The Culture War - Tim Pool - PRIDE IS CANCELED, Pros REFUSE To Wear Pride Uniforms, MLB IS PISSED

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00:00:30.440 Pride is canceled. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, it is Pride Month. And how many of 0.85

00:00:35.760 you have seen a major company change their corporate logo on social media to a pride flag?

00:00:40.740 Very few. Yet, for some reason, it seems like baseball is the last holdout. The polling shows

00:00:48.040 that people are largely overwoke. Video games, movies, all of it is lining up saying woke is

00:00:55.200 broke. Pride is done. And the American people are tired of all of these weird social and cultural

00:01:02.440 trends that are just off-putting. Well, the story begins with a minor league baseball team that

00:01:07.980 refused to wear pride uniforms. So they had to cancel the event, call it a rain day, and apologize.

00:01:16.340 It's kind of weird they apologized. The teams just refused to do it. But wait,

00:01:20.480 It wasn't just the York Revolution, a minor league team.

00:01:24.120 The San Francisco Giants were warned not to vandalize their uniforms.

00:01:28.400 Now the MLB is saying the same thing because they were they were trying to write Bible verses over the pride imagery.

00:01:35.540 When we look across the board at America, culturally, from music to sports, all of this woke stuff is getting washed out.

00:01:44.080 And what people are asking for is normalcy.

00:01:48.160 It's kind of weird when you think about it, how we got to the point in the weird woke era that we did, but it seems to be dead.

00:01:53.540 I covered this a little bit earlier, but a new poll put up by CNN shows a plurality of Americans believe that social and cultural acceptance has gone too far.

00:02:06.320 Now, woke may be done in the public space, but the woke, the people who believe these insane things, certainly still exist.

00:02:15.920 And according to this poll, around 30 or so percent of the country actually still wants

00:02:20.480 this stuff.

00:02:21.100 Now, I do believe that the poll itself was skewed heavily liberal based on the responses

00:02:26.040 we got.

00:02:26.960 The poll showed as to who these people are getting their news from.

00:02:30.540 They named a lot of lesser known liberal personalities as their source of news.

00:02:35.060 But even then, they still said this stuff has gone too far.

00:02:41.180 So when I look at all of this, I have to wonder, how are they predicting?

00:02:45.280 a midterm Democrat blowout. Now, listen, far be it from me to think I know everything's

00:02:54.000 good reason the Democrats do win in November based on historical trends.

00:02:58.720 But we do have coming up in just a week or so Supreme Court rulings on mail-in voting that

00:03:05.020 could change everything. But that aside, we're here talking about cultural issues. I would just

00:03:09.940 say it like this. When the overwhelming majority, when every major institution is now rejecting

00:03:16.260 these progressive ideologies and prominent Democrats are still espousing this, the question

00:03:23.400 becomes, how do they win an election in November? I don't see it as being reasonable. But let's talk

00:03:31.100 about exactly what went down with these baseball teams. And I will also stress Marvel movies and

00:03:37.860 even GTA 6. There's been a rumor going around for a long time. GTA Grand Theft Auto 6, one of the

00:03:45.600 most anticipated games of all time. Delay, delay, delay. Why? Well, the rumor is that they're

00:03:52.740 working on this game throughout the woke era. Some people say they make a scrawny white character

00:03:57.940 with a girl boss, female. There's some woke elements in it. And then once they realize this

00:04:03.820 stuff is not popular. They have to quickly remove it all, retool the game. Those are some of the

00:04:09.180 rumors that have been circulating. Not to mention Kevin Feige at Marvel reportedly fired all of the

00:04:13.980 woke activists because their movies started to fail. That's right. A multi-billion dollar movie

00:04:20.220 franchise started failing when they went woke. Well, you know, rest in your catharsis, my friends.

00:04:27.860 We were right the whole time and now we see it. Let's jump into the story. But before we do,

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00:05:25.480 Minor league baseball team cancels Pride Night game after players refuse to wear rainbows.

00:05:30.880 They say, the Revolution's game, this is the York Revolution, against Southern Maryland Blue Crabs is going to mark the Pennsylvania team's 11th annual Pride Night.

00:05:41.460 But players refused to don special jerseys that had rainbow sleeves.

00:05:46.360 Do we actually, okay, I don't know if they have the image.

00:05:49.140 The Revolution forfeited.

