time ago when the first signals of this troubling trend started. Most of the “well known” conservative media outlets have been purchased and co-opted by a financial system that ultimately controls their content. If you have the time, WATCH:
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What Crowder is discussing is the reason why Michelle Malkin dropped out of the fight. The “BigCon” Crowder notes is essentially like the Fox News of alternative media. They offer incentives to monetize the content provider (broadcaster, website, pod caster etc.) then lock the content providers into extremely controlling contracts that control the outcomes.
Ultimately, what the audience ends up seeing is an approved finished product that is acceptable to BigCon and Big Tech. In essence they are in bed together to stop bold and alternative conversation and filtrate the message to shades of soft pastels.
Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), Posobiec, Tim Poole, Conservative Review, CRTV (Glenn Beck, Blaze), Mark Levin, Dave Rubin, Salem Media [Townhall, Hot Air, Twitchy, Red State, PJ Media], The Daily Wire with Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, the list of names and outlets who participate in this overall system is very long. Upstream you will find the same financial underwriters, and all of them have a commonality.
Crowder is at an inflection point and obviously he is unwilling to capitulate to the guiding hands in control that no one is allowed to discuss.
Good for him. I hope he can leverage his influence to break the control mechanism, give startups an alternative, and continue the rebellion.
And I will bet most of those organizations and hosts never questioned the 2020 election.
Charlie Kirk has spoken out against the 2020 election and vocally the AZ election. Not defending him because I don’t know the landscape.
Would like to see a breakdown of who is being paid by whom so I know who to listen too.
Kirk is an accept the loss, anti-MAGA, and pro-RDS kind of guy now and has taken the entire TPUSA down that path….I stopped watching/listening after it became evident
I don’t know his history but the was very vocal against the AZ steal. I listened frequently to his reports as they were giving great details and interviews. This was just a few months back.
Not defending him just providing this data point.
CTH is becoming an ever-shrinking circle of who’s true and who isn’t. This tent will get so small it will have negligible impact within another year. That being said, it was CTH that educated me on McConnell and the surveillance state.
My cynicism has growth the other direction and now I don’t believe the system can be saved, regardless of PDT and his coattails. All govts have a lifespan and entropy has lifted its leg on us. Politically we are on our own, we are not represented and are being milked by the same ilk that destroyed Greece, Rome and Russia.
Focus on local politics, county and state elections. We need to strengthen our local infrastructures for the upcoming collapse.
The tent isn’t made smaller here, the people SD mentioned did that on their own.
That’s how small of a world there is that isn’t polluted with self serving pukes.
Just because that really sucks doesn’t mean it’s not accurate.
Come to terms with that and you’ll find hope it truth where you find it. And not be concerned about who thinks it’s more important to be popular.
DO NOT DESPAIR! No room for that in this battle! I’ve been there and it can destroy the good you’ve got.
Fight even if you’re the last man/woman who believes in freedom. It is worth for our kids’ future.
This evil WILL collapse but it’ll not be nice for any of us in the process.
Must have missed that thread last week if you think that CTH is shrinking. Oh well…….”Go from us in Peace. We ask not of your counsel or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and May posterity forget that you were our Countrymen”. Samuel Adams
You are right about the people milking/destroying us but wrong about the rent getting smaller. More people than ever are coming to the truth. The real truth
That would be the very best to hope for. I don’t believe it for second but am biggest fan about being completely wrong about it.
He had the Az. Governor’s election so wrong, it was funny. He missed it by a thousand miles. Kept claiming Kari lake had it in the bag and no cheating was taking place. Even told listeners to go bet on Kari Lake winning and win easy money. I would never listen to a word he ever utters.
Kari Lake DID WIN. It was STOLEN, so far. That was quite obvious to anyone who had any brains beginning almost the first hour the polls were open.
Yes. The only thing Kirk did wrong in that case was to underestimate the strength of the demonic force in AZ.
I think he’s learned. We shall see.
Dito.
I agree. I can’t watch him either. It’s obvious he is purchased.
too bad. The movement needs bold voices.
I bet they were locked up when Drudge was locked up, in the months leading up to the 2020 election.
If someone told me Matt Drudge sold out much earlier than that, I’d not be surprised. Maybe 2012? Haven’t been on his site for 4-5 phones, sheesh 🙂
He probably had the obammy holder 4 th branch black mail him..all those late night not so private internet searches…..or maybe he did cash out, maybe both.
But something nefarious happened.
The Deep State blamed Drudge for sharing Hillary Clinton’s infamous collapse video at the WTC during the 2016 election. Within months after the 2016 election, the Drudge Report quickly flipped from a center-right news source to a full left-wing operation.
I’m sure Matt ended up making millions and millions by finally selling out.
‘California: 10.8 Million Mail-In Ballots ‘Unaccounted For’ in 2022 Elections’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/18/california-10-8-million-mail-in-ballots-unaccounted-for-2022-elections/
Not to worry. The hard charging head of the California RNC under the supervision of Ronna Romney-McD is on it tough. Does California even have an RNC?
Call Harmeet Dhillon.
That was a litmus test for me. I left Powerline and PJ Media in 2020. Very proud I never bothered with those other names. I go to MAGA sites.
Powerline lost me long before 2020, all you needed to see was the things Paul Mirengoff was continually spouting, and don’t you dare call a thing he had to say into question. The others were less vocal about those similar views, but Paul was a driving force.
Paul’s been gone for over a year…
No principal at PowerLine will admit that the 2020 election was stolen. Nonetheless, the commenters are smart and the majority are pro-Trump.
They have good memes once a week. Otherwise I never read there.
You’ve made me wonder whether I’ve seen any stolen-election memes there. Seems to me I did, but I’d have to look back…
I was a powerline reader for over twenty years and then decided to make a comment one day out of the blue. They banned me permanently for that comment (which wasn’t untoward in the slightest).
I just deleted the link and forgot about them.
But Powerline does have one great weekly column, “The Week in Pictures”, a collection of the most recent memes, gifs, cartoons, et al, compiled by Steven Hayward and published each Friday. Usually very funny.
Another fun weekly read is a hotair collection of the same types of material, called “Sunday Smiles” by David Strom, also pretty good.
I don’t read much else on those sites, but you gotta look for reasons to smile and laugh wherever you can find them in these “interesting” times, non?
Whoops, commented before you did. I didn’t know about the Sunday Smiles one, will check.
And yes, humor is one of my lifelines these days!
