'Hypnotized by ... state-run media': Charlie Sheen reveals to Megyn Kelly his political shift after doing his own research



Charlie Sheen, who has historically been known for having more than a mild case of Trump derangement syndrome, recently opened up about changing his political views after taking a long look at the media he consumed.

The famous actor joined Megyn Kelly in an interview published last Friday to discuss his turn away from the left and his embrace of the right.

'I'm going to do my own research like I've done with everything my entire life. I'm going to listen to other voices.'

Kelly asked Sheen if he was getting more comfortable with expressing his political views, to which he replied: "I had to feel something different. Because I think we all, or a lot of us, remain beholden to the structure of the house that we were raised in with politics, with religion, with the arts, with culture."

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To a round of applause from the audience, Sheen then explained his shift in political views: "And I thought, 'All right, I'm going to conduct an experiment.' Literally, I'm going to change the channel. I'm going to do my own research like I've done with everything my entire life. I'm going to listen to other voices."

Sheen continued: "I'm going to explore just hearing both sides of the goddamn story."

During this process, Charlie Sheen realized the problem with the media he was consuming: "What I was so hypnotized by, in some ways, can be described as state-run media. I'm sorry, but it can. Legacy media is very much like that."

After months of listening to alternative voices outside legacy media and doing his own research, Sheen had to admit that he had been stuck in an echo chamber.

Then came his moment of realization: "I felt really stupid. Just some of the stuff I'd bought into and some of the stuff I was worshipping and some of the people I was hating because I was told I was supposed to hate them."

Though Sheen voted for Kamala Harris in 2024, he said it was a vote he wishes he could "have back" following his shift to the right.

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European Trump derangement syndrome on full display in 'deviant' crucifixion spectacle



Liberals have made no secret of their desire to see harm come to President Donald Trump.

A survey conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University's Social Perception Lab revealed in April that 55% of respondents who identified as left of center said that assassinating Trump would be at least somewhat justified.

When asked by pollsters about the September 2024 attempt on the president's life at his golf course in Florida, 28% of Democrats said it would have been better for Trump to have been slaughtered on the green.

This murderous loathing for the president leached into popular culture long before Democrats rushed to mock Trump's brush with death last year in Butler, Pennsylvania. For instance, a theater production simulated his assassination in New York City and an aspiring D-list comedian posed with a fake decapitated head made to look like the president.

A masked London-born agitpropist who calls himself Mason Storm recently contributed to this unhinged anti-Trump genre with a hyper-realistic, life-size sculpture of the president dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit and set on a cross-shaped gurney in a cruciform pose. The sculpture, which is titled "The Saint or the Sinner," depicts Trump as incapacitated with the implication — made explicit elsewhere — that he is dead as the result of a lethal injection.

According to a statement shared online by Storm, "In a world increasingly driven by polarized narratives, this work offers a moment of reflection, urging us to take responsibility — and to realize that every decision tells a story."

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While the title of the sculpture and the corresponding statement from Storm suggest there's an ambiguity about the work's meaning, Storm made clear online his antipathy toward Trump, writing, for instance, "He's not the messiah he's a very naughty boy!"

'Simply deviant.'

The sculpture, which was shown earlier this year in Vienna, was also going to be shown at the central train station in Basel, Switzerland; however, Gleis 4, the gallery responsible for the planned pop-up, called it off, citing "expected large crowds and feared disturbances."

On Saturday, Gleis 4 reportedly installed the sculpture in a showcase window on Kunstmeile, an indoor pedestrian walkway in downtown Basel.

According to France24, the sculpture has been purchased by an "internationally renowned figure living in Europe" whose identity will remain confidential.

Bishop Hermann Glettler of the Diocese of Innsbruck has called the sculpture "simply deviant."

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Robert De Niro melts down on MSNBC and attacks rural Americans



Robert De Niro opened up about his struggle with Trump derangement syndrome on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” this Sunday, when co-host Jonathan Capehart asked De Niro whether he believes Trump will leave office when his term ends.

“No way. ... He will not want to leave. He set it up with his, I guess, the Goebbels of the Cabinet,” De Niro replied, referencing Stephen Miller.

“He’s a Nazi. Yes, he is, and he’s Jewish. He should be ashamed of himself,” he said.

De Niro also attacked Americans across the country, picking on those in rural areas for supporting the president.


