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Biden Pulls MORE Military Aid From Israel Over Rafah Attack, They STILL WONT Impeach Him, WW3 LOOMS

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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Become a member at Timcast dot 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.
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		Now, let's get into the news.
		My prediction, Joe Biden will not be impeached over his escalation of the withholding of military aid from Israel, despite it being congressionally approved.
		Donald Trump was impeached for exactly this.
		And this is not the first time Joe Biden has pulled something like this off.
		The Hill reports, Democrats impeached Trump for exactly what Biden is now doing to Israel.
		In the report from the New York Times, Biden puts arms shipments to Israel on hold amid dispute over Rafa attack.
		The U.S.
		withheld 3,500 bombs last week out of concern they might be used in a major assault against the southern Gaza city, officials said.
		Now, my friends, why is Joe Biden withholding military aid to Israel?
		Because he looks bad in an election.
		I want to absolutely drive this point home.
		Now, the bigger picture I fear here is the escalation towards World War III.
		In that, it may be beneficial that Joe Biden is withholding arms to Israel because their assault on Rafa could absolutely escalate things with already Iran and Israel exchanging rocket fire.
		But here's the best part.
		Joe Biden, fearing these protests and Democrat donor backlash, withholds military aid, congressionally approved, to Israel in a bid to save himself in an election.
		What was the argument about Trump?
		They claimed that Donald Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine in order to get Ukraine to dig up some dirt on Trump's political rival.
		The argument is, on the surface, both individuals trying to win an election withheld congressionally approved military aid.
		Now, how about that?
		Joe Biden will not be impeached.
		Why?
		Well, guys, we're what, six months away?
		Half a year from the 2024 election.
		Where Trump feels he's probably going to win.
		And Joe Biden is a mess.
		In which case, why would Republicans seek to remove Joe Biden or make a martyr of him?
		Now, impeachment does not mean conviction.
		I don't think they will impeach him because it will make it look like they're going after him.
		Democrats will say Republicans are targeting a political opponent.
		Blah, blah, blah.
		That being said, I kind of think they should at least impeach him.
		He's not going to get convicted in the Senate.
		Perhaps the argument is they don't want to open the door for that possibility, and that Democrats actually go, you know what, you're right, Joe Biden, you're out.
		And then what happens?
		Give them an opportunity to swap in someone who might actually poll better, say Gavin Newsom.
		So Republicans aren't going to be doing that.
		Now, aside from the domestic political, I think we're, I'll put it this way.
		Donald Trump is correct.
		We're knocking on the door of World War Three.
		Many prominent politicians in Europe have already said we are.
		Donald Trump said Joe Biden's dragging us there, and he is.
		Perhaps one component of why Joe Biden is withholding ammo is fear of World War Three.
		I don't know if I believe that.
		I think Joe Biden is panicked because the largest Democrat donors, what do we got?
		We got the Pritzkers.
		We got Soros and Rockefeller.
		They had been funding They have been funding these far-left protests against Israel and providing money to nonprofits that have consistently, for the past 10 years, pushed woke garbage as well as anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
		Biden is now saying, like, look, the donor class, they're telling him what for.
		But here's what's interesting.
		I think this is actually, the narrative here with the donor class is actually a backfiring.
		Biden is now forced to capitulate to the angry younger generation that is making negative press and attacking him relentlessly.
		But I believe the donors actually like Israel.
		Maybe not Soros, to be completely honest.
		But what happened with TikTok?
		The reason it's getting banned is because prominent donors called the Democratic politicians in these areas, in their congressional districts, and said, You need to ban this because TikTok is allowing propaganda against Israel.
		Then you've got other, more prominent, larger Democrat donors who had no idea what they were involved in, and now they can reap what they have sown.
		See, the reason I say it like this is many of—a couple of these—I think Pritzker and Rockefeller Foundations said, we stopped funding these things.
		So, it appears, once they realized these organizations were actually pushing this stuff, because it's popular on TikTok, I guess, they pulled their donations.
		Soros, on the other hand, hmm.
		Well, my friends, we are knocking on the door of World War III.
		We have many a story here.
		Here's the breaking news update.
	President Biden paused an arms shipment to Israel last week to prevent the U.S.-made weapons from being used in Rafa.
	But the news that we actually have, I believe maybe I have it up here somewhere, from OSINT Defender, OS Intelligence Defender on X, senior U.S.
	officials have now revealed That in addition to the delayed sale of 6,500 Joint Direct Attack Munitions, JDAMs, kits to Israel, worth roughly 260 million last week, the Biden administration has now also paused the delivery of 1,700 Mark 82 500-pound bombs and 1,800 Mark 84 2,000-pound bombs to the Israeli Air Force, which were meant to bolster their stocks of precision-guided munitions alongside the JDAM kits.
	Officials have said that the delay is due to a failure by Israel to address certain U.S.
	concerns regarding a ground invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza.
	Oh boy.
	Really?
	Donald Trump withholds military aid to Ukraine and they say that's illegal.
	You can't do that.
	Trump says, I wanted to figure out what was going on with this video of Joe Biden saying, if you don't fire the prosecutor, you're not getting a billion dollars, which is quid pro quo.
	They said Joe Biden's move was aligned with U.S.
	foreign policy.
	Fascinating.
	They say he didn't do anything wrong because he was in line with U.S.
	foreign policy.
	Well, I thought the president set U.S.
	foreign policy.
	Wrong.
	The deep state does.
	And Donald Trump's moves were not in alignment with the deep state.
	So when he made, which in my opinion are much more sound legal moves, especially as president, they impeached him.
	Democrats impeached him.
	The system cannot function this way.
	The Financial Times reports for Putin, Gaza is an endless gift.
	The Mafia supposedly asked Kibono, who benefits, when trying to figure out who was behind a hit.
	There is no evidence that Russia's Vladimir Putin had anything to do with Hamas's horrific slaughter of Israeli civilians last year, 1,200.
	But Russia has been a leading beneficiary.
	That's right.
	Sure.
	And it's also destabilizing the West and opening the door for expanded conflict.
	Russia has said that if the U.S.
	enters the war, Russia will enter the war on the side of Iran.
	And this is the next step.
	Express.co.uk.
	Well, not that I just trust everything Express says, because they love saying World War III.
	NATO on World War III alert as key Russian ally tests tactical nukes in major boost to Putin.
	The lethal rocket can travel up to 500 kilometers, 311 miles, and is able to carry payloads between 480 and 700 kilograms.
	Here we go, baby.
	NATO countries were put on a red alert yesterday after Belarus announced it would be carrying out drills with its Russian tactical nuclear weapons in a major boost to Vladimir Putin.
	The exercises follow a stark warning by the Kremlin that tensions between Russia and the West were reaching critical mass and could explode.
	Haha!
	It's funny, isn't it?
	Last year, Russia moved some of its tactical nuclear weapons into Belarus, which also borders Ukraine and NATO members Poland and Latvia and Lithuania.
	Part of the consignment of weapons included Iskander short-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
	The lethal rocket can travel up to 500 kilometers, which we read.
	On Tuesday, Belarus carried out exercises with the Iskanders and a squadron of Su-25 fighter jets.
	And, uh, we just got more for you, I suppose.
	Here we go.
	World War 3 warning from GB News.
	Russia issues clearest provocation yet after Putin orders nuclear testing.
	And there we go.
	Here it is.
	The West has been warned of a world catastrophe.
	In a scathing verbal attack from former President Dmitry Medvedev today, following reports that Putin has ordered Russia's military to conduct a range of nuclear weapons tests.
	Okay.
	Here we go.
	I have feared this, and we are once again adding a grain of sand to the heap.
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		questions.
		They're not going to fire an ICBM at New York or DC or Tempe, Arizona or something.
		What they're going to do is they're going to use lower-grade, lower-yield tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield.
