Market CRASHES To LOWER Than Before Biden Took Over, Democrats Are NUKING The Economy & CELEBRATING
Market CRASHES To LOWER Than Before Biden Took Over, Democrats Are NUKING The Economy & CELEBRATING. Recently Democrats celebrated the inflation reduction act on the White House lawn at a time when inflation is destroying the middle class.
Bidenflation is real and the FED is desperate to get a hold on it. But their efforts are slammed as pointless and many top CEOs and corporations say nothing will stop the coming recession and some say its already here but will get substantially worse
The most shocking news is that there is a beer shortage looming and people are going to lose their minds.
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Today is September 23rd, 2022, and our first story.
The market is crashing.
Inflation fears are getting worse.
And get this, there is a looming beer shortage.
People are going to lose their minds when they go to the store and there's no beer.
Look, it's one thing when your retirement is being drained.
It's collapsing and you're worried about it.
It's another when you can't drink away your sorrows.
This, my friends, is Bidenflation.
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I seem to recall Joe Biden celebrating on the White House the Inflation Reduction Act.
So let me just give you a round of applause there, White House, administration and Congress.
The Dow Jones has dropped more than 400 points, breaking below 30,000 on fear the Fed is overdoing its inflation fight.
Hope y'all are paying attention.
The economy is imploding.
It's been imploding.
We have a labor shortage, we got a food shortage, we got a materials shortage, and this is the worst part?
My friends, there is a looming beer shortage.
I'm not kidding.
I hope you're ready for this one, because they say, they say beer is economy-proof, they say beer is depression-proof, whatever.
Not anymore.
That's the old saying, right?
When people are sad, they drink.
And when they're happy, they drink.
So your best bet in economic hardship, open a bar.
Because people want to drink either way.
Yeah, there's a beer shortage.
Or at least there's a looming beer shortage, so good luck.
You know, a lot of you may be saying, see, I told you so to your friends, to your neighbors, and rightly so.
Joe Biden, the Democrats, put forth the Inflation Reduction Act.
Is it doing anything?
Now, to be fair, I know it's too soon, but come on.
We're looking at a year and a half of a Biden administration, and the economy took a turn for the worse the moment Biden steps in.
Now I know, a lot of people may be saying, see that proves it was Trump.
To a certain degree, I absolutely agree that Donald Trump played a role in some of the current, well more so last year's economic issues.
I mean, Trump was in favor of locking things down and then eventually turned around but
didn't do a whole lot to try and help people.
And people are saying he should have invoked more powers to try and preserve and save the
economy.
But, you know, Trump wasn't going to supersede the ninth and 10th amendments.
And that's the way it is.
So it was under his watch.
He could have gotten rid of Fauci.
He could have brought in better guidance that could have impacted the states.
Did he do it?
No.
But when you look at the data right around the time that Joe Biden gets in, he enacts
a bunch of executive orders, a plethora, a litany of documents, executive orders.
And we see, I don't know, like Keystone getting shut down, fracking getting banned in certain areas.
And this causes a speculative drive in the markets.
People assuming that energy supplies will be dropping just say, OK, we're pulling out of our investments.
The market drops.
And then we hear all the leftist activists say, what do I care about Wall Street day traders?
And it's like, bro, this is the retirement funds for old people.
They invest in accounts.
They put their money somewhere for retirement.
And when this tanks, that means they are in trouble.
This isn't just a bunch of rich people.
Sure, you've got weirdo companies like BlackRock and Blackstone, Vanguard, State Street, etc.
But there were regular people behind all of this.
And that's the crazy thing that a lot of these activists don't seem to get.
They think Wall Street is just a bunch of rich people making money for no reason.
If that were the case, if day trading was just rich people getting rich off nothing, they'd be just taking money from each other.
The money has to come from somewhere.
Not for a lot of these brokers, I guess.
They're taking fees from regular people.
But the idea is, these pro-traders I'm not a big fan of the day traders necessarily, but a lot of these guys are investing for, I don't know, firefighters?
And the now elderly?
Yeah, so it's not a good thing that stuff's collapsing.
What we're seeing across the board is brutal, and the pending shortages are what's truly scary.
They're saying a global recession is coming.
So I hope you have prepared to the best of your abilities.
I know many on the left will mock you for preparing, but why would that stop you?
You know, I'd love to be the guy.
I feel like that's the real message of Noah's Ark, or at least a very important one.
I see these memes where they're, like, mocking Noah's Ark as a story.
It's like, bro, I never took it literally.
I mean, maybe some people do.
But for me, I saw the story of a guy who was like, hey, if you keep doing bad things, a really worse bad thing is gonna happen, so I'm building a boat to get ready for the bad thing.
And they all laughed at him.
And they're like, you're an idiot.
You're building a boat.
And then he did.
And then a flood happened.
And then everybody died.
It's a great story.
Whether you believe it's true or not isn't the point.
I mean, some people think it is.
I'm telling you right now.
Maybe it won't get that bad.
But, you know, sometimes I think about this.
Because I've been talking about shortages and price increases.
And then I think about how it's, you know, it's not been so bad out here.
And then I'm like, oh, I'm in the middle of nowhere.
I mean, I don't got to worry about the price of eggs.
No, for real.
Because we got chickens.
Because chickens eat bugs.
So make yourself as sustainable, as self-sufficient as possible.
Because the market's about to implode.
And you can thank Joe Biden for that.
But let's read the news.
We got a bunch of updates.
The rates are going up.
The sterling is collapsing.
This is crazy stuff.
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Here's the first story.
Dow drops 400 points.
Stocks slumped on Friday and were on pace for another losing week as investors feared the Federal Reserve's aggressive hiking campaign to fight inflation will lead to an economic downturn.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 459 points or 1.53%, while the S&P 500 slid 1.7.
Friday marked the fourth negative session in a row for the major averages,
with the Dow falling below its June closing low around the 30,000 mark.
The Fed on Wednesday enacted another supersized rate hike of 75 basis points and indicated it would do another at its November meeting.
Right now, we're looking at expanding the operation and what we can do here at Timcast.
And we've got these people making ridiculous demands on property.
And I'm like, bro, they just raised rates almost a whole point.
A whole percentage point.
And they're going to do it again?
Yeah, you better sell if you want to sell.
Otherwise, you will be locked in.
But we'll see, man.
We'll see.
I think the reality is, typically, if you can brave the storm, you should.
Because we usually see, even after a major downturn, things tend to improve.
Although, this past year, it's been particularly nightmarish.
Take a look at this from Investors Business Daily.
Dow Jones sells off ahead of Powell comments as recession fears mount.
What is Powell going to do?
Fed Chief Jerome Powell's comments at the Federal Reserve event in D.C.
The early action threatened to extend the stock market's three-day losing streak, and it did.
Putting the Nasdaq and S&P 500 on track for their sixth weekly drop in the past seven weeks.
We've been in a recession.
They've been lying about it.
Look at this one.
This one makes me laugh.
From September 21st, prepare for a long and ugly recession, says Dr. Doom, the economist who predicted the 2008 crash.
