The Culture War - Tim Pool - DC Crackdown In FULL SWING, Left Comes UNGLUED Over Safe Streets ft. Nick Sortor

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00:00:58.280 Just like you said, and I've seen it myself, it still surprises me.

00:01:03.320 And it catches my attention every single time at 3 o'clock in the morning when I see a young

00:01:06.920 couple just walking through the park in the middle of the night.

00:01:11.240 That doesn't happen here.

00:01:12.840 Because you're going to get mugged, shot, or robbed.

00:01:15.520 And it's going to take the police on average 20 minutes to show up if they even bother showing up.

00:01:21.040 Hello, everyone.

00:01:21.820 Tate Brown here holding it down for Tim Poole.

00:01:23.900 We have an interview here with Nick Sorter.

00:01:25.240 He's going to discuss the National Guard deployment in D.C.

00:01:28.000 and break down what he's seeing on the ground.

00:01:30.480 It's a great interview.

00:01:31.680 Here you go.

00:01:32.400 So let's see here.

00:01:33.180 Nick, can you hear me?

00:01:34.480 I can hear you loud and clear.

00:01:35.900 How are we doing today?

00:01:36.760 Well, do you want to tell the people who you are and what you do?

00:01:38.580 I'm sure everyone knows, but for the one or two people that don't know.

00:01:42.320 My name is Nick Sorter.

00:01:43.380 I'm an independent journalist here in Washington, D.C.

00:01:46.220 And honestly, I've never been prouder to say that I live in Washington, D.C.

00:01:52.780 So this is new for me.

00:01:54.880 Absolutely.

00:01:55.320 Yeah.

00:01:55.480 Well, we're seeing – I read your clip of Trump earlier where the reporter was trying to browbeat him.

00:02:02.020 And he was saying, no, this is actually popular.

00:02:03.960 People like this.

00:02:05.080 People want to see our city safe.

00:02:06.740 I mean, what are you seeing on the ground when you're talking to D.C. residents?

00:02:09.160 I mean, what's kind of the atmosphere right now?

00:02:11.140 Look, I mean, you're seeing the local media outlets are attempting to spin this as some sort of draconian takeover of martial law in the streets.

00:02:24.640 And that's not at all what's going on here.

00:02:27.020 I mean, the mainstream media, the local stations are all just trying to terrify everybody because they profit in sowing division, really.

00:02:37.260 And none of that – none of what they're saying is actually happening.

00:02:40.660 And nobody is getting beaten by National Guard in the street, although I'd argue that some people here deserve to be beat by National Guard in the street.

00:02:47.660 Maybe they'll shape up a little bit.

00:02:49.320 But what they're actually doing is they're – National Guard is stepping in to deter, and the federal agents are here to assist police officers in fighting everyday crime because that's been a huge issue here for years.

00:03:05.260 You know, D.C. police on their own because of the woke mayor and the chief of police who was previously the chief of DEI at the department that didn't know what chain of command meant when she was doing a press conference the other day.

00:03:18.340 You know, they weren't allowing cops to be cops.

00:03:20.560 So Trump took them over and put – there's a massive infusion of new cops on the ground here, and it's a totally different city.

00:03:27.380 Yeah, absolutely.

00:03:28.100 I mean, I've been in D.C. this last week, and you see it, like especially in the Capitol Mall.

00:03:32.500 Like you just see the Humvees just parked up on the grass.

00:03:35.060 And it's like typically that's an ominous sign.

00:03:38.780 It's actually kind of liberating and freeing because D.C. is so – it felt so unstable and hostile previously.

00:03:44.520 And the funny thing is the press is saying this is going to scare away tourists.

00:03:48.480 This is going to, you know, freak everyone out.

00:03:50.440 And the people that are taking pictures of the Humvees are like clearly tourists.

00:03:53.600 Like they're from abroad. 0.89

00:03:55.100 So clearly the tourists don't care.

00:03:58.020 And, yeah, and the locals, I mean, there does seem to be a bit of relief.

00:04:01.140 You're seeing more people like jogging at night and these sorts of things, which in a first-world country should be a standard. 0.52

00:04:07.100 Right.

00:04:07.600 I mean, have you heard much from the police themselves?

00:04:09.840 I mean, what their thoughts are?

00:04:11.740 Absolutely, yes.

00:04:12.520 I've been around pretty much every single night.

00:04:15.920 Like last night, I was out until like 3 o'clock in the morning, you know, and I've been just kind of shadowing them to see what they've been doing, how they've been operating.

00:04:25.260 And I've gotten to know a lot of them actually.

00:04:27.520 And they're ecstatic over it.

00:04:29.980 I mean, it's – I was actually – I don't know if surprised was the word.

00:04:35.200 Like, let's say pleasantly surprised to hear how supportive MPD, Metropolitan Police, were to have feds with them because they're feeling effective again.

00:04:46.540 They're being allowed to do their jobs.

00:04:48.960 They're being allowed – cops are now allowed to be cops in Washington, D.C.

00:04:52.360 So morale is through the roof.

