The Culture War - Tim Pool - March 16, 2026


Trump LOSES IT After Learning Iran's New Leader IS GAY


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As the U.S. war in Iran rages on, psyops, propaganda and manipulation is abound. Is the new supreme leader really dead? Is he alive? And will this war end? And what does that mean for us?

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00:00:00.060 As the US war in Iran rages on, psyops, propaganda, and manipulation is abound.
00:00:07.440 And there have been rumors going around for some time that Mojtaba Khomeini, the new supreme
00:00:11.600 leader, is in fact dead.
00:00:13.560 We haven't seen him.
00:00:14.840 We don't exactly know what's going on.
00:00:16.700 He may have lost his leg.
00:00:18.080 Some reports have come out saying he's flown to Moscow for emergency surgery amid new reports
00:00:23.900 that Iran has stated definitively they are receiving support from Russia and China in
00:00:29.880 this war. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed and oil per barrel. It is going way up in price,
00:00:37.280 gas prices expected to climb. But my friends, in what may be one of the most ridiculous 0.87
00:00:43.920 and hilarious bits of war propaganda, apparently Moshe Taba Khamenei is alive and a homosexual. 0.98
00:00:54.120 That's it. He likes guys. He is into guys. Now, apparently when Trump and his administration
00:01:01.480 found out this Intel report, they all started busting out laughing. Apparently Trump couldn't
00:01:07.640 stop laughing and one staffer just wouldn't stop. That's how funny they thought this was.
00:01:13.680 I got to be honest. I think this is probably just a psyop. Like a psychological operation
00:01:19.140 isn't always some grand conspiracy. This is PR. This is a stunt. This is besmirched the
00:01:23.700 name of Khomeini, but I mean, maybe he's gay. The reporting suggests that Ali Khomeini, the now
00:01:31.220 dead former Supreme Leader, didn't think that his son could effectively run things. And so he didn't
00:01:37.700 want to hand it over to him, partly because he was a homosexual. And in Iran, that's a no-no 0.98
00:01:43.640 for a variety of reasons with really horrifying results. So perhaps the effort here in this
00:01:51.920 reporting, it's not so much about confirming that the new Supreme Leader is a gay man,
00:01:59.880 but to damage his reputation among potential allies in the region because they really don't 0.88
00:02:05.220 like homosexuality. Or it's just to make Americans on the right laugh at him and to, 0.99
00:02:12.680 in a sense, poison the well. Not that anyone's got great respect for Mushtaba Khamenei anyway,
00:02:18.740 but my friends, it's looking like whatever this may be, the war is kicking up. It is going to
00:02:24.940 continue. Gas prices will be affected. And it depends on who you ask. But the pro-MAGA,
00:02:30.960 for the most part, I mean, guys, Republicans generally support these efforts by Donald Trump,
00:02:36.040 largely in all the polls we've tracked. Democrats oppose it. However, independent voters,
00:02:42.640 Moderates largely oppose this as well, which is bad, bad news for Trump as he needs a coalition
00:02:48.840 going into these midterms to win. I don't see how they're going to win it back.
00:02:54.020 But at the bare minimum, I can talk to you about what's currently going on in this world
00:02:57.760 and whether or not this man is gay. And I guess whether or not it matters. 0.50
00:03:03.940 The truth is, this is just a kicking off for the big story.
00:03:06.920 What is currently going on? Who's the new Supreme Leader? Is he alive? And will this war end?
00:03:10.760 And what does it mean for us? My friends, the data shows it. Young people do not support 1.00
00:03:17.520 Israel. They just don't. Not even right-leaning and Republican Gen Z, they do not support Israel. 0.74
00:03:25.840 I believe we're going to see a big media shift. Things are going to change.
00:03:29.260 And we're going to go back to the, I don't know, it's like what, 70 years of Americans just waving
00:03:33.960 American flags and Israeli flags. I believe that era is coming back.
00:03:39.020 And I think largely what we're seeing is a battle for the mind of the American people.
00:03:43.240 Your average American does not care about Israel at all. Those who are used to the liberal economic
00:03:50.040 order, petrodollar conflict, boomers, largely, they love Israel. And I genuinely believe this.
