The Culture War - Tim Pool - Trump FINAL ACT Has Begun, Democrats ARE QUITTING Over Far Left, Hasan Piker

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00:00:28.540 The question hangs over all of our heads. Which party is going to win in the midterm in November?

00:00:35.520 And will this be the end for Donald Trump? With Axios writing, Trump's final act begins.

00:00:42.640 If the Democrats win in the midterms, the expectation is that Donald Trump will be

00:00:47.840 curtailed. He'll be unable to engage in his administration's agenda. And that will be the

00:00:53.640 end. While many others say if the Republicans win, Trump will get a blank check. And with no more

00:00:59.180 constraints, no more worry about reelections, he will steamroll through everything he wants.

00:01:07.040 Interestingly enough, however, Axios' article is not about whether he wins or loses. It's actually

00:01:13.120 about, well, Trump can't lose. Indeed. You see, Axios is pointing out in this article the amount

00:01:19.840 of people retiring in Congress and prominent Democrats vowing to leave the Democratic Party.

00:01:27.600 Trump's obstacles are gone. Win or lose in this midterm. The expectation is that we're not going

00:01:35.820 to see a massive blue wave. If the Democrats do win, it will be marginal. They will not have the

00:01:42.500 power to stop most of what Trump wants to do. And even if they win, even if that is the case,

00:01:49.840 The strongest of Trump's critics are gone.

00:01:54.700 Now, of course, if the Republicans win, Trump's full steam ahead.

00:01:59.540 But even if the Democrats somehow pull off the upset, it's not looking like they're going

00:02:05.480 to have much strength.

00:02:06.300 Now, interestingly, the prediction markets in the polls are saying Democrats are likely

00:02:09.740 going to take this.

00:02:11.120 But I don't I don't see it with redistricting procedural moves.

00:02:18.200 It seems like Trump and the Republican Party, they've got some, they got at least one ace

00:02:23.320 up their sleeve just before the midterms hit.

00:02:26.760 One of the big efforts, of course, will be stopping the post office from sending out

00:02:29.780 universal mail-in votes.

00:02:31.420 But with all that lining up, even the polls don't suggest Democrats are guaranteed to

00:02:37.380 get a victory.

00:02:38.100 And again, if they do, it will be marginal.

00:02:41.000 CNN's Harry N has gone on endlessly about how their polling margins are super thin,

00:02:45.520 Despite the fact Democrats are ahead and the prediction markets are like, hey, look, historically, they're going to win.

00:02:52.160 With polling errors and bias, it looks like Trump might just win no matter what happens.

00:02:59.860 But perhaps, perhaps this narrative about Trump's ultimate final act being unstoppable, it's meant to make Republicans not vote.

00:03:08.680 They think to themselves, hey, Trump can do what he needs to do, even if Democrats win.

00:03:13.020 why bother? In which case, it's all one big conundrum, I suppose. All I can say is you can't

00:03:21.600 take it for granted. Whatever you love, hate you. You love Trump. You hate Trump. You've got to go

00:03:26.940 out and vote in this midterm. But let's break down exactly what is going on. A massive number

00:03:33.920 of retirees, both from the Republican and Democratic Party. Trump has ousted many of the

00:03:38.860 more critical Republicans in the House, and he's getting more support. We got the story from Axios.

00:03:45.380 Now, before we dig into everything, guys, go to TimCast.com and click join now to support our work

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00:04:09.700 community is the most important thing. You know, we did our big grand opening event

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00:04:21.620 that's the most important thing. And I'm grateful to all of you as members for making that possible.

00:04:25.980 We're just a hub. We're just a beacon. We do this show. You sign up. You join the community. You

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00:04:35.020 here. We can't do without you. Don't forget to also hit that like button, subscribe to this

00:04:39.740 channel and share the video across social media. Let's read the news from Axios. Trump's final act

00:04:45.480 begins. So dramatic. President Trump doesn't much care if Republicans lose the House and or the

00:04:52.740 Senate in the midterms this fall. Yes, he'd prefer a big win, but he seems indifferent to the

00:04:58.020 election and the possibility of endless democratic investigations of his family, wealth and policies,

00:05:02.660 his closest advisors tell us. A big reason Trump knows he'll emerge just as strong or even stronger

