The Culture War - Tim Pool - Woke Democrat CRIES After Losing Election, The New GOP Dem Realignment IS NOW
Aired: 2026-03-19
Duration: 34:47


=== Massive Realignment Happening (11:26) ===

[00:00:00]  So you're running out of closet space.
[00:00:02]  The good news?
[00:00:03]  You don't need to stop shopping.
[00:00:05]  You just need to start selling with the Real Real.
[00:00:07]  The Real Real is the world's largest and most trusted resource for authenticated luxury resale.
[00:00:12]  Whether it's that mini bag that can't even fit your phone or those boots you never fully broke in.
[00:00:17]  The Real Real handles everything from photography and copywriting to shipping and pricing.
[00:00:22]  So you can just sit back, get paid, and make room for things that actually feel like you.
[00:00:27]  And with 10,000 plus new arrivals every single day from top designers like Prada, Celine, Louis Vuitton, and Louieve, all for up to 90% off retail, you're bound to find something perfectly on brand to fill that extra closet space with.
[00:00:41]  Plus, right now, you can get an extra $100 to shop when you sell for the first time.
[00:00:46]  Make room for what feels like you.
[00:00:48]  Go to thereelreal.com to start selling and get your extra $100 to keep shopping at therealreal.com.
[00:00:54]  That's therealreal.com.
[00:00:56]  Terms apply.
[00:00:58]  A couple of days ago, we saw progressive Democrats get absolutely crushed in Illinois.
[00:01:05]  And now we're learning more about who is helping to fund their opposition candidates.
[00:01:09]  And plus, we have the war going on in the Middle East and many conservative personalities coming out against Donald Trump, or at least begging him to reverse course.
[00:01:18]  And it looks like a massive realignment is happening.
[00:01:22]  Perhaps this is back to the status quo, the way things used to be in the 2000s.
[00:01:27]  And I think that's one way to put it.
[00:01:28]  But we don't know for sure.
[00:01:30]  What we can say is that this woke period seems to be getting crushed.
[00:01:36]  Progressive Democrats have started to lose.
[00:01:38]  Squad members losing their primaries.
[00:01:40]  Jasmine Crockett is gone.
[00:01:43]  The progressive element of the Democratic Party is getting washed out.
[00:01:47]  And at the same time, there are many prominent conservative personalities.
[00:01:50]  They're adopting a similar line of questioning or worldview to many of these liberals.
[00:01:55]  Could it be that the powers that be, the machine state, is recalibrating and then icing out those anti-interventionist independent voices?
[00:02:05]  Or could this just be the new left-right realignment?
[00:02:09]  Massive coalition forming of anti-interventionist, anti-war, and largely anti-Israel personalities up against a Democratic Party, a Republican Party that is pro-war and pro-intervention.
[00:02:22]  I don't see the reality of a third party emerging.
[00:02:25]  It doesn't seem to make sense.
[00:02:27]  But something certainly is happening where you will have, at least it appears to be, moderate Democrat types largely aligned with Republican moderate types.
[00:02:36]  And then you will have left and right populists, largely anti-intervention, anti-Israel, that seem to agree on most things.
[00:02:46]  Now, if woke truly gets washed out, and what I mean by that is the gender stuff and the race stuff, you're going to find that for the most part, progressives like Jank Uger and conservatives like Tucker Carlson are going to completely align.
[00:03:02]  Now I say completely, I'm saying only if they drop the more fringe elements of the culture war.
[00:03:06]  But they share a tremendous amount of political worldview.
[00:03:10]  I wonder how this manifests.
[00:03:12]  What we can say is, based on what happened in Illinois and the reaction from the left, it's not going well for the progressives and the woke.
[00:03:20]  And certainly, many Democrats have argued the right shook hands with anti-Israel white nationalist types.
[00:03:27]  And now they're getting pushed out as Donald Trump decides he's going to be working with Israel and moving in on Iran.
[00:03:33]  But this political faction that is very anti-Israel and also anti-intervention won't just cease to exist.
[00:03:40]  The data that we're getting from this race in Illinois shows that APAC, the Israel lobby, funded the opposition to the progressives to a massive degree.
[00:03:50]  We also have the purchasing of CBS, the installation of Barry Weiss, a proud and self-identified Zionist.
[00:03:58]  And then of course we have the purchase of TikTok.
[00:04:01]  Many questions are arising with the resignation of Joe Kent.
[00:04:05]  And so we're going to break down this whole phenomenon point by point.
[00:04:08]  And you tell me what you think is going on.
[00:04:11]  I made the point several weeks ago or several months ago, half jokingly, that the new left-right paradigm will be pro-Israel, anti-Israel.
[00:04:20]  I don't think it's that simple, but I do believe that there is some kind of component there.
[00:04:25]  And it may actually be status quo Bush and Obama era policies versus internet-based populist policies.
