Ben Shapiro Speaks At Freedom 250

August 16, 2026 Hunter Wallace 2026 Midterms, Conservatism, MAGA, MIGA, Politics, Populists 48

Here is a brief recap of some of the things that I missed this weekend:

  • Ben Shapiro told young conservatives at YAF to shut up and quit complaining. There is nothing the MAGA movement can do for you. Learn personal responsibility. Figure out how to pay for $4 a gallon gas. Make your own burritos at home. Substitute tuna for beef. Stretch the protein. You are completely on your own. He doesn’t give a shit about your standard of living.
  • If you are wealthy, however, you can purchase pardons and endorsements from the president. You can pay $100K to get access to his market moving Truth Social posts. You can rent the U.S. military to fight wars for Israel. You can purchase Republican politicians who will sell you the water and electricity of their states to build AI data centers to further inflate the AI bubble.
  • AI takes your job due to government policies? Learn personal responsibility. Groceries are becoming unaffordable due to high fertilizer costs caused by wars in Ukraine and Iran? Learn personal responsibility? Replaced at work by an H-1B worker? Learn personal responsibility. Can’t afford the $4 a gallon gasoline caused by the Iran War? Learn personal responsibility.
  • House Speaker Mike Johnson said the economy was poised to take off like a rocket until his party stumbled into the war with Iran for Israel.
  • The White House Ballroom was declared a military project by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump toured the Ballroom with AI George Washington.
  • Trump said that was going to declare the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory, said he would never apologize for higher gas prices as a result of the Iran War and said that prices were coming down so fast that it was unbelievable.
  • Trump and Mike Johnson are working on the great healthcare plan that he has been talking about for 11 years.
  • He also said the economy was doing great from the perspective of Wall Street
  • There were some reports that protein was being stretched on the USS Abraham Lincoln

48 Comments

      • > “Conservatives” conserve nothing. “Conservatives” are Anti-White controlled opposition.

        They have been thus for a very long time. As someone noted a decades ago now, the “conservatives” could not even conserve the Ladies’ Room (from trannies). Ben “Littlest Chickenhawk” is the epitome of the “Murikan Conservative”. As the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire towards its demise, Ben Shapiro is neither an American nor a conservative in any traditional sense of the term. He’s a Jew supremacist whose only loyalty is to Israel.

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    • Correct! Republicans are pro-immigration and care about nothing except enriching themselves, personally — and their donors, of course. A typical example: Mike DeWine, governor of Ohio, wailing over possibly losing his cheap foreign labor TPS Haitians. (Update: they are still there) Most of them working for wages so low that they still qualify for welfare. White taxpayers subsidizing the existence of their replacements, so that business can pay lower wages and White people are just f#cked. The message we get is, immigrants are good for the economy. What a laugh.

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      • Astrid,

        Thank you for your kind and informative comment. The Republicans are really just the Enemy in nice suits. My grandmother born before WW2 and actually holding USA citizenship does not even recognize the country. To her it is a nightmare.

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      • In trying to line up your comment I think you are addressing me.

        On most issues that seems to be true. it is strange for people of one religion to bend over backwards for another religion. That is foreign to anything in my mentality as well as all of my family and friends.

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  2. > ? IT’S OFFICIAL: President Trump has classified the White House ballroom construction as a MILITARY project to CIRCUMVENT the activist judges

    > Genius! ?

    I seriously doubt that anyone who as read what I’ve written here would call me a fan of Trump. He’s a liar, a grifter second to none (even Charles Ponzi), and a blowhard moron (and those are his good qualities). Still, the above displays a level of stupidity in believing bullshit from the (((gaslight media))) that’s amazing.

    Even a cursory look into this “ballroom” soon reveals its for a massive serious of bunkers and what amounts to a data center going far beneath.

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  3. Ignore the USS Abraham Lincoln debacle. The crew is a bunch of twenty something girls, niggers,and God knows what else. Let them whine. This is not the Navy of your grandfathers which was all white European-descended males who would endure whatever, this is your feminized Globo Homo Navy.
    When Trump came back into office he said Biden had ruined the military. He was right, but it wasn’t all Biden. But whatever, we’re supposed to believe Hegseth fixed everything in a year? Lol. You can’t fix by order anything that was destroyed over decades. The American Empire is done.

