The Culture War - Tim Pool - August 05, 2026


Leftist WIN Signals MAJOR TRUMP VICTORY In The Midterms


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00:00:00.000 The progressive candidate in Michigan has defeated the establishment Democrat.
00:00:05.400 And this is great news for Donald Trump.
00:00:10.140 Indeed, there's two metrics by which we are tracking.
00:00:12.820 This is actually bad news for the Democratic Party, good news for the Republican and for Donald Trump moving forward.
00:00:18.800 And that is the progressives don't have the ability to muster up a large enough moderate base to swing an election.
00:00:26.440 That's just a fact.
00:00:27.320 The Democratic Party does have a lot of progressives, a lot of leftists, socialists, etc.
00:00:32.360 They're absolutely willing to get behind a progressive or socialist candidate.
00:00:37.460 Now, Sayed says he's not a socialist, but he is backed.
00:00:40.940 Let's just say not officially, but they are.
00:00:43.520 The Democratic socialists are campaigning on his behalf.
00:00:46.580 So what happens is when you track the polling data, moderates say they will not vote for a progressive.
00:00:54.100 They just won't do it.
00:00:55.380 Republicans won't do it.
00:00:56.500 that's fairly obvious. Republicans are going to vote Republican. Conservatives are going to vote
00:01:00.720 Republican. But the split occurs among the independents. Recent polling data has shown
00:01:06.680 that when a DSA backed candidate, whether officially or otherwise, is up against a
00:01:12.900 Republican, independents more than two to one in some polling upwards of five to one
00:01:19.280 will prefer the Republican candidate. And don't take my word for it. We've already heard Bill
00:01:25.260 Omar, a Democrat liberal, saying outright that if it's between a socialist and J.D. Vance,
00:01:33.000 his vote is in play. Now, he's not coming out so strong, say he's going to vote Republican,
00:01:38.000 but he's been speaking out against the DSA and socialists like crazy. Now, here's the other
00:01:43.000 metric by which this is tremendously good news for Donald Trump. The progressive performed poorly,
00:01:49.960 actually. The polls had this dude way up and he actually didn't do that well, which means,
00:01:57.400 my friends, the polling is heavily skewed in favor of progressives. And that's going to have
00:02:05.700 an impact on the Democrat versus Republican as well. So let's shift it over to the Republicans
00:02:11.000 and I'm sorry, the Democrats. And you take a look at the polling right now and they are up in the
00:02:16.280 generic ballot polling for the midterms. But they are facing. Well, look, it's they're up,
00:02:22.760 but it's really low. They're around four percent in aggregate where they need to be around 10 to 14.
00:02:28.760 Here's where it's interesting. The polling is skewing left. This means that if you account
00:02:34.760 for that, it might actually be worse for the Democrats. Now, look, internally,
00:02:41.060 Said was pulling upwards of 10 to 20 points above his establishment Democrat opponent.
00:02:47.680 Turns out he went by about a point, which shows a massive skewing in the polls.
00:02:52.780 Why?
00:02:53.520 Guys, I'm going to put it like this.
00:02:55.580 The media is completely broken.
00:02:57.820 Corporate news outlets are skewing super far to the left.
00:03:01.500 And people are not when you are polling, when you are a media company presenting this information
00:03:06.980 and your worldview is entrenched in progressivism, you can't see what's actually happening.
00:03:14.280 Now, not all outlets are saying this because The Washington Post put out a poll saying,
00:03:17.480 hey, straight up, people are not going to vote for a socialist. Republicans enjoy somewhere
00:03:22.140 between a five point lead if it is going to be a progressive, whereas some polling,
00:03:27.820 as I already mentioned, shows independence. It's something like 70 percent said they would rather
00:03:33.040 vote Republican. And something like 16 percent said they would vote for a Democratic Socialist.
00:03:39.260 All in all, as progressives win in places like Colorado, New York and now in Michigan,
00:03:45.400 it's spelling great news for the Republicans because you are going to get Bill Maher on your
00:03:51.020 side. And what happens when a prominent liberal says outright, don't vote for these people?
