Elon Musk To Be New Twitter CEO, Timcast JOINS FORCES With Rumble Web Services In MAJOR Announcement
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Now, let's get into that first story.
Major news on the Elon Musk Twitter front, with breaking news that Elon is set to serve
as the interim CEO after the deal closes.
Maybe he won't, but he's expected to.
We also have news on new institutional investors that are getting involved with a $7 billion influx from friends of Elon Musk to buy Twitter.
Now, it's interesting news because apparently one of the individuals who has provided funding to buy Twitter is none other than that Saudi prince that previously said that Elon Musk's deal was no good.
Perhaps he's come around realizing there is money to be made in this venture.
Jack Dorsey chiming in after another investor announced a major influx into Twitter, saying that basically the company needs to be taken private for a little while.
This could be a major transformation of the platform that is good, or it could just be smoke and mirrors.
Elon Musk operates Tesla plants in China.
He's praised China before.
I don't think we should blindly just trust him because he's come out and said all of these good things that we want to hear, all these jokes and memes, making you think that he's on your side.
No.
I think he's doing a good job.
And I can only really say, let's be optimistic and see what comes from this, because it's better than the alternative.
And seeing everything happening now, it is a dramatic change.
Perhaps the powers that be, the elites, realize they are losing this battle, and they have two choices.
go down with the ship like blockbuster video when they failed to buy Netflix or commandeer the ship
except the tides are turning except the way the winds have changed and you've got to go with it.
If they persist too long in trying to sail against the winds, they will lose and their ship will
sink. So we also have major news on our end and a large or a large, a very big announcement
as to the infrastructure of Timcast dot com and our plans for the future,
which we'll need to get into in a minute. And it's amazing news.
But the other element of the story is that Bill Gates is all angry.
He says Elon Musk could actually make this worse, and I love it.
The media is referring to this as a feud igniting between the billionaires.
Of course, we also have government getting involved.
You have the Disinformation Governance Board, but interestingly, now you have Democrats and Republicans slamming Biden's administration and their DHS for launching this Disinformation Governance Board.
While I want everyone to have healthy skepticism and be prepared that this may not be the end of censorship, there is some good news on the horizon.
But I don't want to come out and just start saying, everything's great, Elon's the savior, and it's all gonna be perfect.
As much as I am a big fan of what Elon is doing with Starlink, with, I mean, with Starship, with SpaceX, I mean, all this stuff's really amazing.
We must remain vigilant.
Pay attention.
You can't just assume someone's gonna come in and save you.
Because what happens then is someone will sell you snake oil, you think all is taken care of, and then...
Rug gets pulled out from underneath you.
So let's go through this.
There are some Democrats that are challenging what's going on, but there's also a consortium of 26 leftist NGOs that are slamming Elon Musk's attempt to buy Twitter.
This is an information war.
It's a culture war.
And in it, there will be deceptive and manipulative tactics.
So we've got to pay attention to figure out what's really going on behind the scenes.
But I think it's good news all around.
And I think the announcement we have for TimCast.com is going to be, it's massive.
We've got more work on the horizon, but we have done a major infrastructure swap, which I'll get into in just a moment, with the announcement.
I already tweeted it out, so maybe many of you know this.
We've got a lot of work going on behind the scenes.
We at TimCast.com are in this fight along with all of you, and the changes we've made and the infrastructure we are working on, joining and building, is going to make us all more resilient to censorship.
But let's read the first story about Elon Musk being CEO.
Interesting.
Before we get started, head over to TimCast.com and become a member to help support our work as a member.
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The show can get quite spicy over on our own website, where we are more resilient to censorship.
We also made a major change, which I mentioned, and I'll get into greater detail after we get through the news about our infrastructure, but it's all thanks to you as members.
Because you are members, we are able to support new infrastructure, challenge the establishment, Culture Jam as marketing, meaning putting up billboards in Times Square like we did.
And producing this members-only content, hiring journalists and more columnists, and we're doing it.
Bringing on people who are going to challenge the machine, call out the lies.
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Let's read the first story from CNBC.
Elon Musk expected to serve as temporary Twitter CEO after deal closes.
An SEC filing on Thursday revealed Musk secured approximately $7.14 billion in equity commitments from friends and other investors to buy Twitter.
Faber said Musk handpicked the investors, commitments ranging from $1 billion from Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison to $5 million from Honeycomb Asset Management, which invested in SpaceX.
Faber added that Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey may back it, and Musk is talking to him about the possibility of contributing shares immediately or before the closing of the merger.
This is really, really interesting.
Some of the people involved might just be committing their own Twitter shares to the deal to give Elon control to take Twitter private.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has only led the company for a few months after assuming the helm from Dorsey.
Until now, there hadn't been much discussion about whether Musk's takeover of the company would lead to a leadership shake-off.
Last month, Reuters reported Musk had lined up a new CEO for Twitter, citing a source familiar with the matter.
Now, apparently, it may actually be Elon Musk himself.
If Jack Dorsey really does commit shares, To the purchase?
Then I kind of believe he's sincere when he wants to make these changes.
And now you've got people saying Twitter should go on the blockchain.
I don't know if I completely agree with that.
But it's interesting because this is part of Jack Dorsey's initial plans from several years ago.
Could it be that Jack wanted to make these changes but they couldn't?
They wouldn't let him?
So now he's using Elon Musk?
There was a story in the Wall Street Journal about Elon Musk's shadow crew.
The group of people whispering in his ears to take over this company because he had the power to do so.
One of those people allegedly was Jack Dorsey.
Agrawal told employees during a company-wide town hall meeting last month that the future of Twitter is uncertain under Musk.
Once the deal closes, we don't know which direction the platform will go.
Agrawal reportedly said when asked whether the company may allow former U.S.
President Trump to return.
Musk's acquisition of Twitter comes at a key time for the company.
Agrawal has said he would focus on growing Twitter's daily active user base, blah blah blah.
Musk told investors that he felt Twitter's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization margin was too low and the company has too many engineers not doing enough.
Paper said, citing sources familiar, Musk also pledged to make a company a magnet for talent.
Shares of Twitter climbed as much as 3% on Thursday morning.
Tesla's stock slid more than 6%.
Representatives from Twitter declined to comment.
Well, I'm going to be heading to Austin in a couple of weeks.
Perhaps I will have a conversation about what's to come in this space.
This is going to get really interesting, guys.
Elon Musk is facing FTC antitrust review on Twitter alongside StockProbe.
Did you think it would be so easy that Elon could come in?
Yo, the Department of Homeland Security, whose mission is anti-terror, has a disinformation governance board being set up.
Did you think they would just sit back and be like, go for it, Elon.
We don't want to control the flow of information in this country and propagandize our citizens into voting for who we want them to vote for.
Bloomberg reports.
The FTC is reviewing Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter Inc.
takeover, a person familiar with the deal said, setting up a deadline in the next month for the agency to decide whether to conduct an in-depth review of the transaction.
Under U.S.
merger law, Musk is required to notify the FTC and Justice Department of the transaction and wait at least 30 days before closing to allow an investigation into potential antitrust concerns.
