S5213 - Biden's Mental Health Questioned After BIZARRE "Cornholio" Pose On CNN Leaves Everyone Confused
Biden's Mental Health Questioned After BIZARRE "Cornholio" Pose On CNN Leaves Everyone Confused. After Anderson Cooper asked about inflation Biden struck an odd pose which many think is a sign he is losing control of his already weak mind.
Meanwhile Democrats on twitter claimed his performance proved the opposite, that he was sharp as ever and on the top of his game.
But among the american voters Biden's approval is collapsing to new lows. Among independent voters Biden sits at 26% approval.
Republicans are strong favorites in 2022 and with the launch of Trumps new SPAC and Truth Social there is a good chance he is favored to win in 2024
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People are questioning the mental fitness of Joe Biden after a strange performance in a CNN town hall where he held his fists up like Cornholio from Beavis and Butthead and made weird comments and whispered.
Even Newsweek said it was strange.
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Joe Biden's approval rating continues to sink to new record lows, notably among independents, whereas current approval rating sits at just 26 percent, according to Civics.
Now, that is abysmal.
Several other studies have come out showing that the American people think Joe Biden is not fit to be president, nor is he mentally stable enough to do the job.
And now we're getting this story from Newsweek.
Joe Biden town hall, five strange moments you might have missed.
Why might you have missed them?
Did you not watch the Joe Biden town hall on CNN?
Okay, yeah, you probably didn't.
I'd assume most people didn't.
But if you did, there's no way you would have missed the absolute insanity that occurred.
Now the most notable moment, probably, is when Joe Biden donned what people are calling the imaginary jetpack.
Other people have been tweeting about Cornholio from Beavis and Butthead.
It was this strange moment.
For about half a minute, Joe Biden has his arms like this at a 90 degree angle, fists clenched, And no one understands what he's doing or why he's doing it.
It was a very strange thing to see.
And it has many people worried that Joe Biden's cognitive faculties are rapidly in decline.
But Newsweek points out four other moments One of these moments, Joe Biden said that the US will defend Taiwan if China invades.
Okay, that seems to be containing some lucidity, I suppose.
It's a direct statement.
Well, the White House had to issue a correction saying, wait a minute, we don't want to go to war with China.
Joe Biden's approval rating is crashing.
The inflation rates are through the roof.
Jen Psaki is saying it's a good thing.
The American people are worried about rising gas prices.
In one California town, gas hit $7.59 a gallon.
Joe Biden is spiraling and it's getting bad.
Yet there are people who watched this town hall and they're like, if only conservatives actually watched this, they'd see a man who is at the top of his game, who is sharp as a tack.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Newsweek says otherwise.
And Newsweek is far from conservative.
But what about the upcoming elections?
Will this translate to a stunning Democrat defeat?
And what about 2024?
Will Donald Trump take this country by storm?
Starting to look that way, at least.
You see, Joe Biden's approval rating's in the gutter.
There's historically supposed to be some kind of red wave in the, you know, president's first term.
People get soured on it, and they vote for the opposition party.
But with 2024 around the corner, it looks like Donald Trump is going to be running.
We recently interviewed Sean Spicer on TimCast IRL, and he said Donald Trump is running.
In his opinion, he's not working with Trump, but he's like, Trump's running.
You know, he's doing these rallies.
Trump has now announced Truth Social, his new social media website, and Donald Trump's associated SPAC, DWAC, is up something like 1,300% overnight!
Multiple halts!
But people have gotten very rich off of Trump's new technology and media SPAC.
It's a special acquisitions company or whatever it means, and it's meant to fund this new enterprise.
Donald Trump!
He seems to be particularly popular.
He's always been.
But I mean, right now, you'd think people would be like, I'm not going to bet on that horse.
People are betting on that horse, and they're betting big.
And a tenfold times, a 10x times return?
That's massive.
Let's take a look at Joe Biden's imaginary jetpack.
And you got to understand how weird this looks.
And some of the other things he said that are causing people to be kind of worried.
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Let's get into that story with Joe Biden.
Newsweek says, Joe Biden town hall, five strange moments you might have missed.
And of course, coming in at number one is the imaginary jetpack.
At a town hall in July, Biden suggested recent price rises were only near time inflation.
Last week, Economist told the Wall Street Journal that high inflation was likely to remain into 2022.
And Cooper asked Biden whether or not he agreed.
In the near 20 seconds that it took for the host to tee up the question, Biden held his forearms out with his elbows at right angles and fists clenched.
Let me just show you this video.
There he is.
What's he doing?
Now, a lot of people have made the joke about, I think, you know, like Talladega Nights.
I don't know what to do with my hands or whatever.
He's just standing there like Cornholio from Beavis and Butthead.
Now, to give you a better photo of this, here's an image I posted on Twitter that's been going viral.
It is Joe Biden standing there with his arms up, right angles, fists clenched in a very strange position.
And people have put Beavis's head, you know, in Beavis and Butt-head, if you really aren't familiar with this, Beavis would pull his shirt up over his head, put his hands down and say he was the great Cornholio and he needs TP for his bunghole.
So I tweeted, whoever did this should be ashamed.
How disrespectful to our president.
Look, I'm not here to make fun of a guy who's got very serious mental dysfunction.
I think that's what we're seeing with, you know, Joe standing there in this really awful or strange position.
It may seem silly.
But I think we have to start considering it.
These signs, they are grains of sand in a heap.
And that heap is starting to pile up, right?
You know the saying, how many grains of sand make a heap?
And the idea is you take one grain of sand, you put it on the ground, you have a heap.
Of course not.
But eventually you will.
And you'll say, at what point?
We don't know.
It's nuanced, right?
Joe Biden can slur.
Yeah, he said a lot of crazy things.
And once or twice, and you say, wow, that was weird.
Falling up the stairs when he was trying to get on the plane.
And now this. How many grains of sand to have a heap labeled mentally unfit?
Newsweek says several viewers on Twitter said it looked like the president was holding an
imaginary jetpack.
In answer to Cooper's question, Biden said he did not think high inflation would last, unless we don't make these investments.
He added that he expected gas prices to come down into next year, 2022, which makes absolutely no sense.
My friends, it's going to get worse.
And I got the stories to back it up.
Two, don't pay a cent.
Biden was also asked about the possibility of tax rises for the wealthy.
The president's answer focused on corporations, telling them he hoped they made fortunes, but to at least pay your fair share, chip in a little bit.
You have 55 corporations, for example, in the United States of America making over $40 billion.
Don't pay a cent.
Not a single little red cent, which is a lie.
What does he mean?
Maybe he's saying income tax.
They don't pay corporate income tax.
And that is if a business reinvests the money elsewhere and then writes it down or writes a loss or gets tax incentives, they won't pay an income tax, but they're paying employment tax.
They're paying property taxes.
They're paying taxes across the board.
Typically, my investigations into stories that corporations don't pay taxes have proven that it's not true.
They never get specific on what they mean by taxes.
It is true that a lot of wealthy elites and corporations aren't paying relative to the amount of money they have.
However, the bulk of taxes are paid by the wealthy.
It is a nuanced issue.
A lot of people on the right will say, like, look, poor people don't... it's a net deficit.
Poor people don't pay as much as they take.
My attitude is kind of like, that's kind of a good thing.
It is.
I certainly think people who are more well-off can easily afford to pay more.
I just think the problem is giving the money to the government doesn't solve anything.
So I don't know how you actually solve this problem, but I can say the idea of just taxing people and taking from them doesn't seem to be solving anything.
Maybe we need to work out something else.
It's not about left or right.
It's about solutions that work.
As Biden whispered, don't pay a cent, he made a circle with his index finger and thumb and held it up to his eye.
It's far from the first time the president has used whispering for dramatic effect.
I wouldn't call it that.
Apparently he made a comment about racing Colin Powell.
Okay.
He had a brand new Corvette we raced.
Well, I won only because he was worried I was going to crash into him.
Yeah, I'd be worried too that Joe Biden would crash into me that I get.
Here's a big story.
Biden misspeaks on Taiwan.
Biden was asked by an audience member about recent reports of China testing hypersonic missiles.