00:04:54.480 And I'm not even just saying that.

00:04:56.040 Like, I've spoken to these guys, dozens of them, and it's the same thing.

00:05:01.620 They're excited.

00:05:03.120 They're happier with it than I expected them to be.

00:05:05.760 And that's a pretty incredible feeling as a resident here.

00:05:08.320 Yeah, I bet.

00:05:09.760 I mean – and it's just nice that – yeah. 0.62

00:05:12.380 It's nice to see that – I mean, because the big balls thing was really just shocking.

00:05:16.980 And it does feel like in a lot of ways that that was what galvanized Trump to make this move.

00:05:21.800 Yeah, but that was a normal thing in Washington, D.C. before.

00:05:25.080 Like, carjackings – even in – I live in a pretty nice neighborhood.

00:05:29.580 I'm like two blocks from the U.S. Capitol building.

00:05:32.360 You can see it outside of my window right here.

00:05:34.200 And right here on the streets, you have members of Congress that live in this same building.

00:05:39.920 And they were having their cars stolen and carjacked out front.

00:05:44.500 You know, like Uber drivers would come and pick people up.

00:05:47.040 But you had teenagers that were just calling Ubers, right?

00:05:49.960 And they'd get into the back of the Uber, and they'd steal the car.

00:05:52.160 So there's a bunch of Uber no-go zones here, or at least there were before this crackdown,

00:05:57.560 because carjackings were so rampant. 0.92

00:05:59.320 That's what they were trying to do to big balls. 1.00

00:06:00.740 They were trying to steal his car. 0.98

00:06:01.980 And he fought back, and they almost killed him for it.

00:06:06.120 Yeah.

00:06:06.480 Yeah, I mean, it's absolutely insane.

00:06:08.060 And so it's like – it feels like in a lot of ways the situation with crime in these cities,

00:06:14.120 especially Washington, D.C., specifically Washington, D.C., it feels like –

00:06:18.980 okay, obviously there's all these explanations for why the DAs and everything.

00:06:22.620 But most of all, it just feels like there's an attempt to demoralize patriots,

00:06:26.040 to demoralize Americans by having their capital in such disarray.

00:06:29.860 I mean, have you seen the mood improve among – even the D.C. residents that will probably say give some lip service,

00:06:37.480 like, oh, you know, this is inappropriate or whatever.

00:06:40.040 I mean, at least I've seen it.

00:06:41.420 It seems like everyone's moods have just elevated a bit, even with the extra presence.

00:06:45.360 Yeah, so the actual residents here, unless you're a Democrat staffer on the Hill, for the most part,

00:06:53.000 you are supportive of this, too.

00:06:55.840 If you're – if me, I'm going out just as an individual talking to neighbors, they all feel the same way.

00:07:02.140 I have not spoken to anybody one-on-one at this point that didn't try to throw a camera in my face

00:07:08.460 that is against what's going on out here because it's the same people every time.

00:07:14.980 They're not from here. 0.87

00:07:16.900 Or they're Democrat activists that are being shipped in here to, like, yell and heckle National Guard troops and such.

00:07:25.660 It was one guy – this was a guy that wasn't even from here.

00:07:29.540 It was near National Stadium over here.

00:07:31.020 The Mets were in town playing the Nationals.

00:07:32.880 This guy in a Mets jersey, you know, so obviously he's not from here.

00:07:36.260 He even admitted he wasn't from here when I could run to him.

00:07:38.220 And he's obviously unstable if he's wearing a Mets jersey.

00:07:40.080 Right, right.

00:07:40.760 It tells you all you need to know.

00:07:41.720 Right.

00:07:43.340 And so he walks past the National Guard.

00:07:45.700 He's like, thanks for protecting us from nothing.

00:07:48.820 And I'm like, all right, all right.

00:07:49.940 So now I've got to go follow this dude and get him on camera.

00:07:52.900 And I haven't posted that one yet.

00:07:54.320 But, you know, these people, for whatever reason, they're having a tough time understanding

00:07:58.440 that the reason that there isn't any crime happening in the area is because of the National Guard.

00:08:04.860 And it's because of the feds in the area.

00:08:07.380 Right?

00:08:08.000 You can't say, well, where's the crime?

00:08:09.380 I don't see any crime.

00:08:10.260 Of course you don't.

00:08:11.280 Who the hell is going to, you know, mug you in the middle of 16 National Guard troops?

00:08:16.120 Yeah.

00:08:16.900 Yeah.

00:08:17.580 Is there a lot of data now that's – have we seen – I mean, I imagine anecdotally, obviously,

00:08:23.000 this would be the case.

00:08:23.640 But have we seen what the actual decline in crime has looked like over the last week or two?

00:08:28.260 Has that been –

00:08:28.880 Yeah, I mean, it's been incredibly significant.

00:08:30.960 Violent crime is down over 80 percent.

00:08:32.900 And we haven't seen a murderer in 11 days, which, as Trump keeps pointing out, like,

00:08:38.220 you haven't – you shouldn't have to brag about that.

00:08:40.560 Sure.

