The Culture War - Tim Pool - For Charlie Kirk

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00:00:45.100 The Daily Wire has put together this video celebrating Charlie Kirk,

00:00:49.460 showing many on the left celebrating his assassination, his murder.

00:00:55.560 We've got some news in Utah.

00:00:57.780 It's Charlie Kirk Day.

00:00:59.180 And there's reporting about people that are celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.

00:01:04.580 So what I want to say to all of you is don't be angry.

00:01:09.100 I get angry.

00:01:10.500 I was angrier before.

00:01:12.340 It's funny because 10 years ago, I wasn't as angry.

00:01:17.200 I was annoyed.

00:01:18.660 which started transforming into a lot more anger and after just watching the state of the world

00:01:26.500 after charlie was killed it just got to that point where i feel like we boiled over

00:01:32.280 the anger was too much and in the past week i just can't i can't deal with it i don't like

00:01:39.600 experiencing it i see this intro to the daily wire this uh short they made it's on it's on

00:01:46.620 Instagram. Leftist demons celebrating the Kirkiversary. I've got a story for you. University

00:01:53.920 of Tennessee condemns flyers appearing to celebrate Charlie Kirk assassination. I don't

00:02:00.100 want you to feel anger or hatred. And I say this because I know that Charlie didn't want you to

00:02:05.600 feel that either. Charlie would go to these universities and he would argue for his worldview.

00:02:11.140 you, and he was really good at it. Whether he was right or wrong, whatever you think, he was

00:02:16.620 charismatic, convincing, and knowledgeable on these issues. And he didn't want people leaving

00:02:22.780 angry, and he didn't want you angry. He wanted to inspire. And Charlie Kirk was taken away from us.

00:02:32.240 I know there's a lot of people that are deeply angry about Charlie Kirk's assassination,

00:02:35.620 and I think it's fine to be angry

00:02:37.820 just in the right way.

00:02:41.000 Let me play this video real quick

00:02:42.380 of, shout out to The Daily Wire

00:02:44.520 for making it.

00:02:45.740 It's just some music

00:02:46.900 and it shows Charlie

00:02:49.900 living his life.

00:02:54.060 His daughter, his kids.

00:02:58.540 I don't know if we can play that music

00:03:00.020 so I'll mute it

00:03:00.700 but there he is with Erica

00:03:01.640 and Charlie did everything right.

00:03:05.620 He was successful. He was inspirational. He was charismatic. Utah governor declares Charlie Kirk

00:03:13.980 Day tributes honoring honoring him pour in one year after the assassination. Everybody's got

00:03:21.300 their remembering Charlie Kirk's and so do I. We see that the left has been celebrating it.

00:03:28.240 Let me let me show you something. I think I might have this tweet pulled up. I'm not entirely sure.

00:03:32.380 I think I've got a lot of stuff pulled up on AI.

00:03:35.360 I think, no, that's not it.

00:03:37.200 That's not it.

00:03:37.780 We'll have to come back.

00:03:38.440 Let me pull it up on X for you.

00:03:40.880 Because I want to show you what they want us to be.

00:03:43.640 And I want to show you what Charlie did not want us to be.

00:03:46.800 And what we have to resist.

00:03:49.100 And I will say, though we come up short, be Christ-like.

00:03:54.500 I know that it's not possible to just be perfect.

00:03:57.680 And I'm not pretending to be a Christian.

00:03:59.680 What I'm saying is we have to recognize those that stand before us seeking to antagonize,

00:04:06.260 to drive us into hatred.

00:04:08.120 We have to resist that.

00:04:10.540 I posted this in the early hours of the morning.

00:04:14.040 I was intentionally scrolling Instagram and looking at leftist political channels.

00:04:19.440 I usually try to avoid doing this because it makes me angry.

00:04:22.840 I've been texting with this older guy that I know.

00:04:25.660 He's a good dude.

00:04:26.780 He's a friend.

00:04:27.720 But boy, does he hate Trump.

00:04:29.680 And he sends me all this stuff that I know, right, about what Trump did and Trump did this

00:04:34.900 and Trump did that. And I get it. I do. People don't like Trump. You don't have to like Trump.

00:04:40.340 But eventually, I kind of just after all of these messages, I said,

00:04:43.600 you're sending me carousel content, short form, quick, out of context clips of Trump speaking or

00:04:50.640 someone being angry. And it's just every video you're sending me is someone being angry.

00:04:56.500 So I told him this.

00:04:57.220 I said, I don't think you want to understand what's happening in the world.

00:05:00.760 I think you want to be angry.