00:03:58.000 Well, look, you may get the under 30s, but if you're looking at 31 to 54 liberals, yeah,
00:04:06.560 well, if Bill Maher is telling them, and I'm not saying that Bill Maher controls their vote,
00:04:09.700 but if he's advocating against the Democrats, who's advocating for them? You're going to have
00:04:16.480 people like me, people like Bill Maher, even James Carville outright saying, do not vote for these
00:04:22.360 people. Where have the liberals gone? You know, I'm done playing these stupid games. They call me
00:04:28.460 far right, MAGA, whatever you want to call it. Bro, I have been basically where Bill Maher is,
00:04:33.900 but I just didn't deviate. OK, Bill Maher, moderate liberal, anti-Trump the whole way.
00:04:40.280 In the 2010s, I said, I'm not playing these stupid games, OK? Trump is clearly better for 1.00
00:04:45.400 a variety of reasons. Bill Maher was late to the party. But I would say this, surprisingly,
00:04:51.100 Bill Maher and I have very similar politics.
00:04:53.720 He was just wrapped up in the fake media, fake news, unfortunately.
00:04:58.840 But you know what?
00:04:59.640 He's come around, and now things are changing.
00:05:01.740 Let's jump into the news.
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00:05:44.680 So really awesome stuff.
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00:05:51.320 They report left-wing political outsider Abdul El-Sayed is projected to win the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, which exposed bitter divisions over the party's direction.
00:06:00.400 The former public health official is on course to beat moderate four-term Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens, according to CBS News, the BBC's U.S. partner.
00:06:09.040 El-Sayed voiced support for left-wing causes like universal health care and abolishing ICE.
00:06:13.180 He also called for ending unconditional U.S. military aid to Israel.
00:06:19.300 If officially confirmed as the primaries winner, he will face Republican and Trump ally Mike
00:06:23.800 Rogers in November's midterm elections.
00:06:26.700 The son of Egyptian immigrants would be the first Muslim U.S. senator if he wins in November.
00:06:32.220 We won, Saeed posted on X Wednesday morning, writing that he was proud to be your Democratic
00:06:37.340 nominee for the U.S. Senate.
00:06:39.020 Money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for all.
00:06:42.700 He added, I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S.
00:06:47.540 Senate.
00:06:47.720 Stephen said in a statement, he is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar,
00:06:52.060 and a dedicated Michigander.
00:06:53.740 I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election.
00:06:58.760 The November midterm elections will determine the balance of power in Washington.
00:07:01.700 But my friends, all in all, it's really good news for Donald Trump.
00:07:05.580 It just is.
00:07:06.900 Let's start here from the Silver Bulletin and see what Nate Silver has to say, what
00:07:10.600 to make of Michigan.
00:07:12.240 So it's apparent victory is a big win for the left, but a disaster for polling and a case study in poor expectations management.
00:07:21.000 There's a lot to extrapolate from this victory for this man.
00:07:26.340 Now, he says he's not a socialist.
00:07:27.960 He says he's a capitalist.
00:07:29.600 But while they haven't officially endorsed him, they were campaigning on his BF.
00:07:35.480 He writes, it's just past 4 a.m. here on the East Coast.
00:07:37.820 Is that right?
00:07:38.140 this. Abdul El-Sayed leads Haley Stevens by only 1.4 points in the Democratic primary for
00:07:45.100 U.S. Senate, with 95 percent of the vote counted in Michigan. The margin is narrow, but when there
00:07:50.460 aren't a lot of votes left, will be hard for Stevens to make up. Sayed has been declared
00:07:55.140 the winner by NBC News. It's considered almost certain a certain victory by prediction markets.
00:07:59.980 Now, something really interesting happened last night on Timcast IRL. Stevens was at 0.1 percent
00:08:05.260 to win. And I was like, wow, I wonder what that's worth. And then I looked, a $100 bet would net
00:08:12.260 you, what was it, $130,000, some ridiculous number. If you bet $450, I'm sorry, if you
00:08:20.860 purchased the event's contract at $450 on CalShe, you'd get $350,000. Well, look, I'm never
00:08:29.320 advocating that you buy or gamble or do any of these things. But a lot of people were chatting
00:08:34.660 that they had put like 20 bucks down and then she spiked at 20%. That's a two, nearly 200 X return 0.52
00:08:43.580 for a lot of these people, which was crazy. And then it crashed. There was a point where in the
00:08:49.480 polls, she was tied. It was literally like side was up by like 50, 50 votes. But as the information
00:08:57.040 came in. Sayed closed it out, now up just about one point. Take a look at this. He says a one or
00:09:06.180 two point win for Sayed would be much narrower than the results predicted by the polls. The last
00:09:10.900 seven surveys of the race tracked by the New York Times had Sayed up by margins ranging between 10
00:09:16.640 and 19 points. I will note that an earlier Glenn Garev group poll had Stevens head by seven,
00:09:23.720 which is actually likely to end up closer to the end result than most of the other surveys,
00:09:27.800 though it was pretty far off too. I've been putting the finishing touches on our midterm
00:09:32.360 model, and that's been going well. It should launch early next week. But I wrote some notes
00:09:36.460 to myself while following Michigan in the background over the course of the evening.
