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Corrupt Trump Judge PANICS, SCREAMS At Witness Who PROVES Trump Innocent, Democrats KNOW Its OVER

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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.
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		Now, let's get into the news.
		I am left drained.
		I am completely drained of this story, my friends.
		I cannot believe the Democrats have gotten themselves into such an abject disaster with the Trump trial.
		The latest news, of course, yesterday, we talked a bit on Tim Kast's IRL.
		Michael Cohen admitted to stealing in cash $30,000 and then pocketing a tax reimbursement on top of it for a total of $60,000.
		I think that Democrats are probably sweating bullets realizing how bad this court case is for them and how much it helps Donald Trump.
		If I was a conspiracy-minded individual, I might suggest Donald Trump set this criminal charge up himself, called a few friends and said, I need you guys to criminally charge me, and then embarrassed yourself to such a degree that it makes me look good.
		Because it is that bad.
		Gateway Pundit has this story.
		A fuming Judge Mershawn runs interference for Bragg.
		Shouts at Trump defense witness Robert Costello.
unidentified		Get out of the courtroom now!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		That's how apocalyptic.
		This is amazing!
		You know, part of me is sitting here.
		We got other news with the Singapore airline.
		I don't know if you saw that one.
		Turbulence!
		Someone died.
		It's a horrible story.
		And I'm like, I don't know that I can say anything meaningful in this court case now because it's already blown up.
		But it's only getting worse.
		So they bring in Robert Costello, who is reportedly Michael Cohen's own lawyer from 2018.
		Now, they say Cohen's has legal advisor.
		There's a difference, I guess, because they're like, whether he was actually his lawyer or not is up for dispute.
		Costello, of course, as you already know, because we've covered it extensively, said, Now, the argument from Cohen was that I was trying to be loyal and protect Donald Trump.
		At the same time, he had stolen $60,000 from Donald Trump, so certainly that's not the case.
		Unless the reality is he was trying to have Trump think he was loyal because he was stealing from him.
		That makes more sense.
		Now, there's some important context in the Cohen story and the stealing of money that I think people need to consider.
		So, they say Michael Cohen stole $60,000.
		However, I'll break it down for you.
		For those that may have missed the context or didn't see the show last night, he says he's got to pay an IT company $50,000.
		They say, okay, here's the $50,000.
		He then goes to the IT company and says, with a brown paper bag and $20,000 in it, here's what you get.
		Take it or leave it.
		Because he needed to placate the IT company.
		The IT company is upset, but saying, fine.
		Takes the money.
		Cohen puts $30,000 in his own pocket.
		Later, when billing the Trump Organization for his legal services, They actually put on an additional $180,000 for his total work as a tax liability bonus, essentially.
		Like, this will help cover potential taxes.
		If you were to extrapolate the $50,000 that he took, they basically paid $30,000 on top of the $50,000 to cover his tax liability.
		He pocketed that as well.
		He effectively stole $60,000 from Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.
		Now, the important context is, that is the view of the prosecution.
		That's right.
		The people who are going after Trump to put him in prison, they know that Cohen did this!
		Amazing.
		Now, here's the view from the defense.
		Donald Trump's team—Costello, for instance—this is why it's important, why they won't let him testify, or why they were trying to block him.
		Costello argues Michael Cohen paid off Stormy Daniels of his own volition without Trump knowing.
		Why is that relevant?
		It means that Michael Cohen not only stole $60,000, but when he billed Donald Trump for the other $130,000 to pay back Stormy, it was without Trump knowing.
		He was stealing the money from Donald Trump.
		So get this.
		It's $130,000.
		It's $50,000.
		$180,000.
		The total bill was out, there was more money outside of this.
		I think they said the total bill was $420,000.
		And $180,000 of it was to cover tax liability.
		twenty thousand and a hundred and eighty thousand of it
		was to cover tax liability if the defense's perspective is correct
		that would mean michael stolen michael cohen michael stolen michael cohen
		stole thirty thousand cash pocketing it
		one hundred thirty thousand dollars in cash for a total of one hundred and
		sixty thousand dollars stolen and then
		the tax liability which probably puts cohen up to around a quarter of a
		million dollars and basil dot from the trump organization
		the defense is telling the truth Thank you.
		So naturally, you get Costello up on stage, who was actually, let's just be light, a legal advisor to Cohen.
		I think it's fair to say he was his lawyer.
		That's what they reported.
		He comes up and says that Cohen did this on his own.
		That means the money Cohen is claiming he got from Trump, he stole through fraud.
	Amazing.
	Well, here's the news.
	A fuming Judge Mershawn runs interference for Bragg.
	I mean, I think it's funny.
	Shout out Gateway Pundit for framing it that way, because it's just like, running interference for Bragg?
	Bragg and Mershawn are working together!
	Like, you know?
	But you get the point, you get the point.
	President Trump was back in a Manhattan court on Monday in Alvin Bragg's Soviet-style hush money lawfare trial.
	The prosecutor earlier Monday rolled out their star witness Michael Cohen, a convicted perjurer, to take the witness stand.
	Cohen shocked the public when he admitted he stole tens of thousands of dollars from Trump and lied to Trump org CFO Allen Weisselberg.
	After the prosecution rested their case, Trump's defense team called attorney Robert Costello to the witness stand.
	Recall that Costello previously blasted Cohen as a convicted perjurer and said Bragg's prosecutors cherry-picked emails.
	Crooked Judge Murshan excoriated Costello and cleared the courtroom.
	This is amazing.
	We have this clip here.
	Johnny Maga says, Judge Mershawn just cleared the entire courtroom after feuding with Trump star witness Bob Costello.
	Let's play this clip.
unidentified		in a raised voice. Jake, the judge has just cleared the entire courtroom. Yeah. Here is
		it now. This is escalated to a security concern and the overflow is cut. We're not getting any
		more information. I mean, the fact that this has escalated to this. They are spiraling.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The Democrats who concocted this psychotic plan are in panic mode and panic mode is an understatement.
		You know, I gave you a quick little story I once read.
		There are these seamen, yes, navalmen, or whatever you want to say, whatever you want to say, and U.S.
		Navy, I think it was, as the story goes, and maybe this story is apocryphal.
		Their boat sank or something.
		And then they were on a life raft.
		And one of the guys pulled out his service weapon, took it apart, and gave everybody a piece.
		He gave everybody one of the bullets.
		He gave everybody a piece of the weapon and said, We are now going to sit and reconstruct this.
		When I call on you, you give me the piece we need to reconstruct this weapon.
		And they say that this saved their lives.
		How, you may ask?
		The reason he did it, so the story goes, is that it took people out of panic mode, a real thing, where they can't think straight, they're disorganized, and he put them into a system Okay, now we are building a machine.
		Logic mode.
		And that allowed them to calm down, think clearly, and structure a plan.
		I don't know that it's true.
		Just something I read on the internet.
		But the idea was creating order.
		And then allowing people to think rationally.
		But when you are panicking, you are running around.
		That's why they say don't panic.
		You do stupid things.
		What we are seeing now with this case is just absolutely pure panic.
		Here is the exchange between Judge Mershon and Robert Costello, courtesy of The Gateway Pundit contributor Paul Ingrassia, who was inside of the NYC courtroom live reporting.
		Mershawn grows irate, begins excoriating Robert Costello on the stand for making a few off-handed remarks and rolling his eyes during testimony.
		Mershawn, are you staring me down right now?
		Costello, I'm not.
		Get out of the courtroom now!
		Get out of the courtroom!
		Video cuts.
		Whoa!
		And we've got—look, this is—look at this!
		Politico.
		Same thing.
		Look at this.
		Are you staring me down right now?
		This— Okay, you know, I don't know if we get to the point of like a congressional caning, but you see what's going on with this?
		The Trump side of things, they know this judge is corrupt, that he is evil.
		I, you know, it's funny because I did not used to say the word evil lightly, but this is, it's indefensible.
		Any sane person looking at this knows this case should never have been brought.
		Fareed Zakaria, same thing.
		I'm going to bring him up every time.
		CNN saying this case should not have been brought.
unidentified		That's it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Murshan is a scumbag, evil man.
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		And you know what?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You get Robert Costello in there and he knows this judge is evil and this is a sham and this is what you get.
		Gateway Pundits' Paul Ingrassia said the trial resumed after a delay following a fiery exchange.
		Murshan is absolutely seething over Costello's damning testimony.
		The type of treatment Costello, an experienced prosecutor who once worked for the U.S.
		Attorney's Office in New York in the 70s and 80s, is receiving in the witness stand from the judge is disgusting.
		Mershon is visibly perturbed, condescending, and downright abusive of the witness on the stand.
		Outrageous behavior from a judge and totally inappropriate for any courtroom.
		No decorum whatsoever, Ingracia said.
		Judge Mershon ran interference for Bragg and continued to shout at Costello.
		Bragg Prosecutor, did you say Michael Cohen was acting like a drama queen, yes or no?
		Costello said, I said I didn't know if Michael Cohen was acting like a drama queen.
		Mershawn again chastises Costello from the stand.
		Would you just answer yes or no?
		Bragg prosecutor, you don't like drama queens, do you?
		Wow.
		Mershawn abruptly ended the day's proceedings with, have a good night.
		This is amazing.
		Let's pull up this tweet from Paul here, who is in the courtroom.
		Mershawn, visibly exasperated, hastily ends the day's proceedings, implores jurors to not research the case through media, email, telephone, text, or the internet.
		Reminds them they should not google or discuss the case out of the courtroom.