The president said the U.S.
has the most powerful military in the history of the world, adding that his concern was whether or not they're going to engage in activities that will put them in a position where they may make a serious mistake.
Biden was then asked by Cooper, are you saying that the U.S.
would come to Taiwan's defense if China's attacked?
The president replied, yes, yes, we have a commitment to do that.
The U.S.
is legally required to provide Taiwan with the resources to defend itself, but has long pursued a policy of so-called strategic ambiguity on the question of intervening militarily in the event of a Chinese attack.
The White House was quick to clarify that the president was not announcing any change in our policy.
Sorry, you can't keep doing this!
This is the issue, okay?
Joe Biden will say something and someone else somewhere will say, actually he was wrong and we take that back.
The president is Joe Biden, not whoever these spokespeople are.
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I'm pretty sure it's Long Beach, but I know that's the San Pedro port.
You know, look, I'll put it this way.
If Biden doesn't know it, that's fine.
But, uh, you know, he should.
You know what I mean?
I'm not going to blame you or anybody else for not knowing the name of the port.
Biden previously announced the White House has reached an agreement with America's two largest ports, the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, to transition to a 24-7 schedule to ease the logjam, which isn't doing anything.
Because Biden is as dumb as a box of rocks.
The problem is shipping containers.
Nobody wants to take empty containers.
Truckers can't get them out, and they're blocking the streets, just dumping them in the streets.
But Joe Biden apparently doesn't know that.
They say the port at Long Beach, California handles about 78 million tons of cargo worth about $180 billion every year.
Look at this!
40% goes through Los Angeles, and what am I doing here?
What am I doing here?
Joe, you're on stage for a CNN town hall, did you forget?
Man.
You know, I lose my train of thought sometimes, trying to wrangle.
I'll be on Tim Castellaw, it's happened maybe a dozen times over the year, almost two years now I've been doing the show, and I got all these people talking, and I'll be like, we need to get a segue in, and then just the other day it happened to me.
It happened to the best of us.
We were talking about, it was a story from, it was about Fauci and the NIH, and what I wanted to say was that the headline for the Daily Mail was talking about Brian Laundrie, and I'm like, that story doesn't matter, and the story really didn't matter.
And I was like, I'm reading it, and I'm like, I lost my train of thought.
See, if it happened once or twice, you'd be like, it happens to everybody.
You ever get up, walk into another room, and then forget why you walked in there?
These things happen all the time.
I get this all the time.
I'll be like, oh, I've gotta, you know, pay my credit card bill, and I'll pick up my phone and open it, and then I'll get a notification for something, and I'll be like, oh, I've gotta address that.
And then I'll be like, wait, what did I pick up my phone for?
Man, that distracted me.
Oh yeah, credit card.
Joe Biden saying, what am I doing here?
If it was just once, I'd say fine.
It's worse than that.
And worse than all of this is Joe Biden's, just his rhetoric in general.
Take a look at this story from TimCast.com.
Biden mocks people who support medical freedom.
I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID.
Okay, that's bad.
President Joe Biden mocked people who want medical freedom by implying that they are killers during the CNN presidential town hall on Thursday.
Biden's remarks came after town hall host Anderson Cooper asked him about the first responders who are being fired for refusing to get vaccinated against their will.
Cooper asked Biden if he thought the workers should be encouraged to stay home or fired.
Biden answered affirmatively to both, quote.
So the idea is that, look, two things that concern me.
One are those who just try to make this a political issue.
Freedom.
I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID.
No, come on, freedom, Biden said, imitating someone who opposes vaccine mandates.
Biden also addressed the death of Colin Powell, who was fully vaccinated but died from COVID-related complications.
Number one, number two, the second one is that, you know, the gross misinformation that's out there.
Like what they're saying about my buddy Colin Powell.
He was my friend, passed away.
Colin Powell was vaccinated and he still died.
Well, he knew he had serious underlying conditions and it would be difficult.
He clearly would have been gone earlier had he not gotten the vaccine, had he not gotten the shots.
But my generic point is there's so much misinformation.
Biden was fact checked by the AP over claims he has made about his record with the COVID vaccine during the town hall.
Quote, when I was first elected, there were only 2 million people who had COVID shots in the US.
Now we got 190 million because I went out and bought everything I could do and buy insight and it worked.
The AP reported this was incorrect, as nearly 16 million doses had been administered by January 20th, the day Biden took office.
And Biden didn't buy up all the doses.
The Trump administration has purchased 300 million doses of the vaccine from Pfizer and Moderna in December, weeks before Biden was inaugurated.
Now, I want to address one thing.
If you want to get the vaccine, by all means, go talk to your doctor, figure out what's right for you.
But when a lot of people come out and say, the vaccine mandates, what about the other mandates we've had?
We've long had a mandate for this, that, or otherwise.
And I'm like, no, we didn't.
We literally don't.
Oh, you mean for like kids going to school?
Sure.
But you have no obligation to put your kid in those public schools.
You bring them somewhere else or homeschool them.
You can just do that.
Now what if you want to go buy a cheeseburger at a restaurant?
When have we ever implemented mandatory medical ID checks?
I mean, maybe a hundred years ago for like the pandemics of the time.
But I'm not here.
I'm not going to believe that this is going to be a temporary thing.
Regardless, Joe Biden's attitude here is particularly worrisome because he seems to have disdain for many Americans, maybe not the majority, maybe just a large group.
But either way, he's certainly not a unifying force.
When he says things like this, and you know people are hesitant or worried, he's absolutely not doing everything in his power to compromise and bring this country together.
And it's reflecting.
The people know it.
From TimCast.com, over 80% of voters are worried about gas prices and inflation.
An extreme majority of voters are worried about the rising cost of gas and widespread inflation taking place in the U.S., according to a poll conducted by Beacon Research and Shaw & Company.
The poll found that 84% of respondents are worried about their families dealing with the rising gas prices.
Almost everyone, 94%, think the gas price increase is a problem for the country's economy.
Additionally, the poll found that President Joe Biden's ratings on the economy are down, dropping 11 points even among Democrats.
73% of voters, the highest since May 2020, rate the economy negatively, and nearly three times as many are falling behind as getting ahead financially.
The 39% who are falling behind is up from 27% in June.
The report also noted that overall, majorities of voters report empty store shelves and slower delivery times in the past month.
Oh, definitely.
We've had to get stuff shipped out here overnight, and it's been like two or three days.
Trucker shortage.
83% say their grocery costs have increased, including 43% who say prices are up a lot.
Biden's declining ratings on the company must be a major concern for the White House, said Republican pollster Darren Shaw, who conducts the Fox News poll with Democrat Chris Anderson.
Historically bad economic news spells trouble for the incumbent party in the midterms.
Gas prices are at a seven-year high, with one California town reaching a whopping $7.59 per gallon.
Bravo to the people of California for voting for Newsom and voting for Biden.
You know what?
You deserve it.
Now, I'm not happy the prices are that high, but you choose to live in these places.
This week, at your average American gas station, you'll likely find prices in the $3.50 range for one gallon of gas.
If you're in rural California along the Big Sur coastline, it could be more than double.
In Gorda, for instance, one gas station is charging $7.59 per gallon.
Premium, $8.50 a gallon.
Even if you're filling up a car with a relatively small tank, that could be $75 for just 10 gallons.
It's not just you.
Gas prices are at a 7-year high, according to federal data.
Though there are some clear reasons for this that are particular to this moment in time, such as the ongoing effects of the global pandemic, gas prices are the result of a variety of complex factors.
The cartel of oil exporters that control the oil market, for instance, has a huge amount of influence over prices.
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Joe Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline.
Joe Biden has taken away American energy independence.
Blame him.
Shutting down the supply and the construction of, you know, the Keystone Pipeline, for instance, is resulting in speculation driving up prices.
People are predicting there will be a supply crunch.
They're not wrong.
Driving up prices.
Speculators then get involved, thinking the prices will go up, causing them to go up even more.
Bravo Biden.
Let's take a look.
Take a look at this from TimCast.com.
Inflation is forcing 29% of Americans to miss meals, eat less due to high prices, store shelves empty due to supply chain issues, Quote, there is no shortage of crises today.
