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Jan. 15, 2024 - Tim Pool Daily Show

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Trump SLAMS Vivek Ramaswamy as NOT MAGA, Supporters call Vivek Fans GRIFTERS, Iowa Caucus IS TODAY

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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It is the moment we've all been waiting for.
		The moment when Donald Trump would actually call out Vivek Ramaswamy because Vivek Ramaswamy is pulling voters from Donald Trump as it pertains to the caucus and the primaries.
		Ladies and gentlemen, we are here on the ground in Iowa.
		It is a blistering minus 13 right now where we are and the caucus is tonight.
		Donald Trump is the massive favorite Nikki Haley is, depending on the polls, in second place, but the prediction markets have her in fourth place.
		Ron DeSantis, of course, in the polls, is in third, and Vivek is in fourth.
		And I find this one truly fascinating.
		The battle has erupted online.
		All of the diehard Trump supporters are saying, we knew it!
		Vivek the Snake!
		And all of these Elon shills, all of a sudden, are in the bag for Vivek Ramaswamy.
		And why is it?
		A conspiracy!
		That's the only option.
		I'm exaggerating.
		No, a lot of Trump supporters are saying, it is interesting that all of a sudden, there's a bunch of people just showing up for Vivek Ramaswamy, having him on all these shows, Ladies and gentlemen, I must confess the truth to all of you.
		It is coordinated.
		That's right.
		The Ramaswamy campaign reached out to a ton of individuals and coordinated appearances and interviews, and that's about the extent of it.
		Now, there may be some people who are getting paid.
		I think that's very, very likely.
		I think it's also very likely several influencers are paid by Ron DeSantis' campaign.
		I do believe it is extremely unlikely, however, That the Donald Trump campaign is paying a bunch of these influencers in the same way.
		I think Donald Trump, of course, is just hoping on loyalty and the fact that he has the massive base.
		I do not believe, for the most part, that the people you are seeing, who are, you know, in some ways, I don't even think that they're overtly supporting Vivek, but they kind of are by doing these shows and praising him.
		I don't think they're getting paid.
		I don't think it's coordinated.
		Don't think it's planned, and I will say this.
		Look, before we even get started, Donald Trump has my vote.
		In the primaries, in the caucus, in the general.
		Trump is it.
		Vivek is great.
		I like the guy, he's a smart guy, and I think that for those that oppose wokeness and corruption and believe in American values, you gotta have a bench.
		And who's the bench?
		This is what we talked about throughout the past week.
		We cannot, I think it's a mistake right now, if the Trump team The Trump people go too hard on Vivek Ramaswamy, accusing him of being World Economic Forum shill, globalist, etc.
		You know, people are saying if it's too good to be true, then it probably isn't.
		I'm like, guys...
		I think Trump should win.
		I'm gonna break down exactly why Trump is the guy for the job and why, as much as I do like Vivek, he has not earned my vote right now and I'm not sure that he can.
		I've said before I'd consider voting for him in the primary.
		I think I said before I would vote for him or I wanted to vote for him, but there's a lot going on right now and I can break down and there have been people tweeting me like, Tim, give me one good reason why Trump is better than Vivek, blah blah.
		I can give you a lot of good reasons.
		I will.
		Foreign policy, first term was great.
		Even Vivek says these things.
		Vivek doesn't have that level of support experience.
		But we'll get into this in much more detail.
		But I just want to say this.
		Right now, to start off the bat, I don't know if anybody's getting paid by his campaign or whatever.
		I can tell you that we haven't gotten anything from him.
		He has not paid us.
		And I actually made that explicitly clear.
		When we said we wanted to come out, the original plan we had was to do one show this Monday For the caucus and we've got Trump campaign people.
		Big Trump supporters coming on.
		And it'll be interesting because Vivek is going to be joining us as well, and I'm interested to see what happens.
		I don't know if the way we have this show set up tonight for TimCast IRL is going to be like rotating panel of guests, and I don't know the exact schedule, but it'll be interesting, to say the least.
		Now, I made it explicitly clear when we were talking with Vivek's team, I said we wanted him on the show.
		And so when we were planning this counter-programming to CNN, I was like, We will accept nothing from your campaign.
		We are doing the show.
		I don't play those games.
		I've had politicians ask me for money, and I said, look, man, when it comes to a race, if Trump wants to come on the show, I'm on the show.
		Don't ask me for money.
		It's not going to happen.
	I've made political donations in the past.
	I'm not doing that now.
	Maybe, but probably not.
	Your best opportunity is to come, talk to us, answer questions, and make your pitch to the American people.
	That's it.
	Because I'm not here to play that game.
	But I can tell you this right now.
	First and foremost, as we get going, it is caucus day.
	It is a big deal.
	Donald Trump is pulling out... He's going after Vivek.
	Vivek's playing it very intelligently.
	And I'm gonna vote for Trump.
	I think Vivek is right about a lot of things.
	I think he's between a rock and a hard place.
	And I think we need Plan B.
	It's a tough spot.
	It really is.
	There's a fear that if people go out and caucus for Vivek, it could pull votes from Donald Trump.
	But, I gotta be honest, considering Vivek is polling so low, I think everybody needs to kind of chill a little bit.
	And I'm gonna tell you what I think Donald Trump should have said, but let's do this first.
	Let's read the news.
	Donald Trump turns on Vivek Ramaswamy.
	Don't get duped.
	This is from VanityFair.com.
	They report with Iowa caucus goers getting ready to head to the polls.
	On Monday, former President Donald Trump lashed out for the very first time at biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
	Quote, A vote for Vivek is a vote for the other side.
	Don't get duped by this, Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday evening, adding that Ramaswamy, who has made a clear play for Trump's base, is not MAGA.
	I don't know that I disagree with that.
	He's not MAGA.
	I think that's absolutely correct.
	He's America First.
	There's a massive overlap, but MAGA is the Trump loyal base.
	I gotta tell you.
	Loyalty means everything.
	I mean, I talk about Hachiko the dog all the time.
	Y'all know it?
	A story about a dog who waited 10 years.
	If you don't know the story, he waited 10 years at a train station.
	It's a bit of a simplification.
	For his best friend, a Japanese professor who had died.
	While at teaching.
	And so, Hachiko did not know what happened to his friend.
	And refused to leave, hoping one day he would return.
	That is inspirational.
	That is loyalty.
	And that matters.
	It really does.
	So, if you want to talk about politics, campaigning, strategy, and all that stuff, I gotta tell you, like, I think we are, we, those who watch shows like this, we're people of honor.
	And honor plays a big role.
	And while you may say, some may say, yeah, Tim, but strategy is more important.
	Victory is more important.
	All those things are very, very important.
	But what are we if we sacrifice honor for victory?
	In that regard, I can tell you right off the bat, it may seem emotional.
	And that's fair, because human is largely an emotional experience, that we must be logical.
	I say, all right, listen.
	I'm not interested in sacrificing our integrity and our honor for victory.
	We have to maintain both, because this applies to the same thing with violent suppression and authoritarianism.
	There are a lot of people that argued we must use the tactics of cancel culture in the left.
	I'll pause halfway and say, within a certain degree, we want to understand we're in a conflict, but I always tell people this.
	If you accept the tactics of evil because you think you'll win in the end by using these tactics, all you've done is hand the victory to them.
	If we say today that the far left is corrupt, the woke people are evil, but we gotta win this so we're gonna employ the same strategies and destructive tactics, all you've done is created a world of those destructive tactics.
	If you think I'm gonna imprison my political opponents because it'll save this country and freedom like what they're doing to Trump, Then what does the world become?
	The country you build becomes the evil you claimed you were fighting against.
	And that being said, first and foremost, the most difficult thing to me, if you ever came to me and said, you gotta vote for Vivek because, you know, Trump's too blah blah blah, I'm gonna be like, you're not gonna get me to back down off of being loyal to a guy who was brutally attacked, who lost his net worth, who is now facing hundreds of years in prison, I'm sorry, guys gotta win.
	Donald Trump has to win.
	There is a component of strategy, there's a component of what is right for this country, and those things are way, way up there.
	And then there is, who are we as people, and what are we willing to accept?
	Vivek has made his arguments about why you should vote for him in the caucus, even though someone asked on the town hall we did.
	It makes it seem like you're saying what's happening to Trump is okay.
	Vivek's position is, it's not okay, and he fears that if they do stop Trump, because they will stop at nothing, then what ends up happening is you get Nikki Haley versus Ron DeSantis, and there is no Trump, and there is no Vivek.
	I think Vivek is right.
	And that's why I'm happy to say, excellent plan B. And not even, maybe not even for 2024, maybe 2028.
	But come on, let's be logical with our honor.
	We don't have to abandon our strategy just because we want to support Donald Trump for everything he's been through and everything he's done for this country.
	Oh, I love this.
	The DeSantis people are losing their minds like, it's a cult, it's a MAGA cult.
	I'm like, dude, I can rag on Trump all day and night.
	But I can tell you this.
	No new wars in his term meant so much to me.
	Setting the timeline for withdrawal, the Abraham Accords, negotiating with North Korea.
	Have a nice day.
	Like, you're not arguing me off those points.
	You say Vivek comes in, and he's got great campaign strategy, he's a smart guy, he's playing it well, you are correct.
	And I'll give you the biggest reason why people are like, tell me one good- I had someone tweet at me, I love this bait tweet.
	Tell me one good reason why I should vote for Trump over Vivek and why Trump is better.
	Uh, are you kidding?
	It's a really easy point to be made.
	Donald Trump was in the White House for four years already.
	He has more experience dealing with these people than Vivek does.
	You know, look.
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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I like everything Vivek has to say.
		Almost everything.
		He's a very smart guy and I think it's great that we're building a bench and we have so many prominent individuals who can potentially move forward in 2028 and beyond.
		I think that's a good thing.
		I think it's a good thing.
		But Donald Trump does have four years of experience in the White House.
		He has a track record proven now as a politician.
