The Culture War - Tim Pool - Trump Considers THIRD TERM As President, Bannon Says There IS A Plan ft. Cliff Maloney

00:00:00.480 Ford was built on the belief that the world doesn't get to decide what you're capable of.

00:00:05.840 You do. So, ask yourself, can you or can't you? Can you load up a Ford F-150 and build your dream

00:00:13.520 with sweat and steel? Can you chase thrills and conquer curbs in a Mustang? Can you take a Bronco

00:00:20.000 to where the map ends and adventure begins? Whether you think you can or think you can't,

00:00:26.160 you're right. Ready, set, Ford. And here's my update based on the numbers. Jack is in a position

00:00:33.920 to win. I'm not saying he's going to win, right? Republicans have to turn out. We're competing a

00:00:39.520 little bit better on vote by mail. We're competing a little bit better on the early vote, but that

00:00:44.880 still means we'd have to dominate turnout on election day. So, to anybody out there that's

00:00:49.040 confident about this New Jersey race, you shouldn't be. You should be excited about it because I do

00:00:53.520 think he's in a much better position than he was at this time four years ago. But Republicans have

00:00:58.560 to vote. Democrats are always motivated. They're always showing up. It doesn't matter who the

00:01:02.640 candidate is. Trump rules out running as Vance's VP to gain third term, but open to Bannon plan.

00:01:11.360 Let AOC go against Trump. No joke. Donald Trump is actually entertaining him having a third term as

00:01:18.000 president. What's, uh, is it going to play?

00:01:23.040 That's what's important. Yeah. Who are the very good people?

00:01:25.760 They are good people.

00:01:28.080 You said that for 2028, they're very good people

00:01:31.280 who you have in mind. No, we have great people.

00:01:33.680 I don't have to get into that, but we have one of them standing right here.

00:01:37.680 We have, uh, JD, obviously. The vice president is great.

00:01:41.680 I think Marco's great. I think, uh, I'm not sure if anybody would run against us.

00:01:45.920 And I think if they ever formed a group, it would be unstoppable. I really do. I believe that.

00:01:52.160 I would, I would, I would love to do it. I have my best numbers ever. It's very terrible. I have my

00:01:57.520 best numbers. So you're not ruling out the third term?

00:02:02.080 Am I not ruling it out? I mean, you'll have to tell me. All I can tell you is that we have a great,

00:02:06.960 a great group of people, which they don't. They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. They have,

00:02:12.560 uh, AOC's low IQ. If you give her an, an IQ test, have her pass, like the exams that I decided to 0.99

00:02:21.520 take when I was at Walter Reed. I took, it was a very hard, uh, really aptitude test.

00:02:28.320 The aptitude tests they do aren't super hard. I am actually impressed though, because one of them is

00:02:33.440 like at the beginning of the test, they tell you to remember five words and at the end of the test,

00:02:36.320 ask you to cite them back. And I have a really great memory, but I'm, I know a lot of people that

00:02:41.200 can't remember why they walked in a room, let alone remembering five words. I love it.

00:02:46.480 Trump versus AOC. Now let's be real guys. Many people have come out and said, Trump's joking.

00:02:52.000 He's not going to go for a third term. Don't be ridiculous. I don't know. I don't know that I 0.99

00:02:58.040 agree with that. It's possible. Very much so. We have a bunch of elections happening right now.

00:03:03.600 It is imperative that conservatives win because in Virginia, for instance, the AG has publicly

00:03:09.680 been exposed. He's been exposed publicly as having, he wants to murder conservatives and their

00:03:15.160 children. He wasn't joking. All of it's confirmed. And he wants to have the full law enforcement 0.99

00:03:21.760 powers in Virginia, which is absolutely terrifying. Well, we're going to be joined by Cliff Maloney

00:03:30.240 in just a second as I boot up our interview page. Let's see, make sure this is working

00:03:36.260 properly. It looks like everything is working properly. Loading it up. And Cliff, how's it

00:03:42.700 going, man? It's great. Thanks for having me today, Tim.

00:03:45.280 So we got some big elections that are happening right now. And there's big concerns about whether

00:03:49.820 or not the right is going to win in Virginia, in New Jersey. We also have the proposition,

00:03:55.320 Prop 50 to redistrict in California. Trump has talked about, I'm sorry, the DOJ is sending

00:04:01.120 election monitors to these locations. I want to get into that. But the first thing I want to ask

00:04:04.300 you is just to get the spicy bit up front. Trump hasn't ruled out running or somehow getting a

00:04:11.100 third term. And he was just interviewed. He's on Air Force One. And he says, let's go up against

00:04:15.560 AOC. She's low IQ. There's rumors of a plot where Trump would run as Vance's VP. And then once Vance 0.93

00:04:24.640 wins, he resigns or something. And then Trump becomes president again. How much of this do

00:04:29.580 you think is Trump trolling? Do you think that really is? Bannon seems dead serious. Do you

00:04:34.180 think this is really in play?