00:05:51.640 Think about the degree to which that fight happened behind the scenes. 0.92

00:05:55.260 So these players for the York Revolution are told, you got to wear your gay pride uniform.

00:06:02.200 And these players go, I ain't wearing it.

00:06:04.660 This means the bosses literally told them, you either wear the uniforms or you don't play.

00:06:10.600 And they said, then we won't play.

00:06:13.180 Instead of the revolution, the ownership saying, fine, fine, just play the game.

00:06:19.100 They said, no game at all.

00:06:21.880 This is wild.

00:06:23.860 This decision was not reached lightly.

00:06:26.240 The spirit of Pride Night would have been compromised if players had been forced to wear uniforms that celebrated the community, the Revolution said.

00:06:32.800 Other Pride Night events were held.

00:06:34.540 So we've got the official statement here from the York Club posted as of yesterday at 11, 18 p.m.

00:06:43.600 They said, it is with great disappointment and that the York Revolution have issued important changes to our 11th annual Pride Night on Thursday, June 18th.

00:06:52.520 Most significantly, the scheduled game between York and Southern Maryland will not be played,

00:06:57.900 and Pride will still be hosted as a free admission event.

00:07:00.700 Everyone's tickets for the game on Thursday will be treated as a rainout that can be redeemed for any future game.

00:07:04.720 The decision was not reached lightly.

00:07:06.940 Unfortunately, several of our players have refused to wear the scheduled Pride night jersey,

00:07:11.420 and the club decided that hosting the event is more important than forcing players to wear the jerseys

00:07:15.880 they are not comfortable with in playing the game.

00:07:18.920 As a result, and out of respect for the Pride community and the York community as a whole,

00:07:23.500 the York Revolution has decided the game on Thursday will be forfeited

00:07:26.980 and that Pride night will continue on as the feature element of the evening at Wellspan Park.

00:07:32.960 I'm going to go ahead and say I do not believe this was just over the uniforms.

00:07:37.440 I think the players outright refuse to play

00:07:39.620 because it makes no sense that they would still host the event

00:07:43.320 but would not just let them wear whatever uniform they wanted.

00:07:47.340 They say,

00:07:48.020 We feel this is the best way to stay consistent with our longstanding partnership with the Rainbow Rose Center,

00:07:52.660 JLS Automation, and the long list of allies that have always been key partners of the York Revolution's success in York, Pennsylvania.

00:07:58.760 To be clear, this action by the players is completely inconsistent with our vision as the most welcoming place in York.

00:08:05.400 As a small token of our regret for the last-minute change of plans to support our LGBTQIA+, representing partners,

00:08:11.580 We are making a $10,000 donation to Rainbow Rose Center to support and further their work in making sure the York community is as inclusive as we strive to make the WellSpan Park in York, Pennsylvania.

00:08:24.680 Please join us for a free and fun celebration of recognition and inclusion on June 18th, starting at 530 at WellSpan Park.

00:08:31.160 The event will end at 9 and we'll have limited concession open.

00:08:34.680 We will enjoy community music, batting practice in the field.

00:08:37.860 The York Revolution will return to the field at home on Friday, June 19th.

00:08:41.160 and they go to mention, you get your tickets, and blah, blah, blah.

00:08:43.880 Here's the roster, my friends.

00:08:46.340 These guys, young guys, you got birthdays in 1998 and 2000, 97, 2002. 0.70

00:08:53.880 A bunch of young bucks from all across this country stood up and refused to be gay. 0.93

00:08:58.760 And for that, they will not play.

00:09:01.540 And bravo to these guys.

00:09:03.700 The younger generation, man, the kids are all right.

00:09:06.020 This is not like a Bible group.

00:09:09.040 This is a baseball team with people from all across the country, and they refused to play this game.

00:09:16.380 I say bravo, good sirs.

00:09:18.140 This is what we needed to see, and I think it's good news for, it's hope, right, that this country may in fact be okay moving forward.

00:09:28.340 There's more, though.

00:09:29.780 It wasn't just here.

00:09:31.360 Let me show you this one.

00:09:33.300 We'll come back to this one, but this one's big.

