The Culture War - Tim Pool - DC Crackdown In FULL SWING, Left Comes UNGLUED Over Safe Streets ft. Nick Sortor

Aug. 25, 2025 - The Culture War - Tim Pool

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DC Crackdown In FULL SWING, Left Comes UNGLUED Over Safe Streets ft. Nick Sortor

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unidentified		Just like you said, and I've seen it myself, it still surprises me.
		And it catches my attention every single time at three o'clock in the morning when I see a young couple just walking through the park in the middle of the night.
		It just, that doesn't happen here because you're going to get mugged, shot, or robbed.
		And it's going to take the police on average 20 minutes to show up if they even bother showing up.
		Hello, everyone.
		Tate Brown here, holding it down for Tim Poole.
		We have an interview here with Nick Sorter.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		He's going to discuss the National Guard deployment in DC and break down what he's seeing on the ground.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It's a great interview.
unidentified		Here you go.
unidentified		So let's see here.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Nick, can you hear me?
unidentified		I can hear you loud and clear.
		How are we doing today?
		Well, do you want to tell the people who you are and what you do?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I'm sure everyone knows, but for the one or two people that don't know.
unidentified		My name is Nick Sorter.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		I'm an independent journalist here in Washington, D.C.
unidentified		And honestly, I've never been prouder to say that I live in Washington, D.C.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		So this is new for me.
unidentified		Absolutely.
		Yeah.
		Well, we're seeing, I read your clip of Trump earlier where the reporter was trying to browbeat him.
		And he was saying, no, this is actually popular.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		People, people like this.
unidentified		People want to see our city safe.
unidentified		I mean, what are you seeing on the ground when you're talking to DC residents?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, what's kind of the atmosphere right now?
unidentified		Look, I mean, you're seeing the local media outlets are attempting to spin this as some sort of draconian takeover of, you know, and martial law in the streets.
unidentified		And that's not at all what's going on here.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		I mean, the mainstream media, the local stations are all just trying to terrify everybody because, you know, they profit in sewing division, really.
unidentified		And none of that, none of what they're saying is actually happening.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		Nobody is getting beaten by National Guard in the street.
unidentified		Although I'd argue that some people here deserve to be beat by National Guard in the street, maybe they'll shape up a little bit.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		But, you know, what they're actually doing is they're National Guard is stepping in to deter, and the federal agents are here to assist police officers in fighting everyday crime because that's been a huge issue here for years.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		You know, DC police on their own, because of the woke mayor and the chief of police, who was previously the chief of DEI at the department that didn't know what chain of command meant when she was doing a press conference the other day.
unidentified		You know, they weren't allowing cops to be cops.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		So Trump took them over and put there's a massive infusion of new cops on the ground here.
unidentified		And it's a totally different city.
		Yeah, absolutely.
		I mean, I've been in DC this last week and you see it, like, especially in the Capitol Mall.
		Like, you just see the Humvees just parked up on the grass.
		And it's like, typically that's a, you know, ominous sign.
		It's actually kind of liberating and freeing because DC is so, it felt so unstable and hostile previously.
		And the funny thing is the press is saying this is going to scare away tourists.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		This is going to freak everyone out.
unidentified		And the people that are taking pictures of the Humvees are like clearly tourists, like they're from abroad.
		So clearly the tourists don't care.
		And yeah, and the locals, I mean, there does seem to be a bit of relief.
		You're seeing more people like jogging at night and these sorts of things, which in a first world country should be a standard.
		I mean, have you heard much from the police themselves?
		I mean, what their thoughts are?
		Absolutely.
		Yes.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		I've been around pretty much every single night.
unidentified		Like last night, I was out until like three o'clock in the morning, you know, and I've been just kind of shadowing them to see what they've been doing, how they've been operating.
		And I've gotten to know a lot of them actually.
		And they're ecstatic over it.
		I mean, it's, I was actually, I don't know if surprised was the word.
		Let's say pleasantly surprised to hear how supportive MPD, Metropolitan Police, were to have feds with them because they're feeling effective again.
		They're being allowed to do their jobs.
		They're being allowed.
		Cops are now allowed to be cops in Washington, D.C.
