Elon's DOGE EXPOSES US Funding Liberal Press MASS SOCIAL ENGINEERING, Trump FURIOUS
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Have you ever spotted McDonald's hot, crispy fries right as they're being scooped into the carton? And time just stands still. Large scale social deception. That's the story. And what's fascinating is as Donald Trump is calling out millions of dollars spent on social engineering and large scale social deception paid to Reuters, which

The news agency. Not a lot of outlets are picking the story up. Surprise, surprise. They probably won't, because the more we learn about the U.S. government spending on media, the more damning everything becomes. So I have questions. I'm sure you do as well. But how deep will the rabbit hole go? Trump posted on Truth Social that Politico and Reuters should give that money back. And of course, we've got shills in the corporate press and the and, you know, I'll try and be light.

They're individuals that many question as to whether or not they are actually independent media. But they're saying, don't trust your lying eyes. The Politico payments were just for premier pro premium prescriptions.

I'm kidding. But they're saying that it's Politico Pro subscription plans are expensive because, well, it's just better. So what happened? Well, many people have begun taking a look at exactly what Politico Pro actually is. And they're pointing out that it's nothing special. In one viral post linking to a Politico Pro article, they said, do you really believe this is worth fifteen thousand dollars?

And it was just like a regular article that said something like Kennedy is going to get voted in or something like that. Why is it that the government is spending thousands of dollars per person to buy these news subscriptions? Well, I've got to be honest.

It's not necessarily in the big picture about manipulating the public. I know a lot of people want to come out and just say outright, this is everything. No, no, no, no. That's the story we have right here. This tweet from Mario Naufel, where Elon Musk's not necessarily just doge, but many individuals digging through the public expenditures are noticing these strange expenditures. Mass social engineering and large scale deception do exist. But what it looks like with Politico and these other news organizations charging thousands of dollars,

It's not too dissimilar, as many have pointed out, from like a company selling a hammer to the DOD for 10 grand. Well, if you want to buy a hammer that's government approved, it's going to cost you $10,000. It's a racket. They are gutting and stealing your money. That's what it's always been. Now, one of my favorite stories from the other day, I got to bring it up again, was the criminal defense lawyer searches on Google five times the national average in Washington, D.C.,

Because I'm willing to bet that there were many people all across the board who have been invoicing the government for a variety of things that were fraudulent. That is to say, someone charging $500 for a hammer probably has no real justification for why their $10 Ace Hardware hammer should be sold for $500. But the reality was the government didn't care where the money came from. The government didn't care that it was your money. And they were going to pay those invoices no matter what.

So what happens? Well, these big media outlets offer up government subscriptions knowing that they're going to pay it. Whereas the average person might spend 20 bucks a month, the government was spending 250 to $2,000 for one subscription to a pro service. And it's all fake. It's one big scam.

Now, I definitely want to talk to you about the one big scam that we end up seeing. But there is a very interesting question about the DARPA DOD large scale social engineering program and why Reuters was being paid for it and what this really means. Ladies and gentlemen, media manipulation is the name of the game. I'm not going to mince words. OK.

powerful military interests manipulate social media through sock puppet accounts, what they're called a sock puppet account. For those that aren't familiar is let me explain like this. One guy creates 50 different accounts, all with different names. Those are called sock puppets, one person controlling each and every one. And how do they do it? Let's say you post something like, you know, the more I listen to this Donald Trump guy, the more I like him.

One guy working for an intelligence agency or a private contractor will use 50 different accounts and start replying to you saying, don't support Trump. He's bad. I can't believe you would say this. You're not a fascist, are you? No, man, this ain't it. And then all of a sudden you're inundated with messages being like, no way, bro. Trump is bad. And it works on people. We quilled people. Some people look at what Trump is doing and they're like, I like it. And then someone says you're a fascist and they go, go screw yourself. Don't care.

But many people, maybe half, maybe the majority, maybe less than half, I don't know, are swayed by social pressure because we're social beings. So when they run these deep social engineering campaigns to try and convince you to support a war or conflict or to oppose Trump, that's the name of the game. The only problem was, my friends, with the decentralization that we have been seeing across the board, the sock puppet accounts, the intelligent agencies couldn't compete with the

And many like it. More and more were popping up and there was nothing they could do to stop it. While they tried to create more sock puppets, fake accounts and manipulation, it wasn't working. So what did they resort to? Heavy handed censorship. All that did was create a massive backlash. People were wondering why it was that their favorite podcasts could no longer be displayed. Well, we've got big news on this front. We're going to break down what Trump said, what's really going on and where this money was going and what this program is.

But before we do, my friends, head over to Rumble dot com slash Tim Pool. And if you check out the documentaries playlist, you can see we got two feature length documentaries. To be fair, Lawrence others infringed, maybe a little old now that Trump is president and there's some movements made on two way, but it does deep dive.

in the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms, and it is really good. Game of Money by Ben Stewart is a bit more evergreen, breaking down how money operates in this country. These are feature-length documentaries available to Rumble Premium users. So go to TimCastPremium.com where you can sign up to become a Rumble Premium member and watch these feature-length documentaries, as well as a ton of other content we have in the works. Now, there's a reason why

I love shouting at Rumble. And well, for one, we you know, we did a deal with Rumble and and here we are really excited that we're going to have our members only premium content now on Rumble. If you go to Timcast dot com, you can join the discord community, which is a bit different. That's where you can hang out with like minded individuals and be involved in our public events, which are to come. So, you know, bear with us. We're not quite there yet, but we're working on it. But you can also call into our uncensored members only show. I want to say this.

YouTube, I hope you hear me. 10 years ago, 13 years ago, we saw the rise of video podcasting, largely on accident, but as a component, as an as as as a inevitability channels like Carl Benjamin's Sargon of Akkad. He started making videos, but they weren't really videos. They were essays. He was talking about ideas.

Eventually, YouTube panicked and they started banning and deranking and hiding this content. This channel being one of them in the early days, this channel, it was unstoppable. Indeed. And now it's doing well. Appreciate you guys watching. But subscriber growth was tremendous. It was massive. It was rapid. And around 2018, the corporate press and various think tanks and NGOs started to lie about

In one of these reports, they created something called the Alternative Influencer Network, where they falsely linked individuals to white supremacists and white nationalists. That's what they do. They then use this fake report laundered through the corporate press to attack advertisers. Sound familiar? Didn't we learn recently that USAID was funding a coordinated assault on Elon's new X platform to organize an advertiser boycott? Sound familiar? What ended up happening?

is that somebody who watched one of these videos, you watch a video like this or a live stream on the recommendations tab, it would say, here's more content from Tim Pool you might like. After this, every single person that was maligned saw the algorithm drop off. No longer was YouTube keeping people on our channels.

That's weird, right? I mean, if you guys like watching the Timcast IRL or Timcast News Channel, certainly the content they should be recommending is similar content.

Well, they stopped doing that for the average person, started redirecting them to Fox, CNN and MSNBC, which were not podcasts, more traditional news clips, short form, not long form. And they did it because of political pressure and fear of advertiser boycotts, as well as their own internal politics. I believe this was engineered by special government interests through these mass deception programs. And I'll put it this way. Along with Facebook,

YouTube and other platforms destroyed what was to be the forefront of new media. We are looking at now, my friends, in 2020, the podcast presidency. Donald Trump, he won because of podcasts. They tried to silence us, but it did not work. We were able to prevail. So where are we today? YouTube destroyed their opportunity to control the video podcasting era.

It's remarkable. I remember when Carl Benjamin, now of the Lotus Eaters podcast, was on Patreon. Patreon did much the same thing. They banned Carl Benjamin without warning because on some live stream to a small channel in a debate he was having, he used a racial slur to insult what he viewed as racists. And he used the racial slur ironically against white people.

Because he was saying, you act the way you describe other people. So your slurs are meaningless. Well, Patreon then said, doesn't matter. He used a slur and they banned his Patreon account where he was making his money. I talked to Patreon. They made this argument, not necessarily on the Carl Benjamin front, but they said,

You know, we've had individuals and Visa and MasterCard come to us and say, if we don't ban him, they'll shut the whole site down. And I said, flex your muscles, bro. Get every major influencer on social media to get cut off at once because they're threatening you and see how quickly they bow down. But they didn't want to play that game. Probably because it wasn't just the payment systems and the payment processors. It was the government. Today,

We have something very interesting. Rumble is expanding. The website is getting better. The app works swimmingly, beautifully. And they have a feature where you can turn on a podcast, turn your screen off, put it in your pocket and listen. Now, I know a lot of apps have that, but that's the important one. As YouTube was destroying itself and getting rid of video podcasting, they're now desperate to play catch up.

We're seeing similar things with Spotify. Apple is nowhere to be found. I don't know what Apple's doing. Apple used to own the podcasting space, which is particularly lucrative. Now YouTube is becoming a major player. Spotify, of course, is a major player. Their stock is at like, what, $600 a share? Nuts.

My opinion, I know I'm biased. I do have equity in Rumble, is that Rumble is undervalued in this regard because Rumble emerged as the as the principal video platform destroyed video podcasting on its platform. Spotify just adopted it. So I see if this is done right. And I think we can video podcasting, which is expected to take everything over. That's why I'm saying I'm on the in the long run. I think Rumble is the right is the right player on this one.

But back to where we currently are, my friends. The DOD paying for mass social engineering is a major component of this. And as this story deeply involves my industry and the work that I've done, I got a lot of personal stuff to get to. So smash that like button. Share this stream with everyone you know. Let's get the word out. Give us a like. Let's say, let's do this. As a joke, I always say one like equals one deportation. That's where we're currently at. Maybe I spelled it wrong. And

And send in your rumble rants and your super chats. We will read those in the back end of the live stream. But let's start with where we're currently at. I know the opening I gave about how I was impacted, how YouTube was banning video podcasts, perhaps a bit esoteric and a bit personal. But it does lend itself directly into what we are seeing and why the government is funding these programs.

Mario Noffel has the tweet. And I got to tell you, I am fascinated to see many corporate news outlets are not reporting this story, which may be one of the most significant stories of our generation. Large scale social deception funded by our government to media outlets being exposed. I can only imagine that the powers that be and the established big tech structures don't want us talking about it.

Mario Noffel says Doge investigations reveal mysterious department defense department payments to Reuters for large scale social deception project between 2018 and 2022. Very interesting. That was the start of when they began banning our channels, our shows when we were calling out the lies. While DARPA claims it was for cyber defense. Sure.

Questions swirl about why a news agency received millions for social engineering. The revelation comes as other media outlets face scrutiny over federal funding. Now, the fascinating thing here, my friends, this is all public. You can look this stuff up. Go to USA spending dot gov and you can see all of what they're spending money on.

I wonder why it ended in 2022. The awarding agency, the Department of Defense, paid Thomson Reuters Special Services. I believe the amount was around nine million. I don't think I don't know that they have the the number listed here in this image. But if we jump over to I believe it's here we go.

Don Wick on X shows the post Thompson Reuters Special Services LLC for active social engineering defense and large scale social deception definitive contract. The obligation was nine million one hundred and forty seven thousand five hundred thirty two dollars. No, no, no. Let me pause. Let me pause. Maybe this specific campaign was payment for social engineering in, I don't know,

Libya or something. Maybe we don't know for sure. The point is your government, for defensive reasons, they call it, is giving millions of dollars to news companies. Now, Reuters, of course, isn't just a news agency. They have a legal services entity as well. So either way,

This massive company with a large media component is being given lots of money by the Department of Defense for large scale social engineering. Can we trust them? If you guys found out that Timcast received $10 million from the Department of Defense for social engineering, would you believe anything I was saying? I mean, I suppose I could still just provide sources and prove it maybe. But here's where we're at.

Back in 2018, 2017, when I'm making videos, one really great example of a massive viral video that I had was when I exposed the Covington kids scandal. Now, I think for the most part, the U.S. government isn't super concerned about a story like that. But what happened was, as most of you know, a young man was standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial when a Native American man walked up, got in his face and banged a drum in his face. A small clip went viral. Oddly,

Someone just took a 15 second clip of this two hour long live stream and then posted on social media and claimed that this kid did something wrong. What we ended up with was many prominent personalities on the left and the right criticizing this kid, saying this was wrong what this kid did. They were trying to insinuate the kid got in the face of the old guy. That's not what happened. What happened was the old guy walked up into his face. So for me, I saw the video.

People said to me, Tim, did you see this video? I can't believe how shockingly offensive it is. Can you believe what this kid did? I said, what is it? What is the kid doing? And they're like, look at him with a smirk on his face, getting up in this guy's face. And I said, this is just a video of two people standing in front of each other, bro. Why were there so many people so quick to just state as a fact, this is what happened? Find it to be strange. Well, sure enough, I and many others began digging. And we found that in a two hour long live stream, it was in fact Native American man who got in that kid's face.

These are the kind of videos that I was producing, debunking the mainstream media lies. The corporate press had lied about this kid. He sued all of them and he won. Now, that story is easy and it was massively viral. And I use it as an example. However, there are many other stories about, say, whether or not Comey was lying under oath. And it appeared that he may have been many stories about, for instance, Burisma and Ukraine. And perhaps when I play videos of Joe Biden saying things like, if you don't fire the prosecutor, not getting a billion dollars, while it was all true and easily verifiable, it

You can understand that powerful interest in the government did what did not want that to be a major narrative. So large scale spending on social deception could easily translate itself into ad boycotts, manipulation of the algorithm. And we know for a fact that Twitter before Elon bought it was absolutely ideologically driven. We also know thanks to an expose by not just a conservative outlet, but some liberal outlets, Google staff and executives were crying over

When Donald Trump won in 2016. Well, Donald Trump is chiming in my friends posting looks like radical left Reuters was paid nine million dollars by the Department of Defense to study large scale social deception. Give back the money now. That's not the only post he made. I don't know that I have the the other one pulled up, but let's get to the root. He also posted Politico is paid as well and they should return those funds.

