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Every book Tim Pool recommended on podcasts
Tim Pool’s most recommended books
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The fourth turning by William Strauss, Neil Howe
- Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
- White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Tim Pool hosts the podcast Timcast IRL, where he discusses current events, politics, and culture with various guests and co-hosts. During these live broadcasts, Pool frequently recommends books and essays to his audience and guests. To provide insight into artificial intelligence perspectives, Pool recommended an essay by Dario Amodei. He also discussed existential risks associated with superintelligent artificial intelligence by bringing up Nate Soares' book and recommending an interview he conducted on his show. When exploring futuristic concepts involving microscopic drones and anti-drone swarms, Pool recommended Neal Stephenson's novel The Diamond Age to the other participants. For those interested in religious debates about evidence and belief, Pool recommended C.S. Lewis's book Mere Christianity to Ian Crossland. Additionally, during chat reading segments, Pool or his guests referenced comments mentioning Jean Raspail's novel The Camp of the Saints and Ray Kurzweil's book The Age of Spiritual Machines, which details technological predictions. Pool also recommended watching the later seasons of the television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, expressing his enthusiasm for the science fiction series during discussions on the program.
Books recommended by Tim Pool
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1984
George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 presents a chilling vision of a totalitarian society characterized by perpetual surveillance, historical denial, and severe psychological manipulation.
Discussed“All competing pleasures shall be destroyed. George Orwell 1984. Stop having fun.”
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Gender Queer
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe is an autobiographical graphic novel that details the author's journey of gender identity and self-discovery.
Discussed“Do you think that um the book gender queer should be given to children?”
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a classic allegorical novella that uses a farmyard setting to satirize the corruption of socialist ideals and the rise of totalitarianism following the Russian Revolution.
Discussed“So I want to give a shout out to Riley Gains for promoting Animal Farm.”
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The fourth turning
The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe presents a generational theory that views history through recurring cycles and seasons.
Discussed“This will be a massive period of let's, you know, this might be the fourth turning. This might be the great collapse period we get in this generation.”
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Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers by Robert A.
Discussed“i'll make it easy for you tim the left are the society of demolition man the right are the society of starship starship troopers”
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White Fragility
White Fragility by Dr.
Discussed“that's the whole uh the white fragility but the book makes that argument there's gonna be an amount of people that are gonna be like well I don't feel bad”
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a philosophical novel that outlines the author's system of Objectivism through a dystopian narrative about a society collapsing under heavy government intervention.
Discussed“what is that in in atlas shrugged although all the wealthy high high rent like high merit meritocracy people are just like we're out”
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a chilling dystopian masterpiece that envisions a technologically advanced future society sustained by pharmacological distraction, engineered conformity, and the systematic eradication of deep human emotion and critical thought.
Discussed“Brave New World you've got the drugs to stimulate you and make you feel better or whatever 1984 you've got the government lock down and collusion and censorship it's a little bit of all of them”
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins is an exposé detailing how covert economic strategies, loans, and international financial institutions are used by powerful nations and corporate elites to manipulate and exploit developing countries.
Discussed“That's Tails from an Economic Hitman.”
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler and Stephen R.
Discussed“So the first thing he does is he infiltrates the Marxists, makes them look like morons by publishing mine comp, but the words are feminist terminology instead of Nazi terminology.”
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The Next Civil War
The Next Civil War by Stephen Marche is a nonfiction book that examines the deep political, cultural, and ideological divisions within the United States through a series of speculative scenarios.
Discussed“when you know a really good example of the bias is Steven Marsh respect the guy but he's wrong he wrote the book on the next civil war”
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In Defense of Looting
In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil is a controversial sociological and political book that argues property destruction and looting can function as valid, radical protest tactics during moments of civil unrest.
Critiqued“It's called In Defense of Looting. I recommend you you read about it. Don't I don't I wouldn't say read the book because it's just it's nonsense.”
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a classic dystopian novel depicting a future American society where books are outlawed and firemen burn any that are discovered.
Discussed“so faut 451 you've got the censorship due to fear of offense Brave New World you've got the drugs to stimulate you”
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Speechless
Speechless by Michael Knowles is a political commentary book that examines how language and cultural narratives are used to shape public thought and exert social control.
Discussed“what the name of that book speechless and they'd say Tim I really need to comment on how serious this is it's left me speechless just like the book by Michael no is available now on Amazon”
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The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a monumental historical exposé documenting the brutal realities of the Soviet forced labor camp system through personal testimony and archival research.
Discussed“Well, that's the Gulag Archipelago famous passage, yeah. In the Soviet Union, there's a soldier on trial for murder; a guy was trying to stab him.”
