UK General Warns Troops To Prep For World War Three With Russia, NATO State May Have Just Started It
UK General Warns Troops To Prep For World War Three With Russia, NATO State May Have Just Started It. Lithuania Blocking Russian goods to Kaliningrad resulted in Russia vowing retaliation.
Kaliningrad is a Russian oblast and exclave surrounded by NATO states. By barring their goods Russia has vowed retaliation and we could see NATO now pulled directly into the Ukraine War and potentially World War Three.
But another major factor is the destabilizing effect of a lack of food around the world. With many countries importing food from Ukraine and Russia the war could cause massive international destabilization and it would seem joe Biden is not up to the task.
In the US civil war is becoming more and more a reality and this could result in a wave of international and intranational war.
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A UK general has warned their troops to prepare for World War III and a new ground war in Europe against Russia.
Lithuania has blocked Russian goods from reaching the exclave of Kaliningrad, and Russia is vowing retaliation.
If they do get involved, it could drag the rest of NATO into the war with Russia.
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♪♪ While many of us here at home are entrenched in domestic
politics, We still have an international conflict happening in Eastern Europe between Russia and Ukraine.
And now we're hearing Britain's top army general has warned UK troops to prepare to fight and beat Putin's army in a land war.
Daily Mail literally says, prepare to fight and beat Russia in a third world war.
Britain's top general warns.
It was only about a month ago that George Soros himself So the conflict between Ukraine and Russia could lead to a third world war.
In Russia, they're calling it World War III because NATO is basically supplying arms and intelligence to Ukraine in their war with Russia, so we're involved.
But now, things have escalated rather dramatically.
Following sanctions placed on Russia, Lithuania has reportedly blocked key resources to Kaliningrad, an exclave of Russia surrounded by NATO member states.
Russia is calling the blockade illegal and threatening retaliation.
If conflict erupts between Lithuania and Russia, as a NATO member state, the U.S.
and other NATO countries are forced to intervene, and thus, my friends, we may find ourselves in, legitimately, World War III.
It's hard to know exactly when a major historical conflict starts when you are living in it.
We are surrounded by conflict and war and historical moments.
The question is, will those moments escalate into something that history will never forget?
You take a look at what's going on domestically, because I definitely want to talk about the internal turmoil here in the U.S.
Should we be forced into some kind of World War III or international war?
I don't know if the U.S.
has the stability to withstand something like that.
Now, is the U.S.
in a civil war?
Some have argued it is.
Some have argued it's civil strife, the precursor to civil war.
And some have said it's a fifth-generational civil war.
And I've made some point about all of these ideas, because I think it really comes down to semantics and where you think we're headed.
I think about what was going on in the prelude to the precursor to the first American Civil War, the strong moral issue of slavery, and now we have abortion.
But right now, we're hearing, man, it's just really intense online.
The Texas GOP saying Joe Biden's not legitimate.
And then I throw it back to Texas v. Pennsylvania, where Texas sued in the Supreme Court.
Over all these other states that changed their voter laws in what they said was a violation of the Constitution.
The question for both of these moments, both internationally and domestically, is will they escalate beyond this point?
Because if they do, then we are in World War III.
Then we are in a civil war.
But if Lithuania tomorrow says, we apologize for the inconvenience Russia, by all means send in your concrete and your advanced technology components.
We're sorry for the misunderstanding.
Well then maybe there's no world war.
But Lithuania is saying, we got a blockade, we're blocking it.
Well actually, that's the reported statement.
Apparently now they're even denying blocked it.
So Russia could be lying, who knows.
If tomorrow Russia issues a military strike on Lithuania or sends military in to escort their materials to Kaliningrad, that could be seen as an act of aggression and an escalation.
And then when people look back on history and say, when did World War III start?
They won't say Lithuania!
They will say, ah, well, the history is complicated.
You know, the U.S.
involvement in Ukraine with Joe Biden and Burisma, it could go all the way back to that point, which wraps up the internal domestic policies along with the international conflict into one major issue.
Instability globally.
Now, where World War III and Civil War starts to become much more pronounced, in my opinion, is not Lithuania and NATO.
It's the fact that Ukraine is down in their wheat exports.
And when we talk about food shortages, people don't realize just how dangerous things are getting.
As the saying goes, you're three meals away from a revolution.
I don't know who said that.
I was watching Jurassic World Domination, or whatever that new movie was called, and they mention it in the movie.
But it is a fair point.
And with food shortages on the horizon, diesel shortages and gas prices where they are, prices are going to skyrocket.
The U.S.
may be okay.
But if we're facing civil war over these political issues, and the rest of the world is facing civil war over a lack of food, and there's a potential for World War III, It's getting pretty scary out there.
But let's start with the first story and work our way through everything I just said.
This is the story from the Daily Mail, but before we do, get into it.
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The Daily Mail reports, prepare to fight and beat Russia in a third world war, Britain's top general warns.
New UK army commander tells troops to brace for European land war in tub-thumping message as tyrant Putin menaces ex-Soviet states.
General Sir Patrick Sanders, who assumed overall command of the British Army this week, warned soldiers, quote, We are the generation that must prepare the army to fight in Europe once again, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine rocks global stability.
In a tub-thumping message to British troops, he wrote, I am the first Chief of the General Staff since 1941 to take command of the Army in the shadow of a land war in Europe involving a continental power.
The scale of the enduring threat from Russia shows we've entered a new era of insecurity.
It is my singular duty to make our Army as lethal and effective as it can be.
The time is now and the opportunity is ours to seize.
It comes as Putin menaces NATO countries, and this week taunted former Soviet states in Europe by declaring they are part of historic Russia.
Putin made the comments in response to a dramatic statement by Kazakh President Kassym-Yomart Tokayev, who sensationally declared he did not recognize the self-proclaimed peoples' republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.
Tokayev, set meters away from the brooding Russian despot at the St.
Petersburg Economic Forum yesterday, described the DPR and LPR as quasi-state territories.
We don't recognize Taiwan, Kosovo, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia.
We apply this principle to the quasi-state territories, which, in our view, are the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics, the Kazakh president said, in a daring defiance of Putin's war in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian president sat quietly, considering Tokayev's comments, before appearing to deliver a calm but quietly menacing warning.
What is the Soviet Union?
Putin asked rhetorically.
This is historic Russia.
He went on to paint Kazakhstan as a nation friendly to Russia, but quickly added, the same thing could have happened with Ukraine, but they wouldn't be our allies.
Maximilian Hess, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, told The Telegraph that Putin's retort to Tokayev was a clear threat, and argued that Tokayev was reliant on Russian support following widespread riots in Kazakhstan in January.
No, I'm not super concerned about Kazakhstan necessarily.
It's interesting to see potential instability.
They're going to mention Boris urges world leaders to hold their nerve for a long war in Ukraine or risk the greatest victory for aggression in Europe since World War II.
And dig at Macron's plea to make nice with more monger Putin.
So, World War III.
Now, I'll say this.
Editorial.
Hyperbolic.
Yeah, maybe.
To be completely honest.
The Daily Mail may just be calling it a Third World War.
I think that's a generally fair assessment, but if Russia doesn't get any support from other countries, if a land war does break out, can you really call it a World War III?
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World War III is interesting because it typically was great European powers anyway.
Now, there was other war going on at the time.
We will see.
As it stands right now, the threat is real for World War III.
From the Financial Times, Russia threatens retaliation against Lithuania following rail blockade.
Baltic state halts transport via train of Russian goods under EU sanctions to exclave of Kaliningrad.
For those that aren't familiar with Kaliningrad, it is north of Poland and it is to the west and southwest of Lithuania.
It is a Russian oblast, basically a state, on the Baltic Sea, but separated from Russia and surrounded by NATO member states.
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland.
Belarus is also right here.
Russia transports goods through Lithuania.
Let's read the report.