The FTC can ask for additional information, issuing what's known as a second request, which would further delay closing.
An FTC spokesman declined to comment.
Spokespeople for Twitter and Musk didn't respond for comment either.
Antitrust experts don't expect the deal to raise antitrust concerns.
However, Open Markets, the anti-monopoly non-profit group, a liberal group mind you, where Democratic FTC Chair Lena Khan got her start in antitrust, has urged the agency to block the deal, arguing that it would give Musk too much control over free speech platforms.
Now, this is absurd.
What about Jack Dorsey?
What about anyone else involved in Twitter?
They didn't have too much power?
Get out of here with this.
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They say the FTC is separately probing whether Musk should have notified the agencies when
he acquired a 9% stake in the company.
The FTC generally doesn't take action if it finds a notification failure was accidental, but the agency can seek fines up to $43,792 per day if the failure was flagrant.
On Wednesday, House Republicans demanded information from Khan on whether the FTC had taken action in response to Open Market Statement, alleging the group was seeking to leverage its prior relationship with the FTC chair to suppress free speech online.
Now, now, slow down there a minute.
This may just be routine.
What is interesting is who has actually stepped in to invest with Elon Musk.
Investors include the Saudi prince who once opposed the deal, along with Larry Ellison and cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
Really?
The Saudi prince, you say?
I wonder what Elon is doing, perhaps realizing they lost.
Many of these investors said, OK, Elon, you've won.
We'll pledge our shares.
From TimCast.com.
Among those listed on the filing to help finance the $44 billion buyout are Saudi Arabia's Prince Alawid bin Talal, who committed $1.9 billion worth of shares to back Musk's proposed buyout.
The Saudi prince had opposed the buyout bid, saying the price offered by Musk did not come close to the inherent value of Twitter, given its potential growth.
However, he said it was great to connect with his new friend, Musk, on Thursday.
I believe you will be an excellent leader for Twitter to propel and maximize its great potential, he said in the tweet.
Kingdom Holding Company and I look forward to roll our $1.9 billion in the new Twitter and join you on this exciting journey.
Perhaps what Elon was really saying.
You want to stay involved in Twitter?
You can, but I get control.
And these probably thought it's better to have one hand on the steering wheel than to give up total control for some cash.
They don't need the cash.
They're already rich.
It's the thing about investing, people need to understand.
For those that aren't accredited investors, If someone comes to me and says, you know, I've got X amount of dollars invested in a stock.
Would you like cash for it?
In many times, you know, many circumstances, I may be like, I don't need the cash.
I need the investment.
And if Elon Musk is going to raise the stock value in three years, why not just keep my involvement?
What am I going to do with the cash?
For people who live paycheck to paycheck or don't have the investments, they might need to liquefy some assets when they need to pay bills.
But for the ultra-wealthy, for a prince, they probably don't need to.
Now, I want to point out Elon Musk's Twitter avatar is, I believe it's him holding some kind of rocket ship.
Because we have this story, which is, let me see, I think it's not necessarily relevant to any news, but I do think it's funny.
Elon Musk gets into Twitter spat over NFT art.
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm using the Daily Beast.
They're fake news, but okay.
Elon Musk used the Bored Ape collage, which sold for, I think, 24 million.
What did they say?
Bored Ape Yacht Club sold for 24.4 million.
Uh, he was called out for it, and Elon responded, I don't know, seems kind of fung- I don't know, seems kind of fungible.
Ooh, that was a good one.
Yeah, the NFTs, man, they're tanking in value.
I wonder if that's Elon's fault, because he's just using it like, do something.
We got a few more things I want to point out before we get into the major announcement from TimCast.com.
Ben Ahorowitz.eth says, First some news, we are joining Elon Musk's bid for Twitter and investing $400 million into the company.
We invested because we believe in EV and Jack's vision to connect the world and we believe in Elon's brilliance to finally make it what it's meant to be.
While Twitter has great promise as a public square, it suffers from a myriad of difficult issues ranging from bots to abuse to censorship.
Being a public company solely reliant on an advertising business model exacerbates all of these.
Elon is the one person we know and perhaps the only person in the world who has the courage, brilliance, and skills to fix all of these and build the public square that we all hoped for and deserve.
We are excited to be part of this mission.
DeSo Protocol said, let's move Twitter on-chain.
That's blockchain.
That's fascinating and would make you, for the most part, censor-proof.
Seriously, people could say insane things and it would be difficult to remove.
Very interesting.
Jack Dorsey chimed in, in response to the myriad of issues, bots, abuse, and censorship, saying, this is true.
It needs cover for a while.
Perhaps this mission is all part of the plan.
They needed a way to take Twitter private, so they could enact changes without being required, without having to adhere to some fiduciary duty to shareholders.
Now, you can make arguments that what you're doing may cost us money in the short term, but it's for long-term benefit, and you could still probably get sued.
and be liable. So this is big news. And I believe good things are coming. And I believe Elon Musk is
a funny fella. But let's talk about where we are in terms of the censorship. And don't forget,
Bill Gates is lurking around every corner going, like some kind of evil comic book villain, right?
Ladies and gentlemen, I, Tim Pool, am excited to announce that Timcast.com is now officially
hosted on Rumble Video's cloud services and video hosting.
This is step one in utilizing and building more resilient infrastructure for communication amid the culture war and mass censorship.
Let me expand upon this.
Our website at TimCast.com, where you are a member, is operating on Rumble's infrastructure.
Is Rumble perfect?
Of course they are not.
I challenge them on some of their positions.
Are they better?
Yes.
They've got backing from some individuals that I believe do not want to see censorship.
To a certain degree, it's better.
Not perfect, but by being on Rumble, we are more resilient to censorship.
We've got other plans.
Other infrastructure changes are coming.
But the goal here is to make sure that we are not going to be at the whims of, say, Amazon Web Services or Google.
Go ahead.
Come at us.
Rumble's got our back.
To the degree they do, it's better than Amazon.
Dan Bongino chiming in saying, awesome news.
Because, of course, Dan Bongino is involved in Rumble.
But let me explain.
Before, when we first started, we used Rumble's video player for our members-only video segments.
Not only do our members segment involve a lot of swearing, but they involve conversations that the Silicon Valley powers that be do not like.
Questions about particular social issues that would get us banned on other platforms.
I would love to have these conversations on YouTube.
You can't.
Not all of them.
Some of them you can.
I mean, for the most part, we're not that bad.
But we talk about things that are censorable and against the rules.
I don't want to say they're all against the rules, but we're very not family friendly.
We used Rumble's infrastructure because initially we were on Vimeo.
Vimeo has crazy rules.
Didn't want to be on Vimeo, Vimeo was expensive, and I said we need to find a way to get off this because they could ban us.
That was the fear, and they've banned people before.
Rumble came along and we said we gotta go with Rumble's infrastructure, so we did.
We've had no issues.
Rumble is now building a cloud service, meaning you can run your websites entirely off of their servers, not just video, but text as well.
That means our articles are Rumble now.
When you share an article from TimCast.com, you are helping Rumble.
Good.
Rumble is not perfect.
Nobody is.
But we are all trying our best.