		A small bomb that can wipe out a large outpost.
		No more waiting around and playing it safe.
		Nobody wants to play the card just yet.
		Putin will.
		And, you know, I love this because when I've said this over and over again, Vladimir Putin will use nuclear weapons on the battlefield.
		The response from everyone is, no, he wouldn't.
		It would be mutually assured destruction.
		And I tell people, no, it won't.
		And there are people who respond with, you're nuts.
		Putin is not talking about firing a multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle bombarding the eastern seaboard of the United States with 12 warheads.
		We're talking about 100 kiloton bombs hitting military bases and cities in Kiev.
		No one is going to nuke Moscow over Ukraine.
		There was one politician... I forgot what city he said.
		Actually, let me see if I can...
		Pull up a list here.
		By population.
		What is this?
		Uh, let's see.
		Was it Poznan?
		I think it was.
		I think that's what he said.
		I could be wrong.
		It was a lot of cities.
		But, uh, I think it was Poznan.
		I think so.
		I could be wrong.
		He said something like, no one would sacrifice New York for Poznan.
		Meaning, even if, even if Vladimir Putin invades Poland, they still won't use nukes on Russia.
		You think that anyone cares about Ukraine?
		Listen.
		I'll tell you what the U.S.
		wants in Ukraine.
		They want control of the Gazprom pipeline.
		They want to be able to put tariffs, they want to be able to put price limitations on Russia's natural gas into Europe.
		So they can say, no.
		They need control of Ukraine for that.
		They want to cut Russia off from the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
		They need the Donbass, namely Crimea, for that.
		They've not been able to capture Crimea, even when the West soft power annexed, effectively, Ukraine.
		And the President Yanukovych was ousted.
		Russia maintained control of Crimea.
		So they maintained their control in the Black Sea, as well as the Mediterranean.
		The Black Sea goes through the Bosphorus, which is Turkey, into the Mediterranean.
		And the problem for Russia, there's only this bridge, man-made bridge.
		So they needed land access, which is the Donbass region, and the U.S.
		is trying to choke Russia out.
		Russia will use nukes.
		Here we go.
		Ukraine is not a place.
		It is now.
		It's a beautiful place.
		A lot of good people.
		Now it's a war-torn place.
		But Ukraine literally translates to borderland.
		and irresponsible scoundrels and claimed the deployment of western troops in Ukraine, which
		he called a non-existent country, would merit a terrifying Russian response from which no heads
		of state would be able to hide. Ukraine is not a place. It is now. It's a beautiful place, a lot of
		good people. Now it's a war-torn place. But Ukraine literally translates to borderland. That's what it
		was. Hundreds of years ago, Kiev was the capital of Russia.
		And then, through a series of events, I think Putin was talking about this, Tucker Carlson, Russia moves their capital, they move further east, and then they establish Moscow.
	When the Soviet Union expands, Ukraine just meant borderland.
	When the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia lost control.
	There's no more Soviet Union, so Russia loses control of many of these states, and Ukraine becomes its own thing.
	After all of the mechanisms and infrastructure falls apart, then oligarchs... This is what I was told when I was in Ukraine.
	Here's how it happens.
	The government collapses.
	And then some guy and his boys show up with some guns to a factory.
	They walk up to the guy working the factory and they say, who do you report to?
	And the guy goes, I don't know, the Communist Party's gone.
	And they say, okay, you report to me now.
	We're gonna make sure you get everything for your factory, your job is secure, you're gonna have food.
	And the guy went, okay, works for me.
	Whatever you say, boss.
	The workers at these factories didn't care about conquest.
	They didn't care about fighting or gangs.
	They just wanted to know they were going to have food for their families.
	So the oligarchs, when the system collapses, said there's no one in charge anymore.
	They grabbed some guns and they said, I'm in charge now.
	Instantly making themselves billionaires.
	Asserting and establishing control over all of these different mechanisms of power.
	That's the formation of Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union, essentially.
	And then politicians, of course, but, you know, money talks, BS walks.
	Many have said the chorus of irresponsible scoundrels among the Western political elite calling for troops to be sent to a non-existent country is growing.
	Now it includes representatives of the U.S.
	Congress, French and British leadership, and individual madmen from the Baltic states and Poland.
	Well, then there's this, as we speed through your latest updates on the war that's coming.
	Russia, China conducting joint exercises in relation to Taiwan, DNI says.
	You know, it's times like these I always like to do these shoutouts for safeandreadymeals.com, which I won't.
	But I say that only because the point here is, hope y'all are taking care of yourselves.
	Hope y'all are prepared.
	That's it.
	Do you know how to start a fire safely at a campsite?
	Do you know how to pitch a tent?
	Do you know how to gut a chicken?
	Yeah?
	You probably don't.
	Most people don't.
	My understanding of preparing a chicken for consumption is from watching YouTube videos.
	And then we had some roosters slaughtered.
	And they put them upside down in this funnel-looking thing and then remove their heads.
	But I gotta warn ya.
	I gotta tell ya.
	This beautiful world we live in...
	This beautiful society where right now you can say, you know what?
	I don't want to hear it anymore.
	You could turn the video off, walk down the street and grab a slice of pizza for a couple bucks.
	And you can sit there savoring that delicious, fatty slice of thick, cheesy pizza.
unidentified		Mmm.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Maybe you like pepperoni.
		Most people do.
		What a great topping.
		Maybe you want to sprinkle some tomato and parmesan on top or something like that.
		That beautiful world can go crumbling in an instant.
		And I think we're standing on the doorstep.
		Donald Trump thinks so.
		Angry Trump calls Biden admin the Gestapo, predicts World War III and everything else.
		I don't know that at this point Trump could stop it.
		I certainly think he's still our best bet.
		But I do believe that we're at this point where so much has happened in Ukraine and Israel.
		Donald Trump will inherit these wars.
		And he won't be able to stop him.
		You know, I was saying a year ago, even maybe like six months ago, that I think Donald Trump would end the war in Ukraine overnight.
		At the moment, it's announced he's won the presidency.
		Putin would stop.
		Ukraine would stop.
		There would be a ceasefire.
		And then as soon as Donald Trump was inaugurated, the war would be over.
		Arguably, saying that ceasefire would be the end of the war.
		The reason being, Russia knows they don't want to go head-to-head with Trump.
		They also know Trump is not interested in Ukraine.
		The Ukrainians would know.
		Money's about to dry up.
		Now, Congress approved funding for Ukraine up to September of next year.
		And the argument made by many people is that if Trump tries to stop that, they'll impeach him for it.
		Doesn't matter at this point.
		Trump won't be convicted.
		He can do what he wants.
		Joe Biden cuts military aid congressionally approved to Israel.
		Nobody seems to bat an eye.
		So why would it matter next time?
		Let me show you something.
		Let me show you this right here.
		We'll make it fun.
		Utopia 2020 TV series.
unidentified		2020.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What happened in 2020?
		I wonder.
		Anyway, let me tell you about this show.
		Unfortunately, it was cancelled in November after one season of eight episodes.
		Weird, because the show actually was, as my understanding was, decently popular.
		Let's read reception.
		Many reviews from critics and audiences were critical of the poor timing of the release amid the COVID pandemic.
		Its level of violence and negative comparisons to the original.
		Positive marks were given to the pacing and plot twists.
		It had a 50%, a 6 out of 10.
		Interesting.
		I thought the show was pretty good.
		Here's the synopsis.
		Comic book fans discover a global conspiracy.
		A comic book, called Utopia, contains clues of future events because it is written by one of the architects of a plan designed to prevent ecological disaster as the Earth's population rises and resources are depleted.
		The plan consists of 1.
		Convincing the world's population that there is an outbreak of a deadly new virus. 2.
		Once convinced of the narrative of the faux pandemic, announced to the public the creation of a new vaccine.
		Three.