[00:04:35]  In the end, the question is who will make things cheaper for the American people?
[00:04:39]  Who will secure our borders, bring back jobs?
[00:04:42]  Because in the end, whether it's foreign policy intervention or otherwise, regular people are going to ask the question of how do I afford milk, bread, and eggs?
[00:04:50]  And whoever can deliver that is going to win.
[00:04:53]  But of course, we're going to start with this story.
[00:04:55]  The reaction from the progressive left having lost their primary race.
[00:04:59]  Oh, it's not too good.
[00:05:00]  Before we do, my friends, head over to Timcast.com and join our Discord community.
[00:05:06]  We cannot do this without you.
[00:05:08]  As a member of the Discord, you will join tens of thousands of like-minded individuals.
[00:05:12]  So networking is power.
[00:05:14]  Community is our strength.
[00:05:16]  You want to know how these people succeed.
[00:05:17]  It's not what you know, it's who you know.
[00:05:19]  And when you get in this community, if there's something you want to do, there are people that can help you do it.
[00:05:23]  Maybe you know how to do something and you can help them do it.
[00:05:26]  All in all, it's a great place to hang out and you'll be supporting the work we do every single day, the work that I do in producing these videos.
[00:05:33]  So it would be greatly appreciated.
[00:05:34]  Head over to Timcast.com.
[00:05:36]  But let's start with this story from Fox News.
[00:05:38]  Progressive influencer erupts after Illinois primary loss drops profane anti-Trump ICE rant.
[00:05:46]  Heavens.
[00:05:47]  Kat Abugazela received about 26% of the vote in Illinois Democratic primary, losing to Evanson Mayor Daniel Biss.
[00:05:53]  Now, of course, I did cover this, but we do have her statement here, which I wonder if they're going to bleep it out.
[00:05:59]  There are progressives all over the country who are taking a chance just like we did.
[00:06:04]  And we have to help them win.
[00:06:06]  No matter how hard it is, we have to send a message to this administration and anyone who enables it.
[00:06:11]  And I'm talking directly to them right now.
[00:06:14]  You and your jobs are not safe.
[00:06:16]  This is the start and not the end.
[00:06:19]  No, it's the end.
[00:06:20]  We are not tolerating the status quo.
[00:06:27]  You cannot kidnap and kill us and our neighbors.
[00:06:31]  You cannot start illegal wars.
[00:06:35]  You cannot trample on our rights and see our lives as a means for profit.
[00:06:40]  We will continue to come back and every single loss like this one just makes the path easier for the next person who takes the same chance.
[00:06:54]  We are not done and I am not going anywhere.
[00:06:58]  When I said...
[00:07:00]  When I said I would spend every single waking moment of the rest of my life to hold this administration accountable, win or lose, I f ⁇ ing meant it.
[00:07:11]  And I know all of you do too.
[00:07:13]  So thank you for supporting us.
[00:07:15]  I'm sorry that this sucks, but f ⁇ ing Trump, f ⁇ ice, free Palestine.
[00:07:21]  I love you all.
[00:07:24]  Indeed.
[00:07:24]  Well, my friends, we've got the latest update from Axios.
[00:07:27]  APAC finally notches some Democratic primary wins.
[00:07:31]  There are a couple of questions that I have.
[00:07:32]  The first, of course, is where this all goes.
[00:07:35]  I think many of you are asking this.
[00:07:37]  We have seen over the past several months squad members lose their primaries.
[00:07:42]  Jasmine Crockett is gone.
[00:07:44]  She got iced out.
[00:07:46]  Stephen Colbert and James Tallarico had this little hoax plan where they attacked Trump, cut her out from the conversation, and then she lost.
[00:07:55]  I think it's actually pretty despicable what they did, despite not really being a fan of Jasmine Crockett.
[00:08:01]  But the machine state wants its status quo back.
[00:08:04]  And what we have seen in Illinois suggests that's what they're doing.
[00:08:08]  But that being said, there is still the inverse.
[00:08:12]  There's the Candace Owens, the Megyn Kelly, the Tucker Carlson, the people who are largely critical of Israel and join massive viewership over the past six months.
[00:08:20]  They have seen a tremendous amount of views over these issues.
[00:08:25]  Certainly there is a political faction forming that is deeply critical of Israel, even if AIPAC is winning these political races.
[00:08:33]  When you take a look at Donald Trump, the Republican Party, the polls show that most people support the Republican Party.
[00:08:39]  So they're pretty happy with what Trump is doing, even if Israel is acting a fool.
[00:08:43]  On the Democrats side with their primaries, APAC is nailing these victories.
[00:08:48]  I don't know where these anti-Israel people go, but at least seems from the establishment perspective, they're getting cut out.
[00:08:56]  What's strange to me is that while they are, Tucker Carlson is enjoying massive viewership.
[00:09:02]  I mentioned Candace and Megan Kelly.