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    • Your point is an even more important one than the one I made over here about the mess. Trump was scarcely past a year in office when he launched this retarded war on behalf of the Epstein class donors he serves. The destruction on the military wrought by Clinton, Bush II, Obama, Trump II and Biden is catostophic on the functionality of the military and cannot be undone by some decrees declaring the end of DEI and Wokism – which will be reversed the day Newsome mounts the Cherry-Blossom Throne to the swoons of hwyte shitlib females of all genders in January 2027.

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      • “The destruction of the US military wrought by…” oh no – ZOG’s military is a shadow of its former self so now who will fight wars for Israel and jewish bankers? Make sure you run down to the local recruiting office first thing in the morning and join up in order to restore the glory to the US military. Pete Kegsbreath is looking for a few hard men.

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      • @Another Christian Nationalist and Exalted Cyclops,

        All good points. You don’t fix things in a year. But you almost could start. You just need to go full time war footing. We advised Trump to do this. It is possible to do in about 18-24 months enough to properly seize the Gulf. Invading and occupying Iran would be out of the question for a other 12 months. We could seize some of the powers and islands and would need to if we were going to seize the control of the straights. But that would be it and it would mean long grueling conflict. So again, war footing. Trump refused. So now we have peacetime posture for the weakened American military which actually can only fight one minor theatre war alone, now engaged in several theatres in low intensity conflict and it’s breaking the military. This is just the result of not going to wartime footing to fight in two theaters simultaneously let alone be prepared to fight superpower China in a couple of years. Libertarian free market solutions that Trump offered will be the death of the Empire and most of us by starvation. Thanks a lot Ayn Rand.

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        • Look at what’s happening to Russia in Ukraine. Think the American public would support anywhere near that level of casualties in Iran?

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          • A major ground war with Iran wouldn’t be any where near the number of casualties the Russians have suffered for us. We don’t treat human life the same way as the Russians, we especially treat our people better, especially our fighting troops. Our war fighters are better fighters. They are better supervised and led. They have better weapons and better tactics.

            In contrast the Iranians are no Ukrainians. The Ukies have been known for centuries as some of the best warriors in the world. Whether as Cossaks or line infantry in the Tsarists or Soviet eras, the River boat raiding Varangians of the Viking era, the Ukies have been the chief fighting force of the region. Likewise the women have been amongst the most beautiful and strongest of Europe. They suffered invasion after after invasikn and withstood and still bred more Ukrainians. It’s one reason Putin wants it. He wants the men for his army and women for his men.

            The Ukrainians have killed so many Russians because their superior soldiers and were fighting against insane odds to defend their country. It’s not the first time. The fight the Reds to a standstill 1918-1920, before being abandoned by the Germans and the West and then splitting between Red and White. That division is the only reason they got conquered. Some of them still fought the soviets for another 30 plus years. They even fought them after WWII when much of the Ukrainian Army revolted causing the Soviets to fight a civil war there for nearly 7 years.

            The Ukrainians are different than the Iranians. Even their ethnically Jewish President put up a Ukrainian fight when he stood with his bodyguards fighting single handidly against Russia’s elite Airborne, Alpha, and Spetnaz units. Any ordinary American politician in DC especially, would shat themselves and spread their legs like AOC did during Jan 6.

            So, no a full scale ground conquest invasion of Iran won’t result in Russian level casualties. The Mad Mullahs only command the loyalty of 20-25% of the population. The rest of the country hates them. It’s more likely the Mad Mullahs will suffer Russian level casualties under the combined US-Alliee-Iranian resistance forces. Ultimately most of the Mullahs because they are fanatics, will all die and or be hunted down and executed all g with their closest followers. This will be religious warfare on a level unseen in our modern era. It will mostly be done by the Iranians.

            In a major ground invasion ained at conquest of Iran, we will suffer casualties. Far higher than during Iraq and Afghanistan. But unlike those insane areas, Iran is a mostly civilized country and it’s Medo-Persian-Kurdish core is Indo-European. Most of its people are only nominally Moslem and mostly ascribe to values you would recognize as vaguely European. They hate the Moslems at this point unlike the Arab Sand N@ggers in Iraq, and the maelstrom of warring mountain tribes known as Afghanistan. This is winnable even in the long term and even under stupid liberal internationalist objectives.

        • @ashkenazi globalist jew

          “Thanks a lot Ayn Rand.”

          Real name: Alisa Rosenbaum. There, fixed it for ya.

