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March 29, 2021 - 5:10pm
Online Lefty, liberal journalist, Right-wing podcaster and alt-Right adjacent. These are just some of the labels applied to Tim Pool, a YouTuber and citizen journalist who first rose to prominence in his coverage of the Occupy Movement nearly 10 years ago. That he’s been called all these different names is something of a badge of honour for Pool, whose heterodox opinions have led to criticism from all corners of the political spectrum.
Though he would broadly categorise himself as a Left-libertarian, he is no friend of the Democrat Party, describing it as the ‘War Machine Party’ and even voted for Trump in 2020. We were interested to learn more about Tim’s rationale behind this move, which also seemed to reflect a broader realignment in American life. Then years since the Occupy Movement, in which anti-corporate, anti-capitalist protesters used social media to advance their cause, they have become, according to Pool, the biggest advocates for censorship:
On the global reach of Big Tech:
On ideological CEOs:
On disliking Joe Biden:
On why he voted for Donald Trump:
On China:
On Gen z attitudes towards authoritarianism:
On a brighter future:
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SubscribeIt’s great to see Tim on UH. I’ve been following him for some years now, watch some of his content every day, and have learned an incredible amount from him about US politics and culture.
He is possibly the most significant journalist of the last 10 years following the groundbreaking way he covered Occupy, then struck out on his own after being stifled at corporate entities like Vice and Buzzfeed. He reported from the ground during the Arab Spring in Egypt and elsewhere, and the only reason he doesn’t report live now is that he is too recognisable and BLM/Antifa would attack him.
His knowledge across so many areas of history, law, the Constitution, and economics is sometimes breathtaking, especially as he dropped out of high school aged 15 and didn’t go to college. (Although we all know that people who go to college tend to be very dumb).
My only criticism is that he doesn’t always fully understand some aspects of European politics, history and culture.
Anyway, now that UH has interviewed has interviewed Tim, I suggest it moves on to people like Jimmy Dore, the Officer Tatum, Antony Brian Logan and Steven Crowder. Also Vive Frei, the brilliant legal podcaster from Canada.
I have been watching a lot of Peter Hitchens on youtube lately, like Tim, I do love hearing some sanity from the Journalists, as there has been so little of it. Peter came from a militant Bolshevik youth who evolved to become a moral conservative.(A Liberal Mugged by reality) (his brother Christian never out grew it) which makes him such a great view on today. A reformed lefty has more clarity than a lifelong conservative often.
Hitchens is right about a lot of things, most importantly the largely unwarranted removal of our liberty over the last year. But I can never entirely take seriously people from middle class backgrounds who become militant lefties in their youth. I think the veneration of his brother is somewhat misplaced. He rarely said anything particularly interesting and was wrong about the invasion of Iraq.
“I can never entirely take seriously people from middle class backgrounds who become militant lefties in their youth“
Absolutely, you have gone straight to the heart of the terrifying malaise that is slowly killing this country.
It dates back to 1919 and was undoubtedly spawned by Oxbridge where it suddenly became ‘oh so smart’ to be a Bolshie/Socialist. Coupled with sodomy it was an of affirmation that you had a ‘social conscience. The quads of Trinity or Emmanuel reverberated with cries of “bring me another boy, this one’s split”, along with animated discussion about Marxist piffle. In fact if you weren’t a Socialist by graduation there was something seriously wrong with you.
Today, a century later, little has changed, although the sodomy is reported to have abated.
The Hitchens brothers, from a Naval family, bereft at the scrapping of our last battleship
H.M.S. Vanguard on the 8th August 1960 are but one example of how this pernicious culture has spread through our society.
CRT, Critical Theory comes from the Wiemar Republic German Marxists at the Goethe University who created ‘The Frankfurt School’. I really liked his mentioning it several times, especially where he said Trump banning CRT was one reason he liked Trump. CRT and CT are some of the most destructive things loosened on the World. Google ‘Frankfurt School 11 Points’ to see how it has been used to wreck us.
“Critical Theory, developed by the Frankfurt School in the 1930’s applied Marxist principles of power, oppression, and emancipation to gender studies, religion and other areas of sociology and culture. Critical Race Theory (CRT) applies Marxist CT ideology to race relations. Its philosophical roots are in postmodernism (relativism) and critical legal studies. Since its inception in the 1970’s, CRT thinking has grown in influence, both outside and, increasingly, inside the church. Most recently, it has been popularized by the Black Lives Matter movement, formed by three trained and committed Marxists whose worldview is antithetical to the Judeo-Christian worldview. Without question, CRT is a Trojan Horse for Marxism.” https://christiannewsjournal.com/socialism-101-critical-race-theory-another-gospel/
I really like this guy, although he is too Left for me to agree fully, but his mentioning of CT shows how vital this situation is to understand. That Dorsey is a main proponent of it is very frighting.
And I do not think 10 years from now will be prosperity, I think the Biden time will kill it. I cannot see us getting through the ‘MMT, covid stimulus 9 Trillion coupled with a year missed school and destruction of the economy and the intentional fragmenting of society. His Strauss-How Generational Theory gives a very loonish end to it all which is kind of fun, but mad. From Wiki
, “some applauding Strauss and Howe for their “bold and imaginative thesis” and others criticizing the theory as being overly-deterministic, unfalsifiable, and unsupported by rigorous evidence,[4][5][6][7][8] “about as scientific as astrology or a Nostradamus text.”[9] Strauss–Howe generational theory has also been described by some historians and journalists as a “pseudoscience“,[6][10][11] “kooky”,[12] and “an elaborate historical horoscope that will never withstand scholarly scrutiny.””
Interesting as a Canadian to listen to people fret about American cultural imperialism. By the 1960s new technologies like radio and TV were enabling American cultural domineering in Canada. There was a range of responses such as Canadian Content laws for broadcast. The Canadian music scene benefited greatly. Pakistan did something similar vis-a-vis the Bollywood movie hegemony. They succeeded in boosting their local film industry.
It may be a coincidence, but Canada feels more separate and distinct from the US culturally, socially and politically now than it did a few decades ago.
Fantastic show. How does he talk that fast and still make sense?
It strikes me that the “culture wars” are a distraction which gives the exploiters cover to go right on exploiting.
I was on Trump’s mailing list for a while after he became president. I cancelled after he ordered the air strikes on Syria which also offended Tim Pool. However, he was way the better choice in 2016 and 2020 in terms of foreign policy. The Republican Party is the War Party, too, but the Democratic Party is the WAR Party.