The Culture War - Tim Pool - August 28, 2026


Liberal Faces 20 YEARS IN PRISON For Support For Antifa Terror Group ｜ Tim Pool


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00:01:11.540 Now, this is crazy.
00:01:13.240 This is a dramatic escalation and a serious question needs to be asked as to whether or not we enforce our laws in this country.
00:01:21.080 For those that are not familiar with the story, the other day we got news that the State Department had designated an Italian hacker collective called AI, a specially designated global terrorist.
00:01:34.460 They provide resources to various far left extremists around the United States.
00:01:39.200 In fact, it appears that the DOJ is actually taking action against several websites which have since been pulled offline.
00:01:47.300 About a half an hour after this designation, liberal activist Brian Krasenstein solicited donations to this terrorist organization, only for a few hours later for him to say, hey, actually, don't do this.
00:02:01.180 But he also tweeted that he did donate.
00:02:05.360 And again, this is after that designation.
00:02:08.440 Now, my response to this was the DOJ needs to file criminal charges.
00:02:12.400 You cannot provide material support or solicit this for terrorists.
00:02:18.260 That being said, I am not suggesting the man should go to prison for 50 years or 20 years
00:02:22.860 or pay a million bucks.
00:02:23.880 My argument is give him a fine and a month of court supervision.
00:02:27.780 The most minor, minor, I say, of penalties one could receive.
00:02:34.980 And the reason is we need to say we are putting you all on notice.
00:02:39.520 if you are engaging in terrorism, in violence, for the purpose of advancing your political cause,
00:02:47.080 targeting innocent people, this will not be tolerated. Well, the fact that the dude was
00:02:52.320 bragging about it is where it gets crazy. The issue, of course, is that I don't think we're
00:02:57.320 going to get any action from the DOJ on this one. So let's break down exactly what Brian Krasenstein
00:03:03.220 did, what this official is saying. And of course, the latest developments that several Antifa sites
00:03:09.420 in the U.S. that were utilizing technology
00:03:12.240 from a terrorist organization are now being shut down.
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00:04:05.340 from the Gateway Pundit. State Department official warns far left troll Brian Krasnestein
00:04:10.960 he could face 20 years in prison and $1 million in fines after bragging about donating to a newly
00:04:16.540 designated global terrorist group. Now, I must stress, my friends, I don't think Brian Krasnestein
00:04:21.820 is far left at all. He's more of your run of the mill liberal Internet activist. If the DOJ says
00:04:28.760 it, if Trump says it, he's going to say the exact opposite. Far left is. I mean, the fact that he's
00:04:33.980 fundraising for terrorists and for antifa and all that. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. I don't know how
00:04:38.920 to describe it. They say far left anti-Trump influencer Brian Krasnstein may have turned
00:04:44.100 another social media stunt into a potential legal nightmare after appearing to claim that he donated
00:04:49.500 money to a newly designated terrorist organization. And that's what I want to make clear here.
00:04:54.380 When he tweeted two days ago at 432 donated thanks, Dylan Johnson, why did Krasnstein tweet
00:05:02.180 and then delete that he donated to a designated terrorist organization.
00:05:07.080 Now, again, his tweet itself was just donated.
00:05:09.660 Thanks.
00:05:09.900 And he could argue, oh, no, I was not donating to them or he was lying.
00:05:14.580 So let's start from the beginning to get to understand what the story is really about.
00:05:18.360 And then we'll get to the assistant secretary of state for global public affairs, Dylan
00:05:23.280 Johnson.
00:05:24.080 We've got this from the state from state.gov designation of Otis Dietschie Inventati as
00:05:29.700 a specially designated global terrorist.
00:05:32.180 They straight up said it. This was posted around 10 a.m., 10.30, two days ago. Marco Rubio then
00:05:39.740 made a post saying we don't tolerate these far left terrorists. We also have action from the
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00:07:04.580 Dylan Johnson issued a blistering warning saying,
00:07:07.840 donating money to a specially designed, I'm sorry,
00:07:10.240 specially designated global terrorist is a federal crime.
00:07:14.020 You can be prosecuted and sentenced up to 20 years in federal prison
00:07:17.020 and fined up to $1 million.
00:07:19.440 So maybe talk to a lawyer before listening to this moron.
00:07:23.580 Johnson later posted a screenshot of Krasnstein's alleged deleted message
00:07:26.440 and demanded answers.
00:07:27.740 After posting donated, thanks. The far left troll quickly backtracked and urged to support us to hold off. Update. Please hold off on the donations as the authoritarian regime will use it to have you arrested. Hold your money until the designation is officially removed, which it almost certainly will be. And then donate double. You still can't do that. This is nuts.
00:07:49.960 Look, you cannot say, well, you know, because they're terrorists, wait a little bit and then donate later because you are still soliciting material support for an active terrorist organization.
00:08:01.240 It doesn't matter if they may or may not get that removed later.
00:08:04.440 You are telling people to save money to give to them.
00:08:07.700 He is saying, hold your money.
00:08:09.420 Give it to him later.
00:08:11.640 Krasenstein's post came after the Trump administration designated the AI collective a global terrorist.
00:08:17.580 They're going to mention Marco Rubio's post.
00:08:19.280 According to the Trump admin, AI provides encrypted email, secure chats, web posting,
00:08:23.160 video conferencing systems, anonymity tools, and other digital services to violent left-wing
00:08:27.840 networks operating in the U.S. and Europe.