[00:09:04]  But where do they go?
[00:09:05]  And what is the point of allowing that to continue?
[00:09:08]  And I'm going to be completely real.
[00:09:10]  You make all the arguments in the world about free speech.
[00:09:12]  And I agree.
[00:09:13]  I don't think anyone should be banned.
[00:09:15]  But certainly you understand for the past 10 years, YouTube and these big platforms were shutting people down.
[00:09:22]  You would be banned if you said maughty words.
[00:09:25]  So then why does YouTube allow these voices such prominence to grow?
[00:09:33]  Maybe it is a Pied Piper PSYOP.
[00:09:36]  Maybe it's just YouTube's not intervening, but I really just don't believe it.
[00:09:41]  I mean, we've been censored and shadow banned.
[00:09:44]  And do you really believe the deep state would just let anybody do what they want?
[00:09:47]  Don't you remember COVID?
[00:09:49]  So then I wonder if all of this is just one big game.
[00:09:53]  Pied Piper, the anti-Israel voices, off into the corner, nuke their channels, shut them down.
[00:09:59]  And then in the next two years, you get a new left-right paradigm.
[00:10:04]  Woke is dead.
[00:10:05]  The realignment is now.
[00:10:07]  You are going to get moderate, relatively anti-interventionist Democrats, and you are going to get neocon Republicans just like Obama McCain, where Obama presents himself as the, we shouldn't be involved in these wars and we should bring the troops home.
[00:10:22]  But then what does he do?
[00:10:23]  He starts several new wars, sends more troops to the Middle East.
[00:10:27]  So they market themselves as anti-war, anti-intervention.
[00:10:31]  I believe that's really where it's all going.
[00:10:33]  I really do.
[00:10:36]  You know, it's going to be interesting to see how all of this stuff plays out because there are many people who are just chasing after the views.
[00:10:44]  I'm not going to accuse anyone directly, but let me just say there are people who intentionally produce content hoping that it maximizes their views in the algorithm.
[00:10:51]  I am not one of those individuals and I have repeatedly made videos that I just felt like making despite them getting lesser views.
[00:10:58]  Sometimes I talk about AI.
[00:11:00]  People don't really watch.
[00:11:01]  Sometimes I will tell you outright that it looks like the machine state is buying up the media, putting in place pro-Israel personalities and politicians.
[00:11:11]  And the other side will tell you somewhat the same thing while claiming that Israel controls the whole world or whatever.
[00:11:18]  Interesting nonetheless.
[00:11:19]  Let's read a little bit more and let me walk through everything that we're seeing and I'll break down for you what I think is going on.
[00:11:24]  Axios reports.

=== Centrist Democrats Return (03:02) ===

[00:11:26]  The pro-Israel group APAC notched some much-needed victories on Tuesday night in Illinois with two Democratic House candidates it backed winning their races.
[00:11:34]  Long a big spender in Democratic politics, APAC's reputation within the party's grassroots has never been worse.
[00:11:40]  And yet, with some delicate maneuvering, it proved it can still use its massive campaign war chest to devastating effect.
[00:11:48]  The group largely disguised the millions it spent across four Illinois House races, funneling money through PACs with anodyne names like Elect Chicago Women and Chicago Progressive Partnership, CPP.
[00:12:01]  The latter group targeted pro-Palestinian progressives by going after their leftist bona fides, essentially accusing them of being closet Republicans, and even in one case, boosting a left-wing splinter candidate.
[00:12:14]  I think it's fair to say that Illinois made APAC the comeback kid, one centrist House Democrat told Axios.
[00:12:21]  Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller defeated Rep Jesse Jackson Jr. and progressive state senator Robert Peters in the state's second congressional district.
[00:12:29]  Miller was supported by nearly $4.5 million in ad spending from APAC-affiliated group, Affordable Chicago Now, according to Ad Impact.
[00:12:38]  Rep Robin Kelly gave up the seat to run for U.S. Senate, but lost to Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton.
[00:12:45]  Former rep Melissa Bean beat progressive rival Junaid Ahmed in the race to succeed rep Raja Krishnamurthy, another unsuccessful Senate candidate.
[00:12:56]  Elect Chicago women spent $3.3 million in support of Bean, while Chicago Progressive Partnership spent another $700,000 painting Ahmed as a wealthy ally of Elon Musk and fossil fuel interests.
[00:13:08]  Bean was also supported by ads from crypto and AIPACs, which, similar to APEC's ads, portrayed the centrist ex-lawmaker as a progressive fighter and staunch foe of ICE.
[00:13:18]  This significant reversal of fortunes for APAC, which suffered an embarrassing defeat in the special election to fill New Jersey Governor Mickey Sherrill's seat in the House.
[00:13:26]  APAC spent more than $2 million attacking former rep Tom Malnowski, a liberal Zionist, that's interesting, in support of their candidate, Tanisha Way.
