The Culture War - Tim Pool - Iran Forms HUMAN SHIELDS Around Power Plants Amid Trump Threat To DESTROY Entire Country

00:00:00.140 Welcome, my friends, to World War Three, with many of you saying, hold on, Tim, it's not World War Three.

00:00:06.960 It has not yet gotten that bad, and Trump is not going to nuke Iran.

00:00:11.580 And I agree with all of that sentiment.

00:00:14.180 However, World War Three is trending, as world leaders have repeatedly stated over the past several years that we are in World War Three.

00:00:21.600 Why?

00:00:21.920 Well, Russia and Ukraine, then Venezuela, now Iran.

00:00:27.560 Iran has just brought in 20 nations into this conflict.

00:00:31.860 I suppose you could argue that the U.S. launching the conflict triggered this off.

00:00:35.520 Everybody's got a perspective.

00:00:36.800 But all that really matters is that we are now dealing with war all over the world.

00:00:43.160 The interesting thing here, World War II, we look back on this and we say it kicked off with the Nazis invading Poland.

00:00:50.040 However, at the time, no one thought that there were a series of conflicts happening around the globe, which eventually bubbled up into this is a great war.

00:01:02.500 This is the second great war. 0.88

00:01:04.960 Right now, we are looking at conflicts across the planet.

00:01:08.560 And some have argued that these regional conflicts are what compose a world at war, that we don't need a definitive, we hereby declare World War III moment.

00:01:18.620 Now, you may say, Tim, a conflict with Iran is certainly not a World War III make, except speculation has already been swirling that Russia and China have been providing direct military aid in this war with the U.S., meaning they are absolutely involved.

00:01:36.920 Rumors speculate that Iran does not have the capabilities to shoot down a US F-15E and that

00:01:44.020 required technological assistance from Russia. That is, some believe Russia intervened to help

00:01:50.480 shoot down Americans in a fighter jet, resulting in a massive rescue operation.

00:01:56.800 Now, I'll tell you this. I don't know. You tell me. Honestly, you tell me. We've got this report

00:02:02.460 from Axios that says, we're very close to World War III. 20 countries are involved in this conflict

00:02:08.160 and Iran's attacking everybody too, but it's not quite World War III. This morning, World War III 0.81

00:02:15.020 was trending because Donald Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization unless they bend

00:02:22.940 the knee in Iran. Now, of course, we have two views on this. Some say Trump's bluffing. It's

00:02:28.320 the art of the deal. He threatens them with the most extreme case and they're going to back down.

00:02:33.140 He's not actually going to nuke anybody. Well, Trump has threatened to blow up power plants

00:02:37.020 and bridges. And now we are seeing reports of Iranians forming human shields around these

00:02:45.120 power plants and bridges. Of course, many prominent Trump supporters saying Iran is

00:02:49.600 forcing them to do it. And that's a war crime. Well, proponents, or I should say those who

00:02:56.100 oppose on Trump. I'll say proponents of the anti-war message are arguing that these are

00:02:59.580 people valiantly standing up to an oppressive American war machine. There's no easy way to

00:03:05.980 cut it, my friends. Pick your poison. Do you stand with the United States efforts or do you oppose

00:03:11.680 them? And I present to you the new wager. And it's this. If you are anti-Trump and Trump wins,

00:03:22.460 the matter. Trump's not going to do anything to you. If you are pro-Trump and Trump wins,

00:03:29.220 you're good. I mean, Trump will say thank you. If you are anti, so if you are anti-Trump

00:03:35.700 and Trump loses, if you are pro-Trump and Trump loses, you're in trouble. There we go. That's

00:03:40.660 the quadrant. It's four pieces, right? To put it simply, let me try and capture that again.

00:03:45.100 The most dangerous position to hold is to be in support of Trump if Trump loses,

00:03:49.580 because then you are going to have Trump's enemies coming after you for having supported him.

00:03:54.660 Whereas if you oppose him, you're safe no matter what. And this includes the war with Iran.

00:03:59.800 We are seeing many prominent individuals, former Trump supporters,

00:04:03.720 now coming out and saying Trump should be removed. AOC and Candace Owens together at last.