It would be hypocritical of me if I did not make every move to get away from these Silicon Valley platforms.
But there are challenges here.
I think if you don't like Disney, you don't like the grooming and all that stuff, you should not be on Disney+.
But it has been ineffective to tell people to just shut down Netflix and Amazon and Disney.
We need alternatives.
So we have one.
The alternative we have here is that TimCast.com produces news, commentary, cultural shows, and we do it all with non-Silicon Valley infrastructure.
Because I want to make sure that we are putting our money where our mouth is, and we don't want to get banned.
I think it's fine if you guys want to read news at whatever website, if you want to watch Disney shows.
I like, I like Marvel stuff.
We're going to see Doctor Strange today.
I'm a fan of it.
I don't think we can outright boycott everything because the culture is dominated.
What we can do is encourage alternatives.
The Daily Wire is building up their movie catalog, their TV show catalog.
Good.
Go watch them and support them.
Enjoy the shows you like.
But over time, as we build more infrastructure, as we build more content, as we make more shows, next up is our TV app.
So you can watch all of our shows and content, not just Timcast, but Pop Culture Crisis, Tales from the Inverted World, and other shows we're planning on making.
Cast Castle, Chicken City, will be on an app on your TV.
So just like Netflix, and just like Disney, we will have an app you can pop open and watch our shows.
We gotta start from the ground up.
I don't have the money to make a blockbuster film.
We have the funds to do some crazy things.
But if, as each and every one of you become a member at TimCast.com, we get more opportunity to do these things, and we will do them.
We're gonna make more shows.
Now, I don't think in year one, we're gonna have three million paying subscribers, say, like Disney does.
I mean, Disney is the legacy.
But I think we can hit 100, 200K.
And that's gonna mean we will have a studio, we will have movies, and it will be massive.
That's what we need to build.
And it will operate on infrastructure from companies like Rumble, not Silicon Valley.
And then in three to five years, there will be a rival economy where you will not be able to censor us.
That is the plan.
We can't just complain about this stuff.
We have to step up and do something about it.
Rest assured, I will.
You know, I complained on the internet a whole lot about the censorship.
And at a certain point, I said, we need to do something.
Here's what we do with TimCast.com.
You think Chicken City is funny?
It is.
Chicken City is fun.
It's family content.
Mom and their kids can watch the chickens.
They can put it on the background.
It is low budget, high return, relatively cheap to do, family friendly.
Watch the animals make funny sounds and be animals.
One of the reasons I want to do Chicken City, for one, I think chickens are funny and I like them.
I think the concept of a successful chicken show is funny and it's culture jammy-ish.
I also think kids should see animals.
Kids should understand what chickens are.
We used to grow up watching chickens, watching farm animals, and everything that entails an understanding life that's taken away from us as we move to cities and urbanized.
I want to bring that back.
We're producing cartoons.
We want to make culture.
Pop culture crisis.
We want to engage with pop culture and comment on it and be involved in that conversation.
To be a part of it is to sway it and influence it.
Timcast.
We want to talk about what we don't like and what we challenge.
It is all about shaping this world so that our kids, your kids, I don't have kids yet, full disclosure, I know, I know, but so that the future of this country and this world will retain the values of personal responsibility and individual liberty.
And personal responsibility does extend upwards to community responsibility as well.
No more will people just be going around saying, I am entitled to this, without doing the work to get it.
We are trying to instill those values in everything we do, but secondary.
No one's going on Chicken City and telling you, here's today's message about liberty.
No, it's just fun content.
It's to expand our sphere of influence, and to make sure we don't get suspended.
Let me show you.
New York Post's editorial board.
PayPal's independent media wipeout.
Another commentary.
From the left, PayPal Indy Media Wipeout.
The online payment platform PayPal, without explanation, suspended the accounts of a series of individual journalists and media outlets for a half-year review, claiming vague violations of its user agreements, fumes, Matt Taibbi.
One victim, who actually spoke to a PayPal human, learned the company plans to keep any payments it has now frozen if it decides there was a violation.
The outlets are indeed edgy, but this ups the ante again on the content moderation movement, since going after cash is a big jump from simply deleting speech, with a much bigger chilling effect.
It's especially true for the alternative media world, where money has long been notoriously tight.
If the issue is PayPal's ban on providing false, inaccurate, or misleading information, it's an ominous echo of Team Biden's dystopian disinformation governance board.
Yo.
PayPal should not be in the business of doing things like this.
And that's why I mean, look, we use PayPal.
That's why we need to make sure we move away and we are.
I like Stripe.
We use Stripe principally.
When you sign up, the first, typically when you sign up, you use Stripe.
You can use PayPal, because we want to have the options.
Like I said, I don't think we can just come out and terminate all of the existing infrastructure.
It would be like going to New York and being like, I need to get from Manhattan to Brooklyn, but I can't stand the city, so instead of walking across the Williamsburg Bridge, I'm taking a boat.
Okay, dude.
Use the bridge.
It's the easiest.
But rest assured, the police could kick you off that bridge and then you're in trouble.
So we do need to find alternative paths.
And ultimately, set up alternative infrastructure so we don't get shut down like this.
I think it's wrong, man.
I think it's wrong, wrong, wrong.
Mr. Bill Gates.
The establishment.
The institutions.
He questions Elon Musk's goals with Twitter.
He could make it worse.
He could make it worse!
You know what's funny is that I do that gag voice for Bill Gates, where I talk like this, and I'm actually just doing the Family Guy imitation of him, because that's how he talks on Family Guy.
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But when you listen to the dude, he actually does kind of sound like that, so...
Bill Gates has warned that Elon Musk could make Twitter worse.
Speaking at the Wall Street Journal CEO Summit Wednesday, Gates said it's unclear how Musk will change Twitter if he takes ownership while also raising concerns about the spread of misinformation on social media platforms.
The Microsoft co-founder admitted that Musk's track record at other companies is impressive, hailing his time at the helm of Tesla and SpaceX, calling it mind-blowing.
I kind of doubt that will happen this time, but we should have an open mind and never underestimate Elon, so it's not all bad.
Gates, who has been replaced by Musk as the world's richest person in recent years, went on to question what Musk's goal is with Twitter.
How does he feel about something on Twitter that says vaccines kill people, or that Bill Gates is tracking people, Gates said?
Like what is Bill Gates trying to say here? I personally think that's between you and your
doctor and get a good doctor.
I say that all the time.
Because I'm not going to sit here and pretend to be your medical expert.
I do not like Bill Gates being the medical expert.
Nah, it should be you.
You go to a doctor, the doctor gives you his opinion, and then maybe you get a second opinion, I don't know, whatever.
So who's Bill Gates to come out and be like, I believe this, that, or otherwise, and he's allowed to say it?
Bill Gates tracking people, huh?
Is Microsoft Windows not tracking people?
What do you mean by this, dude?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Microsoft tracks people.
Is that controversial?
In my opinion, Microsoft tracks your data for use and it's... Who wouldn't?
Why wouldn't they?
They need to know what you're doing and how you're doing it, right?
Maybe not.
What are his goals for what it ends up being?
Does that match this idea of less extreme falsehood spreading so quickly and weird conspiracy theories?