00:04:35.860 I think Trump's trolling. I think it's a fun time for everybody. It's a good thought exercise. And

00:04:42.180 of course, the troll works, right? Because the left goes nuts. You know, it plays into all these fake 0.99

00:04:46.300 dictator, Hitler type comments and all this crazy stuff. And they eat out of the palm of his hand. So 0.87

00:04:51.620 yeah, I think he's going to continue to do that. But no, if I had to guess, I would say Trump does

00:04:55.800 not run for a third term or any type of, you know, VP, slide him in, this or that. I think

00:05:01.940 it's just having some fun.

00:05:03.320 Bannon seems pretty serious. But again, Bannon's not Trump and he's not working with Trump. But

00:05:07.680 what I do find interesting is there is a potential PR strategy here that Trump keeps poking the bear

00:05:13.120 because the media will take it. The media keeps hearing Trump is a tyrant and wants a third term.

00:05:17.500 And then Trump resigns peacefully and waves and smiles to everybody. And, you know, the PR play is

00:05:24.280 make the media cry wolf as much as you can so that no one trusts them anymore.

00:05:29.520 Yeah. And I think what he's doing is genius because they're going to continuously be focused

00:05:33.740 on that. Look, if somebody makes up something about you and it's not true, you know, this idea

00:05:38.060 that you're a dictator and then you can go and continuously make jokes and normal people know

00:05:42.920 that you're joking and the left just because it's, look, you know, I told you, look, he's doing this. 0.92

00:05:47.380 I just think it's a hilarious troll. And I think they're going to continue to push it.

00:05:51.480 I think considering what we've seen so far, I would I would understand the possibility. So

00:05:55.580 when Bannon brought this up, he said there's a plan at the appropriate time he'll announce it.

00:06:00.780 The 22nd Amendment says you can't be elected more than twice. And I think for most people,

00:06:05.860 like obviously you're saying it's probably trolling. Most people probably assume he's just goofing off

00:06:10.300 and he's poking the bear. But there is a possibility of appointment, which bypasses

00:06:15.400 any argument on Second Amendment. It says elected. What if Trump is appointed? What if

00:06:18.700 with what we've seen? So now we're transitioning into these election monitors and what I want to

00:06:24.500 talk to you about. We're seeing the DOJ is sending election monitors out. They want to make sure there's

00:06:30.100 no funny business. This is actually fairly common for the DOJ to do, but the Democrats are losing

00:06:35.160 their minds over it. Newsom said Trump is rigging the election. What happens? You know, before we get

00:06:41.440 into all of that stuff, just segwaying through what happens if come 2028, just before the election,

00:06:48.000 something happens discernibly, be it clear evidence of some kind of rigging or even terror attacks,

00:06:54.680 which calls the results into question. And there is no definitive winner between the Democrat and

00:07:01.160 Republican. And it's not because of any kind of tie or any kind of numerical outcome, but because no

00:07:07.620 one can be certain the results are correct after something happening at polling locations disrupts

00:07:13.420 the process. What if the Supreme Court then appoints Trump? Well, one, I mean, I don't want us to ever be

00:07:19.860 Zelensky or Ukraine and cancel elections. I think you got to move forward even in the midst of tragedies,

00:07:25.680 wars. You got to elect the leaders that are serving the people. Two, I think the DOJ,

00:07:30.340 what you just said, Tim, is 100 percent correct, right? The left will take this as some hysteric

00:07:34.720 moment of overstep by the federal government. We've been doing this for decades. The DOJ has

00:07:39.560 sent people to these polling locations to monitor them for decades. And even just in 2024, they passed

00:07:45.700 the COCO Act, which pretty much enhanced what the DOJ does to say that congressional staffers can go in

00:07:51.780 and they can watch and secure the election. So look, we have a legal process. The legal process is going

00:07:57.960 to handle some of these things. There's a lot of unprecedented things that could happen.

00:08:01.580 And a lot of it's kind of blurry and unclear. But we still have a country. We still have a republic.

00:08:07.360 We still have different separations of power. And I think the judicial system, we got to make sure

00:08:12.620 people can trust the election. But that's going to be who will decide whether these electors are

00:08:16.980 certified, whether each state is happening. But it's messy. I'll give you that.

00:08:20.680 Yeah. That's what I think it's funny when we hear Democrats say things like,

00:08:23.360 there won't be an election. I think Rosie O'Donnell was, I don't know if it was her,

00:08:26.740 but they say things like that. And it's funny because I can't remember who said this might've

00:08:31.080 been Michael Malice. Like even North Korea has elections. Like whether you can trust them is

00:08:35.180 a different story. So what's going on right now? What are you working on?

