Conservatives Finally Find Yet Another Reason to Cancel Netflix

Netflix Discovers That Mocking a Murdered Conservative on the Anniversary of His Assassination Is Apparently Not Great for Customer Retention

Conservatives' latest Netflix boycott didn't exactly come out of leftist field [pardon the pun]. It's the result of years of cultural grievances, political battles, questionable children's programming, and now a social-media post that somehow managed to combine a much-loved murdered conservative activist, a neck wound, and a promotional campaign for a British gangster show.

What could possibly go wrong?

On September 10, 2026, the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Netflix's UK & Ireland account decided it was the perfect time to promote The Gentlemen Season 2 with the caption:

“Nearly did himself a neck injury.”

Charlie [I cannot bring myself to formally calling him Kirk], of course, was shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.

Conservatives on social media responded with the traditional consumer feedback mechanism of the modern age: canceling their subscriptions and posting screenshots to prove they had done it.

Figures including Libs of TikTok, Jack Posobiec, and Rudy Giuliani called for a boycott. I didn't because I was oblivious of the situation at the time since I have a life and don't live on social media.

Netflix, apparently realizing that this was not going to be one of those promotional campaigns where everyone simply shrugs and watches the show, insisted conservatives had gotten the joke completely wrong. Both sides of the aisle apparently have their own scolds who scour the internet to find the latest offense.

Anyway, the company called the interpretation “inaccurate and ludicrous,” explaining that the caption referred to a scene in which a character whips his head around at a wedding.

Which is certainly one explanation.

The post was not taken down.

And while Netflix may have been technically correct about what the caption referred to, the timing turned out to be about as strategically brilliant as announcing a half-price fireworks sale outside a gasoline station. What a pile of dolt bags.

For Charlie's supporters, September 10 was already a painful anniversary. Seeing Netflix use the phrase “neck injury” in a promotional post that landed on that exact date understandably struck many conservatives as another example of a company that simply does not understand why people are angry.

And Then There's the Rest of the Netflix Problem

The funny thing is that conservatives didn't need Netflix to post the “neck injury” line.

They already had a pretty substantial file folder labeled Reasons We Don't Like Netflix.

For years, conservatives have complained about the company's approach to children's programming and LGBTQ themes, in the spirit of a grooming maneuver. 

Critics, including Elon Musk in 2025, pointed to shows such as Dead End: Paranormal Park, The Baby-Sitters Club, and certain CoComelon episodes that include transgender or non-binary characters or themes. One can imagine Veggie Tales' Larry The Cucumber transitioning into a female cucumber named Loretta as this woke nonsense continues.

Loretta [formerly Larry] the Cucumber

Conservative reports have claimed that a significant share of Netflix's G- and Y7-rated programming contains LGBTQ content. 

And so the plot sickens.

Republican Senators Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt brought similar complaints to a February 2026 Senate hearing, describing Netflix's children's programming as “woke” and accusing the company of promoting a “transgender ideology.”

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has rejected the idea that the company has a political agenda, arguing that its enormous catalog simply reflects a wide range of stories.

Because apparently the solution to a culture war is to make approximately 7,000 television shows and then insist nobody should notice any patterns.

Netflix also has a multi-year production deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions, originally signed in 2018.

Susan Rice, a former Obama administration official, sits on Netflix's board of mind controllers.

Conservatives became even more suspicious during the proposed 2025-2026 Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, with some MAGA influencers portraying the deal as “the Obamas taking over media.”

The bid ultimately failed amid political pressure and a competing offer.

But by then, conservatives had already filed the transaction under Things That Somehow Make Netflix Even More Netflixish--say that three times fast on helium.

The Politics Don't Help

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings has donated heavily to Democratic causes and candidates.

Critics have also pointed to Netflix's statements following former thug and drug addict George Floyd's death and what they regard as a catalog heavily tilted toward progressive positions on race, gender, family, and other cultural issues.

From the conservative perspective, the problem isn't simply that Netflix has left-wing programming. It's that conservatives believe Netflix has spent years behaving as though there is only one acceptable political worldview and that anyone who disagrees can simply go watch something else. Which, coincidentally, is exactly what millions of people can now do with the press of a button.

Remember Cuties? The 2020 French film generated a massive boycott campaign over its sexualized depiction of young girls. That controversy never completely disappeared from conservative memory.

Apparently Netflix has discovered that people on the internet possess something remarkably dangerous: Screenshots.

Adding another layer to the situation, a Florida attorney general lawsuit filed around the same time as the Kirk anniversary controversy alleges deceptive data collection involving minors.

That case is focused primarily on privacy and advertising rather than the culture-war programming dispute, but it gives conservatives yet another reason to look at Netflix and wonder whether perhaps they would rather spend their $20 somewhere else.

