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00:00:43.980 The Democrat gambit with Abdul El-Sayed is backfiring. 0.53

00:00:48.800 And for the first time in nearly 50 years,

00:00:52.260 the Republican Party might flip the Michigan Senate to the GOP, and this is massive,

00:00:59.360 it's turning out to be one of the most expensive, if not the most expensive race in the history of

00:01:04.900 the state, and this midterm cycle is turning out to be the most expensive we have ever seen.

00:01:12.760 Maybe this is just related to post-COVID pandemic inflation, but it's getting particularly spicy

00:01:20.340 right now. And Donald Trump is hammering Abdul Al-Sayed, calling him a radical jihadist

00:01:26.320 and Mohammed. And liberals, of course, are livid. They're saying, Trump, you can't do this.

00:01:32.160 You can't call this guy these names. And Trump says, I'm the president. I can call him whatever

00:01:38.920 I want. And the truth is, it's going to work. And that may be why Abdul Al-Sayed,

00:01:46.100 despite being this liberal and lefty darling, is within the margin of error for polling in

00:01:53.480 Michigan. Now, right now, the midterms are turning out to be, well, based on the polls

00:01:59.220 and based on all the metrics and predictions, not very good for the Republicans. But at least

00:02:03.980 in some states, Republicans are shining. Now, I'm going to contrast all of this by saying,

00:02:10.100 while we're getting this repeated narrative throughout all of the media about Republicans,

00:02:14.900 they're doing so poorly, they're not offering anything up. Speaker Johnson saying you'll get

00:02:19.080 more of the same and people are pretty upset of a state of the economy. When we're looking at

00:02:24.040 Michigan, where we should see Democrat dominance, in fact, we are seeing the Democrats falter.

00:02:31.620 So when you look at national level polling, I don't think it matters all that much. Now, again,

00:02:38.960 copium and hopium. The consensus seems to be across the board, Republicans aren't doing so well.

00:02:44.140 The Republican Party is fractured with former MAGA individuals now being against Trump.

00:02:50.120 Libertarians, of course, broke some time ago over the war and liberals, well, they're cheering

00:02:55.220 themselves on. But as I've stated before, my friends, the Democrats have not offered up

00:03:00.760 anything tangible. While the Republicans are currently in charge and we've got this war,

00:03:06.260 we've got a bad economy and we are unhappy with these things. You do have some Republican

00:03:11.580 victories over the past couple of years, sure. But hey, while Speaker Johnson's coming out saying

00:03:17.200 vote for the Republicans, you're going to get more of the same, Democrats aren't offering up

00:03:21.260 a counter. So when we turn to Michigan, this may be the canary in the coal mine for Democrats.

00:03:27.740 Now, to maximize the utmost of hopium for Republicans, maybe this shows just how bad

00:03:36.020 things, how bad things really are for Democrats. That is national level polling is not state level

00:03:43.940 polling. So let me give you a real simple explanation of modern politics. Everybody

00:03:49.180 always likes to point out, they say Congress's approval rating is in the gutter. Congress is at

00:03:54.560 17%. Nobody likes Congress. False. Individually per district, the members of Congress poll very,

00:04:03.140 very well. So if you've got, say, like West Virginia's second district, everybody's very,

00:04:09.500 very happy and they give great marks to their member of Congress. But if you go to California

00:04:15.760 and ask them what they think about the job Congress is doing, they're going to be like, 0.56

00:04:19.940 it's miserable. Why? Well, because a Democrat congressman from California is fighting

00:04:25.920 with the congressman from West Virginia and nothing is getting done. So when you do national

00:04:31.960 level polling, you see everybody's pissed, but individually, they're actually pretty happy.

