00:02:59.000The Supreme Court just dropped a political nuclear bomb with their ruling on the Voting Rights Act, a 6 3 conservative ruling saying you cannot have racially gerrymandered congressional districts.
00:03:15.000What this means as of right now, it means that two congressional districts that are Democrat based on race in Louisiana are going to have to be redrawn, likely eliminating the Democrat seats in Louisiana, giving Republicans plus two.
00:03:32.000There are around 30 congressional seats nationwide that are drawn up due to the VRA based on race.
00:03:41.000With the ruling from the Supreme Court that it is unconstitutional, we could see a cascade with all of these red states now technically being required to redraw their congressional maps, not just gerrymandering, but eliminating long Democrat held seats under the VRA.
00:04:02.000This could swing things for the Republicans between 30 and 40 congressional seats.
00:04:09.000The big question is will the Republicans actually have the balls to do it?
00:04:14.000Well, the good news for Republicans is that it doesn't actually require that much effort from Republican governance because individuals in these states or in these districts specifically can file lawsuits now that the attorneys general of these states would not be able to defend because the Supreme Court already said no.
00:04:34.000It's like the end of Roe v. Wade almost.
00:04:37.000They effectively said, you can use this now against these districts.
00:04:42.000Meaning, if you live in one of these districts that's gerrymandered based on race, you can sue saying it's racially discriminatory against me to have a district drawn up based on other races.
00:04:56.000The Republican Party winning the midterms is now in play if this happens.
00:05:01.000So we're going to talk about that, plus a bunch of other fun news.
00:05:05.000Apparently, in order for Elon Musk to get his new pay package, he has to put 1 million people on Mars, which I don't know whose idea that was, but there's so many problems with doing that, especially in his lifetime.
00:05:19.000I don't know how he actually accomplishes this, but I'd be down to see it.
00:07:19.000And I do want to actually say that I know people might think that you're sounding facetious, but I want to give a shout out to Ronnie Sullivan and Abel Garcia, who is a detransitioner who recently got married.
00:07:30.000They finally had a wedding in their chat route.
00:07:43.000It's been a very long time since I've been on here, but normally I am doing Pop Culture Crisis Live Monday through Friday at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, which is, of course, noon Pacific.
00:08:24.000Here's the news from The Guardian U.S. Supreme Court rules Louisiana must redraw its congressional map in landmark case.
00:08:32.000The decision effectively guts major section of the Voting Rights Act.
00:08:36.000The last remaining provision of the 1965 civil rights law that prevents racial discrimination in voting.
00:08:41.000Let me just set the record straight and give you the quick gist.
00:08:44.000The 1965 precedent basically said, hey, look, there's a lot of black people there, systemic racism, so they should have congressional representation.
00:08:52.000So they drew up these maps for the purpose of correcting past injustice.
00:08:56.000By today's standard, the Supreme Court's basically said that's discriminatory against other races now.
00:09:02.000In fact, Alito made the argument that it seemed like the framers of this law intended for some kind of sunsetting.
00:09:25.000Well, my friends, we've got this from the persistence, Scott Pressler.
00:09:29.000He says two of Pennsylvania's congressional districts were drawn as a result of the unconstitutional race based Voting Rights Act requirements.
00:09:38.000The RNC should not just focus on Southern states.
00:09:41.000But must also sue Pennsylvania for its illegal maps.
00:09:51.000Anyone who lives in these districts will have legal standing because you are being impacted by this.
00:09:58.000And here's where it gets really crazy.
00:10:01.000I asked Grok, break it down for me, brother.
00:10:03.000Nearly all 20 to 30 of the VRA mandated congressional districts in Republican leaning states are held by Democrats.
00:10:12.000That means if we go on the high end, Imagine a Congress with only 180 Democrat votes, 230 or some odd Republican ones.
00:10:23.000And I'm going to lay it out there a little bit more.
00:10:25.000It's actually upwards of 40, but I will throw a wrench in the spokes for the Democrat or purple states.
00:10:31.000The issue here is that if you sue to change, to redraw these racist maps, if the state is held by Democrats, they will take the opportunity to redistrict right now and they will make more Democrat districts.
00:10:46.000So they'll say, okay, we won't use race as the basis.
00:11:38.000So right now, we don't know for sure if it's going to be a Democrat House and Senate or a Democrat House with a Republican Senate.
00:11:45.000But I actually believe, based on this move from the Supreme Court, if these lawsuits get filed across the board in every one of these districts, these states have no choice.
00:11:55.000The Supreme Court has already said it is unconstitutional.
00:12:06.000And then, if they don't respond, this could call the election itself into question.
00:12:11.000If they move forward with elections in what has been determined to be unconstitutional congressional districts, then you're going to have way more lawsuits.
00:12:19.000And I don't know how that ends up, but this is going to be a wacky and wild midterm.
00:12:22.000So all I can say is typically, Well, I'll put it this way.
00:12:29.000When you're reading the news and someone says something like, you know, Trump announces this guy will head the Fed, everybody runs to buy in the prediction market to try and get it in before it flips 99% and they can make a profit.
00:12:43.000I don't think people who normally buy understand the ramifications of this SCOTUS ruling and how it is the domino being knocked over that will result in Republicans having a much, much better chance of winning.
00:12:55.000Not to mention, guys, The latest poll from Harvard Harris X is that Republicans are tied with Democrats.
00:13:04.000We know that every congressional district is probably race based.
00:13:07.000So I don't know what Pandora's box is open from this.
00:13:10.000But I would say also at the same exact time, you know, if we want to win elections, it's always the left that uses all these redistricting and gerrymandering.
00:13:18.000I feel like that's kind of what they're an expert in.
00:13:21.000And if we want to win, we got to win because we are the more popular opinion.
00:14:14.000I'd say blue states will redistrict, but the problem is blue states are almost already gerrymandered to the point of giving Democrats extra seats.
00:14:22.000You take a look at Massachusetts 36% Republican, zero Republican seats.
00:14:31.000It does happen in the conservative side more, where it's a more conservative state, but then they have less, you know, less representation.
00:14:38.000Well, no, because the VRA, the red states, have weird race based gerrymandered districts.
00:14:47.000Could you imagine you live in like some rural middle of Illinois town, but they just have this line of fire going over your house to put you in a Democrat district?
00:14:58.000Look at this Rockford and Bloomington and Peoria.
00:15:00.000They create this weird strip that wraps around so they can get these Democrat districts and make a fake congressional district.
00:15:07.000Let me show you what Louisiana looks like.
00:15:32.000He has kind of the counter opinion about protecting minorities and making sure they still have a voice in the Republic.
00:15:38.000Because back in the day, I think that a lot of this stems from back when they would block bust and all the rich white dudes, because they came from money in the 1890s or whatever, and the black people had been mostly descended of slavery, so they didn't have as much money.
00:15:50.000The white rich dudes would get together and be like, No one can move in.
00:15:53.000We're not, it's technically, we're not doing it on purpose, but we'll just say no to any black people that want to move in.
00:15:59.000So they would make them all, it's called blockbusting.
00:16:31.000Do you think this is likely to happen because an everyday citizen can put forth the lawsuit as opposed to expecting Republican operatives to do it?
00:16:38.000That's the key right there is that anybody.
00:16:41.000So if you live in a racially gerrymandered district, you have standing.
00:16:46.000You are aggrieved now under this unconstitutional action.
00:16:49.000It still will come down to how the state responds.
00:16:51.000The attorneys general are going to be presented with an interesting conundrum.
00:16:54.000So for those who are not familiar how this works, If you go to a state, or if you live in a state that you have a problem with, let's say you have a problem with your state, and you're like, I'm going to sue the state.
00:17:05.000The lawsuit goes to the attorney general of that state, who then determines whether or not he's going to defend the state from the action.
00:17:11.000There are many instances where the attorney general might say, you know what?
00:17:18.000And so let's say you sue your state's power agency or whatever, and you've got something like, hey, the fees that they've put forward on electric.
00:17:30.000Or regulatory fees they've added to electric bills from these private companies.
00:17:34.000The attorney general reads it and goes, Okay.
00:17:37.000He then goes to the regulatory agency and says, I will lose if I try to defend you on this one.