At this point, Netflix may want to consider changing its corporate slogan from “Watch What You Want” to “Please Stop Canceling.” The “neck injury” post didn't create conservative anger toward Netflix, it merely poured gasoline onto a fire that had been burning for years.

For many conservatives, Netflix represents something much larger than a streaming service. It represents a culturally progressive institution that they believe has used entertainment, children's programming, political relationships, and corporate influence to push ideas they reject.

Netflix's response remains essentially the same: We're an entertainment company, not a political organization, and our library contains lots of different stories. 

So cut out the damn wokeness. Every hero in every movie doesn't need to be a person of color, or a woman who, in spite of weighing 100 pounds can beat the snot out of guys twice her size.

Conservatives' response is also essentially the same: That's nice. Here's the unsubscribe button. Buh-byeee.

The only question now is whether Netflix can survive the horrifying consequences of its latest promotional campaign.

Namely, conservatives discovering that canceling a streaming service is considerably easier than canceling cable and that dinner date at your in-laws. [Just kidding.]

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Boasberg's Reign of Terror on the Bench Could Be Coming to a Screeching Halt as GOP Rep Drops Impeachment Hammer

Oh, the sweet sound of accountability finally catching up to a partisan hack in a black robe. Leftist poster boy Judge James Boasberg is learning the hard way that you can't just play fast and loose with the Constitution forever without someone swinging back. Texas Rep. Brandon Gill (R-26), who's reportedly gearing up to file articles of impeachment against this clown in the fallout from the latest bombshell on Biden's dystopian spy op, Operation Arctic Frost.

Fresh off a chat with Fox News' Laura Ingraham, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds (R-19) spilled the beans that his Texas counterpart Gill is knee-deep in paperwork to boot Boasberg, who moonlights as chief judge of the U.S. District Court for D.C., right out of his cushy gig. This all blew up after this week's gut-punch reveal: a whopping 197 subpoenas targeting conservative heavyweights and everyday Americans in Biden's fever-dream surveillance scheme via Operation Arctic Frost.

Exhibit A is a sneaky subpoena for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) from then-Special Counsel Jack Smith to AT&T, rubber-stamped by Boasberg himself, who slapped a gag order on the telecom giant to keep the Texas senator in the dark. As conservative platform RedState laid out, it's peak weaponization.

"He should be impeached. This is why I'm glad that my colleague out of Texas, Rep. Brandon Gill, is actually filing those documents to have him impeached," Donalds fired off. "You can not have a judge just be rogue in our system of justice, helping to abet a rogue prosecutor like Jack Smith to start targeting any American, let alone United States senators."

"This is outrageous! And once again, it demonstrates the length to which the Democrats would stoop in order to keep political power in the United States," he added. "This is not about the Constitution. This is not about the American people. This is about their craven desire to remain in power."

"And you can look at this shutdown or anything else that's going on this year to demonstrate the fact that the Democrats do not care what lever they have to pull or where they have to go to," Donalds continued. "It's about power for them first, second, and third, not the American people, not the Constitution."

Cruz, naturally, was the first Republican voice roaring for Boasberg's head on a pike after this Arctic Frost fiasco came to light. He dissected the judge's deranged order to AT&T, accusing Cruz of being a flight risk for evidence-torching.The report read:

"'The court finds reasonable grounds that such disclosure will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence,'" Cruz read, speaking about the order. "'Intimidation of witnesses and serious jeopardy to the investigation.'"

"There is precisely zero evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or tamper with evidence," he added. "Or to intimidate potential witnesses. Zero evidentiary basis for that. This order is an abuse of power. This order is a weaponized legal system."

Cruz demanded the House impeach Boasberg for "abuse of power," all while issuing subpoenas against Republicans on zero probable cause.

Not to be outdone, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) piled on, declaring it the first time in his career he's ever bayed for a judge's impeachment. "This is the first time I've called for a judge's impeachment. Normally, appellate courts and the Supreme Court rein in rogue district judges. Not Boasberg--he's truly lawless. He's openly biased, gone rogue, and likely broken the law."

Buckle up, folks. We will see if Boasberg's house of cards finally topples under the weight of his own arrogance. 

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Man Who Thought He Could Play Dirty Harry with Babylon Bee's Seth Dillon Gets the Cuffs

Ah, the sweet symphony of justice: a Florida man who apparently mistook his keyboard for a license to kill has been hauled off in handcuffs. An "edgy intellectual" threatened to murder the guy who runs the Babylon Bee a conservative satire site.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier dropped the good news on X, like a mic at a comedy roast: "Last week, our Office of Statewide Prosecution was notified of multiple death threats made to Jewish conservative media members who live in Florida."

