Several Sponsors Cut Ties with Jennifer Welch’s Podcast After Hosts Laugh About Desecrating Charlie Kirk’s Body

 Erika Kirk Slams Dave Chappelle, Jennifer Welch After 'Beyond Disgusting' Remarks About Charlie Kirk’s Murder

. . . "About a month and a half after Kirk was murdered, Welch went on a rant where she urged Democrat leaders to get with the program, and praised a No Kings leftist protester who indicated she was happy Kirk was dead:

Former Bravo star and liberal podcast host Jennifer Welch laughed as she watched footage of a “No Kings” protester celebrating conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death, telling Democrats they need to cater to such voters going forward.

“If you think this Zohran thing is happening just in New York and you think people are waking up only in New York City, you’re mistaken,” she said, playing a clip of a “wine mom” at the “No Kings” march during an offshoot of her “I’ve Had It” podcast called “IHIP News.”She then cut to man-on-the-street footage of conservative commentator Kaitlin Bennett speaking about Kirk to a protester at the march.“Yeah, him’s horrible,” the elderly female marcher said of Kirk, weeks after his death. “Horrible. Charlie Kirk is horrible. Yes. I’m glad he’s not here.”

"Here's what Welch said:

Kudos to Bernie, to AOC, to Zohran. And that woman out in somewhere middle America saying, f**k Charlie Kirk, he was a racist, he was a piece of sh*t. There are so many more of us than there are of them. And these Democrats that continue to play patty cake with corporations and lobbyists, nobody wants that. Nobody wants you. We want politicians to speak freely and look at what the benefit is. Look at what is happening in New York. And you dips**ts are sitting on the sidelines running your social media like complete dorks. It's embarrassing. Get your sh*t together. Hakeem and Chuck, seriously get your sh*t together because the Democratic Party is moving on." . . .

Erika Kirk Slams Dave Chappelle, Jennifer Welch After 'Beyond Disgusting' Remarks About Charlie Kirk’s Murder

“To see leftist podcasters, comedians, and commentators laugh about political assassination as though it’s entertainment and the destruction of a human life is a punchline, is beyond disgusting,” Kirk wrote on Sunday on X.

“My husband, Charlie Kirk, was killed in an act of political violence, something our two children and I will live with every day for the rest of our lives,” she continued.

Several Sponsors Cut Ties with Jennifer Welch’s Podcast After Hosts Laugh About Desecrating Charlie Kirk’s Body

Several companies—including Cash App, Chewy, Zenni Optical, NOBL Travel, Boll & Branch, and Lola Blankets—publicly stated they ended or would not continue sponsorships with Jennifer Welch’s I’ve Had It podcast after a controversial joke about Charlie Kirk.

What happened   During a November 2025 episode, Jennifer Welch and co‑host Angie Sullivan laughed at a social media post joking about “digging up” conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who had been murdered earlier that year. The clip went viral and prompted public criticism from across the political spectrum 

Companies that withdrew or distanced themselves                                                  

• Cash App — Said it “does not condone violence of any kind” and confirmed it was no longer a sponsor

  
  
• Chewy — Stated it does not support or sponsor the podcast and had ended its affiliation
• Zenni Optical — Announced it had canceled advertising on the show

  NOBL Travel — Confirmed it ended its deal and does not condone violence 
• Boll & Branch — Clarified it does not currently sponsor the podcast and will not in the future
• Lola Blankets — Confirmed it no longer works with the podcast

  
  
• Additional advertisers — One report notes that 25 advertisers pledged not to advertise on the show following the incident

Why sponsors reacted

The companies cited concerns about:

• Violence-related content or jokes involving a murder victim

  
  
• Brand safety and distancing from politically charged or insensitive commentary.

Evangelical voters left their discernment in 2022

 Washington Examiner   

"But when compared to the Democratic Party, which seeks to legalize murdering babies through abortion, give children transgender surgeries, and abandon Israel — to whom God promised, “I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee” (Genesis 12:3) — the GOP looks like the God-Ordained Party." 