Let's before we get but before we get into the political thing, I want to talk about where the story originates from our good friend Ron Howard. You remember him? Come on. Happy days. Real Ron Howard, family man, a story Smith and co-founder of Imagine Entertainment. He's got a lot of movies, right? He says, what do you think about this piece? And it's a Reuters article. Musk's doge cuts based more on political ideology than real cost savings so far. Interesting. I see.

Elon Musk responded, I wonder how much money Reuters is getting from the government. Let's find out. And thus began the digging. What's fascinating to me, my friends, that this information was public for so long, but nobody looked into it. We didn't know.

How many of you knew you could use a spending out gov and start digging into government contracts from the DOD into media outlets? I'm sure a lot of people did. But had we known about this sooner, these stories would have been flying like crazy, especially during the Biden administration. But now that the Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, has begun digging into waste, fraud and abuse, and it's become the forefront. Now, as I say, out of sight, out of mind. Well, the inverse is largely true.

Once someone points it out, you can't stop seeing it. Many people then began digging into USA spending dot gov, finding these contracts and these expenditures, wondering what they really are. So, my friends, I say this unto all of you. I recommend you all start digging. Go to USA spending dot gov. Look up any media company. Look up big tech and see where they were spending. Surprisingly, when I looked up YouTube, actually not a lot of money was being funneled in this direction.

While they were giving contracts to YouTubers for consulting, they're rather small, 5, 10, 15 grand here. I know 15 grand is a lot of money, but in this 9 million for social engineering is a bit different from giving one guy 15 grand for consulting. I personally, I'll tell you this, I've consulted YouTube to an extent. Google and YouTube 10 years ago had me come to their offices, ask about tech and live streaming and stuff like that, rather innocuous. And I've done events for YouTube specifically on extremism.

I got invited once to a YouTube event where they were trying to figure out, and you know, it's sad really. They're trying to figure out how to stop the spread of viral pro-jihadi recruitment videos on YouTube that didn't break the rules. They said the problem they had was that people were going onto the platform promoting not necessarily terrorist organizations, but extremist religious philosophies that were being used to recruit for organizations. And they said,

We can't just ban them all, you know, because it's just they're just stating an opinion on a religious view. Yeah. Well, they were trying to figure that one out. And that was a bit different. It's not like any money was paid to anybody. These were like parties, to be completely honest, at the YouTube space. And they were like, how do we combat extremism? And I said, stop censoring people. My attitude was like, just...

You want to normalize. I said making these videos where you claim everybody should go in love and multiculturalism. That's not convincing anybody. You need to present the relatability of cultures. And I guess the principal argument was, you know, this multiculturalism stuff doesn't work. You can't take an extremist philosophy, put it on your platform in a Western nation and then be shocked to find that when you grant free speech to extremists, they use that to recruit.

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Having small meetings like that is very different from what we see here.

Ultimately, with massive amounts of money being poured into all of this. So let's take a look at this Reuters article and what they're talking about with Musk's doge cuts being more political than anything else. And then let's talk about how the government is secretly and surreptitiously funneling mass funds into woke and corporate and liberal media outlets. Here we go, my friends. This is the article in question that Ron Howard was just asking about. That's fine, I guess.

They write the first phase of the rapid fire effort by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Trump to cut waste from the government's agencies appears to be driven more by an ideological assault on federal agencies long hated by conservatives than a good faith effort to save taxpayer dollars, according to two veteran Republican budget experts. Since Trump's inauguration on 20 January 20th, Musk has dispatched members, blah, blah, blah. We know that.

But Douglas Holtz Eakin, I'm going to pause real quick and say, very interesting that Reuters, which is supposed to be a news outlet, is running an opinion piece. Did they label it as opinion? I always love when they don't. They certainly did not. It's news. It's news, they're saying, that we're running opinion without fact. They're going to say.

That this guy, Douglas Holtzikin, former Republican director of the CBO, Congressional Budget Office, said the agencies Musk and Trump have targeted to date account for a tiny fraction of the overall federal budget, which is projected projected to reach seven trillion dollars this year. Sure. How about I do this? Let's go to the debt clock and take a look at how much money has been saved by Doge because Elon Musk has said it's actually fairly accurate.

As of right now, we are looking at hundreds, hundreds of thousands, millions and billions saved by Doge. Are we supposed to be upset that $90 billion have been saved? It's not enough. It's a $7 trillion deficit, or I'm sorry, not deficit. It's a $2 billion deficit. And there's $7 trillion in spending.

The fascinating thing is because we actually check this on Timcast. Well, you can see that U.S. spending is actually slowing down, though it is massive and going extremely quickly. And the deficit is still increasing. The deficit was actually going up by thousands of dollars before Trump got in. And the hope is to reverse the deficit. Now, let me explain the debt versus the deficit.

The deficit is we are spending more than we are bringing in, generating the debt. If we can reverse the debt, the deficit, we are then decreasing the amount of debt incurred towards the, you know, the obvious U.S. national debt, which has to be paid. And right now, the largest line item is the interest on the debt. What does that mean? They're going to tax you more or the or the economy will collapse. If we do not reverse this, Trump says we will be bankrupt.

So they say Elon is is ideologically driven as they spend what? Tens of millions and billions of dollars on ridiculous garbage. You know what it is with a 36 trillion dollar deficit. I'm sorry, debt. See, I mix them up to a two trillion dollar deficit and a 36 trillion dollar national debt. These people in D.C. are like, you know, man, who cares? The ship is sinking. The Titanic is going down. Best I can do is extract as much as possible and, uh,

you know, with extracted as much as possible, just get on the life raft and GTFO. And then, of course, leave everybody else hanging. Yeah. Well, I don't know what else you can do other than send in Elon Musk and Doge and start ripping this thing apart.

But of course, they want to blame Elon Musk for being ideologically driven. They said that he pledged $1 trillion in savings through his efforts to identify fraud and waste in government. An online Doge live tracker claimed on Tuesday the Department of Safe taxpayers $37.69 billion since it began work on January 20th, but did not provide evidence of how that figure was reached. There's a really great video. Elon actually just posted it that shows all of the posts made by Doge showing where they are cutting the money and what programs are being shuttered.

And then you have the CNN clip where Scott Jennings is like, they're posting it. They're showing what they're what they're cutting and where the money is being saved. And this woman, I don't even know her name. She's like, that's not true. They're not doing that. And he says, well, they are. You just don't want to believe it. That's the reality of where we are at with how the U.S. government is operating. And man, you know, if we keep up this this this path and we do not solve for the debt and the deficit, we are going to come to a point where you're going to be taxed at 40, 50, 60 percent.

But it's not going to be to build roads. It's not going to be to fight wars, even. It's going to be to pay the interest on the debt. Eventually, there will be a default. The interest will not be paid. But let me help you guys understand something. I'm not, you know, chief economist or whatever, but I can tell you these economist guys are largely lying a lot of the time. Let's take a stab at it. These Democrats come out and say, and many of you may have heard me say this, but I'll break it down again for those that are unfamiliar. Many of these people come out and they say that, uh,

If Trump puts a tariff in place, which is supposed to do today at 1 p.m., reciprocal tariffs, it's going to cost you more money. That's a lie. If there is a product made in America that costs 10 bucks and it's made overseas for nine dollars. No, let's do this as a product in America made for it's sold for eleven dollars. And in China, it's it's it's made for it's sold in the United States for ten dollars.

Yet people are going to choose to buy the cheaper product. That's the reality of how the world works. So in the U.S., they struggle. They say, how do we compete with Chinese slave labor? It's not easy to do. The U.S. then sees these factories and these plants begin to shutter.

So let's say there's an American-made product that's a little bit more expensive and there's a Chinese-made product that's a little bit cheaper. And so some people say, yeah, but I'd rather buy an American. It's a smaller business. I'll buy from them. Trump puts a tariff on the Chinese-made product, bumping up their costs by 25%. They're not going to raise the price to $12.50 because they won't be able to compete with the American company at $11. So it may go up to $11 and then you have a choice between an American-made and Chinese-made and guess what? People then just say, I'll go with the American-made stuff.

The tariffs are going to put pressure on the market, resulting in the price, the driving force to be these companies. It becomes.

too expensive to manufacture and import these products so they will be made in America. And if they're already made in America, market forces will drive the prices down and stop them from being able to raise their prices. Ultimately, the goal is to make it too expensive to run these manufacturing plants overseas. They'll have to move everything to the United States, give Americans the jobs, and these same products from the same companies will be made in America. But here's the issue with the national debt.

The first question to ask yourself is who is owed the money? And a lot of people don't realize this. The national debt is largely owed to American citizens. So how does that work? Oh, man, it's a complicated, broken system. But U.S. spending is across the board. It's largely spent here in the United States. The U.S. government can take on debt as a means of paying for things. So they raise the debt ceiling. Here's one way it functions.

When I let's say I need to build a shed. Many of you have. So you call a contractor and say, I want to build a shed in my yard. I need it. We got to put my tools in there. How much is going to cost? And they say, we can do a nice shed for you. It's going to cost $10,000. Here's how we're going to build. Here's how big it's going to be. And you go, OK, let me talk with my wife.

So you go to your wife and say it's going to be 10 grand to build this. And she goes, we don't have 10 grand. And he goes, yes, but we do bring in $6,000 every month from my job, which means we'll be able to pay down the debt we owe on that shed over a period of time, as long as we plan it accordingly. So he goes to the contractor and he says, here's what we'll do. I'll give you $2,000 today, and then I'm going to pay you $2,000 a month plus 5% interest, like any other standard loan.

The contractor says, deal. Contractor thinks I'm going to get a premium. I'm going to make more money. The problem then is every month, just like any other credit card, the household now has to pay interest, which is lost revenue, lost money. It's just going towards nothing because they wanted to buy something they couldn't afford. This is how America operates. I wouldn't recommend it, but this is what largely what people do. They want to buy products. They want to buy houses. They take on loans. They pay interest. The government does it to an insane scale. Why? Because my friends,

There's seemingly no limit to how much money they can steal from you. So here's the terrifying reality. The U.S. national debt is a real number that is actually owed. And the largest line item right now is the interest on the debt, meaning sooner or later, the contractors, the companies, the producers who have worked deals, the U.S. government will not get paid. And when the U.S. government says we can't pay our debt and they're bankrupt, which they kind of already are.

You know what that means? Take a look at any dollar bill. Let me pull up a nice crisp 20. $20 bill. Federal Reserve note. $20. And it says, this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private. You see that right there in front of the $20 bill.

So backed by the confidence of the U.S. government and nothing else, fiat currency, we call it. So long as the government can pay its debts, people believe this $20 is worth something. But what happens when once again, Congress shows up and says, let's raise the debt ceiling? What does that mean? We're going to cut a bunch of deals with contractors, weapons manufacturers, big tech cybersecurity firms where we're going to promise to pay them things.

And then we'll pay them based on the money we bring in. What happens when the interest becomes so great we can't pay it down? The U.S. will then start printing money. The money supply does expand. And so the system is insane, if you ask me. What's going to end up happening is

mass stimulus. They'll just create upon the issuance of debt and legal tender $10 trillion and dump it on the system to try and pay down their debt. That will cause hyperinflation, so they have to control against it. What Doge is doing is extremely important. Certainly, it's uncovering waste, fraud, and abuse, and they're very mad about it. I take a look at what we're seeing, and I tell you this. I have a deep fear, my friends,

Ian, he likes to say, like, why don't we just default on the debt? Well, because your dollars are worthless. That dollar being spent overseas is the confidence of the U.S. government that the U.S. government can pay its debts. This money means something. It means oil. But what if it means nothing? Where we are headed now with interest being the largest line item, this means the U.S. government owes a lot of different people a lot of money. If they default, that means weapons manufacturers,

They're going to be laying people off like crazy. It means you're going to see contractors who have worked on government projects, not paying their bills, companies that built roads, not not getting paid, not paying their staff. It will cause one of the worst depressions we have ever seen. Now, I'm not saying that we should carry on this insane system where the government just finds more and more ways to tax you and take your money or.

inflate the currency to try and pay down the debt. One strategy to dealing with debt, and I love this. It's so crafty from the U.S. government. Let's say right now, what can $20 buy you? A pizza? You can get a pizza with extra cheese and pepperoni. So basically when I say, if you work for me for one hour, I'll give you 20 bucks, I'm basically saying you will be able to, after this one hour of work, buy yourself a large pepperoni pizza.

With extra cheese, by the way. It's a good pizza, too. I think the pizzas I order are actually like $12, but let's just say you're getting a good one. Jumbo size. What the U.S. government does is, after they do this exchange where they say, you gave me $20 worth of labor, I gave you $20 worth of legal tender, they then print money. So when they owe, or I should say, they don't pay you yet. They say, don't worry, we're going to pay you $20. That person thinks I can buy a pizza with that. They then print $20, pay you half. But what happens? Your buying power goes down.

One of the strategies of the U.S. government in printing and creating money and inflating currency is that the amount are the people who the people who buy bonds or the people who buy U.S. dollars or the people who are holding U.S. debt, the amount they can purchase that purchase with that money goes down as inflation goes up.

