The Culture War - Tim Pool - Bill Maher Says He May Vote REPUBLICAN As Democrats Embrace Communism

00:00:00.000 While possibly the most famous liberal today, Bill Maher, says his vote is up for grabs.

00:00:06.660 He may actually vote for J.D. Vance because the Democratic Party has been cowardly and embracing Democratic socialists.

00:00:14.700 Recently, we've seen the DSA announce their plan.

00:00:17.340 They want to abolish the Senate, which would fundamentally change the structure of government in this country.

00:00:23.140 And I would argue that it's rather destabilizing.

00:00:25.420 But we've seen other elements from the leftist faction of the Democratic Party that are a bit more extreme beyond just wanting to seize the means of production.

00:00:35.120 Recently, an individual made some incoherent statements in the main Senate race where the Democrat is favored to win in the prediction markets.

00:00:43.820 And just this morning, an individual suspected of being an anti-ice terrorist firebombed a federal building in Manhattan.

00:00:50.420 Now, not a lot of damage, just a fire was set in front of the building, just off the side of it with some mortars thrown into those fires, explosions.

00:00:59.480 There were two individuals that were injured, minor injuries.

00:01:02.580 So I don't want to exaggerate or claim this is a major terrorism event, but it was low-scale terror.

00:01:08.760 And we've seen quite a bit of that for some time, as well as what I would describe as high-grade terror as well.

00:01:14.760 When Bill Maher calls out the cowardly Democrats in the face of the Democratic Socialists, it's not just about economic policy, which I believe largely Bill is focused on now.

00:01:25.220 Bill Maher famously, as a lib, very anti-Trump and for the longest time rejected much of the narratives that had come out showing the Democratic Party had become more radicalized.

00:01:36.660 But in recent years, Bill Maher seems to be a bit more on point calling out the absurdities of the Democratic Party is introducing in one instance, which I will save for later on in this video as to the graphic nature.

00:01:49.920 The main Senate candidate, Ashley Webb, reportedly has made some, let's just call it biologically impossible and alarming statements about gender, body functions and things of that nature, which suggests it's not just an inability to comprehend economic systems, but it may actually be the Democratic Party's embracing of the DSA, whether by choice or by force.

00:02:17.500 It is not about changing policy in a way that will make this country better, but perhaps it is about the ignorance and mental disorders of individuals who have found a political party that will champion their causes, even if they don't make sense.

00:02:33.300 That is to say, the Democrats were desperate when Donald Trump won.

00:02:38.340 And in their desperation, they turned to a group of people they did not quite understand.

00:02:43.500 And now they are being consumed by it.

00:02:45.900 Perhaps with Bill Maher coming out saying he might actually vote for J.D. Vance, we have a chance to restore some kind of balance in this country.

00:02:54.180 As much as Tucker Carlson has been very critical of Trump, the war in Iran, he's actually praised J.D. Vance as well.

00:03:01.120 And I got to admit, personally, I think J.D. Vance could be a great president for one reason.

00:03:07.220 Call the guy vanilla pudding.

00:03:08.880 Now, hey, hey, there's nothing wrong with vanilla pudding.

00:03:11.840 It's delicious.

00:03:13.000 It's just, you know, it's vanilla pudding.

00:03:15.420 It's it's a basic it's a basic dessert.

00:03:19.220 That's kind of my point.

00:03:19.940 I don't say this to be derisive in any way towards J.D. Vance, just that I think he is

00:03:25.100 kind of a mild-mannered regular guy with the ability to lead and make decisions that I think

00:03:31.140 will ultimately be good for this country and perhaps help us find an off-ramp to the escalating

00:03:36.660 culture war tensions that we see, which I believe is a large—it's an artifact of social media

00:03:44.760 and how the algorithms function. So, you know, every day when I see things like this, I am hoping

00:03:50.320 for stability. And if Bill Maher can come forward and say, you know what? J.D. Vance is the guy.

00:03:56.200 It's not about choosing sides. It's about saying that those of us that dream of a moderate future

00:04:02.240 can come together in agreement that everybody else is crazy. That's a good thing. Let's play

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00:04:59.460 But let's jump to the first story we got here from Fox News.

