The Culture War - Tim Pool - SCOTUS Strikes DOWN Trump Tariffs, Trump Says He Has ＂Backup Plan＂

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00:02:00.460 So with that, before we get into the show, we do have some exciting stories.

00:02:04.800 Obviously, you guys have seen by now.

00:02:07.040 The Supreme Court of the United States has weighed in on the Trump emergency tariffs, and

00:02:11.860 they have struck them down.

00:02:13.940 Now, a lot of people are coming completely unglued.

00:02:16.060 They're saying the country's wrecked, et cetera, et cetera.

00:02:18.060 I don't think that's the case.

00:02:20.080 Trump has already said he has a backup plan.

00:02:23.180 It is true that these tariffs, the specific tariffs they've struck down, make up about 70%

00:02:27.280 of our tariff regime.

00:02:28.120 So it will cause some issues, that is for sure.

00:02:31.700 But I'm not completely blackpilled here.

00:02:34.780 I think we can work around this.

00:02:36.840 I'll get into why.

00:02:39.840 See, there we go.

00:02:40.540 I might vomit all over the desk.

00:02:41.400 We'll see what happens.

00:02:42.100 But we're going to get into all the tariff action.

00:02:44.180 And I have a few interesting stories, some more cultural stories, seeing as it is Friday,

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00:05:14.980 But this first story, probably even of more magnitude than the tariffs.

00:05:19.000 You know, everyone is saying, wow, these tariffs are a serious blow against the Trump administration.

00:05:22.280 It's a serious L. How are we going to recover?

00:05:25.360 That's not the L I'm concerned about.

00:05:26.760 I'm really terrified by this.

00:05:28.760 We have, from the New York Post, dancers reenact the ice shooting of Rene Good and Alex

00:05:32.920 Peretti through performance protests.

00:05:36.000 Quite frankly, this is what really scares me.

00:05:37.580 You know, the Supreme Court, the judicial system sort of really running the show in this

00:05:41.620 country is not what makes me afraid.

00:05:43.280 I'm not worried about these activist judges or the Supreme Court giving us unfavorable results.

00:05:47.260 I'm afraid of this.

00:05:48.220 Take a look, folks.

00:05:53.300 Oh, my goodness.

00:05:59.100 Oh, wow.

00:06:00.880 Oh, no.

00:06:03.640 Oh, wow.

00:06:04.400 Look at this.

00:06:09.800 Oh, no.

00:06:13.180 No, no, no.

00:06:13.720 No.

00:06:13.800 No.

00:06:13.880 No.

00:06:13.900 No.

00:06:13.940 No.

00:06:17.260 No.

00:06:18.660 Wow.

00:06:19.160 This is powerful.

00:06:20.040 This really is powerful.

00:06:21.100 Oh, no.

00:06:21.980 She's down.

00:06:24.860 Oh, no.

00:06:25.520 Protests are down.

00:06:28.640 Now she's being ascended, I presume, hoisted into the heavens.

00:06:33.400 It's a bold claim from these protesters.

00:06:35.920 Now they've taken the tires, so I presume this is reenacting Detroit.

00:06:41.480 Oh, no.

00:06:42.180 Oh, my gosh.

00:06:42.780 Oh, no.

00:06:43.180 This is the Alex Peretti.

00:06:44.240 So as you can see here, you know, this is in our nation's capital, obviously, as you saw,

00:06:48.860 this was taking place outside of the Kennedy Center. This has to strike fear into the heart

00:06:53.580 of the Trump administration, strike fear into the heart of patriots everywhere. The performative

00:06:57.160 dances have begun. I didn't think the left would go there. You know, they've been terrorizing

00:07:02.460 conservatives, you know, political violence, you know, lawfare. We've seen all sorts of things,

00:07:08.060 the Biden administration, the evil actions they conducted. But quite frankly, this is crossing

00:07:12.840 the line, I would say. This is really a petrifying situation. They have engaged in a performative

00:07:18.120 dance protest. And I have to say, I'm really nervous. I don't know about you guys in the

00:07:22.860 audience. You know, again, like I said, we've withstood a lot. And I'm not afraid, you know,

00:07:29.460 I'm really not afraid of all these threats made against us and these sorts of things. Again,

00:07:33.120 I'm not afraid. You know, I'm willing to stand for what I believe in. I'm willing to die,

00:07:37.420 quite frankly, for this country, for my beliefs. But this, this really is absolutely petrifying.