		These people are so evil.
unidentified		It makes my blood boil.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Abruptly says have a good night, then cuts out the video.
		On hot mic, urges Costello to step down from the witness stand.
		Mershawn is obviously disgusted by Costello, whose testimony has thrown a huge wrench into Bragg's case.
		Unlike anything we have seen thus far this entire show trial.
		Fireworks.
unidentified		Wow.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		We got Nick Sorter saying, the sham trial is imploding before our eyes.
		I mean, look at this.
		Even Politico has it.
		It's remarkable.
		This must be one of the most embarrassing days for someone as stupid as Judge Mershawn.
		What a stupid, stupid guy.
		The idea... You know what I think Mershawn is pissed off about?
		So you're a judge.
		And you work really hard to get to your position, and then your Democrat buddies are like, we're going to stop Donald Trump, we're going to launch a fraudulent trial against him, we're going to lie about the law, and we need you to back us up.
		And Mershawn's probably like, I don't know this is going to work.
		What you're saying, it's...
		You're stretching it, man.
		And they're like, trust us, Mershan.
		Trust us.
		You be the judge.
		You'll be in control of everything.
		It will go our way.
		And now he's stuck up there.
		Everything on his shoulders.
		And he looks like he is cognitively impaired.
		Throwing away his entire career because he wanted to get Donald Trump.
		Here's the best part.
		And I'll tell you again why he's mad.
		For one, Costello completely undermined everything and they didn't know that was coming.
		How embarrassing.
		Your buddy comes to you and says, hey, we're gonna pull off a heist.
		Trust me, we got a full plan.
		And then all of a sudden you get in the building and there's like 12 guard dogs and you're like, what?
		Now I'm stuck here.
		Oh, Mershawn is going to get eviscerated from this and he knows it.
		CNN, MSNBC, ABC, the corporate press is abandoning them.
		And he is the linchpin.
		All of it falls onto his cognitively impaired brain.
		Oh, man.
		It feels good.
		You know, there's a lot of people who say that I'm blackpilled.
		I see nothing but darkness ahead, and I'm just like, I am so... It's very cathartic to watch this man writhe on the stand as the judge.
		Fuming, screaming at a witness!
		A witness, no less!
		It feels good.
		You know what it is?
		He knows his goose is cooked.
		The corporate press has abandoned them, the Democrats have abandoned them, Joe Biden's losing in the polls, and he's sitting there going, what did I get myself into?
		I wouldn't be surprised if this dude cried himself to sleep saying, why did I do this?
		So pathetic.
		So pathetic.
		Screaming at a witness because the witness has just proven, you done screwed up, sir.
		Let's start from the beginning.
		And that's why I was saying early on, I'm like, everyone knows the sham.
		When CNN came out and Fareed Zakaria's like, this case should not have been brought and would not have been brought against anyone whose name was not Donald Trump, I was like, oh no.
		I bet he watched that and a tear came down his eye and he went, what did I do?
		Oh, what an idiot.
		You see, these people have for so long thought that they've controlled the machine, they could get away with whatever they wanted.
		So Judge Mershon, who is a highly conflicted judge, Trump says, whose daughter is making money off of things like this, he knows his goose is cooked.
		They never saw it coming.
		They thought that they could strangle the machine, they could crack a whip, and everything falls in line.
		They thought they were invincible, and now it is all coming crashing down.
		And hey, maybe the jury, maybe they all have Trump Derangement Syndrome, and they do lock Trump up.
		Trump still wins.
		I mean, as long as Trump is, with this case, they're martyring him.
		Politically, not literally.
		And Trump is winning in the polls.
		I think, if after all of this, Trump does get convicted, his polls are going to skyrocket.
		Because you've got to imagine, a judge screaming at a witness, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, all of these outlets saying, Yeah, this is bad.
	Now let's consider something else as well.
	Stormy Daniels goes up on the stand, and she insults Trump.
	She calls him names.
	She mocks him.
	She belittles him.
	She claims a whole bunch of things Trump did that had nothing to do with the court case.
	The judge allowed it.
	This is where you can see his career is done.
	You know what I'd love to see?
	I want Donald Trump To get elected, I want to see... I think Kash Patel would be great, but there have been some other suggestions to be Attorney General, head of the DOJ.
	I want to see Murshan in prison.
	He should go to prison.
	He should.
	Now, perhaps what is likely going to happen is, if Trump becomes president, there will be federal investigations, I hope, into everything that these people are doing.
	And I hope that the end result is that Mershawn is just disbarred.
	Removed, fired, and he can go live in a cardboard box somewhere.
	The conflict of interest.
	The judge himself has been accused of making donations to a political party, to the Democrats, I believe to the Democrats, and his daughter is making money off this.
	Yo, this dude has just... He's just destroyed himself.
	He's just absolutely destroyed himself.
	It's kind of remarkable that we find ourselves in this position.
	Costello was an excellent choice for a witness.
	Mershawn panicked.
	And it's plainly obvious.
	I mean, you look at the story from the Gateway Pundit.
	Mershawn's yelling at him.
	Would you just answer yes or no?
unidentified		What?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Did you say Michael Cohen was acting like a drama queen?
		No.
		Okay.
		There you go.
		That's what the judge wants to hear.
		He said, I didn't know if Michael... I said, I didn't know if he was acting like a drama queen.
		Mershawn yells at him.
		Would you just answer yes or no?
		The funny thing is, Mershawn's not yelling at anybody else like this.
		Just the witness who comes out and destroys their entire case.
		I want to stress this point to everybody.
		The one I was just making where I said, you know, people say, you know, oh, I can't stand the negativity.
		Oh, I'm so blackpilled.
		This should make you laugh and feel good.
		It should give you that fire inside.
		The judge is panicking.
		We know he's corrupt.
		We know the prosecutors are corrupt.
		Donald Trump is being charged with a misdemeanor that is beyond the statute of limitations.
		The judge will not allow a federal elections expert to testify that Trump did not commit a crime.
		He won't allow it.
		Because the judge is crooked.
		He is one of the most crooked law officers of the court, whatever, judge, I've ever seen.
		Ever.
		This guy is pretending to be a judge, but he's got brain damage.
		I wonder if his Trump Derangement Syndrome has driven him to the point where he thought this was a good idea.
		Well, you know what?
		The House of Cards is coming crashing down.
		As I stated, Democrats thought they were invincible.
		They thought themselves invincible.
		And now we are looking at everything.
		We're taking a look at mainstream culture.
		You know, Target is getting rid of their pride displays.
		Wokeness is losing.
		Trump's ahead in the polls.
		And the American people can see right through this.
		And I think this guy knows.
		He just hitched his horse.
		He just attached himself to something that could result in him going to prison.
		It's going to be interesting.
		I don't know that ultimately he does end up in prison, but I think what ends up happening here is, in the event Donald Trump wins, There may be a civil rights investigation into all of the things that they're doing, and I hope so.
		I really do.
		I mean, Cohen stole money?
		I'll tell you one of the most interesting talking points that I've heard.
		Someone asked, have you ever seen a criminal prosecution where the prosecutors asked a felony to flip in order to prosecute a misdemeanor?
		Usually, you get a guy arrested on a misdemeanor charge and say, we will drop the charges if you testify against your boss.
		You go up, right?
		Now, some could argue, like, that's what they're doing, like Cohen going after the boss.
		Trump's accused of falsifying business records of misdemeanor.
		That's it.
		Now, they're claiming it's a felony because it was in furtherance of another crime, but there's no other crime.
		Like, there's literally nothing.
		They haven't said anything.
		So you effectively have Michael Cohen committing grand larceny to the tune of either $60,000 or $250,000, depending on your interpretation.
		And they said, no, no, no, no.
		We know that you stole that and probably a lot more, but we're going to let it slide so long as you give us testimony against Donald Trump so we can prosecute a misdemeanor.
		And this judge was like, I want to be involved in this.
		Amazing.
		Look, I don't know what's going to happen today, but The question is, how many of these jurors are going to have Trump Derangement Syndrome?
		If you get one juror who says no and you get a hung jury or a mistrial or something, maybe.
		Maybe.
		But I'm concerned that even with all of this, the jury still says Trump goes to prison.
		But there is another element to consider with Judge Marchand's meltdown, just absolute panic induced meltdown.
		Jurors might be thinking, guys.
	Yeah, I want to get Trump, but we're losing.
	And if we do this, they come after us.
josh hammer ▲ ● ▼		Hey guys, Josh Hammer here, the host of America on Trial with Josh Hammer, a podcast for the First Podcast Network.
		Look, there are a lot of shows out there that are explaining the political news cycle, what's happening on the Hill, the this, the that.
		There are no other shows that are cutting straight to the point when it comes to the unprecedented lawfare debilitating So we'll see.
		I have no idea.
		I have no idea.
		We'll see.
		I can't imagine today will be any better for the Democrats in this one.
		Next segment is coming up at 1 p.m.
		on this channel.
		Subscribe and download your episodes wherever you get your podcast.
		It's America on Trial with Josh Hammer.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So we'll see. I have no idea. I have no idea. We'll see.
		I can't imagine today will be any better for the Democrats in this one.
		Next segment is coming up at 1 p.m. on this channel.
		Thanks for hanging out and I'll see you all then.
		There's a video going around of a woman who is 33.
		So they report crying because she's been single for seven years and she's lonely,
		trying to make friends and she's struggling to do so.
		And...
		And, uh, man, does this video make me sad.
		I feel really bad for this woman.
