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So I've never heard of Steven Crowder but have come to learn that he lives in my city (Dallas). Likes to teabag his buddies and staffers on his show.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/02/steven-crowder-wife-rant-vid-reveals-abusive-pattern-ex-staff/

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A bombshell Ring video was leaked last week of influential conservative commentator Steven Crowder berating his wife, Hilary.

In the footage from June 2021, he tells her to “f–king watch it” and accuses her of refusing “to do wifely things” while telling her he doesn’t love her.

At the time, she was eight months pregnant with their twins.

Her family released a statement saying she had been hiding his “mentally and emotionally abusive behavior” from her friends and family.

The pair, who married in 2012, have been locked in a contentious divorce since 2021.

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Crowder claimed the disturbing footage, which was released on journalist Yasher Ali’s Substack, was “misleadingly edited.”

But numerous former employees of the provocateur alleged these types of unhinged tirades were commonplace inside the “Louder with Crowder” office.

“I’m not shocked, but it was pathetic what he did to Hilary,” a former employee told The Post. “That might not be the Steven you see on his show, but that was the real Steven.”

The Post spoke to 10 former employees who claim Crowder ran an “abusive” company, where he often screamed at his employees — including his own father — exposed his genitals, sent out directives to arbitrarily fire people and made underlings wash his dirty laundry.

Employees allege that Steven Crowder presided over an abusive workplace.

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The former staffers worked for the show at different times, from its inception in 2016 through 2022.

The vast majority had left the company voluntarily.

They requested anonymity because they either feared retaliation or had signed NDAs.

All said they felt compelled to speak out about the media personality after the sickening footage was made public and his former co-host Dave Landau called him a “bully” in an interview last week.

“We don’t want Steven to suffer. We just want the abuse to stop or at least let future employees know what they’re getting themselves into,” said one former employee.

(The Post reached out to Crowder via his lawyer, as well as “Louder with Crowder” CEO Gerald Morgan, multiple times about the allegations brought forth by former employees, but did not receive a response.)

The 35-year-old American Canadian right-wing content creator, who bills himself as a devout Christian, was a child actor who started doing stand-up at 17.

In 2009, he became a Fox News contributor, writing essays in defense of abstinence, and in 2014, he started doing a weekly podcast broadcast by a conservative radio station in Michigan and gained a larger following.

Crowder and Hilary wed in 2012.

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In November 2016, Crowder moved to Texas, hired a small team and turned “Louder with Crowder” into a full production arm, creating comedic sketches, a podcast and his popular “Change My Mind” videos.

Crowder, who has 1.3 million Instagram followers and 5.9 million on YouTube, became wildly influential among conservatives, who were dazzled by his brash contrarian takes, irreverent approach and crusades against big tech.

“People thought he was funny. And he could be, especially if you were watching from the outside,” said an early staffer.

But inside the Dallas-based Crowder universe, many said he was “like a yo-yo.”

Charismatic and kind at times, a “volatile” Crowder could also be controlling and “capable of working every angle of your emotions.”

With long hours, unrealistic expectations and emotional outbursts, he often burned through staffers — many of whom were young, starry-eyed fans who had never worked in traditional media and relocated to Texas for the opportunity to work with their hero.

And while the “Louder with Crowder” ethos was politically incorrect, his antics crossed the line.

He was known to expose his genitals to staffers, many ex-employees told The Post.

Six sources said they witnessed such lewd behavior firsthand.

A former staffer recalled driving back from Illinois in a van after a college show in March 2018, when former producer Jared Monroe, whom Crowder dubbed “Not Gay Jared,” was targeted.

Footage showed Steven Crowder warning his wife to “f—ing watch it” while he accused her of not doing “wifely things.”

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As his wife rubbed her pregnant belly, Crowder told her she needed to become “wife worthy.”

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“Jared was asleep in the last row. Steven was in front and he was joking about what he was going to do,” the staffer recalled. “He climbed over and dropped his junk on top of Jared’s shoulder.”

That same person also claimed Crowder exposed himself to Jared in 2017, while they were in the green-screen room filming a parody of “Ghost.” (When asked about both allegations, Monroe told The Post, “No comment.”)

And during a 2018 flight with six people from the company, another former employee said they witnessed Crowder put his testicles on his assistant and childhood friend John Goodman, who shook off the incident. (Goodman, who still works for Crowder, did not return The Post’s request for comment.)

A fourth ex-employee said Crowder exposed himself to former co-host Landau at the conference table with others present. (Landau did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.)

“It was childish. But then I found out this was something he did. At first, I took it as him trying to be friendly or one of the guys. Now I see it was a power play,” the witness said.

“If your manager at Red Lobster did this, it would be national news.”

Numerous sources noted these incidents were not part of any sketches, many of which could be bawdy and off-color.