00:05:08.520 heading into his final two years, at least among Republicans. Trump will enjoy a more pro-Trump

00:05:13.820 Republican Congress, win or lose, gleefully play 28 kingmaker and further test the boundaries of

00:05:20.160 presidential power beyond legislating his preferred method. Anyway, he'll use pardons to practice

00:05:25.060 people, the advisors say. Trump is not a share the stage, pass the torch, groom your successor

00:05:30.800 kind of guy. Instead, he'll exploit his leverage. A more mega Senate. Almost all of his critics will

00:05:36.560 be gone through defeat or retirement. The incoming class is very Trumpy. If they keep the Senate,

00:05:41.840 Trump loyalists like Mike Lee, Ron Johnson and Rick Scott will chair committees. A more mega

00:05:46.560 House. Trump already serves as de facto speaker, but his few outspoken GOP critics, Thomas Massey

00:05:53.480 and Marjorie Taylor Greene will be gone, replaced by members who won because of him.

00:05:59.200 A 28 kingmaker. Trump's firm hold on the base means he will dictate the GOP's nominee and shape

00:06:06.380 their message. He wants a Vance-Rubio ticket and will likely get it if his mind hasn't changed.

00:06:11.760 Imagine any 28 hopeful, especially Marco Rubio or J.D. Vance, trying to break with the boss while

00:06:17.120 working for the boss. And I will stress, Trump is going to be on that stage. Trump is going to

00:06:23.760 be rallying in 2027 for Rubio and Vance. He's going to open up. He's going to say, I am Trump.

00:06:30.800 He's going to say, here are your new nominees. They're going to come out. They're going to speak

00:06:34.940 and Trump's going to clap and his rallies will ring. It's going to be big. I love this cashing

00:06:42.540 in. Trump will use levers of power to keep raising money to expand his clout beyond the presidency.

00:06:47.120 He likes the fact that when he tells someone, give me money, they give him money.

00:06:51.740 An advisor told us another chimed in Trump will relish in perpetuity having Republicans

00:06:56.440 beg for his endorsement.

00:06:58.180 You're as powerful as your bank account says you are.

00:07:01.380 Trump, in fact, may become more powerful after he leaves office because he'll be able to

00:07:06.080 freely make tons of money as a former president, not active public servant.

00:07:10.620 And he can use that money towards the Republican Party and its message.

00:07:14.780 They say three dramas to watch.

00:07:17.120 Trump will flirt with running again in 28 until the bitter end, but it's all about PR and keeping

00:07:22.420 Vance and Rubio in their place. There's potential outside the walls competition in 28. The White

00:07:27.340 House is watching DeSantis, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley. Now, these guys are going to run, but I

00:07:31.780 think it's a setup. Come on, Ted Cruz, DeSantis, they know they're not going to beat Rubio and

00:07:36.440 Vance, but they're going to run because they want to set a stage. They want to run, show everybody

00:07:42.140 is a fierce competition and then say, look how good J.D. Vance was. He beat out all the contenders.

00:07:47.940 Most importantly, a constitutional clash over congressional oversight among the last and most

00:07:52.300 vital power lawmakers hold dear. What happens if Trump orders his entire administration,

00:07:57.440 family and friends to just ignore Congress? I love that part. We are at the dark time in this

00:08:04.520 country. I'll just put it like that. I'm throwing it all on Trump's lap. They arrested him. They

00:08:09.100 tried stopping him from running for office. I mean, holy crap. But my friends, here's the harsh 0.98

00:08:15.380 reality. From Ballotpedia, a list of U.S. incumbents who are not running for re-election in

00:08:21.480 2026. As of July 21st, 59 incumbent voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives

00:08:27.980 have announced they will not seek re-election in the 2026 cycle. Of the 59 who are not seeking

00:08:35.360 election. 31 are retiring from public office. 16 are running for the Senate, so they're leaving

00:08:41.340 the House. 10, all Republicans are running for governor. One Republican is running for state

00:08:47.280 attorney general. One Democrat is running for a state legislative district. At this point,

00:08:52.640 the last four election cycles, there were 45 retirement announcements. Between January 11th,

00:08:57.060 26th, 362 House incumbents announced they would not seek reelection. The point here is not that

00:09:02.520 it's remarkable. It's more than normal at 59. Most are Republicans. It's that

00:09:09.500 Trump's opposition is out. A lot of these people, a lot of the retirees, they were anti-Trump.

