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July 10, 2023 - Tim Pool Daily Show

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Elon Musk Calls Zuck A Cuck, Wants To MEASURE ZUCK'S JUNK, After Threads SHATTERS 100M Users

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		Now, let's jump into the first story.
		With everybody clamoring over the new Threads app by Meta, they're failing to miss the bigger picture.
		Mark Zuckerberg?
		Kind of a boring guy.
		Elon Musk?
		Incredibly funny guy.
		So which platform do you want to be on?
		Twitter is where it's at, man.
		Now, I guess the issue for Twitter is that they don't have the younger users.
		Instagram and TikTok do.
		TikTok's doing way better than Twitter in a lot of different ways.
		And with a lot of younger people using Instagram, the launch of threads puts more younger people into the conversation space than you may see on Twitter.
		There are a lot of younger people I know, Gen Z, we've had on TimCast IRL, who have mentioned, like, I don't use Twitter, I've never been on it.
		I only recently just signed up because I started doing this stuff.
		So the real opportunity for Instagram is creating a political space where it's easier for younger people to port their followers over.
		And that's the big challenge right now.
		But That's not what this story's about.
		This story's about why Twitter's more fun, and why if you are a young person, you can have more fun on Twitter.
		I don't think that really matters, me saying it, because it has to be a young person using it, and then telling their friends to use it, which is likely not going to happen, because Instagram's where the followers at.
		But, uh, let me just tell you a couple stories, so we can kick off the latest update in threads.
		Elon Musk snipes, quote, "'Zuck' is a cuck."
		Okay, about MetaBoss Zuckerberg after rival Twitter app launch.
unidentified		Okay.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, uh, Elon Musk did a little bit more than that.
		He did a little bit more than that.
		Okay, um, I just... At Elon, I didn't, but I didn't think it was real.
		Okay?
		I did not think it was real.
		You have, uh, this, this tweet.
		Data Hazard says, Elon protects free speech, Zuckerberg protects brand speech.
		And it shows this image where Wendy says, hey Zuck, you should go to space just to really make him mad, lol.
		And Zuckerberg posts a laughing emoji, and apparently Wendy's posts it twice.
		Which is just kind of weird.
		And Zuckerberg responds twice.
		They're two different posts, apparently, on Threads.
		Elon Musk responds, Zuck is a cuck.
		Well, okay.
		And then Elon Musk responds, I propose a literal dick measuring contest.
		11 hours ago.
		I'm sorry.
		Gen Z, if y'all want to go on a hangout with Mark Zuckerberg, okay.
		I'd rather hang out with Elon Musk.
		You know, because this is really funny.
		Like, he wants to measure Zuckerberg's penis.
		I'm gonna go ahead and say, I don't think he's being serious, but he did say literal.
		Um, I wonder what the response from everybody is.
		I hate it.
		Someone said, you forgot to log into the Elon Musk AOC account to post this.
		You forgot to tweet from your parody account.
		Dude, you don't need to flex on Zuck like that.
		You know, here's what it ultimately comes down to.
		Right now, the news is that Threads is the fastest growing social media app in history.
		100 million users in just five days.
		I don't think it's fair.
		I don't think it's fair.
		It is, it is, because what does it really mean anyway?
		But look, you launched TikTok, and TikTok within nine months got to 100 million users.
		I personally don't know if I believe all of that.
		We'll break it down.
		And there have been a few other apps that have done really, really well, really quickly.
		But Threads is just a component of Instagram.
		So, people use Instagram.
		I have like, I don't even know how many followers I have on Instagram.
		I've got a good amount of followers on Instagram.
		Let me pull it up.
		It's different from Twitter.
		What do I have?
		I've got, I don't even check this thing.
		382,000 followers on Instagram.
		I should probably post more, I guess.
		So, when you launch Threads, your followers poured over for the most part.
		It's not one for one.
		I have 382,000 followers on Instagram, but I think it translates so far only to like 13,000 on threads after a week.
		Granted, I don't really post on threads.
		I mean, if I started using it, I'd probably get more attention or whatever.
		The issue with threads is that Instagram is not a political space for me, but maybe this is the goal, and I gotta be honest, maybe it's a good thing.
		Who do I follow on Instagram?
		I follow some people I know.
		I follow some nature accounts.
		I think I follow some poker accounts, like Upswing Poker, the lodge poker club in Texas.
		I follow some scooter guys, some rollerbladers, some skateboarders, the Barricks.
		And, um, Instagram is really just kind of, uh, hobby stuff.
		You know?
		Fun, like, what's going on in the world kind of good fun.
		And, uh, when I go to the Exploration tab in Instagram, I typically get videos of dudes on scooters doing flares.
		Triple flares.
		Uh, man, I'm forgetting that guy's name.
	Uh, it's mostly action sports, poker, and cheeseburgers.
	I can't help it, man.
	You show me someone making a smash burger on Instagram, I have to click it.
	I have to.
	And they've got these videos where it's like, you guys know smash burgers.
	They cut the smash burger and then dip it in that sauce that Chipotle sauce.
	Yeah, I can't help it.
	So that's like all I'm getting fed constantly is food.
	You know, that's who I am.
	That's what I'm all about.
	It's not important to me.
	I am not passionate about it.
	You know, seeing a video of a cheeseburger, What was our plan?
	I was like, hey, we should make cheeseburgers on Monday.
	That's about it.
	Watching poker videos is just, it's fun to see how people play the game, because I like the game.
	Watching action sports, I, you'll be skating later today, for, you know, to do for exercise.
	And so these things are more ancillary to the greater elements of my life, which is news, politics, culture, etc., which is where Twitter comes in.
	My following on Instagram is fairly inane and inconsequential.
	I do follow like PragerU and a couple other personalities, but that's about it.
	So here's the challenge.
	If I'm gonna use threads in the way I normally use threads to understand and engage with conversations that matter, I have to re-curate my feed.
	Go in, unfollow a bunch of threads accounts.
	I just, cause I synced it and I said auto-follow, fine, whatever.
	Probably shouldn't have.
	Cause then I gotta go to Twitter and I gotta look at my curated list.
	And this is what matters.
	Twitter, how I operate, the things I see, the way I view the world, combination of factors.
	Reading the news all day every day, and then because of that actually becoming quite good at Scrabble!
	I read a lot of weird words all the time, and then I'm like, oh, here's a word.
	But also Twitter, where I've curated over time a list of personalities, lawyers, journalists, left, right, and center, disaffected liberals, libertarians, people I think that are bringing a good mix of things.
	I follow a bunch of leftists because I want to see what they're saying to better understand it.
	That's what Twitter does.
	I understand why a young person wouldn't be on that.
	But I tell you this, that does not mean that Twitter is down and out.
	It could just mean that as Gen Z ages, they will eventually sign up for Twitter.
	This may be the reality, it may not be.
	But I give it to you this way.
	When you were a kid, did you watch the news?
	Most of you are probably going to say no.
	To be fair, I actually did.
	I did.
	Mostly because I'd wake up and my dad would be playing the news.
	But I was always on the internet so I was always reading something and I ended up being... You know, I'm like 16.
	My friend told me this.
	We went to go skate.
	And I was like, did you hear about what happened with Bush and Cheney or something like that?
	And they're like, what are you talking about?
	Punk rock being a big influence.
	A lot of people who are into punk understood a little bit about politics.
	Granted, young leftist types.
	But for most people, you're not watching the news.
	You're young.
	You don't care about the news.
	So I'll tell you a story.
	Having dinner with some family, some extended family of mine.
	And, uh, you know, they were talking about how their kids don't care about the news and you will never convince them to watch the news.
	It's just not gonna happen.
	I was like, well, of course.
	Because the news is your world, not their world.
	Why would they want to watch it?
	But I'll tell you this.
	So I asked my second cousin, I guess?
	My cousin's kid.
	I was like, you don't care about the news?
	And she was like, no.
	She's like 14.
	She's like, no, I don't care about any of that stuff.
	And I was like, you will eventually.
	And then she said something like, I don't know about that.
	And I was like, but let me explain it to you.
	Is there someone in your class you really don't like?
	And she's like, yeah.
	And I'm like, it's like snooty girl or something.
	She's like, yeah.
	And then I was like, okay, now imagine that she becomes class president and sets the rules for you.
	And she went, no!
	And I was like, that's what the news is.
	Okay, for right now, you're entering high school.
	The only thing you really care about is what the other kids are doing.
	Instagram.
	So right now, your world is your peer group.
	Makes sense.
	You get older, all of a sudden that dude from high school, or some dude from some other high school, now all of a sudden he's running some big company, and you're like, that guy?
	No!
	And you want to know what they're doing.
	Donald Trump.
	Everybody knew Donald Trump.
	So when he runs for president, the news becomes something they pay attention to and care about.
	But do kids?
	They don't know who Donald Trump is.
	If, you know, millennials saw him at home alone.
	We saw him on The Apprentice.
	But Gen Z, they're like, I don't know, whatever.
	I'll give you another example.
	We had Vosh on the show.
	And I disagree with Vosh, but I respect him for coming on the show and giving his opinions.
	And the one thing I always say is, you're allowed to have opinions!
	You know what I mean?
	So, you know, we love having people like Destiny on the show.
	Had a lot of fun playing poker.
	He's a good dude.
	And we disagree on some things, we agree on a lot of things, and I think he's an honest guy with a different worldview.
	That's fine.
	And Vosh comes on the show, on Timcast IRL, and I asked him something about, you know, how could you vote for Joe Biden after eight years of the Obama administration and the atrocities and all these horrible things?
	And he was like, oh, I was a teenager, I have no idea.