		Through the coordination between global elites and non-governmental organizations, government moved quickly to inject the world's population with this new vaccine.
		Once the population is injected, it turns out the vaccine is designed to sterilize almost all the people that take it, causing the global population to drop from 7.8 billion to about 500 million, and ushering in a new era of plenty.
		It was criticized by people who claimed that it was bad timing considering the COVID-19 pandemic.
		What a silly premise.
		Silly.
		Global elites faking a pandemic to rush through an untested vaccine that sterilizes people?
		Yeah.
		Silly.
		And there are a lot of conspiracy theorists that say, in the show, it's a comic book.
		And then we have a TV show, which is a work of fiction, that claims all of these things.
		How about that?
		I certainly don't think any of it's real.
		I just think it's an interesting coincidence.
		Well, what's the big show this year?
		Any guesses?
		I'll let the suspense build up.
		For all those of you who say, Tim, I don't know.
		What is the big show this year?
		What is the new big show about this time and Fallout?
		Yeah, Fallout on Amazon Prime.
		I'm kidding.
		It's just another TV show.
		This one's really popular.
		There's a difference between the one that no one liked, but Fallout is about a post-nuclear world after a war, a bunch of bombs drop between China and the U.S., and all of civilization is wiped out by a nuclear annihilation.
		Yeah, that's Fallout.
		So, I will say this.
		It's silly to single out a single show like this.
		I just think it's funny.
		You know, I just think it's funny.
		New survey raises questions.
		Are Britons worried about World War III?
		Yes, they are.
		Most Britons believe another world war is likely within the next five to ten years.
		Okay.
		Well, my friends, I hope you have all taken the precautions you need to take.
		Hopefully Donald Trump gets elected and there is no World War 3.
		But I can't predict the future.
		I can only tell you that we are standing on the precipice of major international conflict and Trump is warning us as well.
		What does that mean for you?
		Where does your water come from?
		Do you know?
		Do you have a survival guide downloaded on your phone?
		What happens if the road shuts down?
		How much food do you have?
		How long will you make it?
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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think water is more important.
		Where's your first aid kit right now?
		Do you have any antiseptics?
		Have you thought about these things?
		Because I've got to tell you, if you live in a city, I bet you didn't.
		And then if it really hits the fan, the last place you want to be is in a major city.
		Next segment is coming up at 1 p.m.
		on this channel.
		Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
		In all my years, and perhaps that's short compared to many of you, I don't know, I've never seen such a story pertaining to a presidential candidate.
unidentified		RFK Jr.
		says a worm ate part of his brain and then died inside his head.
		Wow!
		Hey, look man, I'm not here to rag on the guy.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		It's just a shocking story for a major presidential candidate right now in this insane 2024 race.
		The big news outside of RFK Jr.' 's worm in his brain is Republicans are starting to get worried about RFK Jr.
		Recently, he came out against gender-affirming care, Democrats call it, though in the past he said he didn't know enough about it and he wouldn't want to ban it outright.
		These moves are signaling to Republicans he may actually take away enough votes from Donald Trump, but it's not definitive.
		I can't say we can look at the polls and know for sure.
		Some are arguing, NBC News, I think it's NBC News, RFK Jr.
		actually hurts Trump more.
		And then you look at the polls and it's just not definitive.
		There are some polls, of the polls that include RFK Jr., some of them say Biden is winning, some of them say Trump is winning.
		That doesn't tell us who is being harmed by this, but I don't think the Republican Party nor Trump supporters care.
		They are going at this full steam, RFK Jr.
		is bad.
		And I gotta be honest.
		I think RFK Jr.
		is good on a lot of things.
		I like the fact that, despite being an old man, he lifts.
		He is in shape much more than both Trump and Biden.
		Policy-wise, I don't see him being a good candidate.
		I can like the anti-establishment energy.
		I just don't know that I see it.
		I mean, this is a guy that in the past has been very much for gun control.
		So, I'm not here to endorse RFK Jr.
		or anything like that.
		I think it's plainly obvious.
		I don't need to endorse Donald Trump either.
		He's our candidate right now.
		If you believe in freedom, if you're concerned about foreign war, if you're concerned about our economy, the border, jobs, etc., there's no choice.
		It's Trump.
		RFK Jr.
		has not done anything to prove otherwise.
		So, I don't know what to tell you.
		For those that are big fans of RFK Jr., by all means, You're allowed to be.
		But Trump just seems to make the most sense right now, with all of his shortcomings, with his working with Mike Johnson, with the rumor that he may choose Rubio.
		It doesn't matter.
		A rock and a hard place, I suppose.
		Only this time now, there's a rock, a hard place, and a hard rock place.
		Actually, that would sound pretty fun.
		But RFK Jr.
		is not a viable option, in my opinion, though some people may be swayed by it.
		Here's the story from The Independent.
		Anti-vaccine activist, which is a lie, I might add.
		Let's just pause there for a minute and actually talk about what RFK Jr.' 's literally said.
		He said he likes vaccines.
		He's concerned about the COVID vaccine.
		There's a big difference.
		Turned independent presidential candidate, RFK Jr., has revealed that a worm ate part of his brain and then died in his head.
		According to the New York Times, Mr. Kennedy made the bizarre admission during a deposition held in part as part of his 2012 divorce proceeding.
		He reportedly said he'd begun to experience cognitive problems and both short- and long-term memory loss in 2010, not long after his uncle, the late Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, died from the effects of brain cancer.
		The Times said the record of his 2012 deposition showed Mr. Kennedy had initially feared he, too, had a brain tumor.
		But he received a second opinion from a doctor in New York who told him the cause of his problems.
		And a dark spot on his brain scans was a dead parasite.
		Mr. Kennedy testified, the doctor had told him the dark spot on his scans was caused by a worm that got into my brain, ate a portion of it, and then died.
		He also said that in 2012 deposition that he has suffered from mercury poisoning that caused neurological issues.
		Quote, I have cognitive problems clearly.
		I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.
		RFK Jr., the son of late New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy, told The Times in an interview that the poisoning was caused by eating too much fish.
		That's a lot of fish to be eaten, my friend!
		I loved tuna fish sandwiches.
		I ate them all the time.
		The admission raises questions about RFK Jr.' 's health.
		At a time when the 70-year-old environmental lawyer and long-shot presidential hopeful has used his relative youth—oh, I absolutely love this—his relative youth compared to his major party rivals, President Joe Biden and Trump, to argue that he is healthier and fitter than both to run the country.
		But the anti-vaccine activist—pause, fact check—the anti-experimental vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist has had other health problems, including a history of drug addiction, which has openly discussed in the past.
		I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say Donald Trump, Joe Biden, RFK Jr.
		have all done hard drugs.
	Well, actually, no, I take that back.
	Yeah, Trump claims to have never done any drugs or anything like that.
	Maybe the reason why Biden is kind of out of it, he looks like a partier, you know what I mean?
	Like Joe Biden was a partier, RFK Jr.
	definitely a partier.
	These guys, they like to party.
	They're partiers, that's what I call them.
	Donald Trump claims to have never even had a glass of alcohol.
	I don't know if that's still true, but that's the rumor I heard.
	Perhaps it's not correct, but yeah, Trump is a germaphobe and straight edge and all of that stuff.
	So maybe.
	Maybe.
	Okay, my friends.
	You know, I do feel bad.
	I don't want to drag someone because they suffered a medical issue like a parasite.
	I mean, it's horrifying, right?
	But I'm going to be honest with y'all.
	You have your choices now before you.
	You have Joe Biden.
	He's going to be 81, the oldest man to ever seek the presidency.
	And I believe both Trump and Biden would be the oldest presidents ever if they get elected in November.
	But you've got Joe Biden with steel plates or whatever in his brain from suffering, I think it was aneurysm or something like that.
	A man who struggles to speak and is on significant exponential cognitive decline who certainly would not finish out his term.
