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Thank you.
Now, he goes on to say that it appears Politico seems to have received $8 million, but let's just clarify.
That's not from USAID, though I do have questions.
It is largely known USAID was funding media around the world in some form or another.
BBC Media Action, a charity.
Received 8% of its revenue from USAID. But the big scandal here is that the U.S. government has been buying subscriptions to news services that cost insane amounts of money.
And of course, people want to make the argument, but it's a legitimate service that this news entity provides.
It's intelligence gathering.
So let me just take a pause real quick and lay it out right away for all of the naysayers, the corporate press, the liberal media.
Why would our government, with its very own CIA, be spending millions of dollars per year or more on intelligence-gathering tools from the private sector?
I mean, don't get me wrong.
If a handful of people at the CIA were like, we want premium access to behind-the-scenes in these newsrooms, I'd say, okay, I guess.
It's a little mockingbird-ish, but if you're just a customer, maybe.
But when you have, for instance, What was it?
Department of Energy?
I think 172 subscriptions for one year, costing $400,000.
It's really simple, my friends.
These companies may make tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars, however they do, fine, whatever.
But it's actually simple in that a kickback's a kickback.
And if the government says...
Sure, we'll subscribe to your exorbitantly expensive government tier.
What's basically happening is on the surface, first and foremost, your tax dollars are being given to these liberal media outlets.
Nothing else matters at that point.
We shouldn't have the government spending millions of dollars per year on corporate press outlet subscriptions that cost way too much money.
And they say, but it's special tools.
I don't care.
But now we have another scandal.
This story broke the other day, and there's a deep dive now.
Kamala Harris, 60 Minutes interview, has been released by the FCC, and the FCC is none too happy.
Donald Trump is saying CBS should lose their license for interfering in an election.
Why?
Well, they interviewed Kamala Harris and then edited her answers to make her look better.
Not an exaggeration.
That's what's being reported.
So we're going to break all of this down.
We've got more information on USAID. The scandal is emerging.
And then we got some updates as the media and the liberals and the Democrats attack Elon Musk.
I got news for y'all.
Elon Musk has turned X around.
He doubled their earnings and more than doubled their margins.
Massive.
Revenue is down.
But he cleaned the place up so much, he's making money.
And the people who invested in Elon to buy X, invested in X, they are cashing in.
Because surprise, surprise, the world richest man knows how to make money at a company.
Bravo.
But we're going to start with Donald Trump calling out USAID, breaking down the mis and disinformation from the corporate press, clarifying the errors that we've seen.
And then we'll talk about this CBS interview with Kamala Harris, which I gotta be honest, I ain't watching an hour of that woman ramble.
To be fair, me and a handful of others, we all made the joke.
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Billions of dollars have been stolen.
Trump slams USAID for payoffs to fake news media like Politico.
It's from the post-millennial Libby Emmons writes, as the strings begin to unravel at the agency formerly known as USAID, Or the United States Agency for International Development.
President Donald Trump lambasted the spending that's been taking place there.
He said in a Truth Social Post that billions of dollars have been stolen at the agency, much of it going to the fake news media.
This is probably not correct, okay?
I think it's largely not correct.
Now, I think about $44,000 USAID spent on these subscriptions to Politico.
The issue is the government as a whole.
The DOD is doing it.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that numerous government agencies were paying for premium Politico subscriptions to the tune of over $8 million during the Biden administration.
Very strange.
Well, the government agencies had subscriptions to the Politico Pro Service prior to the Biden ascendancy of the White House.
Those figures skyrocketed once he took office.
Another major scandal at USAID is that the month, like right after Biden lost, Hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars were dumped in a variety of charities.
We know what's going on.
They knew they were out.
Biden knew they were out.
So they started putting kickbacks.
That's what it appears to be.
I say appears to be.
OK, talk to my lawyer.
Well, government agencies had subscriptions to the pro service.
Those numbers jumped when Biden took office.
Officials at multiple agencies under the Biden admin were paying for a service from the left leaning outlet.
This was the outlet that quashed the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the election in 2020 by publishing a letter from 51 current and former intelligence officials claiming that it had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation.
Politico also leaked the decision from the Supreme Court in the Dobbs case, which overturned Roe v.
Wade, turning the question of abortion legality to the states.
Trump says...
Looks like billions of dollars have been stolen at USAID and other agencies, much of it going to the fake news media as a payoff for creating good stories about the Democrats.
So I'll just pause right there.
Trump's not wrong.
Clarification.
I thought he was saying USAID did this.
He says, and other agencies.
Okay.
Much of it going to good stories about Democrats.
The left-wing rag known as Politico seems to have received $8 million.
Did the New York Times receive money?
They did.
Who else did?
I believe it's been reported that the AP and Thomson Reuters did as well.
This could be the biggest scandal of them all.
Perhaps the biggest in history.
The Democrats can't hide from this one.
Too big, too dirty.
I see these people coming out.
These libertarians being like, guys, they're just government subscriptions.
I'm going to say it again.
Let's play this game.
Here's what I'm going to do.
Timcast.com has a $1,000 tier.
That's right.
Go to Timcast.com right now and sign up for our $1,000 tier.
$1,000 per month.
Maybe we'll get 172. Let's do this.
