Texas Gov. Drops BUSLOAD Of Illegal Immigrants In DC, Even Democrats SLAM Biden Over Border Crisis
Texas Gov. Drops BUSLOAD Of Illegal Immigrants In DC, Even Democrats SLAM Biden Over Border Crisis. Democrats and Republicans are both furious with Biden's failures on the Border Crisis.
While Beto O'Rourke may just be saying whatever he needs to get more votes in Texas, the Democrat hopeful slammed Biden's lack of a plan on the southern border.
Meanwhile 140,000 illegal immigrants are expected to descend on the border soon as Biden has lifted title 42 for seemingly no reason.
With the midterms coming it seems Democrats are imploding.
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Following through on his plan, Governor Abbott of Texas has dropped off illegal immigrants
in Washington, D.C.
via bus.
Previously, the governor said that because the Biden administration is taking immigrants by bus and dropping them off in Texas communities, he would take these people, put them on a bus, and send them to Washington, D.C.
It's kinda like a, how do you like it, Joe Biden?
But I'm not sure how effective it will be because Is he really punishing politicians?
I mean, they might live somewhat near DC, but I don't think they care all that much.
How about Ron DeSantis' plan?
He said he's gonna send these illegal immigrants to Biden's home state of Delaware.
Now also, maybe a unique idea, and I think it's a fair idea, no one's forcing the illegal immigrants onto these buses.
That's kind of the point.
They're voluntarily going to these areas.
And if the Biden administration wants to be shipping illegal immigrants all around the country, then why not send them to D.C.
or to Biden's home state?
The issue is, what Biden is doing with illegal immigration, with the southern border, it's pissing everybody off.
Even Democrats are calling him out.
Even the media is calling him out.
But this plan of taking illegal immigrants by bus, dropping them off in small communities, causes serious harm to these communities.
And these governors doing some kind of tit-for-tat doesn't hurt Joe Biden or Democrats at all.
I'm sure it'll hurt people in Delaware who might get mad, but Joe Biden's elected through the Electoral College, which is national.
And D.C.
is a federal jurisdiction, so sure, maybe you'll interfere with and bother local D.C.
residents, but Joe Biden doesn't care.
I don't think it's gonna have any real impact on him.
There's something we've seen from the Biden administration over the past year and a half or so, which is rather shocking.
That they've been shipping illegal immigrants all across the country.
Not too long ago, we heard from a police department in Ohio that said we will no longer hold illegal immigrants in our jails because what was happening is they'd send the illegal immigrants to this Ohio jurisdiction Say, we just need you to hold them in a jail cell for the time being, and then come back a week or so later and be like, release them.
And the cops would be like, you mean release them into our town?
Yeah.
And so the cops are like, nope, we're not doing this anymore.
We also saw the horrifying story of minors being flown across the country in the dead of night, and one of these federal contractors on body camera footage said that they have betrayed the American people.
All right, well, we got a very serious problem on our hands with Title 42 being ended by the Biden administration.
We're now hearing from, I think, Mexico and Guatemala are warning there's going to be a massive surge, 140,000 illegal immigrants coming through the border.
And how are we supposed to handle that at a time when we're dealing with recession warnings, a labor shortage, food shortages, food rationing, war?
And Joe Biden thinks that he will be able to just have a porous border and everything will work out?
No, I'm sorry.
You know, when my assumption is that the Democratic administration, that Joe Biden's plan is destroying this country, I don't know how you assume incompetence over malice.
You know, that's Hanlon's razor.
I love to cite it.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
Unfortunately, at this point, you would have to make extreme assumptions to assume incompetence.
Because anyone knows what you're doing, what's happening on the border via the Biden administration is causing problems.
And Beto O'Rourke himself is criticizing Joe Biden.
So it has to be Intentional.
There's a lot of reasons for it.
One might be demographics.
Progressives and liberals don't have kids.
Conservatives do.
What happens in 10 or 20 years, this country becomes conservative, just by virtue of people having kids and other people not having kids.
A lot of people point out bringing in illegal immigrants brings in Democrat voters, and you're missing a step there.
It brings in urban residents who have kids, and those kids are more likely to vote for Democrats.
Maybe that's the real plan.
Well, let's take a look what's going on here.
The first bus to drop off illegal immigrants is here, and even Beto O'Rourke is criticizing Joe Biden's plan.
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A bus from Texas arrived in the nation's capital Wednesday morning, dropping off dozens of illegal migrants blocks from Congress.
The convoy is part of Texas Governor Greg Abbott's push to secure the southern border and stem the flow of illegal immigration from Central America.
The Republican unveiled his plan last week, saying he has directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to organize the buses.
The bus pulled up at approximately 8 a.m.
local time, blocks away from the U.S.
Capitol building.
Fox News has learned that they came from the Del Rio sector in Texas, after coming to the U.S.
from Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Upon the bus's arrival in D.C., individuals disembarked one by one, except for family units who exited together.
They checked in with officials and had wristbands they were wearing cut off before being told they could go.
Quote, Texans demand and deserve an aggressive, comprehensive strategy to secure our border, not President Biden's lackluster leadership, Abbott said in a statement.
As the federal government continues to roll back common-sense policies that once kept our communities safe, our local law enforcement has stepped up to protect Texans from dangerous criminals, deadly drugs, and illegal contraband flooding into the Lone Star State.
Here's what I find fascinating.
In most of these discussions you have between the left and the right, there's no nuance on the left.
They're like, you're a racist!
You're xenophobic!
They say that you hate these poor children when they come through the border.
Okay, let's talk about nuance.
I do not want to see these children die in a desert.
And it's happening.
I do not want to see the smugglers, known as coyotes for those that don't know the term, I don't want to see them abusing children.
When Donald Trump called out coyotes smuggling people across the border, the left thought he was talking about actual animals, because they didn't know the word coyote was a reference to a human trafficker.
Okay, well there's human traffickers, but if they don't even know that, how can they argue on policy?
What happens?
Well, let's talk about the border wall.
With the border wall up, it funnels a lot of the illicit activities to single locations.
People say, look, there's a gate here you can open.
Yeah, sure, great.
Make all of the people go towards that gate so you can apprehend them once they come through.
We're talking about criminals, human traffickers.
Now what about these kids who are dying in the desert?
Yes, we need to end the human trafficking and smuggling because it results in death, and we are also not in great shape right now.
I mean, look, the United States is a strong and wealthy nation, but we've got serious problems ahead of us.
We can't just say, open the doors, let everybody in!
That would just make more economic problems.
Here's the story from the Daily Beast.
I love this one.
Greg Abbott's D.C.
migrant bus is a dehumanizing political stunt.
That's funny, he actually did it.
The Texas governor made good on his threat to send undocumented immigrants to Washington, D.C.
by bus, proving there's no end to the GOP's xenophobic depravity.
Oh, really?
So you mean to tell me, when the Biden administration smuggles children via military aircraft, or puts them on buses and sends them to the communities in Texas, that's not xenophobic.
But when Abbott does literally the same thing, and it's voluntary, that is?
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Abbott has no federal authority to ship these migrants on buses.
The migrants have to choose to go on the buses.
Now, Joe Biden does have the authority and is forcing these people.
You see the lies?
People as props.
How about, if you send people to my town, I send them back?
Well, that's the name of the game, right?
Whatever it is the right does must be wrong, evil, racist, xenophobic, but the left can do worse and they ignore it.
Here we go.
Jen Psaki.
She dismissed this as a stunt.
Back on April 8th, Jen Psaki blasts Texas Governor Greg Abbott's publicity stunt plan to bus thousands of illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C., and says he can't force them onto coaches.
Apparently he's not.
Well, I'm not aware of what authority the governor would be doing that under.
I think it's pretty clear that this is a publicity stunt.
I know that the governor of Texas, or any state, does not have the legal authority to compel anyone to get on a bus.
Really?
really.
Psaki added that Abbott will not be able to compel migrants.
His own office admits that a migrant would need to voluntarily be transported and he
can't compel them to because again, enforcement of our country's immigration laws lies with
the federal government and not a state.
At a press conference on Wednesday, Abbott said, quote, to help local officials whose
communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants who are being dropped
off by the Biden administration.
Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants who've been dropped off
by the Biden administration to Washington, D.C.
We are sending them to the U.S.
Capitol, where the Biden admin will be more immediately able to address the needs of the people who come across our border.
Abbott said the plan was to drop migrants off at the steps of the U.S.
Capitol Building itself and added, The Biden administration, they have been dumping large numbers of migrants on cities up and down the border, leaving cities to grapple with challenges they don't have the capability of dealing with.
