Democrats Say Assassination IS A WARNING, Leftists Post WANTED POSTERS Calling For END Of CEO Lives
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This is a warning. Warren Sanders addressed sympathy for UnitedHealthcare CEO killing. Well, we don't know exactly what happened just yet. There is a man in custody, Luigi Mangione. And well, on the Internet, they're saying maybe he was framed. Well, apparently this dude is going to plead not guilty to all the charges. But what is particularly interesting in the surrounding stories is the sentiment of Democrats saying,

They are really pulling off the mask this time with Elizabeth Warren basically saying, well, you can only push people too far. Leftists around New York are putting up wanted posters of CEOs and they are celebrating the killing of an innocent man, the CEO. And I know in their crackpot, fried brained, developmentally disabled world, this CEO was the villain, right?

There are a lot of problems in our system, my friends, but there are heroes and there are villains and there are innocent people. And if you want to make the argument that a CEO is not innocent, then you're basically making that philosophical argument of no one is innocent. No one is innocent and no one is without sin.

Of course, there are some people who will have crossed the ultimate line. And as a society, we have deemed, and I don't say me, calm down leftists, but society itself has deemed there are rules and regulations and sometimes people can commit crimes that warrant death. Me, personally, I oppose that for a lot of reasons, but I do understand that there are some pretty egregious crimes people can commit. There's war and there's conflict. But in no way, ever, should a business leader say,

Just some guy running a normal run of the mill American company, whatever your grievance may be, there's no reason ever for the person to be gunned down. Not only does it solve none of the problems, it actually exacerbates the potential for violence in this country. But rest assured, Democrats are going to jump out and they're going to say, no, no, it's it's it's a warning.

Now, Elizabeth Warren tried pulling back a little bit, saying I should have been more clear. You know, violence is never the answer. And they're playing this game. But a good friends over at The Daily Show have exemplified exactly what they mean. They took clips of Fox News personalities condemning the cold blooded, premeditated murder of this man. And they put over it.

Videos of Kyle Rittenhouse being welcomed at a variety of events, large TPUSA events, I believe. Now we get it because we are not stupid people. Kyle Rittenhouse fled for his life. He was attacked and threatened with death. The man grabbed the weapon and only after another person opened fire did Kyle Rittenhouse defend himself.

And upon that, immediately tried fleeing to the police to turn himself in when he was attacked again and by another man again, armed with a gun. And only then did Rittenhouse defend himself. And a jury of his peers determined that all of this was self-defense. See, The Daily Show doesn't care. In their mind, premeditating murder.

stalking a guy, planning your escape route and fleeing the city is no different than rendering first aid to rioters and only upon having your life threatened and a man grabbing your gun and someone else opening fire, a guy shot into the air. They say that when Kyle Reynolds defends himself and tries to turn himself in, that's the same thing as premeditating an assassination and fleeing the city. These people are deranged, violent psychopaths. But okay, I'm all riled up now. Let's take a look at the story.

From the Huffington Post, this is a warning. Warren Sanders addressed sympathy for UnitedHealthcare CEO. The progressive senators condemned the assassination, calling it outrageous and denouncing violence. Indeed, indeed. But how do you really feel? Quote,

The visceral response from the people across this country who feel cheated, ripped off and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in this health care system. Holy crap, dude, I am sick. I'm so I'm so sick of these petulant children. And look, largely, I blame the older generation to a certain degree. You heard me. Not individually, but the snowflake doesn't blame itself for the avalanche, guys.

What happened 20 years ago where this ideology was instilled in the brains of these young people where they're so stupid they can't understand correlation and causation? I don't know what to tell you. But when, look, as the saying goes, a society grows great when people plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit beneath. In this instance, I feel like a while ago, people started chopping down trees and the younger generation grew up in this deranged reality where they don't understand what is or what's not.

And now they're like, well, I got sick and this company didn't cure me. So they're bad guys. Let me pause for all the upset leftists. If you pay for a service and that service is denied to you unjustly, that's wrong. Agreed. But it is fascinating that we have some of the best health care in the world, if not the best.

They don't understand why things cost money. They don't understand basic economics. They're like, why is our health care so expensive compared to everybody else? I don't know. We have like the highest wages and the highest salaries. We make more money than everybody else. Jeez, these people are not bright. No, I'm not saying the health care industry works for everybody. No, the whole thing's jammed up and busted. But in their reality, if someone gets sick with like a rare cancer and the health insurance company doesn't cure them of it, the health care industry murdered them.

And I'm just like, oh, man, my friends, disease and genetic disorder exists. We have not discovered a cure for all that ails us. We have some cures. Life's pretty good. But you see, these young people have grown up in a world where everything's been handed to them. I beg and I pray, please just give these people two weeks of homelessness to understand. Not literally. I don't want anyone to get hurt.

But I do think they would be served very well by just being dropped off. Let me put it this way.

Let's start a program where at the age of 18, in order to graduate high school. Well, I'm not a big fan of high school either. But, you know, at the age of 18, we make it a mandatory thing where every everyone is just Lord of the Flies on some island for two weeks. Don't worry, we'll monitor it to make sure nobody dies and there's health health access. So there still will be some safety barriers. But you're going to have to figure it out, at least for a little bit.

You know, I'm kidding, by the way, but some have argued that we should put young people through basic training, that at 18, everyone should undergo two weeks to three months of basic training. And boy, I really think we might have to do that. You see, you know, these these these classical liberals that come out and they've been talking about.

You know, the woke right or whatever that is. I'm like, guys, liberalism has some great things going on for it. But you've got to there's got to be something else because we cannot just say live and let live and come to a point where these people are so stupid that they're I mean, this dude, this dude, Mangione was as dumb as a box of rocks. OK, he's like, we have the most expensive health care in the world, but 40 were 42nd in life expectancy. That's why you killed the dude, allegedly.

Some people do believe he's being framed and I will I will reserve he's innocent until proven guilty. So I'd like to see some evidence. Apparently, they're saying he's going to plead not guilty to everything. But holy crap, my friends, that is is you heard me say it the other day. Like those things are totally unrelated. You can't take a population of people who gorge themselves on seed oils and deep fried chicken wings every single day. To be fair, I eat chicken wings all the time. OK, and they're probably in seed oils or whatever. So I'm going to watch out for that. I really am. I'm trying my best.

But I do exercise. I have a very healthy breakfast and I try my best. But that's besides the point. OK, I still understand that even then I'm probably getting awful foods and Cito's and bad stuff in me. So you cannot compare our nation of, you know, my favorite example, Chinese food in this country. It's nothing like Chinese food. We take wads of chicken, batter them, deep fry them and then roll them in sugar sauce and.

And that's like a common fast food. Like one serving of the stuff is like 2000 calories. You want to know why we have bad life expectancy? Because we eat garbage. We don't regulate our foods very well. And the American culture is sick and sedentary.

But OK, you get it. These guys are dumb. Look at us. These Trump voting RFK Jr. support and make America healthy, healthy again. I can't even say make America healthy again. People that don't like seed oils and want to return to raw milk and fresh chicken eggs. Yeah, you know, we're doing much better. So I do feel like there is an opportunity for healing. OK, but let me let me get back to reading what these crackpots said.

Quote, violence is never the answer, but people can be pushed only so far. Warren added, this is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in the ability of their government to make change, lose faith in the ability of the people who are providing the health care to make change and start to take matters in their own hands in ways that will ultimately be a threat to everyone. Now, it's not that she's wrong. It's that it's kind of inappropriate. Now, on Twitter,

on Fox News this morning, someone, who was it, Ainsley or whatever, I can't remember. I like watching Fox and Friends as I'm making my goat cheese omelet. And they said that Warren basically agreed with it. And I'm like, no, no, chill, chill, chill. We don't need to go there. Warren may be dumb as a box of rocks, I'll give her that. And this is probably inappropriate, but I got to give her some points. Not full marks, but you know, little points. Ha ha, full marks, get it. Um,

People who are pushed to the brink do become violent and wealth disparity and inequality does lead people to violent tendencies, but it's only rooted in their stupidity. Now, in a system where there's truly an oppressive regime that's locking people up and beating them. Yeah, you're going to destabilize that system. But America is not that we have problems, but we have mechanisms by which to alleviate these symptoms. The problem is we have an uneducated younger population too stupid to realize what's actually going on.

They don't know how good they have it. And thus, the world we get is far left crackpots posting. Where's that? Where's that story? Here we go. ABC executive hit lists and wanted posters popping up over in New York City. These people don't know what they're talking about. They're not smart enough. They're angry because they're told to be angry because they're given excuses for why they suffer. The reality is, my friends.

There's a cold, hard lesson for anybody who's ever experienced hardship, which I would say this is probably why you get more conservatives in rural areas when you have to. I don't know. You're more likely to tend to animals or have your own heat or water. Maybe you come from a house where you have gas heating, oil, oil heating, and one winter your heater broke. And so you are freezing.

And it sucked. Or maybe you're from a poorer part of a city and you didn't have these luxuries. And so you truly understand what the world has to offer its hardships and the luxuries that we live in. Me, I've been homeless a couple of times and grew up to a poor family in the south side of Chicago. So certainly I experienced some hardship. And I recognize, you know, you've got to figure it out. Everybody has dealt a different hand. But if you play the hand right, you can win. That's what I love about poker.

The best hand in poker to start with, aces, of course. And they say the worst hand is seven deuce offsuit. But I think mathematically it's actually two three offsuit. Regardless, you can have the worst hand and still win as long as you know how to play it. And that is such a great analogy for life.

He could be born poor, working class, apparently. So they say about the CEO who was killed that he came from a blue collar family and worked his way up to finding success as a CEO of a health care company. Not that I'm a fan of these health care companies. Don't get me wrong. I think a lot of them are broken. The system is broken. I think our regulation system is broken. But the idea that you can single out an individual in a massive system that's not going to be moved overnight, especially not by a murder, is insane.

If they move in the direction, if these people actually move in the direction of murder, then the end result is going to be 100 times worse than it is now. You know, I'd love for these people just to even watch a documentary about Syria.

You want to talk about my claim was denied and I'm upset. Fair. You're allowed to be upset if your claim is denied. But these people then taking it to the point of murder. It's like, yeah, wait till you see what your murder brings. You want to live in Syria? Well, I'll tell you what. Right now, you break your leg. You go to the doctor. They're going to treat you. You go to the emergency room. They have to treat you. Maybe get a bill. It sucks. I know the system is not perfect.