172 members of the government can sign up for $1,000 a month tier and then we'll have $172,000 a month coming in just because, you know, it's very important subscription services.
At the $1,000 a month level, you can call me on the phone.
How about that?
You know, honestly, like, let's actually say yes.
If you sign up for a thousand bucks a month at Timcast, I'll legit send you my phone number.
Just don't call me while I'm live.
I honestly don't believe anyone.
My point is, what if the Trump administration announced that they were going to have 300 employees sign up for a thousand dollar a month Timcast special member program because they needed to talk to me and get my expertise on issues and all of the people here.
Yo, Democrats would scream it's money laundering.
Democrats would scream Trump's funneling money to his cronies and his allies.
Isn't it obvious?
And they're not doing it.
So anyway, sign up for $1,000 a month at TimCast.com and I'll give you my phone number.
And then I guess people will sign up one time to buy my phone number and then cancel it.
We do have the TimCast Elite Club, $100 a month.
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We're working on expanding things a bit more.
The goal with the show we're doing, the Culture War show with members, it's going to be probably like a $25 a month tier.
We have to screen out psychos because security is very expensive.
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We're trying as hard as we can.
Looks like billions of dollars.
Also on Wednesday, the White House said that the subscriptions to the service would come to an end right away.
At the White House press briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt confirmed the federal government would no longer subsidize these subscriptions.
USAID has gotten a lot of attention over the past couple of days with some of these bizarre things that we've seen.
Taxpayers have been funding.
Now it looks like there are a couple of media outlets that have been dragged into the conversation as far as USAID funding as well.
Does the president have a comment at that a reporter asked?
And as Trump clarified, it's other agencies as well.
So we got a lot to break down, and let's do it.
Trump now is calling for 60 Minutes and CBS to be terminated.
I'm going to put a pin in this one.
Because I want to show you some USAID stuff first.
In response to what Trump said, Jack Posobiec chimes in saying he is targeting their resources now, removing their ability to wage war the pincer movement is forming.
This is why I referred to this as Donald Trump's march to the sea.
Do you guys know the story of Sherman's march to the sea?
Man, brutal.
Civil War home, he was like, I am going to march through the south through Georgia and burn every field and destroy train tracks, kill civilians.
Merciless.
The idea is in scorched earth, you take away their ability to wage war, not by just targeting their barracks or fortified positions or whatever.
You target their ability to eat food.
You target their ability to transport goods.
Donald Trump going after USAID. It's basically saying we're going to cut you off from your resources, and that's why Democrats are losing their minds.
Mike Cernovich chimes in.
This issue's crazy.
USAID gives grants to far-left-wing nonprofits.
Nonprofits pay their employees six-figure salaries, mostly in the $300,000 to $500,000 a year range.
I'd estimate that over half of the D.C. economy is an outright looting of all of us.
Via USAID grants.
Maybe not.
It's not just USAID, bro.
But he's largely right.
Loudoun County, Virginia, just outside of D.C., has the highest median income in the country.
And I'd imagine maybe even the world.
Now, if you want to go by per capita, I think it's there's I looked it up.
It's like, what, Teton County, Wyoming or something, where like a ton of ultra-rich people live.
And there's like 50 super-rich people, so it's technically the highest income.
But in terms of your run-of-the-mill neighborhood in an urban area, Loudoun County, Virginia.
And what is this?
It is the D.C. elites.
It is the lawyers.
I got some stories for you.
There's one dude out here in West Virginia.
He's buying up tons of land.
And he's doing good development.
I got no beef.
I don't know anything about the guy.
But I asked someone, like, how is this guy, like, what does he do that he's buying up all this expensive property?
And they said he's a lawyer in D.C. And I'm like, are you kidding me?
That's crazy.
I gotta be honest, man.
It's pretty wild that I can sit here, speak to millions upon millions of people every day.
And sell products and do sponsorships.
We've got a ton of members.
And we don't come close to scratching the surface of how much money these D.C. elites make.
Now, Cernovich points out a lot of them are getting $300,000 to $500,000 a year.
But I've got a question, Mike.
How many of those people are on multiple boards?
How many of them serve at multiple agencies?
I've got stories for you because I work for these nonprofits.
Here's how they do it.
They'll start Nonprofit A, a 501c3 charity, tax deductible.
We don't engage in politics.
They'll also then have Nonprofit Action, a 501c4, not tax deductible, allowing them to engage in political action.
And so interesting things happen when you fundraise here.
The executive director of Nonprofit Charities says, my friends, I only get paid $50,000 a year to do this job.
I sacrifice for all of you.
And they go, wow, I make more money than this guy.
He must really care about his charity.
I'm going to donate.
And then they do.
Little do they know.
The donation actually goes to nonprofit Action 501C4, not tax deductible, where the executive director of that nonprofit is the same guy, but he's taken home $1 million a year.
So when he tells you, I only get $50,000, he's not lying.
I mean, he's misleading you, but he can always say, hey, I never said I didn't have any other jobs.
So the question is, when USAID is giving grants to weird nonprofits, and there's a guy on the board, or he's in an executive position, executive director is basically the CEO of a nonprofit, and he's getting $500 a year, take a look and see if this guy or lady is also...
A director, consultant, or otherwise for any other nonprofits, because how much you want to bet, they're taking in millions of dollars per year, working several jobs.