00:09:40.120 Considering the hour, I'm mostly going to reproduce the results. Okay, here's the most
00:09:43.680 important point. This guy lost to Gretchen Whitmer by 22 points in 2018 in the gubernatorial
00:09:49.780 primary. He was going to say, with that said, Syed and some of his supporters are guilty of
00:09:54.680 managing expectations very poorly. Some of the polls I mentioned were from firms affiliated with
00:09:58.780 his campaign. I don't understand the utility of publishing internal polls, showing yourself ahead
00:10:03.880 by double digits. Personally, if I ran a campaign, I'd make it a strict policy to never release
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00:10:41.200 Here's the breakdown.
00:10:43.200 This dude in the polls,
00:10:44.780 they were putting him at 10 to 20 points ahead. It was one. A factor of 10?
00:10:52.800 Now consider what this means in the polling. Here's an article from the Washington Post.
00:10:58.060 Polls show what Americans think about democratic socialism. Left-leaning candidates have been
00:11:02.440 gaining strength in recent primaries, posing challenges for a democratic party that is
00:11:06.480 debating how to win mass appeal in 2028. Three in four Democrats say they would be open to
00:11:12.000 supporting a democratic socialist for president, but less than half of all Americans say they would
00:11:17.980 vote for such a candidate, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll. I want the hard
00:11:23.080 numbers, though, because I don't care, my friends. I don't care about what all Americans say,
00:11:28.800 because what they're doing is they're taking Democrats, moderates, Republicans, lumping
00:11:31.220 together, and then they're like, OK, it matters. But check this out. No, would not consider. Would
00:11:38.500 you consider voting for a candidate who identifies as a democratic socialist? 55% saying no. 39% say
00:11:44.500 yes. Among registered voters, 54% say no. 42% say yes, but here's where it matters. Among independent
00:11:52.500 voters. Guys, elections are not won by party strongholds. Thank you and have a nice day.
00:11:58.900 They are won by Joe Rogan. I mean it. Joe Rogan represents a couple of things.
00:12:08.960 Kind of middle of the road politics. Joe's a fairly liberal guy, but he supported Donald Trump.
00:12:14.900 He also represents a certain timidity. And I am not saying this derisively or to insult the man
00:12:21.600 or anything like that. Joe does not want to be associated with any hard politics.
00:12:28.960 Just leave me, leave me alone, leave me out of it kind of mentality. And again, I say that
00:12:33.540 with respect, not in a dress of weight. Joe does not want to be a hardline GOP MAGA,
00:12:39.320 a flag waving guy. He doesn't want to be a progressive far left flag waving guy.
00:12:44.120 He wants to just be left alone.
00:12:49.140 But here's where it's interesting.
00:12:51.400 Middle of the road people who don't pay attention and just want to be left alone.
00:12:55.300 Nearly two to one will not support a Democratic socialist.
00:13:00.200 So Trump's probably laughing right now.
00:13:02.840 Well, he's certainly saying something.
00:13:04.900 Trump loses it as communist Abdul Al-Sayed wins Michigan's Democratic Senate primary.
00:13:11.600 Get ready for another rigged election.
00:13:14.120 Why even bother saying this, Trump?
00:13:16.800 President Trump unloaded on a newly confirmed Democratic Senate candidate for Michigan,
00:13:20.440 Abdul El-Sayed, branding him a communist and claiming the state's election system was third
00:13:25.060 world and predicting November's midterm contest would be rigged.
00:13:28.940 The tirade came moments after El-Sayed's campaign announced that Rep.
00:13:31.840 Haley Stevens had called to concede.
00:13:34.300 Trump took to Truth Social, saying, Wayne County in Michigan is one of the most corrupt
00:13:39.500 voting areas in the United States, if not the world.
00:13:42.020 It is strictly third world.
