The Culture War - Tim Pool - Joe Rogan SAYS NO To Socialists, Democrats QUIT Party BEG People To VOTE REPUBLICAN

00:00:00.000 Joe Rogan has dropped the hammer on the Democratic Socialists, saying you can't just steal people's money.

00:00:07.780 And this matters because the progressives are gaining ground in some states.

00:00:11.540 While moderates have won in places like Illinois, New York, Colorado and Michigan, the far left is winning.

00:00:18.980 But it's looking bad. I got to tell you, Democrats have come out recently saying, look,

00:00:24.340 we recognize there's not going to be a Joe Rogan of the left because Joe Rogan is just your average

00:00:29.420 middle-of-the-road guy. In a recent interview with Andrew Wilson, Joe basically calls out the

00:00:34.440 Democratic Socialists saying, I understand why people like these policies, but it just doesn't

00:00:38.400 work. And if that is what hits the moderate, the independent voter, we are going to see the

00:00:45.040 prediction market start swinging. And dare I say it, guys, who'd have thunk? Joe Rogan's the

00:00:51.360 kingmaker. You know, things have changed in the past several years. Back when I first appeared

00:00:56.560 on Joe's show, and I think it was like 2019, it was massive. People were desperate for some

00:01:02.740 alternative media space, largely because of the censorship. And it's sad to see how Vice failed,

00:01:08.800 because when you look at Barstool, Joe Rogan, Outkick, they stayed true, and they all, you know,

00:01:16.440 they all became kingmakers in their own right. Vice, on the other hand, did not. So Joe right

00:01:21.440 now, whether because he wanted to or not, commands one of the largest and most important voting blocks

00:01:28.400 in this country. So when he endorsed Donald Trump, said he was going to vote for him,

00:01:32.820 that probably bumped Trump up a little bit. I mean, look, here's a dude who's getting something

00:01:38.060 like 80 million views per month off of only 15 episodes. I wish I got a morning show. I got an

00:01:46.560 early evening show and a nightly show. And I'm only getting about 60 million per month. I'm

00:01:51.820 going to stress this again. Joe has reach. He has one episode. He's going to get millions of views.

00:01:57.080 OK, we do one episode. We get hundreds of thousands. So I got to do three instead of one.

00:02:01.200 The dude reaches substantially more people. And when he reaches them, they listen. So this is big

00:02:07.520 for the establishment Democrats, not because Joe Rogan's trying to endorse them, but because

00:02:12.900 when he comes out and says, look, this stuff doesn't work. It's actually going to strike

00:02:17.740 at the heart of what moderates are willing to do because they listen. Joe's not the smartest guy

00:02:23.840 in the world. He's not always right about everything, but he comes off as, and I would

00:02:29.420 argue he is, one of the most honest guys in media. I believe that he's not playing this game for

00:02:36.600 politics. He genuinely feels certain ways. He's not going to take no BS from anybody.

00:02:40.520 And so people listen and they trust him. You know, Joe's the night in the past, but he's basically our best journalist of our generation. And this is the truth. When Joe sits down, we see people on the left insult him, saying he just lets people say what they want, just nods on. Welcome to journalism.

00:03:02.160 I certainly got my compliance with this, how journalists operate.

00:03:05.140 But the truth is, what Joe is doing is journalism.

00:03:08.080 He's asking these people to express and share their views.

00:03:11.400 And I'm not going to be wrong.

00:03:12.180 When someone goes on his show and says something nonsensical, he pushes back.

00:03:15.920 So let's dive in and see what this is all about.

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00:04:06.200 But let's jump to the story from Breitbart, my friends.

00:04:09.300 Joe Rogan explains the fatal flaw with democratic socialists.

00:04:11.620 You can't just steal people's money.

00:04:15.160 We've got this clip reposted by Overton.

00:04:18.480 Joe Rogan exposes the fatal flaw behind the democratic socialist platform to 21 million listeners.

00:04:24.800 Let's roll.

00:04:25.340 And they think that this idea of democratic socialism is a really good idea because there are some examples of socialist policies that do work, like the fire department, and there's a bunch of stuff that makes sense.

00:04:37.380 But the problem with enforcing any of this stuff that they don't understand is it always comes down to power.

00:04:44.960 You have to have massive authority and usually guns because you can't just steal people's money.

00:04:49.980 They're not going to let you.

00:04:51.140 They're not going to let you just come in and decide, hey, we just devised a new tax where everybody who makes more than $500,000 a year, everything over that, you have to give 100% to the state.