		I mean, people like to say, he's not a politician.
		Well, he did.
		He went in, he did his job, he did a really good job.
		Did he do a perfect job?
		That's absurd.
		Are there things to criticize him for?
		100% absolutely.
		And with respect to all my Libertarian Party friends who want to criticize Donald Trump, yeah, I completely agree.
		But I'm sorry, man.
		Donald Trump has been, for the first time in my life, a net positive president.
		You know, when I'm a kid, looking at Bill Clinton, you've got war conflict.
		Don't get me wrong, you had a good economy.
		Scandal, conflict, crisis.
		Not a fan.
		Not a fan of the neoliberal expansion of, you know... There's a lot of stuff that's happened.
		From Clinton to Bush to Obama.
		It's expansion of war.
		It's these free trade agreements that have resulted in the collapse of our labor force.
		It's these failed immigration policies.
		And then Donald Trump comes in.
		The economy starts doing well.
		He starts no new wars.
		He starts ending wars.
		And the machine, the apparatus, lies.
		They lie to us, the American people.
		They lie to Trump to keep these wars going.
		Vivek steps up and says, I got a big plan.
		I'm like, that's really great.
		That's really great.
		We'll see how it goes.
		Right now, what we're seeing is this response.
		We have this response from Vivek.
		He says, Donald Trump's attack is bad campaign advice.
		He's correct.
		I know a lot of Trump supporters get it mad, but I'm going to tell you right now.
		I see these tweets.
		Let me jump to these tweets.
		Let me see what we have pulled up.
		I think I have, where is it?
		Here we go.
		I have a tweeter from Cat Turd.
		Cat Turd, of course, for those that aren't familiar, you may be saying, what's Cat Turd?
		A very prominent Trump-supporting Twitter personality tweeted, Okay.
		Well, let me tell you guys.
		I'm a big fan of Elon.
		Elon's teacher's pets suddenly broke for Vivec all at the same time.
		Coincidence?
		LOL.
		Nope.
		So obvious.
		Okay.
		Well, let me tell you guys.
		I'm a big fan of Elon.
unidentified		A lot of people are.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Vivec is smart.
		It is not a coincidence.
		And it's not even a conspiracy.
		Cat turd, let me tell you.
		Vivek opened his campaign up at the very last, not even necessarily at the last minute, but he went full steam ahead.
		They're hitting up as many podcasters and influencers trying to go on shows, and everyone's excited to talk to Vivek.
		How many, like, Vivek's got tons, millions of followers.
		He's generated massive attention.
		He is brilliant at the PR game.
		And people are like, here's an opportunity to talk to a guy that people want to hear from.
		Donald Trump has not done the same thing.
		The reason why so many of Elon's quote-unquote teacher's pets suddenly broke for Vivek is that Vivek offered them the opportunity to talk and do interviews.
		And for all of these people, that's exactly what we do.
		Now, we had Don Jr.
		on TimCast IRL.
		I gotta be honest, it's very interesting because I'm like, When we have Donald Trump Jr.
		on, and I mean this with all due respect to Don Jr.
		because he's such a rad dude, and I'll say this too for the people who have never heard him speak or don't know him, if you met Don Jr.
		at a baseball game and you were hanging out, you'd have no idea the dude was the son of a billionaire who grew up as this New York royalty celebrity golden toilet family kind of thing.
		He really does come off just like regular old suburban dude you might have met, and I respect that tremendously.
		But I gotta tell you.
		I'm gonna say it.
		It makes us feel like the, um, what is it?
		The Junior Avengers?
		What are they called?
		It's like you got the sidekicks.
		When Timcast IRL hears from the fourth place, with all due respect to Vivek, fourth place candidate in the GOP primary, Christie's out, Bergham's out, all these other people dropped out, and Vivek is still polling at like 8% in some polls, and maybe even higher in others.
		I'm sure he's got his metrics.
		I mean, he's doing really well.
		He's got millions of followers.
		And so he says, I want to do a show with you, and we're going to counter CNN.
		I got to tell you.
		Me, to independents, to moderates, Vivek matters substantially more than Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis.
		And when Vivek says, I'd like to do a show and talk with you guys, that's like, OK, wow, like here we are.
		We're playing ball.
		You know, look, we had the CNN town hall and I'm watching all these Trump supporters.
		Like, we're going to watch the CNN debate.
		And I'm like, why?
		Why give CNN your views?
		No, whatever, man.
		Nobody owes me anything.
		You don't gotta watch Tim Castellar.
		I get it.
		And maybe it's because they didn't want to give Vivek the attention.
		But here we are, as new media, hosting a town hall podcast event with one of the people running in the primary.
		There's a lot of questions you may have, and you should listen to what Vivek says, especially if you don't like him.
		And people chose to listen to Nikki Haley and Rhonda Santos instead.
		Fair point.
		And I think we have to Look, if you don't watch Tim Kast's IRL, that's fine.
		I don't care.
		You don't owe me anything.
		What I'm saying is, I dream of a time... I mean this sincerely.
		I mean, I'll just say it.
		We crush CNN in the key demographic ratings already.
		It is kind of a crazy feeling.
		And it's crazy because it's not like we're getting millions of views.
		We're getting hundreds of thousands.
		CNN used to get millions.
		They don't anymore.
		Now it's like some of their primetime shows get 70,000 views in the key demo, and we get like 500 to 600,000 within like a day.
		That's crazy.
		Now, don't get me wrong.
		They get a lot of views in the 60-plus demographic, which I'm not saying to be disrespectful.
		These are people who watch cable TV.
	But look, man.
	Vivek comes out and says, I will go on all the podcasts, all the internet shows.
	He's priming himself perfectly for the next generation.
	Donald Trump did not do the same thing.
	It is what it is.
	It is what it is.
	We have Donald Trump Jr., massive personality, obviously campaigning for his dad.
	But it's like, we get to have Vivek on the show.
	We don't get to have Donald Trump on the show.
	He goes on Fox News instead.
	What can I say?
	What can I say?
	And he gets substantially more viewers.
	We're not there yet.
	So what I see here is, maybe we are the Junior Avengers, okay?
	I wish that wasn't the case.
	I mean, we're in our 30s.
	Many of you in your late 20s, early 30s.
	And some of you are older as well.
	But that's it.
	Maybe in 10, 20 years, we will have displaced all these big shows and these big networks.
	And that means, right now, if you want to understand why Vivek is getting attention from people who are in their 30s, Millennials, who are Trump supporters or more libertarian, it's because this is the space we communicate in.
	And Vivek approached that.
	I don't think that he's paying.
	I don't know who he's paying.
	He's not paying us.
	I know that the people that, like Luke Rutkowski, for instance, is not getting paid by them.
	In fact, Some of the people who came out to come on this show end up talking to the campaign.
	But who do we have?
	Who do we have on the show last week?
	Look, I'll be honest, we had Vivek on Wednesday, and then we had Trump Jr.
	and Laura Loomer.
	I like Trump.
	I think Trump's the playwright now, and I think there's a lot to break down as to why.
	Let's talk about Vivek.
	I'm going to give him some defense.
	I'm going to defend Vivek.
	Axios says Vivek Ramaswamy sells $33 million of Roivant stock to boost campaign.
	Guys, I'm gonna tell you right now, to all the Trump supporters, to, you know, people like Cat Turd and stuff, you gotta be careful how you play this game.
	They're saying, and I'm saying this sincerely, I'm not trying to be disrespectful, I'm saying let's together be careful how we do this.
	There's, you know, people are saying, don't fall for it, he's Barack Obama 2.0.
	I'm like, guys, take it for what it is, okay?
	We need young, energetic backbench.
	I'll take that.
	What more can be said?
	What is it saying?
	getting his funding blah blah blah. He has a bunch of stock in a company he built
	and he sold a bunch of his stock. You're not gonna come to me and say Donald
	Trump lost net worth running for president. Vivek Ramaswamy is selling
	off stock in his company to fund this campaign. What more can be said?
	Don't make, what is it saying? Don't make the good the enemy the perfect or
	whatever? Here's what I want to say.
	I don't like Ron DeSantis.
	I really, really, really don't like him.
	I am so over Ron DeSantis.
	There are two viral videos.
	One is of this guy, Matt Kim, posting how he got kicked out.
	He never made a video about him.
	He never caused a problem.
	He never trolled him.
	He wants to be president.
	What a joke.
	This guy's like, I just went into the building and they kicked me out.
	He says he tried to go to a neighboring restaurant.
	He's like, no, it's the property.
	It's all owned by this company, Get Out.
	He's like, I'm just going to eat food.
	I'm not even at the event anymore.
	There's a guy in a wheelchair, and they come up and say, time to go.
	And he's like, what?
	Why?
	Dude, the Ron DeSantis campaign is a joke.
	They kicked out Laura Loomer.
	Nikki Haley did as well.
	Vivek Ramaswamy does not.
	He says no scripted questions.
	He's playing it very correct.
	He's navigating this very intelligently.
	Now here's what you gotta watch out for.
	Don't let Vivek's campaign pull a DeSantis on Trump.
	It's like, what does that even mean?
	No, let me break it down.
	So you get these DeSantis campaigners, right?
	And, you know, a year and a half ago, Ron DeSantis was leading in the prediction markets.
	Isn't that insane?
	It's just crazy for me to see that.
	Ron DeSantis was the favorite.
	So in RealClearPolitics betting odds, Ron DeSantis was above Trump like 2 to 1.
	Nuts.
	And he burned it all to the ground.
	Well, I'll tell you what happened.
	You got these Ron DeSantis supporters on social media that are vile.
	Just the most vile people.
	At this point, I think it's common knowledge.
	So many high-profile individuals who are, like, moderate and not, you know, in the bag for just DeSantis or Trump or whatever, have been like, what is up with these people?
	They're terrible!
	And look where he's sunk.
	Now, the predicted market has Ron DeSantis in fourth place behind Vivek Ramaswamy.
	That's really interesting.