	And there it is.
	This guy, he's a smart guy, smart guy.
	You know, there's a lot of reasons to criticize that guy.
	Some people criticize him for a lot of things, maybe gross things, whatever.
	I don't know a lot about him, but I can say this.
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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You're in your mid to late 20s.
		You're talking all this politics and you didn't pay attention to the news during the Biden
		administration.
		I'm sorry, during the Obama administration with Biden as vice president.
		So you don't know what we, who are older, you know, late 30s, know and experience.
		I'm in my mid-20s during the Obama stuff, and people are asking me about the battle in Seattle and the World Trade Organization.
		I don't know.
		I don't know.
		And so I'm listening to them, but I'm experiencing what's going on with Obama.
		I'm hearing about what's going on in the past.
		Enter this reality where we get Donald Trump, Joe Biden's running against him, and I say, how could you vote for Biden after everything we've seen?
		And so here we are.
		Young people did not care about news back then because they were in high school.
		Hence, this is where we are.
		So the interesting thing, to loop it all back to this, the question is, will this be a world where young people are on Instagram, but when they get older, they'll switch to Twitter?
		The big argument being made right now is that Threads is the Twitter killer and with 100 million users in just five days, it's going to put an end to Twitter.
		That may be, but it may not be.
		We don't know for sure.
		There's a possibility, but I kind of doubt it.
		The argument being made by many on the left is that Twitter traffic is tanking!
		We have this from Matthew Prince, the Guardian, all too glee to mention that people are jumping ship to Blue Sky and Mastodon.
		I do not believe this shows what they're claiming it shows.
		Let me show you the tweet.
		Matthew Prince says, Twitter traffic tanking.
		Take a look at this, this graph from Cloudflare.
		We can see that in January they were ranked 32, bobbing up and down.
		The reason the graph is so spiky is because you're near the top, so you're moving only one or two spaces.
		As of July, six months, or seven months later, Twitter is now at rank 37, I believe.
		On this chart it says 39, but I believe it's currently 37.
		I could be wrong.
		Actually, I think I can just pull it up.
		Where are we at?
		Is it 37?
		Maybe it's better than that.
		Maybe it's 32?
		Where is it at?
unidentified		37!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I was right.
		Okay, 37.
		So it's improved a little bit over when that guy posted it.
		And he's saying, oh look, you know, Twitter traffic is tanking.
		Yeah, I don't think that shows what you think it shows.
		It may be fair to say that many people are leaving the Blue Sky Mastodon or whatever since Elon Musk's takeover.
		Fair point.
		That does not mean Twitter will cease to exist.
		All the people who are desperate to leave, of course are desperate to leave, and a bunch of these people are going to be desperate to go to anywhere else because they hate Elon Musk.
		Tribalism.
		What happens?
		Twitter will become right, threads will become left.
		What we've already seen with Zuckerberg's threads is that there have been conservative personalities who are already censored.
unidentified		Why?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Because it's literally just Instagram.
		People are wondering why it is that personalities like DC Drano, a conservative commentator, when you try to follow him says, are you sure you want to follow me?
		Posts fake news.
unidentified		Facebook is awful.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So you know what's going to happen?
		Elon Musk is creating an open space.
		Zuckerberg is creating a closed space.
		Zuckerberg will have the nice, upscale, waspy neighborhood.
		And Elon Musk will have the bad boys downtown hanging out at the skate park.
		Figuratively.
		That is to say that if you want to go on threads, and you want to say something like, I had a wonderful time at the Wonder Bread Factory, the bread is delicious, and the white bread I make my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with, it's very wholesome, very nice, and to be serious, uh, Wonder Bread's still around?
		Like, it would be cool, I do like watching these kinds of things on Instagram, I like watching, like, how it's made, you know, it's like, how marbles are made, and then, you know, things like that.
		But if I want to have a conversation about, say, like, Obama executing in an extrajudicial assassination a 16-year-old American citizen, threads ain't it?
		I sometimes post memes and screenshots of articles on Instagram.
		You know, it's whatever.
		I think it's more of a visual platform, so the people who... Well, you know, I would say, if you're following me on Instagram, you're probably getting a bunch of random nonsense.
		I'm not using Instagram for anything effective.
		Perhaps that should change.
		Maybe what we should do is just start posting videos to threads, but I do believe it is likely that we'll just get banned.
		Take TikTok.
		Take a look at the domain rankings we have here pulled up, and I'll go to page number one, TikTok CDN number nine.
		It is massive.
		Okay.
		Google, Google APIs, Facebook number three, Apple four, G-Static, Google video.com.
		Seriously, Google video still.
		Microsoft, Amazon AWS, TikTok CDN, Rootservers.net.
		Very interesting.
		Top 200 domains.
		TikTok's massive.
		But you know the problem with TikTok?
		We're banned.
		TimCast IRL got banned for no reason.
		None.
		And a lot of people, and we have millions upon millions, I've had people come and be like, you're losing a lot of money by not posting on TikTok, blah, TikTok, blah, blah, blah.
		And I'm like, they banned us!
		And so they're like, well make a new one, and I'm like, sure, fine, okay, I guess, whatever.
		We gotta up our social media game, sure.
		And, uh, we need to hire some people.
		The video, we need clips from here to be posted there.
		We're doing really well on YouTube Shorts, by the way.
		We've got one clip at like 10 million views or something like that, so that's going really well.
		Uh, and YouTube's really pushing Shorts.
		YouTube's doing really well, whatever.
		Ultimately, the point is, if you can't have a cultural and political conversation on TikTok or on threads, they're never going to be the dominant news platform.
		That's it.
		End of story.
		What's going to happen is that there will be people who use it, but they're not going to have any meaningful debate or conversation.
		That may work very well for the left, and there are some good things to this, which I'll explain in a second.
		But ultimately, the arena of politics is a dirty one.
		So if Elon Musk is offering up an opportunity to actually have that debate, people are going to want to have it.
		If Mark Zuckerberg is denying that, well then you're going to get cable TV, and with Twitter you're going to get authentic, you know, interpersonal conflict.
		Mark Zuckerberg is trying to create the networked cable TV version of Twitter, with threads.
		It's going to be controlled, narrative controlled, etc.
		They already control the narrative on Instagram in a stupid way.
		You'll see things where it's like, you'll make a joke, and they'll be like, FAKE NEWS!
		It's like, I was being sarcastic, like, what is this?
		You'll post something where it'll, like, you could post something, I see this all the time from James Lindsay, James Lindsay will post an article and they'll fact check it as false, using a fact check for a different story.
		And I'm just like, wow.
		And then it'll block what you see.
		And it won't be shared or shown.
		That's what they want to do.
		The censored version of the internet.
		They tried to censor Twitter, they couldn't do it.
		They go to Zuck and they're saying, how about this?
		How about you launch this app, we'll push it, the media outlets that are favorable to us will push it, and then we will sink Elon.
		Good luck.
		This is the battle over collective control versus meritocracy.
		And we will see.
	The difference being it's not, I should say, the one thing to consider is it's not absolute.
	Okay?
	You've got Instagram with massive infrastructure behind it.
	Threads is a component of this, being backed by major institutions and financial resources.
	Elon Musk under fire and under attack in every direction.
	I gotta tell you though, I would rather hang out in the place where Elon Musk is saying he wants to measure Mark Zuckerberg's penis than Threads, where it's like a brand I've never heard of being shoved into my feed, and then it's... Look, I open up Threads.
	I'm gonna open it up right now, and this is the issue.
	I'm gonna open up Threads right here.
	What do we got?
	And I'm gonna see, what do I get sent?
	Alright, it's loading, it's loading.
	Come on, load faster.
	What do I get sent?
	Alright.
	It looks like they're trying to clean it up a little bit because I'm just getting James Lindsay and PragerU.
	Morning Brew.
	I don't know what that is and I don't care.
	More Morning Brew.
	I don't care.
	Memes Are.
	I don't know what that is.
	Memes Are again.
	Morning Brew.
	I don't follow these accounts.
	Why are you sending me this stuff?
	Look at this one.
	One's being like, Twitter is really, really bad.
	It's literally threads telling you how bad Twitter is.
	Why are you sending me this?
	Okay, who is this?
	I don't know who this person is.
	And all of these things it's sending me have a little plus sign.
	I don't follow this.
	A Realty Group?
	Why?
	No one I know is interacting with this.
	I don't interact with this.
	I don't know who these people are.
	This is why Threads is trash.
	But that's their point.
	That's their plan.
	Narrative control.
	AOC getting shoved down my- I don't follow AOC.
	I never followed AOC.
	I don't comment on AOC stuff.
	Why are they sending me her and Ted Cruz?
	Narrative control.
	What don't they want?
	People like me should not exist, okay?
	TimCast should not exist.
	And they have to just grin and bear it.
	But let me tell you, the idea that some mixed-race high school dropout from the South Side of Chicago with crooked teeth would have a prominent political commentary show is unheard of.
	It's supposed to be a suit-wearing dude with a shining pearly white grin, overdone makeup, sitting on TV telling you exactly what you're supposed to know.
	And then the internet came, and they lost control.
	It's partly how Donald Trump got elected the first time.
	Memes.
	And so now they want narrative control back.
	Alex Jones wasn't supposed to build a following.
	Paul Joseph Watson, Malia Nablus, these people were not supposed to be allowed to get prominence.
	In the traditional world of cable and network television, they never would have given these people a time slot.
	But with the power of the internet, and the rapid sharing of information, we did it ourselves.
	They have been, for the longest time, trying to wrestle that control away from all of us.
