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Senate Passes TIKTOK BAN Bill Also Giving Nearly $100B To Ukraine, Israel & Taiwan, Biden Signs NOW

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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Become a member at TimCast.com by clicking Join Us to support the work we're doing and to get access to the uncensored TimCast IRL call-in show Monday through Thursday at 10 p.m.
		You don't want to miss it.
		Now, let's get into the news.
		We are now one step closer to TikTok getting banned.
		Last night, the Senate approved a bill that will fund Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel and Potentially ban TikTok.
		They bundle it all together because, uh, well...
		That way, if you're for one or against the other, you have no choice but to pick.
		Do you get what you want, or does it all get thrown in the garbage?
		Now, rest assured, my friends, no matter who you think you can count on, and you probably can't, maybe it's a little bit unfair, but there is some criticism flying over to Rand Paul for not voting on this bill.
		Granted, even if he voted no, it really wouldn't have done anything, though some have suggested he could have blocked this with amendments and things like that to jam it up, and it didn't.
		It got passed.
		This bill is not just the TikTok potential ban, it is also major funding.
		$95 billion package sending aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan after months of delay.
		All at once, ladies and gentlemen.
		Now, me personally, I gotta tell you, I don't actually have a big problem with the bill that will force the divestment of China from TikTok.
		Now, many people say, it's a free speech issue, how could you do this?
		Companies are allowed to operate in the United States, all that stuff.
		You know, it's because I don't think the communists in China should be controlling what our young people see and taking our data and all that stuff.
		And the argument against it is weird.
		I mean, a lot of people are saying, yeah, well, you know, they just passed warrantless wiretapping and they're spying on us and they're doing all this.
		And yes, that's also bad.
		They're both bad.
		Right?
		So we don't want warrantless wiretapping.
		We don't want spying.
		And we don't want China doing the exact same thing.
		We were talking about this last night on IRL.
		I don't know how true this is, but it's what people have been saying about the TikTok app basically taking all your search history and a whole bunch of other crazy stuff like this.
		Yes, I would not be surprised.
		But let's get started here.
		This is the big social media news, so we'll start with the ban on TikTok, the Postmillennial Reports.
		On Tuesday night, Senate approved a bill aimed at either prohibiting TikTok or compelling its sale.
		marking a significant rejection of the video sharing platform's Chinese ownership.
		This move comes after numerous unsuccessful efforts to address the purported national security concerns
		associated with the app over the years.
		The Senate voted 79 to 18 in favor of the measure, which was included in a comprehensive package providing
		assistance to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan.
		This sends the proposal to President Biden for a signature, of course, which he's absolutely going to sign.
		Following the House approval on Saturday, President Biden has voiced support for the foreign aid package and indicated his intention to sign the TikTok bill, indicating that it is likely to become law in the near future.
		Upon signature, the provision would grant TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, approximately nine months to divest the immensely popular app, failing which could result in a nationwide prohibition.
		Full stop.
		Sort of, but not really.
		Post-millennial?
		You could do a little better than this.
		Rumble has since offered to buy and operate TikTok in the U.S.
		Now, I'll break this down and give you the nitty-gritty here.
		They will never ban TikTok in the U.S.
		They will restrict its contracting with it.
		So, it's an effective ban, and that's fair, but I want to make sure I get the nuance in here.
		Here's basically what will happen.
		With the passage of this bill, it goes to Joe Biden's desk.
		Joe Biden is going to sign it.
		ByteDance has nine months to sell or break away from China.
		It's not going to happen.
		But they're not going to shut TikTok down.
		If ByteDance does not divest, and they say, you can't do this, and they sue, and they likely will sue, because as part of the law's original form, I don't know where it is right now with this aid package, they probably changed it, ByteDance will actually get to go to court and argue against it.
		Aside from that in the law, they will actually just challenge this in court, you know, on its entirety.
		So you've got two basic lawsuits coming.
		The first, is this bill constitutional or not?
		Can you do this?
		The Supreme Court may outright say no, and then nothing else matters.
		That'll be interesting.
		You then have, within the bill, the opportunity for adjudication in D.C., in which case ByteDance could still win even if the law does exist.
		Now, let's say they quickly lose both of these lawsuits.
	What happens next is that ByteDance would then be forced to divest, and if they don't, then U.S.
	services cannot provide space or contract with ByteDance.
	Will TikTok get banned?
	Technically, yes.
	It won't be able to be on the App Store or in the Google Play Store.
	For Android users, you could still easily download the app from the TikTok website.
	The TikTok website would have to use servers that are outside the U.S., all of which aren't that big of a deal, and it would not ban TikTok in the U.S.
	It would just severely restrict it.
	I know a lot of people are saying, you know, you're pulling hairs here.
	Nuance, nuance.
	It's not, it's nothing.
	Okay, this is important though.
	They are not saying TikTok will be illegal.
	They are not saying you cannot legally have TikTok.
	They are not saying you can't have it on your phone.
	They're saying you're going to have to download it from non-American servers.
	That's really all it is.
	Now, why are they doing it?
	TikTok is a national security threat.
	FBI director issues chilling warning from Chinese government use of data from American social media users.
	Well, let's start from the beginning, my friends.
	Several years ago, when Donald Trump was president, he wanted to ban TikTok.
	He tried.
	Supreme Court said no!
	I believe it was Supreme Court.
	There was a lawsuit that said you can't do this, you can't ban TikTok.
	So it'll be interesting to see what happens.
	Now, the Supreme Court, I don't know the exact ruling, but it may have been, this is not an executive action, it has to be legislative.
	Typically, when it comes to restrictions under the law, Congress has to approve it.
	Well, Congress just did.
	So we'll see.
	Now, for some reason, Democrats all of a sudden got on board with banning TikTok.
	And why is that?
	It's actually plainly obvious.
	You see, back when Trump was president, he wanted to ban TikTok.
	The issue was that TikTok is indoctrinating young people to the left.
	Well, of course, Democrats like that.
	So they were like, no, you can't take that away.
	We like what it's doing.
	And there's your conflict.
	Then something happened.
	October 7th.
	After the attack on Israel, you had a ton of posts on TikTok and all social media that were sympathetic to the Israelis.
	But then, seemingly, after a week or so, On TikTok, pro-Palestine social media posts skyrocketed, leading many to speculate that this was an intentional flick-of-a-switch algorithm change to promote pro-Palestine content over pro-Israel content.
	And there you have it.
	You see, Democrats in Congress thought TikTok was fine.
	In the House and Senate.
	And then once all of this anti-Israel content started going viral and young people started adopting these views, the propaganda that they were being fed, large donors and constituents, not just large donors, started calling Democrats in Congress and saying, why are you allowing TikTok to slander Israel like this?
	Well, Democrats then snapped to attention and said, oh, we can't allow anti-Israel sentiment in this country.
	Because then we're going to lose support for Israel.
	The simple version is, U.S.
	foreign policy is subverted by TikTok because, duh, it's Chinese.
	I don't think it's that complicated, right?
	And now the U.S.
	is realizing we better do something about this.
	The funny thing is, the deep state intelligence agencies and these Democrat lawyers and all that, that went after Donald Trump, and now Trump is like right about everything.
	The Democrats are anti-Israel, and so the deep state must be thinking, man, what do we do here?
	You support Joe Biden, who's pandering to these leftists, who just had his both-sides moment the other day, where he was like, I condemn the anti-Semitism and those who don't know what's going on in Palestine.
	And it's like, oh, yeah, OK.
	Now what are you going to do?
	Biden's pandering to the anti-Israel crowd.
	Trump's pandering to Israel.
	This will be interesting.
	Here's what Chris Wray had to say.
	Not that we like that guy.
	He sounded the alarm over national security concerns posed by TikTok.
	While influencers panic over potentially losing their favorite app, the intelligence chief warned that users should be concerned their data is being filtered to the Chinese intelligence services.
	I just, you know, I just want to pause real quick and highlight the sheer ineptitudes of the U.S.
	deep state.
	Dude.
	Do y'all have any idea how to sell a product?
	Man!
	Chris Wray is saying nothing to nobody when he says this.
	What are you trying to do?
	Get mom and dad, Gen Xers and Boomers to go to their kids and be like, that TikTok app has China on it.
	They're not going to stop their kids from using it.
