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All right, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to this beautiful Monday morning.
We got big news.
The Tim Walz stolen valor scandal is getting substantially worse with new videos and, interestingly, a written speech for Tim Walz published by the Minnesota government has him saying, I served the National Guard, one night I was at Bagram in Iraq and I saw the, whoa, whoa, hold on there a minute, first of all, Bagram is in Afghanistan, and what do you mean you served the National Guard in one night, York?
Some people are saying it's just assumptive manipulation.
Others have pointed out, and I'm sick of conservatives constantly giving the benefit of the doubt to people, they're like, well, you know, what he actually said was different from what the speech was, so even though the Minnesota government published this speech as the words of Tim Walz saying he was the National Guard and one night he was at Bagram, we can't call this one, and I'm like, guys, guys, guys, You listen to his actual speech, it was even worse.
He was like, I didn't get- I got to come home and see my daughter and some didn't, you know, and I was at Bagram and I saw this ceremony.
We know the game he's playing.
Tim Walz has lied about his rank.
He's made people to assume through manipulation.
He never said he was in Afghanistan, but he uses assumptive manipulation.
Language that would make a person infer that were he telling the truth, he was serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We got a ton of these videos popping up.
And it's creating a bit of a problem for Democrats as they were preparing to do a bunch of press events, speeches, etc.
And all of a sudden, they're backing away.
All they've done so far is told the press that Tim Walz misspoke about saying he was in war.
Misspoke about saying he was in war.
How many times?
How many times?
Because if your criticism and your admission is that he should not have said, quote, I carried a weapon of war or carrying weapons of war in war, You know what he's doing there.
With that language, he's saying, I was in war.
I was securing bases in Europe.
Yeah, but he's trying to make you think he was in Afghanistan.
Every single move he made.
So when the Kamala campaign, the Harris campaign says he misspoke, and that's what they're telling the New York Times.
He misspoke.
That would imply that every single time he's falsely implied he was in combat, he was misspeaking.
Well, this has knocked them off base.
Now, the interesting thing is, of course, we're seeing prediction markets say Kamala's going to win.
We're seeing the polls suggest that Kamala is ahead.
But understand, in the swing states, Donald Trump is still winning.
And Nate Silver, I couldn't find this, so I could be wrong about this.
You guys can fact check me.
I'm pretty sure I was reading something from Nate Silver or one of these pollsters saying, if Kamala loses Pennsylvania, her chances of winning the Electoral College falls down to single digits.
Meaning, if she doesn't get PA, she's out.
And then she went and ditched Shapiro for Tim Waltz, who they clearly didn't vet.
They had to edit their website, effectively apologize to the press.
Check this out.
Tim Waltz printed challenge coins.
I've got one right here.
Shout out to the amazing Corey Mills.
I've got his challenge coin right here.
Challenge coins are basically just coins you produce that represent your ideas, your values, and who you are.
And then you give them out.
And it's a really great one from Corey Mills.
It's one of the best I've ever gotten because it's got this little bump in the middle that spins.
It makes it spin on the table.
So that's besides the point.
He issued a challenge coin with a command sergeant major, I believe the rank was, which he was not.
And he said it over and over again.
He lied about his rank.
They had to edit this.
It's getting pretty wild.
So we'll talk about that.
Then we got this wild story.
The new attack they're doing on Donald Trump is that he called Kamala Harris a female dog.
Oh, heavens!
Can't have that.
Can't have that.
And we'll talk about the campaign strategies as it relates to the scandal here, and ultimately what they're trying to pull off with J.D.
Vance and some other news around there.
I trolled too close to the sun.
MSNBC on TV was like, Joe Rogan, Tim Pool, and Nick Fuentes have said they won't be supporting Trump now.
Oh, they did backpedal a little bit.
These people are incorrigible.
But Joe Rogan never said he was supporting Trump in the first place.
I digress.
So that's pretty funny.
And then we got a couple stories that are pretty funny for you.
A trans man, which is a female, who is gay, meaning likes males, and was pregnant, got an abortion, gives this statement in an interview with Taylor Hanson of Tenet Media about how she's worried, I'm sorry, he's worried he will lose the right to, as a female, be with males and have abortions.
Heavens, heavens.
And then, you know what?
I don't know if I wanted to get into this one, but we will.
The Washington Post has published a story about me and the right-wing takeover of a skate park.
What I love about this story is that the people who are angry with me about the skate park thing that's been going on is not the locals.
Why?
Because I'm a local.
We live here.
That's why I wanted the property and wanted to build a skate park, because I like skateboarding and I've built a skate park.
We have employees who work here and contractors who live in Martinsburg.
The locals have been helping us fix it, and the people who don't live there are like, we're angry and Tim Pool's gonna ban gay people.
So when I say it's these woke people who are upset, the locals don't seem to care.
I was just skating there the other day, and then you have the Washington Post, right?
A right-wing YouTuber bought the park, and they're trying to play this game that's not political.
So let's talk about a culture war, baby.
We'll get into all that.
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But let's not waste any more time, let's jump into the news here.
We got this one from the post-millennial breaking.
Former battalion commander of National Guard unit Tim Waltz served and speaks out, blasts Waltz amidst stolen valor controversy.
Quote, when the demands of service and leadership at the highest level got real, he chose another path.
Hashtag not my CSM.
Not my command sergeant major.
From Libby Emmons, the former battalion commander of the National Guard unit in which Tim Walz has spoken out in a Facebook post, slamming Walz for his behavior as a serviceman.
Feeling a need to just say this, John Kolb wrote, I do not regret that Tim Walz retired early from the Minnesota Army National Guard, did not complete the sergeant's major academy, broke his enlistment contract, or did not successfully complete any assignment as a sergeant major.
Wow!
Really?
The evidence that I have for you today, the video clips, the statements, we've got a post from the Minnesota government of this dude using manipulative language to trick people into thinking he served in the Middle East.
We have the full post here. I'd like to read it for you.
And then we'll talk about, ladies and gentlemen, the evidence that I have for you today,
the video clips, the statements. We've got a post from the Minnesota government of this dude
using manipulative language to trick people into thinking he served in the Middle East.
Let's just say that, because he said Iraq, which is silly.
He says, I do not regret that Tim Walz retired early from the Minnesota Army National Guard,
did not complete the sergeant major sergeant's major academy, broke his enlistment contract,
or did not successfully complete any assignment as a sergeant major.
Unwittingly, he got out of the way for better leadership.
Thomas Behrens was the right leader at the right time.
He sacrificed to answer the call, leaving his family, business, and farming partner brother to train, lead, and care for soldiers.
He earned the privilege of being called Command Sergeant Major.
Like a great leader, he ran toward and not away from the guns.
I have no opinion of Mr. Waltz's decision to leave service at the time that he did.
It was his right to retire early.
I also have no criticism of his service as an E-7 and E-8 in the MNA, Minnesota Army National Guard.
By all accounts, and on the record, he was a competent chief of firing battery, gunnery sergeant, and first sergeant.
I cannot say the same of his service sitting frocked in the CSM chair.
He did not earn the rank or successfully complete any assignments as an E9.
It is an attempt, I'm sorry, is it an affront, to the non-commissioned officer corps.
that he continues to glom onto the title.
I can sit in the cockpit of an airplane, it does not make me a pilot.
Similarly, when the demands of service and leadership at the highest level got real,
he chose another path.
Let's just take the word from the people who actually served with him,
and many, some have called him a traitor.
Now I'm going to defend him a little bit, a little bit.
I respect the service, I genuinely do.
Who am I, as some dude who sits on the internet and complains, to criticize a man who served 24 years?
And there are some veterans who are criticizing, and by all means, you're allowed to.
I do not feel that I have the right to criticize the service.
Many people have come out and said that he was just going for a meal ticket, it was a paycheck, when times got tough he fled and that proves it wasn't legitimate.
Those are the statements of other people that, and I know it's funny me saying it, but like this is the point I'm trying to make.
I respect that he enlisted.
That's it.
Now, if you want to talk about lying after the fact as a member of Congress, oh boy, I will absolutely criticize him as much as I can.
I'm not going to criticize a retirement because I don't know.
I don't know.
Some veterans are coming out defending him.
They really are.
They're saying, look, you know, choosing to retire is his right.
And others are criticizing him.
But J.D.
Vance criticized him for lying.
And that's it.
Lying.
And he did.
Now, I tell you, what does it mean to lie?
Well, when he said he was a command sergeant major, when he wasn't, I'm sorry, he says retired command sergeant major.
Not true.
That's just absolutely not the rank that he had.
So, a lot of people don't know this, and we're having this conversation.
For people who served, they know what E7, E8, E9 means.
The average person probably doesn't.
Those are the official numerical rankings for enlisted in the Army, or Army National Guard, or whatever.
So, there's, um, and far be it from me to try and explain this to anybody who actually knows better than I, but my clarification, just for those that aren't familiar, is E-8, that was his, like, the numerical rank, which is Sergeant Major, and then E-9 is Command Sergeant Major.
He was not an E-9.
He did not have that rank.
He says he did.
And you know what the funniest thing is, the funniest thing?
First, let me pull up this, uh, I got all these things.
Take a look at this from Bree A. Dale.
Hi, Tim Walton, Kamala Harris.
Just wondering, did you also misprint your rank as Command Sergeant Major on your Congressional Challenge coin?
So here is an image of enlisted ranks.
Private, Private First Class, Specialist, Corporal, Sergeant, Staff Sergeant, Sergeant First Class, Master Sergeant, First Sergeant, Sergeant Major, Command Sergeant Major, and Sergeant Major of the Army.
Take a look at the insignia right there, and you can see that the Sergeant Major rank for which Tim Waltz held has a star in it.
But when you look at Tim Waltz's challenge coin, as I mentioned, I have a challenge coin right here, okay?
This is Corey Mills.
Shout out to Corey Mills.
He's awesome.
We're huge fans.
He's a good dude.
I'm just showing his challenge coin because it's the one that I happen to have.
I also have one from Lauren Boebert.
Challenge coins are fun.
Yo, that's the Command Sergeant Major insignia!
unidentified
That is a rank he did not have!
tim pool
Some have said that's stolen valor.
Look, I don't know.
Legally, stolen valor is defined as claiming you earned a medal you did not earn.
Sure.
He's also worn a hat from the Green Beret.
I guess he was saying that, like, someone gave it to him, but others have said, like, you don't wear it.
I heard one story where a guy, I think it was Super Cheddar, said this.
They were gifted the hat, and they were walking around some town, and someone saluted him, and he immediately took the hat off and was like, oh no!
unidentified
I didn't mean it like that.
tim pool
Like it was a gift.
Tim Waltz should know better.
Take a look at this.
Why did he?
You know what?
Okay, so here's the point.
It's really funny because I was talking to my brother.
My brother actually was in the army.
He is a vet.
And he was like, the weird thing about this is people outside the army don't know what that symbol is.
Like they don't know what rank that represents.
If he put the star in it versus this, I guess it looks like wings or no, no, no.
Is it wheat with a star on it?
I can't tell.
It might be wheat.
I don't know.
He's like, no one's going to know the difference.
If he put the Sergeant Major rank on his challenge coin to an average person, it's a shrug.
So why lie here?
Well, that's not the worst.
That's not the worst of it.
The worst of it is when he claimed he was one of those who could have suffered mental health issues, that he was lucky to come home to his daughter, and others weren't.
It's like, bro, you were in Italy!
What was the worst thing that happened to you?
Someone accidentally gave you an Americano instead of a cold brew or something?
It's a stupid joke, by the way, but like, obviously he was doing real work in Europe.
And I don't mean to discredit that.
But don't compare.
Don't play these games.
Like, you know, I was on Bagram one day.
Yeah, when you were in Congress.
Not when you, he goes, I was in the National Guard.
And I came home, my daughter was two, and I came home, she was three, and not everybody got that, got to do that.
One night I was at Bagram, and I saw this ceremony, and it's like, ugh.
Let's play that game.
First of all, We got this from the New York Times.
Here we go.
Harris campaign says Waltz misspoke in a comment about his military service.
Oh, he misspoke!
The Democratic vice presidential nominee has come under attack from Republicans who have suggested that he overstated his military record and avoided combat.
unidentified
Suggested?
tim pool
He did overstate his military record!
He kept... I showed you the challenge coin!
What I love about this is when the media is like, without evidence, the Republicans are criticizing.
It's like, okay, dude.
There's a picture of his challenge coin.
I don't know, maybe someone made a fake one.
I really doubt it.
There's, uh, we've got, what else do we have?
What is this one?
Uh, here's Bree once again saying, the Harris-Waltz campaign has issued a statement on NBC News that he misspoke.
He misspoke for 19 years, it seems.
What is Waltz suggesting in this video connecting his service to veteran mental health crisis?
tim walz
Here we go.
tim pool
Listen to this, listen to this.
tim walz
Having been one of those that came back, we were in support of OEF, but being sitting in there with OEF, OIF veterans, when we came back, they showed us the horse whisperer and told us to be nice when we went home.
tim pool
Let me just pause real quick.
Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
And he says that he was OEF in support of OEF, and when he came home, they showed him the horse whisperer and said, be nice.
tim walz
And that was the extent of it.
That was in 2004.
Now I'm proud to say that because of the people sitting in here and people who came before me, things have changed over the last four years.
They have not changed enough.
Mr. Kennedy is following and moving something forward that the late Senator from Minnesota, Senator Wellstone, advocated so clearly, mental health, parity, and this issue of destigmatizing mental health, of understanding, and I being in there and knowing as a First Sergeant, know exactly what you're saying, and watching as people aren't trained on this, that there is There's a discrimination that goes against a soldier who has the courage, the fortitude, and as you said, the insight to admit this.
tim pool
So I'm going to play this just real quick one more time, listen to what he's saying, and I'm starting light with y'all, because we can get heavier.
He's talking about the mental health suffered by people who served in Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Now he did, he did, in Europe, not in war.
But when you say that I'm one of those who came back as a first sergeant, I saw, and these people weren't trained, and you're literally in the context of providing proper mental health for those who suffered under combat circumstances, we know the inference you're trying to draw.
You were there, you saw what happened, you came back, and then listen.
tim walz
The OIF veterans, when we came back, they showed us the horse whisperer and told us to be nice.
tim pool
They told us to be nice?
They told you to be nice?
Bro, look, with all due respect, he did serve in Operation Enduring Freedom in Europe, providing base security in Europe.