We're on the verge of so many disruptions environmentally, politically, and economically that it's hard to keep track.
While we struggle to get COVID under control, clear supply chains, control energy costs, and fill millions of open jobs, there's another crisis lurking in the shadows that might be affecting more people than once thought, writes Zogby.
Double-digit surges in prices of basics have forced about almost 30% to miss meals.
How do you think this is going to result in politics?
Here's a quote.
Food insecurity is becoming increasingly too familiar these days.
As the gap between the haves and have-nots widen, more and more Americans are finding it harder to meet ends daily.
Economists and advocacy groups are sounding the alarm bells as food insecurity is on the rise in the U.S.
to compound matters. Rising food prices are not helping the situation. Families are missing meals
because their paychecks do not go as far as they once did a few years ago. The middle class is
being hollowed out by inflation. We asked voters if they felt the Biden administration's failure
to control inflation had caused them or family members to miss meals because of the increased
cost of food prices, and the results were shocking. It is Joe Biden's fault. We can see it here.
Biden approval rating slips to 41% poll.
The CNBC survey released Thursday found that the president 11 points underwater, with 52% of Americans saying they disapprove of Biden's performance in the White House so far, with just 40% of Americans saying they approve of his handling of the economy.
Thursday's poll surveyed 800 Americans.
On the small side for a sample, Has a margin of error of 3.5 points.
Showed Biden's overall approval rating down 7 points from July.
Americans' concerns over the economy, inflation, and supply chain disruptions are rising.
Which brings me to civics, where we can break things down a little bit more.
Among independent voters, the question is, do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president?
63% disapprove.
26% approve.
11% neither approve nor disapprove.
Now the Republicans, obvious.
Among Republicans, it's been fairly consistent.
95% disapproval, 3% approval.
Among Democrats, 80% approval.
But this is significant.
Since Afghanistan, Joe Biden has dropped by 5 points.
Since he came into office, he is down 10 points among Democrats.
That one is big.
Even Democrats are starting to sour a little bit.
We know Republicans are.
Independents, we can see.
Many of these Democrats are just saying, you know what, I can't do it.
So will it be a Donald Trump 2024?
I kind of think so.
From Newsweek, Donald Trump's truth social hints at timeline of 2024 run.
I think Donald Trump knows that he will need a strong social media presence if he's going to run.
And maybe the reason he waited is so that he could have the maximum impact with launching his own platform where he cannot be banned.
Will truth social work?
Yes.
It absolutely will.
The media is addicted to Trump.
The reply guys are addicted to Trump.
They built careers off ragging on him.
When Donald Trump launches Truth Social, which appears to just be a fork of the Mastodon free software, journalists will have no choice but to follow him there.
The news outlets are going to say, sign up, follow him, we need to know what he's saying.
And that will force journalists to join Trump's platform, where he then is in control.
I don't know if that's a good thing, because maybe he'll be as censorious as Twitter is, But it is good in the sense that it creates some market competition for the big tech companies, and it's going to be impossible for them to do anything about.
They can't ignore it.
I said the same thing about Trump during his presidency, that if he got on Minds.com and posted there, that journalists would be forced to go there and follow him, and they would be forced to prop up this platform.
Well, Trump says he's going to do it himself.
Newsweek says, Former President Trump unveiled his new social platform on Wednesday after his longstanding criticism of big tech.
We know this.
The former president was an avid user of social media.
Everybody knows.
He has also repeatedly hinted that he'll run for the White House in 2024.
A Truth Social beta will be launched in November ahead of the rollout in the first quarter of next year, a few months before the critical 2022 midterm.
Newsweek asked experts if Truth Social could give any indications about Trump's timeline for a third run of the Oval Office.
Quote, It's no secret that Trump is still stewing over his Twitter ban, and it's hardly a surprise that he would dive headfirst into creating his own social media platform, said Thomas Gift, founding director of University College London's Center on U.S.
Politics.
For Trump, it's an opportunity to stick it to big tech, to give MAGA supporters unfiltered access to his thoughts, and to recreate the kind of megaphone that made him successful in 2016.
Although it's likely the launch of Truth Social is another tell that Trump intends to run 2024, and may even give some insight into his planned timeline, there's still every reason to think Trump is in no rush to jump into the fray.
Quote, the longer Trump waits to declare, the more suspense he can generate around his presidential bid, and the more he can freeze out other would-be GOP contenders.
Paul Quirk, a political scientist at the University of British Columbia, told Newsweek, the former president had reasons for creating social media other than a presidential bid.
Trump has several reasons for trying to create a platform.
He hopes it will make money directly.
I'm not entirely convinced it will, but Let's talk about the results.
The popularity.
Do people like Donald Trump still to this day?
Trump's SPAC halted multiple times as stock jumps again in volatile trading.
Yes.
Yep.
Yeah, people are buying this up like hotcakes.
I never understood that phrase.
What is hotcakes?
Like people were buying pancakes a lot?
Is that where the phrase came from?
I guess.
Whatever.
CNBC reports Digital World Acquisition Corp, the SPAC that is taking former President Donald Trump's planned social media platform public, soared Friday following a massive rally in the previous session.
Trading in the stock was halted due to volatility multiple times in morning trading Friday.
The SPAC, which trades under the ticker DWAC on the NASDAQ, skyrocketed 216% at one point and last traded up 150%.
The stock surged more than 350% to close Thursday.
traded up 150%.
The stock surged more than 350% to close Thursday.
I'm pretty sure as of right now, it's nearly 980%.
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They say, Funware, the advertising software startup involved with Trump's 2020 re-election campaign, jumped in unison with DWAC.
Okay, they're up a thousand.
The stock last traded up a whopping 624%, bringing its week-to-date rally 980.
SPAC stands for Special Purpose Acquisition Company, which raises money on the public markets with the goal of merging with a private company and taking it public within two years.
Investors typically have no clue what the target company will be when the SPAC debuts and trades on the Stock Exchange.
Signs emerged that small-time retail investors could be behind the monstrous rally in the SPAC.
On Thursday, DWAC, the single most actively traded stock on Fidelity's brokerage platform, was the most active.
Meanwhile, the ticker was among the most popular mentions on Reddit's WallStreetBets.
The SPAC was also a trending topic on Twitter, which indicated that DWAC could be having a meme stock moment like GameStop and AMC.
One top post on the Wall Street Bets message board Friday morning featured what appeared to be the user's equity portfolio, touting daily gains of over $10,000 from betting on the SPAC.
The post, which called the former president, Daddy Trump, quickly drew more than 800 comments.
Someone actually posted they tried to short the DWAC and they were down something like, what was it, like a million bucks?
I think, I could be wrong, but I thought it was like a massive negative, like $800,000.
The new company, the yet-to-be-launched Trump Media and Technology Group, said its mission is to create a rival to the liberal media consortium and fight back against big tech companies of Silicon Valley, which have used their unilateral power to silence opposing voices in America.
The move came after Trump got banned by social media giants Twitter, Facebook, this we all understand.
My friends, I'm not going to be betting on Donald Trump's platform.
I'll use it for sure.
It will work, absolutely.
I don't know about his plans for this, uh, for this, uh, dwack.
People are sharing images they claim comes from the pitch deck of the Donald Trump media, the Trump Media and Technology Group.
They plan to unify all of, like, this conservative alternative media space.
I just don't see that happening.
Donald Trump made way too many mistakes in digital media.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
And as much as he had some good people around him who gave him some good advice, they missed the big picture, and by a long shot.
Seriously.
He could have joined Parler.
He could have had a bigger impact.
Perhaps what happened was Donald Trump was like, why should I give someone else the money when I can do it myself?
And they said, it's gonna take a long time to launch something like this.
So I don't know exactly why Trump missed the boat.
Maybe it was for, you know, so that he could launch his own, strategically placed for his next election cycle.
But it's more than that.
It's that Republicans just don't know how to deal with this stuff.
They sit in Congress and they do these questions of Jack Dorsey and Zuckerberg and it's just a waste of everyone's time.
And we all know it.
But I'm confident that we can make a difference.
At least, you know, I take charge myself.
Now, I got tremendous respect for Trump for actually, you know, taking this thing, taking it off the ground and trying to launch a new platform.