00:05:03.440 Bill Maher admits he could vote for J.D. Vance, warns cowardly Democrats face socialist takeover.

00:05:10.140 The HBO host calls Democrats cowardly and warned radicals advocating abolishing police and prisons are taking over.

00:05:17.900 I'm such a big Bill Maher fan, and this warms my heart.

00:05:22.420 I've been listening to Bill Maher since I was a kid.

00:05:24.120 Seriously, he was on Politically Incorrect, and the show was on in the background,

00:05:27.000 and didn't pay much attention to it.

00:05:28.420 When he started real-time, I remember being a young teenager,

00:05:31.580 watching Jon Stewart and Bill Maher.

00:05:33.800 My friends, we'd sit on my buddy's couch, and we'd watch real-time every week.

00:05:39.780 And it's amazing.

00:05:41.100 The man has persisted to this day, and I believe his commentary

00:05:44.360 and his insights are extremely valuable.

00:05:46.360 Now, that being said, there was a period where I was deeply critical of Bill because I felt that he wasn't paying attention to what was going on in the world.

00:05:53.540 And I have no problem saying this.

00:05:54.940 And I told him to his face, to which Bill laughed and said, you're allowed to be wrong.

00:05:58.440 And I absolutely love it.

00:06:00.340 Bill's fantastic.

00:06:01.280 And I'm so grateful that we have someone like him with a prominent position in politics.

00:06:05.540 Because while I will say I certainly think he has Trump derangement syndrome.

00:06:09.620 That's OK, Bill, though.

00:06:10.680 I'm still a big fan.

00:06:11.380 There was a period where he wasn't calling out the absurdities the Democratic Party had introduced, but that's not the case anymore.

00:06:19.720 He's using his platform as a liberal to bring on Democrats to challenge them over these things that they were not being challenged on before.

00:06:29.200 Sitting down with ABC, he said this.

00:06:31.880 You told J.D. Vance you're open, your vote is up for grabs.

00:06:35.960 Yes, my vote is in play because it can't be Trump running.

00:06:40.240 So I'm not living in communist America.

00:06:43.360 I mean, I know the talking point is that it's not communism, it's socialism.

00:06:48.520 Okay, I've read the quotes from the DSA platform from their own mouths.

00:06:55.840 Don't tell me I'm not seeing what I am seeing.

00:06:58.640 And DSA, again, they say things like, you know, takeover of key industries, government.

00:07:05.720 That's communism.

00:07:06.940 You know, there is a definition.

00:07:08.300 By the way, Trump's doing that, too.

00:07:10.020 Of course. Yes.

00:07:12.060 And to a degree that we haven't seen any other president

00:07:15.080 do a better Republican deal.

00:07:16.600 That's crazy, too.

00:07:17.760 He's got a piece of intel, a piece of the AI company.

00:07:20.780 He treats everything like it's a real estate deal.

00:07:23.180 You told J.D. Vance here.

00:07:24.480 And I'm going to give Bill Maher this one.

00:07:26.980 Donald Trump, he implemented, I believe it was,

00:07:29.420 was it Quantum Leap, I can't remember the name of the program,

00:07:31.660 to ramp up government subsidy of these AI companies.

00:07:34.900 I understand the argument for this.

00:07:36.580 But that being said, Bill Maher is basically saying, listen, Trump's not going to be the guy in 2028.

00:07:43.800 And this opens the door for a moderate liberal to vote Republican.

00:07:47.940 And I am here for it.

00:07:50.240 Look, I think Trump did what he needed to do.

00:07:53.460 I think he needed to do a lot of other things and he failed in some areas.

00:07:56.360 But I'm very happy with a lot of the things that Donald Trump has done.

00:07:59.580 I'm not a fan of the war.

00:08:00.820 I'm not a fan of the extended closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the destabilization we're seeing in the region.