I do respect it.
But you really gotta clarify.
But don't worry.
If this was the standalone context by which people had accused him, I'd be saying, well, come on.
Oh, but it gets much worse than that.
So we've already got, uh, here we go.
Let's play this.
This is him lying about being a retired command sergeant major.
tim walz
and I'm running for Congress here in southern Minnesota for several important reasons,
but today I'd like to tell you about one issue that's very personal to me.
unidentified
I am a retired command sergeant major in the- No he's not. That was not true.
tim pool
So what we're really looking at is combining all of these things.
You have the Harris campaign admitting he misspoke every single time.
Well, that's an admission of lying.
Because when they acknowledge that what he's saying is not true, when they edit their website to remove his rank, because it's not his rank, I can understand why there are a lot of veterans who are upset, criticizing him, calling it stolen valor.
He was not a retired command sergeant major.
When you combine this with everything said, that's when you're like, okay, this dude's intention, okay?
His intent was to lie, cheat, and steal.
Now, we have Jordan Schecto, who tweeted, deleted a post about Tim Walz from 9-11-21, seemingly implying that he served in Iraq.
Turns out the transcript, though it was published by the Minnesota state government, was only his prepared remarks.
In the video, he does not utter those exact words, which would have implied he served in Iraq.
No.
The words that he spoke imply that he served in Afghanistan.
When I came back, I was like, it's not everyone dead.
I was in Bagram.
This is the game he played to trick people into thinking he was in Afghanistan.
The only thing they changed was that he added a line and removed the word Iraq.
This is from the Minnesota government website.
MN.gov.
Formerly published.
Listen to this.
This is a statement they've attributed to Tim Walz, which is almost his exact speech minus some small changes.
Almost his exact speech on that website.
The question is, why was this prepared?
Who prepared it?
Why did they publish it on the government website attributing it to Tim Walz, even though it matches almost identically what his speech was?
It says, quote, in the years after the classroom, In the years after that classroom, I had the privilege of serving in this state's National Guard.
I stood one night in the dark of night on the tarmac at Bagram Air Base in Iraq and watched a military ramp ceremony.
A soldier's body being loaded onto a plane to be returned home.
And if you've seen it, you don't leave the same.
It makes you wonder.
What are we doing?
What are we trying to get to?
And when watching as all... And then watching, as all of you have been, the confusing last few weeks of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.
Those weren't his exact words, but these are his words.
What I mean to say is, these are the words written, and they're for him, on the government website.
They are his words.
Now some have said, no no, they were prepared for him.
Prepared for him?
By who?
Did he not sign off on this speech?
I am not here to make assumptions about what, why, or who.
They say it was prepared for him.
Don't know, don't care.
Tim Walz gave a speech.
There is a speech that I would assume he wrote, right?
All I can tell you this is, believe whatever you want to believe, they're his words.
They are the words attributed to Tim Walz.
I'll tell you what frustrates me.
It's when you have Democrats say things like, Trump said Nazis were very fine people, which he literally never said.
Then you get written statements that are seemingly, that are meant to imply by anyone who reads them, the words of Tim Waltz.
saying he served in Iraq, even though Bagram's in Afghanistan, mind you.
And conservatives, ever so honorably, and I mean that with respect, go, no, no, like, we don't know who wrote that, so we're not gonna put that on him.
And I'm like, well, okay.
Fair point.
But this is not a circumstance of a fake quote.
This is not someone publishing on Axe a quote that misattributes or is out of context.
These are the literal words published by the government of Minnesota from their governor, a statement attributed to him.
They're his words!
Call me an idiot.
But how about this?
How about I just play for you what he actually said?
tim walz
The years that happened after that classroom, I had the privilege of serving in this state's National Guard.
And when I left, I had a two-year-old.
When I came home, I had a three-year-old.
But as I listened to Jill, I listened to Mariah, the guilt, I came home.
And my daughter went on.
And when you're two and three, she knew no difference.
tim pool
Let me pause right there.
The guilt.
I came home.
tim walz
For some, they can't do that.
And when you're two and three, she knew no difference.
That's not true for some.
They can't do that.
And over the preceding years of watching us, and as our nation changed, and as our political systems became more difficult for all of us to understand, I stood one night in the dark of night on the tarmac at Bagram and watched a military ramp ceremony.
And if you've seen it, which these folks, many have, unfortunately, you don't leave the same.
And it makes you wonder, what are we doing?
What are we trying to get?
tim pool
Now, here's the issue.
It is true.
He did stand, he did, presumably, he was in Bagram as a member of Congress.
But think about everything he just said.
In my opinion, It's worse.
And there are people still saying, well, you know, he said in the preceding years, so... No!
No!
No!
That's his schtick the whole time!
Assumptive language.
Assumptive manipulation.
Tricking people into making assumptions.
I've explained this last week.
It's real simple.
Hey guys, I'm going to give everybody a Filet Mignon $1,000 Wagyu beef imported dinner if you guys work late.
I will do my best and everything in my power.
You guys stay late.
You're getting that Filet Mignon.
unidentified
$1,000.
tim pool
Prime Wagyu.
Gordon Ramsay himself.
Now, what did I say there?
I said, I will do everything in my power, comma, you're getting there.
You see how I'm tricking you here?
And then, sure enough, when people are at, you know, checkout time, clock out time, I say, guys, you stay late.
I got good news.
We got dinner!
We got the dinner!
Everyone cheers.
They say, OK, we're going to work late.
And then what's dinner?
A $20 pizza.
Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I never said I got you the rare steak.
I said I'd do everything in my power to get it.
And then I told you to stay late because I got you dinner.
And you agreed.
That's assumptive manipulation.
People trust you.
So you phrase things in ways that trick them into believing it.
I know a lot of people who have fallen for this stuff, and that's what Tim Waltz is doing right here.
When he says, you know, the guilt.
I came home.
From Italy?!
Dude, with all due respect, I don't understand why you don't just say, I was serving in European theater, and I had some guilt that I went to Italy.
And you know, Other people that I knew went to Iraq and Afghanistan.
I could not imagine.
Some of us got the lucky assignment.
Imagine the respected command if he was like, you know, I served for 24 years this country, and I served in Italy, and I felt lucky every day that I was chosen for a job that kept me out of harm's way, as others were facing a real fight in the Middle East.
People would be like, wow, yeah.
They'd have nothing to say.
Imagine if he didn't call himself Command Sergeant Major.
This dude, is so desperate, so desperate for that valor that he intentionally misleads.
So let me stress again, this is the Minnesota government website saying, in the class by the privilege of serving the state's National Guard, I stood one night in the dark of night on the topic of Bagram.
He said that!
He just added stuff!
All of it to make you believe he was in the Middle East.
Well, here you go.
Answer for it.
Here's an article from The Atlantic from 2006.
This is The Atlantic.
Company, left.
There's something different about the latest crop of military veterans running for Congress.
It's about Tim Walz.
Let me read for you a couple of paragraphs here.
Command Sergeant Major Tim Waltz is a 24-year veteran of the Army National Guard, now retired but still on active duty, when a visit from President George W. Bush shortly before the 2004 election coincided with Waltz's homecoming to Mankato, Minnesota.
A high school teacher and football coach, he had left to serve overseas in Operation Enduring Freedom.
Southern Minnesota is home to a large guard contingent that includes Waltz's unit, the 1st 125th Field Artillery Battalion.
So the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are naturally a pressing local concern, particularly to high school students headed into the armed services.
Yeah, he was never there.
The President's visit struck Waltz as a teachable moment.
And he and two students boarded a Bush campaign bus that took them to a quarry where the president was to speak.
But after they had passed through a metal detector, and their tickets and IDs were checked, they were denied admittance and ordered back onto the bus.
One of the boys had a John Kerry sticker on his wallet.
Indignant, Waltz refused.
Quote, As a soldier, I told them I had a right to see my commander-in-chief.
The normally jovial 41-year-old recently explained to a Democratic Farmer Labor Party, dinner in a small town of Albert Lee, Minnesota.
His challenge prompted a KGB-style interrogation that was sadly characteristic of Bush campaign
events.
Do you support the president?
Waltz refused to answer.
Do you oppose the president?
Waltz replied that it was no one's business but his own.
He later learned that his wife was informed that the Secret Service might arrest him.
Waltz thought for a moment and asked the Bush staffers if they really wanted to arrest a
a command sergeant major who just returned from fighting the war on terrorism.
They did not.
You gotta love it.
You gotta love it.
It's brutal, I guess.
I'll tell you, my friends, had this man in every step said, retired sergeant major, What difference is it for me?
I didn't serve.
What can I say to somebody, Sergeant Major?
Respect, 24 years, wow.
Now some people criticize National Guardsmen, I don't, no, no.
No, I respect anybody who's served for any amount of time, okay?
Unless you got a dishonorable discharge because you're a criminal or doing something nasty, whatever.
But I can respect it.
I tell you this right now.
You had this interview, J.D.
Vanston.
And he was asked about Donald Trump claiming he had bone spurs to dodge the draft.
And J.D.
Vance Masterclass, he said, I'm not questioning anybody's service.
Some people have reasons they can't serve.
Some people have reasons they don't want to serve.
Some people did serve.
And Tim Walz, the issue here is the lies, not him serving.
I'll add to this, I absolutely respect 24 years of service.
And I will give Tim Waltz that every single minute, every day.
I didn't enlist, he did.
You call in a meal ticket, it doesn't matter.
That meal ticket comes with some responsibilities.
It comes with responsibilities many of us do not know.
No matter how small, no matter how much someone might belittle it.
But lying about the extent of your record to imply that you served in war, that you may suffer mental health.
We came back and they gave us the horse whisperer and said, be nice.
You came back from Italy, man.
He's trying to make it seem like he's one of these guys.
And I'll throw another one in there.
Dan Crenshaw.
Dan Crenshaw turned out to be a very serious political disappointment.
But the dude suffered for his country.
Lost an eye, and is at risk of losing vision in his other eye.
And I will give Dan Crutcher tremendous respect for all of that.
I'll give him disrespect for the things he does politically I don't like, but not for his service.
His service I respect.
So don't make it seem like, Tim Waltz, you're going to be like one of these guys who's been injured or disfigured or gave the ultimate sacrifice or the people who came back with mental health issues.
And I'm going to add to this as we wind down this segment.
I despise our political establishment.
I despise the political elites.
I despise the Bush administration for their efforts in expanding these wars for BS reasons as they lie to the American people.
There are men and women who after 9-11 said, I need to help my country.
And these people are champions who deserve the utmost respect.
And I give Tim Walton, I'll say it again a million times, respect for his service.
I don't respect those who sent them overseas on false pretenses to put them in harm's way.
Because these are the loyal Americans who wanted to help and save other Americans.
It's sad, really.
You know, it's the worst form of deception and betrayal.
Well, one of the worst forms.
There are many bad forms.
Tim Waltz lying about it?
This is a serious political moment for the Democrats, and they've been hush-hush.
No interviews, no statements, because they're gonna have to answer for this.
I will add one final thought on this, and it'll come up again in this morning's show.
Donald Trump's campaign, he puts out a tweet claiming Kamala is doing AI photo and video.
I honestly don't care.
I don't know.
I don't care.
I'd care if we had hard definitive proof and it was easy to understand.
But tracking down whether a photo is AI or not is confusing.
Donald Trump tweeting, how many people are going to be booing Joe Rogan now?
Because Rogan said nice things about RFK.
I don't care.
And it pisses me off.
It's funny when the Krasensteins are like, so now you're criticizing Donald Trump?
Bro, I will criticize Donald Trump every time he deserves to be criticized.
And those two posts on Truth Social were bad.
And I tweeted, either he has bad advisors or no advisors.
The Krasensteins are like, just admit it, it's Trump.
I said, what do you think no advisors mean?
It means quite literally Trump is just flying off the seat of his pants or something.
I don't know what the phrase is.
He's just firing away on X, as he does.
Because some people have suggested his advisor tell him to do this.
No.
Donald Trump needs to post, ignore that stuff, and say, Tim Waltz, stolen valor.
That's what everyone's saying.
He needs to focus on this, because this one offends a lot of people.
Veterans, especially, who served.
Not every single one of them, mind you.
There's a lot of partisanship here.
But I'll tell you, for me, by all means criticize anybody you want for deception, or whatever.
Dishonorable discharge?
Fine.
This guy's a liar.
I'll tell you what offends me about it.
Is that when I see a picture of a young man hung up on a wall at a bar, whose wife's the bartender, and she's like, that's my husband who died.
And we keep his picture up here with everybody else's.
It makes me sad.
It makes me feel pride in this country and those who are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice so that I can sit here in a room and complain on the internet.
Damn, I'm lucky.
So are all of you.
That there are people who are willing to do these things that the rest of us don't have to.
And that's true!
Not that I like the Bush administration, the Obama administration, putting them in harm's way for BS reasons.
I'm talking about those who in their minds say, you know, I don't know everything, but what I do know is I can give myself to this country so that everyone else can have a better life.
That's not every single vet.
Some vets, it's a job.
Because I've met vets who say that.
They're like, I just enlisted because I needed a salary and I worked domestically, you know, driving trucks or something.
And I'm like, that's fine.
I can still respect it because you did, you took that responsibility.
There's risk that comes with that.
Tim Walz, lying about his service record, is to manipulate me, people like me, and many others, because the vets can see through it, to manipulate us who do want to give that respect to those who would make that sacrifice.
And that's not him.
To a certain degree, yes.
I'll say it again.
He did enlist.
But to make it seem like he was in war, man, it's to manipulate people like me that want to, that can feel that, you know?
I don't know what the right word is.
There's this word that is not, it's not envy.
It is, it's almost fear.
That I know I don't have to go overseas into war and I get to live the way I do here in America because other people will.
I'm sitting here being like, jeez man, if they wanted to make me go fight, I don't know, I could do it.
These men and women can.
They have, and many have lost their lives.
And so part of me is, it's almost guilt, right?
That I know I don't have to, and with that, I want to make sure I respect those who are willing to.
Everyone.
Even if all you did was drive trucks, after four years you got out and you went and you worked as a plumber, that's still something I never did.
That being said, I do have to point out, I've seen more combat than Tim Walz, covering international conflict and crisis overseas, the extent of which has been being shot at, other people shooting each other.
I've seen people die in some of these conflicts, but I would never call it war.
I think the most dangerous was probably Egypt, when the rival factions during the revolution were shooting at each other with makeshift weapons.