00:08:38.580 Yeah. So we're in New Jersey right now. I went on your show last year to talk about our Pennsylvania work

00:08:43.320 with the Pennsylvania Chase program. We've launched the New Jersey Chase program.

00:08:46.920 And the idea is we're all in on Jack Cittarelli for governor. We've got 105 people on the ground

00:08:51.560 full time. And here's my update based on the numbers. Jack is in a position to win. I'm not

00:08:57.620 saying he's going to win, right? Republicans have to turn out. We're competing a little bit better on

00:09:02.720 vote by mail. We're competing a little bit better on the early vote. But that still means we'd have

00:09:07.980 to dominate turnout on election day. So to anybody out there that's confident about this New Jersey

00:09:12.860 race, you shouldn't be. You should be excited about it because I do think he's in a much 1.00

00:09:16.860 better position than he was at this time four years ago. But Republicans have to vote. Democrats

00:09:21.880 are always motivated. They're always showing up. It doesn't matter who the candidate is.

00:09:26.140 So we're seeing good numbers so far. And Tim, this is the first time Republicans have really

00:09:31.020 competed in New Jersey. Wow. Right. That's not a shot at the New Jersey Republican Party. I just

00:09:35.480 think nationally this has become the race. So you have folks that are coming into New Jersey. You have

00:09:40.540 different infrastructure and apparatus that other swing states are used to. So we're going to see just

00:09:45.760 how much impact that has. Luckily, the Democrat is a horrific candidate. And the Republican is like, 0.56

00:09:52.280 you look at Jack and you're like, this guy looks like a governor, right? He connects with normal

00:09:55.980 people. And I think it'll be an interesting referendum to see if he pulls it off.

00:10:00.540 What was Chris Christie? He was a Republican, wasn't he?

00:10:04.780 Yeah. New Jersey has never elected the same party's governor more than two terms in a row. It's very

00:10:10.260 weird. So this will be historic if the Democrats win. There's always been kind of a shift. And,

00:10:14.540 you know, way back in the past, it was more of a, hey, the state would go back and forth,

00:10:18.380 mostly between moderate Republicans, to be clear. But yeah, Christie was in office,

00:10:22.900 you know, back when he was running for the, you know, the 2016 race. He had just been out of office

00:10:27.980 for two years after his Bridgegate scandal. Yeah. So there is hope in New Jersey. There's rational

00:10:32.460 thought. And remember, Trump lost by double digits in 2020. 2024, he only lost by 5.9 points.

00:10:38.920 So the shift is coming. It's not when, it's if it's going to happen now, because the registration's

00:10:45.480 moving towards Republicans. You've got a lot of the momentum. Jack only lost by three points when

00:10:50.520 he lost four years ago. So it's moving there. It's just, is there enough time for it to be this

00:10:56.160 election that it goes Republican? What does this mean for people in New Jersey? Like what,

00:11:01.400 if the Republicans win? Yeah, look, I think that a lot of the national issues we saw in 2024

00:11:06.640 are very similar in Jersey, right? If Republican Jack Chiderell gets elected,

00:11:10.280 you're talking about lower energy rates. You're talking about ending the wokeness. You're not 0.95

00:11:14.120 going to have men and girls sports, the immigration issue. He's going to be working with President

00:11:18.380 Trump. And honestly, just the whole role of government. New Jersey is out of control.

00:11:22.640 If you compare the tax rates across the board, whether it's individual taxes, corporate taxes,

00:11:27.280 business taxes, it's unsustainable. I mean, Tim, I've had about 10 different of my individual

00:11:32.300 donors who have told me in New Jersey that if Mikey Sherrill wins this election,

00:11:36.640 that they are moving their company to Florida or Tennessee or somewhere else where they can do

00:11:40.660 business. I think people look at New York as being horrific. New Jersey's taxes are off the

00:11:45.780 charts. And I just think people there with the cost of living, the biggest benefit you're going to find

00:11:50.480 is if Republican Jack Chiderelli gets elected, it'll be a huge boost to working blue collar

00:11:56.160 New Jerseyans. That's what they're excited about. Yeah, we dodged a bullet. I was in Jersey for a

00:12:01.280 little while. First in Bergen County, and then we moved down south to the Woodbury area, just outside

00:12:08.500 of Philadelphia, but on the Jersey side. And we were trying to launch all of this stuff that we

00:12:12.320 were doing in Jersey, but it was impossible. And I would argue that we actually dodged a bullet and

00:12:16.960 got lucky. We were looking at buying property. And because it's so difficult to run a business in