00:08:30.660 The Treasury Department said the collective exclusively provides services to ideologically
00:08:34.960 aligned groups, including the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, a designated terrorist organization.
00:08:41.540 Treasury designated AI under executive order 13224 for allegedly providing material and
00:08:46.580 technological support connected to terrorism. The designation blocked the group's property
00:08:51.280 and financial interests under American jurisdiction. Read the full. Kranstein
00:08:56.980 subsequently denied that he had actually completed a donation. He claimed he was not falling into
00:09:02.380 Johnson's trap, but vowed to raise money for AI if the designation was removed.
00:09:07.640 This is what they stand for. Do they sound like terrorists to you? I mean, this is insane.
00:09:12.460 dude these people are wrapped up in their so psych you know you know no no because the doj
00:09:21.200 is not prosecuting and going after these people they're going to keep doing this
00:09:24.060 imagine if you replaced ai with al-qaeda and he says do they really sound like terrorists you
00:09:31.120 they're fighting for freedom against racism and oppression you can say that of any terrorist
00:09:37.100 organization because as the old adage goes one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
00:09:41.780 when he says this and says, look at the things they do. Does that sound like terror?
00:09:47.540 Yes. That's why they designated it. But you providing propaganda for an active terrorist
00:09:53.380 organization right now and vowing money and telling people to hold money to give to them.
00:09:59.240 This dude needs to be charged. I'm sorry. This is what they stand for. What do you stand for?
00:10:06.260 He says, AI was born 20 years ago to provide internet support to activists and collectives
00:10:10.820 coming from the world, the world of grassroots and social movements. Our principles are fairly
00:10:14.860 straightforward. The world should not be run by money, should be rooted in solidarity, community,
00:10:18.220 mutual help, equal rights, freedom, social justice. Easy, isn't it? It's fascinating when you have
00:10:23.580 groups that engage in, you know, Molotov cocktails, bombings, shootings or whatever.
00:10:28.580 And these are the tech support for them. We will not play this Tweedledee Tweedledum terrorism
00:10:33.360 nonsense. Well, the guys that were blowing things up were getting material support from this
00:10:38.100 harmless little old hacker collective that all they did was run email.
00:10:42.600 Let me just put it like this for Brian Krasenstein, okay?
00:10:46.520 If a guy robs a bank and you're an Uber driver and you're sitting in your car watching him rob
00:10:52.920 the bank and he runs out and jumps in your Uber and says, let's get out of here. And you go,
00:10:55.960 you got it. You can't be like, oh, but he's just an Uber driver. He really had no idea.
00:11:01.500 Um, my friends, you're an accomplice.
00:11:06.360 Now imagine you then went out and said, we need to get money to this Uber driver.
00:11:12.120 What does he stand for?
00:11:13.220 Providing a clean and efficient ride for all those who ask, does that sound like bank robbery
00:11:18.040 to you?
00:11:19.420 Well, yeah, because he was driving the bank robber to and from the bank robbery.
00:11:23.500 And then you're raising money to keep him in hiding and to protect him.
00:11:28.020 Okay.
00:11:28.340 Yeah.
00:11:28.660 Now you're going to get in trouble.
00:11:29.920 But to be fair, I suppose in the United States, when it comes to domestic crime, you might actually be allowed to solicit donations for an alleged bank robber.
00:11:37.520 I suppose if you're trying to help him stay concealed and keep actually up this way, if you're like, we're going to raise money so we can keep driving bank robbers, then they're going to come after you.
00:11:47.740 But it is still a bit different. It is still a bit different.
00:11:49.880 Now we've got breaking news. Captive Dreamer says large American Antifa terror blogs are being shut down and deleted as State Department seeks to smash foreign proxy and hosting and doxing services. Late. What is this is late night off? No blogs. You've got Cavalette. You've got Rose City counter info and Otis Ditchie all taken down.
00:12:13.020 So I will stress this. You cannot, Brian Krasenstein, say they don't sound like terrorists,
00:12:21.780 so people should hold their money and donate when possible. That's insane.
00:12:27.460 How should the authorities respond? I believe they should pursue immediate charges.
00:12:33.460 Is it going to ask for my email? I'm not going to put my email in there.
00:12:37.060 Not going to put my email in there, Jim. Sorry. Especially not when I'm recording.
00:12:41.240 If we do not have these charges filed, if we do not pursue action, and I'm saying a ticket,
00:12:48.860 court supervision means they just say in a month it falls off your record like it never happened.
00:12:52.980 No one will even know it ever happened, except for the public. But if we say we're not going
00:12:57.880 to do anything, it's going to escalate. Then you're going to have 50,000 people all going
00:13:03.360 online donating. And what do you do? Do you arrest 50,000 people? You know what, man? I know y'all
00:13:08.660 care. But I wonder how many people actually would listen, actually want to listen. Because if we do
00:13:17.760 not take action now, then the end result is going to be you will get too many people, you will get
00:13:24.080 critical mass, and then it won't stop. And then you can't stop it. And then you will get factions
00:13:29.700 rising up. You will get Democratic politicians falling in line with the DSA because the DSA
00:13:33.760 dictates, you have to nip it in the bud. I'll wrap it there. It's Friday, my friends. We've
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