00:13:43.360 miracles happen in Wayne County, including more votes being cast than there are voters
00:13:48.020 by a lot. Without offering evidence, stop. Anytime they do this, I'm going to call them out.
00:13:55.060 All sides calls this subjective qualify. What is it? Subjective qualifying adjectives.
00:14:00.300 There is literally no reason to add the phrase without offering evidence because it is not
00:14:06.820 in public participation that we bring manila folders full of documents when we give our
00:14:11.580 thoughts and opinions. Mediaite, stop being scumbags. You know what they tell me? The 0.99
00:14:18.680 production team says, Tim, you need to calm down and not insult people like that. No, they're right,
00:14:23.040 they're right. Be more professional. Stop being unprofessional. They said the president went on
00:14:30.340 to accuse El-Sayed without naming him of benefiting from fraudulent voting, writing the
00:14:34.160 communist who is not liked in Detroit is potentially in vote counter trouble. The radical
00:14:38.660 left socials has a real shot and don't discount all those fake mail-in ballots that will
00:14:42.040 surprisingly show up the last minute mass moment get ready for another rigged election
00:14:46.600 he concluded in november we must vote for mike rogers and make michigan too big to rig
00:14:52.520 god bless america president djt they're going to say that for the former uh i'll say the former
00:14:58.820 wayne county health director campaigned for medic on medicare for all campaign finance reform and
00:15:03.280 ending military aid to israel while steven centered her campaign on manufacturing the economy 0.97
00:15:07.700 and a record winning competitive races. Let me just say this. Mediaite, without offering any
00:15:14.240 evidence, claimed that Donald Trump didn't offer any evidence as to his accusation against Syed.
00:15:20.520 You see, I can play those games too, Mediaite. You did not include anything that Trump had,
00:15:26.180 everything, everything that Trump had said to prove that he has never offered up any evidence.
00:15:33.080 Here's what matters, in my opinion, as to why this is just good news for the Republicans
00:15:37.160 across the board.
00:15:38.600 You know, look, I'm going to pause.
00:15:41.260 It's easy to be biased.
00:15:43.780 It's easy to say, oh, Trump, are you?
00:15:45.920 I'm sorry.
00:15:46.640 Oh, Tim, are you really claiming a progressive victory is good for Trump?
00:15:50.380 I am.
00:15:51.360 And I showed you the data to back up my position.
00:15:53.640 I do not see how fringe far, you know, elements of politics winning is good for the Democratic Party when most people don't want to support Democratic socialists.
00:16:07.760 I think my argument is sound, reasonable, and I would argue it's unbiased.
00:16:14.260 Let me put it like this.
00:16:16.680 I don't care if you're a Republican or Democratic socialist.
00:16:19.360 The question I have for all of you on the issue of bias, comment below.
00:16:23.360 Seriously, I'll leave a comment if you're listening on the audio side.
00:16:26.940 And if you are, share the show with your friends.
00:16:29.160 It really does help subscribe and all that stuff.
00:16:31.720 If Washington Post puts out a poll suggesting through their data and analysis that 54% would
00:16:39.580 not support a Democratic Socialist and only around 34% would, is it good for the Democrats
00:16:46.080 that Democrat Socialists win?
00:16:48.980 I mean, you want to make an argument outside the data?
00:16:51.740 You can say, I think the data is wrong. And people sure, by all means, you're allowed to do that.
00:16:56.120 I actually would argue I'll make here. I'll make a biased argument. The polls are wrong.
00:17:01.880 They skew far left. Ignore the data. We already saw the data was was too far left. I bet even less
00:17:07.880 people would vote for a socialist. OK, now let's go unbiased. The data suggests that if a socialist
00:17:13.240 were to run against a moderate or Republican, the Republican is going to benefit favorably
00:17:19.240 because polling shows people prefer not to vote for socialists.
00:17:23.700 Thank you, and have a nice day.
00:17:25.300 I got this from last year.
00:17:27.740 Oldest voters strongly disapprove of Trump.
00:17:29.660 This matters.
00:17:30.480 Now, don't get me wrong.
00:17:31.080 Trump's approval rating is down since last year, but this matters.
00:17:34.720 Every demographic supported Trump, except for 70-plus.
00:17:39.540 And here's where it really matters.
00:17:42.060 Who opposes Trump?
00:17:44.260 Actually, let me go back to this data.
00:17:46.900 40 to 49, it was tied.