00:09:34.760 after house leaders declined to hear pride month resolution lgbtq caucus reads it outside yep 0.62

00:09:42.860 even in michigan politically they would not let these people with their freaky deaky flags

00:09:49.020 come and read their resolution they said no here's where it gets crazy check take a look at this

00:09:54.220 story major league baseball issues warning to giants pitchers for writing bible verses on pride

00:10:02.040 caps. Bravo. Check this out. Citing league policy, Major League Baseball has issued a warning to

00:10:11.220 three Giants pitchers who inscribed Bible verses on their pride night caps during Friday's game

00:10:16.880 against the Cubs. The writing of the cap violate our rules and consistent with normal practice,

00:10:21.980 we have warned the players about future violations. You can shove it. You mean to tell me

00:10:28.100 that these guys got to wear pride symbols and that doesn't break the rules, but writing a Bible

00:10:33.880 verse does. Spare me. Shout out to these guys. Starting pitcher Landon Root and relievers JT

00:10:41.160 Brubaker and Ryan Walker each appeared in the game with Bible verses scrawled on the evening

00:10:46.140 special rainbow colored caps originally meant in celebration of pride and the LGBTQIA plus

00:10:52.420 community per the Giants organization. Reliever Sam Hentges, who also appeared in the game,

00:10:57.500 opted not to wear the pride cap at all, and instead donned the Giants' regular orange and

00:11:02.180 black cap. Asked about his cap following the game, Rupp told reporters, it's just about God's

00:11:07.360 covenant and a promise that he makes to us that, you know, his faithfulness and his mercy. That's

00:11:12.020 the kind of something I believe in and stand firm in that. And I'm thankful we live in a country

00:11:15.840 where, you know, we have the freedom to believe what we want and express what we want. Rupp's

00:11:21.280 verse, Genesis 9, 12 through 16 reads as follows. This is amazing. This is absolutely incredible.

00:11:28.340 And God said, this is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living

00:11:32.980 creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come. I have set my rainbow in the clouds and

00:11:38.340 it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth

00:11:42.000 and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all

00:11:46.320 living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

00:11:51.720 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant

00:11:55.740 between God and all living creatures of every kind on earth. Indeed, many of you know this.

00:12:02.040 Many of you may not. The rainbow is God's covenant to the earth. Do not flood it ever again.

00:12:07.640 I was talking to Seamus Coughlin, Freedom Tunes. This was years ago. And he had discussed how

00:12:13.920 they have appropriated that symbol. The rainbow was taken from Christians and Jews and used as

00:12:20.240 a symbol of pride, of debauchery. And I said to him, just take it back. Just make the rainbow 1.00

00:12:28.320 the Christian symbol of God's covenant. And, you know, Christians were unwilling to do this. 0.98

00:12:33.820 Seeing it now, now that is brilliant. These men, apparently they wrote Genesis 9, 12, 16

00:12:40.440 on the hat to say that this rainbow, it's not of pride, but of Christianity.

00:12:46.880 The Giants pitchers aren't the first MLB players to add Bible passages, passage numbers to Pride-themed caps.

00:12:53.340 Most notably, former L.A. Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw inscribed the same verse as Roop on his cap for his organization's Pride Night last season.

00:13:00.560 Let's go! These are men.

00:13:03.580 Look at this.

00:13:04.860 MLB warns players not to deface uniforms in wake of silent Pride Night protests.

00:13:10.220 The edict came after several San Francisco Giants players openly defied the team's Pride Night.

00:13:15.700 Cry more.

00:13:17.780 Cry more. 0.77

00:13:19.360 The book of Genesis has become a favorite citation for opponents of gay rights. 1.00

00:13:23.000 Do you see how they lie? 0.96

00:13:25.060 NBC News is one of the most egregious manipulators and liars. 0.90

00:13:31.100 The Giants held their annual celebration for the LGBTQ. 0.99

00:13:34.920 Oh, where's the IA plus? 0.99

00:13:36.660 You forgot them, huh?

00:13:38.000 On Friday at Oracle Park.

00:13:39.400 They say they wrote the Bible verse Genesis 9-12.

00:13:42.580 They go in and then say the book of Genesis has become a favorite citation for opponents of gay rights.

00:13:46.880 What they cited did not target gay people.

00:13:50.980 It referenced the covenant to not flood the earth. 0.89

00:13:54.920 They write it this way to trick you, to manipulate you.

00:13:58.940 They said, to be clear, this routine verbal warning not to wear the hat in the future games is not disciplinary and had absolutely nothing to do with the content of the message.

00:14:05.780 We respect players' rights to free expression.