	When I see these Trump supporters start attacking high-profile personalities, the first thing I thought, I was talking about this last night, we were having dinner, and I was like, I gotta talk to, like, I'm gonna talk to the Trump people.
	Guys, we cannot fall into that trap.
	That's a trap.
	Because here's what happens.
	Vivek starts courting high-profile podcasters and personalities.
	He generates a lot of attention, has a lot of supporters.
	And what's his response to Donald Trump?
	I'm not going to attack the man.
	He's the greatest president of our generation.
	I just think they're going to try and do whatever they can to take him out.
	And that means it's going to be Nikki Haley and Ron, so I have to be here.
	He's right.
	And he's refusing to attack Trump.
	And he's not asking anybody to do that as well.
	In fact, he's taken this approach, which is, I'm telling you guys, Vivek is brilliant.
	You don't have to accept that, you don't have to like the guy, but don't fall for this.
	And I'm not saying Vivek's tricking, I'm saying don't fall into this.
	Vivek has a picture of a bunch of people wearing shirts that say, Save Trump, Vote Vivek.
	This guy knows what he's doing.
	I don't know if he coordinated that or whatever.
	First, I gotta be honest, I think it's cringe.
	I'm just like, save Trump, vote Vivek.
	But I understand what he's doing.
	He's trying to make it appear to the average person that Trump is weak.
	Not that he's saying Trump is weak and incapable.
	He's saying that Trump is in a weakened state at war that he can't win.
	It is a master play to try and win the primary.
	Now I don't think the Vague is wrong about what the Deep State is planning to do to Donald Trump because they're already doing it in plain sight.
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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		How they stop.
		And I think a lot of people agree.
		Trump may end up having to run as an independent.
		Who knows?
		Even if he goes to prison, I don't see that being, you know, Stopping Trump from running, for sure, but it's going to be a wild, wild year.
		But here's the mistake.
		Vivek is playing the, I'm a really nice guy, you know, I love and respect Donald Trump, it's just so tough how they're coming after him like this, and we have no choice but to step up.
		He's playing the, hey look, I'm just a good guy trying to do the right thing.
		Regular people are going to see that, and they're going to say, okay, I get it.
		Then you've got Trump people coming out and saying, you're paid shills, you're grifters, you're liars.
		I'll tell you what's going to happen.
		Don't fall for this.
		I'm going to, I'm going to talk to the, to the, you know, we got Trump people coming.
		I'm going to say, guys, the DeSantis people started attacking me.
		They started attacking, I'm not going to, I'm not going to bring other people up into this, but there's some high profile conservative personalities who started, and libertarians, started getting attacked by DeSantis people.
		And they don't know why.
		And what happened?
		DeSantis collapses.
		Because the prominent personalities and influencers in digital spaces get pissed off and are just sick of Ron.
		His failure to reel in his campaign staff, absolute failures, and they're like, you know what, this guy can't manage a campaign, it's trash.
		Now, one of the best assets for Donald Trump, his very prominent supporters who went after
		the DeSantis campaign and triggered them and made them go insane, are going to have this
		pulled on them if they don't play it correctly.
		Vivek is endearing himself to prominent personalities.
		It is working for him.
		Donald Trump supporters are attacking those personalities for having interviewed and worked
		with Vivek.
		What do you think happens then?
		When you get someone with a million followers who is like, I like this Vivek, let's talk to him.
		And then all of a sudden, all the Trump people are insulting him, calling him a grifter, saying you're a liar, and he's like, I didn't even do anything!
		The same thing that happened with the DeSantis campaign.
		And I've been saying this for some time.
		The DeSantis campaign appears to want to lose.
		They want to lose.
		Why are you attacking your potential supporters when you should be trying to court them?
		Donald Trump calling Vivek not MAGA?
		I give it a B minus C plus in terms of its play.
		Here's what I think Donald Trump should have said.
		Donald Trump should have made a statement.
		Vivek Ramaswamy, an up-and-coming young star.
		What an incredible guy.
		I truly appreciate his support, and I'm looking forward to seeing things from him in the future.
		Now, he is correct.
		The deep state will stop at nothing.
		But I tell you this, my friends.
		Now is not the time to ask for help.
		Now is the time to take a stand for yourself and for our movement.
		And while I understand Vivek's concerns, just know this.
		You stand alongside me with your vote, and we will win, and there is no saving being needed.
		Don't take the negative approach of attacking Vivek.
		Trump should take the approach of, a vote for Vivek may seem logical, and I can understand where he's coming from, but before we get to that point, I ask you, stand side-by-side with me on the front lines, and we will not lose.
		That's the master play.
		Playing the, aha, Vivek's a snake and all his, these people are bad, is gonna put you in the boat DeSantis was put in, it's gonna split the influence base, and it's gonna cause some net negative.
		Don't fall for that.
		Not to mention this, the reason why I say it's also the master play is, guys, let's not play this game where we're like, Vivek Ramaswamy is a shill and he's just trying to steal MAGA and blah blah blah, like, calm down.
		You're allowed to think that if you want to think that, fine.
		Don't take my word for it.
unidentified		I don't know.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm just some dude on the internet complaining.
		But let me tell you, Donald Trump's got one term.
		It's his second term.
		We want him to hit it.
		I want him to hit it.
		And after that, who do we got?
		Vivek is good.
		And people are saying things like, yeah, but he's a shill.
		He's lying.
		Bro, you mean to tell me you believe we convinced the deep state establishment to put forth a guy calling for the abolition of the ATF and that's a defeat?
		I'll take it!
		I don't believe it.
		I don't believe it.
		I think Nikki Haley is their play.
		And Ron DeSantis is their weaker play.
		And Vivek is a thorn in their side.
		And after Donald Trump finishes out this term, Vivek is doing wonderfully.
		I'll wrap it up by saying this.
		Donald Trump's foreign policy is proven to Putin, okay?
		Vivek doesn't have that.
		You come to me and say, but why should I support Trump over Vivek?
		And I'm like, because Donald Trump was president.
		Donald Trump has proven to us what he will do foreign policy-wise.
		It is a net positive.
		It's not perfect.
		I think he'll do a better job this time around.
		You say he hired bad people.
		You're right.
		Trump did hire bad people.
		And this is an argument against Vivek.
		I'm sorry.
		When Donald Trump said he was going to come in and drain the swamp, he was inexperienced in politics.
		We like the guy he won.
		And then he hired bad people.
		This is why I'm saying Trump can finish out what should be his second term, which should have been second term already.
		He can get that last term in.
		He can do the job he was meant to do with the experience.
		And I think there's a strong possibility, as smart as Vivek may be, if we were to vote for him now, let's say he just won, I think it'd be fantastic.
		I like the guy.
		But I think then the first two years are him learning the ropes.
		And we have an opportunity right now to get Trump in, get better foreign policy, better border policy, better jobs and economic policy, better military spending policy, better tax policy, just across the board.
		And there's your pitch.
		There's your pitch.
		Let's not go to war, man.
		I'm just thinking long term.
		I'm like, dude, guys, after Donald Trump finishes out this term, does all the things we hope to do, let's be as optimistic as possible.
		Who's our next option?
		It's not Ron DeSantis, and I... It's not Nikki Haley!
		Vivek's gonna be 42.
		It's a good spot to be in.
		He'll have more experience campaigning.
		Don't... Don't turn the guy... Let's not burn everything down.
		Now I will finalize this all.
		Wrap this morning segment up by saying... Yo, guys.
		It's a primary.
		They're gonna fight with each other.
		And this is not even the most crazy... Like the craziest of primary fighting we've ever seen.
		Saying he's not MAGA and don't be duped is Trump...
		He's pulling his punches.
		He's pulling his punches.
		Trump could go way harder on Vivek.
		We all know it.
		They're gonna play.
		They're gonna go after each other in the way they go after each other.
	And then Trump's gonna win.
	He is.
	We'll see what happens in the general election.
	But I think once this all wraps up, so long as Vivek plays the cards right, and he doesn't go crazy like the Sanders campaign, I think we could end up with seeing... I don't think it'll be Vivek.
	I have some general ideas, I think, who the VP is going to be, but we really don't know.
	We really don't know.
	But I'll tell you what, my friends, we're just getting started.
	It is Caucus Day.
	I'll leave it there.
	Next segment is coming up at 1 p.m.
	Eastern on this channel, because I'm in Iowa, so I say Eastern.
	Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
	Over this past week, there's been quite a bit of conversation around diversity hiring at major airlines.
	Because the last thing anyone wants to hear is that your pilot was chosen not because of their capabilities in the cockpit, but because of the color of their skin.
	And that's what's happening.
	Or gender.
	Elon Musk got criticized by civil rights groups because he said diversity is basically sacrificing, or these airlines are sacrificing safety for diversity.
	And safety is one way to put it, but the general idea is the best person for the job should be the one who gets the job.
	Well, I've got good news for all of you that were already concerned about flying, considering the failures of these major airlines, these major jets.
	Y'all know about the Boeing Max and its problems and the panel being ripped off the side of the plane mid-flight.
	The FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.
	Oh, man.
	You know, I have to wonder, what's the deeper conspiracy theory that we can come up with here?
	I'll give you one.
	My deep conspiracy theory is that the real effort here is to actually cause a crash, or just at the very least, terrify people so nobody ever wants to fly again.
	Because when you're like, hey, we need air traffic controllers and people who can help run the system so planes don't crash, And then the FAA says, yes, but we do want to make sure we hire a bunch of people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.
	I'm like, yo, come on.
	It's like the one job.
	You don't do that.
	Look, I'm going to be a nice guy.
	I go to the grocery store and I see someone who has special needs or severely intellectually or psychiatrically disabled, and they are helping to run a store.
	I'm not super worried about it.
	Whether or not someone can ring me up, bag my groceries, or properly stock things is a matter of life and death.
	And I'm not trying to be a jerk.
	There are a lot of jobs that are available for people who are suffering severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities, but I don't think the FAA is one of them.
	To be fair...
