The Culture War - Tim Pool - MAGA CIVIL WAR In Full Swing, Trump, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones And THE TRUTH

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00:00:15.080 Talk about the ultimate black pill, my friends.

00:00:18.820 We're getting story after story about the mega civil war. 1.00

00:00:21.220 Megyn Kelly is slamming Trump. She's going after Fox News. 1.00

00:00:23.960 There is money to be made.

00:00:25.520 You know, on YouTube, I've long criticized these channels, actually defended, of all people, Hassan Piker.

00:00:32.680 And the reason why criticizing liberals but actually defending Hassan is because Hassan's channel actually is composed of a bunch of different news stories.

00:00:41.080 Not that I think he's right about these things or that I think he's a good person or anything like that.

00:00:45.340 But when you look at the show he does, he talks about various stories in the news.

00:00:50.620 Sometimes he says shocking and inflammatory things.

00:00:52.760 But then there are other liberals that just every single post is Trump is bad. 0.99

00:00:57.940 Trump is bad.

00:00:59.080 It's like the only thing unifying people these days, they don't like Donald Trump.

00:01:03.400 Several years ago, a decade ago, I worked for the corporate media.

00:01:08.200 I worked for an ABC News Univision joint venture at an ABC News badge.

00:01:12.760 And I worked in the ABC News building in New York City.

00:01:16.160 It was fun.

00:01:16.720 Got to go on the elevator with Whoopi Goldberg.

00:01:18.940 She was on there, too.

00:01:19.880 And I'm a big fan of Star Trek.

00:01:21.900 So I was like, it's Guinan. I think she's kind of off a rocker for the most part. But hey, you know, always going to love Guinan and Star Trek The Next Generation. While working there, I, you know, I saw this shift in people's worldviews that didn't quite make a lot of sense.

00:01:38.520 they had brought me on to be nice vice they called it nice vice they said we like that you travel

00:01:45.400 the world and cover on the ground stories and for this we would like to hire you and pay you a large

00:01:52.260 sum of money and i said that sounds great let me do my thing and i did and it's funny because while

00:01:58.040 working there i was the only one who actually got views on content my content was largely apolitical

00:02:03.160 uh went to uh fukushima fukushima in japan uh to check on the aftermath of the earthquake

00:02:11.060 several years on uh i had gone back to brazil and uh you know several other places went to new

00:02:17.720 zealand and i did these interviews and things like that and something started changing about

00:02:23.820 eight months in people all of a sudden they started becoming woke and my attitude largely

00:02:28.660 was hey man look i don't really care about your politics right i was a big bernie guy so this is

00:02:32.740 2015, 16. And I really care for the woke stuff where they're like talking about Marxism. I was

00:02:39.560 just like, listen, this guy's been consistent for a long time. And I respect that he's fighting for

00:02:43.580 the working class, closed borders. He said, Open Brothers is a Koch Brothers proposal. 0.94

00:02:49.040 And I said, here, here. But when it came to doing political content, I said, no, not really. I don't

00:02:53.980 really care about that stuff. I did not have strong political opinions. I didn't come out. I

00:02:57.960 didn't support Trump or anybody like that. I did not. I voted for Obama in 2008. Yet it was it

00:03:05.780 was interesting. They had a forum event, the black and brown forum where they were going to talk to

00:03:11.420 presidential candidates, including I believe Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton to be there.

00:03:15.300 And I found out about it not through the chain of command, even though I effectively reported

00:03:20.020 straight to the president of the company and was one of their senior talents. Things changed at

00:03:25.380 the company. And they brought in outside talent to be up on the panel for this black and brown

00:03:32.360 forum. Certainly, I'm not black. I'm only a tinge yellow, I guess. And I found out that they had

00:03:39.460 brought an outside talent. So they had Alicia Menendez, you know, who is now MS now and a few

00:03:44.100 other people. And I'm on good terms with all these people. Again, I was this is this is pre Trump.

00:03:49.140 I wasn't a Trump supporter. I wasn't voting or supporting anybody. I was making strong political

00:03:53.900 statements. It was largely just general. Like I had been fairly critical of the police during

00:03:59.640 Occupy Wall Street for free speech issues, but not super political on any grounds or anything

00:04:04.220 like that. So I go to the president and I asked him, why was it that they had brought an outside

00:04:10.460 talent? And he says, well, I mean, you look too white. And I was like, I'm second generation

00:04:14.820 mixed race. Like my family understands a lot of this stuff. You don't owe me any favors. I don't

00:04:19.060 got to go on your show. I'm just, you know, tell me where to stand and I'll stand there. Right.

00:04:23.080 Let's go do some reporting.

00:04:24.660 Despite the fact that I was the only one getting views, that the content I was producing was

00:04:28.180 not even hyperpolitical.

00:04:29.340 We covered the California drought, very generic stuff. 0.53

00:04:31.780 They basically iced me out for looking too white multiple times.

00:04:36.120 And then when I actually had complaints about that and said that I'm mixed race, they called

00:04:42.320 me a white supremacist.

00:04:44.020 I had no beef with any of these people.

00:04:47.240 Weirdest thing ever.

00:04:48.800 I had done coverage of police stuff in Brazil, had discussed about potentially going to like

00:04:54.540 Nicaragua to talk about what China was doing.

00:04:56.620 I had no idea what was going on.

00:04:58.840 So I found this to be shocking and strange and tried quitting the company.

00:05:04.240 The new editor in chief they brought in, his Twitter profile was his banner photo was a 0.60

00:05:09.000 black fist saying down with whiteness. 0.97

00:05:11.340 I still did not go to these people and say, like, y'all are crazy or anything like that. 0.98

00:05:15.260 It just said, oh, whatever.

00:05:16.780 I was like, it's not really my thing.

00:05:17.900 you know what I mean? I did not complain that they're making trans kids videos or anything 0.99

00:05:22.260 like that. The videos I was doing was on free speech, tech, censorship, and on the ground

00:05:27.200 reporting. And we were getting like 50 to 100k views on these videos. And the president told me

00:05:32.080 you're the only one who actually gets views. And I'm like, well, you know, I guess I got my finger

00:05:35.320 on the pulse. And for some reason, they still iced me out from everything. But whatever, I didn't

00:05:40.160 care. I was like, hey, look, you pay me, you know, it's a job, a job is a job. But after about a year

00:05:44.400 of this, I said, I don't know why I'm here. Okay. Like if you don't want to use me for any of these

00:05:49.260 projects, what am I doing? They told me to stick around. They said, uh, stick around.

00:05:53.900 So what ends up happening is there's nothing for me to do. They're not interested in what I

00:05:59.020 produced. The narrative completely shifted towards woke. And so when I tried leaving and they told

00:06:03.980 me not to, a few months later, I get a call and I'm thinking this is going to be it. They're going

00:06:06.980 to fire me. They're going to, they're going to agree to release me from contract. Instead,

00:06:10.340 they gave me $40,000. I just did not understand. They were like, you're getting a bonus into your

00:06:15.900 bank account. I was like, I am? I was like, a bonus from what? We're not making money.

00:06:20.360 They gave me a bonus. I genuinely, like if they, if they literally never asked me to do anything,

00:06:26.100 I just don't even understand. So ultimately then when August came around, I get the call and

00:06:30.500 they're like, we're not going to be repping your contract. And I was like, Hey, I'll get it. I was

00:06:34.580 like, cause I don't even know what you want me to be doing at this point, but I appreciate the money.