00:04:36.960 So what happens then when you zoom in? Well, Republicans bowed out. They dipped off and said,

00:04:42.720 we're not going to do any votes until after the election. And that sounds really bad. It kind of

00:04:47.580 is. But it seems to me, the tactic is get these members of Congress home so they can campaign

00:04:54.040 to their constituents. Ergo, my friends, when they're saying Republicans are doing really bad

00:05:00.220 in national level polling,

00:05:02.180 the Republicans have gone back

00:05:03.700 to their districts to campaign

00:05:05.320 and individually in their districts,

00:05:07.520 it's not as bad.

00:05:09.920 But while we can certainly praise Michigan

00:05:13.060 and say, or for the Republicans, I should say,

00:05:15.620 in Texas, Ken Paxton's down quite a bit.

00:05:18.240 So let's start ripping through this news.

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00:05:59.140 a Timcast IRL. Here's the story from Newsweek. GOP could flip Michigan Senate seat for the first

00:06:05.360 time in nearly 50 years. Newsweek reports, Republicans have a shot at a Michigan Senate

00:06:11.460 seat the Democrats have held since 1979. And three weeks before Election Day on November 3rd,

00:06:17.100 the race between former Rep. Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is close. The seat is

00:06:23.160 open because Democratic Senator Gary Peters decided not to seek a third term. Democrats

00:06:28.380 have held it since Carl Levin defeated Republican Senator Robert Griffin in 1978. Levin served for

00:06:35.560 36 years before Peters succeeded him in 2015. Rogers' victory would also end a longer losing

00:06:42.900 streak for Republicans. The party has not won a Senate race in Michigan since 1994 when Spencer

00:06:48.860 Abraham captured the state's other seat in the upper chamber of Congress. El-Sayed holds a

00:06:55.600 slight lead in the polls released this month, mostly within the margin of error. The Cook

00:07:00.120 political report rates the race a toss up and strategists in both parties counted among the

00:07:04.980 handful of contests likely to determine who controls the chamber in January. Rogers came

00:07:10.300 within 20,000 votes of beating now Senator Alyssa Slotkin in 24. He had no primary opponent this

00:07:16.100 time and carries Trump's endorsement. El-Sayed, a progressive and former public health official

00:07:21.220 backed by independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, edged Democratic Rep Haley Stevens

00:07:26.460 in the August 4th Democratic primary by less than a percentage point. Now, the question is,

00:07:32.220 why is he doing so bad? I mean, you got Dearborn, Michigan. They'd love this guy, right?

00:07:36.440 This guy that previously stated he was a dual citizen with Egypt. I think it's Egypt, right?

00:07:41.860 Daily Wire reporting that he said, quote, I carry dual citizenship and I grew up spending most of my

00:07:48.520 summers in another country where I understood what it meant not to have the right to self-govern.

00:07:52.600 The comment was made during the time El-Sayed led Detroit's health department. El-Sayed's

00:07:57.480 parents immigrated to the U.S. from Egypt and he was born in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Shortly

00:08:02.760 after becoming a professor at Columbia University in 2014, El-Sayed claimed on his resume that he

00:08:07.440 had American and Egyptian citizenship. So was he lying then or is he lying now? Well, Donald Trump's

00:08:13.320 got a statement for him. Mohammed El-Sayed. Trump says he can change the name of jihadist

00:08:19.740 Michigan Senate candidate. Oh, heavens me. We got this video posted by Republicans against Trump.

00:08:27.940 Let me just show you what Trump said. You can hear it straight from the man's mouth.

00:08:31.200 They're all done in the first and then these lunatics came in for four years. 0.98

00:08:36.360 What they did, they were destroying our country and we cannot let them get back in like Mohammed Al-Sayed. 0.99

00:08:43.660 I call him Mohammed. 1.00

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00:09:12.640 Somebody said, his name isn't Mohammed.

00:09:15.320 It's Abdul.

00:09:16.260 I said, to me, it's Mohammed.

00:09:17.620 I'm the president. 0.99

00:09:18.720 I can call him whatever the hell I want. 1.00

00:09:20.280 To me, he's Mohammed. 0.98

00:09:26.500 And he's a radical jihadist. 0.77

00:09:29.620 The guy's a jihadist.

