The Culture War - Tim Pool - Democrats Work To OUST Hasan Piker And Leftist Influence, WOKE IS COOKED

00:00:00.000 The machine state is closing ranks in Illinois. Recently, progressives got blown out and the more corporate moderate Democrats seem to be winning.

00:00:10.200 We saw something similar in Texas with Jasmine Crockett and her bid for the Senate. 0.92

00:00:14.360 Stephen Colbert and James Tallarico combined powers to stage a hoax to help eliminate Jasmine Crockett from the runnings.

00:00:22.260 And now many Democrats are saying they don't want to associate with Hassan Piker.

00:00:26.920 He's getting massive backlash across mainstream media and in Democratic circles.

00:00:33.040 The interesting thing is that for a while, Hassan was the darling of the media, giving

00:00:37.820 beautiful profiles.

00:00:39.260 But now they're calling him left wing Nick Fuentes and left wing Candace Owens, which

00:00:45.620 is all just so strange because they don't really know which direction they're going

00:00:49.280 with it.

00:00:49.600 But of course, Hassan Piker is pushing back.

00:00:52.400 But I'm not sure it'll matter.

00:00:53.220 Seems the big play right now in politics is to close ranks around a more moderate base.

00:00:59.820 Even Joe Rogan has been critical now of MAGA as many of them being dorks moving away and

00:01:06.680 the moderates basically saying, we don't want the fringes at all anymore.

00:01:11.300 I'm actually seeing rumblings underground beneath the surface in the rumor mill that

00:01:17.200 powerful investment is going to be moving into candidates that are kind of more middle

00:01:22.440 of the road. It's been too destabilizing to have the far left populace and the far right populace

00:01:28.040 constantly fighting each other, both figuratively and literally. And while certainly they've already

00:01:33.200 gone to ban prominent people on the right, it has now come for the one and only Hassan Piker.

00:01:39.800 That's right. The most prominent leftist streamer now faces the excision from the mainstream.

00:01:47.220 The New York Times gave him a glowing profile and many people were upset, but now many politicians

00:01:51.840 don't want to associate with him. Because, my friends, woke is broke. It's not coming back.

00:01:57.220 Now, we think we think there are a few stories where many people are saying woke will come back

00:02:02.020 with a vengeance, but I don't think it'll come back overtly. I think they may try to implement

00:02:07.240 certain things underground, but they know that it's deeply unpopular. So they've been trying to

00:02:12.260 move away from these policies on the surface. And Hassan Piker has a past that he cannot escape.

00:02:18.420 And I'm not saying anything untoward. You have to like his politics. I'm saying the dude has advocated for a set of policies publicly that he can't now just disavow. Democrats know they're not going to win by trying to go the progressive route. And to be honest, powerful investors behind media don't want either MAGA or the progressive left. So it seems like a change is here. And it starts not with Hassan, not ending with Hassan, but certainly here is the man caught in the crossfire.

00:02:47.840 Let's jump into the news and see exactly what the play is from the Democrats moving forward.

00:02:51.620 And of course, Hassan has responded.

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00:03:34.520 Here's a story from the New York Times.

00:03:36.560 Hassan Piker rallies spark backlash in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary.

00:03:42.640 This is where it all begins.

00:03:43.640 They say tensions over Israel burst into the open in the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan this week after a candidate scheduled rallies with a provocative left wing streamer was an outspoken critic of the Israeli government and its war in Gaza.

00:03:58.100 The candidate, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who was in a competitive three-way Democratic primary,

00:04:03.900 faced forceful criticism from his opponents and others within his party after announcing

00:04:08.240 that streamer Hassan Piker would join him at rallies at the University of Michigan

00:04:12.280 and Michigan State on April 7th. Mr. Piker's huge young following has made him an appealing

00:04:19.420 ally for progressive Democrats. He taped an interview with Zoran Mamdani last year during

00:04:24.200 the New York mayoral race and later attended Mr. Mamdani's election night party.

00:04:28.100 In 2024, he filmed a stream for the Democratic National Convention.

00:04:32.620 Some have called Mr. Piker the Joe Rogan on the left.

00:04:36.040 I would argue that he's not because that would imply there would be a Joe Rogan on the right, which there is not.

00:04:42.680 But I love how the media pretends there is.

00:04:46.240 Joe Rogan is a moderate, middle of the road, independent, somewhat apolitical guy.

00:04:51.720 Hassan Piker is a progressive leftist.

00:04:54.480 They say his statements about Israel have alarmed some Democrats.

00:04:57.340 He has said that the Hamas-led attack on October 7th was the direct consequence of actions by the Israeli and U.S. governments.

00:05:03.980 And it doesn't matter if rapes happen on October 7th, saying it doesn't change the dynamic for me.