	First, through censorship, which caused a massive backlash, and resulted in more personalities becoming successful, and now, threads.
	It's not all darkness, it's not all bad.
	Alright?
	There are some potentially good things.
	The first is, it may be better, in some ways, for us.
	And yes, you don't want to hear it, but it is true.
	If the feed is only the, um, If the feed on threads is the likes of Ted Cruz, Ben Shapiro, the Young Turks and AOC, it will be a cleaner, more centralized debate around a higher level of conversation.
	As opposed to a bunch of random people screaming, insulting people, and posting really awful things.
	I am not saying that it is an overall net positive.
	I think it's an overall net negative.
	Meritocracy is substantially better.
	But I will be the first to say, the chaos and psychotic behaviors that we see from many people freely just attacking the internet, it's a bad thing.
	But you know what?
	Freedom is dangerous.
	And so that means we have to accept it, which is why I say there is a positive.
	Like, let me put it this way.
	I want to make sure I'm being clear, and I'm not saying it is the way we should go.
	I'm saying there are positives.
	Let's talk about authoritarian dictatorship.
	Are there positives?
	Of course.
	Is it the way you want to go?
	Absolutely not, because the negatives are substantially greater.
	My point is this.
	You want absolute police force?
	You want total dictatorial control?
	Surprise, surprise.
	Criminals are punished, the streets are free of crime, but everyone is terrified and the innocent are suffering.
	Not the way we want to go.
	Freedom is dangerous.
	That's why I choose Twitter.
	Knowing full well it's full of crackpots and a-holes and a CEO who wants to measure his rival CEO's penis.
	Because I'm like, look man, give me the weird, the wild, and let me sort it out.
	Let me figure it out.
	Let the strongest survive.
	Let there be true merit in how we determine who is prominent in this debate stage.
	Threads?
	They want to go the curated route.
	So here's what I think we'll end up seeing.
	Threads is going to be the mainstream Taylor Swift of social media.
	Congratulations.
	And Twitter is going to be the bad boy in the backstreet.
	And Twitter is going to be more so the, I don't want to say black market, but more so the real world, the frontier.
	And Threads is going to be New York City.
	That's it.
	So you want to go out in the middle of nowhere and have Burning Man?
	That's going to be Twitter.
	You wanna go and have your nice little Silicon Valley meeting with button-up shirts and talking about the latest TPS reports?
	That's gonna be threads.
	There's no reason to abandon either platform.
	I don't see a big reason to use threads, because I don't think it's gonna be the cultural hub that... Well, actually, in terms of culture, it may actually do fairly well.
	But politics?
	Not so convinced.
	Because Meta is going to start deleting a bunch of stuff that gets into political arguments, hands down.
	We're already seeing censorship.
	Elon Musk is saying, you want to debate?
	You're good.
	Thread's saying, no debate, no debate.
	So what happens?
	Perhaps the left leaves Twitter and goes to Threads, and then they create their little narrative bubble.
	We know, with Bud Light, the success of Sound of Freedom, that's not working.
	So ultimately what will happen is, you will have people on the right and disaffected liberals using Twitter and debating, and people on the left, with their thumbs up their bums, on Threads, having no communication with anybody.
	Just sitting there, but that's what they do as it is.
	Maybe that's really what they want.
	So in the end, it could potentially just be a massive, massive net negative.
	One thing's for sure, I do not see threads taking over in terms of Twitter becoming irrelevant or anything like that, but I do see threads succeeding in that they already have 100 million users.
	The question is, can they maintain this?
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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's really about whether or not there is a path to monetization.
		That's it.
		That's seriously it.
		If I as a new creator look to these platforms and think I can succeed, I will use that platform.
		Rumble has cracked that barrier.
		I now tell people this, like, if you're gonna start a channel, Rumble's probably the place to do it.
		I mean, you'd be stupid not to do both.
		Put your videos on YouTube and Rumble, but Rumble, you're probably going to see better growth in the short term.
		The overall market cap for Rumble is smaller than YouTube, obviously, but Rumble is where you're likely going to grow faster without being curtailed by ridiculous censorship.
		YouTube?
		It's become a nightmare.
		It's a challenge.
		We'll see.
		Maybe threads, because of its connection to Instagram, will offer people a faster path towards growth.
		And that's what Twitter needs to figure out.
		If a young person signs up, do they make followers?
		If the answer is yes, you win.
		So I'll tell you this, Elon.
		There's really a simple way to win this fight.
		You wanna know what the simple reason is?
		You need to find young Twitter users, people who are 18 or whatever, and suggest people follow them.
		That's right.
		Let me lay it down very simply.
		18-year-old signs up for Twitter and says, I'll follow some people on here.
		Makes a few posts.
		Those posts should be amplified.
		Suggested, recommended, whatever.
		Then, that kid, who's a freshman in college or a senior in high school, all of a sudden overnight has 2,000 followers.
		That's huge for the average person.
		They're then gonna go to their high school friends and be like, no, no, no, follow me on Twitter, man.
		I got way more followers there.
		I don't, I don't, I have like a hundred followers on Threads.
		I don't even care.
		Like, nobody follows me there.
		And then their friends are like, okay, I'll use Twitter.
		That's how you do it.
		Elon, I hope you're listening.
		Promote young people, give them the opportunity to be heard, and they will choose your platform over someone else's.
		They will then encourage their friends to use it, and you will shut down the rivals.
		If you don't, Threads will.
		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.
		The presidential races are heating up, and we're all waiting with bated breath to figure out who is the Libertarian Party's candidate.
		We don't know for sure, but okay.
		In the meantime, the news coming out of D.C.
		is that Joe Biden mercilessly abuses his staff.
		And you know what?
		It's a good thing.
		Yo, these people are in a cult.
		Their acting like being mercilessly berated by a man is normal.
		Part of the initiation.
		In fact, if Joe Biden isn't screaming in your face, it means he doesn't respect you.
		Yeah, some are calling it Stockholm Syndrome.
		That they are so desperate to be a part of whatever their ridiculous cult is, they will line up behind anybody.
		But you know what?
		As we talk about politics, I've got choice words for all the other candidates.
		Man, y'all need to chill out!
		You got DeSantis people.
		I'm sorry.
		I'm just gonna tell you.
		The DeSantis fans are some of the most insufferable people.
		Not everyone on their campaign.
	Not everyone who supports them.
	I'm saying he just happens to have some very serious sycophants.
	Even when I call out the media for lying about DeSantis, they're still trying to insult me.
	So please, please.
	Fine.
	Let DeSantis lose.
	Yeah, right now the media is coming out saying that Ron DeSantis claims Trump colluded with Big Tech to hurt himself.
	That's not really what happened.
	DeSantis criticized the intelligence agencies and said Trump should have fired him.
	DeSantis is correct, of course.
	And the response I get from a bunch of DeSantis supporters when I tweet this out is, yeah, well, you know what, you're, where's the Gwochak?
	You know, you're a Trump pundit, blah, blah, blah.
	And I gotta, I gotta imagine.
	I'm assuming these DeSantis supporters aren't actually DeSantis supporters.
	They are people masquerading as DeSantis supporters in an effort to make Trump win.
	Because I'll tell you what happens for a lot of people.
	If you're just hearing constant insults from a group of people, they're going to direct that at Ron DeSantis.
	And Ron DeSantis doesn't have the wherewithal to tell people who support him not to do it.
	And so there's no real winning this.
	If people really are running sock puppets, pretending to be DeSantis supporters, while hindering his campaign, how do you compete against it?
	I think the reality is, Occam's razor suggests, these are just actual DeSantis supporters who are insufferable.
	But we'll talk about that.
	The first thing I'll talk about is the insufferable nature of Biden supporters.
	And then, yes, I will talk about a bit of the insufferable nature of Trump supporters.
	Because, oh boy, as we get into the presidential season, there is one thing that I believe we can guarantee.
	People will be turning off their TVs, tuning out and saying, y'all can go do whatever you want because the lying is annoying.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Here's the Axios story.
	In public, President Biden likes to whisper to make a point.
	In private, he's prone to yelling.
	Behind closed doors, Biden has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him.
	Some take a colleague almost as a shield against a solo blast.
	The president's admonitions include, GD, how the F don't you know this?
	Don't effing BS me!
	Get the F outta here!
	Oh, man.
	According to current and former Biden aides who have witnessed and been on the receiving end of such outbursts, why it matters, the private eruptions paint a more complicated picture of Biden as a manager and president than his carefully cultivated image as a kindly uncle who loves aviator sunglasses and ice cream.
unidentified		All right.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		I'll take the bait.
		You know what?
		Here's what I think is actually happening.
		Joe Biden is demented.
		He is Incapable of doing this job, and he is a bumbling old man in aviator sunglasses and ice cream who whispers a lot.
		This is an attempt to cultivate an image of someone who is actually strong.
		Oh, behind closed doors, he's actually very aggressive and yelling at people.
		Yo, behind closed doors, dude's probably in a wheelchair with a blanket on his lap, in the sun, sleeping.
		They give him his oxygen blast and his NAD IV treatment and uppers to get him on TV for 10 minutes, and then he goes back and goes to sleep.
		He's had these press events where he's wearing- he's got CPAP marks on his face, and people- and they're saying like, those are marks from sleeping, because it's a CPAP machine, and it's like, dude... Okay.
		Perhaps that's true.
		But you mean to tell me that he woke up, put on a suit, took a shower, got ready, and the marks remained on his face?
		You know, something just doesn't add up with that.
		Unless it ain't a CPAP machine, it's something else.
		Maybe they have him on supplemental oxygen after he's already ready, right before he goes out to make sure he is spry.
		Because old man be sundownin'.