00:17:49.240 18 to 29 supported him, 30 to 39 plus nine.
00:17:52.800 That's amazing.
00:17:54.300 So here's the question.
00:17:56.420 Granted, last year I was in that camp too.
00:17:58.920 I was 39 last year.
00:18:00.240 I'm 40.
00:18:02.040 I'm going to put it like this.
00:18:03.400 The Democratic Socialists, if they campaigned the Democrats on opposing Trump, they need
00:18:09.100 the 70 plus demo.
00:18:11.040 They're still largely around, but not trying to be morbid.
00:18:15.200 They're dying.
00:18:17.040 Life expectancy is around 77 to 79 years old.
00:18:21.000 This was a year ago.
00:18:22.220 We're at what's called the mortality shelf.
00:18:24.020 So the most anti-Trump age bracket is dying off.
00:18:27.960 You are going to see Democratic Socialists costing Democrats elections, and you are going
00:18:33.680 to see the anti-Trump element fizzling out because they are dying off.
00:18:37.880 All just good for Trump.
00:18:40.580 Fetterman warns Democrat Senate seat now in play after far left candidates win.
00:18:46.060 Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania.
00:18:48.420 Senator, thanks so much for joining us.
00:18:50.400 I know you've criticized several of El-Sayed's progressive policies.
00:18:54.920 You've been involved in a public dispute with him as well.
00:18:57.540 What's your reaction to his victory that we have not projected in this key battleground state of Michigan?
00:19:02.640 Well, I think it definitely puts the seat in play.
00:19:06.980 Michigan typically doesn't really elect a Republican in the Senate for a while.
00:19:12.660 And now Rogers was a very strong candidate, objectively.
00:19:15.300 He barely lost to Slotkin, and she's a very strong candidate, and she just barely won back then.
00:19:22.320 So now, if you've seen some of the polling, El-Sayed is under maybe five to six points or more against him.
00:19:29.520 And now some real money is going to flood into that state.
00:19:33.460 And a lot of the things that he has done and said during the primary, 0.58
00:19:37.040 we're going to come back to haunt, like campaigning with a guy that loves Hamas
00:19:42.160 and is very proud to stand with communist regimes.
00:19:46.700 So you're talking about Hassan Piker.
00:19:48.760 Oh, yeah, definitely.
00:19:50.160 He was out there with al-Sayed on the campaign trail.
00:19:53.420 Is that what you're saying?
00:19:54.440 Yeah, I mean, you'll be able to find out what he really thinks.
00:19:58.440 Is he still going to campaign with a guy that's proud to love Hamas? 0.57
00:20:02.720 We'll see.
00:20:03.500 Are you going to campaign with a guy that openly loved Mao
00:20:07.240 and even dresses like him, too, for events?
00:20:10.960 So overall, you're going to find out he was a very, you know, he had a very arrogant campaign.
00:20:17.600 And now today he just discovered that less than a majority of your state's only Democrats didn't even want you and vote for you.
00:20:25.940 You came in around 48 percent. So, you know, you have a real situation as Democrats.
00:20:32.180 Now that puts that seat in play. Absolutely incredible.
00:20:37.820 He brings up. All right. All right. We got a campaign. This is from Mike Rogers.
00:20:43.300 He brings up who Abdul El-Sayed campaigns with. Let's roll the tape.
00:20:47.640 I'm not here to disavow people's views. America deserved 9-11, dude. Fuck it. I'm saying it.
00:20:52.360 I was in college. I took a terrorism class. You know, there needs to be unrest in the streets
00:20:57.340 for as long as there's unrest in our lives. I'm not here to disavow people's views.
00:21:00.960 You know, I am in support of abolishing ICE. Because we're going to go in there. We're going
00:21:04.820 kill those motherfuckers and murder those motherfuckers in the street let the streets 1.00
00:21:10.660 soak in their fucking red capitalist bloods dude the people who listen to hassan are engaging 1.00
00:21:15.440 they want a way forward into our politics 0.99
00:21:17.940 rogers is correct he writes you are who your friends are we call this
00:21:27.120 you are the summation of the five people who surround you that's typical uh unless you're 0.99
00:21:33.140 old and arrogant like me. And then, you know, and then I'm just, I am who I am, I guess. 0.95
00:21:39.420 And I'm not saying that to brag. I'm saying that somewhat derisively, self-deprecating.
00:21:45.320 But no, they say that you are the summation of the five people who surround you.