It's a good thing across the board.
But I'm not going to sit here and just say, maybe someone else will solve the problems for me.
So that's what we're doing.
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We got new shows.
We've got a non-profit that we're focusing on building out technology using a similar protocol that Donald Trump is using.
He's using the Mastodon software, which operates on the Fediverse, so it allows all these different social networks to connect to each other.
And we're heavily investing.
I shouldn't say investing.
It's a non-profit.
We don't expect to get a massive return.
We want to build tech and give it away for free.
Crazy idea, right?
It's almost like not a particularly right-wing thing to do.
Yeah.
Where's the left?
It's amazing, isn't it?
I'm sitting here like, hey, we're gonna make free software to empower working class people.
The left is like, that's right wing!
Yeah, I'm sure it is.
Free software, open source code, all that stuff.
Nice try.
We're gonna create culture, we're gonna create content, and everyone else needs to do it too.
I look at what's going on in the big tech space, and I see a lot of people trying to solve this problem, but I just see them doing it wrong, or just trying to empower themselves.
The new company that will make money, we need a paradigm shift.
We need a system where you can never be banned again.
Perhaps blockchain-based?
Immutable ledgers that you can't be removed from?
I don't know, maybe that's not a good thing.
But, our goal is to create a network where you can have your own subscription service website.
With all the software baked in, free of charge, you can just press go and boom.
You don't need to use Patreon or any other subscription service.
You have your own.
You gotta pay your own hosting costs.
But at least you don't gotta give anybody a cut of your money.
In the end, I hope something like that will help foster competition in the media market.
That we won't just get CNN lying about Joe Rogan and being told we must believe it.
We won't have YouTube putting their boot on the neck of every creator.
YouTube can allow explicit adult content, but you say a naughty word and they pull you, have the wrong political opinion, they'll take you out.
We gotta do something about it.
Donald Trump is.
So again, good thing across the board.
But I don't see him being this central figure or force in this universe.
The Daily Wire, maybe, they are there.
Wow!
Expanding like crazy.
Mad respect to the crew over at The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro.
If we are going to challenge the establishment, we need to be cultural.
We need to make fun stuff.
Now, this channel that I produce here, it's almost exclusively critical And we don't do, right?
That's why we made the Cast Castle Vlog, where we do stuff.
That's why we have Tales from the Inverted World.
We're now making a new pop culture show.
We're going to talk about video games, movies, celebrities, and it's going to be from a freedom perspective.
So expect a lot of critique of the woke authoritarianism.
As for Joe Biden, he is an anti-candidate.
Joe Biden won because people voted against Trump, and we can see it in his Cornholio stance.
He ain't there, my friends.
Something's gotta change.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up tonight at 8 p.m.
over at YouTube.com slash TimCastIRL.
Thanks for hanging out.
We'll see you all then.
You may have heard the big story.
Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun, killing a cinematographer and injuring the director on the film that he is currently co-producing and involved in as an actor.
Now, I like Alec Baldwin as an actor.
I'm a big fan of 30 Rock.
But I certainly think that the man is not a good person.
He has created a very dangerous and vile atmosphere on social media.
He has called for people to be violently hurt.
And...
With that being said, you know, this is a tragic story and I have absolute sympathies for the cinematographer and for the director, but people are trying to defend Alec Baldwin in this circumstance and there's absolutely no reason Alec Baldwin should be defended.
I want to read you the story and we'll talk about what happened with this gun.
The quote here is, Why was I handed a hot gun?
What witness claims Alec Baldwin said after he accidentally shot and killed a woman.
This is a guy who's gone on Twitter and effectively advocated for very serious violence against people.
He said a whole bunch of things in the past, and now he is getting absolutely roasted over this, and he should.
What you need to understand, first and foremost, right off the bat, if you're ever going to handle any kind of weapon, I don't care if it's a replica, you need to know the rules.
I explain to people out here all the time, okay, so we go to the shooting range, and you've got people who are as dumb as a box of rocks, I tell you this, and I say, a weapon is always loaded, you never have your finger on the trigger unless you're going to shoot it, you point it down unless you're on the top of a building, you point it up, there's more complicated rules, but the point is, Never point the weapon at somebody.
Keep your finger off the trigger.
The weapon is always loaded.
So we have effectively what I would call a replica gun here.
We have more than one.
I will never let anybody handle a weapon until I've seen them handle a weapon already.
And that means that if someone shows up here, I'll be like, hey, here, do you know the rules?
Here are the rules.
Take this.
I will tell you this, my friends.
I give someone the weapon incapable of firing, After explaining to them what not to do and what to do, and they still break the rules.
Now a bunch of people on Twitter, or actually a couple people were like, you're saying gun control blah blah blah.
I never said gun control.
I said responsibility.
Alec Baldwin is at fault for this.
But before I rant on gun control and gun safety, let me tell you guys the story because this is actually kind of a big deal.
From the Daily Mail.
Alec Baldwin allegedly, repeatedly asked why was I handed a hot gun after he accidentally shot and killed a female cinematographer and wounded a director yesterday on the set of his new film Rust.
Helena Hutchins, 42, died shortly after being shot by Baldwin around 1.50 p.m.
Thursday at Bonanza Creek Ranch, near the city of Santa Fe in New Mexico.
Joel Sosa, 48, the film's director, was also hurt and spent several hours in the hospital, but was released later the same evening.
Police have disclosed few details about the shooting, saying only that a projectile was fired by a prop gun, and they are investigating.
A spokesman for the movie's production company later said that accident involved the misfire of a prop gun loaded with blanks.
If it was loaded with blanks, how did a projectile come out of it?
Oh, I get it.
You know, blanks still spray and they explode.
You know, a blank is effectively a cartridge with no bullet on it, so it's still a lethal weapon.
But what projectile?
This is Alec Baldwin's fault 100%.
But let's keep reading and then we'll talk about guns.
They say, though fatal accidents with blank ammunition are extremely rare, they do happen.
A witness told Hollywood gossip site Showbiz 411 that Baldwin immediately began asking why he was handed a hot gun, which typically means a gun loaded with real ammunition after the shooting.
Brandon Lee, the 28-year-old son of Bruce Lee, was shot and killed on the set of the 1993 movie The Crow when part of a dummy round lodged in the barrel of the gun being used on set, before the blast from a second dummy round fired it into his stomach, causing fatal injuries.
Reese Muldoon, an Australian actor who has worked extensively in film and TV, also suggested that a blank misfiring close to the camera could have caused Thursday's accident, telling the BBC that material from the blank round could have struck Hutchins before causing part of the camera to hit Sosa.
Why would anyone, for any reason, point a gun at a camera where there's crew and pull the trigger?
Okay.
Are they intending to do a shot where he, like, points the gun right in front of the camera and then you see the bang or something?
Do it in CGI.
Blanks explode.
They spray stuff.
There's heat.
There's a shockwave.
You know?
Man, I've done several training courses with firearms over the past several years, and I am absolutely far from anything close to an expert, I'll tell you this.
But I've certainly met with people who are experts, who have years of training, and to get the best advice I can.
So I've got a revolver.
The Governor.
It fires 45 ACP, 45 long, and 410 shotgun shells.
And it's a revolver, which means the concussive blast comes out the side.
So one of the things they tell you is you don't have your hands anywhere near there.
Because you will get hurt.
That is not the projectile, not the bullet.
That is just the explosion of the weapon that can seriously injure you if you're holding that weapon wrong.
If you have a gun, and they put blanks in it, and then you point it at the camera, what did you think was gonna happen?
Alec Baldwin is, in my opinion, he's arrogant and he's irresponsible.
Again, again, let's read some more.
There's some interesting things here.
Mike Tristan, 60, a Hollywood armorer with 30 years experience, who spoke to the Daily Mail, said, ultimate responsibility for gun safety on movie sets rests with the armorer.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Let me say that again.
Mike Tristan, a Hollywood armorer, who spoke with the Daily Mail, said, ultimate responsibility for gun safety on a movie set rests with the armorer.
Wrong.
Ultimate responsibility is with the person holding the weapon.
Period.
