DAN BONGINO Named Deputy FBI Director Under Kash Patel, Deep State & Dem IN PANIC | Timcast LIVE
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Last night, I saw one of the best tweets of my life that Donald Trump had announced Kash Patel, director of the FBI, had chosen as his deputy Dan Bongino. I was freaking out. The best tweet I'd ever seen. Amazing news, of course. And it's been an absolutely tremendous weekend for me and for everybody else. But let's just say, wow.

I'll get you started with the news first, because I don't make everything about myself, obviously. But Dan Bongino is an American patriot and hero who inspires me tremendously. And he's going to have his show live at 11 this morning. We don't know exactly what he's going to do with his show, but it's one of the biggest, if not the biggest podcast in the world with a tremendous, massive live audience. And I just want to say this.

I trust Dan Bongino in the FBI working alongside Kash Patel to bring about accountability to this country. I believe he is, as a former police officer and Secret Service agent, deeply experienced and aware of how the system is operating. His research and commentary and insight.

into public events and everything we've seen over the past several years, not only has it been informative and important to the American people, but I think it lends him a certain degree of experience combined with his his his law enforcement background, as well as his knowledge of these issues. I think there there there may be no better person for this role. I want to stress this. While we can all expect great accountability, accountability,

with Dan Bongino and Kash Patel at the head of the FBI. Dan Bongino has made a tremendous, tremendous personal sacrifice, which leaves me deeply inspired. American honor is back. I hope you all understand. And I'll talk a little bit more about this as we get into the live show. Dan Bongino, with the size of his audience, with the size of his show, is walking away from hundreds of millions of dollars.

So we can take a government job that pays a couple hundred thousand. I am inspired. You know, there's a lot more to life than having money and being able to buy nice things. And I think that Dan and I share some of the sentiment, as most of you do. But I believe Dan to be likely the best of us in this regard, because I don't know if I could walk away from that. I mean...

You know, when they were talking about Dan maybe taking up a government position, I said, how's that guy going to walk away from tens of millions of dollars every year plus all the back-end side contracts, merch the dude's probably making? He's on track to be a billionaire. Come on. Why would he walk away from this enterprise to work for a government job if his duty mattered to him more? And I think when the president comes a-knocking and says, Dan, you're the only man for the job, Dan said, there's more to life.

than being rich. Don't get me wrong. Dan's going to be rich for a long time. He's rich already, right? But to sit there and look at the power you have with a voice so large, I'm reminded of this line from Justice League. Bear with me. I know it's a cartoon. It's for kids, a comic. Lex Luthor. You know, he is Superman's nemesis. He's just a corporate businessman, but he's self-interested. There's an arc in the comics and cartoon where he runs for president.

And when questioned, he says, do you have you actually think I want to be president? You have any idea how much power I would have to give up to be president? It's remarkable if you think about it. Dan Bongino wasn't just looking at wealth, success and all that comes along with it.

Dan is giving up a substantial amount of power to be a servant to this nation. And I am deeply inspired by that. So, Dan, tremendous shout outs. I am I am so inspired and excited and optimistic. This is absolutely incredible. And of course, my friend, my friends, the deep state is panicking there. They are really losing it over this one. OK, look, when they when Trump announced Matt Gaetz as a G, I went out and bought champagne. I'm like, let's roll. All right.

And, you know, Matt didn't make it. We then heard Kash Patel would be nominated for FBI director. And we didn't buy champagne. But Kash, he's a friend of the show, he's been on several times. And he's fairly moderate on these issues. He's not an extremist by any means. He's I believe he's going to bring back law enforcement accountability to the FBI. We were very, very excited for this. And when he got confirmed, we were celebrating. We were cheering.

I'll celebrate something else, which I'll get to in a second. But tremendous, tremendous. But Dan Bongino, with all due respect to Kash Patel, a lot of people had been entertaining the idea that Trump's master play was how can I get the most brutal guy like to the deep state in the FBI? If Trump had nominated Dan Bongino to the FBI, there's no way he's getting confirmed.

But Kash Patel, with tremendous experience, was going to squeak by. And we trust and believe in Kash. Kash then turns around and says, all right, Dan, you're up. And now it's on, baby, because Dan Bongino is the man. This is so amazing. Look, Kash is fairly moderate and I respect it. And he wants to bring back law enforcement. Dan Bongino is a nuclear bomb on the deep state.

Yo, this ain't a shot across the bow. This is Trump saying the deep state is done. Dan ain't messing around. He's already got on his rumble page for his 11 a.m. show. It says playtime is over. So it's going to get wild, my friends. Now, all that being said, you know, I mentioned last month has been the best month of Trump's first month is my the best month of my life. And

I get all these liberals being like, what has Trump even done that's been so good? And I was like, I got married. I didn't say Trump did anything. I said, he's having a great month. I'm having a great month. And then as some of you may know, Thursday morning,

And I awoke to the baby is coming. And we rushed to the hospital and the baby is here. So my first child was born. Thank you all so much for your messages of congratulations. It was truly a profound and amazing experience. And so she's a few days old now. And it has been absolutely a pleasure. And I got to tell you, I got to tell you.

People are like, oh, man, you're going to be in for it. Oh, you know, it's a great experience, but she's going to keep you up. Keep me up. Who wants to go to sleep when their first child is born? I mean, geez, it's like one of the most amazing experience. So here I am, you know, in the hospital with my child being born for the first time. Truly, truly amazing, indescribable and such a powerful feeling you get, you know.

And then Kash Patel gets confirmed. And then I come home and then Dan Bonds, you know, I'm just like, it's so good. How is so many good things happening? This is really, really incredible. And I guess the only advice I could give to anybody else is obviously I am my first child and I'm going to be 39 in a week, in a week and a half. Don't wait.

You know, for us, we wanted to have a kid much, much earlier, but we were consumed by work. And we had said, like, we're going to have a kid. Like, it'll happen, right? We really had to make it happen. For some people, it just happens. For us, we were like, we had to make that decision and plan. And...

You know, if we didn't take the time and stop and say, it's we're having this kid, you know, and we want to have more. It who knows? You know, who knows? So I would just say, don't wait. Don't wait.

you know, have your family if you can. And truly, truly amazing, exciting weekend for me. I wasn't here Thursday and Friday. I had pre-recorded segments up for Friday. So, you know, shout out to everybody who watched those and shout out to Phil for filling in once again while I was out. But I am back and

And we're having a lot of fun and we're very excited. And, you know, just it's all I can really say. Let's read the news on Dan Bongino and talk a bit more about what we're currently seeing and what this means for Dan, for his business, for Rumble.

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So at the Green Room, you're getting a bigger, more of a deep dive on the individual personality behind the scenes. Check that one out. And of course, rumble.com slash Bongino. When we wrap up this live stream, my friend, and I know all of you are sitting there waiting with bated breath for Dan's cutesy time is over. That's what it says.

Yo, Dan has been named deputy director of the FBI. Cutesy time is over. Oh, man. I cannot be more excited for anything news related. I'm actually much more excited to go hang out with my kid. But, you know, that's a totally different thing. Got a lot of big plans for you, little missy. So my daughter, we're going to we're going to she's going to be a little ninja rocket scientist, skateboard musician, ski and all the good stuff, playing chess.

We'll see how it goes. We'll see how it goes. But, you know, maybe I should watch this episode one day in the future, some kind of archive. But in terms of news and politics, Dan Bongino is a nuclear bomb on the deep state. So, of course, Rumble.com slash Bongino, because he's going to be doing his show this morning at 11 a.m. for those that are watching live. So that's coming up in 50 minutes. So when we're wrapping this, we're going to hand it off. You guys got to go check out. We've got to say because I'm going to be watching. But let's jump in the big story.

Time magazine, I think, handled it OK with their headline. Trump taps Dan Bongino secret service agent turned MAGA pundit for FBI director. Yeah. Secret service agent turned MAGA. That's all right. Wait to see some of the other articles, how they write about him.

Time says President Trump announced the appointment Sunday night in a post on his Truth Social platform. Praising Bongino as a man of incredible love and passion for our country, he called the announcement great news for law enforcement and American justice. The selection places two staunch Trump allies atop the nation's premier federal law enforcement agency at a time when Democrats are concerned the president could seek to target his adversaries. Bongino would serve under Kash Patel, who was sworn in as FBI director of the White House on Friday,

And who has signals intent to reshape the bureau, including by relocating hundreds of employees from its Washington headquarters and placing greater emphasis on the FBI's traditional crime fighting duties. I'm all down for it. The deputy director serves as the FBI second in command and is traditionally a career agent responsible for the bureau's day to day law enforcement operations. Bongino, 49, served on the presidential details for then President Barack Obama, George W. Bush, before becoming a popular right wing figure.

He became one of the leading personalities in the MAGA political movement to spread false information about the 2020 election. Oh, really? Well, y'all best watch yourselves, because as deputy director of the FBI, I have to imagine Dan Bongino is going to want to be vindicated, as it were. He's going to want to figure out whether or not he has been deceived. And you know what? With access to these informations and to this information, law enforcement capabilities, I'm interested to see what Dan Bongino finds.

They say for a few years following Rush Limbaugh's death in 2021, he was chosen for a radio show in the same time slot as the famous commentator. Bongino worked for the New York Police Department from 97 to 99 before joining the Secret Service. He began doing commentary on Fox News more than a decade ago and had a Saturday night show with the network from 21 to 23. He is now the host of The Dan Bongino Show, one of the most popular podcasts, according to Spotify. Indeed, Dan consistently averages the largest live viewership every day in the world. Amazing.

During an interview last fall, Bongino asked Trump to commit to forming a commission to reform the Secret Service, calling it a failed agency and criticizing it for the two assassination attempts last year. That guy should have been nowhere near you, Bongino said about the man, who authorities say camped outside Trump's golf course in West Palm Beach before he was spotted with a rifle. During the same interview, Trump praised Secret Service agent who saw the rifle's barrel coming out of the bush. Indeed. So not the worst article, but let's see what we got here. Dan Bongino posted this.

Thank you, Mr. President, Attorney General Bondi and Director Patel. And it is the image of Trump's Truth Social Post saying great news for law enforcement and American justice. Dan Bongino, a man of incredible love and passion for our country, has just been named the next deputy director of the FBI by the man who will be the best ever director, Kash Patel.

Dan has a master's degree in psychology from CUNY, an MBA from Penn State. He was a member of the New York Police Department, New York's finest, a highly respected special agent with the United States Secret Service. And it's now one of the most successful podcasters in the country, something he is willing and prepared to give up in order to serve. Working with our great new United States Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and Director Patel, fairness, justice, law and order will be brought back to America and quickly.

Congratulations, Dan. I'm going to say it again. I know I opened the show by saying this, but Dan, you are a gentleman and a scholar and you embody American honor better than I can say most people do. One of the best. And the reason I don't say the best, only one, because we do have other tremendous people as well with Kash Patel and Pam Bondi. But let me say a society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit beneath.

It's an old Greek proverb, I believe, and we all understand it. It's been paraphrased many, many times. A society grows great when trees are planted, who, you know, the people know they'll never sit beneath them, etc., etc. Dan Bongino. Let me tell you, my friends, I work in the podcasting industry, if you haven't noticed. We have...

This morning show is usually in the top, uh, the top, uh, 30 or so. I think we were number 20 biggest live show last week. The morning show, Tim cast IRL was probably around like seven or eight ranked. Um, we,

We, we, uh, things are changing. We, we, we averaged the biggest live primetime viewership on, uh, on YouTube for the United States for a while, for a world for the while. But as more and more people jump in, we're not the biggest, you know, more and more personalities, bigger followings are starting to pick up the live game. And you know, it is what it is. But let me just say this, um, with my experience, I can only tell you, I can only speculate. I don't know. Dan Bongino, I want you to ask yourself this question, my friends.

Because I don't know the exact, I don't know how much money Dan Bongino makes, but anybody working in the industry can guess. I don't know, 10, 20, $30 million a year maybe with the show as big as his. So whatever that number may be, I don't know how he runs it. I don't know how his ad sales go. I'd ballpark it, 20 million. Someone came to you and said, you can have $20 million fame, you know, just fame and wealth and everything comes along with it. You're your own boss. You do what you want to do or whatever.

You can be a high ranking civil servant making $200,000 a year. You know what most people are going to say. Overwhelming majority of people are going to say, ah, you know, thanks for the opportunity, but I got this thing going. Can't do it. I mean, Dan is a celebrity. People don't, you got to understand this guys. What does it mean to be a platinum artist? A platinum musician? We know what that means, right? You're like Lady Gaga, multi-platinum.