00:05:01.120 Or 95.

00:05:02.040 Or 95.

00:05:03.940 A simple statement, a light statement, but a true statement nonetheless to tens of millions of people, the DSA does not work.

00:05:12.220 And I'm going to explain the functions of this socialist policy and why it doesn't work.

00:05:16.340 And the first thing I want to say is what we know from the trending data is that people are not inclined to vote for socialists because most of you already understand these mechanisms.

00:05:28.020 We've got this from CNN. Abdul El-Sayed's Republican opponent directly pitches Democrats hoping to capitalize after divisive primary.

00:05:37.780 Now, this guy, Abdul El-Sayed, very charismatic. I don't underestimate this guy.

00:05:43.220 And he says he's not a socialist. He's a capitalist. And maybe. Maybe I don't know how much I trust any of these guys, be it Rogers or otherwise. But he understands. Abdul El-Sayed understands you cannot campaign as a socialist. But I want to break down what what Joe is saying for you guys. And I want to explain it like this. He says the fire department works. Why does the fire department work? Nobody wants their house on fire. That sounds simple, but let me explain.

00:06:11.540 I liken human civilization kind of to like the states of matter, as it were.

00:06:17.580 And so I imagine a gas.

00:06:20.720 What is it?

00:06:21.160 The molecules, the particles are bouncing around all crazy alike, and so you get a gas, right?

00:06:25.560 Condense this down, and they're still moving around, but they have a harder time because

00:06:30.460 they're more dense, and you get a liquid.

00:06:33.080 Smash them to where they can't move at all, and you get a solid.

00:06:36.120 That's solid.

00:06:37.060 That's New York City.

00:06:38.380 In New York City, you have very limited freedom.

00:06:40.040 You can't really move around. You can't bounce around like crazy because you'd infringe on

00:06:45.100 someone else's space. So you are contained. The further you move out, the more freedom you have

00:06:50.860 to do crazy things. And it's really simple, right? You get an apartment in New York City,

00:06:54.660 you ain't getting a drum set. Sorry, it's not happening. And so that's what I always hated

00:06:58.300 about living in New York is that I've been playing drums since I was like six, seven years old. And

00:07:03.140 I don't really play all that often anymore. But I always, sometimes I want to just sit down and I

00:07:07.380 want to let her rip and play some drums, right? You can't do that in the city. In the suburbs, 1.00

00:07:12.020 you can sort of do it, so long as you make sure you soundproof your house. Neighbors might be

00:07:16.000 okay with loud drumming at a certain point of the day, but you live in the countryside.

00:07:20.360 I can go out. I can blast my amp's max volume. I can go almost like concert-level volume in the

00:07:29.420 middle. No one's here to be bothered. You have more freedom. So let's talk about what this means.

00:07:35.220 If you are in this dense block where everybody has limited space and a fire starts in your condo, in your townhouse, it's putting everyone else at risk.

00:07:47.020 And so we tolerate this. Fine. We will pay a tax for a fire department.

00:07:53.840 But hold on there a gosh darn minute, Joe Rogan.

00:07:56.560 Things like fire departments go out to the countryside. 0.64

00:08:00.160 We don't have socialized fire departments. We have volunteer fire departments.

00:08:04.600 That's right.

00:08:06.000 You see, isn't that interesting?

00:08:07.400 When Joe says things like the fire department work.

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00:08:41.040 Sort of.

00:08:42.320 It works in the city because if my house starts on fire

00:08:44.880 and I don't have fire protection,

00:08:47.200 everyone else is going to burn down too.

00:08:49.040 We can't live that way.

00:08:50.840 So it used to be we had fire emblems.

00:08:53.200 You put an emblem on your house.

00:08:55.080 If a fire started, the fire brigade shows up,

00:08:56.940 they see the emblem, they know you're paid up,

00:08:58.960 they put the fire out.

00:09:00.180 No emblem, they leave.

00:09:01.760 but hold on. That was back when your house was far away from your neighbors. If your house

00:09:05.860 burned down, that sucks. Your fault. Too bad. Now that houses are connected in the big cities, 1.00

00:09:12.160 like every brownstone is literally sharing a wall. If you get a fire and the fire department

00:09:16.600 says you didn't pay, someone else's house is going to burn down. So the fire department says

00:09:20.780 we have to put this out to protect the people who do pay. So they finally go, guys, everyone has to

00:09:25.620 pay. It's enough. We're doing it. And everybody does. You come out where we are, out in the middle

00:09:31.380 of middle of nowhere in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. It's all volunteer fire department,

00:09:35.900 even in Western Maryland, Western Maryland. It's a blue state. Volunteer fire department. We don't

00:09:41.740 pay nothing. Now, me, don't get me wrong. I show up. I make donations, you know, once a year about

00:09:46.760 and, you know, because these are good dudes. The volunteers choosing to go and do this because

00:09:51.660 the right thing to do for their community. Amazing. Amazing. But no one's forcing them to do it.