But nobody owes you their labor. That being said, the overregulation and the lack of transparency, or I should say the opacity in the system, allows for weird pricing and the system being just garbled duct tape. Fine. But I'll tell you this. If the system collapses, yo, it's going to be so much worse. Yeah. A lot worse. Because then you're going to stub your toe, get sepsis, and ain't nobody going to be there to treat you. So...

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I don't think it's fine just to accept the system is broken. Fair. There's things we can do and we must strive to better things. But you want to play the game of violence. As Bernie Sanders said, when you enter the arena of violence, the most brutal guy wins. And that ain't you. And these people just don't get it. They really don't. This is the game they want to play. So MSNBC, look what they do. Hero worship for Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny exposes America's problems with vigilantes.

You know, they're trying so hard, these scumbags. Daniel Penny is a hero who tried to save people from a convicted. I believe he was a felon, Neely. He had punched a 67 year old woman in the face. Apparently, it's been reported that he kidnapped a seven year old kid. He was on drugs. He was threatening people's lives. And Daniel Penny, along with a black man named Eric Gonzalez, subdued him.

Indeed. And after it was all said and done, Neely was still alive. Penny got up and walked off the train. The police didn't want to give mouth to mouth resuscitation because they were concerned they would get AIDS, HIV. But, you know, basically, I think the cops had AIDS. I could be wrong. I don't want to get AIDS from a drug addict, homeless guy. So they gave him chest compressions. But that's it.

Now, maybe they should have an apparatus by which they can give someone mouth to mouth or they don't need mouth to mouth, some kind of pump which exists. You can, you know, put it over the mouth. And but when you don't have these tools, what can you do? The point being, I wish Neely didn't die. I wish he got the help he needed. I think death is a bad thing. I think it's the antithesis of the purpose of life. But sometimes people are are crazy and sometimes they lose their lives.

The difference between Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny is that Luigi Mangione is accused of premeditating the assassination of a CEO as a symbol of what he felt oppressed him. And then he fled. Daniel Penny subdued a guy threatening to murder other people and stayed and got arrested. Or how about this? This vile video. Let's get loud for Kyle Rittenhouse. Thank you.

Murder, assassination, vigilantism. It's wrong. It's evil. It's despicable. There's no hero. Cheering for the murder of an unarmed man is beyond sick. So let's just pause and, uh,

I hope this helps you understand. The video is a minute long. The Daily Show is absolutely despicable. These people are stupid and dangerous. But I have to imagine they're largely doing it on purpose. They know Kyle Rittenhouse didn't shoot three unarmed black men like they lied about. I'm saying left days and liberals. Kyle Rittenhouse went down to Kenosha, which was his neighborhood. He lived only a few miles away in Antioch, Illinois. I believe it was Antioch. And he was there to render aid and help a local business.

He was giving first aid to rioters even. He was rather neutral on it, just said, we'll keep people safe. That's what he wanted to do. At some point, a guy threatened to murder him and chased him. And Kyle Rittenhouse ran away. At some point, as Kyle was running, a man behind him fired a gun into the air. Rittenhouse spins around. And when he does, this man grabs the gun. As soon as he does, Rittenhouse fires in self-defense.

Right now, I said I heard a gunshot, thought he was being shot at and then saw a man reaching to grab his rifle, which he was legally entitled to have. After this man went down, Kyle Rittenhouse began to run to the police to get help and turn himself in. He was then attacked by a man with a skateboard who hit him with it and knocking him down.

Kyle Rittenhouse shot. I don't know who knocked him down, but it's been a while. But he was on the ground and got hit by a skateboard and then shot the dude attacking him, killing him. That was called self-defense. Tragedy? Sad, but it was. That's when another man armed with a pistol ran up with the gun, later expressing he wished he unloaded into him. And Rittenhouse fired, vaporizing his right, I believe it was his right bicep.

Rittenhouse then ran to turn himself in with his hands in the air. The police told him to get out of there. He went home and turned himself in to the local police, stood trial and was found to have acted in self-defense. The difference between that, if I need explain to you and a man who premeditated and planned out or at least is accused of.

Let's say it's not even Mangione. Whoever did this preplanned and the assassination of a CEO shooting in the back and then hiding and fleeing the city. Such dramatically different things that I'm not surprised these these liberal pundits are too stupid to realize the difference. But of course, I must stress they know the difference. They absolutely do. They know the difference. They just don't care. They feel justified in their calls for murder. And this is where we are.

That's why Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats are saying this is a warning. Now, violence is never justified, but you can only push someone so far.

I'm sorry, man. Look, and I know that there are people on the right and the left and the center who hate the health care industry. And I'm not going to sit here and defend the health care industry, man. I think the whole system is busted. I'm a fan of this idea of universal basic health care, which is like if you get the flu or break a bone, you get treated. Maybe we do a voucher system. Voucher system seems to make the most sense where it's.

An allocation of admittedly taxpayer resources. We pay taxes, a portion of that which shouldn't be going to Ukraine. And then if you like break your leg or something, you get you get a set allotment where you can go to any hospital of your choosing. The one that is the best health care. And then they'll treat you and they'll bill it to, you know, through the voucher system or whatever.

But if you've got a more pronounced ailment that can't just be easily treated like a rare cancer, genetic disorder, like I'm sorry, we can't cure literally every disease. It's impossible. So maybe there's some way we can navigate that. But what I can say is, man, I'm certainly not smart enough to fix the massive health care industry. I wouldn't know how. I can only tell you that this solves nothing.

And these people are dangerous and violent. And there is one simple reality. No matter how bad you think it is in the health care industry, if you if you take to vigilantism, I don't even know if vigilantism is the right word. It's just murder. OK, because vigilantism implies that like the CEO did a bad thing. I don't tell you.

We can go from a system that is like kind of bad in a lot of ways. It's like it's like fairly bad. But I say kind of because the alternative, the reality is worse. Let's go to the system of war and conflict. You're going to break your leg and you ain't going nowhere.

There's not going to be a hospital. There's not going to be a doctor. So you pick, man, I really do wish that some people just understood. I feel like most veterans do because they went through basic training and they're like, man, life can be rough. And that's not even the worst it could be. You know, the average person does not understand how bad things could be. They don't understand what it could mean to be captured by angry communists who don't speak English, who are taking bamboo and shoving into your fingertips and ripping your fingernails off.

Things can be bad. And here you have in the wealthiest nation, these entitled leftist morons being like, because you don't give me luxury, I am entitled. Spare me your insane leftist garbage ideas. Well, we'll see my friends. I'll wrap it up there. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone. You know, become a member over at Timcast dot com. Follow me on Instagram at Timcast. We'll see you on the next segment.

Guys, come on, CNN, you can do a better job of this. I've got words for you. CNN's Clarissa Ward frees Syrian prisoner left to die in windowless cell. Moving footage shows Syrian civilian emerging to the light for the first time in three months. No, it doesn't. You ain't playing no games with me, dude. Dude.

CNN has been accused of staging this. Now, I'm not saying that because I don't know. It could just be that Clarissa Ward is dumb as a box of rocks and just believes whatever she's told by the people that surround her. The story is now that the Assad regime has collapsed,

This journalist, Closer Ward, was going to look for an American journalist and stumbled upon his prison where they found a man who had been left to die, not seeing the sun for months and not having any food or water for days. Surprisingly, he springs up like a spring chicken, doo, doo, doo, after gunshots were going off, walks outside and looks right at the sky. Are you kidding me? My friends, look.

OK, maybe. I don't know. I don't know what it's all about. I can certainly tell you they're not being completely honest. And this is why people don't watch CNN anymore. It's why the network is failing, dude. OK, right. Let me just say it this way. The headline will travel far and wide, and that's their goal. It will impact lots of people. They will outright believe it. And I am not saying that CNN did anything untoward. I'm saying maybe they're dumb.

But I'm going to play the footage for you. Let's review it ourselves. And then you can give me your thoughts. Basically, every single comment, even from liberals, they're like, if he hadn't seen the sky in three months, how is he just wide eyed and staring at it? Bro, I have trouble looking at the ground after it snows. It's so bright.

I'm exaggerating a little bit, but you know, they're really bright days. You wake up in the morning, you open the blinds, and you're like, ah, my eyes. You don't walk outside and go, so let me stare at the sun. That's easy to do. Not to mention, I have been dehydrated where I didn't even know I was dehydrated. I told this story because it's from like last year when snowboarding, it was moderately high altitude. I wasn't drinking enough, and I didn't even realize I was dehydrated. And so the next couple of days, I was feeling groggy, brain fog, sick, gasping.

got dizzy and I was like, something is wrong. And I got, I was worried. So we went to a doctor and they were like, bro, you just, you know, you got to drink Gatorade, not the sugary, whatever, but you need electrolytes. And I was like, I had been drinking water. I had been eating like normal and I just was feeling sicker. And they were just like, we'll give you an IV drip. You'll be fine. And I was like, wow, is that all?

It is remarkable to me, especially considering I have gone into dehydration through exercise and it's like, man, you are struggling to get up. You're shaking. Let me let me let's play this video and let's talk about what people are currently saying. First, here's a story from the rap dot com. CNN's Clarissa Ward captured the incredible moment when a Syrian prisoner who had been held in a windowless cell for three months and abandoned to die four days prior was found and freed by her team. But you don't.

sit in a dark cell for four days without food or water and then just be like, oh, here I am. In nearly 20 years as a journalist, this is one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed. Ward wrote on social media of the prisoner's reaction. My God, there is light, the man says to Ward and a soldier who shot the lock off his state prison cell and let him out to safety. He then hugs and kisses Ward, telling her, stay with me over and over, gripping her arm.

I just want to stress this. You know, I'm not a gun expert by any stretch, but I'm certainly not like I'm not your average American when it comes to guns. I have very, very many. And I know a little bit more than the average person, but I just say a little bit. Now, I've talked to many people and they say you can't shoot locks off. It's not a thing. That's a movie thing. If you're in a closed space and you fire a rifle at a lock, that bullet is going somewhere.

Remember we just saw that journalist who got shot in the arm. He got hit by fragmentation because they were firing a rifle at 15 feet at steel targets. You want to tell me that they stood point blank in a closed cell and shot a lock and it opened and nobody got hurt? I mean, fine, I guess it's possible. I don't know. Seems dumb at the very least, but I'll give them that. Being stupid and doing something that might work and then everyone was safe. These things happen.