00:06:37.540 things changed around this time it was it was very very weird and I tell you this story because

00:06:45.420 of the change that we are seeing now and how things are going I'm not going to bend the knee

00:06:49.400 I'm not going to join the woke I was never going to accept it I think they knew this

00:06:53.040 and so what ends up happening is I make my own YouTube channel and Donald Trump goes on TV and

00:06:58.100 says did you see what happened last night in Sweden and I saw this thought it was interesting

00:07:04.560 went viral. Liberals were mocking Trump, saying nothing happened in Sweden last night. And I said,

00:07:10.220 well, what is that all about? Well, Trump wasn't talking about something in Sweden the night

00:07:14.640 before. He was talking about a news report on Fox News about Sweden. And so I said, okay,

00:07:21.660 that's fun. And I saw a post from Paul Joseph Watson. He said he was offering $2,000 to any

00:07:27.440 journalist brave enough to spend the night in Malma, Sweden. And me being somewhat like oblivious

00:07:32.660 to the culture war stuff that had been bumbling up. I just, I tweeted at him or something. I was

00:07:37.380 like, I'll do it. And he DMs me and he was like, oh, well, I mean, I was kind of just taking the

00:07:42.220 piss. But he's like, if you, I was like, I got a GoFundMe set up to raise money to go and do this

00:07:47.560 reporting. And he was like, okay, like, sure. And I had had, I think, like 70 or 80. No, I might

00:07:52.620 have had like 120,000 followers at the time. I can't remember. And he was like, sure, I'll donate

00:07:57.640 to your GoFundMe. And he did. And then he announced to all the journalists that he had

00:08:01.740 satisfy the terms of his statement or whatever. So all of a sudden I get these messages from

00:08:06.360 journalists that I knew who worked at Vice and Fusion. And they said, don't do it.

00:08:12.480 And I'm like, don't do what? And they're like, don't go to Sweden and cover this story.

00:08:16.820 And I'm just like, what do you mean? Like, this is what I do. This is what I've always done. I go

00:08:21.960 on the ground. I film stuff. And they're like, yeah, but Trump's lying. And I said, yeah, I think

00:08:26.640 so. So let me expose that. And they're like, no, don't do it. No joke. Like there's like three or

00:08:33.140 four different journalists who had worked at Vice and a couple of fusion DMing me on Twitter at the

00:08:37.700 time being like, don't report this story. And I was like, I'm genuinely confused. You're saying

00:08:43.420 Trump is lying. I'm saying, OK, I'm going to go cover this and prove that he's lying. One of them

00:08:48.220 said, donate the money to a pro Muslim charity instead. And I was like, yeah, that's fraud.

00:08:53.300 that's illegal, dude. I was like, I raised money to do this. I have to do it. I can't just take

00:08:58.660 that money for something else. And so I went. And it was interesting because when I went there,

00:09:04.700 I interviewed a Green Party politician. And he said, yeah, we have crime. Crime's increased. It

00:09:09.080 is bad, but it's not as bad as people think. I said, fascinating. And I got praise. Huffington

00:09:13.720 Post did a good job. The weirdest thing imaginable, the hyper-tribalism, when I was simply just like,

00:09:18.500 Tell me what's happening. My friends, we are in a ongoing psychopathic culture war and the result of which is tribalism and anger at the other, not for what makes sense politically, policy wise or for what is actually happening.

00:09:38.700 But it's because there are groups that view the other as enemy. And part of this is it's born from our tribal. I believe it's born largely from the Democrat Republican conflict. And where we are now is a crossroads, a shift. Something interesting is occurring. I don't know exactly what the end result is going to be, but I'll tell you why I make I tell you these stories and where we're at now.

00:10:02.600 maga exiles flock to support group citing trump lies indeed the daily beast and many others have

00:10:11.800 been reporting like crazy that maga is fracturing from trump the daily beast has repeatedly claimed

00:10:17.560 that i was calling saying trump would be humiliated and turning on him which doesn't

00:10:22.960 that sound a little strong for someone like me i don't come out and harshly attack in that way

00:10:29.420 eh, Candace Owens, I did. I did apologize for that, but it didn't matter. Nobody cares, right?

00:10:33.680 So where we are today is something interesting. Once again, we are seeing something very similar

00:10:38.080 to what I witnessed in, you know, 2015 or 16. Many people are breaking from Trump. They're

00:10:42.680 calling him a mad king. They're calling him demonic. And it's just not, it's nonsensical. 0.96

00:10:46.360 I'm sorry it is. I'm not going to change my opinion because people send mean tweets or

00:10:50.540 comments on social media. I'm not going to change my opinion because people will unfollow me and

00:10:54.900 then call me a shill or yell at me for, they claim taking money from Russia, which I never did,

00:10:59.860 or having secret meetings with Netanyahu, which was publicly known about and I talked about.

00:11:04.560 It's all tribal insanity. I've never played these games and I won't play these games. 0.65

00:11:09.620 What matters to me is what is true and what makes the most sense. But what we're seeing right now

00:11:14.440 is online, people are figuring out who butters their bread. And when you take a look at YouTube,

00:11:21.880 I think there's something very fascinating in that it's been reported that right-wing

00:11:25.960 media is suffering a major decline, that they're seeing a drop-off in their ratings, and that's

00:11:31.340 true.

00:11:31.960 For us, in winter, Timcast IRL was getting between 50,000 and 80,000 concurrent viewers,

00:11:39.060 and this is split between Rumble and YouTube.

00:11:41.300 Today, we do about 35,000.

00:11:43.600 Well, in the same period in the previous election cycle, we were doing about 27,000, 28,000.

00:11:49.700 So it looks like moderate growth in the long run, but it is down from where it was over

00:11:54.300 the past couple of years, especially the peak in 2020.

00:11:57.260 I mean, that was crazy with COVID.

00:11:58.880 And then everything kind of normalized out the next year, and we averaged around like

00:12:01.380 27,000, 28,000.

00:12:02.780 Things pick up once we get into a primary season, and people figure out where things

00:12:07.060 lie.

00:12:08.060 Now, what I will say is this civil war looks similar to what happened with Ron DeSantis.

00:12:13.140 When Donald Trump was fading from the limelight, and he was after 2021, Ron DeSantis was

00:12:18.960 ascendant. And many people came out in support of Ron DeSantis. This sparked a rift. The Daily

00:12:24.780 Wire, of course, was very pro-DeSantis, as was I. I said, I don't know that Trump's coming back.

00:12:30.200 We may be on the back end of the Trump era. And DeSantis has had the professionalism

00:12:34.300 in Florida. And I think he would make a great president. Unfortunately, when it came time to

00:12:40.020 run out that campaign, he did a pretty bad job of it. And Trump came back with a vengeance.

00:12:44.900 But at the time, everybody was fighting. They were saying, you know, you anti-Trump people,

00:12:50.540 the DeSantis people were attacking the Trump people. Well, then Trump came, Trump won,

00:12:55.580 and here we are now. But many of these dire Trump people are not breaking from him in ways that I

00:13:01.120 would say largely does not make sense. Now, to be fair, Trump has recently come out attacking

00:13:05.400 Tucker, Candace, Alex Jones. So I can understand why they're pushing against him. But I have also

00:13:10.320 seen a coordinated effort from social media accounts targeting myself as well. They want me

00:13:15.320 to come out and just be overtly anti-Trump. Guys, I can be critical of Trump for a lot of reasons.

00:13:22.340 I can tell you that I would not have voted for this war. I don't support the war with around

00:13:26.180 all of these things. But I have never been, nor will I be, someone who spins on a dime,

00:13:32.640 changes my opinion because people are yelling at me on the internet. I've never done it,

00:13:35.700 and I'm not going to do it now. There are certain issues where I have found reasoned arguments and

00:13:40.020 agreed with them and said, you know what, maybe I was wrong about that. But while I may be critical

00:13:44.180 of Trump for a lot of reasons, I'm not going to come out and call him the mad king or a demon

00:13:48.980 and agree with these people. There's going off on him. Truth matters. And what is true is ultimately

00:13:55.040 what will guide me. And this is the ultimate black pill, my friends. It seems like what we

00:14:01.540 are seeing is, I don't know, people are just ditching Trump because, well, let me put it like

00:14:09.020 this. My honest opinion, viewership is down, but viewership for anti-Trump content has been up and

00:14:14.580 been consistent for a long time. Now that we got the war with Iran, criticisms of Israel, the death

00:14:19.660 of Charlie Kirk, I will tell you this. When I mentioned that viewership for the right is down,

00:14:24.620 it's not the same for the leftists and the liberals who have been attacking Trump.

