rant · moment 15 of 22
Climate Doom, First Reformed, and America in 30 Years
from #169 - We're The Dirtbags | The Tim Dillon Show · #169
7 min
Tim speculates about America becoming uninhabitable from climate change, references the Ethan Hawke film First Reformed, and wonders if the country will fracture into regions.
- People who realize how messed up the world is often respond by concocting conspiracy theories and fairy tales that things are secretly getting better.
- Trump dancing with Epstein at a party means he wasn't making waves for the people involved in that world.
- Maybe humanity needs an outside threat like aliens to start seeing each other as human beings and stop dividing by race and class.
- The future is just going to be fat robots running around.
- Stavros reads a joke: Prince Andrew's latest trip to Epstein was to end their friendship, just like his latest trip to Buffalo Wild Wings was to tell them he's no longer eating wings.
- Fat people know why they're fat; they don't wake up one day wondering what happened.
- Tim predicts the future of the country will dissolve and break up into regions, or become like Great Britain past its peak.
- America will cycle through symbolic diversity—a gay president, a trans president, a woman of color—while remaining ceremonial like the royal family.