00:05:08.220 How about notably when he was having a discussion with Ethan Klein and he said, babies are settlers.

00:05:13.560 And everyone was like, bro, bro, too far.

00:05:17.200 Well, look, even after all that, they still tried courting this guy.

00:05:20.720 But now that it seems they're closing ranks, Hassan, you got to reel it in, buddy.

00:05:25.400 they say Mr. Piker stood by those comments in an interview Friday he said he did not deny there

00:05:31.480 was sexual violence during the October 7th attack but that doesn't make genocide acceptable he also

00:05:35.940 said that the United States deserved the September 11th terror attacks but later apologized for the

00:05:41.000 comment Dr. El-Sayed's rival seized upon Mr. Piker's planned visit which was announced 12

00:05:46.240 days after a man drove a truck into a synagogue in suburban Detroit wounding a guard in what the

00:05:51.440 authorities described as a targeted attack against the Jewish community. In an interview,

00:05:56.660 the Jewish Insider, on Thursday, State Senator Mallory McMorrow, another candidate, described

00:06:01.040 Mr. Piker as somebody who says extremely offensive things in order to generate clicks.

00:06:06.000 I'm going to, I'm going to, I got to defend Hassan on this one. Are you guys, is you kidding me,

00:06:09.520 guys? Quote, that is not somebody that you should be campaigning with at a moment when there is

00:06:15.060 clearly a lot of pain and trauma across our state. You don't fan the flames in Stoke Division

00:06:18.880 just to get attention. I would not accuse Hasan Piker of saying extremely offensive things for

00:06:24.540 content. I would say that Hasan Piker says what is socially acceptable on the left to generate a

00:06:30.520 following. Hasan does not step out of line from the progressive mainstream narrative. I don't

00:06:36.160 think he's pushing the boundaries all that much just to get clicks. I actually think of all of

00:06:41.520 the progressives and all of the libs. Hasan's actually a better of them. I know a lot of people

00:06:46.120 going to be like, Tim, why are you defending Hassan? Well, I got to tell you what I think is

00:06:48.720 true. I think he's got bad opinions. I don't agree with them. But when you look at his body

00:06:53.880 of work, he talks about a variety of issues. There are many progressives and liberals who

00:06:59.620 just scream Trump 24-7, and their whole channels are literally just pictures of Trump. Hassan

00:07:05.340 doesn't do that. He may have opinions, opinions I don't like, and he should be criticized.

00:07:10.120 And you don't have to associate with him if you're a Democrat. That's fine.

00:07:14.200 But I got to admit, there are many more liberals that would be viewed as safe

00:07:17.980 for endorsements or for rallies who are literally just rage bait machines that don't even have any

00:07:25.100 literal criticism of Trump. They just post pictures of Trump and say, Trump's crazy, 0.98

00:07:29.340 Trump's bad, Trump's stupid, Trump's dumb, over and over and over again. 1.00

00:07:33.820 That I don't respect. At least Hassan purports to have opinions. Well, here we go, my friends 1.00

00:07:40.000 from Politico. Why some Democrats want to shut off Hassan Piker's megaphone. The popular streamer's

00:07:47.200 rise as a Democratic influencer coincides with the party's long search for a path out of the

00:07:53.220 wilderness. Interesting. Nonetheless, they say after Politico reported that Piker, the far left

00:07:59.120 political streamer with millions of followers, will stump in Michigan for Abdul El-Sayed.

00:08:04.000 History of his divisive comments launched an avalanche of criticism from Republicans and

00:08:08.920 Democrats. Piker's rise as a Democratic influencer and surrogate coincides with party's long search

00:08:14.320 for a path out of the wilderness, particularly in recapturing young men. And what did we learn

00:08:19.080 just this week? That they're looking for white Christian men. So when you have a pro-Islamic 0.96

00:08:26.000 guy, you're not really going to be catering to your new strategy by bringing him into the fold.

00:08:32.740 Piker is scheduled to appear in a live streamed Choose Your Fighter rally organized by Progressive

00:08:37.760 victory at 6.30 p.m. Saturday. Rep Ro Khanna is among the list of attendees. Main Democratic

00:08:42.940 Senate candidate Graham Plantner. I thought it was Planter? I thought it was Plattner.

00:08:48.120 And was originally billed as a participant, but he pulled out of the event. Could it be because

00:08:51.820 he had a totenkopf on his chest and they... Guys, this guy had a Nazi tattoo. Not an accident, 0.85

00:08:57.920 not something that looked like a Nazi tattoo, a literal totenkopf on his chest.

00:09:01.420 jeez. I'm not surprised. The question over Piker's prominence also comes as both Republicans

00:09:08.840 and Democratic parties ask fundamental questions about how big their tents should be.

