The Culture War - Tim Pool - Trump FCC Moves To REVOKE ABC License Over Kimmel Assassination Joke

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00:00:15.080 The FCC is preparing to challenge the broadcast licenses of ABC

00:00:21.120 following Jimmy Kimmel's joke about Melania Trump having the glow of an expectant widow.

00:00:27.760 He made this joke, which many people think was crass, just a few days before this latest assassination attempt.

00:00:36.160 And if this challenge is successful, ABC will lose its ability to broadcast through certain licenses.

00:00:43.420 This all seems to many particularly petty.

00:00:47.560 I mean, listen, Jimmy Kimmel's joke was bad, but is this really going to rise to the occasion of let's remove their ability to broadcast?

00:00:55.780 Well, to be fair, many people are arguing that Jimmy Kimmel has gotten away with way

00:00:59.540 worse.

00:00:59.940 He has lied about the assassin, about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, implying that

00:01:04.680 it was a right winger who killed Charlie.

00:01:07.340 He has made shockingly offensive statements.

00:01:09.660 And if the purpose of public broadcast licenses is to serve the public interest, being hyper

00:01:16.680 partisan does not do that.

00:01:18.480 More importantly, making jokes imply the president will be killed or die is on the line.

00:01:26.140 Now, I'm going to say this, guys.

00:01:27.920 My personal opinion is that I don't think this is where we need to go because Jimmy

00:01:31.900 Kimmel made a crass joke.

00:01:34.540 It's on the line, but I would not say it's over the line.

00:01:37.660 But who am I?

00:01:38.880 You guys let me know what you think.

00:01:41.020 Implying that Donald Trump is about to die when he's the president, I call it on the

00:01:46.120 line because he's not making a direct threat.

00:01:47.760 However, it is this rhetoric that has resulted in terror attacks at Tesla facilities, a massive

00:01:54.100 increase in violence, political violence coming from the left.

00:01:58.060 And at a certain point, we have to draw the line.

00:02:00.920 So this is the challenge that I'm dealing with.

00:02:03.460 I don't think that this joke crosses that line where we would say you can't broadcast

00:02:08.400 anymore.

00:02:08.800 But at a certain point, action must be taken.

00:02:12.000 Why?

00:02:12.240 if rhetoric like this continues, and it has been, we will get more assassination attempts,

00:02:19.760 more political violence, and we are seeing the hard data prove it. So this is the moral challenge.

00:02:27.260 Do we say, finally, right now, we are putting a stop to the people who are advocating or inciting

00:02:33.980 death and violence? Well, the argument then is that this would fly in the face of the First

00:02:40.560 amendment. But dare I say, my friends, I present an argument to all of you. I would say there is

00:02:47.680 no constitution. And I say that in somewhat a an inflammatory way, trying to elicit an emotional

00:02:54.180 response from all of you to comment and share your thoughts and ideas. But my argument is this

00:02:58.380 throughout history, our rights under the bill are the amendments. The Bill of Rights have been

00:03:04.700 curtailed on whims of government agencies and leaders, particularly citing national security.

00:03:11.720 Do we tolerate this today? It's been tolerated in the past, and certainly many on the left have

00:03:17.420 argued that their version, their vision of the Constitution is wholly at odds with those on the

00:03:23.680 right. If there are two distinct moral worldviews arguing the Constitution means different things,

00:03:29.580 Well, then how do we actually argue we can enforce a constitutional right?

00:03:35.080 I'll give you an example.

00:03:36.260 When, you know, in New York, they shut down churches during covid.

00:03:39.720 That is wholly unconstitutional, but they did it.

00:03:43.280 Nobody stopped them.

00:03:44.320 Is the left going to argue they were justified in doing all of those things?

00:03:48.200 Well, right now, if the right is arguing that for the sake of national interest, what Jimmy

00:03:52.860 Kimmel did is on or over the line because it is creating an environment of death and violence

00:03:58.180 against the president, some would argue he's got to stop. Now, look where this goes. Maybe what

00:04:05.420 they do ultimately is this challenge forces ABC to say, OK, we're going to pull back and we'll stop.