They themselves have been putting these migrants on buses to San Antonio.
So I said, I've got a better idea.
Instead of busing these people to San Antonio, let's continue the ride all the way to D.C.
I asked how many buses might be deployed for the scheme.
Asked how many buses might be deployed for the scheme.
Chief of Texas's Division of Emergency Management, Nim Kidd, said they'd deployed as many as needed and cited the 900 previously called in to help tackle previous disasters.
Kidd told the press conference, The long answer is in past disasters, we have pulled up to 900 buses for evacuations.
We will use as many buses as we need to follow the governor's direction to get this done.
I bring you now to Fox News from April 6.
DeSantis vows to send illegal immigrants dumped in Florida to Biden's home state of Delaware.
DeSantis said he's concerned with keeping people safe in Florida.
His remarks came after the No Patient Left Alone Act was signed into law on Wednesday in Naples, Florida.
They're going to say, what we're doing in Florida is saying, we're not going to let the recklessness of those policies impact our state.
If businesses or contractors are dumping people who are illegal into Florida from Southern Texas, you know, we're going to go after their ability to do business in Florida.
If Biden is dumping people, which he has dumped people, which he has dumped people, They fly them in at 2 in the morning.
They haven't done it lately, but they did it many months ago.
We now have money where we can reroute them to sanctuary states like Delaware.
And we're gonna do that.
To make sure we're keeping people safe.
So where are we now?
Well, taxes followed through.
And here's the story from the Daily Mail.
Revealed 140,000 migrants are heading toward U.S.
as Mexican officials warn Biden lifting- warn- warns Biden lifting Title 42 on May 23rd will create chaos at the border.
Okay.
We got a Mexican official giving us a warning.
We've got Guatemala readies its army for a U.S.-bound caravan of up to 2,000 migrants forming in Honduras this Friday as Biden lifts Title 42.
The Guatemalans are gearing up.
The Mexicans are warning us.
Beto O'Rourke criticizes Biden over ending Title 42 without a plan for migrants.
And we have this.
Democratic U.S.
Senate candidate Mandela Barnes opposes Biden administration's plan to lift Title 42 rule at the border.
Amazing!
What could Biden have done to get even Democrats to criticize him?
I'm surprised, because it's also the Washington Post.
Well, at least an op-ed in the Washington Post.
This is from Mark A. Thiessen.
I'm not going to pretend that the Washington Post's opinion pieces represent the editorial opinion, but certainly it's here.
Biden is turning a border crisis into an outright catastrophe.
They write, Democrats are poised to lose control of the House and Senate this November in no small part because of the crisis President Biden has unleashed on the southern border.
Now, Biden is ready to double down on disaster by lifting Title 42, the Trump-era public health order that allows border officials to turn away illegal migrants to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
If Biden does so, he will turn crisis into a catastrophe both at the border and at the polls.
By lifting Title 42, the Biden administration is trying to have it both ways, declaring the pandemic emergency over for illegal migrants at the border, but not for the rest of us.
If the pandemic emergency is over, why are they still insisting we wear masks on planes?
Why are lawful international air passengers still required to get negative coronavirus tests before entering the U.S.?
And why, if the emergency is over, is the Biden administration asking Congress for billions of dollars in emergency COVID spending?
Democrats need to decide.
Either we are in a COVID emergency or we are not.
He goes on the right.
Right now, Title 42 is all that stands between us, And an effectively open border.
That's because on taking office, Biden reversed President Donald Trump's other successful border policies.
He got rid of the Remain in Mexico policy, which had required asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their asylum claim is considered, deterring those with false claims from showing up at the border.
The federal judge forced the administration to reinstate the policy, but the White House has implemented it anemically, the Post reports, with a narrow scope and none of the zeal.
Biden also terminated the safe third-country agreements Trump negotiated with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, which allowed migrants to apply for asylum in the first foreign country they crossed into, reducing incentives to make the long and dangerous journey to the U.S.
border.
And for those who do make the journey, Biden essentially hung a big welcome sign.
Despite record-high border crossings, deportations under Biden have dropped to the lowest levels in immigration and customs enforcement history.
In reversing these and other Trump policies, Biden has produced an unprecedented torrent of illegal crossings that has overwhelmed border officials.
That surge in illegal migrants has been accompanied by a flood of deadly fentanyl crossing at the southern border, which has helped fuel an increase of 30% in overdose deaths, killing more Americans than guns and homicides, and hitting minority communities the hardest.
Wow.
I mean, that's... That's kind of crazy.
To see how bad it's gotten.
To see that it could potentially get worse.
Daily Mail.
From March 31st.
Migrants answer Joe's call.
First caravan sets off from Mexico bound for the U.S.
after Biden revealed he would end Title 42 on May 23rd amid fears the army will be needed to control the flood.
I mean, we're in a bad spot here in the United States, my friends.
Inflation soars to historic high of 11.2 in producer index.
The cost of goods has reached record levels not seen since 2010 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
We're in double digits, baby!
Double-digit inflation.
This means your gas is going to get more expensive.
Your food is going to get more expensive.
What can we do?
They can raise interest rates.
Nobody seems to have the balls to do it.
Boy, would they be hated.
We can try and protect labor.
That would require better border security.
We can try and protect our food supply.
That would also require border security, of which we have none.
Of which we have none.
It's remarkable to me to see these stories.
Lawmakers say illegal immigrants taking selfies to celebrate crossing the border.
Yeah, of course they are.
They made it.
I know this country is awesome.
I can respect that.
I have more respect for the illegal immigrants who risk life and limb to come to America than the woke leftists who hate this country and vote for policies to allow illegal immigrants in.
At least the illegal immigrants are working hard and taking big risks to accomplish something.
I think this country would be infinitely better off if all of these illegal immigrants who are coming to this country were allowed or just granted citizenship and the woke left cult members Went to the other countries and did right by those people.
Yeah, it's the old meme.
We'll trade you our leftists for your hard-working and dedicated migrants.
I'm down for it.
These people love the idea of America.
The challenge is they don't hold our values and that could be disruptive to the United States because you need a certain degree of cultural values to maintain a system.
I think that's where we are.
Cultural enforcement is more important than anything.
You can have a law that says you cannot make pie on Sundays.
But if nobody is going to enforce such a silly law, the law may as well not exist.
Right now, cultural enforcement is minimal.
What we have for the most part is laws, and sometimes cops do a thing and sometimes they don't.
Sometimes things that aren't laws are enforced, and sometimes things that are laws aren't.
Take a look at COVID.
None of these lockdowns were laws.
Yet people just went through it.
The cops?
They just did it anyway.
They would go to businesses, block them, they would arrest people, even though there's no law.
What about airplanes?
There's no federal law.
There's an executive order on mask mandates.
But they lie and say it's a law.
It's not.
Executive order?
Not a law.
But there are enough people to just do as they're told.
And maybe that's what they're betting on.
Banking on.
They're trying to see how many people will blindly follow, and you know what a lot of cops do?
A lot of cops are told to do something they know is wrong, and they say, nah, I'll do it anyway, because I don't want to lose my job.
That's what you see in Venezuela.
In Venezuela, you wonder how it is their National Guard fighting these protesters who want freedom, even though everybody knows they're starving.
Well, it's simple.
The National Guard, these authorities, they know they get food.
And they're thinking, I have food for my family.
I don't care about anything else.
It's a dangerous thought.
You would burn your own country down for temporary sustenance because you're scared.
This is where we're at.
All right, Beto.
What do you have to say on this issue?
The Hill reports, Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke on Tuesday criticized the Biden administration's termination of Title 42, arguing that it shouldn't have done so without a clear-cut plan of how to deal with the influx of immigrants.
It does not make sense to end this until there is a real plan and the capacity in place to handle those and address those that come over.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with Beto O'Rourke.
He's right.
Now this dude is one of the worst people ever.
Yeah, we're coming for your guns.
Then he comes out, I'm all about the Second Amendment.
Pander more, bro.
You see, the reason he's coming out and saying this is because he realizes he's lost Texas.
Texas Texans do not like this stuff.
Which is why they like Abbott.
Because Abbott's like, I'm gonna put these people on a bus and send them your way.
Dismiss it all you want.
Lie about it all you want.
The American people are aware of this.
More and more they're learning.
I think Beto O'Rourke saw that.
He probably saw the southern border counties, which are Latino, and voted Republican and he went, uh, okay, we better figure out what's going on because we need those votes.
The good news is, I think moving forward, you're gonna see Democrats be forced to drop the insanity.
The wokeness, the Twitter universe, will not be a part of the system.