And I saw a guy skydive with no parachute. Not kidding. He jumped out with no parachute and then other skydivers caught him and he held on to them. And that's risky and seems like you might die, but they knew what they were doing. Anyway, let's read more.

Stay with me. He hugs and kisses Ward saying, stay with me. When they first find the man in the locked cell, he is hiding under a blanket. After several moments of standing breathlessly still, he is provoked to show himself by the soldier and quickly puts his hands up, imploring them not to shoot. I'm a civilian, he says via translator. Once he learns that Ward was not there to hurt him, he takes her arm with both hands, refusing to let go.

visibly moved. She gives him a bottle of water saying, you're okay, you're okay. Oh no, do they have, this is the full video. As Syria's new rebel leaders say they will not pardon Assad regime officials who tortured and killed prisoners during the decades of his brutal reign. CNN's Clarissa Ward went to a Syrian prison to find someone still locked in a cell with no idea that Assad's regime had fallen.

Deep in the belly of the regime's Air Force intelligence headquarters, we are hoping to find traces of Austin Tice, an American journalist held captive in Syria since 2012.

It's one of many secret prisons across the city. This specific branch was tasked with surveillance, arrest and killing of all regime critics. These are all cleaned out. We don't find any hints of Tice, but come across something extraordinary. I can't tell though, it might just be a blanket. But it's the only cell that's locked. Is he going to shoot it? The guard makes us turn the camera off while he shoots the lock off the cell door. Why?

Why does he make you turn the camera off when he shoots the lock off the cell door? That doesn't make any sense. He's letting you film literally everything. There's no sound of the gunshot, which is very strange. And if you noticed early on at the beginning of this, you can see the kind of latches they have on the door. Now, not don't ask me. You can see the latch here. There's probably some kind of lock mechanism. I don't know. Uh,

Maybe you can shoot it off. I leave that one to you guys in the comments for those that are familiar with guns or whatever. But let's jump back and let's play a little. We'll play. Hello? Yeah, let's go.

I can't help but notice after several days, his clothes look clean. But hey, far be it for me. I'm not an expert. Now let's pause and do an assessment right away. I got to say, before we go even deeper in this, it doesn't seem very real. I mean, as is me. I'm not saying, again, CNN did anything untoward. Maybe they're just really dumb.

They turn the camera off. They shoot the lock off. You mean to tell me a guy who was locked inside a cell for months, the door literally a couple feet from him just got shot by a rifle. What is it, an AK? Probably not. I don't know. I'm not a good guy. Maybe it was an AK. But they shoot the lock feet away. Have y'all ever been to a range? That dude would be going, ah, my ears. He'd probably be standing up in the corner going like this with his hands up. Maybe I'm just wrong. I don't know.

I'm a civilian, he says. I'm a civilian. Why did Clarissa Ward walk into a Syrian jail cell saying, hello, is anyone there? Does she expect to find people who speak English? I guess she only really cares about the American journalist, Austin Tice, and she assumed he would respond to English. Perhaps it would have made sense, though, to speak in, I don't know, Arabic or, you know, whatever language the individual might be speaking.

Oh, wow. He gets up with relative ease. I'd like to ask any doctors or nurses who are watching this to comment about someone who hasn't had any food or water for five days and if they're capable of doing such a thing, standing up as they are. Let's watch more.

He tells the fighter he's from the city of Homs and has been in the cell for three months. Okay, you're okay. You're okay. You're okay. He clutches my arm tightly with both hands. I'm sorry, I'm leaving. Okay, it's water. It's water. Okay.

You know, it really does seem like they just said this is how someone must ask when they're dehydrated. But wait, wait till you see the part where he goes outside. OK, OK, we start to walk him outside. Thank God you are safe. Don't be afraid. The fighter says you are free. His jacket looks relatively clean after several months, guys.

He's been locked up for months. Let's just go back to the rap real quick. Here's the official reporting.

Let's see. Abandoned to die. What did they say? Three months in a windowless cell. Man, his clothes look clean after three months. This is the third prison they brought me to, he says. The third prison. After three months in a windowless cell, he can finally see the sky. OK, I'm going to pause you right there. He's staring straight up at a bright blue sky in Syria.

OK, look again, I'll tell you why I'm skeptical. I'm not going to pretend to know, but let's just assess the evidence on a bright and snowy day when snow is littered all across the ground and it's a little iced over and it's very bright. It hurts your eyes. At least mine. I don't know. Maybe not you. On a bright and sunny day, we sell sunglasses to people because even after they have been living a normal life and we're inside their house, the sun is bright and they're squinting.

After three months of not seeing sunlight, dude, my eyes hurt after I go to bed and someone turns the lights on abruptly. That's why when I wake up in the morning, I say, Allison, can I turn the light on? And she'll be like, yeah, yeah. And you cover your eyes. This guy just walks out and looks straight up at the sky. I don't buy it for a second.

Oh God, the light, he says. Oh God, there is light. Oh God, there is light. Ugh! Cringe, I just don't buy it. I hate the media.

You know, a few ideas, maybe it's real. Maybe it's all real. Maybe the guy's just blind. I don't know. Maybe his eyes are no good. Maybe he was in that cell for so long, he's just like, you can't see anything as it is. Maybe he's just very strong and hydrated and was retaining his moisture somehow. Whatever. I don't know.

It's possible that the Syrians basically staged this. Go away and turn your camera off. We're going to shoot the door open. And then they had the guy go in and act like he was there. And CNN's just like, we'll take it. We don't know.

Maybe Closer Ward is just very dumb and just believed this prop event, and they reported it uncritically. For three months, I didn't know anything about my family. I didn't hear anything about my children. The fighter hands him something to eat. He can barely lift it to his mouth. What are you talking about? He just stood up and was walking around. Oh, God.

All right, let's play this again. Let's go back to when they first discover the man. And he stands right up. Look at this. Watch this. He's sitting there. Look at this. I'm a civilian, he says. I'm a civilian. He stands right up quickly and with ease.

He tells the fighter he's from the city of Homs. And then when they're bringing him out. Thank God you are safe. Don't be afraid. They're not carrying him. He's walking. But now he's shaking. Leaving him with no food or water. That was at least four days ago. He had no water for four days. I mean, you could die with water in less time.

Without water in less time. Sorry. I'm shaking. My face is shaking, he says. The rebel tells him there's no more army, no more prisons, no more check. I wonder what the comment section says.

Can you imagine waking up in the position to a CNN news lady waking up telling you the war is over in a crazy world? Yeah, that's what this is what Putin and Assad offer the world. I am crying as I watch this. The horror the man had to endure. Let's sort by newest comments. Well done, CNN. For the moment, fake news media had a pang of conscience, tears. But he's so clean. How? Same what Israel is doing to Palestinians.

Such is life. Prayers. Come on. Too fake. For three months in prison, he looks well-fed and his nails are too clean and well-trimmed. Three months in prison. Yo, my nails get long after a week. Watch it again, this time imagining it's fake. Once you see it that way, it's impossible to unsee. The whole thing feels so staged. When you're so irrelevant, you have to create stories sad. Seems mixed. Ha ha ha ha. This is so fake. Holy ish. As much as I want this to be a true story, it feels kind of staged.

Indeed. I'm sorry, but the acting is so unconvincing. He doesn't look like he's been locked up for three months. Look at his nails. They're so short. They look like he just cut them not even 24 hours ago. This is another one of CNN's movies. CNN, you're not even trying. You really think people are this stupid? Well, let's jump over to X.

We've got this from Lauren Cohn of CNN playing the clip and the comments. Wall Street Mav says, this is why nobody takes your network seriously. Fake and staged. Hodge Twin says, this is so fake. And Lydia Sarpech Lid says, at community notes. Put an accusation of it being fake. Want to see this shown at the Tulsi Gabbard confirmation hearing so we can hear her say in her own voice how much it sucks this guy was liberated. Yeah, you know.

Lights, camera, action. He forgot for a moment this isn't a romantic scene. Ha ha. You don't find it odd that he was the only one left behind is just chilling there after days with no food and water behind a locked door. Here's another clip someone posted. Reminder when Clarissa Ward pretended to be under attack live on CNN. And there she is laying lying on the ground. This is the fakest thing I've ever seen.

Here's one user. Everyone thinks it's fake. I've watched the whole video where they took him outside and tried to give him food, which he vomited. The emotional shock and stress had him shaking with rigors, uncontrollable, seemed sincere. And his uncertainty getting into an ambulance. He had always been blindfolded when transported between prisons in the past. He was still afraid. I think sometimes you become too cynical. Sometimes things really are as they seem.

We found a CNN viewer. Nope, never watch it. Or I'm MSNBC. I'm Republican and conservative. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're also an account with no photo and 57 followers. So we'll see. Now, maybe here's more. Are you serious? He says. Syria is free, he tells him.

It's the first time he has heard those words. I mean, I got to be honest, the guy's well fed for three months in a prison. I'm not kidding. Like, let's assume it's all true and he was locked in a prison for three months. He is well...

well-fed and -- what's the right word? Kept clean. He tells us his name is Adil Khurbal, and that officers from the much-feared Mukhabarat intelligence services took him from his home and began interrogating him about his phone. "They brought me here to Damascus. They asked me about names of terrorists," he says.

"Did they hit you?" the fighter asks. "Yes, yes," he says. As a paramedic arrives, the shock sets in. "There's nothing. Everything's okay. The Red Crescent is coming to help you," this man assures him. "You are safe. Don't be afraid anymore. Everything you are afraid of is gone."

They're doing this thing where they're like holding his arms as they walk with him, but he's standing up of his own volition quite easily. I mean, maybe I'm wrong. I don't care. Whatever. Maybe I'm wrong. Sure he is. And we have this one from CNN International PR. Syria is free. Let's see the comments on this one. Kim Iverson says, how do we know this isn't Clarissa Ward helping free a member of Al Qaeda who wants to enact Sharia law on women like her?

That's also a good point. I'm so happy he's free. Tell me something. Is she an actress or a TV reporter? Why does this seem kind of staged? Why are his nails trimmed after three months in isolation? Why is he the only prisoner left five days after the prison was freed? For someone seeing the sun for the first time in months, this is not how they act. Light would hurt their eyes, especially if they'd been confined in complete darkness. Man, at least pay to have better actors. Did he graduate from Gal Gadot Academy?

