HE'S FINALLY QUITTING THE DEMOCRATS

Well, possibly the most famous liberal today, Bill Maher, says his vote is up for grabs. He may actually vote for J.D. Vance because the Democratic Party has been cowardly and embracing democratic socialists. Recently, we've seen the DSA announce their plan. They want to abolish the Senate, which would fundamentally change the structure of government in this country. And I would argue that it's rather destabilizing. But we've seen other elements from the leftist faction of the Democratic Party that are a bit more extreme beyond just wanting to seize the means of production. Recently, an individual made some incoherent statements in the main Senate race where the Democrat is favored to win in the prediction markets. And just this morning, an individual suspected of being an anti-ICE terrorist firebombed a federal building in Manhattan. Now, not a lot of damage. Just a fire was set in front of the building just off the side of it with some mortars thrown into those fires, explosions. There were two individuals that were injured, minor injuries. So I don't want to exaggerate or claim this is a major terrorism event, but it was low scale terror. And we've seen quite a bit of that for some time, as well as what I would describe as high grade terror as well. When Bill Maher calls out the cowardly Democrats in the face of the democratic socialists, it's not just about economic policy, which I believe largely Bill is focused on now. Bill Maher famously, as a lib, very anti-Trump and for the longest time rejected much of the narratives that had come out showing the Democratic Party had become more radicalized. But in recent years, Bill Maher seems to be a bit more on point, calling out the absurdities of the Democratic Party is introducing in one instance, which I will save for later on in this video as to the graphic nature. The main Senate candidate, Ashley Webb, reportedly has made some, let's just call it biologically impossible and alarming statements about gender, body functions and things of that nature, which suggest it's not just an inability to comprehend economic systems, but it may actually be the Democratic Party's embracing of the DSA, whether by choice or by force. It is not about changing policy in a way that will make this country better, but perhaps it is about the ignorance and mental disorders of individuals who have found a political party that will champion their causes, even if they don't make sense. That is to say, the Democrats were desperate when Donald Trump won, and in their desperation, they turned to a group of people they did not quite understand. And now they are being consumed by it. Perhaps with Bill Maher coming out saying he might actually vote for J.D. Vance, we have a chance to restore some kind of balance in this country. As much as Tucker Carlson has been very critical of Trump, the war in Iran, he's actually praised J.D. Vance as well. And I got to admit, personally, I think J.D. Vance could be a great president for one reason. Call the guy vanilla pudding. Now, hey, hey, there's nothing wrong with vanilla pudding. It's delicious. It's just, you know, it's vanilla pudding. It's it's a basic it's a basic dessert. That's kind of my point. I don't say this to be derisive in any way towards J.D. Vance, just that I think he is kind of a mild mannered regular guy with the ability to lead and make decisions that I think will ultimately be good for this country and perhaps help us find an off ramp to the escalating culture war tensions that we see, which I believe is a large it's an artifact of social media and how the algorithms function. So, you know, every day when I see things like this, I am hoping for stability. And if Bill Maher can come forward and say, you know what, J.D. Vance is the guy. It's not about choosing sides. It's about saying that those of us that dream of a moderate future can come together in agreement that everybody else is crazy. That's a good thing. Let's play the video before we do. My friends head over to Timcast dot com and click join now to get in the discord for the Timcast community. We have tens of thousands of individuals hanging out every single day. And guys, if you like these videos that I do, I can't do it without you. This this company is sustained because you guys as members stand up and contribute to the work that we do here every single day. And in the discord, there's morning shows after shows. There's special guest Colin shows every day around six o'clock. Y'all can call and call and talk to our crew as well as call into the uncensored portion of Timcast IRL. Don't just sit idly by. Be the change that you want to see in this world. And so I am asking you to stand up and join us at Timcast dot com to get involved, support our work directly. But let's jump to the first story we got here from Fox News. Bill Maher admits he could vote for J.D. Vance, warns cowardly Democrats face socialist takeover. The HBO host calls Democrats cowardly and warned radicals advocating abolishing police and prisons are taking over. I'm such a big Bill Maher fan, and this warms my heart. I've been listening to Bill Maher since I was a kid. Seriously, he