I get Dr. Malone’s emails and he sends out Friday and Sunday Funnies – not in the ballpark of the powerline funny, but often pretty good…
PJ Media was left of center RINO apologetic for too stinking long for me. I kept it as long as I could pointing out the stupidity and falsity on comments section till it just got boring and pointless. They STILL support Commie-Mitch I’d wager, but I ain’t looking.
I stopped reading any of Salem’s content long ago…..I’ve been banned off of most of it, if that gives you any indication of why. They are exactly as Crowder and SD alluded to.
Another one I checked out is Curl’s Off the Press but jeez, it has a pretty strong RINO stink. I’ve stopped reading it entirely.
Mark Steyn had to sue the CRTV guy or perhaps it was a different outlet since I don’t remember Glenn Beck being there.
He won a judgment of millions, and then the owner refused to pay, filing a lawsuit against himself to try and get the funds out.
Yes, there was a legal kerfuffle between CRTV and Steyn. That was before CRTV got bought out/merged with the Blaze.
The owner you mentioned is a real sleazeball billionaire named Cary Katz. He got rich off of the student loan racket. He bragged loudly that Stein would never collect the $10 million dollar judgement. Last I checked Steyn is still getting shafted on that payout. Mark Levin had some very nasty things to say about Mark Steyn who, unlike the obnoxious Levin, is a class act and a gentleman.
Yup Levin was quite nasty to Mark Steyn. Made some ugly claims against him. I was very happy when Steyn won in court.
Levin is a loudmouth who fools newbies with is ‘constitutional scholar’ shtick. He and Hannity have a mutual admiration and self promotion that appeals to newbies and lofos – shun them
I can never forgive him for his vitriol towards Trump and his support of Cruz in the 2016 primaries, especially when it was reported that Levin had a relative working for the Cruz campaign. What a schmuck!
He’s also made spurious claims that Andrew Torba is anti semetic, and Gab is a garbage website.
Once upon a time there was someone named Reagen, and that’s where Levin stayed all of his life playing politics from 40 years ago…but I do like the way he is covering the biden document’s scandal and the way he is defending Donald Trump on his documents this is something Hannity will do for maybe 2 minutes and tucker won’t even bother
I’ve given up on Levin. I would tune in from time to time, but I think he was gun hoe for Ukraine and that was it.
Sundance, what is your thoughts on Bannon? I feel like he’s the spearhead on War Room. Sometimes I wonder when Ronna and Matt Schlapp show up but other than that he’s pretty damn solid. What are your thoughts on CPAC?
Trump said Bannon was a fake, a while back.
Link. If Bannon is a fake, so is Trump, since Bannon is always pushing Trump agenda. If Trump had listened to Bannon instead of Javanka, he would have been a million times better off. Trouble is, Trump listens to the back stabbers because his ego is so big, he thinks everyone loves him.
You really think he became a billionaire believing that?
His biggest fault is seeing the best possible in a person and believing if he treats them that way, that’s who they will be.
Doesn’t work in the sewer that’s dc
Whether Bannon is fake or not, he has excellent political instincts.
ROY MOORE
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Perhaps consider that when you claim that his trouble is that he listens to backstabbers (without realizing they’re backstabbers) the “he” is you?
Talking with a person =/= trusting that person. In fact, its the way savvy people get insight and greater understanding.
Echo chambers and ideologically pure bubbles are for fearfuls, fools and political Pharisees.
Fortunately, President Trump is not a fearful, a fool or a Pharisee.
Bannon has been in my prayers since I first noticed him sabotaging President Trump in early 2017 and was elated when he “left” the WH.
Bannon seems to be better now. Hopefully he keeps his hubris and toxicity in check.
Here’s the link of what I was referring to https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/president-trump-bannon-fired-not-lost-job-lost-mind/. It’s from a 2018 statement, so maybe Trump has walked back the claims since. It stuck in my mind though. I would LOVE to be wrong about this and be able to trust Steve Bannon again. So please, let me know if I’m mistaken!
Trump said, “Steve doesn’t represent my base—he’s only in it for himself.
Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.”
So who is left? So much chin-scratching. Before you know it WE are out of the treehouse.
For those who like pretending, there are still many choices.
You’re going to have to prove that one Skippy.
it was back in 2018, so maybe Trump has changed his mind since then.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/president-trump-bannon-fired-not-lost-job-lost-mind/
I’m not going to split hairs with you about not saying he was fake. President Trump isn’t known for making things up to slander other people with that aren’t factual. Those would be statements that would make your point definitely worth taking into account. Thank you for reminding what has been said in the past
Yes, everyone has a different view at this point and that can mean strengths in certain areas far exceed the short comings that were an issue before.
Steve Bannon is solid. So is Jack Posobiec. Clips from War Room are often featured here on CTH.
Poso isn’t always solid as he support Ukraine. How could he miss that call.
POSO focuses on gaining followers so he can “miss that call” and get away with it.
POSO == a professional pied piper. He used to be part of Alex Jones posse when Trump became the Republican nominee.
Your statement seems to imply that you need only one = sign.
I enjoy listening to Poso’s historical pieces – the recent 4-parter on the CCP was excellent.
And fact is, sundance has made me look with suspicious-cat eyes at everyone everywhere in the media. Doesn’t stop me from listening to the ones in the alt-media who I enjoy and who help me learn. They all help me learn.
At this moment only sundance, and Lou Dobbs who still has a podcast with no ads whatsoever, seem to be unfettered by this contractual problem.
Poso supports the people of Ukraine, but not the war, which he almost daily calls a “proxy war” between the current Xiden Regime and Putin.
He’s been 100% clear on this. In fact he has been foremost in warning that it’s a slippery slope to WW3 if it continues.
Oh and he clearly can’t stand the Comedian “President.” And he continually calls out the Regime’s money laundering and other crimes there.
I thought of him first when I heard Crowder speak of the bad contracts requiring ever more ads. His daily brief, which is the right length for a gym visit for me, has recently about doubled its ads. Fast forward is my friend…
I also thought of Bongino, who has complained for a long time about demonetization on screwutube in general. I suspect his contracts have plenty of issues…
Bongino may now be in a position to team up with Crowder on this – and he should!
Thank you for the update. I’m actually glad to read this about Poso. I based my assessment on the tweet which clearly was derogatory of Russia and blaming them for the war so I don’t agree with him on that. I’ve been to Ukraine 25 years ago. The people are lovely. They are the ones who are truly suffering.
Posobiec is a reflexive Russia hater. He would be fine with the US directly engaging with Russia.