00:04:11.300 But in the end, might makes. That's it. Might doesn't make right. A moral argument over having

00:04:18.480 force is not correct, but those that are willing to use the power they have to enforce their moral

00:04:24.500 worldview will succeed. Let's jump into the news and break down exactly what's going on. I've got

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00:05:41.980 Disney's broadcast license amid Jimmy Kimmel feud. For those that are not familiar what's going on

00:05:47.760 with what's going on. Jimmy Kimmel made this crass joke. I think I can pull it up right here.

00:05:53.500 No, that's not the right one. Well, I got the tweet here somewhere. Jimmy Kimmel made a crass

00:05:58.720 joke where he said that Melania Trump has the glow of an expectant widow. Yeah, this kind of 0.52

00:06:07.860 made everybody real angry. In fact, maybe I can play it here. Breaking news. We are now learning

00:06:12.240 the FCC is preparing to get involved to challenge ABC station licenses amid the controversy over

00:06:19.400 Jimmy Kimmel. This comes as a late night host is not backing down or after a recent joke

00:06:24.220 had the White House again calling on ABC to fire him, including the first lady.

00:06:29.280 Kimmel joked on his show before the Correspondent Center shooting that first lady Melania Trump 0.93

00:06:33.560 glowed like an expectant widow. After a suspect opened fire on Saturday's event, Trump and his

00:06:39.440 allies criticized the quip as a call for violence. But here's how Kimmel responded last night.

00:06:45.500 I will just say very quickly, the insinuation is not just that Trump would die, 0.78

00:06:50.860 but also that Melania wants him to die.

00:06:56.920 Obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every 0.55

00:07:03.140 time they're together. It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he's almost 80 and she's

00:07:08.420 younger than I am. It was not

00:07:09.700 by any stretch of the

00:07:12.260 definition a call to assassination

00:07:14.060 and they know that. I've been very

00:07:16.320 vocal for many years speaking out against

00:07:18.240 gun violence in particular

00:07:20.000 but I understand that the first lady had a stressful 1.00

00:07:22.340 experience over the weekend and probably

00:07:24.400 every weekend is pretty stressful.

00:07:26.540 He's just, he keeps hammering

00:07:28.460 her. It's like, dude, just chill for one

00:07:30.240 second. In that house and also

00:07:32.500 I agree that hateful and violent

00:07:34.620 rhetoric is something we should reject.

00:07:36.400 i do and i think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with

00:07:41.920 your husband about it i also should point out of course it's trump's fault right donald trump

00:07:47.060 is allowed to say whatever he wants to say as are you and as am i as are all of us because under the

00:07:52.740 first amendment we have as americans a right to free speech all right let's go live now to see

00:07:59.160 and that is actually not true uh to be completely honest i've i've made this point many times guys

00:08:04.960 when the First Amendment was ratified, blasphemy was illegal. We have modern interpretations of

00:08:11.000 what these constitutional amendments mean. And as many people make the argument that they are

00:08:14.300 textualists and originalists, no one actually is. So I'm sorry if this is a cold splash of water

00:08:20.700 or you disagree, by all means comment and explain to me why you think I'm wrong. But I will just

00:08:24.740 say it like this. The original constitution of the federal government, the right to keep and

00:08:29.660 bear arms did include privateers, man-o'-wars, cannons. That's right. By today's standard,

00:08:36.760 you'd be allowed to have machine guns and warships. However, the original interpretation

00:08:40.960 of the federal constitution was that it applied only to laws passed by the federal government,

00:08:44.920 not the state governments, meaning back then a state could ban you from having guns. Now,

00:08:49.640 most of the states still had their own constitutions, which internally in those

00:08:54.460 states guaranteed your right to keep and bear arms. However, the federal government did not

00:08:58.620 supersede these state governments. In some areas, yes. If you want to go by an originalist

00:09:04.960 interpretation of the Constitution, the federal government can't ban guns, but states can.

00:09:09.380 We don't do that today. We go by a new interpretation. That is, states can't ban guns.

00:09:16.260 They try to do these workarounds, but gun rights enthusiasts, gun rights advocates

00:09:19.800 have continually won in this regard. You can take a look at the Fourth Amendment.

00:09:22.920 The point is this. Everybody has argued for their moral worldview, and a Constitution just means

00:09:27.900 what is the constitution of the public? What constitutes their moral worldview?