00:03:57.200 While there certainly are many well-learned individuals deeply critical of Israel, which I 0.96
00:04:02.320 always say absolutely allowed. And I have respect for tremendous, for many people who are very
00:04:06.760 critical of Israel. I do believe for a lot of the younger generation, their disdain for Israel,
00:04:12.300 their views are largely built upon social media machines. And as soon as the powers that be
00:04:18.060 reclaim those machines, the narrative indeed will change. Notably, the capture of TikTok.
00:04:23.800 I'm sorry, the purchase of TikTok, the shifting of CBS. I think these things are fairly obvious
00:04:29.220 that we're going to see a machine that says Israel good. Now, whether or not, look, I always say this,
00:04:35.260 I'm ambivalent. I understand U.S. military operations in the Middle East, why the United
00:04:40.480 States supports Israel. But man, are there a lot of people who believe the craziest things about
00:04:45.260 Israel. Like they're the center of the universe and the boogeyman controlling everything. 1.00
00:04:49.500 Guys, calm down. Just read the news, assess, but let's break this all down so I stop rambling.
00:04:57.180 Before we get into the news about whether or not the new Supreme Leader is a homosexual,
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00:05:42.600 support the work that we do and get involved. Check that out at timcast.com. But let's get
00:05:47.580 back to the news. Don't forget to also smash the like button, share this video everywhere. If you
00:05:52.720 could, if you could do that, it'd be tremendously helpful. As if everybody who watched shared this
00:05:57.540 video, it would be the number one video in the country. Look, I got like 200,000 views. Imagine
00:06:02.200 if 200,000 shares be massive. The New York Post says Trump briefed that Iran's new Supreme Leader
00:06:08.020 Mushtaba Khamenei is probably gay and the president has a priceless reaction. President Trump was 0.96
00:06:13.740 stunned to learn last week that the US intelligence indicates new Iranian Supreme Leader Mushtaba 0.94
00:06:17.260 Khamenei may be gay. And then his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei feared his suitability
00:06:22.060 to rule the Islamic Republic for that reason. Trump couldn't contain his surprise and laughed
00:06:29.060 out loud when he was briefed on the intel, according to sources. Others in the room also
00:06:33.980 found it hilarious and joined the president's reaction, while one senior intelligence official
00:06:39.680 has not stopped laughing about it for a day. What is even going on at this point, guys?
00:06:48.600 Here's a picture of Mojtava Khamenei, who they say may be gay. 0.95
00:06:53.200 Okay.
00:06:54.240 The shocking claim was described to the post by two intelligence community officials and
00:06:58.720 a third person close to the White House.
00:07:00.240 All three sources say the implausible sounding allegation is viewed as credible by US spy
00:07:05.360 agencies rather than false information intended to undermine Khamenei, who was selected to
00:07:10.960 replace his dead father as supreme leader on March 8th.
00:07:13.700 Two of the sources said the intelligence indicates that Mushtaba, who earned the nickname
00:07:18.340 the power behind the robes while serving as his aging dad's gatekeeper, has had a long-term
00:07:25.700 sexual relationship with his childhood tutor.
00:07:28.400 Wait, what? 0.99
00:07:29.620 So like pedophilic gay stuff? 1.00
00:07:32.020 The third source said the world really is run by pedophiles. 0.99
00:07:35.840 The third source said the intelligence indicated the affair was with a person who formerly
00:07:39.440 worked for the Khamenei family.
