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Assad's Fall and the Toddler Photo
from Drones, Mangione & Selling Syria | The Tim Dillon Show #421 · #421
6 min
Tim opens by joking about his friendship with the Assads, mocks the hypocrisy of celebrating the fall of a regime while praising Luigi Mangione, and discusses the al-Qaeda-linked rebel leader al-Jolani now in charge of Syria. He riffs on the famous photo of a toddler released from an Assad prison, questioning what the child could have possibly done to be jailed and predicting he'll grow up to be a future dictator.
- Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma, who is suffering from leukemia, have fallen from power.
- Tim calls out the contradiction of people celebrating Luigi Mangione for shooting a healthcare executive while also applauding the downfall of a woman with leukemia.
- Tim notes the predictable pattern: every time a Middle Eastern government falls, people celebrate without knowing what comes next.
- As a 39-year-old ex-cocaine addict homosexual multi-millionaire, Tim approaches regime change differently than younger people do.
- The Syrian rebels are led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which grew from an al-Qaeda affiliate, and their leader has a $10 million bounty on his head.
- Tim doesn't blame the new leader for fighting the U.S. in Iraq—he was just trying to establish a caliphate while America was in the way.
- Most viable candidates to run Syria are religious fundamentalists and militarists with no democratic tradition, just like Assad.
- Tim is neither happy nor sad about Assad's fall, just hopeful the Syrian people enjoy the two weeks they have left before the next authoritarian takes over.
Friend of the showBashar al-AssadAsma al-AssadAbu Muhammad Al-JalaniLuigi Mangione