00:09:33.800 And my point is simply this. You and I share a common worldview on what our constitution is

00:09:39.140 supposed to represent, what it does. The multicultural democracy advocates, the left,

00:09:44.680 do not. So when Jimmy Kimmel says we have a First Amendment right, you know that when it came to

00:09:50.920 COVID lockdowns and shutting churches down, he did not extend that right to you. That's my point.

00:09:56.760 Now, we do have more here.

00:09:57.840 I want to give you this.

00:09:59.200 What does it mean to challenge the license?

00:10:01.960 The FCC is preparing to challenge this.

00:10:04.580 It regulates over-the-air broadcast TV and radio.

00:10:07.240 This also means that when you watch online, these are extensions of these broadcast licenses.

00:10:12.900 When we went over this Jimmy Kimmel, like, being pulled in certain markets because of Sinclair,

00:10:16.980 this meant that you couldn't watch him in certain areas, even online.

00:10:21.580 ABC, owned by Disney, operates several owned and operated O&O stations in major markets, New York, L.A., Chicago, that hold FCC licenses.

00:10:30.800 Many other ABC affiliates are owned by separate companies like Nexstar and Sinclair and carry ABC programming.

00:10:36.240 The FCC does not license the national ABC network.

00:10:39.860 Licenses last eight years and are generally renewed routinely if stations meet basic obligations.

00:10:45.160 Children's programming quotas, emergency alert, public file maintenance.

00:10:49.640 the FCC can consider complaints, investigations, or public interest factors during renewal.

00:10:54.740 Early or expedited review. The FCC can direct stations to file renewals ahead of schedule

00:10:59.880 for closer scrutiny. It's described as unprecedented in recent reporting and serves

00:11:04.880 as a form of pressure. The FCC can open probes, news distortion, and equal time violations,

00:11:11.240 indecency, sponsorship, or DEI practices. Third parties or the FCC itself can file petitions to

00:11:17.320 deny renewal. Actual revocation is extremely rare and requires usually requires clear documented

00:11:23.600 violations. Late night host Jimmy Kimmel's recent monologue joke about Melania Trump has triggered

00:11:28.560 this. The implications could be they may face more paperwork, potential hearings, fines or

00:11:33.520 operational changes. Revocation would mean a station couldn't broadcast over the air in its

00:11:37.640 market, disrupting ABC programming there. But this is unlikely without strong evidence for

00:11:43.500 viewers, it signals regulatory pressure that can influence content decisions. Networks can shift

00:11:48.160 to cable and streaming less regulated. Affiliates aren't forced to carry controversial network shows.

00:11:54.000 Indeed, this whole thing is interesting. I'll tell you this.

00:11:59.280 Principally, I'm not sure that Jimmy Kimple's, as I stated already, crass joke warrants a

00:12:04.340 revocation of licenses. But part of me says, when do we fight back? When do we put the foot down

00:12:12.640 and say we cannot continue with this violent rhetoric. I'm going to show you a few examples.

00:12:19.080 We've got this post from leftism for you. This woman, Alison King, who worked for United

00:12:25.020 Healthcare, she said this. I were cooked as a country when my first reaction to hearing the

00:12:31.380 news about Trump's attempt was it was probably fake. Like immediately I was like, oh, that wasn't

00:12:38.900 real probably fake and the second was oh they missed so happy they missed oh yeah that's that's

00:12:50.260 that's sad that's when you know we're cooked well they didn't miss this uh alleged shooter did not

00:12:56.380 even make it into the room now this woman has been fired with united health care saying violence is

00:13:01.120 never acceptable and any comments that suggest otherwise are in no way consistent with our

00:13:05.400 mission and values. The person who made comments online about Saturday night's incident at a

00:13:10.560 Washington event where President Trump and many other political leaders were gathered is no longer

00:13:14.820 employed by this company. Leftism for You says Alison King has officially been fired

00:13:20.780 by UnitedHealthcare. The question is this, I mean, at what point do we say enough? We've got videos

00:13:29.000 of prominent leftists calling for violence, advocating for it, and that's the persistent

00:13:34.180 message. Luigi Mangione, the accused assassin of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, is being venerated,

00:13:42.740 celebrated. He's being made into a hero and martyr. If this persists, as many of us have

00:13:49.880 long argued, you will get assassination culture, which I'll tell you why, you know, this video

00:13:56.480 really irks me. That when her and people like Jimmy Dore or Kyle Kalinske say it's staged or

00:14:02.400 people think it's staged. Certainly many liberals and anti-Trumpers do. Fair. The reason why I find

00:14:08.300 this so wrong is that we predicted this. Trump does not need to stage anything. We literally

00:14:18.120 predicted all of this. We have been talking for years now about assassination culture.