00:09:30.840 Look at his statements from two years ago.

00:09:32.800 He's a jihadist.

00:09:33.880 I don't want a jihadist as a senator from Michigan. 0.93

00:09:38.400 I won Michigan, by the way, by lot. 1.00

00:09:40.200 Thank you very much.

00:09:44.040 I won by lot.

00:09:45.120 Then I had this dope one, Fox.

00:09:47.920 Well, that's what he said. 0.91

00:09:49.780 he said he's a radical jihadist. I don't think El-Sayed is a radical jihadist. I think he's

00:09:56.640 a progressive. I think he talks out both sides his mouth, if you know what I'm saying. But hey,

00:10:00.980 which politician doesn't, especially when he's claiming previously he was Egyptian and American,

00:10:05.640 and now they're denying it. Here's our Google AI overview breaking down the story.

00:10:12.800 Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has faced scrutiny and conflicting statements

00:10:16.140 regarding whether he holds dual U.S.-Egyptian citizenship.

00:10:19.180 On his 2014 resume, he put U.S. and Egypt.

00:10:22.680 At a 2016 conference, he stated,

00:10:24.720 I carry dual citizenship groups,

00:10:26.520 spending most of my summers in another country.

00:10:29.040 However, his campaign, Roxy Rickner, campaign spokeswoman,

00:10:32.880 stated that Abdul is not a dual citizen

00:10:34.780 by any verifiable metric and never has been.

00:10:37.800 What? What does that mean?

00:10:40.340 There's no metric.

00:10:41.280 It's either yes or no.

00:10:42.380 You are, you aren't.

00:10:44.020 The campaign described the past claims as an error or mistake, asserting that El-Sayed

00:10:47.560 has been told as a child by relatives that his grandfather had pursued Egyptian citizenship for

00:10:52.460 him, though no documentation can be found to confirm it. Uh-huh. The issue has been raised

00:10:57.400 by his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, and media outlets during the 2026 Michigan U.S. Senate race.

00:11:03.600 Well, let's break down my friends, Trump calling him a jihadist. It is going to work.

00:11:09.440 I'm not suggesting he's going to lose.

00:11:11.300 I'm saying, or I should say, it is working.

00:11:14.280 This is lowest common denominator politics.

00:11:16.820 Welcome to the American political landscape.

00:11:19.020 Welcome to all power politics just in general.

00:11:22.600 Trump is using words like Mohammed and jihadist

00:11:25.240 because he knows we are in a polarized country.

00:11:28.220 There are many people deeply concerned

00:11:29.740 about the spread of Islam. 0.99

00:11:31.200 This is going to strike at that core.

00:11:33.780 Trump is a master of memes.

00:11:35.540 He knows how to do memes.

00:11:37.240 He knows how to do memes.

00:11:38.640 That's why he had Lil Marco, remember that?

00:11:41.060 Or Lion Ted, low energy.

00:11:44.480 He's trying to capture a negative with a single word.

00:11:48.460 When he says Muhammad, what he is doing is he's basically taking all of that ancillary angst

00:11:56.020 people have over Islamic extremism and condensing it and firing it straight at Abdul El-Sayed.

00:12:02.680 So when people see him in their minds, they associate that with things like 9-11.

00:12:08.860 It's pretty intense, but that's politics.

00:12:10.840 And my friends, the reality is that it does work.

00:12:14.060 Now, to maximize our copium and hopium, as we like to do,

00:12:17.740 prospect.org says Democrats getting cover from Republican spending surge,

00:12:21.560 even if they're progressive.

00:12:23.000 Left-leaning candidates in swing seats have received millions of dollars from party groups.

00:12:27.060 House candidate Will Lawrence's race in Michigan is emblematic.

00:12:30.760 All of this lining up.

00:12:33.160 How interesting, my friends.