00:07:41.240 Mushtaba, who is believed to have been wounded in the February 20th airstrike that killed his father,
00:07:45.460 has made aggressive sexual overtures to men caring for him, possibly while under the influence of
00:07:50.540 medication, one of the Post sources said. U.S. spy agencies do not have photographic evidence
00:07:56.560 of Mushtaba Khomeini's alleged sexual attraction to men, but the sources insist the tip is solid,
00:08:01.800 with one saying it was derived from one of the most protected sources the government has. 0.64
00:08:06.620 I just, it's just the most ridiculous war propaganda meant like guys, this guy might 0.96
00:08:12.480 be dead. They, no one's seen him since some reports that he's in a coma. His leg got blown 0.85
00:08:17.640 off. They, Trump has said, we don't even know if he's alive. He may actually be dead. And they're
00:08:22.380 sitting here running a story claiming that he might be gay guys. He might be dead. The fact 0.99
00:08:28.340 that this was elevated to the highest, highest of levels shows you there's some confidence in this
00:08:32.800 Mushtaba's purported sexual orientation has been whispered about inside Iran since at least May
00:08:37.480 2024, since the crash that killed then President Ebrahim Raisi. Ali Khamenei's presumed favorite
00:08:45.000 to be the next supreme leader, sources said. When the US government has been pretty closely
00:08:48.840 held piece of information. Trump previously dismissed Mushtaba Khamenei as a lightweight
00:08:52.960 and an unacceptable choice to run Iran. The new supreme leader is widely considered to be someone
00:08:57.680 who would not bend to US demands to abandon the nuclear and ballistic missile programs that
00:09:02.060 prompted Operation Epic Fury. Some elements of Mojtaba Khamenei's sex life have been reported
00:09:06.820 before and may lead credence to the allegation. A classified US diplomatic cable from 2008
00:09:13.140 published by WikiLeaks described Mojtaba being treated in the UK for impotence,
00:09:17.440 though that report did not identify what may have caused the condition.
00:09:21.900 The State Department file says Mojtaba married relatively late in life, around age 30,
00:09:26.740 reportedly due to an impotency problem treated and eventually resolved during three extended
00:09:30.720 visits to the UK and Wellington and Cromwell hospitals. Mishtaba was expected by his family
00:09:35.080 to produce children quickly but needed a fourth visit to the UK for medical treatment. After a
00:09:39.420 stay of two months, his wife became pregnant. Mishtaba's wife Zahra and teenage son Mohamed
00:09:44.400 Bagher reportedly died in the airstrike that killed his father. Wow. The new supreme leader
00:09:50.040 has another son and daughter. The allegation of homosexuality was alluded to in a CBS news report
00:09:55.520 on Sunday that said the elder Khomeini who had ruled Iran since 1989 preferred a different
00:10:00.520 successor in part because of unspecified issues in Mushtaba's personal life. His father and others
00:10:06.060 suspected he was gay, and that was something that people were spreading to try to stop his
00:10:10.420 ascension. Oh my God. Okay, they say, you know, I know a lot of people are already commenting 0.65
00:10:15.660 homosexual. I'm saying like that on purpose because I think it's funny. Homosexual conduct 1.00
00:10:19.780 is illegal in Iran, though the government does allow surgical sex change operations, 0.61
00:10:25.060 which some gay men reportedly are pressured into undergoing to avoid criminal penalties.
00:10:29.920 Sodomy is a capital offense in the nation of 93 million people, 0.86
00:10:32.640 with some gay Iranians infamously hanged from construction cranes as a warning to others. 0.98
00:10:38.660 In Iran, we don't have homosexuals. Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 0.90
00:10:43.040 who was believed to be an ally of the Iraq committee, claimed in 07.
00:10:46.100 One of the Post's sources said that although it is generally frowned upon to out people against
00:10:51.320 their will, there's a clear case of hypocrisy to justify doing so against Mushtaba. If there was
00:10:56.320 ever a time where it was okay to out somebody, it would be when it's a leader of a repressive 0.99
00:11:00.500 Islamic theocracy that hangs gay people by cranes. Mushtaba Khamenei's current whereabouts 0.97
00:11:05.720 and the status of his recovery remain murky. Well, my friends, not so murky. We have this
00:11:10.440 story from Hindustan Times. Hearing Mojtaba Khamenei is not alive. Trump shares chilling
00:11:16.420 claim on Iran's supreme leader amid war. Now, let me just tell you this, my friends,
00:11:21.260 saying the man may be dead is a bold claim that's hard to verify. And death is a factor of war.
00:11:28.800 It's not embarrassing. It's just a question of whether the country will persist.
00:11:32.820 But claiming that he's gay can strip him of any support he might have in his country,
00:11:37.300 whether he's dead or alive. Donald Trump provided insight into Iran's Supreme Leader's
00:11:42.100 Mushtaba Khomeini status. I believe it's pronounced Mojtaba, but you know, who am I?