Moscow has threatened to retaliate against Lithuania after the Baltic state halted the rail support Rail transport of Russian goods under EU sanctions to the exclave of Kaliningrad.
Russia's foreign ministry summoned Lithuania's Charge d'Affaires in Moscow on Monday to demand an immediate cancellation of the restrictions or face actions to defend Russia's national interests.
Grigori Karasin, a former senior diplomat who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee in Russia's Upper House of Parliament, said that Dimar was harsh and warned any response would be quite decisive, according to Russian news agency Interfax.
Lithuania, which controls the only overland rail route linking Kaliningrad with mainland Russia, At the weekend, began limiting the export of goods covered by EU sanctions in retaliation for President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
The restrictions affected oil, cement, steel, iron, coal, and other goods amounting to slightly more than half of total Russian rail supplies to Kaliningrad, the ministry said.
I'd like to pause.
Yo, I called this one.
At least the potential for it.
I'd like to say I called it because they're always like, what did Tim even get right?
I get a lot wrong.
But when I get it right, This was obvious.
This is what I pointed out months ago.
If Russia is getting involved in conflict and Belarus is involved, how long until Belarus tells Lithuania or Poland, we need a direct and secure land route into Kaliningrad?
You think Russia is going to let one of its states be cut off?
Imagine if the U.S.
was sending a freighter to Hawaii with supplies, and China blocked those boats from coming in, saying, we control these waters.
Now I know it's a bit different, because it's open Pacific.
This is Lithuania's actual border of their country.
But imagine what would happen if our supplies were unable to make it to our- Imagine if Canada blocked our shipments going into Alaska.
You know, for some reason.
I mean, that would be very, very serious.
And then we say, you can't do that now.
You know, Canada and the U.S.
are basically buddy-buddy.
I understand it's not gonna happen.
But this is insane.
Russia's not gonna sit back and be like, guess our people starve!
No, they're gonna be like, Lithuania, you have not the power to stop us from getting supplies to our people.
Will NATO intervene?
They have to, according to the terms of the agreements of NATO.
And if the United States said, we're not getting involved, then NATO is basically worthless.
And I'm sure Russia would try to prove that.
Josip Boril, the EU's chief diplomat, gave a full-throated defense of Lithuania's actions on Monday, saying that while he was always worried about Russia's retaliation, Lithuania was not guilty.
Lithuania has not taken any unilateral national restrictions and only applies EU sanctions.
Lithuania is doing nothing else but implementing the guidelines of the Commission.
Oh, that is just brutal!
Look, the EU told us we can't do it.
This has nothing to do with us.
That's amazing.
Sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland, Kaliningrad has been a source of tension between Russia and Europe since the Baltic states declared independence from the USSR in 1991, leaving it without a direct overland route to Moscow.
Russia's Baltic Fleet, which has almost 80 warships and submarines, is headquartered there.
Moscow has also deployed nuclear-capable Iskander ballistic missiles in the region.
Though it has not said whether they carry nuclear warheads.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia's Security Council, warned in April that it would be impossible for the region to remain non-nuclear if Finland and Sweden joined NATO, suggesting the possible nuclear deployment could be made official.
The EU sanctions have isolated Kaliningrad further still, forcing Russian planes to make a detour over the Baltic Sea due to a ban on using the bloc's airspace.
Lithuania rejected Russia's accusations, it acted unilaterally, and said its move was in compliance with the EU measures which contain different winding-down periods after which the goods in question can no longer be shipped to Russia.
It's not Lithuania doing anything.
It's the EU sanctions, said Gabrielis Landsbergis, Lithuania's foreign minister.
It is done with consultations with the European Commission and under the European Commission guidelines.
The Kremlin likened the restrictions to a blockade and said it would assess the situation before deciding whether and how to respond.
Okay.
NATO fighting Russia.
Yeah, I'd call it World War III, but would China get involved?
I think you would need China's involvement in support of or in concurrence with action against Russia or Russia against Lithuania.
That is to say, China doesn't need to join a war on the side of Russia.
It needs to just start a war and try to claim Taiwan or take action in the South China Sea.
Then, I think it's fair to say World War III.
Or maybe with Belarus involved, we're going to start seeing things popping off.
From Newsweek, World War III has started, said Russian TV as Ukraine called a rehearsal.
Russia's state TV host and guests have said that World War III has started and noted Ukraine could be just the beginning of a potentially larger conflict with the West.
There's a video going around, a photo.
It shows Vladimir Putin holding the table.
That's what they claim.
And the argument is it proves he's sick.
I don't care for these things.
I really don't like those body language expert videos where it's like, here's a speech from so-and-so and here's a body language expert.
It just so happens the body language expert always has something to say that's negative towards the person or positive towards a person they like.
It'll be like, I'm a body language expert and Joe Biden here is clearly showing that he's lying and that he's sick.
It's like, okay, I get it.
You don't like Biden.
And they're like, here's Trump.
His body position, uh, positioning shows that he's, he's a good man.
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah.
Maybe Vladimir Putin's sick, maybe he's not.
If he's sick, then expect war.
Because I don't think he's going down without a fight.
But if he's not sick, I don't know why it matters.
Maybe one would make him more desperate.
George Soros himself, May 24th, Reuters.
Soros says Ukraine may be the start of World War III.
We love our buzz terms, don't we?
Civil War, World War III, yo, I don't know.
Call it whatever you want.
Perhaps we call it World War III because it likens the conflict, or it reminds us of the potential carnage that could come akin to what we saw in the past.
The bloodiest wars in history.
World War II, Civil War.
Vladimir Putin's pals warn of triggering World War III as Russia bears its teeth to NATO.
The damning threat comes amid claims Russian President Vladimir Putin could declare martial law and mobilization in five Russian regions bordering Ukraine in desperate bid to boost his war effort.
Okay.
Let's talk about why else.
Why else?
Civil War, World War III, all of it.
First of all, as you can see here as I pull up Twitter, Civil War is trending in the United States with 102,000 tweets!
Pwnallthethings on Twitter is a NETSEC, National Security and Info Security Platform Security pundit, verified on Twitter, saying, a 40% collapse in actual harvest and an 80% collapse in harvest reaching the export market.
When this starts to hit in earnest in fall, it's going to be really big and destabilizing globally.
If this tsunami is coming.
Let me put it this way.
We get a warning a hurricane is coming.
We don't feel the brunt and sometimes the hurricane changes course.
In 2014, I think it was 2014, I was in Miami.
I think it was 2014.
I could be wrong.
And we got word a hurricane was about to slam into the panhandle state.
Is that what they call it?
The panhandle state?
I don't know.
Whatever.
Florida.
And I remember getting a hotel and they were like, get ready for this one.
It's going to be intense.
You'll probably be okay, but get your supplies.
And I was like, well, I'll be here to document what's going on.
It was coming, and then at the last minute, it got blown north.
And everyone's like, crisis averted.
But we all saw the signs, we all were warned it was coming, and then we got lucky.
They keep telling us.
Take a look at this tweet.
Dimitri Alperovitch, he is geopolitics national security, chairman Silverado Policy, founder Alperovitch, co-founder CrowdStrike.
He says, Ukraine's harvest may decline to 60 million tons of grain and oil seeds this year.
43% decrease according to Deputy Agricultural Minister Dmitriyevich.
So far, Ukraine has exported 4 million tons in the last four months.
Yo, that's more than a 43% decrease if you're doing the math.
6 million tons, that is 1 million tons of grain, 1 million tons per month, 1 million
tons per month versus 5 to 6.
Yo that's more than a 43% decrease if you're doing the math.
But let's talk about what happens in the world and why World War III is a real possibility.
Pone All the Things goes on to say, Lebanon imports 80% of its grain from Ukraine.
Egypt, 50% from Russia and Ukraine.
India, 70% of its sunflower oil from Ukraine.