00:14:24.440 When Luigi Mangione allegedly assassinated Brian Thompson and people propped him up,

00:14:29.700 What did I and many others say? If you tell the left you will be celebrated for murder,

00:14:36.100 we will get more murderers. So when a when a Kamala Harris voter Democrat says Trump is a

00:14:42.440 pedo rapist and he's going to stop him and then storms into a building and their reaction is 0.98

00:14:47.980 it's fake. I don't believe it. It annoys me because I find to be wrong, morally wrong, 1.00

00:14:55.260 factually wrong. It offends me because we told you it would happen. It would be like

00:15:01.020 laying out the mechanism, like getting on a bicycle and saying, if you ride that bicycle

00:15:07.100 downhill with no brakes, you'll go really fast and crash. And then when the person does, they say

00:15:11.980 you faked it. Right. I don't even think we need an analogy for it. I know the point is we told

00:15:18.180 you one plus one equaled two. And when two was the outcome, you then say, no, it's fake. That's

00:15:23.840 annoying. We are watching the mechanisms that create these scenarios and we are seeing people

00:15:29.460 now downplay it. Either they celebrate the assassin or when the dude fails, they say they wish he

00:15:35.280 succeeded, but it's probably fake anyway. Indeed. So we've got this here. There's more. Libs of

00:15:42.740 TikTok. Meet Francesca Zelnick, an employee at the Friends Central School in PA. She reportedly

00:15:49.220 made multiple now deleted posts hoping for an assassination of Trump. This is this is listen.

00:15:56.720 She posted, I hope it happens at the correspondents dinner tonight,

00:16:00.500 then responded three hours later. Well, guess someone else did, too.

00:16:05.720 So when they say it's fake and staged, but we can go on on Blue Sky, we can go on to threads and

00:16:13.800 just see them all begging for it to happen? At what point do you say, actually, it's probably

00:16:19.120 not fake? They're begging for it to happen. This is why my brain just with the people saying like,

00:16:25.740 I don't think it's real for a second. I think he staged it. Bro, before this happened, I've been

00:16:31.780 guys, I told the story where I went on threads and there were random middle aged one with no

00:16:37.060 followers threatening to murder Erica Kirk. I'm like, this is getting insane. These people have

00:16:43.040 gone plum nuts. So when you have posts like this, do you think she's the only person who feels that

00:16:50.600 way? Do you think this is the only post calling for the assassination of Trump? So why not would

00:16:57.260 this guy be like, why would he not be motivated? Right. When Jimmy Kimmel says she has the glow

00:17:04.040 of an expectant widow, what is the message? Is he saying go murder? No. What he is saying is that

00:17:10.060 Melania is unhappy and she would be happier if Trump was dead. Now, I would call that a grain 0.98

00:17:16.180 of sand. And the question is, how many grains of sand make a heap? In this instance, that singular

00:17:21.300 instance of Jimmy Kimmel saying it doesn't matter all that much. But when you look down at the

00:17:25.860 massive pile of sand, you go, that's a heap of sand. I know most of you know what that means,

00:17:30.460 but just in the event you don't, I'm not trying to be a dick. Take a grain of sand and drop it 0.95

00:17:35.140 the table. Do you have a heap of sand? No, you don't. There's a grain. Add another. Is it a heap?

00:17:40.320 No. Keep doing that, and eventually the question will be asked, at what point does it become a heap

00:17:44.980 of sand? That's the issue. The snowflake doesn't blame itself for the avalanche. Well, here's the

00:17:52.480 scary reality. Sometimes we throw grenades on the sides of mountains to trigger an avalanche

00:17:58.700 because we want to trigger it before anyone would get hurt on it. The implication analogy there is

00:18:05.120 sooner or later, we will get an avalanche. And I think we're starting to face right now when

00:18:12.200 Jimmy Kimmel tells people that Melania would be happy if Trump was dead. There's going to be at

00:18:16.500 least one person who believes a couple of things. First, Trump is an evil, rapist, pedophile, 1.00

00:18:23.800 traitor. Two, everybody would celebrate if he was gone. We are seeing these posts. And three, 1.00

00:18:30.780 even his family, his own wife, would be happier without him in the picture.