Does he share that goal or not?
Bill Gates, you're an authoritarian.
And I hope you lose.
Some people believe wacky things.
Sometimes those wacky things turn out to be true.
What more can I say?
No one should have the right to determine what we can or can't talk about.
Period.
There are certain restrictions that don't incite violence.
Fine, I guess.
You can, in fact, yell fire in a crowded theater.
I recommend not doing it, but it's not illegal.
You can get thrown out.
That's a misconception.
You see, Bill Gates is the kind of guy who's like, I don't want people to believe things that aren't true, and I determine what's true or not, so they should be banned!
Okay, you've been wrong, dude.
So many people have been wrong.
If anyone has proven free speech is a must, it is the establishment and the media.
Who have pumped out lie after lie, falsehood after falsehood.
Even that Nina Jankowik is putting out falsehoods.
Bill Gates said meeting evil Jeffrey Epstein was a mistake.
You want me to take advice from you, bro?
You made some really bad mistakes that even you admitted.
I mean, apparently it's purported that you cheated on your wife, and you regretted that.
I'm not gonna sit here and take advice from you, dude.
Sorry, it's not gonna happen.
Elon Musk ragging on him is actually quite funny.
And, um, you know, I just, I'm not interested in hearing what authoritarians want to do with a platform that they already dominated and have lost control over.
From TimCast.com, a look at the group pressuring Musk to maintain Twitter censorship policies.
Arabella Advisors, an open letter from Accountable Tech, Media Matters, Ultraviolet and other leftist organizations demands that advertisers on Twitter pressure Elon Musk to maintain the status quo at Twitter.
The letter issues three core demands.
The first is that public figures like Trump are not allowed to return to the platform.
And that users on Twitter continue to be removed for their behavior while off the platform.
Next, the signatories declare that algorithmic transparency must protect discriminated communities from bad actors.
Lastly, they praise Twitter's commitment to transparency.
Please.
Elon Musk said, who funds these organizations that want to control your access to information?
Let's investigate.
Interesting.
I wonder if those funding these organizations are fully aware of what the organizations are doing.
Tim Cass decided to answer that question.
In brief, the letter is the product of a progressive dark money operation headed by Arabella Advisors, and the financial backers are fully aware of what their money is used for.
Arabella Advisors manages Windward Fund, New Venture Fund, North Fund, Hopewell Fund, 1630 Fund, Financing, Ultraviolet Accountable Tech, Media Matters for America, and they wrote the Twitter letter.
Media Matters likes to write fake news and conspiracy theories.
My favorite was that they recently said, Tim Kast's panel opposes gay marriage or something like that.
And it was like, me, this guy, Look, Bersowitz, I'm gonna get your name wrong, and, um, Seamus.
And Seamus was the only one who opposed gay marriage, yet they try to make it seem like we all did?
Dude, I've never opposed gay marriage.
I still am in favor of gay marriage.
That's my show.
I mean, if one person has an opinion and we argued against it, spare me media matters.
But try, try, try.
Politico describes Arabella as an unprecedented gusher of secret money.
The billions of dollars funneled through Arabella to these non-profits are then further dispersed among a series of faux grassroots organizations.
Interesting.
We go into great detail at TimCast.com.
I'm not going to read every single element of this.
Suffice it to say, this is the information you get as a member at TimCast.com, and it's exactly why we need infrastructure.
Because PayPal bans people.
And that's bad.
So if you're a member at TimCast, just keep that in mind.
A lot of people have said they don't like PayPal.
A lot of people hit us up and said they only want to use PayPal.
So we made it an option that opens us up to great risk and I hope you realize it.
Stripe is much, much better because we've seen commitments from Stripe.
We've seen them actually be much better than PayPal.
We got some plans.
We are not sitting idly by.
We are building and implementing the infrastructure behind the scenes.
It's coming soon.
I cannot wait to make these announcements.
You know, I have been just dying to say that we have switched to Rumble for the past couple of weeks as the migration was happening.
Because I want to do more than just say words.
I want to do.
Rumble is building the infrastructure.
It's about time we get on board.
Now, some people have asked about Rumble's video player and these videos.
We put these videos on Rumble.
Some people have asked about IRL.
In due time, my friends, you gotta fish where the fish are.
Like I said, go watch Disney.
I'm gonna go watch, you know, Doctor Strange later.
I get it.
We don't want to support these companies, but we need to build the alternatives out first.
We should not hinder ourselves, cripple ourselves, or ask people to forego what they enjoy until we can offer an alternative.
Because telling people, it's like, it's like going to someone and being like, you should be a monk and be celibate.
They're gonna be like, dude, I like being with my wife.
You know, I like being with my significant other.
It's like, okay, okay.
Let's offer up meaning alternatives.
Let's say you can find entertaining content over here.
In the meantime, do what you enjoy.
The real victory comes when we build the infrastructure and say, if you ban us, we'll just go here.
We will still exist, and you will lose your influence.
It's not just about the resilient infrastructure, it's about the competition.
PayPal is going to be forced to stop banning people, otherwise they will drive themselves out of business.
So let's support the alternative infrastructure.
Let me give a shout out to our good friend Rand Paul, grilling Mayorkas on disinformation.
I don't trust the government to figure out what the truth is, but hey, check this out.
Democratic Rep Jim Himes said he's looking at the board from a position of deep skepticism, Democrats and Republicans.
Hey, bipartisanship.
There you go.
I'm good for it.
Get that disinformation board out of there.
I'm not playing these games.
But you go ahead and ban who you want.
Because we're gonna build alternative infrastructure.
And when you see Twitter failing and struggling, what did Elon Musk say?
He said, truth social exists because Twitter didn't uphold free speech.
Competition in your faces!
What's next?
Rumble video, rumble cloud services, rumble web services.
And then Amazon's gonna be like, oh no!
We're losing market share!
That's market competition right there.
We're going to tell them all.
Go ahead and ban.
We will build alternatives.
Whine and cry about it, Bill Gates.
Your authoritarianism will not last.
We will find a way.
We will build the way if we have to.
My friends, as members at TimCast.com, you are making this possible.
When you become a member, you are not just allowing us to write articles.
We are doing so much more.
From building culture, to culture jamming, to building infrastructure, and more to come.
Calling out the lies.
There may come a day when we are the establishment.
I mean, we're already rivaling key demo viewership for these big networks.
There may come a day when we are the establishment.
So be it.
But there needs to be new, young upstarts to challenge the machine, call out their lies.
So long as I'm around leading this ship, we will stay true to our principles.
And if there ever comes a point where we become corrupted or maybe the company becomes too big, then we will always do what we can to make sure we are building systems that support the people, personal responsibility, and individual liberty.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment is coming up at 8 p.m.
tonight over at youtube.com slash TimCastIRL.
Thanks for hanging out, and I will see you all then.
Biden's new disinformation czar said fears about critical race theory in Loudoun County schools are disinformation for profit, despite entire school board now facing being voted out over woke equity seminars for teachers.
We were told that Biden's disinformation governance board would not be targeting the American people.
That's a lie.
And I'm going to break down for you how they'll pull it off, but it's quite simple.