So I believe to get platinum, you need like 75 million views. I think it might be like 150 million streams, 150 million. That's platinum. And some people are double platinum. They have two songs that have cracked over that many sales, a million in sales, or I think it's 150 million streams on social media. Dan is the equivalent in news, culture, and politics to a multi-platinum rock star.

Every morning when Dan goes live, he fills up three or four arenas worths of people to watch his show. I think people need to understand how big Dan Bongino is. Imagine being one of the biggest you could possibly be surrounded by opportunity, wealth, access and influence. And then the president taps you on the shoulder and says the time has come to serve your nation and give all of this up. And Dan said, without question.

I am so inspired by that because how many people could truly walk away from everything that comes with that? You know, a lot of people talked about could Tucker Carlson be a VP? Could he serve in government? And it's like, come on. Nobody expects Tucker to walk away from one of the biggest shows in the world to go be a civil servant. Nobody believed it could happen. So when I saw this, the first thing I said was, first of all.

This is one of the best choices ever. Dan is going to be a hammer of justice along with Cash Patel. But I look over to my friends and family. I'm like, I can't believe he walked away from all of that money and wealth. You have to be a man of iron will, honor, loyalty, integrity, a true warrior. I can't say enough good things about this guy. I just...

I want you to seriously look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if you could walk away from not just $20 million. And I'm ballparking, so I don't know for sure. But I'm saying, imagine someone said $20 million a year. For the next 20 years, your family will want for nothing. You will own whatever you want. You have boats. You have yachts. You have private jets. It's all yours. Just don't be a civil servant saving your nation. And Dan said, I would rather save my country...

Then take the wealth, fame, celebrity, et cetera. And I'm just like, you know what, man? There are so many people who are the opposite of that. And that's why to see this now is so deeply inspirational. Because I'm not even half a man that Dan Bongino is. To do what he's doing. I don't know that I have the strength to do that. But I have all of this stuff. I built all of this stuff. I know. Man, people have asked me when I run for office. I'm like, I'm not getting anywhere near that. We have people in office.

who are they make 200,000 a year and they're worth 200 million. And you're like, how is it possible that homie was worth 200 grand before he got an office and now is worth 50 million dollars? How is it that Barack Obama, that the Bidens are broke? They get an office. They get they're richer than rich can be. And then you get Donald Trump. He enters as a billionaire. His net worth declines. You get Dan Bongino, who is one of the biggest shows in the world.

He does like 150 to 170,000 concurrent viewers on his show. OK, if we're talking about stadiums with 30 to 40,000 people, he's filling up maybe four stadiums every day. One of the biggest shows out there in a decentralized era where these major news like MSNBC can't even muster up 60,000 views in total. There's Dan. And he's like, I don't need it. He's going to walk away from all of it to fight for his country. It's American honor returning.

So many individuals who have no reason. And this is what the crazy thing is. I tell you, Democrats are like,

They're gutting the country and they're stealing your tax money. It's like you think Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world with 13 kids, needs to steal your money? It's ludicrous. The dude is the richest man in the world. He's worth $400 billion. The dude literally is building rocket ships to go to Mars. I don't know what else he could possibly want that he cannot get already. I mean, could you imagine being rich and being like, I have a yacht. I

I have a private plane. Elon's like, I have several reusable rocket ships that can go to Mars. And you're like, oh, Elon wants things that haven't been invented yet. So it's remarkable. What we're seeing is passion, you know, and mission, a mission driven element to civil service that we haven't seen in a long time. Here's the New York Times, ladies and gentlemen.

Right wing commentator named FBI deputy director. Don't you just love it? How about you say special agent, former special agent with the Secret Service, an NYPD officer named deputy director? How about that? They don't want to give him that one. You know, Time magazine did other outlets mentioned. And I think it's fine to say that he's a special agent with the Secret Service, NYPD officer turned right wing or conservative commentator. That's absolutely fair.

But to say right wing commentator principally to remove the fact that this man has extensive experience in law enforcement and protecting presidents. It's remarkable that they lead with this and they exclude the rest. Same thing with Pete Hegseth. The man served was it two tours or more? Pete Hegseth is a decorated combat veteran who works in nonprofits, aiding other veterans, helping them out.

With extensive experience, he was nominated for secretary of defense and they claimed Fox News host. That's that's his job out of the military. Why don't you mention that Trump sees in these guys the experience in law enforcement and military to do the job? No, they want career politicians. They want bureaucrats. And Trump is putting real people in. I I'm largely at a loss for words, to be completely honest. Like, how do you describe the epitome of

The absolute apex of accountability that is Dan Bongino and Kash Patel leading the FBI. It's funny because I see these liberals calling it a clown car. It's a clown car. Uh-huh. Heaven forbid regular American people are actually in charge of this show like they've always, it was always supposed to be. No, they want military, industrial, complex, political, politicians and bureaucrats. Trump's saying, let's bring in some real people.

Let's bring in the American people. And that includes Elon Musk, an immigrant, now American citizen. That includes Dan Bongino, a cash Patel, child of immigrants. Oh, boy.

You got to love it, don't you? The Democrats screamed white supremacy. And and then Trump's like, let's have a, you know, Kash Patel, who was sworn in on the Gita, I believe it's called. And I saw some people ragging on it. Get out of here, dude. There are some conservatives being like, you should not be allowed to be sworn in on anything but the Bible. Well, I'm like, bro, you got to understand Trump's the real deal. They tried to claim he was a white supremacist. And here he is with Kash Patel.

I don't know a lot about his religion, so I don't want to speak out of turn. But I believe he was sworn in, not on the Bible, but on the Gita. Is that what it's called? Forgive me if I'm getting this wrong. Let me make sure. Yeah, the Gita. The Bhagavad Gita. It's Hindu scripture. And let me just triple check this one. Yeah. Kash Patel takes the oath of office on Bhagavad Gita. Amazing.

I'm totally for it. I, you know, like, I got to be honest. I'm much more of a Christian moral tradition kind of guy, despite not being a Christian. I believe the American moral tradition is rooted in Christian ethics, as I explained quite a bit. But Trump's the real deal. They tried claiming that he was a racist. There's a white nationalist, white supremacist, Christian national, all these other things. And here Trump is being like, I just want honorable people who are going to help this nation, secure this nation and bring us accountability.

And they are so mad about it. The New York Times writes, the choice of Dan Bongino is a radical departure from the Bureau's history of having a veteran agent serve in the key role that oversees operations. And you know what? I don't care. John Rich, shout out, says, based on the personnel DJT has put in place, you know what's about to happen. Massive disclosure. Patel, Bongino, Bondi, RFK Jr., Tulsi, Hegseth, this team is beyond what I thought would ever happen.

I think we're actually about to be read in on the truth across all sectors. I can't. I just I feel like it's too good to be true. I'm sitting here thinking like.

When I was driving to D.C., did I get into an accident or something? And I went to the good place, you know, because how is it so incredible that all of these great things are happening? It's like for the first time in my life, we have we have been entrenched in corruption, laziness, dishonor, disloyalty. And is this is this what it's like to actually have real leadership? It's truly something to behold. Indeed, indeed. So we have this from Rumble, a statement on Dan Bongino being named deputy director of the FBI.

Grab some water real quick. Actually, it's spin drift, of course. And this is, I believe, the CEO, Chris Pavlovsky.

who has mentioned this. Now, I will stress, recently, TimCast joined the Rumble Network for a premium content available. If you guys go to TimCastPremium.com, it will redirect you to Rumble, where you can sign up. If you use promo code TIM10, you will get $10 off your annual membership to all of our behind-the-scenes content. And I have to say, I don't know if this means you will get Dan Bongino behind-the-scenes content, premium content, because the show may be ending.

Bongino may be giving up everything to serve his nation. That being said, I'm going to go and guess I don't have any private information or anything, but I'm going to guess that Dan is likely going to name a successor to run his show in the interim, much like Natalie Winters was running War Room for Bannon when they wrongly locked him up. I believe Dan will likely have a replacement host for the time being to run his show as he should. Rumble States.

Dan Boncino is a pioneer and a free speech warrior, and it has been an honor to host his content on Rumble. More than just that, he has been a mentor to me personally through these important years of Rumble's explosive growth and has become a dear friend I will have for life. Dan was one of the first major creators to move his content to Rumble in 2020 and has set many live streaming records ever since. He believes strongly in the innate human right of self-expression. In fact, he's turned it into an art form.

And he knows the best antidote to speech you don't like is more speech. We wish Dan all of the success in the world as he goes to work for the people of the United States at the request of President Trump. And I commend the president on his selection. Dan Bongino is the best.

The presence of the Dan Bongino show Rumble has been instrumental to the rapid growth of the platform and the new viewers he brought in have positioned Rumble to continue to increase its user base in the years to come. Bongino is a significant shareholder in the company, and Rumble looks forward to his return when the next phase of his service to his country concludes.

So I think what they're saying basically is,

If Dan Bongino is on a different ad sales network. So I don't think that Rumble directly made money off of the ad deals that he was doing. So Rumble revenue is probably going to be fine. I think they want to, I think Rumble really wants to stress that because they're like, Hey, look, obviously Dan being the biggest show with him not doing the show, you know, there's going to be questions of where do those viewers go? And it'll be interesting, but revenue wise, everything should remain fairly the same. Now I'm going to stress this.

I don't know what Dan's plan is, so we're going to tune in at 11 a.m. I don't know what his plan is for what he's going to do with this show, but I do know there's going to be stadiums full of people who are going to be looking for content to watch. If Dan did have a third-party ad arrangement...

And those viewers move to other Rumble shows that don't. Rumble revenue may actually skyrocket. Now, it's important to note as well, they mentioned that Dan is a... What do they say? The president of Dan Bongino shows Rumble, because Rumble continued over the years. Bongino is a significant shareholder in the company. So...

If that 170,000 that watches show every day say we want to keep watching on Rumble, we want our news and they go to watch Crowder because he's live at 11. I'm not live at 11. And that's when Dan's time is. But they could come watch me or anybody else that could massively increase Rumble's position. And so I just think good news all around. But I'll tell you this. I don't care.

I want Rubble to succeed. We need to succeed because we need to make sure we're safe. We have competition in the marketplace. Dan not only pioneered free speech, but he pioneered parallel economy.

which is a financial transaction service, after people were getting debanked. This dude has put his money where his mouth is time and time again, leading the charge on what the American people need fighting for freedom. Tremendous respect. So I wish the best for Rumble. I see big news, big news for Rumble coming up. But, you know, we don't know what to expect.

Let me pull up this clip for you guys. We'll show you who Dan is. Clint Russell of the Liberty Lockdown podcast says six months ago, Bongino said he would never go back into the government. But he added the caveat that he would only do so if Donald Trump asked him to personally. There comes a time when your country matters more. I never got into this for money and glory. Let's roll. We've been seeing people float you as the next FBI director. Would you do it?

I do it only if President Trump personally wanted it. Oh, him. If he wanted. I never envisioned myself going back in government again, ever, like ever, ever, ever. I can't say that enough. Repeating decimal. Right. But, you know, there comes a time where I wouldn't even take a salary for this stuff. There comes a time where.

You know, your country matters more. And I never got in this stuff for the money or the glory or any crap like that. It just happened. And it's just I'm an honor. I'm honored that people think that. But, yeah, I'm kind of flattered. If he called that, I'd have to consider anything. We've been seeing people float you as if he called. And so I'd like to stress, as Trump's statement read, he says he has been named deputy director of the FBI by the man who will be the best director ever, Kash Patel.

No, no, look, Cash, of course, is the director. But you know Trump asked Dan, he says, Dan, I need you. You got to do it. Cash, here's how I imagine it. One of two ways. Trump says to Cash, I want you in and I want Dan Bongino. I don't think that's likely the case. The other scenario is that Trump said, Cash, I want you in and Cash said, we should get Dan Bongino. I need you to ask him. And Trump said, done. Trump obviously knows Dan.

But here's the thing. Cash worked with Trump already and a lot of people around Trump. And so he knows both of these men. There is speculation, I will add, that the real play was that Donald Trump knew he was not going to get Dan Bongino confirmed as deputy as director of the FBI. So how do you get him in? You get someone who will get confirmed who is not as bad. Cash Patel.