00:18:36.220 Eventually, you will get at least one person who thinks these things,

00:18:39.720 and the conclusion is simple to them. They're going to say, well, maybe someone just needs to

00:18:44.580 finally do it. And then you get these actions. So my point is ultimately this.

00:18:50.720 Jimmy Kimmel is standing atop a mountain where you can see there is a high likelihood of an

00:18:56.960 avalanche and he's chucking rocks. Each individual rock does very little, but sooner or later,

00:19:02.260 it's going to trigger that avalanche. Do we allow him to continue or do we finally say

00:19:08.100 enough? This has to stop. Now, these people, we're in trouble. The argument under the First

00:19:17.480 Amendment is that she's allowed to say she hopes it happens. Will there be social repercussions 0.88

00:19:22.440 for this? Honestly, I don't think so. From the Wall Street Journal, the year of the Molotov

00:19:28.320 cocktail, American anti-government violence, it's a 30-year high. I am always, always just deeply

00:19:35.120 offended by these charts, and I'll explain why. Because it's fake. It is fake. First of all,

00:19:40.840 you can take a look on the right side and see the right has been responsible, according to the

00:19:46.020 Stats, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, forever. Going back to 1994, the right

00:19:52.360 always is the dominant faction in anti-government violence. To be fair, if you go back to the 70s,

00:19:58.200 you'll see it's the left, you know, like Weather Underground stuff. Here's the issue with this.

00:20:02.860 This is not the right. It's just not. And in fact, the left is not even there.

00:20:08.900 We can take a look at Occupy Wall Street in 2011 and see not a single instance,

00:20:13.040 despite the fact there were many anti-government attacks.

00:20:16.500 Now, perhaps the standard they're going to use is not low tier.

00:20:20.840 They're arguing that Occupy Wall Street smashing windows, taking over buildings and things like that.

00:20:26.640 It's low level protest across the country.

00:20:29.620 We don't consider it to be a plot targeting the U.S. government.

00:20:33.280 Fair point.

00:20:34.220 The problem with all of these on the right is that they claim white supremacists are right wing

00:20:40.360 and anti-government itself is right-wing. There's also an other category that includes

00:20:46.440 anti-abortion, anti-Muslim, anti-immigration, anti-public lands. What? Indeed. Left-wing,

00:20:56.760 for simplicity's sake, includes black nationalists. What? You see, when they track these things and 0.72

00:21:04.060 claim the right is violent. I point it out like this. They would say that I am on the right.

00:21:11.440 What do I have in common as a mixed race former liberal from Chicago with a white supremacist?

00:21:18.540 Nothing. We don't believe in the same form of government. We don't have the same goals in the

00:21:23.040 end. We don't agree on the issue of abortion. So what does it mean I'm right wing? Nothing.

00:21:29.360 I have absolutely nothing in common with your typical neo-Nazi or white supremacist.

00:21:34.960 When they show right and say it's violence, what they're trying to do is claim that traditional

00:21:40.140 conservative Charlie Kirk was in the same league as neo-Nazis. That's what they do with this chart.

00:21:47.720 On the left, however, when you have a far left extremist who shoots up a Tesla facility,

00:21:54.160 these people are in line with the Democratic Party. Hassan Piker, who has called for

00:21:59.360 people to go and murder, literally said it, campaigns directly with Democrat politicians.

00:22:05.220 He is a prominent, high profile, the highest profile leftist commentator.

00:22:09.300 And he campaigns with Democrats.

00:22:11.340 Don't get me wrong.

00:22:11.880 Some Democrats push back on this and they call they call him out and say you shouldn't

00:22:15.300 be advocating for it.

00:22:17.180 Then he gets interviewed by The New York Times.

00:22:18.500 They prop him up.

00:22:19.140 They expand his profile.

00:22:20.840 You see the difference?