00:08:40.920 Right?

00:08:41.400 It's a city of 700,000.

00:08:43.440 Like, it's not massive.

00:08:44.720 Yeah.

00:08:44.980 And we're saying, oh, guys, you know, we made it 11 days.

00:08:47.960 But that's a huge achievement in Washington, D.C.

00:08:50.220 Sadly, yeah.

00:08:50.900 Huge achievement.

00:08:52.020 Yeah, absolutely, yeah.

00:08:52.200 And we don't even actually know what the crime stats were before because they were being

00:08:55.540 manipulated.

00:08:56.320 And that's not –

00:08:56.820 Yeah, exactly.

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00:09:55.340 That's not speculation.

00:09:57.760 That's true.

00:09:58.560 We know that now.

00:09:59.880 The city themselves, once they knew that the federal government was going to start looking into it,

00:10:05.620 they took one of their top brasses and put them on leave because they were manipulating crime stats. 0.67

00:10:14.260 So, you know, the city is admitting that too.

00:10:16.820 Yeah.

00:10:17.620 Yeah, it was that story.

00:10:18.620 Yeah, it was a D.C. police commander and he was fudging the numbers.

00:10:22.520 And a lot of people have suspected that for a long time.

00:10:24.300 It was just interesting to see.

00:10:26.480 I mean, because there was this thing where they were like, okay, all violent crime is down except for murders.

00:10:32.300 And you sit there and you're like, and a lot of policing experts said the same thing as they say,

00:10:36.700 well, that's because you can't really cover up a murder like when you're publishing these violent crime stats.

00:10:42.420 Everything else you can kind of reclassify or make go away.

00:10:45.140 But like a murder, someone's gone.

00:10:46.780 Because they were taking, for example, they were taking like home invasions and downgrading them to trespass.

00:10:54.560 Yeah.

00:10:57.080 Those two things, just trespassing is if you cross a fence line that you're not supposed to cross.

00:11:04.200 Or you refuse to leave Macy's when they try to kick you out.

00:11:07.220 That's trespassing.

00:11:08.440 Right.

00:11:08.760 Not breaking somebody's window and robbing them at gunpoint in their house.

00:11:11.940 Right.

00:11:12.560 That's like saying, you know, John Bolton just received a quick chat at the door the other day.

00:11:16.940 That's all that happened.

00:11:17.780 Exactly.

00:11:18.520 Exactly.

00:11:19.160 Yeah.

00:11:19.440 So we're seeing, now we're seeing, you know, to kind of expand this conversation.

00:11:23.700 We saw this morning, Trump saying that Chicago and New York are potentially on the menu.

00:11:29.780 And I mean, those, especially Chicago.

00:11:31.620 I mean, that seems like an extremely pressing case.

00:11:33.480 I mean, do you think this model, I mean, because obviously it involves the federalization.

00:11:37.620 So obviously, D.C.

00:11:38.400 It's a bit easier to pull off.

00:11:39.720 Do you think this model, from what you've seen, could be expanded to other cities?

00:11:44.060 Yeah.

00:11:44.200 In a way, yes.

00:11:46.400 See, it's going to take more cooperation.

00:11:51.620 So look, just to put it in simple terms here, Washington, D.C. is a federal district under the ultimate control of the federal government.

00:12:00.620 Right.

00:12:00.800 That's in the Constitution.

00:12:02.160 Right.

00:12:02.280 So what you're actually seeing is decades ago, Congress actually gave, they formed a local government called the D.C. Home Rule Act and gave them, like, limited powers to enforce their own laws and gave them a little bit of autonomy.

00:12:22.020 Well, Trump just revoked all that.

00:12:23.160 Right.

00:12:23.420 He can't do that in Chicago.

00:12:24.980 So he actually had Pam Bondi deputize hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Secret Service agents and U.S. Marshals, and actually not U.S. Marshals, they're already deputized, and DEA agents, you name it, the alphabet soup.

00:12:39.840 They've all been deputized here in D.C.

00:12:41.300 So they can do more than just enforce federal laws.

00:12:45.240 They can enforce local laws as well.

00:12:47.480 You can't do that in Chicago.

00:12:48.960 Right.

00:12:49.020 It would have to take what you could do, and I haven't looked into this yet.

00:12:52.600 This is just spitballing here.

00:12:54.960 You could have the Cook County Sheriff.

00:12:57.680 I don't know who that is.

00:12:59.160 That's Chicago.

00:13:00.000 Probably a leftist.

00:13:01.240 But theoretically, that sheriff could deputize federal agents, and then you could see the same thing happening on the streets of Chicago that are happening here in Washington, D.C.

00:13:09.800 But Trump can't unilaterally do that.

00:13:12.460 National Guard, even here in D.C., is not performing law enforcement duties.

00:13:16.560 Right.

00:13:16.960 Yeah.

00:13:17.400 They typically, like, you have to do something really egregious for them to step in.

00:13:20.860 So they wouldn't be doing that in Chicago either.

00:13:24.260 That makes sense.