00:07:44.880 Quite frankly, I was shaking like a Parkinson's victim. I'm absolutely terrified of this. And

00:07:51.340 we really need the DOJ to act swiftly here because quite frankly, this can't go on,

00:07:55.760 these performative dances. I mean, this is going to sway even the most loyal of Trump supporters,

00:08:00.420 even the most loyal plan trusters, I think might see this and they might be swayed over to the left.

00:08:05.220 Really petrifying stuff. So with that, I wanted to, I wanted to reemphasize that this is truly

00:08:09.640 what's important. This is truly what we need to be worried about as MAGA supporters, as Trump

00:08:14.620 supporters, or anyone just concerned of the country at large. And something not as important as the

00:08:19.760 Supreme Court's decision today, you know, it's whatever compared to the performative protest.

00:08:22.880 Okay. What a bunch of people in robes made a decision on what Trump can do. Okay. Big whoop.

00:08:28.100 All that to be said, this is a quite a serious situation. So the SCOTUS ruled against

00:08:33.760 President Trump's tariffs today. Again, is it an incorrect decision? Okay. Who knows? Neither

00:08:39.500 here nor there. There is fairly interesting here. So this is from America First Insight. This is the

00:08:45.240 commentary they put together. It was a 6-3 ruling. SCOTUS struck down the Trump tariffs. They struck

00:08:51.020 down a portion of the Trump tariffs. So the Trump tariffs that he used, that he implemented using

00:08:55.840 emergency action, that is what they struck down. Again, this makes up about 70% of the tariffs. I will

00:09:01.960 open up the stats here real quick, just to really hone in on this. So 70% of new tariff value was

00:09:09.760 under the IEEPA, which is again, like emergency tariffs. This is what you see, the 10% universal

00:09:16.280 tariff, and then the country specific tariffs, like the 25 to 35% that we saw in Canada and Mexico,

00:09:21.120 the 30% we saw in China. So there's two other sections of tariffs that were not,

00:09:27.400 that are unaffected by this ruling, which is Section 232, which is sector-specific. So that

00:09:33.120 would be like 50% tariffs on steel, aluminum, copper imports, 25% on auto parts. The other one,

00:09:39.960 Section 301, which is continued China tariffs. That's about 10% of the remaining tariffs.

00:09:46.420 That's also not affected by this SCOTUS ruling. This affects entirely the IEEPA,

00:09:53.500 which is the emergency tariffs. So this is from America First Insight. This is a commentary they

00:10:01.300 put. This is a great account. Actually, I need to be following. What's going on here? Embarrassing.

00:10:04.860 I'm not following them. I am now. This marks the first major legal defeat for the Trump

00:10:09.280 administration, but it also is certainly not the end of tariffs. I think this is absolutely correct.

00:10:14.140 As with the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness, the policy can be re-implemented with

00:10:18.540 slightly different legal basis and probably go through the whole song and dance again.

00:10:21.900 SCOTUS did not touch the idea of refunds for tariffs. So if you look here, here's the 6-3

00:10:25.860 decision. Obviously, these people are useless. Gorsuch and Barrett. I mean, Roberts, at this 1.00

00:10:31.120 point, we know he's a liberal. He has no teeth, these sorts of things. That's not surprising. But

00:10:36.600 again, every time you see Gorsuch and Barrett switch sides here, it's really offensive. It really

00:10:43.540 is. And it's just like, what's the point? I mean, Kavanaugh, for what it's worth, he's received a lot

00:10:48.380 of ire over the years. But fair enough. He has voted to keep tariffs. And if you go in, I think

00:10:53.640 it's worth reading Kavanaugh's dissent that he wrote on this decision. And so he basically lays

00:10:59.660 this out, what America First Insights is saying here, is they're saying this decision is not the

00:11:04.020 end of tariffs by any stretch. And Kavanaugh actually lays out the other avenues that Trump

00:11:08.960 can do to, again, re-implement these tariffs, but in a legal manner. Let me find it here.