It's a way to not pay someone back what you owe them, right? So let's say you owed someone 10 apples and you said, here's what I'll do. Each apple's a dollar. So I'll owe you $10. How does that sound? And they go, great, because they gave you 10 apples. Instead of paying them back the 10 apples they gave you, you double the currency and then they can only buy five apples, but that's their problem. You gave them the 10 bucks. You paid your debt back, but now they can't buy crap with it. That's how the US government gets away with not actually paying its debts.

But anyway, instead of talking about all the debt stuff, let's go back to how the media is running a scam and how the government is dumping your money into mass manipulation to prop up this decaying and broken system. Look, man, the Titanic is sinking. And I think it's fair to say that if we don't have Elon Musk and Doge or somebody trying to gut this, going back to the debt clock to bring the overall deficit down and start reversing our debt, paying it down.

If they don't do that, insolvency, bankruptcy and the collapse of the economy and the American way of life. I actually think for our government and for many of these people, they want it to happen.

One of the arguments is that the U.S. on a collision course for war with China, something they call Thucydides trap, that when a when the dominant economic economic power, which would be the United States, is about to be supplanted by a rising economic power. There's a tendency for war in the past 500 years. There have been 16 instances of this in 12 of them. War broke out. The argument that some propose is.

Is that powerful Western interests are subservient to China, not because they're communists or whatever, but because they'd rather not have war. They like being wealthy, don't want war. And some would say war is not preferable. So the idea is this transfer our wealth to Chinese assets. Let the U.S. economy crumble so that no war will happen. And then China takes over as the unipolar global power and you get Chinese communism. Trump says no.

But the media certainly seems to be hellbent on making sure all of this decay happens. Or at the very least, maybe it's not so complicated. Maybe it's just that our system is decaying and the powers that be are corrupt. The system that was built is a system of slush fund garbage for corrupt individuals getting paid by by the government with no oversight. And they've ripped the system to shreds to the point where China is about to take over. Take a look at this from Molly Hemingway.

She says the free press tells its readers they were absolute idiots to have thought there was something wrong with obscenely priced subscriptions for Politico Pro, giving millions in taxpayer funds to a media outlet that regularly runs info ops on behalf of the government. Interesting. It says beware the Internet mob on USAID and everything else. Last week, a scandal broke the biggest in media history, according to the popular conservative activist, Betty Johnson. Doge's opened the books on USAID and cut off aid to Politico, the popular D.C. news site.

Now that their ill-gotten taxpayer gains were gone, the news had couldn't meet payroll. Conservative media, Elon Musk and even Trump jumped on the story with the president repeating the biggest scandal line. But as reporter Isaac Saul writes today in the Free Press, it wasn't a scandal at all. Various government employees had purchased a product called Politico Pro and expensed it to their respective agencies. Someone was wrong on the Internet. What's new? Well, Isaac says the story is a cautionary tale that epitomizes everything that is wrong with our current media environment.

OK, well, first, let me just say, yeah, Benny was wrong. I like that. He's a hardworking guy. Very successful. He does good stuff. He has a lot of criticism for a lot of reasons. Everybody should to a certain degree. In this regard, he was incorrect. He said it was the biggest, potentially the biggest in media history that USAID was giving money to Politico. They were not. Forty four thousand dollars in funds was expensed to USAID, to Politico.

And a lot of people were saying it was the biggest scandal, but it is a big scandal. Well, certainly correct to say USAID was not directly funding the media. And it's important to point out Politico employees who didn't get paid really likely was a glitch. It happens to a lot of companies. There's payroll errors and it's happened to us.

And then we don't have that many employees. It's not a big deal when they're like, hey, what happened to payroll? And then we get a message from like accounting saying it's like a banking thing, nothing to do with us. And then a few hours later, it just it's corrected. And everyone's like, oh, and you forget about it. That's why I was actually surprised the story got reported because of the story. However, people began to question whether or not the government was funding Politico. And with USAID getting gutted, was Politico going to evaporate? I will point out, my friends, I work in the media space.

Tim cast a media. We get more views than Politico does per month. We certainly do. And I just want to stress it's very strange how their revenue is what nine figures that it is nine. Wow. I'm bad at this. I thought it was kind of good at it.

You know, a lot of people like to point out that for our size at Timcast, we do make a lot of money. We do well. We have a lot of employees. We do a lot of crazy things. I want to stress this to all of you guys as well. Our mission, our ethos here at Timcast with the deal we're working with Rumble, none of this is so that I can buy myself a big house. My house is like 1,300 square feet. Actually, I think it's smaller than that. I don't like living in big houses. That's just not me. I like lots of land. You know, I like big open spaces with trees. It's actually kind of cheap to get when you live out in the middle of nowhere.

The purpose of the mission and what we do at Timcast, as we do make a good amount of money, is to invest in community culture and expanding. That's why we're producing documentaries. It's why we have the Green Room show, the Uncensored show. And it's also why we have the Discord community, tens of thousands of people talking, building culture. And it's why we're launching cast with franchises. Certainly, I could hire a team and start setting up our own coffee shops where we own all of it. But that was never the mission. The mission was to have decentralized community spaces where you can sip a cup of coffee and

because it's founding fathers who met in bars and pubs to formulate the revolution. And so I want to have everybody be involved in it. I don't need to be the big boss CEO of this massive corporate chain or anything like that. What we're working on with the revenue we generate is to build culture and expand. And that's what I think we're doing. But then I take a look at Politico and I'm like, man, they get less views than we do, but they make way more money. Well, to be fair, they have a newsletter, which is decently large, and they charge a lot of money for it.

The Politico pro sponsorships that they subscriptions they sell are actually not that much of their revenue. I think it comes out to like four or five percent per year, but still substantial. I'll tell you why. If your overhead. So let me put it like this.

We here at Timcast, we try to put as much of the money as we can into growth, development, investing. We have a lot of employees, a lot of contractors. Now, West Virginia has given us the business, but the reason is I could certainly just put that money aside and say, look at our massive margins in profit. Tim Pool's going to buy himself a Ferrari. I don't know what I would do with a Ferrari. I don't like driving as it is. I don't mind driving, but, you know, I got a Cybertruck, I guess. You know, I got a Honda Accord.

Honda Accord's a nice car. And, you know, the company and I don't get me wrong. I'm well off. But what I want is to see cultural victories. If I was going to buy something, it's going to be buying winning the culture war so that I know we're going to go to Mars. We're going to build new technology, build new spaceships, all of those really cool things so that humanity becomes better than it was yesterday. But we need responsibility, meritocracy and good moral traditions. That's what I would buy.

If I woke up in the morning and they said, sir, you've won a million dollars in the lottery, I'd say, how can I use that money to expand what is morally right? How can I use this money to make America more honorable? That's not buying gold plated steaks at Nasser at despite the fact I really the Nasser at restaurants are amazing, by the way. I don't buy the gold flaked food. That's just silly. It's about building something that makes America great, makes this world better and humans better.

But here's what's important to understand. If all of the money from Politico is being spent on infrastructure and overhead and covering the cost of investment and paying their investors, a $1 million payment from the government could be a million dollar kickback for one person. Doge came out and said, we want to kick back $740 million to the American people. They said this money was being wasted. Let's refund it. And the liberals and the woke and the progressive responded with,

You know, here's the meme. You give you give away consumer protections. We give you two dollars because seven hundred forty million dollars broken up is each American getting two bucks. So it's like that two bucks ain't really that much money. Right. But seven hundred and forty million dollars for an agency is. So think about what that means to a media agency that's getting an eight million dollar payment or it's a million dollars a year from the U.S. government. Certainly they say we make two hundred million dollars. What do I care?

And what happens if their margins are 3%? And one of the executives cutting this deal with the government for $2,000 subscriptions, sometimes upwards of $15,000, says the million dollars goes right in my pocket. We can claim it's marginal relative to total revenue we generate, but for a single individual who gets that kickback, that's money in the pocket. And then...

Would that individual who runs the company want to badmouth the government and call out these payments? No, because it's him benefiting personally or her. We're progressive here, right?

The Federalist reports Politico Pro's exorbitant price tag shows it's not a subscription. It's a swamp patronage. I completely agree. In one hilariously viral post, someone said, do you really think that this article warrants $15,000? And it was literally just like a regular old article you could write on, I don't know, like on News Nation or CNN. Why spend the money? Because they don't care that it's your money. They seemingly have bottomless coffers.

And it props up a media apparatus that favors the bloat and the corruption. Now let's talk about the decay of the media manipulation machine. We have this story from Zero Hedge. Microsoft drops USAID-funded NewsGuard after Ted Cruz starts digging. Interesting. NewsGuard was accused of receiving funds from DOD courtesy of USAID. Let me read the story and see what they say.

Now, I want to I want to talk about NewsGuard because I long use them and I said, let's use their tool against them. It didn't work. Maybe I was a bit naive, but this is a hilarious tale. NewsGuard, for those who don't know, is worthless. We stopped using a long time ago. And the reason is it's because they lie. NewsGuard publishes fake news and manipulations to lie about people and organizations.

and they did it to us. NewsGuard is a browser extension that you can install on Chrome or Brave that will give you a rating as to whether or not you can trust the news agency. The problem is the New York Times can't be wrong, and everyone else has to adhere to what the New York Times says, otherwise they're wrong. And if the New York Times doesn't report it, then you're wrong. So eventually I was just like, NewsGuard isn't actually doing any kind of real rating. It's completely fake. New York Times gets things wrong all the time.

Politico gets things wrong all the time. The way NewsGuard operated was they would go to the corporate press and say, if the New York Times says it, it's true. And then we'll go to any other news outlet and check their article against the New York Times, ABC, CNN, et cetera. And if they don't adhere to it, we'll call them fake news. Well, Microsoft was giving them funding. But now the story is they've been dropped.

The move came after Senator Ted Cruz began investigating Microsoft for funding the online media literacy censorship tool created by NewsGuard to help guide learners of all ages through the overwhelming landscape of online news and information. Now we come to find out that NewsGuard was funded by USAID. In response to Cruz, Microsoft claims their support of NewsGuard was limited to a one-time donation in 2018 and said it had asked NewsGuard to remove a claim on its website that read, NewsGuard's media literacy programs are made possible thanks to generous support from Microsoft.

Newsmax reports citing a Senate Commerce Committee spokesperson. The way I viewed it was we can see this here. Take a look at this tweet from Alan Bakari. Here's here's what we did. And it basically was the test for what NewsGuard was. Timcast.com once had a news team. We don't anymore. We do have journalists follow at Timcast News on X, where we do have reporters digging up viral videos and actually doing on the ground reporting. But I said this. Here's what we're going to do.

I am going to only use NewsGuard certified sources and only in rare occasions where we can prove something is true that comes as original source from a non-certified source. This was effectively an attempt at throwing it back in their face. And I do think it was principally effective to a certain degree. The argument was every single time I would do a video like this, you would see every article I had had the beautiful green checkmark.

So if someone claimed I was making up fake news, I'd say NewsGuard certified. For instance, Star Tribune in Minnesota once read an article saying that Ilhan Omar may have married her brother. And when Media Matters took a screenshot and claimed I was lying, the funny thing is I was just reading a NewsGuard certified source. That was kind of the play there. I could report things that were true.

And it was using a source that was certified by NewsGuard. NewsGuard, however, actually wrote that I was, this is really funny, when they reached out to us at TimCast and said, you said this thing was wrong. It was something about, I can't remember, Burisma scandal. And my response was, that's strange. The source for that information is two NewsGuard certified sources, the Daily Mail and New York Post. Oopsie daisy. And I said, so you tell me if I can't trust

The New York Post and the Daily Mail, which you certified as correct. And now you're claiming that information is wrong. You're contradicting yourselves and your tool is worthless. Oh, oh, boy, were they in trouble? You see, the problem was they were trying to control narrative. And if they said the New York Times was correct, but sometimes the New York Times does report true information. They tend to actually. I think it's the New York Times. I'd give like a 60 percent. A lot of fake news on there.

But if I pull a story that says, yeah, actually, for instance, one article was a court ruled in Ukraine that they did interfere in the 2016 election. And the New York Times reported that they claimed I was wrong and said, that's fake news. My response, actually, my source is the New York Times and you certified them. So if I'm using your tool to determine what is likely true and then you're coming back and telling me I'm wrong, why would I use NewsGuard? Oopsie daisy.

Well, as it turns out, I guess it was politically motivated and funded by USAID. The whole thing was a manipulation game. We stopped using it a year or so ago or two years ago because the problem was they didn't care.

News Guard proved themselves to be completely worthless, but would just claim that the news sources they certified were false when it didn't adhere to a narrative. And then I said, OK, the funny thing is, when they were trying to certify, certify Timcast dot com, they had to issue like four or five corrections because the whole thing was so incorrect. It was wild, provably incorrect. They didn't even do fact checking. What a trash organization. Sad.

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To find your next pair of glasses, sunglasses or contact lenses or to find the Warby Parker store nearest you, head over to Warby Parker dot com. That's Warby Parker dot com. Where we're currently at today, my friends, is that's interesting. Donald Trump says, why was Politico paid millions of dollars for nothing? Buying the press, pay back the money to the taxpayers. How much has the failing New York Times been paid? Is this the money that is keeping it open? They are buying the press.

Well, no, the New York Times and Politico don't get most of their money from these subscriptions. Certainly, though, we did do the digging and found that the heavens me. Yeah, they are dumping a ton of money in these exorbitant subscriptions. The government employees are paying for no reason, but it's the same as buying a hammer for five hundred dollars, which we know they do. In some instances, it's massive social engineering, which is very strange. Where's that tweet? Here we go.

active social engineering defense, and large-scale social deception. I don't trust these people. Not one. And I know most of you don't either. But my friends, it's no surprise that Americans' trust in media remains at an all-time low. Because we've woken up to it. These people are evil. They are liars, manipulators, cheaters, and thieves. And the deepest level of hell is reserved for the betrayers, the mutineers, and the disloyal.