A story will come out.
They will claim it's Russian disinformation, as they often do.
But they'll start purging, deleting, or what'll happen is you will get Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, maybe not Twitter with Elon Musk stepping in, but YouTube's gonna say, we won't allow any Russian disinformation on the platform.
We don't allow foreign influence campaigns.
And then when the governance board says something, you're banned, which is why Passively, I suppose, I'm proud to announce.
TimCast.com is now officially hosted on Rumble's cloud services, and our member segment videos are now hosted on Rumble's video services.
It's one small move we've made so far, utilizing infrastructure outside of the confines of this psychotic authoritarianism to make ourselves more resilient to protect our communication platforms.
I've been talking about how we are planning on, we're working on infrastructure.
We've officially switched over.
We are officially on Rumble's servers, which are more resilient, more resistant to censorship.
Not perfect, nobody is.
But so far, it's one move we've made.
Why?
Critical race theory in Loudoun County is a real thing.
I actually, we live and work 20 seconds away from Loudoun County.
Almost able to say I live in Loudoun County.
No, no, I'm not in Virginia.
But, where we are, you can drive only a couple minutes.
To be serious, it's only a few minutes.
And, uh, cause we're in the Tri-State.
And you are in Loudoun County.
Now, where all of this is going down with these schools is more like a half an hour away.
Cause Loudoun County's fairly big.
But here's the point.
We know for a fact that critical race theory, critical theory, gender ideology are in these schools.
Biden's disinformation czar said it was disinformation for profit.
What do you think is going to happen now with the government ministry of truth?
Now, Republicans, I believe it's Josh Hawley, has already filed legislation to get rid of it.
Good.
And they should be sued on First Amendment grounds.
Before I show you this, I'd like to show you the lie Mayorkas, to CNN, claims new DHS disinformation board will not monitor US citizens.
Of course we won't be monitoring US citizens.
No, I said it.
I'll say it again.
The disinformation board will say, here's a list of the current stories that are Russian disinformation.
Facebook, YouTube, etc., are going to say, we don't allow this disinformation on the platform.
They've already done it.
I mean, that's what the whole 2020 election fraud thing was.
They said, you are not allowed to talk about it.
Now, look, you guys know, I don't agree with that narrative anyway.
And it's weird when people are like, Tim actually does think it's true, but he's only saying this to stay on YouTube.
It's like, no, if you go, like, if you go to the TimCast.com member segments, you can hear me argue with Steve Bannon about this.
I don't think Trump is correct on the fraud narrative.
There are things we talk about on TimCast.com member segment where we'd probably get banned from YouTube, and I will outright say my opinions on these things.
I think the best thing when it comes to the voter stuff is just to get people out to vote.
I mean, J.D.
Vance just won the primary, let's get it!
Get some America First populists in there.
They're not going to monitor U.S.
citizens.
But just like with the fraud narrative stuff, YouTube's going to announce that some things are fake news and not allowed to be on the platform.
The government won't do it.
They're going to use this as an excuse.
YouTube's going to be like, look, you know, we have to.
And quite possibly, worst case scenario is, the DHS will issue a national security letter where YouTube will be forced to remove information.
And they won't say it's against an individual.
And you won't know the government is targeting you, and you won't be able to sue them because you won't know why YouTube banned you.
Let's go talk about the crackpot BS from this woman.
Nina Jenkiewicz, a disinformation expert who has worked through Eastern Europe, was hired on April 27th to lead the DHS's working group designed to help with different agencies in dealing with disinformation topics.
I actually think that's fair to call Nina Jankowikz a disinformation expert.
You know, it's like, the way I described it before is like an ice cream shop.
If somebody was hired to work in an ice cream shop, I would call them an ice cream expert.
They disseminate ice cream to people.
If someone is hired to be a disinformation, to run a disinformation group, they disseminate disinformation.
That's what Nina Jankowikz does.
She lies because she is She's evil.
You know, and I hate to say it a little bit, I don't like using the word evil, because you know the Young Turks say the same thing, and they say it about me and other people.
Nina Jankowikz has published outright lies that are verifiable lies, okay?
The CRT stuff in Loudoun County happened organically.
Parents got wind of what their kids were being taught because, I don't know about Loudoun specifically, but a big push what happened in these schools was that with COVID and Zoom classrooms, parents all of a sudden were seeing what their kids were learning and went, what?! !
Yo, we don't want that.
In Florida, there is a lawsuit because a teenage girl was going through gender transition and they didn't tell the parents.
I think this happened more than once.
So, the Republicans passed the Parental Rights and Education Bill.
I mean, these things happened.
Kids were saying these things.
But people like Nina Jankowik, the Democrats, the left, they just say, didn't happen.
That never happened.
You're lying.
No.
People believe them.
Look at Taylor Lorenz.
This is the most brazen, most brazen, but I'm glad, in a sense, Taylor Lorenz doxxed libs of TikTok because it gave us the most obvious piece of evidence, if there's anyone you know.
And they don't believe you when you tell them the media is lying to them.
You need only go to archive.ph.
Look up Taylor Lorenz's Libs of TikTok article in the Washington Post.
Put that into the archive and look up the first iteration of it, and you will see she linked to the private address of Libs of TikTok.
That's called doxxing.
She then went on Taylor and CNN and said, I never did that.
The Washington Post said, we never published any private details.
Now, if someone is unwilling to look at that evidence and believe it, you're dealing with an NPC, my friend.
They don't care.
There's nothing you can do about it.
But any good natured person who has simply not seen the evidence, that's the evidence.
This right here is absolutely insane.
We had a woman on.
Tim Kast IRL who brought like 30 books showing all the insane things that was being taught in these schools.
They're going to mention her appointment angered Republicans, blah blah blah.
Here she is.
Unease about CRT was down to disinformation for profit from who?
These parents were going out to make money?
Like I mentioned, we live near Loudoun County, and there's a skate park near where all this is going on.
It's called the Catoctin Skate Park.
It might be in Leesburg, I'm not sure what city that actually is.
And I went skating, me and the crew, we went to the skate park to go hang out, and had a good time.
And about a block away was a was a someone was doing tabling like a political table was set up with like pamphlets and they're holding up signs opposing critical race theory.
It was just a bunch of regular people.
They're lying to you.
I drove past and saw this.
I cover this stuff.
Advocates say it's teaching necessary.
It's teaching.
It's necessary to underline how deeply racism pervades our society.
No.
This is the lie.
They come out and they say that they're just trying to teach racism in history.
What they're doing is indoctrinating kids with whiteness contracts and things like that.
I'll show you some of this stuff.
Take a look at this.
Jankowicz, for her part.
You're absolutely right that critical race theory has become one of those hot-button issues of the Republicans and other disinformers who are engaged in disinformation for profit.
Frankly, there are plenty of media outlets that are making money off this too, have seized on.
And I live in Virginia, and in Loudoun County, that's one of the areas where people have really honed in on this topic, but it's no different than any other hot-button issue, issues that have allowed disinformation to flourish.
It's weaponizing people's emotion.
You know what you need to do, my friends?
First, you always gotta be well-informed and polite.
Someone at these events needs to say, uh, I have a question.