00:12:34.860 Democrats are begging for money right now. 0.77

00:12:36.820 they're getting outspent to an insane degree. Big donors are desperately trying to pump money in

00:12:42.840 for some of these Democrats, but they are falling short. Now, what's interesting is that

00:12:48.560 Trump PAC is driving Michigan Senate race towards record spending. Take a look at this. I almost

00:12:55.420 wish I lived in these states, man. More than $205 million has poured into Michigan's U.S. Senate

00:13:02.060 race, general election spending has favored Republican Mike Rogers. You know what, you know

00:13:07.440 what you do? You want to print money right now on social media? Just make content about anything

00:13:13.220 having to do with Michigan. Then the algorithms will run Michigan ads on your posts and you will

00:13:19.300 print money. Make your content targeting people in Michigan who want to like, you know, I don't

00:13:25.020 know, whatever it is they want to watch, right? Make a video about how great Grand Rapids is.

00:13:29.400 You won't get that many views, but they will run all of their massive Senate campaign ads on it.

00:13:35.180 This is from Civic Media.

00:13:37.080 Michigan's U.S. Senate race remains on track to be the most expensive in state history after recent super PAC spending tied to Republicans and President Donald Trump.

00:13:45.420 Disclosed spending on the closely watched race between Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has surpassed $205 million, according to federal records reviewed by Bridge Michigan.

00:13:56.880 The true total is almost certainly much higher because campaigns have not reported fundraising since July 15th.

00:14:03.860 It places the full cost of the election on pace to exceed the 2024 race between Rogers and now U.S. Senator Slotkin, which saw more than $217 million in disclosed spending.

00:14:17.720 But don't forget, super PACs and dark money, my friends, it's going to be big.

00:14:23.200 Among groups disclosing their spending, Rogers has a dedicated, I'm sorry, a decided advantage.

00:14:29.680 GOP groups have spent $59.3 million compared to $23 million by backers of El-Sayed, according to FEC Records.

00:14:37.500 The Senate Leadership Fund, a Republican super PAC working to maintain the GOP's majority,

00:14:42.160 has been the largest spender so far in the general election,

00:14:44.580 reporting nearly $22 million to support Rogers with advertising.

00:14:50.220 The no-going-back Super PAC, an offshoot of Trump's Mega Inc.,

00:14:53.260 has spent more than $13 million to back Rogers, who Trump has endorsed.

00:14:58.460 The PAC has spent more money in Michigan than any other state save Ohio,

00:15:03.140 including an additional $4.4 million on U.S. House races here.

00:15:07.860 Elon Musk's America PAC has been a relatively small player,

00:15:11.060 throwing in about $3.9 million to back Rogers,

00:15:14.860 mostly through online ads and political mail.

00:15:18.280 Advertising data suggests a more competitive landscape.

00:15:21.140 As of Thursday, Democratic groups had spent $43.8 million on the raise

00:15:25.420 compared to the $59 million by Republicans, according to AdImpact,

00:15:28.900 a tracking firm whose totals also include ads by dark money groups

00:15:32.420 that don't report spending or donors.

00:15:34.400 Now, that's interesting.

00:15:35.500 Now, the reason why I bring up all of this spending to get into the nuance of it all?

00:15:41.540 Money talks, BS walks, and everybody knows it.

00:15:44.940 El-Sayed is in the margin of error.

00:15:47.620 He's a vanilla pudding candidate.

00:15:49.120 I mean, to be honest, he's more like a Dubai chocolate candidate

00:15:52.580 in that there is a uniqueness to him as Abdul El-Sayed.

00:15:57.080 I mean, that's interesting enough, and a Muslim.

00:15:59.840 However, he's not inspiring your run-of-the-mill voters. 0.99

00:16:04.220 And I'm going to add this on top.

00:16:05.380 As I've said a million times, the Democrats aren't offering up any tangibles.

00:16:10.800 You know, look, I've complained about Republicans.

00:16:13.380 I have complained about Republicans and said they're not selling us on anything.