And they're lawyers, maybe.
But that's the game, isn't it?
That's what they do.
Now, in response to Elon Musk gutting the system, we have a good one.
Redhead Libertarian pointed out, Josie, Trump said, quote, Elon Musk will head up.
A government efficiency department in September of 2024. 30 states, every swing state, 74 million voters, the popular vote, the libs.
No one voted for this.
I specifically voted for this.
I intentionally voted so that Elon Musk would gut the bloat and do an audit.
That's all it is, right?
An audit?
Politico, man.
This is it.
The liberal media is done.
Politico co-founder says the liberal media is weaker than ever in interview.
CNN and other liberal media outlets have been forced to cut staff this year.
You want to know what really irks me, my friends?
YouTube props up CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.
You know, I know, we all know, because I got the demographic numbers.
Regular people are not watching talking heads.
Yo, some people get their news from, like, Patriot Guy 93. And it's some like younger millennial dude.
And he's just like, here's what Donald Trump said.
And it's a million views.
People get the news from individual personalities that they trust and think are authentic.
So how is it that CNN pulled in like 130 million views?
Because YouTube props them up as authoritative.
Here's what we need.
Facebook says they're backing off the censorship.
Well, I'll tell you what bothers me is that you go back 10 years when we were all creating on YouTube.
And if you search the news, I might come up.
You might be like, hey, what's going on with that foreign policy thing?
Tim Pool pops up and I say, here's a story from CNN, New York Times, Fox News, Breitbart.
Here's what I think.
Here's a map of the area and here's an expert.
YouTube then went, we don't know you.
We don't care about you.
We do not want homegrown news talent.
And they nuked me and everybody else.
And now, when you go to news, what do you get?
CNN. MSNBC, Fox, CBS, etc.
And what makes them inherently better than any of us?
Nothing.
What I love about these fact checkers, do you know what fact checkers do to fact check?
They ask the New York Times.
That's it.
So when you see a story that comes out and the media goes, fact check, false.
Did Donald Trump actually donate his salary?
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How do they know?
The New York Times says otherwise.
What makes the New York Times the end-all, be-all?
NewsGuard, we stopped using a while ago because they're absolute trash.
And it's funny because I was a big proponent.
I was like, hey, look, these are their standards, but here's the problem.
They weren't doing any fact-checking.
NewsGuard is an agency that is trying to claim some outlets are or are not trustworthy.
The problem is, no matter what happens, they claim the New York Times is 100% correct all the time just because.
That's it.
And when they come to places like Timcast, they would rate us by saying, you claimed X, but the New York Times said otherwise.
And I said, what makes them right?
Why are they the default correct?
Interesting.
What was that?
U.S. government is putting subscription money into them?
How much you want to bet?
Here's what I'm curious about.
Black budgets.
How many subscribers to these outlets?
Are sock puppet accounts with money being funneled to them?
If the CIA or any other government entity surreptitiously ran 10,000 fake accounts, not hard to do, and used a network of bunk financial transactions, not hard to do, especially for the federal government, so that the New York Times or any, I'm not saying they do this, I'm saying imagine, and they're like, we have a million paying subscribers.
One million people.
How do we know that's real?
It's hard to know for sure.
I'd like to see us go beyond the surface of USAID and these government subscriptions to the corporate press.
I want to know if there is, and how much you want to bet there is, secret spending on media.
Mockingbird was a real thing.
I can also confirm this to all of you, my friends.
I will say this definitively.
100%.
The State Department does call news organizations to discuss with them their stories.
I can tell you for a fact, I have worked for news agencies where I know for a fact the State Department called their heads, the heads of these companies, the executives, to discuss what their stories are and what's going on.
When they come out and they say, we bought a premium subscription of Politico, sounds to me like what they're saying is, The DOD, DHS, the Department of the Interior, what they're basically saying is, when we spend a million dollars a year on you, I know you get a lot of money across the board.
A million bucks is a million bucks.
They say, take care of the pennies and the dollars take care of themselves.
What does that mean?
It means if you're running a big company and you have a revenue of $100 million a year, 1% is still substantial.
So if the government is saying, look, we're one of your biggest clients.
Answer the phone.
They do.
Because they don't want to report they lost a million dollars out of a hundred.
It's one percent, but that matters.
More importantly, as someone brought up in the chat yesterday on Timcast IRL, they may make a hundred million dollars.
And I'm saying like, insert random news organization, a hundred million bucks a year, whatever.
Maybe their margins, maybe it's a hundred million revenue and their profits only a million bucks.
And that means the people who run the company aren't seeing a return.
Along comes Big Daddy government that says, we'd like to buy $1 million in premium subscriptions.
And that dude says, that's a million profit.
That is a 33% increase that goes into my pocket.
So when you're comparing a company that makes $100 million a year, but they have 1,000 employees and they got to pay everybody and so they don't have high margins.
That million dollars might be a million dollars put in the pocket of an executive.
That's how big this gets.
Well, right now, what do we see?
Liberal media is weaker than ever.
Indeed, my friends, it has only just begun.
And good.
I am sick.
You know, look.
YouTube's got a new CEO. They started putting Timcast IRL. For a while, they were featuring us in their live.
They kicked us out.
You know, go figure.