	You have Donald Trump, who, while being, I believe, he's 78.
	Actually, we can pull up right here.
	We've got Trump, 77 years old, and would also be one of the oldest, if not the oldest, president.
	I do believe Trump would finish on his term.
	Despite Trump's weight, he's certainly much healthier than Joe Biden, but still, nonetheless, he is a septuagenarian.
	Is that the right one?
	And will be an octogenarian throughout this term.
	Then you have RFK Jr.
	A man who the news is reporting suffered from a parasite eating a portion of his brain.
	I'm not here to rag on Joe Biden because he's an old guy.
	I'm here to rag on him because he's an old guy who can't accept that he no longer has the capabilities to do the job.
	I like the guy.
	The best president of our lifetimes.
	I don't think that's fair to say it's just bias as to why I like Donald Trump.
	I don't think that's fair.
	Trump gave us the Abraham Accords.
	I know many libertarians.
	I had great discussions with Dave Smith.
	I'll put it this way.
	Shout out to Dave Smith because having debates with him on these issues, it's fun and it's funny.
	And we really try to get to the heart of these matters.
	He stands firmly that the Abraham Accords opened the door to the Israel-Hamas war we see today and the escalation with Iran.
	I don't necessarily disagree, but I don't think the threat of violent factions justifies not seeking peace agreements.
	The issue is Joe Biden, not Donald Trump's peace agreements.
	But I love to have that debate.
	And I don't know what the ultimate conclusion would be.
	I mean, we're going to go on forever with it.
	But I look at Donald Trump and I say, I wish we had a younger guy.
	I like RFK Jr.
	I do.
	I don't like some of his policy.
	I know he's pro-gun control.
	He's a little wishy-washy in some areas.
	But anti-mandate and lockdown, those are huge.
	And there are a lot of libertarian individuals who are like, I will not support Donald Trump because he's lockdown Donnie.
	He's the guy who started the lockdowns.
	My response, of course, is like, Trump said two weeks to slow the spread.
	The states ran away with it.
	I'm not going to blame Trump.
	He was the president.
	You got the 9th and 10th Amendment over here.
	He's not going to go and intervene in certain states.
	So we need to talk about which party do we want to win and maintain control, and what do we get?
	I don't accept this, the lesser of two evils, oh they're all bad argument.
	No, the question is, where do you win?
	Now, I will accept that this two-party system Mostly garbage.
	But through the primary process, you really do get a wide range of candidates.
	I don't see this being the biggest problem in the world.
	So you get a lot of people that are like, it's a two-party system that's corrupt and we need a third party.
	And I'm like, yeah, kind of.
	But the Republican Party does have libertarian candidates.
	They just don't win.
	There's MAGA libertarian types.
	Thomas Massey is fantastic.
	I disagree with him on a lot of things.
	And have considerably disagreed with him on some things.
	But I think he's great because he is such a, well, he's a smart guy.
	His klux capacitor, chicken coop, is brilliant.
	And I respect, I believe he does have integrity.
	I respect his libertarian streak.
	But we can disagree and recognize that, you know, the best candidate for the job may not be perfect for you.
	I look at the two-party system like the Democrats put forward a field of candidates from various areas that attempt to fundraise and that includes progressive, leftists, moderate, centrist, etc.
	The primary breaks this down to who is the main candidate for the Democratic Party.
	I don't see a problem with that.
	I see a problem with superdelegates.
	I see a problem with rigging the game.
	The Republican side, comparable.
	Donald Trump wasn't supposed to win the primary, but he did.
	He ran as a Republican.
	That was where he was going to go.
	It made sense.
	It worked.
	I want to see the Libertarian Party included in these things.
	I think it's great to have a third party.
	But I don't think it's the apocalypse, because we have a two-party system, when you have a primary process.
	Except for the fact the Democrat primary process is trash.
	That's the problem.
	I would prefer it if we did not have a two-party system.
	I'm just saying, it's not the apocalypse.
	So here we stand now.
	The question being, who is your choice, ladies and gentlemen, with RFK Jr.
	stepping up and saying, mandates are bad, and Trump was wrong, and he doesn't like how the vaccine was pushed out on people and the mandates?
	The question then becomes, is that enough to earn your vote, Trump supporter?
	Well, for Trump's core base, the answer is, of course not!
	RFK Jr.
	is for gun control, or he was, and he's flip-flopping.
	I don't see many people Reasonably deciding that R.F.K.
	Jr.
	makes more sense than Trump because just the vaccine.
	However, I do see many people who are not necessarily Republicans considering a vote for R.F.K.
	Jr.
	on those issues.
	Namely, people who are libertarian and typically don't vote libertarian may vote for R.F.K.
	Jr.
	and make a statement.
	What's going to be fascinating is that going into the Libertarian Party National Convention, R.F.K.
	Jr.
	and Trump will be speaking there.
	That's going to be wild.
	RFK Jr.
	wants to debate Trump.
	Trump doesn't want to do it.
	We'll see.
	I'm splitting the issue.
	I wonder, and I ask you guys, should Donald Trump debate RFK Jr.?
	First argument, the pro.
	This basically marginalizes Joe Biden, and it makes the political debate, the political conversation, RFK vs. Trump, sidelining Joe Biden.
	But then there's the con, the negative.
	This only risks splitting Trump's potential voters into RFK Jr.
	And the Democrats are going to vote for Joe Biden anyway.
	So for that reason, perhaps Trump should not debate RFK Jr.
	Well, NBC News Decision Desk says RFK Jr.
	Kennedy hurts Trump more than Biden, according to one of their new polls.
	The latest national NBC News poll finds the third-party vote R.F.
	Kennedy Jr.
	cutting deeper into Trump support than President Joe Biden's.
	Though the movement the other candidate create is within the poll's margin of error.
	So, who knows?
	But I'll tell you this.
	Everyone's trying to figure out what the new shadow campaign is.
	What are Democrats going to do that's going to spike the election for Trump again?
	In 2016, Donald Trump won the argument.
	Ever so slightly.
	I think it was, what did they say, like 40, was it 44,000 votes, something like that?
	But it gave Trump a decisive Electoral College lead.
	In 2020, once again, Donald Trump won the argument.
	Only this time he lost the election.
	Why?
	Well, Democrats using universal mail-in voting realized, or I should say they realized and then used universal mail-in voting.
	What's the point of arguing?
	The argument is pointless.
	The narrative is pointless.
	All we gotta do is get as many pieces of paper of people's names on them as possible.
	That was their focus.
	Republicans were living in the past, and they said, we're gonna win the argument.
	And congratulations, you did.
	Donald Trump's approval rating was much higher than where Joe Biden's is now.
	Joe Biden wasn't even in the press.
	He wasn't paying attention.
	He was calling a lid.
	All the markers were indicating a positive for Trump.
	Now, the polling was in favor of Biden, but there was a margin of error and polling biases.
	But then Biden won.
	In the wee hours of the morning when universal mail-in votes came in.
	Now, many people on the Trump side seem to think that the spike in mail-in votes is indicative of cheating.
	The question is, what kind of cheating and what do you mean by cheating?
	Because I'll break it down for you.
	There is cheating the spirit, but abiding by the rules.
	Let me tell you a funny story.
	I watched this Instagram video.
	I'm just swiping through.
	And it was speed skating.
	Speed ice skating or whatever.
	And it was a masterful play.
	The Chinese national team The way it starts is when the race begins, everyone paces themselves and goes slow before slowly picking up speed so they don't burn themselves out right away, and then they push as hard as they can in the final lap.
	In this race, there's two Chinese nationals.
	One of them, right at the beginning, breaks protocol and turbo dashes as fast as they can around the track.
	The other ice skaters speed up trying to catch up and they're probably thinking to themselves, you're going to burn yourself out and lose.
	You're stupid.