00:09:13.560 In an interview with Politico, Piker downplayed accusations that have been leveled against him,

00:09:17.800 like center-left think tank Third Way, whose leaders wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed

00:09:22.960 that Piker had a history of anti-American, anti-women, anti-Western, and anti-Semitic

00:09:27.460 comments. Piker said third way was losing their institutional relevance. He also said he's merely

00:09:33.860 channeling not changing the attitudes of the Democratic base. That's exactly what I accuse

00:09:38.840 him of. When they say that he just says shocking, outrageous things for clicks, I say, no, no, no,

00:09:43.680 no, no, no, no. He's more like a Candace Owens saying whatever the base wants to hear instead

00:09:49.940 of what is true or what needs to be said. And he kind of admits it, although he's not literally

00:09:55.320 he's saying he's a Candace Owens. I love how the media has called him a left wing Nick Fuentes,

00:09:59.420 though. And I'm just like, no, Nick's his own dimension. Nick represents his own little his

00:10:06.620 own. I should call it little, but I mean, like his own sector of politics. He's told people not

00:10:11.500 to vote Republican, you know, so I guess maybe if it's on saying don't vote Democrat, I'm a

00:10:16.740 megaphone, right? Piker told Politico, there are a lot of barbs and Deborah's out there in 1.00

00:10:21.960 Minneapolis, for example. They have never encountered me, and yet they share that

00:10:25.660 frustration with the failures of establishment liberalism all the same. Piker said those types

00:10:30.380 of voters view Democrats as ineffective, inept. It's not because they tune into the Hassan Abiy

00:10:35.920 broadcast every day. He said, referencing his channel. Excellent plug, by the way. That's a

00:10:41.640 great, that's how you do the quote, you know what I mean? They arrive at that conclusion because

00:10:45.160 the Democrats lost to Trump twice, yet they lost to him because you're trying to give children 0.79

00:10:49.860 sex changes, bro. Like I supported Democrats in 2020. I donated the maximum to two candidates

00:10:58.180 and a progressive member of Congress. I wanted the establishment for many of these reasons

00:11:04.280 to be curtailed. The Democratic establishment sucked. I am exactly what Hassan is purporting 0.99

00:11:10.580 to describe. The only issue is, as a regular American, my concerns over what the Democrats

00:11:15.940 we're doing would not be answered by the progressives. So I ended up voting for Trump.

00:11:20.920 Try more. Y'all want to give kids sex changes. I'm sorry. I'm not playing those games, man.

00:11:29.060 They're going to mention that it's not Hassan's first rodeo. He live streamed an interview with

00:11:33.080 Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders before the duo's fighting oligarchy rallies. But Piker's increasing

00:11:39.700 coziness with prominent Democrats also come as some in the party argue he poses a problem.

00:11:45.420 Here we go. Piker is close to, but not over the Nick Fuentes line. Here it is.

00:11:52.240 We're going on his show itself is indefensible, said Matt Bennett, who's been sounding the alarm

00:11:57.780 about Democrats affiliation with Piker. Bennett added that Democrats take on all of his baggage

00:12:02.720 if they don't overtly reject him, which he said is dangerous because it empowers the right and

00:12:08.180 gives them an incredibly powerful tool to hit Democrats with. That's very bad. But some Democrats

00:12:13.400 like Khanna argue the party needs to assemble a broad coalition that must include engaging with

00:12:18.660 Israel critics like Hassan Piker, as PodSafe hosts have done and many progressive candidates have

00:12:23.920 done. Of course, I disagree strongly with some of his statements and point that out. But canceling

00:12:29.620 people or shaming people like Hassan Piker, Sean Reiner, Theo Vaughn is not the answer.

00:12:34.120 I like Ro Khanna. I stand with him in this capacity. I don't think shutting Hassan down

00:12:39.840 solves your issue, solves the problem. I think trying to get these personalities to moderate

00:12:44.520 makes the most sense. We've had Nick Fuentes on the show, and I thought the show was great.

00:12:50.640 I think Nick believes things that are wrong. I disagree with. I think we agree that there is a

00:12:56.960 base reality. Like I pull up a news article, we'll agree the news has reported this thing.

00:13:02.400 But we have very different opinions. There is, however, an overlap. I think these conversations

00:13:06.880 are important. I think Nick is right about a lot of things. I think he's wrong about a lot of

00:13:11.440 things. And I think he does post offensive jokes and some offensive opinions. I would say the exact

00:13:18.420 same thing of Hassan Piker. But I do think it's silly to claim that they represent the other side

00:13:22.960 of each other's coin. I don't care where you stand. If you hold a seat that speaks to many

00:13:29.940 people, then your voice is important when we're having these conversations. You may not like

00:13:35.680 Hassan Piker Democrats, but he and the people who follow him aren't going anywhere. That being said,

00:13:41.340 there's a reason why Nick Fuentes is banned across the board. And I would not be surprised

00:13:45.600 if soon the chopping block comes for Hassan Piker. Mediaite reports Hassan Piker is the left's

00:13:55.320 Candace Owens. The press treats him like a rock star. What is this CNN? Our politics lead now.

