The new ‘Karate Kid’ just kicked grievance culture in the teeth



The new “Karate Kid” movie has a surprising twist: older men teaching younger men to work hard, honor tradition, and develop a virtuous character. “Karate Kid: Legends” is exactly what you think it’s going to be — and thank God for that.

If, like me, you grew up trying to perfect the crane kick in the living room after watching the original “Karate Kid,” then this movie will hit all the right beats. It follows the classic formula: an underdog with raw talent, a wise mentor with quiet gravitas, a villain who cheats, and the enduring truth that virtue matters more than victory.

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You might ask, “So ... it’s not a great movie?” No. It is just what you expect, and that’s what makes it great. It doesn’t pretend to be something else. It’s not trying to be edgy, subversive, or “reimagine the genre.” It isn’t the millionth movie in the “Sixth-Sense-twist-at-the-end” series of hackneyed films we’re all bored with. It’s just a good old-fashioned “Karate Kid” movie. And in an age when every studio seems bent on turning childhood memories into political lectures, this is a welcome roundhouse to the face.

The tradition here is simple and good: older men teaching younger men how to face suffering with courage and to live lives of virtue.

No woke sermon, no rainbow flag cameo character delivering predictable lines about systemic injustice, no Marxist backstory about how dojo hierarchies are tools of capitalist oppression — this isn’t a Disney film, and you can tell.

Instead, it asks a dangerous question, one so controversial it might get you fired from an English department faculty meeting: Do hard work, discipline, tradition, and honor still matter?

In the woke world, of course, the answer is no. Disney movies now teach that tradition is oppressive, virtue is repressive, and hard work is a tool of colonialist mind control. Your feelings are your truth — and your truth is sacred. If you feel like turning your back on your family to pursue LGBTQ+ sex, then you’re the greatest hero in human history. But “Karate Kid: Legends” doesn’t go there. It doesn’t need to.

It’s not a message movie. But it has a message. And it’s one even a child can understand: Be honorable. Do the right thing. Grievance and self-pity don’t lead to victory. And if they do, it’s a hollow one.

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The film also manages to affirm tradition without being heavy-handed about mystical Eastern spiritualism or ancestral ghost sequences. Disney spews New Age spirituality in cartoons for kids at every opportunity.

The “tradition” here is simple and good: older men teaching younger men how to face suffering with courage and to live lives of virtue. That includes working through loss — deep loss, the kind that could break a person. But instead of turning to rage or self-indulgence, our young hero learns to endure, to persevere, to get back up — and maybe, just maybe, deliver that final clean kick.

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Of course, there’s a villain who cheats. You’ve got to have that. And yes, he’s detestable. That’s kind of the point. As the smug leftist professor at your local state university might say, “So it’s about childish morality?” Yes, professor — it’s about what even a child can know: Doing the right thing and building character matters. Wallowing in the self-pity of grievance culture will never get you there.

Somehow, this simple truth has become controversial. In a world where adults cry on TikTok about microaggressions and activist professors turn every syllabus into a therapy session about their own victimhood, it’s refreshing to see a film that reminds us that life is hard. But that doesn’t mean we give up. It means we get better. Stronger. Kinder. More honorable.

And that’s what “Legends” delivers — without apology, without postmodern irony, and without the cultural sludge we’ve come to expect from Hollywood.

No Oscar? No problem.

It’s clean. It’s earnest. It’s nostalgic without being desperate. And it shows us a vision of manhood and mentorship we desperately need: older men guiding the next generation, not with snark or shame, but with honor, wisdom, and love.

So if you want a movie that will entertain your kids without corrupting them — and hopefully inspire them to build a virtuous character — go see “Karate Kid: Legends.” It may not win an Oscar (which already tells you it’s good), but it might just help restore your faith in simple, straightforward storytelling. And that’s worth more than a golden statue.

Did ‘Snow White’ actress Rachel Zegler DESTROY her career?



“Snow White” actress Rachel Zegler has stepped into the national spotlight after her starring role in the remake of the classic Disney film — but not because of her performance.

Zegler has been accused of hurting the film by Jonah Platt, son of producer Marc Platt, with comments she’s made in interviews and on social media.

In an Instagram comment, Platt claimed his father was forced to fly into New York City in August to confront the actress regarding a “free Palestine” comment she added to a promotional message posted on X.


When one commenter called Platt’s father “creepy as hell” for attempting to control Zegler’s social media posts, Platt wrote back in a now-deleted post: “You really want to do this? Yeah, my dad, the producer of [an] enormous piece of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, had to leave his family to fly across the country to reprimand his 20 year old employee for dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the movie for which she signed a multi-million dollar contract to get paid and do publicity for.”