		So morale is through the roof.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		And I'm not even just saying that.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		Like I have spoken to these guys, dozens of them, and it's the same thing.
unidentified		They're excited.
unidentified		They're happier with it than I expected them to be.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		And that's pretty incredible feeling as a resident here.
unidentified		Yeah, I bet.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, and it's just nice that, yeah, it's nice to see that.
unidentified		I mean, because the big balls thing was really just shocking.
		And it does feel like in a lot of ways that that was what galvanized Trump to make this move.
		But that was a normal thing in Washington, D.C. before.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		Like carjackings, even in, even, I live in a pretty nice neighborhood.
unidentified		I'm like two blocks from the U.S. Capitol building.
		You can see it outside of my window right here.
		And right here on the streets, you have members of Congress that live in this same building and they were having their cars stolen and carjacked out front.
		You know, like Uber drivers would come and pick people up.
		But you had teenagers that were just calling Ubers, right?
		And they'd get into the back of the Uber and they'd steal the car.
		So there's a bunch of Uber no-go zones here, or at least there were before this crackdown, because carjackings were so rampant.
		That's what they were trying to do to big balls.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		They were trying to steal his car.
unidentified		And he fought back and they almost killed him for it.
		Yeah.
		Yeah.
		I mean, it's absolutely insane.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		And so it's like, it's almost, it feels like in a lot of ways, the situation with crime in these cities, especially Washington, D.C., specifically Washington, D.C., it feels like, okay, obviously there's all these explanations for why the DAs and everything.
unidentified		But most of all, it just feels like there's an attempt to demoralize patriots, to demoralize Americans by having their capital in such disarray.
		I mean, have you seen the mood improve among even the DC residents that'll probably say, give, you know, some lip service, like, oh, you know, this is inappropriate or whatever.
		I mean, at least I've seen it.
		It seems like everyone's moods have just elevated a bit, even with the extra presence.
		Yeah.
		So the actual residents here, unless you're a Democrat staffer on the hill for the most part, you are supportive of this too.
		If you're talking, if me, I'm going out just as an individual talking to neighbors.
		They all feel the same way.
		I have not spoken to anybody one-on-one at this point that didn't try to throw a camera in my face that is against what's going on out here because it's the same people every time.
		They're not from here.
		Or they're Democrat activists that are being shipped in here to like yell and heckle National Guard troops and such.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		It was one guy.
unidentified		This was a guy that wasn't even from here.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		It was near National Stadium over here.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		The Mets were in town playing the Nationals.
unidentified		This guy in a Mets jersey, you know, so obviously he's not from here.
		He even admitted he wasn't from here.
		He's obviously unstable if he's wearing a Mets jersey.
		Right, right.
		It tells you all you need to know.
		And so he walks past the National Guard.
		He's like, thanks for protecting us from nothing.
		And I'm like, all right, all right.
		So now I got to go, I got to go follow this dude and get him on camera.
		And I haven't posted that one yet.
		But, you know, these people, for whatever reason, they're having a tough time understanding that the reason that there isn't any crime happening in the area is because of the National Guard.
		It's because of the feds in the area, right?
		You can't say, well, where's the crime?
		I don't see any crime.
		Of course you don't.
		Who the hell is going to, you know, mug you in the middle of 16 National Guard troops?
		Yeah.
		Yeah.
		Is there a lot of data now?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		That's, have we seen, I mean, I imagine anecdotally, obviously, this would be the case, but have we seen what the actual decline in crime has looked like over the last week or two?
unidentified		Has that been released?
		Well, I mean, it's been, it's been incredibly significant.
		Violent crime is down over 80%.
		And then we haven't seen a murder in 11 days, which as Trump keeps pointing out, like you haven't, you shouldn't have to brag about that.
		Sure.
		Right.
		It's a city of 700,000.
		Like, it's not massive.
		Yeah.
		And we're saying, oh, guys, you know, we got, we made it 11 days, but that's a huge achievement in Washington, D.C. Sadly.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		Huge achievement.
unidentified		Yeah.
		We don't even actually know what the crime stats were before because they were being manipulated.
		And that's not just, that's not speculation.
		That's true.
		We know that now.