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          • @ashkenazi globalist jew

            “fredyetagain aka superhonky
            August 17, 2026 at 2:08 pm
            @ashkenazi globalist jew

            “Thanks a lot Ayn Rand.”

            Real name: Alisa Rosenbaum. There, fixed it for ya.

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            Aryan Globalist Bro
            August 17, 2026 at 3:34 pm
            Fredyetagain aka superhonky, real name, fredyetagain superpapist. There fixed it for you.”

            You’ll notice that our resident kike (ashkenazi globalist jew) didn’t even bother to respond to my point that (((ayn rand))) was a jew. That’s because my statement was a simple matter of fact he couldn’t deny anyway.

            In any event, ashkenazi globalist jew, I am not a papist. I am a Missouri Synod Lutheran; unlike you, you talmudist gefilte-n@gger you.

        • You don’t have the demographics to rebuild the military now. The post 9/11, GWOT military in which combat arms was comprised of mostly GenX and GenY white men (but credit where its due – also 2nd/3rd gen Mexican Americans and Filipinos) is all gone. It can never be reconstituted. Nobody wants to die for Israel, much to Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin’s chagrin.

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          • @AGB “The recruiting numbers say otherwise” – that’s because Donny’s economy is in the toilet and people are signing up for benis and a roof over their heads – so the military becomes more of a mercenary army instead of a ‘Blut und Ehre’ army rooted in soil, race and duty to country.

        • @ashkenazi globalist jew

          “Even their ethnically Jewish President put up a Ukrainian fight when he stood with his bodyguards fighting single handidly against Russia’s elite Airborne, Alpha, and Spetnaz units.”

          BWAHAHAHA. How anyone, even someone as dumb as you, shlomo, believes any of this l’chaimstream media nonsense, is just beyond me. But since you probably also believe in the tooth fairy (or in your case, the brit milah fairy), carry on, gefilte n@gger.

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    • Further asked whether he ever wonders if, one day, he (Ben Shapiro) will be forced to flee the United States, he said, “The existence of the state of Israel is the single greatest guarantor of my loyalty to the United States, frankly. Because Israel exists, that means the United States is going to be a more welcoming place for me, because Israel is there as a backstop in case anything should go wrong.”

      Anything should go wrong??? WTF could go wrong Ben?

      https://www.jewishexponent.com/ben-shapiro-and-binary-aliyah/

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      • “”.WTF could go wrong Ben?..””

        Long ago someone said that if you can’t afford burrito, you can eat cake.

        Now our evil Jew overlords will end up like French aristocracy. This is the end of 400 year of Jewish control over western societies.

        Trump is greatest antisemite of all times.

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        • “This is the end of 400 year of Jewish control over western societies.”
          ^^ Am I missing something here, or are you?? Jews are running victory laps around Western civilization; more powerful than ever before in history.

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        • The only thing Trump will ever be is an accidental agent of destruction. Whatever good might come from his administration is purely unintentional.

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      • @Robert Browning

        “Further asked whether he ever wonders if, one day, he (Ben Shapiro) will be forced to flee the United States, he said, “The existence of the state of Israel is the single greatest guarantor of my loyalty to the United States, frankly. Because Israel exists, that means the United States is going to be a more welcoming place for me, because Israel is there as a backstop in case anything should go wrong.”

        Proof positive, as if any more were needed, that this matzoh-n@gger, just like most of them, feels no real loyalty to our Nation. I wish nothing but the worst upon them all. America First means nothing if it doesn’t also mean America Only.

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    • “Ignore the USS Abraham Lincoln debacle…. This is not the Navy of your grandfathers”

      That’s because you don’t know about the riots aboard carriers like the USS Enterprise in the 1960s and the amount of sabotage that goes on in the military. It’s kept very quiet.

      Just imagine the numbers of divorces this extended deployment will cause, I can.

      WHITES are too wimpy.

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    • @Warface

      “Speaks? Recruiting offices are open, go get em hook nose.”

      Your point is well taken. These kikes are good at fomenting wars. Actually fighting them? Uh, not so much …

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  6. AWESOME! President Trump just posted himself giving George Washington a tour of the new White House ballroom, which is under construction

    Watch the video below that was filmed in Vienna and you will see a ballroom in one of the scenes that resembles what Trump is trying to build. So if Washington ever went to Vienna and saw this ballroom he probably would not be that impressed with Emperor Trump’s plans.