And then Cash says, let's bring in Dan. And then Dan is placed right there because the deputy director doesn't need to be confirmed. They are chosen by the director. If Trump said, I want Dan Bongino to run the FBI because he knows him.

They'd have tossed him out. They'd have said absolutely not. And so I think I think Trump's strategize this, not just him, but the people around him. Matt Gaetz throw a cherry bomb figuratively. Everybody then freaks out. It's OK. Find Pam Bondi. Kash Patel then gets roasted. But it's still not bad. Not a bad, not a bad choice. And so Kash Patel was nowhere near as shocking as Matt Gaetz or Dan Bongino would have been.

Once cash gets in, Trump knows he can trust cash and cash is going to say, you got it, Mr. President. Dan Bongino is in. Let's go. Oh, you got to love this one. I got to send it to our good friend Ken Delanian. This guy is he masquerades as a journalist for NBC. But I said effing seethe. You see how these people expose themselves. Let me read this for you. And then you tell me if this guy's a journalist.

Ken Delaney and says, traditionally, the deputy FBI director has been a career FBI agent. That is particularly important when the director has no experience at the FBI. Donald Trump tonight announced he is appointing his deputy director, Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and prolific conspiracy theorist. He has never spent a day working at the FBI, but he has spent many hours spouting baseless fall hoods about the bureau, such as that the FBI lied when they said they don't have a suspect in the pipe bombs outside the RNC and DNC on one fifteen twenty one.

Current and former FBI officials are appalled and extremely concerned for the national security of this country, of the country. You know, it's really funny. Ken, why does this current and former FBI are so concerned message read like it came from you? Because it did. You see what he writes? That current and former FBI is being appalled. It's him. He wrote this in such a way where it's like, I'm a journalist, but this guy is wrong. He's never worked here. And, huh?

Why do you care if he's never worked at the FBI? You're just a journalist. Why would a journalist care about the structure of federal law enforcement? You work for NBC. It's weird, isn't it? Dan, Dan Bongino, hear me because, you know, you don't need me to say it. But Lord, if you find any connections from these media outlets, their lies and the federal government, the intel agencies, you expose them.

I'm not saying we're going to get any kind of big mockingbird type stuff, but I'm saying if it's there, I hope Dan finds it. Because I got to tell you, when I read this message from Ken Delanian, who is a journalist, NBC News justice and intelligence correspondent based in D.C., and this guy is seething and insulting Dan Bongino. That's not a journalist. Here's a guy who seems to be personally offended.

At the notion of Dan Bongino being named deputy director. Let me put it this way. I'm a podcaster. And if Donald Trump named, I don't know, Donald Trump decides he's going to name Bob Smith to run the Department of Agriculture, I'd be like, OK, Trump names Bob Smith, I guess. Oh, there's a lot of people Trump has named to various agencies. And I'm just like, OK, I am not personally offended in the least bit.

Carolyn Leavitt was named as press secretary, right? That at least something is like, well, okay, as a journalist, there's some overlap. But for Ken, who's a reporter, which is an entirely different industry than the FBI, right? Why would he be offended? Now I put it this way. If Trump named

some like scooter kid to head up skateboarding affairs in the federal government, I might be like, why? What is this? Did Trump not take any advice? This is not how you want to handle skateboard affairs, but he's not going to do that. My point is simply this.

Ken Delaney's message reeks of him being an FBI agent. I'm not saying he is. I'm saying he is someone who is deeply invested in what the FBI is and doesn't always has. And this message of disdain for Dan Bongino only shows that he is emotionally attached to the structures of federal law enforcement intelligence. I'm just wondering why it is. Could maybe he be good friends with them? Maybe good friends. Yeah. Yeah.

Makes you wonder about the reporting of all of these people. Billy Boy says, Tim, Cash was the inside guy for Dan. While Dan broke the Russiagate hoax years ago, they already work great together. Oh, yeah. I'm so excited, man. Look, I'm just some dude who complains on the Internet, right? And what I hope for with this country, what I hope for with the American people is honor and integrity, loyalty,

Take a look at this from End Wokeness. FBI Director, Deputy Director Fafo. You know what that means, right? Here's my advice to all of you guys. We have a decentralized amount of power that rests within us. You can track. You guys can look into those public records. What we want to see now is signs of deep state panic. We've already seen Google searches for fraud and criminal lawyers in the D.C. area. I'm curious.

are high-profile people fleeing the country. Pam Bondi says the Epstein client list is sitting on her desk and she's going through these documents now. A lot of people are like, why wait? Release it. No, I respect it. I respect it. There's a video I watched of Kash Patel. I think, was it Kash? Who was this? They were saying...

That was it cash that? Yeah, I think it was the JFK documents, the answers that we want. We've largely gotten and the things that haven't been released aren't aren't related to the questions that are being asked. And he can't say too much. It's classified. But, you know, Kat, like I trust this man. I do. And it's fascinating, too, because we interviewed him.

And there were questions about Assange and Snowden and people like it's a bad sign that he wouldn't blanket pardon. I'm like, no, it isn't. I've always said this cash is a moderate on these issues. We don't want a zealot. We want a man of honor to uphold the law the way it needs to be done, that we trust. The problem is we we know we can't trust the existing deep state infrastructure or the past. I should call it that is we know these people are screwing us over.

What I want, because I understand security clearance. I know that Dan and Cash aren't going to be able to come out and be like, here's literally everything happening in the country because it would compromise our security. I get that. What I want is to know if I can trust this man. And I've met Cash. I don't know. I don't think that I've ever actually met Dan. I've been on his show before. He's a good dude. We've had Cash on several times. And I've talked about these things. He's a very trustworthy individual.

And we've had conversations where I've asked him about things and he levels with you, man. He really does. And he'll say, I wish I could tell you more. It is classified. There's a reason why it's classified. But trust me, man. And he explains things. He does it in a way that makes you feel like I should say this. He conveys he conveys honor and integrity and sincerity. And so he's a man I can look at and say, I know why this country keeps secrets. I get it.

I do want more transparency. Cash and Dan promised that. But they're still going to keep the secrets where they need to for our national security. My issue is if there are men that I note to be evil and they're keeping secrets, I'm concerned about what the secrets are. If it's men I know to be honorable who would walk away from a multimillion dollar enterprise fortune for what? For upholding honor, integrity and law enforcement. That's a man I can trust. It doesn't mean you're going to get what you want always.

It doesn't mean that everything they always do will be morally good, morally good. Let me explain. Yin yang, baby. Within light, there is dark. Within dark, there is light. That means you guys have you guys watched Invincible that show? There's an important line in it where the character Cecil says or it said to him, you can be the good guy or the man who saves the world. And I think there's something to understand about that.

I think it's true even of our existing FBI and CIA. I had a discussion with a guest on Timcast IRL who said, I think there's a lot of patriots in the FBI and the CIA that are trying to do the right thing. I completely agree. But the command structure of these agencies has been corrupted as clear as January 6th. Everybody can see it. The people who refuse to, they're refusing to see it on purpose. We know that raiding some little old lady's home in Alaska, mistaken identity, was morally wrong and evil. And that's the problem.

The people running it, their interests were darkness. And sure, sometimes the FBI raided child abuse and traffickers, but that was the light in the dark. That is evil people saying, let's keep up appearances. What I expect with these guys is,

There's going to be some dark stuff. You know what I mean? Wet works, as it's called. Our government does bad things sometimes. And we want that minimized. We want good justice. But I fully expect that no man is perfect. I think it's fully reasonable to believe that behind the scenes, the work being done on these men, there will be some bad things, things you would not like to know. And you ask yourself...

The world is not made up of fairy tales and comic book villains. And if that is true, then what must a man do to keep his nation safe? He must be honorable. He must maintain his integrity. And he must work towards the will of the people. For too long, the bureaucratic state has had nothing but disdain for the will of the people. What we are seeing now is men of honor and integrity who understand they are not the supreme overlords of this nation and the American people. And they're going to do what is best for the will of the people.

But I guess I'm stressing the point that don't be surprised if sooner or later it comes out and it's like, you know, under the FBI, we saw this bad thing happen and there will be questions to Congress. And we don't need to be the people that say no matter what they do, they're always right. We can say people make mistakes. But the question is.

Will Dan and Cash be 80% successful in their endeavors with some failures? Or are they going to be 80% failures with some successes? See, the issue is the existing deep state was failure, lies, manipulation, and political weaponization. And sometimes some good things. Okay, let's get rid of the criminal elements.

One hundred percent. And let's say they're going to be successful. There will be some mistakes. There will be some questionable activities, and we will hold them to account as we would anybody else. But they will be men of honor and integrity. And I'm here for it, my friends. The media, on the other hand, well, they're losing their minds. Now, here's where it gets really interesting. Outside of Dan Bongino, FBI Director Kash Patel to be named ATF chief. That one's fascinating. We were looking at a lot of people we wanted for that job. Brandon Herrera,

Let's go. If he did that, I don't know. Patel is a lead in agency. It's been a frequent target of Republicans, including an effort to abolish it altogether. My friends, this is a sign that the ATF will be abolished. Indeed, it is. If Cash is the director of the FBI and he's being named chief of the ATF, Trump has basically already said the ATF will function as a piece of the FBI. Cash Patel is leading both.

He was he was chosen to be director of the FBI. He was confirmed by the Senate. And now he's in command and control of the ATF. That is effectively putting the ATF under the purview of the FBI. This is indicative of a of Donald Trump shrinking government and reducing agencies. Good. As it's often said, the ATF should be a convenience store and not a government agency.

That'd be fantastic. To be honest, Walmart is effectively that convenience store if you're in the right area. Yeah, no joke. The very, very few places where you can buy booze and guns in the same place. And that's Walmart. Not that we're big fans, to be completely honest. But I'll be interested to see how this one plays out. Maybe this is as far as it goes. Maybe Trump just says we don't want more bureaucracy. And Trump knows that he can count on cash and cash is a loyal and honorable man.

And so when Trump says, I want these things done, Cash is going to say, let's make it happen. That's what I'm excited about. I'm largely excited for any potential that Cash, as director of the ATF, actually says, let's relax things a little bit. Apparently, I think it was Brandon Herrera who said this, that the director of the ATF can issue a temporary moratorium on NFAs for machine guns. He can do a 30-day machine gun amnesty. He has that authority.

Oh, boy. And then basically, because like right now, in order to get a machine gun, a fully automatic weapon has to be pre-1985, I think. And they're called NFA items, National Firearms Act. You've got it's ridiculous. It's near impossible. And I know a lot of people, they'll say, no, you just file a permit. Oh, trust me. You don't just file a permit. You got to go to the police station. You got to get fingerprinted. You got to do all this crazy stuff. It's it's ridiculous is an infringement on our rights. So let's see. We'll see what happens.

Cash has in store over at the ATF. Nick Sorter, we got a little bit before we jump into our Super Chats here. So don't forget to smash the like button, share the show with everyone you know. Become a member of Rumble Premium, especially now with Dan going to work for the government. We need you guys more than ever over at Rumble Premium to watch our members-only content and Crowder's Mug Club all under one umbrella.

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We got a couple more minutes, so I'll give you some some quick tidbits here. Trump has fired more than 2000 USAID employees, thousands more on leave. Absolutely amazing. And and then we'll show this one. I'm going to do a larger segment on this later in the day, but I'll give a quick, quick highlight. I'm seeing more and more liberals calling for taking things into their own hands with Kash Patel and Dan Bongino. They're acting like the apocalypse is coming and they're calling for a civil war.

Very interesting. Very interesting, right? These people who claimed it wasn't going to happen, it couldn't happen, are now saying, oh boy, it's happening. These people terrify me because they do have the derangement within them to get violent. So I will do a larger segment breaking all this down and taking a look at the lies of the left and how they're handling all this.

In the meantime, I bring it up now only to say with Cash and Dan running the FBI, maybe we will finally get some accountability for these far leftists who are firebombing buildings. And maybe we'll get some arrests of these criminal elements. We call them the tourists, these far left extremists who travel the country organizing riots and chaos to try and destroy our country. I think I think those people have fled the country already. Yeah, they're they these are lesser known individuals. Excuse me.

But I'm willing to bet the moment cash got confirmed, we call them the tourists. They were high profile leftists who, for some reason, were at every protest all across the country helping organize them. In fact, some of them would appear in other countries like Turkey and China. With Dan and cash getting in, these people have probably already fled the country. So, my friends, share this show with everyone, you know, whether wherever you are watching or listening on the podcast.

or any other platform, sharing is caring. If everybody watching right now shared the show, we'd be the biggest show in the world. Right now, I think we're, if you actually combine the numbers, to be honest, it was fascinating because they do, there's like live stream tracking and rankings. This show ranks one of the highest in the world, the top 50 on Rumble. And on YouTube, it was like number 20. Combine them, combine the viewership. And I wonder what that really means. It's weird that they do the rankings that way.

