The Culture War - Tim Pool - September 25, 2025


Leftist Paramilitary RECRUITING College Students Using Charlie Kirk Assassination ft. Rudyard Lynch


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Leftist gun group uses note written on bullets that killed Charlie Kirk to recruit students at Georgetown University. Which people are the evil fagges? Which are the John Brown Gun Club? And why do they need the government to crack down on them?

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00:01:27.060 You have this sort of like shadow that's building up under America where we are an utterly insane people. 0.97
00:01:35.240 I mean, if you talk to enough foreigners, you'll come to realize Americans are kind of nuts in a very positive way. 0.95
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00:01:56.040 Leftist gun group uses note written on bullets that killed Charlie Kirk to recruit students at Georgetown University.
00:02:02.140 You guys probably saw this hey fascist catch at Georgetown at a university. 0.99
00:02:09.140 Which people are the evil fagg? 1.00
00:02:10.380 I have a very salient question. 0.96
00:02:11.420 It was the John Brown Gun Club at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
00:02:15.120 is advertising for new members by using one of the phrases written on Charlie Kirk's assassin's bullet casing
00:02:19.980 and proclaiming that they celebrate the death of Nazis. 0.99
00:02:22.260 These are profoundly, profoundly evil people.
00:02:25.020 If you know anything about the John Brown Gun Club, they are this like, yeah, basically a leftist paramilitary.
00:02:31.340 And they need to be cracked down on with the full force of the American government.
00:02:35.680 But we're going to get Rudyard in.
00:02:36.800 We're going to get him to talk about this.
00:02:38.160 And it's going to be a beautiful, beautiful thing.
00:02:40.200 Let's see if he's in here.
00:02:41.620 Hey, Rudyard, can you hear me?
00:02:43.500 I can hear you.
00:02:44.500 Can you hear me?
00:02:45.520 Yes, sir.
00:02:46.040 Yes, sir.
00:02:46.420 I think we're in business.
00:02:47.420 Well, I imagine everyone knows you that's watching.
00:02:49.960 You're obviously a friend of the show.
00:02:51.300 But maybe for a few people that don't, can you give a quick introduction to who you are and what you do?
00:02:55.400 Hi, everybody.
00:02:56.500 It's a real pleasure to be here.
00:02:58.280 And thanks for having me.
00:03:00.200 And I'm Rudyard Lynch.
00:03:01.800 I run the YouTube channel What If Altist, which looks at the patterns in history to try to predict the future.
00:03:07.660 I'm well known for my bet when I came on earlier here that America is on the verge of a new civil war.
00:03:14.560 Yeah, well, it's a good bet looking at the direction we're heading in right now.
00:03:18.780 I was leading into this interview with an article.
00:03:21.480 It wasn't really an article.
00:03:22.320 It was a tweet from Colvette, Andrew Colvette.
00:03:24.420 I don't know if you saw it.
00:03:25.280 At Georgetown University, there was a flyer that said, hey, fascist catch.
00:03:29.120 And it was an advertisement for the John Brown Gun Club at Georgetown University.
00:03:33.480 So you're seeing open pamphleting on universities for recruitment for these leftist paramilitaries, because that's really what the John Brown Gun Club is.
00:03:42.540 How do you even begin to tamp down on that?
00:03:44.840 What does that say about the national environment that they're able to just put these posters up on universities and supposedly Catholic University, Georgetown University?
00:03:52.340 I mean, what's your take on all this?
00:03:53.260 This has been a longstanding thing we've seen gradually grow on the left, where it was really bad last spring, especially with people attacking Teslas and threats on Elon Musk.
00:04:06.720 And that was my big tipping point when I saw that, because a lot of that leftist terrorism was very directly pushed on places like Reddit or left-wing blogs, where the left is fairly overt about this stuff.
00:04:20.880 And they've been so for at least a year, where last winter, there was a social media trend of young women saying they're going to wear cute little winter boots to cause terrorism.