	And many of these young people are older than 18 anyway.
	You ain't selling nothing.
	That is not the pitch.
	They're stealing your data.
	And they're going to be like, and so are you.
	What do I care?
	America sucks.
	Terrible sales pitch.
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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Bye bye.
		And I wonder what they're gonna do with those sensitive photographs.
		Could you imagine, like, some Chinese NSA, and they're, like, all sitting there looking at your photos from your phone that you never wanted to share?
		Oof.
		And they're just, you know, sharing them with each other?
		Well, I don't know about all that, but it's a better sales pitch than, China is stealing your data, young people.
		Here's why you should care, because they're not.
		They're going to be like, dude, we've had no privacy ever.
		The young people aren't looking at China as the great adversary because they don't, you know, I'll put it this way.
		You flood the country with non-citizens, you give them luxury apartments, you drive prices up, you strip the ability of young people to get into the market to have a family, and they're not going to feel anything about the United States.
		So when you say the U.S.
		is concerned that China's stealing your data, they're going to say, and so are you, and you're both bad guys.
		You've earned no favor.
		You've given them nothing.
		So why should they care?
		Ray's stark warning came after Congress passed a potential TikTok ban as part of a wider set
		of foreign aid legislation. And here we go. And here's the rest of it. I don't think you're going
		to win over young people when they don't like Israel either.
		CNN says the Senate on Tuesday passed a long-delayed $95 billion package with wide
		partisan support after both sides of Capitol Hill have struggled for months to send aid to Ukraine,
		Israel, and Taiwan.
		The final vote was 79-18.
		15 Republicans voted with 3 Democrats against the bill.
		48 Democrats and 31 Republicans voted for the bill.
		The legislation next goes to Joe Biden to sign into law, who he said he would sign the package Wednesday.
		So here we go.
		Wow!
		Man, that's crazy.
		Look, the aid package is the aid package.
		The U.S.
		does this all the time.
		It's bad, we hate it.
		But the TikTok divestment bill is huge.
		This is making moves.
unidentified		People post on social media all the time, nothing ever happens.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, this is something.
		This is nuts.
		I don't know how they're going to handle this.
		It's kind of wild.
		So Michael Tracy shows us the list of all the people who voted on this.
		He says, here's why, actually let me just, do we have this one?
		No, let's pull up this tweet first so you can see the full context.
		Michael Tracy says, actually let me zoom in so you can actually read it.
		Here's why you can't necessarily take yes or no votes from politicians that face value in terms of their substantive positions on legislation before them.
		If anyone thinks Marco Rubio and Rick Scott are opposed on principle to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan funding, I have a bridge in the Everglades to sell you.
		Both are two of the most hardcore interventionists in the entire Senate.
		Both have long denounced Biden for not being aggressive enough in arming Ukraine, supporting Israel, and antagonizing China.
		And both admitted last night that their rationale for voting no was purely about extraneous political calculations, not the substance of the bill itself.
		He goes on to mention a bit more, but you can take a look at all the votes.
		Actually, I have this from CNN.
		How each U.S.
		Senator voted on the $95 billion foreign aid package.
		46 Democrats said yes.
		31 Republicans said yes.
		We got 2 no's from the Democrats.
		15 no's from the Republicans.
		3 Republicans didn't vote.
		2 Independents said yes.
		1 Independent said no.
		Now, I suppose we can say this.
		Rand Paul voting no was meaningless, but why didn't he vote?
		Honestly, I have no idea.
		I mean, maybe he was in the hospital.
		No, seriously, I have no idea.
		So here we go.
		Let's take a look at who didn't vote.
		We have Rand Paul, did not vote.
		We have Rick Scott, did not vote.
		Oh, I'm sorry, that's not, Tim Scott did not vote, not Rick Scott.
		There's two Scots!
		And I saw that, so that's Tim Scott of South Carolina.
		And then you have Tuberville, also didn't vote.
		So what's that all about?
		Why not?
		Michael Tracy says, furthermore, it's bizarre that Rand Paul and Tommy Tuberville apparently could not be bothered to vote last night.
		Unless there was some sudden medical emergency that's physically prevented them from showing up to the chamber, it's inexcusable.
		He says, what are these guys even elected to do, if not cast votes, on the most consequential legislation that's come before their body in years?
		They are literally two of 100 people in the entire country, 330 million, with a vote on whether to fund multi-theater global warfare campaign.
unidentified		Wow!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You know, that's one way to put it.
		I hope you all are ready for what this turns into and where we go.
		The Hill breaks down even further.
		Ten senators helped advance Ukraine aid after voting against it.
		Did they really?
		Did they mention who it is?
		The non-Republicans are Katie Britt of Alabama, Tom Cotton, Debbie Fisher, Lindsey Graham, Cindy Hyde-Smith, James Lankford, Mark Wayne Mullen, Pete Ricketts, and Tim Scott.
		Well, let's break it down.
		Look, I'm actually a fan of divesting, forcing ByteDance to divest.
		The reason being, as I stated earlier, it's bad enough we get U.S.
		spying, we don't need Chinese spying, but most importantly, Yuri Bezmenov.
		Yuri Bezmenov said, the communists are going to try and take over your schools and take over the minds of your young people.
		If only he could foresee the internet and social media.
		He'd warn us not to let them do that as well.
		And I'd been sent the Yuri Bezmenov video like 8,000 times.
		But now there are people who are like, Tib, you don't get it.
unidentified		They want a bad ex because Ilan Berskis from South Africa.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Here's what would have to happen.
		First, and no, this is about TikTok first and foremost, there is a circuitous path towards forcing Elon to divest from Twitter, or X, sure.
		Here's what would have to happen.
		First, the bill only targets China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.
		They would have to amend a separate law, all of Congress, to add South Africa to the list.
		I don't know that that would work.
		Pretty sure Elon Musk is also an American citizen.
		So they would have to then name Elon Musk himself as one of these adversaries listed in this bill.
		That's not going to happen.
		If they did list Elon Musk, then they could require Elon Musk to sell X. So that's not going to happen.
		Short of that, the bill only affects investment or control from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.
		Some have said yes, but there's Saudi funding for X, which means they would have to divest.
		That's it.
		So X would need to find an investor to buy out the Saudi investor, if there was one.
		It's not the end of the world.
		I don't think they're going after Rumble and X. I think that is a weird excuse, and one of the most frustrating things to me about all of this is I know exactly why they want to ban TikTok.
		It's because of Israel.
		And it was funny because I was talking to a journalist and he was like, thank you for admitting that.
		And I was like, admitting it?
		As if I was obfuscating and intending to cover up what's going on in Israel.
		Oh, these people, I'm just so sorry.
		Dude, Israel Derangement Syndrome people, I swear.
		They just live in this world where everything's Jewish and Israel.
		And so when I say something like, yeah, clearly the Democrats are mad.
		The donors are mad about Israel being besmirched.
		And they're like, ha, so you admit it?
		Why are you laughing?
		I'm reporting it.
		It's a fact.
		And these people are deranged.
		But I get that.
		And so now, I'm told by people, they say, well, shouldn't you then realize that you're on the side of the bad guys?
		That the bad guys want to ban TikTok?
		And I'm like, dude, this is not an enemy of my enemy is my friends thing.
		This is, someone comes up to me and says, hey, here's a really bad thing.
		I don't like it.
		Here you go.
		Someone brings in a sandwich drenched in cilantro and it's moldy.
		And they go, we want to get rid of this because it's covered in cilantro.
		And you're like, cilantro's not bad.
		Why are you trying to get rid of cilantro?
		And you're like, guys, this sandwich is moldy!
		Like, what are we even arguing?
		They're not saying ban cilantro.
		It's banning TikTok.
		And again, oh man, the semantics.
		It's not even really banning it.
		It's forcing them to divest.
		They're basically saying, we want to take the cilantro off.
		And I'm like, dude, It's still moldy.
		Fine.
		Take off the cilantro.
		And some people like cilantro.
		That's right.
		Some people like the Chinese Communist Party.
		It's true.
		Trudeau, for instance.
		But come on.
		Just because... Just because...
		China, just because Schumer, it doesn't mean we allow China to do these things.
		It doesn't mean that we sit back and let them indoctrinate our young people and the younger generation.
		Here's what we need in this country.
		We need Trump to win.