		Look at this one.
		Some Biden aides think the president would be better off occasionally displaying his temper in public as a way to assuage voter concerns the 80-year-old president is disengaged and too old for the office.
		Casey, you see, they're really trying to ham this one up.
		Oh, you know, we wish he would be angry in public to prove it, because he's actually very tough.
		Sure.
		This is where we're at.
		The Biden administration knows that when it comes to the election, he ain't got it.
		Let's take a look over the prediction markets for the Democrats.
		Joe Biden currently leading the primary polling with 68 cents on predicted.
		Do you know why this is apocalyptically bad for Joe Biden?
		Because he's the incumbent!
		There should not be a primary, but the fact that we have one shows it.
		Now, Robert Kennedy Jr., okay, at 11 cents.
		You know, you might argue they don't really want to have a primary, they're not intending to have a primary, but he's being challenged by RFK.
		Okay, well RFK maybe isn't your typical establishment Democrat, but Gavin Newsom's right there getting ready for his national tour.
		You think he's not gonna run?
		The idea that Joe Biden will be the presidential nominee is shocking to me.
		Like that people believe he will be.
		He's in his 80s.
		He's well past the average life expectancy for an adult American male.
		I wish him the best.
		I think he should use the best of his years and go have a good day with all that money he got from China.
		Or, you know, wherever it came from.
		Or, uh, I'm sorry, from his son.
		Is that the allegation?
		Let's just say, wherever the money reportedly came from, I don't know.
		I hope he enjoys it.
		But it's time to move on.
		And I think the prediction markets show that, and this is an attempt to just make it seem like, well, you know, he's actually really tough.
		This is going to be a fun election season, but the reality here is, I find all of it insufferable, everyone's lying, and I'm just... I myself am ready to check out.
		Because I ask myself this question, when I'm producing a segment as we begin to track the presidential election, should I?
		And I'm like, a lot of people aren't going to want to watch it.
		Of course, as you know, I like to hang out at the poker room, talking to a guy who said, hey man, you know, used to watch your show all the time.
		I said, used to?
		And he was like, I just can't do politics anymore.
		I'm like, I hear that.
		I hear that, dude.
		Because...
		It is so dirty.
		It is so just awful, the lies, the cheating, the stealing.
		Take a look at this.
		Ron DeSantis plummeting in the prediction markets, down to 22 cents, just getting worse and worse.
		Trump, of course, on the rise.
		Now, most people right now are predicting that Joe Biden will be the president in 2025.
		He's going to win the 2024 presidential election.
		Donald Trump with 31 cents, DeSantis with 14.
		I don't think it's funny that Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy are doing so well in the primary polling, but they're not registering at all in the who will win the presidential election.
	Even Pete Buttigieg is on the list and they're not.
	But you really think Joe Biden?
	I'm sorry, that sounds like a really, really bad bet.
	Now the question about Ron DeSantis, I think that's also a really bad bet.
	I do not see Ron DeSantis taking it.
	Let's talk news and the presidential races on the Republican side.
	Who might be Trump's pick for vice president?
	A look at the central questions, potential contenders, and how each might fit.
	There's Trump pointing to Carrie Lake.
	I don't see it.
	Carrie Lake is running in Arizona.
	That's the path forward for her.
	Arizona Senate seems to make a lot of sense.
	If Trump does win, it would make sense that he would appoint her as press secretary.
	She would do a fantastic job.
	Let's see if they give us a list.
	They don't.
	Do they really?
	Okay, the base and the loyalty plays.
	You got Carrie Lake, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Marsha Blackburn, and Josh Hawley.
	I don't see it.
	I don't see it.
	Carrie Lakes a maybe, but I really don't think so because she's got her eyes set on Arizona and she wants to win there.
	Sarah Huckabee Sanders?
	I don't see it.
	She just got elected governor.
	She's got a path there.
	It would be weird if she just jumped ship.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene?
	Perhaps.
	It's a maybe, but I'm leaning towards... I don't know about that one.
	I don't see it.
	Possibly.
	That's a possibility.
	Probably our nos from me, I don't see it.
	Tim Scott, possibly.
	That's a possibility.
	Stefanik, no way.
	Haley, no way.
	Reynolds, no way.
	Kristi Noem, maybe.
	And then we come to Ron DeSantis.
	You got Glenn Youngkin, but I really doubt it.
	Ron DeSantis is, I'm gonna go ahead and say, just an outright no.
	Because his base has been insufferable.
	He's backed by neocons.
	I don't see this bridge being mended.
	It is insufferable dealing with DeSantis supporters.
	And you know what?
	If you find yourself as a DeSantis supporter, y'all better do some strong reflecting.
	Because the tweets you send at me and whatever you're saying, I don't care.
	I'm gonna call it like I see it.
	Even when I called the media for lying about DeSantis, DeSantis supporters are still insulting me and still commenting negative things and being generally insufferable.
	And you know what?
	I'm not so emotionally shallow that some random moron on Twitter insulting me is going to make me not support Ron DeSantis.
	The issue with Ron DeSantis is that his campaign put out a deepfake image to smear Trump, and they won't own up to it.
	It is pathetic!
	It is the most spineless and pathetic thing a presidential candidate could be.
	We are not in the days of Hillary Clinton putting on a fake Southern drawl.
	Okay?
	So how about you just own it and we can all move on?
	But if you can't do that, you don't have my support.
	Now that also means that if the media is lying, I'm not going to ignore it.
	I'm going to call it the media for lying.
	Which brings me to this insane lie about Ron DeSantis, which of course was pushed by many Trump supporters.
	From the Hill, DeSantis accuses Trump administration of colluding with big tech to bury Hunter Biden story in 2020, as Michael Malice would say, factual but not truthful.
	The reality is Ron DeSantis correctly criticized Donald Trump for not firing people in the intelligence agencies who were violating the First Amendment rights of many American citizens.
	And oh boy, Trump supporters, y'all don't want to play this game with me.
	You're gonna lose.
	That being said, I'm loving the incessant whinging from DeSantis supporters, even when I call the media for lying.
	I'll say it again.
	Ain't nobody getting quarter here.
	Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Sunday accused Trump administration agencies of colluding with big tech to bury the Hunter Biden story.
	Yes, that's technically the truth, but it's factual and untruthful.
	They make it seem like Trump himself played a role in it or something like this.
	Spare me.
	Here's the actual quote.
	I look back at the Hunter Biden censorship, which was a huge, huge deal to happen in the 2020 election.
	And yet those were Donald Trump's own agencies that were colluding with big tech.
	I would never allow that to happen.
	I would fire those people immediately, DeSantis told Maria Bartiromo in an interview on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures.
	Republicans have raised concerns about alleged collusion, et cetera, et cetera.
	And what do we see from many Trump supporters?
	Jack Masobic, a good friend, he said, quote, he colluded against himself.
	It's a mischaracterization.
	I don't take kindly to it.
	Laura Loomer and many others also made similar points.
	Now, you can argue Jack Posobiec is being tongue-in-cheek when he says he included himself against himself.
	Jack Posobiec is not literally attacking Ron DeSantis.
	He's just putting it in quotes.
	So, you know, this one I'm less critical of, but still.
	A mischaracterization on the part of the Hill that should be called out by Trump supporters.
	Don't play that DeSantis game.
	Don't play that Democrat game.
	Don't play that neocon neolib corporate politician garbage.
	Just say, look man, here's why I disagree with DeSantis.
	This is not true.
	Let's talk about it.
	A lot of people have said, no, come on, Trump didn't know about the collusion, so he could not have even fired them.
	DeSantis is misguided.
	Wrong.
	I went to the White House Social Media Summit.
	Donald Trump knew there was a problem of censorship, and he should have investigated.
	But he wasn't doing it.
	And they say, but he didn't know what the agencies were doing.
	Sure, he may have known there was a problem.
	No.
	There were many people talking about this.
	There were lawsuits.
	I was in a room full of people.
	This was a part of the conversation.
	We did not know to what extent the involvement existed, but enough was there for anyone in the Trump administration to begin looking into this, and they could have uncovered it.
	They did not.
	This is not a question of Donald Trump ignoring a problem.
	It's a question of them dropping the ball.
	Which is much less serious.
	My point here is, to say Trump should have fired them, a little bit of an overreach.
	Trump didn't know.
	My response would be Trump should have known.
	He should have looked into this.
	However, I'm just going to tell you right now, everybody just pushing whatever they want to push.
	It is just so insufferable, to say it again.
	Yeah, you know, look, this is the first presidential primary we've had in a long time on the Republican side.
	And, you know, it's just, ah jeez, you had Trump and everybody else, and I wasn't doing hard commentary, and now we're coming on, you know, it's been a while, it's been quite a long time, eight years or so to the next primary.
	Can you believe it?
	And now you can see all the Republicans coming at each other's throats.
	It's cringe.
	Just, I'm sorry, it is.
	But I gotta be honest, the Trump supporters are being a bit more honest about it than the DeSantis supporters are.
	The DeSantis supporters are acting just like Democrats, mischaracterizing Donald Trump, things like this.
	When the Trump supporters do it to DeSantis, I'm gonna call it out all the same.
	But, sorry guys, no quarter here.
	Y'all are gonna be insufferable and insult me even if I caught the media for lying.
	I am not going to be defending you.
	Cernovich, with the, one of the best points, That has been made in a while.
	We saw Candace Owens over the Daily Wire say that I'm sorry.
	DeSantis' campaign is done, okay?
	He's failed, he's made too many mistakes, it's over.
	Cernovich says there's no path for him to the presidency.
	I agree.