Okay, we're in a recession.
We're in it.
Prepare for it to be long and ugly?
Alright, I guess.
Here's fortune.com reporting.
With recession fears in the U.S.
mounting.
Fears?
Yo, we're in it!
And blame Joe Biden.
I just want to point out, this is apocalyptic for Joe Biden and the Democrats.
We are like 40 days away from the midterm election.
Early voting and mail-in voting is going to be starting.
And with the economy already in the gutter, and with older people voting by mail and early, apocalyptic.
They're just going to say, don't know, don't care, Republican, fix it.
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In an interview with Bloomberg this week, Roubini said that a recession is likely to hit the U.S.
by the end of 2022 before spreading globally next year, conceivably lasting for the entirety of 2023.
It's not going to be a short and shallow recession.
It's going to be severe, long, and ugly.
To fend off rising U.S.
inflation, the Federal Reserve has implemented an aggressive series of interest rate hikes to put the brakes on the economy.
The goal is to engineer a soft landing where inflation returns to the Fed's target of 2% annual rate without triggering a prolonged economic downturn or significant rise in unemployment.
But with the current economic climate, the Fed's soft landing goal is mission impossible, according to Roubini, who sees the rapid rise in both corporate and government debt over the past years as a damning indicator.
Roubini said the environment created by rising interest rates does not bode well for the rising levels of global debt amassed in the wake of the pandemic.
As lending rates continue to increase, as the Federal Reserve has signaled they will, it could create a growing number of so-called zombie companies.
Firms that formed during the pre and early pandemic of easy credit, era of easy credit, but are now stumbling along unable to turn a profit or finance their debts.
Many zombie institutions, zombie households, corporates, banks, shadow banks, and zombie countries are going to die as rates continue rising.
What's the worst case scenario?
Well, I think we're in it.
And before I read this, let me just say, you best start believing in Bidenflation.
You're experiencing it.
Despite interest rate hike after interest rate hike, Robini said that inflation in the U.S.
could persist due to rippling supply chain shocks from the pandemic, the ongoing consequence of the Ukraine war and China's zero COVID policy continuing to slow economic activity in the country.
The combination of low economic growth and unyielding inflation could lead to a global worst-case scenario of 1970s-style stagflation.
Rabini warned, where prices remain high, but economies stagnate anyway.
Institutions, including the World Bank, have warned multiple times this year that a return to the 1970s stagflation remains a serious concern for the global economy.
Labor shortages.
You guys know that we've been trying to set up Freedomistan?
That's the name of our new headquarters.
Freedom-I-stan.
It means place of freedom.
We have a cool flag.
It's like a yellow flag with a chicken head and a shield.
It's like a crest, but it's a chicken.
It's fantastic!
We're gonna be building a new chicken city.
The only problem is we're a year delayed.
A year now.
Why?
Supplies and labor.
Impossible to get.
We have the funding.
And we're looking for people saying, will you work?
And they go, no.
And I don't understand why.
Further, we find some people and they're like, yeah, I'll work.
And it's like, okay, let's do it.
And they're like, we don't have any steel.
And I'm like, ugh.
So how do we build it?
I don't know.
Wait.
It's all you can do.
It's not even about individuals.
It's not about, you know, whether or not you have the labor.
It's whether or not people could work if they wanted to.
And so this is where we're at.
And I think, for the most part, it's thanks to Joe Biden.
Take a look at this from tradingeconomics.com.
Look at the day.
Today, it's so far been a bloodbath in top stocks.
Look at this.
Has anyone seen any improvement in these top stocks?
I recently sold at a loss a handful of stocks and I bought into a rumble, which is trading at RUM.
Because I just think they have a better business model to a certain degree.
I don't completely trust their plans, but I have enough confidence that I bought a decent amount of Rumble stock.
It's trading at like, what, I think 12 bucks, so... We'll see.
Considering all this, I'm not sure it's going to go up.
But hey baby, here we go!
CNBC Fed raises rates by another three quarters a percentage point, pledges more hikes to fight inflation.
Okay.
If you haven't prepared now, I don't know what to tell you.
Because inflation is only going to get worse.
This ain't going to do anything.
All this is doing is hurting the economy.
It's kind of crazy.
The inflation that we're seeing, at the same time, a stagnation, it's genuinely crazy.
A recession with inflation.
Stagflation.
Around the world, they try to say that it's Vladimir Putin's fault.
The pound plunges through 1.09 as former U.S.
Treasury Secretary blasts naive UK policies in mini-budget as it happened.
Congratulations, UK.
You're near dollar parity.
Now I wonder.
There's been long-standing conspiracy theories as a goal to sort of stabilize all currencies around the dollar.
Alex Jones talked about it a while ago.
I'm not saying he's correct.
The idea was to normalize the North American economy.
For a while, I think the Canadian dollar was like two bucks to the U.S.
dollar or something like that.
I don't know what the actual exchange rate was.
But then it dropped, and then it became fairly comparable.
And Alex Jones was talking about how what they want to do is you've got the American economy really strong, and you've got Canada, and then you've got Mexico.
You need to normalize all of it.
Bring up Mexico's, you know, the Mexican peso up to the Canadian dollar, to the American dollar.
Then, you can implement a single economic block.
During the formation of the European Union, I heard stories from good friends in Spain.
And they said that before the EU, they used the Peseta.
That was the Spanish currency.
And if you wanted a newspaper, it was one Peseta.
So you'd come out in the morning, you'd take your Peseta, you'd buy your newspaper.
Overnight.
The euro was implemented.
And a newspaper was then one euro.
The only problem was that a peseta was only a third of a euro.
So that means, for the average person, the cost of a newspaper tripled overnight.
That shock to the system caused an economic crisis.
The same was true for many other places.
Who benefited?
Well, Germany benefited greatly.
That shocked the system.
So, since then, there's been this theory, and it's probably where Alex Jones got the idea, that powerful elites, before they can implement a unified economic block, need to stabilize the currencies, then they can change it.
Otherwise, you'll cause problems.
Maybe it'll be Bitcoin, maybe it'll be some kind of crypto, maybe it'll be FedCoin, I don't know.
But look at this now.
The pound is nearing dollar parity, the euro slides to a 20-year low, as right-wing party poised to win Italian elections.
I love that!
They're like, it's, it's... What do these things have to do with each other?
They say that the euro is trading below 98 cents to the US dollar.
Parity, not parody, although I do think much of this is ripe for parity.
So what happens?
Once these things hit $1, do we lock them in as a single currency?
Do we then, say, start using the dollar?
Probably not.
I think it's a bit too over-the-top to believe, but the parity will Have an impact on trade relations and the economy.
In fact, it may make it unrealistic to transport goods over the Atlantic Ocean.
I don't know exactly how this will play out or why it's playing out.
I can only tell you this.
Shortages are coming and you're going to feel it.
Understanding America's labor shortage, the most impacted industries, they say transportation, healthcare, and social assistance, and accommodation and food sectors have had the highest numbers of job openings.
You know what the crazy thing is?
I was reading how there's like an aluminum plant that produces like 20% of U.S.
aluminum and they shut down.