		I hope and wish for her the best.
		I hope she finds friends.
		It's tough out there.
		It really is.
		But someone commented on this video where she cries and tells this story about how she was humiliated at a comedy show not because people were mean, because they were nice.
		Someone commented, There are no female incels.
		Women are only single by choice.
		Even if that choice is, I won't settle.
		And there's a really interesting, I think it's worth talking about.
		This idea of the female incel versus the male incel, current dating, and why this woman is crying and why this video is going viral.
		I gotta tell you, the first thing, I watched this video of her telling the story, and boy was I sad.
		She does not seem like a mean woman.
		She does not come off like a snooty leftist, cultist, or anything like that.
		It is a sad woman who is trying to find friends and navigate this lonely world.
		And then by the end of the video, she hits the punchline.
		Not intentionally.
		But she makes a point as she's leaving this comedy club that just had me bust out laughing at full volume, man.
		And I feel bad, because I want to say this.
		I'm not trying to be mean to her, but I'm sorry.
		It is funny.
		It is funny.
		And with that being said, okay?
		It's a punchline.
		It's really a punchline.
		And that's why I laughed, but I still feel bad.
		You know what I mean?
		Like, you laugh at something, but you're like, I feel bad about it.
		But I want to say this.
		The reason why I think this story is important and I wanted to record this segment is, this woman, she's 33, she lives alone, she has no friends, she's tired of being single, and she's crying about how she's trying to go out in the real world to find people.
		And she can't.
		And I'm just like, how is that feminist dream working out for you?
		And it's kind of scary, isn't it?
		Here's what we're witnessing, my friends, with things like this.
		There are many women who are depressed, who are on drugs, who are sad, who are angry, who are lonely.
		Why is it?
		Is this a new phenomenon?
		Have women always been sad, depressed, angry, and lonely?
		Maybe.
		And that's why you end up with feminism in the first place?
		But I tell you, for at least this woman, she would have been happier living a hundred years ago.
		She would have been married at a young age.
		She'd have a family.
		She would not be lonely.
		She would have community.
		She'd have church.
		Instead, what she has today is likely a career where she can afford to live alone.
		She has no friends.
		Has been single for years.
		Can't find anyone good.
		And it's not just... I'm not saying this is on women.
		You take a look at her story, and I saw this because Brianna Morello had tweeted out saying, women shouldn't settle because society is making weak men.
		And that's true!
		Weak men across the board.
		And so you end up with this fractured society and people who are Suffering because of it.
	I don't want to play the whole seven minutes of her story.
	I'll play a little bit, and then I'll skip forward a little bit because some of it's a bit redundant.
	But I want you to hear this, and then I want you to hear what she says at the finale of this video.
	She's telling this long story about, like, she's trying to meet people, she goes to a comedy club, they're all so nice to her, and she's humiliated.
	And the ending is... talk about a crescendo.
	You gotta wait for it.
	You gotta trust me on this one.
	It will be worth it.
unidentified		I'm not someone that posts or cries or anything on the internet, so this is... this is a new one for me.
		I just... I guess I need... I need girls to rally with me and lift me up because I feel so defeated right now.
		I've been trying to meet someone, just anybody worth my time for years.
		And dating apps are so awful.
		I don't need to explain to you how awful the dating apps are.
		So I've been trying to meet people in public.
		And they're still trash when I do randomly meet people in public.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		She is correct.
		I also want to stress, again, none of this is her fault.
		I don't see this as a woman who's... I mean, maybe she is, but I'm saying right now in this video, in this context, she's not coming out and cheering for the system as it is.
		She's trying to meet people and she says they're trash.
		She's not wrong.
		How many guys are like, I don't want to settle down, I don't want to get married, I don't want to commit to you, I don't want to build a life, don't tie me down, and I don't blame those guys either.
		The system is set up as such that guys are worried.
		It's like if I get together with you and you change your mind, I get destroyed.
		How many movies, how many TV shows, how many documentaries, how many real life exposés, how many stories have guys heard of marriages failing and the guy getting destroyed by it?
		They're terrified.
		Now, of course, there are a lot of guys, more conservative guys, who are going to say, why don't... Oh, be a man!
		The risk is a part of growing up, and these things happen, and find a good... Look, man, in these cities, in these blue areas, in places like Miami... Hey, shout out to all the red pillars down in Miami.
		Yeah, I get why they view the world the way they do.
		Because it's like, dude, these women are not the kind of women you can trust to be in a relationship with.
		Now, I don't know about this lady, but she's suffering because of it, because she's gonna go meet a guy, and he's gonna be like, you know, my dream is to have a family, settle down, and buy a house with white picket fences, and get a little dog named Scruffy, and ma'am, I just don't know that I can trust you.
		Have a nice day.
		And then she's like, what the?
		Let's play some of the story.
unidentified		Tonight takes the cake.
		Last week I was like, I'm part of an app that you can basically get invited to these events and there was a comedy thing coming up and I bought a ticket and thought, maybe I'll meet people here.
		Maybe I'll meet a guy or like just meet people in general that I can become friends with and then who knows what could happen.
		And let me just tell you how this went.
		I show up, it's a limited seating, get there first, it was like an open bar and in my head I'm a prompt person so I got there like 20 minutes beforehand and I happen to be the first person there.
		Okay, kinda weird, but okay.
		They tell me, since it's an intimate thing, Try to sit in the front row because it's gonna be hard to get people squishing through there, and it's a sold-out show.
		Okay, that's fine.
		I sit in the front row, and it's about showtime, and I'm realizing, like, nobody else is in the front row.
		It's just me.
		Everybody's, like, filled in in the back, like, every row's filled with all the couples, of course, and then it's just me.
		I mean, of course, some people are going to drop out and not show up, but the host of the show comes up to me really quickly and is like, Mouse, thank you for sitting in the front row.
		And she proceeds to go up onto the stage and point it out, had everyone clap for me for being brave enough to sit in the front row, and like, that was fine, I get it.
		You know, people are afraid to sit in the front row.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So basically, she goes on for another like two minutes just explaining this front row scenario.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		So I'm gonna skip ahead a little bit.
unidentified		Like some gift card or something and like this is all in front of everybody and I just like I know nobody's sitting
		there like Oh my god, look at this girl, but like it's just
		Feels like such a slap in the face I'm not even mad at the comics. I'm not even mad at the
		lady Like I would probably think with the same thing
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		But like they're basically saying like good for you for coming here alone and sitting in the front row by yourself
unidentified		Just for this point in my life, like, it just feels like Jesus.
		Brutal.
		Like, I don't want to go out again.
		I'm tired of it.
		I'm over it.
		I'm sick of it.
		When I try, like, shit like this happens, and dating apps suck.
		And then I get into an Uber on the way home because I can't go have a drink like I wanted to because I have this giant fucking bag full of shit to carry around.
		And I get in this Uber and it's this 75-year-old woman with her dogs.
		And she won't stop talking about her dogs and, like, how she got an oil change and, like, what'd you do tonight?
		Was the comedy show good?
		And, like, I'm being nice and polite but all I can think about is, like, this is... this is gonna be me.
		And I know that's a worst case scenario.
		It's not even like that's a terrible thing to be single all your life.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Yes it is.
unidentified		I just can't help but feel like I'm gonna turn into this because I'm never gonna meet someone.
unidentified		And for everybody who's gonna tell me, it'll come along when you least expect it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		No it won't.
unidentified		I've been hearing that for like seven years, okay?
		I'm so sick of hearing that.
		There's such a thing as people that just don't find their person and don't get married.
		So, like, I'm a realist.
		And the realist in me is starting to think, like, that's gonna be me.
		And I'm depressed now over it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I feel really bad for this lady, man.
		I really do.
		I don't wish her any ill will.
		I don't mean to belittle her struggles and her trauma or anything like that.
		I just gotta say, like, welcome to modern society.
		This could never happen 200 years ago.
		I mean, like, of course it did.
		There are circumstances where women became hags or whatever.
		I mean that in a literal sense, not like an insult.
		Like, old, unmarried women just... But it's rare.
		Women were so dramatically important!
		How does this end up?
		Now, I've got a question for you, and for feminists, and even for this young lady.
		Well, I say young lady, but she's 33.
		She is an adult woman, nearing middle age.
		Would you be happier in a polygamous society?
		I mean that in the literal, actual question.
		Would you be willing to, would you be satisfied with, like, a nobleman, I mean that figuratively, like a wealthy businessman or a, you know, man of political importance who's got ten wives and you are one of them?
		Would that be better than being alone?
		Honest question.
		I'm not saying I know the answer.
		Seriously.
		I mean that literally.
		Comment below, let me know what you think.
		Would people like this be happier?
		I think about what society would have been like 100 years ago for this woman.
		She'd have gotten married at probably 18 or 19.
		I mean, even in the 50s.
		She'd have a family and a house.
		But here's the funny thing.
		I wonder, would she be happier then?
		Maybe.
		As the saying goes, you don't know what you got till it's gone.
		You know, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot.
		But humans live in a state of relative happiness.
		That means that even today, as incredible as everything is, people are going to be upset.
		And don't get me wrong, coming from the highs of the Trump economy to the lows now, it's kind of like, I get it.
unidentified		Your cheeseburgers cost five bucks!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm looking at the inflation charts for the average prices of McDonald's food.
		And you got these people being like, we'll stop comparing the highest, most expensive markets to the lowest.
		And it's like, dude, there's a chart showing the average price of all McDonald's.
		And it's gone from like a dollar for a cheeseburger to four bucks.