00:11:46.740 I'm just an American guy. Trump was speaking to NBC News. He said, quote, I don't know if he's
00:11:52.080 even alive. So far, nobody's been able to show him. While Trump called news of his death a rumor,
00:11:57.840 the voters continued, I'm hearing he's not alive. And if he is, he should do something very,
00:12:01.520 very smart for his country, and that is surrender. The Telegraph reports Mushtaba Khomeini has called
00:12:06.500 for Iranian unity, but he may not be alive. A rallying call to the people, albeit in a written
00:12:13.060 statement, has done little to alleviate rumors that he's dead. Four days after being selected
00:12:17.660 as Iran's supreme leader and nearly two weeks into the war that killed his immediate family,
00:12:21.600 Mustafa released his first statement. It was on a speech. It was on a video address. It was a
00:12:25.160 written message read aloud by a state television news anchor. The message warned the U.S. to close
00:12:29.940 its Gulf bases immediately, where the host countries would face further attacks. The
00:12:34.660 Strait of Hormuz should remain blocked, and there would be revenge for every Iranian killed by U.S. 0.92
00:12:40.040 Israeli bombs, including special retribution for the children killed at the girls' school in Minab,
00:12:46.340 probably because of a U.S. Tomahawk missile. Well, my friends, The Sun reports the same thing.
00:12:52.460 Dead or alive, Iran's injured new leader flown to Moscow for a leg surgery after Putin personally
00:12:57.140 offered to help as death rumors swirl. Indeed. Iran's new Supreme Leader,
00:13:03.320 is a no-show at his own succession rally, the charisma of a boiled potato. His own succession,
00:13:11.080 he wasn't there. Guys, I think he's dead. I don't think this man is actually alive.
00:13:16.660 Now, where we go as a country, things will be interesting. The US is divided on the war and
00:13:21.540 Iran, but the questions I know that many of you ask is, how will this affect me? And well,
00:13:25.820 let's just roll, baby. From the New York Post, gas prices reach highest level since October 2023
00:13:31.640 as oil holds above $100 per barrel, US stocks jump. Now, Trump has made a series of comments
00:13:38.940 over the past couple of weeks that have really angered his coalition. That is, he said glyphosate
00:13:43.980 is great and we love it. And Maha just went, and then he said, high gas prices are good because it
00:13:50.300 means we're going to make a lot of money because we produce so much of it. High oil prices, I should
00:13:54.580 say. Well, gas prices are starting to spike. And this is not good for the American people because
00:13:59.340 they need gas to do their jobs, to get to their jobs, to deliver things, to receive things.
00:14:03.580 And when gas goes up, everything goes up. There's a great scene in Landman where Billy Bob Thornton
00:14:10.260 talks about the price of oil being perfect at around $77, $80 a barrel. The reason being is
00:14:15.840 that you can make a good profit, but when it goes up, the price of everything else goes up,
00:14:20.480 which constrains the market and is bad for the economy in general. So there's a sweet spot.
00:14:24.840 They try to keep oil at a certain level.
00:14:27.040 What that really means, my friends, is the price of a barrel of crude is actually tied
00:14:32.780 to the amount of, I would say, low-skilled labor.
00:14:36.700 Oil is what backs the dollar, not gold.
00:14:39.680 So when he says it's a sweet spot in the cost of oil, what he's really saying is oil compared
00:14:44.720 to the amount someone would receive for doing the lowest tier of work.
00:14:49.360 What that means, really?
00:14:51.320 Right now, we're in a tough spot.
00:14:53.660 Minimum wage doesn't pay the bills. 0.60
00:14:55.280 So people struggle to get by.
00:14:56.760 They're not having families.
00:14:57.560 They're not buying homes.
00:14:58.320 And this is a problem.
00:15:00.000 Things need to be more affordable, which means we do need cheaper energy.
00:15:04.320 Now, as for the Landman quote, they're talking about the record profits they would make while
00:15:07.320 the machine stays stable.
00:15:08.700 In fact, cheaper energy would be a lot better because it would mean people would have to
00:15:12.600 work less and they would receive more.
00:15:15.000 And we desperately need that if we want people to be able to buy homes and have families.