00:21:48.560 Now, let's be real. I don't think that El Saeed and Hassan are like best friends hanging out every
00:21:53.940 single day or anything like that. The point is, you want to campaign with this guy? Okay.
00:22:00.500 you're allowed to do it. I don't think Hassan is wrong about everything. I think he's wrong about
00:22:05.220 a lot. Most things, not everything. I've agreed with him on some things. But I don't think he's
00:22:10.060 genuine. I think that Hassan is a liar, as evidenced by his unwillingness to actually 0.86
00:22:15.980 have real conversations with other people. Now, don't get me wrong. This online debate stuff is 0.99
00:22:20.340 a waste of everybody's time. But there are many liberals that are willing to sit down and have
00:22:23.900 conversations. And I would argue that the majority of them will not because they're all fake.
00:22:28.200 They know the facts don't support their worldview, and they're trying to protect a worldview.
00:22:35.700 Hassan believes the United States deserved 9-11. 0.90
00:22:38.640 Okay, that's just ridiculous and just not true, no matter how you slice it.
00:22:42.320 Even if you want to make the argument about the CIA's blowback, which they called it, 0.51
00:22:48.320 that U.S. military operations in the Middle East was resulting in an anti-U.S. fervor,
00:22:52.340 which would result in terrorism.
00:22:54.880 No one deserves anything like 9-11.
00:22:57.660 and civilians don't deserve to be blown up. That's just not the case. But Hassan Piker,
00:23:04.860 he doesn't live in a world of ration, of rationality is a better way to put it.
00:23:10.680 And I suppose honesty. He's a lower order thinker. That is, you can go to somebody,
00:23:19.080 let's do this. Let's go high level. Is war good? First thing you have to understand is what does
00:23:26.500 the person mean by good or bad? It's not so easy, is it? Is it good that the United States is the
00:23:33.320 global hegemon? Well, one could make a bunch of arguments as to why it is, and we have to look at
00:23:38.300 the holistic picture. If the United States was not the dominant superpower in the world, who would
00:23:44.460 be? Right now, it's obviously China, potentially the BRICS nations as a coalition, Russia, Iran.
00:23:49.320 Do we appreciate the things that they do? For the most part, no. What we have with the U.S.
00:23:55.300 liberal economic order and all its faults in which Trump is transforming is we police the oceans,
00:24:01.100 we allow for global order, but we're in control. This means we have certain moral worldviews
00:24:05.980 others do not agree with. In China, they don't agree with the idea that we would allow people 0.85
00:24:10.520 this degree of freedom. China believes more in a top-down approach, a command economy style,
00:24:15.940 but they've mixed it, they've hybridized it. The way China works is that you have the party
00:24:20.380 which controls the businesses do, but largely grants them autonomy so that they can grow rapidly.
00:24:26.080 They've taken elements of free trade, but put the steel dome over it. The United States certainly
00:24:32.180 does that to an extent, but it's much more limited and we have a lot more litigation and
00:24:37.080 power struggling here. The people in China and countries like it think the United States is
00:24:42.100 stupid for allowing a greater degree of control among its people because they believe that most 1.00
00:24:47.060 people are stupid and they should be controlled by a central authority. Centralize too much, 1.00
00:24:52.000 the system breaks down. Decentralize too much and you're fighting yourself way too often.
00:24:57.340 So I would make the argument that if you were talking about maximum good, that is to the benefit 0.99
00:25:03.680 of man, a mixed economy is probably the way to go, which I say the United States generally does it
00:25:08.500 the best. We have ability to defend ourselves and rectify certain issues. But in China,
00:25:12.780 they've got concentration camps. You know, they've got land grabs and persecution of people
00:25:20.280 based on ideology because they believe their worldview is better. But, you know, when they
00:25:25.360 talk about the great firewall of China and the censoring of information like Tiananmen Square,
00:25:30.680 the U.S. does it all the same. So I can only say this. I've heard stories about China.
00:25:36.700 I've seen the facts and I recognize that there is a certain reflection
00:25:40.860 between the United States and China. Let's not play stupid games. We're here to be rational 1.00
00:25:45.740 thinkers. However, the United States tends to be better, tends to be, even if by a small amount.