The cost of electricity was too great.
So you know what we do?
I'm not kidding.
All of our aluminum cans, we save them.
We're out in the middle of nowhere.
So, we can recycle it.
I don't know exactly what we'll do with it, but I'm telling you, we've, for fun mostly, been smelting them down into aluminum ingots.
Now, first and foremost, it's just silly fun.
I bought a crucible and a kiln a while ago, and so we just have these things for fun.
And I don't know who did it, might be my brother, but we took cans, they took cans, they melted them down and then shaped them into just aluminum ingots.
Very light, by the way.
Aluminum used to be, or for our British friends, aluminum, the most expensive material.
It was more valuable than, like, gold.
Now it's not so much.
But with these plants shutting down, it'll be great to have these things available.
I don't know exactly what we'll do with it, but, you know, we're recycling with it, I suppose.
We're seeing labor shortages across the board.
And now we've got Janet Yellen directing the IRS to embark on an $80 billion overhaul plan.
Not only are you going to make less money, not only are you going to have trouble finding work and buying goods, 87,000 new IRS agents are going to be coming to extract what little bit you have.
You know why?
Because you will own nothing and you will be happy.
Me, on the other hand, And the other wealthy elites, oh well.
I say that somewhat facetiously.
You know, I'm blessed with the job that I have and the success we've had.
And I'm not blind to it.
But the reality is this.
Rich people are not going to suffer under this.
The poor people are.
Now for me, I'm kind of like, hey, maybe you shouldn't do this and you should let the people have what they have.
We should be cutting taxes and making sure people have more money to spend.
No, no, no.
They want to cool the economy.
So they're raising interest rates so you can't buy things.
And then they're going to go into your $600 bank account and they're going to squeeze whatever they can out of it.
And they're going to look you in the eyes as they do it.
And they're going to say, you should not be buying those sugary drinks because you don't know what's right for you.
That's what they think.
We heard Bloomberg say it.
And that's where we're going.
Yeah, you think they're gonna let you buy beer?
We have this story.
Cool Plaz.
I don't know why it says Cool Plaz.
It's cached from time.com.
Why a beer shortage is brewing in the U.S.
I hope you're ready for this, because this is the one where I think it's really going to get spicy.
You think people are mad?
Wait till they can't buy a beer.
They say beer and meat lovers might have a difficult time getting their favorite products this fall.
That's because there's a shortage of carbon dioxide in the U.S., leading to complications at a number of breweries and food suppliers across the country.
Food and beverage companies such as Tyson and Kraft Heinz have been scrambling to find suppliers of the gas, which is used for putting fizz into drinks and freezing frozen meats and pizzas.
Some local breweries have even had to suspend operations at their facilities because of the shortage.
That could mean fewer jobs and higher beer prices.
What's causing it?
A number of factors, they say.
Maintenance shutdowns of CO2 plants and general summer demand for drinks are the most likely culprit.
While many of the specific issues in the market are new, CO2 has experienced various supply chain challenges since the beginning of the pandemic.
The Brewers Association said in a statement, This is one of the many areas where small brewers are facing cost increases and availability issues.
They're going to take away your beer, my friends.
They are actively taking away your beer.
Oh man, people are going to lose their minds.
Hey, but it is what it is.
It's the world that we currently live in.
I think it's funny.
I can come out and be like, there's going to be a chicken shortage.
And people go, eh, I'll eat beef.
There's going to be a beef shortage.
We already saw this.
I saw one barbecue shop said they weren't carrying brisket anymore because it was too expensive.
I talked about it last year.
And they go, whatever, I'll eat pork.
Yo, you're gonna be eating bugs, you're gonna be drinking scuzzy water, and you'll be happy.
How are they gonna do it?
That's what I wonder.
But a transformation is upon us, and I think it has a lot to do with the climate change people, but I think they're liars.
I think they're lying about their concerns over climate change because they fly in private jets, they eat their fresh meats and their Wagyu beef imported from Japan, and then they claim you should be eating bugs, not drinking beer, owning nothing, and being happy.
It is the world that we are in.
Inflation remains voters' top concern.
Can Republicans keep their focus?
I don't think it matters, to be completely honest.
I don't think it matters at all.
I think if the Republicans get in, you'll see a Marjorie Taylor Greene or Thomas Massey calling out the lies and the manipulations.
Unfortunately, half the Republicans are going to be shills, and then Democrats will be as well.
Now, I think it's important, if we can get the majority of Republicans to be MAGA Republicans, then the other half of the Republican Party, it won't matter.
The corporate shills, the establishment uniparty types, they'll have no power.
They'll be forced to just fall in line.
But here's the challenge.
If the Republicans win by say 10 seats and they hold a narrow majority, 10 Republicans that are establishment shills will just defect and be like, these MAGA extremists need to be stopped so we're real Republicans but we're gonna go vote with Democrats like Liz Cheney.
Yeah, she's not a Republican.
She's an establishment, uniparty shill.
Always been.
Kinzinger, look at him.
He dropped to his knees to fillet the state, and they booted him out, gerrymandered his district away, and said, Oh!
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They're shutting down nuclear power plants over and over again despite the fact there's an energy shortage.
Because they want less people!
Simply put.
And this is the path to accomplishing that.
Now America may be the last bastion, the last defense.
But certainly we have our elements.
We have our zealots in government, in media.
We have the cult.
And they tell you to sacrifice.
They light the economy on fire, destroying your life.
And then they buy beachfront property, despite warnings of floods.
They fly in private planes, despite telling you to turn your lights off.
And they justify it.
They're not completely wrong in their math.
Look, if you have a million people, And you banned all of the private planes used by those million people?
Nothing would change.
You have, what, 700 billionaires or something like that?
You take away their private planes, it will have no impact on the climate.
But you ban the travel for 7 billion people, and then yes, that will have an impact on carbon.
And so these wealthy people are like, why should I give them my private plane?
I barely contribute at all.
There should be private planes for rich people.
But no planes for poor people.
That's the problem.
Maybe.
Maybe they lament the fact that capitalism worked, and it's why they want communism.
Today, poor people in the United States have refrigerators, air conditioners, clean running water, hot water, and, despite the fact that our medical system is far from perfect, If you go to the doctor, if you go to the emergency room with serious injuries, they have to treat you.
And then, if you don't pay them, it's just on them.
And they gotta find ways to get reimbursed or something.
Imperfect.
I'm not saying it's great.
But poor people in this country have tremendous wealth, relative to where things used to be.
Air conditioning.
That's right.
If you're poor and you're in low-income housing, you're, not always, but many, will have air conditioning.
That's kind of crazy to me.
The fact that you can go to like, you can go on Craigslist and get, for 20 bucks, get a wall unit air conditioner.
But let's say, even outside, let's say you don't have air conditioning.
You've got clean running water, and a refrigerator comes standard.
It's crazy, isn't it?
I went to, a couple weekends ago, was it last weekend?
I went to Stonewall Jackson's house.
And, uh, you heard me mention this before in a previous segment.