00:16:17.460 Tell me what you're going to do for me as a voter, and I'll consider voting for you.

00:16:21.060 But Democrats aren't offering anything either, other than the Republicans are bad.

00:16:26.180 But I got to be honest, the devil you know, right?

00:16:29.260 So with the war in Iran bad, I think we're probably better off letting Trump finish whatever

00:16:34.240 it is he's trying to do.

00:16:35.780 Democrats coming into the midterms are probably going to gum everything up and make it substantially

00:16:39.320 worse.

00:16:39.840 And I am not happy with the war in Iran.

00:16:41.800 Now you've got this kooky Russia thing with the ceasefire and then Putin's bombing,

00:16:46.980 Zelensky's bombing, gas prices through the roof.

00:16:49.900 It is not good and not fun.

00:16:53.500 But I have not heard a pitch from Democrats as to why they make sense for this midterm.

00:17:00.740 Guys, I gotta be honest.

00:17:01.880 I am begging a single politician to come out and say, voting for me will get you something.

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00:18:04.960 slash podcast. And that I get, I mean, if you're a regular person and the president's like,

00:18:10.700 if we retain control of the legislative branch, I'm going to print money for you. Well, there's

00:18:15.420 a tangible, and that might put us over the edge because I ain't hearing nothing from Democrats.

00:18:21.200 The big question right now is motivation. We've heard from Pew that Democrats are much more

00:18:26.700 motivated. But if Democrats aren't pitching anything other than we don't like Trump,

00:18:31.700 well, I got to say the problem is that's not motivating for people like me.

00:18:35.600 Look, Joe Rogan's come out and he's been very critical of the Trump administration. He's a

00:18:39.500 middle of the road guy. I'm a very middle of the road guy as well. Over the past four or five years,

00:18:43.740 I've been leaning with the Republicans. But the five years before that, I was not.

00:18:47.280 I even donated the max to several Democrats in 2020. But let me tell you about the Democrats.

00:18:53.120 Tim Pool can give $10,000 plus to various Democrats.

00:18:58.040 And the Democrats don't even so much as have a thank you.

00:19:00.560 They don't listen to anything being said.

00:19:02.300 They don't care about what I think.

00:19:03.940 No, they just smear me and attack me.

00:19:07.220 Why?

00:19:08.540 This is what's absolutely fascinating.

00:19:09.700 I love this when they said, when the left in 2024 was like, we need a Joe Rogan of

00:19:14.780 the left.

00:19:15.380 And everyone's like, you had one.

00:19:17.620 His name was Joe Rogan.

00:19:19.200 But y'all went crazy. 0.73

00:19:22.500 Well, the question right now is, Republicans seem to be the least crazy, but they're not 0.91

00:19:28.380 really offering us anything.

00:19:29.940 So I think a lot of people are going to abstain.

00:19:32.260 If the Democrats aren't pitching anything and the Republicans aren't pitching anything

00:19:36.100 either, the only thing that matters then is that Democrats are going to come out and vote

00:19:40.300 because they hate Donald Trump.

00:19:41.660 And that's going to give an edge.

00:19:43.120 That is.

00:19:44.140 Now, my friends, while Michigan is turning out to be a hot issue, the main Senate race

00:19:48.780 is actually tracking to be the most expensive race per voter, which is absolutely nuts,

00:19:55.240 considering we jump over to 270 to win. It is a toss-up state, and Democrats are going

00:20:00.520 ham to try and win this one. Right now, when you track the 270 to win, Matt, we can see there are

00:20:05.200 five toss-ups. Michigan is leaning blue, they say, but it's moving into toss-up territory.

00:20:11.500 So we're going to turn that one toss-up, and it's a split game. Democrat 47, Republican 47. I think

00:20:18.340 the only reason they're really saying Michigan is Democrat-leaning is because historically it has

00:20:22.420 been. But with this being the case, we don't actually know how it's all going to come down.