	We need our intelligence agencies to actually start caring about this country instead of burning it to the ground.
	We need social media platforms to also care about this country.
	The indoctrination we want in schools and on these apps should be to work hard, get fit, and raise a family.
	That's not what's happening though.
	Instead, those that advocate for these things are getting banned.
	It feels, whether intentionally or not, like a culling.
	You've got a bunch of leftists sterilizing their kids, aborting their kids, teaching them things that will cause them harm.
	And it does not feel like... It doesn't feel like there is an attempt to actually help preserve this country or expand humanity or save humanity.
	It feels like Malthusians are quite upset, don't like how many people there are, and want there to be less.
	Well, I don't know that that's true, but there are many people who believe it.
	Malthusians, of course, are the people who believe in something called the population bomb, that there's too many people and that the Earth will become overpopulated.
	I don't think so.
	I think humans are smart.
	I think that when humans start to overpopulate, they'll build spaceships and then they'll go to other places.
	And we'll figure it out.
	We'll build biospheres and things like that.
	I certainly think we have too much concentration of people.
	That's fair.
	But there are many people who want to cull the population.
	I'm not saying that they are, but it certainly does feel like they are.
	If that's the case then, why wouldn't there be a World War III?
	Why wouldn't there be?
	If you really believe that there are powerful global corporate elites and political elites who want to reduce population, Then you'd have to assume that everything they're doing is trying to make World War 3 happen, so they can reduce population.
	Yeah.
	But I don't know for sure.
	It just feels that way.
	In the meantime, TikTok is running out of time.
	I'll leave it there.
	Next segment's coming up at 1pm on this channel.
	Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
	What if I were to tell you there was a conspiracy among the opponents of Donald Trump to go after him with criminal charges and, in other ways, to stop him from winning the 2024 election?
	You'd say, uh-huh, yeah, I watch the news too.
	What else is going on?
	We have a couple of stories.
	Prominent anti-Trump pundits have been holding weekly meetings to take down Trump.
	That is to say, these men have, let's just say colloquially, conspired behind the scenes to damage Donald Trump.
	Well, this one's important, because this means a crime has been committed.
	And I can prove it, my friends, I can prove it.
	Take a look at this from JustSecurity.
	Election fraud, pure and simple.
unidentified		God!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Trump committed election fraud?
		Trump's prosecutors moved beyond Stormy Daniels in wide-lens trial opening.
		Ladies and gentlemen, we got him!
		You see, Donald Trump In 2015!
		I kid you not.
		This is a criminal trial over the 2016 election.
		But anyway.
		You see, Donald Trump was concerned that people might hear negative information about him while he ran for president.
		So what did he do?
		Well, according to the prosecutors, he told his lawyer to figure it out.
		Stop people from running negative stories about me.
		And he also was friends with a guy at a media company.
		So they accused Trump of paying off Stormy Daniels so that she would not make negative claims about him.
		And they say the crime is not that he paid her off.
		Of course, that's not illegal.
		The crime is that he was interfering in the election by suppressing negative news about himself.
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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Uh-huh.
		Okay, so efforts to alter or control or display or whatever information pertaining to elections is election interference and fraud.
		Okay, well, let's go back to that story.
		So if you have anti-Trump pundits meeting together, holding weekly meetings to take down Trump, oh, well, there you go.
		There's a conspiracy to manipulate information pertaining to Trump.
		Well, that's a crime.
		I guess we're going to have to arrest all these guys.
		Wow, let me play for you this MSNBC clip.
		You can hear it straight from the mouths of the people who are obsessed with and hate Donald Trump.
unidentified		Frame as you see what we've heard today.
		So a couple of things here.
		The prosecution is essentially looking to lay out the case, and you heard this come up a couple of times in the opening statements today, that this goes beyond simply what we all shorthanded as the hush money trial, that this was about election interference.
		They did something interesting.
		They took this phrase that in many ways the former president has co-opted since the 2020
		election, this idea of election fraud, and they tried to flip it and use it against Donald
		Trump in these opening statements, describing what he did as illegal election fraud, that
		he tried to cover up, along with Michael Cohen and David Pecker, this, you know, money to
		cover up an alleged sex scandal.
		What the defense did was try to take that back.
		And you heard this very interesting line from Todd Blanch, the lead attorney there for the
		former president, who said, spoiler alert, there's nothing wrong with trying to influence
		an election.
		It's called democracy.
		Kind of an extraordinary line to hear from the former president's team.
		And so the defense came back, Blanch said that, but also tried to make Donald Trump
		seem super relatable.
		And that was striking at several moments for the defense's opening statements, talking
		about how, sure, he's the former president, but hey, he's just like us.
		He's a father.
		He's a husband.
		You know, we're all New Yorkers here.
		We all get it, trying to establish that personal relationship with the jury in hopes that that
		could serve the defense team over the course of the next six weeks there.
		What I'm going to be watching for—you asked about what could be new here, and you heard Vaughn allude to some of this.
		The prosecution has receipts.
		They're alluding to a tape with the former president's voice on it.
		They're alluding to a photograph, for example, from the Oval Office in 2017 of Donald Trump with Michael Cohen.
		They are going to try to prove that whatever you think of the credibility of these witnesses they're expected to call—Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels—that the paper documents, right, the evidence, the paper trail proves their case.
		So, Danny, they're going to say the defense is going to say there's no crime here.
		They're going to do more than that.
		I mean, they actually opened with, he's innocent, which is an interesting choice of words because innocence is not determined at a criminal trial.
		It's guilty or not guilty.
		But sometimes, If you feel that your case is particularly strong, you may try to essentially argue innocence to the jury.
		My client is so not guilty that he's innocent.
		And they essentially opened with that.
		We already got a preview and there were no surprises.
		They're gonna point to Michael Cohen.
		As somebody who is not credible.
		They're going to point to Stormy Daniels as someone who is not credible.
		Although you could argue that Stormy Daniels is almost not necessary as a witness in this case.
		Her involvement is kind of tangential.
		The affair itself is not critical to whether or not it actually happened.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Okay, okay, blah blah blah.
		We get it.
		Now the reason I want to show you this clip is that the media is actually entertaining this.
		This argument from the prosecution that Trying to do marketing during an election is illegal.
		And then they go on to say, hey, look, they're going to pull out videos and audio recordings.
		I bet they're going to have audio recordings of Trump being like, OK, so, you know, we want to suppress this one.
unidentified		It's a bad story.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's not very good.
		So do what you got to do.
		And that's it.
		And they're going to say this proves it.
		What they're doing is rather interesting.
		The prosecution seems to be trying to jump over the statutory requirements by going to people and saying, uh, anyway, here's what Trump did.
		This proves it.
		So he's guilty.
		Now, what was that?
		Well, what he's doing is out of crap.
		But look, look, here's proof that he did it.
		You see what I'm saying?
		It's like a sleight of hand thing.
		It's like, hey, we have proof Trump was trying to suppress this news, right?
		And then hoping the jury just says, wow, he did do that.
		Okay, well, the defense is going to be like, yeah, but that's not a crime.
		Trump didn't do anything illegal.
		What is he doing here?
		In the meantime, we can talk about the rest of this conspiracy over here.
		Prominent anti-Trump pundits have been holding weekly meetings to take down Trump.
		The Post Millennial Reports, a new article out of Politico, reveals that a select group of lawyers and legal pundits have been working behind the scenes to quash a Trump second term using the media.
		They've been sharing narratives, honing points, and working together to intellectually stress test the arguments facing Trump on his journey through the American legal system.
		The names of those who have been at these meetings are all too familiar, and the tactics mirror those undertaken in 2020 to manipulate media to sway the presidential election in Biden's favor.
		Heavens me!
		Oh boy.
		Does this mean that if Donald Trump gets convicted, we can lock up all these guys too?
		If this is the game they're going to play, I don't see why not.
		Donald Trump gets elected president and then says, remember when you claimed that trying to influence the media was fraudulent, election interference?
		Okay, well I went on trial for that.
		Let's say Trump wins or loses, whatever.
		And he says, okay, now the DOJ will use the exact same premise to go after all of these men.
		Part of me thinks it won't happen.
		You know, Donald Trump says that he's going to go after the corrupt individuals.
		Perhaps, perhaps.
		I'm not entirely convinced he will.