“They’re used to seeing Trump do his stuff, and they talk, and they listen, and that’s the truth to them because they don’t listen to anything else except somewhere way out in the Midwest, somewhere out west, in certain places, the rural places. That’s the truth,” De Niro said.

“’Cause he gets the air time. And I think that we need more air time. ... The news media could find ways to kind of ignore or tamp down nonsense from Trump. It’s just total nonsense. But those people out there listen to it and assume if it can be on the air and it’s out there, it’s the truth,” he added.

“Completely lost,” BlazeTV co-host Jeff Fisher says on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

“He wants to censor the president,” executive producer Keith Malinak adds.

“Absolutely. And he wants to censor what Americans are seeing and getting their information, you know, like on X or any other platform,” Fisher agrees.

“You wouldn’t be referring to Americans, quote, ‘out there,’ end quote?” Malinak mocks, adding, “Flyover country. He wants to say flyover country so badly.”

“He wants to say he hates middle America, and he does kind of without actually saying it. And he’s just babbling about Donald Trump,” Fisher says. “The TDS has got him strong. I mean, it’s just actually taken full effect. And it’s just, MSNBC just lets him come in and babble.”

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Obama encourages Tylenol-taking pregnant women; blasts Trump over warnings



After President Trump announced that the results of a study from Harvard show pregnant women could be endangering their unborn babies' health by taking the pain reliever Tylenol — liberal pregnant women across the country have been uploading videos of themselves taking the pain medication out of spite.

And former President Barack Obama is egging them on.

“So we have the spectacle of my successor, in the Oval Office, making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproved. And the degree to which that undermines public health to the degree to which that can do harm to women who are pregnant,” Obama said in a speech following Trump’s announcement.

“I’d love to see Trump say pregnant women shouldn’t drink alcohol and watch them deny that,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray says in the middle of Obama's rant on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”


“For parents who do have children who are autistic, which by the way itself is subject to a spectrum and a lot of what is being trumpeted as these massive increases actually have to do with a broadening of the criteria across that spectrum so that people can actually get services and help,” Obama continued.

“All of that is a violence against the truth,” he added, despite Tylenol being reported years ago to be unsafe for pregnant women — before Trump ever mentioned it.

“Medical health experts have released an important statement on pregnancy and pain medication. It’s part of a study in the British Scientific Journal Nature, and here’s what it does,” a reporter on the Canadian Broadcast Company said in October 2020.

“It cautions pregnant women about using acetaminophen, and that is the active ingredient in Tylenol and many other medications that so many of us use to relieve pain or fever,” the reporter added.

“The statement is backed by nearly 100 scientists and doctors from around the world. They insist a higher level of caution is needed when pregnant people use fever and pain meds that contain acetaminophen, including Tylenol. The authors don’t have any new evidence showing the drug harms a developing fetus,” CBC’s health and science reporter Christine Birak chimes in.

“But their statement does say a growing body of experimental and epidemiological research suggests that prenatal exposure to acetaminophen might alter fetal development, which could in turn increase the risks of certain neurodevelopmental, reproductive, and urogenital disorders,” she added.

Gray is shocked, commenting, “Wow, did you hear the violence? Did you hear the violence against the truth?”

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BRAINWASHED Keith Olbermann attacks right-wing influencer



Former ESPN broadcaster Keith Olbermann is exhibiting what BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock calls “the worst case of Trump derangement we have in America.”

In response to a tweet from CNN’s Scott Jennings about late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and his anti-Charlie Kirk comments, Olbermann wrote in a now-deleted tweet, “You’re next, motherf***er.”

“But keep mugging to the camera,” he added in another tweet.

Jennings replied by tagging FBI Director Kash Patel, writing “Cc: @FBIDirectorKashPatel.”


“I don’t blame Scott Jennings, because Olbermann is setting a tone out there that, like, ‘Hey, Scott Jennings is worthy of death because I disagree with him because he’s conservative,’” Whitlock says.

“I didn’t think it could get any worse for Keith Olbermann, but it is,” he continues. “And he actually needs help. I mean real help. Someone needs to do a mental health check on Keith Olbermann and get him some additional help.”

BlazeTV contributor Steve Kim agrees, but is saddened by Olbermann’s fall from grace.

“I always thought, ‘Man, this is a highly intelligent individual,’” Kim says of growing up watching his career. “Now he’s just become deranged. And I don’t have an issue with his political beliefs.”