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"Everything you heard about a post-Charlie Kirk Christian revival is bunk. When the dust settled on the Republican Party’s crushing electoral defeat, the exit polls revealed that the share of white evangelical voters had decreased by nearly 30% since the previous midterm elections. And the largest religious demographic in the election? Those with no religion at all.

"According to NBC News exit polling, the “white evangelical or born-again Christian” vote made up just 17% of the electorate. As a member of this demographic, the most concerning thing to me is that 60% of voters actually identified as some sort of Christian, but those who profess to be “born again” are just a fraction of that. Biblically speaking, you’re not a Christian if you haven’t been born again. Jesus Christ Himself said, “ye must be born again” (John 3:7), and this sentiment was echoed by the apostles Paul and Peter in their epistles.

"Being a “born-again” Christian simply means that you have recognized that you’re a sinner (Romans 3:23), that all sinners have earned an eternity in hell (Romans 6:23), and that there is no way you can earn your way out of it (Galatians 2:21). But you have also recognized that Jesus Christ, who is God in the flesh, came down from heaven to die on the cross and shed His blood to pay for your sins (Romans 3:25), was buried, and rose from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:1-4), and you have asked the Lord to save you and give you His righteousness (Romans 10:9-10), since you can’t get into heaven through your own righteousness. This is Bible 101, so it’s remarkable and worrisome to me that so many professing Christians don’t identify as such. My advice, whether or not you claim to be born again, is, “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith” (2 Corinthians 13:5).

"But aside from the label itself, the thing that worries me is that evangelicals made up 24% of the electorate in the 2022 midterm elections, so where did the other 7 percentage points (or 29.17% of their share) go in the last four years? There are two options: either they stayed home, or the other religious groups somehow grew rapidly in that time period. We do not see the latter option reflected in census data, so it’s only reasonable to conclude that perhaps the most reliably conservative voting bloc largely skipped the election altogether.

"Every election is a test of discernment for Christian voters because, let’s be honest, most, if not all, politicians are immoral and only out for themselves, regardless of their campaign rhetoric." . . .   More.

Victor Davis Hanson: Why Do They Despise Musk?

 The Daily Signal

"Billionaire George Soros and his various foundations have channeled well over half a billion dollars to left-wing candidates and causes in just the last six years alone. Billionaires like Reid Hoffman, Tom Steyer, and the now-imprisoned Sam Bankman-Fried gave hundreds of millions to the Democratic Party and its candidates. But Musk now embodies everything the enraged Left hates."

Diane Ravitch's blog

"As the midterms approached, the Left went nearly berserk in its hatred of trillionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Yet its escalating venom would have been almost inconceivable before 2022, when Musk publicly declared that he would be voting Republican.

Before Musk’s recent political reversal (he voted for both Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020), he was beloved by the Left as the first successful upstart challenger to the century-long dominance of the Big Three fossil-fuel automakers. Liberals once loved his revolutionary, electrically powered Teslas and drove them proudly as a green virtue signal.

Not now. Far-left podcaster Jennifer Welch has run out of Nazi epithets for Musk. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—ironically, given her own limited talents—trashed Musk as “probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed.”

"Fellow multibillionaire Bill Gates smeared Musk for supposedly “killing the world’s poorest children” by promoting cuts to U.S. foreign aid programs.

"A few weeks ago, former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich even demanded that Musk’s SpaceX and Starlink be nationalized and run by the government—a move more associated with Cuba or the old Soviet Union than with the United States of America.

"Such unhinged venom can contribute to violence. In early 2025, leftists launched more than 80 attacks against Tesla cars and dealerships—and sometimes even individual Tesla drivers. Similar cases of vandalism and arson have continued into 2026.

"So, why did the Left go from hailing Musk as the next Thomas Edison to treating him as public enemy No. 1 and targeting him with death threats?

