He knows it’s over..

Asmongold TV| 00:33:44|May 16, 2026
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Discusses recent hit pieces on conservative media and Daily Wire, including a New York Magazine piece that cites questionable sources and alleged plagiarism, and the public reaction online.

Asmongold breaks down Ben Shapiro’s looming decline, the Daily Wire layoffs, and the bid to redefine conservative media amid a chaotic media landscape.

Summary

Asmongold examines the latest wind of critique around Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire, pointing to New York Magazine’s pieces and a broader shift in conservative media. He notes the 13% layoffs at Daily Wire and praises Shapiro for staying steadfast in his principles, even as audiences shift. The conversation weaves through why traditional conservatism is being challenged by figures like Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Megan Kelly, and how legacy outlets amplify these tensions. Asmongold argues that much of the discourse is driven by clicks, narratives, and opportunism rather than lasting moral clarity. He contrasts Shapiro’s “truth and virtue and freedom” stance with what he calls the woke-right’s strategy to cannibalize the movement. Throughout, he stresses that his own commitment to honest principles has not wavered for cash or controversy. The piece also touches on Israel, DEI, immigration, and the broader question of how conservatism should respond to a rapidly changing media environment. The overarching message: the integrity of ideas matters more than viral headlines, and the audience will decide who remains influential in conservatism’s future.

Key Takeaways

  • Daily Wire laid off 13% of its workforce since the start of the year, a fact Ben Shapiro says they are personally trying to help by finding other jobs for affected employees.
  • New York Magazine and other outlets are accused of coordinating against traditional conservatism, using a network of commentators to push disruptive narratives.
  • Shapiro’s defenders argue that his audience remains large and that Traditional Conservatism still has a real foothold among GOP elites, even as the grassroots shift.
  • Asmon believes the media ecosystem is incentivized to manufacture controversy to sustain engagement, especially when current events slow down.
  • The debate centers on whether conservatism should prioritize unwavering principles (truth, virtue, freedom) over opportunistic, click-driven storytelling.
  • There is a critique of Israel coverage and DEI policies, with arguments about how messaging can alienate younger (and broader) audiences while purporting to defend core conservative values.

Who Is This For?

Essential viewing for conservatives and political commentators who want insight into how traditional conservatism is navigating layoffs, media pressure, and the clash with a rising, more provocative right. It’s also valuable for viewers curious about how content creators frame integrity versus click-driven controversy.

Notable Quotes

"There are two realities to Shapiro conservatism in 2026. Retains a significant foothold among Republican elites and it is being fast-rejected by the future grassroots of the parties."
A core assertion about the divergence between elite and grassroots conservative dynamics.
"The left wants to destroy traditional conservatism. It is their goal in life."
Central thesis about the coordinated attack on traditional conservatism.
"Truth and virtue and freedom. And that is what the new left, meaning, you know, the old left and the horseshoe right would love to destroy."
Summarizes the Daily Wire’s stated core values and the perceived threat.
"Nobody has ever asked that question about me. No one. Because my worldview has not changed."
Ben Shapiro’s defense of consistency and principle amid criticism.
"Facts still don't care about your feelings."
Closing reinforcement of Shapiro’s timeless maxim in the face of controversy.