Someone should remind him, Russia is not our enemy, communism is. That’s the main reason why this illegal occupation hates them. They’re not comrades any more.
That’s an insight that’s worth keeping in mind about how the sewer does things.
He says the opposite. He’s been warning about the dangers of WW3 for months now. I listen to him a lot (with the grain of salt I cited above).
I listen to WarRoom every day, but Bannon is turning the podcast into an infomercial by booking sponsors as objective contributors to the subject matter on the show. Birch Gold, My Pillow, Home Title Lock, etc. are just a few examples. He covers important topics, but Bannon has not been right on a lot of political issues recently and is beginning to believe is own BS. I like the guy, but Trump might be right.
What about Michel savage?
😂😂😂😂😂
Schlapp has some big problems right now and is being sued for sexual misconduct and defamation towards a MALE GOP staffer. Oh boy!
Reasons to care other than to pray for Matt and his wife?
Schlapp represents the conservative movement via CPAC. This is not a good thing, and it’s why I care!
Well yeah, you can’t be a real conservative and be a homo.
I think all of these who have taken the mantle from Rush should have some tribute and thanks to his singular force of taking the conservative cause on his shoulders pretty much alone for years and decades. Maybe a small photo behind them. This would prove to their fans and followers AND to their enemies who (on Earth) they owe their success to.
Clay Travis lost me in early 2021. He was the guest speaker for Jack Johnson’s Barbeque fund raiser in Franklin, TN. Almost the first words out of Clay’s mouth were, “We need to move on from the 2020 Election.” The Boo’s were loud. Jack Johnson is a RINO but, he has most of his electorate fooled. Clay only gets to fool me once.
They’ll show you EXACTLY who they are, every time.
Nothing changes now until the treason is punished in full from that election.
The whole damn place needs to be cleansed by fire.
I had hoped that Buck would straighten out Clay, but I think the reverse effect occurred.
I remember Bongino saying radio was a nasty business, and that there were other cons butthurt over the split in stations after Rush’s passing. I always thought he was alluding to Clay and Buck. He’s ending his deal with Cumulus. Say what you will about him, he never claimed to fill Rush’s shoes.
Well, Bongino did say he was taking the microphone from Rush(before Travis and Sexton) on the early days of his radio show, though he always said that no one could replace Limbaugh.
Is Dan’s exit from Cumulus a done deal? I no longer listen to his podcast (never listened to his radio show) because he refused to call the 2020 and 2022 elections as stolen and he was all in for Ukraine money laundering. He said if Cumulus did not roll back the jab mandate he would quit once his current contract was over.
I haven’t listened to him for a long time either. Kind of got tired of his style.
But there are so many opinions floating around here today that are 180° from what I have heard with my own ears, that I may give Bongino a listen or two again to see what’s coming out of him these days.
I personally never heard him deny the steal but it was around that time I dropped him.
You thought a CIA agent would straighten out a lawyer?
Buck is a spook, Clay is a half wit.
They’re a disappointment to Rush’s legacy time slot.
What do you mean by “spook”?
I didn’t stick around for long after they took over Rush’s spot. I was verydisappointed.
I stopped listening to what was previously the Rush Limbaugh Show because the two hosts appear to be playing the game of “Can you top THIS!” Rush had conversations with us, helping us understand and placing context. The two hosts talk at us. There is no in depth analysis, purely reactionary commentary.
Rush should be turning over in his grave that those two clowns (especially the more shallow Clay) have been appointed to “attract a new audience” as I once heard them say. I’m done as a listener, and I’m sure I’m not alone.
I stopped listening to them as well. Plus, Clay has horrible grammar.
I wish I had a nickel for every time I correct one of the “pundits” out loud. ☺️
Wonderful remarks, Brant. I could not agree more. The deeper and deeper we dig into this mess, generated by the endless number of sell-outs inside every tentacle of our own government, the more I miss Rush’s voice.
There is no wisdom in the statement that “no one is irreplaceable”. It’s a lie. Some individuals are exactly that. I can’t listen to the two lightweights who replaced the mellifluous voice, the steel-trap mind, the stellar wit, the biting humor, the piercing analytics, and the beating heart of The One who sat behind the golden EIB microphone every day.
Bannon’s Warroom has become a daily staple in this home. Some of the guests are not my favorites, but in my estimation, Stephen K. Bannon & crew do their level best to present legitimate debate with, and among, self-described conservatives. Once one of them has walked him/herself into a corner, said guest doesn’t return to the fray. Warroom is a good vehicle to “out” the phonies.
In a different format, what Bannon & Co are building is the closest thing to realizing the same truth-telling objectives that were the blood and guts of what Rush achieved for more than thirty years.
Sundance’s work is held in properly high regard on the Warroom venue.
To me the War Room shines when it has Bratt, Navaro, co. to talk economics. I also like Ben Berquam and the Brit he has (name escapes me, Harnwell?) for the Euro news.
Hornwell. That’s his surname as he always says.
It is spelled Harnwell, first name Ben, handle @harnwell on all the soc-media.
He’s very interesting, though I don’t always agree with all he says.
I’ve lost count of all the great guests I’ve seen on that show. It’s like all the amazing sources I’ve been exposed to here at CTH.
Don’t forget the brilliant Steve Cortez!
Don’t forget Darren Beattie and his hair — he & Bannon seem to compete in that department!
And Natalie Winters. What a great mind for such a young person.
Nowadays no Raheem Kassam – anyone know why?
We saw how the “cons” could be bought when some chosen ones went to Tallahassee.
100% Glad you connect dots.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/01/03/desantis-inauguration-attendees-bush-beck-laxalt-pushaw/
Glenn Beck
Adam Laxalt
Jeb!
Lisa Boothe
“On January 6, for instance, DeSantis invited social media stars to Tallahassee for a stop at the governor’s office, dinner at the governor’s mansion and drinks at Level 8 Lounge, a popular rooftop bar near the Florida statehouse, Politico said.”
The group included:
-Fox News’ Lisa Marie Boothe,
-Turning Point USA’s Benny Johnson,
– Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer,
-The Rubin Report’s Dave Rubin,
-New York Post and FoxNews.com columnist Karol Markowicz,
-Claremont Institute fellow David Reaboi
and
conservative writers Jordan Schachtel
and John Cardillo.
Everyone DeSantis invited has more than 95,000 Twitter followers – and a number of them, including Rubin and Markowicz, recently relocated to Florida from blue states.