“This is called adult responsibility and accountability,” Platt continued. “And her actions clearly hurt the film’s box office. Free speech does not mean you’re allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions. Tens of thousands of people worked on that film and she hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires at the risk of all the colleagues and crew and blue collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful. Narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged.”

Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” couldn’t agree more with Platt.

“I don’t think I could have said it better,” Glenn says. “I would have said it meaner, perhaps.”

“This is how narcissistic our society has become. It’s all about me. It has nothing to do with the blue-collar workers that are depending on that movie to be successful, has nothing to do with the thousands of people, the tens of thousands of people that worked on that movie. No, it’s all about her,” he continues.

“You don’t have free speech without consequence. You can say whatever you want, but she was on the Disney dime,” he adds.

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New ‘Snow White’ is so bad, THIS leftist outlet called it ‘a Marxist call to arms'



Disney’s new live-action “Snow White” movie starring Latina actress Rachel Zegler debuted this weekend after years in the making.

Long before it hit the box office, the film was expected to be a giant flop due to Zegler’s negative comments about the beloved 1937 classic, casting controversies, and the wokification of the original plot line.

And it turns out that the film’s premature criticism was dead on. The movie sucks.

To get the scoop on what exactly makes “Snow White” such a catastrophic failure that people are celebrating its box office flop, Glenn Beck invites Nerdrotic’s Gary Buechler to “The Glenn Beck Program.”


“I’m ecstatic at this failure,” says Buechler. “Rachel Zegler has become the symbol of everything that's wrong with modern Hollywood right now, and seeing it just crumble does my heart good.”

“Hollywood doesn't know how to be good anymore. They are so black-pilled; they are so dystopian; they are so nihilistic,” he tells Glenn.

According to Buechler, this woke version of “Snow White” is “essentially feminism versus femininity."

“Disney took the film that built their empire — that is a paradigm shift movie, that is sacred text in Hollywood — and just threw away the original script and gave us, and I'm not kidding, communist propaganda,” he condemns.

Buechler explains that in the film, Snow White’s parents run “a socialist utopia” where all equally share the bounty of the land, the handsome prince is replaced by a thief, and Snow White is more interested in leading than finding love.

The producers, given additional time due to the Hollywood strike, even made some edits to their original plan in response to the widespread criticism. But they still failed so miserably that even the BBC called the film “a Marxist call to arms.”

“This has to be the closest a Disney princess film has got to paraphrasing 'The Communist Manifesto,'” BBC’s Nicholas Barber wrote.

As for Zegler’s career, Buechler says, “It’s over.”

“She goes to Broadway, that would be my guess,” he says.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Has DEI already KILLED Disney's new 'Snow White' remake?



The long-awaited release of Disney’s new “Snow White” remake has turned out to be a massive disappointment, as ahead of the box-office opening, it had the worst Rotten Tomatoes score for a Disney live-action remake.

Before it’s official release, the critic score was 46%.

One of the top critics, Otis Henderson, wrote, “I had high hopes that 'Snow White' would make me happy; instead, this dopey remake made me sleepy and grumpy.”

While the professional movie critics weren’t pleased, the audience hasn’t been, either.


“Wow Disney, you truly are incredible. It took you three years, multiple rewrites, unnecessary CGI, and $209 million just for me to enjoy a comment section of a movie I will never watch. Bless you,” one YouTube user wrote about the trailer.

The film stars Rachel Zegler as Snow White and Gal Gadot as the evil queen, which has led to the remake coming under even more fire for poor casting.

“I mean look, I love Gal Gadot, I don’t think she’s the greatest actress,” Matthew Marsden tells Sara Gonzales and Jaco Booyens on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.” “But why do you pick somebody who is quite clearly more beautiful than Snow White to play the queen?”

But it’s not just the casting that the panel sees as a flop.

“They have dried up with any creativity,” Booyens says.

“That’s true,” Gonzales adds, “That’s like all they’re doing now is coming out with live actions of others like ‘The Lion King.’”

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Rosie O'Donnell moves to Ireland to spite Trump; claims America has no 'equal rights'



When Donald Trump secured the presidency in 2016, Hollywood celebrities vowed to leave the country — but very few, if any — kept their promise.

This time, they’re finally making good on it.

“I’m here in Ireland, and it’s beautiful and warm. Not physically, it’s actually quite cold. I moved here on January 15, and it’s been pretty wonderful, I have to say. The people are so loving, and so kind, so welcoming, and I’m very grateful,” actress Rosie O’Donnell said in a selfie video posted to social media.