Alec Baldwin wants to handle a weapon capable of firing bullets?
Then he needs to know the rules, he needs to check that weapon, he needs to understand everything about it.
Why was I handed a hot gun?
I don't know, sounds like a- sounds like your problem.
Someone hands you something and you don't check and then you point it at someone?
That is Alec Baldwin's fault.
It's a ridiculous excuse, but the armorer is not- nah-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.
Nope.
No way.
So we have images from the set.
set, quote, there should have been blanks in the gun.
The on-set armorer's job is to check that before handing the weapon over.
They then make sure the actor stands on mark and never points the gun at the crew or cast.
The editing makes it seem like they were pointing at their co-actor.
That's why everyone in the industry is very confused.
How this happened is a total mystery at the moment.
Tristan added that he has worked with Baldwin before on the set of 1998's film Thick as Thieves, calling him very safe and a total professional.
I was surprised to hear it was him.
Now, look, I think Alec Baldwin's a bad person.
He's a really bad person.
He's a funny guy.
30 Rock's funny.
This, I feel, I do feel bad for him here.
I absolutely feel bad for this.
But I have to wonder, you know, under the assumption that it was an accident, I feel bad.
But I have to wonder if it really was.
Now I'm not saying that Alec Baldwin was like, I'm going to shoot this lady.
But, an accident versus reckless endangerment, reckless disregard, apathy.
Or, you know, maybe he didn't think that it would, maybe he thought it would scare him.
I'm gonna point this at him, it'll be funny.
People don't understand that blanks can kill.
Like I mentioned with the revolver.
I wonder if Alec Baldwin was like, hey guys!
Bang!
Oh jeez, what have I done?
Because this doesn't make sense.
As this armorer said, you never point the weapon at another person.
If that was the case, in what circumstance was Alec Baldwin actually pointing this weapon at another person?
Maybe he thought it would be funny.
You know why I think that?
Because I told you the story.
I've got, uh, when I lived in Miami, I had an air compression pellet rifle.
And this was because we had, you know, feral animals coming and trying to kill the chickens.
And so it was a 177 pellet thing.
You break barrel, you put the pellet in, crack it, and then it fires a little pellet.
It can be lethal very close.
These things are powerful, but...
So I've had friends would come over and they'd see it, and it is safety on, but the pellet's inside, ready to go, because I need to be able to respond if an animal is coming to attack my chickens.
And it wasn't anything but, you know, very, very far from anything kind of lethal.
But I'd have friends pick it up and point it right at other people!
They'd point it at me and I'd be like, that's it, get out.
That's no joke.
People are stupid.
They think it's funny to point weapons.
This is what I tell people out in West Virginia.
I say, we have had numerous people Throughout my life, because I'm very strict right now.
Who think it's funny to point guns.
This is something you see because they're idiots.
You see these videos of people in Chicago and they're waving the gun at the camera.
Idiots!
So I tell everybody out here.
If you are handling any kind of weapon, okay?
First, I always... If anyone, even if they are trained, is gonna be handling a weapon, always check it, pull out the mag, clear it, double-check, lock the bolt back, and then say, now you can, you know, keep it pointed down, whatever.
We have very strict safety.
But I tell people this.
If you come out to West Virginia, and you think it's funny that you'll take a prop gun or replica gun and point it at someone, or an airsoft gun, you will get shot.
That other guy who's walking down the street who sees you raise a weapon is not going to stop to ask whether or not you're pointing something fake at him.
You think it's a game.
You think it's funny.
You think people will laugh.
This is effectively a mock execution.
Pointing a weapon at someone.
You are telling them that they are staring down the barrel of death.
So you don't do that ever!
But more importantly, I tell you, if you think it's going to be funny, wait until someone sees you do it and they draw faster on you and they put a 45 in you.
Because they're not going to sit there and ask questions about what you're pointing at them.
People need to understand, you respect the firearms, you respect the safety, you respect the rules.
Alec Baldwin didn't do that.
Director James Cullen Bresic said afterwards he would never use blanks on his film sets again.
I will never use anything but airsoft and rubber guns on my movies ever again.
This should never have happened.
Helena, you were a gem.
This is so f'd up.
I really do think Alec Baldwin, in my opinion, thought it would be funny to point the weapon and pull the trigger.
He probably assumed it was a blank, it's not a real gun, it doesn't shoot, and then he actually sprayed some people in the face.
And he killed a woman.
That's my opinion on this.
I don't know.
They say Baldwin was taken in for questioning by sheriff's deputies after the fatal shooting, but was not arrested and has not been charged.
The sheriff's department says its investigation is ongoing.
He was pictured outside the sheriff's office, doubled over with grief and weeping while speaking on the phone.
He refused to speak with a reporter from the New Mexican who was at the scene.
Wife Hilaria had uploaded a video showing her playing with two of the couple's six children at 4 a.m.
on Wednesday.
Filming of the movie, about a boy who was wrongly accused of murder, and which Baldwin is co-producing, has been indefinitely suspended while the cast and crew recover.
Counseling services are being offered, producer said.
I'll tell you, my friends, you know, Alec Baldwin's gonna need counseling for sure.
You gotta understand, you know, and I think there's a lot of people who have seen real conflict understand.
I'm not gonna pretend to have ever been in an actual war, actual firefight.
I've filmed some shooting, like in urban conflict, but not like war or anything like that.
But I have seen people die.
I have seen people be seriously injured, and there is a feeling that you get that I can't describe, and it's interesting.
Maybe it's just me.
I don't know.
Maybe it's not every person.
I can't assume that everybody feels the same way I do.
But when I saw, like, my first gruesome injury, it was a feeling that is indescribable.
It's weird.
I can't.
I don't know.
And I never expected it.
It's a completely unique and indescribable feeling I saw when I saw someone lying there and just seriously injured.
When I saw someone get killed as in Egypt.
And it's a crazy feeling.
It's hard to explain.
They say Hutchins was Ukrainian born and grew up in the USSR, before studying journalism and working on a British documentary productions in Europe.
Subsequently moved to LA, where she changed her career to become a cinematographer.
Social media posts suggest she has a son, and we get it, we get it.
Baldwin is a co-producer on the film, in which he plays an infamous outlaw Harlan Rust, whose 13-year-old grandson is convicted of an accidental murder.
They say Baldwin's spokesperson issued a statement to people on the shooting, saying there was an accident today on the New Mexico set involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Rust Pictures LLC, which is producing the film, said,
The entire cast and crew has been absolutely devastated by today's tragedy,
and we send our deepest condolences to Helena's family and loved ones.
We have halted production on the film for an undetermined period of time
and are fully cooperating with the Santa Fe Police Department investigation.
We'll be providing counseling services to everyone connected to the film as we work to process this awful event.
I think there should be, uh, maybe charges for Alec Baldwin.
I'm not entirely sure, I don't know the full circumstances, but if it was that he was, you know, pointing the gun at people thinking it was funny, absolutely, absolutely should be charged.
Now let's talk about whether or not we sympathize with this man.
Mike Cernovich tweeted, Alec Baldwin has called for hunters to be shot on at least two occasions.
You can have tremendous sympathy for the people shot today, as all decent people do, without ignoring Baldwin's disturbing and unhinged past.
In 2019, he said, shoot this guy, shoot him again.
W Earl Brown, verified on Twitter, he's an actor, writer, musician, says, In the aftermath of the John Eric Hexum, the dedicated crew job of weapons handler was created.
Someone whose sole responsibility is overseeing any and all firearms used on a movie set.
In the aftermath of Brandon Lee, the rules got much stricter and oversight increased.
For rehearsals, we are given rubber weapons.
When it is necessary for a real weapon to be used, the weapons handler clears the chamber, the cylinder, the clip, etc.
Anywhere a projectile can be lodged is checked.
If dummy bolts are required, each shell is checked before loading.
Now, initially my reaction was to issue a correction on this man when he said, Clip, et cetera.
And then I realized, while he probably does mean magazine, when you're dealing with movies and old, and prop weapons, you actually might have weapons with clips in them.
So I've made the mistake in the past.
Older guns, I think, what is it, the Garand?
The M1 Garand?
I could be wrong.
Has a clip.