00:13:24.980 I mean, and I've seen a lot of – I mean, there's been chatter in the Trump admin that a big motivation for this is also to make ICE's job easier because they're receiving so much pushback from these municipal governments.

00:13:38.580 I mean, specifically in D.C.

00:13:39.820 I mean, I guess Chicago and New York we'd have to see.

00:13:42.380 Have you seen ICE's operations?

00:13:44.320 Are they a bit more smooth now?

00:13:45.700 Are they a bit more efficient with the National Guard?

00:13:47.700 I mean, what does that relationship look like?

00:13:49.140 Oh, absolutely.

00:13:50.820 I mean, they are – it's not even just ICE working here at this point.

00:13:55.020 It's all of the – again, the alphabet soup folks that have been deputized there for – they're doing immigration enforcement as well.

00:14:04.360 Like, they're pulling people over.

00:14:06.640 Contrary to popular belief, they're not pulling you over for not using your turn signal.

00:14:10.540 They're pulling you over because they ran your plate and you have a warrant or you're an illegal.

00:14:14.140 And so they're pulling – that's why they're pulling people over.

00:14:17.660 It's not like – you don't have to worry about – hell, I mean, I'll just admit it here on camera.

00:14:21.860 When I'm, like, looking for them, you know, I'm turning right on red where I'm not supposed to, not using turn signals, whatever.

00:14:28.700 And, you know, they're not pulling me over.

00:14:30.340 Right.

00:14:30.740 Right?

00:14:31.140 Right.

00:14:31.280 Because they're not looking for me.

00:14:32.460 They're not looking to terrorize people that are just living their lives.

00:14:36.680 That's not what's actually going on.

00:14:38.240 Yeah.

00:14:38.520 But you have seen a lot of videos of them pulling these people over, pulling them out of vehicles and arresting them because they're illegals and turning them over to ICE. 0.78

00:14:47.020 I don't know if you saw this from last week.

00:14:49.220 They pulled over somebody near the National Mall.

00:14:51.000 Of course, the liberal media was like, he's just a hardworking man and a father. 0.98

00:14:55.660 Two hours later, it comes out that he's actually a child rapist who's illegally in the country.

00:15:01.340 So, yeah, immigration enforcement here is through the roof, and I'm kind of excited to see those numbers.

00:15:06.520 Hopefully, we'll have them by the end of the week here.

00:15:09.260 Yeah.

00:15:09.520 Well, and if you've taken an Uber in D.C., you know how much work they have to do.

00:15:14.000 So, I don't know.

00:15:15.200 Maybe we'll see HHS deploy agents to raid McDonald's across D.C. and replace the seed oils with tallow.

00:15:22.400 We're going to make this a shining city on a hill is what it's going to be.

00:15:25.540 Just emergency tallow deployments.

00:15:27.420 I think that'd be a beauty.

00:15:28.060 Like raw milk and the Coke machines.

00:15:30.120 Like I think this could – we could really evolve this operation here.

00:15:34.440 But, yeah, I mean the criminality is just so – it really was just embarrassing I think most of all.

00:15:40.480 Specifically D.C. and New York because, you know, I mean I know like we're America.

00:15:44.820 We're not – you know, we're kind of focused on our business.

00:15:47.440 But there is a degree of embarrassment when someone visits from another country and they see our cities like D.C. and New York and the state they are because they're coming.

00:15:55.000 They're here to visit museums.

00:15:55.980 They've seen these cities in the movies and they're painted so, you know, magically, right?

00:16:00.440 There's a Hollywood touch obviously.

00:16:02.140 But – and they come here and they have these stories of like getting robbed or like just seeing – like little stuff like open defecation of the homeless and everything.

00:16:11.700 And it's just humiliating.

00:16:13.700 So, I mean I don't know.

00:16:14.580 Have you spoken to tourists?

00:16:15.680 Have any foreign tourists had anything to say about this?

00:16:19.440 I'd be curious what they think.

00:16:20.460 Not necessarily foreign tourists that I've spoken with but like to your point, you would go to the White House, for example.

00:16:29.360 And I don't know if you're familiar with the – off of the North Lawn, there's a park.

00:16:35.340 Right.

00:16:35.700 And it's full of homeless people or was full of homeless people all the time, which is just wild. 0.93

00:16:40.740 I mean it's federal property in front of the White House and Biden let them build a freaking homeless and camp.

00:16:47.060 Yeah, it looked like Coachella in Lafayette Park. 0.60

00:16:49.220 It was crazy.

00:16:49.720 Yeah, yeah.

00:16:51.440 And then you go near the State Department where you have foreign dignitaries and stuff going there.

00:16:56.520 And I mean that was actually one of the largest homeless encampments was 100 feet from the State Department building.

00:17:03.640 I mean – and this was just allowed to happen forever.

00:17:06.900 And Trump within days had all that cleaned up.

00:17:09.280 They were literally sending in bulldozers to – if you didn't – they were giving you like 20 minutes. 1.00

00:17:15.100 Just clean up your shit and get out or we're going to arrest you and we're going to bulldoze your camp. 0.99

00:17:21.500 So, you know, that's how you do it. 1.00

00:17:23.960 Yeah, the homeless – I mean when I was there this week, I still did see a few tents.