Turkey, Bangladesh, and Iran, 60% of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine.
Also, key DONCs for Yemen, Libya, and Pakistan.
A lot of flashpoints for heavy spiking food prices.
In a short fall of 50 million tons or so, it's going to be a bit tricky to cover on short notice.
That is to say, those countries are in hot positions.
And if people can't have food, what will it be?
International war or civil war?
Maybe both.
Some of these countries, they're not going to fight themselves.
They're going to say, how do we get food?
And they'll declare war on their neighbor and say, we take the food from them.
Because I'll tell you, my friends, let me ask you this.
Do you think A person would starve to death or do you think they would rob their neighbor for food to prevent themselves from starving to death?
Do you think a man would let his child or woman a man or woman would let their child starve to death or do you think they would rob their neighbor to make sure their children ate food?
I am of the opinion that right now many communities probably wouldn't rob their neighbors.
But many communities would.
I'll put it this way.
A bunch of conservatives in a conservative neighborhood, they go to church.
Are they going to rob their neighbors for food?
Probably not.
What about that community banding together and then raiding other neighborhoods where they don't know people?
Now, that seems a whole lot more likely.
Now, in terms of these more conservative communities, they're probably more likely to be in suburban and rural areas where they can probably grow some of their own food, so that alleviates some of the pressures.
In big cities?
Yo, there's no community in big cities.
People don't know who their neighbors are.
Yeah, they're gonna raid their neighbor's house first chance they get if they have to.
Now, they might want to avoid actively fighting with each other, but if you're starving, you're starving.
Now, let's think about, like, Yemen.
Internally, a country may say, we're not gonna fight each other over food.
But another country might say, I'll take the food from that country and make sure my people have food.
That's where I think we may be headed.
Man, it's so scary, right?
The food thing is probably the most important.
Take a look at this from Fortune.
End of days.
Stressed supply chains mean summer shortages of shopper favorites like beer, popcorn, and sriracha.
Oh, beer, popcorn, and sriracha.
Oh, who cares, right?
Who cares, right?
Yo, I went to a restaurant the other day.
They were sold out of chicken wings!
Now maybe that just means they were just sold out of chicken wings.
It's no big deal, right?
Or maybe it means something... way worse.
That's a scary thing.
We know that there's a chicken shortage.
There's been.
And stores started announcing thighs!
Chicken thighs!
Thighs are good.
I really like chicken thighs.
I don't understand why those aren't a staple.
What do they do with them anyway?
But wings!
That's the demand.
Wings are sold out in many places.
So then we fall back on thighs.
What happens when we're short on that and there's no chicken at all?
You know, the creepiest thing is we used to have this barbecue place nearby.
It's gone.
Just one day, it was gone.
We don't know where it went.
Maybe it'll come back, I have no idea, but it's springtime.
Tomorrow is summer.
Now's the time for all of these places to flourish.
They're not.
I really do think it's the food that is going to destabilize everything.
World War III is not necessarily going to be because treaties.
Treaties can be negotiated and You know, when someone says, I don't want to risk my comfort in this conflict, there's a threshold.
If we're all living in luxury, I look at you and I'm like, bro, I'm living in luxury, let's not fight about it, let's just go to our infinity pools.
What happens when there's no water in the pool?
Now you're sitting there like, I want my water!
And that's not so bad, right?
You might be like, well, I'm not willing to fight because the TV's on and there's food.
The standard decreases.
Now you've got no gas.
You can't drive your car.
Now you can't buy food.
Now you're angry, and now you say, enough.
When you drop below the survival threshold, people snap.
The New York Post reports, record diesel prices could lead to food shortages in U.S.
farmers warn.
You don't get it, do you?
And I'm not talking about you, the average viewer.
I'm talking about the people who keep denying it.
If farmers can't afford diesel for their farm equipment, they're not harvesting anything, let alone the lack of fertilizer, which means the crop yield is gonna be lower.
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If the crop yield is down, as they've told us, maybe they're lying, I don't know, then
less food. We were looking at in, I think it was late February when the war broke out,
they said crop yield could diminish by 40%, which means prices will spike. Now, with record
diesel prices, farmers are going to say, if I harvest this field of wheat, it's going
to cost me twice as much because diesel went from $250 to $500.
I've got to sell that wheat for double the price to make any money on this.
Not only then is there a shortage of wheat with lower crop yield, but they've got to charge more for it.
Now, get this.
If they're like, it costs me X amount of dollars to maintain this operation at the farm, with a lower crop yield, our profits are taking a hit, but we still need the same base rate to fund the equipment.
Let me explain it.
I'll use Detroit as an example.
Detroit has a water supply system.
Detroit has, let's say, X million people.
The cost of maintaining the static water disbursement system is divided among X people.
If the amount of population is cut in half, the price of maintaining that system doubles per person.
Get it?
It's $100 to maintain the water.
You have 100 citizens.
Everyone has to pay $1 per month.
50 people leave.
Now, it's $100 divided amongst 50 people.
Everyone's got to pay $2.
Your costs doubled.
Let's say you have a farm, and you normally have 100 pieces of wheat.
That maintains the machines, the land, your taxes, all the stuff you gotta pay your employees, their salaries.
This year, you only have 40 pieces of wheat.
You still need to cover the cost of the operation.
Which means you need the same amount of money from selling the wheat if it's 40 versus 100.
To put it simply, no matter how much less the farm produces, they will need a base amount of money to cover basic costs like maintenance for the machinery and employee salaries.
Now, they may lay people off and say, we don't have as much to harvest, but there are still certain base costs.
Infrastructure and maintenance will remain the same.
That will make the price of wheat go up.
Now there's a shortage.
The price of wheat goes up.
Now there's gas prices.
The price of wheat goes up.
It's not just wheat, it's everything.
So you are looking at going to the grocery store, and not only will they say, we don't have any bread, when it does come in, it's gonna be 20 bucks a loaf.
And I don't know if it'll actually be 20 bucks.
My point is, yo, I went out to eat.
It was three people.
And the bill was over $100.
And that, to me, was just crazy.
Three people, we each got an entree, and there were two appetizers, to be fair, two apps, and three entrees over $100.
A few years ago, we'd go out, four or five people, we'd get a meal and it'd be $60.
No, for real.
And you don't notice.
People really don't notice how crazy things are getting.
Now, I mentioned this in a previous segment, so you'll hear it again if you're listening on the podcast, but I was just watching Avengers Infinity War.
2018, I think that was four years ago.
And I was thinking about the time we were in back then.
I remember going to the theater, being all excited, visiting my friend.
I saw it in a small, like, suburban, rural Maryland theater.
And I just remembered what was going on back then, and I was like, wow.
It was crazy in a lot of ways, but it was not this crazy.
We didn't have international conflict.
We didn't have Texas v. Pennsylvania, half the country suing half the country.
Texas GOP saying Biden's not legitimately elected.
We didn't have these things.
It has dramatically escalated across the board in terms of international conflict, food prices, everything.
And I think we are frogs in a pot.
It is boiling and we don't notice it.
When I go out to eat, and it's three people, me and two other people, and it's over, it was like $110 for this meal.
And then I'm thinking about it, I'm like, is this normal?
I remember in 2018 going out to eat, five people or so, and we'd spend like 80 bucks.
It would be like $11.99 for a burger and fries.
Now it's like $17.99.
I'm wondering if people are noticing.
I went to the grocery store a few months ago.
I asked the, uh, as we're ringing things up, I asked the lady at checkout, I was like, have you noticed prices are going up?
You're gonna go to buy your fresh, grass-fed butter.
And it's gonna say, gas-fed butter, you know, pure blend.
And then you're gonna look at the ingredients and it's gonna say 87% butter, 13% margarine.
And they're gonna call it a blend.
They're gonna start cutting it.
They're gonna do what they can.
A stick of butter's gotta be a stick of butter, right?
