Simon Marks' American Week links election fears and execution plans
LBC's US politics roundup has passed half a million views, with a comment section already much busier than usual.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 582,851 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (41,042).
'The country is hurtling to an abyss' | Simon Marks' American Week
Simon Marks brings election disputes, discussion of martial law and capital punishment into one edition of American Week, widening the focus beyond the planned public execution already covered on LBC.
The roundup, titled "'The country is hurtling to an abyss' | Simon Marks' American Week", drew more than half a million views in 19 hours. That is far beyond the broadcaster's usual first-day audience for a regular video. Its comments have also already reached roughly nine times the usual full-day count.
LBC's chapter headings set out the scope of Marks' commentary: Trump's election plans, the White House considering martial law, heckling at a rally and the Republican Party's electoral prospects. The program then turns to an inmate surviving lethal injections and plans to broadcast a firing-squad execution, before closing with the Nobel Prize announcement for Navi Pillay.
The execution proposal is also generating conversation in a separate LBC callers' segment, "'I'm not proud to be American' | LBC callers react to Fort Hood public execution". Its views were not unusually high, but comments came in several times faster than on a typical first day. Another caller-focused upload presents the contrasting argument that the planned broadcast is a matter of justice, making the subject a recurring part of LBC's programming rather than a single item in Marks' roundup.
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- Channel
- LBC
- Subscribers
- 1,530,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 12,148,227
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,131,581 (on a normal day: 1,747,403)
- Video published
- October 10, 2026
- Video views so far
- 522,978 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 582,851
The numbers
Marks' roundup drew an unusually large audience before its first full day was over. The separate callers' discussion stood out for its volume of comments rather than its views.