00:09:16.800 You know, Massey, Marjorie Taylor Greene, we know that. But Trump's had opposition in the Senate.

00:09:20.540 And a lot of these older folks, they're just saying, you know what? I'm done. The new guys

00:09:25.360 who are coming in need money, need access. And Trump has claimed most of that. The Republican

00:09:30.740 Party is, and has been for some time, the Trump Party. As for the Democrats, I mean,

00:09:37.840 the Democrats are in trouble. Let's just roll with it. James Carville says he will leave

00:09:43.320 Democratic Party if Hassan Piker becomes a major force. Oh, so he already left already?

00:09:48.300 You get the point. Hassan Piker's been a major force in the Democratic Party for years now,

00:09:52.720 informing their youth base. And now that they're entering their late 20s and early 30s,

00:09:56.800 They're becoming a larger portion of the voting bloc.

00:09:59.760 And Gen Alpha is a tiny generation, half the size of Gen Z and millennials.

00:10:05.140 So as the boomers are aging out, the only thing you got is people like Hassan Piker.

00:10:10.900 So good luck, James Carville. 0.99

00:10:12.920 You're cooked.

00:10:14.680 Here we go.

00:10:15.140 Do we have a prominent Democratic strategist, James Carville, so that if left wing Twitch

00:10:19.720 streamer Hassan Piker becomes a prominent force in the Democratic Party, he will leave.

00:10:22.880 Quote, talk about the larger Democratic Party post-election in Michigan.

00:10:26.800 Going forward, I am not going to be in the same party with Hassan Piker, he said during an

00:10:31.140 interview with Fox News. Piker is known for his Twitch far left takes and got a lot of backlash.

00:10:38.220 Piker and his uncle, Cenk Uygur, said they both were banned from the UK for criticizing Israel.

00:10:44.600 Piker has said many anti-Semitic statements in the past. Carville said he didn't want to be in

00:10:47.640 the same political party as Carville. You mean Piker? I have no intention of ever being in the

00:10:54.000 same political party with that guy. Now, I think that a majority, overwhelming majority of Democrats

00:10:58.300 agree with me, but this idea that we're going to seize the means of production in this, just go

00:11:01.960 look at the DSA platform, he said in reference to the DSA. But wait, there's more. Fetterman lays

00:11:08.700 out a red line over leaving the Democratic Party. Israel. I think this is actually one of the

00:11:14.520 funniest things I've heard from a Democrat politician. Like, bro, I just, okay, it gives

00:11:19.720 me a headache. Listen, Fetterman, you know, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to tell you

00:11:24.120 this. Somebody said, uh, I was asked recently, would I ever consider voting for a Democrat?

00:11:27.360 I'm like, who? No, actually maybe Fetterman. Uh, listen, I got to be honest. The Republicans

00:11:32.920 just offer up something better, but I like Fetterman. I do largely because he's pushed

00:11:36.740 back against the wing nuts. I don't agree with him a lot of policy positions. I wouldn't vote 0.98

00:11:40.800 for him, but I would tell you this. If, if I was in a Democrat district and you gave me like

00:11:45.220 Hassan Piker or Fetterman, Fetterman's getting my vote every single time. Cause you don't want

00:11:48.580 someone like Hassan Piker taking office. And it sucks because I don't agree with a lot of 0.80

00:11:51.920 what Fetterman votes on. But I will stress, Israel? Really? I could care. I could not care less, 0.94

00:12:03.260 right? People say I could care less. No, no, listen. There are many other things I would

00:12:09.080 care much, much more about. Now, I understand he's talking about the wackaloon Israel derangement

00:12:13.900 people as well. And agreed. I don't like those people either. But yo, listen, if this politician 1.00

00:12:20.400 running for office and he's like, I'm going to do all these really good things, you know,

00:12:24.600 we're going to, you know, like if Trump came out and he was like, we're going to, we're going to

00:12:27.180 do the tariffs. We're going to secure our border. But also I just don't want to be involved with

00:12:31.800 Israel. I'd be like, sure. If Trump came out and he was like, we're going to secure the border. 1.00

00:12:35.700 We're going to, you know, get rid of the wokeness. And I love Israel. I'd go, sure. I'm sorry. Like 1.00