00:14:28.460 I mentioned the praise for Hassan, how he talks about a plethora of news. By all means,

00:14:33.140 you can criticize his opinions on those things. That was always allowed. But I respect that he's

00:14:36.400 talking about the news in general. Whereas most of the liberal podcasters and commentators

00:14:41.000 only talk about Trump. And here's the truth. They still get millions of views. And the people who

00:14:47.400 are talking about nuance, defending Trump or otherwise, we're getting less and less viewership.

00:14:52.760 So now you can see where Candace Owens is at. And a really good example of this would be like,

00:14:57.780 we get Candace fans who will spam the chat in Timcast IRL saying, ha ha ha ha, look at you,

00:15:03.360 you're only getting 20,000 concurrence on YouTube. Oh, how the mighty have fallen, like insulting me

00:15:07.820 as if my motivation has been the viewership. Simultaneously, they'll post on X, and in the

00:15:12.920 comments, Tim only cares about clicks and views. Suppose if that was the case, I would just agree

00:15:17.760 with whatever Candace Owens was saying. But I think truth matters. And where we are now is,

00:15:23.380 well, I think where we've always been is largely for people, truth just never mattered.

00:15:27.140 You take a look at my story from Fusion and Vice, and you can see that truth wasn't the issue. The

00:15:31.600 issue was being an avatar for the lowest common denominator. And so this is a post that I made

00:15:37.380 on X earlier today, where I highlight, there is the job of the influencer to be the avatar

00:15:44.220 of a tribal sect. Now, of course, I have talked about that on this show and in Tim Castile quite

00:15:50.460 a bit. The way it works is this. Let's say, oh, you know what? There was that woman who talked

00:15:58.020 about private equity who got massively popular for a brief period and still maintains a decent

00:16:02.360 audience. But she was top of the world. I believe it was Tiffany Cianci, shout out. She called out

00:16:09.180 this practice that was happening with some private equity firms where they were gutting companies and 0.82

00:16:12.540 destroying them to make money. This resulted in massive support. She genuinely believes these

00:16:18.200 things. She's genuinely concerned about it. And that was always allowed. And she got a big following

00:16:22.020 when the zeitgeist found her. But as she maintains that view and that presence, the audience is

00:16:28.000 largely shifted in other areas, notably Israel. So she's not as prominent now as she was at that

00:16:34.480 one moment. This is the job of the influencer. I would describe this as an organic moment.

00:16:40.160 Someone who spoke truth at the right time and captured an audience. Nick Shirley did the same

00:16:45.380 thing in December with the Minnesota fraud stuff. And while he's certainly very prominent and doing

00:16:49.340 well, the conversation isn't the same around Nick Shirley. I had a similar moment with Occupy Wall

00:16:54.320 Street. When I captured the raid on the camp and the culture latched on to me, boom, it props you

00:17:00.940 up. The truth is, I mean, it works in all facets. Like music, you might have a song, everybody loves

00:17:05.960 it, but maybe you're a one at wonder, maybe you're not. Maybe you can find a way to speak to the

00:17:09.640 masses for a longer period of time. The job of the internet influencer is to be the avatar of that

00:17:14.560 emotion in that state. And so someone like Candace Owens, she's a person who knows how to surf that

00:17:20.340 wave indefinitely. She's quite good at it. This means that first she's a lib. She was social

00:17:26.960 autopsy, doxing conservatives, they claim. I'm not super familiar with what that was.

00:17:32.000 And then she becomes red pill black. She sees the red pill wave. She sees the pro-Trump wave

00:17:37.980 and she jumps onto it. She then ends up working with PragerU and Daily Wire and becomes massive,

00:17:44.120 adhering to what the largest sect of tribalism wants to hear. Ultimately, she leaves the Daily 0.90

00:17:50.820 Wire because I think she's a smart person and she understands the tides were shifting. She jumped

00:17:56.260 ship before the Daily Wire took their downturn, and they have, no disrespect, but the Daily Wire

00:18:01.100 views are down. Everybody in right-wing media is seeing this downturn. And she shifts the narrative

00:18:05.840 to Blake Lively, Bridget McCrone, and now Charlie Kirk in Israel, and her viewership has never been

00:18:11.000 better. She has ridden that wave of where she thinks the people are. Jeremy Boren came out

00:18:16.380 and he pointed this out, saying that she just tries to be whatever the people want her to be. 0.87

00:18:23.320 She's quite good at it. But there are others that just try to stay true to what they genuinely

00:18:28.480 believe. Well, people like that will eventually find themselves staying static as the wave moves.

00:18:35.400 So I've gotten some tweets. People have said, has Tim not changed his opinion on Israel? Well,

00:18:39.960 guy, you claiming Israel is evil or crazy is not going to change my opinion on Israel.

00:18:44.740 I know about foreign policy and I'm quite well versed in the histories that we are seeing in

00:18:50.740 modern times. Thus, your narratives do not align with reality. And I'm talking about the narratives

00:18:55.980 of like, you know, Israel controlling the United States foreign policy and everything like this.

00:19:00.360 They certainly are an influence on it and are politicians to a great degree. But it doesn't

00:19:04.440 explain Greenland, Panama, Taiwan, etc. So while they play a role, it makes no sense. And I'm not

00:19:09.940 going to come out and just scream Israel is everything when it's not true. Well, these people

00:19:14.980 get mad because in their world it is. And I do not represent where the tide has shifted for this

00:19:22.320 group of people. If you are someone who's interested in nuance and you're interested in reality, I

00:19:29.940 guess, you'll probably find yourself enjoying a show like this. But perception is reality. So for

00:19:35.900 the people who have only just seen the spam blasting of Israel, Israel, Israel, then their

00:19:41.100 reality is Israel and nothing else matters. So Tim Pool will be damned. He certainly does not 0.80

00:19:47.660 represent the truth anymore. He's sold out. Well, I suppose I'd make the argument that if you're

00:19:54.140 simultaneously claiming my views are down and that I'm a sellout, that's contradictory in that

00:19:59.240 my views should be doing pretty dang well if I was a sellout, right? I'd be doing better than

00:20:04.380 ever. Indeed, Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes are banned from YouTube, but Candace Owens is not.

00:20:11.220 She's propped up because she is the individual who surfs the social wave. Good for her. You know, 0.83

00:20:17.700 she makes a lot of money doing it. I suppose you can make arguments that she's a shill or a 1.00

00:20:22.380 psyop or whatever, like attacking Nick Shirley made no sense. But maybe it's because she's a lib. 0.85

00:20:28.200 Why did she attack Nick Shirley? Because that gets clicks on social media, 0.95

00:20:31.420 because liberals are culty and will follow and, you know, whatever.

00:20:35.900 So the other day, I've had a series, or I should say since yesterday, I've had a series of tweets.

00:20:39.560 And one of them was a sarcastic, I am done with Trump.

00:20:44.140 1,200 retweets.

00:20:45.800 That was kind of the point.

00:20:47.780 The comments I make where I say what I'm saying now, 50 retweets, if that.

00:20:53.700 But the how dare Trump, 1,000 retweets.

00:20:56.900 Guys, I get it.

00:20:58.060 If I came out now and really cared about just the clicks and the views,

00:21:01.420 I would just straight up be like, oh, Trump has crossed the line. I'm done with him. You know,

00:21:08.080 the liberals were right the whole time. In fact, another post I have with a thousand plus retweets

00:21:13.300 is, what if it was Trump and Epstein the whole time and not the Democrats? And the Democrats

00:21:18.360 take it seriously because they're not smart if they don't care. And that proves my point.

00:21:22.940 Guys, I think what I think about Epstein. I have interviewed Thomas Massey and Ro Khanna and both

00:21:27.960 praise their work in releasing the Epstein files. The people who watch the show understand the

00:21:31.940 nuance. So I guess I'd put it like this. I think the people who are retained in watching my show

00:21:37.300 have been consistent and genuinely curious people. The people who have stopped watching it

00:21:42.900 are more likely to be tribalist. These are people who come by and they leave. It may mean that in

00:21:47.840 the future, I don't get very big viewership at all, but I don't know. That was never the case.