But usually, If you go to youtube.com slash live, you'll see us at the top of their live page.
And then periodically, we will appear on what's on the default front page.
It's algorithmic now, so they don't editorialize.
The machine just chooses.
But I got a question.
I got a question.
Why is it that we average something like 55,000 concurrent viewers per night?
We average about 350,000 overnight.
And I think it's like five, six hundred thousand in total for per episode within just a day.
Shouldn't the algorithm be like, wow, high retention time, high viewership?
They should be like, if the show is good and people like watching it, the algorithm should be suggesting it.
Why for not do they do this?
Because the game is rigged, my friends, and it's been for a long time, and I'm hoping we change it.
Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei said in an interview published Tuesday that the liberal media has reached a low point in popularity and influence.
Uh-huh.
There's a market for ideological, he said.
The left right now, liberal media has probably never been weaker in my lifetime than right now.
CNN and NBC News, among other liberal news outlets, have reported layoffs of staff this year amid concerns over lower ratings in a changing media landscape as podcasters continue to grow their audiences.
Indeed, we do.
My friends.
Become a member at TimCast.com.
That's the only way we do it.
I'm just going to say this.
I know not everybody can.
I know not everybody wants to.
I respect it.
But personally, this is just me.
I am offended that Politico has so many subscribers.
It's just crazy, isn't it?
But hey, so be it, I guess.
I am offended that the New York Times has so many subscribers.
Now, to be fair, the New York Times runs subscription-only news.
These are big brands.
I get it.
I get it.
But man, doesn't it suck?
Don't you all agree that it is so brutal that they lie all the time about so much, about basically everything, and people keep dumping money into them.
We need to break the machine.
I think we are.
I think there's cracks in the facade.
The veneer is starting to peel, as it were, and so we're doing well.
We're doing well.
We've got big expansion, big plans for Timcast and how we're going to be, you know, we got Timcast News on X if you're not following.
The social team there is producing some of the best source news we've had in a long time.
And so we're kicking things up.
We got the Green Room Show.
But man, we get more views than Politico.
And Politico is reportedly pulling in like $200 million a year.
And I'm like, we suck at what we do.
That's just it.
I got to be honest.
We get more views than them consistently, and they crush us in revenue generation.
Now, to be fair, maybe we should offer a $15,000 a year package.
I guess we technically do with the $1,000 a month package.
We should be offering these premium, ultra-high-level packages, and then we should be selling to the government.
Don't you want to know what's going on behind the scenes?
I mean, Tim Castile has members of Congress and we can draft newsletters just for you.
Sure.
That's the game, right?
According to internal data shared with the digital news site Semaphore, the Washington Post lost most of its daily digital traffic during Joe Biden's time in office.
Semaphore reported that January, the Post's daily traffic last year reached a nadir of just about a quarter of what it was.
The Post had around 22.5 million daily active users.
To be fair, that's very, very much bigger than us.
But get this.
By the middle of 2024, its daily users hovered around two to three million.
We do way more than that.
We do way more than that.
I think Timcast does about five million per day.
Let me do the math.
Is that like five million per day?
I don't know.
I think so.
I think it might be comparable.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think we're about comparable.
Man, we should...
If they're getting three million daily users, how do we not generate the hundred million dollars that they're...
Hey, look, maybe I just got to figure it out.
Maybe we got to figure it out, huh?
We need more members.
I got to tell you, it does hurt me emotionally that more people are willing to sign up for the Washington Post than Tim Gass.
Yeah, well, you know, it is what it is.
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It is what it is.
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We got to do better.
You know, I'm not going to sit here and cry about it.
They are doing better.
The corporate press is better at getting subscribers and making money than we are.
We got to turn that around.
And we will.
We will.
We'll figure it out.
That means we need better products.
It means we need documentaries.
It means we need behind-the-scenes content.
It means proprietary live streams, whatever it means.
I suppose the fear for a lot of us in media is that people would be unwilling to pay.
If I said, we're going to put a show behind a paywall, I think the truth is people would pay for it.
And we only scare ourselves by not making that content.
So we want to have a good mix of free and premium stuff.
But we'll figure it out.
We'll figure it out.
We got a lot of stuff in the works.
Quote, Could MSNBC in a kind of digital, social, traditional TV world, could they build that into something bigger?
They could if they have smart leadership and you have a really good plan and you have personalities that people gravitate towards, and they certainly have.
Mentioning Rachel Maddow, Joe Scarborough, and Michael Brzezinski.
Their ratings are apocalyptically low, my dudes.
Okay?
There's a lot to work with.
You just got to change.
You just got to stop worrying, thinking about how great it was, because it was great, and it is never going to be great like that again, great again like that, right?
But that doesn't mean it can't be good, and that it can't be successful.
It just means you're going to have to buckle up and be ready for extraordinarily high-velocity change.
You know what, man?
When they say this, the liberal media has never been weaker.
I accept we are winning.
Personally, here at TimCast, we got to step it up.
We gotta crank it up.
We need sports.
We need gaming.
We gotta crank it up.
And we're gonna do it.
We're gonna do it.
We're gonna figure it out.
And that's really what the truth is.
You know, if you look at, like, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and to an extent, Politico.
Politico is mostly politics.
But they offer more than just one thing.
Timcast, you get what you get.
I talk about culture and politics.