	He says literally all DeSantis had to do was walk inside a movie theater for Sound of Freedom, and he'd be getting non-stop coverage for all the right reasons.
	Without getting into it with Trump, they can't even do basics.
	They don't understand anything.
	He has no path to the presidency.
	It's really amazing.
	The Sound of Freedom, a tremendously important piece of culture media that we have produced here in the United States, It was made five years ago.
	It was recently released.
	It's smashing the box office on track to make 40, 50 million bucks in its first week.
	I will tell you this all right now, my friends.
	Go see this movie.
	It is a great movie.
	I say 10 out of 10.
	And the reason why, as I've said before, strikes at a real-world issue, based on a true story.
	So the story matters, but it's extremely well done.
	You will be on the edge of your seat.
	You will be in tears.
	You will be having a true experience of the theaters not had in a long time.
	I love me some superhero movies.
	They're fun entertainment.
	This was something a bit more.
	It was an entertaining movie with some good action, some suspense, some drama, some plotting and like a heist.
	And the story mattered.
	It's really great.
	It's really, really great.
	Ultimately, back to the presidency, any one of the Republican candidates could have went to see this movie then come out and they're not doing it.
	Because they don't got their finger on the pulse.
	Cernovich is correct.
	Could you imagine if Ron DeSantis went to see this movie, photos being taken of him as he goes in, he comes out and says, what a truly amazing film, really well done guys.
	These are the kind of things we should be focusing on fighting.
	Trafficking is a serious problem.
	Let's bring about some positive change in this world.
	Thank you.
	Boom!
	Spike in the polls.
	Why is it that Ron DeSantis is dropping in the polls?
	Take a look at this from Interactive Polls.
	2024 general election, Florida.
	Trump, 49 points above, 49% to Biden's 39%.
	But hold on there!
	DeSantis is doing better.
	Unsurprising in Florida.
	DeSantis versus Biden in this state, 49 to 36.
	He actually finds a decent lead.
	I think I retweeted it, however.
	I want to, here we go.
	However, in Florida, Trump is leading DeSantis by 20 points.
	That's fascinating.
	When it comes to Trump versus Biden in Florida, Trump wins by 10.
	When it comes to DeSantis versus Biden, DeSantis wins by 13.
	That stands to reason that you'd say most people think DeSantis should be the candidate if they're in Florida.
	Not so.
	Not so.
	It could be among moderates, and this is important and it shows you the rift.
	When it comes to the Republican primary, Trump is up 20 points.
	If you put it two-way, Trump is up 17 points.
	That means, news for the Trump supporters, DeSantis does well among people who are not Republicans.
	And there's an opportunity there.
	But if you cannot win DeSantis because you are attacking from the right and it's not working, you're gonna lose.
	DeSantis attacked Trump on LGBT issues.
	L-B-G-T-L-G-B-T issues.
	We saw it.
	And I think DeSantis deserves credit to a great degree.
	I believe, to a certain degree, is a mischaracterization of Trump's position.
	But Trump, you know, there are some areas that DeSantis has done way, way better.
	And that's what we like him for.
	His policies on getting these books out of schools, culture war issues, keeping children out of sex shows and all that stuff.
	Don't.
	We don't want children being abused.
	He's doing a good job.
	COVID policy did a good job.
	Trump, you can say he didn't do as good a job.
	The problem?
	He doesn't actually know how to win a Republican primary.
	Trump won a Republican primary while supporting LGBTQ issues.
	Isn't that something?
	DeSantis could have just shown up to that movie.
	He'd be winning.
	Instead, what do we see?
	Unfortunately for Ron DeSantis, he keeps dropping.
	And it's sad to see.
	Let's take Tim Scott out of here.
	And you can see, DeSantis continues to drop.
	DeSantis was at, let's see, where we had $0.34 per share one month ago.
	After a month, he has dropped down to $0.22.
	These are not polls.
	You need to understand predicted and why I think predicted is actually better than many polling.
	Predicted are individuals who think there is a path to profitability in accurately predicting who will win.
	These are people who are watching the news, reading, and all coming together and buying and trading shares, which shows you the mentality of those who are tracking the news.
	I'm sure some people come in to buy shares, don't pay attention, and say, eh, it'll probably be Trump.
	But most of these people are trying to game a system to make money.
	You buy a share to say it's at 22 cents, you hope it goes to 24, you sell it a profit.
	They're suggesting as the number goes down, the likelihood of him winning is decreasing.
	And Donald Trump is now at 60 cents.
	He's the favorite.
	That means if you buy one share at 60 cents, and Trump becomes the nominee, you get a dollar.
	Less than one for one.
	If you buy a share of DeSantis and he becomes the nominee, you're getting nearly five times your money.
	Seems like a bet worth making to the average person, right?
unidentified		No.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Because the average person, and this is why the price is going down, is saying, I don't think it's worth it.
		Five times my money?
		Yeah, but he's not gonna win!
		That's unfortunate.
		I like DeSantis, I do.
		But he's surrounded by really awful people.
		He's got a bad press team.
		They are some of the worst.
		They have been spiraling his campaign.
		And it's palpable!
		You can see it!
		Yo, pay attention to DeSantis' campaign!
		They don't.
		They don't.
		And then, of course, we've got the endless scandals and controversies.
		He just... He can't handle it.
		Cernovich said there's no path to the presidency.
		Candace Owens said he's done.
		I don't know that he's done.
		I don't want to make a bold statement because I really don't know.
		You know, who knows?
		22 cents?
		We'll see.
		But I do feel like with all the blunders, they're in serious trouble.
		I don't think he has what it takes.
		You can look at the fervent zealotry of the Biden camp, willing to just pretend or defend abuse from the guy.
		Ron DeSantis can't muster it.
		And his supporters, I said it before, they're just screeching, screeching endlessly and driving people away.
		You know, I'll tell you this.
		The insufferable nature of the DeSantis supporters makes me really, really, really hope he loses, just to spite them.
		But I'm not so emotionally shallow as I've said.
		I just want a good leader.
		And I think Ron DeSantis has done a good job in a lot of ways.
		I think he's better than Trump in a lot of ways.
		Policy-wise, leadership-wise, you know what the problem is?
		For one, I really want to see bureaucrats fired.
		Weird.
		That's what I want to see.
		I think Trump's more likely to do it.
		Now I'm getting attacked by DeSantis supporters for it?
		But Ron doesn't have the charisma, and he doesn't have the tact to weed out the bad people surrounding him.
		That's why I think it's more likely that he loses.
		I guess we'll see.
		I'll leave it there!
		Next segment's coming up at 4 p.m.
		on this channel.
		Thanks for hanging out, and I will see you all then.
		I'm a big fan of Sound of Freedom.
		I think it's a fantastic movie.
		I think you'll be moved, you'll be on the edge of your seat, and hitting it out of the park.
		This is incredible!
		Sound of Freedom is a smashing success, projected to earn over $40 million in its opening week.
		Now, they did something interesting with their release.
		Sound of Freedom came out on the 4th of July.
		They had Monday previews, so basically, not the strongest day to put out a movie, but typically, it can work out depending.
		It's a holiday, people want to go out, they'll see a movie early in the day.
		What I saw when I was buying tickets at later showings had less seats sold.
		Earlier showings had more seats sold.
		I found that to be very interesting, but it makes sense.
		Fourth of July, you want to go out, you want to see explosions!
		We went and saw the movie.
		We brought a crew with us.
		I had heard that it was really, really good.
		And so, not typically the kind of movies I go to see.
	But I knew that it mattered.
	I am super excited to hear that it's earned over $40 million in its opening week.
	I really recommend you guys go see this for a couple reasons.
	One, it's a good movie.
	You'll enjoy yourself.
	If you've got time, if you're looking to do something, PG-13 movie.
	It's serious.
	It'll move you.
	You will be entertained.
	Not a lot of movies do that.
	I went and saw Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse.
	I was bored for three hours.
	One of our friends got up and walked out of the theater.
	I was really, really disappointed because the first Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse was a smash hit.
	I loved it.
	I thought it was fantastic.
	The second one is really bad.
	And so I'm like, oh man.
	You know, look, I'm all about superhero stuff and I like DC and Justice League and I went and saw The Flash.
	Flash is okay.
	But here we are.
	A movie that matters.
	Succeeding.
	There's another reason to go see this movie.
	We're building a parallel economy.
	And we're winning.
	It's something really incredible.
	Go to castbrew.com.
	Click the link in the description below.
	Buy coffee from us.
	We're doing really well with our sales.
	But the reason I bring this up is, for one, we sponsor ourselves.
	So when you buy our coffee, you're supporting this work and it helps supplement revenue so that we can keep doing more.
	But it's for the same reason that I tell you to go see Sound of Freedom.
	For the same reason I tell you to buy Jeremy's Chocolate or Jeremy's Razors.
	We must spend our money in places that benefit what we believe in.
	And it's working.
	The Post Millennial has a story breaking it down.
	They say Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 76% fresh score.
	I'm sorry, a cinema score.
	And 99% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
	It really is great.
	But you know what's really great?
	Two things.
	One, the corporate press cannot deny it.
	The numbers are there.
	They will try to smear it.
	They will try to lie about it.
	Don't work.
	Rolling Stone and a bunch of other leftists are like, it's a QAnon movie.
	Don't go see it.
	How creepy.
	It's like, here's a movie about a true story about a guy trying to save children from trafficking, which is a real problem, a serious problem.
	And they're like, it's QAnon.
	Yo, are you trying to imply that QAnon's real or something?
	Because I don't think so, okay?
	I don't like the conspiracy stuff.
	But what is this?