00:05:02.780 You know, we do a long-form show.

00:05:04.000 I do my morning shows, which are technically long-form, or 20 minutes.

00:05:08.260 So they're like standard TV shows used to be, I guess, without the commercial breaks.

00:05:13.280 They'd be about 22 minutes, and you get a half an hour with the commercial breaks.

00:05:16.440 Then you have Timcast IRL, which is several hours of in-depth conversation.

00:05:21.160 We do make shorts now.

00:05:22.280 We started doing those a bit.

00:05:23.800 But I, I decided after I saw these posts, you know, I just, I'm done with being angry.

00:05:33.020 And this was two in the morning and I was, I was scrolling through these things because

00:05:36.280 I do tend to follow people on the left and the right.

00:05:39.900 I try to watch people on the right and left because I want to know what people are thinking

00:05:42.560 and why they're thinking it.

00:05:43.580 And I feel like there was this just break.

00:05:48.260 I'm sitting there in bed.

00:05:49.440 I'm staying up late, you know, because we wrap the show at 11.

00:05:51.640 And I got to wake up early, wake up at like seven something to come in to record my morning

00:05:55.620 show.

00:05:57.020 And I'm just scrolling through this, the same thing over and over again, revolution,

00:06:02.200 Trump's evil, Democrats this.

00:06:05.240 And it felt like I was, my soul was in a vice, not my head, not my heart, even not my stomach. 0.90

00:06:13.160 it felt like the core of my of my consciousness and everything my soul itself was being twisted

00:06:22.460 compressed it was soul pain i thought to myself i need to let that go and i think

00:06:32.280 charlie didn't want people to be like this he didn't want people to be angry all the time

00:06:38.840 He wanted people to be inspired to do better, even people on the left that he was so kind to, who killed him.

00:06:46.060 Here's my post.

00:06:47.780 I'm done with being angry.

00:06:49.520 I'm done with angry people.

00:06:51.920 You know, the truth is anger gets more shares than any other emotion on the Internet.

00:06:57.500 It's true.

00:06:59.000 So I'll take it.

00:07:00.560 I'm just not interested in being angry with people anymore.

00:07:03.140 I'm really not.

00:07:04.800 I get it.

00:07:06.360 I don't think that, you know, I see a lot of these posts and they say, oh, we don't like you,

00:07:10.660 Tim Pool, or whatever. And you don't, you should ignore them. You ignore the good, you ignore the

00:07:14.500 bad. But I will say it feels good when people praise you and it feels bad when people are mean,

00:07:20.680 even if you are ignoring it. I don't even think the people that post attacking or insulting other

00:07:26.420 people, I don't think they're actually, I don't think they actually care. And that's kind of the

00:07:31.300 point, after watching my like 3000 video of an angry leftist saying things, I said, I don't think

00:07:37.260 they actually care to know. I don't think they actually care. I think they're mad. And they're

00:07:43.700 low order thinkers. I'm not trying to insult people by saying that there's a factual reality

00:07:47.920 to somebody who sees something and is reactive and impulsive and not inquisitive. And that's

00:07:53.940 what I told my friend. I said, I think you're immune to curiosity. And I said that it's a

00:08:00.540 little insulting, I suppose. But my point was, I can't for the 800th time tell your brother

00:08:06.160 when you send me something. Don't just watch the one minute video. Please Google this and read what

00:08:12.640 the left and the right have said about it. And he doesn't want to do it. Now, here's the post I was

00:08:17.620 talking about. What do you think the community note on this is? A community note on me saying

00:08:24.820 I just don't want to be angry anymore? Because I've posted mean things, snarky things, trolly

00:08:29.860 things. I've yelled. I called Candace Owens a nasty word. I apologized for as I was unbecoming

00:08:36.500 of a gentleman. It's it's and this is this is part of the journey, I suppose. People praising

00:08:41.860 me for that coming up to me on this. I'm not kidding. Coming up to me on the street and being

00:08:44.900 like, dude, I love that she deserved that. And I just thought, really? You know, I get so much

00:08:50.420 attention for the times I screamed at a liberal. I don't. We don't do that very often, but it's

00:08:57.480 kind of scary. There's a handful of viral videos we have where I'm yelling at Brian Shapiro. Brian

00:09:02.540 and I are friends, by the way, and he goes viral yelling at conservatives. I'm not going to do that

00:09:08.460 anymore. You know, not that I did it all the time, but I'm not. But people come to me all the time

00:09:15.200 saying, I saw that video where you roasted that person, because people want to see someone strike

00:09:20.440 at a symbol of what they feel oppresses them. Yeah, it sells, but it's contagious and it's

00:09:28.480 epidemic. Here's the proposed community note. Contributors have proposed community notes about

00:09:35.840 the post. Sources tell me Charlie is stable, please God. I see what you did there, good sir.