00:17:28.140 It was obviously far less.

00:17:29.480 And it certainly wasn't in parks or anything.

00:17:31.100 I mean the parks you can actually go to again, which is quite nice.

00:17:34.280 Yeah, you still see like on some overpasses or whatever, you would see like a tent every once in a while.

00:17:38.080 Sure.

00:17:39.500 Where are they – where are the homeless going?

00:17:41.740 Do you know?

00:17:42.280 I've always wondered this.

00:17:43.320 Like once they get booted from D.C.

00:17:44.860 Like where do they go?

00:17:46.180 I mean look, they can have – they can go over to probably Baltimore.

00:17:50.360 We'll just send them all there.

00:17:51.160 Honestly, I'd do that.

00:17:52.620 I'll help pay for buses to send them all to Baltimore. 0.93

00:17:55.180 Like let's just designate.

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00:18:54.980 Certain cities in the United States shitholes will send all the vagrants there. 1.00

00:18:59.420 And, you know, we'll just quarantine them, cage them in, and that'll be it.

00:19:03.280 I'm willing to sacrifice Baltimore for that purpose.

00:19:05.080 I agree.

00:19:05.560 I mean, one of the bridges is already gone.

00:19:07.040 I'm sorry for all the people from Baltimore listening right now.

00:19:09.540 Right.

00:19:10.240 Yeah, yeah.

00:19:10.660 I mean, a bridge is already gone.

00:19:11.920 You just got to knock a few more out.

00:19:13.180 And then it's, yeah, it's like an Alcatraz for the homeless, I guess.

00:19:16.800 I don't know what's going on over there.

00:19:19.420 I mean, there's two big problems, obviously.

00:19:20.980 There's one, the rats would eat through the tents right away.

00:19:22.720 So then you would have another housing crunch.

00:19:25.840 And then two, Baltimore.

00:19:27.820 They don't sustain gunfire very well.

00:19:29.760 They don't hold up very well against gunfire.

00:19:31.280 Yeah.

00:19:31.920 Yeah, exactly.

00:19:32.560 And then two, I mean, I don't know if you saw today, Kilmer got arrested in Baltimore.

00:19:35.900 So it looks like even Baltimore is being considered for a renewal project.

00:19:41.080 I don't know.

00:19:41.720 I think there is this sense in the Trump admin that we're tired of conceding territory.

00:19:46.660 Because, you know, you see with Zoron, the rhetoric around Zoron as they're saying, well,

00:19:50.560 just, you know, that's what New York wants.

00:19:52.100 That's what they deserve.

00:19:53.100 Kind of the same thing with California.

00:19:55.040 And the Trump admin, their messaging has been much more consistent.

00:19:57.860 And so every square mile of this country belongs to American patriots.

00:20:01.700 And we shouldn't have to tolerate this, you know, insanity that's going on.

00:20:06.680 And that certainly seems to be the case in D.C.

00:20:09.480 I mean, what are your kind of thoughts on this?

00:20:11.380 I mean, is that kind of the sense?

00:20:12.960 Is that what Trump's trying to do?

00:20:14.140 Is trying to make the entire country kind of come to heel in some sense?

00:20:18.360 Absolutely.

00:20:19.120 And, you know, in all seriousness, I do think that we should be sending National Guard into

00:20:23.560 Baltimore.

00:20:24.180 I absolutely do.

00:20:25.160 Use it.

00:20:25.900 Use them for, like, taking our country back, taking every single street back. 1.00

00:20:31.400 We don't have to live like this.

00:20:33.000 Nobody should be forced to live like this.

00:20:34.560 Because even in places like Baltimore, you have patriots that live there, right?

00:20:38.660 You have good law-abiding people that are being forced to suffer at the hands of these

00:20:43.640 violent criminals because Democrat politicians, you know, use them as power plays, right?

00:20:52.140 Use them to, you know, they buy their votes off of them and stuff.

00:20:55.880 And so they, look, it's not, people want to say, oh, well, this is dictatorial or it's

00:21:04.700 fascism or whatever.

00:21:05.680 No, it's not.

00:21:06.900 It's actually fighting crime and, you know, just enforcing the laws that are on the books.

00:21:12.760 Trump isn't writing laws with a pen, right?

00:21:16.020 Yeah.

00:21:16.380 But we have to go back to actually enforcing these laws and taking these cities back.

00:21:20.100 There's no reason that good people in Baltimore should have to suffer at the hands of violent

00:21:26.020 gangs, especially foreign gangs like MS-13.

00:21:29.260 Yeah.

00:21:29.380 And Trump is, I've said this from the beginning, D.C. is really supposed to be an example set

00:21:34.860 for the rest of the country because Trump has now taken what was an 80-20 issue.

00:21:39.620 You know, people, 80% of the country wants to live in, you know, in a safe city, right? 0.97

00:21:45.840 The other 20% are mentally retarded or something, I guess. 1.00

00:21:49.120 But it's now like a 97-3 issue. 0.98

00:21:52.300 Right.

