AOC thinks billionaires ‘can’t exist’ — but might win 2028 election



Former bartender and current Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is proving that no matter where you come from — or what ridiculous ideas you have — you can still be taken seriously as a potential candidate for president of the United States.

And BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere tells co-host Dave Landau that AOC, who is one of “the most famous politicians in America” while also being “a dunce,” is “surging to a lead in the 2028 primary for the first time.”

“AOC?” Dave asks, shocked.

“Yes, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” Stu replies.

“I just went blind in my right eye for a moment,” Dave jokes.


“It is legitimately possible that she could win,” Stu adds, before playing a clip of the congresswoman telling Ilana Glazer on the “It’s Open” podcast that billionaires “can’t earn” $1 billion.

“There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. Right? You can’t earn $1 billion. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws. You can pay people less than what they’re worth. But you can’t earn that,” AOC explained.

“And so, you have to create a myth that since you didn’t earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it,” she added.

“I don’t have $1 billion,” Dave comments, “but I don’t trust anyone telling someone they didn’t earn the money they earned.”

“I don’t know when the country became this way,” Stu adds, “but they are this way now where you just get to, without accomplishing anything on your own, you get to just say that no one else deserves what they have achieved in their lives.”

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Chinese spy Eileen Wang living the 'Somalian-American dream'



FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a major bombshell on X this week when he posted that Arcadia, California, Mayor Eileen Wang has been charged with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China in the United States.

“Mayor Wang admitted to acting as a foreign agent from at least 2020 through 2022 — promoting PRC propaganda in the U.S. and acting at PRC’s direction to promote their interests. She has agreed to resign from office and plead guilty,” Patel explained.

“FBI and our federal partners continue to move aggressively to root out this kind of influence in American institutions all over the country,” he added.


Between 2020 and 2022, Wang and her then-fiancé, Yaoning “Mike” Sun, ran a Chinese propaganda website called U.S. News Center, which aimed to publish pro-Beijing content and punish dissidents.

BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere jokes that the situation is “suboptimal” for a mayor.

“You kind of want them to be an agent for your city,” he says.

“It actually says on her website, she’s the daughter of proud immigrants who came to California seeking the American dream,” co-host Dave Landau points out.

“I will say, part of the American dream is making money in illicit fashion. So she’s checked that box off,” Stu says.

“That is the Somalian-American dream,” Dave jokes.

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Gavin Newsom’s ‘free diaper’ plan mocked after it’s revealed taxpayers will be footing a much more expensive bill



California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a partnership with the nonprofit Baby2Baby with plans to give every newborn delivered in participating hospitals 400 diapers for free — but there’s a catch.

The diapers aren’t actually free, and in fact, they’re actually much more expensive.

“Having free diapers for kids sounds wonderful, right?” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere asks.

“It does, but I’m guessing that they cost three times as much as buying them at the store,” co-host Dave Landau comments.

And Dave is almost right.


In a post on X, Peter Basios broke down Newsom’s $20 million dollar plan, arguing that it would be cheaper to give “every low-income new mom $100 cash and [tell] her to go to Costco.”

“100,000 babies × 400 diapers = 40 million diapers,” Basios wrote. “$20,000,000 ÷ 40,000,000 = $0.50 per diaper. Now walk into any Costco in California and you can buy the same quality diapers for .12 to .15 cents each!”

“That’s $48 to $60 for 400 diapers,” he continued. “So the state is paying 8-10x more per diaper than a regular family buying in bulk.”

“He is saving you money by charging you four times for the diaper cost,” Dave jokes.

“We took it out of your taxes, but they’re free,” he adds.

Newsom’s wife is also reportedly linked to the nonprofit.

“You have to just say, from a stance of just being fortunate and things falling in the right place, what a great thing that all of this extra money that’s going to this organization just happens to benefit his wife,” Stu says.

“It’s almost like it’s racketeering," Dave comments, adding, “in the sense that it is.”