00:17:43.000I can try to defend you on it, but I'm going to tell you, we will just waste money and it's not going to happen.
00:17:48.000More importantly, if the governor tells the attorney general not to defend it, it's just done.
00:17:53.000So if various political action groups or individuals file lawsuits in these districts saying they are known racially gerrymandered VRA districts, there is still the prove it.
00:18:04.000What is the grounds by which these are determined to be?
00:18:07.000And they may try to make that argument in court.
00:18:10.000This district came about because of this.
00:18:12.000May actually be very easy to prove, considering Democrats' attempts to defend them have already created this pretext where they've said, We did it for this reason.
00:18:22.000Obama's quote right now about how this is about fighting back against Jim Crow.
00:18:44.000So, I do think that this is more likely to happen because private individuals now have standing to take action.
00:18:53.000Whether or not it'll happen fast enough, I don't know, but I kind of think the reason this is happening is intentional in the Republican playbook.
00:19:00.000They went after the VRA intentionally because they want to win the midterms based on redrawing maps.
00:19:07.000That's why Trump told Texas to redraw.
00:19:12.000The issue for Democrats is many of The blue states are already gerrymandered to oblivion, like I showed you with Illinois.
00:19:17.000So they won't be able to gain as much as Republicans can in this war if Republicans go all the way.
00:19:24.000So, timing wise, you think they picked now for that specific reason or should they have waited longer?
00:19:29.000I think they chose now for the specific reason that there is very little time to reverse any decision.
00:19:36.000You've got six months, meaning it's a rush job to flip these states and go plus 12.
00:19:44.000By the time this is resolved, the election will be right in front of us.
00:19:47.000I do think we have an interesting conundrum in what happens if someone files a suit right now, it is not resolved by the time the election happens, and then after the election, a court issues a ruling that it was an unconstitutional district and must be redrawn.
00:20:03.000They'll have to have special elections.
00:20:05.000So, hypothetically, there's a scenario where in February of next year, we're having another series of 20 or 30 congressional races due to the resolution coming after the election.
00:20:47.000And I understand that, like, For a lot of time, when you're jaded about this type of stuff, I'm like, it just doesn't seem like we're going to see plus 12.
00:20:53.000Except for the fact that Texas already did, California already did, and Virginia just voted on it.
00:20:59.000So to say I don't think it's going to happen when we are currently in the war.
00:21:27.000These are these states are all one third to one half Republican with no congressional seats.
00:21:31.000So California is able to squeeze a few out.
00:21:34.000Virginia, of course, is trying to put five congressional districts in Fairfax County, which would eliminate the state's going to eliminate four Republican seats.
00:21:42.000But Republicans can gain upwards of 30.
00:21:46.000So ultimately, we end up with on the in the middle of the road Republicans being plus 20.
00:21:53.000There was just something always so depressing to me about being like the Republicans in California and they're like, We're going to squeeze a few more seats out of you as if they haven't already been beaten down enough out there.
00:22:04.000That Virginia, they really showed the vulnerability and the way it had been being legalized in Virginia, what they tried to do.
00:22:13.000How did they split the, was it Alexandria?
00:23:10.000And like, I do understand like lifting up people that didn't have.
00:23:15.000Much growing coming up, but like you want to help out marginalized communities, but to a point, like I'm not going to stomp on my own foot to make my other foot, you know, run faster.
00:23:30.000Like, we're just trying to help people to hurt ourselves, you know.
00:23:33.000If Republicans pull this off and actually flip the VRA seats, the makeup of Congress will be Republican 247 to Democrat 182 and one independent.
00:23:43.000What makes me when you said nothing happens, that was a weird kind of I was like, it just seems such an extreme change that it can't.
00:23:49.000Like the way the world seems to work is slow change from my perspective.
00:24:50.000That was the beginning, at which point mass adoption skyrocketed.
00:24:56.000In one year, it's a jump of double digit percentage year over year.
00:25:00.000And over the course of 15 years, I mean, going to 2008, you have the course of about 15 years of people slowly adopting the internet and arguments being made it will not take over.
00:25:10.000To then, within the span of two years, everybody has it.
00:25:14.000Oh, this seems like a situation where people are like, what, nine people are trying to decide for 100, 500,000 people how to live their life.
00:25:23.000You mean one person decides for 775,000?
00:26:01.000No, but when it does and it makes a drastic decision that changes society, I think if you have a grievance with that, you're okay to investigate that grievance.
00:26:10.000What would be the appropriate number of people to make that decision?
00:26:13.000He wants to pack the Supreme Court, I can tell already.
00:26:47.000So that's the argument that's been presented for a long time as to why we need to add new justices because the country got bigger and we never did.
00:27:56.000I bet as soon as the news broke, there were a bunch of NGOs that already had the lawsuits drafted and ready to go because this is a very obvious GOP play to win the midterms.
00:28:09.000Now, it's funny as Republicans are cheering for SCOTUS not getting rid of the VRA because under this opinion, it's narrow.
00:28:17.000What's being argued is now the Republicans can actually use the VRA to get rid of any districts that they feel is racially gerrymandered.
00:28:26.000So if they got rid of it, then it's okay, well, just don't do it again.
00:28:30.000But with it still intact, you can now have some middle aged, you know, fat white guy who makes $30,000 a year say he can go to a nonprofit and be like, yeah, sue on behalf of me because they're discriminating against me for being white.
00:28:41.000Okay, well, VRA says you can't do that.
00:28:50.000Can we just pause real quick and just think about the degree of absurdity that at some point in this country they said we should have members of Congress whose standing in Congress is based just on their skin color?
00:29:05.000That's like the antithesis of this country.
00:29:07.000That's the antithesis of what civil rights was supposed to be.
00:29:46.000Yeah, so the big controversy with the initial birthright citizenship suit to the Supreme Court, Trump's administration argued not on the citizenship question.
00:29:57.000But on the universal injunction question, because for a long time, judges in this country had insane authority.
00:30:05.000You could be a lower court federal judge who handles specifically the Washington area.
00:30:11.000And what actually happened is that the Trump administration said no more transgenders in the military.
00:30:18.000They get sued by three transgender individuals in different jurisdictions.
00:30:45.000Instantly, another judge in a lower court issued another injunction, at which case, now you've got two separate injunctions one appeal staying that injunction, but another judge being active.
00:30:57.000And the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court, How can we have 400 plus lower court judges?
00:31:04.000All issuing injunctions on literally every single person in the class without establishing class.
00:31:10.000And the Supreme Court said, correct, they cannot.
00:31:12.000This means that if you sue, and this is actually a nuclear bomb as well, if you sue because Trump says no long haired freaky people in the military, and then Ian goes, well, I'm a long haired freaky person, so I'm suing.
00:33:06.000The issue right now is if you live in a district that is known to have been protected, Created specifically under the VRA, you have legal standing to sue because it's violating your constitutional rights.
00:33:16.000I, this is spectacular information, but I want to hear Alex Stein talk about aliens all night.
00:35:22.000Like, the conservatives concern themselves with concepts like hypocrisy, and political operatives do not concern themselves with stuff like that.
00:35:29.000Like, going to the Comey thing, too, is like, Wrapping all this lawfare and war into one big picture.
00:36:18.000But the thing about Republicans, red states, is that they're less populated, so you don't have major urban centers.
00:36:24.000The issue with Massachusetts, the example that I'll give you is in Illinois, they intentionally connect urban centers to create districts.
00:36:32.000In Massachusetts, they intentionally do not.
00:36:34.000So, they can take out the political voice of the rural Republican.
00:36:41.000So, with Massachusetts, you have dense urban pockets.
00:36:44.000So, they take all the rural areas and connect them to the urban pocket so it turns blue.
00:36:50.000In Illinois, you have small urban pockets.
00:36:53.000So, they create thin strips to create, to combine them to create one Democrat district.
00:36:58.000If the Democrats did the same thing in Massachusetts, they would connect the cities, creating rural Republican districts, but they don't do that.
00:37:42.000But the original Animal Farm, it's really interesting.
00:37:45.000The reason Orwell chose the pigs to be the leaders is that pigs are smart.
00:37:48.000The reason he chose the dogs to be the guards is because dogs are not as smart, but smart.
00:37:52.000And then the pack animals are hard workers, but not very smart.