People like Beto O'Rourke will have no choice but to come out and be like, No, I'm for gun rights.
Illegal immigration is bad.
Because most people agree.
And the politicians are just trying to latch on to what they think is popular.
They're going to mention O'Rourke supported the removal of Title 42 in the past, according to the Tribune.
The former Democratic congressman has pushed for a different system for asylum claims that won't overwhelm border staff.
O'Rourke also said border staff are concerned that the Biden administration will leave them high and dry without a concrete plan to deal with the shift in the number of migrants at the southern border.
The Department of Homeland Security believes that after Title 42 is lifted, the border could face up to 18,000 migrants entering the U.S.
per day, according to the Tribune.
What it has done is produce a situation where the same person is crossing multiple times a week, and under Title 42, that Border Patrol agent simply turns that person back around, and then that person tries to cross the next day.
They're not arrested, not detained. There are no consequences for someone who is not following our laws
when they try to come into this country. And it means that this country is not following its laws
when it comes to those who are trying to make legitimate claim for asylum. Everyone is legitimately
concerned about the lack of a plan. We should hold the federal government accountable for doing its
job and they're not doing that. Do these people have amnesia?
That's what scares me.
That's what Candace Owen said to me.
She was saying that, you know, she's worried when the news comes out and things like this happen, people will get amnesia.
They'll forget that Beto O'Rourke is with the left on this.
He's changed his position to pander to you.
He is not an avatar of your anger and concerns.
He is a slimy, manipulative man who seeks only to take the form of what he thinks will get him a vote, and he would burn down Joe Biden.
To win those votes.
Do not vote for people like this.
Now, Democratic U.S.
Senate candidate Mandela Barnes opposing Biden's plan to lift Title 42 at the border.
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During an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Barnes said he doesn't support the
administration's plan to lift what is known as Title 42, which has been used to turn away
migrates at the southern border during the pandemic.
I'd like to see Biden put forward a comprehensive plan that deals with an influx of asylum seekers before we lift Title 42.
You know what?
I agree with that.
I ain't gonna vote for any of these people.
I've made that mistake in the past.
I'm not playing those games.
We're in a crisis right now because of the lies.
Inflation is at a historic high in the Producer Index at 11.2 because of these people.
Because they came to us and they said, Orange Man Bad.
And they said, do your duty and vote for Joe Biden.
Now here we are with massive inflation, gas prices through the roof, an economic, the economic crisis as the parent issue here, but the influx of illegal immigrants is going to make all of it worse.
What can we do?
In November of this year, we can go out and vote.
And we can vote against Democrats.
Yeah.
That means voting for Republicans.
Okay, here's what we can do.
Find your primary.
Figure out when your primary election is.
Figure it out.
Go and vote in that primary for the Republican Party and get rid of these neocon uniparty establishment shills.
Who was it?
Was it Kevin McCarthy, I think, was like, now we can't have a political impeachment of Joe Biden.
Um, I, you know, look, I've always hated the Republican Party.
I hate is a strong word.
I've always just not cared for them.
I really despise them now because you have people standing up and saying, I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.
And the Republican Party are those blocking the people.
I'm sure the left feels similarly with the Democratic Party, but it really is the Republicans that it's the Republican Party where we've seen the populist anger actually gain a foothold.
Among the left, you have progressives, but you have the Freedom Caucus actually doing something, which is why I say, you know, the Democratic Party is mostly trash, the Republican Party is overwhelmingly trash, but there's a couple people in the Republican Party that do a good job.
It's the Republican establishment that's blocking the people.
Joe Biden must be impeached and convicted.
Why?
Illicit business dealings in Ukraine and in China, and I think, you know, most of you probably know about these issues.
But Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, comes out and he's like, oh no, you know, we can't do it.
Amazing.
That's what you get from Republican leadership.
Joe Biden should not be president because he's bad at it.
But people really voted for him.
You know, some, I've got a couple of questions on eye around.
They're like, if, if the Democrats win in November, will that be enough to convince you of fraud?
Yo.
They're trying to demoralize you.
The fraud narrative is a trap.
Is there voter fraud?
Of course there's voter fraud.
Voter fraud happens.
There's a bunch of people getting arrested for it.
I covered all of these stories.
Is it massive enough to alter Federal elections.
We've not seen evidence of that, at least definitive.
And there have been investigations, and we've seen these audits, and the data doesn't come out.
So I can only be like, I don't need to go down that rabbit hole and say these things, because I can tell you this very simply.
They need every edge they can get.
Look at what happened in Georgia.
I firmly believe Republicans would have maintained the Senate if Trump didn't push the fraud narrative.
There were people in Georgia saying, I refuse to vote because I don't believe it's fair anyway.
And look what you get!
Democrats controlling the House and the Senate.
There you go.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is in Congress and they're doing everything they can to stop her.
Lauren Boebert as well.
So, when you see characters like that, can't you be like, yeah, it is possible to win these elections, but you have to vote!
Now, as for 2020, yeah, I think there are problems in the election, but the problems stem from legislation.
Stems from state laws.
Stems from a lot of issues that states complained about.
I don't believe the solution is, I don't believe the answer is people didn't vote.
I think, I just, I've seen it.
I've seen people who I've never seen vote before vote for the first time.
And then they walked away.
I know one dude who left, fled the country afterwards.
And I'm like, they took away sports, took away movies, took away video games.
And the only thing you had was politics and everything taken away from you was Trump's fault.
It works.
How are they going to play that line going into 2020 and 2024?
They're not gonna.
If COVID lockdowns do come back, I tell you this, people will just blame Biden.
And they'll be like, well, at least under Trump, things weren't this bad.
It is bad.
You know, I feel for these illegal immigrants.
I want them to have good lives.
I really do.
And I know why they love America.
America's incredible.
I also know that we can't just open the door and say, everyone come on in, because we're dealing with our own issues.
When you've got more than one Democrat coming out, even in, presumably in Wisconsin, Calling out Joe Biden and his administration, Jen Psaki being wrong over and over again, Mexican officials warning us of massive caravans.
At what point do you just say enough with the crooked crony establishment?
I don't get it.
I just don't.
Now, to that question, if the Democrats win in November, look, I'll tell you this.
You want me to believe something, I need evidence.
Like, I need hard, visible proof.
The election stuff is difficult.
Too much conspiracy, garbage, and nonsense.
And these audits didn't produce anything substantial, any hard, clear-cut evidence.
Just more questions that I think play into the very obvious shadow campaign that Time Magazine wrote about.
How they changed laws and rules, and it worked.
Pay attention to what's going to happen later this year.
Because these are the questions about, you know, the fairness and legitimacy of our elections.
The left claimed that Trump didn't win.
The right claimed that Biden didn't win.
Big tech companies banned the right and left the left alone.
You need to build culture.
You need to focus on core issues.
This is what I was saying the other day to Elijah Schafer, because he was talking about Bill Gates and, like, depopulation.
I said, we don't need to go near that stuff.
That is confusing to people.
Maybe it's true, maybe not.
I don't know.
I know Bill Gates said he wants to reduce population growth.
There's too many people, he says.
What you need to focus on is each individual issue.
Is illegal immigration bad?
Yes.
Okay, let's end it.
Are you concerned about what your children are being taught?
Yes.
Okay, well, let's change that.
If you bring all these things together and then start making claims about big conspiracies, well, then people are gonna be like, I don't know what you're talking about, man.
This is crazy.
You got an issue about elections?
Here's what I say.
You guys know that in Pennsylvania, the universal mail-in voting was unconstitutional and a court ruled that, but only after the election?
Well, it stands to reason if the court said it's not legitimate, there are questions about what should have happened during that election.
These are questions you can ask regular people and have them say, yeah, good point.
What does that mean?
If you want to introduce these ideas to people, you don't come at them and scream, they're turning the frogs gay.
You come at them and say like, yo, what's this ad?
You see this ad you're seeing stuff?
Read about that.
And they'll say, yeah sure, I don't know.
We'll Google it.
That's how you wake people up.
You give them a chance.
You give them a bit of information, and you say, take a look, explore for yourself.
You don't scream in their face, the end is nigh, or anything like that.
We got a problem.
It seems like this country is being ripped apart.
Abbott is making bold moves in opposition to what the Biden administration is doing.
Florida may do the same, and you know what?
More power to him.
I just don't think it really solves the problem.
It may solve the problem for those that live in Texas and Florida, though.
I suppose that's true.
I mean, that's all that matters if you're the governor of that state.
But if politics is downstream from culture, and we don't change the culture, then what ends up happening is we just keep bailing water, but the ship is sinking.