“I’m in the process of getting my Irish citizenship, as I have Irish grandparents. I was never someone who thought I would move to another country. That’s what I decided would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old child,” she continued, before getting political.

“I miss so many things about life there at home, and when you know, it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back,” she concluded.

While Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” could care less that O’Donnell has fled the country, she does wonder what “equal rights” O’Donnell feels she has lost.

“What rights do you not have? I wish they would just name one. You always hear that talking point, but I haven’t heard what the right is that you’re saying that you don’t have. That never comes after that,” Gonzales says.

“The right to have totalitarian control,” Dallas County GOP Chairman Lt. Col. Allen West says, joking, but serious.

“That has to be it,” Gonzales agrees. “I’m so sorry that Donald Trump is cleaning up the streets, arresting violent criminals, and deporting violent criminals.”

“Did you see that inflation graph from today on CNN, Rosie? That’s going way down. Yeah, it’s terrible that he’s like eliminating fraud and corruption from the government, saving Americans tax dollars,” she continues.

While O’Donnell seems thrilled with her decision, her move was put on blast — and even laughed at by Ireland’s prime minister.

“Ireland is known for very happy, fun-loving people, great attitude, many in this room right now,” White House correspondent Brian Glenn said to the prime minister as he met with President Trump.

“Why in the world would you let Rosie O’Donnell move to Ireland if she’s going to lower your happiness levels?” Glenn asked.

“It’s true,” Trump responded, adding, “Thank you, I like that question,” as the prime minister laughed.

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‘Conservative-coded’: Is ‘White Lotus’ secretly anti-woke?



After years of mainstream television poking fun of conservatives and Christianity, it appears that with the election of President Donald Trump — that trend may be changing.

“The White Lotus,” a popular HBO show, stunned viewers when a scene between three of the main characters — who are well-off women — took a turn for the conservative and seemed to poke fun at liberal bias.

“I didn’t know you went to church,” one of the women said to her friend Kate, played by actress Leslie Bibb, asking if her church was full of “Bible thumpers.”


“The people are more conservative than, like, L.A. people,” Kate replied.

“Is that weird for you?” her friend asked, adding, “If I was just around a bunch of Texans who voted for Trump, I guess I’d just feel a little alienated.”

The conversation got even more awkward when Kate explained that she herself is an “independent,” married to a Republican, and when she was asked if she voted for Trump, she smirked before saying, “Are we really going to talk about Trump tonight?”

Her friends looked on in horror.

“I think that that is probably an accurate representation because a lot of people moved from California to Austin, their husbands were already conservative, but especially after everything in 2020, they started going to church,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” comments.

“They started seeing, ‘Oh, these Trump supporters, they’re not these deranged neanderthals that the media tells me they are,’” she continues, “And then they get this kind of reaction from some of their friends who have been distanced from them.”

According to Bibb, the episode was actually written in 2022, before the season was originally set to be filmed in January 2023. The show was put on hold due to the SAG strike.

“Now that the episode dropped after the 2024 election, it takes on a new significance,” Bibb said in an interview, adding, “Everything feels so divisive, yet we’re not. I mean, they’re all sort of passionate women, and have all these feelings with all these different stances.”

“Oh, this is conservative-coded,” Stuckey laughs. “To say that there are all different kinds of women with all different kinds of stances, it’s only conservatives who talk like that, especially when you’re in Hollywood.”

“It also just seems a part of this cultural shift that it’s kind of OK to not depict Trump supporters as stupid and ugly all the time,” she adds.

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SPOILER ALERT: De Niro’s 'Zero Day' is actually CONSERVATIVE?



Conservatives have had a hard time finding television shows that don’t beat viewers over the head with left-wing propaganda — which is why most were anticipating that Robert De Niro’s new Netflix series, “Zero Day,” would be more of the same.

De Niro himself has an extreme case of Trump derangement syndrome, but after bingeing the show, Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” shockingly has no complaints.

“He’s lost it,” Glenn says. “I mean, I think the guy has really, truly gone over the edge on his Trump derangement syndrome.”

However, according to Glenn, the show didn’t even come close to reflecting De Niro’s severely misguided views.


“At first, he’s given this commission, which suspended the Constitution for this committee, you know, habeas corpus, and he can scoop up anyone he wants; he can question them without lawyers; he can use enhanced interrogation; whatever he wants,” Glenn explains.

“He was put on the committee because he’d never do those things, and then he does all of those things,” he continues.

“At the end he gives this speech; he finds out who was responsible for it; and it was, surprise, surprise, Big Tech. Big Tech in cahoots with big money and people on both sides of the aisle in Washington D.C.,” he says.

The show makes it a point to put these people on blast, people who Glenn notes are the “deep-state people that think they should control everything.”

