On the Oct. 20, 2023 episode of Timcast IRL, right-wing livestreamer Tim Pool hosted Lauren Witzke — a failed Republican Senate candidate, antisemite, and white nationalist. Witzke defended a white supremacist who was recently sentenced for an illegal voter suppression scheme and complained about commercials depicting interracial couples.

Lauren Witzke, once a vocal supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory, ran against Sen. Chris Coons in 2020 on a far-right “America First” platform. Witzke has appeared on podcasts alongside prominent white nationalists and Neo-Nazis, and has a history of racist and antisemitic rhetoric.

On X (formerly Twitter), Witzke has claimed that “Voodoo Africans are migrating into America, infiltrating the Christian Faith, and establishing churches on the pulpit of abortion and social justice.” She’s stated that “Racial integration has hurt the black and white community.” And she’s called “Third world migration” a “biological weapon.”

Witzke has promoted the myth that there is a genocide against white people in South Africa, and that “jewish [sic] donors” are supporting it. After the murder of a journalist in Philadelphia and the carjacking of a U.S. Congressman, Witzke gloated that “Democrats are losing control of the big Black monster they created.” In another post she wrote that there is a “war on whites.”

Witzke has also suggested that Jewish people were responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the murder of Jesus Christ. And she’s referred to “ZOG” — or “Zionist Occupied Government” — a term created by white supremacists to allege that the U.S. government is controlled by Jews. She’s currently employed by white nationalist conspiracy theorist Stew Peters.

On Timcast IRL, Tim Pool, Lauren Witzke, and the show’s other panelists defended Douglass Mackey, a white supremacist who was convicted and sentenced to seven months in prison for an illegal voter suppression scheme. Mackey, who went by the name “Ricky Vaughn,” conspired with likeminded trolls to trick women and minority voters into trying to vote by text in the 2016 presidential election.

At least 4,900 unique numbers texted the phone number that Mackey put on fake advertisements that were meant to look like official Democratic Party messages.

One of Tim Pool’s guests, Libby Emmons of the right-wing junk news outlet The Post Millennial, disingenuously suggested that Mackey was convicted for innocently posting jokes.

“And the joke, of course — it’s basically a political cartoon, right? … That’s essentially what it is. It’s a political cartoon,” Emmons said. “And the idea is that — he was making the joke that Hillary Clinton voters aren’t smart enough to know whether or not they could vote by text message.” She claimed that no one was harmed by Mackey’s “joke.”

Both Emmons and Pool compared the situation to that of a Democratic comedian who impersonated a Trump supporter and, in a short video posted to Twitter, told people to vote for Trump by text or on the day after the election. However, nothing suggests that she conspired with anyone to engage in voter suppression and she gave no number for people to text.

“When did they actually file this?” Witzke asked. “‘Cause it was from the 2016 election. That was from the 2016 election. It’s a meme about it. But does it say they didn’t even file a complaint until 2021? So they waited until after 2020 to go after him — like after the whole election thing that went on with Trump for something, it didn’t even affect the 2016 election.”

Witzke called it “dangerous” and said it means that “they’re hunting people down from the old-school Trump era. People that helped Trump get elected the first time, they’re going after them even now.”

At one point, Carter Banks — another of Pool’s guests — called it “weird” that “Douglas Murray’s Madness of Crowds has a whole chapter about how when you type in like ‘married couple’ it will show you two men and a baby or somethin’ weird or different.” “Interracial couples,” interrupted Witzke, to which Banks agreed and said it was “agenda-driven.”

“Yeah, ya think?” Witzke replied. “Ya think? I haven’t seen a commercial with all white people in it since the Canadian suicide commercials. Oh, and the Army ones recently are coming out, they’re white. But there is absolutely an agenda behind everything because radical leftists run Silicon Valley. They run the big tech industries. They run pretty much everything.”

She said that this is why it was “so important” that Elon Musk bought Twitter. “It was like one of our guys taking over a giant and kind of leveling the playing field,” she said. “And that’s what we have to do, we have to continue to build. We have to continue to start a hostile takeover of these tech companies.”

Libby Emmons said that she frequently travels for work and that on one trip she was walking down the jetway when she saw multiple advertisements.

“And there was an interracial couple, there was a gay couple, there were like all of these — everyone who was in it was sort of like alternative to what you would traditionally have seen, like the more stereotypical thing,” she said. “And I was like, it’s just so obviously intentionally done. You know, these changes that are being made to affect our impression.”

Tim Pool rejected the idea that such advertisements were part of a plot to encourage white people to “mixed-race date,” however, and said that they were simply an attempt to advertise to both white and Black neighborhoods at the same time.