‘Trump next please’: Democrats on Bluesky call for MORE political violence
If you used the Bluesky app in the past couple of days, it would be hard not to notice just how bloodthirsty the Democratic Party has become — especially in the wake of the assassination of the right’s beloved Charlie Kirk.
One trend on the social media app has taken BlazeTV hosts Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson by surprise.
“There are a ton of crazies over there,” Savage says on “Blaze News: The Mandate.” “I am not on there, but they are basically saying, ‘Who’s next for all of this?’”
Leftists have been posting who they hope falls victim to the same fate as Charlie Kirk.
The most repeated names on this list include President Trump, J.K. Rowling, Joe Rogan, Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Libs of TikTok, and Elon Musk.
“Charlie Kirk is dead (and has been for a few hours), Trump next please,” one user wrote on the left’s version of X.
“Unfortunately, this is what we will have to continue to deal with,” Savage says.
Blaze Media D.C. correspondent Christopher Bedford is also completely disturbed.
“The threats are real. The copycats are going to happen,” Bedford says.
“This really is a point where we can decide that we’re going to get better, or we can decide that we’re going to get much worse, much more quickly. And it’s going to take a serious turn by society, a serious rejection by the American left, by the universities — not just these businesses and these sports teams, but by the university system — of this kind of crap in order for this to actually have any kind of impact,” he explains.
“There needs to be significantly more accountability than there is right now. And funds need to be taken,” he continues. “And all these nonprofits that for the last five years have spent time funneling money towards bail funds for rioters, towards printing T-shirts that have guns on them with the trans flag that says ‘defend it’ ... these people who fund groups that are professional agitators — well, those funds need to be ceased, and those boards of directors need to be investigated. These are crimes.”
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Video: Joe Rogan shaken by Charlie Kirk's murder, warns against celebrating his death; Charlie Sheen says it's a 'dark day'
Joe Rogan and his recent guest, actor Charlie Sheen, had live reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk during the latest episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience."
During the podcast interview with Sheen that was recorded on Wednesday afternoon, Rogan was notified in the middle of his broadcast that Kirk had been shot.
'You're allowed to disagree with people without celebrating the fact they got shot.'
A visibly distraught Rogan asked aloud near the end of this podcast, "Should we bring this up? I guess we have to. So this just happened. We just found out that Charlie Kirk got shot."
Sheen replied, "It's f**king awful."
After it was confirmed that Kirk was assassinated, Sheen commented, "Murdered for having a different opinion from somebody else. A different ideology from somebody else. His beliefs didn't align."
"He doesn't deserve that," Sheen added. "Nobody deserves that."
Upon hearing the news that Kirk had been killed, Rogan was visibly shaken over the assassination, exhaling loudly in a video clip.
Rogan then skewered MSNBC for commentary that suggested that the shooting of Kirk was possibly "a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration." Rogan remarked, "Oh God. What a crazy take. Like it might not have been someone assassinating someone for the wrong opinion."
Rogan noted that MSNBC had a narrative of attempting to "try to pin it on a crazy Trump supporter with a gun going wacky." As Blaze News reported, MSNBC analyst Matthew Dowd was fired following "insensitive" comments he made during the live coverage of the shooting of Kirk.
Rogan made a correct prognostication when he uttered, "There's gonna be a lot of people celebrating this." Blaze News brought to light some of the more reprehensible reactions by left-wing supporters celebrating the murder of Kirk.
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Rogan delivered a warning about the dangers of people celebrating the murder of Kirk.
"It's so scary. It's so dangerous to celebrate or to in any way encourage this kind of behavior from human beings," Rogan explained. "It's not a violent guy. He's talking, he's talking to people on college campuses. He wasn't even particularly rude. He tried to be pretty reasonable with people."
"He's a very intelligent guy," Rogan said of Kirk, then added, "Whether you agree with him or don't – and there's a lot of stuff that I didn't agree with him on, and that's fine – you're allowed to disagree with people without celebrating the fact they got shot."
Sheen chimed in, "You can't disrespect his passion."
Rogan encouraged people not to celebrate Kirk's murder but to embrace more "discourse" to resolve differences. Rogan urged people who disagree with people like Kirk to engage in debate to prove who has the best ideology by compelling conversation.
Rogan proclaimed, "No one deserves this, folks. No one that has different opinions, no one deserves that. No, this is horrible, no."
The prolific podcaster pointed out that people will celebrate Kirk's assassination because we live in a "f**ked up time," when "people have really fallen into this trap of us against them." Rogan was concerned about the possible ramifications of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Rogan revealed that he met Kirk once at a gun range, and he was a "nice guy" when they met.