    André Rieu – The Beautiful Blue Danube
    https://youtu.be/IDaJ7rFg66A
    André Rieu & his Johann Strauss Orchestra playing “The Beautiful Blue Danube” (An der schönen blauen Donau) by composer Johann Strauss II. Recorded live at Empress Sisi’s castle; Schönbrunn Palace Vienna, Austria with dancers from the famous Austrian Elmayer Dancing School.

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  7. George Washington and Donald Trump are both 6’2″, yet Trump feels the need to create an AI video which makes Washington look 6″ shorter.

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  8. It should be noted that I predicted all of this:

    “Manufacturing output will not rise, the fertility rate will not rise, and MAHA will not make America healthy again. There will be more outbreaks of preventable disease thanks to people refusing to get vaccinated. People will be furious with Trump for failing to deliver on his promises.”

    https://occidentaldissent.com/2026/01/01/happy-new-year-2026/#comment-3731202

    “It (MAGA) will not retain itself in power unless it can deliver real solutions, which it cannot do. Voters will realize that only national socialism can deliver.”

    https://occidentaldissent.com/2025/09/29/ns-vs-trumpism/#comment-3715415

    I saw all of this coming because I am a national socialist. I saw Trump’s platform at complete variance with national socialism and knew it would fail. Whatever your new ideology is, it isn’t national socialism. Even if you will not call yourself a national socialist, the least you could do is learn from the successes of national socialist Germany. Adolf Hitler took a nation whose economy was in shambles and built it back up into the strongest in Europe. Are you not curious about how this was done? I’ll tell you: it was done with the application of the latest, cutting-edge technology, the product of Aryan genius. Adolf Hitler built the autobahn, the basis of all highways today, which even the enemies of national socialism copied. If you were around back then, you would have said that the autobahns were “destroying Germany’s farmland.” Artificial intelligence is the latest in a serious of technological triumphs, the product of Aryan genius. The only valid national socialist critique of AI data centers is that we do not have enough of them. Local governments should not be allowed to veto AI data centers. Heil Hitler!

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    • Nazis were stupid Darwinists who attacked all the potential allies who could have helped them defeat the Soviet Union. Dumb as dogarse, getting into a two-front war against USA and USSR. They could’ve kept all the smart Jewish scientists like Einstein instead of gassing them and ruled the world. Absolute disaster for Europe and Aryan man.

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      • Who did he attack who could have helped? Hitler should have played the long game with Poland and let the USSR be seen as the greater threat. After the All-lies took advantage of the regional squabble to declare war on Germany, there was nobody strong enough to be a decent ally. Only potential launching pads for Allied buildups.

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    • I don’t give a rats patootie what the famous deceased German would have done or not. This is America (for good or ill), and every politician who spoils what’s left of this country’s natural resources and beauty with a data center should be tried for treason and deported.

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      • Such sentimentalist twaddle will only result in your land being overrun by more virile peoples who will then proceed to trash your precious landscapes. Environmental protection, while an important national socialist value, can only occur in the context of a technologically advanced and powerful state.

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  9. People are jealous of Ben because he’s cute and because he’s Jewish—rather like Kushner. Both have Harvard degrees. After two thousand years of persecution, exclusion, and periodic dispossession, Jews finally get something approaching a level playing field in the United States, proceed to tear it up, and suddenly the descendants of their former oppressors have discovered that they’re the victims because gasoline costs too much. Forgive me if I ration my sympathy. Show. Some. Personal. Responsibility.

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    • @the Boomer posting here under the name ClownWorld

      “People are jealous of Ben because he’s cute and because he’s Jewish—rather like Kushner. Both have Harvard degrees.”

      Uhhhhh, “cute”????? Ok Boomer, you cavorted with ladybugs lindsey didn’t you? In any event, I’ll just wish you ill and leave you to your fantasies about “cute” jewish boys …

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    • We are mad at Ben Shapiro because he and his “Christian nationalist” goy-lackeys started a Jewish war for his country. It is true that Jews were excluded from politics in the past, and will be so in the future if this war-mongering continues.

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  11. Wonder why Shapiro and Levin are never concerned about 3 whites getting railroaded and serving ridiculous time in jail over a controversial killing in the state of GA. The chief “architect” of these 3 men’s prosecution came from Lincolnite (Repub) Brian Kemp.