		I'd like to see it, but I don't know.
		I really don't know what to expect.
		I can tell you that Donald Trump is a much better option than, say, Joe Biden.
		They say the group began their weekly meetings, meeting weekly, 2022, every Friday on Zoom with
		congressional staffers for J6 committee members to coordinate their narrative
		about Trump and the law affair directed at him. Every Friday they meet on Zoom to
		hash out the latest twists and turns in the Trump legal saga and intellectually stress test the
		arguments. The meetings were not recorded and were off the record.
		Those in attendance have various media affiliations.
		The host of the meetings, Norm Eisen, was a senior member of the Obama administration and has actively worked to get attorneys who worked with Trump during his White House term disbarred.
		He worked on the first impeachment trial of Trump in Congress, and claims that Trump, and not Biden, will weaponize government against his opponents.
		Eisen was also co-founder of the DC-based non-profit that brought the case to remove Trump from the Colorado ballot.
		It is a conspiracy.
		What they are doing defies the spirit of this nation, and I would argue, if they want to pursue Trump in this way, then certainly it must be a criminal as well.
		Jeff Clark says, I called it. A group of leftist legal commentators has been meeting weekly for
		about two years to strategize about how to bring down Trump using the media. I even coined a term
		for the phenomenon, journal lawfare, as many followers will well be familiar with.
		The Politico article admits it.
		Just like the Molly Ball Time article about how they fortified the 2020 election, they always have to brag about what they are trying to do to kill off Trump.
		Just some of the participants listed here, Tribe, Weissman, Crystal Conway, John Dean, and Tubin, not pictured, Ludwig.
		Well, because there are many people who are unfamiliar with Molly Ball's article, I'm going to pull it up.
		It's always very important to bring this one up, because maybe you're new here.
		And I mean that with respect.
		Maybe you are new, and you don't really follow the news all that often.
		Maybe you have an aunt, an uncle, a mom, or dad, and they don't believe you when you say you know that there was a shadow campaign to steal the election.
		They say, oh, get out of here.
		We don't want to hear.
		Okay, here you go, Time Magazine.
		The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the 2020 Election.
	And they write, There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes.
	One that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs.
	Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between
	left-wing activists and business titans.
	The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S.
	Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO published on Election Day.
	Both sides would come to see it as sort of an implicit bargain, inspired by the summer's massive, sometimes destructive racial justice protests, in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump's assault on democracy.
	I love that.
	Trump's assault on democracy?
	Yo, y'all are literally admitting to business titans meeting behind the scenes to engage in what you describe as a conspiracy and all to stop Trump.
	Let's talk about democracy.
	What we are supposed to have is a democratic institution, which is how we vote for our representatives.
	Not on bills, you know.
	We do have propositions in some states.
	No, it's supposed to be that we vote for our representatives and then they go and handle government.
	So that's as far as our democracy goes.
	If the argument is an election is when one man or one person argues their ideas seeking your approval via vote, then we did not have that in 2020.
	Donald Trump won the argument.
	But he lost the election.
	And he lost because Democrats won the game.
	And that is, get as many pieces of paper with names on it as possible.
	So a lot of people voted for Joe Biden, mostly because they hated Trump, some because they didn't care.
	Ballot harvesters go knock on your door and say, just fill this out, you know, or I'll come back tomorrow.
	And then, uh, people do.
	You get a bunch of activists showing up at your house every day saying, did you fill out your mail-in ballot?
	And you go, no.
	Well, we'll be back tomorrow.
	And they're like, dude, fine, whatever.
	I'll just fill it out.
	Here you go.
	A lot of these people probably would not have voted, but the ballot harvesters came by, knocked, and said, there's a ballot right there on your floor, came in your mailbox, just select Biden, give it to me, and we'll collect it.
	And that's legal in most places.
	Now they're calling it election fraud.
	Let me tell you about election fraud.
	Take a look at this.
	We'll start light.
	Hush money judge angrily scolds Trump, suggesting he tried to intimidate prospective juror.
	I will not tolerate that!
	This one was pretty shocking to me.
	What did Trump do?
	He muttered something in trial.
	Trump was muttering inaudible while one juror was being questioned, the judge said.
	And he said, I will not have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom.
unidentified		Wait, wait, what?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What do you mean intimidated?
		For all we know, Trump was, look, They don't even know what Trump said.
		So let's say a juror is being questioned and Trump goes, Oh, I need to get a pastrami and rice today for lunch.
		Probably some barbecue chips.
		And then the judge goes, Hey Trump!
		Don't you intimidate my jurors!
		I don't think he really said it like that, but you know, I'm giving you a theatrics.
		Let's say the judge said, Mr. Trump, you will remain quiet in my courtroom.
		I will not have you intimidating jurors.
		The judge is poisoning the well there.
		We don't know what Trump said.
		Trump could have been sitting there muttering something about SNL.
		We have no idea.
		He could have been muttering literally anything.
		He could have said something like, I can't believe this case.
		What is going on in this country?
		That's it.
		Nothing about the juror.
		No threat to the juror.
		Nothing.
		But when the judge says out loud, I will not have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom.
		What he just said was, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Trump is trying to intimidate you.
		He created that context.
		Now that is creepy.
		But wait!
		There's more.
		Phil Holloway, Esquire, says, Judge Murchon is denying Trump's request to subpoena documents from Stormy Daniels.
		Trump's lawyers believe these documents would show bias against Trump and prior inconsistent statements.
		These are fair game for cross-examination.
		Murchon is kneecapping him.
		Yes!
		Duh!
		Surprise, surprise!
		The Democrat judge in the Democrat district overseeing a criminal case in which no crime was actually committed is not allowing Trump to get the documents that he could use to help prove that they're all together.
		I mean, the funny thing is, I don't know how Trump proves his innocence in a case when there's no crime committed.
		Let me try this again.
		How does Trump actually prove a negative?
		Like, nothing happened.
		There's no crime.
		There's no statutes.
		There's no laws.
		And Trump's gotta be like, I didn't do it.
		You didn't do what?
		I don't know!
		Trump's, like, here's the thing.
		Trump's gonna be like, uh, yes, we actually did try to suppress negative information.
		That's not illegal.
		Aha!
		So you admit it.
		This is the crazy thing.
		There's no law broken.
		That's it.
		No law was broken.
		What are we doing here?
		They're just trying to destroy Trump.
		And, you know, I talked about this last night, but I'm going to say it again.
		And it's kind of a scary thing to say.
		The Democrats crossed the Rubicon.
		It's not Trump.
		So I've made the argument over and over again.
		I'll make it again.
		Trump should not be at trial.
		Tomorrow is the Supreme Court oral arguments—I believe it's tomorrow—on presidential immunity, and I believe Donald Trump must be there.
		But the judge has said if he goes, he will be in contempt.
	I think Trump has to go.
	I don't know exactly how it would play out.
	Trump has to be there.
	Let's start here.
	The office of the executive for this country is more important than a contempt charge against Trump.
	Trump now has to make a strong leadership position, decision.
	Will he stand up for this nation?
	Or will he stand up for himself?
	And I believe this may be the test they wanted Trump to be put through.
	They want Trump, terrified of 30 days in jail, to skip the oral arguments, show up for court, proving that he will kneel beneath a judge and he will not stand up for this nation because of the risk to him.
	I think the Democrats want that to be the case.
	They want to say to the world, when it came time to defend this country, Trump said, I'm going to try and save myself.
	Now, I believe There's strategy.
	There's legal strategy.
	Trump's lawyers are probably giving him advice, so it's hard for me to say exactly why Trump is doing what he's doing or what he should do.
	But I believe from the outside, at the very least, with the limited information I have on his legal strategy, he needs to be at SCOTUS.
	He has a duty to this country.
	He wants to be the president once again.
	The question of presidential immunity will ring forever.
	And if Trump isn't there, it says a lot about what he cares about.
	I will start here.
	Is the President immune from criminal prosecution?
	No.
	Is the President immune from criminal prosecution pertaining to his official duties?
	Yes.
	Only until he is impeached and convicted.
	That seems obvious.
	Barack Obama killed a 16-year-old American citizen, Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, in an airstrike.
	He signed off on it.
	Has he been criminally charged for this murder?
	No.
	He would have to be impeached for it and convicted first.
	But that won't happen.