“I really don’t. We have to be honest about this. We’re not going to agree with everybody. But the extreme that he takes it now, to a point of, basically — I don’t even know if it’s a veiled threat,” he continues.

“It seemed like a threat, not from him, but almost an invitation for someone else to do it because you are talking about tone and tenor within our current climate in America. It’s almost like he’s saying, ‘Please, someone do this,’” he adds.

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Sandler ‘Happy’ to stick with original love interest for ‘Gilmore’ sequel



Score one for Adam Sandler.

The “Saturday Night Live” alum appears, by all accounts, to be a genuine good guy in the Hollywood ecosystem. He proudly shares his Jewish faith on screen, something you don’t typically see in blockbuster comedies.

When it’s time to make a new project, he calls upon his famous pals. He and Rob Schneider are rarely seen apart on screen. Loyalty matters.

Now, we’re learning how Sandler defied Hollywood ageism on his newest project. “Happy Gilmore 2” reunites much of the 1996 film’s cast, including Christopher McDonald (Shooter McGavin). It’s also set to feature Sandler’s squeeze Virginia Venit, played then and now by Julie Bowen.

The 55-year-old “Modern Family” alum expected the sequel to cast a younger, hotter actress opposite Sandler this time ’round. That’s just how Hollywood rolls.

Instead, Bowen got the call to reprise her “Happy Gilmore” character. And while she doesn’t have as much screen time as in the original, Sandler assured her how vital she is to the project.

“You’re the heart of the movie,” Sandler told her.

While the “Jack and Jill” star may seem an unlikely crusader against the industry’s double standards, it should come as no surprise to those who know anything about Sandler’s personal life.

The SNL alum has been married to wife, Jackie Titone — with whom he shares two daughters — since 2003. And not a whiff of sleazy scandal.

Which is more than we can say for many an outspoken Hollywood “male feminist.”

Perry’s scary stage SNAFU

Can things get worse for Katy Perry?

Her latest album got crushed by critics, and clips of her current tour drew social media mockery. She dipped a manicured toe in space, a trip that also generated a digital drubbing. Plus, she and her longtime steady, Orlando Bloom, just split.

Her latest indignity? A stage prop misbehaved, leaving her clinging for life midair. Her stop in Adelaide, Australia, hit a snag when a stunt involving a suspended sphere went haywire. She clung to the sphere’s bars while technicians rushed to fix the issue.

She emerged unhurt, but her ego took another hit along the way ...

Star Trek: Trump Derangement Syndrome

Oh, my!

George Takei has finally cut the cord on his iconic Sulu character from the original “Star Trek” series and multiple feature films. How? He’s now a full-time Trump critic, and he proved it anew with a pathetic performance on the immersive liberal holodeck known as CNN.

He compared ICE’s deportation efforts to the Japanese-Americans rounded up during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

They’re not remotely similar, of course. The worst part? Takei was one of those Japanese-Americans swept up in the country’s anti-Japanese fever in the 1940s. He even wrote a play about those memories.

Now, all he can do is summon them to smite Orange Man Bad. Set phasers on “stunned” ...

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We’d ‘Rather’ not

The very last person who should speak out about CBS’ $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump over a selective editing scandal is Dan Rather.

The disgraced newsman used the “60 Minutes” brand to peddle fake news about then-President George W. Bush to sway the 2004 election. It failed, in part, because an army of citizen journalists rose up and debunked it step by step.

Rather never backed down, despite losing his plush anchor chair. A 2016 movie about the incident asked audiences to believe both that the newsman got the basic story right — and that he could be convincingly played by Robert Redford.

The title? “Truth.” That’s Hollywood.

So, naturally, Variety turned to Rather to weigh in on the Trump settlement.

“It’s a sad day for journalism. ... It’s a sad day for ‘60 Minutes’ and CBS News. I hope people will read the details of this and understand what it was. It was distortion by the president and a kneeling down and saying, ‘Yes, sir,’ by billionaire corporate owners,” Rather said.

Variety couldn’t bother to tell readers who didn’t live through “Rathergate” why the Texas newsman is, to be kind, an unreliable narrator.

Then again, if anyone knows about fake news, it’s Danny Boy ...

Putting the man in ‘romantic’

What can’t the patriarchy do?