00:11:18.660 I had it. I had it in the stack. I don't know what happened to it. But that's effectively what

00:11:23.860 Kavanaugh is doing. Kavanaugh is just laying out, you know, just re-implement these. You can

00:11:30.380 re-implement these, you know, sign the dotted line on a few different forms, and we should be able to

00:11:34.480 re-implement these tariffs. It is really not the end of the world. Some people are engagement

00:11:39.880 farming on Twitter today, and they're coming out and saying the country is ruined, you know,

00:11:43.480 et cetera, et cetera. The tariff regime is over. This is like the end of our economic policy. That

00:11:48.560 is really just not the case. Again, Trump himself said here, this is good. Kellen put this in the

00:11:55.980 stack. Trump are brutally law-mogged by Scott as for tariff maxing a decision that is sure to

00:12:00.180 spike the White House's cortisol. While this is true, and it's in jest, Trump has already said here,

00:12:04.060 he has a backup plan for tariffs. If the Supreme Court ruled his tariffs to be illegal, again,

00:12:08.100 his entire team has anticipated that this would happen. So again, they have the wherewithal.

00:12:14.200 This could take a few months, certainly, to re-establish these tariffs, but I am not terribly

00:12:19.860 worried. Also, if you look in the ruling, they don't actually address, you know, people are saying,

00:12:26.340 well, you know, Trump's going to pay back, you know, all the money that was extracted using these

00:12:32.420 tariffs. Again, the Supreme Court didn't really touch that. The Supreme Court didn't seem to be

00:12:36.220 terribly worried about it. You can see here, this is in the ruling. The United States Supreme Court

00:12:45.380 has stated that refunding billions from Trump's legal tariffs collection is likely to be a mess,

00:12:49.340 but may be required. To me, that is the kind of language that indicates that they just don't

00:12:54.680 actually know how to even possibly handle that. Matt Forney puts great commentary here. In other words,

00:13:00.380 Trump is just going to ignore the ruling because it's impossible to comply. This is the language

00:13:04.400 courts use when they want to sound tough, but they know they have no enforcement power. This is the

00:13:08.340 strategy the left uses MAGA wins. Again, this is true because again, tariff collection is likely to

00:13:12.940 be a mess, but may be required. Okay, what is that going to look like? They don't actually outline that.

00:13:16.540 They don't actually outline how that would be implemented, how that would work, why that would be

00:13:20.260 needed, these sorts of things. So I really don't think this is the doomsday scenario like the people are

00:13:25.660 saying. I don't see the sense in dooming right now. Rand Paul here, for what it's worth, he puts

00:13:32.540 this statement out. And I think this is a weak statement. In our defense of the Republic, the

00:13:37.760 Supreme Court struck down using emergency powers to enact taxes. This ruling will also prevent a

00:13:43.600 future president such as AOC from using emergency powers to enact socialism. So Rand Paul, obviously,

00:13:48.500 as everyone knows, is a libertarian. So he's never been in love with tariffs. He's not been a big fan

00:13:53.420 of tariffs. This language right here, I really hate this. And we've gone on and on and on and on and on

00:13:57.520 and on and on about this on Tim cast on our various shows. So you guys are quite familiar with this

00:14:01.340 argument by now, where he says this ruling will also prevent a future president such as AOC from

00:14:05.500 using emergency powers to enact socialism. No, it won't. No, it will not. Again, you could ask Phil

00:14:11.620 Levante, he will go on and on and on about this as you should not make decisions. Like fearing potential