I have a book here that says whiteness contract and it shows a white person with a devil tail.
Is that necessary to teach someone about racism?
Yeah, that was in the schools.
That is in schools.
Let's talk about genderqueer.
Let's talk about critical gender theory.
Let's talk about what they're teaching your kids.
From the Washington Post.
From Maya Kababe.
Opinion.
Schools are banning my book.
No.
But queer kids need queer stories.
Do they?
Maybe.
Far be it for me to tell a queer kid what a queer kid needs.
I don't know.
But, um, hold on there, Maya Kababe.
Are you a groomer?
Are you grooming kits?
Are you grooming kits?
Are you sending children graphic depictions of sexual activities?
You are?
Wait, but, but how could that be?
I thought it's for kids, right?
It's for kids?
And they said the grooming thing?
That's not true?
That you're not grooming?
I think you're a groomer.
I think, Maya, you groom kids because you are here advocating for kids, kids, kids to read your book.
And here's Amazon saying 18 years and up for your book.
Genderqueer, a memoir by Maya Kobabe.
Reading age, 18 years and up.
So, are you putting out a book for adults and then trying to get it to the hands of children?
Does your book include images that I can't show on YouTube?
Helena Kirshner, a detransitioner, came on Tim Kast's IRL a couple days ago.
And she explained how she was groomed into being trans.
It does not mean that every trans person is a groomer.
In fact, I quite detest the phrase trans agenda.
I don't like it.
You know, people come on the show and they're like, there's a trans agenda.
And I'm like, if you're talking about a cult with a gender ideology agenda that includes, you know, grooming kids and, you know, gender ideology, fine.
If you're trying to claim that trans people have an agenda to do something, I take issue with that.
I've met more than my fair share of Trump-supporting trans people, and I just reject the premise.
Blaire White is incredible.
I'm a big fan of Blaire.
Blaire is rad, and certainly not trying to indoctrinate kids, and actually pushes back on the weird grooming stuff and the cult-like behavior.
Blaire White is a trans woman.
The issue is not that trans people are this, that, or otherwise.
The issue is that there are bad people.
Now maybe you might say that it's more likely that someone pushing this is trans.
I mean, it makes sense because they are trans.
They advocate for what they are.
But not every trans person is going after kids.
There have been many, many interviews with Trump-supporting trans people who have come out.
There was a famous viral video where a drag queen came out and said, stop the kids' stuff!
They said it's a lifestyle, it's for adults, it should not be given to kids and all that, and I'm like, dude, I take a libertarian approach.
Conservatives right now, you have an advantage.
Libertarian individuals are siding with you because they're going after kids.
But the libertarian-ish people, and I don't mean right libertarians, I'm like lib center.
Libertarian center.
We're kind of just like, I'm not going to go to someone's house and complain about them doing something, or if someone wants to have a club and they want to dress the way they want to dress, I'm not going to get involved in that.
That's the advantage you have, conservatives.
That's basically the line.
You're not gonna... Look, so many people said they were willing to vote for Trump and Republican because Republicans came around on gay marriage.
When Russian disinformation met a Trump obsession.
Three weeks after election day 2016, the Kremlin officially floated a theory that would ultimately lead to only the third presidential impeachment in history.
Ukraine seriously complicated the work of Trump's election by planting information aimed at damaging his campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a spokesman for Russia's foreign ministry, told reporters November 30, 2016, accusing the Ukrainian government of scheming to help Hillary Clinton.
What?
How does Politico have both stories?
Neither have been retracted.
If they want to publish the story claiming their own work is disinformation, shouldn't they retract it?
You see the point.
Both stories exist.
The narrative from the corporate press is that Ukraine sabotaged Trump, and also that Ukraine didn't and it was Russian disinformation.
Which one will be banned from social media?
This, my friends, staring you in the face.
Please share this with your loved ones who refuse to believe it.
I don't know what else to tell you.
Every day I do videos where I say, look at this Politico.
I mean, the URL is right there.
Politico dot com.
It's just Google this headline Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire.
Search this headline.
When Russian disinformation met a Trump obsession, Politico.
How can both stories be real?
Politico should have retracted the first one, but they didn't.
Because they're lying.
Because this is what they do.
They lie.
Perhaps.
The first story is fake news.
Perhaps the first story was what was Russian disinformation.
News Guard!
You gave Politico a 100 out of 100 and they never corrected this lie!
They claim is a lie!
Answer me this!
The Russian disinformation BS serves a political agenda and Nina Jankowik is either a useful idiot or she's a willful schemer.
This is where we are in the modern political era.
So I can tell you this, I may not be able to tell you definitively which version of these stories is true, because Politico published both!
I tend to side with the first story.
I'll say this story is true.
Why?
Because we have other information backing up these claims.
We know who the woman is who was engaged in this.
We know what information was released.
We know that Paul Manafort actually ended up getting in trouble over this.
So it stands to reason this story is the true story.
And this story from Natasha Bertrand, who pushed the Russiagate lies, is a lie.
Why are they hiring her?
I'm sick of the lies.
I am sick of all of the lies.
If people don't want to believe it, if people don't want to believe the videos I put out, then I don't know what to tell you.
Civil War, I suppose.
Because the zombies will remain zombies.
And what do you do?
I don't know.
Show them, tell them, try and wake them up, try and explain to them that the disinformation board stuff is bad.
Maybe they won't want to listen.
Maybe I should hire someone to put together a simple mini-documentary.
I think we'll do it.
I do current event commentary and talk show.
I think I'll hire someone to put together a very simple breakdown of things like this
of all of the lies with research backed up and analyses an academic approach, as it were,
perhaps drafting up a thesis special project.
Let's do it.
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.
Ultra MAGA was trending the other day after Joe Biden said that MAGA is the most extreme
political organization in U.S.
history.
Recent history, he then added to that.
I think it's important context, but either way, it's a patently absurd notion.
Oh, a whole bunch of Trump supporters who want manufacturing back in the United States and have from traditionally conservative views to somewhat moderate social views.
They're the most extreme.
The conservatives today that are, for the most part, on board with gay marriage?
Not all of them, of course.
And that's where I think things may actually start to get a little crazy.
Well, following the Ultra MAGA trend, it was because Joe Biden said that Ultra MAGA The Ultramaga Agenda.
We see many people memeing this, like Mr. Jack Masovic, who changed his name to Ultramaga Poso.
I mean, can I just say, right off the bat, what's with trying to make the right seem edgy, cool, and punk rock?
Yo, please.
But I suppose the Democrats and the establishment have become so stodgy and, well, establishment, that the only thing they can say is that the right is bad, but they do so in a way that makes them seem edgy.
Ultra MAGA?
What is this Dragon Ball Z Goku's Ultra Instinct?
Some anime reference for you?
Well, okay.
Let's talk about the dramatic escalation in psychosis, starting with a tweet from Jack Posobiec.
Jack says, let's just check in on the left and holy schlitt!
This guy, Simon Gwynn, I don't even know if I can read this on YouTube, but I think we just, we'll talk about it.
It's not a direct call for violence, but I think we know what this guy is doing.
Simon Gwynn says, he's a verified Twitter user.