00:04:09.980 Well, if you oppose Trump and Trump wins, he's not going to lock you up. You're not going to go to

00:04:16.120 jail. Foreign adversaries won't come for you. But if you are pro-Trump and he loses, you will get

00:04:20.620 Nuremberg, my friends. Now, I mean, you know, in all seriousness, the most extreme case is like a 0.87

00:04:25.580 communist revolution or otherwise. But let's start here and then we'll go through some of the videos

00:04:29.240 and the latest updates. The deadline is 8 p.m., my friends. What will it be? We don't know for

00:04:34.820 sure, but CNBC is reporting. Trump warns Iran's whole civilization will die tonight unless a deal

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00:05:22.580 Let's start here.

00:05:23.340 Most of you already know this, so I'm not going to spend too much time reading over

00:05:25.660 Trump's threat to wipe out a whole civilization.

00:05:30.220 It's an amazing statement.

00:05:32.340 Quote, a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.

00:05:36.800 I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.

00:05:40.660 However, now that we have complete and total regime change where different, smarter and

00:05:44.140 less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionary, revolutionarily wonderful can

00:05:49.640 happen.

00:05:50.320 Who knows?

00:05:51.140 We will find out tonight.

00:05:53.060 Well, my friends, we had this conflicted report, which matters a lot.

00:05:58.840 It was being reported that Iran had suspended all diplomatic and indirect lines of communication

00:06:04.480 with the United States.

00:06:05.180 This coming from Iranian media and picked up by American media sources, indicating Iran

00:06:10.740 is refusing to negotiate and Trump would be forced to make the ultimate play.

00:06:16.880 However, Tehran Times has deleted the report and there are rumors they may actually be

00:06:23.620 negotiating.

00:06:24.780 Now, we do have videos of these human shields forming around power plants.

00:06:28.700 That's going to stop Trump from being able to bomb them, which is a massive risk on the

00:06:33.740 part of the Iranians.

00:06:34.420 but I think it's a very clever tactic. Donald Trump, I will stress this. People say it's a

00:06:42.040 war crime to take out power plants and bridges. I do not believe that is correct. I believe there 0.97

00:06:48.180 are certain, like if Trump were to bomb the desalination plant, that could be considered

00:06:51.940 a war crime. But I want to stress this to everybody. Define war crime in the philosophical 0.90

00:06:57.820 sense. Please, for the love of all that is holy, tell me what a war crime is. The idea of a war 0.53

00:07:04.060 crime is basically saying we will conduct efforts to murder each other in a gentlemanly way.

00:07:10.800 The concept of war crimes don't matter when war actually does. If you are facing a true

00:07:17.300 existential threat, survival is all anyone cares about. No one, no one's going to play these games.

00:07:23.640 If the U.S. wants to crush Iran, your concept of war crimes are meaningless. You can say it all day.

00:07:29.340 I'm not saying that blowing up power plants or desalination plants is a good thing. I'm just

00:07:34.000 saying those who want to win will win by any means necessary. Let's take a look at this

00:07:40.700 from Axios on March 10th, which is really fascinating. A world at war, but not a world

00:07:45.680 war. Huh? Iran conflict goes global. Indeed. Ten days, and this is, mind you, this is from March

00:07:53.020 into Trump's Iran campaign. At least 20 countries are now militarily involved,

00:07:57.800 shooting, shielding, or quietly supplying, while a widening energy shock punishes nations far from

00:08:03.780 the front lines. This isn't World War III, but it may be the closest we've come in decades,

00:08:09.060 drawing in more countries, more great powers, and more overlapping conflicts than any crisis

00:08:14.360 since the Cold War. Iran has struck at least 10 countries since the war began, hitting U.S. and 0.61

00:08:20.520 Israeli bases, Persian Gulf capitals, oil infrastructure, and civilian areas in an

00:08:25.540 attempt to impose maximum pain on Washington and its allies. They have cut off the Strait of

00:08:31.180 Hormuz. Israel is fighting on two fronts, pounding Iran while battling Hezbollah on the ground in 0.69

00:08:37.260 Lebanon. The war has spread far beyond the Middle East, pulling European militaries into the