00:12:20.920 Jersey, we ended up saying, maybe this isn't the right idea. We tried to buy a building. It was a

00:12:26.740 disaster. We were disappointed. And it was a great building. It was a big office. And we were

00:12:31.560 going to do so much amazing stuff. I was reading about New Jersey's youth brain drain. Young people

00:12:37.780 flee the state. It has failed the younger generation. And I was like, how do we turn that around? Come

00:12:44.020 on, we can make New Jersey great again, right? Nope. No, we could not. So unfortunately, maybe if we

00:12:49.600 stuck around, we could have helped. But I decided to get out. And now, of course, we briefly went to

00:12:54.100 West Virginia. And then we ended up in now we're in West. We went to we went to Maryland. Now we're

00:12:58.580 in West Virginia. And it's unfortunate. But the state has just been horribly, horribly mismanaged,

00:13:04.120 in my opinion, corrupt. It makes it impossible for you to run a functional business. Why would

00:13:10.000 someone stick around? So I'm hoping, you know, what we saw with Jeff Andrews switching parties all

00:13:16.060 those years ago, those trends continue much like, you know, what we saw in my neighborhood in

00:13:21.280 Chicago, despite Chicago being deep blue. My neighborhood, which was blue in 2016, is now

00:13:26.020 red staunchly for Donald Trump. I'm hoping we'll see some of that in New Jersey and we can start

00:13:30.580 fixing all of these problems. Yeah. And look, Tim, you know, the pendulum has to swing back,

00:13:35.120 right? Eventually, things get bad enough that normal people, regardless of party right now,

00:13:38.500 this isn't even a partisan thing. But when it becomes so corrupt and when the government is just

00:13:43.000 making things so difficult with red tape, eventually people push back. And look, if you had to look

00:13:48.400 at different places in the United States, forget the policies, just talk about the actual land and

00:13:54.200 opportunities and the seasons. New Jersey is a beautiful place to live, right? You've got the

00:13:59.500 beaches. You've got all of these just, it's so much, it's just ripe for good business. And these

00:14:05.480 politicians have just made it so impossible for young people, for individuals. Like you said,

00:14:10.280 even just trying to start a business, some of these regulations are just out of control.

00:14:14.240 And why would you ever pick a state like that when you have those other opportunities not too far

00:14:19.940 away? And that's the problem they're having is no one's staying in New Jersey.

00:14:23.160 Don't get me started on gun laws. Let's talk about gun laws. Let's talk about if you are a, 0.82

00:14:27.840 let's say you're a moderate and you're like, I don't know, I don't like crazy people having guns. 0.80

00:14:31.360 Well, New Jersey is just plum nuts. Okay. It is the craziest place. I had a guy try to break into my 0.86

00:14:37.480 house. He was a pedophile and he was demanding that you are hoping I would interview him and tell 0.59

00:14:44.680 the world how about his story and how he was framed or something. I don't know. It was three in the

00:14:48.600 morning and he tries entering my home. I call the police. Fortunately, they're nearby. They, they,

00:14:54.360 they come, take the guy, they stop him, they find him. I get one of these cops. He says, if it were me,

00:14:59.400 I'd answer the door with a shotgun. And I said, oh, okay, then what? These cops explained to me

00:15:04.220 in New Jersey, if someone breaks into your house and screams that they're going to kill you,

00:15:10.640 you are not allowed to shoot them. Only when you are cornered with nowhere to go,

00:15:17.460 if the person is expressing an intent to kill you, can you use lethal force? And I said, and then what?

00:15:23.360 The cop told me you'd be arrested and charged with a felony for murder. And when you're, when you

00:15:28.300 finally make it to trial, you can explain to the judge how, why you were innocent and try and use

00:15:33.120 self-defense as your claim. But in this state, the victims are penalized and the criminals run

00:15:40.580 rampant. And so, you know, with, with that combined with the business issues, I said, listen,

00:15:45.700 by all means, you want to have strict gun laws, whatever, fine, but at least allow people to 0.62

00:15:49.240 defend themselves. And the state doesn't. It's more than just the governor. You need the state

00:15:53.880 legislature to shift. You need every conservative minded, every moderate, every reasonable person

00:15:59.360 to go and vote. Yeah. And I think you just hit on the two major things we're trying to do,

00:16:06.400 which is one, you got to flip the governor's mansion, but then we've got four to five legislative

00:16:09.940 districts that have to flip, uh, to give some control back to what I would call the rational

00:16:14.480 folks on guns in New Jersey. You're over the target here. It is the most radically run state.

00:16:19.820 The gun grabbers have full control on the policies in the state. Let me explain this to you. You know,

00:16:24.700 since, since Charlie's assassination for all of these public events, especially more high profile,

00:16:29.620 we had an event. Wildwood, Benny Johnson, Jack Posobiec, Scott Pressler, myself, we all had security

00:16:35.480 with us. And when I talked to the security team, this is a group that's not based in Jersey.