00:37:56.000The point he was making was that in a communist takeover, the smarter people steal power to manipulate the stupid.
00:38:04.000And he brought up the point of Boxer, the horse representing the industrious working class who truly believes in the revolution and just does whatever they're told.
00:38:13.000Then the moment they are no longer useful, instead of getting their just desserts, they're sold off to a glue factory.
00:38:21.000Well, Machiavelli, he said it best, is that most people are good, but the people in power, most of the time, are not good because they had to do something to get in power.
00:38:30.000Like they had to do something, cut throat, or something bad.
00:38:54.000He had to have his uncle for 99.9% of the vote.
00:38:57.000Can you imagine a 12 year old chubby little Korean guy being like, kill him?
00:39:01.000The crazy thing is, if you were 12 and your dad died and all his buddies come with you, you're like, your uncle's going to kill you if you don't have him killed right now.
00:39:35.000And then it was some time later, they shut up and said, the people are worried that if you're still alive and your kids are alive, they may try to make a claim for rightful governance.
00:39:45.000So bang, bang, kill this kid, kill this whole family.
00:40:02.000They will infiltrate your institutions, they will twist them and burn them down.
00:40:07.000They will do things like they will reimagine your traditional art in ways that is shockingly offensive and then infiltrate your conservative institutions to push that pro communist message upon you.
00:40:20.000And they'll pay your own friends to promote it, and your friends will do it with a smile on their face.
00:41:00.000The principal difference between these groups, and I don't mean any specific fascistic political organization with an ethos or a mandate.
00:41:07.000I'm saying the general idea is progressivism versus traditionalism.
00:41:12.000They're both authoritarian groups that generally believe you must eliminate the undesirables.
00:41:18.000The question is the structure of culture.
00:41:20.000So the communists want to eliminate tradition and blank slate everything, and the fascists want to uphold tradition and have, you know, like traditional human.
00:41:30.000Force people to say the Pledge of Allegiance, for instance.
00:41:58.000Hitler, if you identify him with the modern era, a lot of the puritanical mindset was like, In that guy, and like, how pure do you want your society?
00:42:32.000My question then to Ian, because I don't think you'd understand it, is Ian, when the Lich King stands atop the mountain, you can point to him and say, that is the Lich King, correct?
00:44:18.000Well, so a zombie is mind control zombies, perhaps.
00:44:20.000So the point I'm making with this, outside of the joking with Ian about fantasy stuff, I'm sure many people understood the fantasy reference.
00:44:27.000There are people in the Democratic Party that know full well what they're doing.
00:44:31.000They understand they're manipulating people and they're lying and cheating for power.
00:44:34.000And then there are regular working class people who have no idea what's going on, but believe in the cause and become NPC mindless zombies.
00:44:42.000Some of them become violent, they become cogs in the machine.
00:44:45.000The point I'm making is that we know the Democrats, allegory Lich King, are evil, intending to do evil things.
00:45:32.000Batya Unger Sargon addressed this in a long post as well as on News Nation, pointing out that these studies, like CSAS, Cato, and others, will claim that, let's say, like a white supremacist in his trailer in Arkansas gets up one day and goes to his next door neighbor to buy meth, and then a fight breaks out and he shoots him.
00:45:56.000They will claim, they did claim, that a white supremacist who punched his wife and was arrested for domestic abuse was right wing violence.
00:46:03.000Well, I don't care about that because it's not meaningful to me.
00:46:06.000That does not explain to me what is going on politically in this country.
00:46:12.000Using Grok, ChatGPT, and Google, I searched for, and I did this over a couple of hours, all instances of political violence in the past 10 years where the motivations are known, clear, and commonly held political beliefs.
00:46:31.000Boy, let me tell you, ChatGPT basically insulted me, attacked me, and refused to cooperate.
00:46:41.000It kept saying things like, but Nazis are.
00:46:43.000It was like, so the first thing it does is.
00:46:45.000It's like, here's a list of politically motivated attacks, and it lists a bunch of neo Nazi violence, things that were not even well known or in the press.
00:46:53.000And then I just simply asked, is neo Nazism a commonly held political belief?
00:46:59.000And then I said, okay, then we shouldn't include that in a graph talking about commonly held political beliefs that motivated people towards violence.
00:47:24.000I had some removed where I thought it was ambiguous on the left.
00:47:28.000There are some instances of left wing violence where I don't know the motivation was clearly cut in a mainstream way.
00:47:34.000However, as you all know, overwhelmingly, it's going to be the right wing attacks they claim that get removed.
00:47:41.000In response to this, leftists have said, Why aren't you including neo Nazis?
00:47:45.000To which I responded, No mainstream political personality or politician endorses those views and advocates for them.
00:47:54.000So I don't care about the fringes that we've already condemned.
00:47:59.000So we pulled up a list, and what do you get?
00:48:01.000In the past 10 years, there have been 460 plus commonly held left aligned politically motivated attacks, and only one right wing aligned politically motivated attack.
00:48:13.000Some people on the left say, What about that guy in Minnesota who killed those Democrats?
00:49:48.000I suppose the big problem would be that the people on the left that don't really understand the way people on the right think because they see them as caricatures would assume that the people on the right do see neo Nazis as a Typical part of the political.
00:50:02.000The point is this list is not for liberals.
00:50:04.000This list is not to convince liberals.
00:50:07.000This list is because I am sick and tired of conservatives arguing with liberals, and I hear the liberal go, the right wing's responsible for way more political violence.
00:50:17.000And then the conservative goes, but that changed recently.
00:50:22.000You can't take Cato's data and claim a meth head with no teeth, who no one's ever heard of, getting into a fight over meth is right wing violence.
00:50:30.000More importantly, Charlie Kirk famously kicked white nationalists out of his events, all on camera saying, you are not welcome here.
00:50:37.000So when they say right wing violence, what they Imagine there's a guy who believes that the moon is made of cheese and that NASA is importing all the cheese.
00:50:51.000Now imagine if he went to a school and kidnapped the principal and said he secretly works for NASA administering the cheese distribution from the moon and kills him.
00:51:53.000And they would include anti anything that was pro Palestine was removed from the list, but anything that was Islamist in general was right wing.
00:53:30.000Well, no, but they said he was organized.
00:53:32.000F 9 became an informant to the DOJ, snitching on.
00:53:37.000So, this is where things get crazy in the SPLC.
00:53:39.000In their response, apparently they said that their F 9, that's what they're calling the person, their source informant, has flipped and is now an informant for the DOJ.
00:53:52.000Indicating the criminal case is predicated upon a neo Nazi telling the feds they were actually getting me to do these crimes.
00:53:59.000So, when they say, and all the Democrats are like, no, no, it's just an informant.
00:54:03.000Actually, the informant told the DOJ apparently that they were paying him to commit the crimes and to do the hate.
00:54:08.000So, this indictment doesn't come from nothing.
00:54:12.000Do you think it was Richard Spencer or Nick Fuentes?
00:54:15.000People are speculating on the internet that that was one of the names.
00:56:27.000The interesting thing that I've brought up time and time again is that the RPMs on the search term Erica Kirk is comparable to finance, indicating there's either an algorithmic push or someone has put a ton of money on Google.
00:56:40.000To pay people indirectly to make content about Erica Kirk.
00:56:52.000I said either algorithmically or someone put money on Google ads.
00:56:57.000Any person in the world can go on Google ads, set up a series of ad buys, put a million bucks per month, and say, target these search terms.
00:57:07.000And then what that does is the algorithm will promote that to sell inventory.
00:57:12.000And that search term will see a higher return for the person who created the video.
00:57:15.000Why Erica Kirk's volume is so high makes literally no sense.
00:57:20.000Typically, if you have high content volume, you get low RPMs.
00:57:25.000If the inventory is massive, then the advertiser can get cheap space.
00:57:31.000If there's limited space like finance, the cost goes way high because there's not enough content to purchase.
00:57:36.000Well, to be fair, there are a lot of people that are newish content creators that are getting tons of views just talking about Erica every day because there's money behind it.
00:57:46.000Why the algorithm is promoting it and why the RPM is so high does not make sense in the real world.
00:58:49.000So what happened is tons of people started making mesothelioma blogs and they would compete for the top search engine spot.