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Pushaw downplayed the guests online notoriety telling Politico those invited ‘have consistently supported the governor’s pro-freedom policies.’
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Members of the group have become cheerleaders for the Sunshine State, with Reaboi writing a column for Newsweek Monday that Florida had become ‘America’s New Texas,’ giving DeSantis the credit.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10419627/Ron-DeSantis-courts-conservative-influencers-governors-mansion-feud-Trump-grows.html
Clay and Buck mentioned they were there as well.
Beck? Really?
Absolutely. Ben Shapiro for sure, as well. These guys have amassed pretty good-sized media empires.
I’ve been warned right here about Ben Shapiro, and have never listened to him except once by accident when he bore out every negative thing I had heard…
So now I will keep an especially suspicious-cat’s eye on Benny Johnson when I see him turn up. Thanks!
Yes, really. He has shown his true colors so I’m done with him, too.
Of course. Beck has always despised Trump. He never hid it well.
He despises who he represents.
The Millennial grifters came out of the woodwork back in 2015, 2016. It mostly played out over YouTube and Reddit so it may have been opaque to older folks. Baked Alaska is one I remember, Milo is another (although he had cross platform appeal).
Crowder seems to have avoided a lot of the same pitfalls others in our generation have fallen to. Money, ego, that stuff. If anybody’s positioned to yank the reins and get the younger generation of conservative commentary back on track, it’s him.
Key word in his presentation was “prayer”. If he’s stays close to the Lord in prayer, he’ll stay on course — just like Sundance has.
Go look up Lauren Southern’s video on YT that talks about Tommy Robinson and Milo, and why she dropped off the face of the earth. I knew her from her interviews on Crowder.
Once you see the strings on the puppet .. I still read Breitbart, but there are things they won’t say, as you pointed out some time ago.
Breitbart used to be one of my first go-to’s with my morning coffee. They were losing me when it became clear they leaned “Never Trump.”
Breitbart LOST me when it became one of the accessories-after-the-fact to the coup d’etat (stolen election) of 2020, by ignoring the entire subject.
That’s the same reason I no longer listen to talk radio – as far as I know, there was universal chirping crickets about the coup d’etat (Salem Media had a lot to do with that). Rush I’m sure wouldn’t have buckled. His successors all did. That renders them useless.
Can’t stand Clay and Buck – Rush would not approve!!! They are in the tank for DeSantis but still suck at Trumps generosity of Marolago/teat –
Near 30 year Rush listener & I can’t listen to those 2.
Refuse to listen to the program myself. Rush is irreplaceable, and we should just leave it at that. Souls such as his are extremely rare – we should not expect for someone to come along and take up the mantle. It was a good ride, but we will keep moving forward without him.
PDJT has not given up on rebuilding the Republican Party. So he does the interviews with people who have lost our confidence. I wish I could share his enthusiasm.
Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me over and over again, run like hell because I’m coming to torch you and I have nothing left to lose.
There were several “guest hosts” that could have been MUCH better choices to take over the reins than these two jokers.
My favorite replacement was Todd Herman. I miss him.
Please listen to Jeff Kuhner on WRKO in MA. He Is the best. He is on from 6am-10am EST. I first listened to him when he sat in for Michael Savage. He was the editor of the Washington Times. He always says the election was stolen and so much more.
Smart callers. He became a citizen legally. He was from Canada. His parents were from Croatia. His grand parents were in concentration camps. He tells the truth.
Indeed. A great listen.
As I recall that was (is?) Howie Carr’s station, yes? (I used to live in RI, and so could hear the Boston stations …)
Yes, it’s the same station, WRKO.
I had soured on Kuhner merely for delivery quirks that were growing tireseome. But I might go back if stuck in traffic sometime, mainly because Howie threw PDJT’s endorsement for governor, Geoff Diehl, under the bus in the primary last year.
All the local MAGA people I meet have now dumped Howie. I still listen to young Grace Curley because she did not go along with Howie on that, even though he was her mentor.
He still talks a lot about a two party system, but for New England, Boston’s Bulldozer has a VERY rare slant.
That station is available on TuneIn. Thanks for the tip.
“They were losing me when it became clear they leaned “Never Trump.”
Never Trump, always Israel.
I’m sorry but Alex Marlow is NO MAGA. Stoped listening him after 2020 steal
No apology necessary.Thanks ,,,.
I stopped listening when they kept pushing the clot shot. I tuned into the first time in two years and he was making the comparison between the Trump and Biden raid. I won’t make the same mistake again.
He’s all in for De Santis.
I stopped Breitbart well before the 2020 election. Pretty clearly run by never-Trumper RINOs who repeatedly push the same few “approved” subjects Big Con is allowed to discuss – immigration, culture war, etc.
I Just sign up!
https://www.stopbigcon.com/
Me too! Thanks for the article Sundance!
I did too.
Google will not pull up the site.
Use DuckDuckGo or Brave.
I watched the video and then also used DUCK to get there & sign up !
Key metric to sniff out the Approved Opposition™ is whether they have faced any content strikes or bans on their various accounts.
Nearly everyone you listed has faced no real threats to their platforms, or their social media accounts. They are all controlled opposition, in some way or form.
Youtube, Twitter, and FaceBook is not where real opposition to global homo will congregate, because as soon as any oppositional voice starts to gain traction there, they get yeeted. Gab, Rumble, Odysee, Locals, that is where you find real dissident voices now.
Add Bitchute to pro-dissident video platforms. Some very powerful anti-Globalist, anti-Deep State, anti-Uniparty/Establishment voices and discussions are on Bitchute.
100% correct.
Don’t forget substack…
AHHH, that must be the reason he left BlazeTV
He goes into it in this video, toward the beginning.
Blaze was purchased, then his and their paths and visions diverged widely.
Beck at one point veered pro-amnesty at the border and organized welcoming parties for immigrants/invaders “for the children”. Then he reversed field as though it had never happened.
He does some good stuff but is obviously controled.
I used to enjoy Beck, but he showed his true colors quite a while back. I remember wondering at the time if he had fallen off the wagon, or had some mental breakdown.
We got disgusted with Beck when he started milking his audience for sympathy over a variety of illnesses he claimed to have. Then when he went full on NeverTrump in 2016 we stopped paying attention to him. I no longer watch any video or show he does.
I concluded back in 2009-2015 that Beck had a breakdown. I dont think he fully recovered
If there is no money for him, Beck leaves.
He is all about money, despite the do good round face, and belly-if that hasn’t changed since I stopped watching the guy.