		I said five, but I'm being hyperbolic.
		It's $3.89 or something.
		With taxes, you're spending like $4.20.
		So yeah, I mean, I understand why people are getting upset, but I'd just be willing to bet that a lot of people like this, if it was the 50s, they'd be like, I'm so unhappy because my husband does this and does that, and they don't know what you got until it's gone.
		I'd be willing to bet, you ask this lady, would you be willing to be a stay-at-home wife?
		No career, your husband's in charge of the finances outside the home, you're in charge of things inside the home, would that be acceptable to you?
		You'll have kids, you'll have a family, you'll have community.
		I'd imagine at this point she'd say yes.
		I think a lot of women would say yes.
		And I think you've got, in this modern society, this is, you know, women being told, you want to have a career, you have to be responsible for yourself, and there are a lot of, and this is, it's not unique to women, or I should say it's not only the fault of women, but it's also the, I'd say, weak men.
		Our society in general is aflame.
		Right now, there are guys out there.
		These guys are average looking, and they are incels.
		Involuntary celibate.
		For a while we saw online, and hikikomori, Japan calls them, there was this one interview that came up like 10 years ago, and it was a guy saying that he was like an incel.
		And everyone's like, he's an average looking dude.
		He's like, there's nothing wrong with him, he's just like a normal looking dude.
		But he was like, I can't get a relationship, blah blah blah.
		You know, I think the challenge for this woman is feminism in every facet.
		Telling guys to not be masculine.
		Telling women to be girl bosses.
		And I'll tell you what the end result is.
		I'm not saying feminism in general is wrong or anything like that.
		I'm saying that the end result in large numbers results in things like this.
		So what do you get?
		Women who prioritize career over family, and now at 33, are like, why can't I find a relationship?
		You were 26 when you started looking!
		What happened?
unidentified		26?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Wow!
		I mean, you go back in time, all of human history, and you've got 18-year-olds getting married, having families in their early 20s, grandparents in their 40s, and now, at 26, you're like, I want to, you know, be with someone.
		You know, I suppose the challenge is for any guy who's got money, has succeeded, is strong, they're targeting 22-year-olds.
		That's what the data shows us.
		I'm not saying I agree with it.
		I'm not saying it's right.
		I know feminists, they get all angry when I say it, but that's what the data shows.
		The data shows that guys are choosing 22-year-olds.
		That's like the principal number.
		It really is.
		You take a look at guys right now, and I want to rag on guys, too, because I've got to tell you, I don't know much about this lady.
		I do want to say where there's smoke, there's fire.
		And as the saying goes, if you smell crap everywhere, check your boot.
		We see this video of this lady and she's crying, being like, why can't I find a relationship?
		For all we know, she smells horrible, and as soon as the camera turns off, she just starts farting a whole bunch.
		Who knows, right?
		I'm not saying she does.
		But I'm not going to just sit here and say that she's perfect either.
		She's 33 and single, and she's a woman.
		There's got to be some reason for that.
		That makes her less desirable for most guys.
		But she also says guys are trash.
		So imagine some incel guy.
		Socially awkward.
		Untrained.
		Pale skin.
		And like, just like an average guy.
		Do you know the average weight right now is 200 pounds for a guy?
		And 5'8"?
		That's nuts!
		This pisses me off.
unidentified		Okay?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Guys.
		Start exercising.
		I'm not kidding, man.
		Start exercising.
		Stop being what you don't have to be.
		This woman right here is begging for a relationship.
		And she wants a guy who can prove himself.
		And the only thing you gotta do is lift some weights and go for a walk.
		The bare minimum that many of these women are asking for is a guy who's going to actually try to every day add another brick to the wall, add another grain of sand to the heap.
		So we got all these guys that are incels, and they love to rally around this content that insults women, that demeans women, and I'm like, my dude, if you, today, spend 15 to 20 minutes, like start today, and spend 15 minutes doing some moderate lifting, spend 15 minutes doing a very light jog, maybe you can't jog, okay?
		Maybe you're heavy.
		Go for a walk.
		Download MyFitnessPal.
		Track your macros.
		It will put you on the right path.
		The question is, do you want to?
		And so here's what I see.
		I see a lot of guys saying, I don't know what to do.
		I see a lot of women saying, like, where are all the good guys at?
		And I'm like, hmm.
unidentified		Guys.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't blame individual dudes.
		I don't blame this woman.
		I certainly blame people with bad politics, pushing bad politics.
		But our society is failing people.
		You know what Donald Trump should do?
		I'll tell you what Trump should do.
		Trump should initiate, the moment he gets in office, he should say, I'm going to create the Presidential Fitness Challenge, because we did stuff like this in the past, and you don't need the legislative branch to do it.
		Trump could even do it of his own volition and say, Every school, we're going to have a national fitness challenge and the top 10 will get to come and visit the White House or something like this.
		And then you have all the schools say, like, who wants to be a part of the fitness challenge and offer up benefits and bonuses?
		We should be incentivizing young people to improve themselves.
		I'll say this right now to the guys.
		I know there are guys out there looking at her being like, she's beautiful, why can't I be with her?
		That's what they're thinking.
		And some guys are getting mad being like, screw her, because I know that if I want to talk to her, she would look down on me or something like this.
		What are you doing to improve yourself?
		What are you doing to become a better man?
		When you wake up in the morning and you say to yourself, today is a new day, what have you decided to do to improve?
		Let me tell you my mentality, my mindset, how I operate.
		I skateboard.
		Helps keep you fit, that's for sure.
		And what I've done is, while I am certainly good at skateboarding, and everyday seeking to improve despite being 38, I realized I don't do any upper body.
		And there's a new way to improve.
		So now, not only did I get a personal trainer...
		Which, with the move, it has been a bit more difficult, but we're setting up a planning system, because now we're further away from the city.
		What I'm doing is I got weights, and before I skate, I do some basic lifting reps to start the warmup.
		I do basic warmups, then I lift a bit, and that actually improves my skateboarding.
		I thought to myself, how can I be a better person today?
		And what does that mean to be a better person?
		How can I be smarter, faster, stronger?
		All of these things.
		Can I eat better?
		I think all of you, all of us, all of everyone who's paying attention to content that I produce, for instance, where we call out the BS, has a responsibility, we have a responsibility to do the best versions of ourselves.
		Everybody says, you know, Oh, it's so bad.
		You know, the system is bad.
		There's bad things going on.
		We're talking about Trump, these trials and corruption in government.
		What can I do?
		Well, the first thing you can do, if you don't know anything else, you can do push-ups.
		And are you going to break from that?
		Or are you going to prove that you are not the problem?
		Are you going to sit here and watch a video where people are complaining all day and you sit there eating a can of Pringles, not getting up and becoming stronger?
		There are a lot of people on this planet that are substantially stronger and smarter and faster and better than me.
		And you know why I love skateboarding?
		Because it's always about, are you better than you were yesterday?
		And that's my question to all of you guys.
		Because, you know, when I see this lady crying, and she says guys are trash, I don't blame her.
		I blame society, the direction we've taken, the politics of it.
		But know this, while there are a lot of guys that she would probably call trash, that wouldn't be the case if, I tell you this, You met this woman.
		Again, I don't know her personally or anything like this.
		But you meet a woman like this.
		And you are slightly overweight.
		You're below average height.
		And she's just like, look, I don't want to settle.
		You say, listen.
		Today I woke up.
		I did 10 push-ups.
		I am changing my life.
		I am figuring out how to be a stronger person.
		I am figuring out how to be a better person.
		And I will be a better person.
		I will be stronger.
		I will be faster.
		I will be smarter.
		I will work harder.
	She's gonna be like, wow.
	And you could say to her, you put up a video where you said, I want to meet people.
	I want to change my circumstance.
	That's exactly what I'm doing.
	That, that, that's the game right there.
	I feel bad when I see incels being like, I don't know what to do.
	And you know, I'm, I'm struggling.
	It's like my friend.
	There's a guy who's got this huge Instagram where he's, like, really skinny, has some kind of, like, deficiency, his teeth stick out really bad, and he's got this, like, hot Asian wife, and everyone's like, BS, he's a passport bro, blah blah blah, and I'm like, does it matter?
	He figured out how to improve his circumstances, and he did it, and he's having a good time.
	Like, dude, don't complain.
	By all means, critique, analyze all that stuff.
	But I look at this and I'm like, why is it on these women that they need to find better men instead of men to be better men?
	Fully acknowledging feminism and this law and the current state of things have caused serious problems for people like her.
	Here's, I'll break it down and I'll wrap this up because I don't want to go for a million years on this one.
	She's the victim of modern political progressivism.
	The same as many of these guys are.
	These guys are told, don't be masculine, it's toxic.
	Don't behave the way you, like little boys in school, sit down and shut up and act like a girl.
	You're rambunctious, you're full of energy, they tell you to sit down and shut up or you're in trouble.
	And now you've got a bunch of guys who are overweight and don't want to move and are scared and don't want to talk to people.
	Surprised?
	Not.
	I'm not.
	Then you get women who are 33 and single and they're like, why can't I meet people?
	Because they told you to get a job and be a girl boss!
	I wish more people at a young age thought about what they were looking at in life, took the lessons from their elders seriously, learned what they could, and then realized they must find their own path.
	Because now people are suffering because of it.
	Wrapping it up.
	You gotta build yourself.
	Make yourself.
	You know?
	What's that song?
	Let me pull up... Here we go.
unidentified		Wait, wait, wait.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Whoops.