Questions This Video Answers

  • How is Daily Wire handling layoffs and what does it mean for conservative media?
  • What does Ben Shapiro mean by truth, virtue, and freedom in today’s media climate?
  • Why do outlets like New York Magazine and Washington Post criticize traditional conservatism?
  • What role do figures like Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens play in the future of the Right?
  • How is Israel coverage affecting conservative messaging to American audiences?
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Full Transcript
All the haters can kiss my ass. Let me guess. Well, hello and listen. Well, New York Magazine claims there was a time when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call him. Well, hello everybody. You know, sometimes here on the Ben Shapiro show, we cover the news and sometimes we are here at the Daily Wire. Wow. Well, over the past few weeks, the Daily Wire, you might have noticed, has been the subject of a bunch of hit pieces, like a veritable cornucopia of hit pieces. There was one from the Washington Post and there was one from Puck. And then finally, there was an especially ridiculous one from the stellar journalist at New York Magazine who literally plagiarized their hit piece from the Washington Post. So much journalisming, highle journalisming. Well, this morning that New York Magazine piece is lighting up the interwebs. It's lighting up X. Well, New York Magazine claims there was a time when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call himself the king of all conservative media. I don't remember that time. Do you think that his viewership keeps going down, he should make the hat smaller? It was like it's like a like a power level indicator like if if like his subscribers go under like a certain amount like he should it should get like nerfed. It's like you know in Dragon Ball Z where it's like okay well how much hair they have that's like you know Super Saiyan 2 or three. It's like holy [ __ ] right? But sounds cool. They said that's all over now. The Daily Wire is instituting significant layoffs. Well, according to New York Magazine, the future of conservatism isn't traditional conservatism. You know, like free markets, like equal rights before law, like checks and balances, like traditional virtue. That's done. The future, according to New York magazine, is Nick Fuentes, confirmed Nazi stand and woman hater and man who will never be able to get a human woman pregnant through natural means. Or Tucker Carlson, okay, confirmed anti- capitalist and Muslim apologist and victim of demon scratching. Or maybe Candace Owens, the confirmed slanderer of widows and connoisseur of French testicles. Or maybe Megan Kelly, click whor and grandma griper over there. Well, magazine quote of the Daily Wire can be seen as a dire warning for traditional Republicans. There are two realities to Shapiro conservatism in 2026. Retains a significant foothold among Republican elites and it is being fastrejected by the future grassroots of the parties. First of all, that's just wrong. By the polling data, the positions that we take here on the show are reflective of the broad majority of Republicans. That's just the reality. But I figured that we should address all of this head on. So, it's true the Daily Wire laid off some 13% of our workforce since the beginning of the year. And that really sucked. It was truly sad because all those people are great. And anytime, you know, we're in business. Anytime you lay people off as a business, that really sucks. It's tough. It's bad for them. It's bad for us. And I'm personally working to find other places of employee for as many of these people as I possibly can because everybody who we let go deserves a job somewhere else. They're great folks. But for our critics, this was all cause for massive celebration. you know, the joyful popping of the corks or maybe in the case of Nick Fuentes, a victory celebration with Cat Boys and Lubricant. And listen, we're honored by the attention. See, here's the thing. People only tend to write stories like this about major American institutions, right? Like Amazon dumps people. It's a big story. Or the Washington Post dumps people, and that's a big story. And thank God, we are a major American institution. According to Podra, our podcast reaches 41 million people per month. We're ranked sixth globally. Wow. We have a total of 11 shows. Paramounts, to take an example from that same chart, is ranked fourth globally. They have 145 shows. So on a per per capita basis, we're killing it. We are responsible for the two most successful conservative documentaries in history. Matt Walsh is semi-racist and what is a woman. Just this Vice President Vance was quoting our reporting in his fraud investigations and our White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olahan questions. Wait, Ben Shapiro would be DSP. He could be JSP. Oh [ __ ] bro. See, here's the thing. There's no national media coverage. If a top Candace Owens producer and her manager quit, or if Megan Kelly's YouTube account starts shutting tens of thousands of subscribers a month, or if Tucker Carlson's traffic is disproportionately drawn from Pakistan. Oh my god, we all have our fan base. Yes, those are all things that actually happen, by the way. But nobody really cares very much because yeah, those people have significant audience numbers, but they don't have any real institutional influence. They are not institutions. That's not true of the Daily Wire. We're big enough that people care when we