00:58:57.000If someone searched mesothelioma and you were number three on the list, you were probably making a million bucks a month.
00:59:03.000All your website was, was one page saying, here's what mesothelioma is, here's a list of people, and then Google Ads would appear and people could click to find a lawyer.
00:59:12.000The lawyers were paying insane amounts of money to find these clients.
00:59:17.000The point is, economically, when it comes to ads, the money comes from somewhere.
00:59:22.000So finance has a high RPM because there's a limited content space, but the people who purchase financial services tend to be wealthy.
00:59:30.000Poor people ain't buying wealth management for the most part.
00:59:32.000This means that a banker can spend $100,000 on an ad because one client might net him over three years half a million dollars.
00:59:40.000If you are selling politics, for instance, right now, RPMs are between $5 and $8.
01:00:21.000There is no politics behind it other than to destroy Turning Point pre midterms, indicative of a political play to prop up content that will burn Turning Point down because they're rallying young people to vote for Trump.
01:02:33.000Well, I think that was actually a couple months before.
01:02:36.000But yeah, that video actually blew up where he had the Turning Point students kind of talk about the elephant in the room, you know, Israel's influence, which you don't think they have any.
01:02:46.000You said that they don't have any influence and that they're the good.
01:02:48.000This is what I. I'm going to say this about the Israel people.
01:02:50.000I have a couple of dollars in my pocket.
01:02:52.000So the problem that we have right now in this country is, you know, I told this to Myron Gaines.
01:02:59.000Like, I'm like, bro, when you post happy merchants, you lose any goodwill you might have to convince people.
01:03:05.000And so, if you look at like Dan Bilzerian's fans, if I say something on the show, like if I tweet right now, the U.S. should stop funding Israel, they will just attack me like crazy and then make videos insulting me and calling me a Zio shell, even if I agree with them.
01:03:20.000Now, the question I have is, what is the function of that?
01:03:24.000Do they want me to agree with them or to disagree?
01:03:26.000Most people, when attacked, take the inverse position.
01:04:28.000So the point I'm making about the Israel people is like, I'm going to throw up my buddy Clint Russell as a really great example.
01:04:34.000I have continually made the point that Israel derangement syndrome is when you associate Israel with things that it's totally unrelated to.
01:04:50.000Well, the Sackler family was Jewish, though, right?
01:04:53.000And therein lies the issue that they find one morsel to connect the threads, even though the issue of opiates in West Virginia is more closely tied to China if you want to make a political argument.
01:05:02.000Clint Russell then makes a video called Israel.
01:05:04.000Israel Derangement Syndrome debunked with a picture of me in the thumbnail yelling at the camera where he criticizes me for things I never said.
01:05:12.000Is that to convince me that I'm wrong or is that to just lie for views on the internet to pander to people who don't care one way or the other?
01:05:19.000I think it's more of the lies just trying to make money, just trying to critique you because people do, you know, Tim, you are very popular, but the more popular you get, the more haters you get.
01:05:39.000The interesting thing, though, is the end result of, like, in response to having Randy Fine on the show, the end result of this is massive support for Israel.
01:06:19.000I talk to some random guy who's not big in politics.
01:06:22.000He sees the Twitter posts, he sees the comments, and he's like, what the fuck? Is wrong with those people.
01:06:28.000The visceral psychotic reaction to me having a conversation with a guy they don't like resulted in regular, uninitiated people being like, wow, the anti Israel people are insane lunatics.
01:06:40.000I'm like, bro, if you have an argument about Israeli government policies, military action, US involvement, AIPAC, and all that stuff, posting a happy merchant creates a repulsion.
01:06:51.000Well, Kurt Metzger had a really good advice to me because we were just talking and he's very critical of Israel.
01:06:56.000But he said, you can never say the Jews.
01:07:36.000What I mean is, if you walk up to two people and they were both, and one guy had his hands up being, please, dude, just stop, just stop, and the other guy punched him, you would say, the guy swinging is the bad guy.
01:07:46.000And you would rush to the fence of the guy who got hit.
01:07:49.000What if it turned out the guy who got hit was a pedophile who had just been caught with a child?
01:07:54.000This actually happened with Luke Rikowski's friend who there was a shooting in a mall.
01:07:59.000His friend, Came in to stop the shooter and drew his weapon.
01:08:02.000When the police came in, they saw him with the gun and shot and killed him.
01:08:06.000The point is when it comes to issues of persuasion, if you really do have a legitimate criticism of Israeli influence because they've done something wrong, but you were online saying fat Jews, you piece of trash, regular people walk up and see you being crazy and take the side of the person who's being attacked.
01:08:27.000Well, you just made $7,000 in the chat, so congrats.
01:08:56.000There were a handful of paid Animal Farm promos from prominent right personalities, and they deleted them because they started getting attacked for it.
01:09:05.000But hers looked like a copy and paste.
01:09:07.000And I got to tell you, Alex, it is fairly demoralizing to see all these right wingers promote welfare soda, India, gambling websites, and a pro communist movie for money.
01:09:52.000We got to sell a t shirt here and there, sell a little coffee.
01:09:55.000But when it comes to paid advertising ads like that, people are just trying to make ends meet and they're going to go, they don't care about the movie.
01:10:02.000But this is indicative of the rest of their opinions.
01:10:05.000Typically, these people, when they're not selling, they want clicks because they want engagement, they want ad dollars or otherwise.
01:10:11.000So I can only presume any one of these individuals who is willing to take money to promote welfare soda, India, gambling, specifically fly by night foreign gambling, and, uh, uh, uh, Pro communism films wearing our traditions like skin suits, they're probably lying about all of their opinions because they're saying the things they think will get them clicks.
01:10:30.000Well, we're going to find out very soon when MAGA is over and we're going to see if JD Vance or Rubio can just take the MAGA coalition and carry it.
01:10:40.000I don't think either of them necessarily can.
01:10:43.000I mean, if Hillary Clinton couldn't do it with Obama, then I don't think they're going to be able to do it.
01:10:46.000But that's where we'll know who's going to be clicking and who's going to be on the side of politicians that aren't popular because people are going to have to go to Ted Cruz or they're going to have to go.
01:10:54.000Thomas Massey, and I think that's going to cause a lot of.
01:10:57.000Massey's neck and neck right now, apparently.
01:11:14.000I think if Massey leaves, his gravitas is tremendous and he can have way more persuasive power in the political space as a free agent as opposed to being in Congress.
01:13:03.000When you are massively underwritten like Fox News with carriage fees and you're getting 80 to 100 million per year, no matter what, you can withstand an off year where no one is talking.
01:13:15.000I mean, you turn on Fox News right now and what are they talking about?
01:13:17.000They're talking about largely cultural issues.
01:14:12.000Viewership declines a bit for the season, but people kind of stick around to see what the president is going to do, and there's a lot of attention around it.
01:14:19.000But into the next holidays, Before the midterm spending cycle and after a presidential election, no one is following politics anymore.
01:14:28.000Right now, with the culture war, Democrats are glued to it because Republicans control everything.
01:14:33.000Republicans don't pay attention because they control everything.
01:16:08.000So, my point is what we're seeing now when we get back into the political cycle, I'm looking at all these people that have turned themselves into Israel channels.
01:16:17.000Like my dude, that is a small market share.
01:16:20.000It may be bigger right now than politics because politics is the offseason.
01:16:23.000But if you just decide to be an Israel poster and you abandon your base, what are you going to be when politics is mainstream and $10 billion is spent in the cycle?
01:16:31.000And regular people look at you like you're retarded.
01:16:33.000Well, let me tell you why I think you're wrong, sadly.
01:16:35.000And I think it was Randy Fine that said it on this podcast there's 9 million Jews in Israel.
01:16:41.000I think there's 15 million Jews in America.
01:17:00.000My point is that you're not going to have your audience back.
01:17:04.000They may make money off Pakistan and Indonesia or Malaysia or something.
01:17:08.000But in two years, when we're in the full throes of the presidential cycle and $7 billion is likely, I think the projection is what, $8 billion for 2028 expected to be spent?
01:17:21.000I think Obama was the first billion, and now it's expected to be exponential.
01:17:26.000You are going to have every facet of mainstream American culture focused on this upcoming election.