00:09:43.640 just antagonism it won't work i'm not mad we had a liberal on tim castirelli asked me who told me

00:09:53.540 that charlie was stable well this was shortly after he was shot and we didn't have a confirmation of

00:09:59.640 death someone told me the the source was basically that charlie still had a faint pulse and he wasn't

00:10:06.040 dead and stable did not mean he was in a hospital bed with fluids and he was going to live in fact

00:10:12.600 the people I talked to said, look, he's stable right now. He's got a pulse. They're getting

00:10:19.060 him medical attention. And I said, can I report this? They said, yeah, like this is what we're

00:10:24.700 hearing. And then my source said, dude, nobody survives a shot like that. That's why I said,

00:10:33.680 please, God. Because they were telling me that Charlie had a pulse. After that shot,

00:10:38.920 none of us could believe that he was going to make it i'm not mad i i you know i i see these

00:10:48.620 posts from these leftists celebrating charlie's death and uh i was getting mad about it for a

00:10:55.060 while but i'm i'm done being angry about it these are things that are you know what i mean

00:11:03.840 these are things that are they are just they they they just are i'm not saying justice i'm not

00:11:11.960 saying correct or right that's not what i mean i say they just are as clear as the sky is blue

00:11:20.340 and the sun rises these people exist being mad at them feeling that angry uh feeling that anger

00:11:29.720 feeling, being that angry. It's not doing anything for me. To be fair, I also, it's not,

00:11:37.400 doesn't really stress me out. My blood pressure is really good. My heart, resting heart rate is

00:11:42.520 in the low 40s. Exercise regularly, not as much as I wanted to this year, so I try and throw push-ups

00:11:47.860 in at any time I can. But I remember after Charlie was murdered, it was fairly nightmarish for all

00:11:55.480 of us. The calls with our security, the discussions with our friends, the political tumult.

00:12:01.980 There are people on the right who are dancing on Charlie's grave right now.

00:12:06.900 They're doing it for clicks or for whatever. I don't know.

00:12:10.260 Obviously, people on the left are doing it. I'm done being angry about it.

00:12:14.180 It's like being mad that the dog bites, you know. It's taking that true lesson of the story of the

00:12:20.520 scorpion and the frog. Do you know this one? The scorpion says, Mr. Frog, will you please carry me

00:12:25.900 across the river? And the frog says, no, you'll sting me. And the scorpion says, why would I do

00:12:30.540 that if I sting you? We'll both die. And the frog says, fair point. So he climbs in the water. The 0.98

00:12:37.760 scorpion goes onto his back. The frog swims. And then once in the middle of the river, the scorpion

00:12:44.060 stings the frog. And the frog says, you've just doomed us both. Why would you do this? And the

00:12:49.860 scorpion says, for it is in my nature. That's the story. I think for a while, even though I knew

00:12:58.300 that story, it didn't really strike at my soul what it means for there to be a nature. I was

00:13:05.660 mad at that scorpion. Why would you be so stupid? No, I'm not mad at the scorpion. A scorpion is 1.00

00:13:11.380 going to do what a scorpion does. I like to say this, and I've said it for decades. People do

00:13:15.740 people stuff. People are predictable. And so I'm done being angry about it. You've made this post.

00:13:24.180 But what is the intention of making this post to antagonize me? I'll tell you. This post was

00:13:32.060 made with hope. What little hope we had after they shot Charlie Kirk. And their goal is to

00:13:38.540 make me blind and angry. I don't know why. Whatever. After Charlie was shot, the the video

00:13:49.720 said everything. Most of us knew and just didn't want to believe because because hope keeps us

00:13:58.300 going. I watched a video of Charlie get shot and I did a live stream shortly after. And what did I

00:14:08.920 say? It appeared as though the bullet struck his neck because you can see the lights go out

00:14:16.180 instantly. He goes down. And I said, that looks like a strike to the spinal column, which to the

00:14:24.080 neck, you're dead. Blood is coming out. But I didn't want to tweet to everyone who loved 0.69

00:14:34.600 Charlie. He's dead. Stop pretending otherwise. I talked to a buddy of mine who's he does

00:14:43.360 firearms training and advocacy stuff. And he said, this is even outside of this source.