We gotta figure out how to make a better selection of members-only content for all of you.
And for everybody who hasn't subscribed.
Now, what we're working on right now, as I said, is the culture war live and members get to sit down in the chair and join the debate.
And I think it's going to be big.
We got the idea kind of from Jubilee, how they have that thing where they'll sit down one person and surround them by a bunch of people who will then debate for 10 minutes.
And I was like, what if we combined these?
Like, what if we made it so that we had our culture war debate show, but how do we make it more than just what everyone else does?
And Sean, Sean Frasek, shout out, he had a great idea.
And he was like, we should do it with a live audience and let them join in.
For a lot of these people, it's their chance to get up on these shows and, like, make their point.
It could be a big break for a lot of people, especially if we get liberals in who want to argue with, like, let's say we have a guest on.
You know, some prominent conservative.
Maybe it's like Charlie Kirk or Ben Shapiro.
Who knows?
And then some liberals like, I want to sit down next to that man.
I want to debate him and I want to say these things.
I think it could be a really good way to get people involved in community and be just bigger than whatever it is they offer.
But anyway, my friends, I digress.
I digress.
Let's get back to the news because we got big news.
We do.
I have a tweet here.
Which one is this?
Brendan Carr of the FCC tweeted out.
CBS provided the FCC with unredacted video and transcript of VP Harris's 60 Minutes interview in response to the FCC's review of a news distortion complaint.
CBS did not ask for confidential or non-public treatment of these materials.
Given the value of transparency and the public interest here, the FCC is taking two actions.
The FCC is making these materials publicly available.
The FCC has concluded that establishing a docket and seeking comment on the issues raised in the complaint would serve the public interest.
The people will have a chance to weigh in.
And so Trump now is calling for the termination of CBS's license.
Now, of course, Democrats are saying, no, how dare you?
You can't do this.
My friends, CBS editorially took it upon themselves to change Kamala Harris's answers to make her look better.
How can you how can you do that?
That's crazy.
No, look, I understand that sometimes interviews are edited for time.
I still think that's egregious and a violation.
Look, when we do a show at TimCast IRL, it's live.
That's it.
If someone's saying something, they only get cut off when they get cut off.
But when you watch these interviews in the corporate press, they'll give an answer and then it'll jump cut and you don't even realize they said something else.
There was a famous moment where Avi Yemeni was doing a show, I think it was on Comedy Central.
He recorded himself.
That because he knew when they filmed him, they were going to put up fake news and accuse him of being racist and saying all these things.
So he recorded it raw.
And sure enough, they did.
That's what they did.
Take a look at this.
Daily Mail says all the damning moments CBS edited out of Kamala Harris controversial 60 Minutes interview.
They say all the damning moments CBS edited out.
Trump claimed the sit down had been rigged.
And the unearthed version now shows that CBS only aired 20 minutes.
I will say this first.
A lot of it is nonsense.
Like Kamala sitting down and like moving her hair to the side and saying, like, how much time do we have?
And are we going to do this, that or otherwise?
OK, sure.
And none of that's really material.
Check it out.
They said the unedited clip opens when the former VP sneezing with her sneezing and explains she's allergic to mold.
In other places, Kamala Harris gave rambled answers on why she should be president, foreign policy and Trump.
All of which were quietly nipped by CBS. The full version of the interview shows that while Harris gave a lengthy answer when asked about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, CBS only aired about seven seconds.
Here are the damning differences.
Harris slamming Trump as racist is edited out.
Interviewer Bill Whitaker asked, then vice president, and talking about the person you're mentioning right now, you've accused Trump of using racist tropes.
In fact, you've called him racist.
In the uncut version, Harris bashed Trump for having a bouquet of microphones at his disposal and for his most vile lies about people in Springfield, Ohio.
In the unearthed version, Kamala also made a bizarre boast about how when she was a DA in California, the words I spoke could move markets.
Weird.
They're going to mention much of what was edited out.
Her answers on Israel were edited out.
Her answers on the Iranian threat were edited out.
This is crazy.
Her answers on why she should be president were trimmed.
Her answers on NATO and the war is trimmed.
Her economic plan answer is chopped up.
Her answers on China and Taiwan are edited out.
This is nuts!
CBS cuts crucial line from Harris's answer on the border crisis.
Absolutely insane that CBS would do this, directly interfering in the perception people have.
So Trump has said, nuke it.
Here we go.
From Yahoo News, posted from the Daily Beast, President Trump called for CBS News 60 Minutes to be immediately terminated and its network shut down as he escalated campaign threats to punish media outlets that don't offer coverage to his liking.
Let me stop you right there, you media scumbags.
What Trump is saying is that you were intentionally manipulating the words she said to benefit her.
Did you guys see the leaked email where intelligence officials were like, We're going to claim the Hunter Biden laptop as disinformation to help Joe Biden push back against Trump?
Yo, it's crazy.
These are dishonest people.
They are lying, cheating, and stealing.
They say he also tried to shoehorn the network into an online right-wing conspiracy that falsely claimed media outlets took millions in government kickbacks.
Falsely?
Falsely.
You see the game they play in the world we live in, my friends?
Falsely, they say.
It is a fact that the government was spending millions of dollars, tens of millions, on subscriptions to these news outlets.
