rant · moment 25 of 32
St. Barts and Rich People Getting Things Right
from Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show #436 · #436
3 min
Tim describes St. Barts as a manufactured slice of the South of France on an island with no indigenous population, and jokes about being embraced by wealthy elites despite roasting them.
- Tim notes that rich people sometimes get things right, citing St. Barts as an example he's never visited.
- France essentially created a Caribbean version of the South of France on St. Barts, conveniently without an indigenous population to displace.
- Tim observes that elites love him despite—or perhaps because of—his relentless roasting of them.
- Unlike Lena Khan, Tim has no actual power to harm anyone's business, so the wealthy can safely enjoy his comedy.
- Staff at Polo Bar in New York keep asking when Tim will show up, but he never goes because he's a creature of habit.
- WASP culture—stoic, Protestant, Calvinist—represents the authentic American identity of privacy and propriety.
- The Irish Catholic culture Tim comes from is the opposite: wailing, screaming, fighting, and singing.
- WASP code demands you shut up, own your house, keep it clean, and avoid ostentation—don't wear dumb sunglasses or drive a dumb car like Tim does.