It's a metal clip and the bullets clip into it and it moves and it fires, whereas a magazine is spring-loaded and, you know, like modern weapons use magazines.
He says, This process is then checked by an assistant director or director, and then by any actors involved in the scene.
The weapon is usually dry-fired.
At all times, treat every weapon as if it's loaded, barreled down, uncocked, finger off trigger.
If a live blank is required, it is loaded at the last minute.
The presence of a live round is always announced so that everyone knows the size of the load and that the round is live.
As soon as cut is called up and is to be turned to the handler, no exceptions.
These are the rules.
Interestingly, some people have said that they think someone cocked the weapon before Baldwin picked it up.
I don't know about that.
I can't say for sure.
Robbie Starbucks says, I've directed many scenes with guns.
We have safety meetings every time a gun is on set.
The entire crew present has the chance to examine the gun.
If blanks are used, they're supposed to be checked too.
I could go into further detail, but suffice it to say, this should never happen.
A user responded said, would a gun ever be pointed at people other than actors or a camera with people behind it and fired?
Robbie says, guns should be pointed until you're shooting the scene and it's extremely rare for a gun to be fired at camera with crew there.
If it is, crew is skeleton crew and the specific spots for safety reasons.
You never do it toward the camera with a full crew and no safety plan.
When people are filming... So we actually filmed a .50 BMG at one of our ranges.
We were firing a .50 BMG at a steel target from, I think, like a hundred yards maybe?
Like, we wanted to blow the steel target up, essentially.
We placed a camera near it, turned it on, it was almost buried, and then everyone cleared the area.
We checked all of the surroundings.
We had ample backstop.
Safety is very, very serious.
And it was a whole lot of fun firing that Barrett, uh, what is it?
M82?
Is that what it is?
Whatever.
It's a lot of fun.
But the camera, no one is anywhere near it.
If they were going to be shooting a weapon at the camera, they could clear the crew.
They could start recording and say, okay, safety, clear, and then you fire at the camera.
I think Alec Baldwin thought it was going to be funny to point the weapon at somebody because he doesn't- because he's an idiot.
Because he's an idiot.
People do this stuff all the time.
He probably went, haha!
Bang!
Oh no!
Otherwise, it makes no sense as to why the weapon would be pointed at these people.
What does a misfire of a blank mean?
Well, the police said projectile.
So it could be that he had- there was real ammo in it.
And there's a question about whether or not that becomes an accident.
Mike Cernovich says, Take one look at Alec Baldwin.
This isn't someone who is morally struggling.
He's not nuanced.
He's an angry, bitter, violent person.
That energy always reflects back.
It's why I try to not feel hatred even for my enemies.
It always snaps back.
Wish it didn't.
Can't escape it.
Alec Baldwin is an angry, mean, irresponsible individual.
When I see his character and who he is, like him as a real person, I think it is entirely within him to be a smug, arrogant idiot to point this weapon at somebody.
Because he's smarter than you and he knows it.
You're stupid.
You should follow his rules.
He doesn't take these things seriously.
I don't think so.
Mike says, Alec Baldwin must be fired.
He can't ever be allowed on set again.
Zero tolerance and a full criminal investigation into him.
And all footage made public.
No more cover-ups.
I agree.
Kurt Schlichter says, Alec Baldwin, what is the rule?
Reminder, there can be only one rule and it will be applied equally including to Alec.
So what is that rule?
One person responded saying, there's no way in hell I ever fire a prop or any gun unless I check it myself.
Period.
That's right.
The responsibility is on Alec Baldwin.
Oh, I don't know.
Manslaughter is trending right now.
I wonder if this has to do with Alec Baldwin.
So a lot of people are saying that one individual says, Mike Davis, at minimum, New Mexico law enforcement officials must investigate whether there is probable cause to seek an indictment of Alec Baldwin for involuntary manslaughter.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Let's read this.
I don't know where this source is from.
Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that Hutchins and Sosa were shot when a prop firearm was discharged by Alec Baldwin.
No one was arrested in the incident.
Detectives were interviewing witnesses, and the incident remains under an open and active investigation.
According to an on-set source, the director had called for another take when Baldwin jokingly
remarked, another take? How about I just effin' shoot the both of ya before firing on the pair.
Exactly what I said. I don't know what this source is, but it definitely seems like, uh, wow.
What's the source on this?
You know... It definitely seems like Alec Baldwin pointed the gun at them and shot and killed them.
This woman.
I don't know if that's manslaughter or involuntary.
If you choose to point a weapon at somebody and pull the trigger... Wow.
I don't know what that source is.
I'm gonna have to double check that one, but I'm assuming it's true.
I'll double check this.
Maybe that was in the original source and I missed it.
Let me just double check.
Yeah, this is not in the Daily Mail source.
I read a couple other stories that were very light on details.
I gotta look into that, because if that's true, and it basically backs up what my hypothesis was, then I'll put the link in the description of this video and update it accordingly if that's the case.
Prison.
Prison, man.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up at 1 PM on this channel.
Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
The Washington Post is breaking down the Joe Rogan vs. CNN scandal.
And it's actually a really great piece.
I think it's pretty fair.
And the funny thing is, this reporter, Eric Wemple, gets a statement from CNN tripling down on saying Joe Rogan was eating horse medicine.
Tripling down.
It's such an obvious lie that even the Washington Post newspaper de Jeff Bezos says CNN is acting more like an advocacy group than like journalists.
It's amazing how corrupt and broken the whole system is, but it's not just this one story we're gonna be talking about.
We've got a couple other stories.
We got a new show called Inside Job that apparently is targeting Twitter users?
On Netflix?
Okay, good luck with that.
Making fun of Joe Rogan and QAnon and stuff.
We all love jokes.
I'm wondering how many people actually are on Twitter and will get the jokes to actually enjoy the show, but we'll see.
And we got the fired ESPN host for refusing to get the vaccine mandate.
This woman has now been hired by the Daily Wire.
So while CNN falls and crumbles, we can see the rise of alternative sources of news.
Hey, it's not just the Daily Wire.
TimCast.com is taking off We are currently doing trials for a new show, which I'm not going to announce just yet.
Tales from the Inverted World is up.
We're getting the snowball rolling down the hill on these, and we're approaching it very differently than most media typically does things.
For the Cast Castle vlog, we're just going to run it until we figure it out.
I mean, that's how YouTube started.
A lot of people made content, didn't work, and then iterated and changed until finally they found something that works.
For me, I was making vlog-style news reports when I first started, and it sort of just evolved and changed and became more commentary.
It is what it is.
With the Cast Castle vlog, we're just going to keep working on it until we find that sweet spot.
With Tales from the Inverted World, same thing.
And now we're launching a show that's going to focus on pop culture issues, which would overlap with Joe Rogan and Alec Baldwin, but more so on video game releases and movies.
So we are taking off, man.
And it's all thanks to you guys who became members at TimCast.com.
So when we see these stories about CNN flipping around like morons, at a certain point I just gotta say, uh, Joe, when you gonna sue these guys?
Joe asked on one of his episodes, do I have to sue CNN when they claimed he was taking horse medicine?
Well, I'd say the first time they said it.
Maybe not.
Sanjay Gupta comes on Joe Rogan's show.
Joe says, why would they lie?
And Sanjay says they shouldn't have done that.
And then what happens?
Sanjay Gupta goes on with Don Lemon on CNN.
Doubles down.
Don Lemon doubles down on the lie.
And Sanjay Gupta goes, that's true.
That's all true.
And it wasn't.
It's all lies.
Sanjay Gupta, the moment he's not in the presence of Joe Rogan, just goes back to lying again.
Why should I trust any of these people?
And now in this story, CNN triples down.
Joe has got to sue them.
You know, if there's anybody who could, it would be Joe Rogan.
A lot of regular people don't have the funds to pull it off.
The Washington Post, from Eric Wemple, the media critic, says, Podcaster Joe Rogan's three-hour interview with Sanjay Gupta last week was an amicable affair, though it got a bit tense when the topic turned to the network's coverage of Rogan's recent bout with COVID.
It's a lie.
It's a lie on a news network, and it's a lie that they're conscious of.
This is not a mistake.