00:20:30.060 Now, I believe Calci, let's pull up the, do we have the, is it not letting me do it? I don't

00:20:35.700 know. Okay, whatever. This is, oh, I'm sorry. Here we go. We got this, oh, they're using Polymarket

00:20:39.960 now. They're using Calci for a while. Democratic Party's got a 61% to take the Senate, according

00:20:47.660 to Polymarket's current tracking, when we go to the House interactive map, we can see the

00:20:52.660 Democratic Party's favorite at 89%. Right now, based on polling, Democrats already won.

00:20:59.480 So this is going to be interesting. I think if Democrats win, the obvious thing is we're gonna

00:21:03.460 get a lot of lawfare. It's going to be real boring. But yo, they don't got the money.

00:21:08.820 And here's where it's real interesting. U.S. midterm ad spending projected to reach record

00:21:15.240 $11.6 billion, Ad Impact says. Political advertising spending for the 26 midterm elections

00:21:23.580 is going to reach a record of $11.6 billion, according to political advertising tracker

00:21:28.320 Ad Impact. If the forecast holds, it would exceed spending during both the 24 and 2022 cycles,

00:21:37.000 which is nuts because 24 was the president. The increase is being driven largely by competitive

00:21:41.560 Senate races in states, including Texas, Ohio, and Maine, where control of Congress could be

00:21:45.860 influenced by a relatively small number of contests. The projected spending reflects broader

00:21:51.660 changes in modern campaigning. While broadcast television remains a major recipient of political

00:21:57.040 ad dollars, campaigns are increasingly directing money towards streaming platforms, digital

00:22:02.020 advertising, voter data operations, polling consultants, fundraising infrastructure,

00:22:06.120 and turnout efforts. The projection has generated discussions among political analysts

00:22:09.800 and election observers about the growing influence of money in politics,

00:22:13.660 the role of outside groups, et cetera, et cetera.

00:22:15.320 We get it.

00:22:16.900 Well, let's take it home, my friends.

00:22:18.320 Let's take it home.

00:22:20.280 Let's talk about Abdul El-Sayed.

00:22:22.680 Excuse me.

00:22:24.160 He's fighting a cold.

00:22:25.480 Today, it's been pretty brutal.

00:22:27.660 But let's talk about where we're at in this country.

00:22:30.060 And I want to elaborate on where I am.

00:22:33.120 The Democrats went largely nuts.

00:22:36.240 I was hoping that we would get, excuse me, Tulsi Gabbard,

00:22:39.800 It was my pick for 2020.

00:22:41.360 It's only been six years.

00:22:42.860 I donated the maximum.

00:22:45.220 I believe it's been a while,

00:22:46.520 but I think it might have been in the primary

00:22:47.580 and in the general.

00:22:48.400 I'm not sure.

00:22:49.480 You can check FEC records.

00:22:51.080 You can see where I put all my money.

00:22:51.940 I even donated to progressive members of Congress

00:22:55.500 because I wanted some people like Nancy Pelosi

00:22:58.380 to be ousted.

00:23:00.220 Now, look, AOC is bad for a lot of reasons, 1.00

00:23:03.080 but to an extent, I prefer her 1.00

00:23:05.680 over the establishment neolib machine, right? 0.98

00:23:09.140 She's grown to be somewhat of a neolib player herself, whatever. 0.96

00:23:14.740 But there was a woman running against Pelosi.

00:23:16.260 I donated to hers.

00:23:16.840 I donated to these progressives and these Democrats, okay?

00:23:19.920 Now, here we are today.

00:23:21.400 In 2024, I backed Trump.

00:23:23.280 They came for me.

00:23:24.760 The AG lying and smearing me, as well as many others,

00:23:27.800 because they played dirty political games,

00:23:30.300 despite the fact that I was supporting Democrats only a few years earlier.

00:23:34.600 See, this is the problem with Democrats, my friends.