00:08:06.460 I was a fan of his efforts to stabilize the region, and I'm hoping that we can find some

00:08:10.840 stability here. But there's a lot of things that I think Trump has done wrong. Now, Trump's come

00:08:14.140 out and said that he wants to pass the SAVE Act, but he is not taking action against the politicians

00:08:18.920 who are obstructing him the way he went after Thomas Massey. And by all means, criticize Thomas

00:08:23.920 Massey, because as much as I am a fan of Massey, I disagree with him tremendously on many, many

00:08:29.020 things. But I stand by that I believe he's largely principled. I'm not playing this game that he's

00:08:33.740 some great grandstander. You don't have to like the guy, but he's out. This is it. Trump defeated

00:08:38.600 him, called for him to be primaried, and he was. I don't see Donald Trump doing the same thing

00:08:44.920 with John Thune, who is obstructing the passing of the SAVE Act, which has passed the House now

00:08:50.820 twice, and they want to put into a spending bill. The expectation the parliamentarian and Senate

00:08:55.200 will not allow this, which again, the Republicans could just remove the parliamentarian and be done

00:09:02.700 with it. They could get rid of the filibuster. They could be done with it. But they're not.

00:09:08.320 So the question is, why isn't Trump going after these Republicans the same way? Well, to be fair,

00:09:13.540 it might not be that Trump is not really trying to pass SAVE Act. Maybe he really doesn't want

00:09:19.500 the SAVE Act, but he doesn't have the political capital to go up against so many Republican

00:09:23.600 senators. Senators are substantially more politically powerful than just a single member

00:09:27.860 of Congress. But in the meantime, my friends, more to the point, Bill Maher could actually

00:09:34.600 be Republican. Bill, I welcome you. I made the I made the first switch in 2020. I was supporting

00:09:40.840 Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang in 2020 for the Democratic Party when it was clear. It's such a

00:09:45.740 wild, wild circumstance. You know, Bernie Sanders, I feel, let me down and I was excited for Tulsi.

00:09:50.120 I was excited for moderate Democrats and we could not get there. And today, the Democratic Party is

00:09:55.220 just it's fallen into absurdity. And so I would prefer this. I would prefer a Democrat

00:10:00.980 that was sane and moderate. You know, like I'll put it this way. I'd vote for Bill Maher. I'd

00:10:07.360 vote for Bill Maher in two seconds. And, you know, I actually told Bill, I said, if the Democratic

00:10:11.680 Party listened to you, they'd be winning every single election. And you know what? We'd be happy

00:10:16.780 about it. We would. There's a lot of moderates that are voting for Trump and aren't big fans

00:10:21.720 of Trump. Nine million people switched from Obama to Trump in the 2016. They were Obama voters. Not

00:10:26.520 that they're switching, but they were Obama voters and voted for Donald Trump. Give people an

00:10:30.560 opportunity for a moderate politician, and they're going to take it. And the truth is, Trump has been

00:10:36.340 the moderate the whole time. Now, J.D. Vance, I think, will do a great job, and I'm excited.

00:10:41.440 I wonder if it will be Marco Rubio or what Bill Maher is interested in voting in, if it's not

00:10:46.180 J.D. Vance. But what I will stress is that I think whether it's Rubio or Vance, Bill Maher's

00:10:50.800 vote Republican in 2028. I'd be willing to bet. I'd love to sit back down with him and go over

00:10:55.840 this stuff because he's saying it right here. But I'd love to, in a couple of years, see where

00:10:59.000 his head's at. With all due respect to Bill, he is 70 years old. And so what worries me is this

00:11:06.340 moderate leadership on the liberal side, we call it moderate, but Bill wasn't always a moderate.

00:11:10.900 He was fairly left a long time ago. The left and the right were much closer together.

00:11:17.500 My concern is, and I say this not to be macabre or anything like that, but for Bill Maher,

00:11:25.020 you know, he's 70 years old.

00:11:28.060 Life expectancy is 79 in this country. 1.00

00:11:30.940 And I fear what happens when we lose, you know, not that I'm a big fan of how the boomers

00:11:35.360 ran everything for their generation, but they are still, to a certain degree, a stabilizing 0.53

00:11:40.940 force in that boomers on the left and the right share a lot of their political views.