And I'd never claim to have anything close to real combat, but being in a riot and dealing with this stuff?
Don't lie about it, man.
We're gonna go to your superchats now, so smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, get your superchats in, maybe there's points I missed, maybe there's stories you think we should cover.
Our next story, which will be coming up, I think I have it pulled up right here.
Oh boy, the new strategy is Donald Trump called Kamala Harris a female dog multiple times.
I'm going to tell you, my friends, I think that's well mannered of Trump.
I think Trump could go a whole lot harder than that.
The B word, by the way, we keep it family friendly, but I don't know that, you know, that word is too bad, but we'll save it.
But I have a different word that starts with letter C for what I would call someone who kept people in prison beyond their sentences so that you could use them for slave labor.
Or a person on death row despite knowing your evidence was tainted?
Man, I do not like Kamala Harris.
But for now, my friends, we'll grab your Super Chats.
So let's jump over and see what y'all have to say.
If you've got any comments about what's going on, let's hear it.
And don't forget to smash that like button.
We'll, uh, let's see, what should we go with today?
One like equals one fight, fight, fight.
Easy enough.
We want to, we want to keep the Trump assassination story alive and Donald Trump, you know, his vigor in the news.
Alright.
I used to think Australians were awesome.
They sick now.
Did you guys see Ray Gunn?
The breakdancer?
This story went mad viral.
Olympic breakdancing and this woman was doing just like bunny hops and like kangaroo kicks and like rolling on the ground and It was embarrassingly bad.
And then they were like, it's misogyny to insult the way she danced.
And it's like, uh, she, she was bad.
She has a PhD.
People say she has a PhD in breakdancing.
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Yikes.
tim pool
The Dream Time says, any updates on illegal voter registration?
Not that I've seen.
Not that I've seen.
I'm not your buddy, guy says.
It's odd that you see increasing numbers of people turning away from the Dems, yet they still go up in the polls.
It's almost as though they know the results of 2024 and will cite the polls as proof.
I want to stress this.
I'm talking to you, Jack Posobiec.
There are a lot of people who are saying, guys, the polls are fake, the prediction markets are fake.
I actually am glad that the polls are showing Kamala winning and the prediction markets are favoring Kamala.
No, they're real.
I don't care if you think they're fake.
Because I want every Trump supporter, I want every moderate planning on voting for Donald Trump, to sit there and think Kamala is going to win.
You cannot get complacent.
Whatever it is you're doing to try and advocate for, be it hosting a show where you talk about it all the time, or you're Scott Pressler registering voters, or you're just literally telling your friends and family to get ready to vote and making sure they will, redouble your efforts.
Redouble your efforts, because Kamala's up in the polls.
And that's what we're going to talk about here.
To come out and claim, nope, nope, they're fake, don't worry.
Nah, you best be worryin'.
Others have pointed out the purpose of the polls showing her winning is so that when the shadow campaign kicks off and she wins, they'll justify it by saying, see, the polls showed it.
So you better redouble your efforts.
Otherwise, I genuinely believe right now Kamala Harris is slightly favored to win.
I genuinely believe that.
Now that being said, wow, I trolled too close to the sun.
MSNBC came out and they're like, Joe Rogan and Tim Pool and Nick Fuentes said they won't be supporting Trump.
Lady.
Nice try.
So I endorsed Kamala Harris this morning.
I don't live in this world, people.
I don't live in this partisan world.
I don't live in their world.
I don't live in their world.
I don't know what world I live in.
I live in my own world, okay?
For better or for worse.
For the betterment or for the detriment, I don't know.
I do what I think makes sense, and I facetiously endorsed Kamala Harris because she's tough on crime by keeping innocent people in prison.
And then at the bottom wrote, if you believe this, you have brain damage.
But I intentionally made it really long, so... I'm like, man, when I saw MSNBC... But we'll get into this.
We'll read more Super Chats for now.
Jason Dixon says it might not be on the front of everyone's mind, but the real estate market in Texas has been inflated and the values are about to pop like a bubble.
Everywhere, dude.
Everywhere.
But I'm not so sure it's going to pop.
So we're looking at, you know, we're doing the skate park construction stuff.
We're looking at the cost of materials.
I don't know that it's going to pop.
If you want to buy a house right now, the prices are insane.
Houses that were $300,000 two years ago are $500,000 to $600,000 now.
And I'm like, how's that possible?
Well, I'm talking to one of these contractors and they're like, well, I got to be honest, like the cost of materials and labor have gone so high that if you want to build a comparable house, it's going to cost you more.
So these older houses are way expensive, but a house that's $500,000, at least like around our area, you want to build something like that, it's going to cost you $500,000 or more.
So what's happening then is people are looking at these houses.
It's a little old.
It's 5, you know, 10 years old, but it's done.
I can walk in right now.
You want to build a new house and it cost you the same thing because of materials and labor.
I don't know that I can't pop.
DarkHaleHound says, angry cops did a good video about Tim Waltz right on.
Let's go.
Too Sour says, are you going to stream Musk and Trump tonight?
unidentified
Yes!
tim pool
You know, we had talked about it.
We were unsure.
But like any town hall or prominent interview, At a certain threshold, we want to play the speech and the interview and comment and criticize, and this is Donald Trump's triumphant return to X with an interview with Elon Musk, and so we're going to be providing that commentary and criticism, showing the X space with Trump, and it's supposed to kick off at 8 p.m., so will we.
If you'd like to watch live and hear what we have to say about Trump's positions as talking with Elon Musk, which is going to be absolutely amazing, then we will have that live for you.
Let's go.
Uncle Sam's Angry Cops channel on YouTube has a good breakdown of the rank issue.
Also would be a great guest.
Runs in Brandon Herrera circle.
Very cool.
The Black Cat says, hey Tim, love your work.
Just wanted to post this GoFundMe for people to see for my nephew.
Help Robert, Rebecca, and Odin through this journey.
Truly love your work.
Love your view on the political landscape and journalism you do.
Well, best of luck.
Good sir.
Mr. Crane just says, Tim, if no Biden-Trump debate, does he get the nomination?
I think it was a mistake for Trump to debate Joe Biden.
Trump debated Joe Biden, and we all knew Biden would be dropping out.
All it did was give them the opportunity they needed to swap out Joe Biden.
If Trump said, I'm not debating Joe, Joe speaks for himself.
Joe was already way down in the polls and was sinking all the other Democrats.
It would have been better off if Trump did not debate Joe Biden.
Granted, we got a lot of amazing moments.
From that debate till November is an eternity in politics.
So I do think in hindsight, Trump would have been better off not debating him.
Let's grab a couple more and then we'll jump to this next story, my friends.
All right, Rusty Shackelford says, I enlisted for four years to go to Afghanistan.
It sent me to Iraq.
So I re-enlisted for an additional four years to go to Afghanistan.
Tim Waltz doesn't rate high enough to even shine my medals.
Bravo, sir.
Bravo.
Appreciate your service, and, uh... Bravo.
Slayer's Edge says, you can make custom challenge coins.
We made one for our bridge team in honor of our fallen comrade.
Yeah, very cool.
A lot of people do.
Some people collect them.
Challenge coins basically just, they represent something.
And so, I actually have a lot of them.
Journalists make them as well.
People make challenge coins representing big moments in American history, and things like that, so.
Alright, a lot of people are mentioning Angry Cops, so I definitely suggest you check them out.
Craig says, did you hear about Pelosi walking back Biden's withdrawal letter saying it doesn't sound like him?
Do you think they roll back Kamala and try to get Biden in again?
I don't know if... I don't know.
Look, man, it's a cult.
The Krasensteins are like, yeah, they're tweeting, yay, Kamala is going to release her campaign policies next week.
And it's like, my response is, OK, then what are you supporting now?
Dead silence.
Crickets.
Eventually they come back and they're like, she's talked about what she wants to do.
And I'm like, dude, people are showing up to a rally screaming and cheering and she's not offering anything.
Now she's saying, no taxes on tips!
It's like, that's a Trump campaign policy!
And then the Libertarians are like, we'll take it.
Dude.
Fine.
But I gotta ask you.
If you had the choice between, I don't know, like a Toll House fresh-baked cookie and a Chips of Hoy pre-packaged cookie, which one do you pick?
Now, the Toll House cookie was made by Grandma.
The Chips Ahoy cookie was made in a factory, a bit drier and less butter, and a lot of artificial ingredients.
They are both chocolate chip cookies.
But I gotta tell you, on Kamala's No Tax on Tips things, she's the vice president right now!
She's like, I'm gonna fix things once I get an office.
I'm in office now, but I ain't gonna do nothin'.
That's called blackmail.
Right?
Alright.
Let's see, someone says, uh...
The Ninth Circle says, I'd like to offer a correction.
E-8, the rank of Master First Sergeant, E-9 is Sergeant Major.
unidentified
Is it?
tim pool
For what are you referencing?
Are you referencing something you posted, or?
Because the media's reporting him as an E-8.
Whatever.
Sergeant Major, is that what it is?
unidentified
I don't know.
tim pool
Let's do this.
I'm going to ask the old robot.
Ah, it's booting me out.
Okay, no robot, no robot.
All right, let's jump to the story, my friends.
From Vanity Fair!
Donald Trump called Kamala Harris, bitch, multiple times, from the New York Times.
The former president's team denied the remarks, yet this wouldn't be the first time he's used the slur when referring to women.
Heavens to Murgatroyd.
I have a much stronger word for someone like Kamala Harris, and it is not bitch.
It starts with the letter C, and I try to, look, I don't know, bitch seems like, it means female dog.
It's not really that much of a slur.
I don't call people names like that, you know, but I would call Kamala something worse.
And the reason is, notoriously, she had inmates, and there was evidence that could have exonerated them, and she withheld it.
Later denied it, but it was her office.
There was an order from the Supreme Court to release certain inmates after a certain amount of time, and they refused.
Why?
They wanted the slave labor.
I'm not exaggerating.
They wanted to force people to work Putting out wildfires.
And imagine you're in prison and they say, you can go outside, fight a wildfire.
That's what they do.
That's what they do.
So, uh, I got a much worse word than this, but is this the play they're making right now?
Donald Trump?
Yes.
Why?
Because the weird campaign, where they called JD Vance weird, and now saying Trump called her a bitch?
The whole point is to make women vote Democrat.
Suburban women to get offended and say, oh, that's why they're doing the Kamala Harris thing where she's like, I'm speaking.
I'm speaking.
It's the A-OK.
Alright, from Vanity Fair.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reportedly called his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, a bitch, repeatedly, per a report from the New York Times, based on two people who heard the remark on different occasions.
Trump spokesperson Stephen Chung denied the remark, saying, that it's not the language that President Trump has used to describe Kamala, and it's not how the campaign would characterize her.
Oh, I'd stress this again.
My friends, I'd like to stress, I am not a politician, nor do I ever want to be.
And so I have no problem saying, like, I think Social Security is bad and should be dissolved and just eradicated, and it should have never been implemented in the first place.
Vote for me!
Yeah, I would never win an election, because I don't care.
It's an insolvent program that incentivized the destruction of the family.
And I think it's... You take care of your kids, you get all your kids to take care of you.
That's the way this thing works.
Instead, they're like, the state will do it.
But the state relies on young people who aren't related to you.
Nah, it's bad.
And also, I'd characterize Kamala substantially worse.
unidentified
Why?
tim pool
Because I ain't running, and I don't need your votes.
I would appreciate your support, but, you know, you don't gotta vote for me.
Trump has used the gendered slur, oh shut up, to talk about women.
Or benefited from its use throughout its career.
It didn't shy away from the language of 2016 when running against Hillary Clinton, lest we all remember the Trump That Bitch t-shirts that filled his rallies.
Did Trump make those?
The phrase also grazed bumper stickers, yard size, and bottles of hot sauce.
That hot sauce sounds pretty good, actually.
At a New Hampshire rally during the campaign, someone in the crowd held up a Trump That Bitch bumper sticker, and the then-candidate appeared to spot it, stopping Trump in the middle of his speech.
This could only happen at a Trump rally, he said after pointing, smiling, and laughing at the attendee.
Then, after mentioning the pushback he received after not correcting a town hall attendee who insisted that Barack Obama is a Muslim, Trump points again to the man in the crowd.
Sir, you're reprimanded, okay?
He said before throwing his arm in the air and brushing off an emotion, but we're not throwing him out, right folks?
I love this.
I love how Trump does this.
unidentified
He did that speech where he was like, yeah, I was at a dinner and someone said, Chris Christie is a fat pig.
And I said, sir, sir, you cannot say that.
Chris Christie is not a fat pig.
You don't say that.
tim pool
He, Trump is so good at this.
It's funny.
While there is no conclusive history of Trump's usage of the misogynistic insult, he's been reportedly employing it for a while now.
Here we go, now they're bringing up the Axis Hollywood.
unidentified
You know why they're doing this?
tim pool
It's because Kamala Harris doesn't have any campaign positions.
I don't know, maybe they finally put it up.
Can we get, can we see if, uh, what's it?
KamalaHarris.com?
All right, maybe, just maybe, She's put up her campaign.
Look at this guy.
Oh, big ol' smiling waltz here.
unidentified
Ooh, 47!
tim pool
Look at that.
It's highlighted.
You should give $47.
Maybe they finally, finally put up campaign positions.
Nope.
Nope, they have none.
unidentified
They have none.
tim pool
This is the campaign they're running.
J.D.
Vance and Trump are weird.
Which is a woman insult.
And what I mean by that is, calling a guy weird is gonna go, okay?
Like, what does that mean?
Does that strike at the ego?
Does that strike at his capabilities?
It just means you don't run in the normative circles, I guess?
I don't know, a lot of people are weird.
However, women are more susceptible to social pressures according to scientific research.
And I think this is reflected very well in Instagram and social media where women are more likely to follow these trends and also face depression based on their likes and things like this.
And I do think it makes a lot of sense.
Men tend to be more independent and less agreeable, so weird doesn't really matter.
The goal is to get as many women as possible, suburban women, mainly suburban white women, in these areas around cities to vote Democrat.
So, JD Vance is weird.
Why would you vote for him?
You don't want to be weird, do you?
And Trump calls women a bitch.
Ooh, wow, he hates women.
That's what they're rehashing.
Because they don't have any campaign policies.
Now we do have this.
We do have one.
Harris says she supports eliminating taxes on tips, mirroring Trump.