	Because politically, Democrats and Republicans don't care that the U.S.
	is engaged in drone warfare and foreign conflict, and foreign war is admittedly very different from domestic, you know, like, if Obama walked down the street and shot someone on Fifth Avenue, yeah, lock him up.
	They'd probably come up with some reason to not do it, though.
	Which brings us to where we are now.
	That's why there is presidential immunity.
	Now, Donald Trump is arguing that what he was doing pertaining to the election and election fraud was related to his official duties.
	And, well, the unfortunate thing is he's not wrong.
	The executive branch handles law enforcement.
	And, you know, he's in the election.
	If there are questions being brought up pertaining to fraud and questions of impropriety, The president absolutely must.
	It's his duty to do it.
	That's what the executive is supposed to do.
	It'd be better if he wasn't involved.
	But if you look at Georgia, you had Raffensperger, who was, I believe it was Raffensperger.
	Maybe I'm mixing up the names.
	But he was Secretary of State.
	Let me make sure I get this one right.
	Was it Raffensperger?
	Raffens... I think he was Secretary of State for Georgia.
	He still is.
	And who am I thinking of?
	I'm thinking of someone else.
	Whoever is governor now.
	Who's the governor of Georgia?
	It was Arizona and Brian Kemp.
	All right.
	Brian Kemp was the... Yes, okay.
	It was Kemp, not Ravitzberger.
	Ravitzberger is the right now.
	Okay.
	So he was the Secretary of State.
	Overseeing the election in which he became governor.
	And they all got really angry about it.
	Well, Katie Hobbs in Arizona was Secretary of State overseeing her election.
	Like, this is where we are now.
	There's no game you can play.
	If the Democrats and the Republicans are doing it, I'm not surprised Trump's doing it.
	Now the question is, there's two questions.
	Were Trump's actions related to his official duties?
	I think the answer is yes.
	It goes both ways.
	It was personal, it was his election, but it also is his duty to do these things.
	Too bad, it is.
	Whether it involves him or not, it is the executive's branch duty to investigate these things.
	The next question is, does the President have immunity?
	Trump needs to be at that trial.
	Tomorrow's the day.
	I think that if Trump goes and the Democrats have him arrested on contempt charges, they will burn themselves to the ground.
	And maybe that's what Trump will do.
	I don't know.
	We've talked about it on TimCast.rl.
	Many said, nah, Trump is going to just, he doesn't want to go to jail.
	He'll show up to New York trial and he'll skip the oral arguments and he'll argue he doesn't really need to be there.
	His lawyers can handle it.
	I don't accept that.
	He's not going to be arguing himself, but the former president asking this question should be staring at each and every one of those Supreme Court justices when this question is posed.
	Will he do it?
unidentified		I honestly have no idea.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think that may be the plan.
		Because if Trump doesn't go, you know what they're going to say.
		They're going to say, Donald Trump, it's his own fault he's facing criminal proceedings, and because of his personal corruption, was not there at the Supreme Court.
		He could not even stand up for this country because of the crimes he committed.
		That's the message.
		Think about the inverse.
		Trump goes to SCOTUS, and he sits.
		And Judge Marchand says Trump is going to be held in contempt for skipping trial today.
		And then Trump goes back to New York, and before he walks in the building, he says, ladies and gentlemen, people of the United States, it is my duty as the former president asking the question of the Supreme Court that I attend these arguments.
		And I understand this means the judge here in New York will try to hold me in contempt and jail me.
		But whether I'm jailed or not means very little compared to whether this nation can survive.
		And that's why I did what I did.
		I went to SCOTUS to be there and be present for an argument that could shape the very fabric of this nation, knowing this corrupt judge may try to put me in jail for defending this nation.
		So be it, I say!
		Imagine if Trump said that!
		I don't think he will!
		I honestly have no idea.
		I don't know if Trump would be that, um, I don't know, precise.
		But we'll see, I guess.
		The big question comes tomorrow.
		I'll leave it there.
		Next segment's coming up at 4 p.m.
		on this channel.
		Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
		Democrats are finally starting to realize just how badly they've screwed up with Gen Z. Numerous polls have come out in the past couple of months showing that Gen Z is actually fairly based, and many of them are starting to lean right.
		While it breaks down to mostly males shifting to the right, and women shifting slightly left, all in all, this means the future generation, Gen Z, is likely going to be at the very least moderately conservative populist.
		And I can tell you why.
		In this story from Business Insider, they give you the reason very simply.
		Meet the Disconnected Youth, a growing group of Gen Zers who aren't working or going to school.
		Heavens me.
		We are generating our own group of hikikomori.
		If you're not familiar with what that means, it's a Japanese term for shut-in.
		Young men who lock themselves in their rooms and they don't go to work, they don't go to school.
		Some people call them NEET.
		N-E-E-T.
		What does it mean?
		It's not an employment education or training, I think.
		I could be wrong.
		But we have this video clip.
		From MSNBC.
		And this was tweeted out by Carly Bohn saying, holy crap, I can't believe Morning Shmuck actually aired this.
		This is Scott Galloway, a professor at NYU, talking about how screwed Gen Z is.
		And you know what?
		I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna play this video, and I hope people, I know many of you are not Gen Z, but I do hope you understand What this means, and to those that are Gen Z, I want you to understand, you see, the Democrat politicians in various states have been selling your birthright.
		I do believe that we as Americans do have some entitlements, and those entitlements are, we are entitled to stand on the shoulders of giants.
		Those who came before us planted trees whose shade they knew they would never sit beneath so that we could.
		And that's how it's supposed to be.
		I build or buy a house.
		I grow up.
		I get old.
		I die.
		My children inherit that house.
		They can either sell it, live in it.
		They share that.
		What I produced is given to them.
		And through this process for hundreds of thousands of years, Humans have made the lives of their children and the lives of general humanity better.
		But this time, here in the United States, what we're seeing now is that young people are not inheriting anything.
		Our country is being stripped of its resources, its borders are being ripped open, and the birthright of the coming generations given away to non-citizens.
		Let me play this clip for you.
scott galloway ▲ ● ▼		For the first time in our nation's history, a 30-year-old man or woman isn't doing as well as his or her parents were at 30.
		That is the social compact breaking down.
		People aged 30 to 34, 60% of them in 1990 had one child.
		Now it's 27%.
		People are opting out of America.
		They're not optimistic about it.
		They're not having kids.
		Young people aren't having sex.
		They're not meeting.
		They're not mating.
		The pool of emotionally and economically viable men shrinks every day, which lessens household formation.
		So we have a real issue.
		Young people are enraged.
		So it turns every cut, every movement into an opportunistic infection because quite frankly, they are just pissed off.
		They look up, they see wealth, exceptional wealth across my generation and people in certain industries.
		And they are really struggling.
		Their purchasing power is going down, and the incumbents create artificial scarcity on campus.
		We take pride in rejecting 90% of our applicants, so the incumbents who already have a degree see their degree go up in value.
		We get very concerned with housing and traffic once we own the housing.
		Housing permits are sequestered from young people.
		Housing prices have gone from $290 to $420 in the last four years.
		So a young person, a house, stocks that I don't own skyrocket in value.
		Let's have COVID relief and flush the markets and take assets way up because if a million people dying would be bad, it would be tragic if I got less wealthy.
		And we're doing it on their credit card.
		Young people have every reason to be enraged and every issue they see.
		They look up, they get angry and they see someone doing better than them.
		And then every day it is speedballed in their face that they are failing, that they are
		not doing as well as everyone around them.
		We have lost the script.
		Our kids are more anxious and more depressed and more obese and more addicted.
		And we have made a purposeful decision to let this happen by ensuring the people around
		this table stay wealthy at the cost of young people.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yup, and it's been increasingly getting worse.
		Now I've heard this narrative going back for a long time.
		I, of course, a millennial, nearing 40 years old, while I have certainly accumulated wealth in my day, and TimCast is growing and expanding, thanks to you guys who watch the show and support the work we do, and I am grateful for that.
		It's a lot of hard work, and, you know, I basically do a morning show and a nightly show.
		I work probably around 16 hours every single day, and that's the grind, man, that's the grind.
		The American Dream still exists.
		But there is a functional failure that is happening.
		Donald Trump, in my opinion, represents an opportunity for young people, especially young men, and they're recognizing this.