In fact, Lisa Reynolds, this is in the Green Room show on TimCast.com.
I think she was mentioning this.
Maybe it's not.
I'm pretty sure she mentioned that congressional staffers, when you get the job, instantly get a paid subscription to these news outlets.
And I'm like, why?
She's like, I guess that's what they want you to read.
That's crazy.
Guaranteed government money.
It's like a utility, huh?
Okay.
I think Congress should pay for everybody's TimCast membership so they can watch the show and the important behind-the-scenes content.
I mean, what happens if we have a member of Congress who comes on and they do an uncensored behind-the-scenes show, members only?
We better make sure every congressional staffer gets a TimCast membership.
Let's find out.
Let's find out what we got.
How many congressional staffers are there?
I'm asking Grok.
You gonna give me an answer, buddy?
9,625.
I would have no problem accepting.
You know what?
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
They don't just need an account.
They need premium membership because you don't want to miss out, do you?
So I think the $100 a month tier would be good for the congressional staffers, don't you?
So $9,625.
Let's do $962,000.
Why not?
That's scandalous.
Democrats would call that kickbacks.
I mean, there's Democrat staffers there.
Let's cut it in half and say it's GOP, right?
$400,000 a month.
And they would call that money laundering.
Now, I don't know if CBS should be shut down or whatever, but Trump said CBS in 60 Minutes defrauded the public by doing something which has never, to this extent, been seen before.
They 100% Removed Kamala's horrible election-changing answers to questions and replaced them with completely different and far better answers, taken from another part of the interview.
This was election-changing stuff, election interference, and quite simply, election fraud at a level never seen before.
CBS should lose its license, and the cheaters at 60 Minutes should all be thrown out.
And this disreputable news show should be immediately terminated.
With the new Democrat scandal that just arose with respect to USAID illegally paying large sums of money to Politico.
See, that's where Trump's wrong.
So he did say that.
I was right before.
It's various agencies.
They say money to Politico and other outlets.
The question must be asked, must be asked, was CBS paid for committing this fraud?
Many other questions to come.
They will go down as the biggest broadcasting scandal in history.
Now, here's what I want to say.
We have not yet uncovered evidence that USAID was funding to the tune of massive amounts news outlets.
It's various government agencies buying thousand dollar plans.
Insane.
But how much do you want to bet?
It'll be proven true.
A conspiracy.
They say the difference between a conspiracy theory and the news is six months.
How much do you want to bet that once Elon really digs it?
My friends, it's been a week.
Come on.
It's been a week of doge.
How much do you want to bet?
A few months in, they're going to dig it all up.
They're going to be able to say $50 million was given to this charity, who then gave $30 million to that charity, who then bought premium advertising for $10 million from this news outlet.
And they'll argue, yeah, yeah, but that's just a charity buying sponsorship, right?
Indeed.
They say Politico charges, what, $50,000 to $60,000 to sponsor their newsletter.
And so the question then becomes, if one of these organizations that receives kickbacks from the government comes and says we'll pay a premium for sponsorship, you have a large, incestuous, and circuitous financing scheme going on.
To be fair, some of it's probably legit.
You know, nobody from the government told the charity to give the money to the news outlet.
But what ends up happening in those circumstances?
The guy who runs the news outlet says, You do realize, to his board, the money we get from these three sponsors comes from USAID. And they go, really?
That's right.
So if we read an article saying USAID should be shut down, those charities stop buying ads from us.
And they go, oh crap, don't do it.
We better defend USAID. Otherwise, the revenue of the nonprofits that buy ads from us will disappear.
And then how will we make all of the money that we do?
One.
Big scam.
I love this Rachel Maddow.
I ain't playing a 10-minute clip from Rachel Maddow, but I do want to show you this MSNBC segment from her.
Trump gravely miscalculates how much Americans care about USAID as backlash strengthens.
Rachel Maddow looks at how Donald Trump's attack on USAID has sparked a widespread backlash, including from within his own party, as people speak out for the agency's missions and workers, as well as the economic ties in some part of America.
American to specific USAID programs, all of which Trump appears to have assumed no one cares about.
He's right.
I'll make a bet with you, Rachel.
Let's play a game.
I'm gonna go walk down the street and I'm gonna ask, this is what I said earlier, I'm gonna get a camera guy for every major city and we're gonna ask people, what are your thoughts on USAID? Then, whatever their answer is, the question is, what is USAID? Two things are going to happen.
First, 90% of people are going to say, when you ask them, what are your thoughts on USAID? They're going to go, what's that?
And then you're going to say, you know what?
Don't even worry about it.
Thanks for your time.
Then you're going to get some people on the left who say, I think what Elon is doing is wrong and USAID is good.
And then you go, what is USAID? And they're going to say, it's foreign aid.
It's like, what's not?
Giving grants to charities for gender studies isn't foreign aid.
Teaching Moroccans how to make pots is not foreign aid.
Pretty sure they know how to do that.
Yeah.
No, that's something else.
It's international development.
That's what they call it.
Basically, the idea behind USAID initially was much more conservative as we would view it today.
The idea was we would develop these other nations to our worldview.
The problem is woke took it over a long time ago.
Government bloat, extraction, extortion, etc.
And now USAID is just a big bloated monster that funds other monster programs and other crackpots.