Okay, we'll bail water.
It's important, right?
But let's plug the hole.
Let's make sure the boat stops sinking, bail water, and then make it to dry land.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment is coming up at 8 p.m.
over at youtube.com slash TimCastIRL, where, ladies and gentlemen, Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire crew will be taking over TimCastIRL, at least for a few moments, so we'll effectively have the whole Daily Wire crew As our guests, for only a short amount of time, you know, 10, 15, I think 15, 20 minutes, maybe.
We'll see how long we go for, and then we'll jump back to our regular studio, but I'm really excited for this.
Uh, it's an honor and a privilege that they've helped set this up.
It's gonna be really, really cool.
Let's check it out.
Thanks for hanging out, and we'll see you all then.
I'd like to take you back to August 10th, 2019.
Bill Maher roots for recession so that Trump loses in 2020.
Wow.
It's been almost three years since that moment all of us talked about.
Maybe some of you are younger and you weren't involved in politics at the time.
Maybe you're now getting older.
People are asking you to vote and you didn't know about this story.
But yes.
There are many high-profile left or liberal comedians who rooted for destruction of this country and regular people's lives so that they could get some kind of political victory.
Thank you, Bill Maher.
Of course, we can call out Bette Midler and Stephen Colbert in a second, but here we are.
Baby food shortage prompts rationing at Target, Kroger, Walgreens, and CVS.
Stores impose purchase limits after Abbott recall adds to strain on already limited supplies.
How many of you need baby formula?
I'm sorry, I said baby food.
Baby formula shortage.
How many of you are relying on formula for your kids?
Maybe many of you aren't.
Maybe many of you are saying, well, you know, it's bad, but it's not going to affect me.
I hope this is not an early warning.
And it may be.
Joe Biden himself has said that there could be or they're worried about a global famine.
The Biden administration is worried about food shortages.
I've talked quite a bit about the rising food prices.
Now, of course, the media and the Biden administration want to blame Vladimir Putin for all of it.
But inflation was happening before Putin, so your prices were already going up.
Shortages were happening well throughout the pandemic, so yeah, it's not all on Putin, but for sure, the war in Ukraine has made things worse.
By all means, focus on whichever element of it you want to focus on.
The fact is, we may be entering these waters.
That is to say, the baby formula shortage may be the first sign of a greater food problem coming to the United States.
Have you guys seen the videos out of Shanghai?
With people screaming on their balconies, wailing?
With the drone saying, control your soul's desire for freedom?
You know what really freaked me out?
I didn't know this.
Candace Owens showed me this.
The videos that have cats tied in bags, or dogs being beaten in the streets.
Now, we're not like China.
Not completely, at least in some ways, I suppose.
But we're not like them in a lot of ways, so hopefully we never get to that point.
But when you have people pushing their refrigerators onto their balconies, opening them, and there's nothing in it, and they're doing that as a statement.
Lack of supplies, people are starving and screaming.
You'll be surprised what a person is willing to do when they don't have food.
I think Shanghai has, what, 23 million people?
These Chinese cities are absolutely massive.
And in, I think, the greater New York metro, you get to around 12 million.
The city proper, I think, is, what, 9 million?
Manhattan's 2.5.
I think it can still get really bad there.
Now, we are a well-fed people here in the United States, so maybe it won't get that bad.
But take a look at what's going on with these stories.
Baby formula shortage.
I hope this is not the beginning of something because there was a recall, an Abbott recall.
But here's my concern.
The recall itself, a recall should not trigger shortages and rationing at stores.
A recall can limit some of the supplies of a good.
In fact, there are recalls all the time you probably don't notice.
I think what's happened is the recall has pulled the curtain off what may be coming to the U.S.
The Wall Street Journal reports.
The biggest U.S.
retailers are rationing baby formula as a recall by the maker of Similac and other popular brands exacerbates already spotty supply in much of the country.
As of Tuesday, Walmart, Inc., Target, Kroger, CVS Health, and Walgreens Boots Alliance have limited the quantities of many baby formulas that consumers are able to buy online or in some stores.
Okay.
Maybe, maybe baby formula doesn't move the needle for you because you don't have kids.
I think most of you probably do, based on your age range, but more so in this day and age, millennials tend not to have kids, or that many, and so I'm sure there are many of you who don't have kids, but just recognize what that means.
CNN Business reports, recession shock is coming, Bank of America warns.
This is why I started the segment talking about Bill Maher.
Bill Maher is trending right now because he appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience.
And they talked a lot about what was going on, but you know what?
Bill Maher, like so many of these liberal personalities and comedians who are wealthy and don't care about you or this country, would gladly see it burn if it meant they got their political victory.
So, Bill, am I supposed to forgive someone like you for the sentiments you expressed on your show saying, bring on the recession if it ends Trump, if it stops Trump?
Well, you did it.
Congratulations.
There was a pandemic.
You got your recession.
Joe Biden wins.
And now it is worse than ever.
And he's like, oh, but the left has become goofy.
And you support it.
I'm not I'm not going to sit here.
You know, Bill can come out and he can say things about about the woke left.
Sure, sure.
But the dude is so insanely out of touch.
He would gladly see Americans suffer.
And in many instances with recessions, you get lots of death.
And that...
I don't want to just rehash an old story, you know, because this was three years ago or so, but I hope you're happy.
This is the sentiment you express, and my question now is, again, not to rehash the old story, but as we are seeing these food shortages, recession shock coming, am I supposed to forgive these people?
Am I supposed to say, ah, don't worry about it, Bill.
I know that you did everything in your power to help get Biden elected, and now we're all suffering because of it.
Am I supposed to say, but I forgive you.
Or am I supposed to say, no, sorry, not this time.
It is not so easy as just to forgive and forget.
We need to remember how we came to this point.
Lest people develop amnesia and keep voting for the same thing.
Man, I don't know.
I'll be the first to admit, we're doing well at TimCast.
With all of your support over at TimCast.com, we're succeeding.
We're growing.
You know, take a look at the guys over at the Daily Wire, because we're at the Daily Wire studio in our mobile Command 2.0, and I see these people are well-fed.
You know, in a sense, you can say that we could be doing better if the American people were doing better.
We would be making even more money.
Of course there's class and wealth in this country, but every time I go to the supermarket and I see people complaining about the prices, when I see the prices they propose to me, man.
But I'll tell you what we are doing, pushing back, with people like Bill Maher leading the culture for a lot of people on the left, we've got to do more than just complain about it.
I want to give a shout out to youtube.com slash popculturecrisis.
It is not an overtly political show, but you guys should go and subscribe to Pop Culture Crisis if you're interested in news on celebrities, Hollywood video games, cartoons, comics, movies, all of that stuff.
Mostly talking about just more so cultural issues, and I'll tell you why I want to shout them out.
I'm on Twitter.
And I see people mentioning, remember when Bill Maher was calling for a recession?
And now we're looking at food shortages across the board, ongoing.
Now we're looking at it just continually getting worse.
This is what they root for, for you.
This is the Hollywood, Los Angeles elite.
This is what they want for you and your family because they don't like Donald Trump.
I'm sickened by it.
And not to mention, I'm sickened by movies that are just messages.
You know, we talked a bit about this with Matt Walsh, because The Daily Wire, these guys are producing movies and shows that aren't message first.
It's just, let's make good content for people.
So you know what?
We can't just be, always, the political talk shows that complain about culture.
No, Pop Culture Crisis, again, youtube.com slash popculturecrisis is a show that talks about cultural issues, celebrity, Hollywood, video games.
But you know, the message comes second.
And the message, when it does come, comes from a perspective like ours.
That we don't want the woke trash.
We're not gonna sit here and root for your destruction.
No, we're going to root for you to succeed.
And I'm going to root for you to be personally responsible for your own success.
And that means right now, resilience is going to be necessary.
With recession shock coming, I ask you, those in the cities, why are you still there?
You see what happens in New York, crime is up, what is it, 44 or some odd percent in general?
If the food shortages get as bad as some people speculate, and as many of these celebrities have effectively rooted for, yo, you living in cities, you're gonna be in trouble.
Again, sitting here complaining about the problem?
I'll be a bit more fair with the work we do.
Highlighting issues and keeping you guys apprised of the stories that are coming, and giving you our perspective on it, is valuable.
Of course I understand that.
But we also need to change culture.
We need to not only produce shows that will impact culture, but we need to engage with that culture directly.
That's why, you know, with TimCast.com we didn't just launch political shows.
We didn't do, okay, TimCast.com works.
We complain about stuff in politics and culture.
