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2018 Predictions and Baby Suicide Bombers
from It's A Small World After All · #79
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4 minTim mocks blind optimism about the new year given Trump and unresolved Jerusalem tensions, then escalates into dark bits about toddler suicide bombers and telling dinner party guests that random daily shootings would generate more fear than terrorist attacks.
- 42:54Tim questions what basis anyone has for optimism about 2018, suggesting it's heading toward a bad place.
- 43:09He predicts repercussions from the Jerusalem decision will arrive, though he hasn't kept up much on Middle East affairs.
- 43:38Tim makes a hypothetical—not actionable—promise that people upset by Trump's policies are not happy and something will happen.
- 44:19At a dinner party, Tim suggested that getting attention for activism would require a toddler in a suicide vest at Grand Central.
- 44:42He clarifies he was doing a funny impression of a toddler and the scenario was meant as dark comedy, which did not land with the dinner guests.
- 45:03At a Christmas luncheon, Tim argued terrorists should just shoot one person per day in New York City instead of attacks, which would be more effective and cooler.
- 45:33He calculates that with eight and a half million people in New York, daily single-victim shootings would maintain a level of constant fear people seem to want.
- 45:47Tim notices he keeps seeing 9-11 everywhere—his Uber receipt, his phone—and wonders if he's losing grip on reality or if something is genuinely going on.
- 45:58When told he's only remembering it when he looks for it, Tim suggests instead that perhaps he's been chosen to solve the mystery of 9-11.
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