He does some very good research, but politically he is not Trump MAGA. He is a neo-con version of MAGA. Or a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
But I must stop-I’m not charitable.
And his false humility is really sickening!
He said specifically it wasn’t the blaze who gave him that contract. He just outgrew the blaze.
I watched Crowder yesterday and then listened to the subsequent discussion on Timcast last night.
I was exposed to Crowder via Breitbart and have come to appreciate the man he has become. My adult children and their friends are fans as well. I’m glad to see the financial incentives being exposed. I learned how the game is played over a decade ago when the Atlas Shrugged trilogy was being filmed. A lot of respect I had for “conservatives” evaporated when I saw how quickly some sold out. Glenn Beck was one of the worst, but there is plenty of disgust to spread around.
I Saw that in the music industry many years ago, gave up a chance to sign with Atlantic Records because my moral character and my family comes before anything! NO REGRETS!!
You are the second person I’ve seen at CTH to mention that the music industry has big gold-chains-puppet-strings.
Makes me glad I never got to the point of signing with anybody or even really trying to. I play local pretty much as a hobby, and it’s just pure joy.
Tim pool seemed to be of course on the fence about the whole thing. He understood both sides. Well of course he would. He offered Adam crigler and his wife an nda that pretty much gave him rights over all of the eok they had done for him. They did not sign. Tim is also friends with crowder and daily wire people. So I’m assuming it was the daily wire that came at him with that contract just because Tim said he knew more about it, and when someone in a chat mentioned dw he hesitated a bit but didn’t say anything.
Then today Jordan Peterson posted a link to crowders video. Someone mentioned in thr comments “how long till dw has him take this down?”. Was taken down with in the hour.
Nda? Eok? Dw? Please elaborate for us dumb folk.
I can help with 2. “NDA” is a non-disclosure agreement. “DW” is Daily Wire. I’m stumped on “Eok”.
You cannot film Ayn Rand. You have to read her.
I enjoyed the films mainly for the enjoyment of seeing my favorite characters on a screen.
But you’re right.
Since listening to Jeremy Boring from Dailywire directly answer the accusations made by Crowder about the contract DW sent him, I want to go on the record saying Dailywire appears to have done nothing wrong. I still like Crowder, but he appears to be in the wrong here.
Just name the names, Steve.
I was wondering where Michelle Malkin went to. She used to be all over the place and then poof.
Rekeita Law also had this on – warning foul language
also on rumble
https://rumble.com/v262mji-its-time-to-start-stop-reviewing-crowder-on-contracts-and-a-disturbing-inve.html
Geek and Gamers talked about it. 25:58 mark. Language warning.
She often posts on VDare.
She kind of got associated with the Groypers and Nick Fuentes. Wasn’t a good look.
https://newswithviews.com/the-real-charlie-kirk-and-tpusa/
And herein lies the problem.
Anyone who notices who pulls the strings and says so gets labelled as beyond the pale.
Ask Kanye
He likes fish sticks
Ye has been accused of many things, being a liar is not one of them.
I agree with you on that point. Not sure why Michelle Malkin decided to pair up with Fuentes and his Groypers for several public events. I emailed her and told her it was a big problem for me (and likely many other Malkin fans).
Amazing how a woman married to a Jewish man gets labeled an anti-semite.
If you watch her slamming candidate Trump at the rnc convention, you’ll see who she really was too.
Just another tick .
Same with Dana Loesch
Loesch is still on the radio on national channels in Rush’s old time slot. She is Con. Inc herself and doesn’t miss a chance to shill for McConnell. She also railed against the 20 McCarthy no votes.
I have been reading blogs and listening to all those he is talking about and have been repelled by the number of paywalls I have run into. Many I have subscribed to, but as an elderly I can afford only so much. I have begun to distrust many sites when I see the true video and see headlines that twist the truth. I can say it started with PJMedia a long time ago. Now we pay for most conservative sites, not including this one. Thank you for that.
another “conservative ” site that hypes the headlines is The Gateway Pundit. their articles are poorly written and fail to deliver what the headline promises. Have to wonder if they are bought.
dont forget alex jones, perhaps the first truly original broadcaster who has never given in. insalubrious grandson is a yuge alex jones fan, and evil gma encourages it
This is an easy one to say yet harder to realize – controlled opposition is insidious. Good ppl trust what they believe to be true, therefore the agent provocateur only needs to trigger your “truth spidey sense” just enough to slip in the rot/ cancerous cells of untruth undetected- which amalgamates into your perception of reality. Alex Jones says MANY things that are true and not obvious to the average busy person. Don’t feel bad if you ever come to this realization, it’s an actual science that’s expertly used to accomplish goals for the nefarious.
Key component of 5th Gen. Warfare.
Bingo
Alex Jones == honey pot for normie truthers.
AJ is controlled opposition. The difference between AJ and FOX or Con Inc is driven by the demographic they’re targeting.
I’ve learned things by watching AJ and FOX but keeping my guard up to avoid getting “poisoned” is no longer worth what I learn.
Fortunately, there are now countless places to visit that aren’t intentionally poisonous.
Jones has been right too many times.
And if the libtards hate him like they do President Trump, he’s got a lot of truth. That’s libtard kryptonite
AJ is targeting normie truthers. “He’s got alot of truth” because that’s how he gains his followers trust so they believe him when he knowingly lies to them.
So that’s why the social media companies banned him, first.
Thanks for cleaning that up for me..
“Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), Posobic, Tim Poole, Conservative Review, CRTV (Glenn Beck, Blaze), Mark Levin, Dave Rubin, Salem Media [Townhall, Hot Air, Twitchy, Red State, PJ Media], The Daily Wire with Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, the list of names and outlets who participate in this overall system is very long. Upstream you will find the same financial underwriters, and all of them have a commonality.”
A good cheat sheet list of GOPe interlopers to the MAGA world. They throw in a little “maga” with their GOPe to try to keep the real MAGA hooked.
TPUSA’s Kirk came out full GOPe Gang when he became a “double crosser twin” with DeXX. Kirk joined Desantix in double crossing President Trump and MAGA.
Both are losers and have hooked their double seated wagon to the wrong star, Jeb and the GOPe gang.
It’s actually fairly generous to include Shapiro on that list as you don’t have to follow him for too long to realize he has a contempt for Trump and his ‘followers’ in the MAGA movement that almost rivals Michael Medved’s. I doubt that it took much restraint from a BigCon contract to force Ben to tow the line – he’s probably pulling the tow.
Right on – have never been a fan.