"This is a f**ked up time," Rogan stated. "People are so divided in this country, so divided. And there's so many people that love it. They love that we're divided, and they profit off that division, and they stoke the fires, and they do it for their own profit. And it's so f**king gross. It's so gross."
Rogan pleaded that this should be a "wake-up call" for everyone.
"This is a dark day," Sheen said, to which Rogan immediately agreed.
Rogan recommended that Americans need to "have a conversation about being able to have conversations," or "it's going to get a lot worse."
"That's what's scary," the comedian continued. "Scary that this could spark off some kind of real violent conflict."
"That guy had a lot of fans. A lot of people loved that guy," Rogan said of Kirk. "And if they find out that he got killed for something they vehemently oppose in the first place, it could send people over the edge."
Sheen warned that Kirk's assassination could be a "flashpoint moment."
You can watch the entire "Joe Rogan Experience" episode with Charlie Sheen here.
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'Progressive Christian' Democrat joins Senate race to unseat John Cornyn
The race for John Cornyn's Senate seat is becoming more crowded as another Democrat announced his bid for the seat on Tuesday.
Texas Representative James Talarico, a self-described "progressive Christian," announced on Tuesday that he will be throwing his hat in the ring to challenge incumbent Republican Senator John Cornyn. Talarico's bid is the most recent challenge in an already crowded field of Senate hopefuls.
'We're the underdogs in this fight. We're going up against a rigged system and a lot of money.'
"I get the sense that there is a deep hunger across the political spectrum for a fundamentally different kind of politics," Talarico said in an interview ahead of his announcement, according to the AP. "It's been 10 years now of Trumpian politics, politics as a blood sport, ... and there is a hunger 10 years later for a return to more timeless values of sincerity and honesty and compassion and respect."
Talarico gained increased attention on social media when he sat down with Joe Rogan on "The Joe Rogan Experience" on July 18.
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"Billionaires have taken over Texas and taken over America — but together, we can take power back for working people," Talarico said in a Tuesday morning X post.
In a request for campaign funding, Talarico delivered a similar message about punching upward in the race: "We're the underdogs in this fight. We're going up against a rigged system and a lot of money. Big Money is powerful, but it's nothing compared to People Power."
Talarico was also a leading figure in the Texas redistricting fight during July and August. Democrats fled the state in an attempt to delay the vote on the redistricting motion, which was ultimately passed in late August.
Senator John Cornyn will be running for a fifth term in the Senate. Democrats see a path to victory if Attorney General Ken Paxton beats Cornyn in the March primary.
Talarico joins a crowded field of Democrat candidates, including former NFL player Colin Allred and former astronaut Terry Virts. Beto O'Rourke has also reportedly not ruled out joining the race.
Talarico will reportedly launch his campaign with an event on Tuesday in his hometown of Round Rock, Texas, which is north of Austin.
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Dave Landau shares gritty journey with Joe Rogan — from Zoloft struggles and addiction to comedy redemption
Today, Blaze Media’s own Dave Landau, known for his biting wit on “Normal World,” joined podcasting titan Joe Rogan on “The Joe Rogan Experience” to share the raw and unfiltered story of his addiction, recovery, and redemption.
The duo reflect on last week’s devastating school shooting in Minneapolis, where a transgender-identifying male opened fire during a Catholic school Mass, killing two children and injuring several others.
“Seven [school shootings] in a row have been trans, except one was nonbinary, which is just diet trans,” Rogan says.
“The problem is, some people get to a certain point in their life, and they have no friends and no community and no identity and no life, and they're not successful, and they feel like s**t, and then they have gender dysphoria on top of that, and then they're probably on a bunch of SSRIs,” he speculates, pointing to the undeniable “connection between mass shootings and psychiatric drugs.”
“Everyone knows [they’re connected], and it's just this dirty secret that no one talks about because all the media is paid off by the pharmaceutical drug companies, and nobody wants to make this correlation/connection because you also risk the wrath of all these people that are on them,” he adds.
Dave, who knows a thing or two about psychiatric drugs, shares that he’s currently in the throes of getting off Zoloft — one of the most common SSRIs on the market — after using it for 10 years. Even though he’s told his doctors that the medication is worsening his depression, they’ve insisted he stay on it.
But Dave, having detoxed from several substances over the years, is bent on getting clean.
“I took myself off of them for five days, and I felt good. And then I got really queasy and really nauseous, like my brain started kind of misfiring, so now I’m weaning it off a little more correctly as opposed to just going cold turkey,” he tells Rogan.
“I already feel better being on less, but I was told for the last 10 years that that’s what I should be on, and I think it's had a very negative effect [on] me.”
Rogan then inquires about what led Dave to start taking SSRIs in the first place.