		The city themselves, once they knew that the federal government was going to start looking into it, they took one of their top brasses and put them on leave because they were manipulating crime stats.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		So, you know, the city is admitting that too.
unidentified		Yeah.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It was that story.
unidentified		Yeah.
		It was a DC police commander and he was fudging the numbers.
		And a lot of people have suspected that for a long time.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It was just interesting to see.
unidentified		I mean, because there was this thing where they were like, okay, all violent crime is down except for murders.
unidentified		And you sit there and you're like, and a lot of, and a lot of policing experts said the same thing as they say, well, that's because you can't really, you can't really cover up a murder like when you're publishing these violent crime stats.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Everything else you can kind of reclassify or make go away.
unidentified		But like a murder, someone's gone.
		Because they were taking, they were taking, for example, they were taking like home invasions and downgrading them to trespass.
		Yeah.
		Yeah.
		Those two things just trespassing is if you, you know, you, you, you cross a fence line that you're not supposed to cross or you refuse to leave Macy's when they try to kick you out.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Right.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		That's trespassing.
unidentified		Right.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		Not breaking somebody's window and robbing them at gunpoint in their house.
unidentified		Right.
		That's like saying, you know, John Bolton just received a quick chat at the door the other day.
		That's all that happened.
		Exactly.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
unidentified		Yeah.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		So we're seeing, now we're seeing, you know, to kind of expand this conversation, we saw this morning Trump saying that Chicago and New York are potentially on the menu.
unidentified		And I mean, those, especially Chicago, I mean, that seems like an extremely pressing case.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, do you, do you think this model, I mean, because obviously it involves the federalization, so obviously D.C., it's a bit easier to pull off.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Do you think this model from what you've seen could be expanded to other cities?
unidentified		Yeah, in a way, yes.
		See, it's going to take more cooperation.
		So look, just to put it in simple terms here, Washington, D.C. is a federal district under the ultimate control of the federal government, right?
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		That's in the Constitution.
unidentified		So what you're actually seeing is decades ago, Congress actually gave, they formed a local government and said it's called the DC Home Rule Act and gave them like limited powers to enforce their own laws and what it gave them a little bit of autonomy.
		Well, Trump just revoked all that, right?
		He can't do that in Chicago.
		So he dep or he actually had Pam Bondi deputize hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Secret Service agents and U.S. Marshals and actually not U.S. Marshals, they're already deputized and DEA agents, you name it, the alphabet soup.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		They've all been deputized here in D.C.
unidentified		So they can do more than just enforce federal laws.
		They can enforce local laws as well.
		You can't do that in Chicago.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		It would have to take what you could do, and I haven't looked into this yet.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		This is just spitballing here.
unidentified		You could have the Cook County Sheriff.
		I don't know who that is.
		That's Chicago, probably a leftist.
		But theoretically, that sheriff could deputize federal agents.
		And then you could see the same thing happening on the streets of Chicago that are happening here in Washington, D.C.
		But Trump can't unilaterally do that.
		National Guard, even here in D.C., is not performing law enforcement duties.
		You have to do something really egregious for them to step in.
		So they wouldn't be doing that in Chicago either.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		That makes sense.
unidentified		I mean, and I've seen a lot of, I mean, there's been chatter in the Trump admin that a big motivation for this is also to make ICE's job easier because they're receiving so much pushback from these municipal governments.
		I mean, specifically in D.C., I mean, I guess Chicago and New York, we'd have to see.
		Have you seen ICE's operations?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Are they a bit more smooth now?
		Are they a bit more efficient with the National Guard?
		Or, I mean, what does that relationship look like?
unidentified		Oh, absolutely.
		I mean, they are, it's not even just ICE working here at this point.
		It's, it's all of the, again, the alphabet soup folks that have been deputized there for they're doing immigration enforcement as well.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		Like they're pulling people over.
unidentified		Contrary to popular belief, they're not pulling you over for not using your turn signal.
		They're pulling you over because they ran your plate and you have a warrant or you're an illegal.
		And so they're pulling, that's why they're pulling people over.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		It's not like you don't have to worry about.
unidentified		Hell, I mean, I'll just admit it here on camera.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		When I'm like, like looking for them, you know, I'm turning right on red where I'm not supposed to not using turn signals, whatever.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		And, you know, they're not pulling me over.
unidentified		Right.