00:14:01.420 Now, Hassan Piker might not be a household name, at least among adults, but ask your kids.

00:14:08.320 His new role as a midterm surrogate for some Democrats is proof that his political influence is expanding far beyond the streaming platform Twitch, where he has taken up residence.

00:14:18.280 He is without question an online influencer with nearly three million followers.

00:14:22.120 His rise as a prominent voice on the left is now driving a wedge between Democrats.

00:14:27.620 And for good reason, Hassan Piker's past and present is checkered with controversial, if not outrageous, if not bigoted state comments like this one.

00:14:40.480 America deserved 9-11, dude. I'm saying it. 0.93

00:14:43.700 We totally brought it on ourselves, dude. Holy shit. 1.00

00:14:47.040 The ultra-Orthodox Jews leaving Israel. F***ing hilarious. 1.00

00:14:50.680 okay if they serve in the military and then they get their untrained inbred asses shipped 1.00

00:14:59.320 into southern lebanon wow again again very funny you know it's a son piker calling orthodox jews 0.98

00:15:08.100 inbred piker has also posted comments such as these where he unequivocally sides with hamas

00:15:12.760 calling them the lesser of two israels compared to the government evil the lesser of two israels

00:15:18.380 lesser of two equals compared to the government of israel piker you got has since apologized for 0.97

00:15:24.040 his comments on 9-11 but he stood by the rest he's accusing others of taking him out of context

00:15:28.460 in a wall street journal op-ed the leaders of the democratic think tank third way right quote

00:15:32.600 mr piker is anti-american anti-women anti-western and anti-semitic no democrat should engage with

00:15:37.900 him all should seek to push him to the fringe where he belongs unquote hassan piker just recently

00:15:42.460 become an issue in michigan it's home to a competitive so we covered all that news already

00:15:46.060 But wow, look, he apologized for the 9-11 thing, guys, I'm going to extend the same

00:15:51.520 grace that I would to him, to anybody else.

00:15:53.620 You apologize for what you said.

00:15:54.720 I say good, because the reason is if we do not allow for the apology, then they'll only

00:15:59.300 go the other direction.

00:16:00.800 I'd much prefer Hassan Piker use his influence, step away from the far left fringe stuff,

00:16:05.920 and rally people towards the things that we all can agree on, like his uncle does.

00:16:11.960 Cenk Uygur, for all of my criticism of the guy, and for which there is many,

00:16:15.460 at least tries to find some common ground and repeatedly made the statement that if the left

00:16:21.420 and the right just paused in their culture war and the political feuding for a few seconds and

00:16:26.100 said, let's just go through the list and find out what we agree on, we'd actually be a little bit

00:16:31.300 happier. We'd actually accomplish some things. And I respect that because it's true. The right

00:16:36.080 and the left both have issues with the health care system. I don't know if we share the same

00:16:40.060 solution, so maybe that one's going to be difficult. But there's certainly some areas

00:16:43.760 where the left and the right could sit down and be like, oh, no, no, wait, we actually agree on

00:16:47.880 this one. Let's get that one out of the way. In the meantime, so long as we're fighting over just

00:16:52.080 having power, there are a lot of things that both the left and the right in this country want that

00:16:55.400 will never happen. That's why I say accept the apologies where they matter. I will also add he

00:17:00.800 didn't apologize for a bunch of other comments that he made that are pretty dang shocking,

00:17:05.040 mind you. Hassan Piker has been on my radar from who's right in this one. This is Colby Hall.

00:17:10.600 the way a lot of things are on my political news radar, preferably occasionally, enough to know

00:17:15.820 they exist and maybe even matters. This is now I edit and write for the political media criticism

00:17:19.660 outlet and have spent close to three decades tracking political narratives. Piker gets

00:17:23.980 media coverage when something he says breaks through into mainstream news, which it turns

00:17:27.900 out happens fairly regularly, but almost always for the same reason. He says ugly things on purpose

00:17:32.780 for clicks. I'm going to just stress again. I don't think so. I do not believe that. Hassan Piker

00:17:38.480 does not need to get clicks. He's a live streamer with a consistent audience. He needs to say things

00:17:43.300 to keep the audience watching. That means he represents that he is what he says he is. He

00:17:48.220 says what they want to hear. Now, one might argue, what's the difference? I'm saying

00:17:52.300 you could say something offensive to everybody to get clicks. Hassan is trying to say what he

00:17:58.300 thinks that people agree with to get clicks, not to shock regular people into running stories on

00:18:03.240 him. He says, Piker has told his audience some remarkably ugly things. We did cover all this

00:18:08.120 stuff. Now let's talk about what they mean about Candace Owens. Piker's career runs in the same 0.99

00:18:13.400 shock jock architecture that built Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. And I rejected on Tucker

00:18:18.140 Carlson. Tucker Carlson has not built a career on being a shock jock. That's just not the case.