00:14:08.080 However, writing of any kind with any message is prohibited per major league baseball uniform regulations, which provide in part that a player may not write, attach, affix, embroider, blah, blah, blah.

00:14:16.880 or otherwise display nicknames or messages in apparel,

00:14:20.100 wouldn't the pride flag be exactly that embroidered?

00:14:24.200 Yeah.

00:14:25.780 MLB said the warning had no direct tie to the players' actions on Pride night.

00:14:29.180 We've given the same warning to numerous times players who wrote

00:14:31.780 Happy Mother's Day, I love Mom, etc., etc.

00:14:34.460 Some Republicans, including Vice President J.D. Vance and Senator Josh Hawley,

00:14:38.440 were quick to defend the players.

00:14:39.520 Indeed, many, many were.

00:14:40.760 We got this article here from TimCast.com, written by yours truly.

00:14:44.280 Plurality of Americans say society has gone too far on cultural acceptance, CNN poll finds.

00:14:50.020 The divide in America has only gotten worse.

00:14:53.480 A share of Americans, a growing share, believe the country has gone too far in accepting different cultures,

00:14:58.700 gender identities, and sexual orientations, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS,

00:15:02.560 with a shift driven by a hardening of attitudes since last summer and exposing deep divides by party, gender, and ideology.

00:15:08.020 In the survey, 47% of Americans said society has gone too far accepting these differences,

00:15:12.480 up from 41% in a comparable scene and poll conducted in late August and early September

00:15:17.100 of 2025.

00:15:18.360 Over the same period, the share saying society has not gone far enough slipped from 36 to

00:15:23.160 33, and the portion describing the current level of acceptance as about right fell from

00:15:27.660 24 to 19.

00:15:29.960 So there's a lot to break down in here.

00:15:32.580 Obviously, conservatives felt they've gone too far.

00:15:34.700 Democrats didn't.

00:15:35.500 Men thought they went too far. 0.97

00:15:36.500 Women didn't.

00:15:36.960 but for the most part, the change is stark. It is happening. We are seeing it outright.

00:15:42.400 Take a look at this one. Fresnoland. Fresnoland, ladies and gentlemen, we've got Fresno. We love

00:15:47.220 Fresno. Fresno County adopts alternative to LGBTQ month. Oh yeah? They say Fresno County

00:15:54.720 supervisors created an alternative, Nuclear Family Month. Bredsfield's original resolution

00:15:59.940 declared a family of one husband and one wife, God's perfect design, and accused LGBT groups

00:16:04.760 of promoting gender mutilation. 0.89

00:16:06.760 You know what I want to say 0.99

00:16:07.360 on all this one?

00:16:08.620 On all this stuff?

00:16:10.580 Why is there a movement,

00:16:12.940 a political movement

00:16:13.700 about acceptance

00:16:14.300 based on dudes banging each other?

00:16:16.840 It's an honest question.

00:16:18.440 No, no, no.

00:16:18.780 I want you all to really think

00:16:20.360 about this question.

00:16:21.360 And I know many of you got answers,

00:16:22.340 so comment, let me know.

00:16:24.420 I just think it's like,

00:16:26.220 so a guy wants to hook up with a guy 0.86

00:16:28.120 and women want to hook up with a woman 1.00

00:16:30.340 and some people want all of it. 1.00

00:16:32.740 That's LGB.

00:16:34.760 Then they added trans, which is very different.

00:16:38.160 It's not the same thing at all.

00:16:39.700 You're adding now DSM-5 mental disorders in with sexual preferences.

00:16:45.220 Then they add the Q, which is ill-defined.

00:16:47.820 It means nothing. 0.98

00:16:48.900 The I, intersex. 1.00

00:16:50.780 A, asexual. 0.99

00:16:51.820 Then they have like 2SS, 3PO plus, you know, whatever.

00:16:58.040 They add all of these weird numbers and it becomes a political movement.

00:17:01.720 Now, I got another question.

00:17:03.040 why did they add a black and brown stripe to the pride flag? That's for black people. 0.77

00:17:09.120 Why? What? What is this? Why are baseball games celebrating whatever the F that is? 0.97

00:17:17.300 What does a black man trying to get a job have to do with a guy who wants to bang another guy? 0.98

00:17:22.160 Therein lies the problem with woke. It's communism. They were simply saying, 0.97

00:17:26.660 we want everyone to feel aggrieved so that we can burn everything down. And it was weird.