Look, the longest time you've had the government dumping money and anybody who wanted to take it could.
Those people do not want the cash cow to stop.
Now, Trump brings up an interesting question.
Why is Rachel Maddow so heavily invested in USAID? Could it be that she just lives in a world where anything Trump does, he's wrong?
Perhaps.
Perhaps.
You know, I kind of wonder, though, are we going to dig up a connection, indirect but still strong, to the funding of the liberal media from USAID and other big outlets more so than we have?
That is, when we say, A million bucks a year was going to Politico, it looks like.
About a million dollars a year.
But they're estimated to have $200 million in revenue.
The argument is, if they're doing $200 million revenue with $200 million cost, that million bucks looks real good to the executives who had to take that money.
Even if it's only $100 grand each or a million for one person.
Money's money, right?
A million dollars to run a $200 million business, well, it's going to cover a little bit.
But it's not going to keep you afloat.
But if your margins are slim, that's money in the pocket.
My question is, are there actual sock puppet accounts, like I mentioned earlier?
Has the U.S. government, through subterfuge and through psychological operations, set up 100,000 fake user accounts on various media outlets to funnel money to generate the news they like?
I mean, look at us.
We cite the New York Times and Politico all the time.
Are we being played?
It's the podcast presidency.
We're supposed to set the news cycle.
We're starting to.
But how much of the news are we just reporting from them?
Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Well, my friends, we can round it out with this.
While they want to rag on Elon Musk, I want to give a shout out to the richest man in the world.
I can't believe this is shocking news to anybody.
But it turns out the richest man in the world knows how to make money.
Banks sell 5.5 billion of X loans after investor interest surges.
That's right.
You hold debt.
Elon Musk comes to you and he says, I'm going to need lots of money, billions to buy Twitter and we're going to make it X and here's our plan.
And the bank goes, OK, here's the money.
Now, X is generating double its earnings, double its margin, and investors say, we want a piece of the action.
So the bank says, we'll sell you some of the debt, and you're going to get paid interest on top.
And Elon is paying.
He won.
So when Elon has already proved these people they're morons, and now he's going into USAID and other departments, and he's gutting them, and it's all legal.
I'm going to go ahead and say I trust the world's richest man in this regard.
You know, there's Democrats being like, but it's a conflict of interest.
This, that, or otherwise.
I'll be like, bro, you know it's a conflict of interest?
When USAID gives money to a charity that then donates money to a PAC to elect you, that's a conflict of interest.
Here's Wall Street Journal.
Take a look at this.
Oh, also, I love how they show X Corp San Francisco is the building.
Nothing there anymore.
Elon Musk's power in Washington.
And the return of big advertisers like Amazon have Wall Street clamoring for X. Banks wrapped up the sale of $5.5 billion in debt backed by Musk's social media company on Wednesday, people familiar with the matter said.
The banks had originally planned to sell around $3 billion at around $0.95 on the dollar.
They upsized the deal after seeing demand from investors.
In the end, investors, including Pimco and Citadel, agreed to buy the loans at $0.97 on the dollar.
The floating rate debts carried additional rate.
Interest rate of 11%, with borrowing costs several percentage points above even the riskiest loans on Wall Street.
The sale of X-Corps loans showcased the fierce animal spirits that have taken over Wall Street since Trump's election.
Let's scroll down and take a look.
At a meeting Friday with potential investors, bankers from Morgan Stanley and the CEO Linda Yaccarino presented a summary of X improving financial health.
Most striking was the growing interconnection of X and XAI. Musk's artificial intelligence company.
I gotta tell you, I stopped using GPT. Chad, GPT is slow, and it's doing this really annoying thing where it shows you reasoning, and I'm like, I don't care!
Grok doesn't do that.
Grok's been amazing.
Take a look at this.
Financial documents reviewed by investors showed that the artificial intelligence company transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to the social media company, people said.
That money has helped X pay its bills and stay current.
Growing advertising revenue at X should mean fewer transfers.
Here's the important thing.
You want to talk about large language models and how to train AI? This is why Elon wanted Twitter.
Make up all the reasons you want.
One of them was Mars communication.
Probably true.
Training AI off of real-time commentary and news from people all over the world.
It's the best training model there probably is.
Adapting language, adoption of slang.
It's going to have it all.
It's going to have it all.
Plus images and videos.
Incredible.
X reported the investors in 2024 adjusted earnings before interest taxes and depreciation and amortization.
It's a EBITDA 1.25 billion and annual revenue of 2.7 billion.
Investors said that was a better picture than expected.
In 2021, Twitter reported 682 million with 5 billion in revenue.
That was the last full year before Musk took the company private.
So let me stress this.
Twitter was making 5 billion a year revenue with earnings of only 682 million.
Right now, though the revenue is about half at 2.7 billion, the earnings are doubled.
Cut the costs by like 70% to run this platform.
That's crazy.
Wednesday's debt sale is a relief for the banks, which marked down billions of dollars in losses on the loans they extended for Musk's buyout in 2022. A tumultuous start to Musk's run as the ex-owner, along with a steep price he paid to acquire it, compelled the banks to keep their debt on the balance sheet far longer than they usually do.
By January 24th, When the Wall Street Journal first reported that the banks were preparing to sell X loans, the debt investing world appeared eager to bet on the company's future.