	The Chinese ice skate racer laps the whole group and then stays in the back.
	What does that mean?
	It means that the Chinese speed skater was in first place, but to anybody who was just racing, they're behind them.
	They did not realize they had been fully lapped right in the beginning.
	Here's the master play.
	Once the whole pack crosses into their, uh, so this is their second to final lap.
	Here's what happens.
	The speed skater, who is in the back, who jumped the whole ring and lapped them, and then stayed behind on purpose, Made them think the whole group was one lap ahead.
	Why?
	When the skater who was outlapping everybody crossed onto their final lap, they announced, final lap!
	Then all of the other speed skaters think, this is my final lap.
	It's not.
	Get it?
	Here's the best part.
	The strategy was planned out by the other Chinese speed skater on the team.
	So when all of the speed skaters are rushing around thinking it's their final lap, as soon as they cross the finish line, what do they do?
	They stop skating.
	Despite the fact they did not finish the race.
	The Chinese, the second, so that means first place goes to that speed skater who lapped everybody.
	Second place went to the other Chinese speed skater who knew what the plan was and then lapped everybody.
	And China took first and second place.
	Did they cheat?
	In the spirit of a race, 100%.
	By the rules, they did not.
	Which means, strategy.
	It's a crazy story.
	It was this crazy video.
	I was like, wow.
	They tricked the other speed skaters by going all the way around real quick and then staying in the back of the pack so the group didn't realize this person was actually ahead of them all.
	Clever.
	Take a look at 2020.
	What happens?
	Donald Trump wins the argument in the spirit of an election!
	He says, I will be a good president, the economy, bing bang boom!
	And everybody says, yay!
	And then Trump says, don't forget to go and vote for me!
	And they go, you got it, Trump!
	And then Democrats show up at a random person's house, knock on the door and say, you voting?
	And they go, I don't know.
	And they're like, sign that piece of paper.
	And they went, sure, fine, whatever, and hand them the ballot.
	In the spirit of an election, they cheated.
	But to the actual rules of an election, they played exactly as they were supposed to.
	Collecting pieces of paper with people's names on them.
	Republicans didn't get it.
	So they screamed, RIGGED!
	How is it possible?
	Well, they looked at the rules, and they figured out a way to get more votes than you.
	So at 4 in the morning, this jump was predominantly mail-in ballots, which in these states, We're we're specifically said that they could not be counted until a certain time.
	And so Biden jumps up.
	I think it's fair to say for many Republicans, they were cheated in the election, but it wasn't illegal and it wasn't against the rules.
	The rules had been set up in advance.
	Republicans just didn't understand what was happening.
	You can argue that it violates the spirit of an election, and that Trump actually won.
	And I'd say, sure, in terms of campaigning to people, asking them to vote for you, and telling them to go vote, Trump got more votes than any other incumbent president.
	Yeah, I believe that's correct.
	And they say, how did Biden get 81 million?
	Because nobody was voting for Biden!
	Most of the people were voting against Trump, and the votes that they got that put Biden above Trump came from people who didn't care one way or another.
	That's what y'all need to plan for.
	Now, I bring this up, and we'll bring it back to the question.
	What is the new shadow campaign?
	Perhaps it is RFK Jr.
	Really, that simple.
	That, for a little while, it looks like RFK is hurting Joe Biden.
	And then, closer to the election, RFK Jr.
	starts shifting some of his core positions to target independent voters who lean right.
	Who then say, I don't like Trump, I don't want to vote for Trump, and they choose Kennedy instead.
	It's hard to know for sure.
	Trump's base is strong.
	They're not going to bow out.
	But Trump needs to win the moderates, and he is.
	But if the moderates decide Trump and Biden are too old and they're crazy, and they go for RFK Jr., that may pull support from Trump that Trump desperately needs.
	And Democrats are relying right now on ballot harvesting people who don't care one way or another.
	Effectively, hobbling Donald Trump with the Kennedy platform.
	Now, I can't tell you for sure, because nobody knows for sure.
	Everybody wants to make their arguments.
	RFK Jr.
	launches his campaign talking about Indigenous People's Day.
	I'm not sure that people on the right are going to go for that one.
	So again, we really just don't know.
	In one poll, we see that with Kennedy getting 12%, Biden is winning.
	We have another poll where it's even.
	Kennedy has 8%.
	It's inconclusive.
	In this poll from Redfield and Wilton Strategies, Trump is up by 2, and Kennedy is only at 7.
	What does this mean?
	How is anyone going to tell you?
	Trump is winning by 2 from Ipsos, Reuters, and Kennedy has 8 points.
	Noise.
	Garbled noise.
	So we really don't know.
	I'm not going to rag on RFK over a parasite eating his brain.
	That's silly.
	That's not an argument.
	That's just mocking somebody because they got hurt.
	Silly.
	I will criticize all of them for being old, but I take a look at Donald Trump and I ask this question to all of you.
	What have you won?
	I ask this to libertarians.
	What have you won?
	Subsequently, what have you lost?
	And I say this, because I talked to Dave Smith about this, and even he concedes to a certain degree.
	With Donald Trump, He tried to withdraw from Afghanistan and Syria.
	That's more than you can say than most other presidents.
	And we were having a conversation about Trump and his attempts at foreign policy.
	And Dave was like, it's true though.
	Trump has done better on foreign policy despite not being great, but he's done better.
	And that's a tough call.
	Because we want Trump to get in and end the wasteful spending on this foreign policy garbage.
	I say Trump is the best president of my lifetime, despite having ankle weights or concrete strapped to his legs by the deep state.
	Now they've got no choice.
	But we'll see.
	I'm concerned that if Trump gets elected now, he's going to inherit two wars that he's not going to be able to stop and the deep state satisfied there.
	Maybe that was the play the whole time.
	They didn't expect Biden to win twice.
	They expected to inject a Biden presidency just so they could start the wars that Trump couldn't stop.
	And then Trump can come back.
	Now they got their wars.
	We'll see.
	Next segment's coming up at 4 p.m.
	on this channel.
	Thanks for hanging out and we'll see you all then.
	One way or another, you're getting duped in this story.
	The news, as many of you may have heard, asked AstraZeneca to withdraw its COVID-19 vaccine globally, as demand dips and rare side effects are revealed.
	Vaxzivria was one of a number of shots released into the market by pharmaceutical companies aimed at preventing people from catching COVID-19.
	Now, I say one way or another, you're being duped.
	The reason is, the official story as to why this vaccine was withdrawn was due to market reasons, which Fox News actually puts both in the headline and I respect.
	Demand was on the decline.
	There are new products that are on the market prescribed by doctors for treating and dealing with and preventing COVID-19.
	AstraZeneca's argument was, with all these other options, we don't need to worry about this vaccine anymore.
	However, that may also be Play.
	In that, recently there was a lawsuit where AstraZeneca finally admitted that, yes, there is a rare side effect that causes blood clots with their vaccine.
	Now, AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine was not released in the United States, but it was in Europe, and I believe in other countries.
	The question then becomes, what do you believe?
	Well, as always, I often say, I ain't no doctor, and I can't tell you what you should do with your health other than, like, typically diet and exercise are really good for you, and make sure you're getting your vitamin D.
	If I'm not out in the sun, I take a vitamin D supplement periodically, but not too much.
	Not too much.
	So right now many people, and even mainstream news organizations, are reporting this but omitting the stated reason from AstraZeneca.
	They're just coming out right and saying, AstraZeneca to withdraw COVID-19 vaccine after admitting to rare side effect.
	And it's like, that is true.
	But they've stated it's because of market reasons.
	Believe what you want to believe.
	Of course, a lot of people are going to come out and say, no way, I don't buy it.
	But get this, the application for the withdrawal of the public authorization on the AstraZeneca vaccine was put in in March.
	It only goes into effect now, meaning AstraZeneca made the move to withdraw from the market a while ago.