00:14:18.760 retribution from the left because they don't really care. I mean, again, we saw with the Biden

00:14:23.680 student loan forgiveness, no matter how many courts weighed in, he would just use other legal pathways

00:14:28.700 to make this happen. The left, again, would not be hung up on this Supreme Court ruling. And this is

00:14:36.220 why I think this was excellent commentary from the White Papers Policy Institute. Regardless of your

00:14:40.300 opinion on these tariffs, this is a terrible take from Congressman Rand Paul. You should want to win

00:14:44.660 and to govern not doing things because the other side might do it is ridiculous. The left is going 0.86

00:14:49.160 to do it in any way, play to win or get out of the way. I think this is absolutely correct.

00:14:53.180 Again, we're playing for keeps. We should be operating under the assumption that if Trump

00:14:58.160 loses, or I should say, I guess if J.D. Vance loses in 2028 or whoever the nominee is going to be,

00:15:02.640 again, a lot of things can happen. Presumably J.D. Vance, let's just say a Democrat comes into power

00:15:07.060 in 2028. It's over anyway. In many ways, MAGA, Trump, et cetera, is our last stand. We're running out of

00:15:14.120 time. We kind of ran out of time like 10 years ago, quite frankly. So this idea of operating out

00:15:21.080 of fear of what the left is going to do rather than operating that we need to win now is just 0.91

00:15:26.240 ridiculous. He puts it perfectly. You should want to win and to govern, not do things because the 0.76

00:15:32.020 other side might do it. And I think that is absolutely correct. And that is a very salient

00:15:36.280 point. And yeah, so if you want to get into the nitty gritty of this ruling, Tim did like an hour long

00:15:42.060 live stream earlier today on it. And he had some different perspectives on it. He's a bit more

00:15:48.840 fearful of the implications of this decision. Again, I would recommend going and watching that

00:15:54.980 after the close of this show if you haven't seen it already. Because, you know, from my perspective,

00:15:59.860 this is my analysis so far, but there's a lot that's going to shake out. Again, we have people

00:16:02.820 combing through the decision and they will sort of uncover maybe some of the hidden mechanisms that

00:16:10.200 could be activated here. But again, Trump has said we have a backup plan. He said this before. He said

00:16:13.620 back in November that he anticipated potentially this happening and that he would have what he

00:16:19.220 called a game plan B that he could implement in this situation. So I am not panicking yet. I am not

00:16:26.540 super fearful. I don't think this is the end of tariffs by any stretch of the imagination.

00:16:30.340 I think this is a minor setback for a major comeback. I just think that the Trump administration

00:16:34.900 is going to rework these, you know, there's...

00:16:38.320 Martha listens to her favorite band all the time. In the car, gym, even sleeping.

00:16:45.920 So when they finally went on tour, Martha bundled her flight and hotel on Expedia to see them live.

00:16:51.040 She saved so much, she got a seat close enough to actually see and hear them.

00:16:56.000 Sort of. You were made to scream from the front row. We were made to quietly save you more.

00:17:01.400 Expedia. Made to travel. Savings vary and subject to availability.

00:17:07.680 Different forms, different avenues. Who knows? I mean, I'm not holding my breath on this,

00:17:12.040 so I wouldn't sort of bank on this. But Congress could just get some backbone and make this happen.

00:17:16.240 Because what the SCOTUS decision effectively was doing was saying, no, Congress is the one

00:17:20.180 that levies taxes, not the executive in this situation. And so who knows? Maybe John Thune

00:17:25.380 grows a backbone. Not long on that. I think the Trump administration is going to have to be

00:17:30.040 the ones that make this happen. So again, no sense to panic. No sense. We don't need to

00:17:33.880 churn out yet. We're going to be okay. That is my assessment. So with that, we have some more

00:17:39.000 stories we should get into. What should we get into here? I had... This was quite interesting.