00:21:52.580 That was never the point. The point was to talk about what I want to talk about and express

00:21:56.080 my feelings, thoughts, and views on these issues. And so here we are right now.

00:22:01.140 The issue is that the times they are a changing and anti-Trump is the way to go.

00:22:06.640 I criticized Trump and Epstein the whole time. These people don't care. What they want is an

00:22:10.500 avatar of their anger. And I get it. But I have. It is what it is. I want to show you some examples

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00:23:01.860 the guys supporting this show. But let me show you where we're currently at. So this story from

00:23:06.580 the Daily Beast is just the example of them saying, look, MAGA is broken. We have this from

00:23:11.500 media. Alex Jones says Trump's got big problems, asks God to free him from the demonic influences.

00:23:17.240 I like Alex. I have to say this, though, with all due respect to the work that he's done,

00:23:23.060 he's appeared on my show several times blackout drunk, sickly and seriously ill. And for that,

00:23:29.000 I believe, you know, he deserves some criticism. There are a lot of people that are upset about

00:23:32.660 it. He was very sick the last time he came on Tim Castile while we were in Austin, and he had to

00:23:35.720 leave the show early because of his inebriation. Again, with all due respect to the work that he's

00:23:40.980 done, I'm a big fan and he did apologize for this. I can only address it because everyone

00:23:45.060 knows it happened. I'm not trying to be mean to the guy, but it did happen. And he apologized. He

00:23:50.700 did. It's not the first time he's done it. He, you know, we had a morning culture war show with

00:23:56.720 Alex talking about the state of the world, and it was one of the best shows we'd ever done. And so

00:24:01.480 it is sad when he could be serious and we could have his conversations, but he doesn't. He just

00:24:06.240 shows up drunk. So I do think he does have a lot of good things to say, however. Whatever people

00:24:12.420 want to claim. All right. I brought this up this morning, but I'm going to bring it up now. Last

00:24:17.500 night in Timcast IRL, I made the point that the Internet is largely composed of fake news,

00:24:22.340 clips that are taken out of context for the purpose of smearing or claiming something

00:24:25.940 supports you. So I made a fake post or I should say this. I said, watch, everybody's lying about

00:24:33.200 everything to get clicks. They can make things up and it'll work. And we don't do that. But

00:24:36.240 you know what? I could do it right now, too. Watch. Then I said Trump called me on the phone

00:24:40.740 and then said, see, that's fake, but people will clip it,

00:24:44.400 shared out of context.

00:24:45.260 And sure enough, tons of people did, like clockwork.

00:24:48.040 They didn't watch the show.

00:24:49.120 They don't care to watch the show.

00:24:50.260 They just want something that will generate traffic.

00:24:53.760 That's the nature of reality.

00:24:55.680 Now, by all means, if you are a first order thinker,

00:24:58.420 maybe second or third, you're going to see that clip

00:25:00.520 and you will see the responses where people go like,

00:25:02.600 oh my God, Tim, shill much for Trump?

00:25:05.620 Oh my God.

00:25:07.020 And it's fascinating because the higher order thinkers,

00:25:08.920 the people who are consistent viewers on my show,

00:25:10.140 are going, wow, it's eye-opening. The reason I do this is kind of like a Galman amnesia effect

00:25:15.140 revelation, showing that there are many people who believe things to be true despite never

00:25:23.840 actually investigating or trying to figure out the meaning behind it. So a handful of these people

00:25:29.440 who share this, I've just been like, oh, bro, don't. Come on. Guys, come on. And they do it

00:25:34.880 anyway. I'm not going to slam these individuals, but some of them are friends of the show,

00:25:40.460 but on the show because they don't care. Loyalty be damned. You know, there are people but on the

00:25:45.040 show who instead of calling me or texting me and saying, like, can we talk? They just made up fake

00:25:49.980 stories. This is the ultimate black pill. There's one guy who almost lost his his job and his

00:25:56.140 business because the government was targeting him. We had him on the show. He then went on Twitter

00:26:01.980 and made up a fake story, claiming that he had been to the West Virginia studio, which he never

00:26:07.780 did. He was at the Maryland studio, claimed we did not have security, which we have extensive

00:26:12.260 security. And he did this because he knew it would generate traffic. That is what we are largely

00:26:16.920 seeing, my friends. Is Trump perfect? No, of course not. Can you criticize him? Absolutely.

00:26:21.400 Did Israel pressure us into starting this war with Iran? They did. In fact, Marco Rubio said it. 0.55

00:26:25.120 Now, it's true that Rubio and Trump said we wanted to go to have this operation to begin with,

00:26:29.500 But we were pressured into it early because Israel said, we're going to go in with or without you.

00:26:33.120 And so we decided to move in because we were concerned that there would be collateral damage against U.S. assets and troops. 0.99

00:26:38.820 Although that's true.

00:26:40.040 Always was allowed.

00:26:41.720 But the Internet is largely based on fake news.

00:26:44.760 And I wonder if these days it's intentional.

00:26:47.220 One thing I've told you guys about, I warn you about, is that we are moving towards a restructuring of the media world.

00:26:55.420 The goal is to have four or five subscription services that everyone gets their news and

00:27:01.680 entertainment from. YouTube will be one of them, but it's becoming increasingly harder

00:27:05.220 to become a prominent YouTube personality. They want you to have a certain message.

00:27:10.180 I wonder if YouTube has actually just become the rat trap. And what's going to happen is it's

00:27:15.660 going to be Netflix, Paramount, and maybe Peacock or something that are the dominant

00:27:21.380 streaming platforms, maybe Disney. But Disney, I think, is a little in trouble. But you know,

00:27:25.420 And then YouTube slowly lose relevance. So the people that are on YouTube that are pushing these

00:27:30.260 narratives, I wonder if they'll actually make it in the long run because the machine is absolutely

00:27:34.000 trying to re-control or gain control of the narrative once again. I don't know if there's

00:27:38.460 a world for someone like me in there. I guess I don't really care. I always have stated I have

00:27:43.080 no problem living in a van down by the river. But that is where it's going. That is what they've

00:27:47.600 been claiming and what they're going to be pushing for. I'm going to show you some of the responses

00:27:52.720 to this post. Shuanhead says, to be fair, it's really not that crazy to believe you had a private

00:27:58.880 call with Trump when you've had literal private meetings with Netanyahu. I don't blame people for

00:28:03.060 falling for this. Someone said he never had a private meeting with Netanyahu. He's invited

00:28:06.800 with a whole bunch of people to have a debate with Netanyahu. Nothing private about it at all.

00:28:11.660 I stopped watching when they added a Jewish correspondent. We have a correspondent who

00:28:16.180 happens to be Jewish. It's absolutely insane. Retardious Maximus, he is licking Trump's ass. 1.00

00:28:21.780 show has been unwatchable since his brain broke. And someone said, oh, shoot, not you too. You 1.00

00:28:28.500 caught the retard virus. Someone said, huh? One second before he said it literally, I'm about to 1.00

00:28:34.440 say is not true. Talk about falling for it. Indeed. What I can say about shoe on head is she's a

00:28:41.200 perfect example of this. Shoe on head was friends with Lauren Southern for a while. They did videos

00:28:46.660 together. When Lauren Southern was deemed persona non grata and was banned from Patreon,

00:28:51.600 Shuan Head came out saying, I am not friends with Lauren Southern. I found it to be shockingly

00:28:56.980 offensive. There is a famous moment in media and culture war history, which I respect deeply.