	Perhaps they're talking about non-logistical positions, like someone may have the task of running a courier or something.
	Maybe your job is, look, someone's got to relay files or objects, and that can be done by basically anybody.
	Don't just come out the gate and assume every single person working at the FAA is an air traffic controller.
	I'm sorry.
	Like, even if you're a janitor for the FAA, I think it's extremely, extremely important we don't bring in someone with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.
	I'm sorry.
	There's a reality here that we can't just say, we're gonna have diversity of mental capabilities.
	If you bring in someone who's a janitor, and they don't quite understand, you know, and someone who's like severely intellectually compromised or disabled, and they start mopping a computer because they don't understand, Like that, I'm sorry.
	There's this meme story, I don't know if it's true, the military has an IQ threshold that it's like if your IQ is below like 75 or 70, I think it's 77 maybe, I don't know, you guys probably know better than me, that they will not allow you to enlist because they said after numerous studies they found that there is no task you could successfully complete.
	Like literally carrying boxes can't be done if your IQ is that low.
	Someone should have a word with Forrest Gump.
	The New York Post reports, the Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting
	workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities,
	psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions
	under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency's website.
	Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the federal government, as a matter of policy,
	has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring.
	They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy,
	severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.
	Okay, I'll just pause right here.
	Listen, my friend.
	If you are deaf, you're not stupid.
	You can do the job.
	Meritocracy has nothing to do with there.
	But, if you're deaf, and you say you want to be an audio engineer, I'm sorry, diversity be damned.
	Okay?
	I need someone who can make a song, and if you can't hear, you can't make a song.
	Vision impairments?
	Okay, that's fantastic.
	In fact, even if you are blind, there's a lot you can still do.
	I'm not going to ask you to be a pro-athlete, but there are pro-athletics you can do still as a blind person.
	And so that's not actually completely correct.
	If you're deaf, you probably can still play major league football or something, but audio commands will likely give someone else a major advantage.
	If you're blind, you can't play football.
	But I'm sure there are athletics you can do.
	So, okay, fair point.
	I'm sure there's a job people who are deaf and blind can do at the FAA.
	Missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, there are jobs that you can do.
	I really mean it.
	Complete paralysis, like from the neck down, there are jobs you can do.
	I'm not trying to be cute either.
	Voice-activated commands, there's strategy stuff, consultation.
	Your brain is you, you know what I mean?
	And epilepsy, I think is fine too.
	Gives her medication.
	But the severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability portion has me, uh, really concerned.
	I don't under- Dwarfism?
	A person is short?
	I don't care about that.
	Like, you're fine.
	You can have any job you want.
	I mean, you're not going to be playing in the NBA?
	Because, you know, diversity doesn't go that far.
	Ask Mark Cuban.
	The initiative is part of the FAA's Diversity and Inclusion Hiring Plan, which claims diversity is integral to achieving FAA's mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.
	The FAA's website shows the agency's guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23, 2022.
	The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg's Department of Transportation, is a government agency charged with regulating civil aviation and employs roughly 45,000 people.
	Oh boy!
	All eyes have been on the FAA and the airline industry in recent days after a plug door on a Boeing 737 MAX 9 blew out.
	I've got breaking news for you, my friends.
	Some internal secrets.
	We book guests all the time.
	We rely on air travel to bring people out to the Timcast IRL studio.
	We do not do remote interviews.
	They are not fun.
	We've never done a remote interview, and we won't.
	We actually have never even developed a system to do a remote interview.
	We want people in real life.
	That's why we call it In Real Life.
	IRL.
	We had a guest recently have their flight cancelled, and the notification we got was that they were grounding some of these MAX 9 planes, and without the plane, Sorry, they had to do a maintenance review on a bunch of these planes, but they found bolts were loose on all of these doors, and a door got blown off.
	I think I can tell you what's happening.
	This is all starting to happen in the era of diversity, and I really do think the priority has been overwhelmingly feel-good ideology garbage instead of who can do the job.
	The argument made by these leftists is that of course white men are going to be best at the job because they're the ones who get to go to the prestigious universities.
	They genuinely believe that if we just take people from anywhere, put them in the universities, put them in these programs, they can do all of these same things as well.
	Maybe.
	To a certain degree that's true, but they go way overboard with it.
	You know, the right thing to do would be, like, make sure the opportunity exists for those that have the capabilities, and let the change come.
	That means you're going to have overwhelmingly white males flying planes.
	But the number of women and minorities, or I should say non-white people who are flying planes and working in these industries, is growing.
	Let it grow organically as we heal.
	Instead, what they do is they say, no, we should mandate this.
	So you end up with a really great pilot getting, not getting the job, and a poorer pilot getting the job because of their diversity quotas.
	You know, Mark Cuban came out and he was like, he was saying, you know, diversity just means finding the right person and not overlooking a group.
	No, dude, you can say that as the CEO, but let me, I'll tell you, I'm going to tell you guys the best example I've seen of institutional breakdown.
	And a hierarchical breakdown, it was a better way to call it.
	You got a guy who runs a company.
	He's a smart guy.
	Mark Cuban's a smart guy.
	I don't agree with him on a lot of politics stuff.
	But Mark Cuban understands the importance of, look, if you only look for white people for a job, you're losing out on a lot of talent.
	That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
	So equal opportunity matters.
	And that makes sense to him.
	But the people underneath him?
	They got no idea what he's talking about.
	So here's the best example.
	Last week, I said I would like a cold brew with heavy cream from Starbucks.
	I know we don't have any Casper out here.
	It is what it is.
	Casper.com.
	And I received a cold brew with cream.
	That's not heavy cream.
	Heavy cream is different.
	And I laughed because I was like, I mean, it's fine.
	I don't care.
	I made a joke.
	I was like, that's it.
	The show's canceled.
	And everyone laughs.
	Haha, I'm so funny.
	But my point was, Heavy cream is a specific thing to people who understand the difference between cream and heavy cream.
	And although it is a very simple analogy, the point is this.
	I say to someone, get me a coffee.
	They say, okay, you got it.
	They then say, hey, can you go run out and grab coffees?
	By the time the communication through that game of telephone, the person who's at the store just says, I need a coffee with cream.
	Because the word heavy is meaningless to them.
	They don't understand what heavy cream is.
	This is the breakdown with DEI stuff.
	Mark Cuban may have good intentions and genuinely believe he's talking about, we're gonna hire from any available pool.
	What happens then is, you go down to the lower level of employees and they're like, boss says he wants to hire black people.
	Okay, well that's a gross misunderstanding of what the actual idea was supposed to be, but that's what happens.
	And then when you add economic incentives, like we saw this, uh, I think it was, there was one major airline that had a program that paid bonuses if they were more, if they hired more diverse people.
	Well now ain't nobody cares.
	Because you go to a guy who doesn't care about his job all that much, and is like, look, it's my job to recruit people, and I get paid an extra 20 grand a year if those people aren't white, they're not going to care if they're hiring the best or the worst people, they're going to care if they're hiring the non-whitest people.
	And that's the institutional breakdown.
	Don't get me wrong, it's also the Mountain Bailey.
	When they come out and they give you the false argument of, we're just trying to find the best people, or the first argument is, we don't want to hire white people, and when you argue against it, they say, no, no, no, we're just trying to hire the best.
	That's the Mountain Bailey trick.
	Mark Cuban falls for it, of course.
	But wait, my friends.
	There's more.
	You see, we have this tweet from Libs of TikTok.
	CEO of United says he takes race and gender into account when hiring and
	laments there's too many white males in the airline industry. A lot of people are
	warning right now that a Wall Street Silver says right here when a plane load
	of people die because of diversity equity and inclusion these videos are
	going to make a for great evidence in court during the lawsuits.
	Absolutely.
	That's true.
	But I gotta stop you right there, my friend.
	Dei?
	D-E-I?
	That means God.
	Don't use D-E-I.
	Say D-I-E.
	Diversity, inclusivity, and equity.
	Die.
	It's the die cult.
	I like die over day, and it's funny that they use day because it's, uh, what is it?
	D-E-I, it's like the Latin root for God, right?
	Uh, let's, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna fact check this right here.
	Yeah, it's the genitive singular of deus, the Latin word for God or deity.
	And don't say that!
	Language matters.
	Say die.
	Because of, people are going to die because of die.
	Makes sense, doesn't it?
	So here's a guy being interviewed on HBO, the CEO of United, talking about how, you know, they're gonna get to that point where they have a certain number of, you know, non-white people working for their company.
	We have this story from the Wall Street Journal.
	Quote.
	This has been going on for years inside Boeing's manufacturing mess.
unidentified		Hmm.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Someone told me something recently that I don't know if it's true.
		I'm not a doctor.
		They said that when someone has cancer, if they fast, what'll happen is the body will start breaking things down.
		It's an interesting thought.
		I think there's probably a lot wrong with the idea, but it would far be it for me to understand.
		They say, Someone said, let's say like you're starving, your body starts eating itself, right?
		So if you have cancer, the first thing that goes is the cancer cells.
		They get eaten first.
		And my response was kind of like, yeah, but what if the cancer just like starts eating the muscles around it to grow the cancer?
		I don't know.
		I'm not a doctor.
		You talk to a doctor about this.
		But it's an interesting concept.
		Because I started thinking about what that means for a civilization.
		And I've long thought that we've gotten to this point where we are so fat and happy, With so much resource and abundance, we are no longer trapped in the confines of desperate survival.
		So a lot of the traditional values that we have emerge due to the requirements in order to survive.
		There's this one theory about why white people are, like, well, it depends on who you ask.
		Say, greedy or industrious.
		Pick your term.
		And they say it's because when you had white people moving to the north in Europe, they started encountering more and more winter.
		And those who seek to survive in winter must work non-stop throughout the summer, and then work non-stop throughout the winter to survive the harsh winter.
		So the way it goes is, if the summer rolls around and you eat in abundance all the fruit and vegetables that just grow aplenty and do nothing else, winter rolls around, you freeze to death and starve.