was on Politically Incorrect and the show was on in the background and didn't pay much attention to it. When he started real time, I remember being a young teenager watching Jon Stewart and Bill Maher. My friends, we'd sit on my buddy's couch and we'd watch real time every week. And it's amazing. The man has persisted to this day, and I believe his commentary and his insights are extremely valuable. That being said, there was a period where I was deeply critical of Bill because I felt that he wasn't paying attention to what was going on in the world. And I have no problem saying this. I told him to his face, to which Bill laughed and said, you're allowed to be wrong. And I absolutely love it. Bill's fantastic, and I'm so grateful that we have someone like him with a prominent position in politics, because while I will say I certainly think he has Trump derangement syndrome. That's OK, Bill, though. I'm still a big fan. There was a period where he wasn't calling out the absurdities the Democratic Party introduced. But that's not the case anymore. He's using his platform as a liberal to bring on Democrats to challenge them over these things that they were not being challenged on before. Sitting down with ABC, he said this, you told J.D. Vance, you're open, your your your vote is up for grabs. Yes, my vote is in play because it can't be Trump running. So I'm not living in communist America. I mean, I know that the talking point is that it's not communism, it's socialism. OK, I've read the quotes from the DSA platform from their own mouths. Don't tell me I'm not seeing what I am seeing. And DSA, again, they they say things like, you know, take over of key industries, government. That's communism. You know, there is a definition. By the way, Trump's doing that, too. Of course. Yes. And to a degree that we haven't seen any other president talk about a Republican deal. That's crazy, too. He's got a piece of Intel, a piece of the A.I. company. He treats everything like it's a real estate deal. You told J.D. Vance, you're and I'm going to give Bill Maher this one. Yeah. Donald Trump, he implemented, I believe it was was a quantum leap. I can't remember the name of the program to ramp up government subsidy of these A.I. companies. I understand the argument for this. But that being said, Bill Maher is basically saying, listen, Trump's not going to be the guy in twenty twenty eight. And this opens the door for a moderate liberal to vote Republican. And I am here for it. Look, I think Trump did what he needed to do. I think he needed to do a lot of other things and he failed in some areas. But I'm very happy with a lot of the things that Donald Trump has done. I'm not a fan of the war. I'm not a fan of the extended closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The destabilization we're seeing in the region. I was a fan of his efforts to stabilize the region. And I'm hoping that we can find some stability here. But there's a lot of things that I think Trump has done wrong. Now, Trump's come out and said that he wants to pass the SAVE Act, but he is not taking action against the politicians who are obstructing him. The way he went after Thomas Massey, by all means, criticized Thomas Massey, because as much as I am a fan of Massey, I disagree with him tremendously on many, many things. But I stand by that. I believe he's largely principled. I'm not playing this game that he's some great grandstander. You don't have to like the guy, but he's out. This is it. Trump defeated him, called for him to be primaried. And he was. I don't see Donald Trump doing the same thing with John Thune, who is obstructing the passing of the SAVE Act, which has passed the House now twice. And they want to put into a spending bill the expectation the parliamentarian in Senate will not allow this, which, again, the Republicans could just remove the parliamentarian and be done with it. They could they could get rid of the filibuster. They could be done with it. But they're not. So the question is, why isn't Trump going after these Republicans the same way? Well, to be fair, it might not be that Trump is is not really trying to pass SAVE Act. Maybe he really doesn't want the SAVE Act, but he doesn't have the political capital to go up against so many Republican senators. Senators are substantially more politically powerful than just a single member of Congress. But in the meantime, my friends, more to the point, Bill Maher could actually be Republican. Bill, I welcome you. I made the first switch in 2020. I was supporting Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang in 2020 for the Democratic Party when it was clear. It's such a wild, wild circumstance. You know, Bernie Sanders, I feel, let me down. And I was excited for Tulsi. I was excited for moderate Democrats. And we could not get there. And today, the Democratic Party is just it's fallen into absurdity. And so I would prefer this. I would prefer a Democrat that was sane and moderate. You know, like, I'll put it this way. I'd vote for Bill Maher. I'd vote for Bill Maher in two seconds. And, you know, I actually told Bill, I said, if the Democratic Party listened to you, they'd be winning