00:09:57.560 And that's where I say socialism does not work anywhere.

00:10:03.680 Now, hold on there.

00:10:05.220 We here in the United States have what we call a mixed economy.

00:10:08.620 Mixed economy is we have some socialized functions like the fire department at the federal level.

00:10:14.420 You know, military, we've got some health care subsidies.

00:10:17.780 But this isn't socialism.

00:10:19.900 It's welfare.

00:10:21.500 So we call it a mixed economy because there's government programs.

00:10:25.480 But socialism is the control of industry for which we do have a little bit, especially over the past couple of decades with these massive buyouts.

00:10:35.220 Well, my friends, it's going to get really interesting as we move into this year election cycle with socialists on the rise and, you know, massive voices like Joe Rogan saying no to socialism.

00:10:46.300 As I already showed you, Mike Rogers is going to go after the Democrats because they're concerned about that.

00:10:50.520 But check this out from The New York Post.

00:10:52.620 I'm a longtime Democrat fighting for GOP Mike Rogers and my party's soul in Michigan.

00:11:00.700 This is from this is written by Julian Epstein.

00:11:05.020 President, you know, I just want to I want to give a shout out to all the people whose

00:11:07.880 last name are Epstein.

00:11:08.780 Yikes.

00:11:09.700 Not a good time for you guys.

00:11:11.340 President John F. Kennedy and his inaugural address may have said it best in the past.

00:11:15.280 Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

00:11:19.000 It was a warning to those who tolerate the rise of authoritarian communism that they

00:11:23.640 will inevitably end up next to the dinner menu, next on the dinner menu.

00:11:27.660 Michigan Democrats and nominating Abdul El-Sayed for Senate on Tuesday seem to be riding the

00:11:32.240 back of the tiger, but not me.

00:11:34.040 I'm climbing off the beast.

00:11:35.920 After decades of giving my all for Democratic House and Senate candidates, this fall, I

00:11:40.620 will support and contribute to Mike Rogers, Michigan's GOP Senate nominee, and I'll do

00:11:47.220 everything I can to make sure other Democrats follow. Can I just do this? Shout it again to

00:11:52.920 James Carville, who said if Hassan Piker becomes a prominent force in the Democrats, he's out.

00:11:57.940 Bill Maher, who said his vote is in play because of these socialists. Let's go coalition, bro.

00:12:05.680 My wish. My wish is that Bill Maher was just in charge of the Democratic Party.

00:12:10.440 Now, many of you may not like Bill Maher, but we can all agree it is preferable to have an anti-communist and an Islam critical liberal who is up against, you know, a mega Republican type.

00:12:28.080 These progressives are just plum nuts and the Democratic Party, they're reeling.

00:12:33.380 With the exception of John Fetterman, my party's leaders have sought to appease the dangerous factions rising in our midst. 0.97

00:12:39.580 Weak, timid figures like Chuck Schumer are spouting empty cliches.

00:12:43.160 We are a big tent party.

00:12:44.340 No!

00:12:45.180 While abdicating their moral and political responsibilities.

00:12:48.360 Democrats aren't coddling Scandinavian-style socialists.

00:12:51.280 They're getting into bed with a nihilistic, deconstructionist brand of third-worldism.

00:12:55.820 It's an ideology that seeks the elimination of prisons, policing borders, the Senate,

00:13:00.120 the presidency, the Supreme Court, and democratic free markets. 0.76

00:13:03.680 A worldview that aligns with genocidal jihadist movements like Hamas. 0.59

00:13:07.640 Hassan Piker went to China and was gifted a first edition Little Red Book.

00:13:13.360 And he was like, oh, wow.

00:13:15.920 Oh, man.

00:13:17.220 Some people think it's more important than the Bible.

00:13:19.880 That dude straight up massacred tens of millions of people.

00:13:23.800 And they've largely abandoned Mao's worldview.

00:13:27.120 They're still authoritarian.

00:13:28.020 Don't get me wrong.

00:13:29.780 But that's just nuts.

00:13:32.620 A generation ago, the left would have recognized his cadre as a Trojan horse.

