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Boris Johnson's Fake Recovery and Celebrity COVID Skepticism

from #201 - A Sense Of Time (ft. Ray Kump) | The Tim Dillon Show · #201

4 min

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Ray and Tim speculate that Boris Johnson and various celebrities faked or exaggerated their COVID cases, riffing on British classism with David Cameron and imperial history.

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  • Chris Cuomo claimed to have coronavirus and said he cured it with breathing exercises, then was dancing in his house two days later.
  • Tim suspects celebrities like Jessica Alba and Tom Hanks faked COVID to help calm people down with staged social media appearances.
  • Boris Johnson wouldn't stop shaking hands with dying patients because he's old-school British and thinks he's there to show third-world people how lucky they are.
  • David Cameron went to the same prep schools as Boris Johnson, both went to Eton, both pretend to be men of the people.
  • The ruling class split into two groups: one that pretends to be men of the people and one comfortable being clearly not, yet both are rich and protect each other.
  • Blue Angels drop bombs on people and commit murders, then perform at patriotic displays on Long Island.
  • American patriotism peaked during the first Gulf War where no one died, because actual sacrifice is considered unpatriotic.
  • Black Hawk Down killed a thousand people to save ten Americans, which made the country depressed enough to pull out.
  • The U.S. installed and supported Saddam Hussein, then tricked him into invading Kuwait through Operation Gladio to justify the Gulf War.
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Boris JohnsonCuomo brothersDavid CameronBlue AngelsBlackhawk DownGulf WarKuwaitVietnam War

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