00:17:32.760 and we don't like it. And it's gone. You know, I want to give a shout out to Sabrina Carpenter

00:17:36.300 for one of the funniest things ever, though she apologized. She's playing piano and someone goes

00:17:40.340 like, or whatever. And she goes, what is that? And she makes his face like, what? I don't like

00:17:45.080 that. Stop. And they're like, it's my culture. And she's like, I don't care. And then she had

00:17:50.000 to apologize for it later. Here we go from WITN. It's an abomination. Washington councilman clashes

00:17:56.780 with LGBTQ community over Pride Month.

00:18:00.000 Well, Washington City Councilman Joe Davis

00:18:02.020 is at odds with Mayor Ellen Bravo yet again.

00:18:04.680 He is speaking out on social media,

00:18:06.300 disagreeing with Bravo signing an official proclamation

00:18:09.140 designating June as Pride Month in the city of Washington.

00:18:12.960 Chris Cook is live after talking to Davis

00:18:15.560 and members of the LGBTQ plus community in Washington.

00:18:18.820 Chris.

00:18:22.660 Dave, Courtney, I'm here in Newport

00:18:24.840 where I met Davis for an interview earlier this afternoon.

00:18:28.000 He said he has a real problem with Washington recognizing June as Pride Month.

00:18:32.480 He even introduced a resolution to declare June as Nuclear Family Month back on the 8th.

00:18:38.980 If I'm honest, every time he speaks, it kind of makes me sick. 1.00

00:18:43.320 That's what the LGBTQ plus community in Washington is saying

00:18:46.480 after City Councilman Joe Davis pushed back against Pride Month being recognized in the city.

00:18:51.200 Davis says Pride Month conflicts with Christian values he was elected on.

00:18:55.340 What the Bible says is that it's an abomination and it leads to eternal destruction.

00:19:00.300 And this all stems from Mayor Ellen Bravo signing a proclamation Tuesday designating June as Pride Month in Washington. 0.81

00:19:06.240 G.G. Jackson is a member of that community and lives in Washington.

00:19:09.760 She believes Davis is only creating division.

00:19:12.200 Things like that just make this community more separated than it needs to be.

00:19:17.600 Alexis Gherkin is a member of the LGBTQ plus community and used to live in Washington.

00:19:23.100 She still works there now.

00:19:24.440 She wants Davis to let the community love who they want.

00:19:26.840 My wife and I have created a beautiful life for ourselves, just like any other normal person should absolutely be able to do.

00:19:33.800 I don't understand why there's any issue with that.

00:19:36.300 And Davis says his comments about Pride Month come from a place of love, not hate.

00:19:40.040 And I would love for them to come out of that lifestyle and turn to God and repent and be born again and trust in Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

00:19:47.600 But just one example that I pulled up of many, many examples, this story, of course, just from the other day in Washington, North Carolina.

00:19:54.980 So this is just what we are seeing. More and more people pushing back, saying, no more woke. I don't want this stuff. Get it out of there.

00:20:02.620 Here we go. Huffington Post, GOP makes pointed dig with family month push.

00:20:08.760 Yeah. Yeah, you're losing. More and more people are standing up.

00:20:11.800 You know, it's fascinating how people were terrified to speak up for this stuff back in like 2019, 2020, and now you're cooked.

00:20:20.500 People finally broke and they said, I just don't care anymore. Stop.

00:20:25.320 And you had to. Here we go. Washington Post. I love it.

00:20:29.680 What happened when one university set up to purge woke classes?

00:20:34.480 University of Florida and other red state schools are fostering a conservative vision for the humanities to compete against courses with more diverse perspectives.

00:20:42.500 How about this? 0.99

00:20:43.760 There's a viral video where it's like a black woman talking about like black science. 0.98

00:20:49.460 And this is the world these people live in. 0.98

00:20:52.000 And I'm done.

00:20:52.740 These ideas need to be crushed, splintered and scattered into the wind.

00:20:57.540 She said there's like this video where they're talking about how like, you know, they have

00:21:01.740 their own science where they can do dances to make it rain.

00:21:04.460 And then we're all sitting here like, oh, my God.

00:21:07.320 Listen, science is not perfect, but we certainly know you can't dance to make it rain.

00:21:10.480 But there are people who believe it does.