every single election. And you know what? We'd be happy about it. We would. There's a lot of moderates that are voting for Trump and aren't big fans of Trump. Nine million people switched from Obama to Trump in the 2016. They were Obama voters. Not that they're switching, but they were Obama voters and voted for Donald Trump. Give people an opportunity for a moderate politician and they're going to take it. And the truth is, Trump has been the moderate the whole time. Now, J.D. Vance, I think, will do a great job and I'm excited. I wonder if it will be Marco Rubio or what Bill Maher is interested in voting in if it's not J.D. Vance. But what I will stress is that I think whether it's Rubio or Vance, Bill Maher's vote Republican in twenty twenty eight. I'd be one. But I'd love to sit sit back down with him and go over this stuff because he's saying it right here. But I'd love to in a couple of years see where his head's at. With all due respect to Bill, he is 70 years old. And so what worries me is this moderate leadership on the liberal side. We call it moderate. But Bill wasn't always a moderate. He was he was fairly left a long time ago. You know, the left and the right were much closer together. My concern is and I say this not to be macabre or anything like that, but for Bill Maher, you know, he's 70 he's 70 years old. Life expectancy is seventy nine in this country. And I fear what happens when we lose, you know, not that I'm a big fan of how the boomers ran everything for their generation, but they're they are still to a certain degree, a stabilizing force in that boomers on the left and the right share a lot of their political views. Now, I'm not a big fan, to be completely honest. I'm not saying I like 60 percent, 70, 80. No, I I actually don't like a lot of the foreign policy, the neoliberalism, neoconservatism. But that being said, my concerns are what the Democratic Party is turning into. And I've got a few examples. Here's the Washington Examiner. What happens if the DSA abolishes the Senate? I mean, this is just a massively destabilizing action. It doesn't seem feasible. But as the Democrat, the Democratic socialists are ascendant, it is quite possible that in look, things change. Amendments happen. The manifesto comes after a series of primary victories by the DSA, reflecting the organization's renewed energy and long term plan to replace what is what it argues are undemocratic institutions within the government, with the government more directly accountable to voters. Now, what I will say is that if we did get rid of the Senate, the SAVE Act is passed overnight and it could be tremendously good for Republicans. But I feel that despite all of the problems with the Senate, it's largely been stabilizing for this country. And a fundamental shift like the abolition of the Senate is is not the appropriate way to go about things. I believe the best way to deal with the problems of the Senate would be to repeal the 17th Amendment, which turned state appointment of senators into a popular vote. It used to be that local elections were held. The state senators and state representatives would then appoint a representative from their state to go to Washington, D.C. And I believe that's the way it should have remained. The concern back in the day when they implemented the 17th was that cronyism and corruption were getting senators put in place in exchange for backroom deals. But I can tell you this, having it run by popular vote hasn't improved anything. It's just effectively turned it into another Congress. And we're not seeing anything get done, as it were. They're not willing to do the hard things that they need to do. Right now, we've seen at the state level tremendous action, notably in Texas with Ken Paxton. I imagine that if you had at the local level the appointment of senators, you'd see a tremendous change because they could also recall these senators. More importantly, it would make people in their states understand and actually know who their state representatives and senators are, affecting local policy. You start from the grassroots and you go to the top. Right now, the way we're doing it, I think, is bad. The DSA's idea to abolish it, yikes. And to really strike the core of the DSA is, I love this, DSA launches new program. They say, these are all familiar everyday activities. A socialist day off could be like any good day now. But what if you were free to spend your time how you like, without worrying about cost or dreading going back to work? What if you didn't have to think about paying rent or loans at the end of the month, or saving for college or affording groceries? Indeed. It's not real. It's not possible. The reality is, life is a treadmill. If you stand still, you'll move backwards. If you walk, you stay where you are. You have to sprint to get ahead. That is, we exist in a state of constant entropy. If you don't eat, you starve. You die. If you don't breathe, then you asphyxiate. You die. Hypoxia, as it were. We need to constantly work to maintain existence as we fight against entropy. That is, in one way of describing it, chaos and disorder. But in fact, the heat of the universe, I'd imagine, would