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May 23, 2024 - Tim Pool Daily Show

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China Has SURROUNDED Taiwan, Russia Runs NUCLEAR DRILLS, Media Says WW3 IS NOW And Biden IS LOSING

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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.
		Last night, news broke that China had prepared military drills to surround the island nation of Taiwan.
		Now, for those that aren't familiar, Taiwan claims to be the official government of China, but of course there was this thing called the Communist Revolution, and the actual government of China was forced onto the island of Taiwan.
		Since then, it's been a standoff.
		The Chinese Communist Party wants to reunify, they call it, and of course Taiwan resists.
		The U.S.
		is aligned with Taiwan and is actively defending Taiwan.
		And we have here in this image, breaking news from this morning, it's an alleged image But to be fair, my friends, I think this could literally escalate into full-scale conflict at any moment, regardless of whether or not China is doing drills.
		at the moment, and there is concern this could escalate into full-scale conflict at any moment.
		But to be fair, my friends, I think this could literally escalate into full-scale conflict
		at any moment, regardless of whether or not China is doing drills.
		It's just, well, they're getting closer and closer to that conflict erupting.
		China, of course, has been flying jets in and around, you know, over Taiwan.
		I don't know about over, but in their airspace.
		And, of course, this has had many on edge, as if Taiwan, if they are to fight back, push back, actually engage in a physical confrontation with China, The U.S.
		would likely get involved, and there is no doubt that is World War III.
		Now, depending on which source you read, we're already in World War III, I guess.
		And I gotta tell you, man, I don't know.
		Have we had a shot-herd-around-the-world moment?
		Perhaps not.
		The Iranian president and the foreign minister died in a helicopter crash, and nobody knows exactly what happened, but the general accepted story is, foggy day.
		That's right.
		One month after Iran fired missiles and hit Israel, a foggy day helicopter crash.
		There's some speculation that there was internal strife within Iran, and it's actually the Iranians who took out the president because they considered him weak.
		We don't know if any of that is true.
		Israel has denied involvement.
		Now, I don't know that this actually escalates into any kind of World War III, but I will say this.
		Joe Biden ain't on the ballot in Ohio.
		I want to let that one stew for a little bit.
		Joe Biden is not on the ballot in Ohio.
		I don't know why.
		They say it's because the Democrats put their convention too far out.
		So you have 90 days before the election, you have to be on the ballot.
		But the convention for nominating the—or is it—yeah, something like that.
		The convention is 75 days from the election.
		So Biden's not even the nominee, so they're not putting him on the ballot.
		Now, a lot of people have said, look, it's a non-story, they're going to do something, something will happen.
		Yes, but what does that mean?
		It means that right now, Democrats don't have Biden on the ballot, and if they are to enact some kind of special maneuver to do it, people are going to call it cheating.
unidentified		They're going to say, you broke the rules.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Now, the reason why I bring that up, not to get into domestic policy issues on a foreign policy segment, I bring it up because it seems strange, doesn't it?
		But perhaps there's one reason why it doesn't matter if Joe Biden's on the ballot or not.
		And it's that World War III is here.
		Yeah, I don't know what that means.
		Maybe Biden pulls a Zelensky and says, we can't have elections.
		Zelensky of Ukraine is now officially a dictator.
		That's just true.
		You know, they were supposed to have elections in Ukraine.
		They didn't.
		Zelensky said, no, we can't have elections right now.
		We're at war.
		The argument from Democrats and those who support Ukraine is how could they have an election with the Donbass under the control of the of the Russians?
		That's a good point, but I will stress, there was an election during the American Civil War.
		Chase Geyser brought that up.
		That's right, the Confederate States seceded from the Union, and in 1864, in the Civil War, we still had in the United States an election, for which Abraham Lincoln won a second term.
		Right now, we've got the potential for this escalation.
		Not only do we have China surrounding Taiwan, Taiwan on the verge of confrontation, but Russia is engaged in tactical nuclear drills, which I fear greatly.
		I've said for a long time, if need be, Russia will use nuclear weapons.
		Because people seem to think that a nuclear weapon is an ICBM that blows up a major city.
		They don't understand that there are lower-yield battlefield nukes that could be used.
		And Russia's not going to allow the U.S.
		to press upon its borders.
		So maybe we are in World War III.
		Maybe it's about to begin.
		The Hill!
		Take a look at this story from The Hill.
		Biden is losing World War III.
		Oh!
		Man, I just want to tell you.
		Reading history about how wars get named.
		The Great War, for instance.
		World War.
		Things like that.
		The Civil War.
		So obviously I've read a lot about the Civil War, right?
		And the fascinating thing is they didn't call it a Civil War for a little while.
		That means they were in the Civil War and they didn't call it that.
		Some called it a rebellion.
		Eventually it was called the War Between States.
		And then eventually a Civil War.
		It was a few years in they called it a Civil War.
		One thing I'd like to point out, the Battle of Fort Sumter is considered to be the beginning of the Civil War.
		Yet, the first Battle of Bull Run, Manassas, people did not believe a Civil War could happen, so they showed up to picnic, as the legend goes.
		So, historically, we recognize these people were already in the Civil War, when they sat down to picnic and watch a massacre.
		They didn't know.
		But history tells otherwise.
		Right now, we are beginning to see the likes of media say World War III is happening.
		There's been mutterings from news outlets where they say a prominent individual says we're in World War III.
		Ukraine says we're in World War III.
		We've got all these stories.
		World War III is imminent.
		I don't think we're going to know exactly when we're in World War III.
		We're not.
		It'll just be one day people are going to be like, I think this is World War III.
		Historically, they'll then write, the start of this was insert moment.
		Let's read the news.
		I'll tell you where we're currently at.
		China punishes Taiwan.
		Huge military drills are launched around the island three days after the island's new president, detested by Beijing, took charge.
		Beijing said the menacing war games, dubbed Joint Sword 2024, We're a strong punishment for Taiwan following the inauguration of its new president, Lai Ching-te, who is detested in Beijing as a separatist.
		China claims Taiwan is part of its national territory and the People's Liberation Army routinely sends Navy ships and warplanes into the Taiwan Strait and other areas around the island to wear down Taiwan's defenses and seek to intimidate its people.
		But this week's war games are massive in scale.
		The PLA released a map of the intended exercise area, which completely surrounds Taiwan's main island, concentrating major firepower at five key points, as well as places like Matsu and Kinmen, outlying islands that are closer to the Chinese mainland than Taiwan.
		China's Coast Guard also said it organized a fleet to carry out law enforcement drills near two islands close to Taiwanese-controlled island groups of Kinmen and Matsu off the Chinese coast.
	They come after the island swore in President Lai, who said in his inaugural speech on Monday that Taiwan must demonstrate our resolution to defend our nation.
	China denounced Lai's speech as a confession of independence.
	You know what makes me... I don't know enough about China or Taiwan.
	But I can certainly tell you.
	The Republic of China.
	Established, I believe it was like 1912.
	It was the end of... I don't know the exact timeline.
	I think the Republic of China came right after the Qing Dynasty.
	I don't know.
	Don't know enough about Chinese history.
	And to this day, the Republic of China stands.
