Interview · moment 15 of 28

Trump Backlash Fears vs. Biden Cabinet Fears

from #204 - Katie Herzog | The Tim Dillon Show · #204

5 min

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Tim and Katie each articulate their competing political anxieties: a protest backlash re-electing Trump, versus a Biden administration being pressured to install 'illiberal liberal' identitarian appointees, citing Elizabeth Warren's LGBTQ town hall stunt with a child vetting the Education Secretary.

In this bit8 moments
  • Tim worries the current protests could trigger a backlash that gets Donald Trump elected.
  • Orange man is bad, but Tim notes a bungling idiot president who can't get anything done doesn't bother him much.
  • Fox News anchor was told Lincoln's freeing of the slaves was "mixed," forcing him to correct that enslaved people were actually freed.
  • Trump is holding a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma—site of a Black massacre—on Juneteenth.
  • Tim is also concerned that if Joe Biden wins, the pressure to appoint woke critical theorists to his cabinet will entrench bad ideology in government.
  • Critical race theory in education systems focuses everything on race, which Tim thinks makes resentful white people respond negatively rather than building solidarity.
  • Elizabeth Warren said at an LGBTQ town hall that she'd let a nine-year-old trans kid vet her next Secretary of Education.
  • That Warren pledge was simultaneously a campaign ad for Trump and insane on its face—children shouldn't dictate cabinet picks regardless of how trans they are.
Mentioned here

Donald TrumpElizabeth WarrenJoe BidenCritical race theoryTulsa, OklahomaRobin D'AngeloLincolnPete Buttigieg

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