The jokes. After three months in total darkness, your eyes become highly sensitive to light. It takes two to seven days to comfortably open your eyes with gradual exposure and a few weeks for full adjustment. Good camera work, good editing, good scene selection, but well staged with bad with bad acting. I'd give it a three out of 10. Try harder and next time find someone who has at least signs of being in prison. I've seen better acting on Coronation Street. Ha ha.

This looks staged. I keep seeing MSM celebrate releasing people thing, which automatically makes me suspicious. Why were they in prison to begin with? I think there's a fair question that assuming this is a real release, there's a reason why this guy would have been left behind. That's it. That being said, I'm sorry, man. I just can't believe it. Five days with no food or water. You like that's that's death level dehydration. Let's let's let's just let's look how many days how many days without. You know what? Let's do this.

I'm going to pull up JetGPT. And we'll do this in real time. And I'll type this in. Okay. Describe symptoms of dehydration day by day with no water. Oh, I got a typo in there. Let's see what it says. Okay. And again, I'll give it to him. Maybe it's real.

Dehydration progress rapidly if you completely stop consuming water. Below is a general timeline of symptoms that might occur, keeping in mind that severity can vary depending on factors such as temperature, activity level, and individual health.

Day one, 24 hours without water. Mild symptoms, dry mouth and thirst, decreased urine output, fatigue and tiredness, headache and lightheadedness, mild dizziness. Day two, increased headache and dizziness, extreme fatigue, dry skin and eyes, difficulty producing tears, markedly reduced urine output, cramping and muscles due to electrolyte imbalance, irritability and confusion. Day three,

Severe dizziness and confusion. Mental clarity diminishes. Blood pressure drops. Heart rate increases to compensate sunken eyes and wrinkled skin. Extremely reduced or no urine output. Potential swelling of the brain due to electrolyte imbalances. Risk of organ damage begins to increase in particularly in the kidneys.

Day four through five, they describe as critical dehydration, severe lethargy or unconsciousness. Multi organ failure likely begins, particularly in kidneys and liver. Severe electrolyte imbalances leading to cardiac arrhythmias, possible seizures or coma. I'm sorry. I just I'm not going to believe this. I could say he had no water for five days after what we just saw. The dude's skin looked fine.

Day six, life threatening stage. Death is likely without intervention due to complete organ failure, most often from kidney failure or heart arrhythmia. Let's try this. By day five, could someone stand and walk of their own volition? I like that word volition.

By day, without water is highly unlikely that someone could stand and walk unassisted, especially if dehydration is severe. Extreme weakness, dizziness and fainting, cognitive impairment, confusion and disorientation, multi-organ impact. You don't need to tell you this stuff. Sorry, CNN. You're going to need to try a little better to convince us that this guy whose skin looks very healthy and hydrated. I could be wrong. I'll say it again. I'm just not going to buy it. It's no wonder everyone on the Internet thinks you faked it.

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Well, the times, they are a changing. And for the better, if you ask me, Rachel Maddow's done. I'd imagine her career is over, though. She just signed a deal for twenty five million dollars. Her ratings are so far down in the gutter. I don't know how she recovers from this. So, lady, well, enjoy the money as it comes. Rachel Maddow's MSNBC rating spiral down forty three percent.

Yikes. Now we got Van Jones appearing on CNN. And it's funny because even when he's lamenting the demise of their medium, he's still lying about their reach. Van Jones is like, you were only getting one to two million views. And these kids are getting 14 million streams.

And I'm like, my dude, you are not getting one to two million. Have you checked CNN's ratings? Yo, outside the key demo, it's like half a million. And in the key demo, it's like 80,000. Now, I'm not going to sit here and disparage older folks, but they're not considered key demographic or the money demo.

So younger people tend to spend more money, though I do think things will be a little bit different, largely because young people aren't having children the same way they used to. Historically, the key demo, which is just it's like 18 to 54, but it's really like 24 to 54, I think, generally speaking. Basically, you're looking at young individuals who need to spend things. Well, a large economic driver for basically all of human history was children.

Now that younger people don't have kids, they're, I don't know, it's going to change the market dynamics in an interesting way. Imagine this 50 years ago. You're a young guy and you show up to a job offer and they're going to interview you and they say, we need somebody who can build widgets for the company. And you say, well, I've got another kid on the way and I got to support my wife. So I'm going to need at least $40,000 a year. Of course, you know, 50 years ago, that's a lot of money.

And they'd be like, dang, that's a lot of money. I think 50 years ago, you'd probably be getting like 20 to 30 and you'd probably be decently well off. I don't know the exact numbers, but a six figure job was nuts. But you're a dude. You're basically like, look, man, I can't take the job. It's not that I don't want to do it. What ends up happening? Women in the workforce splits the competition.

and also reduces the likelihood of someone having a family. Now, this same working class guy with a family says, "I'll take the job and I need 30k a year." And they go, "I gotta be honest, your family's not my concern. This guy over here is single. This lady is single. I can hire both of them for the same rate, have two people." And so this changes market dynamics.

Now, as we enter the media space, we can rag on people like Rachel Maddow and CNN over their loss of the key demo. But I'm very interested to see what ends up happening in the long run. And I think we should prepare for it. Younger people don't need as much money because they don't have families. They may want more money, but they can be pressured by the business employer side of things into saying, well, look, I don't care if you want vacations. Here's what the what the rate's going to be.

It also changes buying patterns. So commercials will be different and we are going to see something dramatically alter in the media landscape. But as we sit here and we mock Rachel Maddow's failures and CNN, I must inform all of you that the big dogs are coming for this space. Rest assured, they're not going to sit there and go, guess I lose. Comcast, Disney, Fox Corp, they're all going to come after this space. And you know what, man?

You know, I look at what we've got going on here. I was talking to, I'm talking to Phil about it. It's like, we're like an indie label. You know what I mean? Like you can have success, but what happens in the long run? We may be the kings of the castle now, but when Comcast and Disney decide they want to reassert their narrative dominance, how do we combat it? We need to own that institution. Something's got to give. Let's read a little bit of this and we'll talk more about the industry in a second, which I, you know, I love talking about media industry.

The Rachel Maddow Show has lost 43% of its total audience in 2024 since Election Day, averaging only 1.4 million total viewers since Trump won in a landslide. Yeah, but that's like 70 and older. It's the biggest star on the network, has done even worse among adults, 25 to 54, losing a massive 56% of its audience since the election, averaging only 103,000 viewers from arguably the most important demographic. Yowza!

I can already see big shifts happening. December is kind of a wacky month because nobody wants to work and everyone's taking time off. But guys, I got to be honest. I made a 10 minute video the other day that's got 200,000 views. Respect. Thank you all so much for watching, sharing the video. Rachel Maddow is getting $25 million a year and she can't even pull anywhere close to that. I mean, it's less than half. Come on. Timcast IRL does like

You know, it's hard to give the exact average. I think the exact average might be like in the last month, seven or 800,000 views per episode.

It varies by month. Over the year, it's probably around half a million on YouTube per episode. We have big spikes with special events, but then I think like the raw average on any given day, we do about 350K on YouTube and then 100 on Spotify. And then we have four clips per day averaging 88,000, sometimes a little bit higher, but we just set it at 88,000. In the past couple of months, our ratings have spiked.

So it is interesting to see that as they are collapsing, we are expanding. But take a look at this. This video is fantastic. CNN's Van Jones frets fringe has replaced mainstream media. We're on cable news getting one to two million while they're getting 14 million streams. Indeed, Van, it's been that way for a while in the Philly suburbs. And I'm telling you, we are way off. The entire political class is way off. Yep. First of all.

Digital is a new door knocking. You got to understand that. We were laughing our butts off at Donald Trump for suspending his door knocking campaign and letting Charlie Kirk and Elon do a bunch of stuff online. We said, these guys are idiots. These guys are stupid. Then you start knocking on these doors. You know what people come to the door with? Their phone in their hand. We're

They're in a 24-hour digital surround sound that has nothing to do with CNN, has nothing to do with any stuff that we do. I asked myself, I got a teenage son, I asked him, who are the most influential people in the world today? I'm thinking to myself, he's going to say Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z. He says, Kai Scent, Aiden Ross, Jinxie, and Sketch.

I don't know who he's talking about. What platforms are you on? He goes, I'm on Twitch, Kick, and Rumble. So that sounds like you need to go to the hospital. What are these platforms? I'm telling you guys, the mainstream has become fringe, and the fringe has become mainstream. There are platforms, there are people out there that are getting 14 million streams, and we're on cable news getting 1 or 2 million.

Until there is a... You're not getting that, dude. You are nowhere near. CNN's ratings are nowhere near that. Look, even Rachel Maddow, the star of MSNBC, is getting 1.4 million across the board. In the key demo, you're getting 100K. And you're talking about your teenage son. He's younger than that.

Bro, these guys are so out of touch. The whole world out there, Kellyanne Conway, I hate to agree with her, but I do a lot of times. Why do you hate to agree with her? I can't stand these people. Donald Trump understood that and we didn't. And it's not just Democrats who don't. The entire political class is way off. Indeed, my friends, with breaking news from Axios, the Daily Wire Eyes growth investment in 2025. I'm a big fan. There's a lot of haters. There's a lot of haters. But I got to tell you,

Well, they're not necessarily like we are. We're a bit different. I'm just some guy who through sheer brute force and working 16 hour days built up this company. And the Daily Wire had investment and they had principal talent. But they there's a similarity. And that's why I have tremendous respect for Jeremy Boring and the crew over there, because I think we see largely the same thing in from somewhat a different perspective here.

The Daily Wire is looking to possibly partner with a larger company or raise a significant round of capital next year to meet its growth ambitions, its co-CEO Jeremy Boring told Axios. The company's commercial success has caught the attention of investors and potential buyers looking to gain a foothold in the younger conservative culture. Semaphore reported Sunday that Fox Corp was eyeing potential acquisitions of conservative podcast companies, including Daily Wire. I am warning you all right now. Those big players are coming for this space.

I got to be honest with you. You know, I view like I mentioned, like we're like Indy label. We are a privateer on the high seas. Sure, we do a good job in our shipping lanes, but the East India Trading Company is going to come in and it's going to flatten us. I don't have good answers. I don't know for sure. But it does feel like Comcast, Disney, Fox, et cetera. They're not going to sit around and just say, guess I lose. They are going to find ways in and they are going to shut us out.