	It does.
	When the Communists took over, there was a revolution.
	They forced the government of the Republic of China to the island of Taiwan.
	The government there wanted to regroup and then storm the mainland and reclaim mainland China.
	They were unable to do so.
	Since 1949, until this day, that conflict has not stopped.
	Here's what I want to see.
	I want to see the Chinese Communist Party destroyed.
	Evaporated.
	Dissolved.
	I want to see the Republic of China restored.
	Peace, liberty, freedom.
	A true republic brought back to the mainland China.
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tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't know that we'll see that happen in our lifetimes, perhaps.
		perhaps.
		Maybe China, the Communist Party, presses it with Taiwan, sparks World War III formally, the U.S.
		intervenes, the Chinese Communist Party loses, and the U.S.
		assistance helps reinstall the Republic of China as the formal government in the mainland.
		Maybe.
		But China's just too entrenched and too powerful at this point.
		I don't know that anything could change.
		And we don't even say China.
		It's just China now.
		And it's China and Taiwan.
		Despite the fact that the Republic of China is the official government name in Taiwan.
		It's really sad to read this stuff.
		Like when international bodies began to recognize the Chinese Communist Party as the true government of China.
		When they decided that they would no longer listen to the Republic of China.
		It's fascinating.
		It's kind of like, you're a member of a club, and then someone, you know, you're in a car club, someone steals your car, and they're like, you're out of the club, dude, you don't got a car anymore.
		And you're like, but we're friends, we hang out every day.
		It's like, your car's gone.
		You lost your car.
		Can't hang out with us anymore.
		Here's where we're at.
		This image showing what appears to be a Taiwanese Coast Guard ship near a Chinese naval ship is a bit worrisome.
		China, during their large-scale military drill around Taiwan, China warns Taiwan independence advocates of heads broken and blood flowing.
		This is the latest news coming out this morning.
unidentified		U.S.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		will be sending an unofficial delegation as Taiwan's president is sworn in.
		It'll test ties with China.
		And then we have this.
		Russia begins nuclear drills in an apparent warning to the West over Ukraine.
		Oh boy.
		Take a look at this image right here.
		Russia's military on Tuesday began drills involving tactical nuclear weapons that were announced by Russian authorities earlier this month in an apparent warning to senior Western officials who had spoken about the possibility of deeper involvement in the so-called special military operation in Ukraine.
		It was the first time Russia has publicly announced drills involving tactical nuclear weapons.
		Although its strategic nuclear forces regularly hold exercises, According to a statement by the Defense Ministry released Tuesday, the first stage of the new drills envisioned practical training in the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons.
		I hate these terms, strategic and tactical.
		Okay?
		It's just silly.
		They're all nuclear weapons.
		They do draw a distinction.
		Strategic nuclear weapons typically refer to when the U.S.
		That's the mutually assured destruction.
		Should the U.S.
		fire Zinuks, then the idea is that Russia fires Zinuks back.
		Tactical nuclear weapons are, they're going to pull in some trucks, they're going to launch some nuclear artillery, and they're going to blow up large portions of cities, and they're going to take the battlefield.
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 I think it'll happen.
		If the West presses on Russia and Russia has no choice, they will use nukes.
		Now, Russia's winning.
		So, whatever, I guess.
		Ukraine's forces are diminished.
		wherever you get your podcasts.
		It's America on Trial with Josh Hammer.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I think it'll happen.
		If the West presses on Russia and Russia has no choice, they will use nukes.
		Now, Russia's winning.
		So whatever, I guess.
		Ukraine's forces are diminished.
		They're drafting women.
		First, they drafted older people in their 50s, now women.
unidentified		Thank you.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The U.S.
		is unwilling and incapable of sending boots on the ground, but Macron of France has threatened to deploy NATO forces into Ukraine.
		World War III, baby, if that happens.
		Considering they're refusing to back down, then we can call this what?
		International strife?
		The idea that the West has said, we will not stop, And Russia has said, neither will we and we'll use nukes.
		Suggests.
		We're on a collision course.
		It's a game of chicken.
		Now, it's entirely possible someone surrenders and war doesn't happen.
		But this is a game of chicken, okay?
		The West and Russia, and it's not just Russia, it's BRICS, are speeding towards each other, neither refusing, neither willing to back down.
		I love this headline from The Hill.
		Biden is losing World War III.
		What?
		You mean we're already in World War III?
		And we're losing?
		Oh, come on, man.
		I don't want to hear that.
		The Hill opinion piece says, President Joe Biden has become the James Buchanan of the 21st century.
		You know, I was thinking that.
		Buchanan, the nation's 15th president, widely considered history's worst, sought to mollify everyone, yet in the end pleased no one.
		I don't really blame Buchanan because the country was falling apart.
		I feel bad for the guy.
		Jimmy Carter was pretty bad.
		Woodrow Wilson was pretty bad.
		The country was falling apart well before Buchanan.
		Everybody's always ragging on Buchanan.
		They do say that, historically, that he was like, um, tepid and weak-willed.
		Fine.
		More than a century and a half later, the world is devolving into a global ideological World War III.
		Russia, China, and their proxies are actively attacking U.S.
		interests.
		Yet Biden's national security strategy remains rooted in fighting something less than two simultaneous or overlapping major conflicts, according to a January Congressional Research Service report entitled, Great Power Competition Implications for Defense.
		The report notes that in 2018, the Trump administration was confronted with an Obama-era decision of building a force not around the demands of two regional conflicts with rogue states, but around the requirements of winning a high-intensity conflict with a single top-tier competitor, a war with China over Taiwan, for instance, or a clash with Russia in the Baltic region.
		If I was playing a video game, I would, I would, if I was playing Civilization, And the Taiwan-China thing was the conflict in the game?
		I would send everything I had to attack China and restore the government of the true Republic of Taiwan.
		But we're not in a video game.
		In the real world, people die.
		And if the U.S.
		is to pursue this line of thinking, it means we will get ourselves entangled in a foreign war, our resources will be constrained, people will suffer, and the question is, for what?
		For what?
		See, in a video game, it's silly fun.
		You hit save.
		Let's go!
		Bring back the government of, uh, Republic of China.
		In the real world... Yeah, you lose.
		There's no save.
		And then what?
		What's left?
		The United States should be focused on its borders.
		The Chips Act seems to make sense, okay?
		I don't know about the nitty-gritty, but the idea that we're gonna manufacture our own computer chips here in the United States?
		Why aren't we doing that already?
		That we get them from Taiwan is insane.
		Probably an excuse to maintain the government of the Republic of China in Taiwan by providing them with some kind of resource.
		Sure.
		The report notes in 2018 they wanted to have this top-tier clash, but in reality our nation is being confronted with three wars.
		The war in Ukraine, the war in the Middle East, and the looming war over Taiwan and the South China Sea.
		Actually make it three and a half wars if you include the war of influence we're losing in the Sahel region of Africa as U.S.
		forces abandon bases in Niger.
		Biden, seemingly caught in the vice grip of November electoral calculus, is refusing even to acknowledge that we are already in World War III.
		Am I supposed to say we're in World War III?
		People are like, Tim, stop saying we're in World War III.