trip up. And of course, like any business, we have our ups, we have our downs. This is actually a good response what he's saying right here. But as Mark Twain put it, the reports of our death are greatly exaggerated. But here's the thing. There's something else going on here. Something very clear going on here. The media left and the woke right, that'd be like Candace and Fuentes and Tucker and Megan, all of them together, the new left, they are attempting to destroy traditional conservatism. That's the whole thing here. See, wire is the largest traditional because you guys can't stop talking about Israel. That's the problem. Whenever you're saying that like uh Benjamin Netanyahu should be president of the world, that's going to be weird. Like I I'm like a white American guy, right? Like that's weird for me to hear that. I'm like, wait, what do you mean? Like I thought this guy was the [ __ ] the prime minister of Israel. Like what the [ __ ] Like what are you talking about? Straw man though. I I think that this is what my opinion is. I think that the conservative movement has had so many victories so fast that it doesn't know what to do with itself. I think that they have had such a resounding ridiculous cultural sweep that they don't even know how to accommodate it. Like they deleted DEI, like [ __ ] elected Donald Trump again. uh they're going after like you can just openly say that you want to deport every illegal alien and you don't care about separating families, you want to deport legal aliens, right? Like I mean there has been so much like you can say how many genders there are again everything. So what happened I think is that they had so much winning that it actually like broke their brains and so instead of focusing on the common issues of like the common enemy they effectively broke the common enemy and instead of focusing on the residual issues after that like you know for example like the residual trans kids issues etc they started focusing on each other I think that's what happened it is conservative media company in the digital space by like a ton by leaps and bounds. We are multiple times the size of any of these others. We have lots of conversations on our platform between our various hosts about topics ranging from AI to the Middle East and Catholicism and Judaism and all of it. There's a lot of rich disagreement here at the Daily Wire. But in the end, what we stand for here at the Daily Wire is pretty simple. Truth and virtue and freedom. And that is what the new left, meaning, you know, the old left and the horseshoe right would love to destroy. It's why the attacks have been coming fast and furious for weeks now. They want to destroy traditional conservatism. It is their goal in life. They want to destroy it for a couple of different reasons. The left for one reason, the woke right for another. In our supposed vulnerability, people from Nick Fentes to Tucker, from Candace Owens to New York Magazine, from the Washington Post to Megan Kelly, see an opportunity, an opportunity to supplant traditional conservatism. I do think that a lot of it is definitely um they are they're doing it to be it's like it's opportunistic. They're doing it because they want to take advantage of the fact that you know they think Ben Shapiro is losing his audience. Here's the reality. A lot of the traffic for news channels and everything has gone down massively. It's gone down with everything. And do you know why? It's because nothing's happening. That's the reason why. So, and this has happened for people like Megan Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro. It's happened for me with my videos about this. It's just in general because I think people like everything is now kind of at a stasis point. And there's nothing that's crazy that's happening. That's not a big deal. Sometimes a lot is happening. Sometimes not a lot is happening. That doesn't mean that like you're failing. That just means that at a certain point whenever your attention is built around current events and there are no high, you know, intensity current events that are happening, you're not going to have as many people paying attention that and and that's the reason why media tries to create all these controversies. It's because the media wants to keep people paying attention. And I don't think that's a big deal. It's really not. There is a lot happening though. Not really. There's nothing that's like what's really happening right now. That's interesting. Uh you have the Iran standill, right? There's like an armistice basically that nobody knows what's going to happen. They're like kind of just playing games behind some kind of [ __ ] curtain. You don't really know what's happening. The China What the [ __ ] are you talking about? I Oh, I'm being honest, right? Let's wait a couple months. Midterms will peak it again. Yeah. I mean, if if you Cuba, nobody cares about that. People don't really care about that that much. Like, we're not even doing anything with Cuba. Trump meeting with with China. What does that mean, though? Like, I mean, again, these aren't things that engage the average and the general population into politics. That's the point that I'm making. When whenever like a political season is in swing, right? So, you have like the midterms and especially the presidential election, that's whenever you have everybody talking about these topics and, you know, leading up to it and then following it about how it's resolved. And so when you don't have that, there has to be something else. But sometimes there's not. You p