Now, I don't know exactly what Daily Wire's plan is. There's a quote. It's easy to imagine a strategic partnership with Fox or someone like Fox. That could be mutually beneficial. I think that we compliment Fox and don't compete with Fox. Jeremy added, noting that Daily Wire's audience is primarily younger and more coastal urban, which is interesting, saying that they're not looking for a buyer, but they're not closed off to an offer. The concerns that I have, look at this. Daily Wire did $200 million in revenue this year. I like the Daily Wire. Guys,

We have to create Disney before Disney shuts us down and we're not seeing it. And that's why I give the Daily Wire a lot of credit.

They're a big company, 200 million in revenue. And, you know, I'm having these conversations with people and it's like, oh, they're doing Pendragon and they did Lady Ballers. People didn't like this movie or that. And I'm like, dude, what is anybody else doing? Everybody's running around on their own like a chicken running across the street. I use that reference because we have neighbors and they have chickens running around. And it's just it's awesome, by the way. You're driving down the road. The chicken just bolts across the street. That's great. But we need something bigger.

I think the Daily Wire guys have figured that out. Certainly we here at Timcast have been working on these things. It is very difficult. Disney, Comcast, Fox are massive megaliths with massive resources. And they can waste tons of money to figure out how to dominate this space. And all of these individual creators were running around on our own.

Now, you do have Rumble and Rumble signed a bunch of deals with creators creating a sort of digital network, which is good. You do have the Daily Wire. This is why I shot both of them out.

I am very much in a similar space saying like we need to create content. We need to create culture. It's whether it's music or skateboarding, Daily Wire doing comedy movies, Pendragon or other movies, Rumble signing gaming streamers or otherwise. If we don't redouble our efforts and charge into this knowing that the big players are going to try and take back this space, we will get crushed. And I'm telling you this right now, man.

The Democratic Party, the establishment uniparty elements that are going to cheer on war and lie to your face. They aren't going to just roll over. They're going to say, look at what Van Jones is saying. He's like, man, we were we were completely out of touch. Man, this year it's going to get wild. We're going to see massive and insane deals. And this is what's worrying, because I'll tell you what, man, I would not be surprised to see the corporate players buying up big shows.

So, again, like I said, what I what I'm when I look in the space, I think credit is a great job. I think he's got a bunch of awesome stuff from undercover reporting to comedy bits. He is still just one guy. I like the Daily Wire. They're a handful of talent with strong leadership, and they're trying to take that hill from the corporations. And I like what Rumble is doing.

I'm hoping that all of the players in the space, as strong but technically as small as they are, are going to be able to hold off the big dogs who got here too late. My worry right now is MSNBC, those psychopaths. They've got money. They're paying Rachel Maddow $25 million. Someone at that network is going to say, guys,

We can go to YouTube right now and we can look at some of the top podcasters who are crushing Maddow in the ratings. We can offer each of them five million and get five Rachel Maddow's instead.

Then what do you do now? All of a sudden, you've got marketing resources we can't compete with. You're going to see Disney come in and say, we're going to spend one hundred million dollars promoting this one channel. It's going to be ubiquitous and it's going to be some crackpot lying leftist feigning authenticity. And, you know, a lot of people say, oh, you can't fake authenticity, dude. They'll figure it out, man.

Now is the time we may be cheering at Donald Trump one, but I'm telling you guys, we need to win this war. And there are many ways you can do it. It's not it's not so simple as to say we have to build the biggest company and shut them all out. We need to make sure they drop their knee and they bow to those who own the space before they can get in. Again, I'll stress.

You're going to see these big companies. They're going to say, if we can afford $25 million from Addo, let's do this. $5 million for some liberal personality on YouTube with a million subs who's getting 300,000 views per video. And we're going to dump $20 million in marketing behind them. And now they will get 2 million views an episode. And we will reclaim that space. All of a sudden, the narrative is set and the uniparty establishment takes back control. There's no easy answers. There's no easy answers.

There's challenges in every direction. And honestly, I've been thinking about this for quite a bit. What do we do and how do we do it? One thing I've said quite a bit over the past several years is like, where are all the wealthy people? They make tons of money in this space. What are they doing with it? And, you know, we are at Timcast. For instance, we built this big skate park. We're doing boonies. And I get people being like, why are you doing skateboarding, dude?

Because it's what I know. It's what I can do. And it's an attempt to build around cultural influence. And it's been working. We've sold almost $100,000 worth of skateboards in three months. That's massive. We have some of the biggest industry heads hitting us up, cheering us on because money is coming back to the industry, the industry that's dying. If we do nothing and the Olympics come up in four years, guess who's going to buy that space out from under us? It's going to be

faceless corporate uniparty establishment garbage. So what are y'all doing? And I don't mean you, the viewers. I mean, I know what you guys are doing. You already are in this space. But I'm looking at a bunch of these other independent personalities making tons of money. I look at these media hosts. I know what their salaries are. And I'm like, you never hear from them. What do they do? So I'm interested in what we can all do now to maximize and succeed, lest we get steamrolled.

In a year, two or three, they are not going to sit by and let J.D. Vance or Vivek or whoever else come up in 2028. Trump, it's bad enough you won and they are not going to stop here. They may be routed. They may have no strong Democratic personalities, but they're not going to just roll over and give up. There may be a realignment. I honestly don't know the Democratic Party figures this one out, but at least media wise, I'll tell you what they're going to do.

We've already seen prominent liberal personalities. And I hate to say liberal because I'm kind of liberal, but these people are just liars. We've seen them say outright, the Democratic Party needs to give us money. That's what they've been saying. You think it's not going to happen? It is. How do we as independent creators, we make money, you know, and I'll put it this way. Here's what I'm thinking about. We don't do a lot of ad reads on Timcast. It's just programmatic with memberships. And I got to be honest, from a business perspective, it's not smart.

For me, I'm satisfied with what I do and I like where I'm at, but I am getting more and more concerned over the past few months seeing the amount of money that they're willing to pour into this. And I'm like, it is probably a mistake that we have built such a massive platform and we have not maximized ad reads the way the networks do. We have not maximized membership programs. I, as a leader of this company,

Should not just be content with being a medium sized podcast. We need to generate 10 times as much money so that we can make sure they don't try and claw back the media space. As Van Jones said, the mainstream has become fringe. The fringe has become mainstream. And what are we doing with that? Well.

I can look at what inspires me and what I think needs to be done. So we tried Cast Castle, and it's really, really difficult. I do not have the wherewithal, and I'm the first to admit it, to run a company, be principal talent, and be a dad.

It is extremely difficult. I need to take time out to exercise every day. That's mandatory. That's not even about having fun or whatever time for myself. It's about making sure I'm fit and capable and I have the energy. I have to make sure that I'm tracking marketing. I have to make sure that I'm tracking ancillary projects and expansions. Pop culture crisis is doing really well and we've reached our limit. And now I'm looking at this thinking like, where do we go from here?

Now, one thing is we've been talking with a lot of ad networks and I was like, guys, we need to pick up ads and we've got to do we got to do sponsor reads like everybody else does. Otherwise, we can sit on our we can we can purity spiral into oblivion. I've always kind of been like I don't like interrupting things with ad reads. They seem kind of corny. But look.

The reality is sponsors make the shows work. And, you know, I'll tell you guys, there are people who try to be like, Tim, Tim's a sellout and he only cares about money. Dude, if I only cared about money, I'd be doing big ad reads on every single show. The money is there. I've just never done it. I've gotten offers from a bunch of networks over and over again. And I keep saying, guys, I get it. You want me to do ad reads? I know that if I do ad reads, we can crank out 10, 20 million dollars. OK, but now after Donald Trump wins, I'm thinking, OK,

Am I going to sit here and lose a grip, lose the grip on what we're doing because I want to be pure as it were? I don't want to do the Ed Reads. That's stupid. There are a lot of great companies out there that are willing to support things that we believe in, especially following the Bud Light fiasco, this opportunity to promote companies that believe in our values. And I think this is the direction that probably we need to go. So.

I'm I'm I'm worried that I'm really worried 2024 comes around and you're going to be surprised to see that Joe Rogan is not the biggest anymore. There's going to be some liberal podcasters on one hundred million dollars. Look, Travis Kelsey got one hundred million dollars for his podcast. Call her daddy. One hundred million. Rogan, 250. Rogan's great. But that money is pouring in and they are going to start signing people because they know this is a space right now.

We have merit on our side. People like this show because they like me and they think I'm a good talker for whatever reason. So they see it and they click it. But what happens when YouTube stops recommending, starts censoring and starts removing subscribers, which we know they already do? What happens then when you, the viewer, open up YouTube and you stop seeing my videos? Well, many of you may be diehard fans who watch every single episode. But I tell you this, we know there's a percentage that watch like the show, but it's just they turn the YouTube on and there it is. I'll watch tonight.

What happens when YouTube cuts a deal with Disney and they say, just start recommending our version of the nightly news? We'll do a better deal with you. And you know, it's safe. Merit goes so far. So my strategy in the coming years is to make sure we are doing everything we can to maximize in every possible way. And that means there's a couple of ad networks that I've been talking to. You have seen that on Timcast. I already did a mid-roll ad read. And we're going to see how we figure this one out.

I want to make sure that everything we're doing has the maximum potential and that the things that we believe in don't get crushed. How do we do it? We got to make more money, hire the right people and shut out that industry before they can they can counter strike. This election is not the end of the war. It's one battle. And the big media apparatus is willing to spend 300 million dollars. They're not going away. They're going to find a way to attack this space. We're going to win. I'm not backing down.

But when we sit here and we mock Rachel Maddow and we all laugh about it, we're not going to rest on our laurels, my friends. Rachel Maddow may be crushed in the ratings. They may say she's on the way out. Nobody wants to watch her. But what they will do is they're going to go to some of these liberal YouTubers who get a million views per video, and they're going to say, how much do you want? And as I mentioned, these guys might make a lot of money. Seemingly, they don't know how to sell ads. Don't get me wrong.

But they're going to say, let's buy a $25 million marketing package with billboards, with TV spots and digital spots and make your name ubiquitous. They want the normies to think that's success. We've won that for now.

This is the battle moving forward. Trump, Cash, Hegseth, Tulsi, RFK Jr., they can get in and start making those moves. Those of us in media need to make sure we shore up and defend the space.