	I'm not.
	I don't know the criteria historically to determine whether or not this is Civil War or World War III.
	Ladies and gentlemen, please listen.
	I'm not the one saying it.
	They are.
	Wow.
	Refusing to acknowledge that we're already in World War III?
	Oh boy.
	Newsweek says World War III imminent without Ukraine, historian predicts.
	Here's Daily Star.
	Exact date World War III will start as new Nostradamus claims it's just weeks away.
	Oh no!
	This is an important story because I'm hoping that it will bolster my female audience here at TimCast.
	Indian Astrologer predicts exact date World War III will start.
	This is the same story Using the Hindu version of astrology called Vedic, the new Nostradamus has named the exact date World War III could start and conflict could kick off very soon.
	And then they just show this image of war-torn land.
	A star-gazing bloke has named the exact date World War III will kick off after correctly predicting escalations between several enemy nations.
	New Nostradamus, Kushal Kumar, Kumar, who claims to be an astrologer who predicts world events, recently told how tensions would rise between Israel-Hamas, both sides of Korea, China and Taiwan, and Russia and NATO.
	Although some would say these were blindingly obvious open goals, Kumar used the Vedic astrology to do so.
	For the unaware, the chart is based in Hindu culture and is supposed to be a map of our karma using planetary and star alignment.
	Really?
	And now Kumar has used it to predict the exact date World War III is supposed to start, and it really is just weeks away.
	He said 2024 was predicted to be majorly worrisome in relation to war conditions in hotspots across the world, particularly around May 8th.
	It was indicated carrying highest escalation in such war fronts as Korea's China-Taiwan, the Middle East, involving Israel and others in the Middle East, and Ukraine-Russia.
	Anger of NATO could also find expression.
	Some indications of related leader or leaders in such region having serious health concern or resigning was also indicated.
	Furthermore, the aviation sector and tourism was also indicated being hit hard.
	An alert was also sounded against conspiratorial or deceptive circumstances.
	You know what I think these people do?
	They read the news and then they guess.
	You can't look at the stars and predict planes will fall out of the sky.
	You can read the news about Boeing and then go, I think it'll get worse.
	And then it does.
	And if it does, then people forget.
	In light of these details, they say, an impression gathered is that some well-defined indication of alert had found a mention for better care, an appropriate strategy for men who matter in countries at war, directly or indirectly.
	Now, Tuesday, June 18th, 2024, has the strongest planetary stimulus to trigger World War III.
	Although June 10th and 29th may have a say as well.
	The claims come just days after UK officials launched a website to tell Brits that they need to stock up in the event of war actually breaking out, which could be pretty soon, apparently.
	So how about this?
	This story from today, of course.
	How about a guy sees the UK says, everyone please stock up, war is imminent.
	China is about to clash with Taiwan.
	Russia is preparing nukes.
	And then he goes, you know, I was looking at the stars, and World War III is coming in a couple weeks.
	And then everyone's like, wow, the stars told you that?
	Yeah, okay, I don't know.
	I've been reading the news.
	But sure, the stars is a better story.
	I tell ya, I read the news so much, it's funny because like, when Nancy Pelosi bought Nvidia stock, of course I knew the moment she did, and now it's up 100% since she bought or something like that, and I'm just like, why didn't I buy Nvidia?
	Why didn't I get my money doubled by buying stock that Nancy Pelosi buys?
	I don't know.
	I bought Bitcoin a long time ago.
	I'll take that.
	I'd probably be better off if I just claimed that I could see it in the stars.
	And then every time I read a news story about something coming, people would be like, wow, Tim says he reads the stars and he's been right about all these things.
	Apparently that's what this guy is doing.
	My friends, if World War III comes, I hope you are prepared.
	I don't know what it'll look like.
	Your life will probably carry on mostly the same.
	There may be a shortage of certain goods, but you've lived through that already.
	Life goes on.
	Right now, we're at war with Russia.
	Have you noticed?
	Maybe you did.
	Your gas prices are up, your food costs are up, and Joe Biden's claiming the economy is fine.
	It will just get worse in that capacity.
	So we'll see.
	Next segment is coming up at 1 p.m.
	on this channel.
	Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
	The Senate is working to confirm several judges that have been nominated by Joe Biden.
	And a controversy has arisen around one judge.
	Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn recommended in 2022 that William McClain, who now goes by Julie Justine Shelby, be housed with female prisoners.
	The issue at hand, says Ted Cruz, is that this individual is a repeated offender, I'm gonna keep the language light, who has abused women, was caught with, let's just say, the most illegal images of children that could be, again, keeping language light.
	And this individual later took hormones, identified as trans, sought to be transferred to a female prison, and was.
	We also have another video here from, I believe it's Senator Kennedy, questioning this same judge.
	Now, the issue at hand is that they say this judge is an activist, that you are a political activist, you care more about your political ideology than the law.
	She says, no, I applied the law as it was.
	My friends, do you understand, and I think many of you do, why I feel this country is being ripped apart and why I fear it may result in conflict?
	When you hear the testimony, two videos that I think you should hear from this woman and Cruz and Kennedy, the main point at hand, one, I know everyone's aware Of the issue of male inmates identifying as trans and then being transferred to female prisons.
	I know that many of you are aware of that issue.
	I know that this is a great political divide.
	But when you hear a judge say it's not activism to believe these things, to use preferred pronouns, I agree with her.
	It is not activism.
	It is the entire worldview of the left.
	If someone were to ask you, you jaywalked.
	Did you do it because you're an activist?
	You'd be like, no, I did it to cross the street.
	But no, you knew you were breaking the law and jaywalking is illegal.
	You're an activist.
	You'd say, no, I was crossing the street.
	You see, in a world where jaywalking is completely forbidden and nobody does, the assumption that when a radical group arises that espouses the desire to jaywalk, You're an activist.
	But what I am trying to convey with this argument is that for this woman, this judge, who lives entirely in the world that gender identity is biological sex, she doesn't think she's an activist.
	She is living this reality.
	For her to say that this individual who now identifies as a woman is a she is not an action that she believes is changing politics, influencing politics.
	She believes it's a fact matter of law.
	What does that mean?
	Well, activism is typically about changing things, right?
	If you were a judge and you said the individual jaywalked, you get a ticket.
	Is that being an activist?
	No, that's the law.
	That's how she sees the world.
	So understand that when Ted Cruz and Kennedy are saying, you did this outrageous thing, which flies in the face of modern American sensibilities, and then she says, no I didn't.
	I'm not an activist, that's just the law.
	What you need to understand is, the left faction in this country, and the younger generations increasingly hyper-polarized, they view this as the absolute law.
	They view it as set and done, not an argument, nothing to be fought over.
	Understand what that means for this country.
	Understand what that means for your views on whether a man who abused children I don't have the answers here for you other than I actually have interesting opinions on this one as to how we deal with this and what we should be doing.
	But my point here is to highlight this distinction that is happening that has happened.
	Now, of course, this country would be better off were it not hyper-polarized, and I believe that there is a solution because, as I've been discussing the issue of political debates on X, there always is a counter.
	There always is an alternative, and the alternative is this.
	We have to build culture.