Because there's so many different platforms. We're not just live on one. Same thing with Simcast IRL. You know, we could probably just add them up. But we have, in one instance, we had 43,000 concurrence last week, which would put us at like in the top 10. So, well, I just want to say I really do appreciate everybody who supports the show. Dan, of course, is three or four times larger than that. And that's why it is so deeply inspirational that he's willing to walk away from that

That's crazy. You know, guys, I got to be honest. Like, you know, I just like I mentioned I said I had a kid. Right. And of course, wouldn't it be so much easier just to settle down, take some cash, live in a van down by the river? Not literally, but get a little little place in the middle of nowhere with my family and just live the good, calm life, raising my kid and soon to be kids, perhaps. And for me, the limit is, you know, well.

I'm going to do this show. I'm going to talk about what I think is important. I'll do my best to fact check these stories and make sure y'all have good information, the best information, so you can make informed decisions for yourselves. And I don't want to work in government. Dan just went tenfold into the belly of the beast, standing as a guard of this nation, putting himself at such tremendous risk and sacrificing so much. I'm like, man, he's going the other direction. You know, my dream is like, oh, boy, retirement's around the corner.

Not really, but sooner or later, you know, I'm going to I'm checking out. You know what I mean? Maybe not. I'm not saying literally I'm saying for like the average person, we want to find that time where we can spend with our families and focus on what's important to us and not just work all the time. Dan went the other way. Dan was like, I am going to work 10 times harder for the American people and sacrifice everything at great risk to my safety. And I'm like, wow, wow.

He's he's he's you know, you know, you get it, though. Secret Service, right? You know, the Secret Service, they're trained to use their bodies as shields for the president. Tremendous, tremendous. You know, people are making fun of that Secret Service agent when Trump almost lost his life. And I reject that outright. I said, look, we do need bigger men.

because their body is the shield. But I respect anybody, man, woman, large, small, who at least will try to use themselves as a shield to protect someone else, to protect this nation. That's who Dan is. Dan is the guy who runs into the burning building. Dan is the guy who stands between the psychopath and the president saying, you got to go through me if you want to get to him.

That's that is what it means to be a man. And that is what we need more of in this country. I hope people I hope young people help parents. You explain to your children what it means to be a man, to sacrifice for for your for your community, for your people, for your moral values. Dad embodies that. And I am deeply honored and tremendous respect.

I killed a ghost once. It says, Tim, you had Dan on Timcast last year. Indeed. Right, right, right. I did meet him. You know, I got to be honest. We have so many guests come through here. And literally every day somebody else. I stop saying nice to meet you and I say good to see you. Because I'm like, I don't know. I meet so many people. I was unsure. I don't want to say I knew Dan. But I'm pretty sure I met him at other places too. Like we go to a bunch of events and stuff like that. But, you know.

We'll grab some of your super chat, smash the like button, share the show. If you haven't already, um, join rumble premium in five minutes. I expect all of you to be at rumble.com slash Bon Gino, because this is going to be historical. This announcement, it's going to be huge. So watch his show. Cutesy time is over.

Let's grab some of your super chats. U.P. Schutt says, in Germany, we had our general election yesterday, and now we envy the USA even more for having a proper leader. God bless Trump. We're lucky. We really are. We did work hard for it. We did. Porkchopolis says, congrats, Tim. You'll make a great dad. It was an indescribably emotion I felt the first time I heard my daughter cry when she was born. Oh, yeah. You know what's really amazing is, um,

She's born. She's crying. And, you know, they put her in a little bassinet, a little crib or whatever. And so they make you wait at the hospital for a little while afterwards just to check on everything's OK. And everything was fantastic. And, you know, baby starts crying. And so I just start talking and baby stops crying. And that's that's that's really something amazing.

baby just wants to know that you are there. You know, this is what a baby, their babies are scared. And I honestly, I could not imagine that when we were there and Allison is truly a tremendous person and very strong. And I'm very impressed with how hard she's working, how dedicated she is. I truly am very lucky. And I thought to myself with everything she was, all the work she was going through and everything she was doing, I said, how could there possibly be

individuals would advocate for single motherhood in any way or advocate for men not to be married to these women when they are raising families. It is an absurdity that it takes two parents. It, you know, but let me tell you. So it was it was yesterday.

and Allison was in bed, and she was holding baby. And I came over, and we were together, and I had my arm around her, and Allison was talking. I talked, and then our baby smiled the first time. And I was like, she's sitting there, and she can hear her parents talking, and she knows she's safe, and she smiled. And it's truly indescribable, man. It really is. Y'all with kids, you know. You don't need to hear it from me. The people who don't, if you're young, don't wait.

Cindy Lou says, congrats to you and your family and maybe more babies to come. You know, the only thing I'd say is I wish we had them sooner. But I'm crying about it. You know what I mean? We are who we are. Common Sense Fishing to say, Tim, I got I got I get you looking at the Dan Bongino. But instead of assuming he's walking away from millions, perhaps he will do both jobs. It's not impossible to do a nine to five, then do a show like I do. Trump said he would be giving all of that up. There's no way there's no way.

The issue is Dan's going to have access to privy knowledge and investigations and information can be given away simply by talking about something. So I don't know how he does both. He it is entirely possible. He does do both in some respect, like he comes in once a week or something and says, I can talk about these issues and give updates. But I really do feel like because, look, I know people work in government and I ask him, I'm like, let me put it this way.

The way the Trump administration has come in, there are friends of the show we've reached out to saying, if you ever have a time and they say, now that I'm in this agency or that agency, I don't think I can just come out and give these statements. Unfortunately, it's a different environment. We're like, OK, so it'll be tough. Maybe he does. Maybe he does. Maybe he does. Mizumori says, congratulations on taking delivery of your kiddie pool. Still need a Philcast logo. Indeed. I will also say, too, everyone was like, you should get a beanie for your baby. They give babies beanies.

They give them. All of them. They're little hats. Gotta keep them warm. Gotta keep them warm. All right. Williams Pena says, Congratulations, Tim, LFG, Cash, and Dan. 70 Christians killed in the Congo. Zero mainstream media coverage. Indeed. Now, why is that? I'm pretty sure it's because liberals in this country just hate Christians. That's the weirdest thing to me. It's like...

Look, there's other fundamentalist religions out there. Christianity, you don't have to be so mad about. In fact, it's really weird because Christianity is actually one of the most tolerant, especially after the Reformation. Indeed.

Common Sense Fishing says, if Elon Musk can run Starlink, SpaceX, and X and still run Doge, just a theory, can Dan still run his show? Maybe have a co-host and show up occasionally. Elon is a special government employee. It's different. Guys, it's time for Dan's show. And you got to watch it. So smash the like button. Share the show. We got 30,000, 40,000 people watching. You can smash that like button.

And follow me on X and Instagram at Timcast. Five seconds until Dan kicks live. So I'm going to wrap things up. We got more segments coming up throughout the day. I'm interested in seeing what Dan has to say. Thanks for hanging out. And we will see you all in the next segment.

Last week, Donald Trump gave instructions to Elon Musk to get more aggressive on cutting out the bloat from the federal government. And I think he's doing a bang up job. He appeared at the CPAC in D.C. with a chainsaw and melee, and he appeared to be iced up a little bit, that gold chain. Good work, Elon. Well, here's how the story goes. Elon sends out this email that's basically like, tell me what you did this week. If you don't reply, that's a resignation.

Now we're hearing it's actually a trick. The real goal here is that many of these people work for the government with emails won't respond to them for several reasons. Either they don't exist and let's clean up the email lists. They refuse to respond. And so are they actually doing work? And why are they not adhering to HR policy? Or they never checked their emails in the first place. So they're literally doing nothing.

That's the real point. Basically, the email said, respond to this email with five with five bullet points of what you got done this week. We'll pull up the email and CC your manager refusal to or something like if you don't reply, we'll take that as a resignation. Well, now with Kash Patel as the director of the FBI and Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence, they're instructing all the people beneath them not to respond.

The media, of course, is responding, replying to this as it's some kind of power shakeup and chaos and power. You know, what is what are they saying? They're saying it's a it's a power struggles. There you go. In D.C., I think that's silly. And I think there's obvious reasons why Cash and Tulsi said don't respond because they're dealing with sensitive information. And even knowing who does or does not respond could be compromising to a certain degree. And

I don't think Elon's email is all that serious, but the media is certainly taking it like the apocalypse. So let's get into it, my friends, and see where we're at with this. This is amazing, by the way. All the clever techniques that Elon has at weeding out garbage in business and government is fantastic. But I do want to add one thing as we get started.

Where were all the Democrats crying when people lost their jobs over COVID? They didn't care. They were cheering for it. And now that we're simply saying, hey, you know, maybe we should figure out if people are doing their jobs for the money they're getting paid. They're losing their minds. But I want to tell you one thing. I just I just have to do it. I mean, I got these promos to read. No, I have to do it.

These these people are claiming that Trump and Elon are fascists, that they're seizing control of government. Boy, I tell you, go look at these leftist podcast subreddits. It's amazing. The cope, the see the death threats. Yikes. Go take a look. These people are saying that Trump and Elon have consolidated power. They're taking over the country. It is fascism. And I'm like.

Yo, they're firing people. OK, they are reducing their power in government. Now we're hearing that cash is also going to head up the ATF as well. It looks like agencies are being reduced. That's not expanding Trump's power. You this is what these people don't get when they're like.

You know, you can't you can't own a jet. You know, how are you going to overthrow the government with just handguns or whatever? Was it Joe Biden said you would need F-16s and nuclear weapons? It's like, bro, have you ever read any military doctrine? You can't occupy street corners with an F-16. That's why individuals armed are the most important, most powerful thing in warfare. It's why Vietnam and Afghanistan didn't go so well.

So these people are saying Trump is consolidating all his power in the federal government. But by firing all of these people, he's reducing his capability, capability to influence and maintain power federally. Trump is not taking over. He is dismantling the deep state. That's why they're crying. But let's take a look exactly how. Now, of course, you all know. Oh, boy. Dan Pancino and Kash Patel. I could not be more excited. Not be more excited.

But let's read this story from AL.com. Before we do, my friends, head over to castbrew.com and pick up some castbrew coffee. I got to do it. Ian, you got any coffee left? 154 bags of Ian's Graphene Dream. That really is incredible. Guys, I don't know what it is about Ian's low acidity coffee, but it is selling like crazy. And, you know, part of me, I feel kind of bad.

I do. I mean, we sell a ton of Appalachian Nights. That is our flagship. Ian's is Ian's professional signature blend. But we're selling so much. It's outshining our other coffees. The reality is we're only selling more and more and more. So it's absolutely fantastic that y'all buy Cast Brew at castbrew.com. But I got to say, Ian hit a grand slam with this coffee blend. So shout out to Ian. Y'all are putting him through college and you know he needs it.

Make sure to go to rumble.com slash Timcast IRL. If you go to the playlist, you can see we've got feature-length documentaries and the green room behind-the-scenes pre-show uncensored. Take a look at Chloe Cole's story. And then, of course, we've got Will Chamberlain, who is here. You probably know I was not here Friday or Thursday as I had a child. So thank you to everybody for your well-wishing and for your messages of congratulations. I really do appreciate it.

Most probably know by now my first child was born and this happened on Thursday. So Phil filled in. But you can check out all of those episodes. Tim cast IRL. Here's the story from a L dot com. As Elon Musk's email demand creates chaos for federal workers. Patel tells FBI to hit pause. Indeed, he does. But let me show you the email. We have it from Libs of Tick Tock.

Literally takes two minutes to respond. Reporting to your boss about what you accomplished at work is very standard. Why is this so controversial? Absolute, absolutely great question. Here's the email. It says, what did you do last week, HR? Please reply to this email with approximately five bullet points of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager. Please do not send any classified information, links or attachment. Deadline is this Monday at 1159 p.m. Eastern.

Now, I believe this is the email in question. I'm not entirely sure. It could be this one could be an old email from like Tesla or something. I don't know. But the general idea is there. Why is it controversial in any way to say, hey, boss, here's what I'm working on? Why is the media losing their mind over this? Their minds, I suppose, considering it's a weird hive of cultist mind in the singular is appropriate.