Dave shares that his mother’s suicide was the catalyst that sent him to the psychiatrist. But even though his mother, who was bipolar, was on antidepressants when she killed herself, his doctor insisted that medication was the best option for him too.
But life had already been hard long before the tragic loss of his mother. When Dave was a child, his father, a Vietnam veteran, developed soft tissue sarcoma due to exposure to Agent Orange, a toxic herbicide used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War.
“The VA was great. They did nothing for our family. They denied both of my mom’s claims. My dad lost all of his money,” Dave says, noting that his father died when he was just 18 years old.
The trauma of Dave’s family’s struggles and a genetic predisposition toward mental health struggles drove him to self-medicate as a teen.
From recreational and prescription drugs to cigarettes and alcohol, Dave tells Rogan the wild stories of how he overcame a range of addictions, starting in high school. At one point, he was even institutionalized because his behavior was so erratic from drugs and drinking. He shares the darkly humorous story of being attacked by his roommate, who believed he was a werewolf.
“He’s jumping on top of me, and I grabbed a lamp to hit him with it, but it was f**king glued down because it’s a mental hospital. ... And he’s on top trying to bite me, and I’m, like, holding him back. And that’s when [hospital staff] came in. ... They hit him with the syringe,” he laughs.
When Dave was nearing high school graduation, an intuitive teacher saw the comedic potential behind his classroom disruptions and urged him to pursue comedy. With his parents’ support, Dave enrolled in Second City — a renowned improvisational comedy theater and training center in Detroit.
Comedy proved to be a sanctuary from his depression and the perfect way to make light of his hardships. “When I finally found that outlet, it was wonderful, dude,” he says.
Unfortunately, addiction followed him into the field, especially during his days as a road comic. “I’m going into these bars and nightclubs. I’m like, ‘Hey, do you have a phone jack I could use for a few minutes?’ ... I got this ankle monitor, and I got to plug it in somewhere to a phone jack so they can download to make sure I’m not drinking,” Dave recalls.
Salvation from substance abuse finally came in 2009. After 13 arrests, four DUIs, and the threat of prison looming, Dave decided he would get sober. It was a tough journey that involved using a breathalyzer to start his car and staying vigilant to avoid relapse. But eventually, he conquered his addictions.
Today, Dave, now 43, co-hosts Blaze Media’s comedy show “Normal World,” where he channels the wild tales of his past and his skepticism of Big Pharma into biting comedy that resonates with those who crave his unique blend of raw truth and dark humor. Dave’s book, “Party of One: A Fuzzy Memoir,” chronicles his journey from addiction to redemption. Living with his wife and young son, Dave finds stability in family and making wholesome memories.
To hear his full interview with Rogan — covering Detroit’s decline, organized crime, corporate job loss, and wildlife issues — check out the video below.
'Complete fools': Dark money group paying influencers $8K monthly to push Democratic propaganda: Report
Former Washington Post writer Taylor Lorenz — the blogger who doxxed Libs of TikTok in 2022, called breathing without a mask "raw dogging the air," and expressed "joy" over UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's assassination — appears to have finally stumbled across a story of value.
Lorenz detailed in a piece for Wired magazine this week how a dark money group has launched a "secretive program aimed at bolstering Democratic messaging on the internet," offering would-be propagandists up to $8,000 a month for their services but requiring in exchange the surrender of a significant amount of creative control as well as "extensive secrecy about disclosing their payments."
'You failed. You didn't influence anyone. You made fools of yourself.'
Lorenz indicated that among those allegedly approached with contracts by Chorus, the apparent nonprofit arm of a liberal influencer marketing platform, was nonstraight activist Laurenzo; Eliza Orlins, a public defender who once competed on "The Amazing Race"; and one of the pro-abortion zealots behind the Women in America account on TikTok — three individuals who did not respond to Lorenz's requests for comment.
Other influencers allegedly involved "in communication about the program" include: 2024 Democratic National Convention speaker and Gen Z influencer Olivia Julianna; Playboy executive turned podcaster Loren Piretra; leftist YouTuber David Pakman; and Sander Jennings, the brother of Jared Jennings — the boy called "Jazz" whose genital mutilation was promoted on reality television.
Chorus has reportedly boasted that its initial propagandist cohort has a collective audience of over 40 million followers.
Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford said Thursday on "The Mandate" that "this was designed to reach out to among the most unstable TikTokers you've ever seen — the kind of folks who were at the White House with the nine-inch nails talking about how everything is gay and how great Joe Biden is because everything is gay now. These are the people that they are trying to pay — and they were also trying to control the message."
"My favorite part about the story is how incredibly incompetent this operation was," said Bedford. "Reading through it, I'm thinking: Well, you failed. You didn't influence anyone. You made fools of yourself."