[00:13:35]  That cleared room for Analilia Mejia, a more decisively progressive pro-Palestinian candidate to win.
[00:13:42]  The group suffered a similar loss last cycle with the election of rep David Min, who it spent millions opposing.
[00:13:49]  Other lawmakers APAC supported that cycle include reps Maxine Dexter and Valerie Fouchy.
[00:13:55]  They have since broken decisively with them on Israel.
[00:13:59]  They do say APEC fell short in the closely watched race to replace Rep Jan Schakowsky in the 9th.
[00:14:04]  It backed staunchly pro-Israel state senator Laura Fine, who came in third behind left-wing influencer Kat Abugazela and progressive Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss.
[00:14:14]  The group spent millions going for Biss at first, but pivoted in the final stretch of the campaign to going primarily after Abugazela, with ads suggesting she secretly holds right-wing views and boosting a lower-tier progressive candidate, Bushra Amawala.

=== Buying Up The Media (15:31) ===

[00:14:29]  And they're going to mention quite a bit more.
[00:14:30]  Now, here's where we're headed, according to Kalshi.
[00:14:33]  Which party will win the U.S. House?
[00:14:35]  And as I say, Democrats are defeated.
[00:14:37]  Now, hold on there, gosh darn minute.
[00:14:39]  What I'm saying is the current iteration of the Democratic Party with this massive progressive push has been crushed.
[00:14:46]  Woke is dead.
[00:14:47]  The centrist, moderate, corporate Democrat is coming back with a vengeance.
[00:14:53]  And they're getting beautiful funding from APAC.
[00:14:56]  We see an 84% likelihood, according to the prediction markets, that the Democratic Party will take the House.
[00:15:03]  And it is becoming increasing more likely, according to the prediction markets, that they'll get the House and the Senate, which is very, very bad news for Donald Trump.
[00:15:13]  But my friends, there is something particularly interesting that we are seeing.
[00:15:17]  A realignment and a shift that is occurring right before our eyes.
[00:15:21]  It could be construed as an icing out.
[00:15:24]  What I mean by that is those that are staunchly anti-Israel are going to get choked out of the media environment because prominent personalities, pro-Israel personalities, neocon or otherwise, are purchasing up media and changing the algorithm.
[00:15:38]  At the same time, I have to question, because I don't really know.
[00:15:41]  YouTube seems to be absolutely propping up those who hate Israel, which is really interesting.
[00:15:48]  I'd be interested in looking at their metrics, however, because for those that are very questioning of Israel, while it is true that 54% of people, according to Pew Research, hold a negative view of Israel.
[00:15:59]  If you produce content that has access to the global stage, well, you'll find there are several billion people who don't like Israel.
[00:16:07]  And if you're open to getting viewers from other countries that are either Islamic or just anti-Israel, well, then your viewership will be pretty dang good.
[00:16:14]  And we don't know for sure, but many people have made the argument that these personalities on YouTube who are getting massive viewership are actually getting foreigners to watch their content.
[00:16:23]  Maybe the case.
[00:16:24]  I'm not entirely sure.
[00:16:25]  But what I will say is on X, we have seen since Elon Musk, since X, roll to the feature where you can see what country a person is from.
[00:16:34]  Boy, was it crazy.
[00:16:36]  You had fake MAGA accounts being run from India.
[00:16:40]  You had fake progressive Native American accounts being run from Bangladesh.
[00:16:45]  We know foreign individuals are influencing our political machine and they're doing it to disrupt our political system.
[00:16:53]  So one thing that I would find interesting is if you are a voice that is critical of U.S. foreign policy, well, yeah, foreign countries that don't like those policies can easily prop up your videos and make it look like you're getting a whole lot of money.
[00:17:08]  But I would just say this.
[00:17:11]  The company that I run, I've never been shy in pointing this out, we do eight figures, right?
[00:17:17]  We've done, you know, I don't know, 13 to 15 million a year.
[00:17:20]  And take a look at the views that we get.
[00:17:22]  I mean, the video that I did on this channel yesterday is like 100 and 200,000 maybe at this point.
[00:17:26]  200,000 views.
[00:17:29]  That's about how much I get on these videos.
[00:17:31]  You take a look at the Timcast News channel, which varies.
[00:17:35]  I'm messing around with the time slot in the past week or so.
[00:17:38]  I produced a ton of videos yesterday.
[00:17:41]  And, you know, 150,000, sometimes 200.
[00:17:46]  I had one hit 500,000.
[00:17:47]  To be fair, I did a video here a couple weeks ago did about a million views.
[00:17:50]  And not to mention that some of these videos, they do really well on Rumble.
[00:17:54]  But I told you how much money we generally make as a company.
[00:17:57]  Now, most of it goes into paying salaries and running the business.
[00:17:59]  I personally am not taking that as profit or anything like that.