"The Left once loved all the tech and Wall Street billionaires who ensured that Democrats always had more money than Republicans." . . .   More.

Victor Davis Hanson is a Daily Signal senior contributor, hosting a podcast, producing video commentaries, and writing a weekly column. He is the author of “The Counterrevolution The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement.”

Fox News Suffers Shocking 40% Election Ratings Decline

 Newsmax.com 

"White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has been equally outspoken, describing Fox as "RINO TV every day" and urging conservatives to abandon the channel for Newsmax."

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"Fox News suffered a devastating 40% plunge in prime-time election night viewership compared with the 2022 midterms, according to Nielsen ratings released this past week.

"This bad news for the network is part of a broader ratings collapse that has taken place in the past few months as Fox has lost nearly 30% of its audience amid growing criticism from President Donald Trump and his supporters.

"Nielsen figures showed Fox losing nearly half its election night audience even as overall television viewership for the Nov. 3 midterms coverage surged 23% compared with four years earlier.

"Over 27 million Americans watched prime-time election coverage across six major networks, underscoring the extraordinary contrast between growing public interest in the elections and Fox's sharply declining audience.

"Fox, which attracted nearly 7.5 million prime-time viewers during the 2022 midterms, saw its audience plunge to 4.3 million viewers this year.

"Meanwhile, Newsmax saw significant viewership on Election Day, with a total reach of over 4.6 million viewers tuning in.

"NBC emerged as the night's biggest winner, attracting approximately 6.8 million prime-time viewers." . . .  More.

Sen. El-Sayed declares Michigan to be the 'capital of Arab America'

 Just The News

Make room for Daddy! Where's your veil?

"Sen. Abdul El-Sayed, the newly elected Democrat from Michigan, called the state "the capital of Arab America" at a summit for Arab Americans. 

"I'm honored to be the next United States senator from the great state of Michigan, which of course I know we're here in D.C. which of course is the capital of the United States of America. But Michigan is the capital of Arab America," El-Sayed said. 

"The remark was made during the Connect Arab America Empowerment Summit in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Chantilly, Virginia, on Friday, Breitbart reported. 

"Dearborn, Michigan, which has the largest Arab population in the U.S., has often been referred to as the "capital of Arab America."  . . .

When anti-Israel rhetoric becomes a political credential  "The most disturbing result of America's midterm elections wasn't simply who won. It was what Americans were willing to overlook when they voted.

"On Nov. 3, Americans elected politicians whose records include anti-Zionist activism, inflammatory accusations against Israel, and controversies involving antisemitic conspiracy theories. When did hostility toward the Jewish state become a political credential?

"I see a pattern: Anti-Israel propaganda presented as human rights advocacy, selective outrage masquerading as moral principle, and anti-Jewish prejudice repackaged as political virtue. I call it moral permission: prejudice acquiring legitimacy through the language of justice." . . . Evangelical voters left their discernment in 2022

'America, We Have Lost This City': The Battle for Dearbornistan – HotAir

When Michigan was American, fighting to preserve America as founded.

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The Boys’ Reading Crisis: Publishers Are Ignoring Male Readers

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"Now the feminist-ruled publishers are indoctrinating boys much earlier by purging male heroes from tween fiction."

"In my last article here, I wrote I’d be avoiding hardcore political analysis for a year to focus on trying to win the Culture War. And there’s no question the right side took a major blow in this struggle last Tuesday. Given their electoral victory, the forces of wokeness — repelled by the failure of recent cinematic assaults such as Digger (climate change), The Social Reckoning (January 6th), Supergirl (female empowerment) — will redouble their attacks. The latest salvo was an Atlantic piece last week, “An Underrated Reason Boys are Reading Less,” purporting to explain the steep drop in young male readership, naturally from a feminist perspective.