00:11:46.040 Now, I'm not a big fan, to be completely honest. I'm not saying I like 60 percent, 70, 80. No, I actually don't like a lot of the foreign policy, the neoliberalism, neoconservatism. But that being said, my concerns are what the Democratic Party is turning into. 0.67

00:12:02.280 I've got a few examples. Here's the Washington Examiner. What happens if the DSA abolishes the

00:12:07.720 Senate? I mean, this is just a massively destabilizing action. It doesn't seem feasible,

00:12:13.500 but as the Democratic socialists are ascendant, it is quite possible that, look, things change.

00:12:19.540 Amendments happen. The manifesto comes after a series of primary victories by the DSA,

00:12:24.640 reflecting the organization's renewed energy and long-term plan to replace what it argues are

00:12:28.560 undemocratic institutions within the government, with the government, more directly accountable

00:12:33.480 to voters. Now, what I will say is that if we did get rid of the Senate, the SAVE Act is passed

00:12:38.340 overnight, and it could be tremendously good for Republicans. But I feel that despite all of the

00:12:42.660 problems with the Senate, it's largely been stabilizing for this country. And a fundamental

00:12:47.800 shift like the abolition of the Senate is not the appropriate way to go about things. I believe the

00:12:52.500 best way to deal with the problems of the Senate would be to appeal the 17th Amendment, which

00:12:57.160 turned state appointment of senators into a popular vote. It used to be that local elections

00:13:03.200 were held. The state senators and state representatives would then appoint a representative

00:13:08.160 from their state to go to Washington, D.C. And I believe that's the way it should have remained.

00:13:13.520 The concern back in the day when they implemented the 17th was that cronyism and corruption were

00:13:19.140 getting senators put in place in exchange for backroom deals. But I can tell you this,

00:13:24.520 Having it run by popular vote hasn't improved anything.

00:13:27.220 It's just effectively turned it into another Congress, and we're not seeing anything get done, as it were.

00:13:33.760 They're not willing to do the hard things that they need to do.

00:13:36.700 Right now, we've seen at the state level tremendous action, notably in Texas with Ken Paxton.

00:13:40.880 I imagine that if you had at the local level the appointment of senators, you'd see a tremendous change because they could also recall these senators.

00:13:47.520 More importantly, it would make people in their states understand and actually know who their state representatives and senators are, affecting local policy.

00:13:57.860 You start from the grassroots and you go up to the top.

00:14:00.760 Right now, the way we're doing it, I think, is bad.

00:14:03.040 The DSA's idea to abolish it, yikes, and to really strike the core of what the DSA is.

00:14:08.820 I love this.

00:14:10.340 DSA launches new program.

00:14:12.820 They say these are all familiar everyday activities.

00:14:16.220 A socialist day off could be like any good day now, but what if you were free to spend your time

00:14:21.760 how you like without worrying about cost or dreading going back to work? What if you didn't

00:14:25.960 have to think about paying rent or loans at the end of the month or saving for college or affording

00:14:30.340 groceries? Indeed. It's not real. It's not possible. The reality is life is a treadmill.

00:14:39.200 If you stand still, you'll move backwards. If you walk, you stay where you are. You have to sprint

00:14:44.400 to get ahead. That's an old saying, but it's true. That is, we exist in a state of constant 1.00

00:14:49.660 entropy. If you don't eat, you starve, you die. If you don't breathe, then you get, well, you

00:14:55.520 asphyxiate, you die. Hypoxia, as it were, we need to constantly work to maintain existence as we

00:15:05.180 fight against entropy. That is, in one way of describing it, chaos and disorder. But in fact,

00:15:12.900 the heat of the universe, I'd imagine, would be ultimate order with every remaining particle

00:15:17.760 evenly spread about the universe. We're fighting against that every single day.

00:15:22.880 The idea that you can just not work and everything would be fine is just not true.

00:15:26.820 The reality is when people stop working, it becomes harder for us to get by because we're

00:15:30.540 a social people. We survive because everybody contributes a little bit to lift heavy objects.

00:15:38.100 You ever play that game, light as a feather, stiff as a board? It's so much fun.