00:13:35.660 doing the bidding of our adversaries, but not today. And as working class voters flee an

00:13:40.320 increasingly toxic Democratic brand, the party's newfound embrace of anti-American extremists

00:13:45.200 is likely to produce big losses nationally and a civil war within. Dare I say, my friends,

00:13:52.320 now is the time for intervention. And I mean it. The question is, can we, as I know most of you

00:14:02.640 are fairly moderate. Can we finally convince the portion of Democrats who reject the weird woke

00:14:10.000 trash and socialism to come back to reality? This is our opportunity. I say unto these people, 0.98

00:14:15.780 same as Mike Rogers, guys, drop the weird kids exchange stuff. The socialists are coming.

00:14:23.440 They're going to take over and they're going to strip you of your rights. It's time to reform

00:14:28.740 the American coalition, where you and I can humbly disagree somewhat fervently on like how

00:14:35.320 many weeks a woman should be allowed to get an abortion or whatever the question may be, or

00:14:39.380 the extent of our tax policy. But no more should we tolerate these psychotic ideologues on the left. 0.87

00:14:47.800 What I'm saying, my friends, is this break right now is an opportunity to purge woke.

00:14:53.080 finally. The socialists are proving they are nuts. And these Democrats are coming out saying 1.00

00:15:00.540 no more. And I say, welcome to the fight. So I may not agree completely with this Democrat.

00:15:06.820 I may not agree completely with Bill Maher, but I don't agree completely with Donald Trump

00:15:14.040 or Moreno, especially not Thune or Ben Shapiro or even Steven Crowder. But we get along

00:15:22.600 because we are willing to have these conversations

00:15:24.840 and navigate what is or should be.

00:15:27.800 And so for the longest time,

00:15:29.340 I go to Ben Shapiro,

00:15:30.780 and I know a lot of people are like,

00:15:31.860 oh, he wants war, whatever.

00:15:33.560 He's entitled to his opinions with a massive audience.

00:15:35.940 Guys, I'm going to tell you this.

00:15:36.760 The people who are claiming his audience is dead

00:15:38.600 are lying.

00:15:39.980 His audio podcast numbers are insane.

00:15:44.380 So that being said,

00:15:45.860 I can sit down with Ben,

00:15:47.480 and he's going to say,

00:15:48.320 well, I completely disagree

00:15:49.800 on the issue of what we should be doing with Iran. 1.00

00:15:51.700 I mean, these are people who are genocidal maniacs, and I'm going to say my concern ultimately is, though, is the cure worse than the disease? 1.00

00:15:59.140 If we do, my point being, I'm not going to simulate the whole debate, is that we're going to be sitting there enjoying a fine cup of tea and having this conversation where we disagree.

00:16:08.680 And there you go.

00:16:10.160 But now with Democrats, the socialists have been thrown bricks, accusing people of being racist and white supremacists.

00:16:16.400 They call Ben Shapiro a Nazi. 0.94

00:16:19.320 Dude's Jewish.

00:16:20.040 It just makes no sense. So can we now finally go to these people? Even Cenk Uygur has started 1.00

00:16:26.120 to pull back from the brink, despite the fact that his nephew is going the other direction.

00:16:30.600 I don't know what Anna Kasperian is doing. She's all over the place. But can we finally now go to 1.00

00:16:36.980 these people and say, listen, come hang out. Let's talk about this. I think so. I know a lot

00:16:43.700 of people are upset with Trump over the war stuff and I wouldn't vote for it. But I mean, I'm not a

00:16:50.380 moral absolutist, you know, maybe on some things, whatever. But my argument is, guys, if you come to

00:16:56.920 me and say a president's going to start a war in the Middle East, I'd laugh and be like, that's 0.59

00:17:00.180 been my entire life. Now, when you come out and say, I'm not going to, I'll vote for you. I did 0.99

00:17:05.220 not vote for Donald Trump in 2016 because I did not believe him in his first term. We got no new

00:17:11.320 wars. I said, OK, now I'll vote for him. And then it's like, oh, lucky me. We get a new war.

00:17:19.660 I am not a fan of these interventions because they're not justified. I'm not a fan of

00:17:23.680 involvement with Ukraine. It's not justified. Same thing with Israel. 0.99

00:17:26.780 They have not provided to the American people justification. They just haven't. 0.62

00:17:31.400 They say things like Russia is like Hitler. And I'm like, but that doesn't justify to the

00:17:34.900 American people. They say Israel is our greatest ally. I say that doesn't justify to the American

00:17:40.220 people. Justification would be like some guy came and kicked your neighbor's door in and shot

00:17:44.760 somebody. And it's like, OK, we're going to defend our neighbors on this one. Now, don't get me

00:17:48.400 wrong. I understand the conflict of Lebanon. But I'm like, there's a big difference between you

00:17:53.940 and your neighbor are good friends and a random guy shows up and your neighbor has been feuding

00:17:58.260 with the neighbor across the street for for 100 years. And then we're being asked to be involved.

