rant · moment 26 of 27
Give Charity to the Rich: A Christmas Carol Re-Read
from #229 - Blankets and Bug Chasers | The Tim Dillon Show · #229
5 min
Tim builds a bit arguing you should give charity to the wealthy instead of the poor for it to be 'real,' then reinterprets A Christmas Carol as a story about Scrooge being right to make Bob Cratchit work, joking about a Turning Point USA reading with Charlie Kirk.
- Tim's reinterpretation: give charity to the rich, not the poor—help those doing well do better.
- A Christmas Carol lost its way when Scrooge became a loser after the ghosts converted him.
- Scrooge gave Bob Cratchit a job as a clerk; it's not Scrooge's fault Cratchit had a disabled son.
- Cratchit demands to leave early on Christmas to go home with his family, and Scrooge refuses.
- The ghosts harassing Scrooge are communist—AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Ilhan Omar.
- After being scared by ghosts, Scrooge buys a turkey for Cratchit, but it won't actually fix anything.
- Scrooge's real lesson—you have to work, things don't just happen—was correct all along.
- Sending a turkey to someone who resents you doesn't work; his wife would think he's trying to kill her with a Rolls Royce.
- The Christmas Carol is an assault on business owners and entrepreneurs like Scrooge.
- Tim and Charlie Kirk will rewrite classic stories with respect for entrepreneurs instead of vagabond clerks and their disabled sons.
- New Oliver Twist line: 'Sir, I've had more than enough and everyone else has had too much and they're getting lazy—can I please go back to work?'
Turning Point USACharlie KirkA Christmas CarolBob CratchitOliver TwistIlhan OmarAlexandria Ocasio-CortezBernie SandersCornel West