Let's do another show with another political person.
No, I said, no, we got to do cultural stuff, tales from the inverted world, mysteries, paranormal.
We have to be the change we want to see in the world.
We have to make a difference in this country.
We have to inspire people to be personally responsible and to push back on the malignancy that resulted in the failures of the Biden presidency, that is resulting in the failures across the board.
I will never be the person to sit here and say, I hope everybody suffers so that I can get the president I want.
No, I did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016.
I voted for him in 2020 because things were better and I knew it would be bad under Joe Biden.
I am willing to have a Donald Trump presidency with all of the things I don't like about him because I know it's better for all of us and better for you.
I'm a survivor.
We've succeeded here at TimCast.
We're doing a good job.
We're doing well.
But I want to see, you know, a rising tide lifts all ships when the pandemic hit.
It was that first March of 2020, our revenues collapsed.
Why?
Regular people who can't work, can't support shows like this, don't advertise, their small businesses are being shuttered, and I fully get it.
Even though we do well enough, I'm like, no, no, no, I need you guys to succeed so that I can succeed.
That's what it's about.
We are only as strong as our weakest link.
Check this out.
CNN Business.
Inflation shock worsening.
Rate shock just beginning.
Recession shock coming.
Bank of America chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett wrote in a note to clients on Friday.
The warning came ahead of a new government report on Tuesday that showed consumer prices surged by 8.5 percent.
Inflation is out of control, Hartnett wrote.
Inflation causes recessions.
Recessionary prices moves in markets.
So, they say it's going to be a sticker shock, it's going to be a recession shock, it's going to be food shortages.
On top of this, what does the Biden presidency get?
140,000 migrants are heading toward the U.S.
As Mexican official warns, Biden lifting Title 42 on May 23rd will create chaos at the border.
We have a baby formula shortage right now.
We're being warned about a global famine.
Can the United States stand to have a porous and broken border when we are struggling to get supplies to our own citizens right now?
They don't care.
They don't care about you.
That's why I have to throw it back to Bill Maher.
And again, not to single him out, but he's the guy who's trending.
He's the guy who's supposedly coming out and saying the left has become goofy.
Going on, you know, he's trending right now.
Yo, you rooted for the chaos and the destruction.
You rooted for it.
You know who else rooted for it?
Here we go.
Stephen Colbert roasted for saying he'd pay $15 for gas because he drives a Tesla.
Without fossil fuels, you know who the first to die?
I think it's, uh, diabetics.
Because insulin needs to be refrigerated.
Insulin needs to be refrigerated.
When you don't have fossil fuels for a consistent supply of electricity, people suffer.
This was March 8th, just a month ago.
Colbert said this.
Oh, here we go.
Here's Bette Midler.
I'll happily pay more gas- I'll pay more for gas for her.
I despise these evil, disgusting people that would see good, hardworking Americans who pay the bills and the salaries for these people, she would see them suffer.
For U.S.
war.
Look, a war happened in Ukraine.
The U.S.
has some blame in this regard with the meddling we've done, but the blame overwhelmingly falls in the hands of Vladimir Putin, and of course I understand that.
But why am I going to pay more for gas for Ukraine?
Are we paying more for gas for Yemen?
Oh, I get it now.
Do you get it?
The bombing in Syria?
The invasion of the Middle East?
Nobody said, I'll pay a little bit less for gas for her and pointed the people that were killed in the U.S.
invasions of these countries.
No one put up these Ukrainian flags on their accounts for the other countries when the U.S.
has been involved in war.
You see, that's the name of the game.
The U.S.
has special interests.
And this manipulative, disgusting image of a little girl is very cute.
I hope the little girl is safe and secure.
And I think Vladimir Putin is a piece of trash for his invasion of Ukraine.
I have friends from there who I care about and I respect, and I hope they're going to be safe and their families will be safe.
And these images are heartbreaking.
But I'm talking about Bette Midler using a photo of this little girl, using the war to spit in your face.
I'll pay more for gas for her.
Screw off.
The American people Did not have to worry about paying more for gas when Donald Trump was president.
No, in fact, gas was relatively cheaper before the pandemic.
I'm not going to play these games where it's like gas was below $2.
It was below $2 on average during the pandemic when demand was in the gutter.
That was not a good thing for anybody.
But throughout Trump's presidency, gas was floating around $2.
I believe it was $2.30.
And that was down from the highs we've seen in the past.
And now under Joe Biden, for all of his crack pottery, this is what we get.
Now hold on there a minute.
Russia didn't invade Ukraine under Donald Trump for several reasons.
Elad Eliyahu, who is one of our ground reporters, he was on the show and he said he thought it was good that the world was unipolar, that the United States was the dominant force.
But I asked him then, why do you think Putin didn't invade Ukraine?
He said Trump was strong.
Trump scared Putin.
I agree.
I also agree that Donald Trump stabilizing the Middle East, shoring up U.S.
energy production, and not being involved in the manipulations in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin said, OK, things are stabilizing.
Peace.
The Abraham Accords.
We have evil people who want... They don't want dirty air.
They want the U.S.
to be like Elysium in that movie, you know?
A luxurious, hoity-toity, clean... Other people will give us the fuels.
We won't do the work.
It is the perfect embodiment of the modern urban liberal.
They don't grow their own food.
They expect you to bring it to them.
Under Donald Trump, it was, uh, let's, let's remove some of these environmental regulations and we'll start producing energy in our own country.
And we became nearly, I mean, for all intents and purposes, energy independent.
It's kind of impossible to be completely independent because we have growth.
So we, we, we, we will, uh, import energy to grow.
But there's another way to become energy independent, and that's a recession.
That's a culling, essentially.
An economic culling.
Less people means we've got fuel here to use.
There's nothing more despicable, in my opinion, than the manipulation of people for political gain.
That you should be happy to pay high gas prices.
That these people, like Bill Maher, laughed in your faces saying, bring on the recession!
That Colbert said, I'll pay 15 bucks a gas, psh, I drive a Tesla.
And you know he does.
You know he does.
Rich people have Teslas.
Wealthier people have electric cars because they can snap their fingers and get it.
I have a Tesla.
And I'm not stupid enough to laugh in the faces of hardworking Americans who can't afford 60 bucks to fill up their tank.
If the regular working people do not make it, none of us do.
Because we are only as strong as our weakest link.
But these people like Bette Midler, like Stephen Colbert, like Bill Maher, are more than happy to spit on you.
Because even when you suffer, they'll still be rich.
And they'll be rich forever.
I'm disgusted by modern politics in a lot of ways.
But it's typically these urban celebrity, uh, et cetera, you know, whatever.
I want to give a shout-out to Ice-T.
Maybe it was just a joke.
Maybe it was a joke.
But this is what Ice-T said.
I was robbed at a gas station in New Jersey last night.
After my hand stopped trembling, I managed to call the cops.
And they were quick to respond and calmed me down.
My money is gone.
The police asked me if I knew who did it.
I said, yes, it was pump number nine.
It's a funny joke.
But Ice-T expressing something that most people get.
The high gas prices are a problem.
The food shortages are a problem.
These wealthy elites, they tell you it is better that you suffer and that people die in food shortages and that babies can't have food if it means no Donald Trump!
And now look where we are.
I don't know what would have happened under Donald Trump's presidency right now.
I just know it would be better.
It might still be bad.
We, of course, will always have things to complain about with a president.
But in 2019, the best numbers of our lives.
In 2020, we had a pandemic.
I'll tell you this.
In 2020, things got bad.
In 2021, Joe Biden becomes president.
And things got worse.
Tell me how that is.
Bill Maher, I want you to answer for this.
Under the first year of Joe Biden's presidency, he had the vaccines, the key to solving the problem of COVID, so they said.
And there were more COVID cases and deaths.
We were under lockdown well throughout 2021.
Restrictions and lockdown, tell me what happened.
And in 2020, we had the nursing home fiasco where people were being killed, yet Biden still made it worse.
That's what all of these people rooted for.
Right now, looking at baby formula shortages, it's... it's scary.
Because I think it could be an early warning.
That more footages are coming.
I can't predict the future.
I can only read these articles that say shortages are coming.
So do what you think is right for yourself, your friends, your family.
I just... I just have such disdain for these wealthy Hollywood elites.
I don't... I want to see that system fail.
If you work in Hollywood and you want to get out, get out.
I look at what the Daily Wire is doing, I am inspired by it, I am jealous of it.
Movies, TV shows, we're gonna do the same thing with TimCast.com.
We've got Pop Culture Crisis, we've got Tales from the Inverted World, we've got Chicken City.