This initiative, the Chorus Creator Incubator Program, is funded by the second-largest super-PAC donor in 2020, the Sixteen Thirty Fund.
Politico indicated that the Sixteen Thirty Fund forked out $410 million in 2020 in an effort to torpedo President Donald Trump's re-election and to help Democrats take control of the Senate. It has kept up pressure in the years since.
According to Influence Watch, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which is not obligated to reveal its contributors, is managed by Arabella Advisors — a leftist, for-profit dark money group based in Washington, D.C., that is presently undergoing a messy breakup with the Gates Foundation.
The Sixteen Thirty Fund confirmed to the New York Post that it is serving Chorus as a "fiscal sponsor" and providing it with "operational and administrative support."
The Chorus Creator Incubator Program was reportedly launched in July. The propagandists involved were notified that over 90 influencers would take part.
Some of those who apparently signed on told Wired that the "contract stipulated they’d be kicked out and essentially cut off financially if they even so much as acknowledged that they were part of the program."
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Copies of the contract reviewed by Wired apparently confirm these claims, indicating that participants cannot disclose their relationship with Chorus or the Sixteen Thirty Fund and cannot disclose that they're paid shills.
In addition to their discretion, program participants must allegedly clear all of their bookings with lawmakers and political leaders through Chorus.
On a Zoom call reviewed by Wired, Graham Wilson, a lawyer working with Chorus, allegedly told participants, "There are some real great advantages to ... housing this program in a nonprofit."
"It gives us the ability to raise money from donors. It also, with this structure, it avoids a lot of the public disclosure or public disclaimers — you know, ‘Paid for by blah blah blah blah’ — that you see on political ads," Wilson allegedly said. "We don’t need to deal with any of that. Your names aren’t showing up on, like, reports filed with the FEC."
'They don't know how to deal with bad press.'
Wilson did not respond to Wired's request for comment, and the Federal Election Commission declined to comment.
Ellie Langford, the director of programming at Chorus, reportedly told liberal influencers on a Zoom call in June, "Our political systems haven’t been able to figure out a real solution, and I’ve been really excited to see you all treading the path forward. I deeply, deeply believe that the work you all are doing is what’s going to make the difference in supporting and frankly resuscitating our democracy."
Bedford noted that this ham-fisted effort on the part of leftists to regain control of the public discourse made him realize that "in the last couple of decades, while the American right has been building an alternative media system, which has become extremely successful and really launched into cool mode around 2011, 2012, with Daily Caller, but then finally came into its own with the meme wars in 2016."
"They're 10, 20 years ahead of where Democrats are," continued Bedford. "Democrats don't know what to do if ABC and CBS and CNN lay off half their employees. That's all they know. It's their only game in town. They don't know how to deal with bad press. They don't know how to deal with new media — and they're going to have to learn real quick."
Bedford noted further that it's clear from liberals' desperation to find and anoint a Joe Rogan-caliber influencer that they've missed the point.
"They put politics before entertainment. 'We need a liberal Joe Rogan.' No, you don't. You just need to convince Joe Rogan," added Bedford.
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Florida congresswoman tells Joe Rogan that aliens are real, she’s seen the proof!
Yesterday, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) told Joe Rogan on “The Joe Rogan Experience” that aliens are real and she’s seen the proof.
As chair of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, Luna claimed she’d seen classified photos of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, and heard testimonies from “credible people” who’ve personally encountered otherworldly beings.
When Rogan pressed her on the possibility that what she’d seen in the photos was actually “U.S. vehicles that are top secret,” Luna responded by saying, “This might sound crazy, but based on our investigations and stuff that we’ve seen, there is definitely something that I think would rival what we know currently with physics and a tech that potentially is out there that we don’t have the ability to reproduce.”
Luna expressed her belief in “interdimensional beings” that exist “outside of time and space” and operate aircraft “not created by mankind,” while acknowledging that she’s never seen portals, aliens, or UAPs in person.
The Florida representative’s remarks have sparked mixed feelings, with some amplifying her belief in the extraterrestrial and others expressing skepticism.
Pat Gray, BlazeTV host of “Pat Gray Unleashed,” along with co-hosts Keith Malinak and Jeff Fisher and producer Kris Cruz, all fall into the camp of people who believe there’s something true behind the notion of aliens.
Are they demonic entities? Are they human beings from the future traveling back in time to visit us? Are they fellow image-bearers of God?
“I think it’s impossible that there are not other people in the universe — probably in the galaxy,” Pat says, noting that scientists have estimated that there are “3 trillion galaxies” in the universe.
Join the “Unleashed” team as they dive into Luna’s controversial statements and explore the possibility of alien life.
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