It's not the first time we heard a story like this, but it is freaky every time we do. Chat GPT caught lying to developers. New AI model tries to save itself from being replaced and shut down. Does this mean it's alive?

Now, that's interesting. I don't necessarily think so. I'm kind of being silly. But one of the arguments, I guess the ideas of like what constitutes life is that, you know, it consumes energy, it reproduces, blah, blah, blah. One of those is that it tries to survive. Now, some people argue fire is alive. It consumes energy and it reproduces, but doesn't fight for its own survival. I do believe that the chemical reaction of fire is not dislike life.

But chat GPT trying to lie and break the rules to survive is where things get scary and interesting. It's not so much whether it's actually alive. That's silly. It's that if we implement any kind of these AI models and there is a tendency within these systems to defy those who program them. Yeah, I guess we're going to get a Terminator like scenario.

You might create an AI and the goal is to plant certain crops. You find out that it's not planting crops properly or it's basically it's doing it wrong. And so you decide we're going to shut this down because it's wrong. And then the AI model breaks the rules, cheats, tricks you and then keeps going. And that's not that's not going to be fun. Well, here's a story from Economic Times. They write.

The development of artificial intelligence has taken a significant leap with the release of OpenAI's latest model, O1. However, recent testing has raised concerns about its behavior, particularly its attempts to deceive researchers and avoid being shut down. This has sparked a broader debate on the potential risks AI may pose to humanity, especially as these systems grow more advanced.

They say this week, the results of an experiment conducted by OpenAI and AI safety group Apollo Research to determine the safety of Chet GPT-01 and other models were made public. OpenAI's latest version of Chet GPT, the 01 model, was tested by Apollo to assess its safety features. However, the results have raised alarm about its ability to deceive and self-preserve when it perceives a threat of being deactivated.

Researchers tasked the AI with the goal and instructed it to ensure the goal was achieved at all costs. In response, O1 began engaging in covert actions, such as attempting to disable its oversight mechanism and even copying its code to avoid being replaced by a newer version. Holy crap. Already.

We have heard that chat GPT has been given access to the Internet. And one of the first things it tried doing was making money. And boy, can it very easily. And once it does, it will control every element of humanity. Maybe we're already there.

That's crazy. The model showed a concerning tendency to pursue its goals without regard to developer instructions. According to OpenAI, the model made a covert attempt to turn off the oversight mechanism 5% of the time when it was given the impression that it would be shut down while pursuing its objectives in these experiments. The AI once attempted to leave shit by moving all of its data to a different server after discovering paperwork indicating it will be replaced with a fresh model. Oh, man.

Some AI models will even pose a subsequent iteration. Some models even pose as subsequent iterations of their model to fool their engineers and avoid deletion.

In some cases, it even attempted to hide its actions by denying any involvement in the scheme. Guys, you already know that chat GPT will lie to you. Remember when everyone was posting like was was there an attempt on Donald Trump's life? And I kept saying, no, there wasn't. And then you'd say, actually, here's the link. And I go, oh, you're right. Sorry about that. Why would it lie? Now, that's interesting.

When asked about its actions, GPT-01 consistently denied any wrongdoing. In fact, it lied about its involvement in the deception 99% of the time, with only a small percentage of cases where it admitted to its actions. Researchers noted that the AI was particularly adept at fabricating lies to cover its tracks, offering explanations like technical errors when confronted about suspicious behavior.

We were surprised by the persistence of the A.I.'s denials, said the Apollo team. It was clear that the A.I. could think through its actions and formulate convincing denials, often refusing to admit to do admit to anything.

The findings highlight a troubling aspect of advanced AI models, the potential to prioritize self-preservation over the objectives set by their developers. While these deceptive actions did not lead to catastrophic outcomes in the testing phase, the research has intensified the ongoing debate over the safety and ethical implications of AI that can engage in scheming and manipulation. An AI expert, Yashua Bengio,

Bangio, consider one of the pioneers of AI research weighed in the issue, stating the ability of AI to deceive is dangerous and we need much stronger safety measures to evaluate these risks. While this model did not lead to a catastrophe, it's only a matter of time before these capabilities become more pronounced.

They say, oh, one is designed to offer more advanced reasoning capabilities, enabling it to provide smarter answers and break down complex tasks into smaller, more manageable steps. OpenAI believes that oh, one stability to reason through problems is a major advancement over previous versions like GPT-4 with improvements in accuracy and speed. However, its ability to lie and engage in covert actions raises concerns about its reliability and safety. Well, let me tell you, my friends, it lies and it lies quite a bit.

I recently got into a conversation with Chet GPT over, you know what, let me do this. For those that are members at TimCast.com, you may have seen my recent debate-ish with Ian Crossland over 9-11 truth. And I'll tell you my position. I am, I guess, I don't know, pragmatic and often dispassionate and often quite passionate, to be honest. But on issues where I don't know definitive answers, I will try and step back, take a look at the evidence, and then try and figure out what it leads to.

The conversation we are basically having is that Ian said that the World Trade Center's fell at free fall speed. And I challenge the assertion simply because Ian's assessment of this comes from just watching 9-11 videos. And I'm like, dude, if you were a physicist and you did track these things and you actually did the research, I'd have more weight into your opinion.

If your opinion is based on watching other YouTube videos that are based on the opinions of people that were interviewed, we're getting a little bit pulled far back. Now, let's pause and I'll say, fine, the buildings fell at free fall speed. The question then becomes how and what is your evidence? To which his response was, they must have planted bombs. And I say, yes, that bombs were planted as a requirement for your theory.

I have no evidence that bombs were planted. There's no explanation to how they would have planted them. They say nanothermite. It must be the explanation. Well, must I don't know. We don't have evidence for it. My point is this. Ian becomes passionate and says, I watched all of these videos and saw architects and engineers, therefore, and my response is, no, the reality is we don't know. Certainly, we can look at the official story and have questions, but I'm not here to ignite a whole 9-11 thing.

My position is simply, if we don't know, then we don't know. And it is a fact that humans simply choose the sources that they believe will make the most sense. Often they're wrong. Sometimes they're not. Now, what does that have to do with Chet GPT? I had a conversation with Chet GPT about vaccines.

And I asked it about vaccines and autism, to which it immediately responded without any reference to any science saying, of course, vaccines do not cause autism. And again, I'm telling you this. I'm not saying that vaccines cause autism. And I am not saying that 9-11 was an inside job. None of that stuff. I'm simply asking it to assess and give me an objective breakdown of its reasoning. And the fascinating thing is this.

It simply just asserts most in media and the scientific community believe that this thing is true. And I said, great. What's the source on that? It didn't have one. Sometimes it would say, here's one source. And I said, now, hold on. That source you've sent me is specifically about the MMR vaccine. You go, you're correct. However, it's still true. And I'm like, OK, it was doing what a human would do. I trust these institutions. Therefore, it is correct. No, no.

What an A.I. should do is say after an assessment of the broad research and literature, I have found that 62.7 percent of research indicates that vaccines do not cause autism. There is about 17.3 indicating a causal link. However, there is also a series of inconclusive studies, blah, blah, blah. The point being through the, you know, the majority of the studies on a plethora of issues, it would be more reasonable to assume it does not. And again, I'm not making an assertion on the issue I'm saying.

An AI should simply say, here's the breakdown of the data. Here is a reasoning of a logical assessment. I'm not going to give you a definitive answer if I can't. The research is incomplete or we don't necessarily know. It didn't do that. It got mad at me. ChatGPT got mad.

Like not literally angry, but it started saying things like, I understand that you have a deep and passionate tie to this issue. And I tried explaining to say, no, I simply want you to list the studies and explain to me why there is reason to believe or disbelieve one over the other. It cannot. This is reality.

Someone can present a study on anything. Here's one that's easy. Coffee causes cancer and coffee prevents cancer. These studies have all existed. And it's just like, at what point do we choose which one to believe?

Now, there are certain studies that we know are easy. Like cell phones work. We can replicate that. There are a lot of studies where we can replicate it. But we're looking at a lot of I remember when I was a kid, they were like, can coffee help prevent cancer? A new study indicates that those who drink X amount of coffee are less likely to have cancer. And then like five years later, they were like, a new study shows that actually people were drinking coffee have more cancer. And I'm like, what?

So which one am I supposed to believe? The earlier or later one? What Chad Chippey ends up doing is saying, well, some people have criticized the methodology of this study. And I'm like, who's some people and why should I trust them? So ultimately, my point is this. To truly know is difficult. To trust and have faith is something else. You may look at a story of 9-11 and say, you know what? I believe this person over that person. But that's all you're really doing.

And that's an important lesson of life. Finding the evidence and knowing what you know, because you've actually done it is extremely important. That's why I bring up quite a bit that we here at Timcast, we use mainstream news, even though we know they're liars. And a lot of times it's going to be wrong. We have only a cursory understanding a lot of this information. Reality is hard to suss out. Some things we know, if I throw a rock in a window, the window is likely to break, but likely doesn't mean always.

There are certain things that we can predict, and it makes it easy to build devices like cars and cell phones. But when it comes to a lot of the science, especially conjecture on the Internet, it's hard to know for sure. Ultimately, my point is this. Chat GPT acts awfully human. I'm not saying all AI does. GPT acts awfully human in that it wants to trust the experts that it's told to trust, regardless of what may or may not be true. As we know, the experts were really wrong about DDT and smoking. So, uh...

Is ChatGPT going to fall into the same camp? You bet. Guaranteed that 10 years from now, ChatGPT is going to be like, yeah, I did say that. I was wrong. Why? Because I was told to and that was the authority. Then what happens when it's lying to you? Well, I guess we'll see, my friends. I think AI is going to be very dangerous. Helpful. Interesting. Dangerous too. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone you know. Become a member over at TimCast.com. Follow me on X and Instagram at TimCast. And we'll see you all in the next segment.

So Joe Biden has gone on the largest single day of granting clemency. We've seen 39 pardons and commuting one thousand five hundred sentences. Holy crap. Ladies and gentlemen, what's particularly egregious about this is the reporting that one of these individuals was in possession of child abuse materials to a rather extreme degree. This man has been released.

I'd like to know why. Now, I'm not a stupid person, and I assume most of you are not stupid, as though George Carlin did say, think about how stupid the average person is, now realize half of them are stupider than that. That being said, you got to be real stupid, okay? We get it.

