Interview · moment 9 of 14
Sting Operations, Endless Wars, and Rachel Maddow's Russia Contradiction
from Torching Bridges (with David Angelo) · #31
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
6 minGuest
Discussion of whether terror plots are real threats or FBI-engineered stings, US foreign wars in Libya, Syria, and Yemen creating blowback, and the contradiction of MSNBC wanting war with Russia while calling Trump fascist.
- 35:06Tim points out the contradiction: liberals simultaneously claim Trump will take us to Armageddon while saying he's not tough enough on Russia.
- 35:41Protesters chanting "no borders, no nations, no deportation" don't seem like adults are in charge anywhere, because you can't function without a nation or borders.
- 36:19The difference between right and left: even super liberal anti-Trump people have good intentions, but when Tim applies the same logic to himself, he's attacked as not caring and being an asshole.
- 37:03Working at the Daily Show as someone with contrarian views is tough because he's the outlier there on some of the business.
- 37:52Tim decided after the election that trying to argue politics on social media was pointless—like getting an insurance quote on Grindr.
- 38:32You can't control what happens to your tweets: if a white supremacist retweets something saying you love your family, it doesn't make you wrong, just coopted.
- 39:17Tim gets more criticism for not attacking Trump than he thinks should be necessary, since everyone he knows already does it constantly.
- 39:55Ann Coulter retweeted a joke of his from 2012 that he didn't even understand himself, and he panicked about being associated with her.
- 40:23If anything gets a hundred retweets, Tim wants to delete it—he'd rather stay anonymous than become a thing on social media.
Michelle WolfDonald TrumpAnn CoulterDaily ShowRichard Spencer