I also have to recommend Freedom Tune's joke about this.
So, I don't know if people noticed this, but Sanjay Gupta wrote an article where he said he feared Joe Rogan would physically attack him, jumping the table and throttling his neck.
over their disagreements, which is insane.
Freedom Tunes, of course, we're big fans of, made a really funny video where Joe—it's just Joe's
audio talking, and then Sanjay Gupta's going like, like cowering and scared.
And then it shows CNN reporters doing the same thing.
Brilliant work, Seamus, of Freedom Tunes.
Let's read more.
They're going to say, That's quite a claim to make straight to the face of CNN's chief medical correspondent.
At issue is Rogan's September 1st disclosure they'd gotten COVID, and had addressed the situation with a kitchen sink of medications that included ivermectin, a drug used for paralyzing and killing parasites.
You see how Eric Wemple handled this?
Good job, sir.
I appreciate it.
That's what it does.
Rogan said that he got his ivermectin via a prescription from his doctor.
Now, they do mention this in the article, but I will just state for good measure, the FDA recommends against it.
It's not been approved.
There's a lot of questions around it, and this is the central debate.
I always recommend anybody go talk to a doctor about what's right for you.
Don't get medical advice from people on the internet, be it Joe Rogan, me, or Eric Wempel, or Sanjay Gupta.
These people aren't your doctors.
Here's what Wempel says.
Ivermectin was discovered in the late 1970s and got its start as a veterinary drug.
Its versatility, however, escaped the barnyard.
Quote, Ivermectin proved to be even more of a wonder drug in human health, improving the nutrition, general health, and well-being of billions of people worldwide, ever since it was first used to treat onchoceriasis.
Anchocerciasis.
I can't even say it right.
River blindness in 1988.
Noted Satoshi Omura, who discovered ivermectin and co-authored Andy Crump in a 2011 paper.
So there's an animal application and a human application for ivermectin.
What separates the two?
A lot, as it turns out.
An ivermectin dose for horses can be as high as 1,200 milligrams, according to Scott Phillips of the Washington Poison Control Center in Seattle.
It's really the dose that makes the poison, says Phillips.
Even too much tap water or salt can be poisonous.
With those considerations in mind, consider how CNN framed Rogan's use of ivermectin.
On September 1st, Aaron Burnett said, quote, Controversial podcast host Joe Rogan, who railed against vaccine requirements, says he has COVID and took a drug intended for livestock.
Now that is a lie!
She articulated similar descriptions two additional times before interviewing a doctor and noting the drug is prescribed for people as well.
Oh, you see how they do that?
Bury the lead.
Joe Rogan prescribed medicine by doctor.
News at 11.
Not news.
No.
Sorry, I don't care.
But they want to lie.
Anderson Cooper said, one of those drugs he mentioned, Ivermectin, is something more often used to deworm horses.
That's actually 100% true.
Ivermectin is more often used to deworm horses.
But think about how stupid that statement is.
Corn is more often used as livestock feed.
It is!
I'm pretty sure animals eat more corn than we do.
Okay, maybe I'm wrong about that, but I know we do like corn-fed salmon and cows and chickens and pigs.
Humans don't eat that much corn.
Yeah.
Or how about this?
He ingested a food that is often used to refine into a fuel for automobiles.
How stupid.
He brought on Brian Stalter, one of the most despicable guys on TV.
When you have a horse deworming medication that's discouraged by the government that actually causes some people in this crazy environment we're in to actually want to try it, that's the upside down where we're with figures like Joe Rogan.
No, that's just completely insane.
Liana S. Nguyen, a post-contributing columnist, later added the critical context that the drug is used in humans for things like parasites and scabies.
That day, Don Lemon said, The United States is now averaging 160,455 new COVID cases every day, including controversial podcast host Joe Rogan, saying that he tested positive for COVID and that he's taking several medications, including a drug meant for deworming livestock.
OK, this goes on, and you get it.
I want to get to the point where CNN triples down.
Sorry for burying that, but you got to get the context here.
There's a reason for reciting these transcripts.
They turn up a consistent formulation from multiple CNN voices that surely wasn't a sober recitation of the facts.
By highlighting that Ivermectin is a horse-to-wormer and downplaying that Ivermectin has important uses for people, CNN facilitates a certain assumption among its viewers, namely, that Rogan had been haunting the aisles of tractor supply.
After hearing Rogan's concerns about how CNN cast the issue, Gupta said they shouldn't have said that.
Given that a prominent CNN personality agreed with a strong critique of his own colleagues, we placed the matter before the network's PR department.
They issued this statement.
The heart of this debate has been purposefully confused and ultimately lost.
It's never been about livestock versus human dosage of ivermectin.
The issue is that a powerful voice in the media, who by example and through his platform sowed doubt in the proven and approved science of vaccines while promoting the use of an unproven treatment for COVID, a drug developed to ward off parasites in farm animals.
The only thing CNN did wrong here was bruise the ego of a popular podcaster who pushed dangerous conspiracy theories and risked the lives of millions of people in doing so.
CNN lies.
CNN makes things up.
CNN fabricates information as a statement of fact.
I would like you all to quote me.
Tim Pool quote, CNN makes up their stories.
Come on, CNN.
I would love, love it if CNN even had the remote possibility of challenging that statement.
But I'd like to bring you back to a little old story about Mr. Chris Cuomo, who emerged from his basement having recovered from COVID.
Except the reality was he had already left his house, wasn't under quarantine, and it's public knowledge.
The New York Times has criticized them over this.
I'm pretty sure Eric Wemple did as well.
CNN makes up stories.
Now, every single story?
No, of course not.
I use CNN as a source, often, on purpose.
When I can fact-check and verify something, I will use CNN.
And people are like, Tim, why are you reading CNN?
Because this is one of the articles I know they wrote.
That's true!
And that means the left is not gonna be able to come at me and be like, you're using a fake news source.
I'll be like, it's CNN.
By all means, call them fake news.
I ain't gonna be too upset about it.
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, these big mainstream news sources are not always wrong.
They just get a lot wrong.
The Wall Street Journal is not that bad.
They're actually pretty good.
The Washington Post is pretty bad.
CNN is the worst.
But CNN's beat reporters who write articles for the site?
Not that bad.
And the same is true for a bunch of other outlets that you probably don't like.
Fox News, for instance.
Their online reporting is actually pretty good.
CNN's online reporting is actually pretty good.
Not perfect.
Often biased.
It is what it is.
The TV show.
Garbage.
Made up trash.
Wempel says, That's quite the statement, and it makes some good points.
Though ivermectin is used for scabies and river blindness and the like, the FDA advises against its use for COVID, saying that existing data does not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19.
Currently, ivermectin is going through several trials, and maybe they'll determine that the data is promising.
There have been many foreign studies that have purported as such, but for now, in the U.S., FDA says, we're not done yet.
I really do think a lot of people jump the gun.
I'm not saying you trust the FDA.
I'm not saying you trust the government.
I'm saying go find a doctor.
If Joe Rogan's got a doctor, and then that means there's doctors of varying opinion.
You don't get your information from news outlets or, you know, your medical advice.
They're going to say, Doctors have been prescribing it for COVID in any case, and some people have sought the drug from veterinary suppliers.
As long as the drug is approved for some humans, it seems to me irrelevant that it's approved for animals.
Except that this is the way that people have gone about procuring the drug, and in so doing have put themselves at risk, says Peter Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest and former FDA associate commissioner.
The FDA tweeted, Well, I guess there's no tweet there, but they tweeted that... I think they're referencing the tweet where they're like, you are not a horse.
Here's what I'll say.
Doctors are prescribing it.
Everybody knows it.
Joe Rogan literally said it.
I personally have no opinion.
I think you should talk to a doctor, not ask me for advice.
But a really good point is made here by this former FDA Associate Commissioner.
That people buying the horse dewormer, and they are, this stuff is not intended for humans.
And a lot of people try to make the argument where they're like, yes, but you only need to moderate the dosage.
I can't tell you about medications you should take.
I can tell you this.
The FDA said within the animal treatments are compounds that are not meant for humans and can make you sick.
People are not horses.
I'll put it this way.