00:15:41.620 most of you I assume have gotten a group of people together and carried something heavy

00:15:46.720 and it's amazing when you have something that can weigh a thousand pounds but you get 20 people

00:15:51.720 and it may as well weigh nothing it's truly incredible I love that game light as a feather

00:15:56.620 as a board you can use a couple fingers to lift a person because everyone together their strength

00:16:00.940 just is amplified that is the nature of humanity now imagine if you were intending to lift a person

00:16:06.720 but you had a socialist day off and decided we'll just sit there and stare at the person on the

00:16:11.900 ground okay well that person will stay on the ground and things will not get done this is not

00:16:16.940 the biggest problem with socialists this video went massively viral showing ashley webb a

00:16:23.320 biological male running for the senate in maine who gave what is described as an incoherent

00:16:28.820 rambling response to the question why are you qualified to be a senator let's see if we can

00:16:34.540 get the audio to work on this.

00:16:37.540 And I think we can just unmute it.

00:16:39.440 So Webb, what qualifications

00:16:40.940 do you have to serve in the U.S. Senate?

00:16:43.720 Oh, I ran for office

00:16:44.840 several times. Didn't win, but

00:16:47.000 I did for run. And then

00:16:48.440 I'm a songwriter,

00:16:50.960 and then I write my own books,

00:16:52.980 and then

00:16:53.360 suppose my transparency,

00:16:56.560 I wouldn't lie to the people, and I

00:16:58.820 wouldn't deceive the people like we're being

00:17:00.820 deceived right now.

00:17:01.620 like we get light smoke smoke and mirrors like what's going on with ice pretend like pretending

00:17:08.920 like these victims did something wrong like that's unacceptable um and i suppose the biggest thing is

00:17:17.460 like i'm just an angry citizen now and if i got elected i'd be an angry senator and i think that

00:17:22.020 would probably be the their worst nightmare well okay this individual actually it gets a little

00:17:29.300 bit worse, and that's why I saved this for later. Now, I'm not suggesting Ashley Webb is a member

00:17:36.000 of the Democratic Socialists of America. We can presume this is a more left-leaning individual,

00:17:40.060 but this is a representation of, let's just call it the absurdities of the modern Democratic Party.

00:17:45.780 You come to me and you tell me that Donald Trump is bad, I'm going to say, okay, well,

00:17:48.960 there's a lot of things people don't like about him. I actually think Trump has been a general

00:17:52.200 net positive in his presidency, but he's not a perfect candidate. I just look at the Democratic

00:17:57.040 Party, and I see absurdity to no end and a refusal to acknowledge it, putting me, urban

00:18:03.160 liberal Chicago guy, in a position where I have no choice.

00:18:08.360 Now, I think Trump has done many good things.

00:18:11.200 To be honest, I think there are better candidates.

00:18:14.580 I think there are better people, but it's OK.

00:18:16.900 I don't think Trump was a bad president.

00:18:18.940 I just think he was marginally good.

00:18:21.460 And that's great.

00:18:22.360 That makes him the best president of my lifetime.

00:18:25.480 Let's just put it this way.

00:18:26.320 the bar was so low, it was effectively underground. With Trump, he did some good things. He did a lot

00:18:30.940 of bad things, too, and it's fine to criticize him. Just be reasonable. I'm sick of the Trump

00:18:34.900 derangement. They get mad at every single thing he does. Now, this individual, Ashley Webb,

00:18:40.020 apparently had made claims that he menstruates through his colon. This is not an exaggeration,

00:18:45.460 okay? I want to show you this is Kalshi. The Maine Senate winner is projected to be the Democrat,

00:18:51.320 and so I don't believe that Ashley Webb actually has any real chance of winning in Maine,

00:18:55.740 But the fact that it's being entertained is an absurdity.

00:18:59.760 Now, this is a reportedly, I don't know exactly, you know, it is being reported that this account is Ashley Webb's account.

00:19:06.900 The individual who is a biological male, transgender female, made several posts that, according to at Swipe Right and shared by many others, these are the Reddit comments made by Ashley Webb.

00:19:17.920 And I'm trying to be careful because, you know, for all we know, it's not.

00:19:22.380 But this account has been deleted, is my understanding.