		Because they're not looking for me.
		They're not just, they're not looking to terrorize people that are just living their lives.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		That's not, that's not what's actually going on.
unidentified		Yeah.
		But you have seen a lot of videos of them pulling these people over, pulling them out of vehicles and arresting them because they're illegals and turning them over to ICE.
		I don't know if you saw this from last week.
		They pulled over somebody near the national mall.
		Of course, the liberal media was like, he's just a hardworking man and a father.
		Right.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		Two hours later, it comes out that he's actually a child rapist who's illegally in the country.
unidentified		Yeah.
unidentified		So yeah, this immigration enforcement here is through the roof.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		And I'm kind of excited to see those numbers.
unidentified		Hopefully we'll have them by the end of the week here.
		Yeah, well, and if you've taken an Uber in DC, you know how much work they have to do.
		So I don't know.
		Maybe we'll see HHS deploy agents to raid McDonald's across DC and replace the seed oils of power.
		We're going to make this a shining city on a hill is what it's going to do.
		Just emergency tallow deployments.
		I think that'd be a beautiful, like raw milk and the coke, the coke machines.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Like, I think this could, we could really evolve this operation here.
unidentified		But yeah, I mean, the criminality is just so, it really was just embarrassing, I think, most of all.
		Specifically, DC and New York, because, you know, I mean, I know like we're America, rah-rah.
		We're not, you know, we're kind of focused on our business, but there is a degree of embarrassment when someone visits from another country and they see our cities like DC and New York and the state they are because they're coming.
		They're here to visit museums.
		They've seen these cities in the movies and they're painted so, you know, magically, right?
		There's a Hollywood touch, obviously.
		But then they come here and they have these stories of like getting robbed or like just seeing like little stuff like open defecation of the homeless and everything.
		And it's just humiliating.
		So, I mean, I don't know.
		Have you spoken to tourists?
		Have any foreign tourists had anything to say about this?
		I'd be curious what they think.
		Not necessarily foreign tourists that I've spoken with, but like to your point, you would go to the White House, for example.
		And I don't know if you're familiar with the off of the North Lawn, there's a park.
		Right.
		And it's full of homeless people or was full of homeless people all the time, which is just wild.
		I mean, it's federal property in front of the White House and Biden let them build a freaking homeless encampment.
		Yeah, look at Coachella and Lafayette Park.
		It was crazy.
		Yeah.
		Yeah.
		And then you go near the State Department, you know, where you have foreign dignitaries and stuff going there.
		And I mean, that was actually one of the largest homeless encampments was 100 feet from the State Department building.
		I mean, and this was just allowed to happen forever.
		And Trump, within days, had all that cleaned up.
		They were literally sending in bulldozers to, if you did, they were giving you like 20 minutes, clean up your shit and get out or we're going to arrest you and we're going to bulldoze your camp.
		So, you know, that's how you do it.
		Yeah, the homeless, I mean, when I was there this week, I still did see a few tents.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It was obviously far less.
unidentified		And it certainly wasn't in parks or anything.
		I mean, the parks you can actually go to again, which is quite nice.
		Yeah, you still see like on some overpasses or whatever, you would see like a tent every once in a while.
		Where are the homeless going?
		Do you know?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I've always wondered this.
unidentified		Like once they get booted from DC, like where do they go?
		I mean, look, they can have, they can go over to probably Baltimore.
		We'll just send them all there.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		Honestly, I'd do that.
unidentified		I won't pay for buses to send them all to Baltimore.
		Like, let's just designate certain cities in the United States shitholes.
		We'll send all the vagrants there and we'll just quarantine them, cage them in, and that'll be it.
		I'm willing to sacrifice Baltimore for that person.
		I agree.
		One of the bridges is already.
		I'm sorry for all of the people from Baltimore listening right now.
		Right.
		Yeah, yeah.
		I mean, a bridge is already gone.
		You just got to knock a few more out, and then it's, yeah, it's like an Alcatraz for Domas.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I guess I don't know what's going on over there.
unidentified		I mean, there's two big problems, obviously.
unidentified		One, the rats would eat through the tents right away.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		So then you would have another housing crunch.
unidentified		And then, two, Baltimore.