00:15:19.900 And right now, it is not something that is so easily done.
00:15:22.960 In the meantime, the challenge we face as gas prices go up, that doesn't seem to be an end in
00:15:28.680 sight. While it's true, most Americans do not want this war. Republicans largely are in support of
00:15:34.500 it. One thing is true is that even among Republicans that do support it, they're skeptical
00:15:38.120 and they're worried, but they want Trump to succeed. Many Trump supporters are diehard in
00:15:42.720 favor of it. Many Republicans say, well, I don't like it, but we got to win this one.
00:15:47.480 We got to see it through. We can't half-ass this. And that makes a lot of sense. Me,
00:15:51.880 I would say this. I didn't vote for it. I don't want it. I don't think it's going to work out all
00:15:55.880 that well. It is possible that it can. And because Trump has largely succeeded with Venezuela,
00:16:00.920 I got to say, I'm not going to be blinded by what we refer to as post-intervention
00:16:05.700 stress disorder, or pissed, as Ian pointed out. From the Gulf Wars we've had throughout our 0.53
00:16:12.300 lifetime, little success, little success. In which case, many of us, the millennials and
00:16:18.740 the younger generation do not want this because we have only seen bad things. But that doesn't
00:16:24.980 mean that every instance of military strike or intervention is going to be bad. What we know is
00:16:29.380 that Iran has been arming Houthi rebels. They've been attacking civilian vessels in the Red Sea,
00:16:33.860 disrupting global trade. We know they've been arming Iraqi militias in the Gulf region,
00:16:39.040 and it's been causing tremendous problems for us and our bases and ability to stabilize trade in
00:16:43.780 the region. They have threatened, and then they did shut down the Strait of Hormuz, for which
00:16:48.620 20% of global gas and oil traverses. They have allegedly mined it now because some ships were
00:16:56.540 risking it and just trying to go through. We have seen several ships bombed and destroyed
00:17:00.860 trying to make this journey. I do not believe one nation, Iran, should have the right to disrupt 1.00
00:17:08.440 20% of the world's free and fair oil exchanges. But don't get me wrong. You want to make arguments
00:17:16.620 with the petrodollar system being bad, whatever, whatever you want to say. My point is this.
00:17:20.700 There is stability to a certain degree with oil trade. Iran threatens that every day. 0.99
00:17:26.780 This is why the U.S. doesn't like Iran and they want regime change. The reason why Israel doesn't
00:17:32.180 like Iran is because Iran funds Hezbollah and Hamas who are trying to destroy Israel and Iran
00:17:37.020 wants to destroy Israel. Now, Israel has its motivations. Being a functional military base 0.64
00:17:42.320 for the United States, the U.S. largely aligns with what Israel wants because it wants Israel 0.89
00:17:46.120 to do things. Israel that asserts pressure on the United States because Israel wants the U.S.
00:17:50.340 to do things. This war seems to have been started because Israel was planning on striking Iran,
00:17:56.140 and I believe they knew full well the U.S. would have no choice but to join them in these strikes.
00:18:00.840 Marco Rubio said that if they did not join Israel, that they would be maintaining a defensive posture
00:18:05.920 for which Iran would strike U.S. targets, killing U.S. personnel. And in order to prevent maximum 0.73
00:18:11.960 damage, they had to join in the attack. Everybody understood what that meant. Israel said, we're 0.63
00:18:17.400 going to do it with or without you, but we know it puts you in a bind. So the U.S. had no choice.
00:18:21.340 And because we're aligned with Israel, our hand was forced. Now, many people have argued, no,
00:18:26.520 no. Rubio went on to say that we did intend and believe it necessary to strike Iran, just not yet.
00:18:32.280 Well, that may be either way.
00:18:34.260 The point is this, whether we were planning on starting the war or not, Israel was the 0.99
00:18:38.820 was the starting gun that forced us in at this time.
00:18:42.520 And I think that's unacceptable.
00:18:43.740 And I think many Americans are going to be pissed about it.
00:18:46.320 However, the people that are claiming that we are only doing this for the ideology of
00:18:51.360 Israel and messianic air and all this other stuff, it's just like, guys, please pay attention,
00:18:55.900 please.