00:08:42.260 conflict, forcing NATO to shoot down Iranian missiles over allied territory for the first

00:08:46.800 time. France has dispatched its nuclear-powered aircraft. Greece and Turkey, bitter rivals,

00:08:52.280 also rushed forces to Cyprus. Even Australia said Monday it's sending missiles and radar

00:08:58.440 planes to help the UAE and other Gulf countries. Absolutely fascinating, my friends. Let me give

00:09:04.560 some context. I asked our good friend Grok, was World War II started at once or was it a slow

00:09:10.600 encroaching of various global conflicts? World War II is conventionally dated as beginning on

00:09:16.520 September 1st, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Two days later, Britain and France

00:09:21.740 declared war on Germany in fulfillment of their defense commitments to Poland. This marked the 0.78

00:09:26.700 formal start of the conflict in Europe. However, historians widely view this as a culmination

00:09:32.240 of a slow encroaching buildup of tensions, aggressions and regional conflicts rather

00:09:37.840 than a sudden isolated outbreak. The war did not erupt at once in a vacuum. It grew from

00:09:44.100 unresolved issues after World War One, economic instability, the rise of authoritarian regimes

00:09:50.040 and a pattern of unchecked expansionism by the future Axis powers, Germany, Italy, and Japan.

00:09:56.840 The point here, my friends, World War II and the Civil War and say all wars historically have a

00:10:04.600 definitive starting point. And if you watch my show, you're going, Tim, we get it. You told us

00:10:08.500 a million times. We don't know when a war truly begins until well after that war. The shot heard

00:10:14.000 around the world. Well, that was a full year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

00:10:18.740 Fort Sumter. After the battle at Fort Sumter in the American Civil War, where we say it started,

00:10:25.200 people were picnicking at the battlefield at the first Battle of Bull Run because they did not

00:10:29.420 believe war had actually started. And of course, in Europe, with the invasion of Poland, no one

00:10:36.560 was just saying, hey, boys, we just kicked off World War Three. But historically, we look back

00:10:41.120 and we know this. Now, this may be World War Three. It is trending. And sooner or later,

00:10:46.380 someone will decide. Maybe it was Russia's invasion of Ukraine. I don't think so.

00:10:51.480 Maybe, but I don't know. It could be the start of the war with Iran as Russia

00:10:56.080 is rumored to be providing military tech. This is not just a proxy war where Russia provides

00:11:02.920 intel to their or actually I say Russia has forces in Ukraine fighting Ukrainians and the

00:11:07.360 U.S. provides intel to Ukraine to take out Russian assets. This is now Russia directly 0.71

00:11:12.180 providing assets for blowing up the United States, which would mean our infrastructure 0.75

00:11:17.760 and our military capabilities. If that is true, the U.S. and Russia are now fighting each other

00:11:23.400 on various battlefields. We've got this video from Eric Daugherty. He says,

00:11:28.920 Breaking Iran is now forming human chains in front of power plants in Qasaran in a bid to 0.97

00:11:34.260 dissuade President Trump's strikes come 8 p.m. They even invited children to attend.

00:11:39.640 This is evil and disgusting.

00:11:41.500 Iran views their people as meat shields.

00:11:44.140 Here's the.

00:11:45.600 Here's the video.

00:12:04.300 Again, there's the video footage you can see what appears to show people

00:12:08.340 standing outside of a power plant in Iran, so they report. We also have this footage from

00:12:13.020 current report just in. Iranians are gathering on bridges and around the plants, forming human 1.00

00:12:18.160 chains of the threats of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran's civilian infrastructure.

00:12:22.200 In this footage that we're seeing, for those of you who's listening, looks like there are

00:12:40.660 people holding a gigantic banner of the Iranian flag, standing on various bridges to prevent

00:12:47.940 the U.S. from striking them, as that would be massive collateral damage.