Let me just say, my friends, we're going to mention there's still more work to do and X is improving.
Surprise, surprise, the world's richest man knows how to make money.
So here we go, my friends.
We got more segments coming up.
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People are saying audio is cutting in and out.
On my end, everything looks normal.
That's weird.
You're not getting USAID with this quality.
I am looking at my stream.
I am recording it.
People are saying refresh it.
This must be on YouTube's end.
Refresh and interesting.
I'm not even listening to the audio.
Well, that's great.
Some say the audio is fine.
On our end, we're stable.
Internet's working.
Everything's up.
So I don't know if you guys are seeing an issue.
It might be YouTube.
I've got to refresh.
We're only a few minutes away from wrapping anyway.
I'm going to read your super chat, so apologies if you're having issues.
Nothing we can do about it.
People are saying hit refresh.
All right.
Pirate Selection says, I don't think Elon and Doge went out thinking they would uncover one of the biggest cases of corruption in U.S. history.
They just followed the money.
I don't know.
I kind of think they may have thought they would find it.
Copium Poppy says, we have unleashed a couple of music videos detached and obsequium.
Upon the world, definitely don't watch them.
The algorithm won't be pleased.
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Colt Warrith says, I looked at the USA spending site you posted yesterday.
Disney is getting $100 million.
You know?
Very interesting.
Let's grab a couple more.
People are saying refreshing and it works.
It must be a YouTube problem.
Sarah says, thoughts on schools like the Gray School of Wizardry?
I learned about it on Stix's stream, Stix, Hex, and Hammer, and thought it might make for good content for the Inverted World podcast.
I don't know anything about it.
Maybe Shane Cashman.
He's your Inverted World source.
Jason Dixon says, all it takes is 1K. I got that line around.
You want to be a $1,000 a month member?
Bang!
You get my phone number.
I really don't expect anybody to do it.
I don't know.
Maybe people really want my phone number, so they're going to be like, sign up for $1,000, get my number, and then cancel right away.
You know what I'll do?
I'll change my number then.
I'll give every member a different phone number, and the number changes every week.
Actually, I could do a Google Voice and just have it rotate.
Every week, a new post goes up saying, here's the new phone number.
Give me a call.
I'm only saying that because no one will actually do it, because I'd have no time to actually answer my phone throughout the day.
But I guess what I can say is if people really do join the $1,000 a month, then sure.
But then, you know what's going to happen?
Someone's going to buy my number and then just share it with everybody.
So, you know, maybe, I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe we'll just do it.
I'll get a different phone number.
You know, there you go.
1,000 bucks a month, Timcast membership.
Let's make it happen.
If 100, man, could you imagine if 100 people signed up at 1,000 bucks a month?
I wish we had the kind of swing that Politico had with the government.
We'd never have to do anything again.
Dan Munsell says, I can only have decaf.
You're unwoke.
It's such a wonderful flavor profile.
Maybe the hippie should come up with a low acid decaf and really hit one out of the park.
It's a good idea, actually.
It's a good idea.
Yeah, maybe we'll figure out how to do a decaf version of Graphene Dream.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Yo, it's nuts how people are saying...
They love Graphene Dream.
Ian sold a year and a half's worth of coffee in two months.
The way we do it is we order bags, the physical bags with colors on them.
The coffee itself is roasted to order.
So it's like small batches are made when a certain amount of orders come in.
So we bought 5,350 color-printed bags empty, and that's supposed to last us the year.
And then when you order the coffee, the roaster will roast the blend and put it so you get it fresh.
Ian sold the entire years of the bag so quickly that it takes six weeks to print up more bags.
So then when we did, we still only got a half batch printed up in six weeks, and those sold out in a month.
And so now we don't have any bags anymore.
What we could do, we really don't want to, is to get rush orders, is put them in paper bags.
But I kind of think people like the Ian floating thing, too.
So they said, what if we put it in standard, you know, like blank bags and put a sticker on it?
And I was like, let's just order more bags and sell what we were meant to sell.
But we also have Sleepy Joe.
Sleepy Joe decaf.
All right.
Polly Dinto says, Tim, this is the biggest story maybe ever.
Our government has been propagandizing us.
Yeah.
It's a story.
About the stories themselves.
So it may in fact be the biggest story.
Crazy.
Wade Stevens says, Tim, have you looked into gift memberships?
Someone purchases a membership that is randomly given to someone in the chat.
That is a very good idea.
Right now, we've noticed for a while, one of the most difficult things to sign up a member is steps.
So, you've got to go to TimCast.com, you click Join Us, you've got to fill out your information, you've got to sign up for Parallel Economy or Stripe, then you've got to connect your account.
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Oy vey!
So much work!
Regular people are just like, I don't know, man.
So what we're working on right now is, if you go to Google Play Store, you can download the TimCast app.
And what we're working on is one-click membership.
It will have a premium because I think that's how it works.
Google charges a percentage.
And so the way it would work is if you have the app, you click subscribe and it pops up subscribe using your Google Play account.
And you click go and boom, you're a member.
So we're working on that.
We'll figure it out.
So my friends, last one.
Captain Skidmark says USAID is buying the graphene dream.
Maybe!
Maybe the reason Ian's selling out is we're being secretly propped up by the government.
Probably not.
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