00:29:04.560 There's a man named Andrew Arnheimer, who is a, I guess he's a Nazi, neo-Nazi. I mean, 0.62

00:29:09.220 he's Jewish. He's a hacker. He was friends with many people in the hacker community, 1.00

00:29:12.840 people that I consider to be friends to this day. And it was a wild, wild story back, you know,

00:29:18.600 12, 15 years ago. Weave is the name he went by. And this guy was friends with a journalist by

00:29:25.940 the name of Quinn Norton. Quinn Norton is a progressive. She's fairly lefty, probably not

00:29:30.800 a fan of mine, but I know her. And we were friendly. I don't consider us to be like great

00:29:34.480 friends or anything, though we had hung out on occasion because she's friends with many of these

00:29:37.520 hackers. Quinn got a job with the New York Times. And she was going to be doing, I think,

00:29:42.580 like cybersecurity reporting. But word got out that she was friends with Andrew Ahrenheimer,

00:29:48.220 who has a giant swastika tattoo on his chest. When people attacked her, her response was,

00:29:54.780 F you, he's my friend. And I will have infinite respect for her always for saying that.

00:30:02.080 And I say this for many people that I have been attacked over being friends with.

00:30:07.680 Many people have attacked me recently for having Milo Yiannopoulos on the show.

00:30:12.200 And my response is the same.

00:30:14.320 F you.

00:30:15.200 Milo is my friend.

00:30:16.160 I don't consider it to be like great friends or anything.

00:30:18.140 But Milo has been very nice to me.

00:30:19.960 He has been respectful to me.

00:30:21.700 He has, you know, maybe some issues of contention between us.

00:30:27.140 But I don't have to agree with the guy.

00:30:31.520 I don't have to appreciate if he's mean to someone.

00:30:34.760 But I say that all the same.

00:30:37.520 Sometimes people will betray you.

00:30:39.260 Like Shuan had did to Lauren Southern.

00:30:41.200 And then I'm supposed to respect that?

00:30:42.560 Look, I've got no real beef with June or anything like that.

00:30:46.660 But this is the nature of the internet.

00:30:49.580 Certainly Milo is not an innocent guy or anything, whatever.

00:30:52.860 But people attacked him.

00:30:54.300 I said, I don't know anything.

00:30:55.660 By all means, people get criticized.

00:30:58.080 We hung out.

00:30:59.400 He's been nice to me.

00:31:00.200 He's had bad things about other friends of mine.

00:31:02.100 But he's done right by me and he's been nice to me.

00:31:04.620 And my response is, I got no issue with the guy.

00:31:07.260 He's helped me out on occasion.

00:31:09.460 He's my friend.

00:31:10.460 And then people say, how could you have that guy on the show? 0.97

00:31:12.980 And I'm just like, screw off, dude.

00:31:16.160 People have commented saying I should fire Shane Cashman because he's far right or he's 0.97

00:31:20.060 pro-Kandace or whatever.

00:31:20.960 And I'm like, F you, Shane's my friend.

00:31:23.700 I don't live in this world that y'all live in.

00:31:25.880 I don't live in worlds, the world of perfect people.

00:31:29.180 I don't live in a world where everyone is holding hands, singing songs under a rainbow

00:31:32.520 because they all believe in the exact same politics.

00:31:34.580 I live in a world where we have friends and I will stand by my friends even if they disagree.

00:31:39.560 Well, you know, Shane and Milo are friends as well.

00:31:42.780 I'm not going to fire, disavow or insult people who are nice to me and who I respect.

00:31:48.660 And even if we disagree strongly on a lot of things, you know, Milo come on the show

00:31:53.560 and he's like, I'm just so sad about you and Candace.

00:31:55.460 Like, why?

00:31:57.540 Well, I'm not friends with Candace, you know.

00:32:00.860 At any point, if any of these individuals want to insult, disavow or cast me out, so

00:32:06.540 be it.

00:32:06.820 I don't consider myself to be beyond, you know, criticism or otherwise. And sometimes people say

00:32:13.900 things you can't support. When Quinn said, you know, F you, he's my friend about weave. I was,

00:32:19.540 it was, it was, I was inspired. It's one of the, it's a formative moment in my life for sure

00:32:25.320 at this time. Again, not that I think Quinn probably respects me or anything like that,

00:32:29.740 but I think it was a very, very important moment. And I think about that. And I think about one of

00:32:35.820 the most important human attributes, and that's loyalty. One of my favorite stories is the story

00:32:40.920 of Hachiko the dog. If you don't know the story, I'll just give you the quick, you know, cliff

00:32:45.260 notes. The dog who waited at the train station every day for years, he would go, he would wait

00:32:51.080 for his owner, his best friend, to get back from work, and he was a professor, and they'd walk home

00:32:56.760 together. Except one day, the professor had a stroke while he was at his university teaching

00:33:00.680 and died. And Hachigo waited for him for 10 years. They tried to move him, but he would always come

00:33:07.080 back and he would wait, refusing to leave because he was waiting for his friend and

00:33:11.500 he was never going to give that up. They celebrate in Japan Loyalty Day. Loyalty, I think, is one of

00:33:18.480 the most important things. Blind loyalty can be dumb. Someone could be evil and they could be 1.00

00:33:21.740 betraying you. Maybe that's Trump, maybe not. But loyalty matters. People who have been good to you

00:33:26.600 and have helped you deserve the same. And if it comes to a point that someone I know who's a

00:33:31.600 friend of mine says something abhorrent, my response is I don't agree with what they say,

00:33:36.300 and I pray for them to come back to their senses. But I will never betray a friend.

00:33:44.500 I may be betrayed. People have betrayed me like crazy, and it is sad. But I'm not going to do that.

00:33:51.520 Right now, what we're seeing, in my opinion, is the epitome of betrayal from betrayers.

00:33:56.600 I've never started any direct beef with shoe on head or anything like that, but I don't consider

00:34:01.380 to be an honorable person, though I know that many people may be fans of hers because of what

00:34:04.640 she did to Lauren Southern. Lauren Southern is my friend, and no matter what she has said,

00:34:10.980 she is my friend. The same thing with Ashley St. Clair, who has been attacked relentlessly.

00:34:17.700 She has been critical of Elon. She has disavowed her statements on trans kids,

00:34:22.140 and she's gone Democrat. And my response will be the same. F you. She's my friend. I don't hang

00:34:28.960 out with her a whole lot or anything like that. People's opinions change. I'm disappointed in some

00:34:32.560 of the stances she's taken, but she's always been nice to me. And I don't understand this world of

00:34:38.460 betrayers and mutineers. It's shocking to me, really. Now, I get it. Elon's a powerful guy. 0.54

00:34:45.880 He follows me on X. I'm a big fan, actually. I love SpaceX. Critical of a lot of the stuff that

00:34:50.560 he does. But it's crazy to me to see that so many people would just turn on Ashley, an attacker like

00:34:57.160 crazy people that were friends with her. I mean, not like general audience on social media, because

00:35:01.500 of that, because they want the favor of Elon Musk. I like Elon. I've chatted with him online, never

00:35:06.520 met him in person. I'm a big fan of the work that he does. I love Tesla and I love SpaceX. I have

00:35:10.460 invested in Tesla as well, a little bit. But Ashley is also my friend. And I am not a part

00:35:17.600 of whatever their interpersonal drama is,

00:35:19.800 nor am I going to try and profit

00:35:21.580 off of whatever that might be.

00:35:23.300 Because it has nothing to do with me.

00:35:24.900 I can certainly comment on it.

00:35:26.960 But this is the world that we live in.

00:35:29.180 These people are not genuine.

00:35:31.100 It's all fake.

00:35:33.320 I posted this.

00:35:34.900 Internet personalities exist to become avatars of emotion

00:35:37.280 for select tribal factions or markets.

00:35:39.440 If you want to make money and get followers,

00:35:40.960 you find a commonality among people

00:35:42.240 and become the avatar of that view.

00:35:44.280 Sometimes people get lucky

00:35:45.180 and naturally fall into certain spaces,

00:35:46.660 which results in genuine support.

00:35:49.560 However, when the whims of tribes shift,

00:35:51.100 your job as an influencer is to adapt to the views

00:35:53.280 of the lowest common denominator.

00:35:54.860 Otherwise, revenue will decline.

00:35:57.480 I am making a point about others.

00:36:00.380 Notably, again, I'm not trying to drag you over this,

00:36:03.660 but you are the top comment on this post exemplifying this.