01:17:32.000We have a dual primary for the first time in what, 10 years?
01:17:36.000So we had the Republican Democrat primary in 2016.
01:17:39.000But then with 2020, we only had a Democrat one.
01:17:42.000And technically in 2024, we didn't have any primary at all.
01:17:46.000Because although there was technically a Republican one, or I'm sorry, in 2023, it didn't really matter because everyone knew it was going to be Trump.
01:17:52.000For the first time, we're going to have Democrats and Republicans in a primary season dumping billions of dollars.
01:17:58.000That amount of money is going to be focused on economics.
01:18:01.000Israel is not going to matter to your run of the mill plumber or teacher when it comes to how they're paying their health care bills.
01:18:08.000By all means, the Israel posters, the channels are dedicated to nothing but Israel content, may still get Malaysian viewers or a certain sect of American viewers, but it's small market share.
01:18:53.000My insinuation is a regular working class guy doesn't care.
01:18:58.000He wants to know how to get into politics.
01:18:59.000If we actually, and that's the one thing, though, if you made a podcast talking all about American domestic issues, nobody's going to listen.
01:19:04.000But if you made a podcast talking about our foreign issues, people will listen.
01:19:07.000No, my point is during a political cycle, everyone is listening because they want to know who to vote for.
01:19:54.000In the next couple of months, we're going to start getting all of this crazy primary action.
01:19:58.000Congressional primaries don't matter all that much, but about a month or two before the election, they're going to be spending billions of dollars on ads, and that's going to mandate that media shift.
01:20:28.000Who do these ad buys are going to put a decent chunk onto ESPN.
01:20:33.000You will see political ads in every space possible, but the biggest chunk of ad spending appears in political spaces.
01:20:39.000Notably, when Bloomberg bought his half a billion in ads, it appeared on political channels because he's trying to capture the people who are folks in politics.
01:21:40.000No, they probably went to Google Ads and said, if it's conservative, right leaning, or in the space, run my ad on it, which includes Tucker.
01:25:40.000Well, and also, you know, there was this unfavorable news clip from CBS, it was 60 Minutes specifically, where they talked about, you know, Gaza and said how it was bad.
01:25:49.000And they also covered the pager bombing and kind of showed a not super pro Israel side of the pager bombing.
01:26:33.000So ultimately, I think Arn McIntyre said if your political elites aren't willing to drop billions of dollars to buy a media organization to support their cause, then what are you actually even doing?
01:27:44.000So my point is, I think that we've gotten where we can't have a sense of humor about this stuff anymore.
01:27:49.000And I saw, I do think your argument is correct.
01:27:51.000And I was trying to agree with you with the Kurt Metzger thing.
01:27:53.000When Myron does post the happy merchant, it is funny, but it gets him a lot of negative attention, which he can't really rectify right now.
01:28:04.000There is a guy who woke up this morning and he threw some melon into a blender with some yogurt and then he put a little almond milk in it and drank that.
01:28:15.000He opened up his sports betting app and then he was looking at the games that were going on and he turned on the news and then he heard something about a shooting with the White House and he's like, wow.
01:29:01.000Or he goes into a bank and they deny him for a bank loan and he's like, I don't like that.
01:29:05.000That's just not realistic for a regular person.
01:29:07.000If you live in New York, you've probably bumped into an Orthodox or Hasidic Jewish guy who was nothing but nice to you.
01:29:13.000So I lived on Myrtle and Nostrand and one block over, there was like a Jewish supermarket and they were the nicest people in the world to be.
01:29:20.000I would say generally, most Jewish people are actually secular and not even super religious and very laid back.
01:31:15.000Well, but what I think is the more likely scenario is it's not that Trump is like playing 5D chess and telling Cash Vertel, hey, do this, but it's that they have these like sleeper cell people that are mentally ill that they've radicalized with the internet.
01:31:27.000And at some point, they could just do something that activates him.
01:31:30.000This guy was not your typical mentally ill guy.
01:31:39.000The scary thing about this guy was that by all.
01:31:42.000Modern sensibilities, he looked normal.
01:31:44.000Yeah, he looked like he was pretty sexy.
01:31:46.000He isn't some guy who had, like, you know, pictures of, you know, upside down Rush Limbaugh with, like, a knife in the wall or anything like that.
01:31:53.000He was a teacher who then traveled nonchalantly and coherently drafted a message saying Trump is an evil pedophile rapist.
01:32:01.000Those are common mainstream Democrat views.
01:32:04.000Those are, and those are talking points I've had to debate all semester.
01:32:07.000But at the same exact time, he's a guy that's probably against the Second Amendment, probably not a gun nut, but there are liberal gun nuts.
01:32:14.000So, somebody had to radicalize him somewhere to be like, hey, get the gun, drive across state lines, you know, go in there.
01:32:19.000What do you mean, like a specific individual had to do that?
01:32:29.000You have been on the show with us where we have said, after Charlie was killed, the rhetoric from all of these libs is an avalanche that is normal.
01:32:37.000Actually, we said after Luigi Mangione.
01:32:40.000When they celebrate assassins, it only takes one guy out of 70 million to decide to be the quote unquote hero the left has asked him to be.
01:33:31.000There's security footage of him kind of running, but you just think we'd have him shooting the gun.
01:33:35.000All I know is it's probably real, but now we've lost so much trust in the government that I'm not surprised at everybody on the internet saying it's fake.
01:33:41.000Actually, I think this is a really good example of how the left is organizing to win politics.
01:33:41.000I think that's what we're going to do.
01:33:47.000So, like the example that I like to use is Rumble, for instance.
01:33:51.000The narrative early on when Rumble launched was that the views were fake.
01:33:55.000And this was pushed by libs who wanted to censor people on YouTube primarily.
01:34:01.000And it's pushed today by people who don't like, primarily, Dan Bongino.
01:34:05.000The only issue is, like, for us, all I can say is, like, I track the analytics and it's the same analytics we've always had.
01:34:11.000In fact, we've had the best sales numbers we've ever had in terms of ad sales in a political offseason because our viewership has been increasing with Rumble and we sell ads to that audience.
01:34:20.000So, where is this narrative that people put out that Rumble views are not real?
01:34:24.000It's intended to say, stay on YouTube, stay on YouTube where we can ban you.
01:34:30.000And then when you go to a platform that's saying, we won't ban you, the narrative emerges, your views aren't real, and the advertisers pull out.
01:34:52.000The narrative around the White House shooting being fake is all part of, in my opinion, either it could be emergent, but the libs, the left, the Democrats have been desperately trying to figure out how to shatter the right.
01:35:06.000There's a handful of things you can do lie, cheat, and steal.
01:35:09.000Put money into Google for content that is anti Trump and anti Erica Kirk, destroy Turning Print USA, kill Charlie Kirk, spread lies about your political enemies, and ban them off YouTube.
01:35:18.000People are pissed that I said that that was a conspiracy.
01:35:20.000I didn't know everybody here was a conspiracy.
01:35:33.000When it happened, I'm at a bar and everyone walks over to the TV and they stare at the screen as Trump was giving a dress and they show the security footage and the guy subdued and they're just going, wow.
01:36:18.000He would get 200 million super voting restricted shares of stock as long as the colony is permanent, has at least 1 million residents, and SpaceX has hit a market valuation of $7.5 trillion.
01:36:29.000The time frame on this that it has to happen by?
01:37:43.000Us Martians have been around on Earth for a while.
01:37:46.000And you see what happened is our peoples terraformed Earth a long time ago.
01:37:50.000And we moved our base to Mars for the past 10,000 years.
01:37:54.000And we're now going to take back over the government of Earth.
01:37:56.000But we need a one world government so we can control everybody.
01:37:58.000Well, Ronald Reagan did say it, and other presidents have said it.
01:38:01.000The only unifying Force that would unify the entire world would be an outside alien threat, and that's how they would start the one world order.
01:38:07.000A new world order would be a fake alien invasion.
01:38:15.000I know, but NASA said that they do research on Devon Island in 2002.
01:38:18.000Yeah, so there's a bunch of images where they actually took a real picture of Devon Island and they took images of quote unquote Mars, and it's exactly the same.
01:38:26.000So, all I'm saying, just type in Devon Island exposed.
