Don Lemon decided to interview an alleged first-time voter that sourced his news from "Rogan, Tim Pool, Steven Crowder". The best part, besides the poor bloke not doing so well with his answers which reflected poorly on Tim's ability to educate, was Don trying to make Tim out as "extreme". Did get a chuckle when the chap said he had not watched Tim in a while, due to Tim "kind of clickbaiting, a lot"
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Tim replied with his skating in Trump sneakers video, saying how he is, indeed, "a little extreme":

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One of the many flaws that Tim Pool has is his inability to rein himself in, from offering his opinion. When Tim debuted
The Culture War as a long-form, news-of-the-day-free discussion, I was happy to see it. So many guests are wasted when their expertise does not align with
IRL's format. & Tim's policy of not engaging with guests unless they force they way into the discussion does not help. Having a show where he takes a guest, like
Ron Paul, & does a sit-down with him, letting him speak at length, in a relaxed atmosphere, was a good change of pace from his normal content. But, for some reason, Tim decided to turn it into a debate format. & that is how we get the
Emma Vigeland imbroglio, & may see a repeat when Sam Seder is scheduled to arrive on 1 November.
The episode was meant to be an exchange between Rudyard Lynch & Scott Greer over the potential for a civil war breaking out in the United States. Rudyard took the side of civil war being likely; while Scott took the opposing camp & argued for only a "1%" chance of civil war. & yet, Tim (the moderator) manages to be the one to speak the most, cutting off both participants to inject himself as a third party in a two-way discussion.
-From 12:20 to 27:49, there is a perfect encapsulation of the issue. I clipped parts of this to show what I mean, along with descriptions of the broader discussion.
As Rudyard is laying out one of his points, Tim needlessly interjects, rather than moderate. Instead of allowing Rudyard to finish his statement on Democrats trying to have illegal aliens vote, then ask him to explain how, Tim argues that adding illegals to areas will reshape the number of representatives a state may get & alter the electoral college votes it gets, so they do not need to vote, at all. Tim should have allowed Scott to make this sort of rebuttal, as he is supposed to be the one debating Rudyard. Then, Tim spends seven minutes, laying out his own civil war scenario, ignited on accident:
At 19:27, Scott begins to respond to Tim's statements, by challenging the severity of the clash between Texas & federal authorities over blocking a border crossing, & noting the failure of states to oppose integration in the 1950's & 1960's. Scott mentions that South Carolina had already seceded from the Union, prior to Fort Sumter being shelled, which made it distinct from the prior examples, as it was a technically independent entity attacking a U.S. installation, only to be cut off, again. At 20:42, Tim quibbles over whether South Carolina was really independent. This sends Tim & Scott debating whether South Carolina was truly independent despite the Union never recognising it, when did the American Civil War actually start, etc. Rudyard has to step in, & act as moderator:
This should have been two people debating a topic, but Tim lacks the temperament to allow a debate to occur on his own debate show, where he is supposed to be the host, not participant.
Tim had Mike Benz, director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, as the guest.
Brett Dasovic, Ian, & Phil were the co-hosts.
Mike is a little more assertive than the usual guest, so, the episode was far less dominated by Tim.
*Mike manages to talk for an extended period about issues regarding the Department of Justice & Democrat-backing groups ensuring that party has an edge, while the Republicans are targeted. This expands to U.S. influence in foreign nation equivalents to the Justice Department to prosecute those that oppose it: 13:47-24:12
*After Tim shares a news report that Chinese hackers allegedly targeted phones of Donald Trump & J.D. Vance, Mike says he does not trust the story, due to a paucity of evidence confirming Chinese culprits. He claims it could have been American government actors, using technology to make China appear responsible. This results in the two talking past each other, with both in agreement that you cannot trust news stories sourced from unnamed officials, & no clear evidence to how it was done: 1:19:36-1:37:16
Clip Collection:
-Because Tim works 16-hour days to make his show possible, he must have simply been too overwhelmed to read the text of the ruling he is talking about. Tim lays out how this case ruling could see a rush to the U.S. Supreme Court, should there be a contest over whether to count ballots after 5 November.
But this is not a good reading of the result, as The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decision, which I am attaching to this post, states that while it is ruling that ballots must be accepted by the day of the election, it specifically "says nothing about remedies" & "We [the appeals court] decline to grant plaintiffs’ initial request for a permanent injunction...Instead, we remand to the district court for further proceedings to fashion appropriate relief, giving due consideration to 'the value of preserving the status quo in a voting case on the eve of an election'" (p. 21). In short, The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the case back to the district court for what actions to take, & are heavily implying that this ruling not be applied to the current election:
-Mike manages to catch this, by actually reading the entire article, throwing a pin in the Civil War balloon Tim was flying high upon:
-Tim could not resist mentioning Don Lemon's video. Tim blames the lack of the chap's ability to clearly articulate why he was voting for Trump as due to not watching more of Tim's content. Here, I thought it was the exact opposite:
-I feel bad for Tim's daughter. Tim says that, thanks to the videos he makes, there will be a perfect copy of all his thoughts from the day she is born until that moment, which he can share with his daughter. I assume the episode where he was thinking of throwing his entire enterprise away, due to her upcoming birth, will be omitted from the rotation: