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Cops Are Heroes Now? The Schizophrenic Politics of 2021
from #234 - Stop Ratting | The Tim Dillon Show · #234
4 min
He riffs on the sudden reversal where police are hailed as heroes, argues rioters and extremists on both sides suffer from mental illness rather than coherent politics, and imagines the low-level jobs (call centers, tattoo parlors) these rioters actually hold.
- Tim says people don't need to play citizen detective about Capitol rioters — let the cops handle it.
- The politics are schizophrenic: Capitol Police are heroes, but the same cops were villains during BLM protests.
- Now protesting is bad and should bar people from employment forever, though these aren't high-level executives.
- Poor people get sucked into QAnon cults because they can't afford any other kind of cult.
- Tim argues the Capitol rioters should be allowed to go back to their call center jobs if not charged with crimes.
- Nobody with a genuinely good life shows up to Congress with a helmet on — these people have mental problems.
- Both hardcore BLM protesters and Capitol rioters have antisocial personality disorders that should be studied, not retweeted.