00:17:43.980 Where was it? This was quite interesting to me. Before we get into a more serious story,

00:17:51.000 this was from Tasteful Lindy. This was the post they had to put up. Every once in a while,

00:17:55.960 you run into the aging millennial in New York City, now balding with a beard, clinging to the days of 1.00

00:18:00.680 his hipster youth. Hasn't realized the era has changed like the Japanese soldier who didn't know 0.92

00:18:05.920 the war was over. And he put up this clip. And this is really a fascinating clip.

00:18:09.120 You guys probably remember this song. This is a really fascinating cultural moment that we had

00:18:24.960 about 10 years ago. And what's interesting about this, again, it's Friday, so we're kind of coming

00:18:30.840 in more with the cultural stories here, is from my perspective, from my analysis, this sort of,

00:18:36.640 you know, hipster granola culture, whatever you want to call it. That was like the last

00:18:42.620 explicitly like Anglo cultural movement that we had in the United States. Correct me if I'm wrong,

00:18:48.580 but this really seems like this was like the last like distinctly unmistakably like Anglo white

00:18:53.680 sort of cultural moment that we had in the United States was this hipster millennial thing that

00:18:59.900 happened. And so it's kind of interesting because a lot of people are kind of coming back and dunking on

00:19:04.240 this. They're saying, well, this is so cringe, etc, etc. And sure, it's dated. But there's something

00:19:08.560 to be said about the fact that like these cultural movements that we have now are sort of are not

00:19:15.400 like, here's a good example, like country music. Now country music is the culture that I think a lot

00:19:22.060 of white Americans are rallying around. They kind of feel like this is, you know, something that's

00:19:28.220 sturdy that can sort of preserve them, these sorts of things. But when you listen to it, there's a lot of

00:19:31.980 other elements that are sort of blended in like the biggest country act right now is Morgan Wallen by

00:19:36.920 far, just by streaming numbers alone. But if you listen to Morgan Wallen music, it has like the

00:19:42.980 hip hop style high hats, there's often there's rap verses on the song. So there's a lot of like infusion

00:19:48.700 of black culture in country music today. And so I think it's interesting that this sort of culture,

00:19:56.660 this sort of, I guess, aesthetic, for lack of a better word, received so much vitriol, because,

00:20:01.140 again, this kind of seemed like the last sort of explicitly like, like English, like white cultural

00:20:07.920 movement that we had in the United States. You know, people dunk on the the burger restaurant where

00:20:13.060 it's like a $30 burger, and the guy has like black nitrate gloves that makes it and the fries are sold

00:20:17.560 separately and these sorts of things. But you know, you're going to kind of miss it when it's gone, I

00:20:21.960 think, and it already is kind of gone. So that was kind of my analysis of that. Wanted that to be said,

00:20:30.440 I wanted to defend the hipsters a little bit, I think it's kind of sad to see that it's gone. So with

00:20:34.780 that, Kellan just put up an update here, which is quite interesting. President Trump will hold a press

00:20:38.940 briefing on the Supreme Court tariff decision at 1245pm Eastern Time. So maybe we jump to that. At a certain

00:20:45.320 point, we'll do mailbag for a little bit and then jump to that.

00:20:47.560 They're late a lot. But if we get it, we'll pull it up.

00:20:50.420 Yeah, so maybe we go to mailbag early. I don't know.

00:20:54.940 Let's see what I have one more story here, a few more posts here that I think we can get to.

00:20:59.320 This is again, why I don't think I don't think now is the time to panic right now in regards to the

00:21:05.320 performance of the Trump administration. This was a really good report put together by the White

00:21:11.080 Papers Policy Institute was by the Niskanen, I think is how you say it, the Niskanen Center.