Independent.co.uk, Elon Musk makes an admission about the productivity email his group sent to Federal Works. An admission! They got him, boys. Did they? Yeah, it's fairly obvious.

Elon Musk said that blanket email sent to federal employees asking for a response about their weekly accomplishments or risk termination was a test to see if they had a pulse. Indeed, the tech billionaire tasked by Donald Trump to slash bureaucracy and federal spending through his Department of Government Efficiency wrote on his X platform Friday that all government staff would receive an email requesting specifics of what they had achieved last week. Excuse me.

Workers reportedly received the email Saturday afternoon from the Office of Personnel Management with a subject line, what did you do last week? The deadline given to respond, according to emails reviewed by Reuters, was 11.59 p.m. EST Monday. Failure to reply would be taken as a resignation. Musk tweeted.

Less than 24 hours before the deadline, Musk hinted that the emails were simply a ruse to ensure federal employees were capable of responding to his correspondence. In the early hours of Monday morning, Musk replied to American venture capitalist Gary Tenenax after he shared a post claiming that Doge wouldn't be capable of reading all the federal workers' responses, calling the initiative stupid and performance art.

Most people don't understand LLMs have changed the nature of management already, and this will be a bit of a shock to people. Tan tweeted on Sunday night, speaking of large language models, a type of machine learning like ChatGPT or Grok, Musk responded that LLMs would not be needed for this task. This was basically a check to see if the employee had a pulse and was capable of replying to an email. This mess will get sorted out this week. A lot of people in for a rude awakening and strong dose of reality. They don't get it yet, but they will.

On Sunday afternoon, Musk also referred to the emails as a very basic pulse check. That evening, Musk added that a response was indicative of that employees have two working neurons. As of Saturday night, employees at several agencies, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the CDC, had received the emails Reuters reports.

When asked for comment, an OPM spokesperson told The Independent the agencies will determine any next steps as part of Trump's administration. Trump administration's commitment to an efficient and accountable federal workforce. OPM is asking employees to provide a brief summary of what they did last week by the end of Monday. CCing their manager spokesperson said, I want to stress one of the most mundane and routine things any company or any workforce could ever do. Hey, what did you do this week? Really simple, huh?

What's fascinating is how offended liberals and Democrats got over this one and the corporate press. It's fascinating because he's not asking for anything out of the ordinary. These people literally live their lives working jobs where they do not answer emails or communicate at all with the office. You had one video. I think it was. Was it was it Loffler was in the office? It's like it's Friday afternoon. Take a look. And the entire office is empty.

No one was there. And and these these it's remarkable to me. These Democrats are talking about but remote remote work and how it's they want slavery. That's the kind of force you to be in the office. It's called having a job, dude. You know, let me tell you about remote work. It's bad. Some things can be done remotely. There's a task, you know, A plus B equals C. I get it done. But most high level work requires collaboration. And so I got to tell you, I go downstairs and

Here's how we ended up ordering all of the Pop-Tarts. I know you're thinking, huh? Wait, what is it? We ordered a thousand Pop-Tarts. Bear with me because we're going to be filming a video. That'll be fun. We're going to butter them and make sandwiches. And as it turns out, because they're illegal in Europe, some of our European friends are going to have Pop-Tarts for the first time.

So how did it happen? We were hanging out downstairs mentioning, joking about Family Guy. And then some comments were made. Someone said Pop-Tarts are illegal. And I went, holy crap. They're illegal in Europe. Not that they're illegal, but that because of the regulations, they don't produce or sell them. You can still get them at specialty shops. But we thought it was hilarious. So I ordered a bunch. And I said, let's make a video where we eat a bunch of Pop-Tarts. I mean, they're delicious, but still. The point is,

being there next to each other and joking around and having community helped us come to create these ideas. Now, that's silly, but it can it's masterful when you look at rocketry. There's that famous video where Elon is talking to some YouTuber and the YouTubers. He's like, we don't need cold gas. We have hot gas. And the guy's like, yeah, but that's just the booster. Right. And then Elon goes, oh, that's a good point. Why do we I'm going to change that. That interaction of just a question ignited an idea. And Elon said he knows it.

So this excuse about remote work, they are lazy people who don't want to do the job. So goodbye. Here's a story. They say the rift emerged on Sunday between Trump's agency heads and Musk after leaders, the FBI, Pentagon State Department, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy instructed staff not to reply. Some managers, including the Department of Health and Human Services, instructed workers to comply with the request and a list of five accomplishments, blah, blah, blah, and not to wait.

Interesting. I got no problem. Now, we're hearing, you know, Tulsi said, don't respond. We got a story from The Independent.

Another member of Trump's inner circle rebels. Tulsi Gabbard joins Kash Patel and the DOD and asserts he employs not to respond. I, I really, I really don't care. You know, there are people saying like power, power, signs of power struggles emerge in D.C. No, like I spare me, dude. Elon is doing these light maneuvers off the cuff to just test whether or not people are working. And I got to tell you, it's brilliant.

He's got a bunch of these tactics and techniques, but let me just stress how much you want to bet there are thousands of federal employees getting a paycheck and doing nothing. I mean, literally, I was reading this story on Reddit where this guy said that he worked in a satellite office and

for his company. So they had a main HQ and then they had a satellite office somewhere in the suburbs so that they could take clients and do things like that. It's easier, right? You have your main headquarters, but if you're not in the city, they say, well, we have a lot of clients in this area that can drive there to drop things off and we can facilitate that way. When the company management changed, something happened. They decided to stop using the satellite office. And so they basically shut it down, but never provided instruction to this one guy

So he asked them what's going on with this change. And they said, state is just stay tuned and we'll let you know.

So he shows up at the office and he's the only one there. They still have the property. They're still renting it, but nobody works there anymore. He's sitting in the office. Nobody responds. His boss is is is the guy who runs the office is now working somewhere else and is no longer his boss. He never gets an update. And he's like, I'm sitting here. I've been getting paid for months and they've never given me instruction and I don't know who to email or what to do. So I largely just play civilization on my computer video game.

That probably exists all over government. I don't blame the guy. And I got to be honest. It's funny when you read that story, because if you read it as an employee or a general worker, you're probably going like, whoa, dude's getting a freebie. He gets to get paid and do nothing. Ha ha ha ha. I got to be honest. As a business owner.

I think one of two possibilities, there is a possibility that a large company just didn't realize they left a guy there and he's getting paid. That's that's possible. Seriously, with a large company, that's why they bring in consultants. Right. I got to be honest. I kind of think they know he's there, but you need to have someone occupying the building because you don't want it to be empty. So they were like, just leave some guy there who cares what he does. We need a body in the office. If you will see what happens.

I think that's probable, but I don't know. Maybe they just forgot about it. But the point is this, the way the federal government works, the way they just pay things out, the way it is so broken and corrupt. I'm willing to bet there are thousands of people there. Like, let's say there's a director of, you know, like, I don't invoice like invoicing payments and ingestion or whatever. Right. And his job is like we send out payments, we take in payments and we manage his accounts.

He hires two people to work beneath him. He's told, like, look, hire some people, facilitate. OK, you got it. Then one day, I don't know, he does something untoward. Let's keep it family friendly. And he gets fired. And the government doesn't know or care about the federal employees that are working beneath him in his department. They don't want to deal with unions. They don't know. They don't care. Not their money. So they just forget about it.

The person who had hired the guy who got fired, they move on somewhere else. And these two people are just sitting there being like, what do we do? We're getting paid and we're doing nothing. We have no one to report to. Now think about this. It's the government, which means not the same as a private company where profits matter. They're in the government. They go to someone in their union and say, hey, our boss is gone. There's no one to report to. They go, well, hang tight because they can't fire you for no reason. But yeah, but we have no job. Like we're not doing anything. And they're like,

We'll figure it out. Sorry, I got too much to deal with. And a couple of employees with no real problem is not it's not something I want to deal with. So these two guys sitting in an office start playing video games and they're like, honestly, did I have no idea what we're doing? And they they they walk out of the house and they go, hey, like our boss got fired. What do we do? And they were like, not my problem. No profit doesn't matter.

The United States government could may as well effectively be the largest ingestion of capital on the planet. And they're just like, literally nobody cares about your salary, dude. It is a rounding error in the GDP of the United States. And nobody wants to take time out of the day to solve your problem. So Elon says, answer your emails. And a couple of guys who stopped and are just playing video games all day because they have no real tasks don't get the emails and don't respond. So what happens?

There's going to be with all these emails responding. They can do a simple one for one comparison. We sent out 50,000 emails. We got back 37,000. Isolate the 13. Let's follow up and do performance reviews on them. And then it's going to turn out several thousand were out of the office, paternity leave, maternity leave, vacation, whatever. And several thousand don't actually work there anymore, but are still collecting paychecks. And that is the point. So here we are.

Everyone's screaming and crying about Elon, but let me make it clear for you. Make it as clear as I can. Starbucks lays off 1,100 corporate employees as coffee chain streamlines. John Deere confirms more than 100 layoffs at Ann Kenney location.

CBS News, Dallas-based Southwest Airlines cutting 15% of corporate workforce. From ITPro, tech layoffs have already topped 26,000 in 2025. Let me just stress, these stories are all from right now. The AP story was from this morning. The John Deere story was from yesterday night, yesterday afternoon. CBS News story was from yesterday afternoon. And the TechBro story, I'm sorry, the ITPro story, the TechBro, is from four hours ago.

So have you heard anyone crying over these layoffs? Have any of the Democrats come out and said it is terrible what is happening to these poor Starbucks workers? No, it's a lie. What's actually happening is the free ride is over. Elon Musk posted this meme. It's SpongeBob looking down at a list confused and says got done last week, cried about Trump, cried about Elon, made it into the office for once, read some emails, cried about Trump and Elon some more.

Indeed, Trump deploys SpongeBob meme to troll Doge critics. Trump shared the meme on Truth Social shortly after Musk shared it on X. I'm really enjoying the meme warfare from the administration. They posted ASMR deportation. We're having a good time, folks. We're having a good time. Boy, are they losing their minds. What's really funny, guys, is

I just want to say the word vindication. I am so excited to get some of these liberals on Timcast, IRL or the Culture War podcast, because I'm seeing all of these subreddits for liberal shows where they're like civil war is coming. Donald Trump is taking over the government and firing all this, all the all the checks and balances and he's seizing authority. And I'm like civil civil war, you say, huh? There's so many of these. I posted some of them were like, this clearly ends in civil war. There's no other way. And I'm like, oh.

So all of these people, when when I said this years ago, a year ago, when Donald Trump takes office, either it is limp wristed and nothing gets done or he does what he says he's going to do and the left is going to lose their mind and we are on track for a civil war. Nothing has changed in that regard. The escalation is only before us. But my point has always been not that the right is

Is going to get in the streets and go nuts. Possibility was there. And I do believe high level instigation would likely come from the right. What I mean to say with that is any kind of shot heard around the world moment, such as the Battle of Lexington and Concord. Well, we don't actually know who fired first, but it wasn't the loyalists. My point here is liberals are now seeing everything Trump is doing and claiming the only thing that can be done is civil war. These same people told me I was wrong.

That Trump wasn't it's wild because I'm like I was talking to Sam Seder and he's like, you think a civil war? And I was like, what if Trump does X? He goes, well, I mean, if I guess if he does that, I'm like, do you think Trump will do the things he's saying he's going to do? He's like, well, I mean, he might. And I'm like, and if Trump does the things you claim are fascistic, you're saying no one is going to is going to stop him. And he's like, well, I mean, I'm like, so you think there is a possibility? Well, I guess I'm like, uh-huh. Spare me, bro. Now it is all the liberals and leftists on this side, but it's saying civil war is coming.

Not that I know for sure, but I think we are looking at something truly tremendous. This is the administrative civil war. That's what they've called it. Does the deep state take this lying down? The reality is I don't think any real Americans support the deep state in this way. And it's all sock puppet fake garbage. You go and talk to a regular person like what's wrong with firing these people? Yeah, they're back. I know people get fired all the time. Why are these people sacred? Indeed. So I don't know if there's actually going to be a civil war because I think it may be over.

But my friends, I suppose as time often says, we can only wait and see. So smash that like button, share the show with everyone. You know, we got more segments coming up. Thanks for hanging out and we will see you all in the next segment. Over the past several years, I have warned that there is a potential for a coming second American civil war. We don't know how it will take place, whether it will even come. But it does seem like we're at least on a path in that direction.