00:04:30.480 You need to buy your cute winter boots so that you can go out in the winter to cause terrorism.
00:04:36.680 So this has been a longstanding leftist issue, and it's just gotten worse, and it'll continue to get worse until you put another variable to stop this trajectory.
00:04:48.560 Well, I mean, yeah, because we saw in the 70s or the 60s and 70s where you had Weather Underground, you had the Black Liberation Front, whatever.
00:04:58.100 You had a few of these leftist organizations, and they kind of operated with impunity to a large degree, because a lot of those people are still out and about today, and they're walking free.
00:05:07.520 So the precedent thus far for leftist violence has actually been you can kind of get away with it.
00:05:12.520 You've spent a few years in jail, but there hasn't been a serious push from the government against it.
00:05:18.460 And if anything, the intelligence agencies and the IC in general has been oriented towards right-wingers for the longest time.
00:05:26.640 Yeah.
00:05:26.780 So now Trump is reorienting back to the left, as he should.
00:05:30.440 It's a bit slow.
00:05:31.500 I mean, how – if we can't reorient this quickly, I mean, where are they going to stop?
00:05:36.640 Like, it just seems like you're waking up every day now, and there's another example of leftist violence.
00:05:41.800 One of the core issues I've seen in, like, the last year is the boomer cons have not woken up to how dangerous the left is. 0.75
00:05:50.120 And most of the conservative facilities of power are still controlled by boomer cons, although Trump has shoved in a lot of millennials and Gen Xs and some Gen Z.
00:05:59.120 And waking up the boomer cons that have leftist terrorism seems very difficult. 0.78
00:06:07.300 And one of the points James Burnham made in the 60s, which I thought was brilliant.
00:06:10.960 He wrote a book that was prophetic called The Suicide of the West in 1961.
00:06:15.460 And at the time, liberals believed in stuff like free speech or tolerance and all of these more freedom-oriented things.
00:06:27.400 And it's interesting to read that as a Gen Z because in the 21st century, that's just all gone. 0.95
00:06:33.040 But the point the author makes is that every time the liberals or, like, the normie left-wingers make a gain, they've enabled it for Marxism because they're totally incapable of pushing back against Marxism.
00:06:47.140 They just go to the right.
00:06:48.480 So everything the right loses will ultimately end up in the Marxist camp because the normie liberals are not organized or tough enough to really push back against the Marxists.
00:06:59.880 So we've seen this creeping takeover of all of the West by Marxists due to this mechanism.
00:07:06.820 Yeah, that makes total sense.
00:07:08.360 Because that's what you're seeing where you're seeing these otherwise normie liberal pundits and politicians when they have to come out and condemn the Charlie Kirk assassination.
00:07:17.600 Whatever the level of sincerity is is not what I'm really discussing.
00:07:20.780 I'm discussing the fact that every single time they will say political violence is wrong.
00:07:24.740 This is sad that he died.
00:07:26.360 And then they put a bunch of qualifiers onto it.
00:07:28.140 But they're saying, but, you know, whatever his politics were, politics aside, like, they're still cracking the door to the fact that, like, no, your politics can actually get you hurt.
00:07:37.020 And that's the way it should be.
00:07:38.900 And that just shows that they're incapable of regulating everyone to the left of them.
00:07:42.960 Where on the right, I mean, for better or for worse, it's actually quite easy for the normie, the, like, sort of center right to regulate and sort of finger wag at the right.
00:07:52.060 They do it quite frequently, although it's, you know, they're less so able to impose their will as the Republican Party shifts more to Trumpism.
00:08:00.940 But still, the left, the normie liberals, like you're saying, they're just incapable of wrangling in the Marxists.
00:08:06.660 They're terrified of them.
00:08:08.360 And you're seeing this in their condemnations.
00:08:12.120 They have – the left is a staggering absence of leadership.
00:08:15.580 And when you see stuff like this, where just the mob psychology takes over, and whenever that happens, you get the worst possible outcome.
00:08:23.440 Because mobs are several million years less advanced than individuals evolutionarily.