00:21:53.280 People, so what's going to happen here?

00:21:56.120 We're going to get closer and closer to the midterms.

00:21:58.400 President Trump is going to continue with this pressure on these Democrats, Gavin Newsom

00:22:03.520 and Westmore from Maryland.

00:22:05.420 And what are they going to say?

00:22:06.780 No, this argument that, oh, our cities are, they are safe.

00:22:11.760 They are safe.

00:22:12.540 Come take a walk with me through, you know, the ghetto.

00:22:15.480 Trust me, it'll be safe.

00:22:16.440 I mean, we'll have, we'll have 50 security guards and police officers with us, but trust

00:22:21.260 me, it's safe.

00:22:22.160 Right.

00:22:22.480 That's what Westmore was offering to Donald Trump.

00:22:24.520 Said, come take a walk with me.

00:22:25.680 I'm like, really?

00:22:26.340 Okay.

00:22:26.580 Is that a threat?

00:22:27.940 Yeah.

00:22:29.660 Might as well be.

00:22:31.200 Yeah.

00:22:31.640 Yeah.

00:22:31.960 So, yeah, I think, I think it's going to be, like I said, I think it's, it's going to

00:22:35.760 be an example that President Trump is going to set and he's going to back these Democrats 0.56

00:22:38.480 into a corner.

00:22:39.120 They're going to keep supporting violent criminals and America sees that.

00:22:43.140 Yeah, absolutely.

00:22:44.000 I mean, and, and the same thing where they're going to bat for these Kilmer or Abrego types

00:22:48.140 with ICE.

00:22:48.600 It's like, it's a new, it's a new paradigm.

00:22:51.640 We're trying to set the tone here.

00:22:52.700 Like you said, DC is going to be an example and it can be a preview of, I mean, what we're going

00:22:56.560 to have to do to clean up other cities.

00:22:57.960 If anything, it's going to be much more extensive.

00:22:59.220 And like another thing, and I think Trump's probably taken a page or at least, you know,

00:23:03.600 noted what's going on in El Salvador with Bukele, where Bukele kind of just, he kind

00:23:09.140 of revealed the big, the big gambit that's going on here, which is crime in 2025 is optional.

00:23:14.400 Like with the amount of resources that these, these police departments have and what the

00:23:18.780 intel that we have and what we know about human behavior, broadly speaking, is that

00:23:22.980 crime really is just a switch that you flip.

00:23:24.880 You either tolerated or you don't.

00:23:26.660 And Bukele just said, yeah, you know what?

00:23:28.220 Actually, we're good.

00:23:28.940 No more crime.

00:23:29.760 Sorry.

00:23:30.200 Crime's legal now.

00:23:31.040 Yeah.

00:23:31.320 And he flipped a switch.

00:23:32.280 And the next thing you know, El Salvador is the safest country in the Western hemisphere.

00:23:35.640 And it seems like we could probably apply.

00:23:39.140 I mean, surely we could apply if a country like El Salvador can figure it out.

00:23:42.180 I mean, no offense, but it's El Salvador.

00:23:44.040 If they can figure it out.

00:23:45.040 I mean, why, why can't we do this in Baltimore?

00:23:47.720 Why can't we do this in, you know, Chicago?

00:23:50.580 Oh, we absolutely can.

00:23:51.640 The Democrats just have to get out of the way.

00:23:53.100 Right.

00:23:53.240 So that's, that's really it.

00:23:54.100 I mean, it's as simple as that.

00:23:55.120 And you just have to enforce the laws that are on the books.

00:23:57.020 That's it.

00:23:57.420 And stop letting people out immediately as you bring them in.

00:24:00.860 Right.

00:24:01.220 The cashless bail system is, is just, is absurd.

00:24:04.800 And President Trump has a great point with that, that that's when the big crime really

00:24:08.220 started happening in recent decades is when, uh, when cashless bail started, because it's

00:24:13.520 just, oh, okay.

00:24:14.640 Well, yeah, you, you, you, you, you might've, you murdered somebody.

00:24:17.460 Okay.

00:24:17.700 But, well, here's your court date.

00:24:19.440 Come back in a year and you're never going to see them again.

00:24:22.920 Right.

00:24:23.200 I mean, it's, that's, that's the society that Democrats have created in cities like

00:24:28.340 Washington and such.

00:24:29.160 And obviously he signed an executive order today here in DC, uh, outlawed or essentially

00:24:33.960 outlawing cashless bail in the city.

00:24:36.400 He has the power to do that as the executive in the federal district.

00:24:38.720 So, and there's nothing the DC government can do about it.

00:24:41.280 Cashless bail is now a thing of the past in Washington, DC.

00:24:44.680 Beautiful.

00:24:45.180 Uh, yeah.

00:24:46.380 And that's great.

00:24:47.000 It needs to be done all over the country.

00:24:48.120 Congress needs to ban it federally.

00:24:50.380 Yeah.