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Met Gala goes full absurdity: A ROAST of Hollywood’s most unhinged looks



The 2026 Met Gala once again delivered exactly what regular people have come to expect: bizarre costumes, confusing “statements,” and celebrities competing to look as ridiculous as possible.

And one headline sums up the event perfectly: “Body as masterpiece: Nipples, skeletons, and tattoos dominate at record-breaking Met Gala,” says the Guardian.

“All those words don’t belong together,” BlazeTV host Dave Landau comments on “Stu and Dave Do America,” before judging the celebrities' looks for himself.

“I would say a very old, gross tuna ship,” he says of Madonna’s Gala look — which featured the singer dressed in all black, with long, messy black hair, and a hat with a pirate ship emerging from the top.


While Madonna’s look was the opposite of revealing, Kylie Jenner’s outfit was barely there at all.

Jenner’s look boasted nipples on the outside of her top, which BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere finds curious.

“I would say one of the goals of a bra ... is you’re trying to downplay the nipplage,” Stu says.

“This is a bra with nipples built in on the outside and apparently something that her company makes,” he adds.

Bad Bunny was also in attendance, and he dressed as an old man with more defined wrinkles and bright white hair.

“There’s probably a statement in there, but I do not care enough to figure out what it is,” Stu says.

“I don’t either,” Dave agrees.

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TikTok video exposes America’s reading crisis: Why parents and schools are failing kids



A video has gone viral on TikTok for revealing a literacy crisis in America — showing high school students failing to read a very simple sentence: “She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but somewhat gauche.”

And BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey believes that one of the reasons for this crisis is not only the method for teaching literacy in schools, but that the amount of parents reading to their children daily has dropped. And according to a study conducted by HarperCollins Publishers, the drop is significant.

“I saw this statistic that says only 41% of children aged 0 to 4 are read to daily as of 2025. That is a nine-point drop only since 2019. Only 55%, a little over half of children aged 0 to 5, are read to at least five days a week,” she continues.


“There are a lot of parents who are overstimulated. They’re tired. They’re distracted. It’s really not about these kids having their own lack of discipline. It starts with a lack of discipline and bad priorities for parents honestly,” she adds.

Stuckey believes that the difficulty parents face finding the time or energy to read to their kids is manifesting in "difficulty for them for the rest of their lives.”

And the reason this is creating so much difficulty for children is because “the comprehension of words is necessary for understanding the world.”

“It is very difficult to be a diligent student, an informed voter, a productive citizen, a helpful neighbor if you do not understand words,” Stuckey says.

But it’s not just the ability to participate in modern society that’s being threatened by the literacy crisis.

“Unlike Buddhism, Christianity does not place a premium on silence or the emptying of the mind. Christianity is a word-based faith. You go all the way back to the beginning. God spoke the universe into existence,” Stuckey explains.

“He dictated all of creation, including the creation of man and woman who were made in his image. He spoke to Noah. He spoke to and through Moses,” she continues.

This is why, Stuckey explains, Christians have historically been “the best communicators in the world.”

“Christians dominated academia in this country before giving it over to the liberals and the secularists over time. And now, I think we have the opportunity to take the lead again. We have to. I mean, look at where we are,” she says.

“We have schools that are not teaching kids to read. We have people going to college and becoming lawyers and doctors with barely a high school-reading level. We’re scared of objective standards here in the U.S., standards of excellence because of whom they might exclude,” she continues, adding, "And all of us are going to suffer for that.”

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A Revolution—If You Can Keep It

On the eve of America's bicentennial, the American Enterprise Institute published Irving Kristol's lecture, "The American Revolution as a Successful Revolution." Kristol noted that at the time "the idea and very word, 'revolution,' are in good repute today; the American Revolution is not." Yet the American Revolution was "the only truly successful revolution" because it was able to "subordinate" human "passions to serious and nuanced thinking about fundamental problems of political philosophy." In other words, the revolution yielded, by its unique design, to a stable and flourishing republic rather than carry on the bloody work of eternal radicalism. Dyed-in-the-wool revolutionaries blanch at the idea that a well-structured republic could ever carry out the work of a once-vital revolt against the ruling order.