Don't be surprised then when you start noticing special milk.
It's gonna be like, you know, a healthy, healthy milk blend!
And it'll be 83% organic, grass-fed milk with 13% hydrolyzed oil particles and, you know, whatever.
Fungus additives.
They're gonna cut your foods with other things because we are facing shortages.
One day, you're gonna notice your all-beef burger.
They're gonna say, 100% pure beef.
And you're gonna say, that sounds good to me.
No, no, no, no, no.
What we mean is, of the beef that's in the burger, it's 100% pure.
The rest of it is cricket!
That's the game they'll play.
And you won't notice.
You'll think the burger itself is 100% pure.
It'll say, 100% pure beef.
But, the burger is 70% beef, 30% cricket.
And would you even notice?
Most people probably won't.
Most people didn't even know they were using cloned beef.
So my friends, this is what scares me the most.
Not some conflict, not soldiers.
What scares me is, There are so many reasons to believe the food crisis is coming.
I today just ordered another bundle of emergency food.
That's me.
Call me a prepper, say whatever you want, I don't care.
Because if this is true, two things are true.
Two other things.
If there is going to be a shortage of food, Then, the food I buy today.
So I shop, our sponsor normally is safeandreadymeals.com.
I'm not saying this as a sponsor, I'm saying it so that you know I literally do buy from them.
If I buy from them today, at their current price, when the shortage hits, those prices are going way up.
Which means, I saved money.
The other thing that's true is, if the food shortage is coming, you're gonna wish you had it.
That's a fact.
So, say what you want, man.
The third thing that has always been true is your worst case scenario is if there's no food, you have it.
And if there's no shortage, you eat the food because you eat food.
We'll see how it goes.
I hope y'all are paying attention.
Next segment is coming up tonight at 8 p.m.
over at youtube.com slash TimCastIRL.
Thanks for hanging out, and I will see you all then.
The Texas GOP has declared Joe Biden illegitimate and also demanded an end to abortion.
Now, that second one, I understand.
That first one, I think, is particularly worse, but I think both of these scream... Oh, you're gonna hear it.
You ready?
Civil War.
You know what, man?
I'm looking back at that lawsuit, Texas v. Pennsylvania.
It's where Texas argued that I think four states were in violation of the Constitution by changing election laws through executive action and not through legislation.
And I remember back in 2020, it was like December, you had half the country involved.
Like, you had the entirety of the country.
Half of the states were on one side, half were on the other, and they were suing over whether or not several states violated the Constitution.
And this is not me making a point about Biden's presidency or legitimacy or anything like that.
I'm not going to comment on that.
You guys can come to your own conclusions.
YouTube's stupid rules do literally nothing.
No, I'm looking at this and I'm like, oh wow, Civil War.
You know, since 2020, there have been a lot of people who have denied or just don't believe we're on that path.
And then we see this story, Texas GOP is declaring Biden illegitimate.
Of course they would.
Why wouldn't they?
Texas sued at the Supreme Court level, arguing this in 2020.
You think they just forgot?
But the abortion issue is, as I've stated, what I believe could be a major catalyst for the Civil War.
I don't know exactly what's going to happen.
I'm not a psychic.
I'm just looking at all these pieces falling down and being like, man, it's looking really bad.
This morning, Civil War was trending to the tune of 87,000 tweets.
Now, of course, many of these prominent tweets are specifically about Juneteenth.
The actual Civil War in the United States, and the end of slavery, and then what Juneteenth meant, because today is where, uh, Juneteenth is yesterday, but the federal government is observing it today.
You might notice your banks are closed, or maybe you have off from work or something like that.
Me personally, I'm like, cool, extra holiday.
Can we grill?
I ordered hot dogs.
We're gonna fire up the grill and have some hot dogs or something.
I mean, that's cool.
I like holidays.
I like holidays that celebrate freedom.
I think slavery is bad, so, you know, whatever.
But anyway, I digress.
We are now looking at a major catalyst in abortion, and we're looking at this idea that Joe Biden didn't win.
It's not going away.
Donald Trump's launching of Truth Social was actually a tremendous success.
Now, I even mocked Truth Social in the beginning because I couldn't get on it.
Other people were complaining they couldn't get on it, and I was like, this is a mess.
Then finally, they launched TruthSocial on the Rumble cloud infrastructure, and it was like the floodgates had opened up.
Now you go to TruthSocial, the engagement is insane!
People have found a way to share their ideas.
But let me show you what's going on with this, because we've got civil war trending, and a lot of it is people overtly calling for it.
You've got January 6th.
You had an attempted assassination of a sitting Supreme Court Justice.
You had a man with Antifa tattoos slam into a Trump merchandise store.
Now, I guess he had a tattoo of a band that's associated with Antifa, so I want to make sure I'm being as clear as possible.
He had an anti-Trump sticker on his car, and then he ran to the store saying he was hearing voices, and I'm like, people are losing it.
The country is destabilizing.
And I look at what's going on now, and I gotta tell you, looking at this story from Newsweek, and looking at this Wikipedia entry, Texas v. Pennsylvania, I'm like, who in their right mind would think we are not on the path to civil war?
There's another tweet I saw, I retweeted it, I don't have it pulled up, showing Political tension is higher now than it was pre-Civil War.
I don't know how they actually gauge that.
It's some academic assessment.
But I'm like, okay, I'll take that with a grain of salt, I suppose, but it's there.
Political pressure.
People are losing it.
So I see this story.
Let's read it.
I see this story about Texas saying, you know, Biden is illegitimate.
And I'm like, man, I don't care what you think about the election.
That's not the point I'm going to make here.
YouTube has stupid rules that aren't changing the way people feel about it.
But I'm not talking about that.
You know my opinion.
I'm talking about the fact that regardless of what you think, you have two massive factions that do not believe each other.
And just looking at Texas v. Pennsylvania, I'm like, yo!
This never stopped!
Where do you think this leads to?
Let's read it.
Because I'll show you this.
Pennsylvania court says state's mail voting law is unconstitutional.
The decision which could deal a blow to voting access in a critical battleground state was immediately appealed.
Can I just point something out?
Texas is all like, we think the voting laws were unconstitutional in this state, and we have an issue with it.
And the Supreme Court's all like, nah, we don't care.
Dismissed.
We're not doing this.
And then after the election, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was like, actually, yeah, it was unconstitutional.
What does that mean?
What does this mean?
It's almost like they want this country to be ripped apart.
How can you go to a Republican, point this out, and say everything is fine?
Now here's my attitude.
Please go vote.
Primary election, red wave, whatever.
Come November, you gotta go out and vote.
You need to be voting in the primaries in your state races because despite what you may think about all of this stuff, Donald Trump winning in the first place in 2016 shows it can be done and you just need the tsunami.
You need every single person to go out and vote.
That being said, I don't have good answers for you on this stuff.
This is the New York Times.
What should I say?
What should I say?
I'll tell you what Texas says.
This is Newsweek.
My friends, of course, as we always do, these sources are NewsGuard certified.
Texas GOP declares Biden illegitimate.
Demands end to abortion.
Texas Republicans acted on multiple resolutions and platform changes at their state convention this weekend, including declaring that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected and demanding an end to abortion.
The Texas GOP's convention in Houston reinforced how many remain fixated on former President Donald Trump's baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election, even after the House panel investigating the January 6th attack on the U.S.
Capitol presented evidence that those claims were false and showed testimony from Trump's closest advisors saying they did not believe them during televised hearings.
All right.
First of all, was this the claim made by the Texas GOP?
Newsweek.
Serious question.
Because I got to tell you, I think the fraud stuff is mind-bogglingly annoying.
Now, I know there are a lot of questionable things.
I get you.
I know that Steven Crowder brought up a bunch of issues, and I'm just like, my attitude is this.
Prove it, and I'm on board.
Can't prove it?
I don't know what to tell you.