And they said, uh, up here is the pantry.
It was right above the winter kitchen, they called it.
And there was a tiny stair set, a spiral, like, in the wall that you'd go up to the pantry.
And it was like, in here, they'd have meats hanging that were smoked and salted for storage.
That's crazy.
I'm just thinking about it like a room in your house with meat just hanging there.
Like for how long could it just hang there?
I tell you this.
If it started to turn, you'd probably still eat it.
These days, you can be poor and you're gonna have a refrigerator because we got a lot of them.
Man, it's just so crazy.
Well, I think they regret the fact that they've given the poor this opportunity.
And because of it, people had more kids.
And now there's too many.
I think they want to go back to a world, and by they I mean just generally wealthy, well-off, elitist individuals.
They want to go back to a world of feudalism, where the nobles are the ones that deal with everything, and the serfs keep their mouths shut, don't learn to read, and just pull the levers.
Till the land make the food, we'll deal with the more complicated matters, because we are better men.
Me?
I like decentralization better.
I think that if everybody is given access, then you'll have a meritocratic system which results in a rising tide for all ships.
But that's the issue.
That benefits poor people.
And unfortunately, it benefits stupid people, too.
Maybe it's just an emergent phenomenon, though.
When the smart people decide they're going to work on systems to benefit everyone, it invariably will benefit the stupid people.
The stupid people will then procreate and then start gaining a voting majority, and when they do vote, they vote to destroy the system.
Hey!
An endless cycle, I guess.
I think in the end.
Those that are smart enough to see what's going on with the Democrats and Biden and inflation have prepared.
And chance favors the prepared.
So when everything goes south and everything gets bad, you will be fine.
But the people who are stupid, who vote for this, who aren't paying attention?
Well, they're going to be caught with their pants down.
To every one of these people who laughed at me when I said, hey, maybe you should have emergency food.
Those people will be the first to beg you, please.
I'm so hungry.
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Just give me one bag of dried macaroni and cheese.
Because you're going to need that food for yourself, for your kids, for your family.
The gag I say is that as the economy gets worse and worse, One of these days, there's gonna be a dude in flannels with, uh, flannel with suspenders, folded up cuffs, and a handlebar mustache trying to steal one of my chickens.
And I'm gonna be like, get off my property!
He goes, I'm just so hungry, I don't need anything!
Uh, no.
And then we just, bye-bye.
Catch a squirrel if you're lucky.
Because I can't sustain you.
You had the opportunity to vote right and protect yourself, and you didn't?
Let's see how long you can last.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up tonight at 8 p.m.
over at youtube.com slash TimCastIRL.
Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
You may have seen the viral video of Stacey Abrams.
It's amazing.
In it, she says that there's no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks, a fetal heartbeat at six weeks, and in fact, it is just a fake sound made by the ultrasound so that men can control women's bodies.
It's remarkable.
I don't recall there ever being a meeting of men to determine that in order to control women's bodies, we needed to fake the sound of a fetal heartbeat in an ultrasound, but sure, that's the argument she's making.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Nightmare Dystopia, where definitions change, history is mutable, and as long as the agenda requires it, the narrative will mold reality into whatever the stupid people will believe.
I love it!
Oh, they believed Jussie Smollett.
They believed Russiagate, Ukrainegate, Michael Brown, Ahmaud Arbery.
They believe it.
They believe all of it.
They always believe it.
And the best part is, you can literally go back in time, change the story, and they'll believe that's how it always was.
I give you, from the Daily Mail, Planned Parenthood watered down its fetal heartbeat guidance from saying a baby's heart does develop at six weeks to calling it embryonic cardiac activity a month before Stacey Abrams' incendiary comments.
They weren't incendiary comments.
They were unhinged.
There's no cabal of men who are like, women just seem to want to abort their babies.
I know.
Let's make a machine that plays the fake sound of a heartbeat By Jove, I think he's got it!
And then all of a sudden, women everywhere went, a heartbeat?
No, I don't want to abort my baby.
That's just not reality.
It's just, that's not, not the thing.
Okay, well now what we're seeing is, these institutions will change definitions, alter them.
In this instance, it's not the same as like, You know, there's a bunch of stories we have where Joe Biden, like a bad thing will happen, and then Biden will be like, actually, bad thing didn't happen.
And then also the media goes, actually, yes, it's not a bad thing.
And you're like, but it's a good example is the recession.
So for the longest time, we've been told that a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth.
So we hit a recession, and then Joe Biden comes out, he's like, It's not a recession.
And then the media goes, actually, he's correct.
It's not a recession.
And then all of these woke liberal or just like corporate dem people are coming out with tweets being like agreeing with Biden.
And everyone's showing that like a year ago, you said it was a recession.
Now you're saying it's not.
This is the game they play.
In this instance, Planned Parenthood recently changed their definition.
Now Stacey Abrams is saying something nonsensical.
So they got they got ahead of this one.
This one could actually be that Stacey Abrams reads stuff like this and then believes the psychotic nonsense and comes up with unhinged conspiracy theories like there's some grand patriarchy.
I love this so much.
You know, at least the Illuminati people believe that there's a multi-gendered approach taking over the world.
But these people are like, it's patriarchy.
Yes.
The Illuminati is only men.
Okay.
I don't believe that there is a grand cabal.
I just think that birds of feather flock together and rich, wealthy people hang out with each other.
And I don't think that the world is completely under the control of one group of people.
It's just nonsense.
Competing interests.
Competing elites.
It's just conflict.
It's conflict.
With Donald Trump, you've got a civil war among the elites.
And now I give you this.
Let's read this story.
Planned Parenthood quietly changed its guidance for pregnant mothers at the height of the Roe v. Wade debate earlier this year, from telling them a baby's heartbeat could be detected at six weeks to instead describing it as activity that sounds like a heartbeat.
The advice changed sometime before August this year and was picked up on by scientists at the time, when the country and the world was debating America's position on abortion.
The change gains new relevance today in the context of the controversy surrounding Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who said earlier this week that a six-week fetal heartbeat was a manufactured sound invented by men to control women and prevent abortions.
Uh-huh.
The old Planned Parenthood advice contradicted her explicitly.
It told mothers that a very basic beating heart and circulatory system develop in weeks five and six of pregnancy.
The new advice offers this more watered-down version.
A part of the embryo starts to show cardiac activity.
It sounds like a heartbeat and an ultrasound, but it's not a fully formed heart.
It's the earliest stage of the heart developing.
Heavens me!
Cardiac activity cannot occur without a cardiac!
Right?
I'm kidding in how I framed that.
Hopefully you understand.
You can't have heart-related activity without a rudimentary heart.
And yes, there's a fetal heartbeat.
It's like you can actually see it doing its thing.
Here we go.
Initially it said, what's happening during week five and six?
The embryo is less than a fifth of an inch.
A very basic beating heart and circulatory system develop.
Buds for arms and legs develop.
The neural tube begins forming.
The neural tube will later form the brain, spinal cord, and major nerves.
The bud of a tail develops.
Ugh, we have tails?
The umbilical cord begins developing.
Cool.