00:36:06.740 And you did write a letter attacking Lauren Southern,

00:36:09.480 who was your friend. 0.98

00:36:10.340 So you do exemplify this.

00:36:12.120 When it became clear that your friendship

00:36:14.000 with Lauren Southern was a risk to your social status,

00:36:16.660 and your revenue and your job. You disavowed her. I think that's disgusting. I think that's really

00:36:25.920 bad. She says it's not really crazy to believe it a private call with Trump. Indeed. But the

00:36:31.780 point of the clip was that I was going to say something that did not happen to expose that

00:36:36.440 people are going to clip it, share it and not even bother to look into what actually happened,

00:36:40.960 despite the fact it actually is kind of silly to think the president called me before he made

00:36:45.020 this post to thank me for being a supporter. I don't know, man. Everything's fake. I do love,

00:36:51.100 I can't tell if he's being sarcastic or not. Okay, so you just troll people and take the

00:36:57.560 bait. Well done. And what was the point? The point, Tim Jipping, if that is your real name,

00:37:03.460 was to expose that online, most of the commentary you absorb is fake. Sam Seder is a great example

00:37:11.340 of this, he too will pull clips out of context, then lie about them. And he literally admitted

00:37:17.480 to doing it on my show when I was debating him. He asked me about the hypothetical position

00:37:22.700 Republicans would take should they ban abortion, to which I don't agree with. And then I said,

00:37:26.840 I suppose they'd do it like this. And he goes, explain it. So I explained it. And they start

00:37:29.660 screaming at me, talking about how I would force women to get a letter from a judge and blah,

00:37:34.900 blah, blah. And I'm like, but I don't agree with any of that. And he goes, no, I just wanted that

00:37:38.260 clip because it's not real. At least he can admit it. I'll give Sam that respect. He flatly says on

00:37:44.380 my show, I'm lying to my audience, but it makes me money and gets me traffic. Another great example

00:37:50.060 of this was him. David Pakman made a video saying that Trump pooped his pants despite there's

00:37:53.800 literally nothing happened. It was a press conference. This is the nature of reality.

00:37:58.600 Can I show you? Let me see if I can. Trump poops. Yeah, here we go. Let me pull this up. I love that

00:38:04.900 David Pakman. He has this video, press rushed out after Trump, quote, pooped pants.

00:38:11.600 This has 2.5 million views. The basis for it is literally nothing. I'm not even kidding. It's

00:38:16.980 actually literal nothing. Trump held a press briefing. He finished the press briefing,

00:38:22.680 and then they said, OK, everybody, we're closing. And so they just made up that they closed because

00:38:27.420 Trump pooped his pants and it got 2.5 million views. I think this is largely why you're seeing

00:38:32.300 many people break from Trump. If you want to get views and political commentary, this ain't it.

00:38:37.720 If you want to get views and political commentary, you need to say that Trump pooped his pants.

00:38:43.160 And congratulations, I guess, then you will get 2.5 million views based on nothing.

00:38:49.960 My point about this clip where I said Trump called me was this. On the basis of nothing,

00:38:57.520 people who want to generate traffic to make money will knowingly manipulate the content

00:39:03.520 to trick people because it works. None of it is honest, but to be fair, they didn't care in the

00:39:10.220 first place. They're happy just to reshare the post without actually investigating or asking

00:39:16.580 what happened. The funny thing is, I actually had a few people reach out to me and be like,

00:39:20.500 is this true? Did Trump call you? And I was like, no. And they went, oh, okay. I'm like,

00:39:23.740 hey, good job. Good job actually checking into it. The scarier thing, of course, is when

00:39:30.760 Grok absolutely just says, yes, it happened. Look at this. Grok says, yes, according to Tim Poole.

00:39:37.540 That's amazing. Grok is an idiot. There's actually this huge thread where Grok 1.00

00:39:42.420 just keeps demanding it's true that Trump called me. I also said, funny enough, right after that,

00:39:49.740 I said, wait, that one's not salacious enough. Let me say this. How dare Donald Trump posts

00:39:55.260 about Tucker? I'm done. I am voting Democrat from now on. I am sick of the Republicans.

00:40:00.640 Where's that one going viral? Because it's whatever is going to get the clicks.

00:40:06.580 Trump hate gets the clicks. Me saying I support Democrats doesn't get the clicks.

00:40:12.040 So on YouTube, you are probably going to see a bunch of people saying like Trump is still

00:40:16.200 Tim is still defending Trump. You know, Trump defended Tim Poole and Tim defended Trump

00:40:20.440 because that Trump hatred generates traffic. I tweeted this in response to Ed Krasenstein.

00:40:26.600 Look at this one. It's got 4.5 million views with 1,400 retweets, 5,300 replies.

00:40:35.280 Ed Krasenstein said, Trump just completely turned on Tucker, Candace, etc. I said,

00:40:39.000 that does it. I am done. This is the last straw. I am so angry.

00:40:41.560 I was actually just mocking Ed, who said Trump is done. This is it. Because I've never much cared

00:40:50.120 for this stupidity. Yet here we are. This is the nature of reality. Democrats retweeted this like 1.00

00:40:59.580 crazy and are now posting that Tim Pool is quitting the Republican Party. Well, I'm not a Republican.

00:41:07.060 I can tell myself independent, currently leaning Republican, though I do expect Republicans to get

00:41:12.240 BTF owed, blown the F out, as they say in the Trump circles. Trump's base is fracturing because

00:41:17.960 anti-Trump content makes money. I'm not going to make content that says orange man bad.

00:41:24.940 I'm not going to do it. I make content consistently about how Democrats do bad things

00:41:29.480 because they do. And I think it's fair to criticize Donald Trump when it is bad things,

00:41:33.920 which I've done, but I still largely view the Democrats as lunatics needing of reform and the 0.87

00:41:39.460 Republicans largely as do nothings. So I was asked once, why do you make videos like Reagan on

00:41:44.320 Democrats all the time? I said, they do bad things. And I get asked, yeah, but what about

00:41:49.180 Republicans? I'm like, okay, like what are, what are, what do they do? Uh, yeah, I don't know.

00:41:55.960 Sure. The Epstein files. Guess what? I had Thomas Massey and Ro Khanna on, I think both twice

00:42:01.680 to get the Epstein files released. And we promoted those videos. But for the most part,

00:42:07.480 Republicans do nothing. They're not passing the SAVE Act. So I've called them fake. And it's a

00:42:13.760 scan. Criticize them for refusing to pass the SAVE Act. Indeed. The Democratic Party has been crazy

00:42:20.120 with leftist woke policies, DEI, and going after Trump to get him arrested, arresting his lawyers.

00:42:27.080 All of these things are insane. The Republican Party has largely done nothing. They've sat there

00:42:31.580 like the Washington generals to the Democrats' Harlem Globetrotters. Not much to really go

00:42:36.440 after the Republicans on when they don't do anything. And we want to stop the weird leftist

00:42:41.360 policy stuff. I'm not a fan of the Iran war, of course, but I would stress that you're going to

00:42:49.240 get war with any one of these presidents. Kamala Harris absolutely would have brought you this war. 0.91

00:42:53.080 And I think keeping one hand in the steering wheel is the effective way to control

00:42:56.220 to the best of our abilities. I wonder now what the true intention is. But what I will say is this.

00:43:03.320 It is, my friends, the ultimate black pill that. People are turning on Trump because it makes money.

00:43:12.600 I have a few examples. Let me let me drag at least one conservative. I went after shoe on head.

00:43:19.520 You make a comment, shoe. I'm going to comment on you. But there's another one that I want to pull

00:43:23.540 up. And it is from Brandon Strzok. And I'm going to throw some shade your way, Brandon.

00:43:29.700 I tweeted this sarcastically. Y'all don't get it. Trump is saving them. He's casting them out,

00:43:34.840 knowing that Democrats will come after anyone who supports him after the midterms. This is Trump

00:43:40.020 being magnanimous. The word being magnanimous, that is showing deference to those weaker than you.