00:08:30.520 And one of the benefits the right has over the left is that we can develop leaders a lot more easily, where Trump isn't the easiest example.
00:08:42.140 But people are generally respective of Vance, and Kirk had a tremendous amount of respect when he was still alive, God bless.
00:08:50.260 But with the right's ability to have leadership, it means we can control our own sort of mob psychology so we don't end up with the worst possible outcomes.
00:09:00.740 It happens on the right.
00:09:01.880 It doesn't happen – it happens like 5x as much on the left.
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00:10:39.960 Yeah, that makes total sense.
00:10:42.780 I mean, I think also it's just because right-wing philosophy is just kind of naturally hierarchical.
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00:10:53.720 It makes it impossible for like a strong leader to get up there and really rally the troops.
00:10:57.120 Something that has been concerning to see with these shooters is how like atomized and how like how they are basically just freaks.
00:11:06.140 And you're seeing with a lot of these social trends among Zoomers, it's almost like American society is just like a repository for these types of figures. 1.00
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00:11:17.180 And then it really just comes down to a matter of like when, how, or why do they snap?
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00:11:24.240 Yeah.
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00:11:29.660 I'm not going to say this is the only reason, is the ancestors of the school shooters were like the greatest conquerors in history.
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00:12:10.660 And I definitely agree with you.
00:12:12.280 It's before I came on in this show, I was thinking to myself, what does the recent Charlie Kirk and assassinations tell me I didn't know before?
00:12:22.780 And it speaks to a certain trend where I predicted America would have a civil war like five years ago.
00:12:28.860 I thought it would be like a normal historic civil war, like the Spanish, where you have the Marxists fighting the conservatives.
00:12:35.520 But there's just the extra layer of madness here.
00:12:38.800 And that's just an unquantifiable thing where people have just gone utterly crazy.
00:12:43.740 And the line is still right and left, but there's also the sanity-insanity line.
00:12:49.380 And sadly, there's more insane than sane.
00:12:52.300 Yeah, you just get this general feeling.
00:12:54.600 And it wasn't like this growing up.
00:12:56.300 I don't know if you felt this way, but you get this general – and we're both young.
00:12:59.260 I mean, like I'm 24.
00:13:00.760 But you get this general feeling of instability when you walk around, especially in cities.
00:13:06.000 But even like a Walmart in a rural area, you get this feeling of like instability and you get this feeling off of people of like kind of desperation and like in a way that they've given up.
00:13:14.580 And that wasn't always that way.
00:13:16.180 And that's just so un-American because Americans – fundamentally, I love this description of Americans as they're temporarily embarrassed millionaires, where now it's like a country of just people that really feel like we're swirling the drain.
00:13:27.100 And that's when people snap.
00:13:29.360 It's a really horrifying thing.
00:13:30.420 So I totally agree with your dichotomy.
00:13:31.780 It's like, okay, it's still right and left in the classical sense.
00:13:34.520 But yeah, you have the extra axis now of insane versus non-insane.
00:13:40.160 And it really makes it tough to sort of project what a civil strife could really look like.
00:13:46.860 Yeah.
00:13:48.920 It's – I mean, a lot of you might have seen my Mouse Utopia video.
00:13:53.260 I don't want to get into that now.
00:13:55.360 But that's my best theory.
00:13:57.340 I've also developed an idea called the psychological black death.
00:13:59.940 And that was talking two years ago that we're going to start experiencing mental health pandemics in the same way centuries ago plagues would kill off people.
00:14:10.780 But it's going to get very strange.
00:14:13.620 American politics might start looking like a sort of drug-induced fever dream.
00:14:18.840 And the thing we have to keep in mind is that we know what truth and good is because the ancients had it for thousands of years.
00:14:28.220 And so we can choose to develop our society to ignore the insanity and sort of build a front against it rather than having it tear us apart.
00:14:36.780 I mean, that's the tough thing is it's – you have an entire – okay, so like I was reading this new poll from Quinnipiac before you came on where it was a majority of Americans now have given up on democracy.