	We need to make sure that Ted Cruz and people like him, who are saying, this is activism, are the dominant culture, so that we can recognize dramatic political changes as exactly what they are, activism, and have some stabilizing force to protect women and children.
	Let me play for you, first, the video from Ted Cruz.
	I could read the quotes, but I want to play the video for you, and you can hear for yourself.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Well, Judge Netburn, I want to continue on this line of questioning.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		In your court, what matters more, the rights of individuals or your political ideology?
unidentified		I apply the law to the facts.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		I asked a question, which matters more?
unidentified		My political ideology doesn't matter at all.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so I don't believe you.
		And I think this case demonstrates that you are willing to subjugate the rights of individuals to satisfy your political ideology.
		This case involves a male defendant, Who raped a nine-year-old boy.
		Was he guilty of that?
unidentified		Yes, the petitioner pled guilty to that.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so he raped a nine-year-old boy.
		He also raped a 17-year-old girl.
		Was he guilty of that?
unidentified		He pled guilty.
unidentified		The petitioner pled guilty to that crime as well.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		So was he guilty?
unidentified		I hope so, because she pled guilty to it.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Notice how she just switched pronouns.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		She said he, he pled guilty, then later she.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		He was a he when he did this.
unidentified		That's correct.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		And also criminal deviant conduct, which the record doesn't disclose what that was exactly.
		Then, after serving in prison, Mr. McClain was released for parole, but then violated the terms of parole by having internet and was sent back to prison.
		One year after being released again, he was convicted of having child pornography, is that correct?
unidentified		I'm unclear on exactly the time frame that you're at, but the petitioner was convicted of distributing child pornography.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Child pornography that was images of adults violently raping children.
unidentified		Abhorrent conduct.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		For which there are real victims.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		And this individual, six foot two, Biologically a man.
		A minute ago you said that when this man decided that he was a she, you said this individual was, quote, I wrote it down, sober and entirely a female.
		That phrase struck me as remarkable.
		Did this individual have male genitalia?
unidentified		I think what I said, or at least what I... That is a verbatim quote.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Entirely a female.
unidentified		Sorry, what I meant to say was hormonally a female.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Okay, but that's not entirely.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Did this individual have male genitalia?
unidentified		Yes.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		So you took a 6'2", serial rapist, serial child rapist, with male genitalia, and he said, you know, I'd like to be in a women's prison.
		And your answer was, that sounds great to me.
		Let me ask you something.
		The other women in that prison, do they have any rights?
unidentified		Is that a question you're asking me?
unidentified		Yes.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		The other women in that prison, do they have any rights?
unidentified		Of course.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Do they have the right not to have a six-foot-two man who is a repeat serial rapist put in as their cellmate?
unidentified		Senator Cruz, I considered the facts presented to me and I reached a decision based on what the law is.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		I asked you a question.
		I asked you a question.
		Do they have a right not to have a six-foot-two man who is a serial rapist put in as their cellmate?
		Do those women have a right to that?
unidentified		Every person who's incarcerated has the right to be safe in their space.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Okay, I will stress the point that I am making in this segment is I hope you understand.
		This woman genuinely believes she is applying the law as the law prescribes.
		It's not activism.
		This is accepted as fact.
		Now, of course, you, my friends, will strongly disagree.
		And I think there's better solutions for this.
		One, I do think it's important to consider this.
		The individual in question, the serial offender, should this individual have properly undergone hormonal treatments, will effectively have been rendered incapable, as it were, but considering the political nature, considering any concern that anyone might have over risks, and to the safety of individuals in general, right?
		Yet we probably shouldn't put biological males in prisons with females regardless of whether they're taking hormones.
		And perhaps the answer is special wings of prisons?
		So, you know, just there you go, I guess?
		The idea that we're going to be able to accommodate every single identity disorder listed in the DSM-5 properly in prisons is an absurdity.
		What I mean to say is We're not going to make... I often like to use body dysmorphia and pica as examples also listed in the DSM-5 alongside gender dysphoria.
		Somebody who eats pennies, yet we won't give them any, but they might start eating things and we'll try to stop them, but they're in the same prison.
		Someone who believes that they should be an amputee.
		This is body dysmorphic disorder.
		This is body dysmorphia.
		We're not going to let them do that.
		We cannot create special prisons and special circumstances for everyone who is affected by a DSM-5 mental disorder.
		It is just not possible.
		But again, I stress, the reason I bring this up is, as we're moving into the future, and I think I have this, this is a story that we've covered a couple times the other day, and I'll only cover lightly in this context.
		They say 58% of Gen Z and Millennials believe Civil War is likely.
		You've got, then, Gen X, 46%, Boomers, 34%, and the Silent Generation, 19%.
		Do you get it?
		The older a person is, the less likely they are to believe civil war is possible.
		In fact, women are the majority who think civil war is likely.
		When the Silent Generation and the Boomers pass on and are no longer voting or involved in modern society, you will have Gen X.
		You will have Millennials.
		Gen Alpha will likely agree with Millennials.
		Why?
		Younger people are more radicalized and live in entirely different worlds.
		And I believe a large product of this comes from the Chinese Communist Party's manipulations of our government, of our culture, TikTok particularly.
		But it's also just social media in general.
		The algorithms drove people to this degree of hyperpolarization.
		And now you have a judge.
		I believe she believes this.
		She thinks, what do you mean?
		That's just the law.
		Here's Kennedy questioning the same woman.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		Do you remember an inmate named William McClain, also known as July Justine Shelby?
unidentified		Yes, I know who you're referring to.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		OK.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		Mr. McClain raped a child, didn't he?
unidentified		30 years ago, the petitioner in the habeas case before me Did he rape a child?
		He pled guilty to that crime.
		Yes, it's a point.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		And then he raped a 17... He raped a little boy, right?
unidentified		I believe that's correct.
unidentified		I believe he pled guilty to two acts of sexual violence.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		And then he raped a 17-year-old girl, right?
unidentified		Again, this case was handled by the state court in Indiana, but I believe... I'm just asking you the facts.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		I believe... Don't stall on me now.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		Did he rape a 17-year-old girl or not after raping a 9-year-old boy?
unidentified		I believe that's what he pled guilty to.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		Okay, and then he went to prison, didn't he?
unidentified		Yes.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		And then he came out and he sent child porn, basically adults raping little children, to another sex offender.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		And he was sent back to prison, right?
unidentified		The petitioner pled guilty to... Was he sent back to prison?
		Well, that case was in the federal system, so... Was he sent back to prison?
		Yes, this time to federal prison.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
		And then he decided to transition, and he became a female and started going by July Justine Shelby.
		Is that right?
		Yes.
		And Ms.
		Shelby said, I don't want to go to a male prison.
		I want to go to a female prison.
		And the Board of Prisons said, What planet did you parachute in from?
		You're going to a male prison.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		I don't think they said exactly that.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		And you sent him to a female prison, didn't you?
		You said that the Board of Prisons was trying to violate Ms.