00:12:41.260 Like, if it were up to me, if someone said, here, Tim, sign the check, rent Israel, I'd be like,

00:12:46.520 no, I'm not signing that check, right? I don't think we should be funding them or getting

00:12:49.800 involved in their wars. But I fully recognize and understand why we are aligned and allied

00:12:53.920 with Israel. Now, I certainly think there's many legitimate criticisms of the country. But to make

00:12:58.140 it like the line for you, I just find funny. But hey, man, to each their own. Fetterman bluntly

00:13:04.860 warned on Thursday that he would leave the Democratic Party if it adopts an anti-Israel

00:13:07.960 policy. One of his most direct threats yet amid amid the first term Pennsylvania's intensifying

00:13:13.100 battle. He said, that's my red line. If the Democratic Party becomes official anti-Israel,

00:13:17.960 then that's when I would force me out. Like not the sex changing the kids or seizing the

00:13:23.440 means of production or government run grocery stores or like literal terrorism. Come on.

00:13:31.780 All right, fine. Whatever. I mean, I'll take it, I guess. If they make it the official platform

00:13:36.960 of the party, then that's a much different situation, Fetterman said. I think it's fantastic

00:13:40.760 to keep killing Hamas leadership. I think it's fantastic. Same for Hezbollah. Democrats were 0.97

00:13:44.540 proud to stand with Israel. And look where we are at now. Listen, I understand the arguments for all

00:13:49.420 these wars. I think that over the past 20 or 30 years, we have seen a miserable outcome from a lot

00:13:55.040 of these wars in the Middle East. They have never been able to justify to the American people. And 0.90

00:13:58.420 thus, we are in this position where most people don't like the wars. Yo, there are there are ways

00:14:02.760 to advocate. And I think it's be honest. I'll make this argument. Go to Times Square. I tell

00:14:09.640 you this right now. You do this. Take your camera. Go to Times Square. Go ask random people. Say,

00:14:13.420 if going to war with Iran meant your rent would be cheaper, your gas would be cheaper,

00:14:18.320 your electronics would be cheaper, would you support the war? You know what you're going to

00:14:22.300 find? First, most people, due to social reasons, are going to say, oh, I could not. No, it's not

00:14:27.780 What I'm saying is, you ask someone to be honest in private, and they're going to be like, yeah, I don't care. 0.86

00:14:34.820 Yo, we've had this war going on with Iran. 0.77

00:14:36.320 Ain't nobody seen anything. 0.99

00:14:37.600 Bad things have happened.

00:14:38.840 The war is expanding.

00:14:39.880 But how many people have actually experienced it in the United States?

00:14:42.380 Nobody.

00:14:43.560 So the truth is, in the political spheres, people care about the war, but most people do not.

00:14:48.100 What they care about is that it's making inflation worse, that our gas prices went up.

00:14:53.320 The argument, I suppose, is should we win this?

00:14:57.320 Things will get cheaper.

00:14:58.940 That's the game plan, I suppose. 0.97

00:15:01.000 Cutting off China from its energy, making them less competitive.

00:15:03.540 The U.S. takes over the global market and Trump is setting things up for oil distribution

00:15:06.900 out of the United States and we'll all be much wealthier because of it.

00:15:10.580 Hopefully, that's the argument.

00:15:12.580 Now, by all means, you can make arguments against it.

00:15:14.320 I'm just saying the arguments against the war don't play with regular people, right?

00:15:18.460 I'm not a fan of going to these wars.

00:15:20.040 Don't get me wrong.

00:15:21.280 I don't like death and destruction.

00:15:22.760 But again, you go to someone and say, they blew up a school with a bunch of little girls in it.

00:15:28.020 And people are going to go, that's terrible.

00:15:30.240 And then you say to them this, but your gas is going to be $2 a gallon.

00:15:33.940 They're going to be like, well, you know, I'm sorry.

00:15:38.320 I don't know if that's a little pessimistic.

00:15:40.500 I'm just saying, people say one thing, but they mean another.

00:15:43.800 You don't see people rampaging through the streets, smashing up storefronts over the bombing of a school in Iran.

00:15:49.260 You will see massive political upheaval and even riots if gas prices get too high.