00:18:23.440 Say something outrageous, generate outrage, collect the clicks. The politics are different,

00:18:27.220 of course. He's working a progressive younger audience radicalized by Gaza rather than a

00:18:31.780 MAGA base radicalized by immigration. But the machinery is identical. When legacy media covers

00:18:37.320 Carlson or Owens. The machinery is the story. The inflammatory statement leads. The record

00:18:42.440 gets examined. When they covered Piker, they wrote about his workout regimen and his pearl

00:18:46.700 necklaces. The reach is the story. The influence is the story. The record is not. I'll give them

00:18:51.720 that. Here's the here's the sad reality. There was a period where they discussed how we shift

00:18:57.840 from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. That is the principal element that drives economic

00:19:04.820 growth and sustains it will be providing services instead of making stuff. Well, then we got into

00:19:12.140 an information economy. Really interesting. We had people writing blogs and things on the internet

00:19:18.180 and that information became valuable. But my friends, we are in the attention economy now.

00:19:24.120 That is, everyone already knows. You may notice this with the thumbnails and videos like this one.

00:19:31.120 Let me tell you what's happening.

00:19:32.480 So we've had people reach out and say, Tim, I don't like your thumbnails and your titles.

00:19:37.220 You used to make informational titles with informational thumbnails.

00:19:42.440 That is a picture of me making a face, usually not so shocked.

00:19:45.840 It'd just be smiling or something or putting a hand up.

00:19:48.060 And that's usually because it was a screen grab just from the frame.

00:19:51.380 And it would say thing happened.

00:19:53.580 It would say like for this video, for instance, it might say Hassan Piker ousted by Democrats

00:19:59.020 amid ongoing scandal, something like that. The title would reflect similarly, and the average

00:20:04.780 person would then go online, read that, and say, I am interested to learn more. Click.

00:20:09.520 But something changed. We are no longer in the information economy. We're in the attention

00:20:13.120 economy, and information does not hold attention anymore. Why? Everybody already has the information.

00:20:19.440 Now, you may be saying, Tim, clickbait, I'm not for it. Well, let me pause by saying this.

00:20:23.060 clickbait, rage bait. These are two different definitions. Clickbait is when you remove the

00:20:30.580 subject and the actions from the title so that nothing is conveyed, to which I would argue

00:20:34.640 much of the thumbnails that you see on channels like this or otherwise are clickbait. Here's the

00:20:39.720 thing. We do not intentionally put those up solely. The way it works on YouTube is we put

00:20:45.380 three thumbnails and three titles. And whatever you click on is what YouTube determines to be

00:20:52.840 the final thumbnail. It's called A-B testing. So I would say this as it pertains to Hassan Piker

00:20:58.780 and where we are and why he does what he does. Now, in all fairness, by all means, criticize

00:21:05.340 clickbait or vagaries or whatever you want to criticize. My only response is, guys,

00:21:10.420 we put up three. It's informational, thumbnail, informational title, informational thumbnail,

00:21:16.320 vague title, vague thumbnail, vague title. With the dominant, we try to be informational.

00:21:22.840 But in the end, every single day when the audience is given the choice, they always choose the vagary.

00:21:33.820 Whatever is the least informative.

00:21:36.640 Why?

00:21:37.280 Because it's more likely to capture your attention.

00:21:40.760 That is the state of being online right now.

00:21:44.780 You may not like it.

00:21:45.880 I'm certainly not a fan.

00:21:47.380 But I can only say this.

00:21:49.240 There are many people that don't care.

00:21:50.600 In fact, our watch time increases if the thumbnail includes less information.

00:21:58.760 If the title includes less information, the person who clicks that will watch longer and

00:22:04.440 with more attention, which is really fascinating.

00:22:07.340 And I think what it says is the people that are inclined to click on a video or watch

00:22:11.140 a stream or otherwise, where the statement has already been given, will pop in to collect

00:22:15.640 the tidbit of information they were interested in and then leave.

00:22:17.800 But the people who are intrigued by a thumbnail or a statement want to hear the full story.

00:22:23.800 And so you're two different kinds of people.

