Conservative podcaster Tim Pool told his audience the increased security expenses since Charlie Kirk’s assassination have threatened his ability to stay on the air. (@WesternJournalX / X screen shot)

Tim Pool is a popular YouTube personality who has become increasingly red-pilled in the age of Trump. He now frequently claims that the left is a cult.

Pool is set to give a talk at the University of Chicago in October and some people on the staff were trying to get the event canceled. They have since thought better of it and have backed off.

This is typical of the left. They routinely try to silence anyone who tries to speak on college campuses if the speaker is perceived to be anywhere to the right of Bernie Sanders.

The College Fix reports:

U. Chicago reverses, won’t cancel ‘controversial’ Tim Pool event

University of Chicago staff backed down on a plan to cancel a “controversial” event with commentator Tim Pool, scheduled for Oct. 9.

Just weeks after being named the best school for free speech by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, the college told organizers the event would need to be canceled.

The cancellation attempt follows the school’s long history of denying a Turning Point USA chapter, despite the school’s professed commitment to free speech.

The Chicago Thinker reports:

In an obtained email exchange, and only with the description of the event given and knowledge of it being booked by UChicago TPUSA, [the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures] told Thinker organizers that their event “might be, as the terminology goes “controversial,” and therefore could not occur in Breasted Hall on October 9th due to controversial events allegedly requiring an infeasible heightened security arrangement where ISAC would close its museum gallery. ISAC further says they should have been informed about the event’s “controversial” nature earlier. ISAC asked no questions about the “controversial” nature of events in their Event Request Form, or in subsequent email exchanges with Thinker organizers to book the venue.

In the video below, Tim Pool explains why he believes the left is a cult.

Has the Democrat Party become a cult?

They had Trump. They had RFK. They had Tulsi. They had Elon. They ran them all out.

Tim Pool gives a great response here. pic.twitter.com/AnvBBwVQvB

— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) September 24, 2026

That is why the left does not like him.