Styxhexenhammer666 has talked repeatedly talked about not taking any money for making endorsements because he did not want outside influence on his content.
And Razorfist. God f*ckin speed!
The counter culture is out there. Nerdrotic and Friday Night Tights, Geeks and Gamers, Critical Drinker and a host of Brits and Australians that are very critical of “the message”. They may not all be cons, but they don’t support woke Hollywood. They all end up in each other’s content even though they don’t have any sort of formal network, and new similarly aligned content creators are being introduced all the time.
I love Razorfist! Thanks for the chuckle.
I don’t understand how this works exactly but it sure sounds like there is a control mechanism that is censoring the content from conservative talk shows. I hope he is able to succeed.
If you pay close attention to the terms of the contract that Crowder shows on screen, it becomes obvious that the contract contains HUGE $$$ penalties against a content provider who discusses in their video any issue that might trigger a boycott backlash from the Left against a show advertiser which could cause a host platform (YouTube, Instagram, etc.) to de-monetize that show.
That intimidating contract causes the content providers who agree to the contract to avoid discussing most of the crucial key problem issues in our country, thus, the content provider is being “controlled.”
The Daily Wire is saying is their contract:
I’m glad Steve refused it.
Damnnnnn, Geeks and Gamers (Eric July) called it.
Me too. Looks like Daily Wire is using the lure of big $$$$$ to entice a current alternative media Star into a binding contract that ultimately limits the content of his speech.
I don’t subscribe to DW simply because they don’t offer enough unfiltered speech from proven-credible pundits to justify the expense. I don’t agree with Shapiro or Candace Owens often enough to pay to hear them talk. The few times I have read something on their site that was not behind their paywall, it left me unfulfilled, feeling it was weak or did not go far enough.
Case in point – I have yet to see Sundance recommend a video or content that’s only on DW. That tells me something.
It seems to be just another avenue allowing Pig Tech to censor.
I love inside baseball stuff like this. I often wonder if I am the one who is adrift in thinking that “suddenly, something has changed” with some of the content providers Sundance mentions. After seeing the contract clauses that Crowder exposes in the video I feel anchored again. He does a bang-up job exposing the b*stards. Watch the whole video. Register your email if you’re comfortable doing so. I did.
I wonder where Clay and Buck land in this fixed speech/contract system?? Did not see their names, but I have noticed in the last few months…especially pertaining to the 2022 midterms, they go out of their way to say conservatives did not show up to vote. They summed this up as the problem. When I heard their response to the mid terms, my first thought was …who has gotten to them. No longer listen much.
They are such a disappointment.
I listened to Levin religiously. Lately, I’ve noticed a change. He never really speaks out against the vax, he’s very pro-Ukraine, etc. Bashes the hell out of McConnell but then pushes RINOs because they do one thing that smells like MAGA. I dunno. He’s educated the hell out of me re: the Constitution so I owe him that. Otherwise…
Stockholm syndrome
Salem News Channel is now in the mix. A few “conservatives” have shows on there daily
My recollection is that Salem ordered all talk radio hosts to NOT discuss the 2020 coup d’etat (stolen election). As far as I know all of them — including Mark Levin — complied.
That’s why I stopped listening to talk radio; like Fox News, after 2020 there was no question that they were / are controlled opposition.
Even the good talk show hosts are drowned out by advertising every few minutes. You realize that every hour of a show is actually about 30-35 minutes of content. The news sections are just repeats every half hour. Waste of time, but something to listen to while driving. I’m beginning to opt for the classical music station instead.
Hannity is down to 25 minutes of content an hour. Can’t listen anymore.
Even Rush Limbaugh’s 3 hour show was only 38 minutes of content per hour. The only way I could tolerate it was to join Rush 24/7 via his website and listen to the 38 minute taped replay of each hour which excluded all the commercials.
In the beginning – 1989-1990 – his AM radio shows had more content per hour and fewer ads. I think they were almost 47 minutes per hour. Network/local news and weather reports at the top and bottom of each hour were what consumed the majority of non-Rush time. The format held up into the early 2000s, then more ad content started creeping in.
Eric Metaxas is fabulous.
Yes.
And again, I recommend Lou Dobb’s podcast. No ads.
A good list of controlled opposition
This is why I give my hard earned money to Sundance at CTH and other select outlets.
If I were to guess, Christianity is the biggest divide in this industry.
It always comes down to that truth: it’s not Christian versus secular in this world, but Christian versus varying gradients of Satanism.
The lack of living the Word is. You don’t have to constantly try to convince someone if it’s who you really are. Too many people confuse that with wanting to be liked by everyone and it turns into a popularity, look at how good I am contest.
You nailed it!
Secular = Satan-driven.
Atheism = Satan-driven
So, yes, those who claim to be only secular or atheist are actually succumbing to Satan’s evil and shrewd influence.
“Controlled Opposition” is the opposition that controls you…Hegel-, Lenin-, and Alinsky-style.
I trust Trump, Bannon and Sundance.
what about tucker?
Nope
Smart call.
no one on foxnews should be trusted, including Tucker. His stories are almost always a distraction away from the real issues
Almost like a pressure cooker relief valve……
If that weren’t in place, this whole thing would have blown up with either cia bush or scum bag traitor clinton.
We talk to resolve issues and.the ONLY reason that works is because of the underlying threat of violence. That’s been removed by cowardice and laziness.
OK, pet peeve time – in the spirit of love (of sayings and colloquialisms) …
It is “Go to the MAT”, folks. I hear “mattresses” more and more lately. It is originally a term from grappling/wrestling/judo/aikido/karate, martial arts which include takedowns and pins to the ground, which is covered by a padded MAT to prevent injuries from falls or takedowns.
I would think that to “go to the mattress” with someone connotes a whole different kind of encounter, ‘marital’ or ‘coital’ rather than martial.
When you take an opponent to the mat, you score, and you have them at a disadvantage while you refine your attack or hold to the point of pinning them, at which point the referee counts them out, or they ‘tap out’, which means surrender, please stop now, you are hurting me! The opponent’s ‘tap out’ consists of your opponent’s slapping the mat with their open hand, to signal defeat.
In the spirit of clarity, love, and understanding, and respect for language and idioms.
Carry on!
“Go to the mattresses” is from The Godfather
It was in our 6 th grade truth or dare game too.
Mattresses refers to mafia genre. Hiding out in random locations with just mattresses in the midst of a hot war with other families.
Here both mat and mattress are appropriate to describe ‘Crowders Stand’.