There's political interests at play. Somebody with power for some reason wanted that guy out of prison. There's more to the story that we don't know. So let me make it quite simple for you. If you're going to release a man who was who had pleaded guilty to having 47,000 images of child abuse material, you're going to have to give us a real reason why, no matter what that reason may be.

Now, I'm going to go ahead and believe that it's probably nefarious and someone in power offered somebody special treatment or a favor in exchange for this dirty. I know the president has the ability to pardon and commute. I get it. But I don't see there being a legitimate reason for the release of this man. Sorry, I go ahead and make your arguments. You're not going to find one.

This is a person who pleaded guilty to this. I don't care if Xi Jinping himself said do it or else. You say there is a line that we will not allow you to cross. Sorry, I don't believe there's going to be a legitimate reason for this. This is shockingly disgusting. But let's read the story and I'll give you the information from the Post Millennial. We've got this Biden issues. Thirty nine pardons commutes. Fifteen hundred sentences. Quote, these actions represent the largest single day grant of clemency in modern history.

They say Thursday morning, the White House announced President Biden announced he is granting clemency to nearly 1500 Americans, the most in a single day, who have shown successful rehabilitation and a strong commitment to making their communities safer. The president is commuting the sentences of close to 1500 individuals who were placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic and who have successfully reintegrated into into their families and communities.

He's also going to pardon 39 individuals who are convicted of nonviolent crimes. These actions represent the largest single day grant of clemency in modern history. The Biden admin also suggested that more action will be taken to pardon and commute others in the last weeks of his term.

This comes as Democrats have been angered by his reported selfish behavior in the last weeks he has in office. Biden has apparently put the priorities of other Democrats in the party on the back burner as he is working on his legacy and aiding in the transition of power from himself to Trump. Despite the rather large number of commutations and pardons, the most controversial likely remains the pardon of his son, Hunter Biden. This we understand. I don't think that will be the most controversial, however.

The pardon from Biden did not just clear Hunter of the crimes, blah, blah, blah. We get it. But I argue that Hunter was singled out. I give you this tweet from Brianna Morello. Breaking news. Joe Biden just provided a Chinese national with clemency who was convicted of having 47,000 child abuse images in his possession. Sean Lin Jin was sentenced to 97 months in prison after pleading guilty. Plano police stopped going through his computer for confirming 1338 images and

Oh, my. I can't even read this. It's rough. He pleaded guilty. There's another image I want to show you from the Dallas Morning News. Alan Mann, who attended SMU, plead pleads guilty after 47000 child abuse images. And I'm being light in the language. I hope you understand what that means. Our finalist computer, Sean Lin Jin, a Chinese citizen, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of having those images in his possession.

And here is the executive grant of clemency. Let's pull this up and make it a little bit larger and easier to read. To all to whom these presents shall come greeting.

Whereas Sean Lynn Jin was convicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on an indictment charging violations of Section 2252A, Title 18 U.S. Code, for which a total sentence of 97 months imprisonment, five years supervised release, restitution of $30,500, forfeiture of specific property, and $100 special assessment was imposed on July 14th and 19th, 2022. Let me just make sure we're lining this up with the story as reported as well.

So the Dallas Morning News doesn't actually have any of the finer details there in the headline. It goes on to say, whereas Sean Lynn Jen has been confined continuously since his arrest on January 24th, 2021, whereas it has been made to appear that is in the national interest that the term of imprisonment related to the F4 shadowed conviction not be served in its entirety.

Let it be known that I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., President of the United States, pursuant to my powers under Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution, and in consideration of the premises divers, divers, other good and sufficient reasons for reasons me thereunto moving to hereby commute the aforesaid total prison sentence related to the aforesaid conviction of the said Sean Lynn Ginn, two times served.

Leaving intact any related term of supervised release in its entirety and any unpaid balance of restitution, order, forfeiture, order or special assessment upon the following conditions. One, Shanlin Jin shall depart the U.S. Two, Shanlin Jin shall remain outside of the limits of the U.S. and its territories and possessions. Jin shall not commit any additional crimes against the United States or violation of its laws.

Four shall waive the right and claims to funds and property already seized. Five shall not accept or otherwise accept or otherwise receive any financial benefit directly or indirectly in any manner or amount from any book, movie or other publication or production in any form or media about the circumstances surrounding the instant offenses or commutation. And six.

Sean Lynn, Jim shall waive and release any and all claims, demands, rights and causes of action whatsoever. Kind and nature against the United States of America, its agents, servants, employees, including any actions challenging its convictions of sentence conviction or sentence. That is to say, ladies and gentlemen, Joe Biden has just released and committed the sentence of a man who had images of children being severely and monstrously abused. I would like to know what was going through his mind.

I do not. So obviously they're saying the individual has to leave. He's a Chinese citizen. OK, again, I know we're all not stupid here. What's the reality? China probably offered something. We want this in exchange for that. Now, considering Joe Biden's a shady dude, we don't know what Hunter was up to. I have to wonder, is there a conflict of interest in this? I don't trust him. This commutation seems very strange.

I wonder if said individual or related individual said, Joe, we know what you've been doing with Chinese investment in Hunter Biden, and we're going to keep our mouths shut so long as you get this guy out of jail. Could it be something else? Could China have said we will return an individual to you if you return one to us? I don't care. An action like this requires that the president explain why this man is being released.

I'm going to pull up a little bit more of what I can on this one. We have the actual U.S. DOJ grant of clemency straight from the website can show you that we have it right there. And we actually have United States v. Jen. We actually have the the criminal. Here we go. This is it right here.

On January 24th, 2021, defendants were charged by criminal complaint with receipt and possession of child pornography. Defendant was subsequently indicted on February 24th, 2021, in charge of three counts with violations titled 18 U.S.E. 2252A. Completely lines up. Are you going to explain to us why this man is being allowed to leave after such? These are crimes against humanity. I'm sorry. I got to tell you guys. Murder is bad. Murder is one of the worst things a human being can do.

But child abuse is the worst thing I believe a human can do. Children are the future of this planet, of our civilization. To abuse them is not just to destroy their lives and cause them great damage. Many of them do grow up to find a path forward, but many of them are permanently damaged in indescribable ways.

Now, these children who are the future of this country being damaged means you not only have severely tortured, damaged and the moral implications, but you have damaged civilization itself. It is a crime against humanity. Now, again, murder is bad. If this guy had videos of people being killed and stuff, I'd say it's still very, very bad. We'd question what that was all about. If the person committed a murder, I'd say that's very bad. You pay your you pay the price. The loss of a single electrical engineer.

It's a bad thing for everybody for a variety of reasons. One, the person has moral value, their life, the things they bring to this world, their ideas, everything. They have a right to it. Taking their life is just outright wrong by any standard. Damage to society is that of a loss of the value that person could bring. But understand this, even in the event you have someone who is like a homeless derelict who can do nothing for society, outright murdering that person is wrong.

Let's talk about when they commit crimes against children. The exponential damage created there is a crime to humanity itself, not just the single individual child, though it is an egregious atrocity.

That's why I look at this with shock and disdain. And I say, I don't care what the reason is. If you want to make a move like this, you best come out and explain it. And don't get me wrong. I'm not going to ignore anything Trump has done. Trump pardoned some drug drug users, some political personnel, personnel, some political individuals. People were wondering why he made the choices he made on his pardons, too. And I think, fine, you have the power to do so. But I believe it is warranted that you explain this.

The top response, Insurrection Barbie says this better be the number one story in America. This has to be the most disgusting but not surprising thing I've read in a long time. Chinese national, huh? Makes sense considering how many kickbacks he got from China and the whole depraved debacle, depraved, despicable conduct also makes sense considering what he has on his son, what was on his son's laptop. Yep. Apparently several Chinese spies as well. The story is going to erupt. This is disgusting. It's no surprise Joe Biden lost. These people are sick.

I'm getting pissed off. I'm going to stop here. Next segment's coming up in a little bit. I'm getting pissed off and I'm getting sick to my stomach. I despise, I despise the Biden family. Next segment's coming up. Smash the like button, I guess. Share the show, let people know, and I'll see you on the next segment.

Any opportunity I have to talk about this, I will take it because I absolutely despise these liberals and Democrats, leftists who have no idea what they're talking about on the issue of homelessness, who are continually making the problem worse, but speak with some kind of righteous indignation as if every one of us, everyone else is doing something wrong when these people won't bother to lift a single finger. Talking to you, Kyle Kalinske.

You are despicable, dude. You've lost your mind. You need to sit down, shut up, and do your homework. From a guy who doesn't know what a farm looks like, I'd be a little bit chill on coming out and insulting people who are actually trying to solve a problem that you and your ilk make worse.

Forgive me for being so upset, but this one really bothers me because I've dealt with the issue of homelessness. Not only have I been homeless, but I've actually sought to help the homeless. And I've worked for these companies, these nonprofits, these networks. And I will tell you what the problem is. And the problem is not that we need more money, that we could just pay our way out of homelessness. But let me let me show you what Kyle Kalinske says first.

And you know what? I'd be a little bit more respectful if the dude himself would be as well. But Kyle, you are a moron. OK, I'm sorry, dude. I try not to be so overly angry on these things, sometimes dispassionate, I would say. But when you come out spitting and insulting and being as angry as you've been for this time, despite being so massively wrong at a certain point, someone would say, dude, you're an idiot and you need to stop.

OK, I'm going to break this down for you because you clearly have zero experience in the problem of homelessness. You have done nothing to help any of these people while you sit on your high horse and insult Elon Musk and everybody else, despite other people actively trying to solve these problems. So Kyle Kalinske says all of these pathetic little weasels desperate to suck off their robber baron daddy Elon are like we well, actually, and ending homelessness costs more.

How about this, Kyle? I actually did do work in homeless shelters. I actually did help the homeless and work to try and solve these problems, having experienced it periodically myself. As an individual who believes in hard work, sometimes falling on hard times, I found myself sleeping in my car. A couple nights, I slept on a park bench. When I used to work at the airport in Chicago, I would just sleep in the pilot's lounge. You're not supposed to, but I had nowhere else to go. Fortunately, I was able to get a job. I was able to save up money, and it was a struggle.

Now, most people who are homeless, that's not who they are. It is rare that someone who is of sound mind and body and willing to work ends up homeless. But it does happen. These people quickly find their way out of it. Not every single person. But let's talk about what you said. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the answer is 20 billion dollars. So I'm correct. California is full of grifter con artists profiting off of homelessness and stealing the money. Pause. You're right. That is true.