		Everything you just heard from this guy on MSNBC, no doubt, is a message that young people are hearing and they are connecting with Donald Trump.
		Now, he's talking about young men, but I will stress this point again to make sure people understand.
		First, the point being simply, we all stand on the shoulders of giants.
		I didn't invent construction.
		I'm here in this beautiful new studio.
		You can see there's trees right there.
		How do I point?
		There you go.
		Trees right above me.
		Because you can see through the window of the studio, into the larger portion of the building, and outside.
		It's tremendous!
		Someone had to devise the means by which to produce all of these materials.
		And because of that knowledge passed down, and the resources and the machines and the mechanisms by which we can make, we can mold aluminum!
		We're able to have this massive building.
		Corrugated steel and insulation and wood and all of that stuff.
		We inherited the knowledge and the machinery and the mechanics and everything to build it all.
		Even when someone builds a new factory to mill the wood or whatever, to make the metals and the steel or whatever, it is the machines that already exist and it is the knowledge and the components that have been built throughout generations.
		It's not just about economics, it's about culture.
		When we all get older, it is an obligation of the older generation to provide to the younger generation.
		That was always the point, wasn't it?
		At some point that changed.
		I don't know why.
		I can't tell you.
		But right now what we're seeing is a large concentration of wealth with the boomer generation.
		And I do believe a large component of this is pushing back the retirement age.
		Older people retire.
		And they say, you know, I did my job, I worked for 30, 40 years, and now it's time to retire and hand this job off.
		And with that job comes a better salary, better opportunity, but that's not happening.
		People are working forever, nobody's retiring, they're working longer hours than ever, and young people have no opportunity to get their foot in the door.
		How can a young person start a business when they can't afford the rent?
		How can they start a family when they can't buy a house?
		So here we are.
		This article from Business Insider was interesting to me.
		The disconnected youth, they say a growing group of Gen Zers who aren't working or going to school because there's no launch pad anymore.
		We have not just created generations of those hoarding wealth and refusing to give it up, but people who are not having children themselves.
		And, you know, I think a great example of this is Bill Maher.
		Here's an older guy who is out of touch with politics, out of touch with reality, extremely wealthy, doesn't have kids, and doesn't care me, me, me, me.
		All right.
		Well, I tell you where this goes.
		Idle hands, my friends.
		The devil's playground.
		Share of disconnected youth age 18 to 24.
		You've got two options.
		You can either figure out this problem and help the next generation live their lives as they desire.
		And it's a combination of nature and nurture.
		That means that these people want to have families.
		They want to have a place to call their own.
		They want to be able to protect their children.
		And then there's also the social components as well, and the cultural components.
		But if you ignore this, you get revolution.
		One way or another, you will get revolution.
		And I tell you, when the young people say, enough already, you ain't winning.
		The aging population will just have to sit back and watch as the young people take over.
		And the worst case scenario would be something like the culture revolution.
		Young people putting dunce caps on innocent people.
		And accusing them of wrongdoing.
	Right now, we have the share of disconnected youth, 18 to 24.
	We can see, as of 2020, to 2022, it's 13.8, 13.2%.
	we can see as of 2020 and 2022, it's 13.8, 13.2%.
	If we go back to 1998, it was 10.3.
	So it has increased by about three points, 3%.
	I'm not super concerned about that 3% growth.
	I mean, it is a problem, right?
	But from 10.5, they're showing a 3% swing.
	You could scale this thing out going back earlier than 1990.
	Maybe we see something else.
	But I will tell you this.
	We have told generation after generation, go to college!
	They took on debt to do so.
	They didn't understand what the debt was. And this is the funny thing about the student loan
	forgiveness first. There was a funny thing that happened a couple weeks ago where the post-millennial
	took a statement from me out of context and then all of these people—it was like the weirdest
	thing ever. It's like, oh man. It was a statement I made where I said we should freeze interest rates.
	If you took out a loan, you gotta pay it back, but we can at least suspend the predatory interest, and then you can pay back what you owe.
	It's something I've always said for several years.
	And then this tweet gets put out of context, this ex-post, and people are like, claiming that I was personally in favor of Biden's forgiveness plan.
	Yeah, no, what Biden is doing is unconstitutional.
	You get money, you gotta pay it back.
	But I can respect That these young people did not understand the predatory system that they were being trapped into.
	I know people personally who took out a loan for $20,000, and now they owe $50,000, and they've already paid back $30,000.
	It's like, well hold on, what's going on there?
	Because of interest rates.
	If we keep playing this game, where we say, no, no forgiveness in any way, because I said Trump should do forgiveness, he should do it right.
	Suspend the interest, pay back what you were given.
	Nobody gets a free ride.
	But, Assaulting your income permanently, I mean, that's going to cause problems for us.
	If we do not get a handle on this, this country is doomed.
	I think people need to realize that.
	They talk about how you need to have kids and all of that stuff, and that's true.
	Gen Z is getting more based, great.
	We need to figure out how to get Gen Z homes at affordable prices.
	We need to figure out how they can start families, how they can start interacting, and we can break through these cultural crises that we're dealing with.
	There is no answer that is simply, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and you should figure it out.
	There's not much to figure out anymore.
	People are working longer and longer, which means there's less openings.
	Non-citizens are being given preferential treatment and money.
	It's not an option for young people now.
	Those jobs don't exist.
	Here's how it used to be.
	You would, um, you know, apply for a restaurant job after a summer working there.
	They'd say, you know, you're going back to school.
	Why don't you come back next summer and, you know, work again?
	And they'd say, sure.
	They come back next summer and he says, look, you've got experience.
	Why don't you, how about you become an assistant manager?
	We'll give you a dollar raise or something.
	And then by the time that young person got out of school, they already had managerial experience and they could apply for a job and say, you know, I was a manager at this restaurant or something like that.
	Going back even further, kids worked with their parents.
	Your dad was a blacksmith.
	When you were old enough, he'd say, go hand me, you know, those ingots over there.
	Grab one and bring it over here, and I'll show you what I'm doing.
	And then when the kid got older, he'd teach him how to do it, and then that kid would become a... was an apprentice to his father.
	And then eventually, he took over, and the dad said, you know, I'm too old to be doing this.
	I can help you out a little bit, but I think it's time you took over and started a family of your own.
	Not anymore.
	Now, the parents go off to work and leave their kids to an institutionalized learning facility with strangers and just assume everything's going to be okay, and it's certainly not with the indoctrination that's going on.
	These kids aren't learning any real skills for real life.
	They don't know how to work.
	They don't know how to produce.
	I don't blame them for it.
	I blame the schools.
	Our schools in this country do nothing to teach people how to actually function in the real world.
	Hey, I'm successful.
	Why is that?
	Well, I didn't go to school.
	I mean, I did until I was 14.
	I was homeschooled before, then I went to grade school, and then at 14 years old, I stopped going to high school after like 2 or 3 months, was homeschooled again, never got my GED or diploma, and here I am.
	Why?
	My family, they're entrepreneurs.
	I come from a line of people who tried to figure things out.
	We didn't lose that, I suppose.
	I remember my grandfather.
	One day, I'd been staying with him, and there was a loaf of bread, and I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and then I looked, and there was mold on the bread, and I went, ah!
	And he's like, what's wrong?
	And I was like, it's mold.
	And he grabbed it and he just jammed half the thing in his mouth.
	And he goes, do you have any idea what we ate during the depression?
unidentified		I was like, what year was my grandpa born?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		He said it was bad.
		Man, back in the day, you had to figure things out.
		And I think that's it.
		Not about eating moldy bread, but because you can get sick from that.
		But the idea was figure it out.
		Otherwise you're in trouble.
		Yeah, I'm lucky I got that.
		I'm lucky that I come from a family of people saying, figure it out on your own.
		What we've done now is we've put our young people into institutionalized learning facilities where everyone gets a trophy no matter what you do.
		What do you think happens to the participation trophy generation?
		You compete in a race and they say everybody gets a trophy, you are here.
		So what happens?
		These young people are graduating from school, and it's Millennials too.
		Millennials and many Gen Z. And they're thinking, I don't understand the concept of build and receive.
		I don't understand the concept of invest and grow.
		Because we built systems that did not teach these.
		More importantly, we abandoned young people.
		And we're still doing it to this day.