00:12:51.320 Trump absolutely cannot strike these targets with these people nearby. Now, as for the power plant,

00:12:57.260 it's a different story. There may be people outside the power plant, but they're not inside

00:13:01.140 the power plant. So if Trump were to bomb that power plant, I don't know. Now, my friends,

00:13:05.640 many people have said it would be a war crime. And as we went over this, the argument is that

00:13:09.360 power plants and bridges are dual use. They can be used for military advancement. So they're not

00:13:13.440 necessarily civilian targets. War crime, war crime, whatever. Trump has threatened to take

00:13:18.580 out desalination plants and water supplies. And there was a funny story where apparently Israel 0.87

00:13:24.520 bombed a heavy water facility and people who don't know anything about foreign policy but

00:13:28.820 inject themselves into it because politics is pop culture said, oh, no, they're taking out their

00:13:33.220 water. No, heavy water is not drinkable, potable water. Heavy water is an industrial compound

00:13:39.460 used in nuclear power plants and for weapons. Now we have this. Anthony Scaramucci warns Trump's

00:13:46.820 push for European involvement in the Strait of Hormuz could trigger World War III. Someone needs

00:13:52.400 to find the exit ramp. He's not wrong. We are getting to a dangerous position with this massive

00:13:59.640 threat from Trump. But I want to stress, my friends, we call this deja vu, deja vu all over

00:14:05.440 again. I want to pull in some commentary for you guys. We've got let me see if I can find this one.

00:14:11.200 We've got Michael Malice here, who is countering these narratives.

00:14:16.320 And he says, North Korea spent decades acting crazy to get other nations to capitulate.

00:14:22.540 Boris Johnson admitted to doing the same with Brexit negotiations, pretending he was ready

00:14:26.600 to do a no deal.

00:14:27.620 When Trump acts like a loon, it's the one time his opponents insist he's being honest.

00:14:32.360 To which he responds with this.

00:14:34.100 We are in rerun season.

00:14:35.700 Trump threatens North Korea with fire and fury, 2017.

00:14:38.640 And then Trump threatens death, fire and fury if Iran disrupts Strait of Hormuz.

00:14:44.780 The argument here, my friends, is that Trump is pulling the madman strategy and he is both

00:14:50.160 derisively and endearingly called the madman.

00:14:53.880 Indeed, well, the idea is that Trump is making grand and insane sounding threats to force

00:15:01.580 Iran to back down. 0.95

00:15:02.800 The only problem is, as Michael Malice points out, it's the one time everyone acts like

00:15:07.420 he's telling the truth. This time, when we know it's his game plan, do you think the Iranians 1.00

00:15:13.400 believe any of this? I suppose, my friends, the challenge would be Iran may just think Trump's

00:15:20.480 not going to do it. He never will. There was that famous leaked phone call where he said he was

00:15:25.360 talking to Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. And he said, Putin, if you invade Ukraine, I will nuke

00:15:29.900 Moscow. He said to Xi Jinping, if you take Taiwan, I will nuke Beijing. Really? Well, Russia invaded

00:15:36.340 Ukraine and Trump did not nuke Moscow. In fact, Trump didn't do all that much. So why would any

00:15:42.820 of our adversaries believe the madman theory? This is from RNZ. They say an international law

00:15:49.660 expert says the president appears to be employing what is known as the madman theory, an attempt to

00:15:54.140 end the war in Iran. In an expletive laden post overnight, Trump vowed to strike Iran's power

00:15:59.240 plants and bridges if the country's leaders don't reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The madman theory was

00:16:03.720 a strategy brought to fame by Richard Nixon's unsuccessful attempt to end the Vietnam War.

00:16:07.860 The strategy involves behaving in an irrational, erratic manner and threatening to go to extreme

00:16:11.820 lengths to end the war or conflict. The idea is that you don't know whether the person will or

00:16:16.420 won't do it, and the opposition will be scared into making a deal. The issue with Trump's use

00:16:21.760 of the strategy in the case of Iran is that it relies upon rational opposition. I'm going to 0.96

00:16:27.520 tell you why I worry about this. I'm going to tell you in a way that I would love to tell you,

00:16:34.400 and that's poker. So let me tell you a quick story. I'll just make it quick for people who

00:16:38.800 don't really care, but this is an age-old game, and I'm a big fan, big player. My friends,

00:16:44.180 you all know what it means to bluff, but many people who don't understand the game of poker,

00:16:50.420 many of them think it'd be just little old gambling, believe bluff just means to make a big