00:15:53.860 You know what I'm saying?

00:15:55.000 So people say one thing, they do another.

00:15:57.660 Now, and that's the point, right?

00:15:59.220 The alliance with Israel is largely because they're a forward operating base for the United

00:16:03.520 States in the Middle East. 0.88

00:16:04.580 We have a country that allows us to fly in weapons, do what we want, build weapons, and

00:16:08.420 you get the picture. 0.96

00:16:09.300 A lot of people, I think a lot of the Israel derangement syndrome is rooted in foreign 0.61

00:16:14.660 manipulation to get the U.S. to break from one of its principal allies in the region.

00:16:18.820 I think, and I want to clarify because, you know what, no, no, no, I'm not even going to say anything.

00:16:23.580 I'm just going to say this.

00:16:24.680 Anybody who gets offended at the idea of Israel derangement syndrome has Israel derangement syndrome.

00:16:28.720 That's it.

00:16:29.480 Because it's a reference to illegitimate and irrational criticism of Israel, not legitimate and rational criticism of Israel. 0.95

00:16:37.400 Like, if you're mad about what's going on in Gaza, that was always allowed. 0.99

00:16:40.060 That's reasonable. 0.99

00:16:40.940 If you're mad about the West Bank, also reasonable.

00:16:42.800 Lebanon, very reasonable.

00:16:44.380 If you're mad that we're funding Israel, we shouldn't be involved in their wars.

00:16:46.580 Those are also reasonable. 0.95

00:16:47.260 But if you're making the argument that the drug trade in the United States and the southern border is caused by Israel, well, you've got another thing coming. 0.95

00:16:54.400 That's likely China. 0.97

00:16:55.900 Likely China.

00:16:57.120 And then there was Bill Maher.

00:17:00.000 Bill Maher warns the Democratic Party is being colonized by socialists, says his vote is in play.

00:17:06.300 You know what?

00:17:07.200 It's not just that, because we did cover this, you know, a week or two.

00:17:11.240 What was this?

00:17:11.780 August?

00:17:12.560 Oh, was this on his show?

00:17:14.920 Oh, OK.

00:17:15.400 Maybe this is a new clip.

00:17:17.260 I have a longer clip, but we talked about Bill Maher basically saying, hey, look, there's a

00:17:22.360 bunch of commies, but oh, man, let's do this one. He's even got a statement on Spain. I mean,

00:17:29.580 Bill Maher is going off. That's all I got to say. But he's got a bit from his show where he talks

00:17:35.140 about the communists taking over that I want to pull up from last week. Let's see if we can find

00:17:38.700 it. If I can't find it in a second, we'll just jump to this. He's talking about Suta Spain,

00:17:41.940 in which you had an invasion. 1.00

00:17:44.960 And I think it's fair to call it an invasion.

00:17:47.520 Yeah, I don't think I have the Bill Maher show.

00:17:50.380 He went on his show and he talked about,

00:17:51.760 let's pull this one up.

00:17:52.540 Let's pull this one up.

00:17:54.000 Did you see what happened in Spain yesterday?

00:17:57.300 60,000 people in one day bum rushed the ball.

00:18:01.440 Uh-oh.

00:18:02.800 Did it just freeze on us?

00:18:04.580 Are you really doing it?

00:18:05.840 There we go.

00:18:06.420 And got through.

00:18:07.280 And this poor Spain, at the same time,

00:18:09.500 they're having horrible fires.

00:18:10.840 Spain is the new California.

00:18:13.920 No, it is.

00:18:16.040 The northern part is on fire. 1.00

00:18:20.280 The southern part gets overrun by migrants. 1.00

00:18:22.340 And everybody speaks Spanish. 1.00

00:18:23.640 It's the new California.

00:18:26.580 You think. 1.00

00:18:27.780 California getting overrun by migrants.

00:18:29.960 Bill Maher, all of my life, has been. 1.00

00:18:34.020 I grew up watching this guy and I always found him to be reasonable.

00:18:37.280 Not always correct.

00:18:38.420 But I was a big fan.

00:18:39.260 I watched the show and I disagree with him a lot.

00:18:40.840 In the mid 2010s, he went he went like he ignored media and I criticized him heavily, saying he wasn't paying attention anymore.

00:18:48.800 He's like retiring. He's 70. In the past few years, dude has gone off.