		I think there's going to be a reckoning, and it may be intentional.
		This country's been gutted from a long- starting a long time ago.
		Maybe Yuri Bezmenov was right.
		The communists infiltrated our institutions, and what we've done is we've turned the- I mean, schools are bad in the first place, these industrialized, institutionalized learning facilities.
		But now what we have, young people basically just sitting around, twiddling their thumbs, playing video games, wasting away.
		Here's a scary thought.
		There's a video that I'd like to reference.
		It's of a bunch of young people and they are... It's like children talking in an interview in like the 50s and they sound like adults.
		And it was because that's how life always used to be.
		Kids would play and be silly, sure, but kids would, you know, very quickly, around, you know, puberty and stuff, they're imitating adults and behaving, or attempting to behave the way adults behave.
		Of course, kids will be silly and all this stuff, but nowadays, kids are being raised by other kids, creating some kind of broken, circular, I don't know, daycare institution.
		It used to be.
		Or I'll put it this way.
		When I was a kid and my family opened a business, on the weekends I'm surrounded by adults.
		Seeing adults work, learning how to work with adults, running the cash register and giving change and doing math.
		My friends were learning from each other.
		They were competing amongst themselves.
		It was almost tribalist and excised from society.
		Here I was, at like 11 years old, talking to a 30-year-old guy who wants a coffee, and making change, and explaining the drink, and I can make all these different drinks, and then my friends were discussing, I don't know, nonsense, pop culture stuff.
		Things that mattered very little to the real world.
		Now, by all means, you can say, oh, but I love, you know, I love the music in the 90s, and we grew up, we hang out, I love Pokemon cards and all these things, and the big, and a culture around video games and all that.
		Sure, sure, all that's fine.
		Hobbies, art, professional, e-sports, and strategy games.
		All that's absolutely fine.
		But it never really mattered to the industry.
		Never really mattered to those who wanted to make good money.
		What we're seeing now is, certainly you can become a professional video gamer, a professional card player and things like this, and that's great, but what happened was these young kids were building an isolated culture, a vacuum among themselves.
		I experienced this.
		I feel like that was something that I experienced when I was in grade school and I was in public school, and I was fortunate enough to get away from that.
		What is that going to bring you to in the future?
		Young people are going to be detached from the previous generation.
		They're not going to understand the basics of finance and taxes until they're forced to do it.
		Why is it that our young people don't know how to do taxes until they're 20-something years old?
		Many of the young people that are going to school because they're told they should have never had a real job, so they don't know how to make money.
		And the crazy thing, you've got young people who think, I need money, I better get a job.
		I got some advice for all you guys.
		If you need money, you need only ask for it.
		There is no difference.
		All of it is the same.
		This world is built upon voluntary exchange.
		No, no, no, hold on.
		Yeah, and war and conquest, but I mean, in this country, our economy is voluntary exchange.
		Granted, the government steals stuff, and that's only going to get worse based on what's happening here with young people.
		But what I mean is this.
		There's an opportunity for you.
		Sometimes it's difficult.
	You have to, uh, let's do this.
	Treat it like a video game.
	I was thinking about this the other day.
	I played World of Warcraft.
	How many video games?
	Have you guys played Fallout or something?
	Okay, many of you play video games.
	If you don't, this one's for the people who are sitting around playing video games trying to figure out their lives.
	When you first start the game, it's rough.
	You have nothing.
	You're a low level.
	There's areas you can't go.
	That's the same way the world works.
	So if you're sitting here frustrated, thinking to yourself, like, why aren't I living in a house?
	Why don't I have more?
	It's like, well, the reality is, when you went to school and got your degree, you never leveled up.
	You are still just level one.
	And there are other people who got out of school at a very young age or didn't go and so they started their quest much earlier than you and they're already level 30.
	So of course they're gonna have these things.
	And the higher your level, the more skills you obtain, the more people learn about your abilities, the more money you will make.
	So, you know, I remember being in my early 20s, and I was working on non-profit stuff, and I was really good at it.
	And me and my friends started our own company, we started making money, and it was difficult.
	It was difficult.
	Because we didn't know enough about the machine.
	Had we been properly trained as young people and apprenticed and taught how the world works, we certainly could have had a successful business at 18 years old.
	Instead, it took me until I was in my late 20s.
	And even I had a heads up with working the family business and things like this.
	But that's how it used to be.
	Now, these young people are 24 and they still don't know where to even begin.
	What skills do you have?
	What skills can you trade?
	Here's a terrifying reality.
	As kids raise themselves and these problems continue, they won't have any.
	You're going to get a 26-year-old and I don't know, I can write an essay.
	I'm like, well, I don't need an essay written.
	You want to go work for a media company, I guess.
	How are they going to make money?
	Sell ads?
	Well, that's diluted now.
	So they can't do it.
	It's market saturation.
	Can you make a phone?
	Can you build a car?
	What can you do?
	None of that?
	I got bad news.
	If you're in your mid to late 20s and you're just now learning these skills, you're competing with tons of people who already did.
	School has been a big problem.
	I think that's part of the solution.
	We need apprenticeships back, but I will stress this to all of my good conservative friends.
	We must solve this problem right now.
	We may be dealing with a lost generation.
	Millennials and Gen Z. Gen Z seems to be on a course correction, which is good, but for right now, we've got 30 year olds, like 26 to like 33, in this pocket of a lost generation that has a high rate of a lack of skills, unlikely to have a family, can't afford to rent, isn't doing anything.
	We have to figure out how to help these people and how to help them help themselves.
	In the meantime, I think this ultimately spills over to angry young men moving on into adulthood and getting closer and closer to middle age, realizing that they've been screwed over, their birthright is being given away to non-citizens and to foreign war, and I wonder how many of them will vote for Donald Trump.
	We'll see.
	I'll leave it there.
	Next segment is coming up at 6 p.m.
	on this channel.
	Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
	It is the end of the self-checkout lane.
	People of this country, rejoice!
	Walmart is removing self-checkouts.
	Amazon's Just Walk Out stores are being abandoned and failing.
	Why?
	Because people are stealing.
	Yeah.
	Who'da thunk?
	Oh, man.
	And I really love this story right here from the Washington Times.
	Amazon's Just Walk Out stores relied on 1,000 people in India, not artificial intelligence.
	Oh, man!
	Okay, let's start from the beginning here.
	First of all, we're all really annoyed with self-checkout.
	How dare you make me do the job?
	Like, it's this craziest thing.
	The whole store becomes a vending machine.
	If you want to sell me a product, you get a person in the store to sell the product to me, okay?
	They make self-checkout, so like, why don't you do all the work?
	And we won't change the price of goods, we'll just turn it into profit.
	Sure.
	Well, uh, it didn't work.
	And then you had the Amazon just-walk-out stores.
	The way it worked was, you signed up for Amazon, scanned your phone or whatever, walked into the store, grabbed whatever you want, and then walked out.
	And then it would bill you.
	According to this story, it wasn't actually AI tracking you.
	It was a thousand people in India.
	You'd go in, and then they'd write, like they, I guess, would write down what you bought and then charge you for it.
	I don't think that's necessarily true, because, uh...
	I was able to dupe the Amazon system.
	I do, and so I can semi-debunk this story.
	They certainly had an automated system that tracked what you bought, but they probably had people in India watching for illicit behaviors or something like this.
	But let me keep it real simple for you guys.
	They decide we should do the work at these stores, and they shouldn't have to.
	And so here's what happens.
	People would go through self-checkout, and they would, whoops!
	Forgot to scan an item.
	And that's all that it took.
	Amazon told me, let's go back in time, I did a video where I basically did an exploit to get a whole bag of groceries for the cost of like a pack of mints or something.
	And full disclosure, everything was totally paid for.
	We called and informed Amazon how this went down and everything, so everything was okay.
	We did not actually steal.
	However, what we were able to do I went into the store, I filmed a time lapse of grabbing groceries and walking out with no cuts or edits, a full time lapse, and then I showed the phone, I pulled all the items out of the bag, and I said, and there it is, one pack of mints for a dollar, and I got like a hundred dollars worth of groceries.
	Now, I talked to Amazon, and they said they didn't care.
	They didn't care.
	The general idea, and it's been a long time, so I don't know if this came directly on the phone call or whether this was just in other reports, was the cost of theft is less than the cost of employees.