00:18:57.760 This Israel derangement syndrome stuff. 0.74
00:18:59.780 Listen, there's real reasons to criticize Israel.
00:19:02.380 Always has been.
00:19:03.360 They're a country.
00:19:04.220 There's reasons to criticize almost every single country all the time, and some are
00:19:07.020 worse than others.
00:19:08.360 The U.S. involvement here is for gas.
00:19:11.500 You think Trump cares about Israel's ideology?
00:19:15.540 Trump wants cheap gas.
00:19:17.260 He wants to lower inflation.
00:19:19.300 He's trying to get a new Fed chair.
00:19:22.020 He wants oil to flow so prices can come down, and Iran threatens that. 0.99
00:19:27.640 Now, again, as I pointed out, Israel pushed our, forced our hand, pressured us to begin this
00:19:32.980 conflict, but Trump very much is, is, is happy to do it. I got to be honest, probably saying
00:19:37.240 we bomb them now, short-term pain, long-term game gain. And that is the narrative that has
00:19:41.900 been released throughout the corporate press, short-term pain, long-term gain. You've heard
00:19:46.660 it on CNN and Fox news. Now here's the problem from United 24. Iran officially confirms military
00:19:54.560 support from Russia and China in war against the US. This could prolong the conflict. And that is
00:20:02.320 the challenge. Because if this does not resolve soon, it's going to get bad. And this is a midterm
00:20:08.720 year. So it was a very bad play on Trump's part, in my opinion, to make this move. Now, Iran's 0.76
00:20:15.180 strategy has been total war and no surrender. Why? Iran views this as an existential crisis.
00:20:22.040 If they do not win, they cease to exist or at least the current form of their government and
00:20:27.600 culture. They also know that Donald Trump is in a political year and he cannot sustain this
00:20:34.160 conflict for political reasons. And that is just so sad and disgusting. It is bad. Not that I like 0.94
00:20:40.520 the war guys. I don't, but I'm not so like I put it like this. Trump really succeeded in Venezuela
00:20:46.860 and Venezuela's issue, this was justice. They stole U.S. oil assets that we had a treaty on.
00:20:53.160 We shook hands with these people. We spent tens of billions of dollars on oil infrastructure,
00:20:58.440 and then Chavez stole it from us. And we did nothing until Trump came in and said,
00:21:02.880 no more. And cutting off Cuba in the process, who also has been adversarial.
00:21:09.500 Now, with the issue with Iran, my friends, they know that Trump's in a political year.
00:21:14.420 If he can't get this solved quickly, it's going to cost him the midterms.
00:21:18.940 And their bet is that after the midterms, Trump will be handcuffed.
00:21:22.640 So they only need to sustain this conflict for what?
00:21:27.600 Eight more months.
00:21:29.320 That's it.
00:21:30.560 And then Trump's going to be in trouble.
00:21:32.880 Now, to be fair, January 3rd, when the new Congress comes in, they're going to lock Trump
00:21:35.960 up.
00:21:36.840 And that's what they're betting on.
00:21:39.260 My friends, the challenge we face in the end is that these failures have resulted in a
00:21:43.980 millennial generation and Gen Z that say enough. And I'm going to throw it to our friend Marjorie
00:21:49.340 Taylor Greene to break down for you her perspective on this one. And I'll add to this, not entirely
00:21:54.540 in agreement, but let's listen to what she has to say. Obviously, there are a lot of Trump supporters
00:21:58.140 where you are. Are you hearing from them that they believe President Trump is doing this on
00:22:02.820 behalf of Israel? Bring us there. It's actually very split and it's split along generational
00:22:11.340 lines. Many of the older Americans from the baby boomer generation that watch Fox News all day long
00:22:19.800 very much believe the talking points on Fox News. And they've spent decades of their lives
00:22:27.060 convinced that fighting these wars is the right thing to do. But the younger generations, I'm Gen
00:22:33.040 X, millennials and Gen Z are very much against this war. And so when you talk to people on the
00:22:40.340 ground um that's how that's how it comes across it's very generational and the younger generations
00:22:45.980 are are completely against it we want we want world peace we want good trade we want great we
00:22:53.020 want a great economy um we want to lower inflation lower the cost of housing and younger generations
00:22:58.900 want to be able to afford their american lives and they don't want their taxpayer dollars
00:23:03.920 shipped off to and you can fill in any foreign country we'll take israel out of it they don't 0.87
00:23:09.540 want their money sent overseas. And you know what? They're right for saying this. This is
00:23:15.080 absolutely absurd. And it's 100% a betrayal to what MAGA was supposed to be when we voted it.