00:22:22.180 They would call me right wing and I'd say I'm a moderate, but doesn't matter.

00:22:25.480 There's no moderate in the middle because moderates don't engage in terror attacks.

00:22:28.320 They would then claim that a neo-Nazi extremist identitarian is the same as a Christian conservative

00:22:36.240 carpenter.

00:22:37.660 They're not.

00:22:39.060 Now, don't get me wrong.

00:22:40.320 A union working urban liberal moderate who votes Democrat is not the same as Hassan Piker,

00:22:46.560 but the distinction is Hassan is platformed by these institutions at the highest levels

00:22:51.700 of the left and Democrats campaign with him.

00:22:54.680 You bring a neo-Nazi to a campaign rally for Republicans, we will all cast him out.

00:23:00.420 Graham Plattner has a Totenkampff, or did, he got it removed, I believe, he got it covered.

00:23:04.180 He has a Nazi tattoo on his chest, I think for like 20 years, and they defended him. 0.64

00:23:09.320 That's the difference. 0.61

00:23:10.760 When actual Nazis campaign with Democrats, they defend him.

00:23:15.240 They then try and claim other Nazis who are at odds with conservatives are right-wingers.

00:23:21.040 OK, well, at least what I can say is they're finally recognized the far left is substantially

00:23:25.320 more dangerous than the far right.

00:23:27.040 My question is this in 2025, honest question, look at how many look how many right wing

00:23:32.180 anti-government attacks there were from who?

00:23:35.760 Well, let's read and see what they have to say.

00:23:37.880 Suffice it to say, if you want to go by this metric, fine.

00:23:40.260 We're on the verge of civil war.

00:23:42.540 They say half the incidents from the extreme left last year appear to have been aimed at

00:23:45.680 immigration officers.

00:23:47.360 Violence from the extreme right also climbed.

00:23:49.120 A Democratic state lawmaker and her husband were killed in Minnesota last June.

00:23:53.000 That was not a right winger.

00:23:55.920 Sorry.

00:23:57.360 Or I'm sorry, it may have been, but it was not politically motivated. 1.00

00:24:01.140 So you see the stupid games they play? 0.99

00:24:03.560 This guy apparently had a personal issue with these people, but they claimed because he 1.00

00:24:07.580 was right winger in some way, that means it was right wing violence.

00:24:10.940 It's a lie.

00:24:12.580 One police officer was killed in August of a man who had been critical of the COVID-19

00:24:16.060 vaccine fired 500 rounds outside the headquarters of the CDC. 0.96

00:24:19.120 Indeed, but that's right wing. All told, three people were killed last year in attacks characterized 0.70

00:24:26.340 as extreme right, while one died after attack classed by extreme left. You see what they're

00:24:31.480 doing? Holy crap. Jimmy Dore was was critical of covid and he's anti-Trump. So what does anti-covid? 0.99

00:24:39.020 Well, many people on the right also agreed. Therefore, it's right wing. Now spare me.

00:24:42.280 Spare me your manipulations. The CSIS data sorts attacks by political leanings where possible

00:24:49.940 based on court documents and contemporaneous reporting. Perpetrators often don't fit into

00:24:54.720 categories. Indeed, some attacks on U.S. political figures, like the one on Josh Shapiro, whose

00:25:00.300 resident was set on fire, were allegedly motivated by events abroad. Indeed, indeed.

00:25:05.580 methodology. The journal analyzed terrorism incidents in the U.S. compiled by the CSIS

00:25:11.760 covering 94 to 2025. They count only premeditated incidents involving an attempt to threat,

00:25:17.620 attempt or threat to kill or injure intended to reach a broader political audience.

00:25:22.960 The analysis included incidents targeting U.S. government people, places, etc., etc.

00:25:26.600 So I want to make another point about this chart. I describe leftist violence as blunt

00:25:32.040 and right-wing violence as acute. What that means is Occupy Wall Street not being listed matters.

00:25:39.540 This was widespread, blunt political action. Much of it was largely fine, right? I got no problem

00:25:45.180 people blocking roadways for the most part, but there were degrees of violence. I was in Anaheim

00:25:50.500 when people were throwing rocks and bashing people in the face. I watched them physically

00:25:55.440 attack police officers and police fight back. We call this blunt terror. When you organize a riot,

00:26:01.200 smash windows and set fires and attack people like you also have in 2017 with the inauguration.