00:19:25.180 The individual said, I have a cycle in which I get monthly cramping like pain accompanied

00:19:29.000 with bleeding.

00:19:29.720 I ovulate as well, although saying my karyotype is X, Y.

00:19:35.600 The individual claims to have period pain and says when you don't have the proper hole,

00:19:40.700 it finds one of two exits.

00:19:42.680 For the love of all that is holy, my friends, this is a biological man who is suffering 0.89

00:19:47.060 some kind of bleeding out of his rectum and claiming that it's menstruation. 0.85

00:19:51.540 This is the issue with the Democratic Party. I am sorry. I understand not all liberals and not all Democrats are in this headspace, whatever you want to call it. I'm trying to be nice. But on this debate stage, this individual is welcomed as if this voice is sound and reasonable and worthy of the stage. 0.89

00:20:13.440 The Democratic Party has been cowardly and unwilling to confront this absurdity, and it needs to be confronted.

00:20:23.460 Well, my friends, I introduce you to, well, a man you mostly already know, Caleb Hammer. 0.73

00:20:28.580 Financial expert destroys blue-haired socialist doomsday during heated debate over capitalism.

00:20:34.320 You know nothing. You're outraged. You're performative. You're a virtue-signaling moron.

00:20:38.440 moron holy smokes let me play the video for you of caleb hammer going off on a socialist these 1.00

00:20:45.860 people have to have multiple jobs in order to sustain a lifestyle some people not the median 0.99

00:20:50.440 american the me not the median american some people yes relying on minimum wage what percent

00:20:57.320 of the american population is relying on federal minimum wage i don't know because you don't know

00:21:01.620 anything you just have anyone who's making the middle no it's just knowing facts about a country

00:21:06.360 But I've met people across all regions.

00:21:07.660 No, it doesn't matter who you've met, lady.

00:21:10.660 That's not what changes statistics.

00:21:13.300 You need to disconnect from that. 0.99

00:21:16.080 Your anecdotal collection of bullshit is not the real world. 0.99

00:21:21.580 It isn't. 0.99

00:21:23.060 I'm trying to meet people where they're at.

00:21:24.000 What percent do you think makes the federal minimum wage in the United States?

00:21:30.380 I know that.

00:21:30.900 What percent do you think?

00:21:31.400 What percent?

00:21:31.880 No, answer the question.

00:21:33.180 Or I am ending this podcast.

00:21:34.700 Answer the question.

00:21:35.960 I don't know.

00:21:36.940 Answer what you think.

00:21:38.580 30%.

00:21:39.060 It's less than 1%.

00:21:40.480 You know nothing. 1.00

00:21:43.060 Well, waitresses make less than that.

00:21:45.580 It's still less. 1.00

00:21:46.660 Oh, my goodness.

00:21:47.240 Yes, but after tip income.

00:21:49.940 It's less than 1%.

00:21:51.460 You know nothing.

00:21:52.420 You're outraged.

00:21:53.100 You're performative. 1.00

00:21:53.760 You're a virtue-signaling moron. 1.00

00:21:56.140 You have prepared talking points, and you know nothing about the real world. 1.00

00:22:00.580 Indeed, Caleb Hammer has snapped.

00:22:03.580 a financial advisor podcast who encountered socialists. Well, it's true. Federal minimum

00:22:11.340 wage, it's less than 1% of individuals that are relying on a federal minimum wage. As for state

00:22:20.680 level minimum wage, it's actually still crazy. Between one and 2% of the population work at

00:22:28.460 their state's minimum wage level. So federal minimum wage, of course, is really low and

00:22:34.220 nobody really talks about it. But at the state level, we even see states trying to implement

00:22:39.360 $15, $20. It is still less than 2%, likely between 1% and 2% nationally for individuals in their

00:22:47.280 state who are making that level. So what is this narrative? Well, the reality is, I think people

00:22:56.500 have largely had enough. The DSA is lying. That's what's happening. The truth is the people who live

00:23:03.300 in New York, these young people that are voting for the likes of these DSA candidates are voting

00:23:08.020 for reasons that are just emotional and largely don't make sense. So, Caleb, when you snap at

00:23:15.460 this woman, I'm not saying he should or shouldn't. I'm just saying he is. I've been there. I've been

00:23:21.320 And the end result is they don't come on your show. Truth be told, Caleb Hammer's already

00:23:27.000 explained that he has trouble getting leftists and liberals to appear on his show. Now, I will say

00:23:33.240 something else. Guys, my head hurts. It literally hurts, especially over this past week. I'm done.