It now says, the embryo is less than a fifth of an inch.
A part of the embryo starts to show cardiac activity.
It sounds like a heartbeat and an ultrasound, but it's not a fully formed heart.
It's the earliest stage of the heart developing.
Buds for arms, neural tube, the bud of the tail, the umbilical cord.
Amazing.
This guy Nathan says, I think I still have the screenshot of the original from just a few weeks
ago.
Amazing how quickly empirical observation, interpretation of repeated experiments in
controlled environments can revolutionize biology in such a short time.
Uh-huh.
Can a fetal heartbeat be detected at six weeks?
Yes.
But it's not a fully formed heart, and it depends on your definition of heartbeat.
And that's the game they're playing.
Because if you were to come out... Oh, it's just so obvious why they're doing this.
Okay?
It's so, so obvious.
The heartbeat bills.
There have been attempts at banning abortion once a heartbeat is detected.
So now they're saying, it's not a heartbeat, it's not, no, there's no heart, it's just a clump of cells.
You know what, man?
I'm not a fan of abortion.
I'm not pro-life.
And that's the political term.
I'll put it this way.
I am anti-abortion, but unfortunately for many on the right, I'm just a bit more libertarian.
And I have some issues with the way things can be run.
And I don't know.
It's tough.
I feel like there's no real good answer.
You know, I'll tell you my issue.
I don't like abortion.
I don't like these manipulations.
I don't like it when they try claiming it's not.
It's a heartbeat.
And life begins at conception.
Period.
There's no logical argument otherwise.
None whatsoever.
You know, every time I've had a debate with these pro-abortion people, they come out overtly just... They always have a different definition of when life begins.
I think it was Vosch who said, sometime after birth, It's just, it's like, dude, what is your criteria for being alive?
And then it starts to become obvious.
Why is it that these Democrat types, these elitists, are okay with lying to everybody?
Because their view of whether or not you're alive is based upon your ability to comprehend.
And there is a big distinction between them and us.
Now let me just say, before I get into all that, when it comes to the issue of abortion, I don't like the idea of the government requiring proof or evidence, you know.
There's a privacy issue.
Like the original Roe v. Wade was an interesting ruling.
I think once the baby is viable, it should not be allowed because the baby can just survive on its own.
And as viability through technology is becoming earlier and earlier, well then so be it.
And then there's challenges there.
The government forcing an individual to provide their body to another individual is a worrying thought to me.
So, I think it's an important thing to point out.
But what we're getting to here, they want to reconstruct what the definition is For the sake of the legal argument about abortion.
So going back to what we were saying, what I was just saying, with people like Vaush being unable to define when life begins.
Democrats lie.
Russiagate, Ukrainegate, Michael Brown, Ahmed Arbery, Trayvon Martin, oh come on, Jussie Smollett, the list goes on.
Their view of the world is that better men and smarter people should be in charge and in control.
And if you're too stupid, well then you shouldn't be allowed.
I get it.
I do.
I just don't think they're smart either.
So you see the problem?
I have an issue with stupid people taking the reins and running full speed with control of a system.
I think most people should have an issue with that.
I also think that there's no real good way to determine who is the appropriate person, because they're smarter, to run the system.
In which case, decentralization is probably the best.
And you know, I think it comes from humility.
I don't think I'm the smartest person in the world.
In fact, I think I get things wrong quite a bit.
I think I have a tendency to get things right on fact basis, but predictions?
Not always correct.
And that's just reality.
And it's a good example of why I shouldn't be the arbiter of truth and morality and be in charge.
Why I should just be another person saying, I did some research.
Here's what I think.
What do you guys think?
I think they're wrong.
I believe in a more decentralized system.
Thus, a bit more libertarian.
But these people believe in a... You have to be smart and conscious of the truth and reality.
You have, like... Here's the way I see it.
The reason they don't care about lying to you is because they think if you're not smart enough to see through the lie, you don't deserve to in the first place.
I mean, it's people like Bill Gates.
It's people like these globalists.
Maybe that's the wrong world.
These population agenda types.
The ones who are talking about having less kids and all that.
The opposite of Elon Musk, I guess.
Michael Bloomberg, he's a good example.
He said we should tax sugary drinks because people are too stupid.
He said we should tax the poor because they're too stupid to know what's good for them.
Well, he's partially right.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who aren't smart enough to know what's right for them.
And I don't know, it's just true.
It's a fact.
They don't.
Sugary drinks, bad for you.
Don't drink them.
I've been doing mostly keto.
Then I did like a little bit of carbs.
I just took the carbs back out again.
And you know what?
It's a reminder.
Cutting the carbs from my diet, I feel better than ever.
It's insane.
I feel like there's electricity surging through my body.
They think they should be in charge because they're smarter than you.
And this correlates perfectly with abortion.
A baby isn't smart.
So who cares if you kill it?
When Vaush said on Timcast IRL that life begins some point after birth, you start to see exactly what their worldview is.
You can kill a baby because it doesn't have the cognitive abilities of better men.
So who cares?
That's it.
I think that really is it.
Their only concern is whether or not you are conscious of certain facts.
If they can lie to you and you believe them, that's your fault and they can't be held responsible.
I don't like that world.
I don't.
You know, I've talked to a lot of people, even people on the right, who have said, you know, talked about how some people just aren't smart enough to comprehend, so we should be careful and control what these people can and can't do.
No, I get it.
I mean, every conservative in the world, or in the country I should say, but in the world, is probably going to look at the woke left and be like, those people shouldn't be voting.
Even if people who say repeal the 19th, conservatives, because women shouldn't vote because they're too emotional and stuff like that.
Sorry, I just don't fall in that camp.
I think we should just give people the information.
We should be stoic, pragmatic, to a certain degree.
Not in the proper sense, but just in the give people the facts and then see if a decentralized system of people who know what's really going on can solve the problem.
That tends to always be the solution.
You know, you can build one supercomputer, or you can network a million computers.
And a network of a million computers is as powerful, or more, than a supercomputer.
Here's the issue with humans.
People like Stacey Abrams, these Democrats, they think they are the supercomputer.
But they're not!
They're really dumb!
But they think they're smarter and better than you and thus they should be allowed to run things.
And therein lies the problem.
You shouldn't.
Because you can't.
There is no smarter person.
There is no smarter human.
We're all, to a certain degree, stupid.
You know, you may think you're clever because you know how to set a trap.
You may think you're clever because you can win a debate.
But winning a debate is not the end-all be-all.
You know, I saw recently this video of Herschel Walker, I think, and he's like, I'm not that smart.
And Warnock, he's a preacher, he's a smart man, he's gonna embarrass me.
I mean, that's all true, I think.
But let's take a look at this.
Is the epitome of human value in intelligence?
I don't think so.
I think there's certainly high value in intelligence.
And I think an intelligent person with good work ethic can save the world.
Somebody who is strong can also save the world in a different way.
And I think it's among the Democrats they don't value that.
A strong man or woman A trained, a fighter, not a thinker.
Can they do as much as the smart man?
They could do more, technically.
How about this?