	Let's read from Fox Business.
	The pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it is withdrawing its COVID-19 vaccine worldwide, citing low demand and a surplus of available updated vaccines since the pandemic.
	The vaccine, called Vaxavira, was one of a number of shots released onto the market by pharmaceutical companies aimed at preventing people from catching COVID-19.
	The company said it would proceed to withdraw Vaxavira's marketing authorizations within Europe.
	The vaccine was never approved in the U.S.
	by the FDA, and I want to make sure that we get into full context of that.
	AstraZeneca actually withdrew its application for the U.S.
	and stopped pursuing approval.
	It's not that the FDA said you can't do it.
	It's that, for whatever reason, AstraZeneca said, we no longer want this in the United States.
	I think if the issue really was based on the side effect, potential lawsuits or otherwise, they absolutely would have pursued U.S.
	authorization because You can't sue the pharmaceutical companies for any vaccine side effects in the United States.
	So I don't think... I think there is a strong possibility that they simply did a cost-benefit analysis and concluded, it costs too much to make, we're not getting the government mandate contracts anymore, We're out-competed by these other pharmaceutical giants, and we've got negative press over the blood clotting side effect, which they say is rare, but is in the press.
	In which case, they simply said, who cares?
	I can put it really, really simply.
	A lot of people are going to try and go the conspiracy theory route, and I don't mean that in a derogative sense, I mean like the literal idea of a conspiracy behind the scenes, where they're like, uh-oh, a rare side effect is hurting people, quick, pull it off the market.
	No, I think it's more that when the vaccines were being produced, the governments guaranteed cash.
	And now they're not!
	So a lot of these companies are just like, it's a product that people don't want.
	We're not going to keep making it.
	That really does seem like the simple thing.
	A lot of these companies know that if you've got a debilitating disease that has a drug dependency, they can crank those prices up, and you're forced to take the drug.
	Otherwise, you'll die, right?
	I'm talking about, like, you've got some genetic disorder and you need a certain pill every week or whatever.
	They know they can charge a thousand bucks.
	Like, insulin, for instance.
	They can charge a lot for that because you need it to live.
	They got you by the balls, huh?
	Increase the cost of that for you, and what are you gonna do?
	You gotta buy it.
	With this, yet nobody's taking COVID vaccines right now, and there's no guaranteed market for it.
	People aren't really thinking about it.
	So when they say it's like there's other things in the market, that seems to make the most sense as to why this is being withdrawn.
	That combined with negative press from side effects, they're probably like, what's the point?
	Why bother making it anymore?
	So, buh-bye!
	They go on to say, quote, as multiple variant COVID-19 vaccines have since been developed,
	there's a surplus of available updated vaccines. The company said, adding that this has led to a
	decline in demand for Vaxzevira, which is no longer being manufactured or supplied.
	AstraZeneca said that more than 3 billion doses were supplied globally,
	and that over 6.5 million lives were saved in the first year of use alone.
	Our efforts have been recognized by governments around the world and are widely regarded as being a critical component of ending the global pandemic.
	I think that's BS.
	I think these are major corporations that got free government contracts and I think they're scumbags.
	We will now work with regulators and our partners to align in a clear path forward to conclude this chapter and significant contribution to the COVID-19 pandemic.
	According to Telegraph, AstraZeneca admitted for the first time in court documents that its COVID vaccine can cause rare side effects such as blood clots and low blood platelet counts.
	The admission came through via a UK class action lawsuit that sought $125 million for almost 50 victims of AstraZeneca vaccine side effects.
	The European Medicines Agency Listed Guillain-Barre syndrome as a very rare side effect of Vaxsevira in 2021, and added a warning in the product information.
	The firm's application to withdraw the vaccine was made on March 5th and came into effect May 7th.
	Many countries had already stopped supplying the vaccine before Tuesday's announcement.
	It has not been available for use in Australia since March 2023, though its use was already being phased out from June 2021 due to widespread availability of newer vaccines, according to The Guardian.
	As always, I'll give you my thoughts on the vaccine stuff because there are people who are now commenting on my post being like, still think it's safe and effective, Tim?
	Cinque Tiol virus vaccines and obesity drugs through several deals last year after slowdown
	and growth as COVID-19 medicines sales declined. As always, I'll give you my thoughts on the vaccine
	stuff because there are people who are now commenting on my post like still think it's
	safe and effective, Tim. I gotta be honest. Look, talk to your doctor about what makes sense for
	You're not going to get any good medical advice from me on medicines or drugs or anything like that, especially when it comes to the vaccines.
	And there are people who are like, Tibbs only say that because of YouTube censorship.
	No, I'm saying it from a legal liability standpoint.
	I also don't give financial advice.
	But I will give you the math, as I often do.
	You give 10 million vaccines, and if the side effects are 1 in even 500,000, we're talking about 20 serious cases.
	Now imagine you then give everyone an additional dose.
	You're now looking at increased risk, 40 cases.
	Let's say you gave people 3 or 4, which is what they were doing.
	You're now increasing what is an extremely rare side effect, shoving it out into the mainstream, and you're gonna get those stories, and it's gonna freak people out.
	Now, again, not a doctor.
	Can't tell you what to do with your lives or anything like that.
	But what I will say is, seeing all the people act like AstraZeneca is pulling this because of a rare side effect, I think, nah.
	They're being sued, I get it.
	But they, as I stated earlier, they didn't pursue this in the United States despite having legal, they had protection from liability.
	You've got people, they're apparently, it's so broad, the legal protections these companies received, that if you get fired from your job or something, you couldn't even sue over it, because it falls into that.
	I don't know if that's actually the case.
	I'll tell you what the real problem was.
	And I think it's important not to let people deflect.
	The problem is government mandate.
	Forcing people to take drugs.
	I don't care if it's a COVID vaccine.
	I don't care if it's the cure for cancer.
	Forcing people to take a drug is wrong.
	Period.
	And so what happens?
	Donald Trump speeds through the Operation Warp Speed, and he's getting attacked for it.
	I'm sorry, guys.
	There's going to be a lot of people who refuse to accept it.
	That's wrong.
	Trump is not at fault for funding medicine research.
	I do not fault him for that.
	In fact, I applaud him for it.
	He was right.
	The problem is the mandates.
	And people say, yeah, but it was only because he funded it that we got the mandates.
	Someone comes to me and says, I want to provide funding to fix broken legs.
	And then all of a sudden, someone comes out and mandates everyone wear casts on their legs, whether it's broken or not.
	The fixing the broken legs was a good thing.
	Having someone force a medical treatment was the bad thing.
	And that's the issue that people are confusing and then blaming Donald Trump.
	I don't know, you know, you want to talk to your doctor about your drugs and all that stuff.
	I'm just saying, you know, we got too many stories of people who were medically unable to get this vaccine who were excised from society and that's disgusting.
	There were people with disabilities who could not go out and live their lives because their doctors wouldn't let them get the vaccine.
	That is wrong.
	Government mandates and vaccine passes and people have forgotten what happened?
	And then also blaming Trump?
	Trump can brag all day and night about his vaccine and what he got for people.
	I really don't care about that.
	Because if Donald Trump funds the creation of a vaccine and I have my choice, I can simply say, I don't care.
	Wow, it's crazy that something happened.
	If it happens, whatever.
	But the idea that the government would come to you and force you to do it, now we got a problem.
	And it's not the research.
	I'll also say, government guaranteed contracts for this stuff is also bad.
	The government funding it all, it's just like, let companies be companies.
	I don't mean Trump funding it, what I'm saying is the purchasing of it.
	When they all said, like, you have a guaranteed purchase contract.
	Putting money into research?
	Good thing.
	Government mandating it, and then taking our taxpayer dollars to buy a bunch of it.
	Wrong.
	Anyway, I'll leave it there.
	Next segment's coming up at 6pm on this channel.
	Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
	So we got this viral music clip, for some reason, I don't know why.
	I don't think the music's necessarily all that bad, but it's this emo, punk, hardcore musician that he's got this very woke line.
	He says, this is punk, him wearing a dress and singing about overtly woke establishment politics.
	I'll play the clip for you, but I think this is really interesting because There's an argument about what punk music really is.
	There's gatekeepers, everybody thinks they know, and all that stuff.
	But this guy and this song, it's got, I think it's got millions of views.
	It's got 1.9 million views.
	I think it's got 4.6 thousand responses, 1.2 thousand retweets and quote tweets.
	So this guy's taking off.
	And I want to stress a few things to everybody as we talk about music, pop culture, what is punk, what is not punk, and all of this stuff.
	Y'all are making this guy famous.
	And I got no beef with that.
	I think more power to him.
	I'll say this right away for this guy.
	His name is TX2.
	I actually think he's a pretty good musician.
	I'm a big fan of emo music.
	And it's not really, like, what I focus on these days.
	I'd say, like, mostly I listen to... What am I listening to?
	A lot of oldies.
	I just have always loved, you know, good classic rock.
	One of the greatest songs ever written, of course, Disco Rasputin by Boney M. And they got Rivers of Babylon, too.
	Good stuff.
	But of course, I was listening to the Tony Hawk II soundtrack earlier, because those are classics.
	May 16th, ladies and gentlemen, what a good song by Lagwagon.
	Sad story about what that song's about.
	And that's skate punk, right?
	And what are these songs about, right?
unidentified		What is punk?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, TX2 says this is what punk is about.
		A year ago, we wrote a song and named it after a governor in Tennessee who was trying to pass laws banning drag shows affecting gender-affirming care.
		We called out several governors by name in the song to spread awareness.
		My guy.
		That's not punk.
		That's pop.
		You're making pop music.
		Pop means popular.
		Popular culture.
		It's in the style of punk.
		I can respect that.
		And I'm not here to tell people what punk should or shouldn't be because that's impossible and everybody thinks they can tell you.
		But traditionally, punk was super offensive.
		I think like Sid Vicious once wore like a swastika or something like that.
		This ain't punk.
		You hashtagging LGBTQ drag drag queen, it's pop rock and it's pop emo and all this stuff.
		But good on him.
		It's brilliant marketing to say this is what punk is about.
		And then he goes on and sings a song which would align with like Northrop Grumman and Boeing and all of these big military industrial contractors.
		It aligns perfectly with their DEI statements.
		Like, I gotta tell you, man.
		I go to a skate park in, I think it was in Front Royal, Virginia, and I see this big Black Lives Matter spray painted on the ramp, and I'm just laughing.
		I'm like, dude, what happened to skateboarding?
		What happened to punk rock?
		Look, man.
unidentified		I get it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Racism.
		Nobody likes this.
		But Black Lives Matter is a massive, national, Democrat-party aligned, political action committee movement, etc., non-profit.
		It's a bunch of different things.
		It is the corporate motto of a bunch of companies.
		They plaster it everywhere.
		It's just like the antithesis of punk rock.
unidentified		Like, I'm gonna defy the system and write Walmart's slogan!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What is Walmart's slogan, actually?
		You guys probably know.
		I don't know.
		What is it?
		Save money, live better.
		Could you imagine if kids were going around with spray paint and masks and writing, save money, live better?
unidentified		Punk rock!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm like, no, dude.
		This is establishment narrative mainstream politics.
		It's called pop.
		It doesn't mean it's wrong.
		It doesn't mean you're not allowed to support it.
		But punk has traditionally been anti-establishment.
		So you take a look at like rage against the machine and yeah we jokingly call them rage on behalf of the machine now because they're basically in support of the Democratic Party.
		They're aligned with a major uniparty establishment pitch.
		Donald Trump says no war we're gonna shut the war down and they're like Trump is bad yo fight Ukraine and you're like since when did the left want to like get rid of free speech shut everybody down?
		I'll put it this way.
		My friend, punk rock, whatever you want to call it, was traditionally offensive and shocking.
		What you're doing right now is establishment-approved narrative.
		And I suppose you can argue that it is punk.
		It is.
		Because back in the day, this is what they would do.
		They would wear a dress and they'd be offensive and shocking and say, I can do this and you can't tell me otherwise, because popular culture opposed it.
		And so there's two views you can take, I suppose.
		One is that Punk was the rejection of mainstream narratives, popular culture, and the establishment.
		Well, now that those practices, like wearing a dress and saying these things, are in line with the establishment, The other argument would be, it was always the aesthetic.
		That's what punk was.
		Punk challenged the machine, but there's two views of it.
		One is, you're punk rock if you oppose the narrative and you're the counterculture.
		The other view is, punk means wearing a dress and acting in these particular ways.
		In which case, when those particular ways become mainstream, popular, or whatever, it's still punk in their view.
		I think it's fair to say that punk is a certain style of music, too, so you can sing about anything.
		But then, of course, there's pop punk, and there's emo, and there's hardcore, and there's pop.
		This is a pop song.
		I'm going to play you this guy's song, and then we'll talk more about it.
		Here you go.
unidentified		You guys ready?
		You base your life off an ancient scroll!
		Out there burnin' wet shades, fillin' up the ditches.
		Tell me, can I still be saved?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So the first thing I want to say about this, what I find really fascinating, is the woman, she's not behind him, she's at the bass player, but she's not really playing the bass.
		There's no guitar player, but it's got a guitar riff.
		And I'll tell you what, you don't gotta like his music.
		I like Emo.
		I actually think his music is pretty good.
		He's got some other songs, and I'm like, for someone who's making Emo music these days, it's not bad.
		What I see here, it's not punk.
		This is, I gotta tell you, it's kind of sad.
		Because I think this dude actually knows how to make music, and he's got some good riffs, and he's got some good hooks and some good melodies, but this appears to me like corporate begging.
		That's why I'm like, aw, that's so sad, dude.
		You don't have to come out and be like, I'm a Christian and I love Jesus or whatever.
		You don't have to do anything like that.
		But to come out and be like, the narrative of Black Lives Matter and the corporate press and Amazon and Halliburton and Northrop Grumman and Boeing is exactly what we wanna do!
		It's like, yeah, okay, dude, look, let me tell you something.
		You are in line with every major corporation writing a song about the Republican Party's policy positions.
		I just kind of feel like, imagine someone being like, yo I'm punk rock, let's go, Obama is the greatest, yeah!
		And it's like, uh, like, I don't know man.
		You know, you've got a uniparty establishment, you've got two factions arguing in a culture war.
		So, when we put out a song called Genocide, it didn't actually play into political parties at all.
		The song we put out, and I'm not saying we're like the gatekeepers of punk or anything like that.
		It's like a pop rock song with punk elements.
		It was, if you listen to our song Genocide on Spotify, this guy gets way more traffic than we do, don't get me wrong.
		The song is criticizing the corporate press, advocating for war, and pushing us towards World War III.
		I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat.
		Punk rock growing up was, you know, like in its essence, the machine is bad.
		The machine is comprised of all of it.
		Now what's happened is punk and emo and hardcore just fully aligned with the machine.
		But!
		I tell you this.
		I've got a song for you, everybody.
		You see, I took what he wrote, and using the power of artificial intelligence, I have fixed it.
		And here's my version.
unidentified		What is the religion that kids like?
		Do they got a sickness?
		If they like, try sub-k But what happens in the closet
		Doesn't matter if you profit From the droids of corporate USA
		You're too freakin' woke You do as you're told
		You live your life off in TikTok school Out there chasing vidviews
		Filling up on fake news But I think you can still be saved
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's it.
		That's it.
		I just, I took his lyrics and I changed it.
		So let's counter his lyrics, alright?
		And I'm not saying my song's punk either.