Director Celine Song of “Past Lives” fame is blaming men for the death of the rom-com. Her latest film, “Materialists,” isn’t as frothy as most romantic comedies, but it loosely falls under that banner.

And it’s good!

That doesn’t mean Song’s approach to the subject is admirable. She says Hollywood stopped making rom-coms due to the patriarchy. Toxic men dismiss the genre as “chick flicks” and nothing more.

Except we never stopped loving rom-coms. The rom-com giants (Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan) aged out of the genre. The newer versions offered up strained, gimmick-laden plots (“How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”), and some focused on lust, not love (“Friends with Benefits,” “No Strings Attached”).

And when young, attractive stars get a chance at rom-com glory, they often hit the bull’s-eye. “Anyone But You” wasn’t “good,” but it boasted the attractive duo of Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney. And it made a whopping $220 million in global theaters.

Scapegoating the patriarchy is always a woke winner, but this time, the blame falls squarely on Hollywood’s stooped shoulders.

Sam Harris showcases the severity of his Trump derangement syndrome



Atheist podcaster Sam Harris has made no secret of his antipathy toward President Donald Trump. Harris has, for instance, called Trump "the most dangerous cult leader on Earth"; blamed him for "how divisive our politics have become"; accused him of paving the way for fascism in America; and deemed him "one of the most prolific liars our species has produced."

Harris — who argued in an October debate with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro that Kamala Harris was the optimal choice in the 2024 presidential election — still appears to be having trouble coping with Trump's popularity and reelection over 120 days into the president's second term.

'I would rather have a president in a coma where the duties of the presidency are executed by a committee of just normal people, right.'

Indeed, the atheist intellectual suggested during the May 23 episode of his "Making Sense" podcast that the efforts to cover up former President Joe Biden's mental decline — efforts recently acknowledged by Jake Tapper, a longtime proponent of the false competency narrative — were problematic but potentially warranted, or at the very least understandable, in the face of an "awful choice."

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Harris admitted that he would have preferred the coverup to have succeeded, telling his manager Jaron Lowenstein, "I would prefer a comatose president to the president we now have."

"Even that is preferable to me — and to, I think, many Democrats — than having someone who we consider to be genuinely evil ... genuinely 100% purposed to serving himself in the office of the presidency," continued the atheist. "I would rather have a president in a coma where the duties of the presidency are executed by a committee of just normal people, right."

'Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement.'

Harris presented his preferred option of a cabal of unelected insiders usurping the powers of the democratically-elected president as a hypothetical; however, it appears to have been, at least in effect, more or less the reality of the Biden presidency in its final months.

After all, staffers and family members reportedly were making decisions on Biden's behalf while radicals in his orbit allegedly used his signature to advance their own agendas.

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While Harris' admission that he would prefer rule by an unelected committee is likely proof enough that he suffers from the so-called "Trump Derangement Syndrome" that Republican lawmakers now want the National Institutes of Health to study, Harris appears to have provided ample material for a diagnosis.

For instance, Harris suggested in 2022 that the media was responsible for preventing Trump from retaking power, even if that meant censoring the truth about the Hunter Biden laptop.

"Listen, I don't care what's in Hunter Biden's laptop," Harris said. "I mean, at that point, Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement, I would not have cared."

While acknowledging the media had suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story and that there indeed was a "leftwing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump," Harris said "it was warranted."

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Adam Kinzinger reveals what happens when TDS takes over your LIFE



When a case of Trump derangement syndrome goes untreated, it has the ability to control your actions, control your words, and ultimately to take over your life.

And in a selfie video shot from his car, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) documented the progress of his ailment and posted it to social media for the world to see.

“So I just saw that Trump is like threatening the January 6 committee again. Listen, this dude knows, he knows that this is, like, the thing that embarrasses him. He won’t admit it embarrasses him, because he’s trying to, like, pretend like he didn’t do anything,” Kinzinger said.


“He’s obsessed. He’s more obsessed with, like, me and Cheney than his freaking golf score,” he continued, adding, “Hey, Trump, bring it on, dude. You weak, whiny, tiny man, who, by the way, I saw a picture of you this weekend; you’re hiking up your pants now to really just below your man boobs, and you’re sweating so much, like, looking pretty, pretty bad there.”

Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” is shocked.