Have you seen Chicken City?
We'll call it a kid's show.
It's just chickens doing chicken stuff, but it is now one of the highest-grossing super-chatted shows in the world, assuming the trend continues.
Because people love it.
That's what we want to do.
And it's funny watching these establishment activists leftists be like, People are so dumb to support Chicken City!
People like stuff, dude.
We're building community.
We are circling the wagons around the values we hold dear, and the support for the working class of this country.
But these people, these elites, these celebrities who laugh and spit in your face, The same people who voted for Joe Biden supposedly supported Bernie?
Bernie was supposed to be for the regular working people.
Okay, well if you're for the regular working people, now is about time you tell these celebrities to STFU.
Because look how bad everything's gotten under their leadership.
Their guide.
Man, do what you think you need to do for your friends, your family.
If that means buying emergency food, whatever, I don't know.
I hope it doesn't get as bad as they say it is, but, you know, I talk about food shortages a week or so ago, and now we have the baby formula shortages hitting, and there's fears it's gonna get worse here in the U.S.
Probably not as bad as many other poorer countries.
Hopefully not.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up at 1 p.m.
on this channel.
Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
I have placed on the screen before you is reddit.com slash r slash Russia, a community of people who are posting things about what's going on in Russia and Ukraine.
And it seems to be from a Russian perspective.
I'm not super familiar with what they do on that form.
But what I am showing is that it says, Are you sure you want to view this community?
This community is quarantined.
This community contains a high volume of information not supported by credible sources.
Learn more at Quarantine Communities.
Are you certain you want to continue?
And if you do, you have to verify your email or say no thank you.
We have the story from the New York Times.
Twitter will stiffen moderation policies in response to the war in Ukraine and our lead story.
The corporate press is outraged that Rumble is not censoring those with a pro-Russia perspective.
You guys know my perspective on what's going on with the war.
I think the US played some dirty politics in the region.
They do everywhere.
We do.
We are the United States.
And Russia invaded and Russia is the aggressor in the war.
They were losing the game.
I view it like there's a game of chess going on.
And the U.S.
is making moves that are frustrating and annoying to Russia, so Russia flips the table over.
The U.S.
was getting too close to Russia's queen or king, so Russia was just like, you know what?
We're going to war.
Yo, you started the war.
The loss of lives are on Russia.
Rumble got an email from corporate press.
Emails from the Globe and Mail.
Basically, journalists play this game where they'll say things like, why aren't you doing this?
You'll get an email from a journalist and it'll say, we could not but notice that you have a bank account run by this person.
Why do you support, insert horrifying thing.
The goal of these emails is not to get a legitimate response.
Because you can simply say, we've noticed you're not following suit with censorship policies of other platforms.
We'd love to get a comment as to what your stance is on these issues.
Instead, they're like, these anti-hate groups have accused you!
They want you to be scared.
They want you to feel like everyone's out to get you.
Rumble is saying, shut up.
And they've issued an amazing response about how people have lost trust in institutions because the media and big tech think they should be the filters for information so that you don't get to decide for yourself.
Which brings me to the next big story, of course.
CNN.
Oh, it's official.
Big cuts are coming, but my friends, get this.
CNN Plus, with their tremendous launch, can barely muster 10,000 daily active users.
Wow!
TimCast.com is bigger than that!
So, my friends, if you want to support our work, head over to TimCast.com, become a member, you'll get access to exclusive episodes of the TimCast IRL podcast.
This will go out Monday through Thursday at 8 p.m.
You are supporting our journalists, and you will get to gloat that you are a member of an organization that is bigger than CNN+.
I'll just add real quick before we read this stuff from Rumble and get into all the news, not only does CNN struggle to get 10,000 daily active users, TimCast.com, which gets more than that, costs more money.
Now, CNN, they were selling memberships, I think it was like six bucks, and then they cut it to three bucks because nobody was signing up.
Just think about how sad that is.
That y'all are just like, yo, Tim, I can spot you $10 to support, you know, this organization to get access to this content.
There are people who are like, yo, I believe in what you're doing.
They give us more than $10.
There are people who are like, I think it's, you know, Tim, you're okay, I guess, but I do want to watch some of these videos.
And there are some people who are like, yo, I really love the members-only content, and the value proposition is there.
The Daily Wire has 600,000 users.
And I talked with Matt Walsh a little bit about this the other day, and it's on TimCast.com in the members segment, and it's just, he said that there's a mission behind what we do.
We believe in something.
We're fighting for something.
There's a community here.
And I'm like, exactly.
The people who are members at TimCast.com not only want to support the work, but they believe in building culture and challenging the manipulators, the liars, the deceivers.
Let me show you what Rumble had to say.
My videos do appear on Rumble, and I will stress, as much as this is also on YouTube, and YouTube is the bulk of views, we use Rumble infrastructure for our website, we post our videos on Rumble, and I have tremendous respect for Rumble.
I've criticized some of their policies, because I think you need to, when we had the CEO, Chris Pavlovsky, on the show, and I said, look, you've got a lot of similar rules, Silicon Valley.
Take a look at this.
Rumble tweets.
This is amazing.
Here are emails we received from the Globe and Mail demanding to know why we aren't dutifully
copying YouTube censorship.
It is now common that we receive pressure from journalists demanding that we censor
more.
See the next tweet for Rumble's response.
This is amazing.
Here's the email.
Request for comment Globe and Mail.
It's Joe Costaldo from the Globe and Mail.
I'm working on an article about RT's account on Rumble and some of the other content about Russia-Ukraine on Rumble.
I'm hoping you can comment on the following.
Governments and other observers have branded RT, a Russian state-owned news network, as a Russian propaganda outlet.
Since the war in Ukraine began, social media sites such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Spotify have sought to block or limit content from RT.
As a result, RT has directed people to its Rumble account.
I think that should have been phrased a little bit differently.
Not a bad question, though.
early March. Has Rumble taken any steps to limit, block, restrict content from RTNN's
platform, similar to YouTube, Facebook, etc.? If not, can you elaborate on why?
I think that should have been phrased a little bit differently. Not a bad question, though.
I think what he should have said, other platforms have taken censorship, you know, is Rumble
looking to make similar moves?
And if not, why?
But for the most part, I think it's a fine question.
I really do.
I'm curious, too.
And we got an answer from Rumble.
So I'm actually kind of glad that basic question was asked.
But hold on.
There's more.
They're gonna say...
YouTube also announced a policy to prohibit content denying, minimizing, or trivializing well-documented violent events in connection to Russia's war in Ukraine.
Some prominent creators on Rumble, such as Stu Peters and Alex Jones, have produced videos mirroring Russian government propaganda with respect to Ukraine.
This includes videos claiming attacks on Ukrainian towns, cities, could be false flags.
Downplaying civilian casualties in Ukraine and that Russians are fighting Nazis in Ukraine.
I can provide examples.
Does Rumble have any plan to enact policies similar to YouTube to deal with such content?
On the surface, I'm like, I get it, I get it.
They're not inherently bad questions to ask Rumble.
What is your position on the censorship?
Will you, if any, will you do anything or nothing?
No pressure, right?
Here's where it gets interesting.
The same journalist says, Hi Chris, I've had a bit more time with the article and I want to follow up to see if Rumble has any comment about RT's account and content.
I also spoke to a couple of sources who are critical of Rumble's allowing RT on its platform.
The CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a UK nonprofit, said that Rumble is doing Putin a big favor by hooking its users up with a steady drip feed of Kremlin lies and propaganda.
Ahmed Alrawi, an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University who studies disinformation, said that Rumble will not moderate content because then it would not be profitable.
He said Rumble's business model relies on fringe groups who disseminate conspiracy theories and disinformation under the pretext of freedom of expression.
Again, I'm hoping you can comment.
I'm aware Rumble posted a statement on its Twitter feed in early March when RT started livestreaming on the site, and I'm wondering if you have more to add since then.
Please let me know.
I'll need a response.
Okay.
The surface questions, I take no issue with.
I see nothing.
But when you then layer in, these organizations are accusing you of being grifters and hateful, I can get a comment from anybody.
I can get a comment from a free speech organization saying, what Rumble is doing is heroic, risking their necks.
Care to respond?
No, you take the negative from a certain framing, and you come to Rumble, and the intent is obvious.
Pressure tactics.
Take a look at how Rumble responded.
There is a reason the public has radically turned against both corporate media, such as your outlet, and big tech.
Because you have arrogantly claimed for yourselves the power to decide for the public what information they can and cannot be trusted to hear, and what views they can and cannot express.