    Received an update from Mrs McMichael today. Her words made me despise the Lincolnite (Make Georgia Howl) party even more. Howling is just not enough it seems.

    Good afternoon,

    I know it has been a while, but we have been in limbo waiting for Judge Wamsley to issue a decision on a new trial. He finally decided against a new trial around May. Since we anticipated his decision, we were prepared to appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court. The Georgia Supreme Court put our case on the docket Monday August third; also, Judge Wamsley wrote a resignation letter to Governor Kemp the same day. Judge Wamsley will leave on September 1 to work for a large firm in Atlanta, Georgia. This is a big deal for us because if the Georgia Supreme Court throws out our case, we will go before a different judge. I pray for someone who is fair and ethical. Regarding the Federal case, Travis’s lawyer has taken it to the U.S. Supreme Court. Greg’s lawyer refused. He stated that he was only obligated to take the case before the 11th circuit appellant court. Greg and Travis both had Court appointed lawyers because we did not have enough money. I have one more option for Greg and Travis in the Federal Court and I am currently seeking a lawyer for that option. Costs are $70,000 to $100,000, and I need 2. I am doing my best to work out payment plans or whatever I can. I will not give up! It is my understanding that the FBI agents who worked on our case received an Attorney General award from Marit Garland. I do not think I would be too proud to receive any award from that corrupt man. It is amazing the promotions and awards given to people who worked to send 3 innocent men to prison. The head of the GBI during our case, Vic Reynolds, was promoted to Superior court Judge in Marietta, Georgia, by Governor Kemp. I remember seeing a documentary on him when he received his promotion. Reynolds stated that our case definitely contributed to this promotion. He spoke of how ethical the GBI is. “If you mess up, you fess up,” he stated. This is a man who investigated a “crime” for 24 hours and decided that it was Malice Murder. This is after a 3-month investigation by Local police and a DA who determined self-defense. This is also a man who refused to investigate the election fraud in Fulton County during the 2020 election. He stated there was enough evidence to investigate but did not. David Purdue, Ga. Senator, was asked in front of the grand jury why Vic Reynolds didn’t have the GBI investigate the election fraud if he believed there was enough evidence to investigate it. Purdue’s answer was that Reynolds stated Governor Kemp told him not to investigate and Reynolds replied, “I am a team player.” Sounds pretty ethical and also explains a lot about our case.

    Greg and Travis are doing well. Both are at peace. I do not know how they are holding it together except by the grace of God. Greg’s health is holding up. He has had to have several teeth pulled and has lost quite a bit of weight, but he is in good spirits and that is what matters. He is still in isolation. He gets out of his cell three times a week for a shower and a call to me. I see him monthly. We are not allowed contact visits. We are both hard of hearing, so we sit with glass between us and scream. It is kind of funny. The warden has let Greg know that as long as he is there, we will never be allowed a contact visit. We accept that. I am thankful that I get to spend 2 hours with him once a month and for 15 min. conversations 3 times a week.

    Travis never ceases to amaze me. He has the strongest faith of anyone I have ever met. He keeps me on tract. He will not allow me to become bitter or angry. He lets me know that anger only harms me. I talk to Travis frequently. He is also still in isolation. He gets out for a shower 3 times a week, but he can have more frequent calls. The guard has a phone they can roll into his cell. I see Travis 2 times a year because he is so far away. We get an all-day visit. I can buy him lunch from the prison kitchen. He is so thrilled and thankful to get Chicken nuggets and fries. I usually give him mine also. It’s amazing the things you miss when you do not have access to them. Travis still has his wonderful sense of humor. I laugh so hard when I get to see him that my jaw hurts. Travis has wonderful friends who stay in close contact with me. Even those Travis were in the Coast Guard with whom I have never met stay in contact with me. They all love Travis and miss him. Travis still talks with his son daily.

    I am continuing the fight. I miss them terribly, but I still have hope. I see my Grandson whenever I want. His Mom and Stepdad are wonderful. He has a little brother now who calls me Gamgam also. He will be spending a week at the end of August with me. He will be 10 in September, and he is my heart. He is so much like his Dad. He is so funny and very smart. He Loves to learn.

    Things are moving slowly in the right direction. Hopefully, my next update will be better news. Thank you for your continued support and prayers.

    Leigh McMichael

    May God Save the South!

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