For the Senate, Trump has called her copycat Kamala.
unidentified
Copycat Kamala, they say.
That's what they call her, because she's copying Trump.
tim pool
Vice President Harris at a Las Vegas rally Saturday night suggested she would support ending taxes on tipping, a policy initiative that has become popular with former President Trump on the campaign trail.
The idea exempting tip income from federal income and payroll taxes has become a common policy line item for Trump as a way of courting working class voters.
It is logical and correct, but what's really funny is the Libertarians were like, thank you for adopting our policy position.
It wasn't Trump.
It wasn't Kamala's fault for Trump.
It was Trump's fault for us.
And I'm like, no, no Libertarians.
Yours is Trump says no taxes on tips.
Libertarians say no taxes.
So you can't say ban all taxes and then claim this specific policy is Trump taking it from you.
That being said, I love it.
You know what really pisses me off about taxing tips?
Tips are not consideration.
And consideration is a legal term meaning something exchanged for something.
The quid pro quo as it were.
I go to dinner.
I order a fine meal from my server.
I then decide if my server deserves money.
That is not consideration.
Because if it were, you'd give them the tip first.
You'd say, I'd like to order the cheeseburger, the smash burger, with extra barbecue sauce and onion rings slopped all over it.
And then, here's a tip.
Basically saying, to ensure promptness, that's what people think tip means, but no.
That would imply you give them the money first.
If the service afterwards is good, and I decide to give them a gift, the exchange is complete.
I could get up and leave and give you nothing.
Now why is it that if I decide to give you a gift, it gets taxed?
I reject that.
Taxes on tips should be ended.
The thing is, hey, it's great.
I guess no matter who wins, you're going to get it?
Nah, sorry.
Kamala Harris is lying to you.
Not that I think Donald Trump is guaranteed to get the no tax on tips thing done.
Kamala Harris is just saying this.
She's the vice president right now.
She could easily say, okay, Congress, I want this policy right now.
Joe Biden will sign it.
We're going to give that to the American people today.
Republicans pass the bill.
The clever move for Kamala Harris right now.
Is to call on the Republican Congress to pass a bill ending taxation on tipped income and I guarantee I will ensure Joe Biden signs it.
And then, the Republicans in Congress have to make a choice.
Are they going to stand by this or not?
Instead, it's garbled nonsense, because Kamala Harris is like, the prices for food is too high!
On day one, I will get those prices down!
And it's just like, what about day now, Vice President?
You're sitting there with Joe Biden!
What do you mean?
Yeah, it's all nonsense gobbledygook, but my friends, this is the battlefield we're currently in.
Now, what really matters, and I want to give you the white pill before the black pill, is the real clear politics average for battleground states.
In Arizona, Trump is up by 1.5. In Nevada, Trump is up 3.7.
In Wisconsin and Michigan, Trump is down.
Michigan's going Harris 2.4.
Wisconsin's going 0.8.
But in Pennsylvania, Trump's up 0.8.
North Carolina's 3.2 and Georgia's 0.6.
Giving Trump the total battleground edge of 0.9.
That's the winning election right there.
So we're going to pull up our good friend 270 to win.
Arizona.
Trump.
So that's red.
We got Nevada.
Trump.
We got Wisconsin and Michigan.
Kamala Harris.
We'll make those blue.
Make them blue.
They're going to go blue.
Pennsylvania is Trump.
Georgia is Trump.
Hey, look at that.
287 electoral college votes.
Now, Pennsylvania is what really matters.
Pennsylvania is the big deal and Trump's up 0.8.
Let me tell you, the polls tend to favor Democrats.
So with Trump up 0.8 in Pennsylvania, he's probably up 0.2 or something.
I'm sorry, he's probably up 2.8 or something.
Two points, I mean to say.
Maybe three.
The way the map is currently looking doesn't really represent the betting markets very well.
Now look at this.
The election forecast at Polly Market has Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia as toss-ups, but Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin going to Kamala Harris.
Let's play this game.
Let's go to 270 to win.
Let's say the only thing that changes here is Kamala wins Pennsylvania.
That's it.
That's 270.
Kamala Harris wins.
If Kamala wins Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, Trump can take everything else.
It won't matter.
What would be really interesting is, and New Hampshire is going blue right now as well, You would have to flip two electoral votes, which I believe can only be done with, what, like Rhode Island?
No, no, Rhode Island's gonna have three, right?
Rhode Island has four.
Delaware has three, because they're gonna have two senators and a representative.
So it would have to be the two single districts in Maine, or in the one in Maine and one in Nebraska.
And then, oh no, no, no, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, duh.
If Nebraska somehow goes red, which I really doubt, here's a fun scenario.
Tie!
269-269.
Uh-oh.
Oh boy, won't that be fun.
So right now, Trump is favored in PA, and PA is the state to lose.
So my question is, what are the Trump campaign people doing to win Pennsylvania?
Ask yourself, whenever they take an action, will it earn votes?
Because that's what really matters.
In the general election lineup right now, CNBC and Rasmussen just published the latest, and I think this is the latest, Trump v. Harris, five-way.
Trump is up two, according to CNBC.
That's big, because CNBC is not right-leaning.
Rasmussen has Trump up five.
We got a wave of polls that some say are the honeymoon phase, showing Kamala Harris leading nationally.
The estimates by most people is that she's going to win the popular vote.
Well, I'll tell you what it comes down to.
Who are we as people, my friends?
Who are we as people?
I got this from Nate Silver.
It's an interesting breakdown.
I'm going to read a little bit from it for you from yesterday.
Breaking down the presidential election forecast.
But I want to say this.
We are a nation that right now, you've got emotional... Well, it's emotion versus logic.
It's men versus women.
That's what the election has become.
Democrats are voting based on how weird J.D.
Vance is, or based on Donald Trump calling people mean words.
That's why the Krasensteins are like, yay, Kamala!
With no policies.
Me, I'm going, Agenda 47 sounds pretty good.
We're going to bolster the American economy through energy investment and deregulating various areas of the energy sector.
Secure our border.
We're going to help the working class by dealing with illegal immigrants.
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J.D.
tim pool
Vance came out and explained how we do it much better than Trump did.
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J.D.
tim pool
Vance is an excellent choice, by the way, though Nate Silver does mention that J.D.
Vance is very unpopular.
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J.D.
tim pool
Vance says, we start with what's possible.
The first thing we do is we secure the border and stop the influx of illegal immigrants.
The next thing we do is we go after violent criminals.
These things are easily possible with deportation.
You may get rid of 1 million out of the 20 million illegal immigrants that are here.
And he was asked, I can't remember who was interviewing him on ABC, are you going to go door to door?
And he's like, no, we're going to go after criminals.
And if they're an illegal immigrant and they're a criminal, they're committed a crime, we're going to deport them.
And we can deal with what's possible first.
After that, we can figure out what's possible next.
Going door-to-door.
And I said this too.
Trump's presidency is going to be marginal.
It's going to be marginal.
I love this.
Let me see if I can pull up this tweet from the Krasensteins.
We'll go over to TimCast, see if I can find this one.
There's a great exchange between me and the Krasensteins, and me talking about why they have no policy positions.
So, you know, they're asking me about whether or not I'm going to criticize Donald Trump.
I'm surprised.
And what did I say?
Trump has no advisors or bad advisors, was the tweet.
Let me see if I can find this.
I've tweeted quite a bit, so I've got to scroll down quite a bit.
Here we go.
We got it right here for yous.
Right here for yous.
Let me pull this up and tell you what I think.
Tell you exactly what I think.
Ian Miles Chong tweets, Kamala's credit at the airport was in fact real.
You can claim they're paid actors or that they were just there for a concert, but they are definitely not AI.
So let me, let me, let me add more content.
I wasn't planning on pulling these things up, but I think this context really matters when we're talking about what this election is going to be.
And Donald Trump has his post on Truth.
Let me scroll back and find it.
I love scrolling through Trump's Truth Social, where he says it's AI.
AI.
There's Kamala flip-flopping.
Maybe I should just pull up the whole thing.
Let's just pull it up and scroll through it until we find it.
As president-elect.
Swing state.
Maybe I should just make this a little smaller.
Easier to see.
All right, let's see.
I'm doing really well in the race, he says.
And, uh, maybe it's easier if I just—here we go.
He says, look, we caught her with a fake crowd.
There was nobody there.
Everything about Kamala is fake.
Breaking report, Harris campaign busted using fake crowd photo at campaign rally stop.
Now, there are interesting things in this photo that I'll definitely talk about.
In this picture, you can see the reflection from the plane shows no crowd.
That's actually really weird.
It's really weird.
He says, has anyone noticed that Kamala cheated at the airport?
There was nobody at the plane and she AI'd it and showed a massive crowd of so-called followers but they didn't exist.
She was turned in by a maintenance worker at the airport when he noticed the fake crowd picture but there was nobody there.
Later confirmed by the reflection of the mirror.
Here's an interesting photo of the zoomed-in reflection on the plane.
It looks like there is nobody there.
For real.
I don't see anybody in the reflection.
There's one guy.
Interesting.
In this photo, there's a bunch of people holding up signs.
What have people said?
The tail number is missing.
Seems odd.
Oh yeah, no, no, don't get me wrong.
This photo may be AI.
Someone, we posted this a while ago, someone posted a AI detection of it and it said it was AI.
Maybe?
Maybe it's good AI.
Trump then says we caught her with a fake crowd.
Okay.
Well, here's a video.
Uh, Ian Miles Chong posted.
It's a Kamala rally.
Uh, these people are here.
There's people there.
And look at this.
The reflection in the video also makes it look like there's very few people, but it's probably just reflecting off an angle or something.
There are a ton of people here.
The camera actually scrolls out.
You can see them all waving signs.
Maybe it's a... I don't think it's an AI video.
I think this is real.
But you know what I gotta tell you, my friends?
It doesn't matter if it is or it isn't.
Literally does not.
The issue at hand is, I don't care about the size of Communist rallies.
I don't care if people think she's popular or not.
I care about what you are doing to earn votes.
This is a question of, does Trump's post on this gain him any votes?
I believe the answer is no.
So I tweeted, Trump has awful advisors or no advisors.
Brian Krasenstein responded, it's not his freaking advisors, it's Trump.
Stop shifting blame, this is what cultists do.
You see, Brian's in a cult, so he can't tell what I said, because his brain doesn't work when you're in a cult.
I responded with, what do you think no advisors means?
Literally, my point is, Trump is sitting there, he sees a post and he goes, ah, and he posts about it.
And there should have been somebody to be like, Mr. President, not this one.
Ask yourself, does it earn you votes?
Yes.
I'm literally saying either he's got people next to him saying, yeah, yeah, do this, or it's just him doing it.
That's the point.
He's not doing well with these posts.
Krasenstein said, so you think he makes horrible decisions then when not being advised to do otherwise?
Is that the man you want as your president?
That's weird.
Oh yeah?
I said, I do think he makes horrible decisions and we criticize him routinely.
He hired Crackpot Bolton for one.
However, a marginally net positive presidency is preferable to cultists supporting Kamala who was installed and has no campaign policies.
When we talk about Joe Biden, you really put me between a rock and a hard place every step of the way, Democrats.
Let's talk about 2016.
I didn't vote for Trump.
You want me to vote for Hillary Clinton?
You make me laugh.
Killary, they called her.
And I'm not saying that because of the conspiracies about the people around the Clintons.
I'm talking about Libya.
We came, we saw, he died.
I'm talking about a lady who during a debate said she wanted a no-fly zone.
Over Syria, which would basically be a declaration of war with Russia because Russia's got a military base in Tartus.
Psychotic woman!
And then I saw Donald Trump.
Populist policies, but a big goofy on stage saying, only Rosie O'Donnell.
And I'm like, he's a funny guy, but he is not a president.
Trump wins, and I laugh about it.
Because the Democrat, the evil, nasty establishment lost that one.
And it made me feel good inside.
And then I saw something.
For all of Trump's faults and problems and things I'd criticized him on hiring Bolton, I didn't support Trump for a while.
His second term agenda was put up against Joe Biden.
And Donald Trump's agenda was great.
And I saw a man who started no new wars, who fired Bolton, said, I'm done with this.
He said, I'm going to get our troops out of the Middle East.
And I said, wow.
He said, I'm going to secure our borders.
And I said, makes sense.
He said, I'm going to get rid of the weird woke intersectionality stuff in federal government, which is illegal anyway.
I said, I do like that.
And I said, what can I argue with?
I can criticize Trump for all the bad things he's done and does and likely will do.
And that's fair.
And I welcome it.
But here's a guy who actually, no new wars, the first president in my lifetime.
For that, he is the greatest president of my lifetime.
No question.
And I will vote for that man.
Now, I tell you this.
I got a bunch of people saying, like, do you have a chance to have fracas at this temp?
No!
Charisma matters!
And Ron is not a president.
I'm sorry.
Good policy, largely from the state legislature, but I can respect a lot of the things Ron DeSantis did, and I'm a fan.
But his campaign was apocalyptically bad.
For the same reason I wouldn't vote for RFK Jr.
What's that?
The media thinks I did?
This is what cultists don't understand, like Krasenstein.
unidentified
You think Trump makes bad decisions when not being advised, and you'd still support him?
tim pool
Bro, are you in a cult?
Have you stopped to look in a mirror?
Have you seen what you're supporting?
This lady's got no policies!
I don't even know what she's gonna do!
She's vice president right now, we can certainly look at the current administration to make inferences.
War?
Here you are going, I'm gonna vote for this lady and I don't even know what she wants!
And I'm going, wow, Trump's got a lot of bad things about him.
There are probably other people who have been better, but he's the best we got and I do think he'll be a marginally good president.
These people are in a cult!
You know what cults do?
Brian, cults scream and cheer in massive crowds for a woman to be president with no policies.
I know I've heard you say it.
She's stated some policies at campaigns.
Yes, I understand that.
I'm talking about she's not laid out a campaign plan for four years.
I'm fine with her at rallies saying, we want reproductive care.
I get that.
But Democrats being for abortion access doesn't mean a whole lot in terms of what is the plan to get the prices down?
What is the plan to secure the border?
You're there now.
Why don't you secure the border?
No taxes on tips?
Okay, you're there now.
Propose it to the Republicans.
When you blindly march behind a political party who installed someone without a vote, you're a cult.
When the Republicans have a brutal primary process where the Santas people are screaming at Trump people, Trump people are calling out Trump for bad things and bad campaigning.