By stark contrast, the reason Rumble is growing so rapidly is because we trust adults to make decisions for themselves about what ideas they can express, and we trust them to make up their own minds after hearing all sides.
Bravo.
Tremendous respect.
Right now, there are prominent left-wing activists who want Fox News banned.
They don't think you should be allowed to listen to Tucker Carlson because Tucker Carlson has naughty opinions.
I'm not a big fan of Sean Hannity.
I'm not a big fan of Laura Ingram.
It's whatever.
I'm not a big fan of Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes or Joe Scarborough, but whatever.
Y'all are allowed to watch him.
I'm allowed to complain about him.
Should we not be allowed to complain about people we think are wrong?
Now look, often when it comes to issues with the war in Ukraine, yo, I'm gonna have a little bit more trust in the press coming out of the U.S.
as opposed to the press coming out of Russia, and that's easy.
That is easy.
Of course they're gonna lie, cheat, and steal.
Well, of course the media in the U.S.
will as well.
But let me show you this story right here, from the New York Times.
Twitter will stiffen moderation policies in response to the war in Ukraine.
Yeah, I mean, I can verify this based on what's happening.
So I believe the New York Times wrote a true article here.
But they do write fake news.
And especially when it comes to the war, I don't know if I can trust them.
But I'm going to lean slightly in their favor.
And the reason for this is, we have a lot of news coming out about what's happening in Ukraine.
The first thing I'll say is a challenge to the establishment in the United States.
Is Vladimir Putin killing civilians recklessly and arrogantly?
Is he targeting civilians intentionally?
These massacres, these genocides?
I think that's absurd.
I think when you try to make your opponent a comic book villain, you will lose many people.
You'll lose their trust.
A lot of people will start to believe you because they fall for that good and evil binary.
Is Vladimir Putin and the Russians, are they killing civilians?
Yes.
But it's likely collateral damage like in any war.
So I pursue Occam's Razor.
In the absence of evidence, the solution that makes the least amount of assumptions tends to be correct.
And that is to say that we have a war going on, Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States still won't even go in.
It stands to reason that Russia, seeking to gain control of these territories, is shelling areas where the Ukrainian military may be hiding, and it's resulting in civilian casualties.
That means you will see videos of civilians dying.
So when I see videos and they're like, Russia did this, these civilians lost their lives, I'm like, it's probably true.
At least that's the most likely scenario.
And then when they come out and say, he's intentionally killing CHILDREN, and I'm like, okay... Look, I don't think he's a good dude, but you don't win a war by randomly bombing civilians, you're wasting your military assets, you're not...
You're not building support.
Your own people protest you.
That's the point.
Strategy plays a role.
I don't think Vladimir Putin has a whole lot of it relative to what's happening now in Ukraine and with the U.S.
in terms of public strategy, but I think it's overly simplistic to think Putin's twirling his mustache saying, duh, kill the civilians.
No, he's probably, they'll probably go to him and say, look, civilians are gonna die if we do this, but we need to take out these targets, and he'll say, he'll say, do it.
It's perspective.
So I think there's an air of truth when it comes to what we see out of Ukraine.
But that's my opinion, because it's hard to know.
Ladies and gentlemen, CNN Plus struggles to lure viewers in its early days, drawing fewer than 10,000 daily users.
I told y'all we were gonna get a cake.
We're gonna get a cake!
Well, I've actually been cutting out the sugars, so maybe no cake.
Maybe I'll make an almond cake.
You know what I've been doing?
You take almond flour and some egg and some baking powder, a little vanilla cinnamon, you mix it up, you put it in the microwave for a couple minutes, boom!
You got an almond cake.
I don't really put a lot of sugar in it.
We've got allulose and erythritol, but I try to just stay away from sweets in general.
So I'll just make a cake with less sugar and we'll schlop some buttercream on it.
There's a bit of sugar in there, but we don't go too nuts with it.
And we're gonna celebrate CNN's Failures!
You know what I hate more than anything?
When people try to manipulate me.
Now, I don't know why, but someone trying to trick me into doing something is the most infuriating thing.
When I saw that, I talked about it in an earlier segment, Bette Midler showing a picture of a little girl waving a Ukrainian flag and she's like, I'll pay more for gas for her!
And I'm just like, you have convinced me to completely hate, you know, the support for the war, for Ukraine.
And I like the country.
And I talk about I have friends from there.
And I know what's happening is bad.
But when you come out and you show this little girl and you try to trick me into paying high gas prices and voting for Joe Biden, I will.
I spit in your general direction.
How dare you?
So seeing CNN fail, ooh, it fills me with a warm feeling.
We should get champagne.
I think you know what we'll do tomorrow?
Tomorrow's a big show.
Tonight's gonna be a—actually, tonight's a really big show.
Tonight.
For those that are watching on YouTube, The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Matt Walsh, the crew, Jeremy Boring, they're taking over Timcast IRL temporarily during our show.
It's gonna be fun.
But then tomorrow we have a big show with a ton of people from The Daily Wire here in our set, and maybe we'll get some champagne.
We'll crack some champagne and say, guys, CNN Plus couldn't even get more than 10,000 daily users, and The Daily Wire Has 600,000 subscribers.
No, no, no, no, okay.
Daily Wire's been building up for seven years.
CNN Plus just launched.
So maybe CNN Plus can recover.
Nah, I don't think so.
CNBC says the paltry audience cast doubt in the future of the application following recently completed combination of Discovery and WarnerMedia.
Axios, big cuts coming for CNN Plus after slow start.
It was abysmal, it was a failure, and nobody wants to watch.
Buh-bye!
Your lies wash away in the rain, and I'm confident that moving forward, our faction, whatever it may be, it's an eclectic bunch, we're gonna win.
It's right here.
TimCast.com right now is bigger than CNN.
And I just want to say this, I am... Hearing that news about CNN, you know, what is it, two or two and a half weeks on, three weeks on from the launch of CNN+, TimCast.com was already bigger.
That's amazing.
That's kind of crazy to me.
You know, we're not the biggest.
We don't have 600,000 subscribers, but we have a lot more than CNN.
Now, to be fair, they say daily active users is what they're saying.
You know, I want to be careful.
Daily users.
And so that's a bit different than just subscribers.
Some have reported as 10,000 subscribers.
I'd imagine they have more than that.
I'd imagine CNN Plus might actually have, you know, 30,000 to 40,000.
We'll see.
Maybe it's more.
I mean, you know, honestly, it could be 100k.
CNN Plus could have signed up 100,000 people, you know, at 3 bucks a month, making, you know, 300 grand a month.
But 10,000 daily users, it's because the people who signed up don't actually watch.
Now, considering that, knowing how many viewers we have, I think CNN may have, uh, you know, 30,000 subscribers.
I don't know for sure.
I just know that we have more than they do.
And we're a year old.
TimCast.com has been a functioning site, not even for a year.
It does make me feel bad a little bit because I'm like, we could have launched TimCast.com years ago.
But you can only grow as much as you can grow as fast as you can, and you realize what you're doing, and we still face serious challenges and hurdles.
So, you know, that's the reality of business.
CNN has the most trusted name in news, and that's all they could muster?
So I'll just say, TimCast, the YouTube presence, was able to generate a bigger following than CNN could.
And most of their viewers, even for Fox News, are in an aging demographic, and they won't be around much longer.
I mean, no disrespect to the older folks, but the people who watch this cable TV stuff, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, you know, they're going to be aging out.
I say that, you know, trying to tone things down a little bit, but I could just say, like, they're going to die soon.
Soon, relative to us.
There will come a time when I'm 50, and I'm on YouTube, or who knows where, and there's gonna be, you know, metaverse kids being like, I don't know, I don't use YouTube, I'm in the metaverse.
And we'll have to figure that out.
Eventually, our day will come, same as everybody else's.
Generations change.
These cable media companies, they lie, cheat, and they steal.
It's like Rumble said.
And because of the lying, the cheating, and the stealing, people don't trust them anymore and don't want to watch them anymore.
So you know what we're gonna be doing?
Right now, for us, our target is, you know, we want to get 18 to 24-year-olds.
We have a massive audience between 18 to 54, with the largest bracket being, I think, 25 to 34, I think is the bracket.
So if I were to look at the camera and say, You're a 33-year-old man.
You know, I'm sure there are many of you out there who are like, whoa, he's talking to me!
It's like, well, I just chose a common name and then threw out an average age.
But I could also be like, Bill, you're 27!
You know, there was a great bit from Penn & Teller's show, B.S.
on Showtime, where he was like, you know, think of a number between one and a million.