		I love Incubus.
		Oh my god.
		I can't... Make.
		Yourself.
		What's not coming up?
		There we go!
		Uh, if I hadn't made me, I would have been made somehow.
		If I hadn't assembled myself, I'd have fallen apart by now.
		If I hadn't made me, I'd be more inclined to bow.
		Powers that be would have swallowed me up, but that's more than I can allow.
		I grew up listening to music like this.
		I don't know about you guys.
		Also, we had, like, the doofy pop-punk stuff, too, to be fair.
		But Incubus, one of my favorite bands, 1999.
		If you let them make you, they'll make you papier-mâché.
		At a distance, you're strong.
		Until the wind comes, then you crumble and blow away.
		If you let them F you, there will be no foreplay.
		Rest assured, they'll screw you complete.
		Aw, dude, I love Incubus, man.
		Listen to that song.
		Listen to Make Yourself by Incubus.
		And, uh, I don't know if you like that kind of music.
		Yeah.
		That's... What great lyrics.
		You gotta make yourself.
		You gotta start today.
		You gotta figure out what you wanna be and how to be it.
		I'll leave it there.
		Next segment's coming up tonight, 8 p.m.
		over at youtube.com slash TimCastIRL.
		Thanks for hanging out and I'll see you all then.
		I thought the prosecution had rested at the end of last week, but they rested their case yesterday.
		Basically said, that's it.
		Here's our case.
		Convict or don't, right?
		Donald Trump's defense team steps up, asks a couple of questions, and then today they're like, we're done.
		The AP reports defense rests without ex-President Trump taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trial.
		Okay.
		Do you want to know how desperate these people are?
		I'll show you.
		From MSNBC.
		Take a look at this.
		How Michael Cohen's past lies make him a more credible witness.
		And from the New York Times.
		When Michael Cohen's lies help the case against Trump.
		What?!
		Holy smokes.
		Ladies and gentlemen.
		I'll tell you what I see happening.
		It's a show trial.
		I'm seeing already a lot of liberals being like, oh yeah, Trump's going to get convicted.
		And I wouldn't be surprised.
		This is New York City.
		I'll give you my prediction.
		I gave it the other day and the last week, but I'll say it again.
		They're going to go to, so the jury is now off for like a week or whatever.
		In closing arguments, they say, one step closer to final arguments, the prosecution is going to say something like, you know who this man is.
		Based on everything you've heard here in this trial from Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, you must convict him.
		This is your only chance.
		You know who he is.
		You know what he's done.
		You must convict him.
	The implication, of course, I'm willing to bet the argument the prosecution makes is, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, for the love of all that is holy, just put this man in jail.
	Even if you don't think he did anything wrong?
	That's the joke.
	They're going to say something like, they're going to say, everything that you've learned about Donald Trump from this Trump, and you know how bad and how evil he is from this Trump.
	Get it?
	Right.
	You do.
	The media is saying, Cohen being a liar, stealing money from Trump, Their whole story makes literally no sense.
	The story they've presented, Cohen's story, makes literally no sense.
	And now they're saying he's a liar, and that proves it!
	Remember when the New York Times wrote that article that said critical thinking is dangerous?
	Don't do it!
	Well, now you know why.
	They want to lock Trump up so they can win an election, and there you go.
	The AP reports, Donald Trump's lawyers rested their defense Tuesday without the former president taking the witness stand in the trial, moving the case closer to the moment the jury will begin to decide his fate.
	Your Honor, the defense rests, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche told the judge following testimony from a former federal prosecutor who had been called to attack the credibility of the prosecution's key witness.
	The jury was sent home for a week until May 28th when closing arguments are expected, but the attorneys plan to return later Tuesday to discuss how the judge will instruct jurors on deliberations.
	Trump, the first former American president to be tried criminally, did not stop to speak as he left the courthouse and ignored a question about why he did not testify.
	He previously said he wanted to take the witness stand to defend himself against what he claims are politically motivated charges.
	As he left a news conference with supporters of the former president outside, his son Trump Jr.
	defended his father's decision not to testify.
	There'd be absolutely no reason, no justification to do that whatsoever.
	Everyone sees it for the sham that it is.
	After more than four weeks of testimony, jurors could begin deliberating as soon as next week
	to decide whether the former president is guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business
	records.
	I'll tell you why Trump didn't testify.
	After what the judge did to Costello, they know if Trump goes on the stand, the judge
	We'll try and get Trump in any way imaginable.
	Do not give them the opportunity.
	Trump would go up there, and they'll say something like, did you instruct Cohen to falsify these records?
	And Trump would say, no.
	And the judge would then just yell at Trump.
	They'd ask some ridiculously leading question.
	I'm half-kidding, by the way, but the prosecution's going to be like, Mr. President, when did you instruct Michael Cohen to stop falsifying business records?
	And he'll be like, I never instructed him to do something.
	The judge would go, Mr. Trump, answer the question.
	And Trump would be like, I never instructed him.
	That is not the question.
	The question is, when did you stop telling him to falsify business records?
	Get it?
	There's no point.
	Trump goes up there.
	They're going to give him loaded questions.
	The judge will allow them all.
	After defense rested, Judge Juan Marchand told jurors the court session could run late next Tuesday to accommodate both prosecution and defense closing arguments.
	The last time the jury will hear from either side.
	Mershon told jurors he expects his instructions on deliberations will take about an hour, after which they can begin discussing the case, possibly as early as next Wednesday.
	Until now, they have been told not to discuss the case with anyone outside the corridor amongst themselves.
	Mershon noted that closing arguments would normally follow immediately after the defense rested, but he expects them, in this case, to take at least a day, and given the impending Memorial Day holiday, there's no way... Excuse me.
	Ah, not a crime.
	all that's needed before then. I'll see you in a week.
	Prosecutors have accused Trump of a scheme to bury negative stories to fend off damage
	to his 2016 presidential campaign. Ah, not a crime. What's the crime here?
	The charges stem from Trump Organization records in which payments to Cohen were marked as
	legal expenses.
	Prosecutors say they were really reimbursements for a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her from going public before the 2016 election.
	Trump says nothing sexual happened between them and that's not even material to the case.
	So the argument is Donald Trump, the CEO, was deep in the bowels of accounts payable, instructing them to pay Michael.
	None of this makes sense.
	Donald Trump told Michael Cohen, don't worry, just invoice the company, we'll pay you.
	None of it makes sense because Trump is not paying attention to these things.
	And it's a pure manipulation.
	Now, what we know from Costello, and you guys know this already, he basically said Cohen had no evidence.
	What could have sold out Trump in a moment to save himself, Cohen admitted to stealing money from Trump.
	Fact.
	On the stand under oath.
	Why would this man not sell out Trump to save himself?
	He would.
	It's literally what he is doing.
	Fascinating.
	Well, my friends, let's see how the whingers over on the left are taking this.
	Oh, boy.
	How Michael Cohen's past lies make him a more credible witness.
	Are you kidding me?
	Sure.
	Maybe the Trump Derangement Syndrome people on the jury vote to convict because they live in New York and they're terrified.
	If people find out that they had the opportunity to put Trump in prison and they didn't, their lives are over.
	So we'll see.
	No matter how much Donald Trump's defense tries to discredit his former lawyer, the fact remains that he lied to protect his client.
	When?
	Which one was the lie?
	Is he lying now about stealing the money?
	Is he lying on the stand now to protect himself?
	Did he lie to protect Trump?
	Why did he steal money from Trump and then lie to protect Trump?
	Was he hoping to steal money after the fact?
	Was he hoping Trump would give him a pardon?
	This guy has zero credibility, and he is clearly willing to lie.
	If your argument is he was lying to protect Trump, he's lying to save himself a job, and now he's selling Trump out?
	There's no credibility here.
	But sure.
	Let's read the hilarious article.
	Let's be clear.
	Michael Cohen is a great witness against Donald Trump and the latter's ongoing trial.
	This is gaslighting.
	This is them desperately being like, please believe us!
	Please!
	We know he's a liar, but just act like it.
	The opposite is true.
	These people are psychotic!
	They say he's a great witness against Trump in the latter's ongoing trial, and a terrible person to rely on for the prosecution's case.
	And a terrible person to rely on?
	Are you being serious?
	I mean, they're admitting that?
	As Trump's one-time lawyer and fixer, Cohen was in the middle of the alleged scheme undergirding the case against the former president at the time.
	He's also a known liar, having gone to federal prison for lying to Congress.
	Trump's defense lawyer, Todd Blanche, tried to seize the discrepancy during a cross-examination Tuesday, albeit in a wildly scattershot fashion.
	Questioning of Cohen has jumped around between lies casting Cohen as a jilted, as motivated to provide dirt to Trump to get out of prison early, and his podcast attacks.
	It's all an effort to say he can't be trusted.
	Blanche's scattered efforts aside, this line of attack might work out well for the defense in most cases.
	After all, if Cohen is the prosecution's best witness, poking holes in his credibility is an obvious strategy.
	But there's just one problem.
	As Cohen himself has said repeatedly under the people's questioning, the lies were told in the interest of protecting his client, the man currently on trial.
	Cohen was sentenced in 2018 after pleading guilty to a number of federal crimes, including, crucially, causing an unlawful corporate contribution to a candidate and making an excessive campaign contribution.
	Those two charges are key elements of the current allegations against Trump, who stands accused of falsifying business records to cover up the payments Cohen made to an adult film star.
	Blah, blah, we get it.
	As for the charges of lying to Congress, Cohen was brought in to testify on Capitol Hill as part of the Russia investigation.