00:14:51.800 They don't believe in democracy.
00:14:52.760 Granted, a lot of these people identified as people on the left, so they're just going to be upset about Trump being in office.
00:14:57.320 But those numbers probably would have been swapped during the Biden years.
00:15:00.000 Like it would have been the same close to a majority.
00:15:02.180 It would have just been people on the right that were upset.
00:15:04.940 But then you had 75 percent of Americans saying they were very concerned about political violence.
00:15:10.960 So it's like we're getting to this point where even Americans broadly kind of understand that this situation, we can't go on like this.
00:15:18.340 But it really just comes down to who – which people are insane enough to snap.
00:15:22.640 Because I just don't see the right going kinetic anytime soon.
00:15:25.120 I don't think there's an appetite for it.
00:15:26.960 I don't think that the right has a large enough cohort of people that would be capable of sort of snapping in these ways.
00:15:33.460 But I don't know.
00:15:34.180 So maybe like Phil Labonte's on our night show or our Timcast IRL, he has this great point he makes is that the left views violence as a dial and that the right views violence as a switch that you just flip.
00:15:45.540 So I mean –
00:15:46.020 Yeah.
00:15:46.500 I don't know.
00:15:47.020 I mean it's tough to project going forward.
00:15:48.660 But if the leftists keep committing attacks at this rate, do you think there is a point where the right just goes kinetic and puts this back in a box?
00:15:55.100 So I got this wrong before, and so I'm going to hold my L.
00:15:59.740 And upon holding my L, it's – I got this wrong before.
00:16:06.920 So the thing that shocked me was how long this took where I don't fault myself for thinking it would happen in the last year.
00:16:14.200 I frankly think it's strange things have lasted this long.
00:16:17.020 And that could be for a variety of factors between aging or, I don't know, people being able to eat today, which they wouldn't in the previous years of history when things are bad.
00:16:27.800 But it does feel like things have been extended longer than they should have where, again, you're right.
00:16:35.000 It's circling the drain.
00:16:36.480 And the question is when is that going to happen and by what manner?
00:16:40.620 And the current global order is like a Jenga tower.
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00:17:09.160 If France's government collapses, that's going to ripple across the entire world.
00:17:15.120 And over the next two years, we're probably going to see at least like three or four Jengas get pulled out.
00:17:21.160 And with each of them, the global order is going to change, and that changes everyone's baseline assumptions.
00:17:27.520 Does that make sense?
00:17:29.080 Yeah, totally.
00:17:30.100 I mean one thing that's kind of interested me is the X factor.
00:17:33.420 I mean this could be an American-centric take, but the X factor really does seem to be Trump because you look at countries like South Africa, countries like Brazil, countries that are built on like a Western liberal democracy, at least something reminiscent of that.
00:17:46.780 Although there's obviously a lot of external factors in these countries, but you see how by every account they should have collapsed by now.
00:17:53.440 And they still haven't.
00:17:54.500 They still kind of run on fumes.
00:17:55.780 The government still is able to use power in some ways, even if it's not super strong.
00:18:00.760 And it makes you wonder, like with the current structure, with the current deployment of the global order, how do you even get these countries to collapse?
00:18:07.180 It doesn't seem to be possible.
00:18:08.760 And then that's why I say Trump's the only X factor because he seems to be the only person that is able to single-handedly impose his will on the world order as far as the actual way that these societies are structured and shake them up.
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00:20:02.720 The thing that's holding the system together is a sort of bluff or a sort of myth.
00:20:07.840 But then once that bluff gets called somewhere in the world, it's going to grow everywhere else.
00:20:12.580 And that's a question of how and when.
00:20:14.780 And I don't know.
00:20:15.540 Keep in mind that as a historian, 10 years is short.
00:20:19.500 So if this happens five years after I predicted, I'll still feel sort of vindicated in the long term because you can look at a trend like this and know what's going to happen.
00:20:32.040 But the timing is really difficult.