01:38:28.000It's just, I don't believe that something's on Mars right now, and then they make all these stories.
01:38:32.000Oh, Elon's going to put a million people there and get $7.5 trillion.
01:40:32.000And we'll look up General Admiral Byrd in this long shine.
01:40:35.000We're going to make it to Atlantis, bro.
01:40:37.000Well, it's not that it's hollow earth, but he did say this is one of the first generals in American history to go explore Antarctica, said that it was so big and that it wasn't just ice.
01:41:38.000But then, if you actually look at the storyline of Back to the Future, it actually coincides exactly with Donald Trump because you have Biff has the big casino.
01:42:42.000The Underground Adventures of Barron Trump.
01:42:43.000And then you look at the connection of his uncle was the guy that went through Tesla's, you know, when Tesla died, it was actually his uncle that supposedly went through his safe.
01:42:50.000So I know it's highly unlikely that he is a time traveler, but then also if you look at a thing called Mandela effects, where we remember things wrong, like Chick fil A or Shazam.
01:42:59.000Well, you know what I'm saying, right?
01:43:01.000Trump went back to the 80s on accident because they got the date wrong.
01:43:05.000And while they were trying to get fuel, they had to get liquor to put back in the time machine.
01:43:11.000He accidentally bumped a glass of coffee, which spilled on the manuscript.
01:44:08.000And it's got a bunch of meat and veggies, and it's a flute making the cornucopia, which many people said was meant to be a play on Fruit of the Loom in 1973.
01:44:20.000And so people are like, how did a guy satirize Fruit of the Loom with Fruit of the Loom if it never had a cornucopia?
01:45:04.000Well, when they took out, excuse me, when they found the guy that the pilot that crashed in Iran.
01:45:12.000They even said that they ran a disinformation campaign on the citizens there so they wouldn't know where the guy was.
01:45:17.000Like, they actually put out fake media hits as if, oh, he's in this area and he wasn't.
01:45:22.000So, if they're running disinformation campaigns at the snap of their fingers in foreign countries, you don't think they're running one right now, though, Tim?
01:45:29.000You don't think the CIA is probably cooking the books and trying to influence us to think a certain way?
01:45:34.000In what, like the CIA is manipulating everybody?
01:45:46.000Yeah, I know that the CIA doesn't like Trump, but.
01:45:48.000What Trump is doing right now, it appears, surface level, low probability, but decent probability.
01:45:53.000Choking off the Strait of Hormuz is shutting down OPEC and shifting oil production and oil controls directly to the United States, which disrupts the liberal economic order.
01:47:00.000I don't know if there's any evidence for that, but I do think that Tucker realizes that young people, Tim, whether you want to admit it or not, whether you think it's like this, you know, things that's just going to change after the midterms, young people are very disenfranchised with the support of Israel and just blindly supporting it.
01:47:15.000So I think that the tide is kind of turning and there's probably going to be an attention economy dedicated to anti Israel content that is probably going to get bigger, I would argue.
01:47:23.000My concern with the funding of Israel.
01:47:25.000You're saying there's going to be more anti Israel content?
01:48:07.000So if Israel said, let's put 10 billion on Google ads and put it onto content that is favorable towards Israel, the algorithm would put it on the front page.
01:50:32.000When the Covington kids, when the video went viral, the Covington kids on the Lincoln stairs, and everybody said this kid got in the Indian's face, the Native American's face, conservatives were condemning him.
01:52:22.000What's a, well, I mean, I don't know if because part of their company is a non profit, right?
01:52:28.000So I don't know if they're really competing on a for profit company, but I know they have Turning Point Action, which is a non profit company, but 95% of Of Erica Kirk appearances are external, not her.
01:52:41.00095% of the videos you will see about Erica Kirk are coming from externalities.
01:52:45.000Somebody is comparing it, not from her.
01:53:12.000A woman who was texting with Candace released a screenshot of the message where Candace said, My first question, why did you kill your husband?
01:53:20.000Did she say that on the podcast or was that a leaked text?
01:55:17.000Tyler Robinson, from all accounts, was in a gay relationship.
01:55:20.000Like he might have been quote unquote conservative when he was a little younger, but it looks like he was a left leaning motivated attack.
01:55:26.000And there were people with foreknowledge, but we got to get Rumble rants and super chats in because I'm having too fun arguing with Alex over here.
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02:00:07.000But the point is that Hollywood is one of those capitalist industries in the world.
02:00:12.000And one of the reasons they'll make movies like this, even though they'll change the story completely, Is they're not willing to let Andy Serkis write a movie.
02:01:29.000They tried to name a highway after Charlie, and that got shut down.
02:01:32.000I think it's, you know, People kind of use it as a political rallying point, too, like how you said, the momentum of the left.
02:01:37.000They use it to have somebody to attack.
02:01:39.000Pinochet says, Alex, as an informed plumber in Massachusetts, I take offense to your comment.
02:01:44.000Well, I didn't say that you weren't uninformed just because you're a plumber, but I were kind of using.
02:01:48.000Because I said plumber, and then you said you added uninformed.
02:01:50.000Well, because I was trying to go with like the old Joe Plummer slant, where the guy's just kind of an everyday American, not worried about who's in power, just trying to pay his bills.
02:01:59.000The Fallen says, Martian colonist, quote, Earth was promised to us 2,000 years ago.
02:02:04.000It'd be really funny if Martians actually exist and they come to Earth and they were like, a long time ago, we were chased off of Earth by you.
02:02:13.000And that voice I'm doing is, in fact, not Native American.
02:02:35.000When Earth was being terraformed, the original colonists had a mechanical failure on their ship.
02:02:41.000And so they could not contact the homeworld.
02:02:43.000So they created three large beacons with gold tips to blast a signal up to Orion's belt where the homeworld is located, and then they were rescued.
02:02:51.000However, some of the colonists were left behind because there was infighting that led to the destruction of their, caused the mechanical failure.
02:02:58.000And so those people left behind, that's who we are.
02:03:02.000I mean, it's crazier things have happened.
02:08:00.000What I was going to say is, I'm actually excited for the cycle because the retards that have shifted away from politics and into Erica Kirk conspiracy, they're going to lose that audience.
02:08:12.000When people start tuning back into politics, we're going to capture that audience.
02:08:16.000From them, it's like your election night streams had over 100,000 live viewers.
02:08:20.000I mean, way more than that, but yeah, we did we did we did like three million on election night, yeah, uh, extended stream.
02:08:26.000But having 100,000 live viewers is strong as it gets.
02:08:29.000I mean, that's literally one of the highest.
02:08:31.000They consider 100k like the barrier, yeah, consistently breaking it is big.
02:08:34.000Candace breaks it every day when they charged Trump that one time.
02:09:06.000Just sit there and wait for Ian Carroll to post something about what he had for lunch and then pay two Indian guys to give him a thousand retweets.
02:09:36.000I try to be cautious on that because there was this period where people were using bot or not trackers on people's accounts.
02:09:44.000They'd take your account, load it into an AI that would be like, it's 20% real and 80% bots.
02:09:50.000The only problem was they kept saying celebrities had bot followers.
02:09:55.000When in reality, celebrities had suggested user list followers, meaning there are a lot of accounts of people who never post.
02:10:02.000They just log on to Twitter and read the feed and then close it out.
02:10:06.000And these programs were calling those bots because they were inactive users that were following somebody.
02:10:12.000So for Barstool, if you have a guy who signs up to read sports threads but doesn't post himself, they're going to be like, how come there's so many likes?
02:10:19.000Well, these people are not active Twitter users, they're just followers of Barstool Sports.
02:10:23.000Additionally, if they embed tweets on the website and people just hit like, Yeah, I know there are ways where it can kind of look funny and it's not artificial.
02:10:29.000But again, more importantly, using Fiverr is the easiest way to do it.
02:10:34.000All you have to do is just, I mean, you could literally, bro, you just call two Indian guys and say, so don't want you to do it.
02:12:13.000But to be fair, I call that gay for pay.
02:12:16.000It is a little gay for pay, but at the same exact time, Angel Studios, would you agree, and maybe you don't, that a lot of their past projects did have the right messaging, and maybe they've earned enough goodwill with the people that they pay, the influencers that they pay, that even though this might not ideologically align with what they're posting, because they've been.