I'm not going to come out here and defend what I can't prove.
Now certainly some people may point to certain issues and say we have questions about this and some things Bill Barr said there was fraud just not on the level that would have altered the outcome of the election.
Sure.
The issue here with Texas is not fraud.
It's not!
Now, I know about 2,000 mules.
I know about these videos.
I say investigate all of it, and then once we get a definitive conclusion, sure, we can come out and make those statements.
For the time being, I just don't think it's helpful, and we need to encourage everybody to go out and vote.
And I really do think you take away people's sports, you take away their movies, you take away their small businesses, then you blame Trump for it, you're gonna get massive votes against Donald Trump.
The question here is different, though.
Here's what it says, quote, we reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States, the resolution says.
Why?
Convention delegates also voted on a measure calling for equal protection for the pre-born.
We urge lawmakers to enact legislation to abolish abortion by immediately securing the
right to life and equal pro-action of the laws to all pre-born children from the moment
of fertilization, because abortion violates the U.S.
Constitution by denying such persons the equal protection under the law.
They want to say, abortion is currently prohibited after around six weeks of pregnancy in Texas,
but a trigger law making abortion illegal would go into effect after the Supreme Court
issues their ruling on Roe v. Wade, which may be tomorrow, Wednesday, or Thursday.
We'll see.
They say the Texas GOP's new platform called for Texas students to learn about the humanity of a pre-born child.
It also described homosexuality as an abnormal lifestyle choice and that the party opposed all efforts to validate transgender identity.
Votes from convention delegates were collected to add several items to the official Texas GOP as the convention closed on Saturday, the Texas Tribune reported.
They handed in two sets of ballots, one asking delegates to choose eight of 15 legislative priorities and another voting on over 270 platform planks.
The votes will be tallied and certified in Austin, but it is rare for a plank to be
rejected, party spokesman James Wesolick told the Tribune. Wesolick has been contacted,
This is a, this is a, a hefty, hefty preamble affirming our belief in God.
Yada, yada, yada.
Let's, uh, let's, here we go.
Uh, let's, let's take a look at, um, Legitimate in terms of the word election.
Let's see if that pops up.
Cybersecurity, self-defense, capital punishment.
The 2020 election.
Here's what it says.
We believe that the 2020 election violated Article 1 and 2 of the U.S.
Constitution.
That various secretaries of state illegally circumvented their state legislatures in conducting their elections in multiple ways.
Personally, as I've said, you can believe it.
The problem with this is, look, I know a lot of people believe it.
that substantial election fraud in key metropolitan areas significantly affected the results in
five key states in favor of Joe Biden.
So they are asserting the fraud narrative.
Personally, as I've said, you can believe it.
The problem with this is, look, I know a lot of people believe it.
I don't operate off of declarations without definition.
definitive evidence. And you need to understand that what Texas asserted in
their actual lawsuit was that they did not need evidence of fraud because it
was likely... Here's what it says. Look it. Let me read this for you so you can understand.
The suit was filed... So this is Texas v. Pennsylvania pertaining to
unconstitutional voting. The suit was filed by Texas Attorney General Ken
It claimed that Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin violated the Constitution by changing their election procedures to limit the spread of COVID-19.
The case was filed on the same day as a safe harbor, yet 80 out of threshold.
The suit alleged that four states ignored statutory requirements as to how mail-in ballots were received, evaluated, or counted.
It further argued that electoral processes in the four defined states suffered from significant and unconstitutional irregularities, and therefore it was not clear who legitimately won.
They wanted to say, Texas argued it had standing due to its votes being diluted.
Instead, Texas then argued, fraud becomes undetectable because unlawful actions of election officials effectively destroyed the evidence whether voters committed fraud was not the constitutional issue in the case, according to Texas.
Therefore, Texas declared that it did not need to prove fraud.
I want to point that out.
They can believe whatever they want.
But if they come out and they say, well, we wouldn't be able to prove it anyway, then I'm like, moot point, not worthy of my time.
Certainly, you can point out issues you have concerns with, and what we can do from there is try to investigate, to prove, or we can change the rules so these things don't happen again, change the laws.
That I'm all on board with.
I'm not a fan of this narrative, mainly because, look, people come out and they're like, Tim, you have to be on board with this, and I'm like, bro, when they were suing, they were saying that wasn't the issue.
I'm not going to come out and rehash something they said we're not going to prove and it's not the issue.
The issue is whether certain rules, whether certain actions were constitutional and what that means for us as a country.
I don't know.
I do not have the answers.
But Texas has now asserted that these two issues, fraud and constitutionality of voting, affects whether or not they believe Joe Biden was legitimately elected.
Again, My point here is not to give you my thoughts on the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
As I stated, I think a lot of people voted for Joe Biden.
I also think a lot of Trump supporters can't imagine it because, well, they live in their own bubble.
But again, I say it again a lot.
You take sports away, which they did.
You take movies away, which they did.
You take video games, you take, well, I think video games are still around, but big video game events.
Big major events.
Conventions.
They took away everything.
Even restaurants.
You couldn't go out to eat, you couldn't go to bars.
People were fuming.
They were locked in their homes.
We had the craziest riots we've ever seen.
And then you say, it's all Trump's fault.
Those people are gonna snap.
And they got nothing else to do.
They went and voted.
That's at least how I see it.
However, I believe Democrats knew, as per that story in Time Magazine, they needed to pull out all the stops and figure out any way they could to get as many votes as possible.
So we saw rule changes in Texas.
There was a lawsuit.
They targeted Pennsylvania, saying that some of their voting processes were unconstitutional.
In a lawsuit, I believe it was filed by a couple people, one of which was Sean Parnell, Arguing that the mail-in voting law was unconstitutional.
A lower court agreed on the merits, saying, the Pennsylvania Constitution already prescribes as to what can be done with absentee ballots.
And if you want to enact universal mail-in voting, you need to amend the Constitution.
Lower court agreed.
It was appealed, and the higher court, the Supreme Court, said, standing.
They said, I'm sorry, I think it was standing, they said, you're too late, we're not ruling on this.
And I gotta be honest, it's not a bad point.
The idea that the Republicans could come in at the very last minute and be like, this is not a good law.
It's like, dude, are you kidding?
You had a year to sue over this.
Not only that, it was the Republicans who passed this law.
That's what people need to understand.
When Republicans come out and they're like, this is unconstitutional, like yeah, Republicans agreed to it.
Republicans tried putting forth a bill.
That was going to amend the Constitution.
And then they quickly stopped, and then passed this law.
It's almost like they knew it would not happen.
And so they said, just do the law anyway.
Now, for Sean Parnell and many of these other Republicans, they said, we didn't know this happened!
And once we found out, we sued over it.
I don't think it's fair to say that just because some Republicans passed a law, other Republicans who didn't know it happened can't sue over it, but that's what happened.
After the election, this is what we get.
Pennsylvania court, they ruled it unconstitutional.
A state court in Pennsylvania on Friday struck down the state's landmark election laws, unconstitutional, in a 3-2 decision.
The state court sided with 14 Republican lawmakers who sued last year, arguing the law was unconstitutional.
Pennsylvania filed an appeal to its Supreme Court on Friday afternoon, triggering an automatic stay that keeps the law in place during the appeal process.
By March 1st, they said the law would remain in place pending the appeal.
I don't know what the latest development on that appeal is.
I did a cursory glance, so forgive me if I missed that one.
But this is the important point.
Texas is looking at this.
Republicans are looking at this.
It doesn't matter what you think happened in 2020.
YouTube will ban people for making certain claims, even if it's in the context of news reporting.
It's the stupidest thing ever.
YouTube, you are stupid.
It's ridiculous.
You're not doing anything to stop the spread of these ideas or to end the anger and animosity felt by either faction.
In fact, you only make it worse.
Stupid.
But I guess the idea YouTube has is they need to make sure people don't spread these ideas.