Going to the mattresses is not from wrestling, but from the mafia. Read The Godfather. Just thought you would like to know.
I do recall the phrase,” sleeps with the fish”.
Thank you all, I was unaware of the Godfather version, and have spent too much time in the dojo, I suppose! Cheers, all!
“Going to the mattresses” is a term for internal war amid the Mafia families.
Each member of the family brings their mattresses to one central location where they will all stay and protect each other. They need a safe place. So everyone assembles by bringing their own mattress.
The war that follows is a total war, a zero-sum war, where the winner is the family that has members of the family still alive when the fighting is stopped. Everyone in opposition must be killed in order to ever be safe.
This is why it was always regarded as a situation never to be thought of unless the most dire situation existed. “Going to the mattresses” means you are all in for war, and the only victory is annihilation of the opposition.
Domo, Sensei!
That’s the issue, you’re stuck in Japanese traditional, try some of the Sambo or can only fight one at a time Gracie. At least you’ll be able.to say thank you in Portuguese or Russian, they don’t really say thank you though…..
Thank you Sundance for covering this. Like most of you I have a daily listen/ read list and crowder is on my list. Mostly I listen for the comedy angle and to lighten the mood from what is seemingly never ending bad news for our country.
When other voices seem to be throwing the occasional handful of sand in the machine crowder is generally throwing stones in the machine.
Hopefully he can inspire some of the other voices you listed to get in the fight with two clenched fists instead of two limp wrists.
If they pay for your body—you are a ho.
If they pay you for your vote —you are a crook.
If they pay you to censor your speech or message—
what are you?
One thing is for sure. I have stopped trusting all of the above mentioned sellouts.
Even if they make sense on certain issues— a little voice keeps chiming, “Traitor! Which master do you serve? Whose thoughts are you voicing?”
“If they pay you to censor your speech or message—
what are you?”
A congressperson.
A congresstitute.
Or just a politician!
“If they pay for your body—you are a ho.
If they pay you for your vote —you are a crook.
If they pay you to censor your speech or message—
what are you?”
ALL 3!
“If they pay you to censor your speech or message—
what are you?”
A presstitute.
Arrrghhhh!
You beat me!
Controlled opposition. Just like Sundance says.
If they pay you to double speak, you are a sell out.
That’s easy!
A PRESSITUTE!
A presstitute.
This is exactly why we need Rumble, TMTG and Truth Social.
Everyone should get behind them.
What is tmtg?
Trump Media and Technology Group, parent to Truth Social.
That is why we also need Frank Speech. Mike Lindell has put his money where his mouth is and has put more on the line than anyone at Conservative Inc.
Thanks – you’re right.
Lindell could never even begin to be a grifter. He would compulsively confess to the same in the next sentence he uttered. 🤣
He’s the openest-book I’ve seen in this arena.
Oh and he makes fabulous bedding.
@elonmusk
1:24 PM 18 Jan 23
Why did American media go from questioning the State and “speaking truth to power” to doing their bidding?
To be clear, I’m not someone who thinks lots of government agencies should be abolished (maybe a few), but we should always question our institutions, as this strengthens the bedrock of democracy.
They watched a slow ride in Dallas with the top down..
Ouch.
Well, maybe in some cases you could be right…
PJM is like fox, leftist by stealth, ricky the moron is a big time never Trumper, the other 2 are no longer at PJM.
Yep. And the old owner was on a soros board.
Owner of fux news.
PJM started running against Candidate Trump in 2016 and that was the end of that horse poop fake site for me.
For all his cruise-shipping faults, Mark Steyn refused to play ball with Cary Katz and CRTV. Katz is or was a subprime student loanshark and there were some provisions buried in the Obamacare act that protected his business, so any talk of “repeal and replace” was strictly forbidden on his network.
For all his cruise-shipping faults
What do you mean by this? What was wrong with his cruises (which I’d love to attend, but can’t)?
Cruise ship conservatives are usually the worst kind of boomercon grifter. No other cruise-shipper would make a career ending stand on principle as Steyn did.
So, obviously he is the real deal then. He doesn’t pretend to be someone he’s not (which is the real con and grift, if you ask me). Doing a cruise in a company of like-minded people, listening and talking to the man who is one of the best modern non-fiction writers – I can think of much worse things people spend their hard-earned cash on.
Yes, that is why I am defending Steyn, not criticizing him. I am criticizing Cary Katz and CRTV. Steyn exposed CRTV and in doing so exposed everyone who agreed to Katz’ conditions, including Crowder.
I hope he succeeds.
I’m glad to see people like Steven Crowder noted in your articles. Crowder is a warrior.
Crowder sold out when he joined CRTV. I stopped watching when he did his cringe segment on s.230 of the CDA, parroting the same howlingly incorrect party line Prager and the rest of Con, Inc. was. The level of clever sophistry used with the Half-Asian Lawyer torpedoed his credibility.
He’s just ended his contract with TheBlaze – by his choice or theirs, I don’t know, but this reeks of sour grapes.
The Daily Wire
I stopped watching because he got a bit melodramatic and had some weird falling out with some of the show staff and Owen Benjamin (who I’m not sure isn’t insane). Really helped boost the Hodgetwins though.
I watched in dismay when I saw Candice flip… that was a year or so after I praised her to her face in front of about 300 people.
I had a very bad experience with Kirk who then blacklisted from TPUSA.
I stopped watching TV in 1970, so it’s now been 52 years! Back then I knew something was wrong, but really didn’t understand it.
Badlands Media is the best video channel out there, IMO. I also follow Trump on TruthSocial, CitizenFreePress for headlines, and CTH.
Actually saw her with Alex Jones originally. She was reversing her libtard ways.
No one’s perfect, especially me, some.of the works done have value. It’s the intentional disrespect and disdain for anyone that supports President Trump that destroys credibility.
What the libtards will never get because they HATE him personally, it’s our message he’s bringing. That’s what they’re attacking. At this point in time, it’s a wrong move.
I met her and spoke with her several times. Also spoke with her husband to be, George Farmer. His father is in the UK House of Lords! I was also at her very first BLEXIT event in LA. Dunno what prompted her to flip… she asked Trump if she could be his VP candidate, and he said something like “That’s and interesting idea.” Then a few months later, suddenly, she flipped against Trump.
Many good/brilliant people grossly underestimate the enemy. They build a large following, and then their egos get them into thinking they are more powerful against the enemy than they actually are, and the enemy FEEDS that ego. Trump is untouchable.
Why would someone ask in public to be a VP?