00:14:49.000 said Tim no one survives that shot no one one of my security guys was a SEAL team sniper

00:14:57.420 he told me straight up as soon as I heard it 30 out 6 saw it I knew he was dead

00:15:05.940 I saw people tweeting out Charlie Kirk has died like they were rushing to report a story

00:15:12.240 I couldn't do it even though I knew it not before this but I don't want I didn't want

00:15:22.880 I didn't want to be the one person telling everybody who loved Charlie it's over

00:15:29.980 when I was told that he still had a pulse he had a faint pulse they were like he's stable

00:15:37.880 He's got a pulse. Again, they weren't saying he's in a hospital bed in stable condition.

00:15:44.060 They were saying we've got him right now, not dead.

00:15:49.040 But while his heart may have been pumping what little blood was left.

00:15:55.300 His neck was gone and that turned the lights out right away.

00:15:59.100 And we all kind of knew when they told me this. The point was, I'd rather post hope.

00:16:06.240 That's not very journalistic, but this is personal and I have a conflict of interest.

00:16:11.840 Any other person shot and killed, and I'll probably be a bit colder.

00:16:16.740 I didn't know him.

00:16:18.960 In our room, we've got two autographed, well, I'm sorry.

00:16:22.660 One is autographed artwork, a drawing of a portrait of Charlie Kirk.

00:16:28.040 He signed for us.

00:16:29.600 And then I have over here the second autographed portrait when he debated Vaush on my show.

00:16:35.820 They're both like 6'5", mind you, and I'm 5'10".

00:16:39.340 So that's the point of posting this.

00:16:43.940 When I said I'm done being angry, they said, I'll make you angry.

00:16:47.440 No, you're not going to make me angry.

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00:17:18.140 for details because i know what you're doing and it that broke the the jar of hatred

00:17:28.320 shattered, you know, it's like there was a glass in my heart that could be filled with hatred that

00:17:37.660 would make my blood boil and it would make me angry. But the pressure became too much. It

00:17:42.240 shattered. And now there's no vessel for that hatred anymore. I'm just done feeling that way.

00:17:49.880 So I want to, to people like you who post things like this, I actually say, thank you.

00:17:58.320 Not for being a bad person or for being mean and vile, but it's things like this that finally made that vessel shatter, where I just can't feel the anger anymore.

00:18:11.920 It's something else.

00:18:14.180 It's something else.

00:18:16.360 It's not a lack of passion or conviction.

00:18:19.280 I don't think that anger is needed for that.

00:18:23.200 It's something else.

00:18:26.020 It's just an understanding of nature.

00:18:28.320 of what these people represent, what they will do. And it's become more algorithmic to me.

00:18:35.460 And what I mean by that is your behaviors are predictable. Your anger is predictable.

00:18:41.800 That's it. Your antagonism, your, you know, your vile posts, your celebrations.

00:18:49.780 I will say this for Charlie Kirk because it's not so much to be a memorial of Charlie the way

00:18:59.340 everyone else did though he certainly deserves it this is more so something I could say to Charlie

00:19:06.040 the work that he did he did better than I did that's why he was so much bigger than I am

00:19:11.800 and for a while I really just didn't care and I'd have people coming to me these companies

00:19:17.680 these agents they Tim if you just stop being you know arrogant and snooty you can go a lot further 0.52

00:19:26.060 and my response was always I am who I am if I feel like trolling I'll troll if you're a bad

00:19:33.100 person I'm gonna call you out and that sometimes it's antagonistic I understood what they were

00:19:40.940 saying. But I think from Charlie, what I see now, the reason why I don't want to be angry

00:19:48.340 is because we need Charlie back and we're not going to get him back. Charlie was annoyed and

00:19:55.660 angry with people, but he knew it wasn't the effective way to bring about change.

00:20:00.640 Me personally, I don't care all that much to be a leader. I don't want to be a leader. I don't

00:20:05.960 want to hold office. I don't want to be in charge. I'm just a dude who reads and then complains about

00:20:11.760 it. And I don't care if I live in a van down by the river. Of course, that's a Chris Farley

00:20:16.560 reference for those that just don't know why I keep saying it. It basically means I could screw 0.66

00:20:22.140 off whenever, man. I care about these issues, but I'm not going to be your boss. I'm not going to

00:20:27.300 be your leader. You are not going to get me to put on the suit and try to convince you. I am going

00:20:34.960 to turn the camera on and tell you how I feel. Well, that's what I'm doing now. Reflecting on

00:20:40.460 Charlie's legacy, I thought to myself, I don't have to be a politician, but I do have an influential