00:22:25.780 My point is, when looking at Hassan Piker and the influence being the story, what this

00:22:32.040 comes to and the reason why I bring this up for many people, and I don't necessarily believe

00:22:36.360 this is Hassan's M.O., they will they will intentionally generate bad press because attention 0.93

00:22:42.300 is everything.

00:22:43.980 A good example of this would be Gen Z's clavicular. 0.94

00:22:46.720 I believe this guy intentionally generates bad press because attention is everything.

00:22:52.960 It does not matter how you get it.

00:22:54.840 Now, to be fair, it matters a little bit.

00:22:58.760 There are some people, I have this thing, I'm not going to say on this channel, we save

00:23:02.620 it for the uncensored portion, but they say there's no such thing as bad press.

00:23:05.820 There certainly is a such thing as bad press.

00:23:09.360 And considering there are many people who listen to this show with their children in

00:23:12.700 the background, I'm not going to explain what those bad press things may be.

00:23:15.640 But let me just stress, Kristi Noem's husband is certainly not experiencing a bout of good

00:23:20.080 press right now that he would favor or that would be good for his career.

00:23:23.740 Let's leave it at that.

00:23:25.400 Where we are going, my friends, is an anti-woke world.

00:23:29.940 Hassan Piker has a few choice words for his bad faith, centrist critics.

00:23:34.920 I'd actually argue a lot of it is bad faith.

00:23:38.580 I completely think so.

00:23:40.260 I'm going to say it again.

00:23:40.880 Hasan Piker is not someone that I believe shocks people for press attention. I believe he is

00:23:47.160 someone more so who has an audience, sees their opinion, and then repeats back what they want to

00:23:51.860 hear. Kind of like a Candace Owens, I think so. Examples of this would include my favorite

00:23:57.080 critique of him is when I made a video about Mr. Beast being, I'm sorry, it was about how Hasan 0.81

00:24:03.620 was correct. Mr. Beast said, we're going to cure cataract blindness, $10,000 surgeries for a bunch

00:24:09.580 of people. Hassan made a commentary video saying it is disgusting that we have turned this simple

00:24:16.560 procedure that could restore vision to so many people into a game show. And I said, he's completely

00:24:23.040 correct. Curing cataract blend is a simple surgery. It is not cheap, but we just remove

00:24:30.280 the cataracts and now you can see again. And instead of having a system that can just do that,

00:24:35.740 we're like, let's make it a game show. I agree. Hassan Piker reacted to my reaction

00:24:41.040 when I said I agree with Hassan's statements also on the military industrial complex and war

00:24:47.000 in the Middle East. And Hassan and then Hassan criticized me when I added that includes the

00:24:54.880 250 billion dollars in funding for Ukraine. Hassan then goes, oh, yo, bro, literally says

00:24:58.980 just like, leave them. Like, that's my point. Hassan does not care about the principle of the

00:25:04.160 issue. Should we be funding all of these foreign wars? He cared about what was acceptable. And to

00:25:08.820 the left, war in the Middle East is not acceptable, but war in Ukraine is. So it wasn't an issue of

00:25:13.280 the military industrial complex like he purported it to be. It was my audience says yes. That's how

00:25:18.840 I view this guy. Well, where we are headed right now is to a brave new world. People are changing

00:25:25.040 their opinions and they are coming back to the center. This includes Joe Rogan. From Augusta

00:25:30.520 Free Press, they say the right wing comedy grift Joe Rogan's predict predictably pivots toward the

00:25:35.800 center. No, Joe Rogan was always in the center. Joe Rogan shifted to the right because moderates

00:25:41.040 shifted to the right in their choice for who should win the presidency. But Joe Rogan's always

00:25:47.320 been a moderate. The Republicans just won the favor of the moderates. I've always been a moderate

00:25:51.480 Republican just won the favor of the moderates. It's not a grift. Joe Rogan is just exactly this

00:25:57.080 guy. The point is, it seems to be the direction they're going. Now, I'll give a shout out to

00:26:01.540 Jon Stewart for attacking MAGA voters who are breaking, which includes people like Joe Rogan,

00:26:05.580 because you'll just keep pushing them rightward. That's stupid. But here we go, my friends. Nike 1.00

00:26:10.960 faces major U.S. probe over discriminating against white staff. Very interesting. We've got this from 0.94

00:26:17.000 the Daily Mail. Nike is on its last legs as stock price plummets after woke push blows up in its

00:26:23.400 face. It's interesting, isn't it? Woke is broke. It is not popular. Democrats are doing everything

00:26:31.320 to get away from this. And this is where Joe Rogan comes in. They say, Joe Rogan's grifting.