		They don't sustain gunfire very well.
		They don't hold up very well against gunfire.
		Yeah.
		Yeah, exactly.
		And then, too, I mean, I don't know if you saw today.
		Kilmar got arrested in Baltimore.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		So it looks like even Baltimore is being considered for a renewal project.
unidentified		I don't know.
		I think there is this sense in the Trump admin that we're tired of conceding territory.
		Because, you know, you see with Zoron, the rhetoric around Zoron is they're saying, well, just, you know, that's what New York wants.
		That's what they deserve.
		Kind of the same thing with California.
		And the Trump admin, their messaging has been much more consistent.
		And so every square mile of this country belongs to American patriots, and we shouldn't have to tolerate this, you know, insanity that's going on.
		And that certainly seems to be the case in DC.
		I mean, what are your kind of thoughts on this?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, is that kind of the sense?
unidentified		Is that what Trump's trying to do?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Is trying to make the entire country kind of come to heel to some sense?
unidentified		Absolutely.
		And, you know, in all seriousness, I do think that we should be sending National Guard into Baltimore.
		I absolutely do.
		Use it.
		Use them for it, like taking our country back, taking every single street back.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		We don't have to live like this.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		Nobody should be forced to live like this because even in places like Baltimore, you have patriots that live there, right?
unidentified		You have good law-abiding people that are being forced to suffer at the hands of these violent criminals because Democrat politicians, you know, use them as power plays, right?
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		Use them to, you know, they buy their votes off of them and stuff.
unidentified		And so they look, it's not, people want to say, oh, well, this is dictatorial or it's fascism or whatever.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		No, it's not.
unidentified		It's actually fighting crime and, you know, just enforcing the laws that are on the books.
unidentified		Trump isn't writing laws with the pen, right?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		But we have to go back to actually enforcing these laws and taking these cities back.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		There's no reason that good people in Baltimore should have to suffer at the hands of violent gangs, especially foreign gangs like MS-13.
unidentified		And Trump is, I said this from the beginning.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		DC is really supposed to be an example set for the rest of the country because Trump has now taken what was an 80-20 issue.
		You know, people, 80% of the country wants to live in, you know, in a safe city, right?
		The other 20% are mentally retarded or something, I guess.
		But it's now like a 97-3 issue.
unidentified		Right.
		People, so what's going to happen here?
		We're going to get closer and closer to the midterms.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		President Trump is going to continue with this pressure on these Democrats, Gavin Newsome and Wes Moore from Maryland.
unidentified		And what are they going to say?
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		No, this argument that all our cities are, they are safe.
unidentified		They are safe.
		Come take a walk with me through the ghetto.
		Trust me, it'll be safe.
		I mean, we'll have 50 security guards and police officers with us, but trust me, it's safe.
		That's what Wes Moore was offering to Donald Trump.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		Said, come take a walk with me.
unidentified		They're like, really?
		Okay.
		Is that a threat?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Might as well be.
		Yeah.
		Yeah.
		So, yeah, I think, I think it's going to be, like I said, I think it's, it's going to be an example that President Trump is going to send.
		He's going to back these Democrats into a corner.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		They're going to keep supporting violent criminals and America sees that.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, absolutely.
		I mean, and the same thing where they're going to bat for these Kilmar Obrego types with ICE.
		It's like it's a new paradigm.
		We're trying to set the tone here.
unidentified		Like you said, DC is going to be an example and it can be a preview of, I mean, what we're going to have to do to clean up other cities.
		If anything, it's going to be much more extensive.
		And like another thing, and I think Trump's probably taken a page or at least noted what's going on in El Salvador with Bukele, where Bukele kind of just, he kind of revealed the big, the big gambit that's going on here, which is crime in 2025 is optional.
		Like with the amount of resources that these police departments have and what the intel that we have and what we know about human behavior, broadly speaking, is that crime really is just a switch that you flip.
		You either tolerate it or you don't.
		And Bukele just said, yeah, you know what?
		Actually, we're good.
		No more crime.
		Sorry, crime's illegal now.
		And he flipped a switch.
		And the next thing you know, El Salvador is the safest country in the Western Hemisphere.