Ben is pissed on pissed on X though. Yeah, these are normal things. Yeah, things go up, they don't they go down and uh yeah, that's it. It happens every time. So the amount of you know again popularity people have is going to be derived from what they're covering. It's the same as like any video game. example, if you're talking about video games all the time and there's no interesting video games that are out, then you're not going to have as many people that are watching your show. But if like I mean look at World of Warcraft like a new WoW expansion comes out. Every WoW streamer has you know has a [ __ ] um what do you call it? Uh you know they have like an increase in viewership and it's the same with any game. So, this is this is just normal. And I think that it's it's one of the big differences where it separates people that are doing things opportunistically versus people that are doing things because they have like an investment and they care about it. Because if the only thing that you care about is getting more people to watch, then that's what's going to happen. things that actually happen by the way but nobody really cares very much because yeah those people have significant audience numbers but they don't have any real institial grievance adultled nutty version of populism or in Megan's case just make some quick clicks and cash it's a lucrative grift it's a dangerous grift for America so why is this happening well obviously for the media left we get we we get it we get it for the media left we get it they're always happy to run this script because they love a right that is crazy they don't want a right that is characterized by normie beliefs. They want a right that's nuts because the easiest way to make AOC president in the 2028 election is to have that nutty lady run against a conservative movement. If you think that hag is going to beat Marcus Rubious, you're out of your mind. Like you're actually [ __ ] It's she's not going to Are you kidding me? There's no way. is focused on Breijit Mcron's testicles or demon attacks in the wilds of Maine or why the Jews are responsible for your incurable gingivitis and horrific body odor and inability to get a date. Guys, guys, what who is this [ __ ] guy? This [ __ ] [ __ ] What the [ __ ] is he talking about? Now, as for the woke right, you know, the new left, again, that would be Fuentes and Tucker and Candace and company, they're ecstatic about all of this for both business and political reasons. One, there are competition, but second, they want to tear down traditional conservatism. Their whole goal is to cannibalize the traditional conservative audience. I love how I'm never categorized as a political creator because everybody has rightfully clocked me as just a cannibalistic opportunistic vulture that loves watching people suffer and I love farming other people's problems for content. It has nothing to do with any like yes there's an ideology that drives this but there are by all available metrics a hell of a lot more traditional conservatives and rational people in this country than nuts. But their goal is to gut the conservative movement and then turn it into their own perverse. I know who you're talking about. It's not a sister. Which is why many of them are now coming out as Democrats. That unity is the thing. That unity is the thing. This is why Russia Today, Russia Today is the official outlet for the Kremlin, right? It is run by the Russian government, is retweeting Nick Fentes's triumphalism today. Fentes tweeted out, "I won." After that New York Magazine piece came out that Fuentes won. Well, I don't know. Living in your basement and streaming for 8 hours a day while jacking off to the Cowboys. It's a form of winning. I said, "All right. I mean, whatever whatever floats your boat, my dude." Uh, you might call the Russia Today Fentes get together an online Molotov ribbon tropact. Well, it's also why the Washington Post is happy to quote Candace Owens, the ranting bag lady of the internet, to explain that the Daily That was good. Numbers are down. Again, that alliance, it's crazy that he called Candace Owens a ranting bag lady and Megan uh Megan Kelly a click [ __ ] This is wow. See, we got to get more of this between the left and the woke right is totally real and it's active. This is why they are getting together to formulate stories. It is why they are repeating the same talking points. Now, Candace says that the Daily Wire's numbers are down because people don't want to be lectured. And this is the teenage point of view from Candace and Megan and Tucker. They're all saying the same thing. They don't want they don't want to be lectured. Don't lecture me. Megan tweeted in March 2026, "You're the coward, Ben, and your moral prining, priish lectures, and holier than thou judgments are the reason you are losing fans and more than that friends at a record rate." All these people are on the same script. They're all on the same script. And also, you know what I hate to say? I kind of respect Ben for doing this. I do. I'm I'm not like a huge Ben Shapiro fan, but he's held frame on this the entire time. He's right. Yeah, he knows it's over, but the thing is that like it might be over for him, but even if it's over for him, he's going out on his own terms. He is, but like I do think that if his subscribers go down, he should make the hat smaller. Like I mean you can't wear I mean can you really have that big of a hat if you're losing that many subs? I mean come on. Because as people who traffic and crap for sweet sweet Lucer they would love to