00:23:41.920 I am done with whatever this is. I'm done doing shows and being angry and yelling and

00:23:51.120 uh, whatever. Um, I have no problem having a discussion. I'll tell these people that they're

00:23:56.980 wrong. I have really great blood pressure. In fact, I get it checked every other week

00:24:00.860 and I exercise quite a bit, but I'm just, I'm just bored of it. And so with all due respect

00:24:07.360 to Caleb Hammer, who I think he's a smart guy and does a great job and he's got a great show.

00:24:11.080 I'm just not interested in this frustration. And look, I'll put it this way. This woman's

00:24:17.040 a nobody. You bring on a nobody who knows nothing onto your show, they're going to tell you stupid 1.00

00:24:22.940 things. You're going to get 10 million views from it. How many views did he get? Two million on just 1.00

00:24:28.620 X, and his show itself gets millions. And it's just, guys, I know it's what people want, and I

00:24:33.840 just don't want to live there anymore. I've had people come up to me and tell me that these epic

00:24:39.320 takedowns I've done of these libs have been so good. I actually did a debate recently with a

00:24:45.520 bunch of libs. Maybe you'll see it soon. And I just leave feeling so tired. Because it's the

00:24:52.680 same conversation over and over again. And it's a performance. What I would say is this. I've never

00:24:58.800 performed. I've never done shows where I intentionally pretended to be angry for the

00:25:04.240 sake of getting clicks. I just don't do that. What I'm saying is the whole space. I don't bring on

00:25:10.960 women like this to my show because I know exactly what's going to happen, this. And then I'll get 1.00

00:25:16.240 angry at what she's saying. Legitimately, I think Caleb is legitimately frustrated with what she's

00:25:20.660 saying, but he's also well aware that bringing these people on will incite these moments.

00:25:25.240 I'm not going to intentionally do that, so I don't. I've had many people reach out to me and

00:25:28.900 they say, Tim, you need to debate these people to expose their bad ideas because their bad ideas

00:25:33.020 are spreading. Indeed, I'm interested in that. I will do that. In fact, we're having a sit-down

00:25:38.500 interview conversation this Friday for the culture war. And you know what I'm going to do? I'm going

00:25:43.860 to do more of these just because I want to. And it's about time we had these conversations.

00:25:48.680 But as much as I think Lex Fridman, for instance, is a little too vanilla pudding,

00:25:54.240 I do respect and appreciate the calm way he handles communicating with people. I think he

00:25:59.360 needs to push back on some of these overt lies or inconsistencies. That's fine, but it's a good job.

00:26:03.880 That's what I would prefer. I'd prefer to sit down if I do with a win like this and just say,

00:26:08.500 you're incorrect. The number is less than 1%. Actually, the GDP per capita in the United

00:26:14.280 States is around $94,000, which is tremendous. Now, this does mean there are going to be people

00:26:20.060 who are making $30,000 to $40,000 a year, but we actually do fairly well in this country.

00:26:25.920 The challenge that I think we have culturally is that people are just so,

00:26:30.100 I guess, greedy. Look, I'm not calling the person who's struggling to pay their grocery

00:26:34.300 bills and having a hard time greedy. I'm saying that you have these well-to-do, uppity liberal

00:26:38.860 types who live in these big cities and actually go out on the weekends and have extra cash,

00:26:44.240 and they're complaining because they want more. It's fascinating. I believe the economy is

00:26:49.920 actually fairly bad right now. So the Democratic Socialists have an opportunity to attack

00:26:54.680 the purposelessness that many young people are experiencing and turn that into a political

00:27:00.840 movement, but that's dangerous. In fact, I would argue that things are better than they've ever

00:27:05.340 been. They really are. The war in Iran is bad, and I have deep concerns about what's happening