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The Real Anthony Fauci
The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F.
Discussed“given um Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s track record of outright disdain for Anthony Fouchy and his book, The Real Anthony Fouchy, which most of those talking points were almost taken letter for letter from.”
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Rules for Radicals
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky is a notable political manual outlining strategies and tactics for community organizing and effecting social change.
Discussed“We talked about Sol Linsky's rule for radicals.”
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Harrison Bergeron
Kurt Vonnegut wrote the dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron, which depicts a future where the government uses handicaps to enforce absolute equality among citizens.
Recommended“nimsom says harrison bergeron read the book or watch the movie dystopia where government actively makes people average”
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Not My Idea
Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham is a children's picture book that addresses race and systemic racism, featuring illustrations and narrative framing that sparked significant public debate.
Discussed“here's news like for example there's a book called not my idea which is being given to children in public schools where it depicts white people a white person as a devil offering you a whiteness contract”
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The Creature from Jekyll Island
The Creature from Jekyll Island by G.
Discussed“he wrote the creature from Jekyll Island that's right”
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The other 255 books Tim Pool recommended or discussed, ranked
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
- Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
- Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
- The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
- The Last Election by Andrew Yang
- Unmasked by Andy Ngo
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday
- The Anarchist Handbook by Unknown
- Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper
- Covid-19: The Great Reset by Thierry Malleret, Klaus Schwab
- Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
- The infinity gauntlet by Jim Starlin
- Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump
- V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
- World of warcraft - death knight by Unknown
- Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
- The White Pill by Michael Malice
- American Marxism by Mark R. Levin
- Chaos by Tom O'Neill
- Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
- One Nation under Blackmail by Whitney Alyse Webb
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
- The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
- 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
- Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard
- Das Capital Volume One by Karl Marx
- Death Note Gold by Takeshi Obata
- Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse
- Invention of Lying, The by Ricky Gervais
- Johnny the Walrus by Matt Walsh
- Maus I: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
- One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The Autobiography of Mr. James Dawson by James Dawson
- The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes by Francis Trevelyan Miller
- The Republic by Plato
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Utopia by Thomas More
- Atlas of the Civil War by Steven E. Woodworth
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Delay, Deny, Defend by Jay M. Feinman
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
- Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- #DELETED by Allum Bokhari
- 2034 by Elliot Ackerman
- 3001 by Arthur C. Clarke
- A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
- America's Great Depression by Murray Newton Rothbard
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- Artorian's Archives Omnibus by Dakota Krout
- Back to Basics by Abigail R. Gehring
- Basic economics by Thomas Sowell
- Black Rednecks And White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
- Bulletproof Fashion by Barbara Sutton
- Civilization 2 by Sid Meier
- Color, Communism and Common Sense by Manning Johnson
- Cry Havoc by Simon Mann
- Deep Black by Stephen Coonts
- Don't Think of an Elephant! by George Lakoff
- Futu.re by Дмитрий Глуховский
- Gender Madness by Oli London
- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
- My Big TOE by Thomas Campbell
- Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff
- One Second After by William R. Forstchen
- Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning
- Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
- Poisoner In Chief by Stephen Kinzer
- Politics and the English language by George Orwell
- Qatar's Shadow War by David Reaboi
- Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
- Spin Doctors - Pocket Full of Kryptonite (Expansions) by Spin Doctors
- Star Trek, Deep Space Nine by Mark A. Altman
- Stealth War by Robert Spalding
- That hideous strength by C.S. Lewis
- The age of spiritual machines by Ray Kurzweil
- The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail
- The Coming Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan
- The demon in democracy by Ryszard Legutko
- The Double Jinx Mystery by Leslie McFarlane
- The Fast Buck by James Hadley Chase
- The furious flycycle by Jan Wahl
- The Gray Lady Winked by Ashley Rindsberg
- The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time Book 2) by Robert Jordan
- The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel
- The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick
- The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
- The Manuscripts of His Grace, the Duke of Rutland, G.C.B., Preserved at Belvoir Castle by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
- The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan
- The Palestinian Delusion by Robert Spencer
- The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
- The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg, Lord William Rees-Mogg
- The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan
- The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
- The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
- To the nines by Janet Evanovich
- Truth and Beauty by Andrew Klavan
- War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler
- Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto
- Why Meadow Died by Andrew Pollack
- Wisdom from Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- World War Z by Max Brooks
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- 12 Angry Men by Unknown
- A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin, George RR Martin
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- A Critique of Pure Tolerance by Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore, Herbert Marcuse
- A Game of Shadows by Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- A theory of natural philosophy by Roger Boscovich
- Absolute Proof by James, Peter
- Aesop's Fables by Aesop
- At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
- Bad News by Batya Ungar-Sargon
- Baldur's Gate by Philip Athans
- Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood
- Battery F, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Philip Stephen Chase
- Bible by Bible
- Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov
- Black Mirror by Nancy Werlin
- Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
- Critical race theory by Kimberle Crenshaw
- Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose
- Death Note, Vol. 4 by Tsugumi Ohba
- Demolition Man by Robert Tine
- DEN OF DRAGONS (Grailquest, No 2) by J.H. Brennan
- Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard
- DSM-5 Clinical Cases by John W. Barnhill, M.D.