00:20:33.400 And what's often the case, I find, and this is more of just like sort of a life lesson thing, is that a process will take forever to happen.
00:20:42.840 You'll wonder if it's still going to happen.
00:20:44.860 And then the second you question it, it happens, where it's the whole thing of it's darkest before the dawn or like the British airstrike on Germany was the worst.
00:20:53.040 Sorry, the German airstrike on Britain was the worst right when the British were losing hope.
00:20:57.160 So it could be a situation like that, or it could be something else I don't know about.
00:21:03.980 Yeah, I mean, it was weird in the U.S.
00:21:05.740 Because like you were saying, I mean, I have been sort of, I had sort of felt like, okay, the left was demoralized well into the Trump administration.
00:21:13.080 And yeah, you kind of almost dismiss them.
00:21:15.240 It did feel like we were really winning.
00:21:16.640 And then the Charlie Kirk shooting happens, and it's a huge gut punch.
00:21:19.300 And then the bluff is called.
00:21:20.660 The bluff, which was civil discourse, was called because you saw the other side's reaction to the shooting.
00:21:25.160 No one could give a full thirded condemnation, and then you had a large chunk of the left just openly celebrating the attack.
00:21:31.920 And it felt like that was something that was kind of integral to the United States.
00:21:35.720 It's kind of integral to a republic is people participating in the culture of free speech and like civil discourse and these sorts of things.
00:21:41.560 And that was shattered overnight.
00:21:42.920 And a lot of these, you know, normies, boomers that you're referring to, I think even a lot of them saw that and went, oh, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:21:50.400 Wait, they're not just wanting to sit down and debate?
00:21:53.140 They're actually, they actually feel that way?
00:21:54.720 Okay, that's kind of a wake-up call.
00:21:56.520 I mean, I don't know if you got a sense of that.
00:21:58.860 Yeah, the left, I have a principle called Lynch's Law that no matter how mentally unwell you imagine the left to be, they're worse.
00:22:05.500 The more you study into their psychology, the more you see of their behavior, you will consistently realize their mental health is worse than you thought.
00:22:12.900 And so I knew that going in and the scary thing is that, I mean, the left operates within sort of like a degree of plausible deniability at all times.
00:22:26.500 But Hassan and Destiny were not fully dismissive of the death of Charlie Kirk, which should have been the easiest thing ever.
00:22:35.460 It's a layup, yeah.
00:22:36.500 Yeah.
00:22:37.100 And that's just deeply concerning because they're two of the biggest leftist accounts.
00:22:41.280 And it speaks to something I think a lot of normies liked the left because the left came across as peaceful and nice and trying to fix things in the safest way.
00:22:52.780 And then you see what's underneath that, and it's utter bloodlust, way worse.
00:22:58.280 The left is easily more bloodthirsty than even the most right-wing factions of the left.
00:23:05.640 Or you'd have to pick the most far right to meet even something significantly more mainstream on the left.
00:23:13.620 And that's a huge collapse of illusions because on top of it, the left runs all the institutions, or the vast majority of them.
00:23:22.120 And so it makes your average normie realize, wait, maybe an insane death cult is in charge of society.
00:23:29.700 Yeah.
00:23:30.300 Yeah, I mean, that's the terminology I've been using is death cult because it seems so cliche, right?
00:23:36.980 It's like, okay, yeah, people have been saying that for years.
00:23:39.280 But really, there's not really a much better way to describe what's going on besides this kind of underlying bloodlust that comes to the surface more often than not these days.
00:23:48.800 Because, like, you look across the West, you look at, like, the UK, it's kind of obvious what the flashpoint's going to be.
00:23:54.460 There's going to be immigration because that seems to be what really animates things.
00:23:57.320 And, you know, it's having a tremendous impact on the country.
00:24:00.360 But the United States, there's, like, a variety of places this could really pop off.
00:24:03.800 I mean, immigration is one.
00:24:04.940 That's kind of what buoyed Trump in 2016.
