rant · moment 13 of 15
Dubai Is Stealing New York's Criminals
from India vs. Pakistan, Portnoy, & Jennifer Aniston’s Stalker | The Tim Dillon Show #443 · #443
9 min
Tim pivots to Disney's Middle East theme park and Trump family crypto profits, then launches into an extended riff arguing that New York has lost its historic role as the world's capital for shady billionaires, arms dealers, and human traffickers to Dubai.
- Tim on the Trump cryptocurrency: it's possible they're using the presidency as a grift to make billions in crypto and move to Dubai, and if so, he respects it.
- Dubai has decided to become an enclave for shady billionaires from around the world—a role that used to belong to New York.
- Human traffickers, drug dealers, and weapons merchants used to come to New York City because it was the best, but now they're going to Dubai instead.
- New York is supposed to embrace the underworld and roll out the red carpet for criminals seeking luxury and anonymity.
- Human traffickers would be seduced by the fall weather and a New York slice of pizza, but we've given up that competitive advantage.
- Genocidal maniacs and the world's richest criminals used to sit in front rows at Broadway shows and eat Junior's Cheesecake in Manhattan.
- Tim wants war criminals to feel safe walking to dinner in Manhattan again instead of moving to Dubai with its fake culture.
- He imagines a world where a war criminal could eat a hot dog behind the dugout at Yankee Stadium with his son and discuss Bin Laden.
- New York was great because it didn't ask questions about your backstory or hold things against you, no matter how dark your past.
- Dubai is becoming the center for international luxury and crime—a job that belonged to New York, and the city has lost that competition.
DubaiDonald TrumpNew York Cityde BlasioJeffrey EpsteinOsama bin LadenDemocratic PartyBloomberg