00:18:53.700 And he's saying now his vote is in play.

00:18:58.620 Man. Wow.

00:19:01.600 But we got to do it, my friends. We got to do it.

00:19:04.360 Harry Enten names one person far more popular than Trump among young Republicans.

00:19:09.880 The CNN data analyst at the podcaster's show is the place you want to go to appeal to the

00:19:13.940 demographic.

00:19:14.660 This is interesting.

00:19:16.420 I've heard a lot of rumors and comments and opinions, but let's just do this.

00:19:22.480 Let me pull up Joe Rogan.

00:19:24.960 It's powerful JRE.

00:19:27.900 Joe Rogan's a kingmaker in the media space, or at least he was a kingmaker.

00:19:33.540 I'm going to pull in Joe's show right here and why this all matters.

00:19:37.600 Let's see if we can zoom in a little bit.

00:19:38.960 and maybe he's in a little too far.

00:19:42.520 Joe Rogan used to get millions upon millions of views per episode.

00:19:46.900 You know, at least a million, often two to three to four to five.

00:19:50.660 Recently, his episodes have been getting much less viewership.

00:19:53.860 Now, I attribute this largely to a decline in viewership across the board,

00:19:56.900 an increase in AI, a lack of interest in politics.

00:20:01.840 Certainly, I owe a lot to Joe having been on a show several times.

00:20:05.340 It helped explode my audience just massive.

00:20:08.380 put me in a whole new bracket. He was the king for a long time. The question is,

00:20:12.880 is he trying to avoid politics? So what I've heard from a lot of people and not from Joe himself

00:20:18.900 is that Joe's, listen, man, it gets, it's gotten crazy out there. People are nuts. They're 0.95

00:20:26.220 attacking everybody. Racist, this communist, that death threats, violence, assassinations. 1.00

00:20:31.400 they killed Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk was the king. In the right wing, he had become the 0.96

00:20:38.400 dominant political voice. So the argument I've heard is that Joe Rogan doesn't want to be in

00:20:42.480 that space. Again, I've not heard anything from Joe. But if you take a look at his show,

00:20:46.440 the argument made to me is that he's avoided heavy cultural and political forces. Don't get

00:20:52.720 me wrong, J.D. Vance is on the show. But you've got Diana Pasolka, Annie Jacobson, Tim Robbins.

00:20:58.560 Tim Robbins. Fantastic. Big fan of that guy. Forrest Galante. Timothy Albarino. And you can

00:21:03.320 see some of these have hit, you know, getting over a million views. I'm not trying to rag on

00:21:07.060 Joe's show or anything like that. It's still obviously a massive show. Look at this one.

00:21:12.460 Cassie Coppersmith, 1.4. Mr. Beast, 1.6. Yeah, he had J.D. Vanson. So don't get me wrong. The

00:21:17.480 politics is still there. But a lot of what I heard from people in the industry is that he's focused

00:21:23.380 much more on entertainment and interesting subjects the way he kind of used to before

00:21:27.200 he started bringing all these culture warriors. And I think, I think that says something. He had

00:21:32.440 Caleb Hammer on recently. That one did massively. He had a few people on, you know, didn't get that

00:21:38.040 much. Didn't get that much. But he does pretty well. Looks like some episodes might hit half a

00:21:42.420 million. But then he gets people, you know, he gets like 1.6. You know, Eric Weinstein on recently,

00:21:47.360 two months ago. Marc Andreessen, that's fantastic. Scott Horton recently as well. I bring this up

00:21:53.520 just in this context, because the question is, how much does Joe want to be involved in politics

00:21:58.800 when he's viewed as the most trustworthy and prominent guy among young Republicans?

00:22:04.320 And the reason I bring that up is because why is it only among young Republicans?

00:22:10.020 Did Joe lose the middle of the road people when he came out and endorsed Trump? And has that been

00:22:15.040 bad for him? Now, the truth is, according to Forbes, this is fascinating, Joe is still the

00:22:20.680 highest paid podcaster. I want to stress, just as somebody in the space, Forbes' list is incorrect.

