rant · moment 21 of 22
Epstein's Death as the Series Finale
from #169 - We're The Dirtbags | The Tim Dillon Show · #169
8 min
Tim compares following the Epstein saga to watching a TV show whose main character just got killed off, and says he's checked out emotionally from mainstream political theater.
- Tim describes people sitting down angry and ready to argue about politics without knowing any actual facts about what they're upset about.
- Someone recently ranted about pulling out of the Paris Accord without even knowing what it is—just repeating what they heard because they're angry about something else entirely.
- Epstein getting killed is like the series finale to Tim's interest in conspiracy; he's now a passenger watching a movie where they killed off a main character.
- Since Epstein's death, Tim has decided to stop engaging and just watch cat videos instead—the bottom line is to turn it off.
- Beto O'Rourke failed as a candidate and is out there speaking Spanish to pander, revealing how little respect politicians have for voters' intelligence.
- Politicians have zero respect for people as thinking organisms, yet viewers keep giving them power and attention instead of turning the channel off.
- Tim compares people paying attention to current politics to employees going into Enron two months after it imploded—you already know the system is corrupt.
- Joe Biden is senile and Bernie is 90 years old; even if Bernie won, he'd probably last a month before something happens to him.
- After traveling around the country, Tim observes that most people don't actually want things to get better—they just want to beat other people and remain selfish.
- Tim has more respect for human traffickers and coyotes bringing people over the border than for anyone at the New York Times or Yale, because the traffickers actually understand what's happening on the ground.
- People who went to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government have worse takes on reality than literal retards; the advice is to change the channel and embrace what's actually happening.
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