Interesting real-life trolley problem in America right now.
If you had the chance to kill Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the two oldest right-wing Supreme Court judges, Should you do it while Biden can get his nominees to replace them confirmed?
It's interesting as an abstract question, but becomes a real conundrum if, say, you're terminally ill and have little to lose yourself, but know that it could save many women's lives in the future.
Yo.
These people are deranged. They are psychotic. They don't know what they're talking about.
This we know what it is. OK, it's terrifying. Violence is wrong outright. When it comes to
political violence in the streets like riots, it doesn't work.
Black Lives Matter lost so much support.
Man, imagine where they'd be if they didn't go and burn everything down.
But the media desperately tries to cover for them.
This dude Simon Gwynn is basically, he's saying, oh won't someone rid me of this priest, the famous line.
In which someone then went and rid this king of his priest.
The idea was, I wasn't telling anyone to do it, I was just expressing myself that I was frustrated with these people and then somebody went and did it.
We get it.
You know, this is crazy.
What's happening right now with Roe v. Wade, first of all, hasn't been overturned.
Likely will be.
We've long said it likely will be.
If it is, it means that it will go back to the states.
This is not an extreme position.
It is the position held by Republicans my entire life.
Okay, okay, fine.
The left might be like, but that is extreme.
It's always been extreme.
They've always been extreme.
If baseline in this country was ban abortion outright and some restrictions, then the middle is some restrictions.
Like, that was the compromise.
The left has now gone so far left, That, to them, it seems extreme to hold the traditionally conservative position, which was not extreme in the 90s, or the 2000s, or the 2010s.
It's only just now, well I suppose in the later 2010s with Trump.
Yo.
This guy is basically putting out a call to somebody who's got nothing left to lose.
To commit serious acts of violence against the Supreme Court.
This is scary stuff.
Now, I suppose, context being important, he says, I've removed my recent two tweets about the US Supreme Court, as on reflection, they're obviously pretty irresponsible, though I don't think they would be against Twitter's terms of service.
FYI, I don't endorse murdering anyone, but don't think there's anything wrong with thought experience.
I'm sorry, experiments.
Twitter is not often a good place for them.
Yo!
Civil War?
Come on, man.
Come on, man!
You know, people are like, Tim, you're crazy for thinking that the things that are happening were going to happen.
I remember going back a few years.
2018, I was like, I think we're on track for a civil war.
And I think, as I mentioned this the other day, it bears repeating because I know not everybody watches every video I put out.
Sorry if you've heard me say this, but most people haven't.
My view of things is not that some individual is becoming more politically extreme.
Like, dude wakes up one day and then is just like, I'm gonna be extreme!
Like, I'm more extreme than I was yesterday.
I do think that plays a role to a certain degree.
That articles keep one-upping themselves, leftists keep having to incite rage to make money off of their news platforms.
They accuse the right of doing the same thing, and to an extent, they're not wrong.
But no, no, no.
When I say I think civil war is coming, you need to understand I'm talking about when a 15-year-old today, who grows up on this, is 25 in 10 years, and is a fighting-age male.
Kids who are raised in this culture.
We'll be untethered.
We'll be at odds with the other political side.
Those of us that are millennials, that are very much waving our arms in the air and screaming about the others, We grew up at a time when we were unified.
We grew up at a time when we worked together, and we're just angry about it.
And now that we're getting older, and we're getting more politically divided, we're like, hey, these are really bad things, and you're a bad person, what happened to you?
I used to, I've been on the Young Turks Show, I think twice.
I've been at parties with them.
Crazy.
That divide has happened.
So there is that incremental divide.
But I think, you know, me knowing them, it's like, we argue, we're not gonna get crazy violent or anything.
But what about the people in the next generation who have never experienced any tolerance or camaraderie or anything like that or any unity with the others?
When the older generation ages out, the young people will view each other as completely foreign and they will fight.
I think that's what's happening.
It's happening more and more.
Let's take a look at what Brian Tyler Cohen has to say as the escalation continues.
Ben Shapiro.
This is a tweet from him.
Quote, Oberfell is a bad Supreme Court decision, and if we had a Supreme Court worth its salt, they would overturn Oberfell.
There it is.
Wasting no time goading SCOTUS into overturning same-sex marriage.
There is more at stake in November than you can imagine.
I just want to point something out.
Actually, let me read this other tweet below from Rachel Stevens.
She said, I literally had to have a conversation with my husband who is not the same race as me about where we would need to move if Loving v. Virginia gets overturned.
Luckily, he has family overseas that we'd live with if this case gets overturned.
Yes.
Okay.
Because every Republican right now is clamoring to pass miscegenation laws.
Literally no one is.
Maybe one, someone, somewhere, I don't know.
But like, nobody is publicly like, we have to have trigger laws for miscegenation laws banned, interracial cohabitation and marriage and procreation, etc.
Abortion had trigger laws.
Republicans have never agreed with abortion.
Interracial marriage, everybody's fine with.
In fact, there's a bunch of Republicans and conservatives who are in interracial marriages.
Like, that fight is done.
Oberfell v. Ver- I'm sorry, Oberfell.
Not V. Virginia.
Oberfell is the, um, it's, uh, let me give you the proper name.
It is over, uh, where is it?
What do we got here?
Are they going to bring it up?
Okay.
They're just saying at Newsweek it could threaten LGBTQ rights.
Oberfell v. Hodges.
Sorry.
It's a reference to what ultimately resulted in nationwide recognition of same-sex marriage and required states to issue these licenses.
Now, it's possible that this could be overturned.
I don't know if that Ben Shapiro quote is true and correct.
I don't trust the left when they quote people.
So, for all I know, Ben Shapiro said something like—here, let me pull up his tweet again.
For all we know, Ben Shapiro was like, you actually have people who are coming out saying Oberfell is a bad Supreme Court decision, and if we had a Supreme Court worth its salt, they would overturn Oberfell.
Obviously, that's ridiculous.
What if Ben Shapiro said something like that, and they just—that's what they do on the left.
Now, I actually don't think that statement from Ben Shapiro is all that out of the question.
I think it sounds reasonable that Ben Shapiro might say something like that, but I'm not going to say he did because I don't trust these people.
I think they lie and manipulate all the time.
Well, now we're seeing what the narrative is becoming.
That with Roe v. Wade going away, the Republicans and the right will come for the next.
The next down the line.
Maybe.
But I think they're very different cases.
Let me explain.
Roe v. Wade has to do with, first of all, what should be a legislative issue, not a Supreme Court issue.
And you could potentially argue the same thing for Oberbel v. Hodges, and technically you could argue the same thing for Loving v. Virginia.
The argument was that states have a right to enact whatever laws they want.
I don't completely agree, however, because the 14th Amendment does apply.
And when it comes to Loving v. Virginia, which basically made same-sex, I'm sorry, interracial marriage legal, we're dealing with the 14th Amendment, which was enshrined specifically because of the end of slavery, in which we were saying, we are granting equal rights under the law.
If you can get married, then you can get married to someone regardless of their race.
Kind of the point of the 14th Amendment in many ways.
Roe v. Wade, not so much.