Due to the various variables that exist before us, who knows? Who knows? But the reason why I bring this up

The reason why I talk about civil war, I should say, is that, as most of you know, there have been articles written by prominent individuals at prominent publications about the fear of a second civil war. National security experts, professors and even former CIA analysts have all warned the U.S. is trending this way. As of right now, the state of political disarray, ideological division and political violence has left us in what is called civil strife.

the period that occurs before a civil war takes place. Now, it is no guarantee that a civil war happens. The civil rights era in the 50s was considered a period of civil strife, but it did not evolve into a full-blown war.

However, bleeding Kansas was civil strife and it did lead to the American Civil War. Now, many of these people on the left, they have mocked me. They have say they have said this Tim Pool is laughable. Ha ha. Does he really think it's going to happen? And then they go on and gurgle their ignorance, saying he's just engagement farming. Well, oh, boy, do I have vindication and news for you.

Following the actions of Donald Trump in this past month, liberals across the board on various subreddits and other platforms, but I love the Reddit one, have been warning a civil war is coming, outright calling for the use of violence or expressing their fear that there's going to be some degree of fascistic takeover, authoritarianism, ultimately culminating in conflict. Some have even advocated for civil war. Now, it's fascinating.

If you go on these various subreddits of which we have pulled up is Kyle Kalinsky. You go on David Pakman show or Vouch. It's funny because you go back in time and they're, of course, commenting on Tim Pool saying, why does Tim Pool think a civil war is going to come? This guy's so dumb. MAGA chuds are so fat and overweight they wouldn't be able to fight. And I find it hilarious because they've never once actually listened to what I had to say. So we have this post from Secular Talk pulled up.

Secular Talk, of course, is Kyle Kalinske's show where they say Donald Trump is the reason the Second Amendment was created. Really? I'd like to throw it back to the culture where episode I did a few months ago with Sam Seder. Sam Seder of the Majority Report, of course, argued with me that civil war wouldn't happen. And for tribal culture, cult like reasons, he maintained a position that defied his own reasoning. And we had the discussion.

Basically, no matter what I asked, the dude kept saying, well, I still don't think it will happen, despite saying he thought it could happen. But let me break it down. Why this matters. So, of course, with liberals trying to insult me for tribal reasons, they say Tim Pool's crazy for thinking there could be a civil war.

And there's a lot of factors at play as to why a civil war may happen. Right now, Donald Trump is firing bureaucrats. He's taking control of the independent agencies through executive order, which he should have had in the first place under Article 1 of the Constitution. And

Largely, the Democrats view this as a fascistic takeover and him placing loyalists. There's two disparate worldviews. It doesn't matter which view you take. My view is that, of course, Elon is firing bureaucrats, finding waste and bloat. And Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are going to come and clean things up, restore accountability. Democrats view it as a fascist takeover. They fear they are going to be targeted by the federal government. And they say things like, this is how a civil war starts.

So along comes Sam Seder. He comes on the Culture War Show and he says he doesn't think there will be one and tries to play this thing of, oh, Tim Pool is so dumb for saying civil war. So I said to him, OK, do you think that Donald Trump is going to use the military to deport illegal immigrants? And Sam Seder says, of course, he said it right. I said, OK, let's imagine a scenario where Donald Trump has trucks and trains pulling up and they're loading illegal immigrants, these people onto trains by the thousands.

Do you think that liberals will just stand there and say, oh, gee, oh, I guess, you know.

And he largely agreed, yeah, liberals won't do anything about it. They'll sit there and watch. And I said, sure. Do you think that there is a possibility that as these these deportations are happening and Trump has started taking control, a state like California may refuse the military or National Guard to come in and do this? Of course. And I said, do you think Trump will just say, OK, I guess we can't go to California? And he says something effective like no. No.

The logic and the questions I asked was not to get Sam Seder, but largely, I believe people like he and Kyle Kalinske and David Pakman just say whatever their their followers want them to say. And so that is Tim Pool is so dumb. I'll give you an example on David Pakman.

David Pakman had on this, my favorite example, and I'll give you another one to be completely honest. I'll give you the modern one right now. Donald Trump is enjoying the highest approval ratings of his political career, though it has gone down a little bit over the past couple of weeks. It was at a really high point, and now he's just generally like one point five up. So pretty good. Best of his political career. David Pakman put out a video saying worst approval, all time worst approval. I'll show you. I'll show you the screenshot.

How can David Pakman logically put out a video saying Trump has the worst approval ratings with the best he's ever had of his career in aggregate because he's just saying whatever he has to say? Now, I mean, I use aggregate polling. I don't isolate one poll. So here's a couple of examples. Several years ago, this is probably like six, seven years ago, I noticed that David Pakman and I both had two different videos on the same day.

Mine was Trump sees highest favorability. His was Trump sees lowest favorability. I said, well, hold on. Something must be wrong. Did I get this wrong? How can these two realities coexist? In my video, I took the aggregate favorability and approval of Donald Trump, meaning I looked at 15 different polls, averaged them out using real clear politics and 538, which is ABC News. And we found that though Trump was underwater, it's the best he'd ever done. And I said, this is great news. Trump is improving.

David Pakman took a single, single poll showing record unfavorability and said that proves it. It's very strange. Why would you lead off with what is statistically known as static or a blip? That's why I didn't use it. And I never do because these polls are outliers. Sometimes I'll use single polls if it is the only poll put out for that time of a specific issue.

Notably, we talked about Democrat favorability recently being at an all time low. And I show that while it is lower than Republicans in aggregate, there are these single polls saying all time low. I think that's fine. But tracking Donald Trump's approval rating in this way, that's not true. And then there's the famous meet the press moment.

Where David Pakman laughed when it was Ted Cruz asked if he believed the Ukraine interfered in the election in 2016, to which Politico and The New York Times reported. And when Ted Cruz says that's what's been reported, a producer laughed and Pakman laughed at him. This is a really great example. This is Pakman laughing at a guy for reading the news.

Here's my point, and we'll jump into all of this. Kyle Kalinske is getting roasted because he kept saying Kamala was doing really well in owning the Republicans, and he actually thought she'd win Iowa insane.

David Pakman, as I already mentioned. And now we have, of course, the Vouch subreddit Vouch, where they mock me for all the times I've warned that extreme politic politicization of government could lead to civil war. Not that I was saying the left was starting a civil war or the right was. I said this political division is getting to the point. Case in point, let's jump here to this post. Let's let's zoom in at least a little bit.

Secular talk 17 days ago. Donald Trump is the reason the Second Amendment was created as a libertarian socialist. Now more than ever, I believe it is crucial for leftist liberals, unions, immigrants, LGBTQ and POC to finally stop trying to play the moral high ground in the issue of Second Amendment and level the playing field with who has the guns in this country. In a comment posted 17 days ago, it says, I wouldn't be surprised if a civil war happened in the next six months. Interesting. Well, my friends, I have a litany of posts.

Here's one from r slash politics. The second U.S. civil war is coming. It's been coming for some time. And this is in response to an article from 10 hours ago. Blue states fear invasion by red state National Guard troops for deportations. Washington state Democrats back a bill to keep other states units out. Let's roll, baby.

For the David Pakman show seven months ago, MAGA keeps hinting at a civil war. How would that play out? MAGA has no actual army. So I guess it would just be some armed and crazed Trump fanboys, just like a bunch of Kyle Rittenhouses running amok. How would they do against the actual U.S. military? I'm showing you this because this was the sentiment from the David Pakman subreddit seven months ago before Donald Trump won. The perception was we have the military. What could you possibly do?

Someone commented a big fat L just like last time. Extra fat. They won't fight because McDonald's and Burger King would stop serving them. The South shall fall again. Very funny. So here's my good friend Chet GPT. Let's start here.

Does working out make men more conservative? Yes. Studies suggest that men who engage in regular strength training or fitness activities tend to have more conservative political beliefs, blah, blah. Give me a graph showing the level of physical fitness compared to political ideology. And this is not the amount. It's the relationship between. That is, the further left you go, the less physically active a person is. And the further right you go, the more likely you will find physically active people.

That's just simple. And look, it's very simple. Here's a graph illustrating the relationship between physical fitness levels and political ideology. As fitness levels increase, the trends suggest a shift towards more conservative beliefs. That is to say...

There are more fat conservatives and more fit conservatives. There are more average liberals, and that's all that matters. The left likes to point out that conservatives tend to be more overweight, but they overlook the fact that conservatives have the highest and lowest end. Conservatives have very fat people and very fit people, and liberals are somewhere in between. Meaning, if it came to conflict, you have substantially more well-armed individuals, fat or otherwise, and well more fit individuals who likely would do fighting.

And then here's, of course, the obvious gun ownership rate by political ideology, which is a straight line from zero to 100. Yep. The further left you go, the less likely they are to have guns. So let's get back to the comments. Here's late stage capitalism. Why doesn't why the United States doesn't go to a civil war?

Late stage capitalism has nearly one million members on Reddit, and there are many posts. This one's kind of low hanging fruit, to be honest, from these far leftists who say record high homeless insecurity in the working class, historical rate of insecurity. The wealth is hoarded by one percent violation of human rights. Media controlled narrative. Why are they supporting the system? Now, to be fair, late stage capitalism wasn't one of those subreddits insulting me over the idea. They were probably the leftists hanging back, being like, Tim Pool ain't wrong.

Let's go back to the David Pakman show. Dear America, you do not have to let him do it from Canada. And this is really funny. Here's a little cat with hearts as America is letting him grab him by the pussy. And then on the right is a beaver and says Canada is different. Stay the hell away from our beavers. The top comment from one day ago, David Pakman, you have to understand this is the closest to what it must have felt like during the Civil War. I live in a red state and they believe everything Trump tells them. Blah, blah, blah.

Trump is doing everything the opposite of a president should blah, blah, blah. I show you this one because these are the people that mocked me when I literally described this phenomenon. Not that I said we should have a civil war. We don't want one. We want peace. But you see, these people lie, cheat and steal. And as such, you end up with people who only ever know current thing. That's it. So why now? A day ago, they're like, this is what civil war must have felt like.

But a year ago when I was like, guys, everything we are seeing tracks historically along so many other civil wars. Just do your basic research on it to the point where even Sam Seder was ultimately like, well, I suppose it could happen, but I don't think it will. And I'm like, sure, I agree. I don't think it will either. But we are on track. That means the path we are going, should it continue to escalate, goes in that direction. We could turn right at any point. Right. Hey, we got another one from the David Pakman show. How are you all preparing for the very possible Trump recession?

You know, blah, blah, blah. They say we're planning on selling our home and keep the equity safe. I'm planning on things going to ish of the next few years and will likely last a decade as people leave the MAGA cult. Finally, if it really hits the fan and a civil war starts, California will probably be one of the better states to reside in a potential war. Really? You're moving and packing two months ago out of fear of a civil war? Wow, these people are crazy. One person wrote in the David Pakman subreddit, I am executing the Doge purge. Here's what I want you to know.

The top comment, a Luigi in every household. They won't stop until they lose full blown civil war. Really? I have some some polls I want to show you. I wrote that I'm seeing more and more liberals calling for taking things into their own hands, notably from the David Pakman subreddit. One person says it's done. He's got full control of the government, military and all. It's either the people take it into their own hands out on the streets or it's going to be a fascist state from now on.

Very interesting. Here's one where I said, guys, liberals think a civil war is coming. Can you believe it? Yeah. Someone says, how does the Trump presidency monarchy dictatorship end? And someone said, a good guy with a gun. Terrifying. These people should be investigated. It ends in war. One person said, it's coming to a head. And here's my favorite. As I mentioned, here's the David Pakman subreddit. All-time lowest approval rating. Trump worst February approval of all-time disaster already. Guys,

Real clear politics. This is important context. OK, real clear politics and 538 have Trump in aggregate across all polls above water. It's the best he's ever done in his career. It has been going down. Disapproval has been going up as to be expected. But even if Trump sits a point below the entirety of his first term, he was like 10 points underwater at some point, 12 points underwater. Right now, he's above water with super high approval ratings.

Again, it may go down. Why is David Pakman posting thumbnails? All time lowest approval rating because for the love of all that is holy, it's all fake. Pakman, Kalinsky, all of these people do all day is lie. Yo, I'll show you. I don't care. I don't care if Trump is right or wrong. OK, I prefer it because I live in reality. But let me just stress this one more time.

As I have been, let me see if I can find this stupid post.