These individuals in American media have betrayed the American people. They lie to them on a regular basis for cash and for political power because it makes them feel good. These corporations and the government prey upon the narcissistic sociopaths by offering them fame and fortune. It used to be that not always, but quite a bit. You were working in media. It was a largely thankless job. It's a lot of hard work. Millennials want to be famous. That's why TikTok is so popular.

This is why so many women are quitting their jobs to go join OnlyFans. People want to be famous. They want attention. And getting a job in the media was a path towards being famous, which is insane. That's what they wanted to do. They wanted to be Woodward and Bernstein and break open Watergate or whatever, you know. They wanted to have their names on an article that went viral. So they built a world where instead of reporting facts, they just tried to generate as many clicks as possible. And thus, you ended up with a corrupt media, easily funded, manipulated, and broken.

It's a great tool for the CIA. Mockingbird. That was I believe it was Mockingbird where they infiltrated the press. And in some instances, even to this day, we're writing articles for journalists to publish on their bylines. How about that? So, my friends, where we currently are in this country is a good place. Trump is gutting, ripping it apart, and they're freaking out. Now, the challenge, I suppose, is are we going to build the infrastructure in these next two years to maintain what we have?

A question that came up yesterday on Tim Kessler was, why is Trump going after USAID in these these departments when Americans have more pressing issues like the cost of food and illegal immigration? It's actually quite simple. If Donald Trump does not gut their resources, the deep state will strike back. The administrative state will impeach him and it will stop all efforts to save this country.

So the most important thing that Donald Trump can do right now is to gut USAID and this insane spending on the corporate woke press, ripping apart the lies and the machine going scorched earth as Donald Trump marches to the sea on the deep state. So they cannot muster up a counterstrike, get him removed in two years, not even in two years, loses the election. They'll move to impeach the moment they get in and just shy of two years, January 3rd in the new Congress. They're just going to be like, and we impeach.

And they're going to do everything they can to subpoena, disrupt. But if Trump can stop the machine and their resources, then we get more than just four years of Trump. We get this country back. So I'm going to grab your super chats and some rumble rants. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone you know. Subscribe if you have not. Sharing is caring, my friends.

Podcasts spread through word of mouth. So if everybody watching this right now took the link to this stream and posted on their social media feeds, told their friends to watch it, downloaded the Rumble app or the Timcast app and shared it, then show would be a lot bigger. And we would be dominating that space. You know, the one thing I'll say about working with Rumble and being a part of the Rumble premium platform is that

We want to build culture and a sphere of influence. So this goes hand in hand with the mission that we've had here for a long time. We want to make shows, documentaries, movies, etc. We want to build culture so that we can inspire a generation. Joining up with Rumble Premium, you now have a massive shared space. The Rumble Archipelago with Dan Bongino, with Steven Crowder, with me, with Ruben, with all these other, with Russell Brandt.

So the individuals who watch each and every one of those channels now have the ability to see each and every other person's content, creating a larger hub of social influence and culture building. And the best part is we all own the islands we're on, but we've teamed up so that we can make sure more people are getting access and more people are in this sphere of influence of good moral judgment, moral tradition, and expanding cultural influence. We don't have our own cable network channel, but this is something that's big.

More people need to launch their podcasts on Rumble. And then we will see Rumble take over. I believe Rumble is undervalued. It's part of why I wanted the deal. It's part of why I have equity in Rumble. I believe it's largely undervalued for what it is and what it's going to be. And that is, has anybody realized that Spotify is trying to do video? I know Spotify is big with music. It's a big platform. But they're trying as hard as they can to get into the video space. Rumble is that already. So...

Kind of seems like Rumble is undervalued. That's just me. Don't take financial advice from that's what I'm saying, though. But let me grab some of your super chats before we wrap things up. You can follow me on X and Instagram at Timcast. Go to Timcast Premium dot com to join Rumble Premium. Get 10 bucks off your annual subscription and watch all of our premium content, including our documentaries. And of course, Timcast dot com to join our discord community where tens of thousands of people are building culture. And that's where you can meet people. People are making

video games they're meeting. It's really, really amazing. And a little early, but it'll be a lot easier to explain once we launch Culture War on the ground public events, which we're hoping will be soon. It is a bit tough because I'm going to have a kid in a few weeks. So that basically means like at any moment I will run the door and you'll be like, why is there no show today? And I'm not going to have my phone or I'm not going to be able to post because I'm going to be dealing with family stuff. So that is what it is. Let's grab some of your super chats and some rebel rants.

All right. Mr. Cobra says, love that they are finding fraud, but I want prosecutions who authorize these transactions deserve jail time. Indeed. Indeed. The challenge is if it's not codified as illegal and they're given authorization to do it, I don't think we can just lock them up. We can look for fraud, though. If the DOD is funding social social engineering, then we can just call it untoward and a misuse of funds. But when people submit false invoices, fraud, those people go to jail.

All right, let's see. Fock Wolf says new Dallas police chiefs will only deport those who have warrants. Time to start cranking out the warrants, my friends. The text that says, how is anyone surprised the government is pushing propaganda when Obama repealed the law banning the use in the US? What else would happen? Time to ban it again and get government out of media. But I do want to stress to to to all of you that just because Obama made it legal doesn't mean they weren't already doing it.

I do see someone on Rumble Rants saying the Epstein list has been released. I don't know that that's true. I'll have to look into it. Very interesting. Very interesting. You know, we will see. And if it is, I'll certainly have a segment up for you in a little bit. We've got segments coming up at noon, 1, 3, and 4. We will have segments on Friday. AI Taylor says, serious question. Will Tim Pool's child come out wearing a beanie? No, but we were gifted very many baby beanies.

A lot of people, you know, it's funny. Humans are alarmingly similar. So with all due respect, we respect it. But a lot of people have come out when they come on the show. They're like, we bought a present for you. And it's a little beanie for the baby. And it's just like, thank you very much. I really do appreciate the thought and the effort. But just so you guys know, we'll add it to the pile of 30 other beanies for the baby. But I do appreciate it. I do appreciate the sentiment.

Freemen Die Free says Reuters is part of the Trusted News Initiative, an international cartel of news media, technology corps, and social media platforms. They're part of the World Economic Forum's public-private partnerships. Indeed, my friends, indeed. Freemen Die Free adds, with the reveals from Doge, it's time for a planned day of tax withdrawal or a bank jog. It's time for Uncle Sam to Fafo the robber barons and possess no legitimacy. A lot of people always call for like tax protests and stuff like this.

I don't think it'll work. Too many people don't know, don't care, and tax payments are automated. That's why you get a refund. So maybe you're saying like a business shouldn't pay its taxes, but it's minimal. Most of the tax revenue is automated and employers aren't going to join you in this. All right. Charles Salmon says, you're telling me that a program offering unlimited free money was abused? I'm shocked. But our politicians are so honest and decent people. Ask them. Indeed, my friends. Well,

Your baby beanie is not original, LOL. No, I mean, you know, it is original to the people, but it's just everybody thinks similarly. My friends smash that like button. Share the show with everyone. You know, Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 11. We're doing the morning live.

And let's get the quick rundown. I was trying to do 10 to noon for two hours and then break out segments from that live stream as segments didn't work because people already watched the full show and then didn't want to watch the other segments. While this did result in a higher total viewership for the morning show, which is good, I could go to advertisers and say we get 350 or 400. I think it's like 400,000 views on this podcast in the morning.

Ultimately, however, with the segments getting lesser views, the total views for the day were down. And so it basically negatively impacted the channel in not good ways. So the solution is one hour at 10 a.m., followed by four independent segments, and the views have been fantastic. And that's a good way to balance doing the live show as well as having bonus segments and then being able to – we're getting into the ad sales portion. It's funny. Everybody sells ads, literally everyone except us.

And that's why everybody was begging to work with us. They're like, Tim, you're leaving millions of dollars on the table. And I'm like, hey, man.

I'm an ideologically driven purist of trying to win a moral battle. But we do realize that if we do not get competitive and actually do ads like everybody else, we're not going to be able to invest in the things we want. I want to do films. I want to do shows. We want to build culture and do documentaries, and we need money for that. And so either we sign up 100,000 paying members to Rumble Premium, TimCastPremium.com, and to TimCast.com, which is not likely.

Or we sell ads on top and balance between the two to make money to allow us to be competitive and stop the corporate press from destroying our country. So, my friends, that's the plan. I'm going to leave it there. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone you know. Thank you all so much for being members. You can follow me on X and Instagram at Timcast. Once again, thank you for hanging out. Segments are coming up at noon is the next one. Thanks. And we'll see you all then.

Ladies and gentlemen, major breaking news. RFK Jr. has been confirmed as the head of health and human services. It is on. We're going to make America healthy again. We are going to get people fit, not fat, better diets, better exercise. And I am here for it. You know,

I did this segment the other day about how people are taking these drugs to lose weight and some of them have gone blind from it. It is crazy to me that we live in a country where you have people who don't want to eat right, don't want to exercise and want to do drugs instead. Some kind of drug prescription so they can lose weight. I'm here with the RFK Jr., my friends. We have to be the best versions of ourselves with the eat right exercise and be responsible for

Now, of course, Mitch McConnell has once again betrayed MAGA because he's not. He is a bad politician. I don't know how he keeps winning. Some people want to give him credit for things he's done in the past. But let's be real. The dude's now voted against Hegseth, Gabbard and RFK Jr. He absolutely wants to oppose Donald Trump. And I guess he'll be out anyway. So what are you going to do? Cry about it? This is massive news. I'm a big Maha fan.

Glad to see it. Change is coming. Victory is coming. Here's a story from Bloomberg. RFK Jr. was confirmed as the new head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, launching a new era in U.S. health policy. After the one time presidential hopeful openly questioned the safety of widely used vaccines and promised to remove artificial food dyes from America's food supply. You know, it's really funny. My question is, why are they upset about questioning the safety of widely used vaccines?

I think vaccines are a variety of different medications. What they do in this regard. And let me let me tell you, I love drugs, prescription drugs, so long as your doctor prescribes them. I think it's actually amazing technology how we've basically found chemical substances where you can alter the structure of your body in certain ways that may be beneficial, somewhat detrimental. But when it matters, it matters, right?

So let's take a look at vaccines. There's a bunch of different ones. Each different vaccine is a different medication. So imagine if someone said something like, how could you question painkillers? We all use painkillers. And it's like, well, bro, ibuprofen is no big deal. You buy it at the grocery store. Side effects are minimal. Don't take too much. Too much of anything is bad for you. But you can't compare it to fentanyl. They're both painkillers, sort of.

But like questioning the efficacy or safety of a specific medication is not all vaccines. You see the lies they throw at this guy. He comes out. He's like, I think vaccines are fine, but we want safety and security and we want tests on them. And I'm like, OK. And they're like, you're saying all vaccines are bad. He's like, no, they call him an anti-vaxxer. My friends, I tell you, talk to your doctor. Your doctor knows better than I do. I'm just some guy on the Internet. But I got to tell you.

it is a fair and reasonable position to take that every drug is an individual chemical composition for a specific purpose. So when they say vaccines, you don't imagine if someone said antibiotics are safe and widely used. And it's like, sure, but there are different kinds of antibiotics. Some of them are really can be really, really bad in the long run, depending on which is. So I

I was having fun reading about how we invented antibiotics. After I went to the dentist, of course, I got my dentist gave me narcotic painkillers, ibuprofen and antibiotics. And the narcotic stuff, the opiates, they do nothing. They don't do anything for me. So I'm just like, yeah, give me the ibuprofen. I got some from Walgreens. I don't need the prescription.

But the antibiotics was interesting. It's amoxicillin, very common, and they don't want it to get infected or whatever. And then I was like, can you make this stuff really, really difficult to do? It's kind of scary that we have these lab conditions to make these antibiotics. And the era of antibiotics may be over. But you cannot compare commonly used antibiotics to every single other antibiotic because there's counterindications. You can't just say one classification of drug is always safe. Each is different with different risks.

Anyway, you get my point. Kennedy, who first ran as a Democrat before switching to the third party, blah, blah. We get it. I don't get it. The HHS also has a widespread reach into the daily lives of health and health of Americans through its control over federal insurance programs for elderly and lower income citizens. Republican Bill Cassidy, chairman of Health and Education, Labor and Pension Committee, initially wavered on moving Kennedy's nomination to a full vote and then relented.

Cassidy, who is a doctor, said Kennedy promised to involve the senator in hiring decisions at HHS that the agency would give Congress a 30 day notice if HHS tries to reform public vaccine guidance.

Plus, Kennedy promised he will not change the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, an independent body that sets vaccine schedules and recommendations. Kennedy sat for two confirmation hearings. This we understand. Did they give us the vote count? They did. Kennedy was approved along party lines 52 to 48. Let's let's give a round of applause to the worst guy in Congress. OK, it's not fair, to be completely honest. But let's give a round of applause to Mitch McConnell for betraying MAGA once again. I mean, if you're a Democrat.

Nate Morris says Mitch McConnell has now voted against RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth. He's openly trying to sabotage President Trump and keep selling Kentucky voters out. Too many politicians here are still too afraid or too controlled by him to call him out. Time to take out the trash. I had the honor and privilege of hanging out with Charlie Kirk. Give a shout out to Charlie Kirk for all the work he does in Turning Point USA. My friends,

Turning Point USA has hosted us. We have gotten to attend TPSA and perform the Tim Kast IRL show on stage three years now. It's kind of crazy. So thank you very much, TPSA and Charlie Kirk. And it was an honor and a privilege to sit with Charlie as he explained he's coming after the senators primary campaigns. He's coming after them. No more games. I respect it. Scott Pressler and Charlie Kirk. A lot of you know, I want to say this, too.