00:26:37.220 He's going back to the center. No, I think Democrats met a wake up call. They'd been

00:26:44.080 saying for some time, I love this article. They were like, where's the left wing Joe Rogan?

00:26:49.140 But there was one article that actually went further and said, how come we don't have a Joe

00:26:52.980 Rogan or even a Tim Poole for that matter. And I'm like, you people, I swear to God,

00:26:58.020 I donated the maximum to two Democratic candidates in 2020, the maximum and a progressive Democrat

00:27:06.100 candidate. I was absolutely the liberal guy. Here's the problem. I look at my Republican

00:27:13.660 friends. I see, rest in peace, Charlie Kirk wearing his suit. We're both from Chicago,

00:27:19.520 Him from Arlington Heights.

00:27:20.980 I'm actually from Chicago proper, but he comes from a more right-leaning suburb.

00:27:25.900 We like the same sports teams.

00:27:28.480 We knew the same food.

00:27:30.140 We enjoyed the same restaurants.

00:27:31.820 And it was amazing how much we agreed on so much of domestic and foreign policy.

00:27:37.240 But he a conservative and I a liberal, indeed.

00:27:40.360 And we were friends and we got along and he invited me to his events.

00:27:43.820 He built this massive show and he said, no, no, no, we want to bring people like Tim

00:27:47.180 Poole here.

00:27:48.380 And that's what I truly loved about everything he was building.

00:27:52.180 This is the world that I want to see moving forward.

00:27:54.700 I would love it if those of you who agreed with me, if we were the liberals that dominated

00:28:00.520 the Democratic Party.

00:28:01.640 You know why?

00:28:02.380 Because it means that we sit down with Dave Smith.

00:28:06.220 We sit down with Tucker Carlson.

00:28:08.520 We sit down with Will Chamberlain.

00:28:11.400 Even Lindsey Graham, very critical.

00:28:14.600 And Donald Trump.

00:28:15.480 and I don't yell at them and I'm not mean to them. And we have debates and discussions and we end

00:28:20.980 with a laugh and a smile. And then we go have a cheeseburger together. One of my favorite moments

00:28:26.020 in my career that I bring up all the time is when I sat down with Glenn Beck to have a discussion

00:28:29.200 on abortion and we laughed together and we made intriguing points where I said, I think you make

00:28:34.620 very important points. And, you know, I think I largely agree. And he said, I guess in the end,

00:28:39.260 we just have different moral perspectives on this, but we try to compromise and we laughed together

00:28:43.780 because he knew that my intention was never to allow for wanton abortion or abortion as

00:28:50.740 contraception. It was truly the concern over the health of the mother and the child.

00:28:55.480 And I knew that he too agreed. He just said, I think we should have a strict or stricter standard.

00:29:01.540 And I said, I agree, but there are concerns about how we implement that.

00:29:05.560 In the end, we basically agreed. We just did not know how to implement a system to protect

00:29:11.820 the well-being of the individuals. And we afforded each other that great respect.

00:29:17.320 That's the way it's supposed to be between Democrats and Republicans left and right in

00:29:20.800 this country. You sit down at a bar with your liberal friends and you go, Republicans, they

00:29:25.540 just, they're too strict on this. More importantly, you're sitting at a bar with a friend who is a

00:29:31.700 Republican and he laughs and says, well, you know, I guess agree to disagree. But our views are

00:29:36.660 largely aligned. Instead, what we have today is a fringe far left that says abortion to the point

00:29:42.000 of birth. And I'm like, that's crazy, dude. I would love something better. Nike, no woke,

00:29:49.900 no LGBTQ stuff for kids, no drag show for kids, none of that weird stuff. 0.50

00:29:54.380 We can have a more liberal view that says, guys, to a certain degree, we live and not live.

00:29:58.860 But we are a nation. We have laws. We uphold them. For Republicans, they all agree on that.

00:30:04.480 This is how people like Elon Musk, me, Colin Wright, find ourselves aligned with the right

00:30:09.920 instead of the left. Hassan just says what the progressives want to hear.

00:30:15.180 Congratulations. That is a fringe far left element outside of what majority of Americans

00:30:19.720 actually want. The Republican Party is more closely aligned with what Americans want.

00:30:24.220 But there is still a middle where Joe Rogan sits, where I sit. Now, I look at Joe Rogan calling

00:30:31.300 many people in mega dorks. And I did say he was correct, but I don't I don't I don't do that.

00:30:36.380 I look at Dave Smith, who's called for Trump to be impeached, and I don't do that. Despite the

00:30:40.520 fact that I largely agree on so much with Dave Smith and Joe Rogan, my response is this. You

00:30:45.780 don't win friends with salad. OK, you've got Republicans who have a belief and you have to

00:30:51.900 listen to what they have to say and offer some options for compromise. If you approach them

00:30:58.020 and attack them or insult them, they're going to say, I'm not bothering with you.