00:27:09.140 there, as well as escalation of conflict with China. But in the United States, you have access 0.85

00:27:13.240 to clean running water, even if you're homeless. There are homeless shelters. If you really wanted

00:27:18.240 to get out of homelessness, you could do it in two seconds. People don't want to. The point is,

00:27:25.000 you can walk into a building at any point, there's a shower for you. There are people who live in

00:27:29.700 their cars. And it's unfortunate they do, because poverty is going to exist. But let's just think

00:27:34.940 about this real quick. I am not suggesting it is good that people live out of their cars

00:27:39.200 when they're forced to. Those that have the van life and choose to, hey man, do your thing.

00:27:43.380 But let's go back 100, 200 years. Nah, people didn't have cars to sleep in. They would just

00:27:49.220 go outside and get sick and die. And there are some people who are homeless who do,

00:27:53.300 but that's largely an issue of mental disorder. I'm saying right now, for many people,

00:27:57.060 you have a car with heating and air conditioning that you can sleep in.

00:28:01.620 You can go to a gym and for, what, 20 bucks a month, have a shower whenever you want.

00:28:09.440 And I've done this before when I was a teenager, when I was 18, 19, lived in my car briefly,

00:28:14.220 on and off. I was homeless. And I'd go to a gym, get exercise, use the shower, get cleaned up. And

00:28:20.680 there are many people who do this. It's not good. People shouldn't have to live in poverty like

00:28:24.900 that. My point is, however, even if you're poor, you have parasite-free clean running water. You

00:28:31.420 can walk in any fast food restaurant and get a cup of water for free. Now I want you to think

00:28:34.840 about something. You can go into a Chipotle and you can ask for a cup of water and they will give

00:28:39.980 you one. That cup costs money. The lid costs money. And there's free lemons. And you can fill

00:28:45.300 it with water. Don't steal. And you can put some lemon juice in there. You go to some restaurants,

00:28:50.060 they give you free chips. Free. Europeans who came for the World Cup were shocked. They sat

00:28:55.160 down at a Mexican restaurant and were given chips. They said, we didn't order that. He said,

00:28:57.500 no, that's free. Free. Remarkable. So many people in the world don't have access to what we have

00:29:04.620 access to. So I will say this to bring it back to point. I'm excited to see Bill Maher standing up

00:29:10.440 and calling out the absurdities, and I stand with him. I think what's happening is not so much an

00:29:15.040 economic issue, but a purpose issue. Young people don't have purpose. They don't know what they're 1.00

00:29:19.740 working for or why. And so they've adopted an ideology to give them a meaning. Used to be

00:29:25.560 children. You'd work for your kids because your kids needed things and you loved seeing the smile

00:29:30.100 on their faces and you wanted them to live well. But many people today, they don't have kids and

00:29:35.840 they have no purpose, no faith, no motivation. So along comes an ideology that says, look at the

00:29:42.640 suffering people. There are suffering people, but there's not that many. And this system does very,

00:29:47.840 very well. So even with all of our problems and all of the anger, and this is why I'm done with

00:29:53.160 all of the anger, we live very, very well. After I finish recording this, maybe I'll go get some

00:29:59.980 guacamole. They'll make it right next to the table. They'll give me fresh chicken with onions,

00:30:07.260 marinated, delicious. It truly is a blessing. I feel a purpose, and it is helping people.

00:30:15.120 But you have, unfortunately, stupid people. Bill Maher's right to call them out, and the Democratic part needs to as well. We need to restore stability and education and purpose to not just the people of this country, but the people of the world. How we do it? I don't have all the answers, my friends. 1.00

00:30:32.960 What I will say is I'm hoping that though the trends are showing, Democrats are tracking to win in the midterms. 0.94

00:30:40.360 I'm hoping it's not the case because they have been cowardly and they have allowed the ignorant and the the angry to take too much power. 0.74

00:30:48.420 And we don't want that spreading. I don't. 0.92

00:30:51.960 So I'm going to wrap it there, my friends.

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - July 20, 2026

Bill Maher Says He May Vote REPUBLICAN As Democrats Embrace Communism

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