Everybody shout out Scott Pressler. We love the guy. He did such tremendous work in flipping Pennsylvania voter registration and now New Jersey. But a lot of people I know Charlie's very famous with massive viewership. I get it. I get it. But he does. He deserves a lot of credit for what TP USA was doing as well in the same in same regard. And so I always hear a lot of people say Scott Pressler is the guy and he is.

But let's give credit to Charlie Kirk and TPUSA for the work they did in this election. Now, moving forward, Charlie, rather passionately, he seemed to be motivated when he was on Tim Kess, IRL at TPUSA, saying that we are going to primary these rhinos. And he's got a list of them. And he's like, look.

If you're a Republican and it's a hotly contested state or whatever, and it's purple or fine, we get it. We need the majority. But if you're a Republican in a safe red state and you are acting against the interests of the movement and Donald Trump, the individuals who are leading this cause, we're going to primary you. Oh, and he shouted out West Virginia. Yeah, that's right.

I'm not a fan of how West Virginia has been operating, but it is changing. I'm looking forward to the new administration coming in and trying to fix a lot of these things. I don't want any special favors. You know, I've been complaining about those. They call it the Uber law they passed in West Virginia, but they're passing in every state where they're basically like, because we're inept and incapable of collecting tax revenue, we're going to ban independent contracting. Meaning if you as a regular old person want to go do like a one-off job, nope, you can't do it. I'm sick of this stuff.

I'm sick of it. So right now, not to get into all of that again, because, you know, I'll rant on it. I am excited for RFK Jr. is going to bring to the table. Excuse me. RFK Jr. as the head of health and human services. I want to see PCBs, phthalates, toxic chemicals out of our food.

So my understanding is that HHS does oversee the FDA, and this means it's going to be a big change in how things get approved. No more are we going to look at the ingredients on our food, and it's going to be a hodgepodge of garbled nonsense we don't understand. To be fair, I just bought a thousand Pop-Tarts, and Ian was like, no, you can't eat those. Look, excuse me, got a frog in my throat. RFK was seen eating a cheeseburger, or he had a Big Mac.

And everyone was making fun of him being like, ha ha, look at this. I don't live in the cult world, bro. We know that guzzling dyes and chemicals is bad for you, but you're allowed to have one. Look, drinking beer is bad for you if you drink too much, but you can have a beer and we know alcohol is bad, but we're like everything in moderation. So I think if we start working to get rid of some of these chemical, you know, it's really crazy about the dyes too. If we get rid of this stuff, we'll be better off. But we were looking at in Canada, uh,

They the food colorings they use are derivatives of vegetables. They just take like a carrot, you know, residue or whatever, whatever they do. It's orange. What do we do? Well, for our red dye, we use a little red aluminum mite and we mash them and it's red. And then we take for yellow. We use coal tar derivatives, tartrazine. And it's just like, why are we putting in our food?

The funny thing is Democrats fought so hard to stop RFK Jr. and he is here. So spare me your insanity. The betrayals from Bernie Sanders. He wouldn't vote for Tulsi Gabbard. He wouldn't vote for RFK Jr. Here's a guy who's supposed to be an ally to the populist, to the people, and he's not. Democrats in unison against RFK proves they never cared about you. They are machine swamp monsters.

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Now, I don't think RFK Jr. is going to be perfect. Come on, let's not play games. And I have to say it all the time because these Democrats are a cult. And they're like, you just will support him. No, RFK Jr. has got weird woke stuff going on. But you know what? He's head of HHS. So if he's going to make things better, make food better, get rid of the bad chemicals, let's get started. Let's get started. I can tell you all about the bad chemicals. These Democrats can't. They don't know what's going on. But the PCBs and the phthalates in our plastic, they're endocrine disruptors. We go over this stuff all the time.

So let's see it, RFK Jr. Glad to see this victory. Tremendous victory. We'll wrap it up there. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone you know. Go to TimCastPremium.com. Subscribe to Rumble Premium for our feature-length documentaries and all of the amazing content Rumble Premium has to offer. And support our, join our Discord. Join the community at TimCast.com. And the Discord community, tens of thousands of people hanging out. You can hang out with them. Thanks for hanging out. We'll see you all at, what are we going to do? 1 p.m. The next segment. We'll see you all then.

So they confirmed RFK Jr. Kash Patel has made it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on his way to get confirmed as well. And with all this winning, just wanted to check in on our friends over on the left, the liberals, to see how they were doing. And not well.

As it were not well, indeed. And because I had to listen to this, you have to listen to it, too. But don't worry, you're going to laugh because while we watch them lose their minds over literally everything, we get to sit back and do a nice, delicious grapefruit spin drift as we revel in their, I don't know, insanity. Fuck you.

Fuck your Bible and fuck Elon Musk and that weird little human shield he carries around with him. That thing has never heard the word no. Let's face it, that little booger flicking fucker sitting there with the president of the United States in the Oval Office, in the Oval Office holding a press conference. Boy, didn't he just put it right in our faces? What's what yesterday? So any any idea that you had that what wasn't happening isn't happening is off.

the table. That motherfucker's in charge. He's holding press conferences from the Oval Office with this rotten little bastard child who has never, ever once heard the word fucking no. So let's just call that spade what it is. And look, you Bible-beaten bastard motherfuckers, come to grips with this. I went through Catholic schools. I read the Bible. I

read the book of revelations if you believe in all that shit you bible thumping rat bastards you must believe that we are in the end of times and you need to know the antichrist is here the only problem is there's too many fucking fuckers to pick

Who the fuck is it? There's so many we could be picking from. Is it that rat bastard Elon Musk? Is it the rat bastard Donald Trump? Is it the rat bastard Barron? Who the fuck is what's up with that thing? Because you look at that Melania Trump, Melania motherfucker, whatever the fuck her crazy ass name is. I fucking hate Christmas. I hate... Not well. With the red shit all over the fucking white... What the fuck was that anyway? We put this shit back in the White House. I'm beside myself. You know, I was floating around a couple of months in a fucking pool, looking at the clouds. Ooh.

Oh, look, an octopus chasing a Volkswagen. I was fucking happy. I was fucking motherfucking happy. Now I've got to walk around wondering who the fucking Antichrist is. You rat bastard Bible thumping fuckers. You put us here. You motherfuckers put us here. Fuck you. Fuck your Bible. Oh, man, I'm having a good time. How are you guys doing? The first thing I thought when I saw that was like, um.

Yo, did she practice that? Do you think she wrote that down? I don't think so, which I guess is kind of a compliment because I kind of imagine that if she did write it down, she wouldn't have said rat bastard 83 times. But I do appreciate all the swearing, my friends. You know, as I scroll the Internet to explore the current state of things, I am.

I am beset on all sides by videos of victory. You know what I mean? Like Donald Trump, Doge, Trump securing the border, Pete Hegseth getting wokeness out of the military. Recruitment is way up after Trump won. Tulsi Gabbard gets confirmed as DNI. RFK Jr. was just confirmed. Kash Patel on his way to get confirmed. And I'm sitting here just sipping this soda being like, man, it's pretty good. But I have to wonder how our friends on the left are doing.

And and then I watch this and I got to be honest, when I watch these videos, it's actually more winning the the outright losing of their minds. They to be fair, I don't think their minds were with them to begin with. They must have lost them a long time ago. But these people are unhinged. Look.

That lady, it's performative. Before we jump to the next one, just this lady saying all this crazy nonsense, and I don't think she blinks once. Okay, I guess technically that was blinking. She closed her eyes. But why is she yelling at the dude's kid? None of this is reasonable. But I would say for this lady, she really doesn't care about any of this. It's performative. And...

What works on the Internet these days, I guess, for the right and the majority of the population that voted for Donald Trump is authenticity, we call it. So I don't script any of this stuff. I pull up things and then I press record and I start talking about it. But these people are largely performing. That's why often they'll know what they're saying is false or it comes off like some kind of, I don't know, spoken word poem with lots of swears in it.

She doesn't actually know or care about what's going on. She doesn't care about what the future of this country is going to be. She doesn't care about Lake and Riley, the Lake and Riley Act, what any of this means. She said literally that she was sitting there floating in a pool happy. She doesn't actually know or care what's going on. So why make a video like this? It's tribal performative garbage. And so for me, it's all just victory. They want to come out and they want to make this stuff. They're unhinged.

They are ignorant. And then it gets better or worse, however you want to phrase it. I need the city to protect me because the federal government won't. And if you think you're afraid of Trump, you should see how afraid of Trump you are.

I am. Why are you afraid of Trump? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Let's go again. To protect me because the federal government won't. And if you think you're afraid of Trump, you should see how afraid of Trump I am. Can you wrap up, please? Yeah. Can you wrap up, please, ma'am? I can clearly see you're afraid of Trump. Is Trump in the room with you now?

I got to tell you, Donald Trump has done nothing to these people at all, and they're absolutely losing their minds. So this video is a city of Worcester, Worchester. I don't know how you pronounce it. Everybody pronounce it different. And they've declared themselves, I believe it's a transgender, a sanctuary city for transgender and gender diverse people, which literally means nothing.

There's there's no like Trump brown shirts marching around to arrest trans people like the worst that happened is they said on your passport, if you're male, you have to put male. Why do you have to do that? Because the passport is for treaties and free movement with other countries. So they have laws and regulations, too. How silly. Yes, I can.

If you say that you're afraid of Trump and that's why you don't want the city to be a safe space for trans people, you better prepare for trans people to make this a very unsafe space. Oh, so let me get this straight. What that woman was saying is that they're threatening us with physical violence unless we cave to their demands. I would call that terrorism. Shaking right now.

I don't want to be here! Wait, wait. Better prepare for trans people to make this a very unsafe space. I'm shaking right now! I don't want to be here! Then leave! I'm sorry, am I taking too long pleading for my life? Oh please. You remembered how many children I have and how many- and that two of them are trans. That's strange. I speak as both the B and the T in the LGBT.

I'm multiply disabled. I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which is a connective tissue disorder that causes me immense physical pain. Well, I feel bad for that. I'm on the autism spectrum. And I have narcolepsy. And I couldn't drive myself here. So I had to hide from my driver that I was in drag, which is not an easy thing to do in drag. I do not want to be here. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Is that a guy? I mean...

That sounds like a woman. You know, I should say female, I guess. Not trying to be a dick. I do feel bad. I have empathy if she's got a connective tissue disorder. That sucks. You know what I mean? But my issue, you guys, is that you're unreasonable. You're unreasonable. We are trying to accommodate people and be nice. But this is unreasonable. Which is not an easy thing to do in Bragg. I do not want to be here. It's my day off.

I do not want to be in your DMs. I do not want to be in your email inboxes. I do not want my creativity writing diss tracks like Kendrick. I don't want to spend an eyeing glitter on my face so that you will hear and see me. Well, why did you do it then? Guys, I have this business ethos. If you don't want to be here, you probably shouldn't be. And, you know, it's because there are a lot of people that may not want to be at a company.

But the paycheck is good. And so it's like, well, I'm getting paid, though. And so the issue for me is it's not so much that we want you to leave. But if you don't really want to be here, you shouldn't be. And so I'll just put it this way. This individual here, they clearly wanted to put on all that makeup and all that glitter and do their face like that. They clearly wanted to frost their hair and put it back. They wanted to do all of those things. I got to be honest.

Um,

Sir or ma'am, I'm not trying to be disrespectful here, but you put a lot of work into that appearance and I can respect hard work, but you clearly do want to be doing these things. That's the issue with being unreasonable. They come out and they're like, oh, look at me in the crazy, ostentatious outfit and makeup and performance that I am doing right now. I don't want to do this. And we're like, bro, you're in public on TV in front of politicians dressed up in what probably took you two hours to do, claiming you didn't want to do it.

it. No one made you do it. So I have to wonder who's forcing you and should we really be afraid of them and not Trump? Listen to me. Let us remember that the Nazis burned the books that the Nazis burned books on gender sciences first. Is that true? Now the administration has villainized and marginalized migrant workers, trans, LGBT, LGBT,

LGBT people and even special needs, denying life saving and affirming care. Can you look at me and tell me how many of my friends need to die before you do anything? How many of your friends have died, sir? Because that's very sad and I don't want that to be the case. I'm going to go ahead and make a bet that that number is zero.

Unless, of course, you're talking about like self-harm and things like this, in which case, and I mean, it's all seriousness. If there is an individual, you know, if you're if you're having these kinds of thoughts, please seek help. Help is not a bad thing. It's not a bad term. We don't want anybody to get hurt. Don't want anybody to to be harmed. But there's a big difference between Donald Trump marching around harming people and individuals harming themselves. He's right. Look at me. OK, we're all done here.

Fucking pathetic! Of course we need to continue celebrating Black History Month because in spite of what's coming down from Washington, we all know that we all exist and we all need to be recognized for our existence. But be aware that you are a guest in my house.

when you come and when you come know that there are strong queer and trans people in my classroom who will collect you with the quickness. My name in drag is Dee Dee Delight and my name out of drag is Dewey Cosgrove Atienza.

Laddie LaRouge, he, they, and drag, District 3. My legal name is Olivia D'Ambrosio. My public name is Livvy Scanlon. My wife and I own a home in the Canal District. I speak as someone who is always misgendered, like, all the time. People refer to me as sir when I prefer to be referred to as ma'am. Okay, well, I don't care what you prefer to be referred to as...

