Ep. 2526 - Everything You Need to Know About the Daily Wire's New Movie, Confession
Summary
Ben Shapiro criticizes Netflix’s Narnia adaptation for diluting Western values and promotes Daily Wire’s new film, Confession, starring Rob Lowe and Nick Nolte, which explores Stalin-era tyranny. He argues that modern leftists openly embrace communist aesthetics and ignores historical atrocities, citing figures like Zohran Mamdani and Hassan Piker. Shapiro also condemns artists like Kacey Musgraves and Hayley Williams for anti-Western rhetoric and highlights the hypocrisy of Democrats flipping on policy positions like defunding the police.
Topics discussed
Promos for Run, Hide, Fight and early voting
SimpliSafe ad and The Terminalist review
Critique of Hollywood's Narnia and Western values
Daily Wire's mission and cast of Confession
Trailer views and director Baslav Marhul
Pure Talk cell phone service advertisement
Daily Wire's cultural strategy and Confession
DSA imagery and Soviet parallels
Tiananmen Square and Maoist apologists
AIPAC, dark money, and Gramsci quotes
Soviet propaganda echoes and Code Pink
James Chambers extradition and Gaza donations
Debate with Scott Galloway on American Dream
What communism does to the human soul
Fear, denunciation, and rewriting history
Soft communism and repressive tactics today
Documented cruelty of communist regimes
Marxist predictions vs. industrial reality
DSA demographics and working class claims
Marx's failed historical predictions
Proletariat rhetoric and DSA composition
Deadening of the soul under Stalinism
Suppression of compassion in ideology
Compassion for disfavored groups
Western Maoists and Chinese Shadows
ZipRecruiter advertisement
Anti-Westernism in entertainment culture
Kacey Musgraves and Columbus legacy
Hayley Williams and political activism
No Music for Genocide and artistic values
Democratic policy shifts and dissembling
Defund vs. refund the police debate
Capitalism, socialism, and Medicare for All
El-Sayed's foreign policy contradictions
Abdul El-Sayed's campaign lies
James Tallarico's policy reversals
Tallarico on trans athletes and inclusion
Abortion access and debate conduct
Unionization and cost of living in PA
Jewish-Christian relations and conversion
Judaism as non-exclusivist religion
Noahide laws and Christian beliefs
Idolatry and the 613 laws
Amalek, antisemitism, and Jimmy Dore
Victim mentality and becoming a monster
Sharia law vs. Jewish law comparisons
Encouraging Christians to stay Christian
Defending Islam and avoiding bigotry
Catholicism in original colonies
Tucker Carlson's impact on Senate races
Importance of voting in midterms
UK language and post-war benefits
Republican primary failures and demoralization
Daily Wire membership and DSA threat
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