		Shelby, former Mr. McLean's constitutional rights, didn't you?
unidentified		I issued a report and recommendation to the district judge recommending that the district judge transfer the Petitioner to a women's facility.
unidentified		The district judge adopted that recommendation.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		You said the Board of Prisons was trying to violate Ms.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		Shelby's, Mr. McLean's constitutional rights, didn't you?
unidentified		So I based my decision on the facts that were presented to me in the record evidence.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		But it wasn't that your ruling?
unidentified		I recommended finding that under Estelle v. Gamble.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		Why won't you admit that was your ruling?
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		Are you ashamed of it today?
unidentified		I'm not.
		I'm answering the question.
		I applied Estelle v. Gamble.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		But was that your ruling?
unidentified		My recommendation was that the petitioner's serious medical needs were being denied by keeping her in a men's facility.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		A violation of the Eighth Amendment, right?
unidentified		That's correct.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		And how big was Ms.
		Shelby, Mr. McClain?
unidentified		I don't have a specific recollection.
unidentified		Your colleague just suggested that she was more than six feet tall.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		And you told the Board of Prisons, well, she'll be okay.
		The other women in the female prison will be okay because it's only hypothetical that Ms.
		Shelby, Mr. McLean would re-offend again.
		After he's already raped a nine-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl and has been sending child porn through the mail.
		You said there's no chance he'll re-offend again.
		Did you say that?
unidentified		Senator Kennedy, I based my decision on the record.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		But am I right?
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		Did you conclude that?
unidentified		I don't have a specific recollection of that.
unidentified		I did recommend that After finding a constitutional violation?
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		What were you thinking in saying it's only hypothetical that she would re-offend?
unidentified		The facts of the case were that the petitioner had last engaged in a contact offense 30 years ago.
		The petitioner had not engaged in any contact offense.
		In addition, the medical evidence made clear that for the last five years, the petitioner was Sober and hormonally entirely a female and there was no evidence.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		The Board of Prisons didn't agree with you.
		I'm going to run out of time here.
		You're really a political activist, aren't you?
unidentified		I am not, sir.
john kennedy ▲ ● ▼		But your record demonstrates otherwise.
unidentified		I disagree.
		I apply the law to the facts and come to a fair decision.
		All of my decisions that have been appealed, particularly this one, the district judge adopted my report and recommendation in full and the government did not move This is your world.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		This is half the country.
		She says it's not activism.
		So this hearing was yesterday.
		She says it was not activism.
		It was not activism.
		Because the judge agreed, there was no stay, that's it.
		The warden disagreed.
		What do you think happens as we move forward in a society like this?
		Do you think that Trump supporters, right-wing populists, are going to be like, we accept this?
		Of course not.
		Cruz and Kennedy hereby show they view this as political activism seeking to revolutionize and change our way of life.
		To this woman, she outright firmly believes this is normal.
		The worldviews are bifurcated.
		I do not understand how there could be anyone who would suggest That there will be an amicable compromise in a situation like this.
		Either the male can be in the female prison or they can't.
		Both sides, they refuse to accept the other.
		So what is the outcome?
		Honestly, I don't know.
		Some say federalism is the answer.
		Let the states be the states to avoid conflict.
unidentified		Perhaps.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		The problem is, the politics reaches the highest level.
		And this is the federal level.
		And when you have a federal court system, where in some federal districts, the judges there believe leftist, far-left cult ideas, and some have right-wing ideas.
		You can't have a legal system!
		I gotta tell you, man.
		When dealing with some of the BS we've dealt with running a company like this, particularly legal issues, and this has probably been true for a while, but it's worse now.
		Hey, someone stole something from us and we want to sue.
		Okay, well, we recommend you sue here because...
		That judge is a MAGA judge and you'll win in two seconds.
		If you sue there, it's a leftist judge and you'll lose in two seconds.
		Or I should say, did I misspeak?
		With the MAGA judge, you win in two seconds.
		With the leftist judge, you lose.
		Because they don't care.
		They don't care about the facts of the case.
		They care that you're on the wrong side.
		You're just a bigot and a liar.
		They care that they want to empower their faction.
		Now, unfortunately for us, on the right, you go to a judge who is a constitutionalist, and they'll try to apply the law fairly.
		You might lose.
		This is the left's wager.
		If you're a leftist cult member, you win.
		If you're on the right, and you believe in America and the Constitution, you'll get a fair hearing, which means you can lose too.
		There's the wager.
		You effectively have a 25% chance to win.
		You take out jurisdiction, you go to a court where you've got a real judge who believes in this country, eh, 50-50.
		Prove your case, maybe you'll win.
		Woke judge?
		You're gonna lose.
		You're not woke.
		That's what we are seeing everywhere.
		Take a look at what's going on in New York with Donald Trump.
		This is the machine right now.
		And it is terrifying.
		I hope that come November, I hope, That we do see the off-ramp.
		Donald Trump gets elected.
		He starts firing.
		He starts eliminating people from these bureaucracies.
		We see impeachment of many of these judges who hold absurd, anti-constitutional views.
		And then things get cleaned up.
		But I'm not so convinced.
		I'm not so convinced, unfortunately.
		Because what, again, I wanted to stress with this segment is that this judge is convicted.
		She does not believe she is an activist.
		She is not sitting there thinking, I'm going to change the system.
		She is sitting there thinking, I applied the law as it is written.
		And you know what?
		She might not be wrong.
		Many states, the federal government, the law has been applied in this way.
		Now I wonder for this judge.
		She certainly comes off as a leftist.
		I don't know enough about her.
		For all I know, she's sitting there thinking, if I deny this, it gets appealed, it goes to a judge above me, and then I look bad.
		I don't want that on my record.
		The law says this is what we're supposed to do, so we do it.
		She keeps saying, I applied the law, I applied the law.
unidentified		Hmm.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Well, I'll tell you this.
		If it were me, and you can see in certain states the law does protect certain ideologies, I'd respond with, my hands are tied.
		The state passed a law saying this is how we apply it.
		I think it's wrong.
		But as to how the legislative bodies have decided the state will be run, I applied it as they've written it.
		I don't think it would be appropriate for me as a judge to ignore Legislation.
		Because of my own personal opinions.
		If you take issue with what these prisons in the state is doing, then please speak up more.
		But she didn't do that.
		Because she genuinely believes.
		When she used the pronouns for the person.
		It's fascinating.
		She believes this is the world.
		And there will be more of this.
		And it will be more pronounced in the next several years.
		2028 will be the first year Gen Alpha begins to vote.
		I imagine it'll be interesting.
		Next segment's coming up at 4 p.m.
		on this channel.
		Thanks for hanging out, and we'll see you all then.
		Have any of you noticed that, like, the economy is not so good?
		I've noticed it, because I run a business.
		And so we can see from the slightest and most minor of retractions to the greatest boons.
		To put it simply, the average person experiences a paycheck problem.
		They're making the same amount of money, and the groceries are becoming more expensive.
		This means they spend less.
		Or actually, I took that back.
		It means they're spending probably the same amount or more, but they're getting less, is what I mean to say.
		You go to a grocery store, your milk is now more expensive, your eggs are more expensive, gas is more expensive, and you're not getting a raise.
		So this is funny from NBC News.
		Most Americans falsely think the U.S.
		is in a recession.
		Poll shows.
		Yeah, it's stagflation.