	They save so much money on employees, they don't care if you steal.
	Not anymore!
	They're abandoning these stores.
	Yeah, it doesn't work, and self-checkout doesn't work because people are stealing, and it actually has gotten really, really bad.
	Uh, the long story short for the Amazon thing was, I went in, filled up the bag, and then, when I walked out, wasn't charged for it.
	I don't know if I've ever actually revealed the way to do it, and I think it's because I don't want people to repeat it, and it can be done.
	But, uh, there's a bunch of other exploits I can tell you about that people have apparently done.
	I don't know if this is true, but I've heard reports that People signed up for Amazon accounts with pre-loaded cards, pre-loaded Visa cards that have very little money on them.
	They walked in, would load up a bag of groceries with a $5 card on their account, put $100, $200 worth of groceries in the bag, and then walk out because no one stops you.
	And then, card declined!
	That's the other crazy thing about Amazon, I don't know if they consider this.
	If, in good faith, you have an account and you go to the grocery store, and you load all this stuff up and then you walk out, and then your card gets declined for insufficient funds, or just because the bank is like, we're not extending your credit or something like that, you have the groceries!
	I mean, they're not going back, what are you gonna do?
	Be like, oh, should I go back?
	No!
	You go home, you eat all the food, you put it in your fridge, and then you look and you go, oh, I didn't realize there was a decline.
unidentified		Whoops.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Walmart self-checkout.
		Ah, the future is stupid, isn't it?
		Well, here's what's happening with Walmart.
		There's one video I watched where a lady gets a guy to load a TV onto a cart.
		Then takes a tomato, walks up to the self-checkout, scans the tomato and pays for it, and then tries walking out, and the receipt checker says, uh, this is for a tomato, and she's like, yeah.
		And they're like, you have a TV, and she's like, oh.
		So they call the police, and then the police are like, alright, you're going to jail for theft.
		She's like, but I didn't even leave!
		I gotta be honest, that actually is true, okay?
		Dude.
		The lady, I don't know if it's fake or not, it's probably fake.
		The cop's like, come on, we're going to jail, this is theft.
		And she's like, but I didn't even leave the store.
		And they're like, yeah, but you tried to, attempted theft.
		And it's like, I don't know if I agree with that.
		I don't think that lady should go to jail.
		The issue is if you walk up to an employee and you say, is it okay if I take this?
		And they say, yes, you didn't steal anything!
		Of course, he was trying to trick them, like, hoping they'd look at the receipt, I guess, and then be like, yeah, everything looks good, but, you know, a two-dollar receipt.
		Now, look, when it comes to self-checkout, what people do, and this is a big component of why they're shutting it down, they'll get, like, a full bag, a full thing of groceries, and they'll have a few items that, when they run over the scanner, it doesn't scan, and they put in the bag anyway.
		Yeah, I know, and sometimes you get the unexpected item in bagging area, and then they're confused.
		What happens is, whether or not it's intentional theft, there's error as well.
		So, just the other day, it's a really good example.
		I was at Sheetz gas station, and we were buying a bunch of protein shakes, and I thought I scanned them all.
		No, this is for real.
		I grabbed like six protein shakes, and I could have sworn it booped, and then I put it to the side, and then I went through it.
		I then looked at the thing and I was like, wait, wait, wait.
		One of the protein shakes was missing.
		And I was like, the vanilla one?
		That's the first one I scanned.
		Scanned it again to make sure it went in.
		But imagine I didn't notice that.
		I would have just hit cash pay.
		There's no one around.
		It's a self-checkout.
		I would have thrown it all in the bag and I would have walked out and had a free protein shake.
		That error happens.
		So these businesses are all basically abandoning their self-checkout, which of course annoys everybody.
		Let's read this Amazon one, because this one I think is funny.
		Because this one's not just about self-checkout.
		This is about the failures of AI.
		Washington Times says while Amazon's JustWalkout technology at its fresh grocery stores was touted as being powered by artificial intelligence, a new report says it actually relied heavily on manual monitoring by some 1,000 people in India.
		Amazon announced this week that it will be bailing on the JustWalkout checkout technology, which used cameras and sensors to scan each item and shift to the DashCart, a self-checkout shopping alternative.
		The information website first reported that Amazon's artificial intelligence technology just meant outsourcing hundreds of jobs overseas to workers who can watch you shop in real time.
		Amazon spokesperson Sarmishta Ramesh vehemently denied the allegations in an email to DailyMail.com saying human staff in India annotate video images, which includes training AI-powered algorithms to recognize objects on the screen.
		I can tell you this because I personally exploited the whole system and as I mentioned was able to get a bag of groceries for the for the cost of a pack of gum.
		I'm 100% certain computers were actually doing it.
		And I can tell you this because I personally exploited the whole system and, as I mentioned,
		was able to get a bag of groceries for the cost of a pack of gum.
		If I were to have gone in, loaded up all of the groceries in the bag, and it was a human
		being watching, marking down what I was taking, and then when I walked out, I would have paid
		full price.
		The computer is stupid and doesn't understand things, so it doesn't know what's going on when I was able to do what I did.
		A human being would have registered everything I did and been like, their bag contains these things.
		And I will say this, without going into full detail on the exploit, I went in and I grabbed things off the shelf and I put it in the bag.
		I won't explain where the exploit took place.
		I may have in a video a long time ago, but I'm not going to do it now just because, you know, I don't know.
		I don't know if I did or didn't.
		But humans watching likely would have realized what was going on and just been like, yeah, no, you know, that's it.
		They say, as Amazon withdraws Just Walkout from its U.S.-based Amazon Fresh locations, its replacement, the Dash Cart, a smart shopping cart, will harness an integrated scanner and screen to enhance the shopping experience.
		Now, that kind of makes sense.
		You have a shopping cart.
		It's got a pad on it.
		I don't know exactly how it works.
	Do they actually have the info on that one?
	Here's how I imagine you do it.
	The shopping carts, you walk in, you grab one, and it'll have like an iPad, or like some kind of tablet.
	And whenever you grab something, you just scan it on the cart, and you put it in.
	And then once you're leaving, everything's already scanned.
	Like, that's easy.
	You grab peanut butter off the shelf, you go boop, and put it in the cart.
	Then you grab something else, you go boop, and you put it in the cart.
	And that's it.
	And then you click done shopping, and it says slide your cart, and you swipe it right in the cart.
	That makes sense to me.
	That being said, shoplifting is still going to be a huge problem if that's what they do.
	Because people will just put things in the cart without swiping it.
	I mean, this is stupid.
	You know, I guess ultimately, unless you have a barrier by the exit where there are humans waiting, and you have to go through that checkout line, people are going to get away with stealing.
	I'll tell you why.
	You go to a grocery store, and there's a row of cash registers with people scanning items, and you stick a candy bar in your pocket and try and walk out, and someone sees you, they're gonna stop you and say, you just tried to steal a candy bar, that's a crime.
	Gotcha.
	What happens if you have the self-checkout cart, and you grab a candy bar off the shelf, and you go to scan it, but it doesn't scan you, you don't realize?
	Then you walk out with the cart, and there's an extra candy bar in there.
	Even if they do stop you and say, hold on there a minute, let me see all your items, and they go through it with a fine-tooth comb, and they're like, this candy bar wasn't scanned, you go, oh my bad, it must not have scanned, I don't know.
	You're not going to be able to convict someone of, oops, it didn't scan properly, I didn't realize.
	And it's the same thing with the self-checkout lines at Walmart.
	Theft.
	Someone's gonna grab, like, a gallon of milk, a thing of cookies, some crackers, and maybe, like, a thing of ice cream, chocolate syrup, and as they're scanning it, the chocolate syrup won't scan, and they'll put it in the cart, and they won't think twice.
	And then you know what happens?
	There's going to be someone who intentionally runs the item over the scanner where it can't see the barcode so that it doesn't boop and then they put it in their cart and they save themselves $4.
	You do that enough, you save yourself a lot of money.
	You can track that.
	In the end, I just want to point out, they try to do these cost-cutting measures to make us do the work at these stores.
	And all that happened was people robbed them blind.
	Welcome to your low-trust society.
	Next segment's coming up at 8 p.m.
	over at youtube.com slash TimCastIRL.

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