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Why Do We Shoot the Baby in the Face?

from Harvey Weinstein's Overturned Conviction & TikTok Ban | The Tim Dillon Show #390 · #390

4 min

An extended surreal bit where Tim voices a parent explaining to a crying child why the military has to 'shoot a baby in the face,' spiraling into a bleak monologue about loveless marriages and resignation.

In this bit7 moments
  • Young people on TikTok are asking uncomfortable questions about US military interventions worldwide.
  • Tim argues the US government is trying to suppress young people's voices and control information flow.
  • Tim performs a bit as a parent explaining to a child why a baby got shot in the face, comparing it to natural phenomena like the moon and sun.
  • The parent's logic: shoot enough babies in the face and eventually babies won't have to worry about getting shot in the face.
  • Tim shifts to the mother's perspective—a jaded woman no longer attracted to her husband, drinking Pinot Grigio and masurbating to women.
  • The mother explains she's learned not to ask questions, and will teach her daughter the same resignation in loveless marriages.
  • Tim concludes the bit: the baby getting shot in the face is what it all comes down to—the consequence of resigned, miserable lives.
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