be ultimate order, with every remaining particle evenly spread about the universe. We're fighting against that every single day. The idea that you can just not work and everything would be fine is just not true. The reality is, when people stop working, it becomes harder for us to get by, because we're a social people. We survive because everybody contributes a little bit to lift heavy objects. You ever play that game, light as a feather, stiff as a board? It's so much fun. Most of you, I assume, have gotten a group of people together and carried something heavy. And it's amazing when you have something that can weigh a thousand pounds, but you get 20 people and it may as well weigh nothing. It's truly incredible. I love that game, light as a feather, stiff as a board. You can use a couple fingers to lift a person, because everyone together, their strength just is amplified. That is the nature of humanity. Now imagine, if you were intending to lift a person, but you had a socialist day off and decided, we'll just sit there and stare at the person on the ground. Okay, well, that person will stay on the ground and things will not get done. This is not the biggest problem with socialists. This video went massively viral showing Ashley Webb, a biological male running for the Senate in Maine, who gave what is described as an incoherent rambling response to the question, why are you qualified to be a senator? Let's see if we can get the audio to work on this. And I think we can just unmute it. What qualifications do you have to serve in the U.S. Senate? Oh, I ran for office several times. Didn't win, but I did run. And then I'm a songwriter and then I write my own books. And then I suppose my transparency, I wouldn't lie to the people and I wouldn't deceive the people like we're being deceived right now. We get lied to, smoke and mirrors, like what's going on with ICE, pretending like these victims did something wrong. Like that's unacceptable. And I suppose the biggest thing is like, I'm just an angry citizen now. And if I got elected, I'd be an angry senator. And I think that would probably be their worst nightmare. Well, okay, this individual, actually, it gets a little bit worse. And that's why I saved this for later. Now, I'm not suggesting Ashley Webb is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. We can presume this is a more left-leaning individual. But this is a representation of, let's just call it the absurdities of the modern Democratic Party. You come to me and you tell me that Donald Trump is bad. I'm going to say, okay, well, there's a lot of things people don't like about him, you know. I actually think Trump has been a general net positive in his presidency, but he's not a perfect candidate. I just look at the Democratic Party and I see absurdity to no end and a refusal to acknowledge it, putting me, urban liberal Chicago guy, in a position where I have no choice. Now, I think Trump has done many good things. To be honest, I think there are better candidates. I think there are better people, but it's okay. I don't think Trump was a bad president. I just think he was marginally good. And that's great. That makes him the best president of my lifetime. Let's just put it this way. The bar was so low, it was effectively underground. With Trump, he did some good things. He did a lot of bad things too, and it's fine to criticize him. Just be reasonable. I'm sick of the Trump derangement. They get mad at every single thing he does. This individual, Ashley Webb, apparently had made claims that he menstruates through his colon. This is not an exaggeration, okay? I want to show you, this is Kalshi. The Maine Senate winner is projected to be the Democrat. And so I don't believe that Ashley Webb actually has any real chance of winning in Maine, but the fact that it's being entertained is an absurdity. Now, this is a reportedly, I don't know exactly, you know, it is being reported that this account is Ashley Webb's account. The individual who is a biological male, transgender female, made several posts that, according to at swipe right and shared by many others, these are the Reddit comments made by Ashley Webb. And I'm trying to be careful because, you know, for all we know, it's not, but this account has been deleted is my understanding. The individual said, I have a cycle in which I get monthly cramping, like pain accompanied with bleeding. I ovulate as well. Although saying my karyotype is XY. The individual claims to have period pain and says, when you don't have the proper hole, it finds one of two exits. For the love of all that is holy, my friends, this is a biological man who is suffering some kind of bleeding out of his rectum and claiming that it's menstruation. This is the issue with the Democratic party. I am sorry. I understand not all liberals and not all Democrats are in this headspace, whatever you want to call it. I'm trying to be nice, but on this debate stage, this individual is welcomed as if this voice is sound and reasonable and worthy of the stage. The Democratic party has been cowardly and unwilling to confront this absurdity. It needs to be confronted. Well, my friends, I introduce you to