00:31:02.980 So when the libertarian anti-war type say Trump is leading us into another war of aggression with

00:31:07.600 lies, I say, I hear you, brother. But how do you convince a mega Trump supporter to hear you out?

00:31:14.180 I sat down for dinner in Berkeley in the Bay Area with a big, massive table of like 20 diehard

00:31:21.920 mega dudes, and they're all wearing their mega hats and American flag shirts. And they knew that

00:31:26.900 I was a liberal guy. And this is like 27, 2018, when I was literally supporting Democrat candidates.

00:31:33.020 And I told them that systemic racism was real. And they didn't insult me or mock me. They said,

00:31:39.900 I don't believe that's true. And I said, no, let me explain it to you. They said,

00:31:42.880 please do so. And I explained the lip, the progressives will tell you that systemic

00:31:47.680 racism means that like all cops are racist. That is not what it means. That's not what it was ever

00:31:51.620 meant to mean. It means that in a place like Chicago, the remnants of racial policies have

00:31:57.600 created a systemic problem. Redlining and blockbusting, for instance, have created

00:32:03.200 black neighborhoods specifically and intentionally, which creates racial animosity. 0.82

00:32:08.760 This means that the law is not being enforced equally, but it's not because the officers are

00:32:14.120 racist. It's because you have dense pockets of crime and poverty in one area and not in the

00:32:19.240 other. Redlining intentionally made black people live in areas they did not want to live because

00:32:24.760 the real estate agents and companies would not sell property outside of these areas. They did

00:32:29.220 not want black people living there. That was literally race-based policy. Now, these areas 0.99

00:32:35.320 dominated by a black population have distrust for the white population and vice versa. Don't get me 1.00

00:32:41.840 wrong. In Chicago, I can tell you most of the crime in the city is coming from black neighborhoods and 1.00

00:32:45.780 young black men. That's true. But my point is simply not every person in these neighborhoods 0.99

00:32:51.800 is a criminal. There are hardworking Americans that are black or Latino or white or otherwise 1.00

00:32:57.780 that now live in an area with heavier policing because at a time when there was heavy black

00:33:05.040 crime, policies were enacted and laws were put into place that forced good, hardworking Americans

00:33:10.920 who were black into those neighborhoods. Imagine someone as amazing as Clarence Thomas being told

00:33:17.660 by law he had to go live in a dangerous gang neighborhood just because of the color of his

00:33:23.180 skin. That was the case. These days, it's not, but the remnants still exist. That's what I

00:33:29.500 explained. And they went, oh, well, that I understand and that we agree on. And I said,

00:33:34.720 exactly. So let's call it whatever we want. You don't got to call it systemic racism,

00:33:38.100 But let's agree, the solution is not going to be race based.

00:33:41.280 It's going to be class based, you know, making making programs based on income level that 0.81

00:33:47.180 allow you to get access to better schools and things like this so that we don't leave

00:33:50.640 anyone behind.

00:33:51.400 And guess what the Trump supporters said?

00:33:52.820 I actually agree with that.

00:33:54.340 See, the left never communicated.

00:33:56.260 So this is what I say to most people right now.

00:33:58.260 Try to be friends.

00:33:59.440 Now, get me wrong.

00:34:00.180 I think the woke left, many of these people are intentionally lying and can't have a

00:34:02.780 conversation with them.

00:34:03.880 When liberals tell me that a news story didn't even happen, I'm like, OK, this is nuts.

00:34:08.100 but in the middle and on the right, we don't see that. Conservatives don't do that. I might

00:34:12.580 disagree with them on the Iran war tax policy, but they don't tell me that the truth is not the

00:34:18.740 truth. We agree. That's what I said about Nick Fuentes. I sit down and say, hey, Nick, here's

00:34:22.460 a news article. He goes, yes. And I say, now based on this article, what do you think? And he goes,

00:34:26.100 I think this. I go, well, I think that. Well, okay. Agree to disagree. We certainly, there's

00:34:31.840 certainly things I think we greatly disagree on. That's true. But on the left, there are many

00:34:35.360 people who just outright deny the news is even actually happening. So we'll leave it here.

00:34:41.440 The machine is a changing. Powerful people, investors have realized we can't have these

00:34:46.520 fringes, and it seems like they're working hard to stop the dissolution or balkanization of this

00:34:52.720 country. May or may not be good. We'll see. Smash the like button, share the show, stick around.

00:34:58.060 More to come throughout the day, my friends, and we will see you all in the next segment.

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - April 02, 2026

Democrats Work To OUST Hasan Piker And Leftist Influence, WOKE IS COOKED

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