How many pencil pushers, paper pushers, what's the right expression?
How many of them stopped Hitler?
Actually, a decent amount.
Their contributions, cracking the code, making plans, it was all necessary.
But it was impossible without strong men, not smart men.
Now, to a certain degree, there's intelligence and there's strength.
But my point is, when I look at a life, I don't judge that life based on whether it can think.
I judge it based on whether or not it's an independent life.
When it comes to eating animals, I am no vegan.
I'm gonna go enjoy myself some fresh bacon after I wrap up this video.
Because I understand what life is.
We are humans.
We are omnivorous.
We eat plants.
We eat animals.
We do our best.
I understand that we may want to preserve and protect life at all times, but not all life, because certainly we have to eat.
We have to eat plants or animals.
That's life, too.
And that's just a reality.
We're not plants.
We don't just absorb sunlight.
Well, some people think they do.
I recognize the nature of reality.
A story I like to tell is about my Ukrainian friend.
Who was telling me about how they were doing right by the rest of the world.
You know, they're trying to save the world and all that.
And I was like, you're using this computer that was made by slaves in Asia.
It's not about the world.
It's about your immediate friends, family, and community.
This was years ago, mind you.
But that's true.
I sit here staring at a very expensive camera, I've got very expensive speakers and monitors, probably produced by crippling slave labor in a foreign country.
And I get it!
I'm not so stupid that I would ignore the fact that I'm able to do this because there are people Who make substantially less money, who build these machines for me, so that I can sit atop some ivory tower, or sit within the city, the shining city on the hill, and have access to this.
Now, I wouldn't mind spending more money for it, working harder, if it was American-made and stuff like that, and so we'd do our best, but this is the nature of the world.
And so we do our best.
We try not to be exploiters.
We try not to entertain slave labor.
I can't stand Apple.
So I try to avoid it.
Not like Samsung's all that much better.
It's tough.
It's not easy.
And you can sit here and pretend you're some noble activist who's like, I will only eat plants and I won't use devices made by slave labor.
It's like, dude, no matter what you do, no matter what you do, you want to be effective.
Recognize your position in the hierarchy of the world.
And that means some people have it bad, and some people have it good.
I'm not a fan of everything, and I wish we could have this utopian, lateral, communist-style society.
I mean, ideologically.
I don't think communism works.
But this idea that we could all be equals, and shake hands, and trade freely, and truly respect the value of labor?
Yeah, right.
It's never gonna happen.
So long as there are exploiters and smart people.
It's just not possible.
Or sociopaths.
Manipulators.
And that's what I see here with the Democrats.
They don't value life.
They value calculation.
They think your value is in your ability to produce for them.
And then they claim Republicans are all the same.
Well, let's be real.
They point the finger at Republicans, and many of those Republicans are exactly like the Democrats, the uniparty establishment elites.
They don't care about regular people.
I do worry sometimes.
You know, Bill Gates, he thinks there's too many people in Africa.
That's kind of creepy.
Okay, whatever.
Now he's bringing corn to Africa and I just don't trust him.
I really don't.
Here's a guy who goes on stage and he says that there's too many Africans and then he's like, I'm gonna go give them all injections and food and I'm like, I don't believe you.
Don't.
I suppose the argument is that he's saying that if you bring technological advancement to Africa that will naturally result in population reduction like we see in other places.
I don't believe him.
I just don't trust the guy.
You know, he flew on Epstein's plane.
I don't think Trump ever flew on Epstein's plane, but there are photos of Trump with Epstein.
So it's like, dude, I don't care who you are.
I'm not going to sit here and defend anybody.
I just don't.
Get these creepy weirdos out.
Let me show you something.
Dictionary definition of female mentioning gender identity draws criticism.
Oh, they changed definitions.
Here's another one.
PolitiFact.
The White House is now trying to protect Joe Biden by changing the definition of the word recession.
False.
No, it's true.
Bill Clinton, the colloquial definition.
You see the games they play?
The colloquial definition was always, or I should say for 50 years it's been, two consecutive periods of negative growth.
And what now?
And what now, my friends?
When it finally hits Joe Biden, they say, no, no, no, no.
Technically, that's not a recession.
That's that's that's that's not.
If there are people who are stupid enough to fall for it, their attitude is, then you should.
That's crazy.
I've known business people like that.
There's a business guy, I'm not gonna say his name, and he has this attitude and this mentality of, it's not my fault, it's yours.
So I'll give you an example.
Let's say that, I'll give you an example.
I'm gonna go have a meeting with all my employees.
I'm gonna call a company-wide meeting and say, ladies and gentlemen, we did it.
We won the lottery, everybody!
We won the lottery!
This is big news for us!
Opening a lot of doors!
Congratulations!
Pizza on me!
Let's bring in the drinks!
Everyone's cheering like, whoa!
Tim won the lottery?
That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
Then everyone starts going around talking about how amazing it is, our jobs are secure, we won the lottery.
If you're stupid enough to fall for it without inquiring further and asking questions, it's your fault.
I don't believe in that stuff.
I think you're supposed to try to help people understand.
This is where we're going.
The reason why they're changing the definition of heartbeat is because of the heartbeat bills.
Because now they're gonna come out and be like, but there's no heartbeat.
Look, everyone agrees, there's no heartbeat.
What are you talking about?
So then when they're like, when a heartbeat is detected, they'll be like, hmm, heartbeats don't start until six months.
Yeah, your law's void.
The reason I bring up the dictionary definition of female is for the same reason.
The law says we protect on the basis of sex, they start coming out saying there isn't such a thing, and then all of a sudden the laws are void, and women lose all of their protections.
Welcome to the Brave New World, my friends!
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up at 1pm on this channel.
Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
From Bounding Into Comics, prominent anti-ESG Disney investor calls on company to, quote, commit to political neutrality before they're, quote, expected to take sides that won't be favorable.
Before?
They've already done this in Florida, which is why they are getting eviscerated in public opinion.
But you know what?
I'll give y'all a public opinion.
Disney is pumping out garbage.
It's getting worse and worse.
It's tree-ish.
Sorry, man.
I'm a big fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
But the shows have been getting continually worse.
The movies have been getting continually worse.
They had their heyday.
I mean...
You know, when Iron Man came out, I remember, I think I was in Los Angeles.
And then I remember the next movies that were coming out, and I was like, you know, Captain America's okay.
And then all of a sudden, we found ourselves looking at this cinematic universe that had been tied together.
And then I remember seeing more, and then I remember, you know, Ant-Man comes out, Doctor Strange, all this stuff, and I'm like, man.
Infinity War.
The conclusion of all of this is gonna be epic!
Infinity War was.
Endgame was... eh.
Endgame was one of those TV shows where it's like, instead of writing a new episode, they just show you clips from old episodes.
I never understood that, and I always hated it.
But you know what?
You know, I wondered, was that the end of something great?
Yes.
The answer is yes, it was.
I mean, we got a few good movies afterwards, I think the Spider-Man movies are pretty good, but now it's all just starting to get bad.
It's not even just about wokeness, which is an issue, clearly, but it's just a lack of talent and things are getting bad.