	He falsely told the Senate Intelligence Committee that Trump had no business ties to Russia as of the 2016 primaries, and in fact Cohen was pursuing Russian approval for a Trump Tower in Moscow as late as June that year.
	He also lied about not traveling to Moscow to pursue that project when he had done so and suggested that Trump make the trip as well.
	His statements to the Senate?
	Blah, blah, blah.
	We get it.
	We get it.
	Make your argument here.
	The roundabout nature of that order from Trump.
	Mr. Trump did not directly tell me to lie to Congress.
	That's not how he operates.
	In conversations we had during the campaign, at the same time I was actively negotiating in Russia for him, he would look me in the eye and tell me there's no business in Russia, and then go out and lie to the American people by saying the same thing.
	Cohen told the Oversight Committee in a public hearing.
	In this way, he was telling me to lie.
	Or maybe he was telling you to stop the deal!
	You liar!
	Dude.
	If I'm talking with someone, and they're like, I can go to Russia and negotiate a business deal, and I went, no.
	There's no business deal in Russia, okay?
	Now, let's do this.
	And then you go, got it.
	I will lie about it.
	Wait, wait, wait, what?
	In what?
	This dude is a scumbag.
	He would look me in the eye and say, in conversations during the campaign, at the same time I was actively negotiating Russia for him, he says there's no business in Russia.
	It sounds like Trump is telling Cohen as a straightforward, like, no.
	It's like, well, you know, I can go negotiate in Russia for your talent.
	No, there's no business in Russia, okay?
	And then Cohen's like, got it, I'll keep doing that, and then I will lie about it.
	Get it?
	Like, you have to prove, and Trump, okay, fine.
	If you want to argue that Trump was doing this to tell him to lie, you've actively just said, it's your opinion, you have no proof.
	Trump never told him a lie.
	Cohen did it of his own volition.
	That's the admission.
	They say, the roundabout nature of that order from Trump is important for understanding not only how the former president operates broadly, but also the specific difficulty that prosecutors have faced in this case.
	Imagine a world Where you can literally present evidence where you're like, the president told me there was no business in Russia.
	And then I lied and carried out the business anyway.
	If you prosecute someone based on that, you're basically saying, if an innocent person says, do not rob that liquor store, and they went, I understood what he meant, wink wink, and so I did.
	And now you're like, you're part of a conspiracy.
	I literally told him not to do it!
	That's the world they're trying to entertain.
	Let's jump over here.
	Look at this one.
	The New York Times.
	When Michael Cohen's lies help the case against Trump.
	Man, they are so, so insane.
	If Trump gets convicted here, it's only because the jury has Trump derangement syndrome or that they fear the far left.
	Is it possible to use a lie to illuminate the truth?
	If the lie is told by the serial liar Michael Cohen in the right context, the answer is yes.
unidentified		What?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Credit the prosecution in the Trump felony trial for pulling off this tricky maneuver.
		On Monday, we finally got closer to a key factor in the case, campaign finance law.
		To convict Donald Trump of a felony, the jury must find that he falsified business records or directed that they be falsified with the intent to commit another crime.
		Trump need not be found guilty of any of those other crimes.
		In this case, it could be tax fraud, intervening in an election, or violating campaign finance laws.
		In order to convict him, in order to convict him, but he needs to have the crime in mind in at least one of those areas.
		Late in the morning, Susan Hoffinger, a prosecution lawyer on her game.
		Oh, funny.
		Drew Cohen's attention to a letter written by his lawyer, Stephen Ryan, after the Stormy Daniels hush money story broke in Wall Street Journal.
		Cohen was still in Trump's camp at the time, telling the world that he had paid the $130,000 to Daniels on his own.
		$130,000 to Dales on his own.
		In his letter, Ryan wrote, the payment in question does not constitute a campaign contribution.
		A lawyer, Steven Ryan, said to Cohen, this is not a campaign contribution.
		Hoffinger asked, was that a true statement?
		Cohen, in his new polite incarnation, replied, no ma'am.
		This told the jury, here goes Cohen lying again.
		In other words, because Cohen was such a known liar, it is more plausible than not that he was lying when he said the payment was not a campaign contribution to protect Trump and himself.
		Okay, Ryan wrote that payment does not constitute a campaign contribution.
		Then he lied when asked, was it a true statement?
		Basically, no, saying that it was a campaign contribution.
		He didn't say it wasn't!
		Ryan did, you moron!
		After a sidebar, Judge Berchan turned to the jury and repeated instructions he'd already given during direct examination, saying, he basically said, if Cohen's guilty, it doesn't mean Trump's guilty.
		The judge was basically saying to the jury, I know you may think these two guys both intended to commit this other crime, but you can't use Cohen's guilty plea to convict Trump.
		As Norm Eisen, an expert on campaign's finance law, told me during a break, the jury will listen to the judge, but that's like saying, don't look at the elephant.
		To emphasize the point further, Hoffinger asked, did Mr. Trump approve the substance of these false statements by you?
		This brought another answer, yes ma'am.
		The prosecution caught another break when Mershon refused to allow Bradley Smith, a Republican and former chair of the Federal Election Commission, to testify about his conservative interpretation of campaign laws.
		The judge said if he allowed that testimony, which the defense desperately wants, he would have to let the prosecution call an expert witness with his or her own opposing interpretation.
		Mershon concluded that as judge, it was his job, and his job alone, to interpret how campaign finance law should be regarded by the jury.
		All in all, it was an unsexy but significant win for the prosecution.
		You've not made your case.
		You've confused the issue, Jonathan Alter.
		He says Stephen Ryan wrote to Cohen, this payment does not constitute a campaign contribution.
		They then said it was Cohen who claimed it, but it was Ryan.
		This whole thing is a ridiculous and silly farce.
		Now, Trump had a bunch of supporters show up, Troy Nails wearing, of course, this silly tie with several images of Trump hugging the American flag on it.
		And I think what we can see here is the total breakdown of their actual case.
		But, my friends, I must say, I think it's apparent to everybody there was never a case to begin with.
		We know for a fact there was no case to begin with.
		There's no underlying crime.
		They claim they don't need one.
		It's a felony because we said so.
		Cohen has a statement already.
		Let me pull this one up.
		In 2019, BuzzFeed News published a story claiming Trump ordered Cohen to lie to Congress.
		It prompted a firesome of drama that prompted the normally tight-lipped Mueller to issue a denial.
		But in further testimony to a House committee, Cohen gave one of the sharpest views into how Trump operates.
		BuzzFeed News.
		Let's pull this story from BuzzFeed News.
		President Trump directed his attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the Moscow Tower project.
		I think I remember this story when we covered it.
		The Mueller Report found Trump did not direct Cohen to lie.
		It's so fascinating.
		Why?
		Because Trump... I just... It's just laughably insane.
		This is where we are.
		The fact that Trump told Cohen not to do business is proof he told him to lie.
		You have to be a special kind of stupid or evil to take this line of thinking.
		Let's say there's a world Where there really is someone who operates this way.
		Hey, uh, don't go and get a tower in Moscow.
		Wink.
		And then you decide, like, okay, we're going to prosecute this guy.
		You can't.
	That's the reality.
	That's the point of plausible deniability.
	That is the limits in our system.
	You cannot prosecute Trump for saying there is no business in Russia.
	Cohen is a guy who has claimed on numerous occasions he took action of his own volition for Trump.
	Now I get why Trump abandoned him.
	Why didn't Trump pardon the guy?
	Why isn't Trump trying to defend him?
	Because Cohen is a smarmy, lying troublemaker.
	So let me get this straight.
	Here's what I believe.
	Cohen is going to Russia trying to get a deal approved.
	Why?
	I'll tell you what makes sense.
	He wants to be able to go to Trump and be like, I got you.
	You could build a tower in Moscow.
	You could build a tower in Russia.
	I negotiated this for you.
	And then Trump goes, Oh, wow, Michael, that's going to make us a lot of money.
	You're so great at your job.
	Why would Trump be relying on someone like Cohen for things like this?
	He wouldn't.
	I'm sorry.
	Let me just ask.
	Is the art of the deal Donald Trump writes this book to send a low-tier lawyer to a foreign country to negotiate on your behalf.
	Now, don't get me wrong.
	If Trump already approved a deal and then asked a lawyer to handle the final paperwork, fine.
	But they don't have that.
	And Mueller said that didn't happen.
	So what it really sounds like is Cohen, once again, it's a pattern of behavior where he goes and takes things of his own volition.
	And in this instance, Cohen says, no, no, Trump never told me to lie.
	He said, there's no business in Russia, which, wink, wink, I get.
	No, you clearly don't.
	Oh, dude, I'm just imagining, like, imagine Trump And he's like, we're gonna run for office, we're gonna be the best president, and we're not gonna do any business in these four countries.
	And then Cohen's like, Mr. Trump, I'm negotiating in Russia to get you a tower.
	And Trump goes, there is no business deal in Russia, got it?
	Now, we're focused on this campaign.
	And then Cohen's like, got it.
	Wink.
	And then he leaves and he says, I'm gonna lie.
	I don't understand why Trump—like, here's my point.
	If Mueller investigates this and finds Trump didn't actually instruct him to do this, if they found that Trump personally was actively negotiating this tower and secured a deal, and then wink-wink-nudge-nudge, Cohen, there is no business in Russia—and we don't even know they actually said that—why wouldn't they say, yeah, actually, Trump did?
	Trump already had the tower, and Cohen was negotiating on his behalf.