00:43:50.540 generosity in a sense and then kellen walks in as i was like i'm gonna talk i'm gonna tweet this

00:43:57.240 and he's like he sees magnanimous and he goes magnanimous i was like oh that's too good so i 0.82

00:44:01.380 threw the extra a in there it's funny brandon strock says at i find retards you are needed 0.83

00:44:07.280 i find retards is an account that comments on retarded posts and mocks the people for believing 0.90

00:44:13.900 retarded things. Unfortunately for Brandon Strzok, this is very obvious sarcasm and you thought it 0.91

00:44:22.400 was real. So you asked, I find retards to come and comment. And so I posted the meme, call an 1.00

00:44:28.000 ambulance, but not for me. And do people still not get Tim Pool as a troll online? It's not even

00:44:36.320 that I'm trolling. It's that I'm making a point using sarcasm. I'm not intending people to take

00:44:42.580 that seriously when I use the word magnanimous. But you see people just, they don't want to ask

00:44:49.340 the question. They want the sensationalism. I use sarcasm to make points. This is not bait.

00:44:57.740 I did not post this so that people would think I was being serious. I posted it to literally

00:45:05.320 and sarcastically mock Trump. But these people are retards. Brandon Strzok. Walk away campaign 1.00

00:45:15.740 supporting Donald Trump. One million followers. I'm going to take a look at your X accounts and

00:45:21.340 see what your views have been recently. He says MAGA has become tribal, hive minded at war with

00:45:27.500 itself. I said it plainly at CPAC. That's his pinned post. I respect that. He then has a post

00:45:32.020 about Karen Bass announcing 360 million for NGOs aimed at homelessness. Interesting story.

00:45:38.340 When did he post this? 13 seconds ago. Just one up. Here's the next one. Deputies evacuated an

00:45:44.120 apartment complex after a maintenance building fire triggered explosions, prompting an emergency

00:45:47.860 response. Okay. He posted this 40 seconds ago. That's not even political. The walkaway campaign.

00:45:57.020 Okay, I guess your last post was just general news. Well, interesting nonetheless.

00:46:03.180 20 seconds before that, federal agents detained multiple people outside of a Rancho

00:46:07.540 Cucamonga courthouse, sparking confrontations. A little political. This one was posted a minute

00:46:14.340 ago. It's got two retweets. In that same minute, he posted this. Rep. Brandon Gill slams the

00:46:20.620 Dignidad Act. Okay, that's political. Wow. That's, what is that, four posts in a minute?

00:46:24.840 Four posts in one minute. Wow. Okay. Well, anyway, this one's got five retweets.

00:46:31.660 Two minutes before that, he posted, Matt Walsh blasts California influencer for allegedly

00:46:36.580 explaining how to exploit home health care programs. Cultural issue. It's interesting.

00:46:40.600 That same minute, he posted, George Conway grows emotionally, emotionally discussing his major

00:46:45.200 donation to Biden's effort. No retweets, 219 views. Two minutes before that, he posted a clip

00:46:51.120 from Fox News. Senate Republicans head to the White House for high-stakes meeting.

00:46:56.380 30 minutes before that, he posted the walk-away campaign, a retweet from the walk-away campaign.

00:47:01.020 Oh, okay. A couple of them. A couple of them. A video from Hassan Piker talking about working

00:47:07.460 class Americans. An hour before that, students at North Carolina chant F ice. Some political stuff.

00:47:15.180 Okay. Here's a video from an hour ago that's got three retweets and 4,000 views.

00:47:20.260 Tourists at Thailand's Maya Bay face strict enforcement with fines of $260 for staying

00:47:24.520 in the water too long.

00:47:26.160 Okay.

00:47:27.740 Don't know what that has to do with the walkaway campaign, Brandon.

00:47:32.380 Then he's got to Fox News Post, where Peter Doocy talks about it in that same hour.

00:47:36.380 In that same hour, another Fox News clip about the UAE.

00:47:38.860 In that same hour, another Fox News clip.

00:47:41.140 In that same hour, another Fox News clip.

00:47:43.020 Another Fox News clip.

00:47:44.780 Another Fox News clip.

00:47:46.120 Another, oh, this is, I'm sorry, Good Morning America.

00:47:48.960 Thieves in Long Beach stole steel pickup tires during the gas tanks.

00:47:53.660 Here's another one about EMS workers being assaulted.

00:47:57.220 Another Fox News clip about inflation.

00:48:00.000 Here's parents performing CPR on their 19-year-old son.

00:48:03.980 Here's the point I'm making, Brandon, about what you're doing. 1.00

00:48:08.740 You want to send the retard finder my way. 1.00

00:48:11.180 I'll use you as an example. 1.00

00:48:14.140 When viewership gets salty for Republicans, they've done two things.

00:48:16.940 conservatives have shifted to posting general content spam blasting it as it were i mean

00:48:22.640 homeboy brandon you're posting non-stop video clips generic without comments some just general

00:48:29.900 viral clips a podcast with ben sass who has facial scoring from his cancer treatments

00:48:34.500 uh the reality of student loan debt uh there you go uh a clip from the megan kelly show

00:48:41.520 Texas Roadhouse honey butter contains no actual butter.

00:48:45.240 Sure.

00:48:47.860 Americans talking about EBT, CDL drivers.

00:48:51.680 Some of these, of course, are cultural political.

00:48:54.980 Minneapolis Democrats moved to decentralize.

00:48:57.680 But how many posts per hour is Brandon blasting out?

00:49:01.760 Clips from Elon Musk.

00:49:04.240 I think it's fairly obvious Brandon's not running this account.

00:49:06.820 I think it's fairly obvious that Brandon,

00:49:08.220 as well as many other prominent individuals on the right, have started taking to posting

00:49:13.360 general informational and viral videos. Because that's the way to get clicks right now, I guess.

00:49:23.620 What we're seeing is pretty obvious, in my opinion. There are many people who are never

00:49:27.700 truly sincere. Some were, some were not. Now, I'm not going to throw Brandon complete under

00:49:32.460 the bus because the dude did go to prison over January 6th and being there. But there are many

00:49:36.200 people who have realized that the times they are a changing. And so two big trends that we're

00:49:41.020 seeing is prominent Trump personalities have flipped. Why? Well, on the surface, it's really

00:49:45.420 obvious. David Pakman gets 2.5 million views saying Trump is bad, pooped his pants. You make 0.96

00:49:52.120 a video saying Trump is good, you might you might get a couple hundred thousand. Many prominent

00:49:56.500 conservatives have chosen, OK, anti-Trump still plays. Anti-Israel plays. Pro-Trump, pro-Israel

00:50:03.860 does not play. So if you want views and you want money, that's your angle. Others who are unwilling

00:50:09.280 to take that jump have shifted to general viral videos. I've seen a bunch of these people that I

00:50:16.180 used to follow. I've unfollowed some of them because I used to follow them for commentary on

00:50:20.040 news, but now they're just posting like black people fighting at a Walmart. I'm not even kidding. 1.00

00:50:25.940 And I'm just like, okay. You know, Libs of TikTok has done it a little bit, posting viral content.

00:50:30.320 and there are a few other accounts that literally sold their accounts to viral posting farms for

00:50:36.760 that purpose. My friends, I'm going to be honest with you, I'm not interested in any of that.

00:50:42.860 I'm not interested in posting viral content for the sake of viral content. I'm interested in

00:50:46.540 talking about things that I care about, but it seems that the cultural uniformity is around

00:50:51.960 hating Donald Trump. If you want the largest market share, this is the tribe that watches the

00:50:57.860 most. That's what we are seeing. So I can't say I'm surprised to see the infighting at turning

00:51:04.620 point, Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories, the Trump base is fracturing. Pick your poison, I guess.

00:51:12.080 Well, you know, I don't know. I'm not going to, nor have I ever been, have I desired to

00:51:20.240 try and be an avatar for a shifting cultural landscape. I will talk about what I think matters

00:51:27.000 culturally, my thoughts and opinions on them. And the replies have been rather funny. Has Tim

00:51:32.100 changed his opinion on Israel yet? He hasn't? I won't watch him then. Okay. That was always allowed.