“That is incredible,” Gray tells Keith and Jeffy, noting that while Kinzinger called Trump a “tiny man,” Kinzinger himself is 5’7”, while Trump is 6’3”.

“Maybe you avoid that phraseology if you’re 5 '7”,” Keith comments, adding, “It’s like call the Secret Service, this guy's not stable.”

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'Making us sound cool': MAGA America gladly adopts rabid Trump critic's 'brutal American' epithet



One of the more rabid Trump critics at the Atlantic came up with a new branding for the president, Vice President JD Vance, and similarly constituted Americans earlier this month: "the brutal American."

Rather than ignore or laugh off the liberal's latest attempt at relevancy, the MAGAverse embraced the epithet. It appears that some of the very qualities that most enrage Anne Applebaum and her European comrades are those that distinguish Americans from lesser nationalities.

Anne Applebaum is a historian turned sensationalist at the Atlantic with something of a credibility issue.

The 60-year-old writer smeared as propagandists early proponents of the pandemic lab-leak theory; criticized skeptics of the experimental COVID-19 vaccines; downplayed the revelations on the Hunter Biden laptop and framed the damning emails as a potential "psyop"; argued that to prevent nuclear war with Russia, the U.S. needs to send more and greater weapons to Ukraine; and spent a great deal of time in recent years screeching about imagined parallels between Trump and various 20th-century dictators. She continues, however, to confidently spill ink for the liberal publication.

Applebaum noted in a March 5 piece that her liberal publication decided to push again over the weekend that while hobnobbing around Europe — where she also is a citizen of Poland — she was immersed in foreign nationals' displeasure with the American president over his Feb. 28 meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

"In just a few minutes, the behavior of Donald Trump and J. D. Vance created a brand-new stereotype for America: not the quiet American, not the ugly American, but the brutal American," wrote Applebaum, a former member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former board member of the National Endowment for Democracy.

Applebaum suggested that her fellows on the continent no longer can cling to positive postwar stereotypes of Americans. Instead, they are now processing this alternative — the "rude" and "cruel" type of American who would dare halt transfers of military equipment to Ukraine, castigate a man for risking nuclear holocaust, hint at ending sanctions on Russia, impose tariffs on allies, and "get" Greenland.

'The American is the European who Europe was too tame for their spirit.'

"These are the actions not of the good guys in old Hollywood movies, but of the bad guys," wrote Applebaum. "If Reagan was a white-hatted cowboy, Trump and Vance are Mafia dons. The chorus of Republican political leaders defending them seems both sinister and surprising to Europeans too."

After portraying Zelenskyy as the victim of deluded hosts, Applebaum suggested that Trump's assertions that failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama "founded ISIS" and that "the Google search engine is suppressing the bad news about Hillary Clinton" were somehow evidence of a Russian worldview.

Having tried her best once again to paint Trump as a ruthless Russophile, Applebaum concluded, "Europeans know, everyone knows, that if Trump and Vance can talk that way to the president of Ukraine, then they might eventually talk that way to their country's leader next."

While there was nothing novel about her complaints about Zelenskyy's treatment in the Oval Office, Trump supporters and others outside Applebaum's target demographic seized upon the term "brutal American" online, adopting it as a positive epithet.

BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre wrote, "Why bother coming up with good branding when your enemies will do it for you?"

The Heritage Foundation tweeted Emanuel Leutze's 1851 painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware with the caption, "Brutal Americans."

William Wolfe, the executive director of the Center for Baptist Leadership, shared an image captioned, "Brutal American," that shows Theodore Roosevelt in his cavalry uniform waving an American flag along with a banner stating, "Europe take notice. Keep off American soil."

Various other commenters shared images of American soldiers from various conflicts engaging in conduct that Atlantic staff writers and continentals might find objectionable, albeit indirectly liberating.

The account Aristophanes noted, "I'm almost convinced that we somehow secretly purchased legacy media and they are just subverting themselves on purpose."

One user on X wrote, "'The brutal American.' Stop making us sound cool."

@Instantundit tweeted, "B***h please. This is a country that crossed a river at night to kill foreign invaders in their beds on Christmas. And we'll do it again."

"The American is the European who Europe was too tame for their spirit. And the European needs for the American to remain that way," said Andrew Beck, vice president of communications at the Claremont Institute.

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Propagators Of Trump Derangement Should Be Shoved Into A Forgotten Corner Of The Culture Forever

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