I don't mean to be a dick, but you don't own the universe. I do think it's interesting, too. Have you noticed they all have like different names? That was like a really this video is actually much more interesting than I realized it. You know, I kind of started making this video thinking it'd be fun to gloat over the unhinged insanity that is the liberal meltdown over Donald Trump winning and RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard and soon to be Cash Patel. And now I am intrigued.

I'm intrigued by what causes people to live in this reality where they show up in public meetings. They don't really have a cohesive plan or demands. They're angry. They're saying they're dying and they give themselves different names. I'm curious as to what this behavior and this cultural trend will prescribe for our country moving forward.

I'm not going to play the full video for you, but I will point out that, like, it's all performative garbage. Whoopi Goldberg leads the charge as The View hosts mock Elon Musk's son over his name. I didn't name the child. You know, look, I think we can understand that Elon Musk named Lil X. His name is XAI. I think that's how you pronounce it. I could be wrong. It is an atypical name. I'm trying to be a bit polite. I don't think it's unfair for someone to point out that people were surprised by the name. It's atypical. You know what I mean?

However, the main issue here is that liberals are latching on to the fact that Elon brought his son with him to places where I think kids should be with their dad to see them work. And they're using that against them. Why? It's not about actually having a grievance. It's just they hate. I think what we're actually seeing with all of these people at this Worcester meeting, I don't think these people have a real grievance. I think they have a lack of a grievance. I think what you see here is people who are angry.

But there's no substance, no faith, no coherent ideology. And thus, the demands, desires, and proclamations lack coherent ideology as well. Right? I'll explain it like this. If I were to ask someone to draw me a bath, I said, good sir, butler, I'd like you to draw me a bath. And then I go in there and it is too hot. I say, good sir, it is too hot. Please add cold water to it.

And he says, OK, perhaps it is too cold. I say, sir, this water is much too cold. You must add hot water. The problem that I face has a prescribed solution for what we are seeing with these people who are screaming, saying MF or rat bastard, blah, blah, blah. Why are my friends dying? They're not offering up any prescribed or planned solution. They're simply saying I'm angry.

I think that comes from there not being an actual problem. And I mean it sincerely. What's the problem? Literally, Trump's not there's nothing that Trump is doing that's affecting you right now. There's the big scheme of things right where egg prices might go up or down. But ultimately, what I see with the left is they don't actually have any kind of coherent ideology to complain about. I suppose what I'm what I think I'm seeing is we've broken the barrier, as I describe it.

In life, there is a, this is how I describe people who become so wealthy that they'll never be poor again. The barrier of when you are working class, every day you get a paycheck. You have to figure out how much of that money is going to go towards food, fuel, you know, your utility costs. That money is gone forever.

If you buy, if you pay your gas bill, gone forever. But there is a certain point at which an individual makes enough money to where they say, I'm going to buy something, but the thing they buy retains its value and the money never actually leaves. This is wealth. So let's say, you know, everybody has this to a certain degree, but when you get to the point where you have so much that you'll just live off it forever. So I think as a society, we have shattered that barrier. So imagine you're working class, but you buy a guitar.

That guitar, you didn't lose the money. You can always sell the guitar and get the money back for it. There are certain things that most people deal with in that they struggle to build hard assets and build wealth. What they're doing is they're spending their money on things that are, I don't know, consumable, maybe is the way to put it. When I see videos like this where people are saying things like, I'm angry, I see a society that has become so opulent and wealthy, there's no visible problem.

Are we hungry? No. Do we need clean running water? No. Even if you're homeless, you can get access to clean running water. Do we need shelter? Honestly, no. The problem of homelessness is not a lack of shelter. We actually have a lot of buildings that are vacant. We do have issues. Don't get me wrong. Now, you and I can clearly articulate the problems we face and what the solutions to them are. That is, if we have a border crisis, criminal cartels, women being attacked, we say we need border enforcement to stop these things.

On the other side, there is a question that I will ask that basically lays this out. If Politico, Politico wrote this analysis or a guy wrote an analysis for Politico saying Democrats were tricked into believing the economy was good. How can you trick someone to believe the economy is good? Aren't we all a part of it? For the average voter, we knew that when we went to the grocery store, the economy was not good and we voted as such. Thus, Donald Trump is president. But these Democrats, they voted for Democrats. How is that possible?

Didn't they know the economy was bad? The reality was they're isolated from it. They weren't buying their own groceries or they didn't care what the price of the groceries and they weren't thinking twice. They'd walk into the grocery store, load up a cart. And then when they ring it all up, they the cashier says, that'll be more. And they go, I don't know whatever beat I'm done. The price didn't matter to them because they were affluent.

And that's what I see with these people. They live in a world where they can't identify problems because they're affluent. The Democratic Party on the left is the party of the wealthy. People on the right are concerned about mass migration because they're deeply impacted by it. Thus, they say we have a prescribed solution. We need enforcement. Trump offers one. They say, please. These individuals can't isolate a problem they're facing. They are wealthy. In fact, so wealthy they can afford to buy these things.

ridiculous costumes and outfits and change their names. Now, I'm not saying they own a Jaguar or they're buying luxury cruises. I am saying that in America, the poorest individuals in this country still has access to cheap food, not the best food, but clean running water, air conditioning, refrigerators. Think about how insane it is that when you rent a place to live, it's got heating and air conditioning, clean running water and a hot shower. Not every single place, but typically they do. That is expected.

We are trying to make sure that Gen Z can have access to these things. But when you have shelter, you're not just given a shack in the middle of the woods that's just four walls and a roof. It's clean running water and typically heating and air conditioning. Not every single person I know, but it is typical. Could you imagine going back 100 years and being like, how would you like a refrigerator, a microwave, a cell phone, the Internet, any infinite entertainment for 10 bucks a month?

Your water will be chlorinated and clean and you won't get sick from drinking it. And if you turn this knob, a hot shower comes out. People are going to be like, what? Are you Rockefeller? Not to mention dental care. Dental care today for the average person is better than what the barons got 100 plus years ago.

So my point ultimately is I think there's a point at which the problems humans face become so minimal that you end up with these people showing up saying the problem I face is that someone won't call me her. Is that really a problem? You know, when I was hanging out at Glenn Beck's studio in Texas, he's got these old timey newspapers and one of them talked about how a guy was outside a saloon. Another guy walked up and just blasted him in the chest in the 1800s. It's like, wow.

People had problems back then. The joke is you're walking down the street, you stub your toe and go, oh, stubbed my toe. Guess I'll die because you'd get an infection. It's wild, isn't it? That you could get a cut if you're walking just in the woods and it could get infected and you could die. You could go septic. This stuff still does happen.

There's a story I saw where a guy went in for like, he went in for like a wisdom, for tooth extraction and then ended up developing sepsis. The site got infected and then the infection got into his blood. By the time he got to the hospital, it was too late and his hands and feet started turning black and they had to cut his arms and legs off. That was actually relatively common for people with no antibiotics. Now, I got dental work done and they're like, here's a bottle of pills. Take one and the infection's gone.

We live in such tremendous luxury that we've got no problems. So let me once again reiterate. I can't believe this video ended up being 20 minutes, but I'm going to say it again. These people who come to these meetings and they rant about how people won't call them she, her. It's because they have no actual problem. If it was 200 years ago and you were living in the woods and you walked up to someone and said, my greatest problem is that people don't call me she or her. They'd be like, I'm starving. Help. People didn't have water. They didn't have shelter. They didn't have food. Kids died.

It's wild that we live in this time, my friends. I hope they're enjoying it. Well, I'm going to wrap it up there. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone. You know, we got more segments coming up. I think I got one more for you today. Thanks for hanging out and we'll see you all shortly. Of all the people to break down why it is Donald Trump won, I'm surprised that Seth Rogen actually has a decently good point.

Seth Rogen explains Trump victory by saying people got sick of effing hippies doing acid in the streets. And it's not absolutely literal, literal, but he's not completely wrong. You see, one of the big issues was that you had far leftists rampaging through the streets, smashing windows. You had these pride events where people were engaged in overt, obscene activities in public. And we even had some of this stuff in West Virginia.

So when he's saying he's tired of seeing hippies doing acid in the streets, he also mentioned that they were doing other things in the streets. And that's basically it. He does kind of go back and say sooner or later, people are going to get tired of the cleanup crews coming in and being all stodgy and they're going to go the other way because the pendulum swing. I'm not so convinced in the short term, however, but I don't think he's completely wrong because I kind of feel that way. Right.

Let's let's grab the story. They say Seth Rogen explains Trump victory by saying people got sick of effing hippies doing acid. And a recent profile profile in Esquire, the Superbad star admitted what Superbad star. Come on. The guy's been a lot of shows and movies. He's an invincible right now. He is a bit of a woke. I would call him a bad dude, you know, but I digress.

He admitted he's not hyperventilating of a second Trump administration, suggesting that the 2024 election results represent the natural ebb and flow of American politics. People get sick of seeing effing hippies doing acid and effing on their lawns. And they're like, let's effing clean this street up a little bit. And then people get sick of seeing effing dorks cleaning up the streets and they go back the other way. Kind of kind of, but not really.

Rogan Eddie tries to keep a cool head amidst all the talk about the country's stark political divide, saying, I personally try not to go too dark on all of it and think like, oh, we're on the precipice of global societal collapse. Since the end of the Civil War, America's remained a very divided country in a lot of ways. I just want to point out

A bit optimistic from the guy. But this dude was overly anti-Trump, very woke for a long time. And I think what we're seeing now, the likes of Seth Rogen and many other progressives, is that they're trying to walk things back because they know the majority of the country. Hey, the market share is not on your side for these people. They're trying to sell movie tickets, TV show tickets, whatever you want to call it.

And guess what? Get woke or broke. Today, the previews for the new Captain America film are releasing. So basically, the movie's out today. And I bet it's going to bomb miserably. I mean, it'll probably make some money. I plan on going to see it because I like to be a prize to the movies that are coming out. But Joe, I look at stuff like this and I'm like, guys, I think society is breaking down. I think he's wrong when he says this. He's trying desperately to maintain some kind of cohesion.

But I am glad to see that a lot of the overtly woke stuff is like not as prominent anymore. He says it's not to say it doesn't have very real and troubling ramifications on many people's lives, but try to maintain hope that the ball will roll onwards, even though it might be wobbling back and forth. Rogan's unruffled perspective on Trump is a departure from his earlier statements about the president and the Republican Party at large.

During an appearance on The Late Show with Colbert in 21, the comedic actor called Ted Cruz a fascist for supporting Trump in questioning the 2020 election. Quote, Ted Cruz is a fascist. He denies the reality of the election. His words cause people to die. And I'm making jokes about it. This guy, you see what he's doing?

Rogan justified anti-Trump resistance in an interview with The Daily Beast in 2017, saying, I don't want to look back in 10 years and think I just didn't say anything during that time because it seems like a time when it's very important to normalize dissent. However, he did note at the time, I've been very conscious not to insult people who voted for Donald Trump. I can respect that. But the dude, I got to tell you, Seth Rogan, many of these people,

They they bet on the wrong horse. Taylor Swift got booed. And here we are. I am. I do think it's interesting that we're seeing a lot of these movies try to abandon these woke tropes. But companies like Disney, when they say they're getting rid of DEI, they're actually not. They're saying they're getting rid of it. And then they're still keeping this stuff in place. But with different names, what they're trying to do is go underground. Largely, that's what Seth Rogen is doing. But you know what? I got to tell you, Seth.

13 years ago, about 13 years ago, I was at an event. Was it 13? I don't know. 10 years ago. It's been a long time. I was at an event in the Netherlands, and it was a broadcaster's conference. And I was talking with a bunch of producers, and I told them fame was over.

And they were like, you're nuts. And I said, fame's over, man. The way we know it and see it today, where you have a spattering of celebrities with a Q rating and then everybody else, that's done. It's going to flatten out. It's going to be more like a very flat hill instead of a tower. What I mean is back in the day, I mean, even 20 years ago, fame was very much of all of the people. And then in this very, very narrow tower, there's fame. And you either famous or you weren't.

Today, it's not really how it works. Today, you can be someone like me. You know, I've got millions of followers. It's a big show. It wields a decent amount of influence. But y'all like I'm not as famous as Seth Rogen. If you walk down the street and say, have you heard of Seth Rogen? They're going to be like, oh, yeah, that actor. And if you say you've heard of Tim Pool, they'll be like, no. A lot of people do recognize me and do know me. But this is my point. It's breaking down. In the past several years, it's actually been breaking down a bit more than that.

If you watch the trend for online media is actually towards diminishing. There's only so many channels that can exist, only so many podcasts, only so many choices to make. And you take a look at the average viewership. There is people who grow and new channels emerge. That's true. But they're smaller than the giants before them.

With all due respect to Joe Rogan, you take a look at his viewership on YouTube, and maybe it's because it's divided up on Spotify or otherwise, but it's not the same as it used to be.

Joe Rogan was the king of the podcasting world, first in best-dressed, biggest audience. But as podcasting has expanded and more money has moved into the space, and with ease of access, it's starting to flatten out dramatically. While he certainly still is the biggest podcast in the world, it's not the same as it used to be. And I'm not saying to drag the guy or anything like that. I consider him a friend. He's a good dude. He's actually one of the better dudes that I know. I'm just saying that over a long enough period of time, you've got...

Five thousand choices in a morning show. Who are you going to watch? Thus, quantity ends up becoming the strategic play for most people. That's why I think social culture is breaking down. Part of why I want to do the deal with Rumble, because we need to create spheres of influence.