00:23:37.220 they could come out and they could try to recruit. They could literally say, hey, how do we win over

00:23:45.000 someone like Tim Pool? Instead, they say, F him, burn him down and call him names. Why? If you want 0.99

00:23:52.960 to win elections, go to Joe Rogan, go to Tim Pool and say, where can we meet you guys halfway? The

00:23:58.960 Republicans do it all day, every day. And it makes it easy for me. I was talking about this with the

00:24:04.180 sit-down I did with Luke Beasley and Jack Posobiec. Jack Posobiec very easily goes,

00:24:08.580 yeah, Trump did this thing. That was pretty bad, but here's why I like Trump better. And I go,

00:24:12.220 I understand. And the Democrats are just like, I'm going to say things. Let me put it like this.

00:24:18.560 I recommend you guys watch the Chicago Thinker. With all due respect to Luke, I called him out

00:24:24.500 because I'd say something like, here's why people vote for Trump. And he goes, well, that was a

00:24:28.900 really stupid thing to say. You're just saying stupid things. But anyway, I'd agress. And I'm 1.00

00:24:32.620 like, bro, what are you doing? This is not winning me over. And this is liberal discourse. Okay.

00:24:37.720 And don't come to me and say, Tim, you're biased. No, because I've been here. I was donating to

00:24:42.520 Democrats. I was hanging out with liberals and I saw the exact same thing. Instead of saying,

00:24:48.920 Tim, about your concern, here's the answer. They'd say, stop being stupid and fall in line. 1.00

00:24:54.220 And I'd say, shove it. I ain't playing that game. I go to Republicans and they say, here's what we 1.00

00:25:00.040 like about Trump? And I say, yeah, but Trump did bad thing. And they go, you know, that's true.

00:25:04.220 But what are you going to do? You're going to go get Joe Biden. He's going to go start a war

00:25:09.280 with Ukraine, or I'm sorry, in Ukraine. Or I shouldn't say that he started the war in Ukraine,

00:25:14.720 but we got a new war with US involvement, even though it was Russia invading Ukraine,

00:25:18.640 we didn't need to be there. For that matter, I just find it also weird that people are like

00:25:23.060 Israel, but not Ukraine. Because to me, it's like all foreign policy. Like I get it.

00:25:26.940 but you've got like neocon Republicans being like, we love both Ukraine and Israel. And you

00:25:31.840 got liberals being like, we love Ukraine, but we hate Israel. And then you got libertarians being

00:25:35.460 like, we also don't like either. And I'm just like, it's a very, it's a very weird political

00:25:40.400 space. I'm going to put it like this. I'm going to put it like this. I am hoping and begging for

00:25:46.980 a time when Democrats come out and actually pitch normal things. And I was, I was saying this about

00:25:53.160 say it for a minute. He's got some charisma. You got to watch out. You got to watch out.

00:25:57.900 And then his videos started to come out where he's doing like the blues clues dancing. And I'm like,

00:26:02.340 nevermind. You know, I was thinking this guy could be like an Obama figure. Obama knew how to do it,

00:26:07.340 but for some reason, Democrats lost it. Yo, I don't understand why they're all so bad at this.

00:26:16.900 I'm not kidding. They just all so bad. I look at Republicans. Republicans are suit wearing squares.

00:26:23.220 Democrats have become weirdos. 0.79

00:26:26.280 Listen, listen. 0.97

00:26:28.040 James Tallarico is a vanilla pudding weirdo, okay?

00:26:33.580 His positions flip-flop back and forth.

00:26:36.380 Ken Paxson, he's a MAGA warrior.

00:26:38.220 I get it.

00:26:38.940 You don't gotta like the guy.

00:26:40.040 I'm not saying those are,

00:26:40.680 I'm not saying that's a compliment to the guy.

00:26:42.260 I'm saying he's diehard MAGA.

00:26:43.840 He loves Trump.

00:26:44.900 He's launched lawsuits on his behalf.