00:21:11.800 And the argument from the woke is that the white man came and colonized and stripped away their

00:21:16.500 knowledge. But that knowledge is equal and needs to be applied equally in the universities. And I

00:21:21.400 say, fire all of these people, destroy whatever ridiculous garbage ideas, smash them, splinter 1.00

00:21:29.320 it, scatter it to the wind, all that good stuff. It's insanity. Guys, there's always this big 1.00

00:21:34.820 argument about book burning being bad and all that stuff. And I'm like, generally, we want

00:21:38.220 people to be able to understand what these people are saying. I'm saying when you put these insane

00:21:42.960 ideas into curriculum to claim they're true, none of that. You want to put a book there where it's

00:21:49.080 like, here's what people believe and here's why it's wrong. That's fine. That's not what they

00:21:52.780 were doing. But we got to do it. 2024. It all begins. It all begins. August 3rd, 2024. Remember

00:22:01.400 that? Can you believe it's almost been two years? Man, that's wild. Trump's been president for about

00:22:07.460 a year and a half. Marvel Studios fired woke producers after phase four failure claims rumor.

00:22:13.820 Indeed. All right. I know a lot of you probably don't care about the movies and the comic books

00:22:18.580 and all that stuff, but let's get into it because it does matter. This is culture. This is a billion

00:22:22.660 dollar franchise. They say a major rumor claims Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios have fired their

00:22:27.020 incompetent woke creatives following the massive failure of phase four. It's known as of late that

00:22:32.260 MCU movies have suffered their worst performance at the box office, which include the Marvels,

00:22:36.040 the lowest performing MCU super and superhero movie of all time. Wow. And superhero movie.

00:22:42.760 Really? Come on. Catwoman exists. We just remember Catwoman. Okay. Anyway, the story goes like this.

00:22:50.940 So you get multi-billion dollar films. I mean, this is insane. You get Dr. Strange,

00:22:57.540 smash hit, you get Avengers, you get Guardians of the Galaxy, and it is raining money because

00:23:02.860 everybody loves this. One of the greatest things, I swear, guys, it really matters. We got to dig

00:23:08.320 into this stuff. Game of Thrones was awesome until the last few seasons, but it was amazing

00:23:12.120 that we would all go out and see the same movie, and we don't have that anymore because they made 0.53

00:23:18.560 a bunch of junk. They miscast The Little Mermaid. Instead of having Ariel's, everybody wanted to

00:23:25.220 see Ariel. They opted to go for a young black woman and then bleached her hair red. Why do that? 0.99

00:23:31.640 Why not just give us Ariel?

00:23:32.780 And it did poorly.

00:23:34.320 I mean, they made money, but when you take a look at this, they did the Marvels.

00:23:39.180 You know, they did Captain Marvel.

00:23:40.640 I think Captain Marvel made a billion dollars, but it made a billion dollars because people

00:23:44.020 loved Endgame.

00:23:45.120 And that's what I say about Pirates of the Caribbean.

00:23:46.800 Pirates of the Caribbean, one, awesome. 0.98

00:23:48.580 Two, sucked.

00:23:49.680 Two made a lot of money because one was awesome. 0.99

00:23:51.900 And then three sucked. 0.99

00:23:53.760 Four sucked. 0.99

00:23:55.080 And then I think five was good. 0.92

00:23:56.560 I don't know.

00:23:57.360 Insane.

00:23:58.540 But the first Pirates was a masterpiece.

00:24:01.600 Guys, Pirates of the Caribbean, that first movie, absolutely amazing.

00:24:06.420 So here's what happens.

00:24:07.780 They get all high on their bridges and they're like, Captain Marvel made a lot of money.

00:24:11.140 So let's do the Marvels.

00:24:12.200 And it bombs because everybody hated Captain Marvel.

00:24:15.220 So here we are.

00:24:17.100 In 2024, the rumor was they were firing everybody.

00:24:20.740 They announced at Comic-Con they were bringing back the Russo's and Robert Downey Jr.

00:24:25.180 Can you just imagine how insane?

00:24:26.600 and it says they've cleaned house. They fired everybody. That's incredible. A terrible tragedy.

00:24:32.360 Indeed. Star Wars lost cause. The rumor comes from Chris Gore, who recently appeared on the

00:24:38.020 Critical Drinkers YouTube podcast. I do know people who work at Marvel. They have cleaned house.