Spread these ideas or whatever.
The ideas exist no matter what.
That's it.
It's absolutely ridiculous that they've had videos of Donald Trump speaking, and they've banned it.
A January 6th hearing video was taken down because they showed Trump speaking.
YouTube, you're insane.
It's only making it worse.
Now again, I'll say it a million times.
Please go out and vote.
Please.
We got a red wave coming.
I'm not convinced Republicans are going to do anything, but it's better than sitting back and letting Democrats win again, right?
Let me show you this tweet from Jack Posobiec.
A conservative Supreme Court justice was almost assassinated in the middle of the night last week.
Fire bombings across the country at pro-life centers claimed by Jane's Revenge cells.
Crazy person drives into Trump merch store in New Hampshire.
CNN, non-stop January 6 hearings.
They keep saying, the far right, the far right, and the far left is actively engaging in this.
They're not enforcing the law against them.
I'm done.
Civil War right here, 88,000 tweets.
Some of it, of course, is because of Juneteenth, obviously.
Not all of it.
Take a look at this.
Let me see if I have... Lawrence Tribe says, My co-authored op-ed in the LA Times this morning about the urgent need to prosecute Trump if we're to survive beyond 2024 as a constitutional democracy.
We're not a constitutional democracy.
Sure.
Please read and retweet.
We got some random guy, I don't know this guy, some random dude responded, but this is the point.
He says, I guess we all just need to get ready for a GD civil war.
That is what the Republican Party wants.
Every liberal better fortify your home and family.
Ask Adam Kinzinger, ask Dan Crenshaw, ask John Cornyn.
Sure, dude.
Meanwhile, they're arguing for more gun control.
This is, it's remarkable, this is where we're at.
Some guy.
I know who he is.
He says he's an army veteran, Florida, anti-Trump, anti-GQP, haha, you know, QAnon.
It's funny because GQP, I don't even know what that means.
The Grand Q Party?
Is that what they're trying to say, I guess?
I don't know.
It's here.
People are looking at each other and pointing the finger.
Apparently the guy said he was hearing voices.
video of the car ramming attack on the Trump merchandise store in Easton, Massachusetts.
An employee narrowly survived being run over at high speed.
Suspect Sean Flaherty has a tattoo of an Antifa band on his arm, and his car displays an anti-Trump
sticker.
Apparently the guy said he was hearing voices.
I'll tell you what I want.
I was watching Avengers Infinity War last night, and I'm like, man, it was getting crazy
back then, Trump era, but it was still not that bad, you know?
I was thinking back to the early phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
You know I love my Marvel references.
No, I'm just remembering back then where, as bad as things were, it wasn't that bad.
I'm thinking about today, with these lawsuits.
Two years ago, Texas v. Pennsylvania.
Still, all of this is getting worse, it's going on, and I was just like, man, where was I?
I was in South Jersey in 2018.
Actually, no, in 2018, I was in North Jersey, and then moved to South Jersey, and I was just like, Man, it wasn't that bad.
I was playing World of Warcraft, you know.
We were having conversations about civil, about, um, not even about civil wars.
It was starting.
Censorship.
And I remember when I went on Joe Rogan, 2019, and I told Jack Dorsey and Vijay Agade, if they keep doing what they're doing, this country will, will be in civil war.
December 11th, in an unsigned ruling, the court ruled that Texas lacked standing and denied the suit.
Justice Alito, joined by Thomas, disagreed with the ruling, denying leave to file a bill of complaint but did not otherwise fine for the plaintiffs.
He wrote, the court is duty-bound to hear the case.
In my view, we do not have the discretion to deny the filing of a bill of a complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction.
I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill complaint, but would not grant other relief and express no view on any other issue.
Basically, they were saying, we should hear this out.
But they were like, nah.
They ruled, the state of Texas motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article 3 of the Constitution.
Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the matter in which another state conducts elections.
All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.
That's actually not a bad point, to be honest.
The idea is, Pennsylvania can do what they want if Pennsylvania's got no problem with what they deemed.
It's like, imagine some dude You said he was voting for Trump, and then you argued that vote was illegitimate because his wife told him to do it.
It's like, well, if ultimately he decided to vote for who he wanted just because, you know, how he came to that conclusion is not your decision, he can vote for however he wants.
But I kind of think there's an interesting argument.
If we're all, as states, going to be casting votes, and one state violates the Constitution, then I think the courts should hear out whether or not they did.
It's tough.
It really is.
Because the idea then is, well, the state should decide, and the state did decide.
But here's where we end up.
After all is said and done, a Pennsylvania court did rule it unconstitutional.
So now what?
Should Texas refile?
This country is on borrowed time.
That's all I can say.
The Texas GOP has declared Biden illegitimate.
Whatever, man.
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.
One of the most loathed journalists in corporate press, Taylor Lorenz, has been demoted after publishing fake news about a couple of YouTubers trying to, as it seems, cover it up and then blaming her editor.
Now some outlets, I think most of them, aren't calling it a demotion, but it literally is a demotion.
Now, I don't really care to do interpersonal drama stuff, and I'm not super interested in what's the big news about this one person.
The story here is actually a bit more about Bill Maher and millennials in general.
Taylor Lorenz personifies millennial entitlement.
And on Friday, Bill Maher roasted the Washington Post, Felicia Sanmez, and I believe he also, uh, no, actually he may not have talked about Taylor Lorenz in that one, but he did bring up millennial entitlement in the newsroom.
And how there, very often, there will be some entry-level millennial who's been working for six months wondering why they're not a producer yet.
Now, I often criticize Bill Maher because he doesn't read the news.
He, like, hears it secondhand, and often his commentary is based on factually incorrect statements.
But in this one, he's correct.
Let's rag on millennials.
I love ragging on millennials.
You know why?
Well, I'm a millennial, most of you are millennials, and I think most of us agree on what's wrong with this generation.
It certainly isn't us.
Those of us who are millennials and believe in doing hard work, sacrificing, and having a little humility.
The problem is the overwhelming amount of millennials who are entitled, whiny, demanding.
Yo.
Thumbs up.
I don't know who raised these people.
It's the, you know, it's what we long feared.
The participation trophy generation has become adults.
Oh, I remember this when I was growing up.
Participation trophies.
You didn't win, but you were here, so here's your trophy.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You get nothing.
You fail, you get nothing.
Well, here's the story.
Taylor Lorenz, you may have heard, wrote a story where she claimed that if you were... Okay, I love this.
Legal Bytes, a YouTuber, was commenting on the Johnny Depp Amber Heard story, as was that umbrella guy.
I believe that's the username.
And this is pop culture.
This is literally what people do.
They comment on pop culture.
Taylor Lorenz called them radicalized.
Here's the funny thing.
The Johnny Depp story is about Amber Heard publishing a defamatory Washington Post article for Taylor Lorenz.
To write this story was a conflict of interest.
To then get the story wrong and refuse to admit it and blame somebody else, yo, Washington Post is gutter trash.
And they finally realized it and demoted this woman.
So she was on the features team as a columnist, basically getting to write her thoughts and opinions.
And now she's on the technology team, meaning you're being demoted to a grunt reporter.
Oh, it feels good.
Now, I think Washington Post is trash, but it's good to see some accountability for this garbage.
And I'll say it.
I'll say it again.
Perhaps you work at the Washington Post and you're a veteran reporter.
Perhaps you were an intern back in the 70s with Woodward and Bernstein and you were very excited and now you're in your 50s and you're just like, what has become of this paper?
Maybe you're a young person.
A millennial, or maybe zennial.
Maybe you're in your early 40s.
Not necessarily a young person.
And maybe you saw the legends, as it were, of Woodward and Bernstein in these stories, and you thought to yourself, you wanted to be a great journalist, and now here you are at the Washington Post.
It's so sad, isn't it?