I love avocado.
Can't give it to a dog.
Dogs can't eat it.
But hey, wait, we're both mammals.
Why can't a dog... They can't eat it.
I'm not gonna advise you to give it to a dog.
I'm pretty sure they can't eat it.
They might be able to eat a little bit.
Onions, garlic, grapes, dogs can't eat it.
Chocolate, dogs can't eat it.
So there may be things put in the farm supply animal version that humans will become sick by ingesting, even in smaller doses.
I'm just gonna say, I don't think people should be eating stuff made for animals.
That's just me, I guess.
But look, Joe Rogan went to a doctor.
He got a prescription.
That's between him and his doctor.
They go on to say, yet CNN's statement sounds more like the work of an advocacy group than a journalism outfit.
The issue actually begins and ends with the integrity of CNN's content.
If we take Rogan's prescription claim at face value, and CNN hasn't challenged it, then the network's coverage was slanted in some cases and straight up incorrect in others.
If you're prescribed the FDA human version, then you're not taking a horse pill, notes Phillips in an email.
So in this instance, you don't have to endorse Rogan to abhor CNN's coverage of the topic.
Here's a network, after all, that prides itself on impeccable factual hygiene, a place where there's no conceptual hair to find a split.
No political statement too sprawling to fly spec.
It's tough living by your own standards.
If CNN wants to describe ivermectin in a way that doesn't slime the people who take it, The Guardian provides a fine template.
Quote, a drug used against parasites in humans and livestock.
Or how about, as he put it, a drug used for paralyzing and killing parasites.
I think this is a fantastic article by Eric.
It's not FDA approved.
They don't recommend you take it.
But there are human doses of this and doctors are prescribing it.
I personally... I'm not in favor of it.
And I'll put it this way.
I don't just trust people because I don't trust other people.
The media can lie, cheat, and steal all they want.
It doesn't mean I'm going to blindly believe anyone else on this stuff.
Show me the data.
I've looked at some of it.
There's some inconclusive stuff.
It's currently undergoing trials.
I'm a bit of a skeptic.
I'm not here to blindly follow anybody.
I'm also not here to tell you what to do with your life.
Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro announced on his show Friday that the company has signed former ESPN sports writer Allison Williams to lead a special sports series that will be available exclusively for Daily Wire members.
Ben, you sly dog!
Brilliant move.
I'm a big fan of what the Daily Wire guys are doing.
This is incredible.
And, you know, I saw these stories, and I think this.
When CNN is being exposed every day as garbage, and then you get the authoritarian expanse due to their garbage reporting.
Daily Wire comes and scoops these people up.
Gina Carano.
They boot her off the Mandalorian for her saying, don't demonize your neighbors.
Apparently they want to.
Lie about what she said.
Daily Wire comes right in.
Man, I wish we had Daily Wire money.
I'd love to hire all these people.
We've done one commission with Ivory Hecker.
She was one of the whistleblowers that came out to Project Veritas.
I'd love to hire and do a sports series.
Man, we need to get more members at TimCast.com.
I'm excited.
Look, to everybody who's a member at Daily Wire, who's part of the Mug Club, who's a member at The Blaze, who's a member at TimCast.com, this is what it's all about.
And if you can, sign up for as many as you can.
Because the more we have independent voices challenging the establishment, the better off we will all be.
I don't think Ben Shapiro is the arbiter of truth.
I don't think he's always correct.
I don't think he does some things wrong.
I think that's a normal way to view a political commentator.
But when we're at least competition for the establishment, even if we disagree, that's healthy and important.
But here's this current state of the media.
Inside the Netflix series skewering QAnon nuts and Joe Rogan.
This is what really made me laugh.
The trailer actually looks kind of funny.
I actually want to check this show out.
It's called Inside Job from the creator of Gravity Falls, and it centers on a bonker world where all of the most outlandish conspiracy theories are proven to be true.
That's actually a pretty funny premise.
I'd love to watch it.
Inside Job has been made with a specific target audience in mind—30 to 40-somethings who spend a lot of time on Twitter and will therefore get jokes about Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, and Flat Earthers, including a predictable and not-so-subtle dig at Brooklyn Net star Kyrie Irving.
You know, the reason why this show might work Is because whatever we are, I mean, right-wing makes no sense, but the freedom side, freedom versus authoritarian, we like jokes.
We like jokes.
Joe Rogan makes jokes.
Dave Chappelle makes jokes, we like them.
Even when they make fun of us, it's fun.
I went to a Rogan show in Philly, and he ragged on everybody.
And it was amazing.
It was incredibly hilarious.
And then he made jokes about cats.
He's a funny guy!
It's good stuff.
So when you see a show where they mock Jordan Peterson, we're gonna laugh about it.
When memes come out making fun of Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro laughs about it.
Because we're adults.
The left will laugh because they just hate the right.
But I will say this.
Is this not the perfect example of what our media world has become?
A show targeting people who spend time on Twitter.
That's like nobody!
I think it's something like 20% of the US is a Twitter account and like 2% of those people are active.
Incredible.
So I don't know what audience they're targeting.
People are gonna watch this and be like, I don't understand these jokes.
Why is there a lizard?
What does that mean?
Joe Rogan did what?
What is Q?
This is media.
Somebody at Netflix who spent too much time on Twitter pitched this idea and they said, oh this is brilliant, everybody will love it.
The trailer is pretty funny, alright?
I'm not gonna act like it's the greatest trailer I've ever seen, but there's some funny bits in it.
You know, it's like they work at, what is it called, like Cognito or something?
I don't know.
And it's like an underground base where they rule the world.
It's funny-ish.
I haven't seen the show.
I'll check it out though, because I'm more than happy to have a sense of humor about things.
But therein lies, I guess, a big challenge.
If the freedom-loving individuals are willing to accept mockery of anybody, but the left will only accept mockery of the right, then content will always skew favorably for the left.
See how that works?
I don't know how we solve the problems.
I do know that one of the potential solutions is going to be TimCast.com.
It's going to be Daily Wire.
It's going to be Daily Caller.
It's going to be Federal.
It's going to be all of these different platforms that are challenging the establishment.
And that's what we've got to focus on.
For me, and I think Ben Shapiro gets this as well, and they're absolutely killing the game at this one.
They're doing an amazing job.
We want to build culture.
So we're looking at, we have TimCast IRL, we have the Tim Pool Show, we have the Cast Castle Vlog, we have Tales from the Inverted World.
That's what we've got right now, four shows.
We've got one more that they're actually, like we're actually getting the ball rolling behind the scenes, and it's about pop culture.
That will be our fifth show, and we're gonna keep making more.
We're doing a live event tomorrow, go to TimCast.com if you're a member, you can bid on a set of tickets to come and see the show.
Hang out.
It is a small venue and it's going to be jam-packed and I don't even know what we were thinking or how we're going to make this work.
They told us the capacity and we rolled with it and it might just be a little too packed, but we'll see, I guess.
We're not experts.
We're just people trying to make a difference.
We're trying to build culture.
We're trying to share our values and stand up for what we believe in.
CNN can say whatever they want about Joe Rogan.
We'll tell the truth.
And I'll tell you this.
Sometimes I'll have opinions that you probably won't like, and you'll disagree with, and you'll think I'm wrong, and I'm not going to change my opinion because you comment or tweet at me, unless I am wrong.
If I get a fact wrong, I'll correct it.
If I have an opinion on an issue, and you think that's wrong, I'll argue my opinion.
I'm not going to play a game where we try to pander to anybody for any reason.
No.
The only pandering I'm going to do is to myself, for what I think is right, what I think is true and correct, and for freedom.
It'll be a long battle.
But the joke is this.
The year is 2061.
Ben Shapiro sits down with the very last Disney employee and offers them an above-market salary, thus bringing an end to media market competition.
The Daily Wire is now the only media company left in the world employing 1,275,385,398 people globally.
That's the joke.
That within the next couple of decades, the next four or so, this corrupt establishment media will be replaced by a new corrupt established media.
A new corrupt establishment media.
I'm kidding.
It'll be replaced by maybe a more responsible one.
But it'll only happen if you guys keep helping support the work of TimCast.com and many other sites.