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Leo-Rubio Meeting Offers Hope of Promising Partnership Far Beyond Iran

With President Trump facing high-stakes decisions about Iran and preparing for a summit with China, why would he dispatch his national security adviser and secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to the Vatican for a meeting with Pope Leo XIV?

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‘Floating petri dish’: Deadly hantavirus outbreak strikes cruise ship



A cruise ship is at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak after three of the ship’s passengers have died. Five more are believed to be infected with a rare strain of the disease that can be transmitted from person to person — though the disease is usually passed through rat urine, saliva, or feces.

BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere points out that a cruise ship is “already the least healthy environment possible” and isn’t surprised it’s where the disease manifested.

“You’re quarantined on a ship, and you have a pass for nonstop, unlimited food and drink at any time,” he tells co-host Dave Landau, who points out that there’s also a communal pool.

“This is where all the diseases manifest themselves, in that water that everyone’s sharing,” Stu says.


“Thirty-five percent death rate if you catch this thing. So really, really bad. A little higher than COVID,” he continues. “That’s how they made you feel about COVID. You watch the news, you thought it was a 35% death rate, but it was not.”

“You really only died if you were 90 in a nursing home, and then they filled it with gang members and people that had it,” Landau says.

“Oh, you mean the exact proposal by Andrew Cuomo during this period?” Stu laughs.

“That’s correct,” Landau says.

“Now, what do you do with this ship, Dave? Because if this stuff is being passed around, you can’t really let it to shore. These people are just out there in a petri dish,” Stu says.

“Well, I think we have to do the right thing,” Landau says, joking, “and have the Joker blow it up.”

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Oops, she did it again: Britney Spears’ latest DUI troubles deemed a ‘wet reckless’



Britney Spears’ days of making surreal headlines appear to be far from over, as the pop icon has now pleaded out of a DUI charge — which has now been downgraded to a legally murky “wet reckless.”

The plea keeps Spears out of more serious trouble for now, but with a year of probation and restrictions on drug possession, BlazeTV hosts Stu Burguiere and Dave Landau aren’t convinced she’ll stay out of trouble.

“I would love to know what a ‘wet reckless’ is,” Dave comments.

“My understanding, Dave ... is that it is basically a DUI except they don’t want to call it a DUI,” Stu explains.


A report from TMZ explains that there are “conditions to the plea,” which include her being “placed on 12 months’ probation” and “cannot possess drugs without a valid prescription.”

“Again, this could be a problem,” the article reads. “As we reported, Britney has gone to Mexico more than once to get Adderall.”

However, Dave points out that “technically, no one can do that.”

“I feel like it was just police officers screwing with TMZ because they know they don’t know anything about the law. Just like, ‘ Yeah, it’s a wet reckless,’ and she can’t have drugs without a prescription. No heroin without a prescription now for Britney,’” Stu jokes.

“Basically, everybody likes the videos of her half naked in her house juggling knives, so they don’t want to put her in jail,” Landau adds.

The pair also point out that it’s a little ridiculous for Spears to go all the way to Mexico to get Adderall.

“You really should just talk to your doctor and say that you need to focus. And if they don’t need proof, you could just show your entire life as being Britney Spears, and they might agree with you,” Landau jokes.

“Seriously, that’s not a real excuse. You don’t go to Mexico to get Adderall,” Stu agrees.

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Disabled Woman Sues Multnomah County After Race-Based Program Denies Her Rent Relief

A disabled woman is suing the homeless services department in Multnomah County, Oregon, after she was denied rent relief due to her low score on the county's race-based prioritization rubric, which awards more points for requesting "culturally specific services"—including "BIPOC"-focused housing—than for having a disability.

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