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J.K. Rowling, Steinbeck, and Jeb Bush Steering the Plane Into a Mountain
from Underground Economy · #34
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2 minTim rants about J.K. Rowling becoming a social justice scold compared to old-school writers like Steinbeck, then riffs on Jeb Bush as the ideal president who'd calmly fly the plane into a mountain versus Trump's chaotic turbulence.
- 1:04:26J.K. Rowling has become an old social justice warrior lecturing everybody despite her wealth coming from a world that doesn't appreciate literature.
- 1:05:00Tim imagines telling John Steinbeck to write about wizards and ghosts instead of serious literature—Steinbeck would punch him in the gut.
- 1:05:23Tim says he's sick of J.K. Rowling and everybody else because there are no good guys anymore and we're living in the end.
JK RowlingJeb BushJohn SteinbeckJames Joyce