From Vosh's separate two years ago. So does Tim Pool tweet about civil war just to get engagement or does he actually fantasize it or both? And they show a whole bunch of posts from me over the past couple of years where I said you were in a civil war, civil war, whatever. Now, they remove the context from these things, but most of these posts are in response to something happening at the federal level, which was shocking and resulting in people on the right calling for escalation or demanding accountability or some kind of action. That is, they don't show you, but quite literally,

Here's one. This and the Obamagate stuff tell me we aren't in a civil war. This is from 2020. No one views the upcoming election as legitimate. That was in September of 2020. I was completely 100% correct around the sentiment around 2020. Shout out to my friend Ryan Long. I'm going to call you out on this one, buddy, but in a good way. Ryan Long came on the show back then. I talked about the fear that we were escalating towards civil war despite the fact Trump was president and we had an election coming up. After the election and Trump lost,

It's a few months in Ryan Long on Tim cast IRL. As soon as the show started, says, where's the Civil War, man? You were telling me that we were heading towards civil war and I was all freaked out. And now what's going on? And I immediately just said on January 6th, 2021, a thousand Trump supporters fought their way into the Capitol building, fighting with cops in an attempt to stop the electoral vote count. Should I continue like you get my point? And he went, oh,

My point was this. In 2020, I said nobody views the election as legitimate. And I was right. You got January 6th and the left said it was an insurrection. So I'm not saying January 6th is that this that or otherwise the feds that went after peaceful people who weren't involved in the riot, hunting them down to the point where a little old lady in Alaska for mistaken identity had her home raided. Insane. They set up Capitol Police departments in different states. Why? COVID lockdowns.

So in 2020, when I said, holy crap, now these people seem to think we live in a world where tomorrow the civil war just happens. And the whole time, as all of you know, I've been maintaining this is a track towards January 6th. The left called an insurrection. They literally claimed that Trump tried to start a civil war on January 6th. Yet even after that, for the love of all that is holy, they mocked me for entertaining their own ideas. Now, what I tell you right now,

With all these far left lunatics advocating for civil war, look at this one. Blue states fear innovation, civil war. Interestingly, the union, blah, blah, blah. All of these people, by the time this happens, will be in a full blown civil war. Oh, no, Vosh subreddit. Hold on there a minute. Weren't y'all in the Vosh subreddit just claiming a couple of years ago that I was just engagement farming? That's what they were claiming. And now they're posting civil war will happen. It's fascinating.

Here's one from the last three days ago. David Pakman revealed he had a conversation with some lawyers in D.C. who warned him there is serious talk about going after progressive independent content creators. Well, I certainly think David Pakman is a bad person. He's allowed to say what he wants, despite the fact that can prove he's lying. Now, don't get me. Don't get me wrong. In those videos he makes, he's clickbaiting. He talks about Trump's approval being well, but he leads off by convincing people it's bad. And that's fine. He's allowed to. He's allowed to do that.

That's the first that's the First Amendment. He's a liar and I will call him a liar. But where we are right now is my warning to all of you where this ends up and where it escalates to. And the left is now calling for advocating for civil war to the point where Kyle Kalinske's subreddit two weeks ago said Trump is the reason for the Second Amendment. And someone responded, I wouldn't be surprised if a civil war happened in the next six months. Hmm.

Now, I don't know. Honestly, I think Donald Trump is waging a march to the sea as it were on the deep state with Dan Bongino being appointed. I'm not so convinced anymore. I think the administrative civil war may be over, but this could be the path by which things ignite. That is Abraham Lincoln won his election in 1860.

Before he took office, seven states seceded from the union. It's a very different structure of governance. Most civil wars are not secessions. Most civil wars are urban areas rejecting the rural areas ideology. So leadership of the country, like if you look at Spain, for instance, the what the cities went one way, the rural areas went another. And when the military took over or I should say the government started to shift towards in one direction, the cities rejected it.

The possibility of a civil war will likely not be secession, will likely be Donald Trump deportations, as I mentioned before, and Democrats refusing federal law enforcement moving in. And it's no one ever sees it coming. We say and I know you know this because I said a million times, but this one goes to all the lefties who may find themselves watching this video because now all of a sudden they're scared of civil war or calling for it. The U.S. Civil War started the Battle of Fort Sumter.

When Union forces had a military base in South Carolina said, you can't stay here. We have seceded. And they said, it's our base. We built it. Do something about it. Only one person died. And it was an accident. Even after the Battle of Fort Sumter happened, no one believed we were in civil war. When Confederate troops made their way to Manassas, the first battle of Bull Run to confront Union forces, people were picnicking on a hillside.

They were picnicking, saying there's no civil war. Now, hold on. Historically, we say the civil civil war already started, but there were people picnicking, thinking it could never happen. How does that make sense? Because in the moment, people can't see what comes next. Historically, we say what led to all of this. The first shots were Fort Sumter. Now, to be fair, we could say bleeding Kansas was beginning a civil war for seven years. People were murdering each other in Kansas over whether it be a slave territory or a free state.

And then you get fourth, you get the secession before Lincoln was even president. So now what do we have? We don't know exactly what will happen, but the pieces have been lined up as such. It is very dangerous with Donald Trump taking these actions. It may be very simple federal. Let me show you the article that prompted all this blue states fear invasion by red state National Guard troops.

Donald Trump says we are going to deport in California. California says absolutely not. We will defy you. Trump says I hereby invoke the Insurrection Act, which can be invoked if a state has stopped enforcing the law. Trump then nationalizes the California National Guard, causing a split where some more conservative Californians agree. And others say, I live here, man. I'm not going to go against my state government, despite the fact we are more of a federal society than we were at the time of the Civil War, which is more state based. Civil War, in fact, shifted that.

Many of the troops may say yes to Trump, but then they're going to be at odds with their local law enforcement and community who will not. It could be that simple. You end up with National Guard coalitions from other states going into California and occupying the state. Democrats then say, my God, it's happened. The fascists have taken over. They have taken over our government. They have ended democracy. The question is, will the far left stop? It may begin with far left insurgency. They go around acting a fool. Who knows? It could be that Trump backs off.

refuses to engage in the deportations. But then you see rogue right wing actors say we are going to shut down highways into California, causing this strain. Trump then says they're in defiance of the law. Who knows? Now, a year ago, two years ago, during the Biden administration, I'd say the fears at the time were what the right would do in reaction to a weaponized federal government used by the left. Now it's inverted because Trump won and we didn't know what was going to happen. The left, of course, is now saying civil war. The funny thing, people on the right haven't stopped.

People on the right are still saying Trump won the election, but the fears of civil war haven't debated because we're still terrified of what the far left extremists will do. So, my friends, I will wrap it here because I don't want to go too long. But isn't it fascinating to see all these far leftists now advocating for calling for a warning of a civil war, despite the fact they mocked me and everybody else when we were reasonably saying, guys, these escalations are happening and we don't want them. Funny, isn't it?

I want to make sure I wrap up by giving a good shout out to Kyle and David for being wrong and lying all the time. Now, I'm wrong all the time, too. So, you know, stones and glass houses. But I won't lie to you like David Pakman does. Worst approval. This dude is awful. And you know what? YouTube props him up and people eat it up like the good little cultists they are. Let me tell you this. Hit a video apparently where he accused me of saying he was getting funded by USAID or something.

Milo Yiannopoulos on the show and I said, we should look at some of these podcasts because USAID was paying nonprofits and we know many nonprofits buy advertisements on these podcasts. We should take a look at that. Some people got mad at me and said, Tim, but you're getting money from Russia or whatever. I never got any money from Russia. That was always a lie. We did a deal with a conservative company based in Tennessee with a prominent conservative personality. We did our background checks on their investors and everything. And it turns out we were manipulated.

But the money came from American companies and it's never been proven. That's what's really fascinating. Hopefully we'll see something from Dan and Cash on the matter. That being said, I am not and I did not say this to impugn the honor or integrity of David Pakman to imply that he did anything untoward. Milo Yiannopoulos did. But David lies because he wants to put my name in a title. My point was David may be unaware, as many of these other podcasts are, that the ads they're selling are coming from government contracts.

And we may see those contracts disappear, which would be interesting. I suppose we'll see. In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed this segment. We've got more coming. Stay tuned. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone you know. And we'll see you all in the next segment.

Being much larger than Joy Reid's show is do I talk about someone who got fired because nobody knows who she is? But let me just phrase it like this. A prominent progressive lunatic has just lost her media job because nobody watches it. That's why it's relevant to all of you. So I'll have to structure the title to this segment in such a way that that idea can be conveyed. Because if I put Joy Reid fired, I don't know, to be honest, I probably will. People are going to be like, who? Who's that? Who got fired?

Is she a good person? I don't know who that is. Yeah, she barely mustered 70,000 in the key demo. And that's saying a lot. You know, the media tries to report this as like she was getting 700,000 viewers. Yeah, I guess if they were 75 years old. No disrespect to 75 year olds. Don't get me wrong. Joy Reid. It happens to the best of us. But if you can't adapt your business, you cease to exist. Everybody has their time. It is pretty well to think about, though.

That the politics of MSNBC turning into weird leftist psychosis was because they were losing money. So Joy Reid shifted this direction because that's what the audience wanted. Let me put it this way.

You get the same exact thing with Kyle Kalinske and David Pakman. I'll give you a couple examples. I was ragging on them in the previous segment. But like Kyle Kalinske actually put out a map where he was like, my best case scenario for Kamala is she wins Iowa. And it's like, dude, there's no reality where Kamala would win Iowa. And everybody was making fun of what's-her-face, that pollster, over suggesting she could. But these people are puppets.

They have bosses, not Pacman and Clinton. I'm saying Joy Reid and these people. And they're saying what they think they need to say. That's where they exist. And that's all that matters. They're not forward thinkers. They're not deep thinkers. They don't actually understand a lot. We've been trying to book both Kyle and David to come on the show for some time. They strangely don't do it because they live in a false reality, like with David Pacman claiming that Trump's

A disaster with all time lowest approval. I swear to God, he made a thumbnail that said that despite any sane person looking at the aggregate polling and being like, wow, Trump's doing better than he's ever done before. The best approval rating of his political career with popular vote victory. Duh. Why wouldn't that be the case? But sure, they say what is the fascinating thing? I can understand being like, I believe that most Americans feel this way. So I'm going to report that I think the true sentiment is against wokeness. I can see the polls.

But the idea that Trump would win the popular vote and then they'd still come out and be like, nope, Trump's approval rating is bad. It's like, but it's not. You know what I mean? Like, I can come out and be like, yeah, Trump's approval is not that great. And I think largely it's because the media smears him all the time. Well, not so much anymore with Joy Reid being outed and also Lester Holt as well. Take a look at this from the Daily Mail. Joy Reid's MSNBC show is canceled as ratings plummet.

They mentioned that the 7 p.m. time slot will be replaced, the panel show, with Simone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele. I vaguely know Alicia. I worked with her at Fusion, but never really interacted with her. She is the daughter of that Menendez senator guy who's going to prison for all that criminal stuff he was doing, convicted of. I don't blame. I absolutely do not intend that to be that I blame an individual for the sins of the father. Not at all. Alicia has just been a media personality for some time.

They say the shakeup comes as the president, Rebecca Cutler, who was looking to save the network from dismal ratings, was looking to save the ratings. They're going to mention that from 8 to 11, MSNBC barely managed an audience of 734,000. I think what they're saying is like all hours combined, maybe. Well, no, maybe not. I think they're talking about individual hours. They don't phrase these things properly. It's hard to understand unless you're in the industry. They say...

Amid looming landscape of languishing cable and legacy news stations, MSNBC had their lowest rated January in history in the key demo of 25 to 54. Check this out. They say MSNBC lagged at just 45,000 viewers during the day. Yikes! 63,000 during peak hours at night, with Maddow experiment seemingly failing. Now, let me explain this for you. They're saying—this is what you've got to understand—

45,000 viewers during the day. That means at any given hour, how many watched in an hour? Yo, that's pretty wild. Within an hour of putting within one hour of this video going up, it will likely have 60, 70,000 views. And in the life of this video segment, it will have hundreds of thousands. Now, YouTube isn't the only place for video anymore with Rumble emerging. A Rumble viewership, of course, through the roof, through the roof. Um,

Our ratings have been going up steadily as the marketplace has expanded. And this is more so now not a channel driven, but personality driven media landscape. Meaning if you share this video, tell your friends you like watching Tim Pool's content, then you Tim Pool kind of ends up growing. MSNBC used to be the channel. You'd turn it on. You'd watch it was there. That's how people like Don Lemon. There you go. Almost forgot his name. And Chris Como ended up with audiences.