00:16:40.120 And I told them the event is in Jersey and we were going to need body men with us. You should have

00:16:45.120 heard the side from our team that was like, Oh my gosh, because even in New Jersey, the only carve out,

00:16:52.680 the only carve out to being able to protect and carry a gun with somebody that, you know, is supposed

00:16:57.460 to serve as security is you have to be an ex-policeman. You have to be a retired state trooper. It's like

00:17:02.520 the only carve out. And so those are the people you can go to. But to me, to think you literally are

00:17:08.000 hiring security and those people, imagine what citizens have rights to. If people that are former law

00:17:14.400 enforcement are the only ones, that's bonkers. New Jersey's got to get this fixed.

00:17:18.260 Yeah. The ruling in New York where they allow you, like states now have to issue permits. When I

00:17:26.600 lived in Jersey, they told, so the first thing that happened was I was trying to get a gun because

00:17:31.400 we had these threats. I was informed it wouldn't matter anyway. They told me, if you shoot a guy

00:17:37.960 who breaks into your house, you're going to go to jail. You're going to be charged with murder and

00:17:42.840 you can plead your case to the judge and maybe you'll get bail. But, uh, so I said, what am I

00:17:47.740 supposed to do? And they said, flee. I'm like, flee where? I'm in my home. And what I was told by

00:17:54.540 the cops are like, imagine telling a judge, I'd rather murder, I'd rather kill a guy than stand 0.98

00:17:59.580 outside somewhere. You think they're going to, they're going to let you go for that. They're 0.60

00:18:02.960 going to convict you. And it's, it's the craziest thing. First, I go to the police. They all lie to me

00:18:09.200 on how to get a gun. Finally, I figured out if you want to buy a gun, ask the guys who sell them.

00:18:14.480 They told me what to do, how to fill out the paperwork. And then it was, it was relatively

00:18:16.840 quick. It didn't take that long, but you've got to get like ID'd. You got to go to a police station.

00:18:21.680 And if you want to be able to actually carry the weapon, forget it, you have to be famous.

00:18:26.600 I'm not kidding. They told me, uh, you have to prove there is a reason you need to carry it.

00:18:31.940 And that means you are a famous individual who is wealthy. That's it. In the state of New Jersey,

00:18:38.700 back, this is several years ago, like 2018, I think in order to carry a weapon concealed open

00:18:43.820 or otherwise, you have to prove you are rich and you have to prove you're famous because

00:18:48.660 just rich ain't enough. No one's going to target you just famous. Maybe that'll qualify. And that

00:18:54.140 is an insane standard that, that it's, it's ridiculous. Now that being said, it's not just 0.64

00:18:59.440 New Jersey though. I know you guys are working up there in New Jersey, but what do you think

00:19:02.340 about what's going on in Virginia? Cause let me tell you, we're talking about self-defense

00:19:06.520 and protection. I'm a few minutes away from Virginia. Let me tell you how worried I am

00:19:11.140 in my family because we drive down the road and we see signs for Jay Jones everywhere.

00:19:16.000 And this is a guy who said he wants the children of his political rivals murdered and he wants 0.98

00:19:21.140 conservatives murdered. And he wants to own law enforcement in that state. He didn't lose 0.98

00:19:26.200 an endorsement. He barely went down in the polls. If this guy wins, it is, is a terrifying

00:19:32.920 reality for what's going to happen for anybody, anyone conservative minded.

00:19:36.800 Yeah. I think this is a huge moment for Virginia to decide, you know, which direction they're

00:19:40.720 going to go. I lived in Virginia for a couple of years, Northern Virginia. Uh, I always thought

00:19:44.360 it was a pretty good place to live. Northern Virginia is a little crazy, uh, with a lot of

00:19:47.740 their laws, but if this Jay Jones guy wins, I think it's just going to send a message that

00:19:52.820 not only has the Democrat party lost its way in the party leadership, but a lot of the party

00:19:57.440 voters, you know, I've always been a believer that a lot of times it's the radical activists

00:20:00.700 are the radical donors. And that's what kind of the politicians react to. If voters in Virginia

00:20:06.840 decide that a guy who fantasized about killing a political opponent and his kids, if he gets

00:20:13.260 elected, I'm going to have a real trouble. I mean, that's going to be difficult for me to

00:20:18.540 understand how you justify it. Like I get it. You know, you vote along party lines, but it's not

00:20:23.380 like these voters are going to the polls, Tim, and don't know. This is the number one story.