		There's no food in the winter.
		So, those that were able to survive in the winter would have to forage, plant, farm, and store, and figure out means of preservation of food so that come winter, they'd have food available.
		So, you know, jerked meat, for instance, beer, for instance.
		And then in the winter, they'd have food stores, wheat and grain readily available and stored properly in a cool basement.
		For people who lived in the more Mediterranean areas, it's really interesting because you see what's, uh, you see, like, Siesta in Spain.
		You have people who go to nap during the middle of the day.
		Granted, they stay up later.
		Their day is just split differently.
		But the argument was that in the Mediterranean area, where it was typically just always warm because of the ocean currents, you didn't have to struggle for winter.
		So you were able to just live all year round with food constantly.
		And growing season varies between different crops or whatever.
		Now, some people have said this idea is discredited.
		Um, but I think it does make sense.
		I don't know if it does or doesn't.
		What I can say is that survival plays a role in whether or not people have certain behaviors.
		If... It's freezing out.
		You know, it's the ant in the grasshopper story.
		If it's freezing out, and there's somebody refusing to do work, they're gonna freeze to death.
		You know, just like sitting there, laying around, being like, well, I'm cold, but I don't want to do anything.
		Okay, well, then you freeze.
		Those who want to survive are constantly struggling and fighting and working to survive.
		What happens when every home is heated, every home is cooled, every food refrigerated, And every belly full.
		There's no more evolutionary pressure on individuals to retain these certain behaviors.
		In fact, those that don't want to work, survive.
		Those that don't want to work, plead to the government and get welfare benefits and then get food.
		And do nothing.
		These people, no longer facing any pressures, ask everyone else, why does anybody work at all?
		And that's what we're seeing.
		Young people say, food should just be free!
		Food is relatively free for a lot of people, but the work still has to be done.
		And the more that we've separated ourselves from these, like, threats of death and, you know, from survival mechanisms, we now just live because everything's so comfortable, then people who normally would not survive, lazy, entitled, etc., They do.
		And they vote.
		And the ideas they carry about not working become pervasive as well.
		I don't think this is even up for dispute.
		This is basic fact.
		Someone who is lazy, and you have two tribes of people.
		One chieftain says, nobody should work.
		The other tribe says, we must work hard.
		Who survives and expands and grows in the long run?
		The ones that don't want to work?
		They go hungry.
		The ones that work really, really hard?
	Have abundance.
	Guess what?
	We love each other.
	Humans tend to love each other.
	So we'll protect those.
	We don't want anyone to die.
	So the people who normally don't want to work may not rise to the same levels of power, but their ideas become more persistent.
	Eventually, let's say you have a hundred people who all work hard, and there's a struggle to grow the population because of harsh winters and, you know, they invent technologies.
	Now, everyone survives.
	That 100 people of hard, studious individuals, industrious individuals, Okay, well those 50 still get outvoted.
	Another generation goes by, and now it's 50-50.
	You've got 100 industrious people, but 100 lazy people.
	who are kind of lazy and a hundred people who are industrious.
	Fifty new young people who grew up in a world of abundance and don't
	know what you need to do to work hard. Okay, well those fifty still get outvoted.
	Another generation goes by and now it's 50-50. You've got a hundred industrious
	people but a hundred lazy people and the lazy people are voting I don't want to
	work you do it.
	Then another generation goes by you've got a hundred and fifty lazy people and
	a hundred people who are industrious and now the lazy people are voting for
	laziness and the system breaks.
unidentified		Thank you.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It was the idea I thought about when someone was saying about cancer.
		Again, I don't know that that's true.
		There's probably so much wrong with that, because cancer is not just like people.
		But sociologically, and politically, I get it.
		It seems to make sense.
		Right?
		If we as a society protect people who refuse to work, They're going to, those ideas will flourish.
		It's like idiocracy.
		Lazy, you know, the stupidest people just bred the most, and the smartest people were not, and then 500 years later, everyone's really dumb.
		But think about what then happens to a society like that.
		Idiocracy, too, would be really interesting.
		It would be, you know, 500 years after this, society would have rebounded.
		Why?
		Well, it's like they say.
		Hard times make strong men.
		Strong men make good times.
		Good times make weak men.
		Weak men make hard times.
		So, after Idiocracy, if you go another 500 years, all the stupid people struggled to survive.
		They didn't know how to grow crops.
		You had to have seen the movie, right?
		It's a brilliant movie.
		But with all their technology keeping them alive, the economy was collapsing.
		They couldn't grow crops.
		They were watering their crops with Gatorade, basically.
		They called it Brondo.
		And he's like, what is Gatorade?
		Yeah, they were salting the earth.
		Making it impossible for things to grow.
		And they were going to run out of food and die eventually.
		So the future of idiocracy, 500 years from then, is all the stupid people died, the smarter people had to struggle and figure things out, and they rebuilt everything.
		In a different way.
		That's what I see going on right now with these airlines.
		We are victims of our own abundance.
		Struggle is a component of human life.
		And we cannot all just live comfortably.
		Otherwise, this is what you get!
		Do you get this?
		It feels good to say we're going to make everyone have a chance to play the game.
		Participation Trophy Generation.
		That's where we're at right now, right?
		Basically, the way it goes is it's rather simple.
		You get a participation trophy just for being here.
		And everyone just feels good.
		But some people shouldn't be allowed to play the game.
		I'm sorry.
		If you don't have arms, I don't know that you'll be able to play basketball at the same level.
		I mean no disrespect to those who are missing their arms.
		Your human dignity remains intact.
		But your capability to play high-level NBA?
		Not there.
		Sorry.
		This is not an attempt to be mean.
		But imagine if we truly embraced this diversity feelings stuff.
		Wide scale.
		It's only a matter of time before the NBA puts a rule in place saying you've got to have X amount of non-white and white.
		Well, probably they wouldn't say white, but X amount of people on the team not white.
		X amount of people must be female.
		X amount of people must be people with disabilities.
		And then the NBA is going to be, you know, some tall athletic guys and tall athletic women who can't dunk and some dudes, you know, in wheelchairs or something.
		And I'm not trying to be mean to anybody.
		I'm saying, if the rules we create in sporting are arbitrary, like they're doing to women's sports now, and I... I predicted this one!
		We're halfway there.
		Yo, guys, go back and watch my videos from 2018, 2017.
	I said it's only a matter of time before they change the rules and start putting diversity and stuff into major league sports.
	It's starting with women's sports, where they're saying, if you identify as someone you can play in a women's sports team, how long until they say, it is...
	Unfair that they only ever pick men.
	And if they want diversity... Like, they say to the United CEO, right?
	How many of the people in your C-suite are women and people of color?
	And he's like, I only have three women.
	Why not 50-50?
	Okay.
	Same thing for basketball.
	Or football.
	How come there's no women playing football?
	Because of the rules, right?
	No.
	Because only the best players make it.
	You find me like a, you know, a strong, a woman who can throw the football the way a guy can, she'll make the team.
	Sometimes there have been women who have tried to be kickers because they can kick, but they never seem to make it.
	There was one, I think it was a college, was it a high school?
	I think it was a high school football team.
	All the, like, the dudes were crying.
	Because this is funny.
	Because they were like, we're gonna have the first female on the team.
	And she's a kicker.
	And then she, like, just failed miserably.
	And they're like, are we losing?
	It is going to happen.
	Mark my words.
	In the meantime, your plane may fall out of the sky, so... I hope you enjoy it.
	Diversity people.
	I hope it was all worth it.
	But of course, they'll make excuses for it.
	Well, the point here is this.
	In the end, what happens is the people who don't know how to survive will vote for things that break the system, and those who know how to survive will, and the system will recover eventually.
	Good luck out there.
	I'll leave it there.
	Next segment's coming up at 4 p.m.
	on the channel.
	Thanks, Frangin' Out, and I'll see you all then.
	Hello, NBC News.
	What you're describing would be called a...
	coup.
	Uh-huh. Uh, uh, uh.
	A coup attempt on a sitting president of the United States.
	In a tweet, NBC News writes, A network of public interest groups and lawmakers nervous
	about former President Trump's potential return to power is quietly devising plans to foil any
	effort on his part to pressure the U.S. military to carry out his political agenda. Let me try that again.
	Basically, if Donald Trump gets elected and then tries to enact his agenda, special interest public
	interest groups and lawmakers are trying to subvert the orders of the commander in chief.
	Wow.
	What do you call a coup that happens before it actually happens?
	It's still a coup, I guess.
	But it's interesting.
	Interesting article.
	Dude, I love it because the responses are like, NBC News, you are describing the deep state.
	This is what we have been complaining about.
	If the people elect Donald Trump and they like his foreign policy, as I do, we want to see that foreign policy enacted.
	If his military policy, a major component of his foreign policy, is enacted, I think good things will happen.
	We saw this, no new wars.
	But what do we also see?
	When Donald Trump wanted to get our troops out of Syria, because why were they in Syria in the first place?
	Military lied to the President and to you.
	The American individual.
	The American voter and taxpayer.
	Trump said, let's get our troops out of here.
	Why?
	And then they said, well, no, we can't do all that because we got to protect the oil.
	And Trump said, fine.
	Everybody but the people protecting the oil.
	And they went, oh, OK, fine.
	There's only a couple hundred left.
	But the reality?
	Substantially more US troops.
	We're in Syria, despite the President giving the order.
	I got a simple answer for you, Donald Trump.
	A simple, simple solution for you.
	When you win, and I hope you do, we'll see how things go in 2024, instead of going to one of these military leaders or bosses or whatever and saying, I want to get our troops out of Syria, because they're going to lie to you, make the public announcement, I hereby order All U.S.
	military personnel to begin evacuation proceedings from Syria now.
	You know why?
	I want those guys who are, you know, lower-ranking officers or whatever.
	See, these are the guys.
	They're probably good dudes.
	Probably good dudes.
	But the word comes from high on up, no, we're not leaving.