“And I’m thinking,” Glenn says, “I think, Bob, that we agree on the bad guy here. Because that’s what’s happening. People on both sides of the aisle have got into this deep-state thing; they think they know better than the average person; they know better than the Constitution.”

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Ellen DeGeneres packs her bags for the UK and says she’s 'never coming back'



Several Hollywood stars threatened to leave the United States if Donald Trump won the election. How many of them will prove good on their ultimatums remains to be seen.

However, one star who is most certainly on her way out of the country is Ellen DeGeneres. And she’s not just leaving; she’s “never coming back.”

Dave Rubin and co-hosts Winston Marshall and Isabel Brown discuss the television star’s exodus.

“She can't live in her Montecito house worth a hundred million dollars anymore with all of her servants. She's moving to the U.K.,” says Dave. “I am fairly certain that the jihadists running the streets of London love lesbians.”

“Please keep her,” sighs Marshall, who’s from the U.K. “Things are bad enough.”

In all seriousness though, liberal hysteria following Trump’s win has grown to comical levels.

“I read the other day that a cruise company is actually offering a four-year cruise for almost $200,000 at over 400 ports of entry for you to temporarily escape the country while Trump is president,” says Brown.

Further, it’s ironic DeGeneres is specifically fleeing to the U.K. where free speech “is not a guaranteed right.”

One would think that “talk show hosts like Ellen DeGeneres that are quite used to the protections of being able to say everything that's on [her] mind and to criticize the people in power” would appreciate our First Amendment, but apparently the U.K.’s Orwellian grip on speech is preferable, adds Brown.

To hear more of the conversation, including the prayer restrictions that are being proposed in Scotland, watch the clip above.

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Denzel Washington complains about 'Gladiator II' directors cutting his gay kissing scene — ‘They got chicken’



The highly anticipated “Gladiator II,” starring Denzel Washington in the role of Macrinus hits theaters this Friday.

One person who isn’t excited about the sequel, however, is Jason Whitlock.

His disappointment stems not from the movie itself but rather from what Washington decided to reveal about his role in the film.

“I actually kissed a man in the film but they took it out, they cut it, I think they got chicken. I kissed a guy full on the lips and I guess they weren’t ready for that yet. I killed him about five minutes later. It’s ‘Gladiator.’ It’s the kiss of death,” he said.


Shemeka Michelle, who joins Jason on the program, expresses her confusion.

“Over the course of his career, he never did a sex scene or any type of strong kissing out of respect for his wife, … yet you go and kiss a man,” she says, adding that Washington could have easily given his “kiss of death” on the cheek.

“They have to pledge allegiance to the alphabet mafia. … In some form or fashion, they always have to let you know, ‘I don't hate the gays’ or ‘I don't hate the trans. I'm really a friend,’” she tells Jason.

“I think there is a right of passage in Hollywood and in the music and entertainment industry that you have to promote that lifestyle,” Jason agrees. “You can't reach that level of stardom in Hollywood without going through that right of passage.”

As for Washington’s profession of Christianity, Whitlock says he’s skeptical now.

“He's gone his whole career and had a pretty rock-solid reputation, had presented himself as some sort of Christian. I had always questioned it, and now I have the proof,” he says.

Washington could have said, “Hey, you know what? I know that's a big movie, but I'm good. I'm worth 200 million, 300 million, 400 million — whatever. I'm good. I've had enough. I'm not going to kiss a man,” Jason sighs.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Will Hollywood dial back the woke meter now that Trump is returning to power?



The election that will bring Donald Trump back into power as the 47th president of the United States proved a lot of things: People care more about the economy than “reproductive rights,” people don’t trust Kamala Harris’ policy flip-flopping, and as Rick Burgess points out, people don’t buy into the left’s woke agenda.

They “[overplayed] their hand,” he says.

It turns out that people at large still have their wits about them because they rejected the wokeness that demands setting aside all logic and reasoning.

The question now is: Will the entertainment industry, which has been poisoned by woke ideology, get the message and correct course?


“Will movie makers, will entertainment people get that cue?” Burgess asks Bubba Bussey.

“No, not to the level you think they would,” says Bubba, noting that in 1984 when Reagan won 49 states, he mistakenly believed that that was “the end of liberalism.”

“But it’s never that way,” he adds. “There’s a lot of people in the middle out there ... that just kind of vote for who they like.”

On top of that, “If you just look through history, it swings back and forth all the time.”

If we want to see a change that isn’t fleeting, Bubba says the Trump administration needs to “get busy right away and make some real changes that are substantive and make a difference in everybody’s daily life,” otherwise “the pendulum will swing back.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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