Well, Tim Cass is hiring.
Let's read the story.
Fox News reports.
There continues to be more fallout at the Washington Post over Taylor Lorenz's erroneous report that sparked uproar on social media.
The New York Times reported on Friday that Lorenz, the Post's internet culture columnist, is being moved from the features staff to the technology team, according to sources from the paper.
Sources also allege that Cameron Barr, Washington Post's senior managing editor, was asked to review her articles before publication.
I love it.
She continues to just lie like a psychopath!
Fox News asked the Washington Post if Lorenz's shift means she is now a reporter versus a columnist and whether that means she must curb her social media activity.
Fox News also inquired if any other writers for the Post besides Lorenz must submit their work to Barr prior to publication.
The Post declined to comment.
So let's clarify.
They didn't definitively say she is no longer a columnist and that she is now just a reporter.
In my humble opinion, when you're moved from the features team to the technology team, heavy demotion.
So, I can't speak for what the Washington Post does.
I can tell you that the features editor for magazines typically chooses what goes on the feature in the front page when they have all of the words.
Features typically are featured, front and center.
The technology section is usually buried in the back.
As a technology writer, she's being taken away from front and center in the limelight and being pushed to a small pocket in the back.
Lorenz told Fox News, For what it's worth, Cameron has always read my stories ever since I got here.
He reads all big stories that go on the site.
He's an awesome editor.
I love his feedback and working with him.
You see what she didn't say.
For what it's worth, he always reads my stories.
Yes, but does he edit and approve your stories?
She echoed what she previously stated publicly regarding the Aaron report, which she insists stemmed from miscommunication, and that there are bad faith campaigns aimed to discredit her and the Post.
Okay, you get it.
She is insufferable.
Let's show you more.
Washington Post's Taylor Lorenz scolds Vox founder Matt Iglesias for joking about his COVID-19 diagnosis.
Here we go.
Washington Post tech reporter.
Oh, tech reporter.
They're officially saying it now.
Taylor Lorenz faced mockery after she appeared to slam a fellow commentator for making light of his COVID-19 diagnosis.
This is so insane.
Matthew Iglesias, he's not all that bad.
You know, he's one of the co-founders at Vox.
I think he's—I really, I'm not a fan of his political ideology.
He once had this famous tweet where he was like—he said something like, the fact that Democrats convinced people they didn't get a tax cut was great progressive messaging, and I'm like, that's evil, dude.
He says, FYI, all future typos are due to long COVID.
And Taylor responds, I'm glad it's a joke for you, Matt, and that you're lucky enough to get access to great care.
But for those who have had their lives destroyed by the virus and who have had loved ones die from or suffer from long COVID, it's not funny.
Hope you can have a little more empathy, especially today.
The humorlessness is a symptom of old age, not long COVID.
Oh, man.
And they go to mention her controversy.
Well, let's do this.
I don't really care all that much about Taylor Lorenz.
You know, I had defended her in the past when I thought she was doing well, and I stand by what I said about her doing well, but man, she really lost the plot.
I give you this story from Deadline.
Bill Maher's real-time blasts Washington Post's Twitter wars.
Democracy dies in dumbness.
I really wish Bill would read the news instead of just getting it second-hand and then commenting on what he heard second-hand.
There was a really great segment, Crystal Ball, she is a progressive, and it was funny, Kyle Kalinske tweeted, okay, okay, Krystal Ball, she brings up information about the Federal Reserve.
Bill Maher disagrees.
She shuts him down.
I tweeted bravo to Krystal Ball.
Kyle Kalinske is unlike Krystal, has united the political factions.
Well, to be fair, Kyle and Crystal, I often shout you guys out because I think Kyle and Crystal are engaging in good faith efforts.
They want to know the facts.
They want to engage properly.
Very few people, I think, on the left do that, but I don't think they're right about all of their political opinions, but I think they are good people.
Crystal pointed out that, you know, they were talking about inflation.
And one guy mentions inflationary spending resulting in inflation.
And Crystal's like, the market crashes and the Fed dumps trillions of dollars in the market.
Nobody's complaining about that.
And Bill Maher's like, what are you talking about?
What are you talking about?
And I'm just like, oh, it's so mind-numbing sometimes that Bill doesn't read the news.
So yes, I want to rag on millennials.
But Bill, you're a boomer.
Come on.
No generation's perfect.
The boomers raised the millennials.
And Gen X is in there somewhere.
But anyway, yes, the Federal Reserve was buying up assets and, I think, stocks.
They were bailing out the stock market to keep it going amid the COVID crisis.
That was bad.
Yeah, we're not fans of the Federal Reserve.
It's a big manipulation game.
It's propping the system up.
It's anti-meritocratic.
Anyway, props to Crystal Ball, but Bill Maher has beef with millennials, says Deadline, specifically those who inhabit the newsroom of the Washington Post, and this I agree with him on.
Reviewing the recent Twitter war between WAPO reporter Felicia Sonmez and the other members of the newsroom, a flame battle that eventually saw Sonmez fired And another reporter put on a month's leave without pay.
Mar said, the joke tweet that instigated it was something that has been going on for eons, yet the unlicensed daycare center that is the newsroom didn't find the humor in it.
Bravo.
I'm gonna have to agree with Bill Maher when he roasts millennials.
Can you imagine a world that allows jokes you don't like?
Of course.
The leadership folded like a Miami condo.
Falling back on the tired trope that the tweet did not reflect the institution's values.
Free speech not being one of them.
Marr then broadened the WAPO conflict to a larger breakdown of the generation that is now coming into its own in the workplace as baby boomers retire.
What did I say?
I've been telling y'all this, this country is going to ignite when baby boomers retire and then die.
And I don't mean to be crass, but, you know, people die.
Quote, you think my generation is an eye roll?
Let me tell you about the younger generation.
Your sense of entitlement is legendary.
He said, also attacking your attention span and work ethic.
Specifically, the unqualified little ish who doesn't understand why he's not a producer yet.
He added that the Wapos story had such resonance because we all know the stereotypical players in it.
Oh man, do I know that.
The people who are like, I just got hired, but I think I deserve, you know, tons of money and prestige.
And it's like, dude, you didn't do anything.
Yo, I get started in this industry by just going out and doing stuff.
I didn't go to a company and say, I deserve all of these things.
I went out and did stuff.
And then when companies came to me and said, we'll offer you a job.
I was like, nah, I don't want it.
I don't want to go to a company and say, give me X or else.
I'll put it this way.
I don't want to get hired, then come out and say, I deserve this and stop my feet.
But I'll tell you what I do, what I've done, is that I've made that clear before getting hired, and I do that every time.
I tell everyone who tries to do a deal with me, it is going to cost you twice as much as you think.
If you're not prepared, we should not be working together.
Because I'm not gonna be one of these people in someone else's company demanding they give me their stuff.
Which is why I do my own company.
When I worked for Vice Infusion, I said, here's what I expect.
When they said, yes, and then didn't do it, I said, have a nice day.
Your company, you do as you please.
I am free to leave, and I did.
Anyway.
Millennials complained they haven't taken over yet, Marr said.
But that's because the boomers are reluctant to turn the world over to them for incidents like the WAPO wars.
The crybabies are still winning.
They complain they haven't taken over yet.
The fact that the Post's response was to punish one of their best reporters shows the kindergarten is still in charge.
In 1972, the water great break-in happened.
A story basically scooped by the WAPO.
By the Washington Post.
I have to wonder how the Post's newsroom of today would handle that.
All this time blubber-tweeting.
Don't you have anything better to do?
Aren't you supposed to be reporters digging up stuff?
This is why you're not in charge.
If someone named Deep Throat called today and wanted to meet, this crew of emotional hemophiliacs would have an anxiety attack and report to HR they didn't feel safe.
Yep.
Bravo.
Slow clap.
Bill Maher.