They're of little merit. They're not particularly bright, but they were given positions where the network had an audience because there was no other alternative. Now that everything's decentralized, people simply choose who they want to watch, which is why it's big news that Dan Bongino, who had 240,000, this is insane. He had almost 10 times the viewers I had. This morning, I had 33, 34,000 concurrent viewers. Oh, no, actually, it was more than that. It was 40,000.

It was about 40 between Rumble and YouTube. So shout out. Shout out to the Tim Pool Army. Actually, homage to Dan Bongino because he has the Bongino Army. I never said I don't I don't know stuff like that. But this dude's getting nearly 10 times or so. It's like seven times my audience. Massive show. And if he leaves, he says he's going to take this deputy FBI director job. That leaves a big hole. It's fascinating. The liberal personalities lose their jobs because nobody wants to watch them.

And everyone's begging to watch Bongino, but he has to go to serve his country. I love the direction of things. I just wish Dan didn't have to leave. It's too bad he can't do both, but he really can't. We'll see what he can pull off. Yeah, get this. MSNBC, it's over. And nobody's watching her anywhere else.

She's a meaningless personality like Don Lemon with no merit. Caitlin Collins, too. If you were Cog and the Machine, they'd pay well. Caitlin Collins, you know, her salary is reported at $3 million a year. Can you believe that? She's a millionaire for what she does? Yowza. You know what's really offensive is that she is one of the most meritless individuals. And I'm not trying to single her out, but Joy Reid as well.

They don't do anything. These people are not fit to make your coffee. They have little ability other than tell me where to stand and say it and I'll say it. Yeah. You know, I work hard every single day. All right. I work 16 hour days. I work double shifts, probably more technically because we're working on everything we do. We're trying to build so much and the weekends and just work, work, work, work, work, work. And man,

Caitlin Collins gets paid. And what does she do? She just annoys everybody like nobody watches her. It's one thing if she's an activist like Joy Reid kind of was. I get it. But recently, Donald Trump was signing an executive order and she just randomly starts talking. And Trump's like, excuse me, please stop. No one's talking now. And it's like, that's why she gets paid the big bucks. You look if you're somebody.

Who is willing to embarrass yourself in front of the country to no audience and that be your legacy? Hey, money's right there for you. You know, CNN was like, nobody watches your show. Nobody cares. But do you want to try and generate weird buzz attention by just annoying people? And she was like, sure. Amazing. Right. And she was working the Daily Caller. How about that? Lester Holt is out at NBC Nightly News. It is just the collapse of the garbage media. And I'm here for it.

Holt, 65, announced he's stepping down into memos at the Staffers Monday, 10 years after he stepped in to replace longtime fixture Brian Williams. Brian Williams, of course, lost his job when he lied about being in a helicopter or something. Holt previously, those to the weekend edition, blah, blah, blah. He has since told Staffers, blah, blah, blah. I don't care about any of this because it's all garbage. Like, bye. Here you go. LA Times. CNN hit with 6% staff cut as network sets a plan for a digital future. It ain't going to work. All right.

CNN, I'm going to tell you how to save the network. There's a lot of people saying, Tim, stop. Don't. No, I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. Here's what you do. First, fire Caitlin Collins. Anderson Cooper. Yeah, he's got to go. Yeah, Anderson, you got to go. Sorry. I was a fan of the guy a while ago. I like the dude at War Stuff, but he's just, it's not there anymore. CNN, I'm telling you, listen, fire all of your primetime lineup. You can keep your daily news anchors.

But they've got to balance out. That's fine because the daily news stuff, who cares? But here's what you do. CNN needs to go into the moderate podcasting space and sign contracts to have these personalities host our slots in primetime. You got the 8 p.m. Well, I suppose you could do seven. So let's say seven, eight, nine, and ten. You got four personalities to hire. Find some of these moderate personalities, offer them $3 million a year.

Like, come on, Caitlin Collins, dude, y'all are nuts. You know, what's really fascinating is I got to be honest. I don't feel like I'm actually giving advice because it's so obvious. Caitlin Collins couldn't podcast her way out of a paper bag. You put her in a room and said talk. Her show would be miserable. There'd be nothing worth listening to.

Go where the merit is. Find an up and coming podcaster of a moderate political persuasion and say, we'll give you the money instead. You do an hour. You could take a single individual who does all their independent research on their own with no staff talking into a webcam and get a better show on 7 p.m. CNN with more viewers than you'd get from the people you have now. But they won't do it. They won't do it. And so they deserve to go under. Same thing is true with MSNBC.

It's the podcasting generation, baby. You know, we've taken over. Cable news is done. And that's why it's pretty wild, pretty wild position to be in. The money is starting to get crazy. For real. I was talking about this last year. You know, we're looking at these podcast deals where it's like this person got $100 million and that person got $100 million and Rogan got $200 and all this stuff. And it's like, yeah.

Yep. These are the top channels these days. The media landscape has shifted. So goodbye. You guys sucked. Thanks for hanging out. Next segment's coming up in a little bit. Stay tuned and we will see you all shortly. They are lying to you. This is not a mistake. They intentionally did this. I will show you the video. The video is edited to lie to you. Elon Musk slammed for abandoning his young child in horrible viral clip.

I am going to start right away by showing you the full video in question of Elon Musk with his son and what happened. That way, for many of you, your first exposure to this content will be the complete context of Elon Musk with his child and not the lie. Here's the video in question. You hear clapping. Elon's son following close behind him. He checked several times.

He waves and begins walking and he stops and looks back every step of the way. Cheers for his child as they walk out together. I'm going to play this again for you. It's important. Elon Musk is with his son. They are two feet apart. As he begins walking down the stairs, his son X runs in the wrong direction and Elon stops, smiles and waves to him to follow him. He then follows him down the stairs. He checks back. That's two times now he's checked to look at his son.

He walks, he waves, he stops, and then he stops again. Checks behind to see that little X is still on the stairs. That's the third time he checks. He walks back to his son. He then does a little cheer with his arms, and his son follows him out. Together. A few feet apart. That's it. Nothing happened. That's it. How did we then...

Get to this point where we have, and these aren't the only ones, r slash pop culture. Elon Musk leaves his human shield little ex behind. Secular talk. Elon Musk leaves his human shield behind. That's weird. Linking to facepalm. Elon Musk slammed for abandoning his young child after walking off stage and leaving him behind. None of it's real. It was, it was, it's all fake. Joshua Reed Eagle.

posted this video, a man with 47,500 followers, president of Project Liberal. Many of you may have seen this. So let's pause real quick and I'll say this. For those of you that know that you're being lied to all the time and you're aware that they're lying about Elon, share this video because I am. I started off right away. Ian Crossland on Timcast IRL refers to this as vaccination.

He says that sometimes he has to send the debunked information to his parents before the lies are sent to them. That way, when they see the lie, they know they're being lied to. Joshua Reid Eagle posted this video. Now you can see Mukhtar. There's an original post. Another individual said the so-called genius forgot his human shield son. What a loving father. One hundred thousand followers.

And you can see it's got 18.9 million views. Now I will show you the fake video. In this video that is selectively edited, they cut out the point at which Elon waves to his son to follow him. They show him wave to the crowd. And then you can actually see at the bottom, Elon stops to look as I already showed you. The camera then zooms in so you can't see Elon walking back to get his son.

is blocked by a woman's head and then goes back to the stairs as if to imply the child is nowhere in sight. They then play a weird laughing noise. The goal of this was always to manipulate you, to make you believe false things. We had on Daniel Negrano, one of the greatest poker players of all time.

I think he's actually the best. He doesn't say that. I don't know that he believes that. But in terms of his poker play and how he calls people out, it's a combination of skill and entertainment. And sure, there's other like higher winning players with money, but I don't think that necessarily makes them the best. But I digress. He was on Tim Kess DRL. It was an honor and a privilege. I'm a big fan. And he said that he believed Trump called neo-Nazis very fine people. It's like, I saw the video. I saw him say it.

And then finally, one of his buddies slid a phone and says, watch. And he goes, OK, fine. He watched. And Trump goes, and I am not talking about the neo-Nazis or the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally. And he went, wait, what? He'd never seen it before. This is the game they play. People like Daniel. He's a good dude. But he largely is he's not really following every single full raw news video. So how could it be that someone as smart as he was manipulated?

Because when you trust a society and other humans, you don't believe they would edit videos intentionally to deceive you, to make you think the wrong things and harm your life. But they do. And we know it. For those of you that are already aware, like I said, share this one. Let this be a breaking moment for so many people. Look, Elon should be criticized for a lot of things. But this is not one of them.

And they're trying to make you hate the man for things he did not do. Now, if you want to come and say you think the whole situation with Ashley St. Clair is disgusting, he's got too many kids, too many baby mamas, fine. Those are things we know to be true. Like the surface level. So I'm not saying any of the rumors. I'm saying literally he's got a lot of kids with a lot of different women. He should be married. He should have fewer kids, whatever you want to think. You're allowed to think those things. But he didn't abandon X.

He had the kid walking with him. The kid has a degree of autonomy. He stops and checks every so often and waves to the kid and he cheers for him. Probably for Elon, he didn't even consider anything happened. But then these leftists take the video, manipulate it to trick you. So later on, you can say, I saw the video. He walked up without even looking at his kid. And then you're like, watch the full video. I'm like, I did see the full video. No, you didn't. It was edited in such a way to manipulate you.

So you would believe the wrong thing. Now, understanding that, where do you go? For those of you who are default liberals, maybe your friend shared this video and said, watch this video. What do you think? I ask you this. Are you going to say, well, maybe this one was fake? Or are you going to now be more reasonable and say, I better check every time? Because if this video with 20 million views, 20 million and news articles written about it was fake, what else could be fake?

And see, that's the epiphany many of us had a long time ago as it pertained to Donald Trump. If they're going to lie about this, what else are they lying about? And as it turns out, quite a bit. And so when it comes to Trump or Cash or Dan Bongino or any one of these individuals, certainly they're not perfect. And often there are things to criticize them for, as most humans should be. But in this regard...

They lied. Now, I'll throw it to myself a little bit in this one because I can speak to a little personal experience. One thing they try to lie about all the time is saying Tim Pool admitted he was directly funded by Russia, which is 100% false. But that's the trick they use. It's a trick. It's a lie. Here's the real story. One of my companies licensed non-exclusively content to a third party based out of Tennessee run by an American. That's not really news, is it?

Now, the news is that a nightmare was issued alleging there may have been money funneled through various shell organizations from Russia to this company, though we don't know for sure. That's still a big leap from Tim was directly funded by Russia. That's the lie. They are liars. They're liars.

I mean, I'll keep it simple for you once again. I license a show to a lot of people. It was funny. We had Sam Cedar on and he's like, did you do license deals like this before? I'm like, yes. He's like, you did. You did license deals like this before. I'm like, yes. He's like, I'm like, why do you keep asking me the same thing? Yes, we did. We did. We do. I license content all the time. I have licensed content on Timcast, on my channel, to Discovery Channel. I have appeared as a guest host on Discovery Channel several times. And he's like, oh. And I'm like, none of this was out of the ordinary to be contacted by another media company saying they want to license content.

But they lie. You got to ask yourself once again, you know, we've got this story from NBC News. Federal workers and agencies push back against Elon Musk's email ultimatum, blah, blah, blah. I don't care too much about this. But with Elon in the big news right now, why would a story like this pop up? The purpose is when you see news about Elon, they want you to immediately approach it from he's a bad guy who abandons his kids. They want you to view everything through a lens to justify why he's a bad person.

If you see a story that says Elon says fire this man and you perceive him to be a evil billionaire who abandons his children, you're going to think, I bet that guy knew something about that guy had dirt on him. If you view Elon through, hey, he's a billionaire. He's rich. He does good things. It is bad things. Then you're going to view this through the lens of wonder why I fired the guy. They want to poison the well.

They want you all to think that no matter what Elon does, it's for nefarious purposes. That's why they lie. They do the same thing for Trump. They do the same thing for me. You name it. There are those of us that are trying to live in reality and want you to understand the truth. So quite simply, you can make better decisions for yourselves. Best of luck out there in this wild world. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone, you know, Timcast IRL coming up next at 8 p.m. And we'll see you all then.