		It's fascinating to me that you have the general consensus of people being like, the economy is screwed.
		And then the media keeps saying, everything is fine.
		Everything is not fine.
		In the large, in the bigger picture here at TimCast, when we do ad sales and stuff like that, oh boy, let me tell you.
		When COVID first hit, ad rates dropped off like 80%.
		And nobody's buying ads anymore.
		Businesses were shut down.
		And most of the ad revenue you generate on a platform like YouTube is small business.
		So we're here in West Virginia, for instance.
		I see an ad on the TV for Riley Moore when he was running.
		He won, by the way.
		Congratulations.
		We're really excited about that.
		And he'll be the first member of Congress who can land a kickflip to fakie.
		Probably a lot more than that to be.
		He's good at skateboarding.
		But his ad comes on.
		It's a local ad.
		He's done advertising outside of West Virginia.
		And it's only in the West Virginia... I think the second district is our district.
		That ad doesn't appear anywhere else.
		But that means those channels are making money off that ad.
		And that spend might have been small.
		It might have been a few thousand bucks, who knows?
		The ad that appears on the TV costs one penny.
		When I look at our ad revenue, YouTube programmatic, you may have noticed this month, we've had some ads on this channel.
		Yeah, we're doing direct sales.
		Because the programmatic little guy ads are evaporating.
		That's right.
		Now, our company here is built off of TimCast memberships and other sponsorships, so go to TimCast.com, join us, become a member, if you like the work that I do, the work we're doing at TimCast, and you want to see more of it.
	Because that's a stabilizing factor.
	But I tell you this, we've had members resign it because they can't afford it anymore, and it's $10 a month.
	And I tell you this right now, guys, it's $10 a month.
	If you can't afford to buy groceries, you should not be buying TimCast membership.
	Now, I do think media work, commentary, all this stuff is important, but it's way after the fact.
	First and foremost, feed yourself, feed your family, pay your rent.
	If you're able to, then I do think A show like this is probably more important than, I don't know, buying the extra beer, I guess.
	But I do think you're better off, and it's fair to say, you deserve your beer.
	You deserve your beer.
	But, you know, when we used to do non-profit fundraising, we'd be like, look, skip one beer this month and become a member to support the work that we're doing.
	So I'll say that to you right now, if you can forego but a single beer, I mean, I don't know, beer's not like $10, like $5, but it's two beers, to be honest.
	But I don't mean to get into that spiel.
	My main point is, I know everybody's hurting.
	We can see it.
	We can see it.
	And they're saying, you're wrong!
	Okay.
	Okay, NBC News.
	According to a new Garden-Harris poll, 56% of respondents said they believe the U.S.
	is in a recession.
	I wonder why.
	Is it because they can't afford to buy groceries?
unidentified		There you go.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		JPMorgan Forecaster issues grim warning about the state of the stock market this year, and it could be cataclysmic.
		Analyst Marko Kolonovich warned the stock market may become volatile.
		This is the game they play.
		Joe Biden.
		Democrats.
		You know, everyone does this.
		I'm not going to single out Democrats.
		The economy's great, look at the market.
		And then the out-of-power party says, the market, look at the people, they can't afford their bills!
		And then the other party comes in, and the market's bad, but the groceries are good, and they're like, the market's terrible, what's going on?
unidentified		It's like, yeah, but people can afford to eat.
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		Right now, people can't afford to eat.
		But the market is good.
		So the corporate press and the Democrats are all saying, everything's great!
		Joe Biden falsely coming out and saying, people got money to spend!
		What did he claim?
		He claimed that Americans had COVID money?
		I'm like, bro, that was years ago!
		That was three years ago, bro!
		Where you livin'?
		Dude, I see it.
		In the prices.
		Okay?
		It's funny because you get these people, they'll comment on like IRL or on these videos and they'll be like, Tim's rich!
		He doesn't understand the price of goods.
		Dude, I have to order food for a studio with 40 some odd employees.
		I have to buy milk, bread, and eggs.
		We, on Fridays, we buy food for the company because we have like those Friday meetings.
		We do the morning show, then the company gets together.
		I think that's incredibly important.
		To have that dedicated moment once a week for everybody to be in the same room, eating, talking, sharing ideas, building community for the business.
		I'm the one buying all of that stuff.
		I'm the one saying like, okay we're gonna get these snacks, these snacks, and these snacks.
		And then what do I see?
		And I'm like, how much?
		So the big thing was, we buy these salami packs.
		We don't buy them anymore, because we're not near that same grocery store.
		Weiss, by the way.
		I think it's called Weiss, but everyone, you know, it's Weiss because it's German or something.
		But they had these salami packs, and they were like five bucks.
		A couple years ago.
		We went in several months ago, I told the story, to buy the same thing.
		We get big packs, everybody loves them.
		You dip them in, you know, some kind of cheese sauce or something.
		It's a keto snack.
		And they were like $13 each.
		And I was like, wait, wait, wait, is this a mistake?
		We were ringing them up, and I was like, wait, wait, how much is it?
unidentified		$400?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		What?
		Yeah, the salami packs were $13 each.
		And I was like, holy... What?
		Dude.
		Now look.
		We buy food.
		We have it on the snack shelf in the fridge.
		You're at work.
		You want to have a snack.
		We want to have snacks available for people.
		We want people to be able to eat healthy things.
		So we have Fair Life protein milk.
		We've got protein powder.
		My attitude is this.
		If the people who work here are healthy, so we do the workout class once a week for everybody, and if they're physically fit and they're eating healthier, they're going to be working better, feeling better, more productive, they'll live longer, it's just all around better for everybody.
		And we can see it.
		It's ripping us to shreds.
		And it's a bummer, too, because, like, We want to be able to have great snacks.
		The one thing I'll say is we're not doing the alcohol anymore.
		So at the last TimCast Studio, we had this excellent alcohol shelf with really fancy stuff.
		Aside from the fact it's too expensive, nobody was drinking.
		And you know what?
		I respect it.
		People would come in and we'd say something like, You know, we've got these really fancy whiskeys, or scotch, and then people gradually started saying no more and more often, to the point where it's just been sitting there and we haven't done a restock in a year.
		And I'm like, I don't think we need to buy any more of this stuff.
		Nobody wants it.
		Everybody wants to be healthy.
		Daily Mail reports, a JP Morgan analyst has warned the stock market could become volatile despite record highs.
		The company's chief marketing strategist, Marco Kulanovic, issued a note on Monday forecasting that the S&P 500 could fall 20% to 4,200 by the end of the year.
unidentified		Whoa!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		And that the Dow Jones, he says, he urged investors not to turn bullish despite the Dow Jones hitting 40,000 for the first time last week.
		Yo, in like 2020 it was $20,000!
		That's not a good thing!
		The argument is, your 401ks are way up.
		The market's doing great.
		Yo.
		You could buy a cheeseburger for a dollar four years ago at McDonald's.
		Now it's like four bucks.
		How's that market doubling doing for you?
		His reasoning is interest rates are likely to stay in a restrictive territory for longer, combined with lower income consumers showing signs of weakness and high levels of geopolitical uncertainty.
		With very high equity valuations, we do not see equities as attractive investments at the moment we don't see a reason to change our stance.
