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Katie Porter's Gas Mask Comeback and River Cancer Ad

from Kash Patel, Into Iran, & A Missing Leg | The Tim Dillon Show #485 · #485

11 min

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Tim reviews Katie Porter's new campaign ad where she stands in a river wearing a gas mask decrying pollution and chemicals, joking she looks like Bane, recalling her prior viral meltdown at staff, and arguing that environmental issues never actually motivate voters.

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  • Katie Porter reemerges in a gas mask standing in the middle of a river for her political comeback ad.
  • Tim argues Katie Porter looks best when wearing the gas mask and should never take it off to win the race.
  • Katie Porter's new strategy: focus on environmental issues because people run away from her in person like she's a bear in a campsite.
  • The environmental ad emphasizes the cost of doing nothing versus the cost of cleanup, but Tim dismisses it as ineffective.
  • Tim claims that in 41 years on earth, he's never seen people actually care about environmental issues, no matter how dire.
  • People only care about toxic environments if they directly affect their own yard; everyone ignores cancer clusters in other towns.
  • Tim describes driving through desert communities with toxic industrial waste and realizing he completely stopped thinking about it.
  • Tim suggests Katie Porter should abandon the cancer-in-the-river message and instead talk about drug addicts eating people's legs at crime scenes.
  • Growing up on Long Island, people never cared about beach erosion—only the Gilgo Beach serial killer got attention, not environmental issues.
  • When news reports break that an entire town has cancer, people's response is simply 'I don't live there,' then move on.
  • Katie Porter can stand in a river with a Bane mask screaming about carcinogens, but it won't actually motivate anyone to care.
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