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Dutchman by Amiri Baraka
- Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- Enough Already by Scott Horton
- Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb
- Fallacies by Hans V. Hansen
- Fallout 3. by David S. J. Hodgson
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Foundations of Geopolitics: the Geopolitical Future of Russia by Alexander Dugin
- From the Company of Shadows by Kevin Michael Shipp
- Galatians by James Louis Martyn
- Gattaca by Howard Mahmood
- genderqueer by Joan Nestle
- Generations by William Strauss, Neil Howe
- Generations by Jean M. Twenge
- Ghost in the Shell by Unknown
- Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex by Yu Kinutani
- Harry Potter by Unknown
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
- How It Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston
- How to Read the Bible by James L. Kugel
- I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max
- Imagine by John Lennon
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- It by Stephen King
- It Takes a Family by Rick Santorum
- Jacking In To the Matrix Franchise by Matthew Kapell
- John Adams by David McCullough
- Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- King James Bible by King James VI and I
- Lead from the Outside by Stacey Abrams
- Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner
- Lessons from Ukraine by Scott Marshall
- Liberty and Tyranny by Mark R. Levin
- Little Red Book by Mao Zedong
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Men against fire : the problem of battle command in future war by Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
- Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus by John Gray, John Gray, John [Ph.D] Gray
- Minority Report by John D. Griffin
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Monopoly by Philip E. Orbanes
- Morning Glory Milking Farm by C. M. Nascosta
- My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism by Titania McGrath
- NASA's Voyager Missions by Ben Evans
- Nobody Knows How to Make a Pizza by Julie Borowski
- Original Notes on the Book of Proverbs by Solomon Caesar Malan
- Original Sin by Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson
- Outlaw platoon by Sean Parnell
- Pageboy by Elliot Page
- Pedagogia do oprimido by Paulo Freire
- Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
- Project Mars a Technical Tale Dr. Wernher Von Braun by Wernher Von Braun
- Rain Man by Leonore Fleischer
- Reasons To Vote For Democrats by Michael J. Knowles
- Righteous Indignation by Andrew Breitbart
- Rise of the Fourth Reich by Steve Deace
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Snow White Zombie Apocalypse by Brenton Lengel
- Snowpiercer by Jacques Lob
- Space Relations by Donald Barr
- Star Trek The Next Generation 3 by Keith R. A. Decandido
- Suicide by Émile Durkheim
- Superman Vs. Lobo by Tim Seeley
- The Adjustment Bureau by Philip K. Dick
- The Adventures of Mickey Mouse by Unknown
- The Book of revelation by Rupert Thomson
- The Critical Race Theory Fight Isn't "culture War" by Kimberly Hermann
- The Declaration of Independence by John M. Shea
- The Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown
- The Federalist papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, James Madison, John Jay
- The Game Design Reader by Katie Salen Tekinbas
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Great Narrative by Klaus Schwab, Thierry Malleret
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Hunger Games by Unknown
- The Keys to the White House by Allan Lichtman
- The Last of Us and Theology by Peter Admirand
- The Last President by Ingersoll Lockwood
- The Law of Self Defense by Andrew Branca
- The Man from Earth by Jerome Bixby
- The men who stare at goats by Jon Ronson
- The moon is a harsh mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
- The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich
- The Protestant ethic and the "spirit" of capitalism and other writings by Max Weber
- The Rise of Stupidity: How We're Hurtling Toward an Idiocracy by Simon Davidson
- The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
- The Seduction of Hillary Rodham by David Brock
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- The two-income trap by Elizabeth Warren
- The Unabomber's Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future by Ted Kaczynski
- The Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari
- The Unrivaled History of the World, Containing a Full and Complete Record of the Human Race from the Earliest Historical Period to the Present Time, Embracing a General Survey of the Progress of Mankind in National and Social Life, Civil Government, Religion, Literature, Science and Art by Israel Smith Clare
- The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
- The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004 by William A. McGeveran
- Top Gun by Joseph Kosinski
- Troubled Water by Seth M. Siegel
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- Uncle Vanya by Tom Leonard
- Understanding the Old Testament by Bernhard W. Anderson
- Unhumans by Jack Posobiec, Joshua Lisec
- What Is a Woman by Matt Walsh
- White Rage by Carol (Carol Elaine) Anderson
- Why You Should Be a Socialist by Nathan J. Robinson
- Woke Racism by John McWhorter
- Yellowstone by Gretel Ehrlich
Appearances
Other mentions (318: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
“right now, as a kid, the old choose your own adventure books. Yeah, that's a way like go to page 37. You die.”