00:26:08.380 This is meant to terrorize, but not to cause widespread panic. When they say something is

00:26:15.360 right wing, like a white supremacist shoots up a church, they call it right wing despite the fact

00:26:20.420 it's not motivated by any conservative mainstream ideology and nobody's supporting it.

00:26:24.260 But this is what I call acute. It is high profile, massively damaging and substantially more rare.

00:26:31.200 The problem we have with this chart, I'll put it like this, if it is extremely likely

00:26:36.360 that if you go out wearing a MAGA hat, you will get punched in the face, you are terrorized,

00:26:41.120 you will not wear that hat, you will not espouse your views and advocate for a change in politics.

00:26:48.460 That's terrorism.

00:26:49.960 However, if you get punched in the face for wearing a MAGA hat, it won't be national news.

00:26:54.600 No one is going to say Breaking Man gets punched.

00:26:57.620 It's not going to happen.

00:26:58.820 If someone storms a church with a gun, sure, it might only happen once or twice in a year,

00:27:03.880 which is really bad, or maybe even less than that.

00:27:06.420 Everyone in the world will hear about it.

00:27:09.020 It's shockingly more terrifying, but almost never happens.

00:27:12.840 This means on a daily basis, you will advocate your worldview.

00:27:15.660 You will vote for it.

00:27:17.160 You will tell others to vote for it because you largely don't fear it happening.

00:27:21.380 As for regular people wearing Trump hats or wanting to wave Trump flags, they fear they'll

00:27:25.160 be beaten.

00:27:25.480 If conservatives try to hold a rally, one of two things will happen.

00:27:28.720 Well, actually, two things happen.

00:27:30.680 Leftists will hire fake Nazis to show up to smear the entire group, and then far leftists 0.99

00:27:35.000 will come and beat the crap out of people. 0.99

00:27:36.760 And no, it won't make national news.

00:27:39.400 Except for when Andy Ngo was nearly killed and he was covered in blood.

00:27:42.760 He was bleeding from his ears and nose.

00:27:44.620 And they finally covered it in the corporate press.

00:27:48.660 I want to show you this.

00:27:50.760 This is from E Times, 32,000 views.

00:27:54.100 Just listen.

00:27:54.580 with users dissecting every second of her reaction.

00:27:59.140 One user posted another clip with the caption,

00:28:02.360 she was aware minutes before.

00:28:04.740 It's a picture of Erica Kirk looking.

00:28:07.860 Just let me go back up a little bit.

00:28:09.220 Here you go.

00:28:09.980 That footage has now exploded across social media

00:28:13.020 with users dissecting every second of her reaction.

00:28:17.240 One user posted another clip with the caption,

00:28:19.980 she was aware minutes before.

00:28:22.420 A comment that intensified speculation online, though no official confirmation supports that claim.

00:28:29.520 It's literally just an image from a video of Erica Kirk looking over at someone's camera.

00:28:34.200 That's all it is.

00:28:35.500 All it is.

00:28:36.800 She's sitting at a table.

00:28:38.440 She has a blank expression on her face. 0.61

00:28:40.460 She looks at the camera and then looks back.

00:28:42.480 And now people are claiming she had foreknowledge.

00:28:44.720 The emotional reaction is also being viewed through a deeply personal lens.

00:28:49.420 Eric pulled eyewitness videos circulating online.

00:28:52.420 But amid the chaos, attention quickly shifted to a viral moment involving Erica Kirk, who was seen visibly emotional as she was.

00:29:01.580 There it is. Let me go back.

00:29:03.780 She glances over at somebody filming, glances back. 0.93

00:29:06.720 They screenshot it and they say just before the shooting and imply she had foreknowledge because these people are psychotic.

00:29:14.100 I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to wrap it with this, my friends.

00:29:16.440 I think that we are dealing with mass formation psychosis.

00:29:22.400 It is getting to an insane degree.

00:29:25.700 I don't know if there's a solution for it. 0.99

00:29:29.860 Paramount is going to have 49.5% of the company owned by Saudis and Qataris. 0.82

00:29:39.820 I just find that interesting.

00:29:40.880 What I see here is the political space is becoming incoherent and psychotic.