[00:18:02]  But based on the views some of these other channels are getting, which you can easily see are much, much bigger than mine, were it true that those are legitimate American viewers watching ads, these people would be making $50 to $70 million per year.
[00:18:18]  Maybe that's the case.
[00:18:19]  I'll also tell you that for our audio side of the podcast, we do like 100K downloads per day, which is substantially smaller than many of these other podcasts, especially those that are critical of Israel.
[00:18:32]  And I'm going to tell you, as I already told you about our revenue, again, if these people really were getting that massive viewership, they would be making $50 to $70 million a year.
[00:18:42]  Hey, maybe they are.
[00:18:44]  Because a lot of people have said, Tim, if these people are already rich, why would they do this?
[00:18:49]  Why would they make these videos?
[00:18:50]  I'm like, well, let me tell you, based on the revenue we generate, those people might be making $50 to $70 million.
[00:18:56]  You want to call them rich?
[00:18:58]  Yeah, they'd be making a lot more money if that's the case.
[00:19:00]  But I got to be honest, I find it tremendously hard to believe.
[00:19:04]  I know the metrics on some of these big podcasts, and I've talked with some of these companies, and some of these shows that are really big, they do about 30 million per year.
[00:19:13]  Don't get me wrong, that's a lot of money.
[00:19:15]  But their viewership is substantially larger than mine, so it's a diminishing return.
[00:19:19]  I don't think these people are making that much money.
[00:19:22]  But anyway, I digress.
[00:19:24]  Jenkie, the Young Turk says, and now they come asking for $200 billion for Israel's war.
[00:19:30]  Why doesn't our special ally pay for the war?
[00:19:32]  They're the ones who wanted it.
[00:19:34]  Why do we have to pay all of Israel's bills and fight all their wars?
[00:19:37]  And at home, we're always told that we don't have enough for the American people.
[00:19:41]  And then we have Anna Kasparian.
[00:19:43]  This isn't just a Netanyahu problem.
[00:19:44]  It's an Israel problem.
[00:19:45]  Democratic lawmakers are just as controlled by Israeli interests as Republicans are.
[00:19:49]  We need to decouple from Israel.
[00:19:51]  The future of America literally depends on it.
[00:19:53]  Republicans are currently looking to pass a reconciliation bill that would provide another $100 billion for Israel's war against Iran.
[00:19:58]  Reconciliation means the Senate could pass the supplemental funding bill with a simple majority if they cut $100 billion from programs that benefit Americans in America.
[00:20:07]  Well, I don't completely disagree with what they're saying.
[00:20:10]  I highlight it because they're in complete alignment with Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Megan Kelly.
[00:20:16]  This is a new political faction.
[00:20:19]  We have this from the New York Post.
[00:20:20]  Woke never really died.
[00:20:22]  It's coming back with a vengeance.
[00:20:24]  And we should be terrified this from January.
[00:20:26]  I don't completely agree.
[00:20:29]  While they highlight Zorhan Mamdani, Zorhan Mamdani is very Israel critical.
[00:20:34]  He is very progressive, and he did win in New York, but New York is struggling.
[00:20:39]  Wealthy people are leaving.
[00:20:41]  Kathy Hochle is trying not to tax the rich.
[00:20:44]  I'm not entirely convinced that this worldview will ultimately be successful.
[00:20:49]  And then we have, yeah, anti-Israel activist who called Jews cockroaches has multiple links to Zoran Mandani's family, despite attempts to distance themselves.
[00:20:57]  The point I'm bringing up is that it seems that anti-Israel seems to be the principal dividing point right now.
[00:21:03]  And the, I guess you'd call it establishment Republican Party, they're pro-Israel.
[00:21:09]  The establishment Democratic Party, they are pro-Israel.
[00:21:13]  And the reason why I highlight Zoran Mandani is not just to point out he's anti-Israel, but it's to point out that during the mayoral election, all of the mayors were asked, or the candidates, if you could go to any country, where would you go?
[00:21:24]  And they're all like, Israel.
[00:21:25]  And then Zoran Mandani was the only guy who was like, I would just stay here to help the people of New York, which plays really well domestically and is probably why he won.
[00:21:34]  But it's funny.
[00:21:35]  It is pretty dang weird when they're all like, Israel, over and over and over again.
[00:21:41]  Now here's where it gets interesting.
[00:21:42]  The New York Post says, top CBS evening news producer may be on the chopping block as ratings plummet to new low.
[00:21:49]  Time may be ticking for the top producer at CBS News.
[00:21:52]  As ratings sink below 4 million, a new low for the Tony Docopole anchored show, CBS told the Post.
[00:21:59]  Executive producer Kim Harvey is overseeing the nightly broadcast since August.
[00:22:02]  Will ultimately take the fall unless she can pull the network's flagship out of the abyss, blah, blah, blah.