00:20:49.680 show and I should be more diplomatic. I should be a leader, at least in some way. And that means

00:20:57.100 I can't insult people, attack them and say, I don't care if people like you or don't,

00:21:04.780 you're a bad, I can't do that anymore. I have to try and embody at least what tiny bit of Charlie

00:21:11.320 that I can. And that is to convince you. And you don't convince people by insulting

00:21:18.820 or attacking those who they follow. To put it simply, there may be some,

00:21:26.660 let's just say political personality you don't like. And I might find that person to be

00:21:32.260 evil. But for this politician or this influencer, whatever, with a million followers or 100,000

00:21:40.560 followers, whatever it may be, those followers trust this individual. Attacking that individual

00:21:47.180 and insulting them only means the people who follow them are going to be antagonistic back.

00:21:54.940 So what do you do?

00:21:57.960 You turn the other cheek.

00:22:01.400 Charlie tried to embody the spirit, the nature, the teachings of Christ.

00:22:08.880 And of course, he came far short because nobody ever could.

00:22:12.840 I could only hope to embody a morsel of what Charlie Kirk sought as well.

00:22:18.000 And so that's the inspiration I get from Charlie.

00:22:23.940 He wasn't perfect, but he was trying more than I was trying.

00:22:29.400 And now I feel bad.

00:22:31.500 Not angry at these people who mock his death.

00:22:34.080 I feel bad that I should have been trying harder the whole time.

00:22:38.180 I did some political speaking.

00:22:40.340 I went to some rallies to speak for certain Republicans that I believed in.

00:22:44.180 But I've not been a guy like Charlie or, you know, Benny, Benny Johnson, for instance,

00:22:50.380 who goes to the Republican events and says, guys, we ought to do this.

00:22:53.940 I'm not saying that I want to.

00:22:55.540 I'm saying, you know, both Charlie and many others, not just Benny.

00:22:58.880 But I bring Benny up because he does.

00:22:59.860 He does advocate directly.

00:23:02.060 He's got more leadership qualities than I do.

00:23:05.240 But there are many people who do.

00:23:07.520 And so I think this.

00:23:10.400 I'm going to sit down with people who are mean, who are angry, and who are nasty.

00:23:14.740 But I'm not going to let them make me angry anymore.

00:23:19.460 And I'm not going to get angry at them.

00:23:20.740 i'm gonna be uh a bit more reserved to be fair i do think i've been a bit more reserved than

00:23:29.020 many in the political space that's probably what has done me well to be honest because naturally

00:23:35.180 i'm not the most vile of people that are on the internet charlie tried to avoid being vile at any

00:23:41.600 at any point and that's why he did so well and it's probably one of the reasons why they

00:23:45.760 they thought they had to kill him he was convincing i'm gonna do the same

00:23:50.020 So this tribute to Charlie is whatever it is.

00:23:58.120 Yeah, I know a lot of people are going to say, Tim, you're sure talking about yourself a whole lot.

00:24:01.460 Indeed.

00:24:02.480 I am reflecting on the things that I have done and the things that Charlie has done and the things that these people try to do.

00:24:11.760 And I've realized that I've come up short.

00:24:15.180 And that we need Charlie back and we won't have him back.

00:24:19.260 and I nor any other could ever amount to what he was.

00:24:24.800 So yeah, I am thinking a lot about what I have done

00:24:28.800 and who I am and I do it a lot.

00:24:31.980 By all means, criticize me for it.

00:24:33.220 I'm not going to get mad.

00:24:34.560 I am going to try to be more like Charlie was.

00:24:38.820 Everybody else should too.

00:24:41.780 We're missing you every day, brother.

00:24:44.600 It's true that without your leadership,

00:24:46.360 this world has gotten absolutely insane.

00:24:49.260 It's crazy to think how much of our political world was held up by Charlie Kirk, but it was.

00:24:59.800 It's crazy.

00:25:01.340 He was like a linchpin holding all of this together.

00:25:07.240 Try your best, everybody.

00:25:09.620 And to Charlie's family, keep on keeping on.

00:25:13.680 To his kids, I wish them the best.

00:25:16.000 And I hope they truly understand what he meant to me, what he meant to so many people, and his immortal legacy.

00:25:24.660 I hope his kids grow up holding his message true and bring about his dreams tenfold.

00:25:34.080 Thanks for hanging out, everybody.

00:25:35.740 It's been a year, man.

00:25:37.500 We'll see you all tonight for Timcast IRL.

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - September 10, 2026

For Charlie Kirk

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