well, a man you mostly already know, Caleb Hammer. Financial expert destroys blue haired socialist doomsday during heated debate over capitalism. You know nothing. You're outraged. You're performative. You're a virtue signaling moron. Holy smokes. Let me play the video for you of Caleb Hammer going off on a socialist. These people have to have multiple jobs in order to sustain a lifestyle. Some people, not the median American, not the median American. Some people can relying on minimum wage. What percentage of the American population is relying on federal minimum wage? I don't know. Because you don't know anything. I haven't met anyone who's making the federal minimum wage. It's just knowing facts about a country. But I've met people across- No, it doesn't matter who you've met, lady. That's not what changes statistics. You need to disconnect from that. Your anecdotal collection of bullshit is not the real world. It isn't. I'm trying to meet people- What percent do you think makes the federal minimum wage in the United States? What percent do you think? What percent? No, answer the question. Or I am ending this podcast. Answer the question. I don't know. Answer what you think. 30%? It's less than 1%. You know nothing. Well, waitresses make less than that. It's still less. Oh my goodness. Yes, but after tip income. It's less than 1%. You know nothing. You're outraged. You're performative. You're a virtue signaling moron. You have prepared talking points and you know nothing about the real world. Indeed, Caleb Hammer has snapped. A financial advisor podcast who encountered socialists. Well, it's true. Federal minimum wage, it's less than 1% of individuals that are relying on a federal minimum wage. As for state level minimum wage, it's actually still crazy. Between 1% and 2% of the population work at their state's minimum wage level. So federal minimum wage, of course, is really low and nobody really talks about it. But at the state level, we even see states trying to implement $15, $20. It is still less than 2%, likely between 1% and 2% nationally for individuals in their state who are making that level. So what is this narrative? Well, the reality is, I think people have largely had enough. The DSA is lying. That's what's happening. The truth is the people who live in New York, these young people that are voting for the likes of these DSA candidates are voting for reasons that are just emotional and largely don't make sense. So Caleb, when you snap at this woman, I'm not saying he should or shouldn't. I'm just saying he is. I've been there. And the end result is, they don't come on your show. Truth be told, Caleb Hammer's already explained that he has trouble getting leftists and liberals to appear on his show. Now, I will say something else. Guys, my head hurts. It literally hurts, especially over this past week. I'm done. I am done with whatever this is. I'm done doing shows and being angry and yelling and whatever. I have no problem having a discussion. I'll tell these people that they're wrong. I have really great blood pressure, in fact. I get it checked every other week and I exercise quite a bit, but I'm just bored of it. And so with all due respect to Caleb Hammer, who I think he's a smart guy and does a great job and he's got a great show, I'm just not interested in this frustration. And look, I'll put it this way. This woman's a nobody. You bring on a nobody who knows nothing onto your show, they're going to tell you stupid things. You're going to get 10 million views from him. How many views did he get? Two million on just X, and his show itself gets millions. And it's just... Guys, I know it's what people want and I just don't want to live there anymore. I've had people come up to me and tell me that these epic takedowns I've done of these libs have been so good. I actually did a debate recently with a bunch of libs. Maybe you'll see it soon. And I just leave feeling so tired. Because it's the same conversation over and over again, and it's a performance. What I would say is this. I've never performed. I've never done shows where I intentionally pretended to be angry for the sake of getting clicks. I just don't do that. What I'm saying is the whole space, I don't bring on women like this to my show because I know exactly what's going to happen. This. And then I'll get angry at what she's saying legitimately. I think Caleb is legitimately frustrated with what she's saying, but he's also well aware that bringing these people on will incite these moments. I'm not going to intentionally do that, so I don't. I've had many people reach out to me and they say, Tim, you need to debate these people to expose their bad ideas because their bad ideas are spreading. Indeed. I'm interested in that. I will do that. In fact, we're going to, we're having a sit down interview conversation this Friday for the Culture War. And you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to do more of these just because I want to. And it's about time we had these conversations. As much as I think Lex Fridman, for instance, is a little too vanilla pudding. I do respect and appreciate the calm way he handles communicating with people. I think he