be spared the lecture. They don't want to be lectured as they grift. Uhhuh. So they're going to do the same thing that you know a 13-year-old boy would do if caught doing naughty things on his on his iPad. They don't want to be lectured. Don't you lecture me? Well, it turns out sometimes in life people need lectures in decency, in reason, and in truth. You know, people who smear the wives of murdered men or cover for people who smear for the wives of murdered men. Talk about uh those people deserve elections. Maybe the people who revive Nazi propaganda. Oh, maybe the people who have a weird interest in the non-existent testicles of the spouses of French politicians. Or maybe the people who make a cause. I think that if Ben Shapiro was slightly more charismatic, he could totally wipe the floor with these people because he's right. when you have a ranting bag, like the ranting bag lady who's talking about whether the wife of the prime minister of France has a dick or not. And then she's also talking about talking to a person in a dream. And then after that, what was the other one? With, you know, actual Nazi stands. Maybe those people deserve one. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, with Erica Kirk trying to get her husband killed. I mean, really. Sure. Pathetic. Maybe the people who are repeating talking points from Hassan [ __ ] and mimicking the propaganda of Vladimir Putin. Or people who just randomly start cursing so much and are hanging out with the Groper adjacent and embracing Islam. maybe those people deserve lectures. I don't know. Well, listen. There's always a big YouTube audience for that sort of crap. Yeah, but let's be real. There's a massive online audience for pornography as well. People addicted to both deserve a bit of a lecture. But let's get back to the central issue. The point of the attacks on the Daily Wire. He really is. He is willing to go down with this ship. I respect this. I do. That is, Dude, he's so sanctimonious about it. He's so patronizing. I love this. That was good. Not going to lie. It is. It's good. I I've started to respect this. It's like whenever like I I feel the same way about this that I felt with Mark Zuckerberg and where where they said that Meta is losing billions of dollars and Mark won't stop. I'm like, you are going to ride this ship down to the bottom of the [ __ ] ocean. And man, I got to respect that. That's a man with a vision. It is might not be a vision I agree with, but you've got a vision for this. respect because you can keep farming them. Yeah. Is of course not just to attack the Daily Wire. It's to destroy traditional conservatism. That's the whole thing. The entire thing. All of it. Every bit of it. That's the whole thing. The reason they are coming after the Daily Wire is because they want to come after you. They want to come after traditional conservatives who believe traditionally conservative things. Mhm. It is no coincidence that at the same time the Washington Post and New York Magazine and all the rest of these legacy left publications are attacking the Daily Wire. They're also writing strange new respect features on Neg Fuentes and Marjgery Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson. The left wants those people to win. By the way, they're not hiding it very well. New York Magazine's piece says, quote, "Like the Rockefeller Republican of York, the Shapiro Republican co could go extinct entirely." That's what they want, right? They want traditional normie Republicans to go away. It's what they want and it's what they hope for. And listen, listen, maybe it will turn out that all these people who hate conservatism and what I consider to be traditional American principles, maybe they're right. Maybe it'll turn out that the future of the right, perverted by the algorithmic insanity of the internet is sloppilism. You know, the Tucker style grievance conspiracism complete with the night scratching demons or Candace Owens his usual brand of kuckery or Nick Fentes's transgressive Nazi cosplay or Theo Vaughn's manchild podcast illiteracy. Maybe he's just really bro. He's lashing out. He is, bro. He's Oh my god. He's just clicking. This is good. Sloppuism. Oh my god. cooking everybody. Is he wrong? Um, I like Nick. The other ones I think he's kind of right about. Yeah, I think he's kind of right. That's where the right goes. Maybe that's what comes next. Maybe that's all facilitated by the click whoring of the Megan Kelly's of the world and justified by an appeal to audience numbers because none of these people ever appeal to morality. They just point to their clicks. Maybe Idiocracy wasn't a satire. Maybe it was a prophetic documentary. But here's the thing from where I sit. That does not change one single thing for me. Not a single thing. See, here's the thing. I've been doing this since I was 17 years old. I started off when I was 17 years old writing a syndicated column on politics. I didn't do that cuz I wanted to get rich that way. That's not how you get rich. I got into politics because I cared about the truth, about saying things that I believe to be eternal and true, because I care about the ideas of conservatism. It's why I've done that for all these years. I care about free markets and I care about private property and I care about equal rights before the law and checks and balances and the Constitution. I care about all of those things. I care about the America that the founders promised us and the America that our parents and grandparents fought and worked for. And I'm not going to lie for cash. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to tell you about the wonders of Moscow supermarkets or the glories of Sharia law and Qatar. I'm not going to pander for clicks by pretending that Erica Kirk might have been complicit in Charlie Kirk's murder or that perverse and malicious questions about TPUSA's coverup are somehow a bizarre form of investigative journalism. I'm not going to wink and nod. He's right about all of this, by the way. He's completely right. I know you guys might like I mean, and again, I think that we're generally negative towards Ben, but like he's totally right about this at the transgressiveness of the Nazi incelss or chuckle along with people who pretend that a conspiratorial elite are the reason your life isn't everything that you want it to be. in the freest and most prosperous country in world history. I'm going to be grateful for America and I'm going to point out what's great about America and what our principles are. I'm not going to do any of that other stuff because here's the thing. I got into this business to do precisely the opposite. I haven't changed my principles. I've been doing this for 25 years. I have not changed my principles. Now, there's a question that I get was giving you good checks. I hope so. From friends, from family, people will come up and they'll say, "What happened to all these people?" Yeah, they understand New York Magazine and Washington Post and what they are, but what happened to, you know, Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson or Megan? Social Bates, that's not pretty. Well, I I'll give you an example for me. A lot of my audience was not happy about the fact that I supported the Iran war. Who cares? Who cares? That's what I think. Yeah, that's what I think. It's the same as people weren't happy whenever I said that I supported uh like trans people. Like I I didn't care about people being trans. Who cares? If it's what you think, then what what is so this this is my this is my outlook on it. Okay. Why is it that I have invested decade now of my life, a decade of my life, years of my life into building what I have, doing all of this in order to avoid having a boss at work only to replace it with having thousands of bosses as viewers? Why would I do that? What's the reason? Stupid. [ __ ] that. Hely and all the rest. And I don't know the answer cuz I'm not a psychiatrist. But here's what I do know. Nobody has ever asked that question about me. No one. Because my worldview has not changed. It has not changed. My principles haven't changed because I think those principles are true and good. And those principles are not going to change. So, in the end, take it or leave it. If people decide they don't want to hear it, it's a free country. That's their choice. But I am willing to bet my future and the future of America that more Americans agree with me than agree with the people who want to destroy the Daily Wire. I'm betting there are a lot more rational people in this country than conspiracy-mongering nut jobs. I'm betting that there are way more people in America who believe in truth and virtue and freedom than people who revel in grievance and demoralization and stupidity. And again, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we lose. But here's the thing. That also doesn't change a thing. It doesn't change a thing. It doesn't matter because the only thing that matters is the only thing that has ever mattered to me. speaking the truth whether people like it or whether they don't because facts still don't care about your feelings. This is the Ben Shapiro show. I got to respect it, man. The entire internet is out to get him and he holds frame. I do. I've got to respect it. I don't. So, I think that Ben has it is even if you even if you don't agree with him, you have to admit that it's impressive to see somebody that stays in there. It would have gone harder if he didn't have the Yamocon. Well, okay. So, that's not true. Okay, look, if so, there are a number of things that I think that he has a that there's a messaging problem that he has. Number one, it's the messaging around Israel and downplaying people's legitimate concerns that we have so much interplay with Israel. Meanwhile, we have other countries that we seemingly have a lot more in common with like European countries, places like Canada, and even a country like Japan. It seems like there is very clearly a disorientation there where a lot of people's concerns for Israel do not begin and end at let's say the USS Liberty or the uh you know the Iran war. I think that there is a much deeper and a much greater um you know concern that people have that I think that Ben Shapiro doesn't do enough to um you know address and I I I guess like give people any sort of resolution on and I don't think that he's doing that in the right way. Lose no ground. Exactly. Or the Gaza genocide. Well, I mean again Palestine is like a secondary issue because it's it's literally on the other side of the world. I'm talking about what average Americans think here in America. So, uh, that's I I think number one. Number two is the messaging about how it's not somebody else that's holding you back and holding you down. I think that in a lot of cases, actually, it is. I think that you have some conservatives that are saying that you have to pull yourself up from your bootstraps. But at the same time, that messaging falls flat when you have DEI initiatives that privilege every single person except for let's say a regular white male. So, whenever there's a lot of guys that are white guys that