"Article author Sophia Nguyen at least gets the problem right. She cites a 2026 analysis by elementary-school book guide curator Afoma Umesi that found female protagonists outnumber male protagonists two to one in middle-grade (ages 8-12) fiction, and three to one in realistic (non-fantasy) and mystery fiction. But Nguyen unwittingly exposes the real problem, feminism — her own, Umesi’s, and that of every woman in control of the culture.

"According to Nguyen, Umesi first kept hearing from concerned parents about the dearth of books intended for boys in her literary guides. “Her initial response was annoyance,” wrote Nguyen. “’What do you think this is, the 15th Century?’ Umesi remembers thinking.”

"Clearly, Nguyen didn’t think before making such a revelatory, ah, revelation about Umesi and herself. Her initial response was annoyance. Judge this statement in context. A woman in charge of increasing readership among elementary-school students balked at a damaging discrepancy, one intentionally created by feminism." . . .

Books, Boys, and Heroes - Intellectual Takeout   "My previous article, “Stories About Real Heroes Can Help Make Heroic Boys,” drew readers’ attention to the good that comes through exposing boys to literature and history featuring flesh-and-blood heroes. Superheroes have a place in the imagination of the young, but sooner or later, boys realize that the only superpowers in real life are those derived from the human heart and soul."  More.

California Democrat congressman targets his own constituents

"A venom-spewing mouse with big ambitions to be a rat."

Monica Showalter - American Thinker

"'Garcia is part of the elite ruling class of Democrat Latino Marxists in CA,' but not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I've covered him since he was Long Beach Mayor - I'm still wondering how he got elected Mayor, and then to Congress." Katy Grimes

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"Incoming Democrats have made it loud and clear they want revenge on the Trump administration and its allies, but the noisiest one, Rep. Robert Garcia of Long Beach, now the incoming Chairman of the House Oversight committee, is firing away at his own constituents, too.

"The little weasel was the beneficiary of Gavin Newsom's sleazy gerrymandering scheme and as a result, his large Long Beach 42nd district got less-populous Huntington Beach, a rare conservative coastal enclave known as 'Surf City,' stapled onto it, cancelling out all of its representation in Congress, and will now be dominated by union-choked, welfare-and-homeless-NGO-filled Long Beach's representative.

"What is Garcia talking about?

"The days of Huntington Beach being a MAGA city are over"? What kind of statement is that? He's not a local official anymore, but seems to think that as an unasked-for congressman to Huntington Beach, he's going to tell his residents in the new part of his district how they vote, or who can live there? What kind of dictator plans does he really have here? 

"Garcia's background is that he's a Peruvian-born former mayor of Long Beach who is also a professional gay, so Huntington Beach's local officials' refusal to fly a rainbow flag a few years ago seems to have fueled his revenge-lust at the town he represents, maybe even more so than the fact that most of the citizens there voted Republican.

"Now he's out to get them, vowing to destroy the city, perhaps same as he's done for Long Beach, when went downhill on his watch." . . . More.

Mexico's cartels fire up the migrant caravans after Democrat win

 Monica Showalter - American Thinker

"Nevertheless, the Democratic “Blue Wave” appears to have encouraged some migrants to undertake a risky journey to the US. The hope for an easier passage to the United States was especially palpable this week among a pair of migrant caravans bound from Honduras and El Salvador." 

Biden Caravan

BREAKING: Another large migrant caravan is leaving Mexico’s southern border right now in an attempt to reach the United States. Some members of the caravan, which is mostly comprised of Central Americans, told me they are hopeful Democrats win the midterms.

. . . "The cartels who run human traffic into the U.S. are vicious, al-Qaida-grade monsters, and the governments of the people being lured north by them should be actively stopping them.

"As for Democrats, time will tell if they want to continue with the Joe Biden policy of enabling the cartels, welcoming the migrants as new voters, and fattening the NGOs with state bennies to ensure that the migrants have plenty of reason to want to stay.