	There's this video clip I'll talk about later, where it's this guy saying the pedophilia is bad, and then someone's like, you're a homophobe!
	And he's like, what?
	He's like, why are you conflating those two things?
	You get the point.
	They come out, and they criticize a movie that's based on a true story, and they say QAnon links, and it's like...
	Are you trying to imply there's truth to Q?
	Because that stuff was just nonsensical, random posting on the internet.
	And this is a real thing.
	You know, this is what they try to do.
	The Q stuff is like people making predictions and people believing there's some agent or whatever.
	But sometimes people post real things.
	I mean, like, if you were to come out and be like, Russia is doing this thing and this thing's gonna happen for this reason.
	Everyone's like, whoa, this person knows.
	You couldn't be citing actual news.
	Like, trafficking is a problem.
	It does not mean the Q stuff is real.
	They're trying to discredit a true story.
	Creepy.
	But I love this.
	Look what Variety does.
	I can respect it to a certain degree.
	Because they have to acknowledge the reality.
	How Jim Caviezel's faith-based Sound of Freedom became this summer's unlikely box office hit.
	It's so cringe.
	This movie's not religious in any way.
	The closest thing you get to religion is they're like, this guy's like, why are you trying to save kids?
	And he goes, God's children are not for sale.
	Bang!
	What a quote.
	Anyone can understand this.
	You don't have to be a deist or a religiously or devout individual who believes in God.
	You can quite literally be an atheist and understand the concept of God's children.
	It doesn't mean to everyone the same thing.
	My point is this.
	If that's the best they have in calling it faith-based, that's pathetic.
	It's not.
	I'm sure for a lot of Christians, they would like it if it was.
	But I'm telling you, for the average person, you're not gonna see religion in this film.
	But this is what they try to do.
	Sound of Freedom, a religious thriller, led by Passion of the Christ star Jim Caviezel, is becoming an unlikely box office savior.
	Okay, I'll tell you this.
	If you're Christian or Catholic or in any way, you know, religious, well, you should absolutely go see this movie.
	Let them be the ones to tell you how great of a religious movie this is.
	Me?
	Let me speak for everybody who's more agnostic, secular, deist, or whatever.
	God's children, what does that mean to me?
	It means the children of the world.
	It means no one has the right to buy children.
	That's what it means.
	No one has that right.
	It means the children of humanity are protected by all of us together.
	And they're not for sale.
	For some, they quite literally believe God has granted these children this gift.
	And I get it.
	But I think they're trying to call it religious to make people not want to see it.
	Take a look at this.
	Sound of Freedom opened last Tuesday, generating a mighty $14.2 million on Independence Day.
	It picked up another $18.2 million between Friday and Saturday, enough to place third behind Insidious and Indiana Jones.
	It's playing in 2,850 North American theaters, a smaller footprint than Insidious and Indiana Jones.
	That's what really irks me.
	If they got into 4,600 theaters, they would be winning.
	I genuinely believe it.
	Because I've had people say to me, I want to go, but my theater's not playing it.
	And I gotta drive really, really far to try and find it.
	But you know what?
	I'll take it.
	Because this is a good movie.
	It is not a religious thriller.
	That is an attempt to drive away regular people because they fear a parallel economy.
	They fear that Angel Studios, who made a thriller about child trafficking and is winning, will actually gain more power, more resources, make more good movies, and push out the woke garbage from Hollywood.
	Angel Studios has another, there's a trailer in Sound of Freedom about a guy who gets like sent to another dimension.
	And I'm just like...
	You know, people are trying to claim it's all religious stuff, and they're like, Angel Studios, which makes religious movies, and I'm like, we tried to get a movie coming out, it's a sci-fi thriller about a guy who goes to an alternate reality to find his wife, or loses his wife or something.
	Like, I don't even know what it's really about.
	And, sure, there may be some elements of faith-based morality or something, but this movie's not like, God has willed it, and thou, you know, shalt, and like, it's like a dude, there's like an evil multidimensional being, and I'm like, it's just, it's like sci-fi, I don't understand.
	It's funny because when they do the woke stuff, they're like, it's totally normal when we inject our ideology into these movies.
	They don't come out and say, across the Spider-Verse, a leftist woke action hero, or action movie, you see.
	They're trying to paint it as an other.
	I am going to say it again.
	They're going to say, quote, Angel Studios says, as with our July 4th numbers, today's numbers exceed our
	expectations and we're going to continue this momentum,
	said Brandon Purdy, head of theatrical distribution at Angel Studios,
	the independent studio that's back in the film.
	We're getting messages from all over the country telling us about packed theaters, sold out theaters,
	and spontaneous standing ovations for the film in numerous locations.
	Seeing this film has become a must, thanks to incredible word of mouth.
	I am going to say it again, you will not be disappointed.
	for the first 45 minutes. It is like the theater crying.
	It's just every- I'm hearing sniffles, and you are holding back tears.
	Masterful performances.
	Excellent cinematography and scoring.
	I was deeply impressed.
	I like watching B-horror movies on Premiere.
	And so I often make fun of these, like, conservative and religious movies, because they're always kind of a little, like, the quality is lower.
	Nah, this one was perfectly done.
	It was- It's so good.
	Seriously.
	The first 45 minutes, you're like on the verge of tears.
	Then you start laughing and smiling as the heroes turn things around.
	There's some success coming.
	And then you laugh, you're smiling, and then you're crying again at the end.
	Dude, I don't want to spoil it, man.
	I don't want to spoil it.
	The opening scene, it's like a figurative sledgehammer right into your chest.
	I don't want to spoil it.
	I don't want to spoil it.
	But I will say a little bit.
	Of course, this movie about child trafficking opens with a very strong direct scene.
	You gotta see it.
	With, like, people talk about the first ten minutes of the movie up.
	You ever see the movie up?
	It's the old guy and the lady and it shows their life and how they always really wanted to travel but never could because problem after problem resulted in them taking their savings.
	One day she passes away and the old man is a widower and he's sad.
	And like that first ten minutes really, really just makes you cry, but it's not just tears of sadness.
	And up.
	You're like, hey look man, they never made their dream to travel to South America, but they lived a very, very happy life together, and it's sad to see this man, you know, lose his wife, but they were happy.
	And you cry.
	The first ten minutes.
	That's the only thing I cared about with the movie Up, the rest of it's kind of whatever.
	Very similar.
	The opening sequence to this?
	Man.
	It was like a figurative sledgehammer to the heart.
	I was getting- I was- It was crazy.
	You're like- You're watching the scene and you're terrified.
	It's like the scariest- Yo.
	I've seen horror movies.
	There's some really good- I watched The Innkeepers.
	I really like this one.
	It's like an indie film.
	I recommend The Innkeepers.
	It's actually scary.
	And like kind of disturbing.
	And it's just two people in a hotel.
	I like horror movies.
	I have never felt more fear when I saw this opening scene, and dread, because you know what's about to happen.
	And it's not demons.
	Some might say it's demons.
	It's not aliens, it's not monsters, it's not vampires.
	It's just some grody human doing something, and you're like, hearts racing.
	That opening scene, man.
	Gut-wrenching.
	Like, the ending of that opening scene will get you.
	I'm super excited to see this.
	I'm super excited.
	With what's going on with Bud Light, you can see that it's not just about conservatives or Christians, it's about us pushing back on the establishment.
	Setting the standard.
	With this $40 million the studio makes, I think the budget was like 15 million.
	They're gonna make more movies.
	They're gonna improve their quality.
	This is what we need.
	It's why I cheered on The Daily Wire.
	It's why TimCast.com is working on these things as well.
	And you know what?
	I know our quality's not even that good.
	We have Castcastle.
	And Castcastle is comedic silliness produced by people who are not actors.
	But it does well.
	You know, uh, CastCastle at TimCast.com if you haven't watched it.
	We don't have professional actors.
	We don't have professional, like, you know, Hollywood-level stuff.
	We got people who know what they're doing and are improving every day.
	But enough people subscribe just for CastCastle that it covers its costs and a little bit more.
	And so I'm looking at this like, hey look, maybe we're not going to start by making The Office.
	Or making 30 Rock.
	Because we don't have that money.
	We don't have that experience.
	But I'll tell you what we have to do.
	We just have to start doing it.
	And so if you come to TimCast.com to watch Cast Castle, you might chuckle a little bit, you'll laugh.
	If you like the crew and you like the work we do, you'll know and love the characters.
	But it makes enough money to fund itself.
	And that is everything.
	Because if we can build a library of shows that do just well enough that they're covering their costs, Then they're going to be people.
	Even if it's only 10,000 people per episode.
	I think that's where we typically are.
	It's like 10k people.
	10,000 people subscribe just to watch that and it pays the bills.
	Imagine those 10,000 people are not watching Big Bang Theory.
	They're not watching these woke leftist things.
	They're watching and supporting us.
	That's where we start.
	The Daily Wire's gotta do more.
	Angel Studios gotta do more.
	And when we do, we will fracture the stranglehold of the establishment monopoly on culture.
	And we're doing it.
	Bravo, Sound of Freedom.
	Go see it if you haven't already.
	I'll leave it there.
	Next segment's coming up at 6 p.m.
	on this channel.
	Thanks for hanging out, and I will see you all then.
	An absolute must-see video.
	It's been going viral for the past couple of weeks.
	It's gone viral before.
	And I think y'all need to see it.
	Laura DeBibo tweeted, Queer Theory Pedophilia Jeopardy with Professor Derek Jensen.
	If you haven't seen this, it's a must watch, believe me.