And fame will exist to a certain degree, but it's going to be a lot harder to be the most famous guy in the world. Trump certainly is. That's different. You're the president. Very consequential. But now as it pertains to media and music, you know, the music I listen to, it's pretty wild. I'll put it this way.

First, I want to say so you can understand what I'm getting to. Seth Rogen is saying this stuff because the market share is diminishing for everybody. No longer are the days where you can star in a movie that makes a billion dollars and make 100 million for yourself. Kind of, but not really. It's going away. Now, a lot of these celebrities, people like Seth Rogen, are doing Netflix films for much smaller budgets. They're making much less money because there's too many choices. That's where we're currently at for a show like this.

You know, we might there was a period where I was getting like 300 to 500000 views per video. But content strategy for most people has been massive expansion quantity over quality because you're trying to flood the zone. And that's where we're going. So the reason I bring this up is I think that's where we're going to be moving forward. And what that means is maybe the ebb and flow is actually a decentralization of media. But eventually everyone's in an even playing field.

Sooner or later, someone will become substantially better than other people. But I don't know for sure. I don't know for sure. I'll tell you what I find really interesting is that there are some people who get their news from a podcast with 10,000 subscribers. Now, obviously, 10,000 subscribers, it's going to be around 10,000 people, right, who are watching that show.

But you might go to someone and they'll be like, oh, dude, yeah, I get my news from Dr. Guitar Breaker and the pumpkin growers. And you're like, what? Yeah, it's a podcast. It's really great. You should check it out. You're like, I've never heard of that. And you watch, and it's lower quality, but they get their information from that. That didn't used to be the case. Actually, let me put it like this. Some of my favorite bands, I was actually surprised to find Metric, for instance, probably my favorite band.

Some of their they put out a song like their latest single. It's one of their biggest and it's got like half a million views of two years. And I'm not trying to be a dick because I love the band. They're fantastic. Probably the metric is the greatest band of all time. And anybody who disagrees is wrong. But anyway, as I was saying, so we put out some songs and I don't consider them to be particularly culturally relevant, to be honest, but they have millions of views.

So, for instance, our biggest release ever that sold the most was Together Again, which was a parody of the Daily Wire's Smokey Mike and the God King song Together Again, which was a parody of Happy Together. And that's why we kind of did it as a double-layered joke. The song, I think, ultimately has around 10 million total streams and views between the video and the audio side. And there's like a lyric video, which has millions. And it's kind of crazy to think that people played it millions of times. And it's nuts.

But we never won any awards. We were never featured anywhere. Magazines never wrote about us. Isn't that kind of crazy? So my point ultimately is the bands that I listen to, they're famous. They have awards and accolades, but they don't get that much traffic.

Influence is changing and it's going to be very difficult for a narrative machine to exist that counters Trump or opposes one idea or the other. It's going to be very difficult to create mass media manipulation campaigns. Basically what I'm saying, Seth Rogen is going to come out. Other celebrities will come out because they know there is a shrinking market share for what they have to offer. And if they want to make money, they've got to maximize, get as many people as possible to watch or listen.

Everybody knows it's always been the case. Only this time you are fighting that fight yourself. I'll put it this way. I was watching. There's this movie called The Nines with Ryan Reynolds and Melissa McCarthy and a handful of other actors kind of surprising how many people are in it. And it's like a three part series about three different characters. One of the characters is trying to get a TV show picked up.

And it's crazy how it how it works in that field. When television was the dominant media platform, there's no Internet and 20 million people could watch your show. You were just basically saying, let's make a pilot and see how it does. And they put it on TV and millions of people would see it. You would then people would know who you are. Something interesting happens, though.

You had a contract with a talent agency or with a network, and if you screwed them over, they'd say you'll never work in this town again. And it's because if there are three networks and you screw over one, the other two are going to be like, we're not going to go to war with the other network. We don't want to. We're competing. Sorry, you can't work for us. Now you can get fired from your job and start a YouTube channel, and you can maintain that influence. I guess what I'm trying to say is it's going to be very difficult for these celebrities to maintain market share. So one of two things is going to happen.

They're going to create niche mission-driven markets where you'll get many celebrities in the trans community, which is what's happening. And then advertisers are going to decentralize to agencies to try and buy ad space because you can't buy from one channel anymore. Fame is going to be extremely isolated and very few people will be truly famous. Kendrick Lamar, take a look at the halftime show at the Super Bowl. The point Milo made, which was interesting, is that nobody knows who he is. And he's not

Right, not wrong. Kendrick Lamar is very famous with big hits, but I got to be honest, I have no idea about any of his songs. So when he starts rapping, I was deeply impressed by his technical ability, but I had no idea any of these songs. So I'm not into it. And the point he made was when you're doing a halftime show, you want to bring out a celebrity who's going to play a song that everyone can sing to. That doesn't really exist anymore, does it? Case in point. That's why I brought up the music we released.

So we've put out eight songs so far. All of them, not all of them, six of them have millions of views. It's kind of wild. The Will of the People, Will of the People, the first song we put out, three million, maybe like four or five million views.

And it's interesting because views don't actually actually equal engagement. We put out one of our first official releases. It was only ever wanted. And I don't even know how you describe the song. It's like very soft vocals and like ambient sounds. And it got massive play and it was a billboard hit, but it got played because of cultural interest, not because the song was necessarily good. So a handful of people liked it. A lot of people hated it and they listened to it anyway.

Then we put out a song called Genocide. Million, like one point, I think it's got like 2 million views. The thing I'm pointing out is these songs were bigger than a lot of the music that's played on the radio. When I go to the casinos or the malls, I'm like, that song they're playing right now has 500,000 YouTube views. And the song we put out has 10 million. So what does that really mean? My point is we may have influence with you. That's my point. I put out a song, gets a ton of play. You guys listen to it.

But it's not in the mainstream. It's not in the TV shows. And so the question is, there's like the point, I guess, is there's there's two different realities that are existing. The people who watch Jimmy Kimmel and listen to the radio and Pandora and Spotify who know Kendrick Lamar is and the growing podcast independent space where influence is flat. So if you went back, like I would put it this way.

When I say that this band has got 500,000 views on their song they put out, yeah, but they probably have 30 million people, 30 million different people have heard the song because it's been on the radio. Maybe they can't identify the band or whatever. And then for the songs we put out, people actually know who I am and listen to it. And it's not really in their playlists or whatever. It's cultural interest and it's fleeting. My point ultimately is that things are changing. And with this decentralization and influence, it's going to make things very, very interesting.

I don't know how we will maintain cultural coherence as this continues. But I guess what I'll say is why we wanted to do the Rumble deal. I know that the Timcast island of influence is limited. We want to team up with others so that these islands effectively have bridges to each different one. And thus, when we do the uncensored call and show on Rumble Premium, go to Timcast Premium dot com, sign up to Rumble Premium.

We have people who are like, hey, I'm not a Timcast subscriber. I'm a mug club, Steven Crowder subscriber. But now I'm going to watch your show. That network effect will create spheres of influence. So basically what I'm saying is we need to actually team up, build these networks to maintain a coherent cultural identity. Otherwise, it all falls apart. Nobody knows what to believe or who's right or how do you try to find success if everybody just despises each other and it's all tribalism.

We'll see. We'll see. Anyway, man, whatever. These people are going to come out. And with the popular vote showing Trump won, you're going to see a lot more of this. I'll wrap it up there. Smash that like button. Share the show with everyone. You know, we got more segments and we'll see you all then.

It may be one of the most important stories we've gotten in the Trump administration. Donald Trump has reached out to Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war. Now, the pundits have claimed that we are aiding the Ukrainians because we have to stop Putin before he invades Europe.

Yeah, it's a it's a bunch of hogwash. Vladimir Putin's interests we can break down and I'm gonna go through the history of this conflict and its surface level. I wish I knew more, but I do not have security clearance. But I can give you a general overview of why we are active in this conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Now, the best interests of the United States are not served by whatever is going on there. And Donald Trump knows it. And he wants to negotiate peace. There are people dying. It is disrupting the global economy and it's pushing us to the brink of World War Three.

So Trump gets on the phone with Putin and says, let's put a stop to this. In this process, he's brought back some prisoners from, I believe, one so far. I could be getting the number wrong, but he's negotiating with Putin to bring back people who are being held by Russia.

This is good news for Russia. It's good news for the United States. It's bad, bad news for Ukraine. But this is the reality of war. There's never going to be winners because after the war, you're still devastated. You're still destroyed. But the best thing I think we can get out of this is maybe not wasting our resources, not seeing more death. Ukraine will no longer have to be drafting the elderly or young women. Russia, of course, will stop sending wave after wave of their own men to die in this conflict. But the media, of course, none too happy.

As we know, if you were listening to the live show this morning, Elon Musk's doge uncovered what appears to be a mass social deception campaign the government was funding. Donald Trump's kind of upset about it and he wants that money back.

But we don't know to the extent that the U.S. was actually manipulating the public. They are. And there have been a lot of programs to that effect, which, of course, we talked about in the morning live show. As of right now, it is funny to me to see all the stories popping up. The moment Trump begins to negotiate a peace settlement, all of the press lines up to say Vladimir Putin will attack Europe. I believe it's a lie.

I don't believe it's true. There's a possibility. I don't trust Vladimir Putin. He's not a good guy. I don't like the guy. I believe he's the principal aggressor in the conflict. And I think we can acknowledge that that's fine. But that doesn't mean we keep this war going indefinitely. Let's break all this down so I can explain to you guys a bit of what's going on this war. As the Daily Mail say that Putin is going to invade. Now, I know a lot of people out there who love putting the Ukrainian flag in their bios and

I just want to say this to each and every one of you, maybe not them because they're not listening. In what reality does a foreign nation who is not an ally receive hundreds of billions of dollars in aid, funding, intelligence, military assets, fly to the United States, get our Congress to wave their flag? Absolutely. I can already hear everyone screaming Israel.

I don't care which country it is. It is an absurdity. And I'm done playing this game. If you want war and you want conflict, Congress can vote for it. And you can convince the American people why we need to be actively involved in this. But in the meantime, as Donald Trump is negotiating peace, I'm going to say thank you, Mr. President. So let's break all of this down, starting with the current news. Before we get started, of course, my friends, check it out. If you guys go to Rumble.com slash Tim Pool.

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But let's jump into this story, my friends. Daily Mail reports now Putin is poised to invade Europe as Trump casts Ukraine aside. Spy chiefs warn Russia is preparing for a large scale war by 2030 with president's peace talks compared to Chamberlain appeasing Hitler. You got to love my friends. Now, ain't nobody's going to be praising Chamberlain. If those are not familiar, he has the beautiful quote, and I mean that somewhat facetiously of peace in our time.

Yeah, he was basically telling Hitler, like, OK, we don't want to be involved in the war. How about we just wrap things up after Hitler had already been fighting quite a bit? And then what happened? The Blitz. When Germany began bombing London.

And I'm not a big World War Two history buff. I'm probably getting some of that wrong. Forgive me. But Chamberlain was criticized as being too deferential, desperately trying to avoid war. I think it's fair to say that he's a bit naive and you needed a Winston Churchill to come in with a boot. And of course, with the United States and Russia, we crushed Germany and ended World War Two, although it's not like it at the end results were.

You know, I'll put it this way. There's no winners in war. Although the outcome was preferable, a lot of bad stuff still comes out of these wars. The destabilization of Europe and the various empires and the colonial powers. I mean, it was bad all across the board, but I think it's good that we ended that conflict. Now, I'm torn. I understand Chamberlain didn't want war. Why would anyone want

And he thought he could appease Hitler and he couldn't. But come on, let's be real. Do we really believe that Vladimir Putin is going to try and go up against NATO? He's struggling against Ukraine with Western armaments, let alone going up against actual NATO. The reality is there's a vested interest the West has, particularly the U.S., in taking control of Ukraine. And it's related to natural gas. I got the articles pulled up. I talk about it quite a bit, but we're doing a deep dive today.

So now I don't see a reality where Vladimir Putin actually tries to invade Europe. But let's talk about the story.

Donald Trump's concessions on Ukraine have played into the hands of Vladimir Putin, experts have warned, at a time when intelligence chiefs say Moscow is preparing its military for a major war in Europe. U.S. Defense Chief Pete Hegseth told European counterparts on Wednesday that Ukraine's dream of returning to its pre-2014 borders was an illusionary goal and that Kiev's wish for NATO membership was not realistic. Indeed, he's correct. His statements are widely seen as a major victory for Putin and a devastating blow to Kiev.

which as a result could be forced to cede vast swaths of territory without the prospect of a security guarantee. I tell you, they're drinking vodka straight out of the bottle in the Kremlin tonight, Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton told CNN. It was a great day for Moscow.

Perhaps it was. But does that mean he's going to invade Europe? Certainly when the U.S. concedes we cannot sustain this war and Russia's already claimed this territory. Yeah, they're going to celebrate. What a stupid things to say, or at least it's stupid to imply that we should be upset that they've made militaristic gains. I got the maps for you. They did. They've been drinking vodka straight up the bottle for years now.

They're going to say analysts have warned that appeasing Putin could result in history repeating itself with former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt accusing Trump of a of an historical sellout. I hate when they do an historical and historical sellout of Ukraine. It's certainly an innovative approach to a negotiation to make very major concessions even before they have started. Not even Chamberlain went that low in 1938 that Munich ended very bad somehow.

Indeed, indeed. They say the allies' concession to Hitler, which included the annexation of territory, came a year before Hitler invaded Poland, triggering World War II. The deal was known as the Munich Agreement, and now discussions over the fate of Ukraine are set to be held at a security conference in the Germany city on late Friday.