		And it seems like we could probably apply.
		I mean, surely we could apply.
		If a country like El Salvador can figure it out, I mean, no offense, but it's El Salvador.
		If they can figure it out, I mean, why can't we do this in Baltimore?
		Why can't we do this in Chicago?
		Oh, we absolutely can.
		The Democrats just have to get out of the way.
		That's really it.
		I mean, it's as simple as that.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		You just have to enforce the laws that are on the books.
unidentified		That's it.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		And stop letting people out immediately as you bring them in, right?
unidentified		The cashless bail system is just absurd.
		And President Trump has a great point with that, that that's when the big crime really started happening in recent decades is when cashless bail started because it's just, oh, okay, well, yeah, you might have, you murdered somebody.
		Okay.
		But, well, here's your court date.
		Come back in a year and you're never going to see them again.
		Right.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		I mean, it's, that's, that's the society that Democrats have created in cities like Washington and such.
unidentified		And obviously he signed an executive order today here in D.C. outlawing or essentially outlawing cashless bail in the city.
		He has the power to do that as the executive in the federal district.
		So there's nothing the D.C. government can do about it.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		Cashless bail is now a thing of the past in Washington, D.C. Beautiful.
unidentified		Yeah, and that's great.
		It needs to be done all over the country.
		Congress needs to ban it federally.
		Yeah.
		That's what needs to happen.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		But honestly, a Republican majority doesn't really have the balls.
unidentified		So I'm not sure that'll happen.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It's pulling teeth to get anything done at these chowder-but with the with the DAs, I mean, because you're on the ground a lot and you're speaking to locals, like just normal people.
unidentified		Is there kind of awareness, you know, nationally of how the DAs are really behind a lot of the calamity?
		Or is it still kind of a relatively online sort of thing?
		I think more and more people are waking up to that fact as being reality.
		You know, we know what's going on because of, you know, we follow this stuff pretty closely.
		But yeah, I would say there's, you know, there's the legal system is obviously pretty complicated.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		So maybe not everybody understands exactly where the fingers need to be pointed.
unidentified		And that's why George Soros funds these DAs, because, you know, districts, just district attorneys are extremely powerful in the counties or cities that they're in because they're the ones that decide almost unilaterally who walks free and who they pursue, right?
		You saw up there in Minnesota, I believe, when somebody caused one of Tim Waltz's guys, of course, caused $10,000, $15,000 in damage to various Teslas.
		And the DA was like, no, we're going to decline to press charge and just let them go.
		They have that much power.
		10 or 15, that's a felony.
		And they just like, no, we're just not going to prosecute it.
		We have it on video.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		We have multiple videos from all these Teslas of him doing it, but we're just going to decline to prosecute.
unidentified		That is one of the worst issues that we're dealing with all across the country.
unidentified		And that's in D.C., Trump brought in JAG attorneys, which are military attorneys, to work as prosecutors here.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		You can't do that in Baltimore.
unidentified		So then you, again, you have to rely on the DAs.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		So there's going to have to be some sort of awareness campaign, like to make sure that everybody understands what they're voting for on the ballots, you know, because a lot of people just, if you have people that work 12, 15 hours a day, for example, right?
unidentified		And they're going to vote and there's 50 names on a ballot.
		Yeah.
		You know, they may not know who everybody is.
		So I don't know.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		I think we need to start pouring a lot more money into those DA races to counter George Soros.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		Because, you know, you raise somebody's name ID, somebody that's actually tough on crime, put a lot of money behind them.
unidentified		If that's the only name that people recognize on the ballot, then they'll probably win, Republican or Democrat in whatever city.
		Well, it's funny enough, you saw it in San Francisco to all places, is where there was kind of a bit of a revolt against the Soros DA and San Francisco.
		I mean, come on, like, you know, it's right to the left of Mark's most San Francisco residents.
		And I mean, a large part of that was a lot of these, you know, wealthier locals that were fed up that had a bit more free time to look into the issue were able to allocate resources to the race and were able to, you know, elevate the profile of the non-insane DA.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, obviously, this person would still be, you know, broadly speaking, a Democrat, but at least someone that has their head on straight a little more.
unidentified		So, like, to your point, that there could be something to be said there.