00:23:24.000 Now, I largely agree. And I think what we can see here from support for Israel and
00:23:28.520 Palestine is that the younger generation very much is not in support of Israel.
00:23:33.820 And the data we've seen from Pew is that among all demographics, it's about 54%
00:23:38.420 negative towards Israel. I believe this will change. I believe that it's a large component 0.97
00:23:43.400 among the generation of social media, but the narrative machine is coming back. It doesn't
00:23:47.740 matter that I say this today. It doesn't matter what I end up saying tomorrow. The truth is
00:23:51.320 the powers that be have begun to buy up the media and they're going to shape those narratives.
00:23:55.120 At the same time, artificial intelligent content is flooding social media and making it
00:23:59.000 much, much more difficult for independent personalities to stay afloat. You need to
00:24:04.100 maintain a certain threshold of money. These big corporations just don't because they control
00:24:07.960 massive IP movies. They can subsidize the news and they will, excuse me, and they have like,
00:24:13.600 look at CNN. So what's going to happen? We know that the machine supports Israel. We know the 0.98
00:24:19.440 politicians almost exclusively support Israel. I mean, even Donald Trump, he's the outsider,
00:24:24.420 right? Well, when the powers that be get ahold of these narrative machines on social media,
00:24:29.260 which they have, it's going to flip. You are going to see less and less sympathy for the
00:24:33.800 enemies of the United States and Israel and more and more support. But I'm going to tell you, my
00:24:37.080 guys. I'm going to tell you guys, my guys, it is not about Israel controlling the United States.
00:24:44.480 It is about the United States wanting to control all international waterways,
00:24:49.520 the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal, and the Northwest Passage. Israel gets us to that end. 0.92
00:24:54.920 Of course, Israel benefits for their ideological reasons. They want their country. They want to 0.90
00:24:59.800 get rid of, you know, I think it's fair to say they don't want a Palestine. They're slowly taking 1.00
00:25:04.320 the West Bank and Gaza, it will all assimilate sooner or later. But the US's interest is 0.60
00:25:10.480 military control in the region for the Suez and Iran disrupts that.
00:25:16.000 This country, as Marjorie Taylor Greene points out, is a young generation that just wants to 1.00
00:25:19.820 survive. Trump wants cheap gas, so he wants to embolden the petrodollar system. He wants
00:25:25.080 Saudi Arabia back on that system. He wants Iran to fall in line or GTFO. And that's where we're 0.82
00:25:31.420 headed. So call it what you want. Short-term pain, long-term gain is what they've been saying
00:25:36.900 in the media. But it's true. The only question is the morality of it. Is it right for us to force
00:25:43.660 other countries to bend to our will so we can maintain this system? I'm not going to tell you
00:25:48.700 what you should or shouldn't believe, what is moral or is not. Certainly, I can see the benefits
00:25:52.980 of the petrodollar system. We live like kings in America, and we do substantially less work than
00:25:57.200 most other countries for what we get. And what we do is police the oceans to make sure that the 0.80
00:26:03.200 trade is happening. Iran defies that system. So does Russia and China. And so Trump has said,
00:26:08.660 we're going to fight about it. Trump's strategy with Russia, however, he said, look, you're
00:26:15.000 Christians, you're Western, you're European, you're not entirely Eastern. You should be with us.