00:21:16.700 And they were providing their commentary on it. This is quite interesting. This is a white pill 0.97

00:21:20.920 coming from the Trump administration. Visas granted abroad are down across the board,

00:21:26.600 a lot fewer people are being allowed into America, a 19% drop in H1B visa issuances is the most notable

00:21:32.100 should still be abolished. I agree. H4 visas, which is family of H1Bs are down 20%. K1 and K2 visas, 1.00

00:21:38.300 which are family visas are down by 52% and 48%. So again, you know, there's this narrative right now that,

00:21:44.540 you know, Trump, the mass deportations aren't happening, and that we're flooding the country

00:21:49.660 with H1B visas, we're flooding the country with Chinese students. But if you look, visa issuances

00:21:54.180 are down across the board. So again, I understand why people are a little frustrated. But you got to

00:22:01.100 understand there's a difference between data and the difference between like vibes or commentary.

00:22:05.100 And again, you see some statements from the Trump administration every once in a while,

00:22:07.920 that's quite worrying, you know, where they will go to bat for, you know, migrant visas,

00:22:11.940 like over the farm workers, that sort of thing, which is pretty much entirely the auspices of

00:22:17.260 the USDA. But even like with the student visas, these sorts of things, visas are down across the

00:22:24.660 board, you see a few pop ups every once in a while, but these are visas that are not commonly issued.

00:22:28.840 So there's sort of some other explanations why you see spikes in these visas. But again, look at this,

00:22:33.620 this is read across the board. This is very encouraging stuff. This is why I just don't think

00:22:38.000 it's I don't understand this narrative that, again, Trump is like, okay, he's supporting

00:22:42.660 legals, but he's allowing all these H1Bs to come in 19% drop, it should be 100% drop, right? I'm not 0.99

00:22:47.600 saying this is like, you know, perfect, this is not perfectly executed. But H1Bs, everything is down, 0.98

00:22:53.320 everything is down across the board, there are less people coming into the country, we're at net

00:22:56.400 negative migration, that is absolutely massive. That is a policy. And I say this all the time.

00:23:01.420 It is a policy that if you were to just advocate for it five years ago, you would be ostracized from

00:23:08.060 the conservative movement. If you were to go on a conservative panel, and like 2019, and say we

00:23:12.000 should have net negative migration, they would lambast you as like, you know, someone like an 1.00

00:23:16.560 unserious person, I guess, for lack of better word, they would ridicule you. And now it is the official

00:23:20.500 policy of the United States, entirely because of President Trump and the Trump administration. So

00:23:24.960 again, this is why it's there's no sense in blackpilling over these sorts of things. And

00:23:31.240 there's still so much work to do. I'll read this real quick. And then maybe we can get into our

00:23:35.240 mailbag portion. This was interesting. This was an expose. So this this is where I still think

00:23:40.200 there's some work to do is on the affirmative action front. Helen Andrews put together a really

00:23:45.860 good report here. Harvard did not stop discriminating by race. This is what she wrote, it simply stopped 0.97

00:23:51.080 doing so against Asian affirmative action continues. But now it is entirely at the expense of

00:23:54.900 one race instead of two. So again, everyone was popping the champagne over the Harvard ruling.

00:23:59.760 And they're saying it was the end of affirmative action. Affirmative action is dead, but that was

00:24:02.840 premature. So I want to read here. This was a snippet from Helen Andrews piece in the compact

00:24:08.480 magazine. Since the ruling was issued, the share of Asians and Harvard's freshman class has gone up

00:24:13.460 from 26% of the class of 2025 to 41% of the class of 2029. But the share of whites has gone down.

00:24:21.100 White students were 47% of freshmen in the class of 2025 and approximately

00:24:24.400 31% of the classes of 2028 and 2029. Harvard published percentages for every race, but white

00:24:29.940 for those years and 8% of each class reported no race, making the white share a matter of inference.

00:24:34.960 Black and Latino shared shares have stayed roughly the same with small fluctuations. So Harvard did not

00:24:40.840 stop discriminating by race. It simply stopped doing so against Asians. Affirmative action still continues.

00:24:46.840 So this was interesting. I'll just go back to white papers policy and said they've been doing fantastic work.

00:24:50.900 Um, and I'm hopefully we'll get their spokesperson on soon because, um, they're doing incredible work

00:24:56.000 here. Harvard was so upset when they told they, when told that they could not racially discriminate,

00:25:00.620 that they decided to be more vindictive and racially discriminant, but only against white Americans.