02:12:35.000Oh, wait, Emily Saves America just promoted it.
02:13:18.000Because they know the moment they sit down in the chair and I say, here's a quote from Andy Serkis, he wanted to be about capitalism, they're going to go, oh.
02:13:26.000Yeah, but I'm surprised they wouldn't want that publicity like you were joking about how you would pay the left to.
02:13:30.000Listen, my point is this Emily Saves America is promoting the film now.
02:13:50.000Five figures, I'm not gonna get into hard numbers, but it was much, much more than that.
02:13:55.000And I said, no, I am not gonna take money to promote a film that besmirches Animal Farm, wears our traditions like a skin suit, and promotes communism.
02:14:06.000Well, to be fair, though, you are able to be a little more picky and choosy because you are financially stable.
02:14:22.000During Occupy Wall Street, when I was broke and sleeping in a tent, they said, You're the perfect example of why capitalism has failed.
02:14:28.000You're smart, you're hardworking, why don't you have money?
02:14:30.000And then two months later, when I was featured in Time magazine, they started coming out saying Tim Poole was born rich and had a silver spoon up his ass.
02:14:38.000They just flip because they're fucking scumbags.
02:14:41.000There is nothing that would ever get me to take money to promote communism.
02:14:45.000I would rather sleep in the fucking woods.
02:14:49.000Yeah, well, we're in a space where I'm expected to take shit from Merrick Garland being accused of being a Russian, where I get shit on by these fucking Israel lunatics, where these people drive by my house shooting at me for these.
02:15:02.000Fucking scumbags who took a paycheck to promote a communist film.
02:15:08.000I'm just sitting here saying, Why would I stick my neck out for these pieces of shit?
02:15:13.000Well, I mean, I'm just playing devil's advocate, but nobody's really asking you to stick your neck out for them, though, right?
02:15:19.000Like Emily Saves America is not looking for Tim Poole.
02:15:22.000Tucker Carlson and all the rest of them, they're on the blacklist.
02:15:25.000And I don't mean like they can't come on and debate.
02:15:39.000No, the problem is, it is influencer economy, and you're being sold on somebody believing what they're saying.
02:15:44.000So, if the idea here is that every other viewpoint that they have is anti communist and they share this movie, and to be fair, it could be subjective and maybe they don't see it in that movie, and that's fine.
02:15:54.000But people aren't willing to give them the benefit of the doubt when it looks like they're reading from a script.
02:15:58.000So, the problem is, if your word is everything because people are following you because they believe that you're saying what you believe, then paid advertisement is always risky.
02:16:08.000Yeah, I mean, that's why they put the laws in where they have to say on Twitter whether it's a paid ad.
02:16:13.000But I think people now are hip enough to know that if anybody's promoting something and doing an ad for it, it doesn't really mean that the people give a shit about the product that they're promoting.
02:17:27.000They rebel against him, take over, and then the pigs, Napoleon is a fucking evil psychopath.
02:17:34.000In the old movie in the 50s, he's like, all nasty looking.
02:17:39.000In Animal Farm, the new movie, he's comic relief.
02:17:43.000Who is tricked by the corporatist into getting credit card debt?
02:17:48.000And then he gets mad, like, how am I supposed to give him magic paper every month for this stupid card?
02:17:53.000And then she goes, well, if you sell the farm to me, then you'll have more than enough magic paper forever to pay off, to give the magic paper for the card.
02:18:04.000And then they list all the animals they're going to sell off.
02:18:06.000And the animals in Act Three is the first time there's a revolution.
02:18:11.000Revolution is supposed to happen in the first page.
02:18:15.000The other thing about it, the point I was making earlier, is Hollywood is a very capitalist industry.
02:18:19.000They do screw up and they do, but I would argue that the fact that Disney has paid lip service now to actually wanting to make changes and walking back a lot of the stuff that they were doing means that they are for profit entities and that's what they want.
02:18:31.000But the thing is, this movie doesn't get made or it doesn't get the amount of attention it's getting if it doesn't have the name Animal Farm.
02:18:40.000If they truly, if they were truly anti capitalist, they would make it under some other name.
02:18:44.000They'd call it Pig Pen and let the chips fall when they met.
02:19:03.000It's the most cynical form of capitalism to sell the anti capitalist movie in a way that could only be done because they had to wear the skin suit of a much more important property.
02:19:12.000Well, and the fact that it's for kids, right?
02:19:18.000If this was like a live action thing where it's more adult oriented, maybe, but it's like they do want to indoctrinate young people by them watching a cartoon that is anti capitalist.
02:19:31.000If any of these individuals ever come on my show or a show like it, the first question I have for them is how much did you get paid to promote an anti capitalist film?
02:19:39.000They're going to say $1,500 or something.
02:19:42.000And then I'm going to say have there been other instances where you've promoted communism, anti capitalist, or attacked conservative values for pay?
02:19:52.000All they had to do was pay Ed Krasenstein some money to say it was a great movie or to say that it was a bad movie, and then all the conservatives loved it.
02:19:59.000Well, the funny thing is, what I'm hearing now is that they're selling, they're buying the promo spots, but not giving screeners.
02:20:05.000So I don't know how true this is because I've only heard a little bit in the background.
02:20:08.000Typically, what they do with it for us is they sent us a script, they committed to a large sum of money, and then sent us a screener to watch the movie.
02:20:15.000The script they sent to me, they wanted me to explicitly state I was wrong about my opinion on the film, and that after watching it, I realized it was actually anti communist and good.
02:20:25.000Did they raise your offer after you had the drama?
02:24:00.000So I just want to point out I mean, while it all kicked off because of that, you know, being dismissed by the Trump administration, hey, happy days, you know, we can't put this disinformation out there.
02:24:12.000We can't let, especially from creators like yourself who have a large voice, be allowing that narrative to be put there.
02:25:08.000Like I said, I wanted to make sure you were aware because, again, misinformation is just as bad as disinformation and the facts need to be what they are.
02:26:21.000Um, well, you're doing your part, you're just doing the bare minimum.
02:26:23.000Yeah, I'm doing less than the bare minimum.
02:26:25.000Legally, I owe money, I'm in debt, I've done uh, less than that.
02:26:28.000So, I'll just put it this way I do want to have kids, I do need to be in a hurry, Tim, to have kids.
02:26:33.000But there is kind of that side of me, an idiocracy, where at the beginning of the movie, where like the rich white family are like, Oh, we're not ready to have kids, we're not ready to have kids, and all of a sudden, the guy's sperm stops working because he's gotten so no, he dies.
02:27:19.000Cult, yeah, that crew where they'll get young people to.
02:27:21.000And because I was on AOL, I typed age sex location when I was young, you know, when I was uh first getting on it.
02:27:27.000But my point is, we should have kids, but the internet has created such a dark world, I'm worried about them becoming a you know victim to some sort of tragedy.
02:27:36.000But I need to have kids, I need to knock somebody out.
02:27:38.000Yeah, yeah, don't aren't you, aren't you, you know, you got a significant other you're ready to knock up?
02:31:28.000So the story is it's so it's, you know, me to Mrs., Alex to Mrs., and he goes to this dumb machine and he puts in a couple hundred bucks and loses it all.
02:31:35.000And then he's like, I want to go to the bathroom.
02:33:16.000You need to make gambling content, dude, because that is blowing up and that's non political.
02:33:21.000So it gets to a totally different audience.
02:33:22.000I know you and I have talked about that, but.
02:33:24.000I've been winning poker tournaments like crazy.
02:33:27.000I probably win like six or seven per week at this point.
02:33:29.000Well, you do the predictive market, and I know there's people that are coming out with shows.
02:33:32.000Based on just the prediction markets, which I think is an interesting idea where like they'll just cover on whatever trending prediction market they're you know is popular, but I don't want to encourage gambling.
02:33:42.000But at the same time, gambling is so fun.
02:33:44.000Well, poker's not, I'm saying it's well, I'm just saying like a slot machine video, it's actually fun though to watch other people gamble because then you don't lose any money.
02:33:50.000So we do have a caller side of it, he was trying to ask a question.
02:33:58.000Um, so I'm getting on to the gerrymandering thing with Massachusetts because I think you kind of missed out some part of it earlier.