	Okay.
	Well, I don't know.
	President doesn't come and talk to these guys.
	He talks to his generals.
	His generals then lie to him.
	But imagine if this guy says, I saw on TV Donald Trump said, leave now.
	Well, we're not going to do that.
	It's not going to happen.
	That's not the real order being given.
	The president just said it on TV to everybody.
	Yeah, well, you know, okay, I guess.
	That's what's going to happen, right?
	Donald Trump can then just come out again and order.
	It has now been two weeks.
	I'm ordering all U.S.
	personnel.
	This is to you to leave.
	Only way you're going to get it done is if Trump personally goes out there or states to each individual.
	He says, I want a list of every U.S.
	personnel that's in Syria because they are going to lie and it's a coup.
	NBC News reports fears grow that Trump will use the military in dictatorial ways.
	If he returns to the White House, what does that mean?
	Dictatorial ways?
	Is it kind of like Barack Obama killing an American citizen in Yemen?
	Spare me your lies.
	Anyway, among those being mentioned for Trump's defense secretary are Christopher Miller, who served temporarily during his administration, Michael Flynn, and Mike Pompeo.
	They said Donald Trump is sparking fears among those who understand the inner workings of the Pentagon that he would convert the nonpartisan U.S.
	military into the muscular arm of his political agenda as he makes comments about dictatorship and devalues the checks and balances that underpin the nation's two-century-old democracy.
	We are not a democracy, and Donald Trump did not say he would actually be a dictator.
	This is funny, because the question given to him at this town hall was, will you be a dictator?
	It's only on day one until we can drill for oil and secure the border.
	Okay, so not really a dictator, just basic things the president can already do.
	Well, Trump then said, no retribution, our retribution will be our success, because he's trying to downplay this.
	We are not a democracy, we've never been a democracy, and these people who keep saying democracy are lying to you.
	But I get it.
	Okay, let's be fair.
	They're not saying Trump's foreign policy.
	They're saying his political agenda domestically.
	In what way is Donald Trump going to use the army for domestic politics?
	Posse combatatus.
	It's not going to happen.
	A circle of appointees independent of Trump's political operations steered him away from ideas that would have pushed the limits of his presidential power in his last term.
	Like what?
	He didn't even invoke the Insurrection Act during the Summer of Love, and they were firebombing the White House.
	Trump has raised fresh questions about his intentions if he regains power by pushing forward a legal theory that a president would be free to do nearly anything with impunity, including assassinating political rivals, so long as Congress can't muster the votes to impeach him and throw him out of office.
	He's right.
	Look, the game they're playing with you is that they are in charge, they have the power, and anyone who challenges them is a threat.
	The argument actually put forward about the assassination, as I covered, was this.
	A president is immune from criminal prosecution pertaining to official duties until he is impeached and convicted.
	Why?
	Barack Obama killed an American citizen.
	I think he should be criminally charged for it.
	But I think the first thing that has to happen is confirmation from the government that what he did was acting outside of the bounds of his presidential authority.
	The president has to do a lot of things as the main executive of the country.
	But he has checks and balances.
	So the idea is simply this.
	As the person who is the epitome of law enforcement for the federal government, we need to know for sure that what he did was a violation of his official duties.
	We don't want a president to get in and say, I've got to do an executive order on drug issues.
	And then some pro or anti-drug state says we hereby criminally charge you.
	No, no, no, hold on.
	It is within his purview of how we enforce these laws.
	That is what the federal government, the president has in charge, is in charge of the federal law enforcement.
	So they do.
	The first thing that needs to happen then is we need to check to make sure this is not a violation of political duties.
	Otherwise, every time a president did anything, and I'm not talking about assassinating a political rival, anything, they would be threatened with criminal prosecution.
	Congress at the federal level, through checks and balances, must confirm what the president did is a breach of his oath of office, a high crime or misdemeanor.
	Senate must confirm it.
	When they do, then criminal proceedings may be brought.
	What they're trying to do is they're trying to take the most extreme thing they can, throw it at Trump, and then go, oh look, he says he can kill people.
	That's the angle they're going for.
	Trump knows it.
	Trump's argument was...
	His lawyer said, was asked, could a president assassinate a political rival and then not be criminally prosecuted?
	And the individual said he'd have to be impeached for it.
	And if a president did that, he would be immediately impeached.
	Every single member of Congress in the Senate would vote to impeach a president who arbitrarily just killed his political opponent.
	Now, the funny thing is, Biden is trying to imprison Donald Trump, and he's getting away with it.
	Where is Senate and Congress?
	Well, that's the big problem.
	The problem here is this.
	If you don't have a functioning Congress, the President can do it.
	And unfortunately, that's the reality we live in.
	But I'll give you scenarios I did last week.
	Real quick.
	Let's say that there's Candidate 1, Candidate 2.
	Candidate 1 is the current President.
	He's the incumbent.
	Candidate 2, we'll call him John Doe.
	Candidate 1 is Bill Doe.
	The President is Bill Bowe.
	We'll go Bill Bowe.
	And the candidate who's running, the chief political rival, There's strong evidence that he is selling American secrets and engaging in espionage for an adversary of this country.
	Congress brings intelligence to the president and says, this man must be stopped.
	And he goes, this is crazy though.
	He's running for office.
	And they say, well, he's going to sell these secrets to our main enemy.
	Then they go to a court and they say, your honor, look at this.
	And the court says, I agree.
	You now have all three branches of government signing off on saying, this man must be stopped.
	He's committing treason and sedition against this country.
	The president, through his executive actions, deploys troops to stop this guy from engaging in what would be damaging to this country and cause loss of life.
	And in the process, the man dies.
	Or even, let's get more extreme.
	They're ordered, stop this man from delivering... Let's say the guy stole the nuclear football.
	Like, you can be someone's chief political rival and commit a crime and go to jail for it.
	Democrats agree with that.
	Of course, I think they're lying.
	And therein lies the big problem.
	What happens if they accuse Donald Trump of doing something, and then this is what happens.
	It's not so much that the argument is the president can't be prosecuted, but that the system is breaking down.
	That's it.
	Joe Biden is trying to imprison his chief political rival.
	We know that for a fact.
	He told Merrick Garland to stop being... What did he call him?
	A name?
	What did he call him?
	A studious something or other?
	And then Merrick Garland went after Donald Trump.
	The DOJ, several states, they're going after Donald Trump to stop him from being able to win in 2024.
	We're here.
	So when they talk about this, we are facing the epitome of corruption in the political system.
	It's happening.
	And they argue Trump is the real threat when they're the ones who are engaging in this practice and have been the whole time.
	Why?
	Because Donald Trump opposes the American imperial foreign policy.
	Perfectly?
	No.
	Has he made mistakes?
	He did.
	No new wars, Abraham Accords.
	Negotiating with North Korea, like... And there are other things, don't get me wrong.
	And now it's all breaking down.
	Joe Biden gets in, and what happens?
	It all breaks down.
	So this is the game they're playing.
	Now, bracing for Trump's potential return, a loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers is quietly devising plans to try to foil any efforts to expand presidential power, which could include pressuring the military to cater to his political needs.
	Those taking part in the effort told NBC News they are studying Trump's past actions and 2024 policy positions so that they will be ready if he wins in November.
	That involves preparing to take legal action and send letters to Trump appointees spelling out consequences they'd face if they undermine constitutional norms.
	Norms.
	Basically means they have expectations, and if you operate outside of them, they'll come for you.
	Norms?
	Look, if you violate the Constitution, I agree, don't, and you're bad, and we should take action against you.
	Norms?
	What does that mean?
	The Supreme Court often will rule as it pertains to the Constitution, changing our interpretation.
	Those norms change.
	That's normal.
	It goes through a process to do so.
	Gotta be careful.
	They say, we're already starting to put together a team to think through the most damaging types
	of things that Trump might do so that we're ready to bring lawsuits if we have to, said
	Mary McCord, executive director of the Institution for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at
	Georgetown Law. Part of the aim is to identify like-minded organizations and create a coalition
	to challenge Trump from day one. Those taking part in the discussion said, some participants
	are combing through policy papers and being crafted for a future conservative administration.
	They're also watching the interviews that Trump allies are giving to the press for clues to how a Trump sequel would look.
	Now, I gotta be honest.
	I like it.
	I really do.
	I do.
	Look, um, the president having his power curtailed is not absolutely a bad thing.
	I want Trump to be able to weed out corruption, I want him to maintain good foreign policy, and I know that's what they're going to try and jam up.
	So, it is not a net positive in my opinion.
	But I want to clarify.
	It is not all bad when the president has his power curtailed, because remember, this means when we move to the next president, similar powers exist for us.
	The only problem is we gotta get rid of all these rhinos, and we gotta get in more libertarian and America-first-minded politicians into Congress.
	I do want to stress this, too, because they mentioned these are non-profits and universities.
	It's not necessarily the deep state.
	When they mention lawmakers, then I can say, hey, look what they're doing.
	And you know intel agencies are definitely involved in this.
	They say, we are preparing for litigation and preparing to use every tool in the toolbox that our democracy provides to provide the American people an ability to fight back.
	Is that what they're calling it, the American people?
	We believe this is an existential moment for American democracy, and it's incumbent on everyone to do their part.
	Let me just stop you right there, my friends, and let you, uh, remind you all, um, I hate to break it to you, but, uh, Donald Trump's the frontrunner, and he's winning at all the polls.
	So when you say the American people and democracy, you're not referring to the majority of the population, nor democracy.
	You're talking about your authoritarian demands that you've already lost public opinion on.
	Yeah, sorry.
	I view these people as deeply evil.
	They say democracy.
	What they really mean is their power demands.
	Their elite cabal.
	Figurative, not like an actual conspiracy cabal.
	America's commander-in-chief has vast powers at his disposal.
	Some well-known, others not so much.
	Some lawmakers and pro-democracy advocates worry there may be nothing stopping a president from mobilizing the military to intervene in elections, police American streets, or quash domestic protests.