Remember when that Netflix executive said, here's a list of things we don't allow on Netflix?
And they went, oh, he actually said the words!
Then he got called into HR.
It's a true story, by the way.
He gets called into HR, and they're like, we have a report that you said slurs.
And he was like, I was explaining to them the words that are not allowed on Netflix.
And they're like, and what words were that?
And then he says them, and they went, oh, he said them again!
It's like, you asked him to say it!
And then the guy got fired.
Yeah, those weren't all Millennials.
Those are Gen Xers, too, by the way.
Maher did take hope in the fact that the Washington Post eventually did fire Sonmez.
Maybe there's a line.
That generation has to find that line and move it closer to sanity because democracy dies in dumbness.
Now, I want to point out, as much as I love the ragging on woke Millennials, Bill Maher, we're talking about you, the boomers, being in charge of these companies, letting the Millennials do these things.
It took how long to demote Taylor Lorenz and fire Felicia Sonmez?
Grow a pair!
Bill, if perhaps you read the news and actually paid attention to what was going on and didn't just get it two weeks later secondhand, we might actually not be in this mess.
So it is all derivative.
You complain about millennials.
Yes, I agree with you.
Many of them are just awful people.
But it is because of rumors.
Now here's the reality.
It is because of boomers that I am who I am.
Alright.
I can respect that.
In fact, I actually like the boomer generation way more than the millennial generation.
The problem is the boomers weren't able to share their values widely enough with their children.
I know Gen X is in there somewhere.
Gen X is always like, you're forgetting about us!
But I think the um the the the peak of millennial majority of millennials are born of boomer parents and then there's like younger gen xers who have uh millennial kids but like younger gen x so if you're like in your late 40s you might have a kid who's you know in their mid-20s which is just barely millennial so like the millennials that are in their 30s boomers You gave us the next generation.
But it's not just Boomers.
Star Trek, the next generation I'm talking about.
Not the people.
Star Trek was an amazing show.
And there were a lot of really great things that came about.
But we also got a bunch of really bad stuff, too.
I mean, early Simpsons was really good, right?
Seth MacFarlane is Gen X-er.
He gave us Family Guy and a bunch of other shows that I think are also good.
I think, ultimately, when you have a generation working with another generation, you'll get something unique and something good.
It's not just the Boomers.
It was the Silent Generation, the Boomers, and Gen X. And there was this period where they're working together.
Now you have Millennials who are like this woke insanity is emerging.
And now you have Gen Xers and boomers being like, I don't want to be involved in that.
That was always the problem.
The fact that boomers don't stand up against this, the fact that it took Washington Post this long is proof of what caused this problem.
When the millennial crybabies were screaming, I want more ice cream when they were little kids, those boomers were like, okay, honey, stop yelling.
I'll give you whatever you want.
And those kids grew up to be Taylor Lorenz, pouting and screaming and crying and go to their Swiss boarding schools.
And now, because of their wealth and access, they work at the Washington Post, and those same boomers that wouldn't reprimand these children are doing the exact same thing.
So I wonder, for all of you watching, Did your parents punish you?
Did you have strict parents?
Not so strict, but were they firm with you?
You broke the rules, you pay the price, you're grounded or something like that.
We're taking away the PlayStation or something like that.
How many of these people, how much you want to bet?
I'm willing to bet.
Many of the woke millennials had the parents were like, my daughter can do no wrong.
She's a precious snowflake.
And I'm not trying to bet most people, like, more like us, more libertarian, had parents who were like, if you can't figure it out, that's your problem.
I can show you how to do it, and then you gotta solve the problem.
That's how I grew up.
I grew up with, if you don't work hard and try hard, you will not succeed, and I won't do it for you.
That was reality.
Maybe it was a combination of not being well-off, so I had no choice, and having parents who were like, that's what you need to learn.
I wonder how many of the woke millennials come from uppity, waspy, or middle class families, and it seems like many of them.
Many, when you look at all the polling, woke people, these woke millennials tend to come from middle and upper middle class families.
So, these are the snooty, participation trophy, can do no wrong, face no hardship generation.
And you can see it, man.
People who grow up in hardship, they survive because they figured out how to solve the problems.
People who grow up in comfort often don't.
But it's not absolute.
I know many people who are born to wealthy families who are hardworking and successful because they had good parents.
A parent who works hard and succeeds and then understands how to transfer those values to their kid, well, they do it.
It's typically not true, though.
They say wealth lasts three generations.
The first generation is working really, really hard, solves the problem, makes a ton of money.
They raise their kid and say, here's why you gotta work hard if you wanna make money.
But that kid hears it, but never actually experiences it.
So by now, the grandkid, they just have the inheritance, and they say, yeah, it's what my grandpa used to say, or it's what my dad used to say, and that kid is just born wealthy, doesn't see their parent do any hard work, and just, I don't know.
You end up with people like Hunter Biden, where he's wealthy, he gets well-off jobs, but I'm not sure his kids are gonna make it because he's a crackhead.
He's literally a crackhead.
And so while Joe Biden, not a good person, and I think he was probably abusing his kids, is able to transfer some of what made him wealthy, you know, political corruption, I don't know how that will transfer down to the next generation.
That is just a bunch of, you know, well, the one of them, a crackhead.
That's what it is.
Here we go.
The most interesting moment of the talk was when Maher was asked whether he thought Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would be better than Trump.
Yes, I do, he said.
He won't be poop tweeting and having feuds with Bette Midler.
Fair point!
I don't know.
Far leftist?
I don't think Crystal Ball is a far leftist.
I think she's just a left liberal.
I think Crystal's great, actually.
I don't agree with everything she says.
I think she is on the other side of politics.
But she's the example of the kind of person who does the research, makes the points, and has political opinions we disagree with.
I'm a big fan.
Kyle Kalinske as well.
Kyle Kalinske's criticized me, but he's always done it in a meaningful way that I thought was funny, appropriate.
Big fan.
Crystal and Kyle would love to have you on Timcast IRL whenever you feel like it.
I know you host your own shows, so it is what it is.
But Sager and Crystal, they do a great show with Breaking Point, so I'm a big fan.
This gives me hope.
Bill Maher should retire, and he should pass on his show to someone like Crystal Ball.
I like that Bill Maher calls out The Woke, but he's so late to the party.
Now I suppose there is an issue with, as much as I'm critical of Bill Maher not reading the news, politically he's more moderate liberal and I like that better than Crystal Ball's politics.
But I like that Crystal Ball reads the news.
You don't have to agree on the same opinions and I'm sure she gets things wrong and I do too.
But anyway, here's the point.
Taylor Lorenz is an example of someone who should not be in the political space.
She is just a whiny, angry, awful person.
And that's really what it comes down to.
Bill Maher is right about many Millennials.
Entitled and whiny.
But Bill, The Washington Post is run by boomers.
They don't want to hand it over to Millennials, but they also don't want, like, that's the problem.
If they did, they would say, get it straight, get in order, do your job, clean your room!
Otherwise, we're done for.
But you know what?
Fine.
Democracy dies in darkness, and democracy dies without meritocracy.
Now, I don't believe in absolute democracy, but the point is, if you want to build a system based on equity, where you just put people in these positions, don't be surprised when that collapses.
And then companies like Timcast, based on a meritocratic approach, succeed.
Yeah, this company exists because I built it from the ground up with no investors, but support from people like you.
Now, I'm not going to sit here and talk about how everything is every individual.
Like, I'm not a firm proponent of this, you the individual make everything happen.
I am very individualist, but I'm rather centrist libertarian.
That is to say, I know what I do is only possible because of all of you.
You're not just customers of Timcast, you're believers in the message and the movement and the job we do.
It's a combination of not just providing good service, but working towards something we all believe in.
That is something special.
We are building this from the ground up.
Many of these other millennials getting jobs at Washington Post are being handed the keys to a car someone else made, and they don't know how to drive it.