00:25:52.040 Plus, there's already an established order, so there's no reason to go to war and see this
00:25:56.040 conflict. Hassan Piker's in the weeds. He sees the U.S. doing bad things and then just thinks
00:26:01.160 they should be stopped without considering the fact that China would do and does equally bad 0.61
00:26:05.720 things and sometimes worse things. So where does that leave us? It leaves us with people 0.88
00:26:12.160 campaigning with a guy who is ideologically driven. There will be no solutions from the
00:26:17.320 likes of Hassan Piker, just anger and revenge. In which case, Syed decides he reaches people,
00:26:24.520 we want that. But the people he's reaching are not motivated by fixing a system,
00:26:28.080 they're motivated by anger against an other. If that's the direction you're going to go,
00:26:32.760 conflict and crisis is what you get. What's truly fascinating is that there was a brief period
00:26:39.180 where Haley Stevens, actually, if we go back, let's look at this, is absolutely insane. 0.99
00:26:46.220 She was at 0.1. And then let's see, let's go over. Let's go to the month. She crashed out to 0.1
00:26:53.180 last night, just during the election as Syed was winning, spiked around 22%, which is insane,
00:26:58.520 and then crashed off again. We actually don't know that the outcome is determined. Technically,
00:27:02.880 she did concede. So she's dropping it. So it seems like Syed's got it. But it was one point.
00:27:10.040 It was pretty dang close. Chuck Schumer has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed for Michigan Senate,
00:27:16.220 calling Mike Rogers a rubber stamp for Donald Trump. Mike Rogers counter saying,
00:27:21.580 I spent years hunting terrorists and bringing us on the law to justice. Never in a million years
00:27:26.040 that I think I would be running against someone who believes America deserved 9-11.
00:27:30.700 He's using Hassan against Syed, but Syed's not going to come out and say anything about it.
00:27:36.140 And maybe he will, but he's going to be very timid. What he already said is that Hassan
00:27:40.580 reaches people and we've got to reach those people. Well, I got bad news for Mike Rogers.
00:27:47.660 Michigan is very, very Muslim. Let me tell you a story. Once a key component of the rust belt 1.00
00:27:54.940 with auto manufacturing. The industry collapsed. People started to flee the state because there
00:28:00.360 were no jobs and thus land became cheap. So if you were moving to the United States and you
00:28:06.080 wanted to go somewhere, lo, we give you Michigan. It was collapsing. Indiana was never as big
00:28:13.840 and doesn't have the water access. I mean, it's got Lake Michigan, don't get me wrong.
00:28:17.780 But Indiana remained fairly stable. Michigan, however, was in free fall without their industry. And so migrants started to move in. Now you have areas dominated, just completely dominated by by Islam.
00:28:35.640 What we're going to see now. Many strategists have said Mike Rogers needs to humbly approach moderate Democrats, the black community, Jews and say, do not get behind this man who is with Hassan Piker. 0.90
00:28:52.400 And you know what? Excuse me. Considering how close this race really was. 0.99
00:28:58.500 I don't see how Syed can actually win Michigan. I got to be honest.
00:29:01.600 Let me pull up 270 to win and we'll take a look at what they're what they're predicting for the Senate. Michigan's a toss up. They don't actually know. It's a straight toss up. I'm going to go and say this. Syed narrowly, narrowly beat the moderate Dem. Only three quarters of Democrats would vote for a Democratic Socialist. He claims he's not because he knows he will lose if he says he is. But he's he's he's unofficially backed by the DSA. 0.88
00:29:31.600 so what's going to happen? I think that Mike Rogers is going to campaign, and he only needs
00:29:37.940 to pull, what, three, four points from the Democrats, from the moderates? I think he will.
00:29:45.780 We'll see, however. The prediction market says the Republicans are going to control the Senate,
00:29:50.280 but let's do this. Kelsey Senate midterm. Let's see who's going to win. Which party will win the
00:29:57.440 Senate in, oh, that's the wrong one. We want Michigan. Michigan specifically. Michigan Senate 0.85
00:30:05.360 winner. Odds and prediction. I'm going to say no. You can see right now that Syed is projected to
00:30:13.720 win. Mike Rogers at 39 percent, but Rogers just skyrocketed because before it was actually as
00:30:19.300 Democrat and Republican, and now it's official with the nominees. Syed's tanking. I believe that
00:30:24.600 it's very likely Rodgers wins. That's just my opinion for all the reasons I explained in this
00:30:30.780 video. November's coming soon. We're two and a half months out, my friends. Well, about three
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