How interesting. The voice of Ukraine says Russian army may target Europe after exercises in Belarus. Volodymyr Zelensky. Oh, spare me. The least trustworthy guy I can think of. This guy is screaming that the United States needs to be involved in his war. Now, I get it. I don't blame him, to be honest. Wouldn't you want the greatest military power in the world to have your back if you were being attacked by a foreign nation? Of course you would.

But I'm just going to say like this. It's not our responsibility. That's just the reality. Sorry, guy. You're on your own on this one. And I believe Trump is making the appropriate moves. Let's talk about how CNN frames it. U.S. relations with Europe will never be the same after Trump's call with Putin for peace. You see, when Donald Trump won the first time around, he fired, was it, 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria. And he was called presidential. The media praised him saying, is this Trump's presidential moment? Yeah.

Uh-huh. Now that Donald Trump wants to bring about peace, it's quite the opposite. They say Europe's American century is over. Two geopolitical thunderclaps on Wednesday will transform transatlantic relations. Trump's call with Putin brought the Russian leader in from the cold as they hatched plans to end the war in Ukraine and agreed to swap presidential visits. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, meanwhile, went to Brussels and told European allies to take ownership of conventional security on the continent. Indeed. Let's roll, baby.

Donald Trump recently stated he has ruled out NATO entry for Ukraine. The Post Millennial reports. I don't think it's practical to have it personally. Yes, there was a here we go. Washington Post. Trump has a call with Putin kickstarting a bid to end Russia's Ukraine war. I appreciate the headline. Thank you very much. We had on Mark Dubowitz and he made the statement to us. He said we have to fight Russia here so that they don't go into Europe and we avoid World War Three.

That's incorrect in my assessment. I like Mark is a nice guy, but I believe he's wrong. So let's take a look at the history of what's really going on, why Donald Trump is correct and why I hope he negotiates a peace settlement. And, uh,

I'm not here to blow smoke or defend Russia or to overlook why the U.S. and NATO are deeply involved in this territory. I'm going to give you the big picture. Now, I've talked about it quite a bit with the Qatar-Turkey pipeline. Then there's the Iraq-Iran-Syria pipeline and Gazprom and Burisma. So let's break it all down so you can understand why we don't need to be here.

Behold, my friends, the battle map of Ukraine. These blue areas, it's not water. It's Ukrainian controlled territory in the conflict. And then we have the red area, which is Russian controlled. Now, a little bit more complicated than that, but take a look at this battle map as of today.

Interestingly, Russia controls the southeastern portion of Ukraine, eastern to southeast. Why? They want Sevastopol. They want access to Crimea, which they annexed. I believe this was 2014. And Sevastopol is the home of their Black Sea fleet.

It is where they ship goods into the Black Sea through Istanbul and the Bosphorus Strait and into the Mediterranean where they can sell oil, among other things. It's a trade route for them. Many have suggested, so what if they lose Sevastopol? They still have tremendous access to the Black Sea and other areas. That's silly. It's ignoring the fact they have a multibillion dollar port in Crimea, territory they've controlled since the Soviet Union. They have a naval base there with military personnel. They're not giving up their military capital.

military base, a naval base. That's absolutely ludicrous. So you can make the argument they should. You can try to get them to. My point is they're not going to give that up without a fight. Hence, when Ukraine began to split between the West and Russia, Europe, Schengen zone, EU, etc.,

Russia had their referendum in Crimea to maintain control. How did they take control of Crimea? It's actually quite simple. The Russian military soldiers simply walked out of the base and said hi because they were already there.

Now, what you can see here is, of course, there has been fighting in the Kursk and Bryansk regions of Russia and on the border with Ukraine. Many have made the argument that Russia was trying to capture Kiev in three days, perhaps. But the real prize has always been the Donbass region and eastern Ukraine. The oblast of Zaporizhia, Kursk, Luhansk, Donetsk, and is Mariupol, I don't know, or is Mariupol its own oblast?

I think it is. I don't know much about, to be completely honest, I'm not someone who tracks the states of Ukraine, the Oblast specifically, but that's generally it. It was really funny in the debates when, who was it? Was it Kamala? I don't know. Somebody was asked to name one region in Ukraine where there's fighting. And they were like, what was it? Was it was? No, no. Who was that? Was it? I can't remember. It was a Nikki Haley. I don't know.

But here we go, my friends. I'm going to zoom out. We were talking with Mark on Timcast IRL. He said if they take Ukraine, they'll be on the border of Poland and they could invade and we must stop them from doing it. Now, with all due respect to Mark, I've heard this quite a bit. The argument that Vladimir Putin wants to take Ukraine, crush Kiev, and then he would butt up against the border of NATO and could invade Poland.

But you want to know how easily this is debunked? Hey, look at this. If you take a look at the battle map, you can see that Russia already borders Poland. How? Many of you are saying, what are you talking about? You got Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine. Russia doesn't touch Poland. Well, surprisingly, a lot of people don't know what Kaliningrad is. Kaliningrad is an isolated oblast of Russia that borders Poland to the north and Lithuania to the southwest. It gives Russia access to the Baltic. This is Russia.

How many of you knew that there is an isolated little little island in Eastern Europe? Russia already has placed military assets in Kaliningrad and expanded this. And they're already on the borders of Lithuania and Poland. They do not need Ukraine to do so. In fact, Russia could easily from St. Petersburg ship tons of military assets to the Baltic into Kaliningrad and turn it into a massive military fortification.

Maybe if that were happening, we'd say, hey, look, Russia's preparing for war. They've done it a little bit. And there's fear that if this war does escalate, Russia will make an attempt in Kaliningrad to slice through Lithuania and Poland to create a land bridge to Belarus, because right now they have no direct connection. They would have to go through Lithuania or Poland. But slow down there a minute and just say this. NATO is already on the border of Russia with Estonia and Latvia. Belarus, of course, is an ally of Russia, where Russia has been sending troops.

I believe I believe they placed nuclear weapons there and they've actually launched incursions to Ukraine through Belarus. To put it simply, when they make the argument that once they take Ukraine, they can move on Poland. Why would they move on Poland? Because it's a narrative likening this conflict to World War Two. Oh, no. Russia will invade Poland. Uh huh.

Certainly they could already through Belarus. So I don't know what y'all are talking about. Not to mention that NATO with bringing Estonia and Latvia into the fold have already placed NATO on the border of Russia. Perhaps it was expanding NATO's borders to Ukraine, completely spattering the border of Russia that exacerbated the conflict. Now, my friends, I will take you back in time.

The Kota Turkey pipeline proposal to build a natural gas pipeline from the Iranian-controlled South Pars North Dome gas condensate field towards Turkey, where it could connect with the Nabucco pipeline to supply European customers as well as Turkey. One proposed route to Turkey was via Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria. Another was through Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq. After the fall of the Assad regime, the Turkish energy minister Al-Parslan Bayek

Byron Byron Star, probably not. Stated the pipeline project could be revived if Syria achieves its territorial integrity and stability. Indeed. Take a look at this. Actually, let's do this. Here's a story from The Guardian going way back from 2013. And it says I'll try and go quick and just give you the tidbits. Not that we necessarily trust everything The Guardian reports, to be fair.

They say on August 21st of August, hundreds, perhaps over a thousand people were killed in a chemical weapon attack in Gota, Damascus, prompting the U.S., U.K. and Israel and France to raise the specter of military strikes against Bashar al-Assad's forces. The latest episode is merely one more horrific event in a conflict that is increasingly taken on genocidal characteristics. The case for action at first glance is indisputable. The U.N. now confirms a death toll of over 100,000. Mind you, this story is from 2013. It's important.

They say experts are unanimous. The shocking footage of civilians, including children, suffering the effects of some sort of chemical attack is real, but remain divided on whether it involved military grade chemical weapons, blah, blah, blah. So let's let's let's let's jump down.

They're going to say the 2011 uprisings would seem triggered by a confluence of domestic energy shortages and climate induced droughts, which led to a massive flood. Price X came at the opportune moment that was quickly exploited. Leaked emails from the private intelligence firm Stratford included notes from a meeting with Pentagon officials confirming U.S. U.K. training of Syrian opposition forces since 2011 aimed at eliciting collapse of Assad's regime from within. Do you all remember the leaked emails?

Emails from Stratfor. It's a long time ago, but this was back in the hacker anonymous days when these hacktivists were digging up and dumping data files. Stratfor was a private intelligence company, not necessarily meaning everything they say is correct, but it would appear that there was an effort to collapse the Assad regime. Why would that be? They're going to mention that what was unfolding. Of

According to retired NATO Secretary General Wesley Clark, a memo from the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense just a few weeks after 9-11 revealed plans to attack and destroy the governments in seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq and moving through Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. In a subsequent interview, Clark argues this strategy is fundamentally about control of the region's vast oil and gas resources.

Much of the strategy currently at play was candidly described in a 2008 U.S. Army-funded RAND report unfolding the future of long war. The report noted that economies of the industrialized states will continue to rely heavily on oil, thus making it a strategically important resource.

As most oil will be produced in the Middle East, the U.S. has motive for maintaining stability in and good relations with Middle Eastern states. In context, the report identified several potential trajectories for regional policy focused on protecting access to Gulf oil supplies, among which the following are the most salient. Blah, blah, blah. You get the point. And then we get to the most important part. And forgive me if it's a bit verbose. I only have a few minutes left here.

These strategic concerns, motivated by fear and expanding Iranian influence, impacted Syria primarily in relation to pipeline geopolitics. In 2009, the same year, former French Minister Dumas alleges the British began deploying planning operations in Syria. Assad refused to sign a proposed agreement with Qatar that would run a pipeline through the latter's north field, contiguous with Iran's south parts field. Through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and onto Turkey...

with a view to supply European markets, albeit crucially bypassing Russia.

An agent's France press report claimed Assad's rationale was to protect the interests of his Russian ally, which is Europe's top supplier of natural gas. Instead, the following year, Assad pursued negotiations for an alternative $10 billion pipeline with Iran across Iraq to Syria that would also potentially allow Iran to supply gas to Europe from its South Pars field shared with Qatar. The memorandum of understanding for the project was designed in July 2012, just as Syria's civil war was spreading to Damascus and Aleppo.

The Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline plan was a direct slap in the face to Qatar's plans. No wonder Saudi Prince Bandir bin Sultan, in a failed attempt to bribe Russia to switch sides, told Vladimir Putin, whatever regime comes after Assad, it will be completely in Saudi Arabia's hands and will not sign any agreement following any Gulf country to transport its gas across Syria to Europe. So back to whence we came. Let me give you the gist of it.

There was to be a pipeline that was going to run through Jordan, Syria, etc., into Turkey, and it was going to offset Russia's control of gas in the country, which runs through Ukraine. Running through Turkey into Europe would cut off a large portion of Russia's access. When this was failing and the U.S. was struggling to topple Bashar al-Assad's regime because they needed to run that pipeline through Syria, otherwise...

Iran was going to run it through Iraq and Syria and strengthen this eastern control of gas in Europe. Well, Burisma pops up. A natural gas and energy company in which there's a director of counterterrorism from the CIA on the board, as well as Joe Biden's son. Ultimately, what it boils down to is as one piece of the puzzle.

Ukraine was in a political crisis. Elements of the West were trying with soft power to subvert its government to bring on more pro-Western political elements. Russia did not want this. In simplest forms, they said, as the soft war is being lost, we are escalating into hot conflict. Russia decided to invade to take this territory and gain control of the land bridge to Crimea, because if Ukraine were to fall to NATO in their minds or join NATO, as we would phrase it,

They could lose access to the Black Sea entirely and get cut off from a major military base and lose tremendous assets. Then we can also add into the mix the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was bombed. It is believed now by CIA frogmen, they call it. Germany has accused a Ukrainian of bombing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was a Russian pipeline supplying gas to Germany. The U.S. was upset that Germany kept buying gas from Russia, strengthening Russia's economy and giving them more control in the continent.

But Germany was basically saying we need the energy. The U.S. was trying to find a way to stop this, and they weren't doing so well. Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump is seeking to end the conflict, and rightly so. These are the reasons for everything that's going on. Do I care all that much about the European Economic Bloc? I believe that the U.S. is not sharp its borders, secure its work, its workforce,

bolster its economy, labor force, trade agreements, my view is that it's going to fall apart. We are spread very thin. The U.S. is desperately struggling against and expanding China and Russia, and we are weak at home and being attacked mercilessly. The previous administration's mentality was, who cares about the strength of the United States? Well, I live here. I can understand the complexities of the conflict and why we want cheaper energy into Europe, our principal allies.

But I don't believe it's worth expanding into World War Three. Perhaps we should be negotiating economic deals that strengthen trade agreements because strong trade agreements can actually help prevent war as no one really wants to lose all of their money and luxury. That is going to war with Russia over gas is more likely to make Russia want to go to war with us.

Us being involved in Ukraine the whole time is creating tensions. I certainly blame Russia for the invasion, but perhaps a better way to handle these things would be to create irreparable or I should say unbreakable, not irreparable, unbreakable gas deals where Russia doesn't want conflict because they're happy with our trade agreements. Perhaps a bit naive. What I can say right now is if they're concerned about war in Europe, it is these

What are our neoconservative neoliberal warmonger forces that are driving us to that point? So, my friends, to put it simply, while I certainly don't know everything about the conflict, these are these are large principal reasons for what is going on. And I don't believe any of it is justified. You want to go to the American people, make your case, please do so. In the meantime, I believe Donald Trump is making the correct moves in ending this conflict. Best of luck, Mr. President. I'll leave it there. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone. You know, we got more segments coming up. Stay tuned and we will see you all in the next segment.