00:22:27.220 And it's like, this is the way things go. Forbes had a list of the top 20 podcasters by pay. And I

00:22:33.940 was like, well, it depends on how they calculate income. Because obviously, like, Joe as an

00:22:39.280 independent podcast person getting $82 million, according to their investigation, they said they

00:22:43.340 asked and reached out. He's not really paying many people, right? His staff is probably very,

00:22:48.260 very small. So it's a lot of his margins are really high. But some of these other shows have

00:22:51.860 a massive staff. And so it depends on how you're really calculating things. But ultimately, the

00:22:56.920 point is viewership is down, revenues down for everybody. Did Joe lose audience by endorsing

00:23:03.720 Trump and going to the right? And now is he viewed as a Republican among moderates? The answer I'm

00:23:09.260 gonna say, no, I'm gonna say the left's in a cult. And when The Huffington Post says he's popular

00:23:15.020 among young Republicans, that's only because regular people are now aligning as Republican.

00:23:19.700 We saw this polling data showing that independents favor the Republican party nearly five to one.

00:23:27.380 It's just one poll. It could be noise. It could be static. So it's not, you know, we get 20 polls

00:23:32.520 like this, but it was something like 71% of moderates, independent voters would vote Republican

00:23:38.320 and like 17 would vote Democrat.

00:23:40.100 Some insane number.

00:23:43.600 So we'll see.

00:23:45.200 What I really think from this is that

00:23:46.960 Joe Rogan is obviously a middle-of-the-road guy

00:23:49.980 who doesn't want to be hyper-partisan.

00:23:52.380 The problem is

00:23:54.220 there's nothing you can do about it.

00:23:56.920 So I've got this for you guys.

00:23:58.700 Let me pull this up

00:24:00.320 and recommend you go and watch it.

00:24:02.900 It's the latest show.

00:24:04.180 It's the new show.

00:24:04.880 It's the Tim Pool show.

00:24:06.160 We've got a specific new show we just launched.

00:24:08.320 about, and there's me talking, we'll just jump into the middle of it. If you go to at Tim Pool

00:24:14.580 on YouTube and Rumble, the Tim Pool show, we recently launched it. I've mentioned this before

00:24:19.560 that we have the YouTube granted me the at Tim Pool channel. So now we're just literally making

00:24:24.440 it. It's, I don't know, generic, whatever you want to call it, but it's just now it's Tim Pool,

00:24:27.940 right? I sit down with Julie Mastrini of allsides.com to talk about media bias. And I

00:24:36.720 recommend you listen to this. All sides ranks the bias of various organizations, and we break down

00:24:41.880 what that means. What is bias left, right, and center? Does center really mean you're being

00:24:46.940 honest? And what she described is that centrist just means you're not slanting the news. However,

00:24:53.580 the problem is, and here's my pushback. If somebody lies, and we can prove that they lied,

00:25:01.900 But should we report that they lied?

00:25:05.420 And what she said was, well, you can report what they said, but if you're calling them

00:25:08.980 a liar, now you're biased against them.

00:25:10.960 Right. 0.64

00:25:11.640 So when Jamie Raskin went before Congress and claimed that I was encouraging people

00:25:16.660 to write on January 6th, I called that a lie.

00:25:19.980 I read an article where I was like, Trump said people should come down to J6.

00:25:25.320 I even said, I'm not going to go. 0.99

00:25:28.560 I can get it's going to get rowdy.

00:25:30.200 Like, I don't want to be there.

00:25:31.880 I even said months before, people are going to storm the water. It's going to be crazy.

00:25:34.780 I never encouraged anybody to go. So why would Jamie Raskin claim that I did?

00:25:39.700 Two lies. One, you pick one. Either he knew what I said and lied about what I said,

00:25:45.580 or he never actually heard anything from me, so he had no idea what I said and said it anyway.

00:25:52.040 Anyway, you could, it's a lie. That's just it. Because if you actually watch the video or know

00:25:56.180 what I say. You know, I never said that. So I said, if I say Jamie Raskin lies because the only

00:26:02.300 conclusion is that it's a lie, you're going to get, well, maybe he got it wrong. He accused me

00:26:07.280 of doing something I did not do. Now, are you arguing that he had no basis for that statement

00:26:12.840 and said it anyway? Well, that would be a lie. How can you be wrong? Wrong is saying like I did

00:26:18.760 math and it was incorrect or, you know, Trump sometimes get crowd estimates wrongs. He often

00:26:23.420 lies about crowds, too. Sometimes he's wrong because he had bad numbers. Sometimes he's lying

00:26:27.200 because he knew. Jamie Raskin played the video and then said, I did this thing. And I'm like,

00:26:33.860 so what am I supposed to say to my fans and to my audience? Am I supposed to say,

00:26:38.240 Jamie Raskin said this about me? But my audience knows I never said that.