00:24:06.520 But there's a lot of different points in the American sort of political sphere that could really set things off.
00:24:13.380 And, yeah, I mean, when it comes to the leftist bloodlust, I mean, you look at the only way to really get on top of this,
00:24:20.040 because you're not going to debate your way out of this, is you're going to have to use the full force of the federal government and crack down on these people.
00:24:26.920 And then from there, who knows where it could go?
00:24:28.860 I mean, I personally think that you have to act as soon as possible to get a lead on this.
00:24:34.880 But I don't know.
00:24:35.760 It seems like no matter what, they accuse the Trump administration of being this, like, fascist authoritarian government.
00:24:42.100 And so, of course, they're going to react as if they're fighting a fascist authoritarian government, because that's what they genuinely believe.
00:24:46.600 They genuinely believe these things.
00:24:49.320 It's pretty horrifying that the left stream, mainstream, the left stream, the mainstream leftist media, no, I like the left stream better.
00:24:58.120 The left stream media, they've been calling Trump a Nazi for years, and that he's going to take over authoritarian, totalitarian power, and all those things.
00:25:10.500 And their messaging since the 2010s has been punch a Nazi, violence against Nazis acceptable.
00:25:16.220 So you can see the trajectory that's going on there, and it doesn't end well.
00:25:20.160 And they've thrown away all of their moderate, sane people who would tell them no.
00:25:25.000 The issues with the No Kings protest and the National Guard being sent in to deal with that, that felt like it was sort of the most plausible start to a war.
00:25:41.120 And we've consistently seen things where Trump recently said he wants to put national guards in every major city.
00:25:47.700 And when I see that, I just think that's a tinderbox, because it radically increases the space of friction.
00:25:53.400 What I mean by that is that if there's American troops in these major leftist cities, and they're wandering around, for the leftist elite, that's a very obvious affront on their sense of the world.
00:26:07.780 Because these tiny people who only think about their personal lives, and then they extrapolate their theories into politics.
00:26:12.760 So if you have National Guard in major cities, that radically increases the space of friction, because you'll have these soldiers who may or may not be loyal to the left, constantly interfacing with these radical leftists in a bunch of places at once.
00:26:27.760 And that's just kindling.
00:26:29.620 It's just a lot of sort of matches being dropped in a very dry forest.
00:26:35.460 Mm-hmm. Yeah, absolutely.
00:26:38.660 I mean, we discussed it, we touched on it earlier.
00:26:42.380 Obviously, these attacks are being carried out by young men, and we're seeing an increase in atomization of young men.
00:26:48.520 You've covered this at length with your work.
00:26:51.940 What factor are young men going to play as the civil strife increases?
00:26:55.380 How do you keep these guys from snapping?
00:26:59.940 Yeah, it's also funny.
00:27:01.720 I didn't realize there were this many aggressive young men on the left.
00:27:04.780 Right.
00:27:05.020 Because that's been the consistent—aggressive young white men on the left.
00:27:08.740 Right.
00:27:09.020 Because that's been a consistent theme. 0.99
00:27:10.960 I think the current one got into it through weird forms of trans porn. 0.99
00:27:15.980 Yeah, yeah. 0.98
00:27:16.960 Many such cases.
00:27:18.240 That's a meme.
00:27:19.500 Right.
00:27:20.120 That's a meme.
00:27:21.400 Sure.
00:27:21.960 And I do not mean to speak lightly of a tragedy, but the ridiculous and the reality are merging together because our lives are the internet.
00:27:30.320 Yeah. 0.93
00:27:30.480 So as the internet becomes more ridiculous, reality gets more ridiculous. 0.82
00:27:33.640 But it's weird to see these young men fighting for the left because I don't know—young white men, I don't know what incentive you'd have to do that. 0.95
00:27:41.980 But, I mean, if the left is already cultivating mental illness as a coalition strategy, I guess that's a good one in the current society. 1.00
00:27:49.760 Yeah.
00:27:50.640 Or it's a profitable one.
00:27:52.480 Right, yeah.