00:24:50.740 That's what needs to happen. 0.99

00:24:51.860 But honestly, a Republican majority doesn't really have the, uh, the balls. 0.98

00:24:56.380 So I'm not sure that'll happen. 0.98

00:24:57.800 It's pulling teeth to get anything done at these chowder heads, but, uh, with, with 1.00

00:25:01.500 the, uh, with the DAs, are you, I mean, cause you're on the ground a lot and you're speaking

00:25:05.620 to locals, like not just normal people as they're kind of awareness, you know, nationally of

00:25:11.080 how the DAs are really behind a lot of the calamity or is it still kind of a relatively

00:25:15.180 online sort of thing?

00:25:17.100 I think more and more people are waking up to that fact as, uh, as being reality.

00:25:23.420 Uh, you know, we know what's going on because of, you know, we, we follow this stuff pretty

00:25:28.460 closely, but yeah, I would say there's, you know, there, there's, uh, the legal system

00:25:33.700 is obviously pretty complicated.

00:25:35.140 So maybe not everybody understands exactly where the fingers need to be pointed.

00:25:38.500 And that's why George Soros funds these, uh, DAs because, you know, the districts, just

00:25:45.380 district attorneys are extremely powerful, uh, in the, the counties or cities that they're

00:25:52.120 in, uh, because they're the ones that decide almost unilaterally who walks free and, and,

00:26:00.120 and who they pursue.

00:26:01.740 Right.

00:26:02.180 You saw up there in, uh, Minnesota, I believe when that somebody caused one of Tim Waltz's

00:26:07.760 guys, of course, right.

00:26:09.160 Cause, you know, 10, $15,000 in damage to various Teslas.

00:26:13.700 And the DA was like, no, we're going to decline to press charges and just let them go.

00:26:17.660 Yeah.

00:26:18.160 You know, they have that much power.

00:26:20.080 10 or 15, that's a felony.

00:26:21.380 Right.

00:26:21.700 And they just like, nah, we're just not going to prosecute it.

00:26:23.760 We have, we have it on video.

00:26:24.960 We have multiple videos from all these Teslas of him doing it, but we're just going to

00:26:28.420 find a prosecutor.

00:26:29.180 You know, that, that is, uh, one of the worst issues that we're dealing with all across the

00:26:33.720 country.

00:26:33.980 And that's in DC, Trump brought in, uh, JAG attorneys, which are military attorneys to

00:26:39.880 work as prosecutors here.

00:26:41.420 You can't do that in Baltimore.

00:26:43.000 So then you, again, you have to rely on the DAs.

00:26:45.640 So there's going to have to be some sort of awareness campaign, like to, to, to make sure

00:26:49.420 that everybody understands what they're voting for on the ballots, you know, because a lot

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00:27:52.920 You get people that work 12, 15 hours a day, for example, right?

00:27:57.040 And they're going to vote and there's 50 names on a ballot.

00:28:00.720 You know, they may not know who everybody is.

00:28:04.920 So I don't know.

00:28:05.960 I think we need to start pouring a lot more money into, into those DA races to counter

00:28:10.560 George Soros, because, you know, you raise somebody's name ID, somebody that's actually

00:28:16.100 tough on crime, put a lot of money behind them.

00:28:18.160 If that's the only name that people recognize on the ballot, then they'll probably win Republican

00:28:24.080 or Democrat in whatever city.

00:28:25.580 Well, funny enough, you saw it in San Francisco to all places is where there was kind of a bit

00:28:29.500 of a revolt against the Soros DA and San Francisco.

00:28:33.860 I mean, come on, like, you know, it's to the left of Mark's most San Francisco residents.

00:28:37.700 And I mean, a large part of that was a lot of these, you know, wealthier locals that were

00:28:42.060 fed up that had a bit more free time to look into the issue, were able to allocate resources

00:28:46.800 to the race and were able to, you know, elevate the profile of the non-insane DA.

00:28:51.600 I mean, obviously this person would still be, you know, broadly speaking, a Democrat, but

00:28:55.560 at least someone that has their head on straight a little more.

00:28:58.120 So, like, to your point, there could be something to be said there.

00:29:02.680 I have one last question for you, and we kind of hit on it at the top of the interview,

00:29:07.820 is it really does seem like the left, broadly speaking, but also just on the street in D.C.

00:29:13.740 are kind of just demoralized at this point.

00:29:15.680 I mean, your anecdote of the guy in the Mets jersey, where the best he could muster up

00:29:19.460 was just a quick passing, like, shout at a guy.

00:29:22.920 I mean, that seems like a group that realizes they're powerless and they're not entirely sure

00:29:26.520 where to go forward.

00:29:28.600 Oh, yeah.

00:29:29.160 No, they're definitely demoralized.

00:29:30.580 I mean, because they've been, for the past seven months of this administration, you've

00:29:35.020 seen, well, first of all, the money dry up.

00:29:38.400 That's been beautiful.

00:29:39.520 You know, the USAID being pulled.

00:29:41.300 It's not even just USAID.