needs to push back on some of these over lies or inconsistencies. That's fine, but it's a good job. That's what I would prefer. I'd prefer to sit down if I do with a win like this and just say, you're incorrect. The number is less than 1%. Actually, the GDP per capita in the United States is around $94,000, which is tremendous. Now this does mean there are going to be people who are making $30,000 to $40,000 a year, but we actually do fairly well in this country. The challenge that we have culturally is that people are just so, I guess, greedy. Look, I'm not calling the person who's struggling to pay their grocery bills and having a hard time greedy. I'm saying that you have these well-to-do, uppity liberal types who live in these big cities and actually go out on the weekends and have extra cash. And they're complaining because they want more. It's fascinating. I believe the economy is actually fairly bad right now. So the democratic socialists have an opportunity to attack the purposelessness that many young people are experiencing and turn that into a political movement, but that's dangerous. In fact, I would argue that things are better than they've ever been. They really are. Now, the war in Iran is bad, and I have deep concerns about what's happening there, as well as escalation of conflict with China. But in the United States, you have access to clean running water, even if you're homeless. There are homeless shelters. If you really wanted to get out of homelessness, you could do it in two seconds. People don't want to. The point is, you can walk into a building at any point. There's a shower for you. There are people who live in their cars, and it's unfortunate they do, because poverty is going to exist. But let's just think about this real quick. I am not suggesting it is good that people live out of their cars when they're forced to. Those that have the van life and choose to, hey, man, do your thing. But let's go back 100, 200 years. Nah, people didn't have cars to sleep in. They would just go outside and get sick and die. There are some people who are homeless who do, but it's largely an issue of mental disorder. I'm saying right now, for many people, you have a car with heating and air conditioning that you can sleep in. You can go to a gym and for, what, 20 bucks a month, have a shower whenever you want. And I've done this before when I was a teenager, when I was 18, 19, lived in my car briefly, on and off, I was homeless. And I'd go to a gym, get exercise. Use the shower, get cleaned up. And there are many people who do this. It's not good. People shouldn't have to live in poverty like that. My point is, however, even if you're poor, you have parasite-free, clean running water. You can walk into any fast food restaurant and get a cup of water for free. Now, I want you to think about something. You can go into a Chipotle, and you can ask for a cup of water, and they will give you one. That cup costs money. The lid costs money. And there's free lemons. And you can fill it with water, don't steal. And you can put some lemon juice in there. You go to some restaurants, they give you free chips, free. Europeans who came for the World Cup were shocked. They sat down at a Mexican restaurant and were given chips. They said, we didn't order that. They said, no, it's free. Free. Remarkable. So many people in the world don't have access to what we have access to. So I will say this, to bring it back to point. I'm excited to see Bill Maher standing up and calling out the absurdities. And I stand with him. I think what's happening is not so much an economic issue, but a purpose issue. Young people don't have purpose. They don't know what they're working for or why. And so they've adopted an ideology to give them a meaning. Used to be children. You'd work for your kids because your kids needed things. And you loved seeing the smile on their faces. And you wanted them to live well. But many people today, they don't have kids. And they have no purpose, no faith, no motivation. So along comes an ideology that says, look at the suffering people. There are suffering people, but there's not that many. And this system does very, very well. So even with all of our problems and all of the anger, and this is why I'm done with all of the anger. We live very, very well. After I finish recording this, maybe I'll go get some guacamole. They'll make it right next to the table. They'll give me fresh chicken with onions, marinated, delicious. It truly is a blessing. I feel a purpose, and it is helping people. But you have, unfortunately, stupid people. Bill Maher's right to call them out, and the Democratic party needs to as well. We need to restore stability and education and purpose to not just the people of this country, but the people of the world. How we do it? I don't have all the answers, my friends. What I will say is I'm hoping that though the trends are showing, Democrats are tracking to win in the midterms. I'm hoping it's not the case because they have been cowardly and they have allowed the ignorant and the angry to take too much power. And we don't want that spreading. I don't. 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