00:27:52.920 And so for young men, if there's going to be a war or civil strife, that would sort of radically increase their social value because both the right and the left would have to pander to young men to give them an incentive to fight.
00:28:11.380 And that might create weird social effects because you've moved from an ecosystem where the society gives young men no status to one where both sides have to pander to young men.
00:28:21.980 And I can't see if there's a civil war that there wouldn't be some variety of draft, either by the right or the left.
00:28:30.200 I think you could draft Americans to fight each other but not other countries at this point.
00:28:34.900 The problem then becomes elites are drafting armies of young men who don't even like them where I think if you got an army of 20-something-year-olds, young white men to fight for the left, their ideological version of leftism would hate the mainstream NBC, CNN leftists.
00:28:52.200 And so this creates a different disjoint.
00:28:55.360 And there's also the potential for – I mean if the men don't get paid, if there's some breakdowns in authority of like Chinese bandit warlords.
00:29:06.880 And it's just lots of – man, the story is getting so strange.
00:29:12.800 I don't know what else to say.
00:29:14.340 We're just here.
00:29:15.620 Yeah.
00:29:16.200 Well, you're seeing this dichotomy with young white guys.
00:29:19.060 It's like you have two paths.
00:29:20.080 Either you look at like the photos from the Charlie Kirk memorial and it was like a bunch of white guys like had their lives together by all accounts.
00:29:27.360 Like they're – you know, they look normal, right?
00:29:30.080 They're like wearing normal clothes, probably have fairly functional social lives.
00:29:35.520 And then you juxtapose it with the left where it's like the only time a young white man is celebrated on the left is if he's martyred himself in some way.
00:29:41.940 Like you see with the Aaron Bushnell.
00:29:43.240 I remember that guy that lit himself on fire for Palestine. 0.92
00:29:46.080 I can't believe I remembered his name.
00:29:47.500 He was venerated and then these shooters to a degree are venerated.
00:29:53.680 And it's like that's the only time you ever actually see them celebrating a young white guy is if he kills himself for the movement.
00:29:58.660 And that's a really, really bad thing.
00:30:02.000 That's like a death cult territory as we were hitting on earlier.
00:30:05.060 Yes.
00:30:05.960 The way I can – so there's two ways the left holds on to young white men.
00:30:09.120 One of which – and for the DNC people who spent $20 million for a research project, you can just listen to this. 0.62
00:30:16.080 So first thing is through mental illness.
00:30:20.040 And the thing with Tyler Robinson is that Salt Lake City is a mostly conservative place. 0.99
00:30:25.280 But there are elements of Salt Lake City that are as progressive as Seattle or Portland that are just utterly insane.
00:30:32.360 And so he was part of that subculture or at least adjacent to it. 0.70
00:30:36.340 And then on top of it – so mental illness is the first way.
00:30:40.080 And the left predates on mental illness.
00:30:41.780 They find you for one of your – they'll pick one of your mental health vulnerability points and then sucker you in to greater degrees of paranoia. 0.62
00:30:48.940 And then the second one is through people who I call ethnically leftist, where in the Middle East you'll have – if you're born in Egypt, you're going to be Sunni. 0.75
00:30:58.460 If you're born in Persia, you're going to be Shia. 1.00
00:31:00.800 And then if you're born in Boston, even if you're dispositionally conservative, if you have more masculine character traits, you're like more responsible, you can still be a leftist because if you're born into Boston, it's just you will never hear a conservative argument.
00:31:17.200 And so these are the two demographics of young white men I think the left can hold on to.
00:31:22.700 And on top of the people who are ethnically leftist, what happens if you work at like a major hospital in Washington, D.C. and all of your coworkers are left wing?
00:31:32.740 It's just a lot easier to be left wing where we've hit a threshold where the right and left are different societies and different civilizations that work under their own rules.
00:31:43.480 Absolutely.
00:31:44.360 Yeah.
00:31:44.540 It's very petrifying.
00:31:47.200 I have one.