That's not a cult.
See, cults don't question the person that they voted for.
Cults just say, Supreme Leader, you're the best no matter what.
We have no idea what you're doing, but we support you anyway.
That's you.
Me, I say, wow, Trump sure screwed that up, screwed that up, screwed that up.
He hired this bad person.
He took bad advice from this person.
But economy in 2019 pre-COVID was really good.
And no new wars and crossing the DMZ.
Those are good things.
For the first time in my life, I can say I had a marginally net positive presidency.
I'll vote for that.
And then I will absolutely criticize Donald Trump for mocking the body slamming of a reporter.
We saw that with Gianforte or whatever his name was.
The reporter came and the guy threw him to the ground.
Trump laughed and mimicked the body slamming.
Not good.
Not a fan of that.
Never have been.
Donald Trump has done things that deserve criticism.
Increasing drone strikes while decreasing transparency.
I understand why he did it.
He wanted to maintain security in the Middle East as he was withdrawing troops.
But I can certainly recognize that people are upset about that because he could at least maintain transparency.
Firing 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria was a huge blunder.
A lot of blunders.
Stance on COVID with Fauci, all those blunders.
Criticize him, call him out.
Then you tell me, for those reasons, I should be voting for Kamala Harris?
Get your cult out of here.
Well, I was going to go through the Nate Silver bulletin, but got carried away there.
Check out this clip as we wind down this segment.
I hope you enjoy it.
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Danielle, I've got less than a minute, but I did have to ask.
We've seen people like Joe Rogan, Tim Pool, Nick Fuentes openly say that they are not going to be supporting Donald Trump.
They've backpedaled, right?
And, you know, they've tried to, you know, make excuses for taking those positions.
But we've also seen publicly attacks on Truth Social against the campaign leaders for Trump.
Is this a sign in any way that you think that there is now an actual kind of break in the armor of the Trump campaign?
tim pool
Oh, Katie Fang.
Is it Katie Fong?
I don't know.
Look, I know you don't actually do any Google searching or research yourself, but the funny thing I love about this is that when I have seven tweets and it's like, stop attacking your fans.
We want Trump to win.
And the next tweet is, don't insult me.
I was a Bernie supporter and then I voted for Trump.
And the next one is, Trump must win.
You can't do this.
Okay, fine.
I'm voting for RFK Jr.
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now.
tim pool
The idea that any sane, rational person is going to believe that that was a full, wholehearted endorsement.
And with all due respect to RFK Jr., who did?
You see, these people don't understand context.
They don't understand why the tweet said, okay, I'm voting for RFK Jr.
now.
If I tweeted something like, after reviewing the issues and seeing the Trump, the moves made by Donald Trump, I believe that RFK Jr., blah, blah, blah.
If that's what I tweeted, I can understand why someone, but it was, okay, I'm voting for RFK Jr.
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now.
tim pool
It was literally in a series of tweets.
I didn't think it would go so far in Y, but thanks for keeping my name in mind when you mentioned me.
I immediately said afterwards, yeah, dude, I'm trolling the haters.
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Duh.
tim pool
I'm voting for Trump.
I've laid out all of these strategies and ideas.
Spare me.
With that, ladies and gentlemen, with that, I give you this tweet to round out this segment, which is on X.
I've had enough.
I'm voting for Kamala Harris now.
Crime is a real issue in this country, and we need someone with a proven track record in dealing with criminals.
She's the only candidate who has proven her commitment by keeping people in prison despite evidence proving innocence, and kept others in prison to use slave labor to fight wildfires.
Her strength in not publishing any campaign positions shows her brilliance in campaigning by making it impossible Let me refresh it.
to target. Her genius is exactly what this country needs, and anyone who believes endorsement
is real, and that I'd support such an effing evil witch is, let's just say, cognitively
impaired.
It's got, let me refresh it. It's got a million views. Oh, please, MSNBC, run the Tim Pool
endorses Kamala Harris line.
I don't care.
Look, a lot of people are like, Tim, don't say these things because people are going to believe it.
Look, man, I don't live in the Trump campaign world.
I'm friends with people in the Trump campaign.
They're many of our guests, and we have a formal alliance.
But I am not.
I'll explain it to you this way.
The three great nations.
Actually, I think there's the four great nations of the 2024 election.
There's Leftonia, default liberalism land.
You've got the independent nation of moderates, and then you've got MAGA country.
The independent nation and MAGA country are aligned.
The default liberal land, A lot of ignorant people.
And leftonia, they're willing to support certain elements of the liberals if it's damaging to the right.
I am not in megacountry.
Okay?
We are guests.
There's a formal alliance.
That's how it works.
What this means is, I'm not a Republican, I don't like the Republican Party, and I won't march in lockstep with Republicans.
I won't post tweets being like, never question Donald Trump.
I won't be like these Trump mega diehards who are like, how dare you Joe Rogan?
Because I don't live in that country.
So if the people of MAGA country begin attacks on those who are in the independent country, we're going to take issue with it.
There are a lot of Trump supporters who get really angry and start crapping all over people like Kyle Rittenhouse, Joe Rogan, and me.
Me mostly because I was defending Rogan and Rittenhouse, because that's a different political faction.
Not me.
So the first thing I'd say is, don't insult my friends.
Because that's the fastest way to ensure I will call you out.
But I would also call on the Trump administration, and I'm sure they did this.
Give your surrogates a phone call.
And tell them to please stop attacking moderates.
Because we're here only because you are correct this time.
Be correct, maintain that position, and you've got our votes.
Decide to go to war with moderates, be wrong and put up fake quotes and lie, and you're not going to have them.
Because we're not diehards.
We're just here because Trump is correct.
And if at any point Trump is making mistakes and we criticize it, and the Trump people don't accept it and they keep running on the wrong track, well then, we out.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment is coming up at, this is the 1pm segment, the next segment will be 4pm, don't miss it.
I think I'm talking about, what are we even talking about now, skateboarding?
Ah, jeez.
Culture War.
I kind of don't want to talk about it, but I kind of think I should, I guess.
It's fun.
It's fun and it's funny, and it is what it is.
All right, everybody, smash that like button, subscribe to this channel.
Next segment will be at 4 p.m.
Thanks for hanging out.
We will see you all then.
And for everybody else watching, we will grab some super chats from all of you, and then we'll jump into this next segment, which is a culture war segment about me.
You know what I love?
Oh, Sam Seder's in love with me, dude.
Sam, shout out.
I hope you're watching right now.
I don't think you are watching because I think you're doing your show, but holy crap!
No one said my name more than this guy.
He did it to Dave Rubin, now he's doing it to me.
But hey, whatever gets you clicks, buddy.
It's kind of crazy because I noticed that my SEO was skyrocketing, and I was like, what's going on?
There was like 30,000 to 50,000 tweets about me last week, and I was just like, damn!
And it's largely due to people like Sam Seder.
I ain't complaining.
People are allowed to not like me.
I wish he wasn't lying about me.
He called me sexist over Kamala Harris, and I was like, I said that inherent sexism plays a role in why people won't support Kamala Harris, and so I got called a sexist?
I guess.
If I'm saying everybody's sexist, fine.
But it's people like him that make all these videos about me.
And it just boosts the search engine, the algorithm.
It's what made Ben Shapiro so big so big that everybody wanted to talk about him.
And I'm like, man, I mostly don't get involved in the drama.
The drama will boost your SEO.
But now here we are.
The Washington Post has written an article about me and I don't know why.
It should be fun.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's grab some super chats.
Let's go!
Manipple says, hi Tim, when do we stop thanking people for their service?
Anwar al-Awlaki, droning children, false flags, Guantanamo activities.
So, the guy who killed Anwar al-Awlaki, yes.
Like, there are dishonorable things, I think, absolutely.
That's why I was saying, Tim Walz as a... What has Tim Walz done?
He's in for 24 years, he serves in Italy, he retires before going to Iraq.
I have no reason to disrespect any of that.
Did he do anything criminal?
No, he did his job for 24 years.
I respect it.
I do.
It's the lying I don't like.
The guy who drone-bombed and pressed the button to kill an American citizen without charge or trial, that guy should be in prison.
That guy should be in jail.
That's not honorable.
That's not serving your country.
That's violating your oath to the Constitution, you scumbag.
But he did it!
With a smile on his face.
Anyway.
All right.
Sigmund says he didn't even serve in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
He would have received a GWOT Expeditionary Medal if he did.
This dude is a shameless liar.
Yeah.
Yep.
Charles Jesus, what are your thoughts on the Musk-Trump interview?
I hope it's not long, are my thoughts, because we will be live covering this tonight and providing commentary and criticism and, you know, in general.
But I think the criticism is mostly going to be Donald Trump's handling of his campaign so far.
Not that I think it's massively negative.
I just think there's a few missteps that I mentioned earlier.
So we'll call those out.
But hoping he wins.
All right, Julian Delgadillo, I'm an Air Force vet, and you saw more conflict in your reporting than I did in my deployments, LOL.
I know, I don't know what to say, like, I've seen more foreign conflict, crisis, and I don't know if I'd say, well, I'll ask you guys what you think.
So when I was in Egypt, I witnessed a guy die.
People were shooting at each other.
They had makeshift weapons, explosives, clubs.
I don't know what it was that killed him.
I think he may have been beaten to death.
He may have been shot.
There were two factions.
It was, um... The Tamarod was one of them.
I think it was the Tamarod and the Muslim Brotherhood.
I'm not sure.
And they're fighting in the streets.
APCs roll out, and I watched this clash happen in the street in front of my hotel.
And, uh, it was kind of wild.
We're on the first floor, and there's these big glass windows, and people are running and just fighting.
I'm indoors.
But, uh...
Somebody died.
They carried off his dead body.
And you see these dudes running with him.
It's nuts.
One of the vice reporters got shot with birdshot.
It was crazy!
Like, in his back.
And I think he... I don't know if he had to pull out the pellets or whatever, but it was nuts.
Would you call that combat?
You know, I've never said it was combat.
I've called it conflict and crisis.
I call it urban conflict and revolution.
Uh, Wild Time.
That was 11 years ago.
Uh, on Independence Day.
So what do you think?
Is that combat?
I've seen a lot of riots.
I've been shot at several times.
I was shot at in St.
Louis.
Yikes!
I was in Milwaukee when a teenager got shot in the neck.
I was in Milwaukee covering these riots, and a teenager who was uninvolved, someone shot him.
It was one of the riders, it was a black dude.
Pulled out a gun, a .22, and shot, and it lodged in his neck.
They brought him into a house of some random person, an APC pulled up, and these dudes come out with guns, forming a circle, ran over to the house, grabbed the kid, brought him in, got him to safety, got him to, uh, uh, you know, got him in.
Uh, what is this?
Dark Prometheus says, Timcast, you experienced war, just in war, if that makes sense.
I don't, I don't, I don't know what you mean.
Lowman Lawman says, to be fair, most Chicago cops have seen more combat than people in the Air and Space Force.
Fair point!
That's true.
But like, does, you know, I usually think combat refers to active gunfights.
Anything shy of that I wouldn't call combat, but some might.
And I guess I suppose that you had the lowest tier version of it in Egypt, with people shooting at each other and beating each other.
I got out before it got real bad.
When the APCs came in and started shutting down bridges, we were like, we're pulling out.
And I'll say this a million and one times.
When it gets to that point, I'm the first person to say, guys, I am not your war correspondent.
You need a military vet with real experience in how to handle themselves in combat to be able to report on this stuff.
I have tremendous experience with urban conflict and crisis in foreign countries and in the US, but to the extent that's Riots.
It does include guns, but it's not people hiding in buildings shooting at other people.
That's not me.
I do not have the capabilities to do anything like that.
unidentified
Alright.
tim pool
Hank the Hokage Hill says, Hey Tim, check out the Canadian federal polls.
Massive conservative landslide incoming.
Would be nice.
Would be nice.
We need Canada back, baby!
Cilantro Industrial Complex says, Bet the Harris campaign website will just be, But Trump!
I would not disagree.
Depro says Rasmussen, most accurate pollster in 2016 and 2020.
That is absolutely true.
Yep.
James Nelson says, while everyone is distracted by Walt's service, no one is focusing on Kamala, and she is waltzing to victory.
Haha!
All right.
Well, let's jump to this next story, ladies and gentlemen.
The culture war is on.
From the Washington Post, The skate park was thriving.
Then a right-wing YouTuber bought it.
Tim Pool's purchase of an improvised skate park has riled skateboarders in West Virginia's eastern panhandle.
No, it hasn't.
This is such a fake story.
Will Sommer.
Will Sommer.
Everybody knows Will.
He used to write for the Daily Beast, I believe.
He's not known for his honesty, but I will tell you this.
As the news now circles on me, and the Washington Post seeks to expand a story with a stock photo of a guy skating somewhere, Will reached out to me and asked me for a quote on the Martinsburg Skate Park Project.
I will stop before getting into the story to give you a very simple context.
The simple context is, I am accused of buying a skate park from a bunch of woke skateboarders who are angry and scared, claiming I will ban LGBTQ people.
And they said that I bought the skate park from them because they wouldn't let me skate there.
So the implication being that after I tried to skate there and they kicked me out, I went, oh yeah, and then bought it.
And I got all these people on the right being like, the ultimate Chad move, Tim.
Wow.
He's flexing.
And then they're going, he's flexing on us.
Here's the real story.
We live in Berkeley County.
Martinsburg is our nearest city, like actual city.
We own one of the largest buildings in downtown Martinsburg where we're building a coffee shop.
We hung out there playing Magic the Gathering two days ago?
Or was it yesterday?
Two days ago, I was hanging out at Mamba Collectibles, shout out, playing Magic the Gathering.
Because we live here.
Two blocks away is a property that I bought because we want to build a skate park in the city.
Well, these people have made it infinitely impossible to do.
The reality is, the locals who skate there have asked me for help, for which I've given them money, and they've fixed things.
The people who skate there regularly give me fist bumps.
I was just skating there this weekend.
I normally don't film a lot of the stuff that I'm doing, especially when I'm just chilling.
And I skated Martinsburg and Hagerstown.
The skate park was not thriving.
It was falling apart.
Nobody was skating there.
Our employees live in the town, we have friends who live in the town, and we have friends who live in Berkeley County, who skate at the Martinsburg DIY.
The ground is not so good, the concrete is falling apart, the ramps are makeshift, and they're pretty hard to skate.