	Now, while I strongly recommend you just watch the video in its entirety,
	I'm going to play portions and comment on it, so I do think you should go to Twitter and watch the
	whole thing. But, uh, I'm going to play portions and comment on it, so I do think you should go to
	But I'm gonna play this for you, and I'm gonna bring some news context into this, but I will play for you this video.
	It's really amazing.
	This is a professor...
	Who is talking to students, and he gets accused of transphobia and homophobia for calling out pedophilia.
	Alright, let's play some of this clip, and we will then comment.
	Of course, I always must make sure that we're on the correct audio channel, because I always make that mistake.
	Here you go.
unidentified		Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
		That's a beautiful line.
		Thank you so much for asking.
		How about something relevant?
		I've been talking about rape culture all day, and pedophilia and the support of pedophilia is not rape culture?
		Actually, actually, it seems you're acting like this is a spurious connection.
		So we're gonna play Jeopardy.
		We're going to play Queer Theory Pedophilia Jeopardy.
		Answer.
		Commonly called the Godfather of Queer Theory.
		Who is Foucault?
		100 points.
		Foucault, another way to ask this is, who argued, no I guess the answer would be, argued for the eradication of age of consent laws as in down to infants?
		Who is Foucault?
		Thank you.
		Okay, next one.
		Um, uh, the author of the, the author of the, uh, founding document of queer theory.
		Who is Gil Rubin?
		Who is Gail Rubin?
		What percentage?
		No, no, the answer is 50%.
		is. 50%. Question is?
		The amount in that article that was in defense of pedophilia, specifically, quote,
		boy lovers, the men of boys.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so let's just, let me address that and we'll move forward because I want to get to the main point here is the
		students criticizing him. But you've heard that. Those are facts.
		This is a professor telling his students.
		He there's an the founding document in queer theory 50% of it is in defense of pedophilia.
		Okay, so when we're concerned that these people are trying to target children Maybe those who don't understand might start to understand now.
		But I think the really telling thing here is the reaction from, uh, these, uh, the students.
		Let me play more.
unidentified		Okay.
		So here's Pat Califia.
		Pat Califia.
		Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Just a second.
unidentified		Just a second.
		I was accused of homophobia because I am against pedophilia.
		Who is it who actually makes the connections between us?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That right there, that is the core of what I wanted to hit with this segment.
		When you criticize what these people are doing, they say you're against the LGBT community.
		So, when I make a video and I'm like, this specific person is grooming kids, they go, you're anti-LGBT, and I'm like, are you?
		Are you implying that you think LGBT people are pedophiles?
		Yes.
		That is the exact implication.
		When this professor comes out and says, hey, this particular individual, he names three people, had a predilection for kids, they went, you're a homophobe.
		The response is correct.
		He's like, you're trying to claim that pedophilia and homosexuality are correlated.
		Well, a lot of people believe that they are.
		I think that is unfair.
		As you can see with groups like Gays Against Groomers, there are people who are LGBT who are like, please leave kids alone.
		And you can see that there are people who have a predilection for children who are coming in and claiming you're attacking one group.
		This is how it's always been.
		I pointed this out before because I had these articles from like Media Matters or whatever criticizing me and Daily Dot.
		And I'm like, you are defending pedophiles.
		And what's happening is there's a group of people.
		There's a group of LGBT people minding their own business.
		And then a pedophile walks over, stands next to them, and I say, hey, look out for that guy.
		He's a pedo.
		And then everyone in this group goes, hey, whoa, whoa, hold on there.
		Don't insult us and call us this name.
		And I'm like, no, no, I'm talking about that guy right there.
		I'll give you the really funny story, the Wii Spa one.
		I mean, it's kind of horrifying.
		Where you had this woman complaining there was a man in the women's locker room, and they're like, I'm sorry, this person's trans, we can't do anything about it.
		And the lady's like, what do you mean?
		No, it's a man!
		With male genitals, like, whippin' him out!
		And they were like, nope, nope, it's a trans person.
		Then this woman asks the guy, and the guy's like, why are you so bigoted?
		Here's the funny thing.
		It turns out, it wasn't a trans woman, it was quite literally a dude exposing himself to women and children.
		He had done it before he got arrested.
		It's hilarious!
		The psychotic cultism of these people!
		The immediate assumption is that if someone is exposing themselves to kids, they say, you're transphobic!
unidentified		What?!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's the game they're playing.
		They have correlated, specifically, these groups of people.
		And that's what's creepy.
		Let me play more for this.
unidentified		Okay, here's something by Pat Califia.
		Pat Califia has written, any child old enough to decide whether or not she or he wants to eat spinach, play with trucks, or wear shoes is old enough to decide whether or not she wants to run around naked in the sun, masturbate, sit in someone's lap, or engage in sexual activity, by which she does not mean play doctor, she means with adults.
		She's very clear about that because she also says that pedophiles should be more and not less invested in children's lives.
		Okay, so we're at 300.
		400 is the most famous queer theorist of today.
		Answer.
		No, it is not Judith Butler.
		Who is Judith Butler?
		Okay, Judith Butler is the most famous queer theorist of the day.
		We see you, all of you supporters here, who do not care about trans people's lives.
		Every person here supports this joke.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You can't really tell what they're saying because they're all yelling over each other, but you see how they conflate this?
		You don't care about trans people's lives because you're critical of people who abuse children.
		That's what they're saying.
unidentified		Okay, okay, here's a great quote from Judith Butler.
unidentified		Here's a great quote from Judith Butler.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm not arguing, that's a bumper sticker.
unidentified		Then it's the fucking truth.
		That's what we're talking about.
		Are you supporting this?
		Shut up.
		Okay, so Judith Butler wrote, so I keep adding this qualification.
		He's like, incest and pedophilia are bad, and they're like, you hate trans people!
		Suggesting I think there may be occasions in which it's not.
		Why would I talk that way?
		We see you!
		Well I do think that there are...
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We see you.
		He's like, incest and pedophilia are bad.
		And they're like, you hate trans people!
		It's like, okay, when the left says trans people, are they actually talking about pedophiles?
		Because I'm not.
		Like, when I talk about trans people, I'm talking about people who are experiencing gender dysphoria, and are trying to live their life in a way that is helpful for them in their minds, so they can live a better life to the best of their abilities.
		I'm fairly libertarian in this stuff, I really don't care.
		You do you, you dress the way you want to dress, and I'll try and be nice to you.
		If you're a Christian wearing a suit, I got no beef.
		If you're a trans person with, you know, fake boobs and you're wearing a dress, I got no beef.
		If either of you take my kid in private and start saying things to them about your beliefs, we're going to have an issue.
		That's all I'm saying.
		Whether you're religious or otherwise.
		Now, to be fair, there can be different degrees of abuse and exploitation, but adults should not be taking kids into private rooms and teaching them things.
		It is the parent who has the final say.
		So, strangers, non-parents shouldn't be secretly having conversations with kids in this way.
		Parents should have, you know, control over this.
		I don't care what you would... I don't care if you're a Hare Krishna, you know, a Muslim,
		or if you're Japanese and advocating for anime or whatever, like,
		don't go to my kid and whisper things. Don't tell your parents.
		You should believe in God. Don't tell your parents. Okay, come on, come on, come on.
		You know, I'm trying to raise my kid. I'm speaking figuratively.
		That's the big issue. You see, we see you.
unidentified		There are probably forms of incest that are not necessarily traumatic,
unidentified		and which... or which gain their traumatic character...
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Shame on you for criticizing a parent abusing their child.
unidentified		You see we see you dude by virtue of the constant social saying that they produce He asked you the but let's one of us one of the queer heroes, okay now now we have we have a For 500, we have the last one in the queer theory and pedophilia.
		The answer is queer theorist who has spoken out strongly against pedophilia.
		Who is no one.
		Not a single one.
		Because the entire thing is based on transgressing.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So I'll respond to that one last little portion, though.
		It's like, someone not speaking up about something isn't enough for me.
		I think if this professor wants to show that there are queer theorists who are advocating for a thing, that's really bad.
		But the idea that other people are not denouncing it, I don't play that game.
		Because it's like, you know, can you name a Trump supporter who's denounced, you know, insert problem, and it's like, dude, does he know about problem?
		Do you expect these people to know about every issue you're concerned with?
		If someone is an advocate for a gold-backed currency...
		And you were like, can you name one person who is in favor of a gold-backed currency, who has spoken out against the problems of, you know, uncontrollable, you know, market collapse and, you know, uncontrollable interest rates, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
		And then you're like, listen, if the issue is the Federal Reserve is bad and they tell you why, and you're demanding that they speak out about something that's somewhat related, The answer may be.
		They say zero.
		I really doubt it's zero, to be completely honest.
		He says zero.
		No, no, no.
		I'm sure there are queer theorists who have said, yes, okay, I think that's bad.
		I think that's a bad element.
		Nothing's absolute.
		But I don't like playing the negative game where, like, you must denounce one thing, otherwise you're for it or defending it.
		No, no, no.
		It is fair to say, however, The conflation is the point.
		When they call him a homophobe, when they call him a transphobe, you have to wonder what it is they're truly after.
		They chant they're coming for your kids.
		They bring kids to drag performances.
		It's right there in front of your eyes.
		They're mad about the sound of freedom.
		I'll leave it there.
		Next segment is coming up in a few minutes.
		Stick around and I'll see you all shortly.
		A Native American tribe in Vermont is demanding that Ben and Jerry's return their stolen land the HQ is built on to return what they have stolen from them.
		You see, Ben and Jerry's tweeted out on the 4th of July, or I think it wasn't on the 4th of July, do they have the tweet in the article?
		That, you know, we are all on stolen land or whatever.
		I love it.
		They're now seeing a boycott because of it.