And then he's like, the number you were thinking of was, and then he throws out 687,592.
And right now, many of you are thinking, how did they do that?
How did they guess the number?
And he was like, the truth is, it's a random number.
But some of you may have actually guessed a similar number, and so you think we read your mind.
Anyway, I digress.
The point is, we want to make sure that we're producing content that has the values of liberty and personal responsibility behind it.
That's it.
You know, so I'll give a shout out to our good friends over on the left who I've been tweeting at.
They're always welcome to come on the show, but they don't do it.
So there's a lot of people who don't like Vosh at all because he said weird things about kids.
But the left still views him prominently.
We should come on and we should have him express those views.
Some people don't like it.
They're like, why are you platforming Vosh?
Because I don't believe in hiding what large prominent personalities believe.
I think we should show people what they believe.
Because I think if parents heard what they were saying, they'd be like, I'm gonna vote against that.
I believe enough people would agree with me.
I believe my ideas are stronger.
Maybe I'm wrong.
If I am wrong, then I suppose my ideas deserve to lose, right?
So we've got many people who refuse to come on shows, refuse to have conversations.
Fine, whatever, I don't care.
Let CNN crumble and collapse.
Bye.
10,000 users.
Props to the Daily Wire on 600,000.
Let's just, let's just ballpark this.
What is it?
Daily Wire charge, I think it's like $8.99 for their, what is it?
No, it's like $4.99 for their reader access.
And then it's like $11.99 and then like $20.
I think they have three tiers.
If we average that out and say about $12 a person, they're getting what?
Six, seven million dollars per month.
Now, I think they also do an annual membership, which makes it cheaper.
We're looking to do something similar.
We just need to build the website and improve, do better, which I think we're expanding, and we're going to be bringing on new talent, and we're growing every day.
I'm going to tell you this, my friends.
I'm going to tell you this.
You see this right above me?
Where is it?
Right there.
Right there.
TimCast.com.
TimCast.com.
Go to TimCast.com.
Become a member if you like the work that we do.
We have a show that I'm really putting a lot of weight behind, Pop Culture Crisis.
It is the crew at TimCast.com talking about Hollywood, celebrities, video games, music, movies, comics.
Did I say comics?
And the reason is, we've got to approach this in a multifaceted way.
Multivaried solutions.
That is, I can point out these issues and speak about the lying, the cheating, and the stealing, and provide you information and a sort of relief.
You say, you know what?
I've been seeing the same thing.
I like hearing someone else say it.
Like, I'm not crazy.
A lot of people say, wow, I didn't know that.
Look at these sources.
Forbes, Daily Wire 600k subs, I didn't realize that.
Axios, CNN laying people off.
But talking about the issue isn't enough.
We need to talk about the culture.
Politics is downstream from culture, so we here talking politics, we're late to the game.
I do talk culture on this show as well, but, you know, it's politics and culture.
So I said, we need something that's culture.
Because we do politics with a little bit of culture, now we need culture with a little bit of politics.
So we've got Brett Dasovic hosting, and Mary Morgan.
Hosting, Pop Culture Crisis, a show about cultural issues.
So you will hear about, you know, people who aren't interested in politics will hear our take and our values that's coming behind this commentary.
The next thing we're doing is we're launching shows.
Tales from the Inverted World is our first big show.
The next season is coming out.
It's a seasonal show.
You know, we're gonna do, I think, I think we've got maybe 13 or 14 episodes coming out.
It's slow growth.
But go to TimCast.com if you want to support our work because it's more about the mission.
You've already helped us displace CNN.
And... It's amazing.
I'm sitting here in a mobile studio.
Let me tell you what's up.
We're in a fifth wheel trailer.
It costs about $100,000 to get the trailer.
It costs about $60,000 to buy the truck, so that we can bring it around the country.
We went to Alex Jones's, and we had a big show.
Our biggest show on YouTube ever with Joe Rogan and Alex Jones.
We're now at the Daily Wire HQ, and we're gonna have some of our biggest shows.
Well, the seasons affect viewership, but we're gonna have the Daily Wire crew, and we're gonna be going around, bringing this information to various cities.
And we're able to do it.
And so on top of this, I would say this studio right now, we got like $40,000 worth of equipment to make the whole thing run.
$200,000 to be able to do what we're doing and travel this stuff.
And it's thanks to you guys who are members at TimCast.com that we're able to do this.
And so it is a tremendous feeling.
Because when I, you know, I got asked, I got asked recently, you know, what's your mission?
What's your end goal?
And I said, look, every day I wake up and I lay one brick.
Every day I lay up and I just take the, you know, the brick and mortar and just... I'm building a wall.
I mean it figuratively.
We're building a building.
And the end result is... We're gonna have a massive city.
Figuratively.
And I'm asked, what's your motivation?
They're like, why wake up every day?
And I say, because every day I wake up and I'm tired of being lied to!
When I see Bette Midler with that little girl and she's like, I'll pay more gas for her!
I am disgusted by this.
The attempt?
The spitting in our faces?
No.
I just want to say, guys, it is a tough world out there, and I hope you have enough information to plan effectively to keep yourself safe, to protect your family and your friends, to do what needs to be done for a better world.
I can't tell you what to do or how to live your life.
You're allowed to disagree with me and tell me I'm wrong.
All I want to do is be like, to the best of my knowledge, here's what's happening.
Politics, that's outside of it.
What I find funny in all of this is that I can offer up a seat at the table to every left-winger, every progressive.
Let's just call them out.
You know, Cenk and Anna from Young Turks?
I've invited on the show numerous times.
They don't care.
Hassan?
He says he'll come on digitally to IRL, but he won't come on in person.
To be fair, I can respect that he hosts a show, and I've said this before, but there's always some excuse.
The first time he was like, oh, it's COVID, I can't do it, and I'm like, you know, whatever, dude.
I don't expect him to come on the show because I don't think their ideas can stand up to scrutiny.
I think they need a pigeonholed platform to be able to maintain their ideas.
Someone said, well, then have him on the show digitally, and someone else pointed out why, so he can get crowd support from commenters, from many other people, so he can bolster up.
So instead of just sitting down like we all do every day, They say, well, you know, you should have him on your show digitally.
I told Andy no and Lauren Southern I would not allow them to come on digitally.
So they eventually came out.
Because I'm like, we don't do that.
You want to come on the show?
I told this to Vosh when he came out with Charlie Kirk.
I said, it's going to be you and Charlie Kirk for the most part debating, I'd assume.
Now, obviously, I'm going to disagree with you and probably agree with Charlie on a lot of things because I'm more, you know, I'm more moderate, not leftist.
Charlie is not far right, so there's probably a decent amount that we'll agree on.
I said, do you want to bring on another left personality or liberal personality so that we can sort of balance things out?
Vosch was like, no, I think it's fine.
I was like, you sure?
Because I don't want you to feel like we're ganging up.
And actually what ended up happening is people pointed out that I actually was fairly in the middle of the road.
I pushed back on Charlie a little bit, corrected him.
I corrected Vosch a little bit.
I think it was a good show.
But there are many people who refuse to come on, and I'll tell you the other thing, too.
For one, it's just, it's IRL.
It's in real life.
We have sit-down conversations because they're real.
I tell everybody, you can bring a laptop, and absolutely during the show, if you challenge our source, we'll pull up any source you ask for.
And we've done it multiple times.
We had someone on the show, it was Elad, Eliyahu.
And he said, it was a question of abortion.
And he showed us a stat from Pew.
And I said, interesting.
Well, I'll accept Pew, but counter with Gallup, which says something different.
And therein lies the big challenge.
Different sources, different facts.
They are alternative facts, aren't they?
Pew says it's a fact, here's the data.
Gallup says the same thing, but they contradict each other.
So I'll point that out to you.
Because, you know, there's one that I trust more or don't, but who am I to say?
So when these left personalities are just like, no, I won't come on, or I'll only come on digitally, yeah, you know what it is?
I think it's that their ideas can't stand up to scrutiny, and they need some kind of shield, a protective barrier.
I've gone on many shows.
I've gone on tons of shows for other people.
I've been on The Young Turks before.
I'm willing to sit down and talk to anybody.
I'll go on their shows.
But the one thing I will completely agree with Hasan on, yeah, look, dude, I don't blame him for not coming on the show because he hosts his own show and doesn't need to take time off for me.
Fair point.
I would argue a similar thing.
But I'd actually consider, you know, coming out on a weekend, because I take weekends off now, to sit down with Hasan and have these conversations.
I just don't think these people want to actually have these conversations.
They want to manipulate, control, lie, cheat, and steal.