[00:22:06]  They go to mention that NBC News is due, I'm sorry, ABC is doing 8.5 million, NBC is doing 6, and the CBS evening news has dropped to 3.8.
[00:22:17]  I highlight this just as all of this is confusing and we're trying to map this out.
[00:22:22]  CBS was purchased and Barry Weiss, a self-avowed Zionist, has taken over.
[00:22:28]  She is attempting to pull CBS out of a tailspin.
[00:22:31]  They have in many ways shifted away from woke Democrat and seem to be they're trying to be a moderate Democrat.
[00:22:39]  So they're still somewhat anti-Trump and a little lefty, but they are pro-Israel.
[00:22:44]  The question is, will this ultimately work out?
[00:22:49]  The Washington Post reports the Ellisons are building a media empire.
[00:22:53]  Trump keeps cheering them on.
[00:22:56]  The president and defense secretary have each heaped praise on Larry and David Ellison as the DOJ reviews Paramount Skydance's Warner Bros deal.
[00:23:04]  They say the Ellison family, two great people, great people.
[00:23:07]  It's a great family, Trump said on Monday in remarks ahead of the Kennedy Center board meeting that referenced CBS.
[00:23:12]  On Friday, Hagseth called Warner Bros. own CNN coverage of the Israeli war in Iran fake news.
[00:23:18]  The sooner David Ellison takes over the network, the better, Hagseth said.
[00:23:21]  A spokeswoman for CNN declined to comment on his remarks.
[00:23:24]  CNN, a longtime target of Trump's complaint in the media, is among the most prominent assets in Paramount's pending acquisition of Warner Brothers, which requires approval from the DOJ.
[00:23:34]  Larry Ellison, co-founder and chairman of Oracle and longtime friend and ally of Trump, has financially backstopped Paramount's pending deal to buy Warner Brothers and is also a major investor in the White House-blessed deal that spun off TikTok into a U.S. company that has helped rebrand the tech billionaire and his son David into media tycoons with some help from Trump.
[00:23:54]  The administration's posture towards Paramount's proposed acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery has drawn scrutiny since a bidding war erupted over the troubled needy giant late last year.
[00:24:01]  After Netflix announced an $83 billion deal in December to buy most of Warner Brothers Discovery and spin off CNN and other cable properties, Trump told reporters he would be involved in deciding whether to approve it, citing the streaming giant's market power as a potential concern.
[00:24:15]  Days later, Paramount launched a hostile bid for the entire company, including CNN, backed by a personal guarantee of more than $40 billion from Larry Ellison.
[00:24:24]  Netflix ultimately withdrew its offer last month after Paramount increased its bid, allowing it to strike a deal to merge with Warner Brothers.
[00:24:31]  The merger could reshape Hollywood and the news industry by placing two major Hollywood studios, two major streaming services, and two major news brands under one roof.
[00:24:41]  And wait, gears more.
[00:24:43]  The Ellisons love Israel.
[00:24:46]  So as they take on Paramount and put Barry Weiss, an avowed Zionist in place, it seems to be the moneyed interests are buying up the media, funding the politicians, and restoring the status quo.
[00:24:58]  Now, I got a million and one theories on why this may be.
[00:25:02]  I don't know.
[00:25:03]  We've got this from the intercept.
[00:25:05]  Anti-Palestinian billionaires can now control what TikTok users see.
[00:25:09]  You know, guys, the machine state's coming back.
[00:25:13]  Many prominent donors and pro-Israel, Zionist, Jewish or otherwise, let woke happen.
[00:25:20]  And woke hates Israel.
[00:25:22]  And TikTok was propping up anti-Israel content.
[00:25:25]  You're allowed to be critical of Israel.
[00:25:27]  But these powerful interests don't like it.
[00:25:29]  So what are they going to do?
[00:25:30]  They're going to buy up the media.
[00:25:31]  They're going to shift the narrative.
[00:25:32]  And they are going to say, we are all pro-Israel now.
[00:25:36]  And you know, I will tell you this, for a fact.
[00:25:39]  That's the agenda.
[00:25:41]  Now, what I will also say is I've talked about it quite a bit because I wear my thoughts on my sleeve, and I don't know if it really matters.
[00:25:52]  I genuinely believe that whether or not you get prominent viewership on these social media platforms is based upon whether or not the machine state decides that you will.
[00:26:01]  I think the algorithm, they've got their fingers on the scale, and we've known this for some time.
[00:26:06]  I've been in communication with several companies for a long time.
[00:26:10]  And there's always been offers levied at us because we're an independent company.
[00:26:13]  We own ourselves.
[00:26:13]  We have no outside investment.
[00:26:14]  We don't take money from foreign countries or anything like this.
[00:26:16]  The media reports on that stuff, it's all just fake news.
[00:26:19]  We've only ever worked with American companies on licensing deals, including some big ones, some small ones, and we have advertisers, members, and that funds everything.