00:24:42.860 They quietly months ago fired all the producers that could be labeled activist. Indeed. Pretty

00:24:49.300 sure they did. Here's what was supposed to happen. Brie Larson was chosen to replace Robert Downey

00:24:55.240 Jr. as the face of the MCU. It was actually a really, really good plan, and they ruined

00:25:00.660 everything. Talk about dumb. Think of this. Robert Downey Jr. has got a good 10 years 1.00

00:25:06.480 as the face of the MCU. Breakout star. Everybody loves Iron Man. A lesser character becomes

00:25:13.000 Marvel's most valuable. Crazy, right? Beating out Spider-Man. Spider-Man was number one for

00:25:17.740 a long time. Spider-Man. Everybody wanted pictures of Spider-Man. Well, Robert Downey Jr. can't last

00:25:24.060 forever. So they decide we're going to have him move on. He's going to retire. Tony Stark dies,

00:25:28.100 all that stuff. Brie Larson is Captain Marvel is going to come in as the central figure leading

00:25:33.220 the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Brie Larson was woke, a feminist, deeply unlikable, 1.00

00:25:38.900 poorly cast, and everyone hated the woke elements, but they were banking everything.

00:25:44.860 Let me tell you about fusion. I worked at fusion, right? 2014 to 2016. And they told me woke was

00:25:51.700 the future. They said, this is what young people want. And I was like, no, they don't. You're

00:25:56.040 making that up. I believe the budget was $300 million, all flushed down the toilet, bankrupt,

00:26:01.460 gone. Actually, does Splinter still exist? Do they still have a... Nope.

00:26:08.820 So Fusion dies, bankrupts, fires everybody. They launched the website as a standalone for dirt

00:26:15.360 with a skeleton crew called Splinter. And now Splinter is just a component of Jezebel because

00:26:19.600 it all died, because everybody hated it. And that's what happened with Brie Larson. Man,

00:26:25.000 could you imagine if they listened? So Robert Downey Jr. steps down, Brie Larson comes in, 0.98

00:26:28.900 and everyone hates her guts, the movie bombs, and they go, this isn't working, we need somebody

00:26:32.940 else. But they no longer had a linchpin. They tried to do Falcon, you know, as Captain America,

00:26:39.240 and it did okay, but everybody was kind of like, eh. They brought in Harrison Ford,

00:26:43.740 oh, we need him. Meh. So here's where they went. Let's go back 10 years and bring back

00:26:48.520 Chris Evans, Hemsworth and Robert Downey Jr. That's right. The big breakout movie this Christmas

00:26:53.740 is going to once again be Robert Downey Jr. But thank God nature is healing. And then we get this

00:27:01.600 Grand Theft Auto. This is from the Steam community. Check it out. Grand GTA 6 delay because of Trump

00:27:08.780 from January of 25. I think GTA 6 will get further delayed because they need they'll need to remove

00:27:15.580 all the woke heart, heart, heart, heart from the story now that Trump won and banned woke.

00:27:21.080 Yeah. They said the ban is mainly about government entities, right? DEI is a rebrand of bridge.

00:27:27.280 Maybe. Here we go from Cosmic Book News again. GTA 6 delay not about DEI. Insider says devs are

00:27:34.960 in the dark. This is from May of 25. So GTA 6, one of the most highly anticipated games ever,

00:27:42.780 is now set for its release.

00:27:45.480 I believe they're doing pre-sales

00:27:47.620 either now or very, very, very soon.

00:27:49.820 And they're saying it's finally happening.

00:27:51.580 I'm going to tell you this.

00:27:52.900 I believe that the reason it got delayed 0.68

00:27:54.640 was because they had to purge Woke, genuinely.

00:27:56.620 Because I made a video about it

00:27:57.620 like a year and a half ago.

00:27:58.900 When they showed the trailer videos

00:28:01.120 and you play as a female 0.93

00:28:02.320 and they're like, play as a woman. 0.98

00:28:03.460 I'm like, guys, I made a joke

00:28:05.200 and the left got really mad.

00:28:06.460 I'm like, this media where you play a woman 0.97

00:28:08.720 going around beating the crap out of a bunch of men, 1.00

00:28:11.000 it's just silly. 0.98

00:28:12.380 Like, does anyone really believe a woman is going to walk up to a random guy and knock him out?

00:28:16.940 And so they all got mad about it.

00:28:18.460 Here you go.

00:28:19.360 Rumors and speculation have been swirling.