02:34:05.000When you were talking about Massachusetts, if you take a look at the map, if you could pull it up, I don't know if you could pull it from the Collins section or you just have to pull up the voting map versus the 2024 election map.
02:34:16.000You can see how they fishtailed Brighton, which is the most Libbyist place on the planet, straight down into all of the red section.
02:34:29.000Then they cut out the central part, which is Springfield, all the way up the Merrimack Valley and gerrymandered those into Worcester and stuff.
02:34:38.000It's like, These entire areas are pushed in.
02:34:42.000You get an area, the red area is cut in half.
02:34:45.000It gets swallowed up by Boston and brought in.
02:34:47.000So if you look at Area 4 right there, you'll see that it fishtails up, and then there's that little teeny oval section right next to Cambridge.
02:34:58.000It's just, it's everything from the 4 over on that map is all deep red, and they split it.
02:35:09.00050 50 and bring it up into Boston and down through Brockton just to cut people out.
02:35:15.000They take District 1 and gerrymander it so that 90% of Springfield is cut off.
02:35:20.000Then Worcester, the other Democrat stronghold, takes the other half of the Republicans.
02:35:25.000And then when you get up into the Lowell area, you wipe out the last little bit of conservatives in Massachusetts and you take a 40% voting block and turn it into a zero block.
02:35:51.000All the states are now gearing up to do this.
02:35:54.000The result is people who are right lean are going to leave these states and go to red states where they find sanctuary because it's going to get crazier.
02:36:02.000When they ice out conservatives and get a supermajority, they're going to cut off kids' balls, they're going to seize your property.
02:36:27.000I know, Tim, and you've talked, obviously, you're one of the biggest proponents, the Civil War is almost inevitable.
02:36:34.000But I would think that the only way that people actually start shooting each other, and I know that you could argue like January 6th was the start of it, but is if they turn off the Internet.
02:36:46.000Well, I'm saying, I think that if they really wanted people to start shooting each other, it's like how during the pandemic people were fighting over toilet paper.
02:36:53.000They have to do something like that, right?
02:36:55.000If you turn the internet off, no one talks about Erica Kirk ever again.
02:37:01.000It would probably de radicalize people.
02:37:04.000Yeah, I think it would radicalize people.
02:37:05.000Now, if you stop the food subcalvings with your neighbors and people would start to become more like each other.
02:37:10.000Well, wouldn't that create more of a civil war, though?
02:37:13.000It would become more tribalistic if the internet was.
02:37:16.000There would be no cohesive factionalization.
02:37:18.000How they would cut off the internet, I don't think it would just be like.
02:37:21.000They would say that it was cyber attacked in certain areas, have service for X amount of time.
02:38:50.000Because they fucking think that texting is normal, it's crazy.
02:38:53.000Well, and young people, they don't like to have phone conversations, they really don't.
02:38:57.000Yeah, they just won't answer the phone.
02:38:58.000Yeah, and I'm not trying to be like, you know, in the room, all you young kids don't want to have phone calls, but it does that is like a real thing where young kids would rather.
02:39:59.000I'm not even saying Elon Musk is 100% a villain.
02:40:01.000I don't know if I'd want to buy Twitter, but I would like to do something illegal and crazy like blow up all the credit card companies and try to get rid of the debt.
02:40:07.000Like, I'm saying there is something evil you could do that would benefit society.
02:40:12.000Like, The reason why I'm unimpressed with the deep state is because my presumption is either they're very, very smart and this is the intended condition or they're really bad at what they're doing and they're fucking it up.
02:40:23.000The reason why I don't think the White House shooting was a false flag is because if I was going to do a false flag, I'd have done it way better.
02:41:18.000I finally got my Step on Snake number one gold posted on the wall.
02:41:23.000That being said, the Discord and hey, Tim, Ian, anybody, I have two of the only three Chandra skateboards that were made in 2013 for the Grand Prix.
02:43:59.000I see there's a lot going on in the background.
02:44:03.000And what do you think is behind these leftists propping up these against the Republicans?
02:44:09.000I found a link with a guest on Mario Naufall.
02:44:13.000From the Quincy Institute on Iran today, and Massey and Rokhana received rewards from the same Quincy Institute, which I understand is Soros funded.
02:44:37.000Like, Alex, what would you do if, like, a wet works guy working for the machine came to you and said, You're going to turn on Trump or we're going to kill you.
02:45:46.000If someone came to me and said, turn on Trump or die, I'd be like, go fuck yourself.
02:45:51.000Well, and I think there are fair criticisms of Trump and his administration, but at the same time, Trump is always going to be on the side of trying to save babies in the womb.
02:45:58.000Trump is always going to be against immigration.
02:46:01.000So even if he's not perfect and he's not as far right as people want, he's always going to be the lesser of two evils.
02:46:06.000And I know that that's not always the best option, but I think that that is where we really need to kind of have this debate where now you see the right is totally divided and they're kind of anti Trump.
02:46:16.000It's like, if you're anti Trump, does that mean you're pro Kamala?
02:46:18.000Does that mean you're pro Gavin Newsom?
02:46:21.000If somebody came to me, like a wet works guy, like a deep state guy, and he was like, Mr. Poole, you are going to be a prominent anti Trump voice.
02:47:17.000I have shown to be obstinate and willing to reject money to go against my values.
02:47:23.000There is no safe way a deep state person could come to me and make me a deal without exposing themselves or having me go on my show and say, These motherfuckers tried to pay me off.
02:48:34.000My response is literally not having him on will do more damage to you than having him on.
02:48:39.000And when I said, oh, hey, FCC regulations, we got to have Dan Blazarian on now, that fucking commenter that aggravated you and me didn't get that I was being sarcastic.
02:48:49.000We're talking about people that are being sarcastic.
02:49:08.000If Hillary Clinton personally came to your house, and then like in the dead of night in secret, you like wake up and she's standing in your living room, and there's like two guards, and then you like you hear the noise, you come out, and you're like in your boxers, and your wife beat her, and you're like, What's going on?
02:49:25.000So you need to sit down, we need to talk to you, and you're like, What the is going on?
02:49:29.000She sits you down, she pulls out a laptop, and she shows you a whole bunch of information proving she is right the whole time about everything.
02:49:37.000Real convincing, top secret stuff about Iran, showing Trump, like real evidence that Trump is working with Putin and trying to burn down the United States.
02:49:46.000If she showed you all the proof and then said, we need you on our side, would you do it?
02:49:53.000If they came in and they were like, this is proof that actually Trump is bad and here's what's really going on, I'd be like, oh, wow, I was wrong about all that.
02:49:59.000Well, and people think, you know, I obviously am an open conspiracy theorist, but if there's new evidence that ever comes up, I'm always willing to change my position and change my opinion.
02:50:07.000And I think that's the problem is people are just.
02:50:10.000It's actually just like, you know, you've always told me that if new information about your attraction to men ever came up, you'd switch sexualities.
02:50:19.000It's actually probably the least time you'd actually take their evidence because they're like, what are they showing you a laptop that could be 110% fake with entirely fake documents?
02:50:30.000No, because my hypothetical is that they prove it to you.
02:52:24.000So, with the Section 702 surveillance up for renewal, do you think the government can realistically protect national security without violating Americans' privacy?
02:53:25.000And, you know, with we have cameras that are staring at me right now, know exactly what I look like.
02:53:31.000And there doesn't seem like much of an avoidance.
02:53:33.000Here's a secret if we do a show in this studio and the stream goes down and the computer goes down, the whole show is still recorded on the other camera.
02:54:04.000We have security cameras all over the place.
02:54:06.000One of the reasons we can't publish the footage of the shooting from December is because it shows where the cameras are and how to avoid them.
02:54:13.000But we played the audio when it happened.
02:55:13.000In the show Person of Interest, which is about the creation of an AI, it literally the creator of the program creates social media to get information to gather on citizens.
02:56:01.000I thought it was just a lot of nothing, but now I really want to know.
02:56:03.000No, they were like, we're going to steal his money, basically.
02:56:06.000But you did see where Elon, they're kind of accusing him, and it's not necessarily a scam, but whatever the parent company of Grok is, that is actually the company that owns Twitter.