	So, uh, can I just stress?
	Quash domestic protests.
	Donald Trump didn't even do that during the Summer of Love, and he should've.
	And he didn't.
	And here we are.
	So, you know, whatever.
	Whatever.
	Weary of Trump's staying power, he is running about even with President Joe Biden in the
	polls.
	Huh?
	Running about?
	Democratic lawmakers already known to be adversaries of Trump are working on a parallel track.
	Among the least understood tools available to a president is the Insurrection Act.
	Vaguely worded, it gives the president considerable discretion in deciding what constitutes an
	uprising and when it is okay to deploy active-duty military in response, experts say.
	Could you imagine if Donald Trump invoked the insurrection?
	This is really interesting.
	What if on January 6th, Donald Trump immediately invoked the Insurrection Act, saying that those who are storming the Capitol are engaged in an insurrection and he will put a stop to it?
	That'd be really weird, right?
	They'd be like, Trump engaged in an insurrection.
	Actually, Trump invoked the Insurrection Act to stop those people.
	I don't know.
	Just a weird thought.
	What would have happened?
	They say, some lawmakers on Capitol Hill worry that Trump might invoke the act to involve the armed forces in the face of domestic protests, or if the midterm elections don't go his way.
	Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, is crafting a bill that would clarify the act and give Congress and the courts some say in its use.
	Its chances of passage are slim, given that Republicans control the House and are largely loyal to Trump.
	Well, I certainly think Trump will not invoke the Insurrection Act, but I am hoping in the event we get hundreds of thousands of far-left extremists firebombing government facilities across this country, not every single one of them, but in the protests, I hope Trump does invoke the Insurrection Act.
	It's there for a reason.
	It's remarkable that they firebombed the White House grounds, set fire to St.
	John's Church, the May 29th Insurrection, they call it.
	100 plus law enforcement injured?
	The president forced into an emergency bunker, disrupting his official duties?
	Why, that's insurrection, is it not?
	I don't think so.
	But I don't think January 6th was an insurrection either, but if you want to make the argument January 6th was, I'll say May 29th was as well, right?
	In that instance, Donald Trump should have called in the National Guard, but you know what he did?
	He pushed out these protests and shut it down.
	And they don't ever talk about it, there was no investigation.
	No committee hearings, no panels.
	Huh.
	There's an array of horrors that could result from Donald Trump's unrestricted use of the Insurrection Act.
	Blumenthal said in an interview.
	A malignantly motivated president could use it in a vast variety of dictatorial ways unless, at some point, the military itself resisted what they deemed to be an unlawful order.
	But that places a very heavy burden on the military.
	And as we all know, they won't.
	Yo, I watched this video of Ron DeSantis kicking on a guy in a wheelchair.
	And everyone's like, just doing my job, just doing my job.
	And I started thinking about, there's a lot of cops that are just doing their jobs.
	I don't agree with that.
	Because this is a country of, for, and by the people.
	That being said, if you're gonna yell at a security guard for kicking someone out who's saying he's just doing his job, I got a different take.
	It's private property.
	Private property is not your property, okay?
	It's a big difference.
	You know, I talk about, like, we have our Discord server over at TimCast.com.
	Head over to TimCast.com, click join us, become a member to support our work, because this show is funded in part by viewers like you.
	Made possible in part by viewers like you.
	So, um, What do I say about the Discord?
	Because people are like, I want to post offensive things in here.
	And I'm like, bro, the Discord space is not a free speech space.
	It is our private property.
	Now, we don't own it.
	It's Discord, right?
	And we're looking at alternatives for sure.
	And there is one someone mentioned.
	But the point is this.
	I don't own Discord.
	It is privately run and maintained by the Discord people, and so we say they have rules, we follow those rules.
	If they come and say we're kicking you out, I actually... I get it.
	It's not Twitter.
	Twitter is a big public space, controlled by a private group that's banning people based on their politics, but demanding protections.
	They want protection from the government on liability.
	I say we can't have it both ways.
	Either it's a public space or it's a private space.
	You can't argue both.
	If it's private, they are responsible for what is said on this platform.
	Can't have it both ways.
	Discord, however, and I absolutely do respect, to a certain degree, like YouTube, Twitter, whatever, having rules on how they run things.
	It's just I think they're liars and they're biased.
	And it's problems, and they're working with the government, and they're censoring people.
	As for Discord, I say, look, we want to keep the space functioning for everybody, so we have rules.
	If I have a building and you show up and I say my rules are no funny hats and you want to wear a funny hat, that's too bad.
	You're not a taxpayer on my property.
	You don't pay my bills.
	Go away.
	That being said, if it's a public accommodation where I welcome anyone in, then we have restrictions.
	I agree with that.
	It's tough, isn't it?
	Anyway, my point is social media is corrupt.
	You know, private security is not the same as policing or whatever.
	Well, my point here is just the, just doing their jobs.
	They say a big burden on the military.
	That's right.
	Because the military, just right now, does their jobs.
	They say, I don't know, and I have a problem with that.
	The problem is, you know, as a police officer, as a member of the military, what the Constitution says you can or can't do.
	So when the government says, you know, if someone orders you to engage in an unconstitutional act, you go, well, I'm just doing my job.
	Now you are the villain.
	But if a security guard at a business is told by his boss, we don't allow, you know, funny hats, and you say, sir, you have to leave, that's fine.
	It's private property.
	You are not party to this private establishment.
	That being said, more to the point.
	Trump's vow to seek retribution on behalf of those he says have been wronged and betrayed has sparked fears that he would use the presidential powers more broadly as a cudgel against political foes.
	You mean like Joe Biden is already doing right now?
	And quite literally what your article is about?
	Can I just pause for a moment NBC News and point out the irony?
	In that your article is about Trump's political foes, who feel wronged and betrayed, using their legal and financial powers to target their political foes?
	What a laughably absurd article.
	These people are crackpots.
	Compounding the anxiety, he remarked at a Fox News town hall last month that he would be a dictator only on his first day for the purposes of closing the border and drilling for oil.
	And?
	He later posted on social media that he made the remark in a joking manner.
	More recently, Trump told a Fox News town hall in Iowa, I'm not going to have time for retribution.
	Detractors aren't buying it.
	Yeah, and his supporters mostly aren't either.
	You know, he's mostly saying this because he wants to seem more reasonable to the moderate voters, saying, oh, look, we're just going to make this country better, and our retribution is our prosperity.
	I mean, success is the best revenge, they say, right?
	And I agree with Donald Trump on that, but I do want to see criminal prosecutions for evil people who have committed crimes.
	Quote, he's a clear and present danger to our democracy, said William Cohen.
	A former Republican Senator from Maine, blah, blah, blah.
	His support is solid.
	I don't think people understand what living in a dictatorship would mean.
	I despise these people.
	Our democracy!
	They're not talking about our republic.
	You need to understand this, okay?
	Someone breaks into your house, and when you tell them to get out, they say, that man is a threat to my home.
	Now hold on there a minute.
	You're like, wait, I own the house.
	It's my name on the deed.
	Who's this guy who broke in now claiming it's his home?
	He invites his friends in.
	He then points to you and looks to his friends and says, he's threatening our home.
	When they say our democracy, they are telling you the actual heir of this nation, of the founding father's vision.
	It's their country now.
	It's no longer a constitutional republic.
	It is their democracy.
	When they say our, they're not including you.
	Donald Trump knows this, and his supporters know this.
	So this is where we're currently at, my friends.
	They're telling us they're planning a coup, a conspiracy.
	This is a conspiracy, okay?
	A conspiracy to get the military not to follow orders of the president.
	That's criminal.
	We'll see how this all plays out, my friends, but it's right before your very eyes, and 2024 has only just begun.
	Next segment is coming up at 6pm on this channel.
	Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
	Ladies and gentlemen, the prospect of World War III once again arrives at our doorstep.
	A lot of people don't like it, because they feel it's hyperbolic to say.
	We have a breaking story from this morning.
	A U.S.-owned cargo ship was just struck by a missile off the coast of Yemen.
	This is the video of the incident, which I will play for you in just a second, but I want to show you the headline here.
	Houthi-fired missile strikes a U.S.-owned vessel off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, raising tensions.
	Raising tensions is one way to put it.
	So this story is from last night, sorry.
	The video is popping up and going viral this morning.
	I should clarify, I misspoke, but this is very serious and shocking news.
	Aside from this, we also have this story from Fox News.
	A Houthi cruise missile fired from Yemen toward U.S.
	warship shot down by fighter jet.
	That's from this morning, and things are starting to heat up.
	Let me tell you what I mean by World War III.
	A lot of you watched all of my shows and all of my clips, so you understand this point already, but not everyone does, so I'm going to repeat it for those who have already heard it.
	You get it.
	World War does not mean the U.S.
	versus Russia or the U.S.
	versus China.
	World War means there is war all over the world.
	Venezuela's threatening Guyana.
	Ukraine and Russia are at war and that could spread.
	Reports that Finland is shutting its border.
	Sweden's preparing for war with Russia.
	Or they're giving those warnings.
	Israel, Hamas, and now the rebels in Yemen.
	Over what's going on with Israel and Palestine.
	are trying to shut down the Red Sea, shut down a large portion of global trade, and have just bombed a U.S.
	cargo ship.
	People need to understand how bad things could get from this.
	They don't see it.
	And I don't blame them for not seeing it.
	The average person goes to the grocery store, picks up a gallon of milk, and goes home.
	They don't know where the milk comes from.
	What about all your other goods?
	Your laptop computers?
	How do they get shipped around?
	Your fuel?
	With this escalation of conflict, and don't forget, Taiwan and China is our other major area of potential conflict, we could be facing war in every pocket of the world.
	Now, what this means when it comes to World War III is, if China moves on Taiwan, the U.S.
	moves to defend, Australia gets involved, the Houthi rebels in Iran then take the opportunity to go after anyone they can go after, which they're already doing, Venezuela says they're distracted, makes a move for Guyana, and then you have, of course, Russia saying, we're with China on this one, this is how you get legitimate World War III.