		I have one last question for you.
		And we kind of hit on it at the top of the interview: is it really does seem like the left, broadly speaking, but also just on the street and DC, are kind of just demoralized at this point.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, your anecdote of the guy in the Mets jersey where the best he could muster up was just a quick passing like shout at a guy.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, that seems like a group that realizes they're powerless and they're not entirely sure where to go forward.
unidentified		Oh, yeah, no, they're definitely demoralized.
		I mean, because they've been for the past seven months of this administration, you've seen, well, first of all, the money dry up.
		That's been beautiful.
		You know, the USAID being pulled.
		It's not even just USAID.
		You know, a lot of people think that, okay, well, it's USAID funding dried up.
		So therefore, all the money is gone.
		It's not even just that.
		People aren't donating to these causes anymore because they're losing causes.
		And President Trump proved that by winning in a landslide in November.
		You know, he took a hard line against immigration and the border and crime and such, and just defeating all of the woke nonsense.
		Men and women's sports.
		People just aren't, there's not enough money behind it anymore on the left.
		And people are afraid to fund it because the right has gotten so much more powerful.
		And you see, look at Cracker Barrel, for example, this past week.
		Like, man, they have taken a beating.
		They've lost like $150 million in market value already.
		And so you're not seeing these paid protesters go around anymore.
		And when you do, they're much, much smaller because they can't afford it.
		And I think that's a huge reason for it, too.
		So the demoralization and the lack of funding, you're not seeing, I've seen like one protest here, like real protests over the past 10 days in DC.
		Jeez.
		And given the fact that they're calling it like a military takeover or whatever, you know, normal people aren't believing that.
		You know, they don't believe that lie.
		And like I said, the majority of them are happy to be in the streets.
nick sortor ▲ ● ▼		So if they're happy to be safe and they're not being paid, why what are they protesting?
unidentified		Yeah.
unidentified		So yeah, very salient question.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Well, Nick, thank you so much for your insights.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		This is fantastic.
unidentified		Where can people find more of you?
		Find me on X because they'll ban me on every other platform.
		X at Nick Sorter, N-I-C K, S-O-R-T-O-R.
		Appreciate you guys having me.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Awesome, man.
		Thank you.
		Well, until next time.
unidentified		Take care.
		All right.
		Well, that was the great Nick Sorter giving us the scoop from the inside from the streets.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Fantastic.
unidentified		I mean, like he said, it's a good, it's a combination, really.
		The demoralization, which is massive.
		I mean, the fact that Gavin Newsom isn't just parroting Trump tweets, that's an indication they're out of ideas.
		Bad sign, bad, bad, ominous sign for the left.
		And then obviously the USAID money drying up, you know, another ominous sign for them.
		And yeah, they're out of money.
		They're out of cash.
		So they're, you know, lashing out.
		But with that, thank you for watching.
		I am Tate Brown holding it down for Tim Poole.
		Hopefully, we'll have Tim Poole back here sooner rather than later.
		I imagine so.
		He is recovering.
		Make sure because he's got to get it right.
		You know, you got to get it right.
		You got to get the recovery right.
		Shout out to Surge for holding it down in the producer's chair today.
		Thanks, bro.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		The great Surge.
unidentified		So thank you for watching.
		You can find me on X and Instagram at RealTate Brown.
		Come give me a follow over there.
		Other than that, we'll be back tonight for Timcast IRL at 8 p.m.
		It's going to be a great show.
		We got Andrew Wilson in tonight, right?
		I think it's Andrew Wilson.
		I don't remember who it is exactly.
		We got Pozo on tonight.
		Posto.
		That's official.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Let's go.
unidentified		Oh, you got to tune in then.
		We got Jack Pesobiac holding it down and the host chair because we got some star power tonight then.
		So yeah, tune into that.
		I might be there.
		I'm just going to show up just to get up.
		I'm going to peek an ear and if I'm not on tonight.
		But that sounds fantastic.
		So yeah, be there.
		Thanks for hanging out.
		We got some segments up on Timcast News today.
		I threw some segments up.
		So go give a look at that.
		See what you think.
		Give me a follow.
		And we'll see you tonight at Tencast IRL.

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