00:29:42.640 You know, a lot of people think that, okay, well, it's USAID funding dried up, so therefore

00:29:48.860 all the money is gone.

00:29:50.680 It's not even just that.

00:29:51.460 People aren't donating to these causes anymore because they're losing causes.

00:29:56.080 And President Trump proved that by winning in a landslide in November.

00:29:59.900 You know, he took a hard line against immigration and the border and crime and such, and just

00:30:06.680 defeating all of the woke nonsense.

00:30:08.500 Men and women's sports.

00:30:10.040 People just aren't, there's not enough money behind it anymore on the left.

00:30:14.360 And people are afraid to fund it because, you know, the right has gotten so much more

00:30:19.280 powerful.

00:30:20.620 And, you know, you see, like, look at Cracker Barrel, for example, this past week.

00:30:25.120 Like, man, they have taken a beating.

00:30:27.380 It's lost like $150 million in market value already.

00:30:31.360 Yeah.

00:30:32.240 And so you're not seeing these paid protesters go around anymore.

00:30:36.520 And when you do, they're much, much smaller because, you know, they can't afford it.

00:30:40.380 And I think that's a huge reason for it, too.

00:30:42.480 So the demoralization and the lack of funding, you're not seeing, I've seen, like, one protest

00:30:49.860 here, like, real protests over the past 10 days in D.C.

00:30:55.120 Jeez.

00:30:56.440 And given the fact that they're calling it, like, a military takeover or whatever, you

00:30:59.960 know, normal people aren't believing that, you know, they don't believe that lie.

00:31:04.780 And like I said, the majority of them are happy to be in the street.

00:31:07.060 So if they're happy to be safe and they're not being paid, what are they protesting?

00:31:10.640 Yeah.

00:31:11.280 So.

00:31:11.720 Yeah.

00:31:11.940 Very salient question.

00:31:13.160 Well, Nick, thank you so much for your insights.

00:31:15.320 This is fantastic.

00:31:16.440 Where can people find Moria?

00:31:18.860 Find me on X because they'll ban me on every other platform.

00:31:21.760 X at Nick Sorter.

00:31:22.980 N-I-C-K-S-O-R-T-O-R. 1.00

00:31:24.660 Appreciate you guys having me.

00:31:25.600 Awesome, man.

00:31:26.100 Thank you.

00:31:26.440 Well, until next time.

00:31:28.480 Take care.

00:31:28.800 All right.

00:31:30.800 Well, that was the great Nick Sorter giving us the scoop from the inside, from the streets.

00:31:36.560 Fantastic.

00:31:37.880 I mean, like he said, it's a good, it's a combination, really.

00:31:40.620 The demoralization, which is massive.

00:31:42.900 I mean, the fact that Gavin Newsom is just parroting Trump tweets, that's an indication

00:31:48.960 they're out of ideas.

00:31:51.160 Bad sign.

00:31:51.920 Bad, bad, ominous sign for the left.

00:31:53.500 And then, obviously, the USAID money drying up, you know, another ominous sign for them.

00:31:57.940 And, yeah, they're out of money.

00:31:58.840 They're out of cash.

00:31:59.420 So, they're, you know, lashing out.

00:32:01.840 But with that, thank you for watching.

00:32:04.420 I am Tate Brown holding it down for Tim Pool.

00:32:07.260 Hopefully, we'll have Tim Pool back here sooner rather than later.

00:32:10.420 I imagine.

00:32:10.900 So, he is recovering.

00:32:12.940 Make sure.

00:32:13.320 Because he's got to get it right.

00:32:14.400 You know, he's got to get it right.

00:32:15.280 You've got to get the recovery right.

00:32:16.560 Shout out to Surge for holding it down in the producer's chair today.

00:32:19.300 Thanks, bro.

00:32:19.740 The great Surge.

00:32:21.480 So, thank you for watching.

00:32:22.940 You can find me on X and Instagram at RealTateBrown.

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00:32:29.320 Other than that, we'll be back tonight for TimCast IRL at 8 p.m.

00:32:33.420 It's going to be a great show.

00:32:34.200 We've got Andrew Wilson in tonight, right?

00:32:36.800 I think it's Andrew Wilson.

00:32:37.960 I don't remember who it is exactly.

00:32:39.020 We've got Poso on tonight.

00:32:40.460 Poso.

00:32:40.640 It's official?

00:32:41.340 Poso.

00:32:41.620 Let's go.

00:32:42.620 Oh, you've got to tune in then.

00:32:43.720 We've got Jack Posobiec holding it down in the host chair.

00:32:48.660 Because we've got some star power tonight then.

00:32:51.240 So, yeah, tune in to that.

00:32:52.680 I might be there.

00:32:53.780 I'm just going to show up just to get up.

00:32:55.560 I'm going to peek an ear in if I'm not on tonight.

00:32:57.400 But that sounds fantastic.

00:32:58.840 So, yeah, be there.

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - August 25, 2025

DC Crackdown In FULL SWING, Left Comes UNGLUED Over Safe Streets ft. Nick Sortor

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