Prosecutors didn't waste time, they slapped together an arrest warrant faster than you can say "First Amendment," and the boys in blue executed it with the precision of a Bee headline. The perp, a 28-year-old idiot named Nicholas Ray (online handle: “zionistarescum," subtle, right?), is now cooling his anti-Semitic heels in custody, staring down "charges of extortion, written threats to kill, and unlawful use of a two-way communication device."

Ray's alleged X feed is a fever dream of Israel-bashing, Trump-trashing, and general Republican-roasting that would make your average campus safe space blush. The Daily Wire, a conservative website, dug through it like archaeologists at a dumpster fire, unearthing posts that scream "unhinged manifesto" louder than a TikTok rant.

This bust hits amid a political violence epidemic that's got more plot twists than a season of The Boys. Just Monday, Seth Dillon himself penned a piece for the Free Press, basically holding up a mirror to the fever swamps on both sides: urging the Right and Left to eyeball their own toxic ideologies and policies before someone else does it for them, with a baseball bat.

Dillon launched The Babylon Bee back in 2016 as a cheeky antidote to the humorless drudgery of "real" news, aiming to "speak truth through humor." Mission accomplished: the site's ballooned to 2.2 million Instagram devotees and over 5 million on X. But success breeds enemies, and pre-Musk Twitter slapped a suspension on Dillon for a zinger about USA Today's "Woman of the Year" pick. (Spoiler: It was a dude.) 

Elon Musk swooped in seven months later, bought the bird app, rebranded it X, and hit the "unban" button like it was payback for every bad tweet ever. Free speech: It's what's for dinner.Lately, the Bee's been slugging it out in court over Gavin Newsom's latest bright idea—a bill cranking down on "deep fake images" that basically hands Big Brother the satire censor's toolkit. The judge sided with the Bee, and their lawyer nailed the coffin shut: “The court was right to rein in California’s blatant censorship. We can’t trust the government to decide what is true in our online political debates.”

Meanwhile, Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) is cranking up the heat with a Tuesday hearing on this plague of politically motivated thuggery. Summer '25 alone? Two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers murdered, and the assassination of Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk.

Schmitt didn't mince words: "The rise of political violence on the left is deeply disturbing and antithetical to American values, disturbs the free exercise of our constitutional rights, and is a threat to our constitutional order."

In a world where threats fly faster than likes on a cat video, it's a reminder: Punch up with jokes, not fists. Or keyboards pretending to be guns. 

Your move, keyboard warriors.

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Missouri AG calls out St. Louis prosecutor in McCloskey's self-defense case

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt called out the St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner, who is handling the case of Mark and Patricia McCloskey. They are the couple who legally defended their property from an encroaching, threatening, and partially armed mob.

Gardner is a Soros-funded leftist and Schmitt is exposing this little tidbit about her.

On Friday, law enforcement executed a warrant against the McCloskeys and confiscated their registered, legal firearms, violating their Second Amendment rights.

Schmitt alleged to Fox News that  Gardner has a history of making politically motivated decisions.

The gate the rioters destroyed

"Under Missouri law, under the Castle Doctrine, an individual has really expansive authority to protect their own lives, their home, and their property. I think the story here to watch here is the local prosecutor, Kim Gardner," Schmitt said.

"Kim Gardner has an abysmal record in prosecuting violent crime, has recently released and been complicit in the release of dozens and dozens of inmates who have been charged with violent crimes, and has a record of making politically motivated decisions not based on the law," he explained. "So, this is certainly something to watch."

After the incident with the McCloskeys generated national attention, Gardner, always on the side of the perps, released a statement claiming the McCloskeys had committed a "violent assault," and vowed to hold them accountable.

Schmitt explained that the McCloskeys did not act unlawfully. First of all, it was a private, gated street, not a public thoroughfare. The rioters and protesters were on their way to the mayor's house, which had been vandalized several previous times.

The McCloskeys thought they were in danger and believed they were going to be attacked by the anarchists, mainly because the anarchists told them they were going to murder them and enter their home.

"This was on a private street, and if you listen to the McCloskeys, they felt threatened, that they were going to be attacked, and that it was made known to them. They made known to the protesters and the people who came by that this was a private street, and they said they were going to murder them and come into their house, and so, as I said, the Castle Doctrine in Missouri is pretty expansive; it allows you to defend your life, obviously your family's life, your home, but also your property, and this was on private property.

"It's hard to get into the mind of Kim Gardner. As I said, she has a sketchy track record of making politically-based decisions," Schmitt went on to say about the leftist prosecutor.

Despite the warrant, criminal charges have not yet been filed against the McCloskeys, nor was the basis of the warrant made clear. The word was supposedly out that charges were going to be filed, so it's now just a waiting game.

I cannot imagine the McCloskeys would be found guilty of anything other than doing exactly what they needed to do to protect themselves from the rioters who have become a cancer to our society.


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