00:26:19.720 And he has been negotiating with Putin to get these deals. The Western powers, the UN, et cetera,
00:26:24.860 they did not NATO. They did not like Russia. They did not trust Vladimir Putin. Putin saw himself
00:26:29.640 as he wants a unipolar Soviet world. He wants the Soviet Union back. He's building the Russian 0.94
00:26:35.300 Trade Federation. And so they said, you're at odds with our command structure and we don't
00:26:38.860 want to bring you in because you'll take over. So they kicked him out. Trump says, don't know,
00:26:43.660 don't care. Bring them back in. We want people in our system, not out of it. This is what it
00:26:48.460 seems to be. This is what seems to be the direction that we're going. Younger Americans have a more 0.93
00:26:53.140 favorable opinion of the Palestinian people than the Israeli people. And what's interesting about
00:26:57.680 this data is that it's largely predicated upon the October 7th attacks. Following this,
00:27:04.600 we saw a massive burst of support for Israel, but then it flipped. And it flipped in a really
00:27:10.860 interesting and obvious way. On TikTok, the amount of mentions of pro-Israel content were massive.
00:27:16.960 Seemingly over one weekend, it inverted. That is indicative of an algorithmic change.
00:27:22.520 The presumption was that the owners of TikTok suppressed pro-Israeli content and pumped pro-Palestine content.
00:27:31.000 Young people wanting to fit in and join the trends began to pump out pro-Palestine content.
00:27:38.100 Now I say this, guys, there are going to be a lot of people who just refuse to believe it. 0.99
00:27:42.400 I'm not here to lie to you or blow smoke up your asses, okay? 0.98
00:27:44.960 This is what actually happened. 0.99
00:27:46.760 You can be critical of Israel.
00:27:48.300 That's fine.
00:27:48.840 You can be critical of the Palestinians or Hamas specifically.
00:27:52.580 That's fine, too.
00:27:53.460 You can before the war got the war.
00:27:54.580 I'm not telling you not to.
00:27:55.560 But understand this.
00:27:56.780 What I'm saying is the most likely outcome.
00:28:02.720 Understanding Republicans wanted to ban TikTok because it was pro-Democrat.
00:28:07.680 Democrats said no.
00:28:09.560 Then when we saw this data from Axios showing this inversion that was opposed to Israel,
00:28:14.240 all of a sudden Democrats and Republicans got on board with banning TikTok.
00:28:18.740 Trump came out and was like, no, no, we don't want to do this.
00:28:22.060 And then it was purchased.
00:28:24.380 And now people are reporting that TikTok is banning anti-Israel content.
00:28:29.940 Doesn't it make it all fairly obvious to you?
00:28:32.040 And people go, Tim's admitting it was Israel.
00:28:34.700 Yeah, Democrats got calls from their donors who said TikTok is anti-Israel and they're
00:28:39.820 doing it on purpose.
00:28:41.220 Shut her down. 0.99
00:28:42.440 Trump, he said banning it won't solve the problem.
00:28:45.240 It's actually fairly.
00:28:46.120 Look, I said this.
00:28:47.240 They passed the law. Biden signed it. It's banned. Trump shouldn't be allowed to just
00:28:50.620 stop it. To be fair, the smarter play for control is what Trump did. Sell it to an American interest.
00:28:57.580 Get everybody on your side. You get all these prominent progressives being like,
00:29:00.600 oh my God, Trump saved TikTok. And now TikTok will be pro-Israel. And YouTube is going to be.
00:29:06.980 And all of these independent channels that are anti-Israel are going to be drowned out by AI.
00:29:11.520 And everybody else will be purchased by big networks because we're already starting to see it.
00:29:16.200 The big networks are going to purchase the people who are not anti-Israel.
00:29:20.060 I say purchase, but I should say invest in or acquire, sign deals with, and then you're
00:29:25.860 going to see the big networks are going to host prominent podcasts, and they will get
00:29:30.120 tens of millions of views.
00:29:31.740 Why?
00:29:32.580 Well, because on social media, it'll be noise.
00:29:35.460 It'll be thumbing through the one minute clip, snippets, snippets, snippets, where people
00:29:39.940 will spend most of their time.
00:29:40.840 But in terms of actual thought leadership, it's going to be the big networks, and they're
00:29:45.440 not going to be hiring on these Israel posters and Kirk posters. So I tell you this, I can't
00:29:51.380 predict the future, my friends, but I tend to, I do get some things right sometimes. And I believe
00:29:56.600 I'm correct about this just based on watching all of these trends. As to whether or not Moshtaba 0.99
00:30:00.300 is a homosexual, that I don't really think matters. It's just funny. And the story was funny, 1.00
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