[00:26:26]  Everyone's always got some excuse to explain how we exist.
[00:26:28]  And I think the reality is probably just that the machine state tolerates my existence.
[00:26:32]  They either like it or they just don't care.
[00:26:35]  And that's why my channel seems to exist as it is.
[00:26:38]  Not particularly the biggest, big in some ways, but yeah.
[00:26:40]  So we've had companies reach out to us and say they'd be interested in investing.
[00:26:45]  And the truth is we do need strategic investment because we're a mom-and-pop shop media shop, you know, mom-and-pop media shop, whatever you want to call it.
[00:26:54]  Well, these conversations have come up.
[00:26:56]  And while there's never been an instance where someone called me and said, you must support Israel, that's never happened.
[00:27:02]  There is an effort to acquire podcasts.
[00:27:05]  And I believe what we will see moving forward, as I've explained in great deal, is that these staunchly anti-intravent, well, let me put it like this, because it's a bigger picture.
[00:27:14]  If you are populist left or right, you are going to get iced out.
[00:27:20]  You know, iced out.
[00:27:21]  You're going to get removed from the big picture.
[00:27:24]  We are seeing the progressive left lose.
[00:27:27]  And you can call it APAC or whatever you want, but the military-industrial complex, the deep state, the machine state wants its narrative machine back.
[00:27:34]  And so they're going to pick winners and losers.
[00:27:38]  So I am curious about what YouTube is doing.
[00:27:40]  I don't exactly know, but there are some things I can tell you, which you may find very interesting.
[00:27:48]  Take a look at this from MediaIte.
[00:27:49]  Gabbard says she checked her personal views at the door when asked if Trump's Iran war is constitutional.
[00:27:56]  I actually think that's honorable of Tulsi Gabbard because you know she's not in favor of war with Iran, but she's doing her job and she is serving this country and its duly elected president as she was asked to do.
[00:28:08]  Now, there have been people who have attacked her and I believe Dave Smith called her a traitor to this country for pushing us into a war with lies.
[00:28:17]  And certainly you're allowed to criticize these people.
[00:28:20]  And I do like Dave, but I would also counter with this.
[00:28:23]  Tulsi Gabbard was asked to do a job for the American people based on who they elected.
[00:28:27]  Donald Trump is that president.
[00:28:29]  I don't know that she or Trump is lying.
[00:28:32]  Dave thinks she is.
[00:28:34]  She is checking her personal views to do the job she was asked to do.
[00:28:38]  And I actually find that to be honorable.
[00:28:40]  I think it'd be dishonorable if she said, I'm not going to serve this president who you elected.
[00:28:45]  Now, you may not like what Trump is doing, and certainly I have my criticisms, but the solution to that is to vote in the midterms, in which I think the Republicans will probably get smacked down.
[00:28:55]  But then again, where does this bring us?
[00:28:59]  APAC is winning.
[00:29:01]  Their candidates are taking the cake.
[00:29:02]  The progressives are getting pushed out.
[00:29:04]  So even if Democrats win, it looks like status quo is back on the table, baby.
[00:29:09]  And then the question is, who will the winners and losers in the podcast race really be?
[00:29:14]  And I got to be honest, I think it's going to be a lot of lowbrow stuff.
[00:29:18]  You know, truth be told, I think my show is probably a little too highbrow.
[00:29:21]  I'm not saying I'm the smartest guy in the world or even in the room.
[00:29:24]  I'm saying that the discussions that we have on foreign policy are particularly in-depth, and the average person doesn't really follow.
[00:29:32]  It's easier to just scream Israel and bang on the table than to talk about, say, the liberal economic order, the petro-dollar system, and all of U.S. military interests.
[00:29:41]  So I'm going to give you a quick final five-minute breakdown, giving you the full details based on surface-level analysis.
[00:29:48]  I don't have access to classified information.
[00:29:50]  I do have friends who work in some of these sectors.
[00:29:53]  But let me just say it like this.
[00:29:55]  One of the first things that Donald Trump did as he got into office was target Panama.

=== Strait of Hormuz Crisis (03:54) ===

[00:30:00]  Trump wants the Panama Canal back, and they were working on a deal with China.
[00:30:04]  China, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, wanted to build a canal through Nicaragua, which would massacre this massive lake.
[00:30:11]  And that was big bad news.
[00:30:13]  It was a massive undertaking they ultimately abandoned as they tried to make a move on Panama instead.
[00:30:18]  Trump said no and has secured Panama.
[00:30:22]  As we slide on up, of course, we have the issue with Venezuela way down here.
[00:30:27]  You know, people don't understand just where Cuba and Venezuela is because they look at the flat map.
[00:30:31]  Well, Venezuela down here has just lost Maduro, and we've seized back control of our oil assets.
[00:30:36]  Cuba is now shut out, and they are without power or energy.
[00:30:40]  Russia and China are trying to bring oil in there, but Trump is bringing them back into the fold.