The people who pull off those tricks on those obstacles, man, they got skills, because it's hard to skate that stuff, because it's DIY.
So, as we're seeking to improve the city in which we live and operate, and our friends and family live and operate, I said, I want a skate park here.
We wanted this property because it's got a skate park on it and a freestanding building.
I want to open a skate shop.
I've been talking about opening a skate shop for a long time.
We said we wanted to open a skate shop on the second floor of the building.
We're putting the coffee shop, but it's really difficult because the side door has stairs and you require Uh, uh, disability access.
So we would need a functioning elevator.
And I'm like, we can't put a skate shop here.
It's really hard.
Maybe we'll put a display case with some things for some people, but it'll be a private thing.
And so we're like, hmm, we need somewhere else.
I know.
What if we bought a property that already had a skate skate park on it that was at risk of being sold, was falling apart, that nobody was even skating at anymore.
Barely people, anybody ever showed up.
And once they built the Hagerstown Park in, in, in Maryland, nobody shows up.
And so I said, okay.
unidentified
Let's get this.
tim pool
It's got a building on it.
We're not going to screw with the tenants.
They can stay as long as they want, but it's a church, and they're great people.
They're really nice.
When they do leave, and they're planning on leaving, we can put our skate shop there, and there's some skate stuff.
Then we can put up some ramps.
What happened?
The only people who got mad were leftists.
Now, they're going to act like they're not leftists, because to them, this is the cult.
They think they're the middle-of-the-road people.
But these are the ones that put the progress pride flag in their windows.
These are the ones that were posting on social media saying, don't let Tim Pool skate in Washington, D.C.
because he's a white supremacist.
And it's like three people, surprisingly.
They got one guy, I think, for this article.
So, when we buy this, and they claim that Tim Pool stole it, blah, blah, blah, I'll tell you.
A year ago, Me living in Berkeley County and having our studio set up here and having our building there, a flyer was released saying Martinsburg Skate Jam.
That's it.
At the spot.
Nothing else.
No organizing body.
No organizing committee.
No one's in charge.
It's a DIY.
Do it yourself.
And being here, I said, let's make it big.
Two guys got mad.
They threatened me with physical violence if I tried to show up.
It is for that reason, I said, I offered $20,000.
And for that, I was like, OK, we won't do it.
We won't do it.
We wanted to build a skate park.
We were in the process of buying this.
We went through a couple different agents to try and figure it out.
Eventually we found the owners.
One of the guys that was mad at us actually harassed us as we were trying to buy a nearby lot to improve, pave over, and create a plaza.
There you go, city of Martinsburg.
But I don't blame the city that they've got this derelict element.
And these people don't even skate there.
In Hagerstown, Maryland, a park opened up, I don't know, two years ago or something.
And when it did, everyone stopped skating the Martinsburg DIY, and it's crumbling.
The locals that are there asked me for help.
I gave them money.
I was just there skating with one of the guys the other day.
He's a cool dude.
They've been fixing it up.
Now, it's become national news.
So, here's the national news from the Washington Post.
And I'll debunk the lies, but it's not a bad article.
It's just weird that they frame it this way.
The skatepark was thriving.
Then a right-wing YouTuber bought it.
From Will Sommer.
Martinsburg, West Virginia.
For ten years, skateboarders in Martinsburg ollied and trey flipped in peace on an empty concrete slab hidden behind trees and an embankment near a busy highway.
After the closure of a city-run skatepark in 2013, the skaters used wood and cinder blocks to build their own ramps and jumps, with permission from the property's owner.
Indeed, it is true.
Oh, it's on a slab though.
The property is acreage attached to a freestanding building.
One of the lies they keep saying is that it's an empty lot.
No, the property I bought is a building.
I bought a building to put a skate shop in.
It just so happens that it's got a lot of concrete attached to it.
A skateboard nailed to a tree, graffiti of grimacing monsters and numerous empty energy drink cans point to a place that was wholly the skaters' in spirit, though not legally.
Quote, It takes a lot of work and effort to maintain your own space, said Chase Amos, a skater who frequented the skate park.
There's camaraderie around it.
Then Tim Pool, a deep-pocketed right-wing video sensation, got in a dispute with the skaters and bought the land the skate park sits on.
Skateboarding in Martinsburg has never been the same.
In fact, literally nothing's changed.
This was a year ago.
No one said anything.
All we did was pay for patching and for fixing some of the stuff.
That was it.
We've been working with the people who own the building.
We've been working to maintain the property as any proper landowner would, landlord would.
Now it's in the news in the Washington Post.
Poole's purchase of the improvised skate park has riled skateboarders in West Virginia's eastern panhandle and sparked a debate about both how much politics and how much of Poole's money belongs in skateboarding.
Poole downplayed the controversy in an email to the Washington Post.
The issue seems to be solely with a few people who don't like me personally.
Pool wrote, pointing to some repairs he's made to the concrete since the purchase, he claims most of his detractors live outside of town.
Claims?
I asked him to look into that because I said, I don't think these guys live here.
One of the guys I think lives in Maryland.
And so, that's your job, Will.
Or maybe, maybe, I don't know, I don't remember exactly what I said.
I think I said something like, I'm pretty sure they don't live here.
For critics of Poole... Hold on.
Which critics?
So far, you interviewed one guy.
One guy, who the last time I saw him, he was skating in Hagerstown, Maryland, some 50 miles away.
Or, that's like 30 miles away.
For critics of Poole, a former vice reporter who rose to prominence during the Occupy Wall Street movement, the skatepark purchase represents just the latest heel turn.
What do you mean heel turn?
I've been skating my entire life.
Poole is now a pro-Trump YouTuber with a combined 4.4 million subscribers spread across three channels on the site.
And don't forget my 2 million on, uh, on X.
Perhaps best known for his lengthy YouTube show, blah blah blah.
He's just typically joined by controversial conservative internet personalities such as Laura Loomer.
She's been on the show twice.
Poole's show has featured white nationalist leaders.
Who?
Once.
Oh, I see.
And a chaotic interview with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
Even among pro-Trump commentators, Poole stands out for his heated rhetoric, often claiming the United States is on the verge of a second civil war.
Indeed.
On July 25th, Poole tweeted that Vice President Kamala Harris is Hitler and Stalin combined, but times 200.
The man does not know comedy, or satire, or insults.
When he isn't hobnobbing with internet extremists, Poole rides his skateboard a lot.
He has made a skater-esque beanie into his trademark fashion choice, even wearing it to formal locations such as the Trump White House and Mar-a-Lago.
He has built skate ramps at a Maryland compound he's dubbed the Skate Mansion.
No, I didn't!
It's called the Cast Castle.
Come on, dude.
Google searched, your friend.
But you can't blame Will for being right when he has access to the internet.
Poole's clash at the Martinsburg skate park began in August 2023 when its organizers announced plans for a party to celebrate the park's 10th year anniversary.
Poole, without consulting the organizers of the Martinsburg event, announced on Instagram he would offer $20,000.
It was actually an X. And then I screenshotted the X post and put it on Instagram.
$20,000 in prize money for the event.
Loath to associate with Poole's politics, some skaters posted on Instagram that Poole wasn't invited to the event and would be removed if he showed up.
Now let's pause right there.
Thank you, Will Sommer.
Thank you.
For highlighting exactly what we've been talking about.
Loathe to be associated with my politics.
They are left-wing individuals.
They had criticized and attacked us before.
I was skating at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.
when people started posting online, attacking us.
And it's many of these same guys from the same place, in the same shop.
There's one woman, who's not associated with Martinsburg, posted online that I was a white supremacist.
Now, now hold on there a minute.
I live here.
10 minutes is how long it takes me to drive to the DIY spot.
So I don't live in Martinsburg proper.
But it's a small city, town, and most people are living in and around it.
Fair to say, I don't live in Martinsburg, but I do live in Berkeley County, and that's why I've talked with Berkeley County about the skate park they're planning to build, and they want to build it in Martinsburg.
So Martinsburg is our closest big city.
20 or so minutes away is Charlestown, and then 20 to 30 minutes is Shepherdstown.
But for us, our closest town is, of course, Martinsburg.
That's why we're building there, that's why we own property there.
They didn't want to be associated with my politics.
But what did they post?
It was political.
One guy said that he was scared I would ban LGBTQ people.
I never said I'd ban anybody.
He points out in the article I didn't.
But this is the important thing.
The quote.
It wasn't like we were leftists or anything.
We didn't want to be associated with that hateful stuff.
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tim pool
What hateful stuff?
They're leftists.
Pretending they're not.
And this is exactly the issue.
Right now in the skateboard industry there's a lot of complaints from people about how Leftist politics have wholly invaded skateboarding.
Now leftists don't think they're political.
It's just like I am legend.
And this is why I'm doing what I'm doing.
Politics is everything.
What are we going to do?
We are creating a neutralizing force in skateboarding, in the culture war, that will expand this and make it open to everyone, not just leftists who want to push people out.
Let me stress this again.
It's not like we're leftists.
We don't want to be associated with the hateful stuff.
So they told me I wasn't welcome to come to a property they didn't own in a town where my employees work and live, where I own property and I'm building, and in a county who, this is the county skate park, I'm not allowed to come to where I live to skate because they don't want to be around my politics.
Okay.
That means they're opposing my politics, right?
Simple enough.
For political reasons, they threatened me with violence.
They said they were scared I'd ban LGBTQIA people.
I would be physically removed if I tried to go anywhere near it.
And the funny thing is, we were already trying to buy it.
Now there was one apt comment from someone who said, uh, perhaps Tim wanted to give $20,000 because he was planning on doing a big announcement about how he was going to be building a skate park and like, hmm, very astute.
I wouldn't call that as formal as that we wanted to buy the park and we were looking at property.
And, uh, you need only ask the gentleman who referred to himself as the sheriff, Will Sommer could have interviewed, who walked up to me, uh, as I was trying to buy a nearby lot.
In early August, screaming in my face, he was there when I was trying to buy property.
They know that not only do we own property, we have an agent seeking to buy property, and we skateboard and want to build a skate park.
So yeah, our intention was, we want to build a skate park.
The DIY is very difficult to skate.
It's got fun stuff, but it's basically just a hangout shredded in trees where people can mind their own business.
The real property is the freestanding building.
Here's what they say.
Amid opposition from the skaters, Poole dropped his plans to offer the prize.
But a few months later, November 2023, false.
We had bought it in August.
We had been in the process for a while.
The owner listed on the property was nowhere to be found and the contact information didn't work.
We had to cycle through different agents to actually find this person.
And they found them by going to a house associated.
Long story short, I don't want to drag them into it because they're not involved.
He quietly bought the skate park's land, purchasing the slab and a nearby building through a limited liability company for $850,000.
Right.
But to say I bought the slab and a nearby building is kind of silly.
It's a building on a- Like, if you bought a house, would you say he bought the backyard and the house?
No, you'd say he bought the property.
They don't own the spot, Pooh later said in his show in July 2024.
By what right do they have to tell me I can't stand on a derelict piece of property where they're squatting?
More importantly, to threaten me with physical force, which is illegal, because they don't want me skating in the county where I live, and the town where my friends and family live and work.
Pullas floated in the land to build a much larger skate park, but he made few immediate changes to the property, and he hasn't banned anyone from skating there.
That's right.
Because nothing but the ownership had changed, skaters realized only belatedly that he even bought the land.
And only because we hired more people, and invited many of the locals to skate here at the, uh, Freedomistan private skate, the boonies.
Still, tensions over Pool's Purchase spilled into public view late in June, when Instagram accounts associated with skaters who used the skate park before Pool's Purchase complained about the purchase.
You may be able to buy out our land, but you cannot buy out our scene.
What scene?
Literally no one is skating there.
Alright, here's a clip.
And I don't mean to drag anybody into anything, but I was skating there, and I'm like, when I skate here, I don't...
We just chill.
We hang out on the weekends.
We relax.
Here's the homie, Michael.
I've been talking to him for a few months.
This is the first time I've ever actually met him.
The other times I've been here, he wasn't here.
He's doing what's called a slappy crook.
And I was skating and I was like, hey, I saw him doing it and I was like, you think you could get that first try?
Or you could land it?
He's like, I don't think I'll land it.
And then he did.
I filmed him doing it.
And the reason why, as I'm like, maybe I should just be posting these things.
You can't buy our scene.
There is no scene, dude.
The park was abandoned.
Nobody was skating there.
Hagerstown.
Here's Hagerstown.
Here's me skating.
It's kind of hard to see.
It's super small.
Here's me doing a kickflip in Hagerstown over the little Atlas Stone.
It's a little kickflip.
Maybe it's easier to see if I... Can I make it bigger?
I don't know if I can.
Here's me doing a nollie hardflip at Hagerstown, which is a spawn ranch skate park.
And nollie hardflips are good tricks.
It's the hardest trick in the world.
And I filmed some stuff at Hagerstown.
There you go.
There's me doing a nollie hardflip.
When that park opened, Martinsburg was done.
Nobody was there anymore.
I want a skate park there, and here's the best part.
With me having input in this, we're gonna make an awesome skate park with the best obstacles, and we're gonna avoid any kind of construction mistakes that people often make.
When they don't skate, they don't understand, they try to do weird things, you get a weird skate park.
So I love to be involved.
More importantly, the skate park's not going to happen because nobody wants to give money.
So I told Berkeley County, $100,000 right now.
Commit me.
You tell me where to send the check.
And they said, hold off until we can secure the land.
The operator of the Instagram account associated with the skatepark's original organizers reposted this message critical of Poole.
The skatepark's former organizers declined an interview with the post, saying in a message that they rejected Poole's contest money because they want to be left alone and have a safe place to burn off some energy after work.
So I guess that's why they've been going to Hagerstown instead of the DIY.
That's why.
We didn't want a billion people showing up at our small town DIY looking for a 20k payday.
We are not in in wheel sports for a paycheck.
So it is a sport, you think, right?
Well, I got news for you, buddy.
You don't own skateboarding.
You don't own Martinsburg.
Your politics can't push out anyone's other politics.
I did not tell them because they were woke or leftist or anything like that.
They weren't allowed to skate.
Never happened.
I said, hey, I'm gonna build a skate park and give people money.
And they said, we don't want you and your politics here.
They outright said, it's in the article.
Thank you.
Thank you, Will, for pointing that out and proving it definitively.
That Chase said outright, we don't want to be associated with his politics.
Because they don't seem to have a problem with Embark Skate Shop.