00:16:55.320 bet to scare off your opponent because you've got a great hand. You're basically saying, you know

00:17:00.060 what? My cards are so good. I'm all in. The only problem is if I have a read on you and if your

00:17:06.980 story doesn't make sense, I'm going to call your bluff. See, I once played a hand with a guy and

00:17:13.480 let's just say I'll keep the jargon at a minimum. So I make a bet. He calls my bet. The cards come

00:17:22.040 out, I'm pretty happy. So I make a bet. He calls my bet. Looking at the board, the structure of

00:17:27.080 the cards that came out do not indicate that I was anything other than the best possible hand.

00:17:31.800 Meaning strong hands like a royal flush couldn't exist or four of a kind. These things were not

00:17:37.240 possible, right? I know for people who play poker, I could get a little more detail, but I'm trying

00:17:40.820 to keep it light. So I knew while I didn't have the best possible hand, there's very little that

00:17:45.700 would beat me in this circumstance. And so this there gentleman called and then finally at the

00:17:51.700 end, when I make a bet, he shoves all his chips in. He shoved all his chips. He says, I've got

00:17:58.600 the best hand. And I look at the board and this is how the game is played. Every step of the way,

00:18:05.300 we're thinking about what you might do with a certain range of cards you might have. How would

00:18:10.640 you behave? Well, I would argue that the structure of the board and the actions he took told a bad

00:18:16.640 story. It did not make sense. The story he told indicated he had nothing, got scared and was

00:18:24.480 hoping I would fold. And I had a really great hand anyway. So unlucky for him, it was an easy call

00:18:30.840 for me. I didn't have to read that difficult. I didn't miss. I made it. Two pair, actually. Top

00:18:35.860 two. Ace Jack. I call and he has absolutely nothing. And so I ask this, what story are you

00:18:44.520 trying to tell with your lie that you think I would back down. Let's translate this to the

00:18:49.520 madman theory. Now, by all means, I know there's a lot of people who support Trump and believe the

00:18:53.140 madman theory is what he's doing, as Michael Maus points out. But let me ask this. What story has

00:18:57.760 Trump been telling this whole time? Now, truth be told, we have had strikes on Cargillin overnight.

00:19:05.180 Donald Trump has bombed and wiped out a whole lot. But is the story Trump telling over this whole

00:19:13.380 or I should say this past eight years, including Joe Biden. You know, we skipped over that

00:19:17.200 is the story being told one of blowing up civilian targets, killing people on bridges.

00:19:24.280 I'm sorry, it's not. And that's why the Iranians are gathering on these bridges. 1.00

00:19:28.860 They're going to call Trump's bluff. Mario Novel. I don't know if you're familiar,

00:19:33.320 but he's a big personality on X and he covers the news, said he believes that Trump will find

00:19:37.260 off ramp tonight. I agree. I could be wrong, guys, but I would look at this like,

00:19:43.380 Trump may make some strikes to make it seem as though he kept his word he was going to bomb them.

00:19:49.800 But I don't believe, especially with human shields forming, Donald Trump has told a story

00:19:55.860 that indicates he is willing to blow up power plants. I just don't think so.

00:20:01.080 And that being said, it could be wrong. Every once in a while, you get a master of the craft

00:20:06.460 at a poker table. And sometimes you fall for traps. Sometimes it happens. And so I played

00:20:12.480 against the guy who was very good. And he knows that I'm not bad myself. I'm not pretending to

00:20:16.840 be a great player. He knew that a basic understanding. So what did he do? He

00:20:21.020 intentionally took a route that told a bad story because he was hoping that finally in the end,

00:20:28.400 when he made that move, I would say your story makes no sense. But it's like the scene in the

00:20:34.440 Princess Bride. I switched glasses when your back was turned. And so this guy, he told a bad story

00:20:43.140 on purpose. And so there I am staring down a board where I should have the best hand,

00:20:49.600 where it wouldn't make sense for him to be able to beat me. And so I made a bet. And then he calls

00:20:55.860 and he flips over pocket jacks. And he had me. I had a pair. I had ace 10. But the story he told

00:21:04.620 was well done. It was well done. This guy was good. He was a local grinder who played

00:21:09.960 professionally, but not at the highest levels, just the low stakes games to make a living.