00:26:46.660 He's down in the polls.

00:26:47.960 Tallarico is like,

00:26:49.080 we're gonna wear masks and be vegans.

00:26:50.760 And I'm just like, in Texas?

00:26:52.500 And then he denies it all.

00:26:54.460 Okay, we don't need whatever this notification is.

00:26:59.080 You can get out of there.

00:27:00.960 Anyway, my computer is yelling at me.

00:27:03.680 James Tallarico is one of the,

00:27:06.660 the strategy they have with them

00:27:07.880 is that they're trying to play him out

00:27:09.120 to be a woke Christian.

00:27:11.140 So they can get middle of the road people

00:27:12.840 with the Christian talking points

00:27:14.200 and then rub them into the woke talking points. 1.00

00:27:16.840 But it's stupid. 1.00

00:27:18.240 It's tribalism. 1.00

00:27:19.360 It is culty.

00:27:20.040 At the end of the day, my friends,

00:27:21.480 one thing matters.

00:27:22.500 Is the candidate actually selling something?

00:27:24.980 My recommendation for Mike Rogers,

00:27:26.700 articulate your sales pitch.

00:27:28.620 How are you getting gas prices down?

00:27:30.480 Figure it out.

00:27:31.960 Trump coming out and saying

00:27:33.220 Abdul El-Sayed is a jihadist. 1.00

00:27:34.560 I gotta be honest, that stuff works. 0.96

00:27:36.420 It just does.

00:27:37.700 We're talking about a country

00:27:38.680 that refused to vote for a guy

00:27:39.760 because he went,

00:27:40.240 yoo-hoo, back in like 2004 or whatever.

00:27:43.120 Remember that one?

00:27:44.220 Yeah, okay.

00:27:45.760 Understand politics, my friends.

00:27:47.400 You need a good base

00:27:48.500 because there are smart people.

00:27:50.440 But the reality is

00:27:51.340 you're gonna win elections 1.00

00:27:51.980 based on the stupidest things imaginable. 1.00

00:27:54.660 We'll see. 1.00

00:27:56.240 You know, a lot of people have said,

00:27:57.700 Tim, what are you worried about?

00:27:58.560 If the Democrats win, you're going to make bank

00:28:00.320 because there'll be political conflict.

00:28:01.840 And I'm like, I'm not motivated by these things, guys.

00:28:06.120 If Democrats win, they win.

00:28:07.580 If they lose, they lose, right?

00:28:09.340 But everybody's like, Republicans want to lose

00:28:11.700 because they want the fight.

00:28:13.040 They need something to be against.

00:28:14.860 And right now, Democrats are not,

00:28:17.540 they're not doing anything.

00:28:18.580 So the Republicans are sitting there

00:28:20.240 and everything's boring.

00:28:21.100 You get the Democrats to come in, start some fights with Republicans, Republicans can campaign

00:28:26.040 against that for 2028 to maintain the presidency, which is more important.

00:28:31.060 And so be it.

00:28:32.100 I think there's probably a lot to that.

00:28:34.260 I really do.

00:28:35.200 I don't think politics is so simple to say as Republicans are like, no, we want to wait.

00:28:38.880 Let me tell you this.

00:28:39.500 We had a guy in from the Freedom Caucus.

00:28:40.780 I can't remember which rep it was on Tim Kast IRL.

00:28:43.180 And he said he had the deciding vote on Obamacare to repeal it.

00:28:46.440 And leadership told him not to do it.

00:28:49.040 They said, don't vote to repeal it.

00:28:51.960 We need the wedge issue.

00:28:54.320 Politics is fake, my friends.

00:28:55.960 It's largely fake.

00:28:57.380 The consequences are real enough.

00:28:59.600 But the rest of it, it's all fake.

00:29:02.540 I'm going to wrap it up there.

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - October 13, 2026

Democrat El Sayed Gambit IS BACKFIRING, GOP To FLIP Michigan In Midterm

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