00:18:04.260 Now, by the way, you still make those arguments, whatever.

00:18:07.040 The Iran thing is dragging out and it's been bad.

00:18:12.180 It has been bad. 0.67

00:18:13.440 And I think Trump is doing it because of energy and I'm not a fan of it.

00:18:16.880 The problem is we have no meaningful opposition.

00:18:20.220 Tucker Carlson is now talking about launching this new movement or whatever it might be.

00:18:25.080 And that's great.

00:18:26.620 I'm not going to vote for these people because I got to be honest. 0.96

00:18:29.160 I think they have Israel derangement syndrome. 0.59

00:18:32.000 Not every single person. Guys, I don't care. If you come to me and say we shouldn't fund Israel,

00:18:39.200 I'll say, OK, if you come to me and say we should not have gone to war with Iran, I'd say, 0.99

00:18:44.580 all right. But when you come to me and claim that Israel fomented the invasion of Suta Spain, 0.73

00:18:51.940 I'm like, is it are you for real? When you come to me and claim that they're the ones that are 0.99

00:18:59.060 that are pushing fentanyl in West Virginia, I'm just like, oh my, okay, dude, you know,

00:19:03.560 enough of this. The Iran stuff I get when you're like, you know, Israel went to make a move on

00:19:09.860 Iran. So the U.S. joined in. We got pressured into this. Marco Rubio said effectively that 0.72

00:19:13.320 that criticism is legitimate always. I am not referring to that. Tucker Carlson, I'm not saying

00:19:19.680 has Israel derangement syndrome. I'm saying this crowd and much of what they espouse in this space

00:19:24.580 is not motivated by a legitimate outcome. And so Tucker may make good points. The problem is

00:19:31.180 this crowd is not motivated by sound foreign policy. They're motivated by derangement syndrome.

00:19:37.660 I'm not interested in any of that. Now, hold on. Doesn't matter. We've got no opposition.

00:19:43.860 The Democrats don't put up any meaningful debate. If I could sit down with a Democrat who said

00:19:48.940 things like, yeah, kids shouldn't get sex changes and women shouldn't get abortions at nine months.

00:19:54.580 I'd be like, OK, well, then what do you stand for?

00:19:57.600 They say Medicare for all.

00:19:58.700 And I say, well, I like the idea of providing health care to people.

00:20:02.360 I don't know if we can if we can fund it.

00:20:04.600 But they come out and they say wealth tax, impossible, illegal, mathematically makes

00:20:09.800 no sense.

00:20:10.680 They say abortion to the point of birth.

00:20:12.260 I say that's psychotic. 0.99

00:20:13.940 They say they want to give kids sex. 0.99

00:20:15.080 I'm like, are there any real Democrats left? 0.99

00:20:18.980 Well, finally, the socialists come around and they go, maybe we should.

00:20:23.280 OK, my point ultimately is this. We'll keep this one short for the Friday. Now is the time when you get these Democrats coming out. We go to them and say, join the fray. OK, stand with us because we agree more than we disagree. Stop agreeing with these wackaloons. OK, we don't want abortion at nine months. No one does. And if you're going to argue if it never happens, fine, then we'll keep it illegal. If it doesn't happen, why did it need to be made legal?

00:20:51.840 kids should not be getting sex changes. Sorry. Then they lie. They say, no, kid is getting, 0.99

00:20:58.380 just stop already. Stop pretending. Start paying attention. They call me right wing because I know

00:21:07.060 what's going on in the world. But when you go to these people in the streets and you ask them about

00:21:10.940 child sex changes, they'll lie and claim it's not happening. And if you prove to them it is,

00:21:14.860 they'll just say it's a good thing because they live in a moral world, not a factual one.

00:21:21.580 As AOC said, she believes it's better to be morally right than factually correct.

00:21:27.000 I ain't doing it.

00:21:28.500 I'm going to leave it there, my friends.

00:21:29.440 We'll keep it short for this Friday.

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - August 07, 2026

Joe Rogan SAYS NO To Socialists, Democrats QUIT Party BEG People To VOTE REPUBLICAN

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