Embark Skate Shop, who, no beef, but they fly pride flags at their shop.
You want to be associated with those politics?
You got Embark stickers on there.
You invited Embark.
But me?
I show up with no politics and cash and you say no?
It is the culture war, ladies and gentlemen.
And no, we won't back down.
So what have we offered so far?
Nothing political.
I've put no Trump stickers anywhere.
We've put no political stickers anywhere.
We have the Gadsden flag.
And so this is the neutralizing force.
I never said don't put embark stickers anywhere.
I never said don't fly the pride progress flag.
We'll just fly our Gadsden flag, and that's the neutralizing force.
We exist, too.
But they said it.
We're not in it for a paycheck.
No, you're not.
But guess what?
I live here.
And I skate here, too.
And I've been here for four years.
And I'm gonna stay here, too.
So you say we've been here for ten.
Fair point.
I moved here.
But when the skate park gets abandoned, nobody's really skating there.
It's falling apart.
There's garbage.
There's needles and other trash and stuff.
So they claim, we're gonna clean it up.
We're gonna fix things.
Because we want to make things better.
But these guys have only done everything in their power to make sure the city can't build a skate park.
Sabotaging the work we're trying to do.
We built a $100,000 mini ramp.
And I'm like, it's too bad we couldn't put it on the property we bought because the locals told me, our friends, be careful, man.
These guys have already shown up and smashed things to destroy it.
And if you put wood, they will burn it to the ground.
And I'm like, well then what are we supposed to do?
How are we supposed to build a skate park when these far-left wingnuts are gonna burn things down?
Oh, I call them far-left.
But we're not leftists!
You have- let me put it this way.
I call you default libs, whatever you want to be called.
You're friends with a skate shop flying the pride progress flag.
Not the pride flag, the pride progress flag.
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Okay?
tim pool
Which is an overt political symbol.
I don't fly any flags.
We don't have a Gadsden flag here.
We're talking about putting up a flag of Roberto Jr.
the Rooster.
But we're not flying any flags.
None of the videos we've put out on the Boonies have been anything political.
It's neutral.
And they say, we don't want you here.
Understand the game they're playing.
They want their politics to be default.
So they say, we're not leftists.
We don't want his politics.
But the politics the Boonies has brought has been neutral.
This is the game they play to win the culture war, and we'll play it all the same.
On his YouTube show, Poole has cast the decision to purchase the park alternatively as just savvy business decision and a jab at the woke elements who sought to keep him out.
No, I didn't.
That's an exaggeration.
We wanted to build a skate park.
If we want to build a skate park, we have to make sure that we are going through all these legal channels.
The city has already granted permission for this property to have a skate park.
Done.
There's a building there.
The owners say they're planning on moving out to a newer location.
Skate shop.
Done.
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tim pool
Poole claims his critics have tried to cast him as a comic book villain, when his only- claims?
They literally wrote that I was!
When his only crime was offering tens of thousands of dollars to improve a sport he loves.
I tried to give them $20,000 for nothing, and they got mad.
But Poole has also described the purchase as a win for the right, saying it was part of a real-world effort to win a culture war.
And I will say that again.
Thank you, Will Sommer, for pointing out, for political reasons, they threatened me with violence to remove me from the spot.
We don't want his politics here.
Okay?
There's political stuff they've written at the skate park.
They invited Embark Skate Shop with a pride flag in their window to come to that spot.
So when two choices are made, the politics of Tim Pool and the politics of the left, they said, politics of the left, you are welcome.
Politics of the right, you are not.
Thank you.
Pools also uses his platform to push back on other charges from what he called woke leftist foes, that he isn't even good at skateboarding.
Wait, what?
Oh, oh, oh, yeah.
To prove it, a July show, Poole showed his audience several recent videos of him putting off difficult tricks.
Sure.
It was a Switch 360 flip.
It's a first-try trick for me.
I do it relatively easily, Poole said, analyzing one of the clips skating.
But these are the lies they push because they're trying to say I can't do anything.
Indeed, they are.
The narrative they're trying to run with.
Actually, I can show you one right here.
I love it.
Evan Jones says, Tim orders his boards online and selects the Apply Grip Tape For Me option.
Indeed.
That's a Tactics skateboard board I ordered to downsize from an 8.5 custom board, which we apply the grip to ourselves, to an 8-inch board for the purpose of flip tricks.
So, the fastest way to get this done, as we're currently ordering the Boonies boards, is we got a bunch of 8.5s ordered, 8.5 inch boards, and I was talking to a couple of the pros that skate here, some of our friends, and I'm like, I'm pretty sure that if I go down in size to an 8 inch board, I'll be able to land more flip tricks, because when I was skating a long time ago, I used smaller size boards.
And when I started skating stairs and rails in Los Angeles, I upgraded because you're more airtime, easier to catch.
And I'm like, now that I'm getting older, I'm not going to be doing any of that bigger stuff.
I should probably go back to an eight.
So I overnighted an eight inch board pre-setup.
Yep.
The game they try to play is, Tim Poole's not a skateboarder, he doesn't know anything about skateboarding, he's not a part of this community, so I'll give a shout-out to our good friend Gifted Hater, who put up a video titled, Tim Poole doesn't understand skateboarding, something to that effect.
Go watch it, go watch it.
This guy's a goon.
They call him Weasel.
Let me tell you, buddy.
I'm older than you.
I've been skating longer than you.
In fact, I've been skating longer than you could walk.
That doesn't mean you're not a skateboarder.
It doesn't mean you're bad at skateboarding.
Skateboarding's for everybody.
You're allowed to.
But let me tell you who doesn't understand skateboarding.
The answer is you.
The reality is this.
For every generation and every iteration of human development, cultures change.
And so, what is skateboarding?
What is anything?
What is politics?
What does it mean to be a Republican or Democrat?
Evolves with the latest generation that enters into the fray.
So, when you want to talk about what is skateboarding and who understands it and who doesn't, I would say that while the current generation of skaters still exists with influence in the industry, then The question is, what is the dominant element of the culture?
I can tell you right now, the Olympics, some people don't like it.
Too bad.
It is the dominant element in the culture.
Pro skateboarding, skate videos, skate warehouses, these are the dominant elements of the skateboard industry.
Gifted Hater doesn't understand this.
The industry hates his guts.
Steve Barrow, creator of The Barracks, famously called him out For just insulting and hating on people.
There's a younger wave of skateboarders, if left to their own devices, will turn skateboarding into garbage.
And that's him.
Skateboarding is fun, exciting.
It's an art.
To some it's a sport.
It's release.
It's relief.
It's a fun thing to do.
It's a dopamine release.
It's fun.
And for many it's a sport.
It's an Olympic sport.
The older generation of skateboarders did not do their duty in helping teach young people how to be good, kind, and welcoming into skateboarding to help control the style of the industry.
They tried, many failed.
And what happens is, as the tide sinks, The trash and refuse becomes revealed.
As the tide of great industry and skateboarding melts away, those who are able to sustain themselves leave to get other jobs.
Pro skateboarders.
Mikey Taylor, for instance.
Big fan.
Well, he does real estate now.
Skateboarding didn't last forever, he said.
And he's a good dude.
He's a smart dude.
He's a Republican politician now in Thousand Oaks.
I'm a big fan of this guy.
He was a big inspiration for me growing up skating.
And I'm still a big fan of his to this day.
His business stuff, I'm an even bigger fan now.
I just wish he could have become a millionaire, not doing real estate, but in the skateboard industry that he knew and loved.
But with the decline of industry, those who remain are those, are the bottom feeders.
The garbage at the bottom.
What we need is to reinvigorate and refill, bring that tide back in, which will then cover up the garbage, the people who don't understand what skateboarding is, and only seek to be mean, nasty, and violent.
And that's what's being exposed here.
And that's the mission in this culture war.
That's why I'm doing what I'm doing.
And that's why this is important.
They're going to mention that he plans to build a private club for fans who pay his $100 a month premium program, which compares to the elite networking clubs like Soho House.
Indeed, I do.
Soho House is where, for I think, what is it, $30,000 to $50,000 a year, you can hang out, sit at a bar, and there's a CEO from one company, an executive at another company, and then they go, hey, I got an idea.
And the other guy goes, done.
And that's how they network so quickly, and they can make tons of money.
We need that for working class people.
Poole's expressed a desire to build a sort of conglomeration of businesses downtown that he builds as the anti-Times Square.
Indeed, I have.
Although I've said it won't be me, it will be the people who come to Martinsburg and start setting up these businesses.
There is a diner for sale right now.
Please, someone go buy it.
It's the Blue and White Diner.
Blue and White Grill, I think it's called.
On sale right now.
$600,000.
Ready to go.
Equipment, everything there.
Three-story building.
You could buy it today and be open tomorrow.
Figuratively.
I was hoping Terrence Williams would buy it and turn it into Cousin T's Diner, but I don't see any movement happening, and I don't have the capacity to run 50 businesses.
But to reignite Martinsburg, to expand this city, which is already expanding rapidly, and to make sure that the good people who live there with good values and believe in the family are the ones who succeed, that's the game we gotta play.
I've not gotten permission from Daily Wire.
Saturday Morning Cartoon Show at the coffee shop for children, possibly with guaranteed
conservative cartoons created by fellow conservative pundit Ben Shapiro's The Daily Wire website.
Bent key, absolutely.
I've not gotten permission from Daily Wire.
I'm saying I would like to, once we open Saturday mornings, have a slew of Daily Wire programming
because they're making family-friendly content that we know and trust.
For kids.
And parents can bring their kids in, have a breakfast buffet, hang out at the coffee shop, their kids can meet, they can meet, and that's how we build community.
We gotta bring it back.
They, I said, Poolcast himself is a defender of conservative Martinsburg virtues, claiming that woke younger elements from D.C.
and Frederick are infiltrating the town in search of cheaper rents.
This is a fact.
Prompting local concerns that they're bringing their politics of degeneracy with them.
This is a fact.
The long-standing businesses have come to us for help.
Several of them have already pledged resources to make sure that we win this one.
I'm not going to name any specific businesses, but let me just say we're friends with a lot of the businesses as we're working downtown, and they're hoping for one thing.
They don't want degeneracy.
They don't want children on stage at drag shows.
They just want to be able to live, work in peace, protect their friends and their families and their livelihoods.
They want their businesses to succeed, and so do I. And they're saying, help us.
Deal with the crime.
Help us build this place up.
My small store will thrive when you get other businesses to come in.
It's great for everybody and it's what we hope and dream of.
So hopefully.
They all say Poole has made other forays into West Virginia skateboarding.
Poole lives just outside of Martinsburg and built a private skate park called Boonies HQ in the same county.
Poole's money looms large at the Boonies.
In April, he hosted a bustling skate contest, offering a $10,000 prize to whoever could drop in an 11-foot drop.
It's a 16-foot drop with 11 feet of vert, good sir.
One skater broke his femur in an attempt at the drop and it was taken away in an ambulance, indeed.
Later, saying in an interview on one of Poole's YouTube channels, he probably faces a year of medical treatment and physical therapy before he can skate again.
Pool gave him the $10,000 anyway.
Indeed, I did.
Shout out, uh, dude.
That was, uh, an amazing attempt.
And, uh, I told him.
I was like, you won the $10,000 man prize.
Because, woo, the other dude won $1,000 for his attempts, but he was unscathed, maybe a little bruised up.
What little about Martinsburg Skatepark has changed, Amos said.
Most skaters are staying away because they don't want to be associated with Pool or improve his property with more volunteer construction on ramps.
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tim pool
It's a lie!
I was skiing there the other day.
Mike was working on the quarter pipe.
We've got photos.
I mean, do I even have to pull this photo up?
I sent this photo to, uh...
I sent these photos to him, to Will Sommer.
I posted on Instagram.
I don't want to post too much because the purpose is obvious.
Like, here's an improvement.
Shout out to Mike.
He's been working really hard to get all this done.
Here's a series of photos where several, oh, nope, wrong button.
Several people showed up to fix and improve everything.
There's people in the photos and they got yelled at by some of these people.
Locals, plural, have been helping us to fix this.
We're going to win.
I've gone way too long on this segment.
I don't even know if I care enough.
But you know what?
Every so often, I think I talk about this.
It's important to talk about.
Most of the stuff that we do is not about me.
When I talk on these segments, it's usually news.
But we've got to win the culture war.
So shout out.
I think the story is actually not that bad from Will Sommer.
I wouldn't call it a hit piece.
He pointed out that for political reasons, these people wouldn't let us in, but did let in leftists.
So even if it's not them, they welcome the left and they push out us.
And we're moderates, they call us right, whatever.
He also writes that I gave a dude $10,000 even though he didn't win the contest because he injured himself.
We're helping to cut risk costs, and they were very grateful for it.
And I'm like, I wouldn't trade a broken femur for $10,000 any day of the week, bro.
You deserve it.
And then they say this after Tim Pool bought it.
What's the point, Amos said?
You don't want to go there because who knows what he could do after a year of only repairs being done.
What could I have done?
This is what they do.
They say, we're not political.
He's political, but he can't come because of his politics.
They're telling people that I banned gay people.
Well, Will Summer pointed out I didn't.
And there you have it.
I'm actually glad Will wrote this piece.
I think it's actually well done.
He did the best that he could without being directly involved.
He only interviewed one guy who doesn't skate there, which is kind of weird.
And then they wrote, someone wrote, Tim Pool can't slappy.
It's just silly garbled nonsense.
What they try to do is attack and try and push you out, but it ain't gonna work.
Because, I hate to break it to you guys, Let me give this shoutout to GiftedHater, who doesn't understand skateboarding.
What he has on YouTube is that people find him to be talented, funny, and they like watching his videos.
I know how that is.
It doesn't mean he's right, but I respect it.
But when it comes to skateboarding, I can tell you this.
Dude has been a massive boon for us, and I appreciate it.
That's why I'm willing to say his name.
Others have said, Tim, don't give him airtime.
No, no, understand this.
He made two videos about me, and the skateboard industry at the highest levels despise this man.
I'm not here to say that I despise him or whatever.
I'm saying he made videos about me, I'll criticize him for the negativity he brings to the sport, for the comments that I receive of people being mean and nasty, to the slat forums as well.
But I'd like you all to understand this.
The messages I received from the highest levels of industry, from the biggest sporting events and the biggest companies in skateboarding, because of this guy, has been great for us.
So when they make videos and they say you should work with him, I'll tell you this.