	When Trump claimed there was no business in Russia and then Cohen lied about it, Trump was lying.
	Because the reality is, one, this is something Cohen is claiming.
	For all we know, Trump was like, oh yeah, we were negotiating with Russia.
	That's it.
	You know, for all we know.
	This is the game they've decided to play.
	So I will stress this, as the defense rests.
	Strong possibility, strong possibility, the jury will just convict because they hate Donald Trump.
	I'll leave it there.
	Next segment's coming up at 4 p.m.
	on the channel.
	Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
	Wealthy women paying big bucks to engage in bizarre rage rituals in the woods.
	Oh man, I'm gonna play the video for you and you're all going to cringe, perhaps laugh.
	The story from the Gateway Pundit comes from a TikTok video that's been going viral showing these women shrieking like banshees and bashing things in the woods.
	And I see a lot of tweets where people are like, are women okay?
	My friends, because there are some women on video screaming and bashing things, does not implicate all women in the absurdity and insanity of these distressed women.
	But of course, you know, you take a look at this video, and I'll play in a second, where these women are screaming.
	And I gotta tell you, actually, the video's not even here.
	Let me pull it up on Libs of TikTok.
	Libs of TikTok has it on X. There are things called rage rooms, alright?
	And this is where people go into a room and smash things because they're angry.
	And I gotta tell you, this ain't the way to do it.
	I think this is unhealthy.
	I think it's ultimately not a good thing to do.
	And I look at this stuff and I'm like, y'all need some Marcus Aurelius in your life.
	Okay, here we go.
	We got the video from Libs of TikTok here.
	I'm gonna play it for you.
	And I'm sorry, but you've been warned.
	So here you go.
unidentified		What do you feel?
unidentified		Yeah. Okay. Um, yeah.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Y'all need some Marcus Aurelius in your lives.
		You know what I mean?
		Some stoic moral philosophies, because what the was that?
unidentified		that.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Gaby Puntas says a weird trend has been emerging worldwide where well-off women are paying
		thousands of dollars to go deep into the woods and scream like hyenas at the top of their
		lungs while smashing sticks.
		They probably do a little bit more than that.
		USA Today reported that these events, known as rage rituals, have garnered attention on
		social media platforms like TikTok.
		Women who have partaken in these events claim they are inspired to see other females manifest their anger.
		Mia Banducci, an author and self-proclaimed spiritual fairy godmother, is one of the individuals organizing these retreats.
		She told the outlet this month that the retreats help release negative feelings and increase happiness elsewhere in participants' lives.
		When people do this, and give themselves permission to release their anger, their capacity for joy actually expands.
		They're able to feel more happiness and pleasure, and they go home to their families with more gratitude and ease and peace.
		Banducci has led rage rituals for several years, started doing them for herself before offering them to the general public.
		The process of a rage ritual is simple.
		Banducci explained to USA Today that participants first grab a big stick while thinking about every person who's ever crossed you, who's ever hurt you, who's ever ignored your boundaries or taken advantage of you or abused you in any way.
		I'm gonna pause right now and just say, I think this is tremendously unhealthy.
		I think this is not the way to deal with your issues.
		And it will precipitate a weak will and a weak mind and will ultimately harm you in the long run.
		But I'll get into that.
		Let's read more.
		After taking warm-up breaths, the contestants start screaming and swinging the sticks for at least 20 minutes, or until their arms go limp.
		It's a good workout, by the way.
		At least you're getting that.
		Meducci claims the ritual is held in the woods, so participants can scream without annoying people nearby.
		Kimberly Helmes, a cybersecurity engineer, told the outlet, She experienced surprising feelings while in her first rage ritual in Scotland two and a half years ago.
		Helma said she believed the event would address the fury she felt towards her ex-husband after their divorce, but she instead felt a sadness she's been holding in since witnessing a friend's death when she was 15 years old.
		I remember it was a very clear, light switch moment for her where I was like, oh, that's what this is about.
		So many times I think you can really feel a lot of stuff until you work through it.
		USA Today points out that while Banducci may be the most prominent figure leading these crazy rituals, she is far from alone.
		Secret Sanctuary, for example, is scheduled to host a sacred rage ceremony.
		Now, I'm not just going to sit here and rag on women.
		That's silly.
		Sure, they are doing this, but let me see.
		We've got Rage Rooms.
		This is from WHYY PBS.
		Rage Rooms invite people to engage with their anger, but do they actually work?
unidentified		I loathe this stuff.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Loathe it.
		It is low-tier, animalistic, garbled nonsense, which I think damages the higher functions of the brain, and it is the antithesis of healing.
		But hold on, let's read.
		In 2018, Kia Tull noticed that her daughters were struggling at college.
		She had just failed an exam.
		The night she came home, she was like, I just want to pay to break something.
		And I'm looking at her like, you gotta be kidding me.
		Who pays to break something?
		Desperate to help her daughters, she searched the internet to find some answers.
		And she found rage rooms.
		There's actually one out- there's several out here.
		These places took abandoned warehouses and vacant offices and turned them into businesses made for organized chaos.
		Some were also marketed as an alternative to anger management.
		Tol was looking at images of people smashing glassware, electronics, and vintage furniture with sledgehammers and baseball bats.
		It seemed like a perfect fit for her daughter, but there was one problem.
		Philly didn't have one.
		So she decided to ask her daughter if she'd start a business with her.
		Would you like to be your own boss?
		She said, yeah.
		It really piqued my interest.
		I couldn't sleep at night.
		It was on my mind so much, I started looking into doing it.
		Five years later, Tolaner Daughters, Nyrema Jordan, and her daughter Nyrema, are the co-owners of Rage Room Philadelphia, their tagline, a place where you can F some ish up and have a ball doing it.
		At Rage Room Philadelphia, for fees ranging up to $30-$100, prospective RAGERS, as they
		call them, have plenty of options to grab a baseball bat, crowbar, or sledgehammer and
		smash their anger away.
		First, let me just say, when you live out in the middle of nowhere, you don't need a
		Rage Room.
		We just have a shooting range where we train and we shoot stuff when we do.
		I don't recommend that necessarily because I don't recommend applying, taking your emotions and then focusing them on destroying things.
		I'm not a fan of this.
		Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not a therapist nor a great moral philosopher or anything like that so I can't tell you what heals you, whatever.
		My view is simply If you create patterns of behavior, you beget further addictions and patterns of behavior.
		That is to say, if you tell someone, are you feeling angry and frustrated?
		Smash things and be angry!
		What you're doing is you're directing them in that direction.
		They will utilize that.
		Instead of being a master of their minds and their will, and trying to understand and control their environments, they become slaves to it.
		A person who gets angry and then smashes and bangs on things.
		That's the direction they will continue to go.
		I believe that things like this will actually result in people becoming more physically violent and angry and losing control instead of stopping and controlling their emotions.
		Now of course they say, and I'm not a doctor so I'll just tell you what I do.
		They say that if you don't get the anger out, it builds up inside of you and then bad things happen.
		And I'm just like, I don't know that I believe that.
		I don't know.
		You know, see, I like this Marcus Aurelius guy.
		Smart feller.
		Been dead for a very long time.
		Here's a quote.
		You have power over your mind, not outside events.
		Realize this and you will find strength.
		Oh boy!
		Talk about a smart feller.
		Yeah, he's right.
		So let's apply something like that.
		And plus, here's the next one.
		Dwell on the beauty of life.
		Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.
		The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
		You see where I take things?
		You have power over your mind.
		There is a famous quote, I think therefore I am.
		Cogito ergo sum.
		You've probably heard of it.
	Is that Descartes, I think?
	That's been a while since I was reading this stuff.
	But yes, I think therefore I am.
	You can choose to think anything you want right now, but maybe the reality is, I don't know, some people don't have inner monologues, so that's the real issue.
	Well, at least I do, and I've talked quite a bit about this, so maybe it's just me, maybe it's not you.
	But there's this chart where it shows 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and it's like, when you imagine an apple, what do you see?
	Some people see nothing.
	It's blank.
	Some people see an outline of an apple.
	Some people see a black and white drawing of an apple.
	Some people see a painting of an apple, a cartoon.
	Some people see a full visual of an apple.
	Me?
	I can see He-Man holding up an apple, spinning it around, then slicing it gently with a small blade, opening it up.
	There's a worm inside.
	I can imagine all of this.
	I can break it down.
	I can unfold the box in my mind.
	I can see all of these things.
	Power over your mind gives you strength and power over your world to a greater degree.
	Not everybody can do that.
	When I get angry, it actually is rare.
	It is rare that I get very angry.
	And mostly because, you know, maybe when I was younger, you see me get angry sometimes on the show when I'm watching this stuff.
	But I would say a lot of that's more exasperation.
	Like, I can't believe it!
	What is wrong with these people?
	And there's an anger in that.
	Um, to be fair, a lot of my venting is not smashing things in the woods, but making videos explaining these things, what my thoughts are on them and how I feel, but ultimately, here's what it comes to.
	Let's say, uh, oh, I got angry skating on Saturday because I was trying to land what's called a nollie backside flip.
	Okay, that's a trick.
	And it's a trick that I've been doing since I was a teenager.
	And the attempt was, I'm going up a bank, an incline, performing the maneuver, landing, and then immediately trying to jump onto a ledge and slide across it, right?
	And it was very frustrating because the nollie backside flip is the, like, the easy component of what I was trying to do.