"Would they really go back to the open border disaster which took down Joe Biden? I'm sorry to say I think they would. Only a few of them have admitted that the policy was a mistake.

"For the Trump administration, they may have a new border war they'll need to fight alone, and go harder on controlling Mexico."

From Texas to Tehran: how papers across the world reacted to ‘Dem-olition’ job on Trump in US midterms

 

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From Texas to Tehran: how papers across the world reacted to ‘Dem-olition’ job on Trump in US midterms

Trump's Midterm Setback: Can America Regain Global Trust?  

"That 77 million Americans voted to elect Trump to a second term, along with the administration's combative conduct on his tariff war, Israel's conduct in Gaza, immigration and Iran, had already shaken trust in America around the world.

"By the time Americans awakened Wednesday, global leaders and regular people from Europe to Australia had moved beyond the “wow” to a reckoning with the reality that Trump still retains enormous powers.". . . 

 Republicans took a beating in midterms... Trump’s next move says he’s ready to fight... - Revolver News   . . . "The move puts Miller in a position to help set the pace for the next two years. A chief of staff helps determine what gets the president’s attention and whether the people carrying out his agenda are actually doing their job.

"In his Truth Social message, President Trump praised Wiles and is keeping her on his political team, so he clearly values what she brings to the table. But the shakeup has some wondering if her very hands-on approach left the president too insulated from his own voters. When the base started sounding the alarm, was that frustration getting through to Trump?" . . .

Dozens of child killers spared by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mass commutation

 Gavin Newsom’s death row commutation could spare child killers

"Notice that many on the left cheered Charlie Kirk being murdered, as well as the assassination of a heath insurance executive in cold blood on a NYC street... but they believe in leniency for these hardcore criminals. If Gavin's attempt to become president wasn't dead before, it sure is now. This taints him forever." Reader

Family killed by Marcus Wesson

"Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stunning decision this week to commute the death sentences of all 548 condemned inmates in California could slash the total number of death row inmates across the country by more than a quarter — and also spare dozens of people convicted of heinous crimes against children.

""A rough analysis of the state’s current condemned inmate list reveals dozens of criminals whose names have been cited in the murders of minors.

""The state doesn’t publish a breakdown of what type of murders each death row inmate commits — but according to one estimate conducted in the 2010s, about 173 to 220 of them were convicted in cases involving the murder of children." . . .

"“Governor Newsom’s decision to unilaterally eradicate the decisions of hundreds of juries comes as no surprise, as this is just another step in a calculated march to empty out California’s prisons and send a message that no one should be held responsible for their crimes,” he said in a statement.

""San Francisco cops likewise slammed the governor, saying victims “have every right to be outraged and betrayed by Governor Newsom.”

“'These individuals would remain imprisoned for life without parole, but that does not erase the profound consequences of this decision,” said San Francisco police union president Louis Wong in a statement."   More.

Victims' Advocates Slam Newsom's Decision to Commute Death Sentences | Headline USA 

 "Xavier Becerra, a Democrat who previously served as California attorney general, is the governor-elect. When asked about the role of incoming leadership, Sutton noted that once executive clemency is officially granted, the legal action cannot simply be undone by a successor."

California's Gov. Gavin Newsom ignores judges and juries, commutes 548 death sentences for heinous killers    . . . "So this beast got his sentence commuted against the decision of a jury, multiple judge rulings, and every appeal he was allowed, as well as three propositions passed by voters affirming the punishment, and got to rot in prison for around 40 years, benefiting well from Newsom's death penalty moratorium, and it still wasn't good enough for Newsom.

He had to commute the monster's sentence, ensuring that he would never pay for his crimes, and continues to live out his years on the taxpayer dime, that is, until another leftwing lawyer, or governor, takes the next step -- and lets him out.

That was the slippery slope described by the father of Polly Klaas, another young murder victim who was heinously and mercilessly slain by an absolutely worthless monster."