		But he's the exception among analysts.
		I'm going to tell you guys.
		Go watch the news in 2008.
		Pull up the old news articles.
		Pull up the old TV hits.
unidentified		They're all saying, the economy is better than ever!
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		You're making money!
		And then, the Great Recession happened.
		Everybody got slammed.
		Their accounts were drained.
		But the media kept saying it was fine.
unidentified		Why?
tim pool ▲ ● ▼		They don't want to put people on TV who are going to tell you that things are bad because they don't want to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
		If they say the market's bad and people are going to panic, people start selling, the market starts declining, and then you create what you fear.
		So they don't like videos like this.
		But here's the reality, man.
		It's Bidenomics.
		It's Bidenflation.
		We know exactly what's going on in this country.
		And they're lying because they hate Trump.
		They're lying because they want war.
		They want to prop up our economy through the petrodollar and conquest.
		And Donald Trump wants to bring jobs back and secure our borders.
		I think that if you get the American populist dream, life will be harder.
		I do.
		But I don't think a hard life is a bad life.
		Having to wake up and work to survive, to learn how to take care of animals or grow your own food is a good thing.
		This idea that we can sit in our lounge chairs growing fatter and eating greasy, salty, garbage, sodium benzoate foods forever is ridiculous.
		I think people are happier and healthier when they work a little bit more for their own survival.
		I really do.
		Now that doesn't mean that the people who are having hardship today deserve more hardship.
		What I'm saying is we have too many fat cats in this country entitled wealthy urban liberal types who don't do anything and are burning the system to the ground because they don't want to work.
		I'm not an economist so I have no prediction for you.
		I can just tell you now everybody's hurting and we can see it and we can feel it.
		Media lies?
		Hilarious.
		Next segment's coming up at 6 p.m.
		on this channel.
		Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
		Assassin's Creed.
		A very long-standing video game franchise where you play an assassin, and you go around and you dispatch of certain historical individuals.
		I think the last one I played was in Italy?
		Or was it France?
		Oh no, there's the American Revolution one, I think.
		You play like a Native American or something?
		It's a fun game.
		Great mechanics.
		It's been around for a long, what is it, like 20 years now or something?
		Well, my friends, the latest installment of Assassin's Creed, which for those that aren't familiar, these, uh, the series takes place in various time periods.
		They have like a pirate one.
		Okay, so, in Italy, you play, uh, what is it, Ezio?
		Was that his name?
		You play an Italian guy!
		And in the American Revolution, I think it was a Native American guy.
		Yeah, that'll make sense.
		Now, in the latest one, you're in feudal Japan, and apparently it's a tall black man.
		Okay, my friends, I got no issue.
		With video game characters or anybody, diversity, like, you wanna make a video game called Black Samurai, like, that's fine.
		You wanna make a video game called Samurais, you know, and whatever, and it's a modern telling of the story, and there's a black man who becomes, that's fine too.
		But if your video game series is based on these specific time periods and these characters and this history, the idea that you would bring in diversity into it is considered widely to be pandering.
		Shout out to GPrime85 who mocked this.
		If you're not familiar with George Alexopoulos' work, he shows a comic where if you play Assassin's Creed, it's like after the assassin does the deed, you try to blend in with the crowd and disappear.
		And in his joke, it's like, everyone's like, who's done this?
		Quick, look for someone out of the ordinary.
		And there's like a six foot tall, a six foot five black man who clearly does not fit in fetal Japan.
		This is what people are upset about.
		In the American Revolution one, you played as a Native American guy.
		No one complained that you were playing a Native American guy in this game.
		It's fine.
		It makes sense.
		It works.
		But this is like, come on, man.
		Dude, I don't care if you want to make a video game with diverse characters, but don't make a historical piece, this game going through this history with these characters, and then introduce this weird, out-of-place diversity.
		I want to give a shout-out to...
		Apparently people are upset at the new Fairly OddParents.
		The Fairly OddParents new wish trailer, Cosmo and Wanda, have a young black girl as their new godchild.
	And I don't think this one is getting nearly as much negativity.
	It's not really that big a deal.
	But I did see that some people are like, what are they doing to Fairly OddParents?
	Oh, come on.
	What I will say is...
	I think the intro is offensive, because it's apparently like a hip-hop R&B version of the Fairly OddParents song, and it's like, come on, a little thick, don't you think?
	But like, the idea that they made a Fairly OddParents where Timmy Turner is no longer the kid who gets wishes, it's a kid's show, right?
	Timmy Turner was a little white kid with buck teeth.
	And now they have a little black girl.
	And it's like, yeah, that's fine.
	Are people really mad about that?
	I'm like, I don't care.
	They could have made the character Asian, black, white, boy, girl, whatever.
	It's a show about fairies in the United States.
	That's it.
	I don't know, it's silliness.
	But I want to stress, it's not like this story is actually causing any real outrage.
	But I did see people ragging on it, like, nobody wanted this, and I'm like, dude, I don't care.
	Take a look at this.
	So this is from Bounding Into Comics.
	Every major YouTube upload of Assassin's Creed Shadow's trailer holds negative like to dislike ratio.
	Official Ubisoft version at 600k dislikes and counting.
	Faced with limited avenues with which to express their discontent, fans unhappy with Ubisoft's decision to focus Assassin's Creed Shadow on a pop culture interpretation of the historical Yasuke Rather than any sort of native Japanese samurai, have left every major YouTube upload of the game's debut trailer with a negative like-to-dislike ratio.
	So it says, uh... Yasuke TBA awaits the delivery of a message from... Naoe?
	I'm not good with Japanese.
	And Assassin's Creed Shadows.
	Debuting to the world on May 15th, the trailer in question revealed that not only would the latest entry in the long-running action-adventure series be set in feudal Japan, But it would feature, as noted above, the African servant to a Jesuit missionary turned eventual retainer to Oda Nobunaga as one of its resident samurai protagonists.
	Unhappy with Ubisoft's blatant attempt at pandering, that the first East Asian entry into the franchise is,
	unlike its predecessors outside of Revelations and Black Flag,
	not allowed to wholly center its story on native heroes, certainly is eyebrow-raising, to say the least.
	Fans responded to the trailer's reveal by smashing the dislike button
	on whichever respective upload of the trailer they were viewing.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I am 5% Japanese, and that means I am allowed to be 100% outraged
	that we are not getting a Japanese character.
	I am 20% Korean, and Koreans and Japanese people don't like each other.
	Alright, anyway.
	As revealed, courtesy of the Return YouTube Dislikes extension, at IGN, the trailer, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh Unsurprisingly, the bloodbath is even worse on Ubisoft's own official channels.
	With Ubisoft Latino America's upload facing 2.9k likes to 25k dislikes, Brazil, they got only 285 likes.
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		And Ubisoft Japan, on the receiving end of a massive ratio of 4k to 40k dislikes. 90%.
		And in truly driving the point home, the upload of Assassin's Creed Shadow Trailer made to Ubisoft's main English language channel is, at the time of writing, sitting on an astonishingly terrible and franchise-low ratio of 267k to 606k dislikes.
		Rest assured that number is continually climbing.