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But Crowder, sources said, is often known for blurring the lines of professionalism.

Numerous former employees said his production assistants wash laundry in the office, including Crowder’s dirty personal items.

Many describe Crowder not as a tough boss but an “unreasonable micromanager” who would send out unrealistic assignments after hours and “set people up for failure.”

“It was like a cult where you were all in,” said one ex-employee, adding that Crowder “did not want you having a life outside of it.”

In 2017, he commissioned his small team to create a 30-minute “A Christmas Carol” parody on top of their regular workload. A few ex-employees, none of whom were paid overtime, said they logged over 100 hours in the week leading up to the release of the special and slept in the office, according to multiple sources.

In the midst of this project, Crowder sent a group text message telling them to sleep in and come into the office a bit later one day. One employee remarked, “sleep lol.”

Crowder shot back, “Be a little grateful buddy.”

Crowder poses with his father, Darrin.

The exchange, seen by The Post, angered the team, who turned it into an oft-repeated joke when they felt undervalued and overworked.

And when shows or projects fell short of his expectations, Crowder piled the blame on his staffers. “We’d tell him things wouldn’t work,” said one ex-staffer, who recalls a massive live show in 2018 not going as Crowder had planned.

“I thought, ‘Surely Steven, who micromanaged the whole thing, is going to take some responsibility here,'” they continued.

Instead Crowder put the onus on his staff. His assistant handed each employee a copy of Jocko Willink’s leadership and performance book, “Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win.”

“We all thought we were going to get an apology but we got a book. It was like a sitcom,” the former staffer cracked.

Back in late 2020, while on a tear, Crowder sent out a directive to arbitrarily “fire someone. Don’t care who,” read the Discord message, viewed by The Post. The source said Crowder often dropped threats to fire people into the company’s Discord chatroom.

His irrational outbursts even extended to his father, Darrin, who works as his booker. Numerous ex-staffers said he’d lash out at his dad in front of other employees. (Darrin, who still works with his son, did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.)

The couple during happier days.

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“He did it regularly. And it was usually about failing to book someone he wanted on the show. Steven would say, ‘I’m supposed to get stars,'” recalled one ex-staffer who said he was approached by two other underlings who said Crowder’s behavior toward his father made them feel “uncomfortable.”

Last week, Crowder’s ex-co-host Landau called his former boss a “bully” on an episode of the podcast “Your Welcome with Michael Malice.“

“Whatever he has, and whatever he’s going through, I think he was bullied at some point in his life,” Landau said, adding, “He’s become the bully and he doesn’t realize it.”

Landau detailed how Crowder installed a ” ‘Dave don’t talk’ button” in the studio and always had to get the last word in.

But perhaps the most bizarre incident came after Crowder, who was scheduled to miss a show, signed off on comedian Matt McClowry to fill in with Landau.

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When Crowder’s assistant later said no to McClowry’s appearance and Landau asked Crowder about it, the conservative personality unleashed on his co-host.

“He told me he owns me … It was venomous … I saw a different person that I had heard rumors about,” Landau told Malice.

Even before his recent divorce drama, Crowder had raised eyebrows by going after fellow conservative media titans. In January, Crowder, whose contract with the Blaze was up, launched the “Stop Big Con” initiative, in which he accused another conservative outlet, later revealed to be Ben Shapiro’s the Daily Wire, of offering him a $50 million “slave contract.”

In March, he signed on free speech platform Rumble and in an interview with Megyn Kelly he said his crusade was “not about me … It’s about the next creator.”

“We all laughed when he said stuff like that. If you were funny or talented, he squashed you,” said a source.

One former employee said they weren’t doing the sketches they wanted to do, so they teamed up with Landau to create a sketch comedy pilot released last December.

“Steven freaked out and threatened to fire people over it. It was viewed it as a mutiny,” said the ex-employee. Another source noted it was made on their own time with their own equipment and did not use company resources.

“Dave was told, ‘This is your fault. We have to fire them now.'” Eventually, the original source said, Crowder backed down. In April, Landau announced he left the company and is going to the Blaze.

“That doesn’t seem like someone who is trying to build up content creators,” said the source.

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Many blame this public unraveling on his habit of purging anyone who challenges him.

“These terrible ideas and moves have always been in his nature but over time he has surrounded himself with only yes men, and his family who works for him. They don’t tell him otherwise,” said an ex-staffer, adding, “There is no one there to hold him to account.”

 

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8 hours ago, C-Man said:

"I would say on the surface I would agree with you."

Wow, just wow.

"It sounds dumb as fuck, and I agree with you that it don't make no sense, but I choose to believe nonetheless."

Seriously, what the fuck do we do with these people? Orchestrate a national MAGA trail of tears ending up in America's dong. Just pack em all into Florida and seal it off? Goddamn lunacy. 