	What you need to understand in the immediate is that World War III isn't the direct problem right now.
	Though it's pretty scary to think we may be coming to that point.
	The scary thing you need to understand is this video.
	Let me play this video for you.
unidentified		I'm using a different way to take a point.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		USL cargo vessel.
unidentified		Burning.
		Let me put the caps on this guy.
		I'm gonna put the caps on him.
		Look at this, it's crazy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That thing's just gone.
		ABC News reports a missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels struck a U.S.-owned ship Monday off the coast of Yemen, less than a day after Yemen's Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea.
		The attack on the Gibraltar Eagle, though not immediately claimed by the Houthis, further escalates tensions gripping the Red Sea after American-led strikes on the rebels.
		The U.S.
		and the U.K.
		have been engaged in joint airstrikes in Yemen.
		Effectively starting another war.
		I mean, we've already had a secret war going on in Yemen for a long time, but now you've got even Democrats calling out Joe Biden for not getting the approval of Congress when he started bombing this country.
		And this is where it's going.
		Full-scale war.
		The New York Times lays it out for us.
unidentified		U.S.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		and Iran battle through proxies, warily avoiding each other.
		Iran wants to flex its muscles without directly taking on the U.S.
		or Israel, but that cautious strategy is subject to miscalculation on all sides.
		Proxy war means nothing.
		It's war.
		Iran is not some pathetic backwater country, too.
		You see, when it came to Iraq and Afghanistan, The American people thought of deserts and barren wastelands.
		Afghanistan's got a lot of poppy.
		And they got lithium and stuff like that.
		But it's not the most developed place.
		Iraq, similar.
		But, you know.
		No, Iran is mountainous.
		It is well-developed.
		It is massive.
		And it will not be so easy to fight and conquer.
		And this is what we are facing now.
		Iran, of course, not big fans of Israel.
		And so this conflict is effectively Iran is supplying these groups.
		They're attacking us.
		And I'll tell you now, World War 3, as I said before, is not the immediate thing you need to be worried about.
		What you need to be worried about is that certain foods you may like will be gone.
		You know, I do gotta point this out.
		We go to these restaurants every day.
		Everybody does.
		And do you ever stop to think about the food you're getting and where it comes from?
		Man.
		The idea that I was in Alaska, okay?
		And they had avocados.
		And I was just like, okay, come on, man.
		And they weren't really that expensive either.
		I'm like, grown in Mexico and shipped to Barrow, Alaska.
		Or Utqiagvik, whatever you want to call it.
		The northernmost point of the U.S.
		had avocados readily available.
		And I'm thinking to myself as I'm eating at this restaurant, I've got a cheeseburger here with Cajun spice.
		It's got onions, mushrooms, cheddar cheese, avocado, garlic, aioli, a little sriracha on it.
		And, uh, I'm just thinking.
		All of these things are produced in various places and have to be brought together for me to have.
		Kings did not eat so well.
		Well, my friends, we are entering an era where you, too, may not eat so well, either.
		Why?
		Come on.
		If war actually escalates to this point, ain't no way you're getting avocados in New York in the winter.
		Strawberries in the winter?
		Good luck.
		No more strawberry smoothies for you in the winter.
		You've been living in luxury.
		You don't get it.
		People don't understand what it takes to grow this food.
		Now, to be fair, there's greenhouses in these places, so, sure, maybe strawberries will exist.
		But it's gonna be a lot like V for Vendetta.
		When Natalie Portman's character is at V's house, and she eats the toast, she goes, is this real butter?
		And the reason is, yeah, strawberries might exist, but it'll be like 50 bucks for a little pack of strawberries, because they're grown in a greenhouse, because ain't nobody's gonna be transporting them.
		And if they do, they'd be even more expensive.
		Fuel and resources will be diverted to war, and so you'll be eating, I don't know, you'll be eating bread.
		Probably no steak.
		Steak will be too expensive for you.
		Meat will be diverted to the fighting forces.
		Seriously.
		They gotta give the protein to the people fighting the wars.
		You know, it's not all bad.
		I think Americans have grown quite complacent.
		But in the immediate, it's not so much about wartime economics, but right now, with these ships being disrupted, I was talking to Eric Prince, you know, of Blackwater, on the Culture War podcast, and he was pointing out that, what, two-thirds or something?
	Two-thirds of trade travel through the Red Sea.
	And, you know, it goes up.
	Let me see if I can actually just pull up a map and show you exactly what the issue is.
	Ok, go to maps.google.com.
	Let's zoom out of Des Moines, because we're in Iowa right now.
	And let me pull up this map.
	For those that are listening, you'll understand completely right here, where you can see Yemen, the Gulf of Aden is where the ship was struck, the Red Sea, and of course, up through the Sinai, near Sinai, and of course we have We have the, what's the canal called?
	The Sinai Canal?
	Is that it?
	Port Said, here's the canal.
	This allows a lot of ships to make their way, and there's the Great Bitter Lake, make their way into the Mediterranean, where a large amount of trade will reach North Africa, parts of the Middle East, Turkey, and the rest of Europe.
	This is being disrupted.
	When we had that one ship get stuck in the peninsula over there, or I'm sorry, in the canal, Remember how much it disrupted everything and everyone was worried that it was going to result in prices going up?
	Yeah.
	A Suez Canal.
	Suez Canal.
	There it is.
	Everyone watching the show is just like, No, Tim, it's not Sinai, that's the Peninsula.
	It's the Suez Canal.
	Yes.
	I checked.
	I fact-checked.
	I'm like, I'm getting it wrong.
	It's the Suez, right?
	Yeah, Suez right there.
	And, uh, they're blocking a lot of that trade.
	Now, for most of you in Europe, oof, that's gonna suck.
	For most of us here in the United States, well, it's not the biggest deal ever because trade coming from this part of the world can go around, you know, through the North Pacific Ocean or whatever.
	But it's gonna disrupt a lot.
	That means your costs are gonna go up.
	You're gonna bear that brunt.
	Following this, if the conflict is not dealt with, then we are gonna start dealing with wartime economics.
	War economy, dude.
	It's crazy.
	You want to experience it?
	If you've ever been in a place after a hurricane, you'll truly understand conflict economics or war economics, whatever you want to call it.
	When we were doing conflict reporting for Vice and for these other companies, the one thing we'd always talk about is like, look, we're going to fly into this country, we're going to fly into this state, we're going to fly into the city in active conflict or disaster, like a hurricane, and you've got to compensate.
	For wartime economics.
	A war economy.
	So you go, a disaster economy, depends on what people call it.
	Bottle of water, 10 bucks.
	Cheeseburger, 50 bucks.
	Why?
	How are they supposed to get a cheeseburger into an area with no roads or bridges?
	So I took a picture, I was up in, as I mentioned, Barrow, Alaska.
	I took a picture of a menu at a restaurant.
	Cheeseburger, $25.
	People were shocked, and they were like, this is Biden's America.
	And I'm like, no, no, what?
	I had already said I was in Alaska.
	People, calm down.
	No, it's because the only way to get the burger up to Barrow, Alaska is by plane.
	Now boats do come in periodically, but how long is that meat gonna last?
	So they fly in huge shipments.
	I think they have one flight in and out every day, so they're constantly bringing stuff in from Anchorage, and then from Anchorage, it's gotta come from somewhere else.
	It's very difficult to bring in.
	Everything is expensive.
	When you get into a disaster economy or a war economy, they're gonna say, we don't have fuel for your trucks to bring you avocados.
	That fuel's going to warships.
	It's all diverted.
	All the petroleum reserve and all of our access, it's going to war.
	So what are you gonna eat?
	I hope you've been taking a look at what local farm food you have.
	Do you have any local farms?
	Good luck, New York City, man.
	It's gonna get wild.
	You know, the crazy thing, when we talk about social collapse and war, I don't even know that a place like New York City could sustain itself in an act of conflict.
	If World War III were to start, with as many people as there are now, how do we feed what is like 13 million in the metro?
	How do you feed 13 million people when you need all your supplies for war and everything else?
	It's going to result in high prices.
	I'm not saying we don't feed people.
	I'm saying they'll keep food coming in, but it's going to become more and more and more expensive.
	We've already got people who can't pay their rent.
	So what happens?
	Nationalization subsidies?
	Government takeover?
	War bonds?
	Yo.
	Right now, we don't got to worry about that.
	Just yet.
	You got to worry about what's going to happen to your prices because of the Suez Canal and the Red Sea.
	But if you're not paying attention, then if this escalates in a year or two, you're gonna be left holding an empty bag, and you're gonna be in a Walmart parking lot fighting with Agnes over the last can of baked beans.
	Don't be that person, man.
	Pay attention to what's going on in the world.
	I'll leave it there.
	Next segment's coming up tonight at 8 p.m.
	Eastern, the Iowa Caucus and its results.
	We will be going an additional hour on the show.
	No members-only show tonight, but please become a member at TimCast.com to support our work And tonight's show will be from 8 to just about 11, maybe like 1045, so we can get the reaction from various individuals working with the campaign.
	We got a bunch of really awesome people who are in town, high-profile lawmakers, politicians, personalities, and we're gonna have them rotating in and giving their thoughts, even some journalists, perhaps.
	It's gonna be an epic show where we talk about all of these issues, but the big issue, of course, the Iowa caucus setting the standard for the primary election.
	Who will be the nominee?
	Donald Trump is the overwhelming favorite, and he has my support.
	I'll say it a million times, come on, he's not a perfect guy.
	And in a perfect world, we'd have a perfect candidate, but we don't.
	We have Trump.
	I'll take what I can get.
	His foreign policy, amazing.
	Vivek, I think, is a nice second place.
	We'll see.
	Can Nikki Haley muster up the attention?
	I don't believe so!
	But we'll see.
	I'll leave it there.
	Thanks for hanging out, everybody.
	Stay tuned.

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