		You know, it's just so annoying that they do stuff like this, man.
		Look, I actually am part Japanese, alright?
		So here's my story, and I know people are always joking like, Tim's mixed race, whatever.
		So I'm 20% Korean.
		Growing up, we were just core to Korea.
		That's all it was.
		We didn't really know the Asian background.
		But then following a DNA test through my family, we learned we were actually 5% Japanese as well.
		And anybody who knows the history of those places immediately goes, ooh.
		When you hear that's the case, the funniest thing someone said to me was, 5% Japanese?
		And I was like, yeah.
		And they're like, that implies it happened twice.
		If you know what that means, I hope you're laughing.
		I think it's funny, too, because whenever people make Asian jokes to me, that's fine.
		I think it's funny.
		It's like a whatever.
		And so I will say this.
		I would love to play a feudal Japan Assassin's Creed game with Japanese heroes.
		I... they don't... they didn't give us one!
		I mean, there is a Japanese woman, and then there's a black man, and my attitude is simply this.
		I don't care.
		Like, Idris Elba played Heimdall in Avengers, and a lot of people got mad because they were like, Heimdall is a Norse god, a big white guy, and you got a black man to play him.
		I'm like, yo, I don't care about that.
		Like, I don't care.
		Idris Elba's awesome, and he did great in the role, and I don't care.
		It's make-believe.
		We're playing, you know what I mean?
		The thing about Avengers is it's a bunch of superheroes.
		It's a goofy waste of time.
		Assassin's Creed is only slightly different in that these are actually typically referencing real historical moments and letting people live as heroes from that time period in that region.
		Let me put it this way.
		I am, I'm just going to say, you are racist Ubisoft.
		Because I got to play an Italian guy, but I'm not Italian.
		I got to play a Native American guy, but I'm not a Native American.
		Where's my Japanese guy, huh?
		You know, I'm over here.
		You know, I want to play video games too, but I don't get... Yo, why don't you do Assassin's Creed in Africa?
		Not even being facetious.
		That would be base AF.
		You could do Ghana.
		They're like a massive empire.
		You could do ShakaZulu.
		You got awesome stories down there where I'd love to play those games.
		Why do you got to do this weird diversity nonsense?
		It's just... It's just... Come on, man.
		It's, come on, man.
		Now, I will stress, I really don't care all that much.
		I think it is a bit silly.
		I have no problem playing the game with or without these characters.
		It's just that people feel like it's pandering, and it's not... This is what people wanted to play.
		They wanted to play an actual Japanese hero in a Japanese time period.
		You make all these white characters for all these white time periods.
		You make Arabic character for an Arabic time period.
		Native American in an American time period.
		And then what do we get in Asia?
		You make it a black guy?
		No, no, no, hold on a minute.
		How come you can't make an Africa Assassin's Creed with many black characters?
		I don't understand why that's an issue.
		Why does it have to be hand-me-down?
	I think it's racist to make it so that if you want to play as a black character, it's in Japan.
	Y'all couldn't make Kenya, Egypt, You couldn't have made, like I mentioned, Ghana?
	There's a ton of history in Africa that you could do some really amazing Assassin's Creed stuff.
	They don't do it?
	Whatever, man.
	I will stress this as well.
	I don't think it's the biggest deal in the world.
	It's just silly how they always do stuff like this.
	So here we go.
	According to a former company contractor who worked on the pitch, the game would have focused on a young monk Yamauchi Taka, as he fought to keep the Sword of Eden, which had been lost following the assassination of Oda Nobunaga, from the hands of the Templars.
	He wrote, I worked on some narrative elements for the Sengoku era of Japan for Assassin's Creed back in 2013 and 14 when I worked under contract in San Jose, Tokyo.
	I guess they tossed all that out for a black samurai and some cannon-destroying kunoichi boss?
	I'm so glad I'm not in that industry anymore.
	I guess it's only fitting that my contributions to these studios vanish like everything else I worked on.
	Every MMO shooter I have worked on has been shut down.
	Oof, brutal.
	Here's a brief synopsis of the original story.
	The plot focused on the young monk, Yamauchi Taka, as the playable ancestor.
	Taka means hawk, to coincide with the then-naming convention of every playable hero being named after a bird of prey.
	No idea if that changed these newer disjointed games.
	The main conflict was about the Sword of Eden, Excalibur, Hanju Masamune, Genghis Khan's sword, etc., and how it had been given to its latest wielder, Oda Nobunaga, an unfair advantage in his conquest of Japan.
	And, uh, after Nobunaga is assassinated by Hattori Hanzo, Taka becomes a part of the Brotherhood, and under Hanzo is trained as an assassin, a shinobi.
	The Brotherhood try to transport the recovered sword out of Japan, but are beset by Jesuit Templar ships, and it's lost.
	To make matters worse, Hanzo is assassinated as he considers retirement as a monk.
	His lord, Tokugawa, Layasu charges Taka with finding the killer and recovering the sword.
	Despite Nobunaga's successor, Toyotomi Hideyoshi acquiring the sword and going on a rampage that extends into Korea.
	Hey!
	Taka steals the sword back and Mad Daimyo loses his power, pronouncing this wrong probably, weakening his campaign in Korea.
	Incensed by the theft, Toyotomi believes he was betrayed by the Templars and basically exterminates all the Jesuits in Japan.
	Taka infiltrates Toyotomi's castle and faces him in a battle, resulting in Toyotomi's death.
	The ambitious Daimyo is left to die as Taka slips away before his retainers could intercept him.
	The now-seasoned assassin spares Toyotomi's infant heir, knowing the clan has lost its teeth and will eventually wither without Hideyoshi.
	Leasu begins his ambitious power grab, demanding Taka and the Brotherhood give him the sword and help him wipe away Abstergo in Latin.
	All of his enemies from Japan to fully unite under his clan's banners, Taka and the Brotherhood decline and vanish into the shadows with the sword.
	Oh well.
	Black Samurai and Kunoichi it is.
	What a shame.
	Well, c'est la vie.
	Don't buy the game if you don't like it.
	They can do whatever they want.
	Here's my attitude.
	I ain't gonna cry over Black Samurai Assassin's Creed.
	If that's what they want to do, that's fine.
	That's fine.
	They're trying to target a market.
	I get it.
	If you don't want to play the game, please just don't play it.
	You know what I mean?
	People are going to complain.
	It's like, we wish Assassin's Creed carried on its trend of historical pieces with, you know, the people who lived there as the heroes.
	And I think they're being racist to black people.
	I think they're being racist to black people and to Asians.
	They could easily make an awesome Africa Assassin's Creed that everyone would play and be super excited for.
	They could have made a Japanese one with Japanese character that everyone could be excited for and play.
	Why can't people of Japanese background have a Japanese story?
	Why can't people of African background have an African story?
	Whatever, man.
	I'm half-kidding, by the way.
	I think it's silly that we're still in this era.
	But, you know, have fun, play your video games, and I meant to do this segment as something a little bit more chill, some levity.
	I talked about World War III this morning.
	Let's talk about things that don't really matter.
	Next segment's coming up tonight at 8 p.m.
	over at youtube.com slash TimCastIRL.

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