00:21:14.320 And it was a well played hand. And he tricked me. He led me to believe the whole time that we were

00:21:20.620 at that table, that he was a he was not a regular, that he was a tourist, that he was unfamiliar.

00:21:25.980 And then finally, I decided I'm going to make a move because I think I'm going to be good here.

00:21:30.840 And he got me. And the reason I bring this up is maybe that's the game Trump

00:21:35.140 is willing to play. He's going to pull off the grand move only when it matters most.

00:21:41.800 He makes the Iranians believe he is incapable or unwilling in every other circumstance, 0.96

00:21:46.260 Ukraine being a great example. And then they will be caught by surprised with their pants down 1.00

00:21:52.020 and get taken for a ride. You never know exactly how it's going to play out. But what I will say

00:21:57.880 is this. I don't believe the grand finale here is that Trump really is willing to bomb these

00:22:02.180 power plants. Well, I'll put it this way. He's willing to. A madman could do anything, right?

00:22:07.840 But I do believe the greater probability will be with Trump finding some off ramp,

00:22:12.680 which means limited strikes. Trump saying we did it. We'll come back at a later date if we need

00:22:19.120 to. He's been saying over and over again over the past month, we're winding things down. We've

00:22:23.940 basically won. It's over. Yet here we are with the Strait of Hormuz still closed. Now, I'll say it

00:22:30.620 again. I said it before. I'll say it a million times. Guys, you ask me what I'm doing, why I do

00:22:34.800 it. I want this country to stay together. That means the wackaloon left and the right. And that's

00:22:41.840 why I often you'll find me as a moderate. I'm trying to say, let's not lose our heads on this

00:22:48.320 one. Well, we've got Candace Owens. She says the Iranian president tweets that he's willing to

00:22:53.440 sacrifice his own life for his people. Donald Trump was willing to sacrifice Charlie Kirk

00:22:57.620 and is willing to sacrifice every American life and livelihood for greater Israel. 0.73

00:23:01.780 Who is the animal again? What? OK, well, here's AOC. This is a threat of genocide and merits

00:23:09.720 removal from office. To every individual in the president's chain of command, you have a duty to

00:23:13.460 refuse illegal orders that includes carrying out this threat. Ah, yes. AOC and Candace Owens

00:23:19.300 together at last. Well, at least Trump is the great unifier, I suppose. It seems like things

00:23:26.580 might get bad. We've got this one from Sager and Jetty. It is now a time for choosing. The era of

00:23:32.000 trying to be the reasonable voice inside is over. Anyone with an ounce of integrity should follow

00:23:36.300 the lead of Joe Kent and resign with honor or take immediate public steps to forestall disaster.

00:23:42.800 If you do not, we will not forget. Which brings me, my friends, to let's just call it

00:23:50.580 the American wager. What we are seeing right now can be defined once again, very simply.

00:23:59.200 If you are right wing and Trump wins, you are fine. If you are left wing and Trump wins,

00:24:04.660 you are fine. If you are left wing and the left wins, you are fine. But if you are right wing

00:24:08.680 and the left wins, you will be crushed. And it's worse now than ever before. Trump's gambit on

00:24:17.580 Iran on Iran is terrifying. If he follows through with this bombing campaign, but ultimately fails, 0.65

00:24:25.520 he will not only be impeached, he will be imprisoned. His administration will be

00:24:30.260 figuratively Nuremberg. If Trump fails, if China becomes the dominant global power and to all the 0.52

00:24:39.980 people who stand behind Donald Trump, should he lose, they're going to find themselves along for

00:24:45.900 the ride, which means I wouldn't be surprised to see many Trump supporters breaking away and saying

00:24:51.260 enough. I can't do this. Why? Well, there's a few a few red flags, I would say. If you're someone

00:24:58.160 one like Alex Jones. He recently came and said, how do we 25th Amendment this guy with Robert

00:25:03.160 Barnes? I'm not going to impugn their honor or imply anything, but I will say this. For people