He made a video about me.
He wants to come here.
He wants me to fly him out.
He wants to do a bunch of things.
It's never gonna happen.
Because the industry hates his guts.
He's made himself the pariah of the industry by being this constant negative force.
It's toxic.
Who is it?
Huberman, podcaster, is also a skateboarder, called this out saying skateboarders are toxic.
Several pro skateboarders have quit saying skateboarders are nasty.
And that's who he represents.
When he made these videos about me, I received several pro skateboarders messaging me.
At the highest level of industries, we will be doing podcasts with them who are sick of the hatred.
These hate mongers who ruin skateboarding.
And so, well, here lies the problem, gifted.
You can't come here because we will not entertain vile hatred and toxicity As a path to coming to our spot where we want to have fun.
We will not introduce your hatred into our channels when we're producing fun content.
We don't want that here.
We want to make sure every young person recognizes if you want to be a nasty mean person who excludes people and hates them, then go do it somewhere else we're not interested.
But also tell you this, The people reaching out to us have expressed to us that you are the problem and you're hurting sales, you are hurting growth, and what do sales represent?
New kids skateboarding.
They're trying to get kids to skate, they want to build industry, they want to get more pro skateboarders, they need to sell products.
They need to convince mom to buy a new skateboard for their kid.
They can't.
Because you represent the industry right now too much.
Or I should say the youth on YouTube.
People know you and you drive them away.
The industry has waned to that point, it's sad.
We're going to push back.
I'm gonna leave it there.
I do got one more segment coming up for you for 6pm.
So smash the like button, subscribe to the channel, share the show with your friends, and we will be back with another segment at 6.
And I'll read your superchats now.
Part of me didn't want to do a segment on it, but I mean, I'm in the Washington Post for this stuff.
And, you know, it's wild, man.
I was skating there this weekend, and it's just a hard place to skate.
DIYs are usually like that.
So when you film there, it's pretty amazing when you can land certain things.
We wanted to fix it up.
The main reason we can't fix it up to the extent we want to, they've already showed up and destroyed things.
The locals have said to me, like, there's spray paint on the ground, right here in red, it's hard to see, it says, leave the park alone.
Dudes showed up.
My understanding is, this guy actually told one of our guys, this is all I know, I could be wrong, but one of our crew was skating in Hagerstown, this guy was there, and he said, it was our friend who went and started smashing the park up.
Why?
So, I said, can I build some quarter pipes?
Like, professional?
And they were like, no.
The locals were like, hey man, they're gonna burn it.
They're gonna start a fire.
And I was like, okay.
One guy told me that he showed up and there was a fire already.
So it's like, you can't do it.
And we're like, damn dude, what do we do?
How are we supposed to do this when these overt leftists are destroying everything?
unidentified
Man.
tim pool
Let's grab a couple superchats, but we're running late today.
It's fine.
We'll go a little longer, and then we'll jump to this last story about the absurdity of the modern condition.
Gay trans men to vote for Kamala so he can have more abortions.
Shout out to Tenet Media and Taylor Hanson.
Man.
All right.
Vamp says, yo, I'm an artist and would love to paint murals at your park and design some decks.
What's the best way to contact you directly?
Thanks, G. Uh, that's impossible to contact me.
Like, there was a period where I tried, but I always say, DM, talk to Ian.
Ian's easier to get in touch with.
You know?
All right.
Apex Predator Outdoors says, Tim, you should have Donut Operator on.
He owns a skate shop in South Carolina and Texas.
He has a history of supporting young up-and-coming boarders.
Yeah, big fan.
He's a cop and skateboarder.
I heard that he tried building something and then they destroyed it.
I'm not so sure on the details.
All right, Manipple says do an amateur bodybuilding competition at the skate park to highlight the Get Fit initiative.
Here's a Canadian 20 for the crowd.
Favorite nipple prize.
Okay.
The Canadian Bill has nipples on the statues.
Statue pictures in the back.
Well, there you go.
Alright, let's see.
Manipple says, make the skate park a flexing safe zone.
Guys, I gotta be honest.
The Martinsburg skate spot, anybody who's equidistant, like, dude.
I skated in Hagerstown the other day.
Smooth spawn ranch skate park.
Fun.
Easy to skate.
Not how I design things, but it's a fun spot with some unique obstacles.
It's just so much better to skate at.
The ground at the DIY is so rough and we wanted to, I wanted to lay new concrete down.
We wanted to put between like $100 and $300k into that spot.
We had talked with Spawn Ranch about a $300k budget for a concrete park.
When the problem started coming up, we talked about building the concrete park here instead.
We don't want to do a concrete park here because it's just expensive and eh, so we built some wood stuff.
We wanted to build quarter pipes there.
Instead, we built our own mini ramp here.
It's unfortunate.
Because of these guys going and smashing stuff, because of the far-left extremism, we're not in a position to be able to do this.
I told the city, I offered the 100 grand, but what if, I asked the guy, if they show up and start destroying things like they did at the spot?
He's like, I don't know.
I asked the skate park construction what they'd do.
They said, maybe we'll hire 24-hour security.
I'm like, this is nuts, man.
It's nuts.
Maybe we need to have a jam there.
unidentified
All right, let's read this last story.
tim pool
Ah, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the modern condition.
From the post-millennial gay trans man to vote Kamala so he can have more abortions.
I gotta play this clip for you.
Shout out, this is probably one of, like, Taylor Hanson.
We've had him on the show.
He's a reporter for Tenet.
Tenet's awesome, by the way.
Big shout out to Lauren Chen, to Betty Johnson, as well as the Culture War podcast, which we host Friday mornings at 10 a.m.
on Tenet Media.
Taylor's been doing this field reporting, and this one, he really hit out of the park.
Why are you voting for Kamala Harris?
In this minute-long clip, let me, uh, let me just play it for you.
You can hear it for yourself.
And, uh, crank the volume, and let's roll.
unidentified
Why are y'all voting for Kamala Harris?
I don't want to lose my rights.
Like, I'm a trans man, and I'm gay, and I have been pregnant, and I've had an abortion before, and I don't want to lose that.
I'm afraid of not being able to be myself anymore, because from what I've heard, Trump's America doesn't want me to look like this.
So, that's why I'm here today, and that's why I'm voting blue.
What about you?
I've also been pregnant and had an abortion before.
I was a minor and it would have been dangerous for me to properly, like, it would have been dangerous for me to carry a baby with, like, personal reasons and everything.
I also, like, I'm very, you know, Alternative.
Alternative, and I feel like if Trump were to win, I wouldn't be able to express myself and everything.
I wouldn't be able to have the piercings or the dyed hair or the tattoos that I want.
I would be able to be myself.
My dad's very pro-Trump, and I'm just very...
Pro-Kamala.
Pro-Kamala, yeah.
I don't, you know... Does that cause a divide at all?
Yeah, it definitely does.
He thinks that Kamala's gonna ruin the country, but I think that Trump would do worse.
Like, a lot.
Like, Kamala is going to be good for the country.
tim pool
Well, I don't know why she thinks that's the case.
I will stress this before we read the article and get into breaking down what it means to be a gay trans man who's been pregnant before.
So, actually, I'm not a conservative.
I hear a young woman who said that she was pregnant as a minor and her body couldn't handle it.
I won't immediately cast that out.
First and foremost, there's serious consideration there to how a minor ends up pregnant and can her body actually handle the pregnancy.
I'm not a doctor.
There are challenges there, and honest question for the viewers, because I don't have any answers for this.
If you're a conservative pro-life, and there is a minor female gets pregnant for whatever reason, whatever, by choice, by accident, who knows, ignorance, and the doctor says, your body literally can't do this, you're too small.
Would you then be okay with abortion if it meant the mom dies?
Or like, she's at risk.
In a scenario where they're like, this child is too young to have a baby, she will likely die or suffer permanent damage.
The baby may not survive.
What's your thought on then terminating that pregnancy?
Honest question.
So I don't dismiss that one outright.
Now, as for the gay trans man who's been pregnant before, I got questions.
So the first thing that happens is, this video goes viral, and I'm trying to explain it to some family members.
unidentified
And you can't!
tim pool
You cannot explain this.
Okay.
I love the video went viral.
Shout it again to Taylor Hanson.
Follow him on X because he reports on the ground, talks to people like this all the time.
And if you thought that was good, you should see the rest of his stuff.
Follow Tenet Media.
Watch Tenet Media on X because they're posting these clips all the time.
If you thought that was good, wait to see what else they got.
But this is in the weeds.
So I'm talking to a family member and I said, uh, oh man, this video's going viral of a gay trans man who said they were pregnant and had to get an abortion.
That's why they're voting for Kamala.
And they, and a family member says...
Um, wait, uh, so it's a woman?
It's a man.
It's a man who wants to be a woman.
And I was like, no, no, no.
A trans man is a female who wants to be a male.
Oh, but, so they're gay.
So, so they like women?
Because they're gay?
It's a female?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
A trans man is a female who says, I am a man.
And if a man is attracted to men, they're gay.
Therefore, a gay trans man is a biological female who hooks up with biological males.
Okay.
And that is just being straight with extra steps.
So this individual gets pregnant and has an abortion.
Trying to understand this, I gotta tell you.
Okay, so let's roll, baby.
Let's roll.
Tim Poole's Encyclopedia of Understanding Gender Ideology.
If you were to say a gay transgender man, okay, we gotta slow down here.
What that means is a transgender man who is gay would be a trans lesbian.
I know, I know, but I'm trying to explain it to you because this is what this stuff is.
A trans man As a singular word, is a female who wants to be a man, a male, so they're trans-man.
They're trans from female, transitioned from female to male, right?
Not really male.
But to be a man who is transgender is to say that you're a biological male who is transgender, meaning female.
If you are a gay transgender man, you're a biological man, male, who wants to be a female who is attracted to females.
You see how this gets confusing and hard to explain to people?
Perhaps on purpose.
So you could have a gay, this is funny, and this has happened, a gay trans man in a relationship with a gay transgender man.
All right.
I just, I don't know, I'm trying to break this down for you.
So, in that regard, you have a female wanting to present male, and a male wanting to present female, who are both attracted to each other's physiology, straight sex, and so really all they're saying is that they wear different clothes, maybe?
I guess?
Because the gay trans man wants an intact guy, you know what I mean?
I don't know.
Actually, maybe they wouldn't be attracted to a trans woman, a gay transgender man.
Isn't it confusing?
unidentified
I don't know.
tim pool
They're gonna say, Hanson asked the other Democratic woman why she decided to vote the Democratic ticket, and she said she was very alternative.
So I'd like to point out here, dude, that's mainstream.
What you're doing is totally common.
unidentified
It's like, hot topic.
tim pool
My friend, your alternative, you go to the mall and there is a store just for you in every single mall.
What you are wearing is actually boringly aligned with mainstream society.
It's not unique.
I'm sorry.
So imagine this reality.
unidentified
It's like Trump gets elected and he's like, the first thing we're gonna do is, you know, I saw this young girl and she had long nails.
It's no good.
So we're shutting down Hot Topics.
Gotta go.
No more dressing in black with long nails.
tim pool
Don't you just love it?
That's Donald Trump's America, ladies and gentlemen.
Now, don't get me wrong, Donald Trump may come out and be like, you know, we just have too many abortions.
unidentified
Can't have it.
Just gotta go.
tim pool
And that, yeah, that I could imagine Donald Trump saying.
But, um, you know, in the end, this is the kind of video that I would request you show all of your friends and family members to help them understand.
Kamala doesn't have anything to offer.
It's just not Trump.
Post Malone says, the punk and alternative movements blossomed in the 80s, both in the U.S.
and Britain, while both nations and starkly conservative leaders, blah, blah, blah.
You know what I can't stand?
These alt-girls, they call themselves.
They're like, I'm an alt-girl, I'm so different.
It's like, bro, you shop at Hot Topic.
You're part of a massive subculture in the United States, okay?
There is, you want to dress weird?
Wear clown costume.
Dress up like a banana.
Say, I'm a banana girl, nobody likes me.
What you are doing here is the epitome of normal.
You know, I gotta tell you this, though.
Voting for Kamala Harris is also as default normie as you could get.
But welcome to America, my friends.
Welcome to what young people are led to believe.
I suppose you have conservatives to blame for this to a certain extent.
My guys.
My TPUSA friends.
Chill out on the suit wearing.
Look, what am I wearing here?
I got a button-up shirt, unbuttoned, my sleeves is rolled up, and I'm wearing a beanie.
While it's certainly not like gauged ears and lip piercings or anything like that, it's certainly not wearing a suit.
Kind of in the middle.
I'm wearing jeans, a t-shirt, a beanie, and this button-up.
I only wear the button-up on this show, by the way, or if I'm coming from the show.
So if you ever see me out wearing this, it's because I just came from the show.
Otherwise, like I was skating, when I was skating last week, people were like, Tim's wearing a blue shirt with a gray beanie.
Well, yeah, I'm not gonna wear all black in the sun, are you nuts?
And then the best part is when I take the beanie off and I squeeze all the sweat out.
So anyway, I digress.
The conservatives have an inverse problem.
You go to a lot of these events, because I've been there, and everybody's wearing suits.
Not literally everybody, but a lot of people.
The libertarians, with all due respect, seem to have no sense of style at all.
The liberals have this element within them, and it's breaking apart, it really is, that it's a bit more creative.
Republicans need to embrace this.
And they've been doing it a little bit better.
You should have... I love how she's like, I'm alternative, like, dude, come on.
No one cares you're dressed like that.
There's not a single conservative.
If she went to TPUSA and she was there, they'd be like, glad to have you!
You voting for Trump?
And if she was like, no, but I'm here to listen to it, cool.
Nobody would be like, how dare you wear that?
I would just, I'd love to hear Trump just go off on this tirade against Hot Topic.
unidentified
They're storing our malls!
It's corrupting children!
It's making them wear all black!
Not good!
tim pool
Yeah, no, that's never gonna happen.
It's not even on the radar.
But shoutout to the twisted and warped ideologies of a woman who is straight with extra steps.
Shoutout to Tenet Media as well.
I'll wrap it up there.
Next segment's tonight at 8pm over at youtube.com slash timcastIRL.
Thanks for hanging out, and we will see you all then.
For everybody else, we went a little bit over.
I gotta get to work in some other areas.
So we went a little long, but it's okay.
It's okay.
Sometimes we do long shows.
And we'll be back tonight at 8 p.m.
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