	For those that understand skateboarding, I'll just tell you, the trick was nollie backside flip on the bank, followed by frontside nosegrind, frontside 360, uh, nollie, frontside 360, shove it out.
	Um, which is the harder trick.
	And I only got, like, three attempts on it because after an hour, I couldn't even land the nollie backside flip.
	I got angry.
	I think I yelled twice and was swearing.
	But that's really just kind of, like, I don't really have to do that.
	I don't know.
	It's just like, ugh, you know, like, let's go.
	It's all kind of like grunting and working out.
	Smashing things in the woods, I think, is a bad application of the energy and of how you direct your mind.
	After I yell and I'm skating, I stop and I do a little like, hmm, because there's something you need to understand.
	And this is, I believe to be true, I could be wrong, but this is, you know, because I was reading about, I try to be the best I can be every day and better.
	And what I learned a long time ago when I had a friend who would get really mad skateboarding, he would skate, he would get mad all the time and scream, just frustrated, angry.
	I learned that when you are angry, your emotion overrides your logic and it inhibits your ability to improve yourself.
	So when you find yourself getting angry, you're actually animalizing.
	You are shutting down your higher reasoning and you are inhibiting your ability to improve.
	Thus, I do not like rage rooms.
	I do not like these rage retreats.
	When I'm skateboarding, I get mad.
	Yeah, sometimes.
	True.
	And then I'll stop, I'll think, I'll breathe, and I will say to myself, if you get mad and you hold on to that, you will not figure out the issue.
	You will simply continue to struggle.
	So you have to stop and assess, what is the issue that is causing me to not do the thing I want to be doing?
	This helps me dramatically improve.
	Or, in the case of Saturday, I said, after an hour of making these attempts and screwing up the easier trick, you know what?
	Let's just call it.
	Not every day is your day.
	You can't win them all.
	There will always be lulls, there will always be downsides, not every day will be the greatest day of your life, and that's totally fine as well.
	And that's the crazy thing about these people screaming and smashing things in the woods and looking buffoonish.
	Instead of stopping and asking, Today, my boss was mean to me.
	So they go out and they go, AHH!
	And they smash things.
	Tomorrow, your boss will be mean to you again.
	What are you doing about it?
	How are you improving your situation?
	Here's what I do.
	I work for a company.
	I have a bad boss.
	He makes me angry.
	I think to myself, I am staring at a chessboard.
	There are pieces in front of me.
	I can only move in certain ways.
	I can scream and smack the board around.
	That doesn't do anything for me.
	I accomplish nothing.
	I gain nothing from it.
	What move can I make right now that will give me checkmate?
	When you are angry, you do not think properly.
	And you watch this in MMA and UFC stuff.
	They try, like, you want your opponent flustered and angry.
	This is why they try to enrage them.
	You wonder why it is.
	that they do taunts. You wonder why it is that they're on the stage doing the weigh-in and then
	they do things to intentionally infuriate the other person.
	They want them to enter the ring hot-headed and not thinking clearly so that they can
	calculate their moves. It's all strategy.
	You don't want to be that person, but this is what we get.
	You know, I was talking about Pearl Davis the other day. We talked about her following up from
	the Culture War show. I don't know, and I think she might have said I was simping or something.
	I don't know, whatever.
	But I see her as a perfect example of a UFC fighter who's too angry to, like, in the ring.
	Doesn't mean you're gonna lose.
	You know, anger can be wielded, it certainly can.
	But like, calling people fat whores or something, when they're not engaging with you, doesn't actually get you your goals.
	And so someone, what I had said was, Pearl to me, though she is correct on many of her points, and that's fair, that's absolutely fair, But when asked on the Culture War Show numerous times about what do you want people to do, which was, I don't know, I'm just describing things.
	Like, I'm not telling people how to live.
	I'm just saying that's a bad thing.
	And it's like, okay, well, if you're saying something's bad, you're implying there's a good, right?
	If I say, women shouldn't behave in this way, I'm implying that there's a way they should behave.
	But when asked, just, I don't know.
	She says, I'm not telling them how to live.
	I'm just saying, you are doing bad thing.
	And it's like, OK.
	What that really means is, I'm angry.
	Here's a solution.
	I don't want a solution.
	I want to be angry.
	Actually, and I'll pull that up, that visual I don't want a solution comic is one of the greatest comics of all time.
	And is it from Poorly Drawn Lines by Reza Farazmand?
	There you go.
	I'm mad.
	Here's a solution.
	I don't want a solution.
	I want to be mad.
	You know what's funny is because a lot of people say this is how women view things.
	This is what they say in dating guides and stuff like that.
	Like these dating guys.
	If a woman comes to you and she's complaining about something, don't offer her a solution.
	She's just trying to be mad about it.
	And so this perfectly exemplifies this.
	I don't want a solution, I want to be mad.
	And that's what people were saying about Pearl.
	When you come out and say, women are behaving improperly and shouldn't do it, and then you ask for a solution and she says, I don't have one, she's actually just saying, I want to be mad.
	That doesn't mean she's wrong.
	It just means, like, where's... Why?
	Why are we mad?
	Why are we angry?
	Do we want to be angry?
	I don't.
	Do other people?
	Perhaps they do.
	Perhaps the reality of these women banging things and screaming in the woods is that they just want to be that way.
	It's a great moral lesson that I learned as a kid.
	Some people want to be unhappy.
	And I thought to myself when I was younger, that doesn't make sense.
	Everybody wants to be happy, right?
	No.
	It's not true.
	Some people want to be unhappy.
	They do.
	They wake up and they have an addiction to it.
	They need to feel that unhappiness.
	They need to wallow in self-pity.
	They need to be a victim.
	They need to complain about it.
	Going to the woods and screaming justifies that the bad things in their lives are not their fault to them.
	The reality is, everything in your life, all of it, is your fault.
unidentified		Yep.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I'm going there.
		I'll say it.
		And now people say to me, that's not true.
		You know, a car came and it hit me.
		I could have seen it coming and now my car's busted and I can't get work.
		It's all your fault.
		That doesn't mean you're a bad person.
		That doesn't mean you did anything wrong.
		Your actions, your choices lead you through life and you are in control.
		You always are.
		Some people say, You know, I can't do this, I can't do that.
		Your fault.
		I'd say it's fair to say, like, the only thing that's not your fault is, like, the circumstances of your birth.
		You know, some people might be born without an arm or something.
		Well, that's not your fault.
		You know what I mean?
		And obviously I don't mean that you are to be held accountable for the things that are happening.
		What I mean is, you make those choices.
		When I was a kid, I was on my way to school, and we lived—there were train tracks on 60th.
		You can look this up.
		60th and Narragansett in Chicago.
		You'll notice that Kennedy High School is there.
		When I briefly went there, I think for like two months.
		One day I was walking to school, and my first period was like 10 a.m.
		And I've told the story, too, about how they like—our school in eighth grade, like all of grade school, was like 7 a.m.
unidentified		to 2.30.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And then you'd get out at 2.30, you'd go to the park, you'd hang out.
		Be on before the lights come on, maybe do your homework or whatever.
		And then with high school, they said, OK, from now on you're doing 10.15 to 5.45.
		And it was just like a culture shock that really screwed with people.
		But anyway, I had to be at school at like 10.
		And so I'm walking to school and there's a train.
		And so I sit down and I wait.
		And the train stops.
		Sometimes it happens.
		You've been at these, right?
		And I'm sitting there like, I cannot cross the train.
		And I look at my watch and I'm like, 10 minutes later and I'm like, okay, what normally is a 10 minute walk is now a 20 minute walk.
		Five minutes later, still hasn't moved.
		I end up being like 15 minutes late and I get written up or something.
		And then I come home and I was like, I was, you know, I don't remember exactly how it went down, but it's like you gotta get something signed or something.
		And my dad was like, you were late?
		And I was like, yeah, it's not my fault.
		There's a train.
		He goes, of course it's your fault.
		You know the train tracks there.
		And I was like, what?
		But I go to school every time and I didn't know the train was coming.
		And he's like, the train comes all the time.
		You need to leave early if there is a possibility the train is coming.
		That was a choice you made.
		And I was like, Yeah, he's right.
		I know the train comes, I know the train stops, I know that possibility exists, and I choose how I operate.
		I can choose to say, okay, I'm going to stand here, I'm going to risk the 10% chance I'm late, because it saves me time in the long run.
		That's a risk analysis.
		Or, I'm going to spend an extra 10 minutes of my day, every day, to never be late.
		You choose.
		And life's not fair.
		No one ever said it was.
		It's not supposed to be.
		Some people are born super rich.
		Everybody lives their own lives in their own worlds.
		So anyway, look, man.
		I don't think, like, Marcus Aurelius is the smartest guy who ever lived or anything like that, but he certainly had some very great philosophies and said some great things that I think are really great.
		He says, waste no time arguing about what a good man should be.
		Be one.
		There you go.
		That's great.
		Waste no time arguing about what a good man should be.
		Be one.
		I will counter with this, good sir, Marcus Aurelius.
		A good man, being a good man, and achieving things good men should be, should argue about what good men should be after the fact.
		So the idea that I agree with this statement, right?
		If you're just some guy and you're like, good men should do this, but you don't practice what you preach, you are wasting time.
		Be a good man.
		Now, if you are a good man, by all means, you are then going to come out and argue for what it should be.
		He says, if you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
		I like this guy.
		My friends, do the Rage Rooms if you want to do the Rage Rooms.
		You live your life.
		Don't let me tell you how to live.
		I just don't like it.
		Next segment's coming up at 6pm on this channel.

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