00:25:05.860 The dropped admissions of whites by 60%, their own data shows in a merit system, whites would be 50% of

00:25:11.500 freshmen. Again, that is the important number here. Their own data shows that if they had a purely,

00:25:18.280 if they had a pure meritocracy, whites would be 50% of their freshmen right now. They're like 31%, 0.77

00:25:24.580 I believe is what the data, what the, the, the number was from Helen Andrews. So this is really

00:25:29.300 shocking stuff. This is why like, okay, so I agree, you know, on the, on the, on the visa front,

00:25:34.480 things are moving in the right direction, but there's still so much work that the DOJ specifically

00:25:37.560 needs to be doing and holding these universities accountable. You know, you could say, well, it's

00:25:42.580 Harvard, you know, we shouldn't even be going, we should let this school die. But the reality 0.77

00:25:46.560 is I think Elon Musk, uh, demonstrated this very well when he took over X is some institutions

00:25:52.820 can't be replaced or displaced rather. Some institutions cannot be displaced. Okay. That

00:25:58.600 is just the reality of the situation. It's unfortunate. You cannot build another Harvard.

00:26:02.940 That's just the reality of the situation. I wish it wasn't the case. You know, this is not,

00:26:06.600 I'm not happy to say that, but you cannot build another Harvard. You cannot replace Harvard. Harvard

00:26:11.600 is Harvard. Yale is Yale. And if we are truly trying to restore the country, we should be trying

00:26:16.620 to restore our great institutions and Harvard and Yale are great institutions. Historically speaking,

00:26:21.720 they are the elite institutions of the United States. And again, we're not going to not have an

00:26:27.000 elite. Every country, every society in human history has an elite class. The goal should be replacing the

00:26:32.500 elite, right? We should be putting our elite. We should be putting our people into the elite class

00:26:37.040 and taking out their people from the elite class. How do you do that? That's a big part of it is

00:26:41.820 taking back institutions like Harvard. And so when you see open discrimination like this and nothing

00:26:47.860 is, you know, Harvard literally had a SCOTUS ruling go against them and they do not react. They're still

00:26:52.980 discriminating more viciously, quite frankly, towards white Americans. This is where you need to 0.64

00:26:57.460 concentrate fire. This is why I said Elon Musk demonstrated this very well as I think it became

00:27:02.240 quite obvious. You know, we tried to launch as conservatives, we tried to launch all these different

00:27:06.300 alternatives to Twitter, but we realized Twitter is Twitter. You're not going to replace Twitter.

00:27:12.840 They've built up the infrastructure. It is where people go. It is the public square.

00:27:16.660 Elon bought Twitter and just took it back. He just restored that institution and it made it something

00:27:22.500 that would be viable for conservatives. Everyone got unbanned, these sorts of things. So again,

00:27:27.420 Elon Musk has demonstrated the only pathway forward, the only pathway to victory is restoring these

00:27:33.560 institutions. We just can't, some institutions we can't rebuild. Maybe your local private school,

00:27:37.780 you could, you know, you could, you could displace, but Harvard is Harvard. We're not getting rid of

00:27:42.540 Harvard anytime soon. So I think it's a very salient point that this needs to be more concentrated fire

00:27:48.580 on. Again, the DOJ specifically, I'm sure they are, you know, have some sort of plan together,

00:27:53.220 but this is the type of stuff that you really need to send a message on because this is the elite.

00:27:56.420 We're talking about the composition of the elite in the United States. We need more

00:28:00.000 right-wing normal Americans and the elite. It is unacceptable that this is happening. So

00:28:05.260 the people.

00:28:13.700 All right.

00:28:21.860 Right.

00:28:27.280 Okay.

00:28:31.680 Well,

The Culture War - Tim Pool - February 20, 2026

SCOTUS Strikes DOWN Trump Tariffs, Trump Says He Has ＂Backup Plan＂

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