Take a look at this story.
In the midst of the ongoing public backlash against the company's recent foray into political activism, Prominent anti-ESG Disney investor Vivek Ramaswamy has made a personal plea to the House of Mouse for them to refrain from stepping further into this arena.
Otherwise, he warns they'll be expected to take sides that won't be favorable to its business.
That's already happened, dude!
But I know he knows this.
The founder of biopharmaceutical company Roivent Sciences and the author of Woke Inc., Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam.
Ramaswamy, if it wasn't already apparent by the title of his book, has been a fervent critic of corporate America's recent obsession with following ESG principles, which, in short, essentially serve as rubrics against which company can rank their commitments to such goals as promoting diversity, fighting climate change, performing social outreach, and the like.
We need to stop it.
We need to take a wooden stake to the vampiric heart of the concept ESG and end it.
It is nothing more than cult ideology.
It is the American version of the Chinese Communist Party.
That's it.
You want to open a business in China?
Yeah, well, you want to open a business, you better have an office for the Chinese Communist Party.
That's what this is.
We could stop it.
We have to call it out.
On September 19th, speaking as a representative of his recently co-founded Strive Asset Management, and those investors who through his firm have some level of stake in the entertainment company, Ramaswamy issued a formal letter to Disney CEO Bob Chepik, Asking him to take corrective action in the face of an unprecedented public approvals rating collapse following the company's public embrace of controversial political positions in deference to social activists.
You know what?
No.
No.
Let him embrace it.
Let him do it.
Because we here at TimCast.com are having a grand old time making content of our own.
Now I'm not going to sit here and pretend that the stuff that we're putting out is on the same level production-wise, but we're better.
We just are.
You know why?
So one of the, the first show we're doing, well we did Tales from the Inverted World, but that's like gonzo journalism into the science, into the weird and the wild and murders and mysteries and true crime.
Cast Castle is a fictional version of the office we work in, and it's a bit silly.
We don't have any special mics, no booms, no lavs, we just use onboard mics, and it's lower quality, but it is what it is.
Because we decided we're just gonna start making stuff, because this stuff's gone nuts.
It's just garbage.
It's getting worse, and you know what?
We're gonna start here.
We are in but an empty field.
But you don't start with nothing, and then demand a castle.
You build a little wood shack, you cut down some trees, you make do with what you can.
But we're gonna do it, so you know what?
Fine.
Disney.
You know, Ramaswami, please, please, please, don't, don't, don't tell them to change this.
Let them do it!
Let them destroy themselves from within, and from the ashes of the old, we shall build anew.
Now look, in reality, I don't want them to fail.
I want them to succeed.
I liked Star Wars.
I liked Star Wars.
I'll put it that way.
I like Star Trek better.
But all of this stuff is being just beaten to death by people who never understood any of it.
They don't care about the fans.
They don't care about what made it work.
They're just beating it and beating it and beating it.
They are beating it.
Yeah.
Man, Star Trek has just been in a spiral, a death spiral, and now they're doing Picard Season 3, and it's like, for anybody who's a fan of Star Trek, it's, come on.
TNG was epic.
I grew up on that stuff.
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Maybe I'm just an old fogey, and I don't quite understand those newfangled shows the kids like.
Disney, on the other hand, seems to be bringing in a bunch of people, they're spread too thin, and this is the problem, I mean, You know, when was the last time a movie like Groundhog Day was made?
Here's what y'all need, Disney.
You need antitrust.
You need to be shattered into a million pieces, where instead of just this cookie-cutter garbage, you can have merit at 50 different studios trying to make good things.
And then we'll get more good things.
But back to the politics, they say, citing such events as the company's battle with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over the state's newly passed parental rights and education law, their firing of Gina Carano, huge mistake by the way, and their various attempts to weigh in on anti-abortion legislation, Ramaswamy would lament, there is no evidence to suggest these positions have benefited Disney's stockholders, and a growing body of evidence to suggest that they have harmed Disney's stockholders.
Sue them!
To the contrary, just last week, you praised Disney for standing your ground, he asserted.
We find these comments deeply troubling for Disney's future.
To this end, Ramaswamy then took a moment to remind Disney's board it owes a fiduciary duty solely to Disney's actual owners, not to a minority of its employees, activist organizations, or to large financial institutions who promote one-sided political agendas.
Bravo, good sir!
Bravo.
Quote, in 2022, the three largest passive asset managers in the world, BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, were Disney's top three shareholders.
By contrast, the actual owners of Disney are not BlackRock, State Street, or Vanguard, or for that matter, Strive.
Disney's actual owners are the clients of these institutions, everyday citizens whose capital is invested in passively managed index funds.
You owe a fiduciary duty to the actual owners of Disney, not to the institutions who claim to represent them.
There is strong reason to believe that these large asset managers are not acting with their clients' best interests in mind.
Like Disney's customers, and Americans more generally, Disney's shareholders are not monolithically progressive.
Thus, even if these investors wanted their capital to be used for political purposes, and most do not, not all of them would agree with the positions Disney chose to adopt.
With all of this said, Ramaswamy called on Disney to focus on delivering an excellent customer experience without repeating the same mistakes of the recent past and make clear that it will no longer take political stances on issues unrelated to its core business operations.
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I want to see a lady with a big fist punch a robot!
I don't care if she's Muslim or gay or anything like that.
What I don't want to see is Disney coming out and being like, there's a law being passed and we're going to stop it.
What?
Shut up.
No.
The company must make clear that it will hold firm to this promise, and that it will not waver no matter how important a particular social cause is to Disney's employees or its followers on Twitter.
While we defer to management on the best way to achieve this goal, our view is that such change will only be possible if Disney formally updates its corporate policy to adopt a position of neutrality ex ante.
Such corporate policy would appropriately immunize Disney from criticism, either from its liberal constituents or its conservative ones.
Interesting.
Disney must act now.
If Disney continues speaking out on political issues that do not affect its business, it will face even greater pressure to act when they do.
And the sides Disney will be expected to take won't be the ones that are favorable to its business.
Ultimately, Ramaswamy issued three requests on behalf of Strive's clients, which included the adoption of a formal corporate policy that Disney does not take public positions on political controversies that are unrelated to the company's core business operations.
Two, a public commitment to political non-discrimination amongst its employees and customers.
Ah, here's Ironheart!
Yeah, Ironheart.
It's just so dumb.
which make clear that employees or customers will not be subject to punishment for expressing
political views.
3.
A commitment to making all decisions based on long-term profitability of Disney alone,
without regard to social, cultural, or political pressure from employees, activist groups,
How about a person who has the ability to... It's hard to think of something that's never been done, right?
Come on, comment below.
Let's come up with new ideas for things.
How about a guy who has... Oh, I know, I know.
When he makes a fist, three metal claws come out of his... Oh, wait, that's been done.
It's like, come on.
Everything's derivative.
They even did, what was it?
X21?
Or was it X13 or something?
I don't know.
Where it was like a clone of Wolverine who had two claws and one claw in the foot.