		He says, uh, put a bullet in a kid's head if you think they got a sickness if they're not dressed up straight.
		I disagree.
		You're putting a syringe in a kid's leg, think they're sick, unless they dress up, if they want to dress up gay.
		That's what's really happening.
		Nobody in the Republican Party is shooting anybody in the face because they're concerned about kids' behaviors.
		And quite the opposite.
		The argument is, you are telling kids they're suffering from some kind of mental disorder, and they need medication and surgery because they don't want to wear the clothes.
		Dude, that is not punk rock, man!
		I just, it's so silly.
		Let me tell you what's punk rock.
		Punk rock is, my dude, you are here wearing a dress on stage.
		I'll give you this one, punk rock.
		But the idea that because you did, you need medical intervention and pills pumped out by Big Pharma?
		That is not punk rock, and that's what you're defending.
		See, this is what I take issue with.
		I don't think it is anti-establishment to be like, if they're not dressed up straight, my guy, I don't care if you wear a clown costume.
		The idea that you need a medical and surgical intervention that helps give profits to massive multinational corporations is the least punk rock thing imaginable.
		He's like, we want to defend gender-affirming care.
		Profit from the flag of the USA.
		This is like the other thing, like, okay, but you're not saying anything, dude.
		It's mindless platitudes meant to align with the corporate narrative.
		What do you mean profit from the flag of the USA?
		You mean like corporations selling American flags?
		Bro, I'm telling you right now, The Trump people don't want foreign intervention in foreign war and the military-industrial complex, okay?
		I can't speak for anybody else, I'll speak for myself.
		You're not punk rock when you wear a dress and then say, by doing so, kids need to get surgery and drugs, right?
		That's weird.
		And then he says, you're too effing old, you do as you're told, you live your life off an ancient scroll.
		And then he makes like a crazy gesture.
		There's nothing to be said really there because he's not making an argument about anything.
		He's just saying, I disagree with your worldview.
		It's like, okay.
		Touche.
		Shall we move on?
		I don't think that solves anything.
		Burning witches, filling up ditches.
		Burning witches was an ergot poisoning thing regardless of religious belief.
		You know, a lot of people want to look back in history like it was Christians who were doing it.
		It's like they were tripping on drugs.
		They were eating ergot wheat.
		And then they went and started killing people because they're stupid.
		Tell me, can I still be saved?
		My friend, of course you can.
		There's no question.
		My point here is, you know, what I wrote...
		As a joke, mind you.
		You're too woke.
		You do as you're told.
		You live your life off the TikTok scroll.
		That's what you're doing.
		You're scrolling the TikTok feed and you're like, I'm going to be whatever they tell me to do.
		You're chasing video views, filling up on fake news.
		But yeah, man, you can still be saved.
		And I'm not a Christian.
		What I really, really love about all of these arguments that come from these people is they're like, you're a Christian.
		And I just love this.
		You know, I'll make a comment about something like this.
		And then all these leftists be like, Christians don't even understand.
		They claim to care about this.
	And I'm like, I'm not a Christian.
	I also love the response from Christians.
	Like, if Tim's not a Christian, what is he?
	They call me an atheist.
	It's like you're either a... I'm not an atheist either.
	I suppose as close as I can get, it's probably like deist, I suppose.
	I have my own views on life, the universe, spirituality, the great beyond, and God.
	I do believe there is a God, but probably a very different one from the ones that Christians believe in a variety of ways, but there's probably some overlap there.
	Ultimately, the question is, what is punk about?
	It's a good question.
	I'll tell you this, you know, he also calls it a drag show rock or whatever.
	Yeah, I don't care if you want to be shocking and offensive to people, but this is not.
	This is politically aligned shocking and offensive.
	You want to be shockingly offensive, you want to be anti-establishment, you want to be true punk rock.
	Okay, well here's one way to do it in the traditional sense.
	Go up on stage wearing a dress.
	Just like you're doing.
	And then mock the Democrats and the Republicans.
	Challenge the whole machine.
	Challenge the whole culture war.
	And I would respect if you went up there and said, too preoccupied with what the world is supposed to be like, what both sides think they should win on, instead of focusing on the suffering of the working class, the wars overseas.
	You know what I mean?
	I got no beef if you care about political issues, that's fine.
	But, this was the bait, and everybody took it.
	I'll say it again.
	I actually think this guy's pretty good.
	I do.
	I'll say that.
	I don't agree with him politically.
	That's fine.
	But he's got a couple other clips, and I checked out his music, and he gets good plays.
	Moderately-sized band.
	And this dude can write some hooks.
	I like emo.
	So I think it's actually pretty good music.
	The only thing that kind of bums me out is going the Democrat route for trying to be successful in music is kind of a bummer.
	Like, if this dude wrote songs in this style but didn't get overtly political, his market cap would be substantially larger, especially with people like me and other people who don't like the harsh political narratives in our cultural stuff.
	So we've got a song called, let me actually pull it up, Genocide by Timcast, and Losing My Mind, official video.
	And I don't know if you guys have seen this stuff.
	We promoted it pretty decently, and it's got 1.5 million views as of a year ago, 12,000 comments, and this song is like pop rock punk, and it overwhelmingly just makes fun of everyone.
	That's the whole song.
	In fact, there's a point where I'm doing Tucker Carlson face, basically mocking Tucker Carlson.
	We make fun of massive multinational corporations.
	You don't have to agree with any of that.
	Actually, and I'll show you this one.
	This one is...
	Will of the People.
	Let's pull this one up.
	This is the first song that we put out, and I think this one is on the Tim Cass IRL channel.
	It's got 2.5 million views.
	It's got like a million on Spotify and a million in other places.
	This song is about the...
	Actually, I'll just jump to the end.
	It's about the revolving cycle of revolution and dictators taking over.
	This song comes out and a bunch of leftists were actually like, I really like this song.
	And when they found out it was from me, they got really upset.
	And they're commenting on, you know, Hassan Piker's video being like, Oh, that was Tim Pool.
	That's so lame, but he's a fascist.
	And it's because my video wasn't overtly narrative driven politics lining up with Black Lives Matter or with Donald Trump.
	It was a comment commentary on everybody is fighting for the worldview they want and revolutions beget revolutions, no matter who you are.
	And that's it!
	That's the commentary.
	So, you know, I'll stress this again.
	Like, this guy's probably just posting bait.
	But, um, my final thoughts, because I don't need to make this super long, is, it's kind of a bummer.
	This guy's got some catchy, good emo hooks.
	We've got an emo song that we're working on, and the lyrics are literally just about, like, a dude dating a girl.
	That's what, like, emo was.
	It was like, you know, that's what emo was, I guess.
	And so, uh, to make emo, emo punk hardcore music, that's like, Republicans are bad and Democrats are good is just like, oh, come on, man.
	That's so tired.
	It's so tired.
	But I'm not saying you can't do it.
	I'm just saying, like, this song that he wrote, if it was about something else, literally anything else, he'd have a bigger market share and market opportunity for reaching audiences, and then he can say whatever he wants whenever he wants.
	But I think he's just basically an activist for the Democrat Party.
	And so it's like, that's cool, you're allowed to do that, whatever.
	Music can be good, but I'm not gonna follow a band or play music when we're skating or share it with my friends if you're just a political activist.
	If your song is literally just like, here's why the Democrats and Amazon.com are good, then it's just like, okay, well, like, you basically made a jingle for the Democratic Party.
	That's fine.
	I guess.
	But it's also a culture war.
	It is what it is, right?
	And so, there you go.
	I will say, look, again, you know, shoutout, I do like his hooks and everything.
	But his lyrics are just like, they're just like generic, you know what I mean?
	Anyway, I'll leave it there.
	There you go, there's your viral clip that everyone's sharing.
	Next segment's coming up at 8pm over at youtube.com slash timcastIRL.

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