are consuming this content and you're looking at systematic disenfranchisement in multiple levels and then you have somebody like Ben Shapiro saying that you shouldn't expect to be able to afford where you lived, you know, where you grew up in to live at, it can feel incredibly patronizing and problematic. And so, those are the two weaknesses that I think Ben has that are making him not resonate with people. It's the unrelenting and the complete moral absolutism of Israel. Like I understand that Israel is fighting a war. They're defending themselves, etc. But to portray it in a way that like it is sad to see what's happened to the people in Gaza. Even if you think that Israel is in the right, you can also admit that there's a lot of people that have been caught in a crossfire of that and it's horrible what's happened to them. And I think that not being able to give any ground to that and have a reasonable, you know, middle-of the road perspective on that, I think it's misleading and it's inaccurate. That's the problem is that you can have empathy. For example, like even the Russian soldiers that are being killed by Ukraine. Many of these men don't want to go to war against Ukraine. They're getting conscripted into war. Same as the men in Ukraine. Most of the guys that are dying in ditches to a drone that plays a song and then explodes, they you think they want to be there? [ __ ] no, they don't want to be there. This is something that again, it's like, you know, old men start wars so young men can go die in them. That's what happens. And so, not being able to acknowledge this reality and any form of humanity to it. I think the problem with that is that you paint a picture that is myopic. It is also reductive and it denies people a certain level of humanity that I think that really a lot of people can understand. And that's the main problem that I think Ben has with Israel. And I think also downplaying the connections that Israel has with America. That's the And the thing is like you can't you you can't distill that down into just simply Israel and American politicians are like, you know, doing the Iran war. Like I support the Iran war. I don't support Apac. Like I I feel like how many of you guys feel the same way that I do? Like yeah, I think Iran is a huge problem, but I also don't want Israel that has a has a pack in America that are trying to advocate for their own interests, right? I mean, like, what the [ __ ] So, I think there's a lot I mean, a big surprise, right? By full [ __ ] No, I'm not. I'm not at all. Wait, here. Let me see. Do you have anything that's worthwhile? What is this here? Let me Let me pull this up. So Benny, you're you're a cook, bro. You're a slave to viewers. Continue to stream. Pretty simple when you think about it. So wait a minute. So what am I saying that you dislike? What what am I saying that you dislike about this? Is this pro incel messaging? I hope so. And so anyway, uh so let me let me go back and I'll I'll just keep talking about this. Is that but then that that's like a secondary issue. The primary issue that Ben Shapiro has is that his messaging no longer resonates with young men because it doesn't take into consideration the immediate structural disadvantages that men don't have. Like you need to be talking about things like DEI. You need to be talking about things like preferential hiring practices, other forms of systematic racism that's engineered against people that are white, Jewish, and Asian. And this is something that's happening on a mass scale, but you're not talking about that and you're talking about how people should improve their lives. And I think that he's and the problem is that Ben Shapi was also right is that there are white people and Asian people and Jews that are quite successful and but it's just harder to do whenever you don't have those institutional advantages and fraud and immigrants get free money. Exactly. That's the main problem. And it it's a it's a matter of of fringing. You're Don't tell me are you really another one of these people? You've been crashing out constantly, but you don't have anything to say. This is so It's so annoying. Where do these people come from? Like I I don't understand this. Oh my god. What is this? What is going on, bro? He left. Did he run away? What is this? Oh, it's so annoying, isn't it? Like I I just wish that some of these people would have something to say so there's like I can go off of it and talk about something, but it's always the most [ __ ] brain deadad [ __ ] thing. Oh, this is so It's so annoying that they're like this. It is. And uh anyway, this keeps happening all the time. It sure does. It's so It's so disappointing. Anyway, so what is everybody saying? All the haters can kiss my ass. Mo most podcasts I listen to at 2x speed, but Ben is only at 1 point. True. You're telling most of America to kiss your ass. A very Jewish message, dude. Dan, how do you know that? What do you mean? Yeah, base Elon. I It's just really crazy. This you said Nick Fentes 30x in this clip. Why don't you debate him? Scared clown. I I don't know. And uh God bless and protect you, Ben. Why the Iraq war is right for America? Not a good one, right? Definitely not a good one here. Why does it actually matter who shot JFK? I mean, again, you have to reconcile these things. You do. You need to reconcile the and and this doesn't look good especially whatever who who why does it matter who shot JFK? Well, because the people who thought it, they think it was the Jews.

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