Cartel videos, porn, and groomers: Is social media ruining our kids?



Social media can be a great tool, but it can also be a great destroyer — especially considering it's become quite the breeding ground for groomers in search of their next prey.

“I don’t know if I would want to say kids can’t be on social media in general, only because right now I think it’s a good tool because you see all these young men are getting, frankly, radicalized by us and the content that we put on social media,” host of “Heck Off, Commie!” John Doyle tells BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales and BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

Doyle notes that it’s a “good way of disrupting” the “liberal narrative predominance.”


However, while there are positives to the exponential growth of social media, the negatives are growing just as rapidly — and can have horrible real-world consequences.

“My old scoutmaster, I won’t say his name, but he was a real man’s man. Great guy. Everybody loved him,” Doyle says. “Now, if you drive by his house, he has on display a Pride flag because his son ended up becoming gay and then eventually discovering that he was actually a girl.”

“And this poor guy,” he continues, “just getting totally blindsided by all these cultural trends which are completely alien to you. You don’t understand it.”

“Because you’ve grown up, and your brain has solidified in a completely different country, and it never would have occurred to you to monitor your son’s internet access,” he adds, noting that while your son may come across "cartel videos" or "porn," what’s even more concerning are the older people who may be attempting to gain access to your children in order to groom them.

“A normal person would not expect that kind of evil to exist in the world,” he says, adding, “By the time everyone understands this threat, 10-15 years from now, like you said, the generation’s already ruined, and now you don’t have sons and daughters anymore.”

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Whitlock: Andrew Tate is playing the ‘victim card’ as the right-wing Gloria Steinem



Andrew Tate and his brother are back in the news after leaving Romania — where they are facing human trafficking charges — and arriving in Florida. The reaction among conservatives is split, with some celebrating his arrival, while others are not happy with it.

Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” and Delano Squires are among the latter.

“If young men think they’ve been sold a bad deal by feminists, they need to understand Andrew Tate is really no different than Gloria Steinem,” Squires tells Whitlock. “He’s selling a particular message.”


“Gloria Steinem in the 1960s was telling women working for your husband is a bad deal, marriage is a bad deal,” he continues. “‘Go out in the corporation, go make your own money, stand on your own two feet, you don’t need a man to fulfill your life.’”

“Andrew Tate is right there on the other side. This is the horseshoe theory in effect,” he adds. “Telling young men marriage and family is a bad deal, traditional values are a bad deal. Make your money, build your own empire. You don’t need a woman to fulfill your life.”

“He has executed this, ‘Hey, I’m a victim’ card, and conservatives have fallen for it,” Whitlock agrees. “He’s a victim of the globalists and the feminist and the DEI crowd or whatever, and he’s played that game.”

“This is where politics gets in the way of truth and righteousness, and that’s the real danger that I see here,” he continues. “We’re so caught up in politics, we’ve thrown out our values once again.”

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'Two completely different human beings': Luigi Mangione’s ex-roommate tells ALL



Now that Luigi Mangione has been arrested for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, there are still more questions than answers as to why the valedictorian would commit such a heinous act.

And in a recent interview with Jesse Watters, Mangione’s former roommate, R.J. Martin, tried his best to provide some answers.

“Did this guy do drugs?” Watters asked.

“Absolutely none that I was aware of,” Martin responded. “He was a great community member, he kind of followed by our values and our ethics to leave things better than you found them. He was always contributing, taking care of other people.”

“Even after he moved out, he came and hung out and contributed to the community, spearheaded a book club. He and I became closer friends, working out, going to yoga classes, playing volleyball,” Martin continued.

His former roommate also explained that Mangione had “some severe back pain,” though he was “doing his best to take care of himself."


Watters then asked Martin about Mangione’s sex life.

“He was athletic as long as he could be. I know there were days and perhaps even a week at a time where he was bedridden, so he was doing what he could when could,” Martin explained, adding, “I couldn’t comment about his sex life.”

Mangione also was discovered to have had a Goodreads account, where he reviewed Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto, which his former roommate claims was his own suggestion to read in the book club Mangione started.

“We had a normal discussion, debate around it, nothing that stood out at the time. No anger, no special affinity towards it, just, you know, thought-provoking discussion,” Martin said.

“The manifesto that we got our hands on cites that quite often. Do you feel strange now that this guy you lived six months with has now been picked up on murder charges?” Watters asked.

“I feel strange because he was a great friend, and I would consider him a close friend, and that somebody who would assassinate somebody is completely incompatible with the person that I lived with, the person that I cooked meals with, the person that was part of book club and other activities,” Martin responded, adding, “It’s like two completely different human beings.”

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” believes there might be something to Martin’s insistence that this is a “completely different human being” than the person he knew.

“There is a mental health problem in this country that is maybe partly because of prescription drugs, but it’s also partly because so many people have been lied to by the media for so long. So many people have been taught all of the wrong things,” Rubin says.

“So much of that is connected to what I think now is happening in the country,” he adds.

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