00:20:27.800 Every single voter knows about it. If you want to do a split ticket, cause you can't vote

00:20:31.680 for him, but you're a Democrat. I can at least understand that. But to cast your vote for

00:20:36.280 a guy who says he wants to put a bullet in the children's head of your opponent. That's 1.00

00:20:42.280 insane to me. And the fact that we even have to say it, think about how wild that is 20

00:20:46.540 years ago. I hope. And I think this person will be run from public life. Now Democrats are

00:20:52.620 figuring out a way to spin it and justify supporting them. Like you said, not one endorsement

00:20:57.320 lost. What about the Nazi guy in Maine?

00:21:02.400 He's going up in the polls. He's up in the polls now among Democrats.

00:21:07.220 You know, it's funny. We're laughing, but it's like a guy, a Democrat is exposed to having

00:21:12.700 the literal Totenkopf on his chest and among Democrats his polling improves. I wonder what

00:21:17.800 that says about the Democrat voter base and their political inclinations.

00:21:21.360 Yeah. And this whole idea that they are the party of peace, I think not only did 2024 kind

00:21:26.820 of move the needle on that, but every day we're seeing more and more of this, doubling down

00:21:30.840 on the bad bets. But it's just who the party's become. Tim, I really don't know if they're

00:21:35.440 going to be a national party unless they start to pivot away from the crazy stuff. But the

00:21:39.280 radicals have them by the horns right now. They're doubling down on all the woke nonsense. 0.74

00:21:44.260 And I'm here for it, right? Is somebody trying to elect a liberty-minded Republican? Sure.

00:21:48.540 But I'm just waiting. When are they going to pivot back? I don't see it.

00:21:52.420 This is my joke. It's not really a joke. But, you know, when these Democrats call people on the

00:21:56.980 right Nazis, my response is, I know you don't actually think I'm a Nazi. And when they say,

00:22:03.160 how do you know I don't think that? Because if I was, you'd vote for me. We've seen it in Maine.

00:22:08.220 When they falsely accuse a conservative of being a Nazi, what they're really saying is to the normies,

00:22:13.100 don't vote for him. But I got to be honest. You know, I think it was Crystal Ball, you know,

00:22:18.100 podcaster said, she'd rather vote for the guy with a regrettable tattoo, that's how she described it,

00:22:23.980 than a politician who supported actual genocide. And it's like, well, look, that's fine if you want

00:22:29.820 to accuse Israel of genocide. They're both. Like, both candidates are representing that in your view, 0.57

00:22:37.160 if that's what your argument is. But they're voting for it with a smile on their faces, because I don't

00:22:40.460 think they ever really opposed it, especially the anti-Israel cohort on the Democratic side.

00:22:45.300 I think that's largely what motivates them, to be honest. And I think this guy in Maine,

00:22:49.860 again, by all means, criticized Israel. But I'm going to say in this particular instance,

00:22:53.480 this guy's very anti-Israel. He probably hates Jews. And he's got a totenkopf on his chest for 18 0.98

00:22:58.880 years. That's not an accident. You don't accidentally get that. I don't believe it for a second.

00:23:03.840 And I think a lot of these Democrats are probably thinking,

00:23:06.200 yeah, okay, well, we hate Israel, too. And so they're going to vote for him for that reason. 0.96

00:23:11.360 Well, and I think in the past, people would want to distance themselves from radical lunatics like 0.97

00:23:16.400 this. But now they look at the idea of, well, the Supreme Court is that important. Passing

00:23:21.460 legislation in the U.S. Senate is that important. This is our guy. They think loyalty matters more

00:23:26.480 than decency. I mean, that's the Democrat Party of today. But like you said, this guy's had that

00:23:31.420 tattoo for 18 years. The mental gymnastics you have to do to be able to spin why you still support

00:23:38.600 that person, because behind the scenes, you know, that's your best shot at winning the seat

00:23:42.640 is wild. But that's what they do. And they continue to do it.

00:23:46.380 You know, it's a cult. It really is. And the right, the MAGA group has an element of this to

00:23:51.960 a certain degree. But it's a minority on the right. Some prominent individuals will defend Trump

00:23:57.560 literally no matter what he does, even when he does bad things or makes mistakes. The left is,

00:24:02.460 it's the dominant. I was talking to a guy, maybe I'll end up hearing about this, but there's a guy

00:24:08.100 that I know, he's an older guy, he's a boomer. And he was complaining to me that my, Tim Katz signed

00:24:13.540 the press corps press agreement. And his question was, if every other news organization refused to do

00:24:19.680 it, it's wrong for you to do it. And he's a lot, he's entitled to his opinion, but his opinion is

00:24:26.120 based on what the, what the people do, not on what is true. And this is what I see largely of the

00:24:31.400 Democrats. They don't care about policy. They don't care what is true. They care what their group think