00:26:42.420 So then when I say Raskin lies about me, you call me biased. Therein lies the big challenge.

00:26:47.500 So I really do. It's a great discussion. In fact, you did a great job, by the way.

00:26:50.800 You should really check out the interview at the Tim Poole show.

00:26:53.580 Two hours long.

00:26:54.780 I could have talked for hours about this subject.

00:26:56.500 You guys know it.

00:26:57.480 But therein lies the big picture.

00:26:59.180 Going back to Joe Rogan as the number one Republican.

00:27:03.380 What does that really mean?

00:27:05.920 See, here's my challenge.

00:27:08.440 Or here's our challenge.

00:27:09.400 Is Joe Rogan, as people have argued, he's trying to be middle of the road, like he pushed

00:27:13.220 back on J.D. Vance.

00:27:14.020 And it's like, are you trying to appear unbiased?

00:27:16.520 The problem is the left is lying all the time.

00:27:19.140 Literally not all the time.

00:27:20.100 you get my point. I'm saying they tend to lie. They put out fake things. I got another segment

00:27:24.340 coming up. I think this one might be for next weekend, though, where you get this liberal

00:27:29.420 YouTuber guy saying we should ban assault rifles, knowing full well assault rifles have been banned

00:27:35.360 for production since 1986, are heavily regulated and not the weapon used in killings. It's handguns

00:27:41.420 illegally among urban youth. They know this. They're lying. And you can't just say they're

00:27:47.600 wrong because you can go on Twitter and see them shown the facts and they still lie about it.

00:27:53.580 This is the challenge. Is it true that if you just believe in truth, you're a Republican now?

00:27:58.440 So Joe Rogan has become a Republican. That's what they're saying. That's why we've heard so much in

00:28:04.540 the past few years. Who's the left wing Joe Rogan? Joe Rogan's the left wing Joe Rogan.

00:28:09.760 What they're actually saying is, how do we get someone as big as Joe who can lie and get away

00:28:14.820 with it. That's the game they're playing. My friends, in the end, I don't see how Trump loses.

00:28:23.720 I think Axios is right. Right now, the prediction markets say Republicans are the favorite for the

00:28:28.900 Senate, but we don't know for sure. The prediction markets say the Democrats are the favorite for the

00:28:34.160 House. But the map leans Republican. So we will see. I tell you this, Democratic Party's cooked.

00:28:43.400 Prominent voices are threatening to leave.

00:28:45.240 You've got a microscopic DSA, but a loud DSA. 1.00

00:28:48.560 When the boomers go, you don't have enough young people to replace the to enter the party 0.98

00:28:54.040 to actually have a political impact. 0.95

00:28:56.400 The DSA is a fringe group among largely younger voters and not on the right.

00:29:01.260 The right's MAGA.

00:29:02.260 The middle is MAGA. 0.51

00:29:03.280 Millennials are MAGA for the most part or slightly so. 0.59

00:29:07.900 So what's going to happen?

00:29:09.800 Let me put it like this.

00:29:11.560 You may say, no, no, no, Tim, millennials lean left.

00:29:13.460 No, no, no, hold on.

00:29:13.900 What I'm saying is, among millennials, you have MAGA, moderate lib, far left.

00:29:20.760 Lib and far left are separate from each other.

00:29:23.600 So the liberals can live in their wackaloon wally world where they lie.

00:29:26.980 The leftists are going to push for dissolving the Senate and the presidency.

00:29:30.080 And so that means middle of the road people are going to vote Republican.

00:29:34.080 Things will get interesting.

00:29:35.740 We'll see, my friends.

00:29:36.880 Of course, we always will.

00:29:38.660 The midterms are, what, like 90, 85?

00:29:41.380 How many?

00:29:41.680 Like 90 days away?

00:29:43.660 It's close, baby.

00:29:45.280 95?

00:29:46.340 It's going to be real interesting.

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - August 03, 2026

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