00:31:48.700 I'm not going to put you on the spot and make you give a prediction, but maybe a projection through the next six months of what to look out for.
00:31:57.400 I think that gives a lot of breathing room of just what should we be looking out for?
00:32:01.100 What would be some bad indicators or what would be some good indicators?
00:32:06.700 So let me make up something good.
00:32:10.600 The thing is there's several variables that should happen at some point, and I don't know when they should.
00:32:19.900 China is angling after Taiwan.
00:32:21.820 There's the American politics.
00:32:27.640 I think there's a natural flashpoint over immigration.
00:32:31.360 I have said several different things.
00:32:33.620 That's my current bet for most thing most likely to cause a civil conflict. 0.83
00:32:37.540 Another issue I have looking at is I don't know how the average American is going to keep paying their bills because the economy just keeps getting worse.
00:32:46.620 And there has to be a threshold where cost of living goes up, people can't get jobs, where you just hit a tipping point.
00:32:56.760 And I don't know what's going to happen when there's so many variables like aging or the economy or, I don't know, like recession that just keep going on longer than the system can sort of hold out, if that makes sense.
00:33:12.580 Yeah, totally.
00:33:14.200 Dude, yeah, this is going to be a wild – just through the end of the year, this is going to be a wild, wild time.
00:33:20.120 Yeah, there's a – I don't know what off-ramps are left, but let's take one ASAP.
00:33:24.160 So, where can people find you if they want more?
00:33:27.440 They're going to want more, but where?
00:33:28.840 Thank you.
00:33:29.360 You're very kind.
00:33:30.520 Go to What If Altist on YouTube or my second channel, History 102.
00:33:34.760 Good stuff.
00:33:35.380 Thank you, Rudyard, so much, dude.
00:33:36.800 Thank you.
00:33:37.140 Take care.
00:33:37.440 It's a pleasure.
00:33:38.060 Until next time.
00:33:38.640 Bye.
00:33:38.960 Bye.
00:33:39.120 Bye.
00:33:40.720 All right.
00:33:41.540 That was Rudyard Lynch from What If Altist.
00:33:44.540 Legend, dude.
00:33:45.480 I mean, like I think every Zoomer – any Zoomer that's like politically adjacent has seen his work at some point.
00:33:52.400 He's just – yeah, he's a titan for Zoomers.
00:33:56.340 That was great.
00:33:57.080 Terrifying.
00:33:58.200 He didn't tamper any fears, really.
00:34:00.720 He just explained why those fears are valid. 1.00
00:34:03.760 And it's true. 0.56
00:34:04.540 We have to confront this. 0.95
00:34:05.680 I mean, we have to acknowledge the reality that like there's a sizable chunk of the country that wants to kill like white Christian conservatives. 0.85
00:34:12.680 Purely for being white Christian conservatives, there's nothing more to it. 0.85
00:34:15.900 And that is an absolutely harrowing reality.
00:34:19.220 And the Trump administration, that's the off-ramp is them cracking down.
00:34:22.440 We discussed this at length on TimCast IRL.
00:34:25.280 Just hit fill up if you want him to explain it to you.
00:34:28.140 He's really good at that sort of stuff.
00:34:29.900 So with that, I want to thank you guys for watching.
00:34:32.640 I want to thank you guys.
00:34:33.840 It's been two weeks with the – obviously with the tragedy with Charlie Kirk.
00:34:37.260 We needed to change up the week schedule.
00:34:40.680 But, yeah, typically I will be taking over for Thursdays for the morning show.
00:34:43.980 So you guys are stuck with me on Thursdays if you want your TimCast news.
00:34:47.760 But it is what it is.
00:34:49.020 I appreciate you guys watching if you're still around.
00:34:51.000 We'll be back tonight for TimCast IRL at 8 p.m.
00:34:53.820 You can find me on Twitter or X rather and Instagram at RealTateBrown.
00:34:58.600 Come follow me there.
00:35:00.020 And, yeah, we'll see you guys tonight.
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