Passing Das Capital Volume One
“i don't recall where in das capital marx advocated for re seizing welfare programs to incentivize home making”
Plugged The Law of Self Defense
“Andrew Branko, also a criminal defense attorney over at LawSelfDefense.com, do a lot of political commentary as well at The Branko Show on X and YouTube.”
Passing Where the wild things are
“When I was in grade school, only the cool kids were ever in possession of the libraryies copy of Where the Wild Things Are.”
Passing 1984
“It's kind of creepy because it's uh it's it's strange how there's that joke about 1984 wasn't an instruction manual, but it wasn't just 1984. All of these dystopian novels were, it's as if they were being used as instruction manuals.”
Passing The Princess Bride
“Talking about when talking about trans people nowadays, it reminds me of that scene in The Princess Bride where Vini's talking to the man in black and he's like, you know, but I know and I know and he's trying like I know that you know.”
Passing Back to the future
“And then I'm like scrolling Amazon and Back to the Future was there.”
Passing Blade runner
“What was the original Blade Runner? Wasn't it like 2019 or something?”
Passing Ghost in the Shell
“It's ghost in the shell stuff. How much money I spent on my night vision?”
Passing Terminator 2
“Pims the Great says, "Tim, you should check out the year on the opening scene of Terminator 2." What What year is that?”
Passing Fallout
“J Hamblin says, "Hey Tim, kind of scary how much reality is starting to look like the Fallout games. Experiments on the public, fake foods in school, pink goo milk made me think of Fallout 4 pink ghoul."”
Passing Animal Farm
“Is white, but he's also the guy who made Animal Farmwoke.”
Passing No Country for Old Men
“Like that dude from No Country for Old Men.”
Passing Harry Potter
“They grow up and then what happens? They are adult children. They are 40-year-old dudes who dress in Harry Potter costumes and go play games.”
Passing Animal Farm
“I do think a lot of them are just taking money to say things that are getting paid to say Animal Farm and they're participating in the like this incentive structure that's been set up for 10 years.”
Passing Bedazzled!
“You ever see that movie Bedazzled with Brendan Frasier and uh what's her name? Um I forgot Elizabeth.”
“You plug them into the matrix. You you have them masturbate to death. This is where time dilation comes in, too.”
Passing Necronomicon
“The book Necronomicon. No, no, I never There's a lot of demon books. A book about demons.”
Passing In Defense of Looting
“It's like Douglas Murray points out in that book and in the in the column.”
Passing In Defense of Looting
“That's the point that Douglas Murray made about trying to steal asking if he can steal the book in defense of looting. And they're like, 'No.'”
Passing Animal Farm
“Animal Farm, the book. I don't know. I don't think about Animal Farm, though.”
Passing Leviathan
“Here's an idea. Leviathan.”
Plugged New Right
“Someone should write a book about that called the new right.”
Passing The Lord of the Rings
“So, they've gone underground like Gollum in Lord of the Rings, you know, all all just nasty and disheveled.”
Passing Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda
“I'll quote T'Challa from Black Panther. A great icon of black culture when he said, 'You can't let these people in because they'll bring their problems with them.'”
Passing Ender's Game
“And they were scans from books. The reason why they appeared bent and warped is because it was an image scan from a book and we taught the AI how to read some Enders Enders game”
“And then one day in the past 6 months, for seemingly no reason, all of that gets ripped from their minds like they're pulling it out with a magic wand in Harry Potter and it gets replaced by actually everything's been Israel the whole time.”
Passing The Lion King
“Trump puts out this video where they put the faces of all these Democrats on animals from the Lion King.”
“it reminds me of that Harry Potter line where Snape says you know Dumbledore is a great wizard and Bellatrix it's all mad he's like he is a great wizard and only a fool yeah Candace Owens is ridiculously smart”
Passing Thomas Crown Affair
“you know, there's a viral clip I watched or the Thomas Crown affair. where uh Pierce Brazen signs the contract.”