[00:30:44]  This is Monroe Doctrine.
[00:30:46]  More importantly, the conversation around Greenland and Canada, and this has to do with the Northwest Passage.
[00:30:52]  All of this is trade routes largely for oil.
[00:30:56]  The U.S. polices these areas.
[00:30:58]  You have these straits here.
[00:31:00]  You have Denmark.
[00:31:01]  You have the Strait of Gibraltar.
[00:31:04]  Extremely important, but hey, with Morocco and Spain, largely under Western control.
[00:31:08]  You have the Suez Canal.
[00:31:09]  Let's realign this little earth here and reset to north so you can see.
[00:31:14]  The Suez Canal with Egypt and Israel right there in the Sinai Peninsula.
[00:31:17]  Then, of course, you have the Bosphorus and the Black Sea.
[00:31:20]  Russia, the battle in Ukraine over access to Crimea and Sevastopol.
[00:31:25]  All of this lines up very, very simply.
[00:31:28]  The Suez Canal and the Red Sea, under threat by Houthi rebels.
[00:31:32]  They don't like Israel and they were bombing civilian vessels.
[00:31:35]  Then you have the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:31:37]  This is the big point of contention right now.
[00:31:40]  You have 20% of the world's energy moving through the Strait of Hormuz and Iran is threatening it.
[00:31:47]  So what do you get?
[00:31:48]  This is not Israel's war.
[00:31:50]  Israel has their war.
[00:31:52]  This is the global order, the petrodollar, and the status quo saying we do not tolerate Iran.
[00:32:00]  The Iraq war and the Afghanistan war were largely an effort to surround Iran.
[00:32:06]  So whether you like that or not, that is what is currently going on.
[00:32:10]  This is why the U.S. wants to be involved.
[00:32:12]  It is not just because of Israel.
[00:32:14]  Israel's interests and the reason why they are attacking Iran and just flattening their oil industry despite Trump getting pissed, well, it's because Iran funds Hamas, Hezbollah, and other militia forces and proxy groups in the region, which are trying to destroy Israel.
[00:32:30]  So for Israel, this is an ideological and existential war with Iran.
[00:32:35]  For the United States, it is about securing oil trade and forcing the world into the petrodollar system where you buy oil in dollars.
[00:32:45]  And so, fighting with Iran, war with Iran, that interest is aligned with Israel.
[00:32:52]  Now, it's overly simplified.
[00:32:54]  I can go into great detail about Ukraine next.
[00:32:56]  You want to talk about the Qatar-Turkey pipeline, where Western powers wanted to build a pipeline through Iraq, Syria, Turkey, into Europe, offsetting Russia's gas-prom natural gas monopoly.
[00:33:05]  They control out 20% of natural gas into Europe, and they crank the price up, and it chokes out economic growth in Europe.
[00:33:12]  So the U.S. tried to do this, and Bashar al-Assad said, absolutely not.
[00:33:15]  So what happens?
[00:33:15]  He's a terrorist, I guess.
[00:33:17]  The U.S. then funds these militia groups in Syria, these rebel factions, ultimately join up with ISIS, thus inadvertently fueling and arming ISIS in hopes that ISIS would destabilize Bashar al-Assad's regime, knocking him out of power, which ultimately it did, and he fled to Russia.
[00:33:35]  This is not because of Israel.
[00:33:37]  It's because of Europe.
[00:33:40]  But there's a lot more to this story.
[00:33:42]  There is the Pacific theater, there's Australia and China and Taiwan, and Israel doesn't play a role in those things.
[00:33:49]  Certainly you don't have to like Israel, but man, Israel derangement syndrome is crazy.

=== Global Energy Shifts (00:52) ===

[00:33:55]  Now, I have to be completely honest with you guys.
[00:33:56]  I am not convinced that the future of whatever it is the machine is building, there is a space for someone like me to outright just tell you the general surface level of foreign policy news, confident crisis.
[00:34:07]  The machine state never wants to say to you that we're doing this for oil and we're forcing people to adhere to our machinations.
[00:34:14]  And the anti-Israel people are like, Tim's a Jew because he won't criticize Israel or whatever.
[00:34:19]  Although I've criticized Israel, just not in the right ways, I guess.
[00:34:22]  So whatever this space is being created, maybe I retire in the long run.
[00:34:27]  I think whatever happens, there is something shifting.
[00:34:30]  And I don't know who's going to win.
[00:34:32]  And I don't know why it's happening the way it is.
[00:34:35]  But it is happening.
[00:34:36]  I'm going to wrap it up there, my friends, with so much more to talk about throughout the rest of the day.
[00:34:40]  Smash the like button, share the show with everyone you know.
[00:34:42]  Thank you so much for hanging out.
[00:34:44]  Follow me on X and Instagram at Timcast.
[00:34:46]  And we'll see you all in the next