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14 hours ago, Blotto said:

"It sounds dumb as fuck, and I agree with you that it don't make no sense, but I choose to believe nonetheless."

Seriously, what the fuck do we do with these people? Orchestrate a national MAGA trail of tears ending up in America's dong. Just pack em all into Florida and seal it off? Goddamn lunacy. 

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Derek Imig is an actual real person. His Linked-In shows his work background.   Now Twitter is doxxing him.  Apparently he's a wife beater, so he might not have been exagerrating when he said he'd whoop up on somebody wearing a dress.

 

 



 

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3 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:


Derek Imig is an actual real person. His Linked-In shows his work background.   Now Twitter is doxxing him.  Apparently he's a wife beater, so he might not have been exagerrating when he said he'd whoop up on somebody wearing a dress.

 

 



 

The dildo of consequences...

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13 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:


Derek Imig is an actual real person. His Linked-In shows his work background.   Now Twitter is doxxing him.  Apparently he's a wife beater, so he might not have been exagerrating when he said he'd whoop up on somebody wearing a dress.

 

 



 

 

did somebody mention the unlubed dildo of consequences?

 

 

 

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5 hours ago, mdmost said:

For a group of people that tend to alway decry "virtue signaling", they certainly love to do it on Twitter.

For a group of people who bitch about the power of big government, they sure are hellbent on demanding the government put a lot of big government resources into controlingl a little weed that God graced us with.

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Okay, Nick wins the Internet Award for Best Trolling.  

Also cracks me up that my old long-winded trope about how Trump doesn't embody any of the attributes typically associated with masculinity.  And TFG goes out and does it for me almost verbatim "church, sports, hard work, discipline, and love of country."  I mean, Trump is trolling us about the Nick Adams trolling of him.  And the whole twitter feed is trolling the troll.  This is some Black Mirror level shit we're stuck inside of now.  I mean the guy is literally on trial for rape right now.  You know that thing that "real men" do?  The simulation is strong today.

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5 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I have yet to see any actual examples of why Biden is so terrible. It’s just a reflex action for them. 

We got this masterclass explanation in another thread just yesterday:

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That’s a tremendous question, one I’d much rather discuss over a coffee or beer. It’s not so much what he’s doing in his first term, but rather what he’s not doing.

I don’t think Biden is capable of addressing the largest issues that need addressing in our society, and quite frankly, very few of our current politicians seem interested and/or capable of addressing them. As a society, our finest minds are no longer gravitating to the political spectrum at the rates we need them to be. Serving the public shouldn’t be viewed as toxic, yet it is, and that doesn’t bode well for us long term.

Regardless of where you fall on the policy spectrum, we’ve gotten to a point in this country where politics drives far more emotion and hatred than it should, which coupled with the meteoric rise of technology, social media, etc…over the last 20+ years, and I think we’re in a situation that’s going to require different forms of leadership to start pulling us back on a more long term, sustainable path.

Biden is a career public servant, and has obviously had a very successful, noble career in serving the people of Delaware, but in my view he’s incapable of unifying disparate groups of people around the rest of the country. Many of his policies are popular with larger segments of the population, but they aren’t effective. And whether he likes it or not and no matter how badly you or anyone else hate republicans, they aren’t going away so you might as well figure out how to deal with them and their bullshit policies. We’ve seen the parties flip ideals over time so clearly it can be done.

We need leaders who can start tackling issues and garnering things such as 2/3 majorities again. Think about how normal that used to be and how impossible that seems at present.

 

 

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21 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

We got this masterclass explanation in another thread just yesterday:

 

 

All I ever see when someone is pressed about why they say Biden is so awful is that he's actually doing a good job and they just don't want to admit it. McCucksky is just another example.  

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4 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

We got this masterclass explanation in another thread just yesterday:

 

 

Jesus H Christ could not garner a 2/3 majority going forward.  Not even with Chapelle as his running mate.  Only a dictator is going to get 2/3 majority, and that’s not a majority we can clap about.

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Regarding Dan OhNoBongo:  I heard a bit of his show tonight, and in the middle of a rant about Kaitlan Collins, he mentioned how he "does" actual journalism, in contrast to her "entertainment" journalism.

Then, on a scheduled break, his wrestling-announcer steroid jacked bumper MC uttered the canned "but don't EVER call him a journalist" line.  

The guy doesn't even know his own brand.

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The Cushing Memorial Library and Archives' Don Kelly collection contains the depth and breadth of topics related to the LGBTQIA+ communities, and is both national and international in scope. Fellows will conduct their research in the Kelsey Reading Room and supervised stacks privileges will be made available, along with photocopying and other imaging capabilities. The Library has a stellar reputation and is well-regarded by scholars throughout the world, all with a diverse range of expertise and interests. Please visit the Collecting Areas page of this website for further information about the collections.

 

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