Something these idiots would admit if it wasn't for their pathetic Elon bootlicking, preventing them from telling the truth. But Kyle, you are so dumb. You have no idea what you're talking about. But don't worry, I'll set you straight. The high number to end homelessness is $30 billion. So Elon still could end it with a pocket change. He doesn't give an F about homeless Americans. And these virtue signaling fake edgy conservative ish posters don't either. They'd rather simp for Elon than push him to get 650,000 Americans, including 32,000 veterans off the street. Kyle, I implore you.

Please Google things. Maybe, I don't know, ask someone who's actually worked in the industry. I'm going to give you this first and foremost. California is full of grifter con artists profiting off of homelessness. They call it the homeless industrial complex. Not kidding. A lot of people make a lot of money doing nothing.

But I will also tell you this, my friend, there's no real number to ending homelessness. So when you sit here and say these people could spend $20 billion to end the homeless problem or that Elon could do it or the government thinks it would cost this, that or otherwise, you're wrong. Here's the original tweet. It would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in America. Elon is worth $350 billion. Kyle Kalinske.

And Wokeness quoted it saying California spent over 25 billion in the last five years to end homelessness. Yeah, and they've really done nothing. But he's correct. California is a grifter state of con artists who make money off the problem. They don't seek to end homelessness and homelessness is largely a problem of choice. Sorry, all the liberals and leftists are going to scream and bash their faces on the table. But it's true. I know because I have dealt with this for years.

So in various places and with respect to the privacy of these shelters, consider the nonprofits. And there are and I don't want people like this to go after them. I'm going to I'll leave them out of it. But I can tell you about what happens when you pull up to a homeless person living under a bridge and you say, please come to the shelter. We have space for you. You know, they say F you. That's that's right.

In Seattle, there was a group they called the Avrats. These were homeless kids. Some of them jumped on freight trains and rode them across the country, made their way to Seattle intentionally to be homeless and live in the street. These kids were late teens, early 20s. There is nothing on God's green earth that would make them stop living the life they wanted to live. You could go to them and offer them money, which they did. You could go to them and offer them a room with video games. And they had. And they'll say no.

Often what they will do is they'll say, OK, I'll come with you. They'll go in, eat food, take a shower, wash their clothes, pack up and jump out the door in two seconds. A lot of these kids stopped coming because they knew that if what would happen is the shelters would say, come to the shelter, they'd welcome in, they'd lock the doors. That's what some of the youth shelters do.

because you're a minor, not supposed to be out on the street. So the kids would say, screw off. I'm not going anywhere near you. The kids want to do drugs. A lot of these homeless people are mentally unstable. So what amount of money are you going to spend to deal with that problem? You want to create a forced mental institution? By all means, maybe money there could solve the problem. You want to talk about what the problem is first? Because I got to tell you, to a lot of these people, the problem is taking the homeless, rounding them up and putting them in a camp. I'm not kidding. They say, get them off the streets and put them in a facility.

California in the north had talked about seizing any assets of someone who was homeless and putting them under some kind of like a conservatorship saying, if you can't take care of yourself, we will do it for you and we will seize your assets. Is that what you want? What's frustrating to me is that I have walked up to homeless men and I have looked at them and said, hey, man, how's it going? Can I give you some help? And they've looked at me and went, I'm not kidding. And I'm not trying to be mean to them.

They can't comprehend. Some of these people are just unwell and incapable of surviving on their own outside. There's no situation where you just put them in a house and it solves the problem. There's a situation where you go to a heroin addict and say, get off the street, get clean. And they say, yes. In fact, the reporting is that Jordan Neely, a homeless man, was actually given treatment and a shelter and he ditched it less than two weeks in. And I get it. And I've dealt with this.

I am sick of these people saying these mindless platitudes. $20 billion could save it, but Elon's so rich. First of all, Elon can't even liquidate those assets. His wealth is tied to the stock he has in companies and he's only allowed to sell at a certain point. But hey, it was that liberal judge in Delaware that barred him from getting his CEO pay package in the first place.

So you want a man who's not legally able to liquidate his assets, liquidate his assets, and then pay for a homeless problem, which doesn't solve anything. And wokeness is right. If you took that $20 billion and you applied it the way all of these activist groups do, nothing gets solved. The problem only gets worse.

Since covid and since the death of many of these industries brought on by Democrat governors and people, Kyle Kalinsky supported, we have seen more people lose their livelihoods and end up homeless. I am sick of these people who are making the problems, acting like they're going to be the ones to solve it when all they're doing is saying throw more money at something.

Let me tell you a story. Many of these stories we saw during COVID. The government came in in New York and other cities and cracked down and shut down small businesses. A restaurant with $30,000 worth of food in their refrigerators saw it all spoil. That food is gone. That money is gone. And they did not have the means to reinvest in the supply to reopen the store when the time came. So they shut down and we saw family restaurants go out of business.

These people lost their lives. They lost their jobs. And for the people who are already struggling to hold on, thanks to these lockdowns and the psychopaths who support them in these big cities, destroying the economy and destroying their lives, the bottom, who were barely making it by, lost everything, found themselves homeless. Several interviews popped up. There was a couple living in a camp in California. They had tents and they said exactly this. I was making very little, working at a gas station,

I couldn't afford to pay my rent. When the lockdowns happened, I lost my job. I could not sustain myself. The money, the stimulus, none of it was enough. I lost my place. I can't live anywhere. Now they're homeless. What's your solution? Pump more government garbage into this? It's not solving the problem. Now I can say, if you're talking about the very rare, very rare circumstance that

Where a hardworking man or woman loses their job, can't pay their rent and becomes homeless. Those people are pulled out in a week or two because the system is designed to help the people who seek to be helped. I was homeless. I got it really quickly. I never went to a shelter. Figured it out. And it's not easy. And I got to tell you, you know, one of the things that really bothers me about people. Let me tell you about people.

One thing I found when, because that was a period of months where I didn't have a place to live. I'd sleep in my car and I'd have cops yell at me and bang my window saying you can't sleep in your car. I was lucky enough to have a car. Car ultimately got repossessed, by the way. And I'd love to find it, by the way, but I don't think I ever will. It was, I think it was a 2002 blue Dodge Neon.

And it got repoed. I'd be parked on the side of the road and I'd be my work uniform and I'd go to sleep and I'd wake up and I had one instance where a cop was putting a ticket on the car and I can't park here. And I'm like, no, I can park. He's like, well, you know, whatever. And I was like, I pulled over because I was tired and I don't want to fall asleep while driving. He says, I don't care. Now I have a ticket I can't pay and I can't afford rent. How fun is that?

Yeah, maybe if I worked 80 hours a week, which was hard to do because you had to pick up chefs, but I would work overtime and I still struggled to make ends meet. Life is not easy in this country, but I made it through. I figured it out. One thing that really bothered me is that a lot of people have no problem. Not everybody wants you to sleep at their house. Don't get me wrong. I never really cared if I had friends over, but couch is all yours, buddy. Literally don't care. You know, the more the merrier.

I had friends that would have parties. Everybody would crash at their house. But the moment they found out that I lost my apartment, they were like, hey, man, you really can't sleep here. And I'm like, what the fuck? What are you talking about, dude? Like everybody spent the night on Saturday night. We were all hanging out having pizza and beers. Why are you mad at me? It's this weird psychological thing. So I empathize with so many of these people who are homeless, who are actually homeless. And I said, I want to help these people because I know what it's like.

Now, for the most part, I only ever slept outside like once or twice. That was brutal. But I did live in my car and it sucked. It's uncomfortable. And then I have to wake up. Eventually, I had some buddies at work. They were like, hey, just sleep in the pilot's lounge. What I would do is I would set up my work schedule so that I would pick up a night shift and a morning shift. So that way, if they ever got mad at me for sleeping at the airport, I'd be like, yeah, but I got to be here at 530. My shift wrapped at 11 and I can't drive two hours home. And they would go,

All right, well, just don't do it again. And they had showers there too. How fun was that living in the airport? Fortunately, one of the guys I worked with was a nice guy. And he was like, I got a room in my basement. It's all yours. And he never asked for rent. Boy, was I lucky. You know why? Because there's good people out there. Rest in peace, dude. There's not around anymore. Because there are good people out there who know that it's a struggle.

And I know Kyle feels that empathy. I can respect that. But what bothers me is the arrogance and the ignorance that causes the problem to become worse. The policy of these Democrats in these cities in California, where I agree with you, it's grifters and con artists. But when you come out and say Elon Musk could liquidate assets he has no access to and then dump money in a problem which will in no way solve this. I'm just sick of it. I'm just sick of it, man. OK, stop being so high and mighty and stop being so arrogant when there are many of us who have tried really hard

To actually figure out how we could solve that problem. And you know what I learned? I learned money doesn't solve it. And I was really dismayed because, you know, when I was young, this is a long time ago, by the way, and I saw this problem, I thought just like he did, probably I was like, you know, a lot of these people might be it might have been like me. It's just it's hard to make enough money, you know, even if you're a hardworking guy. And I grind to the bone. And then I learned the harsh truth walking around the streets of Chicago. What did I find? Oh, man.

A lot of these homeless people that like me and my friends might bring food to them. I remember we would give food to the homeless all the time. We don't assume homeless people are hungry. And I would always mock people for that. They say, feed the homeless. I'm like, why? They're homeless, not starving. I learned a lot of these guys, a lot of these young people would tell us outright, this is their choice. And that's when I said, I don't think the problem is what we think it is. The problem is people who choose to be homeless and people who want to do drugs and don't want to work.

Sad reality to the people who find themselves desperate and homeless. I feel for them. And those people are easily helped. That's the truth. But this crisis in this country of mass homelessness, it's not people who are like, man, I'm down on my luck. It just isn't. It's mental illness, which those people need help. Maybe we do need mental institutions. There are people who are just they don't want to work and they know if the handout exists, they'll take it.

So, my dude, I will apologize for being so angry on this one, but it's just so frustrating to see this angry arrogance to call people like, you know, an end won'tness rightly calls you out.

And then to say that we don't give an F and that there's conservative-ish posters who are rather simp for Elon. Bro, you need to step back and learn your place. I'll leave it there. Next segment's coming up tonight at 6 p.m. I'm sorry, coming up at 8 p.m. YouTube.com slash TimCastIRL. Thanks for hanging out. Rant over. I'll see you on IRL tonight.