I don’t really buy the ” have seen the light ” thing. More like have felt the direction of the wind and it’s blowing…….this way. There just aren’t a lot of people with enough depth of character to stand up to the pressure and if you haven’t been in that situation can’t say for certain other than what you’d like to believe you’d do. She doesn’t strike me as someone who’s evil like so very many others do. I may just be a sucker for beautiful brown eyes.
I watched this last night and hoped Sundance saw this too. I watch Crowder and have for years, and he engages with young people on college campuses with his change my mind series. He realized early on that he needed to be on his own and, by doing so, built something great. Now, as he said, he can’t do it alone and needs others to join the fight. He questions things differently than the MSM, just like Sundance, which scares the Uniparty. He understands what is going on in the lives of everyday people, and he doesn’t buy the prevailing narratives.
Kirk is part of the system that gets money and has influence with the donor class but does not turn that money into action by getting the young people to the polls. TPUSA did not get the college students to the polls; they don’t engage on the campuses, at least where I teach in Wisconsin. Fox, OAN, NewsMax, Kirk, DW, RedState, and Townhall are financed by those Uniparty donors; I’ve begun to follow the money. I use this site, Crowder, Justthenews, and Sheryl Atkinson as the top sites I visit. I wondered why Malkin and some others disappeared.
Crowder is an unsung hero.
It’s a small crowd(er) we’ve got to hold people accountable for what they did and didn’t do and stick together.
All of those people mentioned showed who they really are attacking Candidate Trump. And fux news has always been controlled opposition.
Crowder routinely does a change my mind series that , among other things, doesn’t let libtardia dictate what words mean. It destroys them. That’s the key really. Simple basic reality and they show what they are, nothing.
TCT is hitting the left pretty hard tonight, generally speaking, and this site has referred to him; sitting at home watching TCT tonight, it’s hard to believe TCT is a tool of BigCon, but, who knows.
What is TCT?
Thank you for sharing this, Sundance.
The video is very informative and you did tell us some time back that we’d be shocked by how some of the big names are actually controlled opposition.
As you say, sunlight is the best infectant.
We may not be left with a lot of people to follow when this all washes out but we’ll certainly be following trailblazers.
I don’t know what the answer is to all of this, but I sure hope he finds it and leads the way.
What’s everyone’s thoughts on Bongino? My thought is, if anyone has has a show on one of the MSM networks (Bongino’s Fox show, which he always promotes on his podcast), you can’t trust you’ll get the whole truth.
He has a pretty accurate opinion of the clintons based on first hand knowledge.
Bongino is bought and paid for as well. I realized it when he bought into Ukraine hook, line, and sinker. But when he said he “had no idea what happened in Nevada” (stolen 2022 midterm elections) I stopped listening to him. My belief is Faux News has more control over him than listeners realize.
Hate him.
Controlled opposition.
Even if not, it is horrible radio. Reminds me of a loud mouth I know at the corner bar. Only not as smart and not nearly as entertaining.
I wish Bongino was as smart as he thought he was.
Dan got his start by gathering research by Sundance, Technofog and a few other Twitter researchers. He then put it into an easy to listen to and understand format enhanced with his NY accent.
With a sprinkling of non important tidbits from his time in the SS and whispers in his ear from “former colleagues” he was able to establish himself as “in the know”.
Once he began appearing on Fox, that was the tell, if you were unaware of where he sourced his material before that.
The blatant outing for me was when he called Jan.6 an insurrection. I knew then he was all in.
Reading some of the comments is like the only perfect candidate for President is yourself – everyone else be damed.
If you find anyone here who doesn’t want the job but loves this country more than themselves, you’re more than halfway to the right person.
Watch them all push for DeSantis. Controlled opposition.
They already are doing this. It is why I did not renew my Daily Wire subscription even though I like what Matt Walsh is doing for cultural issues. Jeremy Boering (the figure head leader of DW) is annoying at best and his razor totally sucked (my spouse went back to Dollar Shave Club after trying Jeremy’s Razors out).
Money kills everything. Absolutely everything.
i dont get it.. all on Rumble Americas Voice, OAN, and other outlets are free.. we go there.
I happen to like Tim Pool, his interview with Matt Geatz was quite good, Matt really laid some things on the line. The reaction to being told By Matt that bills haven’t been written by congress critters fore decades was priceless. Matt in a relaxed long form is quite good
I’m confused. Is the Tim Poole Sundance mentioned the same as this Tim Pool of Timcast? Tim does not claim to be conservative. He is a real journalist.
What do folks here at CTH think of Dan Bongino ?
I like his last name , it rhymes with bong , kind of
There are several posts such as yours. I listened to Bongino’s daily podcast for about 3 years but when he jumped on the Ukraine good, Putin bad train I began to question him enough to stop listening. Now I prefer Salty Cracker, Mike Crispi, and many others not connected to BigCon.
Dan got his start by gathering research by Sundance, Technofog and a few other Twitter researchers. He then put it into an easy to listen to and understand format enhanced with his NY accent.
With a sprinkling of non important tidbits from his time in the SS and whispers in his ear from “former colleagues” he was able to establish himself as “in the know”.
Once he began appearing on Fox, that was the tell, if you were unaware of where he sourced his material before that.
The blatant outing for me was when he called Jan.6 an insurrection. I knew then he was all in.
Always saw Michelle Malkin as a mole for the GOP establishment. She never has been very much; always sounded like she really didn’t believe what she was saying. No surprise there, or for most of these personalities for that matter.
Michelle Malkin “dropped out” because she does not want to be part of CONservative Inc. Perhaps I misunderstood Sundance but it seems to my he was pointing out why she has “disappeared”. He was not criticizing her.
When I read Michelle Malkin had stopped last month I was sad to hear that. I was following her blog when Trump made his announcement. I discovered HotAir 6 months before then (just after she sold it to Salem) but enjoyed her supporting it until their main admins started turning left. When Michelle’s bloggers turned never Trump I left that. I heard about CTH on HotAir and started coming here, especially after HotGas folded.
I always enjoyed her articles all the way back to sept 2001. I did wonder what happened to her but after hearing the trap of contracts here it makes sense. She did say she may be starting again in her farewell writing, just not now.
I wish Ms Malkin the best. She is inciteful, articulate, and sees through BS. I hope she comes back without the burden of contracts.
Here is her Oct/2022 article from VDare explaining her ‘plans’ –
https://vdare.com/articles/michelle-malkin-30-an-ending-but-not-the-end