00:28:21.080 The delay might actually be due to the game devs removing woke content. 0.94

00:28:24.220 At the same time, it's also rumored they've been adding that type of content to make it less crude towards minorities and transgenders.

00:28:29.780 According to Kern, aka Grums on X, sources close to development say the delay isn't related to DEI, as some speculate, but rather to give the team more time to polish. 1.00

00:28:38.020 B.S., I say.

00:28:39.900 You were in development for a decade plus, and that was through the woke era.

00:28:44.900 And of course, they probably played the same games and tooled the story to include these 0.99

00:28:49.380 garbage woke elements like privilege and men and all that trash. 0.98

00:28:52.620 And then when Bud Light happened, everybody dropped a load freaking out. 0.99

00:28:57.760 And now here we are.

00:28:59.920 Indeed, the game's finally set for release.

00:29:02.240 How much you want to bet they purged most of that stuff?

00:29:05.160 You're not going to see it.

00:29:06.320 And we got a new Spider-Man trailer.

00:29:08.540 You know, woke doesn't seem to play a role in it. 0.62

00:29:11.500 White male protagonist.

00:29:13.680 The Wall Street Journal says woke isn't dead or even resting. 0.90

00:29:16.280 Defund and dismantle all you want.

00:29:17.700 But the work continues.

00:29:18.760 Virginia's chief diversity officer says this is from May of this year, just a month ago. 1.00

00:29:24.500 And they're right.

00:29:25.920 Right now, there is a dominant culture pushing back, but woke is dying.

00:29:30.540 I don't know that they will be able to make their comeback.

00:29:33.200 They are getting crushed out of business.

00:29:34.740 It is not profitable.

00:29:35.980 But what I will say is this.

00:29:38.320 The culture war is largely over.

00:29:40.680 Now, we still have elements of conflict between Democrats and Republicans, but our way, our off-ramp, you know, Phil and I always said there's no off-ramp to this culture, this cold civil war, whatever you want to call it.

00:29:51.900 It may just be, and I have described this, though, I think it's a lesser probability, but maybe becoming something more probable.

00:29:58.600 They just fizzle out, and they lose power, and people stop getting interested in putting money into these things.

00:30:03.840 USAID was crushed.

00:30:05.400 All of that money evaporated.

00:30:07.020 and that may have been the victory. From that point on, it may be over. No more money to funnel

00:30:16.160 into things that people hate, because you wonder who's working for these projects. Indeed. I wonder

00:30:22.400 if moving forward, the Democrats are forced to just dump this progressive garbage because they're 1.00

00:30:27.700 going to lose too many elections. The Republicans are going to keep pushing back, but they'll be 0.98

00:30:31.640 largely divided. And I think on other issues, Israel, foreign policy. And right now, I would

00:30:36.800 say this. In 2018, you could make a video on YouTube, Woke is Bad, and get a million views.

00:30:42.340 Now, 100, 200K. And I mean this for every big creator. The culture war is largely subsided.

00:30:49.380 People are done with it. We won. It's no longer a threat. It's not shocking. And we're not all

00:30:55.080 that concerned about it. It may come back. And that is the fear. Because while they may fizzle

00:31:00.260 out, there's also a reality that it may come back because people actually just don't care anymore.

00:31:05.680 So these baseball players who get in trouble for not wearing the pride uniforms, is anyone

00:31:11.240 going to get their back or are they going to say, oh, who cares?

00:31:12.980 It's a fringe thing.

00:31:13.920 And then the woke starts gaining more and more ground.

00:31:16.160 And eventually it's back with a vengeance.

00:31:19.320 Hard to say.

00:31:20.800 I just think we've largely won so far.

00:31:23.780 You know, South Park described it as, oh, political correctness is back because it ebbs

00:31:28.340 and flows.

00:31:28.880 So maybe, maybe we'll see it again for these reasons.

00:31:31.380 In the meantime, it's cooked.

00:31:33.580 Have fun.

00:31:34.000 So smash the like button, share the show.

00:31:35.860 Thanks for hanging out.

00:31:37.140 More to con.

00:31:37.600 We got 8 p.m.

00:31:38.360 Timcast to IRL, and we will see you all then.

The Culture War - Tim Pool - June 18, 2026

PRIDE IS CANCELED, Pros REFUSE To Wear Pride Uniforms, MLB IS PISSED

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