00:25:07.600 in the media space to notice, the top global podcasts are anti-Israel, anti-Iran war, and

00:25:13.240 anti-Trump. Holy. Well, you're taking notice of where public sentiment is. These individuals are

00:25:20.340 basically saying, I don't want to be on the back end of this. Now, with Donald Trump winning the

00:25:25.140 presidency in 2016, we saw this divergence. There was the woke element, the neocons during the

00:25:30.280 Democrats. However, a strong core of Trump supporters survived because it was effectively

00:25:37.360 50-50. People were able to live and work and be safe if they were Trump supporters, despite the

00:25:44.000 challenges, because there was enough support for Trump. But as this podcast machine breaks down,

00:25:51.220 as people begin to see that if you want the clicks, anti-Israel, well, then the narrative

00:25:58.720 shift is here. Trump is wrong. Greater Israel is wrong. The war is wrong. I won't stand with Trump,

00:26:04.580 they say. Me, I'm not going to play those games. I don't care if it means that they will call me

00:26:11.000 all the names in the book, accuse me of being Israeli, accuse me of being Russian, accuse me

00:26:15.240 of being pro-Iran or anti-America or pro-America, whatever it might be. I'm going to tell you what

00:26:20.140 I think is happening and why I think it's happening. I'm going to tell you why I support

00:26:24.180 Donald Trump and the things that I that he does are good and the policies he's enacted that I

00:26:29.540 support. And as I've said from the beginning, I do not support the intervention in Iran.

00:26:34.380 But I believe the most effective means of communication and control will be to keep

00:26:38.420 one hand on that steering wheel, not to throw it away and spit in his face. But I do believe

00:26:43.180 there are many prominent individuals that fear Trump is about to lose everything. The Iran war

00:26:48.500 is not popular. Gas is is way high. Democrats are going to win in the midterms and they are going

00:26:54.260 to subpoena people and they're going to ban on you. They're going to Peter Navarro you.

00:26:59.740 What's the safest thing to do before the midterms? Break from Trump. That way you won't be falsely

00:27:06.040 accused of being a Russian or subpoena to testify and put into a trap, a perjury trap where they put

00:27:12.440 you in prison. Indeed. You see, I stand up for what I believe is right. And for this, my reward

00:27:20.700 was the Biden administration with Merrick Garland falsely accusing me of taking money from Russia,

00:27:26.840 which resulted in threats of death because they want me to be scared. They want to say, Tim,

00:27:34.180 we will lie and we will use the weight of government and destroy you and truth be damned.

00:27:39.160 you will be crushed. Okay, I guess. You guys can screw yourselves. You can lie all day and night.

00:27:48.820 But I do believe the fear campaign works. Think about what they did with that false accusation

00:27:54.320 of Russia, Russia, Russia. They did it to Trump. They did it to me and several other prominent

00:27:58.460 conservative personalities. And now the Democrats are lining up to take back the House and wield

00:28:05.360 that power once again. And what about 2028? What they're basically saying to me and everybody else

00:28:11.760 is they are willing to put a knife in our backs to lie and destroy everything that we hold dear

00:28:17.740 in the most devious and dirtiest of ways. Yeah, I opposed U.S. involvement in the war in Ukraine.

00:28:26.100 And for this, the machine state came after me. The funny thing is now, while I still oppose

00:28:32.640 this interventionist policies. I am not a big fan of U.S. world police. I do believe it's in the

00:28:37.440 best interest of the American people that we win this conflict in Iran. It ends in a way beneficial 1.00

00:28:42.820 to us. Now we're seeing people break, breaking ranks. Trump must be removed. You got Tucker

00:28:50.580 Carlson making the case that Trump is the antichrist. Lord have mercy. Trump firing back

00:28:56.240 saying Tucker Carlson's low IQ, low IQ. Wow. I don't know where the chips will fall.

00:29:05.840 I'm not going to advocate that Donald Trump be 25th Amendment did. I think that's silly.

00:29:10.580 I think that every president we've had of my lifetime has started some war,

00:29:14.140 except for Trump in his first term. Now Trump in a second term, he has.

00:29:17.320 I am critical of those decisions. It's already shown itself to be bad. Gas prices are way up.