You could come up with a bunch of different ideas for superpowers and an interesting way to make a play on them.
One thing, to get serious, one thing that I've often thought about, one idea I had for a series I wanted to do as a backstory to a video game or something, was a former post-apocalyptic reality, coming out of a post-apocalyptic reality.
And you have cultures, because we hyper-centralized economies, After everything collapses, cultures build up around those hyper-centralized economies and develop in really unique ways.
So, for example, in, um, you'd have, like, the frack fields in, like, North Dakota.
So, civilization collapses, a hundred years later, the people there are all fossil fuel-based, all their weapons are combustion, their vehicles are all combustion.
And so it's not necessarily superhero-based, but like, they'd have, you know, weapons that were combustion-based, versus you have an area that's more heavily electric production because it's a solar farm or a nuclear power plant, and so the people there, everything is electric and, you know, maglev trains, and the people there use guns that are like railguns.
It's not necessarily the same as superpowers, but you could basically make something derivative of that.
A dude who's got a giant stick that has cartridges that when you swing it, they burst at the end, not shooting anything.
Like, you could come up with a whole bunch of stuff and just make something more original, and then create a more original backstory.
I suppose if you wanted to make something that was more in line with, like, modern reality, like living in a city or whatever, You could still do something unique or try.
The problem is they don't want to try.
I wonder if it's because they're just embarrassed.
They let creativity.
All they're doing is remaking the same things over and over again.
One thing that I've always wanted to do too, and this is just spitballing, is more reality-based superpowers.
And I know this has been done as well, but I'd like to see something better exploring superpowers and the limitations in physical reality.
Because I always wondered about people with super speed, where, like, they would experience the world super slow, and this has been explored, but you could do something with friction that they don't normally do.
Like, if you move too quickly, you burst into flames.
So you'd start seeing your skin peel off.
And things like that just, you know, I don't know.
I'm sure those things have been done though.
I mean, Frank Miller's stuff is amazing.
And if you can't come up with something, I'm not going to pretend like I'm a comic book
artist who's going to come up with these interesting ideas, but it's like they don't even try.
It's like they bring in people who are just like, let's do a Iron Man.
But, uh... Ooh, Iron Man's heart was bad.
So it's like, Iron Heart.
But we should make it a black woman.
This is the problem I have with Disney and all this stuff.
And then you add in the ESG and it's like you're not making it any more original.
It's not even 100 years old, and we're coming up on that.
166,000 employees.
That's just so insane to me.
Yo, we got like 35 employees and it's hard enough to figure out, like, it's hard enough to manage.
How does a company so big, and not even just that, just like any company in general, Disney's ratings fall significantly as company faces political backlash.
You see, you reap what you've sown.
They've got nothing original.
So what does Disney do?
They just buy stuff.
Ah, we'll buy Marvel.
Bro, make your own new superheroes.
I get it.
If, you know, look at, um, uh, who's that, who's that, who's that superhero who turns into a diamond?
She's not really, it's like an antihero, I guess.
Um, Emma Frost?
Is that her name?
So she can turn into a diamond, and then also, and she's also psychic.
And it's just like, okay.
So why don't you make, uh... I think Hulk is interesting, he gets mad he turns into a giant monster, but that was just like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
So, you know, then you've got Morbius, who is like a genetic version of a vampire.
You could take any one of these old stories and just turn it into something that's more interesting.
I mean, they made Thor.
For heaven's sake.
You can make something new.
Here we go.
Set.
You make a comic called Set.
And it's about, you know, Set, the Egyptian god of the night.
No, of the desert.
I don't know what he's the god of.
I don't know.
But him and Ra went on a quest to defeat Apep?
You could just take that stuff!
It's like they did Thor, that works.
Come on!
Actually, that would be pretty cool.
I don't know if you guys saw Moon Knight.
I did like how they were taking like these Egyptian deities and they did something unique with it.
That's actually okay.
And then what they did with Ms.
Marvel, I can actually respect.
So, comic book Ms.
Marvel just grows and it's like...
Whatever.
You know, she can stretch and she can embiggen.
Simpsons reference.
But in the show, she has hard light, where she can make light energy or whatever, and like, it's hard and she can stand on it.
And I guess you can shapeshift because of it or whatever, but I'm like, okay, that's cool.
It's too bad.
They turned the show into some ridiculous magic school bus.
No, for real.
I was actually like, oh, that's cool that light, you know, manifests and it's like a rock, like, you know, and you can throw it and you can punch with it and you can shield yourself with it.
That's cool.
And then what they did, what they did was they made the whole thing about partition.
And I think it's funny because I mentioned this and people commented and they were like, are you talking about apartheid, Tim?
No, I'm talking about partition in India.
I learned all about it watching a Disney show.
Yo, I don't want to watch a magic school bus.
I want to watch some girl get superpowers and punch a guy with a big light glowing fist, okay?
I want to watch a dude pull out an elvish blade and battle orcs.
It's fun.
It's adventure.
It's not real life.
I don't turn on Disney because I'm like, I'd like to experience the plight of the marginalized communities.
No!
That's real life.
We talk about that all the time.
We want to calm down.
We want to relax.
And what do we get from Disney and others?
It's just regurgitated garbage.
And when they finally do think of something they can do that's more interesting or unique, they'll be like, but make sure we make it, you know, woke as possible and give a good message.
Yeah, I'm just, I'm just... I'm not the only one who feels this way, and we felt this way for like 10 years already.
Gamergate was a long time ago.
So you know what?
Fine!
We'll make our own stuff.
We'll make our own stuff, we're making our own stuff, and our own stuff is gonna be way better.
We've got a really offensive show planned for next month.
And I'm not gonna ruin the joke, but it's just like, I'm pretty sure if we put it on YouTube, they would get really mad at us.
I don't think it'll be banned, but I'm pretty sure the jokes we're going to do... Like, first of all, if you've seen the Cast Castle stuff we're doing, it's all about Ian Crossland, our good friend over from TimCast IRL Coast, who is running for union president.
Unfortunately for him, absentee ballot's coming at 3am, and then he just loses the election!
So there's a lot of gags in there.
And, uh, you know, it is what it is.
We're working on upping the quality, we're getting better microphones, and we're just learning as we go, because we're gonna make our own stuff.
That's all we can do.
We've got an episode coming up next week, um, inspired by our good friend George Alexopoulos, a.k.a.
GPrime85, which is going to be considered—aw man, the woke people are—their heads are gonna explode when they see this.
But we're gonna be crass, crude, Edgy.
You know, it's like, come on.
It's always sunny in Philadelphia.
Pull down some episodes or something like that.
No, we're gonna be, uh, you know, I guess, tastefully offensive.
Because they won't.
That's just so stupid.
You know, look, I don't think Tim Cass is gonna take political stances necessarily.
Like the company itself.
I don't care if the employees do.
You know, we've had employees post things about a variety of issues, and I'm just like... You know, the one thing I'll say is, we had an employee recently post something that was, like, real dark.
And then I was like, yo, that was real dark.
And I, like, I wouldn't say it was, it wasn't like hate speech or anything.