00:24:36.480 is. And if the group says, we are taking an action, don't you dare do otherwise, otherwise you

00:24:42.880 are our enemy. That's all they're voting on. So if a progressive guy's got a literal Nazi tattoo and

00:24:48.740 seems to be a Nazi, they're like, doesn't matter. Group thinks, says it's okay. We support him. 0.91

00:24:55.560 That's what we are trying to defeat. Now you have the challenge for you, Cliff, and for everybody

00:24:58.380 else who's voting is trying to convince moral moderates and conservatives to vote based on

00:25:06.040 the merits. It's very difficult for liberals. It's just do as we say, because we're, we're,

00:25:11.580 we're the majority. They say yes. And Tim, you're, you're hitting on something that most people

00:25:15.960 would understand, which is when they changed all the rules during COVID to, you know, have these

00:25:20.240 longer elections. And I'm not even saying they did this intentionally. They probably did. Yeah.

00:25:25.100 What happens is they made it more about collecting ballots and just getting people to play on their

00:25:30.120 team because you have more time to do that. You have less time to individually target one day where

00:25:35.320 you can message and figure out how do you talk to people about issues, get them to care. When you have

00:25:39.560 these long election seasons, it really helps those that do have the group think because they don't even

00:25:45.320 want you to spend time. It's just vote for our party, vote for our party. And we, as Republicans

00:25:50.000 are finally doing the same thing. I mean, obviously we're talking about issues, but it benefits them

00:25:54.800 because they're just rack up as much as you can. They don't even want you to look at the name of

00:25:58.280 the candidate. Just vote for the party. Republicans want to talk about the issues. It's a much tougher

00:26:03.140 sell. Doesn't mean we shouldn't do the work, but we got to grind to get those votes because the Dems 1.00

00:26:07.700 just kind of, they get in line at the trough, man. And they just go vote.

00:26:10.540 So you've got this Prop 50 in California now where they want to basically eliminate,

00:26:15.820 what is it, all the remaining Republican seats in the state. And I think they'll be able to do it

00:26:21.060 because this is what happens when you create a uniparty state, a single party controlled state.

00:26:28.000 Over a long enough period of time, moderate to conservative individuals flee the area,

00:26:32.500 be it a city, state, county, or otherwise, making it easier and easier for one party to win every

00:26:37.800 election. And then they entrench what remains of their politics. They're going to turn California

00:26:42.740 into a universally Democrat uniparty state. And they're going to try and manipulate federal

00:26:48.620 elections to a great degree. What are we seeing with the Republican response? I mean,

00:26:53.440 you think the Voting Rights Act, there's some speculation that the Voting Rights Act

00:26:57.340 is effectively overturned by the Supreme Court. Republicans could gain 20 seats. Democrats could

00:27:03.060 lose 20 seats, creating a permanent Republican majority in the federal government.

00:27:06.220 I'm a believer in fighting, right? I think the narrative the left tries to say is that,

00:27:12.200 oh, for years, the left has been fair. And now all of a sudden, the right's being aggressive. It's

00:27:15.880 completely bonkers. The left has used the rules to benefit them when it comes to gerrymandering

00:27:20.740 for decades. And Republicans have always been afraid of being called racist. We're afraid of

00:27:25.380 being called misogynistic. You know, oh, if we do this, come on, guys, fight with the rules you can

00:27:30.260 fight with. And a lot of this is not even at the federal level. Yes, they've just done that with the

00:27:34.160 Voting Rights Act. But a lot of this, governors could take action today. Legislatures could take

00:27:39.000 action today. You just saw it in North Carolina. They're pushing with the state legislature to

00:27:43.160 change it. But we need to be on offense in every state. That doesn't mean we're doing anything

00:27:46.800 illegal. But the whole narrative that the left follows the rules and now we're going to try to

00:27:51.520 steal seats, they have been following the rules and gerrymandering to benefit them for decades.

00:27:56.760 It's time we fight back to follow the rules, gerrymander how you need to. Every seat's having

00:28:03.120 the same amount of population, but do what they do to create the maps instead of being afraid

00:28:08.000 of being called some sort of name and fight to win. You should have these seats fight.

00:28:13.500 You know, I love about this. Newsom said that Trump is rigging the election. And my response is,

00:28:19.100 um, how is it that by simply watching polling locations, the outcome of the election changes?

00:28:25.480 It's almost as if what they're arguing is, if you watch us, we won't be able to cheat.