00:29:23.960 The economy is in trouble.

00:29:25.540 Diesel is at six bucks by me.

00:29:27.080 Guys, this is really bad.

00:29:29.020 Trump needs to win.

00:29:30.560 I don't know how he does.

00:29:33.040 But I will say this.

00:29:35.660 You know, the people that want to 25th Amendment Donald Trump, by all means, you're allowed

00:29:41.520 to have that opinion.

00:29:42.820 I'm not going to question whether Alex Jones is serious about it or not.

00:29:46.140 What I do think is there are many prominent people in media that don't know which direction

00:29:50.160 to go and are scared of being booted, I guess. In quarter four of 2025, Timcast IRL was the 122nd

00:29:59.140 biggest podcast in the world. Wow. We just notched right above Realtime with Bill Maher.

00:30:05.540 Of course, there are many other much more prominent and larger shows than us.

00:30:09.460 And over the past several months, I would say Timcast IRL concurrent viewership has gone from

00:30:15.080 an average of 50,000 per night to now around 35. On YouTube, we do around like 20K. On Rumble,

00:30:22.080 we do about 15 or so, and viewership is down. It's been reported that for right-wing personalities,

00:30:29.340 conservative, moderate, pro-America, et cetera, they've seen a general decline of around 27 or

00:30:33.280 so percent, which tracks, I guess. This show has done the same as it always has. My morning show,

00:30:39.900 Timcast News, done the same as it always has, but I can see there's a general decline.

00:30:43.140 I just think it's seasonal, I guess. I'm not going to cry about it. But I've had conversations

00:30:47.620 with prominent people in media on the right, and they've been freaking out because their revenue

00:30:51.700 is way down, and revenue is way down for everybody. And they're starting to panic. What do we do?

00:30:58.860 I'm not surprised then to see so many people chasing Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson.

00:31:04.580 You know, I take a look at the podcast rankings, and they're on top. Not on every platform,

00:31:08.340 mind you, but on Spotify, they're doing very well. Look at Candace Owens' viewership on YouTube.

00:31:14.160 120,000 concurrent viewers, massive female audience, money to be made. Your CPMs, your

00:31:19.680 RPMs remain high when you go that route. I'm not surprised to see people going this direction.

00:31:25.180 They are chasing after what they think is what the people want. Me, I'm going to tell you what

00:31:31.080 I think is real, what I think is important. And even if that means people are going to put me on

00:31:35.000 the outs. This means I've been critical of Trump wherever I think he's needed to be criticized.

00:31:39.220 It means I've supported him tremendously on the things I think he should be supported on.

00:31:43.100 I've defended Ro Khanna and other Democrats, but largely remained very, very critical of the

00:31:47.480 Democratic Party and Joe Biden. I'll tell you what I think is true. I'm not going to run. I'm

00:31:51.680 not going to hide. And no one is going to threaten me with death or false accusations to make me lie.

00:31:58.440 It's just not going to happen.

00:32:01.280 Recently, Angel Studios offered us a good sponsorship for their new film, Animal Farm,

00:32:06.420 and I rejected it because it was the right thing to do.

00:32:08.900 And that's dumb for a business that is in the ad sales business, right?

00:32:15.200 An advertiser might say, don't go to Tim Pool.

00:32:17.620 If he doesn't like your product, he's going to come and cause you problems.

00:32:20.700 So don't even bother with him.

00:32:22.500 It could cost us money in the long run.

00:32:23.740 So be it. If I am but a humble man in a boat on the river fishing, and that is all that becomes

00:32:30.080 of me, at least I know that I had I held my honor and my dignity. I am not suggesting any of the

00:32:37.020 individuals criticizing Trump have none. In fact, this may be one of the most honorable things they

00:32:40.620 can do if they genuinely believe that Trump has crossed that line to break from their own

00:32:45.780 audiences is a scary thing. I am not suggesting anyone who criticizes Trump is doing so out of

00:32:51.720 fear. I do believe many are. So we shall see tonight. Smash the like button if you so choose.

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - April 07, 2026

Iran Forms HUMAN SHIELDS Around Power Plants Amid Trump Threat To DESTROY Entire Country

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