You're dealing with two individual life forms sharing one body.
Difficult questions, but here's what Newsweek says.
Alito's argument for overturning Roe v. Wade is built around the idea that the right to abortion does not fall in the category of those rights deeply rooted in the nation's history and tradition, and implicitly in the concept of ordered liberty, a direct mention to the Washington v. Glucksberg case, in which the Supreme Court voted against a physician who had challenged the state of Washington's ban on assisted suicide.
In that case, the court ruled that helping a terminally ill patient to die went against the country's tradition and practices.
I do not believe that the country's traditions and practices should be a good legal argument.
Sort of.
I'll put it this way.
Yeah, this country has a lot of really bad traditions and practices.
We want to do away with many of them and improve things and progress, as it were.
But, if we were to root this, you know, our constitution in our country's traditions, then you'd go back 200 years, and you'd have some pretty wacky laws.
I mean, at that point, you're like, nobody can put a pie on their window sill on Sunday, so I'm not a big fan of that argument.
Alito claims that abortion was entirely unknown in American law until the latter part of the 20th century, a statement that would apply to other fundamental rights only established in the past decade, including LGBTQ rights.
Now, here's where things get interesting.
It should be up to the states to legislate beyond what the Constitution has to offer.
And this is where things get interesting.
The left continually says there is a constitutional right to abortion.
There isn't.
That makes no sense.
I'm sorry.
I can understand a bit of what Alito is saying.
I don't know if this argument makes sense.
The point is, guns.
In the Constitution.
Equal rights under the law.
In the Constitution.
So let me break it down for you, my friends, if you want to get hip with it.
There are people of different races.
They must be treated equally under the law.
An individual must receive equal protection under the law, as per the 14th Amendment.
If you are white, if you are black.
If two white people can get married, equal protection then applies to people of different races to get married.
Boom!
Supreme Court precedent constitutional law makes sense.
That's what the Constitution has to offer.
If you want to amend the Constitution, go for it.
But you want to bring up the 14th Amendment.
There's a reason why the left won't tell you that life begins at conception.
Because if that was the case, the 14th Amendment would apply to the baby and the mother.
In which case, you cannot kill the baby.
There's no logical argument, none presented, as to why life begins at any other point other than conception.
We had, just the other day, our guest on Timcast IRL was saying, maybe at some, I think it was Alan Bakari might have said, at some point after conception, but, you know, or sometimes after the first trimester, but, you know, like, something like that.
I can't remember, forgive me, Alan, I forgot exactly how you phrased it.
The general idea was that life doesn't begin at conception, it begins like a few weeks in, maybe, or a month or two.
And I said, that makes no sense.
There's no distinction.
What's your distinction?
How is it that you can say at four weeks to live?
The heartbeat bill?
Heartbeat?
Okay, well, the heartbeat bills are being challenged as well.
You can see the heartbeat, it's an independent life form.
No.
Some people don't have heartbeats.
They have machines that deal with this for them.
Okay, well, it needs to be incubated.
Look, The problem is science has continually pushed the boundary of how young or how early stage a fetus can be to survive.
And the baby can survive and grow and become a full-fledged adult human being with little repercussions to their long-term health.
There still are repercussions.
What if we get to the point where, at any stage in conception, the life can be put in an artificial womb and preserved?
The left still has no argument for this to say, up to the mother.
No, it is not up to a mother to kill her child.
You need a sound, logical argument for which we base whether life has begun and someone earns rights.
It seems to me that the argument from the left is consistently that rights are bestowed upon you when we as a society deem you have personhood.
No way!
That is an insane, reductive, It's an insane, archaic way of looking at things.
Back in the day, Democrats did not grant personhood to slaves, so they didn't have rights.
The Constitution did not apply to them.
Yeah, that's BS.
Humans have rights.
The same group is now arguing that babies don't.
If you can come to me and present a solid Legal argument.
Scientific argument as to why life does not begin until a certain point.
I'm down to hear it.
They say, it's just a clump of cells.
And I'm like, that's not an argument.
A clump of cells, in many other circumstances, is considered an independent life form.
They say, well, there's no brain function.
There are human beings with no brain function.
On life support, they still have rights.
Well, no heartbeat.
I mentioned the heartbeat thing.
No kidneys.
No stomach.
Whatever.
No legs.
No arms.
No brain activity.
Doesn't matter.
These people all still have constitutional rights.
This is part of the big legal debate.
Now, if your brain function has ceased, a guardian will take responsibility, but there's still a legal battle over what they can do.
Why would it be any different for a baby?
And if that's true, the Constitution applies to the fetus.
Therein lies the big challenge.
If that were true, you can't have abortions.
So it is difficult.
And I still lean, despite all of these things, from a libertarian perspective towards pro-choice.
But it's like, right in the middle, slightly on the other side.
I don't like it.
I don't like abortion.
I think it's abused.
I think that's wrong.
I think abortion as contraception is wrong.
But anyway, here's the point.
The argument being made right now, because I'm going to go off on the abortion thing again, is that there's an opportunity to overturn Oberwell v. Hodges, the court rule that was unconstitutional for states to ban or refuse to recognize same-sex marriage.
My point here?
No.
Because human beings are protected under the 14th Amendment.
And so if two people have a right to marry, then two men have—two women—two men have a right to marry.
Now, some may say, well, that opens the door to polygamy.
It doesn't.
Because the law is only ever enshrined that one person can marry one other person.
I mean, I suppose polygamy has existed at some point.
But if the law says person can marry person, then person can marry person regardless of certain characteristics.
If the law says person is granted protections for their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, then that means the baby and the mother.
You can't use the 14th Amendment to argue both simultaneously that one does not deserve rights and one does.
But where are we headed with this?
Civil war, violence.
That's the only way I can see it.
These people have no logic behind what they're saying.
They're calling for insane acts of violence.
They can't tell you exactly why.
They are psychotic tribalists.
Me?
I'm not going to sit here and pretend that everybody on the right has a sound argument.
There are a whole lot of dumb cultists, Trump supporters.
But I am trying to understand arguments and break down what are the rules, how do we know what to do, and how does this manifest itself in further law.
The left cannot do it.
I have asked over and over again.
Try and figure out when life begins.
See what they have to say.
They'll give you a bunch of different answers.
I was told by Vosch sometime after birth, I guess, first breath.
I believe that when it comes to the first trimester, for the most part, There may be some circumstances we can question it.
A woman can go to the doctor and have a conversation that is private, because it may involve very serious issues that are none of my business, and I don't like the government mandating someone give up their body to someone else.
And then the question is... Yikes, man.
Right to evict, to kill the child.
It's rather horrifying.
But then I think about what I would feel like if the government told me I had to mandate my body to someone else.
Yeah, I don't know, man.
I just cannot get past that mental barrier.
I can't do it.
I'm sorry, I can't do it.
The idea of the government being like, your body is now someone else's for an X amount of time, I'm like, nope.
Even temporary.
But I also think that responsibility plays a huge role, and there's so many factors in this, I just don't have all the answers.
Anyway, I talk about it too much, and I don't have the answers, so I should probably just stop the rambling, and I'll put it this way.