00:28:31.560 So you're rigging the election. Yeah, they try to scare you by thinking that this is like a

00:28:36.440 reference to Jim Crow laws where like people would stand at the polls to intimidate people. It's like,

00:28:40.780 no, listen, they're literally saying they want to watch it. But look, some of the activists and

00:28:44.940 donors on the left, they love that garbage from Newsom, right? See, Trump's trying to intimidate. 1.00

00:28:49.480 That's what this is all about. The DOJ has done this for decades, sending people in. They're just

00:28:54.640 going to keep using talking points when it fits their narrative. I got to be honest, you know,

00:28:58.380 seeing the response to Charlie Kirk's assassination, seeing Jay Jones's inner thoughts and desires about

00:29:05.220 murdering children. I'm pretty sure if you went to Democrats, this is the scary thing. Let's go back

00:29:12.780 in time. I'll put it like this. There were accusations that people who are vote counting

00:29:18.360 were cheating for the Democrats. And the left argues there's no conspiracy that's crazy. And

00:29:24.460 my response is that doesn't need to be a conspiracy. Democrats just know what to do and they're willing

00:29:29.900 to do it. So some random woman who hates Republicans, she's in a polling location counting ballots and 1.00

00:29:37.080 she goes, I'm going to disqualify this Trump vote because this is smudged. I think it says

00:29:42.200 Bowdoin, but he means Biden. It's good. And as long as that bias exists among Democrats and not

00:29:46.820 among Republicans, Democrats are going to favor themselves in every election. It's called a

00:29:51.380 standalone complex where all of these people take an action in a singular direction without being

00:29:56.800 prompted to do so. I think that's a problem we face. If you go to Democrats and say,

00:30:02.360 I bet if you poll Democrats, should the Democrats cheat to win elections to stop Republicans from

00:30:10.040 getting power? I bet you'd get at least a third to say yes. And the next third would think yes,

00:30:15.480 but say no, because they'd be embarrassed. Yeah, it's a sad state of affairs. And it reminds

00:30:20.220 me of when we poll people on the left and say, is political violence sometimes, sometimes justified?

00:30:26.600 And the fact that even more than zero percent of people say that is wackadoo. But yeah,

00:30:31.200 I think you're right. I never heard it breaking down like that. And I think you're right where

00:30:34.020 it's like you have enough of these people radicalized and thinking that for the betterment

00:30:38.520 of the democracy, as they would call it, we must do this. We must cheat to win. It doesn't mean

00:30:43.880 there's some wizard of Oz pulling the strings. It's just they have the opportunity there. And look,

00:30:48.680 we see this in county after county. This is why I believe we need the most extremely secure

00:30:53.560 elections possible, the most transparent, because yeah, you're going to have bad actors,

00:30:57.480 right? You're going to have individuals doing this. And there's not really a solution other

00:31:01.080 than open the books, figure out systems that people can trust. And at the end of the day,

00:31:05.280 you want your citizens to trust the results of the election. And everything Trump's doing

00:31:09.980 is enhancing transparency, period. It's going to be tough. So just final thoughts,

00:31:15.200 what do you think is going to happen in Jersey? And where can everybody find you?

00:31:18.700 Yeah, Jersey, I think it's gonna be a nail biter. We need everyone to get out and vote for Jack

00:31:22.220 Cineroli. If folks want to sponsor a ballot chaser, njchase.com. I'm on X at Maloney. Tim,

00:31:28.360 as always, appreciate you letting me get the word out here. And I appreciate the show and the

00:31:32.840 audience. Well, right on, man. Thanks for hanging out. And we'll see you soon.

00:31:36.680 You got it. Take care.

00:31:40.000 That, of course, is Cliff Maloney doing the work that needs to be done in New Jersey. My friends,

00:31:46.280 let me just say this as we wrap things up. You got to get out and vote. You just absolutely have to do it.

00:31:51.560 I know it's an uphill battle. It can be demoralizing at times. Sometimes it feels like,

00:31:56.140 what's even the point? Because we need the avalanche. The Democrats have the avalanche

00:32:01.340 every single day. The grains of sand that just move, like we were talking about. A thousand

00:32:07.000 people. No one needs to tell these Democrats what to do. They're willing to break the law to win.

00:32:12.280 Republicans are not. And you shouldn't. It just means that we need our own avalanche.

00:32:16.580 You may be but a single snowflake in that avalanche. But without you, there isn't one.

00:32:22.920 So make sure if you're in California, if you're in Virginia, if you're in Maine, if you're in

00:32:27.660 New Jersey, you go and vote. You bring three of your friends who tell your friends to go vote.

00:32:33.700 Everybody go vote. I believe we've got, gearing up, DeVorey Darkens,

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00:33:03.060 it's going to go the way you think it will. I think it's going to get very, very interesting.

00:33:05.820 So again, thank you all so much for hanging out. We're back tonight,

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - October 27, 2025

Trump Considers THIRD TERM As President, Bannon Says There IS A Plan ft. Cliff Maloney

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