		Times of Israel says Ben and Jerry sees boycott call after July 4th appeal to return stolen indigenous land.
		They said on the 4th of July.
		It's hilarious.
		I got an idea!
		Y'all can put your money where your mouth is and give back the land and start paying rent to the Native Americans whose land you're on.
		How about that?
		an idea? Y'all can put your money where your mouth is and give back the land and start paying rent
		to the Native Americans whose land you're on. How about that? Readers added context as despite Ben
		and Jerry's supposed commitment to returning land they feel was stolen, they have yet to reach out
		to the tribe whose land their HQ is on and arrange a return of the land to them. Oh boy! I love this
		Well, the tribe is making the demand.
		They say, good sirs, we'll take you up on your offer.
		You must give us the land back.
		From 13 ABC, they say, Members of an indigenous tribe who are descendants of Native Americans have reportedly expressed interest in taking back the land now occupied by popular ice cream makers Ben and Jerry's after the company made a controversial call for America to return stolen land.
		Chief of the Nulhagen Band of the Kusuk-Abenaki Nation, Don Stevens, tells Newsweek that his tribe is always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands, but the ice cream company has yet to contact them regarding land its headquarters now sits on.
		Let me know what I can do, guys.
		I am a firm believer of live and let live.
		To a great degree.
		And that is to say that if you believe in free speech, well, then I believe I will respect your right to free speech and we will all speak and have that debate.
		And if you oppose free speech, then I agree with you and I will censor you at every turn.
		You see how that works?
		You do unto others as they would do unto you.
		Right?
		The idea being, if someone says, speech should not be free, I'll say, okay, well then we'll censor you.
		Right?
		Because what you're advocating for applies to you, not others.
		You see what I'm saying?
		We're advocating for the way the world should be, and how we want to live.
		But you do not get to tell other people how to live.
		So if you say I'm for free speech, I'll be like, well, you know, I'll protect your free speech then.
		If you say I'm against it, well, you know.
		So if Ben and Jerry's demands the return of stolen indigenous land, well then, okay, well, alright, let's start with you.
	And I will help facilitate that exchange.
	That is to say, I will absolutely look into how I can help the Cusack Abenaki Nation get their land back.
	I would love to pursue that, absolutely 100%.
	I wouldn't, in every capacity, because me, I don't believe in that.
	I believe we're well beyond this point.
	Nations get conquered all the time.
	It's a tragic reality of history.
	We don't do those things now.
	We try not to, but sometimes it still happens.
	You've got Chinese expansion in the South China Sea and things like that.
	So, you know, we get it.
	But look...
	I'm here to help.
	Ben and Jerry's is trying to give back this land, and the Native Americans would like it back.
	Please, let me know how I can assist.
	Maybe we'll get a billboard in Times Square or something.
	We've done that quite a bit, haven't we?
	The ice cream company added in that tweet a link to its website where it further detailed its call to action, saying America should start by returning Mount Rushmore.
	Well, that's difficult because that's a government thing, but we can start with your land.
	The ice cream maker's words stirred a wave of backlash that has led to calls for a boycott and even a dip in the company's stock.
	Wow.
	The Abenaki Nation, which is a confederacy of many tribes that banded together to stop the encroachment of rival tribes, at one time controlled an area of land in America that now spans from northern Massachusetts to New Brunswick, Canada, according to Newsweek.
	That reportedly means the land is home to the Ben and Jerry's headquarters in South Burlington, Vermont.
	That land was once part of the Abenaki Nation's territory.
	Critics had pointed to this fact, and some online even called the ice cream company hypocrites for not returning the stolen land it sits on while calling for others to do so.
	Ben & Jerry's has so far not publicly responded to calls for to return its headquarters land.
	The National Desk has reached out to the ice cream company, but has yet to hear back.
	If response is received, it will be added to this article.
	All right, well, when Newsweek asked if this tribe would want to see the land occupied by Ben and Jerry's headquarters returned, Abenaki Nation Chief Don Stevens says we're always interested in reclaiming land.
	Yes, yes, yes, we know.
	The stock price for Ben and Jerry's parent company, London-based Unilever, fell by more than 0.6% midday Thursday.
	That's a $2.5 billion loss.
	Okay, well, here's the article.
	Here's the tweet.
	Let us entertain their call to action.
	Ben and Jerry's, owned by a massive multinational corporation, wants us in the U.S.
	to return stolen land.
	Hmm, I wonder.
	London-based?
unidentified		Uh-oh!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Is somebody salty about, dare I say, a little old revolution that may have taken place some 250 or so years ago?
		Aw, yeah, y'all salty about it over there in London?
		Here we go.
		The U.S.
		was founded on stolen indigenous land.
		This July 4th, let's commit to returning it.
		Uh-oh.
unidentified		Uh-oh!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I can hear Ireland!
		I can hear Northern Ireland screaming!
		Screaming out as the peace wall crumbles!
		And Ireland is reunited.
		Now, to be fair, there are people who live in Northern Ireland who actually like Northern Ireland.
		They like the United Kingdom.
		There are people in Northern Ireland who don't quite like it, hence the troubles back in the day.
		So, how about this London-based Unilever?
		Let's play a game.
		This game is Scotland is now independent, and Northern Ireland is reunited with Ireland and falls under the government of Ireland and not the United Kingdom.
		Oh, what's that?
		It's not a game you want to play?
		The U.S.
		was founded on stolen land?
		Spare me.
		The world is founded on quote-unquote stolen land because you can go back and find every nation at some point had somebody else there with a different name.
		So don't play stupid games.
		Oh, here's what they said.
		Oh, wow.
		Tunkasila Sakpe.
		You really want to go there, Ben and Jerry's?
		Ah, the 4th of July.
		Who doesn't love a good parade, some tasty barbecue?
		This is a massive multinational corporation pretending to be political and pandering to cult members, many of whom fall for it.
		When indigenous leaders blocked the road to Mount Rushmore before an Independence Day celebration in 2020, it highlighted a conflict that most Americans probably know little about.
		Long before South Dakota had become a state, long before the faces of four American presidents were blasted into the side of it, that mountain was known as Tunkasila Sakpe.
		The six grandfathers, the Lakota Sioux, a holy mountain that rises up from the Black Hills, land they considered sacred.
		I'm gonna stop you right there.
		I am tremendously triggered and offended over the sacred land argument because it's made every single time.
		Why?
		Because there are religious protections and legal arguments for religious issues that they use to try and gain their land back.
		I can respect the attempts at gaining land and all of that stuff.
		Yes, I've watched Yellowstone, as many have.
		Native Americans want their land.
		You know, Native Americans had this land conquered in many ways.
		Some of it traded off, some of it conquered.
		That's a reality.
		And it was only a few hundred years ago that this was taking place.
		So there are still descendants with recent memory saying, like, this used to be our land, you don't get to just take it.
		And it is, it is kind of brutal.
		You know, you watch some of these stories and it's like, there's some dude whose grandparents owned land, and now they're impoverished outside of the land that they're granted because they were conquered.
		What do you do?
		Have more war?
		Start fighting it?
		No, that's not the way.
		We realize, okay, the person who lives there now isn't a conqueror, didn't steal from you.
		It's been a couple hundred years.
		We're not just going to hand land to other people.
		That's ridiculous.
		We can, perhaps, find better ways of moving forward.
		That I agree with.
		This sycophantic, ridiculous pandering.
		But what I'm really annoyed by is the sacred argument.
		Because I've seen it over and over again.
		This land is sacred because my ancestors are buried here.
		And I'm like... Oh, come on.
		Like... Everybody's got somebody buried somewhere.
		You can't just... There was one where they were like... They found relics, and they were like, that proves it's sacred, it's religious, and it's like, dude...
		We have relics all over the place, too.
		Come on.
		It's not a fair assessment.
		If it really is, like, a burial ground, I get it.
		But they try claiming, like, I've seen this from the left.
		They're like, these 10,000 acres are a burial ground.
	I'm like, no, dude, like, these two acres right here are, you know?
	And we're gonna respect those who are, you know, resting, as it were.
	Fine.
	I get it.
	I get it.
	But to call everything is just, you know, anyway.
	The Black Hills are known to the Lakota as the heart of everything that is.
	Hmm, interesting.
	They say the Lakota and other tribes signed the Fort Laramie Treaties, 1851 and 1868, establishing a 35 million acre permanent home.
	What's your definition of permanent home?
	Well, to the U.S.
	officials at one time, it apparently was something along the lines of, until gold is discovered.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Insult to injury.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Alright, alright.
	Well, you know, look.
	It's really hard to sign a petition.
	It's really hard to make any of these changes happen, because what do you do?
	I mean, you gotta convince someone to give it up.
	Ben and Jerry's.
	They have a solution for you.
	You're actually sitting on land that you could give up.
unidentified		Do it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We're waiting.
		You expect other people to give up their land, but would you?
		Seriously.
		If they do, I will applaud them.
		I will go out and buy out the entire fridge of Ben and Jerry's local gas station if they actually stand true to their word.
		Here's the reality.
		They are a fake garbage corporation.
		No, they're a real corporation, but they're a fake activist garbage organization.
		That is pretending to push some stupid ideology to market.
		And they're loving it.
		But you know what?
		I'm gonna stop buying Ben & Jerry's.
		One, they're hypocrites.
		Two, this is garbage woke nonsense.
		And three, to be honest, you don't need to be eating all that ice cream anyway.
		But I'll leave it there.
		We'll see if they ever actually stand true to their word.
		Next segment's coming up tonight at 8 p.m.
		over at youtube.com slash TeamCastIRL.

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