00:29:48.080 People who once supported Trump are now Kirk posting and Israel posting.

00:29:52.900 By all means, there's things to criticize all of them for. 0.77

00:29:55.960 But to this degree, I think it's just mass formation psychosis.

00:30:02.020 People want to be a part of this trend.

00:30:05.100 They want to believe things.

00:30:06.220 And so you take a screenshot of Erica Kirk glancing over at a camera.

00:30:10.220 And then what do they do?

00:30:11.800 They say, she knew.

00:30:14.120 And here's what happens.

00:30:15.700 I want to take you back to the Covington kids at the Lincoln Memorial.

00:30:20.820 This is almost, what, eight years ago now.

00:30:22.600 So a video goes viral showing a Native American banging a drum and a kid is seemingly standing 0.51

00:30:28.680 in his face smirking.

00:30:31.140 I was set this video by tons of people.

00:30:34.000 They told me to comment.

00:30:35.060 I said, Tim, you got to see this.

00:30:36.220 you got to see this. And I said, what is it? They're like, look what the kid is doing. And

00:30:39.340 I'm like, what is he doing? And they're like, he's, he got in the face of this Native American 1.00

00:30:43.360 is smirking. And I was like, all I see is a video of two people standing in front of each other. 0.99

00:30:47.780 Nothing's happening. So sure enough, I did some digging with the assistance of my followers.

00:30:53.800 We found the long form video. And sure enough, it turns out the Native American got in his face. 1.00

00:31:00.020 Kid didn't do anything wrong. People told me and many did. You know, it was funny. 0.89

00:31:06.220 it was Philip DeFranco. I think even Ben Shapiro condemned these kids wrongly.

00:31:14.140 I didn't do that. Why? I just saw a video of some kids standing there and I did not know the

00:31:18.800 context. People wanted me to assume the context. I see a video of Erica Kirk glance over the camera.

00:31:25.320 That's it. What can I say happened? In response to this, I have had people comment on my videos

00:31:33.760 and tweet at me and things like that, that I'm no longer telling the truth. Why? Because they

00:31:39.300 want to believe that Erica Kirk is evil. Sorry. All I know is she looked at a camera. All I know

00:31:47.160 is she cried or she didn't cry. None of this proves anything factually that I can say.

00:31:53.100 But they want me to say it. Same thing is true for Israel. What can we say about Israel? 0.67

00:31:58.500 Outsized influence in the United States. Indeed. Weird policies enacted by U.S. politicians.

00:32:02.840 Indeed, all bad. Yeah, we should stop those things. Agreed. Then they say Israel, Netanyahu

00:32:08.940 wants a corridor up to Ukraine to control. What? That's just made up. Sorry, I'm not going to

00:32:15.640 report that. I'm not going to claim it's true. We are dealing now with deranged people who want to

00:32:23.520 do deranged things, and they want people just to agree with them. It is an expanding mass formation

00:32:28.820 psychosis. I don't care if you watch or don't watch. I don't care if you say, Tim, you're wrong.

00:32:35.780 I'll take a look at it. Show me the evidence. I will happily correct. But if the insinuation is

00:32:40.720 that Erika Kirk is an evil Mossad agent and your evidence is a compilation of things like her

00:32:45.280 looking at a camera and looking away, I think you've lost the plot completely. But I think

00:32:50.720 more and more people will. And perhaps that's the intended condition. I cite Yuri Bezmenov,

00:32:55.600 as he mentioned, demoralization. And oh boy, are we demoralized. Former Trump supporters now think

00:33:02.100 Trump is evil and wrong. This is a fracturing. And maybe they're right about him being wrong.

00:33:06.500 I'm just saying the political lines have fractured a million ways for which it's all decentralized.

00:33:11.980 There's no unified action. The end result is going to be massive violence. So I hope you're

00:33:17.560 just prepared for whatever comes next. Other than that, stay vigilant, pay attention, and do what

00:33:23.420 you think is best for your family. I hope you all stay safe. I'll leave it there. Smash the like

00:33:27.600 button. Share the show with everyone. You know, thank you so much for hanging out and being

00:33:29.880 members and all that good stuff. Stick around. Timcast IRL coming up at 8 p.m. and we'll see you

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - April 28, 2026

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