00:51:39.180 I wasn't asking you to watch me for my opinion on Israel. And if you develop the new opinion on

00:51:44.140 Israel based on the views of the videos you're watching and your hatred for Trump, you're allowed

00:51:48.800 to do that too. There's the door. You don't got to watch me. Now you can certainly be like Candace, 0.77

00:51:54.220 insincere and get as many views and make as much money as possible. But I was never interested in

00:52:01.880 that. So that's where we are. I call this, my friends, the ultimate black pill moment.

00:52:08.080 But I have to be honest with you. If you've watched my videos for a long time, you know that

00:52:11.880 I've said this a long time ago. After Occupy Wall Street, the left loved me. I was a hero.

00:52:17.020 My opinions never changed. Maybe on guns, but for the most part, my opinions on free speech

00:52:21.500 never changed. Yet they made me their enemy because I wouldn't support their political

00:52:26.120 power plays. Well, I suppose the same is now for the people that are breaking from Trump and hating

00:52:31.940 Israel. They love me once. They hate me now because I will not be an avatar of whatever

00:52:38.040 their whims are. I will just talk about what I think. And then they say Tim's narcissistic.

00:52:43.840 He's egotistical. He thinks he's so right. Yeah, I do. That's kind of the point. And if you think

00:52:48.860 I'm wrong and stop watching. That was always allowed. So that's it. If you want someone who

00:52:54.280 will just say what you think back to you, you can go find it with Candace Owens. Good luck. Have fun.

00:53:00.300 I ain't bitching. I'm gonna do my thing. Make videos about what I want to make videos about.

00:53:06.560 I don't know where all this goes. The midterms are coming up and it looks like the Republicans

00:53:10.120 are gonna lose. So I suppose we'll just have to figure that one out. If you made it this far

00:53:15.540 into a special hour-long Friday show.

00:53:17.580 I appreciate it.

00:53:18.220 Probably we're going to talk about similar things

00:53:20.260 on Timcast IRL.

00:53:22.460 David Pollack and George Santos will be here,

00:53:24.240 so it should be a fascinating conversation.

00:53:25.900 And then, of course, we'll be up at 8 p.m.

00:53:28.040 Could this be the breaking point right now?

00:53:30.360 Maybe.

00:53:31.080 But I also think that we saw something similar

00:53:33.400 with the DeSantis stuff.

00:53:34.980 So, to be honest,

00:53:36.780 the views that I was getting at the time

00:53:38.540 were less than the views that we're getting now.

00:53:41.480 So, shrug.

00:53:43.140 Timcast IRL is doing about 600,000 views per day, 7,000 if you include all the audio downloads.

00:53:49.680 We were doing about 350,000 to 400,000 at this same time in the previous election cycle.

00:53:54.060 So, guys, you can scream and cry and say, Tim's viewership is down and all that stuff.

00:53:58.440 I don't care.

00:53:59.780 You know what I mean?

00:54:00.360 Like, our viewership is doing fine.

00:54:03.020 We have a deal with Rumble.

00:54:04.900 Half our audience watches on Rumble, half on YouTube.

00:54:06.860 So, YouTube is down to a certain respect, but we track the metrics and we do the sales.

00:54:11.360 Our sales numbers are better than they've ever been.

00:54:13.820 I imagine that as we get into the midterm cycle, these rifts will sort of die down.

00:54:18.100 Things will change.

00:54:19.180 And I ask you only to think critically.

00:54:22.360 That's it.

00:54:23.640 You're not going to like me or anybody else.

00:54:25.320 But at least elevate yourself to a higher order of thinking.

00:54:29.240 Don't just blindly follow what everyone is telling you to believe.

00:54:34.040 There's money to be made in being anti-Trump.

00:54:37.760 Trump doesn't pay me.

00:54:38.740 I've never received money from any political group. I've not ever received any money from

00:54:43.640 any foreign government. In fact, I've only ever rejected it. The claims that I have received money

00:54:48.680 from Israel are a lie and stupid, or that there was anything discussed in that meeting with Netanyahu 1.00

00:54:53.420 other than the war with Iran, to which half the room is agreed with. The statement that I received 1.00

00:54:58.640 money from Russia is a fabrication, which has never been proven, and it's just plumb false.

00:55:03.620 The idea that the amount of money we received for licensing the culture war show, this show,

00:55:07.480 was substantial is also a lie, considering Call Her Daddy gets substantially more money.

00:55:13.160 And despite the fact that Culture War, when we were doing it live, was around the 10th

00:55:19.200 biggest live stream in the country every week on Friday, we license at a lesser rate

00:55:27.120 than smaller shows. But they lie. It's what they do, because the name of the game is political

00:55:33.140 power. And are you useful to those that are seeking that power? If not, away with ye.

00:55:40.340 So maybe away with me, but it is what it is. I'll make poker content, we'll play some Magic

00:55:47.740 the Gathering, and we'll talk cultural issues. I'll talk politics because I care about it,

00:55:52.100 but I'm never going to lie and pander to angry mobs on the internet. I'm not going to start

00:55:57.400 posting random viral clips where, you know, on my Timcast News channel, I have done some of that

00:56:03.540 in the past. A lot of the videos I had early on were just like trendy news stories about fights

00:56:08.340 at bars. Shift a little way from that, but sometimes I'll do it. My ex-account is never

00:56:13.220 going to just start spam posting news clips because I need the engagement. But whatever.

00:56:20.180 You guys do you. If you've got issue with what I've said, Shu or Brandon, like, by all means,

00:56:25.020 tell me I'm wrong. That was always allowed as well. And it is what it is for everybody else.

00:56:30.480 The point of that statement on IRL about Trump calling me. It's because you guys don't actually

00:56:36.540 listen. It's because you don't investigate. It's because you believe whatever the clip is,

00:56:41.560 regardless of context. And while mine was an egregious, obvious skit, an example that some

00:56:47.960 may fall for. Think about the times where you've seen a video where someone said something like

00:56:53.500 Trump is bad or Trump is good. For instance, right now, this is the network effect.

00:56:58.440 Democrats are circulating widely that I have finally left the Republicans that I've denounced

00:57:03.140 Donald Trump because of one sarcastic post. Instead of looking at my Twitter feed or watching

00:57:08.520 my show to see what I really think, they see one joke, take it seriously, and they've created a

00:57:13.340 narrative in their own minds. Okay. The Hodge twins have been accused of this. I'll throw them

00:57:19.500 before we go. I don't know if it's true, so I don't want to accuse them because, you know,

00:57:22.560 I don't know. But what I've been told, what the rumor is on X is that on X, they're very critical

00:57:27.420 of Trump and Israel. On Facebook, they're very pro-Trump and pro-Israel. I don't know if that's

00:57:32.240 true, but again, this is what you'll see if you see it on X. And I say I don't know if it's true

00:57:36.360 or not because I may be doing exactly what I criticize others of doing. But this is a good

00:57:41.720 point in that bigger picture. There is a belief that the Hodge twins have handed over their

00:57:45.860 accounts to managers and their interest is engagement. So on Facebook, they're pro-Trump

00:57:50.860 where they get a lot of boomers, and on X, they're not, where you get a lot of anti-Trump sentiment.

00:57:55.680 If that's false, it's another example of exactly what I'm talking about.

00:57:59.960 If it's true, it also is exactly what I've been talking about. Kind of funny how that works,

00:58:05.580 right? Either people are lying about them because it gets clicks, or the Hodge twins are lying to

00:58:10.960 you because it gets clicks. It's weird, isn't it? So I guess my friends, we'll wrap it up there.

00:58:16.160 So thanks for hanging out.

00:58:18.520 It's been a lot of fun.

00:58:19.300 Smash the like button.

00:58:20.060 Timcast IRL is coming up.

00:58:21.460 And yeah, we'll see you all for 8 p.m.

00:58:26.100 Follow me on X and Instagram if you want to.

The Culture War - Tim Pool - April 10, 2026

MAGA CIVIL WAR In Full Swing, Trump, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones And THE TRUTH

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